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K27E. Eat or drink a lot, ATU 1088).

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The character is asked to eat or drink an unusually large amount or poison.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Luba {mistake; this publication does not contain this text; [a dragonfly, a shrew, an elephant fall into the trap of a hunter; everyone asks him to let go, promises to help; the daughter of a creator god falls into the trap Kabezia Mpungu; he calls a person to him, gives difficult assignments; 1) eat a lot (a shrew dug a hole, a man threw food there); 2) clear a huge area (an elephant is knocking down trees); 3) identify a bride among many girls (a dragonfly touches her ear); KM gives a daughter]: Kotlyar 1975:55}; bena lulua; ganda; ronga; yaka (Congo); congo [Nkende's father promises it is the one who eats nine bundles of cassava; the Shiverr Cat dies when she shows up; the monkey asks for permission to swim each time, she is replaced by another monkey, so eight times; gets a wife]: Struyf 1936: 7-15; sukuma; isanzu: Kohl-Larsen, Allensbach 1937, No. 25 [it was dark; the sultan sent a Spider, a Fly, a Rat and five men to heaven beyond the sun; the Spider lifted everyone along the thread, the Rat gnawed a hole in sky; the heavenly sultan promised to give not only the sun, but also cultivated plants; Mukha said that she would sit in baskets where people chose the right valuables; the sultan told them to eat the bull overnight with with bones; the rat made a hole, bones and meat were thrown into it; the sultan ordered them to take out what they had brought when the rooster sang; the rooster sang, the sun rose; people planted cultivated plants; awarded the Rat, the Spider (live in the house), the Flies (they drink milk while milking)], 27 [the young man releases the wild Chicken, Lightning, Boar, Elephant, Zebra who are trapped in his pit; marries; father-in-law requires 1) clear a giant area from the forest (elephants cut down the forest); 2) cut down stone hoe handles (Lightning cuts down); 3) plow the field (Zebras plow); 4) sow (chickens and ants sow) ; 5) eat a lot of oxen (The boar digs a hole, tells her to bury all the meat); the young man gets a wife, his mother tells her to stir the boiling soup not with a spoon, but with her hand; she wraps her hands, dies Lightning, a point, an ear whichh 1937,]: 29-31, 31-34; tsonga (shangani) [the duyker antelope and the rabbit decide to cultivate the land; when the crop is ripe, the rabbit steals from the duyker site; the rabbit denies his guilt, offers make a snare; a bird was caught with a long feather on one wing; as soon as the rabbit pulled it out, the bird became a girl; asks for a feather; touched the rabbit and he became a prince; killed the duyker, brought it like prey; birds are unhappy that the heavenly maiden remained on earth; with the help of a rabbit and woodpecker, they decided to add poison to him, but the wife warned, and the mouse and woodpecker became helpers; the wife offered to visit her parents, sent the pen into the sky, it grew to the sky; the Rabbit Prince and 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 celestials made hail, the woodpecker covered it with wings; while hunting, the woodpecker gave amulets, they protected the Rabbit from being tortured to kill him with an assegai; the Rabbit and his wife decided to return to earth, went down the pen; from People and cattle came out the woodpecker's amulet bundles; the mouse also became a prince and a woodpecker a princess]: Bourhill, Drahe 1908:43-57; suto [poison]: Klipple 1992:317-318.

West Africa. Hausa [The spider glues his stomach, comes to the Ravens for coal, lies down so that the pieces of figs collected by the Ravens stick, carries them away; so many times; the Ravens agree to take the Spider to the island where the fig tree is; he fills the bag with figs, the Crows leave it on the tree; he jumps into the water, the Crocodiles agree to help him if he is their relative; they bring porridge out of the mud; the Spider drills a hole in the vessel, puts a hole above the hole, pretends to eat; when they see an empty vessel, the Crocodiles believe that he is their relative; in the evening he tells young Crocodiles that if they hear a crash at night, it is the guest who blew the winds; in fact, he bakes eggs in the crocodile ash, it bursts; in the morning he takes out 101 times the remaining egg, each time he washes off the mark; the Crocodile takes the Spider across the river; he is shouted that he ate the eggs; The crocodile He does not hear well, believes when the Spider explains that he is being asked to hurry from the shore]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 68:163-166; banen [the large bushback antelope and the dwarf antelope argued who will eat more and drink; the dwarf hid her relatives nearby; after eating another portion, she went out to relieve herself, another came instead; bushbok lost]: Dugast 1975:236-238; mamprusi [father said he would marry his daughter to someone who eats a whole plate of hot pepper without ever taking a break, never saying "wow!" ; many young men tried to eat pepper, but they got burned and involuntarily shouted "ooh-ha!" ; a spider came, sat down at the table and asked the bride's father, "You don't let him talk while eating," he took pepper in his mouth and finished saying, "Uh-ha!"?" ; the father replied that he did not allow it; "You can't even..." the spider took the pepper in his mouth again, "make "ooh-ha" quietly?" ; the father said you can't; "And you can't say "ooh-ha" out loud?" - asked the spider, continuing to eat pepper; the father replied that it was impossible; "You can't say "ooh-ha" quickly or slowly?" - the spider asked when swallowing pepper; it was easy for him to eat, because he kept doing "ooh-ha!" , but the owner did not understand his tricks; "So I don't say ooh-ha," said the spider, eating up the rest of the pepper; the bride's father agreed and gave him his daughter]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 27:46-47.

Sudan - East Africa. Joluo [Obong'o has a talking Sijenje bull; S. and all the cattle are gone; O. went to search, came to Lang'o country; all the people he met are pointing the wrong way; O. sang, S. answered from afar; so a few once, S. found; in the country, L. offers poisoned food and drink, S. warns the owner each time; everyone went to the leader's funeral, the Kaki hyena (a particularly ferocious type of hyenas) remained to protect the cattle; O. crept up, cut off her tail, her strength was in it; there was still a blind old woman, O. promised to cure her, dripped aloe juice into her eyes, she died in agony; O. brought his cattle back; K. became a beautiful girl, came to O.'s country; all men are interested in her, every time she asks which animal the man killed, rejects everyone; O. replies that he cut off K.'s tail; she immediately chooses him as her husband; suggests following with firewood, do not take dogs with you, because he is afraid of them; suggests O. to climb a tree, break off branches first; turns into a Kaki hyena, begins to cut; O. calls dogs; the bird distracts K., asks , why kill a handsome man; at this time, the felling overgrows; O. calls the dogs again, they hear and come running; seeing them, K. became a beautiful woman again, but the dogs tore her apart]: K'Okiri 1970:11-31; sandave [man has pigeons, one is the most beautiful and valuable; he tells his son Mukuva (M.) to feed them, not to miss the beautiful; other children ask to show this pigeon, he flies away; the father wants to kill his son; the mother advises to go to her brother Mukwetu; M. comes to the old spirit woman; she feeds him, hides him in a cane; her children come, smell the human spirit, she denies everything; in the morning the old woman gives M. a warthog, a beetle, spider {not mentioned further}, sesame seeds; M. comes to his uncle; he cuts the bull, puts poison in the meat, brings M.; some widow brings beans and broth; M. releases the beetle, that is, broth and beans, does not touch meat; the warthog makes a hole, M. hides meat there; uncle is surprised that M. is alive; at night he comes to kill him, rumbles like thunder; M. throws sesame seeds into the fire, they crack; M. out loud: there is something in this house unclean; uncle leaves; uncle gives that pigeon, cattle, people; thinks to catch up with M., kill, take everything away; M. hides himself and everyone in a tornado, uncle does not see them; there is a mountain ahead, M. tells the warthog and the mole to do it a hole, goes with people and cattle under the mountain, the uncle stops chasing; the mother is happy at home; M. becomes rich, his father is poor]: Arnold 1984:185-190; Nubians [lying in a puddle, woman gave birth to a donkey from the seed; Ahmed Son of Donkey (ASO) beats his wife twice a day, who confirms that he is daring; the old woman advises his wife to answer that there are better daredevils; ASO leaves, meets, takes as companions Eared, Big-eyed, Angry, Inexhaustible (irrigates the beds with his urine); everyone before that replies that if he met ASO, he would fraternize with him; the king sprinkles poison, the Glazed takes away the poisoned pieces ; the king sets fire to the house, the Inexhaustible floods; the angry almost killed everyone; the king is ready to give his daughter, the ASO only takes a receipt that they are brave; each one takes turns cooking, the giant eats everything; when it is the turn ASO, he throws him into the fire, the giant disappears into the well; ASO goes down the rope, the beauty says that the giant's soul is in the chest, the ASO breaks it; the twins pick it up, share the beauty and the treasures they cut off the rope; ASO falls into the fifth underworld; there the crocodile closed the river, gives water in exchange for girls; ASO promises to cause ritual scars to the crocodile when he and the girl are eaten, kills him; hides with the old woman, leaving a handprint on the princess's thigh; the king finds the hero, tells the eagle to take him upstairs; there is not enough meat, ASO cuts off a piece from the thigh, gives it to the eagle; he puts it back; ASO forgives brothers, returns to his wife]: Katznelson 1968:78-94; Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 20 [Fatima is so beautiful that her brother Muhammad decided to marry her himself; F. asked her mother help put a jug of water on her head; she replied that F. should first call her not mother, but mother-in-law; the same with her father (father-in-law), brother (groom); F. told all the girls in the village that they had been decided pass them off as brothers, took everyone away, they came to the cannibal giantess; F. ordered not to eat anything, hide the food in a cooked hole, but the youngest girl tasted it; F. told the cannibal to bring it in a net or in a calebass without a hole in water from the seventh sea; the girls ran away, but the youngest could not; the cannibal returned, learned from the younger that the girls had run away, ordered piles of gold to appear in front of them; silk fabrics; each time F. tells you to take only a little and run on; the river; F. asked the crocodile to transport, on the other side he will give one girl to eat; when they have swam, F. tells the crocodile to transport them first mother (i.e. cannibal); when they are in the middle of the river, F. shouted that the crocodile was on his back; he dived and ate the cannibal; the girls settled in a cave; an old man with 6 sons nearby; F. asks how to remove his skin is to pierce a thorn; she plunged him, his skin slept, F. put it on, returned to the cave in the guise of an old man; the camel comes to eat foliage from the bush, the girls drive him away; the young men consistently began to come to find out what was going on; everyone took a girl; when Wad al-Amin came up, only an imaginary old man came to the cave; the old man says he cannot herd cattle; YES agrees that he should herd pigeons by the river; F. takes off the old man's skin by the river; the slave sent with her is delighted, but he can't tell him anything; the imaginary old man said that the slave is sick, let his chest be burned; so several times; then AM himself went I saw everything; at home he offered to play chess, the winner would remove the skin from the loser; F. won but did not fresh AM; AM won, F. took off her skin; the whole village gathered for the wedding], 23 [Fatma The beautiful woman saw the camel come to eat crops; not knowing that it was her brother Muhammad's camel, tied it with strands of her hair; M. swore to marry the one whose hair it was; the parents agreed provided that M. brought dowry from distant places; told F. to run with her mother's sister's six daughters; one of them was lame; they saw big and small lights; F. said that where big, there was a cannibal, but the girls did not listen; the cannibal gave food to crushed human bones moistened with her milk; F. ordered not to eat; the lame did not listen, the others quietly threw the food into the dug holes; in the morning the girls they said that they should bring water with a net, a calebasa without a hole, an unburned vessel; she could not, came back, fried and ate the lame girl, rushed in pursuit of the others; she wanted a wedding met (the girls start dancing there, but they run again) so that the river with the crocodile; he transports him on the condition that he will be given one of the girls; but on the other side they ask for a transfer first the cannibal, they say that she is his share, the crocodile dives; the girls live in a cave; a camel comes up to her, followed by his owner Wad al-Nimair, he tells the girl to go out; so one girl every day; F. secretly came to the VN garden, asked the old man how to remove his skin (a thorn in his forehead), stabbed a thorn, put on his skin; the imaginary old man agrees to herd only pigeons; and that only a dumb slave with him; by the river F. took off the old man's skin, bathed; at home, the slave gestured to tell you what he saw; F. explained that the slave had a headache and wanted to be cut off; the slave was beheaded; so all slaves were beheaded, except last; VN went with him himself; stole F.'s ring while she was swimming; with the slave the same as with the previous ones, but VN refuses to cut his head, but offers to fight; the winner will rip open the belly of the defeated; VN He loses three times, but F. does not touch him; the fourth time he won, took off the old man's skin, married F.]: 110-114, 120-125; nao [the hare takes with him an ax, a hoe, a machete, a goatskin bag, a small basket, grain and a piece of cloth; gives part of the canvas to ichnevmon (Egyptian mongoose), cuts bamboo for termites, gives birds snails, feeds guinea fowl grain, catches an antelope for a lion, cuts down a baobab for an elephant; a man promises a daughter who has eaten 10 baskets of food; no one should eat more than one; the hare asks to bring food into the house, leave him alone; one basket of food is eaten by birds, two by termites, three by a lion, the rest are an elephant, ichnevmon drinks beer; when he leaves the house, the hare cooks cassava for himself and says he is hungry; gets a wife]: Held 1904:134-136.

North Africa. Kabila [pregnant woman climbed into the garden to pick figs, the ogre owner caught her, let her go for promising to give him a child if a girl is born; took the girl when she was 10 years old; her six brothers tried to repel her, the cannibal defeated them, put them under lock and key; their mother has no hope for new children, but a pea turns into a boy; he eats a lot; after learning about the fate of his brothers and sister, goes to the ogre; the shepherd says that first you must defeat the ram, goat and bull, which are at the head of the ogre's herds (the boy defeats them) and eat a huge watermelon in his garden (eats them); the cannibal offers to eat a huge portion of couscous, eat a bull; the boy eats everything, kills the ogre, frees his sister and brothers, takes wealth]: Dermenghem 1945:79-80.

Southern Europe. Italians (Tuscany?) [when he dies, the king tells his son Ferdinand to give his three sisters to be the first to marry them; they are a chimney sweep, tinker, umbrella seller (Regenschirmtrödler); F. plays with golden balls; one fell the old woman in the basket, there was an egg, it broke; the old woman curses F. {apparently, he wants him to marry Margarita, but either the narrator missed this episode or the author did not record it}; F. goes to look for the beautiful Margarita, consistently visits his sisters; they are married to wizards, everyone gives a nut (of a different kind, the last one is an almond); the younger sister gives a flint and a candle; her husband says that old woman is M.'s mother, shows the way to the palace, teaches what to do; the old woman tells you to disassemble different varieties of grain overnight; F. breaks a nut, ants in it, they do their work; the next evening, eat 300 pounds of crackers per night (mice eat from the second nut); on the third evening, eat 30 pigs (almond eagles ate); on the fourth evening, the old woman leaves F. and M. in the bedroom: by morning, a son should be born to greet his grandmother; F. carves a fire, lights a candle, a boy appears; in the morning an old woman dies and the boy disappears as soon as the candle burns out]: Knust 1866, No. 2:384-386; Italians (Basilicata) [when dying, the king tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first to marries; this is a swineherd, a poultry farmer and a gravedigger; the young king also decides to find a bride, calls out to the old woman, who tells him to look for the beautiful Fiorita; he consistently comes to three luxurious castles, theirs the owners are the husbands of his sisters; the first gives pork bristles, the second gives feathers, and the third gives a human bone; the younger sister sent to the king, Father F.; the king orders to eat apples filled with the basement overnight (the young man threw the bristles, the pigs ate apples); on the wedding night, put F. to sleep with birds singing (feathers are birds); let the child be born tomorrow, say "dad" and "mother" (threw a bone, it turned into child); the king gave the crown to his son-in-law]: Calvino 2017, No. 133:590-593 (=Crane 1885, No. 13:61-68; translated to Kotrelev 1991:131-134); Italians (Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1088:262; Sicilians [to get Cardia's hand, the hero must 1) eat the bean cellar (crows eat), 2) remove the corpses (wild animals eat them), 3) fill a lot of mattresses with feathers ( the king of birds performs)]: Clouston 1887:239; the Portuguese [younger brother, as opposed to the older brother, is kind to the old man; he helps him get a ship moving on water and on land; for a ship the king gives him a daughter; St. Virgo is an assistant; on the way, the hero meets a strongman, a shooter, a blowing, hearing, a runner , eating (either opival or having control over the weather); they help to perform additional difficult errands that cause getting a bride]: Cardigos 2006, No. 513A: 128; Galicians [clever brother herding sheep, saw a giant crush a stone with his hand, ran home in horror; stupid took a piece of oil from his mother, squeezed it, the giant hired him; offers a competition: who will punch a hole deeper in the rock; the man knocked the hole out with a chisel at night and sealed it with paper; pretended that punched a hole, and when the giant tried it, he broke his fingers; who will knock down more pines with one blow; at night, a man sawed pines and knocked down 7, and a giant 3; who eats more potatoes; a man lowers potatoes in a bag hidden under clothes; who runs faster; a person pretends to rip his stomach open in order to run faster, asks a woman to give him a knife, rips open the bag, the potatoes fall out; the giant also asks for a knife, ripped his stomach open and died]: Contos 1972, No. 76:74-77; the Basques [Errua ("madman"), leaves home, is hired by the owner; whoever of them is dissatisfied with the other the other peels off the skin from the back; the owner orders 1) to bring the crooked branches to the firewood (E. cuts down the vineyard), 2) drive the cows to the pasture without breaking the fence in which there is no passage (E. cuts the cows into pieces, pushes into the cracks of the fence), 3) herd pigs on the mountain where the cannibal Tartaro lives; T. offers to compete, 1) who will throw the stone further (the old woman advises releasing the bird), 2) who will throw the next a bar of iron; say: from here to Salamanca; T. does not tell you to throw it, because his parents are in Salamanca), 3) pull out and drag an oak tree (E. ties the entire forest with a rope, T. is frightened - where he will herd pigs); in the house of T. E. goes to bed next to him for the night; puts the dead man lying under the bed in his place; T. hits him with iron, in the morning E. complains that fleas have bitten; E. must separate pigs from T. pigs; E. says he will take those with one mark and two markings; all pigs turn out to be so; in the village of E. sells all but two pigs, cutting off their tails; cuts one, hides giblets under clothes; in full view of people He stabs him in his stomach, people believe that his intestines have fallen out, he runs after the last pig; people tell T. that E. released his guts to run faster; T. rips his stomach open, dies; E. drives the pig into the mud, puts his tails in the mud, tells the owner that the pigs have fallen into the mud; the owner sends him for a spade; E. beats the hostess, she yells, he shouts to the owner - "One or both"; the owner replies that both; E. beats the maid, brings a spade with a hoe, hits the owner with them, he can't stand it, E. rips off his skin from his back; var.: E. burns T.'s eye with a hot spit; presses with a crunch nuts, says they are Christian bones; whoever brings more water, E. is going to carry the entire source, T. is scared]: Webster 1879:6-11; Corsicans [receiving an inheritance, each of the three queens builds a ship and triples a feast; the elders are for the rich, the youngest for the poor; the old woman gives him a wand that allows the ship to move on the ground; he takes the poor with him, meets him, takes a ship 1) throwing millstones, 2) eating a couple of bulls at once, 3) drinking a river, 4) carrying a mountain on its back, 5) a runner, 6) listening to the grass grow, 7) driving fog into a bag so that it does not damaged flowering trees; the queen is outraged that the ship has arrived on her land; tells 1) to eat mountains of bread (eats), 2) drink all the wine (drank opivalo), 3) move 4 heavy cannons (the strongman carries), 4) bring in a bottle of water from a spring 100 km away (the runner overtakes the old woman, although she picks up dust and the runner sleeps first); the Queen sails away on his ship, the Queen sends the army in pursuit, ate and drink, drown him, regurgitating what he had eaten and drunk; the king hands over the crown to his youngest son]: Massignon 1984, No. 35:78-82; the frets [the tailor took his hat and with one blow killed 7 flies and wounded 7 others; wrote about it on the shield and went on a journey; the king tells him to kill the unicorn; on the way to the forest, the tailor picked up and put a half-frozen bird in his pocket; towards the giant; decided compete to see who will throw a stone higher; the tailor releases a bird; the giant: who will carry the heavier bunch of firewood; the tailor climbs the spruce tree to make a rope out of the spruce to tie more firewood; a giant thinks he is stronger than himself; who will eat more; the tailor lowers the food in the cut on his shirt; hides behind the tree, the unicorn pierced it with a horn, the tailor nailed his horn to the tree; the giant brought the tailor to him home; he put a straw scarecrow in his bed; at night the giant crushed him; in the morning, the tailor as if nothing had happened; brought the king a unicorn horn, received the princess, and then the throne]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 45:125-128; Spaniards (Murcia) [a man quietly throws food on the ground; either pretends to rip open his stomach to get rid of swallowed food; another rips open your stomach really dies]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 1088:178; Catalans (all episodes including Mallorca): Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1060 [to find out who is stronger, the giant and a person agrees to squeeze a stone; a person squeezes a piece of cheese], 61 [a person gives a giant to chew an iron chisel and chews something made of clay in advance], 1062 [a giant throws a stone and a man releases a bird caught in advance], 1063A [the giant throws a stone into the sea; the man pretends to shout to sailors to be more careful; the giant does not see the ship (it does not exist), thinks it is terribly far away and is surprised at the strength of the opponent], 1084 [whoever hangs louder; the man tells the giant to wrap his eyes and ears with a blindfold so as not to hurt him; hits him in the ear with a stone thinks it's a whistle], 1085 [whoever does a hole in the tree with his finger; the man made it with a drill in advance], 1088 [who eats more; the man quietly puts food in a bag hidden under his clothes; runs away; rips the bag open in front of the peasant , says he rips his stomach open to run faster; the giant is catching up; the peasant talks about what he saw; the giant rips his stomach open, dies]: 207-208, 208, 208-209, 209, 209-210, 210, 210-211; Maltese [older brothers are rude to the old woman, younger is kind; she helps him get a ship moving on land; a young man meets, companions 1) someone who can drink a lot, 2) carry weights, 3) runner, 4) listener, 5) sharpshooter, 6) capable of causing good and bad weather, lying on his stomach or on his back; the king will give his daughter to those who perform difficult assignments, including drinking a wine cellar, picks up all the gold from the treasury, overtakes the princess (you have to run to the spring and bring a jug of water); the princess puts the runner to sleep, offering to look in his head, but the rumor hears it, and the shooter wakes up by knocking a stone from under his head; the weather-changing army destroys the royal army that tried to destroy the hero; the hero reigns]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 513B: 152-155; ladins [king consistently sends three sons to the forest for firewood; when the eldest breaks a chip off a tree, a man jumps out; the guy calls him crap, brings firewood in his shoulder basket, but they turn in crap; the same with the middle brother; the younger one is polite, invites the little man to share a meal with him; he says that the other king will give her daughter a bad laugh or give him half good; the little man gave a wagon and a donkey, told him to go to that princess and pick up whoever was in need; so the young man was joined by a hungry dog, a thin man, a drunkard with a red and blue nose, a man with his pants down, with eternal diarrhea; his ass was gagged; the princess saw, burst out laughing, the young man demanded her hand; but the king now demands that the groom drink all the wine and eat all food, as well as hay; the donkey ate the hay, the drunkard drank wine, the dog and the hungry ate food supplies; the king and queen still do not want to give their daughter to the young man, but she ran away with him; the king sent knights; man, whose diarrhea took out his plug, his pursuers were filled with crap; then the young man rewarded his companions, dressed like a king and reappeared to his wife's parents; he was recognized as a prince; wedding]: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 13:105-116.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the king promises a daughter to the one who will build a ship moving on land and sea; the elder brother decides to try; sees in the forest that many trees have already been felled down; sits down for lunch; forty asks for a piece, he does not give it; tries to cut down trees, they do not cut down; he returned to his father; the same middle brother; the younger Luduenn (Cinderella) gives bread to forty, after each axe hit, the part of the ship immediately ready, the parts gather together themselves; L. gets on his ship, meets, companions Obedala, Opivala, Runner (chases hares with millstones tied to his leg), Strelka (aims at a hare in the distant grief), Listening to the grass grow; on the way they buy an egg, a plow, a hat; (these items are needed when talking to the princess); then the king demands 1) eat 40 bulls (Oatmeal eats), 2) drink 50 barrels wine (Opivalo drinks), 3) overtake the maid who would go to a distant spring to get water; she put the runner to sleep, but the Listener heard his snoring and her words; the shooter saw that the Runner was sleeping, putting it under the horse's head was the corpse, fired an arrow, woke it up, the Runner was the first to bring water; L. received the princess and soon the throne]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 8:296-311; British: Kharitonov 2008:191-197 [Jack digs a trap hole , the giant fails, he finishes him off; another giant takes sleeping D. to him; follows his brother, D. makes loops, lowers him to the door, hangs giants; frees three girls; sleeps at the double-headed a giant, puts a log on the bed instead of himself, the giant hits him with a club, D. complains that the rat hit its tail at night; pretends to eat a lot by lowering the pudding into a bag under his clothes; cuts it with a knife, pudding falls out; the giant cuts his stomach with a knife, dies; tells the three-headed giant that a thousand warriors are coming at him; for his imaginary salvation, he gives him an invisible jacket, speeders, a magic sword, an omniscient hat; with their help defeats other giants; saws the bridge supports, the stalker giant falls into the ditch, D. finishes him off; the giant Galligantua turned the Duke's daughter into a doe; D. blows a horn, turned into birds and animals splashes; marries the Duke's daughter], 276-281 [the king promises to give his daughter to whoever defeats the royal sorceress; she easily defeats Bill and Tom, they are beheaded; them younger brother Jack tells the old man that he is looking for a ship sailing on land; he gives him a ship and a stick that turned water into wine; tells him to put on the ship those he meets; this is the Fighter, Oat, Drank, Runner, Shooter, Far Seeing; the Fighter's fight with the witch ended in a draw; Oat and Drank defeat her; the witch puts the Runner to sleep, the Seer notices, the Shooter knocks the magic bone out of him -under the heads; Jack gets the princess]; the Germans (Hanover) [the king will give his only daughter to the one who builds a ship moving on water and on land; a carpenter, cabinetmaker and shoemaker who made wooden shoes, everyone decided to try; the old woman asks the carpenter what he is doing; he is rude to her; she replies that she already knows - she may not try, it won't work; the same with the cabinetmaker; the shoemaker tells kindly; the old woman promises that the princess is his; when she goes to the king, let him take everyone who gets in the way; it drank, ate (gnawing bones), the runner (holding his knee, otherwise he will immediately be far from here), the arrow (if he shoots, he will sweep everyone around); the king tells you to drink all the wine in his cellars (drank), eat 8 cows (ate), deliver the letter in 24 hours to the king's brother and answer (the runner suffered, but fell asleep, the shooter woke him up with the thunder of a shot; after the wedding, the king sent his son-in-law to war; the shooter destroyed the enemies, and then the king and his entourage; reigned, making friends ministers]: Wolf 1845, No. 25:105-106, 121-126; Germans (Switzerland) [the giant met the tailor; he said he was stronger than him, squeezed a piece of cheese, water flowed, the giant believed that the tailor clenched a piece of flint; the dragon demands girls, the king is forced to give his daughter; the king promises his daughter to the deliverer; the tailor and the giant went to the dragon's lair; the tailor began to pull him out with ticks, and the giant prepared a hammer; the dragon swallowed the tailor, but the giant killed the dragon with a hammer and took the tailor out of his belly; the king does not know who to give his daughter to; the tailor offers a competition: who will eat more; himself quietly puts food into a tied bag, wins; giant: how do you manage to eat so much; tailor: you have to rip your stomach apart; ripped the bag; the giant ripped open his stomach and measures]: Sutermeister 1869, No. 40:81-84; the Germans (Austria) [the tailor slammed nine flies, wrote "nine with one blow" on a piece of paper, put it under his hat; the king's servant noticed that the king told the tailor to kill three giants; they suggest throw a stone into the sky (a tailor releases a bird), crush stones (a tailor squeezes water from cottage cheese); who eats more (the tailor puts pasta under her clothes); in front of a woman pretends to cut it their stomach to shed their pasta, they prevent them from escaping; the woman told the giants they were stabbed; the tailor brings their tongues to the king, receives an award]: Cerf 1992:247-250; Germans [eldest son went to cut firewood; did not share the cake and bread with the old man, hit himself with an ax on his hand; the same middle one (on the leg); the younger Fool shared; he told him to cut down a tree under the roots of which the goose with golden feathers; the guy spent the night in a tavern; the owner has three daughters; the eldest went to pull out the feather at night, stuck to the goose; the middle, the youngest, stuck to her; when the guy carried the goose further, to a pastor stuck to the girls, then the man whose child was supposed to baptize, two peasants with hoes; the king would give her daughter to someone who made her laugh; when he saw the procession, the princess laughed; but the king is looking for an excuse to refuse; let the groom bring a man who can drink a wine cellar; eat a mountain of bread; the fool finds such in the forest; the king wants a ship that would sail on land and water; that old man gave; Fool got the princess and then the throne]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 64:236-238 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:197-200); Irish, Scots, French, Friezes , Flemish: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1088:33-34

Western Asia. Mehri [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they come to swim, they have to 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.

Melanesia.Buka [Tubun left her baby Tione to his blind grandmother Péopéo, went to the place where all women gather for trade; Mouketek killed T.'s mother and father and everyone else; E. gives the baby suck the milk of pigs; his maternal uncles, Tin and Toñ, come, take, raise, now the name of the young man Enpen; he makes more and more powerful bows, he hunts; decides to go to destroy enemies, Tin and Ton is with him; kills an ogre dog with an ax, Tin swallows its liver, Tone swallows her tongue (the same after killing every new enemy); when he comes to Bitobit, Tin and Ton tell him to quietly throw away the poisonous the betel she suggests chewing her own; when B. throws a stream of fire from his ass into E., he kills her with an ax; Kirin shoots E., who dodges, kills him with a spear; meets Tubun (this is no longer his dead mother, and a young woman; this is the name of any heroine in the story); she was sent (either as a wife or to be eaten, because it was her turn) to Tui; the terrible Tui begins to get out of the cave, E. amazes Tin and Ton finish him off with arrows, Tin, as always, swallows his liver, Ton swallows his tongue; E. puts signs on Tubun's back, tells them to cover them with a headdress; Tubun returns to the village, says that Tui is hers rejected, took only her jewelry; Matoune memorizes his axe against a stone, smears it in red juice, says he killed Tui; Tubun says he doesn't want this fat man; E. tells Tin and Ton to belch liver and tongue, everyone sees that M. is a liar and E. is a hero; he gets Tubun; he cuts down one tree on the site - everything falls, plants one plant - everyone grows; Tin and Ton call E. to return home, but he wants to go home stay in his wife's village; M. puts thorns on E.'s bed, they pierce his body, he dies; people send a servant for Tin and Ton twice, M. calls to go instead of him each time, waits nearby, says that Tin and Ton refused to come, tells E. to be buried faster; Tubun sends a servant for the third time, Tin and Ton come, magically remove thorns from E.'s body, revive him; E.'s people gather fight people M.; E. hits M. with an arrow and immediately all M.'s people die, wherever they are; Tin and Ton fire at dead ants, they devour bodies completely]: Montauban, O'Reilly 1955, No. 13:79- 82.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Tonga [Lasa (Laka) cuts down a tree to make a boat for a trip to Fiji; Haelefeke revives a tree; on the fourth day, L. waits, grabs him; he helps build a boat, sails with L.; they are also Eater and Thief; Fiji's demons offer to compete, 1) eat a lot (Eater wins), 2) catch fruit thrown from a tree, 3) fill the basket with crabs (The thief waits for the Fijian to fill his basket, puts him to sleep, puts the crabs into her own)]: Beckwith 1970:271; Aitutaki (South Cook Islands) [in the lower world Miru devours the souls of the dead; she has one breast (the other is cut off), one leg (the other is cut off) cut off below the knee), one hand (the other cut off from the elbow); Tekauae asked him to put a coconut kernel in the grave with him; when M. gave him a bowl of live centipedes, he swallowed a walnut, a centipedes quietly threw it off; M. was amazed, sent him back, telling him to remain silent about what he saw; he came to life]: Gill 1876:172-174.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the king from the upper reaches and the king from the lower reaches met hunting, agreed to marry children when wives give birth; the king from the upper reaches is poor, he has a son and the other has a daughter; wild yak Gala Rinchen carried the king away from the upper reaches; he managed to write on the saddle: if the son is worthy, let him take revenge, and if not, let him become a shepherd; the son read, the mother and uncle deny; a man with a bag of wheat came , the young man quietly made a hole, picked up wheat, fried it, called his mother, held her hand, she had to tell about the death of the boy's father; the same with his uncle (a bag of peas); uncle and mother tell me to find his father first the horse; no one can tame him, the prince tamed him; met the king Yaks, suggested: break his right horn, the horse will tear off its right ear, I will break my right thumb; the horse held his ear, the prince bent his finger, yak really broke his horn; then broke his left one, the prince killed him with an arrow; sent three servants to dismember the carcass; they found in the yak's stomach a gold necklace, a knife, a bow and an arrow of the king, they brought only meat to the prince; their prince beat, they got everything back; the prince comes to marry the promised princess, the daughter of the king of the lower reaches of the valley; her three brothers are organizing a groom competition; 1) whose pair of birds will fly together (prince in advance I met the princess at the well; at night she explained how to win: catch two native birds on the roof, they will fly together, and the others will fly on different sides); 2) cover the whole kingdom with cloth (the princess gives a piece fabrics, it grows); 3) gallop around the kingdom on horseback with three saddles (everyone hit, the prince galloped four times); 4) eat a whole ram, skin, drink lots of beer; princess: just bite off - you will win); the prince got a wife, took him home; the brothers decided to kill him; the youngest came at night, called his sister, asked which side of the bed she was sleeping on; she lied; he shot, killed not the prince, but his sister; hundreds of people can't lift their bodies, only the prince succeeds; he took the body to the pass, came back, saw smoke, thought someone had lit a funeral fire; when he came there, the princess was alive, said that the owner He sent her back to the dead; they hugged each other and died, the birds sprinkled them with water, they came to life again; they smeared the heads of birds with oil, since then there have been white feathers; the couple forgave the brothers, lived well]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 16:105-110; garo [episodes of a long text about the exploits of Goera, who became the god of Thunder; after her husband's death, a young widow had to incest with her maternal uncle; G. said who he was. while still in his mother's womb; mother G.'s other brothers were swallowed by a giant boar; he has 7 heads on one neck, 7 fangs in each mouth, one eye in the middle of each forehead, trees on his back, thickets and streams; G. received a lightning sword and a bow with lightning arrows, killed a boar; began to eat its flesh to argue with the tiger; pretended that the piece was stuck in his throat, sent the tiger to fetch water; at this time he threw away the meat far away, it turned into deposits of quartz; the tiger believed that G. ate everything; then G. defeated many other monsters, including a giantess who put her ear under her when she went to bed; completing her exploits, G. took to heaven]: Rongmuthu 1960:152-184.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [an orphan's mother in heaven turns into a buffalo; helping her son, tells him to go to the lake, where red, golden and multicolored birds - the wife, bride and daughter of the Sky Star - will go down to swim; you must hide the wings of the Star's daughter, marry her; he first takes the wings of red, golden birds, they turn into a rooster, a rock, he is afraid, gives wings; he does not give up multicolored, he married; wife gives birth to two boys, the father allows them to play with their mother's wings; the mother takes the wings, the 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 offered by her father; 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; husband gives a bag of nuts for monkeys, plays the flutes, brings a drum; father-in-law decides that his poison is harmless, drinks it himself, falls to pieces; these are shooting stars]: Vietnamese tales 1992:126-128.

South Asia. North India, Faizabad, Hindi [three brothers are married, the youngest fourth is single; unhappy with the food one of the daughters-in-law made; she says that when he marries the princess, she will it is better to cook; a young man goes on a journey, meets, companions a Rakshasa named Slow Leg, Eats Little, Drinks Little, and Lots of Rats; Raja promises a daughter to someone who eats a full room cakes (rats eat), jump across the river (Slow leg jumped over), drink a pond (He drank little); the young man got a wife and returned to himself]: Crooke 1895, No. 542:194-195; baiga; dhanwar [& #346; ankar (=Śiva) offers to kill the demon; the young man Siddhanāth is called to do so; S. answers that only someone who is married can do this and that he should take the girl Jogeśvarī (her father is Šeš) from the underworld; on the way there, two old women decide to help Siddhanath; one gives a stone to throw at the person in his way, the other a handkerchief to revive themselves if he is on the verge of death; S. throws a stone at the army of snakes and nagas, they dissipate; Shesh agrees to give his daughter, but puts poison in S.'s food; he manages to wipe himself off with a handkerchief, comes to life; to penetrate girl, you have to break a rock; Siddha splits her with Shiva's trident; the girl is first too dazzling, then regains her normal appearance; S. brings her wife, kills a demon]: Sontheimer 1989:27-29; bhumia [Janka's mother (aka Sita) cut off her sixth finger, hammered her sixth finger into the ground, grew into bamboo, in each section of the stem the seeds of different cultivated plants (rice, millet, legumes, etc.); Chandu, a pig Domara, found bamboo; D. found grain in her litter, emptied the bamboo with her brothers and brothers, filled the bins; Bhagavan decided to burn the world; Pandava, their mother Kotma, Nanga-Baigu and his wife Nanda-Baigin hid underground; C. and D. hid separately in the pit with a grain reserve; after the fire, the eldest from Pandava, Bhimsen, asked D. for grain; he allowed it, but it must be returned in the same way: the grain taken from above, pour from above, taken through a hole at the bottom of the bin - from below; D. stabbed a pig; the guests only pretended to eat, the wind blew everything off their plates at Bhimsen's request (you can't eat with D., he was from the lowest castes); only Narayan-Deo ate, could no longer live with his brothers; began to send pestilence to pigs, sacrifices are being made to him; the Pandava brothers returned grain taken from above but not taken from below; Sun and Moon for them vouched; so Domar sometimes has enough of them; people scream, D. releases the luminary]: Fuchs 1970:27-34; buffalo maria [the lender came to the debtor, only the little son at home; - Father went to cover thorns, mother to make big things out of small things, sister to make two out of one; the lender forgave the debt and paid extra to find out what the boy meant; the father went to make a barbed fence around the garden where the prickly brinjal is planted; the mother went to the cotton field, pulls the seeds out of cotton wool; the sister went to rub the peas (each pea breaks into two halves); when the parents returned, the boy did not gave them the 20 rupees they had received; then they decided to kill him; they took him to fish with poison, pushed him into the water, the big fish swallowed him, but poisoned himself and threw it ashore; the tiger came to drink and heard sounds , asks who is bothering him; boy: I am brushing my teeth with a palm tree panicle, eating tiger tails; tiger asks him to spare him; boy: gently rip the fish's belly and go to the other side of the river; kill a deer there (? sambhar), leave me one leg and go without looking back; the boy brought a deer leg to the old lady; cut off all the meat, said it was bones, you can chew them now; and we'll give the meat (actually bone) to my grandfather, when he came; the old man swallowed the imaginary meat, the bone was stuck in his throat, the old woman tried to push it in, and the old man suffocated to death; the old woman promised money if the boy saved her dead body; that took the body to someone's garden; the owner thought it was a thief, hit him with a stick, the body fell into a well; boy: you will be responsible for the murder of my grandfather; the gardener paid money for silence; having received money from a gardener and an old woman, the boy saw a bear by the road; he came behind and put a few coins in his ass; a Muslim merchant believed that the bear was defecating with silver; boy: I'll ride your horse I'll take the money, and you can take whatever comes out in my absence; the boy rode off on the merchant's horse and never came back; the girl washed the Raja's clothes; boy: Raja sent me to pick up his clothes - it doesn't matter , washed or not; the girl gave it away, the boy dressed up as a raja; the old woman led her granddaughter to the river; boy: my grandfather sent me for her; he put the girl on a horse, rode to people, promised to eat a goat on a bet and a pot of rice, a bride as collateral, and if she eats, she will receive a girl from the Kalar caste; quietly dumped food into a hole, got a girl; he now has two of them; brought them to an empty house; everyone who came there by chance he deceived; the young man let them in (they did not recognize him in the dark) on the condition that no one would relieve themselves at night, otherwise he would kill them; those who came thought that the local spirit was talking to them; when they fell asleep, the young man smeared crap on everyone's clothes; when they smelled, those who came ran away; the young man built a palace and became a raja]: Elwin 1944, No. VIII.12:262-266 (Zograf Transfer 1971, No. 74:271-275); Kannada [divorced many snakes; the prince, led by his warriors, kills hundreds of them; the seven-headed serpent king explains the reason: his head hurts so much that his subjects are out of his control; let the prince go south, where The princess, as light as 7 jasmine flowers, never laughs; if she laughs, three jasmine flowers will fall from her lips and the smell of the middle snake king will recover; along the way, the prince saved ants whose nest fell into water; saved Rakshasa, whose mouth, while he was sleeping, grew a huge tamarind from a fallen seed; the princess's father demands to dismantle a hundred bags of grain mixed with rice and small legumes (ants perform); eat a lot (Rakshas ate); ring a huge bell lying on the ground (Rakshas raised the bell, rang); the prince received the princess, led her to the acrobats, she laughed, he brought a flower to the king of snakes, he recovered, the snake attack was over]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 51:139-142.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Toraja.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tingian [Aponibolinaen says he wants oranges from Gavigaven's garden (he has six heads); her husband Aponitolau asks, she calls a different garden each time; he bears fruit, tears it up; after hearing the truth, Aponitalau goes to G.; all the omens are bad; the spider leader carries him across the rampart to the village of G.; G. demands to eat the buffalo carcass (ants, flies eat) ; G. offers to climb for fruit, the tree has knife branches, A. is cut; before death he sends home a spear with strung fruits; the wife gives birth to a son Kanag; K. goes to G., all the omens are good; G. throws an ax, K. stands at him; blows down five G.'s heads with a spear; revives his father from the remains, who is unable to cut off the sixth head, K. cuts it off himself]: Rybkin 1975, No. 37:93-102.

China - Korea. Meo; yi.

The Balkans. Moldovans [God and St. Peter was walking by, Peter baptized the peasant's third son, who became prophetic; the godson of God (KB) plowed a furrow from the kitchen to the arable land so that his sister would walk along the furrow; the dragon recognized, held out a furrow to his home, the girl took lunch, got to the dragon; KB goes looking for her, throwing an iron core forward; the chicks say that the dragon from the well is eating them, 24 has already eaten them; KB cuts off both heads of the dragon; mother asks the chicks, where their savior is, they send her in the wrong direction so that she does not swallow KB in joy; she finds, swallows, belches, KB becomes handsome; asks the bird to find her sister; she calls her sons- Winds; Eastern self with a nail, a beard with an elbow on a lame hare; Southern tall, blind, gives hairs, if burned, will come to the rescue; KB meets Obivala, Opivala, South Wind; East and South Winds tear the dragon in half; three brothers fight for their father's inheritance - an invisible hat, a whip to fly on, an awl that lifts him to a glass mountain, where the king hides his daughter from the dragon; KB promises to throw things into the lake (whoever gets them faster), takes them himself; the king promises a daughter for killing the dragon; KB overhears Scaraosky (the devil's boss) telling the hell that KB should spray water on them from his baptisms, then he will take the treasure; so that KB does not sprinkle them with water, the devils bring him a dragon in a barrel; KB brings the barrel to the king, kills the dragon, faints; the king puts him in the barrel, drops him; KB burns hairs, a man with a nail on a lame hare frees him; the king demands for his daughter 1) a flower from the Flower Mountain (a man with a nail gives); 2) eat a herd of cows (Oat eats); 2) drink a well water (Opivalo drinks); 3) collect all the mosquitoes (South Wind collects); the king threw the awl to hell into the lake; KB again threatens them with baptismal water, they give them an awl; KYU climbs a glass mountain, marries on the princess]: Moldavian tales 1968:185-194; Romanians [dragons stole the sun, moon, stars, and the king's eyes; two elder princes went in search, but started trading, lost money and it detained as debtors; younger Dragan Chenushe ("chenushe" means "ash"), who had previously been sitting in ash, got on a horse that ate hot coals, took weapons and armor, as well as ash cakes given by his mother , and went in search; bought the brothers, taking gold from the horse's ear; while the brothers were sleeping, he killed the dragon on the copper bridge that had stolen the stars, they returned to heaven; on the silver bridge, the moon; the long battle on gold bridge; DC promised the crow more meat than the dragon promised, he sprinkled it with cold water and the dragon with hot water; DC killed the dragon, freed the sun; chipped in with his mouse, entered the mother of the dragons and carried it away a box with her father's eyes; the dragon sent two daughters to look like an apple tree and a well, and starved and thirsty on the brothers; DC crossed them with a sword, bleed; sent the brothers home to carry their eyes father, he came to Mark Armenash himself, asked for 99 quintals of hot coals; when the dragon tried to stick her head, poured coals into her mouth and it exploded; DC went with MA to get a bride for him - daughter of the Green King; they meet and accompany someone who hears oats grow and sees what is happening in another world; a shooter, a tree destroyer; drank; eaten; capable of freezing the sea; this the latter covered the sea with ice to enter the country of the Green King; they were put in a hot iron house, which froze it; drank and ate, and ate everything that was offered; compete in Running with the old woman, she put the runner to sleep, putting a dragon bone under his head; the shooter knocked out the bone; they got a princess, crossed the ice, the freezer melted the ice again, who rushed to pursue the king and the queen drowned; DC met an old man: there is no water, the dragon closed the spring, allows you to take water in exchange for people, the princess's turn; DC killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; a dwarf with a long beard came to in his hut, ate all the meat; DC split the beech, pinched his beard in the trunk; the dwarf pulled out the beech tree, disappeared into the lower world; DC came on a bloody trail; ordered him to be lowered into the black world on a rope; pretended to be lowered into the black world musician; devils promise many wagons of gold if he can free their king's beard from beech wood; DC cut off his head, ran up to the rope, twitched, but no one picked up the rope; hears the chicks squeak griffin: a dragon crawls to the nest to eat them; (killed the dragon); the griffin swallowed it and regurgitated it, making it stronger; agreed to carry them to the ground; along the way, the meat ran out, DC cut off a piece from his feet and from under her knee; the princess recognized DC by the dragon's severed tongues; the brothers' wives poisoned DCH's wife out of envy; he went for living water; the old man gave him a staff and a sheep, telling him not to leave them in the forest, where There is an entrance to hell; a bird flying dropped three feathers (her wife's hair) and three drops of blood (that fell from her wife's cheeks); DC left his staff and sheep in the forest and went home; turned into a walnut tree]: Bîrlea 1966:384-387; Albanians: Dozon 1991, No. 12 [the king spent the night with a wealthy Wallachian shepherd; that night the mistress gave birth; the king ordered the boy to learn languages and gave a cross; when the young man was 15, let him come to him and show him the cross; the young man grew up, went to the king, went down to the spring; the servant, threatening to throw a stone at him, forced him to change his clothes and status; swear that his young man would not he would expose; he promised that he would be released from his oath only when he died and was resurrected; the king kindly received the deceiver, and the young man was among the servants; the deceiver pretended to be sick and asked to send his servant (i.e. young man) for cabbage, which is being guarded by Luby; in a dream, an old man appeared to the young man; ordered him to take 14 measures of honey, 14 milk and come at noon when Luby is not at home; on the way, the young man met that elder; he teaches: in Luby's house clean the walls of the tone, hide, leave honey and milk; Luby will eat and ask the person who brought this dish to appear; ask for cabbage; eat three stumps, and he, the old man, will give a head of cabbage on the way back for deceiver; that's what happened; the deceiver pretended to be sick again: we must get the Beauty of the Earth; the old man tells us to ask the king to give him a thousand lambs, rams, a hundred measures of wheat and honey and 10 brooms; throw lambs to eagles, wheat to ants, honey to bees, rams to lions, clean the walls and door to the chambers of the Beauty of the Earth with brooms; animals will ask what reward the young man would like; ask lions, bees, ants and catching fur, feather, etc.; if fur, etc. is burned, the animals will come to the rescue; the Beauty of the Earth asks the guards why they did not stop the young man; guards: you did not feed us like this, did not clean us; she tells us divide the mixture of wheat, barley, rye and land overnight (the ants separated); bring living water from behind the crushing mountains (eagles: at noon, the mountains stop for half an hour; they brought a young man who collected water and they brought him back); identify her among 12 girls (a bee sat on her); the deceiver asks the king to kill the young man, he did it himself; the Beauty of the Earth sent a servant to bring the victim, revived him with live water; the young man was able to tell the king everything; the deceiver was torn into four trees; the young man went to visit his parents, leaving the king's wife the robe he had bought for the Beauty of the Earth; ordered him not to give it to her until he returned; there were dances and the Beauty of the Earth refused to participate without this robe; the king's youngest daughter secretly handed it to her; she tells the young man that he will find it, wearing out three pairs of iron shoes; wearing out his shoes, he stopped at a tavern, where food is free: you just have to tell us what he saw along the way; one person told how he dropped a bottle of water, went down to the ravine and saw 12 girls bathing; the young man went to the ravine, grabbed his wife's clothes and threw it into the fire; the beautiful woman stayed with the young man forever]: 83-96; the Serbs [the son dreams as if he had become a royal son-in-law, refuses to tell his parents, they drive him away; the young man refuses to tell the dream to the king, he puts him in prison, he makes a way into the princess's room, lives well with her for three years; the princess promises to marry the groom, who will throw a spear over the wall, tells you to summon that imprisoned slave; throws a spear, likes the king, gets the princess; the viziers demand that he bring a squad of 1000 people; on the way, the young man is joined 1) listening to how grass grows, 2) overtaking birds, 3) throwing a spear to the sky, 4) eating a huge pot of corn, 5) drinking a lake; viziers offer (the winner takes the loser's wife) 1) eat everything cooked (Oatmeal eats), 2) throw a person into the oven and take it out alive (Drinking fills with water), 3) overtake the winged sorceress (The runner overtakes but falls asleep, the Rumor finds out about it, The javelin thrower kills a sorceress, Runner brings a jug of water); the young man takes the wives of the viziers on the line, lives well in the palace]: Karadzic 1853 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:36-43; Bosnians [three brothers, younger simpleton; someone steals hay from a haystack; the elders hear a rumble, run away; the youngest catches a snow-white horse with a pitchfork in silk harness; then a horse in a silver animal; then a bay in gold; hides everyone in summer stall; the sultan promises a daughter to the one who jumps a ditch on horseback, each time wider; on three horses, the young man fulfills the condition three times, gets three princesses as his wife; the sultan thinks that there were three suitors; the wedding will be when all three arrive; and let them build a ship that travels by water and land; St. Peter asks everyone what they are doing; the older brothers answer rude, the younger brothers explain politely; Peter gives an ax: if you turn, the ship will move, stop in the other direction; the young man brought him to the ship and swam his three horses; on the way he took a hungry Obedala, a starving horse, and a man who ran after hares with a millstone on his leg; the king orders to eat bread from 70 ovens overnight (Eat eats); for the horse to eat 90 carts of hay during the night (the hungry horse ate); tells him to catch three birds with one stone (a giant catches a millstone); the sultan sent his daughter to buy one hare; he went in a gypsy costume; the giant sold them, but they ran back; the young man and his brothers received a princess each]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:116-126; Bulgarians [dragon (deva, King Marco) and gypsy (grandfather Truck, Nastradin Hoxha, Sly Peter) compete to see who eats more; gypsies quietly throw meat or bones behind their backs, put a dragon, or bring a dragon eaten by a dragon to them]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1088:382-383; Greeks (Fr. Syros, Cyclades) [the hunter sees a bird with a jewel on its head; it says that if he shoots it, it will be his happiness, and if he misses, misfortune; the bird turned its head, the bullet flew by; out of grief, the hunter soon died; his son grew up, his mother assigned him to a shoemaker, but he demanded that he be told what his father was doing; his mother had to give him his father's gun; it happened again, but the young man shot a bird; when he was carrying the stone home, the vizier asked to sell it, the young man refused; he had to sell it to the king, who paid 30,000 piastres; but soon demanded that the young man build an ivory tower - if he could shoot this bird, he could do it too; the mother explained that the vizier set it all up; advised him to ask for 40,000 piastres to build the tower and let the vizier give them; this money is needed buy wine and bread, fill the lowland, the surrounding peasants will gather and get drunk, they must be killed, a tower built out of their bones (elephants are out of the question - human bones}; the king feels sorry that many people have died but he rewarded the young man; now the vizier advises the king to order the young man to marry the Beauty of Peace for him; mother: let the king give a ship with 40 girls, including the only daughter of the vizier; when he sailed to that the country, the young man told the girls to wait 40 days for him, went alone; meets a Moor giant, an ant man, a water bread, a speedboat, whose every step is equal to what a person walks in five hours; each says that he is not brave, but the hunter's son yes; the young man replies that he is the son of a hunter; everyone gives his hair to summon him; the young man comes in the Beauty of the World, she advises him to leave while he is intact; gives tasks: 1) eat a monstrous amount of meat and bread by morning (the young man calls the giant, he ate everything); 2) survive in a hot oven (water bread cools it); 3) divide the grain into varieties (ants separate); 4) bring an apple from afar in a quarter of an hour (the speedboat brings); now the Beauty of the World agrees to become the young man's wife; they return by ship and the Beauty of Peace promises to arrange everything; quietly killed the king and vizier, the hunter's son is recognized as king]: Hahn 1864 (2): 3-15.

Central Europe. Ukrainians [Competition with the devil who eats more - a person ties a bag to his throat]: SUS 1979, No. 1088:263; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1929, Ust-Tsilma, Vasily Sobol, Nenets, all his life he went as a "leader" in front of herds of deer, i.e. he was a farmhand shepherd) [The queen cannot give birth to an heir, the king decides to buy a gold-head fish, goes to the fishermen, and catches it in the third tone. The fish is eaten by the queen, the maid and the bull (he gets the garbage), on the same day they have sons: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Devi and Ivan-Bykovich, grow up by months, do not feel their strength - they are maimed in games other kids. The children's parents complain. Three fellows go to the field, meet an old man, he says that going to the right will kill their horses, and to the left will kill them. They return to the king, asking for horses, Ivan Bykovich does not find a horse in the royal stable. He asks the blacksmith to tie a hundred pounds of club, throws it up so that he can hardly see it, catches it easily (his hand does not move), asks him to tie a club of two hundred, then three hundred pounds. He throws the last one, and she comes back quickly, he almost drops it when he catches it. At the crossroads, the fellows turn right, throw a tent at the Iron Bridge and agree to watch one by one. The first two fellows fall asleep on guard, instead of them with a 3-headed one, and the next night, Ivan Bykovich fights 6-headed, Poghany Idol. It invites Ivan to blow into the open field, but he gives way to Idolishch, it blows, and all living things burn three miles in the field. While she admires her work, Ivan cuts off her heads. In the morning, Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan Devi say that they did not sleep at night and did not see anyone. When it is Ivan Bykovich's turn, he leaves a knife to his comrades and warns that if he bleeds, they must run to the bridge. The beginning of the fight repeats, Ivan cuts down 8 heads from Idolishche, the latter remains, he asks for permission to take off his left boot, launches him into the tent, then his right one - the brothers wake up, see that the knife is covered in blood, they help fight, go waist-deep into the ground and defeat Idolishche. Three fellows come to the big house, Ivan Bykovich turns into a "goosebumps", overhears how inside an old woman ("nose to ceiling") advises daughters-in-law, wives of three Idolishches, to take revenge on Ivan, turn around poisoned with spring water, berries, and a golden bed. Ivan Bykovich saves his brothers from death three times, water, berries and a bed turned into women when they began to cut them, their heads were cut off. They hear the chase, they hide in the forge. The old woman demands that the blacksmith give them away, he asks her to stick his tongue through the door, and hits him with a copper, tin and iron rod, only the tin rod does not tear. The old woman turns into a horse, Ivan Bykovich saddles it, the old man asks if Ivan will give up his horse if he manages to overtake him, Ivan agrees and loses. The old man hangs his horse on his horse, promises to return it if Ivan gets Elena the Beautiful for him. Ivan Bykovich agrees, he meets Yaryshek on the way ("a thin leg, a golden cap, his forehead is covered, his eyes are out"), one knows how to carry people across the sea, the other to marry, the third to wash in the bath, the 4th carry people in space ("from place to place"), eat the 5th bread, drink water on the 6th, meets a woman who can travel 3 miles in 3 hours. He takes everyone with her. He meets three more Yaryshki: one brags: "I'm buzzing with a foot", the second can shoot with a cream, and the third catches what falls to the ground. One Yaryshko takes a spoon out of his pocket and carries everyone across the sea. The other performs the king's task - washing in a very hot bath ("heat for five soots"), the third goes to marry. The king locks visitors in a ram and sets them on fire, Yaryshko takes them to a safe place. The king makes you eat all the bread in the city, Yaryshko eats everything. The other drinks all the water in her magpies in the city's shops. The Tsar promises to give his daughter if the visitors drink all the water in the well, Yaryshko drinks. Then she orders the princess to get a dress from the state far away in 3 hours, send the old woman, on the way back she falls asleep, Yaryshko "whipped with a foot", she woke up and arrived on time. The king gives his daughter. Yaryshko carried the first one across the sea, at night the princess flies to heaven and turns into a star. Yaryshko saw an extra star in the sky, another shot a cream, the latter caught a shooting star and gave it to Ivan Bykovich. The princess does not want to marry the old man, and persuades Ivan to deceive him when he asks him to walk on the boards above the hole and let him go first. He does this, loosens one of the boards, the old man falls into a hole on the "iron sperm". Ivan takes the old man's good, burns a mare, marries Elena]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 163:340-348; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Fedor Tsarevich is walking in the garden, someone is calling; this is a gloomy grandfather ( DU) from the underground pantry; asks his father to get the key and let it out, promises to help; F. asked for the key and unlocked the door; expelled; he was given a soldier as a companion; he asked him to go down to the well; pulled after F. changed his dress and status with him; went further: 7 wives picked berries, one eye in all; F. asks the DU to give them eyes; came to another king, F. became a groom; the soldier persuaded the servants to say that F. can get Mary blue-haired from the kingdom of far away; the Remote Control tells him not to take the king's ship, to pretend to do it himself; those ripe women sent for their son, everyone can do the same special; Marya demands to eat all the cereal (one of the servants ate); drink all the kvass (the other drank); wash in a hot bath (DM himself blew and cooled); Marya rushed from the ship into the sea, the servant drank it, hers returned; she rose as a star into the sky; the stargazer found an extra star, the shooter shot, M. fell on the ship; everything opened; M. married the tsar, and the royal daughter married F.]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:211-215; Russians (Belomorye, Karelia, Loukhsky district, p. Keret) [the old man advises the childless king to catch salmon with his own hands, feed his wife. The king orders the footman to cook salmon. The queen eats, the footman feeds his wife, the broth is given to the ox to drink. All three give birth to boys, all Ivans. Ivan Volovich (IV) is the strongest. Ivan Tsarevich (IC) and Ivan Lakeich (IL) are afraid of him and secretly leave. Eve takes the best horse that the king never gave to anyone, catches up. They put up a tent at the bridge, and they agree to watch by lot. The first night, IL asks IV to replace him. At midnight, a trembled kite rides, speaks in three voices: someone is under the bridge, but he is only afraid of EVE, and he is not here, and if he were, he would put him in the palm of his hand and swat the other, he would stay mud and water. Eve suggests measuring his strength, cutting off three heads in half. The brothers are sleeping. Eve promises to unfasten them, they swear not to sleep. Now the IC is asking to replace him. At midnight, a six-headed serpent rides, boasting 6 votes. Eve blows 6 heads away with two blows, the brothers are sleeping. Eve hits them on the shoulders, they cry. On the third night, the 9-headed serpent, the same. Eve cut down six heads with three blows, calls his brothers, they are sleeping, he threw his boot at them, they come running. The serpent laughs at them, at which point Eve cuts off his last three heads. The brothers are going to inspect snake dwellings. The first palace is empty, but there is plenty of food, the second is better, the prince's daughter is there, they promise to pick her up on the way back, the third house is the best, there is a royal daughter, carried away a year ago, the brothers put her on an IC horse, the second, on an IL horse, they go to their kingdom. The brothers get married, their fathers and mothers are happy, and Eve's wedding is watered. An unknown old woman brings him drunk to the underground king Semera Vilishchi. This is the mother of slaughtered snakes, and she asks for punishment for his three sons killed. The king of Semera Vilshcha says: "Well, bring my seven forks and stretch my eyebrows, I'll see what punishment I give him." They bring him seven forks and stretch his long eyebrows. He demands to go far away, far away seas, bring him Elena Krasa Golden Braid, otherwise death. On the way, Eve takes with him an old man walking around a herd of horses, an old man who can't eat bread, an old man who can't drink a river, an old man who's cold under seven fur coats, an old man the stargazer who needs to see all the stars in the sky, the old man from the garden who knows all the flowers, even the unborn ones; they all promise to show up when they are remembered. The king will give his daughter if EVE completes the tasks: eat all the bread in the city, drink water from the river, take a steam bath; the old people do everything; ride around the animal horse - the old man goes around, breaking three rods. The king marries Eve, sends her home when they reach the flower garden, Elena asks if he is taking her for himself or for King Semera Vilishchi. He says it's for himself. She catches him in a lie, turns into a flower. An old gardener finds it and restores its human appearance. They're going further. Elena asks if he is carrying her for himself or for Tsar Semera Vilishchi. Eve says what's for herself. She turns into a star and flies into the sky. The old stargazer sees her in the sky, flies to the sky, brings her back. This is the third time Eve confesses. Elena: Semyry-Vilshcha will ask if he had fun with his wife on the way, he will not believe the answer, but will prepare a test in the form of a pit with burning resin, snakes and reptiles, and a shaft will be laid above it, will offer to cross the shaft. Eve must say that he does not believe that the king did not ride his horse during this time. He will go, and Eve must turn the wheel at the end of the shaft. Seme-Vilshcha falls, burns in a pit with resin. Eve and Elena take the treasury and go to his kingdom. The brothers are happy. Yves builds a house better than the royal palace, wedding feast]: Nechaev 1939:509-521; Russians (Olonetskaya: Shokshozero) [Ivan Tsarevich went to marry foreign lands; his sister found out that his bride would kill him; Nikita They say he is in prison; promises to help if the princess releases him, and find 39 more Nikita as satellites; the ship has stuck, there is noise on the mountain: three share an invisible hat; NM fired an arrow - who is faster behind her; took his hat ; in another place, a magic tablecloth and a jug of 12 stigmas; the same; in third place they took two: one is great to steam in the bath, the other is there; the royal orders to take a steam bath in a hot bath, the satellite cooled; eat a lot; another companion ate everything; cook her shoes; NM in an invisible hat stole her shoes, the craftsmen made new ones for the queen; cook dinner (magic tablecloth); got married; NM went to bed; the queen threw her leg over him to press him down, but it didn't work out; everything was fine]: Onchukov 2000, No. 56:214-215; Russians (Voronezh) [the tsar aims at the eagle three times at oak; agrees to feed it for three years; every year the eagle tries its strength; after the third, he puts the king on his back, carries it, throws it into the sea three times and picks it up again, so that the king will feel the same fear like him when the king aimed at him; the eagle's younger sister refused to feed the king, let the dogs down on him; when the eagle carried the king further, the younger sister's house is burning behind; the same is true of the middle sister; the eldest feeds generously; after that, the eagle gives the king a ship and two chests: the red one in the backyard, the green one in the front; but the king opened the red one along the way, the cattle came out of it; a man came out of the water, placed cattle back for promising to give what the king does not know at home; at home, the king unlocked both chests, a garden appeared out of the green one; Ivan Tsarevich was born at home; when he grew up, he was left on the seashore; a hut nearby baba yagi; she teaches: 12 spoonbills will arrive at sea, take off their clothes, begin to swim, it is necessary to hide the clothes of the eldest, Vasilisa the Wise; she promises to help when I. comes to her father, the Water King; I. met, took Obivala, Opivala, Frost with him; the water orders to build a crystal bridge overnight (the VP servants did everything); plant a garden (the same) recognize the bride from his 12 daughters (she will wave a handkerchief; fix it) dress; a fly will fly); tells you to eat a lot; drink; survive in a hot bath (assistants helped); young people are running, VP turned horses into a well, herself into a bucket, prince into an old man; pop and church; honey a river with jelly banks, a prince is a drake, VP is a duck; the water began to drink, burst; the VP tells you to go forward to his parents, but not to kiss his sister; I. kissed, forgot the VP; takes another wife; VP chipped in beggar, brought a pie with a dove with a dove in it; dove: you will forget me like I. Vasilisa Premudruy; I. remembered that everything is fine]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 219:171-177; Czechs: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1088:33-34; Kashubas [the king will give his daughter to someone who makes a boat that sails on land and water; two sons of a peasant decide to try, refuse to talk to the old man; he says they will only make a gutter for the pigsty; the third younger brother politely answers the old man, did boat; the old man tells him to take whoever the boy meets; he meets three old men; one drinks and cannot get drunk, the other is cold even in the sun, the third eats a lot; the king tells you to eat overnight 12 loaves of bread, 12 bulls, drink 12 barrels of wine, sit in a hot iron oven; old helpers do everything; war has begun, the king demands that the groom defeat enemies; the old man teaches where to get it a horse and a bag with an army; the young man was wounded, the king bandaged his leg with half of his handkerchief; after the victory he ordered to find the brave man; the boy was found sitting in ash; the servant sent in search killed the hero and the second servant, sent with him, bandaged his leg with a handkerchief and married the queen; the old man revived the dead; everything became clear; the deceiver was torn at the gate, four bulls tied to them; after the narrator's feast they scored a cannonball and shot, flew to your table and I'm sitting]: Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017:196-200; Poles [many records throughout Poland; options close to Kashubian]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 513 : 165-166

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars; Abkhazians; Adygs; Ingush; Rutultsy; varnishes [an apple fell on the royal roof during the rain; the queen ate it in half with her husband, gave birth to 40 boys; the king was frightened, told them to be left behind the mountain; later he returned, 40 young men named him father, asked him to marry 40 sisters; the king put on iron boots, took a steel stick, and went to look brides; a father of 40 daughters, also with an iron stick and iron boots; a father with 39 sons went to pick up brides, and the youngest Susuna stayed at home; S. to his father: when snakes fall from the sky and water stone rain, don't stop anyway; but when the stones fell, the young insisted on spending the night; at night they were surrounded by a ring of snakes, demanded their younger brother S.; tells S. to get an overseas daughter tsar; S. meets, takes as companions a person who shoots at the sky at birds, drinks and belches the sea; the king orders 1) to overtake the old woman; the shooter ran, fired an arrow in the back of the old woman and overtook; 2) with full Climb a tree with a bowl and go down without splashing it; S. completed the task, but from the top of the tree he saw his mother in mourning for him, dropped a tear; but the king was convinced that it was not water; 3) spend the night in the iron rooms; the king ordered to make a fire around, but the water bread spewed the water and cooled the room; the princess did not want to see the snake; the shepherd advised to ask the snake for a sword in a felt sheath as a reward; this sword S. cut by a snake; half turned into a dog, the other into a pig, they began to chase each other; S. received two wives: the princess and the former bride]: Khalilov 1965, No. 51:137-142; Megrelia (p. Banza Senaksky u.) [The date is the youngest of 12 brothers; they decided to marry 12 sisters; on the way they meet, take them as companions 1) who fired an arrow into the sky a year ago and waits for him to fall; 2) drinking the river and not enough; 3) plowing on 12 buffaloes, swallowing clods of earth and screaming, "not enough!" ; 4) carrying heaven, earth, stone and wood and shouting "not loaded!" ; 5) listening to where the ants went; 6) a shepherd of hares; everyone replies that it is not him, but Date is a real hero; brothers reject giants who have 6.9 daughters; having 12 daughters offers challenges; 1) who will drink more wine (the water swallower drank everything); 2) who will hit a distant target (Shooter hit); 3) who will eat more (Earthblower); 4) separate barley and grain (the one who hears ants sends them to separate) ; The strongman raised the giant; he gave his daughters]: Petrov 1894:64-69; Georgians (Imereti) [the bear forced the priest to get along with her, brought a son, he was named Datvis ("bear") -shvili; he is incredible strong; his father gave him to serve the king, he wants to get rid of him; orders him to make a palace in the forest and deliver it; D. brings the palace on four winged horses; orders to get Mzis-Nahavi ("unprecedented in the sun"); D. meets, takes as companions 1) zemleglot, 2) water bread, 3) listening to ants and controlling them, 4) a shepherd of hares; the tsar will give his daughter if D. drinks and eats a lot (the landowner and water bread perform); D. says that there was not enough hare meat for lunch, the hare shepherd brought hares; the king and his people are hiding in the palace, listening to ants hears, D. breaks the palace, takes the beauty away; the king digs a hole with boiling water, but D. summons horses, they carry him out, destroy the tsar, D. lives in a new palace]: Bogoyavlensky 1894a, No. 1:1-8; Armenians [The Bear's Son meets the priest in the forest, wins, he brings him home, gives him to the king; he eats up the king; the king orders 40 arobs of firewood to be brought from the forest over seven mountains; there the Son of the Bear defeats the devas, they bring firewood; the king orders the daughter of the King of the Franks to be married; on the way, the Son of the Bear meets and takes with him 1) from a millstone on his leg catching up with hares; 2) drinking the sea; 3) an ever-hungry miller eating raw flour; 4) a sage listening to the ground; 5) playing the carp, stones dance to music; 6 ) carrying the mountain; the king's tasks: 1) eat a lot (eats); 2) be the first to bring water from the source of immortality (Speedrun brings); 3) tries to burn guests in the bath, the drunk sea cools it; 4) tries to poison guests, Sazandar makes plates change seats, king and courtiers die of poison; Bear's Son takes off his bear skin, marries the queen]: Ganalanyan 1965:72-79; Kurds [ the dragon surrounds the 40 sons of the padishah, demands that Banger be released from him; he separates those fighting over an invisible hat, a magic tablecloth, an airplane carpet, picks up objects for himself, feeds the devas along the way, ants, birds; then approximately like in (6); tasks 1) separate peas from rice (ants), 2) eat a lot of halva (deva eats), 3) eat forty lamb fat tails (birds eat); 4) climb a tree with with a bowl of water, remove the braids from there (the bride gives a ring that temporarily turns water into cheese); B. and his wife return to their father, the disgraced dragon brother takes the throne of his evil father]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 7: 97-108; Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 14 [red-bearded Red Fook takes Yoryuzmek's sheep; Satanay tells her husband to kill the albridge living in the reeds, hiding and leaving hare bait; put on albridge leather, watch for F. in a latrine; YE. cuts off F.'s finger with a seal; F. in eagle robe flew to the heavenly fortress, stops raining; Yorusmek was shot from guns, he cut off F.'s head; it rained bloody for half a day, then it went clean; YE. flew to the ground on the wind horse sent by S.; the sledges want to give YE. poison; S. inserts a copper tube into his throat; the poison flows to the floor; the sledges think that the drunk YE. urinates, they want to kill him, he cuts their heads; the boy takes YE. to wash on the river; S. says that this hero boy is the son of Ë.], 16 [Fouk's son at the head of the sledges, decides to poison Yoryuzmek at a feast; further as in (14); Satanay explains that the boy who took YE. out of the house is his son Sosuruk]: 325-328, 330-332; Ossetians [Borat is invited Uryzmaga to a feast to kill him; Shatana gives his brother a pipe with him, tells him to hide it under his fur coat, gives a handkerchief; at the feast, W. quietly pours the rong into the phone, does not get drunk; Syrdon offers to drink seven bowls while standing, W. cannot drain the rong; W. throws a handkerchief on the floor, he returns to S., she summons her son Badradz from the sea, who brings down the house on Borat; only S. jumped out alive through the chimney]: Libedinsky 1978:316; Azerbaijanis (Borchalinsky District, Tiflis Province) [a widow fisherman is married, the stepmother orders three stepdaughters to be taken to the forest; the sisters decide to eat the one who is behind on the run, but the youngest digs a way to the tsarist a stable where horses are fed raisins; Shah Abbas is surprised why horses are losing weight; the courtier caught the girls; the eldest replies that she can weave a carpet on which the army can fit, the middle one can cook in eggshells scrambled eggs for all troops, the youngest will give birth to two children with gold and silver hair; SHA marries the youngest; wife gives birth to a boy Ibrahim and a girl Gullizar; the witch advises older sisters let the children down the river in a box, replace them with puppies; SHA tells him to poke out his wife's eyes, throw them into a hole, give a piece of bread and a mug of water a day; the Bogomolets caught the box, saved the children; dying, ordered them to go up the river ; the gardener takes the children to him; they knit bouquets, SHA is happy, calls the boy to him, talks to him; the aunts are in a panic; the witch persuades G. to ask his brother to get 1) talking, singing a tree (pulled out from root, brought); 2) a bird that translates the words of a tree (brings); 3) marry the daughter of King Guria; the king of demons gives a flying carpet, a stick (hit a stump that blocks the road), an invisible hat (they will be ordered to enter a hot bath, you have to become invisible, hide), a tablecloth (they will order to eat 40 pilaf boilers, the tablecloth will eat everything); SHA invites I., that: eat, my sleeves; SHA: how can sleeves eat? I.: Can a woman give birth to puppies? Tsar executed his wife's sisters]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 11:95-104; Turks: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 4 [son of a late fisherman (SR) catches a turtle shell; someone cooks and cleans the house; SR spies, sees the girl, SR breaks the shell, marries; the king orders to turn off the lights in the city, sees the light coming from the wife of the SR; the vizier advises to give her husband tasks; each time the wife orders to press the seal against a stone on the seashore, an Arab will come out, fulfill his wishes; 1) bring 10 lions that will defeat the king's 10 lions; 2) feed the city; 3) build a wall with an iron gate around the city; 4) bring a wild one from the mountains a mare with 40 foals (instead of an Arab, a bridle appears; fills the pond with wine; the mare is drunk; the foals followed the mother); 5) the king personally comes up with the task of bringing the sister of the seven giants; the wife of the SR does not can help; SR meets Edal, Drinker, Flutist, Omniscient; giants tell 1) eat 7 meat boilers, 2) drink 7 wineskins of water; 3) give poisoned bread; companions complete tasks: Omniscient knows what kind of bread is poisoned, the Flutist makes the plates dance, change places, the giants are dead; the sister of the giants kills the king's army and himself, the SR reigns], 7 [40 sons of the Sultan are sent the youngest asks his father to marry them; they tell them to sit down only when the Sultan offers a green chair - then he will understand what the sons want; the brothers go in search of brides; spend the night in ruins; the youngest sees seven-headed giantess; drove her away, but she returned with 40 sons and 40 daughters; as they entered, the young man cut off everyone's head; the giantess disappeared into the water, the young man followed; the giantess gave the keys from 4 rooms, in each girl, these are brides for brothers; the giantess asks to take her with her; calls her father-in-law, the king of giants; boys and brides are surrounded by a stone wall; the giant lets go everyone except his younger brother; to show his power, the giant tells him to burn him, scatter the ashes, jump off with water - he is reborn; orders him to get the daughter of a neighboring king for him; the king demands to plow overnight and sow a huge field, harvest (the ants did); eat 40 cauldrons of food (the blacks ate); overcome the princess; she overcomes; the young man burned the Arab's hair again, he quietly helped bring down the princess; the young man took the princess and gave it to the giant; asked her to find out where he kept his life; giant: three deer would approach the watering hole, three boxes in the yellow belly; after killing the giant, the young man took his wife and found brothers ; they argue over his fiancée - who will get it; the young man got it himself; a wedding with two wives]: 55-63, 77-83.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the dervish gives three Shah's wives an apple along with the seeds; she forgot to eat one polablock; each gave birth, but the forgotten child Nimekun ("half"); the brothers went for with firewood, N. followed him; he was tied to a tree, leaving him to die; he uprooted the tree and brought his mother to make a barbecue skewer; next time he was pushed into a hole and crushed with a stove; N. her picked it up and brought it to the palace; the brothers went to Mazandaran, where the shah of divas, he does not pay tribute to their father; on the way, the shepherds offer them to separate the goats - the brothers cannot; camels - the same; the old woman offers They cannot eat the turi trough; when the brothers approach, the Shah asks his daughters how they eat carrots; the fruits in the garden (quietly, carefully); the brothers were thrown into prison; N. rode a rooster; scattered goats, camels, ate turya, greedily ate carrots and fruits; killed the diva, freed the brothers, but burned their seat with a seal; ordered the Shah's daughters to indicate where the treasury was; the brothers lowered him into the pit to be there leave it, but he quietly sat in an empty chest; the brothers said that they had killed the Shah diva; N. came out of the chest, the shah handed him the throne; diva N. gave two daughters to his brothers, took the third for himself]: Osmanov 1987:153- 163; Persians [the king has 6 sons with 6 wives, but no seventh from his beloved; the dervish gave an apple to eat with his wife, a son was born; he was chrome, grew up quickly; all the brothers took a hundred mists and went to trade, the youngest also, his name is "a native of Iran" (TI); a servant with him; the fire went out in the morning; TI came to the old woman; her lower lip hung on her chest, the upper lip comes under her eyes; she asks for the princess she is in love with 6 sons, then he will give all his wealth; TI went up to the castle, kissed the girl, bit off the prepared food, called out to the divas, cut off everyone's head as they climbed the wall; brought his head one of the divas to an old woman, who also cut off her head; he came to the princess's father, presented the heads of the divas; the king will give his daughter if TI gets a mare with 40 foals; the princess teaches her to take sugar and dates with her; Give dates to ants that are the size of a goat; pour sugar into a bitter spring, the mare will come to drink; TI did so, saddled a mare, followed by 40 foals; the king gave his daughter; TI sees a man who drained the river with a cauldron; won, became its branded slave; a man with millstones on his feet (same); who ate trees and stones (same); in one place people are hanged by their forelocks - they fell in love with the king's daughter; TI goes to ask the princess, the king orders; 1) eat a lot of pilaf and drink a pond of salt water (Opivalo and Obedalo fulfilled); 2) break the pole in two (the man with millstones made the pole thin and broke it) ; the king gave his daughter; on the way, the White Div took both wives and disappeared into the mountains; TI came when the divas were hunting, telling his wives to find out where his bubble of life is; divas: it's a bush (wives are playing around the bush); divas: in noon a yellow bull comes to the spring, a bubble in his left thigh; TI took out a bottle, told the diva to bring wives and all the riches, then broke the bottle; at night three pigeons say: with a stick made of this tree you will heal a madman and only a healthy mind; a leaf - you will make a blind person sighted and vice versa; sprinkle the bark into the sea and it will dry out; sister TI came to the mosque, did not recognize him; he threw a ring on the plate, ordered give them to their parents, they recognized their son's ring; he made them sighted with leaves; wedding; no information about the brothers]: Romaskevich 1934a, No. 34:255-266; Bakhtiyars [the man got high, went to the bathhouse; The barber began to shave him; when he saw himself in the mirror, the man decided that he was handsome enough to marry a Chinese princess; he went to China; he met him consistently and took four as companions; Everyone is called Ahmad and so and they have different abilities; they demand a daughter from the king, they threaten to carry all the soil out of his country in bags if they refuse to carry all the soil out of his country; the vizier advises to offer 70 pots of soup; one of the Akhmadov eats; the tsar demands that the prenuptial agreement be carried around the country; fast-footed A. does this, but before returning, falls asleep under a tree; the third A. sees the sleeper, the fourth sends an arrow , he wakes up; after receiving the princess, they argue who will get her; the barber cracks the smoker, he wakes up in the bathhouse]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 42:288-290; Tajiks (Sistan) [barber shaved the king, but one hair is left; the king wants to execute him; the vizier advises giving him life, or rather getting a brown whale, his meat is getting younger; the king sent a son for the whale; people caught a black, white whales; seeing that the brown man was crying, the prince let him go; fled from his father's anger; he drove up to the fire, a diva was sitting by the fire, one lip on the ground, the other in the sky; he took on a human form, tells him to call not his brother, but a slave; the princess makes riddles and sets conditions for marriage, those who have not been executed; she easily lowers the camel into the well and then throws it on a tree, destroys and restores the rock, the prince must do the same, eat a huge amount of food; the diva does everything; tells the prince not to touch his wife below the navel after the wedding; the prince puts his sword on the bed, says he must lead home virgin; on the way home, the diva demands to divide the princess, swings her sword, a dragon crawls out of the girl's mouth, the diva kills him; after that, the princess loses her inhuman power; the diva was brown whale; gave his blood; after drinking it, the prince's father became young]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 1:14-24; mountain Tajiks [after the death of his father, Sodikjon catches sparkling fish, gives Shah; the vizier persuades the Shah to tell S. to bring colored water for the fish, a stone pool, a climbing tree; every time peri in love with S. do what they want; the last task is to bring a daughter Non-existent Shah in the world; on the way, S. consistently meets giants, takes them as companions; these are Oj-Obedala, Oj-Opivala, Oj Sharpshooter; digs a way into the girl's chambers, she explains how to perform her father's conditions; 1) split the log with one blow; 2) spend the night in a red-hot room (Opivala drinks and belches the river); 3) eat a lot; 4) hit an egg hidden in a willow crown from three miles ; 5) choose a wife among hundreds of girls (she will wear a canvas dress, dirty boots, she will sit on a white donkey); S. kills the Shah, at home his wife kills the shah and vizier who sent S.; S. receives wealth and power]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 1:22-37; Baluchi [the tsar forgot his rosary; the vizier went but stayed; then Tsarevich Sha-Trasan went; found the vizier with the king's wife; the vizier suggested to build a city, let S. do it; the elder ran his staff on the ground, the city was formed; the vizier to the king: there is not enough tree with the flowers of laughter and crying; the old man teaches: to eat buzlangs who grew up on his leg appendix; you have to grab the process and pull it, the buzlangs will scream, others will run; then again; the buzlangs will fulfill their wish; they planted S. on a tree with the flowers of laughter and crying, transplanted the king into the city; the vizier : you need another tree 40 songs; old man: you have to venerate Buzlanga's wife's chest when she starts baking bread; the bread began to burn; the buzlanga's wife turned S. into a needle and then showed it to her sons; those agree to give a tree if S. frees their bride from the hands of another buzlanga; the puppy led to a well where the buzlangs sleep and the girl rubs his hair; S. cut the buzlangs in half; other buzlangs they transplanted a tree of 40 songs into the king's city; vizier: we need another girl from Green City; the old man touched S. and said that no one would be able to put him with his back on the ground; S. meets, takes him as companions four buzlangs, each says they do this and that to fight S. (1) throws bread into ashes, takes out the other bread and eats them; 2) throws a sling from country to country; 3) listens to what's in the other country; 4) taking one step, moves from country to country); S. made a bridge over the stream, the ants crossed, promised to help; the speedboat brought Sh. to the girl and back, S. kissed her, moved the lamp; the next night, the girl cut her finger on purpose, saw S., warned about three conditions that her father imposes on her grooms; 1) eat a huge amount of meat and bread (the ash beetle ate); 2) separate the wheat from millet (ants separated); 3) whose speedboat would bring grapes first; the listener realized that the speedboat had fallen asleep, the slinger woke him up, he overtook the local speedboat; S. received the girl, gave it to the king, but he agreed to give it to S.; wedding; vizier: you need a horse with 40 foals; old man: throw bales of camel hair into the well, and then return clean water for the mare's promise to give the foals; the king ordered First, S. and his men went to them; everything was fine; then the vizier and his own; the foals took off and threw the riders onto the mountains, and their scraps were no larger than their ears]: Zarubin 1932, No. 9:106-121; Uzbeks [the king sends the sorceress Maston on a camel Ilyamon to marry 40 brides-sisters for his 40 sons; the girls' father demands to dig a channel between the kingdoms; he has been digging for many months, but there is no end in sight; the elder tells the youngest brother to close his eyes; when he opens his eyes, the canal is ready, one side is winter, the other is summer; the old man teaches the young man to send a knife for the wedding; on the way back Brothers and wives should not enter the white house during bad weather; they enter, the dragon blocks the exit; lets go for the king's promise to give his youngest son; demands that the young man get him a bride in 40 days; that along the way, he steps cautiously without suppressing an ant, divides the hare between two lions; they promise to help; the young man stops with an old woman whose 7 sons died while marrying the princess; the king demands 1) collect 40 bags of millet scattered across the field (ants collect), 2) eat the meat of two bulls (lions eat), 3) fill a large jug with chervonets (the princess gives her ring, it fills the jug with gold); the bride has a chest with a dove in it, a worm in the pigeon's goiter, the young man presses it, the dragon dies; the young man brings his wife home]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 339-347 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:157-166).

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [Thor and his companions come to Utgard, ruled by Utgarda-Loki (note 61: The Acts of the Danes Saxon Grammar explain that Utgardilocus is Loki, expelled from Asgard in Utgard, i.e. into the outer fenced space); see the city in the middle of the field; the king asks what art the guests are trying to show themselves in; Loki: no one will eat their share faster than me; competes with Logie (flame), both eat from both ends of the trough, meet in the middle, Logi ate both bones and troughs; Tialvi competes to run with Hoogie (thought), loses; Thor drinks from the horn , which locals drink in one, a lot in two or three sips, but when Thor takes two sips, the water in the horn is almost not reduced; Torah is offered to raise a cat, he only manages to tear one of it off the ground paw; Thor offers to fight; Utgarda-Loki sends old woman Ellie (old age), Thor fell on one knee; Utgarda-Loki takes aces well, and when he lets them go, he says that if he knew how strong he is Thor, would not let them into Utgard; Loki and Tialvi could not argue with Flame and Thought; the other end of the horn was in the sea: what Thor drank is now called low tide; The cat is the world's serpent, Thor raised it to heaven; there was no man to defeat Old Age; Thor brought his hammer, Utgarda-Loki and his city disappeared]: Younger Edda 1970:42-46; Lithuanians; Eastern Sami [two brothers tell sister not go out of the house; once they left her no wood or water; she went to get water; a man came out of the lake and took her away; when they found a bucket by the shore, the brothers weaved a rope from birch branches, the youngest went down to the bottom; tells the hut turns to the forest with windows, the door to it; the old woman says that the meat has come; lets him eat half a pig; he throws a ring on the floor, the dog barks, the old woman goes out to see what's going on , he hides the meat; the old woman gives a ball of wool, rolls to the old woman's younger sister; she sweeps the floor with her tongue, takes bread from the oven with her hands; gives a ball, which rolls to her older sister ( the episode with the pig, the ring and the dog is repeated); the old woman tells me to take the first horse, it is small, ugly; the man takes another one, comes to his sister, there are three boys shouting that an uncle has arrived; takes his sister away; Stallo-steel catches up with a man, kills; the old woman revives; the same with the second horse; the third time a man takes a small one; the old woman gives two dogs, tells him to leave halfway, quit bread; sister tells them to leave, S. almost catches up, but dogs grab it and eat it; brother and sister kill two children, take the third with them; brother and sister get up; when son S. climbs, cut off the rope ; in the lower world, the younger brother of the rescued sister meets son S., brings him back; brothers kill him by knocking down a tree on him]: Kharuzin 1890:353-354; Norwegians [father sends his eldest son to the forest for with firewood; the troll says that his forest, the young man runs away in horror; the younger one, who has always been sitting in ash, squeezes the cheese as if it were a stone, the troll is frightened; brings the young man to him; that offers to eat porridge for a bet; puts his portion into the bag; rips off the bag, the troll believes that he has ripped his stomach apart; rips his portion off, dies]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:81-83; Danes [the girl's parents are dead, she is hired to work for a dwarf; she gives difficult assignments; the dog promises to help if the girl kisses her; helps milk five rabid goats and bring water to the sieve; third task: go to hell for a cake; the dog teaches you to propitiate dangerous creatures along the way, eat nothing in hell; a witch in hell offers to eat porridge, but the girl quietly throws the porridge by her shirt; On the way back, dangerous creatures do not listen to the witches, they let the girl pass; when the girl returns, the dwarf lets her go; the dog tells her to cut off her head and put her in the ass; turns into a young man; wedding]: Holbek 1987:528; Swedes [young man (whose birth was unusual) sets off, meets and companions people with unusual abilities (tearing trees, blowing heavily, runner, causing frost, moving faster than a bird, listening, eating, drinking, crumbling stones, an arrow, an omniscient, etc.); with the help of an old man or on his own, a young man builds a ship that moves along water and by land; challenges usually include a running competition with a princess whom the young man wants to marry, eat a whole ox, withstand the heat, etc.; the hero wins with the help of his companions]: Liungman 1961, No. 513AB: 135-138; Swedes [a giant sees a shepherd squeezing water out of soaked bread; thinks he squeezed water out of a stone, but he cannot do so; takes a shepherd as a worker; offers to threshing; shepherd pretends to use the beam of the house as a flail, the giant stops it, threshes it himself; sends him for water, the shepherd pretends to bring the entire well; the giant tells him to clean it up - big in a big hole, a small hole; a shepherd slaughters all his cattle, puts him in two pits; hears a giant and his wife agree to kill him at night; puts his wineskins with blood on the bed, lies under the bed himself; the giant hits with an ax, splashes blood, and the shepherd is alive in the morning; the shepherd offers to drill a hole in the tree with his penis, drilled it in advance, disguising the hole; the giant poked his penis to no avail; they they compete to see who will eat more porridge; the shepherd quietly puts the porridge in the bag, the giant admits he can't eat anymore; they compete to run; the shepherd cuts the bag, the porridge falls out, he explains the giant, who is now easy, overtakes him; the giant cut his stomach and died; the shepherd took possession of his property]: Stier 1971, No. 31:123-127; Latvians [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; a piece was eaten by a maid, a giblets by a mare; each gives birth to a son, the son of a mare is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, and the second night six-headed; on the third night he is nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see that the water in the bucket has become blood; K. threw pastals at them ( shoes); brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second a spring, the third an ogre snake ; K. does not let me lie down, get drunk, cuts the bed, the spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched the line in the door, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs will come out to do the job), said that there is a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers are afraid, K. went down, cut off the line; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak water instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give them to K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with a hail; K. killed the cannibal, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. opens his eggs, lives with the youngest royal in a diamond castle; we must kill 9-headed wife; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged a horse for K. to catch up with the witch, told him not to look back; K. looked around thunder and lightning, the horse is gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell as a worker, who became angry, cut three strips of meat from his back ; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow on the leg; hell has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much white runs female (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned it); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother is a devil, K. threatens to cut her belts from her sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that is on you looks (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings behind his shirt, and the hell ate his pood, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) the devil leads K. to cut down an oak forest; K. brings a hare, the younger brother; the devil cannot catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed the devil; pulled out his mare's eyes; put his eyes on night instead of themselves a pot of sour cream, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell with his mother they run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. changed in some places, the devil drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but died himself]: Nierde 1952:116-146; Lithuanians: Grishina 1993 [the master dreamed that a month bowed to the star; farmhand: you will bow to me; the master is furious, the farmhand has run away; meets a man who runs with logs tied to his feet (so as not to be so fast); eating a birch tree (hungry); drinking a lake; hearing a mosquito seven miles away; hearing grass growing; creating frost if he takes his finger out of his mouth; The king orders those who have crossed the border of his possessions to complete difficult assignments; 1) overtake speeders (the runner overtook); 2) a hundred miles to see how much time in hours (listening and seeing: show 10, and they beat 12); 3) eat all the food in the castle overnight (hungry ate); 2) drink all the wine (drank); the king locked those who came in a room with an iron floor, ordered them to start a fire; when the door was opened, in the room frost; the king gave the farmhand a carriage with trotters; when the farmhand reached his master's land, he bowed to the carriage; farmhand: dream came true]: 12-17; Lebitte 1965 [father promises inheritance to whoever will build a flying ship; two eldest sons can't, the youngest beggar makes a ship, he flies away on it; takes 1) a runner (tied trees to his legs), 2) a eater (eats birches), 3) water bread (drinks the lake) ); 4) the arrow (hits the mosquito), 5) the rumor (hears the grass growing), 6) the creator of the cold (if he takes his finger out of his mouth, frost); the king betrays his daughter, demands 1) race (the runner runs, falls asleep, the shooter fires an arrow, wakes him up); 2) find out the time on the clock a hundred miles away (the rumor and the shooter see and hear everything); 3) eat all the food in the palace (the eater eats); 4) drink all the wine (water bread drinks); the king locks everyone in an upper room, makes a fire under it, creating frost, moderates the heat; wedding]: 179-182; the Finns [the king has three sons, the eldest is a fool; the king (the other), the general and the courtier have lost daughters, the king sent his sons to look for them; the fool has 7 pounds of sword; they reached the cliff, it failed, the brothers lowered the elder there; he came to the copper palace, in which one of the missing girls; her husband has 7 heads and 10 horns; he came and offered to drink; the young man poured it out unnoticed, and the 7-chief drank, fell asleep, the young man cut off his heads; the palace turned into an egg, the young man put it in his pocket and they came to the silver the palace, where the general's daughter; the same (the monster has 8 heads); the same in the golden palace (10 heads and 15 horns); the brothers picked up the girls; the young man put a stone in the basket instead of himself, the brothers cut off the rope; in the nest naked eagles, he covered them with a cloak, they fell asleep; for this, the eagle carried him to the ground; he dressed as a musician to play at the wedding of the general's daughter {should have been: princess}; she recognized him, brothers father ordered to hang, the eldest married Genetal's daughter]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 28:81-84; Livs, Faroese, Western Sami: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1088:33-34; Karelians (but maybe be Finns) [the old man carved a doll out of an alder chock; the old woman put it in the cradle and rocked for three years; the chock became a boy, he immediately asked his mother for bread; became a handsome and strong man; sun, a month and dawn has disappeared, people live in darkness; the king has a potion; those who drink three bottles can free the dawn, six - a month, nine - the sun; 9 could only Alder Chock (PTS); those who drank 6 and 3 bottles went with him; woman: an evil man is to blame; he cursed the sun for being hot, a month for preventing stealing, dawn woke up early; they were taken away by 9-, 6- and three-headed snakes; half of the city cries, half laughs; the king must give the eldest daughter to be eaten by a three-headed snake; if she does not give it back, the snake will eat half of the city; a hero who drank three bottles cut down two snake heads; threw his shoe, his companions lowered the dogs, they tore off third head; dawn has risen; half is crying again, half is laughing; middle daughter; six-headed serpent from the sea; the sixth head was torn off by dogs; the month has risen; the third day is the same; youngest daughter; PTS cut down 7 heads; snake: look, the sun is rising; the serpent turned around, PTS cut off another head; look, your house is burning; the serpent did not look; your wife was disgraced; looked, PTS cut off her head; the last one was torn off by dogs, when OCH threw his shoe; on the way back, OCH, turning into an ermine, overhears the conversation (with women who are wives of snakes?) Syuoyatar snake mothers; will starve, cover the tables; if they hit the cross with a sword, then there will be no hunger or tables; thirst (forest lake is the same); sleep (bed); whoever repeats my words will turn into blue cross; PTS destroyed tables, a lake and one bed; the companions have already rushed to the other two, S. ate them, took their horses and chained them; walking through the forest, PTS sees 9 blind girls and an eye on a stump; S. girls dazzled, leaving them one eye for everyone; he gave them back their eye, they taught them to get the horse back from S.; PTS cuts chains; S. gives all the girls eyes to see who is there; but they say no one; S. came by herself , grabbed the OCH; first ate the girls for deception; will let the PTS go if she gets Katrina from the beautiful Kii River; OCH sails in a boat, meets, takes five with him: Psar, Spoon Khrapun, Vaper, Eater, Aqudier; Kennel pacified the dogs; Spoon Khrapoon protected from the fire when they set fire to the barn where the swimmers slept; The vaper froze the hot bath; The Eater ate cows and sheep; Wonos brought water in the sieve; PTS received K.; Through clothes wine leather/The body glows under the skin/The bones under the body are visible/In the middle, the heart beats; on the way back, the companions one by one stay where the PTS picked them up and take what they brought with them parts of the boat; a narrow hollow remains; so that K. does not soak the hem, PTS picked it up with his little finger; S.: if you touched K. even with a finger, let him break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off cut you into 10 pieces; cut you; PTS burned parts of S.'s body, took the horse, silver and gold and K. as his wife; when they saw PTS, the parents became younger; PTS ask where his comrades are; I had to tell you, he turned blue cross; Katrina was married by the king, she gives birth to healthy sons and daughters; the storyteller was given a waxhorse, a turnip saddle and a pea whip at the wedding]: Concca 1991:134-154.

Volga - Perm. Mordva; Marie [the childless queen finds a baby in the restroom, the king calls him Babi Son; he asks his father for two friends to leave; they stay in an empty house with plenty of food, they take turns guarding; at midnight, the enemy arrives on three, six, nine horses, the BS kills everyone, his comrades are sleeping; overhears how the sisters and mother of the opponents agree to kill BS and his comrades ; the younger sister turns into sand for a hundred miles and a stream, the middle sister turns 200 versts and a tea room, the eldest into three hundred versts and a pub; BS does not allow comrades to drink, cuts demonises with a sword; their mother pursues BS and comrades are hiding in Ilya Murovin's forge; he offers to stick out his tongue, clamps his vice, the demoness was burned; THEY ask them to bring self-playing harps; BS brings, violates the ban not to cut cow's intestines, he cuts, harps go missing; IM and his brothers are looking for a wife for BS; her father demands 1) drink 40 buckets of wine, eat the same amount of porridge (they do everything); 2) wash in a hot bath (they are unharmed); BS gets a wife, IM tells her not to touch her for three nights; she puts her hand, leg, chest on the BS, he begins to suffocate, IM hides, every time she hits a woman, she vomits lizards, snakes, frogs, caked blood; after the third night wife is safe; BS returns to father]: Chetkarev 1948:20-28; Chuvash: Eisin 1993:74-77 [Exrem Patsha dreams of a 12-headed serpent on a seventh horse; orders to build a tower, a mirror above, who is in he will see that horse, receive half the kingdom; Ivan Batyr sees, receives soldiers to help, goes to the bridge; soldiers are sleeping, I. guards; every night he consistently kills 3-, 6-, 9-, 12-headed serpent; crushed with the latter's carcass, the seed horse frees him, makes I. a fly so that he knows what snake wives are cooking on the shore of a bloody lake; one will become a meadow and a river, the other will become an apple tree, the third will rest one lip on the ground, the other into the sky; I. cuts a meadow, an apple tree; the horse teaches to ask the third snake to let his comrades pass, lower his upper lip, jumps himself, I. cuts the snake; the old man Chige-Khursukhal himself from his elbow, his beard with the fathom teases, jumps on the seed horse, promises to give it back if I. brings the bird's daughter Maxim Patsha; I. meets, takes a cup of water, Frost, Glutton as his companions; M. requires 1) cook and eat lots of bread, 60 bulls (Glutton eats), 2) sit in a hot bath (Frost cools, a cup collects excess water); I. takes away daughter M., Glutton and a cup stop the chase, regurgitating swallowed, spilled water; daughter M. Mary tells her to be given to C. with her feet forward; she quietly turns into a needle, I. brings her home on a seventh horse; E. wants to take Mary away, she makes sure that a bullet from his gun kills him; I. gets the kingdom], 266-261 [the whirlwind takes the girl Kulina; the elder brother Etrigan goes to search, on the way the shepherds ask if he can eat the cow, the horse; the sister is married to Shaitan, who offers to eat a pig, a horse, a bull; E. can't, Shaitan kills him; the same with his younger brother Utrigan; a drop of blood floated in the river, the brothers' mother swallowed it with water, gave birth to a boy Kachikrush; he works as a farmhand, eats 77 loaves, three bulls at a time; when he learns about the fate of his brothers, he follows his sister, eats what the shepherds offer along the way, then Shaitan; kills him, brings his sister home]

Turkestan. Uighurs [a young man catches goldfish, contrary to his mother's advice, gives a khan; a vizier advises to reward a young man if he brings a second one; he brings; brings living water for fish from the sky, otherwise he executes; in a dream, an old man 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 a promise to bring live water; that 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 sleeping dragon cave, take gold, when hit by a staff, it will turn into 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 it to his khan; she calls the khan for a walk, tells them to bend down, grab the khan, hold it until he dies; the young man becomes khan]: Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:18-24.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas; Dagurs; South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses and did not return; when BN and his wife ate horse breast, his wife gave birth, a son was named Er Töst& #252; k ("brisket man"); he grew up; one old woman wove, he stepped on a thread and tore it; the old woman told him to look for brothers better; his father said he had no brothers, he was deceived; another grandson the old woman pulled ET's bow, ET hit him, the boy died; and this old woman told him to find his brothers better; ET found brothers first, then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for nine sisters to marry; found it; their father did not tell them to spend the night at the Chushurlug Chuduk on the way back, but BN did not listen to the warning of his younger sister destined for ET and spent the night there; she sent a man to to his father asking him to give her a hemp shirt and the best mare and camel for ET; he did not want to, but gave it away; in the morning there was no mare; BN went to the Saltwell for the night: the mare is there, and next to the jelbag, She covered her ear with one ear, put the other under her; BN asks to give the camel; Jelbege says she can't get up, let BN come by himself; he comes up, she grabbed it, threatens to eat it, refuses to let him go the exchange for his 8 sons, for 800 horses, agrees to let go if he gives ET; BN promises to leave his son's triangular file with which he sharpens arrows; says he forgot and sends ET for him; the bride tells ET everything; he asks her father which horse to ride; BN: sit on a six-legged and take an eight-legged with you; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me, wear that one hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he tells you to shout to Jelbig: What kind of children do you have behind your back? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds in a tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside a brown box, in a shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG calms down: he killed ET), ripped open the brown man's stomach, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died ; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206; Baikal Buryats (Okinsky District, Irkutsk Region), No. 14 [Noyon Sabzheney goes to worship; meets, friends with a sensitive hearing, raising a mountain, capable quietly change the feathers of a magpie and a crow running with stones on its legs, swallowing the sea, a sharpshooter; the khan invites you to compete; the runner overtakes horsemen on foot; the sensitive one finds out that they want them poison, changed food, Khan's noyons die, the shooter kills all the khan's mergens, the swallower drowns everyone left; to atone for the sin of murder, seven fellows rush into the sea, find themselves in the sky - Seven Elders (Big Dipper)]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 14:209-215.

Eastern Siberia. Evens [brothers Tylken and Dolgan are still young, Kagynkan locks them in an iron house; they grow up, lift the house like a cauldron, come to K.; he offers them 1) ride down a mountain where knives are placed; 2) jump on trees with knives under them; 3) fight on the edge of a hole in which knives are placed; 4) jump on stumps with knives between them; each time one of K.'s people dies, brothers are safe; 5) eat a huge pot of meat; D. eats two, K. gives him his daughter; she has iron teeth and nails; she grinds them off overnight, D. is unharmed, kills her with a blow; brothers kill K. and his people] : Novikova 1958:42-48 (=1987:45-49).

Amur-Sakhalin. The Udege people [the younger brother goes to look for his wife, the sister gives half a crest and a whetstone; turns into a hare, hides in a tree by the road; on sledges pulled respectively by wild boars and pigs, piglets, old man Candá, his wife, their eldest daughter Emende, pass by; the youngest Belé Chiha drags sledges with human bones herself; the man marries C., each time she teaches what to do; 1) K. will hit his feet with a spear (a person puts a dead owl there in advance, a spear covered in blood); with a hot spear (puts a dead hare in his place); 3) will give poisoned food (a person quietly puts it in an angelica, e. ate it, died); 4) K. and the old woman shamanate, preparing to kill a man; he puts seven funny idols around the fire, K. and his wife laugh, his son-in-law and C. run away; throw half a crest (thicket), a whetstone (mountains); K. and his wife could not overcome the mountains, the man from C. returned to his sister]: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 32:235-241; the Nanai [wife defeats three people (one of them with a boar's head) who came to be hired; but a fly (a man from the underworld) overcomes her, drags her away; the husband comes to the cannibals , pretends to eat a man, hides it in the chimney himself; at night lies down with a woman, but her skin is covered with needles; a husband comes to the house a fly, finds his thin wife and daughter a fly; she says that her parents' souls are in a balloon that hangs in the sky; husband knocks him down with an arrow, pulls out two black eggs, breaks a fly on his forehead, he dies; the husband returns with four wives (the old one, the daughter is a fly, a cannibal and her sister)]: Shimkevich 1896:75-81.

SV Asia. Chukchi [an old man and an old woman put a seal on the way of the kele caravan; they are afraid, give up the child; he is growing rapidly, his name is Seken, marries his daughter Tanayrgin 'a in heaven; kele helps with advice; 1) catches a thrown stone with his mouth; 2) eats a lot of meat (makes an incision in his stomach, food falls through the sky, sun and earth); 3) brings a huge herd with a dangerous deer at the head; 4) becomes a bug, finds the bride hidden in the chest; brings his wife and deer to the ground; neighbors try to kill him, take his wife, he is unharmed every time; 1) stab him; 2) cut to pieces, feed crows; 3) push into a hole; a wife and child jump into a hole with him; under the ground, a kele gives them a sledge, a deer; they come back, a mad deer tramples on rival neighbors]: Baboshina 1958, No. 48:124-130.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [during the Flood, Chief Dzagamsagisk, with two people from the same family as Blackfish and a helmsman from the Eagle family, went sea hunting; spent the night by the cliff in a boat; At night, D. was woken up by the splash of cod, he grabbed it, tore her fins, told her not to disturb her sleep; the cod maid complained to her owner Gitnagunaks "Underwater", who sent her to find out whose anchor it was scratching on the roof of the house; he told the servants to bring D. and his men to them; the mouse promised to help if D. threw his ear jewelry into the fire; explained that they would be asked everyone to eat what they had cooked seal, you have to open your mouth, the seal will be swallowed; ordered to give the owner copper, etc.; D. and people of his family swallowed it, the helmsman could not, because he was not associated with marine characters; he was given half; the owner is happy, richly gifted the guests; a day later he sent him home in a copper boat, ordered not to harm the fish, to give them a gift, a year has passed on earth during this time; D. arranges a holiday, first for a kind , then for others; takes the name G. himself; the helmsman also arranges his own party; now the fish and animals themselves fall dead when the leader and his crew approach, there is no need to hunt; once one person began to beat the stranded salmon; others tore the salmon's mouth, laughed; the boat fell into a whirlpool; the companions died, the chief stayed underwater with underwater G.]: Miller 1997:68-73; Quakiutl (nimpkish) [Gyi'i goes to marry a girl whose father kills suitors; sails in a self-propelled boat with feathers and seagulls wings; sails to his aunt, who gives him three stone tiles tie them to the legs and buttocks; gives shells; G. gives these shells to a person who also helped with advice; he leaves them on the shore, since then there are shells to feed people; gave another person, then Same, but these are inedible shells; he sailed to four blind duck women, steals the roots they bake; each thinks the other has taken it, they fight; they smell it; G. spits in their eyes, restoring sight; they tell him that a girl and her father are about to come; G. ties an octopus to her face to look like an old man; the girl takes him as a slave, her brother doubts; in the boat, the girl speaks an imaginary slave who should marry G.; G. throws off an octopus, appears in his form; the door to the girl's father's house slams shut, crushing the incoming ones; G. makes a false move and then slips through; father-in-law offers to sit down, G. ties his stones, they break the tips that killed the other suitors; G. throws shells into the fire, the fire goes out; under the guise of salmon meat and berries, his father-in-law gives meat and milk sisiutlya; G. pretends to eat, hides pieces under her clothes; gets a wife, she gave birth in the morning; father-in-law calls to split the trunk, deliberately drops the wedge, asks for it; sees blood, but it turns out that G. quietly jumped out and waits for his father-in-law in the boat; when they sail, G. throws coniferous needles and pieces of wood into the water, they turn into fish and dolphins, jump on his father-in-law, he dies; on the shore, G. revives his father-in-law admits defeat]: Boas 1895, No. XV.1:135-137 (=2002:307-310).

The coast is the Plateau. Puget Sound; upper chehalis; lower chinook; tillamook; coutene.

The Midwest. Winnebago; menominee [a man consistently marries girls, sacrifices, feeds a snake living in a tree near his house; tells his next wife to go ahead and make a fire; stomps on the hill, a one-year-old bear comes out, he kills him, tells his wife to cook it whole, eat it, drink the broth; she does it; the former wives could not, he stuffed meat into their mouths, threw them into the water where they were his pets ate him; her husband's brother tells her to dig a hole where to quietly dump the meat and drain the broth; warns that when you touch a tree with a stick, you have to rush into the house; the snake does not have time to bite it; the husband asks what the ski is eating; the wife replies that there are large strawberries in the south; the husband breaks the ski furiously, runs after strawberries; the husband's wife and brother are running; seeing the sky covered, they understand that the husband has grabbed strawberries; they throw pieces of snake, the husband loses time taking them home; a man in the rock opens the door, his two dogs devour the stalker, take him to the end of the world; the husband's brother takes the widow as his wife]: Bloomfield 1928, No. 112:503-517; Western Swamp Cree (Stone Cree) [Ayās's grandfather takes Ayās to the island to collect bird eggs, tells him to move away, sails away in a boat; the Horned Serpent says he Grandma A., tells me to sit between the horns, drives me across the lake, asks me to say if a storm cloud appears; A. denies that the cloud is close, says that it is only the noise of water being cut; jumps off the shore, lightning they hit the Horned Serpent; in the morning A. collects blood in a birch bark vessel, the Horned Serpent revives and sends it to Grandma A. Frog; she does not repair his moccasins well, the stitches are wide; the next grandmother Mouse repairs well, warns of two blind old women with sharp elbows; A. comes to their house, says he is going to go out, he gets out of the teepee in another place, the old women pierce each other; from another old woman A. feeds poisoned food to a fox hidden under her clothes, throws a fox at the old woman, the fox kills her; A. comes to a scabbed woman who cuts wood; a bird tells her that her son has returned, she does not believe it at first; says A. that those people burn her face and hands every night; A. tells her to ask for a baby throw him into the fire, call him; A. says he will burn the earth, his grandfather and his people do not believe; he fires arrows, everything lights up; A. turns into a crow, his mother into a woodpecker; the woodpecker has a black back and a white apron on the chest]: Brightman 1989:105-112.

Northeast. Mohegan [Tcānamid argues with someone else who will eat more; puts a bag under his shirt, pours the soup into it; wins; invites the opponent to pierce his stomach, dies]: Speck 1909b: 204.

Plains. Sarsi [The Sleeping Serpent (NW) needs flint to sharpen his father-in-law's horn scraper; he takes his wife, goes south, where the Stone lives; he kills men, takes their women, and has many wives ; two rattlesnakes lie on the sides of the entrance to his tipi; the NW calms them down; he is given a bowl of poison, he blows, the liquid evaporates, he returns the empty bowl; also removes the rattlesnake from pipes, smokes it; leaves his amulet (wolverine's tongue) in the doorway, he pierces the Stone's heart; the corpse is placed on the fire, it explodes into flint fragments; now people have flint]: Curtis 1976 (18): 143-144; Assiniboine: Lowie 1909a, No. 9 [grandmother helps the hero; father-in-law demands 1) cut down trees (they fall themselves), 2) eat a whole bison (the hero quietly puts meat in hole in the ground), 3) shoot at each other (father-in-law killed); the hero and his wife run away from her mother; hide in snakes, possum holes; turn into partridges, mosquitoes; mother-in-law stops persecution], 15a [man kidnaps the youngest of the other's four wives; runs away with her to her brother; the husband challenges who will eat more; the animals eat the lover's share; the lover draws the sun beyond the rays; he himself , a woman and her brother wear clothes made from porcupine skin; husband and his men burn]: 157-159, 166-167; mandan [ancestors sail to the island to get valuable shells; on the shore, willows have become warriors, with they had to fight; Maniga Island's owner gave so much food, water, tobacco, and women that many of the guests were weak; but Lone-Man and his companions let food through hollow sunflower pipes; In other ways, he had three helpers; one could eat a lot, the other drink, and the third smoke; instead of fervor, three helpers; one mnopenis used a buffalo tail without hair; himself Lone-Man copulated with all women; M. accused Mandan of killing a dog, sending a flood; Lone-Man made sure that the water did not rise above the cedar]: Beckwith 1938:4-7.

California. Pomo [acorns are not ugly, Chief Falcon leads his men east in search of food; they come to the village of the Sun; he invites men to the steam room, kills him with heat; makes women slaves; Grandma Turtle, who remains in the village, has two hummingbird grandchildren; she teaches them to distinguish between animals; they make arrows that sting like hornets; come to the Sun, find their mother there; 1) come to life after being burned; 2) they let pipes through their bodies, put food in there and pretend to eat all the food they offer; 3) kill grizzlies, who are actually the Sun's favorites; they kill the people of the Sun when they openly attack them; after freeing slaves, they return home]: Barrett 1933, No. 32:148-160; Maidu [Pitmilussi, the eldest of the two brothers, saw Thunder's daughter; fired an arrow, she fell in front of the girl; she picked it up, put it in the basket; whoever fails to remove his arrow from my basket will die; P. managed to pull the arrow; Thunder's daughter continues to go east; thickets of prickly rose hips forward; the girl passed, the path closed behind her; P. laid flint, told him to cut the path; then rattlesnakes; P. walked, wearing red-hot stone moccasins; wished night to come sooner; the girl stopped for the night; she caused a storm, the fire went out, she climbed into the hollow of the tree, covering the hole with an ice basket; his younger brother came to P., wanted to climb to the girl, but P. went; cut off her vaginal teeth, which are like a rattlesnake, are flint; in the morning the girl already has a child; crossed a river with slippery ice and a wide river; P. crossed the ice in his stone moccasins; when he became the water is wide, the water is already up to his nose; he stuck a feather in his hair, the river became shallow; then the Valley of Old Age - you will grow old before you cross; P. began to grow old and weaken, but stuck a feather into his hair again , younger, passed the valley; in front of him was the Thunder steam room, made of ice; the girl came in through a hole in the roof, P. in her moccasins behind her; the thunder gave poisonous food, she did no harm to P. ; The thunder ordered firewood to be brought; there was a resinous log, next to the bones of those who could not chop off a piece; P. threw the log on the ground, it broke; the thunder ordered fish if it had suede ear pendants, but do not touch it if it is made of beads; the fish has suede pendants, P. harpooned it, it begins to pull it into the water; oysters helped push it ashore; Thunder tells you to hunt deer, but towards the grizzly bear , chases him; P.'s spirit created an ice tree with a slippery trunk; it leaned to pick up P., but the grizzly cannot climb; a grizzly can only be killed in its left hind leg; it is under the body of a lying bear; P. tells the gophers to blow up the ground so that his leg can be seen; kills the grizzly with the last arrow; P. returned to his wife; if he hadn't defeated Thunder, he would still kill people]: Dixon 1902, No. 6:67-71; chumash [Eagle's nephew Xelex harpoons sea bass; swordfish takes him away; The eagle sends the Coyote to bring his nephew back; at the bottom of the Coyote gives the door to the Swordfish house tobacco, it opens; throws it in the face old Swordfish powder made from poisonous mushrooms, making you talk about the customs of Swordfish; 1) Swordfish let the Coyote eat huge pieces of whale meat; he sticks a flute through him and passes through it meat, pretending to eat; 2) brings a huge whale; 3) dances, jumping high; 4) wins the run by making a lot of coyotes out of their excrement and telling them to run separate sections of the distance; makes Swordfish revive K.; returns home with K.; he gets married]: Blackburn 1975, No. 26:112.

Big Pool. Northern Shoshones [Coyote comes to Eagle village to compete; 1) who will stay underwater longer; Beaver dives for Coyote, Duck for Eagle, Beaver wins; 2) fight: Coyote wears, wins Krotikha; 3) who eats more; Rat for Coyote, Floating Ice wins; 4) running, Coyote defeats the bird; in another village, Coyote and Fox are offered to race; the losers will be beheaded; Magpie wins, Fox and Coyote are beheaded]: Lowie 1909b, No. 23k: 277; Western shoshones [little Hawk lives with his mother; aims at a bullfinch; he asks if he knows his father has been killed; mother refused to tell me how it happened; the Hawk made a net: if it breaks, I was killed; went to look for my father's murderers; the gopher woman said that the killer was Hitoo (lark); his dog was a bear; when the bear rushed at him, the Hawk dodged; came to H.'s house; he makes a puddink from human brains, covering them with pignons; the brains that ate died; but the Gopher warned Hawk and he ate only nuts; H. offered to throw the dart through the rolling ring; Hawk won; then another game: chase the ball; H. has a skull; the ball given to the Hawk does not roll at all; the Hawk took his hidden ball, won; the third game: run off a high cliff on a blade sharp as a knife; the Hawk did not cut himself; jump over the rope over the fire; the Hawk jumped over, H. fell and burned; dying, offered Hawk a daughter, but he killed him all daughters; pulled his father's hair stuck in his teeth out of the bear's mouth; put it in his mother's bed at home; in the morning, the father lies alive next to Hawk's mother]: Smith 1993:147-150; your [Brothers Lasky Elder Pewetseli and younger Damalai come to their Uncle Gnoy; he tells his wife to serve them food (in a waterproof cooking basket), mixes it with pus; the brothers lets a pipe through the wall from elderberries, pour soup into it; Pus thinks he put his brothers to sleep, his children scream who gets what (my lungs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart, my head, my back, etc.); Pus says that genitals will go to their mother; P. jumps up when Pus wants to slaughter him; puts him and his family to sleep, kills him and his family; brothers leave]: Dangberg 1928, No. 4:425-427 (=1968, No. 4:81-84).

The Great Southwest. Hopi: Mullett 1993:84-88 [an eagle man kidnaps the hero's wife; he comes for her; the kidnapper demands 1) to smoke a pipe of poisonous tobacco (a mole digs a hole under the hero to escape smoke), 2) break a deer horn (a spider woman reports which antlers are made of wood), 3) pull out one of the two pines (the mole gnaws through its roots), 4) eat a lot of food (the mole digs a hole under the hero to divert food) , 4) stay alive in the fire]; Stephens 1929 [the cannibal offers the hero a competition; they sit on fire, the ogre burns], No. 9, 10 [+ smoke a huge pipe; break a deer horn; uproot a tree; eat all food in one sitting]: 21, 23-24; Western keres (Akoma) [Rainbow kidnaps brother's wife and other women; Spider helps brother rise into the world of the Rainbow, teaches him to overcome challenges; gives clothes , a resin chair and knife, copies of flint clothes and a knife and an ice chair of the Rainbow; the young man replaces the originals with these fakes; 1) smoke poisonous cigarettes (the young man smokes his own); 2) eat a lot (the gopher digs a hole, where to dump food); 3) dig a cornfield (gophers, mice, spiders do the work in a day); 4) dig a hole on the rock to fry corn (badgers and gofers dig up); 5) The rainbow pushes his brother into a hot hole, he hides in a dig made by a gopher; 6) sit on a burning fire; The rainbow burns in his replaced resin clothes, the young man does not; lets the women go, returns to earth with his wife in Spiders basket; The rainbow sends a storm, but lightning does not hit the young man]: Benedict 1930 (Akoma): 71-77.

Mesoamerica Tepehua [see J4 motif; some characters don't like the musician's performance; they invite him to a party, feed him, offer him more and more portions; he can't anymore; they call him to play ball, kill him with her iron balls; his pregnant wife wants to have an abortion, a baby from her womb tells her to wait, give birth to him where she is swimming; she gives birth and buries a dead baby; grows up on his grave corn; the woman makes a cake, she is bitter, the woman throws it away; the turtle puts it on her back, the cake turns into a boy; the baby is dirty, since then the picture can be seen on the tortoise shell; The turtle makes arrows for him, but tells him not to shoot poor fish; the boy asks the scorpion to take him to his real mother; under the roof of the house he finds his father's musical instrument; opponents hear again game, call the player to their place to expose him to the same tests as his father; he is fed for slaughter, but he asks the shrew in advance to hole the food vessels; during the game, he hits the balls, killing opponents; spares three for showing where his father's bones are; revives his father, brings him home, forbiding him to open his eyes; a leaf falls on him, opens his eyes, turns into a deer; the son gives him shawl - tail]: Williams García 1972:87-92 (89: hero finds his father's musical instrument); Totonaki; Totonaki (Chicotepec) [man played violin; Thunders sent a messenger to him ordered to appear; let him say who allowed him to play, they don't like it; he was asked to sit in a chair and then compete in the run; at a distance he saw pajaro de lying upside down primavera; not wanting to step on him, the man hesitated and lost the contest; he was killed and buried; his wife remained pregnant; the Thunders called her and, under threat of death, forced her to miscarry, the baby they buried it in the courtyard of the house from where they ruled the town hall; eight days later, a corn shoot grew on this site, and the cob ripened on it; the thunders called a woman and told her to take it away; she ground the grain, made a tamale; he turned out to be bitter and she threw it into the river; downstream, the old woman heard crying and picked up the baby; brought it home, her husband was happy too; the boy grew up quickly, calls the couple parents; asks where the father goes; old woman: take care of animals {fish, but it is more often referred to as animals}; these animals lay motionless; kingfisher and other birds that eat fish, they came to eat them; the young man asked for permission to go with his father; started shooting at kingfishers and killing them; promised that now the fish ("animals") would multiply; the next time he went alone and started shooting fish in their heads, they have fins, a tail in their backs; tomorrow or the day after tomorrow God's children {i.e. people} will appear, they will need animals {i.e. there must be a lot of fish and it should not be concentrated in one place}; the fish started moving {i.e. blurred}; the next day the young man came back with his father; he: how to catch now; then the young man gave his father a net; people would appear - it will be for them necessary; the young man came to the crocodile, he wanted to eat it; the young man asked him to open his mouth to climb into it, cut off his tongue and said that he would now be called a crocodile; when the lightning flashes, they they will honor you {that is, lightning is made of the crocodile's tongue}; the young man told the old woman he knew that he had a real mother and his real father was killed; the young man came when his mother sadly sang and made clay pots; hiding in a tree, he broke the pot with arrows; she began to swear; he went out to her, told her not to swear and called herself a son; sat on her knees and spoiled her; told the whole story about his father's death and his appearance; he was the corncob; he assured him that he would not be killed; he opened his father's house and all the violins, guitars, drums and flutes were there; he started playing the violin, the Groms are messengers were heard and sent for him; he volunteered to go; when {people} come, you will be called rain/storm clouds, for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow God will increase the number of his children {i.e. people}; and they agreed to be under his control, be clouds, not who they were; they were given their horses - white clouds, and given their machetes; and they would produce lightning, scream {thunder} and pour water; in the morning clouds appeared in the east, it rained, and a thunderstorm began; while running, he did not look at the person lying down and ran first; the second test was to eat a lot of corn porridge; he agreed with Agouti to make her a hole in the bottom of the porridge jar gnawed; the porridge flowed out, and the Thunders believed that the young man had eaten everything; then he took his father out of the grave to revive him; but he should not be afraid; but when he heard the rustle of a fallen leaf, Dad got scared and turned into a deer; now people will eat you, hunters will kill you; this young man is Wonder Man]: Aschmann 1977.

The Central Andes. Uarochiri (dep. Lima) [rich Tamta Nyamka pretends to be a sage (god?) , but falls ill; no one can determine the cause of the disease; poor Uatia Kuri, son of Pariah Kaki 'i, falls asleep on a road in the mountains; hears two Foxes sharing news, one coming from the mountains , the other from the coast; A fox from the mountains says that TN's wife dropped a corn seed into her vagina, picked it up and let her husband eat it; she is cheating on him; because of this, two snakes live in the roof of the house, and under a grater is a double-headed toad; they eat TN; UK promises to cure TN if he gives him his youngest daughter; dismantles a house, kills snakes, expels a toad; a man married to TN's eldest daughter is dissatisfied, causes The UK goes to the competition; the Criminal Code goes to ask his father PC every time; 1) the Criminal Code turns into a dead guanaco; when the Fox and his wife Skunsiha come up and frighten them, they throw the magic drum and ocarina, he takes these items, wins the competition with their help, making not only people dance, but also the land itself; 2) drink (the UK does not get drunk; he solders everyone drunk), 3) wear the best cougar skin (when UA wears, there is a rainbow in the sky), 4) build a house (birds and animals build; scare away llamas carrying the opponent's building materials); the hero tells the opponent to dance, turns him into a deer; wife the opponent follows him, the hero puts her on his head, turns her into stone (waka in the form of a woman's legs and genitals)]: Salomon, Urioste 1991, ch. 5:55-59; see K57 motif. The condition for a girl to marry is the groom's commitment to dig an irrigation canal; Peru in general: Dumézil, Duviols 1976:173-195.