K27x4. Without spilling water, climb the tree .14.17.27.29.30.32.33.
Thecharacter is told to climb a tree (pole, mountain, etc.), holding a full open vessel in his hand without spilling a drop from it.
Kabils, Mehri, Greeks, Abkhazians, Adygs, Ossetians, Megrelians, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Tajiks, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks.
North Africa. Kabila (Blida) [Emhammed lives with his mother and brothers; began to steal treasures from the Sultan's treasury; when he discovered a hole, the Sultan ordered a pot of resin to be placed there; the thief would fall into it; on this day, E. advised him to take his younger brother with him - let him also learn how to steal; his brother fell into the resin; E. cut off his head and brought him to his mother; said that if she left the house today crying, he would kill her; the next morning, the Sultan ordered the headless body to be crucified and all the inhabitants of the city brought there; E. told his mother to bring a jug of butter with her and drop it; everyone would believe that she was crying for the missing oil; sultan tells the adviser to feed the ostrich with pearls and diamonds and lead him to the castle; whoever is used to stealing, if he sees jewelry in the bird's feces, will rush to collect them; E. dressed up as an old woman, came up to the castle and woke up grains; the ostrich began to peck at them, E. lured him, stabbed him and took the jewelry out of his stomach; the adviser offered to send an old woman around the city who would say that the Sultan will pay a lot of money to someone who has ostrich fat (considered a strong medicine); E.'s mother naively replied that she has fat; noticing this, E. killed the old woman and buried the corpse; adviser to the Sultan: arrange a holiday for the people, warning that the old, the big and crippled should not come; give everyone wine, their tongues would be untied; E. began to talk about his exploits; the Sultan ordered him to shave half his beards, to then find it; E. took a knife and began to cut off half a beard to everyone he could; the Sultan ordered everyone to be imprisoned; at this time, the Sultan's son brought the horse to drink, pushing the old woman away from the water; old woman: it would be better got King Cefretmâge's daughter ("The King in Yellow Boots"); the prince demanded that he be released in search of the princess; E. admitted that he stole, asked the others to let go; the Sultan did not execute him, but ordered accompany his son; on the way, the prince fell asleep, and E. went to explore the surroundings and entered the castle of two gulas; they warned that if the prince wanted to drink, he would ask them for water; the stream was poisoned with poison the seven-headed snake; when the prince woke up, E. brought him to the castle; they did not find the guley, and the cellars were full of human and animal bones; when the prince fell asleep again, E. went to the stream and cut off six heads of the snake; the snake: for the first time such a brave man has come; bring a prince and get a gift; E. and the prince came to the dungeon; there are two naked beauties; one is a princess, the other is the daughter of his vizier; 7 days ago someone kidnapped them from the royal garden; leaving the girls, E. and the prince went on horseback; the old man herds the camels; says that only guli live further; gives a razor, a comb and a mirror; if you reach the stove, pick it up, you will find yourself underground; there is an old man whose eyelashes cover his eyes; he asks him to shave - shave and only then ask questions; spears are always ready; this old man gave a mirror and sent it to his elder brother; and so 7 brothers who need to cut off their eyelashes are each sent to the elder; the seventh to the old woman, the mother of all seven; she will take the King in yellow boots to the gates of the city; but do not approach her if she pushes salt and a black dove flies around her; turn when the grain is pushing and the white dove flies; lay down on her breasts; E. and the prince did everything, the old woman had a feast for them; says that 90 young men have already been decapitated for asking for the princess's hand; leave my horses and clothes, put on rags; for money, a woman in town agreed to show me the house where the princess lives; when she went to sleep princess, E. put together the chandeliers standing in the corners and left; so three times; when the princess grabbed his finger, the hair that Gulya wrapped around him turned into a shining ring; the princess changed it did its magic; it fulfilled any wish that was not aimed at harming the princess; they came to the Sultan; he offers difficult tasks; 1) find out what three items are in the bundle inside the chest ; E. learned this from the princess: the princess's mother's comb, her marriage contract and the "black skin of the Black Ocean"; 2) holding a bowl of milk in her teeth, climb a palm tree without splashing it; E. told the ring to make so that the prince completes the task; 3) indicate which of the hundred closed palanquins the bride is in, grab her camel's reins and take her away; thanks to the ring, everything was successful; Gulya met them as young girls; when they got out of the dungeon, a cloud carried away the princess; E. turned to the ring, but it was gone; E. went looking alone; the camel driver and then the shepherdess guide him to The kidnapper of women; overhears how he succumbs to the princess's persuasion to tell him what his life is; in a thread in an ostrich egg in the dungeon where the ghoul king lives; the shepherdess agreed to take him there; kicking him out the land of the ostrich, E. stabbed it, broke the egg and burned the thread; the kidnapper burned down with it; hundreds of kidnapped women are happy; E. brought herds to the prince; the magic ring was found again, the women were sent to At home, the prince married the King's daughter in yellow boots]: Desparmet 1912:245 in Lajoye 2014:23-24.
Western Asia. Mehri [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they come to swim, they have to hide their clothes; the man hides them, returns two, the third takes away, marries; marries three sisters to marry three genies who came for them; leaves, leaving his wife in the care of her mother; it was a holiday, people asked that this man's wife also dance; she says she needs her clothes for this; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give her clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people buried a lamb, told her returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made the mother tell me everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then don't let them eat; the one who jumped over the fence will take them; the brown one jumped over; take it to the sunrise until he is exhausted; then three days on foot; every day he stays with his sisters, three genies give a hair to help; he sees his wife, she opens it to his father after he gives promise not to cause harm; wife's father demands: drink a stream, run from a bowl of water to the mountain and back without splashing, eat two camels; genies do everything, man gets a wife]: Stroomer 1999, No. 37: 99-104.
The Balkans. Greeks [an old woman advises a childless fisherman's wife to catch a goldfish, divide it into 6 parts, eat 2 with her husband, give 2 to a dog, 2 to a mare, 2 to bury; two brothers, two puppies, two puppies, two are born a foal, two cypresses grow up; the first brother comes to marry the princess; her father tells her to tear down a giant stump with a sword's blow (the princess wraps her sword in her hair), gallop without splashing water (gives a ring , it freezes the water), defeat the black man; the black man is the princess, she tells her horse to be hit between her ears; after receiving the princess, the young man leaves for a while; kills the monster that gave water in exchange for girls, it was the turn of the local princess; the old woman asks for permission to touch the young man's dog with a rod, turns the dog and the young man into marble; the cypress has withered; the brother arrives, he is mistaken for the first young man; he tells the dog grab a witch by forcing her to show her witchcraft; revives brother, dog swallows witch; first brother gets first princess, second brother rescued from the monster]: Megas 1978, No. 21:37-42.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. And the bhazy (zap. 1930) [the king picks up a boy raised by deer, taken from his mother and abandoned by enemies; this is Jamhud; when he dies, the king does not tell him to enter the room where the portrait of his sister lies seven Adau brothers; J. goes to look for her, meets Obedala, Opivalo, Skorokhod, Sharp Eye, Hearter, Craftsman (Thief), Strongman; everyone says that only J. is amazing; when he finds out who is in front of him, he joins him; adau is required to 1) cut a stone with a dagger (The rumor hears their sister saying that her hair should be attached to the dagger; the Craftsman pulls out her hair); 2) eat a lot (Oat), 3) drink (Opivalo); 4) run by sea (a witch runner puts him to sleep; The rumor hears his snoring, the Sharp-eye knocks the millstones from under his leg); 5) climb onto a table with a bowl of boiling water on his head (J. cries when he sees wolves torment his mother- deer, adau take tears for splashes, J. climbs again); 6) adau give poisoned food, the Craftsman moved the bowls, adau died; Strongman carries J.'s bride along with the castle; wedding]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:27-36 (=Bgazhba 2002:164-171); Adygs [old Kurtyzh had a son Kambolet; an old warrior took him up; teaches him to ask his father for a small foal; then teaches him to beat the grown up The foal with seven dogwood rods until he obeys; K. went camping, met, accompanied the Son of the Sun, the Son of the Moon and the Son of the River; Pshi will give the gouache to the one who falls into the eye of the needle; K. knocked down the head of the kink, gave the gouache to the Son of the Sun, drove on; the same from another psha (hit the needle, gave the gouache to the Son of the Moon); the third has a horn with a drink on the pole; whoever gets in, takes it off and does not spill, will receive gouache; K. performed, gave the gouache to the Son of the River; each of the friends must shoot arrows into the sky; if milk flows from the fallen arrow, then K. is fine, and if there is blood, then trouble; at the crossroads of three roads, a stone with with the inscription: a happy journey, neither bad nor good, an unhappy path; K. chose an unhappy one; hacked down a hundred cannibal horsemen; in the house their mother, one tooth rests against one beam of the ceiling, the other on the other; overseas you can see the shine, she is beautiful; the cannibal mother teaches you to tame a porpoise, she will transport her across the sea; overseas, K. married the beautiful woman; at this time, his abandoned horse knocked out both of the old woman's teeth; she made her own the bridge also crossed the sea with a handkerchief, came to her wife K. under the guise of an old woman, advised her to find out what her husband's soul was wearing; he first says that he was in his thigh, shoulder blade, then in his sword; the old woman stole the key, threw it a sword at sea; K. died, and his wife was beaten and thrown into the reeds; comrades see arrows covered in blood, come to the mother of cannibals, she puts her handkerchief like a bridge, they cross the sea, find his wife K.; son of the Sun and the son of the moon rises, illuminates the sea, the son of the River descends under water, the turtle tripped over the sword, he pulled it out, revived K.; he and his wife returned home]: Kerashev 1957:177-187; Ossetians [voice from sources for childless aldar: slaughter a black chicken and let your wife eat boiled goiter; the crawler was eaten by a dog, she had a golden-haired boy, and his wife Aldar had an ordinary boy; they came to the Waigs to marry them sister for son Aldar; waigi: go up from a full bowl to a tree and go down without splashing; Suki's son performed; get an apple from a tall apple tree (suki's son cut a tree); Aldar's son was given a wife; son of a suki and Waigi's son hunt, and Aldar's son and his wife are at home; he was forbidden to unlock the eighth room, he unlocked, there is a seven-headed waig on hot iron chains; Aldar's son poured water on him; Waig broke his chains, took his wife away son Aldar; the son of a female went in search; met and accompanied 1) a priest carrying a church on his head; 2) running after a hare with millstones on his legs; 3) drinking the sea; a hole in the ground, the companions ordered it's hot to raise them back; suki's son came down, there's Aldar's son's wife; he teaches Waig to find out where his soul is; waig: in the middle pole of the house; under the hearth; a woman decorates these places; in a boar for which they mow hay is a hundred mowers; there is a roe deer in the boar, there is a hare in it, there are three swallows in it; the female's son killed a boar, tore off the heads of two swallows, and when he came to the Waig, he tore off the last; sent the woman up; then tied a block - the companions cut off the rope; in the corner of the house, the suki's son sees Waiga's mother, one fang above the sky, the other in the underworld; she tells him to grab the right horn of the ram, which accidentally grabs the left , does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world; there the dragon locked the water, once a year he is given a girl, it is the turn of Aldar's daughter; the son of a female dresses as a girl, cuts down a dragon; refuses Aldar's daughters, asks for a way to earth; kills the Zaliaga snake, which regularly devoured eagle chicks; it rained (eagle's tear), the sizzling sun sparkled (the mother saw that the chicks are alive, light from her eyes), wind (from her wings); the eagle tells me to prepare the meat of bulls and wineskins with beer; the female's son cut off the last piece from his leg, the eagle put it back; the herdsmen say that the one who wore the church the priest marries; the son of the suki asked to give the bride the ring, she recognized it; the Suki's son cut down his companions, brought the Waig sister to Aldar's son; on the way home, the devils put a bed for the couple, they petrified; Suki's son returned behind the Waig whip and revived the couple; he also rejuvenated Aldara and his wife with her]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 45:162-177; Megrels [the mare gave birth to a boy, who grew up quickly; Rashi's nag offers him sit on it, brings it under the clouds, is happy with the rider; he kills giants; the king has a daughter who emanates light; he will give her to someone who climbs on a stake with a full glass of water without splashing; his head the loser will be put on a stake; 99 heads are already on stakes; Rashi tells the master to order a golden sheep, get inside, the sheep was brought to the princess's chamber, the young man went out, the princess gave a ring freezing water; the young man froze the water in a glass; he saw his mother from above, tears fell, others thought he splashed water, but he turned the glass over, it was full; the young man got a wife]: Mashurko 1894:388-393; Armenians [ The king wants to get a precious pheasant; the dragon kills hunters who try to do so by throwing a star from the sky at them; Ovchi-Nazar ("sheepskin" means "hunter") thinks that his father was a farmer; his mother confesses that he was a hunter and was killed by a dragon; HE crushed a star with a bullet, the dragon fell from the sky out of grief and was killed; HE brought the pheasant home; the old woman told the king; HE begged not to execute him; then the king orders to build a tower for the pheasant (HE built a relative); the old woman persuades the king to send HIM for the princess; HE sets off; three devas fight over an invisible hat, a flying carpet, magic tablecloths; HE invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; HE feeds two other devas, who promise to help, give hairs; HE killed a snake that crawled to the Zumrud Kusha's nest; she gives pen, promises to help; HE feeds ants, they give a wing, promise to help; the princess's father demands to defeat his two strongmen (the devas defeated); his two zumrud gushi (zumrud-gushi, whose chicks HE saved, with their husband kills the king's zumrud gushi; in a dark room, separate the seeds of poppy, millet and colza (the ants separated); go up a tree and go down with a full glass of water (the princess gives gold and a silver ring; they can freeze and thaw water again); at the top of the tree, HE shed a tear, remembering his mother; doctors confirmed that it was a tear, not a drop of water from a glass; identify a princess among 111 girls (HE named 101); when she arrived at the king, the princess quietly pushed him into the ditch, he called him her new husband]: Kagan 1898c, No. 21:175-184; Turks [to get a girl, young man must meet the requirements of the padishah; get a horse with three cereals; the sword of the giants (they give it); wonderful fairy hair (gives); a wonderful lion or bear hair (give); a flying carpet, an invisible hat and a flute that serves any food; he steals these wonderful items from three (or two) people whose dispute he undertakes to resolve; cultivate a giant field; separate different types of grain; bring roses from giant; defeat a giant, bear, or the bride herself; sitting on a flying chair, drink coffee without splashing; climb a poplar with two buckets full of milk without splashing; get a sword from girls who fall in love with a hero]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 213.III.4:252-253; Kurds [the dragon surrounds the padishah's 40 sons, demands that Banger be released from him; he separates those fighting over a hat- invisibles, magic tablecloths, flying carpet, picks up objects for himself, feeds devas, ants, birds on the way; then approximately like in (6); tasks 1) separate peas from rice (ants), 2) eat a lot of halva (dev eats), 3) eat forty lamb fat tails (birds eat); 4) climb a tree with a bowl of water, remove the braids (the bride gives a ring that temporarily turns water into cheese); B. s his wife returns to his father, the disgraced dragon brother takes the throne of his evil father]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 7:97-108.
Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [viziers did not find the padishah the most beautiful woman in the world; he met her himself at the shepherd's house; she gave birth to his son Salim; before his maturity, the padishah decided to leave with his wife, leaving the state is in the care of the right hand vizier; S. is growing rapidly; to eliminate him and take the throne for himself, the vizier sent the old woman to where S. played with money; the pig broke the spinning wheel; the old woman named S. rootless: the vizier is not his father; S. went in search of his real father; meets a man with 7 millstones in his hands: I'm going to fight S. S.: I am brother S., defeat me; S. knocked him down and wanted to behead him, but he promised to become his friend; the same with the hero who threw plane trees; with the Drinker; Salim was not given pilaf at the bazaar, he scattered local strongmen; the padishah was frightened, gave him his daughter, S. gave her Millbearers; gave her a cup of milk: if it turns red, we must hurry to help; in another city, a dragon started in the house, demands a person every day and to the bull, it was the turn of the royal daughter; S. dozed off, the girl's tear woke him up; he ripped the dragon with a dagger; the padishah gave S. a daughter (proof that he is a hero: only S. was able to lift the dragon's body); S. gave it to Chinaronbearer (the same as with the Millbearer); in the third city, the padishah is a girl; she executes those who did not complete the task; fly on horseback without spilling milk (some spilled, but S.'s tear was filled with the pot again, the girl did not notice); a chest with two pearls fell into the river, we had to get it (The drinker drank the river); spend the night in the glacier; J. and C. saw that the milk turned red, they hurried to help, C. lit a huge fire from plane trees, S. slept through the night; grind 20 bags of grain in a day; J. performed; the girl married S., but he gave her to the Drinker and went to look for parents; river, island, palace, divas there; S. won and killed him; in the palace the kidnapped daughter of the padishah; S. brought her to her father, who married her to S.; they went to look for S.; the fisherman is fishing with a net; this is the father; everything is fine]: Amonov 1961:323- 336.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [after the death of their parents, 10 brothers go to look for work, refuse to eat the old woman's unsalted soup; the youngest eleventh Karasa-batyr eats, she orders to destroy the talismans first Yalmauz, then fight; the girl says where the talisman of the 7-, 12-headed Yalmauz, K. kills him; the same in the palaces of the 9-headed; K. frees prisoners; meets brothers, each gives 10 girls, for himself takes three; at night, Azhdakha filled his brothers, lets go for K.'s promise to bring Kurenmyas Khan's daughter; K. meets, takes as companions 1) a one-legged runner, 2) a tall man catching birds with his hands, 3) listening, 4) drinking the lake; the khan demands 1) to overcome the bull; 2) without splashing milk, climb the pole, ring the bell; 3) overtake the speedboat (60-year-old woman); 4) spend the night in a hot hot bath; companions do everything together; khan turns his daughter into a knife, pillow, writing pen, tells her to choose among 12 samovars, 12 feathers, 12 scribes; K. makes the right choice each time; the girl turns into fish, Drinker drains the lake, companions cook fish, imaginary fish jumps out of the cauldron; turns into wheat grains, they are fed to duck, the girl takes on its former appearance; flies away as a duck, a bird catcher grabs her; Lisa offers to give her to Azhdaha instead of a girl; Azhdakha believed it; K. lives with four wives]: Barag 1988, No. 32:200-213.
Turkestan. Karakalpaks [bay's son sends a poor man's son to bring from Barça Kelmez 1) new boots (the mother of three giants tells the elder Sara-Dau to bring it); 2) a winged horse tulpar; the same old woman orders the middle son Kara-Dau to fulfill the instructions; 3) bring a sun-faced girl living in a yurt under the Bai-Terek tree; the old woman sends her son Kok-Dow; they are joined by a drinking lake, a strongman ( rearranging mountains), rumor (heard tulpar's tramp in three days); the girl's father tells you to climb a tree with a bucket of water without spilling; win a jump, fight, sit on a fire, find hidden beauty; companions are on errands; bay's son died at home, the poor man's son takes everything for himself]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:45-50.