K27nn. The envious vizier. 11.12.15.-.17.23.26.-.34.

Someone from the entourage of a powerful character seeks to lime the hero and persuades him to give him difficult assignments.

Lamba, Temne, Hausa, Arabs of Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, Portuguese, Spanish, Sicilians, Italians (Ticino, Veneto, Tuscany), Maltese, Corsicans, French (Upper Brittany, Niverne etc.)), Bretons, Irish, Germans (Pomerania), Palestinians, Syrian Arabs, Arabs of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Socotra, Kashmiris, Assames, Bengalis, Muria, Telugu, Kannada, Tamils, Koreans, Romanians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Albanians, Serbs, Croats, Greeks, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Terek Coast, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Pskov, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Stavropol Turkmens, Nogais, Abkhazians, Balkarians, Ossetians, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Vakhans, Yazgulyam, Bartangans, Sarykols, Persians, Baluchis, Uzbeks (incl. Khorezm), Lithuanians, Latvians, Lutsies, Karelians, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Mari, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Komi, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Dungans, Chelkans, Khakas, Tuvans, Khalkha -Mongols, Mongors.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Lamba [the chief's eldest daughters are married, the youngest says she will only marry someone who goes through a hole in the tree with the ball; the two older brothers and their sister's husband (brother-in-law) go try their luck, they do not want to take their younger brother; he comes, feeds birds, ants, fish on the way; carries out an assignment, is recognized as a son-in-law; older brothers intend to destroy him; tell the leader's wife that her son-in-law 1) can make the child appear the day after the wedding; the young man is going to return home, but the bird he has fed flies west and brings him a baby; 2) brothers persuade scatter seeds in the forest, let him collect them; ants collect them; 3) pour beads into the water (get the fish); the young man's wife complains to the mother, she explains that her husband's brothers are to blame; the leader finds out everything, sends Brothers home; son-in-law honors; they visited the young man's house and returned to live with his wife's relatives]: Doke 1927, No. 23:45-51.

West Africa. Dark [the king is jealous of the young man's wealth; the adviser suggests sending the one on which there are poisonous ants for the leaves; white ants get the young man's leaves; the young man must choose the right one in the herd a cow, a butterfly sits on it; a young man is invited to sit on a mat placed above a hole in which knives and broken glass; a young man pokes a mat with a stick, opening a hole; the king orders to put the young man in a bag, throw it into the river; the servants left the bag, the passer-by untied it, the young man put stones in the bag; said that at the bottom he was crowned king and now wanted to crown the counselor; people drowned the counselor, the young man was left alone ]: Cronise, Ward 1903:249-256; Hausa [of the three sons of rich Ahmadu, only the youngest Auta agree to limit his share in the inheritance with a stick and a shoe; A. meets a hunter, who asks for a stick knocks the bird off the tree, gives it to A., and the stick remains on the tree; A. consistently changes the bird to ash (the one who spread the fire had nothing to fry on it), ash to calebass with porridge (the woman asked for ash as seasoning instead of salt), porridge for a hoe (fed those who dug the ground), a hoe on 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 (who buried her they needed a shroud); however, 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 two wives; A. He settled in the forest, and sent his wives back; the Frog, the Monkey, the Horse, the Camel, the Donkey, the Three Species of Ants, the Mule, the Snake, the Bird (crown-bird), the White-breasted Crow came to live with him; they filled his house with gold, silver and slaves; The Spider reports this to the king; 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 from the north, Crown-Bird from the south); the snake offered to crawl into the royal belly daughters; let A. say that the medicine is 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 to put her on Sundays a piece of meat on an anthill; the Frog ate the meat, the Snake bit it and A., both died]: Tremearne 1913, No. 80:380-392 (retelling the first half in Klipple 1992:315-316).

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs [the widow's son asks his mother to heat the bath water to a boil; if she does not say who his father was, he will throw himself into boiling water; when he learns that a fisherman, he throws a net and pulls out gold chicken with chickens; the vizier asks to sell for 20 pounds, the young man refuses; the vizier tells the sultan that he calls the young man, buys the chicken for the same price; orders to get 1) a winged horse; the old woman sends a young man into the desert, he puts a saddle on his horse, brings; 2) singing water and a dancing branch (the old woman teaches him how to cut a branch, collect water without turning to the voices of the genies); 3) the daughter of another sultan, who guli are guarded; old woman: on the way, shave a sleeping fat man, sit next to him; the same, a big-eared man; a man with a long leg; a big eye; this is a guli; everyone becomes his companion and companion; the big-eared hears that the Sultan's people want to burn them, the big-eyed sees how the tent is covered with firewood, the long-legged man scattered the coals, the fat man, having drunk the river in advance, filled the fire with water; the same with an attempt poison those who came (the fat man eats everything without harming himself); the Sultan's daughter was sent away, but the big-eared and big-eyed saw and heard it, the long-legged returned her; the sultan died of grief; after At the funeral, a bird sat on the head of a fisherman's son; he was elected Sultan, married the daughter of the deceased]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 29:144-148.

North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria [Emhammed, the youngest of the Sultan's three sons, hunts lions and panthers, the elders bring partridges; the brothers envy him; they tell their father that he can bring an apple stalk whose the fruits are rejuvenating; the father sends E., who brought a stalk, the apple tree soon grew, brought three apples; the sultan ate and became younger; by the end of the year he grew old again, but new apples arrived in time; one day someone apples stole; the eldest son guards, efreet takes away both the apples and himself; a year later, the same with the middle son; when E.'s turn, he cuts off the efrita's hand, but he takes the apples; on a bloody trail, E. comes to the hole ; goes down the rope; there is a city; E. consistently meets three beauties, each on a golden bed, kidnapped on her wedding day; E. cut off the head of efrita, freed the brothers whom he beat and walled up; found 9 stolen apples, divided them between beauties; sent brothers, then women upstairs; the youngest gave a ring: if E. is not picked up, let him open the chest, there are two reeds in it, they must be thrown to the ground, they will turn into black and white goats; white will carry it to the ground, black will lower it even deeper; the brothers cut off the rope; E. touched the black goat, which carried it down; there is an old woman, with her dog, a donkey, two goats and a goat; in front of the dog straw, in front of a donkey, a thistle in front of goats; E. gave thistle to a donkey, straw to goats, bones to a dog; the old woman said that goats should not be taken to good pastures, they have owners; E. began to herd goats there; lions, panthers, jackals attacked, but E. killed them all; saw the snake crawl to the vulture nest; chopped it into 7 pieces and gave them to the chicks; mother bird grateful, the snake was her worst enemy, the mother bird takes E. to the ground; the three rescued women do not want to marry the E. brothers, who called themselves saviors; the youngest requires a caftan sewn without scissors and needles, let him stand and dance; the sultan tells the tailor to make a caftan; E. lives with a tailor, turned the ring given to him, 7 girls appear, they perform everything; now the girl demands a silver chicken with golden chickens; the same; the girl agreed with E. that at the wedding she would throw the apple not to the Sultan's eldest son, to whom he wanted to give it, but E.; E. appeared on a white horse, cut off two to his older brother finger; the next day against his middle brother on a black horse; the sultan slightly wounded E. with an arrow to identify him later; everything was clarified; the sultan gave the throne to E.; he forgave the brothers, married them to their elders beauties, and he married his youngest]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:39-63; the Arabs of Egypt [the man has 39 sons with his first wife and Mahammad from his second; they leave and are hired by the Sultan; envious brothers persuade him to tell M. to get 1) the ogre's sword; M. steals it from the sleeping giant; 2) his flying mare (the same); 3) his treasure chest; the cannibal grabbed M., he advises first fatten him; he pushes the ogre's wife into a boiling pot, puts on her clothes; the ogre eats meat, notices his wife's earring; M. runs away; the spirit from the chest advises M. to take everything for himself and become a sultan]: Nowak 1969, No. 184:188.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [have so many children in the family that it is impossible to find a godfather for a newborn; agreed the poor man he meets, in fact, he is St. Peter; he orders the girl to be named Pedro and brought to the appointed place in 7 years; after 7 years, St. Peter met a girl and led her; on a bad pasture there were fat sheep (good people going to heaven), and on a good pasture, skinny sheep (they were obsessed with pride); then a bright fire and a dark pillar; this is purgatory; the sweet pears on the tree are angels; the test is ahead, they will be rewarded in heaven; let P. call him when necessary and wear only men's clothes; P. hired the king; the queen entered his room, but he disappeared; irritated, the Queen threw the ring into the sea and said that P. boasted to get it; St. Peter: Ask the fishermen to let you peel the fish; one of the fish has a ring; next time, grind a lot of grain overnight (the flour is ready in the morning); the king's daughter under a spell in the country of the Moors; St. Peter tells the king to ask for two horses, gives three boxes; where the horses stop, there is a princess; P. and the princess ride home, the Moors in pursuit; P. throws boxes, fog appears; thicket; sea; through the Moors cannot; every time a silent princess says, Ah; the Queen demands that P. save the princess from her silence; St. Peter teaches to say that P. is unable to do this; they are going to hang him, but he asks for permission to ask three questions; P. turns to Anna Deladna (the princess's name), asking why she gasped; for the first time: because your mother started looking for you in bed; the second time: because St. Peter is your godson; third: because you are a woman, not a man; the king executed the Queen and married P.]: Pedroso 1882, No. 13:53-59; the Spanish [warrior Jose returned from America; his father died, his Brother Gomez kicked him out of the house, gave him the old chest; there were coins under the lid, but H. gave them to the poor woman; he hired the king, earned respect; G. was also hired; the king wants to marry Bella-Flor; G. says that only H. can get it; the white horse tells us to go; give the bread to the ants, free the entangled eagle, throw the fish off the bank into the water; the horse and X. approach the princess, she sits on the horse, they carry her away; on the way she throws bran on the road, a handkerchief at the top of the tree, a ring into the water; tells the king that she will leave the room where she locked herself when her lost things are brought to her; ants, an eagle, they get the fish; princess: let my kidnapper be cooked in oil; the horse takes H. to the spring, after swimming in which the oil is harmless; H. jumps into the cauldron, comes out handsome; the king wants to be younger too jumps, dies; H. gets the throne, marries a princess]: Shishlova 1971:100-109; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 4 [the king calls Muntifiuri into service; he takes a portrait of his sister with him; the king sees him and wants to marry him; M. comes to pick up his sister; an old woman asks to take her ugly daughter to the ship; tells her daughter to make a hole so that the siren takes Sister M.; the liar puts on clothes beauties; M. tells the king that his sister fell overboard; the king marries the neighbor brought in; she wants to lime M., tells the king that M. can build a fountain overnight 1); a sister appears out of the water, which sirens are held on a gold chain, promises that the fountain will be ready by morning; 2) plant a blooming garden around (the same); 3) the liar orders to herd 12 ducks, if one disappears in a day, executes; sister shakes with goats are pearls and gold, ducks eat it; they shout that Sister M. is brighter than the sun; the next morning, the liar hides one duck, says that M. has lost it; M. asks the king to allow him to go ashore for the last time; the sister orders M. to ask him to bury him at the fountain after the execution; goes out to mourn him for three nights; tells the king that he cuts off the chain, marries sister M.; the body of the liar is cut into pieces, salted in the barrel, with a hand with a ring on the bottom, is sent to its mother; she eats, does not give it to the cat and the dog; when she realizes that it is a daughter, the cat and the dog rejoice, otherwise they would comfort her]: 21-27; Crane 1885, No. 18 [younger of the 13 brothers, he always comes back first, receives soup from his mother; others are jealous, telling the king that he 1) can steal the cannibal blanket; the 13th climbed under the cannibal bed, grabbed the blanket at night and ran away; 2) steal the ogre's horse; the 13th gives the horse pies, takes him away; 3) a pillow with bells; the cannibal grabs the 13th, fattens it in a barrel, he first shows a mouse tail, finally a finger; the cannibal tells his wife bake on the 13th, he pushes the cannibal into the oven himself; general turmoil, the 13th takes the pillow away; 4) bring the ogre; the 13th pretends to be an old monk, brings the cannibal box, says that the 13th killed their boss, asks what the 13th is, the cannibal says that his height, the imaginary monk offers to get into the box, closes it, brings it to the king; he shackled the ogre in iron, brought the 13th closer to him]: 90-94; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 79 (Pisa) [Prince Fioravante is in love I am the weaver's daughter Sandrina; to distract him from the thought of marrying an uneven, the king sends him to his brother in Paris; on the way F. went into the house, a robber lived there, he forced him to change clothes and call himself a servant, and took the place of F. himself; in Paris, the local king appointed F. to serve in the stable; the deceiver tells the king that the servant was boasting bring horses that no one can tame; F. goes to pasture, a mare comes up and tells him to sit on it; F. brings horses; the deceiver persuades F. to send back Princess Isolina, who has disappeared, when she was 14; the king considers her dead; F. with the mare on the ship, tells the mare to catch fish, put it in a crystal goblet; when they sailed to India, the mare tells them to catch the bird, place it in a gold cup a cage; in the monastery, F. asked to show him S.'s grave; dug it up - I. is imperishable in gold and diamonds; but it is impossible to separate it from the plate on which she lies without finding the lace that was on her head; abbess: the lace fell into the sea; the mare: throw the fish into the sea, she will bring the lace in exchange for freedom; the bird took the lace from two dolphins and brought it; F. pulled I. out, but her soul is on a high mountain; the released bird brought a vial with the soul of I., I. came to life; the king is happy; the mare orders to accept the king's invitation to the feast on the condition that she, the mare, will also come; F. is silent at the feast, and the mare tells everything; advises tie the robber to her tail; galloped, the robber died; F. marries a princess, the mare says he forgot her; asks to cut off her head; he did this, the first people F. - S. ; F. regrets that he is already married, gives S. a rich dowry and marries a merchant]: 288-293; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [the prince knocked on someone's house, asked for a drink; the owner in response asked him to become his son's godson's godson ; the prince called him Valoroso ("brave"), left a note: when the boy is 14, let him come to his service; the young man was shy, asked to give the note to another, he pretended to be a godson, received a position (the prince had become king by that time); V. was hired to clean the stable; the imaginary V. decided to get rid of him, told the king that the young groom could get a golden bird; the king ordered to get it, otherwise she executes; the old woman ordered to ask the king for a golden cage and thread; the bird flew into the cage, V. pulled the thread and slammed the door shut; the imaginary V. persuades V. to send V. for the queen of the Moors from the green country; old lady: ask for a ship with musicians, dancers and food; three giants carried it across the seas, V. fed them meat and bread, they are grateful, let Schächtelein call them; ants appeared, V . fed them, they also let Schächtelein summon them; the same is the birds, the eagle gave a feather; the Queen of the Moors requires three tasks; 1) separate the rice, millet and corn mixed in the bucket (ants perform ); 2) cultivate a huge field (giants perform); 3) bring water from sources of living and dead water before sunrise (thrushes bring); the king has a feast; the imaginary V. stabbed the present with a dagger; the queen The Moors cut the body into pieces, revived it with living water, V. became handsome; the imaginary V. wanted the same thing, the queen poured dead water on it; married V., who became king]: 214-219; Widter et al. 1866, No. 9 (Veneto) [ The father has 13 sons; the youngest Tredesin ("thirteenth") left home, hired a rich man; the maid did not like the young man; tells the owner that T. can bring the blanket from the Bear's bed; T. went and brought it; in the morning, the Bear, as usual, asks his talking bird about the weather, and she replies that il tempo si è bell' e buon, but T. did what he wanted; maid: T. can steal the Bear's horse; T. he feathered his hooves with straw, stole it; the bird repeats his answer; the maid: T. will bring the bird itself; T. invited the bird to try a new cage, brought the bird; the maid: T. will bring the Bear himself; unrecognized T. came to the Bear, said that T. was dead and he was making a coffin for him; asked him to try it on, nailed the lid, brought it to the owner; said that the maid boasted that she could sit on a pile of straw (? Strohtriste) and not burn if set on fire; (maid burned)]: 134-137; Maltese: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 328 [when dying, the father blesses to be the eldest son named Thirteenth (he hunchback or boy with a finger); he steals speeding boots from the cannibal; is hired to serve the king; envious brothers persuade T. to give difficult errands; an old woman, old man or father help them perform; 1) steal an ogre blanket on which bells; T. hides under the ogre's bed, pours lice, fleas, bedbugs into it; the cannibal throws off the blanket, T. takes it away; or T. brings something else to the king blanket; 2) steal from the ogre a golden chicken with chickens, a magic mare or a silver bell; he feeds a mare, or bring another king; every now and then the bell rings, so the ogre stops paying attention; 3) steal the ogre's ring; he grabs T.; T. adjusts so that the ogre eats not him, but his wife; 4) deliver the cannibal himself; T. comes unrecognized, offers the cannibal try whether the iron cage in which the enemy is to be placed is strong; brings the ogre in a cage, he is burned; with his speeders, T. remains held in high esteem in the royal service], 486 [vizier persuades the king to give the hero difficult assignments]: 81-86, 136; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 36 [after his father's death, Giuvanni's elder brother took his home and garden, sending the younger Tangarella to Rome, for he had a godfather there; T. was ragged, but his godfather dressed him, his friends gave him money, T. started a stable for 20 horses; when the foals appeared, the green foal was constantly with T.; J. from envy told the king that T. could get the princess's missing ring; the horse explained that a fisherman should come by the sea, who caught only three fish today, a ring in one of them; T. brought a ring; J. says that T. boasted to bring heavenly and hellish water; the horse teaches the devils to enter the castle, collect boiling hellish and cool heavenly water there, run; T. caught on the threshold, his leg caught fire, but the horse caught fire told him to splash paradise water; on the way back and forth, the horse jumped across the river; when back, the devils tore off his tail; the princess does not want to marry T., tells him to burn; the horse teaches him to pour paradise alternately ( so as not to burn) and hellish (so that the flame could be seen from the outside); the princess came up believing that T. had burned down; he splashed hellish water and it burned down], 84 [two young men went to look for work, met a bella Bianca di Oru ("Snow-White Golden Beauty", B.); she advises them to go to the king; one began to herd sheep and the other to watch the chickens and envied the former; said that he boasted to get B.; old lady orders to take grain and meat with him; the young man scattered grain to ants, gave the meat to crows; ants gave an ant leg, crows gave a crow's leg to call them for help; B. orders to disassemble the mixed one by variety grain (ants sing); clear the place of crows where their clouds are (the chief of the ravens told them to fly away); the young man brought B.; now the poultry house says that the shepherd boasted to get the music from which they dance rams; the old woman blew the whistle, the rams are dancing; the king married the young man to B., and cut off the head of the poultry house]: 82-86, 186-188.

Western Europe. French: Cosquin 1887, No. 73 [a person with many children cannot find a godson for a newborn; the Lord meets him, offers to be a godson, and in 7 years he will take the boy; in 7 years takes; turns into a mule (the transformation is not described; but the godson is no longer a question, and the boy rides a mule who helps him with advice); tells him not to raise the pen - he will cause a lot of trouble; but the boy picked it up; when he came to the king and waved his pen, the bad stable became good, the king's bad hair was beautiful; he is at the mercy of the king, the courtiers are jealous; it is said that the boy promised to get it the bird whose feather he found; the mule: this will be the first bird we find on the boundary; the boy brought it to the king; the bird soon died; the courtiers: he undertook to revive it; mule: cut off my head, there will be living water; revive the bird and then me; new task: get Gold-haired beauty; mule: hit the drum, the first girl to stand up will be her; on the way back across the sea, Gold-haired threw her into the sea ring and key; agrees to marry the king only if he delivers her parents; the king demands it from the young man; the same episode with the drum; the gold-haired demands her ring and key, the king sends the young man; the mule: they will be in the belly of the fish caught by the first fisherman; Gold-haired: first let the young man hang, then I will marry the king; mule: ask the king for tobacco on the scaffold, throw him at others, everyone is dead ; only Gold-haired survived, the young man married her]: 290-294; Lopyreva 1959, No. 65 [the coal miner cannot baptize the 26th child, meets the king, he becomes Charles's godson, gives half castle; at the age of 18, his father sends him to Paris with half the castle in his pocket; the old woman tells him not to drink water on the way; the traveler offered a drink, stole half of the castle, showed it to the king, who mistook it for a godson; S. was hired as a shepherd; the imaginary godson told the king that a shepherd could go to the sun and ask why it was red; the old man gives S. a wooden horse; at home, the mother of the Sun, hides S.; the Sun says that in Princess Toroncolen is the next castle, so it must shine brighter so that she does not overshadow him; the godson tells the king that the shepherd undertakes to bring T.; the old man teaches how to feed ants, lions, hawks, they they promise to help; the hawkish king teaches how to approach the princess; she tells 1) to separate the seeds of clover, flax, hemp, turnips, cabbage (ants do); 2) cut down oaks before sunset (lions uprooted); 3) level the mountains (the hawks razed); T. tells you to throw the devil into the oven, the young mother must hold a wedding ring in front of the stove so that the devil does not jump out; the devil (i.e. the imaginary godson) burns; S. married T.]: 130-134, 302-313; Delarue 1957, No. 328 (Canada; also Nivernay, Upper Brittany) [the widow has sons Georges, Charles and Jean; Jean was nicknamed Parle; war broke out, the older brothers came to the king, P. after them; the elders told the king that P. was not related to them - let him fry the meat; but the king liked it; the brothers, out of envy, said that P. boasted to get the leaps and bounds under the bed giant; P. asked and received an invisibility cloak and file to cut off with one wave of the chain with which the boots were attached; brought boots; brothers: P. boasted to steal the moon from the giant; to carry out an assignment, P. asks the king for a bag of salt; pours it into the cauldron in which the giant's daughter cooks food; the giant cannot eat salted brew, sends his daughter to fetch water; because it is already dark, she takes the moon with her; P. grabs the moon, brings it to the king; brothers: P. boasted to get a giant's violin, when playing which everyone dances seven miles away; P. tries to get it in the same way (cuts a chain into that the moment when the giant sleeps and snores), but the giant grabbed him; P. advises to feed him first in the basement; the giant tells his daughter to guard; the giant's daughter and wife heat the stove, P. collides them, carries them away violin; brothers: P. boasted to deliver the giant himself; P. dresses as king, comes to the giant, complains about P.; doubts whether his closed wagon is strong enough to catch P. I would like to conclude it; the giant lies down to try it on, P. closes it, brings it to the king; having found out what was going on, the king burned the P. brothers in wooden cages, and P. married the king's daughter and inherited the kingdom]: 330-334; French (Haute-Brittany) [an envious guy tells the gentleman that Pierre allegedly promised to tear down the mountain in front of the castle; P. met a humpback old woman, she gave a magic wand, from whose touch the mountain disappeared; it was the fairy Margot; ends with several characters gluing to each other at Pierre's request; to separate them, the master had to give Pierre half possessions]: Sébillot 1894, No. 31:272-273; Bretons: Luzel in Cosquin 1887 [the son of the French king got lost hunting, spent the night with a coal miner whose wife had just given birth; left a letter that The boy Louis (Petit-Louis), when he grows up, must bring him - he will be admitted to the palace; when sending his son, his father tells him not to deal with the humpback, lame, leper; L. left the first two; despite for the advice of the horse, picked up a shining pen; when he leaned to the spring, the leper pushed him, took the horse and the letter, received him at the palace; L. hired a groom there, found his horse; the leper notices the light, spreading from the pen; tells the king that L. boasted that he could get a princess with golden hair; various animals join L. on the way; with their help he carries out the princess's tasks; When she arrives at the king, she demands that her silver castle be delivered to her; she threw the keys to it into the sea; the king of fish pulls them out; the princess demands that the groom be young, this requires living and dead water; the horse teaches L. how to make the crow bring them; the princess sprinkled dead water on the king and married L.; (hereinafter referred to as the cliff, living water does not appear)]: 294-295; Luzel 1887 (3), No. 3 [the courtier is Jeanne's lover; to get rid of her husband Jean, tells the king that he boasted to cut down the forest for firewood in three days; the old woman gives a hatchet, which caused all the oaks to collapse; on the second day, J. chopped them for firewood, the third brought it to the king; the courtier: Jean boasted to do such a thing that everyone gathered for the feast would laugh; the old woman gives a wand that can make people and animals stick to each other; the audience looks out the window and laughs; Jean let them go, makes peace with his wife, the courtier was thrown into the oven]: 407-413; the Irish [after working for a blacksmith, Césa MacRi na Tulach {Cesa is a dark bird colors} and Lun Dubh MacSmola are leaving, but realize that both want to go back and have the daughter of a blacksmith named Scéhide ni Wánanan; she chose LD, but SM nailed him a finger; let him go for the promise give up the girl, but LD made it a condition that he would have the first strike when he met; SM and his wife came to Finn's Castle; on the way he wore leather clothes, since then his name is Gilla na Grakin (fallen of the skin); he is hired by F. for a year and one day for five pounds and a room for his wife; kills more game than all F.'s people; Conan Maol says GG will destroy the Fennies, offers to send him to King Lochlin behind a pot of plenty with food; GG (this time and then) creates a ship by crossing two sticks (then always turns the ship back into chopsticks), sails to Lochlin, takes the cauldron, returns, kills everyone in battle, brings the cauldron to Finn; the same with the bowl in which there is always a drink, GG brings it from the King of the Tides; for the third time, KM offers to send GG east to find out why Gruagach has only one hair left on his head; GG defeats G., who tells how the hare ran, spoiled, chased, an old woman came out, turned his wife, son, daughter and two G. hounds into stone, He left one hair; GG kills a hare, defeats an old woman, makes him revive the petrified, kills her, comes to F. together with G.; KM pretends to be a child in fear, hides in the cradle; service life The GG is over, but the spirit from the source tells Finn that he must return the cup to the King of the Tides or fight him; GG tells Finn to ask his wife for permission to take it with him while she combs her hair and cannot refuse; the wife promises F. to return GG alive or dead; the King of the Tides is unfriendly, sends GG to kill a wild bull if he wants to eat; GG does everything, kills the King Tides and his men; GG and F. with a bowl sail back; a ship with an LD sails, strikes, kills GG; his wife tells her to be put in a chest with her husband's body, locks himself from the inside; sees two through the hole sparrows carry the third dead, three alive return from the island; GG's wife finds a spring on the island, revives her husband; GG finds LD, kills; F. is glad that GG is alive]: Curtin 1975:166-185; Germans ( Pomerania) [the main hunter is dead; the king will appoint the new one who will bring more game; a young hunter sees an underground dwarf fighting a bear; cut the bear's veins; a dwarf leads him inside mountains: his father will reward the hunter; we must take the most unsightly; the hunter took a rusty gun, a dirty horn and chose a plain skate; the mountain will attract any game, the gun does not need gunpowder and bullets, the horse talks; the hunter brought 4 carts of game, was appointed senior; other hunters are dissatisfied with his elevation; they tell the king that the hunter promised to dig three tons of gold from under the gazebo; the horse digs up; hunters: the chief promised to put a glass bridge instead of an iron bridge overnight; the horse fulfills again; hunters: the chief can bring the king a bride; the horse brings the hunter by air to the robber's castle, who captured the princess; the robbers agree to give the princess if the hunter can hide from them; the horse hides it under its tail; now the robbers command to bring a mighty mare that grazes at 10 miles from the castle; the horse helps to tame her; the robbers prepare to pick up the mare and not give the princess away; but the hunter takes the princess away, putting her on a mare; the king demands her for himself; the horse tells me to give it back, he the royal army cannot defeat; the dwarf king appears: let the hunter declare war on the king; an army of dwarfs appears, the king gives the hunter a woman and the throne; the mare asks the new king to cut off her head and the stallion; turn into a prince and a princess; they are brother and sister, whom the sorcerer has turned into horses]: Jahn 1891, No. 2:9-19; Germans (Pomerania) [the clerk goes to the blacksmith's wife; he promises let him down from the porch; the clerk tells the master that the blacksmith is able to grind all the grain in the barn overnight; he went to the blacksmith's wife himself, and he was locked in the barn; a little man appeared and with his help all the sheaves were threshed; the clerk advises to give the blacksmith a harder job: remove a bunch of heavy stones in front of the house in front of the house to arrange a goldfish pond; the little man does everything again; the clerk suggests Tell the blacksmith to forge a Himphamp overnight without fire, anvil, hammer and iron; little man: go home, get a whip, get under the bed, and when you don't like something at all, command: chemp hump, stick it! the lovers stuck together, the blacksmith began to whip them; in the morning he dragged them to the master; on the way he continued to give the same command, so that oxen, two people with a cart of hay, stuck to them; he finished them off in front of the master's eyes lovers with the last blow of the whip; the master drove him out of the village because he did not want to deal with evil spirits; the little man promised that if the blacksmith could wander around the villages for 7 years and not wash, get his hair cut, or washing clothes, everything will be fine; and there will be no shortage of food and drink; soon the blacksmith looked like a wild animal; 7 years later he came to a fabulously rich man, whose three daughters were no one married (wealth was obtained by witchcraft); the older two refused to marry the overgrown savage, and the youngest agreed, wanting to do good to his father; then a little man came up, washed, tonsured and dressed the blacksmith like this that he became like a prince; and his two older sisters hanged themselves in envy]: Jahn 1891, No. 44:239-244.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king's unloved wife has one son, the young and the beloved has two; a young son comes to his father and asks for the kingdom to be given to him during his lifetime; king: first you must work just as hard and To endure as many difficulties as I did; the same with his brother; Ballan is the son of an unloved wife, his king beats, but for the third time the courtiers advised me to tell him the same thing as his half-brothers; mother gave B. a horse and he set off; on the road a sparkling feather; horse: you'll pick it up, you'll regret it, and you won't regret it; B. picked it up, came to the city, stopped in the caravanserai; the local king and the vizier went out check whether all the lights are extinguished, for this is the royal order; light is visible in the caravanserai; the vizier came there in the morning; the young man had to give his pen; the vizier advised the king to send B. for the bird itself; horse: this easy: let the vizier give a cage of gold and silver from the treasury; the horse flew to where the bird lived; at dawn she flew to the cage, said that such a thing was for her, entered it; B. brought a cage with bird; vizier: let B. get the owner of the bird; horse: let gold and silver be given from the vizier's treasury to build a large ship; B. led the ship to the city where the princess lived; she boarded the ship to see it, B. sent the ship from the shore; she threw her ring into the sea; when they arrived, she told the king that she would marry the one who would get the ring; the horse: asked the ship with flour, it should be poured into the sea where the princess threw the ring; the fish ate and the fish leader asked how to thank for such a meal; B.: get the ring; take it out; vizier: let him get the princess's horse; horse: let the vizier give a bridle from gold and silver; that horse in the cave, he would kill B.'s horse, but let himself be curbed in that bridle and come on it; the princess cut the horse apart and demanded that it be made whole and revived again; horse: let the vizier will give a gold and silver bucket; they flew to the sea of living water; getting water, the horse lost consciousness, but the spray fell on his face and he came to life; B. should have sprayed it, but forgot; the horse ordered pour some of the water into bottles and hide it; princess: now let B. be burned at the stake; horse: rub yourself with living water and demand that they add firewood; king: who are you? it turned out that the king was Father B.'s brother; ordered the vizier to be thrown into the fire; they rode to Father B. and he handed him the kingdom]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 5:69-82; the Arabs of Syria (Damascus), Iraq [ 39 sons from his first wife and Mahammad from the second; they leave and are hired to serve the Sultan; envious brothers persuade him to tell M. to get 1) the cannibal's sword; M. steals it from a sleeping giant ; 2) his flying mare (the same); 3) his treasure chest; the cannibal grabbed M., who advises him to be fattened first; he pushes the ogre's wife into a boiling pot, puts on her clothes; the cannibal eats meat, notices his wife's earring; M. runs away; the spirit from the chest advises M. to take everything for himself and become a sultan]: Nowak 1969, No. 184:188; Iraqi Arabs (Prov. Maysan in eastern Iraq) [a poor hunter caught a pelican, who asked him to be released, promised to make him rich; the next day, the hunter caught a bird with gold and silver feathers; the Pelican advised give it to the Sultan; he paid generously; envious nobles advised to send a hunter for 1) the bird's brother; he immediately got caught online; 2) let the queen be sick, ask for pork milk in pork milk the skin carried by the pig, and a pig in front of it, and a pig behind it; the Pelican directs to the Tiger, tells him to pull a splinter out of his paw; he tells the wild boars to do as the sultan asked; 3) the daughter of the Indian king in wives; Pelican tells the Sultan to ask the Sultan for a gold engine (= motorcycle), made with the money of the viziers, to put those birds there; the viziers are broke; the daughter of the Indian king with two girls came to see the engine , the hunter took her away, the Sultan married her, made the hunter a vizier, married the princess's companion]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 14:74-81; Saudi Bedouins [generous Prince Emir Hamid distributed money and cattle, stayed with one camel; the sultan and the vizier came in disguised as dervishes; Eh stabbed a camel to feed the guests; the unrecognized sultan told him to come to the mosque on Friday: the sultan would reimburse the camel; when EH came to the mosque, his staff failed, a dungeon opened, with 7 vessels full of gold coins; Oh became rich again; the vizier advised him to kill EH, because he could bribe people and become himself Sultan; let the Sultan tell him to solve his dream: supposedly the Sultan dreamed that he said "woof" three times; OH will answer that only dogs say "woof", which is an insult; but OH explained everything differently: each of the three "woof" is part of a noble word; the last is part of the word "evil": let God punish the evil; the sultan cut off the vizier's head and brought EH closer to him]: Bushnaq 1987:11-13; Saudia [the bird asks the birdsman To let her go, promises to bring a more valuable one; brings gold; the birdsman's wife took her pen to the jeweler, who told the king; the tsar gave the birdman a lot of money; the envious jeweler persuaded the king to order bring the birdsman 1) the female of the same bird (the first bird leads), 2) the lioness's milk brought on the lion's back, otherwise the king's wife will go blind (the bird teaches you to remove the splinter from the lion, he brings milk), 3) remove a huge stone behind which treasures; the bird teaches a jeweler to cut off a jeweler's head on a stone, the stone split, the tsar received treasures, made the bird a vizier]: Juhaiman 1999:57-61; {in Yaremenko 1990, No. 20:112-116 The same fairy tale is called Iraqi, but since there are similar options in South Yemen and Socotra, and I do not know the Syro-Palestinian ones, Saudi attribution is more likely}; South Yemen [dying, the bird catcher asks his pregnant wife for his son to do the same craft as him; Ali, who has grown up, receives a snare from his mother, catches a hoopoe; a Jew asks to sell, A. refuses; another person advises to take a bird to the Sultan; the sultan pays generously; the Jew persuades A. to ask A. to get a female for the hoopoe; he gets, is afraid of further requests and invites his mother to go away, but the mother does not agree; the Jew advises order to bring a tek wood cage; A. sees a black snake fighting white snake and winning, killing a black snake; a white snake turns into a young man; says that his grandmother has a tek tree cage; leads to her mother, tells her to venerate her breast, otherwise she will kill; the grandmother gives a cage; the Jew advises to order a girl named Daughter of Lightning (DM) to be obtained; A. comes to that genie woman, she tells me to take a vessel of oil, grains and 700 camels; he pours oil on a bound old woman, who frees herself from her fetters, gives her hair - if burned, she will come to the rescue; the young man gives grain to hungry ants, their king gives a lace - if burned, he will come to the rescue; gives the hawks a hundred camels to eat; the king of the hawks gives an invisibility cloak; invisible, A. hears DM reading in the book: her husband will be A., he is close; A. opens; Arriving at the Sultan, DM tells him to kill the Jew first, he does so; invites the Sultan and A. to jump off the cliff; A. jumps easily, the rock falls on the Sultan; DM and A. live in his palace]: Canova 2002:231- 237; Socotra [husband died; when the son grew up, he asked his mother what his father did; she lies: he traveled; planted palm trees; herded sheep; the son tries to do it, but to no avail; he sticks his hand mother for a hot meal, she cries out, May God burn you, son of a birdsman! the young man bought a cage, caught birds, gave half to the old woman; caught a dove, left gold and silver next to her in the morning; the vizier told the Sultan about this, who ordered him to bring the young man and give the dove; the next morning there is nothing around; vizier: you must tell the young man to bring the male; the young man went to that old woman, she pointed out the cave, you must shoot when you see the light, take out the cage, leave it to her, give the pigeon to the Sultan; but gold and there is still no silver; vizier: we also need a cage; the old woman gave a cage, the young man brought it, but there is no gold again; vizier: we must get the daughter of Voskhod; old woman: let the vizier's money build a ship of gold and silver, and 14 girls as sailors; seeing a boat with girls, Voskhod's daughter wants to see the ship, he takes it away; the young man tells the Sultan that Voskhod's daughter will descend from the ship only if she is at every step killing a man and spreading the carpet is all at the expense of the vizier; when she sees the first person killed, the girl said that she would come anyway; tells the Sultan that she will marry him if he kills the birdsman's son, and not with a sword, not with flint, not poison; the young man is thrown into a hole, a fire is made, but he has an amulet, he is unharmed; the sultan decided that the fire is cold, jumped into it and burned; the young man married Voskhod's daughter]: Müller 1905, No. 2:50- 57.

South Asia. Kashmiris: Zographer 1964 [orphan Akhun meets the fairy Lalmal; she promises to help him if he does not seek her love; teaches how to distinguish a fake pearl; the king appoints him treasurer, the former persuades him to give difficult assignments, L. teaches what to do; 1) get a necklace of paradise; a heavenly peri will go down to the spring, you must hide your clothes, she will bring a necklace in return; 2) go from the funeral fire to heaven, give a message to the late king; L. tells the king to ask half of the treasury for expenses, sit on the carpet at the stake, he will quietly take L. to the hut; she tells deliver a letter and golden and silver apples to the king; in a letter, the king's late father asks for a former treasurer and chief adviser to be sent; both die in the fire; A. becomes chief adviser; after that L. agrees to marry A.]: 262-267 (=197:94-97); Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 12 [ahun (religious teacher) asks four sons what they would like to do; three want to follow in their father's footsteps, the fourth wants to be a thief; sneaks into the palace, where the vizier and the princess are preparing to escape; the vizier sends the princess with the thief, he must stay; in the morning the princess sees that she is not the vizier with her, becomes the young man's wife; he is hired by the king by the groom; the jeweler brings two rubies, the young man says that the wormhole is right about one; he is appointed gem keeper; the vizier wants to take possession of the young man's wife, To do this, she persuades the king's daughter to ask for a second ruby the same as the one brought by the jeweler (not defective, but expensive) and send a young man for him; a month later, the wife gives the young man a ruby, which she picked up in the river, he brings it to the king; the vizier offers to demand a ruby necklace; the wife tells the young man to hide by the river, 6 heavenly fairies will arrive, and then the seventh; her clothes must be hidden; the fairy Lalmal is forced to go with young men, when she speaks, rubies fall from her lips; he brings rubies to the king; the barber tells the vizier that the young man has a second wife; let the vizier take one and he, the barber, the other; the vizier offers to send the young man for the bracelet; L. sends her husband with a letter to the source where he met her; the young man takes the bracelet, taking off the hand that held it out; the vizier: the second bracelet; L. sends her husband with a ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl the young man addresses is the daughter of a woman whose arm he tore off; to save him, the girl turned him into a pebble, took an oath from her mother; mother sent a young man with a letter to her sons ordering him to be killed; her daughter ordered her to come to her wedding; gave edible peas, you just have to pretend to eat inedible; gave iron claws - the brothers will ask them to scratch their backs; he did everything, the demons said that Solomon was calling them, did not come; the young man takes the demoness's daughter as his wife, asks for a flying skin (i.e. a flying carpet) as a gift; brings bracelet; barber: he has a third wife, the king must receive her; the king tells the young man to bring news from the deceased king father and the fruit of paradise; the young man tells him to make a fire, flies away from it on a flying carpet; the fairy wife makes a fruit from seven metals, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased king: come with a vizier and a barber; they burned down; the first vizier came, the young man gave it to him to his bride, sent the fairy into her world, stayed himself with his third wife; that vizier became king, the young man became a vizier]: 85-105; the Assames [the lame prince and his brothers (half-brothers) go to get a tree on which jewelry hangs; loots the daughters of the King of Death, the King of Pigeons, the King of the Nagas, the King of the Serpents, the King of the Fans, the King of the Vultures, as well as a tree; on the way back, his brothers kill him, take possession of princesses and a chest with there is a tree inside; the chest can only be opened by the lame prince himself; the daughter of the King of Death revives him; the prince is made minister, his brothers are executed; the barber persuades the king to give the prince difficult assignments; 1) scatter lentil seeds (pulses) and mustard seeds and collect and divide them overnight (pigeons performed); 2) dig up two reservoirs overnight and settle nagas (nagas performed) in them; 3) establish a snake kingdom ( the snakes performed); 4) to get the magic ring of the royal ancestors for the king (the fans were performed); from the wave of one fan, the prince died, went to the afterlife, received a ring, and from the wave of another he came to life; the barber He saw it; the prince tells the king that his ancestors need a barber; he takes both fans and tells his wife to revive him second; but the wife is tired of waiting, hit the barber on the head and he died]: Goswami 1960:110-111 ; Bengalis [the rich man went bankrupt and died, his two sons were orphans; began to steal peas in the field; there was a gold-colored calf, went with his younger brother; the elder married and the wife disliked young man; offered to look in his head, cut off his head; the calf found the body and head, joined it, revived it with grass; the older brother's wife pretended to be sick, demanded blood from the calf; he offered the butcher to take blood but not meat; blood and meat, but not bones; it did not help; then the calf and the young man ran away; when they reached Peri Island, the calf died, telling them what to do before; first the peri flew in, but not they touched the carcass; then the Gorur bird flew in; the young man grabbed her and released her after she married her daughter; the wife created a house, they healed well; one day a royal horse ran in; his wife hit him palm on his forehead; seeing the print of a beautiful palm, the king wanted to take the woman away; demanded that her husband 1) collect a hundred measures of mustard seeds scattered across the plowed field overnight (the birds collected; the king of birds, that is, Gorur, noticed that one seed is missing and found it in the eye of a blind bird); 2) bring the tigress's milk (the wife teaches me how to set fire to the forest, the tigress will run, leaving the cubs; they must be fed, grateful tigress will give milk; the man brought milk to the king, and a tiger cub next to him); 3) go to heaven to visit the king's parents; the wife quietly took her husband from the funeral fire and hid it in an underground room for six months; A year later, a man came to the king and said that the king's ancestors were prospering, but they did not have a barber, so they asked them to send them (the king invented difficult tasks for the hero at the instigation of a barber); the barber was burned, the king gave a man a gift and appointed a vizier]: Devi 1915:84-96; muria [Raja caught and brought a pregnant antelope, but his son released her; the Raja drove her son away; the antelope became the girl, the wife of Raja's son; Seeing the snake grabbing the frog, the Raja's son cut off and gave the snake a piece of his flesh by hand, and the frog escaped; the barber saw the beauty, advised the Raja to take her away from the young man; let him bring it 1) tiger milk; the wife tells me to raise her hand in front of the tigress; she gave milk and her two cubs; 2) Rakshasa grains; the wife wrote a note, Rakshasi gave grain and her two cannibals; 3) thrown into the well rani necklace; the snake and the frog took out the necklace; 4) grow a fruiting mango grove overnight; the wife became an antelope, where she ran, where mangoes grew; told her husband to cut off her head, became a woman again; told her husband to return to her father, but she became an antelope again and ran away]: Elwin 1944, No. 18.4:401-403; Telugu {the collection contains mainly Telugu texts and several Marathi texts; exists there is little possibility that this text does not refer to Telugu, but to Marathi} [the prince went on a journey; came to another king, called himself the son of a peasant, became a servant; the princess handed him over with him a letter to the vizier's son asking him to run away at night; he tore the letter and told the vizier that his son was lazy to study; the vizier locked his son; the young man came on a date instead of him; in the morning when the princess noticed substitution, the maid said it was fate; the fugitives stopped in the forest, the young man went to fetch water; saw the palace, there was a beauty in a pool of blood, her head was separate; the young man twitched the vine, the body and head joined together; the beauty told the young man to leave before the Rakshasa appeared; the young man separated his body from his head again, brought the princess water, they arrived in another country; there the merchant asked for a high price for fish; the young man says that this fish - three-quarters of the scales and a quarter of water; both disputed all the property, the young man won, received the merchant's house and property; became the royal guard; found and gave the king an emerald, who gave his daughter; her parrot replies that the princess will be even more beautiful if she has a second emerald of the same kind; the king sends a young man; he returns to the Rakshasa Palace, connects the beauty's head to the body, she teaches go to her sisters, they give emerald and younger sister, who has taken the form of a rice sheaf; the parrot advises to ask for a Parijataka flower; the sheaf wife says that the flower is in the sisters' garden; the maid of the first the princess proves to her that the young man is a prince, let her ask him to make her the main wife; the young man took out a flower, killed Rakshasa with an arrow; the parrot tells the royal daughter who received the flower to marry the young man; with With four wives, the young man first visited the father of the first princess and then came to his father]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 82:153-160; kannada [the mighty king asks four sons what they will do after his death; elder: I will continue my father's work on the throne; second: I will help my brother rule the state; third: I will lead the army; fourth: I will become king of kings, build my own city and marry four heavenly maidens; the king expelled his youngest son; once in the forest, he came to the old woman's house; she is the daughter of a hermit sage who lost control and raped a girl; then his the tiger was killed, and the daughter who was born was ugly; her mother died and she became a hermit in the forest; as a result, she became powerful; the young man began to herd her cows; she told them not to take them north; he went hid by the pond; Indra's four heavenly daughters came down, took off their sari and began to swim; he stole one sari; the maiden ran after him, promised to become a wife, he looked around in amazement, she took the sari and turned the young man in stone; the old woman found him and revived him; told him to take the sari and run to her house and not look back; he did so; the old woman turned him into a baby, and hid the sari inside his thigh, so that the seam was not apparently; when the maiden came running, the old woman advised her to cover herself by giving a cotton sari; then promised to return the sari if the virgin agreed to become the young man's wife; the young man and wife came to town; the king's servants saw the maiden was told to the king; he pretended to be sick, sent the young man to extract the venom of the serpent Karkotak; his wife sent him to the mountains to the snake hole and gave a letter to the snake; on the way he saved a worm from the web; threw a letter at a hole; four snakes took him to the lower world to the king of snakes; the letter asked him to marry his daughter and comply with his request for poison; returning with his second wife and poison, the young man gave the poison to the king's servants ; when they opened the bottle, the tamarind standing next to it broke out and burned; the king ordered the poison to be buried deeper; sent the young man to bring the crocodile's bile; on the way, the young man let the young man on land into the water crocodile; the young man sent letters from his wife to the crocodiles; the king of the seas gave him a daughter, diamonds and bile; now the king asks him to go to heaven to Indra and find out how his late parents and brothers are doing; wives They wrote many letters, the young man jumped into the fire, the god of fire took him to heaven, where Indra gave him a daughter, letters to the king and minister, and returned him to the ground; on the way, the young man saved the ants when the anthill was flooded with water; the young man gave letters; inviting him to heaven - you must also jump into the fire; the king and minister and his families burned down; the young man made a poor brahmana king; he and four wives built a new city; at this time his father lost his kingdom and became a firewood seller; he came with his family to the young man's town; he sheltered them; gave his first wife's sari to his mother; his wife asked her for it, put it on and all four wives flew to heaven, and The city turned into a jungle again; the young man brought his brothers and mother to the city, where he made a brahman king, and went to look for wives himself; his wives met him and was the first to say that he should be tested by Indra, so that he would recognize him as a son-in-law; his wives took him to heaven, turning him into a fish in a vessel of water, and left him; I. tells 1) to collect the scattered sesame in 3 hours (the young man called the ants - they perform); 2) get the ring thrown there from the well (the frog took it out; when the informant met the hero with the frog, he was lowered; to do this, the frog threw the tadpole to be eaten by snakes at the bottom of the well, and found the ring himself); 3) cut the banana tree into three parts with one blow (the crocodile cut it); 4) recognize the first wife among three identical girls (the worm, now a flying insect, sat on her sari); I. arranged wedding; on earth, a young man conquered kingdoms; his father admitted that he was right]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 3:5-15; Tamils [the king asks his seven sons what everyone would like to do on this cool night; one wants to invade neighbors at the head of the army, the other wants to irrigate, the third wants to hunt, etc.; the seventh wants to have 4 wives, daughters of Indra, Agni, Varuna and Adishesha by his side; the father is furious orders the execution of her son, the mother warns him to run; the torturers brought the king the blood of an animal; the prince lives with an old woman and herds cattle; contrary to the prohibition, he goes north, climbs a fruit tree and sees Indra's daughter swimming in a pond; steals her clothes, runs, she asks him to look back, he turns into stone, Indra's daughter returns to heaven with four other maidens; the old woman revives the prince, She told her not to look back next time, but to bring her clothes; turned the prince into a three-year-old child, sewing clothes into his thigh; gave Indra's daughter her clothes, who stayed with the old woman; she convinced her marry the prince, turning him back into a young man; six months later he sends them to live alone, telling the prince not to give his wife her heavenly clothes; they come to town, the vizier advises the king to select his wife, for this purpose pretend to be sick, send the prince for snake venom; the wife gives a note to his uncle, tells him to put him in any anthill; he sends the prince the necessary poison and another wife {Adishesha's daughter?} ; when the poison bag was slightly opened, he burned half of the forest; the vizier suggests sending the prince for whale fat; the wives wrote a note to their uncle Varuna, Mr. of the Seas, who sent a daughter and fat; the vizier: send the prince to convey messages to the dead; the wives write a letter to Agni, the prince throws it into the fire, jumps himself, returns to his wives, and then comes out of the fire unharmed, supposedly answering letters from the king and courtiers; in the dead ask them to visit them; the king and all the others threw themselves into the fire and burned down; the prince and four wives go to their father; in the middle of the journey, the wives create a magnificent city; the prince's father was deprived of power enemies, collects firewood with the whole family; they come to the city, their son and daughters-in-law greet them; one day, the prince went hunting, taking the clothes of Indra's daughter sewn in it from his thigh and handed them over mother; she showed her daughters-in-law and they flew to heaven, and the city and all her possessions disappeared; the prince went to an old woman who helped get Indra's daughter; on the way he saved ants, a frog, a cricket from the river, dying without water; the old woman sent him to sit by the path that those heavenly maidens walked every day after bathing; on the 40th day they agreed to take him to Indra in heaven; moved him to heaven a frog; Indra agrees to give him his daughter, but he must complete three tasks to get her sisters; 1) reassemble the sown sesame (ants collected); 2) get the ring out of the snake well (frogs they dive into the well, most are eaten by snakes, but one pulls out a ring); 3) cut down 7 fused plane trees with one blow (Agni's daughter does it herself); 4) I. gave all four maidens the same appearance, ordered identify his daughter (the cricket jumped on her leg); the prince with his four wives returns to earth, regains the city and power]: Natesa Sastri 1886:80-119.

China - Korea. Koreans [the cinnamon tree grew to the moon; the mooners decided to drag it towards them; they raised it in three years and three months; the remaining hole on the ground is a lake in the Paikdu Mountains; now the tree has become obscure the moonlight, the night is very dark; God sent a storm, it tore out a tree on the moon, killing all its inhabitants; moonspots are the trail where it grew; when the tree was back on earth, God sent an angel girl protect him from the Stars; she gave birth to a boy from the spirit of the tree; God told him to protect the tree himself now, his mother brought him back to heaven; the rain flooded the earth with a flood; the Father tree told his son to climb on it, then swim on it; swimming, the young man saved ants and mosquitoes; but the Tree refuses to save the drowning boy three times; with difficulty agrees to the son's request; after the flood, both young men come to the hut, where the old woman and her daughter; when she dies, she must choose her husband; the rescued person lies that the son of the Tree can quickly clean and collect millet scattered in the sand (ants perform); the old woman says that she will give her daughter to the guesser, in what kind of room she is; the mosquito whispers to the son of the Tree, what is in the east; the son of a tree marries, people come from them]: Cho 2001, No. 79:122-126 (everything but the beginning, from the episode of conception from a tree also in Ząng 1952, No. 8:16-18).

The Balkans. Romanians [the old man advises the childless emperor to send a fisherman to catch a fish; if the Empress eats it, she will give birth; the fish does not bite, the fisherman asks God or the devil to help catch it; water monster gives fish for promising to give what he does not know at home; a fisherman brings fish, the Empress gives birth; the fisherman's wife was also pregnant, gives birth to Peter; he grows up, goes to a monster; a monster in the form of a man meets on his way, tells him to go to him on horseback; the horse advises him to run, on the way P. picks up a golden pen, is hired by the emperor as a clerk, writes the pen for him; other servants report this to the emperor, they urge P. to send 1) the bird whose feather it was; along the way, P. feeds people who ate each other, they promise to help; the same thing feeds fish in the sea; the horse advises P. to lure the bird with food and wine, P. brings it to the emperor; 2) marry Emperor Slava-Mir; P. brings her, she promises to marry the emperor if they also bring her glass palace; those people bring the palace, get fish from the bottom of the sea lost keys; Glory Mira asks for the Water of Life, the Water of Beauty, the Water of Death; their mistress tells P. to divide wheat, barley, oats in an hour; the birds that P. used to feed are shared; Glory Mira gives the emperor drink the Water of Death instead of the Water of Beauty, he dies, P. gets a wife and a throne]: Browne 1915:320-329; Romanians [the king has three daughters, and he must send his son to serve the Red King; daughters take turns they are called to put on men's clothes and drive; in the shoes of a bear, the father frightens the eldest, she turns back; the same with the middle one; the youngest is not afraid; at court, the imaginary young man cooks better than the royal sons and is made cook; envious sons tell their father that the young man boasted to bring dates from the bear garden; the horse helps to do this; they say that the young man promised to bring a stallion from a herd of wild mares in the Sahara; the horse orders him to put buffalo skin and give him a loop; fighting the stallion, throws a noose over him and leads him; bring alive and dead water from behind the crushing mountains; the horse says that at noon mountains they stop for a while; the girl has extracted water, but hears a voice behind her: whoever does this will change his sex; get a tour with a star on his forehead; the horse tells you to dig a hole, hide in it, jump out, cut off the tour head and sit in a hole until dawn until the tour dies; when the ex-girlfriend returns, and now the young man tells the Red King that his sons boasted to sit in a burning haystack and tell stories; they burned down, and the young man returns to his father and inherits the throne]: Bîrlea 1966:430-431; Romanians [poor old people have three sons, the youngest Tsugul; the fairies gave him a good fate, but the sorceress snake took him away strands; brothers reluctantly put C. on a mare, take him hunting; the fairy gives him a belt: he can take any form to return the Snake to his veins; after becoming a bee, C. flies to the Snake's house; from the Snake's conversation with his daughters finds out that the veins are in the chest behind the stove; next time he arrives like a fly, takes the veins; fighting, he kills three snake son-in-law of the Snake Witch, gave their horses to his brothers, took the youngest for himself; the Snake tells his daughters to take a different form to destroy C.; the elder brother wants to pick grapes, C. cuts the vineyard, black blood flows; the same is a plum orchard; the same is a stream (the brothers wanted to drink, C. plunged into the stream is a spear, blood has flowed); the witch herself flies, C. hides in the cave, then comes to the king, asks to forge a club; heated it, shoved it into a hole in the fortress wall; the Snake pulled the air into itself, a red-hot club fell into her mouth, she died; the boyars advise the tsar to get rid of C., offer to send him to the Kingdom of Strier, marry the king; Ts meets, takes him as companions 1) forever a hungry man who plows seven with plows; 2) running and stroking hares on the run, tied a millstone to his feet; 3) freezing on a hot day, one mustache is white, the other is black; 4) hitting a mosquito in the sky with an arrow; 5) a sage (waves a stick - birds flock); everyone, not knowing at first who is in front of him, says that he is not a hero, but a real hero - C.; the king of Streer demands: 1) eat all the bread baked in a day in 9 ovens (Oat eats); 2) drink 9 barrels of wine (Drinking drinks); 3) enter a hot oven (Freezing has cooled it); 4) bring water from the magic spring, overtaking the maid (the maid put it to sleep) Speedboat, looking for him in his head; The shooter wakes him up by knocking out the horse skull left by the girl from under his head, Skorokhod came first); 5) let 50 infertile women be born overnight (The Sage did so that they gave birth; touched the king with a stick - there is a brood of ducklings behind the king, everyone laughs); C. spared the eagle, pulled the thorn out of the bear's paw, they promised to help; brought the princess to the king, he gave it to him himself; the brothers stabbed Ts, took the horse and the bride; C. was still a little alive, his eagle and bear were coming out, the eagle brought alive and dead water, C. became the same; the eagle untied the horse Ts, the bear frightened the brothers; the horse killed the brothers with hooves, The king of Streer bequeathed the throne to C., he married the princess, received both kingdoms]: Sadetsky 1973:79-101; Moldovans [the elderly have a son Alistar Fat-Frumos; when they die, they tell him to smell the basil, A. finds strength; hired by a worker to a dragon; he puts his son under a red veil, A. under a black veil; A. swaps places with the dragon's son, he kills his son; A. running, carrying an unquenchable candle, the dragon pursues only to the river; A. is hired by the master, the envious groom says that A. boasted 1) to bring the dragon horse; A. chipped in with a fly, disturbs the horse until the dragon tells him not to laugh anymore; took the horse away ; 2) steal the dragon kushma (hat); A. chipped in with a cat, but was caught, the snake began to fatten him; A. asks the snake to show how to sit in the oven, shoves it itself, takes the kushma; 3) the dragon himself; A. pretended to be a bochar, asks the snake to check for holes, bobs it up, brings it; the master wants to look at the snake in the hole, he sucked it through it; at home A. finds the girl: the snake stole her and turned her into candle]: Botezat 1981:181-190 (=Moldavian tales 1968:410-419); Hungarians [father sent three sons to explore the world; they agreed to eat the youngest's supplies first, then the middle one; after eating supplies the youngest, dazzled him and abandoned him; he rolled into a swamp whose mud turned out to be magical: reviving the dead and making cripples healthy; took a supply of dirt with him; revived a mouse, a bee, a wolf; everyone gave call the whistle for help; the young man was hired by the same king as his brothers; they want to lime it; they say that the younger one boasted that he could remove all the bread from the fields overnight (the mice collected); maybe for the night from the palace to the bazaar to build a wax bridge (the bees built it); deliver 12 wolves by morning; the wolf brought all the wolves of the kingdom; the guy sat on top of the wolf king, and the wolves gnawed at everyone they saw; The king wanted to pay off, but the wolves tore them all apart, leaving only the princess; the guy still lives with her, unless he died]: Stier 1950:65-70; Albanians: Dozon 1991, No. 12 [the king spent the night with a rich man a Wallachian shepherd; that night the mistress gave birth; the king ordered the boy to learn tongues and gave a cross; when the young man was 15, let him come to him and show him the cross; the young man grew up and went to the king, went down to the spring; the servant, threatening to throw a stone at him, forced him to change his clothes and status; swore that the young man would not expose him; he promised that he would free himself from his oath only by dying and When he was resurrected, the king kindly received the deceiver, and the young man was among the servants; the deceiver pretended to be sick, asked his servant (i.e. the young man) to be sent for cabbage, which Luby would guard; in a dream, an old man appeared to the young man; He ordered to take 14 measures of honey, 14 milk and come at noon, when Luby is not at home; on the way, the young man met that old man; he teaches: clean the walls of the tone in Luby's house, hide, leave honey and milk; Luby will eat and ask the person who brought such a dish to appear; ask for cabbage; eat three legs, and he, the old man, will give a head of cabbage for the deceiver on the way back; that's what happened; the deceiver pretended to be sick again: we must get the Beauty of the Earth; the old man tells us to ask the king to give him a thousand lambs, rams, a hundred measures of wheat and honey, and 10 brooms; we must throw lambs to eagles, wheat to ants, honey to bees, rams to lions, clean the walls and door to the chambers of the Beauty of the Earth with brooms; animals will ask what reward the young man would like; ask lions, bees, ants and catch by fur, feather, etc.; if you burn hair, etc., animals will come to the rescue; the Beauty of the Earth asks the guards why they did not stop the young man; guards: you did not feed us like this, did not clean us; she tells the young man to separate the mixture of wheat, barley, rye and land overnight ( ants divided); bring live water from behind the crushing mountains (eagles: at noon, the mountains stop for half an hour; they brought a young man, he collected water and they brought it back); identify her among 12 girls (on a bee sat down on her); the deceiver asks the king to kill the young man, he did it himself; the Beauty of the Earth sent a servant to bring the victim, revived him with living water; the young man was able to tell the king everything; the deceiver was torn apart by four trees; the young man went to visit his parents, leaving the king's wife the robe he had bought for the Beauty of the Earth; ordered not to give it to her until he returned; there were dances and the Beauty of the Earth refused to participate without it robes; the king's youngest daughter secretly handed it to her; she tells the young man that he will find her, wearing out three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing out his shoes, he stopped in a tavern, where they feed for free: it is necessary Just tell us what he saw along the way; one man described how he dropped a bottle of water, went down into the ravine and saw 12 girls bathing; the young man went to the ravine, grabbed his wife's clothes and threw it into the fire; the beautiful woman stayed with the boy forever]: 83-96; Elsie 1001 [peers tell the young man that his brother is Pasha in Baghdad; the mother admits that this is so, she is afraid for her son; he goes, meets the barefoot, returns; He goes again, meets him again, he becomes a companion; the young man is thirsty, lowers him barefoot into the well; pulls him out for his promise to recognize him as Pasha's brother and to become barefoot; Pasha accepted them; imaginary brother wants to get rid of the present; persuades Pasha to offer him difficult assignments; 1) kill Kukshedra (dragon; young man kills); 2) get the daughter of the Persian Shah; the young man goes on a journey, meets , takes a runner drinking the river as a companion (catches up with hares); kills a snake that tried to eat an eagle's chicks, which gives its pen; he does not step on an anthill, the queen of ants gives a wing; the shah demands 1) eat 300 plates of food (Drinking eats); 2) overtake riders (runner overtakes); 3) split wheat, barley and millet (ants separate); get live water from a cave on a mountain at the edge of the world (eagle brings); Pasha's imaginary brother kills the present with a sword; the Shah's daughter splashes living water on that, he comes to life; Pasha reveals his secret, since the dead and alive does not have to follow his oath to remain silent; the deceiver was burned in the stove], No. 17 (without pagination); Serkova 1989 [Changaloz and his two older brothers are hungry; the man advises them to squeeze the millet field, then the owner will feed them; the owner is a cannibal with one eye to forehead; C. lies that he is illiterate, One-eye sends him with a note to his wife, telling him to prepare the sent; C. replaces the letter with an order to feed the messenger; at night, C. tells him to change the blanket with sons of One-Eyed, he kills sons, brothers run away; the elders tell the king that C. can 1) bring the best homespun blanket (C. sprinkles vetch seeds into the yard of One-Eyed, he thinks it's in sheaves millet falls off, puts a blanket, C. takes it away); 2) get the fastest horse (C. feeds the One-Eyed horse with raisins, who first calls the owner, but C. hides, then takes the horse away); 3) bring One-Eyed; unrecognized C. cuts a nut, supposedly to make the coffin of Changaloz, who he killed; asks O. to try it on, bobs it up, brings it to the king; invites the brothers to open the lid; they are afraid, then he burns One-Eyed through the eye cover with a spit; drives around the city; gets the king's daughter]: 48-55; Lambertz 1952 [Dedalija wanders, meets, companions a man with his foot against the mountain so that the mountain does not fall on him, who he thinks rests against the sky so that the sky does not fall; they come to the cave, there is an old woman, she closes the iron door behind them, with her Cyclops son Katallâni and his wife; those who come pretend that fell asleep, D. hears K. negotiating with his mother to fry those who came; when the inhabitants of the cave fell asleep, D. freshens the rams, pulls their skins over himself and his companions, burns K.'s eye with a hot skewer; K. and his mother unsuccessfully tries to find people among the rams, release them with the rams; D.'s companions, out of envy, persuade the king to send D. to bring the Cyclops horse; D. digs a dig under the wall of the stable, rolls a stone to the door; the horse calls K. twice, K. promises to beat him for a false alarm; D. promises the horse a good life and leads him to the king; the companions suggest sending D. to bring the Cyclops ring; D. he made his way to the Cyclops, took off the ring, hid it in his mouth, but he caught it, chained it, hung it on a hook; when he goes hunting, he tells D. to fry; he pretends not to go into the oven, asks K.'s mother to show fried it herself, brought the king a ring; in the evening, K. and his wife found a fried mother; the companions persuade the king to send D. to bring K. himself; D. cuts down the forest, says K. that D. is dead and he must make it to him coffin; asks K. to get into the coffin to try on whether he is tall; hammers with nails, brings him to the king on a cart; he ordered a hole to be drilled, looked at K., ordered the coffin to be drowned together with D.'s companions; and married a princess]: 9-21; Lambertz 1952 [the dervish gives the childless king an apple: let the queen eat it and the mare eat the peel; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not love her stepson, hears him talks to the foal; pretends to be sick, tells his husband to slaughter the foal; he tells the young man to ask for permission to ride one last time, pull three hairs out of his mane, jumps through a locked gate, jumps away; does not advise the young man to raise his pen, but he raises it; refuses to give the pen to the vizier, gives it to the king; the vizier becomes the enemy of the young man, invites the king to send him for the bird itself; the horse advises lure the bird into the cage with pearlescent beads; the bird sings while he thinks that the young man has caught it for himself; when he finds out what is for the king, he falls silent; the vizier: let Oru bring this bird; the young man asks the ship, two The vizier's daughters and 12 maids are similar to each other; now the vizier says that the bird does not have Ora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think they have the same maid, but in fact every day is different; the young man tells the maids to pour poison into their food; on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were dying; the ship entered the harbor, the vizier's daughters complained to the cadia, but could not determine which of the 12 maids was to blame, died; the young man left the maids in the city, swam on; the distance of food to the herons and flies fighting for food, they promised to help; comes to Oram, they promise to let the owner of the bird go with him if he separates the oats from barley and revive dead fish (flies separate, heron brings living water from across the sea); when Ora came to the king, the bird sang, grabbed its feather, both (the bird and Ora) flew away; the young man told the vizier that his daughters fell ill and died; the vizier advises to send the young man for the Kjühelane mares; the horses identified their young man in the horse, followed him; the king orders to milk the mares, boil the milk - let the young man bathe in it; for a short time, the mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and the vizier rushed after them, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: 91- 106; Pedersen 1898, No. 8 [the son asks his mother who his deceased father was; she does not want to speak, then admits that he is a hunter; the young man finds, puts his father's gun in order, and becomes a good hunter; in a distant forest, she sees pieces of meat hanging on a tree; touches them, the meat turns into the Beauty of the World; she explains that the black dwarf appears at night, revives it, and when he leaves in the morning, cuts it back to pieces; under with a tree, the young man picked up two precious stones without telling the beauty; brought her to his mother; at this time the king died, the new one forbade lighting; the young man did not know that the stones he had taken glowed; the young man I had to bring the stones to the palace; on the way, the vizier tried to persuade him to sell them, but the young man gave them to the king; in order to take revenge, the vizier told the king that the young man could bring many such stones; the wife told her to hit her to fill the pot with tears; these tears must be irrigated stones in the mountains; the young man brought the king stones to build a palace, he was pleased; once he killed a lynx, against his wife's advice, carried the king's skin; refused again a vizier who wanted to buy it himself; he persuaded the king to bring many skins to decorate the entire palace; his wife tells him to fill the spring with wine, the lynxes will get drunk and intoxicated; the king received skins; the vizier suggests sending a message to the deceased king so that he will also rejoice in his son's wealth; the wife orders that all residents write letters to the next world; tells her husband to take them on horseback and unnoticed return; keeps her husband and horse starving so that people believe that they have been to the next world; writes answers to all letters; in response to the king, his late father asks for a vizier; the vizier demands that the young man be sent survived in boiling oil; his wife gives him herbs, which the dwarf revived her; the young man is unharmed; the king orders the vizier to be thrown into boiling oil, makes a young man a vizier]: 53-67; Serbs [son dreams, as if he became a royal son-in-law, refuses to tell his parents, they drive him away; the young man refuses to tell the king a dream, he puts him in prison, he makes a way to the princess's room, has been living for three years with her; the princess promises to marry the groom, who will throw a spear over the wall, tells him to summon that imprisoned slave; he throws it over, likes the king, gets the princess; the viziers demand that he bring the squad 1000 people; on the way, the young man is joined by 1) listening to grass grow, 2) overtaking birds, 3) throwing a spear to the sky, 4) eating a huge pot of corn, 5) drinking a lake; viziers offer ( the winner takes the loser's wife) 1) eat everything cooked (Eats), 2) throw it into the oven and take the person out alive (Vipivalo fills with water), 3) overtake the winged sorceress (Runner overtakes, but falls asleep, the Rumor finds out about it, the Javelin Thrower kills the sorceress, the Runner brings a jug of water); the young man picks up the wives of the viziers on the line, lives well in the palace]: Karadzich 1853 to Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:36-43; Serbs [the king promises to marry three sons if they bring 1) a beautiful handkerchief (the youngest comes to the princess, whose deceased father, becoming a vampire, kills suitors; is not afraid spend the night in the palace, gets a handkerchief); 2) a long chain (the same); 3) the bride; first the youngest son comes to a triple wedding in poor clothes, then appears in all its splendor]: Karadzich 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:66-70; Serbs [a golden ram 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 vine, make wine in a week (the girl she meets performs), 2) ivory castle (the girl teaches how to pour wine into the pond, the elephants are drunk, the castle is built), 3) get the princess (the girl teaches you to buy by on the road of an eagle, carp, pigeon; pulling out the feather, scales, let go; lure the princess to the ship; she will let the bird tell about herself, the eagle will catch it; throw a pebble to stop the ship, swallow the carp a pebble; the ship will be petrified between two mountains, the queen will ask for living water, the dove will bring; at home, the king tells the young man to be cut off in order to take the princess, who revives the young man with living water; the king tells him to cut off his head The princess does not revive him, the young man reigns]: Karadzic 1854, No. 12:96-106 (=Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:88-94, =Schütz 1960, No. 10:73-80); Croats: Schütz 1960, No. 6 (Dubrovnik) [father died, when the 13th son was born; the brothers grew up, went on a journey, stayed at the ogre's house for the night; the hostess warned that her husband would come in the evening; the youngest does not sleep, hears how the hostess teaches her husband distinguish sleeping young men from their daughters: boys have red hats, girls have gold chains around their necks; younger brother puts hats on girls, chains on brothers; in the morning the brothers left, the youngest went alone, hired the king to make coffee; the brothers were jealous, told the king that his cook could steal the cannibal's blanket; the young man came to the ogre, advised him to feed him first; he put it down sleep on the floor; at night the young man began to pull the veil; the cannibal decided that his wife was pulling the veil, threw the blanket on the floor, the young man brought it to the king; the brothers advise telling the younger to bring gold talking cannibal parrot; the parrot flew with the young man because he gave him sugar; bring the ogre himself; the young man brings the chest, pretends to be looking for an ogre's enemy to fry alive; the cannibal climbs to check whether he is strong in the chest, the young man brings him to the king; the cannibal was burned, the young man received the princess, and then the throne], 16 [7 brothers went to look for wives so that they were 7 sisters; the youngest took a thin skate , but this horse was magical; the old woman said she had 7 daughters; the horse warned her younger brother that it was a witch, that she was hiding her eighth daughter with golden hair; at night the youngest did not sleep, changed the hats of the old woman's brothers and daughters, put the bridles of horses on the old woman's mares; at night, the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the younger one tells the brothers to run; when he returned, he shouted to the old woman that she killed her daughters; the old woman turned her grip into a horse, rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads, the youngest broke up with his elders, who did not like him; the youngest's horse tells him not to pay attention what he would see or hear; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hair, three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man was hired by a groom for the king, works best; the other grooms were jealous they noticed gold things, said to the king; he ordered to bring a girl with golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in the swamp, the witch will come running at this time We must take the girl; the young man brought her to the king; he wants to give her for his son; girl: first get three ducks whose golden feathers; the king sent the young man to pick up ducks; they slept with the witch again ducks were stolen; the witch is chasing, the horse tells to abandon the scraper, a dense forest has appeared; now the girl demands to get a horse whose golden horseshoe is; the young man's horse tells him to put 8 buffalo skins on him; a sea stallion He tore them off, but he was tired, he had a blue flame from his mouth, and the young man's horse was red; the horse was followed by sea mares; the girl tells them to milk, the milk is boiling, the vat was filled with it; let the groom redeem; the horse cooled milk, the young man became handsome; the Queen also threw himself into the milk, but it boiled, he died; the king adopted a young man instead of the deceased, gave him a gold-haired man]: 54-60, 126-133; Greeks: Hahn 1864 (2) ( about. Syros, Cyclades) [the hunter sees a bird with a jewel on its head; it says that if he shoots it, it will be his happiness, and if he misses, misfortune; the bird turned its head, the bullet flew by; out of grief, the hunter soon died; his son grew up, his mother assigned him to a shoemaker, but he demanded that his father be told what his father was doing; his mother had to give him his father's gun; it happened again, but the young man shot a bird; when he was carrying the stone home, the vizier asked to sell it, the young man refused; he had to sell it to the king, who paid 30,000 piastres; but soon demanded that the young man build an ivory tower - if he could shoot this bird, he could do it too; the mother explained that the vizier set it all up; advised him to ask for 40,000 piastres to build the tower and let the vizier give them; this money is needed buy wine and bread, fill the lowland, the surrounding peasants will gather and get drunk, they must be killed, a tower built out of their bones (elephants are out of the question - human bones}; the king feels sorry that many people have died, but he rewarded the young man; now the vizier advises the king to order the young man to marry the Beauty of Peace for him; mother: let the king give a ship with 40 girls, including the only daughter of the vizier; when he sailed to that the country, the young man told the girls to wait 40 days for him, went alone; meets a Moor giant, an ant man, a water bread, a speedboat, whose every step is equal to what a person walks in five hours; each says that he is not brave, but the son of a hunter yes; the young man replies that he is the son of a hunter; everyone gives his hair to summon him; the young man comes in the Beauty of the World, she advises him to leave while he is intact; gives tasks: 1) eat a monstrous amount of meat and bread by morning (the young man calls the giant, he ate everything); 2) survive in a hot oven (water bread cools it); 3) divide the grain into varieties (ants separate); 4) bring an apple from afar in a quarter of an hour (the speedboat brings); now the Beauty of the World agrees to become the young man's wife; they return by ship and the Beauty of Peace promises to arrange everything; quietly killed the king and vizier, the hunter's son is recognized as king]: 3-15; Megas 1970, No. 33 [the king sails on a ship, finds himself on a foreign shore, goes to a shepherd; baptizes his newborn son; leaves a ring and a note; does not order it to accompany the lame, blind, and beardless (baldchin); the young man goes to look for the godfather; takes the lame, the blind, but they are slow, he leaves them behind; the beardless offers to let him down to get water into the well; After taking an oath, he takes an oath that he will give him a ring and a note, will remain silent until death; the king sends a young man to herd cows, takes the deceiver for a son; the young man understands the language of birds and animals, laughs at swallows ; the deceiver persuades the king to send him to bring him 1) the Pipiree bird from India; the maid teaches him to fly a flying horse, avoid the fire, the young man brings a bird; 2) bring Gold-haired; the maid explains that you must take it with you; the horse wakes up the young man, he kills the snake that devoured the eagle's chicks; she first thinks that it was the young man who killed the chicks, the chicks explain; the eagle gives a pen; the horse tells you not to trample ants, young man feeds them grain; the ant gives its wing; the young man saves the fish aground, it gives a seed; he saves bees from the water, feeds honey, they give a sting; the king promises to give his Gold-haired daughter if the boy 1) will take out a ring thrown into the sea (fish bring), 2) separate the mixture of different grains (ants perform), 3) bring the water of life; the eagle tells you to go to the mountains, fills the young man's golden vessel with water; the king believes, ordering the Moor to be killed and revived; 4) to identify the bride among 40 girls (the bee sits on her); the young man brings Gold-haired; the beardless tells him to take an apple from the very top, the young man falls, breaks, beardless buries him; Gold-haired revives with living water; the young man is released from his oath; the beardless man is tied to the horse's tail]: 83-93.

Central Europe. The Poles [three elders find a baby; they call the Three Son; a cow appears, they feed the boy with her milk; when they die, the cow teaches to summon a miracle horse; T. orders him to be brought to the palace; along the way, he pulls out a firebird's feather; the king appoints T. as a guard; other guards turn off the lights; T. illuminates everything with a firebird pen; appointed chief of the guard; the guards persuade the king to bring himself a bird; the horse carries to its habitat, the bird follows them voluntarily; the month is eclipsed, the guards say that T. can find out why; the horse carries to where the palace of the month hangs above the ground, the firebird raises there; the mother of the month is afraid that her son will kill the guest; the month says that one princess fell in love with him, and her sorcerer father made her queen of the sea, so the month sent all rays into the sea; T. says about this to the king, he appointed him governor; envious people say that T. can get the princess herself; they call her three times, the princess comes out of the sea, tells him to give the king a ring and sword, let the king defeat her; during the battle, the princess cuts off the king's head, makes T. husband, he becomes tsar; a cow appears - she is T.'s mother, now she has atoned for her sins, disappears underground]: Dombrovsky 1992:252-266; Czechs [at the king 7 sons; the youngest Yalmir is weak, has difficulty walking; the brothers go to see the world; at night the old man makes Y. healthy and strong, gives a white horse; on it he instantly caught up with his brothers; paid for them at the stand in the yard; they don't recognize him; they go to a cannibal who has 7 daughters; I quietly pour out the wine; when everyone lies down, the cannibal tries to see if the brothers are sleeping; first hits with a broom, then burns tar on his chest; everyone once he says that six times they sleep, then the seventh one sleeps; I change the cannibal's brothers and daughters, she cuts off the heads of her daughters; in the morning the brothers gallop away; I open up to my brothers, they envy him that he is the best; horse: I asked you not to open up to the brothers, now there will be trouble; they all hired the king; the brothers told him that I could get birds that the king does not have; I took the horse back to that one. cannibal; in three rooms, birds in silver, gold, diamond cages; we must take a plain bird in a wooden cage in the fourth room; I brought a cage and the horse ordered the bird to be released; in the morning, the royal garden is full of birds; now the brothers offer to send Y. to get animals; (all the same, but instead of cages, chains on animals); in the morning in the king's garden, deer, rabbits, squirrels, etc.; brothers They suggest sending Ya for wine; the horse tells me to make a rope and net out of his two hairs; you have to go down to the cellar, take a vessel with a wooden cork, not vessels with silver, gold, diamond, and run; or jump into the net and the horse will pull him out by the rope; as it happened; the king found that the wine in the vessel did not decrease no matter how much you drink; the king appointed I. First Minister; brothers: get the princess from a golden castle in the middle of the sea; the horse tells me to ask the king for a lot of bread, wine, etc.; this was fed to three giants; in addition, I. released fish into the sea and fed the eagle; the giants built a dam to the island; the princess went with Y., but demanded that the king deliver her golden castle; I fed the giants again; they delivered the castle; the princess demands the lost key; the fish found it; the princess demands the water of death, life and youth; I. walked along the dam that had been built, but the waves understood it; the eagle pulled out and showed the sources of water; then moved it to where the horse was; the princess rubbed the king with different water, but by chance twice - the water of death; after that it is impossible to revive; the princess called King Y., and he called her queen; the people burned the brothers alive; the horse tells him to cut off his head, a white dove flies out of his body and hides in the sky; I. rules and is happy with his wife]: Curtin 1890:370-405; Czechs [fisherman sees a huge bird fly out of the reeds; swims there to ruin the nest; bird: don't spoil what you find; he finds 9 huge eggs, brings home; so three times; 27 young men appear from eggs, the father appoints the youngest chief; sends him to the king; he orders to mow and remove hay in the meadow; at night one guards, falls asleep, in the morning the haystack is scattered across the field; the same the next night (four fall asleep); the younger brother goes to the third, does not sleep; 27 horses come running; the white horse says that the young man's name is Sternberg, and he will serve him; the brothers take black horses; return to their father; 26 brothers decide to leave, but S. catches them up; on the way, S. frees the tied greyhound, eagle, carp aground; the brothers remain with the king, whose fiancée Velenka was kidnapped; brothers they say that S. can return her; a white horse brings him to V., kidnapped by the witch; tells him to pretend to be a merchant, offer gold shoes; V. gets out of the boat on which she sailed, S. grabs her, takes her away, the witch can't catch up; V. is in love with S.; says that she needs the witch's remaining dress to marry the king; the king asks S. for help; the witch will give the dress chest if S. tames three mares ( this is her daughter); the first runs away with a hare, a greyhound catches up with him; the second with a crow, catches up with an eagle; the third with fish (catches up with the carp); the witch wanted to hit S. with a rod, but he pulled him out, hit her, turned her into stone ; brought a chest; third task: the key to the chest; the skate tells you to take a magic rod with you; S. turns lion guards into stones, takes the key from the latter's mouth; V. unlocks the chest, does not take it out dress, and sword: I will cut off the heads of both the king and S., whose blood is nobler, will come to life; S. came to life, the king is dead; brothers Sh. (they are now dukes) are jealous that he became king; they turned to the witch, who turned S. into a nightingale; the horse took V. to the forest, explained that the nightingale should be sprayed three times with water from the spring; the nightingale turned into Sh.; he caught up with the fleeing brothers, turned him into stones, threw the rod into the fire, a cliff grew; a white horse tells him to cut off his head; a dove flew out of his body and flew away; S. ruled happily ever after]: Ně mcová 1990:77-99; Slovaks [the peasant has 12 sons, 11 despise the younger Janko; hired by the king, a year later they each received a free will; next time a cow; then a horse; I. is afraid choose a strong horse; a thin skate advises him to choose one; brothers galloped off; horse: will we jump like the sun or like the wind? I.: so as not to suffer; a brass horse and a copper horseman, I. ends up in the inn before the brothers, who say they saw the bronze horseman; next time he saw the bronze horseman; the next time he was silver; gold; the brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch plowing on 6 horses; she says that she has 12 daughters; whips horses, they turn into 12 girls; before the wedding, the horse teaches me: not to sit in in the middle, say that he is the youngest, must watch the horses; do not drink wine, eat soup, roast, pour them out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup with a brush, roast with a comb, hide them under clothes; let the brothers lie in the place of the witch's daughters at night, and they in the place of the brothers; at night, the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking she is killing young men; the horse tells them to jump away, pick nothing up along the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, Y. asks if to pick it up; horse: pick it up, it will be bad, you won't pick it up, even worse; I picked it up; the horse tells you to throw the comb (a mountain covered with dense forest); then the same: a witch throws a golden pen, I. throws a brush (prickly thickets); golden hair - glass (sea, the witch stops chasing); reconciled with his brothers, the skate tells him to be hired to serve the king; other grooms (in some versions these are brothers Y.) burn candles, but I. did not; the grooms saw that I. illuminated the witch's golden horseshoe stable; the king demands a horse whose horseshoe; they rode to the witch and while she was sleeping, I stole from under. pillows keys, took the horse away, hid his sword; shouted about it to the witch, she chased, but could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that Y.'s stable was bright again, the light from the pen; the king demands a bird; I took it off my waist The witch's sleeping keys, broke her sword, took the cage with the duck laying the golden eggs; the third time, golden hair, the king demands a girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in her teeth, I carefully took them out, broke them the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl away; from across the sea shouted to the witch that he would not return to her again; she turned into tar out of anger; the girl only wanted me, the king was going to execute him; the skate tells me to boil the pot of milk, absorbed the heat, I. swam, turned gold; the king also decided to swim, the horse returned the heat, the king cooked; I. became king]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 8:36-46; Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [someone steals apples from Tsar Danilo; two servants go to their mistresses, an old man caught a golden man on a golden horse; Tsarevich Ivan, his arrow hit the prison window; the peasant returned the arrow, for which I. released it and gave the horse back; the king called the other kings of gold to watch, but the prison was empty; expelled the prince; thus the cook servant; invited I. to go down to the well for a drink; picked it up after I. gave him his clothes and promised to be called a cook; the imaginary prince marries Princess Mary, and the cook sent the end of his mouth; the golden peasant leads to him, gives a magic tablecloth , does not allow horses to run away; M. allows you to spend the night with her behind the tablecloth; the next time the same (an inexhaustible bottle with 12 necks); the third time, a gem; M. goes beyond the present I.-Tsarevich, and the cook persuades the dumb boyars to lime I.; each time he comes out of the stove himself from his fingernail, beard off his elbow, offers tasks; as if I. boasted to create a church with all the clergy overnight; M. summoned the spirits, they did everything; next time: the ship, take the letter to Tsar Saltan, going through the needle's ears; the spirits did everything; to get it "scary and terrible"; M. sends it to the old man; I. takes it servant and changes to "scary and terrible", which is on the captain's ship; the old man also returned; M. and I. gave the tsar a ball, he developed, everyone died; M. revived everyone, and the dumb boyars disappeared]: Balashov 1970, No. 6: 48-56; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pinezhsky district, Truanogorsk vol., village. Ubra, 1925) [a rookie, birthday boy, after drinking wine, is looking for a worthy opponent; a hero appears and asks for help defeat raspberries; carries the young man into an open field, fights raspberry, but cannot win, well done helps; the hero takes the young man back and warns that he will be hired to serve as a groom for the king, the older grooms dislike him; if they force him to complete difficult tasks, let him do well he will call, "I-brother"; well done goes to the king as a younger groom; the king sees the light overseas, promises half the kingdom, and after his death, the throne to those who find out what it is; the older grooms say that the younger brags about what he can find out; well done, he calls I-brother, who says that the light is the golden dress of the queen who came out on the porch; the king wants to marry the queen and again upon the denunciation of the older grooms sends a good man to her; I-brother takes him to the queen's palace, well done flies into her room with a mosquito, turns into a man, lies down on the bed, the queen wakes up, takes a sword, well done turns into a ring on her finger, persuades them to marry; I-brother takes them to the king's state; when asked by the king to marry, the queen asks for a wedding dress from far away seas after three locks in the box; upon the denunciation of the elder grooms, the king sends the youngest to get a dress; I-brother takes him to the church, turns into a golden doe, people run after him, and well done, enters an empty church and takes the dress; the queen demands a pair of black horses, from under the gray stone, gold bridle; again the king sends the younger groom, I-brother helps: now the real service has come; I-brother sends a good man read the psalter ashore at night; after three waves, when the water reaches his chest and all three candles go out, horses appear and pull him into the sea; well done, he calls I-brother, he helps bring the horses ashore; The Tsar marries the Queen]: Ozarovskaya 2009, No. 28:276-280; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the old man found 9 eggs in the forest, gathered them in a mitten to pick up on his way back, but no more eggs; old woman angry; the same 19 eggs; when 33 were carried home, and they fell and broke, 33 fellows appeared; the father had nothing to mow, they went to mow the royal protected meadows; the king took them for himself, giving the old man a lot of bread; someone then he steals hay; only Ivan does not sleep; a golden-maned mare with 33 foals came out of the sea, I. saddled one foal; he teaches his mother to catch (roll over it when the mare runs up to him, and grab her); the night is bright with the golden mane; the king lets the brothers marry, each on one of those horses; one grandmother has 9 daughters, the second has 19, the third has 33; Ivan's mare teaches to go with the youngest, to quilt her until she gives flint, a lash and a magic handkerchief; a mare: the old woman will put the brides to bed, they will wear white hats, and you will wear black ones; you must change; the sword will roll and cut off the heads under the black ones hats; then you have to run; the old woman is chasing a chariot of fire; Ivan waved his handkerchief - the bridge; when the old woman waved again on the bridge, the bridge disappeared, the old woman fell into the sea and drowned; the brothers think that Out of envy, Ivan killed their brides, rushed at him, but the mare drove them away; Ivan became the king's groom, the other grooms are jealous; they tell the king that Ivan ran to get him a princess; the mare brings him to the garden, she chipped in with an apple tree, the princess comes up, Ivan grabs her, they jump to the king; the princess demands to get her wedding dress first; when the princess is gone, her father took the dress to the cathedral for the funeral service; the mare lured people from the cathedral, Ivan grabbed his dress, galloped away; princess: to rejuvenate, you have to jump into a cauldron with milk, then with boiling water, then with cold water; king: let Ivan be the first; the mare cooled the boiling water for Ivan, and the tsar was cooked; the princess married Ivan]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:183-193; Russians (Vologda) [in the forest, the hunter hears noise and roar, it's the lion and the devil fighting, everyone asks for help; hunter shot a lion; a grateful devil leads to his father, who gives a ring, with 12 fellows who make wishes come true; the devil offers to hire the king to herd cattle; his cattle are all intact; other shepherds report to the tsar, what is new, supposedly, to get Olena, the granddaughter of a weevil grandmother; hell brings a man there, put the guards to sleep, the man brought O. to the king; O. requires a wedding dress; the devil brings to the cathedral, where the dress is under throne, became a gold-minded doe, distracted attention, killed the last nun with a brick, put on his clothes, took his dress, rode to the fallow deer; get horses and carriage (obtained); O. tells the king to cut off his head the servant, he does not dare, O. cuts off the king's head, the man became king, married O.; O. found out about the ring, gave it to her grandmother Dolgonoska, she scattered the kingdom, scorched her husband O.; hell taught me how to hack his grandmother in the bathhouse; the man got O. again, everything is fine]: Smirnov 1917, No. 30:167-174; Russians (Pskov) [Ivan buried his merchant father; went hunting, no prey; he pointed his gun at the crow three times; the raven at him shoulder, he brought him to visit him; then the raven offered to take him to visit him; drops him three times over the sea, picks him up; says that he was also afraid when I. pointed his gun; flew to the old woman, this is the mother of a crow, she agreed to give I. a golden egg; they stayed for several days, but it turned out that 5 years; the raven brought I. back to his house, where I.'s mother lived all the estate; the raven tells him to be hired to the king; the king orders to build a palace; the raven takes a golden egg, the palace has appeared; senators tell the king that I. boasted to get Alain the Beautiful; they come by ship to far away, the raven lured Alena to the ship, took her away; the king wants to marry her; A. demands a dress from her father; the raven brought I. there, became a golden-maned horse, everyone ran out of the church to catch, I. took her dress ; now A. demands his carriage from the bottom of the sea; the raven rose into the sky, threw himself into the water, the water spread 4 versts, I. pulled out the carriage; A.: get my earrings from the bottom; the copper wolf requires a receipt: he he will get earrings, but for this I. will allow me to eat it when he goes to marry; I. gave it, received earrings; A.: whoever rejects my stroller is my husband; only I. unlocked; the raven created a wax figure of I.; the wolf rushed to her, and I. safely married A.]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 16:36-41; Russians (Voronezh) [An old man kills a bird with 21 eggs while hunting. The old woman orders him to incubate them. After 21 weeks, 20 sons hatch, and a week later, the last son, Ivan the Boltun, appears. The old man gets rich, notices that someone steals ricks, sends his sons to guard at night, the older brothers fall asleep and do not see the thief, and Ivan's turn comes the last night. He prepares a hammer and iron bits. Ivan does not sleep and catches a mare and its 21 foals (hit between his ears with a hammer). The father praises Ivan, takes the mare, the brothers sort out the foals, Ivan gets the weakest. Father and sons go hunting. Four times Ivan lets the foal go into the field to gain strength (he bends first at hand, then under his foot, under a sitting rider). Ivan catches up with his brothers, sees fire on the third day, finds a golden pen, despite the skate's warnings, and takes it with him. The father orders all horses to be cleaned, Ivan waves his pen - his horse turns gold. The father praises Ivan and shames the rest of the brothers. The brothers are jealous and tell their father that Ivan boasts to catch a toy cat, a dancer gander and a tsimbalka fox, the father sends his youngest son for animals. With the help of a horse, he does everything. The brothers tell their father that Ivan can get samogudes. Ivan finds himself at Baba Yaga, who gives him a ball, he brings him to Yaga's middle sister, the mother of Snake Gorynych, who keeps harps. The mother feeds her son, puts him to play cards with Ivan, and the players agree that the winner will eat the loser. Ivan wins in two days, asks to give him the harp, the Serpent gives it back, rejoices that he remains alive and has not been eaten. The father again, out of slander of his elder sons, orders Ivan to get Mary Queen. He sails by ship, lures the princess to him by playing the harp (I've never heard it), and brings it to his father. The father then gives all orders to his son at the request of the bride and demands to bring her box. Ivan distracts the palace guards by releasing his golden horse, pulls out the box and bringing it back. He hunts 12 mares on his father's orders: he wraps his horse with twine and pours resin over him - he drives horses out of the sea, his protection is torn by the teeth of horses. By order of his father, he milks mares, boils their milk and jumps into it after the horse's conditional signal. Ivan is getting handsome. Marya demands that her father also swim, but he dies in boiling milk. Ivan marries Mary]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 17:97-105; Russians (Kursk, Timsky, etc.) [The Tsar has three sons - Vasily Tsarevich, Dmitry Tsarevich, Ivan Tsarevich. Someone mows the grass every night. The king and older brothers are on guard, they can't catch anyone. I. catches a peasant - himself from his fingernail, a beard from his elbow, brings him to his father, who puts him in prison. The next day, I. plays, shoots an arrow, and she ends up in prison. The man asks to let him out, promising to come in handy. I., while his mother searches in his head, steals the keys. The king, wanting to show the prisoner to the guests, discovers the loss, orders I. The princes propose to expel him. Ivan Tsarevich is given to Uncle Ivan. They go, they want to get drunk, they find a well in the woods. The uncle, threatening to drown I., forces him to recognize him as a prince, exchange clothes and horses, signing an agreement in blood. They come to see the prince. The false prince goes to the palace, and I. is sent to the bird's yard. The prince's sheep fell ill. The uncle says that I. He drives them into the forest, sits on a stump, complains about the peasant, because of whom he is suffering. The little man shows up, blows at the sheep, heals them. He leads I. to himself, in the glacier he gives a bucket of mash to drink, from which I. becomes strong. The peasant's mother gives a magic tablecloth and a stone that will glow brighter than 20 candles. I. are made a senior groom. He uses a tablecloth to treat the rest of the grooms. The next day, the prince orders the cows to be healed. Likewise, a man gives two buckets of braga to drink, and his mother gives a cane that can summon 12 musicians and 5,000 soldiers. I. walks and has fun. The next day he is ordered to cure sick horses. Same thing, three buckets. I.: If there were a pole, one end in the ground and the other in the sky, it would turn all the light. The little man gives half a bucket of braga of powerlessness. He gives three horses: "Gay, sivka-burka, eternal kaurka! Stand in front of me like a leaf in front of grass!" They served him for 33 years, tells them to serve I. as well, says goodbye. Prince gives I. a glass of vodka as a reward, I. drinks and goes to bed. When he wakes up, the windows of the wards are covered with black cloth. An old woman and an old man from the kitchen explain that a strong army rises to the prince, 3 inches in his forehead and 3 arshins in his shoulders. I. calls a horse, breaks the army. He calls the hero a broad-minded pig. The enemy hero shouts that he had no opponents in the world and demands: "Raise my eyebrows!" Fifteen people raise him, I. cuts off his head. Sleeps 6 days and 6 nights. When he wakes up, the barn blows down with his spirit. The old man reports that a soldier of 6 inches in his forehead and 6 arshins in his shoulders rises to the prince. I. sits on the second horse, breaks the army. Sleeps 9 days and 9 nights. The windows are black again. Old man: A soldier with 9 inches in his forehead and 9 arshins in his shoulders rises to the prince. I. sits on his "heroic horse". He calls the hero a broad-minded bull. The hero tells you to raise your eyebrows. Fifty people raise his eyebrows. They come together, they don't hit each other, both swords break in half. I.: "My father is riding your father to fetch water." The hero turns around, I. cuts off his head. He returns, marries a prince's daughter, throws his uncle]: Belkin 1853, No. 10:533-536; Belarusians [a childless grandfather dreams: collect bird eggs and sit; he collected 31, the woman sat out, boys were born; they christened everyone, the last name was not enough, they called Mal-Malyshok; the sons went to mow, M. broke the oak tree, mows it; every night one haystack disappears; ten brothers are watching, no one noticed; M. orders to forge an iron club, threw it up, put his forehead, it split; the 40 pound did not split; M. hits the mare with a club, she gave him foals, M. took the worst one; the brothers left; after the death of his parents, M. caught up with them; the first Baba Yaga has 29 daughters, she refers to her sister, she has 30, she has 31; the horse tells M. that the brothers quietly wear hats on the brides at night, and They would tie their handkerchiefs for themselves; Baba Yaga cut off the heads of her daughters with a self-made sword; Baba Yaga catches up with a goat, M. killed him; the brothers were hired by the king, M. the elder, the brothers persuade the king to order M. Baba Yaga's self-seated sword; M. carried away; brothers: get samogudes; M. carried away; brothers: M. can find out why the sun has been in one place for three hours; M. goes to the sun; whale fish asks to know why it lies on shore; M. arrives for the Month, who first hides him from the Sun Brother, then M. opened; Sun: looked at the Bagpipe Girl when she was sailing in the golden chute; let the whale spit out 40 swallowed ships; the king orders to get the bagpipe girl; M. offered V. wine, she got drunk, he took her away; V. tells me to get a chest of her clothes from the bottom of the sea; M. sends a self-made sword to cut fish, whale fish asks not to do so, pulls out a chest; V.: now the keys to the chest are from the bottom of the sea; the last cancer brought the keys; V. to get married, build a church of gold and silver bricks and the same bridge; and that the resin boils in the cauldron; V. She did everything herself, the tsar fell into the resin, M. became tsar, married V.]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:94-109; Belarusians (p. Markovichi, Gomel University) [The man had three sons: "two so and this, and Mikita's third is a fool." He put them to bed. When the elder was awake, he asked what he had dreamed. He replied: Forges. And he said to his son, You should be a blacksmith. The average dreamed of a field and millet. He said to be your plowman. I asked the youngest. Mikita said, "You washed my feet and you drank that water." The father said: a fool dreams of nonsense. The father and sons went to dig, and Mikita dressed up in festive clothes and wore them along the road. And a merchant was driving along the way, and he asked: who is walking? The father replies: "This is my son, a reveler. He doesn't have much intelligence." "Sell it to us," says the merchant. Mikita asked the arshin: he measured the land with them and dug a hole. The merchant gave his father the best horse for the ransom. And a merchant bought it because his son did not have it. The merchant says: it's time for you to marry. Mikita declined. His father gave him a small shop. A year later, another year passed, my father's shops rotted, and Mikita's shops expanded, and trade began. Other merchants persuaded him to write to the king on behalf of Mikita: there is a king in one kingdom, and he has a daughter, Maria Pavlovna, and I would marry her for our king. "Otherwise, we won't be merchants if we don't kill Mikita," the merchants decided. Mikita was summoned by the king. Sends it by a matchmaker Mikita asks for 12 more Mikit like this: "one voice, one hair, the whole breed is like this!" And horses are the same. Found 12 Mikit. And Mikita says: let me study science for 3 years: learn different skills. Three years have passed, and Mikit the king calls back. He feast with the elder for three days, and gather them for matchmakers on the road. On the road, we met two wolves that the horse's head would not be separated. They were divided equally. Then they greet you with goosebumps: he asks to save the ant family from the fire, and she will help him. Then he carried the mouse through the fire. Next is the bees. He tore the flower in half for the bees. We came to see the king. We put up tents. The king saw the tents: go find out who says who puts tents near the palace without asking. They introduced themselves as matchmakers. The king called to his place. It went 5 Mikit. The king marvels, he has never seen all 5 being the same. Mikita in charge speaks for herself and calls to marry. They called the princess. She agreed. We drank and walked for three days and three nights. "If you guess the riddle, I'll marry you," says the king. "If you don't guess, you can go without goals." Riddle: "I have wheat ricks, 12 fathoms in width and height. During the night, you have to grind it, pour it into the bins, but do not unfold the ricks and do not untie the sheaves." I came to the tent. Goosebumps say go to bed, everything will be done in the morning. It was true that everything was done. We walked and feasted again for three days. "It's time to get married," Mikita says. "Get my daughter shoes like mine and bring it on a platter or not take your head off," the king replies. This time the mouse helped. We've done everything. We feasted again for three days. "Make a wax church," says the king again. The bees helped: they made both priests and bells. We got married at the impoverishment. They feasted again for three days and three nights. They made a carriage. But there are no horses. The king says: there is a mare, she has 12 stallions, all gold and silver, if you can't get it, you can't take your head off. Wolves helped. They go to be a princess, and Mikita says: I'm not married for myself, but for my king. King Mikita is waiting, he has prepared a hole, sees them coming: he saw the princess ran towards him, and fell into the hole himself, and Mikita ordered him to be buried there. And he became king himself. I went to visit my family father. He asked for a drink from his pelvis, and Mikita says: she is unclean, I washed my feet in it. And he says: clean, you're king. Mikita told me about his dream. Mikita's father admitted it. He took his father to the palace]: Romanov 1901, No. 50:440-447; Belarusians [33 sons and two more and Ivan the Fool are going to marry; Baba Yaga has the same number of daughters; I. tells them to change clothes for the night; baba yaga returned and chopped her daughters; the brothers came to the king; they say that I. can get the baba yaga harps, who play themselves; the horse promises I. to get, they galloped, brought the harp; the rooster you can hear to the whole world; the same; get Queen Alain; the horse created a bridge, a garden, food and drinks; the queen went out, fell asleep, they took her away; A. promises to be the wife of someone who gets living and dead water; horse: now if you die, we must hide in his corpse, grab a crow and demand living water from his parents; I. tore the crow, revived it; and revived the horse; A. killed I. in front of the king's eyes and revived it; the king also wants; A. him did not revive; wedding]: Romanov 1887, No. 37:228-232; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Three daughters take turns volunteering to serve instead of their father, the elders go to the field, where everything rumbles, return. The youngest does not return, ends up in the forest, where snakes and frost fight, she responds to the latter's request for help, together they cut down three snake heads, put the ashes in their pockets. Frost asks the hero's name, plucks the "Burkunets" grass, calls him Roman. Roman goes on alone. He finds a Firebird feather on the road, the horse warns not to take the pen, but Roman does not listen. The grooms pay attention to the beauty of the horse and (cleaned with a pen) inform the king. The grooms are ordered to take the iconostasis out of the sea. Roman grieves, asks frost for help, he freezes the sea and pulls out the iconostasis "on the dry days of the sea". While the horse was pulling out the iconostasis, the monist scattered, the grooms demand to be extracted, the frost helps Roman again, freezes the sea. The grooms demand to get 9 mares and the tenth stallion out of the sea. The horse asks to wrap it in four skins and coat it with resin, and goes to sea by himself. After the sea water turns red and then turns blue, the horse leaves the sea, where it defeats a stallion whose skin is beaten, the horse is protected by resin and skins, and brings out mares "the earth trembles". The grooms order them to milk while the horse laughs, they stand as if they were dug in, Roman milks them. The grooms order Roman to cook in milk, the horse blows at him, and he leaves the vat handsome, the commander repeats the same thing, cooked]: Ivanov 1894, No. 1:139-141; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Boomeri Lebedinsky, ca. 1878) [Parents and son come to plow in the field, the boy is carried by an eagle to his nest. Three brothers living in the forest find a child, calls Trem Son Boris. The boy grows up, asks for a little horse and sets off. A shiny firebird feather is found in the forest, the horse asks to leave it, but the boy takes it. In a foreign kingdom, he is hired by the king as a groom, he is placed to look after ordinary horses, he combs them with a pen and puts his horses in the royal stroller. The grooms ask him and peek him, report to the king that TB is boasting that he can catch a firebird, and the king orders him to do it. The horse asks to dig a hole, pour vodka and peas into it, the bird arrives, drinks and eats, lies down, turns its legs upside down - they grab it and bring it to the king. He rewards Boris. The grooms tell the king that TB is boasting that he can catch a beautiful girl at sea, and the king orders her to do so. The horse asks for nets, mirrors and dresses. Nastasya comes out of the sea, tries on all her outfits, is caught in the net and brought to the king. She demands to get her 12 necklaces, which she tore and threw into the sea. Beef is laid out by the sea, crayfish crawl up, the boy takes white crayfish and demands that the whole necklace be brought to him, and then promises to let go of the cancer. Crayfish find the pike in which the necklace was kept, the white crayfish is released. The princess asks why the sun is red in the morning when it rises, and then white. Boris rides a horse to the sun, garden guards are asked to know why the garden used to feed the whole world, but now he cannot feed the watchmen; soldiers: how long should they stand chained; husband and wife on an oak tree: for a long time whether they should catch pigeons; cabatchica: how long should she pour water from a well into a well; whale fish: how long will people ride on it. TB walks into the sun's old mother's hut, asking questions. She hides him, tells his questions to the Sun in the morning, as if she were telling her dream every time. Sun: the garden will bear fruit when robbery money is dug up in it; soldiers will be free when this money is distributed to the poor; people will catch pigeons while the sun is shining, because when they were young they killed their own children; a woman will pour water while the sun is shining - she overflowed or underfilled in her youth; the whale fish will be free when it spits out the swallowed ship. The sun turned red - shy when his girlfriend came out of the sea, now she is gone - the sun is white, it gets up and sets late. Boris comes back, giving answers along the way. The tsar gives him half the kingdom, treats him like a brother]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 76:285-290.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Usein, Asan's son, shoots a bird, which asks not to kill it, sell it to the padishah; he leaves U. as a bodyguard; the viziers persuade the padishah 1) to order the bird to build ivory palace; she teaches W. to pour wine into the lake, the elephants are drunk, W. builds a palace; 2) to get the daughter of the king of genies; the bird orders to feed the kites with meat, the bees with honey; on the way, W. takes companions eat, rock breaker with his fist; the kite gives a feather, ants (W. fed them with millet) and bees on the wing; the king of genies orders 1) eat the yogurt cauldron, remove the rock, sow the earth (satellites perform tasks); get living water from Mecca to resurrect a dead stallion (kites bring); count grain in bags (ants); recognize your daughter among 999 girls (the old bee finds out); when you see someone returning from as a beautiful woman, W. Padishah turns into a pig, viziers into dogs; U. marries]: Useinov 1992, No. 14:186-199; Crimean Tatars [the padishah is blind; he will be cured by a handful of land from where the horse's hooves did not set foot; the eldest son reached the dairy spring in six months, took the land; padishah: I went there before dawn and had breakfast; the middle son went to the honey spring; father: I got there by lunchtime; youngest son Matyuv -the simpleton did not receive a blessing and went by himself; secretly brought his father's duldul out of the cave and fed him; by morning he reached Syut-Chashma, by noon to Bal-Chashme; when we reached the place where the father lost his sight, Duldul tells you to take the land here, but beware of the flying makhlyuk; Makhlyuk began to pour boiling water on the young man, the dul cooled him; the young man grabbed his legs; Makhlyuk turned into a girl: I was waiting for you; they flew to the underworld, began to live there in a palace; one day M. found a sparkling feather at the bottom of the sea; the horse does not tell us to take it; the girl: it belongs to the girl Pamuk, she will separate us; the girl became to wither away; they decided to go elsewhere; at night, the vizier of the underground padishah saw the glowing feather; M. gave him the pen; he brought it to the padishah, said that the feather who found the feather would also be able to catch the bird, she could also catch the bird, she could talk; duldul tells him to slaughter the horse and climb into the belly; the bird went down to peck, M. grabbed his legs, the duldul helped to catch him; but the bird does not speak; the vizier: will speak in front of his mistress Pamuk; the padishah sends M. to get her; those who tried to approach her burned alive; but P. fell in love with M. and went with him; told him through the vizier that she was ready to marry the padishah if he became 25-year-old; vizier: let M. go for a rejuvenating agent; {two pages missed}; M. came out of the cauldron younger, the padishah cooked; they came to the possession of Father M.; he had already died, bequeathing the throne to M.]: Emirsuinova et al. 2013:63-81; Crimean Tatars [Sultan Reshid has 4 sons, the youngest is 12 years old; the sultan sowed golden wheat, poured the harvest into ingots; someone steals wheat; the eldest son went to watch, fell asleep; the same second; the third saw an arap, he jumped off his horse and began to mow wheat; the young man grabbed him by the long white hair, causing the arap to lose his strength; he was lowered into the cellar, tied to each hair an iron weight; R. notified the neighboring kings, inviting them to look at the monster; the youngest son Kerim played the ball, he fell into the cellar to the arap; K. found the key from his father, went down; the arap asked for the release of 10 hairs; then he shook off the rest of the weights, summoned the winged horse; when he flew away, he promised K. to help him; the kings gathered asked R. not to kill his son, but only to expel him; K.'s mother wrote to her relative Dervish Sultan a request to shelter the boy; Kerima caught up with Ali's rider, changed food supplies; K. ate salty cakes, wanted to drink; went down to the well; Ali made K. swear that they would change names and statuses; D. appointed the deceiver as his heir; he was going to marry D.'s daughter, but she disgusted him; the deceiver said that his servant could get 40 horses with golden manes and tails; K. drove his 40 horses to nowhere, fell asleep; the arap carried him to his palace; the arap's wife gave him a box in which a winged duldulle is easy to fly around the universe; the eldest daughter is a walnut, it has a magic table; the youngest is hazelnut, wearing festive clothes; the arap himself gave three glasses of water, K. became one of the strongest heroes in the world; 40 days later K. flew on a duldula to D., with him 40 horses with gilded manes and tails; the princess saw K. feast alone, fell in love; that night the capital was flooded with light; deceiver: the servant can find out where the source of light is; K. came to the arap; he sent in search of eagles and nocturnal birds; it turned out that the sorceress's bird of paradise had dropped its pen; K. spoke about this and he was sent for a pen; he brought it; the deceiver sent for the bird itself; K. and the arap feasted 35 days, then we went to the sorceress; at the gate there is a lion and a horse, they must be given meat and hay; they must drink from a rotten stream, praise the water; eat wormy pears, praise them; if after the third attempt you do not grab the sorceress will turn the cage with the bird into stone; the tree on which the cage dodged, but the third time K. grabbed the cage; the pear, the stream, the lion, the horse refuse to detain K. - he praised them; the old woman advises the deceiver to tell K. to get the sorceress herself; arap: now in the palace of the sorceress who will sleep, you must lubricate each door with fragrant oil; take an oath from the sorceress with all the sanctities of the world and heaven; her dwarf servant flew for the mistress; when they arrived, Kerim's oath expired; Ali was tied to 40 horses; D. married K. to his daughter and sorceress; the wedding was 40 days and nights]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 6:68-82; Stavropol Turkmens [Khan only has a daughter, no heir son; daughter promises that everything will work out, leaves on a piebald horse; the horse shows the golden hare, tells me to catch and give it to the old man, do not take the money; they come to Almaz Khan, the servant persuades him to give the girl difficult tasks; 1) catch a golden hare for A. (horse catches); 2) make a barn {palace?} from bear teeth (the horse tells you to lubricate the bank of the stream with resin, bears who come to drink get stuck, the girl gets her teeth); 3) get Bermez Khan's daughter (the horse tells me to give thorns to camels, alchiki boys, bones to dogs, an old man and an old woman of a fur coat, mix the water of a pond divided into two parts with spoons; daughter B. takes away, he tells the servants to detain the fugitives, everyone says that they were treated well ( mixed water, gave fur coats, etc.), B. stops chasing); 4) bring a black foal of a kara-jacket (witch); they take it away, the kara-jackets are chasing, the horse says that if her curse catches them on the descent in the ravine, a girl will die, and if she, a horse, will die at the bottom of the ravine; when they are at the bottom of the ravine, the kara-jacket tells the girl to become a horseman, the horse has time to give two hairs; the horseman wants his daughter B., A. I agree to give it if the groom goes through boiling milk; those hairs help, the dzhigit is unharmed; comes with his wife to his father]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 103-109; Abkhazians [three brothers shoot at a tree; after the eldest girl comes out of the tree; the same is an average girl; when the youngest shoots, a frog comes out; the parents drove the youngest to live in the forest; he just started building a house, was distracted, returned - the house is ready; every evening food is cooked; he waited for the girl, threw frogskin into the fire; the older brothers are jealous that the younger one is beautiful; one told the prince that the youngest could 1) bring a wild boar; the wife gives three nuts, tells you to go to the swamp, give one nut to the wild boar immediately, lure the rest to the prince's court; 2) bring the deer (the wife gave the cob, you must give it to the deer, sit between the horns, the deer will come by himself); 3) make a golden bridge across the sea; the wife tells me to go to that tree, call her mother; she gave three rings, we must throw it, the bridge will appear; the prince gave power to the young man]: Shakryl 1975, No. 33:169-174 (=Bgazhba 2002:232- 236); Balkarians (western 1955) [when dying, the father forbids his son to hunt in the black forest, where the fire is burning; the son grew up, went there, shot, the golden eagle fell, he offered it to the king; the king gave three gold coins for the eagle; the servant is jealous, says that the orphan boasted to get three rounds of golden horns; the mother advises to ask the king for a hundred barrels of vodka, carts and people; the lake replaced the water with vodka, the tours became intoxicated, they were delivered to the king; the king gave one hundred carts with carters; servant: an orphan mocks, could get a girl; mother advises asking the king to give money from the servant's funds to build a golden boat; on the way, an orphan saved a goldfish from a big fish, dove from the falcon; the orphan lured the girl into the boat, but when she fell asleep, she became a fish and disappeared; the fish returned her; the girl flew away as a bird, the dove returned her; the king gave the girl a golden boat; servant: the guy mocks the tsar; the tsar orders the execution of an orphan; the girl killed the tsar and servant, married an orphan, he became tsar]: Malkonduev 2017:431-436; Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:136-140 [hunter finds a golden pen; the officer offers to sell it to him, but he insists that he will give the pen himself; the officer's wife reproaches him for not being able to deceive the hunter; the officer suggests asking the hunter brings 1) the golden bird itself (the hunter meets the girl, she gives the bird), 2) water from the gold spring (the wife teaches to invite the officer to get the horse, the hunter reaches the spring on it), 3) daughter Suns (an officer is forced to equip the ship; at sunset, those who come dance, the daughters of the Sun come to watch, one is caught); the padishah awarded the hunter, the officer went bankrupt], 223-226 [five servants are jealous Abaikutsykka, who is allocated by Aldar; it is suggested that he 1) take out the giant's horse; Giant A. turns into wheat grain into the barn, brings a horse; 2) a samovar boiler and a self-scoop bucket; A. brings; 3) bring the giant himself; A. says he is making a coffin for A., asks the giant to try it on; when the coffin is strong, he brings the giant to Aldar; he eats Aldar and five servants; sees A. in the tree, asks when he climbed; he tells him to pick up stones, then jump; the giant crashed, A. took possession of all the property]; the Nogais [Yauryntak is born when parents catch a carp, immediately grows up, comes to bay, breaks off the golden rooster's leg; buy through the Bearded {he in the role of the vizier} gives difficult assignments; the Eagle helps to complete; bring 1) the hare bones (the Eagle gives); 2) the Eagle's feather (The eagle beats, with his pen falls); 3) Almas Khan's daughter Bermes (Y. is thrown on the roof of the house, does not freeze, because the eagle protects him from the cold, gets B.); bai finds B.'s golden hair; tells Y. to bring piebald, gray, red horses saddled by the moon, sun, paikhambar, and a herd of mares biting each other; B. promises to marry Bai when Y. returns; I. dies three times from the cold, the Eagle revives him; I. brings horses, B. tired of the cauldron of milk, boiled; bai rushed, cooked, Y. came out handsome, inherited the riches of the bay]: Nogai 1979, No. 7:20-27; Nogais [dying, father tells four sons to stock up on grain and not look for food in the south; brothers go south, elmavyz swallows elmavyz and his wife, the youngest hides; lives with an old man; sees and kills a cow with glowing skin in the forest, it is bought by khan, viziers they advise to tell the person who extracted the skin to get ivory; the old man teaches to give the elephants vodka, deliver them to the khan; viziers: let him get singing trees; the young man again drugged the padishah of genies and all the guards, brought trees; viziers: let him bring the khan's daughter, who has never seen the sun; the girl is lured into a boat, brought; her parents come, the khan was tied to the end of the horse, the young man was married to his daughter, did khanom]: Nogai 1979, No. 16:78-82; Avars [the arrow of the khan's eldest son falls on the roof of the vizier's house, the middle son is a nuker, the youngest into the swamp; he marries a frog, the khan tells him to live with her in the forest hut; the frog turns into a beauty, he burns her skin, she regrets it; the brothers are jealous, persuade the father 1) send the youngest to the mill from which butter, honey and flour flow; the frog-mother-in-law gives a horse, the hero rides it to the mill, kills a dragon, brings millstones; 2) ask the late mother where the treasures are hidden; the horse brings the hero to a hole in the ground; the mother says where the treasures are, for her son's father and brothers to become dogs; the hero pulls treasures, dogs run to the mountains]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:247-253; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 73 []: 8-14; Chikovani 1954 [the king is blind, asks his sons what is fuller, faster, more beautiful; only the youngest son says that spring, harvest, look; the king sends him back his sight; the horse advises him to help the king of the West in his struggle against the king of the East ; the envious courtiers of the king of the West order to send a young man to build a palace for ivory (the horse tells you to pour wine into the pond, the elephants are drunk), for the king bird (the horse tells him to lie under a pile of grain, grab the king- a bird), behind a beautiful woman from the country of Nigozeti; she is a mare, the horse's sister, stronger than him; there is a bone at the door in front of the goat, hay in front of the wolf; you need to change their food, open closed doors, close them open; the young man grabs the beauty, the door, the goat, the wolf refuse to help, are happy to change; the horse holds a mare; the beauty asks for a bath of boiling milk, pushes the king, the courtiers into it; the young man receives kingdoms, beautiful; the horse shows where the drug for blindness is (it flew to heaven); the father saw the light]: 49-53; 1986 [the white deer invites the hunter to shoot him if he misses, dies; the hunter missed, returned home, died; his son grew up, hears people saying that it would be nice to give the boy his father's bow; his mother reluctantly shows where the bow is; he cannot pick it up; his mother tells him to swim in the dirty first in the stream, then in the clean, the son gains strength; kills a white deer, hangs his skin on the wall, light emanates from it; the servant sees this, the vizier persuades the king to give the hunter difficult assignments to take possession of with his skin; the young man builds a palace from the bones of the Gveleshapi, brings the golden pillar of the iron maiden; the virgins come running after him, destroys the palace, kills the king and viziers, takes away the skin and pole; the young man lives peacefully with his mother]: 118-123; Armenians [the hunter's son kills the beast Sham-chrah with glowing skin; gives it to the king, not the vizier; the king orders to pay, the vizier only beats the young man, persuades the king to give new assignments; palace from ivory (they poured wine into the stream, the elephants got drunk, they were killed); a tree of paradise (asks the king for a ship, throwing food to the fish, they give wood); Princess Fariza khanum; takes a ship with musicians from the king, swims, takes as companions a strongman, eats, opivala, a musician whose sheep dance, a rumor; the king's tasks 1) eat a lot; 2) defeat the pakhlevans; 3) opialo fills the powder charge when they want blow up; 4) the musician changes poisoned dishes, the servants die; on the ship, the princess throws a handkerchief, knife, needle into the sea; the ship begins to sail back, but the fish return objects; at home, the strongman kills the king and viziers, hunter marries, becomes king]: Ganalanyan 1965:121-133; Armenians [the king wants to get a precious pheasant; hunters who try to do so are killed by the dragon by throwing a star at them with sky; Ovchi-Nazar ("sheepskin" means "hunter") thinks that his father was a farmer; his mother admits that he was a hunter and was killed by a dragon; HE crushed a star shot at him with a bullet, the dragon fell out of grief from the sky and killed; HE brought the pheasant home; the old woman told the king; HE begged not to execute him; then the king orders to build a tower for the pheasant (HE built a relative); the old woman persuades the king to send HIM for the princess; HE goes on a journey; three devas fight over an invisible hat, a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth; HE invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; HE feeds the other two devas, they promise help, give hairs; HE killed a snake that crawled to the Zumrud-kushi nest; she gives a pen, promises to help; HE feeds ants, they give a wing, promise to help; the princess's father demands to defeat his two strongmen ( the devas won); his two zumrud gushi (Zumrud gushi, whose chicks he saved, and his husband kill the king's zumrud gushi; separate poppy, millet and colza seeds in a dark room (ants shared); rise to the tree and go down with a full glass of water (the princess gives a gold and silver ring; they can freeze water and thaw water again); at the top of the tree HE shed a tear, remembering his mother; doctors confirmed that it was a tear, not a drop of water from a glass; to identify the princess among 111 girls (HE named 101); when she arrived at the king, the princess quietly pushed him into the ditch, he called him her new husband]: Kagan 1898c, No. 21:175-184; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [the son of the deceased birdsman Ibrahim grows up, his mother gives him his father's pipe and baits, he catches a bird with all feathers of different colors, carrying unusual eggs; the mother sells them to the shopkeeper, that Shah; I. himself lays eggs to the Shah; the shopkeeper, left without income, advises the Shah to ask I. 1) the bird itself; 2) the male bird (I. catches, brings); 3) a rose from diva palace; I. finds beautiful Khurshid there, they flee, taking the diva's gold, but forgetting the rose; I. builds a palace at home, H. hits his nose, two drops of her blood turn into two bouquets of roses; 4) visit in the light of the Shah's late parents; H. advises to travel for a year, return, say that the deceased are asking for a dignitary, a former shopkeeper; I. advises the shopkeeper to jump into the well; not waiting for the messenger, the Shah ran out of impatience; I. marries H.]: 39-49; Bagriy 1930 (1) (Nukha District, 1899) [Danareban brought a rare bird to his father, who advised him to give it to the Shah; envious vizier advises to send D. to bring a cage of diva bones (the old woman sends divas to the well from where they drink; there is a bottle, there is a diva's life in it, D. breaks it, extracts the diva's bones); the shah asks for the return of his kidnapped divami daughter; D. sees a snake swallowing an animal, and the horns are stuck, saws off the horns; the grateful snake gives him its seal, it fulfills the desire, the divas dies, the princess is back in the palace; the shah orders to reward D ., but the vizier orders him to be executed; the diva seal exposes the vizier, the Shah drives him away, makes him a vizier D.]: 22-24; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:20-46 [the old man had a dream, told the old woman to pack food for the road and went looking for him; I 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; he fell asleep behind his back; before dawn he heard a voice; someone let his horse down and they galloped; in the morning he saw a girl with him; she, Perizad Khanum, the king's daughter, was about to flee with her son vekila, also named B.; after jumping to the possessions of another king, P. ordered B. to sell the horses and buy a house, ordered the cadia to marry them; they began to live on the gold that P. took with them; the barber saw the beauty of his wife B., conveyed to the king; the king summoned B. and promised to come to him with a vizier; P. ordered her husband to prepare everything to receive guests; the king deliberately came earlier, saw P. simple-haired, fell in love; the vizier advised B. to send B. from paradise for an apple; P. gives her husband a letter to his sister, the wife of the king of divas; tells him not to bring women with him; the divas led to the plane tree at the spring: the peri will come to swim, it is necessary to steal the shell alone, they will comply with the request; B. stole the younger one's dress, the eldest brought him an apple; the youngest Gurizat said that since a man touched her, she would not be able to return to the peri; turned B. into a wand took it in her beak, flew to P.; she did not become angry; G. ordered ordinary apples to be taken to the king, and keep the paradise, which turned into a 15-year-old boy, for herself; the barber told the king that B. now had two wives; the king demands a rose from Gulistan's garden; G. moved B. to Gulistan, where the girls were dancing, B. forgot why she came; G. moved him back, Gully gah gah khanum was 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. takes him to the old man, who was wrapped in cotton wool and put in a cradle; cotton wool must be changed; the old man orders to take sulfur from put your ear on cotton wool; hide in a hole on the shore, throw cotton wool, the water will foam, the mares and foals will be frightened; then play the flute, the horses will ask you to play more; let them swear not touch the foal Garib with the name; the mare explains to B. that the king wants to destroy him; brings him 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 deceased the king's parents; GG-khanum teaches him to make a fire, she will take B. away from him; tells B. to find an old man who remembers the genealogies of the king, vizier and vekil; writes on their behalf and on behalf of the barber's parents 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 ], 61-66 [Mammad plowed the land; asks his mother who the father was, what was left of him; she says that the hunter was the gun and gunpowder; M. took the gun and left; chased the gazelle, he ran to the fortress, there the girl was hanged by her hair; pointed to the bottle with the soul of a deva in it; M. broke the bottle, the devil fell from the sky and died; M. took the girl, took the jewelry, returned to her mother; the girl tells me to give a gazelle to the king; the king tells the vizier to give M. a lot of gold; the vizier asks M. to share, he refuses; the vizier advises the king to send M. for gold and silver geese; the wife advises to ask the king for a horse, honey and oil at the expense of the vizier; we must scoop water out of the spring, pour honey and oil into it, the geese will smear their wings and will not be able to fly; the vizier to the king: the daughter of the Indian padishah is missing; wife: this is my sister; let the vizier's money will make a ship out of gold and silver boards; they sailed to India, Nurjahan khanum boarded the ship to see him while talking to her sister, the ship sailed away; the king married N., cut it off Vizier head, appointed vizier M.]; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 9 [younger Tsarevich Ibrahim dreams how the moon descended on his herd; tells Brother Rustam and others; giving his share of the inheritance and taking a heavy staff, he goes on a journey; in another city, the son of the vizier Ibrahim agrees to flee with Princess Kul-Shad; at the last moment he changes his mind, and the imaginary shepherd I. accidentally finds himself on in his place, the KSH runs with him; they tell each other about themselves; I. picks up a stone, the KSH says he is expensive; builds a palace; the KSH gives a stone to King Melik-Aslan; the vizier Mamed-Ali is jealous, suggests demand new stones; I. returns to the spring, where he found the stone, descends under water, where Princess Shah-Sanam ("queen of beauties"), kidnapped by the diva; stones are formed from her blood; I. kills the diva, takes SHS wife; when she hits her nose, drops of blood form gems; the king orders to get an atri-lala rose; I. kills a snake that is about to eat chicks; chicks tell the mother not to drop millstones on I. , he is their savior; a bird teaches how to get a rose; two girls in the form of doves fly to a tree by the lake, throw off their clothes, swim; you have to climb a tree, take clothes, change them for a rose; one girl laughed, her laughter formed a bouquet of roses, the girls gave their hair; if burned, they will come to the rescue; I. brought roses to the king, the vizier advises sending him for pears from across the blue sea; the bird carries through the sea; there are apples that form the tail, and the pears from which it disappears; the king declares war on I., he kills him, the vizier and the warriors, reigns himself]: 71-81; Turks [the poultry man died; the son found father's snare, caught a crow; she persuaded her to let her go; a wonderful bird fell into the snare, the padishah bought it for a lot of money; the vizier advised him to demand that ivory be brought to build a palace for the bird; the crow advises to ask the padishah for wine, fill the ditches where elephants drink, they will get drunk and fall asleep; the young man brought tusks; but the bird is silent; the vizier advises to tell the young man to deliver the owner of the bird; the crow tells ask the ship, lure the queen of 40 peri to it; when the bird sees the peri, the bird sang; before the wedding, Peri fell ill: she needs the medicine she had left in the palace; the vizier suggests sending the young man; the crow gives a feather to touch the two lion guards, they will miss; the young man brought the medicine, came to the peri with the crow; the crow was her punished maid, but now she forgave her; the padishah married her young man and did vizier, former vizier expelled]: Kúnos 1901:134-142; Kurds [Kechelok ("Pleshchivets"), the son of an old woman, catches a bird, she asks to let it go, brings the bird Simurg, who gives it to the hakim, receives money; the vizier is jealous, advises to instruct K. 1) bring ivory to make a bird cage; the bird advises to throw resin into the spring, salt on top, elephants will take salt for water, eat it, die of thirst; K . brings tusks; 1) a sea mare; the bird teaches you to hide on the shore, the mare will come out, wants a beautiful saddle and bridle, you have to bore it; 3) the daughter of a sea hut (monster); she boards the ship K. he brings her, lives with her; the hakim dies, the falcon sits on K.'s head, he is elected hakim]: Farizov, Rudenko 1959:49-54.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks [after the death of his father, Sodikjon catches sparkling fish, gives it to the Shah; the vizier persuades the Shah to tell S. to bring colored water for the fish, a stone pool, a climbing tree; every time those in love with S. peri do what they want; the last task is to bring the daughter of a Shah who does not exist in the world; on the way, S. consistently meets giants, takes them as companions; this is Oj-Omedala, Oj- Opivala, Oge-Sharpshooter; digs a way into the girl's chambers, she explains how to fulfill her father's conditions; 1) split the log with one blow; 2) spend the night in a red-hot room (Opivala drinks and belches the river); 3) eat a lot; 4) hit an egg hidden in a willow crown from three miles; 5) choose a wife among hundreds of girls (she will wear a canvas dress, dirty boots, she will sit on a white donkey); C . kills the Shah, at home his wife kills the Shah and Vizier who sent S.; S. receives wealth and power]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 1:22-37; Tajiks [a person says that in a dream he lived in a castle with the daughter of the padishah; the one who heard him bought his dream; went, saw a rider and another horse next to him, sat on him, the companion turned out to be a girl; she tells him to dig where white and black snakes crawled out in the ruins; he finds gold and silver; the vizier persuades the padishah to get rid of the young man, take his wife; the padishah tells 1) to get two pearls (the wife tells him to jump to the pond, dive, there are pearls); 2) send a letter to the deceased father; the young man's wife writes the answer herself, inviting the padishah to visit another world; says that the padishah must go to the fire; the padishah dies, the young man reigns]: Amonov 1972:219-222; Vakhans [The poor man had a dream: the sun was on his right shoulder, the moon was on his left; he told his wife that he was going to travel; the shepherd bought his sleep for the herd; the merchant gave him a bucket for a broken jug, the poor man sold milk, became rich; the shepherd came to the kingdom, where the king has a daughter and the vizier has a son; the vizier's son told the slave of the royal daughter, asked where the mistress was; she answered rudedly; the vizier's son said that although she was beautiful, and yet the slave; she scratched her body, told the king that the vizier's son had dishonored her and the king's daughter was also pregnant; the king orders the daughter and son of the vizier to be tied to the mouth of the gun and shot; the nurse told them to run away ; the vizier's son was captured, and the princess mistook that shepherd for him; they came to another kingdom; the princess tells the shepherd not to take anyone as a sister; he takes the royal groom; when he sees the shepherd's wife, he reported to the king, the king ordered the viziers to kill the shepherd, take his wife; the shepherd says his name is Bogatyr Zamchi (BZ); the vizier advises that it is better to take the BZ to hunt in the Mazendaran forest; wife: there are tigers and lions, we must take Steel Sword and Wind Horse with them, they will do everything themselves; the sword cut down the entire forest; the vizier to the king: go BZ to Mount Kof for a mare with 40 foals; wife: a horse and a sword will kill 40 divas; killed: the bet teaches how to the source to ride the mare; the BZ brings her, followed by foals; the vizier to the king: send the BZ to bring news from the dead from the king's parents; bet: I must say what he has brought, tell the king and the vizier to climb on a pile of firewood, set fire; they burned down, the BZ became king, his first wife and bet with him]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 13:163-172; Yazgulyam [the king's two eldest wives slandered the youngest because she is more beautiful them; the king kicked her out, she gave birth to a boy; the vizier found out about this, decided to lime him - only he can build a castle in the air; the mother sends her son, tells him not to be afraid; the old man gives him a hoopoe; the boy releases a hoopoe, he takes off, shouts for sand and stones; no one can; the boy tells his father that he is his father; the vizier and envious wives are tied to the tails of horses]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1976, No. 62:465-467; the Bartangans [the tsar oppressed the people; the old man had nothing left, he gave his daughter; she put on men's clothes and came to the king under the name Mamad Murod-bek; the tsar did M. chilim instigator; viziers are jealous; one says that he dreamed of a girl suitable for the king, let M. get her; M. met three divas, each took off his arm; then found the girl, killed her diva husband, brought to the king; the viziers: he slept with her himself; the king tells M. to hang; M. opened: he is a girl himself; the king; the king: now I am only the king by name, and you are the rest; he hanged the viziers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 2:20-23; Sarykoltsy [three sons ask their father to find wives for them; on the mountainside, a woman tells them to be sent to her one by one; the eldest goes, and there is a snake; the same middle one; the younger Abadesh brings a snake, stands in the morning a huge house; A. asks his wife to come out of her shell; the beauty leaves; when they see her, the brothers faint; tell his father to destroy A.; he goes to the king, then the vizier sends A. for lion's milk; the wife orders the lion to take the thorn out of its paw, A. receives milk and returns riding a lion; Father A. suggests that the king demand the golden throne from A.; A. burns his wife's hairs, her mother brings a golden throne from the sky throne; new requirement: sweet rubab; Peri's father teaches to take it away from the fox; A. chases the fox into the cave, the fox dies, A. takes the rubble and sees the inhabitants of another world; one person's beard is eaten bulls (when he plowed, did not give them grass); seven people try to build a bridge (they stole boards from the bridge during their lifetime); two snakes suck a woman's breasts (gave a breast to someone else's child without asking her husband); A. asks the Creator forgiveness for the death of the fox, forgiven; the wife's father teaches me to say that the father and mother of the king gave the boy, are waiting for him; the king orders himself to be burned at a huge fire, A. becomes king]: Pakhalina 1966:142-148; Persians : Osmanov 1958 [when dying, the hunter tells his wife to hide his hunting equipment from his son; he accidentally finds it; catches a gazelle, refuses to sell it to the vizier, gives it to the Shahanshah; the insulted vizier suggests 1) send a hunter for another gazelle, a female (brings); 2) for a pair of weasels (Khizr turns peas into weasels); 3) an ivory throne (Khizr teaches you to pour wine into the lake, elephants got drunk, people got caught tusks); 4) the daughter of King Peri; H. teaches you to take two ants rolling a ball across the steppe on the way to his companions, an old man standing on one leg and holding a rock on his shoulder (they will give a bunch of hair), an eater of all flour at the mill; companions and ants perform peri tasks (deliver a letter to Iran and back in a day; separate wheat, barley and millet, eat a lot); the young man returns from the peri; 5) the vizier advises sending him visit the dead fathers of the vizier and shahanshah; the young man promises, invites the vizier and the shahanshah to wait on the throne on a pile of firewood, burns it, marries a peri, reigns]: 34-49; 1987 [the shepherd has a dream, goes to look whoever explains it sold Javad for a cow; D.'s mother is furious, D. runs away, sleeps in the royal stables; the princess fell in love with Javad Khan, agreed to flee with him at midnight; he decided not to start to the adventure; D. Shepherd answers instead; in the morning the princess sees that a rough Kurd is with her; sends him for water; there is not water in the spring, only gold coins and gems; with this money they buy a house; meet the padishah; an envious vizier advises to order to bring more of the same gold coins; D. comes to that spring, sees peri on the tree; as soon as she steps, 300 such coins appear; D. brings coins and peri; vizier: let him bring three bouquets of laughing roses; peri: next to my spring is the spring of my sister kidnapped by the diva; there is a bottle with his soul; when she laughs, laughing roses fall ; D. broke the bottle, brought Peri; the first peri wrote in the padishah's father's handwriting an invitation to him and the vizier to come to visit; they were killed, D. became a padishah]: 209-217; Baluchi [the king sends a vizier for forgotten rosary; that's not long; sends his son Sha-Trasan 'a; he sees the vizier with the king's wife, takes the rosary; the vizier gets back earlier, tells the king difficult tasks for Sh.; the old man teaches what to do; 1) build a city (the old man creates); 2) a tree of laughter and crying; the buzlanga has a process on his leg, S. hides in a hole, grabs a buzlanga for the process; lets go, for which other buzlangs bring a tree; 3) a tree of forty songs; S. rushes to suck the breast of a buzlanga woman; she tells her sons that this is their new brother; their puppy leads him to the buzlanga who kidnapped their bride; S. kills him with a sword, gives him a girl to their named brothers, they bring a tree; 4) a girl from Green City; S. meets a buzlangi who is constantly baking and eating bread; he says that he is accumulating strength to overcome S.; S. says that I know Sh., wins the buzlangi, takes it with him; the other throws a sling from country to country; I do this so that S. does not run away from me; the same thing; the third listens to what is being done in another country so that S. ran away from him; the same; the fourth walks from country to country: the same; S. bridges the ants over the ditch, they promise to help; Skorokhod (the fourth buzlangi) brings S. to the girl, who kisses the sleeping woman; the next night, the girl cuts her finger to stay awake, talks about her father's conditions; 1) separate millet from wheat (ants separate); 2) eat lots of bread and meat (the first companion eats); 3) overtake the royal speedboat; the companion went to bed, the listener learns of the danger, the slinger throws a stone in time when he sleeps; on the way home, S. puts his sword between himself and his wife; at home, the king himself gives him the girl he has received ; 5) get a horse with forty foals; the old man tells us to throw camel hair into the well; the horse cannot drink, promises to fulfill S.'s wish; he and his men sit on its foals; when the king sits down, the vizier and others, foals fly into the air, ask whether to throw the riders into the mountains or into the water; into the water; they throw them into the mountains]: Zarubin 1932, No. 9:104-121; Uzbeks [the king sends a sorceress Maston on a camel Ilyamon to marry 40 brides-sisters for his 40 sons; the girls' father demands to dig a channel between the kingdoms; the elder creates a channel, teaches the youngest brother to send a knife instead; On the way back, brothers and wives should not enter the white house during bad weather; they enter, the dragon blocks the exit; lets go for the king's promise to give his youngest son; the dragon demands that the young man 40 days in advance get him a bride; he helps ants and lions on the way; stops with an old woman whose 7 sons died while marrying the princess; the king demands 1) collect 40 bags of millet scattered across the field (ants collect), 2 ) eat the meat of two bulls (lions eat), 3) fill a large jug with chervonets (the princess gives her ring, it fills the jug with gold); the bride has a chest with blue, a worm into the pigeon's goiter, the young man presses him, the dragon dies; the young man brings his wife home]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:157-166; the Uzbeks of Khorezm [shepherd Kuldash and farmhand Yuldash lived near Urgench; Yu dreams when two stars fell behind him sinus; K. buys sleep for a heifer and a foal; K. left, Yu remained a shepherd instead of him; at night, a girl who is about to run takes K. for the groom, asks, opens to him, becomes his wife; the vizier wants it for himself, persuades the khan to send it to K. (now his name is Musofirbek) bring 1) tigress milk (his wife teaches me how to raise a herd of tigers); 2) find the gold that has disappeared from the treasury (the wife and her sister are walking around the yard, ingots fall from under their feet); 3) visit him in the light of the khan's deceased relatives; the wife teaches to pretend to be a fool, gives a note on behalf of the khan's relatives, as if it's much better in the next world; the khan and the viziers let themselves be burned; two stars are the Peri wife and her sister, little the star is their son; his wife's sister K. marries his friend Yu.]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:217-234; Uzbeks [fisherman Hakim caught a goldfish, told the young man to take it to the vizier, who took it to the tsar; the envious vizier offered to tell the young man to bring 2) a second fish; 40 days later, his father and son caught her; 2) a golden house from the divas; H. tells the king to ask the king for an iron staff and shoes, rams, donkeys; the young man goes, then goes, falls asleep; in a dream, the old man gives a nut; when he returns, the young man throws him, a golden house appears; 4) a beautiful peri; a young man buys a giant thief whom they want to execute; he pulls out a peri, tells him not to touch the bridles a horse, a young man touches, three divas in the form of pigeons carry the girl away; a giant thief finds her, teaches her to ask the divas where their soul is; in a chest in a spring under the plane tree; having seized the souls of the divas, the giant thief forces them do what he wants; the young man returns from the peri; the king sends warriors to grab him, but the giant thief and divas have scattered the king's army; the young man reigns, marries Peri, the giant thief becomes his servant]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:25-35; Uzbeks (Karabulak near Chimkent, western 1924) [the rich man has a daughter and two shepherds; one dreams that he has the sun on one cheek, the moon on the other, the star Venus in the middle; the other shepherd bought this dream by giving the cattle; the rich man's daughter has agreed with her lover that he would take her away; he overslept; the shepherd fell asleep in the same place by the pool; the girl mistook him for his lover, woke him up, to take her away; he overslept; the shepherd fell asleep in the same place by the pool; the girl took he went for him; he is silent in response to an offer to raise sheep, cattle, shoot ducks; she decides that he is of noble origin, takes them to the city, the mullah marries them; the vizier suggests to the king pick up the woman, send her husband 1) for tiger milk (the wife teaches the tiger king to remove the splinter); 2) for the gul-kaahka flower; the wife gives her handkerchief, the flower owner sees that it is her sister's handkerchief, comes the young man's second wife, he gives the king a bouquet; when she goes, pearls and gold fall; 3) learn about the health of the king's deceased parents; the husband got up on the fire, both wives took off, quietly took it off; wives teach tell the king that his father sews boots, his mother is spinning, asking him to visit them; the king burns at the stake, the husband reigns]: Yudakhin 1927:417-425.

Baltoscandia. Danes [an old widower Per Smed marries a young man; she takes the estate manager as a lover; he decides to get rid of her husband; says the landowner ordered 1) to pave the yard with small ones in a day pebbles; the old woman tells you not to worry, everything is done; 2) plant trees in a nearby swamp in a day (the same); 3) do pertegøj (meaningless word); the old woman gives a whip and teaches what to do; PS finds his wife with the manager, waits for her to come to the night pot, touches her with a whip, she sticks to the pot; the lover and the maid to her; the PS takes them outside; the maid tries to hide behind the grass; the cow comes to the grass and sticks too; the bull to the cow; the whole company comes to the landowner's house; he and then his wife also stick; so it turned out pertegøj; PS releases them after the landowner promises to pay him a lot of money and drive him away the manager; PS's wife has been loyal to him since then]: Holbek 1987:508-509; the Danes [brothers Poul, Peder and younger Malek were hired by the king; M. is diligent at the stable, the elders envy him, say that he can get 1) a mountain troll ram that throws off his hair every step; M. made a boat out of sauerkraut, a mast from a shovel handle, a sail from an apron, sailed to the island and took the ram away; 2) a troll lamp that illuminates everything; M. poured trolls of salt into the cauldron, she went to get water, taking a lantern, M. threw it into the well, swam away with a flashlight; 3) the troll rang, that rings to three kingdoms; M. got caught, advises the troll to fatten him first; M. pretends not to know how to get into the stove, the trollich showed it, he fried it, ran away, taking the bell and the girl who should was to feed him; the troll burst in anger, becoming small cream; M. got a princess, promised his brothers to show how eagles fly in the sky, blew up gunpowder, there was nothing left of the brothers]: Suritz 1991:61-67; Danes [the poor man went to sell the canvas; in the woods at the spring, an old man offers to buy for a promise to give what his wife wears under the sash; the poor man thinks it's a keychain, but the wife pregnant; the poor man brings the baby, the old man dips him in a spring and gives him the name Grünhut ("green hat") - you can't baptize again; turns him into a hedgehog, a deer, a falcon, again into a baby; the poor man was enough for A kept promise, tells him to bring the boy when he is 10 years old; tells the boy to be a hedgehog, a deer, a falcon for five years; now he is Knight Grenhat, he can turn into these animals and summon him, in case of trouble; the old man tells him to hire a groom to the king, to fear the Red Knight; G. hired a prince, the KR serves him; the princess fell in love with G.; the KR himself wants to marry her; tells the prince that G. can get the most beautiful girl; in the form of a hedgehog, deer, falcon, G. penetrates an overseas princess, promises to marry a prince, she leaves with him on a ship; KR pushed G. into the sea, brought the prince a princess himself ; the mermaid saved G., he is in her palace; the princess pretended to be dumb; they want to burn her; the mermaid let G. save her, he appeared in the guise of a hedgehog, threw a fire; the princess revealed the secret to the prince's sister, who fell in love with G., both fell silent; they want to burn them, G. threw a fire in the guise of a deer; they fell silent again; the mermaid does not want to let G. go - let them burn them so that G. forgets them; he only asks to raise him above the water, to see the fire; flew away with a falcon, scattered a fire; the prince married an overseas princess, G. married the prince's sister, and the Kyrgyz Republic burned]: Grundtvig 1878:192-227 (=Suritz 1991:67-74); Danes [poor the young man was hired to serve in the palace; he was in good standing; the valet, out of envy, says that he boasted to pay interest from hell on his loan to hell; on the way, the crows tell you to dig a sword, by touch whom everything falls apart, do not turn off the main road; the devil's mother tries in vain to persuade him to turn; with a sword, a young man kills multi-headed monsters, freeing 12, 24, 36 girls; the devil's mother advises the son does not get involved and give money; when a young man comes out of hell, the dragon turns into a princess, they ride away on a goat; the devil and his mother chase; the princess spits - the lake; throws a bead - glass mountain; pursuers turn back; the raven asks to cut off his head and put him backwards; turns into a young man - the princess's brother; the prince and princess are kidnapped by children king; a young man married a princess and became king]: 38-44 (=Grundtvig 1878:16-28): Cramer 1919; Norwegians: Suritz 1991 [three brothers were hired as employees at the royal castle; the youngest is Pinkel, the elders envy him, said that P. could bring 1) the trollich's golden lantern; P. sailed to the island of trolls, poured salt into the porridge through the chimney; the trollich sent her daughter for water, she took the lantern; P. her pushed the trolls into the water, took the lantern; 2) the golden goat of the trolls; P. jammed the door of the trollich's house, she did not bother, left the door open for the night, P. wrapped the bells around the goat's neck with wool, took him away; 3) trolls golden fur coat; P. came, invited the trollich not to cut it, but to feed it to death with porridge; quietly fills the bag under his clothes with porridge; pretends to fall, the bag burst, the trollich decided that P. burst, ran after her daughter, leaving her fur coat in the house, P. took his fur coat away]: 99-102; Hodne 1984, No. 408 [three brothers in the king's service; the elders say that the youngest can get him a new wife; the youngest goes in search, he meets an old woman, she teaches him what to do; in the troll's castle, he finds three princesses turned into lemons; he takes them away, but, contrary to warning, opens two lemons without being around waters; princesses appear and immediately die of thirst; a third of the young man is drunk and left on a tree by the royal pond; the maid notices her reflection in the pond, pushes the princess into the water and takes her place; a true princess turns into a silverfish, a linden tree, but the impostor every time tells you to destroy another incarnation of her rival; in the end, the princess regains her true appearance, king on she marries and the impostor is executed]: 97; Norwegians [after the death of her parents, three brothers went on a journey; the elders did not want to hire the youngest, but the one, Zapechnik, came to work with to the same king; it turned out that he did a better job; the brothers, out of envy, told the king that Z. could get the king's most beautiful princess instead of his deceased wife; Z. set off, sat down over the spruce tree, shared his food with an old woman who came up; she promised to help him; as soon as he got up and went, he saw the pipe; picked it up, blew, and dwarfs appeared: what do you order? sent to the troll castle, where three princesses take on any shape; became three lemons; Z. took them to refresh themselves later; cut one, a girl appeared, shouted, "Water!" , and since there was no water around, she died; the same with the second lemon; when he opened the third one, he managed to run to the pond and bring water; gave the girl a cape, she climbed the tree, and he went to the king; at this time the cook came to get water and saw the princess's reflection, took it for her own; decided that such a beauty did not care about carrying water; but when she saw the princess in the tree, she threw her into the pond, put on her cape and climbed on her place; the king did not like the girl, but he believed others that she should be the most beautiful; when she became queen, the cook caught a silverfish in that pond and told them to burn it; pieces of silver in the ash; told me to bury it; a linden tree with silver leaves grew in this place; the Queen ordered it to be cut down; the maids picked up the chips, but they were like silver; one sliver turned into a child, and he quickly grew and became princess; she told Z. everything, and he told the king; the king married her, and the cook was placed in a barrel of nails and rolled]: Stroebe 1922b: 15-20; Icelanders [Queen Ring chased the doe, lost his way in the fog, parted with his companions; on the shore there is a barrel, a woman next to him, a ring in a barrel; R. wants to take the ring, the woman offers to get it, pushes R. into the barrel, closes the lid, pushes it into the sea; when the barrel was washed ashore, R. went out; a giant picked it up, brought it to his wife; R. lives with them, helps; he is not allowed to go into the closet behind the kitchen; he sees that there is a dog, asks for it as a reward; she says her name is Snati-Snati; came to live with the king, gained confidence; Raudur is jealous, advises to test Ringa; 1) who cuts down more trees; Snati tells me to ask the king for two axes, cuts together with the owner, cut twice as much as Raudur; 2) get two ferocious wild bulls, bring skins and horns; S. kills more, helps Ring kill less, freshens carcasses; 3) get a golden coat for Christmas, a gold playing board and ordinary gold that the king has lost; the king promises the young man a daughter if he gets everything; S. tells him to get a bag of salt; lifts the young man up the mountain, where there is a family of giants in the cave, in whose son and daughter; the young man quietly sprinkles salt into the giants' soup; they are thirsty; the daughter went to get water after her parents gave her gold; S. and Ring push her into the water, take the gold; the same with the son of giants (they take the fur coat); the same with the giantess (playing board); but the giantess got out of the water; they killed her by stabbing a hot rod and drenching her with boiling water; Raudur to the king: Ring cut off my hand; Ring testified that he cut off the hand that reached out to kill him at night; S. shed his skin and turned into a prince himself - also named Ring; only one Ring could spell the other; the first Ring burned his skin; it was his giantess stepmother who bewitched him; she was also a doe, a woman by a barrel and a giantess in a cave; the first Ring married a princess and the second married the first's sister]: Poestion 1884, No. 21:171-186; Lithuanians [after the death of their father, 7 sons drank the estate, were hired as laborers; someone steals mowed hay; only the youngest Jonas manages to catch a mare with seven stallions; J. got the most inconspicuous; decide marry the 7 daughters of the Bone Woman, who is on the island; the horse teaches Y. to wave his handkerchief, the waters have parted; tells them to exchange blankets with the girls at night; the saber cuts off their heads; the skate tells them to run; the sea parted and closed behind, the bone woman cannot cross; the skate does not tell you to pick up the pen, J. picked it up; the brothers, out of envy, tell the king that 1) J. can also get a bird; the bird from the Bone Woman; J. became as a cat, a bone woman brought him into the house, he took a cage with a bird; 2) a sword that cuts and defeats the attacking enemies; J. became a bird, the bone woman brought it into the house, she took her sword; 3) the sea maiden ( while she was at the ball, I could not see the moon and sun for three days); the horse teaches me to put a table of wine on the shore, the maiden came out of the water, got drunk, fell; maiden to the king: I'll go out when you're handsome, you have to swim in with boiling milk; J. jumped and became handsome, the king disappeared into milk; J. married a virgin and became king]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 154:401-408; Latvians: Grishina 1993 [host - Bolshoy Peteris, farmhand - little Peteris; BP did not pay for the work, the king summoned both to court; on the way, the MP felt sorry for the ant, the bee, the pigeon; the BP told the king that the MP could threshing all the bread in royal Riga (ants performed); make a bridge out of wax (the bees did); the pigeons brought the MP food; the king rewarded him and ordered the PSU to be beaten with a rod and pay money]: 187-190; Niedre 1952 [six smart brothers they go to hire; the father wanted to leave the seventh fool at home, but he also went; they hired a master, he sent him to his wife, gave a note; only the fool could read it; this is not a master, but hell, tells kill the bearers; the fool changed: to put an end to gold; the brothers rode away, the fool hid in the forest on a plain filly, the filly gives advice; all seven hired another master, he made a fool footman, brothers are jealous, they say that a fool can steal a golden bird from hell; the master sent, the filly brought it; the same is a golden bird cage; the devil itself; filly: let the master give a coffin with with iron hoops; the fool tells the line that he is an angel, that God promised to give one soul in this coffin, let the devil lie down and measure; closed the coffin, brought a devil in it; brothers: a fool can drive and bring all the hares; the filly tells you to ask the gold and diamond pipes to collect hares; the fool sells the hare to his master's daughter for money, and to him for eating carrion; the hares come running back; the brothers advise you to tell the fool to speak from three boxes; guests gather, the fool talks about everything; when it comes to the fall that the master ate, he tells him to stop; he drove the brothers away, gave the fool daughter]: 103-110; Lutsie {western 1933} [two heroes: Ukha Kukhalevich and Franz Vintsian; parents did not want to let Uhu in, but he left home; knocked F. off his horse, it turned out that the girl; when she woke up, she reproached; if she hit and killed with full force Wow; the devil is sitting on an oak tree, burning 40 miles with heat, his ear killed him; there is an empty castle in the forest, that girl F. came there; they began to fight with a big devil - the Snake; he almost ate his ear, and F. chopped it to pieces; Ear descended into the lower world; there's a hut on chicken legs with lamb horns; Ear: turn your face to me; there the old woman calls her brother's son, gives a ball, he rolls to her middle sister; she sends to third {probably the eldest}; from there he goes to the king, who burns with fire; wolf: don't eat me; tells me to sit on him, jumps into the water, they are only slightly burned; the king also calls Ukha the son of his brother; the king has 12 heroes, they don't like Ear; they tell the king that he threatened to get a horse with the sun in front, the moon behind; the wolf: the bridle is even better than the horse; the horse with the bridle was stolen; heroes: The princess threatened to get the ear; the wolf brought her to the garden, told the princess to be grabbed when she went out into the garden; they brought the princess to the king; she required her 12 more maids; brought it; the princess demands a self-playing cantele; with the help of the wolf, he got it again; then a self-made sword; heroes: Ear threatened to defeat all alone; Ear chopped 6 heroes, the king asks to stop; Ear wants to go home; king: Raven Voronovich would deliver, but he was walled up; his ear freed, fattened; they began to get up, there was not enough meat, my legs had to be cut off; on the ground, the BB regurgitated them, the ear took root with living and dead water; the ear returned to F.; wedding]: Annom et al. 2018:106-113; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the king has 25 sons; he learned from the book that one woman has 25 daughters; the brothers went to marry; the youngest went forward; in the hut, the old woman interferes with her nose with hot coals; guy answers cleverly, she calls him her sister's son, promises to take his brothers for the night, tells him to go to the sister of the woman with her daughter; herd her horses, ask for an inferior skate for work; a skate says that there are a hundred stakes around that house, 75 suitors already have heads; the mother of the daughters promises golden oats if the brothers let their horses into the stable; the youngest says that their horses only eat burning coals; in the evening dancing to a self-playing accordion, forest animals are dancing; horse: an old woman will bed her daughters in one half of the room and you in the other; you have to switch places and put her hats on the girls; at night an old woman she cut off the heads not of young men, but of her daughters; her younger brother tells her to run; the old woman looks into her magic mirror and sees that she has killed her daughters; brothers were hired to serve the king; the elders are jealous of the younger; they say to the king, that their brother could get that old woman's golden cross; the horse carried the boy across the river threshold; tells them to give bread to the old woman's dog so as not to bark; the guy took the cross; get the old woman's mirror (the same); get the old woman's accordion; when they rode back, the old woman tore off the horse's leg; he tells him to kill and bury him; the old man suggests changing the accordion to a whip that makes the dead come to life; the guy the test killed the old man; killed and revived the crow that had arrived; but did not revive the old man; revived the skate; the brothers are even more jealous: their brother promised to get Päivela's maiden as a bride (Päivolan neiččyö n morsiemekse); the skate takes the guy to the top of the mountain, there is a hole, lowers it on a belt; he goes into the hut, it's warm; P.'s mother says that her daughter goes to the edge of the sky to fry the sun; walled up the guy in the stove so that it does not burn, only the eyes are visible; when the daughter threw off her fiery clothes, the mother released the boy, P. went with him, picked them up, brought them to the king; P. says that she will become a fire pit: who will jump over on horseback, he will get it; when the guy jumped, the fire in the hole went out; the king fell into the hole, burned down; the guy became king, the maiden P. became queen]: Onegin 2010, No. 20:226-233.

Volga - Perm. Marie: Beke 1938, No. 18 [the guy sees a duck with golden wings on the river; the mother advises not to shoot it, but the son killed the duck, brought it, sold it to the king for a thousand rubles; the soldier tells the king that the boy promised to get a gem; the mother embroiders something, gives it to her son, tells him to throw a ball into the river and sail for it; the ball stopped, the son stopped the ship, opened the prepared barrels of meat; crows flocked; when one raven saw the embroidery, he recognized it as his sister's work; said that there was a stone in a chest at the bottom of the sea; sent a fish, which brought a stone, the king gave gold for it; soldier: the boy promised bring samogudes; the same (embroidery, ball, ship, greasy candles with him); the guy came to the old man; he begins to make harps, tells him to shine; the guy has three soldiers; the old man consistently tears off their heads; when a guy holds a candle, the old man sees embroidery, recognizes his sister's work, gives the guy harps; the tsar pays a thousand rubles for them, the guy returns to his mother; all]: 59-66; Chetkarev 1948 [soldier buys frankincense with the last penny, lights it, God likes it, he sends an angel, tells the soldier to catch a third fish under the bridge; it turns into a beauty; the clerk advises the merchant to take it away , suggests giving the soldier difficult assignments; 1) measure the sun (this is the older sister of the soldier's wife); 2) get the ring of the merchant's deceased father; the wife tells you to take the clerk, come to the icy mountain, ask carry the crow through it; the soldier stops three horses, the merchant's father is the root, the soldier gives the clerk to replace it; the root (i.e. the merchant's father) gives the soldier his ring, tells give him the money to his son, give the house to the soldier, otherwise he will be in his place; the merchant did everything]: 126-128; Chuvash [the old man found 31 babies in the nest at the top of the osokor; they became in the hut ask for bread; the tsar gave a thousand rubles for each; 30 sons mow, and the 31st is still young; when he began to mow, he broke his braids; sour cream haystacks disappear at night; only Vanka's youngest son woke up and grabbed the mare; she said that her 31 foals are for brothers; let the youngest choose last, burn his foal in the fire for 3 days; he became a magic horse; only V. jumped on his horse to the nest, took it out of it eggs, became the eldest; one old woman says that she has only 16 daughters, the second is 26, the third is 31; the horse tells her to change clothes with girls for the night; at night the old woman eats her daughters, except that next to V.; brothers run away; envy V.; tell the king that he boasts to get a 70-string violin (harp); V. comes to the old woman's daughter, she gives the violin to her mother; next time the same: gusli (kesle) ); same: 2 golden eggs; after that, the brothers tell the king that V. can get the daughter of the King of Fire; the horse teaches to catch the best horse, dies himself; the new horse teaches how to make a ship, lure the girl; she tells him to get wedding rings; he took it out, married the daughter of the Tsar of Fire, became tsar, and the former tsar was his minister]: Chuvash tales 1937:284-296; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 63 [ bay loses ricks of hay; only the youngest bald son (Taz) caught a sea stallion, with two more; the brothers stole them and sold them to the padishah; the youngest was hired to take care of them; brothers: the youngest boasted to get them daughter of a sea padishah; horses are taught to lay out on the silk shore, the young man grabs the girl, the horses are carried away; the girl demands from the padishah a chest with her rings; the horse tells him to wrap him in ribbon; if he appears at sea blood, he died, if white foam defeated the lion; foam appeared, the horse took out the chest with rings; the girl demands to boil three cauldrons of milk, let the Pelvis swim; the horse laughs, the milk cools down; the pelvis became handsome; the padishah also rushes into boiling milk, cooked; the daughter of the sea padishah married Taz], 65 [the dzhigit caught a goldfish, the padishah took it; the viziers: let him bring golden water; the old man teaches how get to the peary women's kingdom; mistress Vizier Krivoruchka is once kidnapped older sister of a horseman; he cooks meat instead of her, it turns out not two, but three pounds; the mistress tells everyone to swim; takes the horseman as her husband; Krivoruchka brought golden water; the horseman brought it to the padishah; the viziers are ordered to send for a bird with golden wings; she is with the sister of Lady Peary, who brings it as a wedding gift; also fell in love with a horseman; the padishah died, the dzhigit was elected new {with two peary wives?}] , 66 [the hunter shot a duck with pearl feathers, gave it to the padishah; the viziers: let him get the same fur coat; the old woman sends to another, the third, who has such a lamb in the herd; the young man brings the skin; viziers: let him get the main pearl; this is Sylu's girl from the same third old woman; the first tells the guards to give clothes, bone in front of the bull, put the dog's hay, and the hay from the dog to the bull; he takes S. the guards refuse to detain the fugitives; S. refuses to marry the padishah, marries a young man, he himself became a padishah], 71 [12 brothers work as lumberjacks, and the 13th is at the court of the padishah; 12 are jealous, they say that Thirteen can lead the stallion to a diva; the old lady gives a comb and a mirror; 13 disturbs the stallion and hides in the hay; the diva stops paying attention to the laughing; 13 jumps away, throws the comb (forest), mirror (river); brothers: 13 promised to bring a blanket diva; the old woman teaches him to throw a diva of ants; he scolds his wife for not shaking out the blanket, threw it into the canopy, took it away Thirteen; brothers: he can bring the diva himself; the old woman teaches the young man to pretend that 13 is dead and he is preparing a coffin for him; asks the diva to try it on, boils up the lid; on the way, a one-eyed aunt diva; Thirteen promises to put her in the second eye, burns the first one; clings to the goat from below; the blind looks for the offender, throws the goat over the fence; Thirteen threatens to release the diva, the padishah has to give her daughter]: 310-314, 310-314, 322-328, 329-335, 376-390; the Bashkirs [the late son of the elderly and the foal born at the same time constantly defecate; the old man leaves them in the steppe, the caravans pick them up and give them up to raise them old woman; children tease the boy with untidy; he asks the adoptive mother to fry peas, clamps hot peas in her hands; she admits that she is not his own mother; the boy leaves in his foal, who has become a horse; contrary to his warning, he picks up a golden pen; the king's servants notice the light coming from the pen, the king calls the young man to live with him; his associates say that he despises the king, boasted to get the whole bird; the fox shows the way to the bird; the young man catches it, the king covers the palace with his skin; the servants advise ordering the king to marry the daughter of the sea king; the wolf teaches her to catch; the sea maiden promises to marry the king if he gets her ring that has fallen into the sea; the young man saves the fish, which brings the ring; the maiden tells her to bring her sea stallion; the fox teaches him how to stick; first the young man's horse is bitten as a sea horse, dies; a young man hides in his belly, grabs a crow that has descended; returns to the crow when it brings living water, revives the horse; he defeats the sea; the king tells the young man to swim in boiling water and in boiling milk, if not cooked, he can take the sea maiden for himself; the young man bathes, becomes handsome; the tsar is cooked; the young man marries, becomes king]: Barag 1988, No. 46:314-334; Zelenin 1991, No. 102 (101 ) [the meshcheryak conspired with his master's daughter, got drunk; the Bashkir overheard, came at night, took the girl away; the tsar found out about the beauty, wants to take her away; the adviser suggests 1) sending a Bashkir for another beauty; wife gives a note, this is her friend, her husband brings his second wife to himself; 2) get dangerous gold-headed hares; the wife gives a nightmare, the husband brings hares on it, keeps it for himself; 3) bring the dragon; the wife gives a walk and whip, the husband rides the dragon on horseback, the king orders to send the dragon away; 4) find out how the king's late father lives by jumping into a hole where the fire is; the wife tells you to dig a shelter in advance, gives gold and silver bowls; a month later, the husband brings bowls to the king - gifts from his father and mother, they say they are angry that he did not visit them himself; the tsar burns down, the Bashkirs reign]: 441-445; Udmurts [the spouses are 70 years old; a passerby came in and left; after that, the old woman and the mare became pregnant; the old people decided that their son could no longer be fed at their age, they left him in the field with the foal; both grew up themselves, the boy rode on a foal; the horse persuades him not to pick up the golden pen, but the boy picked it up; joined the king's service; other servants, out of envy, told the king about the pen; the king demanded that the bird itself be brought; the foal brought the boy to the tree on which the hawk, who had lost its feather, ordered to leave the wine trough, the golden hawk became drunk, the boy brought it to the king; the servants told about the foal, the king orders to get a herd of the neighboring king; The foal took the boy there, told him not to look while he was fighting the local stallion; the boy looked, the foal fell with his belly bursting; a crow flew into the carrion; the boy caught her; she asked let her go, brought her live water, the foal came to life; after that, the boy did not watch the foal beat; he defeated the stallion, the boy brought the herd; then the servants persuade him to send the boy for the ring the princess of the kingdom where the herd came from, and then behind the princess herself; then the narrator did not remember; in the end, the king tells the boy to dive into a cauldron of boiling resin; he dived with the foal, whose snot protected both from resin; then the tsar and servants dived, died; the boy reigned and married the princess]: Potanin 1884:227-229; Komi: Plesovsky 1975 [30 brothers want to marry so that all wives are sisters to each other; Ivan throws a ball, follows him with his brothers; the first old woman replies that she has only 5 granddaughters, the second says that she has 20 (she spins wolf hair), the third has 30; I. realizes that the old woman is Yoma, does not sleep; Yoma turned the girls into horses, they are not her daughters, but her captives; I. tells her brothers to lie not on benches, but under the benches; they put brooms on the benches, Yoma cut them down; Yoma tells her brothers to torture horses with work, and I. protects her; Yoma gave her brothers a good horse, I. chose a foal for himself; the brothers came to the king, he brought I. closer, made the rest grooms; the brothers complained that I. promised bring a flying carpet from Y.; the foal turned into a horse, brought I. to Y. when she was sleeping, I. took the flying carpet; brothers: I. promised to bring Princess Marpida; the horse brings to that kingdom, suggests M. sit on it, takes it away; M.: whoever brought me, let him get the wedding dress; the dress in the church under the throne; the horse turned into a golden priest, the people rushed to watch, I. took the dress; M.: bring the mare, which gives 30 buckets of milk, must swim in it, then the tsar will be younger; Ivan's horse turned out to be the son of this mare, she followed him herself; the milk boiled, the horse snorted, it cooled down, I. swam; the tsar rushed after him, cooked, I. married M., became king]: 45-51; Uotila 2006, No. 17 [the peasant's wife first gave birth to the eldest son Vasily, then 39 more sons; the mare gave birth to 40 foals; brothers they prepared supplies for their parents, went on a journey; in the forest, Vasily climbs an oak tree, sees fire; they come to a witch; she invites them to sleep with her 40 daughters; V. lies down separately, sees how the witch tied white scarves to her daughters, sharpens her sword; quietly bandages her scarves, the witch kills her own daughters; brothers come to the fire king, are hired by grooms; the king makes V. the eldest, others they envy; ask for advice from a witch; she orders to persuade the king, tells V. to get him the daughter of a Sun woman from the seabed; the horse tells V. to take gold from the king; they come to the seashore; there the woman promises help; whistles on a silver whistle, fish splash, but they do not know where the daughter of the sun is; then in the golden one, a frog comes, she knows; she is given ruff and perch as assistants; the three of them bring the daughter of the sun; she tells the king that he is black in his body - let him first buy in boiling resin and then in boiling milk; the king tells V. to do this; the horse lowers care into resin, then into milk; V. is unharmed, it is done handsome; the king is cooked in resin; V. marries the daughter of the sun, reigns, kills brothers]: 75-83.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979:67-73 [a young man lets go of a wolf who took his horse when he promises to marry his sister; she turns beautiful at night; mother-in-law warns not to throw it away his wife's wolf blanket before 40 days; he throws his skin into the fire three days before the deadline; the wife predicts misfortune; the khan sees the young man's wife, the old woman advises sending him for 1) a gold bar that he dropped into the sea Khan's father; the wife makes a silk flower, the young man uses it as bait, pulls out a hanshu fish, which brings a bar; 2) a herd of horses missing from Khan's father; the wife gives a stick, the young man brings a herd with it; 3) a stallion slaughtered at his father's wake; the wife cannot help, the bar thrown on the ground by the mother-in-law turns into an iron yurt; the wife takes refuge in it while her husband goes to her mother-in-law for advice; she tells me to dig up the grave, the old khan throws away the stallion; when he saw him, the khan was ashamed, cut off the old woman's head], 96-99 [=Tursunov 1983:234-239 {another translation from the same original or two very similar originals}; The khan makes the son of the late vizier new; the young man sees a duck of 99 colors, it asks not to shoot, becomes beautiful; the young man has been away in the palace for a long time, the khan sends servants, the wife turns into a golden chest; two former vizier candidates are offered to kill the young man by giving difficult assignments; get 1) a golden eagle with feathers of 99 colors, 2) a bear with 99 colored hair; the wife releases both of the scarf; the beggar suggests ordering young man to get 3) "Go there - come back here"; his wife sends him with her handkerchief to the world of peri, at which time she will be a stove in the house; in the city of Peri, the young man does not see the inhabitants, but they see him; approached the boy, He immediately falls dead; mullah peri explains that the boy was hurt by a man; the young man is brought to King Peri; the boy's wife's sister recognizes her handkerchief; the young man is sent to another city where his wife's second sister lives; only a blind frog knows how to carry out an assignment, tells him to build a ship out of precious stones; a young man sails to another king, who says to his servants, "Go there, come back here"; this is the name of the servant, that brings a cup of tea and a cup of meat, the young man gives the meat to the servant; the servant says that the king has never treated him, he goes with the young man; watching the miracles that happen from the tower, the old khan demands that he get "Go there - come back here"; Khan's people killed and chose a new young man]; Sidelnikov 1952 (Akbulak district, Aktobe region) [the son of a poor old woman caught a golden doe and took the khan; the vizier advises not to give the young man rewards, but to demand a fallow deer stand, one wing is gold and the other is silver; the mother went in search; the old woman sews a gap in the ground; says the master makes such stands near Mysyr for 1000 dill; the young man received a stand, but the wings are simple; on the way, wells with gold and silver water, the young man immersed him in they are the wings of the stand; now the vizier advises to order to bring a golden tree; the old man teaches: the hare will run, hide in the den, there are two pits, the hare to the left, and you to the right; there is a cave of 40 robbers; it is necessary take to cook them lunch and hit the cauldron with an iron stick; the old man gave this stick; there is salt in the chest, you have to salt the food, the robbers will eat it and die right away; there's a golden tree; you have to rest, close your eyes and pull - the tree will be in front of the palace; but the young man forgot to knock on the cauldron, remained a cook for the robbers until the old man reminded him in a dream; now the viziers are advised to deliver the beautiful Kunkei; the young man goes, meets, companions giants; 1) holding mountains in his hands; 2) hearing everything; 3) holding two lakes of water by his cheeks; 4) a speedboat (tied to each leg on a rock); a young man rescued an ant from a pit (dal wing); Kunkei is guarded by a dog, the first giant killed her, leaving the mountain; Khan Father K. proposes to defeat the bull, the giant killed him; overtake the old woman; she gave the speedboat wine; the hearing says that the speedboat sleeping; the young man hit the ground with an iron stick, the speedboat woke up, threw sand in the old woman's face, came first; to find K.; hearing: she is in an underground palace; her brothers found her; the khan invited them to the iron house, ordered to burn, the water holding his cheeks cooled the house; to identify K. among 40 beauties (the ant crawled to her feet); the young man took K., left every giant where he met on the way back; K. told the young man ask the khan and the vizier to go out to meet her; turned the khan into a wolf, a vizier in the forest; the young man became a khan, married K.]: 253-260; Coyaud 2012, No. 73 (Xinjiang) [bai Baoch has a thousand heads in each herd; the shepherd sees another thing come to his herd - a thousand black sheep; he tries to separate his own from those who came; it got so hot that he stripped naked and then found no clothes; the owner of the black sheep came, but They disappeared somewhere; then they appeared, but the owner did not come again; the shepherd slaughtered the sheep and pulled on its skin; three fishermen laughed; they caught a goldfish; the shepherd gave three rams for it and let it go; the shepherds took three more, laughed and left; the shepherd discovers that no matter how many sheep he slaughtered or gave away, there are still a thousand in the flock; a man came, stayed, invited him, took him to the underwater palace; the underwater king says that the shepherd saved his son and the inexhaustible black sheep saved him; the underwater prince advises to ask his father only for the skin from the belly of a ram in the attic and a puppy; if any trouble, we have to go to the river and shout "Friend!" three times ; when the shepherd brings the herd in the evening, the yurt is tidy, the food is cooked; the shepherd waited for the girl, is going to burn the dog skin; the girl asks to wait 6 days, but on the third day the shepherd's skin is still burned; the girl became his wife, but predicts misfortune; two came; they are the king's servants, he is ill and will recover if he is brought a quail roasted in the sun; but the quail is not fried every time, but deteriorates; the shepherd's wife roasts the quail and tells these people to hold it in the sun during the day; the king will recover, but let them say that they did everything themselves; so it happened; they gave it a piece to all wives and ministers etc., everyone felt better; the Minister demanded that the envoys say who actually fried the partridge; one was beaten to death, the other let it slip; the minister came to the shepherd's wife and said that The king will arrive with 30 ministers, I must receive; the shepherd's wife: go to the river and ask my brother to help; all those who came easily fit in a yurt, a sumptuous feast; the king was so amazed at the beauty of the hostess that accidentally cut off his finger; the king demands that the shepherd migrate to his headquarters; wife to the minister: let us build a house entirely of iron; the house has been built; as soon as the king wants to enter, the shepherd's wife closes door; the minister proposes to divide the people into noble and poor and organize a competition; if the noble win, the shepherd will give his wife; the shepherd's wife's brother gave a horse, the shepherd won the races; the competition fighters; a little boy sent from the river easily defeated the royal hero; shooting at the target; his wife's brother gave a magic bow; the king lost his 6 wives and concubines and died]: 197-212; karakalpaks [Abdullah they want to take him to Khan's jobs, he runs away; hiding in a tandoor, overhears the conversation between the girl and the horseman; at night he comes instead of a horseman, runs away with the girl, she can only become his wife; the king appointed A . vizier, others envy, advise the tsar to take away A.'s wife, to do this, send him to bring the daughter of the khan of Msyr; her fiancé must overtake her runner, defeat her fighter, get out of the fire unharmed, To withstand the blade's blow to the forehead; the wife gives her curl to protect her forehead; on the way, A. is joined by his namesakes: a giant strongman catching birds on the move, drinking the river; companions defeat the runner and wrestler, water bread does not afraid of fire, the blade breaks to pieces; A. arrives when the tsar wants to take his wife; the people put A. on the throne]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:114-119; Kyrgyz [Aalybay adopted Chotur, son his deceased friend; C. saves, heals the frog; she gives him a stone that revives the dead, tells him not to revive a person; C. goes to Baghdad, on the way revives a snake, mouse, wasp, skull; a man who has come to life by deception takes away his stone, lowers him into the well to get water, throws him there, becomes a vizier himself; the mice dry the well, C. comes to the khan, upon the libel of the vizier he is thrown into the zindan; the snake he saved bites Khan's daughter for C. to cure her; the vizier persuades the khan to dress up his daughter and several other girls in the same way, let C. identify her; the rescued wasp points to the bride, C. marries the khan's daughter; he orders son-in-law and vizier touch the stone, the vizier's hand turns into a head, C. reigns]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:108-115 (=1963:138-147; 1981:98-103; =Ledenyov 1987:88-98); Uighurs: Kabirov, Chess 1951 [a young man catches a goldfish, contrary to his mother's advice, gives it to the khan; the vizier advises to reward the young man if he brings a second; he brings; brings living water for fish from the sky, otherwise execute; in in a dream, the old man tells the young man to hide on the shore; five doves arrive to swim in the lake, undressed, turn into girls, the young man hides his clothes alone; returns for his promise to bring live water; she brings a walnut, if you hit the ground, will be a lake; the vizier demands a golden throne; the elder tells you to make a staff out of a plane tree, come to the cave of the sleeping dragon, take gold, and when hit by a staff, it will turn into a throne; get the daughter of a khan who lives in a year's journey; the elder explains what to do; in the country of that khan, a young man builds a bridge, creates a garden, eats a cauldron of food (leaving plane seeds, they quietly turn into eaters); the young man explains to his wife that he must give it to his khan; she calls the khan for a walk, tells them to bend down, grab the khan, hold it until he dies; the young man becomes khan]: 18-24; Ostroumov 1906, No. 2 [father with the son caught a goldfish; the father does not advise giving it to the king, but the son still gives it; the king made him an adviser on the right side; other nobles were offended, advised the king to send the young man for glass fish bath...]: 183-; Dungans (Jambul Province, Shenxi dialect) [Luchyr (he herds his owner's horses) dreams: he is standing between the moon and the sun, with a star in each hand; another Tutzi worker ("lousy) bought a dream, went on a journey; the emperor's daughter does not want for the old dignitary, agrees to run away with the student; he has come, she is not; the next night T. sleeps in this place, the princess wakes him up, tells him to run; became his wife; tells him not to take guards as friends; he invited the guard, he saw his wife, told the emperor about the beauty; the summary advised him to tell the beautiful woman's husband to get the cauldron out peri countries; the wife gives a bone - she will become a fast-footed horse; the horse teaches you to steal the cauldron, tells you not to look back; T. looked around, missed the cauldron; the second time brought it; the summary tells you to bring a handful of peri from the country ash; the horse teaches how to avoid the guarded gate; the Yedinggui guard advises to hide the pigeon outfit of one of the three peri who have arrived to swim; return it after the peri puts a seal in the palm of your hand; emperor Peri gave his daughter for T.; T. now with two wives, brought ash to the emperor; summary: dig a hole, light a fire in it, get the remains of your parents out of it; Peri's daughter told the stones to fall off the sky, they crushed the emperor and his people; T. became emperor, Peri's daughter gave him back his hair; Peri's daughter asks why he laughs; T. talks about sleep: the sun and the moon are two wives, the stars are their sons]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 61:257-266.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chelkans: Kandarakova 1988 [after calling a shaman, the wife of childless Ak-Kaan gives birth to seven sons; after the second vocation, six-eyed Karagys; eldest son Maka-Maatyr sees a girl getting up from the cradle, eating animals, lying back; MM runs away, marries the youngest daughter of the great khan; two other sons-in-law are persuaded to give MM difficult tasks, the wife explains how they perform; 1) get the golden eagle's feather; MM cuts off the heads of a seven-headed snake coming out of the lake with an arrow to devour the golden eagle chicks; they hide it from their parents; their father arrives with rare snow, their mother with with heavy rain (these are the tears of golden eagles), carry deer in their claws; the chicks explain that MM saved them, the golden eagle does not kill MM, but gives a feather; 2) get the tooth of a monstrous wolverine (one of its horns is stuck in the ground, the other supports the sky; MM jumps between horns, wolverine runs under the clouds, cannot shed it, gives two teeth); sons-in-law do not know how, MM makes a cauldron, working these teeth as tools; 3) bring Altyn- Tana, daughter of god; wife gives MM fur coats to have them, the AT brothers ask her to show MM face, drink thimble araks; AT loses consciousness, MM takes her away; brothers catch up, she sends them back; turns the khan into a fox, his people and property into black ground; MM climbs the mountain, sees his camp, cries; says that the branch, the pipes, the wind have damaged the eye; AT punishes them, the mother of the wind explains, what's the matter; MM gets home on a six-legged horse; six-eyed K. ate everyone, chases MM, tears off all the horse's legs one by one; AT tells her not to touch her husband, K. leaves]: 44-72; Khakas [ The master is working; the old woman tells the khan that P. can cure his sick daughter; khan: if you refuse, I will cut off my head (giving the following tasks at the same time); the spirit tells P. to take a wolf trap, ticks, a hammer, a deck of cards; the owner of the Saryg-Ool fever enters the khan's daughter, says that it is his wife; agrees to play cards with P. with pinches and clicks; when P. plays with his cards, he stings S. with ticks, hits S. with a hammer; withstands the pinch and click of S.; then S. tries to escape, falls into a wolf trap with his chest; Khan's people burned him, the girl recovered, P. got her married; old woman Khan: P. can make a 70-year-old Khan is 7 years old, his 60-year-old wife is 6 years old; his wife orders him to run on a raft across the sea; the soldiers taken with them died of thirst and hunger; P. came to the copper house with three corners; Saryg-Khys came; says that P . killed her brother, but decided to marry P.; fell asleep; P. put gunpowder under her bed, set fire to a hemp rope and ran away; the house exploded; P. sailed on a raft to the other side, there was a stone house with three corners; a blind black hero came in: you killed my daughter, my son; P. offered to heal his eyes; tied and poured molten lead into his eyes; ran away, ended up in a goat pen; every black hero throws a goat from the stockade; the last is a large goat, threw it together with P. clinging to it; P. swam further along the sea, the black hero fell into the sea, drowned; on the new shore, a bronze house with three corners; food on the table, P. ate, climbed onto the stove; a black woman came: killed my son, daughter, husband; offers himself to P. as his wife; in the morning she went to fight the snake khan; spies on P. sprinkling ash around the house so that snakes do not crawl; how firewood brings; she likes such a watchman; in two days P. secretly carved the boat and oaks, on the third day, a black woman sailed up the sea% black woman tore her stomach, threw a miscarriage to sink the boat with P., P. had a hard time throwing it into the sea; black woman: if you sail through the darkness, shovel and throw pebbles into the boat, they would become gold and silver; otherwise, out of the darkness, it would not be you will sail; the boat has reached the shore, there is a thin white and damn horse near the house, three thin daughters of Ah-Khan ask for help in the fight against the three-headed snake khan; P. shot him; the girls gave gold and silver potatoes, let Khan and Khansha eat and rejuvenate; the white and damn horse drove home; after eating potatoes, Khan and Khansha became boy and girl, and P. became khan; let go of everyone whom the former khan held by force]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 22:383-403; Tuvans (Kara-Khem) [it was a long time ago when the rivers dried up from the heat and the beaks of birds melted; Anchi Kara was orphaned, stabbed the last goats, the game could not be found; he began to sing and all the animals gathered to him; then disappeared; the raven ordered him to take three beads out of his nest, swallow it - you will understand the language of birds and animals; AK hears the conversation of two herons; they they talk about a lama who read a sacred book, threw a tripod from someone else's yurt, put it on his head, the tripod was hot, the llama went bald; then the conversation of a hare, a wild cat, a wild ram, boar and fox; everyone says how he will kill a person; hare: he will look with his own oblique eyes and the man will bend; the boar: will slaughter with fangs; the ram - cares; the cat will tear with its claws; the fox will scratch and He will score with his tail; AK is enough for everyone, tells them not to attack people, but to do what these animals are doing now; he did not grab the fox, it ran away on its own; AK comes to Darynsa Khan, whose daughter Nagyr Chechek has gone blind ; that bald llama nearby; AK spoke about what he learned from herons, promised to cure LF; hears two swans talking; LF will cure the juice of blue flowers growing in the sky; swans promised to bring flowers; llama advises Khan cut off AK's arms and head if he does not heal the LF before sunset; at the last moment, the swans brought flowers and the LF saw the light; but, at the instigation of the lama, the khan promises to give AK his daughter only if he gets out of holes; he was thrown a hole, filled the exit with stones; realizing that AK understood their language, the mice dug a way out; now the khan sends AK south to kill the shulbus; swans teach to find a black foal with a white spot on forehead, ride it to a long snake, ask her to wrap rings around the shulbus, knock out his only eye with an arrow himself; the shulbus died, the vaults of his cave collapsed; the khan drove the lama away, and AK married the NF and took him to for himself on Kara-Khem]: Taube 1978, No. 30:137-146; Khalha Mongols: Benningsen 1912 (Dunsurun) [when dying, the father tells three brothers to learn something; they go along three roads; the eldest became a master, the middle to a scientist, the youngest to a thief; the khan demands that he steal a golden vessel guarded by two lamas; the thief replaced the guard horses with bags of dung, the shooters' weapons with rotten sticks; gave salt to the camel, the meat of the dog, the horse's hay and the bull, they missed it; wrapped pieces of bacon around the heads of the sleeping llamas, put the intestines between the two khatun, carried the vessel; Khatun began to argue which of them gave birth, then saw dirty guts; everyone began to swear; the khan married the thief to his daughter; the brothers are jealous, they say that the thief promised to get the golden stallion Hormusto-Tengria; the wolf tells you to leave the horse and ride it; the wolf He orders to take the golden bird and the golden yurt, but not to take the golden lasso; the young man took, captured, runs away; take the stallion, but not the bridle; the young man took the bridle, is captured, runs away; the second time the thief safely took the yurt, a bird and a stallion; he met the brothers, they stabbed him in the back, brought the stallion to the khan themselves; the wolf grabbed the kite, forced the kite to bring live water from Mount Sumbur-Ula; the young man came to life, the wolf invited him to his place; then the young man came to the khan; the people given to him by the wolf killed his brothers; the young man forgave his wife for marrying one of his brothers; stayed with her]: 68-75; Mikhailov 1962 [Khan has six evil officials envy kind, they ask the khan to give him impossible assignments; 1) bring the sage from the Ar-Gol area (the bird puts the good on his back, carries him through the underworld; lords of red, white and black luses ( underground inhabitants) give good hadaki (?) , and on the way back there are caskets of these flowers; the sage was brought); 2) build a cast iron house in three days (he builds a black casket); 3) deliver seven bags of gold by morning (a white casket delivers them, officials deliver them snatching up); 4) get seven amazing things (seven lightning from the red casket kill Khan and his associates)]: 131-136 (=1967:154-160); Mongols (khalha?) [The lama offered the carpenter to build a house, and he would ask the gods to send him happiness; he refused; the lama told the khan that he had been in heaven and the khan's late father asked for a carpenter to build the temple; the carpenter and his wife dug an underground passage from the place where they were going to burn it in advance; they washed themselves with kumis and turned white for a month; when they came to the khan, they said that the temple in heaven was ready and now a llama was needed there; the llama burned down]: Hoza 1954:10 {online, pagination starts at page 1}; the Mongors [Danjiansirang has been feeding the toad for years, although his father tells him to throw it away; when he grows up, he goes to the capital to take an exam; The toad rewards D. with a bead that revives the dead, tells them not to revive people; D. revives a fly, mice, bee; revives a corpse by the road; this is Lamurenqian; he first accuses D. of murder, then goes with D. ; lowers water into the well, throws it, takes the bead, gives it to the emperor, receives the rank of "Hero who gave the treasure"; a passerby pulls D. out of the well, he comes to the capital, accuses L., L. throws him into prison; the rescued Bee teaches how to cure a dying princess; D. heals, gets her as his wife, D. persuades the emperor to test his son-in-law; 1) separate millet from rice overnight (mice separate); 2) identify the princess's palanquin among 22 identical ones (the fly sits on him); D. finds his bead in the treasury, his wife tells his father that L. is executed]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:118-119.