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Ethnicities and habitats

K27x5. Helpers of different ages. .14.-.17.21.-.23.27.-.35.

When you go in search of a woman or wonderful objects, a person consistently comes to characters of an inhuman (often demonic) nature to help him. Each next character is older (younger) than the other.

Kabiles, Italians (Ticino, Milan), Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Maltese, Bretons, French (Upper Brittany, Nièvre, Niverne) Germans (Tyrol), Irish, Arabic tradition, Palestinians, Arabs of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Mustang, Thais, Monks, Condas, Tamils, Hungarians, Romanians, Albanians, Greeks, Gagauz people, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Karelia, Vologda, Tver, Oryol, Voronezh), Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Galicia), Belarusians, Poles, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Karachays and Balkarians, Georgians, Svans, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Bukhara Arabs, Tajiks Sistans, Pashtuns, Icelanders, Danes, Western Sami, Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Lutsi, Chuvash, Mordovians, Komi, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Khakas, Shors, Southern Khanty.

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/

Southern Europe. Italians (Ticino) [someone tramples the meadow at night; a peasant tells his eldest son to be guarded, he falls asleep; the middle son is the same; the younger Vittorino sees three white doves at dawn; they shoot feather clothes, turn into girls, dance in the meadow; V. hid the most beautiful clothes; she promises to love him; they live in Sun Castle, where none of the people have been; V. gives her clothes, says at home that she slept all night; the fairy comes back, the wedding; but she must return to the castle in the morning; there she is guarded by the monster Orco; she leaves V. the ring; he goes looking for her; two giants fight for speeding boots, an invisible cloak, a sword (her touch revives the dead); agree to give it to V. to return his wife; V. comes to the old woman, she calls the animals, but no one knows where the Suncastle is; she sends to sister, she asks the fish the same thing; she asks her older sister, she calls birds; the phoenix is late because he lives far away, in Suncastle; the old woman tells him to take V. there; he meets his wife, kills Orco with his with a magic sword; revives his wife's father and brother, whom O. killed; stays with his wife in the castle]: Keller 1981:298-308; Italians (Milan) [young man wins billiards against a man who calls himself King The sun, the bet is the daughter of that; the young man goes in search; asks the old man, he does not know; in another city he asks another one - he does not know either; an old man in a third city says that the doors are in the palace The Sun King is gone, but his three daughters come to swim in the lake; the young man hides one of them's clothes, promises to return him for promising to bring him back to their father; the young fell in love with each other and the girl taught: when the father asks to identify the bride with his eyes closed, you have to feel your hands: she will miss one finger; on the night after the wedding, the wife tells the young man that her father is going to kill him; they run, The father-in-law chases soldiers; the wife throws the comb; he turns into a forest where a man and a woman uproot stumps; when asked if they saw the fugitives, the workers say that as soon as they uproot a full load, will go home; the Sun King tells the returnees they were the fugitives; the next crest abandoned turns into a vegetable garden where a man and a woman dig radishes (the same); the third crest is a church and two servants; {apparently there was a sequel; p. 720: The aborted ending is my own}]: Calvino 1980, #22:65-67 (=2017:85-88); Sicilians (Salaparuta) [poor Pippi has a mother and two sisters; he was hired by a boopas to the farm, but only for food, without money; the old ox advises asking the owner to give him to Pippi; the owner agrees; P. went to visit his relatives with an ox on Maslenitsa; people are fleeing from the rabid bull; ox advises to ask the bull if P. can tame him; defeated the bull; the king promises a daughter and gold to the one who plows a huge plot of land; the ox plowed, P. received the princess (during plowing P. was given wine with opium, but the ox woke him up); the ox tells him to be slaughtered; all the meals for the feast were prepared from his meat, and the garden grew out of his buried bones; his wife found out the secret; the older sons-in-law suggested an argument: they know what trees grew; P. lost everything; thought that the sun had given him away, went to him; one old man sends to the older one, the oldest gives a pin to pull the splinter out of the lion's paw on the way to the sun; a grateful lion led to a sea of black water; tells him to say hello to the winged snake; he appears before sunrise; the serpent hid P. under its wing so that the sun does not burn; then P. asks the sun why it gave it away; the sun: his wife gave it away; agrees to set after midnight; when he returns, P. bets with his older sons-in-law, who are convinced that the sun will set in half tenth; the sons-in-law gave P. all the property, but P. returned it to them; the amazed king gave P. the crown]: Kotrelev 1991:148-156; the Sardinians [Prince Ginó lost everything, including himself; after a year, 3 months, Three days and three minutes must come to the winner; on the eve of the expiration of the term, he leaves; comes to the old man, asks him for gold; he refers to his older brother, and the brother to their older sister; she shows the lake where 10 doves come to swim; you have to wait for the eleventh and hide le chiavi, return it when she agrees to become a wife; the prince does everything, comes to the sorcerer (orco); that demands to raze the valley, demolish the mountain, put a palace in the middle of the sea; the dove maiden (she is the daughter of a sorcerer) does everything - the third task, dismembering himself; the prince must identify his wife among the doves, finds out by a predetermined sign; the spouses flee; becoming a church and a sakristan, a vegetable garden and a gardener; without catching up with the fugitives, the sorcerer's wife tells the prince to forget his wife when someone kisses him; and happened; a prince with two friends comes to his forgotten wife's house; hoping to spend the night with a woman, everyone spends her hard work; prince remembers his wife]: Aprile 2000:274; Corsicans [sorcerer gave the jeweler a diamond ring, ordered him, if he did not come for him, to give it to the one who repeated the request three times; the young man overheard, received a ring, told him to create a castle better than the royal one; the king gave it as his daughter; the sorcerer began to walk, offering new rings instead of the old ones; his wife, not knowing the value of the ring, gave it to the sorcerer; he moved it and the castle to Elbe Island; the husband goes in search; the King of the Winds, he is 100 years old, refers to the king of animals, he is 200 years old, he is to the king of birds, he is 300 years old; their subjects do not know where the island of Elba is; finally, an old eagle flew in, he knew, brought a man, who told his wife to find out where the soul was a sorcerer; a barrel in the sea, a dove in a barrel, an egg in the blue; when it was broken, the sorcerer died, the husband and wife took the ring, moved the castle back]: Massignon 1984, No. 73:61-63; the Maltese [the sorcerer kidnaps a girl; a young man enters the palace, lights a candle against advice; wax drips on the girl, she disappears; to save her, you must kill the sorcerer; three women, one older than the other, direct him to the goal; the most The old one is the mother of the north wind; after the girl has disappeared, the young man must wear 7 pairs of iron shoes]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 425P: 117-118.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the eel tells a miller named Even that he is the enchanted princess of the Sun; he agrees to spend three nights in an abandoned castle; giants torment him, the princess revives him, gives him gold, arranges marriage; the witch gives E. an apple, he eats, falls asleep along the way; so three times; E. goes to look for the princess; the first hermit has not heard of the Sun Princess; the second calls wolves, but they are she has only been heard; this hermit sends to his older brother, E. goes for a rolling golden ball; the oldest hermit summons birds, the eagle says that the princess marries her son king of Portugal, brings E. (E. feeds the eagle with sheep on the way); E. sits in the way of the wedding procession, the princess recognizes the starry, moonlit, sunny scarves sent to him, asks to sell; E. sells for kisses on the feet and hand; princess announces who her true fiance is; wedding]: Luzel 1995:203-217; French (Haute-Brittany, 1885) [in the absence of a father, the son spent all the money; a young man offered him through a year and a day to come to the Castle of the Golden Mountains - there he will receive unlimited money; the young man agreed, unaware that he was talking to the devil; a year and a day later, the young man went to look for a castle; in front of him is a deep old man with in the vegetable garden (jardin) on his head; when he found out where he was going, the old man did not eat it, but gave a note on a cabbage leaf to his older brother, who has two vegetable gardens on his head; this one wrote on a cabbage leaf to himself the eldest, who has a bread field with reapers on his head and shepherds are herding cows; this old man decided not to eat the young man, since he brought him cabbage leaves from his brother, so he is alive; shows the way to the castle; three girls swim; the young man hides the blue dress and returns it to the owner only after she hugs it; in the castle, the devil asks what the young man likes; when he learns that the lumberjack tells him to cut down the forest with a glass ax; a girl does everything with her magic wand; create a castle with a river and boats; get an egg from the tower; a young man cuts a girl to pieces and creates a ladder from her bones; about the little finger forgot; finds the bride on the missing little finger when the hell tells the young man to do it blindfolded; the boy and the girl ride away on a white horse; he jumped over the tower for the third time - otherwise he wouldn't galloped away; the wife pursues the line; the girl throws the bouchon d'écurie - the horse turns into a church, the girl into a priest, the young man into a singing boy; next time she throws a scraper: a vegetable garden, a carrot, gardener; then the comb - a river, a duck, a drake; then there is holy land, there is no road line; the girl created a castle, and the young man went to his parents; she did not order to hug anyone, he broke the ban and forgot her; brings friends to the girl; one of them is willing to pay 200 francs per night; she asks to close the door and he stood at the door until morning; the same with the second; when the young man goes to bed with his wife, he remembers everything ]: Sébillot 1894, No. 2:169-170; the French (Nièvre; also Nivernay) [the princess wears 12 pairs of satin shoes every night; the king promises half a kingdom to whoever finds out her secret; and who does , but he fails, he will be taken backwards on a donkey; many princes try to follow the princess, but fall asleep; the soldier took his 12 coins and went to Paris; 6 gave to the old woman, the remaining 6 an older old woman, bread is the last and oldest; it is the fairies who wanted to test the soldier's nobility; the oldest tells me not to drink the wine that the princess will offer, gives an invisible hat; the soldier quietly poured out wine and pretended to fall asleep; 12 more princesses appeared, they all went down the underground passage, the invisible soldier followed them; they went through a copper, silver, golden forest; a soldier in each breaks off a branch; princesses hear but see no one; they sail in boats across the water; the princess's carrier is surprised that she is so heavy; there is a castle on the island, music; couples are dancing; a soldier eats from a princess's plate, drinks from her glass; she is worried, decides to return; the soldier returns first; in the morning shows broken branches and a goblet that he quietly took with him; the princess is disgraced: for the next the night those 12 would take her forever]: Delarue 1957, No. 306:167-169; the Irish [the young son of the King of Ireland meets the giant of Lake Léin in the forest; he offers to play cards, the young man wins two estates; next time, a hundred bulls in golden horns and silver hooves; on the third day she loses her head; comes to an old woman with her teeth sticking out of her mouth; she washes his feet, feeds him, gives him a rolling ball, he will lead to her middle sister, who sends her to her elder; she says that there are 700 iron stakes around the giant's castle with their heads set, the latter is free, telling that one of three bathing daughters of a giant who will have a yellow lily on her chest (others are white and blue); the young man returns his clothes for promising to save him; the giant will invite the young man to sleep in a water pool, Yellow Lily (WL) extracts it every time, puts it back before the giant wakes up; feeds, the young man should not eat the meat that the giant gives him; the giant suggests 1) finding the giant lost by his great-grandmother a pin in the stable for 500 horses, which has not been cleaned for 700 years (JL cleans, finds); 2) make a roof of bird feathers above the stable so that everyone is different (JL does); 3) get the egg from the crow's nest on at the top of a giant tree, or rather a smooth pole; SL tells her to kill, peel the bones from the meat, make a ladder out of her bones, then collect all the bones back; the young man does everything but forgets to take the last one bone, VL is reborn, but she lacks the little finger of the leg; the giant lets the young man go; at home, the soothsayer advises the king to marry his son to the daughter of the King of Denmark; they come to the wedding, the giant with the JL too come; JL turns two grains into a pair of pigeons; the male bites the female, pushes her off the table, she says he did not do this when she helped him clean the stable; the same applies to other episodes; the young man remembers JL, marries her, the King of Denmark and his daughter are guests at this wedding]: Curtin 1975:1-14; Germans (Tyrol, Abzam) [the Countess has a favorite and loyal maid; one night someone climbed into her bed, having previously thrown something heavy on the floor; in the morning he disappeared; the same the following nights; the girl told the Countess everything; she gave a precious carbuncle: he would help see the night guest; did it to bewitch her stepson again for 7 years; the girl took a carbuncle and saw a beautiful young man next to her; he called her a cursed witch: now he will put on donkey skin again and stay in it until someone split him; jumped up, put on his skin and rode away; in the morning the girl asked the Countess what to do; Countess: Let the donkey remain a donkey; the girl heard of the forest hermit; he directed her to the other who is older; the oldest; each has a longer beard than the previous one; the third teaches that bewitched people come to the neighboring lake; you have to go, grab the donkey skin that has been removed and throw it away into the water; the girl threw donkey skin into the water, and the others; as the disgraced men and women went ashore; the young man told how the Countess had bewitched him; they returned to the people and married]: Zingerle, Zingerle 1980:163-167.

Western Asia. Arabic written tradition (One Thousand and One Nights) [see H55 for the beginning; the following is a plug-in story; King Taigamus had no sons; the stargazers said that he would only have a son from his daughter King Khorasan; King Khorasan agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; his name was Janshah; at the age of 15, D. chased the gazelle, the gazelle jumped into the boat, she was caught, but D. and his servants went by boat to the island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all the islands; D. went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, remaining in the boat; he was brought to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat, made D. king; he ordered the servants to help the monkeys defeat enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: the one who became king of the monkeys will be able to get out from islands only after passing to a city where there is not a single believer of the true faith; the monkeys chased the prince, but they were destroyed by ants; in the city of infidels, D. hired a merchant, received a payment in advance; his they sewed the donkey in the belly and the bird carried the carcass to the nest; precious stones were around; D. threw stones to the merchant, and he left without showing how to go down; D. went to look for a way out, came to the palace; the owner forbids open one door; D. opened and saw three girls dressed as pigeons coming to swim; a year later they flew in again; on the advice of the owner of the castle, D. hid one of the girls's clothes; this is Sitt Samsha, she agreed to become the prince's wife, he returned her feather clothes and they flew to the prince's country; Taigamus built a palace for D. and the secondary school; the secondary school smelled her clothes hidden under the floor of the palace, ordered D. looked for her in the Takney jewelry fortress and flew away; D. came to a man with whom he already lived, hired the same job, was sewn into a horse's skin; refused to throw stones out of the merchant's nest; came again to to the owner of the palace; he does not know about the fortress T.; one of the birds took D. to the king of animals; he called on the animals to ask about T.; the animals do not know; he sends D. to his older brother; the brother does not know, sends to The sorcerer, to whom animals and mountains are subordinate, summoned animals and genies; one bird said that it knew where T. was, took D. there; the king of jinns, i.e. the father of the secondary school, ordered that every person be brought to him; wedding; the couple was taken to the kingdom of D.]: Salya 2010 (2), nights 499-530:64-101; Palestinians [the man has two wives: his brother's daughter and an outside woman; both are childless; the sheikh advised to go to the ghul, that will give conception grenades; the man greeted the ghoul, otherwise he would have eaten him; the ghoul sent him to his older brother; he sent him to their sister; the man venerated her long breasts and covered a handful of her torment; she commands go to the garden; a ghoul sleeps there - put one care under himself, covered the other; grab two grenades and run; on the way home, a man ate half a grenade intended for his wife, who is his brother's daughter; she gave birth to a half-boy, and the other wife gave birth to Hassan and Hussein; they grew up; the brothers went hunting on horseback, and Polovinka went hunting on a lame goat; only he caught the deer, gave it to the brothers, for which they allowed them to burn His seal was in their back; at home he told their mother and showed the seals; when they went hunting again, they came to the drone; the brothers say that their horses eat barley and milk, and the Half said that his goat eats chaff; says he won't fall asleep until gulya brought him water in his wineskin; she brought it, he made a hole in it to let water drip on him; then says he won't fall asleep without a stuffed rooster; then stuffed lamb; this is how the night passed; in the morning Half tells the brothers to run; gulya tells the milk in the bellies of the horses to thicken, the horses have stopped; all three brothers flew home on the goat Halves; Half promises to bring the gulya herself; dressed up as a halva seller; Gulya ate everything and climbed into the box to finish eating the leftovers, and Half slammed the lid shut; she was burned in the box]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 6:84-88; Palestinians [the king is sitting on the throne; a bird comes in, carries the hair from his beard; the same the next day; the third time the king managed to snatch the feather from the bird - it is golden; the vizier advises sending three princes to search birds; they reached the fork, the slab says: Heir ist der Pfad dem der Feurbrand naht; hier ist der Pfad den trennenden Tat {what's in the original Arabic?} ; and if you follow this path, you won't return; younger Kasim rides the one they don't return on; everyone left his ring under the stove; K. reached the long-haired demon, took out a razor, cut off his hair and combed; became friends; the demon does not know where the bird is, sent it to his older brother; at the same time, he sent it to the oldest; he advises not to try to get the bird, but K. is adamant; then the demon teaches that do; bring it to the garden, where there are different birds in the cages; you have to walk by to the gazebo; there is a peasant with a bird in it; grab a cage and nothing more, then run; but when K. left the garden, he tried to capture another bird; then all the birds cried out: stranger! He was brought to the king; he agreed to give the bird if K. got him a horse; the same with the horse (K. tried to take a sword hanging on the wall); now he was told to bring a grenade; the same: K. tries to tear off the second; the local king demands to get the daughter of the king of Jews Badyat el-Husn wal-Jamal; the demon gives a lit one: as long as you hold her in your hand, you are invisible; enter B.'s chambers and if her eyes are red, grab her hair and drags away, and if yellow, then run and escape; K. dragged B., the demon brought them to the grenade owner, took the form of B., K. got both grenades, and the demon returned; the same goes on (the demon turns into a grenade and a horse; the demon took them to the place where K. broke up with his brothers; there are no rings; K. met the brothers in a neighboring city, they are day laborers with merchants; he took them with him; on the way there is a well; B. advises not to go down, but K. went down, sent water upstairs, and saw a beautiful woman with a sleeping demon on her knees; killed him; the same with the two sisters of the rescued beauty; K. sent them upstairs; the brothers envy K.; lifting it to half, cut off the rope; the girls below warned, the eldest gave a pistachio and a ring in it; the second gave a bracelet; the youngest gave a walnut with a robe in it; when K. fell, B. turned into a black woman, the bird was in a white feather, the pomegranate turned black, and the horse became a nag; his father was told that K. was dead; he began preparing for weddings; K. saw white and black sheep butting; asked who liked better ; K.: white; he immediately found himself below the 7th underground tier; reached the cliff; saw the dragon chasing the snake; killed the dragon with a stone; the snake became a girl and said that this fan wanted her and constantly chased; to escape, she became a snake, and then he turned into a dragon; a little more and he would grab her; for this she would take him to his father; gave him three hairs: burn it and show up right away; K. pulled his (mutton) stomach over his head and pretended to be bald; in the girl's father's city he hired a jeweler; every day he said he found gold or two and bought something for it; girls from the underground the kingdoms agree to marry the K. brothers on the condition that they bring them the same ring and bracelet as they gave to K.; jewelers cannot do such things and are waiting for execution; K. pretended to make a ring and a bracelet, but he simply had them; when the girls saw the things, they realized that K. was nearby; the third demanded the robe that K. had given in walnut (the same); before the brothers' wedding, the king arranged a horizontal bar; K. called the woman asked her for a horse; he easily defeated his brothers, appeared before the king and told him everything; forgave the brothers, the groom on two girls rescued from the lower world, but sent him to another city; a jeweler, whom he worked, made pasha; reigned]: Littmann 2016:136-160; Iraqi Arabs [the king divorced his first wife, her son Mohammed (M.); from his second wife, sons Mahmoud and Ahmed; expelled the first from M.; became blind, lion's milk will help; older brothers reluctantly allow the youngest to go with them; the old man points out three roads: 1] well-being, 2) regret and remorse, 3) which they do not return; everyone of the brothers goes his own way, M. goes last; the elders met again, squandered everything, were hired as workers in the city; a prisoner in the genie's castle advises M. to venerate their mother's breast; now M. Brother, they took him to their middle aunt, her sons to their elder aunt; her sons tell him to remove the splinter from the lion's paw; a grateful lion gives a wineskin of lion's milk, sends a young lion to carry it; M. also receives camels, gold and three girls; finds brothers, takes them with him, but stigmatizes them; brothers let him down into a well for water; there is a girl and an eagle that stole her; M. kills an eagle ( if you hit a second time, she will come to life); the girl feels that the brothers will cut the rope; if M. touches the white goat, she will take it to the ground, if she takes it down to the bottom one; M. sends the girl upstairs the rope is cut off, touched by a black goat, he fell into the lower world of the genies; there a witch gives water in exchange for girls, now it is the turn of the daughter of the king of jinns; M. kills the witch, the girl marks the savior with her blood; everyone brags that they killed a witch, but the girl throws grenades at M.; the genie flies with M. to the ground, he throws fat tails and tortillas into his mouth on the way, one piece falls, he cut off the meat from his thigh; his genie belches, puts back; older brothers and stolen goods wait in an enchanted sarcophagus; M. defeats his father's army, tells everything, shows stamps on the brothers' shoulders, heals his father from blindness; he gave him the throne, imprisoned his eldest sons]; Yaremenko 1990, No. 16:93-102; Saudia [Muhammad is the son of the Sultan from his unloved wife, with whom he divorced; Mahmud and Ahmed are sons from his beloved; Sultan blind; fortune teller: lion milk brought on the lion's back will help; the brothers went in search; at the fork, the old man points to three roads: prosperity; regret and remorse; for which they do not return; Muhammad chose the latter; the other two roads came together, brought them to the city, Mahmoud and Ahmed squandered money, one went to work in a tavern, the other to a lamb salesman; Muhammad came to the jinn's palace ; the captive girl advises to venerate their mother's breast; Jinnia hid Muhammad from her sons; then they called him brother; brought him to her middle aunt; from her to her eldest; she teaches him how to pull out a splinter from a sleeping lion and ask for milk when he stops mad in pain; the genies rewarded the young man, he came back with 15 camels loaded with gold, three girls and a lion carrying a lion on his back milk; Muhammad found brothers in the city and took them with him only after they allowed them to be branded with him; we must get water, only Muhammad agrees to go down to the well; at the bottom there is a girl and sleeping eagle; he can only be killed with his own sword; the eagle asks to hit him a second time; Muhammad: father and mother were not taught to finish off; the eagle is dead; Muhammad sent water and the girl upstairs; she gave a ring: if rub, come to the rescue; brothers will cut the rope; you have to follow that road; if a black goat hits, you will descend to the seventh underworld, and if white, you will go up to the ground; goats fought, white missed, black hit, Muhammad found himself in a hot world where genies lived; old woman: a witch at the ditch lets water once a year when she is given one of the daughters of the king of jinns; today is the middle daughter's turn; Muhammad hacked the witch; rubbed the ring; that girl told him to go to the palace of the king of the jinns; there his daughter would throw grenades at the one who saved her; so happened; the king ordered one of the jinns to raise Muhammad to the ground ; to do this, prepare 7 lamb fat tails and 7 servings of tortillas; the seventh fat tail Muhammad dropped and cut off the meat from his thigh; on the ground, the genno regurgitated the meat and put it on the wound; meanwhile, that girl She covered the camels, the lion, herself and the other girls with an iron sarcophagus; Muhammad defeated his father's army, showed marks on the shoulders of his brothers; by agreement with the girl, destroyed the iron sarcophagus; the king saw the light, The sultan returned his first wife, the second sons were thrown into prison]: Juhaiman 1999:37-47.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the youngest of the three princes wants to marry Princess Bea Rani; comes to the demon, calls him a friend; he sends a letter to his middle brother, the middle brother; The prince brings BR in a leather box, falls asleep; the princess comes out of the box; the shoemaker's daughter throws her into the lake, puts her on her clothes, climbs into the box; BR was surrounded by a rainbow, but the prince's wife did not; the lake became milky, a lotus surrounded by a rainbow grew up in it; older brothers told the prince about it; older and middle brothers cannot pick a lotus, the youngest is given it; while the brothers are hunting, the daughter of a shoemaker tore the lotus, threw it out the window, it was eaten by a sheep, gave birth to a lamb - golden in the front, silver in the back, pearl in the middle, a rainbow around it; the shoemaker's daughter killed a lamb, cooked and ate meat, broth splashed out; a milk lake spilled in this place, on one side a sandalwood to the sky with a turquoise medosos tanagra (Cyanerpes cyaneus bird, türkis vogel) above, on the other - a banyan tree with parrot, other trees with birds along the banks; a parrot with a tanagra honeysucker talk, the parrot tells the whole story; the prince must crush the body of the honey sucker, put it in silk in a golden box, in 7 days open; the prince hears it, that's how BR is reborn; the shoemaker's daughter was thrown into the river]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 1:11-22.

Burma - Indochina. Thais (northern Thailand) [a lazy young man was sent to work for a community elder, he does nothing, the elder has driven him into the forest; the king executes him if he does not bring a deer; the young man finds the dead deer and the elephant's tusk, the king let him go; the young man began to collect and sell myant leaves (stimulant); someone cooks in his hut, he waited for a girl coming out of the elephant's tusk; the king wants her pick up, gives her husband difficult assignments to save him; 1) bring the mythical flowers to Chant Ti; the wife sent to the abbot of the monastery, who is 100 years old, he is 200 years old, etc. (300, 400, 500 years old); the young man sees 7 daughters of Pai Ying (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 the bow for a drum that can steal everything, sent him back the bow; in the same way, the 400-year-old staff, who hits everyone, a 300-year-old has a rope that will tie anyone, a 200-year-old pole that carries baskets himself, a 100-year-old cauldron filled with any utensils; the pole carries everything he receives; the young man took the wives of all 7 virgins, their father and first wife agree; the king came, beaten, bound, the young man gets the kingdom]: Siam Society, pt. 1, 1924 in Kornev 196:52-57; monks [spouses adopt various forest animals; the last is a goby; then a son of Kunhadi is born; the mother dies, becomes natom, protects her son; the forest animals disperse; the father takes the stepmother, she hates the bull; in agreement with the fortuneteller, she pretends that she is sick, asks for meat for a goby; 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 steal the jewelry of one of them, she will not be able to return to heaven; K. hides jewelry, returns six keinari, leaves the youngest's jewelry, marries her; the king sees K.'s wife, decides to lime him to take the beauty for himself; tells 1) to get it from the bottom of the sea a golden bowl; 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 tigress milk (the tiger brings); 4) a bunch lion's mane wool (the lion brings); 5) seven nat flowers; the wife sends to the hermit, who to the other, to the third, to the fourth, to the fifth; the fifth sends to the lake, where the remaining six sisters swim- keinari; K. brings flowers and gifts to hermits and Keinari sisters; the king sends warriors, K. ties them with a magic rope; the scissors of justice kill the king, K. reigns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 147:340-350.

South Asia. Konda [the widow has a son; he sees chittiga paggata flowers (fabulous 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; the mother tells him not lament and 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 you to go to the lake, where three fairies come to swim; we must take their clothes and run without looking back; but at the last moment the young man looked back and fell dead; the giant revived him, covered him with a banana leaf; the next time the young man ran to the giant's house and gave him clothes only after promising to marry the youngest maiden; during the marriage ceremony, the girl laughed and flowers began to fall from her lips; fairies cannot stay with people for a long time, so they gave the young man a zitra; if start playing, the wife will come or the fairies will come to the rescue; 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 carried them flowers to the king; he wanted to take his wife for himself and ordered him 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, and the lions were released; the king orders to kill the venomous snake; (also, 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 brought a mouse with them; servants they 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 ordered a rope and a stick to tie up and beat the king; he gave him his kingdom; the young man and the fairy began to rule there]: Schulze 1922, No. 10:57-64; the Tamils [the Raja and the Minister agreed: if one has a son and the other has a daughter, then they will marry; the minister has a daughter and Raja has a turtle son; he asks to marry him the minister's daughter; he demands to get a flower growing in a holy city beyond the seven seas; the turtle son asks to let him go to sea, stops in front of Surya (the sun)'s chariot; asks why he became a turtle; Surya: Once you put a turtle in the hand of a meditated hermit; agrees to break the spell; advises the flower to turn to a sage who opens his eyes once to the guard (watch); he sends to the eye-opener every two guards; he opens his eyes every three guards; the last; the flower can give only 7 heavenly maidens to Cannimar; you have to steal one's clothes and run to the temple without looking back; in the temple, return clothes for promising to get a flower; the prince did so; the virgins are amazed at the prince's beauty, they brought a flower and let the pipe call them if necessary; the third wise man persuaded him to give him a pipe in exchange for a stick that defeats all enemies; the prince killed the sage with this stick and took possession of both objects; the same with the second sage, the prince took his bag that could fit everything at will; the same with the first (sandals that carry anywhere); the prince returned home, putting on the turtle again shell; meanwhile, the other 4 daughters of ministers are married; these sons-in-law go hunting, do not want to take a turtle; he took on his sunny appearance, created a pond with clean water, gave food to his sons-in-law in exchange for their rings; enemies attacked, the sunny prince defeated them; demanded that the sons-in-law cut off their index fingers and give them to him; the wife saw her husband take off his turtle shell while swimming, burned them shell; at the wedding, Cannimar danced to the sound of their pipe; the prince gave their son-in-law their rings]: Blackburn 2005, No. 89.

The Balkans. Hungarians [the childless queen agrees to give birth to even a snake; and gives birth; the serpent has grown up, tells him to marry the queen; at night he is handsome, during the day he is a snake; the witch advises to burn the skin; the husband disappears, leaving the walnut rod; when it turns green and bears fruit, then go look for it; the wife will not be relieved of the burden until her husband hugs her again; the wife comes to the old woman, she sends her to her middle sister, middle to eldest; their sons Month, Sun, Wind; each gives a gold spindle, a forearm, a ball; the wind carries to the castle; for three items, the wife buys three nights with her husband from the local queen; she twice puts sleeping pills into the wine, but the servant did not pour it the third time; the wife immediately gave birth to twins; the local queen was torn apart by horses]: Ortutai 1974, No. 2:72-92; Hungarians [the elder prince married the eldest Trostnikova's sister Girl (TD); the youngest wants to marry only the most beautiful woman in the world; asks his brother to ask if his wife knows about her; in the presence of the youngest, the eldest's wife kept silent; then the youngest overheard their conversation; the elder's wife says that there is no more beautiful TD in the world; she is wearing a middle cane, and the other two are her maids; reeds on an island in the middle of the Black Sea, where it is completely dark; the reeds are the life of a witch who is guarding them; the younger prince went in search; greeted the old woman, who told the mouse to show him the way to her older sister; she sent the squirrel to show the way to herself the eldest; she says that you can get to TD by demolishing 12 pairs of shoes, and the horse must be fed on dragon milk, eat coals and drink fire; gives three hairs; you have to climb the mountain, touch with a string of hairs, such a horse will appear; horse: to move in the dark, you have to take a ray of sunshine with you; a pair of wolves on the way; the prince cut off two pieces of his flesh and threw it to them, they missed it; in the house He bathed in the fire and dried himself off with a fire towel; but the servant of the sun blew and the prince flew 77 miles, and then began to fall down, bumping into snakes, toads and red-eyed worms; a rumble can be heard: in this Peruns are forged in the place; after playing the flute, the prince tamed the hundred-headed dragon, passed through his body through the gate, and then the darkness parted; towards the daughter of the Sun Dawn; she put the prince on her horse; he He rode across the bridge like a razor, through the copper forest, where the Sun's loggers harvested firewood for him, then over the silver one and over the gold one; dawn gave a ray, put it in a box and hung it around the prince's neck; the horse warns: all three reeds must be cut off with one blow; when the prince cut down the reeds, blood splashed and there was a groan, the witch died; the ray broke out and disappeared, it became dark; on the way back, the prince cut one cane; a girl appeared, shouting "Water!" and died; the same with the second reed; the third horse did not allow the cut until they rode to the lake; the prince rode for a carriage of gold and glass, and TD climbed the willow; the gypsy woman was looking for crayfish, saw reflection, took it for her own, but then looked up; pulled TD down, put on her clothes, and TD pushed her into the water; she became a golden duck; the gypsy woman threw stones, and then asked the returning prince Shoot her; he shot all the arrows, but didn't hit the duck; everyone is surprised that the bride looks like a gypsy; she gives her husband sleeping pills every night so that he doesn't see TD if she shows up; TD flew in like a duck, turned into a bird, flew through the window, became a girl, but did not wake up the prince; said that she would appear only twice more; the servant heard, but in the morning decided that he had dreamed; but after On the second night, he told the master everything; the prince quietly threw away his sleeping pills; in the morning, the prince showed everyone his real wife; the gypsy woman was put in a barrel of nails and lowered down the mountain]: Curtin 1890:459-476; Hungarians [the merchant got lost in the forest, promised the best of three daughters to the one who would bring him out and three more bags of coins: gold, silver, copper; he took the hedgehog out; and the king got lost, also promised a daughter and money, but not bags, but carts; the hedgehog brought him out of the forest; the poor man promised to adopt a hedgehog; in the evening he knocked on his door; told him to feed him at the table, not somewhere under the bed; sent him to buy a black rooster and old saddle; I came on a rooster for my merchant daughter, chose the middle one; took me to my place, she cries, does not want to; hedgehog: then come back, you are not worthy of me, I will only take the money; the hedgehog came on a rooster to the king; the eldest and middle princesses refused, the youngest and most beautiful agrees to do her father's will; on the way she asks to get into her carriage, and not ride a rooster: she is not afraid of the hedgehog and he does not disgust her; after that the hedgehog turned into a prince, the rooster into a magnificent horse, the saddle turned gold; a marble palace appeared under a copper roof and on a cock's leg, all gold inside; after learning about the happiness of the younger princess and the merchant's three daughters were desperate; one drowned in a well, the other in a pond, the third in the river, the fourth also committed suicide (it is not said how), but the merchant's second daughter decided to destroy the princess; the appearance of an old woman, she was hired at the palace; when the king went to war, the wife gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl; the old woman left them in a basket in the forest, and the Queen said that she had given birth to monsters and had to throw it into the river; a white deer raised the basket on its horns, came to the river, called a forest nymph and she raised children for 7 years; once sent a girl with a mug to bring water; she saw a golden bird, ran after and suddenly she had only the pen from the mug in her hands; the same happened to the boy; the bird explained that the nymph was not their mother and took her to her real parents; on the way they came across a pile of gold and dice; collected gold; stayed at an inn, where three gentlemen were playing dice; the boy also began to play and won all the money; one of the gentlemen said that there was a marble palace in the blooming garden; if Touch it three times with a golden stick, it will become a golden apple and you can move it wherever you want; they played at this palace, the boy won and got a wand; when he reached the palace, he turned it into an apple; the bird brought the king, the boy's father and his sister, to the palace; ordered the apple to be turned into a palace again; gave a sign with the coat of arms and the names of the children on it; it can only be shown to his father; the king wanted to come right away see the new palace, but the old woman gave him a potion and he fell ill; said that she was going off on his own; advised the boy to get a talking tree; the boy, whose name was Yanoshka, went in search; the hairy devil of the first I asked the castle if he was, and sent it to my older brother, who gave him a golden stick to open the stone fence; you have to go around the tree three times and run, otherwise the fence will close and I will turn to stone; I did the right thing, ignoring the beautiful dancers, ran home, and the tree was already in the middle of the garden; the king wants to go see the miracle again, he is poisoned again; the old woman suggests get a bird to sing on this tree; I went the same way (three devil brothers), went into the garden, reached the ninth room, but took not a sweet bird with simple feathers, but a golden one; immediately petrified; now my sister has gone, her name is Marishka; the same meetings; she took a rusty cage, revived her brother with a gold stick and they both came back; the bird sang on the tree; the king is poisoned again, the old woman suggests get a silver lake with goldfish; I went, the same meetings with the devil-brothers, the same rules (run around the lake three times); this time the king did not drink coffee with poison, came with his wife; the young man showed a plaque to the king, the couple recognized the children; the old woman was burned at the stake made of sulfur]: Curtin 1890:517-545; Romanians [the royal shepherd Ion went into the cave and let the dragon drink, so that he could get out; a grateful dragon brought him 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. discovered, came out, a farm with workers arose; the dragon came back and put 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; the wife said that now he would become the royal servant again; when he learned of the beauty, the king called I. into the service; the old man, in order to get rid of I., advised the king to order 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 I. to send I. to the black world to bring a scraper and a comb from the evil elders, and the third to bring something, I don't know what, when I go there, the hell knows where; the wife gave a towel with her name, an apple for which go; created two wooden ducks; if they lay an egg in three years, I. and she would meet again; his wife's first sister did not know what, sent it to the second, the second to the third; she sent for the 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 Toh, 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 started playing until everyone fell 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. s his wife settled in the royal palace]: Bîrlea 1966:426-428; Romanians (Banat) [the emperor had a son and his friend the king had a daughter, but the girl was immediately kidnapped by a dragon; the young man grew up to be a nurse explained what kind of beauty he was dreaming of in his dream; he went in search, with him the hero Wilisch ("joyful") Witiásu (from Hungarian vitéz, knight); they went through a field of suffering, then a field of flowers; they cannot be torn, although they ask them to do so; one flower jumped on his hat himself; the queen of flowers wanted to cut the prince's head, but the flowers confirmed that the prince was innocent; she sent the knights to the old woman Saint Serede; she does not know where the dragon was sent to Holy Friday; she sent for Saint Old Woman Sunday; Sunday gathered animals and birds, the kite was the last to appear; explained that he flew from the dragon and dislocated wing; Sunday told him to show him the way to the dragon; they came to the princess; the dragon smelled them, rushed, BB threw them into the ground, the prince into the cloud; but BB was immortal, took out the prince; they told the princess ask the dragon what its power is; they hid themselves; dragon: you have to hit the surface of the milk oler three times with your hand; a kite will emerge; if you defeat it, I will also die; BB defeated the kite, came to the dragon, tore it in half; when they were approaching the prince's city, the Empress sent a shirt to her son's bride; BB tore it: whoever wears it would petrify; the emperor sent two horses, BB also chopped them; At the wedding, BB drank a glass of wine and became petrified; the prince found out that the stone should be sprinkled with the blood of a newborn; the finger of one of the twins was cut off, BB came to life; the prince's parents stopped hating his wife and fell in love with her ]: Schott, Schott 1975, No. 11:75-83; Albanians [when the young king took power, he forbade lighting the fire the next night; disguised himself, walked around town; overheard the three sisters talking; the eldest : if the king marries me, a hundred carpet on which all his warriors will fit; middle: I will make a tent; youngest: I will give birth to a son and a daughter with a star on their forehead and a month on their shoulders; the king married all three; all three They fulfilled their promise, but when the youngest gave birth, the king left, and the sisters told him that his wife had given birth to a cat and a mouse; the king ordered his wife to be placed on the stairs so that everyone would spit on her; a newborn boy with As a girl, the sisters put them in a box and told the maid to let her go along the river; the box sailed to the mill, the miller and his wife raised their children; when dying, the miller tells the young man to take it to the grotto in 14 days, but not earlier the bridle hidden there; the young man listened, took the bridle, ordered two horses to appear; they immediately carried brother and sister to their father's kingdom; the brother started a coffee shop; the king came there and saw a young man with a star on her forehead; the aunts understood everything, sent the old woman to persuade the girl to ask her brother to bring a flower from the Beauty of the Earth; the young man comes to the lamia, she does not know the way to the Beauty of the Earth, refers to her older sister, she to the oldest; eldest: when you get there, give the lion brains and the lamb grass; they let the young man go, he picked a flower and brought it to his sister; aunts: persuade him to bring a handkerchief of the Beauty of the Earth; young man brought; to get the Beauty of the Earth itself; the elder lamia: all her strength is in her ring; he enters the sleeping woman and takes off the ring from his finger; the beauty of the Earth went with the young man; the king ordered a feast in the young man's cafe; the aunts ordered the servants put poison in the dishes; but the Beauty of the Earth warned about this; the young man told everything; the king returned his wife and ordered her sisters to be chopped to pieces]: Dozon 1881, No. 2:7-15; Albanians [the son of a peasant agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb the Crystal Mountain; throws off jewelry from there, but the people below refuse to bring it back; the young man finds a goat pen, cleans it; the returning the three-eyed goat tells one goat, then the other goat to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen imperceptibly both times; the third time the goat himself remains, takes him to his blind to the owner; he gives the young man to herd the herd, does not tell him to take the goats to the edge of the cliff; there the peri dance, the young man plays the pipe, the first to get tired, the young man ties her up, makes the owner's eyes return; seeing the light, the master gives the young man the keys, tells the young man not to unlock the twelfth room; the three Beauties of the Earth fly into it to swim, the young man hides his youngest belt, brings his wife home on a heroic horse, gives the key to his mother's belt; three She goes with her daughter-in-law to the wedding, gives her a belt, her daughter-in-law flies through a smoke hole; the young man flies back to the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, who is the oldest, that sends him to a spring where the maids of the Beauty of the Earth collect water, the young man throws a ring into the jug, the wife and her sisters come to him, turn an apple so that their cannibal brothers do not eat it; they smell, agree to give it to their sister if the son-in-law 1) brings an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends to tie the forest with a rope, digs up the entire spring); 3) catch a hare, get it walnut; a young man falls on a hare from a tree, gets a wife]: Serkova 1989:55-57; (cf. Greeks (Lesbos) [the poor man has three daughters for marriage; the coffee maker advises not to grieve, but to throw a net in the name of his eldest daughter; the catch was unusually large and the proceeds of 800 piastres were enough to marry a mule driver; two years later, the same with the middle daughter (2,000 piastres, greengrocer's assistant); when the net was abandoned in the name of the youngest, it was a huge lobster, it was loaded on two carts and brought home; daughter's father: this is your husband; at night a beautiful young man Melidoni is nearby; drinks and food appeared, the girl is happy; mother and sisters feel sorry for her; they see Prince Charming three times, offer to go out for him, not to look at the lobster; unable to stand it, the girl replies that this is her husband; he immediately leaves: you are unlikely to see me again; the girl goes in search, taking three pairs of iron shoes sole; a year later she saw a dried pond; a cannibal lies in the mud, long eyelashes cover her face; the girl put a wand under her eyelashes, cut them off with an ax, poured water on the cannibal and hid behind a tree; she could not see for 15 years; if you are a woman, I will make a queen if a man is king; the girl left after the cannibal swore not to harm her; explained that she was looking for M.; the cannibal told spend the night with her, tomorrow a son will come - common to her and her two sisters; turned the girl into a button and put it in her pocket; son: I can feel the human spirit; Melidoni? I know that his beautiful wife betrayed him; the cannibal sends the girl to her sister, a year later she came, everything repeats itself; the cannibal says that M. is the son of her younger sister; gives a frying pan and three apples; it is necessary come and knock an apple on the pan, M. will appear in different guises; you can't let him kiss her; the girl did not allow herself to be kissed, but gives an apple every time; M. (he in the guise of another man) turned it into a button, brought it to his mother; took an oath from her that she would not eat his wife, turned the button again to the girl; she demands to sweep and not sweep the room; M.: litter and then sprinkle dust; cook and do not cook the meat (cook half and chop the rest and start cooking only when the cannibal returns); the cannibal tells you to go to her sister for yeast bread for her son's wedding; M. in the form of a boy (supposedly he is M.'s son); you have to walk barefoot on the thorns and grab them for their softness; praise wormy figs; in front of the donkey bones, in front of the dog hay - change; source blood and pus: drink and praise water; grab yeast at the top of the stairs and run; the cannibal tells you to detain the fugitive, the donkey, the dog, the spring, the thorns refuse; the cannibal tells you to fill the pillow with feathers, feed the dog, bring the donkey to dance, and bring bread intact; M. summoned the birds, they threw off their feathers; beat the donkey, let him lie; at the wedding you will be given torches; do not throw it, even if they will burn their hands and then throw them at the bride; the brides' hair flashed, everyone left to extinguish, and M. and his wife returned to her parents, who by then had burned the lobster shell]: Paton 1901, No. 16:86-93); Gagauz people [the king's hunters found a golden tree to heaven; the king promises a daughter to whoever gets an apple from it; puts a mountain of wool at the foot so that the falling ones do not break; three days were needed for it to be out of it get out; mocan {shepherd?} climbed to Mid-Baba, from her to Friday Baba, then until Sunday, Baba, every iron dog, can tear; Sunday tells you to jump on the swing from the east; the mocan jumped, swinging, picked apples; go down, glued leaves to his body, flew like a bird, fell near an old man; he fed his three horses raisins, gave him alcohol; tells the bay to carry the mokana around the world, and if he doesn't like anything, throw it away; the mocan doesn't like it, but the horse can't throw it off; the same with the black horse; the gray one threw it to the giants; they went to the wedding, told me to open all doors except one; the mocan opened, there horse, delivered the mokana by Sunday; the giants ran between, only managed to cut off the horse's tail; the mocan went down by Friday, Wednesday, gave everyone an apple, brought the rest to the tsar, got a daughter]: Moshkov 1904, No. 53:92-96.

Central Europe. Russians (Tersky Bereg): Balashov 1970, No. 7 [Princess Elena went for a walk in the garden with her nannies; she was taken away by Voron Voronovich, Klekot Klekotovich, Semigorodovich (VV); three brothers left; elder shot his backyard grandmother through the window; she began to swear - he took his sister away from BB himself; he came to the hut on chicken legs: turn your eyes to the forest, the gate to me; Baba Yaga tells me to leave the horse and follow with a ball; the second baba yaga gives an egg: it rolls, follow it; the third is a ring, rolled to her sister's house; BB eats much more than brother E., calls to the bathhouse, hits death with an iron bar; the same with the middle Brother Ivan; younger Arapulko drank from the bottle given by baba yaga, then ate more than BB; in the bathhouse he grabbed BB and cut off his head; the sister sent the crow for living and dead water, revived it from the bones brothers; they restored sight to blind parents with the same water]: 56-64; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the tsar shakes his newborn son Ivan; if you grow up, I will marry you Beloved Beauty, three mothers daughter, three grandmothers granddaughter, nine brothers sister; after 9 days I. wakes up as an adult, goes to look for NK; the old man teaches him to choose a horse among the 30 that the king has in the stable (he will stir up the sea); the horse brings to the hut, where old woman, there is a copper ring on the door; she sends to her older sister with a silver ring; she to the oldest (gold ring); this old woman calls fish, reptiles, birds; only the Mogol bird knows: she is GK by lunchtime" shook"; I. carries, he feeds and wateres her, cuts off the last pieces from his calves; the bird regurgitated them in the meadow, put them back; I. meets NC in the church; 6; 12; 24 heroes-grooms sail on ships, They speak contemptuously about I.; he waved his hand - the street became, waved another - around cleanly and smoothly; I. guards NK's sleep, and when he lies down, Koschey the Immortal (KB) took her away; I. comes to NK, teaches her to find out where is the death of KB; KB: in a broom; I. the broom is gilded; you are an oak tree; I. also gilded it; KB: in an egg, in a duck, in a coconut, a coconut swims in the sea; I. spared a hawk, a bear, a pike; the sea carried the cocoor ashore , the bear broke it, the hawk caught up with the duck, the pike brought an egg that fell into the sea; I. crushed the egg, the KB died; the kings neither cook beer nor smoke wine; did not fall on the mustache]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 157:362-369; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsylma) [the blind tsar has sons Fedor, Vasiley, Ivan; F. went to get live water; when growing up, one road is full - he is hungry, the other is hungry, the other is hungry, the horse is full, the third is not to be alive; went where he was hungry; three girls were invited to the tower; one offers to lie on the bed, she falls into the underground, where there are already many fellows; the same with V.; I. goes along a road where not to be alive; a hut on chicken legs, about one window, on a damp crap, and revolves around; Bab-Yaga has now feathered, supported a hundred, blew, splashed her ass, cracked her ass and applied pancakes; says that living water the king maiden guards the golden breast; let the horse go to her sister; she let the horse go to the third, the third let the horse jump the strings to three wells, in which dead, living, eye water; I. filled the vessels, but also the little bubbles he hid; made love to the king maiden, but she did not wake up; when back, the horse touched the strings, the bells rang, the king maiden was chasing; every baba yaga detains her, inviting her to the bathhouse; I. drove along the hungry road, the tsar-maiden lost track; I. came to those girls, tells the girl to be the first to lie on the bed, she failed; the guys in the basement tore her apart; other girls were told to release the prisoners and not to harm them anymore; on the Russians, the brothers threw I. into a hole in the ground, his horse and bag were taken away; in the lower world, I. went to sea, where the princess was given to the Snake to eat; I. kills the three-headed, then six- and nine-headed; puts his heads under the corner of the house, each with a gemstone, I. took them for himself; when he slept, the water carrier cut off his head, attributed the victory to himself; The princess went to wash her body, found bubbles of living and dead water, revived I.; he wants to go to earth; if so, the king will give him the kingdom (and daughter) after his death, when he enters his world; Magovey called- the bird, I. feeds it on the way, it hardly flew, fell down, and I. grabbed the edge and got out; came home, anointed his father's eyes with eye water, he saw the light; the king maiden sailed on the ship with two sons; rejects F. and V.; I. smeared himself with resin, rolled in feathers, children say it's hell; their mother: no, your father, wash him, take him to the ship; they have begun to live well and now live]: Onchukov 2008, No. 8:100-106; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, b. Kuloy, 1921) [Tsar Carthaus goes for a walk in an open field, the horse is caught knee-deep with his hooves, K. comes to the white tent, the horse eats wheat next to him; K. thinks: since the horse does not allow him horse to wheat, then he will not defeat the hero whose horse; he enters the tent, there is a sleeping hero, K. falls asleep next to him, does not want to beat the sleeping one. The girl wakes up, scolds K., they go to the field to fight, the hero wins, K. asks to leave a mark, but not to kill him. The hero gouges out his eyes and puts him on his horse, who brings the owner home. K. tells his sons about the hero, the sons go to her, first the eldest two (Fedor and Vasiley), then Ivan the Fool. Blessing, my father measured I. with his hands - two arshins, big, can ride. I. does not meet anyone on the way for a long time, drives up to a crossroads, reads, "save yourself to the right, lose your horse", to the left, on the contrary, goes to the right. He drives up to the house, meets him, feeds him, drinks him, leads him to the bed, he is the first to throw her - she falls into a hole, she is torn apart below. There are 33 fellows sitting in the pit, including Ivan's older brothers. They advise cutting the belt out of cowhide and lowering it into the hole, I. pulls it out one at a time. Brothers eat a cow, everyone takes their goods and a horse, and burns the house. I. goes on, and the brothers return home to their father. Ivan comes to the hut, the old woman feeds and drinks him, he asks him to be guided to his "mind", in response to politeness, she gives her "thin" horse, Ivan rides it to her sister, drops his glove on the way, the horse replies that during this time he rode two hundred miles. The old woman's sister also gives a horse, Ivan rides it to his third sister, drops his hat, and the horse slips three hundred miles. The third one tells you how to get to the hero, gives Ivan his clothes and a bayunka cat. I. goes to the hero instead of the old woman, bows and keeps silent so that she does not recognize her voice. There is a sleeping hero in the lady, he copulates with her, leaves an inscription on his forehead, scoops up living and dead water and leaves. The horse jumps over the city wall and hits it with its hoof. The hero sees the inscription "for your ridicule back", understands what happened, chases I. She asks the old woman about the passers-by, she replies that I. goes slowly, it is not difficult to catch up, sends the girl to the bathhouse. The next old woman has the same thing, after the third hero she began to catch up, I. threw flint, a mountain appears, the girl began to beg her to stay with her, I. refuses. The hero brings sawflies and walks through the mountain. I. throws a flint - a fire, the hero again asks to take her, promises to be a submissive wife. He refuses, she promises to marry him by spring. I. comes home, with the help of dead and living water, the brothers restore their father's eyesight, walks in taverns and drinks. A hero arrives with her youths on three ships (yellow, blue, blue), Fedor and Vasilya come to her, she does not recognize them. They send I. to figure out why the ships are near the city, he gets on the ship, the hero puts him to sleep and takes him with his youths to him. They are getting married]: Ozarovskaya 2009, No. 36:312-319; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Ivan Tsarevich sees 12 swans coming to swim, throw off their feathers, become girls; hid his clothes alone; she asks for a return, promises to sail on two ships in 2 years; after 2 years, the envious uncle asked for a comrade, stuck a sleepy pin in I.; the girl did not wake up, left a note: I'll sail in 3 years on 9 ships; the same; after the third time she wrote that she would never see I.; I. ordered to tie 3 pairs of iron bast shoes, 3 staffs, hats, caftan, prospira; met, did not kill a lion, a bear, a pike, everyone promises to come in handy; bast shoes and everything else wears out; there is a hut on chicken legs, birch bark heels; "Turn your eyes to the forest, my gate"; gives a ball, he rolls to her sister; sister gives another - to her third sister; her fiancée I. comes to her once a month; her father put longing in an egg, an egg in a box, an oak turnkey box on the island, threw the key into the sea; you have to get an egg, old woman she will make scrambled eggs out of it, the bride will eat and remember I.; the lion moved I. to the island, the bear knocked down the oak tree, the pike took out the key, the old woman made scrambled eggs, Marfida (her name) ate, remembered I.; the old woman turned I. into a needle, stuck it into a wall, and now she took it out; I. comes to Father M. to marry her; he tells her to find a bride among the 12 sisters (a white fly will curl above her); M. tells I. to take the horses and run; turned I. into a chapel, herself a watchman; a well and an old woman with a scoop; a ruff and a pike; the king is chasing perch; pike perch: gnaw the ruff from the tail; there are thorns, the end of the perch; seeing the bride I., my uncle died with envy]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:123-128; Russians (Olonetskaya, Velikogubskaya vol., Kosmozero, Zap. I.V. Karnaukhova) [the wife is childless; sent for fresh perch; the wife and the worker ate, both gave birth to a boy; the elder brother {the hostess's son} went, three growths: to the right - you will be rich, to the left - wife, middle - killed; went to the left; in the young lady's house; put him to bed, he fell into the underground; his younger brother went, chose the path where he would kill; a hut on chicken legs - turn the porch here; Baba Yaga fed, gave a comb, sent it to her older sister; she gave a bar, sent it to the oldest; fog over the city, in the house of Baba Yaga (apparently the oldest sister) tells stories to the girls; the guy took apples and live water , raped the girl, galloped away; girl: he drank tea, but did not cover the teapot, sent a chase; the guy threw a comb (forest), a bar (gorges), a towel (river of fire); the guy got to Rosstani and drove along the road to marry; also failed; broke the wall, everyone went out; the brothers envied him, killed him; the horse broke a bottle of live water, revived it; he returned home; the messenger from the girl Krasa from the golden kingdom: let a betrothed arrives; she is already a child; her older brother went; she put velvet, the guy got off his horse, went around, she drove him away; the younger one drove on velvet - here's my betrothed; they began to live happily ever after, kind make money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 15:45-46; Russians (Karelia) []: Lyzlova 2013, No. 74:280-296; Russians (Vologda) [the tsar has a beautiful daughter; he put her in a tower so as not to be stolen; she asked let her go to the garden, found an egg, ate it in half with her nanny, both became pregnant, Ivan Tsarevich and Fedor Nyankin were born, grew up quickly, went on a journey; at the fork there is an inscription: to the right - you'll break your head, to the left - drink, take a walk, have fun; I. went right, F. to the left; they swapped rings, if the ring turned black - trouble; there was a bowl left on the growth, if there was blood in it, one of them died; I. Tsarevich came to the shack; old woman: every night the girl is brought to be eaten by a sea monster, the boyar, princely and royal daughters are left; I. tells the old woman to wake him up in the evening, let the horse go, if he will begin to worry; they brought a boyar's daughter; "who sings, who plays, who roars"; at midnight, a sea monster rides on horseback about three heads; I. "the field blew", three heads flew off; the next night they brought the princely daughter - the same (six heads); on the third night they brought the princess, the monster has 12 heads, the old woman is sleeping, the horse is beating; the monster threw I.; I. threw his left boot into the old woman's house, then his right boot, the house rolled, the horse escaped; I. jumped on his horse, "blew out the field", demolished the monster's head, took the princess's handkerchief, restored the old woman's hut; the vagrants told the king that they killed the monsters, the king did not believe it; I. showed a handkerchief; wedding; before they fell asleep, Baba Yaga rides (she drives every day, eats a bull, eats a cow); I. chased her, she asked for permission to "weave the horse's eyes", the horse disappeared, I. returned on foot; the next time I. allowed him to weave his eye himself, died; F.'s ring turned black, blood in the bowl; he came to that kingdom, his mistaken for I., put him in bed with his wife M.; when Baba Yaga appeared, the princess replies: "As if you don't know, I was chasing baba yaga for two days"; F. caught up with Baba Yaga, forced him to bring her alive and dead water, revive I. and his horse; having learned that F. slept with his wife, I. in redemption demands that F. travel "far away, far away seas, to the kingdom of far away to the princess for an egg"; F. comes to Baba Yaga, who gives a letter to her sister, her sister gives a letter to her older sister; the elder teaches: the princess is in the kingdom behind the wall, there are strings and bells on the wall, everyone is sleeping in the afternoon, you have to jump over the wall take the egg, soak the hat in the well to the left; F. took the egg, kissed the princess, the strings rang; F. jumps from one baba yaga to another, left the chase; a year later that queen came by ship with her son; F. first he sent a drunk, my son asks if it is his father, treats him with a belt on the back; then F. came; princess: I will treat this myself; wedding]: Gura 1965, No. 17:226-229; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Egor The unfortunate man tells two merchant sons that by shooting at flying geese, he 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, he 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 offers to order for uproot the forest at night, etc., and by morning bake pies from harvested wheat; the wife tells the spirits, they have done everything; bring a golden bristle pig with 12 piglets; bring perfume; go there, I don't know where, bring something I don't know what; the wife gives a ball and a handkerchief; the ball will bring her to the middle sister, and she recognizes her son-in-law by the headscarf; the middle one sends to the eldest; the eldest to their mother, and the father will not show up, for decorated the pig belonged to him; Kashchei the Immortal told his wife where to go at night, 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 , somewhere 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., she flew away as a bird; E. returned; first the tsar had a feast, then E.; the king was beheaded]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 30:116-122; Russians (Vologda) [after the service, soldier Ivan received a hut from the tsar and became a hunter; 12 swans flew to the seashore, took off their wings, became girls; the soldier hid one pair wings; "If an old woman is a grandmother or mother, an elderly man is a grandfather or father, if a young man, be a betrothed mummer; the wife has created a good home, the king envied; offered to send I don't know where to bring Ivan, I don't know what; his wife gave me a ball to go for, and a towel to just wipe it off; I. reached the house by the sea, took out a towel, the hostess recognized him, she was Ivan's wife's sister; sent to her second sister, the second to the third; the third sends them to the heroes, they must hide; the heroes enter: "Murzya, on the table!" ; and when they left, I. invited Murza to lunch with him; grateful M. stayed with Ivan; on the way back they meet a man who has a spear capable of destroying any army; M. orders him to exchange him for him himself - he will return immediately; Ivan destroyed the tsar and began to rule himself]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 50:125-127; Russians (Tver Gubernia) [the merchant began to drink from the river, he was seized by Miracle Yudo the Lawless, tells him to give him that he does not know at home; while the merchant was away, his wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, went to Chu; baba yaga gives a ball, he rolls to her sister, she gives the other goes to Chu's daughter, her ball is rolling CHU; there are 77 ducks on the sea, followed by a fence with heads on poles; the girl tells you to take three steps back, the young man ends up in Chu's house; he gives tasks 1) to put up a barn overnight , 2) grow up overnight, collect wheat in a barn; Vasilisa Premudraya does everything; 3) recognize VP among his 77 daughters (waving a handkerchief, shifting a ring); wedding; young people are running, VP leaves 4 dolls responsible for himself; throws a comb (forest), soap (mountain), ubrus (sea); VP warns her husband not to kiss the child when he comes in; he kisses, forgets her, is going to marry another; VP makes a cake at a feast a dove with a dove comes out of it, the dove asks the pigeon not to forget it, as Ivan VP forgot; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 225:205-208; Russians (Orlovskaya) [the peasant took aim at the eagle; that promises to fulfill a wish; peasant: make him rich; eagle: you will meet an old man, give a bag; the elder tells not to open the bag on the way; the peasant opened, the chervonets fell down; the old man collected it, for this he tells give what you don't know at home; the wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, goes to the forest; spends the night with the eldest Baba Yaga in a hut on chicken legs; she sent to the middle; the middle to the youngest; the youngest gave a wooden hand to give the prince Balalaya - he is blind; B. felt that his hand was wooden; the girl-daughter B. tells him to run; turned into a field, the guy turned into a watchman; the cell and the monk; the river and so; B. tried to drink the river, burst; the girl tells the house not say hello to his younger brother; the guy greeted, forgot the bride; she baked a pie, there were two pigeons from there, the guy remembered; wedding]: Kalinnikov 2017:9-14; Russians (Voronezh) [Old man kills on hunting a bird with 21 eggs. The old woman orders him to incubate them. After 21 weeks, 20 sons hatch, and a week later, the last son, Ivan the Boltun, appears. The old man gets rich, notices that someone steals ricks, sends his sons to guard at night, the older brothers fall asleep and do not see the thief, and Ivan's turn comes the last night. He prepares a hammer and iron bits. Ivan does not sleep and catches a mare and its 21 foals (hit between his ears with a hammer). The father praises Ivan, takes the mare, the brothers sort out the foals, Ivan gets the weakest. Father and sons go hunting. Four times Ivan lets the foal go into the field to gain strength (he bends first at hand, then under his foot, under a sitting rider). Ivan catches up with his brothers, sees fire on the third day, finds a golden pen, despite the skate's warnings, and takes it with him. The father orders all horses to be cleaned, Ivan waves his pen - his horse turns gold. The father praises Ivan and shames the rest of the brothers. The brothers are jealous and tell their father that Ivan boasts to catch a toy cat, a dancer gander and a tsimbalka fox, the father sends his youngest son for animals. With the help of a horse, he does everything. The brothers tell their father that Ivan can get samogudes. Ivan finds himself at Baba Yaga, who gives him a ball, he brings him to Yaga's middle sister, the mother of Snake Gorynych, who keeps harps. The mother feeds her son, puts him to play cards with Ivan, and the players agree that the winner will eat the loser. Ivan wins in two days, asks to give him the harp, the Serpent gives it back, rejoices that he remains alive and has not been eaten. The father again, out of slander of his elder sons, orders Ivan to get Mary Queen. He sails by ship, lures the princess to him by playing the harp (I've never heard it), and brings it to his father. The father then gives all orders to his son at the request of the bride and demands to bring her box. Ivan distracts the palace guards by releasing his golden horse, pulls out the box and bringing it back. He hunts 12 mares on his father's orders: he wraps his horse with twine and pours resin over him - he drives horses out of the sea, his protection is torn by the teeth of horses. By order of his father, he milks mares, boils their milk and jumps into it after the horse's conditional signal. Ivan is getting handsome. Marya demands that her father also swim, but he dies in boiling milk. Ivan marries Marya]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 17:97-105; 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; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Mukachevo District, p. Puznyakovtsy) [The tsar has a vegetable garden with golden carrots, it is stolen, the soldiers cannot protect it. The gypsy woman is guessing at the maps: only one of his three sons will cut carrots. The elder takes corned beef, bread and wine with him. The mouse asks to share, he kicks her. He falls asleep at midnight, the carrots are eaten in the morning. It's the same with the middle son. The younger one treats the mouse. She says that golden carrots are eaten by a golden bear. When she comes, she will bite the sleeping prince's ear, he will wake up and must shoot without looking. The prince injures a bear and follows the bloody trail with his brothers to the hole. They chain the elder, he does not return, then the middle one (the same). The youngest comes down, walks across the field, sees a hut. There's an old woman on the stove, he bows to her. Baba thanks and says she would eat it otherwise. I haven't heard of the gold bear, she gives me a bottle of strength and a ring that calls 12 devils to help. The prince comes to another hut, where a woman is older than the first one on the stove. Thanks for the welcome, otherwise I would eat it. I haven't heard of a golden bear, she gives me a bottle of strength and a ring that summons 24 devils. She sends her to her sister, who is so old that her eyelids are covered with brines. Baba thanks for the greeting, otherwise she would eat it. I've heard about the bear, but I don't know where it is now. It gives a bottle of strength and a ring. The prince comes to a bridge made of braids, 12 devils are fighting on it, and he cannot cross. At this time, the girl rides on a wagon drawn by two dogs. This is the first woman's daughter. The dogs enter the swamp and cannot pull out the wagon, the prince pulls it out. The girl gives the boat, she carries the prince herself and returns to the owner. The prince comes to the bridge with razors, with 24 traits fighting on it. She can't cross, the second woman's daughter is riding the wagon (all the same). The prince comes to the hut, where there is a snake (shuffling). She is not at home, and the third woman's daughter cooks food, she's a snake cook. He tells me to run, the prince is not afraid. Snake: It smells like a sinful soul. The prince drinks a bottle of strength, defeats the snake, which promises to tell you where the golden bear is - the wounded man is lying at home. And the prince's brothers are hanged upside down in her chimney. She revives them with live ointment, and the prince goes to the golden bear. She drinks a second bottle of strength, starts to fight, whistles at the ring given by the first woman, 12 devils help defeat the bear. The prince rips off his skin with gold fur, cuts off the tip of his tongue, puts it in his pocket. The snake is calling to fight again. The prince drinks the third bottle of strength, the snake overcomes, he whistles at the first ring, 12 devils come running, and help kill the snake. He takes all three girls and brothers with him, comes to a hole in our world. First they raise girls, then brothers with bear skin, and the younger one puts a stone in his place because the brothers have an unmarried relative, a third girl for him. The basket with the stone is raised to the middle and released. The prince recalls his second ring and whistles. 24 traits come. He orders them to make an invisible hat, a boot that carries where they need to go, and a sword to cut everything he commands. The boot brings it to his father. There's a wedding, the prince takes off his invisible hat and is hired by a servant. He puts the rings of their mothers on plates for the girls and tells the king everything. The king allows him to treat his brothers as he pleases. He puts them in prison, marries the most beautiful of the three girls]: Day 1981:45-50; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Khust Oblast, p. Gorinchevo) [The tsar has one son Ivan, it's time for him to get married, he only wants a native girl (SD). She takes a warrior with him and goes looking for her. He turns right, drives through the wasteland, sees a lonely mill. There's an old woman with knee-length lashes. He says hello and calls his mother sweet. She raises her eyelashes. I haven't seen a living soul in ages. She suggests taking a break and going to see her middle sister tomorrow. It gives a horse and a ball of thread, you have to hold on to the thread. A year later, I. reaches his middle sister. She has eyelashes down to the ground. The Tsarevich also greets her and calls her mother sweet. She raises her lashes and explains that she hadn't seen a living soul in 200 years. She suggests going to see her older sister in the morning. It gives a horse and a ball of thread. A year later, I. reaches his oldest sister. She says hello, calls her mother sweet. The woman barely lifts her eyelashes - so long. In the morning, he gives three wheat grains, tells you to go to the sandbank to the sea, put wheat under your tongue and turn into a hare. Eleven pigeons will arrive, but there will be no diabetes among them. The cabbage rolls will swim in the sea, rejoice and sing, then they will fly away, and only then will she arrive. This is what happens. When SD arrives, she sheds her feathers and goes swimming. The prince takes her clothes, wraps her in a handkerchief, runs to the woman, who tells her to sit on her horse and go on the road without looking back, although SD will run after him and ask for clothes. As soon as he looks back, the clothes will fall out of his hands, the CD will catch up, hit his mouth and go away. We should keep quiet. When you're at home, you should give SD regular clothes and then talk and hide your feathers. I. rides, the girl follows him, persuades him to return her clothes, she will be ashamed to walk naked around the city, she will not leave him anymore. He looks around, feathers fly out of his hands, SD hits I. on the mouth, flies away. The woman gives three other grains, turns him into a deer, he steals clothes, sits on a horse and rushes without looking back or talking. At the palace, SD wears home clothes, gives the feathers to her mother, who sews them into her retinue, which she wears once a year. They live happily, they give birth to a boy with five golden hairs on his head. I. goes hunting, the mother asks her daughter-in-law why she is so beautiful and does not have parents. She replies that her clothes are even more beautiful. The queen rips off her retinue, the feathers fly up on the girl themselves, she flies away through the window. Ivan goes looking, and three years later he gets to the woman who helped him. She explains that his wife is overseas with her demon mother will need to be cunning. A wolf is serving in the mill. Baba will hide it at the bottom of the barrel, and the wolf will carry it to the other side of the sea. The barrel is heavy, the wolf decides not to serve anymore on the way and throws it into the sea. The barrel breaks on the shore, I. gets out of the sea, goes out onto a glass road, comes to the palace to an old demon, and is hired. She tells you to dig up the mountain, level it, plow it, and sow wheat. Wheat must ripen by tomorrow, he must harvest it, grind it, grind flour, bake rolls and give it to it early in the morning, otherwise he will be headless. I.'s pickaxe and shovel break, he sits down and cries. The demon tells his daughter to bring him food, he doesn't recognize SD, and she recognizes him. She tells me to eat, she pulls out a squeaker from under her right hand, squeaks, all the devils run away. The SD tells them to do whatever I. The next year, the demon gives a wooden trough, leads to the lake without end and edge, tells you to scoop out water, plant grapes, hand over three large bowls of wine in the morning, otherwise he will lose his head. The wife brings food, calls the devils together with a squeaker, and they complete the task. So I. served his second year. The devil says she'll give him more work in the morning. I. sees a prisoner who has already served in an iron furnace, on fire, on seven chains, who cannot warm up. He sits down and cries. A demon sends her daughter to find out what happened. She calls the devils with a squeaker, tells them to obey her husband's order. Ivan orders the hell to get him and his wife home by morning. The devils spread the red fly, Ivan and the SD sit on it, fly away. On the way, I. burns from behind a blue flame. This is a demon. He turns around, a demon grabs his eye. He is blind. The wife leaves him with his handkerchief in place, turns into a pigeon, overtakes the demon and, picking up two lumps of manure from the road, turns into a well under two sycamores. A heated demon bends down to get drunk, and the girl replaces I.'s eyes in her sinus with dung. He flies to Ivan, regains his eyes, and finally recognizes her as his wife. The demon rushes home, the prisoner from the furnace asks if she brought him a partner, who says she took his eyes, climbs into her bosom, finds manure. The prisoner laughs so much that he warms up. The demon flies back, flies to the border, bursts with anger. I. and SD get home, live happily]: Linear 1979:5-11; Western Ukrainians (Galicia, Sambir District) [the rich man begged God for a son, but went to the forest, the baby was lost; the forester raised him; when the guy is 20 years old, he told him to tie his club (the first one is too light, told him to tie harder), went on a journey; three pannas are swimming, he stole his middle dress and wings; married; once she asked for a return - flies around the hut; flew out the window, told her to look for her on Oatmeal Mountain; the hermit whistled animals - no one knows Oatmeal Mountain; he sent her to his older brother; there - the same; to the oldest; lion came last, the hermit tells him to take the guy; he drove him, but threw him into failure; the guy got out; stopped the mill; promised to let him go again if the miller took him to the princess; he hid the guy in a barrel of flour; she was brought to the palace; there he was not told to open the doors tied with bast; he came in; someone black asks for bread and water; the guy gave it, he took off and took the princess away; the guy came to the widow , hired to herd horses; the girl warned not to eat food, what they would offer was poison; he herds for three days, hits the horses with his club, brought them safe, the widow offers to choose whichever one he wants, he chose a skate; he twice asks for permission to be caught with his mother mare first; then he brings him to a rock on which the princess is black; the guy threw him into a black club and he disappeared]: M. Dragomanov in Pankeev 1992:124-130; Belarusians (Gomel district) [the son is Ivan, the father is a drunkard; the neighbor took I. as an employee; he grew up, went on; hired a serpent; this is the serpent Chavolay; after 6 years I. left, C. gave him a book, ordered him not to open it, otherwise he would eat it; I. got lost, opened the book, cattle flowed out of it; C. appeared: eat; agreed that C. put the cattle in the book back, and I. promised not to marry; at home I. refuses matchmakers; still others say that they have two good dogs will fight off C.; during the wedding, C. appears; I. jumps away; the horse has fallen; the hut: turn your back to the forest; Baba Yaga fed her, put her to bed, gave bread with her, showed the way to her sister; she has the same thing, the oldest sister has the same; every dog, from afar, senses C.; every pernet and food appears; the third baba yaga gave a handkerchief to wave at the sea - a bridge appeared; when on the C. Bridge, wave again - the bridge disappeared, C. fell into the sea; I. woke up, three dogs nearby: Lomigor, Lomikamen, Lomizhelen; two kingdoms ate a 12-headed serpent, in the third he was led to eat a princess; I. and his dogs killed him, The princess tied her wounds with a handkerchief; the servant cut off I.'s head, ordered the princess to say that he had killed the snake; the dogs grabbed the viper, forced the viper to bring water growing and living; revived I.; the princess's wedding with her servant is being prepared; I. sends dogs, the princess recognized them; at the feast, the tsar sees the princess's handkerchief on I.'s hand; the servant's head was cut off; wedding]: Romanov 1886, No. 9:73-77; Belarusians (p. Novaya Yelnya) [Husband and wife lived, and the child was small. The wife took the baby in the cradle and went to the harvest. She stung, got ready to go home - no baby. I looked for him, called, but not for him. And the baby crawled out of the cradle and crawled into the forest. The forest owner saw it and took him to raise him. And he named him Ivan Znaiden (The Foundling). He raised him and ordered him to go to his father and mother. Ivan went. He walked, walked, saw three blizzards fighting. He asks them, and they say they have found three things - a flying carpet, an invisible hat, a purse with money, and they are fighting for them. And Ivan says to them: "Do you see a high mountain? Stand there and run - whoever of you runs faster will take it all!" And they went to that mountain, and Ivan took all his things for himself. He did not go to his father and mother, but he went to his forest master. The owner asks why Ivan came back. And Ivan replies that he found three things - a flying carpet, an invisible hat and a wallet with money. The forest owner then tells him where to find the bride: "If you go, three doves will fly. They will sit by the sea and become beautiful girls. When they go swimming, you take one dress and take it away. And whose dress, take that one by the right hand and marry her. Just don't drink her gorilki! If you drink, it'll fly away from you!" This is how the forest owner taught him, so Ivan went and came to the sea. He sees three doves flying. They sank ashore and became maidens. We went swimming, he took the dress alone and hid it. They swam, began to dress - one dress is missing! Looking for and looking for a girl, she won't find it. He says, "Who laughed at me? If old, be my father, if average, be my uncle, if you are single, be my faithful husband!" He answers her, she sees that she is young. "If you are my husband and I am your wife, give me the dress!" She dressed up and took her to her father-mother. We got married. They lived well until I drank vodka from it. But she began to ask him what kind of love they had, that he took nothing from her. She shamed him so much, so he drank from her hands. Ivan fell asleep, and she put on her dress and flew away, just saying: "I'll see you - I won't see you in the Glass Mountains!" Ivan woke up - no wife. I went looking for her. He walked and came to his forest master. The forest owner reproached him for disobeying Ivan's advice. Asks what she said when she left. Ivan talked about the Glass Mountains. But the forest owner did not know where they were. He went out onto the porch, shouted in a good voice, whistled with a heroic whistle - birds, everything in the world, flew to him. He asks the birds if they know where the Glass Mountains are. No birds have seen. Then the forest owner gives Ivan a ball. Where he goes, Ivan should go. It brings his glomerulus to his middle brother. Everything repeats itself, the middle brother calls all animals in the world except wolves. The beasts of the glass mountains have not seen. Then his middle brother gives Ivan another ball, and tells him to follow him, and he will lead him to his older brother. The elder brother calls wolves - everything in the world. The wolves didn't see it. The older brother did not believe them. He asks if all wolves are here. They see that there is no one lame wolf. The elder brother went out onto the porch again when he whistled - all the leaves in the forest flew around. The wolf doesn't come. He whistled another time - all the branches from the trees fell. Here comes the lame wolf. His older brother asks him where he was so far away. The wolf says he was in the Glass Mountains. Then his older brother tells him to take Ivan to the Glass Mountains. Ivan sat on the wolf and he was huddling. "How can you ride if you're lame," says Ivan, we flew on a flying carpet! The wolf then says to Ivan: "Tear a piece of wool between my ears as you need it, sunk it, and I'll rush to you." He showed him how to fly to the Glass Mountains and disappeared. Ivan flew to the Glass Mountains, but he couldn't climb. He burned the wool, summoned the wolf. The wolf advised him to go to the bazaar, buy iron and go to the blacksmith to forge iron claws on his arms and legs, and when he climbed, call himself a cook. That's what Ivan did. They sent him as a cook to the key box. That was his wife. We met and recognized each other. Time passes, she sends him to the bazaar, tells him to buy 60 horses, a carriage and coachmen. Ivan performs everything. His wife is punishing him to live in the Glass Mountains, to walk wherever she wants, but not to look into the booth. And she takes a carriage to her father. He is left alone. I couldn't resist looking into the booth. And there Kashchei the Immortal hangs and his horse. He asks him to feed him, so he will save Ivan from death three times. Ivan brings him bread, Kashchei eats himself and feeds his horse. It happens three times. Kashchei now asks Ivan for a bucket of water. Ivan brings water three times. After getting drunk and drinking his horse, Kashchei saddles his horse and tells Ivan that for his kindness he will take his wife away from him and live with her himself. And Kashchei took Ivan's wife to other Glass Mountains. Ivan summons the lame wolf. He again shows him the way to the Glass Mountains. Ivan flies there on a flying carpet. He slips past the guard wearing an invisible hat. Kashchei is not there, Ivan picks up his wife and, wearing an invisible hat, walks past the guard again. Kashcheev's horse laughs, tells him about Ivan's kidnapping of his wife, advises him to brew beer, drink and then catch up. So they did, then they caught up and took his wife away, but Ivan Kashchei, as promised, did not kill. Ivan is flying for his wife again on a flying carpet. Everything repeats itself, Ivan kidnaps his wife, then Kashchei takes her away, Ivan does not kill. Ivan enters the kingdom of Kashchei for the third time, he is not at home. He asks his wife to find out where Kashchei got such a horse. Kashchei returns and answers questions that Baba Yaga lives in a kingdom of far away, a state far away, she has 100 mares, whoever saves them for 3 days will get the best stallion, and whoever does not lose them will get the best stallion, and whoever does not lose them will get the best stallion, and whoever does He'll put his head on a stake. Kashchei flies away, Ivan comes. His wife tells him about Baba Yaga. And Ivan goes to serve the stallion (on foot). Hungry Ivan came to the sea, and cancer lies on the shore. Ivan wants to eat it, the cancer persuades him to take his "playful girl" and call it when necessary. Ivan goes on hungry. He sees woodpeckers in the forest. She wants to get them and eat them. An old woodpecker flies, asks Ivan not to touch his children, for which he gives him a pen - call him when you need me. Ivan meets further than an ant, history repeats itself. He comes to Baba Yaga. She feeds him, puts him to bed, Ivan goes to herd 100 mares in the morning, and Baba Yaa gives him food, "sleepy pancakes". Ivan herds until noon, eats fritters. He falls asleep. The mares run away. Baba Yaga comes and laments. Ivan summons the lame wolf. The wolf says: call cancer today, the mares have gone to sea. Call woodpeckers tomorrow - mares will go to the forest. On the third day, the ant, the mares will go underground, and he will drive them out. He also said so - that he would no longer serve Ivan. Ivan caused cancer, cancer punished him when the last mare came out, to sit on it and go to the yard. That's what they did. Ivan brings 100 mares to Baba Yaga, she rejoices, and she swears at them (these are her daughters) that they did not hide well, and beats them. The next day, everything repeats itself - Ivan eats sleepy pancakes, mares run away, he calls woodpeckers, who drive out the mares. On the third day, the ant helps the same thing. The next morning he asks Yaga Ivan to serve for the last time - to disperse the poppy seeds. Ivan sows. Then Baba Yaga tells him to collect all the makovins, otherwise he will not get a stallion. Ivan calls the ant for the second time. He helps him collect poppies. At night, Ivan hears a "servant", who tells him that Baba Yaga has given all her strength to one stallion, and he is the frail and sits under the nursery so that Ivan chooses that stallion. This is what Ivan did, just as Yaga did not persuade him to choose a better one. "I'm the worst person, I'll take the worst horse!" There is nothing to do, Yaga gave her horse. The horse tells Ivan to fall for him "dawn on barley, dawn on wheat, dawn on oats." This is what Ivan did, and the horse changed. Ivan sat on it and drove off. He comes to the kingdom of Kashcheyevo, Kashchei is not at home. Ivan took his wife, they got on a horse and drove off. Kashcheevsky's horse laughs, tells him that Ivan kidnapped his wife, but they won't catch up with him now - Ivan rides their smaller brother. Here are horse brothers meeting. The youngest, near Ivan, asks if the brothers want to fight with him, Ali Ivan Znaiden want. Horses don't want to fight. And if you want Ivan, throw off Kashchei - "don't let him hit the cheese, the ground, the white stone, and crumble with the sides." Well, they say Kashchei fed us. And the horse answers them - Ivan will feed you. Well, they threw off Kashchei's horses. And Ivan Znaiden went with his wife, but it is not known where - either to Shklyany Gora, or to his father with a uterus]: Romanov 1901, No. 12:105-117; Poles (Mazury) [the king is blind and will see the light from the singing of a bird Caesar (Cäsarius); the eldest son goes in search, loses cards, is thrown into the basement; the same middle son; the youngest Ludwig, who is being held for a fool, says at the inn that he will sit down to play the opposite A little old woman tells her to sit on her horse, he will bring it to her sister; the horse flies like the wind; she lets the new horse fly to her third sister; she also gives a horse, he will take Caesar to the bird; castle, go into the third room, take the bird and go straight back; in the third room, L. saw a black beauty sleeping on a golden bed; when he met her, he wrote on paper who he was and why he had arrived; rode off, lions and the dogs did not catch up with him; on the way back, one sister gave inexhaustible bread, the other soap, which makes him beautiful; the third said that the L. brothers are sitting in the cellar, but do not go to them another time; but their brother bought it, and they decided to get rid of it on the way; left it to the fishermen to kill him, but he persuaded them to leave him on the island; he lived there for 7 years; he still had inexhaustible bread, he fed them marine animals; and at home, the bird Caesar was silent and the king did not see the light; the princess gave birth to a son; he grew up and she went with her army to the country of L.; demanded from the king the son who took Caesar; the elder , the middle one is rejected; the king asks them to find L.; they came to the fishermen; sailed to the island, but sea animals and fish do not allow the ship to sail; but then missed it, L. washed himself with magic soap, became again handsome; the bird Caesar sang, the king saw the light; when L. appeared, the princess told her son that it was his father; took L. to reign in her kingdom: Toeppen 1867:154-158.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Miskhor) [when dying, the hunter tells his three sons to hunt not in the west, but in the east; the elder brother and his men in the west did not find anything, he goes east; a rider tall two inches, a four-inch beard whips them and takes them away; the same with the middle brother; the youngest; the youngest comes to the old woman; she explains that the dwarf is a sorceress, the girl Zulbujar; sends them to her elder sister; she advises to change the places of hay and meat, which are chained in front of the dog and sheep sitting outside the palace; then wait for Z. to wake up; when she wakes up and sees the young man, Z. lost his magical power; wedding]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 40; Kalmyks [shooter Heeche-Mergen hides the clothes of one of the three swan girls who have come to swim; gets married; Tsarkin Khan wishes her, the counselor suggests send H. to the Ganges for the tigress's milk; the tigress is H.'s wife's cattle, he brings milk; a lame and crooked drunkard offers to bring an invisible thing from an unknown country; his wife gives a ball; H. goes then, shows his wife's comb to the woman, this is his wife's sister; she gives another ball, it leads to her older sister; she asks all the creatures, knows only cancer with an iron claw; it's in the forest beyond the outer sea ; H. hides, sees his father telling 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 his army, Murza each returns once; Kh. drives the khan away, reigns]: Vatagin 1964:115-128; Abkhazians [Prince Alyks's servant met a girl in the forest house, brought her wife; the prince demanded her for himself, A. did not give it back; that to get rid of A., the prince orders 1) ask the late father of the prince where he hid the gold ring and the golden cauldron; the wife gave two coils of thread, they rolled, A. behind them; across the sea a wide bridge to paradise and two a hair for those going to hell, the place of the late prince in hell; there the prince carries sandbags, the devils beat him with sticks; says that the ring is in the hole from the knot in the pole, the cauldron in the basement; A. showed the prince; 2) that no one in the world has seen it; on the same reels, A. comes to his older sister, who was carried away by the Adaui; he sends the adaui to his younger brother, who is the youngest; one person knows, sent A. across the sea; there the palace, everyone who enters demands "Bear, feed me", food appears; A. offers M. himself a drink too; he is grateful, stays with him; M. takes away the peasant's axe, throws it into the sea, they are on it crossed; on the way, A. changed M. for a box that fulfills his wishes and returned to him; at home, M. creates a palace, hits the prince with a stick, shoots a cannon, the prince fled to another country, A. , to his wife and M.]: Shakryl 1975, No. 27:139-143; Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 47 [in order for Yoryuzmek to recover, he must eat goldfish from the pool owned by the beautiful woman across the seas in the forest; two sons go west, the younger Sosruk to the east; the herd gives him a plain foal; the blackbeard sends to the middle brother, the youngest to that evil beauty; each from the brothers gives the horse to the next one; while the beauty sleeps, S. takes the fish; returning, changes from horse to horse; the pursuer is ready to grab a plain foal, he soars to the sky; C . meets brothers; they take fish from the sleeping person, throw it into the abyss; on the ledge of the cliff, a woman says that two rams will butt; the white one will throw it on the ground, black down; S. accidentally grabs black horn; in the lower world, nine-headed emegen closed the water; S. asks a woman to make him 8 stuffed heads; emegen hits them with arrows, S. hits all 9; the grateful ruler says that the chicks eagles devour the dragon every year; S. kills the dragon with an arrow and sword; the chicks explain that the downpour is the tears of their desperate mother; warm rain in half with the sun - she hopes for salvation; Orlitsa tells fill wineskins with buffalo meat and blood, takes off from S.; almost at the ground the supply runs out, S. cuts off a piece of leg; on the ground, the Eagle regurgitates it, puts it; S. stops at the shepherd; comes to his own wake, talks about what happened; his arrow falls right in the middle of the sheep's shoulder blade; his brothers' arrows pass by; people believe S.]: 383-387; Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983 [a sick old man tells his sons about a beautiful woman across the seas, in front of her a goldfish, if he eats one, he will recover; the eldest two go one way, the youngest to the other; the man gives an unsightly stallion, he says in a human voice; the blackbeard sends to his middle brother, then to his younger brother, the youngest is gray because he lives near that girl; the blackbearded teaches how to change horses, otherwise the girl will catch up; he catches fish, the girl cannot catch up, finds herself near home; his brothers throw him into the lower world; he kills a dragon, grateful residents teach him to kill a jelmouth snake that devours eagle chicks; he the monster kills, the eagle arrives, its wings are overshadowed by the sun, the rain is her tears, when the sun comes out, the eagle hopes to save the chicks; the grateful eagle takes the young man to the upper world, his foal brings home; he explains to his father that he, not his brothers, caught the fish; let everyone shoot up; the arrows of the older brothers fall and pierce them]: 43-52; Karachays [the dragon Ajdagyan lay in the middle of the sea -Jelimauz; on its crown, Ala-Qaz ('Scarlet Goosen'; {"ala" in Karachai, as in other Turkic ones, was made not "scarlet" ("scarlet" from "al", not in the Karachai dictionary), but "colorful" and then "light" , "white", hence Alatau, "Snowy Mountains", Tien Shan}) and Kara-Kaz ('Black Goose'); they did not have eggs; in the thousandth year, Jelimouz began to grow legs, it began to move; Goose, that the dragon would throw them off their backs, dived twice before reaching the bottom; the third fell into darkness; reached a bright spot, where the black creature Kara Pooh advised me to go to his older brother Kaiyr-Khashkhy ("The Angry Lord"), for advice to give a gift; the goose gave her right wing; the Kh sent one-legged Obur-Katyn ("Werewolf Woman") to his older sister, took the left wing; OK sent to the elder Erk-Jilan's brother, told her to go until the ball made of her hair stopped; ED sent Kart-Chopp to her oldest brother, took her second leg, gave part of her skin, she carried the Goose to the goal ; "Our father is Kara-Kuzgun ('raven'), and our mother is the Turtle, they were rulers of the sea surface, but the dragon cut their bellies, stripped them of power; to pacify the dragon, you need to summon Kart-Choppa; to do this, you need to cut off the dragon's gallbladder, cover its middle eye with it; you can cut it off with hair growing on the dragon's crown under your nest"; everything was done, dragon roared in pain, the heavenly vaults opened, an old man in a green robe with a golden staff came out; the geese dived in fear, emerged nine months later, dirty; Kart-Choppa sat on their nest, scraped off their feathers geese dirt, ordered to make a cake out of it, eat one half, soak the other, lubricate the dragon's back; this caused the dragon's body to rot, the spine appeared (p.23: i.e. the earth arises from the compound mud taken from the bottom of the ocean with dragon skin); KC plunged his staff into the dragon's crown; he screamed, the sky shone; KC hit the dragon's middle eye with a three-hepatic stem, it burst, the other two opened; A smelly liquid poured out of the middle, and the sea turned white; if the dragon's eyes close again, everything will darken; when thunderclouds appear, May Allah save him from closing his eyes Dragon]: Karaketov 1995:64-67; (cf. Ossetians?? [Marr reported, referring to Ossetian folklore, about Satanail-Gogol descending to the bottom of the sea for stone and sand to create the world]: Borgoyakov 1980:272); Georgians (east: Dusheti District) [Tsar grew old, sent his eldest son to the qajas for the water of immortality; he came there with an army, the whole army was petrified; the same with his middle brother; the youngest with two comrades comes to the old man, the old man sends to his older brother, the eldest to the oldest; the oldest teaches him to put a scrap under the door that opens and closes, to slip on horseback; only the horse's tail has been cut off; the young man gets together with the sleeper a woman, left her a letter, took three apples and the water of immortality; gives water to two eldest old men to drink water, and the youngest after he revived the petrified ones; the older brothers put the youngest to sleep, changed the water and apples; the king wants to execute him, the young man asks his servants only to cut off his little finger and bury his dog; the queen woke up, read the letter, told the king to send her someone who took the water of immortality; the king sends the older brothers, she imprisoned them for bread and water; the king dug up the grave - there are the remains of a dog; ordered them to look for a young man with his little finger cut off, he was found, sent to the queen, he correctly answers what happened on the way; the queen calls him her son's husband and father; the young man received both kingdoms, pardoned his brothers]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 78:46-49; Svana: Petrov 1886a [in the forest, the vizier heard a strange voice birds, shot, a beauty 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 to marry her himself; the woman again became beautiful, the king decided to destroy the vizier; ordered to guess what "adu-i-made-i-maana" meant; the vizier has three married sisters; one of the sons-in-law advised me to contact the forest people of Tskheki Dau; one of the CD sends to another, he to the third; the third sent the 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 come in, called "Mishká!" , 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 soldiers, M. returns to him; the soldiers beat the king's army, and the stick killed the king himself]: 89-93;; Armenians [the mouse and falcon sowed wheat, and when they harvested it, they divided it; they could not divide one seed, they turned to the eagle; the eagle to the falcon: you knock it down; the mouse: well, let's not quarrel; and hit the sleeper at night the falcon with a sword, he hardly managed to 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, He threw him into the sea three times, picking it up above the water itself; ordered him 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 discovered it, found himself in the middle of a noisy bazaar ; the lame man asks to 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 has now taken him lame; left the boy lame on an island at sea; he had been fishing for 16 years, grew up; three heads flew to the island, threw off his birds' clothes, became girls, went swimming; a young man stole a 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 was hired as a laborer; the owner decided to lime it in order to take possession of his wife; one lame guest offered 1) send the man behind 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 them; the wife warned: if the owner says that storks are not needed, they we must let go (as it happened); 2) bring the lion from Mount Aragats (the same); 3) bring the invisible worker Murza; the wife gives a ball, it will lead to her sister's house; she calls frogs, they do not know the way; sister tells them to go to their mother's house for the ball; she collected the snakes, they reply that M. was hired by the snake king; the mother tells them to go to the snake king's house and hide behind the stove; the king will come and say, "Murza, collect to the table"; when the king leaves, call M. for him; he is glad that 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 the horn, M. also returned to him; the owner wants to cut off the man's head, he blows into the horn, the warriors cut off the owner's head; M. took the couple to her husband's parents]: Nazinyan 1969:33-42; Azerbaijanis [generous rich man Hatham dervish talks about a man who is more generous than him, but no one has seen the owner of the palace; H. comes there; through the curtain asks the owner where he got such wealth; he suggests asking one a famous doctor; the doctor tells everyone about his illness, and H. tells everyone that he is the cause of his grief; gives H. a letter to Ibrahim, the youngest son of a blind padishah; the letter says that the cure for blindness is needed look in a country where his horse's hooves did not set foot; this is the flower garden of Padishah's daughter Gulistani-Irem; I. removes the splinter from the diva's leg; he brings it to his middle brother, middle brother to elder, elder to the garden; there I. enters the palace, kisses the sleeping lady of the genies Melik Khatun; she likes him and becomes his wife; the virgins take I. home, he brings him the medicine given by M., his father sees the light; envious older brothers call I. to hunt, lower them into the well, cut off the rope, say that I. was torn to pieces by a tiger; his father and mother died of grief; M. and an army of divas come to look for I.; makes the brothers confess; the doctor cured I., the older brothers had their necks twisted; (hereinafter about H. and the doctor)]: Akhundov 1955:126-167.

Iran - Central Asia. Bukhara Arabs [the emir is blind, the sons are going to buy medicine; the elders come to the old woman; she stipulates that if the lamp stays on the cat until morning, she will take their property; losing In total, the brothers are hired by a fish merchant; the youngest greets the Albanists, who refers him to his older sister; she to the youngest; she to the bargitumi tree; there are divas and peri, the young man picks up tree leaves; he plays back what his brothers lost (sends the mouse to the cat); in the steppe, the youngest is thirsty, the brothers tear out his eyes in exchange for water, take the leaves, throw him into the well; he finds leaves in his pocket, sees the light; the horse pulls him out of the well; he heals his father; the father curses his eldest sons]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 36:237-239; Tajiks Sistan [the king is blind, a leaf of a forty tree is needed; two older princes from one wife, the youngest Malik-Muhammad is from the other; at a fork in the roads a stone with the inscription: you will come back to the right, God knows, you will not return to the left; the brothers sent MM along the left road, drove two others, the roads met again and they drove together; the young man invited them into the house, the girl offered to play dice, they all lost; became servants to the merchant and the baker; MM is polite to the old woman- a diva; she hid it from her seven sons; they swore that they would not harm the guest; the old woman gave MM a letter to her older sister, she gave her oldest sister; this old woman told me to go on the way back another way, otherwise he will cause harm; in the betting garden, the king of the bet; when he sees MM, he will cry, and the 4-oral tree will scream; you must hide; the princess will reproach them; so twice; then pour sweets on the horse, the tree - iron; they will become MM's friends; you have to swap the gold and silver lamp near the sleeping girl, eat food, pick up one of the 7 bedspreads; MM did it all, picked up tree leaves, returned to the fork where he left his brothers; their arrows rusted; MM beat the girl and even won herself; bought the brothers and labeled them as a slave; they did not recognize him; he gave one of the brothers a gift a player girl and the other a princess, whom the local king gave for the jewel MM had taken from the bet; sent the girls with leaves home to his father, but kept one sheet for himself; the brothers realized that they MM; there is no water on the way, they gave MM water in exchange for their eyes; they took the leaves from the girl, brought them to her father; the dog led MM to the spring, spit out his eyes, he rubbed them with a leaf, saw the light, sat on his a horse who came up; bet - the owner of the tree and her army went to look for MM to marry; the older brothers went out, walked barefoot on the carpet, could not answer what they saw at the bet; beaten; MM came, answered correctly; wedding; brothers were expelled, and he also took the girls MM wanted to give them for himself]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 9:118-131; Pashtuns [Shah's daughter hears the conversation myna (pink starling) and parrot: a fairy named Zabzibana keeps a jug of magic oil; the shah promises a daughter to whoever gets it; the shepherd persuaded the vizier's son to return home, and went to buy oil himself; the diva shoemaker sent him to his older brother, who to the eldest; the eldest took him up the mountain to the fairy fortress; there is an old woman, she was kidnapped as a baby, she has a fairy daughter Gulkhandana, she serves as a vizier for the Shah {i.e. Z.?} ; G. tells her mother that someone who kills a camel diva will marry her, this requires her handkerchief; the old woman stole her daughter's handkerchief, gave it to the shepherd, he killed the diva; pretended to jump over the ditch three times ( this is also a condition for marriage); married G.; t a gave an invisible hat and a flying carpet; the shepherd flew to the pool; doves flew in, threw off their clothes, became fairies, began to swim; the shepherd gave his clothes for Z. promised to marry him too; when the shepherd missed his homeland, G. and Z. gave a violin: play and we will come with an army; the divas carried the shepherd; when hungry, the shepherd played the violin, G. and Z. killed a lot of cattle, fed a diva; the diva offers to change the magic baton, chain, flying carpet to a violin; the shepherd changed and then ordered the diva to tie the chains, beat the baton; he gave everything; the same with the second diva : his handkerchief, no matter how much you put in it, will not be filled; the shepherd gave the Shah a bottle of Z. oil; the shah gave him the princess, and she drove the shepherd away; the shah sent the vizier's son to him; the shepherd and the vizier's son flew to the island; G. and Z. were offended, threw all the magic things into the sea, leaving only a handkerchief and an invisible hat; on the log, the shepherd and the son of the vizier sailed home; the shepherd decided to sell the ring he gave Z.; the Shah liked it so much that he gave his daughter for the son of the vizier; he complains to the shepherd that as soon as he lies down with his wife, he loses consciousness and does not remember anything until morning; the shepherd in an invisible hat follows at night a friend's wife; she and the diva are flying on a flying carpet, dancing with fairies, throwing jewelry on the floor; the shepherd picked up everything in a handkerchief; one day the shepherd took off his hat, liked the fairy lady, who took it as her husband; he asked her for a stick that would absorb all the water in any body of water; so he found and returned the items thrown by the fairies into the sea; summoning G. and Z., told them to eat the Shah's daughter, which had deceived him, and the vizier's wife, that flew to the diva; went forever to the kingdom of Zabzibana]: Lebedev 1958:121-126.

Baltoscandia. Icelanders [the king's wife died; he was sitting on the grave, a woman came up, named Ingijörg, the king married her; when he goes hunting, I. advises his son Sigurd to go with his father, but he refuses; she hides him under the bed; the giantess enters, this is sister I.; I. treats her; when she enters and then leaves, the giantess asks if S. is here; I. says that he has left with his father; the same the next once (hides under the table); on the third (hides against the wall), the giantess will cry out that S. is here and let him now remain half-burnt, half-dried until he finds her; I. reproaches S.: she warned him that you have to go with my father; gives a ball, he rolls, S. follows him to I.'s first sister; she sits on a rock, pulls S. up with a hook, but he gives her this I. gold ring; she is happy, tells her to fight her, and when S. gets tired, gives a drink of strong water to restore vigor; sends her to her second sister (all the same); she gives a third; the third, giving a golden ring, sends her to the lake, where the girl Helga plays with with a boat, tells her to give her a ring; she takes S. to her father's house when he leaves; when he returns, H. touches S. with a glove, turning it into a bale of wool; as soon as the father leaves again, he returns it to him former appearance; unlocks doors except one; S. insists to unlock it; behind her is a horse and a precious sword with the inscription: whoever sits on this horse and girds himself with this sword will be happy; girl: the name of the horse Gullfaxi (Golden-Maned), and the sword is Gunnfjödur (Kampffeder); there is also a branch, a stone and a stick; the branch will become a dense forest in the pursuer's path, and if you knock on the stone with a stick, a terrible hail will begin; H. allowed S. to ride around the house once, but S. rode away altogether; Father H. came and saw that his daughter was crying; when he found out what was going on, he followed him; S. threw a branch, and the giant was forced to return for the ax; summoning hail, S. killed a giant; to meet S. a dog in tears; S. rode home, where 9 warriors tied I. to burn them; S. hacked them with a sword; met his father; went after H. and married her; became king; happy with X.]: Poestion 1994, No. 18:143-152; Danes: Grundtvig 1920 [=Grundtvig 1879:23-44; older sons Peter and Paul are smart, younger Esbeen lazy; the elders decide to master the rocky a plot on the farm; but every year on Ivanov's day, the sown is trampled; Peter, then Paul, guard, run away in horror; E. sees three swan maidens descending; while they are dancing, he hides their robes; returns when the youngest Lena, Zondervand's maiden, agrees to marry him; they are three princesses kidnapped by a witch and released once a year; L. teaches how to build a castle by hitting a stone with a tree branch; tells not invite the king; but the brothers' father invited him; when he learns that the king would come, L. flies away, tells her to come to her castle, which is north of the sun, west of the moon; E. goes in search; two fight over invisible hats, E. suggests that the winner get it, wears it himself; the other two because of the speeding boots; E. offers them to race, takes their boots; two more because of the knife, who If you direct, he falls dead; E. takes a knife, points at the fighting; E. comes to the old woman, she is the owner of the animals, they do not know about the castle; sends the same thing to her sister, the mistress of the fish; she comes to the other sister - the mistress of the birds; the lame eagle arrives later than anyone else, he flew just from this castle; the hostess tells him to take E. there; they fly through a hole in the ground, then in the water, in the fire; E. throws it into the goblet, brought by the maid, the ring that L. gave him; wearing an invisible hat, kills a witch with her magic knife; wedding]: 27-41; Holbek 1987 [grass does not even grow in the field; the eldest son guards, frightened by the hurricane; the same average; the youngest waited for the wind to subside; three girls came down, took off their hats and started dancing; the young man hid one hat; returned for the girl's promise to marry him and return a year later; under the stone on the field there is money, let the young man build a castle and invite everyone but the king to the wedding; but he invited the king; the king recognizes the magical bride as the daughter, tells the young man to bring gold coins from the top of a glass mountain; a girl gives a mare and teaches her what to do; if he fails, he must look for her in a castle in the middle of the world south of the sun, north of the moon; it didn't work, the mare is gone, a young man goes in search of a castle; two are arguing over his father's inheritance; these are speed boots; a young man throws a stone: whoever gets first will inherit; puts on boots himself; in the same way he gets a tablecloth- a magic and a sword that kills and revives; there is a terrible hunger in the animal lord's house; the young man has fed everyone, the lord tells the animals to find out where the castle is; they did not know, lord of the animals sends a young man to his brother, the lord of the fish, who is the master of the birds; the last is the old eagle, only he knows, carries the young man to the castle, teaches how to kill animal guards; the princess promises to come in six months and again asks not to invite her father; on the way back, the young man revives the murdered guards; invites the king to the wedding, kills him, then revives him; after that, the king is powerless to prevent marriage]: 572-573; Western Sami [someone steals turnips from the king's garden; the eldest, middle son is guarding, hearing a noise, running away; the youngest sees three maidens arrive, take off their winged robes, start digging turnips, he hid it clothes alone, she agrees to marry him on the condition that he goes with her; the young man went to say goodbye to his father, the king does not let him in, demands that he 1) cut down the whole forest, 2) cut off branches on the felled trees, 3) would restore the forest; each time the wife orders to do this with one tree, the rest fall, lose branches, get up again; the king let his son go, but the heavenly maiden has already flown away, the young man went to look for her; meets an old woman, she gives speeding boots, sends her to her middle sister, the middle woman gives an invisible hat, sends her to the elder, she sends an eagle, the third time the eagle knows where to fly; the old woman gives a staff if you turn the end up, the dead will rise from the graves, if down, they will return to the graves; gives three pebbles; the eagle carries across the sea, gets tired, the pebble thrown every time turns into an island to rest; overseas the young man finds his wife and son; the father-in-law asks his son-in-law to return his dead warriors with a staff; they rush at the king, the young man turns his staff, the dead return to the graves]: Klaus 1995:31-38; Finns: Konkka 1993 [The father has been plowing a field near the shore for 10 years, but each time the storm destroys the crop; the attempts of the older and middle brothers are just as unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees swans coming down from the cloud, turning girls, dancing, trampling the field; the soldier hid one girl's swan robe, she had to become his wife; she explained that the witch turned her and her sisters into swans and only the grass that grew in this field can break the spell, so they trampled on crops; the king found out that the soldier has a beautiful wife; orders all the creatures to be brought in pairs by tomorrow; the wife tells them 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 king; to avoid his harassment, the wife told her husband's parents that they 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 she woke up, soldier saw three dead men fighting over an invisible hat, boots by leaps and bounds, and a self-cut sword; telling them to give him curiosities and go to the graves themselves; went east; stayed in the house of the pagans, where he did not get baptized; the owner showed three barns with copper, silver, gold coins; the soldier took away the gold coins; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; the soldier told her to stop; an old woman in the hut, a nose three cubits; she agreed to transport him across the Black Sea on the condition that she 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 the net 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 home on her swan wings; the king sent an army, but the soldier sent a samob sword, the king and his army fell into the ground]: 17-28; Salmelainen 1947 [=Concca 1991:162-173; the hunter sees three ducks go ashore, throw off their feather clothes, become girls; hides the most beautiful clothes; 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) make Tischplatte by morning, on which the moon and stars (the wife drew); 2) bring nothing out of nowhere; the wife made a nose by morning the handkerchief, sent her on the road; when the husband reaches the house, where he sees the strange, let him show the handkerchief and behave like his own; around the house there are bones, on each pole there is only one empty skull; old woman: The man came by herself; when she saw 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 her 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; Karelians (Olonetskaya, 1886) [three girls took off their clothes, became ducks and swam; the guy saw, hid her clothes alone; silent when the girl promises to become a sister, gives clothes for the promise to become a wife; the girl promises to sail on three golden ships; a woman came out of the water, stuck sleepy needles in the guy's ears, he did not wake up; the same on 6, 9 ships; the girl leaves a note: to see her, you will have to wear out 3 pairs of iron boots and 3 iron staffs; the guy goes looking, the hut is spinning on cock spurs, she has a cannibal woman, her nose is a poker; she recognizes the boy as her brother's son; during the night she worn out one pair of his iron boots and one staff; the same with two other women; the latter sends to hunt, the guy hides the foxes from the cold, then the cubs, cubs, threw a pike into the sea; a fox, a wolf, a bear, a pike promise to help; a guy comes to an old woman who has 8 heads on poles, the 9th is cooked for him; the old woman tells her 9 horses to herd, they run away ; the fox, then the wolf, the bear are brought; the horse: at night we will give birth to foals, take the worst as a reward; the stallion tells us to go to the old widow; she says that his bride's love is in the egg inside the blue stone on island; the horse jumped to the island, the pike took out an egg that fell into the sea; the widow fed it to her goddaughter (i.e. that girl), the guy married her]: Konkka 1959, No. 31:142-148; Estonians [aged the king finds out that there is a mirror that makes him young; sends two eldest sons for him; the youngest fool goes by himself, finds the brothers in the tavern, they refuse to take him as companions; he comes to the forest hut, the old woman sends him to her older sister, who calls her family, i.e. animals, birds, no one knows about the mirror; the two-headed eagle is the last to arrive, saying that the mirror is in her heads princesses, carries a young man there; he puts two bear guards to sleep, throwing them eagle feathers; contrary to the eagle's prohibition, he hesitates, eats and drinks, removes the ring from the finger of the sleeping princess; on the way back, the eagle three times plunges the young man into the sea, says that he, the eagle, was just as afraid when the young man hesitated; the brothers are still sitting in the tavern, taking away the younger one's mirror, advising his father to kill the fool; he lets him in the shuttle to the sea; the shuttle sails to the island; the young man pulls out a broom, scissors, bread received from old women; a city appears, all people are dressed, fed; the princess sails in search of her ring, she must go beyond it owner; young man marries her, rules the island]: J.Kunder in Põder, Tanner 2000:47-61 (=Raud 2004:160-170); Lutsie (1893) [old people are childless, they have found a white snake, at night she turns into a beautiful young man, and during the day she turns into a snake again; asks to marry him a princess; the old man went to the king; king: you will receive it if you come not full and not hungry; not naked or dressed; son: sip oatmeal; wrap yourself in a net; king: come in a horse-drawn carriage; create a palace, the road to my palace is covered with velvet, silver along the edges and golden apple trees with silver and golden apples; the church is made of wax, they serve in it, the candles light up themselves; the snake son does everything; the evening after the wedding, the serpent turned into a young man; the princess's sisters threw snakeskin into the fire; husband: now look for me with three pairs of iron shoes; also three iron hats, three iron beans in your pocket; go to my sister, she will teach me further; the one in the room that turns on a chicken leg; turned the girl into a needle, hid it on her chest; an old devil came, the hostess said that he was the one who was flying around the world; in the morning she gave me a gold spinning wheel, silver spindle; sent it to her second sister (all the same, gave a precious handkerchief); the third (still the same) gave an embroidered tablecloth and gave a ball to follow; tyn around the apple orchard, only for one stake the head is not yet planted; the damn daughter bought a spinning wheel with a spindle overnight with her husband, but gave him a sleepy potion; the same second night (handkerchief); on the third he quietly poured the potion; the husband killed the devil with iron with a rod, took the precious items, he and his wife run to her older sister, her head is cut off; he revives her with dead and alive vodka; the same with her middle and younger sisters; yudas are chasing, her husband left tablecloth, it became a lake of fire, the youths couldn't cross; everyone got home, they still live]: Annom et al. 2018:84-89; Lutsie {zap. 1933} [two heroes: Ukha Kukhalevich and Franz Vintsian; parents did not want to let Uhu in, but he left home; knocked F. off his horse, it turned out that the girl; when she woke up, she reproached; if she hit and killed with full force Wow; the devil is sitting on an oak tree, burning 40 miles with heat, his ear killed him; there is an empty castle in the forest, that girl F. came there; they began to fight with a big devil - the Snake; he almost ate his ear, and F. chopped it to pieces; Ear descended into the lower world; there's a hut on chicken legs with lamb horns; Ear: turn your face to me; there the old woman calls her brother's son, gives a ball, he rolls to her middle sister; she sends to third {probably the eldest}; from there he goes to the king, who burns with fire; wolf: don't eat me; tells me to sit on him, jumps into the water, they are only slightly burned; the king also calls Ukha the son of his brother; the king has 12 heroes, they don't like Ear; they tell the king that he threatened to get a horse with the sun in front, the moon behind; the wolf: the bridle is even better than the horse; the horse with the bridle was stolen; heroes: The princess threatened to get the ear; the wolf brought her to the garden, told the princess to be grabbed when she went out into the garden; they brought the princess to the king; she required her 12 more maids; brought it; the princess demands a self-playing cantele; with the help of the wolf, he got it again; then a self-made sword; heroes: Ear threatened to defeat all alone; Ear chopped 6 heroes, the king asks to stop; Ear wants to go home; king: Raven Voronovich would deliver, but he was walled up; his ear freed, fattened; they began to get up, there was not enough meat, my legs had to be cut off; on the ground, the BB regurgitated them, the ear took root with living and dead water; the ear returned to F.; wedding]: Annom et al. 2018:106-113.

Volga - Perm. Komi [someone gave an egg to a wealthy childless merchant: let his wife and mare eat him; his wife gave birth to a son Vasily, a foal mare; the father is always traveling; V. grew up, his mother has a lover; he orders to kill her son, otherwise she will kill her; when V. returned from school, the horse warned that his mother wanted to poison him; V. quietly poured out the poisoned soup; mother's lover: you fed the soup under the bench, the poison is there burned a hole; the same the next evening; the dog tried it spilled out, died; horse: tomorrow the mother will even poison the bread, you have to run; the horse tells him to get bored three times, turn, sprinkle dew on three trees; then he is able to jump from one hill to another; they went to get living water overseas; they rode to the hut on a chicken leg, the hut rotates, there is a witch in it; from her they jumped to another of the same , there is a second witch, she teaches: there will be three pillars, three gates, a key hangs on the middle one, you have to grab it; "soon the fairy tale affects, it's not done soon" {this proverb is inserted several times}; third the witch in the third hut tells her to leave her horse, gives her own; hit him on the shore, he will become a crow, carry him across the sea; on the other side you will become a dove, steal living water from the girl; when you fly a crow, cut off the meat from the calf, feed it; when V. flies, the crow gets tired, sits on the bapka-kotil plant in the middle of the sea, V. gives her a piece cut off from her leg; so several times, they stayed on their feet only bones; V. first flies in as a dove, hears the girl saying out loud that she will not sleep that night, she will guard the water; V. became a man again, put the guards and the girl to sleep with this witch with this potion, took water, kissed the girl and wished her wife; across the sea back on a crow horse {it does not say how her legs are overgrown with meat again}; the girl's brother is pursuing; one of the three witches replies that V. galloped by for a long time; brother: to whoever took water and kissed my sister, I will send her as a wife; gave V. a letter to prepare to receive the bride; she appeared, they live poorly, they want to take his wife away; the king orders to create a golden one by morning palace; wife creates; golden passage to the royal palace (same); third time: set up a water supply and telegraph; at night, the wife called her workers again, everything is ready; everything is fine, wedding]: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 1:11-35; Udmurts [the forest is empty, I. comes to a tree where all the birds are; shoots a big white one, she falls, he brings her to the hut, she turns into a beauty; wife weaves a tablecloth- magic, the 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 the goat; the same a boar with golden stubble; sent for Sharapchyk the invisible; the wife gives a towel, sends a ball to her older sister; there is a girl in the silver palace, recognizes her younger sister's towel; she gives her a ball and a ring, a 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, the frog jumps, carries her across the river; they enter the triangular house three robbers, tell S. to set the table; when they leave, I. offers S. to go with him, he agrees; orders him to exchange him from the robbers for crossing the river, a chest, an ax, a pipe; returns to I.; I. goes to war against the king, blowing ships, soldiers from the chest, axes make fortresses; I. kills the king, gets the throne, as well as a goat and a wild boar]: Eisin 1993:129-138; Mordovians [an old man three years in the forest, leaned to the water, Vedyava grabbed his beard; refuses the stallion, the ricks, the beekeeper, demands what the old man does not know; at home to meet his three-year-old son; grew up, went to Vedyava; Baba Yaga sends to her older sister, she says that her brother has 40 stakes, but the last one does not have a head yet; three ducks will come to swim and become girls, we must hide the youngest's dress; she promises become a wife; tells not to eat what her father offers; he tells 1) to do all the work overnight, from uprooting the forest to baking bread; the wife tells the servants to do everything; 2) the iron bridge from the porch to the church, according to the sides of the apple tree with apples and birds (the same); 3) tame the stallion (this is the girl's father, she became a man, tamed him herself with a hammer and iron bars); he promises to marry the young, the wife tells him to run, otherwise the father will kill, leave the spits responsible for himself; turns himself into a cow, her husband into a shepherd; church and pop; himself into a ruff, her husband into the lake; this time the father himself is chasing, telling his daughter to be 7 years old female; wife says that she will become a woman in seven days, but at home the husband should not kiss his younger sister; he kissed, forgot his wife; she flew pigeon to her new bride, became a woman, the bride sees a reflection in the well, thinks that she is so beautiful, she returns without taking water; the same younger sister; the young man came himself, saw his wife, remembered everything, the wedding with her]: Evseviev 1964, No. 13:77-87 (=Samorodov 1972:83-95); Mordovians [the old man promises poor young man Rav-Zholdyamo gold on top of the mountain; tells him to climb into the horse's carcass, the raven brings it to the top of the mountain, the RJ scared him off, lowers him, lowers the bags of gold on rope, the old man burned the rope, left; RJ kills a kite chasing three ducks; they picked up RJ, brought them to the forest hut, turned into girls; every day they fly away with ducks; RJ hides the youngest's dress , marries, brings her mother's wife; the wife brought gold with her, but longs; asks for a precious ring forgotten from her sisters; when RJ left, he told his mother not to give her daughter-in-law's duck outfit; the master calls guests, wants to know where they got the gold; daughter-in-law asks her mother-in-law to give her duck outfit to appear to the master; she gives it away, she flies away; RJ goes in search; the old man sends him to his older brother, who to to the oldest; each shows the path of a flying duck; the eldest: a wife in a crevice on a golden mountain; a raven picks stones, tries to get to it; gives a plane felt and an invisible caftan; RJ throws stones at the crow stones, he rushes at him, RJ puts on an invisible caftan, takes his wife, returns home with her]: Samorodov 1972:132; Chuvash [the forest is empty, I. comes to the tree where all the birds are; shoots into a big white one, she falls, he brings her to the hut, she turns into a beauty; the wife weaves a magic tablecloth, the husband carries to sell, the king sees, comes to find out who the craftswoman is; the wise men advise send I. for a goat with golden horns and hair; the wife sends him to go after the ball, he leads to a goat; the same boar with golden stubble; sent for the invisible Sharapchyk; the wife gives a towel, sends for a ball to her older sister; there is a girl in a silver palace recognizing her younger sister's towel; she gives her ball and ring, the ball leads to her oldest sister in the golden palace; she leads to the river, followed by W .; the frog asks for milk, I. brings it, the frog jumps, carries it across the river; three robbers enter the triangular house, tell S. to set the table; when they leave, I. invites S. to go with him, he I agree; tells me to exchange him from the robbers for crossing the river, a chest, an ax, a pipe; returns to I.; I. goes to the tsar by war, blows 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 (=Eizin 1993:129-138); Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 19 [], 54 [Akhan and Karakhan decided to marry children if their wives give birth to opposite-sex wives babies; A. has a son, K. has a daughter; A. died, K. forgot his promise; A.'s eldest daughter-in-law to his son: than to flirt with me, it would be better to go to the bride; the son asked his mother to fry wheat, held her hand, that one I had to confess; K.'s wife died, telling him to take a new wife more beautiful than her; K. did not find anyone more beautiful than her daughter; she set a condition: sew a flea fur coat and a lice leather handkerchief; K. fulfilled; she dug a hole in the bathhouse and covered it with a carpet; K. went, failed; the daughter left, began to live with the elderly; son A. found K., pulled him out of the hole; K. says that his daughter killed her mother and went to the maiden; son A. came to the house, where daughter K. lived; began to pluck wool from the ram, put meat on an inverted pot and poured water on top; the girl, seeing this, laughed and became more and more beautiful; they fell in love, he brought her to her mother, married; beggar K. came; at night he stabbed his daughter's son, put a knife on her; said that this witch killed her mother; the mother expelled her daughter-in-law; the young returned to those old people, taking the child's body; son A. He sees how the snake revived another by dragging her around the hummock; revived his son; the young man grew up, went to fight the devil; stopped at the old woman, she wants to burn him in a copper bath, he drags her there himself, tells her to point out the way to the maiden; she sends to her sister; she has a silver bath; the same goes to her older sister; the golden bath; the old woman tells her to oil the deva's gate, chop snakes and lions with a sword, gives a handkerchief to heal her leg a horse if a lion hurts him; the young man drove the deva up to his throat into the ground, then put him in a cage, freed the beauties, the princess gave him a ring; he brought his mother to him; K. came, opened the cage with the deva, who advised send a young man for a bear's milk; K. called himself the young man's grandfather - his mother is unconscious, he must be cured; the young man pulled a sharp stone out of the bear's paw, she gave milk; K. released the deva, the young man defeated him, he fell into the ground; the young man sprayed milk on K., who petrified, the millstone closed the place where the devil was; the young man threw a ring into the jug of the princess's maid; she recognized him; wedding]: 134-138, 377-385; 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; she takes with her a copper kumgan, the water from which can turn her into ugly and beautiful at will; the mustache lives with his wife in a bathhouse on the outskirts of the city, but the king saw his wife, decided to lime him; the wise men advise him to order him to get 1) three lions; the 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 learns from it that the mustache is the husband of her older sister's daughter; the winds do not know where box, an old woman sends a cup of human milk to the lady of the birds; birds say that a lame frog knows; in the underworld, a cup of human milk in a stone bath; it must be poured; 60 pahlavans will return in the evening, they will think that someone ate a human being, they will kill each other; you must kill the last guard, drink water from his bottle, become strong, lift the stove, the box under it; the mustache covered the birds from the thunderstorm Samrigush, she lifted him to the earthly world for this; there was not enough meat, the US cut off a piece from his leg; S. belched, put it back; warriors came out of the box, killed the king, threw his head to the wolves; the mustache and his wife left home]: 153-159; Bessonov 1941, No. 27 [man dreams: there is sun in his heads, there is a moon in his legs, a star on his chest; a man went, met a bull, he explained the dream: these are 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 she saw the woman, the khan ordered her husband to be killed, and her bring to him; one of the viziers proposed 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; the wife gives her horse; as soon as the other the 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 a man to be sent to bring ash from the Daughter of the Sun; the wife gives a letter for her; the husband she goes to an old woman, she sends her to her older sister, her sister to the oldest, she 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 going on; she'll fall asleep, she must 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; the khan tells me where his deceased is the father put down the treasury; his wife-SK removed him from the fire, and then returned it with a bag of gold; the khan asked him to be burned, burned down; the man became khan; the dream came true]: 155-159.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz (Ketmen-Töbe) [the ruler has only son Jansap; the soothsayer predicts that the boy will marry Peri's daughter; the ruler orders to build an iron house with a lake and a garden, to imprison there is a son to prevent him from meeting Peri; one day a young man sees a girl's reflection in the lake, this is Peri's daughter; the girl herself is on the roof of the house; flies away, telling her to look for her in the city of Kauhar Nikin; D. leaves her search; gets to a city; a hoja walks through the streets, calls for a profitable job, but no one goes; D. agreed; the hoja cuts the horse, pulls out the demand and sews vultures into the carcass of D. they carried the carcass to the top of the mountain; around with precious stones; Khoja waves from below, let D. throw stones; seeing horse and human bones around, D. realizes that Khoja has doomed him to death; refuses to drop stones; finds a loophole, leave the mountain; stumbles upon a house with the image of a flying bird; a spirit named Nurgul speaks to him in the house; their three brothers, since Sulaiman's time, have been given to them power over birds; D. asks if N. has heard about the city of Kauhar Nikin; he does not know, sends him to his middle brother; he also does not know, sends him to the elder; the elder Rasa-al-Tair did not hear himself, but alone from his birds, she says that she saw an unknown city - perhaps Kauhar Nikin; the bird takes D. to this city; there the girl is the daughter of the Peri ruler; D. marries her and brings her to her father]: Sabyr uulu 2008:168-171.

Southern Siberia. Khakas [the elderly have a son (he is younger) and a daughter Altyn-Tan; the old man is dead, his mother is also preparing to die and tells them not to go to Mount Ah-Tag in front, not to extinguish the fire - you will not be able to light it again; but brother and sister went; only AT went up to the top, there was a house with a black woman in it; AT asked for fire, but she asked to go into the house first; AT did not go in, ran away; when the children ran through the taiga, after them Hara-Hashta chased, black, with a long beard and huge eyes; brother and sister reached the old woman's yurt; she replies that she will not be able to resist the Aina, refers to her middle sister, she refers to her older sister; this the eldest gives AT a golden shawl: if you wave, the waters of the river will part, you can cross to the other side; brother and sister crossed, XX could not cross and returned; brother and sister set up a house; the boy is studying hunt, asks his sister what the animals are called; three geese fly and shout: there is a baby on the other side of the river, you have to pick it up, he will be an assistant; AT went to the other side, but the child turned into XX and made her a wife; began to live with her at her house, where her brother; XX gave the boy a name: Adygchy-Ool; a white dog overheard XX telling AT to put a fang in his brother's soup; he would pierce the boy's throat ; we will eat him and his dogs; the white and blue dog agree to pretend to fight: the cauldron will be knocked over and the fang will fall to the ground; when the fang fell to the ground, it caught fire; next time XX and AT agreed to take his brother to a house in the woods, where XX would be waiting for him to kill; the boy managed to climb onto the roof and called the dogs; they jumped out of the ground, bitten to death XX; blue dog: We'll tie AT to the wall, Let the white bowl under her right eye, blue on the left; if AT feels sorry for her brother, her tears will fill the white bowl, and if XX, the blue one; then Adygchi-Ool and his dogs came to the aal; the old people took him to their son; one day the cattle stopped mooing, people began to scream; the dogs ran away and brought blue and white wolf skin; the old people are happy - these wolves were destroying cattle; Khan gave AO his only daughter; when they came to see AT, only tears from her left eye filled the cup (i.e. she grieved for the demon); AO brought her home; she gave him a poisonous araki and he died; the dogs dragged the body up the mountain; the blue ran for the reviver with a potion; she brought arrows in her ear, but she died; white revived both her and her owner; Altyn-Tan was tied to the tails of three mares]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 16:321-335; Shors [Lonely the guy (OP) changes the sheep for a pike caught by people; it falls out of his bag, he throws it into the water; the owner of the water sends for him, offers a reward for his rescued son; OP takes the little dog, feeds it at home her; in the morning his dishes are made gold; at night, OP spies, grabs a copper-haired beauty; she says that now the owner's son (CX, i.e. her brother?) will come for her? ; CX tells her father to return the girl; 1) offers OP to play hide and seek; the girl indicates that CX has become a ram with twisted horns; turns her husband into a comb, CX does not find him; CX is a bull, OP is a thimble; CX - a bird with a comb on the seashore, OP is a needle; 2) bring a golden table; his wife tells me to follow her ball; he sleeps with three girls, in the morning a copper-eared old woman wants to eat it; he shows her the one given to him wife a book, she recognizes him as a son-in-law; gives another horse, sends him to her older sister; she has the same episode, she gives him a six-legged horse, tells him to go for a black cloud; OP takes the table, the shaman cannot catch up; stops in an empty house; asks for food, food appears; he asks the invisible to share the meal; the grateful invisible follows him; OP distributes horses to the horses that helped him, etc., returns home; there are no doors and windows in the house, they appear when the wife finds out OP; The owner sends soldiers, the OP releases the birds he brought with red crests, they destroy them, transfer the property to the OP]: Dyrenkova 1940, No. 15:237-251.

Western Siberia. Southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut her husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; at home I found out that the COP had left the house - he hit him, why did they release him? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the Menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, the VM drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot be cut down, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap it around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed in the chin with a knife ; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into the fire; she she fell, there were lizards too, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, brought them, they saw the light; ordered them to prepare meat, put Kars ("firebirds" in Patkanov's translation) on his back; she brought to the ground the last He cut off two pieces from his calves; Kars regurgitated them and put them back; the wife is lying between two men; the VM wanted to hack them, the wife: these are your sons; the VM cut the youngest son, sprinkled blood on him on the body of the COP , he came to life; revived his son with live water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM made a silver one; everyone lets a block of stone on his site with his foot; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when he throws his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; along the way they they go to those three old women, the wife turns them young; at home, VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed, putting out their fire; they swear; he opened, their daughter-in-law turned them young; VM scatters chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance is all around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237.