K32L. The horses were fattened. 14.27.29.

The ruler gives horses (cows) to his subjects for fattening. Only the heroine returns her well-fed.

Kabils, Serbs, Greeks, Avars, Lacks, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks.

North Africa. Kabila (Souf) [a poor peasant woman raised her daughter, the Sultan's son saw her, he was amazed by her beauty, married her, sent her home with two black maids; the mother gave her daughter a necklace from sesame seeds; the girl wanted to drink, the maids told her to go down from the camel, killed her and buried her; the necklace was torn; the youngest of the maids put on her clothes; the Sultan's son was surprised by the changed appearance bride; she explains that it is the local water; the garden hears a bird that has arrived talking about what happened, then the leaves in the garden fall; the Sultan's son comes and takes the bird to him; a liar says that the cattle were stolen by robbers, the prince went to watch, it killed and threw away the bird; a pomegranate tree grew in this place; the old woman picked a grenade, brought it to her place; someone cooks and cleans; drought begins; the Sultan's son distributed cattle, the old woman got a thin cow; but she immediately recovered; where the girl who came out of the pomegranate steps, the grass turns green; the Sultan's son saw her; the wedding; a black woman was executed]: Scelles-Millie 1963:321-324.

The Balkans. Serbs [Turks and Turkish women go to the bathhouse and pay small money; one does not have money, she is not allowed in; but she gave birth to a happy girl: if she swims, the water turns golden, laughs - mallows fall from her lips, cries - tears turn into pearls, steps - the grass turns green behind; after buying the girl, the woman collected gold and went to the bathhouse; became rich; {the girl grew up}; the prince decided to marry her, sent a wagon with a gypsy maid to pick her up; she snatched the bride's eyes, threw her out of the wagon, dressed in her clothes; the girl was picked up by an old man; she became rich thanks to her; she asked him to sell pearls in exchange for eyes; the liar agreed to give one eye; in the evening she told the prince that thinking of her parents, she cried and here were pearls; she gave the other eye for mallows; the prince became king; drought, hunger; the king distributes horses, two horses each for people to take care of them; the old man received skinny naws; after the disaster was over, people returned their horses - all skinny; old man: let my daughter take them out; when he steps, the grass turns green, so the horses recovered; everything became clear; the king married the girl, and the gypsy woman was smeared with resin and burned]: Eschker 1992, No. 26:138-140; Greeks (Cappadocia) [the prince asks his father to dig in front of the door a well; he marries the one who would come first for water; an old woman came, the prince threw a stone at her, she told him to fall in love with the Three Beautiful; the prince asks to make him a pair of iron shoes and an iron club and goes in search; six cannibals came to his mother, she turned it into an apple, hid it; then she showed it to her sons; they gave the young man a letter - let him show it to 12 young men, they would send him to the Three Beautiful; the young man read, there was an instruction to eat it, he changed the letter; the mother of those 12 turned it into a broom; then showed it; they directed him to a thousand-year-old bird; the bird led to the lake, among him 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 gave the third drink; went to his father to protect her soldiers; at this time a maid came blind in one eye; first thought it was her reflection; she turned the beauty into a bird; said that she had turned black from the sun and the crows pecked out her eye; becoming the prince's wife, a liar She ordered the bird to be killed; a tree grew out of a drop of blood; his wife ordered it to be cut down, to make a cradle for the child; the old woman picked up the sliver; she turned into a girl; the king gave horses to raise; a horse, which the old woman gave 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 have been tied to the hooves of 40 horses, and The prince married Beauty of the World]: Dawkins 1916:305-315.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Avars [the poor man's daughter dreams of being loved by the handsome Chigali; wearing iron shoes, her father goes with an iron stick to look for a man with that name; merchant C. gives him a handkerchief; if his daughter she washes, she must drain the first water to the roof of her house (roses will grow), the second to her neighbor's roof (she will grow up to keep a tree); C. will take the girls from the house where roses are; the father explains all this to his daughter, bald the neighbor overhears, changed the water; the poor man's daughter asks God to make her father a snake, herself a dove; the bald one tells C. to slaughter the dove, a drop of blood turns into a plane tree; the bald one tells her to be cut down, a sliver falls into the neighbor's yard; the old woman picks it up; someone cooks in her house, she hides, grabs the girl; C. gives horses for fattening, the old woman gets an oath, the girl turns her into a beautiful horse; girls gather at C.'s house, a sliver girl tells her story, C. takes her as his wife, drives her bald girl away with her child]: Khalilov 1965, No. 71:218-222; Lucky (village. Tabakhlu, 1836) [the same in a shorter translation in Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:54-62; the red cow tells the hungry stepdaughter to suck her horns, honey flows from the right, oil flows from the left; the wind blows away the wool, the stepmother tells her to find her and return; the cow teaches people who grind pearls, gold, corals to go to everyone, wish everyone the best, ask themselves, they will show the way to the wind Chassage; horses will have bones in front of them, hay in front of dogs, hay must change; call the muddy river oily, take a sip; Wind Chassage, Air Asiyat should ask for wool back; she will ask you to scrape the rooms, they must be whitewashed, cleaned; pull out your hair, tear them clothes - comb, wash; that's what happened; the girl put her finger into the river, it turned silver, the river missed her {apparently parted}; the same was a bloody river, the girl called it honey, her finger became gold; C. poured golden water on her head, her hair turned golden; C. offered to sleep on a golden bed, wants to make the girl a daughter, hides her wool under her head; the girl pulled her out, ran; the old woman tells everyone to grab her, calls the river bloody, but they only give the girl even more; the stepmother plants her own daughter to spin hair next to the cow; the wind blows away the wool, but the cow teaches the wrong way ; the girl scolds the people she meets, gives bones to horses, hay to dogs, her fingers are covered with ulcers from the water of the muddy river; she tears her hair and clothes; she pours dirty liquid on her head, her face and body become covered with ulcers and boils; the cow was slaughtered, the stepdaughter buried her bones; asked them for beautiful shoes and clothes to go to the wedding; one shoe swam along the river; the prince found it, he was just right for his stepdaughter, the prince took her to his place wife; stepmother and daughter also went; the bride is thirsty, the stepmother gives her a drink, taking her eyes out; throws her into the well, dresses her daughter in her dress; the merchants pulled the girl out of the well, she turned into a canary; when she flew into the prince's garden, she asks the gardener to say hello to the prince and let the tree dry up; the prince sees that many trees have dried up; the canary was caught, the false wife told her slaughter, a tree has grown out of blood; dates fall on the prince, his wife is scratched by thorns; his wife orders to make a cradle for her child out of wood; the old woman's son picked up the chips, threw it behind the chest; they turned into a girl when she cries (?) , when she laughs, pearls, silver and gold horseshoes fall from under her feet; the cradle squeezed the child to death; the old woman's son fattens a lousy horse in the palace; the girl turns it into a painted horse; the king comes to see him, falls in love with a girl; girls are going to tell fairy tales, a true bride tells her own; stepmother and her daughter are tied to horses; wedding]: Khalilov 1976, No. 46:109-119; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 43 [=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 102-109, =Khalilov 1965, No. 71:218-222); seeing dew, the girl wants to marry handsome Chigali ("dew Ali"); the father put on his iron shoes, picked up an iron stick, found C.; he gave a handkerchief, told the girl to wash it, and pour water on her roof and on her neighbor's roof; she would grow roses, and keep her neighbor a tree, C. will come to a house where roses; a bald neighbor changed the water, thorns grew on the girl's roof, and the neighbor had roses; the matchmakers came to the neighbor; the girl asked God to turn her father into a black snake, and her herself in a blue dove; flies to C., annoys her bald; she tells me to slaughter the dove, the girl asks God to make her a plane tree; bald tells me to cut down the plane tree, one sliver bounced, she was picked up by an old woman; with since then, everything in her house has been cleaned; she stayed guarded, grabbed the girl; they fattened the khan's foal; the girl created a pasture and a spring in the stable; the foal grew up, does not let strangers in; went to C., when the girl told him to do this; the girl gathered others, told stories, told her own; C. heard, married a girl, drove the bald girl away with the child], 46 [the stepmother loves her bald daughter, Bibikhatun's stepdaughter tyrannitis; mother tells her to suck the horns of a red cow, honey in one, oil in the other; stepmother pretends to be sick, tells her to wrap herself in the skin of a red cow; mother tells her to fold her bones cows in a hole, they will turn into clothes; wearing them, B. secretly goes to the wedding, returning, loses his shoe; the padishah's son is looking for the owner; the rooster screams that B. is in tandoor, bald at the screenings; the son of the padishah finds B., marries; bald changes clothes with B., pushes her into the river; a plane tree grows up, bald tells her to make a cradle, the old woman brought one sliver into the house; in her absence, the sliver turns into the girl, cooks, the old woman finds her; she fattens a horse, the girl washes her head and legs, grass grows, the spring hits, the horse is the most well-fed; the padishah's son calls the girls to scratch their hair, hears B. The bald one is planted on the donkey backwards, expelled]: 386-389, 420-423; Tabasarans [stepmother tells Perikhanum to herd the red cow and spin the wool; the wind carries the wool, the cow tells me to follow the wind; P. goes through a golden, silver current to the ajdaha cave; snakes, lizards in his hair, P. says his hair is clean; the dough is dirty, P. says it is clean like her mother's; cleans the house, takes no treasures, Azhdaha shakes her on a swing, gold does not fall out of her dress; he tells her to swim in a white lake, wash her hair in black, gives her gold, dresses and a horse that can be turned into anything; seeing beauties, stepmother sends her own daughter Aykhanum; she calls Azhdaha dirty, hides gold, it falls out on a swing; she is told to swim in a black lake, wash her hair in white, and grows on her forehead horn; stepmother and A. goes to the party, tells P. to separate the ash and millet, fill the vessel with tears; the mother from the grave teaches me to sift the millet through a sieve, fill the vessel with water and salt, put on a dress, take a horse, given by azhdaha; returning from the wedding, P. lost her shoe; bek's son fell in love, found the owner of the shoe; stepmother slipped him her freak daughter instead of P.; P. flew in as a dove, A. ordered him to slaughter, giblets threw it away, a pine tree grew, A. ordered to make a cradle out of it, the old woman picked up the chips; someone cooks in her house, she finds a girl; fattens a thin horse, she is getting prettier; Beck's son calls women spin and tell stories; P. tells; everything is explained, stepmother and A. were put on horseback, whipped]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 49:444-450; Azerbaijanis [the prince fell in love with a pomegranate girl ; the vizier says she is from the divas; bought sakyza (pistachio gum), came to the house where the old woman, her lower lip crawls on the ground, the upper lip reaches the sky; the vizier threw tar into her mouth, she began to chew and did not ate it; he became an awl, hid in the cracks; the old woman's sons came, believed her that there was no one; in the morning the old woman showed the way west; there was a second old woman (same episodes, the vizier became a piece of carpet); the third (the vizier hid, becoming a fly) pointed out a tree with three grenades at the top; becoming a mosquito, the vizier took away the grenades; the first two were empty, the third was beautiful; asks for clothes; the vizier left her on at the top of the plane tree, went to the city; the vizier's maid saw her reflection, pushed the girl into the well, took her place; she got out, turned into a rose bush; the prince married a liar, surprised that she is black; the vizier cut the roses, sent it to the prince's wife, who threw away the bouquet, he became a plane tree; the wife ordered her to be made a cradle for the child; the old woman took one board, brought it to her place; while she was leaving, the board became a girl, cleaned and cooked everything; neighbors advised me to make sure that the girl stayed with the old woman; the prince was going to Mecca, distributing horses for fattening; the girl told the old woman to take one, she was given I swear, the girl has become the best horse; women are going to embroider the prince's dress; a pomegranate girl folds pearls with a song, sings about what happened; the wedding is 40 days and nights, the liar was tied to the tail of an immense horse]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:83-94; Armenians [the royal horse was taken by a girl for food]: Gullakian 1983:171; Turks [son Bey's horse steps on his foot at the spring a witch, she tells the young man to fall in love with a cucumber girl (OD); his father sends him for her; at night, the young man overhears how the owner explains to his daughter what to do; 1) give milk to the lion, meat to the tiger, chewing gum to the witch; 2) to the source from which blood and pus flow, tell him how clean he is, drink three handfuls; 3) split off a pine chip, give it and all your gold to the giantess while the giants sleep (theirs eyes open); the giantess will give three cucumbers; there are three girls inside the cucumbers; open cucumbers where there is water, otherwise the girls will die of thirst; giants tell creatures and objects to stop the young man, they answer that grateful to him; two girls died of thirst; the third waited for the young man on the poplar for him to arrange a wedding; the ugly maid saw a reflection in the source, decided that it was her own; the next once asks how OD got in; putting eggs one on top of the other; then OD told the tree to bend down; the maid said she is now her mother; looking in her hair, she pulled out the hair of life; OD fell on that The sesame grew up in the place; the maid explained to the young man that she was fool from the frost and the sun; the young man attached the sesame to his hat; married the maid, who asked him to throw the sesame into the fire, and two flew out from there pigeon; resin to the branches, the pigeons stuck, they were slaughtered, poplar grew out of blood; it was made a cradle for the maid's son; one sliver was picked up by an old woman; in her absence, the sliver turns into OD, cleans it up at home; the old woman grabs her, adopts her; when hungry, Bey's son gives away his horses; where OD steps, green grass grows, the horse eats it; the rest of the horses starved; the young man comes for him, the girl speaks in riddles; he comes back, she tells everything; the maid and the child were sent to the mountains, the horse threw them into the abyss]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 5:64-71.