K27zz. The Cannibal and Blinded Wives, ATU 462.

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A person marries unaware that his wife is a cannibal/witch; she stalks former wives (often blinds or throws them into a hole, or her husband does so at her instigation). Contrary to the machinations of the cannibal, the son of one of the wives survives, kills the cannibal, saves the mother and her sisters.

Arabs of Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Kabilas, Spaniards, Catalans, Palestinians, Qatar, Mustang, Shans, Thais, Lao, Mons, Khmers, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Kumaoni, Northern India (Hindi) , Gondas (Telugu), Kannada, Tamils, Sinhales, Bali, Lombok, Persians (Icelanders, Swedes, Oirats).

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 462:233-234

North Africa. Kabila, Tunisia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 462:233-234; Algerian Arabs [the Sultan has two wives; he sees a beautiful woman (this is a gulya), marries, she tells her former wives to be expelled, even though they are pregnant; one took the Sultan's seal with her; they found a hut, gave birth to a boy, one of the wives put the Sultan's seal on each's back; the Sultan has another son, an adult from his deceased wife; the shepherd told him about expelled wives; he returned them to the palace, the sultan asked them for forgiveness; the gulya wife wants to eat the returnees, but they are locked in their room; the sultan does not know what to do; the counselor suggests that the son The Sultan wrote, as if on behalf of his wife's relatives, that her mother had died; then he would leave the palace; but she refused to leave; instead, she gave the young man a letter for her mother, putting her hair in it; allegedly sends her own son to her; there are parents and 7 guli brothers; there are 7 candles in one room: these are the souls of the guli, if they are extinguished, the guli will die; and a gorlinka swims in the pool: this is the soul of the guli, the Sultan's wife; the young man extinguished the candles, strangled his throat; the gulya wife immediately fell ill; the young man does not know how to leave the room; the good spirit of Jania appears; will help if the young man marries her and remains faithful; she endures guley castle to the Sultan's palace; her good spirits defeat the ghoul army; she gives the dove to the Sultan's wives (who were expelled); one twisted the dove's neck, the other broke her leg; Jania threw the guli's corpse with heaven on her army and it disappeared]: Desparmet 1910:357-373; the Arabs of Egypt [a woman takes off her clothes from her feathers, bathes in a spring, then flies away; the king sees it, steals clothes, asks for his article wife; the woman agrees provided that the king blinds his former 40 wives; one of them is a princess, the rest are slaves; the blinded are kept in the basement under the kitchen; each has given birth, the children are eaten, her princess kept it; the boy steals food from the kitchen, feeds the blinded; the king meets a young man who calls himself Kitchen Bear, but his real name is Mohammed the Intelligent; the new wife has guessed who this young man is; pretended to be sick, asks the king to send M. for medicine - the heart of a black valley bull; he fell to Guli's chest; she gave a ball to follow, and stab the bull with a dagger; if he asked to hit him again , do not hit; next time, the heart of a red valley bull (same); the new wife decides to send M. to her sister to kill him; sends a heavy white valley grenade (weighing about 50 kg); son Guli teaches you to find pomegranates, it is from the sister of the king's wife; throw the ring, follow it; throw bread with meat to dogs, then cannibals, they will miss, grab the pomegranate and run without looking back; the wife tells you to bring a flying castle from Mount Kaf; a cannibal teaches to give frankincense to the maid, she will take M. to her room; there is a bottle with the life of the king's wife and another with the eyes of blinded wives; and a wand that drives the castle ; and a spear that hits left and right on orders; when the maid falls asleep, M. killed the scarab in which her life is; M. ordered everyone to be killed with a spear, carries the lock, opens to her father, breaks the bottle of life witch wives, restores sight to blinded women, receives the throne from his father]: Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 2:12-29 (summary in Nowak 1969, No. 177:182-183).

Southern Europe. Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [the king has seven sons; he warns the Queen that if she gives birth to another, he will burn her eyes and put her son in prison; this is what happened; the king has a new wife; the son of the former the queen manages to get out of prison, he steals food from the palace; caught, the king makes him a servant, the new queen gives him difficult assignments; the old woman helps to complete them; gives the drug to regain his sight mother; a young man marries a princess; the king returns his first wife, punishes a new one]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 462:102-103; the Spaniards [the king brings his wife a rose, she hides it in a box; from there the voice: open it up! the king opens, Queen Rosa appears, tells him to get rid of the former queen; the king blinds her, throws her into the basement; the king has Tomasito's son, R. tells him to consider her mother; T. hears a voice from under the ground mother; R. says she is sick, tells T. to bring water from the Arenal spring; the old man tells T. not to look back on the way back, T. brings water; the same is three lemons, three oranges; the old man changes T's appearance ., tells him to stay with two sisters R.; they ask the young man if he has seen the T. they want to kill; show him three candles, their lives are in them; T. immediately extinguishes two, brings the third to his father so that he has hers blew out; R. disappears; the old man took the queen's torn eyes from the king, returned them to her, she saw the light]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 462:337-340 (translated into Malinovskaya 2002:131-134).

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king's two wives are pregnant, the third beloved is not; she fed the first two salty meat, gave water in exchange for their eyes; the blind were thrown into a hole; one gave birth to a son, he was eaten; the other she hid the meat, kept her son; he learns that the bile of a blue camel will cure blindness; he met a friendly gulya, who sent it to his brother, brother to his sister, she dived to the bottom of the sea, brought camel bile; mother regained sight and returned to her husband]: Nowak 1989, No. 189:191-192; Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 462:233-234.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the king has 2500 wives; every day he hunts and brings a wild goat; once stopped under a tree; a girl with hair to toe came down from the tree and told him to leave so that he would not have her desecrated - she is from a family of gods; in fact, she is a demoness; she has agreed to become the king's wife on the condition that he will fulfill all her wishes; when he is lucky, other wives see her mouth and nostrils smoke is blowing and sparks are falling; she pretended to be sick, ordered 2,500 wives to be blinded, her eyes hidden in a basket under the roof; the wives were locked without food or clothes; the youngest gave birth to a son, all wives fed him; he immediately grew up, began to go out, bring game and then other food; the demoness found out; asks the young man to deliver the Shamo Drönyungma cow and the golden mirror from his parents; attached a letter instructing him to eat the bearer; the monk read the letter, replaced it with instructions to benefit the giver; taught him magic words so as not to fry him in the pan on which he would be put; told him to eat with pleasure that the filth that he will be served first; he has done everything, he is accepted royally; he points to the spinning rod and the golden needle, the old woman explains to him that her and her husband's life is in them; fleas in the bamboo vessel, if they are thrown into the fire, the rest of the demons will die; if the pigeon's head is torn off, their daughter Markland Gemo will die; whoever takes the golden mirror will follow all houses, fields, livestock and property; the young man destroys receptacles of demon souls; walking to the house, tears off the head of a dove, MS dies; carrying a mirror, brings with him all the property of the demons; inserts his eyes blinded, sprinkling them with the milk of a SHD cow; heals the dying father]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 29:169-173.

Burma - Indochina. The Shans [12 (or 7) sisters were caught fishing; 11 did not listen to the hermits who told them not to kill alive, put their fish on kukans, piercing both eyes; the youngest pierced only one, placed fish in a vessel of water; after death, the sisters were born as the daughters of the village chief; he married them to the king; at this time, cannibals suffered without human beings, their fangs fell out; the wife of the cannibal king promised help her husband; became a 17-year-old beauty, came to live with the elder, who also gave her to the king; 12 wives are jealous; the cannibal (i.e. imaginary beauty) took out both eyes for 11 sleeping wives, and the 12th took one eye, said to her husband, that they were witches and ate their own eyes; the king expelled 12 wives; they lived in a cave; each gave birth, they ate babies; the youngest kept her by giving others hidden pieces of meat; the hermits turned boy to boy; king of spirits Sakya gave him a magic bone bob (to play), with him he beat other boys, demanding 12 servings of water and food in return; the king called him to his place, fell in love; cannibal I guessed who he was, sent a letter to her father (i.e. the husband of cannibals), supposedly to study; the hermit changed the letter: not to kill and eat the giver, but to greet and marry his daughter; the cannibal's daughter fell in love with a young man, showed a magical garden; it contains a vessel with the souls of cannibals; a bow, whose bowstring is also from their souls; a root whose infusion allows you to see the true appearance of creatures; flowers that turn into 3 mountains, 7 mountains, a sea of fire; a winged horse; a young man takes everything, runs away on a winged horse; a cannibal daughter in love chases, a young man throws flowers; she overcomes mountains, burns in fire; a young man restores sight to his mother and aunts, sprinkles the king's eyes, he sees not his wife, but the cannibal giant, the young man pulls the bowstring, breaks the vessel, all cannibals die; the king returns 12 wives]: Milne 1910:230-237; (cf. mona [the mother of seven daughters died, the father took her stepmother, she tyrannizes the sisters, they leave, enter the land of the evil sorceress Biluma; they caught, fried fish; they gouged out two eyes each, and the youngest only one; B. invited them to her place, six sisters are blind in both eyes, the youngest by one; spills rice broth, licks it by daughter B.; grateful for this food, leads the youngest to the garden of magic trees; girl secretly collects tree leaves that will turn into a mountain, forest, river, fire; plows fruit, if broken, B. dies; plucks leaves that restore vision; sisters see the light, run, throw objects; B . overcomes obstacles, dies when girls break the fruit]: Zapadova 1977:159-166); Thais [poor Non took 12 bananas to the monastery (option: 7), he had 12 (7) daughters, he had them There is nothing to feed them, he took them to the forest, they came to see the cannibal Santaman; the older sister found a pile of human bones, the girls ran and asked them to hide their elephants, bears, tigers, horses, other animals; climbed the banyan tree; the king's humpback maid went to fetch water, saw a reflection, thought it was her, returned, breaking the jug; the king gave her a silver bucket, and she broke it, leather - could not break; one sister laughed, King Raja Sith married her sisters; Santaman took the form of a girl, met a king, who fell in love with her, she pretended to be sick, demanded the eyes of 12 queens ; she pulled out both eleven eyes, and the youngest one, sent the eyes of her daughter Kang Ri; the blind queens were walled up in a cave, each had a child, they ate them; the youngest hid the meat, then gave it to others having kept his son Raja Sen; he grew up, began to leave the cave and bring food; began to play backgammon with the king, who recognized his son; to get rid of RS, S. tells him to bring a mango from his daughter, which yawns, and the lemon that screams gives a letter asking him to kill the bearer; the hermit replaced the letter with an order to marry RS; after marrying the Kyrgyz Republic, RS found the eyes of the queens, took the talismans, and set off to flee; The Kyrgyz Republic is catching up, he throws talismans, fire, mountains, forest, desert, river appear; the Kyrgyz Republic dies, asking her to make her human in the next incarnation; S. also died of grief, and RS returned sight to his mother and aunts]: Kornev 1963:14-21; (retelling in Low 1836:345-348); Khmers: Marunova 1971 (note to p. 37: Lao has the same thing) [the peasant has nothing to feed his 12 daughters, he takes them to the forest; the giantess leads them to for themselves; sisters find human bones in the corner, realize that they have come to the cannibal, run; the cannibal turns into a garuda, flies after them; the elephant, then the buffalo, hide them in their stomach (the youngest's sarong hung from the elephant's mouth, since then his lower lip hangs); the banyan hides his sisters, the garuda flies by; the royal warriors see the reflection of girlish faces in the water, bring the girls, the king marries them; the witch turns into the same girl, becomes the thirteenth wife's beloved; creates the illusion that 12 wives are not faithful, sleeping with other men; sisters have their eyes pulled out, thrown into a well; the youngest gives birth to a boy named Rithisen, he grows up, hunts for his mothers; the witch tells him that he knows how to restore women's eyes, sends him to his daughter, giving him a letter telling him to kill the bearer; a hermit replaces him with a letter asking him to marry R.; the witch's daughter Neang Kang Ray marries R.; R. finds a vessel with 12 pairs of eyes under the stone, takes it away; the hermit gives R. a wand, he throws it behind him, lake occurs. Tonle Sap; NKR turns into a mountain from grief; R. returns women's eyes, kills a sorceress, takes the throne instead of his deceased father]: 37-41; Foshko 1981, No. 10 [a childless man prays to a banyan, a wife gives birth Twelve daughters; the father became impoverished, took his daughters to the forest; Yaksha Santhoma brought them home; they fled, became the king's wives; the yaksha found them, became the 13th wife, pretended to be sick, she would be cured by medicine from the eyes of others wives; they were blinded, thrown into a hole; the youngest Paa had only one eye gouged out; all wives gave birth, ate their children, Pai kept them, named Puthisaen; S. sent him to her daughter Kangray with a letter to her ate him; the hermit replaced the letter: K. must marry P.; she gave him drugs; he runs, throws the powder behind, it turns into the sea, K. stops pursuing; P. returns his sight to the dazzled, kills S., becomes king]: 134-136.

South Asia. Kashmiris [the childless king has 7 wives; he meets Rakshasi, mistakes her for a fairy, she promises to give birth to an heir if he marries her; 7 wives are pregnant; Rakshasi eats cows every night, bulls, etc.; promises to find the culprits, smears blood on the lips of seven sleeping wives; the king orders them to be blinded, thrown into a dry well outside the city; each gives birth, they eat the baby; the seventh feeds others hidden leftovers, saves his son; he has grown up; standing on top of each other, the women pushed the boy out of the well; he brings them leftovers from the royal kitchen; the cook asks him to cook while he must leave; the king satisfied; the boy is taken as a regular cook; the Rakshasi queen accidentally tells everything; she pretended to be sick, tells the tigress to bring milk; the fakir advises the young man to shoot the tigress in the chest for milk the tiger cubs were better fed; the tigress gives the young man milk; now the Rakshasi asks for medicine for her grandfather Rakshasa; the fakir teaches him to call him grandfather and rub his back with all his might; Rakshasa believes that the young man - his daughter's grandson, gives medicine; Rakshasi asks for a comb from her mother; gives a letter asking him to kill the applicant; a fakir replaces a letter asking her to caress her son; Rakshasi's mother gives 1) a vessel with soap (will become a mountain), 2) with needles (mountain of needles), 3) with water (sea); also 7 roosters (including the souls of 7 Rakshasi brothers), a spindle (the soul of mother Rakshasi), a dove (the soul of Rakshasi's father), a starling (the soul of Rakshasi herself), medicine (restores vision to blind people); the young man destroys the tanks of Rakshasa souls, restores sight to his mother and aunts, explains to his father what is going on; thanks to magic objects, he defeats enemies]: Knowles 1888:42-50; Kumaoni [the king chases an antelope, who turns into a goat, a princess, goes with him to the palace; at night he smears the lips of the seven queens with horse blood, accuses them of devouring horses, king throws wives into the ditch; each gives birth to a boy, eats six, the seventh does not eat herself, does not give her own; the boy comes to his father; the Rakshasi wife asks her husband to send the young man to bring the comb from her homeland, gives a letter asking the giver to eat; on the way, the yogi replaces the letter, teaches you to ask what's in the bowls, kill an old woman, take the life of six people, bring his stepmother's life with him; the prince kills his stepmother, returns queens, reigns]: Minayev 1968, No. 43:101-104; Punjabi: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 10 [the fakir promises the king that his 7 wives will finally give birth; wives ask the king not to hunt on the north side - they have a bad feeling; he violates the ban, pursues a white doe with golden horns; finds himself alone in the gorge; there is a white-bodied gold-haired maiden in the hut; she was a doe; agrees to become the king's wife if he will bring her the eyes of seven former wives; having blinded the wives, the king threw them into the dungeon, and the new queen hung a necklace from her eyes around her mother's neck; each wife gives birth to a boy, they eat him; the youngest kept the pieces, fed others, did not let her baby eat; the boy immediately grew up, made a way out, brought food to the women; once met the witch queen; she promises to help him regain his eyes blinded, sends to his mother with a letter on a shard ordering the death of the applicant; he arrives in a city where the princess promises to marry only the son of seven mothers; the young man marries her; she replaces her a letter ordering to fulfill all the young man's requests; the old woman gives 13 eyes, and she has already eaten the 14th; the young man returns sight to women, his own mother one eye, and the other for her is himself; the queen- the witch sends him back to his mother with a cow that does not run out of milk, again writing the command to kill the giver; the wife replaces the letter; the young man pretends to require the skin of a yoga- the cow's keeper on the drum, he pays off with a cow; the same for the third time: a rice stalk with 1000 branches that ripens in a day; the young man's wife builds a palace next to the king's palace; he comes, everything is explained The witch queen is executed]: 98-110; Sheikh-Dilthey 1976, No. 4 [text on the same story, not all pages are available on the Internet; a hermit feast tells the king that his 7 wives will be able to conceive if they eat pieces of pear from his garden; his wives tell the king to hunt in the south but not on the north side; the king is not chasing the doe, but the bird of paradise, ending up on the north side]: 22-32; Northern India (Hindi): Crooke 1892-1893, No. 745 (Mirzapur) [the Raja was hunting, the companions came to the old woman, she gave a pair of deer; when they began to cook them, it turned out that there were only deer eyes; taking the form of a young beauty, the old woman chased Raja; he climbed a tree; at that time another king appeared, saw a beautiful woman and married her; every night she eats a horse; throws meat to another wife who is pregnant; advises her to dazzle and leave her in in the forest; miraculously, a jug of milk appears next to a woman every day; she gave birth, her son grew up, came to serve the king; the wife understands who it is, pretended to be sick, asked for tiger milk; young man He became friends with the cubs, who brought him their mother's milk; the tigress died of grief, but the cubs stayed with the young man; now the king's wife orders him to bring milk from the demon's goat, gives a letter asking kill the applicant; the young man replaced him with a letter asking him to help the giver in everything; when leaving, the demon asks not to untie the goat, otherwise a witch will jump out of the tree; the young man untied it, explained that a storm was coming; the witch allows her to be tied to a tree, the young man broke her neck; the demon gave the goat to the young man; now the king's wife demands to bring the horse Shám Karam; this is a horse from the herd of the same demon; the young man threatens to deal with a demon, as he did to a witch, the demon teaches how to catch a horse; the young man tamed the horse; when the horse appeared as an insignificant foal the next day, the demon helped identify him; the queen commands bring a flower from the sea; on horseback, a young man comes to the sea; the demon warned that the flower turns into a girl and kills whoever comes; the horse grabbed the flower himself; the girl says that the queen is that demon's sister, her soul is in a parrot; the young man took the parrot and brought the girl; when she laughed, the flower fell out of her mouth; in front of her father, the young man killed the parrot, the demoness died; he married a flower girl , everything is fine]: 212-213; Rouse 1895, No. 234 [four young men wander and meet a goat; she eats two in two nights; on the third night she fails, she takes the form of a beautiful woman; she buys her; she It arranges others to make others as if wives are accused of devouring royal horses; their eyes are pulled out, thrown into a hole; all ten take turns giving birth to sons; 9 are eaten, the tenth grows up, receives an arrow from the hunter that always hits the target; joins the service of his father king, his mother warns him about the cannibal; she tells him 1) to bring the tigress's milk (he takes out a splinter to the tigress, that gives milk); 2) get a demon cow; 3) bring "golden water"; the cannibal gives him a letter ordering him to kill the giver; Adam and Eve fly over the forest, replace the letter with asking the cannibal to be kind to giver; in the house of a cannibal mother, a young man finds boxes with a storm, a rain, a parrot in which the soul of a cannibal daughter; he takes away water, opens boxes, interfering with the chase; slowly kills a parrot, a cannibal dies]: 210-211; gondas [looking for water in the forest, the Raja and his servants come to the palace of the ogre Natiyamal Dano; his daughter has a thread, through which water comes from the sea (the gondas do not know that the sea is salty); who does not will drink to the end, will be executed; the Raja cuts off the thread, takes the cannibal's daughter as his wife; she tells him to expel and blind six former wives; the youngest is pregnant, the son grows up, the stepmother demands that he get rice ripening in a day, wild buffalo milk, Hansraj horse from ND palace; sadhu is happy with everything; running away from ND on horse X., the young man throws calebasa water (river), a stick (forest), a stone (mountain, ND) behind him stops the persecution); the stepmother demands to get the maiden Angarmati, the daughter of ND; the young man brings her on horseback; she restores her sight dazzled; the Raja buries the evil wife alive, returns her son and six wives]: Elwin 1944:197-202 (Zograf translation 1971, No. 41:170-175); (cf. Telugu [son of a carpenter, son of a kotwal, son of a minister and son of a king went in search of adventures; spent the night in a deserted place; the son of a carpenter was the first to guard; a girl appeared; seeing that someone awake, left in the blink of an eye; after reading the young man's thoughts, she approached again, put him to sleep, ate him and the horse completely; the same with the sons of the pot and the minister; but the prince noticed that the man could not in a blink of an eye to leave hundreds of meters, and climbed a tree; the cannibal began to shake the tree; then another king and his entourage arrived; the cannibal replied that she was waiting for her crazy husband by the tree; agreed go with the king; he made her beloved wife; at night she devours elephants and horses; she moved her bones under the bed of her main wife, who is pregnant; the king orders her to be executed in the forest, the soldiers let her go, brought her eyes fallow deer; the woman gave birth to a son, who grew up, went to the city, she gave him a ruby; he dropped him, the priest refused to give it back, brought him to the king; the young man promised to fill the pond with rubies if the king filled the same pearls; on the way back he killed a snake under a tree; she was going to eat the chicks of white crows, as she did every year; the mother crow wanted to kill the young man, but the chicks explained that he saved them; the female brought him to the palace of the rubies princess, and the male covered it while flying from the rays of the sun; the crows gave a pen to summon them if necessary; the princess, sitting in a cage in the form of a bird, manages to turn the young man to a fly before Rakshasa came; he gave the princess a human form; a young man tells the princess to find out what Rakshasa's soul is; in a parrot on an iron pole in the middle of the 7 seas; crows brought him there, he killed him the parrot took the princess and returned to his mother; remembered that he had forgotten to take the rubies, but the princess said that they were her tears; the young man filled the pool with rubies, but the king could not fill it with pearls; he came to the young man recognized his mother as his ex-wife; he burned his Rakshasi wife in a lime annealing oven a long time ago; everything is fine]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 7:21-31); kannada [the cannibal began to devour the cattle of two brothers, swallowed the elder; the youngest went to run; she took the form of a beautiful woman, ran after her, shouting why her husband had left her; the king shamed the man, and when he began to talk about the cannibal, he did not believe it allegedly bought him from him, his wife, brought him home; at night she ate cattle in the city; then went to a ceremony to mark the pregnancy of the king's youngest former wife; said that the eyes of young women needed smear with antimony; as a result, the youngest went blind in both eyes and the eldest one; the king drove the blind away; the youngest gave birth to a boy; the old man sheltered them; when the boy grew up and came to town, the cannibal immediately found out who he was; pretended to be sick, I should bring pills from her mother, who lives behind a three-headed mountain; the young man volunteered to go; the cannibal gave a letter ordering the giver to be killed; Shiva and Parvati were replaced by a request take care of the grandson; they gave three pebbles to summon and tame the demon, making him an assistant; the demon brought him to the cannibal's mother; the cannibal's mother said she would not die for nothing, her life in a parrot; as soon as the old woman left, he grabbed the eye-restoring ointment and the parrot, returned to his mother and her co-wife, restored their sight; when he saw a parrot in the young man's hand, the cannibal regained her true appearance and died when a young man, hanging in the sky, tore off the parrot's leg and then its head; the king returned his son and former wives, the cannibal's corpse was burned on a pile of firewood and dung]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 43:125-131; Tamils [rakshasi fell in love with Raja, took the form of a beautiful woman and he married her; at night she ate elephants, horses and cows; once the guards noticed her; she took the form of Raja's first wife and smeared blood on her face and clothes ; the wife was thrown into prison, her eyes were pulled out and sent to her older sister; her son was born and raised in prison; he was driven into the forest; he came to his mother's sister, who is also Rakshasi {the narrator was clearly mistaken: speech about Rani Rakshasi's sister}; she kept the young man with her; the princess she captured said that she was being fed to be eaten; the young man persuaded the princess to find out what Rakshasi's life was like; she pretended to be afraid that her "mother" would die; Rakshasi: Across the seven seas, a banyan in the form of bees contains the lives of herself and Rani Rakshasi; the young man got there and brought both bees in a box; in the form of a bee, he won and killed one of the bees; { taking his mother's eyes}, rode with the girl to the palace when his mother was about to hang; killed the second bee and showed his father who the Rakshasi was; restored his mother's sight]: Blackburn 2005, No. 93; Sinhalese: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 118 [the tsar and queen have 7 daughters and a son; the queen complains that her daughters are idle, the tsar is going to execute them; their mother sent them to the forest; they came to Rakshasi; she covered them for the night her daughters with white sheets; the younger princess covered her sisters with them; at night, Rakshasa ate one of his daughters and the princesses ran away; they were met by the king, married; Rakshasi sent another daughter to the bank of the river, she told the king that she was also a man; at night she pulled out the eyes of the seven queens; the king sent them out of the house; each gave birth, the sons of six died, the youngest son survived; began to live at the palace; rakshasi she guessed who it was, sent her mother to kill the giver and eat the eyes of the seven queens; on the way, the young man killed a yaksha who was supposed to eat the princess; she replaced the letter with an order to greet giver, give the means to regain vision; having received the remedy, the prince married the princess, restored the queens's sight, killed the Rakshasi Queen; the king returned his seven wives], 124 [yakshini chased the man, taking the appearance of a beautiful woman; answered the king that it was her husband; the king made her his queen; she ate people at night, put her bones where 12 other wives lived; invited the king to tear out the wives' eyes and drive her into the forest; each gave birth to a child, he was eaten; the youngest kept her; he decided to take revenge on the king; Vedda from the forest told the king that the prince was an ogre; the king sent an army, the prince defeated him; the king asked for help neighboring kings; then the prince hired the king to serve; in the forest he cut off the burden of yakshini; when he saw that the prince was brave, his king was frightened, ordered him to bring his second leg; the prince brought the king the one-legged yakshini herself; that began to help the prince; built a city for him and the blinded queens; said that the king's life was in a golden parrot; the prince killed him, killed him to his Yakshini wife, and began to rule]: 287-290, 300-302.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bali [Raja Koripan has Prince Coripan's son, Daha's wife, and another; Raja got lost hunting, came to the house of the cannibal and her daughter, who gave him a potion, he saw them as beautiful, not freaks, brought the witch's daughter with him; she told her elder wives to tear out their eyes, brought her mother, put D.'s eyes in a golden vessel, the other wife's eyes in a silver vessel; D. gave birth to a son, the second wife a daughter, they asked the gods to take them to heaven; the witch also gave birth to a son Baboso; son D. went down, took the blinded into the forest, built a palace for them; came to live with his father without telling him who he was; the witch recognized him by his birthmark; sent to her mother as a servant in front of her son, asking him to eat the boy without bracelets and greet the one who had bracelets; on the way, D.'s son asked B. to give him bracelets and a letter; the cannibal swallowed her grandson and greeted her son D.; showed where the firestone in which her death was, and where the vessels with the eyes of K.'s wives; D. killed the witch with a stone, returned the eyes of her mother and second wife K. disgraced his father, brought his sister from heaven; the old witch's daughter died of grief; all is well]: Hoykas-van Leeuwen Bomkamp 1983, No. 18:108-112; Lombok [daughter of giants Danava Sari is taught magic; her lowered into the sea in a box; Raja Panji Anom with seven childless wives went to the seashore to ask him to send him children; they caught a box on the shore, in which DS, Raja made her beloved wife; when other wives became pregnant, DS told them to be enclosed in an underground receptacle, and magically removed their eyes; the children of six blind died, and the seventh had one eye left and her child survived; he grew up and got out receptacles; DS persuaded him to send him to her parents, allegedly so that the young man could learn magic; gave a letter ordering him to kill the applicant; the minister replaced the letter with a new one; it said that the young man DS son, let him be taught magic; he learned to do everything that DS did, flew back by himself, asking DC's father to give him the eyes of blinded women; they regained their sight; the young man defeated DS (both turned into giants, snakes, garuda; DS into fire, young man into rain; when Garuda-DS fell to the ground with a broken wing, people cut it to pieces; the young man inherited the PA kingdom]: Kratz 1973, No. 23:138-147.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Khorasan, entry 1) [the king has seven wives, he fell in love with a diva woman; she tells her former wives to be blinded and thrown into a hole; each gave birth, ate newborns, kept her seventh, returning her own other parts of the bodies of their babies; Abrahim grew up and began to get food; the king recognizes the son, the diva stepmother gives errands, hoping to kill the young man; 1) bring pomegranates from the diva garden (brings), 2) a mare with 14 foals ( a young man sprinkles salt into a spring, dazzles the mare with a mirror); 3) a silk cradle; a young man kills a baby diva who sleeps in it, finds a vessel with the soul of a diva woman, kills her, restores sight to the king's wives by letting them eat the meat of a diva child]: Osmanov 1987 []: 312-315 (retelling in Marzolph 1984, No. 462:97).

(Wed. Baltoscandia. Icelanders [the king has a daughter Isol, the Duke has a son Fertram; they grow up together at court, love each other; the queen is dead; the king has been persuaded to go looking for a new wife; he sails to the island, where mother and daughter, daughter is also Isol; the mother says that her king husband was killed and they fled to the island; the king brought them home, married this woman; she intends to marry her daughter to F.; to distinguish the girls, the king's daughter, were called Bright Isolde (SI), and the Queen's daughter Dark Isolde (TI); the Queen and daughter invited SI and her two maids for a walk in the woods and pushed them into a crevice; The maids starved to death, but SI received from her mother a satiating belt and scissors, with which she dug up the steps to get upstairs; wearing clothes made of leaves, she was hired in the kitchen; the Queen bewitched F. making SI forget, prepares his wedding with TI; SI has the name Näftrakolla as an employee; she walks with F., leads him into the woods to the crevice, talks about what happened, but he still can't really do anything remember; TI gave birth and ate her child; she needs a dress, only N. is able to make it; after the wedding ceremony, TI is going to go to bed F., but he tells me to remember what SI said in this way that time; TI runs to her mother every time, she tells her; gradually F. remembers everything, pierces TI and her mother who enters the room with his sword; now it is clear that they are monsters; F. marries SI]: Poestion 1884, No. 1:1-10; Icelanders [the king has a son Sigurd and a daughter Lineik; when dying, their mother tells her husband to take care of them and take a new wife from a big country, not from a remote area or a small island; king sent the minister to look for the bride; they sailed somewhere in the fog; there was beautiful Blauvör with her daughter Laufey; the minister took them to the king; when they sailed, they saw that they were molesting a small island; B. invited the king to go to inspect his state; he, feeling unkind, told the children where to hide after his departure; they went there; B., taking the guise of a giantess, is chasing, but S. set fire the forest and she returned; S. and his sister hid in the hollows of two trees; courtiers disappear in the capital - B. kills them one by one; the Greek prince heard a lot about the beauty of Lineik; when he arrived, B. gave them away Laufey behind Leneik; on the way, the ship went to where Lineik and S. were hiding, tells her to cut down trees and leaves them at home in her room, where the imaginary Lineik, i.e. Laufey, lives; tells her to sew three dresses, but Laufey can't do anything; every time Lineik comes out of the tree hollow and does everything; the third time the prince finds her, everything is explained; Laufey assured that she is not a monster, but also a kidnapped girl; B. scored with stones, and the body was burned; by this time she had already eaten almost everyone; the Greek prince and Lineik began to rule Leneik's father's city, and S. married the prince's sister and stayed in Greece; Laufey also married]: Poestion 1884, No. 12:84-97; the Swedes [the king did not like his daughter's fiance; he ordered that a cave be dug in the forest, and his daughter with seven maids and supplies be placed there for 7 years; the maids died one after another; the princess dug a hole, released the dog, which helped expand the hole; a bear came, killed the dog, took the princess to the coal miner; he took her to the palace, she was hired by a poultry house; the king (other, not princess's father) must marry a woman; she hides her pregnancy and must give birth on her wedding day; tells the poultry house to play the role of the bride instead of her; during each episode, the bride speaks rhyme, describing what happened to her; when asked by the king, he answers every time that he talks to the maid; the king is amazed by the beauty of the bride, hangs a gold chain around her neck, keeps the key for himself; returning from church, the king asks the real bride what she said here and there; she runs to the poultry house every time to ask; she comes by herself, the king sees his necklace, the poultry house says that she is also a princess; the king is happy with her, the first bride has been expelled from the palace]: Stier 1971, No. 2:11-15).

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Oirats (Karashar's merchants) [shulma killed the khan's wife, took the form of a beautiful woman, the khan married her; she pretended to be sick, requires the heart of her stepson and stepdaughter; the adviser saves children; the young man grows up, returns, kills Shulma; she drank Khan's blood and killed the people]: Benningsen 1912:57-68).