K32E. Gold, silver and wooden. .21.26.33.-.35.
A negative character or locus is opposed to one or two positive characters like wood and gold and silver.
Tibetans (Amdo, Ham), Mustang, sleigh, yellow Uighurs, Salars, Mongols (khalha?) , Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo): Potanin 1891 [=1893, No. 23:186-189; cf. Evenki Podkamennaya Tunguska, motif K32e; the king has daughters Ngulyggun (silver princess) and Kserlyggun (golden princess), they have a servant Yeg- tamu-ntso; E. offered to throw the buckets into the water, the golden and silver buckets of the princesses drowned, the wooden E. swam; the maid lied as if the king was telling the princesses to leave; she wears their dress, they put on a dress maids; the prince chooses K., E. threw her into the lake, took her place, sent N. to herd the sheep; K. leaves the lake every day, gives N. bread and meat; once she brought a piece to the palace; E. came to the lake, sang the same song, K. came out, E. cut her head with a red-hot coulter; K. did not go out anymore; N. gave birth to a semi-golden, semi-silver child; E. ordered him to be thrown to sheep, horses, cows, buried under with manure; told the king that N. gave birth to a puppy; a flower grew on the child's grave, eaten by a sheep, gave birth to a piebald lamb; he herds the herd, tells his mother to complain about him E., she will slaughter him, the bones must be hidden in a cave; a llama is born from bones, tells a story, the king ordered E. to be torn by horses]: 144-146; Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007 [daughters of King Gold and Silver, they have a Wooden maid; that invites you to see whose vessel will not drown in the river; gold and silver sink, Gold jumps into the river, Serebryanaya is afraid to return to her father; together with Derevnaya she comes to where the king gathered the girls, marries the flower she caught; catches Silver, Wooden catches, marries the king, Silver is sent to herd cattle; she complains by the river, Gold comes out of the river, says she has become a wife The River King, gives food, tells not to show leftovers at home; Silver violates the ban, Wooden goes to herd cattle herself to kill Gold; Silver's tear drips on the king, she says everything, that prepares a hole with fire at the bottom, covers it with a cloth; Wooden returns without killing Gold, falls into a hole; Silver marries the king]: 214-215; Tibetans (Ham) [daughter of a leader with a golden bucket and a maid with They went to get water with a wooden bucket; the maid persuaded the lady to throw the buckets into the water; the golden bucket drowned; the girl was afraid to return home; the maid came and told the chief about it; he said that not She is angry; the maid told the girl that her father threatened to kill her, offered to run, changing clothes; the leaders they met and the neighboring chief to whom they had come notice the change, but the girl denied it; the chief's son sends her to herd cattle; she hangs yarn on the trees, which turns into threads; throws pebbles and then collects - the cattle first disperse and then gathers themselves; the chief's son veiled proposes to the chief's imaginary daughter, but she does not understand; the next day, the chief's imaginary daughter went to herd the cattle; the real one told me what to do, but she did not succeed - cattle he did not gather, the yarn did not hide; the chief's son turns to the imaginary maid, who replies in the sense that she is from a richer family; the chief's son looks attentively at the maid and girl's hair and at the contents their handbags, understands who is who; sends both girls to the temple; their horses will have to be tied to the girls' feet; the maid's purse has a partridge; she takes off, the horse is frightened, drags the maid by torn to shreds, and the chief's daughter's horse stands still; wedding]: Lhamo 2012:201-206; Mustang [mother of three daughters is ill; says only grass and water in a remote part will heal her valleys; the eldest daughter is coming; there is a dog, will allow you to take grass and water on the condition that the girl marries him; she refuses, leaves with nothing; the same with the middle sister; the youngest agrees, the dog gives grass and water, promises to come in two days; mother recovers; hides her youngest daughter under a copper cauldron; the dog beats his older sisters, sits on the cauldron, the youngest screams that she is here; he leads her across the lake, along plain, there is a golden house, then silver, then dog crap; the girl replies every time that the house suits her; there is abundance inside the house, the old woman is the dog's mother; she advises pretending to be sleeping , wait for her son to take off his dog skin and go to bed, throw his skin into the fire; in front of the girl, the young king Kyirken Gambala; he says that the skin was burned too early, there will be problems; going hunting, leaves a bunch of keys; the girl opens rooms in a golden palace, full of gold, silver in silver, coral in coral; there is no key to the wooden one; she finds the key on a stick under the ceiling, she unlocks the door, behind her there is a mother-of-pearl staircase, she can see the whole world, she sees her native village, her parents are hungry and sick; her older sister married a blacksmith, an average butcher; she looks in the KG in her head she drops a tear, admits that she feels sorry for her parents; they go to them together, give gifts; the older sisters are jealous, the eldest leads the youngest to the lake, asks what she feeds her husband and what her servants are; the youngest guesses, answers incorrectly (my husband throws buckwheat and pepper, I throw a plate out the door, rice with meat to the servants, plates on the shelf); the eldest pushes the youngest into the lake, puts on her clothes and jewelry, offers KG return home; he suspects deception; the imaginary wife is afraid to go across the lake, does not want to enter the house out of dog crap, feeds her husband as servants and servants as husband; the shepherd sees sheep coming to the lake, from A bird flies out of the water, asks about the king; the shepherd tells the KG about this; he goes with him to the lake, brings the bird, puts him in a cage; the imaginary wife kills and cooks the bird, lets her husband eat with rice; he notices that there is poultry meat in rice, throws it into the garden; trees grow there; the imaginary wife tells them to be cut down and split into firewood; the poor old husband and wife, the husband went to bring firewood, found a piece of meat, put it in the chest; A few days later, a girl came out; after that, the old men became rich; the girl gives the old man the ring that was left on her finger when her sister pushed her into the lake; he calls the king and his wife, puts them on gold and turquoise thrones, shows the ring; the king demands a finger to the ring; his wife goes out, his older sister turns into ash; KG: these were the problems I mentioned; the ash was hidden under black stupa; KG made his wife's parents' house his summer residence]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 21:128-137; Kachin [after the creation of the world, only the main god Phan-Ningsang and his assistant Mathum-Matta; they find a pumpkin in the shape of a man, cut it, people without signs of sex come out; PN cut women's breasts with an ax, and those with two navels turned one into a penis; people spread; so that they could descend to the plain, MM made a silver staircase (British and Assamese descended it, they have lots of silver coins), a gold one (Burmese, Khamptis, they are rich) reed (Adis, Nagas, they make reed bridges and belts); Kachin decided that wood is more reliable, they build their houses out of it]: Elwin 1958b, No. 28:138-139.
China - Korea. Sleigh [three brothers and sister plow the meadow, there are no signs of work in the morning; an old man restores the untouched land; this is the spirit of Apish's thunder; says that there will be a flood, gives gold, silver, wooden chests; the younger brother chooses a wooden one, agrees to take his sister; the old man tells me to open the chests when the chicken hatches from the egg; each brother opens, the older and middle drown, the youngest in a wooden one swims on; the chest settled on the mountain, caught on bamboo and sycamore; A. gives seeds, bulls and cows appear from beans, buffalo peas; sister agrees to marry if her brother's thread enters her needle ; if the millstones fall together; the sister gives birth to the fetus, cuts it into pieces, and men and women emerge from them]: Lin Lin, Ustin 1959:99-102
Turkestan. Yellow Uighurs: Malov 1967, No. 79 [{the text is clearly flawed}; Altamsa had golden buckets, Kudemsa had silver buckets, they began to play, drowned them; Jorga Bash ("bad daughter-in-law") with wooden Mother A. and K. told them in buckets; she asked them to be called home; DB told them that their mother had kicked them out; they came to the boss, who married DB; DB went to visit the house; A. and K. put her in a bird and a sparrow; the sparrow flew out, DB was frightened, the leg was entangled in the stirrup, broke; A. and K. became the boss's wives]: 66; Stuart, Jhang 1996:63-67 [Gondbincao's eldest daughter ("as gold") father gave a gold bucket, a cauldron, chopsticks; the youngest Hadanucao ("like silver") gave silver ones; the father found the girl who fell off the cliff, brought her, they went out, called Jiaohawas ("noble tree) "), as an older sister, her father gave her a wooden bucket, etc.; her father died; her mother sent three daughters to fetch water; they began to play, whose bucket would not sink; gold and silver drowned; J. tells his mother that sisters they threw the buckets into the water, are afraid to return; the mother tells me that she is not angry, J. says G. and H. that their mother promised to hang them, G. and H. ran into the forest, secretly returned in the morning; J. put them in their mouths a lump of dough, he got stuck; said that the mother was blind crying for the buckets; H. hid in the ram, G. ran away; she was found by the Mergewas shepherd, told the owner; he slapped her on the back, the lump jumped out, she spoke, She told everything, asked to take it; the mother found H. at home, but she is afraid of J., does not say anything; the owner comes to the girls' mother to marry G.; J. demands to marry her; M. marries H.; J. gives birth a dead child, G. - a boy, H. a girl; J. killed her son G., buried it in her room, told her husband that G. gave birth to an evil spirit and killed him; threw G. into the river; G. came to her senses, went out, told her husband everything, he does not believe it; J. threw G. into the well; M. accidentally came to water the horse, pulled it out; she asked to be taken to her mother, but then returned; J. rushed at her with a knife, her husband at J. with a sword; the horse carried J. she was killed; G. reunited with her husband]; salars [the horse gave birth to Atdən Qihkhn Masinbo; he set off; shot his bow at the rocks, from there Daxdən Qihkhn Daxdakhu appeared; they continued their journey together; AtQM shot wood salt, from there Agh日 xdən Qihkhn Monigu came in; all three fraternized; one day they returned home and saw that the food was cooked; on the next day, DQD stayed to guard the house; saw the Sun Girl, Moon Girl and Star Girl cooking; DQD turned into a stick and lay outside the door; girls used it as a poker; DQD told his brothers about the incident; AgQm remained on duty the next day; he turned into a bench and could not catch the girls either; AtQm remained guarding the house; he hid on the roof and frightened the girls screamed; they agreed to be sister wives; AtQM stained DS's face with black paint; DQD and AgQM married DL and DZ; DS became AtQM's wife; when the twins went hunting, the girls stayed at home and embroidered; the cat confused the threads and one of the girls beat her; the cat put out the fire; the girl went looking for him and came to the old woman; she shared the fire; she became every day come to the girls and, asking her to look in her head, drink their blood; the girls began to wither away; husbands noticed it; DQD stayed guarding the house and turned into a saddle cover; the old woman sat on her and began to suck the girls' blood; DQD could not stop it; AgQm remained on duty the next day, but also to no avail; atQM hid on the roof and waited for the old woman to arrive; killed her by shooting her nine heads (those appeared one after another); when DS washed their hair, DQD and AgQM realized that she was beautiful; told the girls to throw their combs into the well; the DL and DZ combs were wooden, and the DS comb was golden, and therefore drowned; AtQM went down the well on a rope and took out all three ridges; then handed them over to its brothers; they let go of the rope and AtQm fell down; met a man with a grindstone there and told him what had happened; the man promised to help and told him to catch a hundred sparrows; atQM brought 99; the man turned into an eagle, told him to sit on his back and feed him sparrows during the flight; sparrows ran out, atQM cut off a piece meat from his leg; when they landed, the eagle saw that AtQM was limping, and when he found out what was going on, regurgitated a piece of his leg; AtQm came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said that her husband had a similar birthmark; AtQm admitted he got out of the well; then went to his brothers and killed them with one arrow]: Ma et al. 2001, no. 4.1:39-60.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Khalkha?) [Arat has daughters Naran (eldest) and Saran (from the words "sun" and "moon"); for his fifteenth birthday he gave N. a gold bowl and S. a silver bowl; Noyon's daughter Othon called them to play by the river; their sisters are followed by their piebald lamb; O. suggests throwing the bowls into the water: whoever comes to the shore first will live longer; the gold and silver bowls have drowned, the girls are frightened; sent O. to ask his father what is more important to him: daughter or bowls; the father said that his daughter, O. told me that the bowls; all three went on horseback, to meet the bar, he liked N.; O. changed with those places, but N. was still better; O. walked away and shot - the arrow fell to N.'s feet; O. tells Bator to go home, she will bring him N. herself; on the way she pushed him into the lake; S. threatens: if she tells me, I'll tell you that it was you who drowned N.; O. said that N. returned to her father, began to live herself in his yurt, and S. herds sheep; lamb with the herd, calling N. by the lake; N. went out and said to S. that the king of the lake would let her go if O. bleats sheep; O. noticed S. summoning her sister with a song, and went with the sheep herself; summoned her with the same song, hit her on the head with a whip, N. no longer went to the call; the lamb told S. to send him to herd the sheep and complain about him O.: he would lead them to the mountains, then into the lake; O. took a bator with her; the lamb entered the lake; O. wants to lure him out, bleat with a sheep; N. came out of the water, the bar hugged her; and O. only bleats; the bator whipped her, she ran into the steppe in the form of a sheep; probably it was eaten by wolves; Bator began to live with N., S. and the sisters' father]: Hodza 1954:10-12 {online, pagination starts at page 1}.
Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska, Vanovara) [Moon, Sun and Silver Woman (LJ) were three girls; Thunderstorm and Tree were workers (Thunderstorm still cuts firewood); Moon is a water carrier; a man goes to marry her; at home - A tree, wearing LF clothes, pretends to be a mistress; a man marries her; LF returns, washes a person with deer blood, making him gold, takes him as a husband; a worker by the neck ties it to the deer, lets him go; the deer spread the seeds on the ground, so the trees appeared; LF does not tell her husband to go in the direction where the Moon and the Sun live; he went and began to live with the Moon; LJ became a hawk, flies around the moon and the Sun, asks to kill himself; a man hit his paw with an arrow, the hawk's legs have been red since then; the hawk woman flies, takes the others with her; throws up her belt, a rainbow appears from earth to sky; throws clothes - clouds appear in the sky; while chasing the sky, the owner of the upper world Ekshari leaves the Moon and Sun at home]: Vasilevich 1959:164-165.