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Ethnicities and habitats

K27R. Go to the next world. (.14.) .21.-.24.27.-.34.36.

The assignment giver requires you to bring an item or message from the

dead.

Tibetans, Lepcha, Meitei, Inta, Palaung, Kashmiris, Assamese, Bengalis, Loda, Gagauz people, Moldovans, Bosnians, Albanians, Russians (Pskov, Orel), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Ivano-Frankovshchina, Volyn, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava), Belarusians, Abkhazians, Adygs, Ingush, Nogais, Kumyks, Arars, Tatas, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Baluchis, Mountain Tajiks, Tajiks, Sistan Tajiks, Vakhans, Shugnans, Yazgulyams, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Turkmens, (Sarykol), Eastern Sami, Latvians, Lutsi, Mari, Bashkirs, Kazakhs (including Chinese), Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Siberian Tatars (Baraba), Altaians, Khakas, Tuvans, Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, northeastern Yakuts.

(Wed. North Africa. Mauritanian Arabs [six sons are married, the youngest is still single; he rode a horse, met a girl, she said that her mother is ghoul, agreed to marry a young man; they rode to his house; mother -the ghoul in the form of a tornado pursues; the daughter threw thorns (more precisely, thorn needles, épines pour coudre), a (thorny) forest appeared; the pursuer overcame it, became a tornado, a snake, the daughter threw it a handful of sand, dunes appeared; the fugitives reached home, but the ghul had time to touch her daughter and she became a monkey; "I taught you everything," the ghul said to her daughter; the old woman told the Sultan that his son had married on a monkey; the sultan demanded that all daughters-in-law weave a woman's veil; the monkey fabric is the best; the same is to cook couscous; the sultan tells his daughters-in-law to come to the screenings; the monkey was beautiful in accompanied by numerous servants; the Sultan ordered to make a fire in the pit and throw his son there to take possession of the beauty; the ghoul quietly snatched him out of the fire, he returned in a luxurious dress; told his father that he was dressed up by the Sultan's late parents; the Sultan demanded that he also be thrown into the fire; the sultan burned down, his son took his place]: Tauzin 1993:155-162).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans ["ghost stories"; the royal painter envies the royal carpenter; brings a forged letter as if the king's late father is asking for a carpenter to build a temple; the carpenter digs underground passage from the house to the place of burning; allegedly returning from the dead, he gives the king a letter asking him to send a painter; a burnt painter escapes from the fire]: MacDonald 1931:310-312 (almost the same in Cassis 1962:36-39 and Shelton 1925, No. 9:46-49, but the painter burns); Lepcha [King Pid-no has seven dangerous demons in his service; Tashey-thing arranges that the merchant has lost his childless wife; After that, the woman gave birth to a son; she forbid him to leave the house; he saw a wonderful flower in the fox's teeth, chased it, got it, returned it, took it to the king; the demons advised him to send the young man to bring a lot such flowers; the beggar promises to help the young man; the young man passes through the land of pigeons, parrots, peacocks; each king promises him a daughter if he brings him a flower; the beggar whirlwinds the young man across the sea to the palace five demons (they have one, two... five heads); bushes with precious flowers in the garden; the young man hides, sees the demon take out parts of the girl's body with living and dead (white and black) water; leaving, disassembles it again; the young man revives it, they take water and the demon's knife, flowers, come back; demons swim across the sea, drown; the young man gets the king's daughters, pigeons, etc.; brings flowers to the king; he orders to create palace, garden, forest, decorate the palace; pigeons, parrots, peacocks perform everything; the king orders to explain the source of the Tisla River (to do this, you have to go to heaven); the wife dismembers the young man, says that he will be in a week will return from heaven, tell; when he revives a young man, he says that his heavenly father did not recognize him, he would tell the secret to seven brothers; seven demons allow themselves to be dismembered, die; the young man becomes royal adviser]: Stocks 1925, No. XXVII: 420-427; Meitei [Chandrakangan found a golden lotus and his grandfather gave it to the king; the king demanded another one for the Queen; C. went in search, reached of the lower world and returned from there with Indra's three daughters and many lotuses; then the king tells C. to collect rice poured into the pond and mustard seeds trampled in the mud; his wife Nganu Leima (leader ducks) and Khunu Leima (the leader of the pigeons) told their subjects to complete the task; the king orders C. to bury and make a hot fire in this place, and if he survives, he will receive half the kingdom; third Sabi's wife (a sharp-toothed animal) dug an underground passage through which C. left, and when he returned, told the king that he could see his ancestors if he went through the same procedure; the king burned down]: Singh 1993:10-11; meitei [when the widow's son reached the age of 14, she began to work fishing; one day, instead of fish, he fished for a wonderful flower that turned old people into young people; the widow gave it to her brother, and he to the king; the king told the young man to get a second flower for the queen; the young man went in search; on the way he married the daughter of the king of rats; Princess Nganuleima; the daughter of the king of pigeons; he showed where such flowers grow; the young man returned with a flower and three wives; the royal barber advises the king to tell the young man to collect mustard seeds scattered among small stones (pigeons collected); the same with two other tasks (not named); go to the land of death and find out about his royal ancestors there; the young man says that he has been to the land of death and is waiting for the king's barber; the young man became royal minister]: Oinam et al. s.a.

Burma-Indochina. Inta [the chief minister is jealous of the architect; persuades the shaman to say that the king's late father needs a palace; the architect digs an underground passage in the house, makes a fire in front of him, pretends who jumps into the fire; a year later he returns asking the late king to send the first minister; he jumps into the fire, burns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 49:162-164; palaung [cunning Aki promises the king to argue to deceive him; offers to send him to the land of the dead to visit the king's father; the king orders to tie A., leave him on the platform above the hot spring; if he does not visit the country within 7 days the dead, he will be drowned in a spring; A. tells the passing merchant that he heals his eyes, the merchant changes places with him, he is drowned, A. takes his goods, leaves, buys gifts for the king, says he sent them his father to him; the king asks him to be sent to the world of the dead, he is drowned; A. makes a hollow in the banyan, broadcasts from there to the king's wives, the imaginary spirit of the banyan tells him to make King A.; at night A. persuades the servants to run around the palace, depicting spirituals threatening disasters if A. does not become king; the wives of the former king recognize him]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 143:326-330.

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; a 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 that he was eating 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 with his 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 and appointed a vizier]: Devi 1915:84-96; the Tamils [the king asks seven sons what everyone would like to do on this cool night; one wants to invade the neighbors at the head troops, the other to irrigate, the third to hunt, etc.; the seventh is to have four wives, daughters of Indra, Agni, Varuna and Adishesha by his side; the father is furious to execute his son, the mother warns tells him to flee; the torturers brought animal blood to the king; the prince lives with an old woman and herds cattle; contrary to the ban, he goes north, climbs a fruit tree and sees Indra's daughter swimming in a pond; kidnaps her clothes, she runs, she asks him to look back, he turns into stone, Indra's daughter returns to heaven with four other maidens; the old woman revived the prince, told him not to look back next time, but bring clothes to her; 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 to marry the prince, turning him back into 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 take his wife away, to pretend to be sick, to send the prince for snake venom; the wife gives a note to her uncle, tells her to drop him into 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; 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 four wives returns to earth, regains the city and power]: Natesa Sastri 1886:80-119; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 77 [ the two eldest sons tell the king that the moon is good because it illuminates the road; the youngest says that flower princesses can ride their chariot in its light; the king tells him to take him to the forest and kill him; he hides, buried in the sand, the hangman kills the chameleon; the prince found two princesses in flowers, they grew up, went with him, live with a widow; the king (apparently hoping to take over the princesses) gives the prince difficult errands; princesses teach how to perform them; 1) bring blue flowers (they grow on the shore, the crocodile did not eat the prince; in one flower he found a third princess); 2) go to the world of nagas; princesses dig a way to move, who the king ordered to dig, they give the prince magic sand; the king orders to close, compact his move; the prince returns differently, tells the king that the late father is calling him; the king goes underground, the entrance falls asleep, the king dies; ministers make the prince king when the elephant stays at his house; the prince summons his parents and brothers, makes his father king, the brothers ministers, leaves himself and the princesses], 89 [ Seeing a bird, the king and his wife argue whether it is male or female; the queen loses, leaves, gives birth to a son, picks up a gem in the dried riverbed; the child immediately stops crying; the son has grown up, the mother sends him to sell the stone at the market, but no one is able to determine the price; the king invites the young man and his mother to live in the palace, because he also does not have the money to pay the full cost of the stone; sends a young man behind the second stone; a young man comes to the river, Yakshini explains that she is the daughter of her owner, they are guarding the gems; she runs with the young man; spits precious stones; the king wants to take over Yakshini himself; the minister advises sending the young man to visit the king's deceased parents; he is walled up in an underground passage, Yakshini sends rats (their mistress is her sister) to dig another passage, dresses her husband in precious clothes; The king believes that the young man went to the next world, goes down into the dungeon himself, is walled up; the young man reigns]: 164-169, 211-216.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Loda (Halmahera), Minahasa, Toraja, Sumbawa, Savoe, Dusun [the king's servant sees three beauties in the hero's house - the hero's wife and her two sisters; to take possession women, the king sends the hero to visit his royal ancestors in heaven; women make and revive a doll in the form of a hero, burn it; three days later, the hero returns, supposedly, from heaven with gifts for the king; the king and The courtiers ask them to be burned too; the hero allows the people to dismantle the royal treasures]: Dixon 1916:199-201.

The Balkans. The Gagauz people [the widow king tells his three sons to fire arrows where they fall, there is fate; the elders fell against the girls, the youngest to the turtle; he brings the turtle home when he returns from hunting, finds food cooked; he hides, grabs the girl, throws away the turtle shell; the king father wants his daughter-in-law, tells his son to bring his deceased mother's wedding ring from the dead; the wife teaches him to go to to the sea, shout into the hole, her mother will come out, give the key to the earth's castles; he opens the land, walks, sees a fat herd in a dry meadow, a skinny herd in an abundant one; on the way, the sea asks the guy to ask God why in it, sea, no fish; a man sits by the water, black and white sheep come out, everyone wants to extinguish the flame, fight, and the person lights up again; asks to know why he is burning; in the Sun Palace, the mother says that the ring is near the Sun will come back and give; the Sun gives a ring, cries, because people in the city go for need secretly, but in the field openly; the guy goes back; the old man explains that obese cattle are those who worked alms and the bad one did alms, looking around; a burning man - whoever judged once righteously and the other unrighteously; the guy gave the ring to the king immediately died]: Moshkov 1904, No. 29:39-41; Moldovans [boyar Marcu Rich tripled his feast; the poor old man was driven away; he spent the night in a poor house; the hostess hears someone asking him several times at night about the fate of another newborn; about the third, he says that he will get all the MB's property; the woman reports this to the MB; he finds the house where the woman gave birth to her 13th child at this hour, persuades him to give him the newborn, throws him into thickets; a childless farmhand picked him up; when MB found out about this, he bought a baby, lowered him down the river in a barrel, picked him up by workers in a cloth mill; MB asks who makes such a good cloth, he was told a story about a foundling; MB sends a young man with a letter to his home, ordering him to burn the applicant; the bee asks to drive the bear away, and in gratitude replaces the letter with an order to marry the applicant to his daughter; Upon returning, MB sends his son-in-law to the next world for his late mother's ring; on the way, a man sitting in the river and thirsty asks him to know how long it takes to suffer; wine pours over the edge from one keg, the other is dissolved; in the ravine, a pop asks for food, a snake comes out of his mouth; at the table, the hungry cannot carry food to their mouths, ask Beelzebub the Ancient how long they will suffer; the soldier at the gates of hell asks to know how long does he stand; the old woman hides the young man, asks Beelzebub; he promises to bring a ring; the thirsty was a cruel and greedy rich man, to suffer forever and ever; the same pop Kalach - cruel and greedy profanity; kegs: there are poor and rich; hungry at the table must feed each other; the guards of hell will soon replace MB; the young man is back, MB went to check the lime, became the guardian of hell]: Moldavian tales 1968:346-360; bosses [poor widow's well-haired and good-haired daughter rejects suitors; her mother drove her into the forest: you will become a bear queen; the bear took her to her lair; when she left, she blocked the exit with a stone, but she did not even think of running; gave birth to a gold-haired girl with the same clever eyes as a bear father; bear: a son would be in me and inherit my kingdom, and a daughter let her be a queen among people; the bear put his crown in the cradle of his daughter and went to die; the bears buried him; the bear's wife turned her daughter into a toad and hid it under a stone; the king has three sons; father tells them to take bows and shoot arrows from the top of the tower; the elders fired arrows into the neighboring kingdom and brought the princesses; the youngest fired an arrow towards the forest; found an arrow in the fir above the cave, and everything was around tidy; wanted to kick the toad, and she: don't hit, I'm (your) happiness; he brought it home; noticed that although the servant brought food to the prince's room as it should be, then everything was turned upside down; the prince came in and saw the girl in the crown; opened the closet and threw the skin into the fire with a toad; the prince introduced the bride to his father; he told the three daughters-in-law to eat; the elders threw the crumbs on the carpet, and the youngest on the plate, and they turned into ducats; then the king demanded that his son give the sorceress to him himself; he does not agree; then let him sew clothes for all soldiers from one piece of cloth; bride: go where he found me and shout" Burning hair - show up!" Tell my mother what she needs, she will do anything; she has given everything; the second task is to cook food in a cauldron for all the soldiers; the same; bring the ring that the king's late wife took to another world; bride: go ask the mother what to do; the bride's mother told her to remain silent and led her deep into the cave; one snake steals another's eggs (the girl is turned into a snake for secretly taking eggs from her mother during her lifetime); man and woman hanged by the legs, with their backs to each other (during their lifetime, the couple quarreled); the baby is hanged, the dog licks the dripping blood (the dog is a woman who strangled her child); two men are roasted on skewers, and they complain about the cold (during her lifetime they stole firewood hedges); the late queen, the prince's mother, cooks in boiling water; reached out her hand and told her son to remove the ring from her finger; let the king pay for 30 cherries, for which she did not pay was the only thing she could be punished for; when she returned, the prince told the king everything; he called the people together; when he found out who his wife owed, he gave that poor man the money; the prince returned to the cave and the bride's mother showed how the prince's mother came out of boiling water across the golden bridge and was saved; the wedding of three princes; the king handed over power to the younger]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:81-94; Albanians [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 in order his father's gun, 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 the tree, a young man picked up two gems 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 had to bring stones into 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 cry filled the pot; these tears must be sprinkled with stones in the mountains; the young man brought the king stones to build a palace, he was pleased; once he killed a lynx, contrary to his wife's advice, carried the king's skin; again refused the vizier, who wanted to buy it himself; he persuaded the king to bring a lot of skins to decorate the entire palace; the 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 their husband to take them on horseback and return unnoticed; starves her husband and horse 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 stay in alive in boiling oil; his wife gives him herbs, which the dwarf used to revive her; the young man is unharmed; the king orders the vizier to be thrown into boiling oil, makes the vizier a young man]: Pedersen 1898, No. 8:53-67.

Central Europe. Russians (Pskov, Orel), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchyna, Galicia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava), Belarusians [Beautiful Wife (Assignment to the Next World): the hero receives a wife from God for burning incense, the fragrance of which has reached heaven; the tsar (master) sends to take possession of this beauty husband to the next world; with the help of his wife, the husband carries out an assignment]: SUS 1979, No. 465C: 138; Ukrainians (Poltava, Gadyach, c. 1878) [Danilo has been serving for several years, but lives very poorly. He enters a house with a stone at the doorstep (so that there is no dirt), Danilo is hired to work for the owner of the house for this stone. After a year of service, he receives a stone - it breaks in his hands. Danilo picks up a fragment of the pot and lights the frankincense. God sends an angel to ask if Danilo is trying to please God. Danilo complains that he has nothing regardless of whether he receives an award for his service or not. The angel asks whether he wants health, wealth or a reasonable wife, he asks three ploughmen, two do not know, the third chooses a reasonable wife, Danilo says the same and falls asleep on the grave. St. Peter's daughter appears to Danile and says that he should go to his father's estate. Danilo: It turns out that she does not exist ("God gave it, what has become"), she asks where he keeps the money he earns - she searches and finds it, they get married and live in his father's house. Pan falls in love with Danila's wife, threatens to take her away if he fails to complete the tasks: brew beer, make live harps, and his wife helps him. He brings his harp to Pana, starts playing - Pan and his wife and all the animals in the yard are dancing. Pan asks you to go to the next world and find out where his father hid the money, his wife gives Danila a ball, he finds out that the money is under the back porch under an iron sheet. Danilo tells Mr., he does not believe him, he shows a note from his father - he finds money, gives half to Danila]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 34:153-156; Belarusians (Minsk, Turov) [summary of the fairy tale from Mikhail Krivoshapkin's manuscripts "On Volyn and Minsk Polesye" (1898-1899): Ivan Bezdolny "bought a cat, for which he later received a bag of gold; bought a cart of palm for gold, lit it and asked God for his wife- beautiful, chose her from three lambs who bathed; Voight wants to take his wife away from him and sends him first to that suite to his father, and then to heaven to call the crown; bathed in hot milk from 12 blood and became handsome, and the pan was cooked in the same milk"]: Zelenin 1914, No. 12:295.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians (p. Lykhny) [Alexey went hunting, saw a girl in a forest hut, brought her to himself; the tsar demanded to give in, A. refused; then demanded to go to his late father and find out where he hid the gold ring and cauldron; the wife gave two coils of thread: tie it to the toe, follow the coils; by the sea there is a wide bridge to heaven and hairs to hell, the king's father is in hell; A. crossed the hairs; the king's father carries a bag of sand, his devils they are driven and beaten with sticks; he answered where the gold things are hidden, the coils brought A. back; now the king demands to bring him something that no one has seen in this world; the wife gave the coils again, they led to her older sister, whose husband is an ogre; he promised not to eat a guest, went with him to his younger brother; there his wife's other sister is also with her cannibal husband; from there they all went to their third brother; one of The audience replied that he knew where such a thing was; A. came to the palace; there people called Mishka and demanded food from him; she appeared; A. ate and offered Mishka a glass of wine; M.: you are the first to me offered; they went together; the invisible M. took the peasant's axe; they stood on him and sailed across the sea; on the other side, M. fed the army; the army asked M. to cede M. in exchange for a box that can be turned into a palace, a gun and anything; A. gave in, and then M. returned to him; the king sends servants, M. hits them; the king himself came, got hit on the head with a stick, sent an army, the cannon box shoots; the tsar fled, Alexey got everything]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:154-159; the Adyghi [the dragon (blago) curled around the prince's herd (pshi) promises to return the cattle if he gives his son; the eldest two refuse, the youngest Doletmiz goes, puts on the naked girl's chest, she teaches him to throw the burka to black snakes, the bag to the blue ones; to go to a house where two snakes will turn into girls; they advise ask their father for a plain horse and a bag of tools; upon returning to the village, D. builds a luxurious house there; two eldest sons, a father and a sorcerer, seek to lime D.; wives help to fulfill errands; 1) return the herd from overseas; the horse orders to cover it with resin and sand, the horse Jinjif wins, who gives the herd; 2) get his grandfather's golden stick from the day of the sea (the sea king gives it to the horse D.); 3) bring a golden bath and grandfather's kumgan from the dead; D. enters the mound on horseback; the grandfather tells me to return home calmly; the brothers became wolves, the father became a boar, they chase him; the sorcerer died; D. quietly lives with his wives]: Huth 1987:168-176; Ingush [poor young man dreams: there are two golden towers on the left and right, two doves flew to his knees, telling him to take what fate intended; he ran looking for the old man to tell him a dream, but the hunter persuaded him to tell him and bought a dream; he was going to spend the night under a tree; a rider drove up on a beautiful horse, with him the second without a rider; the rider was the daughter of a pachchaha, who was told by an old man in a dream to marry a young man sleeping under this tree; they came to town and lived well; Pacci greeted the young man; he called him to visit, although his wife was against it; in his wife the owner of the pacci was recognized by the daughter of a neighboring paccah, whom he used to marry; the old man invited the paccah to pretend to be sick and send the young man for a medicinal flower; the wife teaches how to hide the clothes of a red-headed bird - she will swim in the lake undressed, and bald and black-headed dressed; the bird will fulfill her wishes; the wife gave a ring, the bird saw, put it on, became a girl, she is the sister of the young man's wife, must be his second wife; a young man brought a second wife and a flower; pacci demands a date with his deceased father; two birds took the young man and the pachchaha to heaven; the bald boy lowered back, and the black-headed returned alone and said that his father threw Pachchah's body into the sea, and God sent his soul to hell; the young man became a pachchah of two countries, the husband of two wives; the dream came true]: Tankieva 2003:314-321; Nogai: Nogai 1979: No. 15 [ Azdaha tells the shepherd to either give his son or die himself; only the youngest of three sons agrees to go to Azdaa; he gives his daughter to a young man; tells him not to go south; the horse says that the person living there in the lake, a bull does not provide water, people give him their children for a sip of water; a young man kills a bull, Azdaha is ready to fulfill his three wishes; his wife tells him to ask permission to return home, take a gray mare and a black mare whetstone; the young man and his wife leave, the whetstone fulfills their wishes (home, food appear); at the suggestion of envious brothers, the young man's father tells him to bring him a gold ring from the finger of his deceased father; the wife teaches ask the cemetery old man for a ring, throw land on the brothers, who turn into spotted pigs], 23 [the orphan dreams: the moon is at the head, the sun is at the feet, the star on the sides; sells sleep to the shepherd for flock; the shepherd sees the rider drive up to the house, falls asleep; the girl called out to him, the shepherd answered, tells him to ride after her; in the morning the girl sees a mistake, but decides that it is fate; tells him to take the golden spoon to a gift to the khan and ask them to build a house on a pile of ash; tells them to invite the khan to visit, but enter first; the young man forgot the instruction, the khan was the first to enter, fell in love; the viziers advise not to kill the shepherd, but 1) send for the milk of an Arab mare; his wife teaches him to lure the mare with salt; the young man brings milk and brings the mare herself; 2) bring the apple to the girl of paradise; the wife tells him to go to the lake, three doves will fly, they will turn into heavenly girls, you must hide the clothes alone; the young man brings an apple to the Khan, takes the heavenly girl as his second wife; 3) bring the gold ring to the Khan's late mother and find out where she buried the gold; a girl in paradise throws her husband into the fire, he goes out with a ring, says where the gold is; the khan asks him to leave him, burns him, makes the young man a khan; two wives and two children of a young man are a dream come true]: 74-77, 120-125; Kumyks [the wife gives birth to forty sons, writes a letter to the merchant husband who has left; he replies that she will kill her if she finds at least one child when she returns; she hides them in a hole; after 15 years, the merchant finds them He leads his sons home; leans over the spring, Azhdaha grabs him, tells him to give the youngest; tells the young man 1) to bring Bermes, the daughter of Almas Khan; on the way, the shepherd in the service of Azhdakh promises to help; to the young man a sharpshooter, a deer milker, a speedboat, a sea drinker, a wolf join; win Almas Khan's competitions (defeat the dog, win the run, spend the night in a hot room; the young man brings a woman; a shepherd tells her to break a millstone on the mound, there are eggs with the soul of Azhdah; a young man kills him, takes his wife and wealth; 39 brothers are jealous, offer the father to send the youngest for a bull buried by the sea; that brings him together with the herd; the same is a horse; the father orders to bring a golden pole from the dead from the dead; he gives and teaches them to turn the young man's parents into wild boars (the origin of pigs), brothers in dogs]; Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 29-37 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 49:126-136); Avars [the arrow of the khan's eldest son falls on the roof of the vizier's house, the middle son of the nuker, the youngest into the swamp; he marries a frog , the khan tells him to live with her in a forest hut; the frog turns into a beauty, he burns her skin, she regrets it; the brothers are jealous, persuade his father 1) send the youngest to the mill from which they flow butter, honey and flour; a frog-mother-in-law gives a horse, the hero rides it to the mill, kills the dragon, brings millstones; 2) ask the deceased mother where the treasures are hidden; the horse brings the hero to a hole in the ground; mother says where the treasures are, wants her son's father and brothers to become dogs; the hero pulls treasures, dogs run to the mountains]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:247-253; tatas [stepmother hates stepson and two stepdaughters; makes girls go through rice and millet, mixing them with ash; invites stepson to go to the next world to his mother; he finds her, stays in the next world; sisters make cakes, they they roll, the sisters go after them to look for their brother; they come to the house of their mother and brother while they are away; two mice eat cakes; the girls cry because they cannot go back without cakes; the mice take them out, their brother and mother through the hole in other moves; brother's stick hits stepmother to death; everyone is happy]: Kukulla 1974, No. 12:102-106; Georgians: Chikovani 1985, No. 4 [hail beat the third brother's field; he is hired by a rich man, will receive half of the harvest if he eats the field in a day; one sheaf remains to tie, the sun did not heed the request to wait, set; the person leaves with nothing; is hired to herd sheep if four years of damage do not He will get half; on the way home, the wolf dragged one sheep, the young man left with nothing; three daughters of the sun come down from the sky to swim, he grabs one, lives with her in a shack; the girl's ring makes wishes come true; the young man invites the king to visit, advisers come, the servant roasts the pheasant, sees the young man's wife, is overwhelmed by her beauty, the pheasant is burnt; advisers tell the king that he sends the young man for the golden fleece of the Sun; Month turns the young man into a needle so that he does not burn out when the Sun approaches; the Sun has tempered the heat, greets his son-in-law; the young man hits the wolf, Ilya the Thunderer, with a baton, ruins the Sun Garden; explains why; Sun gives a fleece; the king sends his mother for the ring; the wife gives an apple, the young man follows it; the deer asks for a potion - it is difficult to carry horns; the fat bull is without food (served the owner faithfully; everything explanations are given when the young man returns), skinny - in the midst of food by the stream (he served badly); husband and wife lie freely on the axe (loved each other), others cramped in bull's skin (did not love each other); an old woman builds a tower of eggs, they fall, fight (stole eggs); another puts white bread in tonur (tone), takes out the black earth (did not give bread to travelers); a person is a bridge across the abyss, they walk along it (when He did not let life cross the bridge); the king's mother gives a ring, curses her son; orders the deer to drink May water; having received the ring, the king turns into a hare, his advisers into wolves, tore him to pieces; young man reigns]: 22-26; 1986 [father tells sons to take wives where their arrows fall; the eldest marries the princess, the middle to the counselor's daughter, the youngest to the frog; being alone, the Frog throws off leather, made beautiful, manages; the husband waited, threw his skin into the fire; mocking the older daughters-in-law, the younger brother's wife asks for papers for a dress, horse, donkey or dog to go to the king in guests; the elders wear paper dresses, ride a mare and a donkey; The frog tells her husband to bring blue and white horses, causes rain, the elder's dresses are soaked, the older ones are back, the Frog and her husband stayed with king; the king wants to take his son's wife, gives difficult tasks; 1) plow and sow the field (the self-propelled plow does everything), 2) return the sown grain (the ants collected), 3) build a wall (from the mirror beam) arises), 4) bring a ring to a deceased mother from the dead; the wife spreads a handkerchief - the way to the next world; on the way, the husband sees a woman who tears off her breasts, sticks a tone to the hot walls (oven for baking tortillas); spouses who are cramped on cow's skin; others who are not cramped on a hatchet; a plowman licked by nine pairs of bulls; a mother gives a ring, says her husband will burn in it; on the way back a person receives answers from those he saw; the plowman tortured bulls, some spouses lived in harmony, others quarreled, the woman did not share bread; the son gives his father a ring, he burns]: 136-141; Armenians: Harutyunyan 1986 [the tsar orders three sons to fire arrows on whose court he will fall, from there to take his wife; the elder's arrow falls into the vizier's courtyard, the middle son falls into the Nazir's courtyard, the youngest at the cliff; she moves apart, there is an old woman, gives his beautiful daughter; the old king wants his daughter-in-law for himself, his wife dies of grief; he sends his youngest son to his deceased mother for the keys to the treasury; the wife tells him to go to her mother, she sends her son take the prince to the next world; on the way, he sees a fat ox in a rocky pasture, thin on juicy grass (during his lifetime, the first was thin, the second was fat), an old woman who cleans the walls of tonir with her chest (with she cleaned them with rags); the mother reports that the keys are under the balcony pole, curses her husband; at home, the prince finds his father petrified, elected to the kingdom]: 95-97; Bogoyavlensky 1894, No. 1 [the tsar hates the younger Segran's son; he went to live in the forest; someone is cleaning his hut; he waited for a frog, she turned into a girl; older brothers Bala and Meghri find him and bring him back to the palace; father demands 1) bring a log 50 fathoms long and thick; the wife tells her sister Sea, the sea gives; 2) a cauldron to cook pilaf for all people (the same) 3) the key to the treasury that the late mother took to that world; the sea tells you to ride a donkey across a mountain that will part, stop at the grave where the donkey will eat barley; on the way, S. sees the suffering, on the way back they tell us what sins punished; mother warns that when S. brings the key to his father, he will die; father is dead, S. is friends with his brothers]: 156-159; Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 5 [three princes shoot arrows; if an arrow falls into a deserted place, you can't marry; the youngest's arrow falls at the cliff, a passage opens in it, the old woman gives her youngest daughter; when he returns, the son finds out that his mother is dead; the king wants his daughter-in-law, the vizier offers difficult tasks; 1) pay a seven-year tribute from the king of the virgins (the wife orders to take her brother's horse and sword, with their help the husband defeats the virgins); 2) a carpet on which the army will fit (mother-in-law gives); 3) go to the deceased mothers, to find out where the treasure is buried; the elder brother-in-law and the prince jump to heaven to the dead; then the prince goes alone, sees those suffering for sins (on the way back they tell us what they were punished for); the woman's breasts puppies suck; naked freezes among scattered silks; an old man draws and drinks blood from a cauldron (meat nearby); a skinny bull in fat meadows, fat on bare ground; a man lies on a bridge across the water, water washes away worms on his sides, they reappear; a river with yk in fat meadows, fat on bare ground; a person lies across the water, water washes away the worms from his sides, they are again black, red, yellow with strips of water; the mother first offers to cross the river to her; when she finds out why he came, she gives a ring with which the treasure was sealed; tells the king to turn into a black stone; as it happened, the prince took the throne] , 6 [the poor man dreams of the sun on his head, the moon in his legs, two stars on his chest; a shepherd buys a dream with the whole herd for it; at night he comes to the city; a young man arrives with two horses, falls asleep; the princess takes him for her cousin, with whom she was going to flee; they leave, she takes a shepherd as her husband, dresses him in a shah-zade costume, now his name is Teymur Shah; the local shah welcomes him with honor, falls in love with his wife, tells me to get 1) sea mare milk (his wife teaches her how to drink her by pouring wine into the pit); 2) heavenly apples; his wife tells me to go on a sea mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathers sisters, who became the second wife, brought apples of paradise; 3) visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, takes him out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and the courtiers order them to be burned, T. reigns; the sun is the moon in his dreams - his wives, sons are stars]: 89-101, 115-124; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955:39-49 [the son of the deceased birdsman Ibrahim grows up, mother gives him his father's pipe and baits, he catches a bird with all feathers of different colors, laying unusual eggs; his mother sells them to the shopkeeper, that Shah; I. lays eggs to the Shah himself; a shopkeeper left without income advises the Shah to ask I. 1) the bird itself; 2) a male bird (I. catches, brings); 3) a rose from the diva's palace; I. finds the beautiful Khurshid there, they flee, taking the diva's gold, but forgetting the rose; I. builds a palace at home , H. hits her nose, two drops of her blood turn into two bouquets of roses; 4) visit the Shah's late parents in the next world; H. advises to travel for a year, come back, say that the deceased are asking send them a dignitary, a former shopkeeper; I. advises the shopkeeper to jump into the well; without waiting for the messenger, the Shah jumps there too; I. marries H.], 106-125 [old man Bakhtiyar dreams that to the right of the sun has risen, the moon has risen on the left, a star above his head; he goes on a journey, tells a dream to a young shepherd, sells it to him with the name B.; the new B. sleeps under the city wall; Shah's daughter Perizad- khanum takes him for his lover, runs with him, they settle in another city; the local shah falls in love with P., the vizier advises sending B. 1) for the apple of paradise; P. gives B. a letter to his sister, she the wife of the divas master; the divas tells one of the three daughters of Padishah Peri to hide the dress when they arrive to swim in the form of doves; they bring an apple; the one whose dress B. hid returns with him, she Gurizad khanum; tells you to give the Shah ordinary apples, and keep the heavenly rejuvenating ones for themselves; 2) a rose from the Gulistani-Irem garden; G. takes B. there, Gul Gakh-gah-khanum flies to his house before him, laughs, Roses fall out of his mouth, B. brings them to the Shah; 3) a mare's milk with 40 foals; GG. sends B. to the old man, who teaches how to lure sea horses, B. brings a mare with her foals, the shah is afraid to milk her, she runs away; 5) to visit the Shah's deceased parents; G. quietly takes B. out of the fire with a dove, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased; the shah, the vizier, the barber (he told the Shah about B.'s wives) burn, B. reigns; The luminaries seen in a dream are his three wives]; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 10 [=Akhundov 1955:39-49; Ibrahim learns from his mother that his father was a birdsman; takes his pipe and net, catches an extraordinary bird, she postpones an egg, the mother sells it to the shopkeeper; the bird regularly lays eggs; the shopkeeper brought them to the king; then I. took them to the king himself; the shopkeeper is envious, he advises that I. caught the bird; the male bird; I. brings everything; an extraordinary rose; I. comes to the palace a diva, jumps away, taking Princess Khurshid ("sun") kidnapped by the diva and treasures; the vizier advises sending I. to the king's deceased parents; H. advises somewhere go, and when he returns, say hello from the king's parents; I. says that the parents are offended: why did the vizier (former shopkeeper) not come; the vizier was sent, I. invites him to throw himself into the hole; the king also jumped; everything is fine; (same text in another paraphrase or very similar to Akhundov 1955 [Ibrahim mother: Who was my father? mother: a birdsman, left a net and a decoy pipe; I. became a birdsman himself, caught a bird with each feather of its own color; she began to lay eggs, I.'s mother sold them to the shopkeeper and he sold them to the Shah; then I. became himself sell eggs to the Shah; the shopkeeper advises the Shah to tell I. to bring the bird itself; I. took the bird, received a lot of gold; the shopkeeper suggests sending him for the male bird, I. catches the male; bring a rose from the diva garden ; I. gets there, runs away with the kidnapped diva Khurshid and gold; H. hit her nose, dripped blood, roses appeared from the blood; the shopkeeper suggests sending I. to the Shah's deceased parents; I. leaves and returns, the Shah believes that he should go to the next world, sends a shopkeeper; I. tells him to jump into the well, the shopkeeper died; the Shah burst with impatience, I. married H.]: 39-49)]: 82-95; Turks [ a young shepherd dug a pond to water the cattle and drink himself; a dove flew there, threw off his feather clothes, became a girl; the young man hid his clothes in a chest, brought the girl to his wife; she creates a palace bridge to the pond; the padishah wants to lime the young man, tells him to bring 1) a bunch of grapes that can be fed to the army and residents; the wife tells him to go to the pond, ask her older sister for such a brush; 2) a newborn baby who would talk (the younger sister just gave birth, the young man brought a talking baby, the padishah is frightened, tells me to take it back); 3) the ring from the finger of the padishah who died half a century ago; a wife sends her middle brother to get this ring; a dove leads a young man across the bridge; there a man drags straw, the other carries doors; during his lifetime, one stole bags of straw, the other two doors; the young man brought a ring, but during this time the wife found her clothes in the chest, flew away, taking with her palace, property and mother-in-law; the dove carries the young man to his wife, who just gave birth; they return , with them the palace, the young man's mother, etc.; the torturers are ready to execute the padishah, but the young man forgave him]: Stebleva 1988, No. 71:288-292.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians {the text does not fully correspond to the motive of "going to the next world"; yet it is likely that there are more complete versions recorded in all neighboring traditions} [the shepherd had a dream, goes to look for someone to explain him, 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 run away with him at midnight; he decided do not embark on an adventure; D. Shepherd answers instead; in the morning the princess sees that a rough Kurd is with her; sends him for water; there is no water in the spring, only gold coins and gems; with this money they buy a house; meet a padishah; an envious vizier advises to order to bring more 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 brings 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, they fall laughing roses; 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]: Osmanov 1987:209-217; Baluchis [ two princes went hunting; the youngest saw a snake swallowing the ram, but the horns were stuck in its mouth; the youngest called the elder, they sawed off the horns, the snake swallowed them; they brought the snake to their father, who gave him a carpet; serpent: let one of you come; the youngest was frightened, the eldest went; the serpent asked his relatives if he would give him his daughter for a man; they said that if he did not have her in three nights sweets, they will fill his skin with hay, and if he does, let him; at night the girl removed the snake's shell; the young man overslept two nights, but on the third he cut his finger, did not fall asleep and got along with the girl; in the morning a snake came and began to joke; his wife ordered his father to choose a thin horse, an old harness and a saddle, and his mother to take the incense of the Holy Prophet Suleiman; going to his father, the prince waited at the crossing; saw a snake and threw a stone in her; wife: you killed me, put the medicine from that bag on my head; the younger brother saw the elder's wife and wanted her himself; the king ordered the vizier to help get rid of his eldest son and give his wife youngest; the vizier tells you to fill three jugs with marvelous milk by morning; the wife called the divas, they gave milk; bring a flower from the dead; wife: sow sesame seeds at the spring; when it blooms, pearies will come; take the dress is medium and don't look back; she is my uncle's daughter; the prince did so; the other pearies flew away; he returned the clothes when that peary said "for the love of husband and wife"; she brought a flower and brought the prince to he went home {and became his wife}; vizier: there are 7 vessels of gold, the key disappeared with your late mother, get it; wives: in such a place the entrance to the grave will be opened; the prince goes and sees two bulls, attacking their owner; two dogs (same); one woman hangs, the other fired under her; each time she asks what this means, he is promised an answer on the way back; his mother in the cauldron, jumped out and gave the key; the one that hangs did not give the one that burns it half a man of oil; the owner fed one dog and did not feed the other; one bull gave hay, the other did not; the young man gave the key; the vizier: create a castle on the river, one brick is gold, the other is silver; the wives called pearies and angels, they built everything; the king, the vizier, who were close there, the pearies and the angels took the bricks, the king, the vizier, the close ones drowned]: Zarubin 1932, No. 15:190-197; mountain Tajiks [the Shah's three sons shoot arrows; the elder's arrow fell at the gate of Kazia, the middle - the mufti, the youngest - to the frog on the riverbank; the young man brought the frog home, that said that she is the daughter of a bet, put on frog skin so as not to amaze people with beauty; the young man asked to lose her skin, burned it; the older and middle brothers want a beautiful woman for themselves; the shah sends his youngest son to visit grandparents are in paradise; the bet's daughter brings three apples from Mount Kof, tells her husband to ask her husband to collect a mountain of firewood, climb it, set it on fire; she picks it up; tells her father to take apples, say that the grandmother grandfather is waiting for them to visit; the Shah and his elder sons let themselves be burned, the youngest becomes Shah]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 2:37-38; Tajiks [man says that he lived in a castle with his daughter in a dream padishah; whoever 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) give the 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; Tajiks Sistana [the old man dreamed that the moon and two stars had fallen from the sky; he went to look for it; the pleshak shepherd Hasan bought this dream for a herd of sheep; only then did he remember that he had not asked about the content of the dream; fell asleep under the wall of the palace; that night the princess and the son of the vizier agreed to flee; the princess asked to wait for her to go to the bathhouse; the vizier's son saw H. sleeping, woke him up, asked him to watch for the horses, and he himself goes to hurry the princess; at this time, the princess threw off X.'s bag, believing that her lover was next to the horses; she jumped herself and they jumped; the vizier's son returned, no one found and stabbed himself; in the morning the princess decided that everything was God's will; the princess washed and dressed X, told him to buy a palace, bring a mullah and marry; the old woman saw H.'s wife and told the king; he told X . bring the ivory throne; H. met an old diva, got her drunk, she made him her son, hid it from the other 7 sons, turning her into a needle and sticking her collar; the divas felt human spirit; swore that they would not harm the guest; the divas threw potions into the water that the elephants drink; they fought and broke off the tusks; the divas made the throne and brought them to the king's garden; the king rewarded H.; now the king tells me to bring a laughing flower and a weeping flower; H. came to the former old woman; during this time one of the divas was captured by a two-headed divas; the divas lowered H. into the well; the heads of a diva on the knees of two pari girls; one laughed, the other cried; flowers fell from the laughing mouth, roses fell from her mouth; one laughs when she saw H., and the other cries, regretting that the diva would kill him; H. noticed a vessel in the niche and realized that his soul was a diva; ordered the diva to take all the prisoners and all the good to earth; H. broke the vessel and the divas died; the bets flew away with doves, told X. to come to their Green City and be their husband; in the city of bet X. in the footsteps that the girls left on his shoulders; when two days were left before the king's term, the bet's father gave H. Suleiman's rug; H. and his wives wore it to the divas and then home; the king received laughing and crying flowers; he tells him to visit his deceased parents; the pari wives wrote a letter on behalf of the king's father inviting him to heaven, dressed H. in clothes as if he were lying in it in the grave; let the king will build a fire, we, together with an old informer and vizier, will stand on it and get to the royal ancestors; H. flew on a rug to the royal throne, and the king, vizier and old woman burned down]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1981, No. 8:104-117; the 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 him a dream 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 had a daughter and the vizier had a son; the vizier's son told the slave of the royal daughter, asked where the mistress was; she answered rudedly; the son The vizier said that although she was beautiful, she was still a 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 ordered that the daughter and son of the vizier be tied to the mouth guns and shoot; the nurse tells them to flee; 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 saw the shepherd's wife, he told the king that the king ordered the viziers to kill the shepherd and take his wife; the shepherd says his name is Hero Zamchi (BZ); the vizier advises better to take the BZ to hunt in Mazendaran forest; wife: there are tigers and lions, you have to take the Steel Sword and the Wind Horse with you, they will do everything themselves; the sword cut down the entire forest; the vizier to the king: go BZ to Mount Kof for the Mare with 40 Foals; wife: a horse and a sword will kill 40 divas; kill: the bet teaches how to ride a mare at the source; 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 the news brought, tell the king and 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; Shugnans [poor the shepherd Jumak fell asleep at the royal horse riding; the king's daughter was going to flee with the son of a vizier with the same name, rode off with J.; gave him royal clothes, on the way he accidentally picked up rubies on the bank; serves at king, he wants his wife; leads to hang, J. promises to bring a bag of rubies; collects them, this is blood dripping into the stream from the throat of a slaughtered peri; J. revives her; she is kidnapped by divas and kills him for a while absences; J. persuades Peri to ask the diva where his soul is (in a plane tree, in a chest, in a bottle, in a shirt); J. kills the diva, brings his second wife; the vizier advises the king to ask for the Laughing Flower; this Green Pari from Mount Kof, when she laughs, flowers fall out of his mouth; they fly to Lake Pari to swim, J. takes Green Pari's dress, brings her to his wives, this is the sister of his second wife; brings flowers to the king; he tells bring his late father's sword; wives give a sword, hide J. with an imaginary letter in the ashes of the fire; the king and vizier agree to be burned, J. becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2:60-73; Yazgulyams [a man has two sons from one wife, one from the other; he tells them to shoot wherever bullets go, take wives there; the eldest's bullets hit a house where two brides, the youngest into a stone scree; he He dug for a year, there was a door, a woman; she put on a skin, became a snake; he threw the skin into the fire; the wife was afraid of misfortune; the brothers came, fell in love with her, told the father to kill the youngest from the light; he tells get 1) a magic flower like; wife: three bets will come to the lake to swim, one has a flower on her dress; grab it, run without turning around, otherwise you will petrify; the husband brings a flower; 2) a mare with 40 foals; wife: jump on a mare by the same lake, foals will follow her; 3) a cauldron with 40 ears; wife: Almasti sleeps with her head on him; when her eyes are open, he sleeps, you have to grab it and run; 4) bring news from the dead; the son tells his father to climb a pile of firewood to see another world, sets fire to firewood, the father burned down; the brothers put the youngest in a bag, carried him to drown, left him on the shore; he said to the shepherd that he is forcibly married, the shepherd changed places with him, thrown to the river; the youngest comes, chasing the herd, says that from the bottom; the brothers tell them to be thrown into the river; the young man poured flour chatter on the blankets of their wives; those thought they were dirty; he said they disgraced the house, tied mares to their tails, horses tore them to shreds]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 7:108-113; Uzbeks (Karabulak near Chimkent, (registered in 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 them to visit them; the king burns at the stake, the husband reigns]: Yudakhin 1927:417-425; Bukhara Arabs [the son of a poor old woman went on a journey; under the city wall saw a sleeping rider; the girl goes down with him to run, does not notice that she was taken by the old woman's son; on the way she asks questions and realizes that the one who took her away had parents not bui, but shepherds; she tells her husband to hire the king and be named Jehangir; on her advice, D. enters the battle later than others, drives enemies, takes possession of the city; the wife orders that king be invited to a feast; she is a peri , other peris help to clean the house luxuriously; the viziers agree to destroy her husband, give his wife to the king; they order to bring news from the dead fathers; the wife has really been to the next world, wrote letters on behalf of fathers; the king and the viziers asked them to be burned down; the Peri wife makes her husband king]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 63:344-348; Turkmens [the old man dreams of nightingales sitting on his shoulders; sells sleep to a shepherd; that comes to the garden, takes an excuse from the hands of a sleeping young man; a girl sits on a horse, he brings her to the city; she makes skullcaps; a padishah takes a shepherd to the service to destroy him and take possession of his wife; 1) get the milk of a black mare; the piebald horse defeats her, brings the padishahu; 2) bring flowers falling from Peri Gulkaghkas's mouth; this is one of the peri coming in the form of doves to swim; mother of devas tells her clothes to be hidden, the shepherd brings flowers to the padishah, leaves G. as his second wife; 3) bring a letter from the dead from the padishah's parents; the peri pick up the shepherd from the fire, then hide it in ash; the padishah thinks that he actually burned down and returned; orders himself to be burned, the shepherd becomes Shah]: Stebleva 1969, No. 19; (cf. 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 ruble, are waiting for him; the king orders himself to be burned at a huge fire, A. becomes king]: Pakhalina 1966:142-148).

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [after the death of her husband, the stepmother marries another, both do not like his stepson; the stepfather tells the king that the young man boasted that he could bring news from the dead; the king orders him to bring a note from his late father; the grandmother gives the young man a ball, he follows him to hell, where kings are tormented by iron mosquitoes; the old king tears off a piece of skin, writes a note to his son; the young man finds the house burnt down, the grandmother and stepfather also burned down; the certificate presented to the king says, Take care of what you are sitting on]: Czarnoluski 1962:225-227; Latvians [a person is hired by the master to uproot stumps; Laima comes to help; the manager decides to get Lyme's share of his master, to do this, get rid of the uproot, suggests sending the message to the Month, the Sun; Lyme gives a thread, along which the uproot easily goes back and forth; his they send them to hell, where the father rolls heavy barrels; the manager follows, tries to help, the devil whips both; when he returns, the manager decides to send the uproot through the hole where the cauldron will be with boiling water; Lyme tells you to go, the uproot returns in gold clothes; the manager and the master are cooked]: Aris 1968:59-63; Lutsie (Western 1931 from a Catholic gypsy) [Danil Beschastny serves at rich for three years; he agrees to pay a "burr rooster", and his wife said that God is above everyone; the owner gave 4 measures of buckwheat; she rose well, the poor man asked Mikola for a blessing, but he froze shoots; DB bought a mare, asked Egor not to harm, but the mare was eaten by wolves; hired to tie a hundred sheaves before sunset, and if he did not tie it, he would get a hundred roses; two sheaves left, DB asked the sun wait, but it came in and DB got a rod for work; the sister of the Sun came to him and began to live with him; now the house has everything; the pan found out about his wife, sent DP to his late father for a letter; the wife gives a ball and tells him to ask for a manager; that devils are lifted up, and the old pan tells his son not to oppress people so as not to suffer after death; the pan sends a letter to the Sun; the wife gives a handkerchief to They recognized him as her husband; DB comes to Mikola, asks him for a stick, mercilessly hits him for buckwheat; the same with Egor for the mare; the mother of the Sun, seeing the handkerchief, is kind, promises to pacify her angry son; when she learns that she has come son-in-law, the Sun is supportive, sends DB to heaven for half a day instead of himself while he writes a letter; DB in paradise has smashed and broken everything; Mikola, Egor and the Sun come to complain to the mother of the Sun; she explains what they received for the cause; DB returned with a letter to Mr.: if you touch my son-in-law, I'll burn the house]: Annom et al. 2018:239-243.

Volga - Perm. Marie (meadow) [father asks three sons to find out who eats wheat in the field; the eldest, middle go to his mistresses, the youngest Ivan consistently catches two horses, then the humpbacked horse, puts to the stall; the brothers stole two horses to sell at the bazaar; I. caught up on the humpbacked, picked up a firebird feather on the way; the humpbacked tells the horses to be sold to the king; they do not allow the grooms to approach, the king has to take them to I. grooms; other grooms, seeing the pen, persuade the king to send I. for the firebird; the horse takes her to the apple tree, where the firebird, I. brings her; to marry the king; the humpbacked helps to grab her, bring; the bride demands that the king take the wedding crown out of her father's church; brings it; the princess demands that the ring she threw be brought into the lake; the humpbacked orders to beat the lake with chains, the king of fish sends for with a ruff, he brings a ring; the princess promises to marry the king if he becomes handsome; you have to jump into boiling water, then into boiling milk, then into cold water; the humpbacked brings the grass to cool the boiling water, I. comes out handsome; the tsar cooked; I. married the princess, became tsar]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 10:169-173; Bashkirs [the meshcheryak conspired with his master's daughter, got drunk; the Bashkirs overheard, came at night, took him away girl; the tsar found out about the beauty, wants to take her away; the adviser suggests 1) sending a Bashkir for another beauty; the wife gives a note, this is her friend, the 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 a 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, to do this, jump into a hole where there is fire; the wife orders to dig a shelter in advance, gives gold and silver bowls; a month later, the husband brings bowls to the king - gifts from father and mother, they say they are angry that he did not visit them himself; the tsar burns down, the Bashkirs reign]: Zelenin 1991, No. 102 (101): 441-445.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Tursunov 1983 [the padishah's son refuses to tell his father his dream; he lets him in a box along the river; he is picked up by a fisherman, a young man and refuses him, the fisherman wants to kill him; the padishah saves him him; buys sleep, giving the throne and daughter; in a dream, a man holds the sun in his arms on the right, the moon on the left; the former padishah comes to the city, the girl takes him for her lover, runs with him; another padishah falls in love with her; the viziers offer to send her husband for a diamond; the wife sends her mother, who gives four diamonds; when she returns, the husband goes hunting, despite his wife's prohibition, drinks blue water in the garden, water turns into a beauty named Bibatima; she is a rival and friend of the man's wife, Minoir, both are sorceresses; the padishah tells you to visit her deceased parents, find out if they are in paradise; wives quietly kidnap her husband from the fire, then pulled out of the ash; he says that the padishah's parents are in paradise; he lets himself be burned; the husband of fairies is made a padishah]: 171-179; Coyaud 2012, No. 69 (China) [Aolar has a particularly valuable horse; two the wolves lifted him up; A. caught up with them, but the bow fell out of his hands and they brought him to the old man and the old woman, became girls; the old man ordered to marry one of his three daughters, A. chose the youngest; in the guise of her man you can't show it to people; but they laughed at A., he showed his wife; but covered it again; then he burned the veil and the wife said she was waiting for misfortune; Khan decided to take away A.'s wife; ordered to find the bear and find out when he was born and how old is he; his wife teaches me how to wear a demon horned mask and appear to a bear; bear: I am 99 years old and I was born in the year of the sparrow {is there such a year?} , but he did not see such a monster; the 95-year-old hunter confirmed that the bear was already there before he was born; now the khan orders to bring 7 rubies, which are in the dragon's mouth on top of the poplar reaching heaven on Cheese- Daria; father-in-law: in front of the poplar, you need to sprinkle 20 bags of cookies for the dragon; for this, the dragon gave rubies (or rather pink pearls); khan: bring from his late father a foal gray in apples, who sacrificed to him; his father-in-law teaches him to come to the tomb of the late khan; he gives a foal that does not have enough buttocks; it was eaten by the current khan and his wife instead of giving meat to the poor; if the khan starts object, we must throw a handful of yellow earth at him and into the hansha (gave a bag); A. did so, the khan and the khansha turned into pigs; the people made A. khan]: 152-161; Karakalpaks: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:3-13 [Khan does not have a son, he gives his daughter Gulziba to a boy; she becomes khan, the vizier's son becomes a vizier, finds out that the khan is a girl; they agree to run, but replaces the vizier at night the chieftain of the robbers; the khan's daughter runs away from him, marries the shepherd Meytin; sews skullcaps, M. sells them for a high price; the merchant finds out about this, the khan takes M. into service, gives difficult assignments to take possession of his wife; 1) build a palace of tiger fangs (M. takes out a splinter from a lion, who tells the tigers to give a fang); 2) a palace made of the feathers of the king bird; Aydarkha's serpent devours her two chicks every year; M. the snake kills, the storm begins with the rain; the rain is the tears of the birds, the wind comes from their wings; all the king birds give a pen; the khan wants to burn M. at the stake to say hello to his parents in the sky; M. burns the pen the bird king, who brings him to her, gives fruit for the khan; the khan and the viziers behave to burn themselves, M. becomes a khan], 193-200 [the dzhigit told the shepherd that he dreamed of how the sun rose on the one hand, on the other moon; the shepherd bought this dream, giving the whole flock; the horseman did not know that the flock belonged to the bay; he turned to Kaziy, Kaziy sued the bay for all the property of the horseman; the shepherd is hired by the husband of 10 wives; he must unlock and lock the gate; overhears how the owner agrees to flee with the khan's daughter, replaces him at night; they live in the property of another khan; the warriors of that, and then he sees the horseman's wife for himself; to get rid of Moreover, the khan orders Dastegul to be brought; her horses always kill the grooms' horses; the horseman's wife orders to wear iron nets on horses, these horses win, the dzhigit brings D., her sister and a caravan of treasures; khan demands to go to the fire and bring a letter from his late father; three wives of the horseman promise to help, the third sends a bird that snatched the horseman out of the fire; the horseman brings a letter to the khan, asking him to execute vizier and wife and come to their parents in the same way as the messenger arrived; Khan ordered his wife and vizier to be tied to the tails of mares; burned down at the stake]; Kyrgyz [Minbay's son dreams like from his head The sun has come out, the moon has come out of his feet, stars have fallen from his chest; at this time, Juzbay's son Chanybek wakes him up, because the flock was attacked by wolves; he buys sleep for a hundred sheep; his father drives him away; the crow, the pigeon refuse help, because he chased them and killed them; the rider tells him to sit on a horse behind her back; later realizes that C. is not her fiancé Omuraly, the son of the wizard Seyit; she herself is the daughter of the sorceress Gulgaaka - Aisuluu; C. and A. they live well; O. decides to kill C.; he turns into a yurt, O. and his people come in, try to lift the boiling pot, he overturns, they die; S. goes for revenge, C. turns into a camel, the girls ask give it to them, he falls into the lake with lead, S. finds lead, which turns into a spider, S. into a sparrow, C. into a cat, kills a sparrow; Karakhan fell in love with A., suggests that C. play hide and seek; A. says that K . became a white goat, tells him to beat him; cut him into a poplar with an ax; into a black camel (beat with 12 sticks); A. turns C. into a thimble, a thread, a needle, K. does not find it; demands that the letter be taken to the next world to their father; C. and A. write a note on behalf of Father K. to come to him; C. kills K. by throwing him off the mountain; C. and his wife come to their father]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963:87-95 (=1968:21-31, =1981:28-33, = Ledenev 1987:180-187).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Baraba) [a boy is born to an eighty-year-old couple, grows up immediately; given to a khan, studies with his son at a madrasah; under his arm he has an image of peri, he finds this Peri and gets married; she weaves carpets, he sold the palace to Khan, who decided to take his wife; 1) bring a hare with a golden head, a silver tail (brought it); 2) bring a dragon from a mountain by the seashore (brought, khan in the fear ordered to take it back); 3) go to heaven on the ball, take the gold to the khan's father; the wife writes a letter, tells her husband to give it to the khan, "Your father did not give gold, ordered him to come himself"; the khan flew away on the balloon, did not returned, the young man became khan, peri khansha]: Dmitrieva 1981:52-55; Altaians: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978 [a golden bowl, seven camels, seven slaves, seven song girls were buried from Karaty-Kaan om; a new Khan sends poor Dita for a bowl; the old woman gives him combs, needles, iron poles; when those buried with K. rush at him, he gives songgirls combs, slaves needles, camels rubbing poles against them; runs away with a bowl; camels, etc., do not stop him; K. orders him to be handed over with a bowl to his son so that he becomes an empty cauldron, and his daughter-in-law is forty; and so it happened]: 127-131; Nikiforov 1915 [" Toybon Khan and nine good Zaisans" (hereinafter T.) summon old man Olökshin 'a; he is old, he has three daughters; the eldest, the middle go instead of him, come back; the youngest comes, looks hero; turns out to be a young man - Ain Shain Shinshirge; Kudai gives him a horse Ilizin 'a; T. offer difficult tasks; 1) bring the fangs of the Karaguly beast (he's like a mountain, ASHSH defeated him, they fraternized, K. gave fangs, T. begged him to take him back, K. ate half of T.'s cattle and people; the same with Ker-Balyk fish; 2) bring a shaman from heaven; she is also a Kan-Kerede bird; ASHSH finds her two in the house daughters, who hide her, say that her mother will come with wind and rain - the wind of her wings, drops of sweat from them; KK arrives, agrees not to swallow the ASHSH, visit the land with him; her daughters go beyond the ASSH married; when a shaman hits a tambourine, T.'s people and cattle do not multiply, but die; 3) bring from the Lord of the Dead Yerlik 'and the given two distilling jugs and a fur coat; mother-in-law gives ASHSH poles, coals, eyes, tendons (in hell, two camels rub against poles, not against an ASHSH horse, well done not burn coals from ASHSH, but take ready-made ones, girls do not pull thread tendons out of the horse, crows peck their eyes); ASHSH moves on the hair bridge J aza ("past") Baspas ("do not step"); at the stump of a hoe, if she lies on the ground, a woman dies, if she lives, on a stump; near the peak (the same sign for a man); in a stream the lungs of two people are connected, the water does not carry them up or down (two kama have not finished their studies, this is their punishment); the horse teaches you to throw sand into the yellow swamp, say Father's good (swamp), if you are Altai, the swamp dries up; then two people tied to poplars catch trying to escape from E.; then the mare hits the man on the head with its hoof (the man stole and ate the foal from the mare); the man is plugged in the mouth black stone (took bribes); the old man and the old woman have a cauldron crushed by a stone (stingy during their lifetime); a naked young woman holds a marl in her hands, the other laughs (the second asked the first one three times, she did not give it); the spouses pull the blanket from each other, the others lie covered (the former quarreled, the latter lived in harmony); E. asks to bring three horses, I.'s horse helps to do this; E. leaves ASHS. on his throne for a while , tells you not to go to the mountain; ASHSH goes, sees lakes of people's tears, a bush made of their hair; gives blood vessels and a fur coat, asks I.'s horse in return; I. breaks down, returns to the ASHSH to the ground; E. asks the ASHSH to migrate, devours T. and all living things in his land; ASHSH says goodbye to his parents, goes to the upper world]: 31-64; Khakas: Balter 1986 [Hara Khan took the only horse from the hunter; he took the girl and began to live with her in the forest; son H. saw her, wants to take her, asks his father to take her away from the hunter; H. demands 1) to play hide and seek; the wife tells her, when he enters the bay, to turn everything over and break everything, choose a horse with his eye covered, with rusty bits, drive him, hit him in the eyes; the horse turns into son X.; when son H. comes to look for a hunter, his wife turns him into scissors, son X. does not recognize him; 2) ask how old the bear is; the wife gives seven hats, tells me to lie in the forest, put them on his feet, knees, arms, head; The bear comes up, argues that poplars have been standing under them for 300 years, he has lived under them for 60 years, but has not seen such a thing; 3) go to Erlik- Khan, bring a black fur coat from his deceased father, a black handkerchief from his mother; the wife gives the ball and the skull of a dog, tells him to go after the ball, then throw the skull; the shadows of father and mother H. reproach the son for greed, tell him become a black woodpecker, his wife a blue woodpecker, their son a magpie; they ask to pick up the dog's skull, he barks, haunts; the hunter returns, ashes on the site of the yurt, son H. is preparing a wedding with the hunter's wife; the hunter turns H. with his wife and son into birds, returns his wife, is chosen by the khan, distributes cattle to the poor]: 46-52 (=Dachshunds 198:218-223); Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 23 [fishermen caught a strange fish like gold and silver; Yoxes-ool gave his only five sheep for it; after feeling sorry for the sheep, threw the fish into the river; at night they came to call him to the owner of the river, old man Sugdayigan; he saved his son, let him not ask for gold and silver, and a blue dog; S. tells her to water and feed her what YOO eats and drinks himself; in the morning there is a girl in the house, and the dog's skin hangs on the wall; the girl creates food and property; once YOO quarreled with his wife and threw his skin into the fire; his wife tells us to wait for misfortunes; the arrow of Khar-Khan's son accidentally hit YOO's house, he went to pick her up, saw a beautiful woman, decided to take her away; demands that his father come up with something; he orders that YOS they played hide and seek with his son: if you lose, I'll cut off his head; his wife turned YOO into a broom, the Khan's son did not find him; now the Khan's son hid; wife: three brown one-year-old calves are standing, over the middle Twist his tail and hit him on the head; Khan's son admitted that YOO found him; next time his wife turned YOO into a thimble; then again; Khan's son lost all three times; now Khan sends to Mount Hara-tag find out how old the black bear is; the wife gives 7 black fox hats; you need to drive the black bear out of the den with a stick, put the hats on your arms like a creature with seven heads; the bear looks and says: the three poplars standing above me have reached three hundred years old, and I myself have reached the age of sixty, but I did not see the creature with seven heads; frightened, he left; now the khan orders me to bring his clothes and shoes the deceased father and mother in which he buried them; wife: now you have to run; in the morning she called a winged dark brown horse; when you hold on to the lower reason, she will walk on the ground, when the upper one will fly along sky; he knows where to run and fly; in the far land, rose hips and hawthorn branches should be attached to the toroks; when YOO was driving, he saw fat cows and sheep grazing on pebbles, in the sand, without water; horse: this deceased was a good man, and the cattle were slaughtered at his wake; then on lands with good grass and water, animals were skin and bones; they were slaughtered to the bad man; then the horse on a rope , there is no water or grass, but frolic - this man treated the horse well; the other horse is skinny, although there is a lot of water and grass, he looked after the horse badly; the old woman pours from bottle to bottle - diluted milk with water; another man stuck to the sharpener, spins with him - he regretted the sharpening; they arrived; the khan's father's clothes are on the sunrise side, the khan's mother is on the west side; Yoo took the clothes, the Khan's father ran after him, Yoo threw a rosehip branch, Khan's father cannot cross; after learning why YOO needs clothes, he tells Hara-Khan to become a black woodpecker, his son a spotted woodpecker, his wife a house mouse; back the horse delivered YOO with speed of thought; YOO gave his father's "blessing" to Hara-Khan, who, his son, his son's wife, became woodpeckers and mice; YOO became khan]: 403-423; Tuvans [Khan's son wants to take Ulberg's wife ; she hides her husband; Karabta Khan's son turns into various objects, W. with the help of his wife finds and defeats him every time; then Khan sends W. to Yerlik for a damask knife; on the way a flower meadow, a cliff, a boiling sea must be libated; two women should be given veins for sewing, two camels should drive two pegs into the ground, two dogs a piece of meat, three heroes a lasso; W. takes the knife; they all let W. go back and forth when W. takes the knife and E. chases him; E. kills Khan and his son, takes his knife, beats Yerlik]: Potanin 1883, No. 131; Buryats [from the tsar The gondola is Mu-Monto's unloved son from his elder wife and Altyn-Segse's beloved from his youngest; M. saves the enchanted Moga Khan, spinning in a fire wheel; he helps him, M. becomes king, marries Agu-Nogon-Khatan; G. is jealous of his son, wants to destroy; 1) sends to the next world to return his horse and saddle from his late father; his wife explains how to do this; on the way, M. sees the torment of sinners; 1) G. sends M. to heaven to Esage-Malan to return the sheep and nine skins sacrificed to him; the wife raises M. to heaven on a skein of thread; E. sends M. back, promises to return what is required, thundermines G.]: Khangalov 1960, No. 118:308-314; the Mongols (Khalkha) [the childless Khan Solombo Lama predicts that his property will go to the poor boy; S. takes the child for upbringing, buries him alive in the snow; an old woman found him, he grew up, married; S. found out, told the young man to bring the soul of the deceased from hell; the wife gives her a bag of eyes (give it to crows), the bag lived (women ), salt (cannibal camel); on the way, a woman asks why she has horns; people why the temple they are building is collapsing; man why he stuck to the boat; gives her eyes, veins, salt; passes between golden and silver mountains; Vladyka's wife is kidnapped by the young man's sister; hides it in a hole under the hearth; the wife asks the returning ruler why those people were punished (the woman did not give milk to the poor man, temple builders used to be robbers; the boatman profited from transporting people); you can take some gold and silver from the mountains; in the morning, Vladyka left, his sister told what he had learned, gave the soul of the deceased; he brought S. gold and silver; S. himself went to hell, was torn to pieces on the way]: Mikhailov 1967:161-166; Mongols (khalkha?) [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]: Khoza 1954:10 {online, pagination starts at page 1}; the Mongolian version of Twenty-Five Vetal Tales [Ananda the Painter (Aj) is jealous of Ananda the Carpenter (Ap); tells the king that visited his late father in heaven, who demands Ap to build a palace; he must rise in the smoke of the fire; Ap digs an underground passage from the house to the burning site, washes his face with milk to turn white; a month later brings a letter from the tsar-father, who supposedly demands Already; Ae believes that Ap has been to heaven, burns]: Vladimirtsov 1958:62-65.

Eastern Siberia. The Northeastern Yakuts (1945, Abysky Ulus, Indigirka) [Baay Kara Khaan's son asks his father to get him the wife of poor Ereideeh-Buruidaah; he 1) sends EB to the land of the dead to bring cattle, eaten at the wake of his ancestors; while he is away, son B. comes to the woman, she does not seem to notice him, says that the EB log that has fallen out of the stove would pick up; son B. raises a log, touches stoves, a woman tells him to stick to the stove for the night, half of his clothes are burnt, the other in the frost; in the morning E. drives cattle, but the animals die soon; 2) take off the dead and bring their clothes; episode repeats, the guy stuck to the door for the night; the sun hides for three days; after that, there is only a swamp on the site of B.'s estate]: Ergis 1964, No. 63:226-228 (=Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 24:271-275; retelling in Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:112-118, in Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:80-84).