K27x3. The hero's king and wife, ATU 465.

.13.14.17.20.-.25.27.-.37.39.

The power holder seeks to take over the wife or fiancée of a person with a lower social position and, in order to get rid of him, gives him impossible assignments. {Both ATU and some regional indexes (e.g. Cardigos 2006:110) include texts that do not meet the plot definition 465: the king's desire to take possession of the hero's wife is not obvious This is the reason why the king wants to get rid of the hero}.

Anuak, Nubians, Sudanese Arabs, Kabilas, Tuaregs, Arabs of Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Thousand and One Nights, Palestinians, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ulithi, Tibetans, Tibetans (Amdo), Bhutan, Riang, Mons, Pao, Thais, Vietnamese Tai, Lao, Buyas, Khmers, Viets, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Kannada, Tamils, Sinhalas, Santals, Ho, Baiga, Muria, Kondas, Loda, Minahasa, Toraja, Sumbawa, Dusun, Greeks, Bulgarians, Moldovans, Romanians, Gagauz people, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Novgorod Ryazan, Oryol, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava, Kherson), Belarusians, Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Avars, Dargins, Svans, Georgians , Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Persians, Turkmens, Baluchis, Bukhara Arabs, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Mountain Tajiks, Shugnans, Vakhans, Sarykol, Uzbeks, Norwegians, Westerners Sami, Finns, Veps, Lutsi, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Maris, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Salars, Dungans, Baraba Tatars, Altaians, Khakas, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Mongols ( apparently Khalkha), Mongols (Ordos), Buryats, Nenets (Taimyr), northeastern Yakuts, Japanese (including the north of the Ryukyu), forest Yukaghirs, Chuvans.

Sudan-East Africa. Anuak [Awili has Owili's brother; he wants to marry her, his parents don't mind; when O. went to his sister, she cut off his penis head, ran out of the hut, took all the girls in the village, with her and white dog; asked God to open the termite mound, the girls went inside and stayed there; cattle graze nearby, one bull rubs against the termite mound and A. sings at that time; heard the song; the leader tells us to dig up a termite mound, but no matter how much they dug, the dug is again filled with clay; but after the chief sacrificed an ox, the young men dug up a termite mound; A. jumped down the throat of her dog, the boys dismantled the girls, but alone the poor and ugly young man was left without a wife, he only got a dog; he lives with his mother in a hut on the outskirts; when they go to the field, A. gets out of the dog, cooks food; the boy's mother spoke loudly Son: Let's go! but in fact they hid; the young man grabbed A.; she turned into a cow, a hippopotamus, a leopard, a pelican, and other animals and birds, but he did not let her out and A. remained in human form; A. ordered to make a beer and appeared to the people in leopard clothing; became the wife of a young man, refusing to be the leader's wife; he hunted, the young man also went, the chief killed him by filling the corpse with branches; the white dog licked the owner, ran home, the mother saw blood, and the dog led A. to the victim; A. covered him with leopard skin and the young man came to life; the leader denied that he killed the young man; A. touched the ground with her bamboo with a staff, and all the villagers fell into the crevice; after 4 days A. returned them, but they were heavily eaten by termites; A. became the village leader]: Evans Pritchard, Beaton 1940, No. 15:66-70; the Nubians [son Faris (Arabic. "hero") grows up, his father sends him to marry; F. talks to a beautiful Bedouin woman; in search of her, he comes to the tent, lies down on a bed, putting a sword between him and the girl; destroys the robbers, the girl's brothers give it to him; he gets the one he first looked for; defeats the hero Said, who becomes his friend; with two wives and S. comes to his father; tells S. to protect his wives; the father hopes to take to themselves, tells the servants to blind and kill F. in the forest; they take out his eyes, but bring antelope blood to his father; S. defends himself against Father F.'s warriors; F. picks up a chick, chases the snake away; the bird brings his eyes from his father's house, puts the left one in place of the right; F. becomes even more beautiful, but he is not immediately recognized; opens up to Said; tells him to kill his father, take his castle, lives in his own castle with his wives]: Katsnelson 1968:323-345; Sudanese Arabs [Mohammed Othman is the son of a sultan; he raised him in a closed courtyard, looked after by a slave; when he went out into the world, fell in love with a nomadic daughter, his father married him; he hit the old woman's jug with a stone; she took revenge by telling his wife's relatives that MO was an idiot; they migrated; his wife wrote to him that in a week she would be given to another; MO bought a dead debtor who was not they were allowed to bury; he was given the daughter of the ransom; then two roads, the Ministry of Defense chose a difficult one; there was a woman who cut off the heads of 99 men; MO fights her, wins, marries her; through a maid transfers the ring to her first wife, putting it in a jug of water, she returned to it; the Sultan envied that his son had three wives and decided to destroy him; but the nomadic daughter knew everything in advance; ordered not to go to her father barefoot (poisoned nails), don't sit on a poisoned chair, don't drink coffee from the offered cup; but then it was blinded and thrown under a tree; two birds say it can be cured by mixing the liver one with the lungs of the other; he grabs the birds, his eyesight returns; he comes when the Sultan is preparing the wedding; the robber wife was the first to recognize him, cut off the Sultan's head herself; the vizier was torn by camels; MO became a sultan]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 31:151-155.

North Africa. Tunisia [The king has seven sons, he thought they were interfering with his subjects, and he imprisoned them in a palace. A maid brought them food. Just bread and water, but she felt sorry for them and started bringing them tasty and tasty food. She once told the king that his children had stopped eating and she did not know what was wrong with them. Then the king decided to marry them. He dressed them like a king, gave them each an apple. The princes threw apples. For one, it pointed towards the vizier's court, the other towards the court of a noble man, and so everyone decided on the bride, except for his younger brother. There was no way he could find his apple. Six got married and gave them a gift from the king of the palace, while the youngest was left alone. One day he went hunting and saw his apple, and a frog stuck to him. He wanted to unhook it, but he didn't succeed, so he threw the apple and the frog under the bed. When he left, the frog shed its skin and turned into a beautiful girl. She did all the household chores and went back under the bed. This went on for several days. When the prince returned, he thought it was the neighbors' wives who had decided to help him. He went to thank his neighbors, but it turned out they weren't them. Then he addressed the sheikh. He advised him to hide and see what was going on in the house in his absence. So the prince saw the beauty, burned her frogskin, married her and got his own house. The king decided to visit his son and daughter-in-law. When I saw my daughter-in-law, I wanted to marry her myself. He ordered the prince to make a burnus out of a piece of marble. The frog told her husband to go to his father, take a sandbasket with him, and ask him to make silk threads out of sand. The king admitted that his son overcame his ordeal. He ordered the army to be brought in and the entire army fed with "musarrad". The frog made a couscous, then added the king's musarrad and his handkerchief to it and told her husband to say: "For the hungry!" This is how he fed an entire army. The third task is to bring a talking baby. The frog sent her husband to her sister, who had just given birth. She said to the baby, "The one who came for you is your aunt's husband, and whoever you're going to talk to wants to kill your aunt's husband and marry your aunt himself." She said that and handed him a sword. The prince took the baby to the king. The baby said to him, "We speak and we want words over words, and we cut off your head." A baby cut off the king's head]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 45 in Korovkina MS; kabila: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2 [a sick father tells seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for the fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), who cook 99 dead people in the pot, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws his wife into the hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to go into the same room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that one deva has only been injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, is attached to her breast, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of the woman's husband, dev advises that she ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw horns furiously, fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on an apple tree, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring back ; when he returned, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, let him be tied; when he cannot break his fetters, I will get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: They'll kill you, ask you to put your bones in a bag, put it on a donkey, he'll come, I'll revive you; when he came back to his wife, she offered to tie it with her hair, he couldn't escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with wool and silk, poured milk on his body, her body recovered, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift it up a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, Dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and his wife sink into the ground, he cuts off their heads; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives a box (not to open it on the way) and a black man; he opens it outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife , wants it for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he takes the young man hunting, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings it to the young man's father; he and the soldiers go to get him wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks him to hide; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with a son who is under tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of the tree; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered the eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he was one will kill a black man; the young man agreed with his wife that the black man would be tied to blood, blood would be shed, he would fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father hands over power to his son without knowing who it is; before that he asks wise men, can a father marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, seventh and no; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish 6 wise men]: 11-24; Taos-Amrush 1974 [young man Sheikh Smain gets three wives, one of them can turn into a black warrior; his father tries to take his wives for himself; an angel and wives give him the magical ability to avoid poison, trap pits; SHS speaks himself his father, that a silver chain cuts his hands; his father puts on a chain, pulls out his eyes, tells him to throw him in the forest; the eagle teaches how to cure blindness with the leaves of a tree; all this time the black man reflects the onslaught of his father's warriors -sultana; SHS brutally executes his father]: 29-49; Tuaregs [Teschewa always washes her hair in a bowl; her older brother, when he leaves, also washes there, promises to marry anyone who washes her hair in the same bowl, let At least it will be his mother; T. continues to wash his hair in his bowl; when he returns, the brother notices her sister's hair in her, marries her; T. runs away, turns into a bird; (apparently taking on his appearance again) combs his younger brother's grazing cattle; she is found, seen in a tree, a tree is cut down, M. is placed in the donkey's belly; the chief's son notices her coming out of the donkey to swim; hides her clothes; returns each item one by one, takes M. with her; she returns, supposedly, for a forgotten piece of jewelry, becomes a donkey again; the leader's son marries a donkey, that night goes out as a girl; the leader himself, in his absence T. sees the son, decides to kill his son; asks him to go down to the well, leaves it there; the son finds the dates put there by his wife in his hair, a palm tree grows out of the bone, he crawls out of it; lures his father to a well covered, a fire at the bottom; father dies]: Casajus 1982:15-17; Arabs (?) Morocco, Algeria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 465:235-237; Egyptian Arabs: Spitta bey 1883, No. 4 [the king fell in love with the fisherman's wife, the vizier advises demanding that 1) cover the hall with one carpet ; the wife tells me to go to the well, ask her sister for yarn, the carpet is ready for the morning; 2) bring an eight-day-old child to tell a fairy tale (the same sister from the well gives a speaker baby); at school, the fisherman's son Mohammed teases the king's son; he complains, the teacher beat M.; M. went fishing, caught the queen fish, she promised to help, he let her go; vizier: let M. go for the Sultan's daughter Green land; the fish advises to make a golden ship with the vizier's money; they sail to Green Land, the Sultan's daughter has come to see the ship, she is being taken away; she throws her ring into the sea; puts her ring at sea; puts it to the king the condition of marriage is to get a ring; M. gets it; the second condition is to rush into the fire; the fish teaches that M. is becoming handsome; the tsar, the prince and the vizier rushed into the fire and burned; M. married his daughter Sultan of Green Land]: 30-42 (=Lebedev 1990, No. 18:101-109): 43-60; Nowak 1969, No. 252 [the emir's two eldest sons marry girls, the youngest marry a talking monkey; she turns out to be a princess, the emir himself wants to marry her, for this purpose he offers his son impossible assignments; demands that the baby speak immediately; he tells the audience about the emir's unseemly behavior; the emir dies, his youngest son reigns]: 244.

Western Asia. One Thousand and One Nights ["The Story of Ali Shar and Zumurrud"; Father Ali-Sharu's dying covenant: not to communicate with those who want evil, do good, save money, consult with elders, do not drink wine; A. spends all her money; joins the circle of those who buy the slave Zumurrud; she is offered to choose a buyer from the circle, everyone is ugly; Z. chooses A., gives him money for his ransom; A. sells beautiful the curtains that Z. sews, she warns not to sell them to a passerby; a Christian buys for twice as much; follows A., enters his house, drinks A. with a potion, takes the keys to the house old brother, who did not get Z. at the auction; the old man beats Z., tells him to give up true faith; the old woman helps A. find Z.; finds the old man's house when he hears the moans of Z.; convinces the slaves not to beat Z.; A. must take Z. at midnight, falls asleep; the thief puts on his turban, Z. goes down to the robber, who brings Z. to his mother's cave; Z. looks in her head, she falls asleep; Z. dresses in men's clothes, enters to the city with a bag of gold, becomes a sultan (the former is dead, the person who came along this road is chosen as the new one); Z. Sultan arranges a feast every first day of the month; he comes to the feast Christian, his skin is peeled off and stuffed with straw, his insides are burned; the same is true with the robber and the old man; when A. comes, Z. tells him to rub her legs above the knee at night, thus revealing himself; Z. orders to choose a governor before his return, leaves with A.]: Salye 2010 (1), night 308-327:961-992; Palestinians [in the absence of a fisherman, the genie's three daughters clean the house, clean and cook the fish he caught; the neighbor replies that she did nothing; he watches, grabs the youngest girl; the king wants her for himself, tells the fisherman 1) to plant a vine, pick grapes in the morning for the whole army to eat it (wife creates); 2) inexhaustible bread (the same); 3) bring the baby with the umbilical cord to tell a false story from beginning to end; the wife's sister just gave birth, her baby tells a fairy tale; in As a result, the king blesses the fisherman and his wife]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 37:272-277; Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Syria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 465, 465A: 235-238.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Uliti [Sibegewo was carrying a bag with beautiful women in the sky; the strap burst, the bag fell to the ground into the pond; the boys found it, dismantled the women; one was late, they laughed at him; but he found the last but most beautiful woman at the bottom of the bag; the chief wanted her for himself; suggests 1) dancing (the wife teaches how to dance the best); 2) bring a lot of young coconut leaves (the wife turns grass leaves into coconut leaves); 3) bring the black feathers of a frigate bird to decorate all dancers (the wife creates feathers from leaves); 4) bring shell bracelets (the wife turns the shell into shells coconut); 5) bring white heron feathers; this time the wife cannot create them, the husband goes to another island for feathers; the chief comes at night, but the wife turns into a lizard, the leader does not find her; with a piece of bamboo, she sails to the island where her husband is; he lives there because the island where herons are dangerous; the wife lives with a woman who finds a piece of bamboo; finds out that there is a longing young man on the island; realizes that this is the husband; the spouses are reunited, they stay on this island]: Mitchell 1973, No. 46:128-131.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [East Villagers are at odds with Western Villagers; Xialinsai young man and Lulin-Saimo girl grew up in different villages, fell in love, and were forced to flee and settle in in a secluded place; L. ordered S. to sell her ring and buy thread; weaved a cloth depicting birds; ordered to sell it, but not to say what his wife was weaving; the king bought the cloth; after drinking S., he learned about his wife beautiful woman and took her to the palace; L. asks for a month to postpone the marriage; S. found L., she gave him a bracelet, told him to sell and buy a horse to escape; but the horse was taken away by three robbers; at night they came to palace; thinking that S. had come, L. sat on a horse and galloped with the robbers; invited the robbers to go to the far about and run to her; whoever was faster would become her husband; galloped off herself; L. returned to the palace , asked to open a tavern and hang her portrait there; whoever pays attention to him is a robber; the guards caught both the robbers and S.; L. asked to gather people, told everything; the robbers punished with whips; the king had to let her and S. go, they got lost in the crowd]: Komissarov 1997:132-142; the Tibetans [the elder brother inherited the golden box, the middle brother was silver, the younger brother inherited the golden box, the younger brother inherited the golden box, the younger brother inher wooden; inside there is a bunch of leather soles for boots; the young man carried the chest, saw the eagle grab something, threw a bunch of soles at the eagle, which dropped its prey, it was a golden snake; towards a couple of young yaks, then a couple of old ones, looking for a daughter, granddaughter; the old saw a snake, everything turned out; this is the daughter of the dragon king; the young man went down to the bottom of the sea; accidentally threw a piece of meat out the window; the old woman is grateful, teaches ask for a bull tail, carpet and a multicolored dog as a reward; but you don't need to feed it; the young man jokingly asks the dog to bring food, etc., it brings it; in the morning, instead of a carpet, a manor, a herd instead of a tail, and flocks; someone cooks; a young man lay in wait for a dog that shed its skin and became a girl; the young man burned her skin; the wife warned that she was now defenseless without a skin; the king found out about the beauty; invited the young man and let him invite him himself now; the wife smeared her face with soot, but the king noticed that she was actually beautiful; the king suggests curtaining the mountains with hadakami (hadakami is a Buddhist scarf); wife: go to the sea and ask; a chest came out; the hadaks from it covered all the mountains; king: whose bull will win; wife: ask for a chest with a little bull; the bull pierced the king's bull with golden horns from the chest; the king heard a young man says "Quepala"; this is a meaningless combination of sounds, but the king orders him to be delivered; the wife tells me to ask for a chest of power; 100 monstrous giants jumped out of the chest, destroyed the king along with the courtiers and the palace; the young man reigned]: Komissarov 1997:166-178; Tibetans [the father sends three sons to learn skills; the eldest has learned to write, the middle has become a carpenter, the youngest has learned to play the violin ; this is a matter for the beggar and his father drove him away; he went on a journey; sees a black snake fighting white; a black snake overcomes, but the guy saved the white one; an old woman has come: the lord of the lower world invites you to receive a reward for saving his son; the lord's daughter hides her beauty under chicken skin - you should ask the Lord for a chicken; the daughter asked her father to give her a gold pickaxe, a gold chain and a tin bowl which monks put on their heads if they bless someone; thanks to his sorceress wife, the violinist became rich; called the king to visit; he saw the violinist's wife and took her away; tells the violinist to level the mountain; wife: hit three times with a golden hoe; king: now turn a small pond into a large pond and make a garden with birds along the banks; wife: take that bowl and pour it into the pond; scatter those brought with you along the shore seeds and feathers; now the king tells him to show him hell; wife: lead that gold chain along the mountain; the mountain has opened, hell looks like a beautiful temple from the ground; the king and his entourage went there, and the violinist closed door; brought his wife back and reigned]: Shelton 1925, No. 29:117-122; Tibetans [the ruler of the southern country is told that things will go well if the dragons of the northern country are settled here; the sorcerer throws at the lake is mud, the dragons must leave, but the hunter kills the sorcerer; the dragon rewards a treasure that provides wealth; he goes to the hermit, sees seven heavenly maidens bathe in the lake, fly away "like white cranes"; the hermit teaches you to ask the dragon for a magic rope; the sorcerer gives the treasure, receives a rope, catches the eldest of seven sisters, takes her necklace that allows her to fly; gives the maiden to the prince; He forgets his 500 concubines; the court and concubines persuade the king to send the prince to war, kill his wife; the prince's mother returns her necklace; when she flies away, she teaches where her husband should look for her; overcoming obstacles with the help of a ring given by a hermit, the prince enters heaven; throws his wife's ring into the maids' vessel; the wife recognizes him; her father does not want to give it to the mortal; demands victory in archery; and let the arrow fired into the sky fall at the virgin's feet; the prince wins, gets a wife, returns with her to earth]: Yao 1986:42-72; Tibetans (Amdo) [the young man went on a journey, hit the whirlwind with a staff, a shoe remained on the ground, the whirlwind disappeared into the hole; they reported to the king, the young man promised to return the missing princess; the warriors lowered the girl into the hole, the young man sent her upstairs; the warriors were frightened, that the dragon would also get out, left the young man in the hole, filling the exit with a stone; below, a dragon with a broken arm - during a thunderstorm, the shaman threw a sling at him (a stone from); after recovering, the dragon took the young man to the Water King; he offers a reward for saving his daughter (she was a dragon); his daughter tells him to ask for a piece of wood and a black donkey; in the parking lots, the young man finds himself in the palace every time, there is delicious food nearby; when he returns to mothers, both wonder who cooks and cleans; the young man watched a beautiful woman come out of a piece of wood, threw a tree into the fire; contrary to his wife's advice, invited the king to visit; he orders to build a bridge from him at home to the royal; the wife ordered needles to be scattered, a bridge appeared; trees were planted (the same, the wife gives seeds); spread red and white felt (the same, the wife gives two bunches of wool); the king came to visit; wife she took off her pretty face, hid it under her pillow; her husband ordered her to make tea, she did not react, he started screaming, called her the daughter of water; she took her face and went out, the king saw a beautiful woman; tells compete, whoever wins, so does the wife; 1) whose dog is stronger (the wife gave the dog, she bit to death the khan's); 2) whoever builds the mountain (the khan's warriors dug a lot, his wife's aunt and younger sister immediately turned the mountain upside down); 3) whose army will win; the wife's mother gave a box of knives, the husband let them on the stone for testing, his knives sparkled; his wife orders to go again; the mother-in-law sharpened the knives, they destroyed the king and the army, the young man became king]: Potanin 1893, No. 8a: 149-152; Bhutan [a young man herds sheep and looks at lake ripples; he is considered lazy; he sees a black rat fighting and defeating a white rat; took a white rat in his arms, got drunk; from a woman came out of the lake: the lord of the underworld wants to thank her son for saving her son; ask only for a dog at the door; do not stay longer than three days, otherwise you will forget the earth; underground lord (half dragon ) reluctantly gave the dog; on the ground, the young man went to herd his sheep; when he returned, everything was tidy, the food was ready; next time he saw: the dog shed its skin, became beautiful; he threw his skin into the fire; the king I saw a beautiful woman, began to give the young man impossible tasks to take away his wife; she every time tells him to go to the lake and asks her father to give her a box with what he needs; cut down the forest on the mountain (a box with swords, swords they cut down themselves); create a buckwheat field on this place (a box of hoes, the young man sowed buckwheat himself); collect the sown grain (a box of birds, they collected everything); the king declared war on the young man (a box with warriors, they killed the king, defeated his army); the young man is happy with his wife]: Choden 1994:45-50; riang [the widow has a lazy son; asked his mother to catch and cook fish; she caught, put it to swim in tomorrow jug; at night a girl came out from there, cleaned everything up; on the second night, the son and mother spied on the third night, the girl was caught and the fish skin was thrown into the fire; after learning about the beauty, the king decided to take her for himself; ordered the young man's goat to butt his goat - if he loses, the young man will give his wife, and if he wins, the boy and his relatives will receive life support; the young man does not have a goat, but his wife gave a goat who easily cared for the huge royal goat; the young man called even those who were not relatives; the king could not feed everyone; he ordered the house to be set on fire, the imaginary relatives ran away, and the young man continued to receive content]: Mandal 2009:120-121.

Burma - Indochina. Mona [spouses adopt various forest animals; the last is a goby; then a son Kunhadi is born; the mother dies, becomes a natom, protects her son; the forest animals disperse; the father takes the stepmother, she hates the bull; having conspired with the fortuneteller, pretends to be sick, asks for goby meat; the goby and K. run away, the late mother is with them; tells them to go to the lake, where seven Keinari sisters fly at noon, we must To steal the jewelry of one of them, she will not be able to return to heaven; K. hides the jewelry, returns six keinari, leaves the youngest's jewelry, takes her as his wife; the king sees K.'s wife, decides to lime it, to take the beauty for yourself; tells 1) to get a golden bowl from the bottom of the sea; the wife advises sending the named brother K., a crocodile, for the bowl, who brings the bowl; 2) collect scattered sesame seeds (pigeons collect); 3) bring the tigress's milk (the tiger brings); 4) a piece of wool from the lion's mane (the lion brings); 5) seven nat flowers; the wife sends to the hermit, one to the other, to the third, to the fourth, to the fifth; the fifth sends to the lake, where the remaining six Keinari sisters bathe; K. brings flowers and gifts to hermits and Keinari sisters; the king sends warriors, K. ties them with a magic rope; scissors justice is killed by the king, K. reigns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 147:340-350; pao [after the death of his wife, a rich old man took a new one; stepmother demands that her husband get rid of two stepsons; father took away them into the forest, said he would return and left; nat the tree gave them rice, pumpkin, watermelon and cucumber seeds, as well as a sword to cultivate the land; its owner would become king; when the older brother went hunting, Ministers came to the youngest, named him their king and took him to the city; the elder lived alone; someone cooked and cleaned in the hut; the young man began to watch: a girl came out of the elephant tusk, the young man hid it; the girl offered to move closer to the city; she has boots and a golden hat, they fulfill her wish; the king's servants noticed the hat, the king (this is the younger brother) ordered the beautiful husband to be brought to the palace; refused to recognize him as a brother, ordered him to deliver naga milk; his wife sends him to the naga - this is a girl, his wife's friend, she has become the second wife; the king demands cannibal milk; the wife gives a golden hat, tells go to the cave and tell the cannibal everything; the young man brought milk and brought his third wife, the daughter of a cannibal; the king orders the young man to be cut and buried; his wives found pieces of body, folded and revived; the elder brother won younger and began to rule the country and live with three wives]: Zapadova 1977:253-258; Thais (northern Thailand) [a lazy young man was sent to work for a community elder, he does nothing, elder drove him into the forest; the king executes him if he did not bring a deer; the young man found a dead deer and an elephant's tusk, the king let him go; the young man began to collect and sell miant leaves (stimulant); someone cooks in in his hut, he waited for a girl coming out of an elephant's tusk; the king wants to take her away, gives her husband difficult assignments to save him; 1) bring the mythical flowers to Chant T; his wife sent to the abbot monastery, who is 100 years old, then 200 years old, etc. (300, 400, 500 years old); the young man sees 7 daughters of Pai In (Indra) coming down from the sky to swim, hid their wings and tails, returned them for promising to bring flowers, they pledged an arrow that, if shot, makes them come back; they bring flowers, he does not return the arrow; the 500-year-old abbot exchanged a bow for a drum that can do anything steal it, sent him back the bow; in the same way, a 400-year-old staff that hits everyone, a 300-year-old rope that would tie anyone, a 200-year-old pole that carries baskets himself, a 100-year-old a cauldron filled with any utensils; the pole itself carries everything he receives; the young man married all 7 virgins, their father and first wife agree; the king has come, beaten, bound, the young man gets the kingdom]: Siam Society, pt. 1, 1924 in Kornev 196:52-57; Vietnam's tai [about the same as Lao's text, see below]: Degeorge 1922, No. 8:645-654; Lao [orphan Khampa lives with her grandmother, puts the top, someone steals fish; he sets traps, a fox, a tiger, a rhino, an elephant successively fall into them, everyone asks him to let him go, promises to help, an elephant gives a tusk; one day K. and his grandmother return, the house is tidy; they watched a beautiful woman come out of the tusk; said that she would be the wife of good K.; the nobleman tells the king about her, who wants to take away K.'s wife; the courtiers advise to get rid of K. by cunning; 1) let Rooster K. will defeat the royal rooster - the fox turned into a rooster, killed the royal; 2) the same, bulls (the tiger kills the king's bull); 3) elephants (the rhino became a huge elephant, killed the royal); 4) boat races - the snake became a boat, overtook the royal one; the king screamed, the roof collapsed, the king became the evil forest spirit of Phi Khai; sent a poisonous snake to hide in a bowler hat, bite the fairy; the good spirit Phi Noah told that first pour boiling water into the pot; sent an owl, the fairy died from his scream; Phi Noah offers advice to get into the basket, he will deliver it with the fairy's soul; closes the basket, makes the owl revive the fairy; Phi Noah cut off the owl's tongue, since then owls have not killed people; now Phi Hai has died of anger; the nobles have elected King K.]: Nikulin 1988:386-393; buoys (from three informants, two of them said Chinese); [the young Liuliu plowed, saw a shrimp in the well, brought it home; at night he had a dream: the moon was looking for her daughter who came down to earth; when he returned from the field, he found a girl; she gave birth to a son, Prince in Heaven ( Chinese: tian wang), the boy immediately grows up, helps with his work; the emperor sent an army to take his wife; she tells her son to look for her on the moon; L. returned from the field, went for his wife; old man says that he saw the warriors bring a woman to the river, who told the river to wash them away, took to the sky by the rainbow; Ransu, a close associate of the emperor, is trying to kill TV to seize the rich harvest with his fields; 1) lowers him into a well in an iron cauldron; 2) ties a tiger to a stone to be eaten, 3) to a spruce; TV returns unharmed every time; his servants let him go; he turns into an old man, then into smoke, rises to the sky; a stone in the form of a human figure remains at the site of the ascension; after learning about the injustices, mother TV began to send insect pests, drought, etc., and people began to make sacrifices before a stone on the sixth day of the sixth month]: Miller 1994:97-101; Khmers [when a son is born, the poor man is not happy: the family is too poor; the boy is constantly crying, he was named Néac del Yom ("Crybaby"); but the fortuneteller promised that he would become king; when N. grew up, his father expelled him to be eaten by tigers, although the predictor repeated what he had said; N. came to a neighboring kingdom; a local magician found out that N. destined for a happy fate; taught him; married a beauty he found in a lotus flower in a sacred pond; her name was Chhouk ("Lotus"); the king sent a hunter to bring game, he did not get anything, went to to the magician, saw a beautiful woman; when the king threw the hunter into prison for returning without prey, the hunter said that he had found something more valuable for the king; to get rid of his husband, the king sent N. to get rid of his husband Luong-Srey-Phca (Queen of Flowers); his wife gave him a ring; the king sent warriors, but the magician and C. disappeared into the forest; N. came to the kingdom from where everyone fled, fearing huge birds; only the queen remained, who hides in the drum; she wants to go with N., but he promises to pick her up on the way back; in another kingdom, the dragon devours all married members of the royal house, they no longer marry; if N. will defeat the dragon, the king will give him his daughter; N. wounded the dragon, chipped off the scales, and he ran; N. promised to take the princess on his way back; when he came to the dragon's land, N. volunteered to heal him, unnoticed put the scales back and he recovered; for this, the dragon put N. on his back and flew with him to the land of the Queen of Flowers (there is no other way to get there); the CC lives in a balloon that hangs above the ground; the servant agreed to lower N. the stairs; the CC saw C.'s ring on his finger; N. told her everything and she agreed to go with him; they flew on a balloon, picking up those princesses N. had married ways to the CC; to the king, who sent N., the CC said that she did not have a long staircase to lower the ball - let the king build a tower; but no matter how much they built, a few cubits were missing; then the king tried jump into the ball, but fell and crashed; after that, the ball fell to the ground; N. became king, found his first wife, and lived with all his wives]: Leclère, Feer 1895, No. 3:99-111; Viets [ the peasant met the girl and immediately became rich; brought her portrait to the field; the wind carried him away, the landowner picked it up, took it to the king; to take his wife away; ordered to paint the hills black (the wife orders to set fire vegetation); weave a rope from ants (grease with honey, ants stuck to the rope); make a rope out of ashes (burn a bunch of rags); then the king took his wife by force; she has time to give magic rice; it is necessary plant him, birds will come, take a pen from each, make a dress out of them and come to the king in it; after becoming the king's wife, the peasant's wife became ill and numb; when she saw a date seller in a feather dress, laughed for the first time; the king decided to wear this dress himself and began to dance; the wife called the dogs, they tore him to pieces; the peasant handed out gold and returned to his place with his wife]: Bystrov et al. 1962:98-102.

South Asia. Kashmiris [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 is 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 as a groom; the jeweler brings two ruby, the young man says that the wormhole is right in one; he is appointed gem keeper; the vizier wants to take possession of the young man's wife, for this purpose he persuades the king's daughter to ask the other for the same ruby , as brought by a 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 suggests demanding a ruby necklace; the wife tells the young man to hide by the river, 6 heavenly fairies will arrive, and then the seventh; she must hide her clothes; the fairy Lalmal is forced to go with the young man, when she speaks, rubies fall from her lips; he brings to the king of rubies; 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 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 the ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl to whom a young man speaks, there is a daughter of a woman whose hand he tore off; to save him, the girl turned him into a pebble, took an oath from his mother; the mother sent a letter to her sons ordering him to kill him ; the 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, demons they 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 a bracelet; barber: he has a third wife, the king should receive it ; 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 off 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 the vizier and the barber; they burned down; the first vizier came, the young man gave him his bride, sent the fairy into her world, stayed with his third wife; that vizier became king, the young man became a vizier]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 12:85-105; the Bengalis [the rich man went broke and died, his two sons were orphans; began to steal peas from the field; there was a gold-colored calf, went with his younger brother; the eldest married and the wife disliked the 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 the calf's blood; he asked the butcher to take blood, but not meat; blood and meat, but not bones; this did not help; then the calf and the young man ran away; when they reached Peri Island, the calf died, telling them what was needed do; first the peri flew in, but did not touch 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 there The king's horse ran in; his wife hit him on the forehead with her palm; seeing the print of a beautiful palm, the king wanted to take the woman away; demanded that her husband 1) collect the hundred measures scattered across the plowed field overnight mustard seeds (the birds collected; the king of birds, i.e. Gorur, noticed that one seed was 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 cubs; they must be fed, a grateful tigress will give milk; a 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 room a 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 to send (difficult tasks for the hero are the king invented at the instigation of a barber); the barber was burned, the king gave a man and appointed a vizier]: Devi 1915:84-96; kannada [the mighty king asks four sons what they will do after him death; elder: I will continue my father's work on the throne; second: help my brother rule the state; third: I will lead the army; fourth: I will become king of kings, build my own city and marry four heavenly maidens; the king expelled his youngest son; once in the forest, he came to the old woman's house; she is the daughter of a sage hermit who lost control and raped a girl; then he was torn to pieces a tiger, and the daughter who was born was ugly; her mother died and she became a hermit in the forest; as a result, she found power; the young man began to herd her cows; she told her not to take them north; he went and hid by the pond; Indra's four heavenly daughters came down, took off their sari, began to swim; he stole one sari; the maiden ran after him, promised to become a wife, he looked around in amazement, she took the sari and turned the young man into the stone; the old woman found it and revived it; ordered him to take the sari and run to her house and not look back; he did so; the old woman turned him into a baby, and hid the sari inside his thigh, so that the seam is not visible; when a maiden came running, the old woman advised her to cover herself by giving a cotton sari; then promised to return the sari if the maiden agreed to become the young man's wife; the young man and wife came to the city; the king's servants saw the maiden, said to the king; he pretended to be sick, sent the young man to extract the venom of the serpent Karkotak; his wife sent him to the snake hole and gave a letter to the snake; on the way he saved a worm from the web; threw a letter into the hole; four the snakes carried him to the lower world to the king of snakes; the letter asked him to marry his daughter and comply with his request for poison; returning with his second wife and poison, the young man gave the poison to the king's servants; when they the bottle was slightly opened, the tamarind standing next to it broke out and burned; the king ordered the poison to be buried deeper; sent the young man to bring crocodile bile; on the way, the young man let a young crocodile on land into the water; a young man sent letters from his wife to the crocodiles; the king of the seas gave him a daughter, diamonds and bile; now the king asks him to go to heaven to Indra and find out how his late parents and brothers are doing; wives have written many letters, the young man jumped into the fire, the god of fire took him to heaven, where Indra gave him a daughter, letters to the king and minister and returned him to the ground; on the way, the young man saved ants when the anthill was flooded with water; the young man gave the letters ; they have an invitation to heavenly paradise - you must also jump into the fire; the king and minister and his families burned down; the young man made a poor brahmana king; he built a new city with four wives; at this time his father lost kingdom and became a seller of firewood; came with his family to the city of young men; he sheltered them; gave the first wife's saris for his mother's saree; the wife asked her for it, put it on and all 4 wives flew to heaven, and the city again turned into a jungle; the young man brought his brothers and mother to the city, where he made a brahmana king and went to look for wives himself; his wives met him and was the first to say that he must be tested by Indra in order for him recognized him as a son-in-law; his wives took him to heaven, turning him into a fish in a vessel of water, and left him; I. tells 1) to collect the scattered sesame in 3 hours (the young man called the ants - they perform); 2) get it out a ring thrown there (the frog took it out; when meeting the hero with the frog, the informant lowered it; to do this, the frog threw the tadpole to be eaten by snakes at the bottom of the well, and found the ring himself); 3) one Hit the banana tree into three parts (the crocodile cut it); 4) recognize the first wife among three identical girls (the worm, now a flying insect, sat on her sari); I. arranged a wedding; The young man conquered kingdoms on earth; his father admitted that he was right]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 3:5-15; Tamils [rani is childless, Raja lives by collecting and selling firewood; finally, a son is born; parents they tied the cradle to a tree in the hollow of which lived a cobra that had lost all its children; she took care of the boy; said that he should marry Chandra, the daughter of the sun and moon, and Tenawal, the daughter of honey , and Puniyavathi is the daughter of flowers; when the prince grew up and his parents were about to marry him, he said that he knew who he was marrying was C., T. and P.; went to look for wives; met the Sun and the Moon; the Sun man told daughters to go with the prince; the prince hired to herd cattle, leaving his wife with the owners in a separate room; the cobra surrounded the house with a ring, guarding the prince's wife; she asked her sari to be washed; the laundress realized that he was in front of him an unusual woman, said this to the owner; he sent the prince for honey in the hope that the bees would bite him to death; the prince returned with honey and T., the daughter of honey; washing her sari, the laundress was amazed again; the minister advises the Raja {the owner has already turned into a raja} to send the prince for flowers, then he will die {it is not explained why}; the prince brought flowers and brought the daughter of flowers P.; the minister advises sending a herd hungry bulls; at this time, the master and minister tried to enter the prince's wives; on the doorstep, the cobra bit the owner; ran after the prince, who healed the owner by touching a branch; raja {again raja} tells the prince get a ring thrown into the sea, then he will give half of the kingdom; the Sun and Moon arranged for the prince to swim out with a ring on his finger; dressed the prince royally; told the owner to tell the owner that at the bottom of the ocean everyone walks like this; the owner and all his family members dived and died; the prince and his three wives returned to the palace, the wedding feast lasted 8 days, served rice, curry and vegetables; during which time his mother gave birth to two more sons; at school they found out that their older brother was missing and went in search; they came just in time for the elder's wedding; he gave them two wives, middle T. and younger P.]: Blackburn 2005, No. 78; Sinhalese: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 77 [the two eldest sons answer the tsar that the moon is good because it illuminates the road; the youngest is that flower princesses can ride their chariot in its light; the tsar orders to take them away kill him in the forest; he hides, buried in the sand, the hangman kills a chameleon; the prince found two princesses in flowers, they grew up, went with him, live with a widow; the king (obviously hoping to take possession of the princesses) gives the prince has difficult errands; princesses are taught how to fulfill them; 1) bring blue flowers (they grow near 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 the move that the king ordered to dig, give the prince magic sand; the king tells him to close, compact his move; the prince returns differently, tells the king that his late father is calling him; the king goes underground, the entrance is filled up, 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, brothers ministers, himself leaves as 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, his mother sends him to sell the stone at the bazaar, 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 has no money to pay the cost of the stone completely; sends the young man for the second stone; the young man comes to the river, Yakshini explains that she is the daughter of her owner, they protect the gems; she runs with the young man; spits precious stones; the king wants take possession of 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 up 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; Santals [after the death of his wife, the king chooses a bride, who promised to take care of his son; the new wife also gives birth to a boy, hates her stepson; makes her scratched by a cat, accuses her stepson, promises to leave if the king does not kill him; the father leaves her son in the forest, brings his wife clothes soaked in the dog's blood; the old woman takes the boy to the village, is adopted by a brahmana, gives the name Lela; the brahmina's daughter makes a date in the forest, the lover does not come, by chance there It turns out L., the girl runs with him, sees a mistake in the morning, decides to stay with L.; both are beautiful, the king gives L. difficult tasks to pick up his wife; 1) bring a flower (the wife says her younger sister has it ; she lives in the cannibal's house; the cannibal smells a man in the house; the girl says you have to sit over boiling oil to get rid of this smell; the young man pushes the cannibal into the oil, she burns; brings a flower, the king, as promised, gives it a sister and half the kingdom; L. now has three wives - the first, her sister and the king's sister; L. comes to his father with his wives and men; he is blind when he left him in the forest, now I see the light; the evil wife hanged herself, L. reigns]: Bodding 1927, No. 64:317-365; ho [the raja wants to lime the potter to take possession of his wife; orders to bring the heads of 24 jackals; the potter digs a hole, replies to the jackal that it will rain on fire soon; agrees to let the jackals into the hole to wait out the disaster; then says that the fiery rain is over; the jackals go out one at a time, the potter cuts off each head; the last 24th jackal dodged; the potter smeared himself with gur, pretended to be dead; the escaped jackal suspects deception, but the other begins to lick gur, the potter killed him; the Raja orders to bring tiger milk; the potter fed the cubs bread, they liked it, the tigress gave her milk herself in exchange for bread; the Raja asked the potter's wife to lime him; she asked the idol to blind his husband; The potter found out, answered, hiding behind an idol, then pretended to be blind; the Raja came at night, the potter killed both; put the Raja's corpse on the neighbor's site; he mistook him for a thief, hit him head; the potter advised the frightened neighbor to throw his body to Goala buffaloes; he thought the thief was stealing buffalo milk, hit the body on the head; the potter advised him to let it down the corpse into the well; the brahmana found the corpse; before cremation, the potter hid; then said on behalf of the Raja spirit that he appointed the potter as his successor]: Bompas 1909, No. 22:480-483; baiga [at the peacock one egg gives birth to a baby, the other to a bull and a boy; they grew up by a forest pond; five peri flew to swim, the young man hid their robes in the bull's mouth; they agreed to give the youngest, the young man married on it; the Raja wants to take this woman for himself; tells 1) to bring tiger milk; the bull advises the young man to bring sweets to the cubs; they suck their mother, regurgitate milk in the pot, kill their mother, go with the young man; 2) Raja fought between a bull and an elephant, both died; Raja killed a young man, took his wife, she returned to heaven]: Elwin 1944, No. 4. 9:151-152; muria [Raja caught and brought a pregnant antelope, but his her son released her; the Raja drove her son away; the antelope became the girl, the wife of Raja's son; when he saw the snake grabbing the frog, the Raja's son cut off and gave the snake a piece of his flesh by hand, and the frog escaped; the barber I saw a beautiful woman, advised the Raja to take her away from the young man; let her bring 1) tiger milk; the wife told me to raise her hand in front of the tigress; she gave milk and her two cubs; 2) Rakshasa grains; the wife wrote a note, Rakshasi gave grains and two of her cannibals; 3) a rani necklace thrown into the well; a snake and a frog took out a necklace; 4) grow a fruiting mango grove overnight; the wife became an antelope, where she ran, mangoes grew there; told her husband to cut off her head, became a woman again; told her husband to return to her father, and she became an antelope again and ran away]: Elwin 1944, No. 18. 4:401-403; condas [the widow has a son; he sees chittiga paggata flowers (fairy flowers) in the river, pulls out and decorates his hair; the king sees him, tells him to get flowers, and otherwise he will cut off his head; his mother tells him not to lament, but to go up the river; there are three giants, they should be called "uncle", they will help; the first giant refers to the second, the second to the third; he tells them to go to the lake where the three fairies come to swim; you have to take their clothes and run, not looking around; but at the last moment the young man looked back and fell dead; the giant revived him by covering him with banana leaf; the next time the young man ran to the giant's house and gave his clothes only after promising to receive the youngest maiden as a wife; during the marriage ceremony, the girl laughed and flowers began to fall from her lips; fairies cannot stay with people for long, so they gave the young man a zitra; if you start playing, the wife will appear or the fairies will come to help; on the way back, two giants presented a rope and a stick; when the young man returned to his mother, he played the zither and the maidens appeared; the king's servants saw them; the young man took the flowers to the king; he wanted to take it for himself his wife and ordered to bring lion milk, hoping that the young man would die; the fairies told the lions to accompany the young man; he brought a herd of lions to the king, he was frightened, the lions were released; the king ordered the poisonous snake to be killed; But the young man brought many snakes to the palace); now the king orders to catch the most ferocious lion (the young man brought the lion); the king summoned the young man to the palace; the fairies took a mouse with them; the servants threw him into a deep crevice but the mouse dug out to the ground and the young man returned to his mother; now the king sent a young man with a letter to another king to kill him; the young man told the rope and stick to tie and beat the king; he gave him his kingdom; a young man and a fairy began to rule there]: Schulze 1922, No. 10:57-64.

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 Greeks [a widow fisherman caught a turtle, brought it home; someone cooks and cleans; he sees a girl come out of the shell; breaks the shell, takes the girl as his wife; the king wants to marry the one who will sew a handkerchief better; the fisherman's wife embroiders the sea and ships; to get rid of the fisherman, the king demands 1) catch enough fish to feed the army; 2) grapes for the army; the wife sends to her the mother, who comes out of the sea, gives a pot with any fish dishes in it; a tray of grapes; 3) bring a man two tops tall, a beard three tops; this is the wife's brother, his name is Chickpea; he leaves seas riding a rooster; his sister tells him to tear out the king's eyes, make her husband king; the rooster pecks out his eyes, the king dies, the fisherman reigns]: Megas 1978, No. 30:74-79; Bulgarians [young man (prince, orphan) marries an animal (a turtle, a toad, a monkey, a fox (which becomes beautiful}) or a beauty from a distant land; the envious king gives difficult tasks to take the hero's wife away; 1) get food to feed an entire army or unusual food; grapes in the middle of winter; a melon that will grow in a day, a hare will jump out of it; 2) make or get an unusual carpet, handkerchief, etc.; 3) carry the letter to the late king or bring a letter from him; 4) deliver a supernatural being (iron man, bearded dwarf), a creature kills the king; 5) bring a newborn who speaks Turkish and smokes a pipe, etc.; 6) other tasks are to build a palace, dry lakes, split seeds, win cards); the hero does everything with the help of his wife], 510 [the mother of a girl who cannot by a certain date strain a certain amount of hair (or drops a spindle into a hole), turns into a cow; the father marries again; the cow helps his daughter spin her hair; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, she asks her daughter not to eat it meat, bury bones; when leaving for the party, the stepmother and her daughter tell her stepdaughter to do the job, divide the mixed grain; buried bones help do everything, where the girl finds rich clothes (and golden horse); distributes golden apples in the church (at the wedding); on the way back he drops his shoe, finds it, looks for someone to suit her, marries his stepdaughter]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 465: 165-166; Moldovans [orphaned, Ion sowed wheat; birds pecked the harvest; buckwheat was beaten by frost; went to work, received a foal, was eaten by wolves; for the second time he asked for millstones - he was shattered by lightning; left home, getting a rooster for his work; came with him to the king - he was driven away; the hermit tells him to take his wife; says that three birds are flying to the milk lake- fairies, take off their wings, bathe; let Jonah hide the youngest's wings and give it back only after the third promise to become his wife; Jonah received a fairy, but the Sun saw her and carried her away; the king has a tree to heaven, who will reach the peaks are fruits, received half the kingdom; the tree is divided into three branches, into oriental apples, on southern pears, on western nuts; the Sun invited to watch the rays; the Lord of the Birds, Frost, will bring food, Wolf Iron Mouth, Serpent Golden Scales; after questioning everyone, Ion hits everyone for the destroyed wheat, buckwheat, foal, millstone; when he sees that the Sun leads down the aisle to the fairy, Ion cuts down the golden trees and throws on the way; explains to the Sun why he punished his servants and himself; the Sun returns Jonah's wife, sends them peacefully to earth; Jonah bears fruit to the king; advisers command not to cut Jonah's head, but to give impossible assignments, then take away the wife; 1) let the vineyard be around the palace to the horizon; the wife summoned her servants, the vineyard is ready; 2) get a self-playing flood (flute genus) from the bottom of the sea; wife He gives a ring, Ion comes to the sea, sighs, Oh appears, says that the devils at the bottom will floer for 7 years, you can't sleep all this time; at the bottom of the sea, Ion gives the hell tasks, while he sleeps himself; count which is more - blades of grass or leaves; Ion brought the flood to the king, fell asleep himself; they began to dance, cannot stop the flood, died; Ion received the kingdom and got married]: Botezat 1981:105-117; Romanians [the poor man has 101 sons; they went to serve; in the first year each received a pig for service, a dog in the second year, and a foal in the third; they went to marry 101 daughters of a damn mother; the horse tells their younger brother tie them with horses: to an empty manger, and witches to a full one; put brothers' hats on the sleeping daughters of the witch; the witch kills her horses and daughters; the brothers gallop away, and the youngest remains to see what will be; steals a chest in which the girl intended for him cannot catch up with him; but he cannot open the chest and returns for the key; the horse creates a lake, turns the young man into a drake and himself into a mouse, steals the key; the young man takes the girl as his wife; the king wants to take her away; sends the young man after 9 mares and their stallion; the horse tells him to put 9 cowhides on him and coat him with resin; fights with that stallion, both strong, become twin brothers; mares follow them; the king orders mares to milk, boil milk and bathe in it; the young man's horse drives the mares into the quagmire so that they can milk them; cools the milk; the king also threw himself into the milk and boiled]: Bîrlea 1966:406-407; Romanians [royal shepherd Ion went into the cave and let the dragon drink so that he could get out; a grateful dragon led to to his parents and advised them to ask them for a box as a reward; they reluctantly gave, telling them not to open it along the way; I. opened, the cattle came out, a farm with workers arose; the dragon returned and placed everything back; then Jonah caught up with the dragon's sister sent to him as his wife; when she fell asleep, I. burned her dragon skin; his wife said that he would now become the royal servant again; when he learned about the beauty, the king called I. service; the old man, in order to get rid of I., advised the king to tell him to create a field on the site of the mountain; his wife sounded the horn, calling the earthen animals, and they did everything quickly; another old man advised to send I. bring a scraper and a comb from the evil elders to the black world, and the third to bring something, I don't know what, going there, the hell knows where; the wife gave a towel with her name, an apple to go for; created two wooden ducks; if an egg is laid in three years, I. and she will meet again; his wife's first sister did not know what, she sent it to the second, the second to the third; she sent for a lame crested lark ; the lark led I. to the stump; the dragon came, kicked the stump, the door opened, the dragon demanded from I don't know what to eat with the songs; (when the dragon left), I. also went down, ordered food, drink, songs, music, asked I don't know what to go with him to the king; he agreed if the king gave him as much gold as he could carry, and he was half the size of a cigarette; King Toh, I don't know what he played until everything did not fall dead from fatigue; without taking gold, I don't know what he returned to himself; I. came to the monastery built by his wife; both wooden ducks are alive and laid two red eggs; I. and his wife settled in royal palace]: Bîrlea 1966:426-428; Gagauz people [the widow king tells 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 returns home from hunting and finds the 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 an engagement band from the dead the ring of the deceased mother; the wife teaches to go to the sea, shout into the hole, her mother will come out, give the key to the earth's castles; he discovers the land, walks, sees a fat herd in a dry meadow, a skinny herd in an abundant meadow; along the way, the sea asks the guy to ask God why there are no fish in him, the sea; a man is sitting by the water, black and white sheep are burning, coming out, everyone wants to extinguish the flame, fighting, and the person lights up again; asks to know why he burns; in the Sun Palace, the sun's mother says that the ring is near the Sun will return 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 gave alms, and thin cattle did alms when they looked around; a burning man was one who judged righteously and the other unrighteously; the boy gave the ring to the king, he immediately died]: Moshkov 1904:39-41.

Central Europe. Russians (Pskov, Orel), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Ivano-Frankivsk, 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. 465s: 138; Oussky (Murmansk, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Bukovina, Podolia, Kiev, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians [Beautiful Wife ("Go There, I Don't Know Where"): the Tsar's Arrow (Pan Huntsman, poor man) marries a wonderful beauty and craftsman; the king (master) wants to master her and sends her husband to carry out difficult assignments; the shooter's wife helps; the king's intention does not come true]: SUS 1979, No. 465A: 137-138; Russians (Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye, d. Shunga-Bor, 1926) [The old man and old woman took an orphan. They lived poorly, their son was fishing. The first, the second time I caught birds, and the third time I caught goldfish. I threw it on the ground. The fish has become beautiful. The son married a beautiful woman. The wife sends her husband to the king to ask for "a place against herself or near her." The husband goes to the king. The king gathers advice, gave a seat in front of him. He fell in love with Ivan's wife, decided to get rid of him, and convened a council. He ordered Ivan to find the object: "He collects and robs net on the table." Ivan comes back, grieving. The wife sends a letter to her aunt in the woods. Ivan came to the hut and gave the letter. My aunt gives Ivan a ball. In the morning I threw a ball on the road and followed it. I got to the cave. There's a table, Ivan is hiding, 40 robbers fly into the table and shouting: "Net, go!" Food appeared on the table. The robbers leave, Ivan calls for something. It's not working. Ivan calls for something to eat with him. Something is happy and goes with Ivan to the Tsar. Ivan shows the king a magic tablecloth. The king fell in love with Ivan. Senators give Ivan the task: to bring a cat who sings songs. Ivan comes back, grieves again. The wife gives a letter to her aunt again. The aunt gives a ball and meat to lure the cat. Ivan grabs the cat and brings it to the king. The king rejoices, the senators give the third task: to bring samogudes. Ivan comes home, his wife gives him iron armor, a tin cap and a clean shirt. Ivan has been on the road for a long time, comes to Baba Yaga and gives her a letter. A wolf comes, plays cards, the condition is not to fall asleep. Ivan: I think it's more felled wood or more standing wood? The wolf flies away to count, I. slept enough. For the second time: more people alive or dead? For the third time, Ivan replies to the wolf that he is sleeping. The wolf flew for the ax, and when he returned, he saw Ivan's wife's handkerchief and recognized Ivan as his son-in-law. In the morning, the wolf gives Ivan samogudy husli, ate senators and thoughtmakers, chewed, the tsar signed the kingdom to Ivan and his wife]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 7:63-67; Russians (Vologda) [Egor the Unfortunate speaks to two merchant sons that shooting at flying geese will shoot down four at once; so it happened; the king took him; E. wants to shoot at the swan; she tells not to shoot, becomes beautiful, promises to deliver as many birds as necessary; the king agreed to marry them, but he is envious, wants to get rid of E.; senators do not know what to recommend; Vanyushka-Pyanchuzhka suggests ordering to uproot the forest overnight, etc., and by morning, bake pies from harvested wheat; the wife tells the spirits, they have fulfilled everything; bring a golden bristle pig with 12 piglets; bring perfume; go there, I don't know where, bring what, I don't know what; wife gives a ball and a handkerchief; the ball will bring her to the middle sister, and by the headscarf she recognizes her son-in-law; the middle one sends to the elder; the eldest to their mother, and the father will not show up, for the decorated pig belonged to him; Kashchei The immortal at night told his wife where to go, gave a ring; she gave it to Egor; he swam on a dolphin; the sea king comes: Kukhta-mukhta, I want to eat; when he left, E. asks where I don't know what; KM: it's me ; went with E.; at this time the tsar tried to take possession of his wife E., who flew away as a bird; E. returned; first the tsar had a feast, then E.; the tsar was beheaded]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 30:116-122; Russians (Vologda) [the royal man brought three birds from hunting every day; once he did not get a single one, he saw a duck; she ordered not to shoot, but to marry her; he will have a lot of birds; the tsar ordered to show his wife, decided to take away; asked the generals where to send the man; one general after 12 days: send an unknown place, bring what he did not know; the wife gave two towels: where she would spend the night to wipe his own; the ball rolled, he followed him to a hut in the woods; set for three people, the man hid; three came in: invisible, serve; when they left, the man himself asked the invisibility to set the table and called by himself; the old man suggests changing the invisibility to a hammer: if you knock, regiments of soldiers will appear; invisible: change! the man received a hammer, but the invisible man did not leave him; the same applies to another old man (he has a butterfly with a herd of sheep in it); now the king, on the advice of the general, orders that a golden oak with silver be moved to his palace branches; the wife waved her handkerchief, the oak moved; the tsar awarded the man, and hung the general]: Burtsev 1895, No. 4:17-22; Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 212 {for this and for one-story texts No. 213 and 214 the recording is not specified} [Sagittarius Fedot wounded a turtledove; she asks to bring her home, and when she finds a nap, hit her; became a girl, a wife; tells me to buy silk; calls two fellows, they they weaved the carpet; the commandant bought it for 10,000 rubles, and the king bought it from him for 25,000; the commandant sees the Sagittarius's wife, shows it to the king; he orders the Sagittarius to lime in order to take his wife; baba yaga advises the commandant to invite the king to send a Sagittarius to the island on a rotten ship for golden horns; the wife tells the fellows to bring a deer; Baba Yaga advises to tell F. to go there, I don't know where, bring something I don't know what; the wife gives a ball to follow and her needlework; the king tells F.'s wife to follow him, she flew away with a turtledove; F. comes to three girls who recognize his towel, they are his sisters wives; their mother calls animals and birds, only the frog knows this wonder; jumped over a fiery river with F.; F. hid in a cave; two elders come in, asking Shmat-mind to feed them; when they left, F. also summoned him, offered to sit with him; he agrees to follow him; F. came to the old woman with her daughters, went on, was tired, S. carried him; tells him to exchange him with the merchants for three curiosities, he will return; they a box in which a garden, an ax that makes ships, a horn from which the army comes out; S. also returned to F.; F. built a palace, defeated the king's army, became king himself, his wife was queen]: 134-145; Russians (Voronezhskaya, p. Pershino, Nizhnedevitsky District, 1936) [While hunting, the tsar's favorite soldier is lost in the forest. He meets a beautiful woman, falls in love with him and offers to stay with him, she agrees. He shows it to the king. The king himself falls in love with her and wants to execute her, but the soldier's torturers regret and offer the king to send him "to a place I don't know where, I don't know what to find." The beauty gives the boy a ball and promises not to marry the king until he returns. The soldier follows the ball, enters the dense forest, enters the dugout. The old woman asks him, he asks him to feed him first and put him to bed. In the morning, an old woman sees a soldier wearing her daughter's handkerchief, he tells the old woman about it, who looks for books where to get what the king ordered to find, but does not find it and gives a ball. He brings her sister, an even older old woman, who lives in a dugout by the sea, can't find the answer in books, collects fish, snakes, etc., asks where to find "I don't know what", they say they don't know, but there's no old cancer among them, it's found by lame cancer. An old cancer brings a monster from the sea without a head or legs - this is "I don't know what". A soldier sits on a monster and goes to the king. On the way, he exchanges the carpenters's monster for an ax. He enters a dugout in the dense forest, sees how the invisible "brother Kherson" serves a 12-headed snake, puts treats for 12 heads. When the snake flies away, the soldier asks for food for 2 heads, Kherson, in gratitude for inviting him to the table, promises to help him. He finds himself in a big house with robbers, who sit him at the table, he says that his lunch is better, calls Brother Kherson and he brings him treats. The robbers ask to change "brother Kherson" to a magic horn (what you wish after you blow into the horn will come true), he does not want to, but his brother whispers in his ear that the soldier will still stay with him barters. He guesses and gets an army of soldiers and leads him to the king. On the way, Brother Kherson feeds the entire army and then hides it back in the horn. He brings a horn and an ax to the king, who is going to execute him. An army emerges from the horn, an ax builds barracks, Brother Kherson sets tables for the entire army. The tsar and ministers are frightened, agree to give the soldier control of the state and obey him]: Pukhova 2006, No. 3:27-32; Ukrainians (Poltava, Gadyach, c. 1878) [Danilo has been serving for several years, but He 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 it is necessary to 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; Ukrainians (Kherson) [Ivan is orphaned; served for three years, began to burn incense; God sent an angel to ask what I. wanted; wife; God gave a wife, they went to look for work; people are in a hurry to threshing; wife: take your time, it won't rain; the owner wants a wife And . for himself, tells him to bring 12 wolves; his wife gave a ball, he brought wolves; 12 bears - the same; harp; his wife gave a towel, a bottle of water and a piece of bread, told him to go to the hut, which is light; there is a mother the winds offer to eat, drink, lay down; I. refuses - he has everything of his own; when he took out his towel, the old woman recognized her daughter; sent her wind sons to turn the sea around and get the harp from the bottom; then they they took the man home; the storm demolished the owner's house, he burned down, I. and his wife live well]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 7:130-134; Ukrainians [the queen gets the sea princess; the king wants her for himself; the princess promises to marry him if he gets samogudes; the king sends the queen, he pulls it out; the princess wants the wedding train to be seen from the sea; the king orders the mountain to be demolished; the horse and fish destroy it; the princess asks the Queen to bring sea mares, milks, boils milk, bathes in it, makes it even more beautiful; the king cooked]: Afanasiev 1994 (2): 127-128; Belarusians [the owner let the farmhand go by pouring in a bag of gold; he did not know what to do about it, changed it to something easier, it turned out to be frankincense; spent the night in an empty log house, it caught fire, the farmhand threw the bag into the fire; God smelled the smell, sent angel, the farmhand asked him for his wife; the wife came down from heaven; they settled in the bathhouse, the wife made her beautiful; to lime her husband and take the panenka, the pan tells him to get the dog: if you blow in a ponytail, everyone will go to dance; the wife gives a handkerchief and a ring, tells you to sit in a basket, you will find yourself in the next world, her sisters give a dog; the farmhand brought a dog, everyone is dancing; he locked him, wants to take his wife again; she demands that he be younger first; the wife gave her husband her ring, the husband swam in boiling water, become handsome and young; the pan rushed after him, cooked; the remains of the dogs were thrown away]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:67-73; Russians (Voronezhskaya, Bogucharsky District until 1938, Tonkov recorded with peasant T.A. Safonov) [Poor peasant Ivan shoots a hawk that bites a white swan, she promises that she will not forget your savior. At home, Ivan discovers treats and new elegant clothes. The king is jealous of him, and they will find out where Ivan's wealth comes from. The Tsar demands that Ivan get the same clothes for him. A farmer comes to the blue lake, tells the white swan about his task, and she promises to complete it. She helps the king complete his second task: she pulls out a golden bristle from the kingdom of far away. For the third time, the Tsar demands that Ivan take out the white swan, Elena the Beautiful. The swan does not appear on the lake, a pike appears, tells Ivan that Elena ran away from the Idol King, turning into a swan, but dropped the ring. The fish gives Ivan a ring and orders him to follow him. He finds himself at the yard, walks into a beautiful garden (golden apples on trees, birds of paradise), a swan flies up, takes a ring and turns into a beautiful woman. Ivan recalls the king's order, grieves and does not want to give it to Elena. She reports that the king's death is in a duck (containing an egg) guarded by three snakes. She gives a self-propelled sword, kisses Ivan. He comes to royal lake, cuts off the heads of all three snakes; shoots a duck, hits the head the third time, the bird falls, drops the egg, it sinks. The pike carries an egg. He waves an egg and the royal palace falls apart, Ivan beats the tsar and his servants]: Novikova et al., 1940; Slovaks [Janko is hired as a shepherd; sheep disappear; the snake doubles the number of sheep on the condition that I am . will come again; so three times (three times more sheep); tells me to wrap her in a handkerchief, take it with you, not lie down on the feather bed; at home I lie down on the stove; mother sees the snake become a girl; on the next day Y. does not sleep, takes the beautiful woman as his wife; the king falls in love with her; gives instructions to lime I.; 1) level the pond in the morning, grow grapes there, make wine; 2) level the rock in that place sow, bake bread; everything is done; 3) bring the girl's father; the serpent's father-in-law asks Y. to give the king two grains and two grapes asking him to bake bread, make wine; the king throws them away; the Serpent reproaches him, the king falls to hell, the Serpent tells him to make King Ya.]: Gorbov 1949:7-17 (=Bogatyrev 1955:5-15).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [a young lonely fisherman Dovlet caught a huge stump in the sea; brought it home for firewood; woke up in the palace in the morning, food and drinks around; lay down again, pretending to be sleeping; appeared beautiful; agreed to be his wife on condition not to show her to anyone; D. gathered friends, got drunk, spilled, forced his wife to come out of the stump; she predicted disasters; the sultan saw her through the window; viziers advised not to execute D. for no reason, but to give an impossible assignment; the sultan orders to bring a watermelon with a hare inside; wife: hit the water with a stick, my younger sister will come out and take out a watermelon; now The sultan demands a bunch of grapes, which would be enough to satisfy the hunger of troops and residents; the second sister carried them out of the sea; bring a 9-10 year-old boy who will defeat the entire army; the older sister came out of the sea , gave a tiny boy; he grew up, destroyed the army, the sultan and the courtiers; proclaimed D. sultan, and returned to sea himself]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 2:41-46; Kalmyks: Vatagin 1964:115-128 [shooter Heeche-Mergen hides the clothes of one of the three swan girls who have come to swim; gets married; Tsarkin Khan wants her, the counselor suggests sending X. to the Ganges for the tigress's milk; the tigress is H.'s wife's livestock. he brings milk; a lame and crooked drunkard offers to bring an invisible thing from an unknown country; the wife gives a ball; H. follows, shows his wife's comb to the woman, this is his wife's sister; she gives another a ball, it leads to her older sister; she asks all the creatures, knows only cancer with an iron claw; this is in the forest beyond the outer sea; H. hides, sees his father tell Murza to serve food; when he leaves, H. asks Murza to join the meal; on the way back, H. exchanges Murza for a folding palace, a cane with an army, Murza returns every time; H. drives the khan away, reigns], 183-193 []; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [three brothers shoot at a target in a tree; a girl comes out of the tree, then the second, they become wives of older brothers; the younger one shoots, a frog comes out; the young man goes to live on the edge, begins build a wicker hut; someone finishes construction, cooks and cleans; he guesses it's a frog, expresses to know who it is; the beauty sheds her frogskin, says he's for three days hastened with his desire; the young man throws his skin into the fire; the elders want to take possession of his wife, tell the prince about his praise; the prince tells 1) to bring a wild boar, 2) a deer (the wife teaches him to lure nuts, with cobs); 3) build a bridge across the sea; mother-in-law in the tree that opens gives three rings, he throws them into the sea, a bridge appears; the prince transfers power to him]: 232-236; 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; Ossetians [the younger brother's arrow hit the swamp and he married a frog; at night she shed her skin and turned into a beauty; the young man burned his skin; Aldar, wanting to take his wife away, gives difficult tasks to her husband: build a palace, take away a wonderful carpet from the giants, etc.; in the end, the young man achieves happiness]: Byazirov 1958, No. 65:329; 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; a frog turns into a beauty, he burns her skin, she regrets it; brothers envy, persuade her father 1) send the youngest to the mill from which butter, honey and flour flow; mother-in-law frog gives a horse, a hero takes it to the mill, kills the dragon, brings millstones; 2) asks the late mother where the treasures are hidden; the horse brings the hero to a hole in the ground; the mother says where the treasures are, wants the father and Her son's brothers became dogs; the hero pulls treasures, dogs run to the mountains]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:247-253; Dargins [the padishah has 40 wives, but only one son Shahismail; found out that another padishah has there is an invincible son Arabuzinka; helped seven brothers defeat the Persians, married their sister; A. won, she turned out to be a girl who promised to marry whoever would defeat her; S.'s father envies that he has two wives ; sends a horse under a poisoned saddle, A. guessed that S. put the person who brought him on his horse; the father offered poisoned food, A. recognized again and removed the bowl; the father asks what to do to make S. die; Sh.: tie my fingers with an iron rod that is in my pocket; the padishah tied, told me to pull out S.'s eyes, put them in his pocket; S. hears the pigeons talking: to see the light, you have to insert your eyes and plunge into lake; S. saw the light, but does not see well; his father is fighting with his wives; unrecognized S. offers to bring him A.; accuses his father, he is executed, S. becomes a padishah]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 24:259-260; svans [ the hunter shot the bird, it turned into a girl; she agrees to become a wife, but let her not show it to the king, and if you show it, I will turn into an ugly girl; the king drove them away, but then found out that his wife is beautiful; or give it back wife, or bring "yes, no, never"; the wife teaches you to tie a broom, it will lead to the underworld to the king's late father; he tells you to go across the sea to the house, ask the owner where to look for "yes, no, never"; man entered the house and hid; three came in, demanded food and drink from the servant; when they left, the man also demanded and asked the servant to share the meal; the servant went with him; met a man with a stick, who was ordered he will kill the silt and beat; the man bought a stick; when he returned, he let the king beat him with an order to beat until he asked for death; the king promised not to take his wife away, rewarded the man and wished him happiness]: Chikovani 1954, No. 47:250- 252; Georgians [father tells sons to take wives where their arrows fall; the eldest marries a princess, the middle marries a counselor's daughter, the youngest to a frog; left alone, the Frog drops 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 away 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]: Chikovani 1986:136-141; Georgians (Imereti) [three brothers decided to marry where everyone's arrow would fall; the older and middle married rich brides; the youngest's arrow fell into the swamp, he married a frog and moved out from the brothers; returning, finds the house tidy, lunch cooked; the young man followed, found the woman, burned frogskin; the king wanted to take his wife away, ordered to sow bread for the whole barn in a day; wife sent her husband to the magician test, who gave workers; the king orders to collect the seeds sown in the ground; the father-in-law sent birds; the crow with a broken leg brought the last grain at the last moment; the king commands bring his grandmother's golden box from the underworld; the young man on the way sees an obese bull grazing on bare ground and skinny grazing on juicy grass; husband and wife are not cramped in a narrow bed, but others do not fit on the wide one; one woman bakes dirt, but she makes bread, and the other bakes bread, but it turns out dirt; another is hanged by the hair; the king's grandmother tells the young man to give him the box not himself, but through servants; on the way back, those met give explanations; hanged by the hair envied someone else's beauty; who turns out that dirt did not repay debts, and whose bread was good; lying on They quarreled on a wide bed, lived in harmony on a narrow bed; the skinny bull was greedy, the obese bull was hardworking; when the king opened the box, a fire blazed out of it and burned it]: Kagan 1898a, No. 19:58-61; svans [v The vizier heard the voice of a strange bird in the forest, shot, and a beautiful woman fell from above; he decided to marry her to the Tsar, but as he approached the palace, the beauty turned into a freak; the king told the vizier himself marry her; the woman became beautiful again, the king decided to destroy the vizier; ordered to guess what "adu-i-made-i-maana" meant; the vizier had three married sisters; one of the sons-in-law advised me to contact the forest to the people of Tskheki Daw; one of the CD sends to another, that to the third; the third sent a servant to escort the vizier, and he threw him into the river; the vizier swam out, went into the house, hid; at midnight three princes enter, called "Mishk á!" , they tell him to make a fire, feed them, etc., the invisible M. does everything; the princes are gone, the vizier himself turned to M., invited him to share a meal, grateful M. stayed with him; tells him to buy from the counter a stick for 1000 rubles, then send this stick to return the money; then changes the Jew M. for a chest of warriors, M. returns to him; the soldiers beat the king's army, and the stick killed the tsar himself]: Petrov 1886a: 89-93; Armenians: Harutyunyan 1986 [the king tells three sons to fire arrows on whose court he will fall, take his wife from there; 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 she breaks up, there is an old woman, gives her 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, who sends his son to take the prince to the next world; on the way he sees an obese ox in a rocky pasture, thin on juicy grass (the first was thin during his lifetime, the second fat), an old woman brushing her chest tonir walls (during her lifetime 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; Bagriy 1930 (3) [the tsar orders sons shoot arrows, take his wife where they fall; the eldest; the eldest marries the daughter of a vizier, an average merchant, the younger's arrow is gone, his father kicked him out; he came to the swamp, saw his arrow in his mouth frogs, took the frog with him; settled in the city, began to hunt, leaving the frog in the chest; someone is cleaning the room; the hostess advises you to hide, throw frogskin into the fire; he grabs beautiful, burns her skin; the wife tells him to return to his father; the prince is building a palace next to his father's; the father wants to take possession of his son's wife; tells 1) to dress the whole army in a week; the wife orders to fire an arrow into the swamp, her mother will come out, you must ask her, i.e. wife, for a chest; clothes for one person in the chest, but when the first one is dressed, the chest already has clothes for another, etc.; 2) bring the seal owned by the deceased mother prince; the wife tells you to shoot again into the swamp, ask her beloved donkey not to splash the foam that will appear in the swamp when the donkey appears; holding the donkey's tail, the prince enters his mother's grave, the mother tells us where the cauldron with gold and the seal is buried, the donkey pulls the prince back, he pulls out the cauldron; 3) bring a dwarf with a beard twice as long as himself and a staff of 20 pounds; the wife tells me to ask her mother has her (wife) beloved Arab in the swamp; an Arab came to the king, shamed him, killed the tsar, his eldest sons and courtiers with his staff; the prince ascended the throne]: 57-65; Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 5 [three princes arrows are fired; if the arrow falls into a deserted place, it is impossible to marry; the youngest's arrow falls at a cliff, it opens a passage, 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 that will fit army (mother-in-law gives); 3) go to the late mother, 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 they tell us what they were punished for); a woman's breasts are sucked by puppies; 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 person lies as a bridge across the water, water washes away worms from his sides, they reappear; a river with yk in fat meadows, fat on bare ground; a person lies across the water, water washes worms from his sides , they again rip with black, red, yellow stripes of water; the mother first offers to cross the river to her; when she finds out why he has come, she gives a ring with which the treasure has been sealed; tells the king to turn 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; the shepherd buys sleep with the whole herd for it; he comes to the city at night; the young man arrives with two horses, falls asleep; the princess takes him for her cousin, with whom she was going to run; 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 receives him honorably, falls in love with his wife, orders him 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 to a sea mare mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing 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 them 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; Nazinyan 1969 [mouse and falcon sowed wheat, and when they collected it, they began to divide; they could not divide one grain, they turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you knock it down; the mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and at night I hit the sleeping falcon with a sword, the one with he could hardly fly away; the hunter saw a falcon on the tree, pointed his gun three times, the falcon asked him not to kill, to heal him; the hunter's wife went out; the falcon put the hunter on his back, carried it, threw it into the sea three times, picking up above the water; ordered to ask his father for a silk pouch; the falcon's father gives a pouch, does not tell him to open it before reaching home; the hunter opened, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar; the lame man asks give him what he does not know at home; the hunter promised to be at home; wife: that our son is not going home; it turned out that the son was born, but now he has taken him lame; left the boy lame on the island at sea; he 16 He had been fishing for years, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off his bird's clothes, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole one girl's feathers; she promised to be his wife; gave a ball, he rolled from island to shore, a road arose, they came to town; the husband hired a laborer; the owner decided to lime him in order to take possession of his wife; one lame guest suggested 1) send a man for two storks, one has a golden beak, the other has silver wings; the wife calls an Arab and orders the storks to be reached, he brings it; the wife warned that if the owner says that storks are not needed, they must be let go (as it happened); 2) bring the lion from Mount Aragats (same); 3) bring the invisible worker Murza; the wife gives a ball, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls the frogs, they do not know the way; the sister tells them to go for the ball to their house mother; she gathered the snakes, they say that M. has hired the snake king to work; the mother tells me to go to the snake king's house and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, gather for the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for him; he is glad, the king has already tortured him; the boatman offers M. a horn in which a foot army and a cavalry detachment; when the man received a horn, M. also returned to him; the owner wants to cut off a man's head, he blows into a horn, the warriors cut off the owner's head; M. took the couple to his husband's parents]: 33-42; Azerbaijanis [old Bakhtiyar dreams that the sun has risen to his right, to his left the moon, a star above his head; goes on a journey, tells a dream to a young shepherd, sells it to him with the name B.; the new B. sleeps under the city wall; Shah's daughter Perizad Khanum takes him for her lover, runs with him, they settle in another city; the local shah falls in love with P., the vizier advises sending B. 1) for an apple of paradise; P. gives B. a letter to his sister, she is the wife of the diva lord; the divas tells hide the dress of one of Padishah Peri's three daughters when they arrive to swim in the form of doves; they bring an apple; the one whose dress B. hid returns with it, she is Gurizad khanum; orders to give it to the Shah ordinary apples, and keep the rejuvenating ones of paradise; 2) a rose from the Gulistani-Irem garden; G. takes B. there, Gul Gakh-gah-khanum arrives at his house before him, laughs, roses fall from his mouth, B. brings their Shah; 3) mare's milk with 40 foals; GG. sends B. to the old man, who teaches her how to lure sea horses, B. brings a mare with her foals, the shah is afraid to milk her, she runs away; 5) visit the dead Shah's parents; G. quietly takes B. out of the fire with a dove, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased; the shah, the vizier, the barber (he told the Shah about B.'s wives) burn down, B. reigns; the luminaries seen in the dream are his three wives]: Akhundov 1955:106-125; Azerbaijanis [old woman Fata-Gara has a lousy son Mammad; he stole a skein of thread from his mother to buy kishmish; his mother is furious, M. offers to sell it; he bought it only the leader of the gang is revelers; he is offered to drive a stake into the wall of a collapsed bathhouse; someone threatens him, he beats the person behind the wall, he still has a stocking in his hands; M. wants to sell it, the shopkeeper accuses him of theft, leads to the Shah; agreed that the one who does not bring 40 such stockings in 40 days will be decapitated; the revelers bail M.; by the sea, M. is taken to the ship to throw a monster into the mouth; M. snatched the earring out of the whale's nose and he let him go; M. comes to an empty city, defeated the hero by tearing off his finger's ring; came to the castle, hid behind a rose bush; three doves flew in, became girls, each tells her own story; with one M. ripped off her stocking, on the other an earring, with the third ring, each would like to become M.'s wife; he goes out, gets 40 pairs of stockings, his younger sister as his wife, she brings it to his mother; tells him to put the ring into the water, a man will come out to fulfill his wishes, it is necessary to build a palace; M. at the last moment remembered his guarantors, they were almost executed, showed stockings, the shopkeeper was executed, M. gave the stockings to the revelers; seeing M.'s wife, the Shah wants to take her away, the vizier suggests sending M. for an angel living in a pomegranate; the wife sends her to the dungeon, she sends her to the pomegranate tree, M. collected grenades; the wife cut several, each time an angel girl flies out, asks for water, there is no water, flies away; the latter climbs back into the grenade, M. brings it to the Shah, the angel flies away; the vizier suggests instructing M. build a palace for the Shah in the middle of the sea; his wife orders to lower the ring, not to turn around when the sea man asks; M. turned around, fell stunned, the palace disappeared and with him the Shah; M. was chosen as the new shah]: Akhundov 1955:188-206; Turks [son of a late fisherman (SR) catches a turtle shell; someone cooks and cleans the house; SR spies, sees a girl, SR breaks the shell, marries; the king orders turn off the lights in the city, sees the light coming from the wife of the SR; the vizier advises to give her husband tasks; each time the wife orders to press the seal against a stone on the seashore, an Arab will come out, fulfill his wishes; 1) bring 10 lions, who will defeat the king's 10 lions; 2) feed the city; 3) build a wall with an iron gate around the city; 4) bring a wild mare with 40 foals from the mountains (a bridle appears instead of an Arab; fills the pond wine; the mare is intoxicated; the foals went for their mother); 5) the king personally comes up with the task of bringing the sister of the seven giants; the SR's wife cannot help; SR meets Edal, Drinker, Flutist, Omniscient; giants tell you to 1) eat 7 meat cauldrons, 2) drink 7 wineskins of water; 3) give poisoned bread; companions complete tasks: The omniscient knows which bread is poisoned, the Flutist makes the plates dance to they swapped places, the giants died; the sister of the giants kills the king's army and himself, SR reigns]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 4:55-63; Kurds: Wentzel, No. 2:15-25 in Marzolph 1984:100.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [Hasan did an excellent job at school; when he learns that his classmates are going to come to his feast, he runs with his parents to avoid shame: they do not have the means to receive guests; H. a clairvoyant, he knows when a person will die; knowing that a shepherd will die in 14 days, he makes an agreement with him; the shepherd dies, his 6 sheep go to Hasan; his flock multiplies; he buys sleep from the thorn collector, giving 20 sheep; goes on a journey; at night he sees a rider in the ruins; a woman's voice calls: Hasan! H. goes with a woman, in the morning she realizes that she is a stranger; they have settled in the city; the barber told the king that H. has a beautiful wife; the vizier advises to send him for the leaves of the magic tree; H. killed the dragon, the local king (obviously king peri} married him a daughter, H. picked up tree leaves and returned with his second wife; now the king sends X. to bring water from a certain place; the second wife H. is a fairy; teaches you to come to the pond in the middle of the thickets; three doves will arrive, throw off their clothes, bathe; you must hide the youngest's clothes, take an oath from her; when you hear that Hasan knows about her abduction, a peri-dove stays with him because her reputation has already been damaged; they have collected water from a spring; the barber tells the king that H. has a third wife; the vizier advises to demand that H. make a bridge of gold and silver bricks from his house to the palace; daughter of King Peri: there will be a bridge; the vizier advises to lure H. to the bridge and push him into the river; wives: ask the king and all those close to him to gather on the bridge; we will overturn him, you let's save and the rest will drown; after that, the Peri told H. to marry the one he fled with first, and marry them after her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 5:29-34; Persians (Mazendaran, Isfahan, Khorasan, Hamadan) [at night, the princess runs away from home with her lover; the poor man who has the same name turns out to be in his place, the princess stays with him; or the hero gets a heavenly maiden as his wife; the king wants take possession of it, gives her husband impossible tasks (to get gems, a mare with 14 foals, extraordinary fruits, a princess); the wife and others help to complete everything; as a result of completion The last mission, the king dies: to move the castle to the sea - the castle sinks; to bring news from the dead - the king (together with the vizier) allows himself to be burned to go there himself]: Marzolph 1984, № 465A: 98-100; Turkmens [the old man dreams of nightingales sitting on his shoulders; sells sleep to a shepherd; he comes to the garden, takes the excuse from the hands of a sleeping young man; the girl sits on a horse, he brings her to the city; she makes skullcaps; the padishah takes the shepherd to destroy him and take possession of his wife; 1) get the milk of a black mare; the piebald horse defeats her, brings the padishah; 2) bring flowers that fall from the mouth of Peri Gulkahkas; this is one of the peri who comes in the form of doves to swim; the mother of the devas tells her to hide her clothes, the shepherd brings flowers to the padishah, leaves G. as his second wife; 3) bring from that Sveta letter from the padishah's parents; the Peri pick up the shepherd from the fire, then hide it in ash; the padishah thinks he really burned down and returned; orders to burn himself, the shepherd becomes a shah]: Stebleva 1969, No. 19:47-54; Baluchi [shepherd Asan dreams as if he has three stars in his hands; leaves the sheep to his master, goes on a journey; sleeps at the vizier's house; his daughter was just about to run away with her lover named Asan, mistakenly runs with the shepherd; decides to stay with him; after going to get water, A. finds the royal lamp, gives it to the girl; the mullah performs the wedding ceremony; the wife tells A. to bring a candle to the king (that lamp); the king wants to take possession of his wife A., the vizier advises to offer him difficult tasks; 1) find a pair by the candle; at that reservoir A. finds a couple and a girl kidnapped by a buzlangi; tells her to ask The buzlangs, leaving, leave their soul to her; A. and the girl tell the buzlangs to take them to the city, then kill the pigeon in which his soul is; A. forgot the couple to the lamp, but the girl was with her; she becomes A.'s second wife; 2) leaves from the garden of the black diva; A. finds a garden, kisses a sleeping girl in the palace; she catches up with him, becomes the third wife; 3) learn about the situation of the dead; the new wife tells To gather a huge fire, the king and all the people led by A. and his wife climb on it; the wife quietly lifts A. into the air, carries him away; the rest burn; A. is elected tsar]: Zarubin 1932, No. 2:10-35; Bukhara Arabs [the son of a poor old woman has set off; under the city wall he 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 understands that the one who took her away did not have bai parents, but shepherds; she tells her husband to hire the king and be named Jehangir; on her advice, D. enters the battle later than others, chases enemies, takes possession of the city; the wife orders that the king be invited to a feast; she is a peri, other peri 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 really went to the next world, wrote letters on behalf of the fathers; the tsar and viziers asked them to be burned, burned down; the Peri wife makes her husband tsar]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 63:344-348; Tajiks: Amonov 1972:219-222 [the man says that in a dream he lived in a castle with the daughter of a 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 you 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 (wife tells you to jump to the pond, dive, there are pearls); 2) give a letter to his deceased father; the young man's wife writes an 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], 241-247 [=Niyazmukhamedov 1945:27-36; Sohibjamol, the daughter of a padishah, runs with an orphan slave Ahmad; in another city she sews skullcaps, he sells; is hired to serve Padishah; he wants his wife, the vizier suggests giving A. difficult errands; 1) bringing seven-colored apples from Iram's garden; the fox brings him there, takes the dogs; 2) bring the lioness's milk in the lion's skin; that frees the lioness's paw that has grown into the ground, brings milk; 3) see the padishah's parents in the next world; Peri brings A. from the fire to his wife; A. tells the Shah that his parents have prepared medicine for him and waiting for him; the Shah and the viziers are burning, A. and S. go to live in the mountains]; Sistan's Tajiks [the old man dreamed that the moon and two stars fell from the sky; he went to look for it; the pleshak shepherd Hasan bought this a 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 bathhouse; the vizier's son saw H. sleeping, woke him up, asked him to watch the horses, and he himself went to hurry the princess; at this time, the princess threw X. off her bag, believing that she was next to the horses Beloved; she jumped herself and they jumped; the vizier's son returned, found no one and stabbed himself; in the morning the princess decided that everything was God's will; the princess washed and dressed X, ordered him to buy a palace, bring him mullah and marry; the old woman saw H.'s wife and told the king; he tells X. to bring the ivory throne; H. met an old diva woman, gave her a drink, she made him her son, hid him from others 7 turning their sons into a needle and sticking them into their collar; the divas felt the human spirit; swore they would not harm the guest; the divas threw potions into the water that elephants drink; they began to fight and broke off tusks; divas made a throne and brought the king to the garden; the king rewarded H.; now the king orders 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 two-headed divas; 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 he saw H., and the other cries, regretting that the diva would kill him; H. noticed a vessel in a niche and realized that the soul of a diva was in it; ordered the diva to take all the prisoners and all the goods to earth; H. broke the vessel and the divas died; the bets flew away doves, told H. to come to their Green City and be their husband; in the city of Pari H. learned from the traces that the girls had left on his shoulders; when two days were left before the king's deadline, the father of the bet gave H. Suleiman's rug; on it, H. and his wives flew to the divas and then home; the king received laughing and crying flowers; he ordered to visit his deceased parents; the pari wives wrote a letter on behalf of the king's father with with an invitation to heaven, they dressed H. in clothes as if he were lying in it in the grave; let the king build a fire, we, together with the old informer and vizier, will stand on him and get to the royal ancestors; H. flew to rug on the royal throne, and the tsar, vizier and old woman burned down]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 8:104-117; mountain Tajiks [three sons of the Shah shoot arrows; the elder's arrow fell at the gate of Kazia, the middle is the mufti, the youngest is to the frog on the riverbank; the young man brought the frog home, she said that she was the daughter of a bet, put on frog skin so as not to amaze people with beauty; the young man asked to lose his skin, burned her; the elder and middle brothers want a beautiful woman for themselves; the shah sends his youngest son to visit his grandparents in paradise; the bet's daughter brings three apples from Mount Kof, tells her husband to ask her to collect a mountain of firewood, climb set it on fire; she picks it up; tells her father to take apples, say that grandparents are waiting for them to visit; the Shah and his elder sons let themselves be burned, the youngest becomes a shah]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 2:37-38; Shugnans [poor shepherd Jumak fell asleep at the royal horse riding; the king's daughter was about 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 shore; serves the 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 it; she was kidnapped by a diva and killed during his absence; 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 a diva, brings his second wife; the vizier advises ask the king for a Laughing Flower; this is the Green Pari from Mount Kof, when he laughs, flowers fall from his mouth; they fly to the lake to swim, J. takes the Green Pari dress, brings her to his wives, this is his second sister wives; brings flowers to the king; he tells him to 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; the Wakhans [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 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 king's daughter, asking where the mistress was; she answered rudedly; the son of 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 orders 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 tsar and vizier to climb on a pile of firewood, set fire; they burned down, the BZ became tsar, his first wife and bet with him]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 13:163-172; Uzbeks of Khorezm [ Shepherd Kuldash and farmhand Yuldash lived near Urgench; Yu dreams of two stars falling into his bosom; K. buys sleep for a heifer and a foal; K. left, Yu remained a shepherd instead of him; at night a girl, who is about to flee, takes K. for the groom, asks, opens up to him, becomes his wife; the vizier wants her for himself, persuades the khan to send K. (now his name is Musofirbek) bring 1) tigress milk (his wife teaches me how to raise a herd of tigers); 2) find the gold that has disappeared from the treasury (the wife and her sister are walking around the yard, ingots fall from under their feet); 3) visit him in the light of the khan's deceased relatives; the wife teaches to pretend to be a fool, gives a note on behalf of the khan's relatives, as if it's much better in the next world; the khan and the viziers let themselves be burned; two stars are the Peri wife and her sister, little the star is their son; his wife's sister K. marries his friend Yu.]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:217-234; Uzbeks (Karabulak near Chimkent, western 1924) [the rich man has a daughter and two shepherds; one dreams that he has the sun on one cheek, the moon on the other, the star Venus in the middle; the other shepherd bought this dream by giving the cattle; the rich man's daughter has agreed with her lover that he would take her away; he overslept; the shepherd fell asleep in the same place by the pool; the girl mistook him for his lover, woke him up, to take her away; he overslept; the shepherd fell asleep in the same place by the pool; the girl took he went for him; he is silent in response to an offer to raise sheep, cattle, shoot ducks; she decides that he is of noble origin, takes them to the city, the mullah marries them; the vizier suggests to the king pick up the woman, send her husband 1) for tiger milk (the wife teaches the tiger king to remove the splinter); 2) for the gul-kaahka flower; the wife gives her handkerchief, the flower owner sees that it is her sister's handkerchief, comes the young man's second wife, he gives the king a bouquet; when she goes, pearls and gold fall; 3) learn about the health of the king's deceased parents; the husband got up on the fire, both wives took off, quietly took it off; wives teach tell the king that his father sews boots, his mother is spinning, asking him to visit them; the king burns at the stake, the husband reigns]: Yudakhin 1927:417-425.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [contrary to the bride's warning, the hero calls the king to the wedding; when he sees his wife, he decides to take possession of her and gives him difficult assignments to get rid of the hero]: Christiansen 1959:129 ; Western Sami [young fisherman is unlucky; an old man came up, gave a fishing rod, told him not to look at what he caught three times, cut him into pieces, throw it back; the first three once the bones of the head, arms, legs were caught; the fourth time the young man caught the beauty; she began to make scarves, her husband sold; the prince wanted to take his wife away; the king told the young man to bring a wolf with legs without hair; wife: go where he pulled me out from; the young man came with two companions; the wolf offered to play cards and won, the wolf's wife cooked one of the companions; the second time the same; the third time the wife sharpens the knife, the young man took out a handkerchief, the wolf saw his daughter's name on it, recognized his son-in-law; put the young man on his back, brought him to the royal castle, where the young man's wife and the queen married; the wolf jumped out the window, hit the king, who crumbled to pieces; the people made the young man king; everything is fine]: Pollan 2005, No. 25:98-100; Finns: Konkka 1993 [a father has been plowing a field near the shore for 10 years, but every time the storm destroys the crop; attempts the older and middle brothers are just as unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees swans descending from the cloud, turning into girls, dancing, trampling the field; the soldier hid the swan robe of one girl, to her he had to marry him; she explained that the witch had turned her and her sisters into swans, and only the grass that grew in this field could break the spell, so they trampled on the crops; the king found out that the soldier had beautiful wife; tells you to bring all creatures in pairs to tomorrow; wife tells you to wave a handkerchief - the animals have appeared; all the birds are the same; get the lost keys; wife: they are behind the altar in the church, we must take it and run without looking back; the soldier looked around, immediately fell from his horse to the rock and lost consciousness; the horse brought the keys to his wife, who gave it to the king; to avoid his harassment, the wife told her husband's parents that You should look for her across the black and white seas in a copper castle at the bottom of the Red Sea; put on swan plumage and flew away; when the soldier woke up, he saw three dead fighting over an invisible hat, leaps and bounds of boots and a self-cut sword; tells them to give him curiosities and go to the graves themselves; went east; stayed in a pagan house, where he did not get baptized; the owner showed three barns with copper and silver, gold coins; the soldier took the gold; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; the soldier told her to stop; in the hut an old woman, a nose three cubits; she agreed to transport her across the Black Sea on the condition that he would then cut off the soldier's hand; when he reached the other side, the soldier put on an invisible hat and fled; there was another hut on a chicken leg, the hostess moves the coals in the oven with her nose; the same (transports across the White Sea); the third hut is spinning and does not want to stop; the soldier threw a merezha under the crane's feet, the hut stopped; the old woman collects birds, then fish; only the whale knows about the copper castle, its tail is entangled in the teeth of the wall; the whale brought the soldier to the castle; the soldier cut the chains, the castle surfaced; the soldier threw a ring into his wife's bowl; she brought him to his house on her swan wings; the king sent an army, but a soldier sent a samob sword, the king and his army fell into the ground]: 17-28; Salmelainen 1947 [the hunter sees three ducks ashore, threw off their feather clothes, became girls; hides clothes are the most beautiful; returned when she promised to be his wife; she is the most beautiful, the king wants to take them for his son, he is advised to give the duck girl's husband impossible assignments; 1) do it by morning Tischplatte, on which the moon and stars (the wife drew); 2) bring nothing out of nowhere; the wife made a handkerchief by morning, sent her on the road; when the husband reaches the house where he sees the strange, let him show a handkerchief behaves like her own; around the house there are bones, on each pole there is only one empty; old woman: the man came by herself; when you see the handkerchief: you are the husband of my aunt's daughter! asks the servants where to look for nothing and nowhere, they do not know; she sent to her sister, she sent to her third sister; there knew the old toad who came last; the old woman told them to follow her; the toad brought her to the houses, where they hid in a dark corner; a man came in, called Nichtda, told them to set the table; everything is done by itself, the servants are not visible; when the person who came left, the man decided to call Nobody himself; he agreed go with him; the man asks every now and then if No one is here; they sailed by ship, the man told Nobody to feed the sailors; they offered to exchange a table with food that they wanted (and which Nobody covered it) on an anvil: if you hit it with a hammer, 12 fellows will appear, fulfilling wishes; but No one stayed with him; the sailors, seeing that the magic table was gone, rushed after the man, but he told the fellows to drive them away; the man came when his wife was married to the king's son; he threw his ring into her cup, she recognized him and said that her husband was alive; well done beat the king to death, man reunited with his wife and became king himself]: 33-39; Veps [dying, the old man tells his son to marry the one who comes out first; the first is a bird, the guy took her into the house; the neighbor's grandmother tells me to give she sewed canvases and told her to sew her shirt and pants; she sewed; the grandmother tells her to take the twigs and watch under the door; the guy saw the girl, began to quilt with rods; she turned into a snake, a wolf; when she became a spindle, the guy broke it, put it under the stump, said "There is a golden mountain behind, a young wife is ahead"; Baba Yaga's maids found out about the girl, persuade the king, he tells Vanya to bring a baby bag; the wife teaches him to go where they plow on a gray horse, pull out three hairs; where the earth shakes, throw hairs to the ground, the earth gives a chest of sums; the king tells you to cook the royal dinner; the wife has cooked; king: you know how to make live geese; the wife gives her husband a letter, tells her to take two old women with them; they come to the old woman, who replies that her sons are making geese; the old woman's sons ask to be shone; the first old woman went, dozed off, her killed; the same is the second; the guy went, started dozing; replies that he did not sleep, but thought - more damp or dry land, more damp; they went to measure, it turned out that it was really more damp; next time the guy replies that he did not doze, but took a handkerchief from his pocket; they read it - it's their son-in-law! they said that the wife was stolen, everyone was waiting for a feast; one: I'll take it in an hour; the second in half an hour; the third in a moment; when she saw her husband, the young woman told the geese to play; they started playing, turned the tables over, killed many people, king asks to stop geese; guy: first appoint me tsar; the tsar appointed]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 14:81-85; Lutsie (Western 1931 from a Catholic gypsy) [Danil Beschastny has been serving the 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 the shoots; DB bought the mare, asked Egor not to harm, but the mare was eaten by wolves; he hired to tie a hundred sheaves before sunset, and if he did not, he would receive a hundred roses; two sheaves left, DB asked the sun to wait, but it went down and DB got a rod for his 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 bring a manager with you; 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 recognize her husband by him; DB comes to Mikola, asks him for a stick, mercilessly hits 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 her son-in-law has come, the Sun supportive, sends DB to heaven for half a day instead of himself while he writes a letter; DB in paradise smashed and broke everything; Mikola, Egor and the Sun come to complain to the mother of the Sun; she explains what they got for the cause; DB I 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. Chuvashi [the forest is empty, I. comes to a tree with all the birds on; shoots a big white one, she falls, he brings her to the hut, she turns into a beauty; wife weaves a magic tablecloth, husband carries to sell, the king sees, comes to find out who the craftswoman is; the wise men advise sending I. for a goat with golden horns and hair; the wife sends him to go for the ball, he leads to a goat; the same boar with golden horns and hair stubble; sent for Sharapchyk the invisible; the wife gives a towel, sends her older sister for a ball; there is a girl in a silver palace recognizing her younger sister's towel; she gives her ball and ring, the ball leads to the oldest sister in the golden palace; she leads to the river, followed by S.; the frog asks for milk, I. brings it, the frog jumps, carries her across the river; three robbers enter the triangular house , they tell S. to set the table; when they leave, I. suggests that Sh. Go with him, he agrees; tells him to exchange him from the robbers for crossing the river, chest, ax, pipe; returns to I.; I. goes to the king war, dudit - ships, soldiers from the chest, axes make fortresses; I. kills the tsar, gets the throne, as well as a goat and a wild boar]: Sidorova 1979:98-105 (=Eysin 1993:129-138); Kazan Tatars [after His father's death, his elder brother drove Abdullah away; the elder tells A. to get the dagger out of the golden palace beyond the Kaf mountains; A. went there, running away from the lions, took the dagger out of its scabbard, a girl appeared; the padishah wants her take away, tells me to bring 1) harps; the old man sends A. and his wife to his brother, he sends him to his sister, she first hides it from her sons, the sons will help if A. does not sleep for three nights; the second {obviously in the first} night they ask if A. is awake; he says he thinks there are more firewood or trees in the forest; on the third {second} they are alive or dead; they brought harp and A. is sleeping; they want to kill him, but they took it home when he sees his sister's handkerchief; 2) algu and kulgu stones; A. hides in a house where there are 7 golden basins, 7 golden kumgans in them, a stick on the table; 7 batyrs enter, one asks who poured water from his kumgan; they tell the stick to feed him lunch, leave; A. asks the stick to feed him and thanks her; stick: no one thanked me, I'll go with you; A. promises an old man, whose workers are building something, for.. {incomprehensible}; that: I'll dive if the white foam is alive, if the black foam is dead; the old man dives, but comes back, rubbed himself with white powder again, dived successfully; the algu stone kills everything, the kulgu stone revives everything; A. calls alga, padishah's men fall dead; kulgu! they come to life; A. becomes a padishah himself]: Yarmukhametov 1970:246-254; Marie [a soldier buys frankincense with his last penny, lights it, God likes it, he sends an angel, tells him to hand over to a soldier caught a third fish under the bridge; it turns into a beauty; the clerk advises the merchant to take it away, suggests giving the soldier difficult assignments; 1) measure the sun (this is the older sister of the soldier's wife); 2) get it the ring of the merchant's deceased father; the wife orders to take the clerk, come to the icy mountain, ask the crow to carry it through it; the soldier stops three horses, the merchant's father is the root, the soldier gives replacement clerk; the root (i.e. the merchant's father) gives the soldier his ring, tells him to give the money to his son, give the house to the soldier, otherwise he will be in his place; the merchant did everything]: Chetkarev 1948, 126-128; Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 30 [vizier Urtan-Sultan is going to marry; the horse advises choosing the most unsightly of the three doves that the magician king will show him; she turns into a girl; beret a copper kumgan with him, the water from which can turn her ugly and beautiful if desired; US lives with his wife in a bathhouse on the outskirts of the city, but the king saw his wife and decided to lime him; the wise men advise tell him to get 1) three lions; his wife teaches how to bring lions; 2) a music box from the cave (the same); 3) an iron box; the wife gives a towel, the old lady of the winds finds out from it that the mustache is the husband the daughters of her older sister; the winds do not know where the box is, the old woman sends birds to the lady; the birds say that the lame frog knows; in the underworld, in a stone bath, a cup of human milk; we must pour it out; 60 pahlavans will return in the evening, think that someone ate human, kill each other; you must kill the last guard, drink water from his bottle, become strong, raise the stove under it box; the US covered the Samrigush bird from the thunderstorm, which for this lifted them to the earthly world; there was not enough meat, the mustache cut off the piece from the leg; S. regurgulated, put it back; warriors came out of the box, killed tsar, their heads were thrown to the wolves; the mustache and his wife went home]: 153-159; Bessonov 1941, No. 27 [a man dreams: there is a sun in his heads, a moon in his legs, a star on his chest; the man went, met a bull, he explained the dream: this two wives and a son; a man came to the fence and lay down; the girl took the cattle and told her to go with her; she mistook the man for the son of a vizier with whom she agreed to flee; they began to live; invited Khan to visit; when they saw a woman, the khan ordered her husband to be killed and brought to him; one of the viziers offered to send a man for a horse who grazes between the mountains; the journey between the mountains is three days, and the mountains converge every day; wife gives his horse; as soon as the other horse saw him, he ran after him; they had time to leave before the mountains collided; the khan pretended to be sick, the vizier ordered the man to be sent to bring ash from his Daughter Suns; the wife gives a letter for her; the husband comes to one old woman, she sends her to the older sister, the sister to the oldest, who teaches her to hide in a hole, lure a white horse three times; SK will get tired of going out to find out , what's the matter; she will fall asleep, you have to tie her by the hair, whip her on the left; then she won't eat, you can show her a letter; SK went with the man, became the second wife; the first gave birth to a son; khan tells him to know where his late father put the treasury; his wife-SK removed him from the fire and then returned him with a bag of gold; the khan asked him to be burned, burned; the man became khan; the dream came true], 28 [when the boy was 6 years old, her mother burst an abscess on her left hand, a girl came out; immediately all the mares were thrown away; in a dream, her brother saw her sister turn into fire and flew away; the next day he took her from his mother, hit her fire, ordered to kill; parents refused; the son left in a thin foal, which turned into a mighty horse; on the way he extinguished the burning bush; there was a snake in it, led him to his father, told him to ask for a reward a lame goat; the serpent tells her to be slaughtered, put her feet to her feet, head to his head and wish her what you want; in the morning around the palace and the farm with workers, his wife is in bed; the king is envious, sent to bring the golden bunny; the wife teaches how to create a bridge across the sea, catch a bunny; the husband caught it and did not give it to the king; he tells me to bring the girl from the bottom of the ninth sea; the wife gave a paper: hit the seas, the water will split in two; the man brought the girl, made him a second wife; the king tells me to bring food with net; the eldest wife was the queen of birds and reptiles, she called everyone, no one knows; the old frog was the last to come, saying that eat with no exist, but she doesn't know where; they went, the frog jumped into the water; well done, went into the house and hid; some man came in; Sarbyay! Serve food; the invisible brings everything; when he is gone, the person invites S. to the table; he agrees to go with him; tells you to poke the house with a stick, it will turn into an egg, put it in your pocket and go home; king tells them to go to their deceased parents; wives took her husband away from the fire; tell the king to bury gold under the king's threshold; tell the king that his parents are in paradise calling to them, talking about gold; the king found gold, ordered to burn himself, the man became king; decided to visit his parents, his wife gave tulpara; at home the old woman, his sister; asks if the brother came on a three-legged, two-legged, one-legged horse, and came on foot; rushes at him, he asks for a break, she ties him by the leg with a rope, he tied the rope, ran to the horse; aspen fell in the way of the old woman and turned into a mountain; well done, returned to his wives]: 155-159, 160-166.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1952 [a young man lets go of a wolf who took his horse; he promises to marry his sister; at night the she-wolf turns into a beauty; mother-in-law warns not to throw away wolves his wife's blanket before 40 days; he throws his skin into the fire three days before the deadline; the wife predicts misfortune; the khan sees the young man's wife, the old woman advises sending him for 1) a gold bar that his father dropped into the sea khan; the wife makes a silk flower, the young man uses it as bait, pulls out the hanshu fish, she brings a bar; 2) a herd of horses missing from Khan's father; the wife gives a stick, the young man brings a herd with it; 3) a stallion slaughtered at his father's wake; the wife cannot help, the bar thrown on the ground by the mother-in-law turns into an iron yurt; the wife takes refuge in it while her husband goes to her mother-in-law for advice; she tells me to dig up the grave, the old khan throws the stallion away; when he saw him, the khan was ashamed, the old woman cut off his head]: 42-49 (=Daurenbekov 1979:67-73, similar text in Tursunov 1983:116-122); Tursunov 1983 [son of the padishah refuses to tell his father his dream; he lets him in a box along the river; a fisherman, a young man picks him up and refuses him, the fisherman wants to kill him; the padishah saves him; buys sleep, giving the throne and his 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 send her husband for a diamond; the wife sends her to her mother, who gives four diamonds; when she returns, the husband goes hunting, despite his wife's prohibition, drinks blue water in the garden, the water turns into a beautiful woman named Bibatima; she is a rival and friend of the man's wife, Minoir, both sorceresses; the padishah tells her to visit her deceased parents, find out if they are in paradise; wives quietly kidnap her husband from the fire, then get them out from under ash; he says that the parents of the padishah are in paradise; he lets himself be burned; the husband of fairies is made a padishah]: 171-179; Coyaud 2012, No. 69 [Aolar has a particularly valuable horse; two wolves lifted him up; A. caught up with them, but the bow fell out of his hands and they brought him to an old man and an old woman, became girls; the old man ordered one of his three daughters to be married, A. chose the youngest; in human form, she cannot be shown to people; but A. to laugh, he showed his wife; but covered it again; then burned the veil and the wife said she was waiting for misfortune; the khan decided to take away A.'s wife; ordered to find the bear and find out when he was born and how old he was; wife teaches me how to wear a horned demon mask and appear to a bear; bear: I'm 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], 73 (Xinjiang) [bai Baocha in each herd a thousand heads; a shepherd sees another - a thousand black sheep - come to his herd; he tries to separate his own from those who have come; it is so hot that he stripped naked and then found no clothes; the owner came black sheep, but they disappeared somewhere; then they appeared, but the owner did not come again; the shepherd slaughtered the ram and pulled on its skin; three fishermen laughed; they caught a goldfish; the shepherd gave three for it and let the sheep go; the shepherds took three more, laughed and left; the shepherd discovers that no matter how many sheep he slaughtered or gave away, there were still a thousand in the flock; a man came, stayed, invited him to his place, led him to an underwater palace; the underwater king says that the shepherd saved his son and the inexhaustible black sheep saved him; the underwater prince advises to ask his father only for the skin from the belly of the ram in the attic, and puppy; if there is trouble, you have to go to the river and shout "Friend!" three times ; when the shepherd brings the herd in the evening, the yurt is tidy, the food is cooked; the shepherd waited for the girl, is going to burn the dog skin; the girl asks to wait 6 days, but on the third day the shepherd's skin is still burned; the girl became his wife, but predicts misfortune; two came; they are the king's servants, he is ill and will recover if he is brought a quail roasted in the sun; but the quail is not fried every time, but deteriorates; the shepherd's wife roasts the quail and tells these people to hold it in the sun during the day; the king will recover, but let them say that they did everything themselves; so it happened; they gave it a piece to all wives and ministers etc., everyone felt better; the Minister demanded that the envoys say who actually fried the partridge; one was beaten to death, the other let it slip; the minister came to the shepherd's wife and said that The king will arrive with 30 ministers, I must receive; the shepherd's wife: go to the river and ask my brother to help; all those who came easily fit in a yurt, a sumptuous feast; the king was so amazed at the beauty of the hostess that accidentally cut off his finger; the king demands that the shepherd migrate to his headquarters; wife to the minister: let us build a house entirely of iron; the house has been built; as soon as the king wants to enter, the shepherd's wife closes door; the minister proposes to divide the people into noble and poor and organize a competition; if the noble win, the shepherd will give his wife; the shepherd's wife's brother gave a horse, the shepherd won the races; the competition fighters; a little boy sent from the river easily defeated the royal hero; shooting at the target; his wife's brother gave a magic bow; the king lost his 6 wives and concubines and died]: 152-161, 197-212; Karakalpaks : Volkov, Mayorov 1959:3-13 [Khan does not have a son, he gives his daughter Gulziba to a boy; hands over the throne to his imaginary son, the vizier's son becomes a vizier; finds out that the young khan is a girl; they agree run, but at night the vizier is replaced by the chieftain of the robbers; G. runs away offers the robbers to race, she will marry the winner; runs away; marries the shepherd Meytin; sews skullcaps, M. sells them for expensive; the merchant finds out about this, the khan takes M. into service, gives difficult assignments to seize G.; 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 feathers of the king bird; the Aydarkha serpent devours her two chicks every year; M. is killed by a snake, a storm begins with rain; rain - the tears of birds, the wind - from their wings; all the king birds give a pen; the khan wants burn M. at the stake to say hello to their parents in heaven; M. burns the king bird's feather, she brings it to her place, gives fruit to the khan; the khan and the viziers order to burn themselves, M. becomes khan], 114-119 [Abdullu they want to take him to Khan's jobs, he runs away; hiding in a tandoor, overhears the conversation between the girl and the horseman; at night he comes instead of a horseman, runs away with the girl, she can only become his wife; the king appointed A . vizier, others envy, advise the tsar to take away A.'s wife, to do this, send him to bring the daughter of the khan of Msyr; her fiancé must overtake her runner, defeat her fighter, get out of the fire unharmed, To withstand the blade's blow to the forehead; the wife gives her curl to protect her forehead; on the way, A. is joined by his namesakes: a giant strongman catching birds on the move, drinking the river; companions defeat the runner and wrestler, water bread does not afraid of fire, the blade breaks to pieces; A. arrives when the king wants to take his wife; the people put A. on the throne]; Kyrgyz [the poor man's wife gave birth to a son under a plane tree, called Chinarbay; plane tree and the boy grows up quickly; a winged horse flies to the top, a girl is on it; C. and his friend Ashik go to look for her; the dwarf tells predators to feed horses, the road will open, grab the girl by the braids; C. married Peri; she washed her hair, one hair was entangled in the blades of the mill wheel, the khan saw him, wanted a girl; the witch reached the source of the river, invited Peri to get on the boat and took him away; C. and A. came when the khan arranged the wedding; Peri told them to hold on to her braids and flew away with them; the first khan ordered them to pour poison on the saddles prepared for the young yurt and fetters of a hunting bird; A. found out in a dream, asked for C. to give him the three things he asked for; burned poisoned saddles, fetters, clothes; in a poisoned yurt he saw poison dripping on C.'s wife's face, began to lick him, C. thought that A. kissed his wife; offended A. left, and C. soon died; A. brought his body to a dwarf, who revived him; Peri locked herself from the khan in an iron house; C. killed the khan, took his place]: Brudny 1954:73-81; Kyrgyz (Chuysky region, 1966) [Mendirman wandered into the city of Khan Karakan, got a job as a cook; then K. instructed him to look after his tulpar; he fattened off, but much less barley began to leave; M.: former servants stole; In addition, unchewed grains can be washed out of the litter and fed again; Khan ordered M. to be secretly monitored; the spy reported that M. thinks that tulpar has something of a cow; M. explained: only the cow is furious in the heat, the tulpar is also worried; the herd admitted that the foal managed to suck the cow; the khan orders to evaluate him; M.: Khan's son on one side, the baker's son in the other direction; Khan's mother admitted that she gave birth to a girl and replaced her with a baker's son; and the baker's son likes to treat her to bread; K. made M. one of the horsemen, then the leader of 40, then the chief vizier; choose a girl who like it; M. found Gulgaaki, got married; horsemen: G. does not deserve M., but you; the old woman promised to take away M.'s wife; you have to pretend to be sick, send M. to Ayokon for milk; she swallows everyone who comes to her appears, and there are 40 robbers on the way; M. ordered the blacksmiths an iron house with seven-row walls; K. repents, but M. still goes; horse: 40 robbers are waiting for us; but they themselves asked M. make them your horsemen; the horse teaches you to get there, say, 'Assalom Aleikum, Mother, 'she will say, 'If you hadn't said hello, you wouldn't be well, son.' Say, 'If I hadn't answered the greeting, mother, I would have exhausted you. ' She will ask: 'Why did you come, son? ' Answer: Get your milk. ' She'll say 'Here's my milk! ' , and will spin the boiler about 40 ears. I'll be shorter than a rabbit and you'll be as grip as a hawk. Put a cauldron with forty ears on my mane, and I'll ride away with it. If we can't get hold of the cauldron, we'll be lost and she'll swallow you and me. If we take the pot away, she admits defeat, call us back; that's what happened; Ayocon said she didn't have milk, it was a hoax; she pulled out her mustache and gave it to M.; M. returned to town to K., and then dolomali six walls near M.'s wife's iron house, set about the seventh; a brutal battle; M. set fire to A.'s mustache; Ayokon flew into the khan's possessions, swallowed both the dog that barks and the cow that was mooing; khan: Take away yours monster, become a khan instead of me! "] : Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:71-77; Uighurs [the poor man's beautiful wife made a blanket, tells her husband not to go sell it to 41st Street; he violates the ban, there is Khan's Palace, he is forced confess that his wife embroidered; the khan came to his house, gave the young man sleeping pills, took his wife away; she promises to marry Khan in a month; they agreed to run; the horses are ready at night, but the young man fell asleep; instead Drunk Taz ("bald") accidentally jumped on his horse; the woman promises to cure him of scab, sends him to buy oil, leaves; tells four hunters that she will marry the first to bring what she released arrow; shoots 4 arrows, leaves; four other men: who drinks a cup of wine in one spirit and does not get drunk (the same); she changed into a man's dress, a bird of happiness sat on her head, she was made a padishah instead of the deceased; everyone a woman has encountered before comes, she tells them to detain them; tells her husband to change into a woman's dress, they change with him, the wedding, no one notices the change; the padishah lets go four hunters and other men, leaves Khan in prison]: Aliyeva, Kabirov 1989:32-41; salars (Ullagil, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [an orphan boy saw fighting on the road two snakes; one black, the other variegated; the young man threw the black snake into the bush and let the variegated snake go; she brought him home; told his snake father that the young man had saved her from the black snake; the young man stayed there a few days, then I was about to go home; the motley snake advised: "Tomorrow my father will ask you: "Do you want more silver or a small measure of gold?" You say, "I don't want a big measure of silver or a small measure of gold. I want chicken in the yard"; the young man did so, brought the chicken home; went to mow the grass in the morning, and when he returned home, he saw that the bread and tea were ready; the next day he stayed outside the door; the chicken took off its a feather cloak, turned beautiful, cooked food, and then put her raincoat back on; the young man ate dinner and stayed on guard at the door again in the morning; when the chicken threw off his cloak, threw it into the fire; the chicken remained beautiful and became the young man's wife; an imperial hunter approached him in the mountains; he tasted the bread that the young man had given him and took a piece for the emperor; he ordered him to give it to the young man: "Let's arrange horse competition; if your horse fails, the emperor will take your wife for himself!" ; the young man told his wife about this, she told him to go to her father's house and bring a little white horse from there; the young man did this, won the contest; the emperor: "Tomorrow you level this mountain, and my army will level that mountain. If you fall behind, I will take your wife away"; the wife told me to go to her father's house and bring a white chest; the young man did it; a flock of pigeons flew out of the chest, which leveled the mountain before the imperial one army; the emperor warned the young man that he would come for his wife tomorrow; the wife: "If she comes for me, I will go. You wait seven days. Then tie your feathers with wool, make a cloak, hang a bag on your shoulders, pick up a stick and go to the imperial door to ask for bread!" ; the emperor's warriors took the young man's wife, he waited seven days and did as she ordered; his wife laughed when she saw him; the emperor: "I'm so beautifully dressed! Why don't you laugh at me?" ; the woman replied that she would laugh when he dressed like a beggar; the emperor invited the young man to come in, took his clothes and stick; then went outside and came back; the woman ordered the guards to kill him; the young man became emperor, the woman remained his wife]: Tenishev 1964, No. 54:108-109; Dungana [young man Jeong Dajyo sees a black snake fighting a white snake, winning; he hits a black whip, she lets go of a white snake; in a dream, the old man tells him to follow not a black man on a black horse, but for a white man on a white horse; he tells his father to ask his father for a throat pumpkin that hangs on the wall; after receiving a pumpkin, he sleeps in the steppe; someone cooks food; he spies, sees three girls (daughters of the white snake father) come out of the pumpkin, cook; at home, the young man's younger sisters hide in a pumpkin and return with it to their father, the eldest leave the young man as a wife; people from the spring build a new home for the couple; the official is jealous, demands 1) plant trees before the government, 2) shoot pheasants, 3) win mule races (bet - wife); wife teaches what to do; BH refuses the official's wife he won; the mule throws fireballs, the official burns down with the administration]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 1:35-40.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Baraba Tatars [an eighty-year-old couple gives birth to a boy, grows up immediately; given to a khan, studies with his son in 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 it, Khan in 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 return, the young man became khan, peri - khansha]: Dmitrieva 1981:52-55; the Altaians [Dyakshylykh-Dalakay ("Good-Affectionate") lives alone, herds the herd, the wolves ate half, the other, of his horse; he is not angry, the Wolf calls to himself; on the way, DD meets an old man, then an old woman, does them a favor, they advise them to take only a puppy from the Wolf; at home he turns into a woman; Kara Khan wants to take her away for his son; gives difficult assignments; last: to bring gold and silver bowls from the underworld, which he put in the coffin to his parents; he does everything, triumphs]: Plots 1986, No. 8:320; Khakas: Balter 1986 [Khara- Khan took the only horse from the hunter; he took the girl, began to live with her in the forest; son H. saw her, wanted to take it for himself, asks his father to take it away from the hunter; H. demands 1) to play hide and seek; the wife says when you go to the bay, turn everything over and break it, choose a horse with a covered eye, rusty bits, drive him, hit him in the eyes; the horse turns into son H.; when son X. comes to look for a hunter, the wife turns that in scissors, son H. does not recognize him; 2) ask how old the bear is; the wife gives seven hats, tells him to lie in the forest, put them on his feet, knees, arms, head; the bear comes up, argues that 300 years are worth poplars, he lived under them for 60 years, but he did not see 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 a ball and a dog's skull, tells him to go for a ball, then throw the skull; the shadows of father and mother H. reproach the son for greed, tell him to become a black woodpecker, his wife a blue woodpecker, their son forty; ask him to take the dog's skull, he barks, haunts; hunter returns, ashes in place of the yurt, son H. prepares a wedding with the hunter's wife; the hunter turns H. with his wife and son into birds, returns his wife, chosen by the khan, distributes cattle to the poor]: 46-52 (=Dachshunds 1988:218- 223); Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 23 [fishermen caught a strange fish, like gold and silver; Oxes-Ool gave his only five sheep for it; feeling sorry for the sheep, threw the fish into the river; they came to him at night call old man Sugdaigan to the owner of the river; he saved his son, let him ask not for gold and silver, but for a blue dog; S. tells her to water and feed her with what the YOS eats and drinks himself; in the morning a girl goes to 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; the wife tells us to wait for misfortunes; the arrow of Har-Khan's son accidentally hit Yoo's house, he went to pick her up and saw her beautiful, decided to take it away; demands that his father come up with something; he tells the YOS to play hide and seek with his son: if you lose, I'll cut off my head; the wife turned YOO into a broom, the Khan's son did not find him; now Khan's son hid; wife: three brown one-year-old calves are standing, you have to twist the middle 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 the khan sends to Mount Hara-tag to find out how old the black bear is; the wife gives 7 black fox hats; we must drive the black bear out of the den with a stick , put hats on your hands 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 creatures with seven heads are not saw; frightened, left; now the khan orders him to bring the clothes and shoes of his 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 hold on to the lower reason, go on the ground, when the upper one will fly across the 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, I saw fat cows and sheep that grazed on pebbles, 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 - skin and bones; they were slaughtered for a bad man; then the horse is 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, bad looked after the horse; the old woman pours from bottle to bottle - diluted milk with water; another man stuck to the sharpener, spins with him - he regretted the sharpener; arrived; Khan's father clothes on the side of sunrise , the khan's mother is on the west side; Yoo took his clothes, 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 with a house mouse; the horse brought YOO back with speed of thought; YOO gave Father's "blessing" to Hara-Khan, his son, his son, his son's wife became woodpeckers and a mouse; YOO became khan]: 403-423; Tuvans: Katanov 1907, No. 1095 (Khemchik) [=2011:262-265; the orphan has 7 horses; the wolf eats them one by one; invites the orphan to him; the wife of the Wolf Tsar Shibishkin teaches to ask leaving, as a gift from a puppy, a skinny lamb, the top 3 sticks from the yurt; they turn into a beauty, a palace, cattle; Karatta Khan's son sees an orphan's wife, faints, asks his father to marry her; K. tells son and orphan 1) play hide and seek; an orphan's wife turns him into a needle, a ring, a fire, a son. K. does not find it; explains to her husband that K.'s son became a birch, a hat, an arrow; an orphan takes a knife to cut them, son K. admits defeat; 2) count the hares (give sugar; the hare will say, "I am one of 50 thousand birds with one stone, and He did not eat such sweets"); 3) K. wants to kill an orphan, but shoots at a feather grass; puts up with him; K. gives the orphan the throne]: 128-132; Potanin 1883, No. 131 [Khan's son wants to take his wife Ulberg; 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; along the way to a flower meadow, a cliff, the boiling sea must be libated; two women should be given veins to sew, two camels to drive two pegs into the ground, two dogs a piece of meat, three heroes a lasso; W. takes a knife; all of them they 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]: 412-416; South Altai Tuvans [on the advice of a horse, Ergen-ool agrees to become a friend of the black snake; the serpent turns into a young man on a blue horse, sends the young man to his house, hands a golden casket there; it contains cattle marks, scissors, a needle; he throws it away, finds it in the morning a beautiful woman, a yurt, a lot of cattle; Kharagathy Haan sends servants to fry quails; the quails burned down, E.'s wife gave them three pieces from the tail of the sheep, sprinkled them with her milk, XX and his people ate this month; XX comes to her yurt, she makes him stick to objects three times at night; E. arrives in the 20th century, his horse reaches the clouds at the withers, rolls the boulders of the lower world with his feet; XX to no avail tries to poison E. with araka; XX offers to hide; the wife turns E. into an iron on fire, hearth tongs, scissors; tells her husband that XX has turned into felt wool on the roof of the yurt, a reed stem, yellow whip; XX orders Erlik Haan to be killed and returned; his wife asks to take sandbags, tendons, leather sticks, sheep's tail; a black dog runs through the scorched pasture; he must be fed with a sheep's tail, strangle it, put its tail in his mouth; pour sand on a snowy mountain to cross it; camels will ask if to scratch you or your horse - give them tanners; women - pull it out tendons from you or from a horse - give them tendons; a man and a woman call out to each other on opposite sides of the rock, the other two on opposite sides of the lake (the couple lived in discord; the latter spit on each other, saliva has turned into a lake); one boils water in the cauldron, the other has a bone without meat (both stingy during his lifetime); a person eats huge tea leaves (during his lifetime he threw tea away without digesting it well); in Erlik's world E. meets that black dog; the dog says that when Erlik is awake, he says, "I'm asleep, and when I sleep, I don't sleep; by morning Erlik fell asleep, E. tore off a piece of his heart, flew away with a falcon; sees a man leading a black dog; this revived Erlik led to him XX]: Taube 1994, No. 3:61-69; the Buryats [an orphan earned a horse, he was eaten by wolves; undertakes to argue to chop four in a day planting firewood; there is not much left, the orphan asks the Sun to hesitate, but the Sun goes down; he works again for a year, gets seed grain, in the fall his harvest has been beaten by hail; he goes to the sea to fish and catch animals in the snare; sees how 7 swans flew in, took off their clothes, became girls, started swimming; the poor man hides the most beautiful clothes; she asks for return, promises to recognize the kidnapper as a father, if he is old, a husband, if he is young ; the orphan returns her dress, keeps her handkerchief; everyone admires his wife; so that her husband does not get bored, she paints a portrait of him; the wind blows him away, the soldiers bring it to Abaahai Khan, who tells him to find a woman; they go into the orphan's house to fry a bird; they keep their eyes on the hostess, the bird is burned; the hostess makes it unburnt, tells her not to tell what they saw; the bird satisfies the hunger of AH and three soldiers; AH tells stay in these places; the next day, the soldiers do not look at the woman, fry the bird, it tastes normal, AH beats them, making them tell everything; locks the orphan and his wife in an iron barn; tells the orphan 1) bring an angry yellow dog from the east; the wife gives the hook, the orphan pacifies the dog with them; 2) clear the bottom of the hot hell; the wife gives a red thread to get out of hell; it is impossible to cleanse hell, but the orphan offers AH Check for yourself, go down; 3) pay tribute from the son of the Star and the son of the Sun; the wife gives a thread to climb into heaven, show her handkerchief to her mother, she recognizes her as a matchmaker; then the guard climbs, the orphan shakes off him, he falls; after resting with his mother-in-law, the orphan comes to the wife of the son of the Star, who hides him in a hot cellar; when the son of the Star comes, everything cools down; the son of the Star sends to the son of the Sun; on the way 1) two roosters they ask to know why they are fighting; 2) a woman - why she is sitting on the horns of a cow; 3) another woman - why she is lying, water flows into her mouth, flowing out from behind; the wife of the son of the Sun hides an orphan in a cold cellar; he begged the Sun's son to send him on a daytime journey on Altan Sharga's horse instead of himself; at noon he should dine on a silver table with 88 legs; the old man lying face down replies that he is looking at his seven dogs on the ground to show them the cattle they can eat; an orphan breaks his arm, knocks his eye out for giving wolves to eat his horse, for which he worked for a year; another the old man replies that he is trying to blow back the stone hail and the downpour that passes through the heavenly doors; the orphan beats him, breaks his arm, knocks out his eye for destroying his crops; in the evening, the son The sun gives the orphan a golden cane for AH; says that a woman lying on the ground did not give mothers milk for newborns; another beat a cow that was milked in honor of the Eastern Bunts; on roosters you should swing your cane, they will turn into gold and silver; AH wants to kill an orphan, he swings his cane at him and his warriors, they fall dead; the orphan was chosen khan, the daughter of Tanegari is hansha]: Barannikova et al. 1973, No. 1:29-31; Mongols (Khalkha?) [Arat has a son Damdin; his father sent him to learn the business; he learned to play the hoora; his father is dissatisfied, sent him to learn the right thing; D. began to play on the seashore {really lakes}; the daughter of the sea king came out, brought him to her father; he tells him to stay at the bottom forever and play for him; but the daughter of the sea king brought D. to the ground and stayed with him; the khan hunted, sent Noyon to D.'s yurt to fry the quail; he is amazed by the beauty of the mistress, the quail burned down; D.'s wife gave Noyon two quails; neither the khan nor his entire army could eat them; the wife tells D. to agree to give it to Khan on the condition that he finds D. twice in his a yurt; his wife turned D. into a pestle; the khan did not find it; he himself turned into a tree by the well; D. understood this and took out a knife to cut it off; the second time his wife turned D. into a fly, the khan did not find it; he himself became a black goat among a hundred white sheep, D. pretended to slaughter him; khan: whose horse will run three days in three hours; his wife tells D. to play by the sea {lake} on a hur, her father will come out, I must ask him sea stallion; an 8-legged foal ran out; he easily overtook the khan's horse; the khan demands that the water in the lake boil; the sea khan gave two pebbles: throw white into the lake, the water would boil; put the black one by the cheek - boiling water will not scald; Khan tells D. to swim, he is unharmed; rushes into boiling water with all the warriors and dies]: Khoza 1954:13-15 {online, pagination starts from page 1}; Mongols (Ordos) [ the boy learned to play the hora (violin genus), he was invited by the underwater king; the old man ordered to pay for a puppy and a door latch; the boy wakes up on the shore of rich yurts; someone cooks; he pretends to be sleeping, sees a girl taking off her dog's skin, throws her skin into the fire; the girl says that he was in a hurry, Shatsgai (Soroka) Khan will begin to take her away from him; entering the yurt, Khan's servants they looked at the woman, burned the meat; she gave something else, it tasted better, the khan had to confess; the wife tells the boy to invite the khan to hide; the boy wins three times (the wife helps); the khan suggests compete, whose horse is faster; the father-in-law sends the boy an eight-legged horse and a four lion from the sea, this horse wins; the boy crosses the boiling lake twice, saying Hoshuai; the khan dies; noyon asks what hoshuai is; the wife gives a red bean, who kills noyon and warriors with iron hail; the boy becomes khan]: Potanin 1893, No. 8b: 152-156.

Western Siberia. Nenets (Taimyr, West. Labanauskas in 1976 from storyteller V. Yara from Vorontsovo): Nenyang 1997 [the old man's wife died, he comes to the tsar, earned a calf and a foal, they died; the forest giant gives a box, it turns into a house, a woman in it; the tsar is jealous orders 1) to draw a winged line (leads, the king sends the line in fear), 2) the bear (leads, he ate the queen, the king orders him to be sent); 3) bring the daughter of the Sun, otherwise the king will take his wife; daughter The Sun hides the old man from the Sun Mother, the old man looks down, sees the king hugging his wife, throwing a stone, killing the king with it; with the daughter of the Sun he descends to earth, lives with two wives, becomes the Breadwinner people]: 58-61.

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).

Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 312D (Tohoku) [a man plays the flute, a heavenly woman descends to its sound; the local prince wants it for himself, gives her husband impossible assignments; his wife helps them fulfill; the husband goes to heaven to see her relatives; receives powerful rice grains as a gift; feels sorry for the cannibal in chains, gives him a grain, he breaks the chains, runs away, kidnaps the man's wife; his shackled because he wanted it since she was a girl; the husband is looking for a wife playing the flute; she recognizes her sound, invites him to the ogre's house; they run away, the cannibal dies], 465 (28 versions; all of Japan, including northern Ryukyu) [a poor peasant marries a beauty who is (1) A Swan, (2) a sea princess (he meets her after visiting an underwater palace), (3) The Crane, whose life he is saved, (4) heavenly maiden; while working in the field, he carries her portrait with him; the wind takes him to the castle, the castle owner kidnaps his wife, gives difficult assignments (usually three): (1) make a rope out of ashes (first make, then burn); 12 versions); (2) get a self-sounding drum (fill it with bees; 12 versions); (3) bring lots of rice, sesame, mustard seed (9 versions); (4) bring the monster; in different versions of different monsters are brought from other worlds; in 14, the monster kills the castle owner; (5) get the Thunder (in which case Thunder kills the master; his last task is always fatal]: 77, 116-117.

SV Asia. Yukaghirs (forest, p. The ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky ulus of Yakutia; {the motive for the difficult task of a rich man is clearly from the Russians?} [the shepherd took the puppy; when he returned from work, the house was clean, the food was prepared; decided to find out who was coming to him; saw that the dog was turning into a girl; the shepherd threw her skin into the fire, began to live together; the son of the rich man began to flirt with the shepherd's wife; she released the calf, which began to butt the guy; the next day the rich man sent the shepherd to look for the violent bull; with the help of his wife, the shepherd returned him]: Zhukova, Prokopyeva 1991, No. 9:150-152; Chuvans [an orphan herds a rich man's cattle; a rich man's son at a nearby camp was presented with a dagger, and an orphan a puppy; a rich man's son laughs at an orphan; when an orphan returns to yaranga, the fire is burning, the food is cooked; once I saw a dog take off its skin and turn into a girl; threw his skin into the fire; the girl warns that it will be taken away from him; the son of a rich man wants to take her away , gives the orphan difficult errands; 1) get the dagger forgotten by his father from the cliff; wife: hit the rock with a snow plow, it will collapse; the cliff has fallen apart, a dagger has fallen out of it; 2) bring the one tied to father's dog on the pass; the wife gives an iron rod to beat the dog on the nose is not a dog, but a bear; 3) go to my father who lives on the horizon, bring a dagger from him; wife: devils live there; you have to climb the roof of the central iron house, ask for a knife; they gave a knife, with lice the size of a mouse on it; 4) bring the parents themselves; the devils came, but the orphan turned all the yarangas into bunches of grass; the devils are gone; 5) bring a dog tied at the horizon; this is a huge bear; his wife gave a lasso; when he saw the bear, the rich man offered a herd, but his wife advised me to take some of the argish; they migrated; the rich starved to death]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 18:38-42.