K32J. The substitute's brother is accused of fraud (ATU 403).

.14.-.17. (.24.) .27.28.31.

After learning from a young man that he has a beautiful sister, the king wants to marry her. The bride was replaced by a freak. The king accuses her brother of lying and usually throws her into prison. The fraud is revealed.

Kabiles, Catalans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Sicilians, Italians (Tuscany), Bretons, French, Germans (Hessen), Qatar, (Tetum), Greeks, Russians (Terek coast, Arkhangelskaya, Pskov, Tambov), Poles, Danes, Norwegians, Karelians, Lutsie.

North Africa. Kabila [Aïcha and her brother Bejliman are orphans, her stepmother especially hates A.; when A. goes, she is followed by a trail of wheat grains, when she laughs, the sun is in the sky, cries, it rains, combs her hair, gold and silver are pouring in; B. told the king about this, who asked A. for his hand; together with stepmother A. goes through the desert to the groom's country, suffers from thirst, her stepmother gives her a drink in exchange for her eyes; changed his ugly daughter, leaves A. under a tree; the deceived king ordered Brother A. to be tied in the stable; turtles brought leaves that restored A.'s sight; they also offered to become a turtle, she became; gorlinka sings to the peasant, then to the king about her brother's suffering; the young queen tells her to catch a turtle, then cut her throat; this is where a date palm has grown; when the queen wants to pick dates, branches they rise; she orders to cut down a palm tree, an old woman took one sliver; the next morning a girl instead of firewood; asks for a comb, gold falls; she asks for shelter in the royal palace; cries - the storm begins; with her gold falls in hair; the king recognizes A., frees her brother, and his daughter is tied to his place]: Arezki 2010:43-50.

Southern Europe. Catalans (including Mallorca) [the stepmother has a daughter, stepdaughter and stepson; in the king's service, a young man praises his sister's beauty; the king wants to marry her; on the way, the stepmother is taken away from his stepdaughter clothes, throws off the ship into the sea, replaces her own daughter; the girl is swallowed by a whale; the liar explains to the king that she has darkened by the sun and wind; the whale allows the girl to go ashore, but keeps her on chains; when she laughs, the sun shines, and when she cries, the sky frowns; the king finds out, marries a girl, the liar and her mother are walled up and they starved to death]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 403 ( Catalan text): 218-221, Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 403 (English summary): 88-89; Spaniards [analogies to the Catalan version in Leon, Extremadura, Andalusia]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995:221; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [the family has an older sister and a little brother; brother hears parents agree to kill one of the children - not to feed them; tells his sister they are running away; the brother is sleeping, putting her head on her knees; three fairies passing by tell the girl's face to be beautiful, gold falls from her hair when she combs her hair; brother and sister came to the evil old woman and began to live with her; the brother went to buy something; the king was told that the boy had gold, they did not believe the boy's story, they put him in a tower - let him introduce his sister; at this time her sister had nothing to eat; she gave the old woman for food and drink eyes; led her daughter to the king, and threw the gold-haired woman into the sea; the boy saw his sister in the sea, lowered the rope out of the window; the sister told her brother to ask the jailer for thin paper; made a branch with gold flowers, asked to sell not for money, but for her eyes; the old woman gave her eyes; everything was clarified; the sister asked the old woman to pull her skin over the drum and make a seat out of her bones]: 151-152; Cardigos 2006, № 403 (many entries) [brother and sister leave home; fairies give a girl: if they comb their hair, pearls (or gold hair) fall, when it touches the water, fish appear in it, dry wells fill water; give the young man an inexhaustible supply of money and hunting skills; brother tells the king about his sister, who sends for her; the rival's mother throws her off the ship; (pulls her eyes out); brother thrown into the dungeon; the girl is swallowed by a whale; he takes her ashore; she is picked up by the royal gardener (servant); she sends bouquets, gets her eyes back, sending out of season fruit for them; the king hears her conversation with the dog at the moment when her brother is due to be executed; everything is explained, the liars are punished]: 88-89; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 25 [the teacher gives Catherine sweets; asks Does she want her to be her mother; teaches her to ask her mother to take a date out of the chest, drop the lid around her neck, put a date in her mouth; everyone thinks that K.'s mother is to blame; K.'s father reluctantly agrees to her a request to marry a teacher; she has her own ugly daughter; stepmother tells K. to hide all her wool in a day; the ram tells her to go to bed, by evening the yarn is ready; the stepmother tells her to slaughter the ram; he tells K. ask your guts, take three golden balls out of them, run with Brother Giovanni, stay away from the sea, otherwise he'll become a snake; gold balls turn into a rich castle; he's by the sea, K. is nowhere goes out; the king sees J., makes him close; he advises to marry K.; K. demands to pave the road from the royal castle to her; J. does with the workers; stepmother comes with her daughter; tells K. to step to the window overlooking the sea, K. disappears; the stepmother's daughter takes her place; the king is angry with J., sends the ugly woman with her mother into the forest; J. tells everything; the stepmother persuades the king to tell J. do overnight 1) a water fountain, an oil fountain, a fountain of wine; J. goes to the sea, Snake-K. gives a magic wand to do everything; 2) a crystal palace (the same); 3) a stove into which all the fish from the sea will rush; K. teaches that he must grab her, throw her in a vat of milk; revives as a girl; the king marries her, the stepmother and her daughter are left alone in the woods], 28 [a rich sister gives the poor only leftovers for work , but the daughter of the rich is ugly and the poor is beautiful, like her brother Quaddaruni; the poor daughter goes to get water, gives seven young men a drink; everyone rewards her (roses will fall from her lips, pearls from her hair, she will marry the king, etc.); a rich sister sends her daughter to the spring; she refuses to let the wizards drink; dirt drips from her lips, scorpions and snakes fall from her hair, she is one-eyed, hunchback; Q. carries roses to the city, the king demands to sell them, he talks about his sister; the rich daughter is imposed as a companion; from the shore K. shouts for her to close herself from the sun; the freak explains that K. wants her gave her her clothes, shoved her into the sea; K. explains to the king what happened; sent to herd geese and ducks by the sea; her sister says that the siren put her on a gold chain; learns from the siren that seven swords are needed cut the chain, take her seven horses away from the water; the liar's head was salted, sent to her mother, she saw her die]: 166-173, 185-194; Italians (Siena; follows the French text of the late 17th century. see) [after the death of their parents, two princes do not want to marry without marrying their sister; a peacock flies into her room; she agrees to marry only the king of the peacocks; the older brother goes in search; the wizard speaks that the peacock king lives in Peru; when he gets there, the young man shows KP a portrait of his sister; the KA keeps him hostage, sends him for the girl; she is brought by his younger brother; the maid paid the captain to threw the princess into the sea, replacing her with her daughter; when he saw the freak, the king threw both brothers in prison to hang them; the princess swam on the mattress with her dog to the coast of Peru; lives with the poor a sailor and his wife; sends a dog to bring royal food from the palace; the king sees her and comes after her; the princess tells us who she is, the king compares her to her portrait, makes sure she is right; The brothers are freed, the peacock king marries the princess, the maid and her daughter are hanged]: Calvino 1980, No. 92:338-344.

Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [the widower has 9 sons and a daughter; he married a widow with an ugly daughter; the brothers met the king and said that when their sister washes her hands, they fall off gold and silver, and when she combs her hair, rye and wheat fall off his hair; the king tells his stepmother to be brought and rewarded if they tell the truth, but hang her if they lie; on the way to the palace, the brother tells his stepmother to took care of his sister, his sister asked again, his stepmother said that her brother told her to pull out her eyes; threw the girl into the swamp, replaced her with her daughter; the king married her, but hanged her brothers; blinded the poor man picked up, became rich thanks to the silver and gold that fell from her hands; the girl sent the poor man's wife to sell the queen a spindle first, then a spinning wheel in exchange for her eyes; returning her eyes, the girl went to sea, took a dog; in the sea a gold chain; the girl asks the dog where her brothers are (hanged), where is the stepmother's daughter (in the king's bed), stepmother (in the royal apartments); girl: pull, pull the chain, take me to sea; people hear, tell the king; he asks the mother of the liar's wife what the murdered nine young men and the girl deserve; she says that she must be cooked in oil and salt; so they did, her daughter became dishwasher; king married a girl]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 403:47-50; Bretons: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 9 [the poor widower has children Yves and Yvonne; father died, Eve went to look for work, was hired in the royal palace as a pig; the king noticed him, made him a valet; let him see his sister for 5 days; returned, capturing her portrait; the king saw him and ordered his sister to be brought; she sailed on the ship with her wet nurse and her daughter; the king ordered Yvonne to stay in a glass chest during the day and not darken from the sun; the nurse threw Yvonne into the sea, replacing her daughter; the siren led Yvonne to to his palace; Eve met the ship; the nurse said that his sister had drowned; Eve had to tell the king that the girl was his sister, but she fainted from smallpox; the king married because he could not break his words ; the liars persuaded the courtiers, they killed Yves, threw pieces of body in a chapel in the forest; the siren gave Yvonne living water to revive her brother, but chained Yvonne not to leave; three nights you have to rub her body ; on the second night, the grinder spent the night in the chapel, hid and overheard, told the king, brought the soldiers; the sister revived her brother, the warriors broke the chain, the siren disappeared into the sea; the nurse and daughter were burned in the stove; the king married Yvonne, made Yves commander-in-chief]: 370-380; Soupault 1959, No. 12 (Lower Brittany) [the couple has 50 children, they can't find a goddaughter for 51 - this is the youngest daughter; a beautiful lady suggests becoming a goddaughter, calls the girl Marie, turns a poor house into a rich one; but soon the children die one by one, Marie remains with her brother Yvon; parents are also dead, brother and sister live with the wet nurse and her ugly daughter; M. gives his brother his portrait, asks him not to show him to anyone, asks him not to work for the king; but I. stays with the king; talks to the portrait every day; valet overhears and peeks, tells the king; when he sees the portrait, he demands that I. bring his sister; the nurse and her daughter go with M. on the ship; the nurse pushes M. into the sea, the siren chains her with four gold chains; the king sees a freak instead of a beautiful woman, is dissatisfied; the nurse hurries the wedding; the valet leads I. into the forest, kills in the chapel; M. asks the siren for permission three times visit her brother to revive her with magic ointment; I. gradually comes to life; M. says that if four blacksmiths hit her chains tomorrow, she will be free from the siren's power; the beggar overhears, reports to the king, who sends blacksmiths; marries M.; the nurse, her daughter and valet were thrown into the oven]: 145-158; the Germans (Hessen) [the mighty king cannot find a wife; the servant said that his sister is extraordinary beautiful; her portrait is in his room; the king accidentally came in and saw; ordered him to deliver a girl; ugly mom and her black daughter Margareta asked to accompany the bride; at midnight, when they they sailed on the ship, the old woman cut the messenger's throat, threw the corpse into the sea; in the morning the bride went to the window and admired the view of the castle to which the ship was sailing; the old woman and M. pushed her into the water; M. put on the bride's dress and ring, and the old woman bewitched everyone in the castle to make her daughter look beautiful; the king did not like her, but the old woman and M. said that his messenger had already married him in absentia; in anger the king threw the bride's brother into prison; the bride's dog helped her get ashore, she built a hut and began to live in it; the king hears someone singing: Where is black M.? dog: in the king's arms; the king rushed to his voice and hugged the bride; asked her brother for forgiveness; the wedding; and the old woman and M. fled]: Wolf 1845, No. 19:79-80, 83-87.

Western Asia. Qatar [father and mother died; sister heard about a man named Al-Khadrabouna (H.) and fell in love without seeing him; brother hears her say his name, goes in search; when he comes to H., he says that when his sister steps, a stuffed chicken falls {to the ground} when she laughs, pearls fall off her lips, and when she cries, it starts to rain; H. gives brother cloth to give it to his sister; she must wash it, pour the water in front of the house and grow a tree in this place; when H. comes and sees the tree, he will understand that the bride is here; the neighbor overheard the conversation between brother and sister; changed the water, poured it out who, after washing the cloth, H., in front of her own house; H. marries a liar; her sister sends a brother to him, but H. puts him in prison; her sister turns into a throat; flies to the guard, guarding her brother, talks about everything; stuffed chicken falls, pearls fall, a storm begins with rain; H. notices oddities in the guard's behavior, eavesdrops and spies, catches Gorlinka, {she turns into a girl again}; H. divorced a liar, married his betrothed]: Abu Shehab 2019:59-62.

(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Clearly borrowed European text. Tetum [one chief offers a greater gift than the other; after winning this competition, he marries his sister; when she speaks, flowers fall from her mouth, when she cries, her tears are made of gold; slave He throws her into the sea, puts her clothes on; seeing no flowers and gold, the husband thinks that his wife's brother has deceived him, puts him in prison; a crocodile saves a woman, brings her to her brother, the servants see flowers and gold; the wife agrees to return to her husband, the slave is burned in the oven]: Correia 1973:161-165).

The Balkans. Greeks: Megas 1970, No. 25 [a man asks a young man to help bring meat, gives them change, he buys three sardines, lets his sister cook; three women come; the sister feeds them sardines; each a woman rewards her; 1) when she combs her hair, pearls fall: 2) she bathes, the pool is full of fish; 3) she wipes herself off, roses and third leaves fall; the brother carries pearls to sell, he is grabbed, he tells the king everything; he tells me to bring the girl; on the way, the gypsy woman stabs a pin into her head, she flies away as a bird, the gypsy puts on her clothes, hides her face; when she washes, the water is dirty; the king sends the gypsy woman to herd the turkeys, She throws the girl's brother in prison; hears singing, tells her to catch a bird, takes out her pin; marries a beautiful woman, frees her brother, the gypsy woman was cut into pieces]: 54-57; Paton 1901, No. 21 (Lemnos) [when Princess Kyra Florou combs her hair, beads fall off her hair, flowers from her lips; when she cries, the storm begins; when she dies, the queen tells her son not to leave her sister; the old woman advises her to find a groom; tells her brother that this should be the son of King Rhodope; the monk tells the guardian animals of three gates to throw at the sheep; ask the rising and falling sword to stop for a moment; do not answer the king's question who he; the king finds a portrait of KF, promises to send ships for her; her brother warns that her sister will turn into an eel at sea, sail away; KF is placed in a glass box; the old woman is forced to accompany her, throws KF into the sea, replaces him with his ugly daughter; the prince is forced to marry her, but her brother is shackled; a year later he asks for permission to walk along the seashore; an eel sister wraps him around him the neck, tells her to be killed, cooked, let the king eat, bury the bones, the rose bush will grow, the old woman tells it to be cut down, the trunk must be preserved; when the brother comes to the monk, the brother hits the trunk with an ax, the sister revives; he combs his hair, his beads fall; with this money, the young man builds a new monastery, gives gifts to the king; at the CF feast, he appears to the king and his son; a wedding; an old woman is cut into pieces, scattered across the field, put in a saddle horse bag; old woman's daughter is sent to the kitchen]: 203-207.

Central Europe. Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [the princess laughs - gold falls, cries - pearls; one step is gold, the other is silver; the tsar is dead, the prince goes to the city, the princess tells him not to brag about her; he drank , boasted, the local king ordered his sister to be delivered; the king sent a ship; the old woman took the princess's clothes, pushed her into the water, she flew away with a swan; the old woman replaced her with her daughter; gold does not fall, The prince was put in prison; his sister arrives, sheds her wings, cried pearls; the watchman watched, burned the swan wings, grabbed the princess, who turned into a snake, a spindle, everything; the king took away the real one his wife, and gave his kingdom to her brother]: Balashov 1970, No. 22:78-80; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pomors) [the tsar and queen are dead; the Tsarevich lulls his sister Nastasya, promises to marry Zorya Tsarevich; sister grew up, asks to fulfill her promise; brother tells Z. that her sister will laugh - gold winds, cry - pearls fall, step - one trace is golden, the other is silver; they swim to Z.; from the cape a woman screams, asks her to take it; sister: don't take it; brother took it from the third cape, this is Baba Yaga; she comes to the cabin and says her brother's words: undress and throw yourself into the water; for the third time N. listened, became a duck; Baba- Yaga dressed up in her dress; Z. is disappointed in the bride, threw her brother in jail; Z. comes to the cook; he says that a duck arrives, becomes a girl, gold curls and pearls are falling, asks about Z. and her brother; she flew in again, Z. grabbed her and kissed her, N. remained a girl; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:202-205; Russians (Pskov, Opochetsky y.) [when she dies, the mother punishes her son: let her younger sister sleep, promise to marry her as the Prince Athenist; the sister has grown up, sends her brother to look for a groom for her; to meet A.; asks why the sister is so special; brother: when she cries, pearls fall out of her eyes, when she laughs, gold comes from their mouth; they go in a stroller to A.; the sister cannot hear her brother's words, the mother transmits them in a distorted way; not change clothes, but undress, not accept the groom, but open the window and throw himself into the river; replaced the bride with her daughter; neither pearls nor gold fall; brother is thrown into prison; at night the sister comes to her brother twice, tells everything; will come For the third time, we must put a cross over her; the prince recognized and hid under the bed, grabbed the bride, scolded her, he married her; his mother and her daughter were torn apart on horse tails]: Smirnov 1917, No. 101:330 -331; Russians (Tambov) [A loud restless girl falls asleep only to her brother's song, which promises that she will be married by a "tsar chick". She grows up beautiful and asks her brother to fulfill his promise, who paints her portrait and shows her to the king. The king falls in love with the girl and invites her to marry him. On the road, the girl looks out of the carriage, the babysitter pushes her into the sea, the girl turns into a goldfish. The babysitter passes off her daughter Zheludivochka as the royal bride. The brother sees that the girl is not the same, the king is angry with him, but marries Zudivochka. A beautiful girl comes to the royal bedroom, reproaches the tsar for his act: "Isn't it a shame for the tsar to sleep with the girl Sheludivchonka", the servant notices her and accidentally burns the royal stockings, she gives him wonderful new ones. Everything is repeated three times, the servant explains where the stockings come from. The king changes places with his servant, recognizes the girl who appears at night as his true bride, grabs her, she turns into fish, pike, he holds her, she stays with him. She ties the husk and her mother to the horse's tail, the brother-in-law makes the minister]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 166:247-248; Poles [stepmother hates her stepdaughter, sends for berries in winter; she is kind to those whom meets, is rewarded; pearls and roses fall from her mouth, or tears turn into pearls; her own daughter goes to the forest, rude, reptiles begin to fall from her mustache; the queen falls in love with her stepdaughter or falls in love with her stepdaughter from a portrait that her brother has; her stepmother drowns her with her child; her stepmother or daughter drowns her on the way to the Queen; her stepmother's daughter takes her place; her brother is thrown into prison because the bride is was not at all the same as in the portrait; the drowned woman takes the form of a golden duck, goose or other bird, flies to the royal court three times; on the third night, the Queen breaks the spell; when the Queen grabs a bird; brother returned to court; stepmother and daughter punished]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 403:130.

Baltoscandia. Danes [to get rid of her stepdaughter, her stepmother sends her to a mound with dwarfs for berries; on the way, the old man gives the girl food - let her feed the dwarfs; they are grateful; let her day by day the day becomes more beautiful; roses and lilies grow where she steps; gold and silver fall off her hair when she combs her hair; stepmother sends her own daughter, who is to the dwarfs not with food, but with a stick; they they make her spits turn into frogs and toads, a calf tail grows on her forehead, emits gases at every step; the heroine's brother is in the service of the king; she sends him her portrait, the king wants her marry; on the way, her stepmother throws her off the ship, turns her into a duck, replaces her with her own daughter; the king is furious, throws the heroine's brother in prison for deception; in the form of a duck, the heroine enters the kitchen, asks about her brother and half-sister, says he can only come twice more; the king tells the maid to catch the duck; draws a cross on her beak, she becomes a girl again; the king is on her marries, frees her brother, stepmother and daughter put in a barrel of nails]: Holbek 1987:523; Norwegians [stepmother tyrannites stepson and stepdaughter; stepson leaves, is hired to serve the king; The stepdaughter goes for water; three ugly heads rise out of the water; one asks her to wash, the other to comb her hair, the third to kiss; the girl does it; they make her beautiful, gold falls from her lips and hair ; her own daughter goes to fetch water, scolds her heads, which make her a freak with a long nose, a snout and a pine tree shoot on her forehead; the girl's brother sees a portrait of his sister; decides to marry; brother takes his sister through lake, stepmother and daughter sit between them in the middle of the boat; tells her brother's stepdaughter that he tells her brother to throw a chest of gold inherited from the puppy's mother into the lake to throw herself into the water; king forced to marry a freak, throws the girl's brother into a hole with snakes; at midnight, a girl and a dog come to the kitchen, the maid sees them, tells the king; twice the freak sleeps on the king; when the girl comes for the last time, the servants put a knife in the hand of the sleepy king, who makes an incision on the girl's finger, the spell disappears; the brother is returned, the stepmother and her daughter are thrown into the snake pit]: Dasent 1970: 322-330; Karelians: Stepanova 2000, No. 103 (northern, Tungud volost) [sister will step with her foot - gold, cry - beads, a month on her shoulders, Bear stars on her forehead, sun on top of her head; brother went to palace, the prince saw the embroideries on the hoop, asked who was embroidering, ordered his sister to be brought; the sister said that she would not marry until the millstone handle broke from work; the brother cut the handle; until The shop made by the father will collapse; the spinning wheel made by the father will break; the threshold will not be broken; the brother saws every time; the sister agrees, they are on a boat, Suottyariha asks to take it, puts it in her sister's ears sleepy needles, tells me to spit in the sheath, jump into the sea, the sister swam with a duck, the brother brought S.; the prince put his brother under lock and key - why did he bring an ugly one; the sister sails to the widow's house, becomes a girl, she sews on the hoop, the widow sells; tells the prince to hide behind the stove, throw duck plumage into the oven, grab his wife; she turned into a snake, he beat her, did not let her go, she became a woman; they dug a hole, S. was taken to the bathhouse, pushed into a hole, her brother was released; S.'s mother came, sees two blades of grass, wants to tear it off, the daughter shouts from the hole, "This is my umbilical cord, don't touch it"; the mother went to the gate, rejoices that her daughter is there, the prince ordered raise her to the gate]: 181-183; Schreck 1887, No. 10 (Russian Karelia) [another translation in Bertram 1854:18-29; after the death of his parents, the son got a job with the king as a shepherd, the daughter stayed at home; gave her brother her portrait; when he saw it, the Queen fell in love; sister: before the millstone left by my parents was wiped off before I left my father's house; my brother broke the millstones, joined the halves; when my sister began to work, the millstone split; sister: I won't go until the spinning wheel breaks; brother broke it, the spinning wheel broke; the same is my father's mortar; threshold; sister had to marry; I had to sail on the sea; sister took hers with her dog; witch from the shore: take me; they did not take me twice, but on the third cape the brother decided to take them; the witch made them deaf; brother to sister: the castle is visible, dress nicely; the sister asks the witch again; she: your brother tells you to put your oars and throw yourself into the sea; your sister gave the oars to the witch, but did not rush into the sea; next time your brother asks you to wear jewelry, the witch tells you to take off your dress and jewelry and throw yourself into the sea; the sister takes off, but does not rush; the third time she rushed, the witch raked away from her; the brother had to pass off the witch for her sister; she wore her clothes and jewelry; because the bride was ugly, The Queen told the dragons and snakes to leave her brother, but they did not touch him; the sister at the bottom of the sea became the bride of the sea king; she made a gold and silver hat for the Queen to free her brother, but she could not go ashore, she was held by a silver chain; her dog was wandering around the castle; the widow had an iron platform going out to sea; her sister came to him and asked the dog to take the hat to the Queen, asked what was in the house; she replies that a witch was in charge of it; the widow told the Queen everything; the next night her sister made a shirt out of gold and silver, the dog took it away again; the witch says that her hands make both the hat and the shirt themselves while she sleeps; the widow teaches her to cut the silver chain with a scythe on the third night; her sister will turn into different creatures, she cannot be let go; the sister has prepared pants for the Queen; the Queen threw his chain over her, cut the silver one; her sister turned into an earthworm, a fly, a lizard, a spindle, etc.; the Queen took her to the widow's house, freed her brother; the Queen tells you to cook a resin pit, light it, cover it from above, tells the servants to take the witch away, she fails, burns, sticks her hair out, says that it will make worms in the ground, mosquitoes in the air, harmful caterpillars to cause suffering to people; wedding; brother appointed chief adviser, receives half of the treasure]: 74-85; Lavonen 1992 [{approximately like other versions}]: 192-195 (Kalevala District), 208- 206 (Pryazhinsky district); Lutsi (Western 1893) [Mr. Coachman's boyfriend; painted a portrait of his beautiful sister; the gentleman asks to bring her; by the lake, the brother offers to walk along the shore, and the sister - like in winter, across the lake; on the lake, the devil makes her give away all her clothes, turns her into a duck; the brother did not notice the change, and the gentleman sees that the bride is far from the picture in the portrait, put her brother behind 12 locks; every night a duck comes to a woman, becomes a girl, asks how the master and wife live; a woman: like a cat and a dog; a girl: so be it, since my brother is locked up; after each visit one castle flies off; a woman goes to the healer; they tell her on the last night (after the 12th visit, the sister would remain a duck forever) to throw feathers into the fire and grab the girl; she will turn into a snake, a lizard, a larva, a bear, a wolf, a dog, a cow; when he becomes a spindle, break it, put it to bed; as it happened, in the morning a girl is in bed; the brother comes out of prison, shows the master his real sister; the gentleman asked the hell what kind of beer she wanted; from horse manure; offered to try it, pushed it into a boiling pot and closed the lid; brother, sister, her husband began to live, still live]: Annom et al. 2018:188-191.