K32g1. Forty horses or forty knives?

(.16.) .27.29.30.32.-.34.36.

The culprit is offered a choice of items that have utilitarian value (often forty, seven, three, etc. horses, or the same number of knives). He usually does not understand that these are methods of execution.

(Pomeranian Germans), Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Gagauz, Rumei, Kalmyks, Nogais, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Parya, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs ( Turgay, East), Yellow Uighurs, Altaians, Tuvans, Buryats, Mongols of Ordos, Central Yakuts.

(Wed. Western Europe. Germans (Pomerania) [the king complains to the peasant that he is childless; peasant: you will have a son; son Charles was born, the king asks the peasant how to reward him; peasant: I was also born son Friedrich, let him be brought up with yours; once F. threw a bird shot by Charles into a stream and it came to life; F. remembered that there was a source of living water; the king built a palace; on the wall of the last room it is depicted how the enchanted princess became a rock for the days of the sea; K. fell in love, goes with F. to save her; they spend the night in a house in the forest, where everything is done by themselves; at night F. does not sleep; a woman enters black, with her father; says that at one of the corners of the castle there is a golden ball (Gotsel) that will lead to the target; the next night: at a different angle, the sword: if you hit the water, the sea will part; in third: a golden bar, it will open 12 doors, the princess will throw herself around K.'s neck; that's right, they've returned to that castle; for three nights, a woman in black tells her father again what will happen to the princes; F. must step on the wooden bridge first, and if K. steps, they will all fail and die; during their absence, their father married a witch; she will serve poisoned wine, F. must hit that tray with a sword, the guilt will spill; a horse will approach the princess; if she sits on it, he will carry her further through the air than she was; F. must stab him with a golden dagger; that's what happened; the dog licked the wine and died; K. married a princess, they have children; but the Queen turned F. into stone; K. himself comes to a house in the woods; on the first night, a woman in black reports that the Queen has turned F. into stone; on the second, that if K. slaughtered his eldest 12-year-old daughter with a golden dagger and smeared the stone with blood, F. would come to life; third, that the dagger was too heavy, but there was a bowl nearby; if you drink it off, you would have strength; when F. came to life, he dipped the girl's body in a source of living water and she came to life; the brothers ask the witch queen if she wants to drag the tail by leaps and bounds all her life {to be tied to a horse's tail? Leben lang einen sieben Meilen langen Schwanz nachschleppen} or die 9 times; she chose the latter because she can only die once; but they revived her in living water each time and then executed her again]: Jahn 1891, No. 7:36-44).

The Balkans. Albanians [when he dies, the father reminds his sons that each person has his own Ora; the youngest goes for a journey; an old woman at a fork in the road explains that one road leads to happiness, the other to hardships, the third to the unknown and adventure (Ränke); the young man finds himself in front of the abyss, his Ora lowers him, points to the castle where the Beauty of the Earth is; outside the door there are three groups of 7 sleepers guards; the young man stabs the first 14, and when he starts stabbing the last seven, his sword is dull, four have jumped up; Ora blinds them, the Beauty of the Earth sharpens his sword, the young man kills the attackers; Beauty Earth forbids opening the door to one of the rooms; the young man opens, Happiness (Nafaka) of the Beauty of the Earth flies to the king; The bark (witch), having received gold, turns into a spark, flies into the castle, stabs the young man the needle, takes the Beauty of the Earth to the king; two years later, the brothers go looking for the youngest, Ora explains what happened, gives a cure (these are drops of Drangue's blood; these creatures fight Kulschedra during a storm in the mountains ), the brothers revive (or rather awaken) the younger one; he accuses them that they stole the Beauty of the Earth; the insulted brothers curse him and leave; after 7 years, the youngest finds the kidnapped wife; she is all 9 years old she was silent; sitting on their horses, they ran away, N. followed them; they came to the same witch, but did not recognize her; she put the young man to sleep, gave the Beauty of the Earth to her seven sons; she gave them drink and stabbed them; mistook Diva for her husband, but she realized the mistake, drove the horse on which Div sat, ran away herself; put on men's clothes, came to a country where there is no king, became king; hung her portrait by the road, told me to bring everyone to her, whoever looked at him; Diva came, then her husband, then Stroga, she ordered them all to be shackled; Diva to beat them and let them go; Shtrige gave a choice of 2 knives or 2 horses; she chose horses, she was torn apart by horses; her husband hugged and put her on the throne instead]: Lambertz 1952:66-83; Bulgarians [the king meets three sisters; the first promises to feed an entire army, the second to dress an army, the youngest to give birth to two boys with golden vihras; the king marries the youngest; she gives birth to boys, the maid replaces them with two black puppies, takes the place of the queen; the king orders to smear his wife's head with tar, send ducks "and tits" to herd { geese?} , she is called Patarena (duckling"); the children are buried, two apple trees have grown in this place, they bend down so that their mother can pick apples, they withdraw when the new queen wants to pick apples; she tells cut down apple trees, make a bed out of wood; at night, one brother says that his father is lying on him and the other that he is wearing a maid; she tells him to burn the bed; two sparks fall into the geraniums {apparently a well}; Patarena tells her story; two boys jump out of the well; the king asks the new wife if she wants two horses or two knives; she wants horses, she has been torn apart by horses; the king has returned her former wife] : Karaliychev, Valchev 1963:400-402; Greeks (Cappadocia) [the prince asks his father to dig a well in front of the door; he marries the one who comes first to get water; an old woman came, the prince threw it at her stone, she told him to fall in love with the Three Beautiful; the prince asks him to make him a pair of iron shoes and an iron club and goes in search; he came to the mother of 6 cannibals, she turned it into an apple, hid it ; then she showed her sons; they gave the young man a letter - let him show him to the 12 young men, who would direct him to the Three Beautiful; the young man read it, there was an instruction to eat it, he changed the letter; the mother of those 12 turned it into a broom; then she showed; they directed him to a thousand-year-old bird; the bird led to the lake, including an orange tree; the prince picked an orange, a girl appeared, he did not have time to give her a drink, she died of thirst; the same from the second, and got drunk on the third; went to his father for soldiers to protect her; at that time the maid, blind to one eye, came; at first thought it was her reflection; she turned the beauty into a bird; said that turned black from the sun, and the crows pecked out her eye; becoming the prince's wife, the liar ordered the bird to be killed; a tree grew out of a drop of blood; his wife ordered him to be cut down, make a cradle for the child; picked up a sliver old woman; she became a girl; the king gave horses to raise; the horse given by the old woman is the best; it is not given to the king; the girl leads her; the king asks the liar if she wants 40 horses or 40 knives; she wants horses; she and her child were tied to the hooves of 40 horses, and the prince married Beauty of the World]: Dawkins 1916:305-315; Gagauz [the eldest of the shepherd's daughters: if the padishah's son takes me as a wife, a hundred square meters of carpet that will cover the entire army; medium: I will bake bread for the whole army; the youngest: I give the face of a boy with a month on his forehead, a girl with the sun; the son of the padishah takes the youngest; leaves with his father; wife gives birth to a girl Gn ("sun"), a boy Ay ("month"); mother-in-law and witch grandmother write a letter that the wife gave birth to two puppies; the children are lowered in a box into the river, their mother is buried waist-deep in the ground, everyone should Beat her and don't care about her; the poor picked up the children; they grew up, left, found a home, began to live there; the witch's grandmother persuades her sister to ask her brother to bring 1) an apple from Dnna Gzeli ("beauty world"); the old woman tells you to try bitter apples, praise the taste; drink from a spring of blood and pus, praise the water; if DG's eyes are open, then she is sleeping; brother wraps DG hair around his arm, makes tell me where the apple tree brings apples; 2) the mirror from DG; 3) brought and married DG itself; the young man forgets that when his eyes are closed, DG does not sleep, she turns him into stone; his sister goes to look for him; old woman: in front of the wolf, the grass in front of the goat, must be swapped; bitter apples, a spring of blood and pus (like with a brother); wrap 99 DG braids around your arm, make your brother revive; she revives 99 men, the hundredth brother girls, all three come back, the young man meets his father, who has already become a padishah; DG frees the mother of the children, gives the dogs the food their mother-in-law and witch wanted to poison them; the grandmother is tied to their tails 40 horses, 40 knives stuck in mother-in-law]: Syrf 2013:174-181.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Rumei (a handwritten text in Rumei, kept in the library with. Yalta, Pershotravnevy district, Donetsk region) [the old woman walked and held a pot of water in her hands; the prince threw a pebble and broke the pot; the water spilled; the old woman said: "Love for three oranges"; the prince grew up and always remembered these words, they did not give peace to him; when he became a young man, he decided to go in search of three oranges; people said that they were very far away and well guarded; the prince found and took three oranges {without details}; on the way home I decided to cut one of them; a beautiful woman came out from there, said: "Water, water," and then turned into a bird and flew away; the prince cut the second orange, the situation repeated; the prince came to the well, cut a third orange; a girl who was more beautiful than the first two came out; she asked for water, the prince gave it to her; the girl said that she was his fate; the prince told her: "Climb a tree, I I'll go home, gather my matchmakers and come back for you"; the royal maid came for water; looked into the well and saw a beautiful woman sitting in the water; the maid said, "Put your hair down, I I'll see them, you've been sitting here for so many days, I guess you've worn them up"; the girl let her hair loose; the maid climbed upstairs, stabbed the girl, put her clothes on and sat in a tree instead of her; the girl turned into the bird flew away; the prince returned with his matchmakers, mistook the maid for an orange girl; asked why she had become ugly; the maid replied: "You have been gone so long, I turned black in the sun"; the prince believed her, married her; the bird began to fly in and sit on the trees; the tree she sat on dried up; all the trees were so dry; the maid knew she said to the prince: "Catch this bird, kill it, I will kill it I'll cook it and we'll eat it"; he did it; the wife took the bones and buried them near the threshold; a tree grew out of them; when the king, queen or prince came out into the yard, it hugged them with branches; when the prince's wife - her branches were beaten and burned; she told the prince to cut down this tree; he did it; the wind raised one branch and threw it by the road; the old woman picked up this branch, brought it home, put it behind the icon; when the old woman left from home, the branch turned into a girl and did everything around the house; the old woman decided to find out who it was; hid and saw the girl; she told her everything; the old lady said, "I'll go to the king, get their shirts, and you You will sew them"; the girl sewed shirts for the king and queen that it was not clear that their hand had touched them, and sewed their daughter-in-law's shirt with stubble from a pig; the old woman took the shirts to the king and told them who sewed them ; the prince came to her house, recognized the girl and took her with him; then asked the maid: "Wife, what do you want - forty knives or tie you to forty horses?" ; she replied: "Forty horses"; the prince tied her by forty horses; where her body hit, there were beams and hills; the prince married an orange girl; "They still live and reign"]: Intervalskaya et al. 2001; Kalmyks [two daughters ask their father to bring outfits, the youngest Tsagan asks their father to bring outfits, the youngest Tsagan asks the khan's black-browed son; the khan agrees, asks Ts to make a shirt and trousers, Satisfied with the work No. C. goes to the khan, accompanied by a neighbor, old woman Syavda and her daughter; they took food from Ts, gave them food in exchange for their eyes, threw it into the well; daughter S. explains to Khan that she was looking for everything, She sniffed out how far the Khan's ulus was, so her eyes became ugly, his nose was long; the old man pulled C. out of the well; she made a pouch, told me to exchange it for the eye; the same was the second; S. knows that Ts's soul is in the heart silvery fish, pretends to be sick, tells to catch, S. takes a fish heart; when dying, C. tells her body to be thrown into the lake; Khan comes to the lake, there is an underwater palace, a girl lies, a girl cries next to her; when the khan gave her the heart of a fish, she put it in C.'s mouth, she came to life, told everything; the khan asks S. and her daughter if they want a sword and blood or horse tails; they say that tails; they were tied to their tails horses]: Vatagin 1964:239-245; Nogais [Bozakbay tells Kazynbay to shoot the hare, but he refuses: the hare is pregnant like his wife; B.'s wife is also pregnant, giving birth to a son Boztokli, wife K. - Kiyvaseker's daughter, friends agree to marry them in the future; B. died, Kazynbay's family migrated; Boztokli threw an alchik under the woman's feet, she fell, spilled milk, scolded Boztokli: he lost his father and He lost his bride; Boztokli asks his mother to fry millet, pressed her hand with a hot spoon, the mother admits that her son has a betrothed; on the way, Boztokli greets seven mounds, addressing each "Gray head"; at the well, a ring is thrown into the jug of the maid Kiyvaseker; the bride recognizes Boztokli; they want to pass her off as a hero who sleeps for seven days, she offers to run; she leaves Boztokli near his house the bride in the tree, goes to her mother; Kiyvaseker sees the reflection of the khan's maid who has come for water, takes it for her own; then she notices K., offers to go down to look in her head, pushes her into the well, herself sat down on a tree with two children (i.e. babies K. gave birth to); replies that her nose stretched out while she cried, her hands became rough because she climbed off the tree and climbed back waiting, etc.; servant B. finds K., hears her song talking about what happened; the servant goes home twice to tell everything, but each time he forgets; the third time he tears his hat on purpose so as not to forget; the soothsayer tells B . dig a hole at the well, put the children in it, they will cry, K. will come out of the well; B. grabbed K.; asked the maid if she wanted 40 legs or a killing knife; she chose legs, she was tied to 40 tails horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 19:102-109; Azerbaijanis [the fisherman has an adult daughter Fatmazhikh and a little son Kiyavyzhykh; his mother died, the fisherman took the fanged Bash-khanum; she gave birth to a bald boy and a girl; ordered the old children to be taken to the forest; the father tied a board to the tree so that it would knock, and the children thought he was cutting wood; left; K. was thirsty, F. did not tell me to drink from the spring - you would become a horse; then - a dog; K. got drunk from the third, became a bull; said that he would now feed his sister with honey and oil, which were in his horns; took his sister; although father and stepmother had moved, the bull found them; F. said that Her brother was run over by a bear, and she came in a bull; she was sent to scratch her hair, the bull fed her; the wind carried away the tow; F. ran after her, ran into the hut; there was Baba Yaga, with snakes and centipedes in her hair; F. asked her tow, the old woman asked her how she liked the hut; F. praised the cleanliness; the old woman blessed her; told her to wake her up when white, red and black water ran; washed her with three waters, F. became white, her eyebrows and eyelashes black, her cheeks and lips red; gave her tow; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she called the old woman ugly; three waters made her body black, her eyebrows and eyelashes white, on her forehead a red spot appeared; then the stepmother pretended to be sick, asked for the bull's meat; he tells her sister to collect his bones and throw it into the well, where a beautiful outfit will appear; the stepmother and daughter went to a meeting to the Shah, and F. ordered to separate the millet from the ash and fill the bowl with tears; the rooster and the chickens were separated, the rooster advised to prepare salt water; wearing the dress in the well, F. came to the palace showered everyone with flowers, and her stepmother with ash; when she ran back, she lost her slipper; Tsarevich Mamed ordered to look for the owner; the rooster screams that F. was in a hole, tied hand and foot; M. married F.; stepmother's daughter pushed her into the sea, put on her dress; in the morning the rooster screams: her sister was drowned in the sea, swallowed her catfish, she carries the Shah under her heart and asks for salvation; the fishermen caught the catfish, took out F.; M. asks the liar if she wants a golden knife or a seven-year-old mare; she does not understand whether she wanted a mare; she was put in one bag, and the puppy and the pan in another; frightened by the roar, the horse rushed, the body scattered across the valleys; M. stayed with F.]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:3-19; Turks: Gordlevsky 1961, No. 18 [(summary of the text from the collection of Ign. Kunosha); the king hangs the skin of a lice that has reached the size of a cat at the palace, promising to pass off his only daughter as someone who will determine the name of the then unknown parasite; dev guesses and demands a reward; the king's stallion hides the princess in a pavilion in the middle of the sea; driving by, the prince meets her and marries her; then goes to war; the king sends his son the news of the birth of two children; dev replaces her at night the messengers have letters; the mother, mad with fear for the babies, runs; the devil rushes after her; the stallion saves her again; she lives in his cat; the deva's slander is exposed, the prince goes in search of his wife; finds her home; children learned by their mother ask: "Can a woman give birth to two kittens?" ; the prince is reunited with his wife, they return to the king; the maiden is given a choice: forty horses or the same number of cuffs; hoping for pardon, he asks for horses; he is tied to his tails animals]: 183; Stebleva 1986, No. 81 [Bey's son hears the question whether to come to him in youth or old age; chooses - in old age; his house burned down, his wife was taken away by a caravan, one son crossing the river a lion and a tiger dragged the other away; in a coffee shop, Bey's son, as the only literate, was able to read the letter, he was made pasha, then padishah; his sons were repulsed from predators, raised; they became the guards of the padishah; a caravan comes, guards are sent to protect his wife; the caravan finds them in her arms; they find out that they are brothers, and the caravan's wife is their mother; the padishah recognizes his wife and sons; suggests the caravan man has 40 horses or 40 knives, executes him], 86 [the man and his son went to Mecca, asked the imam to take care of his daughter; he molested her, she drove him away, he wrote a letter to his father as if the daughter is debauchery; the man tells the son to kill her daughter, bring her bloody shirt; the brother realized that her sister is innocent, let her go; Bey's son met her and married her; she gave birth to two sons, went to visit her father accompanied by her husband's uncle; he molested her, killed the children, she ran away, disguised as a young man, hired to work in a halva seller's shop; her husband, husband's uncle, and the girl's father came there; she became telling a fairy tale is his story; the husband asks the uncle if he wants 40 horses or 40 knives; the uncle chose horses, he was tied to the tails of 40 horses; the imam was executed]: 335-340, 354-360; Tsvetinovich 1959 [y an elderly padishah is born a son; an old woman breaks a jug, who tells him to fall in love with three Pomeranians; he leaves home, sticks to the mother of the Devas; her sons are guarded by the Pomeranians, but they themselves do not know where they; do not know the middle, older sisters of their mother; the eldest son of the eldest leads him to a pond where Pomeranians swim; tells him not to cut them where there is no water; beauties come out of the cut ones; two immediately they die of thirst, remain alone; shahzade leaves her in a tree, goes to get clothes for her; an Arab woman takes her reflection for her own; the girl calls out to her; she offers to look in her head, pierces a needle, a girl flies away as a bird; an Arab woman tells Shahzade that she is black from the sun; a bird sits on trees in the Shahzade garden, they dry up; she is caught; an Arab woman pretends to be sick, asks to kill the bird in order to recover; an old woman picks up one pen; in her absence, the pen turns into a girl, cleans her house; the old woman takes her by surprise; tells shahzade her story; the Arab woman replies that she wants 40 horses, not 40 knives; torn by mules; shahzade marries a newfound beauty]: 58-67.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987:124-131 [=Rosenfeld 1956:13-22; the merchant's property burns down, he lives in a vacant lot, his wife gives birth to a daughter, four peri give her gifts: roses from her mouth when she laughs, tears are pearls, sleeps - gold under her head, steps - gold and silver under her feet; shahzadeh marries her; the merchant's sister (i.e. the bride's aunt) gives her a potion, the girl is thirsty, she gives her eyes for water, aunt throws her into a hole, replaces her with her daughter; she takes roses and gold in reserve, they run out soon; the gardener pulls out the girl, sells roses and pearls to her aunt in exchange for her torn eyes; shahzade finds a true wife, an impostor asks if she wants a horse or a sword; she replies that the horse, shahzade, ties her hair to the horse's tail], 240-243 [The raven tells the boy and girl that their stepmother is going to kill them; they leave, the sister does not tell them to drink from the springs so as not to turn into chamois; the brother drinks, turns; picking pistachios, the sister finds them rich in clothes and jewelry; climbs a tree; not gets off when shahzade asks her to go with him; the old woman pretends to be trying to collect water with the boiler, lowering it with the hole down; the girl gets down to explain to her, shahzade takes her away; leaves for a year; the old woman covers the pit with a plate of salt, pours warm water on Shahzade's wife, the salt melts, the girl falls into the hole, gives birth to a golden-haired boy there; the old woman replaces her with her daughter; she explains to the returnee shahzade, what has changed from separation from him; asks to slaughter a chamois; brother complains to his sister, sister replies that let the butcher go blind; the other will break his arms and legs; for the third time shahzade hears a voice, pulls his wife and son out of the pit; pushes the false wife into boiling water, cooks pilaf from her, sends her to the old woman; the son and husband of the old woman see the hand of a sister/daughter in pilaf; the old woman does not believe, kills them with a spit; when she sees for herself, jumps into a hot tanur]; Rosenfeld 1956 [the padishah has 40 wives, all infertile; he promises to fill one pool with honey, the other with oil if a son is born; the fortieth wife gave birth, the boy is 18 years old, the padishah fills the pools so that everyone can take honey and oil; the old woman leaned down to get oil, the padishah's son shot her with a pebble from a sling, the bowl broke, the oil poured out; the old woman cursed him: let Pomeranian goes to get a girl; mother to prince: there is a garden on the mountain, where girls are in Pomeranians, but they do not return from there; the old man shows the way; the diva tells you to change the horse to a tied black, throw the game to the dragon , take the Pomeranians without paying attention to the divas, rush back, get the horse back; a girl comes out of every Pomeranian, asks for water or bread, dies; a diva woman: asks for bread, give me water; the last the girl stayed, the prince went to get her clothes, the girl stayed in the tree; the black maid saw her reflection; first she thinks it is hers, then hears laughter, looks up; cuts off the girl's head, occupies her place, replies to the prince that it turned black in the sun, the wind blew away the braids; an orange tree grew out of Pomeranz's blood, the prince transplanted it into the palace; the imaginary wife orders to make a board out of it; the old woman took it a branch, made a spindle; someone cleans her house; an old woman finds a girl; the doctor advises wearing a mirror chain around the prince's neck; a Pomeranian girl says she can do one; tells her the story, showing everything in the mirror; everything is fine; the liar is offered a sword or horse, she chooses a horse, she is tied by her braids to a horse, allowed into the steppe]: 164-174; Tajiks [=Niyazmukhamedov 1945:128-137; the stepmother tortures her stepdaughter with work, tells her to strain the cotton; the cow eats it, releases yarn from her mouth; the wind carries cotton into the old woman's cave; she tells her to comb her hair, clean her house; promises that from her mouth roses will fall from a laughing girl, tears will turn into pearls, gold bricks will fall from her right foot, if necessary; stepmother's daughter goes to herd a cow; carelessly combs her hair old woman, sweeps poorly; takes gold from the pantry; she has a lump on her forehead, gold turns into stones; stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, the cow tells the girl to bury her bones in a hole; stepmother with stepdaughters go to the wedding, tell them to separate rice from wheat; chicken does this, in place of cow bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does not recognize her stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), son The padishah looks for him, finds the girl in good shape, where her stepmother hid her; on the way, the stepmother lets the bride eat salty, she is thirsty, the stepmother gives water in exchange for her torn eyes; throws her stepdaughter into the well, replaces her daughter; a poor old man finds a beauty and pearls; saves her, collects roses; changes them for the eyes of her stepmother's daughter, the current wife of the padishah; now pearls fall from her eyes, roses from her mouth; the stepmother sends the witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl tells her to be buried in a crypt of gold and silver bricks; the stepmother takes her heart away, gives a bag of it to her daughter; when she takes it off for the night from the neck, the stepdaughter comes to life; the padishah's son finds her, comes at night; she has a son and daughter; the boy has grown up, pulls out a bag with her heart; the stepmother and daughter of the padishah asks if they want 40 horses or 40 whips; they want horses; they are tied to the tails of 40 horses by their braids, a beautiful woman and her son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:175-182; Uzbeks [met three peri while hunting; the first replied that she could sew a robe from rose petals, the second - remove the pattern from a heavenly bird, the third - give birth to a son with a golden pigtail; the padishah passed off the first two as viziers, married the third himself; the first asked the old woman to replace the boy with two puppies, the padishah ordered his wife and puppies to be thrown into the zindan; the old woman left the child in the desert, the steppe doe fed him; the boy wandered into the palace, the old woman planted threw him into the chest, threw him into the river; the fisherman caught him, brought him up; the padishah notices him hunting; the old woman tells him that the padishah will take him to the palace if he 1) gets a gulikakhkah flower; a man guarding the dream of divas, hides the young man, shows where the flowers grow; 2) 40 cauldrons cooking different dishes; the old man teaches 40 divas to carry 40 boilers; 3) a mirror in which the whole world is visible; the dragon under the plane tree is ready eat chicks, the old man teaches him to kill him by hitting him on the forehead with a stone; a grateful bird brings the young man to heaven, teaches him to take away the shepherd's staff, a mirror in it, leaves its feathers; the padishah enters the young man's house, everything opens; the wives answer that they do not want a knife, but 40 mares; they and the old woman were tied to the tails of horses, appointed the fisherman by the padishah as a vizier, gave the throne to his son, freed his mother; the young man sees his daughter in the mirror another padishah, burns feathers, a bird appears, brings him to the top of the minaret to the girl, brings them back; wedding]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 59-64; parya [the maid tells the padishah that his the wife rode away; he saddles another horse, secretly follows her; sees habash (black) hitting her, she does not complain (the padishahu complained of lower back pain, for this purpose she tied dry cakes to her lower back - like the bones are creaking); the padishah fights the habash, the dog helps kill him; the wife returns before the padishah; he asks: do you choose a horse or a kamcha? she chose stallions; the padishah tells her to be tied to the tails of two stallions]: Orange 1977, No. 3:157-158.

Volga - Perm. Chuvash [7 sons of a pregnant mother: if you give birth to a boy, throw a nomad on the road, if the girl is a spindle; the woman gave birth to a girl Piguet, but the neighbors replaced the spindle with a nomad; the brothers went for far away; girlfriends tease P. with a murderer - because of her, the brothers are missing; the mother does not confess; the old woman advises to go to the window, ask her mother to breastfeed, pinch her chest with a window frame; mother confesses; P. went to the brothers, the mother gave her two drops of her milk; with P., the daughter of Baba Yaga Harham; they are sailing in a boat, swimming, H. took P.'s clothes, P. complains to the mother, she shouts for H. to return; this is one drop of milk; the third time there is no more drop, the mother does not hear; P. in the boat asks the daw, forty to take her earrings to her brothers; those: better die; the cuckoo carries it; the brothers jumped in search both girls were brought, but P. is held for H. and H. for P.; the imaginary H. is sent to water the horses, the younger brother hears her complaint song; the old woman ordered to invite both girls to jump over the fire; the real P. jumped over, H. burned down; brothers' wives are jealous of their husbands for their sister; tied P. to a birch tree by braids in the forest; brothers found her; ask wives if they want a greyhound dog or a stallion; wives: of course, a stallion; they were tied to the tails of four stallions and driven across the field; their head became a pomelo, their hands became a rake, their legs with a pitchfork; P. was passed off as a forest prince; the narrator feasted at the wedding]: Yukhma 1990:361-368; Kazan Tatars [seven brothers go to look for brides; if a girl is born, let the mother put a spinning wheel and spindle above the gate, and if the boy, a bow and arrows; a seven-year-old neighbor replaced the spinning wheel with a bow; brothers saw and did not return home; Multal grew up; a neighbor advises to put hot wheat grains on her mother's breast - she admits that she had sons; a neighbor, together with M., tells me to take an arba, a dog, a cat and rooster, go looking for brothers together; tells her to swim, makes them change clothes; without M. arba does not go; the neighbor takes M., but passes her off as a stranger and herself as a sister; at night M. grazes horses, sings about what happened ; one of the brothers hears; brothers ask the liar if she wants a basket or a ponytail; she wants both; she was put in a basket, tied to a ponytail]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 19:182 -186; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 3 [Alyar-Khan and Bulyar-Khan agreed to marry children if a son and daughter are born; a giant son Alpamysh was born, but his father died, and father Barsyn did not want to give her to A.; B. left, promising to marry the one who would defeat her in the fight; began to live on a hill, rolling huge stones on those who came to marry her; A. threw a stone with his foot, fought B. for 7 days, won, married her; her parents and brother refused to accept a wedding gift from his son-in-law; A. began to prepare for battle; promises horse shepherd Koltoba property and a wife for a heroic horse; having obtained a horse, he regrets that promised, forced K. to abandon his promise; when A. was sleeping, the enemies threw him into a hole, locked his horse in a stone shed; A. made a dombra from a board that fell into the pit; the daughters of the enemy khan heard and became to bring A. bread; A. asks the geese to take the letter; they refuse because he exterminated them; the lonely goose agrees, B. finds out about the fate of A.; the daughter of the enemy khan pulled A. out, who killed him and his soldiers; the shepherd replies that A. was angry, and the herds belonged to Uncle K.; A. killed him; the same with the second shepherd; the third grieves for A., who opens up to him, showing him the golden moon on his crown; under the guise of that shepherd A. came to K.; B. demands that anyone who wants to marry her pull a bow A.; A. pulled, B. hugged him; A. asks K. if he wants 40 mares who have never been killed or 40 sledges of firewood; he wants mares, his tied to their tails; the place where his head touched became a hummock, and where his tears flowed became a lake]: 43-51; Barag 1989, No. 36 [stepmother tells her husband to lime his stepdaughter, who leaves her spinning linen in the bath, a rooster with her; a little kikimora girl comes in, says that her stepdaughter is expected to visit; she replies that she does not have a dress, shoes, etc., kikimora brings everything, finally, the rooster screams, kikimora disappears, the girl is left with rich clothes; the stepmother tells her daughter to be taken away, she demands all the clothes at once; in the morning the father found his daughter's intestines on the walls, her head on the stove; asks his wife if she wants 12 foals or a woodpile of 12 fathoms; she wants a woodpile, burned alive]: 181-183; Bessonov 1941, No. 37 (Zlatoust) [7 sons went hunting for 7 seas; daughter was born after their departure and went to look for them ; the father then the cart, fast as the wind, the bull, the rooster and the maid; quietly put a sliver and three spits on it; they speak in her voice; the maid tells the girl to swim, puts on her clothes, the girl cries; the mother's voice tells her to return the clothes, threatens to cut the maid's head; the girl sings: scream, rooster, roar, bull; everything repeats itself; when the maid is dressed as a girl, the rooster does not scream, the bull does not roar, the cart does not go; in the fourth sea, the spitting ended, the maid began to beat the girl, she had to tell the cart to go; the brothers mistook the maid for her sister, and her sister was sent to watch the threshing floor; she sings, complains, the brothers hear , questioned, went to the bazaar; the brothers' wives do not like their sister, but love the maid; they wrapped their sister in bull skin, put them under the bridge, and dressed up the maid again; as they crossed the bridge, the brothers heard a voice sisters; wives and maid ask: do you need 40 carts of firewood or a piebald mare? they want a mare; they have been tied to their tail; where their heads touched the ground, marsh hummocks formed, where their backs are lakes]: 204-207.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ethnographic Materials 1898, No. 4 (Turgay) [Kara-Khan invited only those who have a son or daughter to a feast; the offended Mare Bai donates animals to saints in vain; when his wife tripped over someone's grave, K. sacrificed the last animal, a ram; the saint promised 40 daughters and 40 sons, but K. asked for one son as 40 sons and one daughter as 40 daughters; he fell at the feast from horses and killed; when the children were 15, K. demanded Razia as his wife; her brother Iskander killed the ambassadors, then defeated the army; when K. himself came, cut off his hand, cut off his ears and nose, threw it into the well; R. all this time is trying to destroy I., but he is too strong; she went out K.; when she became pregnant, K. suggests killing I. with cunning; R. affected the patient, he needs live water; I. came to the witch; she sews up holes in the earth; says that R. hides his lover in a chest; I. did not believe it; brought living water; next time: get the heart of a seven-headed old woman; I. came across a girl tied to a tree Gul; 7- a naked old woman kidnapped her to eat her; I. killed an old woman, brought a heart; R. suggests that I. tie it to test his strength; I. admits that only a strap tied to his bow cannot tear a horse; and you can only kill him with his own sword; R. released K. out of the chest, who cut off I.'s head; G. gave birth to I.'s son Omar; when he learned about his father's fate, he found I.'s horse, moistened I.'s bones taken from home alive and dead water, I. came to life; by this time R. had given birth to 40 sons and 40 daughters, all without ears, noses and right hands; I. easily killed them, brutally executed K., asked her sister if she wanted 40 knives or 40 mares; she wants mares; I. tied her to them, they tore her into 40 pieces; I. became a khan and married G.]: 15-29; Potanin 1916, No. 14.1 [son of Aleke Aleuko (Ali-ükö?) He dreams of the khan's daughter, went to look for her, put 40 watchmen to sleep, found her sleeping, moved the candles in her heads and legs; the girl woke up, ordered the guards to be executed; the same second time; A. came to she and they came together; Aleuco tells his father to marry her; Khan demands to fill all his wintering and summers with cattle; A. brought cattle, but the khan managed to migrate overseas, is going to pass his daughter off as a blind dhow (giant) Karké; A. crossed where bai-terek grew up; at the wedding, brother K. went out to fight; A. turned into a bad boy, killed Brother K.; won the races; Khan's daughter saw a black boy in her arm the ring given by A.; they are running (or rather flying), K. catches up; A. killed K. with an arrow, got the khan's daughter; once A.'s wife came to the sea, the maid pushed her into the water, she became a swan; the maid put on her clothes, came under her guise; but the real wife spits gold, but the maid cannot; the wanderer says to A. that a swan was flying, said: How stupid A. does not know that he lives with a fake wife; imaginary wife pretended to be sick, asked for swan meat; A. shot a swan, one feather flew off and became a camel; the maid asked for camel meat; one bone flew off, turned into a rose hip; the maid ordered to cut it down, the thorn became a hawk; A. caught him, brought him into the house; everything in the house becomes tidy, the clothes are repaired; the maid orders to kill the hawk, A. refuses; waited, saw how the girl took off hawkish skin, began to sew a dress; A. hid the skin, the girl admitted that she was his wife; A. brought her to his parents; his wife told him to wash it with milk and grease the mares to get rid of the bad smell he had when he lived with his maid; she was asked if she wanted 40 horses or 40 scissors; she replied both; she was cut with 40-piece scissors and tied to 40 tails mares, smashed across the steppe; that]: 95-97; Sidelnikov 1971 (1) [=Daurenbekov 1979:35-45; =Tursunov 1983:180-189; Khan's son overheard from the yurt how his older sister promised to weave him a gold carpet, the second feed the people with one egg, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden head, a daughter with a silver head; the khan's son marries, in his absence, the older sisters tell the witch to replace the children with younger puppies, throw babies in a chest in the river; the khan orders his wife and puppies to be left in the desert; the fisherman catches a chest; the boy was named Kudaibergen, the girl Kunslu ("sunny beauty"); the old people died; Kud. kills saigas, khan does not get anything; older wives send a sorceress to persuade Kunslu to ask her brother to get it; 1) a self-playing dombra (Zhalmauyz-Kempir helps to get it here and then); 2) everything showing mirror; one Simurg chick cries (the dragon will eat Idahar today), the second frowns (tomorrow), the third laughs (last); Kum. kills the dragon, Simurg carries it between the crushing mountains, he takes the mirror, On the way back, the mountains tore off Simurg's tail; 3) Tasshilar's daughter as his wife; this is Aislou, taught under water by Kudaibergen's late adopted fisherman father; at Kood's house. A. turns the sorceress into a needle; Kud. became friends with his father khan; A. tells the demons to build a canal, a bridge; the khan returns his wife, the sorceress burned, the older wives are asked if they want 40 knives or 40 young ones mares; wives: why do we need knives, we want mares; we tied them to the tails of 40 mares]: 33-45.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Suruzakov 1961 in Lipetsk 1983 [Altai-Buuchay stayed hunting for seven (or thirty) years; his wife (along with her daughter or husband's sister) sends ducks on her wings a letter to the camp of two khans; during the wedding feast, A. returns; women help her new husbands kill him: peas are poured under her husband's feet, flour (or her husband is a last mare, khans - pine cones); A. dies, his son dies or is maimed (the mother cuts off the baby's legs with sheep scissors); they are resurrected by loyal animals (horse, hunting dogs, falcons); A. invites traitors to choose a scraper as a gift or a nulliparous mare; accordingly, rips them off, cuts them apart or tears them with horses]: 67; Ukachina 1984 [the young son of Altai-Buuchai offers his betrayer sister a choice of a dressing scraper leather or cowhide; sister: if you give me a scraper, I will make you sheepskin, if you give you a mare, I will milk and make wine; brother ties my sister to the tails of five mares]: 64-65; Tuvans: Grebnev 1960 [end of an epic tale: Will you get seven cowhide mares or seven leather scrapers? The greedy khan decided that he was being given property, but Myoge Sagaan-Toolai whipped his head]: 167; Taube 1978, No. 41 [old man Aganak lived at the mouth of Kara-khem; he had a son, Ak Tung, who had nine knowledge; in the south Karaty Khan lived by the sea in Kara-Dalai; he ordered AT to move in with him to teach his son; one day Khan's son hears his parents agree to kill AT; he tells AT about it, they run away together; There are people fighting over an invisible hat; friends invite them to race, run away invisible; meet those fighting over a boot that carries any distance; same; old man puts his friends on a golden horse, brings her to the golden palace; there is a beautiful khansha, who already had 90 husbands, but everyone died; son K. decided to marry her; at night AT sees him descend from heaven on horseback a one-eyed shulbus grabbed the hansha and flew back; AT put on an invisible hat and a speedboat boot, followed them; hansha tells shulbus that her new husband is a youngster like everyone else, but he has an adviser; The next day, Khansha sits down to play chess with her husband, the invisible AT suggests that the khan wins three times; at night the same as the previous night; AT hears that the shulbus is about to go down into the smoke a hole and punch the khan's head with a nail; he tells the khan to cook a pot of boiling water, framed it, the nail melted; on the third night, the shulbus promises hansha to become a falcon and tear Khan's throat when he will leave the yurt; the khan did not leave, and AT threw the falcon that had flown into boiling oil; that night the horse flew without a rider; khansha flew to heaven, at next; saw how the burnt shulbus died; leaving Khan to rule, AT returned to his parents; there K. broke his father's arms and gouged out his mother's eye; AT hit K., his head came off; his wife asked if she wanted blood and flesh or horses of four colors; she wanted horses; he tied her to the tails of four horses, they carried her to the steppe; AT found medicinal herbs and cured her parents], 64 [=Taube 1994, No. 29:236-238; old woman Deptegen with a camelskin bag walks in search of sour god and thick hoitpack; picks up the last mare, a poisonous snake, three chicken eggs, an awl, dried skin, a deer antler mallet; hides in a hole in a yurt; enters beautiful Shinak, her an awl stabs, a snake stings, eggs buried in ash burst into her eyes, she falls at the end of the skin; D. finishes her off with a mallet, puts on her clothes, throws her body into the water; her young husband is surprised that the wife looks bad; she replies that she was ill; the camel, the stallion, the ram, the bull are crying, the name is Sh.; the imaginary S. orders to kill the animal every time; the husband pierced his son's thigh with a knife, began to rotate him on a knife; scream The boy was awakened by his mother, she flew in a golden swan; the husband asks D. what she will take; she chooses seven mares, she is tied to them, torn apart; the spouses live happily on]: 218-223, 298-400; Buryats (SE Buryatia) [Zer Dalai sees a lung among the herd, it has turned into a 50-headed mangadhai Asuri Shara; they decide to fight in 3 days; ZD hides sister Bashalay, a bird and a dog in white rock; mangadhai kills him; asks all the objects in the yurt where the inhabitants are; the doorknob says it's in a white rock; B. runs away from the mangadhai, pours blood out of the tueska, the mangadhai licks her off the ice, his tongue, B. cut off his head; disguised as a man, goes to heaven to three Sunday girls; finds himself inside a bottomless monster camel; there are people swallowed 5, 10 years ago; B. pierces an arrow hole, people and animals come out; resurrections suspect that this is a girl, but she avoids being checked; leads them to her brother's remains, runs away herself, chipping in with a hare; resurrections revive ZD, become his wives; he is going to shoot a hare, his sister tells him not to shoot, takes on a human form; two older wives tied a ball of red thread to the ZD belt, and they found the house where B lives .; they threw a gold ring in her mouth, she died; the youngest wife answers ZD that she was not to blame; he asks the elders what they want: the tails of 70 horses or the tips of 70 ribs; tied them to the tails of stallions; the body The ZD sisters put in a box, hung a blind red deer on their horns; the red deer came to Khartaganag Khan; a child and a golden ring fell out of the box; the girl grew up, the khan's son married her, they had a child; ZD found them , everything is fine]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 6:109-117; the Mongols of Ordos [Ondey, the best man, is immensely rich in cattle; someone kidnaps foals that his mare gives birth to every year; he gathers give the foal to Hormusta; the mare gives birth, but the yellow rainbow takes it away; O. fired an arrow, the foal fell, the mare licked it; the long yellow llama also fell; said that he stole foals by order burkhan; O. dug a deep well, lowered Dolny there, put a bull and a camel in the hole, telling them not to get up, even if they were beaten and the brushwood and stick broke; went to inspect the herds; O.'s wife went out, she goes to look for fire, hears a song, comes to the well; Long advises to offer animals herbs and water - O. did not tell them about it; the animals got up, Long got out, woman brought him to her; says that he will not return to her husband again; Long advises to pretend to be sick, ask for the heart of a monstrous snake; O. took his dogs Arja and Barja, a peacock and a parrot, went to searching; came to a black yurt, in front of her gold and silver horseback riding, O. tied the mare to a gold one; the girl called her to the house, the old woman fed and paid tribute; when he reached the mountain, behind which the serpent, the horse teaches close your eyes, the horse will jump, making thunder, the snake will close its mouth in fear, you have to shoot, swallowed people will come out of its mouth, then insert an arrow, enter the snake, cut off the heart; the snake has an upper lip flush with the mountain in the west, his lower lip flush with the mountain in the east; when O. pulled out his heart, blood flowed, causing a flood; when O. reached the yurt, he lost consciousness; the old woman tells his daughter to throw a snake's heart at abyss, replace the heart of a bull; at home Long advises a woman to feed the snake's heart to her husband - it is poisonous, he will die; O. is not dead; Long advises the patient to reappear, ask for the brain of a 12-headed black mangus; O. goes to a black yurt, there are other girls and an old woman; the old woman tells the girl to cook a bull for the guest, keep her brain separate; the horse trampled on the mangus, O. collected the brain; the old woman tells her daughter to change her brain mangus with the brain of a bull; the wife only pretended to eat the brain; gave her husband insensitivity; Long got out of the chest, cut O. into pieces; the mare, peacock, parrot and both dogs grabbed and carried away pieces; wife first gave birth to son O., and then son Long; animals guard O.'s chopped body, Naran Gho (daughter of an old woman from a white yurt) found them, his mother gave him a magic object to revive O.; gives him a daughter as his wife, gives him a daughter, gives him a daughter new name Shudurg Mergen Chagadai Khan (Chagadai Mergen); Long flew to heaven; World Cup (i.e. former O.) arrived when only his son was at home; opened up to him; took the animal's meat out of the cauldron, cooked Long's son; asks his wife if she wants to live with five jings or someone she doesn't love; she: with jings; he tied her to five horses; when the World Cup mare started, her son, on whom Long was sitting in the sky, rushed, carrying a rider; S. cut it into 5 parts and cooked it; lives with his wife, her mother and his son; by order of Hormusta, became Genghis's son, became emperor]: Mostaert 1937, No. 1 in Solovyov 2014.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (Western 1950, 2nd Nakharinsky Nasleg of Megino-Kangalassky Ulus) [old Bayberikeen with five cows saw a golden and silver stem of grass grow after the rain; B. she dug it up, brought it into the house, the stalk became a baby girl, she grew up quickly; Harajin Mergen's arrow hit B.'s house, he went in, B.'s daughter fired an arrow; HM fell in love, took the bride, told her to chase what he had taken the cattle with her, went to relatives himself; the wife meets an old woman, whose half head seems to be scorched, the house is half a house, the stove is half a stove, etc.; began to take out the young lice, blew, deprived of her senses, threw off her senses into the ice abyss, put on her clothes, came to her husband's house; she does not take off her clothes, says that her mother tells her to take it off at the end of the month; when the new month has come, HM and his imaginary wife come to B., and she has a new daughter; in the evening begins to tell her story; XM rips the skin off his imaginary wife's face, it's iron with one icy eye; XM asks if she wants a springy palm tree or an immense stallion; she chooses stallion; he scattered it to dust; drops of syphilis turned into willow trees, drops of blood into squeaky trees, fat into oak trees (oak does not grow in Yakutia}, brain into talc trees; it was Jege Baab; XM's home is in complete ruin; he asks how to get his real wife back, he is told to ask for daughter B. again, who is the same girl; the girl refuses, then agrees; abundance returns]: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 18:195-219.