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The character promises to comply with the request if the other finds out a secret that causes someone's strange behavior.

Iraqi Arabs, Bhils, (Kashmiris), Crimean Tatars, Abazins, Nogais, Ingush, Avars, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Bakhtiyars, Persians, Uzbeks, Tajiks of Sistan, Bartangans, Kazakhs, Uighurs.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs [Hassan is the only son of a wealthy merchant; his father married him to a worthy bride, but H. disappeared in the morning; daughter-in-law asks her father-in-law to allow her to act as his son; became famous hospitality; Sheikh Hatim at-Tai (HT), who is also famous for his hospitality, invited her to marry him; she agreed to the condition that he find out what happened to her missing husband; HT went in search; in one city he ordered a new saddle to a saddle named Hasan as-Sarraj; HT was happy with the new saddle, but the craftsman suddenly cut it to pieces and returned the money; promised to explain his behavior. If HT told him the story of the shoemaker Yusuf al-Iskari; HT found him and saw him go up to the minaret every now and then and then and then and look around; the shoemaker promised to explain his behavior, if HT describes to him the story of the blacksmith Yakub al-Haddad; HT saw him; standing by an anvil, he hit his head with a hammer: first on the forehead, then on the temple, then on the top of his head; he fell and him they took him home; HT came and began to ask questions; but the blacksmith demanded that HT first tell him the story of the fisherman Dawud as-Sammak; he was standing on the riverbank and directing the crowd: people threw at handfuls of wheat and lentils; the fisherman is ready to explain if HT says what causes wind and rain; HT rode into the desert; two fought by raising clouds of dust; they argue over the flying carpet, let the man will judge them; HT threw a stone: who will bring it first; HT stood on the flying carpet and he brought it to the marble palace; there is an old man and a dog tied so that he cannot escape into the shade of the scorching suns; the old man reluctantly agreed to tell about himself; he is a genie in Suleiman's service; he gave him two mares; if you ride one, it would rain, the wind would rise on the other; gave him a magic wand turn people into animals; a dog is the wife and daughter of an uncle whom the narrator raised and married; one day he woke up and his wife is gone, like the rain mare; in the evening he cut his hand to stay awake and secretly followed his wife in the wind mare; saw a terrible efreet ask at the cave what had detained the woman: her children were crying and hungry; when his wife flew back, the narrator cut off efrita's head, put it in a bag and flew home, having time to go to bed before his wife returned; in the morning he asked his wife for fruit; wife: it's not the season; husband: look what's in the bag; the wife begged for forgiveness, but he turned her at the dog, keeps him on water and bread, and whips; the dog cried; the narrator was going to kill HT because he found out of his shame, but HT asked permission to go to the roof for his last prayer; flew to flying carpet; returned it to the genies, told the fisherman about the rain and wind, he talked about himself; one day he pulled out a huge fish; it regurgitated a diamond and jumped back into the water; a fisherman sold a diamond for a thousand gold dinars, but wasted it all to find that fish again; so he hits himself with a hammer - let HT kill him; HT: God punished you for refusing to spend the money usefully, I you are not a judge; HT told the fisherman's story to a blacksmith; he began the story by asking HT to hack him later; he was a wealthy merchant, went with a caravan, leaving his pregnant wife in the care of his mother; multiplying his fortune, returned many years later, looked into the house: his wife and young man were there; he killed his mother, wife and alleged lover; in the morning he found out that it was his son; gradually he went broke and became a blacksmith ; strikes himself three times when his mother, wife, son stand in front of him and ask him what they did wrong; HT: May God increase your suffering, you brought it on yourself; after hearing the story of a blacksmith, a shoemaker also asks him to be killed when he finishes his story; one day a huge bird sat on the minaret; the shoemaker got up and grabbed her leg, but she soared into the air, carrying him; flew into the garden, everything was there for a feast, the man tried 39 dishes, but could not from the 40th; 40 colorful birds flew in; each: whoever tasted from my plate will become my husband; the fortieth bitterly: my brother; these are 40 enchanted daughters genie; a year later, the man has 39 sons and 39 wives; and then he encroached on the 40th; she flapped her wings and he is where he is now; HT: God gives chestnuts to the toothless; I will not cover my sword with the blood of someone who rejected God's blessing; HT gave this story to a saddler, who also asked him to take his life when he finished his own; he was married to the most beautiful girl, but in the morning she disappeared; every time he did He paints her saddle and then cannot part with it and destroys the saddle so that the customer does not take it away; HT realizes that Hassan is in front of him and returned it to his wife; everyone is happy, but HT is still famous for his generosity]: Bushnaq 1987:94-104.

South Asia. Bhila [a man was returning from service; at night he saw the inn kill her son for her lover; in the morning he asked if she felt sorry for the child; instead of answering, she sent a letter to her sister; the sister ordered the kid to be slaughtered on the sacrifice platform; as soon as the man did this, he found himself in the woods near a castle; he hardly climbed the wall, found the bed prepared, and fell asleep; Four fairies appeared in the morning; they left him, became his wives, allowed him to enter all rooms except one; one day he went there; there the donkey told him to sit on him: he would take him far and immediately return him; the donkey went down to the forest for a pile of manure, began to eat it; the man thought he was hungry, jumped to the ground and immediately fell asleep; when he woke up, he found himself with a woman who told him to slaughter a kid; asked her to return him to that world; woman: bring your first child to sacrifice him; when a man brought his eldest son and carried his sword, the woman stopped him: and you still ask why my sister killed the child?] : Grierson 1907:307-308; (cf. Kashmiris [the king learns that the merchant has returned, secretly comes to his house at night; sees the merchant's wife go out with a dish of rice, comes to the fakir, who beats her for being late, tells her to bring her husband's head; she comes back and brings her; he beats her again: if she killed her husband, she will not be loyal to the fakir; in the morning the woman says that her husband was killed by robbers; commits self-immolation; before that, when asked by the king, "If so, why this way, and if so, why is it so?" tells you to go to the woman at the spring; she tells him to go down to the spring and behead the goat; the king finds himself in the Garden of Eden; the peri give him the key to the room, the horse in it, the king sits on the horse, sees everything created by God; then Satan puts him on a donkey, he finds himself in his palace again; comes to that woman with her son, ready to kill him just to see paradise again; answer: the merchant's wife was just as eager fakir as king of the Garden of Eden]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 3:13-17).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [a rich man gives every poor man gold; asks one thing: has he seen such a benefactor; beggar: in Istanbul, a girl gives everyone a shovel of gold; a rich man found this girl; she tells him to go to Selim, he is a muezzin in Hagia Sophia; let him tell first; while S. was reading Azan, he blushed, and when he finished, he became completely black; when S. came down, the rich man asks him what happened to him; he tells him Ask shoemaker Ali first; he sells shoes in armfuls and two people are shoveling money; Ali works non-stop; turning to the left, he says "Oh", to the right, "Phew", and his mouth is red and green flame; in the evening Ali agrees to explain himself; one day a wagon arrived and asked for Ali's shoes; but he hired another shoemaker three times; the man who arrived in anger drenched him hot with water; since then Ali has been waiting for him to return in fear and says Oh and Uf; the rich man gave the story to Selim; he tells how he once began to read azan on the minaret and suddenly found himself in the palace among three beauties; fell in love with one, pulled his hands to her three times until the girls got angry; after that he was back on the minaret and turned red, and then turned black; the rich man gave this story to the girl; to her house robbers climbed the parents, stabbed them, took the gold; the padishah took the orphan to him; she grew up and told the padishah that the robbers were told to live in Hagia Sophia; soldiers killed robbers, money they wore for 6 months, the padishah gave everything to the girl; she distributes the money with a shovel with the hope that her father's will be among the gold ones and he will be a benefactor; after that, the rich man returned home]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 3; Abaza [Katashch and his two older brothers were sent by their father to look for wives; the brothers fell asleep, K. noticed the tents and went there; each of them sits Ainizh playing with an apple; one repeats "Arzan", the other repeats "Urazan" the third is "Surazan"; the Ainyzhi say that these are the names of the prince's daughters, whom they fail to kidnap; K. tells the Ainyzhs to send him to the fortress, takes a handkerchief, bracelet and ring from sleeping girls, and tells the Ainyzhs go up the wall, kills one at a time; the brothers marry these girls; the serpent asks K. to find out why Mukhtar Pasha is angry; K. goes, kills a snake that ate eagle chicks, she takes him across the sea to Mukhtar Pasha, teaches what to do; we must ask why his state died; he will answer, but ask him to pray; M.'s answer: the eldest daughter turned into a snake, ashamed of her father's crimes; the youngest lives with him, but does not show his face; the eagle picked up K. and carried it away, and both seas merged and swallowed the island with M.; the eagle brings K. back, the serpent turns into a beautiful woman - M.'s daughter, K. restores sight to his father blind with tears]: Tugov 1985, No. 33:75-80; Nogais [Khan Altintai gives each poor man a gold coin; vizier: you give once, and a padishah woman as many times as a poor man She comes to her; after changing clothes, A. comes to that woman; she promises to reveal a secret if A. finds out 1) why a blind man goes to the bazaar and gives everyone who hits him a gold coin; a blind man's story: when he was sighted, Molla called him, showed him the man who was throwing gold coins; Molla did not pick them up; and then picked up something else that the man had thrown; Molla refused to explain; then blinded the questioner; this thing makes blind people sighted; go to the bazaar, get hit on the neck and wait for me to make you sighted; 2) then the mall goes up to the minaret 40 times a day and goes down 40 times; molla: me grabbed a bird, it brought me to another village; a rich woman took me by her husband, told me to sell it for how much he bought it; he sold more; she drove it away, the bird took it back; now I'm climbing minaret - did the bird come back; 3) why does the shoemaker sing before lunch and then cry; shoemaker: my wife and I lived well, but she did not eat with him; friends advised me to follow; the wife became a bull, dug dead man, ate his heart; husband told her what he saw; wife: I'll kill if you stay in our village; the shoemaker is glad he got rid of the witch, but regrets a good life with her; padishah woman: I give away gold to the poor, wanting to find a husband among them; the padishah married her and handed over his kingdom to the vizier]: Nogai 1979, No. 25:132-135; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 17 [=Tankieva 2003:239-245; they consider the old man's son insane, he slaughtered the sheep he herded; the father gives it to his seven brothers; they leave him the keys, tell him not to unlock the seventh door; he unlocked, darkness has broken out, a ring remains in his hand; the brothers praise the young man: we were afraid to unlock this door; the brothers went to sell the ring, the man says it was his; judge: bring the second one, otherwise they would be beheaded; the young man goes for the ring; people cannot carry grain overseas , boats drown darkness, takes grain; a young man sails in a boat, fights with darkness, a shoe remains in his hand; residents give him four girls for his four older brothers; in the cemetery, a young man fights with a girl; a young man hits a girl against a gravestone, braids remain in his hand, the girl wanted to take possession of that man's soul; the young man's parents gave three daughters for the remaining three brothers; a young man climbs into the tower, tastes food, hides; three pigeons flew in, became girls; they talk about what happened to them, they want it to the young man; he opens, they give him many rings, instantly deliver him to to the judge; he pours out rings, kills the judge, gives him to his seven brothers; they promise to marry him to the sister of seven brothers who drink human blood; she promises to marry him if he finds out what happened to his nose Mery-Total; a young man meets MT, together they steal a herd of underwater horses, but MT refuses to talk about his nose; so three times (the second time they kill the owner, the third the owner of the horses); young man: who this frozen man? MT: my wife; between the mountains Sarmak, there is a hare in it, a box in the hare, there is a fish in it; if you rub your wife with it, she will come to life; the young man on horseback jumped into Sarmak's mouth, cut him, took out a hare, a box, a fish, revived him MT's wife; MT: I beat my wife, she scratched my nose, I turned her into ice; the young man married the sister of seven brothers who drank human blood]: 102-108; Kibiev, Malsagov 1981 [the horse tells the aged warrior to give his young horseman; a young man comes to the tower; the hostess promises to become his wife if he finds out the secret of the noseless Sealaime; he will reveal it to the feat; the horseman wins, companions the young man; kills the terrible wolf Berza Kazá ("wolf puppy"); the companion brings the horseman to his castle, where his brother's sick wife; the horseman goes for medicine, the horse carries him between the crushing rocks; the horseman takes out a splinter to a lion, he gives medicine - a jug of milk; the beauty has recovered, advised her husband to ask her husband for a sword with a broken end and a gray oath as a reward; the husband is S.; he says that he is with seven comrades were chased by a seven-headed serpent, threw a stone, killed his comrades, the tip of his nose was cut off; the horseman tells the horse to return to its former owner, sits on a nag, it becomes a heroic horse; Dzhigit comes to the bride; wedding]: 86-99 (=Malsagov 1983, No. 20:115-119; similar version or the same in another translation in Tankiev 2003:192-195, Sulaima's name); Avars [after the death of his father three princes consistently go to marry the king's daughter on the south side; the elder, the middle one replies to the old woman that the bride is more valuable to them than her advice; the groom must defeat the princess in order to marry; but she wins them, their heads are cut off; the youngest listens to the old woman, who explains that the princess wins because she shows her opponent's breasts; the prince did not look at his chest, the princess promised to become his wife, but taking it out a golden shoe, asked her to find a pair; the prince came to a beautiful valley, where there were tents, but no people; a young warrior appeared, they fought all day; the shepherds told the prince that there was a princess in the fortress, guarded by two dragons; the prince threw half a ram to each, recognized the princess as yesterday's warrior, won, she gave him a second golden shoe, he brought it to the first princess; now she asks to know what happened between Balay and his wife Boti; a three-headed serpent crawls to the nest of a huge eagle; a young man kills a snake, an eagle brings him to Balay; Balay gives half of the leftovers left after the dog a petrified woman; makes her eat with the blow of a whip; this is Bati; Balai's story: when Bati lay down with him, she was icy; Balay watches her; at night she leaves in the wind horse, he chases on a horse cloud; Seven sledge giants play with her; Balay kills six, cuts off the seventh's leg; Bati returns first, turns Balai into a female for seven years; then into a horse; then into a hawk; the hawk throws on the whip, restores human form; turns Bati into a female; from a horse; into a half-petrified woman; the young man's bride is Bati's sister; the eagle carries the young man away from Balai's arrow; the king kills daughter, young man kills a lame sledge in the dungeon and his son, born of a sledge by a royal daughter]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:269-280 (=Dirr 1920, No. 13:71-80); Megrelians (p. Chakvinji, Zugdidsky University) [{subline; sometimes not entirely clear}; the visitor promises the childless king that he will have a son Jimushieri, but he should not see an egg or hear such a word in his life; one day J. hears the word, tells tell her parents everything, leaves; the girl will marry someone who explains that there are "roses of hearts and longing hearts", the loser head to head for a goal; J. comes to the sad king, who will talk about it, but then he will cut off his head; the horse promises to carry J. over the wall; the king says that his wife fell in love with a 12-headed giant; the king's sister found out, his wife turned her into a white dog; the king cut off the giant's head, turned his wife into a falcon; J. rode away, married that girl, returned to his parents]: Petrov 1894:78-89; Armenians [the dervish tells the childless king to eat an apple in half with the queen, two sons will be born, one must be given to him; gives them the names Nazar and Kazar; N. grows up, the dervish takes N.; leads to the rock, reads prayers, the rock opens, N. must take an old candlestick from there, not touch the gold; N. took also coins, the rock collapsed, N. got out and the dervish died; N. stops in the caravanserai, discovers that the candlestick produces gold; Beauty Girl opens her face for 1000 coins; promises to marry N. if he goes 1) to Izmir and finds out why Abraham-Aga's horse eats flints; N. promises A. to fulfill the request, otherwise he will not eat with him; he has to tell everything; his wife was picky, but he found her hugging a watchman in the hayloft; he covered them himself so that they would not freeze; his wife hit him with a pipe, turning him into a stray dog; the priest's daughter guessed it, stole the phone, and returned A. human appearance, and he turned the watchman into a donkey and his wife into a horse; when the donkey died, the horse began to fight, and since then A. has been feeding him flint; 2) in Kayseri - why does Majnum-Khoja, going up to the minaret, says," There they are, thank Allah," and when he descends, groans; M. says that the peri doves took him to heaven, alone became his wife on the condition that he would not groan; one day groans with homesickness; king peri him forgives and lets him visit the house on the condition that M. does not say anything there; M. let it slip; when he climbed the minaret, seeing his family in the sky and said, "There they are," his wife accused him of breaking the word, disappeared with her children; he went down and groaned; 3) to Kars - why, after fulfilling the order, the saber maker returns the money every time and breaks his sword; when he got married, he went to make money, he was away for 20 years; when he returned, he saw a rich house and a wife with a young boy in it; hacked both, but it turned out that the guy was his son; every time the Beauty Girl asks if Nazar is all still wants to marry her; yielding to his request, he comes with him to his father; everything is fine]: Nazinyan 2014:82-93 (in another translation =1959:106-119); Azerbaijanis [poor Mammad marries the king's daughter; The king tells us to find out what Gul Sumanu and Suman Guli did; M. sees a tailor who sews suits and immediately cuts them with scissors, asking the same question out loud; the same is a saddle (breaks saddles), a blacksmith (breaks saddles) forged knives); M. tells everyone that he will answer this question; three divas cannot share a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth and an invisible crown; M. fires three arrows to make the divas race, picks up wonderful objects, flies to Suman; he agrees to tell, but warns that he kills those who hear; feeds the dog well, gives the mule bones, hits the skull with a stick; says that his wife went to bed cold; the groom says that every night she puts on S.'s clothes and jumps somewhere; S. rides after her like this; there are 40 robbers in the house, their head Harami-Bashi asks why the woman lingered - S. should have been killed; S. kills 39 robbers entering the stable one by one, defeated HB, put his head in a bag; when they returned home, his wife turned S. into a dog; she was taken by a butcher, a dog showed him the gold stolen by his assistant, the butcher's mother returned S. to her former appearance; his wife turned him into a crow; the butcher's mother regained her appearance; then into a donkey (the same); the third time S. managed to turn his wife into a mule; dog S., who helped him fight HB; S. is going to kill M., tells the doors to close, the carpets to curl up, but M. escaped wearing an invisible crown; since the mystery has been revealed, S. killed the mule; the king gave M. his daughter]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1936:145-154; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 8 [the dervish tells the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife, the wife will give birth to twins, one dervish will take for herself; Mirza Mahmood goes with the dervish, Ismail stays with the padishah; the dervish tells MM to take a lamp from the cave, not to take gold; he takes it, manages to jump out, the door slams shut, the dervish dies; MM lives with the old woman ; the lamp creates gold; you have to pay ten gold to see Princess Dunya Guzal's little finger; MM pays thousands to see her face for a month, wants to marry; she tells me 1) to find out why in Istanbul Useini-keosa feeds the horse with sea pebbles; he tells how his wife cheated on him with an arap, turned him into a dog; the neighbor's daughter takes W.'s wife's whip, turns him back into a man; he turns him an arapa for a donkey, his wife on a horse, he eats pebbles, flies to Tehran in an hour; 2) why does a blacksmith break his swords in Baghdad; he went to work for 15 years, when he returned and mistook his son for his wife's new husband, hacked both; 3) why does a mullah cry in Telavi when she comes down from the minaret; three Peri sisters flew to the minaret with doves, took the mullah as the youngest's husband; their father ordered him never to sigh homeland; he violated the ban, he was returned, his wife flew back; MM married DG], 65 []: 108-117, 324-328; Rudenko 1970, No. 44 [], 59 [fisherman Ali's son released the fish caught by his father, his father drove him away; he hired an owner who had to work for one day out of 40; he ordered him to get into a bag of bull skin, the Simurg bird lifted the bag against the rock; the owner ordered the diamonds lying everywhere to be thrown down; Ali rushed off a cliff into the sea, he was picked up by the fish he saved; a year later, Ali is hired by his previous owner, who does not recognize him, Ali invites him to get into the skin of a bull himself; promises to tell you how to get out of rocks, if he drops diamonds on him and a note to his wife to marry Ali's daughter; the owner jumps into the sea, dies, Ali marries his daughter; the woman giving away gold tarreks was presented as a monster, gave birth to a piece meat, it was cooked, fat turns plates into gold, she gives them away; asks why the craftsman in Baghdad breaks his saddles, and Akhund cries when he looks at the tree; the saddler says that only learns to make saddles; one wife Akhunda was peri, shed her snakeskin, the other burned it; his wife, then two sons, became pigeons, flew away; Ali married the owner of the plates]: 107-115, 218-222.

Iran - Central Asia. Bakhtiyary [the only son of a rich man saw the merchant's daughter's face and fell in love; her father will give her away on condition that the groom finds out why a merchant keeps his wife on a chain and feeds her like a dog; young man went in search, fell asleep in the forest; heard chicks squeaking; killed a dragon when hit in his head with a stone; every year he ate the offspring of the Simurg bird; Simurg sees a sleeping man under a tree, thinks it's him killed chicks, grabs a stone to throw at a person, the chicks stop it; Simurg promises to help the young man; says that the merchant beheads everyone who tells his story; teaches how to avoid death, gives his feathers to summon her; before the merchant is going to kill him, ask permission to go to the roof to pray and burn the pen; she will fly and carry him away; takes the young man to the castle a merchant; he treats a dog like a wife and a woman like a dog; warns that he will kill a young man if he hears his story, unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him; once he let fish into the pool, became to swim; the wife was shy: there are males among the fish; the husband poisoned the fish; noticed that his two horses Wind and Cloud are losing weight; groom: you order to ride one or the other every night; when your wife , as always, offered him wine and sleeping pills in the evening, the merchant quietly poured it out, pretended to be sleeping; his wife pulled out his seal from his pocket, ordered a horse to ride in his name, and the diva galloped to the cave ; began to caress him; the husband rushed at the diva; the wife ordered the diva to kill him; because the merchant's dog bit the diva, the merchant managed to cut off his head; at home he chained his wife, and benefited the dog; the young man went up to the roof, burned the pen, Simurg took it away, the young man got a wife]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 36:236-243; Persians: Jaliashvili, Faras 1967 (Isfahan) []: 136-144; Osmanov 1987:105-109 [son grew up, asks the mother what kind of garden he is not allowed into; the mother cries back; he climbed into the garden, chased the gazelle, she became a girl; agrees to marry a young man if he answers her question; the room is full of suitors who could not answer; What did the Flower (Gol) do to the cypress branch (Sanoubar - "cypress") and what did Cypress do to the Flower? A young man spends the night under a tree, hears three feather-doves talking; Gol is a butcher in the city, in front of his shop a dog in a gold collar; he cares for her; you have to get to him; the old man gives the young man a pen - if you burn it, a bird will arrive and save him; the butcher agrees to let the young man in for the night on the condition that he cuts off his head in the morning; during dinner, Gol feeds the dog food, and the woman in the cage throws leftovers; the butcher agrees say that the woman's name was S.; she was a beloved wife, but had a lover; G. began to fight with him, his wife grabbed G. by the scrotum, but the dog grabbed his wife's leg; G. killed his lover, put S. in a cage, now takes care of the dog; in the morning the young man burned the feather and the Seamorg bird took it to the gazelle girl; she was ready to become his wife, but he told Simorg to take her to Mount Kaf and throw it to the predatory beasts; the young man remained bachelor], 109-124 [the father tells him not to hunt the mountain after his death; the elder, middle brother goes, the green rider kills them; the younger puts a wooden figure on the horse, sneaks inside the rider mountains; the ploughman is afraid to talk to him, MM harnesses two lions; the fish in the well gives water in exchange for the girl to be eaten; MM kills the fish, refuses the crown and the padishah's daughter, asks for help return home; the padishah tells her to turn to Simorg; MM kills the dragon crawling to her nest; Simorg carries the MM up, he feeds and water her, cuts off a piece of her thigh, on the ground she puts meat back; MM enters the fortress, is ready to kill the green rider, he turns out to be the daughter of Padishah Peri; they fall in love; the divas take her away, MM burns Simorg's feather, she tells me to ask for a horse from a stone on the seashore for eight legs, disagree with a six-legged; MM takes a six-legged, peri sends him back, he brings an eight-legged (between that, the divas grabs him, MM replies that he wants to be thrown into the mountains, he throws him into the sea, he swims out); Peri's father takes her away; MM takes Soleiman's flying carpet, invisible hat, magic bow and arrows from the divas; Peri's father returns his daughter to him; her relatives tell him to give his son-in-law a task find out the secret of Sad and Sanoubar; MM completes the task, gets a wife (a long series of episodes - one character will answer if the hero answers a new question)]; Uzbeks [rich Atameta was famous for his generosity; one old man consistently approaches the 40 doors of A.'s house, each time receiving gold; but when he comes back to the first one, A. recognizes him; in response, he says that the daughter of another rich man has 160 doors to the palace and she gives everyone; A. comes to that girl; she asks them to go find out why the inhabitants of a distant city are crying; residents refuse to talk to A., beat him; one person tells him ask the cripple - he screams the most; the cripple first demands to know why one young man was imprisoned in Zindan; a person sitting in Zindan demands to know about King Sanavar's relationship with his wife Gul; the path kills a wolf who is going to devour the chicks of the Samrak bird; A. asks her to take him to King S.; he gives the remains of the pilaf to the dog and chickens; I agree to tell you why, but then he will hang A.; his story : The groom admits that S. Gul ("rose") leaves on horseback at night (so horses lose weight); S. rides after the palace of divas; seven-headed is her lover; S. consistently kills 40 divas who come out, fights with the 7-headed; wife refuses to help, and the dog bites the diva's leg; S. returned his wife and turned her into a chicken; S. did not have time to hang A.: the Simurg bird took him back; he told the story to a man sitting in Zindan; he explained what is even lower is his wife's palace, where she lets him in once a week; (hereinafter other stories: misfortunes through women); but A. still marries a girl]: Ostroumov 1890, No. 12:65-79; Tajiks Sistan [ The king and vizier stopped at the shepherd's house to wait out the snow; the shepherd's son Otai slaughtered all 7 goats for them; the vizier invited O. to visit him later; O. arrived, but realized that the vizier himself was poor; turned to God; heard a voice: dig there; found treasures and a source of water; set up a hospice where everyone was given gifts; the dervish is dissatisfied: Ty's girl is much more generous; O. came to T.; she promises to explain where she came from wealth, if O. finds out why a mullah proclaims Azan on the hill, laughs and then cries; mullah: find out why a young man on the shore cooks pilaf, treats everyone, and throws the leftovers into the river; young man: find out why King Ahmad, the carefree, puts the throne on the square, tells them to amuse and treat the people; the king says, promising to execute O. after that; king: he has agreed with his wife not to remarry if the other dies; the wife wrote that she was dying, the king scoped himself, and she returned healthy and began to sleep with the black slave; O. ran away; the young man's story: he was hired for 40 days of rest and 1 work; the owner tells him get into the bull's skin; the vultures lifted him to the rock, the owner tells me to throw the gems down, took them away; the young man threw himself into the river and swam out; fish: this is for the kindness of your father, who saved me from a drying puddle; the young man returned unrecognized to that man, asked him to show him how to get into the wineskin, asked him to drop the stones and left the owner to die on the rock; now he generously feeds and throws pilaf into the river; the story of the mullah: he was carried away by a bird, became peri, told him not to be surprised; she gave the first son to a lion, the second was thrown into the water, the third was given to the wolf; the mullah objected; peri told the lion, the water and the wolf bring the children, they are already grown up; then she took the mullah and left it on the hill; every day she arrives, the mullah laughs, and then disappears and he cries; Ty's story: she is the king's daughter, who fed the guests grass kimiyo, they turned into gold, he became rich; she fed grass to her father, told her to make many precious things out of gold, became fabulously rich; Otam and Ty got married]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 3:39-52; Bartangans [the king has three sons, nothing to eat, the eldest went hunting; the goat is chasing, the master comes out; the prince: I did not know that this was yours; the owner indicates where there are many goats; the prince is coming, there is a beautiful house with a girl in it; she will marry someone who says what Gul did to Sinavbar and what S. did to G.; the one who did not find an answer will be executed; in three years, the elder prince has not found an answer; a girl cut off his head and threw his body into the well; the same with the middle prince; the youngest came to the tree by the pond; there was a three-headed dragon in the pond, the Simurg bird's nest on the tree; the dragon eats a cub every year, the last one is left; the prince cut off the dragon's head; Simurg tells us to prepare food: she will take the prince to Mount Kof, where you can find the answer; there was not enough food, they returned; next time they almost flew The prince cut off the meat from his hand; when they arrived, Simurg regurgitated it and grafted it back; let a hair call her; the prince met the old woman and asked a question; the old woman: S. - tsar, G. - his wife; the prince came in to them; S. sits on the ottoman, his wife in a cage; S. feeds the dog and throws the leftovers to his wife; S. agrees to tell his story, but after telling it, he will kill the listener; G. goes every night to 41 divas; S. with a dog quietly follows her, spies; each diva slapped G. in the face, and she laughs; asks her to go tie up her horse so as not to be free; S. kills 40 divas one at a time; in combat with the main overcomes, but G. sprinkles sand under the diva's feet; after that, the diva knocked down S., but the dog saved him by squeezing the diva's throat; S. tells the executions to execute the prince, but he lit Simurg's hair, she took him away; brought him to that girl; the girl is sister G.; the Tsarevich tells them to revive the brothers, otherwise she will tell everyone about G.; the girl pulled them out of the well and revived them, the prince returned home with her and her brothers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 9:47-55 .

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [Tsar Khatamtai is generous; vizier: there is a queen more generous than you; H. comes several times disguised as a beggar, each time she receives gold; Queen: I can continue to give, but you do not look like a beggar; To find out my secret, first find out why a shoemaker will stab an awl once, laugh, and cry another time; shoemaker: first find out why the muezzin wet his shirt and climbs the minaret shout azan, and when the shirt dries, he goes down again to wet it and again understands and shouts Azan; muezzin: why does the merchant push the diamond every time and throw dust away; merchant: why does he run in the desert naked eget, runs away from a man; H. found a huntsman; the story of a huntsman; he went to the old man; he did not order to open one door; he opened it, there was a girl and a lake; girl: don't dive; eget decided to break this prohibition too , dived and found myself in this desert; missing the girl, I run away from people; the story of a merchant; in his youth he led a wild life; when he died, the father ordered, when his son did all the good, to hang himself on a ring that nailed to the matitsa at home; my son hanged himself, the matitsa cracked, gold and diamonds fell down, my father's note there; I won't grind diamonds anymore, let my imaginary friends burst with envy; a muezzin's story; he got wet because of the rain, he climbed the minaret, a huge bird picked it up, threw it into the cemetery; he saw three people bury something; then he was captured and accused of murdering the padishah's daughter; he spoke about When he saw, the princess was still alive, he was married to her; but he wanted to go home; the bird took him back; but now he wants to go back to his wife; because his clothes were wet that time, he constantly wets her, climbs the minaret and waits for the bird; the shoemaker's story; he believed his wife; neighbors advised me to watch her at night; the wife got up, went out to the thieves and robbers, spent the night with them; in the morning he hinted that I saw everything; wife: I'm leaving and I'm not killing you just because you are a good person; the queen's story; ishan came to her, bells on her feet; this is to drive away small creatures and not step on them; gone expensive rosary; the king ordered the ishan to be searched; he turned out to be the main robber, accumulated untold riches; since then the queen has given gifts to everyone; the king returned to himself and made the vizier who advised him go to the queen, chief]: Barag 1990, No. 24:65-70.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [bai visited three sides, died on the way to the fourth; before his death he tells four sons (the youngest from his youngest wife) to go there; the brothers spent the night in an empty yurt, where in a cauldron meat, and kumis in the sub; first Zadà's younger brother went to bed, then he began to guard the elders' sleep; killed the seven-headed old woman Jalmouth Kempir; another old woman said that the prince was building a ladder the princess living between earth and sky; Z. was not afraid to get up, killed the dragon who was about to swallow the princess, returned to the brothers, leaving a note; the other dragon grabs Z., turns into a woman tells us to know what Saduar did to the rose and what the rose did to Saduar; the old woman sends an answer to the mullah, who sends an answer to the cherry plum kara-gus (bird hero); Z. swims to the island, lies under a tree, kills a dragon , crawling to eat the chicks; their mother arrives with storm and wind; brings Z. to the city of Saduar, leaves her pen; S., the local king; tells how he rushed at the black slave, the lover of his wife Rosa; his wife hit him with a cane, turned him into a crane for three years, a pole for three more; into a cat; Rosa's six-year-old son touched the cat with a cane, restoring S. to human appearance; S. turned his wife into a donkey, then her and lover in pigs, people beat them to death; S. wanted to execute Z., but Alyp-Kara-Gus took him away; that woman turned out to be S.'s daughter, S. passed her off as Z.; king of heaven passed him off as Z. and his daughter; brothers They buried Z. in a hole to take his wives; he burned the pen, the bird brought him home; he fired arrows into the sky, they fell, pierced the brothers]: Potanin 1916, No. 47:159-162; (cf. Kyrgyz [before marriage, the mother advises her son to ask the khan to talk about Gulbar; the khan tells how he loved his wife G. when he was young; in the morning he found the horse in soap; the groom says that G. at night leaves; Khan follows G. to the ugly sorcerer's house in the forest; he beats G., Khan kills him, G. swears, runs away; at home G. looked at Khan, turning him into a dog; orders to exterminate all dogs in the city; the khan dog runs away; in the forest house, Sabir (the hunter's wife and sister G.) realizes that the dog is a bewitched khan, splinters him; teaches Khan witchcraft, who turns G. into a bird; now she is in a cage khan; mother reproaches her son for marrying, but he replies that he married daughter S.]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963:108-111 (=Muchnik 1944:13-15); Uighurs [the king's three sons went on a journey, went to three roads; there was a drum; two hit the drum; a girl came out and asked: what did Gyal-Gyal and Gul-Samarbek do; they could not answer, they were thrown into prison; when the younger brother came, he saw an old woman, she is turning a cotton ginning machine, he asked her this question; she told her to go to the steppe, where there is an elm tree, on which the Simurg bird's nest, the chicks are devoured by a dragon; the dragon is three days away; we must take sword; the young man came up, the dragon was resting; the young man entered the dragon's mouth with a sword and he died; he fed his meat to the chicks; Simurg: what do you need? young man: what Gul-Gul did and what Simurg did (sic!) ; Simurg told me to stab two yaks, take meat and water; did they fly three days and three nights to the upper universe; when they arrived, Simurg: did he give me meat from his chair? gave the young man fluff to summon him (the fluff must be burned); the young man went to the same land, the sound of a drum rang; young man: play tambourine! Why don't you play? What did Gul-Gul do and what did Semir-Gul do? he kicked and chased {it's not clear who}; {he finally tells}; Semir-Gul had a wife; she had a cloud horse; and a wind horse; those horses Wind and Cloud walked and came back; he caught them and tied them up; went to a woman; horses are standing in the yard by the dog's trough, below the maize tops; this woman has seven divas; when he started fighting with those relatives and fighting with the diva (?) Gul-Semer-bek, then this woman Gul-Semir-beku poured one fur into his legs; he overcame the diva and tied it; then the woman was given seven divas, he returned home; that young man Gul-Gulu did and did what he did Semeru (?) ; they were my younger brothers; and they gave one iron rod; go to his house, pierce it with a rod; then that cauldron screamed {incomprehensible at all, cut off}]: Malov 1956, No. 10:63-67.