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K27g4. Sow, squeeze and bake bread in a day.

.11.14.-.16.21. (.23.) .27.-.29.31.32.34.38.

The character must carry out all the field work in an unthinkably short time and present the products of the new crop.

Lenje, Chokwe, Dagari, Kabila, Tunisia, Portuguese, Basques, Spaniards, Italians (Liguria), Corsicans, Walloons, Bhutan, (Tamils), Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Serbs, Croats, Russians ( Karelian Pomorie, Zaonezhye, Vologda, Ryazan, Voronezh), Western, Eastern and Northern Ukrainians, Slovaks, Ossetians, Georgians, Turks, Finns, Estonians, Setu, Latvians, Estonians, Mari, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Siberian Tatars, Japanese.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Lenje [Tilo promises his daughter Maria to the one who will beat him at cards; the young man Jewawu beat; T. makes wooden figures, offers to choose a bride; M. warns J., he wants M.; T. throws beads, tells them to pick up; M. calls people, they pick up; J. tells them to sow rice, harvest immediately and cook food; M. tells people to do everything; tells them to choose a small one, not a big one knife; M. and J. take horses, jump away; M. returns to give his father his pendant back; returns to J.; T. wakes up, rushes to chase; M. turns himself and J. into children who play sand, T. did not recognize them; T. summoned J. to him; J. promises to kill M. if she meets another man in his absence; Antonio comes instead of J., M. unlocks, converges with him; J. came back, stabbed M. took another wife, A. fell into the ground; M. became a bird, flew to J., became a woman again; J. brought her back, drove another wife away]: Earthy 1937:295-301; chokwe [Mwatshizenje meets by the stream the girl Mabemba, who takes him to her father; his village comes and disappears at his will; he demands that the groom clear the plot, sow millet in a day; the old man gives the young man calebasses with elephants, with rodents, mongooses, wind, animals do all the work; a young man brings his wife home; Mabemba's sister visits them, Mwatshizenje's brother Mwalwimbe falls in love with her; follows her, but scolds the old man, a girl rejects him, the path disappears; he comes back, all women despise him, he dies]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:314-328; isanzu; benga; luba.

West Africa. Baule; bambara; dagari [the chief tells all women to bring their newborns, he will give them a name; one suffered, the child died, but came to life when she returned home with him; so three times; the baby said he did not want to see the chief, but his name was Yã-Gãgn-Não; he grew up playing with boys, the chief hears the name; tells his mother to sow grain, grow crops, cook in a day beer; the son does everything; the leader gives his bull to the herd of his young man, demands the whole herd - it is the bull who gave birth to him; the young man begins to cut wood: the water must be warmed, the father gives birth; the leader is forced to return the herd; the leader he ripped off the back of a live cow, smeared it with oil, gave it to the young man, ordered the butter not to melt; the young man hid the sun in his bag, it was a long night; for the sun to rise again, the chief was forced to take the cow ; the young man found out that the chief had dug a trap hole for him, covered it with a mat; the young man dug another hole nearby, dug a passage between them; while his wives poured boiling water into the first hole, the young man got out and climbed onto the roof; the chief sent his son to find out who was there, he said it was Yã-Gãgn-Não, the leader killed him; the same with his second son; he did not kill the third, but sent him with Yã-Gãgn-Não to his friend's funeral, giving him the best horse and his son the worst, and sending a man to kill that rider who rides in luxurious clothes on a good horse; Yã-Gãgn-Não swapped with the leader's son, and he was killed; then chief and Yã-Gãgn-Não became friends]: Métuolé Somba 1991:194-198.

North Africa. Kabila: Kabakova 2010 [the father goes to Mecca, the son loses everything; the demon gives him money, he recoups, but later must come to the demon on Black Mountain; after his father returns, he goes there; the demon tells: 1) cut down the forest in a day, set up a garden and bear fruit (the demon's daughter does everything); 2) herd hares (they run away, but the demon's daughter collects them with a magic wand); 3) get them dates from a palm tree as high as the sky; the demon's daughter tells her to kill, cook her, drive the bones into a palm tree and climb them, then collect everything, revive it with a ring; this happened, but the young man lost a bone from big toe; the girl tells them to run with a lightning horse, but the young man mistakenly takes the wind horse; the demon caught up with them on a lightning horse, but the girl turned them into a garden and gardener; the demon asks if they did not pass Whether two are on a horse, and the gardener still replies that the watermelons are not yet ripe; the demon is back, and his wife guessed that the garden is her daughter, the gardener is a young man; the same is the wall and the mason; the third time the mother is a girl chased with her husband; the girl became a frog, the young man a toad; the mother predicts that her daughter will be forgotten as she forgot her parents; the girl lost her ring; the young man forgot her, came alone to his native village; he is married to a local girl; a demon's daughter comes to dance, brings two pigeon eggs, two pigeons fly out of them, have a conversation that the young man remembers, marries his daughter demon]: 11-20; Frobenius 1922a, No. 4 [Chief's son (Agelith) is smart but not busy, in bad company; black woman: your father could be the new chief, or better yet you, but you're wasting his money; young man vows to return rich, leaves, enters the country of Wuarssen (devas); the deva has three daughters, the youngest's fingernail on her little finger gives advice, and the deva's wife has all her nails like this; dev tells the young man 1) to sow field, harvest fruits in the evening; the eldest, middle daughters refuse to bring dinner to the young man, the youngest brings them, they eat and make love, with a magic wand she creates a garden, the young man brings a deva fruits; 2) bring water from the sea to the spring with a sieve so that the bottom of the sea is exposed, the sand dries, bring dry sand (the same, the young man pours sand on the deva's head); 3) get an eagle's nest with chicks in the evening, it on a steep cliff; the deva's wife hides a magic wand; the daughter tells me to chop it into pieces, throw it against a rock, they will turn into a ladder, get a nest, fold the pieces, smoke it with incense, she will come to life; a young man he does so, forgets his toe; dev promises to give him his youngest daughter if the young man identifies her among his sisters; he recognizes her by her missing finger; at night the girl tells him to run, take the worst looking horse , the young man takes the good, the devil catches up; she turns 1) the horse into a hut, herself into a melon, the young man into an old man; 2) the horse on the road, herself in the basket, the young man into an employee; the devil does not recognize, returns; for the third time he catches up deva wife; a girl creates a board, they swim across the sea on it; mother: if your husband is kissed by relatives, he will forget you; on the other side, a young man finds gold, his wife creates a palace; he goes visit parents, bring gold, as he swore; father becomes chief; son is kissed by his mother's sister, he forgets his wife; she comes, buys a coffee shop, everyone goes to the beautiful woman; she consistently promises night for two friends of the young man and him, if everyone pays 500 coins and does a little job while she sleeps; 1) close the window (the window closes, the hand sticks, so all night; 2) pour water from the jug ( as soon as you touch the jug and it is empty); 3) close the door; the young man breaks the door, recognizes his wife; everyone is happy; after the death of his father, the son becomes the leader]: 30-48; Dermenghem 1945 [the Sultan has two wives; when one gave birth, another persuaded an old woman to replace babies with kittens; the sultan sent the woman in labor to live in a stable; the babies were thrown in a box into the sea, the fisherman caught them; the boy was named El Goul Amelloul ("big white"), the girl Hadezzine ("the limit of beauty"); E. built a palace and laid out a garden; the old woman recognized them, advised them to get the Singing Bird, then the Golden Tree; E. brings both times; marry the king's daughter guley; the youngest of 7 daughters gulya agrees; ghoul requires 1) uproot the forest in a day, set up a garden, collect mature figs (the girl does everything with a magic wand); 2) bring a bag of feathers ( the girl calls the birds); 3) climb the rock and tell me what she saw there; girl: you have to dismember her body into pieces, throw them against a steep wall, they will turn into steps; E. did it, brought it with rocks 3 eggs; collected the pieces in a bag, the girl came to life, but not enough ear; she tells me to run, let E. take the thin horse; the ghoul pursues, the girl turned herself, E. and the horse into pieces of wood, the ghoul passed by, the fugitives returned to H.; the sultan and all the people came to the feast; the angel told the whole truth; the sultan returned his wife, the fisherman was made a vizier, the other wife and old woman were tied to the tails of horses; everything is fine]: 49-55; Mammeri 1996, No. 8 [the king goes on a pilgrimage; his son named Merops apiaster plays and loses; Demon Lord The Red King gives money to recoup on condition come to him and return the money; ZSch recouped; when his father returns, he goes to look for KK; three old women consistently move him closer to the KK; KK's daughter named Emerald fell in love with ZSch, gives orders to demons do what KK requires ZSH to do; 1) cut down thorny thickets, create a garden with fruits on trees and a pool in this place; 2) get an egg from under an eagle sitting in a nest on a high rock; 3) disassemble different varieties of grain mixed into a heap (the ant was dismantled); I. overheard her father talking to her mother and was going to kill both her and ZSch; tells me to take KK running 40 in the stable distances (étapes), he mistakenly took the runner 10; I.: you have to cross the river beyond which the power of the KK ends; K. turns 1) a horse into a farm, himself into a garden, and ZSH into a gardener selling watermelons ; KK asks about the fugitives, and the imaginary gardener answers about the price of watermelons; 2) KK is back, the wife says they were the fugitives; 2) school, teacher and student (same); 3) now KK's wife is chasing; river, swamp, eel; KK's wife throws a ring of oblivion into the swamp, the eel swallowed it - ZSch will forget I.; KK and his wife returned back, I. asks ZSH to remove the ring, but he refused; on the outskirts of the city, ZSch went to rent a house, forgot I. ; I. came to live with an old woman and her daughter, they are very poor; I. combs her hair, gold coins fall from her hair; ZSch stayed in town to marry; bought a herd of bulls and decided to give it to residents for fattening; one gave that old woman; I. fed him easily; ZSch tells him to return the bulls; I. tells his own not to go - he will be slaughtered; ZSch came himself; I.: bull, did you forget your master how he forgot us? in the evening, ZSch had a wedding with his chosen bride; I. also came; threw two eggs on the floor, a dove and a dove came out of them, began to tell the whole story; dove: you forgot! as the story progressed, ZSch sank into the ground; at the last moment, I. held him by the hair and he gradually rose; I. tore off the ring from his finger and threw it away; they embraced each other; leaves all the gifts to the bride, but refuses her; brings I. to his parents; a new wedding, everyone is happy]: 133-156; Tunisia [The prince is handsome, all the young men envied him, the girls did not notice No one around but him. He was arrogant and arrogant, the young men decided to get rid of him and came to the old woman. She filled her wineskins with water and placed them around the small lake from which the prince used to water his horse, and began to pray. When the prince arrived and saw that the old woman was praying, he first waited, but then could not stand it, ran into wineskins filled with water and got his horse drunk. Then the old woman mocked him that, they say, who he was, he would never marry a princess with snow-white skin. Then he decided to go looking for this princess to marry her and swore to his parents that he would not return home without her. On the way, he pulled the king of pigs, the king of ants and the king of Ephrites out of the pit. They warned him not to pull the black-headed man out of the hole, but he did not listen to them, he felt sorry for him, and the prince helped him. This man took him to the kingdom of a snow-white princess. Her father gave him a condition: plow a plot of land and sow it with millet and barley, harvest it and separate some grains from the others, all in one night. The prince did everything with the help of the king of pigs and the king of ants. They began to celebrate the wedding, then a man with a black head envied the prince, came to the bride's father and told him that it was not the prince who had completed his task, but the king of pigs and the king of ants, then the king He was angry and ordered that the prince be imprisoned and executed at dawn. Then the prince remembered King Ephrite's hairs that he had left. He asked the guard to throw them into the fire. The king of the Ephrites said that he would stick to the king and only the prince would be able to heal him in exchange for his release and marriage to the princess. The king has agreed to this. When the prince began to pretend to be treated, he asked Efrit what to do next, who replied through the king's mouth that he should bring a man with a black head and cut his throat when he felt the ephrit drops of his blood, he'll come out of the king's body. That's what they did. The prince married a princess and returned with her to his native kingdom. He realized that you have to be brave and humble, not arrogant]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 40 in Korovkina MS

Southern Europe. The Portuguese (Coimbra) [the king was a player; once lost his own crown to a servant; when the servant received it, two doves flew in and took it away; in fact, it is the king's wife and his daughter Branca Flor ("white flower"; BF); the king promises his servant a daughter if he returns the crown; he comes to Rain's mother, who first hides it, but her son is friendly; says that he does not know about doves, let him go to To the wind; same: let it go to the Sun; Sun: doves in the kingdom of birds, have made nests for themselves in the crown; here's my horse to get there; grab the crown, and let the king of birds give you wings to fly to your king; This is what happened; but the king does not want to give his daughter to the servant; demands that by morning the young man sow wheat, harvest, cook flour and bake bread; BF: do not worry; everything is done by morning; move to boulders visible in the distance (pedreiras) to the palace; same; move the sea to the palace; BF: here's a bottle of blood from my hand; splash out the spray towards the palace, there will be the sea; but only so that not a single drop on you did not hit; the young man did so, in the morning the palace is on the island; but one drop fell on the young man's finger and he fell off; the king agreed to marry; in marriage, the BF shows the young man a sword hanging by a thread: he must fall; he must run before midnight, for then the mother of the BF will gain witchcraft and will know everything; he must sit on horses that are fast as thought, and not fast as the wind; but the young man made a mistake and brought horses that are like the wind; queen to the king: take your time until morning, and sit on a thought horse in the morning and catch up; BF: I'll turn horses and us into a salad field; when my father asks if you've seen the BF, answer about the salad; in next time the chapel and priest are at the altar; instead of answering the king's question, he talks about mass; the third time the sea, the ship, the sailor, and the BF herself is mullet at sea; the sailor answers about going to the sea; the Queen understood everything, came to the sea and told the lovers to forget about each other and everything that had happened to them; and so happened; but after a few years, the king and queen died, and the BF thought about getting married; but on her wedding day, the young man's memory began to return; a couple of pigeons promised to help him; the servant served a pie, a pigeon and a dove flew out of it, swam in a vat of water, and started conversation; the dove speaks on behalf of the young man and the dove on behalf of the BF - I don't remember anything; all the episodes are listed; at the end, the BF remembered everything and called the young man her real husband; he became king]: Coelho 1879, No. 14:25-31; the Portuguese [the prince goes to hell, he gives him difficult errands; 1) plant a vine in the morning, wine is ready in the evening; 2) get the ring from the bottom of the sea, for this purpose it is necessary to dismember the girl; 3) sow wheat in the morning, bake bread in the evening; 4) tame the horse (that's the devil himself); 5) build a palace in a day; 6) disassemble the mixed seeds; and something else; he denies that the girl helped him; must identify the girl among several identical ones (only on the hand; the girl does not have enough finger, so he recognizes her); the spouses run, the wife leaves the saliva responsible for herself; the wineskin is left in bed; the young man chooses a well-fed horse, he's like the wind, you had to choose a skinny one, he was like a thought; a horse turns into a church, a girl into an image, a young man into a hermit; a garden, a salad (flowers) and a gardener; a river, a boat, a boatman; throw objects: ash (fog occurs), needles or pine needles (thorny thickets), salt or water (sea), sand (hill); the wife cast a spell: after kissing, against will, mother or grandmother, the hero forgets wife; she draws his attention (many options), he gets to know her]: Cardigos 2006, No. 313:68-69; Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 4 [young man lost; someone Castillo Branco tells you to come to him carry out errands, then he will reimburse the lost; the young man goes to the animal house, the deer sends to the lion; the lion orders to cook the carcasses of four bulls, carries a young man on his back, eats carcasses along the way; the KB has two daughters- devils and one of divine nature; KB requires 1) to cut down the forest in a day, plow, etc. - grind flour, bake bread (KB's daughter performs); 2) pacify three horses (this is him and the eldest two daughter, the youngest helps); 3) get the youngest daughter's ring from the bottom of the sea; she teaches her body to pieces, fill the bottle without spilling blood, throw it into the sea; the bottle is back in the ring; you have to pour it pieces of body with blood; the girl came to life, but the young man shed a drop, so his little finger was missing; KB gave money, promised his daughter, let him choose blindfolded; the young man felt the girls' hands, chose the one with no little finger; got a wife; they were running, the wife left the spits to answer for her; left a wineskin in bed; KB asked until the saliva dried; broke into the room, pierced the bed, mistook the wine for blood ; then he chased a horse, as fast as a thought, and the young have a horse like the wind; asks the reapers, who say that the young ones passed nine months ago; the KB decides that if so, he will catch up; when he sees the chase, a girl became a field of bow, a young man digs bulbs; next time a horse to church, himself in image, a young man to a priest; KB returned with nothing]: 17-25; Webster 1879:120-130 [the poor young man leaves home, is hired by Tartaro; he tells one of the three pigeon girls who come to swim in the lake to hide the feather clothes; return it for promising to help; tells her to go to hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow it, harvest it, bake bread; the dove maiden tells her crest to do everything; 2) get the lost ring out of the river; the dove maiden tells you to ask for a rusty sword chop it to pieces, throw it into the river, comes out whole with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends to slam his door; 3) tame a horse with three foals (this is the owner with three daughters, it is necessary beat them with a club, and just pretend to beat her); in the morning the owner and daughters look beaten; 4) choose a wife with her eyes closed (she does not have a little finger and she will give her hand twice); the young man gets a wife, she tells her to run, leaves a spit to answer for himself; the father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father drowns; on the border of the land of Christians, the wife tells me to go pick up the priest to baptize her, no one kiss, otherwise her husband will forget her; an old aunt kisses him; a wife creates an inn, a husband and two friends come in; she promises to spend the night with everyone; with her comb she makes morning come first what they did; opens to her husband; he brings a priest; everything is fine]; the Spaniards [childless king and queen want a child, even if the Devil gets it in 20 years; the young man grows up she loses her soul to the Devil, goes to him; the old woman advises to hide the clothes of Blancaflor, the youngest of the Devil's three bathing daughters, pigeon girls; another old woman, the mistress of the birds, sends to her sister The moon, that to the Sun Brother; only the Lame Eagle is called to take her to the Castle Where There Is No Return, tells her to feed her meat on the way; the meat runs out, the Queen is ready to cut off from himself, but the Eagle still arrives; The devil tells 1) to cultivate the plot in a day, bake bread from the harvest; 2) grow grapes; B. does everything; 3) bring the ring dropped by her grandmother into the sea; B. tells her to kill her, collect blood into a jug, throw her body into the sea; the young man sheds a drop of blood; B. leaves the sea, carrying a ring, she lacks the edge of her little finger; 4) recognize B. among the sisters; the girls put his little finger in the crack, B. has a scar; B. tells the Queen to take a bad horse, a rusty sword, run; leaves saliva responsible for himself, puts two wineskins on the bed; the devil pierces them, thinks he has killed his daughter and son-in-law; the Queen has taken a good horse, a steel sword, the Devil catches up with them; B. throws a comb (forest), salt (mountain); the horse becomes a chapel, B. becomes a statue, the husband a hermit; the devil does not recognize them, at home the wife explains that they were fugitives; the Queen leaves B. at the source, comes home, is hugged by an old nanny, he forgets B.; prepares to marry another; B. is hired as a maid, asks for a stone of sorrow, a dagger of love; the devil sells them Queen; B. asks them if she helped the Queen; they confirm that the Queen recalls B.; the dagger tells B. to plunge it into her heart, the Queen stops him; wedding]: Malinovskaya 2002:268- 276; Corsicans [the prince lost at cards; when he lost his soul, the sorcerer returned his money and crew, but ordered him to arrive at the Seven Golden Mountains a year and day later; the old woman teaches him to seek help from the youngest of the sorcerer's daughters; he gives tasks: to demolish the mountain in a day and sow wheat in this place (according to the girl, everything happens instantaneously); get the ring that the sorcerer dropped in the Red Sea; the girl tells her to be slaughtered at the seashore, all the blood should be collected in the pelvis, poured into the sea; because one drop fell to the ground, the girl, bringing the ring, returned from the sea later and was left without a little finger; the sorcerer says tame the horse; girl: the horse is himself, the saddle is her, the stirrups are her two sisters, you have to hit the horse on the head with an iron stick; the sorcerer promises a daughter as his wife, but the young man must choose a bride with his eyes closed ; girl: feel your hand, it is not wearing a little finger; after the wedding, the wife tells you to run; one horse is like the wind, the other is like breathing, you must take the one who is half asleep; the young man took the cheerful; the first two times they chase sisters, the young man's wife throws a bottle of cologne (river), a comb (thorny thickets), the stalker returns; the sorcerer himself jumps, the wife throws soap, the sorcerer is unable to climb the slippery mountain; spouses escape, feast]: Massignon 1984, No. 102:227-233; Italians (Liguria) [timid young man leaves home only with his mother; to stir him up, his mother gave him money and sent him to town; he lost all his parents' property, was afraid to return, went to the forest; the old man gave him money to win back everything, but for this the young man must come to him over the highest mountain; after winning back what he had lost and went home, the young man went to look old man; pigeons in the hut, they took the young man to the old man; first task: cut down the forest in a day, plow the field, grow wheat and bake bread; the old man's daughter gives a box of powder; if ask for powder, everything will come true; second task: tame the horse; girl: it will be the old man himself, you have to beat the horse with a stick; third: get a ring with a diamond dropped into the lake; the girl tells me to chop it into small pieces and throw it into the lake, but not a single drop of blood should spill on the ground; therefore, the girl did not revive immediately and the tip of her little finger is not enough; the old man tells me to identify with a blindfolded assistant among her sisters; the young man feels his hands, chooses the one with the defective little finger; the hermit married them; at night the wife tells them to take the books and ride away; the old man found one forgotten the book is a fugitive and sets off in pursuit; the wife creates a river; the old man cannot cross it and tells the young man to forget his wife as soon as someone hugs him at home; the mother hugged him; the forgotten wife became a cook on an inn; a father marries a young man to another girl; the forgotten one must cook everything, but she does nothing; at the last moment, the food appears on the table; the forgotten asks the young man to give her his wedding band a ring, throws it into a vessel of water; takes a pigeon, cuts it into pieces, throws it into the water; half an hour later, an wild pigeon brings a ring from the bottom of the vessel; the young man remembered everything; the judge decided that he should stay with first wife]: Andrews 1892, No. 8:34-42.

Western Europe. The Wallons [the young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him recoup on the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille de Plomb Castle; the young man came to the old man, that animals obey; the pig carried him, he violated the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; the giant is subordinate to the bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; along the way, the supply of food runs out, young man cut off a piece of his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, steals the youngest's clothes, returning them for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul, and to do this, 1) get the ring from the bottom of the well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings the ring, connects to the bottom; because a drop of blood has been lost, one finger is missing ; 2) squeeze and grind wheat from a huge field in a day; 3) create a sea with all types of fish (the girl helps to perform); you need to recognize the bride three times under the veil among her sisters; the young man finds out by the missing finger; wedding; young people flee; turn into peasants; into a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again]: Laport 1932, No. 313:43-44; Walloons [the lumberjack has two boys 12-13 years old and daughter Marie, and with them the little dog Courtillon-Courtillette Siivon-Sivet; in winter, the woodcutter invites his wife to take the children to the forest so as not to watch them starve to death; the dog heard everything and told the children; tells them to put peas in their pockets and throw them along the way to find their way back; the children spent the night in the forest, and in the morning the dog took them back home; the next time the children in the house found nothing but white cheese; at night, the rain washed it away; Jean and Pierre climb a tree, see nothing; M. noticed the illuminated palace; an old woman opened it: the Devil lives here; the children were left overnight in a room where the Devil's three daughters sleep with gold necklaces; the dog tells them to exchange necklaces; at night the Devil put his daughters in the oven; the dog put the children on his back and ran; in the morning the Devil rides a pig; the dog turned children as laundresses and themselves into the river; next time: a field of alfalfa, sheep, a dog and a shepherd; then two cows and a cowshed; the devil tried to cross the river on a canvas laid on the water, but drowned; happy the kids came home]: Carnoy 1883:252-254.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Bhutan [a young man herds sheep and looks at the ripples of the lake; he is considered lazy; he sees a black rat fighting and overcoming a white rat; took a white rat in his arms, got drunk; a woman came out of the lake: Vladyka the underworld wants to thank him for saving his son; ask only for a dog at the door; do not stay longer than three days, otherwise you will forget the earth; the underground lord (half dragon) reluctantly gave the dog; the young man went to the ground to herd the sheep; when he returned, everything in the house was tidy, the food was ready; the next time he saw: the dog shed its skin, became beautiful; he threw his skin into the fire; the king saw the beauty, became give the young man impossible tasks to select his wife; she tells him to go to the lake every time and asks her father to give her a box with what he needs; cut down the forest on the mountain (a box of swords, swords cut down themselves); create at this place a field of buckwheat (a box of hoes, the young man sowed buckwheat himself); collect the sown grain (a box of birds, they collected everything); the king declared war on the young man (a box with warriors, they killed the king, defeated his army); the young man is happy with his wife]: Choden 1994:45-50.

(Wed. South Asia. Tamils [when 7 sons have grown up, the father asks how they are going to help the family; starting with the eldest; harvest and sell firewood like a father; grind rice like a mother; fish; herd goats; herd oxen; sculpt and sell cow cakes; younger: marry 7 heavenly maidens Cannimar and provide for them all, as well as you; his father drove him out furiously; he settled in the mountains with an old woman; 7 virgins They came down from the sky to swim, he grabbed his robe alone and rushed to the house; 7 virgins tell the old woman to unlock; she turned the young man into a five-year-old child and sings him a lullaby; the maidens did not find the young man left without clothes had to stay; began to play panti with the young man; he lost the second game and fell asleep, she took her robe and returned to her sisters; old lady to young man: before you go in search, make a fire in a hole and burn me; he did so; reached the sky; tells the Raja in the golden throne room that he came for the bride; the Raja tells me 4 in the morning 1) harness 7 pairs of oxen, plow the field 7 times, sow 12 bushels of sesame seeds, harvest and bring them to the bins; 2) fill a deep well to the brim; 3) bring lots from the lake, where snakes are teeming, and tigers and lions around; the young man plowed the field and sowed sesame, and then asked Shiva and Parvati told the ants to complete the first assignment; after that, the Raja gave the throne to the young man for 7 days; on the eighth he filled the well, turning to the frogs; the third fulfilled, asking for help from four turtles, on which peace rests; the young man got a wife; the Raja sent him to earth on a magic horse with gifts; the young man and wife fell asleep and woke up in a luxurious palace; that old woman (came to life and) grazed oxen, he called her to yourself; your parents and siblings too]: Blackburn 2005, No. 31).

The Balkans. Hungarians: Hungarian 1955 [a poor man goes to God to find out why he does not help the poor; an old man in the forest gives him two tiny oxen; they easily do any job; the count tells him to uproot and plow the forest; oxen perform, turn the castle over; the count tells him to be taken to the end of the world; oxen take him away, throw him into the abyss]: 81-85; Gidash 1953 [stepmother promises to give Violet to stepdaughter only for who has fulfilled its conditions; young Rosan comes to marry; 1) demolish the mountain overnight, plant grapes, make wine (F. tells me to go to bed, everything is ready in the morning); 2) plow the field in the forest, bake bread (the same ); 3) ride around three horses (father, stepmother, F. herself, stepmother must be whipped); F. and R. run away, leaving drops of blood responsible for themselves; throw the comb (forest), comb (water jets), the old man stops chase; stepmother chases, F. turns R. into a lake, herself into a duck; stepmother guesses, stops chasing, but makes R. forget F.; his father marries him, at F.'s wedding tells the gypsies to shout "as he forgot about F. "; R. recalls marrying F.]: 138-143; Romanians [a poor widow with 7 children steals a bull from boyars; a judge sentences him to be beheaded, but the youngest son proves that in this case, too, children they will starve to death; the boyar makes the boy his son's friend and his brothers his servants; he is called "Holy Justice" (SS); one day he wakes up from a strange silence and thinks that everything is entrusted he was stolen; meets God in the form of a sheep shepherd; he points to his adoptive father (i.e. boyar); the boyar gives a snake in a barrel that only a horse with 7 hearts can carry; at rest, the SS goes for water, and when he returns he sees a beautiful house, and in the morning a beautiful woman next to him; throws a snake skin into the fire; a wedding; but the boyar's own son wants a beautiful woman for himself; advisers suggest giving the SS difficult errands; turn the forest into a field by morning, bring the corn cobs grown there (the wife does); so that during the night the heifer becomes a cow, gives birth to another, both give birth again, slaughter them and serve goulash (the same); bring a head of cheese and a pot of sheep's milk from God; the torturers kill the SS, but God revives; God destroyed the boyar's house and grass grew in this place]: Bîrlea 1966:418-419; Moldovans [hermit gives grapes to the childless queen, she conceives a son; the king hunts, falls into the fortress the line; he releases the king when the king promises to give what he does not know at home; son Daphin has grown up, the hell takes him away; D. learns he has the language of birds; overheard the birds talking, they say that the unfortunate Arap, 180 years old, draws water from a bottomless well, where the Vester devil, who was stolen by the devil, bathes; old man A. teaches D. to steal the clothes of bathing V. , run without looking back; A. blesses their marriage, gets rid of the punishment line, disappears; hell agrees to let D. and V. go, if D. 1) will plow the field to the horizon in a day, harvest, bake bread (V. orders demons); 2) will shoot a hare in the garden a feature (this is the devil himself, V. drives him in the form of a hound, D. hits him, his wife asks to give the devil to fry, in the evening the devil is bruised); 3) identifies among hundreds of girls (tears in V.'s eyes); the devil puts D. and V. in prison, they fly away in midges, the devil sends demons in pursuit, V. turns 1) himself into a garden, D. into a gardener; 2) a wheat field and a reaper; 3) a duck and a river; hell tries to drink water, bursts; D. and V. come to live with D.'s parents]: Botezat 1981:293-300; Serbs [a golden sheep kills a hunter; a grown son asks his mother for his father's gun, kills a ram, refuses to sell the skin to the king; the young man's uncle advises him to order 1) plant a vine, make wine in a week (the girl he meets performs), 2) an ivory castle (the girl teaches how to pour wine into the pond, elephants are drunk, the castle is built), 3) get the princess (the girl teaches you to buy an eagle, carp, pigeon on the way; pulling out the feather, scales, let go; lure the princess to the ship; she will let the bird tell about herself, eagle she will catch her; throw a pebble to stop the ship, swallow the carp a pebble; the ship will petrify between two mountains, the queen will ask for living water, the dove will bring; at home, the king orders to cut off the young man's head to take The princess, she revives the young man with living water; the tsar orders to cut off his head, the princess does not revive him, the young man reigns]: Karadzich 1854, No. 12:96-106 (=Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:88-94, =Schütz 1960, No. 10: 73-80); Croats [while hunting during a thunderstorm, a man noticed a damn son showing a fig of St. Ilya; shot him with a gun; hell made the river full, turned old man, offered to transport it; let the man give him what he did not know at home; wife gave birth to a son; hell, his wife and daughter came by queues every day until the young man grew up; the pop gave the young man a book that would protect him from the devil; but the devil's daughter persuaded the young man to look at her; he looked and immediately disappeared; hell says until evening cut down the forest with a wooden ax, sow corn and bake cakes; the daughter has fulfilled the devil; build a church with 9 towers and have a service at lunchtime (the same); the daughter tells the devil to run; the devil pursues; turned into an old man with a girl; next time the wife is chasing the devil; the lake and the duck; do not raise your head, otherwise your mother will tear your eyes out; but the young duck looked up and the devil snatched them out; but the daughter convinced her mother to get her eyes back; she became a Christian, all is well]: Eschker 1992, No. 9:56-61.

Central Europe. Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [contrary to the owner's order, the workers left a few grains on the field; a mouse and a bird argued over them, a war between birds and animals began, everyone died and remained wounded eagle; the prince pointed his gun at him three times, the eagle asked him not to shoot, but ordered him to feed him for three months; tried to fly - three more; then more; ordered him to sit on him, took the reward; along the way He threw it and picked it up three times so that the prince would feel the same fear as himself when the prince pointed his gun; he ordered him to take a multi-colored box from his worn sister, a self-shaking purse from the middle sister, and the younger one the key to the colorful box; the eagle tells you not to open it along the way; he opened, everything flew up, the road became difficult; tall man: I'll bring everything back if you give what you don't know at home; it was magic king; people came out of the box at home, began to uproot, harrow, etc.; the wife gave birth to a son during this time; Ivan Tsarevich grew up, shot, hit his grandmother's window; grandmother: it won't take long for you to break windows, through the magic king will take you for a year; your father denies; the second time the same; your grandmother gave you a cup of water to drink, I. became a mighty handsome man; tells you to hide the dress of the most beautiful of the 12 swans when they arrive and will become girls; she promises to be faithful to Ivan; the king orders to rebuild the palace overnight; Elena the Queen flew in like a bee, tells I. to go to bed, orders the spirits to do everything; the ship from guns that are 30 years old under the window; E. gives a lash, I. hit the head, soon she returned by ship; cut down the forest, etc., and bake pancakes from flour by morning; the same, everyone performs perfumes; choose E. from 12 mares (one hair on the face is slightly longer); the same is from 12 pigs (a red speck in the ear); out of 12 girls (a fly above her right eye); E. and I. are running, E. left saliva in the bath; chase; what can you see? - The cloud is high behind; turned into a chapel and an old man; two pigeons on a pile of manure; himself with a ruff, I. - a ring, swallowed the ring, dived into the lake; the king became a pike, but he could not catch the ruff; drank water, but the ruff became a duck, the duck flew away; the king followed, hit the rock, burst with the water he had drunk; E.: I'll stay in the field as a pebble, and you go to the house, don't forget to say hello to your older sister, otherwise you'll forget me; I. did not say hello, forgot, a new wedding is being prepared; two pigeons came out of the cake, talking about the forgotten E.; at first E. does not want to get up: I. has already been blessed; but he persuaded her, she came out of the pebble, I. became live with E.]: Nechaev 1938:85-110; Russians (Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye, d. Shunga-Bor, 1926) [The Tsar goes hunting. Tired, leans down to drink from the well, grabbed by the beard: let him give someone he does not know at home. At home, the king is greeted by his wife and child, whom she gave birth while the king was hunting. After 15 years, the Tsar sends his son Ivan to the water. The old woman asks I. where he is going. I. is rude to her, then he is ashamed and comes back to apologize. The old woman tells me to go to the lake, there will be 12 pigeons and a marten. You need to take the skin from the marten, then he will be happy. I. comes to the lake, where cabbage rolls threw off their feathers, marten skin, turned into girls, went swimming. I. hides the marten skin. The girls go out, the marten (her name is Vasilisa), cries and asks for her skin to be returned, promises to become a daughter or wife if the thief is an old/old man or a young man. I. and V. go to the underwater kingdom. There are far away spokes: for all but one head, it is for Ivan Tsarevich. The waterman tells us to build a wax church overnight. I. sends I. to sleep, calls on the servants, they build a church. The second task is to plow the field, grow crops and bake bread from it. V. helps again. The water tells you to choose a wife from 12 sisters. Q: you need to go through all 3 times and choose the one with which the fly will sit on your left cheek. He did so, chose his V. The waterman is angry, crowns them. After a few months, they decide to run away from the water. V. spits on the stove, the servant knocks, saliva answers him twice. The waterman breaks the door, sets off in pursuit. V. lies down on the ground with his ear, hears the chase, draws himself to the lake, and I. to the chapel. The servants are returning to the waterman. The water chases himself. V. wraps I. with a drake, himself with a duck, a water one flies in an eagle. V. wraps himself in a ruff, I. wraps himself in catfish, and the water one chases pike. The sun came out, the pike warmed up, and she fell asleep. I. and V. came to their kingdom. V. tells you not to kiss anyone on the right cheek. I. kissed his mother, forgot everything, and marries another princess. At the feast, V. serves the cake she baked, and a dove and a dove fly out of it. The dove talks about Vasilisa, I. recalls. Wedding]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 1:52-55; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kirillovsky University) [the mouse and sparrow shared the seeds, the sparrow pecked the last one, the mouse complained to the fiery serpent, the eagle interceded for the sparrow, the serpent scorched his wings; Vasily the Sagittarius pointed his gun at him three times; the eagle asks feed him for a year, tries to fly, asks him to ride for a year, then another; after that, the eagle flew with him; drops him three times over the sea and picks him up again; stays with three sisters in copper, silver, gold kingdoms; only the older sister agrees to give the box; the eagle tells not to open it on the way home; the ships landed on the island, V. opened the box, the city appeared; the old man put it back for promising to give what V. does not know at home; let him send him a son in 20 years, he is a seven-humped demon; when Ivan is 20, he went to the demon; A hut, a hut, backwards to the forest, in front of me! there is Baba Yaga, that demon is her brother; she gave a ball, he would reach her older sister; there too "the hut turned like chicken legs", "backwards to the forest, to me in front"; "The old woman lies twice as her mother, head on the bench, legs in the pipe"; gave a cane when she stuck and did not pull it out, you go there; 12 swans flew to the sea, one of them far from the others; I. hid "to look to his knees (to the navel)"; stole her clothes; "If you are young, let her husband be"; "What manners did you get here, Ivan Tsarevich!" ; "My owner has 38 heads, and all have to hang 40 heads - two stakes are empty. And all of us, shouldn't we be here together?" Demon quests. Make a pole from ground to heaven so that the cat can work, go up - tell 12 fairy tales, and down - sing 12 songs well"; I.'s wife performed everything by morning; the demon tells us to identify Maria Tsarevna among the 12 girls; M.: I will have a fly on my right eyebrow; then: dig a ditch overnight and let a steamer go through it; performed; identify M. among 12 swans; "The right wing has a longer wing" {incomprehensible}; out of 12 foals (one tail hair is longer); cut down the forest, plow the field, etc., by morning for the cake to be ready; M. leave saliva responsible for themselves, runs with I.; M. is the chapel, I. is the elder; the well and the ladle; the swamp and the kite; the unclean spirit began to drink the swamp; M. turned herself and I. into a ring, threw it, her sister had it; she threw it on the floor, the ring crumbled with beads, I. and M. appeared; they came to his parents ; wedding]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 34:133-148; Russians (Ryazan) [the soldier returns home, leaned to the river to get drunk, grabbed the water by the beard: give me what you don't know at home; the soldier did not know that he left his wife pregnant; Ivan came to the house in the swamp; the old man offers to recognize the bride Alyonushka; she says in a dream that she will dance and wave her handkerchief; then every day new tasks, A. in a dream repeats: the morning of the evening is wiser; in the morning the church is ready; a well; rye is sown, compressed, bread is baked; the old man again tells the bride to know; she says that she will dance and throw her leg back; I. and A. got married, A. tells me to run, left the spits responsible for herself; with her ear to the ground, she realizes that force is chasing them; turns I. into a hut, herself into an old woman; a shepherdess and a lamb; a drake and the sea; when they got to I.'s parents, he forgot A., he is married; she flew to the wedding as a dove, told I. that she would cuckoo]: Smirnov 1917, No. 236:129-131; Russians (Voronezh Region) [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. To rip out her eyes, the cat tells her to wait every time for him to eat bread, drink milk, etc., stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight with birds; wounded The eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later, he carries him on his back; throws him three times over the sea and catches him so that the merchant feels like he, the Eagle, was afraid of being shot by him; sisters An eagle in the copper and silver kingdoms refuses to give the merchant a casket, a sister in the golden kingdom gives it; the Eagle orders not to open it along the way, the merchant opens it, a palace and servants appear from it; Unbaptized Forehead collects everything in a casket for promising to give that he does not know at home; the merchant is met by his wife with his newborn son; Ivan grows up, goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises to hide the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls will come to swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's favorite daughter; his cook Chumichka lies as if Ivan promised 1) to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake pies out of flour; 2) make a flying ship; The VP does everything, Chumichka is thrown off the ship; 3) NL tells him to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three cabbage rolls, three girls (the VP has a dim bridle sequin; waves his wing; handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable garden, himself into a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, VP throws a brush (forest), a comb (mountain), a towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets VP; she is hired as an employee, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to the wedding with a pie, a dove and a dove come out of him, that the dove will forget her, how Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 224:197-204; Russians (Voronezh) [The mouse lives with a rich man, stores cereals. When the bread runs out, the rat borrows the mouse's cereal and promises to return it by Palm Sunday. The mouse comes for the duty, the rat beats him. The mouse collects animals for trial. The rat drinks vodka to everyone except the eagle (flew to buy a book) and leans to its side. The animals justify the rat, decide that the cereal is common. The eagle scolds the rat for not making supplies on its own and for giving the animals a drink. The rat wants revenge on the eagle. Suddenly, all the animals and birds fall asleep, and the rat will fly up to the eagle's wings. The eagle asks the man for help, he cares for the bird for a year, the eagle grows wings, he invites the man to visit him, rewards him, gives a box that can only be opened at home, choosing a "beautiful place". On the way home, the man stops in the quagmire and opens the box, from there people come in and start building houses. The guy doesn't know how to get them back. An imp appears, offers to help in exchange for something the man does not know at home. He agrees and writes a note about the agreement. At home, he learns about the birth of his son, builds a town in the open, and lives richly. The son grows up, finds a note and goes to hell. He gives tasks - to cut down the forest, plant watermelons, and his daughter helps them fulfill the trait. For her kindness, he calls her to marry. For the third task, training a horse, the girl advises to tie three pounds of twigs to her belt so that the horse does not throw it off. The girl warns that it is dangerous to complete the next task, heat the bathhouse, prepares a "mess" that answers questions in Ivan's voice. The girl and Ivan run away. The devil finds out about the escape, sends his servants in pursuit. The girl turns herself into cats (horse manure), Ivan into stubble, then herself into grass, Ivan into a dove, the drovers do not recognize them. Satan himself follows the trail, and the fugitives turn into a sea and a duck. Damn tries to drink the sea, but it bursts. Ivan and the girl return to his parents' house, get married and live happily]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 28:137-142; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Khust Oblast, p. Gorinchevo) [The tsar has one son Ivan, it's time for him to get married, he only wants a native girl (SD). She takes a warrior with him and goes looking for her. He turns right, drives through the wasteland, sees a lonely mill. There's an old woman with knee-length lashes. He says hello and calls his mother sweet. She raises her eyelashes. I haven't seen a living soul in ages. She suggests taking a break and going to see her middle sister tomorrow. It gives a horse and a ball of thread, you have to hold on to the thread. A year later, I. reaches his middle sister. She has eyelashes down to the ground. The Tsarevich also greets her and calls her mother sweet. She raises her lashes and explains that she hadn't seen a living soul in 200 years. She suggests going to see her older sister in the morning. It gives a horse and a ball of thread. A year later, I. reaches his oldest sister. She says hello, calls her mother sweet. The woman barely lifts her eyelashes - so long. In the morning, he gives three wheat grains, tells you to go to the sandbank to the sea, put wheat under your tongue and turn into a hare. Eleven pigeons will arrive, but there will be no diabetes among them. The cabbage rolls will swim in the sea, rejoice and sing, then they will fly away, and only then will she arrive. This is what happens. When SD arrives, she sheds her feathers and goes swimming. The prince takes her clothes, wraps her in a handkerchief, runs to the woman, who tells her to sit on her horse and go on the road without looking back, although SD will run after him and ask for clothes. As soon as he looks back, the clothes will fall out of his hands, the CD will catch up, hit his mouth and go away. We should keep quiet. When you're at home, you should give SD regular clothes and then talk and hide your feathers. I. rides, the girl follows him, persuades him to return her clothes, she will be ashamed to walk naked around the city, she will not leave him anymore. He looks around, feathers fly out of his hands, SD hits I. on the mouth, flies away. The woman gives three other grains, turns him into a deer, he steals clothes, sits on a horse and rushes without looking back or talking. At the palace, SD wears home clothes, gives the feathers to her mother, who sews them into her retinue, which she wears once a year. They live happily, they give birth to a boy with five golden hairs on his head. I. goes hunting, the mother asks her daughter-in-law why she is so beautiful and does not have parents. She replies that her clothes are even more beautiful,. The queen rips off her retinue, the feathers fly up on the girl themselves, she flies away through the window. Ivan goes looking, and three years later he gets to the woman who helped him. She explains that his wife is overseas with her demon mother will need to be cunning. A wolf is serving in the mill. Baba will hide it at the bottom of the barrel, and the wolf will carry it to the other side of the sea. The barrel is heavy, the wolf decides not to serve anymore on the way and throws it into the sea. The barrel breaks on the shore, I. gets out of the sea, goes out onto a glass road, comes to the palace to an old demon, and is hired. She tells you to dig up the mountain, level it, plow it, and sow wheat. Wheat must ripen by tomorrow, he must harvest it, grind it, grind flour, bake rolls and give it to it early in the morning, otherwise he will be headless. I.'s pickaxe and shovel break, he sits down and cries. The demon tells his daughter to bring him food, he doesn't recognize SD, and she recognizes him. She tells me to eat, she pulls out a squeaker from under her right hand, squeaks, all the devils run away. The SD tells them to do whatever I. The next year, the demon gives a wooden trough, leads to the lake without end and edge, tells you to scoop out water, plant grapes, hand over three large bowls of wine in the morning, otherwise he will lose his head. The wife brings food, calls the devils together with a squeaker, and they complete the task. So I. served his second year. The devil says she'll give him more work in the morning. I. sees a prisoner who has already served in an iron furnace, on fire, on seven chains, who cannot warm up. He sits down and cries. A demon sends her daughter to find out what happened. She calls the devils with a squeaker, tells them to obey her husband's order. Ivan orders the hell to get him and his wife home by morning. The devils spread the red fly, Ivan and the SD sit on it, fly away. On the way, I. burns from behind a blue flame. This is a demon. He turns around, a demon grabs his eye. He is blind. The wife leaves him with his handkerchief in place, turns into a pigeon, overtakes the demon and, picking up two lumps of manure from the road, turns into a well under two sycamores. A heated demon bends down to get drunk, and the girl replaces I.'s eyes in her sinus with dung. He flies to Ivan, regains his eyes, and finally recognizes her as his wife. The demon rushes home, the prisoner from the furnace asks if she brought him a partner, who says she took his eyes, climbs into her bosom, finds manure. The prisoner laughs so much that he warms up. The demon flies back, flies to the border, bursts with anger. I. and SD get home, live happily]: Lintur 1979:5-11; Western Ukrainians (Gorinchevo, Khust District, Transcarpathia) [Count's son goes hunting every day. In the morning he wakes up, opens the window, sees that a woman is walking down the street, bringing her son to eat in a pot. The count's son, to test his accuracy, shoots at the pot and breaks it. Baba sees him laughing and says that she barely begged her son for food. She curses him to only marry Seipentel Ilona. The guy runs after his grandmother and asks where she is. She replies that where ninety-nine human heads are on the stakes, and leaves. The count's son does not find a place for himself, he is going to look for his betrothed. He sees how a bear crashes ants, feels sorry for ants, drives a bear into the thicket. Ants give him a pipe that he can use to summon them to help. The guy goes on, sees that the boys have caught a fox and hit it. He asks to keep it and pays them a crown. The fox gives him a pipe to play on, and she will come to his aid. The count's son comes to the water and sees the fish fighting. He throws bread to the fish. The fish calms down, thanks him and gives him a pipe to call for help. More often, he bumps into a hut, around 99 human heads on poles. He comes in and sees the woman he smashed the pot with on the stove. She serves him by telling him to look after her three mares. If he doesn't pull him back, his head will be on a pole. The guy falls asleep, and when he wakes up, he does not find mares. It causes ants with the help of a flute, who explain that the mares have become ants. Real ants will start biting them, then they'll start running away. When the first one runs and then the second one, you don't have to do anything, and when the third one runs, you have to whip it and say, "Be what you used to be!" That's what the guy does. In the evening, a woman checks, sees mares, gets angry and hits them with an iron club (these are her daughters). In the morning, she orders her daughters to go to the water and become fish. When the guy wakes up, he calls fish with the help of a flute. She reports that mares have become goldfish. Real fish will bite them. When the third one jumps out of the water, you should whip it and say, "Be what you were!" That's what the guy does. The woman gets angry in the evening, whips the mares with a fiery whip, accusing them of being in a romantic relationship with the guy. They deny it and tell their mother that she is wise and he is wiser. On the third day, the mares disappear again. The fox summoned by the flute explains that the woman turned them into eggs, put them in a basket on the stove, and sat on them herself. But the woman in the attic has a rooster. The fox will call the ferret, which will start chasing the rooster. The woman will get up from her eggs and climb to save the rooster. Then you have to run into the hut, whip the balls and say, "Be what you used to be!" The ferret starts chasing the rooster, the woman, when she hears a scream, climbs into the attic. The guy hits the balls, the mares are back in the barn, the guy sits on a chair. Baba is convinced that he is wiser than her. He says he served her faithfully and asks what he asks for his service. He wants to stay in service for three more years. Baba agrees, takes him to a big lake in the morning, gives him a wooden shovel, a wooden hoe, a wooden coinage, and tells this lake to fall asleep and walled up so that she can ride it on horseback, if not will do - be his head on the stake. His tools break immediately, he sits and grieves. Babina, Seipentel's daughter Ilona, brings him food and finds out the cause of his burning. After feeding him, she puts him into a deep sleep, whistling to the devils. They fall asleep and walled up the lake. When the guy wakes up, he notifies the woman, she checks, but the lake does not break through under the horse. She sends him into the thicket the next day. There, the wind scattered beech and oak seeds. They must be harvested, each seed separately. At noon, the girl brings food and finds out about the task. The guy eats up and falls asleep because Ilona sleeps on him, and she whistles, devils run, and in an hour all the seeds are collected as the woman wanted. On the third day, the woman orders to cut down the thicket, dig it up, and sow it with wheat. By evening, wheat must be ripe, and he must squeeze it, bring it, grind it, grind the flour and bake bread. The guy cuts down one tree and gets tired. SI wants to bring him an afternoon snack, but the woman yells at her, even breathes fire, suspects that she is doing all the work for him, and he's not so wise, let his sister carry it. But after a while she calms down and leaves her daughter alone. SI brings in an afternoon snack, finds the guy crying. When he has lunch, she falls into a deep sleep, and she cries the devils like sea sand. Everything is ready by evening. Ilona wakes him up, gives him a fresh roll and asks him to tell the woman when she asks what he wants for his service, what he wants to stay with her for another three years. Baba pretty agrees. The count's son stays with her, does everything well, but one day, when a woman falls asleep, SI and her boyfriend get ready for a long journey. SI turns herself and his boyfriend into pigeons, they're flying, and SI asks if you can see anything. The guy turns around and says he sees a cloud of fire. She replies that she is a mother and that she will turn herself into a mill and him into an old miller. The old woman will ask if he saw two pigeons, and he must answer what he saw a long time ago. Baba decides it's not them and comes home. SI turns them into pigeons again, and they're flying to its land. She asks again, and he sees a fiery cloud again. Then SI turns itself into grass and it into a braid. He tells Baba he saw two pigeons when he was clearing this field for a meadow. Baba is coming home. Two pigeons hit the road again. After a while, SI asks again who he sees. He says the woman is on a fiery horse. SI turns them into fish, but tells them not to stick their heads out of the water or they'll go blind and she'll talk to her mother. But the guy wants to hear what they're talking about, sticks his head out of the water, the woman steals his eyes and comes home. The girl cries, goes like a dove behind his eyes. At home, she gives her mother and sisters a deep sleep, climbs into her mother's bosom, reaches out her eyes, and instead puts pigeon eggs so that her mother thinks when she wakes up, that her eyes are in her bosom. She flies to the riverbank and returns the guy's eyes. They fly to his village. The guy is happy, he leads the girl by the hand. She asks where he's taking her. He says it's to their homestead. She tells me not to do this, because she is not yet known there, asks to be taken to their innkeeper neighbor, who will serve him. In a month, let him tell his father and mother that she wants to get married. They'll get married then, but he must remember not to let anyone at home kiss him. The guy leaves his betrothed with the innkeeper, returns to his parents himself. They welcome him, they want to hug him and kiss him, but they don't give him. Tired, he goes to bed, in the evening an aunt comes to them and kisses a sleepy man in bed. He forgets the girl. It takes two weeks and two months. His relatives decide to marry him. They choose a bride, marry, and set a wedding day. SI knows everything, she cries, makes the guy fall and dislocated his leg. They send him for a doctor, and the innkeeper's maid says she'll heal him faster. This is what happens. The guy asks what to reward her with. She doesn't want anything but asks to be invited to the wedding. The wedding day is coming. She bites through a golden nut, takes out her gold clothes and comes to the wedding. The young ones are just about to get married. But when a young woman sees an innkeeper's maid, she refuses to get married until she gets the same dress. They start looking for silver clothes. They cannot find it anywhere and have to buy it from the maid, they promise to pay her dearly. She doesn't want anything, she asks permission to be with her young man. XI kisses the guy, talks about everything, but he doesn't remember anything. A servant hides under the bed and hears what the girl said. "I've saved your life six times and you've forgotten it all! But it's not all gone. At dawn, I'll be cuckoo at your house, and then you'll see me, then you'll recognize me..." She's going home. The servant crawls out from under the bed, tells the young master what he has heard. After that, the guy remembers everything. In the morning he goes out into the yard, sees a cuckoo, and immediately recalls SI. But the cuckoo is flying away. The count's son is going to travel. The bride is told that they will not get married, she can marry someone else. He orders iron tables from the master and goes around the world. Looking for a betrothed for seven years. One day he sits under the willow, looks - the tables are torn. She thinks this is the only place she should be if his tables are broken. The cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cucko The guy says it's his Ilonka. The bird says it's his. He calls her to his place. She asks you to be afraid she won't invite her aunt to the wedding, who kissed him. He takes an oath. Then she flies off and becomes a girl. The guy is happy, takes her hand and brings her to his parents. They are celebrating their wedding and live happily ever after]: Lintur 1979:121-129; Ukrainians (Podolia) [grandfather went to fetch water, brought cancer home; took him and his woman for a son; when they went to bed, the cancer whistled and told him to take it out him into the courtyard; and then back to the hut; so three nights; then ordered him to marry the queen; the king demands that he sow the field in a day, do all the work and bake the buns; the cancer again asked to take him out into the yard, whistled, his friends did everything; the same was the grapes: plant a vine, and tomorrow ripe bunches; on the wedding night, the cancer shed its shell, became a boy; the queen got up before him and burned the shell; the husband left; she went in search, remained a woman's maid; she left, forbid her to enter the same room; the Queen came in: her husband was there; both died]: Levchenko 1928, No. 470:323-324; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky u.) [the hunter saw a well on the mountain, started drinking, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise what he did not know at home; when he returned home, it turned out that his son was born; when Ivan is 7 years old, he went to the snake; woman towards: 12 doves will fly to the river; we must wait for another one, hide the shirt; the girl promises to call the one who took it father; brother; when she said that her husband, I. came out from behind the bushes; she is the daughter of a snake, they came to him; serpent: in order to cut down the forest in a day, harvest crops, bake bread; the girl called her servants, did everything; teach the horse to fly (done); the bridge over the wide river (done); the girl tells him to run, ask for cherries be responsible for her; the serpent sent 12 doves in pursuit; the girl became a lamb, I. a shepherd; church and pop (I. each time pretends not to understand the questions of the pursuers and answers inadvertently); the serpent flies by itself; river and ruff; the snake became a pike, did not catch up with the ruff; I. and the girl reached Ivan's father, got married, began to live happily ever after]: Malinka 1902, No. 17:282-286; Eastern Ukrainians (Uman na Kyiv region) [The mouse and the Lark quarreled over a grain; gathered birds and animals for war; The mouse ordered ants to bite the wings of the birds at night; the birds fell, killed by animals; the eagle remains in the tree, asks Do not shoot the hunter; he points his gun three times; feeds the Eagle with a cow, a bull; he carries him through the air, drops him three times and picks up that man was afraid like the Eagle when he was targeted; The eagle teaches the hunter to promise to return the Eagle, to ask for a raitso egg for it; the uncle, the Eagle's brother refuse, the father agrees; orders to break only houses; the hunter breaks on the way, cattle come out of the egg; the Snake promises to return the cattle to the egg if they give something that was not at home; son Ivan grows up, goes to the Snake; she demands 1) to uproot the forest overnight, etc., harvest, bake pies; walled up in a stone pillar daughter of the Snake; promises to do everything if I. marries her; 2) turn the Dnieper, arrange a trading harbor; 3) catch a golden hare; the snake's daughter tells her to grab everything that comes out of the hole; I. misses the viper, old woman; it was the hare; the girl turned into a hare herself, I. carried her; both run away; the Snake sends her husband in pursuit, the fugitives turn into wheat and grandfather; into a monastery and an elder; for the third time the Snake chases itself ; river and perch; The snake becomes a pike, does not catch it, began to drink the river, burst; the bride tells not to kiss her uncle's child at home; I. kisses, forgets the bride; is going to marry another; the Snake's daughter sculpts from doves test, they tell their story, I. remembers everything, marries the daughter of the Snake]: Pankeev 1992:297-307; Ukrainians (Poltava, Romensky y.) [A soldier falls in love with the royal's youngest daughter, who helps him complete his father's task - to plant an apple tree that grows overnight and bears fruit, and grow bread overnight (sow, remove, process, bake). The king refuses to give his daughter for a soldier, they flee, the princess makes the soldier "cops", tells him to say "gaigak-looking" herself becomes a watchman, the royal chase does not recognize them. The king guesses and chases again. A girl turns into a church, makes a soldier a priest, they are not recognized. The king realizes the cunning of his daughter, goes in pursuit himself, the girl makes the soldier by sea, she becomes a duck "ti hvilu dai sh hojeni, Schaub is elusive dad." The king cannot catch his daughter for three days and curses her three times. A girl and a soldier come to his native village, she warns that he can kiss everyone except the "little kid", he kisses and forgets about the princess. She is hired into the house, he is going to marry another, when they cook a loaf, the princess makes a duck and a drake, touches them, they take off, sit on images, sing about how the soldier forgot the princess. He remembers and marries her]: Gnedich 1916, No. 1472:3-5; Slovaks [the king has a daughter and three sons, he decides to send one of them named Radúz (or Janko) to the world; he was hired by a witch and a sorcerer, they have a daughter L'udmíla (or Ivanka); the witch tells 1) to plant a garden in the clearing a day so that there will be fruit by morning; L. brings him not the frogs her mother gave him, but good food; hits him with a magic wand on the ground (or instead of a stick, the pipe L. plays on), the garden appeared; 2) to set up a vineyard on a rock covered with thorny bushes (the same; this time the witch sent boiled snakes for lunch); 3) grind stones into flour, bake bread from them; the witch suspects that her daughter is helping the young man, but her husband does not believe it; she sent boiled lizards, L. did everything again (or scoop out the lake with a net, make a field there, bake bread; L. threw a stone into the water, the lake is dry); the witch tells her husband to put the cauldron on the fire; L. tells R. that they want to cook it, promises him that he will not forget it; leaves a spit responsible for himself and R., running with R.; what's behind? "Nothing, just a black cloud." This is a father; L. turned herself into a field, R. into a sheaf; next time she created a church, R. created a hermit, L. a fly among other flies; for the third time a witch chases a fiery horse; L . teaches: she will become a duck at sea, let R. dive so as not to burn, and then grab that horse by the bridle; they both rode on a witch's horse (or fly away with doves); she: let R. forget L. as soon as someone a kiss; at home, the king and his children died, there was only one queen left; R. left L., went forward; when he fell asleep, his mother kissed him, he forgot L., took another wife, became king; L. turned into a poplar , the king ordered him to be cut down; into a pear tree with golden pears; the queen ordered him to be cut down; seven years later into a golden duck; no one can catch it; the king thinks he has seen this duck before; he caught it himself, she turned into L., R. remembered everything, drove another wife away, took L.; (or L. got a job in the castle as a seamstress, creates pigeons, they say R. forgot L.; R. does not marry for a long time and promises to marry the one who will sew the most beautiful flower; L. embroidered; or L. spent seven years in the tree; when oxen passed, they stopped at the tree and out of place; R. came up, L. went out to him)]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 7 : 28-35.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [The eagle flies to the poor man three times to steal chickens; each time he asks not to kill; on the fourth day he asks him to sit on his back, carries him to his sisters; on the way, he pretends twice that leaves on the rock, once in the middle of a wolf pack, so that the person also experiences the fear experienced by the Eagle; the first and second sisters do not give up the magic whip, the ring; the youngest gives birth childless woman; on the way home, a person falls asleep; does not find a bandage; the sorcerer returns her from the water, demands that the boy be handed over a year after he is born; he becomes a young man in a year; daughter the sorcerer teaches him to complete his tasks, gives a magic whip; 1) build an iron bridge; 2) sow the field and harvest in a day; 3) choose one horse out of a dozen (these are the sorcerer's daughters, the bride will stand quietly); 4) one goose (the same); 5) a pigeon (the same); going to the bathhouse, the young man and the bride run away, leaving a spit to answer for themselves; the girl turns into a bush, the young man into a bird; into a church and a priest (wife the sorcerer explains that they were the fugitives); the sea and the swan; the sorcerer's wife pursues herself, becoming an eagle; trying to drink the sea, bursts; hitting the young man's parents with a whip, the girl makes them young]: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:88-94 (=Sokayeva 2012:11-18); Georgians (Kakheti) [two older brothers have decided to get rid of the younger one; let everyone shoot an arrow and follow it; the youngest comes to another kingdom, the old woman let her into the house; says that three cabbage rolls will fly to the lake, we must hide the youngest's wing, let him become a wife; the young man is silent when the girl promises to become a sister; he goes out when he is a wife; the young man works for the king, asks for one of the nine rooms for him and his wife; the advisers suggest that the king tell the young man to cut down trees in a day and take him to the palace, rather than being able to take his wife away; the wife turned the ring, the warriors of her older sisters appeared, did everything; decided to kill the young man while hunting; the wife gave the ring: throw it up, it will become a golden ball, give it to the king; taking gold, the king did not dare to kill the young man; new task: plow the field in a day, grow crops, bring bags of flour; the warriors fulfilled the sisters; advisers to the king: they led to bring "neither you know nor I know"; the wife summoned the warriors of the sisters, the last a lame frog came and sent it to the old woman; the old woman gave a wheel, it would lie across the sea as a bridge, a temple across the sea, at the temple I must say, "Trust me, sister!" , the doors will open; the old man came out, gave Tarumbala, although he is not visible; on the way back, the young man meets a merchant, whose organ, if you turn the handle, comes out; the young man tells T. to supply water and food; changed, and T. also returned to the young man; he came when the king wanted to marry his wife; ordered T. to cause a downpour, sent an army, destroyed the king, reigned himself]: Chikovani 1954, No. 7:54-58; Turks [40 sons of the Sultan send the youngest to ask their father to marry them; they tell them to sit down only when the Sultan offers a green chair, then he will understand what the sons want; the brothers go in search of brides; spend the night in in ruins; the youngest sees the seven-headed giantess; drove her away, but she returned with 40 sons and 40 daughters; as they entered, the young man cut off everyone's head; the giantess disappeared into the water, young man next; the giantess gave the keys to 4 rooms, each girl has brides for brothers; the giantess asks to take her with her; calls her father-in-law, the king of giants; boys and brides are surrounded with a stone wall; the giant lets go of everyone but his younger brother; to show his power, the giant tells him to burn, scatter the ashes, jump off with water - revives; tells him to get the daughter of his neighbor king; the king demands to plow and sow a huge field overnight, harvest (the ants have done it); eat 40 cauldrons of food (the blacks ate); to overcome the princess; she prevails; the young man burned the Arab's hair again, that quietly helped bring down the princess; the young man took the princess and gave it to the giant; asked her to find out where he was keeping his life; giant: three deer would approach the watering hole, three boxes in the yellow stomach; killing a giant, a young man took his wife, found brothers; they are arguing over his fiancée - who will get it; the young man got it himself; a wedding with two wives]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 7:77-83.

Baltoscandia. The Finns [the young man is going to shoot the capercaillie, he asks not to do so; so three times; the young man agrees to take the capercaillie home and feed him for a year; the capercaillie has a copper feather on its tail and when it fell out, he flew away; in the evening he returned, asked for food for another year; a silver feather grew; after the third year, a golden one; the capercaillie ordered to sit on it; they fly across the sea, the capercaillie throws off three times and picks up the young man to feel the same fear that the capercaillie felt when he was aimed; they fly to the copper castle of the capercaillie's younger sister; he tells me to ask her for a chest without a key, but she does not gave; the middle sister had the same thing in the silver castle; the eldest in the gold castle gave it; on the way back, the capercaillie was tired and left the young man on the mountain; he did not want to drag the chest, he abandoned it and a palace appeared, household, people, etc.; the old man promises to put everything back if the young man promises to give him what was born at his home; the young man knows that his wife did not expect a child and promised; the old man allowed him to keep the baby for a year, told him to call him Krummdreher; in a year the boy grew up, became a young man, went to an old man; there was an oak tree between the sea and the lake, he climbed it, saw girls sailing on the ship; they became to swim, he hid the clothes of one of them; gave it for a promise to marry and help; this is the daughter of an old man; she gives her handkerchief, he makes him invisible and offers any food; before entering the castle, you must pull an iron stake out of the ground with a ring at the end; the young man easily pulled it out; the young man knocked on the lock door, the old man went out but did not see anyone, and the invisible young man entered the bride's castle; the old man tells 1) create a castle neither on earth nor in heaven; 2) cultivate the field, harvest crops and bake bread in one night; 3) bring three iron-billed capercaillies from across the sea; bride: bribe 7 out of 9 horses, and we can bribe two gallop away; the old man chases; the girl waved her handkerchief, a mountain arose, the old man ran for an ax; cut through; the girl turned her horses into a church and bell tower, herself into a priest, a young man into a clerk; they answered to the old man that the fugitives are already across the river; he is in pursuit again, but the girl created the river with a handkerchief; the old man stopped persecuting; everything is fine]: Salmelainen 1947:19-25; Estonians (Rannu) [the king saw in the forest a spring that did not exist; leaned down for a drink, captured; released, promising to give back what he did not know at home; and then he guessed that he had forgotten about his son; the hell took the boy and left him in the forest, but so that he was standing on a stump knock and food appears; the young man has grown up; the old man teaches: three women will arrive, take off their clothes, start swimming; we must take the clothes that they put away from the others; the guy takes clothes twice and twice the girl picks her up; the third time the old man teaches not to show; the girl promised to stay with him; she is not a daughter like others, but was kidnapped by him as a child; hell tells me to build a stone bridge across the lake; cut down the forest and make beer {apparently finish all the work: sow barley, etc.}; the girl does everything; tame the black stallion; girl: that's the hell, you have to put a hot scrap down your throat and beat with a hammer on the head; recognize the girl among others (the handkerchief will be beveled to the left; then one leg to the side); now we have to run, the girl left a spit responsible for her; the farmhand catches up with the devil, the girl became a herd of geese, the guy with goose shepherd; then she is an ox, the guy is a plowman; a lake and a duck; hell to catch a duck in the lake, but the shores came together and he was gone; the guy went ahead to the house; girl: don't kiss anyone; but when I put my younger brother to bed, kissed him and forgot everything; the girl came to the wedding with her new bride, the guy recognized her; asks the guests what is better - an old gold ring or a new one; guests: old ; the guy told everything; wedding]: Mälk et al 1967, No. 51:121-126; Estonians (Sangaste) [the king had a daughter, the farmhand had a son, the king exchanged children with the farmhand; the farmhand's adopted daughter went to the forest was gone; the king got lost, three men took him to the road for promising to give the first to meet him; the king thought that a dog would come out, but his son came out; he took him to the forest; the master of hell tells 1) herd a white cow, 2) a gray horse; a girl teaches you to tie a thread to a cow's ear, a rod to the horse's face; 3) cultivate, sow a field, harvest, make beer; the girl teaches you to consistently release three herds of geese, they do everything; the owner promises to marry the young man with the girl tomorrow; the girl tells the head of a white cow's calf to be cut, a golden egg jumped out of there; they run, the egg warns of the chase , a girl turns into a burdock, a young man into a bud on a burdock; into a lake and a fish; into a wind and a butterfly; geese are sent in pursuit, have not identified the fugitives three times, executed; the fugitives get home; parents already died, the castle is intact, the young are settling in it]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 31:132-134; setu (Satserinna; written in Estonian) [the man went to sell flax, returned a year later, leaned to the water to drink, someone grabbed him by the beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know at home; during this time his wife gave birth to a son; (he grew up); one girl told the young man to take with him two loaves, two belts and a ball yarn; the ball rolled, the young man followed; threw two lions on the waist, the other two on bread, they missed it; Damn (vanahalb) tells me to plow the field, etc., bake bread; 2) build a church; 3) build an iron bridge; daughter Devil tells her to go to bed, does everything; 4) choose a wife among his daughters, turned into mares, into turtles (the assistant will bite and bite other horses and pigeons); the young man gets a wife; she tells him to run, leaves saliva responsible for himself; the devil sends his sons in pursuit, the wife throws bark behind (a forest grows; sons Cut the devil, hide axes, the lark says that sees where they have to hide), clay (mountain; same: lark, shovels), water from a glass (lake; devils drink, burst); a young man brings his wife home]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 33:139-141; Latvians [the hunter shot the hawk three times, missed it; the hawk grabbed it and carried it, let it go three times, but picked it up so that the hunter would feel the same fear; after that, the hawk ordered him to feed him for three years; then he brought the hunter to one sister, asked to give the hunter Raichuk, she did not give it; the second one gave it, it was something like an egg; the hawk carried the hunter almost home and ordered Raichuk not to open it on the way; he discovered; a city appeared with food and drink; not to put it back; an old man came up, put the city back for promising that the house was new; at home the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up and went to look for the line; he met the old man tells you to go to the lake, 7 ducks will come to swim, they will become a girl, you have to steal the clothes alone and return them when he calls him sweet brother; the young man did so; hell gives tasks; 1) plow the land in a day, grow, pick apples; 2) the same - wheat, bake bread; the girl does everything; 3) ride the stallion over the line; the stallion is the devil himself; the girl gave a silver, golden broom (to drive them), a hammer - beat; hell put the young man and the girl in a barrel to burn; they turned into flies, flew away through a hole; the servant is chasing, the girl turned into sheep, the young man into a shepherd; next time, the church and the pastor; the devil is chasing himself; the lake and the fish; the water is boiling, the hell is barely alive, gone; the girl sent the young man to ask for his father's blessing, did not tell him to say hello to his younger sister; he greeted, forgot everything; the girl climbed the willow above the spring; the younger sister went to get water, saw the reflection, decided that she was so beautiful, the mug slipped out; the same second sister; the mother did not believe that she was beautiful at her age, I noticed the girl, told me at home; the young man ran to the girl, hugged her, and both died]: Grishina 1993:214-226; Lithuanians [the fisherman did not catch the fish, says let the hell cling, Damn gives fish for a promise to give what you do not know at home; a son was born at home, when he grew up, his father sent him to the old man of Gray Mountain Kost (SGC); the young man comes to one, then to another old woman; the first calls birds, the second to animals, no one knows the way to SGC; the old man sends three swans, the daughters of SGC, to the river, tell them to hide the wings of the youngest; he hides the wings of the eldest, middle, swans take their wings, fly away; then the youngest, she asks for his wings to be returned, puts the young man on his back, brings him to SGC; he promises him a daughter if the young man can 1) uproot the forest, plow the field, collect wheat, bake pies for the wedding (by order Devils swans do everything); 2) drive around one of the three stallions (this is SGC himself, the Swan tells him to stab him in the neck with a knife); 3) identify the bride among the crows (sit on the edge, scratch his beak); identified three times; 4) take a dip in boiling milk (the wife bewitched the vat, the husband is unharmed); the wife leaves drooling for her, runs with her husband; 1) turns into rye, the husband is old, the devils return; 2) the church and the priest (the same); 3) lake and pike; SGC chases itself, becomes a bull, tries to drink the lake, bursts]: Lebite 1965:149-153.

Volga - Perm. Marie (meadow) [the soldier returns home, leans to the pond by the mill for a drink, the devil grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he does not know at home; his son Ivan is at home; I. leaves look for the one to whom he has been sold; walks through the door in an oak tree, down the stairs; the old man (he is the younger brother of big Satan) tells you to walk three hundred miles, 11 pigeons will fly to the lake, turn into girls, swim, they will put on their clothes again and fly away; after that, the 12th will arrive, her clothes must be hidden, returned for her promise to become a wife; she promises that she is three years away, she will hang a ribbon from the window, her house will be the third edge; I. comes, the wife tells you to go to her father, slam the door loudly, take away his spoon, start eating himself; Satan is surprised, promises to give work in a week; tells 1) to uproot the forest overnight (wife sends workers, I. brings the last stump); 2) to plow, sow, harvest, bake bread, bring one boat of bread (the same); 3) build a church and let the pop serve; same; Satan will turn into a pig, my wife tells you to throw a hammer at her; tame the stallion; this is Satan himself, you must beat him with a hammer; Satan tells you to choose a wife from 12 girls, they are in the form of pigeons; wife: I will go down and get up; 12 sheep (the wife will come out third); 12 dewdrops (the third is about to drip); Satan sends young people to a cast-iron bath, wants to burn; the wife tells the broom, trough, bucket to answer that they are still soaring , they wash; the young are running, Satan's 11 daughters are chasing; the wife turns I. into a chapel, the old woman herself, the sisters come back; Satan is chasing himself, the wife is a ruff, the husband is a lake; Satan becomes a pike, cannot catch a ruff, breaks the shore so that the young do not go out, but I.'s wife restores everything; wedding at Father I.'s house]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 37:282-286 (=Sabitova 1992:102-109); Mordovians [childless old man leans to the stream for a drink, Vedyava grabs his beard; he promises to give him what he does not know at home; when he returns, he finds out that he has been absent for three years, his son; three baba yagi consistently send the grown-up the young man goes on; the latter tells the youngest of the duck girls to hide the clothes when they arrive to swim in the lake; they are her brother's daughters; her father tells 1) to carry out the entire cycle of work from cutting the forest for arable land in a day before baking bread; 2) an iron bridge, on the sides of the apple tree; the wife tells the forest men to do everything; 3) drive around the stallion (this is the father-in-law himself, his wife tells him to beat him with a hammer and an iron rod); the girl leaves her spit to answer, the young run; she becomes a cow, he is a shepherd; church and pop; servants do not recognize the fugitives, the father-in-law flies with a falcon himself; the lake and the ruff; the father-in-law pike cannot swallow the ruff; tells her daughter to be a dog for seven years; the wife tells her husband not to kiss her younger sister at home; she chases the dog away, kisses her brother herself, he forgets everything; he is married, he sees a reflection in the well, remembers the real wife; he is married to a dog, seven days later she turns into a woman]: Samorodov 1972:83-95; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 58 [the fisherman leaned over the water; someone grabbed him by beard, told me to give away what was not in the world; the fisherman caught an unusual fish; ate it with his wife, who gave birth to a son; the divas began to demand him; the fisherman promised that the young man would come by himself; he went to the forest, through the gate to another world; refuses the help of her eldest, middle daughters, the diva promises to marry the youngest; she helps to fulfill the diva's instructions: 1) uproot the forest, arrange a field, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame argamaka (divas himself); 3) distinguish the bride from her three sisters (raised her feather); the divas locked the young in an iron bath; the girl became a needle, turned the young man into a thread, they got out through a small hole; run, divas send their men in pursuit, they do not understand that the fugitives have become 1) yellow and red flower; 2) church and bell ringer; divas chase himself, the fugitives have become a lake and fish; divas tries drink water, his daughter tells him to fall knee-deep, turns him into stone; the fugitives took the diva's treasures, returned to the young man's parents], 59 [buy drank all the money; the diva gave an inexhaustible purse, for this Bai the son must go to him; the young man came to the old woman, the wife of a diva, who sent to a girl who was once kidnapped by a diva; she helps to complete the diva's tasks; 1) cut down the forest, sow, harvest, bake bread for day; 2) tame the horses (this is the diva himself and his daughters, let him sit on the last one, it will be herself); the diva gives the girl, offers to take a steam bath; he has already fried many people in her; the girl tells me to run; the fugitives turn into 1) a herd and a shepherd; 2) a mosque and a muezzin; 3) a lake and a frog; this time the diva chases himself, cannot drink the lake, leaves; the young man goes for the tarantas to solemnly bring the bride; she warns not to kiss his sisters; he kissed a six-year-old, forgot his bride; she was hired to weave carpets; the mullah comes, she offers him to melt the stove, stuck to the poker; he was expected in the mosque - did not wait; the same the next day (stuck to the rule); in three months, three mullahs had to be replaced; the young man had a wedding, the girl baked a bialesh, no one can cut it; she cut it herself, the pigeon flew out with a dove; dove: forgot! dove: I didn't forget! the young man remembered everything, married the one who saved him]: 264-273, 274-282; 2008b, No. 5 [the horseman did not follow a good road, but along a narrow path; two doves flew in to swim, took off their clothes, he hid his clothes one; returned for his promise and make him a dove, bring him to his father; he gives difficult assignments, his wife does; 1) uproot the forest in a day, do the rest of the work, including baking bread; 2) pave a road with trees around the edges; 3) tame the stallion (this is the diva himself, the wife teaches what to do); the wife tells the horseman to run; he flew away with a dove, the youngest daughter of the diva chased, the dzhigit became a mountain, she returned; eldest daughter (bottomless pool); wife (waterfall and downpour); flew by himself; the dzhigit became a fish, a diva became a pike; then a bull, tried to drink the lake, burst, died; the dzhigit returned home]: 51-56; Yarmukhametov 1957 [ Safa said goodbye to his wife, walked around the world, saved a swan attacked by Ubyr; she carries him to her older, middle sister; the older, middle sister refuse to give a gift, the youngest gives a chest, tells you not to open it on the way; S. opens, a shop appears, gold; the old man asks what S. groans, puts what fell back for a promise to give that you do not know at home; during this time a son was born; grows up, leaves, sees swans swimming, grabs one, this is the daughter of that old man, teaches her father to ask her father for a job, her servants do everything; 1) the night from cutting the forest for arable land to harvesting; 2) transfer water from one lake to another; to curb a stallion; this is Satan himself, the girl teaches him to hit him with a hammer, put on a 40-pound bridle; 4) identify the bride among pigeons (he dances, she looks at his legs, the rest at his head ); Satan threw both into the zindan, they flew away like flies, leaving saliva to answer; the wife turns into a mosque, a dzhigit into a muezzin; she is in the sea, he is a goldfish; Satan began to fish, drowned, a dzhigit and his wife stayed with his parents]: 184-190 (=Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956:56-66).

Japan. Japanese [a person hides clothes made from the feathers of one of the girls swimming in the lake; they have children; she finds out from them where the clothes are; he flies away with the children; he comes to heaven for it; father-in-law gives difficult assignments 1) cut down a forest under a field in a day, plow a field in a day, grow melons in a day, harvest them in a day; a wife helps do all this; (2) a person must identify his wife among her sisters who look the same; the bee he saved points to his wife; he is told not to eat melons; he cuts one, the stream gushes from it, the husband and wife remain on opposite sides of the Milky Way; may meet only once a year, on the eve of July 7th, when the stars celebrate; some versions end with an episode of (1) marrying a heavenly girl, (2) her return to heaven, (3) reuniting a man and wife and children in heaven; (4) if a father-in-law tests a son-in-law, he usually fails the latter, so he and his wife remain separated by the Heavenly River (Milky Way)]: Ikeda 1971, No. 400:96-97.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Baraba) [a man leaned to the river for a drink, peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give what he did not know at home; at home, a person finds out that he had a son; at the age of 16, he went to look for peri, three old Peri sisters give consistent advice; first 37, then 3 more blue Peri daughters will come to swim, take off their clothes; the young man must take medium out of three clothes; peri requires Identify the bride among 40 girls, she warns that a fly will sit on her nose; the young man takes Peri's daughter as his wife; he tells her to uproot the forest by morning, plow, sow, bake bread; the Peri do it, then again ; father-in-law locks the young in the bath; when he leaves his spit to answer, turns her husband and herself into a needle and thread, they go out through the gap; the father sends a chase; the daughter turns 1) her husband into millet, herself into a reaper; 2 ) her husband to the mosque, herself to his grandfather; the father chases himself, she turns her husband into a lake, herself into a duck; the father tries to drink the lake, the duck pushes his stomach, the water flows out; the young go to her husband, the wife does not tell him kissing his younger sister, she kisses him herself, he forgets his wife; at a new wedding, the peri-dressmaker creates pigeons, they kiss, remind the young man of his former wife; he reunites with Peri]: Dmitrieva 1981, No. 6: 111-115.