K27z4b. Dressed as a man, the wife helps her husband out.

.17.21.23.28.-.31.33.

The husband leaves, meets the deceiver and loses to him everything he has. The wife comes disguised as a man, punishes the deceiver and helps her husband out.

Palestinians, Tibetans, Sindhi, Punjabi, Kashmiris, (Nepali), Sinhalese, Russians (Olonets), Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Persians, Bukhara Arabs, Mountain Tajiks, Yazgulyams, Yagnobs, Norwegians, Latvians, Kyrgyz, (Kazakhs).

Western Asia. Palestinians [the fisherman caught a huge fish; she tells him to take it to the Sultan; give the water in which it will be washed to the mare, let the sultan and his wife eat the meat, and the fisherman and his wife; then children will be born; fish It smells bad, but the fisherman talked about its wonderful properties; count the eggs in the pan, but do not count the months of the pregnant woman; the mare gave birth to two foals; the king gave his son to the fisherman's wife to feed both; the prince is Hasan, the fisherman's son is Hussein, he is smarter; when are they 15 years old? his mother is unhappy that he is holding the fisherman's son by his brother; they sat on horses born at the same time as them and went on a journey; they stayed with an old woman; she says that the local sultan is evil; his daughter's suitors give impossible assignments, the failed ones are cutting their heads; more than 300 princes have already died; the old man teaches Hussein to gain trust in the guards, they will miss, then wait until he falls asleep a man with a big mustache, steal his key and go to the princess; when Hussein entered, the princess mistook him for Hassan; gave her ring, necklace and curl; the king demands signs from her daughter; Hussein brings ring; necklace; curl; king: this is not a princess's curl; Hussein: if we do not give your daughter, we will defeat your kingdom; the vizier advises you to give it away; old man: on Hasan's wedding night, my wife and I will die; bury; you will see so much gold, how much coal; on his wedding night, Hassan left Hussein alone, but he secretly went to the old people; after the funeral, the brothers built a mausoleum over their grave and took the gold; one day Hassan began to watch what kind of dowry did the wife bring in the chest; a bird flew in and took the necklace; Hassan ran after her barefoot and in his underwear; found himself at the old woman's house; spent the night there; found a necklace in the bird's nest; sold from he had one stone, bought clothes with this money; hired a job; Hussein dressed Hassan's wife Kadiem, became an assistant himself, and they began to go to cities to find out about Hassan; Hassan came and did not recognize him in the kadia Hussein; said he returned 10 gold to the jeweler, to whom he sold the necklace stone, but he said he knew nothing (the stone costs 10,000 gold); Hussein sent for the jeweler; he denied everything; Hussein ordered write a letter to his wife and seal it: give him the stone from that necklace; the stone was brought; the kadiy imprisoned the jeweler for three years and Hussein for 4 days; this is to prevent him from going anywhere; Hussein came to prison and explained to Hassan that Kadi was his wife; everything is fine; they returned to their father king; Hussein hears doves talking under the tree: if Hussein does not sleep, it's good; he must stay alone for the night Hassan ; a demon will come to kill Hassan, Hussein will kill him; otherwise he will be accused of killing Hassan; if Hussein talks about something, he will become petrified; he killed the demon, put the body in a bag and went to bury him; he was grabbed guards, accused of murder; the king ordered to tell, he turned into a stone pillar; Hassan put up a tent next to the stone to die there; sitting in a tent, he hears the doves talking; tomorrow the wife will give birth; if To kill a newborn on that rock, Hussein will come to life; if you put a loquat branch (Eriobotrya japonica) around the child's neck, he will also come to life; Hassan did so, everyone is alive and well; Hussein married his daughter Vizier]: Littmann 2016:160-183.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. The Tibetans [a foolish Muslim young man was picking yellow flowers; a passer said that now his feet were yellow, so he was about to die; the young man dug his own grave and lay down; the man carried a vessel of oil to the king, offered him to carry it, promising a chicken; the young man began to think how it would bring him chickens, etc., he eventually married; stumbled and broke the vessel; the man brought him to the king, who laughed, gave the young man a purse with gold; when the young man came to the house, the dog grabbed the purse; the mother poured sugar on the roof, told her son that sugar was falling from the sky; while the son was collecting sugar, the mother took the dog's gold; agreed on marriage; the young man promised to come to the bride's house in the evening; rides a horse and sees a shadow, takes it for a stalker spirit, consistently throws him all his garments, jumps off his horse, hides in the shadows of the poplar, where the shadow disappears; climbed onto the poplar, fell asleep; the travelers picked everything up, sat down under the poplar to divide; the young man shouts from the tree: and to me; they ran away, the young man went down, dressed and sat on his horse; during At the wedding ceremony, the young man put the best pieces for his mother in a jug; put his hand deep, she got stuck; I had to say that he no longer wanted to eat; wife: knock a jug on a white stone on the street; it turned out that he hit his father-in-law on the head; thinking that he had killed the man, the young man ran away; in some yard he lay down first on honeycombs and then on his hair; in the morning he decided that he had been turned into punishment for murder in the sheep; joined the flock; at night the thieves came to steal the sheep, found the biggest young man; on the river bank they wanted to slaughter the sheep, the young man shouted that it was not necessary; the thieves ran away, the young man returned to his wife; through He went to work for several years; the owner said that it would not be a servant who would hold the lamp at night, but a cat; if this did not happen, the guest would take all his property, and if so, he would give everything to the owner; so this the man regularly robbed travelers; after losing, the young man remained a servant in the house; the wife dressed up as a man, went in search; agreed with her husband that he would release the mice; the third time the cat rushed after the mouse, dropped the lamp; husband and wife received wealth, returned home]: O'Connor 1906, No. 6:30-42 (retelling in Parfionovich 1976:110-121, hero name Lodup).

South Asia. Sindhi [the king falls ill with leprosy, no one talks to him; the parrot promises to bring medicine if the king releases him; climbs into the crack of the rock from the rain; there is a myna (locust starling, Acridotheres tristis) promises to bring medicine from Persia (these are the flowers of a local tree) if the parrot marries her daughter; she brought it, took the parrot, flew away without fulfilling its promise; the myna and her daughter flew then; the king recovered, and the myna and his daughter complained to him about the parrot; he responded with a story of two brothers; one lived with his wife and children, the other was wandering, and came to his brother's place to eat once a month; his wife is unhappy; when his brother came, she put a bandage around his neck, turning him into an ox; told her husband that his brother had brought the ox to work; one day an ox at a watering hole, the participants of the wedding procession approach, the bride says that this is not an ox, but a man who was turned into an ox by his daughter-in-law; she took off her bandage and became human again; the groom thought that the bride was a witch herself; he and both brothers went to another country; the king made them guards in the palace; married against their will; the abandoned bride and former wives of both brothers flew in the form of black cocks; the new wives understood everything, became colorful roosters, started with those fight, telling husbands to finish off blacks when they fall; husbands killed all six and left; protecting women, Myna tells a different story in response; a jealous merchant does not sell for fear of leaving his wife; she gives he has white clothes: if stains appear, I am wrong; in one city, the princess offers to play dice for property; the merchant loses, like everyone else before him, sold to work in an oil mill; the king is surprised that the worker's clothes remain snow-white; when he finds out what is going on, he orders the merchant's wife to be brought to him; the courtier arrives by ship, the merchant's wife tells her people to throw those who come in the chest into the sea, sails away to the court's ship, dressed as a man, comes to play dice with the princess; finds out that the princess has two mice; one extinguished the lamp, the other at that moment turned the enemy's bone over if she fell there six; the merchant's wife releases the cat, wins, frees the prisoners, buys her husband, they return home; the king offers Maina to stay at court: maybe the parrot will still marry her ugly daughters; the offended myna and her daughter fly away, the parrot stays]: Schimmel 1995, No. 21:177-187; Punjabi [Prince Ghool refuses to marry; asks a girl for water at the well; girl (she is the daughter of a blacksmith Alima): this is the prince no one marries; he promises to marry her; she asked for a year's delay; put the growing melons in a vessel; the melons have grown, she offered to extract them; no one can; she soaked the clay, widened her necks, took out melons; after the wedding, the prince regularly whips his wife; she advises to get the princess better and beat her; the princess offers to play three games of chess; after losing the first, the prince gives the horse, the second to her mercy, the third goes to clean the stable; the wife, wearing men's clothes, goes in search, saves the drowning rat, she explains that the princess has a cat with a magic lamp on her head; this makes her invisible, she rearranges the figures and the princess always wins; the wife releases the rat, the cat rushes after her, the wife knocks the lamp off her head, the cat runs away; the princess loses; but she is silent, she must be talked three times; the rat is responsible for the princess, she thinks the leg of the bed is talking, yelling at her; the wife tells long stories twice the rat comments, the princess shouts that this is not the case; the wedding, but the imaginary prince asks to postpone the authentic marriage for six months; frees the enslaved but not her husband; tells him to wear her masculine outfit and give it to her his own, groom; the prince brings the princess; the blacksmith's daughter shows his clothes to the groom; he realizes that his first wife got the princess; everything is fine]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 80:313-330; Kashmiris [ the wealthy merchant is a stupid son; he was ashamed to marry him, but his wife insisted on finding a bride; the father agreed to give his son three coins; let him buy something for himself, the other she will throw it into the river, on the third he will buy food, drink, gnaw, plant it in the garden, and more food for the cow; the blacksmith's daughter: leave one coin in your pocket and buy a melon for the other, it has all five things; father does not I believed that my son had come up with it himself; when he found out about the blacksmith's daughter, he decided to marry her son; he came to the blacksmith, only my daughter was at home; - Where are the parents? - The father went to buy a ruby for a cowrie, and the mother went to sell words; explained that the father went to buy lamp oils and the mother went to marry; people advised the groom to say that he would beat every day the wife had 7 shoes; the blacksmith offered to cancel the wedding, but the daughter said she would settle the matter; the first night she said it was not good to quarrel on the wedding day; then the first week; and then, as usual, returns to his parents for a while; the merchant's wife insisted that he give his son money to trade; a young merchant comes to a luxurious house; the hostess offers to play backgammon; the cat is taught to extinguish the lamp rang, at that moment the hostess replaces backgammon; the merchant lost his property, wife and himself; occasionally gave home a letter to his father, in which he described everything as it was, and to his wife, in which he wrote that he was rich, and when she returns, he will beat her with a shoe; the person sent accidentally mixed up the letters; the wife in a man's dress came to the cat's owner, asked the servants what was going on, took a mouse with her; released when the cat was supposed to turn off the lamp; the hostess lost everything, including herself; the husband did not recognize his wife, she appointed him her sardar, hid his prison clothes; when the husband was going to beat his wife with shoes at home, she was in his presence She told her parents everything, showed his clothes; the hostess, now a slave, confirmed everything; the old merchant ordered all the treasures to be handed over to her daughter-in-law, not to her fool's son]: Knowles 1888:144-153; (cf. Nepali [no one wants to marry a lazy guy who promises to beat his wife; one girl married him; gave him a hundred rupees, sent him to earn money; you can earn money, then hit; the young man went in one house; there is one-legged: your father took my leg to repair and did not return it; the young man had to pay 50 rupees; in another house blind in one eye; the same, the other 50 rupees; in the third, the hostess: if my chicken sings rooster, you will become my slave, if not, the woman will give the guest all the property; the chicken sang; the wife went to look for her husband; told one-legged that her father-in-law has many legs - she needs a second leg to find the first one; took cutter; one-legged returned the money; the same one-eyed; in the woman's house hears a conversation between a chicken and a rooster in the basket under her basket; swapped birds; when a rooster screamed, under the basket it turned out to be a rooster; all the mistress's property, including the slave, went to the young man's wife; he respected his wife]: Sakya, Griffith 1984:130-133); Sinhalese [parents bring the prince one wife after another; he He asks everyone to heat water for him, they refuse, he sends them back; they paid more for the last one, she heated the water, they began to live together; contrary to the warning, the prince goes to town with the merchants where the hetera lives; she has a cat holding a lamp; merchants bet: if the cat does not drop the lamp during the meal, the merchants will lose all their property, and if he drops it, they will get the whole city of hetera; the merchants lost; the prince's wife in a man's outfit went to save her husband; released four mice, the cat did not move; three more - the cat dropped the lamp; the wife returned the prince, everything is fine]: Parker 1914a, No. 105: 137-141 (transfer to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 100:245-247).

Central Europe. Russians (North? the place of recording is not specified, but the plot is used in the epic about Stavra Godinovich, recorded mainly in Olonets Gubernia.) [the king went to a distant land, where the Jews of Christ crucified; the local king put him in prison; they plow prisoners during the day, and they sit in chains at night; so three years; the king managed to send a letter to his wife: all sell, buy me back; the queen dressed up as a guslar, came to that king to play; he is happy; the guslar asks to give him one slave for his labors, chooses her husband, who does not recognize his wife; on the way they they said goodbye, the queen came back earlier, dressed up as a woman again; the husband wants to judge the queen for walking somewhere, but did not come to buy him; she tells everything, plays the harp; feast]: Afanasiev 1958 (3), No. 338:80-81.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Azerbaijanis [the Shah invites merchants to play backgammon; if his cat keeps seven lamps on his tail until morning, the Shah will take his property and put him in prison, or if he does not hold him, on the contrary; the cat did not move, the merchant lost everything; the servant told his wife; she ordered to catch mice, disguised herself as a merchant, came with a caravan; during the game, her servants began to release mice, the cat dropped lamps, the merchant was released, and the Shah was put in prison]: Akhundov 1955:306-307.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Mazendaran, Khorasan, Isfahan) [a trained cat holds a lit candle all night; another releases a mouse, the cat rushes after it, the candle falls; an episode in the context of the bet; the young man puts all his possessions, his clever wife wins and returns everything; the cat reacts to the third mouse released; in the Khorasan version, the youngest of 7 brothers falls in love when he sees a portrait of the princess; kills the seven devas guarding her garden, removes the ring from the sleeping princess's finger; the king sets three conditions for marriage, including the cat must drop the candle]: Marzolph 1984, No. 217:56-57; Uzbeks [Ahmad goes trade; the owner of the caravanserai offers to play chess; if her cat keeps the lamp on her head all night, she will win; A. lost everything, becomes a servant; A. Zukhra found out that there are no mice in that country; she takes four mice, releases it, the cat drops the lamp, Z. played everything and took her husband]: Rogov 1980:315-318; Bukhara Arabs [the girl promises a month in advance teach the king's son to read and write; the young man wants to marry her; the emir had to be allowed, although the girl comes from a poor family; every day the emir's son beat his wife; her mother understood why her daughter was losing weight; gave her an image Peri show her husband; he will go to look for peri and disappear - you will get rid of him; the emir's son came to the garden, three doves came down, became human, offered to play, he lost everything; came to the city of that peri what was in the portrait; she gave it to the hangman, but the hangman did not execute him, but put him to work in a butter churn; he sent a letter to his father asking him to kill his wife; the messenger handed the letter to the father of the wife of the emir's son; she took the letter away, replaced her with a request to take care of her wife; the emir took his daughter-in-law, dressed well; she put on men's clothes, went to Peri; knowing the art of peri, she beat the peri-doves, they promised her help; to beat that peri, you have to make the first move; then come with her to a room with three beds; (that woman needs to talk); under each one there will be one of the peri; you have to ask for a red bed tell a fairy tale; the peri hiding under it tells; the khatib, the carpenter, the tailor, the jeweler stopped for the night; the carpenter made a doll, dressed the tailor, the jeweler dressed up, the khatib asked God to put it in it the soul and it came to life; who should a woman be awarded? peri: khatyba; since she spoke first, she had to agree to become the wife of an imaginary man; she promised to do so after the bath; the wife sent her husband instead, opened herself to him, returned to her father-in-law, the emir; When the emir's son and his Peri wife arrived, he sent a letter to his father asking him to kill his first wife; he intended to do so, but she asked for permission to give her husband the clothes he had taken off in the bathhouse; son the emir lived his life with two wives]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 35:230-234; mountain Tajiks [the merchant goes to Egypt; the wife gives advice: not to mention his wife, put two mice in the bootlegs of their boots (note: then the narrator missed the episode when the mice are released and the cat drops the candles; in another Tajik fairy tale there is one); the merchant stayed overnight with the old man; he attached candles behind the cat's ears and offered play chess; the merchant lost everything; said that if his wife found out, she would take away the property of the old man and his relatives; in response, the old man promised to bring trousers to the merchant's wife, if possible - he would cut off his head; the old man hired an old woman, but the merchant's wife beat her; the old woman explained to the old man how to crochet and steal trousers; when she saw the loss, the merchant's wife put on a man's outfit and came to the Shah Egypt under the guise of Shah of Baghdad and asked for permission to rule the country for three days; ordered the execution of a chess player, to give his property to the merchant; she came to the merchant under the guise of a Shah; he is looking for a wife to execute her (lost trousers); everything was clarified; wife: you broke both advice - mentioned your wife and did not put mice by the bootlegs]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 13:57-62; Yagnobtsy [the merchant's son came to the king; he sets the condition: if the cat drops the lamp before dawn, he will give the kingdom to the merchant; if he does not drop it, he will take the merchant's caravan and himself; the king took away his wife's ring, sent 40 warriors to pick him up wife; the merchant's father received the visitors as guests; the daughter-in-law overheard their conversation, put poison on the pilaf, they died; she put her heads in the chests, took the cauldron and mouse and came to the king; while playing the mouse released, the cat dropped the lamp; the merchant's wife took him and his goods, left the heads of his warriors to the king; the merchant went to trade again; his companions said that that king molested her; the merchant: if it is not clean, bring her ring; that man gave the merchant's wife three trays of gold and received the ring; the husband threw everything away, left, hired it in the tea room; the wife found it and returned it]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 9:70-79 ; Yazgulyam [the prince asks his father to give him such a wife that the ground does not see her legs, the sun does not see her head, the stranger did not see her face; the vizier brought the old woman's newborn granddaughter, placed it in a hole with seven doors; 18 years later, the prince opened a hole, where the girl is reading a book; she sent for a mullah; the king wants this woman for himself, but the vizier dissuaded him from killing her son; the king sent the prince to trade; agrees to a bet with thief Yakturman: if he proves the infidelity of the prince's wife who remains at home, let him take all his property; the wife became invisible, but Y. found out from the old woman what was on her left shoulder there is a mole; the king was told that his daughter-in-law had caused his son to be in trouble; he sent the torturers, his daughter-in-law decapitated them; threatened the king, put on men's clothes, and flew by air to the city of Y. to her to her parents, said that she was kidnapped by peri, let her parents marry her now; thief Y. wants to marry her, fulfills the conditions: release the prisoners, allow her to be branded in the ass, give away everything is in the house; she flew away through the smoke hole, put on her royal clothes and, pretending to be a man, sat on the throne, forced Y. to stigmatize, confess to slander, separated his head from his body; returned husband prince, hanged that old woman]: Edelman 1966:189-192.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [while in Turkey, a merchant buys a bride, giving gold for her weight; to do this, he borrows money from a loan shark (a Jew), promising a "pound of Christian flesh" as collateral; in his absence, the wife falls in love with three other men; she deceives them all and gets paid from them not to reveal the secret; her husband suspects her of infidelity, punishes and leaves her; she dresses as a man and finds him in a foreign country where he is being held in custody; acting as a judge, she releases her husband]: Hodne 1984, No. 890:195; Latvians [court orders to cut a pound of meat from the accused; his wife disguises as a lawyer, appears in court and saves her husband]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 890:330.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [Sulaimanbay has a son Mamyr; his father tells him to marry a girl, he took a young widow; when he died, S. entrusted his daughter-in-law with a treasury that his rake son did not know about; the wife offers to sell the house to a neighbor; trying to give M. a drink, but he heard her tell her neighbor about the treasure buried on the site; M. sold the house to a neighbor for a price, dug up a treasure and left; the judge decided in favor of M.; M. married Alymkan, daughter of the wise Shakirbay; went with a caravan; the old woman suggests an argument: if her cat holds a candle in her paws all night, M. will give her his property; M. lost, left, was hired as an employee in the caravanserai; the wife put on men's clothes, came to that old woman, released the mouse, got her husband's camels back, found M.; everything is fine]: Brudny 1954:85-90 (=Ledenev 1987:40-46); (cf. Kazakhs (Semipalatinsk Oblast; Ethnographic Review 1912) [a rich man tells his son to marry a girl, not to marry women; he still took a woman; before his death, his father-in-law showed his daughter-in-law where treasures are buried; the daughter-in-law took her lover, gave everything to him; sent her husband to the bazaar in the city; there the khan offers to play: puts a candle on the cat's tail; in whichever direction the candle falls, he lost; the cat always runs to the owner, the candle falls in the opposite direction; the man lost the property and himself; the wife sent her husband to Khan and sister to lime her, but she hid a mouse in her sleeve; the khan lost the property, courtiers and herself; the girl exchanged him for her brother]: Sidelnikov 1964:65-66 (=1971 (3): 51-52).