K25. Heavenly Wife, T111.2.

.11.13.-.45.47.49.51.-.53.55.-.59.61.62.65.-.72.

A person catches, grabs, meets a woman associated with the upper world (a bird, a heavenly maiden, a star, etc.). She becomes his wife and/or helps him. See the E9i motif. (An alternative is the f7 motive, "Woman from the River", associated with the water-chthonic world).

Congo [heavenly maiden], lenje [daughter of Thunder], chokwe [daughter of Thunder], Swahili [bird girl], ndau [heavenly maiden], nkundu [daughter of the Sun], tsonga [heavenly maiden], sarah [star], nzakara [heavenly maiden], Malgashi [heavenly maiden], Kabila [heavenly maiden bird], Arabs of Algeria [dove], Arabs of Tunisia [Dove], Spanish [Dove], Basques [dove], Catalans (Majorca) [heavenly maiden], Portuguese [dove], Italians (Ticino, Milan) [dove, daughter of the Sun], Sicilians [Dove], Sardinians [Dove], Ladins [Swan; heavenly maiden], Irish [Swan], French (Switzerland and probably others) districts too) [mountain fairy; swan?] , Froantsozes (Upper Brittany) [duck], Bretons [swan], Germans [Dove; Princess; Swabia (Swabia, Austria)], One Thousand and One Nights [Dove], Iraqi Arabs [Bird Girl], Mehri [Ginny Girls], Yualayi [ Pleiades], arapes (ilahita and upper) [cassowary], watut [cassowary], keva [star], viru [heavenly woman], motu [moon], bilbil [star], Admiralty Islands [dove], Santa Cruz Islands [stars], Banks Islands (Mota) , Meralava) [heavenly maiden; gorlinka], Aoba [wife of the Sun; heavenly maiden], Efate [heavenly woman], Maevo [heavenly maiden], Tanna [gorlinka], kanaka [?] , Loyalty Islands [daughter of the Sun], Yap [heavenly maiden], Uliti [heavenly maiden], Tahiti [star], Maori [heavenly maiden], Taku [heavenly maiden], Samoans [heavenly maiden], Tibetans [peacock; heavenly maiden (crane?)] , Tibetans Amdo [dove], Mustang [heavenly fairy dove], mikir [daughter of the Sun], garo [heavenly maiden; dove], mishmi [Star], Meitei [heavenly maiden and underground maiden], rengma [heavenly maiden], mona [heavenly maiden] keinari maiden], Vieta [heavenly maiden; bird daughter of the Star], Shana [heavenly maiden], Burma [heavenly maiden], Lao [heavenly maiden], Thais [daughter of the bird king; peacock], Vietnam's white tai [heavenly maiden], zhuang [ heavenly maiden], buoys [moon daughter, shrimp], khmu [heavenly maiden; parrot], banar [thunder's daughter], chrau [spirit daughter], meo [daughter of the Sky Star], Ancient India (Shathapatha Brahman) [swan], Kashmiris [ heavenly fairy], Kashmir [heavenly fairy], northern India [peri; heavenly maiden], Konkani (Goa) [heavenly maiden], Sindhi [peri], Varli [heavenly maiden], Santals [daughter of the Sun], Bengalis [heavenly maiden], Birkhor [ daughter of a sun deity], baiga [heavenly maiden], gondas [heavenly maiden], muria [heavenly maiden], kota [heavenly maiden], Telugu [heavenly fairy], kannada [heavenly maiden], Tamils [heavenly maiden], Sinhala [ heavenly maiden], Simalur [heron], aceh [parrot], dusun [bee; heavenly maiden], murut [heavenly maiden], tombonuvo [rhino bird], Brunei [heavenly maiden], kayan [heavenly maiden], iban [bird], sea dayaki [ heavenly maiden], Java [heavenly maiden], Madura [heavenly maiden], Bali [heavenly maiden], Malays [heavenly maiden], bataks [heavenly maiden], minangkabau [heavenly maiden?] , Eastern Toraja [Parrot], Western Toraja [moon maiden], bow [dove], minahasa [swan; a bird], Loinang [heavenly maiden], loda [heavenly maiden], Tidore [heavenly maiden], Sangihe [heavenly maiden] virgin], Solor [Dove], Alor [heavenly maidens], tetum [beautiful bird; daughter of the Sun], Timor [Parrot], Numphora [heavenly maiden], apayao [heavenly maiden?] , callahan [heavenly maiden]; kasiguran agta [heavenly maiden], kalinga-apayao [heavenly maiden], Kalamians [star], tingian [Star], Nabaloi [Star], Igorot [Star, kankanai [Star; heavenly maiden], sindangan [heavenly maiden], ilianen manobo [heavenly maiden], sarangani manobo [heavenly maiden - kite], ata manobo [heavenly maiden], agusan manobo [duck], mamanwa [heavenly maiden], central subanen [crow] , taosug [heavenly maiden], maguindanao [heavenly maiden], romblomanon [heavenly maiden], kasiguran agta [heavenly maiden], ifugao [daughter of the supreme deity; star; duck=star], ibaloi [stars], yami [heavenly maiden], namuzi [heavenly maiden], fox [heavenly fairy], Chinese (Hubei) [ladybug; butterfly; heavenly maiden; dove; crane (Dunhuang), "Sou-shen-ji" (4th century AD) [heavenly maiden?] , maiden bird (Jiangxi)], fox [heavenly maiden], chuan miao [Star], li [heavenly maiden], meo [daughter of the Heavenly Star], Koreans [heavenly maiden], Hungarians [swan], Albanians [heavenly maiden (Beauty of the Earth)], Serbs [ pava; mermaid], Greeks [flying maiden, nereid], Macedonians [fairy {samovila?}] , Bulgarians [heavenly, mountain maiden (samovila, samodiva); pava; bird], Moldovans [virgin bird], Poles [duck; goose], Czechs [swan], Luzhitans [swan], Belarusians (Grodno) [duck], Russians (Voronezh) [ Dove; Swan; Spoonbill], Russians (Vologda) [duck; swan], Russians (Pskov) [heavenly maiden], Russians (North) [swan], Western Ukrainians [winged maiden], Eastern Ukrainians [daughter of the mother of the winds], Kalmyks [daughter of the Sun; Swan], Abkhazians [daughter of the Sun; Orlitsa; chamois in the sky; dove], Abazans [Dove; winged maiden; heavenly maiden], Karachays and Balkarians [Swan], Balkarians [eagle; dove], Ossetians [ Dove; daughters of the Sun - pigeons], Kabardian [Dove], Chechens [dove], Nogais [heavenly maiden; Dove - maiden of paradise; Swan], Kumyks [Swan], Avars [Dove; virgin bird], Lucky [Dove], Georgians [ Dove; Eagle; Daughter of the Sun and Moon], Armenians [heavenly (?) Maiden; Peri Bird; Dove], Azerbaijanis [Dove; Peri], Turks [Dove; Swan], Kurds [Dove], Turkmens [Dove], Uzbeks [Peri Dove], Persians [Dove], Lurs [Dove], Bakhtiyars [Dove], Pashtuns [fairy dove], Shah-name [peri-dove], Shugnans [peri], Rushans [peri-dove], Yazgulyam [peri-dove], Baluchi [peri], Burish [peri surrounded by doves], Bragui [peri], Edda [Swan], Swedes (Blekinge) [swan], Danes [maiden swan], [maiden swan, -dove, -crow], Western Sami [winged maiden], Eastern Sami [heavenly maiden; daughter of the sun], Karelians [Duck, Swan; bird], Finns [swan; goose; duck], Lithuanians [Swan; Goose], Latvians [Duck], Lutsi [Sister of the Sun], Estonians [Swan], Setu [Sun Daughter; Swan; Dove], Komi [Swan], Udmurts [Dove], Chuvash [Swan; Goose; White Bird], Marie [Swan; Duck; Dove; Daughter of the Sun; Daughter of God], Mordovians [Duck; Dove], Kazan Tatars [Dove], Bashkirs [Swan; Dove], Kazakhs [Swan; Geese], Kyrgyz [Dove], Karakalpaks [Swan], Uighurs [Dove], yellow Uighurs [Swan], salars [heavenly maidens Star, Moon, Sun], Dungans [Dove], Buryats [Swan], Darhats [heavenly maiden], Oirats (durbuts) [heavenly woman], Oirats [Swan; heavenly maiden], Mongols (Khalkha) [Swan; Dove], Dagurs [heavenly maiden], sirongols [heavenly maiden], Baraba Tatars [Dove], Tobolsk Tatars [Swan], Siberian Tatars (Tarsky district) [Peri's daughter], Chulym Turks [ Swan, Duck], Khakas (Sagai people) [swan?] , Altai-Kizhi [Swan], Tuvans [heavenly maiden; Swan; Goose; Duck], Mansi [Swan], Northern Khanty (b. Son) [Swan], Eastern Khanty (b. Vah) [daughter of the Sun], southern Khanty [Swan], Nenets (Gydan) [Swan], Dolgans [white Crane], northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [Sterkh, i.e. White Crane], Verkhnelensky Evenks [Swan], Evenks Baikal Region [Swan], Evenks Uchursko-Zeisky [Swan; Duck], Amur Evenks [Goose], Ingarigdov Evenks [Heavenly Maiden], Evens [Sterkh; Swan; Crow], Manchus [Heavenly Maiden], Nanais [Swan], Orochi [Swan], Udege [Duck; one of the Pleiades], Wilta [heavenly maraluhi maidens], Ainu [heavenly maiden], Japanese (incl. written tradition, Okinawa and North Ryukyu) [Bird Maiden, Swan, Moon Maiden, Vega], Japanese [Crane], Tundra Yukaghirs [Swan], Chukchi [Duck; Seagull; Goose; Swan], Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [Sun Daughter = Creator's Wife], Central Yupik [Bird Girl], Kodiak [Goose], Inupiat Bering Strait [Goose; Crane], Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatak) [Goose], Copper [Goose], Netsilic [Goose], Polar [Goose], Igloolik [Goose], Baffin Land [Goose], Labrador Eskimos [Goose] ], West Greenland [Goose], Atna [?] , helmet [daughter of the Sun], tagish [daughter of the Sun], inner tlingits [daughter of the Sun], tsetsot [daughter of the Sun?] , Tlingit [Goose], Haida [Goose; Eagle], Tsimshian [Eagle; Sun Daughter], Sechelt [Eagle], Upper Coquill [Vulture Raven], Ojibwa [Bird], Chippewa [Star; Moon], Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [daughter Thunder Star], Ottawa [Star], Steppe Cree [Thunder Daughter], Steppe Ojibwa [Upper World Woman], Passamaquoddy [Partridge], Seneca [Pleiades Star], Alabama [Heavenly Maiden], Wintah Utah [Bird Woman] , Zunyi [Eagle], Western Ceres (Laguna) [Eagle], Tepecano [Daughter of God], Veracruz Nahuatl [Dove], Mountain Hollows [Heron], Lacandons [Vulture], Sumu [Vulture], Cabecar [Parrot], Bribri [Parrot] ], kuna [Star], yupa [Vulture], (guajiro [daughter of the Rain]), shikuani [Fork-tailed Kite; Chibis; Vulture], maquiritare [daughter of the Sun], warrau [Vulture], kamarakoto [Vulture], arekuna [Sun Daughter and Vulture's Daughter], Lokono [Vulture], Wapishana [Vulture; Parrot], Orinoco Carinha [Doves], Makushi [Vulture], Aparai [Vulture], Oyana [Vulture], Trio [Vulture], Hishkaryana [Vulture], Oyampi [Parrot], Kanyari [Parrot], Kofan [Vulture], Siona [Vulture], Coreguahe [Vulture], Napo [Star; Daughter of Thunder], Shuar [Star], Aguaruna [Star], Achuar [Star], kandoshi [Parrot; daughter of Thunder?] , bar [Star], barasana [Star], makuna [Star], kabiyari [Star], tatuyo [Star], yukuna [Parrot], carijona [Vulture], chikuna [Vulture; heavenly maiden], urarina [heavenly maiden], chayahuita [parrot], zhuruna [daughter of a heavenly deity], tenetekhara [Vulture], dep. Cuzco [Star], Aikana [Star], Eseeha [Vulture], Chacobo [Dove; Daughter of Thunder], Sinta Larga [Vulture], Nambiquara [Star], Iranche [Star; Vulture], Paresi [Star], Umotin [Star], Karazha [Star] Parrot], tapirape [Parrot], kayapo [Rain Daughter; Venus; Parrot; Stork], Apinaye [Star], Cracho [Star], Ramkokamecra [Star], Xavante [Star], Sherente [Star], Kamakan [Star], Sheta [Duck], Chamacoko [Star], Chorote [Star], Nivakle [Parrot; Star], Maca [Star], Toba [Star], Matako [Star], Mokovi [Star; Duck; Karau Waterbird].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo [Motu noticed that fruits were being stolen from his garden; he was a guard, caught a woman from the Land of Clouds, married her; she asked her tribesmen to bring fire from the sky, taught people them use; some heavenly people came down to live on earth, Motu became their leader; his wife forbade opening one basket; M. opened it, there was emptiness; his wife and her people returned to heaven]: Kotlyar 1973:36-38 (retelling in Kotlyar 2009, No. 288:154); Lenje [one of the most popular stories in the Zambezi region; when leaving, the chief says: if one of the wives gives birth to a boy, he must be thrown away; one gave birth to a boy, put it on the bed in the reeds, the old woman promised to take care of him; his mother called him Kalombe, but the old lady called him Mandu; his first cousin Ngoma ("drum") and her friends hear his song and tries to get him out holes in an anthill, where he hides like a rabbit; they dug it up, brought him to his mother; he came to his father, who is not going to kill him, gives him half of the village, slaves and cattle; he goes to take him wife is the daughter of the rain god; sees an unusual bird, follows her; meets an old woman, sleeps with her; she gives him the feather of this bird; then the pen leads him along the right road, removes dangers and obstacles from her ( excrement; a herd of elephants; a mountain with steep cliffs; buffaloes; snakes), teaches and guides him, performs tasks; he is invited to enter various huts, saying that this is the abode of the daughter of the rain god; suggest the girl herself; the pen repeatedly reports the deception (the girl's mother herself and others take her form) and shows the right choice (which mat is the daughters of the rain god and which are not); he is given wine and food, but this only transformed father-in-law and mother-in-law, he does not drink or eat; the god of rain orders to get bark from the top of the tree; the other two applicants fall, the pen assures that M. will reach the bark; then for M. they bring the bride , but they also want to deceive: the daughter of the rain god is covered in ash and covered with skin, and the maid is wearing jewelry from head to toe; the pen reports everything; the father-in-law tells her to dig a hole to hide M., but he tells the pen to grab father-in-law, he is forced to let M. go out of the hole; then the same episode when the pen takes his father-in-law hostage, with a tree (must throw M.), with a bunch of dry trees (the father-in-law himself starts to burn, tells the fire to let M. go) , with a hammer in the forge; father-in-law orders to fill the pot with tears, M. asks other sons-in-law to fill the second pot; father-in-law must order that the roof not be thrown off by M.; M. with his wife, servants, cattle, they leave with provisions; M. gives his feather and wild cat skin to his wife; he goes ahead, she falls behind with her companions; it rains, but M. tells it to be sunny; when almost at the goal, she leaves the forest a liar, takes the form of the daughter of a rain god; M. discovers deception, because the imaginary wife does not have his pen; does not believe that she forgot him while swimming; the liar runs away, M. returns for his wife, her solemnly accept; after 10 days she says she can't live here, incest is everywhere, leaves; M. rushes after her, followed by her into the rain god's abode; stays there; in the version of family members Sera if one thunder rattles from one side of the sky and answers from the other, it is the son-in-law claps his hands and the father-in-law claps back]: Torrend 1921, No. 18:97-144; chokwe [Mukongwa-Ndumbwe is a glutton, mother cannot to feed him, his wives leave one by one; the chief offered him to eat a bull and a lot of porridge, M. remained hungry, the chief told him to leave; the girl in an iron dress said that she had been sent to him by her father; she cooked a goat for him and he ate immediately; she threw some manioc flour and beans to all the inhabitants, their vessels and baskets were full; M. did not want to eat anymore; the wife gave birth, went to her father, told him not to eat anymore; the wife gave birth, went to her father, told him not to eat anymore touch the child; M. began to drive away the fly, the child immediately died; the wife returned, took the deceased child and M. took her to her father; they go through the icy lake, through the hot lake, through the fire gate; we must sit on bad, not a good chair; father-in-law Kalunga, big as a thundercloud, eyes like lightning; ordered to pick leaves from four trees, from which the child came to life; on the way back, the wife does not tell you to light a fire at night; M. ignited, saw his wife dead, cried; wife: now I will return to my father, and you will return to earth, you will revive people; but M. forgot about the leaves from the fourth tree, could not revive]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:273-277; Swahili [when he dies, the witch doctor 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; HC 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 the hole, comes out; a palace, gold, pearls everywhere; the Sultan of the Serpent came, he tells stories; one about a man to whom the other offers a job: to wrap himself in the shoes of a murdered man a camel, a bird takes him to a rock, it is necessary to throw off precious stones from there; 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; man I went in, there was a garden and a river; three birds flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, swimming; 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; she dies soon; 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, to himself take the second, give the Sultan a third; the sultan has recovered, HC became a doctor, the vizier died]: Okhotina 1962:112-122; ndau [heavenly maidens go down to swim in the lake; after swimming, each takes her feather, flies back; many noble young men tried to grab the pen; it succeeded, but the girl walked behind, sang, 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; bars [people ate raw food, froze without fire; someone steals bananas from Motu gardens; he watches, sees people descend from the sky, grabs one of the women, marries; she asks heavenly people to bring fire, teaches how to use it; other heavenly people also come to live in village; M.'s wife tells me not to open the basket, otherwise all heavenly people will disappear; M. discovered, there is nothing there, his wife and her people have returned to heaven; but fire and cooking skills remain]: Scheub 2000:153; nkunda [Lonkundo's dead father Bokele appeared in a dream, ordered him to set traps at the watering hole (this is how people learned to make traps and traps); in a dream, L. saw that the Sun had fallen into the trap; in the morning he found it there a girl shining like fire; this is Ilankaka, the eldest daughter of the Sun; a man married her, she followed him, and he disappeared because it was a spirit, she got lost, trapped by L.; L. refused take her to her father, married her]: Kotlyar 1973:242-244 (=2009, No. 122:109); tsonga (shangani) [the duyker antelope and the rabbit decide to cultivate the land; when the harvest is ripe, the rabbit steals from the duyker site ; the rabbit denies his guilt, offers to make a snare; a bird with a long feather on one wing was caught; as soon as the rabbit pulled it out, the bird became a girl; asks for a pen; touched the rabbit and that became a prince; killed a duyker, brought him as prey; the birds are unhappy that the heavenly maiden remained on earth; with the help of a rabbit and a woodpecker, they decided to add poison to him, but his wife warned, and the mouse and woodpecker became assistants; the wife offered to visit her parents, sent the pen to the sky, it grew to the sky; the Rabbit Prince with his wife, mouse and woodpecker went there; the virgin's father wants to lime the Rabbit; the mouse warns that poison was poured into the food; when the Rabbit went to the steppe and the celestials sent hail, the woodpecker covered it with wings; when hunting, the woodpecker gave amulets, they protected the Rabbit from trying to kill him with an assegay; the Rabbit and his wife decided return to earth, descended the pen; people and cattle came out of the amulet bundles given by the woodpecker; the mouse also became a prince, and the woodpecker became a princess]: Bourhill, Drahe 1908:43-57.

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai) [only Sou and his old barren unloved wife Bou-Guéré lived on earth; Su once saw girls dancing, but they ran away; Su tripped over a stump and he (Su calls his "uncle") told him that these girls are stars; let Su sow white eggplants behind the house; then they should be poured with sticky red juice of the vine; the stars will go down to collect eggplants, they will not be able to immediately take off from behind the glue; we must grab one; Su caught three; each gave birth to him a son; they inhabited the land]: Fortier 1967:115-117 (described in Belcher 2005:352-353); nzakara [the king's son is a virgin; wants to marry only one of the daughters of heaven; he sees an old woman at the edge of the sky; lions appear, then snakes, he asks the old woman to save him, snuggles up to her, copulates; in the morning she turns into a beauty , smears him with incense so that the inhabitants of heaven do not smell the smell of earthly man; teaches him to hide the wings of one of the bathing girls ("angels"); she agrees to take him to her father, for he has assured her that he did not know other women; the wife works in the fields and around the house, but she will join him only in 8 years, if he does not get angry with her during that time; an old woman comes before the end of her term; a young man chases her, but his wife says that everyone in heaven is friendly to each other; the old woman says she met him; his wife accuses him of lying, takes her wings, flies away; her parents are upset; the old woman has disappeared somewhere]: Retel- Laurentin 1986:57-63; malgash [three heavenly maidens fly to the lake to swim; Andrianoro asks the sage how to catch such a maiden; he advises turning into an orange tree with ripe ones fruits, then into a transparent stream, into nightshade berries; every time the maidens know about the trap; they have no idea when R. turns into an ant in the sand; he becomes a young man, grabs one of the maidens, takes wives]: Lombard 1976:91.

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 Wac-Wack]: 76-81; Certeux, Carnoy 1884, No. 4 (told in 1880 in a cafe in Algiers) [righteous and chaste Ahmed ben Abdallah went to the saint's grave; saw a beauty swimming in a pond, hid her pigeon robe; returns, promising Ginnia to return in half a month; she returned and became his wife; once hers the children found their mother's skin, she put it on and flew away; returned several times to see the children, but flew away again]: 87-89; the Arabs of Tunisia [everyone loves the merchant, because he sells on loan and borrows in kind; once heals, lets go of a turtledove with a wounded leg; later a beauty appears, asks for a needle to sew up a torn dress, leads to her house, offers marriage on the condition that he does not look into one of rooms; the wife sews, the merchant became rich; once opened that room; there the gorlinka says that another week and the witchcraft would be over, she would have a child, and now she flies away with her throat; since then, the turtles have not they sing like a nightingale, they have a sad voice]: Ayadi 2008, No. 54:73-80; Tunisia [after his father's death, Hassan squandered what he had accumulated and then started a shop; the wizard Imbrahim came and turned iron into gold, stayed overnight, put H. sleeping pills and carried them 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; vultures They 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 the seven daughters of the Lord of the Spirit, became their brother; 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 with the youngest, they flew away, he returned to the palace; the fairies who returned taught him how to hide the gorlinka's feathers; the fairies persuaded the captive to marry H.; 3 years later, I. brought a young man again; the fairy gave H. a magic sword, to them H. cut off I.'s head; ordered the helper spirit to give three camels, returned with his wife to his mother, and then moved from Basra to Baghdad; his wife gave birth to sons named Nasr and Mansour; H. went to visit for six months 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, called her to her; everything women show how they dance; wife H. says she would dance better if she got 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 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 in a flying elephant; then ride a horse to the cave; if there is a man in red, return, if in white, you'll 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 finds himself in the desert; two sons of a wizard they fight for their father's inheritance: a magic wand and an invisible hat; H. threw a stone: whoever brings them faster will give him wonderful objects; takes them himself; frees his wife and sons, flies with them to winged horses; his army defeated the queen's army; H.'s wife forgave the queen; H. and his family returned to Baghdad, Harun Arrashid appointed him a vizier]: Stumme 1893, No. 2:13-39.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [the father consistently warns his three sons not to go to the service of the red-beard; he paints his beard black; makes a fire in the forest, opens an abyss, the sorcerer lowers the servant on a rope gets 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 that the sorcerer picks up, does not break; finds the brothers' bones; asks the giant not to kill him; he does not tell him to go into the same room; R. comes in, sees three doves turn into girls, bathe; the giant knows about this, tells them to hide it clothes you like; allows you to marry the White Dove (BG), gives a box with her plumage, warns her not to open it; returns to her parents, gives the box to her mother; his wife persuades her open, flies away with plumage on; R. returns to the giant, who gives a nut, refers to another giant, the Giant Master; his wife turns R. into an ant so that he can overhear her 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 can't wake him up; during the day warns not to drink potions; R. does not sleep, breaks the lantern, thereby disrupting BG; lives with her in the castle]: Malinovskaya 2002:102-109; Basques [the poor young man leaves home, is hired by Tartaro; he tells hide the feather clothes of one of the three pigeon girls who will come to swim in the lake; return for promising to help; tells her to go to hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow, collect 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 you to ask for a rusty sword, chop it into pieces, throw it into the river, comes out whole with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends to slam the door on it; 3) tame a horse with three foals (this is the owner 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); the young man gets a wife, she tells him to run, leaves the spit responsible for himself; the father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father sinks; on the border of the land of Christians, the wife tells her to go get a priest to baptize her, not to kiss anyone, otherwise her husband will forget her; his old aunt kisses; the wife creates an inn, the husband and two friends come in; she promises to spend the night with everyone; with her comb makes morning come before they do anything; opens to her husband; that brings a priest; all is well]: Webster 1879:120-130; Catalans (Majorca) [the hero sees three girls flying in with a cloud and swimming in the lake; following the advice of a servant (guardian), steals clothes one of them and takes her as his wife]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 413:92; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [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. 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 the clothes; let the girl give him a ring, necklace and feather; when the young man came to the king, he ordered 1) to sow three types of grain, and in the morning so that there is bread; with the help of a pen, the young man calls the dove, which does everything; 2) get the ring from the bottom of the sea; they got into the boat, swam, the girl tells her to cut off her head and throw it into the sea, but no matter what no drops of blood are gone; the girl took out the 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 just alive; the girl tells me to take advantage of it and run; tells you to take the worst horse (jumps like a thought), and the young man took the most well-fed (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 as a hermit; next time a garden and a gardener; when the mother chased, the 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 convinces her mother-in-law to return her clothes and flies away; the husband goes in search]: 86-87; Italians: 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 his daughter; the young man goes in search; the old man says that the three daughters of the Sun King come to swim in the lake; a young man hides one of them's clothes, promises to return it for promising to bring them to their father; the young fell in love with each other and the girl taught: when the father demands to identify the bride with his eyes closed, you have to feel hands: she will not have one finger on her hand; on the night after the wedding, the wife tells the young man that her father is going to kill him; they run, the father-in-law sends soldiers in pursuit; the wife throws the comb; he turns into a forest , where a man and a woman uproot stumps; when asked if they saw the fugitives, the workers say that as soon as they uproot a full cart, they will go home; the Sun King tells those who returned that they were the fugitives; the next crest abandoned turns into a vegetable garden where a man and a woman dig radishes (same); the third crest is a church and two servants; {apparently there was a sequel; p. 720: The aborted ending is my own}]: 65 -67; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [someone tramples the meadow at night; a peasant tells his eldest son to be guarded, he falls asleep; the middle son is the same; the younger Vittorino sees three white doves at dawn; they take off their clothes from feathers, turn into girls, dance in the meadow; V. hid the most beautiful clothes; 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 all the night slept; the fairy comes back, the wedding; but she must return to the castle in the morning; there she is guarded by the monster Orco; she leaves V. the ring; he goes looking for her; two giants fight for speedboat boots, cloak- an invisibility, a sword (her touch revives the dead); agree to give it to V. so that he can return his wife; V. comes to the old woman, she calls the animals, but no one knows where the Sun Castle is; she sends to her sister , she asks the fish the same thing; she asks her older sister, she calls 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 with a magic sword; revives his wife's father and brother, whom O. killed; stays with his wife in the castle]: 298-308; 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 out of the house; but when the young man went to sell the jewelry brought from the mountain, the wife begged his mother-in-law to give her the hidden clothes, put them on and flew away with their necks; the young man went in search; three robbers ask to share the items they stole: an inexhaustible purse, speedboat boots, an invisible cloak; the young man pretends to wants to check if the objects are really like this, takes everything 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 To kill a sorcerer and restore their human form to their horses is to 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; in 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 to the older brother, and the 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; 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 the red flag sailed in the sea; captain offered to play cards; the young man lost the 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 a hermit; he advised him to sail to the island where swans fly; when they throw off their swan clothes and become girls, they should hide one of them's clothes; he chose the most beautiful one; she promised to be his wife and help; gave a wand; when he touched the sea with it, 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 cut down the forest; the ax immediately crashed; the swan girl told me to go to bed, and when the young man woke up, the forest fell down; 2) remove the mountain and set up a vineyard on this site (the same); 3) get a ring from the sea, which they put her on a paper boat and let her go along the waves; the girl tells her to cut off her head; the severed head rolled into the sea, three drops of blood and a ring with them rose from the water, followed by a revived girl more beautiful than before; they both came to the black captain, the girl's father; he greets them with a smile, gives them a lot of gold; they returned to the boy's father; wedding], 10 [seven soldiers were returning from war; saw a castle with a table full of good food, seven beds; a girl was next to everyone at night; they said they were bewitched; to break the spell, soldiers should not see for a year or two days girls or touch them; on the last day, soldiers go hunting and see seven swans coming to swim; guessing that they were their girls, they agreed to light a fire at night; they saw that the girls had swan legs; the girls ran away and the soldiers woke up in an unfamiliar place, the castle was gone; a year later, another soldier found the same castle and waited for the deadline; swans became girls forever, soldier married the one who came to see him], 44 [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 33:207-219; the widow's son goes to work; sees 10 winged maidens fly to the lake, take off their wings, start 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 his mother not to leave the key in the lock; she left it, his wife found wings flew away, telling him to look for her on a glass mountain; the young man went in search; the young man directs him to the old man; he sent him to his sister Moon on the top of the mountain; the moon sends to his older brother To the Sun; he goes to his older brother Wind; he gives a ball that rolls to a glass mountain; the wind lifted the young man up the mountain; there in the house, the mother of bird girls offers tasks; 1) cut down the forest with lead with an 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, quit behind one another three red lice; each turns into a mountain, one taller than the other; the mother cannot overcome the third mountain, stops the persecution; the young man brings his wife to him; wedding]: 9-11, 30-32, 211- 220.

Western Europe. The Irish: 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 in the same bed twice; the sage explains that the old man lives at the bottom of the sea, says where his four swan daughters will fly; the Queen hides her youngest's clothes; gives it for a promise to help; she sticks a pin to sleep in her father to prevent him from hacking the young man at the entrance ; the young man comes in, says, Save all God here; this phrase has broken the spell, but the old man gives instructions; 1) build a house; 2) clean the house from garbage; 3) build a roof; 4) cover it with wild birds in peace; 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 tells him to splash the horse's foot taken from his ear, the sea appears; the old man drains him with three plates water; daughter pulls a duck out of a tree, an egg from a duck, hits her father in the 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 kissed 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 the chicken to tell a story about her and the one who forgot her; the queen all recalls, calls the old man's daughter his wife]: 191-195; Neely 1944 [western in an Irish settlement in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Illinois; the king of France wants to marry; the monk says that three swans flying to the lake, girls; gives the king ten-mile boots, he steals the girls' clothes; gives it for a promise to take it with him; the older, middle, younger sister takes turns carrying him; he wants to marry his youngest, must identify her; she warns that she will sit with her knees clenched; in a few years the king wants to visit the house; the wife warns not to do so; gives a flying ship, telling her not to leave it; the king goes out, Death immediately grabs him; the king asks to take the old men instead of him, but Death wants only him; the king asks Death to get into the box first, covers him with a lid, returns to his wife, wants to open the box, the wife doesn't tell me; they throw the box into the sea, the waves bring it to Ireland; people open the box, Death begins to kill everyone; so the Irish moved to America]: 90-91; French : Grimm 1883 (1) [1) a person sees three maidens swimming in the spring, putting their clothes on branches, stealing clothes, the maidens are 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, take off their feather clothes, become girls; M.'s mother: 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 hid one with them; M. hides the youngest's clothes; gives it away, the bird girl carries it, leaves it in the garden; the sisters are locked in the castle, the maid picks them 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 earth to Mother M.; their children are always fascinated by the sight of birds flying in the sky]: 3-6; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 29 (Switzerland) [a young shepherd fell in love with a mountain fairy; she agreed for him go out on the condition that he would never raise her voice or call her an evil fairy; after six years they have many children; the fairy knew in advance that there would be hail, harvested the crops, and the rest died; the husband hears how everyone laments, and there is laughter in his house; in his hearts he called his wife an evil fairy, she immediately disappeared like smoke; he saw full bins; the children said that the mother would return if the father took his words back, the one stubbornness refuses; the fairies are happy that their friend has returned; in the morning the children are fed - at night the fairy returned; the miller was surprised at the high quality of the wheat brought, advised the man to return his wife; he took back his words; the children said that his mother would come back and ask him to kiss the first creature he saw in the kitchen door; there he was wrapped around a snake, he threw her away, saw his wife; she said that now leaves him forever; the man soon died, sons became criminals, daughters became prostitutes]: 85-89; the French (Haute-Brittany) [the man lost cards to Bluebeard; he said that now he must serve with him for 7 years and until he finds him, he does not fall asleep day or night; a person goes in search; he meets three old women consistently; the first has not seen people for 100 years, the second for 40, the third knows where the SB lives: we must cross three seas: red, white and blue; when three SB daughters arrive to swim, we must steal the garter; three ducks have arrived and become girls; the man hid the garter alone, that promised to deliver him 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 orders to scoop out the pond with a thimble; hide a monstrous amount of wool; get eggs from a bird's nest in a tall tree without stairs; the SB daughter tells me to cut it into pieces to make a ladder; then it was not enough little finger; SB tells 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 the egg in which he is enclosed on SB's chest life]: Sébillot 1894, No. 1:167-168; Bretons: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 7 [Pipi Menou shepherd sees swans flying to the lake, taking off their feather clothes, swimming; his grandmother explains what it is daughters of a sorcerer, whose castle hangs high above the sea; we must hide the virgin's clothes, let her take him to her castle and 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 a basket of vegetables and fruits, PM hid there, the maiden picked it up, he stayed with her overnight; two sisters are envious, threatened to open everything; the PM's wife put him on his back, they went down to the ground and stayed there; they have many children], 8 (recorded in 1868) [Prince Charles asked his father to invite Henri, the son of the English king; the boys became friends; while hunting, S. chased a wild boar, got lost, came to the castle; the owner Barbeauvert, Barbe de verre) offered to play cards; S. lost everything, including his head; B. took him to the road and told him to appear in a year and one day; S. leaves in six months; the hermit gives a ball, he will roll to the mountain, to to whom Castle B. gives scissors, they will pass through the thorny bush and return to the hermit; there will be a garden, a pond, three golden benches on the mountain; three birds, daughter B., will arrive, undress to swim; we must grab the youngest one, she will put on her feather clothes again and take her father to the castle; B.: it's good that you came yourself; Koantic (the maiden who brought S.) promises to help fulfill his father's difficult tasks; 1) to at sunset, cut down the forest with a wooden ax (K. hit one tree with it, the whole forest fell down); 2) raze the mountain with a wooden hoe (K. hit the mountain with it); 3) get it lost at sea a hundred years ago anchor; K.: cut off my head, throw it into the sea, the blood must be drained into the hole, but I must not fall asleep; S. almost fell asleep, my head returned at the last moment; B. is ready to give his daughter, but the sisters demand that they become with mice in a bag and S. randomly pulled out one of them; K. warned that she would sit quietly at the bottom of the bag; in marriage, K. threw a candlestick on the bed, there was an abyss with knives; on a flying chariot on the way to Paris, S. and K. went down to the hermit, who christened K.; holiday]: 347-354, 355-369; 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, the evil wizard makes the young man light and looks at a girl; she flies to the cleanest pond in the world; the prince sees three turtledoves fly to the pond, leave her clothes on the shore, swim; he hides the clothes of one of them; makes her marry him ( princess does not recognize her lover), breaking the spell]: 346; Grimm, Grimm 1987, No. 193 [the drummer sees three pieces of white canvas on the lake shore, puts one in his pocket; at night, a girl invisible in the dark asks for her clothes to be returned to her; she is the king's daughter, magically trapped on top of a glass mountain; she must swim in the lake every day and fly back; she cannot fly away without clothes; the drummer promises them rescue; 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; hands him to another giant, the third, the third leaves at the foot of the foot mountains; two fight over a saddle that takes them to any place; the drummer invites them to race, flies on a saddle to the mountain; there the old woman demands 1) to scoop out the pond with a thimble in a day; a 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 logs (the same, whip the witch on face with the last branch); 3) burn everything in one fire; on the girl's advice, the drummer throws the witch into the fire, removing the log that has not burned before, it turns into that girl; she warns not to kiss at his parents' house, he kisses her, forgets her; the drummer marries another; the magical wife agrees to give that dress like the sun for letting him spend the first night at the bedroom door; but the drummer doesn't wakes 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; Germans (Swabia) [the beloved wife is dead, the hunter is wandering through the woods; the old man in the hut advises to hide the clothes of one of the three swan girls who come to swim; this is how the hunter got his wife; the old man warned hide her feather clothes from her; they have many children; after 15 years he forgot to close the room where he kept his wife's clothes; the wife flew away; the children know nothing; the old man: the wife in the castle, from which every day they send a donkey to the mill for flour; the hunter hides in a bag, the donkey brought him to the castle; the wife is happy to see her husband again; to get it, he must silently endure the suffering that Dragons coming in different guises will cause; the first time snakes appeared, the second time toads, the third time snakes again; he held back the scream; three snakes turned into three women, they were swans; the hunter stayed with his wife in the castle]: Meier 1852, No. 7:39-42 (=Ashliman 2002); Germans (Austria) [young man sees three girls swimming in the forest on the lake, putting on swan clothes, flying away; mother orders to build a hut near the lake and guard; the young man hides the 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 not a single believer of the true faith; 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 every person to him; wedding; the couple was taken to the kingdom of D.], 778-831 [the Persian praises the jeweler Hasan's products, offers to adopt him, promises to teach him a better craft; mother H. does not trust a stranger; 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 go to H.'s house, a Persian drinks him , puts it in a chest, puts money and jewelry in another, sends the chests to the ship; the ship sails away; mother H. builds in a tomb with her son's name and lives in it; H. will be the thousandth killed, if not will betray his faith, but H. refuses to worship the 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 apologizes to H., the storm subsides; the Persian H. go down to land, ride camels; the Persian sews H. into the camel's skin, the bird lifts its skin up the mountain; there's firewood and human bones; the Persian asks to dump firewood, they are 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 who is going to be sent 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 arrive; H. hides; birds turn into girls; bathe; H. falls in love with the elder; bird girls fly away; H. withers from love; jeennia comes back, H. talks about everything younger, she promises to help; the elders the jeennias go hunting, the youngest advises H. to hide the feathers of the bird girl; the gennias arrange their wedding; H. dreams of his mother, he goes to her; in case of difficulty, he must hit the Persian drum and camels will take him to the gennias; to mother H.'s house, his wife gives birth to two sons; H. decides to visit Jinny, punishes his mother not to go to town with his wife; his wife violates the ban, goes to the bathhouse, sees her Caliph's slave, tells his wife; she demands that his wife X. calls his wife to her, dresses her up; wife H. says that she has feather clothes, let her mother-in-law give them back; the servant brings clothes, wife X. turns into a bird, takes the children and flies away - let her husband look for her on the Wak Islands; H. goes to the gennias for help; Uncle Jinny takes the horse out of the mountain, gives a letter; on horseback X. reaches the mountain in which the mighty sheikh, gives a letter; he is allowed into the mountain; he is given a new letter and a case with firefighting accessories that can be used to summon the sheikh 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 Wak Island; H. goes with an army across the island birds; across the island of animals; across 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 him 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 looks like his wife; she is her sister; queen orders to bring her sister with children; children are brought before their mother; the queen makes sure that the boys are the sons of H.; the queen beats her sister; talks about everything to her husband, the father of the bird girls; the sorcerer's two children they quarrel over a copper stick, which genies and invisible caps obey; H. invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; invisible, goes to his wife, she is crucified and tied to her hair; H. opens to her children, unties his wife, the old woman opens the gate, the Ifrites give X. three horses; genie sticks defeat the queen's army, she is captured; wife H. stands up for her, reconciles; queen with they go to their city as an old woman; on the way they thank the king who put H. on the ship and both sheikhs; the sheikhs ask them to give them a wand and hat for their help; H. and his family visit the jinnias, thanks youngest, returns home]: 64-101, 594-702; Arabs (obviously Iraq or Kuwait) [Hasan from Basra sees 10 birds flying in, taking off their feather clothes, becoming girls, swimming; hiding clothes one of them; takes her as his wife; leaves her in her mother's care when she leaves; she finds out where the clothes are, flies with her children to Wak-Wak Island; her husband comes there for her]: Clouston 1887:186 (Hatto 1961 in brief: 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 must hide their clothes; the man hides them, returns two, the third takes away, marries; marries three sisters to marry three genies who came for them; leaves, leaving his wife in the care of her mother; it was a holiday, people asked that this man's wife also dance; she says she needs her clothes for this; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give her clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people buried a lamb, told her returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made the mother tell me everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then don't let them eat; the one who jumped over the fence will take them; the brown one jumped over; take it to the sunrise until he is exhausted; then three days on foot; every day he stays with his sisters, three genies give a hair to help; he sees his wife, she opens it to his father after he gives promise not to cause harm; 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 [Wurrunah met seven female sisters who had received him well; left, hid, stole two digging sticks; these two girls stayed looking for them, V. grabbed them, married them; One day, against their will, he sent him 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 seen as the Pleiades]: Parker 1965 : 109-111 (=Parker 1896:43-46 in Lessa 196:141, 154; in Dixon 1916:294-295.

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 it under her husband's 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 ended; 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 will return]: Tuzin 1980:1-8 in Gregor, Tuzin 2001:325-326; the upper arapeche [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 it in a menstrual hut; she has no vagina; he put the female where she relieves her need, she pierced her vagina, she started menstruating; 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, flew away; after a while, three brothers came to the tree, beat drums, blew flutes; the mother flew in, invited her to themselves, 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 looks for them, he takes her to his village, gets married; the wife hears her husband complaining that there is no peace after the birth of a child; 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 baby breast]: Fischer 1963, No. 20c: 161-162; bilbil [a man looks at the stars, wants a woman from heaven to marry; she goes down to him; his younger brother notices them, tells his mother that his brother's wife more beautiful than her; they have a son; he catches a grasshopper, the grandfather bakes, eats him; the grandson demands him back; the grandfather in his hearts says that his mother is from heaven; the mother confirms this; makes a smoky fire, tells his son to wrap around by the neck, rising to the sky with him in a column of smoke]: Dempwolff 1911, No. 4:82-87; keva [a man named Sumi Sama is at the head of the village but is single; at night he hears singing and music from Mount Sumi; came there; there's a tree to the sky; female stars go down and smear their faces with white clay, as it should be during the holidays; took shelter, hid, grabbed the last woman to go down for clay; she leader of heavenly women; turned into a snake, crocodile, boar, wood, stone, water, prickly ratan; at dawn agreed to go with the SS, but let her do as she says; three weeks later, a holiday; wife warned that the SS should not dance there with other women; made a thread of vegetable fiber and tied it to the SS's back; if it breaks, trouble would happen; but on the holiday, the woman carried the SS into dancing and the thread burst; the SS ran home but saw his wife climb the tree trunk; the SS made a ladder, but when he wanted to grab his wife's hand, he fell into a hole in the stone and broke to death; since then, the bones The SS is gone, but men still use his skull during rituals; if the SS hadn't violated his wife's ban, men would still receive women freely, not for payment]: Slone 2009:96-98; viru [ the man went into the forest and took refuge under a tree from the rain; saw young women come down from the sky, collected yellow clay and flew back; he grabbed the last one; it turned into something prickly, then the snake, into something else, but he did not let it go; she made the man handsome and went to live with him in his village; but warned him not to go to the holidays; their house is full of money and shells; once a man still went to the party, but when he returned, he did not find his wife; he built a staircase, climbed to heaven, almost got there, but night fell and he went down; at night the woman brought down the stairs; the man went into the forest and remained an outcast] : Slone 2009:26-28; motu [the man dug the earth deeper, found the moon, took it out, it grew, shone, rose into the sky; said in a woman's voice that she should have stayed in her mother for a long time- Earth before being born; then it would shine constantly, and now it would appear and disappear; descended into the sea; man took a net, dogs, spears, went to look for the moon to marry her; found a bather the woman, sat on her clothes, said that he would marry her; Luna replied that he would die in two days because he touched her clothes and she was an immortal spirit; agreed to be his wife for one day, then sent home so that he could prepare for death; she would also be the wife of the Sun, who is already dissatisfied; the Sun became jealous because the moon does not walk the same way as he does, and that it shines brightest when he was gone; decided to part]: Romilly 1889:134-142; Admiralty Islands (Papitalai) [Saurang and his father had ripened almonds; turtles flew to peck at him; S. told S. to kill them, he knocked them down two stones; one was eaten, the other was alive, she was left in the house; S. went to dance on Fr. Yap; Gorlinka turned into a girl, danced there with S., he fell in love with her; Gorlinka cooked food at home, became a bird again; the next day S. waited for the girl in the garden; refused to name her sister, took as a wife; once she didn't give him a bethel, he called her a rootless dove, an almond thief; she cried, said she'd better be eaten like another dove]: Meier 1908, No. 6.1:203-206; Santa Islands Cruz (Reef) [the young man works on the site only at night; others do not like him; the tree has invited him to live in his hollow; female stars go down to fish, he takes it from them; they lift him up to them; later, after giving valuables, they go back]: O'Ferrall 1904:230-231; Banks Islands (Mota) [when hungry, a woman finds a fruit tree in the forest; her son makes her show where to go; finds a tree, climbs for fruit; spirits flock there, including the deceased brother of the young man's mother {further skip the page in my copy; obviously, my uncle helps my nephew take possession of the heavenly maiden; he takes her as his wife , she is giving birth to a child}; in the garden it is enough for her to touch a yam leaf, there is already a tuber in her hand; the husband does not believe that his wife and son have eaten, because there are no traces of dug yams in the garden; thinks that some the man gave yams to his wife, beats her, tells her to go back to heaven; she makes a fire, rises into the sky on a column of smoke; the husband finds a crying child, asks all animals and birds to help; only the Spider makes a thread to the sky, puts a man with a child on his back, raises him to heaven; there is a holiday, dancing; the son turns to his mother, she pays attention to him, agrees to return; The Spider takes all three back to the ground]: Codrington 1891, No. 4:379-383; Banks Islands (Mota Lava) [the women went for leaves; in the evening alone found a tree with sweet fruits; brought 4 home to her son; he wanted to go pick these fruits immediately, his mother had to agree; he found a tree, but 10 women flew in in the dark; the first was Romangan, she hid the boy in a hollow so that others would not they ate; when the east filled, the seven women flew away, and the last two R. showed the boy; they told her to marry him; he brought R. to his mother, began to live with her; they had a son; one day he left for a long time on business, leaving food supplies; R. creates food by magic, the supplies remain untouched; the returning husband, seeing this, beat R.; she was offended, made a fire and flew to heaven in smoke; on the occasion of R.'s return to Everyone is dancing in the sky: R. is finally dead; the old woman promised her husband and son to help her return R.; she woven a rope, tied it to the basket, the basket rose to heaven; we agreed that when the old woman felt the third push, she will realize that all three, husband, son and R., have climbed into the basket and will lower them down; but R.'s mother gave her a basket full of almonds; R. put this load in the basket, the old woman immediately lowered it back; R. remained in the sky]: http://alex.francois.free.fr/AFtxt_mtp-romanmangan_e.htm; Banks Islands (Meralawa) [heavenly maidens go down to fish, leave their wings under the pandanus; the man hid one a wing that makes the heavenly maiden go with him to the village; hides in a man's house; tells the earthly wife she likes heaven; husband and earthly wife work in the garden, and the heavenly one cooks at home; gives birth to a son, then the second; she and her children are not allowed to leave the village; the boys chase the lizard, she climbs under the stone, the mother helps to move it, finds her wing; flies away; the brothers shoot the throat, she does not fall; the eldest gets up, the gorlinka says that she is the mother of their mother, even if the youngest will rise; brings pigeons into the house; the mother took her eldest son, and the youngest was left with the throat grandmother]: Coombe 1911: 50-53; Aoba: Codrington 1891 [Tagaro saw heavenly winged maidens go down to swim; hid one pair of wings at the base of his house, married this girl; touching yam plants, she made the tubers ripe; T.'s brothers thought 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]: 172; Suas 1912, No. 10a [Sun's wives go down to swim; Takaro hides Baniha Mamata's wings, takes her as his wife; she has a little son with him; he turns yam leaves into tubers; mother-in-law swears thinking that the boy is digging up unripe tubers; BM and his son find wings, fly away; T. asks Stork to draw figures of participants in the events on a sheet, throw them in front of the BM; he makes a chain of arrows himself, along it the root of the pandanus winds, T. rises to heaven; BM sends it back, cuts off the root], 10b [when planting a yam, Muehu Katekale notices small traces; sees two men and a woman with a child hiding their wings on the plantation to bathe; MK takes the woman's wings, marries her; working with her 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 the tree above his wife, drops her a sheet on which he drew his figure; the son says it is the figure of his father; she sends MK back, asks her to cut off the chain; he tries to make it again, but this no longer works]: 54-57, 57-60; Maewo [heavenly women came to swim, left their wings on the shore; Qat hid one pair, married the woman; when she touched the leaf sweet potatoes, all the sweet potatoes were dug up; touched the banana - all the bananas were ripe; K.'s mother began to scold her; the wife cried, tears washed the hole, she saw her husband's wings buried, flew away; K. began to let her go into the sky, one arrow in the tail of the other, forming a chain; the root of the fig tree wrapped around it, reached the sky; K. got up, took his wife, began to descend; the man in the sky dug up the root of a fig tree, a chain of arrows collapsed; K. crashed, wife returned to heaven]: Codrington 1891, No. 9:397-398 (quoted in Lessa 1961:129; translated to Permyakov 1970, No. 54:137-138); Dixon 1916 (Whitsuntide Island near Maevo) [flying away, wife 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 fruit, threw it to her; the boy recognized his father's portrait; the woman asked me to tell you what she would accept T. back, if he gets to the sky; he started shooting, made a chain of arrows; a banyan root descended from the sky, wrapped around arrows, took root in the ground; T. and the bird climbed into the sky; T.'s wife agreed go down, but after him; cut off the root; T. fell, his wife and son returned to heaven]: 139; Efate [the heavenly maidens went down to fish, the man stole the wings of one of them, she gave birth to him Maka Tafaki and Karisi Bum; her husband began to treat her badly; her sons found her wings, she flew away; her sons made a chain of arrows, climbed into heaven; a blind old woman cooked six yam tubers, the brothers slowly hid one; the old woman realized they were her grandchildren, named them; they found the mother]: MacDonald 1898:765-767 in Lessa 196:129-130, in Frazer 1939:221; Tanna: Bonnemaison 1987 [first ancestors stones -kapiel did not know fire, reed roots, ferns and wild fruits were cooked in the sun; Kooman sat in a shelter to shoot pigeons; the dove sat on his arrow, became a Penoa woman; K. brought her into the house; his mother was convinced that her daughter-in-law was not a spirit because her face was painted; P. refused to eat dried rhizomes, said that she had a middle name Naunum ("food"); in the morning she went across the sea to her country for cultivated plants; as I walked, the water parted, closed again; came back, bringing yams, tarot, bananas, coconuts, breadfruit, chickens, sugarcane and hot coals, cooked chicken and yams on fire; mother and son set up a vegetable garden, gave plants to their neighbors; one day P. and K. went to visit, leaving their daughter in the care of their grandmother; the girl burst into tears, her grandmother put her on her knees, and she wet herself, her old woman scolded; P. felt it, took her daughter, went across the parting sea to an unknown island; K. became a rock in shallow water; the daughter then returned, from her to the descendants of K.]: 87-89; Humphreys 1926 [man wanted to shoot a bird in a tree; she became a Masineruk woman, he married her; gave yams, before that people ate only wild fruits; they have a child; she and her husband went to another village for a party, leaving her husband's mother's child; returning back, M. felt that her mother-in-law was beating the child; taking him, she rushed to the shore, the waters in front of her parted, she went dry; when the husband tried to follow him, the water came together; it became a rock that looked like a human figure]: 94-95; Kanaka [the swan maiden motif is known in New Caledonia {source not specified}]: Poignant 1967:100; Loyalty Islands [near the old Witch Kjgjtee's son; closing and opening her eyes, she turned the stick into a harpoon; the son began to fish; met a girl, the daughter of the Sun; they had a boy; L. magically immediately made him an adult; ordered not to go to the other side of the island; he went, followed by a disgusting scale-covered woman, was going to marry him; began to rule the house; the daughter of the Sun asked her father for help, and he burned a woman of spirit with her rays]: Hadfield 1920, No. 8:234-237.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap: Müller 1918, No. 25 [a lot of women came down from the sky, people caught them with a net, took them out, the most beautiful one hid back online, Sivegeu found her; others envy him, they call him swim to an island to collect bird feathers, throw it there while he sleeps; S. jumped on a shark, swam to another island; took a sandjar and a piece of bamboo from two girls, threw sand on the water, hit bamboo, a road arose, he crossed it to his island; the girls followed him, he gave them back their magic objects; brought his wife back], 78 [two heavenly maidens went down, went to the village to dance; Maraaluog hooked one of them with a comb, she could not return to heaven, he married her; her name is Maragigi, they have a son; her parents went down to her, told her to come to them seven days later with her husband; they got up with mountains into the sky; the wife wanted to go behind, the husband sent her forward, smelled her, made her meet with him; so the spirits killed him; the wife came to life as a lizard, a bird, then a man; gave birth to many daughters and sons, as well as a shark, a frigate bird, a pandanus tree; the children spread across Yap; the couple threw sand into the water, an island appeared], 79 and 79a [about (78)]: 486-487, 629-630, 640-645; Uliti [Sibegewo carried a bag with beautiful women in the sky; the strap burst, the bag fell to the ground into the pond; the boys found it, dismantled the women; one was late, they laughed at him; but he found the last one at the bottom of the bag, but the most beautiful woman; the chief wanted her for himself; suggests 1) dancing (wife teaches how to dance best); 2) bring lots of young coconut leaves (wife turns grass leaves into leaves into leaves coconut); 3) bring the black feathers of a frigate bird to decorate all dancers (the wife creates feathers from leaves); 4) bring shell bracelets (the wife turns coconut shells into shells); 5) bring white heron feathers; this time the wife cannot create them, the husband goes to another island for feathers; the chief comes at night, but the wife turns into a lizard, the chief does not find her; in a piece of bamboo she sails to the island where her husband is; he lives there because the island where herons are dangerous; the wife lives with a woman who finds a piece of bamboo; finds out that there is a young man on the island; realizes that it is a husband; spouses reunite, stay on this island]: Mitchell 1973, No. 46:128-131; Samoa (Savaii) [Mateiteite begged her father Tangaloa Alanga to let her go to land to marry a man whose name is will be in tune with her own; chose Mata-talalo; his daughters were told that he was old and covered with ulcers, but she made him healthy; gave birth to a son; her husband decided to make a boat; his wife sent her son to heaven sent workers from the sky; no one should have seen them; but one day there were no men, women carried food to the workers and decided to spy; they immediately returned to heaven; they worked without tools - they knocked down trees and treated wood with their teeth; they were not wearing clothes]: Polinskaya 1986, No. 42:129-130; Tahiti [Ari'i and Tafa'i meet a blind old woman, steal her tarot, dodge her fishing hook, they kill her; or Tafa'i chooses a wife from four star daughters blind Ui; it's the Morning Star, he takes her to heaven]: Beckwith 1970:255-256; Maori: Reed 1999, No. 5 [Tawhaki is a good fisherman, his wife's four brothers are bad; they attack him, he is barely alive, his wife finds him and saves him; he tells his people to go to the mountain, causes a downpour, the village of his wife's brothers is washed away by a flood; T. Karihi; their parents were stolen by Ponaturi creatures; they can't stand the light of the sun, sleep on the ground at night, hide under water for a day; brothers find a mother, she says P. killed their father; brothers tell their mother answer P. that it is still night; she says that the day has come when it is very light; P. melted from the sunlight, only Salmon jumped into the water and became salmon; the heavenly maiden Hapai descended to T. gave birth to him a daughter; he said something about his daughter that offended his mother, she took her daughter, returned to heaven, saying that if he wanted to find her, let him cling to a vine firmly rooted in the ground, and not swaying under clouds; T. and K. come to their blind grandmother, steal tarot roots from her; she tries to kill thieves, they restore her sight, she recognizes her grandchildren; leads them to the heavenly vines; K. grabs the swaying one, T. sends him home; he climbs a stable one himself, turns into an old man, is told to carry a Tesla, he quietly finishes a semi-finished boat; he is told to carry brushwood, he comes to his wife and daughter; H. and her The brothers will guess who he is; he's back with H., becomes Thunder], 8 [Uenuku sees two girls bathing, Hine-pukohu-rangi (Maiden of the Mist, DT, Girl of the Mist) and Hine-wai (Misty Rain Girl); asks DT stay with him; she says she will have to go back to the outside for a day; no one believes that T. has a wife; he closes the openings in the house so that she thinks it's still night; when she leaves the house, DT sees that it's a long time ago, flying away on a cloud; T. went to look for her, grew old, died, became a rainbow; DT still gets up at dawn], 23 [the heavenly maiden began to go down to the bird hunter every night Taotoru; contrary to the ban, he wanted to see her face, looked at her in the morning, she flew away forever; while hunting, T. fell off a tree and crashed; seeing many birds gathered from above his body, heavenly wife mourned him and let his relatives know T.'s death; they carried T. to the village, but Tane took him to heaven and made him the constellation of Orion; it also has flowers (cluster of flowers) and fishing snare birds; small stars - lots of pigeons around]: 58-74, 86-90, 210-211; Taku: Moyle 2003:57-63 [Kaetanotanoa bathed, leaving her phalloscript on a rock; heavenly woman Simakapeimarama went down to him, offered to marry him; he already has 10 wives; they whisper why S. only sleeps with her husband, but does not get food; S. cries: in heaven she would easily fill two food baskets, and here 10 wives fill only one; tells them to go down on a rope with a loop, gets on a noose, goes up to him; K. doesn't have time to stop her; he killed 10 wives and destroyed his house], 65-75 [people had fun throwing looms into the air; heavenly maiden Taurapu liked Ariki Matui, who came with his two childless wives Karai and Amuri; when he dropped off his machine, she went down on him, became Matui's wife; they have two sons; other wives say that T. does not work; she took the children, returned to heaven; the children took off first, Matui tried to grab her, but she told her to let her go, since the children are already in heaven; he killed two wives and destroyed his house; the spirits agreed to help him, moved him to heaven, left them in a tree above the spring to which his sons went to fetch water; he sheds fruit for them ; on the second day, the youngest recognized the marks of his father's teeth on the fetus; they saw him, built a house for him at the spring; told his mother that they wanted to take food to the playground, they carried it themselves to his father; she wonders how can her sons eat so much; follows, gets to know her husband, calls home, everyone is happy].

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Jest 1971:72-74 in Allen 2011 (Tichurong of northwestern Nepal) [enemies kill everyone, a pregnant woman leaves, gives birth to a son; he sees seven birds flying to the lake, they turn into seven women, bathe; forgets to tell their mother twice; the third time she says, the mother teaches the cow's blood to drip into the lake; when six birds fly away, the young man drips, the seventh remains human, he brings her home, marries her; (var.: the young man hides the clothes of the seventh girl); first the wife is silent, finally laughs when she sees his mother-in-law cook; from this couple one of childbirth]: 94-95; Thomas 1957:31, 42 in Allen 2011 [1) the demon eats 6 sisters and their parents, the seventh turns into a peacock; six brothers hunt with silk snails, the seventh, from another wife, with strength from goat hair; a peacock gets into it, comes back when the young man releases it; someone cooks in the house; a young man sees a beauty, grabs her; 2) a donkey warns the middle of the three sisters that the eldest and their father eaten by a demon; she grabs the bird's tail, flies away; six rich brothers hunt with silk snares, the seventh is poor with horsehair force; (it is not clear if he is catching a bird); someone cooks in his house; he hides, grabs a beautiful woman, marries]: 93-94; Yao 1986 [The ruler of the southern country is told that things will go well if the dragons of the northern country are settled here; the sorcerer throws mud into the lake, dragons must leave, but the hunter kills the sorcerer; the dragon rewards a treasure that provides wealth; he goes to the hermit, sees seven heavenly maidens swimming in the lake, flying away "like white cranes"; the hermit teaches you to ask the dragon for a magic rope; the sorcerer gives the treasure, receives the rope, catches the eldest of the seven sisters, takes her necklace that allows her to fly; gives the maiden to the prince; he forgets about their 500 concubines; the courtier and concubines persuade the king to send the prince to war, kill his wife; the prince's mother returns her necklace; when she flies away, she teaches where her husband should look for her; overcoming obstacles with the help of a ring given by a hermit, the prince enters heaven; throws his wife's ring into the maids' vessel; the wife recognizes him; her father does not want to give it to the mortal; demands victory in shooting bow; and let the arrow fired into the sky fall at the virgin's feet; the prince wins, gets a wife, returns with her to earth]: 42-72; Tibetans (Amdo) [the mare gave birth to a boy, the old woman adopted him; c 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 day on August 15 the following year; two years later, young men grabbed and destroyed pigeon bodies, married girls; wives wither away; young men watched a kite fly in, became a copper-billed witch, she drank the girls' blood, flew away, the mare's son managed to injure her with an arrow; young men follow a bloody trail, companions let the mare's son go into failure, cut off the rope, the garuda picks him up; a local shepherd says that the witch was 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, "Contact"; to transport them across the river, you have to tell the river to retreat up and down, go dry; when he brings goats, he will lick the wound on the mother's back inflicted 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, my mother's strength is in it, be careful; the second part of a mother's life at home in a needle in a salt bag; the mare's son crushed the mole {and apparently killed the shepherd}, put on his clothes, took his yak tongue with him; told the waters to part, the goats to contact; the witch takes him for a son, asks 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 going to eat a garuda chick; a chick explains to his mother that a man saved him; the son of a mare asks to be brought to land; the garuda asks to prepare 100 bird carcasses and 100 wineskins of water; carries the mare's son across the sea; he forgives his companions, Reigns, all is well]: Kajihama 2004, No. 28:117-123; Mustang [Nyawa Ngömba guards King Norsang's lake; once people from another village decided to take the lake for themselves, their sorcerer threw them into the water corpses; NN killed the sorcerer, returned the lake; three doves fly in, drop their feathers, become girls, bathe; NN wants to get them for King N.; llama: they can only be caught with mother-of-pearl force, who has underwater king Lu; NN threatens him to throw corpses at the lake again, he gives a snare, NN catches the younger fairy Lhamo Yitok in him, brings the king; three years later he goes to kill three demons; wife demons: shoot the younger little finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, the eldest finger; then the demons fall dead; the king's eldest 2500 wives want to lime LI, persuade the king's sick mother To say that only LY's heart would heal her; before her husband left, LY persuaded him to return her feather clothes; now she is flying away; when the yogurt she fermented is ready, her husband can go look for her; N. asks the river, she replies that she did not see LY, N. tells it to flow while winding; the wild sheep is the same (let it live not on the plain, but only in the mountains); the tree says that it saw (let it be evergreen); N. comes to the country of LY; a maid comes to the stream, says that she has come to get water to cleanse LY of the filth of being among people; N. throws a ring into her jug; LY recognizes him, her parents N. liked it, spouses return happily to earth]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 17:111-114; 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 him on the couch tree leaves with red juice, lay down at a distance; the brothers refused, the father pierced the couch with a spear; HC went to his poor grandmother, who gave him advice; he replaces the clothes of the youngest of the six who came to swim daughters of the Sun, 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 jewelry; she puts on her outfit, flies away; grandmother tells you to hide by the river in the sand; there on the wedding day of HC's wife and son of the Wind, the elephant of the Sun will come to swim; you have to grab its tail, go to heaven, ask the servants for water, throw the ring into the vessel, 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; returns to earth with his wife and son, reigns]: Stack, Lyall 1908, No. 3:55-70; garo: Rongmuthu 1960 [Daran young man saw Juge Balje's apsar swimming in the pond, hid her clothes; she called herself the daughter of heaven and agreed to marry; Apsara gave a white scarf to 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 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 . desperate, cried out and died; the apsar remained invisible to his wife and household]: 48-53; Playfair 1909 [Awil and Singwil have younger sisters Nosé and Dimsé; maternal grandmother secretly ruins everything what do the girls do; the mother accuses them, hits them; they stick feathers, turn into doves, talk about what happened; parents cry, but A. and S. only ask for a necklace, fly away; them brothers Anal and Gunal catch; A. ate his bird, and G. put it in a cage; left alone, the dove turns into a girl, cooks and cleans; A. remains guarded, falls asleep; G. grabs S., marries; A. lures his brother into a hole, falls asleep with stones; his dog and S. dig him up, S. revives him; A. asks G. to climb the poplar to ruin the nests of birds; in fact, there were no nests; A. tells the tree to grow to the sky; S. gives Woodpecker a red turban (now a tuft) and an ax (now a beak), who lowers G. to the ground; A. pushes G. into a hole with burning brushwood; his wife and dog pull him out again; G. killed A. by shoving it down his throat pumpkin scoop; S. and G. are happy, they have many children]: 119-128 (=Rongmuthu 1960:71-78); Mishmi (Taraon) [people cleared the forest on the site; a star girl flew in; a young man cut off her wings, hid her wings them in the 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 broke off, 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; meitei [Yatra is the son of a poor widow; went with his uncle to commercial affairs; his uncle left him by the boat and he saw two girls playing with stones; when he saw me, the girls disappeared, leaving a golden mat; the uncle went home to take Y.'s mother's mat, promising a week later. come back; I picked up a stone, go down under it; Leinu Leima (daughter of the lower world) combs her hair at the pond; says that the witch ate her parents and everyone else; I chipped in with a goldfly; flew the witch feels the spirit but calms down; LL tells the witch that she is afraid to be alone if she dies; witch: my life in the tree: calebasa is the head, the arrow is the back, the 5 chicks in the nest are the soul; when the witch left, I climbed a tree, smashed a calebass, broke an arrow, strangled the chicks; ME and LL went to the ground; LL is ready to marry Me only if he also takes her friend Menu Leima (daughter of heaven); when I hugged ML for waist, she lost the opportunity to return to heaven; with her diamond ring that fulfills wishes; uncle brought Y. and his wives to his mother; everything is fine]: Oinam et al. s.a.; rengma [heavenly maidens they went down to the lake, took off their bird tails and wings, swam; one man came early, hid the bird outfit of one of the maidens, she was forced to marry him; they have a son and daughter; when with their mother, forever they are capricious when not with their father; mothers answered that their father allowed them to play with wings; wings in bamboo under the roof; the mother wore them, promised to lower the ropes for the children, flew to heaven, took the children; husband searches for her unsuccessfully; the white raven asks to paint him black; for this he leads a man, leads a man to a house in the land of spirits, in his wife's house; she warns not to go out; he goes out, stumbles upon a cannibal; the wife hides it under 7 copper vessels, but the cannibal finds it, opens her head with a weaving sword, sucks juices; the wife stayed in heaven, the daughter went down to earth, taught people the song (words are 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; in agreement 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 the remaining six Keinari sisters to the lake; 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 [a young woodcutter sees heavenly fairies bathing in a spring; hides the clothes of one of they, 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's comb, flies away; taking the boy, the husband comes to the spring; there the fairy maids have come 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; after a while she sends her husband and the son on the ground in a drum tied by a rope, promising to ask the Buddha for permission to marry a mortal; in the middle between earth and sky, the rice grains on the drum began to bite; 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 a Morning Star; the husband became an Evening Star; every year, on the 15th day of the 7th month, maids make a sacrifice, and the vórons form a chain so that the spouses and their son can get together and meet; therefore, crows have a bald head; on this day where- a funeral ceremony must take place; the Morning and Evening Stars are always eager to meet]: 123-126: Sun 1967:39-41 [Chuc Nu is one of the daughters of the Jasper Emperor; on the Serebryanaya bank Rivers (Milky Way) woven clothes for all celestials; shepherd Ngau Lang saw her and fell in love; the emperor agreed to marriage on the condition that the shepherd and weaver continue their work; but they they were just walking and having fun; then he told them to stay on different banks of the Silver River; they are allowed to meet once a year in the seventh month; they cry, it's raining; it's a rainy month Ndau], 100-103 [ Tu Uyen student went to a party, saw a piece of paper inviting him to come to a poetry contest; a girl showed up and they read poems to each other, then she disappeared; he realized that she celestial; TU fell asleep in the pagoda, in a dream the old man told him to come to the East Bridge; there he sold a portrait of that girl; TU hung it in his room, addressed the girl like his wife; she got off the portrait and they began to live together; destroyed the TU portrait; they had a son; their wife created a palace; explained that the TU family had so much good that he could also go to heaven; they rose, sitting on two cranes; they promised return for her son at time; later people built a pagoda on this site]; Vietnamese tales 1992 [an orphan's mother in heaven turns into a buffalo; helping her son tells him to go to the lake where they will go down red, golden and multicolored birds - the wife, bride and daughter of the Sky Star - swim; you must hide the wings of the Star's daughter, marry her; he first takes the wings of the red, golden birds, they turn into a rooster, into the rock, he is afraid, gives his wings; he does not give up multicolored, he married; the wife gives birth to two boys, the father allows them to play with their mother's wings; the mother takes wings, children, flies to heaven; the husband calls the buffalo mother to hit the drum, she brings him to heaven; the wife warns 1) not to drink tea from the cup that her father will offer; distracts the father's attention by becoming a hawk, the husband splashes 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 the flutes, brings a drum; the father-in-law decides that his poison is harmless, drinks it himself, crumbles into shards; these are shooting stars]: 126-128; tai (Vietnam) [after the father dies, two brothers find a huge egg; people roll it into the village, but it rolls exactly to the brothers' house; when brothers they return from the field, the house is tidy and the food is cooked; the elder guards, sees a winged heavenly maiden come out of the egg and five maids with her; the younger brother is afraid to find himself the next day, grabs a virgin; they have two sons; the mother finds out from them where the father hid her wings, flies away; the father beat them with a rod, went to look for his wife; left alone, the brothers plant a palm seed with fruits on it at once; brothers they ask the birds to take them to their mother, they fly away; then the rhinoceros bird takes them to the river; there a nine-tailed dog takes them to the other side; they ask the old woman to drink, throw a golden one into the vessel her mother's ring; the mother realizes that her sons have come; mother's father Po Then demands that the rope that is tied to him be tied to the horns of each of the 200 or 300 buffaloes; the insect tells tie it to the buffalo it sits on every time; tells her to count many needles (nieng Khim thinks); tells all women to stick their hands out, let sons recognize their mother's hand; an insect on her sits down; Po Then lets his sons see their mother; they return home, but a tree trunk blocks the woman's way; sons cut him with swords, blood has flowed; mother to sons: you killed your father; left them , telling you to sit down to eat rice on a crooked stone, not enter the bubbling stream; the elder does everything wrong, marries various animals; the youngest kills those who descend from the sky and devours people and animals a snake, revives the dead, marries a heavenly maiden; comes to the youngest and kills his animals; the elder pushed the youngest into a hole; animals helped him get out; while hunting birds, he killed the elder with an arrow]: Degeorge 1924, No. 15:58-68; Vietnam's white thai [a poor orphan chops wood for sale; sees seven heavenly maidens descend to the lake, take off their clothes and wings, bathe; hides their wings the youngest; takes her as his wife; a year later she gives birth to a son; in the absence of his wife, the father calms the crying child by giving him his mother's wings to play; one day the mother was left alone with the child, who cried and showed where the woodcutter hid his wings; the mother finds them, after a while flies away, giving her son her ring and telling his father to come to her if they want; the husband put the son on his back, went to look for his wife; the way through the mouth in the rock, which closes and then opens; the fox advises throwing acidic fruits there, the teeth hurt, the movement of the mouth will stop for a while; father and son pass; on the way there is a river with nine ducts in which even iron dissolves; a dog with nine tails and nine heads promises to carry it if the riders don't laugh in the middle of the river; in the middle of each channel, the dog makes an indecent sound, father they laugh with his son, one head and one tail fall off; before the last crossing, a person ties his mouth with a handkerchief, they reach the shore; since then, all dogs have the same head and one tail, before It was nine; the phoenix offered to spend the night under his wing, and in the morning he and his mother would take them to the place where they were celebrating 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 the visitors; her father suggests 1) tying each of the 300 buffaloes to the pole to which he they always tie; the firefly shows who to tie; 2) sow the grain and harvest it again; the birds collected it, but the king noticed that a few grains were missing; one bird swallowed them, king twisted her neck, since then birds of this species have goiter on the back of her head; 3) find a princess in a palace of 100,000 rooms overnight; the rat promises to bring a dry leaf under the right door, but halfway she was eaten by a cat; then a firefly leads to the right room; the king arranges a wedding, then sends the young to earth, where the son-in-law also becomes king]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:311-316; lao [young man sees seven bathing nymphs, alone agrees to go with him; his mother asks to store her wings; the chief prince envied, sent the prince to war; his wife asked her mother-in-law to return her wings; mother-in-law tied a rope to her daughter-in-law, but she cut it off; returning victorious, the prince went to look for his wife; when he heard his story, the monkey went with him; died; the fly began to eat the corpse, promised to help if the prince will allow her to do so; he allowed; hid under the wing of one of the two eagles who are ready to fly across the sea to the country of Kow Kilat, whose ruler is celebrating the return of his daughter; there the prince threw a ring in a jug of a maid who came for water; the wife asks her father to allow her to return to her husband; he tells the prince 1) to identify her table among her sisters' tables; the prince called a fly, she sat on his wife's table; 2) let each princess stick a finger out from behind the curtain (the same, the husband sits on the finger of the prince's wife)]: Fleeson 1899:51-56; Lao (northern Thailand) [a lazy young man was sent to work for an elder communities, he does nothing, the elder drove him into the forest; the king executes him if he does not bring a deer; the young man finds the dead deer and the elephant's tusk, the king let him go; the young man began to collect and sell myant leaves (stimulant); someone cooks in his hut, he waited for a girl coming out of an elephant's tusk; the king wants to take her away, gives her husband difficult errands to get rid of him; 1) bring the mythical flowers of Chant Ti; his wife sent to the abbot of the monastery, who is 100 years old, he is 200 years old, etc. (300, 400, 500 years old); the young man sees 7 daughters of Pai In (Indra) descending from the sky to swim, hid their wings and tails, returned them for promising to bring flowers, they pledged an arrow that, if shot, makes them come back; they bring flowers, he does not return the arrow; a 500-year-old the abbot exchanged the bow for a drum that could 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 would tie anyone, a 200-year-old staff that would tie anyone, a summer pole that carries baskets himself has a 100-year-old pot filled with any utensils; the pole itself carries everything he received; the young man married all 7 virgins, their father and first wife agree; the king came, beaten, bound, the young man gets the kingdom]: Le May 1924:20-26 (translated into Kornev 1963:52-57); shans [the leader stopped sacrificing spirits, they asked the great crocodile, the lord of the clouds, and springs; the rains stopped, in the third year the situation became catastrophic; the leader sent the soothsayer to kill the crocodile; he reluctantly went, but only hit the crocodile in the eye with an arrow; the chief sent him again; the crocodile asked the hunter to help him; he shot the soothsayer with a bow, threw his body into the lake; 7 heavenly fairies went down there to swim; the hunter asked the crocodile to help get one for his wife; he gave the magic rope, the hunter threw it, catching all seven; demanded the youngest to marry; brought her home; but the hunter's wife and he himself were afraid of the heavenly maiden, whose body emanated light; the hunter took her to royal palace, the maiden married the prince and they were happy]: Milne 1910:226-229; the Burmese [the silver mountain is guarded from the mortal world by thorny reeds, a river of liquid copper and belu demons; Wearing a magic belt, nine princesses from this mountain are able to fly like birds; they flew 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 main one used to be the daughter of an astrologer; the prince left and the king told her to interpret the dream; the astrologer interpreted it as if M. should be sacrificed; the Queen Mother is I heard, 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 wife, meets a hermit, receives a ring and potions from him; in a city on a mountain, he throws a ring into the jug of a maid who has come for water for the princess; the ruler of Silver Mountain is dissatisfied with the appearance mortal; 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 (King Natov helped do it); {this ends the text}]: Blundell 1839:536-551; Thais: Toth 1971, No. 14 [about like Wrigglesworth 1991; tests: 1) raise a stone bench (prayed to a god of strength), 2) identify his wife (a butterfly flew up to her), 3) shoot many obstacles with an arrow (the hero does it himself)]: 106-115; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 7 [a king lived in Sawan Nakol ("golden city") at the foot of the Himalayas birds; the youngest of seven daughters was Ma Nora; on a full moon they flew to swim in a pond near the hermit's cave; the forester Bun visited him, found out that a bird girl could only be caught with a "snake loop"; before that he saved the king of snakes, he gave a noose; when the bird virgins took off their tails and wings, B. caught MN with a loop, gave Sutone, Prince of the State of Pawnkala; while S. was at war, the evil adviser said that MN should be brought to the victim, otherwise the king would die; MN asked for her tail and wings to dance a farewell dance; flew away; S. returned, threw the counselor into prison, went to look for MN; the hermit handed him the ring left by MN; gave the monkey a guide; after 7 years, 7 months and 7 days, S. reached the bird kingdom; heard two women coming for water say that today the deadline is over, after whom MN will eliminate the memories of what happened to her; S. threw the ring into the jug; MN recognized him; the king of birds makes it a condition for marriage that S. must identify his wife among her sisters; S. recognized her in his own way the ring on her finger; S. and MN returned to Sawan Nakol, during their reign people and birds were friends]: 290-293; Kornev 1963 [Prince Chau Nechu came to the lake, there are 7 peacock girls, he hid the 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 spread the rumor that the enemies had won, and the witch N. was to blame; before her execution, she asks to be allowed 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 her to hand it over to her husband and tell her about the road; the hermit gave companions are a tame monkey; the snake lay as a bridge over a hot river, in which even a sword melted; an arrow fired pushed the mountains apart, the travelers managed to slip; cannibal birds fell into the hollow, they ate the monkey, the emergency was not noticed; he hid in the feather of one of them, the bird brought him to the kingdom, where the peacock sisters; ChS threw a ring into the bucket of maid N.; she is happy, but her father offers challenges: 1 ) break the stone that dammed the river with an arrow (the emergency broke; 2) recognize his wife's finger when 7 sisters put their fingers into the holes (a firefly sat on their finger); emergency and N. returned home]: 35-51; zhuang [dying, his mother tells A-dao 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 man in the forest, hairy 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 are offered to 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 back, 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 the gong and with 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 summons S. to fight, she licks her wounds; A. overhears her talking to her children that a knife rubbed with human or dog feces is fatal for her; 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 them people killed by S., goes down with his wife to the ground, kills H., finds his father]: Cherkasova 196:319-327; buoys (from three informants, two of them spoke Chinese); [the young Liuliu plowed, saw in He brought a shrimp home to the well; at night I had a dream: the moon was looking for her daughter who had descended to earth; when she returned from the field, she found a girl; she gave birth to the son of Heavenly Prince (Chinese: tian wang), a boy immediately grows up, helps in his work; the emperor sent an army to take his wife; she tells his son to look for her on the moon; L. returned from the field, went to pick up his wife; the old man says that he saw how the warriors brought her to the woman, who told the river to wash them away, rose to the sky by the rainbow herself; Ransu, a close associate of the emperor, is trying to kill TV in order to seize the rich harvest from his fields; 1) lowers in an iron cauldron in a well; 2) ties a tiger to a stone to be eaten, 3) to a spruce; TV returns unharmed every time; his servants let him go; he turns into an old man, then into smoke, rises to the sky; at the site of ascension a stone in the form of a human figure remained; after learning about the injustices, mother TV began to send insect pests, drought, etc., and people began to sacrifice before that stone on the sixth day of the sixth month]: Miller 1994:97-101; ahem: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8 [an orphan young man lived with an old man, hunted birds, saw bird girls going down to swim, fell in love with the youngest, who was the last to arrive; the old man advised him to hide her wings; he hid them in the quiver; at first he could not defeat the girl, found strength by chewing the old man's bethel, tied them with this old man with a rope; took the heavenly maiden 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 baby, invited her aunt to fly, but she just jumped and fell; flew away completely; domestic the monkey put a wand in the dog's paw to show the owner which way his wife had flown; the dog had seven tails, it led the owner and the monkey to the river; the young man put his sword in the jets, the river parted having formed two channels; there are seven in total; the dog told me to hold on to its tail, not to laugh, otherwise the tail will come off; the young man and the monkey laugh every time the dog makes an indecent sound, another 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 crossed the body of the river dragon lying across the body; the Foot of Heaven came to the rock, where it opens and then the door 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 cliff to the banyan (ficus), where the monkey said that there was no further road knows, she came back; 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 virgin bird; the young man carved the feather of one bird, hid in a hole along with their child, the birds flew to the field, where they threw buffalo bones, the young man went out; there was a river, the women replied that they had come to bathe the girl bird for water; 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 cry; all three returned to the ground, the house there was overgrown with vines during this time], 9 [the hunter saw when seven parrot girls went down to the pond to swim; hid the youngest's clothes; she agreed to become his wife; 10 years later she asked permission to go to her mother for 7 days, left the ring and a monkey; seven days later, the hunter went to look for his wife; the monkey jumped across 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; he threw her ring, it sat on her finger; she rushed to her husband, fell on a knife, died]: 294-298, 299-300; banar [Glaikh is the god of thunder and lightning, a mighty hairy old man; his daughter came down to the ground; the young man Irit saw her, married her; they had a son; G. is outraged that his daughter has gone to the ground, threatens to kill them, a thunderstorm begins; I. decided to hide from G.'s ax in the forest; god He created such thickets of trees that G. could not break through them, left, carrying his ax; his daughter remained among the people]: Nikulin 1970:220-223; chrau [the hunter sees six sisters in the forest - the daughters of the spirits take off their sarongs, bathe 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 her to go with her for people's feast; they go down to the sacrificial table; food for the spirits does not satisfy him, 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 can't hear; she flies away; he follows her, but she refuses to throw him the stairs; his wife's brothers gave him a mortar and pestle, warned him not to break them; then he agreed to return to relatives; (unclear piece of text); but she broke down, he died, his 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; lowered the stairs, his a soul rose to her, became her husband]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 10:301-310.

South Asia. Ancient India (Satapatha Brahman) [Apsara Urvashi seduced many ascetics and sages with beauty; Mitra cursed her by sending her to live on earth; W. agreed to marry the first king of the Moon the Pururavas dynasties on the condition that they would not see him naked; when the heavenly Gandharvas decided that it was time for W. to return to the upper world, they stole two of her favorite lambs lying at her bed at night; P. chased them, the Gandharvas flashed lightning, W. saw her husband and disappeared; P. came to the lake, where the apsars bathed in the guise of swans; W., who he recognized, told him to come a year later when she would give birth to his son; A year later, the lovers united after P. himself became one of the Gandharvas; to do this, he had to make a sacrifice and make a wish; to sacrifice, the ganharvas were given a brazier with heavenly fire, which P. immediately lost; but he obtained fire by friction, thereby establishing a rite of obtaining sacred fire]: Grinzer 1982b: 350-351; Kashmiris (Muslims): Steel, Temple 1984, No. 3 [Prince Bahramgor chases a golden deer, grabs it by the horns; he offers treasures, then offers to sit on it, brings it by air to an unknown country; the old demon Jasdrul promises to protect the prince, gives the keys from a hundred palaces and gardens; B. falls asleep, the Shahpasand fairy, who has arrived in the guise of a dove, sees him, they live like spouses; B. wants to visit his relatives, J. gives him his hair to call for help; parents died at home , the usurper seized the throne; B. and his wife live with the poor hunter; the chief of security sees S. in the window; the king sends soldiers, S. flies away with a dove, telling the hunter's blind mother that she should be looked for from her father on Emerald Mountain; J. gives the prince a magic wand, sends Nanak Chand to his older brother; he gives powder, sends Safed to his older brother; S. gives an invisible hat, in which B. penetrates through seven constipation for which the father keeps S.; he married his daughter, made him the heir to the Emerald Mountain]: 27-39; Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 12 [ahun (religious teacher) asks four sons than they would like to study; three want to follow in their father's footsteps, the fourth wants to be a thief; sneaks into the palace, where the vizier and princess prepare to escape; the vizier sends the princess with the thief, he must linger; in the morning, the princess sees that she is not the vizier with her, becomes the wife of a young man; he is hired by the king as a groom; the jeweler brings two rubies, the young man says that one wormhole is right; his appointed a gem keeper; the vizier wants to take possession of the young man's wife, persuades the king's daughter to ask for a second ruby the same as the one brought by the 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, who brings it to the king; the vizier offers to demand a ruby necklace; the wife tells the young man to hide by the river, 6 heavenly fairies will arrive, and then 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 rubies to the king; 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 the source where he met her; the young man takes the bracelet with his hand off, who held it out; the vizier: the second bracelet; L. sends her husband with a ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl the young man addresses is the daughter of a woman whose arm he tore off; to save him , the girl turned it into a pebble, took an oath from his mother; the mother sent a letter to her sons ordering him to be killed; the daughter gave orders to come to her wedding; gave edible peas, you just have to pretend that he is eating inedible; she gave them iron claws - the brothers will ask them to scratch their backs; he did everything, the demons said 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; a barber: he has a third wife, the king must receive it; the king tells the young man to bring news from the deceased king father and the fruit of paradise; the young man orders to make a fire, flies away from 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 a vizier and a barber; they are burned; the first vizier has come, the young man gave him his bride, sent the fairy to her world, stayed with his third wife; that vizier became king, the young man became a vizier]: 85-105; Kashmir (translated from Hindi) [orphan Akhun meets fairy Lalmal; she promises to help him if he does not seek her love; teaches him how to distinguish a fake pearl; the king appoints him treasurer, the former encourages him to give difficult assignments, L. teaches him what to do; 1) get a necklace of paradise; a heavenly peri will go down to the spring, you need to hide your clothes, she will bring a necklace in return; 2) go to heaven from the funeral fire, convey the message to the late king; L. tells the king to ask the king for half of the treasury for expenses, sit on the carpet at the stake, he will quietly take L. to the hut; she tells him to take the letter and golden and silver apples to the king; in the letter, the king's late father asks send a former treasurer and chief adviser; both die in the fire; A. becomes chief adviser; after that L. agrees to marry A.]: Zograf 1964:262-267 (=1976:94-97); northern India : Crooke 1892-1893, No. 574 (Mirzapur) [six princes are married; the youngest seventh says he marries one of Indra's heavenly maidens; goes in search; sees a girl in the untouchable village 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; the wife demands to get her ring across the Seven Seas at the fakir; he sleeps for six months, overgrown with grass; the young man gently shakes the ground off him; the fakir did not kill him, but gave him a ring; warned him not to give it to his wife immediately upon his return; the young man did not give it back, but his wife unnoticed took the ring while 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 bathe, pick up their clothes and come to him; the fairies will come and agree to return what belongs to a young man; he must guess three times; the first time let him grab the eldest, the second time he won't 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 a cart of fairy clothes to wash in this world; on this cart you 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 on his own; Indra will like it, he will allow the marriage; The prince lived well with his wife]: 153-155; W.H.D.R. 1896 [the youngest son sees Peri bathing, hides their clothes, returns them when they promise to fulfill his wishes; gets three more wives]: 409; Uttar Pradesh ( Hindi?) {attribution is divination, the origin of the texts is not specified; a number of other texts in the collection are definitely from northern, not southern India} [soothsayers warned the king that his son is threatened at the age of 18 danger; the king placed his son in an enclosed garden; but at the age of 18, a young man asked to let him go hunting; the soothsayers allowed, but not to hunt on the north side; chasing game, the prince and son of the vizier reached the palace with the garden; the servant said that the owner was the daughter of an incense seller; the king found it and agreed to marry her daughter as a prince; the girl agreed under three conditions; when she came to her husband, she will have 7 covers; her husband will not lift them up; at night she will return to her father; after 4 months the hermit gave the prince a ring; when he wears it, he will become invisible and can follow his wife, but not must touch it; at her parents' house, the prince's wife asked for rice; the prince also began to eat, the wife does not understand where the rice is going; the wife took off her blankets and wore a silver diamond dress jewelry; she sat down on the bed, flew, called Sister Rosa, who flew out of the river, they began to eat fruit, but the prince also began to eat and the fruit soon ran out; the same with Sister Emerald, she flew out The prince also took the wells, they began to eat cookies; then they all flew into the palace and garden, where the prince and son of the vizier once wandered; from there the bed went up to the Milky Way to Indra's Palace; I. unhappy that the fairies were late; began to beat the rhythm with a baton, and the maidens were singing; the prince quietly took the rod; at dawn everyone returned to their land; when his wife woke up the prince, he began to tell a dream describing what he saw at night; as the story progressed, the wife threw off one veil after another, the last one remained; the prince asked him to take it off, and his wife asked for that ring to be handed over; the prince did not give it back; the wife showed him face and said that he would not see her again; flew away; the vizier's son found that hermit, but he said he had no power over Indra's maidens; we must find the Grand Master; he had been sleeping and awake for six months; maybe influence I.; the prince found it; the hermit said that the maidens would fly to the lake near the destroyed palace, leave their blankets; you must grab your wife's veil and run without looking back; but when the wife promised to stay with him, the prince looked around; turned to ashes, and his wife grabbed the veil and flew away; the hermit revived him and warned him that he would not be able to do it again; this time the prince ran to the hut a hermit; the fairies promised to give him a wife if he identified her among them; hermit: she would have a gold thread around her neck; the thread was around the neck of a fat, ugly black woman; the prince chose her and she turned to his wife; hermit: while you can't touch his wife, she is still a fairy; he put them both on the carpet and brought them to I.; I. did not want to give the prince his wife, for this is the maiden he loved himself; but returned them in exchange for the rod stolen by the prince; without it, I. could not be the master of the storm; I. turned the heavenly maiden into a mortal and gave it to the prince; they had many children; after the death of his father, the prince reigned, and the vizier's son became vizier]: Thornhill 1889:15-66; 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 swim; people 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 fill), 2) identify which of them is his wife (flies indicate), 3) dig an underground passage (mongooses dug); young man and wife fly away, wife's sister from Jealousy kills both]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 4:22-24; varley [a peasant starves an orphan, tells buffaloes to herd; buffalo asks to make a bowl of leaves, bring it in his face, belches food; the farmer sends his daughter, the shepherdess makes two bowls; the daughter tells the father; the buffalo warns that the owner will sell it, tells the shepherdess to hold on to the tail, they run away; the shepherdess plays the flute, 7 heavenly sisters go down to dance, only a buffalo sees them; he tells the shepherdess to ask one of the girls to marry, he will be offered a choice of a doll and a puppy, he must choose a puppy, burn his hair; the puppy turns into girl]: Satyawadi 2010:51; 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 fakir; the fakir leads AM to another country, they see the radiance emanating from the body of King Gulasta's daughter Princess Husini, AM asks the fakir, then the father to help marry her; the Saiphal vizier comes to King G. 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 maiden named Supped; every Thursday she and her maids enter 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, give jewelry and clothes, which must be stolen and hidden , at home to pretend to be asleep; she will come to look for jewelry, she must jump up, pick up her wings; instead, AM tells H. everything, she grabs her clothes and jewelry, flies away; the fakir tells you to follow X. a winged horse; on the way he takes out a splinter from a lioness, she gives him two adult lion cubs as assistants; sister H. teaches when H. and other peri fly to swim in the lake, hide her clothes; the lion sits on clothes; H. gives AM his nose ring, tells him to come with him, throw it in the jug to the maid, who will give it back to H.; the virgins will say that if AM is X.'s legal husband, he must identify his wife among a hundred peri; she there will be this ring; the maidens gave three attempts, H. attached the ring for the third time, the maidens gave X. Amul Maliku; on the way back, H. kidnapped the maidens who lived in the well; the lions went down there (there is a whole country, a palace), tore the maiden, returned from H. 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 took the hyenas, went to the shepherd; 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; Punjabi [at the seller Dorani's daughter of incense; her friend flies with her to dance in front of Indra; once D. cut off a lock of hair, wrapped it in a leaf and threw it into the river; the prince found a leaf, felt the aroma, fell ill with love; the king sent to look for the owner of the hair; D. agrees to marry, but will be with her husband only during the day, and will return to his father at night; but during the day the wife only sits silently on a chair; the gardener gave the prince powder to make invisible; when the wife sat in the palanquin, the prince followed her, entered the house; she took a bath, sat down on a chair and told him to fly to Indra's palace; the prince grabbed his leg and also found himself in heaven; there her friend noticed that today the chair was flying crooked; by morning both prince and D. returned to the palace, D. did not notice anything; the prince began to tell, supposedly, a dream, describing what happened at night; the next night it happened again; when the prince began to dream again in the morning; D. admitted that it was so; asked not to accompany her that night; but the chair is flying very crooked; girlfriend: this means that you opened it to your husband secret; D. sang so sweetly that I. allowed her to ask him for anything; she chose a magic lute; I. department her, but asked her not to come again; D. stayed on earth with the prince]: Lang 2009:82-86; Bengalis [the son of the chief of merchants Ruplal dreams of a girl with golden skin and hair like a black cloud; malini (m.; sexually aggressive woman) collecting flowers for the merchant's wife said that This is about her niece; but R. will only be able to see her face after the wedding; in fact, this girl is Princess Kanchanmalal; she, K., saw R. herself in a dream when he saw her; K.'s servants went to look for R., and R.K. - K.'s servants; they met and agreed, exchanged portraits; M. stole K.'s portrait from R. and changed it as if the bride was blind and hunchback; M. ordered not to look at K. when she was brought in; R. did, disagreed with his wife, moving her to a hut and considering her a witch; R. agreed to marry M.'s niece, but preparations for the wedding failed; R. decided to go on a trade trip, but the ship did not move; the sailors said that R.'s wife should give him permission; she demanded that R. take her with him; he put her in a separate boat; M. ran along the river bank, drowned R.'s ship, but K. saved R. and his men; R. thought she saved M.; m threw K. into the water and then allowed R. to remove the blindfold; he noticed a lotus leaf, picked it up and saw the true image of K. on it; when he learned that K. was in trouble, her seven sisters went down on a chariot from Indra's palace and took K. to heaven; R. saw K. in the chariot, understood everything; lost consciousness and woke up old man; reason: a disapproving look at him one of the celestials; he will regain his former appearance if someone who loves him kisses him all day; this person himself will turn into a palm tree (palm wine is made from it); the mother refused, m. drove R. away, but her niece agreed; he was also caressed by K.'s invisible hand; R. became rich; at the top of the palm tree that M.'s niece had become, saw K.; she said she would be with him from now on in the afternoon, but not at night; in 7 days he will return him and his niece M.; R. pretended to be sleeping, followed K., quietly grabbed her chariot and also found himself in the sky; replaced the tired drummer, played well ; Indra noticed K.'s gaze at R.; K. admitted that she had an earthly husband; I. allowed her to live on earth, left her a chariot, and gave her a fan to revive her niece M.; but M. managed to turn her into the snake; I. came down, his elephant drank the water of the pond, at the bottom of which the snake; I. touched the snake and the girl appeared; but the snake did not disappear, but grabbed the frog that I. had turned m into; the snake always clutches it in its teeth, but does not swallow; happy R. stayed with two wives]: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 4:116-125; Santals [Toria herds goats by the river; sees the daughters of the Sun go down to swim; steals the clothes of one of them takes her as his wife]: Cole 1875 in Clouston 1887:187; birkhor [the Raja has 7 wives; a ghasi woman (gardener caste) brings them flower garlands; once found an unusually beautiful flower in the river at the top , brought an elder 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 went to the 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 bathe in the pond; one of neighbors once told a young man that if they hid their clothes, they would bring flowers; the girls first demanded that the young man bathe and brush his teeth; when he ran, carrying his clothes, they shouted that they would give his youngest wife; he turned around and turned into a cotton tree (Bombax malabaricum); his uncle went to look, cut down a tree, the young man reappeared; his uncle told him not to look back this time; the girls ran to Uncle's house and they had to keep their promise; at night the wife goes dancing 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 wanted to return to his mother; his wife gave a flute: as soon as he plays it, his wife is next to him; one day a young man lost his flute, it was picked up by a stranger, the wife returned to his father in heaven; Uncle's advice, the young man sent his pet parrot to her; she returned 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 she hears one of his 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 the man, hugging someone else's wife, and so did his wife; the Raja understood the value of the bed; the young man did not ask for money, but for their hut 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 by a forest pond; five peri flew to swim, the young man hid their robes in his mouth bull; they agreed to give the youngest, the young man married her; the Raja wants to take this woman; 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 a pot, killing a mother, going 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; gondas [ Bhagavan's seven daughters went swimming; Manna Deo took the form of a snotty boy, hid their clothes; gave him a promise to give him his younger sister; they still demand to play hide and seek; the girls throw themselves into the water; MD hides three times in the guise of an eel, lotus, fly; his sisters do not find him, admit defeat; his wife tries to swim away in the form of a fish; he catches up with her in the same way, they gave birth to seven Samduria sisters, and sisters are all gods; MD turned his wife's sisters into fish]: Elwin 1949, No. 3:176; muria [Mahapurub sends the crow to find out where the greatest happiness is; she returns, replies that in the middle world; the youngest of Seven daughters, M. goes down to the ground; kills an old woman, puts on her skin, comes to the house of a man named Seth; to the horror of his parents, his son marries her; at the wedding, the old woman sheds her skin, takes her skin away dog, the wedding is rearranged brilliantly; the wife tells us to gather the ploughmen, brings them rice and porridge in the shell from under the eggs of a peacock and a woodpecker; her husband beats her, she disappears; there was plenty of food for everyone]: Elwin 1944, No. IV. 4:139-140; the Condas [the king and queen have a son; they decided that they did not need any more children; but 10 years later they wanted another child, made sacrifices to the gods; however, immediately after the birth of the youngest Both sons died; he was raised by his aunt; the baby cries and falls silent all the time after she promises that he will marry a maiden who touches a stone into gold, the earth into cereals; at school, a prince quarreled with another boy; he called him a sorcerer, who caused his parents to die; the prince was shocked, climbed into the cave, stayed lying; when he was found and brought to his aunt, he reminded her of her promises - it was time to fulfill it; he was married to a princess, but at the wedding he offered her to turn the stone into gold; she could not, the prince rejected her; sent again to look for a bride; a servant who went to north, stopped in the village with a brahmana and saw his daughter turn a brass plate into gold; her name was Geiramma; the brahmana was brought in a palanquin to the queen (i.e. the prince's aunt) and she told him to brought his daughter, otherwise he would be executed; G. agrees to marry provided that she would be with the prince during the day and returned to her father for the night; after the wedding, the prince and aunt thought that this would not last long, but also after For several years, at sunset, G. still sat in a palanquin and went to her parents; the prince dressed as poor, followed her; when G.'s parents fell asleep, she opened the magic book, and then A white elephant descended after her; the prince grabbed his tail; at Indra's palace, G. joined 6 other heavenly maidens; the prince asked the old drummer to give him his seat; 7 maidens of steel to dance in front of I.; as a reward, G. asked I. for permission to always be either on the ground or in the sky if she wanted; he gave her a ring to do so; she came to thank the drummer, not recognizing her husband; he asked for a ring and G. gave it to him; G. returned to the ground on the elephant's back, and the prince clutched his tail; in the morning both were in the palace; the prince began to tell G. his supposedly dream, describing everything that happened at night; G. asked her to show her the ring, persuaded her to give it to her, put it on and flew to heaven; the prince went on a journey; saw a snake crawling through the tree to the nest, going to eat the chicks ; he cut the snake apart, they turned into three mountains; parent birds flew in, each with an elephant in their claws and beaks; chicks to parents: we will not eat until you help our savior; one of put the birds on the prince's back and, accompanied by another bird, brought them to I.'s palace; that is, G. polluted herself by communicating with a mortal, I. sent both to earth; G. no longer left at night and, being sky fairy, became the ruler of the country]: Schulze 1922, No. 23:113-123; cat [hero hides the clothes of a heavenly maiden]: Penzer 1924-1928 (8): 58-59 in Lessa 1961:144 (note); Telugu [king and the vizier agreed that if they have children of different sexes, they will marry them; the queen's son is lazy and sloppy, the vizier's wife has a daughter who is clever and beautiful; the girl agrees to marriage on the condition that at 6 In the evening, she will go to her father's house and return from there at 6 am; out of shame, the prince rushed into the well, but did not drown; the old man gave him a magic ointment to turn into a fly and follow his wife; she I came to the pond; five maidens descended from the sky on a white elephant, all of them began to play and swim together; the prince stole one pearl necklace; at home he began to describe what he saw, as if telling the content of the dream; the wife understood everything and asked for the necklace to be returned; he said he would return it only after she stayed overnight; she asked to wait one night; told the heavenly maidens everything ( the necklace belonged to the eldest of them); they suggested that the prince fly with them to Indra; would take the form of a drum musician; I. would ask her to recognize his wife among other virgins, on her knee a fly will sit down; that's what happened; the prince and wife returned to earth to the palace and began to live together]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 34:82-88; Kannada: Ramanujan 1997, No. 3 [the mighty king asks four sons, what will they 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, I will build my own my own city and I will marry four heavenly maidens; the king expelled his youngest son; once in the forest, he came to the old woman's house; she is the daughter of a sage hermit who has lost control and who raped a girl; then he was killed 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 She told them not to take them north; he went, hid by the pond; Indra's four heavenly daughters came down, took off their sari, began to swim; he stole one sari; the maiden ran after him, promised to become a wife, he was amazed looked around, she took the sari and turned the young man into stone; the old woman found him and revived him; told him to take a sari and run to her house and not look back; he did so; the old woman turned him into a baby, and a sari hid it inside his thigh so that the seam is 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 the young man; a young man with They came to the city as a wife; the king's servants saw the maiden, told the king; he pretended to be sick, sent the young man to extract the venom of the serpent Karkotak; the wife sent him to the mountains to the snake hole and gave a letter to the snake; on the way he saved a worm from the web; threw a letter into a hole; four snakes took it to the lower world to the king of snakes; the letter asked him to marry the applicant's daughter and comply with his request for poison; returning with with his second wife and poison, the young man gave poison to the king's servants; when they opened the bottle, the tamarind standing next to him broke out and burned; the king ordered the poison to be buried deeper; sent the young man to bring crocodile bile; along the way a young man let a young crocodile on land into the water; the young man threw 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 deceased parents and brothers live; his 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 minister, and returned him 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 and their families burned down; the young man made a poor brahman king; himself he built a new city with 4 wives; 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 his first wife's sari to his mother for storage; his wife asked him she, she put on her, 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 he went to look for wives; his wives met him and was the first to say 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 him; 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 lowered; for this purpose, the frog threw the tadpole to be eaten by snakes on at the bottom of the well, and found the ring myself); 3) cut the banana tree into three parts with one blow (the crocodile cut it); 4) recognize the first wife among three identical girls (the worm, now flying insects, 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 to give them children; wives became pregnant; the king and the minister agreed marry children if one has a boy and the other has a girl; the minister's wife gives 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 past 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 turned to the Sun in that very place; now the prince went to look flower; the first hermit refers to his guru, he to his own; he pointed out the lake where the heavenly maidens come to swim; you must grab one sari and run without looking back at Ganesha's temple; the prince did so; returned the saree to the maiden, and she brought a flower from the sky; they met; she gave the prince a flute to call her when necessary; one of the hermits offered to change the flute to a stick that makes you give what You like; the prince changed, and then told the wand to take the flute back; the prince also took away the second hermit's bag, where everything climbed, if you ordered, and the third one had speeding sandals; prince returned in the form of a turtle and gave the flower; the minister's two eldest daughters married normal men, the youngest married a turtle; the older sons-in-law go hunting; the turtle was also put on a oath; left alone, he turned into a prince; his older sons-in-law ran away from the tigers; the prince killed the tigers, gave them to their sons-in-law, for which he cut off their mustache on the left; at night the prince slept with his wife in his true form; in the morning he appeared to people, showed them severed mustache; the king handed him the throne]: 5-15, 193-198; Tamils [the king asks seven sons what everyone would like to do on this cool night; one wants to invade neighbors at the head troops, the other to irrigate, the third to hunt, etc.; the seventh is to have four wives, daughters of Indra, Agni, Varuna and Adishesha by his side; the father is furious to execute his son, the mother warns tells him to flee; the torturers brought animal blood to the king; the prince lives with an old woman and herds cattle; contrary to the ban, he goes north, climbs a fruit tree and sees Indra's daughter swimming in a pond; kidnaps her clothes, she 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, told him not to look back next time, 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, who stayed with the old woman; she convinced her to marry the prince, turning him back into 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 take his wife away, to pretend to be sick, to send the prince for snake venom; the wife gives a note to her uncle, tells her to drop him into 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; 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, who were 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, turning him into 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 [seven brothers tell the youngest eighth to marry; he refuses; they tell Princess Mahiyallegam to marry her; he climbs the stairs to her, falls to the ground, crashes into a thousand pieces; people from Awulpur collected them, glued them together from Handi, revived a young man from Upatta; he comes to M., agrees to sit only on her couch, eat only from her golden dish; takes wives ; they go to town; he goes to get a horse, leaves M. in a tree; a woman from the blacksmith caste sees its reflection in the well, thinks it's so beautiful; notices M., asks her to get off, wash herself, pushes her into a well, puts on her clothes, climbs a tree, the prince takes her for M., takes her away; the blind man takes M. out of the well, she makes him sighted, leads him to her palace]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 136: 322-324.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Malays [craftsmen make a dancing golden peacock for the Raja; he takes his son Indraputra, drops old woman Nenek Kebayan into the garden; she makes him her grandson, gets rich, because the boy is all they give him; the local vizier takes him into his house; the local raja sends him to the magician; on the seashore, I. hides the clothes of bathing peri; returns him for a promise to give the amulet, flies with them to their kingdom; ( other episodes follow)]: Braginsky 1975:10-55; bataki [Raja dies, uncle puts his son Radja Urang mandopa in a box, throws him into the river; widow catches him, adopts him; advises hide the wings of heavenly maidens coming to bathe; 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; Simalur [herons are ravaging a rice field, Palombana catches one of them, keeps houses in a cage; someone cooks in his absence; P. finds a girl, burns feathers in the morning, they turn into poultry; the couple go to live in the forest; the howler monkey wants to kidnap his wife; she offers to poison her husband with bananas and rice; when monkeys gather to the imaginary dead, the wife closes the door, the husband kills everyone; a pregnant female who did not enter the house was saved]: Koehler 1964:62-66; aceh [about Simalur; Banta Ahmad catches a parrot eating his rice; a parrot turns into a princess]: Koehler 1964:149; Dusun: Evans 1913:457 in Dixon 1916 [a man finds a nest of strange white bees in the forest, brings it home; while he works, someone cooks in his house; he finds the girl, hides, then returns the hive, she agrees to marry him, provided he does not call her a bee woman; at the party he gets drunk, calls; the wife flies away like a bee after the father bee, leaves the child to her husband; he comes with her son to the bee world, the bees turn into people, he stays there with his wife]: 218-220; Villard 2013 (kadazan) [ the sky fairy Batu Sumang Butung goes down to swim in the lake and takes off her sarong, allowing her to fly; Bayagang sees her, meets her, takes her wife; they have a son; B. died, his wife also died and returned to sky; the son accidentally put on his mother's sarong and found himself in the sky; his mother gave him a coconut, sent him back to the ground; a palm tree grew from the nut to the sky, on which his son from time to time climbed to visit mother; when he grew old and died, new ones grew out of the coconuts of this first palm tree (the origin of coconuts)]: 135-138; murut: Rutter 1929:259-261 in Lessa 1961 [husband hides the clothes of the magical wife, their 10-year-old son finds her]: 148; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5 (Keningau band) [(Brooks 1960:34-47); Baiagong hunter went to look for prey at a watering hole; sees seven girls bathing, hides rainbow clothes the youngest; the elders could not pick her up, flew away; B. brings the maiden into the house, hides her clothes in the chest; the 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 his son has his story, he says that he knows where her clothes are; when she flies away, the heavenly maiden teaches her son how he and his father can find her; in the place where K. met her, the old man is fishing; you have to grab his hook, he Kayangan will throw a fishing rod into the heavenly land; on the way, B. frees fish from the top, builds a bridge for ants across the stream, frees the squirrel from the trap, a deer entangled in horns in vines, a firefly from the web; a fisherman throws B. and his son into heaven, his wife meets B.; her Raja father says that her daughter also has a prince fiancé in heaven; gives tasks; 1) get beads thrown into the river (they get fish); 2) collect rice scattered in grass (ants collect); 3) collect all the fruits from the chopped tree without breaking the branches (the squirrel collects); 4) race red leaves from a tree in the distance with the local prince (prince flies, but B. rides a deer, returns first); 5) identify his wife's cup among many (the firefly shows); the Raja gives B. a wife, but does not tell him to return to earth; celestials want B. to swim in pond, getting rid of 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, next to him a drum, an ax, a coconut have fallen; a whole grove immediately grows out of coconut, the drum scares off enemies, the ax kills them, getting trophy heads; the son occasionally descends to him from the sky, then stops; after death B. his white finger, ax, and drum became murut relics], 6 (Timugon band) [the old man tells the son of the Raja (elder) in a dream to go to Grandma, who will help get the youngest of the seven sisters; the young man comes there; with Seven maidens descend 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 his father; he dies, the young man inherits him 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 the Grandmother, she sends a boat that brings him to sky; wife returns, husband is now loyal to her]: 276-285, 286-289; tombonuvo [the young man stays overnight in the forest under the fruit tree, believing that the birds are eating fruit; seven birds arrive before dawn- rhinos; fly to swim, turn into girls; the young man turns into a lizard, grabs, takes away the youngest's clothes; the elders cannot lift the youngest, fly away; the young man becomes human again, says that He does not know anything about the clothes of the heavenly maiden, brings her wife into the house; when she is in the last month of pregnancy, the husband leaves, supposedly, to fish, but goes to ask the Sultan's daughter for his wife; after giving birth and learning about infidelity husband, heavenly wife leaves milk for the child, causes the wind, it carries her to heaven; the husband, taking the child, goes to look for her; there is a rock on the way; the child walks along it, leaving traces in stone, the father follows him; goes across the plain with spiders; with snakes; stop at the old woman Ombuinang; noise is heard, this maiden is passed off as Intuu nu Bugang; son comes there, his cock defeats all her roosters, he finds a mother, drinks her milk; brings 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; Brunei (inner region) [man got one of the heavenly maidens who were bathing; one day he beat her, tore off her clothes, another fell from the sky, she flew away; their son became the ancestor of the tribe]: McDougall 1854:109-110 in Lessa 1961:155-156; kayan [when making a boat, a person sees heavenly maidens who have arrived, hides the winged clothes of one of them, marries; cries when he finds out that his wife is pregnant; flies to heaven, brings night, tells him not to open the bag until everything is not collected from the forest; the husband discovers; those left in the forest become Punan, Sihan (forest dwellers); chickens become wild, domestic pigs become wild; the husband grieves that he will have to slaughter his wife to extract a child; she says a magic formula, since then women have given birth normally]: Guerreiro 1989 in Macdonald 2005:96; Clemantan [daughter of Palai (Pegasus constellation) fell in love with an earthly young man Lafaang ( Orion) and invited him to heaven; her father offered to feed the guest; contrary to warning, L. puts food in his mouth with his fingers rather than a needle; his wife ordered the ax to be placed by the tree, he will cut it down; but L. began to cut; the wife offered to watch her father cut her (putting an ax, the trees fall); the same the next day; L. tore off his left arm with a fallen tree; L. decided to leave his pregnant wife and return to the ground; his wife gave sugarcane tops and banana roots, lowered it down the vine; as he descended, L. heard a newborn scream and wanted to return to heaven, but he was not returned; he did not throw bananas and sugar on the ground reeds on the ground, but planted them carefully; if something has grown, it is of worse quality than in the sky]: Hose, MacDougall 1912:140-141; iban [a young leader named Siu went hunting birds with a wind with a gun; I met neither birds nor animals; in the evening I found all the birds together pecking the fruits of one tree; each species of bird sat on branches separately from the others; started shooting, along with the bird it hit dart, neighbors fell dead; came to a house in the dark, left prey and a wind tube at the well, came in; the girl gives him food, puts him to bed; this is the house of the Spirit Lord Singalang Burong (p. 197 : Burong is a "bird", possibly Singalang Burong is the "chief of the birds"; he is the god of war, his figure in the form of a grotesque bird on a 10-meter pole faces an enemy village); his subjects may turn in birds; the girl agrees to become his wife if he does not offend the birds; they return to Sioux's mother; the wife gives birth to a son Seragunting; one day a hunter brings birds, Siu takes one of them; the wife is offended, disappears into the forest; Sioux and his son go to look for her; boats refuse to pick them up by the sea, they are Sioux's brothers; a giant spider transports them across the sea; on the other side of the earth there are bamboo tips, on knives on the steps of the house; a fly shows which ones are safe to step on; Seragunting finds a mother, she sent a shipping spider; Seragunting defeats her mother's brothers in martial arts; hunts wild boar , although he was left with a bad hunting dog and a small knife; recognized as the grandson of Singalang Burong; father and son are taught hunting techniques, growing rice; the SB teaches birds to determine the seasonality of work by the voices of birds; through Father and son are transported home, teaching people culture]: Gomes 1949:278-300; dayaks of the sea [hunting with a wind tube, Siu got lost, found himself on the seashore; the beauty offered to take him to him home, became his wife on the condition that he would never kill a bird (she herself is a bird spirit), gave birth to a son Seragunting; one day he cries, he cannot be comforted, Sioux violates the ban, his wife leaves; Sioux, taking the baby, goes to look for her, finds milk for the baby in the leaves on the way; on the seashore, seven boats with the son-in-law of the supreme god Singalang Burong consistently refuse to take it; leaves the sea a huge spider, transporting Siu and her son to his departed wife, she turns out to be Bunsu Katupong, the youngest niece of the SB; local spirits threaten to kill Seragunting and his father, who is on difficult assignments; the latter ( previous ones are not specified) - bring the best prey from hunting; Seragunting's half-alive dog becomes healthy and strong, spirits return empty-handed, and Seragunting chases wild boar; spirit spears bounce off an animal, and Seragunting easily kills him by throwing a knife; the SB recognizes Seragunting as a grandson; one day he accidentally turns the SB pillow over, under it you can see their home on the ground; the SB lets Seragunting go from his father, teaches military science and rice farming, says that forest birds are spirits, they take on a bird's appearance on earth; father and son end up at home]: Gomes 1904:12-29 (similar, shorter version in Perham 1883:237-240); Java [a poor widow finds a baby in the forest, raises her like a son; he grows up, hunts, chases a bird, goes out to a lake where heavenly maidens bathe; grabs clothes alone of them; takes her as his wife; one day she tells him to look after a pot of rice on fire but not to lift the lid; he sees only one seed in the pot; the spell has broken, his wife has had to work hard since then to cook; in empty, she finds her husband's hidden wings; tells them to put their little daughter on the roof, she will fly in and feed her; rose in the sky in a column of smoke from burned rice straw; husband raised daughter beautiful]: Bezemer 1903:162-169 in Lessa 196:358; 1904:46 f in Dixon 1916:208-209; retelling two variants, apparently from the same source; Rassers 1959:264 -265 [Devi Rasa Wulan became pregnant at the sight of the hermit Seh Maulana Maribi, gave birth to a son through her hair, left him, fled to another country; the boy was raised by other people, he became a Jaka hunter Tarub; found widadaris heavenly maidens swimming in the lake, hid the clothes of one of them named dewi Nawang Wulan; she promised to become the daughter of the kidnapper if he is old, or his wife if young if he returns her clothes; the daughter from this marriage is the ancestor of the Mataram family; NV found her clothes, returned to heaven; allowed her husband to call her, kindling a smoky fire every time her daughter will want 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 [Kyai agng Ing-Kudus has three sons, the youngest (he is from another wife) refuses marry, becomes an ascetic in the forest; comes to a pond whose owner's daughter refuses to marry; they unite, the girl dies during childbirth; K. finds a baby, but leaves her in pursuit of 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 vessel where rice is cooked ; he picks it up, there is only one rice; she is still alone, since then she has to cook a lot of rice; DNV finds his clothes, returns to heaven; returns to feed his baby daughter; then rises again to the sky on 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, picked up the boy a hermit's widow; he grew up, hunted, saw widadaris heavenly maidens bathing, hid his clothes alone named Nawang-Wulan ("moonlight"); she gave birth to his daughter Nawang-Sih ("light of love"); with HB rice in There are more and more bins, only one grain should be put in the cauldron; contrary to the ban, my husband looked there, from then on he had to cook a lot of rice; when the supply ran out, HB found her clothes at the bottom of the bins, flew away, telling husband to take his daughter to the dovecote so that she could 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 clothes One of them is Ni Perri Tunjung Wulan, she became his wife; their son Aryo Kedot became the ancestor of Madura's chiefs; AM and his wife are rich, but AM wonders why his 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, but an unpeeled rice stalk; 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 cut rice; a year later, the rice barn was empty and the wife found her robe at the bottom; flew away, telling her husband to look for it on the moon; since then, men have not entered the kitchen, and lovers look at the moon]: Kratz 1973, No. 21:132-136; Bali [poor orphan Lentir saves a fly from a web, an eagle from a plexus of branches; by the lake hides the clothes of one of the heavenly ones who have descended to swim virgins, her name is Nilotama; one day she finds her clothes, flies away; the eagle brings L. to heaven; the old man tells her to be identified among her sisters; a fly sits on her; L. and his wife on an eagle return to earth]: Leuven Bomkamp 1983, No. 47:224-227; 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 his clothes alone, married, the name of the virgin Topitoe, she gave birth to a son; she cooked red food, her husband said that she was cooking blood; this was not the case, the wife was offended, asked her parents to lower her stairs, told her husband take care of the child, climbed the rainbow; the husband took the child, climbed the banyan tree, he grew up to the moon; the wife allowed her husband to stay only overnight; when he woke up, he was on the ground; the child stayed, T. breastfeed him, he got dirty, his bowel movements were grasshoppers; T. took his breast away in fear, the milk spilled across the sky, became the Milky Way; the banyan tree now grows on the moon, can be seen there]: Kruyt 1938, No. 40:390-391; 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 magic water, which is bathed by seven girls who have removed the skins of parrots; 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 her father, brings water , revives brothers]: Adriani, Kruyt 1912-1914 (3): 401-402 in Lessa 196:146; (apparently the same text in Dixon 1916 [by Adriani 1910:297; seven parrots flew to swim, threw off their clothes, became girls; Magoenggoelota hid the youngest's clothes, Kapapitoe, her sisters returned to heaven; M. returned the clothes when K. promised to be his wife; hiding them in a betel box, brought them home]: 206-207); bow [ seven doves came to swim, Kasimbaha hid one of them's clothes, got married; her name is Oetahagi; she has white hairs on the top of her head, they can't be pulled out; he pulled out her hair, the storm took O., left them Tambaga's son; taking him, K. climbed the vine into the sky (the rat gnawed the thorns from the vine), fell to the east; the sun was too hot, the Month helped to reach the sky; the bird showed where W.'s house was; the firefly warned that there are 7 rooms in the house, each with a sister; he will sit on the door behind which W.; Brother W. says that K. is not immortal and therefore cannot marry W.; offers tests; in 8 vessels rice, in the ninth - something else; if K. touches the ninth, then he is the son of an earthly woman; husband: I will consistently climb into all the vessels and cure him back; I will not cure him from the unclean, do not touch him; K. is recognized son of the immortals, he is allowed to marry W. and stay in heaven; but they decided to return his son to earth; T. grows up, descends, marries, comes from him a bow]: Spreeuwenberg 1845:25-28 in Backer 1874:98-101 (a more brief retelling in Lessa 196:123-124); minahasa: Kratz 1973, No. 44 [Mamanua dreams that he finds a spring under the stone; pulls out a stone, forms a lake, M. arranges on the shore of the vegetable garden; someone steals sugar cane and fruits; M. guards, 9 girls in the form of swans {translated by Braginsky - geese} come to swim, take off their bird's clothes; M. hides Lingkambene's clothes, daughter of the supreme god Muntu-untu, marries L., gives birth to a son Wulansendow; contrary to warning, she accidentally cuts off one of her hair; she must return to heaven to heal her wound; M. with W. they sit on a falcon, which is unable to lift them; they climb the rattan, it breaks, 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 it out, wags its 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 for V. comes out of it; in another nodule, seeds fruit trees; since then they have been growing on the ground; (=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)], 53 [Manimporok catches a white bird that comes to peck for bananas; it asks to take off her ring from her leg, turns into the beautiful Wulan Kalenoan ("full moon"); Merentek, an acquaintance of Manimporok, goes hunting with him returns, leads V.; does Maniporok turn the ring on his finger? a cockatoo immediately flies in, says that Merentec took V. to an island; there V. put the kidnapper to sleep, he and her husband tied him up, brought him to the village; he was rubbed with pepper, beaten with sticks and driven around the village; The couple had 3 sons and 2 daughters]: 212-216, 243-245; Loinang [Ade Banggai sees seven heavenly maidens coming to swim in the pond; hides one of them's clothes; she is forced to marry him gives birth to a daughter; he hid her clothes under the roof in a flute; the daughter cries, the mother disassembles the roof to let in the sunlight, finds clothes, flies away; AB rises to heaven on rattan that has grown to heaven, lives there with his wife and daughter; one man began to sweep, cut off the rattan, it fell, became a mountain; AB descends to the ground on the back of a large bird, falls on a banyan tree, turns into a monkey, becomes a progenitor monkeys; the bird is getting small, now nesting in rice crops without harming them]: Kruyt 1930:505-508 in Fischer 1932:213-214, in Lessa 196:148, 154; loda (Halmahera) [father begins turn into stone, asks his seven sons to find a cure; the youngest is covered with ulcers, goes the other way; the old woman makes him handsome, tells him to hide by the water, where five heavenly maidens will arrive; hides the youngest's clothes, takes her as his wife; the wife brings him to the heavenly palace, where her father gives medicine; when he returns to his father, the 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); Tidore Island (off Halmahera's west coast) [a sailor from a wrecked ship lives in an old woman's house on an island; 10 winged heavenly the 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 the birds to carry 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 not to anyone 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, asks him to be carried 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; Alor [ Masingbal went to the coast with his six brothers, who abandoned him; in a dream, his mother and father told him how to avoid the cannibal village and get to where Farik lives; F.'s two daughters washed off his shroud with fire, coffin, worms; they fed him, lay down with him at night, but he treated them like sisters; they said this to his father, F. told M. to copulate with his daughters; M. and his wives went to work in the fields; digging up a rhizome, he made a hole, saw his native village below; he went down with his wives, but entered the village alone, covered with skin disease; only one girl gave him a drink and was friendly; then he entered the village solemnly, left that girl gongs and pigs, married him; this is Dry Land Woman; she told M. to get a mango from the tree, threw away the stairs (heavenly wives saved him); threw a stone at him , when he was in the hole digging up tubers (his heavenly wives revived him); cut down the roots of an arek palm tree, he climbed, fell (his wives revived); M. with his father-in-law, with gongs, with heavenly wives, with good people from the village took to the sky; the Sushi woman and all the bad ones were washed away by a landslide]: DuBois 1944:166-167; Tetum: Morris 1984 [Sun's daughter insists on a day trip with her father; he warns that she could not withstand the heat; that's what happened; at noon she went down for a swim, climbed a coconut; the royal maid Bui Robu Hai noticed her, told her to go down, changed her clothes; forced her to do the most hard work; one day another king invited the king to a party, BRH went with him, danced with the prince dressed as the daughter of the Sun; at midnight, the daughter of the Sun made her way to the spring where her clothes were hidden { another set?} and the chariot, came to the party; the prince began to dance with her; she gave the prince her ring; returned home, dressed again as a maid; the next night, the prince ordered to pour sticky juice in front of the chariot, alone the shoe is stuck; the ring and the shoe do not fit anyone; the king orders the maids to be brought in; the Sun's daughters, the ring and the shoe fit, the prince married her]: 179-187; Vroklage 1962 (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 BI marries LSI and gives birth to a son; finds her clothes in a bamboo vessel, they are dusty; BM shakes them out, flies away; LSI tries in vain to climb into the sky from a tall tree; the bird offers to take him and his son to heaven; BI parents they want to test it; 1) determine which of the bamboo vessels contains palm wine (the rest have water); the fly warns the LSI that it will sit on this vessel; 2) the cockfight, the rooster on which the LSI put, wins; 3) separate the grains from the sand (rice birds separate); 3) identify BI among other girls; the dog flea warns it will bite it, it will move; but these fleas have bitten everyone, everything 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 let her sleep together 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]: 130-133; Timor [seven parrots dropped their feathers, became girls, bathed; the prince hid the youngest's feathers; returned him for promising to return in two days and become his wife; the prince does not sleep, falls asleep, the heavenly maiden cannot marry him wake up, flies away; the awakened prince manages to grab one pen; kills and cuts the servant into pieces, believing that he has put him to sleep; goes to look for the heavenly maiden; the servant's spirit turns into a horse, lucky the exhausted prince; advises to let fish on the shore go to sea; two eagles grabbed the snake by the ends, cannot divide it, the prince cuts it in half; goes to the festival, he is mistaken for a thief, the local leader orders to get it 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 the handsome ; the chief wants the same thing, the princess turns him into a freak; he is overthrown, the prince reigns]: Correia 197:119-125; Numphore: 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, who had a giant melon, people ate a cave in it; one man swam 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. Yami [Iranmilek village: the island is empty, the supreme deity drops a stone from the sky, the first man comes out of the stone; a boy and a girl are born from his knee, they populate the island; after a lot For generations, earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed everything, two men remain; the deity sends them two maidens from the sky, the island is inhabited again; the village of Iratay: wooden boxes come to Irala, each person; one the box is nailed to Tabedeh, where Yayo is now, the second in Lyos, where Ivatas is, the third is in Iraralay; people have multiplied; blindness follows incest; the sea departs; when the white coral is disturbed stone, the flood began; two brothers were saved, the supreme deity sent them two heavenly maidens, the eldest was ordered to marry the elder, the youngest to marry the younger brother; contrary to instructions, the eldest takes the younger brother as her husband; the youngest returns to heaven to complain (what happened to the older brother is not said); the older brother is happy with his wife because she miraculously supplies them with food, but forbids them to see exactly how she does it; Iranmilek had another man with a heavenly wife, the narrator transfers the story to him; the husband learns that snakes and rats help his wife create food; then the wife returns to heaven; the husband goes Warn little brother from Iratay not to try to reveal the secret; it doesn't help, younger brother's wife and child fly to heaven]: Bennedek 1991; apayao [Ennoy notices someone is stealing sugar reeds from his field; guards the thief, sees five girls descending from the sky; after cutting reeds, they go swimming, E. hides the youngest'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, follow her; gives a knife to cut mountains; they come to his wife's father, who tells 1) to find out what knife he worked with among many (the fly shows), 2) find out what he loved father-in-law's spear (same), 3) walk on pointed bamboo poles (the spider weaves the rope along which E. passes); father-in-law agrees to marriage]: Wilson 1947b: 112-114; kalinga-apayao [among seven Sinarugkawan heavenly sisters younger; at noon they went down to the ground to swim in the river; they noticed a sugarcane field owned by Dungkuwan, went to eat cane 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; married her, hid her wings in bamboo; S. gave birth to a son; once bamboo fell on 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 it; husband, wife and son live happily in heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 26:241-243; callahan [orphan Pedro comes to the old woman's house; she teaches you to hide the wings of a beauty with a star on breasts when she arrives to swim; if she tells you to turn her head, you can't turn it, otherwise you will turn into 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; next time he successfully took Doña Maria's wings, married her; they have a daughter; DM found her wings under a pile of rice, flew away; P. came to the king, the father of DM; he gives difficult errands, but P. has a magic ring; 1) build a house within an hour; 2) collect the grain scattered in dust (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; father allows DM to return to P. and her daughter]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 27:245-251; casiguran agta [the old man advises Juan to hide the clothes of the last of the heavenly maidens, who will come to swim at the spring; H. hides the youngest's clothes, the others have flown away; the youngest becomes H.'s wife, gives birth to a son; the wife asks to show her clothes; contrary to the old man's warning, H. shows that she puts it on, flies away; the old man sends X. to look for a wife, does not tell him to look at the centipede on the way, H. looks, comes back; the old man gives a handkerchief; holding it in front of him, H. passes the centipede, fire, mountains; comes to the wife's father; he demands 1) to identify his wife's clothes (the fly says he will sit on clothes); 2) identify his wife's hand (the same); 3) cut down the banyan (Ficus benjamina); ants gnaw on the roots and branches; H. gets a wife]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 19:211-215; the Calamians [Bulalacao star fell ashore, became a woman, a local man married her, their bulalacaoúnos descendants are still they live there]: Worcester 1901:497; Tinghian [Aponitolau (A.) planted sugarcane, it grows in a few days; his wife Aponibolinaen planted gold beans; from the sky, the daughter of the Moon- women's star Gaigayoma sent stars for reeds and beans, then descends into the field herself; A. watches, frightens the stars, sits on G.'s clothes; she tells him to go with her to heaven, otherwise the stars he will be eaten; a chair comes down from the sky for him; five months later, G. and A. have a son, Tabyen; he comes out between his mother's fingers after being injected into his hand; G. lets A. go to his former wife; he wanted stay, but the stars came for him; next time G. lets her husband and son go; T. plays with his son born Aponibolinaen; it's raining, it's G.'s tears; they later rose to heaven, but eventually T. remained on the ground, and his mother G. in heaven]: Rybkin 1975, No. 38:105-111; Tinghian (bilongan itneg) [The stars went down to eat sugar cane on the 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; the mother put them on, invited her husband to divide her daughter in half; husband got part above the waist, the wife got 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, and a coconut palm grew out of it; therefore, the coconut shows eyes and mouths and there are rotten coconuts]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 25:237-239; nabaloi [women ask who broke off the tops of the tarot; Pig, Dog, Monkey answer they're not; men hide, see like with Female stars come down to swim in the sky, hide their clothes, marry them; men are old, but the Stars are not; they have taken their clothes, returned to heaven; marriages to stars are nabaloi]: Moss 1924, No. 26:259-261 (translated to Rybkin 1975, No. 16:48-49; retelling in Lessa 196:156); igorot [someone is ravaging 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 taking her son; the god Lumawig lowers his rope; says that his wife is the one who will be bitten by a bee; she has the wings of one of them; the wife gives birth to a winged - The morning husband finds his wife and son; L. makes a rainbow bridge so they can go down to the ground]: Eugenio 1994, No. 142:256-257; kankanai [The star steals sugar cane, the owner grabs it; she finds the clothes he hides, flies away; one of their children dies, the other mother goes down to the other at night; argues with her husband about who will get it; divides him in half, takes one to heaven; the father cannot revive his , 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 are big and small thunders]: Moss 1920:382 in Lessa 196:153 -154; northern kankanai [Lopi went to the pond from which his buffalo drank 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 into his house as 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 that they should look for her "where the moon sets and the sun rises"; L. came to to the chief of the birds, he sent buffaloes and lions to the chief; 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 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; ifugao [Bugan, daughter of the supreme deity, consistently refuses to marry the inhabitants of different tiers of the sky, including Lightning; descends to earth, takes a poor young man as her husband, gives birth to a son; people envy her, she decides to return to heaven, but her husband cannot follow her; she cuts their son, takes half of them with her, revives them in the guise of a new boy; what is left on the ground begins to decay because the husband is unable to revive it; she turns a rotting head into an owl, ears into a tree mushroom, the nose into the shell of a snail living on trees, part of the excrement into the beak of an ido bird, the tongue into a pipun in people's tongue, the heart into a rainbow, chest bones - into a poisonous snake, fingers into long shells, hair - worms, larvae, skin - red bird, blood - small bats, liver - breast disease, intestines - animals like hares or rats, hand bones - rotten branches falling on passers-by]: Eugenio 1994, No. 10:33-37; ifugao (Amganad band) [Tillay went to look for water, saw four female stars swimming in a stream; hid his wing-skirt one of them; brought home, their son; T. hid his skirt under rice, his wife took rice and found it; 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 why he did not warn her that he could not make half the child full; she made it out of parts the upper half is 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 Warn a red 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; Bontok: Eugenio 1994, No. 7 [star girls fly to swim in the lake; a young hunter hides the wings of one of them; takes her to wife; she gives birth to a son, the placenta turns into a second boy with more strength; while playing, the brothers turn the stone over, find wings, return to the mother; the placenta boy becomes his foot on the tip of the spear, pushes off, flies to heaven, becomes the Evening Star; brother cannot take off; mother flies away, promising him that he will be the ancestor of Europeans], 8 [someone is ruining a sugar field reeds; the owner finds star girls, some of them swimming in the lake; he hides clothes alone, takes the Star as his wife, they have three daughters; the wife sews new clothes, flies away with her daughters]: 15-16, 17-18; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 23 [the widower is a good hunter; once he did not meet game, he 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 the wings; hid his wings in the garden in sugar cane; the wife gave birth to five children; found the wings full of holes and half-rotted, repaired it, made wings for children; the youngest flew up and fell, his mother told him to stay with his father, four flew away with her; the rest every night showed which stars his mother and siblings were; the inhabitants of the village of Can-eo descended from him; because their ancestor is the Star, they have sharp eyesight and shining eyes]: 231-233; sindangan [seven sisters swim in the lake, a young man hides one's clothes in a flute, the others fly away; they have two children; the wife sees them playing with her dress, she flies away missing parents; husband follows her and brings her back]: Frake MS in Lessa 196:149; ilianen manobo: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 1 [Beletamey hunted wild chickens, heard a noise in the sky by the pond, seven heavenly the maidens took off their feather clothes, began to swim, B. hid the youngest's clothes; the eldest tried to take her sister with her unsuccessfully; 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, falls silent; he opens the box, the maiden picks up her clothes, flies away; tells him to take care of the child, leaves a bottle of her milk twice goes down to feed her daughter, then flies away altogether], 2 [Itung makes anklets, goes looking for suitable vines, lost his way, came to a woman's house (this is his father's sister), she says that at noon Seven heavenly maidens go down to swim in the pond; their tame monkeys 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 to a girl; she asks for a package hidden under the roof; I. is forced to reach and open them; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; I. leaves her daughter to his parents, goes to look for a wife; meets an old man, who is the chief of birds; birds do not know the way to the country "where the moon rises and the sun sets"; fish also do not know, but then the eel says to go west across 7 ridges and 7 valleys; the local chief promises to give I. his wife if he identifies her among 7 of the same; I. recognizes by the needle spot on his little finger; takes his wife, returns home], 3 [Yugung (Jr. brother of the epic hero Agyu) saw seven heavenly maidens bathing, 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, took the 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 her clothes alone, six fly away; the remainder says that her father will pay the ransom with 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 and saw a flute from the stem a banana under the roof; the mother pulls it out, finds her clothes inside the flute; after feeding the child, she flies away; taking her 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. identify his wife among her sisters; T. brings her daughter, who rushes to the woman in the middle, her mother; T. adds that she has needle marks on her fingers because she sewed all the time]: 21-29, 31- 51, 53-57, 59-81; 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 found the key to the chest in which he hid her feather clothes; put it on, flew away like a kite, leaving her daughter; HM went to look for his wife; the north, the south, some other wind, some bird, the crow replied that they will not be able to rise to the sky; he found a philodendron growing to the sky, climbed it to the moon; she said that on the way to her father, a rock that closes and opens; he slipped; in gold the wife and her older sisters were in the palace; 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 rock, in the grass; returned home safely]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5:85-93; dibabawon manobo [the hunter went to the lake for ducks; seven heavenly sisters flew in, began to swim; he hid one of them's clothes; she has to go with him to become his wife; three years later 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 her "east of the sun, to west of the moon"; the hunter went in search down the river to the sea, where he 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 injected a needle on their 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 watched over lake of heavenly maidens; each had a pet monkey guarding 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 wife into the house; she said she could not dance without her sarong; when she received it, she flew away; the lizard said that the wife was in heaven, told me to hold on to her tail, lifted it to the top of a 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 his wife brought her shirt into the house; her name was Maria; mother H. is rude to her; M. found a flute under the roof, wearing her clothes; saying goodbye to her husband, flew away; Boa tells X. to bring 70 eggs, sit on him back; carried H. across the sky, he must feed him eggs all the time; Hugh jumped into the sky, Boa fell and crashed; people answer H. that the leader's youngest daughter returned, gave birth, they were going to determine who the father was child; the mother asks the boy to give the betel to who his father is; the boy sat on H.'s lap and gave the betel to him; the chief says he will believe if X. finds where M. and her child are hidden at night; the firefly showed X. Lodge M. (it's in the middle); the chief held a feast]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8:107-115; mamanwa [seven heavenly sisters went down to earth to swim, take off their clothes; the youngest was Ilya Manlangitnen ("living on sky"); Tawtamisaá hid the youngest's feather clothes, married the maiden; one day their little son saw a flute under the ceiling, began to cry and ask her; his mother took it out, found her clothes in her, flew away together with her son; the boa constrictor brought T. to heaven; the virgin's father demands 1) pull a piece of iron out of the ground, 2) bring water in a basket of holes; the eel has completed these tasks; 3) find his wife in the dark room where she sleeps together with his sisters; the firefly said he would sit on his wife; the father of the heavenly maidens arranged a feast, and also brought Mother T. to heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 10:133-137; central subanens: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11 [a man lived on an island of slaves; saw heavenly maidens come to the river to swim, stole his youngest's clothes, brought them into the house, hid it under the roof; the girl had to become his wife; them The daughter climbed under the roof, her mother pulled her back, her feather clothes fell out; she put it on, flew away with her daughter; the husband went to look for them; the eagle offered to carry him off the cliff, but was tired, left bamboo on the run; The rhino bird brought him to heaven to the spring, where his wife, they remarried; 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 in the dark room, the brass betel vessel that belongs to his wife; the firefly showed; the man brought the vessel to his father-in-law, who was happy, allowed the couple to live together], 12 [the man saw seven bathers heavenly maidens; hid the clothes of one of them; six flew away in the form of crows (crows are not directly mentioned, but the audience knows that crows are); the seventh stayed; when leaving, the husband does not tell you to look inside the flute; she She looks in, finds her clothes there, but is pregnant and cannot fly; 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 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, took her wives; a few days later, many crows flew, threatened to 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, got into the crow, who became the mother of the kidnapped woman; asked for her daughter's clothes in return; they agreed that the crows would allow the wedding, help organize it, and DH would give her wife's clothes to her mother-in-law; they did so ], 14 [poor widow Manumpit's son saw crows coming to swim, one of them white; they turned into girls, he stole the clothes of the white, younger; 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 went down the rainbow); the youngest Putli ("princess") was the last, LB hid her fan (the narrator knows that there is a version in which women take off their feather clothes; the fan is Islamized option); the elders flew away, the LB brought P. to his father, married her; a boy was born; LB hid the fan in the flute under the roof; when cooking rice, you can not pour out excess water, it must be preserved, given to children, etc.; P. But she poured out the water, then saw the flute, found her fan; put milk on the child, told the LB parents that she was returning to her home, because her husband was always absent, flew away; three days later, LB returned; taking her son, went to look for his wife; at the foot of a dry tree, the Lizard told him to tie himself to her back, taking pieces of fern; on the seventh night she lifted him to the top of the tree, eating one piece each time; left her forehead on top; there are eagles in the nest; the sky turned dark, an ogre eagle flew in; ordered the LB to tie himself and his son to his claws, 7 days later brought him to the river; there two maids came for water, the forehead quietly threw the ring into their vessel; the LB went up the river, there is old Kobayan (Manobo has a female deity in the 7-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 that she was LB's wife; he appeared in a gold 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; Visayas [Magbolotó hides the wings of the youngest of three goddesses who came to swim in the stream; her name is Macaya; marries her without saying he hid her wings; After giving birth to a son, she was cooking rice, noticed a parcel under the roof, put on her wings, flew away; her husband went 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 to his wife's grandmother; she demands to spread out and collect 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; Romblomanon [Magbayutu sailed in a boat, saw three winged women go down to swim, fell in love with younger Maria; next time he hid her wings; brought her into the house by 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, and the husband and son were immediately in heaven; Mary's king father 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 Magbayut to marry Mary]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 18:205-209

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 fly in 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 he will sleep outside, and hid himself behind the bed; 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 him, 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: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:440-445 (Yunnan-Burma border) [Abep's older brother and younger Alep live together; gayal (=mitan, half-wild buffalo) says the youngest, that the eldest and his wife will demand the division of property - let Alepa take only him, gayala, and drive it away; 7 fairies go down to swim in the lake, gayal tell him to hide the clothes they like; 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 his clothes earlier; the wife flies away, taking both children; Alepa called Gayala, flew to heaven, who 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 his son-in-law to sleep at their feet; the wife tells them to put pumpkins in their place; at night, father-in-law and mother-in-law push them into the hole from which the wind is blowing; 2) offer to hide; the wife teaches them to stick their fingers into two burrows of a dung beetle and call father-in-law and mother-in-law; they hid there; the wife hid her husband in her hair, turning them into a pin; next time father-in-law and mother-in-law hid in two vines; the wife teaches them to cut them, blood has flowed; since then, this red juice vine; father-in-law and mother-in-law became two adjacent stars high above the horizon], 456-466 [the man has a daughter Amima and a son Abep; after the death of their mother, he remarried; his stepmother persuaded him to get rid of children; they were told to bring water; they went to the spring, left the vessels under the stream, but they did not fill; a year later, the cat, then the raven, explained that the vessels were full of holes, that the house had long been abandoned, but remained in it chicken leg, you can eat it; after closing holes, the children come home, then go looking for parents; ask for directions from those who collect buffalo, cow, pig manure; they are told to work every time, and then they threaten to kill them; finally, they come to their parents; Amima is told to slaughter a pig, i.e. her brother; she asks to do so when the needle in her brother's forehead grows fat; three years pulls out a needle; then teaches his brother to run up the river; if he gets rich, let him let rice go downstream, etc.; the supreme god Vusa gave gold and silver, offered to choose a wife among the 7 heavenly fairies; she creates a palace; Abepa descends signs of her wealth down the river; her sister visits him; tells her parents that she got gifts by running naked on nettles; they do so; when they come to Abepa, given their food turns into crap; Abepa put them on winged horses, telling them to tie the reins to their legs; they suffered, the evil spouses are gone]; Ancient China: Baksheev 2004 (Sou Shen-ji: "In Search of Spirits" , 4th century A.D.) [the story of Dong Yun's wife in the main motives, according to Konishi Jinichi, coincides with the Japanese legend of old man Taketori]: 449; 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 (the capital of Jiangxi) saw seven bird girls in the field; he tried to steal their feather clothes, six flew away, he 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, who flew away with her]; Chinese: Konishi Jinichi in Baksheev 2004 [heavenly maiden motif, on The person who marries or adopts is in the provinces of Shandong, Yunnan, Tibet, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, among Chinese and various nationalities]: 449; Eberhard 1968 (Hubei) [person married a lady bird; they have two daughters; once all three women wore feather clothes and flew away; this is one of several times when the Swan maiden motif has been combined with an evil motive birds]: 167; Riftin 1972 [Nyu-lan's younger single brother works hard, the older married man eats heartily; the ox invites N. to break the plow, plough, plough handle, return home early, eat what is cooked; the elder suggests sharing, 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 Gate of Heaven will open, Wan-mu's granddaughters will fly to wash clothes; 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 to slaughter, burn his bones, put on his skin, take his son and daughter in baskets; tell the guards of the heavenly gates (gold, silver lions, devil), I am the husband of your seventh aunt, and this is hers children; in the house it is necessary to identify the wife among the seven girls; we must let the son go, he will rush to suck his mother's breast; father-in-law suggests 1) hide; C. says that her father will first become a bug, then an apple in chest; when it's N.'s turn to hide, C. turns it into a needle, 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 him; 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 from The feather bridge is 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]: 294-303; 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's clothes, takes a fairy as his wife; after a lot For years, she finds her clothes and flies to heaven; her 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 plot definition, but considering Riftin's detailed retelling of texts is probably found in most cases}]: 55-56; 1941, No. 21 [(comments on the story "Boopas and the Weaver")]: 60-62; Wilhelm 1921, No. 16 [at the shepherd (Kuhhirt) always well-fed cows; in the mountains, a cow tells him that this evening nine daughters of the Jade Emperor are swimming in a sky lake; the seventh is spinning cloud silk for Heavenly Lord and his wife, so she The weaver (die Spinnerin); the one who hid her clothes will become her husband; the cow brings the Shepherd to heaven, where there are jade trees, jasper grass; the Shepherd hides the Weaver's red robe; she agrees when, the advice of the cow, asks the willow if she can marry; the willow replies that yes, it is the seventh evening; seven days later the Weaver runs away to prepare clothes for the Heavenly Lord; the Shepherd pursues, but she draws a line across the sky with a hairpin (Haarpfeile), the heavenly River - the Milky Way; every seventh evening they converge again, at which time crows are not visible on the ground, they all form a bridge over a heavenly river; the rain at this time was the tears of the Shepherd and the Weaver; one day the Shepherd was angry at the Weaver that she had not crossed to him, threw a yoke at her; it can be seen in the form of stars under the Weaver's feet; she also threw it into he has a spindle, 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 her to the emperor; his 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 returned to heaven; lowers forty orphaned son from heaven into the nest; old people raise him, children tease him that he has no parents; Ye Seo advises the young man to watch 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 her son, returns to her husband, who became emperor], 278-280 [an orphan steals the pen of one of the seven women who came to swim ducks; 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 pen; the mother takes it, flies away; brothers they find the mother; her father promises to let them go and her if they 1) harvest peaches for him; put them back on branches (mother places them); 2) cultivate the plot, sow, then harvest the sown grain (mother it causes the wind, the grain gathers 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 you to tickle the white horse, this is the grandfather; the same with turning into a pig); the brothers themselves are turned by their mother into sticks inside bamboo, 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; 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 bubbles are demons, white bubbles are gold; the elder did not listen to his mother, black scooped up, 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 is not him found; 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 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]; meo [father died; mother went to heaven, incarnated buffalo; descends into the herd herded by her Orphan Son; teaches: three birds will come to swim in the lake, turn beautiful: the wife, daughter-in-law and daughter of the Sky Star; we must hide the 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; daughter turns into different animals, Orphan does not give wings, takes her in wives; 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; when she learns about this, the wife asks the children, they give her wings, and flies away with the children; the husband hits the drum, the mother takes him to heaven; he sees the son, beats him, he cries, the wife comes, teaches him how to behave with his father-in-law; he offers poisoned tea, Orphan pours out unnoticed; the same with wine; tells me to bring a drum from the monkeys; the wife's brother: give the monkeys a bag of nuts, play their flute (their flute is poisoned); the orphan brings the drum; again does not drink or eat poisons; the Sky Star thinks that the poison is exhausted, he drinks it himself, breaks into small pieces, they still fall (shooting stars)]: Nikulin 1976:233-236; is [there the motive of the heavenly maiden she marries or adopts human]: Konishi Jinichi in Baksheev 2004:449; Koreans: Choi 1979, No. 205 [(=Ząng 1952, No. 11:21-25); the lumberjack saved the deer from the hunter; he indicated the place where heavenly maidens bathe; the lumberjack hid his clothes alone, got married; the rest of the fairies returned to heaven on the rainbow; the deer warned the logger not to give clothes to his wife until she gave birth to four children; the husband gave it after the birth of the third; the wife with she flew away with children; the husband flew to heaven on a pumpkin and followed her; after living with his wife, he wanted to visit his mother; the wife gave a dragon horse, told him not to 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 a third child; in heaven, his wife's parents give difficult tasks; he did not complete the last thing - to descend on a dragon horse]: 62-63; Cho 2001, № 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 his clothes alone, got married; the deer warned not to give up clothes until the wife gives birth to four children; the husband gave up after the birth of the third; the wife and the children flew away; the deer says that now fairies do not go down to the pond, but 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, told him not to get off him; 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 from hunters; for this he said that 8 heavenly maidens go down to the lake once a year; you should hide the skirt with the one you like best and not give it back until he gives birth to three children; Park hid the youngest's skirt; wife created a tiled fanza, a barn, a bull; Park gave her skirt when there were only two children; everything was gone; the deer gave three pumpkin seeds: if planted, they would grow to the sky, but you can't look back; Park looked and fell; the deer gave again, the last one; in the sky, the children recognized Park; the wife said that for her father she had to ask 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 allow her to fall either to the ground or to the sky; the wife turned to the gyrfalcon, picked up an arrow; the son-in-law into the eagle, set off behind the gyrfalcon; he dropped the arrow, it fell on the son of the leader of the nobility; his son-in-law demands that an arrow be delivered to him; Park's wife: ask for a horse and take the poor foal; he immediately brought Park to the house 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 quietly pulled out the arrow, the young man came to life; Park got a wife, but he was persuaded to stay with her on in the sky at the service of Okonshant; they went to him in a dragon, his wife was pouring rain from a marble bottle; Park asked him to pour more, grabbed the bottle, began to pour himself, dropped it; he fell into the mouth of a volcano that died out, and Great Dragon Lake formed in the crater, from which three rivers have since flowed: Amnoka, Tumangang and Sungari; the great Okonshante was not angry with his wife Park, but he removed her from deeds and did not give any service to her husband; they remained in heaven]: Garin-Mikhailovsky 1958:.

The Balkans. Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 11 [the son of a farmhand 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 reed bushes by the sea, made it out of reeds guns and sabers; now his name is Maly with the Kamyshins (K.); came to the king; it turned out that he was indistinguishable from the queen; tells him that he met a girl, whom her father would give only for someone who just as rich; the king also does not marry his son to someone who has less money than he; K. brings the Queen to the girl, they lured her to the ship, took her away; K. hears the vultures talking at night; the horse will throw off Queen, he will be killed; a faithful servant will shoot a hare, hit the queen; the 12-headed dragon will take the bride away on the wedding night; whoever tells will petrify; K. shot the horse, the servant; asked for 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 to sprinkle the stone with the blood of these children; K. came to life; the king gave him the keys to 99 rooms, he did not give up the hundredth; K. spies through the keyhole; there are three baths, swan maidens arrive, take off their clothes, bathe; they say that if you hide the clothes, you won't come back; K. made the key, hid the youngest's clothes, gave her another one, married her; the wife warns not to give her her old clothes if others ask; they are invited to a wedding, everyone asks for his wife to dance in her old clothes, for will 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 is back, does not know about the mountain, advises to ask his uncle Wind; 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; the neck picked it up, he opened it to his wife, stayed with her on the mountain]: 251-264; Domotor 1988, No. 400A ^x [ every night, the fruits of the magic tree disappear; the owner's three sons are consistently guarded; the elders fall asleep, the mouse helps the youngest to stay awake; he grabs and marries a swan girl; she forbids him tell someone about her; a young man breaks the ban, his wife flies away like a swan; a young man goes to look for a wife but falls asleep three times when he is supposed to meet her; supernatural creatures help him achieve the goal]: 458; Albanians [the son of a peasant agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb the Crystal Mountain; drops jewelry from there, but the people below 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 to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen again both times imperceptibly; on the third once the goat himself remains, takes him to his blind master; he lets the young man herd herd, does not tell the goats to be taken to the edge of the cliff; there peri dances, the young man plays the pipe, the peri is the first to get tired, the young man ties her up, makes the owner's eyes return; having seen the light, the owner gives the young man the keys, tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; three Beauties of the Earth fly into it to swim, the young man hides the youngest's belt, brings it on a heroic horse his wife home, gives the key to her belt 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 flies back to the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, the oldest, sends him to the spring, where the maids of the Beauty of the Earth collect water, the young man throws a ring into the jug, the wife and her sisters come to him, turn him an apple so that their cannibal brothers do not eat it; they smell it, agree to give it to their sister if the son-in-law 1) brings an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends to tie the forest with a rope, digs up the entire source); 3) catch a hare, get a nut; a young man falls on a hare from a tree, gets a wife]: Serkova 1989:55-57; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981:105-117 [orphaned, Ion sowed wheat; birds pecked the harvest; buckwheat was broken by frost; went to work, got a foal, it was eaten by wolves; the second time he asked for a millstone - it was shattered by lightning; left home, harvested Hay got a rooster for his work; he came with him to the king - he was driven away; the hermit ordered him to take his wife; says that three fairy birds fly to the milk lake, take off their wings, swim; let Ion hide their wings the youngest and will give it 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, whoever gets fruit from the top, received half the kingdom; the tree is divided into three branches, on the eastern apples, on the southern pear, on the western nuts; the Sun invited to watch the rays; food will be brought by the Lord of the Birds, Frost, Wolf Iron Mouth, Serpent Golden Scales; asking everyone, Jonah beats everyone for the destroyed wheat, buckwheat, foal, millstone; seeing that the Sun leads a fairy down the crown, Jonah cuts down golden trees and throws them 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; the advisers command not to cut Jonah's head, but to give impossible assignments, and then take his wife away; 1) let him be around the palace there is a vineyard 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; the wife gives a ring, Ion comes to the sea, sighs, appears Oh, 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, at which time he sleeps himself; count whether there are more blades of grass or leaves; Ion brought fluer to the king, fell asleep himself; they began to dance, they do not know how to stop the flood, died; Jonah received the kingdom and had a wedding], 293-300 [the hermit gives the childless queen grapes, she conceives a son; the king hunts, the devil enters the fortress; he releases the king when the king promises to give what he does not know at home; son Dafin has grown up, the hell takes him away; D. learns the language of birds from him; overheard the birds talking, they say that The unfortunate Arap, 180 years old, draws water from a bottomless well, where the one stolen by the Vestra feature bathes; old man A. teaches D. to steal the clothes of bathing V., to run without looking back; A. blesses their marriage, the line gets rid of the punishment, disappears; hell agrees to let D. and V. go if D. 1) plows the field to the horizon in a day, harvests, bakes bread (V. orders the demons); 2) shoot a hare in the garden the devil himself (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 plants D. and V. into 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; the devil tries to drink water, bursts; D. and V. come live with D.'s parents]; Moldavian tales 1968 [mother tells Fat-Frumos that his father was eaten by wolves; but he still became a hunter; saw bird virgins coming down to swim in the lake, hid their wings; fairies follow they sing; 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 her wings; FF reluctantly gives up, his wife flies away; FF wanted to shoot her, but she turned into a cuckoo and you can't shoot the cuckoo; she tells you to look for her in a golden palace in the golden forest; FF goes in search; an old man summons animals and birds; the goat comes last, she knows the places, but now there is a terrible drought; a man says that the owner of the palace was stolen by snakes; people milk sheep in nutshells, milk drops; FF leads sheep to snake pastures; watchmen wolves and bears are fascinated by FF playing on the pipe; he says that the pipe needs to be repaired with wood from the middle of the oak tree, splits it, wolves and bears stick their paws, FF takes out a wedge, burns clamped wolves, one charred one escapes; pulls out the heart of the bears, one escapes; the shepherd tore off his tail, since then the bears have no tail; Vyzh-Surviil's 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 BB; the serpent opened its mouth from ground to sky, but FF killed him and returned his wife]: 434-450; Greeks: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 15 (Epirus) [The king finally had an heir; he placed the boy in a glass castle with his teachers; once he was brought meat and bone, he had not seen bones before; throwing a bone, the young man pierced the wall and saw the world; his father agreed to release it, he became a passionate hunter; after chasing the deer, the prince disappeared, the king declared mourning; the prince was found by a Jew, promised to take him to his father if he threw him off gold from a high cliff; to do this, he placed a buffalo in his skin, the eagle lifted his skin with the young man, who got outside and threw gold to the Jew; he took the gold, sat on his horse and rode away; the young man found an underground passage with stairs, went out to the palace; an old man with a long beard was chained to the wall; the young man said that he could not free him without eating; he ordered him to take 40 keys out of his pocket and unlock the rooms, in one he will find a rod; if you hit the ground with it, there will 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, and the fortieth does not allow it; the old man explained that many young men died there; in that room, the lake where three fairies fly, take off their winged robes and swim; first the elders, then the youngest; we must take her clothes and do not give, 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; the fairy brother in the guise of a dervish came up on the way , 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; second brother came in the guise of a Jew, he had an invisible hat; the young man told a stick to kill him, took possession of his hat; came to his father; gave his wife's clothes to his aunt for safekeeping; the fairy begged her to give it to her to go dancing; prince came back, 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 gathered the birds, only Schnapphahn knows; the old woman told him to take the prince to the glass castle; the local king is at war with another; the prince promised he kill all his enemies; thanks to his stealth hat and stick, he killed enemies, captured their king; the king married him his youngest daughter; when she recognized 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; one day a young man was brought meat and bone, he threw it, broke through the wall; his father had to let go a young man; he became a hunter; chased a deer, got lost, ate roots; a Jew appeared, brought him to the mountain, asked him to drop gold from it; to do this, he placed the young man in buffalo skin, and the birds picked him up on the mountain, he threw gold to the Jew; the Jew took the gold, leaving the young man; while digging the roots, the young man found a passage, a staircase in it; she led to the palace, in which an old man with a beard to his knees was chained; he teaches take 40 keys from his pocket, open one of the rooms with a stick in it; if you hit, any food will appear; the young man is full, his strength has returned and he freed the old man; the key to the 40th room is an old man took it; said that behind him the lake, where three fairies fly, they had already killed many young men; the young man persuaded him to give the key; the old man: the youngest is the most beautiful, she bathes after her sisters, she must take her clothes; you can't let her even 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 him a flying man; 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; came the second brother in the form of a Jew; he appeared and disappeared; the young man asked him to see the invisible hat, sent a stick to kill the Jew; the fairy says that no one will help her now; the king is happy that her son 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 them in the glass city; the prince returned to the old man, who gave a letter to his father and he to his mother; the mother gathered the birds, the last to deliver the old Schnapphahn, 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, Haji said that the local king was at war with another; the young man promised to defeat the enemy alone; the prince's stick killed all enemy soldiers; the king gave off his youngest daughter as the winner; she first I didn't want to, but when I found out that it was her husband, I was happy; they returned to the prince's country]: 287-296; Schmidt 1877, No. 5 (Zakynthos) [the young man wanted to marry only Nereid; the old woman advised me to grab and hide her a handkerchief; the young man grabbed, the rest of the Nereids flew away; they had children; one day 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 self-divers swimming 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 festival), she flies away by herself; the husband (wearing iron shoes) goes after her; on the way he receives advice from elders (kings) animals, fish, birds); the husband finds out (through the king of birds) from the old eagle (magpies) where to fly, the eagle brings him to the village of self-divination, the husband returns his wife], *550** [nine pav steal apples at night in the royal garden; only the youngest of the three princes does not fall asleep on guard, falls in love with the younger pava, who becomes a girl; flying away with the others, she leaves him a golden apple (feather) and tells him where to look for her; The prince comes to the lake (pond, spring), where pavas come to swim; when the pavas have arrived, his companion puts him to sleep; with the help of an elder (grateful animals), he brings pav to the palace, marries youngest; in the absence of his wife, he unlocks the door to the forbidden (9th, 12th, 40th) room, involuntarily releasing the snake (lamia, challah) imprisoned there; he takes the prince's wife; grateful animals (fox, eagle fish or raven) promise to help; the prince takes his wife twice, but the kidnapper catches up with him on his horse each time; he learns that you can only escape the chase by riding the kidnapper's brother's horse; grateful animals help the prince herd the old woman's horses for three nights in a row; the prince receives a horse from her, on which he leaves the chase, the kidnapper dies]: 137-138, 204; Marinov 2003:297-298 [samovils (pitchforks) are winged maidens, they live in high mountains, swim in lakes, have sex with shepherds; a young man named Rabro sees the bathers, hid his clothes alone, refuses to return them when she offers to be his mother, sister, brings home his wife], 298 [the shepherd hid the clothes of one of the three samovels who bathed; married, brought home, her name is Radka; during a feast on the occasion of her son's baptism, the guests ask R. to play on" self-made toy"; R. says that for this purpose she must put on her own clothes; her husband believes that she will not leave the child, gives her clothes, R. plays and flies away]; Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951 [Tsarevich says parents, that he dreams that his father is pouring water on his hands, his mother is holding a towel; the king expels his son; he comes to the house where the blind old man goes to the house where the blind old man eats food with him unnoticed; he realizes that Someone is nearby; the young man stays with the old man; he does not tell him to go to two trees; the young man walks, sees two birds, they go down to the 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 home in it, where his sister's wedding is; but now the sister wants to marry him 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 a 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, the third agreed to become his wife; the fairies warned not to give their clothes to his wife - he would fly away; in a year, At the festival, the women asked the shepherd's wife to dance in magical clothes; the husband reluctantly gave her clothes, the wife danced, flew through the chimney; said that she should be looked for in Kushkundalevo; a shepherd looking for his wife comes to an old man, he sends him to another, the owner of animals; the animals do not know such a village; the owner of the animals sends birds to the owner; no one knows there either, but then a beaten magpie arrives; explains that stayed 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 the fairy house; they tie her sleeping sister to a flying saddle, put her sleeping sister in a flying saddle, she is a shepherd, told to fly across three mountains; the shepherd's wife wakes up, calls a winged horse; he flies to help, but beyond the third mountain his power ends, his 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; Romanians [the king hunts, sees a swan on the lake, he asks not to shoot, the king brings him alive to a gypsy cook, The swan turns into a girl, says she has left her fairy mother; the king marries her, she gives birth to a son; while the king is gone, a jealous cook invites the queen to the garden, throws her into the well, speaks to the king that his wife flew away as a swan; the king is going to marry a gypsy woman; the shepherdess makes a pipe from a branch growing by the willow well; the pipe says she is afraid for her baby, that the gypsy woman is a villain; a gypsy throws a flute, she turns into a former queen; the king rewards the shepherdess, executes a gypsy woman; the wife, becoming a swan for a while, flies to say goodbye to her mother, returns to the king; everything is fine]: Gaster 1915, No. 83:249-254 (=Ashliman 2002); Serbs [the king's apple tree blooms in one night, bears fruit, but the fruit disappears; two sons guard and fall asleep; the youngest sees 8 peacocks coming down to peck apples, the ninth turns into a girl; gives the young man two apples; like this every night; envious older brothers send an old woman, she cuts off a lock of the peacock girl's hair; the peacocks fly away; the prince orders to tie the old woman to the tail of the horse; goes to look for a girl; in the castle the old woman offers him her daughter; gives the servant the fur to blow over the prince's ear; because of this, the prince falls asleep; the peacock wife cannot wake him up three times; The prince cuts off the servant's head, the hermit sends him to the dragon city, the prince finds his wife; she tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; there is a barrel in it, someone in it asks for a drink; the prince gives, the dragon flies out, takes away the prince's wife; the prince saves the fish, the fox, the wolf on the way; finds and takes his wife, the dragon on his horse easily catches up with them, spares the prince, takes his wife; she learns from the dragon that his brother the horse is a black foal - the old woman has; she gives the task of herding her mare and with the foal for three nights; from this herd there is a dragon horse; the prince comes to the old woman, only one cola has no head yet; fish, fox, wolf helps to find a mare with a foal that turned into fish, foxes, wolves; the prince chooses a black foal, takes his wife away; the dragon horse says they cannot catch up with the prince, throws him off, the dragon breaks, the prince's wife sits on this horse]: Mijatovies 1874:43-58 (=Ashliman 2002; =Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:18-25); Serbs [the shepherd saw three girls bathing, hid their shirts; girls warned that they were mermaids; the shepherd chose the youngest; a year later, the shepherd and his wife were invited to the wedding; the wife says she can only dance in her mermaid shirt; the boy succumbed to persuasion, brought a shirt, his wife flew away; ordered me to look for it in the village of Kushkundalyov; the shepherd goes in search; the 200-year-old man sends to his 300-year-old brother, he is the king of animals; he sends birds to the king; the way to Only a lame magpie knows this village; the eagle carried her and the shepherd; the wife's older sisters promised to help; tied the youngest sleepy, tied her to the saddle; but if her horse rides after her and catches up to the three cherished mountains, then it will tear; the horse did not have time to reach the mountains; at home, the wife gave birth to daughters, all beauties lead from them]: Tesic 2018:43-49.

Central Europe. Poles: Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 [the childless king returned to the castle, wanted to drink; the ladle at the well is not handed over; the king leaned to the water, Koschey grabbed his beard, let him give it back what he did not know at home, but when he returned he would immediately find; the king promised that the well disappeared, the king caught up with the squad; found his newborn son at home; his name Nenadalek ("unexpected"); when he grew up, he met an old man with with green eyes, he recalled his promise; N. went, 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 return the shirt, promised to help; she is Koschey's youngest daughter; ordered K. to crawl to the throne on her knees; they fell into the underworld; K. laughed, did not kill N., promised to give tasks; 1) overnight create a palace with a garden (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 mountain is a straw; the girl tells you to run, leaves a 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 you not to enter the city: if R. kisses a child who came out to meet him there, he will forget her; and so it happened; the girl became a cornflower in the field; the old man found him, transplanted him, brought him home; someone cooks and cleans; the fortune teller advised me to guard, the old man found the girl; on this day the Queen is getting married; the girl speckled the cake, asked the cook to serve; two doves jumped out from there and began to tell how N. forgot the girl; the queen remembered everything, came with his girlfriend to his father's country; wedding]: 209-221; Shcherbakov 1980 [retelling in Kozlova 2006:330; a golden life has grown on the shepherd's field; he tells three sons to guard him; when it is the youngest's turn, the bird took the sheaf; the young man behind her; the house in the forest, the 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 herds to the sheep, does not tell them to be allowed into a dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take them away; gives a violin; the spirit drove the sheep; the young man gave him a violin to play, he broke the string; the young man promises to teach them to play, first he must straighten his fingers; the spirit put them in a split trunk; the young man let him go for promising not to touch the sheep; the spirit points to grass that will restore blind vision; the old men promise to get a girl for their adopted son; we must ride a goat to seas; three ducks will arrive, take off their clothes, become girls; you have to hide the shirt you like; the guy succumbed to persuasion, gave his shirt, the duck flew away; a year later the old man sends the guy again; after bringing the girl home, the guy again took pity and returned his shirt; the third time was the last; the goat (this is the old man) is taking him to another sea; the young man did not give his shirt, the old man gave the maiden a cape; the young man and his wife and They went to visit his real father as a newborn daughter; having a golden life, the shepherd became a prince; at a feast, the daughter-in-law asks her father-in-law to get her best outfit - her husband hides it in a chest; became a duck and flew away with her duckling daughter; that old man gives the young man a masm 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; parents his wives handed him the throne; he sent for his real father and that old man, made them ministers]: 115-125; the Luzhitans [the drummer came out of the fortress and saw three fall into the water in the moat swans, took off their feather clothes, became girls and began 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 should look for them on a certain mountain; the drummer must go into the cave, pick three flowers, hammer them into a drum; a castle appeared on the site of the mountain and three princesses came out who were swans because of witchcraft; the drummer stayed with them]: Veckenstedt 1880, No. 13.2:120-122; Czechs [poor Tunda hired for 100 gold a month; no job; at the end 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 orders to throw money, t. refuses, the window shrinks, closes; someone is black shows 99 corpses of those whom the master lured earlier; because T. did not take the money, black 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 will come to swim; the swan turns into a girl; T. asks for permission to see her parents, the owner allows but does not advise; at home T. opens the chest he has brought, the wife grabs her feathers, flies away; T. comes back, the goat takes him to the pond where swans swim; the witch sends her daughter Amalka, that T. puts him to sleep every time, the swans do not wake up, they fly further; in the last castle, the princess (this is T.'s wife) throws the ring, T. catches it three times with his sword, each time he leaves; the princess finds it, the spouses unite; T. cuts off the heads of the black lord and the goat, they turn into king and queen]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:307-317; Belarusians (Novogrudok district. Hrodna Gubernia; version of Russian fairy tale No. 216) [the old man is hired as a shepherd for a year, unable to work for the last three days, receives three pennies instead of one hundred rubles; in the forest, an old woman tells him to throw pennies into the well , a lot of money appears; the old woman divides it into four parts; takes one for herself, the other to the old man, the old man must give the third to the poor, and the fourth to buy incense is for God; the angel asks that the old man he wants for his smokes; he answers that he does not know how to live; the angel asks God, he tells the old man to go to the lake, in his place there is a church whose priest sinned; three heavenly will arrive ducks will become three girls, let him marry one; the wife tells me to stay in the field for the night; (the text is cut off, as in a Russian fairy tale, see motive F7]: Afanasiev 1958 (2): 466-467; Russians ( north - Arkhangelskaya?) [Ivan Tsarevich wounded a swan, brought it to the tent; someone cooks and cleans; for the third time I. finds and grabs the girl; she resists, turned into a golden spindle, I. broke him, threw his heel in front of him with yourself (be young), and the tip behind your back (be a scarlet flower); they have a son; in the spring, the grandmother tells I. to guard his wife; swans are flying, everyone offers to shed his wing; the wife answers her father, sister, that she has Ivanushka here; tells her mother to shed her wing, his wife picked it up, but I. grabbed her; she cried]: Karnaukhova 1948:173-177; Russians (Karelia) [well done went fishing, saw three swans, they took off their skins, became girls, began to swim, he hid one skin, the girl agreed to be his wife; getting into the boat, well done gave his wife a skin to prevent her from getting wet; she put it on and flew away; ordered to look for her three years later on Lake Ilmen, ask a female port worker; she brought him into the house; his wife's father greeted her son-in-law, his wife took her son out; they began to live well]: Azadovsky 1947, No. 44:186-187; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kadinkovsky district) [two merchant brothers, one died, the widow squandered everything, the other took her son; they sailed across the lake, the ships stood up; companions to the merchant: what do we need to dive; but he sent Ivan's nephew; there the old man generously received, but did not tell him to enter three rooms; in his absence I. enters them consistently; one door is copper, the other is silver, the third is golden, in each girl, each let in sleep, flew away; the old man forgives every time; after the third time he tells me to go to the lake, these girls are swimming there, we must take Maria Tsarevna's gold-winged dress; I. took it, the old man married them; she tells them to ask for white light; old man: no need, he will fly away; finally gave an eagle bird, ordered M. not to give light until they reach; M. asks, I. gave, the eagle was gone, M. flew away, I. was on the island; the old man helped again, transferred I. to her state; M. will marry whoever hides from her; M. has an all-seeing mirror; two other applicants were immediately executed, the old man asks I. to try again; she sees when I. is flying an eagle, when he is hidden by a lion and a pike, but the maid made him a small fish, pulled him out of the well; M. did not see it; she recognized her husband, everything is fine]: Burtsev 1895, No. 15:94-103; Russians (Vologda) [royal man every day he brought three birds from hunting; once he did not get a single one, he saw a duck; she told me not to shoot, but to marry her; he would have a lot of birds; the king ordered to show his wife, decided to take it away; asked generals, where to send a man; one general in 12 days: send an unknown place, bring something you don't know what; the wife gave two towels: where she will spend the night to wipe his own; the ball rolled, he followed him to the hut in the forest; set for three people, the man hid; three came in: invisible, serve; when they left, the man himself asked the invisibility to set the table and called with him; the old man suggests changing invisibility on the hammer: if you knock, regiments of soldiers will appear; invisible: change! the man received a hammer, but the invisible man did not leave him; the same applies to another old man (he has a butterfly with a herd of sheep in it); now the king, on the advice of the general, orders that a golden oak with silver be moved to his palace branches; the wife waved her handkerchief, the oak moved; the tsar awarded the man and hung the general]: Burtsev 1895, No. 4:17-22; Russians (Vologda) [Egor the Unfortunate tells two merchant sons that shooting at flying geese, he will shoot down four at once; and so it happened; the king took him; E. wants to shoot at the swan; she tells not to shoot, becomes beautiful, promises to deliver as many birds as it is necessary; the tsar agreed to marry them, but he is envious, wants to get rid of E.; the senators do not know what to advise; Vanyushka-Pyanchuzhka suggests ordering to uproot the forest overnight, etc., and by morning from the collected bake wheat pies; the wife tells the spirits, they have done everything; bring a golden bristle pig with 12 pigs; bring perfume; go there, I don't know where, bring what, I don't know what; the wife gives a ball and a handkerchief; the ball will lead to the middle sister, and she recognizes her son-in-law by the headscarf; the middle one sends to the eldest; the eldest to their mother, and not show up to her father, for the decorated pig belonged to him; Kashchei the Immortal at night told his wife where to go, gave a ring; she gave it to Egor; he swam on a dolphin; the sea king comes: Kukhta-mukhta, I want to eat; when I left, E. asks where I don't know what; KM: it's me; went with E.; to at this time, the tsar tried to take possession of his wife E., who flew away as a bird; E. returned; first the tsar had a feast, then E.; the tsar was beheaded]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 30:116-122; Russians (Pskov) [ the old man hired Ivan Sinilnik to work; he brought him to the mountain on the ship, killed a lion, took out his guts, ordered him to climb inside, the bird lifted the carcass up the 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 to swim; the first three girls advise you to hide the dress he liked; he did so, married the girl, her name was Annushka; Ivan brought her home; the cooks told the princess; she praises the beauty of 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. look; two argue over a flying carpet and an invisible hat; I. asks to let him test, puts on a hat and flies on the carpet to where A.; she is in a hole there for marrying an Orthodox; I. took her and returned home]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 18:41-44; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, Sura, 1927) [The old woman becomes pregnant and asks her husband to go go hunting and fetch her some 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) plow the field on a hundred horses on a hundred tithes of the forest 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 (Voronezhskaya): Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 130 [the queen was carried away by an evil spirit; the eldest, middle son went to search, disappeared; the youngest sees 33 spoonbills fly to the sea, become girls, began to swim; Ivan hid the most beautiful sashes; returns, when she tells him that his mother lives with her father, Raven Voronovich; goes after the bird, meets the brothers, they let him down into the underworld; there are three spoonbill girls; the princess of the copper kingdom gives a ball, he leads to the silver princess, 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 Raven Voronovich Ivan receives a feather road; kingdoms roll into a ball, roll after him; brothers pull out the princesses and their mother, cut off the rope, pulling Ivan out; a feather patch helps him return to earth; his father is there is going to marry the princess of the golden kingdom; she demands to sew her shoes without measure; Ivan has dissolved the golden kingdom, took her shoes from there; the same is a dress without a measure; the princess tells me to cook Ivan in milk, he comes out handsome; father rushes into the cauldron, cooked; Ivan reigns]: 239-243; 1958 (2), 224 [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. The cat tells her to wait for him to eat bread every time, will drink milk, etc.. rrobiem, stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight with birds; the wounded Eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later he carries it on his back; throws it over three times by sea and catches so that the merchant feels like he, the Eagle, is afraid of being shot by him; the Eagle's sisters in the copper and silver kingdoms refuse to give the merchant a casket, the sister in the golden kingdom gives it; the Eagle tells do not open it along the way, the merchant opens it, the 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; the merchant is met by his wife and newborn son; Ivan grows up, goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises hiding the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls arrive for a swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's beloved daughter; his cook Chumichka lies as if Ivan promised 1) 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 him to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three cabbage rolls, three girls (the VP has a dull glitter on the bridle; it will wave its wing; a handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable 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 the VP; she is hired as a worker, Ivan is ready get married; 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 master; sees twelve swans; they throw off bird clothes, become girls, swim; he hides his shoe alone, she agrees to become his wife; cleans his 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 in the oak with its horn; I. brings him a leash for his wife; the master is frightened, asks take the beast away; 2) get a self-playing goose; the ball rolls to the wife's mother, she gives a harp; 3) bring neither one nor this; the wife asks, only the frog knows how to get it; in the lake there is a crystal palace, there is Orlets; I. tells him to have a feast with his master, then expel his master and his men]: 130-140; Russians (Voronezh, until 1938, Bogucharsky District, recorded Tonkov with peasant T.A. Safonov) [Poor peasant Ivan Shoots a hawk that bites a white swan, she promises she won't forget her savior. At home, Ivan discovers treats and new elegant clothes. The king is jealous of him, and they will find out where Ivan's wealth comes from. The Tsar demands that Ivan get the same clothes for him. A farmer comes to the blue lake, tells the white swan about his task, and she promises to complete it. She helps the king complete his second task: she pulls out bristles from the kingdom of far away from the kingdom of far away. For the third time, the Tsar demands that Ivan take out the white swan, Elena the Beautiful. The swan does not appear on the lake, a pike appears, tells Ivan that Elena ran away from the Idol King, turning into a swan, but dropped the ring. The fish gives Ivan a ring and orders him to follow him. He finds himself at the yard, walks into a beautiful garden (golden apples on trees, birds of paradise), a swan flies up, takes a ring and turns into a beautiful woman. Ivan recalls the king's order, grieves and does not want to give it to Elena. She reports that the king's death is in a duck (containing an egg) guarded by three snakes. She gives a self-propelled sword, kisses Ivan. He comes to royal lake, cuts off the heads of all three snakes; shoots a duck, hits the head the third time, the bird falls, drops the egg, it sinks. The pike carries an egg. He waves an egg and the royal palace falls apart, Ivan beats the tsar and his servants]: Novikova et al., 1940; Russians (Voronezh, 1940) [a retired soldier is hired by the master as a coachman. While the coachman is harnessing, the dove throws flint and chair at him, saying that if a soldier lights the grass, he can get rid of any need. The master orders to stay at the high mountains, treats the coachman with meat and vodka with sleepy drops. The soldier falls asleep, the master kills the old horse, sews the coachman into its skin. Birds peck at her, and an eagle takes her to the top of the mountain. A soldier finds himself at a red gold palace, walks in and sees a sleeping Serpent with a book. The serpent wakes up and the soldier appears to be his son, the serpent rejoices. A soldier lives with a snake like a son, listens. The serpent flies away and forbids you to enter the room with the golden lock (but gives you the key). The soldier misses and opens the door, sees three beautiful girls in gold chains, they ask for them to drink, the soldier gives them, one splashes water on the others and the captives turn into white cabbage rolls and fly away. The serpent returns, hits the soldier three times with a hot iron stick and orders him to search for the missing girls. The soldier wanders through the mountains, lights the feather grass with flint and chair, a mountain eagle appears and lowers the soldier down. In the city, a soldier is hired by the master to guard his daughters (do not let him out of the room). He spies on how they, locked in a room, and his friend turn into pigeons and fly away through the window. The soldier turns into a "crimson bird" and flies after them. She sees a lot of pigeons in the meadow, hides behind a rakit bush, Elena the Beautiful appears, sprinkles gold grain and "teaches birds wisdom." A soldier watches her, sings outside her window, she asks to catch a songbird, only she (not the other girls) can do it. She puts a robin in a golden cage, listens to a bird's song and falls asleep, the soldier flies out of the cage like a fly, becomes human, admires Elena, then returns to the cage. One day he kisses her, Elena wakes up, gets angry, threatens to kill a soldier for her freedom. He says he wants to marry her. She agrees to marry him on the condition that he hides three times and she can't find him three times from her magic book (mirror? see below), if he fails, he will lose his head. The first time he turns into a fly, then sticks a pin into the book. Elena can't find it, she drops the book, the pin flies off and turns into a soldier. The second time he carves fire in the steppe, the eagle carries it under the clouds, but Elena finds it in the mirror, the third time he carves fire by the sea, it is carried away by a pike, swallowed by a beluga, but Elena finds it again soldier. She's giving him one last chance. The soldier meets three girls he saved, and in gratitude they hide him behind the mirror. Elena can't find a soldier and marries him. He brings her to his homeland, she takes one gold chest with her. A year later, the soldier leaves home, Elena pulls out her wings from the chest, turns into a dove and flies away. The soldier is again hired as a coachman to the master who once sewed him into his skin, this time pours out vodka, and makes his master drink. He sews it into the skin, it is carried away by an eagle. The soldier appears in his master's estate, frees the peasants and gives them land. She sees a dove above her, recognizes Elena in her, she turns into a girl and says that now her husband is worthy and remains]: Korolkova 1941, No. 7:40-45; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1940) [Hunter Ivan He returns home empty-handed twice: she does not dare to shoot at the beautiful swans he sees on a crystal lake in the forest. The master orders Ivan to be flogged for not bringing prey. On the third day, the hunter sees 12 swans turning into girls, dancing in round dances, and the youngest and most beautiful singing. The girls take off their clothes and go swimming in the lake. The hunter hides the youngest's clothes. 11 girls turn into swans and fly away, the youngest asks for their clothes back ("if old, I'll read like my father.."). The girl likes handsome Ivan, they are getting married. She builds his miserable hut, but attracts his master's attention - he asks Ivan to give it up. Ivan refuses. The master demands to bring his wife to him, and Ivan to find a "animal animal" in the forest. The wife knits a frill for Ivan and brings a ball with her, and flies away like a swan herself. Ivan follows the ball, finds a menagerie, she tries to butt Ivan, but gets stuck with a horn in an oak tree, Ivan throws a frill over her and brings her to the master, who is afraid and tells her to lead the animal back. The master again demands his wife Ivan, and orders him to get samogudes. His wife gives him a ball, sends him to the crystal palace, tells him to step over the lying lions, go inside, drink a glass of wine in each room, and stay in the last room his wife's room for the night. Ivan performs everything, wakes up when the swan sisters arrive. Their mother, an old swan woman, realizes that her son-in-law has come, listens to a story about his grief, and promises to help. For three days he thinks: 1) more leaves than trees, 2) more water than land, 3) more peasants than nobles. The old woman praises him for his good thoughts and gave him a harp. Ivan brings the harps to his master, they play and everyone dances - people, animals, furniture, dishes, and a master cannot. He is angry and demands that Ivan bring "none". The wife asks animals, birds, insects all night long where to find "neither one nor this", but they don't know. The master is already preparing dogs and servants to flog Ivan. The husband and wife run away from their master, she ties her foot in the swamp, a frog appears and says that she knows where to look for "nothing". The girl flies away like a swan, and Ivan follows the frog to the lake, it opens, they enter the crystal palace. The frog orders Orleans to serve Ivan as much as she did. Orders to set up tables with lunch - everything is done. Ivan comes to the master, orders a feast, instructs Orleans to set the tables with treats, give everyone a phone (and Master 2 for importance), he does everything. Then Ivan orders Orleans to hit everyone in the neck, and the master twice for importance. He's dying. The guests run away. Ivan and his wife live happily, "poor people are greeted"]: Korolkova 1941, No. 9:49-55; Western Ukrainians (Galicia, Sambir District) [the 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 on a journey; three pannas were swimming, he stole his middle dress and wings; married; once she asked for her back - she flew around the hut; flew out the window, told her to look for her on Oatmeal Mountain; the hermit whistled the animals - no one knows Oatmeal Mountain; he sent her to his older brother; there - the same; 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 boy in a barrel of flour; she was brought to the palace; there he was not told to open the doors tied with bast; he went in; someone black asked for bread and water; the boy 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 was poison; he herds for three days, hits horses with his club, brought them safe, the widow suggests choosing which one He wants, he chose a skate; he twice asks for permission to be caught with his mother mare first; then he brings him to a rock on which the princess is black; the guy threw him into a black club and he disappeared]: M. Dragomanov in Pankeev 1992:124-130; Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson) [Ivan was orphaned; served for three years, began to burn incense; God sent an angel to ask what I. wanted; wife; God gave a wife, they went to look for work; people are in a hurry to threshing; wife: take your time, it won't rain; the owner wants a wife I. for himself, tells him to bring 12 wolves; his wife gave a ball, he brought wolves; 12 bears - the same; harp ; the wife gave a towel, a bottle of water and a piece of bread, ordered me to go to the hut, which is light; there the mother of the winds offers to eat, drink, and lay down; I. refuses - he has everything his own; when he took out the towel, the old woman recognized her daughter; sent her wind sons to turn the sea around and get the harp from the bottom; then they took the man home; the storm demolished the owner's house, he burned down, I. and his wife live well]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 7:130- 134.

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 items, the boy lives with his wife]: 11-15; Vatagin 1964 [=Egorov 1978:74-85; shooter Heeche-Mergen hides the clothes of one of the three swan girls who came to swim; marries; Tsarkin Khan wants her, the counselor suggests sending H. to the Ganges for the tigress's milk; the tigress is H.'s wife's cattle, he brings milk; the lame and crooked drunkard offers to bring an invisible thing from unknown country; wife gives a 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 with an iron claw; this is 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 folding palace, cane with troops, Murza returns every time; H. drives Khan away, reigns]: 115-128; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983:9-15 [(=2002:12-18); hail destroyed his younger brother's harvest; elders they dissuade him, but he leaves; 30 people are hired by the prince to do the job 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 does not fulfilled his promise, leaves; he is hired by 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 clothes a bathing girl; this is the daughter of Amra (Sun); she brings him to her father; Amra is an ogre; allows her to marry her daughter if the person can perform his duties; Afa must be welcomed (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 A. acted as irresponsibly as others did to him; A. allows him to marry], 172-182; 2002 [a stranger gives the childless king to eat an apple in half with his wife for promising to send him one of 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 him to rush to another, call him mother; the other is no longer can eat it; when six daughters of that ajnysh (devil) arrive to swim with doves, and the seventh eagle throws off their feathers, hide the eagle's clothes; Ajnysh tells 1) eat the bull (the wife gives a handkerchief to hold 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 chases on a fiery horse; it turns into a chapel, a prince into a fence; ajnysh did not recognize them; the girl's mother jumps, she throws 1) water from the 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 him to kill the frog; she is burned, the bone remains, 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 return]: 186-197; Mikawa 1960 [Dzhanchyk sees a huge eagle; he asks him to feed him; D. carved a piece of flesh from his thigh, then brought two bulls; the eagle still could not get up; D. brought him on the arba home, fattened; the eagle tells him to hang a basket of a hundred bulls from his neck, sit on his back, throw meat down his throat every scream; the eagle's older, middle sisters refuse to give a ring, a handkerchief; the youngest gives a box; D. ends up in the forest, with him a box; a red man (this is 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 giantess's chest, her many-headed sons recognized him as a dairy brother; teach him to hide clothes 12- oh of the pigeon girls who will come to swim; the girl explains that the forest prince is her father; teaches her to go before dawn when the guardian animals are sleeping; in her room the lamp will be the last to go out; in the screenings will raise his heel, a tear will drop from his eye; AO identified the bride, got married; the prince orders 1) to build a city overnight; the wife teaches you to tame the rashi (magic horse), go around the site on it, a city will appear; wife tells her to run because the judges slander her father against AO; the wife leaves the pillows responsible for herself; the mother understands, tells her husband to chase; the wife turns horses into trees, saddles into vines, herself and AO into an old man and an old woman ; now the mother is chasing; her daughter creates a thicket, a boxwood forest, a sea; the princess's horse drank it, galloped on; the fugitives flew away with falcons; the princess cursed her daughter: the husband will forget her; AO went ahead and forgot the bride, took another wife; she came to get water, the prince's daughter threw her ring into the jug; AO remembered everything, brought his wife, and the former one was honorably carried out]: 18-26; Shakryl 1975, No. 69 [so as not to pay as a shepherd, the prince called the birds - who could carry him away; the vulture carried him to the ground between heaven and our land, on the way the shepherd threw him meat; there Ajveipsh tells the shepherd that chamois are on the glade is his daughter; advises to take the youngest's dress hidden under the bushes, then she will become his wife; (cuts the tour, the goat and the hare, after the feast 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 the condition that he does not curse his wife; he returns drunk, scolds his wife, she shows him the children, tells them to tell their father that she went to her older sister Huna-Huna Gadlabad; the shepherd flew to A. in a vulture, begged for help, he called the birds, turned a shepherd in a flea, the crow brought him to the HCC, she persuaded his wife to forgive him, both went down to the ground to visit the children; (= about the same in Bgazhba 2002:24-28)]: 316-321; Abazins: Kapiyeva 1991 [father asks three sons to get a sea horse; the youngest comes to the old woman Kart, falls his lips to her chest, after which she cannot eat it, shows the way, teaches how to catch a horse; the young man picks up gold a feather, 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 will marry him if he jumps into a well with milk from red cows; calls cows, the Shah drowns, the young man gets a girl; meets brothers, they throw him into the abyss, they want the daughter of the Shah of the Sea themselves; she calls the horse, ties his braid, the horse pulls the owner out of the abyss by the braid; the brothers run away]: 28-35; Tugov 1985, No. 29 [horses disappear in the village at night; the khan sends his eldest son, he hides in horror, Seeing a terrible rider; the same youngest son; young servant Murat guards three nights, kills horsemen on white, bay, raven horses, hides horses; Khan is dissatisfied that the servant, not sons, has defeated enemies; adopts M., but sends sons with him to return the kidnapped horses and kill M.; all three on broken horses come to the village of kidnappers, marry their widows; when leaving, M.'s wife orders not to look at one window; he looks outside the window there is a room and golden shoes; when he returns, the wife explains that they were left by the heavenly maiden, whom her first husband tried to catch in vain; the black horse teaches M. not stop in a hot village, stop at where the frost is, grab the hair that makes flies fight, exchange it for fly wings, go up to the sky in the guise of a fly, bite that girl, promise return his shoes; M. brings a heavenly girl, making a second wife; the brothers are jealous, they cut off M.'s legs in the forest, his wives are turned into maids; M. meets a blind, armless man, they were also maimed by brothers; all three bring a girl to cook and wash; her fire goes out, she sees smoke, comes to the old woman; the old woman follows the ash trail, sucks the girl's blood; the brothers guard, grab the old woman, they force the girl to swallow and regurgitate, making her healthy; the same with cripples; M. does not regurgitate; the bird tells the old woman to burn, find a finger in the ash, M. in it; sister brothers return the girl to her parents; unrecognized M. comes to Khan, where a feast and an archery competition; kills brothers with arrows, Khan dies of fear, M. becomes Khan], 30 [the old woman's son studies with a goldsmith; he lowers him into the abyss for gold; but there is no gold below, the master throws the rope, fearing that the disciple will be better than him; the eagle takes the young man upstairs; three sisters make him a brother; they do not tell him to unlock the seventh room; the young man unlocks, goes down to another world; 30 girls in white, one in green fly to swim; next time, named sisters tell him to hide his green dress; this is the daughter of an underground khan, a young man marries her; with his wife and the mother visits the children; the mother-in-law gives the dress to her daughter-in-law, she disappears; the older sister steals the dress again, the wife returns to her husband]: 54-66, 66-69; Kabardian people [Ismel, not the prince, kills the boar; The prince sends him to the gorge for a 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 away the meat supply, O. follows the trail to the hole, through it into the valley, stays with the old man; he does not tell you to go to the tower; next to the lake, the dove takes off its feathers, turns into girl, bathes; O. hides her clothes; Mezytlynyko, a forest man, comes up with a sharp bone protrusion on his chest; about to pierce the edge, O. stumbles, O. kills him; gives clothes in exchange for a ring; takes a girl as a wife; his wife feeds 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 or Balkarians [Aladin asks his father to get him a good horse; he brings a plain horse; the horse got stronger, rushed on at the races, ended up on seashore, disappeared into the sea; A. sees three girls bathing, hides their swan clothes; promises to give them 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, there will be an argument in a fairy tale, it is necessary to resolve the dispute incorrectly, then the girl will begin to speak; the brothers for three have one bull; the eldest pass the head, the middle one - the belly, the youngest - the hind legs; the youngest thought that the bull was sick, went to consult his middle brother; late in the evening he reached the bull's belly, both went to the elder, reached the bull's head late at night; the brothers took the bull to a watering place, he drained him with a sip sea; the 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 with the grass and 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 a shoulder blade with her little finger fingernail, threw it out the window; the shoulder blade fell at the well where a caravan of ninety camels had stopped; the caravans spread a fire on the bull's shoulder blade, and a fox ran past, smelled the smell, began to gnaw shovel, the caravans thought that an earthquake had begun; a woman hit the fox with a rocker arm, killed her; the caravans took off half of the skin and half were not - 90 people could not turn the fox to the other side; they decided to sew 90 fur coats out of half a skin; 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 the young man to be brought to him, scolded his daughter; the young man and wife returned to their homes]: Malkonduev 2017:179-218; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the eagle asks the hunter not to kill him; says that to the lake with three doves fly to swim in heaven; you must hide the clothes of the one that 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) deliver a bear from the end of the world; the wife gives the golden ball, it rolls to her older sister; her daughter recognizes her younger sister's towel; the ball rolls back, the bear is behind it; the king asks to send the bear back; 2) bring what no one saw; the hunter goes again to his wife's sister for the ball, that mistress of the animals; the fox gives Rochka, an invisible animal; the hunter changes it to an accordion with the troops, Rochka also returns to him; also exchanges a rolling iron stick; destroys the tsar and the army]: 296-301; Sokayeva 2012, No. 3 [the boy dreams, smiles; a woman comes up, tells him to tell; the boy will tell him only if she wishes to him good; the woman is angry, buys the boy from her parents, brings him to her, throws him into the cellar; the woman's daughter secretly feeds the boy; two companions notice him, buy him, take him with them; the boy runs to play with others on the field, finds an emerald ring, brings it to the companions; they give it to the field owner; master: this is my mother's ring, if you don't bring a second one, I'll cut off all three of them, if you bring it, cut off me; the boy asks for a horse and equipment, comes to another village, where the daughter of the Sun spreads her shawl, plunging everything into darkness, then cleans it up; the boy tears off the shawl with an arrow, the arrow brings it to him; he wants exchange a shawl for a ring, but the villagers do not have a ring; there are no men in another village, the daughter of the Sun brings down the bridge, when a man passes, he dies; the boy tore off her slipper, the daughter of the Sun escaped, flew away; the inhabitants again do not know about the ring; in the third village, the daughter of the Sun asks to approach the iron stove, the man sticks, she burned everyone; the boy tears off the ring from the Sun's daughter, she flies away; a boy comes into a house with three beds and food; hides; sisters, three daughters of the Sun, come in, talk about what happened, each would marry that boy; they find him, first they want to eat him, then become his wives, give him many rings, bring the field owner to the house; the boy forgives him; wives in the form of pigeons picked up her husband, brought him home; the eldest wife gave birth to a golden-haired son, from others for the daughter, the sun is on the cheeks, the moon on the other; the husband tells his old dream: he has three stars on his chest; wives carry her husband's parents to them; mother-in-law offers to kill daughters-in-law and take possession of their good; pushes her son off the tower; one of the wives sees him in a stone, revives him with a whip; carries the old woman back, she lives there in need; the old man stayed with his son and daughters-in-law]: 30-39; Chechens [with elderly parents A son was born; 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.; the old widow of Zhara-Baba tells him to give the young man a horse and a weapon, let him look for C.; he sees lakes, when three doves arrived, shed their wings, became girls; he hides their wings, promises to give them back if they tell us about themselves; one of them C., asks the young man to give time to get to know each other, tells return home, and after 7 days 3 am come to the 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.; 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 maid of the 9-headed Black The walk 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, who are watched by Jery-Baba; she tells them to herd, their heads are not those who have coped (there are already 82 of them) 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, then 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); the slave and the khan's daughter fall in love, get married; the wife dies, tells her husband to kill the goat, put on the skin, walk along the road; the birds grab him, they bring them to the gorge; the old man tells me 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, herself they are strangled; 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 a shoe, finds and returns the hero's wife]: 59-61; Kapaev 2012 [the legend of the origin of the founder of the Nogai rulers Aegis; the shepherd found a skull with an inscription in the steppe; ground it into flour, hid it in a chest; his daughter found a parcel, licked, gave birth to a boy Bar-Kaya; living away from people and while 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, and swam; Kutly-kaya hid his youngest's clothes, married her]: 257-258; Nogai 1979, No. 23 [the orphan dreams: the moon at the head, the sun at the feet, the star on the sides; sells sleep to the shepherd for a flock; the shepherd sees a rider like a rider drove up to the house, fell asleep; the girl called out to him, 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 the golden spoon as a gift to the khan and ask him to build they have a house on a pile of ash; tells them to invite the khan to visit, but enter first; the young man forgot the 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 you to lure the mare with salt; the young man brings milk and brings the mare herself; 2) bring the apple of paradise; the wife tells you to go to the lake, three doves will fly, turn into heavenly girls, you must hide clothes alone; a young man brings an apple to Khan, takes a heavenly girl with his second wife; 3) bring a gold ring to Khan's late mother and find out where she buried 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, burns, makes the young man a khan; the young man's two wives and two children are a dream come true]: 120-125; Kumyks [the dervish took Ibrahim to the top ovoid rock; he managed to go down to the garden of the daughters of the king of genies; they must return to their father for one month a year; when they fly away, they tell them not to look into one room; he enters there, where 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 it; teaches her to hide, tie her hair to a tree, while she dives, hit until she resigns herself; I. hides that girl's swan cover, the other two flew away; the black man is forced to agree to marry I.; he decides to return to his mother; the first girls say that I. give his mother his wife's swan clothes for storage; while I. is gone, the khan's mother sees a black woman in the bathhouse; asks her to sing; she agrees if the khan's mother digs up a chest in which the swan outfit is hidden; after receiving it, he flies away; I. calls the first three girls; they explain that his wife and the other two, from those genies who have no men, they kill men; the youngest sends I. to the border of the genie kingdom; then other genies help; I. gets to the giants, they put him in a cage; he runs, meets warrior girls, agrees to help alone; in the end he ends up with those genies who have his wife; him, the wife and the genie girl who helped want to be executed; 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 [pathah dreams a sea horse, three sons go to get it; at the fork there is a table with the inscription that whoever goes right or left has nothing to fear, and whoever is straight will die or find happiness; the youngest goes straight, gets to giantess, around a steel palisade with her 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 who have returned sledge sons about a horse, the youngest shows the way; the young man tames the horse, rides it, picks up a golden pen; the city sees a pen, demands to get the one to whom it belonged; the horse explains that three the daughters of the sea king fly to the lake to swim, remove the pigeon plumage, we must hide the youngest's plumage; the young man brings the girl to the pachah, she promises to go beyond if he swims in a hole of milk and will get younger; the pathah sinks; the young man takes the girl, finds the brothers, they push him into the well, the girl makes a rope out of her braids, gives the horse, he pulls the young man out, his brothers run away in fear, the young man marries]: 155-166; Saidov, Dalgat 1965:198-207 [the son refuses to lie down with Khalun, his chosen father, promises to marry Queen Gunzari, whose portrait his father showed; beauties in bird clothes fly in to swim on the lake, the young man sits on G.'s clothes; she promises to marry him, but must first fly home; when the young man arrives at the appointed seat, 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 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 vizier hears the master's story how get there; whoever gives the story to another will become petrified; the same on the way back, the young man will die from a stallion and a snake; the vizier kills the stallion, the snake, licks a blood stain from G.'s cheek; the young man thinks he kisses her , promising to execute, makes you tell the truth, the vizier becomes stony; G. gives birth to a son, kills, smears the vizier's blood, 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 the old man's daughters, 40 blacks and 1 white dove, will come to swim; the old man takes the young man to the underground city; tells 1) to create a thousand sets of dishes in the meadow overnight (Dove performs); 2) a silver lock (the same); 3) a horse with golden harness (the same); The dove tells the young man to ask the old man to marry him one of daughters, the old man blindfolds him, the Dove will not have one earring; the young man gets a wife, she tells him to run; the room is responsible for the fugitives; the wife turns her husband into a cart, herself a driver; a gardener and a cucumber ; the mother is chased for the third time; the wife turns into the sea, the husband becomes 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, with them son and daughter; seven years later, Golubka sells talking crows at the bazaar, her husband recognizes her, leaves her other wife] (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 100-106; =Khalilov 1965, No. 41:94-99), 311-323 [the tsar sees in a sea horse's dream; the elder and middle brothers go right and left; the youngest goes forward (it is written that the one who goes will die or find happiness); puts on the giantess's chest, she hides it from her sons; asks his 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 a creature from which fluff; the horse says that these are three pigeons, the daughters of the sea king, come to swim; tells the youngest to take the removed 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, his brothers push him into a hole, keep his wife locked; the wife gives the horse a rope out of her hair, he pulls the prince out; the brothers run away]; Lucky [at night a horse tramples peasant's field; the eldest, middle son is sleeping, the youngest sprinkles salt into the cut on his little finger, tries to grab the rider, he disappears, leaving a golden shoe; goes to look for a pair; the old woman says that In the city, someone kills passers-by at night; a young man sees a creature with a whip hitting the grave, a dead man comes out, it hits again, a dead man returns to the grave; a young man takes away a whip; in another city, people naked, for all ships with goods sink at night; the young man sees his hand stretching out of the water, grabs it, tears off the golden ring; goes down to the palace at the bottom of the sea, finds a pair in the chest to his shoe; three arrive doves turn into girls; they are daughters of a sea king, they own a shoe, a whip, a ring; a young man takes one as a wife, brings the other two to his brothers; wedding]: Khalilov 1965, No. 43:101-104; Georgians : Epiphany 1894a (Imereti) [the hunter sees a wounded nine-headed eagle, who asks him not to shoot, heal him; brings a reward to his sisters, they are married to kings of white, red, blue seas; the older two refuse to give the box, the youngest gives it; the Eagle warns not to open it on the way; the man opens, the city appears from the box; the Eagle in anger tells you to collect everything back, for this his land; agrees to lay down himself for a promise to give what he did not leave at home; a man has a son at home; he grows up, goes to look for the Eagle; the old man says that three eagles with copper and silver will come to swim, with golden feathers, orders to hide the gold ones; the young man returns for his promise to marry him; wearing feathers, the eagle carries him 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 to kill the young; they are fleeing to the kingdom of the young man's father, everything is fine]: 8-19; Jaliashvili 1970 [mother found three seeds , three sons plowed three fields, bread was ugly, but the thunderer Elia hit the youngest's field with hail; he came to the rich man, promised to collect his bread in a day if he gave half the harvest; did not have time to tie the last sheaf when the sun goes down; the unlucky one is hired for three years to herd a deer for half a flock if all the sheep are intact; on the last day, a wolf carries one sheep; three heavenly girls went down to swim, the Unlucky one grabbed one, married; the ring of the heavenly maiden fulfills wishes; the king tells the servant to fry the pheasant; the servant sees the Unlucky One's wife, he is stunned, the pheasant is burned; the king sees for himself beautiful, sends her husband to get the milk of a ferocious buffalo, he brings her; the king tells her to take a jug of buffalo milk, go up to the plane tree, go down, the milk should become yogurt; the wife tells dip a ring in a jug; the king tells him to marry the eldest daughter of the Sun; the unlucky one follows the ring; the fish asks to know why it is so inflated, the ploughmen why the share breaks, the shepherds why they die sheep; The unlucky one climbs into the sky on the poplar growing on the head of a deer; the Sun and the Moon are the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the Unlucky One; he beat Elijah and the wolf; the Sun apologized, promised to help; the fish must be hit - in the belly a bag of money; change the share from wooden to iron; sheep must be sheared in the spring; the king should be told to turn into a hare, the viziers into wolves; this is what happened]: 22-30; Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 44 [young man year works for a merchant, gets a cane, a beautiful woman comes out of it; the prince wants to take it away; the merchant promises him a best wife; tells one of the pigeon women who arrive and undress to pull the feather out of the clothes and they will swim; the wife finds a feather, flies away; the merchant tells the elephant to carry the prince across three hot seas; the elephant carries; scalded, dies, telling him to wait for a peacock that carries 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, he hides him among bags of flour, a peacock brings to heaven; the prince flies back with his wife; her father pursues, the wife tells her to throw in the towel, turns her husband into an old man, herself into a sheep; her husband into a swineherd, herself into a pig; for the third time, the towel turns into the boiling sea, the father stops the persecution]: 169-175; Chikovani 1954, No. 7 [the two older brothers plan to get rid of the youngest; let everyone fire an arrow and follow it; the youngest comes to another kingdom, the old woman let her into the house; says that three cabbage rolls will fly to the lake, we must hide the youngest's wing, let him become a wife; the young man is silent when the girl promises to become a sister; he 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 that the king tell the young man to cut down trees in a day and take him to the palace, rather than being 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 the 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; new task: plow the field in a day, grow crops, bring bags of flour; the warriors fulfilled the sisters; advisers to the king: they led to bring "neither you know nor I know"; the wife summoned the warriors of the sisters, the last a lame frog came and sent it to the old woman; the old woman gave a wheel, it would lie across the sea as a bridge, a temple across the sea, 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 king wanted to marry his wife; ordered T. to cause a downpour, sent an army, destroyed the king, reigned himself], 52 (Lechkhumi, Tsagersky district) [kaji takes away the hunter's chamois; returns for promising to give what he did not see; at this time a son was born at home; the boy follows the trail of the Kaji; hides the dress of one of the three who came to swim by the river doves; these are Kaji's daughters; for the dress returned, the girl promises to help; 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); young people run, in the girl's room the voice continues to answer, I am 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 I did not find out, my wife says that they were fugitives, and the garden was a flying carpet; the carpet was a temple with a monk and a nun (the same); the wife of the Kaji is chasing; the young man is a fish, the girl is sea foam; the mother cannot collect everything 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 marry anyone; a true bride sends two birds to the wedding, one tells how the groom forgot his bride; the young man remembers marrying his betrothed]: 54-58, 269-272; 1986 [the young man cries over the grave; tells the peasant that he is Tsarevich Geegan; he sailed with his comrades in a boat, it was brought to the shore of the country by monkeys; they broke the boat; there were no horses, they rode dogs; only D. reached a country where merchants from India come every two years; the merchant offers a thousand jobs gold and a girl; brings to the foot of the mountain, tells him to climb into the womb of a refreshed horse; 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 birds; he leaves D. to guard the house, tells him 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 orders to steal the youngest's shirt, Shemshibano; the doves arrived a year later, D. took the shirt and married S.; the old man advises wearing the shirt until his wife gives birth to a child; D. hides it in in the chest, the wife finds, flies away, tells her 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 S., now D. cries at the grave; dug another, lay down in it, died; grew up violets and stemmed]: 495-502; Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 8 (Imereti) [King Solomon picked a rose, she turned into a girl, he married her; to find out who her relatives were, he pretended to be dead; my wife cried out, The sun, my father, the moon, my mother, the stars, my brothers, take me! A staircase came down from the sky, Solomon got up from his coffin, then lived happily with his wife]: 62-63; Chikovani 1954 (Kakheti) [the prince has two beds: leek and dill; he found a piece of paper there, it became Anana's girlfriend; replies that her name is leek and her belt is dill; the prince married another; A. brought deer from the mountains, fed up with milk, began to swim in boiling milk; the wife decided to do the same, cooked; the same episode again; A. dropped her spindle from the mountain, cut off her nose, sent him to bring the spindle, her nose grew back; his wife cut off her nose, died of blood loss; the prince ordered to stab the pig, smear it take him in blood to A.; A. laments: my mother is the Sun, my father is the Month, the Stars are brothers, let them throw my bench down to me; the sky opened and the bench came down; the prince jumped up; wedding]: 59-60; Armenians: Harutyunyan 1986 [the king is blind, he will be healed by a handful of land from where his horse did not set foot; the elder brings apples that have ripened on a tree that was dry the day before, the king replies that went there for the afternoon; the middle one brings treasures from a hill of precious stones (the king was there too); the youngest hears a command in a dream to ask his father for his horse, sword, ring; the horse warns not to pick up a golden pen; he picks up, gives it to a foreign king, he tells him to bring all the bird; the horse brings the peri bird to the place where the peri bird comes to swim, teaches him to grab it when it throws off its feathers; she explains to the king that she is the maiden asks her maid to be rescued from the Red Maiden; the king sends the prince; he separates the waters of the sea with his father's sword, kills the deva, brings the girl; the bird tells the king to bring 40 mares from the Red Sea, to bathe in their milk, he sends the prince; the horse explains that 39 mares are his mother and sisters, he is the 40th in the family, teaches him to tame his mother, others follow her; teaches him to milk, put it in it the ring, swim, take out the ring; the king also bathes and cooked; the prince reigns in his place, marries a peri bird; she explains that his father is blind because he tried to catch her; the prince and his wife and they come to their father with mares, his wife anointed his eyes with her blood, he saw the light, handed over the throne to his son]: 20-28; Armenians: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 6 [the poor man dreams of the sun on his head, the moon in his legs, the moon on his chest - two stars; a shepherd buys a dream, 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 it for her cousin, with whom she was going to flee; they leave, she takes a shepherd as her husband, dresses him in a shah-zade costume, now his name is Teymur Shah; the local shah receives him honorably, falls in love with his wife, orders him to get 1) sea mare milk ( the wife teaches her how to drink her by pouring wine into the pit); 2) heavenly apples; the wife tells her to go on a sea mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing sisters, who became the second wife, brought heavenly apples; 3) to visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, take him out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and courtiers order them to burn them, T. reigns; the sun and moon in a dream - his wives, sons - stars]: 115-124; Nazinyan 1969 [the mouse and the falcon sowed wheat, and when they harvested them, they began to divide; they could not divide one seed, turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you snuff him; mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and at night I hit the sleeping falcon with a sword, he hardly managed to fly away; the hunter saw a falcon on the tree, pointed his gun three times, the falcon asked him not to kill, heal him; wife the hunter went out; the falcon put the hunter on his back, carried it, threw it into the sea three times, picking it up above the water itself; ordered him to ask his father for a silk pouch; the falcon's father gives a pouch, does not tell him to open it, does not When he got home; the hunter opened it, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar; the lame man asks to give him what he does not know at home; the hunter promised to be at home; the wife: that our son is not going home; it turned out that the son was born, but now he took him lame; left the boy lame on the island in the sea; he was fishing for 16 years, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off his bird's clothes, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole the feathers of a girl; she promised to be his wife; gave a ball, which rolled from island to shore, a road arose, they came to town; the husband was hired as a laborer; the owner decided to lime him so take possession of his wife; one lame guest suggested 1) sending a man for two storks, one has a golden beak, the other has silver wings; the wife calls an Arab and orders storks to be reached, he brings it; the wife warned: if the owner says that storks are not needed, they should be released (as it happened); 2) bring the lion from Mount Aragats (the same); 3) bring the invisible worker Murza; the wife gives a tangle, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls the frogs, they don't know the way; the sister tells them to go to their mother's house for the ball; she has collected snakes, they say that M. has been hired by the snake king; the mother tells them to go to the snake king's house and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, gather for the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for him; he is glad that the king has already tortured him; the boatman offers M. a horn in which an army on foot and a horse detachment; when a 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; Armenians [the young man was hired by a rich man; he sewed him into the skin of a camel, the birds took him to the mountain, the top of which is covered with gold and gems; the young man threw down precious stones; the owner left, leaving him at the top; the fox showed the way down; the young man went to the house where three pigeon girls lived, married the youngest; burned his wife's wings, she disappeared; he put on iron boots, went looking for her, found her in the same house under mountain]: Gullakyan 1990, No. 936*: 45; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [old man Bakhtiyar dreams that the sun has risen to his right, the moon to his left, a star above his head; he is going to wander, says a dream to a young shepherd, sells it to him with the name B.; new B. sleeps under the city wall; Shah's daughter Perizad-khanum takes him for her lover, runs with him, they settle in another city; the local shah falls in love with P., the vizier advises sending B. 1) for an apple of paradise; P. gives B. a letter to his sister, she is the wife of the diva master; the divas orders one of the three daughters of Padishah Peri to hide the dress, when they arrive to swim in the form of doves; they bring an apple; the one whose dress B. hid returns with it, she is Gurizad khanum; tells you to give the Shah ordinary apples and keep the rejuvenating ones of paradise; 2) a rose from the Gulistani-Irem garden; G. perines B. there, Gul Gakh-ghah-khanum flies to his house before him, laughs, roses fall out of his mouth, B. brings them to the Shah; 3) mare's milk with 40 foals; YYYY. sends B. to the old man, who teaches her how to lure sea horses, B. brings the mare with her foals, the Shah is afraid to milk her, she runs away; 5) to visit the Shah's deceased parents; G. quietly takes B. out fire, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased; shah, vizier, barber (he told the Shah about B.'s wives) burn down, B. reigns; the luminaries seen in a dream are his three wives]: 106-125; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [at Techmuz Shah son Jagan Shah; once he went boating with seven friends, the storm took her to unknown lands; D. was the king of monkeys who fought with half-humans for seven years (either divided in half or 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 passed off as a daughter slave; brought D. into the forest, ordered the horse to be slaughtered, climbed into its insides; the birds carried the carcass to the rock; in the morning the man ordered him to drop his precious stones, loaded it on the arch and left; D. came to the old man, who guarded King Solomon's birds; he forbids him to enter the same room; there was a pool; three doves flew in, threw off their blankets, became girls, swam, flew away; the youngest Gulzar felt that there is a man nearby; the old man explained that the next time the Peri would arrive in seven years; we should watch and pick up the clothes; G. moved D. to his father's country, had a wedding; G. hid his shirt in a hole above they built a building for her; but G. found a shirt, flew away, told her to look for it in the country of Peri Shah in the Gavgariham fortress; D. returned to Miss's country, came to the old man in the same way as the first time; he sent to to her brother, who has not 300 but 600 birds, and he has another, who has 900 birds; only the oldest, who can no longer fly or walk, knew where this fortress was; the old man fattened it, she brought D. to to the peri Shah throne; for leaving D., her father hung her by the braids twice a day; arranged a wedding for D. and G., who returned to earth; D. destroyed the attacking army of the Shah of China, took his father's throne]: 355-372; 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 his clothes alone, disappears; the girl goes with the prince; says that the teacher who took the clothes 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 burns them; those who arrive remain human, the teacher takes the maid as his wife]: 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 her 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 brush of grapes, which you can feed the army and residents; the wife tells you 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 talking baby, padishah is frightened, tells him to take it back); 3) a 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 the wife found her clothes in the chest, flew away, taking it from a palace, property and mother-in-law; a dove carries the young man to his wife, who just gave birth; they return, with them the palace, the young man's mother, etc.; the torturers are ready to execute the padishah, but the young man forgave him]: 288-292; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 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 [( the end of a 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 throwing him gems - then he will show the way; tells him to look back; there is a hole and people's bones, one person is barely alive; MM made his way down the fox hole, came to the old man; saw a portrait of a beautiful woman, fell in love ; 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; you need to hide medium clothes; MM returned the 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. The Persians [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, tells him to slaughter a camel on the fortieth, climb inside; birds they take MA to the mountain; a Jew tells her to drop gems, leaves; MA comes to a dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of divas, she asks her sons not to kill him; 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; outside the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA steals the clothes of one of the three dove girls; the wife gives birth two boys, divas bring them down to the ground; the wife asks for her clothes, tells them to come to Mount Kof for them; MA again hires a Jew unrecognized, kills him by throwing a stone at his head from the mountain; 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 under his command knows the way; asks to take fat tails and wineskins with her; the meat runs out, the MA cuts off a piece of the thigh; Having reached the goal, 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 makes a shah, abundance begins]: Ottomans 1987:243-250; Shah-name [Bahram Gur (Bahram Ghur carried by the White Div to Mount Kaf; when he wakes up, he sees four large (the size of a sheep) emerald doves colors; 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 marries the youngest, returns home with her, is happy in married]: Clouston 1887:183-185; Lura [Hasan was excellent at school; after learning that his classmates are going to come to his feast, he runs with his parents to avoid shame: they have no funds receive guests; H. is 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 Hasan; his herd is multiplying; 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 ran with first, and marry them after her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 5:29-34; the Bakhtiyars [Faiz plays on flute in the mountains; peri invites him, he stays with her; she demands loyalty; after a few years F. asks for permission to return to visit his former family; Peri warns that if he talks about she will not see her or their children again; F. returns, does not answer where he was; remaining invisible, Peri watches him; the first wife threatens to commit suicide if her husband does not tell; then threatens drive the children out of the house; then F. tells everything; hears Peri's voice: he won't see her or their children again; Peri turns into a dove and flies away; F. leaves his family, returns to the mountains and plays the flute] : Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 35:232-235; Baluchi: Zarubin 1932, No. 8 [pearies bathe, Prince Sha-Kalandar hollows out the log, hides in it, hides the clothes of Peri Shan-Sharu, who put it clothes on a log; agrees to give for marriage, but does not give wings; in the absence of her husband, the wife says that she can only go to the wedding with her husband's sisters wearing wings; mother and sister give them, peary flies away; the mother slaughs, buries the red goat, tells the returning son that his wife is dead; he hears another woman talking, finds out that Peri has flown away; comes to the well where the maid 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; they tell me 1) fill three jugs with marvelous milk (the wife calls the divas, they bring milk); 2) bring a flower from that light; the wife orders to sow sesame seeds at the spring; three peri 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; his wives 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) peri and angels build a castle made of gold and silver bricks; the king, the vizier, the close ones rise, the pearies and angels carry the bricks that have risen die]: 97-104, 190-198; 1949, No. 11, 11 [the prince and the son of the vizier fell asleep in the garden under a tree; two peers flew in; one gave a letter to the prince: her name is Badur-Jamal, lives in Chin-Machin, if the prince wants to see her, let him anoint his eyes with the antimony she left; the son of a vizier I also 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 prepared to execute him, but the prince also smears his eyes with antimony; Seeing 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 kept him king, this fate awaits prince; explains how to escape; the prince's boat reached the shore, where the one-eyed buzlangi locked him in his barn, where sheep and people; people: when the buzlangs eat sheep, he will take up people; the prince burned the sleeper buzlangi's eye, stabbed the goat and put on a skin with horns; ran to the cliff, called the buzlangi, he rushed to his voice, fell off the cliff, died; the prince sailed again on his boat, got to the old woman- buzlangi; answered that he would choose her, not Badur-Jamal; asked for water with a sieve and swam away; the old woman asks how he swam; the prince: undressed and threw himself into the sea; she drowned; the prince came to town peary; they came to swim, the prince hid the clothes, returned them, but the BD did not return the wings; brought them to his home; wedding]: 85-98; Pashtuns [the Shah's daughter hears the conversation between the myna (pink starling) and the parrot: a fairy named Zabzibana keeps a jug of magic oil; the shah promises a 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 to the eldest brother, who is 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 fairy daughter 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 the wife of a friend in an invisible hat; she and the diva are flying on a flying carpet, dancing with fairies, throwing jewelry on the floor; the shepherd picked everything up in a handkerchief; one day the shepherd took off his hat, liked the fairy lady, she took it to her husband; he asked her for a stick that took 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 wife of the vizier who flew to the diva; went forever to the kingdom of Zabzibana]: Lebedev 1958:121-126; Shugnans [Jumak gives his goats to a stranger to return his daughter, pledged by bay; wife drives D. out of the house; he goes to bed 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 offers the king lime D. in order to take possession of his beautiful wife; D. mistakenly gives the son of the vizier 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 grandmothers are in their places more expensive than rubies; this is blood from Peri's cut throat; she is in a tree, tormented by divas; D. teaches peri to ask where the diva's soul is at night; there is a chest in the plane tree, there is a bottle in it, a shirt in it; D. kills a diva, brings Peri's second wife; the king orders the Laughing Flower to be brought; when Sister Peri laughs on Mount Kaf, these flowers fall from her lips; D. hides the clothes of the bathing peri, brings the peri to her sister (his second wife) she laughs, D. brings flowers to the king; the king orders to bring the sword placed in his father's grave; this sword at the peri; D. orders him to be burned, his wives quietly remove it from the fire; D. brings a sword and a letter to the king; the king and the vizier begot to burn themselves; D. reigns]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2:60-73; the Rushans [the slave leads to water the horses, sees the reflection of three doves; they say that everyone who reports us Tsar Komiron, will become petrified; Comiron is surprised why the horses are thin, the slave asks him to see for himself; K. shoots the little finger of one of the doves, transfers the kingdom to the slave, goes to the desert; takes out a splinter from tigresses, both cubs, give a hair to call for help; they change clothes with the bald shepherd, ask him how to behave; by the river they say, "In the name of King Peri, let this river part; the waters diverge, K. passes with the herd; each of the three peri tells the shepherd to rub her legs; two have intact fingers (K. scratches their feet with a cow's tongue), the third does not have enough little finger, K. puts it; when choosing husbands, the older sister throws a skullcap at the judge's head, the middle sister throws an elder, the youngest a pleshivtsa; Peri's father tells the pleshivets to bring a hundred camel bales of gold, he brings; orders him to kill, his servants they spare; the father sends the young to live in the stable; only K. successfully hunts, gives meat to other sons-in-law, stigmatizing them on their heads and asses; older daughters bring meat to their father-in-law, it is bitter, the youngest brings legs and heads, they are delicious; leaves a piece of manure on the plate; the father moves them to the front room; the bald man plays polo with a golden stick, a golden ball; the father-in-law offers a reward, he takes his own people, i.e. branded older sons-in-law; older sisters understand that handsome and bald are one person; father-in-law gives him the throne]: Scribe 1954, No. 6:48-54; Yazgulyam [servant complains to the king that every day, three doves say that whoever does not tell the king about them hurts his teeth, head, etc.; the servant is slightly alive and the horses are losing weight; the king puts on his servant's clothes, goes by himself, shot off the smaller dove's little finger, goes after the doves, takes out a splinter to the tigress, the cubs promise to help him; Bald herds the cattle of the king's daughters; explains what to say to make the waters of the river disperse and come together again; rubs it at night legs for the girls; the king drowns the shepherd, pulls a goat bubble to look like Bald; the older sisters rub their heels with a bull's tongue, they think that Bald's hands are rough; the younger ones apply torn off little finger; the eldest daughters put flowers to the heads of the son of Kadia and the son of the vizier, the youngest to the head of Pleshivy; the tsar tries in vain to destroy him (drowns, hangs him upside down); orders to bring 40 camels with gold (tigers bring); older sons-in-law cannot get anything hunting, tigers hunt for Bald, he gives meat to his older sons-in-law, puts stamps; tripe soup is the sweetest, but it contains manure ; the tsar moves his daughter and Pleshiv from the stable to the house; playing ball Bald appears in her true form; shows the stigma; receives the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 19:213-223; Burishi [The White Virgin (Dēu, DB) 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 son; leaves, leaving many peri in care, forbiding B. to let B. into the same garden; B. threatens to kill himself, the peri are forced to let him in; there the milk pond 7 doves arrive, leave their clothes, swim; then Shahri Bānu arrives, BD himself is in love with her; B. hides, fumigates SB's clothes with smoke from cow manure; returns when SB calls him not father, uncle, son, but husband; SB wears it but cannot take off; when BD returns, B. hides SB in the room; confesses everything; although BD is upset, he marries lovers; one day B. dreams that on earth his Pipe Keeper (HT, Pipe Bearer) has seized power, tyrannites his (B.) former wife and sons; DB releases B. and SB, gives hair from his armpit to summon him in case of trouble; they settle in the poor man's house; while B. is hunting, HT comes, demands SB for himself; sends servants who do not return at first, because they faint with the beauty of SB; SB promises to marry HT if he will allow her to wear her clothes; flies to Shahr-i-Shaskin (SHSH), throwing the ground in the face of HT; B. calls the DB, the subjects recognize B. as king, he appoints the poor man with whom he lived to replace HT, goes looking for SB; only one old maiden knows the way to school; wearing an invisible hat, B. overhears a girl telling the boy that her sister SB wants to marry today, but she does not want to; B. eats quietly food, boy and girl fight, blaming each other; B. finds SH, her mother tells them to flee, but B. first defeats the army of the king's fiancé SB (invisible, he makes warriors kill each other); the father of the SB 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); bragui [the king is told that his son Lal Badsha will fall in love with peri or peri with him , this threat will disappear after he marries an earthly girl; the king places his forehead and the mullah teacher in an underground chamber; a ray of sunshine enters there; the king has to bring his son to earth; he is seen by Bibi Katur, daughter King Peri, leaves his portrait and note to look for her on Mount Kof-i-Kaf; LB has friends, the son of a vizier and the son of a carpenter; the son of a carpenter makes a flying ship, the son of the vizier indicates where to fly; friends hide on tree, BK comes there, LB throws her a note; she sends servants, tells those who come down; teaches LB to ask her father for her hand: once a year he promises to fulfill the beggar's wish; LB and Peri return to father LB, sons of a vizier and a carpenter also get peri married]: Bray 1938:73-82; Turkmens: Korogly 1991 [Shah Shabehram sits on the caught feather, he 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 take possession of 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 he actually burned down and returned; tells him to burn himself, the shepherd becomes Shah]: 47-54; Uzbeks [three bundles of brushwood collected by the old man and his two neighbors were carried away by the wind; the old man finds them in a hole, there are three pots of gold; the old man shares the gold, but the neighbors kill him, taking his share; he asks the murderers for his wife to name his son Dod ("help"); the padishah solves the crime, adopts handsome D.; D. dreamed of a peri from Mount Kuhi Kaf; the old man teaches you to enter the room, take a medium pumpkin, not open it along the way; D. opens, in a peri pumpkin, now it is difficult to bring it home; they they stop at the old woman's house, peri shows that she can turn into a dove; the old woman goes with her for water, pushes her into the water, covers her face, takes her place; a beautiful horse comes out of the water; an imaginary wife tells her to be slaughtered; three drops of blood grow into three poplars, the imaginary wife orders them to be made a cradle for her son; the cradle shrunk, crushing the baby; the calandar wants to pick up chips from the poplar, those they fly away; on the site of his house he finds a palace, where Peri orders to hold a feast, call D. and the padishah; D. orders the old woman to be cut into 15 parts, the padishah gives him the throne]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:92-109.

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]: Andreev 1989:45; Meletinsky 1968:272-273; Elder Edda 1963:68-72; Swedes (Blekinge County) [a young peasant sees three swans coming to swim, they take off their clothes, become girls; the mother advises her son to hide the clothes he likes; after 7 years she shows the clothes to his wife; she immediately puts them on, flies away; a year later the husband died of grief]: Hofberg 1893:35- 38 (=Ashliman 2002); the Danes [older sons Peter and Paul are smart, the younger Esbeen is lazy; the elders decide to develop a rocky plot on the farm; but every year on Ivanov 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, Zönderwand's maiden, agrees to marry him; they three princesses who were kidnapped by a witch and released once a year; L. teaches him to build a castle by hitting a stone with a tree branch; tells him not to invite the king; but the brothers' father invited him; when he learns that the king is coming, L. flies away, tells her 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 that the winner get it, puts it on himself; the other two are because of the speeding boots; E. invites them to race, takes their boots; two more, because of the knife you point at, he falls dead; 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; she sends the same thing to her sister, the mistress of the birds; the lame eagle arrives later than anyone else, he flew just from this castle; the mistress tells him to take E. there; they fly through a hole in the ground, then in water, on fire; E. throws the ring that L. gave him into the goblet brought by the maid; puts on an invisible hat, kills the witch with his magic knife; wedding]: Grundtvig 1920:27-41; Norwegians [someone tramples the field at night; two older brothers did not know anything, the youngest sees three swan girls (-doves, -ravens), kidnaps one of them's clothes, she promises to marry him]: Christiansen 1959:128; Eastern Sami: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 294 (Skolty, Neiden) [someone steals turnips from the king's garden; elder, middle son they guard, hear noise, run away; the youngest sees how three maidens arrived, took off their winged robes, began to dig 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 trees, 3) restore the forest; each time the wife tells you to do this to one like a tree, the rest fall, lose their branches, get up again; the king has let his son go, but the heavenly maiden has already flown away, the young man has gone to look for her; meets an old woman, who gives speeding boots, sends her to her middle sister, the middle one gives an invisible hat, sends it to the eldest one, 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 you go 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 him with a staff dead warriors; they rush at the king, the young man turns his staff, the dead return to the graves]: 132-140 (=Klaus 1995:31-38); Kert 1988 [a young shepherd herding deer, saw white deer in the sky, behind them two girls; they came down, he hid behind a stone, first prepared a knife, then grabbed one with his hands, married her; she told her and his little fingers to be injured and mix blood, then she would not be able to leave; one day they saw an old man grazing deer in the tundra; the wife hid - this is her father; he will hold out a staff, let the husband grab the other end, follow; if the father asks if his daughter is with him, answer only with third time; when he waves his hand, look only there, then we'll get all those deer; so this man got half of his father-in-law's herd, got rich]: 84-85; Kharuzin 1890 [the old man pulls birch bark, the Frog tells marry her, otherwise she will stab her to death with scissors; they have sons Hewn Stump, Reindeer Collar, daughter Vostroeye; The frog and her children ate the old man and his old woman; she manages to tell her daughter collect her 99 bones, hit the Sharp-eye, the hundredth bone will fall out, put it in a bag, run, a house will emerge from her bones; an old woman's daughter plays with the sun, embroiders a silver belt; stabs a sleepy match Stump, Yoke, they lose their sight and hearing; the Eye has different eyes on the back of her head; The Frog and the Eye sew the old woman's daughter into seal skin, throw it into the water; she ripped her skin with a knife, came to the house where half blood; she scooped it out with difficulty, washed the hut, broke it off and ate a piece of one cake; she hid, turning into a spindle; the Flashes came, saw that one of them, Ninas, had bitten a cake, left, Ninas stayed; asks to appear (if an old man will be a father, if an old woman is a mother, if a young woman is a brother, if a woman is a sister, if a girl is a wife; the girl opens up; N. says that she will live here you can't, Flashes are cutting here, gives a ball of thread, he rolls to his mother; The flashes scream, Ninas' wife is coming, but the Sun will soon take her; mother N. transports her across the river; hangs her over the bed at night silver belt; N. sleeps with his wife, believes they are stars, although it's already a day; mother N.: take reindeer skins, they will dry out from the sun; she goes out, the Sun grabs her hair, N. tries to hold her, dies; she she suffers from the heat, the Sun sprinkled her with water, married her, she gives birth to him a daughter; her daughter grew up, she was given silk to cook three scarves, sent her to the ground, told her to marry the first person she met; she married a shepherd; sold scarves; people are jealous of their wealth, they want to kill their husband; the wife brought him to her Sun Father, who rode a deer; the Sun tells her son-in-law to ride around the earth in the morning on a bear, in the afternoon on a male deer, in the evening on a vazhenka; at noon, my son-in-law rides a male deer, sees an image of a man, kicked him; "I had a deer calf, you didn't keep it, don't stand on the road"; soon the deer fell, my son-in-law returned on a vazhenka; The next day, the Sun went by itself, saw a dead deer, told his son-in-law to treat animals gently; on the third day, the Sun let his son-in-law and daughter go, they began to live even richer]: 348-351; Karelians: Evseev 1981 [the old woman died, the old man married Xuéétar; the son of an old man and an old woman saw the swan maidens come to swim; hid the clothes of one of them, she became his bride; S. sent her own for him daughter, she stuck needles in 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 to Back across the sea, on the way he feeds the eagle meat, bread, wine; the duck brings a stone egg with the boy's mind inside; the deer brings it 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 her clothes alone; is silent when the girl promises to become a sister, gives her clothes for a promise to become a sister 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 on 6, 9 ships; the girl leaves a note: to see her, you will have to wear 3 pairs of iron boots and 3 iron staffs; the guy goes looking, the hut is spinning on cock spurs, she is wearing a cannibal woman, her nose is a poker; she recognizes the boyfriend as her brother's son; overnight wore one pair of his iron boots and one staff; the same with two other women; the last one sends to hunt, the guy sheltered the foxes from the cold, then the cubs, the cubs, the cubs, threw a pike into the sea; a fox, a wolf, bear, pike promise to help; a guy comes to an old woman who has 8 heads on poles, the 9th is cooked for him; the old woman tells her 9 horses to herd, they run away; the fox, then the wolf, the bear are driven; horse: we'll give birth to foals at night, take the worst as a reward; the stallion tells us to go to the old widow; she says that his fiancée's love is in an egg inside the blue stone on the island; the horse jumped on 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 district) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the Vuoka bird; she asks not to shoot, but to bring and feed a year; for example three times; explains that she was wounded when she fought with a capercaillie; when the bird recovered, ordered to slaughter the cow and take meat with her, it will bear it for a reward; over the sea, it 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 stops with its three sisters in copper, silver, golden house; only a sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when flying away, the Vuoka bird beats its wings, the copper and silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, falls out countless good; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out that a boy was born and has grown up; the boy accidentally broke the pot with with a soup on the window of an old woman; she says that he has been promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; the boy (now more like a young man) leaves; sees three swans come to swim, take off their clothes, and begin 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 his wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with as a 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 that, the devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons do the work; the second task is to dig a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); hell tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches what she will have longer tie on the apron; puts her finger aside; puts his back leg aside; hell suggests riding a horse, it's him; the girl teaches how to whip the horse with a whip and a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells him to run; they turned into a shepherd and a cow; the priest and the church; the demons did not understand, they returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, the devil himself ran, tried to drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water flowed out, hell is dead; the girl sends the guy 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, the same with the second one who went out to bring a bag of flour; the merchant himself came in the third evening; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together], 23 (Kalevala District) [the old man went to the forest, began to cut down a tree; a bird flew in, he fell asleep, only woke up in the evening; the same on the second day; on the third, the old man cut down the tree, the bird began to sing on the stump and fell asleep on its own; the old man brought her home, put her in a cage; when the old men went to church, the bird became a girl, that's it cooked, cleaned; the prince comes, hears singing, goes into the hut, falls asleep; asks the healer; she says that this is a heavenly star, fell from the sky; if you look at a girl, she is no longer a bird will turn; the girl curtains the windows, but the prince found a crack; when the old people returned from the church, they saw a girl; the prince married her and took the old men to him]: 182-193, 254-255; Stepanova 2000, No. 113 (northern, Tungud district) [caught the firebird, gave it to the tsar; the tsar ordered the execution of whoever releases it; the bird asks the prince to get the key from his mother, he took it out and released the bird; expelled accompanied by soldier; goes down to the well; the soldier lifted him back for his promise to give his horse and change clothes; the soldier is mistaken by another king for a prince, the real prince is sent to herd hares; they fled; a swan girl flew in, she was a firebird; they live in her palace; then they come back, she whips to gather hares and talyanka; he plays, the princess fell in love with him; he is sent to herd twice more hares, a swan girl helps every time; they want to give the princess a three-headed snake, the prince killed him, cut out his tongues; the soldier (i.e. the imaginary prince) said that he killed; agreed to give his thumb for tongues; the same 6 and 9-headed snakes (thumb; belt from the back); the princess is passed off as a soldier, she tells me to check if he is healthy, everyone sees flaws; the imaginary shepherd explains everything; marries a princess]: 194- 200; Finns: Konkka 1993 [father has been plowing a field near the shore for 10 years, but each time the storm destroys the crop; the attempts of the older and middle brothers are just as unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees how from the cloud swans come down, turn into girls, dance, trample on the field; a soldier hid one girl's swan robe, she had to become his wife; she explained that the witch had turned her and her sisters into swans and only grass growing in this field can break the spell, so they trampled on the crops; the king found out that the soldier has a beautiful wife; tells all the creatures to be brought in pairs by tomorrow; the wife tells them to wave his handkerchief - the animals came; 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 his temple against a stone and lost consciousness; the horse brought the keys to his wife, who gave it to the king; to avoid his 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 a swan the plumage flew away; when he woke up, the soldier saw three dead fighting over an invisible hat, boots by leaps and bounds; tells them to give him curiosities and go to the graves themselves; went to the graves 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 away gold coins; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; soldier told her to stop; in the hut an old woman, a nose three cubits; she agreed to transport her across the Black Sea on the condition that she would then cut off the soldier's hand; when he reached the other side, the soldier put on an invisible hat and disappeared; there is another hut on a chicken leg, the hostess moves the coals in the oven with her nose; the same (transports across the White Sea); the third hut is spinning and does not want to stop; the soldier threw it under the crane's feet merezhu, the hut has stopped; the old woman gathers birds, then fish; only the whale knows about the copper castle, its tail is entangled in the teeth of the wall; the whale brought the soldier to the castle; the soldier cut the chains, the castle surfaced surface; the soldier threw a ring into his wife's bowl; she brought it to his house on her 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 [=Concca 1991:162-173; the hunter sees three ducks go ashore, throw off their feather clothes, become girls; hides the most beautiful clothes; returned when she promised to marry him; she is the most beautiful, the king wants to take it for his son, he is advised to give the duck girl's husband impossible assignments; 1) make Tischplatte by morning, on which the moon and stars (the wife drew); 2) bring nothing from nowhere; the wife made a handkerchief by morning, sent her on the road; when the husband reaches the house, where he sees the strange, let him show the handkerchief and behave like his own; around the house there are tons of bones, on each a pole on the skull, 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]: 33-39; Schreck 1887, No. 5 (Österboten) [when dying, the father tells his three sons to take turns guarding the geese bank for three nights; the elder and middle are afraid, they leave; the youngest" Cinderella" sees three geese flying in before dawn; they take off their robes 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 offers 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 forests; 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 a 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 argues 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.. {no pdf pages 42-43}]: 35-44; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 91 [geese peck buckwheat, the old man catches a goose, she turned into a girl, pan married her; flocks of geese are flying, the wife asks every time are her parents, brothers, sister, grandfather and grandmother here; they are in the last pack, threw her feather off, the goose flew away, leaving two children], 92 [a swan comes to the old people, turns into a girl, cooks and cleans up; the old man waited, burned his wing; the king married her; the swan father calls her, but she refuses to leave her son; the mother is the same; when the darling flies, she asks to throw off her wing, leaves her son; the king married lauma; the swan flies to his son; the king smeared the windowsill with resin, grabbed his wife, executed laume]: 203-205, 205-207; Lebite 1965 [while the old people are clearing the felling, Swan daily arrives, turns into a girl, puts the house in order; the old man hides, burns his wings, the Swan remains with the old men; the king notices her, brings her to the palace, she gives birth to him a son; swans are flying over her, offer to shed her wings; she refuses her father, mother, takes wings from her 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 is sleeping; the king spies, the old man advises to smear resin on the windowsill; the king catches the Swan, tears off his wings, executes Laume]: 133-135; Latvians [driving around the royal horse, the servant finds himself in the forest to the old man; he tells him not to 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 he returns, the old man returns him to his human form; the same for the second time; the old man advises not to give up his dresses, the young man takes the beautiful woman as his wife, returns to the king; the sorcerer advises to the king of lime, a servant with difficult assignments; 1) bring a lion; the wife gives a handkerchief, the girl in the hut recognizes her sister by him, tells the lion to put a handkerchief over his nose; 2) bring an apple tree; the wife's other sister wraps an apple tree into a handkerchief; 3) go there, I don't know where, 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 dead Mother's knees Earth; it comes to life, calls birds and animals, only the lame Frog knows the way; the invisible I don't know What tells you to feed the snake, ask it for a box; an army comes out of it, kills the king, servant reigns]: Arys 1971:101-114; Lutsie (Western 1931 from a Catholic gypsy) [Danil Beschastny has been serving a rich man for three years; he agrees to pay a "burr rooster", and his wife said that over everyone God; the owner gave 4 measures of buckwheat; it rose well, the poor man asked Mikola for a blessing, but he froze the shoots; DB bought a mare, asked Egor not to harm, but the mare was eaten by wolves; hired before entering tie a hundred sheaves of the sun, and if he does not, he will receive a hundred roses; there are two sheaves left, DB asked the sun to wait, but it went down and DB got a rod for his work; the sister of the Sun came to him and became live with him; now the house has everything; the pan found out about his wife, sent DP to his late father for a letter; the wife gives a ball and tells me to ask for a manager with him; that devils are lifted up, and the old pan tells his son not to oppress people so as not to suffer after death; the pan sends a letter to the Sun; the wife gives a handkerchief to be recognized by him; DB comes to Mikola, asks him for a stick, mercilessly hits for buckwheat; the same with Egor for a mare; the mother of the Sun, seeing a handkerchief, is kind, promises to pacify her angry son; when he learns that her son-in-law has come, the Sun is supportive, sends DB to heaven for half a day instead of herself while he writes writes; DB smashed and broke everything in paradise; Mikola, Egor and the Sun come to complain to the mother of the Sun; she explains what they got for the cause; DB returned with a letter to Mr.: if you touch my son-in-law, I'll burn the house]: Annom et al. 2018:239-243; 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, there are devils fighting over bast shoes (speeders), hats (he sees everything), sheepskin coat (makes it invisible); the forester shoots, promises to award things to the one who brings the pellets that have flown earlier; six swans fly by, he wears bast shoes behind them; they swim in the lake, taking off their clothes from feathers; he hides clothes alone, marries; 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 the chest; the wife grabs 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 her 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 her the wife, the hell catches up, takes him away again; so twice, the third time, he kills; earlier 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 he brought live water; he brought it, the wolf revived the forester; the forester's mother sends him to a far-away old man; he says that a witch, her white mare, lives overseas every year brings 12 foals; there are human heads on the 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 of horseflies and Vähj & #228; kuningas (?) ; 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; set: Järv et al. 2015 [the mouse and sparrow shared the grain in the peasant's barn, quarreled over the last grain; because of this, the animals began to fight birds, the lion was left without hair, the eagle without hair feathers; the eagle asks the man to feed him until the feathers grow; when he has recovered, he put the 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 you not to open it on the way home, the man discovered, a golden estate appeared; the black man put back for receipt to give what He does not know at home; the man thinks it is a dog, but at home his wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, the dog brought him to the sea, they boated to the island, hid in the bushes; two doves flew in and became girls, the young man hid his clothes alone, gave it for his promise to become his wife; she tells him to greet the old man loudly, he does not hear; heard; promised the bride, if the young man leads the geese to swim, the eggshell is in front, not not to lose one egg; tame the stallion; the bride orders to make a nine-pound club and beat the 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; it answers for three days; then the old man sends his son to catch up with the fugitives; the girl turned herself and the young man into a priest and a chapel; the pop replies that he had not seen anyone for three years; another son; into a flower and a bee; the old man himself is chasing; the girl has turned herself into a lake, a young man into a fish; the old man began to catch and fell into the water; the girl tells her not to greet her younger sister at home; he broke the ban forgot his bride; went to marry the colonel's daughter, chopped firewood all night, 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 king a box, people came out of it; everything is fine]: 25-29; Looritz 2005 (der. 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 told them to get married right away so that black would no longer have power over them]: Sandra 2004:236-240.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Konakov 1999, No. 7 [Pera's son of Parma Earth-Parma asks the Rainbow why she drinks water from his river; she promises to take it to heaven for this; he sits on its horns, visits the upper world, takes it to Zaran's wife, the daughter of the Sun, descends with her to earth; the Sun tells her daughter to return, threatens to burn everything; Parma did not let her children go with her; Pera and his seven sons shot the Sun with bows, beat off a piece; dew - tears of Z., crying from separation from children; Komi - descendants of Pera and Z.]: 433; Novikov 1938, No. 25 [The mouse quarreled with Sparrow, the birds began to fight animals, killed each other, and the Eagle remained by the sea of blood with a broken wing; the old man picked him up; the old woman orders the Eagle to be shot twice, the Eagle asks not to do so each time; after recovering, he carries the old man, throws him twice, picks him up from the ground, so that he afraid; Eagle's sister gives a box, does not tell me 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 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, 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 to perform; 1) build a palace overnight (monsters are building); 2) create a river with fish, gardens on the banks (same); 3) crystal bridge (same) ); the daughter steals her father's handkerchief, runs away with her husband; the tun pursues them; she waves her handkerchief, creating a forest, then a river; the young man pierces the tuna with an arrow, he turned into a pine tree]: 88-103 (another retelling in Bulatova 1985:92-102); the Udmurts [Vumurt (water) tells the fisherman that he catches in 18 years he must give what he will be born; this is a son; he hides the clothes of one of the 12 girls who have come to swim turtledot; she teaches him that everyone will drink, she will not; he identifies her; in the form of pigeons they fly away together; turn into a mill and a miller, into a church and a priest, other doves have not identified them; V. himself flies then, he did not catch up; the girl became a red flower, the young man forgot about her; she was ripped off by another; at his wedding he receives a note hidden in bread from her, recalls, marries]: Klabukov 1948, No. 34:92-98; Chuvash: Grigoriev 1971 [Ivan shot a goose, brought it home, the goose became Aldyuk's girlfriend; gave birth to a son; mother-in-law, not knowing why they are, finds and burns goose wings; each time geese are called they throw her with them, throw her on the pen; they recruit enough, she flies away; returns to the crying child; I. plucks and burns her feathers again, his wife stays with him]: 65-69 (=Danilov, Nechaev 1975:28-31); Rodionov 1982 [swan maidens swim in the lake every day; the hero of the fairy tale sees this, falls in love with his youngest, hides her clothes left on the shore; older sisters fly away, the youngest becomes his wife; in In some cases, instead of a lake, there is a millet field, not swans, but pigeons fly there]: 158; Chuvash tales 1938:89-94 [The eagle asked the man not to shoot at him, to heal his wing; he feeds him cows, sheep, the wife swears; the eagle raises a man to the sky, throws him, picks up, now the person also feels afraid; the eagle is lucky to his sisters, the middle one gives a casket, the man opens along the way, silver falls out; the old man puts it back from his elbow for promising to give what you don't know; during this time, his son Ivan was born and grew up; comes to the lake, hides the dress of one of the three bathing girls- swans; I. gives when she calls him not brother, but sweet; gives them a ball, I. comes to her father; 1) give the stallion and the mare to drink (these are the girls' parents; I. beats them, drinks them); 2) identify the youngest of the sisters (she blinks an eye); I., gets married; when he comes to his parents, he forgets his wife's request not to kiss the 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 recalls, returns to her], 198-202 [hunter Peak cannot find a suitable bride; stays in the house where the widow is giving birth; hears Pikhambar telling Pulehsi to write down in the book of destinies that Peak is getting married on a widow who has just given birth to a daughter; Peak does not want to wait so long; plunged a spear into the baby, ran away; hears the wolf asking the gods for food; they tell him to eat the widow's last sheep; Peak tries to prevent killed a wolf, but he has already eaten a sheep; asks the gods for a drink, they show a stream of dirty water, then a stream of clean water; Peak shot a swan, which has become beautiful; a wound on his side; the wife explains what it is from his arrows; that lake is called swan, and Chuvash don't touch swans]; Eisin 1993 [the forest is empty, I. comes to a tree where all the birds are; shoots a big white one, she falls, he brings it to the hut, she turns into a beauty; the wife weaves a magic tablecloth, the husband carries to sell, the king sees, comes to find out who the craftswoman is; the wise men advise sending I. for a goat with golden horns and wool; wife sends to go for a ball, he leads to a goat; the same boar with golden stubble; sent for Sharapchyk the invisible; the wife gives a towel, sends a ball to her older sister; there is a girl in silver palace, recognizes her younger sister's towel; she gives her ball and ring, the ball leads to the oldest sister in the golden palace; she directs her to the river, followed by S.; the frog asks for milk, I. brings, the frog brings it, the frog jumps, carries him across the river; three robbers enter the triangular house, tell S. to set the table; when they leave, I. offers S. to go with him, he agrees; tells him to exchange him for the robbers for crossing the river, a chest, an ax, a pipe; returns to I.; I. goes to the king in war, blows ships, soldiers from the chest, axes make fortresses; I. kills the king, receives the throne, as well as a goat and a wild boar]: 129-138; Juhma 1995 [Tangar turns Cook into a snake; he sits on a bathing girl's dress, gives it in exchange for a promise to marry him; the next day the girl calls him, he takes her to the underwater palace, becomes human; allows his wife and children to visit relatives; sends her in a golden carriage; when they return, they visit their relatives with their children; weeds her to an underwater palace, her calves; a stomach that is too protruding; inconspicuous women shout, Cook, go out; after learning how to call her son-in-law, an envious sister leads her husband to the shore, calls a snake in his wife's voice, the husband cuts off her head; the wife finds her, tells her son to be a stag beetle, a dragonfly daughter, she becomes a cuckoo herself, she has been calling her husband ever since]: 122-124; Marie: Akzorin 1984 [Toydemar's stepson caught Lebedushka in a snare, brought her home; stepmother plucked her, feathers burned; T.'s tear fell on Lebedushka, she became beautiful, married T.; in the fall, the swans threw her feather, she flew away like a swan; T. cried, the swans threw off their feathers and he became a swan, flew away after him wife]: 132-145; 1991, No. 35 [the man sowed oats and peas; the daughter of heaven began to herd her cattle in the field; the eldest, middle sons fell asleep; the youngest fool grabbed the girl by the braid, married, brings home with cattle; at first they were not allowed to herd her cattle, then let her father lower the silk swing from the sky, went up to heaven with her cattle], 36 [Yumo's daughter drove the herd to the ground, met a young man; gave birth to a child; they came to Yumo, he is happy; brother Yumo Keremet is jealous, threw Yumo's son-in-law to the ground, oaks and birches appeared from the fragments; Yumo threw Keremet with his angels, Yumo and Keremet became enemies ]: 76-77, 77-82; Chetkarev 1941, No. 37 [the soldier returns home, leans to the pond for a drink, the devil grabs his beard, tells him to give what he does not know at home; the son opens the door in the oak tree, goes down to the lower one world; the old man says that devil is his older brother; we must hide the clothes of the twelfth dove girl who will fly to the lake for a swim; the girl promises to marry Ivan; her house with a 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 the field in the same place, harvest, bake bread; 3) make bricks, build a church; every time the wife does everything; A pig comes up to the church, I. hits her with a hammer, the father-in-law is blindfolded in the morning; 4) pacify the stallion (this is 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 is on the edge, swings); I. gets a wife, they run, tell the objects in the bath to be responsible for them; wife - church, I. - old woman; husband - lake, wife - ruff; hell not he can catch a ruff, says that let their whole century pass in the lake; but they come back and celebrate their wedding at Father I.'s house] (meadow): 282-286 (=Sabitova 1992:102-109); Chetkarev 1948 [Mouse and Sparrow were friends, shared food; Sparrow swallowed a seed alone, they quarreled, the Mouse called animals, the Sparrow called birds, the Lion broke its wing Eagle; 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 him for a reward; dropped it on purpose, then picked it up to show him how he was doing scary 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 not open on the way; the Eagle carries the hunter back over the mountain; he opens the bundle, a golden palace appears, the sorcerer gathers the palace back for promising to give what he does not know at home; a son was born at home; leaves 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 there is a 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 into a shepherd; monastery and priest; to the lake and goose; the sorcerer stops chasing]: 19-36; Shkalina 2003 [(Orthodox Bulletin 1864 (S.N. Nurminsky): 225); Humo did not communicate with people, people did not know him; he had beautiful daughter, and there were no grooms, only angels; there is no grass in the sky, Yumo lowered his daughter to the ground to herd horses, cows, sheep; in the evening she shouts to her father to lower the felt and pick it up (the cattle go down and She gets up himself, without details.); on the ground, Yumo's daughter met a guy, gives him a handkerchief; tells him to take her away, because her father will not allow the marriage; she hung another handkerchief on the stake so that her father thinks she is dead; two years old, young people came to their father, reconciled, had a feast; this is how God met people]: 64; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 13 [an old man three years old in the forest, leaned to the water, Vedyava grabbed his beard; refuses a stallion, a rick, a beekeeper, demands what the old man does not know; a three-year-old son at home; grew up, went to Vedyava; Baba Yaga sends to his older sister, she sends to his eldest sister; she sends to his eldest sister; she says that her brother has 40 stakes, but the last one does not yet have a head; three ducks will come to swim, become girls, the youngest must be hidden; she promises to become a wife; she tells her not to eat what will offer her father; 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) the iron bridge from the porch to the church, on the sides of the apple tree with apples and birds (the same); 3 ) tame the stallion (this is the girl's father, she became a man, 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, leaves the spits responsible 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 in 7 days, but at home, the husband should not kiss his younger sister; he kissed, forgot his wife; she flew pigeon to her new bride, became a woman, the bride sees a reflection in the well, thinks she is so beautiful, returns without taking water; same younger sister; the young man came himself, saw his wife, remembered everything, married her], 17 [the mouse destroyed the sparrow's nest, the trial began, the great serpent bit the falcon, he sat on a tree; the hunter shot it three times, missed it, then brought it home, fed it 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 to the 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 the person who forgot her; he remembered everything, stayed with his first wife]: 43-50; Bashkirs: Abramzon 1977 [in the epic "Edigei" among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, semi-nomadic Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Siberian Tatars, etc. the youngest of the virgins, 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]; Barag 1989, No. 28 [after the death of his father, the youngest son Safar leaves home; stays with the fisherman, marries his daughter Zuleikha; she weaves, S. sells, the king saw, gives instructions to lime S., pick up Z.; 1) get three wild horses (Z. gives powder to throw into the water, horses fall asleep); 2) get something I don't know what; Z. calls animals, birds, fish; only an old pike tells him to go down to the green house, hide under a green table; a white-bearded old man came in, telling the invisible Uzbek to serve food; when he left, S. invited W. share a meal; he goes with him; tells him to exchange him from the caravans for a chest of soldiers; he also returns to S.; the soldiers defeated the tsar's army, S. executed him, reigned], 30 [vizier Urtan-Sultan goes marry; the horse advises you to choose the most unsightly of the three doves that the magician king will show him; she turns into a girl; takes with her a copper kumgan, the water from which can turn her into wanting to be ugly and beautiful; the mustache lives with his wife in a bathhouse on the outskirts of the city, but the king saw his wife, decided to lime him; the wise men advise telling him to get 1) three lions; the wife teaches how to bring lions; 2) a music box from the cave (same); 3) an iron box; the wife gives a towel, the old lady of the winds finds out from it that the MUSTACHE is the husband of her older sister's daughter; the winds do not know where the box is, the old woman sends birds to the lady; birds say that a lame frog knows; in the underworld, a cup of human milk in a stone bath; it must be poured; 60 pahlavans will return in the evening, think that someone ate a man, they will kill each other; you have to kill the last guard, drink water from his bottle, you will become strong, raise the stove, the box under it; the mustache covered the Samrigush bird from the thunderstorm, that bird, for this took him to the earthly world; there was not enough meat, the US cut off a piece from his leg; S. regurgitated, put it back; warriors came out of the box, killed the king, threw his head to the wolves; his wife and his wife went home]: 71-74, 121-125 , 145-151; Zelenin 1991, No. 100 (105) [two brothers are married, the third is single, sees a girl sitting in the water in the lake; she agrees to follow him; mother-in-law praises the bride for arguing work; husband finds clothes from frogskin, throws into the fire; the wife flies away; the husband goes in search; the old woman says that the magical wife is the daughter of her older sister; gives the key, the husband enters the house, the old woman turns it into a needle, hides it in moss; 9 geese came, became girls; the ex-wife wants to kill her husband, then forgives; throws him into the oven when he falls asleep, makes a handsome man out of ash; agrees to return to him, sends him back, giving him a magic bag, but you can't ask for anything but bread; the husband shakes money out of the bag; the wife forgives disobedience; burns her aged brother and mother, sculpts young, beautiful; they live richly]: 434-436.

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 the arms, bird legs or hooves; the wife flies away, telling me where she will leave the baby; BT finds Edigei there]: Abramzon 1977:159-160; Kazakhs: Benningsen 1912 (recorded in Verny a student, so Semirechye) [the khan has 7 beautiful daughters; finally, a son was born, but ugly; the khan ordered him to be left in the desert near the lake; 40 geese flew in, became girls, raised a young man, remaining young themselves; he married each of them, they were descended from the Kyrgyz people; the Kyrgyz call themselves Kyrgyz Cossack, i.e. Kerek-Kyz-Kaz-Ak ("40 white geese maidens")]: 3; Potanin 1916, No. 11 (Aral-Irtysh watershed) [Koblanda's hero robbed the bay; the son of that youngster Karaman offered martial arts; after a long struggle, Koblanda killed him, stole people and property; the old man remained under the cauldron and the boy Talas-pai under straw; Karaman's bow was worn by two strongmen, T. brought one; three swans torment the old man every day; T. tells him, puts on his clothes, shoots swans, falls his ring; comes to a lousy shepherd, he replies that he herds Kadyr-kan's cows; explains that according to him, cows and calves cross the sea themselves, tie themselves, milk; that he licks the heels of K.'s youngest daughter; T. killed the guy, put it on clothes, told the cattle to do what they needed, came to K.; his daughters were those swans; he became ill to stay with the youngest; began to stroke her heels with the tongue of a cow; replies that yes, his tongue was cracked; she gave honey, he began to iron softer; he swam where the girls flew in with swans; the youngest recognized T., took her to bed; T. explains how to let the khan know that it is time for daughters to marry: let one bread burn, the other it will burn, the third will be baked properly; the khan told the daughters to choose suitors, the youngest took the lousy guy; the khan fell ill, they needed saiga meat; only the lousy one killed, gave his older sons-in-law, kept giblets for himself; only from them did the khan recover; the cherry plum kara-gus ("huge black eagle") annually carries the foal of a winged mare; older sons-in-law fall asleep, the tail of a foal is lousy with an arrow, one feather of a bird; the sons-in-law took their tail away, could not raise the pen, only the lousy one brought it; three sons-in-law are going to look for a bird; the lousy one comes to the seven-headed cannibal, she promises to help; the bird sat on a bai-terek tree, lousy shot, only his horse was able to carry the carcass; the girl daughter of the bird pursues, the lousy one defeated her, married her, released the bird's captives; saved the snake, which gave him the gift of understanding the speech of animals; the bay came running the horse is the mother of the horse T., she escaped from Koblanda; T. appeared to his father-in-law in his real form, who gave him half of the cattle, he returned to his father (i.e. to the old man with whom he lived after Koblanda's raid); T. s went to Koblanda as a son; it turned out that their mothers were sisters, they fraternized; Ir-Kosai, avenging his father, attacked and killed Koblandy; T. reconciled with him and became khan]: 73-80 (=1972, No. 6:123-130); Kyrgyz [ thieves stole a flock of orphans, beat him; the golden eagle brought him to a nest on a rock, where there are gold and precious stones; merchants ask to throw them off, refuse to help the orphan go down; the orphan has succeeded get out, came to Peri's possession; the old man tells not to 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 his 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: Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951 [the young man catches goldfish, contrary to his mother's advice, gives the khan; the vizier advises to reward the young man if he brings another; he brings; brings living water for fish from the sky , otherwise he executes; in a dream, the elder tells the young man to hide on the shore; five doves arrive to swim in the lake, undressed, turn into girls, the young man hides his clothes alone; returns for the promise to bring him alive water; she brings a nut, if you hit the ground, there will be a lake; the vizier demands a golden throne; the elder tells you to make a staff out of plane trees, come to the cave of the sleeping dragon, take gold, from being hit with a staff it will become a throne; get the daughter of a khan who lives a year away; the 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); the young man explains to his wife that he must give her to his khan; she calls the khan for a walk, tells the fir trees to bend down, grab the khan, hold it until he dies; the young man becomes khan]: 18-24 (= Kabirov 1963:78-85); yellow Uighurs [swans flock to listen to the young shepherd sing; she stays alone, they become friends; one day he finds her corpse torn to pieces; the skeleton becomes the first a six-string musical instrument; a shepherd touches the strings one by one, as it rains, then turns into a downpour, a rainbow appears, singing is heard, a horse comes running, and descending from the sky beautiful girl; this is the Swan who fell in love with a shepherd; they both fly to heaven and the musical instrument remains human]: Stuart, Jhang 1996:74; salars (Ullagyl, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous county) [on a deserted mountain, a mare gave birth to a child; he grew up, went to look for brothers; shot a bow at a stone from which smoke was coming; a man screamed inside the stone; both went on; fired an arrow at a tree; from there a man screamed; the three of them began to live; the one who came out of the stone was named Tash-gaga (brother Stone), from wood, Agash-gaga (brother Tree), and the one born as a mare was named Masemba; they went to look for wives came to a dwelling; no one was there, food was being cooked in the cauldron; the next morning the brothers went hunting, returned in the evening; bread and tea were prepared; in the morning they left T. in the house and went hunting together; T. I hid, saw three pigeons fly in; they threw off their feathers, turned into girls; one cooked food, the other started a fire, and the third swept the yard; then they put on their raincoats and flew away; one of them was Kyun-ana (maiden Sun), the other Ay-ana (maiden Luna), the third Yultus-ana (Maiden Star); in the evening T. told his brothers what he saw; the next morning A. ; 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 of the shelter and threw their feather cloaks into the fire; Kyung-ana covered herself with dust and soot; twins came in the evening; T. chose Ai-ana, A. - Yultus-ana; M. went to Kyung-ana; in the morning she washed her face and turned out to be beautiful compared to the other two girls; T. and A. did not like it; they threw M. into the abyss, took his bow and arrows, and Kyung-anu gave Kyung-anu to herd his sheep into someone else's house; a bird that flew into the abyss told M. that she had a chick there; M. told her about those who betrayed him brothers; the bird promised to carry it on its back; then it brought a hundred sparrows and said to M.: "Sit on my back, get all the 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 Yulutusy-ana; ("Sun 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 became gloomy and taciturn and gloomy, refused to explain why; one evening her fire went out; she saw smoke from the chimney in the distance, went to ask for fire; an old woman in the house Mansyhanier (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 like To get rid of her, told her husband; he 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 He could not do anything; 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; prosperity was established among people, M. and G. are happy until old age]: Chen, Wang 1989:420-439; Dungans (Jambul Region, Shenxi dialect) [Luchyr (he herded horses owner) has a dream: he is standing between the moon and the sun, with a star in each hand; another Tuzi worker ("lousy) bought a dream, went on a journey; the emperor's daughter does not want for an old dignitary, agrees run with the student; he came, she was not; the next night T. sleeps in this place, the princess wakes him up, tells him to run; became his wife; tells him not to friend the guards; he invited the guard, he saw him wife, told the emperor about the beauty; the summary advised him to tell the beauty's husband to get the cauldron out of the Peri country; the wife gives a bone - she will become a fast-footed horse; the horse teaches him to steal the cauldron, tells him not to look back; T. looked around, missed the cauldron; brought it the second time; the vault tells me to bring a handful of ash from the country of peri; the horse teaches how to avoid the guarded gate; the Edingui guard advises to hide the pigeon outfit of one of three peri who came to swim; return after the peri put a seal in the palm of his hand; the emperor of Peri gave his daughter for T.; T. now with two wives, brought ash to the emperor; summary: dig a hole, light a fire in it, get the remains of your parents out of it; Peri's daughter told the stones to fall from the sky, they crushed the emperor and his people; T. became emperor, Peri's daughter gave him back his hair; Peri's daughter asks why he laughs; T. talks about sleep: the sun and the moon are two wives, the stars are their sons]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 61:257-266; Dungans (Changji, Xinjiang) [the old woman only has a horse; one day she came back - she was wearing a boy, he was a Brother Horse; he went on a journey, broke a rock with an arrow, Brother Stone came out; then Brother Elm came out; they cultivate the land, hunt; Someone cooks and cleans the house; they take turns guarding, two fall asleep; when it's Brother-Horse's turn, three white doves arrive and become girls; he asks them to marry him and his brothers, but first once to become doves; invites brothers to choose; takes the rest for himself, the doves become girls; the cat came, stayed, mischievous; the women slapped him, for which he put out the fire and left; the women went look for coals; the shepherd says that the fire is owned by a nine-headed monster, let them go to him; the maids took them deep into the cave; the monster has a human body and 9 heads, all but the central one, are blind; he orders to fire and a bag of beans; it has a hole, the beans woke up on the way back; the next day, the monster followed this trail, sucked women's blood; then the eyes on his other heads see; so many days; Brother- the horse notices that the wives are losing weight, they tell him everything; Brother Elm remains first, then Brother Stone, both are afraid; The horse brother hits the monster with an arrow in the eye, he runs; the horse brother lets the shepherd go, comes to the cave under his guise, taking sheep's tongue with him; the shepherd must lick the monster's damaged eye; the horse brother strokes him with sheep's tongue, the monster hurts; he says that his tongue is rough because he has a cold; then kills the monster, cutting off all his heads; distributes the monster's property; his brothers want to take possession of everything themselves; lead Brother Horse to look at the lotuses, push him off a cliff; he fell on the lotuses, is alive , but cannot get back; healed the swan's wing, he lifted it upstairs, the flight lasted three days and three nights; he returned home a year later; he was not recognized, his wife did not recognize him, he cries; he takes his bow; brothers say that only Brother Horse who fell off a cliff could pull it; he shoots at the stone, Brother Stone disappears into the stone; shoots at the elm tree - Brother Elm returns to the tree; since then, the gate has been made of stone the steps and the elm trunks are cracked; Brother Horse's wife stayed with him, and the other two women put on their pigeon clothes and flew away; people at Mount Bogotá have loved white pigeons ever since]: Shujang Li, Luckert 1994: 111-118.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats: Zabanov 1929 (Khorin Buryats) [Three boys, Bulagat, Ekhirit and Khorida, came out of the foamed water of Lake Baikal; they were raised by Asoi-Khan Udagan; after her death, B. and Eyu shared their property, separated; H. was offended that they were divided without him; on Olkhon he killed a swan girl bathing, hid her clothes, got married; his wife gave birth to 11 sons; asked for clothes, flew away; H. tried to grab her soot-smeared hands, since then the legs of the swans have been black]: 29-31; Late 1880 [(Khorin Buryats); Horida 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 swimming in Lake Baikal; his wife gave birth to 11 children and asked for her clothes flew away as a swan; H. managed to grab her paws with clay-smeared hands; now the swans have black legs; X.'s children gave birth to 11 births], 48 [Horyody-Mergen lived on an island in the Hangar ; three swan girls 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 descended to swim; H., who 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 coated the lid cauldron, got their mouths and hands dirty (swans now have black beaks and legs)]: 157-158, 158-160, 160-162, 162-163; Khangalov 1960, No. 99 [p. 109-110: three hunters live on the northern side of Lake Baikal; they have left six cervical vertebrae of the swan; his comrades ate five, leaving only one with Choreda; he was offended, went on the ice to the south side of Lake Baikal; saw women bathing, they flew away, becoming swans; 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; Sharakshinova 1980:131-132); 2) pp. 110-111: The choredoy-mergen hid the clothes of one of the three swan women who were swimming on Lake Sadamtyn Sagan (far north or far south); his wife ordered me to move to the south side of Lake Baikal, only after that, they began to have children - 11 sons and 6 daughters; the wife asked for her clothes to be returned to her, flew into the smoke hole in the yurt; the daughter grabbed her legs with dirty hands, now the swans are black paws (retelling in Rumyantsev 1962:149-151)], 105 (Unga Buryats) [three daughters of Heaven were swimming in Lake Altan; a poor old man hid his youngest's clothes; Choreda Mergen married this girl; she gave birth to a son and 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 because frost, the foal was eaten by wolves; the poor man hid the dress of one of the swan girls who came to swim, married her; their 9 sons and 9 daughters became the ancestors of the Khorins]: 136; Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992 ( Barguzinsky Range) [hunter Bargutai saw seven girls splashing in Lake Baikal; hid his youngest's clothes, others flew away as swans; Bargutai's wife gave birth to seven children, found her swan clothes, flew away through the upper opening of the yurt; the children became the ancestors of the Buryats]: 327; darhats [the ruler of ten continents, Nomtor Tugelter Num-Khan, went to look for a wife for his son Altan-Gerelte; from Mount Sumber saw hunter Nugalt Hara; he told how people descended from the sky to 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) [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 went down again, left her newborn son in a cradle on a tree branch, left a yellow bird to guard the baby; the fortuneteller sent the durbuts there looking for a leader; the bird returned to heaven, the goddess's son became the ancestor of the tribe]: Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992:326-327); Kychanov 2010 [{Kychanov has a detailed retelling of the same legend as Nassen-Bayer, citing Burdukov 1911 and Mikhailov}]: 295; Mikhailov 1983 [the father of the first tsoros was a hunter, and his mother was a swan maiden who went down a high mountain to swim in a mountain lake, but fell into the arms of a hunter; the couple's baby were picked up by people who went to look for a person who could become a noon among the derbets; the Kalmyks on the Volga no longer have this legend recorded]: 100-101; the Oirats [according to Pallas; the heavenly nymph who was married to Yobogon Mergen, the founder of the Khoyta princely house, had an unauthorized relationship with Eleti Bö-Khan and gave birth to Ulinda-Budun Taiji, the founder of the Choros family]: Bakayeva 2016:51; Khalha- The Mongols [1) Western 1927 near Ulan Bator; beggars have caught and want to kill a swan, Mani Badar buys it from them, the swan turns into a girl, she creates a golden palace; Khan sends MB with a difficult On an errand, tells his wife to come to him; she turns into a throat, flies to her palace; the khan tells him to burn with the gorlinka, she escapes; MB returns, meets his wife, his dogs tear Khan to parts; 2) the epic "Old Dansaran riding a white horse"; poor Dansaran catches a swan in his snare, who asks him not to kill; every morning he finds food cooked; on the third day, the swan turns out to be a girl D. marries her; two generals send D. away on an assignment, try to burn his wife in a cast-iron house, she flies away like a sparrow; D. returns, finds his wife, burns generals in a cast-iron house]: Poppe 1981:101- 102; 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 better, that's the belt; one tells the following story; he is the son of a blind singer; the khan adopted him when his father died at the khan's feast; the boy grew up, but missed his father, remembered the song "girl born 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 put the plumage 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; answered 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 pity for the young man and she promised to marry him for 8 years; he gave her clothes, she buried them, and put a golden suburgan above this place (no further translated)]; Dagurs: Bender, Su Huana 1984 [in the north, Chunjina is Hungduledi Mergen's older sister; his fiancée is Tarelan, third daughter of Tulamir Mergen; in the south, Archuni Mergen with three wives; while XM is not at home, A. took his sister away; she managed to write about it in blood; XM jumps to save her; the horse orders to kill the guards and spies AM - boar, owl, snake; the snake must be hit from the inside by cutting his heart; XM jumps into his mouth, hurts his heart, but blood the snake poisoned him, he lies breathless; the horse resorts to TM for help, he rides his 8-legged horse, but cannot defeat AM; his daughter tries unsuccessfully to revive XM; he is revived by a heavenly maiden; XM marries both; kills AM's sons, after a hard battle, himself, then his three wives; brings his sister home, but during this time her heavenly wife and two children were taken to heaven by her heavenly father; HM climbs there from East Mountain through deer antlers that have grown to the sky; finds sons and wife; wife gives a hat to protect her head and feather to moderate heat or cold; father-in-law offers tests; strongmen hit XM with iron with sticks on the head (the hat is protected); he is put in an icy cellar, then in a hot cellar (the feather is warmed and cooled); he gets a wife, and their children go down to the ground back on the antlers of the deer; they live well; XM's sister married a good hunter]: 69-82; Kevin et al. 1994 [Kurugure and Karegure live with their mother; while they're hunting, two heavenly maidens descend from heaven, asking the woman if her sons are at home, theirs dog and falcon; when they find out not, they take off their clothes from their feathers, help around the house; the mother told the sons; they pretended to go hunting, hid, burned their feather clothes, took the maidens as wives; the Dagurs are theirs descendants]: 80; sirongolas [{the scan does not contain page 223}; the old man gave the young man a trap to catch a heavenly maiden on the lake for her gold bracelet; he gave it to Prince Yamantaka; the nobleman advises the king to take her away; The king orders to kill her son; the girl put on the crown she was wearing on the lake, left Y. on the lake, giving her bracelet, and flew away herself; I went to look for her; went to two butting rocks, followed by a spring, where she came Y.'s wife's maid; he threw a bracelet into her jug; his wife recognized him, her father allowed her to live with Y.; out of 20 Darikha, this is a real Nogon Darikha]: Potanin 1893, No. 30:223-224; Baraba Tatars [man leaned to the river for a drink, Peri grabbed his beard, told him to give what he did not know at home; at home, a man finds out that he had a son; at the age of 16, he went to look for peri, three old Peri sisters give advice consistently; first 37, then 3 more pigeon-daughters of Peri will arrive to swim, take off their clothes; the young man must take medium clothes out of three; peri demands to identify the bride among 40 girls, that warns that a fly will sit on her nose; the young man takes Peri's daughter as his wife; he tells her to uproot the forest by morning, plow, sow, bake bread; the peri do this, then again; the father-in-law locks the young in the bathhouse; leaves his spit to answer, turns her husband and herself into a needle and thread, they go out through the gap; the father sends a chase; the daughter turns 1) her husband into millet, herself into a reaper; 2) her husband into a mosque, herself into a grandfather; father she 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, the wife does not tell him to kiss his younger sister, she kisses him, 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 the peri]: Dmitrieva 1981, No. 6:111-115; Siberian Tatars (Tobolsk) [(excerpt); after his travels, Zyhanza remains 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 fly in; two throw off their feather clothes, become girls, bathe; the third says he smells a person; but still joins the first two; Z. picks up 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; Siberian Tatars (Tarsky District, Omsk Region, Irtysh) [Seyfulmulyuk found it in the pantry father's portrait of a beautiful woman, went to look for her; my father gave a ring to help; he came to an empty city, opened the doors of the palace with the help of a ring, where the beautiful Malika, kidnapped by the diva; S. hides, and M. asks the returning diva, where he keeps his soul; in the middle of the river there is another chest in which there are two pigeons; S. killed them, the divas died; M. recognized the portrait: this is Peri Fatheljemal's daughter; S. and M. found her; she agrees to become S.'s wife, but sets three conditions {not named}; S. brought his wife to his father's house; a son was born; once he was bitten by a dog, but F. did not even pay attention; S. was angry; F.: violated the first condition; was born daughter, grew up, F. pushed her into a flaming oven; S. scolds his wife again, and daughter plays with hot coals; F.: broke the second condition, I will not wait for the third mistake; a trough came down from the sky, F. took a daughter and flew away to spin among the stars]: Prelovsky 2003:43-54; Chulym Turks [three swan maidens (aka ducks) fly in, clean the house of three brothers; the elder, middle brothers see nothing, the younger hides the girls' clothes, the brothers get married; the devil comes out of the chimney under the hearth to drink women's blood; the younger brother shoots, the hell, taking the youngest's wife, falls into the ground; the brothers let the youngest down on a rope; a woman gives a trait - the iron king vodka, who 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 woman-born son, a devil, brothers they pick up the woman, the elder cuts off the rope, lifting the younger one; he falls; sees how the mouse has recovered, gnawing the grass, heals himself; the Kite cooks meat, lifts 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 it to his leg; the hero marries, kills his older brother]: Porotova 1980:76-80; Khakas (Sagai) [the motive seems to be present; the swan (or another waterfowl)]: Radloff 1886 (Proben.., Bd 6:122) in Halto 196:327; Altaians: Garf, Kuciyak 1978 [old Tanzagan sees two giant frogs fighting; kills a brown arrow; At the request of a white horse, his blood, once in the lake, kills other brown frogs; the white frog sends T. whatever he wants; he asks his wife, sees a white goose, she turns into a beautiful, younger daughter of Kurbustan; people set fire to T.'s house out of envy; wife and three children rise to the sky in geese, turn into a constellation of the White Goose; T. makes a wife for himself; the head turns into old woman, giving birth to T. Altaians]: 205-212; Sherstova, 227, 232 in Sagalaev, Oktyabrskaya 1990 [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, 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, whom BH would find on a full moon night under a birch tree wrapped in wolf skin, fed with milk to three maralukhas]: 70; Tuvans: Vatagin 1971, No. 14 (Bai-Taiginsky District) [=Taube 1978, No. 35:175-186; poor orphan Ösküs-ool is hired by the khan to remove millet while the moon is in the sky; asks the moon not to enter, she does not draws attention; the khan beats an orphan; the same happens to the sun; Kurbustu Khan's three daughters in the form of swans go down to swim in the lake, throw off their clothes from their feathers, the orphan hides the youngest's clothes; gives her she says that her wings now smell human, she won't be taken back, becomes O.'s wife; Karaty Khan demands 1) to cause rain; 2) stop it; 3) build a glass palace; wife puts on swan wings, ties it to a birch tree in the sky, and then unties 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 near the Sun and Moon; O. leads 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 army, it destroys the evil Karata Khan and his men, O. feasts], 20 [a lonely girl Shever-Chechen sewed clothes and shoes; Shuzhen Khan ordered Byzaaakai-Taraakai's servant to call her, forced 7 years to work; she became pregnant; S. did not pay her, told BT to throw her into the wilderness; he made her a plague, left her knife, saddle, bridle, sweat, wished to have a son; she gave birth, found a skinny man in an abandoned camp foal; the son grew up to be a hero, the foal became a heroic horse; 7 geese flew in from the south, shouted, Where are you, Eker-ool; Shch hears this, but forgets to tell his son three times; hangs coal earrings in his ears, for the son to pay attention; says; in the morning E. did not go hunting, was going to shoot geese, one goose came down and became a girl; they are daughters of Kuskun Kujura Khan, she is the youngest and single; E. went south; KK tells his sons-in-law to kill Demir Ala-Maral, who lives in the Shil-Taiga; only E. was able to do so; KK celebrates his victory; his mother told her story; E. sent Sh. and Khansha to a place where she had not yet There were people, BT made khan, Sh. named his son Bazaakay, ordered his calves to herd, made daughters as maids; held a feast and returned to his home]: 130-139, 157-164; Potanin 1883, No. 110 [the lake dried up; lived in a cave Aji Surji Bakshi ordered Tung Karatta Khan's servants to watch; five ducks arrived, the lake was filled with water; one turned to Sambai-Dagin, she is caught with an arcana; she tells her to build it calico house; at the direction 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 exchanges her from them for her own 108 wives and all the cattle; Jyusun Khan is at war; TC tells his wife to wear a winged coat, give the second to his mother, fly away; TC became a rat, gnawed through the enemy's bows and armor; Jyusun Khan suggests duel; their strength is equal, they have become friends; SD flew to her father Ter-han, Tayanji-kuly blew up her iron house; KH, becoming a thin boy, meets a huge Raven along the way, then a huge Wolf; they answer that they are going to peck the eyes of the horse X, there is a KX horse; KH beats them, breaks off his legs and nose to the current size; Aza replies that he is going to kill and eat the TC himself; TC dried him into powder, from it spiders, horseflies, mosquitoes have formed; TC pierces a giant rock with an arrow, makes a dry path through the swamp with an arrow; each time before that, it turns two hair torn from the horse into two crows, those they report that there is no road, but the horse tells us to shoot; there are two boys on the seashore; they say that they supply SD water to wash in two gold vessels; TC puts the ring and bracelet left to him in the vessels; when he sees TK, Ter-Khan agrees to recognize him as his son-in-law; orders 1) to kill the snake Amyrga Mogus; he brings the lung of the killed snake that filled the whole house; 2) the Temir-Mogus snake; she used to eat people, and now stones; TC brings her 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], 155 [the lama suggests that the khan poison the lake, extract the wealth of the water khan from it; he asks poor old man Har-Goryochi to prevent this; the old man threatens the lama, the lama leaves, the khan torments his ticks; sent by the water khan advise HG to ask for bags outside the door as a reward, not to put them on the ground; after receiving the bags, HG goes to the wise lama, he sends to another; the other indicates the source of youth, HG bathes, becomes young; 8 heavenly maidens come to the spring to swim once a month; they can be caught, because the bag received by HG contains a golden rope that is tied to the sun and a month; HG catches the daughter of the horse-headed Geniryn Khan, takes her to Mani Vetyr Khan, to whom she is promised; for this, MV gives him her daughter; the former 180 wives of MB want to get rid of their daughter-in-law; they persuade MV's father to kill her - the only way he supposedly will escape danger; his daughter-in-law flies away; MB follows the llama into the sky, throws the ring into his wife's sister's jug (she came to get water to wash her sister, who was dirty on the ground); wife finds a ring, MB is recognized as her husband, they return to earth; the conspiratorial adviser was torn with ticks, 180 wives were tied to horses, MV's father was expelled to the desert]: 373-379, 523-527.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 186 [sister tells her brother to drink wolf and pork milk, he gains strength; tells his wife to take a swan in golden plumage; the old woman gives a handkerchief, a ball of thread, a cup, ring; a 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 the Swan calls him husband; she flies away, teaches how to get to her; her father tells the stallion to be tamed (the young man tames, following his wife's advice); father and mother want to eat them, send a worker after them; the wife turns her husband into a house, themselves into the 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; his wife lets him down three dogs, they find him and revive him; 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 off their feather clothes, turn into girls; the older brother hides a bowl and a spoon, hides under the roof; the girls cook bowls and spoons, scratch the hidden stomach, the steam burns him from food, they put on feathers, fly away; the same with the middle brother; younger does not hide a bowl and spoon, puts a box next to him, hides feather clothes in it, marries girls to himself and her brothers; when husbands go hunting, wives secretly moisten their flint; older brother goes for fire to the Frozen Old Woman (Gefrierhase Alte); she tells me to say 7 tales, the elder 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; younger tells tales, the old woman runs away herself, he brings fire; the brothers returned home]: 47-51; northern Khanty (Obdorsk, son's dialect) [three brothers live in a hut, take turns staying to cook ; the elder hears three swans fly in; three women come in, scoop hot meat on the cook's stomach; when the brothers return, he replies that the pot has tipped over; the same with the middle brother; younger Kemyas hid between the beams, burned swan clothes, three women became brothers' wives; when they left, the men tell them not to play cards; they play, the seven-headed Menk-Iki comes, plays, wins, takes women away; K. goes in search, consistently sleeps with three old people, each forges iron; the latter says that M. has an employee, a man the size of a squirrel tail, he has an iron club; I must tell him that got lost, throw a club at him, take his form, bring seven sledges of firewood into M.'s house in armfuls; this is what happened; he feeds M.; he put a ring into a cup of water, the eldest woman recognized him; in the morning, the women ran away; K. fed M. so much that he went crazy; seven knives hung in the sky, K. cut them off, M.'s heads fell; his torso is chasing K.; those old men pierce him with iron walks; then they put them in the iron top, people throw it into the Ob; the brothers got their wives back; they were beaten, a white pebble fell from the eldest and middle, not from the youngest - it's not her fault; K. and his wife went down the Ob, the middle one went up, the eldest to the Urals]: Steinitz 2014, No. 3:219-226; Eastern Khanty (Vakh river) [the daughter of an old man and an old woman swallows everyone; the son asks the mother who she likes best; she replies that the daughter; the son put on the skin swan, came to the lake, where the daughters of the Sun woman flew to swim; they took him to their place, he married alone; cries, homesick; his wife gave him a comb and a pebble; at home, his sister plays with skulls 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 part without a heart; the wife treats her husband, he dies and then comes to life; this is the Month]: Lukina 1990, No. 5:65; the southern Khanty (Verkhne-Demyanskaya volost) [after returning from hunting, two brothers did not find a third in the house, blood on the floor; but his brother only wanted to make sure they loved him; the other two got angry and threw him into the forest; he came to town, only two houses had light; for saving him from the ogre they promise him the most beautiful of three daughters ; at night he cut off the leg of a black rider with a shovel; but did not receive a wife; in the second city the same (a gray horseman, an ear with a gold earring); in the third city, five houses have light - four rejoice, in the fifth they cry, 20 girls and mother; the same (white rider, three fingers with a ring); the young man came to the tower, ate, hid; three swans flew in, took off their swan skins, became girls, began to feast; they tell how they lost legs, ear, fingers; the young man tore his skins and married the youngest girl]: Patkanov 1999:386-389; 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 and 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: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 19 [when Eujuyen leaves to hunt, his younger brother Khudzhugur stays at home; each time seven Siberian birds arrive, ask if Yu has left, go down to play; when Yu returns, nothing has been done, XX replies that he overslept; Yu . hides, grabs one Siberian, he turns into a girl, B. marries her; she asks XX what to give him to return her fluff (feather clothes); XX replies that frogs, beetles, worms, snails; she collects them for him, he pulls out her fluff, she flies away; Y. flies on horseback to the upper world; the bird advises you to become an ermine, pinch his wife's child; she arrives to scream, Yu plucks her fluff, she dies; Yu . flies to Mr. Pleiades, Lord of the Month, Lord of the Sun, gets everyone's daughter; dresses up his Siberian wife in her clothes; heavenly wives come, think that their husband is dead; Pleiades daughter can turn 3 years ago, a deceased person into a person lying unconscious; daughter of the Month - as if he had just fallen asleep, daughter of the Sun - so that he could run right away; each jumps over the corpse, reviving woman; when they see that she is a woman, they fly away; Yu returns home with his wife]: 219-229 (other translations of the same text in Khudyakov 1890, No. 3:74-80; Ergis 1964, No. 55:188-191); Ergis 1967b, No. 173 (consolidated summary of Khudyakov's recording and an archival text of unknown dialect) [the older brothers are smart, the younger brothers are silly; the elder married a Siberian girl (crane) he caught swimming ( or danced); the youngest finds and returns her feathers to her; she flies away; the eldest comes for her to the upper world; burns her feathers, she dies; with the help of heavenly shamans - daughters of the Sun, Month and 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 the Siberian Siberian River, most likely northeastern) [Siberian flies to the lake, takes off 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 abaasa's daughters, ES chooses the eighth, which saved; flies home with her, lives happily]: 204; 1974 [(=Ergis 1964-1967 (1), No. 55:188-191; Western in the 1860s by Khudyakov: Verkhoyansky collection 1890:74-80); old brother, hunter Uchugei Udyuyen (Good Yudiyan), the youngest is homebody Koo h ae'an Khodugur (Khudugur); seven white cranes (Siberian cranes) began to fly to them and play since the 20th; older brother caught a Siberian bird and married her; soon she found her feathers, turned into a Siberian rod and flew away; HUGH flew to the cloud, found his wife, wiped off all her feathers and burned her, causing her to lose what was hidden in their 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 Shaman; promising to marry on a shaman and disguised his wife in their clothes, made them revive her; the shamans, seeing the resurrected woman and mistaking her for HUW, 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; (cf. Western Evenks (Ingarigdov, Katanga District) [Charchikan stole sons from a stupid bird Kingit (Kingit (name one of the Mongolian families in the 12th century (Rashid Eddin); two or three years later asks her why she is crying; K. says that tomorrow Thunder will kill her sons; C. hides them, her sons died from the impact of Thunder, but have come to life; grateful K. is ready to deliver C. to any land for this; he wants to go to the heavenly hole (North Star); C. prepares two moose, feeds K. with meat for four days of flight; K. asks not to speak the sky that she brought it; C. comes to a beautiful woman; she seems that the fire is bursting; sees C. only after copulating with him; says that there is no earth in the sky, sends C. on a winged horse to the middle peace to bring land; the horse falls on the path, the old woman asks to pick up the fallen sledges, holds C.'s hand; the horse flies away]: Vasilevich 1938, No. 38:35-36; retelling and explanations in Vasilevich 1959:187-188); Western Evenks (Verkhnelensky, Tutura) [the old man and the old woman have three daughters; after becoming swans, they swim in the lake; ask to hide them from 70 vagrants; the father refuses because their daughters did not help with the housework; the eldest became a needle, two were taken away; the elder father sent him to Akshire-Bakshire, he would hide it; his ears were like cauldrons, his eyes were like stars, his nose was like a foot, his chin was like an oar, reeds on his knees; she went]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 82:118; the Evenks of the Baikal Region [Letylkack stays at home while her older brother is hunting; swans fly in twice, shed their feathers, tell them to feed them, scratch her face, fly away; L. lies to his brother, as if she has scratched herself; 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, steals his wife's clothes again, she has to return to him; she finds her plumage again, flies away forever]: Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 9:33-35; Evenki {more precisely, no affiliation is specified} [ Nivanikan hunts, Kukeki does the housework; three women come down from the sky, comb K.'s hair; N. watches for women, hides a pair of silver wings; his wife asks K. to return them, for it gives that K. did not eat; it turns out to be a deer stomach; N. kills K., goes to look for his wife; the old woman sends him to her sister; she tells him how to reach the place where his wife is now; he is an ermine runs past a kite that covers the sun; after killing two deer, he throws them to two bears along the sides of the path; throws a comb on the rock, which becomes a ladder; after killing two goats, he throws them to two wolves, his miss; 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 the needle away from each other, N. breaks the needle, gives each half; the same with boys quarreling over an arrow; the old woman asks if he will put a pillow to the mountain or to the shore; N. replies that to the mountain, wakes up at home; digs a hole under K.'s bed, he fails, kills girls and boys, says he does not return to the shore]: Voskoboynikov 1960a, No. 11:79-83; Far Eastern Evenks (Uchursko-Zeisky): Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [ {also began in Vasilevich 1947:275}; Torganay hunts, his younger brother Chanykoy is at home, dirty; T. is surprised that he has become clean; C. admits that two swan girls wash and comb him; C. grabs one, T. hides her clothes, marries her; three days later, the 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; T. comes to the foot of the mountain, turns a deer into a stump, himself into a child; the eagle brings him to him; T. ties himself to his leg, so he gets to the top of the mountain; finds his little son, nurses him 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 to marry the daughter of the Sun; she is guarded by a one-legged, one-armed Awashi; he eats half a berry with half a spoon; H. flies in (the text breaks off)]: 185-191 (similar text in Vasilevich 1966, No. 15:263-267); Myreeva 2009b (probably Uchursky): 128-145 [in the depths of bygone years at the mouth of five deep-water rivers with thundering valleys and blazing capes, under a sprawling tree, a young man Tyvgunai appeared; he does not know where he came from; he made a bow, saw two ducks, but did not shoot (maybe they belong to people, it will be bad if I kill); they fly away, sing: grateful that they did not kill; one says, left a thimble on the bump, tells me to take it - it will help; T. came to the camp, there is a rich leader; the daughter promises to the one who pulls a pierced bow out of the ground; no one can; T. did not try it, returned under his tree; there is a man sitting there, saying that he is his older brother (his name is Cholbon Chokuldai), looking him for several years; T. talks about the leader, his daughter and bow; CH: enter my horse's left ear, there's food; go into the right ear - there are clothes; T. gained strength, dressed in armor, on a huge heroic horse, both arrived; HCH pulled out the bow, the shaft broke, the arrow flew to the sky; the brothers flew on horseback to the upper world to find out where the arrow had hit; there were people like mosquitoes, cattle like spiders; smoke from the ground, there half charred old man and old woman; old man: liver disease, give me some liver; old woman: they gave it to me to make my skins, if I give it to you, I will be hit on the head with a gold poker; then the same about brain (they will hit the head with a poker); then the old woman to the old man: when you were young and you were defeated by heroes, they flew to the upper world, taking us with them, I left a two-year-old boy HCH for larch, and under the branched tree of six-month-old T.; when they heard the brothers break into the plague, the parents were happy; mother: there are invincible heroes in this country; they are now lying because they came from the middle world some death took half of their bodies off them; they fry us on fire and ask us who we left in our homeland; gathered shamans to find out if those who failed to predict are being killed; the brothers fed parents came unnoticed in the plague of heroes; the shaman began to spin: the young men who released death are here; the heroes do not believe, they want to cut off the shaman's head; she asks the young men to appear so as not to be killed; two heroes Singkeltuken Eden (SE) and Begaltukan Eden (BE) ask the brothers to return their full bodies, because it is shameful to kill cripples; they did; during the battle, HC sees nothing, begins weaken; his horse tells him to hit him with a silver hatchet, then he will see a raft with a smoke smoke attached to his horse; he is divorced by an old woman, she must be killed; HCH did it; SE offers to take a break, leads to himself, offers to sit down; HH fails and flies down; SE turns to someone below: I let you down the strongest hero; in response: if he drives cattle in front, they would keep him alive for several days; HH throws lumps of clay, they turn into cattle; HH leads to plague, where people are smoked and eaten; an old woman says to HC: if you smell this country, you won't return to earth; HC and the local leader watch for 30 days at each other without closing his eyes; then the leader closed his eyes, three days later the second; HC saw a bell above him and a hole in the upper world far above; became a spider, then a bird, crawled, flew; jumping into the hole became human again, then the bell rang; the monster leaned out: and let the people of the middle world come to me with cattle, then sometimes they can come back; so shamans pay for cattle; HC led SE to fight against a rock where sky and earth come into contact; there the sky is like scissors; HF was the first to jump, the sky cut off the tip of the horse's tail; when SE jumped, he was cut in half; HC found T.; he was barely alive his enemy BE too; EB fired an arrow, ordering him to hit a fish in the sea and bring it to him; the arrow did it, the fish is the soul of HH; T. sends an arrow to the larch for a little swallow; she is about to slip into the hole in the upper world; T. remembered the thimble, threw it, he plugged the hole, the arrow brought the swallow; BE: none of us will win, we will not fight anymore, we will exchange souls; T. and HC took parents and returned to earth; T. married a girl who gave a thimble, and HCH married the daughter of a hero whose bow he pulled out], 150-154 [each time Tenenge does not give roe deer to hunters; once they beat him terribly, whipping him with twigs; he weakened, called the roe deer; she tells me to go to the lake, geese will arrive, take off their wings, we must choose the best ones; the geese are trying to take away their wings, T. he hardly overcame her, she gave birth to a boy, led her to her own parents to the upper land; her father tells them to go to bring scattered flour; the roe deer shows where it is, tells squirrels, chipmunks, birds to collect; then the roe deer tells them 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 mine son (whose arrow he caught); T. gave flour to the old man; that wife does not give, orders to bring the lost prison; the roe deer leads, T. took the jail; made the raft, pierced a huge huchen with a jail, and he would hit him; T. fell into the water and died]; 2013 (Uchursky) [Torgandun and his younger brother Chanikol live alone, not born a woman; T. realizes that he did not descend from heaven (otherwise there would be dew around his neck), did not rise from lower world (would have left a footprint), but grew up like grass; C. 35 years old lies in the mud in the plague; two girls from the upper world flew in, washed C., put everything in order; the same for the next two days; C. is forced tell his brother everything; T. tells him to grab the girls tomorrow, and he himself will be in ambush; hides under a pile of chips; the youngest swan girl feels T., does not go down, the eldest Gakhantyma decides to go down, even if T. would have to marry; C. grabbed a swan girl who tried to fly away, but T. grabbed them both, took away their clothes, hung them on the top of the horse riding; one day T. went hunting, G. asked C. I wanted her to ask him to cut down the horse riding; he asked for a tendon cauldron, cut down the horse riding in the evening; G. knocked over the boiling pot on C. died, and G. flew away wearing her swan clothes; the crow did not knows where to look for G., sends him to a crow sitting on a horse riding tree; the raven asks T. to kill a deer for him, points to deer that can take T. to a mountain on the edge of the world; there is a larch with a nest nearby a three-headed eagle; you have to kill a deer, kill an eagle with an arrow, pretend to be an eagle, the eagle will raise it to the nest, feed it; you have to make a tambourine out of reindeer skin; keep the eagle awake; and when he falls asleep, tie himself to his feet, hit a tambourine; with fear, the eagle will carry himself to the meadows of the upper world; there are many deer in the upper world; G. in clothes through which you can see the body, through the body - bones, through bones - the brain; 33 brass and iron boys serve; they hit the deer with T.'s foreheads in front of T.'s eyes, T. lost consciousness; when he woke up, followed the trail; the same again at the house of beautiful Solkokchon; T. meets the female with a teal, who lulls child G.; younger sister G. again does not tell her to go down, but G. goes down to feed the child, T. comes out of hiding, tears her swan clothes, finally marries; their son grew up quickly, mother gave him the name Yiwulchen; I. grabs a female deer by the leg, she flies with him to a mountain in the upper world; says that he is destined for the daughter of the owner of the upper world, Gevan the old man, who rides seven stars; leaves his giant brother, who first tries to kill I. by throwing him up, then offers competition; 1) pick up a cast-iron ball frozen in the ground, 2) jump from balls placed on a big one the distance from each other (I. does everything); the hero of the upper land Cholbondor ("riding Venus") is satisfied, gives I. to his sister; (further on the struggle of the heroes of the upper world and the exploits son I.)]: 41-83; Evenks (Far Eastern?) [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.'s wife asks T. to get her hidden in the tree wings, gives toys for it - dog feces; flies away; E. comes for her, where the jay makes child E. and that woman cry for his mother to come; E. grabs his wife, hits, returns]: Varlamova 2004, No. 4 : 146-164; Far Eastern Evenks (Amur): Bulatova 1980 [Tenenge hides sika deer from hunters {in the 1987 publication - roe deer}, who promises to help; tells you to go to the lake, they will fly there geese, they will shed their wings, we must take the best; T. takes wings, fights a goose girl, wins; she gives birth to a child, calls him to her parents in the upper world; her father tells 1) to collect what he has scattered once flour; a deer shows that place, tells chipmunks, birds, squirrels to collect; tells T. to go to the lake, there is an elk, give him moss, T. climbed his moose on his horns, they became the ground; two boys shoot from crossbow, one T. catches the arrow with his mouth; these are his sons; 2) find the prison lost by his father-in-law; the deer shows how to find; T. hits the huchen with a spear, he hits his tail, T. fell into the water, died]: 102-104 (= 1987, No. 7:125-128); Malchakitova 2003 [two older brothers hunt, younger fool Ivulder remains in charge of the tent; two girls arrive, clean, cook, comb I.'s hair, fly away until the brothers return; I. replies by saying that he did everything himself; the same the next day; on the third day, the brothers spy, call I. to hunt, tell them to kill an elk, which is supposedly driven, rolled down mountains stone, I. dies; brothers return to the tent, one dresses like I., the other hides; they catch girls, burn their wings, get married]: 225-226; Evens: Danilov, Danilova 1991 [when the earth Born, three brothers met the old man, who began to cough; younger Matthele burst out laughing, the middle Oyine grinned, the elder Inkenmel cried with pity; the old man told him to become the master of the middle land. the ancestor of the Russians, O. is the ancestor of the Yakuts, the M. are the Evens, they are the poorest and helpless; the horse tells the starving O. to put a snare on partridges and hares, then put a fishing net; O. went on horseback down the river, the wolf began to eat the horse from behind, then ate everything, told him to sit on horseback; M. and I. live together, I. goes hunting, at which time three women come, cook and clean; I. stayed on guard, He saw white birds arrive, shed their plumage, became women, he hid the wing of one of them, Gevak; one day she gives M. a golden ball, for which he gives her the wing hidden by his 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; a few years later he sees an iron bird lurking the cradle; I. became a mouse, crawled, grabbed its wing, all the dancing women have disappeared, G. is left with the child; she tells I. to pour a mountain, make a meadow so that the child has pine nuts, berries, tells me to make a lake, I. does everything; the wife tells me to take dry pit, jump over the hole to pierce I.'s dry barrel; so it happened, she burned the body, was left alone; the son grew up; the father's head tells her to shoot, the son shot, I. came to life, caught up with his wife, hung it on larch; shot into the sky, 20 swans and cranes descended, the swans became deer, the first crane was Kholuk, G.'s sister, 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 is the youngest, stays at home; sees seven swans arrive, take off their feathers, become girls, play ball; they do not tell B. to tell his brother about them; B. knits knots on clothes, but still forgets; W. guards, the swans notice him, fly away; when the swans arrived for the fourth time, W. hid well, hid him the skin of one of the girls; took her as his wife; she offers B. to play ball, gives him the ball for B. giving her her clothes hidden in a hollow driftwood; flies away towards the midday sun, telling her 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 it; gives water, meat, taking them out of his sleeping bag; W. does not drink, does not eat, hides them under clothes; the hidden disappears, he is full; the old woman sends to her older sister, the same place; she gives a plaque, you have to point it to the sea, it will freeze, you can cross the ice; W. ran over the ermine; seven are playing there girls, the child is nursed alone by a bird, tells him that his father has come; the girls beat her, they do not believe her; W. found, burned his wife's skin; the wife and the bird became girls; they crossed the sea in one step; houses from B. only bones; W. revived it with living water]: 111-117; Lavrilje, Matic 2013 (Tomponsky District of Yakutia, pos. 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, swans fly back; 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) [Windia sees on the lake, three bathing women who took off their golden wings; she creeps up with the mouse, hides her wings, does not return her younger sister; then gives one wing, she flies away, but returns to W.; he comes with she lives on the seashore; men want to take possession of a beautiful woman, tell W. bring 1) a bear, 2) a spotted bear, 3) a colorful seal; he performs tasks; 4) build a house overnight; his wife says that now we must run; 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; ties them on his clothes knots 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 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 his wife's skin; the babysitter bird has become as a girl, all three returned home; W. revived B. from bones]: 51-58; Robbeck 2005 [when going hunting, the son tells his mother not to touch his bed; she corrects her, a crow flies out of there, she hits her with a scraper with a scraper with with a handle for making skins; so three times; after the third time, the son leaves, comes to the village of ravens; the mother of a crow, whose wing is broken, reproaches the hunter, her father does not tell - you will frighten her son-in-law; their daughter turns into a beautiful girl; when sending her son-in-law and daughter back, crow parents give them deer; the hunter's mother is happy]: 227-228.

Amur - Sakhalin. Manchus: Zheleznyakov, Tsendina 2005 [During the period of Buyantu Setsen Khan, the ancestor of Ligden Khan, a capable person named Nurhatsi-Bagatur from Jurchid Manju lived in Mukden, who is a descendant of the Chinese Altan Khan, whose Manchu name was Taizu Khan. And since he was an extremely fair man, knowledgeable and wise in law, many people began to flock under his rule, and then the Manchus elevated him to emperor, and gave him the years of his reign name Tengares-Dzayagatu (= whale. Tien-ming 'Sent Down by the Sky' is the motto of the reign of Nurhatsi, the founder of the Qing Dynasty). This is the reason why Tengares-Zayagata was named. In the homeland of this khan, there was one high mountain called Undur-Bogdo (High Holy), at the very top of which there was a garden and a small lake. From time to time, clouds and mists enveloped the top of that mountain, making it a wonderfully beautiful sight. And when that Jurchid Taizu Khan began to look for the reasons for the fog, it turned out that heavenly maidens were descending into this lake and swimming there. Jurchid Taizu Khan found out about this and chose the right time, made his way to the lake and hid in the garden. When the fog came down, the heavenly maidens came and began swimming in that lake. At this time, Taizu Khan grabbed one girl by the hand and abused her. This girl became pregnant and, after the due number of months, came to the lake and hid her newborn boy in the thickets of reeds. This boy was found by his father Taizu and raised him as a son, naming him after Undur-Bogdo. This is why Undur-Bogdo was elevated to emperor under the title of Tengeres Zayagata]: 105-106; Bäcker 1988, No. 4 [the young man was fed by animals in the forest, he is beautiful and strong; one day a dragon fell into the lake from the sky, broke; the young man dug a runoff from another lake, the water arrived, the dragon took off, the storm carried the young man to the sky; the local lake is much richer in fish; nine heavenly maidens fly there; one day they find a young man the youngest takes him as her husband; heavenly warriors tell her to return, threaten to kill him, but the dragon takes the lovers to earth; paves the Amur River (the "black dragon river"); from a young man and a heavenly maiden Jurchen]: 21-25; Nanai [Laterken is the younger brother, Mergen is the elder; M. has gone hunting, L. sees seven swans, invites them to go down; they took off their swan clothes, combed their hair, washed L., ordered answer M. that he did everything himself; M. does not believe, L. tells 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. took the seventh as a wife]: Medvedev 1992:149-151; Orochi: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 14 [Ngetyrka stays at home, his older brother hunts; seven swans arrive, turn into girls, clean the house, they wash and comb N.; then tell him to get dirty again, scatter fir branches spread on the floor; N. does not do this; lies as if he combed his bird's foot, wiped his face with bird's down; brother shows that this is impossible; N. tells the truth; brother tells him to sew his younger sister's robe to N.'s robe next time, hides himself; grabs the girl; she gives birth to him a son; the boy stops crying when N. speaks to him that his mother's clothes are in a box; the woman tickles N., makes him say how he stopped crying the baby; puts on feathers, flies away, taking her son; the husband shoots at the flying swan, shoots his son's little finger; meets the servant, asks what he is doing and speaks at home; kills him, takes his form, comes to his wife, puts his son's little finger; appearance (skin?) the servant dumps in the taiga; says that he killed a hare, in fact, a lot of moose, feeds his father-in-law and mother-in-law; returns home; N. stuck to the door, because contrary to his brother's warning, he ate fatty meat first, not lean; brother revives him], 15 [starting as in (14); N. immediately admits that he was cared for by Swans; brother meets not a servant, but an old woman; she gives him a teal, tells him to let him out when the person gets to goals; the teal calls the Swan to the shore, the man grabs it, tears the plumage; returns to N., he is glad]: 142-145, 145-147; 1978, No. 82 [(note p.150 borrowed fairy tale, probably of Manchu origin, but the motives of swan girls and hidden clothes are "always inherent in Oroch folklore"); 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 ground; his wife warned him not to eat chicken; he was met, given cock meat; he ate it and became a rooster, so the rooster meets the morning dawn]: 133-135; Medvedev 1992 [Ngetyrka, y he is an older brother; while he is hunting, 7 swans arrive, turn into girls, N. combed, everything is cleaned up; when he flies away, they tell him to smear his face, make a mess again; his brother does not believe that N. is himself combed (he says he combed himself with a bird's paw, his brother suggests doing it, it doesn't work); tells me to sew the youngest girl's robe next time to his robe and then call him; six the swans flew away, the youngest was stuck in a smoke hole; the older brother married her; hid the skin with feathers; a boy was born; stops crying only after N. tells him that his mother's skin his father hid it in a birch bark box; his brother's wife begins to tickle N., who confessed how he calmed the child down; the wife took the child and flew away; the father managed to shoot his son's little finger; the brother left meat for N. went to look for a wife; the servant rides on a sledge to buy firewood; answers that he serves a woman; if he wants to eat, he says, "Give me yukola!" ; when he comes, he throws the ax with a crash; winds the ropes for nets, calls the turntables "hochka"; the hero killed the servant, took his form; the hostess is angry that the servant does not know where the turntables are; when the hostess went out, the hero put his little finger to his son's hand; took his form; the girl's parents came to eat hare meat, and there was a pile of elk; the hero returned home, where N. stuck to the door; his brother tore him off, fed him ]: 353-355; 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 to his own, her elder brother grabs her, hides her birds' clothes in a box; while her husband is away, her son cries, wanting his mother's clothes; she takes her clothes, flies away with her son, the husband shoots his son's little finger; sends her son to the bird wife a decoy duck (given by an old woman), grabs his wife, rips off, burns her birds' clothes; when they returned, L. stuck to the door (because he ate good meat, not bad meat, as ordered); 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; the 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 her feathers, he burns them; at home, her sister stuck to the door; says that L.'s wife's seven sisters ate all the supplies]: 38-41; (cf. Bereznitsky 2009 [A Kalgama woman in duck guise arrives with other ducks; in a dream, the hunter finds out that he should wait for K. on the island; he ties a 200 m rope to his feet; he grabs K. and fights her, pulls something like a tinder mushroom between her legs; this is her talisman, the hunter should not talk about it for seven years, then K. will become his wife and help him hunt; K. lives with him, gives birth to a son, while hunting, a man kills six sables with one arrow; in fact, K. steals them from the traps of other hunters, gives them to him]: 137); Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [=Podmaskin 2013:125; seven girls- the twins flew to heaven, became the Pleiades (Nada Aziga); the hunter saw the sisters go down, left their clothes on the rocks, sailed into the sea; hid the clothes alone, she had to marry him; were born children; one day the wife saw her sisters go up to the sky, flew after them; the husband flew after 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 climbed sky, cold weather has come on earth]: 15; Wilta [West 1949; the wealthy couple has a girl Manuncan and a boy Deloney; D. chased three vazhenki, they flew to the sky; father warns that this is heavenly female heroes; mother gives D. a two-headed swan, he flies away on it to get a wife; one day a bird appears in the hole above the door, tells her to give her daughter, otherwise she will kill her; the daughter is happy to marry hero; 8 years have passed, but D. is still gone; (text is cut off)]: Petrova 1967, No. 7:114-115.

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 Northern 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 (one to seven); she learns from 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) by making 1,000 straw sandals or collecting a thousand oxen, the plant will grow to the sky, (2) or 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 looking at him 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; 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 to steal feather clothes youngest; he 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; 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, from Kanto to Kyushu, there are place names associated with swans everywhere; 4) "The Tale of Old Taketori", 10th century; the old man found a tiny maiden in the knee of bamboo, temporarily expelled from the moon, brought her home to his wife; it was time for her to return, she put on feather clothes, forgot everything earthly, flew away]; 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, sent his white dog to steal his youngest's feather clothes; built there Kami-no-ura house, began to live there with his heavenly wife, her sisters returned to heaven; they had two boys and two girls; mother found her clothes, returned to heaven]: 68; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 1 [poor man Mikeran goes swimming higher up the river than they usually swim; sees a kimono on the tree, a beret; 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 that the father will come, open the barn, where he will get an outfit of feathers for rice and millet; the wife took the children, flew to heaven, but dropped her youngest child, he fell from a height; her husband finds a note in a bamboo tube; he must bury a thousand pairs of wooden shoes and a thousand pairs of straw sandals, put it on top bamboo, in two or three years it will grow to the sky; M. found only 999 pairs; climbed to the top of bamboo, but a little short of the sky; the wife held out the shuttle, dragged her husband into heaven; heavenly father-in-law demands 1) for clear a field of a thousand chobs 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 (the same); 4) collect them all the next day (then However, the melons are already ripe); the 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; then all the melons are cut along, water gushes from them, the stream takes away 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 of the seventh month; the fallen child is alive, the mother She left him three coca of rice on the mountain once a year; some washed dirty clothes in the river, three coca shrunk to three, and the child disappeared]: 255-259; L.M. Yermakova, personal message 20.06.2013 [The heroine is a daughter The constellation Ursa Major, who descended to earth to help the man who buried his father pay off the funeral debt: she weaves the canvas, sells it and pays off debts. He violates her ban not to look at the night sky and sees that one star is missing. She returns to heaven with her child; since she has already desecrated herself by being on earth, she gives way to her younger sister, and she fits second in the constellation with her child. That's why another star comes second from above]; Ancient Japan (a written tradition) [in Taketori Monogatari (10th century), an old bamboo cutter finds a girl in a bamboo trunk; she an alien from the moon, where people do not know old age and death; at the end of the story, the lunar inhabitants follow her and take her back with them; before that, she drinks herself and gives the emperor a drink of immortality; he cannot endure separation from her and tells the court to open a drink on a certain mountain and set it on fire; since then, smoke has been visible over Fuji, which was an active volcano at the time]: Yermakova 2017:19; Japanese [in the mountains, a poor man saw a crane pinch by a fallen tree; he saved her, and soon a beautiful woman came to live with him; she put only two grains in the cauldron to cook rice; weaved an extraordinary cloth and She ordered her to be sold for 300 gold; gave birth to a daughter; when she grew up, her wife said that she was weaving the cloth by pulling out her feathers; she became a crane and flew away]: Markova 1956:44-47.

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 Burgmeister Chaiku 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 (Top of the Grass Stem) noticed three swans at the lake; they took off their wings and turned into girls and began to swim, then they 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 a swan girl; the young man took shelter by the lake and, when the swans who arrived turned into girls and went swimming, 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 that she needed to see her 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 that 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. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [mother with unmarried son, he is a shaman, camlates all the time; decided to take his wife away from Tynygyrgyn (creator god, Chukchi name); twisted the rope, twisted it, raised it on his back, went up to heaven, went to T., called himself a butterfly; T. has two wives - the daughter of the sun and the daughter of the night; the daughter of the sun T. called the groom of the comer; she gave the butterfly a basin of beetles, he ate everything; when T. came out, the butterfly first lowered his wife on a rope, then went down himself; made a woman out of snow; when T. went down to take his wife back, the butterfly offered him a woman out of the snow as his sister; he took her, and left the daughter of the sun butterfly; the woman taken to heaven gave birth in the spring; when she gave birth, it snowed; butterflies wife entered the ground and he himself too]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 16:218-225; central Yupik: Burrows 1926 [y foremen are three sisters, the youngest has one eye in the middle of her forehead; the brother goes hunting for a long time; keeps a goose in his parking lot; someone cooks and washes his clothes; he waits for the girl, she agrees to live with him , hiding her gooseskin; they have a child; once a younger sister said that her brother's wife did not dress her skins well, they were covered with blood; and in general she was a goose, eating dirt; the wife found her skin, put it on, took it son and flew south, putting one feather from the wing under the door; the man scolded his sister, went to look for his wife; found her in the bird world with her new husband a crane; the son recognized him; the crane had to leave, the man stayed with a goose wife; flew north with them in the spring; warned of traps]: 80; Gillham 1955:79-85 in Sheppard 1998 [a man steals the clothes of one of the female birds swimming in the lake; the others fly away, alone becomes his wife; usually followed by a story about his wife's return to the bird world and her husband following her]: 158; Kodiak [the chief's son follows five geese; they turn into girls, swim in the lake; he hides her youngest's clothes; she gives birth to him a son; his sister calls her a goose; she puts on her feather outfit, takes her son and flies away; her husband comes to Bird Heaven for her; sees a tree splitter along the way; the chips turn into salmon and trout; the 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 are not finished yet this procedure; in panic, she paints it whole black, it white; birds are reluctant to take the person back to the ground; the raven carries, falls, turns into a floating log; man turns into a beluga whale]: Golder 1903, No. 10:98-104; Bering Strait Inupiate: 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; netsilic [Kiwiok hides the clothes of one of the girls bathing; the others fly away as goose; the wife gives birth to two sons; teaches them to eat grass, not meat; collects feathers, flies away together with his sons; K. comes to a man who has a through hole in his back; he cuts his fin, the chips turn into salmon; K. pretends not to see a hole; the man sends salmon to transport K. across the lake to the village of Geese; sons recognize father; wife married to Goose; K. returns wife]: Rasmussen 1931:373-375; polar: Holtved 1951a, No. 36 [goose girls bathe with their feathers off; a person hides them, returns them, does not give them alone, takes her as a wife; she gives birth to two eggs, twins hatch from them; collects feathers, flies away with his mother; a man asks his mother to make him shoes with with a few soles; goes to look for a wife, bypassing the monsters sent by the Geese; meets a giant chopping willow; the chips turn into salmon and trout; the man lies that he came up to him from the front (so not saw 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 drives his wife's new husband, lives with her; she gives birth to two eggs, dies; he buries him; the giant gives him a whip; with it 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 enters, 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; 1901b, 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 with geese; The goose wife accidentally gets dirty with whale blood; she attaches feathers to 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 the 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 [?] : Rooth 1971:340; helmet [After completing the difficult tasks of his cannibal father-in-law, Beaver gets his consent to marry his two daughters, takes them to the human world; father-in-law gives his daughters a pen that will be stay dry as long as their husband is loyal to them; one day Beaver meets his first wife; new wives see the feather wet, go up into the sky; it gets terribly hot, people die, alive only Beaver and his brothers remain; Beaver goes to look for his wives who have left him; his father-in-law comes to his overnight stay, replacing their hanged pants; Beaver throws his father-in-law's pants into the fire early in the morning; he admits his defeat, rises to heaven, he is the Sun]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:436-441; tagish [8 brothers saw a mouse, began to push it into the water, the youngest saved it; he has an unloved dirty wife; she offers him marry the daughter of the Sun; he sees smoke on the grass, enters a tiny house, there is an old woman; he falls asleep when he wakes up, finds himself in a big house, the old lady has cooked a lot of food; she gives him a piece of ice a whetstone, two pieces of dried fish, tells you to bring blue jay and hummingbird skins, buttercup stems, branches of various trees; in a clearing, shoot an arrow from the buttercup stem into the sky, then the second one, then launch the rest of the arrows, they form a ladder to the sky; when he climbs it, he drags the stairs with him; he hears the bell ringing, it is the daughters of the Sun swinging on a swing (people did not know what a swing was before); wearing the skin of a jay, she flies up to the daughters of the sun, drives him away; then she flies up in the form of a hummingbird, the youngest of the sisters catches him, the eldest buys hummingbirds from her for a spoon from the abalone shell; in the morning, her sister they wake up, the man lies between them; the Sun sends a slave to find out what their daughters are doing, who reports that they are with a man; sisters tell the man that many men tried to marry them, but the father of all ruined; The sun sends his son-in-law to bring water, there are two eagles on the way, a man throws food to them, they let him in; the sun puts the man in the cauldron, cooks for a long time, but he is intact, clinging to the lid in the form of a hummingbird cauldron and holding a piece of ice; (hereinafter referred to as the pass in the record; the Sun sends the eldest daughter with the man to the ground, gives a pen; if the husband is not faithful, the pen will get wet); they come in a boat to the person's parents; that sends his younger brother to bring his wife, but the boy sees only a ray of sunlight in the boat; a ray enters the house, then turns into a woman; the first wife is jealous, clutches on him when he goes to get water, scratched; the daughter of the Sun saw that the pen was wet; it turns into a ray of sunlight, disappears; the next morning the heat intensifies; the first to die was the former wife, she jumped into the water; the world burned down; only that man, his brother and sister and their spouses hid under the river cliff, they had that piece of ice; the Sun's daughter's husband returned to her, the others stayed on earth]: McClelland 2007 (2), No. 53:282-288; internal the Tlingits [the man has lost everything; his wife advises him to marry the daughter of the Sun; he sees smoke over the grass, there is a door to a big house, there is a Little All-Knowing Old Woman in it; she gives the man birdskins a piece of ice, a whetstone, a bow and 8 arrows; he hears laughter in the clouds, fires arrows, they dig into each other's tail, form a chain, he climbs it into the sky, puts on the skin of a blue jay; girls they swing on a swing, drive a jay; puts on a hummingbird skin, the youngest catches a bird, takes it to bed, in the morning the sisters see a man next to him; their Sun Father offers his son-in-law a test of heat; the man takes a piece in his mouth ice, unharmed; the Sun tells him not to cheat on his daughter, not to meet his former wife; a man descends with his new wife to earth; every day he goes to fetch water; once he meets his first wife, she scolds her; when he returns, the daughter of the Sun puts a feather in a bucket of water, the water has become cloudy, the wife returns to her father; it causes terrible heat, all people died, except the man, because he held a piece of ice in his mouth and whetstone; he returned to heaven to the daughter of the Sun]: McClennan 2007 (3), No. 136:617-620; tsetsot [the man disappeared, found himself in heaven; the chief burned him at the stake all day, the man was red hot; married on the chief's daughter; went down the rainbow with his wife to earth; when he went to see his first wife, the heavenly wife immediately found out (her tube drowned in the water), returned to heaven on the rainbow; the next day of the sun it began to burn so much that the whole camp burned down; only this man and slave girl remained; she hid under a tree, and he poured cold water on her)]: Boas 1897, No. 9:267.

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; Geese leave a man on a rock; a bird takes him home]: 55-57, 206-208; Haida: Reid, Bringhurst 1989 [Raven marries a stream woman; girl Wealthsound is their descendant; tells the young man who picked it up and his relatives how her brother threw a frog into the fire, the frog's mother began to look for her child; the old people told Wealthsound to hide in in a latrine, the rest were destroyed by earthquake and fire; the boy's parents adopt a girl of the same kind (their coat of arms is dogfish, a little shark); W. marry the mainland; her son complains that other children tease him with his rootless; his mother and son return to the Hyda Islands; her adoptive parents are already dead; the named brother W. receives her and his nephew; finds him with his wife, puts him in a box, lets him go to sea; he is washed ashore in the country of Orlov, Orlitsa takes a young man as her husband, her father gives him eagle plumage, tells him to miss a large mollusk (clam); it is enough, dragged under water, the Eagles arrive to help, everyone grabs the other, the whole chain of Eagles is almost hidden under water, the old Orlitsa pulls them out, but the young man remains under water; at the request of his wife, her father pulls his bones from the bottom and revives him; agrees to send his son-in-law and daughter to the land of people; gives three stones; when a young man and wife get tired of flying, they throw a stone, it turns into an island, they spend the night on it; so three times; at home, the young man finds mother; all women want him, he reciprocates; the eagle wife sees the water become cloudy, flies away; wearing eagle plumage, the husband flies after her; she tells him to come back, he refuses; then she deprives him of his plumage, he falls into the sea; when he falls, he hears frog croaking]: 93-103; Swanton 1905a [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 her youngest; she does not eat people's food, puts on hidden feathers at night, stings 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 heaven; a half man (Master-Hopper with one arm, one leg and etc.) salmon harpoons; a young man, turning into salmon, steals his harpoon; when he returns, he shows the way; a man comes to two people who cut wood; they throw chips into the water, those turn into coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch, Coho salmon, Silver salmon); he makes their wedges split, gives them what they brought with them in return; for this they tell them where his wife, wife and father-in-law welcomes him warmly; his wife accepts her husband; he begins to miss home; the Raven carries him, gets tired, throws him off, he turns into a seagull]: 264-268 (brief retelling in 1905b, No. 13:192-193); Tsimshian: Barbeau 1953 (b. Ness) [while the chief is hunting, the nephew sleeps with his wife; the chief finds lovers, kills his wife, glues his nephew with resin to the board, lowers him in the boat; the boat sticks to an unknown shore, the sun melted the resin; the mouse invites the young man to his uncle; various birds and animals sit in the house (in human form, but in appropriate clothes); the chief offers the young man a daughter as a wife; she gives him a stone to at night, he first knocked out her vaginal teeth; previous suitors all died; his wife gives eagle clothes, he helps pull the whale out, the Eagles respect him; father-in-law leaves the oyster bait, she drags her son-in-law to the bottom ; the wife is ready to kill herself; the chief raises the floor, moves the net at the bottom of the sea, pulls out his son-in-law's bones, revives; the young man misses home, gets three pebbles from his father-in-law; throws him into the sea on the way home , they turn into islands, the spouses rest on them; bring people food and wealth; taking the form of an eagle, the young man hunts; one day he cheats on his wife; she flies away, he flies after her, falls, drowns; at home, the wife- The eagle withers from grief; father-in-law revives her son-in-law again, he stays with the Eagles]: 42-52; Boas 1912 [starved, an aristocrat woman and her daughter were left alone; at night someone came in and slept with her daughter; then when she touched the fir bark, it fell down, and under it were increasingly large animals: squirrel, partridge, porcupine, beaver, mountain ram, black bear, grizzly; that man appeared (he also often appears nearby in the form of a bird whose scream brings good luck), said that he was sending game; then the animals fell in two; they built two houses to store meat; the father told him to name his son Asdi-Wâ'l, he has become a great hunter; he chases a polar bear, who makes passages through the rock, A. puts an onion in the crack and follows; after the bear he climbs the stairs to the sky; there is a blooming plain; a bear turns out to be the Evening Star, the daughter of the Sun; she warns that her father killed many of her suitors; her father-in-law tells 1) to hunt mountain sheep; the stars think A. is frozen in place, but he is only left his cloak and hat on the pole; A. entered the house where the mountain sheep were gathering; they beat the rhythm, and the shaman was kamlal; the shaman and the lamb jumped over his head, and killed the rest A., brought a lot of fat; 2 ) bring mountain water; she is in a cave, the entrance to which closes and then opens; the slave was crushed, and A. took out water; the Sun told the daughter to step over the bones of the crushed man and he came to life again; 3) bring firewood; wife: as soon as you touch the tree, the bark will fall and crush; under the tree there is a pile of bones of the dead; the tree fell on the slave, and A. is unharmed; the father-in-law revived the slave again and put the fallen tree; 4) lie down on hot stones (The Sun wants to bake and eat his son-in-law); A.'s father gave him pieces of ice under his arms, A. safe in the oven; since then, the Sun and all its star people have fallen in love with A.; A. wants to return to the mother, together with his wife, who has 4 baskets of meat, berries, etc., rolls down to the ground in the sunlight; every day the wife orders to bring water, puts a feather into the bucket - the water is clean; once A. met another girl, the water is covered with mucus, the wife has returned to her father; he follows her, falls when he almost reaches the sky, breaks, the Sun revives him; he lives with his wife again; they again return to earth; then the wife leaves altogether, and A. marries the chief's daughter; argues her four brothers, claiming that he is a better earner of marine animals than they are land animals; brings four bears, brothers come back empty-handed, pick up their sister; A. marries another girl, she gives birth to him a son; A. hunts walruses better than her four brothers, who leave him on a rock in the middle of the sea; a mouse takes him to an underground walrus house; he heals a wounded walrus; the walrus owner sends him home in a walrus stomach; his wife helps him kill her brothers; he goes hunting in the mountains, turns into stone]: 71-146.

The coast is the Plateau. Halkomel (lower reaches of Fraser River) [a young man visits a girl; she smears his back with soot, recognizes his brother in the morning; both go to the mountains out of shame; their son asks why his parents look alike; they They send him to their mother, burn themselves; the young man meets his cousin; washes his grandmother's eyes, restoring her sight and youth; asks his cousin to pretend to be dead, to catch a vulture; wearing vulture skin, he rises to heaven; comes to two blind women, quietly takes their food; they recognize him; help overcome challenges to marry the daughter of the Sun; he puts stones under him , does not sit on thorns; wolves guard the Sun house; three daughters of the Sun are beautiful, he gets one; three daughters of the Month are ugly, the Month is angry that the young man did not choose them; demands 1) split log (the old woman gives bones and white paint; when the Month knocks out the wedge to flatten the log, the young man inserts the wedge of bones together; the Month takes paint for the brain); 2) catch trout (the young man turns into trout a stick with thorns, gives the Month, the thorns dig into his throat); 3) bring a red bear (he turns pieces of wood into two bears, the Month asks them to take them away); two sons of a young man born to a daughter Suns want to see their grandmother on earth; The sun lowers his son-in-law and family in the basket to the ground; one man spies on the young man's wife, burned by her radiance]: Boas 1895, No. 4:37-40; sechelt (sysyatl) [ the young man fell in love with the leader's most beautiful wife; the chief smeared his wife's bed with resin, threw the glued young man into the water along with the board he stuck to; the sun melted the resin, the young man went out to the other seashore; a mouse slave brings him to the house of young women; the mouse advises to choose the last wife; the father-in-law gives his son-in-law an eagle suit, his wife teaches him to fly, catch whales; his claws are stuck in the back of a monster, eagles help, tear the monster apart; a born son wants to see his father's parents; father-in-law sends young people with a child in a self-propelled boat; in her husband's village, the wife feeds everyone with an inexhaustible supply of meat, even The raven cannot eat his portion; the wife warns not to flirt with other women; the husband violates the ban, she walks along the waves, picking up her son; he follows; she turns around, he drowns]: Hill- Tout 1904a: 54-57; (cf. Thompson [(Hebrew borrowings, or contamination of local and Hebrew motives); a young man hides the clothes of one of the heavenly maidens who have come down to the clearing to pray; one day his mother returns her clothes, she flies away from son; young man comes to the upper world, returns with his wife and son]: Hanna, Henry 1996:94-99); upper coquill: Jacobs 2007:275-276 [(zap. Jacobs); a man scratches himself, his blood dries up, he falls on the sand; vultures in human form come down, make a fire, prepare to cut and cook meat, wait for their leader, he is white; fits The hawk (chicken hawk), he is black, his privilege is to eat the eye; the man opens his eye, the Hawk loosens; the leader comes up, the man grabs him; he offers his daughter to marry, tells him to close his eyes, they find themselves in heaven; a person marries; he is brought down to earth to visit his parents, then he returns to heaven], 277-278 [(zap. Harrington); a man lies on the shore on the sand, pretends to be dead; the Ravens flock, their leader is snowy white; one of the Voronov says that man's eyes are open, but the leader still comes up, man catches him; the chief promises him a daughter, brings him to the village, probably in heaven; the man gets the chief's daughter; he is let down to visit his parents; then his wife helps (it is not known how exactly) he return to her to heaven; he stays there].

The Midwest. Western Ojibwa: Jones 1916, No. 19 [every time ten brothers find the house tidy; find a girl, she becomes the youngest's wife; the jealous elder hurts her; she tells her husband ten days not to come to her; he violates the ban, she flies west as a bird; he follows her, the trees show the way; his grandfather and grandmother gave him an inexhaustible supply of food, warned him of dangers; he returned his wife and hers nine sisters married his brothers], 19a [as in (19), eleven brothers, the eldest Machigives; the young man follows the big bird, successively passes three old women and an old man warning of dangers; the old man gives four copper hooks to climb a steep mountain; the young man reaches the top as a butterfly, duck, squirrel; the girl's father promises her to whose finger the bead will stick to; The rabbit wraps the finger with a rope, the Raven lubricates pus from his eyes, but the young man wins; the wife and her sisters become birds, bring it home; sisters marry older brothers]: 372-374; Judd 1904, No. 42 (chippewa) [ the young man refuses to fast, his father drives him out; he sleeps in the forest; the moon descends to him, rises to the sky with him; her brother is the Sun, sometimes he shoots at the stars, if he hits, the star falls; the young man He asks the Sun for meat; he shoots down, the child falls on the ground; when the father burns meat on the fire, it ends up in the sky, and the child recovers; the young man wants to visit his relatives, the Moon warns him not converge with earthly women; on earth he tells his father that he received a manita, now his name is Cloud Catcher; marries but his wife disappears; the same with the second; the moon moves him to heaven]: 211-214; Spence 1985:152-156 [Algon sees twelve female stars descend from the sky in a basket; creates an old stump, turns into a mouse; while the other sisters trample on the mice, the youngest one is grabbed; she gives birth to him son; makes a basket, flies back to heaven with his son; the son wants to see his father; the Father of the Stars sends his daughter and grandson for A., asks him to bring every animal and bird to heaven by claw, pen, etc.; celestials dismantle these objects, becoming creatures of appropriate species; A., his wife and son become white falcons], 156-159 [the young man's name is the Cloud Holder; in a dream, a Star comes to him, takes him to heaven; hides from his brother; he allows them to marry; brings the young man to a hole in the sky, throws something down; the boy on the ground falls ill; recovers when shamans bring The star is a white dog; the Star eats her with the Cloud Holder; the wife reluctantly lets the Cloud Holder visit his family; he forgets her, marries an earthly girl; both wives die; fourth time The Star takes him forever to heaven]; Ottawa [Living Statue is a great sorcerer (VK), his sister was taken by Moon Prince; he was met dressed in a green dwarf, offered to fight, VK He hardly defeated him; the dwarf praised him, turned into a corncob, ordered him to plant seeds, so corn appeared; one day VK slept, two dwarfs tried to snatch his heart, one put his hand into his mouth, VK bit off his fingers, they turned into a wampum; he came to the river, there was a stone boat, it had two petrified dwarfs and wealth - bear skins; VK refused all the girls, married a Star, they now live in the sky next to the Road of the Dead]: Compton 1907:78-84; Western Swamp Cree (Stone Cree) [two brothers live separately, hunt beavers; someone cleans and cooks in their teepee; returning next time, they see two women; a beautiful woman husbands an older brother, an ugly brother; the youngest decides to kill the elder's wife, shoots, an arrow falls between the ribs, her sister (i.e. the youngest's wife) pulls out an arrow; the women (they are the Thunders) leave; the older brother reproaches the younger brother, goes in search; meets an old woman who saw women, one of them was sick (i.e. injured); gives claws squirrels and the skin of Thunder; with their help, a person climbs a mountain and flies to the Thunder; women are happy, Thunder Bird (but no bird appearance) tells women to return to their brothers; older brother with women return to the youngest, who has been crying all this time; everything is fine; women find the arrow that the younger brother used to injure the elder's wife; this arrow will now bring hunting luck]: Brightman 1989 : 102-104; Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [someone cooks in the absence of brothers; the eldest frightens the woman, the youngest turns into a feather, catches her; the eldest shoots her in the leg out of jealousy, she runs away ; the youngest follows her; the Rabbit says that she is the daughter of Thunder, the shaman gives glue to climb a steep mountain; the husband finds a wife; he cannot eat snakes and frogs - the food of the Thunder; they give him their feathers, teach him how to hunt beavers; spouses return to people; Machi-Avia kidnaps a woman; his house is made of human hair; his older brother comes, is killed; the younger one revives him, kills M., frees prisoners who are bald in At home M.; both brothers and a woman rise to heaven, they are now stars]: Ray, Stevens 1971:88-92; Steppe Cree: Bloomfield 1930, No. 11 [a person lives alone; someone brings firewood, cleans the house; he finds a woman; they visit her parents; he realizes that his wife and her relatives are bears, that he will not be able to be with them for long], 24 [ten brothers live alone; the youngest is the most beautiful, first returns from hunting, finds the house tidy, firewood cooked; finds a woman; older brother Machikivis behaves inappropriately with her; she leaves; her husband follows her; she is a Gromovnitsa, she has nine sisters; they think he killed the Snake because he is stained with his blood (clay is snake blood); they eat the killed Serpent; they go down to earth; now all ten sisters marry ten brothers]: 59-61, 228- 236; Skinner 1916, No. 3 [Mujikivis is the eldest of ten brothers; someone cooks and cleans the house; M. finds a woman, her fifth brother marries her; M. tries to seduce her, she refuses; he hurts her with an arrow in the leg; she goes to live separately; tells her husband not to come to her for four days; he comes before the deadline, she runs away, gives birth to a boy; he follows in her footsteps; four grandmothers (the last one is young) consistently give him advice and magic items to overcome obstacles; explain that his wife is the daughter of Thunder; he climbs a steep mountain to a nest in which Thunder eggs; crosses the river along a log that rises and falls; father-in-law tells men to hold his grandson in his arms; whoever urinates will reimburse his mother for his wife; M. (here he is one of the Thunder) takes water in his mouth, splashes it on his chest; everyone laughs; the child pees on the man's hands from the ground; a person notices a rusty stain on the water, paints his face; Thunders ask show them the source, they hit monsters (the Great Pumas); a man kills a porcupine that is dangerous for the Thunder; the Thunders bring him back to earth; the brothers at first do not believe he is back, they think that jays and crows laugh at them; each brother marries one of the Thunder sisters]: 353-361; steppe ojibwa [eight brothers find firewood cooked; take turns guarding; woman appears to the youngest; breaks the trunks with his hand moved; the older brother kills her out of jealousy; she flies away; the younger one shoots arrows, follows them; meets four old women one by one; they give sharp claws , bones and horns explain what to do to climb the pointed mountain; there will be eight identical sisters in the house, the wife will sit closer to the entrance; the young man sits next to her; the father-in-law sends everyone with him Eight daughters, they fly to their brothers; animals mock their brothers, saying that the youngest is back; this time it is; brothers get married]: Skinner 1919, No. 4:293-295.

Northeast. Passamaquoddy [two brothers dream of having a mistress in their hunting lodge; the youngest returns first, finds clothes repaired, etc.; finds a woman, marries; brothers return to people; their father says that the woman is a dangerous demoness; her older brother shoots her, she flies away as a partridge; the youngest finds her; dies as soon as her father forces him to marry another woman]: Leland 1968:295-299; Seneca [a young man named Elk lived with his uncle; saw seven Pleiade Sisters dancing by the river; they went down to the ground in a basket, getting ready to go back; he grabbed the youngest, persuaded her to become his wife; she took him to heaven; her father dismantled him and reassembled him, making him strong; the young man and his wife were lowered to the ground; in the village they said that an old man and his nephew had lived a hundred years ago; Tired of living on earth, they returned to heaven; the star remained paler than the sisters, the young man continued to hunt]: Parker 1989 [1923], No. 6:86-87.

Southeast USA. Alabama: Monroe, Williamson 1987 [The Big Dipper is a sky boat; the image is related to the story of a heavenly wife who returned to heaven with her children in a boat; her husband comes for them (p.114-115)] :111 ; Swanton 1929, No. 19 [people regularly go down from heaven to earth in a boat, sing and laugh, play ball; a man grabs a woman running after the ball, the rest return to heaven; the wife gives birth children; tells them to ask their father to bring a deer from the hunt; gets into a boat with the children, starts to get up, but the husband manages to stop them; then the wife makes the boat smaller, takes to the sky in it, and the children the father manages to grab it; follows his wife with them in another boat; the wife dances, they throw a corn cob at her, she returns to the ground with them; then runs again in the boat with the children; a person follows them one in another boat, looks down, falls, crashes]: 138-139.

Big Pool. Wintah Utah [two deer ask the hunter not to shoot; they say that a bird will go down to the lake over 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 them; the hunter acts as ordered; when she finds out that he is Mexican, the girl refuses to be with him, flies away]: Kroeber 1901, No. 10:277.

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [the boy's brothers and parents want to kill his tame eagle; the eagle tells him that he will fly away, the young man asks him to take him too, the eagle brings the young man to the turquoise mountain, flying a hole at the zenith of the sky; there a girl comes out of an eagle's skin; again, in the form of an eagle, she brings the young man to his pueblo; the young man marries her, gets an eagle's robe; the food he brought with him is over, and the Eagles eat only raw meat; Storks gave him cooked vegetable food; a young man is flying to a party, his wife warns him not to laugh; girls dance, scream, "Dead, dead"; one of them draws attention to him, he smiles, dead girls carry him away, he wakes up among skeletons, runs, they chase him, Badger hides him in a hole, gives him broth; his feathers have fallen out, Storks give him old wings, he descended on them land; the eagle wife took her wings and flew away; people have been mortal since then]: Cushing 1901:34-53; Western Keres (Laguna) [the Zunya boy has a hand eagle; the young man goes to Isleta shopping; the father warns that on the road The player beats passers-by, taking their property, hearts, killing; the young man loses everything, returns home, his parents leave him; the eagle takes him to his house on a month above the abyss; flying away, circling over the field, people regret to see that the young man is leaving them; the eagle's relatives warn that hunting is dangerous; the spider gives a potion, he blows it over a monstrous moose running from the north, kills it; In the evening he goes west to dance with the spirit girls; the eagle girls tell him not to laugh, otherwise the dead girls will take him away; he laughs, the dead lead him to their house, in the morning he sees only skeletons around him; He resorts to eagles, who tell him to return to earth; his former pet eagle carries him, flying through a hole in the sky; parents are happy]: Boas 1928a: 140-146, 266 [summary].

NW Mexico. Tepecano [the mother of a lazy young man sends him from home to learn to work; three daughters of God descend to the lake shore, one takes a young man as her husband; God allows him to take his wife, tells him not to offend her; in her mother-in-law's house, she fills her bins with corn and beans; her mother-in-law burns cakes, burns on her daughter-in-law's face in the morning; so three times, the daughter-in-law returns to God; the young man comes for her, but hurts his wife again; she leaves forever, God punished the man by sticking his head en un tepetate duro (weathering calcareous crust)]: Mason 1914, No. 4:155-160.

Mesoamerica Veracruz Nahuatl: Münch 1983a: 162-163 {it is likely that Spanish borrowing} [the hunter sees two pigeons turning into girls, swimming in the river; hiding one of them's clothes; marries; her cannibal father demands to clear the area with a weaving sword; the wife does this, harvests the next day; the cannibal chases them; she throws a rag, a comb, salt; vines, thorns, and the sea appear ; the cannibal stops persecuting; the wife turns into a flower, the husband becomes the stem of the plants that humans feed on (corn?)] , 283-284 [the hunter hides the clothes of one of the two bathing girls; 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 to touch her; earthly hugs him; chaneko agrees to receive him again when he gives her a gold ring; his son is covered in 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; lacandons (northern) [there were few women, men cooked themselves; man saw two girls bathing, their clothes are royal vulture feathers; the next day I caught one of the girls; she agreed to become his wife if he was a good husband; she told her feather clothes to be left her sister will pick her up; a year later they go to their father-in-law, while a path led to heaven; there are corn fields; the bald chief tells his son-in-law that after his death, his soul will not go to the underworld to Kisin, but here to heaven; the man began to treat his wife badly when he saw her eating carrion and worms; began to spend the night in the field; Xok (watermen, fish owners) came to her, she became pregnant; told her husband to open her stomach, There are a dozen Xok children there, he killed them; when she dies, she tells her to cut off her little finger, there are pumpkin seeds, she teaches how to grow calebasses; three calebasses have grown, he accidentally cut one, put two under the bench in the kitchen; someone cooks in his absence; he finds two girls, his daughters from a vulture wife; marries a neighbor in exchange for his sister; a man was bitten by a snake, but his soul did not rise to heaven because . he treated his wife badly; his daughters have many children, they are descendants of a vulture woman; vultures should not be killed]: Boremanse 1986:242-246; 1989:91-93.

Honduras-Panama. Sumu [four brothers collect rubber in the forest; someone cooks in their hut; take turns guarding; the older three do not dare to talk to the beauty who comes; the youngest grabs her, finds out that she is the queen of vultures; 4 days later she returns, rises with her youngest to heaven, they stay there]: Houwald, Rener 1987 (4): 25-26; cabecar: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas, Constenla Umaña 1983 [y a lonely man is a pet parrot; he finds food cooked; finds a woman, throws her parrot skin into the fire; children look for their mother in her head, she asks what is on the back of her head; they never they answer; one day the youngest son says that there is a parrot's beak; both turn into parrots, fly away]: 5; Margery Peña 1989 [two men caught a parrot; someone cooks in their house; they hid, they waited for a woman, one of them caught her (the second is not mentioned further); every time he returns, his wife gives him fish; he waited for the one who supplied his wife with fish, wounded her, he rushed into the lake, became D ínama ("water jaguar")]: 54; Stone 1962:59 [sister feeds the brothers fish; replies that this fish is given to her by their son-in-law (i.e. her husband); the elder watched and saw a jaguar approach his sister's bed, shot him with an arrow; the jaguar ran away, rushed into the lake; his sister followed him; his younger brother went to the lake, there was a road, he came to his sister's house; she refused to return, and her jaguar husband told her to give it to the parrot's brother; at home, the parrot began to do all the homework that his sister did; (the informant does not remember any further, but the text is called "The multiplication of human beings", clearly the beginning of a forgotten myth ], 63 [at the beginning of time, there were only men; when they return, two find food cooked; so every day for 30 days; then they find two twin girls in the house and marry them]; bribri: Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1982:9; 1989, No. 17 [two men bring two parrot chicks; find food cooked; hide, grab two women, marry; they have many children; one day a granddaughter is looking for grandmother's head, notices a beak in her hair; grandmother turns into a parrot, flies away]: 25; Bozzoli, Murillo Chaverri 1984, No. 32 [the owner of a pet parrot finds food cooked; finds a woman getting married; a parrot's beak remains on the back of her head; the youngest of her three sons looks in her head, asks what it is; both turn into parrots, fly away]: 33; Margery Peña 1989 [three brothers caught two parrots; someone cooks in their house; they waited, caught two women; (hereinafter referred to as one person); he waited for two jaguar brothers who gave his wife fish, killed them; after that, his wife became again parrot, flew away]: 54; kuna: Chapin 1989 [as in Howe; women are not called stars; the name of the captured Olonadili; she does not give birth to a daughter, but catches a bird that turns into a little girl]: 111-116; Howe 1991 [parents fear that their four sons will leave them when they get married; they give them a potion with an overwhelming interest in women; they go to the forest altogether, live alone; someone cooks, cleans them a hut; they wait for four Stars descending on a gold platter; only the youngest manages to keep Inanatili's girlfriend; he marries her; she explains that the Great Father sent them to marry young men, but they ruined everything, trying to seize them by force; I. gives birth to a daughter, later she dies; I. teaches women to sing lullabies and mourn the dead]: 240-241; Wassen 1934b [two single men went to the forest; in their absence, someone cooks and cleans the hut; one watched four heavenly women (they were wives of stars) descend from the sky on a gold platter; the next day, two men catch two women , the other two ran away; the men brought their wives to the village and had children with them; the child died, his mother began to mourn him, so the kuna learned to mourn the dead]: 17.

The Northern Andes. Yupa: Villamañan 1982, No. 2 [Kemoko smears himself with rotten fish, pretends to be dead, catches a female Vulture; takes off her feathers, marries; Europeans come from this marriage], 7 [Kemoko marries Kurumacho, a female junk; they have 8 sons; their mother sent them to buy the meat of their deceased brother Kemoko, who brought a vessel of cadaveric fluid, and then the wife gave her husband chichu in the same calebas; Kemoko beat wife; wife and children put on wings and flew to heaven; however, the children missed their father, the eldest son went down and made wings for him, Kemoko flew to heaven; stayed in the village of Vultures, where they look people]: 7, 13-14; (cf. guajiro [the young man hides the clothes of a bathing girl; 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).

Llanos. Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 89 [An ugly young man is rejected by everyone; the Fork-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus, swallow-tailed kite) turns into a woman, helps him catch flying animals ants, tells them to suppress them with their fingernails before frying them; domestic boys try to fry everyone at once, ants fly away; a kite woman takes the young man into her world, makes him handsome; gives birth to a son; sends to visit his grandmother, who misses him; all the girls in the village are now in a hurry to get along with him; when the young man returns to his wife, kite, she warns him not to deal with earthly women anymore; he violates ban; she forgives him, but next time the road to her is completely gone], 90 [a lonely young man sees two lapwing (Chilean lapwing, Vanellus chilensis; lives not by the river, but in the savannah; apparently the name is borrowed from a neighboring group, which may have a plover or pied lapwing); dreams of them being women; they turn into women, lead to themselves, there are a lot of fish scales; dry season all women make clay vessels to then sit in them, turn into eggs, and then hatch out of them again; contrary to warning, a man asks to be placed in a vessel; feels he calls himself "Siriwalido", but the wives become eggs, do not respond; the husband dies; becoming women again, wives find only bones in the vessel], 91 [Siliwalido bird (lapwing) turns into a woman tells the young man that her father sent her to him to become his son-in-law; the man brings his wife to him, but then they go to her parents; he is amazed at how much she eats; they come back to his parents, she eats a lot again; during the rainy season, all Siliwalido hangs head down in clay jars, so you can't see them; the husband wants to hang too, dies in a vessel], 92 [a person finds a nest, an egg in it; comes before dawn to find out what kind of bird will fly into the nest; his little son went with him; a vulture descends, turns into a woman, says that the egg is her son, invites the man and his son to visit her village turns them into royal vultures, they fly to her village, a man takes a vulture woman as his wife; hunts deer; his wife tells me to bury the carcass for three days, then he will appear in the meat pepper; this food makes a man and his son lose weight; Thunder People live in the same world, a woman fell in love with the husband of a vulture woman, took him and his son to her; explained that peppers were worms, gave medicine to regurgitate the food swallowed by the vultures; when the Vulture Wife came, the Thunder Wife called her brothers, the Vulture was frightened, left; The thunders make man one of them; they tell him to plant trees in the lower part of the trunk; the man's wife's ex-lover persuades him to strike from above; the man gets stuck in the trunk; the thunders remove him and revive him; the man and his son remain with the Thunder; the Thunder man is called" turtle thunder", he kills people, and real Thunders only hit trees], 93 [a person finds an egg; when he returns, he sees a woman there; she takes it as a husband, raises it to heaven, feeds it with meat that vultures eat, he loses weight; meets a Thunder woman, she has light red and blue hair, lots of good food; Thunders cleanse a person's stomach, drive the Vulture Wife away, she returns to her sky , it is below Gromov's sky; a rival persuades the Thunder woman's husband to rush to a tree from above, he dies; Thunders revive him, send him back to earth]: 338-340, 341-342, 343-344, 344-350, 351-353.

Southern Venezuela. Makusáni hunted in the forest, chased the frog, it galloped away, he got lost; the forest chicken (gallineta) looked like a pretty girl, invited her to her house, did not tell touch her; M. tried to get along with her, she became a chicken, flew away; M. came to the river; Otter (perro de agua) took him home, promised to take him home if he did not look forward or back; M. looked through his fingers, the Otter left him in the water; M. climbed the tree to sleep; Nuna (Month) saw his reflection, realized that he was not in the water, but in the tree when M. spat; brought him to heaven, married him two daughters; sends for firewood, the wife admits that his father will eat him; he throws sand in her back, she thinks wasps, rushes to run, M. runs the other way, comes to Shi (Sun); N. looks for M., W . says that this was not the case here, drives N. away with heat; M. marries one of Sh.'s two daughters; S. gives a wind gun, tells him not to look through it; M. looks, sees his house, mother; the wife also wanted look, both were on the ground in M.'s house; M. hides his wife under the basket; when he left, her mother found her, began to beat her; M. reconciled them; all three returned to heaven at S.'s house, live there now]: Civrieux 1959: 119-120 (=1980:119-120 {pagination is correct!}).

Guiana. Varrau: García 1993, No. 5 [To become a shaman, a young man fastes for 10 days, smokes tobacco; half-fainting by the river; a female vulture descends to him and becomes a woman; gives him birds' clothes and wings, goes up to heaven with him; the father of a vulture woman named Burecuamana gives his son-in-law tasks; 1) cut down a tree, the trunk is hard as stone, four appear in human form different birds, they can not cut down, the Woodpecker appears fifth, cuts down; 2) scoop the pond with a vessel out of cloth; water pours into holes, the bird lowers the vessel into the pond, it dries up; 3) catch fish (man does not have anything caught, caught the birds); 4) make an image of the father-in-law out of wood; the son-in-law turned into a lizard, but the father-in-law heard, disappeared; then into an ant, saw that the vulture father-in-law had two heads, cut out the image; 5) build a house at the entrance to heaven; caballito del diablo warns that the father-in-law will kill a man, tells him to run with wings; when he descends to tree level, the vulture wife asks him to return; When refused, he says he will eat him when he dies; soon the man died, the vultures ate him; since then they have been eating corpses]: 39-42; Wilbert 1970, No. 45 [the hunter catches the daughter of the vulture chief; rises from her to heaven; father-in-law's tasks are 1) bring firewood, 2) bring water in the basket (the old woman collected, telling him not to watch her do it), 3) make a hollow (there are solid trunks around, the old dwarf cut down, told him not to look); the man demolished his father-in-law's head with a club, returned to the ground], 149 [the man harpoon hit the fish; a double-headed female vulture, the daughter of the vulture king, came down from the sky; he caught her, she became his wife; offered to visit her father; giving him feather clothes, helped him take off; says that her father does not want to see him, asks 1) bring firewood, 2) bring water in the basket (he asked the old woman, she typed while he looked); 3) make a dumpling boat; around the cliff, the wife says they are trees; an old dwarf cut down a boat out of them with an ax while the man looked; the wife called his father to look at work; a double-headed vulture came; the man demolished his heads with a stone club, put on feathers, flew down; his wife did not catch up with him, otherwise she would kill him; said that now the vultures would eat corpses people], 161 [middle brother, a good hunter, came across a house in the forest with dancing, music, jewelry; next time he grabbed a girl there; everything disappeared, but the girl stayed; promised to be his wife, if he did not beat her; refused to eat fresh meat; when he came home from the hunt, he demanded to cook meat, she refused, he hit her; his wife offered to visit her father; gave feathers, walked her up the steps the sky; his father-in-law received him coldly, at home the man beat his wife angrily; she put on the feathers she gave him, flew to heaven; the father-in-law sent vultures, they killed the man, then began to peck at him corpse]: 118-119, 315-319, 343-346; 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 wings of doves that have arrived; pigeons raise 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; does everything helper 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, heads remain; the old woman's head rose to heaven, became the Morning Star; tells 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; from The eagle's bowel movements appear, the 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 and began to bring deer to the woman and fish; she organized a clearing party; 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, into it a bait girl, an eagle was caught, killed; a woman came, an avenger feather fell on her chest: all his fibers turned into diseases; the woman blew on them, they scattered around the world]: Civrieux 1974:104-108; curl: Brett 1880 [a hunter catches Vulture's daughter; she takes off her feathers, turns out to be a girl, brings him to heaven to her parents; one day he expresses a desire to visit his mother; he is left on at the top of a tree whose trunk is covered with thorns; he asks animals for help; spiders weave a thread, birds support him with wings, he descends to the ground; with the help of birds he returns to heaven; defeated and killed by a young warrior - his son; then the vulture house was burned down; the bird Lanius sulphuratus did not want to fight, put cotton wool on her head as if she was sick; she was exposed, told to wear this cotton wool at all times; the bird- the trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) and the kingfisher quarreled, shoved each other into the ash; the first became gray, the second was completely gray; the owl found a bag of darkness, opened it, since then she can't stand the day light]: 29-30 (=Roth 1915, No. 142:212); Coll 1908, No. 2 [a man catches the queen of vultures, rises with her to heaven; vulture mother-in-law requires 1) make a bench with her image (she has 12 heads, from a bite she raises her head), 2) catch fish, 3) bring water in the basket (ants cover the holes); a person is surrounded by a fence in the garden; he flies away with a fly]: 483; Goeje 1943, № d3 [Makanahoro turned into a dead deer; vultures flew, he grabbed a female who took off her clothes from her feathers; he married them; they go up to heaven to her father; he gives difficult assignments, animals help them perform; eventually M. kills]: 96; Roth 1915, No. 303 [vultures fly to the ground, the shaman marries a female; she tells 1) to clear the site (vultures restore vegetation; then ants eat the felled), 2) bring water in the sieve (ants covered the holes with clay), 3) make a bench with the image of mother-in-law (the son-in-law threw off his centipede, the mother-in-law raised her head); the shaman and his wife climbed sky, then the shaman came back]: 343-345; wapishana: Wirth 1950:192-193 [a man smears himself with crap, pretends to be dead; the Vulture Chief's daughter sends a fly, she confirms that man dead; Vulture's daughter comes down, a man catches her, brings her home; at night she turns into a woman, invites a man to take him to her father; he tells 1) to build a house on a rock; cavalo-de-cão does, warns that his father-in-law is going to eat it; 2) make a bench in the form of his head; a osga defecates on Vulture's head, who asks his wife to bring fire, and osga sees that Vulture has two heads; a man made a bench, stayed in the sky with vultures], 193-196 [a man catches the daughter of the Royal Vulture on the lake, brings her home; she is a woman during the day, a bird at night; mother-in-law is unhappy that she stains the floor with her excrement; the wife decides to leave; the man sits on her, closes his eyes, they find themselves in the sky; the father-in-law asks 1) to take the sand flea out of his leg, pulls his eyes out, hides it in a vessel; The rat finds and returns his eyes; 2) climb the miriti palm tree, throw fruits down; makes the trunk fat, the person falls; the father-in-law thinks it has broken; at night the person comes to life, comes back; 3) do a bench with the image of his head; a lizard defecates on Vulture, who takes off his handkerchief from his head, you can see that there are two heads; pinicapau makes a bench; 4) build a house on a rock (birds do); 5) prepare a plot for a vegetable garden; ants make it in six days; Vultures set fire to the plot, the Spider saves a person by inviting him to climb into his hole; lowers the basket to the ground to his mother], 196-197 [friend the young man does not give him feathers for arrows; he smears himself with crap to attract vultures; catches the royal vulture, brings him home; in his absence, he turns into a girl, cooks kashiri; a young man spies on a bird, grabs a girl, gets married; she offers to visit her parents; carries it on her back to heaven; her father has two heads and four eyes; he demands 1) to dry the Pleiades Lakes (Sun dries, son-in-law brings rotten fish to his father-in-law); 2) build a house on a rock; minhoca helps do this; 3) make a bench shaped like his head; ant tells a osga to pump on the head of the vulture; he lights a fire to wash himself, the son-in-law sees what he looks like, makes a bench; the father-in-law enters his new home, dies of fear; the mother-in-law tells his son-in-law to be killed; he runs away, returns to his mother], 200 [while a single man is hunting, a pet parrot turns into a girl, cooks and cleans the house; he catches the Parrot by surprise, throws her feathers into the fire, marries her]; the top of the head : Roth 1924, No. 601 [Maichoppa wanted to see the vulture chief; residents of two community houses quarreled, killed each other; M. lay down among the dead bodies; urubu vultures flew, took off their feathers, and wings, M. took possession of their outfit, but could not fly off by himself; the Spider tied one end of her thread to the top of the tree, and gave the other to M.; lengthening the thread, raised M. to the mountain of vultures behind the clouds; M. wants marry the daughter of a vulture chief; he demands 1) build a house on a bare rock (an eel drilled holes, animals and birds have built a house); 2) make a bench with his image; the young man climbed on the web, relieved himself on the vulture's head; he ordered to bring fire to understand what had fallen on him, M. saw two heads; the bird and the ant were carved out of the bench; the vulture's daughter sent the karaka bird grab M.; he runs from house to house, runs to Spider, she hides him under cotton yarn, does not allow K. to stir it up so as not to confuse the yarn; M. goes down to the top of the seiba, releases the thread webs, does not know how to get to the ground; sits on the lizard's back, she is going to eat it, runs down and up the trunk; M. manages to jump to the ground; M. comes to Aguti, at home his wife, all cassava stolen from M.'s garden, Agouti's wife says she made it especially for him; M. is happy, returns home]: 486-488; Soares Diniz 1971, No. 17 [people died of illness, young man left; urubu vultures ate rotten meat; a young man rises to heaven, marries the daughter of a vulture chief; his father-in-law demands 1) to dry the lake (the battleships took water, the birds caught fish), 2) build a house (birds and animals helped), 3) make a stone bench with the image of his father-in-law (the lizard relieved the vulture on his head, he asked his daughter to shine, the young man saw two heads, the termite and the woodpecker were carved with a bench); Urubu did not care decided to kill his son-in-law; his daughter warned the young man; when Urubu sat down on the bench, the tião lizard hiding behind her killed him; Urubu's sons ran after the young man; he hid in a basket in Spider's house; the Caracara bird cut the thread, the young man fell to the top of the samaumeira tree; there lived a lizard, she offered to sit on her back, ran along the trunk, wanted to eat it, but he jumped to another tree, returned to earth]: 92-94; aparai [father and son find a female vulture; when they return to the hut, the food is ready; the father finds the woman asking to be his wife; she gives him an outfit of feathers, they rise to heaven into the world of vultures]: Rauschert 1967, No. 17:191; oyana [The vulture turns into a woman, cooks food for a man; he watches, grabs her, marries her; she gives birth to a son; a boy we need feathers for arrows, the wife suggests looking for them in the sky; the man weaves wings for himself and for his son; both visit vulture villages, then return to earth]: Magaña 1987, No. 52:44; trio : Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 1 [Poor old man son of Përëru (toads) Përëpëräwa hooked first sugarcane cake, then yam peel, then Waraku fish , threw it behind her back, she became a Waraku woman; brought all the cultivated plants, knives, and an ax from the water; her Cayman father also brought plants that were better than those brought by his daughter, but P. was afraid of Cayman, did not take ; V. refused to copulate during the day; the sun was always at its zenith; at V.'s request, the monkey pulled the sun west with a rope, the first night began; P. and V. came together; cassava tubers hung on branches, P. did not began to collect them ever since the tubers were in the ground; while P. was hunting, the spirit woman Kaikë asked her to say all the words she said to her husband, learned them, ate V. and her child, and pulled her skin over her, on the block - the baby's skin; P. felt a different voice and a bad smell, at night he found that his imaginary wife did not have a vagina; when the imaginary wife went to the garden, P. cooked her child and let her eat broth and pepper; there is no water around, the woman is thirsty, P. finished her off with a club; P. is alone again; returning home, he finds food cooked; he has a parrot, rabbit and toad at home; P. saw a woman descending from the sky- Vulture, P. catches her; when she throws her clothes into the fire, the wife is offended and returns to her father; V.'s father covered all the water; P. turned into a frog to hear the voice of another frog (where the frog is water ); Makitiri (makitiri's grandfather of waterfowl) found it; P. "dived" into imitation birds, but only fell; Father V. came to find out where his daughter was; tied P., dragged him with him; where he dragged through the mountains, river valleys formed, so all rivers were created; brought P. to the sky]: 15-21; Magaña 1987, No. 6 [a man marries fish, the daughter of Cayman; she brings him cultivated plants, teaches him how to build a house, weave baskets, etc.; it was not night, they could not make love; she gets the night from his father; Kaikyo's evil spirit devours her and her son, takes her form, turns a toad into a son; the husband understands deception; gives the meat of an imaginary son to his imaginary wife under the guise of sloth meat; lives alone finds food cooked; finds a vulture woman, throws her feather clothes into the fire; she leaves; he looks for water, Father-Cayman drags him into the lake; then lets him go], 79 [the hero catches the female vulture, rises to heaven with it]: 132, 148-149; khishkaryana [{text inspected sketchy}; Sloth is Vulture's son-in-law; father-in-law tried to burn him in the field, son-in-law escapes from the fire in the hole lizards; father-in-law orders to make a bench out of stone, he made]: Derbyshire 1965:41-43; oyampi [see motif E9; Mayamayali and Wayamakale twins (from poppy - monkey?) they come to the father, he tests them; M. cannot stand it; the father says that he is not his son, but the Monkey; makes a parrot out of his skin, monkeys out of flesh; in the morning the father rises to heaven; M. makes wood woman; V. reappears, contrary to warning, makes love to a woman; she turns into a solid tree, his penis becomes long, he carries it in a basket; comes to the village; while men sleep, dance with all women; they go into a hole, disappear underground; a parrot and a monkey remain in the village; while men hunt, they take off their feathers and skins, cook; V. comes out of the pit; one woman cuts off his long penis; the piece remains in his vagina; once in the river, it turns into an eel; {the text ends; probably people are descendants of a Parrot, a Monkey and one or both of the brothers}]: Grenada 1982, No. 5: 69-72.

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 tells him to bring meat and leave it to rot; she magically cooks chicha and manioc cakes, in her field cassava grows on stems, not as rhizomes; every time her clothes get wet, she gets sick, her husband dries her clothes in the sun; takes a mistress; she pretended to be sick when her husband hung her clothes to dry, asked her son to bring them to her, flies to heaven in the country vultures, returns three days later, bringing vulture clothes to his sons and husband; flies away with them forever]: Chaves 1958:148-150; Koreguahe [young man killed animals and left 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, because 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; Napo or Canelo: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 39 [two young men sleep in the open, one asks the other which star he wants; they sing, two star girls go down to them, young men grab them; each turns into a snake, scorpion, yutiri, bites; one lets go of his own, the other does not marry her], 40 [young fisherman She sees many birds and a beautiful woman on the lake; this is the daughter of Thunder, she wants a fisherman to be her husband, tells me to close her eyes, they come to her father; a man wants to visit his mother, his wife takes him to the village; he returns with his wife to heaven, now makes thunder with his father-in-law]: 73, 74-75; shuar: Barruego 1988:76-77 [the young man lives in a cave; wants a star as his wife; she immediately finds herself next to him; they have two children; when children start walking, mother returns to heaven; children grow up, sail off in a boat, go up to heaven too; these are Yanquam and Musachi stars], 81-83 [two young men look at the sky; one says if a star descends, he will put it in his bag; the other that he will run away; the descending star turns into a worm, the elder puts it in his bag, the younger one rises to the sky as a star; the star becomes a woman, a young man marries her; she cooks chicha by chewing cassava and spitting into a vessel; her mother-in-law is unhappy with this, the star is offended, returns to heaven; now many Indian women are called Yanua (from ya: star, nua: woman)]; Pelizzaro 1993 [two boys want to marry stars; two stars in the form of caterpillars descend to them; one throws his own away, the other brings home, she turns into girl; has no anus; eats food in the garden, spews cakes and chicha; mother-in-law is dissatisfied with the disorder in the house; offended, the star returns to heaven, her children are behind her, her husband remains]: 221-224; aguaruna [the young man wants a star as his wife, she is next to him; beads come out of the star's body instead of urinating; his mother-in-law disdains them; offended, the star returns to heaven]: Chumap Lucía, Garcí ; A-rendueles 1979, No. 19, 19a: 221 [husband follows her through the vine], 223-225; Guallart 1958:68; achuar [man looks at the stars, wants a wife; she goes down, prepares cassava with a glance; sister her husband finds her baby, gives him a breast, he bites it off; the woman dies, the star goes to heaven; the husband strives for her, turns into a forked tyrant (Tyrannus savana)]: Mowitz 1978:99-105; kandoshi (myna): Figueroa 1661 in Dean 1994 [during the flood, only a man and a woman escaped on the Sapote tree, ate its fruits; when the waters came down, descended, gave birth to new people; others say that the tree grew to the sky and the flood was a punishment; God, covered with ulcers, came to the people who were fishing and they threw it into the pit; one man pulled it out, for which God saved him; {then, probably, it was about a man married a parrot girl}]: 39; Verneau, Rivet 1912 [Rimachuma Lake (on the right bank of lower Pastas) overflowed its banks; only one man escaped the flood; went hunting and fishing; returning to the hut, found the food cooked; he hid, saw two parrots fly in and became girls; the man grabbed the maid, and the hostess flew away; myna - the descendants of the man and the maid, failures explained by wrong choice]: 34-35; kandoshi: Page 1975:1-8 [the boy threw fish poison into the water, dived, took out fish, let him bake it, ate it; evil children envied him, threw sand into his eyes; one the man scolded the children for mocking God's son, washed the boy's eyes; he flew to heaven to his father, creating a genip tree (huito) and telling that man to climb on it; the wind began, the flood; the man and his wife climbed the tree, it kept growing, the rest drowned; the woman in the middle of the trunk turned into a nest of ants (comejen); the man ate the fruit, threw the seeds down; first they fell into deep water, then into shallow water; he began to descend; the bone fell again into the deep water, but it was just a pond at the foot of the tree; the spirit directed the man to the recently burned area, in the same house; returning from fishing, a person sees a fire in the hearth, a prepared masato drink; a man hid, saw a man, a woman and two daughters; a man grabbed a less beautiful one, the other and the girls' parents became parrots and flew away; they came to help again, the man's wife grabbed her sister, but she escaped; the parrots did not return again; the wife gave birth to many children, they came out of different places on her body - legs, head; separated, becoming people of different races], 55-62 [God tells the young man in a dream that a woman will come to him, let him not be afraid if she is cold when touched; she comes, he hides her under a pile of firewood, does not tell her mother chop wood there; she cuts and injures a woman, with her three children, they disappear; three Vultures offer a young man to take him to heaven if he kills his mother for food; he kills his mother with a spear, they they gnaw at the corpse, but unable to lift the young man; the Hummingbird puts on his back, lifts, slips a kind of scissors that open and close, only the Hummingbird's tail is cut off; the Hummingbird tells answer the man that he himself went to heaven; the young man's wife carries cassava, the rope breaks, her sisters go forward; the husband grabs his wife; she is afraid that her father will kill him; the father produces thunder; throws the young man in fire, throws a stone at him, spews fire, the young man bounces; his father-in-law recognizes him as his son-in-law; they go together to kill ima tanga people].

NW Amazon. Bara [a sick star girl is sent to earth; a man has cured her, she has risen to heaven with him; it's night when it's day, everyone sees him sleeping with his wife; he returns alone to earth]: Jackson 1983:204; Barasana: S.Hugh-Jones 1982 [Dolphin constellation is a female star killed by a swarm of wasps sometimes identified with the Pleiades; she fell to the ground, came to life, married a mortal, rose from him to heaven, her husband was killed by a snake star; the chain of stars nearby is the vine they climbed]: 188; Torres Laborde 1969 [stars take a man to heaven; he marries one of them, returns with her to earth; stars work on his field, night is day for them; leave a man on earth and disappear]: 55-56; macuna [A female star fell from the sky; a man met her in the forest, married her; she worked a lot, but only at night; so other people didn't like him; the man went up with her to her relatives; there he couldn't work at night, he worked during the day when others were sleeping]: Århem et al. 2004:303 ; tatuyo [star people live on one level of the sky; their lives and activities are like tatuyo's; a star descends and marries a mortal; both first live in their husband's baby, then rise to heaven; others stars laugh at a man who walked with a torch during the day, because night is day for stars; and a star, while on the ground, went to work in the garden at night]: Bidou 1972:56-57; kabiyari [Star went down to the ground to a young man Maraji, who did not know women before; the star and her father decided to kill him; he climbs a tree for fruit, father-in-law in front; warned his daughter that the "game" would fall, she must be finished off; M . pushed his father-in-law down himself, his daughter killed him thinking that she was hitting M.; then drove her husband away]: Correa 1989:107-113; yukuna [the hero comes to the Dragonfly Spirit; finds manioc cakes in the house every day ; a box of feather ornaments hanging on the rafters comes down, a parrot girl comes out of it; the hero waits for her, they copulate; she has never seen a human penis before, her husband is a Dragonfly; she asks the hero to kill him; becomes the hero's wife and accompanies him]: Jacopins 1981:140-145; carijona [mother says Tukučimobi (Sun) and his month-old brother who dies tells her hand to be cut off, put it in the basket with cassava, hang it over the hearth; when the sons return from hunting, the food will be prepared; said that the garden was ruining the agouti, went to set a trap, turned into agouti , died deliberately trapped; on her paw there was a trace of the place where T. took a sand flea out of his mother's leg the day before; the brothers did as his mother ordered, but T. did not believe that Aguti's paw was preparing the food; tells the kuckuck bird to shout to warn if women appear; but the brothers were far away, did not have time to run; the same with the woodpecker (the brothers noticed the tracks of two women); the third time the cacambra bird warned On time, the brothers grabbed two women, both wanting a lighter and younger one; T. managed to grab the eldest before she put on her Vulture outfit, and the youngest put it on and flew away; because the eldest's clothes were torn, she remained human, T. married her; had many children but was dumb; then T. showed her huge larvae, she spoke in surprise]: Schindler 1979, No. 1:39-43; chikuna: Nimuendaju 1952:111 -112 [O'rëtana lived in heaven with her parents, brothers and sisters; invited her sisters to take a young man from the ground; the son of an old woman heard the voices of turtles, wanted to shoot birds, O. and her sister; they painted him uruku like a dove; the sarbakan became a snake, the quiver became a hornet's nest; the young man chose O., they rose to the sky; the people in the sky are beautiful; they brewed beer from two tubers on one coal; O. wiped the young man's face with cotton wool, he heard his mother crying; they went down, he killed a tapir for his mother, then they returned to heaven; O. gave birth to a son, took her mother-in-law to heaven; washing her with water taken from ta-ë (female deity), turned into a young woman; they are all still in heaven], 113 [the girl finds cooked bread and grilled meat; they are brought by a vulture; she hides his feather clothes, marries him; her brother marries a vulture's daughter; all four fly to heaven.]

Eastern Amazon. Juruna [women reject an ugly man; he decided to die, saw a ladder from the sky, went up; in the sky, a woman showed the path to Alapá; he called him handsome, three daughters of A. queues sat on him, but out of fear the man could not get along with them; the girls were happy, A. told them to take the guest to swim, he emerged handsome, married his youngest fourth daughter A.; man goes down to visit her mother, then his wife and daughter come down; when she stepped on the ground, the girl became a bird, turned into a girl at night; another person also went to heaven to be handsome; when daughter A. he sat down, he met her; A. ordered him to be bought in dark water, he became a mako (araraúuna), turned black, ate excrement; the mother of the first man was tired of taking care of her granddaughter, she threw her away ; the heavenly wife left, the husband followed her; the other climbed after her, despite the ban, had slept with his wife before; A. cut off the stairs, he fell; A. wanted the aged to climb into heaven and be younger, but because of the person who violated the ban, this does not happen]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973:137-142; Tenetehara: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 9 [approximately like Wagley, Galvão]: 296-298; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 25 [the bachelor picked up and raised a female royal vulture; dreams that if she were a woman, she would cook for him; someone cooks, a man finds a girl, grabs her feather clothes, marries her; offers to visit her relatives; she replies that her father is dangerous, but still takes her husband to heaven; her father-in-law demands 1) to make a hollowing boat in a day (the woodpeckers made it); 2) clear the plot in a day ( also woodpeckers); father-in-law orders to set fire to the vegetation cut down on the site, starting from the middle; The spider hides the man in his hole; when he goes out, the man asks for help from the harpy eagles; they took him, his wife and son to their village, they stayed there], note 10 [var.: the hero is a man who has lived with Brazilians for a long time, or a black man, an unknown hostess is a parrot; at the festival, a white man tries to take his wife away]: 150-151.

Montagna - Jurua. Urarina [people almost kill a fisherman boy by burying him in the mud, his father sends a flood; people flee the flood on the Erythrina elei tree; during the long night they throw fruits down to find out whether the water has slept; the man sends down to explore first one son, who turns into a heron, then the second, who turns into a Caracara plantus bird, then descends himself; finds a hut in it cooked food; he hides in a hole, sees a boat descending from the sky; at the stern sits his "our goddess" dressed in a tapa, and her maid on her nose, she did not know how to make bast matter; she shouts that another one is intended for him, but he does not let her in; she {in the text is "he", but clearly talking about this woman} consistently tells a snake (pit viper, Bothrops piuctus), a spider, a giant ant ( Isula, Myrmca saevissima, the bite is very painful) bite him, but he does not let him out; so there are still people who do not even know how to make bast matter; and the intended wife flew away like a bird; they are not copulated, but only hugged; to make a child, the wife rolled a ball of cotton; when the husband returned from hunting, the cotton baby was already coming to meet him and calling him; the husband waited and saw his wife makes children; she said she wanted children to appear without suffering; if you do not abstain from having sex for 10 months after giving birth, the baby will get sick; but her husband got along with her, the baby fell ill, died; var. (p.39): the child asks me to write, the father furiously cuts him in half, he turns into a cricket]: Dean 1994:25-28; chayahuita [two brothers escaped from the flood on the boot tree; when they go down, they find a hut with utensils; Kumpanama has recreated the forest; the brothers tell Crab to become a woman, cook chicha for them; when they return from hunting, they find a woman, the elder takes her as his wife; chicha spills out of her throat, when she drinks; they spy on her, see her sitting with her legs spread, say she has no shame; she turns into a crab again, runs away; while the brothers hunt, two parrots fly in and turn at women, they clean, cook; the younger brother spies on them; they say that K. sent them to marry their brothers, but now they will fly away; K. gives a pot in which the female genitals, tells his older brother ask the younger one to open the pot; the vulva sticks between his legs, he turns into a woman; people come from this couple]: García Tomas 1994 (3): 32-37; Ochoa Siguas 1992 [Konpanama sent a flood, only one person escaped by climbing the Sapote tree; as the water rose, the tree grew higher; and the mountain on which the tree was located also grew; it became dark; (more: people in the tree a lot; they ate fruits); different birds gathered on the same tree; every time the fruit ripens and falls, the water level drops; when they descended to earth, God sent them two parrots; while men hunt, they spin cotton when they become girls; one of the brothers came back, saw parrots become girls; he spoke to them, they turned into parrots again and flew away; the brother who missed the parrots, opened the vessel, a ball of clay falls on his genitals, they became feminine; God taught: when a woman is menstruating, flowers should be placed on her genitals, and in 9 months she will give birth to a child; but the monkey taught me how to copulate; God: it will be difficult to give birth now]: 170-173; Shlyakhtinsky, Arozero 2008 [Kumpanama carved a canoe, threw chips into the river, a lot of fish appeared; invited people to poison it with the juice of a barbasco vine; someone pushed K. into the river, everyone laughed at him; when he almost drowned, two people took pity on him, pulled him out of the river; K. told them to climb the tall tacon tree , taking baked tubers with her; the flood began; when the flood hid all the other trees, by Yusa's will, the tacon tree grew; night fell, the sun disappeared, all people died, except for those two; they climbed the tacon tree while its fruits were still green; long after a long time, the fruits were ripe, one night they tasted them and ate them, then threw the seeds down. the sound seemed unusual to them, there was too much water around them; after a while they picked the fruits again and ate them, then the water began to decrease; they plucked the tacon, threw the seeds down, by sound they determined how the water was leaving; then the bones fell again, and they fell on the damp ground; then on the dry ground; at that moment Chinsha shouted; compose and Isa also screamed, foreshadowing a good day; Taiu' and the rest of the birds were singing too, so the day really should have been clear, it was dawn; the survivors built a house for themselves; when they returned from the forest, they found cooked food; on the third day they saw also woven loincloth; one of the two brothers hid, two loro parrots, called sha'uo, flew in, turned into women, the man grabbed one of them, the other flew away; the woman turned into a worm, and the man, frightened, dropped her from his hands; the woman turned into sha'wo again and, flying away, said that since the men were in a hurry, they would not see them again; told his brother, suddenly became a woman; she became pregnant, gave birth to a girl; all people descended from her; so some women are tall and others are short; if people were descended from Sha'wo, everything women would be short].

The Central Andes. Dep. Cusco [star girls come down to steal potatoes from the field or collect edible seaweed; a young man hides one of them's belt; without it she cannot return to heaven; she gives birth to a child; returns to heaven; husband goes up for 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, in the Sun Palace, the shepherd turns into a man; People of the Sun discover and chase lovers; they turn into two mountains]: 173-174; Quechua (high-mountain 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.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Aikana [a lonely young man admires a star in the sky, wants her to marry; she goes down and stays with him]: Becker-Donner 1955:285; eseeha [Docuei'ai (guazo, small deer) first cut down the forest on the site, ordered the Anteaters (ana, oso bandera) to work; they saw that D.'s area was small, cut down the forest around; when D. was on his site, the Anteaters set fire to their own; D. heard screams his father Edósiquiana (animal owner, now translated as "devil"), saved his son, but he has had dark skin and little hair since then; E. moved D. to where Anteater's mother lived; D. asks why the pot is on fire; Cook the deer; D. asked her to show her how she would do it, put it into boiling water; almost ate it when the Anteaters arrived; he fell into their trap, stuck with all his limbs and head, since then they have been flat, thin; became a deer; the Vultures thought that D. was dead; when Condor pecked his heart, D. came to life, grabbed the Vultures, began to torment them, since then they have been in their current appearance; let go the biggest promise to give his daughter; he brought his daughters, D. chose the one he liked; became a deer, still lives in the forest; his wife (Vulture's daughter) went to look for another husband; towards the snake Pucarara, she had no teeth, asked to insert a thorn, bit the girl to death; the girl's sister {practically herself} escaped, the snake behind her, the man hides her in his daquidei, killed the snake, cut it, from pieces of current snakes; the husband turned into an animal, the wife is pregnant, left, went to the Jaguars; Jaguariha tells her brother that a pig girl has come; the one who came hid under a tacuara (basket?) , her tooth ornament clapped, the Jaguar found her, ate it, the baby fell out of her ass, got to her grandmother, she put it in a calebass; the boy grew up instantly, the grandmother told me to be careful not to eat it like a mother ; the arrows did not harm Jaguar, he killed him with a gun]: Verna 1985:69-71; chacobo: Kelm 1972, No. 9 [the man saw Thunder hunt frogs (Thunder calls them monkeys), with him Thunder's daughter; when he left, the man slept with this girl; since then he returned to her in the absence of her father; lied that he was single; Grom's daughter became pregnant, came to the village, saw that the man had a wife, left him with his son; the man went to look for her, but Thunder killed him with lightning], 18 [a girl came to the station; in fact, it was a gorlinka; he brought her home, but when he left, his mother beat her daughter-in-law; she left with her children; her husband returned her, but it happened again; he found them again in the forest, but they became turtles, flew away]: 237, 243-244; synth larga [a man killed a wild boar, hid, smelled Urub vultures flew off rotting meat, the man grabbed the female; her father warned that his daughter did not eat fresh meat; told his daughter to leave if the man's first wife became jealous of her; the first wife was the Rat , The Urubu wife is gone; the man married the Bee, she cooked corn chicha, the Rat wife is furious, the bee became a bee, flew away; the man beat the Rat, she also left; the man found the Bee, learned to fly, took parents live with themselves]: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988:91-93.

Southern Amazon. A young man or two brothers want two stars for their wives; they go down to earth, then the boy or brothers follow them to heaven. Nambikwara [the young man's mother goes to another village for cassava; he sleeps outside, wants two stars as his wife; they go down to the village, take him to heaven; the star brothers call him to play ball; kill when they hit the knee or head with the ball, they eat them; they have always done this to their sons-in-law; sisters turn fruits into wild pigs; brothers go hunting them, disappear; sisters tell other women to prepare cook meat; everyone dies accidentally (cuts herself with an ax, falls into fire, water, gets bitten by a dog, etc.); their children kill each other while playing; sisters think about the best way to commit suicide; decide not to drown, don't jump into a deep hole, don't be bitten by a snake; jump into a fire from a tree; the smoke from their burnt bodies turns into 1) The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds; 2) the younger sister into the Small Cloud; the eldest in the Big (the part of her body that is more burned) and in the Coal Sack (the part that is weaker burned)]: Pereira 1983, No. 90:113-117; Iranian [two brothers sleep in the open air, wish two stars are wives; two female stars go down, sleep with them; brothers tell each other that everyone dreamed of a skinny wife; stars (offended?) disappear; come back; do not eat Crypturellus parvirostris bird meat (shooting stars turn into these birds); tell young men to close their eyes, take them to the sky; the elder's wife warns that tapirs there are long legs in the sky, you have to aim higher; he kills the tapir; the younger one misses, the star brothers eat him; his wife warns him not to play ball; a poisonous ball is thrown into his house; he gives it away head, dies (var.: goes to play, killed with a heavy ball); widows turn fruits into wild pigs; brothers of stars follow the trail, understand the deception; they and their children throw themselves into the fire, turn into all kinds monkeys; widows tell the remaining old men and old women to get ready to cook meat; they all die accidentally (they fall into the water, injure themselves with an ax, etc.)]: Pereira 1985, No. 15:84-91; Moura 1960 [Star goes down to two young men, sleeps with them, takes them to heaven; one hunts, kills the beast with an arrow; other animals eat both prey and hunter; the second young man plays ball with the Stars, is killed by a heavy ball, eaten; the wife of the killed lies to the Stars as if she saw many wild pigs; they do not find pigs, they throw themselves into the fire, turn into monkeys of various colors; only female stars remain in the sky]: 58-59; Iranian woman [see motif K27; Vulture steals the arrows of three brothers; invites his three daughters to marry; asks the elder to tear the bark off the tree; a giant eagle arrives, his son-in-law breaks his wing; The vulture heals him, this is his pupil; asks his sons-in-law to bring logs to build a house; the brothers are attacked by a snake, they kill her, bring her father-in-law to life; he revives her; asks the elder son-in-law to get it out battleship burrows; hits him with a club, misses; his son-in-law kills him himself; Vulture's wife kills two older brothers, letting an ant, a wasp, a bee at them; the youngest marries all three sisters; sticks bird feathers to himself, flies away with a falcon; sisters turn into plaintively screaming birds]: Pereira 1985, No. 41:179-183; paresi [two brothers; star brothers kill the youngest after hunting tapir, his soul turns into a partridge; the elder kills most of the stars, their grandmother revives them, the young man returns to earth]: Pereira 1986, No. 31:354-361; mind [Zapálo lies at night, sees two stars in the sky, says he would like them to be married; when he wakes up, he sees two women next to him, they are Barukoló (Morning Star); Z. hunts for them (really polygamy in Umotin is not certified); wives they are surprised that the husband brings a lot of meat, in the sky they ate the resin of the jatoba palm tree; they ask him to get resin; they ask him to climb on the bakab palm (Oenocarpus bacaba Mart.) to get fruits; all three climb palm tree into the sky; Z. cannot eat resin - the food of stars; Stars lower him on ropes in a pot; when there is not much left, the ropes have broken, become all kinds of snakes, the fragments of the pot become turtles; man told me what happened to him]: Schultz 1962, No. l: 243-244.

Araguaia. The first humans die in the fire; the current ones are descended from birds that have become women. Karazha: Baldus 1952-1953:210 [two old men quarreled, one dug a hole, made a fire in it, people, animals, fish, all living things died in the fire; old men shot each other in the stomach, died; flew in green parrot perecito; the surviving young man asked him to marry him {apparently, the parrot has already taken on a human image}; carage does not kill parrots; var.: after old people have killed each other, two boys and two periquito parrots remained in the house; the boys watched periquito grind and cook corn and became girls; when the boys grew up, they married them, they were new people], 210-211 [(this is option 3 in Ehrenreich 1891); there is a festival in the village; the dancers took off their masks; the rest went hunting and fishing; each promised to return with their prey; three boats sailed up with the flow, one young man swam down; his blind, lame mother remains at the hearth; when he returns, he asks her if the dead really danced; the mother replies that men danced with their fingers on each other a friend in the manner of the dead; then the others returned, including two strongmen Tenira and Sokrä; one of them cut off the old woman's head with a knife from piranha oaks, showed everyone, ordered them to dig a grave in it set fire to firewood, threw all the carages into the fire; began to fight, hit each other in the eye, died; two parrots remained in the village; two young men came, who were late hunting; returning the next day from hunting, found food cooked, heard women's voices, knocks; on the third day they found two girls; from these two couples - the current carage]; (=Baldus 1937:216-217); Ehrenreich 1891 [1) a young man escapes , asks the Parrot Girl to marry him; 2) two boys escape; find two Parrots cooking in their house, becoming girls; boys grow up, marry Parrots; 3) as in (2) ); two young men hunting in the forest are escaping]: 39-40; tapirape [there was a fire pit in the floor of the mansion, all people died in it; two men, Jacques, a parrot girl and a Mutum girl, slept in an old house (men in hammocks, women in a big vessel); new people are born from them]: Baldus 1970 [people die in a community house in a fire pit; survivors at this time slept in a large vessel in an old hut]: 355; Wagley 1977 [people die in a global fire]: 176.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo: Wilbert 1978, No. 76 [Metraux 1960:17-18; thunder Bepkororoti married Dozhd, they had a daughter Na-Kra ("rain" means "child"); her mother quarreled with her, beat her, and she went down to the land, the young man Ngodyure hid it in calebass, took it home; took it out at night to sleep with it; his mother-in-law opened the calebass, shaved her daughter-in-law's head, painted it with genipa and uruku; NC gave birth to a boy, who is forever hungry; people ate rotten wood and fruit; NK climbed a palm tree into the sky, brought sweet potatoes and bananas from the sky; her father told her son-in-law that NK would stay with him if he did not beat her; husband and wife planted cultivated plants], 77 [Banner 1957:40-41; there was no fruit, no fire, people ate rotten wood, lizards; Rain's daughter came down from the sky, the young man saw her, she said her parents hurt her; the young man hid wife in a closed basket; her mother found, shaved the top of her head, painted her genipa and uruku, she was named Nhokpôkti; she ordered to clear the plot, brought bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams from the sky; when her son grew up, returned to heaven forever], 78 [Lukesh 1978:221-223; during the migration, the young man found Rain's daughter, NGObog-ti ("great light"); hid it in calebas, the mother found the girl, shaved, painted it like a kayapo woman ; brought various cultivated plants and manioc cakes from the sky (the husband bent the tree to send his wife to heaven, it straightened up, she took off); then the girl's father, Bebgoroti's mother and sisters, brought everything else]: 217-219, 219-220, 221-223; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 53 (shikrin) [the young man looks at Venus, wants her as his wife, the star goes down to him, he hides her in the calebass; his sister opens it, her mother paints it; her husband throws her into the sky with a stick, she brings bananas, pumpkins, yams, yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, people received cultivated plants], 54 (pau d'arco) [two brothers are sleeping On the street, one wants a star as his wife, she is next to him, he hides her in a calebass; the young man's mother finds her, the Star stays with him; she invites her husband to visit the sky, he is afraid; bends down a tree, throwing her wife into heaven; she brings yams, sweet potatoes, cassava from there; once she quarreled with her husband, returned to heaven, the plants remained; a caterpillar climbed to the young man's brother, also turned into a girl, stayed with him], 149 (shikrin) [Vidal 1977; two Storks come to a man's house, make manioc cakes; he hides, grabs both, paints them with a genip as it should be for women; they no longer turn into birds; become the owner's adopted daughters, marry Indians]: 181-182, 183-184, 140-141; Apinaye: Wilbert 1978, No. 6 [The Sun and Month take two parrots from the nest; returning from hunting, they find a ready-made dinner; take girls by surprise, get married; The sun leaves woodpecker, snail and quartz to cut down the forest, the month began to peek, they have stopped working since then; both grow calebasses, throw them into the water , they turn into humans; both make some people physically defective; the Sun and the Month divide people into two fratries], 74 [the young man's wife died; he cried as he looked at the sky; the star disappeared and turned out to be next to him on the plaza; after the fifth night, the young man agreed to marry her; hides his wife in calebas, his sister finds it, he announces his new marriage; people ate rotten wood, leaves, game and coconuts; Star ordered to prepare the site, brought yams, bananas, sweet potatoes, corn, rice, beans, peanuts, etc. from the sky, taught me how to cook it all, as well as weave mats and baskets; when she found her husband with an earthly girl, she returned to sky; if this hadn't happened, the Star would have brought other values from the sky], 75 [the young man's wife is dead; he looks at the sky, dreams of a star coming down to him; a frog jumps towards him, he throws it off, falls asleep; when she wakes up, there is a girl next to her, she was a star and a frog; the next night she brought yams and yams, people were eating rotten wood at that time; he hides it in calabass; his younger brother finds her, she is ashamed; after that, the young man lives openly with her; she goes with her husband's mother, jumps on her shoulder three times in the form of an opossum; explains that she wants to point to the tree on which all varieties of corn grow in order to people no longer ate rotten wood; men cut down wood when they left, cut down the thicket; boys were sent for better axes, killed and ate the opossum along the way, turned into old people; the shaman poured water on them and restored their youth; people cut down a tree, the Star showed how to grow corn; after her husband's death, she returned to heaven]: 54-55, 212-214, 215-216; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 70 [Schultz 1950:75-79; humans had fire and meat, but no cassava, they ate rotten wood with meat; female star Katxeré decided to go down to a lonely young man, give people food; turned into a frog, the young man threw her away, she appeared as a girl, told her to be hidden in calebas in the morning; in calebas she was a frog, opened it as a girl; the young man's sister opened it, after that he did not hide his wife; she showed the tree to water, on which all varieties of corn, cobs fell into the water; people were afraid to eat, K. taught; others saw a piece of cake from the boy, cut down a tree; K. showed wild edible fruits; while her husband was hunting, another man raped K.; she made a drink from bark, brought it to the square, everyone drank and died; K. returned to heaven, the cultivated plants remained], 71 [Schultz 1950:80-83; boys aged 15-16 they spend the night in the plaza; only one is without a wife; a Star Girl was with him; in the morning she became young, he hid her in a calebass; a five-year-old sister opened her, after which the young man stopped hiding his wife; people ate rotten wood and termite nests; corn was planted but did not know it was edible; The star collected the cobs, made tortillas; brought cassava, watermelons, rice, sweet potato, yams, peanuts from the sky, planted everything; gave birth son; taught me how to harvest and cook], 72 [Schultz 1950:85-86; one young man is single, slept on the plaza; wiped off a frog, she became a girl, was a star descending from the sky; in the morning he hides his wife in calebase; her little sister opened it, the young man announced that he was married; his wife ordered her to take her to swim in the river; there she saw a tree with corn growing; told him to cut him down, collect the cobs, sow it; at night She brought yams, bananas, cassava and peanuts from heaven; taught her how to plant; while her husband was away, five young men raped her; she spat in their mouths, they died; returned to heaven to her parents]: 194-200, 201-205, 206-208; ramkokamekra [beginning like a crash; after the husband insists on copulation, the star returns to heaven, taking her husband with him]: Wilbert 1978, No. 73:209-211; xavante [two boys sleep on on the street; one wants one of the stars to marry; when he wakes up, sees her next to him; a young man and his wife climb a palm tree, a young man tells his younger brother to hit the trunk with a club, a palm tree grows to the sky; in the sky a young man He sees yams, sweet potatoes and other cultivated plants; vultures also live there; a young man goes down to earth to tell his father about his marriage, brings cultivated plants; returns to heaven to his wife in the same way]: Giaccaria, Heide 1991, No. 2:32-39; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 52 [translated in English]: 175-180; line [Nimuendaju 1944:184; a young man admires the star Wasi-Topré (Jupiter), which descends to him in in the image of a girl; in the morning a young man hides her in a calebass; his comrades open it, the girl disappears; at night she comes to the young man again, leads her to the mountain, they climb a palm tree, from there to heaven; there is a human being everywhere in the sky ; the young man goes back in fear, his wife shouts to him that he will be back soon; he talks about what he saw, dies, his soul returns to heaven, it can be seen as a star next to Jupiter]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 55:185-186

SE Brazil. Kamakan [mythology has the motif of a star wife; the man returns to earth on the back of a vulture (without details)]: Metraux, Nimuendaju 1946b:552; sheta [rain floods the land is a flood; a person asks the birds to get a new one; the sapakura (ibis) and sarakura birds bring some clay or soil in their beaks, throw it into the water; the earth dries up; where the earth has fallen, Mountains appeared; before the flood, the land was smooth; Ducks showed the man the lake where the girls were swimming; he grabbed one of them, married them; the sheta were their floods]: Borba 1904 in Koch-Grünberg 1921, No. 78:212.

Chaco. If not otherwise: the young man wished stars (two stars) for his wife; one or those go down to him. Chamacoco: Escobar 2006:242 [the young man admires Iolé Morning Star every night; everyone sleeps in the morning, his comrades go hunting; he wakes up in the sky in the cold embrace of I.; they live together, he asks her to go down to the ground with him; I. turns into a bunch of light in the young man's maraka (shaman's pumpkin-throat shaman rattle); he hides it in his purse; one day, when he goes hunting, trusts the secret to his sister, orders to guard the handbag; wild boars attacked the village, women climbed trees, the boar trampled on his purse, I. returned to heaven, destroyed the village with a flood; the young man continued to look at the sky in the morning], 243- 244 [a girl stole a feather bracelet from a shaman; a fight broke out, the girl's brother killed the shaman; he was sentenced to death; as a shaman himself, he rose to heaven; various stars deny the murderer shelter; in The shaman falls asleep in the land of the Morning Star Iolé; I. wakes him up, forgives him, he lives with her and her three daughters; I. is in love with him, reluctantly lets him go back to the ground; his eyes made of blue stones are inserted, with which you can see everything; he returns to the village with gifts from heaven, forgives him; it is difficult for him to live on earth, he returns to his wife; then he returns to earth a few more times, finally stays in heaven forever]; Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a [husband hides a star in calebas; other women burn it trying to open it; it explodes, they die; the star revives women, returns to heaven], No. 25 [living with as a star, a man and his family acquire fair skin; a star does not revive dead women], 26 [the husband does not hide the star in a calebass, but in a termite mound; when a star returns to heaven, he turns into an iguana] , 27, 28 [the star revives only her husband's sister; the husband turns into a stork], 29 [without an episode of women dying; the husband becomes a stork], 30 [not women, but men open calebas and die]: 84-98; chorote [beads or crystals come out of the star's body instead of urine; mother-in-law disdains to let her urinate, another woman gives her; the husband hides the star in the calebass; when his sister throws the calebass on the ground, that's it die, the star revives people; revives dried crops; returns to heaven, the husband looks for her, goes to the vultures, they devour him, the star revives]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 136 [before When he meets a star, the young man loses an arrow, the star gives it to him], 137 [the young man visits his mother when he comes down from the sky], 138 [after losing an arrow, the young man steps on the thorn, the star takes it out; the man descends from the sky on a vulture, falls into the water, sinks], 139-140 [short versions, just the beginning of the story]: 254-267; nivacle [unless otherwise: two stars take the thorn out of the young man's leg, raise it to the sky; contrary ban, he kills birds (s) there, thunderbird people threaten him, he escapes by returning to earth]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 12 [boys shoot at the target, one who has no connection with girls yet, wins prizes; looks at the sky at night, dreams of lying between two Star Girls; the next day he competes in the run, with a thorn in his leg; the Stars did this to keep him behind; the youngest copulates with him, they take him to heaven; bird-men greet the young man; wives tell him to respond to the leader's greeting only the fourth time; he receives gifts; he is warned of terrible things a jaguar, which has already eaten many women; warn the Vultures not to eat; forgetting that celestials are in front of him, he kills ducks, storks, herons; for this, the Kite and the Vultures kill him; his star wives revive; the jaguar turns out to be a rat that is dangerous for thin-skinned birds, but unnecessarily tried to cling to the young man's throat; he kills her; the birds are happy; the young man wants to go to the ground, descends on the back of a kite (hawk); He asks him to jump off the ground, but the young man is afraid; then the Kite throws him into the river, the young man turns into an eel (Lepidosirem paradoxa)], 13 [looking at the stars, the young man dreams of two of them, big and little, became his wives; they go down, he brings them to his mother's house in a small bag; goes up to heaven with them; soon returns on a vulture, falls into the river, turns into an eel], 14 [ the young man dreams of marrying two stars; the stars descend to him, the eldest shoots into the sky, makes a chain of arrows, the Stars and the young man rise along it; thunderbirds live in the sky; wives warn not respond to their leader's first greetings; the chief warns that the ducks on the river are local women; a young man kills a duck; thunderbirds are about to kill him, stars bring him down a rope to the ground; there he finds his house destroyed by a thunderstorm], 15 [a hand eagle in a young man's house (a celestial captured on earth) raises him into the world of birdmen, warns him not to respond to the first greeting from the leader of thunderbirds ; a terrible jaguar kills local women; a young man kills him easily, a jaguar turns out to be a rat; everyone is happy; he kills a bird, forgetting that it is a thunderbird, a local resident; the eagle that brought it protects it, trains in running; a young man is offered a running competition, he beats several birds; looks at the sky of stars above the sky of birds, wants female stars; two stars adjust so that while running he stabbed his leg; they go down to him, raise him into their world, marry him; the eagle lowers him to the ground], 16 [the young man looks at the sky, dreams of marrying two stars (the Gemini constellation); two women go down to him, take out a splinter, raise stars and thunderbirds to the village down the stairs from reeds, which are used to make arrows; tell him not to answer with the first time a thunderbird leader greets him; contrary to warning, a young man kills a duck woman; his star wives ask the vulture to lower him to the ground; a man falls into a river, turns into an eel] 17 [the star (this is Orion's Belt) goes down to extract the thorn, then the text breaks off]: 42-50, 51-54, 55-58, 59-64, 65-69, 70; nivakle [two parrots decided to take husbands on earth, went down, became girls, lay down in the brothers' house; one day they decided to return with their husbands; warned them to greet the main spirit in heaven; one of the men decided to return to earth; the Snake-eater Eagle, then the Kite offered to let him down, he accepted the Snake Eagle's offer; he told him to jump over the lake, the man jumped]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 18:71-72; poppies: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 84 [wife does not love an ugly husband; he looks at the sky, wants a little star as his wife; when hunting, a deer hurts, he turns into a woman, she says that there is the Star he wanted; in the form of a firefly hides in her husband's bag; opens up to his relatives after her husband's younger sister tried to look into her bag (The star hurt her eyes with something, then cured her); when the season for collecting algarrobo pods (Prosopis nigra) is over, leads her husband to collect them, wets his eyes with his urine, then he sees pods on the trees; the same, the Star leads to collect other women's algarrobo beans, also wets their eyes; raises her husband to heaven to his Frost father; when he admits that her husband is sleeping with her, the father-in-law scratches his son-in-law's body with bones to cause ritual scars, he dies of blood loss; father-in-law tells daughters step on his grave, gives the comb to comb the corpse, the son-in-law revives handsome; the father-in-law warns that on earth the former wife will pull the man towards her, but the spouses still return to earth; the sister of the former wife sees that the man has become handsome; the star and the man's ex-wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; the Star revives him by stepping on him; the next night, the same The torn cannot be revived again; the star returns to heaven, telling her husband's relatives to stock up firewood; the rest of the village of Frost kills with cold; the Sun visits Frost, he gives him fish; himself visits the Sun, he gives him an Algarrobo bob], 85 [the wife leaves her ugly husband; he looks at the sky at night, wants Foteki Morning Star to be his wife; when hunting, a deer hurts, he turns into a woman, she says that F. is; becomes a saint, tells the man to hide him in his bag; his mother hears a woman with her son at night; his younger sister tries to look into the bag, a needle falls out, stabs her in eye; F. heals her eye, remains human; smears her husband, mother-in-law's eyes with urine, they now see fruits on the tree that they have not seen before; raises her husband to heaven to visit her father-in-law; it's cold there; Father F. - too star; for a long time F. replies to him that her husband did not copulate with her; finally he confesses; he calls his son-in-law, pierces him with sharp bones, his son-in-law dies of blood loss; after a while, his father-in-law tells him daughters step on the grave, the husband gets up; the wife combs the half-decomposed corpse, it comes to life, becomes handsome; the father-in-law visits the Sun man; the son-in-law misses the earth; the father-in-law tells the daughter that she will be able to revive her husband one more time in the same way as she has already done; the spouses return to earth; the former wife sees that he has become handsome; along with her sisters comes for him; F. and the former his wife pulls him in different directions, tears him in half; F. revives him; the next night, F. cannot revive her husband again; returning to heaven, tells her husband's family to stock up on firewood, for her father is in punishment will send cold; father-in-law kills the rest of the village with cold]: 179-186, 187-191; matako [the star visits an ugly young man, then takes him to heaven; it's cold there; contrary to the ban, man comes to the fire, dies]: Calífano 1974 [a star goes to heaven, a man follows her]: 49-50; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 7 [a star throws his bones to the ground], 8 [the star's father devours her husband; his the spirit becomes an owl]: 47-49; toba [the star returns to heaven with him; it's cold there; you can't approach the fire]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 10 and 12 [a person touches the fire burns, returns to earth], 11 [man and star rise to heaven, man descends back down the tree trunk; heavenly fire is cannibal], 13 [man touches fire, dies, star throws his dice to the ground]: 51-62; 1989a, No. 36 [the star's husband is a shaman; because of the cold he returns to earth], 37 and 39 [a person dies from the cold, a star throws his bones to the ground], 38 [when a person dies touches the fire, a huge bird devours it], 40 [a single man copulates with a vessel, children appear there; every night one of them looks at the sky, dreams of marrying a star; a star descends; in next time he wants to go to heaven with her; she warns that there is no fire; he insists; it's cold in the sky; he sees fire, but his wife explains that this creature, which looks like a crow, it eats people; man returns to earth], 41 [heavenly fire is a bird; it devours man; his bones are thrown to the ground], 42 [only the Moon Old Man has fire in the sky; when he is warm, shaman returns to earth], 119 [a man looks at the sky, wants a star to be his wife; the star comes down, sleeps with him at night, turns into a ray of light during the day, he hides it in his pocket; the star wife plants seeds, of which corn, beans, pumpkins grow; it teaches people how to farm]: 57-58, 59, 59-60, 61-62, 63-64, 65-66, 67-68, 176; mocovi [every night a star descends to the young man; when he leaves, warns him not to touch coals; he's cold, he breaks the ban and burns]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 18, 19:43-45; mockovi: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 155 [two Ducks take off their clothes, bathe; Owl and Heron hide their clothes, they marry Ducks; they always come back late, prevent their wives from seeing them; one day they light a fire, see that the Owl has ugly eyes and the Heron has a neck; they leave them], 164 [waterbird Karau takes off her clothes, bathes; Vulture advises the Pigeon to hide her clothes; The pigeon hides, marries K.: the wife leaves alone for the holiday, the Dove returns her]: 195, 202.