K33a1. Born in a well, T581.2.0.
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Awoman thrown into a well (into a pond, into a hole, etc.) gives birth to a child (twins, triplets) there. They get her and her kids alive.
Kikuyu, Arabs of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Kabila, Arabs of Libya, Egypt, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, South Yemen, Mehri, Socotra, Zyaray, Sre, Tamils, Albanians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Mountain Tajiks (Darvaz), Yagnobes, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Baluchis, Turkmens, Karakalpaks.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Kikuyu [during the drought, the sorcerer ordered cattle to be collected as a gift to the father of the girl they decided to sacrifice; as she plunges into the water, she turns first to strangers, then to father, mother, relatives, friend: "Do you say that I am dying, let it rain"; when she disappeared under water, it rained; girls go to fetch water, each helping to put a vessel of water on the other on the head; no one wants to help the younger sister sacrificed, call her sister who sold her for the rain; then the girl asks the water of the lake to come out to help her; the beast of the lake (so!) answers: I have a son, I have a daughter, I can't leave them; but she went out, with her two children, gave her sister beads, corn, bananas, meat; she buried them at home, asked her mother if she would beat her, began to tell her the mother forbade remembering the one who was missing, beat the girl; she told her father, they went to the sorcerer, who could not help, went to another, said that the beast kept the girl in the lake; the sorcerer ordered to cook mead, dig holes from lake to house, pour beer into each one, let the girl start luring her sister; at every hole, closer to home, the girl sang, "You river man, my father invites you to drink beer" ; the beast goes from one hole to another, with a girl and her two children; they slipped away from him outside the house, and the river man swung into the river again; the girl stayed at home]; Mwangi 1983:72-75.
North Africa. Morocco [the widower has a daughter and son Aamar younger than her; the stepmother tyrants the children, breaking the dishes, accuses them; the father leaves them in the forest; they find an abandoned house, live there; the sister finds a treasure; two years later, A. asks A. what he would do with the gold; A. replies that he would buy toys; after a while, he would buy a gun to shoot his father and stepmother; when she replies that she would buy cattle, sister realizes that A. has become an adult; a woman comes and asks for permission to live; her sister wants to drive her away, but she marries A.; hates her sister; says that whoever swallows three eggs loves A.; eggs snakes, her sister swallows, her stomach grows; her brother ties her to a tree, cutting off her hands; she frees herself from fetters, goes to live with deer; the sultan's people catch her; the old woman feeds her salty meat, she is hung down with her head, she belches three snakes; the sultan marries her; when she leaves, warns of the cunning of her other two wives; they push her into a well, she gives birth to twins named Abdurrahman and Othman; the servant hears her voice, evil wives threaten to kill her children, drive her out of the palace; she tries to get water for the children, at which time her arms grow; she finds an empty house, lives there; the woman's sultan and father are looking for her, they come to her house; she tells her story; the father falls through the ground, only the beard remains; the sultan burned evil wives alive]: El Koudia 2003, No. 14:90-95; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 70 [Aisha and Zahra are wives of one husband. 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. Zeynab 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, 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; Arabs of Egypt, Libya, Kabila [our K33a1 motif corresponds to the T581.2.0 C motive. Thompson, who is included in the list of motives in relevant North African texts; it is not certain whether he is represented in all of them, but given the prevalence of the motive in accessible texts, this quite likely; at the same time, the Arabs of Sudan, whose text is quoted by al-Shami, have no motive]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 450:222-224.
Western Asia. 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 to her brothers; they come and kill an old woman ; mallows grew on her grave; 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; whoever drank in the first spring will become a wild boar; boy drinks their second, makes a gazelle; SB hires to herd geese with a bald man's mask on; from time to time she takes off her mask, so the geese begin to lay unusually many eggs; the prince waited for the SB, married; went on 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; SB gave birth to a son in a well, a gazelle brings them food; the imaginary wife asks the gazelle to slaughter; the gazelle comes to the well, says that they are sharpening knives to slaughter her, the sister answers; the prince hears this, returns his wife and child]: Kuhr 1993:224-229; Palestinians, Arabs in Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar [our motive K33a1 corresponds to motive T581.2.0 C. Thompson, who is included in the list of motives in the relevant Arabic texts; it is not certain whether he is represented in all of them, but given the prevalence of the motive in the available texts, this is sufficient probably]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 450:222-224; South Yemen: Al-Baydani 2008 (Khujariya) [when she died, the mother left her son Janbiya (dagger) jewelry; asked her husband not to send her children from home until they will not be able to reach these items left on the shelf on their own; the stepmother tells the children to bring clay into the house, the floor level is getting higher, the children have taken out items; the stepmother put cow manure in their bag, only She covered it with bread from above; the children came to the house of the blind cannibal Dougayra; she smeared henna on their hands to distinguish them from her children; the girl guessed it, at night she washed henna off her hands and her brother's hands, smeared her hands V.'s children; she and her brother ran away, D. threw her own children into the oven; the girl tells her brother to relieve himself twice so that the excrement answers D.'s call for them; there is a rock ahead, the boy promises his sister to the driver camels, if he picks them up; he lowers the rope; when D. comes, he first tells her to collect a bunch of thorns; lifts half on a rope, sets fire to the thorns, D. falls into the fire, dies; boy tells the driver to buy clothes for the bride; covers the trunk of a thorny tree with a blanket, runs away with his sister; the driver wants to hug the bride, but there are only thorns; brother and sister meet the sheikh, who takes the girl to wives; three older sisters are jealous; when the husband leaves, they push the young woman into the well, she is picked up by fairies; she gives birth to a son in the well; asks the driver to tell her husband about it, and if he Forget, let the camel say; the driver forgot, but the camel stopped in front of the sheikh; the sheikh takes out his wife and son, rips open the bellies of his elder wives]: 91-103; Canova 2002 [Sultan's son and daughter went to the steppe without for a special purpose; they saw a fire in the distance; an old woman in the house, she also has a son and daughter; she promises to send those who come to their father on the third day; she paints their hands with henna; the sister does not sleep, hears the old woman preparing them fry; the old woman smears her hands with henna, 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 to help the old woman she should climb a tree if she collects all the dry thorns; she collects a large pile, he sets fire to them, the old woman burns; brother and sister go through a waterless area, her sister warns not to drink from a puddle, he drinks, turns into a gazelle; the emir sees his sister, marries her; when she leaves, the emir's first wife and sisters push the new one into a well; she gives birth to a son there; the emir's servant notices that the gazelle is and it comes to a well; the returning emir is told 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; the first wife and executes sisters]: 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 are with you have already been played; the stream lets go; 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; a maid sees them at the well, 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; sharpen knives, make a fire, put a cauldron; the sultan sees from the window how the goat runs to the well, talks about the danger, F. replies that she has a son in her bosom Sultan, that they are in the womb of a shark; they pulled the shark out, F. and the child were removed from her womb, their 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 that they run away from home, F. takes a comb and a pin with them; parents chase them; mother: let the children have pearls in their way; they start picking it up, run again ; father: let the chest jewelry (amulets); they pick you up again, run again; father: let the evil male camel; son: my father and I rode you, the camel lets the children pass; mother: let the flow; daughter: me and mother washed her hair with your water; hear the stream; father and mother stop stalking; sister forgot the pin and comb; H. suggests going after them; sister: wild goats can make you a goat; H. goes , returns as a goat, a pin and a comb are his horns; F. and the goat come to the spring, F. climbs a tree; a slave sees them, tells the Sultan that he takes F. as his wife, she warns that the goat - her transformed brother; when F. was pregnant and her husband was away, the other wife and her mother pushed her into a well in which Iblis's shark; the other wife took the form of F.; told her husband that wants goat meat; the husband ordered to light the 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 a well; the shark was pulled out and cut, F. and his son were taken out; the sultan killed his mother-in-law and first wife, stayed with F. and her brother {his transformation into a human again is not said}]: 99-105; Socotra : Kogan, Naumkin MS [the man has a son and daughter; their mother is dead, the husband has taken another wife; the stepmother offers him to slaughter the children; the girl hears this, they run away; the stepmother accuses her husband of warning children; the husband denies everything, the stepmother goes to look for children; when he goes to the cave, throws a stone into the dark, he falls into the boy's forehead, but his sister clutched his mouth; the stepmother left, the children came to the tamarind, under which it flowed stream; the girl is swimming, her hair floated along the stream; when he came to water the young palm trees, the sultan's servant saw hair, brought it to the Sultan; he sent him to find the owner of the hair; the slave went up the stream, found the children , brought them to the Sultan; he married a girl, she became pregnant; the maid, out of envy, decided to destroy her, pushed her into a well; her brother (his name Hamed) told her to remain silent, otherwise she would cut off her head; both answered to the Sultan, that they do not know anything where his wife went; she, while in the well, gave birth to a boy and a girl a week later; H. comes to the well, says that he is wrong; my sister replies: I have the Sultan's daughter on my knees, the Sultan's son is around my neck; since then, my brother has been regularly bringing food to my sister; the Sultan noticed this, began to ask him, the boy said that his sister was in the well, the sultan got him, the maid beheaded]; Naumkin et al. 2014, No. 28 (brief summary): 10; (cf. Müller 1905, No. 20 [the man has a son and daughter; their mother is dead, the husband has taken another wife; his stepmother offers him to slaughter the children; the boy overheard their conversation, told his sister; she takes the purse where she puts it a comb, makeup and a mirror, and at night she runs away with her brother; the children came to the cave, which had two exits; the next day, the stepmother and 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 she has stumbled; the father and stepmother have left, the children have come to the pond, swam, moved on, climbed on tamarind; the girl wanted to comb her hair, but forgot the comb by the pond, sent her brother to pick him up; he met women by the pond; one of them combed out his sister's comb with lice and filled her 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; the 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, came with him to the tamarind; the girl cried for her lost brother, the sultan said that he had him; bringing the girl to him, he promised show her brother after marrying her; the girl married the Sultan and forgot her brother]: 99-105).
Burma - Indochina. Zyaray: Dournes 1977:108-109 [Mother Forest woman (Mère Brousse) digs a wild yam in the forest; a boa constrictor from a tree causes rain, forcing a woman to climb his tree; she returns in the morning home, asks H'Bia's granddaughter (B.) to marry Boa, she refuses, her younger sister H'Lui? (L.) agrees; on the River, Boa sheds her snakeskin, turns out to be handsome; in the water, L. attacks the branch, her husband revives her; the older sisters B. and H'Kruah (K., she is the oldest) also want such a husband; L.'s husband finds another boa constrictor, who swallows B. and everyone in the house; L.'s husband finds him, rips his stomach open, revives B.; going to the coast to the Vietnamese, tells his wife not to go out if she is called a strange thing; B. calls her to swing on a swing, she goes out, B. throws her into the water, is swallowed by a crocodile, in his womb she gives birth to a boy; when a crocodile goes ashore, a boy rips open his stomach with a knife, goes out with his mother; in short, he creates a house, his rooster sings, his husband returns, L. tells him what happened], 109-110 [a woman digs a wild yam in the forest, it begins to rain, She comes to a banana plantation, promises a granddaughter to the owner, Boa constrictor descends from a tree, marries H'Lui? (L.) turns out to be handsome; when going to Champa on business, her husband tells L. not to leave the house if she is called; her older sister H'Bia (B.) wants to take her place, calls, pushes her into the water, L. the crocodile swallows, she gives birth to a boy in his womb; when the crocodile goes ashore, the boy rips open his stomach with a knife, goes out with his mother; L. had an egg with him, from it a rooster comes out, sings, the husband returns, going to the voice of the rooster, recognizes L., kills B.]; sre [in the forest, the hunter puts a snare, the Boa blocks his way, demands a girl; he offers one of his sisters - Ngi, Nga, Nai Tölui? (she is the youngest, married to the crap); the serpent requires only NT, otherwise he will swallow the whole village; NT comes to him, he becomes handsome, they come to live with cravings; when leaving, the husband tells NT not to leave the house; envious, Nga cuts NT's throat, pushes her into the water; she has an orange, a knife, an egg with her; she is swallowed by a crocodile; she gives birth to a son; the crocodile goes ashore, the son cuts it from the inside; an orange tree grows, a rooster appears from an egg; NT rises to heaven; the husband returns, finds a son, his ancestor The sun helped him identify the boy; Nga pretends to be NT, Nt's son beats her; Nt descends from the sky; Nga also wants a Snake, finds, raises a stranglehold, he becomes big, swallows it starting with her legs, she first takes it as a game; NT's husband takes the form of a snake, finds swallows, pulls her ashore, extracts Nga, she is in worms, NT's husband makes her whole, forbids her to go out into the sun; she goes out, melts, turns into a termite]: Dournes 1977:113-114.
South Asia. Tamils [the fisherman has 7 sons; parents invite them to do business; everyone chooses one thing, the youngest does not know what he is for, goes fishing; caught a big one, but she swallowed it; fish another man pulled it out, sold it to the Raja; when they were about to cut it, there was a voice from the inside: give me rice, I'm hungry; {it's not directly said, but it's clear that the image of a boy in the belly of a fish is gradually turning into an image of fish-covered}; a young fish asks him to marry; parents give his stepdaughter in the same house - it's not a pity (she is the daughter of her husband and his first wife, who died); for a long time, a young fish only asks him to feed him or cook everything for bathing; finally, the wife enters the room when her husband has left the fish skin; she throws her into the fire and her husband stays with her; she goes to visit her home; just in case, the husband changes from with rings, tells her to leave the outline of her hand on the wall, hide some jewelry; her stepmother sends a young woman to fetch water with her own daughter, asks her to let her wear jewelry; pushes his stepdaughter into the well, dresses up in her stepdaughter's clothes; at home, the husband checks: the palm outline is not the same, the ring is different, where what is hidden, the imaginary wife does not know; in the well a young woman gave birth; the snake holds like a babysitter in front of her 16 snakes, she gives them milk, the woman's son is with them; a bracelet dealer walks by, shouts for her goods; a woman asks a cow to help the merchant go down to the well and put it on bracelets for her son; when he got back, the merchant came to the house of the Raja (a former fish boy) and told her everything; he ordered his imaginary wife to be buried up to the neck and relieve everyone only on her head; otherwise he would hang him ; buried mother came; daughter: "Everyone defecates on me, but why are you?" Her mother dug it up, brought her to the river to wash, but did not wash it; laundress: you can wash it if you hit her head against a stone; her head split into small pieces; the Raja went down to the well; the wife tells her to wait for her snake father; He lets her, her child and her husband go; but she forgot to cool the milk for the 16 snakes and they died; the serpent crawled to the palace to bite the woman, but hears her singing a lullaby, mentioning him lovingly; realizes that the woman was innocent, hit the gate and died; the woman put the snake's body in a casket and placed it at the head to protect her and the child; after a month of snakes {did he come to life?} gave the woman a pearl necklace; her husband checked the signs: everything was the same; the woman's father's youngest daughter {the narrator forgot that her head was shattered to pieces} wandered around the world and did not marry]: Blackburn 2005, No. 43; Tamils [a childless Raja sits on a needle in the forest for six months and lives in a palace for six months; Rani gives birth to a girl and hides her in an underground shelter with everything for life; the Raja does not know about this for a long time; when she sees a beautiful girl on the verge of refuge and understands what is going on, she kills his wife and is going to marry her daughter; she requires a lot of outfits and jewelry; orders the carpenter a horse figure; hides in it, taking all the outfits; the Raja lost and became impoverished, sold the horse to another Raja; he is going to marry; tells him to put the figure alone; half of the food is lost at night; he waited for the girl listened to her story and married both; the first bride is ugly; her mother advises to get rid of her rival, her daughter pushes her into a well; before that, the Raja took his wife's palm print and gave her a ring; when the first wife appeared disguised as the second, the prints did not match, the ring was different; the Raja dressed as a bracelet merchant; the snake on the edge of the well asked to sell a bracelet for his sister's son; they went down, Raja's wife in the well; the serpent agrees to let the Raja's wife go, but let him warm the milk first and drink the snakes; the snake burned himself and promised to bite the woman; but when the boy saw the snake and called him uncle, he abandoned his intention]: Blackburn 2005, No. 51; South India (ethnicity is not a decree; the correlation table conditionally refers to Malayali) [seeing a tigress in the forest, the wife of a childless Raja asks that even a tiger cub was born to her; it happened; the tiger cub grows up, asks him to marry; the vizier brings the eldest daughter of the inn hostess, the tiger tore her to pieces; the vizier asks the youngest; Shiva and Parvati ask why does she cry, she complains that the tiger will tear her to pieces; they give her yellow flowers (Cassia occidentalis), a bowl of water, a handful of sand; if you sprinkle the groom, hang a garland around her neck, he will become human; take off the garland again as a tiger; everyone is happy; a relative asks Tiger's wife to give her her jewelry, pushes her into a well; she falls on a snake with an abscess around its neck, an abscess bursts, a happy snake brings Tiger's wife to her wife in the snake kingdom; there she gives birth to a son; a liar replaces Tiger's wife, also gives birth to a son; a bracelet seller walks past a well, Tiger's wife from the well asks sell her bracelets; the seller hears a song by a woman's son, in which he calls himself the son of the Tiger Prince; selling bracelets to a liar, he hears her addressing her son in the manner of a short born; Tiger Prince hears everything, replaces the salesman at the well, grabs his wife; the Serpent agrees to let her go if she gives names to the snakes his wife will give birth to; she gives names, but calls the youngest short-headed; for this he decides to bite her, hides but finds out that this is her own son's name; everyone is happy, the liar is executed]: Crooke 1902:79-83.
The Balkans. 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 it, 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.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Azerbaijanis [the fisherman has an adult daughter Fatmazhikh and a little son Kiyavyzhykh; his mother died, the fisherman took the fanged Bash-khanum; she gave birth to a bald boy and a girl; ordered the former children to be taken to the forest; the father tied the board to the tree so that it would knock, and the children thought he was cutting wood; left; K. was thirsty, F. did not tell me to drink from the spring - you would become a horse; then a dog; K. got drunk from the third, became a bull; said that he would now feed his sister with honey and butter, which were in his horns; took his sister; although the father and stepmother had moved, the bull found them; F. said that the brother was run over by a bear, and she came to to the 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 were snakes and centipedes in her hair; F. asked her tow, the old woman asked how she was like the hut; F. praised the cleanliness; the old woman blessed her; told her to wake her up when white, red and black water ran; washed with three waters, F. became white, eyebrows and eyelashes black, cheeks and her lips were red; gave the tow; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she called the old woman ugly; three waters made her body black, her eyebrows and eyelashes white, and a red spot appeared on her forehead; then the stepmother pretended sick, asked for the bull's meat; he tells her sister to collect his bones and throw him into the well, where a beautiful outfit will appear; the stepmother and daughter went to a meeting with the Shah, and F. ordered to separate the millet from the ash and fill the bowl with tears; the rooster and the chickens were separated, the rooster advised me to prepare salt water; wearing the dress that had been in the well, F. came to the palace, showered everyone with flowers, and her stepmother with ash; when she ran back, lost her slipper; Tsarevich Mamed ordered to look for the owner; the rooster screams that F. is in a hole, tied hand and foot; M. married F.; stepmother's daughter pushed her into the sea, put on her dress; in the morning the rooster screams: her sister was drowned in the sea, swallowed her catfish, she carries the sky under the Shah's heart and asks for salvation; the fishermen caught the catfish, got F.; M. asks the liar if she wants a golden knife or a seven-year-old a mare; she did not understand, she wanted a mare; she was put in one bag, and the puppy and the pan in another; frightened by the roar, the horse rushed, the body was scattered across the valleys; M. stayed with F.]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:3-19 ; Turks [after the death of the padishah, his son and daughter went bankrupt, went on a journey; the sister warns his brother in vain not to drink dirty water, he drinks, turns into a deer; his sister climbed a tree above the spring, the padishah's horses see her reflection, are frightened; then the servants also see; she refuses to get down, the padishah tells her to cut down the tree; when the servants have gone on vacation, the deer licked the felling, the tree became whole; same the next evening; then they called the old woman; she pretended to be blind, put the cauldron upside down, poured water by; the next time you cooked not meat, but ash; on the third day she cut the sheep, poking her 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 deer brother; the 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: the meat of a deer will cure her; he says to her sister: the knife is sharpening, the water is boiling, hurry up, sister; sister in answer: I am inside a fish, a golden saucer on my hand, a silver sandal on my leg, a small padishah on my chest; I heard the padishah, the spring was drained, the fish's belly was ripped open, there was a wife and son; the deer licked the fish blood, became a young man again; maidservant: 4 swords or 4 horses? maid: let swords against my enemies, I choose horses; she was tied to the tails of horses, torn]: Kúnos 1901:1-11.
Iran - Central Asia. The Persians [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; the brother drinks from the penultimate, gazelle, becomes a lame gazelle; shahzadeh marries the girl; when she goes hunting, warns that she must open the door after he throws the seventh Pomeranian through the wall; the mother of the former bride heard She 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 Shahzada that she had turned yellow with longing for him, will recover if the gazelle is 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, tells the butcher to go blind; shahzade hears wife, pulls her out of the hole; 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]: Osmanov 1987:336-339; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz): Amonov 1972 [bai tells him to marry him a wife as beautiful as Myrumbi, the daughter of a poor neighbor; they do not find one; parents promise to give M. bay; M. gives rice to magpie, then chicken; those they tell M. that she will be given for a 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 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 with my father; with my older brother; my younger brother cried, M. felt sorry for him, tells the plane tree to let her down, her brother to grab her by a pigtail, rose 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 the stream (gazelles), to drink 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, two older wives began to rock pregnant M. on a swing on the pond, cut the rope, M. fell down; the wives told the padishah that M. was peri, flew away; the eldest wife says she is sick, asks to slaughter the gazelka; he asks let him get drunk 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 the children, the 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, =1960:218-225, =Osmanov 1989:297-305); Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 8 [Soroka, then the Chicken, then the old woman, tells the girl that they want to pass her off as an older brother; she sits on a volvolyak turntable, flies to the sky; refuses to go down at the request of her mother, her older brother; goes down to pick up his younger brother, flies away with him; they go down to the gorge; the sister does not tell me to drink from the pond with frogs, then with snakes, then where the mountain goats drink; the 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 the pond; under water gives birth to a silver-fronted son Shokh- Hussein ("Shah") and daughter with golden braids Moh Hussein ("The Month"); wives want to slaughter a kid, who complains to her sister, she replies that her braids are entangled in plane tree branches, promises to make a knife stupid; the Shah hears his wife's voice, orders not to water the herd, then give the animals a drink of the pond; the Shah married a second time, his older wives were torn apart by mares]: 48-51; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 10 [ an unloved wife pushes her beloved into the pond; she feeds her son well, her stepson poorly; the ram tells him to feed him rough bread, gives him delicious food from her horn; the stepmother pretends to be sick, will recover, if his stepson eats meat, he goes to the pond, complains to his mother; she makes the knife turn into a nightmare and dough; the king orders to drain the pond, the wife is alive at the bottom, and twins Hassan and Hussein are on her lap ; feast; divas took the king's daughter from another wife and the daughter of another king; princes Soka and Boka find them, B. kills one, the second diva; S. envies, lowers B. into the abyss for a gun, cuts off the rope, that falls on a gray horse, with sulfur on a bull, from a bull in front of an old woman; kills foxes that ate her chickens; kills tigers who ate plowman's bulls; wolves who ate shepherd's cattle; they all send to the plane tree on which the Simurg bird's nest; the dragon comes out of the pond, kills chicks every year; B. kills the dragon; Simurg asks for meat for 40 lambs, 40 wineskins of wine; the shepherd, the plowman gives; Simurg brings it to the ground, There was not enough meat, he bites off a piece of B.'s leg, regurgitates and takes root on the ground; B. takes his gun, which S. could not take away, kills a dragon in a village on earth, which provided water in exchange for those left for eating people; the king asks B. not to kill his brother, marries the vizier's daughter], 45 [the young man promises to marry a girl like his sister; he does not find it, decides to take the sister herself; the sparrow tells her about this, gives 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), her younger brother; but then takes it with her; 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; a sister climbs 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, cut off the rope, the girl fell into the pond; another wife says that sick, asks to slaughter a goat; a goat asks permission to go to the pond, sings that Bibi-Mo (i.e. his sister) has Hassan and Hussein (newborns) in the arms of Hassan and Hussein (newborns), let the knife turn around, will not let slaughter; 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]: 79-87, 206-210; 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 pass her off as a half-brother; G. ran to the mountains, asked the stone to open, 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 would not even look at you; when O. , 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 a 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. would give birth soon, the Shah went hunting; B. hung a swing by the pond, G. began to swing, B. cut 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 were bred under fire with 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 ("I have carpets under my feet, two cradles next to me, Hassan and Hussein's hands"); people hear that they 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 ordered B. and her healer to tie 40 horses to their tails and died; horses were driven into the steppe; G. became ruler]: 222-227; Ostroumov 1892, No. 16 [stepmother hates five stepdaughters and stepson; father takes them to collect mulberries; climbs a tree, tells them not to look up, otherwise A branch will fall on his head, get off himself, leaving the mallet hanging, hitting a tree in the wind; the older sister does not tell you to drink dirty water; younger girls drink, turn into a monkey, wolf, fox, tiger, run away ; 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 her with another woman; at the bottom of the pond, the peri was picked up drowned, they serve her in a silver house; the imaginary wife asks her husband to slaughter the goat; he calls his sister, asks her to teach her how to escape from death; the sister replies that she has two golden cradles, in which Hassan and Hussein, she cannot go out; the tsar hears, orders to scoop out the pond, returned his wife and children, tied other wives to horse tails]: 95 (also "Sart Tales in Russian", 1906 in Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900: 90 and Ethnographic Review, 1907, No. 1-2:229); Bukhara Arabs: Vinnikov 1969, No. 9 [the father wants to marry his daughter; she runs away to the reeds; the father tells the reeds to open up; the girl: was the 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 the reflection of a girl who has climbed a tree in the pond, 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 fish; while in the belly of a fish, she gave birth to Hasan and Hussein; the elder wife pretends to be sick, orders 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, and executes his eldest wife; they have achieved their object of desires and goals], 60 [the father promises his son to give him a wife; he wants his own sister to marry; before the wedding feast, the daughter ran into the reeds; the mother asks to go out; daughter: you used to be me mother, now mother-in-law; the same is father (father-in-law), brother (stranger); the fish swallowed it, she gave birth to twins inside the fish; {the informant clearly missed a large passage}; people were going to 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 {madsham} brother where his sister is; fish in the belly they caught a woman and her children from her belly; everything is fine]: 69-71, 330-331; Baluchi [Princess Zaytun forgot her jewelry by the stream, came back for it, she was seized by robbers; put her in an expensive box, they try to sell; Z. asks to buy it from the box for a lot of money; her uncle, father, mother refuse, they say that Z. is dead; the groom buys, bags not money, but stones for the robbers; Z. returns the sight of parents blind with grief marries his savior; the husband warns the old woman to beware; Z. has a little servant Asklo ("deer"); the old woman brings Z. to the well, lures her clothes and jewelry, pushes down; in the well, Z. gives birth to three twins - sons Musa and Isa, daughter Shari; spirits babysit them; the husband wants to slaughter A. for not saving Z.; A. asks for permission to drink, complains Z.; she replies that M. on one thigh, I. on the other, S. in the cradle, she herself is covered with mud up to her neck; her husband comes to the well, recognizes his wife's voice, pulls her out and washes her, throws the old woman into boiling oil]: Porozhnyakov 1989:58-63; Turkmens [young man says he marries someone who fits the ring, even if it is his sister; sister goes into reeds; all her relatives are looking for her, but she does not tell the reeds to part, because this is not her mother, father, younger brother, younger sister, and mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law; but her 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, her son sees her; his mother pretends to be blind, does not wash, but gets dirty clothes; the girl gets off to help her, the son of bai takes her as his wife, 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 she is tanned, that she lisps, Croaking in response to the crow that she had spat, putting his stomach on his head; asking her husband to slaughter the keyik; he complains to his sister; she answers, telling the son of the bay not to do this; he hears a voice, they catch fish, the wife is being taken out, a boy was born with her; Keik became a girl again; the bald slave was tied to the tails of mares; her father killed his sons, her mother killed her husband because they were the first to open the bag; mother found her daughter's head in the bag]: Stebleva 1969, No. 21:66-71.
Turkestan. Karakalpaks (Takhtakupir district) [the khan has two daughters and a son; the daughters had forty cubits long hair; the khan's son asked his father to marry him a girl with forty cubits long hair; the khan became go to villages, but I did not find such a bride; his daughters decided: "He will come back and take us, let us run away"; when they ran away, they saw a puddle of mountain goats; the man who drank this water became a goat; the youngest the sister was thirsty, but the eldest did not touch the water; the youngest threw her golden shoe near the puddle; when she moved on, she told her sister that she would come back for her shoe; then she 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 had become sad, asked the other wife what had 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 this and asked 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.