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K27G. Take a dip in boiling water. .13.-.17.23.26.-.32.34.46.

The

character is ordered to bathe in (hot) milk, boiling water, jump into the fire, he is unharmed, and his opponent usually dies.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [the sultan wants to marry seven sons to girls who would also be sisters; orders to find and take as an assistant a young man named Albedewui, he is also the son of the Sultan; they they meet him, he has a lion skin on him, he calls himself their brother; says that the fakir predicted that if he meets these 7 brothers, he will be happy; after a long journey, they have arrived in town; at home are fine, on goods in the bazaar, but no one; the brothers sat down at the coffee shop; an old gulya came; returned for sleeping pills, put it in coffee; 7 brothers fell asleep, and A. poured out their coffee; gulya ran away, A. quietly followed her; she went down into the hole, where her 7 sons were; as they got upstairs, A. cut off their heads; but Gulya did not go out; A. went down himself; in the underground rest, gulya made a fire; he tied her up, made her show 7 treasure rooms, opened the door to the eighth, where 7 female prisoners, then cut off the head of the drone; the girls dressed richly and decorated themselves, A. introduced them to 7 brothers; but on the way there is a ghoul; he will let the brothers and girls, if A. gets him the beautiful Sams-Adunia; A. agrees; the ghoul says that the owner of the invisible hat and the airplane mat (with a whip, after which the mat flies to the right place), and his two sons are arguing about who should get these items; we must take possession of the mat and bring the SA on it; the ghoul tells A. to give him his ring; when he bent down, A. cut off his head; came to two boys arguing over wonderful objects; they asked him to resolve the dispute; he threw a piece of wood: whoever brings it will receive the items; the boys ran, and A. took his hat, boarded a plane mat and flew to town SA; the man replies that SA lives on the top floor of the tower and leaves only once a year; A. put on an invisible hat and flew into the SA room; when she found out that it was A., she said that he was her betrothed; what to kidnap she is impossible: her father is too powerful; you have to ask her hand and complete the proposed tasks - she will help; 1) take 7 camels to the savannah, load him with firewood and bring him; SA: these are not camels, but captive young guli; gave a rod, they must knock on the door and say: all seven will go out! then: load firewood and take it home; the camels are done; now the ghoul tells you to climb into a huge cauldron, under which all the firewood brought will be burned; SA gave a ring, you must keep it in your mouth - fire it will not cause harm; and if you rub the stone, any food and drink will appear; the ghoul was going to give a new task, but A. put on an invisible hat, flew to the SA and they flew together to the 7 brothers; Sultan Father died, brothers made A. new; 8 weddings in one day]: Frobenius 1923, No. 11:101-117.

North Africa. Egyptian Arabs: Lebedev 1990, No. 18 [the king fell in love with the fisherman's wife, the vizier advises to demand that 1) cover the hall with one carpet; the wife tells you to go to the well, ask her sister for yarn, from a carpet is ready for her in the morning; 2) bring an eight-day-old child to tell a fairy tale (the same sister from the well gives a talking baby); at school, the fisherman's son Mohammed teases the king's son; he complains, the teacher beat M.; M. went fishing, caught the queen fish, she promised to help, he let her go; the vizier: we will send M. for the daughter of the Sultan of Green Land; the fish advises making a golden ship on the vizier's money; they come to the Green Land, the Sultan's daughter came to see the ship, she is being taken away; she throws her ring into the sea; makes it a condition for the king to get a ring for marriage; M. gets it; the second condition: rush into the fire; the fish teaches what to say, M. is becoming handsome; the king, the prince and the vizier rushed into the fire and burned down; M. married the daughter of the Sultan of the Green Land]: 101-109; the Arabs of Algeria [ retelling in Nowak 1969, No. 197:199-201; an angel advises the childless king to take a new wife; warns that sons will be born and the latter will destroy the rest and the king himself; when the wife is ready to give birth First, a white mare will come to the palace; that's what happened; five sons were born, and the sixth was Busetta ("six-toed"); at this time the white mare gave birth to the same female foal; B. takes this foal for himself; he is still a boy, but he is superior to his brothers in everything, who strive to destroy him; they decide to leave him in the forest where the gulya lives; but it turned out that they themselves also stayed in the forest in the evening; they came to the ghoul's house; B. asks gulya how to know when she is sleeping; gulya: when the voices of all animals can be heard from my womb; B.: and I sleep when my eyes are wide open; at night B. changed the headscarves on the heads of Guli's daughters and hats on their brothers' heads; gulya kills his daughters, brothers run away; gulya pursues, but does not cross the river, because then it will cease to be guli; the brothers advise father to tell B. to get it from the guli 1) a chicken that lays golden eggs; B. has a talking horse, with its help he took out a chicken; 2) a carpet (the horse tells you to pour lice and fleas onto the carpet, the gulya throws the carpet out the window); 3) the gulya herself is supposedly that beautiful; unrecognized B. brings Gula a chest that supposedly saves him from death; Gulya climbs into it, B. slammed the lid shut, delivered it to his father; at the crossing over the river, gulya really turns into a beauty; puts the condition of marriage is that the king or someone in return goes down to the lower world to take care of his deceased father, grandfather, great-grandfather; the king sends B.; he returns with three old men who have a huge cauldron; they they offer to rush into boiling water; B. is unharmed, the king is cooked, B. received the throne, married a beautiful ghoul, executed his brothers; the gulya is gone, and the talking horse became a beautiful wife B.]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:64-85; the Arabs of Morocco [same retelling as for the Arabs of Algeria]: Nowak 1969, No. 197:199-201.

Southern Europe. The Spanish [warrior Jose returned from America; his father died, his brother Gomez kicked him out of the house, gave him the old chest; there were coins under the lid, but H. gave them to the poor woman; he was hired by the king, earned respect; G. was also hired; the king wants to marry Bella-Flor; G. says that only H. can get it; the white horse tells us to go; give bread to ants, free the entangled eagle, throw it a fish shoal into the water; a horse and H. approach the princess, she sits on a horse, they carry it away; on the way she throws bran on the road, a handkerchief at the top of the tree, a ring into the water; tells the king what will come out rooms where she locked herself when her lost things are brought to her; ants, eagle, fish get; princess: let my kidnapper be cooked in oil; the horse takes H. to the spring, after swimming in which the oil is harmless; H. jumps into the cauldron, comes out handsome; the king also wants to be younger, jumps, dies; H. gains the throne, marries a princess]: Shishlova 1971:100-109; (cf. Spaniards (Murcia) [childless spouses promised the witch that they would give her son if he was born; on the eve of the promised deadline, they send their son away; the young man meets the rider on a miserable horse and agrees to swap horses with him; is hired by the king; one day he takes glasses without asking (so!) the king and sees them as three beauties; the king tells him to get the most beautiful one, otherwise he will fry the young man in oil; the horse teaches him to pretend to be dead; when the people, three princesses among them, run away, what is between the other two; and in order not to touch the bridle; the young man grabbed the princess, but took up the bridle to pick up the pen he decided to give her; the king is going to marry the princess; to avoid this marriage, she asks for the bird that owns the pen; with the help of a horse, a young man catches a bird; the king is going to burn it; the horse orders him to be stabbed and redeemed in his blood, then the fire will not hurt; seeing this, the king also threw himself into the fire and burned]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 531:112-113); Sicilians [after the death of his father Peppe receives a dilapidated cape and date tree branches, Alfinu - an old bag and a tree trunk, the younger Ciccu horn and fruits; only Chikku hears three fairies give the cape the ability to carry anywhere, the bag filled with money, the horn if you blow, - create and clean the fleet; brothers give C. a cape and bag; lives luxuriously; the king brings his wife and daughter to him; the daughter lures the bag; when C. comes for her, the king also forces him to give the cape and horn ; the brothers agree to share dates; each carries his basket to the palace; P. replies to the counter that he has dirt in the basket; sees that he is so in the palace; he is given 50 blows with a cane; the same with A., he replied that there were horns in the basket, received 150 blows; C. replies that dates; the opposite half eats, spits the seeds back into the basket, dates in it again; the king takes him into service; the brothers say that C. can 1) bring the ogre's sword; the skate in the royal stable promises to help; C. asks the women to bring him bags of lice, pours the ogre into bed, he tosses and turns, takes off his sword, C. takes it away; 2) deliver the cannibal himself; C. tells the cannibal that C. is dead, it is necessary to make a coffin; asks to try it on, bobs up, brings; 3) to marry the most beautiful woman; the horse orders to give the fly honey, release the fish, free the eagle from the trap; the horse dances in front of the princess, she asks for permission to ride, the horse takes her away, C. also jumps on the horse; on the way, the princess drops her veil, throws a ring into the water; promises the king marry him if C. returns her ring and fallen veil; birds bring a veil, fish bring a ring; the princess wants C. to jump into the hot oven; the horse teaches him to rub him beforehand, C. unharmed, handsome; tells the king to rub himself with fat; the king burns, C. gets the princess and the throne]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 5:28-40.

Western Europe. The Irish [stepmother drives away the stepson; he is hired by the owner for a promise to give a horse; the blind man teaches him to take a plain bay; the horse tells the young man not to pick up shining hair, he picks it up, eats in the light of it, the new owner; the king's son notices this; tells the young man to get a woman with similar hair; the horse frolicks in front of the woman's palace, she sits down for a ride, he takes her away; she promises to marry the son of the king, if he gets three bottles of water from a cow spring; the horse tells the young man to kill him by the sea; crows fly, hang bottles around their necks, they will bring water from across the sea; with this water a young man heals crows worn out from a rope, revives the horse; a woman sprinkles herself with the same water, bathes in boiling water, promises to marry someone who also swims; the king's son is cooked, the young man sprinkled with water does not suffered, marries a woman with shiny hair; the horse also turns into a woman (she was bewitched), disappears]: McManus 1915:182-185; Germans (Austria) [merchant's son lost money, changed a horse with a mare a stranger; a mare: do not raise a golden horseshoe, a feather and a curl on the road; a young man picks up; is hired by a groom; in this town it is forbidden to light the lights after dark; a young man illuminates the room with a horseshoe, a pen, a curl; the king sees the light, selects objects, tells you to bring the horse whose horseshoe, bird, girl; the mare leads to the castle, tells you to take an old horse, half dead a bird, a freak; they turn into a mighty horse, a beautiful bird, a beautiful woman; the king invites the young man to choose a death vision; a mare: let him cook a huge basin of boiling milk; the young man jumps into milk on mare, comes out handsome; the king jumped, cooked; the beauty married a young man]: Cerf 1992:205-210.

Western Asia. Socotra [husband died; when the son grew up, he asked his mother what his father did; she lies: he traveled; planted palm trees; herded sheep; the son tries to do it, but to no avail; he sticks his hand mother for a hot meal, she cries out, May God burn you, son of a birdsman! the young man bought a cage, caught birds, gave half to the old woman; caught a dove, left gold and silver next to her in the morning; the vizier told the Sultan about this, who ordered him to bring the young man and give the dove; the next morning there is nothing around; vizier: you must tell the young man to bring the male; the young man went to that old woman, she pointed out the cave, you must shoot when you see the light, take out the cage, leave it to her, give the pigeon to the Sultan; but gold and there is still no silver; vizier: we also need a cage; the old woman gave a cage, the young man brought it, but there is no gold again; vizier: we must get the daughter of Voskhod; old woman: let the vizier's money build a ship out of gold and silver, and 14 girls as sailors; seeing a boat with girls, Voskhod's daughter wants to see the ship, he takes it away; the young man tells the Sultan that Voskhod's daughter will descend from the ship only if she is at every step killing a man and spreading the carpet is all at the expense of the vizier; when she sees the first person killed, the girl said that she would come anyway; tells the Sultan that she will marry him if he kills the birdsman's son, and not with a sword, not with flint, not poison; the young man is thrown into a hole, a fire is made, but he has an amulet, he is unharmed; the sultan decided that the fire is cold, jumped into it and burned; the young man married Voskhod's daughter]: Müller 1905, No. 2:50- 57.

South Asia. Ancient India (Sinhâsana-dvâtrinçikd) [the city's ruling divine princess promises to marry someone who rushes into a pot of boiling oil; Vikramaditya does not hesitate to rush , the princess revives him with Amrita and he becomes even more beautiful]: Cosquin 1887:301; Sinhalese [the king finds seven princess sisters as wives to his seven sons; the youngest stays at home, sends his own sword instead; when the wedding procession approached the lake to drink water, the serpent demanded one of those who had arrived for himself, otherwise he would not let anyone go; the princess, who had gone out for the sword, offered herself; the princess stayed waiting in the palace for the serpent, and her prince came to him; the serpent asked him to get him the Glass Princess; only she would cure the abscess on the snake's body; on the way, the young man saved the drowning rats; stopped at the old lady; she says that the glass princess tells the grooms to swim in boiling water and cut down the ironwood, and whoever can't cut off their heads; the rats dug into the Glass Princess's bedroom, the young man snuck in, washed himself in the water she had prepared, ate half of the rice; so three times; after that, the princess pricked her finger to stay awake; gives the young man a ring to cool the water in the boiling pot and the curl that will knock down an iron tree; a wedding; a young man brought the Glass Princess to the snake, which healed him and he gave them treasures; King Vedda wanted to kill the prince, but the Glass Princess became a mare and carried him and the first wife to the place where one king died; the elephant chose a prince who arrived as a new one; at this time, the prince's homeland stopped raining, his parents and brothers and wives began to beg and came to the kingdom, where now Prince reigned; he accepted them, but told the brothers to grow rice because they wanted to kill him in order to take away the Glass Princess]: Parker 1910, No. 4:57-65 (=Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 86:197-203).

China - Korea. Chinese (Qinghai): Frick 1954, No. 13 [the older brother bothers the youngest's wife, she rejects him; he tries to lime the younger one, gives difficult assignments, his wife helps him do everything; 1) collect already sown grain (sparrows collect); 2) dig a deep hole on the mountain without using tools (badgers dig); 3) boil water in it (the poker boils); 4) jump into boiling water; the wife gives a pin, the husband finds himself in an underwater palace, finds out that his wife is the daughter of a dragon; returns after 2 weeks with gifts, his brother is already preparing a wedding with his wife; his wife also tells her husband to dive into boiling water to get gifts; he is cooked], 14 [a vegetable seller marries the daughter of a wealthy peasant; he demands to get a gold and silver carriage, two mules of unprecedented beauty, a pipe of gold and silver; the groom is all provided, received and took the girl away, tells her parents to look for her in heaven; after experiencing many difficulties, the parents achieve their goal (the son-in-law sent guides to meet her); the son-in-law turns out to be a heavenly spirit]: 522-523, 523-524; Chinese (Guangdong) [the eldest of the three sisters is Beautiful, and the youngest is Ryabaya, she is the daughter of her second wife; K.'s mother died and became a yellow cow; the stepmother took R. to the theater, and K. ordered the hemp to be dismantled; the cow chewed hemp and spit it it out disassembled; then the stepmother ordered the sesame seeds and beans to be separated; the cow ordered to wave the fan; the stepmother killed and ate the cow, K. collected the bones in a jug, brought it to her room; K. broke the jug, a horse, dress and shoes appeared out of it; one fell off her foot while she was riding a horse; the fish salesman, the clerk from the shop are ready to pick it up if K. agrees marry them; K. refused; when the teacher offered, agreed; wedding; K. went to visit her stepmother; R. pushed her into the well; stepmother told her husband K. that she had smallpox; he sent her delicacies, R . ate them; came to her husband K., said that she was fool because of illness; K. turned into a sparrow, her husband put him in a golden cage; R. killed him, threw him into the garden; bamboo shoots made their way in this place; R. them I ate it, she has a pip on her tongue, and her husband found it delicious; R. cut down the bamboo to make a bed, she pricked, R. threw it away, the old woman picked it up; someone cooks and cleans in her room; the old woman found the girl, she told everything; returned to her husband; R. offers challenges - which one is the real K.; 1) walk over the balls without crushing; 2) climb the stairs with knives; R. crushed eggs, cut her legs; 3) jump into boiling pot; K. was unharmed, R. was cooked; K. sent her mother her bones; she opened the box and died]: Eberhard 1965, No. 66:156-161.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Medea promised to help Jason get rid of his uncle Peleus, who tried to destroy him by sending him for the golden fleece; disguised as priestess Diana, she promised Peleus's daughters to make their father young; threw the old ram into the cauldron, he jumped out as a lamb; then Peleus's five daughters cooked their father, but saw that they had been deceived and fled their homeland; Jason seized the palace and handed over the kingdom to his son Pelius Acastu, who was in Colchis with him and Medea went to Corinth]: Gigin 2000, No. 24:45-46; the Croats [7 brothers went to look for wives to be 7 sisters; the youngest took the bad skate, but this horse was magical; the old woman said she had 7 daughters; the horse warned her younger brother that it was a witch, that she was hiding her eighth daughter with golden hair; the youngest did not sleep at night, changed the hats of the old woman's brothers and daughters, put horse bridles on the old woman's mares; at night, the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the younger one tells the brothers to run; when he returned, he shouted the old woman who killed her daughters; the old woman turned her grip into a horse, rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads, the youngest broke up with the elders, who did not like him; the younger horse tells him not pay attention to what he sees or hears; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hair, three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man was hired by a groom for the king, works best; other grooms envied, noticed gold things, told the king; he ordered to bring a girl with golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in the swamp, the witch will come running to this It's time to pick up the girl; the young man brought her to the king; he wants to give her for his son; girl: first get three ducks whose golden feathers; the king sent the young man to pick up ducks; they slept with the witch again, ducks were stolen; the witch is chasing, the horse tells to abandon the scraper, a dense forest has appeared; now the girl demands to get a horse whose golden horseshoe is; the young man's horse tells him to put 8 buffalo skins on him; a sea stallion He tore them off, but he was tired, he had a blue flame from his mouth, and the young man's horse was red; the horse was followed by sea mares; the girl tells them to milk, the milk is boiling, the vat was filled with it; let the groom redeem; the horse cooled milk, the young man became handsome; the Queen also threw himself into the milk, but it boiled, he died; the king adopted a young man instead of the deceased, gave him a gold-haired man]: Schütz 1960, No. 16:126-133; Bosnians [there were poultry farmers near Constantinople; once he caught only a crow; she asked him to let go: she would bring birds; in the morning he caught two nightingales; they were bought by a vizier for the mosque; the padishah found out and demanded the birdsman to him and ordered the mother of these nightingales to get; the crow orders to ask the emperor for grain, and she will bring all the birds; when she sees the children in the cage, the nightingale will betray itself; the birdman brought the nightingale; the padishah demands the mistress of all nightingales; the crow tells the padishah to ask the padishah for a ship with goods; the ship came to the harbor, where the owner of the birds boarded the ship, he took her away; the owner of the birds is furious that she got an old padishah; asks the poultry to take out half of the ring she dropped into the sea; the crow tells me to ask for a thousand barrels of oil; the oil was poured into the sea, the crow dived, took out half the ring; the owner of the birds demands that the poultry jump into the fire; the crow teaches how to ride a horse, cover themselves with horse foam, the flame did no harm, the poultry man became handsome; the padishah decided to do the same, burned down; the birdsman was made a padishah, he married the owner of the birds]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 45:239-245; Albanians: Lambertz 1952 [the dervish gives the childless king an apple: let the queen eat it and the peel be eaten by a mare; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not love her stepson, hears him talking to the foal; pretends to be sick, tells her husband to slaughter the foal; he tells the young man to ask permission take a ride for the last time, pull three hairs out of his mane, jumps over a locked gate, jumps away; does not advise the young man to pick up his pen, but he picks it up; refuses to give the pen to the vizier, gives it to the king; the vizier becomes the enemy of the young man, invites the king to send him for the bird itself; the horse advises to lure the bird into the cage with mother-of-pearl beads; the bird sings while he thinks that the young man has caught it for himself; when he learns that for the king, falls silent; the vizier: let Ora bring this bird; the young man asks the ship, two daughters of the vizier and 12 maids similar to each other; now the vizier says that the bird does not have a Hora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think that they have the same maid, but in fact every day is different; the young man tells the maids to pour poison into their food, on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were killed; the ship entered the harbor, daughters The viziers complained to the cadia, but could not determine which of the 12 maids was to blame, died; the young man left the maids in the city, swam on; gave food to the herons and flies fighting for food, they promised to help; comes to Oram, who promise to let the owner of the bird go with him if he separates oats from barley and revives dead fish (flies separate, heron brings living water from across the sea); when Ora came to the king, the bird sang , grabbed her feather, both (the bird and Ora) flew away; the young man told the vizier that his daughters were sick and dead; the vizier advises sending the young man for the Kjühelane mares; the horses identified the horse as their young man, went after him; the king orders to milk the mares, boil the milk - let the young man bathe in it; for a short time the mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and vizier rushed after him, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: 91-106; Pedersen 1898, No. 8 [the son asks the mother who his deceased father was; she does not want to speak, then admits that a hunter; a young man finds, puts his father's gun in order, becomes a good hunter; in a distant forest he sees pieces of meat hanging on a tree; touches them, the meat turns into the Beauty of the World; she explains that the black dwarf appears at night, revives her, and when he leaves in the morning, cuts her to pieces again; under the tree, the young man picked up two gems without telling the beauty; brought her to his mother; at this time he died the king, the new one, forbade lighting the lights; the young man did not know that the stones he had taken were glowing; the young man had to bring the stones to the palace; on the way, the vizier persuaded him to sell them to him, but the young man gave them to the king; to take revenge, the vizier told the king that a young man could bring many such stones; his wife told her to hit her so that tears would fill the pot; these tears should irrigate stones in the mountains; the young man brought stones to the king to build a palace , he was pleased; once he killed a lynx, against his wife's advice, carried the skin to the king; again refused the vizier who wanted to buy it himself; he persuaded the king to bring many skins to decorate the entire palace; the wife orders to fill the spring with wine, the lynxes will get drunk and intoxicated; the king received skins; the vizier suggests sending a message to the deceased king so that he will also rejoice in his son's wealth; the wife orders to suggest that all residents have written letters to the next world; tells their husband to take them on horseback and return unnoticed; keeps her husband and horse starving so that people believe that they have been to the next world; writes answers to all letters; in response to the king, his late father asks for a vizier; the vizier demands that the young man survive in boiling oil; his wife gives him herbs with which the dwarf revived her; the young man is unharmed; the king tells him to quit a vizier in boiling oil, makes a vizier a young man]: 53-67; Hungarians [the father wants to marry 12 sons to 12 girls; put on iron shoes and went to look for them; the eldest son serves the king; the mare tells him ask the king for a foal born a year ago; the young man rides it faster than his brothers; the brothers want to kill the foal, but he kicks them; teaches them what to do; the witch has 12 daughters; we must take the horses outside , and take the witch's horses into the stall; change the hats on the heads of the witch's daughters and brothers; the witch killed her daughters, the brothers rode away from the witch; the elder brother went on his horse to wander; the horse stepped on golden hair: to raise - unfortunately, and not to lift - unfortunately; the same - half a golden horseshoe; the young man picked up both his hair and a horseshoe; hired the king as a stable; everyone wonders why he did not at night candles are needed; it turns out that light gives hair and half a horseshoe; the king orders to immediately get the girl who owns the hair; horse: this is another daughter of that witch; the young man stole her, the witch on the spruce pole chases after me; girl to king: I will marry only after my spindle and all other things have been delivered to me; the young man put a tablecloth on the floor in the witch's room and put everything in it - all the items from gold; now the girl demands her horse, which is across the Red Sea; the young man's horse teaches how to catch a golden-haired horse, followed by a whole huge herd; the girl demands that the mares be milked and that the young man bathed in boiling milk; the horse turned the milk from boiling to warm, the young man came out handsome; the king cooked; the boy's wedding with the girl]: Jones, Kropf 1889:262-277; Hungarians [the king placed his daughter in the tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers lifted a stem up to the window, its smell made the girl pregnant; her father put her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the barrel was nailed to the island, the girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, sailed across the strait to the mainland, bringing apples to his mother; his mother herself baptized him in the name of his father of the sun, his godfather of the month and his cousins stars; his name is Beautiful Szérus; a hussar costume and a sword fell from a tree to him; on a tree trunk he transported his mother across the strait; towards a giant, S. hacked him down; brought his mother to the castle of giants; king the giants got together with S.'s mother, they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be sick: we must bring the bear cub and eat his heart; the bear gave a bear cub; when she saw him, the mother said that she had already recovered; the same with a wolf cub; a lion cub; mother suggests that S. jokingly tie his thumbs - will he be able to break; cannot; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put him three whistles in the mouth, given by a bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf grabbed the woman, the bear tore the fetters; S. cut the giant, pieces of meat into the trough, the second, the water, the mother left between troughs; left with his animals; you need a bride; the bear advises you to ask the sun - Father S.; the lion brought them all to heaven; the sun does not know about brides, advises to turn to the month; the month to the stars, more precisely to the Morning Star; neither of the stars know if the winds ask, they are blowing everywhere; they replied that his betrothed sleeps in the golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 traits; S. and animals returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils in pursuit; the lion threw the brush (forest), the handkerchief (the sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils did not were able to overcome them; the count took the girl; she would marry only someone who could milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she would marry someone who buys in their milk, heated to a boil; the animals cooled him, S. swam, became handsome; the count also wanted to swim, the animals heated the milk, the count cooked; the girl was going to marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; animals saw a snake, whose snake was cut in half with a scythe, carrying healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head, the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion's tail, ripping off its hair, leaving only its mane; at first the head was attached backwards, had to be redone; at that time, the count's brother was preparing the wedding; the lion and the wolf tore him apart; the wedding; S. dug up his mother, who ate the giant's meat, took a sharp bone, put her son in bed, she pierced his heart; the animals revived him with that elixir taken from the snake, tore his mother; a son was born; when he is 7 years, 7 months, days, hours and minutes, he needs his blood sprinkle 3 stones; S. did it, his three animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; S.'s son did not die, they only took blood from him; they are all alive if they did not die]: Dégh 1965, No. 8:109-126 ; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981 []: 317-325; Moldavian tales 1968 [a healer advises a childless woman to eat food that is not at home; she wants bleak fish; husband brings 21 fish, cooks fish soup, wife gives birth to 21 sons; the husband goes to live in the forest in horror; the wife raised her sons, they found the father, returned them, demanded that he find them 21 sisters as wives; Ilyana Kosynzyana has 21 daughters; the brothers go to them, the youngest Petra There was not enough horse, he bought a magic one; this horse tells her to change clothes with the girls at night, leave the horses ready outside the fence; at night, the broadsword IK cut off the heads of her daughters, the brothers returned to their father; on the way, P. raises a golden pen, a horseshoe, a handkerchief, is hired by a coachman to the boyar; his daughter sees a shining feather, the boyar demands a bird; a horse: a bird in a cage near the IC, do not touch the cage; P. brings a bird, the boyar demands horse; horse teaches to take the one who eats hot coals, P. leads; the boyar demands the owner of a handkerchief; the horse teaches to drink strong water at the IR bedside, bring it with the bed; IC requires P. to bring a herd her sea horses; the horse teaches him to smear him with resin and make a matting; a horse that has come out of the sea bites matting; P. bothered him, the whole herd followed him; IK tells him to milk the mares, swim in boiling milk; the horse P. the milk cools; the boyar's horse does not cool down, the boyar cooked; P. marries IK]: 251-262; Gagauz people [the master kept the worker for a long time, married, then let him go of the house; he left home, three sons grew up, found a father alone, asked them to marry them; older brother Ivan refused to marry; tells the brothers 1) not to hesitate on the road, 2) promise nothing to anyone, 3) tell only the truth; the brothers went home with wives, the devils surrounded them with a wall, asked them to give them I.; I. tied them up; I. to the brothers: but I ordered them not to hesitate or promise; but I will be saved; the elder devil tells I. to run the household; one horse asks to take care of her, promises to help; I. finds a pen; the lame devil tells the main thing that I. will be able to bring all the bird; horse: I warned that the pen would be in trouble; tells him to beat the lame man, let him bring alcohol, peas and a table; the bird pecked alcohol-soaked peas, got drunk, caught, but sad; lame: let I. bring the bird's nest, it will be cheerful; horse: let the lame bring a knife and needle and thread; stab me and climb inside; the king of birds will fly to peck; grab him and demand living and dead water and the bird's nest; with water I. revived the horse, brought the main feature a nest; lame: let I. find out why the sun is at sunset turns red; the horse tells me to put a table on the seashore, there is also a mirror and shoes; a girl came, looked in the mirror, put on her shoes, I. caught her; lame: I. undertakes to bring this girl's herd; horse: let a lame man will bring a cauldron, canvas and resin; I. wrapped the horse in tarred canvas, the sea stallion began to fight with him, but could not tear the canvas; the sea horse was defeated, I. sat on him, followed by a mare with 300 foals; lame: I. undertakes to milk mares, boil milk, swim in it; I. mares cooled the milk, I. swam, became handsome; the wife suggests the main feature to swim too; he cooked in with hot milk, I. took his wife and horses, took the devils into captivity]: Moshkov 1904, No. 43:66-71; Romanians [the poor man has 101 sons; they went to serve; in the first year everyone received a pig for their service, in the second year they received a pig for their service, in the second - a dog, the third a foal; they went to marry the 101 daughters of a damn mother; the horse tells the younger brother to tie their horses: to an empty manger, and the witches to a full one; to put brothers' hats on the sleeping daughters of the witch; the witch kills her horses and daughters; the brothers gallop away, and the youngest is left to see what happens; steals a chest in which the girl intended for him cannot catch up with him; but he cannot open it the chest and returns for the key; the horse creates a lake, turns the young man into a drake and himself into a mouse, steals the key; the young man takes the girl as his wife; the king wants to take her away; sends the young man for nine mares and their stallion; the horse tells him to put 9 cowhides on him and coat him with resin; fights with that stallion, both strong, become twin brothers; mares follow them; the king orders to milk the mares, boil milk and swim in it; the young man's horse drives the mares into the quagmire so that they can milk them; cools the milk; the king also threw himself into the milk and cooked]: Bîrlea 1966:406-407.

Central Europe. Slovaks [the peasant has 12 sons, 11 despise the younger Janko; they were hired by the king, a year later they each received an ox; next time a cow; then a horse; I. is afraid to choose a strong horse; a thin skate advises him to choose it; brothers galloped off; horse: Shall we jump like the sun or like the wind? I.: so as not to suffer; a brass horse and a copper horseman, I. ends up in the inn before the brothers, who say they saw the bronze horseman; next time he saw the bronze horseman; the next time he was silver; gold; the brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch plowing on 6 horses; she says that she has 12 daughters; whips horses, they turn into 12 girls; before the wedding, the horse teaches me: not to sit in in the middle, say that he is the youngest, must watch the horses; do not drink wine, eat soup, roast, pour them out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup with a brush, roast with a comb, hide them under clothes; let the brothers lie in the place of the witch's daughters at night, and they in the place of the brothers; at night, the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking she is killing young men; the horse tells them to jump away, pick nothing up along the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, Y. asks if to pick it up; horse: pick it up, it will be bad, you won't pick it up, even worse; I picked it up; the horse tells you to throw the comb (a mountain covered with dense forest); then the same: a witch throws a golden pen, I. throws a brush (prickly thickets); golden hair - glass (sea, the witch stops chasing); reconciled with his brothers, the skate tells him to be hired to serve the king; other grooms (in some versions these are brothers Y.) burn candles, but I. did not; the grooms saw that Y. illuminated the witch's golden horseshoe stable; the king demands a horse whose horseshoe; they rode to the witch and while she was sleeping, I stole from under pillows keys, took the horse away, hid his sword; shouted about it to the witch, she chased, but could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that Y.'s stable was bright again, the light from the pen; the king demands a bird; I took it off my waist The witch's sleeping keys, broke her sword, took the cage with the duck laying the golden eggs; the third time, golden hair, the king demands a girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in her teeth, I carefully took them out, broke them the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl away; from across the sea shouted to the witch that he would not return to her again; she turned into tar out of anger; the girl only wanted me, the king was going to execute him; the skate tells me to boil the pot of milk, absorbed the heat, I. swam, turned gold; the king also decided to swim, the horse returned the heat, the king cooked; I. became king]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 8:36-46; Czechs [a son was born in bear clothing, the king heard about his mind, tells 1) to turn Labu, 2) build a castle, 3) a bridge; gives his daughter; wife and mother-in-law burn bear skin, the husband disappears; the wife goes search, Sun, Not seen for a month, The Wind knows, brings overseas to a witch; teaches you to throw one bouquet to the cannibal bird, the second to the witch; the Queen first falls asleep every night; then replaces the poisoned wine, the witch falls asleep on her own, he cuts off her head, returns with his wife], 297-305 [the king and queen are leaving, their son Vitek gives his sisters for the Sun, the Month, the Wind; goes to look for a bride when he sees a portrait in magician; goes to his sons-in-law, they give a whip, a pipe, a ring, a bride to the fire king; with the help of a whip, V. grazes 12 stallions from the sorceress, milks cows, cools boiling milk with the help of the wind, bathes in it, she gets a flying horse; the sorceress jumps into milk, is cooked; in the fire king's castle she replaces her sword with her own, takes the princess away from the fire; she tells her sword to be killed, otherwise she will kill her; he does it; wedding]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:219-224; the Czechs [when leaving, the king and queen tell Janko's son to look after his three sisters; Sun, Wind, Month come successively, asking Sister Y. to marry, everyone three agree, leave the house; the king is happy that his daughters have married kings; I go to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that everyone was defeated by the beautiful hero Ulyana; the same on the other field; Y. enters the castle, changes my sword to the one that hangs on the wall and jumps; W. wins, she offers to live with her; when she leaves, gives keys, forbids entering the 13th room; I opened, there is fiery The dragon is chained to the wall with three hoops; says he is thirsty and asks for wine from the last barrel; after each jug he drinks, one hoop falls down; the dragon gives Y. life and takes W.; I. comes to the Sun, he does not know where W. refers to the Month; the Month to the Wind; he replies that the dragon makes W. wash clothes for steep boiling water; he, the Wind, tries to cool the boiling water; I take W. away; the winged dragon horse raises the alarm, but says that there is nowhere to hurry - we will catch up; the dragon took W. and spared I., since he gave him one life; the wind reports that the witch has a dragon brother overseas. a horse that is faster than him; the Sun, the Month and the Wind give Y. a peg (gold, silver, wooden) to call them for help; the wind drove me to the witch, who offers to herd three horses - these are her horse daughters they turned into pigeons and flew away, but the Wind drove them back and told them to put on their bridles; the next day they turned into ducks, Month put a handkerchief into the lake, it was dry, I put on bridles again; on the third day the horses turned into pine trees, the Sun began to burn them, they had to become horses again; the Sun tells them to ask for a miserable oath as a reward; the witch tells them to milk the mares; the horse: before swimming in milk, call me; the milk boiled, but the skate drew in the heat, I became even more beautiful; the witch also decided to be beautiful, but the horse released the heat and it cooked; I washed the skate, it became mighty, winged; I took away Wu ., the dragon follows, the horse Y. tells his brother to throw off the dragon, the dragon fell into the abyss; I brought my wife to my parents and received the throne from my father]: Nemtsova 1978:119-132; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [ the old man found 9 eggs in the forest, collected them in a mitten to pick them up on the way back, but there are no more eggs; the old woman is angry; the same 19 eggs; when he carried 33 eggs home, and they fell and broke, 33 fellows appeared; my father has nothing to mow, we went to mow the royal protected meadows; the tsar took them for himself, giving the old man a lot of bread; someone steals hay; only Ivan does not sleep; a golden-maned mare with 33 foals came out of the sea, I. saddled one foal; he teaches him to catch his mother (roll over him when the mare runs up to him and grab her); the night is bright with the golden mane; the king lets the brothers marry, each to one of those horses; one grandmother has 9 daughters, the second has 19, the third has 33; Ivan's mare teaches her to go with the youngest, to quilt her until she gives flint, a lash and a magic handkerchief; mare: the old woman will put the brides to bed, on they will wear white hats, and you will wear black hats; they must be changed; the sword will roll and cut off their heads under black hats; then you have to run; the old woman is chasing a chariot of fire; Ivan waved his handkerchief - the bridge; when an old woman waved again on the bridge, the bridge disappeared, the old woman fell into the sea and drowned; the brothers think that Ivan killed their brides out of envy, rushed at him, but the mare drove them away; Ivan became the king's groom, other grooms are jealous; they tell the king that Ivan ran to get him a princess; the mare brings him to the garden, chipped in with an apple tree, the princess comes up, Ivan grabs her, they jump to the king; the princess demands to get it first wedding dress; when the princess disappeared, her father took the dress to the cathedral for the funeral service; the mare lured people out of the cathedral, Ivan grabbed the dress and rode away; princess: to rejuvenate, you have to jump into the cauldron of milk, then with boiling water, then with cold water; Tsar: let Ivan be the first; the mare cooled the boiling water for Ivan, and the tsar cooked; the princess married Ivan]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:183-193; Russians ( Voronezhskaya) [An old man kills a bird with 21 eggs while hunting. The old woman orders him to incubate them. After 21 weeks, 20 sons hatched, and a week later, the last son, Ivan the Boltun, appears. The old man gets rich, notices that someone steals ricks, sends his sons to guard at night, the older brothers fall asleep and do not see the thief, and Ivan's turn comes the last night. He prepares a hammer and iron bits. Ivan does not sleep and catches a mare and its 21 foals (hit between his ears with a hammer). The father praises Ivan, takes the mare, the brothers sort out the foals, Ivan gets the weakest. Father and sons go hunting. Four times Ivan lets the foal go into the field to gain strength (he bends first at hand, then under his foot, under a sitting rider). Ivan catches up with his brothers, sees fire on the third day, finds a golden pen, despite the skate's warnings, and takes it with him. The father orders all horses to be cleaned, Ivan waves his pen - his horse turns gold. The father praises Ivan and shames the rest of the brothers. The brothers are jealous and tell their father that Ivan boasts to catch a toy cat, a dancer gander and a tsimbalka fox, the father sends his youngest son for animals. With the help of a horse, he does everything. The brothers tell their father that Ivan can get samogudes. Ivan finds himself at Baba Yaga, who gives him a ball, he brings him to Yaga's middle sister, the mother of Snake Gorynych, who keeps harps. The mother feeds her son, puts him to play cards with Ivan, and the players agree that the winner will eat the loser. Ivan wins in two days, asks to give him the harp, the Serpent gives it back, rejoices that he remains alive and has not been eaten. The father again, out of slander of his elder sons, orders Ivan to get Mary Queen. He sails by ship, lures the princess to him by playing the harp (I've never heard it), and brings it to his father. The father then gives all orders to his son at the request of the bride and demands to bring her box. Ivan distracts the palace guards by releasing his golden horse, pulls out the box and bringing it back. He hunts 12 mares on his father's orders: he wraps his horse with twine and pours resin over him - he drives horses out of the sea, his protection is torn by the teeth of horses. By order of his father, he milks mares, boils their milk and jumps into it after the horse's conditional signal. Ivan is getting handsome. Marya demands that her father also swim, but he dies in boiling milk. Ivan marries Marya]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 17:97-105; Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [31 brothers want to marry girls who would be sisters; the youngest is called: Thirty-one (T.); horse: sit on me, and leave yours to graze; they come to the witch, she has 31 daughters; the horse tells T. to switch places with the witch's daughters at night; the witch cut off the heads of her own daughters; the brothers galloped off; horse thirty-one: tell her that we will come to her again; T. and his oldest brother hired the king, the rest of the brothers took the other way; the elder was taken as a groom, and T. was hired as a cook, the elder is envious, he tells the king that T. can get 1) bread that a whole army cannot eat; horse: that woman's bread; the horse gave an ointment: if you anoint, you will become a broom; the woman sweeps it, goes to bed, T. took the bread; the horse tells the woman to shout again: we will come again; 2) a flask of wine that the whole army cannot drink; the horse teaches you to become an ant, carry the flask; 3) the most beautiful woman in the world; the horse tells you to take 8 buffaloes from the king skins and special horseshoes; to dig a hole overseas; the horse rode in it, the stallion rode, runs, looks for a horse, is tired; when the horse came out, he ripped 8 skins on it, but T.'s horse won; T. got off the tree, sat down on her horse, and the beautiful woman standing next to that stallion; behind them is a herd of mares across the sea; beautiful: who will milk my mares? king: the one who brought; T.'s horse makes every mare stand without moving, T. fed up milk; boiled milk; T. furkil's horse, T. swam, became handsome; the king threw himself into the milk and boiled; T. married a beautiful woman, reigned]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 94:278-283; Belarusians [the owner let the farmhand go by pouring gold into his bag; he does not know what to do about it, changed it to something easier, it turned out to be frankincense; spent the night in an empty log house, it caught fire, the farmhand threw the bag into the fire; God smelled the smell, sent an angel, the farmhand asked him for his wife; the wife came down from heaven; they settled in the bathhouse, the wife made her beautiful; to lime her husband and pick up the panenka, the pan tells him to get the dog: if you blow in a ponytail, everyone will go dancing; the wife gives a handkerchief and a ring, tells him to sit in the basket, you will find yourself in the next world, her sisters give a dog; the farmhand brought a dog, everyone is dancing; the pan locked him, wants to take his wife again; she demands that he be younger first; the wife gave her husband her ring, the husband swam in boiling water, became beautiful and young; the pan rushed after him, cooked; the remains of the dogs were thrown away]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:67-73; Belarusians (Minskaya, Turov) [summary of the fairy tale from Mikhail Krivoshapkin's manuscript "O Volyn and Minsk Polesye" (1898-1899): Ivan Bezdolny "bought a cat, for which he later received a bag of gold; bought a cart of palm for gold, lit it and asked God for a beautiful wife, chose her from three bathing lambs; Voight wants to take his wife away from him and sends him first to that suite to his father, and then to heaven to call the crown from his son; he bathed in hot milk from 12 blood and became handsome, and pan was cooked in the same milk"]: Zelenin 1914, No. 12:295.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray) [the poor man fell ill, his wife died; asks his daughter not to bury him properly {incomprehensible; a hint of the motive "At night at his father's grave"?} ; the neighbors buried him, sorted his things out, the mullah took the girl to her place; she grew up, put on her man's clothes, got on her horse and left; the snake asked her not to kill, brought her to her father; he ordered the snakes take on a human form; the snake insisted on giving the girl a damn horse with a golden mane; the girl drove off in it; the horse does not tell you to pick up a bird's wing, but she picked it up; came to the padishah; the boy took the wing, gave it to the padishah, said that the guest had brought it; the padishah told me to bring all the bird; the horse told me to ask for a bag of millet and blanket; lie under it and scatter the millet; the girl grabbed one bird by the legs; the padishah demands to deliver the owner of the birds; the horse asks for a dogwood trough, a barrel of wine and a jug of raki; the mistress of the birds flew in, ate dogwood, drank wine and crayfish, fell asleep; the girl snatched two from her hair (horse: now she will come to us); returned to the palace, the horse ordered me to burn the hairs, the hostess appeared, the padishah tells us to prepare the wedding; the mistress of the birds: let the one who got me first take out the comb and the mirror that the witch stole when I was 13 years old; the horse brought the girl to the witch, she took the comb and the mirror; now the owner of the birds tells me to get sea mares; the horse brought to the sea; came out black stallion, the horse began to fight with him; he has blood from his throat; tells him to anoint the stallion with it; then the girl turned into a young man, brought the stallion and mares; the owner of the birds boiled a pot of milk; the young man stayed unharmed, padishah cooked; young man's wedding with bird owner]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 4; Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899 [the old man says he will be cured if his son reaches a country where no man has set foot, will bring a thing that no one saw; the elder, middle brothers quickly return; the youngest saw a snake that swallowed the ram, but the horns were stuck; the young man pulled out the ram, saddled the snake, it became a khan; his daughter orders to ask for a reward for the horse Hamar-Hara, a black stone in which the horse's strength, and herself; the young man goes to the XX, contrary to the advice of XX, picks up the wings of the most beautiful bird; he comes to another khan; who if he wins chess, he will kill another; the young man wins three times, spares the khan; he offers to get the most beautiful girl; the young man brings, the khan sends for horses from the underwater kingdom; the horse tells to lubricate him with sealing wax, lying on the sand, becomes like flint, defeats a water horse, a young man catches him, followed by other horses; a woman demands that the groom swim in boiling milk; the young man swims, became handsome, the khan was cooked; a young man and his wife come to his father, the wife opens the casket, a palace appears; the young man is chosen khan]: 146-150; Vatagin 1964:156-160 [the lama promised that Baiin-Bata had a son, but he can be carried away by a black-bald wolf; Badm's son grew up, got married, goes with his wife to his parents; at rest he was carried away by a wolf; his father ordered to put a house on this place; three years later, a passerby noticed that he had entered the house big man, ate and left again; Batma's mother went to guard, got scared; father fell asleep; Ijimya's wife could not hold it back; parents came together; Batma: I have to go to me between 900 burning trees, swim in 900 mares with boiling milk, then solve the wolf's problems; the father did not pass, the mother passed, but did not dare to rush into the cauldron, the wife passed, swam; the wolf: 1) determine who of the two mares are the mother and who is the daughter; I.: mother pushes her daughter's oats; 2) which of the two snakes is male and who is female (the female lay lazily, and the male began to hiss); 3) which of the three Batma pigeons (he had tears in his eyes); the wolf gave Ijima Batma], 167-174 [ Khan Badamji left a kaurogo horse named Salar on the other side of the ocean for storage by the Shulmus; then he went blind; says he will see the light again if his sons bring something he never saw; B. knows that this can only be found if you ride his horse; the eldest, middle sons returned with nothing; the youngest Bemba met an old man, who tells B. to make a drink from his mother's milk, mix it with cakes; if you give them to Shulmus, he will give them the horse; when B. rides his horse away, the Shulmus are chasing, B. gave them food and drink, they fell behind; under the guise of a poor shepherd, B. was hired by the khan; he tells them to be brought from across the sea khan maiden; the horse teaches not to look back when B. leads the girl; B. is going to look back, the horse has hit him; next time B. took the girl away; she refuses to marry Khan - he is black; for the khan became white, he must bathe in the hot milk of sea mares; the horse was lying in the sand, grabbed the sea stallion, which could not bite through its skin under the adhering sand; first B. jumped into the milk, became handsome; the khan cooked; B. and his wife came to his father; he says that he saw the light]; Stavropol Turkmens [the khan has only a daughter, no heir son; the daughter promises that everything will work out, leaves for a piebald horses; the horse shows the golden hare, tells him to catch and give it to the old man, not to take money; they come to Diamond Khan, the servant persuades him to give the girl difficult tasks; 1) catch a golden hare for A. (horse catches); 2) make a barn {palace?} from bear teeth (the horse tells you to lubricate the bank of the stream with resin, bears who come to drink get stuck, the girl gets her teeth); 3) get Bermez Khan's daughter (the horse tells me to give thorns to camels, alchiki boys, bones to dogs, an old man and an old woman of a fur coat, mix the water of a pond divided into two parts with spoons; daughter B. takes away, he tells the servants to detain the fugitives, everyone says that they were treated well ( mixed water, gave fur coats, etc.), B. stops chasing); 4) bring a black foal of a kara-jacket (witch); they take it away, the kara-jackets are chasing, the horse says that if her curse catches them on the descent in the ravine, a girl will die, and if she, a horse, will die at the bottom of the ravine; when they are at the bottom of the ravine, the kara-jacket tells the girl to become a horseman, the horse has time to give two hairs; the horseman wants his daughter B., A. I agree to give it if the groom goes through boiling milk; those hairs help, the dzhigit is unharmed; comes with his wife to his father]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 103-109; Nogais [Yauryntak is born when parents catch carp, grow up immediately, comes to bay, breaks off the golden rooster's leg; buy through Bearded {he in the role of the vizier} gives difficult errands; Eagle helps to fulfill; bring 1) bones hare (The Eagle gives); 2) the Eagle's feather (the Eagle beats, the feather falls off it); 3) Almas Khan's daughter Bermes (Y. is thrown on the roof of the house, does not freeze, because the eagle protects him from the cold, gets B.); bai finds gold B. hair; tells Y. to bring piebald, gray, red horses saddled by the moon, sun, paihambar, and a herd of mares biting each other; B. promises to marry bay when Y. returns; I. dies three times from the cold , The Eagle revives it; Y. brings horses, B. fed up with a cauldron of milk, boiled; bai rushed, cooked, I. came out handsome, inherited the riches of the bay]: Nogai 1979, No. 7:20-27; Kabardian people [in man there are no sons, there are three daughters; he decided to test their courage; takes turns sending them on a journey in men's clothes, hiding under a bridge, suddenly attacks; the eldest, middle daughters are frightened, turned to escape; the youngest fights back, jumps on, arrives where the prince wants to take the girl, but guards are around; the imaginary young man undertakes to bring the bride; in the burning steppe saves three snakes; their mother is ready fulfill any wish; gives a black horse, on which the imaginary young man rode to that girl and brought her; she demands to bring her a box with seven keys wrapped in dog skin; the mother of snakes teaches how to do this; now the bride demands to get the milk of seven sea buffaloes for her and the groom to swim in it; an imaginary young man hijacks buffaloes, but the buffalo tells him to become a woman if he is a man, and a man if a woman; now the heroine really becomes a young man; the khan's son is cooked in hot milk, the young man (ex-girlfriend) married the girl he received]: Dirr 1920, No. 23:110-113; Abaza [ every year someone steals a millet harvest in the Ishak field; the eldest son, Hajibekir, goes to guard and falls asleep; the same middle Mhamat; the younger Solman has stabbed the stallion, the leader of the herd; he gives for himself three horses, hairs, if burned, will come to the rescue; S. horses are bought for a lot of money; the prince calls him to him, S. summons his magic horse; on the way, despite the horse's warning, picks up a pen eagle; prince likes S.; an envious adviser suggests that S. give him a pen; then 1) bring that eagle; the horse orders to dig a hole, pour grains, all the birds flock, S. catches an eagle; 2) a golden fat tail of a ram living in the river; a horse teaches you to lure a ram with salt, cut off the tip of the kurlyuk; 3) a puppy of a female who sits between two seas; the horse teaches you to throw pieces of cloth to the bushes, saying that it is for them pants and a shirt, like walking across a bridge through the bushes, picking up a puppy; 4) the daughter of the Sun and Moon, living in the womb of a whale; she leaves the whale to watch the goods brought by S., he brings it to the prince; 5) the chest of the daughter of the Sun and the Moon; S. climbs into the whale's mouth when he returns the next day, takes out the chest; 6) the bride makes a condition to bring her the golden ring of her Sun Father and Mother Moon; the horse advises what to do; over the sea bridge fish; agrees to walk along it if S. asks how much longer it has to hang like this bridge; Summer and Winter fight, let them pass between them if S. asks how much more they have to fight; the moon first hides S. , then shows her husband; they say that Summer and Winter will fight forever, the fish will always hang as a bridge; S. gives them answers after passing between Summer and Winter, across the fish bridge; the bride tells the groom to swim in boiling milk; Prince tells S. to swim, the bride gives him her ring, he leaves the cauldron unharmed; the prince is cooked; S. marries the daughter of the Sun and Moon, becomes a prince]: Tugov 1985, No. 47:131-138; Ossetians: Britayev, Kazbekov 1951 [the three brothers did not get anything, they swore never to hunt; the elder sees a golden-haired deer, he asks not to shoot at him, the elder shoots, the arrow pierces himself; the same with his middle brother; the younger one buried his elders, wounded a deer, who asked him to bandage his wounds, bring him into his house and close windows and doors tightly; from the left family, food and drink, from the right dancers and dancers come out, the young man plays the flute for them, then they return to the horn; Aldar found out, ordered the deer to be brought, but the horns cannot be turned away; Aldar tells me to bring a girl not born of father and mother; the deer tells her to go to the mound, turn to the woman; she came out of the mound, hid the young man, asked her Waig sons to go to their father, sent the young man on this horse; the eagle and the fish give their pen and scales to summon them if necessary; the young man invited his companions to splash, the girl went out to watch, he took her away; she became a bird (caught the eagle), a fish (caught the fish), promised more do not run away; the young man brings her to Aldar, who puts the girl in the tower, tells her to get ivory to make furniture; the deer teaches her to fill the pits with intoxicating drink, salt and tobacco, the elephant began to drink, fell dead; the girl tells Aldar to fill two cauldrons with milk, boil one of them; tells Aldar to swim in boiling water, he is cooked; she and the young man bathes in the cold; wedding; food and drinks are taken out of the deer's antlers, dancers come out]: 178-186; Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [older brothers shoot a gold-haired deer, fall dead themselves; the younger one injures him, brings him home, the deer tells him to open his horn; there is food in one horn, wealth, in the other - people; Aldar takes a deer, tells me to bring a girl who was not born of father and mother; the mother of seven giants from the mound gives a horse; an eagle, a fish promise to help; a horse lures a girl out towers; it turns into a bird, a fish, an eagle, the fish returns it; the girl tells her to cook vats of hot and cold milk; tells Aldar to swim in hot, he is cooked; she and the young man bathes in cold; wedding; deer antler riches]: 110-117; Sokayeva 2012, No. 5 [the tsar has three sons and a daughter, he promises to give the throne to whoever brings a curiosity; the elder brings a leaf the size of a burku, the middle one brings a leaf the size of a burku, the middle one even bigger, the sister is indifferent, offers to bring a silver chicken wing; the youngest on horseback, who eats nails, brings it; the sister asks for all the chicken, the horse teaches where to catch these chickens, the brother brings it; sister offers to bring the owner of the chickens; the horse tells you to drink from a dirty, bitter river, praise the water; pick a pear, praise a tree; throw sheep to iron-billed crows, a bull's carcass to wolves, lubricate the doors fat tail fat; 3 girls call the door, one plays, the other sings, the third cries; crying is the chicken's mistress, she asks the door, wolves, etc. to stop the kidnapper, they do not obey, the young man takes her away; sister He orders to bring 7 iron-faced mares, milk, boil milk, swim, he will be king; the horse tells him to grease it with glue, lay in the sand, became huge, his mares were frightened, listened; the horse teaches Uastyrji to come to heaven, steal his beer pot; at home, those who try to milk mares are killed by them; the horse tells them to let their master milk; whoever jumped into boiling milk all died ; the young man came up whole; the girl became the head of the kingdom (the end is illogical)]: 59-64; Chechens [the father is blind, the eldest son reaches places where the snow is red, brings medicine from there, the streak is dissatisfied; middle - where the white grass is the same; the youngest father tells him not to pick up anything on the way, he picks up a golden feather, a ball of thread; 1) when he sees the pen, the prince demands to get a bird; the horse teaches him to tell the bird that Timar (the young man's father) went blind, pour intoxicated millet into the river, scatter millet; the bird got drunk, came to peck, the young man brought it; 2) seeing the ball, the prince wants the girl who has rolled it; the horse teaches that the ball will lead to the girl; I must tell her that T. is blind; the horse prances, the young man picks up the girl; 3) she promises to marry the prince if he buys in the milk of a sea mare; the horse orders to wrap himself in cloth; in the battle with a horse that comes out of the sea chews on its meat, and he only tears off the cloth; the sea horse agrees to drive mares and foals out of the sea; the young man is the first to bathe in hot milk, the horse cools the milk; the prince kills with a hot breath; with a bird's feather, the son restores his father's sight and youth, passes the girl off as him]: Malsagov 1983, No. 15:95-100; Terek Cossacks (Naurskaya) [the tsar goes blind, sends his sons to bring land from the country where he was, he will see the light from it; the eldest, middle son brings land where it is covered with gold, where the tree exudes milk and water; the king says he was next; the youngest chooses a frozen gelding , arrives at the right place; on the way back he picks up a golden pen; stops at the Sultan; wanting to take possession of the pen, the vizier suggests 1) sending the prince for the sea maiden; at the bottom (all on the advice of a horse) The prince gives meat to the wolf, in front of which lay hay; hay instead of meat; they let them into the palace; oils 90 doors; the queen tells the doors, the wolf, the ram to detain the prince, they refuse; The prince brings it to the Sultan; 2) get a bird whose feather was golden; the horse tells them to sprinkle cereals, replace the water in the lake with wine, hide in the camel's carcass, leave the other to the birds; the prince grabs intoxicated , the king bird pecking meat; 3) the milk of the sea king's goat; at the bottom of the sea, the horse fights with the goat, wins (the horse is covered from goat bites by camel skins); 4) swim in sea goat milk (it is boiling); the horse spewed water into the cauldron, cooling it; the Sultan began to swim - he cooked; the prince puts the vizier in prison, marries the queen of the sea, treats his father from blindness]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 1:66-74; Dargins [y the shepherd on the mountain is 40 mares; one of the foals asks to slaughter the rest and give him milk to 40 mares; the same the following year; in the third year the shepherd did not listen; then the foal ordered him to be placed in an underground stable; the khan demands to get the daughter of a khan of another country; the foal turns into a nag, laughs at the shepherd; then becomes a heroic horse and flies across the sea, but touches the water with one foot, because . the owner did not give him milk for 40 mares in his third year; that khan gave his daughter; when the shepherd brought her, the khan's close associates took her away, one of them took credit for himself; the daughter of a foreign khan sets the condition for marriage; bring her father's golden bath, fill it with boiling milk and bathe in it; the shepherd brought it; the khan tells him to swim first; the horse cooled the milk for a while; the khan climbed and cooked, the beauty went beyond shepherd]: Khalilov 1965, No. 70:215-218; (cf. Avars [pachah dreams of a sea horse, three sons go to get it; at the fork there is a table with the inscription that whoever goes right or left has nothing to fear, and whoever is straight will die or find happiness; the youngest goes straight, gets to the giantess, around a steel palisade with his heads set; because the young man sticks to the giantess's chest, she cannot kill him, vomits and swallows the cat out of anger; hides the young man, asks the returning seven sledge sons about the horse, the youngest shows the way; the young man tames the horse, rides it, picks up a golden pen; the city sees a pen, demands to get the one for whom it is belonged; the horse explains that the three daughters of the sea king come to swim at the lake, take off their pigeon plumage, we must hide the youngest's plumage; the young man brings the girl to the pachah, she promises to go beyond if he swims in a hole of milk and gets younger; the pachah sinks; the young man takes the girl, finds the brothers, they push him into the well, the girl makes a rope out of her braids, gives the horse, that pulls out the young man, his brothers run away in fear, the young man marries]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 11:155-166); Georgians (Kakheti, Pshaviya) [the tsar asks his sons to get a "rejuvenating wonder" for him; the elders could not, the third youngest finds his father's bird horse; {contrary to warning} picks up a red apple and a feather on the way; comes to his father's friend; the courtiers are jealous, tell the king that the young man wants to destroy him and to do this, he carries an unusual apple in his pocket; the king demands to show the apple tree and then extract the apple tree itself; cannibal snakes on the roots of the apple tree; the horse pushed the snakes away and took the apple tree away; the king asks for a bird that dropped her pen; the horse gets (this is a golden chicken); the king demands to get the beautiful owner of the chicken; in front of her home there is a fetid spring, a poisonous apple tree, black crows, wolves and a squeaky door; a young man praises the taste of fruits and water, feeds wolves and crows with bacon, lubricated the door with it; takes the beauty, the door, the wolves, etc. refuse to detain him; the king wants to marry the beautiful woman, but she demands milk from her horses like wind and storm; the young man gets; the beauty tells me to boil milk: whoever comes out unharmed will be her husband; the first bathes herself; then the king dies; when it is the young man's turn, the horse throws at milk is ice; a young man brings a beautiful woman to his parents, who rejuvenates them with a magic towel]: Razikashvili 1909:94 f in Tikhaya-Tsereteli 1909:143-145; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:262-269 [with the king son Melik-Mamed and two other sons; when he dies, he tells his brother to give his daughter to MM, but he ordered the brothers to be expelled; they worked as grooms, then began to mow hay; someone scattered cattle; MM guards, caught three horses that came out of the sea; brothers came to the old woman on them; the MM spotted horse teaches her daughters to exchange hats; in the morning the old woman stabbed not her brothers, but her daughters; the spotted horse teaches MM hit her so that mother's milk spills out of her nostrils; the brothers came to the city, hired the king by grooms; the elders were jealous of MM; told the king that he could bring news from the sun, why there were eclipses; the horse orders to take a written order from the king; give the mother of the sun; her son replies that he is hiding from shame when he sees Peri, the daughter of the king of angels, who goes for a walk; the king demanded that MM deliver this peri; the horse teaches how to lure the peri into the tent; peri demands that the king fill the pool with mares milk, bathe to become younger; gives MM a handful of land to throw into the pool where the king bathes; that turned to the ground, and MM was younger and married Peri], 348-354 [the king has sons Mammad, Ahmed and Samed; when hunting, the king and vizier see a monster, it requires a little lamb; as soon as he receives consent, turns into a black snake; vizier: the lamb is the younger prince, Mamed; the vizier took M. to the cave of the king of snakes; the daughter of the king of snakes liked him, she killed the previous 40 kings; when M. wanted to return to father, his wife told her father to ask her father for a black horse; his wife rode it; she did not order to pick up the pen, but M. picked it up; they stopped at Casius; the watchmen noticed the pen from which the light was carried to the king; he said that it was the feather of the Shah Shongar bird, ordered M. to bring the bird itself; the wife ordered to pour millet where they found the feather, M. grabbed and brought the bird; the vizier advises to bring the bird's daughter; M. he deliberately turned the cauldron over and tried to fry meat on it; the girl came to teach him how to do it, M. took her away; she told the king that Peri's husband should be peri himself, poured hot water on him and he melted; peri went after M., he and his two wives went to his father; at the locked gate of one fortress they saw a chest with a beaten girl in it; M. cured her; she called herself the queen of the city, the slave took her throne; M. killed the slave, took her throne the queen with his third wife; one of the brothers wanted to poison M., but the daughter of the serpent king gave the dog a try, she died; the brothers were executed, M. reigned; three apples fell from the window in the ceiling: one to the narrator, the other to the audience, the third looking out the window]; the Turks [one gypsy, whatever he did, kept saying: "Oh, blind devil!" ; Satan became angry and, turning into a boy, got a job with a gypsy; a couple of months later, the father came to visit the boy; the boy told the gypsy that he would make his old father a handsome 15 years old tee; took his father, shoved him into the cauldron and began to boil him; eventually a handsome young man came out of the cauldron; a gypsy neighbor saw what had happened and forced her husband to go to this boy; the boy cut the neighbor to pieces, put it in the cauldron, left it to cook, and disappeared; in the evening, the gypsy opened the cauldron and saw that the meat was already moving away from the bones; the woman accused the gypsy of killing her husband and dragged him to court; he came to prison to the gypsy Satan and explained that he did all this in retaliation for the curses]: Gordlevsky 1914:29-30.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 154 [199 options; after the death of their father, 7 sons drank the estate, were hired as laborers; someone steals mowed hay; only the youngest Jonas manages to catch a mare with seven stallions; J. got the most inconspicuous; decide to marry the 7 daughters of the Bone Woman, who is on the island; the horse teaches Y. to wave a handkerchief, the waters have parted; tells them to exchange blankets with the girls at night; the saber cuts off their heads; the skate tells them to run; the sea has parted and closed behind, the bone woman cannot cross; the skate does not tell them to pick up the pen, J. picked it up; the brothers, out of envy, tell the king that 1) J. can get a bird; a bird from the Bone Woman; Y. became a cat, the bone woman brought him into the house, he took the bird's cage; 2) a sword that cuts and defeats the attacking enemies; J. became a bird, a bone woman brought her into the house, she took her sword away; 3) the sea maiden (while she was at the ball, I could not see the moon and sun for three days); the horse teaches me to put a table of wine on the shore, the maiden came out of the water, got drunk, fell; the maiden to the king: I'll go out , when you are handsome, you have to bathe in boiling milk; J. jumped and became handsome, the king disappeared into milk; J. married a virgin and became king]: 401-408; (cf. Lebite 1965 [the king tells Juozapelis that he will take him hunting when the horse rides himself; the plain horse rides himself; does not tell him to pick up a pen, Yu picks up; the king orders to bring 1) a bird, 2) her nest, 3) the sea princess; each time the horse brings Yu to them, the princess tells them to lure them out, spreading expensive cloth on the shore; the princess promises to marry the king if Yu 4) brings her ring (horse) from the sea tells you to catch a crustacean, give it to the cancer for the ring), 5) a necklace (the horse tells him to kill him, get into the stomach, crows will arrive, catch a crow, in exchange the raven will bring a necklace; the skate comes to life); 6) cut Yu. (the horse promises to revive him); the princess suggests that the king also cut down and revive him, the king agrees; he is not revived, Yu marries a sea princess]: 187-190); Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [with the tsar 25 sons; he learned from the book that one woman has 25 daughters; the brothers went to marry; the youngest went forward; in the hut, the old woman interferes with her nose with hot coals; the guy answers cleverly, she calls him the sister's son, promises to take his brothers for the night, tells him to go to the sister of the woman who has a daughter; herd her horses, ask for an inadequate skate for work; the horse says that there are a hundred around that house stakes, 75 already the heads of the grooms; the mother of the daughters promises golden oats if the brothers let their horses into the stable; the youngest says that their horses eat only burning coals; in the evening, dancing to the self-playing accordion, forest animals are dancing; horse: an old woman will lay her daughters in one half of the room and you in the other; you have to switch places and put her hats on the girls; at night, the old woman cut off the heads not of the young men, but her daughters; the younger brother tells them to run; the old woman looks into her magic mirror and sees that she has killed her daughters; brothers have been hired to serve the king; the elders are jealous of the younger; they tell the king that their brother can get that old woman's golden cross; the horse carried the boy across the river threshold; tells the old woman to give bread to her dog so as not to bark; the guy took the cross; get the old woman's mirror (the same); get the old woman's accordion; when they rode back, the old woman tore off the horse's leg; he tells him to kill and bury him; the old man suggests changing the accordion to a whip that makes the dead come to life; the guy killed the old man for trial; killed and revived the crow that had arrived; but did not revive the old man; revived the skate; the brothers are even more jealous: their brother promised to get Päivela's maiden as a bride (Päivolan neiččyön morsiemekse); horse takes the guy to the top of the mountain, there's a hole, lowers it on his belt; he goes into the hut, it's warm there; P.'s mother says that her daughter goes to the edge of the sky to fry the sun; walled up the guy in the oven so that he doesn't burn, only her eyes can be seen; when the daughter took off her fiery clothes, the mother released the boy, P. went with him, picked them up, brought them to the king; P. says that it will become a fire pit: whoever jumps on horseback will receive it; when the boy jumped, the fire in the pit went out; the king fell into the hole, burned down; the boy became king, the virgin P. became queen]: Onegin 2010, No. 20:226-233; Eastern Sami [three sons, younger Vanyusha; brothers went to wander; the hut is spinning on one pole; V. tells him to stop at the door; there is a table in the hut, V. tells him to serve dinner; they ate, went to bed; the hut began to fill with water; Chaz came out of the water Yelle (water master), V. defeated him in the morning, ripped his chest; next time CHY with two heads; V. cannot defeat him, threw his boot, the brothers woke up, killed the waterman; for the third time in the hut a beautiful woman; an old man came, the father of the watermen, whom V. killed, offered to cross the cloth a cauldron of boiling milk; V. crossed, and when the old man went, the woman pulled the cloth, it fell and cooked; he thought it was boiling water, which he was not afraid of, and could not cope with milk]: Yermolov 1959:87-90; Danes [father makes and sells sieves, but drinks everything; son goes to sell sieves instead of him, got lost in the forest; sees a portrait of a beauty on a tree, but cannot reach it; a horse appears, tells him to obey, then the portrait falls into his hands; in the castle, the young man was hired by a groom; his purse himself is filled with money, and his doodles turn into portraits; the servant sees a portrait of a long-missing princess - the one found in the woods; the king does not believe that the young man did not see her, since he has her portrait, sends to get; the young man goes to the phoenix bird; on the way the horse turns into a dog; the people he meets ask to know 1) why the pear does not bear fruit; 2) where is the missing princess (the other); the young man throws meat to two fighting snakes; millet to two struggling swans; they let it in; at the lake crossing, the ferryman asks him to know how long he will be a ferryman; in the phoenix house, the princess (the one in the portrait) hides the young man under the bed; asks the phoenix questions on his own behalf; in the morning, the young man and the princess, taking gold, run away; after crossing the lake, the young man says that the ferryman should order him to take his position to the person he is transporting; a phoenix in the form of a dragon pursues, but attacks the nails with which the ship is covered; swans bring the princess (the one they asked to find), she was in a castle hanging in the air; the young man tells him to dig a huge toad from under the pear, he is generously rewarded; when the young man returns, the princess from the hanging castle visits him; this is told to the king and he tells him to get the castle, for the princess misses him; swans lift snakes into the air, they snack gold chains, the lock falls on the ship, is delivered; the servants continue to slander the young man, he and his dog are going to burn; the dog tells him to take on the fire, the dragon fat that the young man kept; after smeared it, the young man and the dog do not feel the heat of the fire; both turn into handsome men; the servants themselves throw themselves into the fire, but burn; the young man marries a princess from the padlock, and his assistant is on the one kidnapped by the phoenix; the king objects and goes to the phoenix; remains a ferryman]: Holbek 1987:567-568.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs; Marie; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 36 [the old man found 12 eggs in the forest, 12 of which hatched, Zavarza; went to look for wives; Baba Yaga sends to the eldest her sister, who has 12 daughters, gives a handkerchief (if you wave, a sea of fire will appear) and a stallion; he tells Zavarza to change clothes with Baba Yaga's daughters at night; she stabbed her daughters and was left alone for Z. agrees to marry him if he 1) collects her mother's stallions; Z. brought in, waved his handkerchief, Baba Yaga could not cross the Sea of Fire; 2) steal samogudes from her mother; they are on her chest, she grabbed Z., locked in a barn; the stallion tells me to play the harp, the locks fell apart, Z. brought the harp; 3) the mother's jawbone; Z. pulled out her jaw, brought it; 4) jump into boiling water; the stallion cooled him, Z. is unharmed; Baba Yaga's daughter jumped after her, the stallion made the water hot, the girl cooked]: 262-264; Sokolov 1922, No. 12 []: 156-157; Komi; Udmurts [the couple are 70 years old; a passer-by came in and left; after that the old woman and the mare became pregnant; the old people decided that their son could no longer be fed at their age, they left him in the field with the foal; both grew up themselves, the boy rode a foal; the horse persuades him not to pick up but the boy picked up the golden pen; he joined the king's service; other servants, out of envy, told the king about the pen; the king demanded that the bird itself be brought; the foal brought the boy to the tree on which he was sitting a hawk who has lost his feather; orders to leave the trough of wine, the golden hawk became drunk, the boy brought it to the king; the servants told about the foal, the king orders to get a herd of the neighboring king; the foal took it there the boy, told him not to look while he was fighting the local stallion; the boy looked, the foal fell with its belly bursting; a crow flew into the carrion; the boy caught her; she asked her to let her go, brought live water, the foal came to life; after that, the boy did not watch the foal beat; he defeated the stallion, the boy brought the herd; then the servants persuade him to send the boy for the princess's ring the kingdom where the herd came from, and then behind the princess herself; then the narrator did not remember; in the end, the king tells the boy to dive into a cauldron of boiling resin; he dived with the foal, whose snot protected both from the resin ; then the tsar and the servants dived, died; the boy reigned and married the princess]: Potanin 1884:227-229; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 63 [hay ricks are missing; only the youngest the bald (Taz) son caught a sea stallion, with him two more; the brothers stole them and sold them to the padishah; the youngest was hired to take care of them; brothers: the youngest boasted to get the daughter of the sea padishah; horses teach spread out on the shore of silk, the young man grabs the girl, the horses are carried away; the girl demands a chest with his rings from the padishah; the horse orders him to be wrapped in ribbon; if blood appears on the sea, he dies if white foam - the lion won; foam appeared, the horse took out the chest with rings; the girl demands to boil three cauldrons of milk, let Taz swim; the horse laughs, the milk cools down; the pelvis became handsome; the padishah also rushes into boiling milk, cooked; the daughter of the sea padishah married Taz]: 310-314; Yarmukhametov 1957 [stepmother cares for her own son, stupid and lazy Tuktar, hates Timur's stepson; horse bequeathed by his mother warns that the stepmother put poison in the cake, Timur gave the cake to the dog, she died; the horse saves her stepmother from several attempts to kill Timur; she pretended to be sick, demanded the horse's heart; the horse told Timur to ask his father for permission to ride for the last time; he laughs three times, T. manages to run from the madrasah, they jump away; contrary to the horse's warning, T. picks up a golden wing; they come to The White Kingdom, T. is hired by the groom to the padishah, if you touch the horse with his wing, he immediately becomes fat; the vizier spied, the padishah demands the bird that owns the wing; the horse teaches him to cover himself with a white cloth, grab the fire eagle by the legs, which will descend; seeing that T. did not let him go, the eagle released a golden bird from under its wing, T. brought it to the padishah; the padishah demands the sea maiden; the horse teaches to leave it on On the shore a jug of wine; the maiden went out and got drunk, T. grabbed her; the maiden sets the condition for marriage: to bring a herd of her sea horses; the horse teaches to rob and tame the mare, the herd follows her; the maiden tells milk the horses: horse: everyone must be whipped, they will run out themselves; the maiden tells you to get her ring out of the cauldron of boiling milk; horse: rub dew grass under the birch tree; T. took out the ring, the padishah also dived and cooked, T. married a virgin]: 3-9; Chuvash [someone tramples on wheat, father tells sons to guard; the eldest, middle fall asleep, the youngest Ivan catches a horse; sells to the king for 3 carts of gold; picks up gold pen; hires the king as a groom; cleans the horse with a golden pen, he becomes prettier; another groom to the king: I. boasts to get the golden bird itself; the horse advises to put wheat and a barrel of wine on the bird, that is intoxicated, I. brought; groom: I. boasts to get a water daughter; the horse orders to make a ship moving on water and on land; the water's daughter enters the ship, he takes her away; the water's daughter refuses to leave without a dowry ; I. returns to the water, he turns into a bull, I. defeats him, leads his whole herd behind him; the water's daughter tells him to swim in boiling milk; I. takes 3 hairs from the horse's tail, unharmed; the king cooked; I. became tsar, married a water daughter]: Chuvash tales 1937:280-283.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats (the western place is not a decree.) [the dog brings the orphan Gure Araksha in a beautiful house, tells him to obey the horse, says that his betrothed daughter Shaza Khan; GA picks up a swan feather, a fiery roe deer horn, a fragment of firestone; comes to Sh. in the guise of an old man, then takes his form; S. gave his daughter, but demands that his son-in-law bring the swan himself, the roe deer herself, the GA brings the firestone himself; requires the stallion of the sea lord Dalai Lusay Khan, then his daughter; the horse lures them out, gets them; DL's daughter refuses to marry S. until they bring foam from her sea; GA called the water dirty, the sea is furious, the GA brings foam; GA's wife became a swan , flew away, her older sister replaced her, GA did not notice; but the wife drinks, goes to her father alone for a party; in the third year, the GA finds a yurt where his real wife, imaginary, returns to her father; the wife told GA swim in boiling milk; the horse snorted, the milk turned into fog; S. decides to swim too, cooked; GA became khan, took DL's daughter as his second wife]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 11:181-191; Mongols (khalha?) [Arat has a son Damdin; his father sent him to learn the business; he learned to play the hoora; his father is dissatisfied, sent him to learn the right thing; D. began to play on the seashore {really lakes}; the daughter of the sea king came out, brought him to her father; he tells him to stay at the bottom forever and play for him; but the daughter of the sea king brought D. to the ground and stayed with him; the khan hunted, sent Noyon to D.'s yurt to fry the quail; he is amazed by the beauty of the mistress, the quail burned down; D.'s wife gave Noyon two quails; neither the khan nor his entire army could eat them; the wife tells D. to agree to give it to Khan on the condition that he finds D. twice in his a yurt; his wife turned D. into a pestle; the khan did not find it; he himself turned into a tree by the well; D. understood this and took out a knife to cut it off; the second time his wife turned D. into a fly, the khan did not find it; he himself became a black goat among a hundred white sheep, D. pretended to slaughter him; khan: whose horse will run three days in three hours; his wife tells D. to play by the sea {lake} on a hur, her father will come out, I must ask him sea stallion; an 8-legged foal ran out; he easily overtook the khan's horse; the khan demands that the water in the lake boil; the sea khan gave two pebbles: throw white into the lake, the water would boil; put the black one by the cheek - boiling water will not be scalded; Khan tells D. to swim, he is unharmed; rushes into boiling water with all the warriors and dies]: Khoza 1954:13-15 {online, pagination begins with page 1}.

Plains. Kiowa [the chief promises a daughter to the one who knocks an eagle off a pine tree; Senpit (Dirty Nose); kills an eagle; Sendeh replaces arrows; marries his older sister, Senpit the youngest; Senpit and his grandmother dive into a pot of boiling water, make them beautiful, their things new; a mockingbird sings on Senpita's head; a lark sits on Sendeh's head, calling bad names gathered; Senpit shakes a plum branch, fruits fall from it; turns manure into bison, skinny bison into fat ones; Sendeh cannot do that; Senpit blows his nose, beads fall, honey is flowing; Sendeh's snot is flowing; Sendeh's wife now also wants to marry Senpita]: Parsons 1929a, No. 26:47-56.