K27h1. To bear fruit. 12.14.16.25.27.29.30.
The character is tasked with bringing the fruits of a tree that is difficult to reach.
Hausa, Berbers of southern Morocco, Kabyles, Algerian Arabs, French (Switzerland), British, Germans (Pomerania), Tinghians, Ancient Greece, Kalmyks, Ossetians, Nogais, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Persians, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan.
West Africa. Hausa [of the three sons of rich Ahmadu, only the youngest Auta agrees to limit his share in the inheritance with a stick and a shoe; A. meets a hunter, who asks for a stick, knocks a bird off the tree, gives it to A., and the stick remains on the tree; A. consistently changes the bird to ash (the person who opened the fire had nothing to fry on it), ash to calebass with porridge (the woman asked for ash as a seasoning instead of salt), porridge on a hoe (fed those who dug the ground), a hoe to a knife (the blacksmith forges it into knives), a knife for a white cloth (the weaver wanted to cut the fabric), cloth for a dead girl (those who buried her needed a shroud); so they had no money to pay, they gave the corpse, A. put it in cloth, asked the royal wives to give water to his wife, the body fell, A. accused the women of murder, the king gave him his two wives; A. settled in the forest, and his wives sent back; Frog, Monkey, Horse, Camel, Donkey, Ants of three kinds, Mule, Snake, Bird (crown-bird), White-breasted Crow came to live with him; they filled his house with gold, silver and slaves; Spider informs the king about this; the White Leper advises how to destroy A. in order to seize his wealth; 1) divide mixed grains of many varieties (ants divided); 2) get the fruits of a palm tree growing in the middle of the lake (Frog and Monkey get it); 3) bring a millet leaf (there is no millet during the dry season; the crow brought it from the north, Crown-Bird from the south); the Snake offered to crawl into the belly of the royal daughter; let A. say that the medicine was the liver of the White Leper; he was killed, the princess drank the infusion, the snake came out unnoticed; the young man took the gifts but returned to the forest; the Snake asked her to put a piece of meat on Sundays anthill; The frog ate the meat, the Snake bit it and A., both died]: Tremearne 1913, No. 80:380-392
North Africa. The Berbers of southern Morocco [the poor firewood seller has two sons; he caught a beautiful bird in the forest and brought it home; his wife did not let its children play, but hid it; every day a bird lays an egg, every Jew buys for a hundred mitkals; the husband went on a pilgrimage, and the Jew became his wife's lover; asked to slaughter and cook poultry; returning in the absence of their mother, the boys opened the lid of the cauldron, the youngest Hammed ate his head, and the elder Muhammed ate the heart of a bird; unable to find her head and heart, the Jew tells the woman to slaughter the children and take out the contents of their stomachs; she tells the maid to do so; she let the children go, brought the head and heart of a dead bird; Jew: that's not it; the woman drove the maid away and married the Jew; M. went to the right from the fork, came to the locked gates of the city; the king died there, the residents will choose a new one king is the one who comes first to the gate in the morning; M. became king; H. went to the left, hired a bagel baker; brought happiness to the house; he has a magic ring; if you turn it, a palace appears; the youngest of seven The king's daughters saw this, asked the father to marry them; the king called all the men, gave each of the daughters an apple to throw at the chosen one; everyone was abandoned, the youngest is waiting; when they brought the lousy baker's worker, she threw an apple at him; the king fell ill; the vizier: let the sons-in-law bring lion's milk in lion's clothing, the lion carry it, and the other go ahead; the lousy man turned the ring, told the servant to give him white horse, weapon, etc.; promises other sons-in-law to get what they need in exchange for apples received from princesses; brought slaughtered bulls to the king of lions, he gave what he needed; vizier: you need another medicine - water taken between rocks that open once a year; same (red horse; H. requires sons-in-law to cut off their earlobes); H. managed to get water, the rocks only cut off the horse's tail; third cure: an apple from the Rhalia garden Bint Manssor, who lives across seven seas; a black horse; cut off the phalanges of his little fingers; a servant from the ring: only an elderly spirit, who has almost lost his feathers, will take there; he asks to take 7 blood vessels on the road and 7 pieces of meat; when flying, asks which X. sees the earth; he answers (less and less); the seventh piece slipped out of his hands, H. cut off the flesh from his hand; when he reaches, the spirit teaches how to go through three the gate to the sleeping RBM; H. took an apple, left a note that he was here; King H. says that he got everything, tells his sons-in-law to show apples; the king executed 6 sons-in-law, arranged the wedding of H. with his youngest daughter; father The brothers returned, but his wife, who became the wife of a Jew, refused to recognize him; he asked King Sidi Mohammed (i.e. his son) to judge them; he called Brother Hammed, each told everything; mother and Jew burned]: Stumme 1895, No. 15:119-131; Kabily [Mehand marries an unknown girl, a wise man warns that she is angry; M. defeats seven cannibals, throws corpses into the basement; one is alive, wife cares for him, makes him a lover; pretends to be sick, asks him to bring 1) Ceriel's rejuvenating apple (M. is attached to the cannibal's chest, she does not kill him); 2) rejuvenating water from the glacier (M. cuts for eagles to a heifer, the eagle takes him to the glacier); 3) a lioness's milk in a lion's leather wineskin tied with hairs from a lion's mustache (M. gives lions goats, kills a lion cub, gives the second one for milk and hairs); M. kills ogre, leaves a woman]: Taos Amrush 1974:141-150; the Arabs of Algeria (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in the palace, wanting to protect them from all the bad things in the world; they are given boneless meat, skinless almonds, skinless watermelons; once a black maid forgot to take out the bones; the boys began to play by throwing the dice at each other, broke the window and saw the outside world; told the maid to talk about everyone - about birth, love, death; sent to his father asking him to let them go; the king married sons; his daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to be sick, let his sons they will bring the wives' blood; six wives were killed, and the youngest Ali brought blood to the gazelle, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; they made 40 tortillas and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one serving; the ghouli got into a fight, Ali killed them and threw them into the well; the wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one guli who had just been wounded; the ghoul advised to send Ali for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali: We must slip between the crushing mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, it starts to grow); picking apples, galloping away without turning around; Ali turned slightly to his voice the horse's tail was cut off; the old woman tells her to give her the rejuvenating apples and his wife to bring the regular ones; the ghoul advised to invite Ali to play chess for a living; Ali let his wife win, believing it was a joke, but she killed him, put the pieces of his body in a bag, attached his horse to the saddle, and told the horse to ride to where he came from; the old woman put the pieces together, but the heart and liver were missing; she sent the cat to the drone she brought her heart and liver; the old woman revived Ali with the juice of rejuvenating apples; he came to Gulya disguised as a dervish, hacked him at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into a beautiful woman, Ali married her, returned to his father, who handed him the throne]: Scelles-Millie 1963:313-316.
Western Europe. French (Switzerland) [the poor have 9 children; they sent the eldest 9-year-old to look for food himself; he was picked up by a rich lady in a carriage; allowed him to unlock all rooms except one; he unlocked him, the door slammed shut behind him; corpses hang in the room; the lady forgave him for the first time; he came in again, there was also a horse, a mule and a donkey in the room; the horse says they are bewitched people; tells me to take them with them a log, a bucket and a brush; they jump away, throw a log (mountain), a bucket (sea), a brush (thicket); a young man {obviously he grew up} is hired as a gardener to the king, who tells him to put the garden in order for the elder's wedding daughters; 10 minutes before the time runs out, the young man does the job "after the hairs of my horse Bayard"; the same for the wedding of his middle daughter; the youngest married a young gardener; the king gives each golden apple: the throne will leave the throne to the son-in-law who makes better use of the gift; sons-in-law go to war, the youngest chooses the worst horse, then smashes enemies with Bayar's hairs; older sons-in-law they attribute victory to themselves; the king is sick, he will be cured by the meat of the biggest snake; the younger son-in-law gets everything again with Bayar's hairs; gives the elders for their golden apples; the king is sick again, they need meat the biggest eagle; the same, gives meat to his older sons-in-law, but stigmatizes them for this; the king orders them to bring golden apples; the younger son-in-law brings all three, the older ones bring fakes; they are forced to show stigma; younger son-in-law inherits the throne]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 26:73-79; the British [the sick king will cure only three golden apples from a distant land; three sons went in search, Different roads were chosen at the crossroads, Jack the one to the left; he stopped at a terrible old man; he warned that toads and snakes would come from everywhere at night, they could not be pushed away, otherwise you would become one of them yourself; in the morning he gave the horse faster than the wind and a ball to throw forward between the horse's ears; the horse brought it to the second old man (the same), to the third; he teaches: the horse will take him to the castle on the lake; you must tell the swan to transport through the water; three entrances are guarded by giants, lions, dragons, they will sleep; take apples in the castle, go back without turning to the noise; in the castle, the young man managed to kiss the sleeping girl, switch with her garters, a handkerchief, a watch; on the way back, each of the old men tells him to cut off his head, they turn into princes charming; when he reaches his country, the young man met his brothers; they changed his apples hurried to his father; after tasting the apples of his youngest son, the king thought that they were poisonous, ordered the young man to be killed, but the servant left him in the forest; a lame bear came up, brought him to him, took off his skin, turned out to be handsome, his name is Jubal, the young man now calls him brother; at this time, the queen, whom the young man kissed in the castle, came with an army; tells the imaginary apple earner to step on her handkerchief, both immediately fall down; the king learns that his youngest son was not killed; the queen returns with him to her Melvales castle; Jubal promises to visit them]: Jacobs 1896:142-158; Germans (Pomerania) [the forester has a daughter and son; parents are not allows the children to find a mate; they sit on horses, ride away; telling his sister to wait, the young man makes a noise: three giants share his father's inheritance, ask for help; the young man wants to try, really this valuables; puts a ring on his finger that loses his power; puts on an invisible cloak; takes an inexhaustible purse and all the cutting sword; tells the giants that he is going to heaven to consult their father, himself disappears; he did not say anything to his sister; they reached an endless stone wall; the young man punched her and made his way; behind the wall there is a country of giants; its king is smaller than others (giants: so smart); he fell in love with a girl, and she does not mind, but brother interferes; giant: let the girl pretend to be sick, ask her brother to bring 1) two golden fruits from an orange tree guarded by giants; young man cut off the heads of 48 giants (two asked them to spare them), brought oranges; 2) live water from a well guarded by lions; a young man killed a lion, and a lioness replaced him with a dog; the young man found a tower into which the king of giants imprisoned the kidnapped English princess; the young man released her, gave a signal to the ship on the shore, gave the captain money to take the princess to her father; the captain and navigator forced the princess to call them saviors; but she refused to marry and set up an almshouse; the sister tells the young man that she will recover if he says what his strength is; she handed over magic items to the giant; he summoned the two remaining giants, ordered the young man to be taken away and his tongue and eyes cut out; the young man begged them to leave their tongue so that they brought the giant the tongue of a lioness; the giant and the boy's sister celebrated their wedding; the young man the lioness gave him milk, and wild animals brought him berries and roots; the sailors who sailed ashore agreed to take the young man to England, but let him send the lioness away; but she swam caught up with the ship and showed that not dangerous; the sailors left the young man and the lioness in that almshouse and the princess recognized him; when he married the princess, the young man became a prince himself; one day his wife took him to the forest, he fell into a stream whose water healed blindness; began to see better than before; leaving his wife in the care of the lioness, he sailed on the ship to take revenge on his sister; when he went to the wall, he saw that the giants had repaired the break; because of such a failure, he wanted to stab himself, but accidentally caught the mouse king; he promised to tell his subjects to dig under the wall; the mice did it, took out the ring and brought it to the prince; he broke through the wall again, found his sword, purse and cloak; forced them two giants cut out their tongues for the sister and king of giants and gouging out their eyes; and the blinded were eaten by animals; left the country to those two giants, promising them to behave well, and returned to his wife]: Jahn 1891, No. 37:202-208.
Taiwan - Philippines. Tingian [Aponibolinaen says he wants oranges from Gavigaven's garden (he has six heads); her husband Aponitolau asks if she names a different garden every time; he bears fruit, tears her up; Having heard the truth, Aponitalau goes to G.; all the omens are bad; the spider leader carries him across the rampart to the village of G.; G. demands to eat the buffalo carcass (ants, flies eat); G. suggests climbing for fruits, the tree has knife branches, A. is cut; before death he sends home a spear with strung fruits; the wife gives birth to a son Kanag; K. goes to G., all the omens are good; G. throws an ax, K. stands at him; blows off five G.'s heads with a spear; revives his father from the remains, who is unable to cut off the sixth head, K. cuts it off himself]: Rybkin 1975, No. 37:93-102.
The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Hercules sent to bring Hesperides golden apples].
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002 [{the text is inconsistent, confused}; the orphan found, brought the khan a golden egg; the khan had something else; the orphan identified his own; the khan sent him to bring the chicken; he brought received Khan's youngest daughter Otkhan; they have sons Gunukh and Donyak ("three-year-old" and "four-year-old"); Khan fell ill, sent an orphan to buy golden apples, he died; shulmus, under the guise of a doctor, began to live in the palace, became Hanshi's friend; said that Khan would heal the heart and liver of G. and D.; the servants first brought the dog's giblets, then sent G. and D. to travel; D. fell into the possession where the khan died and became khan; G. became khan handsome because he ate the head of a golden chicken, the khan's daughter admired it; the maid advised him to shut his mouth with wormwood, he belched his head, the khan's daughter swallowed it herself; G. judged those who shared the carpet the plane, a stick to control it and an invisible hat, told them to race, took possession of the objects himself; kidnapped the khan's daughter; she, at the instigation of old Shulmuski, found out his secret and stole objects; G. crows overheard the conversation - after eating black apples, you will become a donkey, red ones will take on your appearance; arrives at brother Khan, turns another khan's 40 daughters into donkeys; brother Khan says that you need to return three magic objects; he returns, G. returns the girls to their former appearance; the eldest daughter regurgitates the head of a golden chicken; kills D.'s wife, who tried to poison him]: 117-122; Vatagin 1964 [immensely rich Mergen-Ergechi asks the Lama for a son; the hero Buryun-Teges is born, rides a heroic horse for the girl whom three swans told him about; he is joined by a mountain-rearranger, listening, easily finding water, a sailor, a clever thief; the khan sets fire to the palace where they are staying, they fill the fire with water, then stop the flood by drinking water; the khan orders them to get an apple from the protected garden five hundred shulmus; win the fight; in shooting; BT gets the khan's daughter]: 140-147; Nogais [orphan dreams: the moon is at the head, the sun is at the feet, the star on the sides; sells sleep to the shepherd for a flock; the shepherd sees the rider drive up to the house, falls asleep; a girl called out to him, the shepherd answered, tells him to ride after her; in the morning the girl sees a mistake, but decides that it is fate; tells him to take a golden spoon as a gift Khan and ask them to build a house on a pile of ash; tells them to invite the khan to visit, but enter first; the young man forgot the instruction, the khan was the first to enter, fell in love; the viziers advise not to kill the shepherd, but 1) send him for with the milk of an Arab mare; the wife teaches how to lure the mare with salt; the young man brings milk and brings the mare herself; 2) bring the apple to the girl of paradise; the wife tells me to go to the lake, three doves will fly, turn around heavenly girls, you have to hide your clothes alone; a young man brings an apple to Khan, takes a heavenly girl with his second wife; 3) bring a gold ring to Khan's late mother and find out where she buried gold; paradise the girl throws her husband into the fire, he goes out with the ring, says where the gold is; the khan asks him to leave him, burns, the young man is made a khan; the young man's two wives and two children are a dream come true]: Nogai 1979, No. 23:120-125; Ossetians [a young man and stepmother remained after the pestilence; the giants could not pull out the young man's arrow that hit the pole, they were frightened, left; the eldest returned, conspired with his stepmother, she hides it in the chest; to get rid of a young man, a giant teaches a woman to pretend to be sick, ask 1) a wild boar liver from a milk lake (kills a wild boar); 2) giant apples; a young man kills giants, frees a girl; 3) a giant teaches his stepmother to ask where the young man's soul is; he says that he is wearing a bow string, offers to tie him with this bowstring; the giant beats him, the young man's eyes pop up, he is buried under a stone; his father-in-law finds him, his wife puts his eyes on him (they were in his pocket), lubricated him with live water; the young man killed the giant, dragged his stepmother by the hair until he had it in his hands]: Byazirov 1971, No. 32:247-256; Armenians [poor man the sun dreams on his head, the moon in his legs, two stars on his chest; a shepherd buys a dream with the whole herd for it; at night he comes to the city; a young man arrives with two horses, falls asleep; the princess takes him for her cousin, with whom she was going to flee; they are leaving, she takes a shepherd as her husband, dresses him in a shah-zade costume, now his name is Teymur Shah; the local shah welcomes him honorably, falls in love with him wife, tells me to get 1) sea mare milk (the wife teaches her how to drink her by pouring wine into the pit); 2) heavenly apples; the wife tells me to go on a sea mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing sisters, she became second wife, brought apples of paradise; 3) visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, takes him out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and the courtiers command burn them, T. reigns; the sun is the moon in a dream - his wives, sons are stars]: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 6:115-124; Azerbaijanis [old Bakhtiyar dreams that the sun has risen to his right, to his left the moon, a star above his head; goes on a journey, tells a dream to a young shepherd, sells it to him with the name B.; the new B. sleeps under the city wall; Shah's daughter Perizad Khanum takes him for her lover, runs with him, they settle in another city; the local shah falls in love with P., the vizier advises sending B. 1) for an apple of paradise; P. gives B. a letter to his sister, she is the wife of the diva lord; the divas tells hide the dress of one of Padishah Peri's three daughters when they arrive to swim in the form of doves; they bring an apple; the one whose dress B. hid returns with it, she is Gurizad khanum; orders to give it to the Shah ordinary apples, and keep the rejuvenating ones of paradise; 2) a rose from the Gulistani-Irem garden; G. takes B. there, Gul Gakh-gah-khanum arrives at his house before him, laughs, roses fall from his mouth, B. brings their Shah; 3) mare's milk with 40 foals; GG. sends B. to the old man, who teaches her how to lure sea horses, B. brings a mare with her foals, the shah is afraid to milk her, she runs away; 5) visit the dead Shah's parents; G. quietly takes B. out of the fire with a dove, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased; the shah, the vizier, the barber (he told the Shah about B.'s wives) burn down, B. reigns; the luminaries seen in the dream are his three wives]: Akhundov 1955:106-125; Azerbaijanis [the old man had a dream, told the old woman to pack food for the road and went to look for it; he came to the shepherd, he fed him and bought him a dream in exchange for his herd; they exchanged names; the shepherd became Bakhtiyar and the old man Melik-Mamed; B., a former shepherd, approached the city, but the gate was already closed; fell asleep behind his back; heard a voice before dawn; someone failed he had a horse and they galloped; in the morning he saw that a girl was with him; she was Perizad Khanum, the king's daughter, was about to flee with the son of Vekil, who was also named B.; after jumping to the possessions of another king, P. told B. sell horses and buy a house, told Kadia to marry them; they began to live on the gold that P. took with him; the barber saw the beauty of B.'s wife, told the king; the king summoned B. and promised to come to him with a vizier; P. told her husband to prepare everything to receive guests; the king deliberately came earlier, saw P. simple-haired, fell in love; the vizier advised him to send B. from paradise for an apple; P. gives her husband a letter to his sister, the king's wife divas; tells not to bring women with them; the divas led to a plane tree at the spring: the peri will come to swim, they must steal the shell alone, they will comply with the request; B. stole the youngest's dress, the eldest brought him an apple; younger Gurizat said that since a man touched her, she would not be able to return to the peri; she turned B. into a wand, took it in her beak, flew to P.; she did not become angry; G. ordered the king to take the ordinary apples, and keep the paradise, which turns into a 15-year-old boy, for himself; the barber told the king that B. now has two wives; the king demands a rose from the Gulistan Garden; G. moved B. to Gulistan, where the girls dance, B. I forgot why I came; G. carried him back, Gully Gah Gah Khanum is sitting next to her, laughed, roses fell from her lips; the barber again tells the king, he sends mares with 40 foals for milk; G. transfers to an old man who was wrapped in cotton wool and put in a cradle; you need to change the cotton wool; the old man tells you to take sulfur from his ear, spread it on cotton wool; hide in a hole on the shore, throw cotton wool, the water will foam, the mare and foals will be frightened; then they will play the flute, the horses will ask them to play more; let them not touch the foal's name Garib; the mare explains to B. that the king wants to destroy him; brings to the king - let him milk her himself; at night the horses ran away; the vizier advises to tell B. to bring news from the king's late parents; YYG-khanum teaches to tell the king to make a fire, she will take B. away from him; tells B. find an old man who remembers the genealogies of the king, vizier and vekil; on their behalf and on behalf of the barber's parents he writes letters: B. visited us, and you? B. jumped out of the ash; the king and the others ordered themselves to be burned with their wives and children; B. was chosen as king; tells the wives the dream he bought: the sun rose on the right side, the moon on the left, the stars above his head were three wives ]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:20-46.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Khorasan, 1 entry) [the king has seven wives, he fell in love with a diva woman; she tells his former wives to be blinded and thrown into a hole; each gave birth, ate newborns, kept her seventh, he grew up, began to get food; the king recognizes the son, the diva stepmother gives instructions, hoping to kill the young man; 1) bring pomegranates from the garden a diva (brings), 2) a mare with 14 foals (the young man sprinkles salt into the spring, dazzles the mare with a mirror); 3) a silk cradle; a young man kills a baby diva who sleeps in it, finds a vessel with the soul of a diva woman, kills her, restores sight to the king's wives by letting them eat the meat of a diva child]: Marzolph 1984, No. 462:97; Tajiks [=Niyazmukhamedov 1945:27-36; Sohibjamol, the daughter of a padishah, runs away with an orphan slave Ahmad; in another city she sews skullcaps, he sells; is hired to serve a padishah; he wants his wife, the vizier offers to give A. difficult assignments; 1) bring seven-colored apples from Iram's garden; the fox brings him there, takes the dogs; 2) bring the lioness's milk in the lion's skin; he frees the lioness's paw that has grown into the ground brings milk; 3) see the padishah's parents in the next world; peri brings A. from the fire to his wife; A. tells the Shah that his parents have prepared medicine for him and are waiting for him; Shah s viziers burn down, A. and S. go to live in the mountains]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:241-247; Tajiks of Sistan [the tsar has two wives, one has a son, Malik-Muhammad; the second wife offers himself to him, he refuses; she complains to her husband that his son wanted to take possession of it; the vizier stands up for M., his father expels him but does not execute him; the pregnant mother leaves with her son; asks to catch the bird, he follows it, he is swallowed by divas; the mother gives birth son Khanjarsho ("king dagger"); mother and tells him to catch the same bird; he defeats the diva, throws him into the well; the mother finds a diva, raises him, takes him as a lover; to destroy her son, asks to bring 1) a lion milk (the son takes out a splinter to a lion, he gives milk); 2) dates from the White Diva Garden; H. kills the dragon, which annually eats the Simurg bird's chicks, the chicks eat meat, Simurg brings him to the White Diva, defeated Div becomes his friend; kills his mother and her lover when she tried to poison her son; gives H. to his peri wife; an old woman kidnaps her for another king, breaks the dagger in which X.'s life was; divas repairs a dagger, returns his wife H.]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 2:24-39.