Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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K33F. A stream of honey and a stream of oil. 14.15.17.29.30.33.

The character must fill one container (pool, stream) with honey and the other with butter (milk, etc.). He does it formally (honey, butter, milk from broken vessels spilled across the ground), or essentially. Cf. motive N34.

(Berbers of Morocco), Egyptian Arabs, Sicilians, Sardinians, Maltese, Old Testament, Palestinians, Syrian Arabs, Arameans, Iraqis, Oman Arabs, Harsusi, Mehri, Turks, Armenians (?) , Persians, Yazgulyams, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz.

North Africa. (Cf. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [After four days of meditation and fasting, all 40 concubines of merchant El Haj Ahmed became pregnant and gave birth to boys; the father hides them from people, teaches the Koran and other sacred things books; Qartbone is the most successful; the fortuneteller tells the Sultan that a person with that name will overthrow him; the sultan orders to exterminate babies, promises a reward to whoever finds K.; the merchant's servant gives K.; but so amazed at the boys' good manners and learning that the Sultan does not dare to execute them, but orders them to be chained and left in the desert; K. led the brothers to a date palm tree, under which a spring and two a stream with honey and butter; leaving his brothers there, K. came to the city; a seven-headed monster sleeps under a tree, a saber next to him; when K. cut off one head, the monster orders to cut off further; K. cut off 6, but left the seventh; the monster died, otherwise all 7 heads of the industry would have died again; the city is empty, only 40 girls remain - the daughter of the sultan and the daughter of the viziers; the rest of the residents died of thirst because the monster closed the water; K. became sultan, and made the brothers officials and governors; at this time, the Sultan took everything from Father K., and sent him and one wife to the quarter lepers; K. came with the army, ruled the court, made a father sultan, and sent the sultan to the lepers]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:60-75); the Arabs of Egypt [the childless king's wife promises to fill three wells with honey, oil and rose water if God sends her child; Yousif is born, the king forgets the promise; God reminds in a dream, the king prepares wells, calling people, the old woman comes when everything is sorted out, collects drops of honey on the walls of the well; Yu played ball , got into the old woman's vessels, the honey spilled; she wished him to fall in love with Louliyya, Morgan's daughter; the servant explains that L. is beautiful; Yu goes in search; the cannibal sends him to his brother, he sends him to his brother, he to to another, the other to her sister; if she has red chickens and she herself is tidy, you can't talk to her, and if her hair is green, her hair is in a mess and her breasts are thrown over her back, then you can; Yu sees red first chickens, silent, then green; the cannibal sister tells me to roll a ball, he leads to a palace in the desert; the cannibal asks L. to let her hair down, climbs it; Yu also asks; L. decides to run away with Yu; hides turning it into a pin; returning to its former appearance, tells things in the room to be responsible for it, throws a needle (a field of thorns), a comb (a bamboo fence), a mirror (a lake); the cannibal and his dog drink, the cannibal bursts , having managed to throw pins at L., she turns into a dog, Yu into a lark; they come to Yu's mother's house; she finds pins in the dog's head, takes it out, L. takes it out, L. takes her shape, takes the needles out of her head a lark, that turns into Yu; wedding]: Scheub 2000:131-132.

Southern Europe. The Sicilians [the king and queen promise that if they have a child, they will make springs from which wine will be poured from one wine for seven years and oil from the other; that's it it happened, but after 7 years, the springs dried up; the old cannibal came to collect the leftovers; the 7-year-old prince threw the ball and smashed the old woman's jug; she told him not to marry until he found the Fiery Red Snow White (OB; Snow-White-fire-red); when he was 18 years old, the prince went in search; sees the cannibal screaming OH to let her braids down the window, climbs them to her; when she goes down and leaves, the prince shouts the same thing, OH thinks it's her mother again (she held the cannibal by her mother), lowers her braids, hides the prince; she gives the cannibal a drink, she sincerely answers what to do to escape: tell all items are responsible for themselves, take 7 balls of yarn, throw them behind them during the chase; Prince and OB run; the cannibal loses time until all items answer "now"; rushes in pursuit, calls OB (if she turns around, she will be bewitched); OB consistently throws balls, a river, a spring with snakes, etc. (unnamed); stopping the persecution, the cannibal tells the prince to forget OH as soon as someone kisses him; when he comes to the city, the prince leaves to bring OH suitable clothes; at night, the mother came up and kissed the prince, he forgot OH; OH began to live with an old woman, tamed two doves, made clothes for them and put them on; doves fly to the king and talk about what happened; prince all recalls; wedding]: Crane 1885, No. 15:72-76; Sardinians [a spring of olive oil was opened on vow; the old woman came to collect oil, the prince broke her jug out of mischief; she told him to go look for three orange; meet the old man: let the young man forget that he is a prince; old woman: there will be a garden with marble statues ahead; among them are the young man's parents; then the dog explains that there is a seven-main dragon outside the gate; a young man cuts heads, picks oranges, revives his {parents?}] : Aprile 2000:273-274; Maltese [the childless king promises to arrange a source of oil (or also a source of wine) from which it will flow until the son reaches a certain age; son is born and grows up; breaks the jug of an old woman who has come for butter with a stone; she tells him to marry a girl of seven lemons; old people he meets help him find seven lemons; he opens 6, in each girl, she dies of hunger and thirst because the young man has nothing to give her right away; for the seventh he has prepared food and drink in advance, she remains alive; the prince takes her to his country, leaves her in a tree until he goes to prepare everything for the meeting; a Moorish woman climbs a tree, offers to look in the girl's head, pierces a pin, the girl turns into a dove; the returning prince marries a liar, although surprised because the bride is fool; the bird arrives, talks about herself, the false wife kills her; a tree grows out of the bones in the old woman's yard; then the girl is reborn; the prince finds her, the liar is executed]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 408:99-101 (version in Stumme 1904, No. 26 [the Turkish woman was cooked in oil, made a rug out of leather to wipe her feet]: 71-76).

Western Asia. Old Testament: Ex. 3:8 ["And the Lord said to [Moses]: I saw the suffering of My people in Egypt and heard their cry from their henchmen; I know their sorrows and I am going to save them from the hand of the Egyptians and Take him out of this land [and bring him] into a good and spacious land, where milk and honey flow, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Phereszites, [Gergeseans,] Hives and Jebusites"]; Num. 13:27-28 ["And they went and They came to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the children of Israel in the Faran Desert, in Kadez, and answered them and the whole community, and showed them the fruits of the land; and told him and said, We went to the land, to which you sent us; milk and honey really flow in it, and these are its fruits"]; Deut. 26:8-10, 15; 27:3; 31:20 ["And the Lord brought us out of Egypt [Himself with His great strength and] strong hand and outstretched muscle , with great horror, signs and miracles, and brought us to this place, and gave us this land, a land in which milk and honey flow; so behold, I have brought the beginnings of fruit from the land that You, Lord, gave me, [from lands where milk and honey flow]"; "look away from your holy home, from heaven, and bless your people, Israel, and the land you gave us, because You swore to our fathers [to give us] the land in which it flows milk and honey"; "and write on these [stones] all the words of this law when you cross [Jordan] to enter the land that the Lord your God gives you, into the land where milk and honey flow, as he told you The Lord God of your fathers"; "for I will bring them into the land [good], as I swore to their fathers, where milk and honey flow, and they will eat and be nourished, and become fat, and turn to other gods and serve them, and Me have rejected and will break my covenant [which I bequeathed to them]" (Synodal translation)]; the Palestinians [the king promises that if the son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with melted butter; every day a boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents of his promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds it, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills with honey and oil; the old woman comes up when almost everything is sorted out; picks up the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, smashing her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking L., she pulls her hair out of the window, he climbs it; when her witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, she senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to take out the splinter, and the daughter gives another one turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells him to give the melon, the daughter hides one seed, revives the young man from it, tells him to run away, spraying all objects except a mortar and pestle with henna; everyone says to the mother that the daughter is here, a mortar and a pestle give it away; a witch chases the fugitives, a dog with her; a daughter throws a comb (a forest, a witch and a dog gnaw), a brazier (fire, a witch and a dog extinguish urine), a mirror (a lake, a witch with a dog they drink, burst); at the house, a young man tells L. to wait for him to prepare everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to go down, pierces her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries for the palace's kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now pierces them into him, turning him into a pigeon; for the third time L. catches him, takes out his pins; wedding; the maid is burned]: Mubawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18:159-166; the Arabs of Syria [the sick king promised that if he recovers, from his a stream of honey and a stream of oil (Fett) will flow in the palace; recovered, honey and oil began to flow; people began to fill the jugs; the poor old woman came later than anyone else, barely scraped up the remnants; the prince saw her, launched her with a stone in a jug, he crashed; the old woman threw the ground and the second, cursed the prince: let his life be broken because of his love for Salma, how did this jug break; replied that S. looks like two drops of water prince; the prince ordered seven jugs to be filled for the old woman to show him the way to S.; she is married to a wealthy jeweler in Shiraz; the prince came to Shiraz under the guise of a merchant; orders him a gold ring; becomes his friend; the jeweler invites the imaginary merchant to his place, S. gives her husband sleeping pills, becomes the prince's mistress; teaches him to make a secret passage in the wall; because the Tsarevich and S. are so similar, the jeweler does not understand who is where; when the prince goes home, S. asks her husband to allow her to look at the merchant from the window; leaves the doll in his clothes instead, leaves safely with the prince]: Kuhr 1993:439-448; Arameans [the woman promises that if God gives her a son, she will share a pot of honey and a pot of butter between people; however, she did not keep her promise; when Aladin's son grew up, the old woman told him remind his mother about this, otherwise she will hit him, shortening his life; he forgets three times; then she put two pebbles in his belt to remember; his mother remembered, announced that tomorrow she would distribute honey and oil; but that old woman did not get it; her mother still scraped her bowl, but A. accidentally threw a stone, fell into the old woman's hand and she spilled everything; ordered the dumb princess to cause his misfortunes; A. went in search; stopped under a tree at the spring; hears a parrot saying to the chicks: in order to succeed, A. must take one of you with him; that princess's father has a tower of severed heads; A. took one parrot and came to the city, where the tower of heads; these are the heads of those who tried but could not get the princess to talk; when he came to the palace, A. hid the parrot under his pillow - like a pillow tells stories; the parrot says that A. is not getting married - this dumb princess is bald; princess: not bald at all! A. hid the parrot, left, and the princess burned the pillow in anger; the next evening A. hides the parrot under the tablecloth, speaks like a tablecloth; the princess stinks from her mouth; the princess spoke again, refuting similar to slander; the king gave his daughter to A.; two years later A. visited her mother, she is happy]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 6:18-22; Iraqi Arabs: Boshnaq 1987 [the king's childless wife promises to fill one a ditch with fat and other honey; gives birth to a beautiful and intelligent son; but forgot about her vow; at night someone says to the young man: if the mother does not keep her word, the son will go to a place where no one will find him; so three nights; young man forgot the dream, but the third time he woke up and told; the prince's mother did everything in a hurry; by evening, the ditches were empty and only one old woman scraped out the leftovers; the prince, out of mischief, threw an arrow into her pot and broke him; old woman: how did you break my pot, so let your heart be broken because of your love for the girl of the Raranj and Taranj trees; the prince went in search; at the fork there is one Road of Reliability, the other Security and obscurity; the old man advises to turn back; after learning of the prince's firm intention, he gives a ring and tells him to drive 7 days along the Road of the Unknown to the palm grove; rub the ring there: a genie horse will come out; ride it without paying attention to wild animals; a tree in the center of the grove; lions and wild goats on the sides; meat in front of goats, hay must be changed in front of lions; while animals eat, it is necessary climb a tree and pick fruits; taking three, the prince went down and galloped back; on the way he opened one, then; a beautiful woman came out of each of them, asked for water and, without receiving it immediately, died; the third fruit the prince opened by the river on the border of his father's kingdom; the prince left the beautiful woman and went to get her clothes and entourage; the girl climbed a tree; a dark-skinned slave came to the river for water, took the reflection of the beauty for her own; when she saw the beauty, she offered to take out her insects, but plunged a pin into her, turning her into a dove; the maid told the prince that the evil genie had changed her appearance; every day a dove flies into the kitchen and the cook replies that the prince is sleeping with the ugliest woman; the dove's tears turn into pearls and corals; the cook told the prince that he caught a dove, pulled out a pin, the beauty was reborn; the liar burned]: 109-114; Yaremenko 1990, No. 23 [an infertile woman promises to fill one ditch with honey and the other with oil; gives birth to a son; the old woman reminds the boy of his mother's vow; parents fill the ditches, the old woman comes last, picks up the leftovers; the boy accidentally breaks her jug; she wishes him love for the ram and trange (TT; "sour lemon and bitter orange"); he grows up, goes looking for TT; the old man at the fork says that one road of well-being, the second is misfortune, the third does not return; the young man rides the first, falls to the giantess's chest, who teaches how to pick a TT in the garden when the eyes of the monsters are open (so sleeping); when trying to peel another fruit, a request was made for water, the fruit shrunk; the last young man peeled by the water, he became a girl; the young man walked away, leaving TT in the tree; a witch came to the spring, took the beauty's reflection for her own; she offered to help wash the dishes; the witch got up to her, put a pin in her head, TT flew away as a bird; the young man said that she would be beautiful again in a year; the bird She flew to the young man, the witch wife ordered her to be killed, otherwise she would not recover; a drop of blood grew out of a drop of blood, her trunk was covered with pearls; the witch wife ordered her to be made a cradle for a child; the child in her cries; the witch gave the cradle to a poor neighbor; someone cleans her house, she waits for the girl, asks her not to return to the cradle; the witch asks for the cradle to be returned, calls the craftsmen to sew pearls on her dress; TT comes, tells his story; the husband leaves the witch, brings TT to his parents], 24 [{in Juhaiman 1999, the fairy tale was published as Saudi}; the king's wife promises to fill one river with oil, the other with honey if will give birth to a child; Nur al-Zaman was born; the people scooped honey and oil, the old woman scraped it from the bottom into a jug; N. smashed it with his arrow; the old woman wished him to fall in love with Fatyat al-Zaman; N. goes to look for her; the old man advises to fall to the witch's chest; she gives her ring to show the demon of the desert; he sends F. to the castle; N. and F. are happy; F. temporarily turns N. into a broom when the demons who kidnapped her arrive; N. and F. run away, F. turns into a minaret, N. into a muezzin, demons don't recognize them; N. leads F. to his father, wedding]: 129-136, 136-139; harsushi [fox, wolf, leopard, hyena, vulture and raven went to hunt; the vulture flew away, the fox and the raven found nothing, the hyena found a basket of dates, the wolf stole the kid, the leopard killed the camel; they gathered around the fire to cook meat; the hyena went to bed and told her wake up when everything is ready; the fox ate both the dates and the meat intended for the hyena, shoved bones and bones into her ass; in the morning she told the hyena that she had already eaten everything on her own, told her to relieve herself, under the hyena there were bones and bones; the fox asked the hyena to carry it to the acacia and then she would carry it; jumped, screamed that the hyena was tired; hyena: it was the fox tired; but others rushed to the hyena and they ate it; the fox offered to jump off the cliff - this is what their fathers did when they were circumcised; the fox and the leopard jumped safely, and the wolf broke his leg, he was eaten; the fox offers to jump from a high one rocks, jumps; the leopard crashed; invites the fox to start eating it; the fox: will eat it when the leopard dies; after eating the leopard, the fox told the donkey that she was dying of thirst; she allowed her to get inside through the ass - y there is water in her stomach; the fox drank water, ate the donkey's insides, she died; the fox wanted dew to fall, then she would fill one wadi with blood and the other with milk; the dew fell out, her ass the donkeys softened, the fox got out; tells the woman and daughter that they are called to be circumcised, and she is ready to guard their herd; the fox milked the goats, filling the wadi with milk; stabbed them, filling another wadi blood; arranged the carcasses as if the goats were grazing; the woman and the girl returned without finding anyone; the girl saw goats slaughtered, shouted to her mother to hold the fox; the woman hears hard; the fox: she screams that The robbers are coming, let the woman give her the necklace, she will bury it and hide it; the daughter screams again; the fox: she tells you to give yourself to me; the woman is furious, the fox runs away, taking away the jewelry; hangs them on dry wood, relieves himself by throwing sand at excrement; tells the caravan that the tree makes jewelry; he gives his herd for the tree; warns that if he copes with the need near the tree, it will not give jewelry; the caravan waits three days, catches up with the fox; they come back, the fox tears off its excrement, says that it is the caravan who could not resist; the fox brings his camels to places where there are many others; she is told that her camels may be trampled by local camels and horses; but the fox refuses to take her own away; her camels have died, she has received a large ransom for them]: Stroomer 2004, No. 2:5-17; mehri : Stroomer 1999, No. 3 [a man went into the cave to drink water, it rained, the stone fell, blocking the exit; when a man promised to fill one wadi with blood, the other with milk, a stone he rolled back; he came to a woman eating goats; said that they gave necklaces for free, let her leave him her jewelry, he would guard them, and run for new ones; the man milked the goats, poured milk into the wadi, stabbed - bleed; left only one goat; hung a necklace on a tree, relieved himself under it; told the caravans that every week the tree produces jewelry; but it is impossible to relieve the need is nearby; the caravans gave him camels and luggage, waited; accused the man of deception; he showed him the crap sprinkled; the caravans accused each other, stabbed each other], 99 [exactly like Harsushi]: 7-11, 279-288; Oman {the text does not contain a "promise" motive, but is so similar to the Harsusi and Mehri versions that it is most likely a random variation for a particular narrator} [Abu- Navas was walking through the desert and thirsty; the leopard offered him to get inside; there was a place with salt water, a place with brackish water, and a place with fresh water; but let the NA not look up; after drinking, the NA wanted to eat; looked up, saw two hanging objects and eating one; these were the internal organs of the leopard and he died, but the NA stayed inside; it rained, the leopard carcass got wet and the NA managed to get out; saw women passing goats; they went to the festival, agreeing to leave the goats under the supervision of the Academy of Sciences; the Academy of Sciences has a vision: a white river and a red river; he milked the goats, creating a white river, and stabbed them, creating a river of blood; one woman came up and horrified, began to call the others; they can't hear well; NA explains: she shouts to leave all the woman's gold jewelry for the NA; the women did it, the NA took the jewelry, hung it on a tree, and himself on he climbed him; explained to the caravan merchants that there were ornaments on this tree; they gave all the camels along with their luggage for a tree with ornaments; the NA took them and disappeared; the merchants stayed waiting for new decorations will grow in the tree, and they are still waiting]: Taibah, MacDonald 2016:47-48.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Turks [a fox makes a wreath of donkey manure, goes on a pilgrimage, followed by chickens, partridges and pigeons; she puts them in a dry well to eat them later; jumps there and back not to get out; then promises to create a stream of honey and a stream of oil, if only God helps her out; gets out through the gap, tells God that he has deceived him, but falls back into the well; after new conversions to God gets out, lies in the mud, pretends to be dead; she's picked up by an oil dealer and a honey merchant; one puts it on his shoulder, she gets in his ass, he thinks his companion is homosexual intentions, merchants fight, fox pours honey and oil, fulfilling its promise]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953:415-416; Armenians {if this is really the K33F motive, then the option is closer to Persian than in Turkish} [The oil was mixed with honey, distributed to the residents of the city]: Gullakian 1983:196.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the padishah has 40 wives, all barren; he promises to fill one pool with honey and the other with oil if a son is born; the fortieth wife has given birth, the boy is 18 years old, the padishah fills the pools, so that everyone could take honey and oil; the old woman leaned down to get oil, the padishah's son shot her with a pebble from a sling, the bowl broke, the oil poured out; the old woman cursed him: let him go get the girl Pomeranian; mother to prince: there is a garden on the mountain, where girls are in Pomeranians, but do not return from there; the old man shows the way; the diva tells you to change the horse to a tied black, throw the game to the dragon, take the Pomeranians, not paying attention to the divas, rushing back, returning the horse; a girl comes out of every Pomeranian, asks for water or bread, dies; a diva woman: asks for bread, give me water; the last girl left, prince went to get her clothes, the girl stayed in the tree; the black maid saw her reflection; first she thinks it's hers, then hears laughter, looks up; cuts off the girl's head, takes her place, answers the prince, who turned black in the sun, was carried away by the wind; an orange tree grew out of Pomeranz's blood, the prince transplanted it into the palace; the imaginary wife tells him to make a board out of it; the old woman took the branch and made a spindle; someone cleans her house; an old woman finds a girl; a doctor advises wearing a mirror chain around the prince's neck; a Pomeranian girl says she can do one; tells her story showing everything in the mirror; everything is fine; the liar is offered a sword or horse, she chooses a horse, she is tied by her braids to a horse, allowed into the steppe]: Rosenfeld 1956:164-174; Yazgulyam [the poor man found on on the mountain slope, left an egg in the pantry, a calf appeared; the poor man and his wife died, the calf remained with the poor man's mother; fills the pantry with food; tells him to marry him the royal daughter; the king wants to hang the old woman, the vizier advises to give the calf difficult errands; 1) shady apple trees along the road; 2) a mill with compartments for grain and meat; 3) roof gutters, butter flows one by one, milk on the other ; 4) three yards are full of gold; everything is ready by morning, the wedding, the calf turns into a human]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 22:241-243.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [childless ruler: if I have children, I will fill one pool with water and the other with honey; his wife gave birth, the ruler fulfilled his promise, called his son Adisher; one day by the pool, which the ruler arranged, the old woman collected water, and the ruler's son threw stones at her; the old woman to the boy: it would be better if you brought Anargul ("pomegranate flower"); when the young man was 17 years old, he asked that an old woman, where to look for A.; she told him to go years without fear of wild animals and reach another old woman; the other sent her to the top of the mountain; there you have to take tulpara, he will travel three months in three days; A. aydarhi dragons; the young man walked past them into the garden where the devil was sleeping under a pomegranate tree; tore off 5 grenades, sat on a tulpara and drove away; on the way he cut 4 grenades, 4 of them appeared, asked water and bread, he gave them as they asked, but they died; he brought the fifth pomegranate to the old woman; she ordered it to be cut by the water; if she asked for water, give her bread, give her water; the young man brought the girl, arranged feast for 40 days; achieved goals and desires]: Aimbetov 2014a: 112; Kyrgyz [poor old man and old woman; an old man trapped a badger; asks not to kill: he will become a son, he will take care of them; badger drags partridges to old people, old people eat up, raise cattle; the badger offers to move to the village; easily drives away dogs; the khan tells them to come with the badger; the khan has a daughter, Aiperi; the badger turns to her by name; a year later, the badger begins to wither away, says that he is in love, asks A. to marry; the khan ordered the old man to break his arms and legs, tie him to a mare and sent home; the badger tells the old woman not to worry: the old man is safe again; next time the old man is broken in half; the old man is alive again; the old man was killed, burned, the badger revived him from a handful of ashes; the khan is advised to give the old man an impossible task; let him in front of the palace plant a Munaru tree and a plane tree, and a lake of milk and a lake of butter at the roots, let the fish jump from one lake to another; let there be only sheep in one trough, yaks in the other, the third is horses, the fourth is camels, and even if their number is innumerable; let there be a golden throne between the two trees, so that the khan can sit on it and admire the fish; at night, the badger asks the old man to slaughter and cut the mare, the ears have turned into two trees, the eyes into lakes of butter and milk; the hair cut from the mare's mane turns into fish, the skull into the golden throne, the blood and the contents of the intestines and stomach into cattle four species, legs in 4 golden horseback riding; in the morning the mare stands in its place safe and sound; the khan gave his wife to the badger; her good aunt cheers A., the angry one mocks her; at night the badger takes off from his own skin, turns out to be a young man of unearthly beauty; the good aunt rejoices; in the morning the badger puts her skin back on, tells his wife to wait; but the trouble that the evil aunt will bring will have to endure 6 years; the next evening an angry aunt serves, throws her skin into the fire; the young man turns into a bird and flies away through the upper opening of the yurt; the evil aunt is tied to the tails of 40 horses; A. goes to look for her husband ; khan gives her iron boots and an iron stick; she wanders for 5 years, meets a tall white-bearded old man in her sixth year; he advises going to a hut at the foot of the mountain; an old witch in the hut; it is necessary ask to accept her as a daughter; the old man will turn around in the wind, shake the hut until morning; in the morning the witch will get tired and lie down with his head on A.'s lap; let A. tear the witch out by a thread until her the eyes will roll and turn white, but they should not turn red; the old man hands A. the hair, tells them to run it through the witch's body when her eyes turn white, she will twist and freeze; after that A. must run; later for months, the old man meets A. again, tells him to go to the hill that looks like a skullcap, there will be the white yurt where A. spent her wedding night; in the yurt there is a golden stand (for birds of prey), A. must dig into the ground under her; her husband will fly in, circle for several days, saying he smells like a human being; saying "where can a person come from here", he will sit on a stand; the old man hands Iperi a net and reports that her husband is the son of Peri, who gave birth to a child at the top of a tree near the Khan's yurt when Khansha gave birth to A.; when she saw that the human child was a beautiful girl, mother Peri spat on her cheek A., putting a mark; his peri husband's name is Aktilek; sitting on a stand, he will start saying "fell asleep, fell asleep", but this means that he is awake; when he starts saying "woke up, woke up", then he will fall asleep; you have to throw a net and hold it; Aktilek will fly out of the yurt and start wearing A. across the sky; three pigeons will arrive, also peri, talk to A.; the first will say, "Hey, long hair, short mind, are you an equal Peri's son?!" ; the second will begin to feel sorry for A., and the third will offer help to go down to earth; Aktilek will ask A. to open his eyes, but only after the third sentence A. should open them; helping A. go down to earth, pigeons were bruised, which is why some pigeons are not white, but blue; Ayperi and Aktilek have healed happily]: Sabyr uulu 2008:555-572; Kyrgyz (Issyk-Kul Province) [Nurzhan, his daughters Aykyz, Gulkyz, Nurkyz, and son Sarytay; his wife dies, Nurzhan suffers, wants to marry again, but it feels sorry for the children; in a dream, a voice tells her daughters to be given away without dowry, someone hands Kyzyr Niyaz a ring, it fulfills wishes if you address him by name; in the morning a ring on his right thumb; to check, Nurzhan demands good food from the ring; the family has healed for pleasure; Nurzhan announces to his son during his lifetime testament: after his death, three dervishes will appear who will wash his body and bury him, his son must give them sisters without dowry, as well as all the goods at home; let him keep only the ring, his Do not give the name to anyone; S. fulfilled his father's will and went to distant lands; he forgot that the ring makes wishes come true; he almost drowns in the river, the fish carries it ashore; in the forest he hides from predators in a tree, by morning they eat each other; S. reaches the mountains, cannot pass them, falls asleep; Perishte spirits carried him over the mountains; S. enters an area where the wind is raging, clouds of poisonous insects in the air; in some In the old courtyard, he finds an old man and an old woman, invites them to become their son; they ask them not to go outside at night; he goes out and sees two moons in the sky; one goes out in the morning, becomes darker; an old woman says that the ruler has a married daughter named Sahipzhamal, plays in the palace courtyard with her friends and is so beautiful that the radiance on her behalf is the second moon; S. falls ill from love; She notices a ring on her hand, recalls, tells her to fill the house with food; asks his adoptive parents to marry him to Sahipzhamal; the old woman comes to ask her to marry S.; the vizier advises to give an impossible task: bring 40 gems; S. orders the ring to deliver 40 camels, 40 horses, 40 mules and 40 donkeys loaded with gems; let them be accompanied by 25 beautiful people whose clothes are decorated with gem buttons, also decorate the bangs of their horses with gemstone bells; the mother should allocate a separate horse, let her clothes be luxurious, like the harness on horses; the ruler is shocked asks the groom himself to come; wedding; S. tells the ring to create a new palace on the cloud, and under it a lake of milk and a lake of butter; the vizier persuades Sahipzhamal to find out her husband's secret; S. says the name of the ring; the vizier says it, he orders the palace and Sahipzhamal to be moved to seventh heaven; S. is looking for sisters, their dervish husbands help him; the eldest's husband is guilty that he sleeps for 40 days and for 40 nights, all this happened when he slept, carries S. to his younger sister's husband, who reports that the Zymyryk bird can take him to the palace, the Zymyryk bird lays 2 eggs every year, but the dragon eats chicks, you need to kill the dragon, save the chicks and Zymyryk will help; the dervish gives the young man a one-inch sword, which, when waving, extends to 40 fathoms, and takes him to a tree with a nest Zymyryk; S. drinks from a spring at the foot of a tree and awaits sleep; he wakes up from the rain, these are the tears of chicks, sees that the dragon is preparing to swallow them; he kills the dragon, feeds its chicks with meat, himself, eating a leaf with trees, begins to understand the language of the chicks; they say that their mother will arrive soon, hide it under their wings; storm, wind, tornado, rain and hail notify the appearance of the bird Zymyryk; when they see that the chicks are intact, the bird is happy, ready to fulfill any wish of the savior; S. asks to be brought to seventh heaven; they take 40 wineskins with water and 40 with meat; the bird teaches: if you look to the right, you have to throw her a wineskin with meat, if there is a wineskin full of water to the left; supplies run out, S. gives the bird meat from his right thigh and moisture from his left eye; oh, appearing at the palace, sees through the gap how the vizier pulls Sahipzhamal to his bed, and she screams that she has a husband; after waiting for the vizier to fall asleep, S. says "Kyzyr Niyaz" and the ring is on his finger; he orders them to be transferred to Father Sahipzhamal; shows him the sleeping vizier and Sahipzhamal, the king orders the vizier to cut off his head, scolds his daughter; calls to imitate Sarytai, true to his word]: Sabyr uulu 2008:119-125.