K33A. Goat Brother, ATU 450.

(.12.) .13.-.17. (.21.23.) .27.-.33. (.34.)

Young siblings (usually brother and sister) leave home. One of them (rarely: several brothers), accidentally breaking a ban, turns into an animal (usually an ungulate) or (rarely) a bird; later he is usually disgraced.

(Songhai), Malgash, Arabs of Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Berbers of Morocco and Algeria, Basques, Catalans, Spaniards, Aragon, Portuguese, Sicilians, Italians (Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Calabria), French, Bretons, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen, Grimms), Irish, Palestinians, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, South Yemen, Hadramaut, Mehri, Socotra, (Mustang, Tamils), Greeks, Bulgarians, (Albanians), Hungarians, Romanians, Gagauz people, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya, Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Poltava, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Kabardian, Karachays or Balkarians, Ossetians, Kumyks, Dargins, Rutulans, Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Mountain Tajiks, Hufs, Yagnobes, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Turkmens, Latvians, Lithuanians, Livonians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Swedes, Norwegians, Mordovians, Mari, Komi, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, (Mongols). {Contrary to ATU, there is no such motive in the Mustang Valley (Kretschmar 1985) and the Japanese index (Ikeda 1971)}.

(Wed. West Africa. Songhai [Fatma bibi's mother died, father took another; warns that F. should not touch the gazelle; leaves; stepmother specifically sends F. to bring the gazelle killed by hunters and cook its meat; F. turns into a gazelle, runs away; sees different people on boats, no one understands what she is saying; the father understands, tells him to catch a gazelle, puts needles and pins in a bag, needles and pins; tells his wife to bring them bag, pins prick her; F. comes out of the bag as a girl, father drives his wife away]: Prost 1956:205-207).

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi [two sisters feed wild peacocks, parents forbid, they feed secretly, parents kill peacocks; sisters leave, enter a "country where they don't drink"; the youngest drinks, becomes a goat; son The Western king takes the eldest as his wife, promises to take care of the goat; residents remove taboos from the water, the youngest turns into a girl again; sisters visit their parents, they are happy]: Korneev 1977:159-161; Arabs Sudan [brother Abd al-Rahman and sister Zinat al-Makan alone decide to go to their older sister, who lives far away from them; the old woman tells me to go without turning around or looking back; brother looked around, became hawk; the sister met her sister's husband, who was looking for a slave; he smeared her body with soot; she must get up before dawn, rub the grain; the hawk sister and brother complain to each other about fate; she hears it neighbor; tells the older sister; in order not to fall asleep, let her rub the pepper into the cut; the older sister finds the younger sister, everything is explained; she leaves the meat for the hawks, knocks her brother down with a broom, he turns in man; buried her husband alive]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 6:69-71.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco [the sultan hides Rhaida's daughter from the eyes of strangers and from her older brother; only the youngest enters her; after the death of her father, the eldest inherits the throne; all men went to war, daughter The Sultan asks for permission to go to the river, because there are no men around; her hair swims away, her elder brother finds him, promises to find an owner and marry, even if it is his sister; before the wedding night, her sister tells the younger brother grabs the comb and run, she follows him, they hide in the forest; the enemies win, the sultan dies, the drought covers the country; the younger brother drinks in the forest from a stream, turns into a deer; the old woman notices a beautiful woman in the forest, tells the local sultan; he brings R. to his place; the servant overhears her talking to the deer; he says that the knives are sharpened, the fire is lit, and they want to slaughter him; The servant tells the sultan everything; he marries R., the deer, after drinking again from the same stream, takes on a human form]: El Koudia 2003, No. 5:27-32; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 70 [Aisha and Zahra - one husband's wives. Aisha gave birth to a boy and a girl, Hasan and Zainab, and Zahra also gave birth to a boy and a girl. The women once went to the dyeing house to dye their wool. There were a lot of people there. They left their wool and went to the market. When they returned, the coat was already dyed, but they couldn't find their donkey anywhere. Then Aisha began to worry about what her husband would say, revealed her secret to Zahra: "Take my handkerchief and hit me with it, I'll turn into a cow, you put wool on me and ride me home, and when you arrive, Hit me again with a handkerchief and I'll be back in human form." When they got home, Zahra decided not to turn Aisha into a human being again. Aisha's children asked about her mother, she said she didn't know anything. Zahra began to mistreat Aisha's children and did not give them food, but for some reason they were still prettier. So she sent her daughter to find out what was going on. She went with her brother and sister to herd a cow. When they were hungry, they asked for a cow and she gave them dates and milk. Zahra asked her husband to slaughter a cow. A palm tree grew out of the seeds, and Aisha's children began to grow prettier again. Zahra sent her son to ask them to reveal a secret that he was different from his sister and would not tell his mother. Then the children asked the palm tree to eat, and it gave them dates, and a source of oil came from its roots. Zahra's son oiled his head and put a date seed in his boot. When I got home, I asked my mother to look in his head and see what got into his boot. Zahra understood everything again and asked her husband to cut down the palm tree. He cut it down. The children left home, reached the river, the boy drank water from the river despite his sister's warnings, and turned into a gazelle. At night, the girl climbed a tree and fell asleep on it, and the gazelle under the tree. There was a puddle under the tree, into which the girl's hair fell. A prince passed by. His horse wanted to drink from the puddle but couldn't because of his hair. When he saw the hair, the prince wanted to marry its owner and called Azuz Sittut to help him with this. The old woman asked for semolina, pot and eve and started cooking couscous, but she did everything wrong on purpose. The girl came down and showed her how to do it. The prince married her. I went hunting, and Zahra came to visit the princess. She forgave her. Zahra threw the princess into the well and dressed her daughter in her clothes. When the prince returned, he was surprised to see his wife, but she talked out of it. The gazelle started running to the well. The fake wife tried to persuade the prince to slaughter the gazelle, and the prince knew it was her brother. He thought his wife was crazy. The gazelle told her sister, Zainab, about this, who told him to ask the prince to bring two wooden bowls, one with food and the other empty. The snake in the well ate the food, and the princess was taken upstairs with her son, whom she gave birth in a well. The fake wife was stabbed to death, made into couscous and sent to her mother Zahra. She ate couscous and found her daughter's hand at the bottom of the plate. She screamed and fell dead], 71 [The wife of a rich man gave birth to his son Hasan and died. The father went to the old lady to find him a new wife. She treated Hasan badly and tried to drive him out of the house. She gave birth to a daughter, Zeinab. Zainab fell in love with her older brother and helped him. For this, the mother began to punish the girl. Once Hassan's stepmother locked Hassan in a dark room when everyone fell asleep Zainab let her brother go out. He decided to run away from home. Zeinab went with him. On the way, they saw a stream, Zainab wanted to drink from it, but Hasan decided to try the water first and turned into a gazelle. The brother and sister continued their journey and heard dogs barking. It was the prince who went hunting. He married Zainab and sent the gazelle to his zoo. The wife didn't say it was her brother. I started coming to the zoo to bring food to the gazelles because they ate like a person. The maid noticed this and told the prince that his wife was going on a date with the zookeeper. The prince decided to find out the case himself. When Zainab told him the truth, he didn't believe her and threw her into a well and she was pregnant. When she started giving birth, an angel appeared in the well. He took her hand and the pain went away. Then she found herself in a wonderful garden with her baby. Zeinab was very thirsty, but then a dry tree asked her to drink, and she gave him water before she got drunk. Then the tree gave her a magic branch. Zainab went on and saw the sparrow the snake wanted to eat. She hit her with a twig, and the snake disappeared, and the sparrow gave her its magic feather. Zainab decorated her hair with it and became even more beautiful than she was. She thought of her brother and asked her to move the twig to her room. This room was occupied by the slave who brought it to her. People were going to see how the gazelle would be cut. Zainab asked the twig to turn the gazelle back into a human being. Everyone was surprised, and the prince saw Zainab and ran to her to find out how she got here. She told him everything. He punished the slave and made Hassan a vizier. Once a poor old man came to the palace and said that he was looking for a son and daughter, Hasan and Zeynab. The family was reunited. Zainab has always been beautiful because she never pushed the magic feather out of her hair, and the prince did not take a new wife], 73 [The king has a son Salif and daughter Lulja are adults, and one son is small. While hunting, Salif left his horse by the river, but the horse suddenly stopped drinking and made a strange sound. Salif looked into his mouth and found hair. He swore he would marry the owner of this hair, even if it was his own sister. I asked an old lady to find this girl. It was L. Salif insisted on getting married. At first the parents were against it, then they agreed. On her wedding day, L. persuaded her younger brother Zarif to grab a comb to comb her hair and give it only to her when she came to him alone. He did so. L. and Z. ran off to the mountain together. The king came and tried to persuade her to go down. She replied that when he was her father, she had to obey all his orders, and now it is more difficult to comply with his demand than this mountain gets higher and the mountain is higher. Same as when mother and brother came, until the mountain was very high so they could hardly see each other. Gradually, the mountain shrunk and L. and Z. went down and followed the road. From a distance, they saw two slides: one white and the other black. We decided that Zarifa would be white and Lulje would be black. White turned out to be salt, and black turned out to be dates. Zarif was thirsty. They went first to the lake of mules, then to the lake of donkeys. Each time L. kept her brother from drinking this water. When we reached the lake of gazelles, she could not hold it, he drank water and turned into a gazelle. They continued their journey and met the hunting emir. He took Lyulja and the gazelle to the palace and married her. The emir had two more wives. They hated L. When the Emir went to war, L. was pushed into a well where a huge snake lived, and Lyulja was then nine months pregnant. They then decided to slaughter the gazelle. The Emir came back and asked about Lulja. They said they didn't know. But he noticed that the gazelle was still running to the well, looked into it and saw that L. was there with a baby in her arms, and a snake wrapped around her. Then the prince put the food in a wooden bowl into the well, the snake rushed to her, and the prince pulled his wife and child out of the well. The Emir divorced his two wives, and for the gazelle found a sorcerer who turned her into a human again] in Korovkin MS; Algerian Arabs [mother died, stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter and stepson, cow gives water them with her milk; when the stepmother sent her own daughter to the cow, she knocked her eye out with her hoof; the stepmother tells her husband to sell the cow, but he, selling it at the bazaar, predicts misfortune to the one who bought it; the cow is not they buy; then the stepmother persuaded the butcher to buy a cow for any price and slaughter it; the husband asked for the udder to be given to him, put it on the grave of his first wife, milk continued to flow from the orphan nipples; when the stepmother's own daughter venerated her, there was blood and pus in her nipples; the stepmother threw the udder to the dogs and ordered the children to be taken to the forest; but they returned; then the stepmother, her husband and daughter left themselves; the stepmother left the poisoned bread, but her sister gave it first to the cat, she died; brother and sister went on a journey; the shepherd warned: if you drink water from a spring and then breathe, you will become a gazelle; brother deliberately left the talisman at the source to return; drank, sighed, became a gazelle; the sister began to live in the forest, the gazelle with her; while combing her hair, the sister dropped her hair into the stream; the Sultan noticed him, decided marry the owner; old Settoute went up the stream, found the girl, told the Sultan; he came with his men; to force the girl to come down from the tree, S. began to grind the grain, placing the millstone is wrong; the girl went down to show how to do it, S.Yu quietly nailed her clothes to the ground with a peg, the sultan grabbed the girl, married, promised not to harm the gazelles; a beggar, young The Sultan recognized her father, put a gold coin in his bread; the stepmother guessed that the Sultan was her stepdaughter; brought her daughter to the palace; when the Sultan was ready to give birth, she began to comb her hair and pushed her into the well, took her place; ordered the gazelle to be slaughtered; the gazelle asks her to say goodbye to her sister, comes to the well; "They sharpen knives, the boilers are boiling"; sister: "My sons Lahcène and d'El are on one of my knees -Hocine, and on the other, a snake with its mouth open"; the sultan asked the wise El-moudjarrab for advice; he ordered the freshly slaughtered cow to be lowered into the well; the serpent climbed into the carcass, at which time the Sultan and the children were pulled out; the sultan cut off his imaginary wife's head, cooked the meat, put her head in a bag, the meat on top; sent the cat and dog to take the bag to her stepmother; she ate the meat, believing that she was eating a gazelle, then found daughter's head]: Belamri 1982:15-28; Egypt, Libya, Berbers of Morocco and Algeria, Kabila: El-Shamy 2004, No. 450:221-224.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [when daughter Mariquita is born, parents forget about their seven sons, they leave; M. gets lost, ends up in the brothers' house, secretly cleans it up; the brothers wait for her, recognize her sister by the ring ; M. forgets to feed the dog, he fills the fire with urine, M. follows the fire to the dragon; she gives a gun; the dragon comes after him, everyone sucks blood from M.'s finger; the brothers kill him, on his grave Parsley grows, whoever eats will become a black bull; M. forgets about it, puts it in soup, the brothers become bulls; the prince marries M., the bulls with her; leaves; the maid turns M. into a dove, sticking her in the head is a pin, takes its place, makes the bulls work; the dove flies to the prince, he accidentally takes out the pin, M. takes a human form; the brothers are spoiled with the same pin; the maid executed]: Malinovskaya 2002:210-214; Aragon [sister goes with her brother, he drinks water, turns into a deer (or another animal); the king takes the girl as his wife; in the absence of the king, the stepmother tries To destroy the queen and her son; everything is revealed thanks to her fawn brother]: González Sanz 1996, No. 450:82; the Basques (recorded in French) [seven brothers leave home; after that, the mother gives birth a girl; while playing, other children tell her that she would be as good as her brothers; the mother admits that her daughter has brothers, she goes to look for them; finds the brothers' house, cleans, cooks, hides; every night when the brothers fall asleep, she sews a shirt for one of them; the youngest wakes up; the brothers do not tell her to go to her neighbor; the sister goes to look for fire to cook; the witch gives fire and Put herbs in a basin to wash their feet; after immersing their feet there, the brothers turn into cows, the youngest into a Breton cow; her girlfriend loves more than others; the king sees the girl, she agrees to become his a wife on condition that he will allow her to take care of cows, especially Breton cows; she gives birth without her husband; a witch throws her into the abyss, goes to bed in her place; tells the king that she will recover, if he slaughters a Breton cow; the servant goes after the cows, they are at the abyss; he hears the Queen's voice; she says she is suffering not for herself, but for her child, husband and cows; the king pulls his wife out abyss; threatens the witch to burn her in the stove if she does not return the young men to their human appearance; she returns, but still burns; the ashes are scattered, the brothers married court ladies]: Webster 1879:187-191; Catalans [the fairy tells the girl that her stepmother is going to get rid of her and her little brother, gives a drug to protect her from troubles; the stepmother turns the boy into an animal; the king asks the girl to be his wife, she agrees on the condition that he also takes her brother; while the king is gone, the witch throws the young wife into the well, takes her place; pretends to be ill, asks the king to slaughter the animal, then will recover; from the bottom of the well, the girl turns to her brother, he turns to her (they say in verse); the king overhears, pulls out his wife, punishes the witch, the boy takes on a human form]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 450: 99-100; Portuguese: Braga 2002 [three sisters lived near the forest, loved each other; a witch and daughter lived nearby; the witch persuaded the youngest to give coriander to the elders and they turned into bulls; king saw the youngest and got married; the witch put two pins in her head, the queen turned into a dove, the witch replaced her with her daughter; she told the king that she was sick; the dove arrives and asks the dog how her baby is; dog: he is silent at night, but cries during the day; they heard it, handed it to the king, he caught a dove, pulled out his pins; the witch and daughter were lowered from the mountain in barrels of nails]: 183-184; Cardigos 2006, No. 450 [{many very different options}; brother and sister leave home (from stepmother; stepfather, etc.); after drinking from a certain source, the brother turns into a rabbit (peacock, deer, lamb); they are sheltered in the same house; they go further; the sister becomes a maid in the royal palace, lives in a hut; the king wants to marry a girl against her mother's will (meets her while pursuing her brother -animal); while the king is at war, mother-in-law or rival deprives the girl of freedom, she is replaced by a liar; they want to slaughter her brother, at this time he tells everything; the cook reports this to the king; he frees his wife; mother-in-law dies, the spell disappears]: 107-108; Italians (Piedmont) [12 brothers built a house in the woods, became carpenters; their sister grew up; the raven took her necklace away, she ran then she came to the brothers; cooked food, cleaned it, hid; the next day, her younger brother began to watch, found her sister; the brothers told her not to talk to anyone - around a witch; one day the fire went out, the girl came to the witch's house; she gave fire, but promised to come tomorrow to suck blood from her finger; no need to unlock the door, just stick your finger out; the brothers noticed that her sister was turning pale, asked her; when the witch came again, the girl did not stick her finger out; the witch put her head in the cat's hole, the brothers cut off her head; the girl met another witch, who gave her 12 bowls, and when the brothers from them ate, 11 turned into oxen, and the youngest, who only took a little sip, into a lamb; the prince saw the girl, married her, brought her animals to him; the witch came and asked the young queen to pick her bunch standing on the edge of the pool, she pushed the grapes into the pool, took its form, asked the king to slaughter the lamb; he suspected something was amiss, went after the lamb, took his wife out of the pool; the witch was burned, and as he did as it burned, oxen and lamb became human again]: Calvino 1980, No. 16:48-50; Italians (Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Calabria): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 450:105; Sicilians: Calvino 1980, No. 178 (Agrigento) [wife died; husband took another with a one-eyed daughter; stepmother hates stepson and stepdaughter; when they went to take food to their father in the field, she sent them to the other side; they are lost; the sister asks the sources; one replies that the one who drinks water from him will become a donkey, the other a wolf, and the third a calf; the brother is so thirsty that he drank from the third a spring, became a calf with golden horns; a prince saw his sister, married her; one day the girl's father came into the house; they agreed that the stepmother and her daughter should also move in with his stepdaughter; stepmother she pushed her stepdaughter into the sea, changed her daughter, dressed in the clothes of the prince's wife; let, when the prince appears, she say that it was the calf that gouged her with the horn of her eye, ask her to be slaughtered; the calf runs up to the window, calls his sister: they sharpen a knife, boil water in the cauldron, they want to slaughter me; sister: it's all in vain, I'm in the womb of a whale; the butcher heard, called the prince; he ordered to catch the whale, the wife was taken alive; the stepmother and her She was imprisoned as a daughter, and the fairy restored her brother to his human form]: 641-645; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 20 [a widowed father marries a neighbor; she has an ugly one-eyed daughter; she tells her husband to take her away Maria and Peppe into the forest; M. leaves lupine seeds on the trail, then beans, then bran; each time the father hangs a pumpkin to knock in the wind, as if he were cutting wood, he left himself; the children come back on the trail twice , but the bran was carried away by the wind; P. wants to drink; the first stream murmurs that the drunk water will become snakes; the second - P. will be a rabbit; the third - M. will become beautiful, P. will become a lamb; P. drinks; M. with a lamb for several years they live in a cave; the king finds them, takes M. as his wife; she is pregnant; the stepmother comes with her daughter; the stepmother pushes M. into the sea, she is swallowed by a shark; leaves her daughter instead of M.; the imaginary M. says that she is fool because of the lamb, tells him to kill him; by the sea, a lamb turns to his sister, says that they sharpen knives, cook cauldrons, want to slaughter it; M. replies that she is being held by a shark, she cannot even give birth; the servant tells the king; M. teaches to throw a hook into the shark's mouth, the king pulls it out; the stepmother's daughter's chopped head is sent to her stepmother under the guise of tuna; she recognizes the blind eye; the stepmother was cooked alive]: 130-137.

Western Europe. Bretons, Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 450:265-266; French (Nièvre; also Poitou, Haute-Brittany, etc.) [The boy is 15, his sister is 12 years old; they are in the forest; the shepherdess warned that the one who drank water from the spring would become a lion; the young man drank and became a lion; the king came up; the sister agreed to marry him if the lion will stay with her; the king has gone to war, the wife has given birth to a son; the king's mother-in-law pushed the queen and child into the well and replaced her with her daughter; when the king returns, the imaginary queen asks him to feed her with lion meat; the servant sees the lion coming to the well: Jean (the king's servant) wants to shoot me with a gun; the king also heard me, told me to scoop out a well, but at the bottom there is a stone that cannot be moved; his king he moved himself; under him the room, in which his wife and son; the king ordered the liar to dress his mother-in-law in a gray shirt and burn her alive; he forgave the imaginary wife, "but you will punish yourself by saying from here" {?}] : Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 450:123-128; French (Haute-Brittany, 1883) [from the first wife a boy and a girl; the stepmother wants to kill them; the father gives them both a ring and tells them to run; the boy is thirsty; the source says: whoever drinks will become a tiger; on the following: he will become a kid; the brother drank and became a goat; in the forest hut they found food, wine and cider; they ate, but there was no less food; leaving for hunting, the kid tells you to unlock the door only in response to his words; the next day a hunter came to the hut; the sister agreed to marry him if he left the kid with her; the witch said hunter, that if the children's stepmother dies, the kid will become human again; the hunter killed the stepmother, the kid became a young man and the woman was on the hunter's sister]: Sébillot 1894, No. 11:107-108; Germans (Hessen, first publication 1811) [brother and sister left the witch stepmother; found themselves in the forest; in the morning the boy was thirsty; the stepmother made the water from a spring near the children turn who drank a deer; the sister saw a warning not to drink in the sound of the water, but the brother drank water and became a deer; a few years later, the king found them in the forest, married a girl; the Queen gave birth when the king was hunting; the witch took the form of a maid of honor, called the woman in labor to wash in the bathhouse, where the hot stove was locked and replaced with her daughter; the babysitter notices that at night the queen comes to feed her child and groom the deer; sings that she will only come again; the babysitter told the king that he grabbed the queen, she came to life and became beautiful again; the witch was burned and her daughter was sent to the forest to be eaten by animals]: Bolte, Pol& #237; vka 1913:79-82; Germans [brother and sister leave the witch stepmother; she bewitched the springs; sister warns not to drink so as not to become 1) a tiger, 2) a wolf, 3) a wild goat; brother drinks from the latter, becomes a kid; they live in a forest hut, the king hunts, chases the kid, hears him ask his sister to let him in, asks himself, marries the girl, promises to take care of the kid ; becoming queen, the sister gives birth to a boy, the stepmother puts her in the bath, makes a fire in the bathroom, replaces her one-eyed daughter; the maid sees the true queen coming to the baby and to goat; the king grabs her, she comes to life, the witch's daughter is sent to the forest to be eaten by animals, the witch is sent to the fire]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 11:38-42 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:34-39);.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the first wife dies, she has a son and daughter, the father gives them a cow, remarries, the stepmother also has a daughter and son, she gives the best to them; the children of the deceased mother herd the cow, ask her to open up, they get meat and rice between the horns; the stepmother sends her son to watch, he does not give orphans; the daughter watches, tells her mother; the stepmother pretends to be sick, asks to slaughter the cow; the cow has been slaughtered, the orphans run away, the shepherd tells me to drink from the lower spring, and a gazelle wrote to the upper one, the drunk from there will become a gazelle; the brother drinks, turns; the king sees the girl, marries the gazelle with her; sends her on the Hajj, close associates throw his wife into the well, the gazelle throws her pieces of bread there; the king returns, his entourage says that his wife is dead; the gazelle is being fattened; the king watches her approach the well, complains sister that they want to slaughter her; the sister replies that she has the king's son in her arms, that the whale has swallowed her; the king pulls his wife and son out of the well, the gazelle turns into a boy; the king burns the mother, sister and maid]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 7:89-93; Syrian Arabs [7 robber brothers, with them their sister Sitt Bada; an old ghoul woman comes; the SB pretends not to understand her nature, but sings when addressed to the brothers; they come and kill the old woman; mallows grew on her grave; the SB ordered not to eat, but 6 brothers ate, became wild boars and ran away; the youngest seventh did not eat; she went with him, he asked for a drink; who would drink in the first spring will become a boar; the boy drinks their second, becomes a gazelle; SB is hired to herd geese with a bald mask on; from time to time she takes off her mask, so the geese begin to carry unusually many eggs; the prince waited for the SB, took her as his wife; went to Hajj, SB at the 9th month, an envious relative of the prince pushed her into a dry well, took her place; told her returning husband that she had given birth to a son, but he died; the SB gave birth to a son in a well, the gazelle brings them food; the imaginary wife asks the gazelle to slaughter; the gazelle comes to the well, says that they sharpen knives to slaughter her, the sister answers; the prince hears it, returns it wife and child]: Kuhr 1993:224-229; Hadramaut [like Palestinians, Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 7]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989:334; South Yemen [Sultan's son and daughter went to the steppe; saw fire in the distance; an old woman is in the house, she also has a son and daughter; she promises to send those who come to their father on the third day; paints their hands with henna; the sister does not sleep, hears the old woman preparing to fry them; she smears henna on the children's hands old women, wakes her brother up, they run away; the old woman threw her own children into the fire; chases the runaway, they climb a tree, ask the ploughman to protect them; he promises the old woman to help her climb a tree if she she will collect all the dry thorns; she collects a large pile, he sets them on fire, the old woman burns; brother and sister go through a waterless area, the sister warns not to drink from the puddle, he drinks, turns into a gazelle; the emir sees the sister, takes her wife; when she leaves, the emir's first wife and sisters push the new one into the well; she gives birth to a son there; the emir's servant notices that the gazelle comes to the well every now and then; the returning emir they say that his wife is dead, they show the grave; the servant talks about the well; the emir hears the voice of his wife Mariam from there, pulls her and the child; executes his first wife and sisters]: Canova 2002:224-230; mehri: Jahn 1902, No. 28 [the king has a wife, son Hamed and daughter Fatima; by the feast there are no rams to slaughter; the cadi allows the king to slaughter H. and his wife F.; H. hears, says to his sister, they run away; father: let gold on their way; they pick it up, run on; let the evil camel; H.: my father and I have already ridden you; the camel skips; let the stream; F.: my mother and I have already played with you; stream misses; father stops chasing; F.: I forgot my hairpin; H. comes back, wild goats will return the hairpin if H. drinks water with them; he drinks, turns into a goat; F. led him on a rope; at the well a maid sees them, tells the Sultan that he takes F. as his wife; the first wife pushes her into a well, swallows her by a shark; the wife pretends to be sick (and obviously pretends to be F.), wants goat meat; they sharpen knives, make a fire, put up a cauldron; the Sultan sees from the window how a goat runs to the well, talks about the danger, F. replies that she has the son of a sultan in her bosom, that they are in the womb of a shark; the shark was pulled out, F. the baby was removed from her womb, the first wife was killed]: 124-127; Müller 1909, No. 39 [poor parents have children Hamed and Fatmeh; H. hears that their parents agree to kill them; tells his sister they are running away from home, F. takes a comb and a pin with him; parents chase; mother: let the children get pearls on their way; they start picking them up, run again; father: let the jewelry on the chest (amulets); they pick it up again, run again; father: let the evil male camel; son: my father and I rode you, the camel lets the children pass through; mother: let the stream; daughter: my mother and I washed our hair with your water; hear the stream; father and mother stop stalking; sister forgot the pin and comb; H. offers to go after them; sister: wild goats can make you a goat; H. goes, comes back as a goat, pin and comb are his horns; F . they come to the spring with the goat, F. climbs a tree; a slave sees them, tells the Sultan that he takes F. as his wife, she warns that the goat is her transformed brother; when F. is pregnant and her husband is away, Another wife and her mother pushed her into a well in which Iblis's shark; another wife took the form of F.; told her husband that she wanted goat meat; the husband ordered a fire to cook meat; the goat ran to the well; F. tells him from there that she gave birth to a son; the sultan follows, hears; F. tells him that his mother-in-law pushed her into the well; the shark was pulled out and cut, F. and his son took out; the sultan killed his mother-in-law and the first wife, stayed with F. and her brother {his transformation into a human again is not said}]: 99-105; Socotra [the man has a son and daughter; their mother is dead, the husband has taken another wife; his stepmother invites him to slaughter his children ; the boy overheard their conversation, told his sister; she takes her purse, where she puts the comb, makeup and mirror, and runs away with her brother at night; the children came to the cave, which had two exits; the next day, the stepmother and her husband come to look for them, they enter the cave through different entrances; the stepmother finds the children but tells them to sit quietly; the husband asks who she is talking to, she replies that stumbled; the father and stepmother left, the children came to the pond, swam, went on, climbed the tamarind; the girl wanted to comb her hair, but forgot the comb by the pond, sent her brother to pick him up; by the pond that met women; one of them combed out his sister's comb with lice and filled the broken bowl with them; the women told the boy to eat the lice and swim, then they would return the comb; as soon as he did, he turned into a bull, the women took him away; but a slave came to the tamarind; the girl threw off his fruit, he noticed her, went to tell the Sultan; he promised to kill the slave, if the girl was ugly, he came with him to tamarind; the girl cried for her lost brother, the sultan said he had him; when he brought the girl to him, he promised to show her brother after marrying her; the girl married the Sultan and forgot her brother]: Mü ller 1905, No. 20:99-105; Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait: El-Shamy 2004, No. 450:221-224.

(Wed. Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the dog disappeared while hunting; the king sent her to look for her, the traces led to a poor house, in which elderly spouses and a beautiful heavenly fairy; she was a dog; the king made her a wife, she gave birth daughter, then son; the demonic queen saw her, decided to kill her; the fairy flew to heaven; the queen drugged the king, imprisoned her; sent the torturers to kill the children; their mother from heaven tells them to kill two dogs, bring them hearts; children come to eat tangerines from the royal garden, the demoness sees them, sends the torturers again; this time two garudas arrive, the torturers kill them instead of children; the third time the torturers leave the children from rocks, but garudas pick them up; a boy hides in a tree hollow; an elephant stops in front of a tree; a boy is found, made king instead of a dead king; a sister comes to the palace, her brother recognizes her; the demoness sends an army, the boy hits her with an arrow, the army dispersed, the people finished off the demoness; the children freed her father]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 40:224-230).

(Cf. South Asia. Tamils [Raja has a son and daughter; his wife is dead; the children are trying to persuade her to take a new one; the new one has given birth to a daughter; wants to get rid of her stepsons; asks Zmeelov to catch her a 12-year-old snake; put it in the water that. the stepdaughter drank, her stomach is swollen; the Raja tells the minister to take her daughter to the forest and kill him; the boy suggests that the minister kill him too; he left both in the forest; a palace appeared and they lived there; one night the snake crawled out of the girl's mouth and her brother cut her into pieces; when leaving, the brother forgot the keys at home; the sister unlocked the room with flowers; she weaved them into clothes for her brother; as soon as he put it on, he disappeared into a snake Nora; Raja and the Minister hunted; dug up a hole with a snake in it; girl: this is my brother; Raja wants to marry her, but the girl replies that she is his daughter; she tells everything; Raja burned his wife in the burning oven lime, he gave his daughter to the Minister, and married his son to the daughter of his second wife {apparently, he took on a human form}]: Blackburn 2005, No. 56).

The Balkans. Greeks: Dawkins 1916 [{p. 339 in pdf is missing, but the meaning is clear}; the prince marries a girl whose brother has become a deer; another woman pushes her into the sea, replaces her own daughter; the deer asks the prince twice to let him go, runs to the sea, says that knives sharpen him to slaughter; the sister replies that it was swallowed by fish; the prince hears, tells him to catch fish, pulls out his wife]: 339- 341; Mannhardt 1875 [Asterinos (Morning Star) drinks from a spring, turns into a lamb; his sister Pulja climbs into the golden seat on a cypress tree; the prince marries her, her mother-in-law pushes her into a well; the lamb has been slaughtered, P. comes out of the water to bury its bones in the garden; an apple tree with a golden apple grows in this place; when someone wants to pick it, the apple tree grows; plucks only the source, turns into a lamb; his sister Pulya (]: 237-238; Bulgarians: Karaliychev, Valchev 1963 [the girl has a younger brother; she overheard her mother negotiate with her father to kill them; children run away, father and stepmother they chase; brother throws soap (slippery), sister - comb (many combs block the way), {apparently they pour something out), then they throw the razor, the pursuers cut their legs; in the forest, the sister does not tell her brother follow a bear (become a bear), a wolf (a wolf), he steps on a deer trail, becomes a deer; a sister climbs a tree; the prince sees its reflection, then notices it herself; the servants cut down the tree, they go to rest, the deer licks the trunk, the felling overgrows; to lure the girl, the old woman harnesses a cat and a rooster into the cart; the girl goes down to explain that this can not be done, she is grabbed; the deer breaks with I'll run away the wall of the house where she is being kept; his horns are gilded, his sister married the prince]: 281-283; Mladenova 2006 [brother and sister are fleeing from cannibal parents or from an evil stepmother; fleeing from the chase ( magical escape); contrary to his sister's warning, the brother drinks from the deer's footprint, becomes a deer; the sister climbs a tree (poplar); the prince notices her, but she refuses to go down; old woman lures her out, starting in front of her eyes to do some homework in a ridiculous way (the girl goes down to show her how to do it); the royal son marries the girl, the deer brother stays with her, a) takes on a human form, 2) slaughtered, and his bones collected by his sister grow into an apple tree or cypress tree or into wonderful objects; a gypsy woman, a maid, a stepmother's daughter pushes the girl into a well, where she swallowed by fish or turned into fish; takes its place; wants to kill a deer who knows the truth; a deer complains at the well to his sister; it is noticed, the fish is caught, sister (with her baby born) takes its place next to the prince]: 56-57; (cf. Albanians [the widow has a daughter, a goat came to the door, the daughter asked to buy her; leads her to the royal vineyard; the king follows the goat, knocks on the door and asks him to marry the girl; the goat too she will take it; the mother gave it away; the maid took the young queen to the well to see who was more beautiful; the queen was more beautiful; asked for permission to wear her dress, pushed her into the well; there she was swallowed by a fish; a goat ran to the well; the queen screams from under the water: Goat, goat, I'm in the stomach of a fish, a spindle on my belt, a son with a star on his forehead with me; goat in response: Girl, girl, cauldron are boiling, sharpening a knife, they want me slaughter; the king heard this, ordered to scoop out the well, gut the fish, the wife and son are alive; the maid was executed]: Meyer 1884, No. 1:93-95); Gagauz [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his children from his first wives; he took them to the forest, hung an empty pumpkin on a tree, which knocks in the wind as if he were still cutting wood; the children went to look for a home; the boy wants to drink from a wolf trail, his sister does not say you will become a wolf; he got drunk from a bull, became a goby with golden horns, silver hooves and tinsel hair; there is a golden swing on the poplar by the well, the girl climbed onto the poplar, sat on a swing; the prince sees her, she refuses to get off; he tells the poplar to be cut down; at night, the goby brings food to his sister, licks the felling; to lure the girl out, the woman sifts the flour through the underside of the dough, puts the pot upside down, the tripod upside down, firewood standing; the girl went down to show how to cook hominy, captured, the prince married her; the goby went with them]: Moshkov 1904, No. 52:90-92; Hungarians [the poor man told his wife to cook meat; she left, the children ate everything, the wife cut off the meat from her legs, cooked it for her husband; when she found out how delicious the man was, the husband offered to slaughter the two older children; the boy heard everything, he and his sister ran away; my sister tells you not to drink from a wolf, a bear trail - you will become a wolf, a bear; the brother drank from a deer, became a deer; they hid in a haystack, the king found them, took the girl as his wife; she gave birth to a son, the king went to war; the cook pushed the queen into the sea, replaced her daughter; the queen became a golden duck; the deer carries the baby to the sea, the duck goes out, becomes a woman, feeds the child; the king I saw and hugged my wife; tied the cook and daughter to horses, what was left was burned]: Ortutai 1974, No. 10:231-251; Romanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 450:265-266.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Poltava, Kharkiv), Belarusians [Brother and sister: brother, walking with his sister along the road, drinks water from under a goat's hoof and turns into a goat; sister gets married; her witch drowns and replaces (with herself or her daughter), and they want to slaughter the kid; everything turns out]: SUS 1979, No. 450:135; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [stepmother tells her husband to drive children out of his first marriage; sister does not tells his brother to drink from a horse, a bull's trail (he will become a foal, a goby); he drinks from a goat, has become a kid; they came to the city, the king married this girl, left; Baba Yaga called her to the sea, pushed her, she put on her clothes; asks her husband to slaughter the kid; he ran to the sea, complains to his sister; sister: I can't pick up a stone, I can't tear off the ropes, tell Ivan Tsarevich to pull out the seine; on the third day: boilers are boiling, knives are sharpening, they want to cut me! I. followed, pulled out his wife, the kid turned over and became a guy; Baba Yaga was shot at the gate; they played a wedding, but they didn't give me anything]: Balashov 1970, No. 155:410-411; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908, Lapinskaya volost, 18-year-old girl A.S. Filatova, lived as an employee in different villages of Pomerania, composes ditties and songs/"folk poetess"/, illiterate) [Orphans brother and sister go to live in another village, on the way they see a horse's hoof with water, brother wants to get drunk, sister warns that he will become a foal if he drinks. Then they meet a cow's hoof and a goat's hoof. The brother does not listen and drinks from a goat's hoof and turns into a kid. Ivan Tsarevich marries Mary and lives with a kid. Ivan goes overseas, puts Marya "behind the glass behind the mirrors". Yaicna-Babitsna calls Mary to take a steam bath, she agrees, after the bath she takes Marya into the river to swim, throws her into a hole, falls asleep with sand and stones. The kid sees what's going on. Yaitsna-Babitsna sits down instead of Marya at the windows and mirrors, Ivan returns and does not notice the change. Yaytsna wants to eat meat and offers to kill the kid twice, he asks him to feel sorry for him and give him a day to eat herbs and drink spring water to be tastier. Meanwhile, she goes to the place where her sister is lying in the pit, complains to her ("the tubs are steamed, the knives are sharpened"), but he cannot help. For the second time, Ivan watches the kid, asks who he is talking to, and he tells us everything he saw. Ivan digs up Marya, Yaitsna is shot at the gate]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 11:7-9; Russians (Vologodskaya) [parents, dying, left their son and daughter three peas; peas rolled under the floor, grew up to the sky; the sister put her brother to sleep, climbed up; (in the sky) a mill baking pies and pancakes, she brought them to her brother; the third time the brother does not fall asleep and goes with her sister; the sister tries to grab them giant mill; girl runs from corner to corner; miller orders the mill to stand with three, then two, with one angle; catches the girl in the last corner, leads to her land; the girl forbids her brother to drink from three puddles, or he will become a horse, a cow, a sheep; the brother drinks from the fourth puddle, becomes a kid; the miller forbids his wife to leave while he is hunting; Baba Yaga called her and tied her to a bush by the river, changed her daughter; she offers to slaughter a kid; the kid asks to go to the river to wash; the miller comes with him; unties his wife; Baba Yaga's daughter was shot at the gate]: Smirnov 1917, No. 43:218-220; Russians (Ryazan) [brother and sister went to the forest, brother is thirsty; sister does not tell you to drink from a horse's hoof - you will be a goat; he drank, became a goat; Tsarev's son married his sister; when he left, Alyonushka's friend replaced her, and when she returned, she asked me to slaughter the goat; he runs to the sea: The knives are sharpening, the boilers are boiling, they want to slaughter me; the prince hears, went to the sea, guessed Alyonushka, but you can't take her; let the kid go, but "decided his life himself"]: Smirnov 2003 (2), No. 235:128-129; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [Baba Yaga has daughters Natasha and Ustenka; Vanyusha and Alyonushka are not native; everyone grazes cows day; N. with them; one-eyed N. with them; A. put her to sleep with a song; jackdaws, crows hid everything, rolled cows on her legs; the next day Baba Yaga sent three-eyed; M. forgot to put the third eye to sleep; Baba- yaga tells her husband to slaughter Burenka; A. cries: They want to slaughter you/Damask knives, /German cauldrons boil; Burenka tells her blood to pour out under the window, bury her heart in an alley; a well has become sugar water, next to an apple tree with red apples; the master rides by, asks to sell apples; Baba Yaga sent N. - the branches rose high; the master asks to send A.; the branches fell, A. brought apples to the master golden plate; the master tells A. to dress up, he will marry tomorrow; Baba Yaga dressed W., covered the third eye, A. put under the deck; rooster: Baba Yagi's daughter is sitting at the table, and A. is under the deck; the master sent to get the servants A., brought them to him together with V., got married; Baba Yaga came, gave V. cakes in goat fat, he became a kid; dressed up W., A. threw a stone around her neck, a fierce snake to her heart; kid by the river: German boilers are boiling, /Knives sharpen damask; A. stuck her head out, cries: the stone pulls to the bottom, the fierce snake sucks his heart; {the master heard}; tied W. to the horse's tail, scattered across the field: where leg, where is the hand, where is the head; Baba Yaga goes to visit U., finds a leg - to her daughter on a stump; a hand to her daughter for a rake; her head - to her daughter on a mess; the master told her to restore V.'s human appearance; she fed me cakes, he became a boy; the servants pulled A. out, and Baba Yaga was tied to her tail, dispersed across the field]: Eremina et al. 1979, No. 10:179-181; Russians (Voronezhskaya) [orphans, brother and sister, are coming across a large field to the well. Ivanushka asks her sister to let her drink, she does not allow her to drink: if she drinks from a horse's hoof, she becomes a foal, a calf from a cow, a goby from a bull, and a goat a goat a goat a goat. Ivanushka does not listen and drinks from the latter, becomes a kid. Orphans come to a foreign realm. Beautiful Alyonushka is hired as a maid to the prince, who falls in love with her. The girls are jealous of the prince, call her to swim (agrees for the third time), tie a stone to her neck and drown her. The prince cannot find his beloved, the kid breaks out of the palace, asks Alyonushka to feed him by the river, she replies that she cannot, because the stone pulls her to the bottom. The prince looks after the kid and finds Alyonushka's body. She ties the murderers to horse tails and lets them into the field]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 62:213-214; Belarusians [Alenka and Ivanka, the widow's children, got lost, a snake came to the hut; he offers A. to be a wife, and I. feed and eat; A. gives the snake a bone, skin; finally forced to bring I.; he pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; A. and I. shoved it into the oven; went on, A. forgot the ring; I. ran bring; A. do not lick fat snake; I. licked, became a lamb; the merchant married A.; tells her not to go to the bathhouse; A. went, next to the house, there was a snake in it; when A. undressed, the snake tied a stone around her neck, threw it into river, changed in front of her husband; tells me to fry lamb; lamb on the shore: vars cook, sharpen knives, want to slaughter; A.: tell my husband, let them pull me out with a net; the coachman overheard, the pan pulled out the lamb with a net, became I.; the snake was tied to a horse's tail, carried across the field]: Romanov 1887, No. 47:265-266; Poles: Bolte, Polívka 1913 (Lublin) [after drinking water from the trace of a sheep's hoof, the brother turned into a lamb; the king grabs his wife as a goose; she turns into a snake, an otter, a mole, and finally takes on her human form]: 92; Krzyżanowski 1958 [Latin text 1558; daughter and son the cruel king flees, enters the country of Pickaxe, where the brother drinks dangerous water, becomes a lamb; the young king meets his sister, marries; (hereinafter a deviation from the standard plot, allegory)]: 84; Slovaks [when the forester brought the hare, the wife was going to cook it, but the cat stole the meat; the wife cut off her chest and fried her husband; the next day she told me; they agreed to kill Janek first, then Evichka, the forester's children from her first marriage; E. heard; taught me to run into a room where her stepmother would comb her hair, grab the ribbon, run away; she would pretend to run after her brother to return the ribbon; Seeing that the children were already near the forest, the stepmother cursed them: let them turn into animals from whose footprint they would drink; E. does not allow Y. to drink from a bear, a wolf, he drinks from a deer, becomes a deer; herself drinks from a well, becomes a gold-haired beauty with a star in her forehead; she is found and married by a young king; in the absence of her husband, she gives birth to a boy with a gold star in his forehead; the old woman pushes E. into the water, replaces his daughter in bed; the baby cries, the deer takes him to the Danube, asks the ducks to show the way to his mother; the ducks answer that she is one of them; the mother arrives as a duck, becomes a woman, feeds baby, returns to the river; so every day; the king returns, the imaginary wife wants deer meat; the king follows the deer when he carries the baby to his mother; the king grabs the wife, she turns into ducks, monsters {it is not said which ones}, but he does not let go; E. and Y. take on a human form; the king asks the old woman what anyone who tried to kill two innocent people and condemn them to the third's misfortune, she replies that this should be put in a barrel of nails, brought down the mountain; they did so to the old woman and her daughter; the king, queen and Janek still live happily ever after they die] : Dobšinský 1970, No. 12:69-74 (slightly shortened translation in Bogatyrev 1955:110-116, =Gorbov 1949:112-118); Czechs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 450:265-266.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [the mother is dead, the girl Gulez and the boy Inal are left; the witch stepmother decided to eat them; they ran away, the witch is chasing, the children threw the comb (forest), scissors (7 iron walls), the mirror ( sea); the witch asks to ford, the children indicate a deep place, the waves took the witch away; I. wants to drink; G. does not allow drinking from the trail of a camel's hoof, cowhide; he drinks from sheep, became a lamb; prince saw G., took her home, got married; the witch's daughter pushed G. into the sea, put on her clothes, took her place; asks the prince to slaughter the lamb; a lamb by the sea calls his sister, says that they sharpen knives, heat the water cook his meat; G.: I can't help, I'm in a whale's stomach; people told the prince, they caught the whale, g, returned it, the lamb became human, the witch's daughter was kicked out]: Kardanov 1961:63-68; Ossetians [stepmother Convinces her husband to kill his son and daughter; they flee, her brother turns into a deer, Aldar's son marries his sister; a witch throws her into the lake and her daughter becomes Aldar's wife; everything turns out]: Byazirov 1958, No. 75:332 ; Balkarians or Karachays [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter Ileuka and her brother; children are leaving; Ileuka does not tell his brother to drink from the stream through which the cows have passed will become a calf; horses will become a foal ; sheep with lamb; the boy secretly drinks, makes lamb; I. climbed a tree with a lamb; warriors are located under him, fell asleep; I. went down, cooked meat, fixed her clothes, hid again; so three days; once she ate an apple, which made her an adult beauty; the warriors waited, brought the khan, she agrees to marry him if he leaves a lamb with her; the witch offers to swim in the river, She pushed I. into the river, put on her clothes, took her form, ordered the lamb to be slaughtered; he runs to the river, bleats, telling her sister everything; the Khan's servant understands the language of animals, hears everything, tells the khan; the witch was punished, I.'s body was found, buried; a tree grew; a poor woman asks for a twig, the khan sends to find the roots; she finds that the spine turns into I.; Khan at the festival I. tells everything a lamb turns into a young man; a kind woman became I. and her brother's foster mother]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:37-43; Kumyks [parents died, daughter Patimat and her younger brother went on a journey; P. did not tells his brother to drink from a puddle (he will become a frog), from a horse's hoof (horse), he drinks from sheep, has become a lamb; the khan met P., married a lamb with her; the bald maid took P. to swim, pushed him into the lake, she was swallowed by a whale, the maid put on her clothes, changed her; she tells her to slaughter the lamb; he complains to her sister, she says that the whale is holding her braids, Magomed was born in Khan's arms; the guest hears tells the khan, the lake was drained, the whale's belly was ripped open, P. was taken out; the maid does not want to be fried, does not want belts made of her leather, agrees to be tied to the mare's tail; "bald cheat , unhello, without prosperity, died, pieces of her body scattered in different directions "]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 72:589-592; Dargins [Stepmother pretends to be sick first, then kadiem, to whom her husband goes for advice; says that the medicine is stepson's meat; sister and brother run away from home; there is an inscription on the stone that the water of the spring turns a person into a ram; brother turns into a lamb; sister climbs a tree; khan tells her to go down, otherwise she will slaughter the lamb; the girl tells the tree to bend down; the khan marries her, the lamb is given milk by a stargazehead, he becomes a man; the boy returns to his father, the evil stepmother to This time has already died]: Osmanov 1963:103-104 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 390-392); Rutultsy [the fisherman's new wife says that there are not enough fish for everyone; he takes his son and daughter to the forest, hangs an ax, to knock on the trunk in the wind, leaves; the sister warns the brother not to drink from the mutton, the horse's hoof, he drinks from the other, becomes a bull; they return to his stepmother; one of her daughters has nothing notices that the other sees the stepdaughter eating butter from one ox horn, meat from the other; the stepmother tells the bull to be slaughtered; the girl's slipper is carried away by the river, the padishah's son finds him, looks for and finds the owner; wedding]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 47:425-428; Georgians [nine brothers go hunting; mother gives birth to a girl, puts a spindle at the gate; an angry neighbor replaces him with a yoke; another girl speaks to her sister brothers that her brothers are missing because of her; the daughter bites her mother's chest, forcing her to reveal the truth; she comes to the brothers, who do not know who is cleaning the house; they find her; warn her not to let the fire go out; a girl comes to the deva mother; she gives smut and cilantro seeds, finds a home for them; dev bites off the girl's finger; the next day, the brothers kill him; the deva mother asks for medicine to be added to the brothers' food ; they turn into deer, run away; walks alone with her; the prince wants to shoot, the girl asks not to do so; the prince marries her; the neighbor tells her servants to drown her, puts on her clothes, replaces her, tells her stab a deer; he calls his sister, she answers, tells the king not to carry water, not to sharpen his dagger; the servants pull out the woman, tie the impostor to the horse's tail]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 54:213-218 ; Armenians: Cox 1893, No. 8 [stepmother tells her husband to leave her stepdaughter and stepson in the mountains; sister forbids brother to drink water from horse, ox, buffalo, bear, boar, wolf trail, otherwise he will become a foal, etc.; he drinks from a goat, turns into a kid; a stepdaughter with a kid returns home; a stepmother is going to slaughter a kid, his stepdaughter takes it and goes back to the mountains ; drops the spindle, it rolls into the cave; leaving the goat to graze, the girl follows the spindle; in the cave there is a thousand-year-old witch (dev); she brings snakes and dragons; the girl tells her story; that puts a hook into the fire, goes to bed; if something even appears, you don't have to wake her up, and if it's rainbow, you have to wake her up with a hot hook on her legs; the girl does everything, her hair and clothes turn gold; she returned to her stepmother again, hid her gold clothes, but she noticed her golden hair, sends her own daughter; the old woman turned her into a scarecrow in the garden; stepmother and daughter go to wedding, stepdaughter puts on her golden dress; returns before them; loses her shoe, she swam along the stream; seeing the shoe, the royal horses refuse to drink; girls are told to try on the shoe; the rooster shouts about where the owner is; wedding; stepmother and daughter come to the young queen, offer to swim, push her into the sea; the fish swallowed her, the stepmother replaced her daughter; being in the belly of the fish, the queen hears the voice of bell-ringer; asks him to cross himself seven times, ask the king not to slaughter the kid; the king, together with the bell-ringer, comes to the sea, hears his wife's voice, jumps into the water, rips open the fish's belly, pulls out his wife; tied his stepmother and her daughter to the tails of horses; three apples fell from the sky]: 4-5; Karapetyan 1967 []: 138-142; Nazinyan 1969 [seven brothers tell the mother to put a spindle on the roof if she is born a girl, and a plow, if it's a boy again; someone mistakenly put the plow, the brothers left; the girl grew up; someone lost a ball; all the girls swore to their brothers that they did not take the ball, and this one swore as a dog; the mother admitted that the girl has brothers; she came to the house in the forest, cleaned and cooked, hid; the younger brother began to guard, saw her sister; one day the fire went out, the girl saw smoke, came, and there was a terrible old woman, the mother of a deva; she gave coal and ash, Dev found a house on an ash trail; the girl refused to unlock it, but agreed to stick her finger out; dev bit him off, she fainted; brothers they killed the deva, buried it; the deva's mother watered the grave, grass grew, the brothers put her in soup, turned into rams; the prince took the girl, promised to take her brothers; the prince's relative pushed his wife into the water, put on her dress, her husband did not notice the change; the liar pretended to be sick, asked to slaughter the rams; they came to the shore, asked her sister to go out; she swam out, the brothers became human again, the liar was tied to at the tail of the mule, let him flee the mountain; three apples fell from the sky]: 135-138; Azerbaijanis [the fisherman has an adult daughter Fatmajykh and a little son Kiyavyzhykh; his mother died, the fisherman took the fanged Bash-khanum; that gave birth to a bald boy and a girl; ordered her 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 firewood; left; K. was thirsty, F. did not tell me to drink from spring - you will 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 are in his horns; took his sister; although father and stepmother they 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 Baba Yaga, there are snakes and centipedes in her hair; F. asked her tow, the old woman asked how she liked the hut; F. praised the cleanliness; the old woman blessed her; told her to wake her up when the white, red and black water; washed with three waters, F. became white-bodied, eyebrows and eyelashes black, cheeks and lips red; gave her tow; stepmother sent her own daughter; she called the old woman ugly; three waters made her body black, eyebrows and eyelashes are white, a red spot appeared on her forehead; then the stepmother pretended to be sick, asked for the bull's meat; he tells his sister to collect his bones and throw it into the well, there will be a beautiful outfit; stepmother with they went to a meeting with the Shah as their daughter, 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 that was 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 shouts that F. was in a hole, tied hand and foot; M. married F. ; her 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 wears under the Shah's 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 did not understand whether she wanted a mare; she was put in one bag, and the puppy and pot in another; frightened of a roar, the horse rushed, the body scattered across the valleys; M. stayed with F.]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:3-19; Turks: Aganin et al. 1960 [the hunter has a second wife; stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter and stepson; the partridge obtained by the hunter disappeared; the wife is horrified; cut off one of her breasts, cooked it; the hunter liked the meat; when he found out what was going on, he decided to eat a man; the wife offered to fatten the children and eat it in 40 days; the girl hears, thinks days laying stones; tells brother to run; father chases; old woman gives mirror, comb and clay; sister threw clay (swamp); crest (thorny bush); father almost caught up, mirror fell - sea, father stayed on the other side; the brother is thirsty; the rider indicated three sources; after drinking from the first, you will become fish, from the second you will become a lamb, the third is safe; the brother has become a lamb; the son of the padishah arrived saw a girl in a tree, decided to marry her; rode home to return; an arapka came up, said that the padishah's son had sent her, pushed the girl to the first spring, put on her clothes; the son of the padishah I am surprised that the bride is fool; after the wedding, the arapka fell ill, asks for lamb meat; the padishah's son is watching him; he comes to the source: you were swallowed by fish, and the arapka wants to eat me, the butchers sharpen me knives; the fishermen took the fish out of her womb; the arapka was torn by four mules; three apples fell from the sky; the lamb ate one, became a boy, his sister put the other on his chest, she woke up; the third will find a child who will read a fairy tale]: 122-130; Kúnos 1901 [after the death of the padishah, his son and daughter went broke, went on a journey; the sister warns his brother in vain not to drink dirty water, he drinks, turns into a deer; the sister climbed a tree above the spring, the padishah's horses see her reflection, are frightened; then the servants see too; she refuses to get down, the padishah tells her to cut down the tree; when the servants went on vacation, the deer licked the felling, the tree was intact; the same the next evening; then they called the old woman; she pretended to be blind, put the cauldron upside down, poured water by; you next time began to cook not meat, but ash; on the third day she slaughtered the sheep, poking it with a knife from behind, rather than cutting her throat; the girl went down, the padishah grabbed her, she agreed to marry him if he took her brother- a deer; a black maid pushed the padishah's wife into a spring, she was swallowed by a fish; the maid took her place, saying that she had darkened in the sun; she pretended to be sick: she would be cured by deer meat; he says sister: the knife is sharpening, the water is boiling, hurry, sister; sister in response: I am inside the fish, there is a golden saucer on my hand, a silver sandal on my leg, a small padishah at my chest; the padishah heard, the spring was drained, the belly of the fish ripped open, there was a wife and son; a deer licked the fish's blood, became a young man again; a maid's padishah: 4 swords or 4 horses? maid: let swords against my enemies, I choose horses; she was tied to the tails of horses, torn]: 1-11.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1987:240-243 [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, her sister finds them rich in clothes and jewelry; climbs a tree; does not get off when shahzade asks her to go with him; the old woman pretends to be trying to collect water with a boiler, lowering it with a hole down; the girl gets off 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 his wife shahzade, the salt melts, the girl falls into a hole, gives birth to a golden-haired boy there; the old woman replaces her with her daughter; she explains to the returning shahzade that she has changed from being separated from him; asks to slaughter the chamois; the brother complains to her sister, the sister answers that let the butcher go blind; the other break his arms and legs; 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; son and husband old women see their sister/daughter's hand in pilaf; the old woman does not believe, kills them with a spit; when she sees them herself, she jumps into a hot tanur], 336-339 [sister and brother run away from the evil stepmother; the rider gives the girl clothes, warns that it will be possible to drink from the last, human stream; brother drinks from the penultimate, gazelle, becomes a lame gazelle; shahzade takes the girl as his wife; when going hunting, warns that she must open the door after he throws the seventh Pomeranian through the wall; the mother of the former bride heard, got into Shahzadeh's wife, covered the hole with a carpet, she fell through; she gave birth to a boy and a girl in the pit; the liar put her daughter in her place; she told Shahzade that she turned yellow with longing for him, she would recover if the gazelle was slaughtered; the gazelle complains to her sister (The knives are sharpened hot...); the sister replies that she has a son and daughter Shahzade in her arms, telling the butcher to go blind; shahzade hears his wife, pulls her out of the pit; the false wife's meat soup was given to her mother, who found her daughter's ring in it; the mother was torn by horses; the gazelle stayed with her sister and shahzade]; khufs [the father has two sons and a daughter; the eldest asks the father to give him a wife; the father tells her to stick a flower in the hair of whoever he likes; the son chose a sister; the old woman told her that she is being passed off as a brother; a girl climbed a plane tree and tells her to grow up; mother asks her plane tree to be shorter; girl: you served as my mother {in the sense that you are no longer a mother}; the same with my father; with my elder brother; when her younger brother came up, she went down and went with him to another country; asked him not to drink from the stream - you would become a wolf; then a horse; a dog; for the fourth time the boy got drunk and became a lamb; them the king met, brought it to him; the old wife put a new one on the swing, shakes, she falls into the pond; when the king returns, she tells me to slaughter the lamb; he cries by the pond: The damask knife is sharpened, Leyla's brother into the cauldron they put it down; the tsar heard it, threw a rope to his wife and pulled it out; tied his former wife to a horse, who smashed her to pieces]: Sokolova 1959, No. 21:83-86; Yagnobtsy [the young man promises to marry a girl like him sister; does not find it, decides to take her sister herself; the sparrow tells her about it, gives her a magic wand, the girl flies away on it; refuses to return at the request of her mother (she is now her mother-in-law), the youngest brother; but then takes him with him; they go, the sister forbids the boy to drink from different rivers, for he will become a marmot, a bear, a pig; he drinks from a river that turns half into a goat; the sister climbs to a tree above the water; the maid thinks she is so beautiful, refuses to carry water; the old woman persuaded her to go down, the king married the girl; while he was hunting, the other wives persuaded her to swing on the swing, the rope was cut off, the girl fell into the pond; another wife says she is sick, asks that the goat be slaughtered; the goat asks for permission to go to the pond, sings that Bibi-Mo (i.e. his sister) is in the arms of Hassan and Hussein (newborns), let the knife turn around, prevent them from slaughtering; the maid tries to slaughter the goat, hurts herself; the king hears, tells them to bring cattle, they drink water, the pond dries up; feast; other wives are tied to horses]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 45:206-210; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz): Amonov 1972 [bai tells him to marry him a wife as beautiful as Myrambi, the daughter of a poor neighbor; they do not find one; parents promise give M. bay; M. gives rice to magpie, then chicken; they tell M. that it will be given for bay; M. stuck a needle in the ground, it turned into a plane tree to the sky; M. sings, telling the plane tree to lift it away from the ground; the plane tree began to pick it up; the mother asks me to return - you were told a lie; M.: you were my mother, now you are an enemy, everyone in the world is evil; the same is with the father; with the older brother; the younger brother cried, M. his I regretted it, tells the plane tree to let her down, her brother to grab her pigtail, got up with him; brother and sister found themselves in the endless steppe; brother and sister walked along it; the old man warns not to drink from the lake ( you will become frogs), from a stream (gazelles), get drunk from the river; brother drinks from a stream, makes a gazelle; a goat transports them across the river; M. fried the partridge, the padishah's nuker came, brought him this partridge, M. became the padishah's beloved wife; he left, the two older wives began to swing pregnant M. on a swing on the pond, cut the rope, M. fell; the wives told the padishah that M. was peri, flew away; the elder wife says that she is sick, asks to slaughter the garden; he asks the torturers to let him drink first; M. replies from the pond that she has Shohusain and Mohusain (Ali's sons) on her chest; the padishah tells the giant to drink the pond, returns M. and children, gazelenok becomes a boy again; wives were tied to the tails of mares and a stallion was allowed to join them]: 50-58 (=Amonov 1961:59-67, =Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:189-195, =196:218-225, =Osmanov 1989:297-305); Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 8 [Magpie, then Chicken, then the old woman tells the girl that they want to pass her off as her older brother; she sits on a volvolak turntable, flies to the sky; refuses go down at the request of the mother, the older brother; goes down to pick up the younger brother, flies with him; they go down to the gorge; the sister does not tell you to drink from the pond with frogs, then with snakes, then where they drink mountain goats; brother drinks, turns into a one-horned goat; the shah hunts, takes the girl as his wife, leaves; two older wives put her on a swing, give the cat lard, tell her to gnaw the rope; the girl falls into pond; under water gives birth to a silver-fronted son Shoh Hussein ("Shah") and a daughter with golden braids Moh Hussein ("The Month"); wives want to slaughter a kid, he complains to his sister, she replies that her braids entangled in plane trees, promises to make the knife stupid; the Shah hears his wife's voice, tells him not to water the herd, then give the animals a drink of the pond; the shah married a second time, the older wives were torn apart by mares]: 48-51; Uzbeks: Westerman 2009 [the widower has Gulnor's eldest daughter, the youngest Oimoma; the father married a widow and has her own son; O. tells G. that they want to marry her half-brother; G. ran to the mountains, asked the stone opened, hid inside the stone; only the ends of the hair remained outside; the father asked the stone to open; G.: was a father, now a father-in-law; to the father's wife: you are not a mother, but a stepmother; to the groom: so that his eyes on They did not look at you; when O. came, G. asked the stone to open and both sisters went on a journey; O. wanted to drink, G. did not tell you to turn into a bear cub; elsewhere into a wolf cub; in the third place, into goat; O. wants to become a goat, drinks; Shah's hunters surrounded them, the Shah married G.; Shah's first wife Bekoim ordered the goat to be chained; G. will give birth soon, the Shah went hunting; B. hung a swing by the pond , G. began to swing, B. cut the rope, G. fell into the pond; B. tells the Shah that G. poisoned her, became an owl and flew away; B. pretended to be sick, she will be cured by goat meat; the goat sings over the pond, G. answers from the bottom; the cooks made a fire under the boilers, 40 butchers are ready to slaughter the goat; she asks the butcher not to cut it, calls her sister ("The boilers are suspended, the knives are sharpened"), she answers from the bottom ("Under her feet I have carpets, two cradles next to me, Hassan and Hussein are in my arms"); people hear, scooped up water, there are two golden cradles at the bottom; G. gave the goat a drink of water, she became a girl again; the Shah told B. and her healer tie 40 horses to their tails and died; horses were driven to the steppe; G. became ruler]: 222-227; Ostroumov 1892, No. 16 [stepmother hates five stepdaughters and stepson; father is lucky to collect mulberry trees; climbs on a tree, tells you not to look up, otherwise a branch will fall on his head, gets off himself, leaving the mallet hanging, hitting the tree in the wind; the older sister does not tell you to drink dirty water; younger girls drink, turn they run away into a monkey, wolf, fox, tiger; the younger brother becomes a kid, follows his sister; the king meets them, takes the girl as his wife; in his absence, 39 wives threw her into the water, replaced another a woman; at the bottom of the pond, a peri picked up a drowned woman, serves her in a silver house; an imaginary wife asks her husband to slaughter a goat; he calls his sister, asks her to teach her how to escape death; the sister replies that she has two golden cradles, wearing Hassan and Hussein, she cannot go out; the king hears, tells her to scoop out the pond, returned his wife and children, tied other wives to the tails of horses]: 95 (also "Sart Tales in Russian Summary", 1906 in Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900:90 and in Ethnographic Review, 1907, No. 1-2:229); Bukhara Arabs: Vinnikov 1969, No. 9 [the father wants to marry his daughter for his son; she runs away to the reeds; the father orders reeds open; girl: was a father, now you are a father-in-law; the same is mother (mother-in-law), brother (husband); goes out to the younger sister; both leave, the youngest drinks, becomes a gazelle; the maid sees a reflection in the pond a girl who climbed a tree, takes it for her own; the emir marries a girl, promises to feed the gazelle from a golden feeder; the emir's elder wife pushed the new one into the pond, she was swallowed by a fish; being in the belly of a fish, she gave birth to Hassan and Hussein; the elder wife pretends to be sick, tells the gazelle to be slaughtered; the emir watches the gazelle as it talks to the swallowed one by the pond; takes his wife and children out of the fish, executes the eldest wife; they have achieved their desires and goals], 60 [the father promises his son to give him a wife; he wants a sister to marry; before the wedding feast, the daughter ran into the reeds; the mother asks to go out; daughter: You used to be my mother, now you are my mother-in-law; the same is my father (father-in-law), brother (stranger); the fish swallowed it, inside the fish she gave birth to twins; {then the informant clearly missed a large passage}; people gathered slaughter {obviously younger} brother; he calls his sister; sister: I can't go out, let the butcher go blind, his knife be stupid; so with all the butchers; the king asks his wife's {great} brother where his sister is; in the belly of the fish; the fish was caught, the woman and her children were taken out of the belly; everything is fine]: 69-71, 330-331; Turkmens [the young man says he will marry someone who fits the ring, even if it is his sister; the sister goes into the reeds; all her relatives are looking for her, but she does not tell the reeds to part, for it is not her mother, father, younger brother, younger sister, but mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law; but younger sister remains, the girl asks her to bring a mirror and a comb from home; both walk along the steppe, the eldest does not tell her to drink from the rivers, otherwise the youngest will become a jackal, a wolf, a keik (goat); she drinks, becomes a keik; the sister climbs the plane tree, the son of bai sees her; his mother pretends to be blind, does not wash, but gets her clothes dirty; the girl gets off to help her, the son of bay marries her, promises to take care of her keik sister; the slave calls her to the river, drowns her, swallows her by fish, puts on her dress; says that she is tanned, that she lispits, croaking in response to the crow that she spat on her head; asks her husband to slaughter the keik; he complains to her sister; she answers, tells her to ask Bai's son not to do this; he hears a voice, they catch fish, get his wife, a boy born with her; Keik became a girl again; the bald slave was tied to her tails mares; her father killed her sons, her mother killed her husband because they were the first to open the bag; the mother found her daughter's head in the bag]: Stebleva 1969, No. 21:66-71.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [brother and sister run away from stepmother; sister does not tell me to drink from cow, horse, sheep trail; brother drinks sheep, becomes lamb; master marries girl, leaves; she gives birth son, stepmother throws lynx skin on her, replaces her daughter; the lamb asks the servant to tie the baby to his horns, brings her to the forest; the sister trots her skin, feeds the baby; after the third time a woman will trot forever; the servant calls his master, he grabs his wife, she turns into terrible animals, he does not let go; turns into a branch, his master breaks him, leaves him, sees his wife; when the witch and her daughter killed, the lamb became a boy again]: Aris 1971:216-218 (=Skrīvele s.a.: 113-114); Lithuanians [after the death of his parents, Elenite and his brother Jonukas go on a journey; does not tell him to drink from a horse, a bull trail, he drinks from lamb, turns into a lamb; the king marries E.; a witch pushes her into the lake, dresses up in her dress, replaces her; E. becomes a goldfish; a witch tells him to slaughter the lamb; he calls his sister (Servants sharpen royal knives, girls wash their yard troughs), she tells him to ask him to catch a goldfish; the king hears it, the fish is caught, she and the lamb become again by humans, a witch is executed]: Löbite 1965:130-132 (same in Kerbelit 2014, No. 142 [as in Löbit; 133 options; turns into golden roach]: 363-366); Estonians [brother and sister went after berries, got lost, the boy wanted to drink; leaned to the water, but heard a voice: don't drink, you'll become a hare; next time a fox; at the third spring, roe deer; the boy did not listen to his sister's ban, drank water, became a roe deer; his sister tied a ribbon to his neck, took him home, but he ran away; there have been roe deer in the forest ever since]: Dähnhard 1910, No. 40:460; Finns, Livons: Uther 2004 (1), No. 450:265- 266; Karelians (Livviks) [brother and sister were orphans, went to look for food; the day is hot, brother wants to get drunk from a cow's hoof, sister does not tell: you will become a cow; the same is from horse; drinks lamb, became a lamb; they came to the city, the prince liked the girl, he married her; Süätterihü pushed her into the water, replaced her with her daughter; the lamb bleats, the imaginary wife asks him to be slaughtered; he comes to the river bank, turns to his sister Alyonushka: the knives will be fixed, the axes are sharpening, the boilers are boiling, they want to slaughter me; A.: I have a stone tied around my neck; the same on the second day; on the third, the prince overhears, A. was pulled out, the lamb became a boy again; S.'s daughter was thrown into a boiling pot]: Makarov, Ryagoev 1963, No. 19:41-43; Veps: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 15 [the man leaned to the well for a drink, the devil grabbed his beard, demanded that his daughter, gold-haired Nastasya, be married to him; the man and his wife ran away, N. is alone at home; the goat tells him to hide in a bunch of straw, tied fart to the sledge, ran; says to the first and second line that N. sews silk shirts for them on the porch; he came to Baba Yaga's house, the house is spinning, asking them to leave the sledge in the hallway; Ivan Tsarevich plays with a ball, that rolled, unable to find; I. says that someone is in a sled; married N.; Baba Yaga's daughter leads N. to swim in the lake, hung a stone around her neck and drowned; says I. that N. ran away and the goat must be killed; the goat comes to the water, calls N., she replies that she has a stone around her neck; I. pulled N. out, Baba Yaga and killed her daughter], 152 [the brother, without listening to his sister, drinks water from his hoof and turns into a kid; Katerina gets married, a village girl drowns her in the river, replaces her, they want to slaughter the kid, but it turns out that everyone is saved]: 86-87, 213; (cf. Swedes [{recounts the ideal story and says that only his ziemlich zweifelhafte Fragmente is registered in Sweden}]: Liungman 1961, No. 450:103-105; Norwegians [{retold version has little in common with "sister Alyonushka" - the stepmother turns brother and sister into two birds; the maid helps the king spell them}]: Hodne 1984, No. 450:102-103).

Volga - Perm. Komi [the fire went out, parents send for fire to the Kama River (the spirit of Kama?) daughter, mother gives her a zoo (comb?) and a bread shawl; her boy brother calls to go instead of her, takes objects; he comes across a pot, rake, crowds and other objects; K. asks what these items are; boy: pot - your head, donnez - eyes, tortaez - ears, sherdyn - back, villager - belly, crowds - legs, rakes - hands; K. laughs, goes out, the boy takes away the smut, throws zoo (turns into a forest), a rag (river); houses parents are already dead; brother and sister climb into the sky on a pea stalk; they steal flour from blind Baba Yaga, come back; so several times; once, looking at the cat, the brother laughed; B. tells the hut to be about three, two, one corner, catches children; fattens under the floor, they give a splint instead of a finger; the boy offers B. to show how to enter the oven, burns; his sister does not tell him to eat her fat, he eats, wants to drink, drinks from lamb's hoof, turns into a lamb; it disappears; the bird, an old woman, sends his sister to the Kama; she kills him by pulling the smut out of the oven; the brother becomes a boy again]: Novikov 1938, No. 37:132-139; marie [Brother and sister: brother, walking with his sister along the road, drinks water from a goat swamp and turns into a goat; gets to a sorcerer; sorcerer {to the witch?} drowns his sister and replaces herself, they want to slaughter the kid; everything turns out]: Sabitov 1989, No. 450:28-29; Mordvians (Erzya): Evseviev 1964, No. 22 [mother died, brother and sister remained, stepmother sent them for berries, they got lost, Baba Yaga began to feed her, they offered her to show her how to sit on a shovel, pushed her into the oven; her brother returns for the ring and girdle left by her sister, tasted bacon, which Baba Yaga had it, became a lamb; his stepmother tells her husband to slaughter him; the girl does not eat her brother's meat, put the bones in a pigeon's nest, two pigeons flew out; the sister asks the merchant to sell her a knife, for which pigeons to him they will sing; pigeons: my father stabbed me, my stepmother cooked me, my sister packed me; my sister fed my stepmother with needles, she died], 23 [about like in Paasonen]: 178-179, 185-189; Markelov 1922, No. 14 [after the death of his mother, son and daughter advises her father to marry again; stepmother tells her husband to lose children; he took them to the forest, tied a tree stump to the knot, he knocks in the wind, the children think that the father is cutting wood; the children cry, they call: forest fathers, forest mothers, come to bed with us; Babya Yaga came on a horse song, on a cart deck, a whip in her hands; brought a kid to her; in the morning, instead of her brother, he cries: axes, knives are sharpening, to my neck they ask; the sister took the kid away, met the merchants; Baba Yaga's daughter told her husband to buy a kid to finish it; (text ends)]: 160-161; Paasonen 1941:228-230 [sister and brother went for berries, we got to the witch, she told the girl to sit on a shovel, the girl asked her to show, the witch sat down, the girl shoved her into the oven, the fat and blood flowed; on the way back, the sister remembered that she had forgotten the silver ring; brother followed him; contrary to warning, tasted the witch's fat and blood, turned into a lamb; the girl's father stabbed a lamb; her sister threw blood drops and a hoof into the well; the sister began to play to the flutes and ask how much the brother has grown up; he answers, then tells him to be pulled out of the well, he is alive and well], 230-236 [the mother is dead, the children tell the father to remarry, the stepmother tells her husband to take the children to the forest; he leaves the log knocking in the wind, leaves; brother and sister have come to the house of the blind witch; she tries her fingers - are they fat; the sister gives the spindle, the brother gives the finger, the witch decides to fry the boy, sister tells her to spread her legs, let the witch show her how to sit down; they push her into the oven, take away treasures and steal sheep; brother forgot his girdle, sister tells her not to lick the witch's fat; brother licks, becomes with a lamb, his sister leads him with a girdle; his stepmother tied a stone around her stepdaughter's neck, pushed him into the water, told her husband to slaughter the lamb; he asked for permission to drink water, sings, addressing Alyonushka that the boilers are boiling, the knives are sharpening, they want to slaughter him; the same again; the boyar's son saw, pulled out Alyonushka, took the lamb, the treasures and the herd they stole from the witch]; the Bashkirs ["A long time ago, when a goat was a colonel, and a ram was an officer, they say an old man and an old woman lived"; the old man and the old woman go to visit, tell their four daughters not to extinguish the fire and offend the cat; when the cat asks porridge, girls hit her on the head with a spoon; the fire immediately goes out; two older sisters go in search, come to the cave, ask the old woman for fire; she agrees to give it, tells them to collect ash in the hem and sprinkle it on the road - she will come to them for the night; in the evening she comes to their house, eats her younger sister at night (the old woman was ybyr-ebi); the next day she comes again, eats another sister; two the surviving girls run away from home with a scallop, a mirror and a sharpener; the old woman goes in pursuit; the older sister drops the sharpener, a huge mountain grows over which the old woman can hardly climb ; the girl throws her scallop, a dense forest appears; the old woman makes her way through it; the girl throws a mirror, a large lake overflows; the old woman screams from the shore, asks how the girls swam; those they say: tying stones to her necks; the old woman ties a stone and drowns; the youngest sister asks for water, the eldest warns that you can't drink here; the youngest drinks water from a hole from a goat's hoof, turns into a goat; her sister goes on with her, marries a merchant; his older wife starts to get sick, the healer advises her to eat the goat's heart; the goat tells her sister to save her bones; the goat they eat, the sister puts the seeds in a cloth, they turn into a bird; the bird sings at the market, the merchant gives it a piece of butter; she flies up to her sister, puts oil in her mouth; the bird flies up to her sister to the needle merchant, sings again; he gives her a pack of needles; the merchant's elder wife hears the bird singing, opens her mouth; the bird throws her needles, the woman dies]: Barag 1989, No. 14:92-95.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [khan promises to make his son-in-law someone who finds the ring lost by his daughter; finds the girl's brother, the khan is preparing the wedding of his son and daughter, the daughter runs away to the cave; the entrance to it closes and opens at her will; she does not open it to her father, mother, brother, opens her older sister that wolves can eat; both sisters run on, maralikha hides them under a stone from her father's nukers; creates a spring , hitting her hoof; the younger sister drinks from it, turns into a maralenka; the eldest hides in a tree by the well; Mystan-Kempir sees her reflection, tells the local khan; the viziers are trying to get the girl, they fall and see that she is in a tree; she agrees to marry the khan's son if he takes care of the maralenka; during the wedding, the maralikha turns the maralenka back into a girl, she marries the neighboring khan ]: Tursunov 1983:210-213; Karakalpaks (Takhtakupir District) [Khan has two daughters and a son; daughters had forty cubits long hair; the khan's son asked his father to marry him a girl with hair as long as forty cubits; the khan began to travel to villages, but did not find such a bride; his daughters decided: "He will return and take us, let us run away"; when they ran away, they saw a puddle of mountain goats; a man who drank this water, became a goat; the younger sister wanted to drink, but the elder did not touch the water; the youngest threw her golden shoe near the puddle; when they moved on, she told her sister that she would come back for the shoe; then drank water and turned into a goat; her sister tied her to a rope and took it with her; married a horseman, then drowned {without details}; the horseman saw that the goat was sad, asked the other wife, what happened; she demanded that he stab the goat; the goat tore the rope, ran away; went to the water, told her sister that they wanted to slaughter her; the sister advised her son-in-law to complain; the horseman heard it, became ask the goat; she replied that her sister was deep in the water; the horseman abandoned the seine, pulled out a huge chest; inside it were his wife, a girl with a golden scythe on the back of her head, and a boy with a silver scythe; Dzhigit dressed his wife in beautiful clothes]: Baskakov 1951:53-54; Karakalpaks [an old man and an old woman, they have a son and two daughters; her brother fell in love with the eldest; the girl decided to leave; at the foot of the mountain I saw a shelter, the door opened; relatives came and asked Mount Shyn to open the door; father, mother, brother - the girl told grief not to open; when the younger sister prayed, the door opened and both sisters opened they began to live inside the mountain; one day they went to the steppe, the youngest wanted to drink; on one side of the river there is water that cows drink, on the other side of the river water that goats drink, on the other hand water that sheep drink; and water , which people drink, is far away; they drank mutton water and the youngest turned into a cat lamb; the eldest went to get the lamb, met the bay, married him; the eldest wife of the bay decided to kill her; offered to swim, pushed him into the water; the lamb ran to the bay's house, began to bleat; Bai took two oxen and came to that place; gave the oxen to drink all the water; a girl was sitting under the water, combing her hair; she talked about bayu everyone; he tied his eldest wife to the camel's tail, the camel dragged the woman along the thorns, and shreds of her body remained there and there]: Aimbetov 2014a: 25-26; Kyrgyz (West 1959 p. Zhapasaldy, Ala-Buka District, Jalal-Abad Region) [The old men have three daughters and an older son; one of the sisters is married; the brother took an apple, swore and swore: I will marry whoever he falls; the apple thrown fell into the middle sister; once she was a guard a cornfield, a crow began to bite corn, a girl threw a lump at it; a crow: your older brother to marry you; the girl ran away from home, climbed on a rock, cried; saw a man coming up , prayed: "Open up, Talkamysh, open, I'll get inside"; the stone opened; the girl's parents are looking for her, that man said he saw her hide in a stone; parents asked Talkamysh ("reeds") open up and release their daughter, but she asks the stone not to open and the stone listens to her; the mother turns to the "daughter", who tells the "mother-in-law" to leave; the same with her older sister ("go away, sister-in-law!") ; the girl lets her younger sister into her and they leave together; they are thirsty; water flows through a goat's horn riverbed; the eldest asks not to drink; next time she allowed her to drink, her sister became as a kid; they came to the palace of a rich horseman; he has an evil wife; he decided to marry a girl; went hunting; the wife took the girl to the water and pushed her; told her husband that the girl had left unknown where; asks to slaughter the kid; he runs to water: "Sister, sister, they want to slaughter me!" The older sister replied: "My dear, poor thing, how can I help you, covered me waist-deep with sand, I can't get out"; the rich horseman overheard, did not water his cattle of all four types for seven days - camels, goats and sheep, cows, horses; on the eighth he took the animals to a watering hole, the cattle drank all the water, the bottom appeared, the horseman pulled out the girl; it turned out that the stone in which she was hiding was that His name was Talkamysh; the kid became a girl again; the feast for 40 days]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:80-84.

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Khalkha?) [Arat has daughters Naran (eldest) and Saran (from the words "sun" and "moon"); for his fifteenth birthday he gave N. a gold bowl and S. a silver bowl; Noyon's daughter Othon called them to play by the river; their sisters are followed by their piebald lamb; O. suggests throwing the bowls into the water: whoever comes to the shore first will live longer; the gold and silver bowls have drowned, the girls are frightened; sent O. to ask his father what is more important to him: daughter or bowls; the father said that his daughter, O. told me that the bowls; all three went on horseback, to meet the bar, he liked N.; O. changed with those places, but N. was still better; O. walked away and shot - the arrow fell to N.'s feet; O. tells Bator to go home, she will bring him N. herself; on the way she pushed him into the lake; S. threatens: if she tells me, I'll tell you that it was you who drowned N.; O. said that N. returned to her father, began to live herself in his yurt, and S. herds sheep; lamb with the herd, calling N. by the lake; N. went out and said to S. that the king of the lake would let her go if O. bleats sheep; O. noticed S. summoning her sister with a song, and went with the sheep herself; summoned her with the same song, hit her on the head with a whip, N. no longer went to the call; the lamb told S. to send him to herd the sheep and complain about him O.: he would lead them to the mountains, then into the lake; O. took a bator with her; the lamb entered the lake; O. wants to lure him out, bleat with a sheep; N. came out of the water, the bar hugged her; and O. only bleats; the bator whipped her, she ran into the steppe in the form of a sheep; probably it was eaten by wolves; Bator began to live with N., S. and the sisters' father]: Hodza 1954:10-12 {online, pagination starts at page 1}).