K33G. Two varieties of fruit, ATU 566.
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Aperson who has eaten a fruit (leaf, etc.) grows horns (long nose, etc.) or becomes an animal, and the other fruit (leaf, etc.) returns to its normal appearance.
Sudanese Arabs, Arabs and Berbers of Morocco, Kabiles, Arabs of Egypt, Basques, Catalans, Sicilians, Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Basilicata, Calabria), Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Ladins, Scots, Irish, Bretons, French (Upper Brittany, Lorraine, Nivernay, Picardy, Priege, etc.), Walloons, Flemish, Germans (Austria), Mehri, Jibbali, Arabs of Qatar, Jordan, Syria , Palestinians, Tibetans, Sichuan Tibetans, Mustang, Bhutan, Meitei, Burmese, Inta, Arakan, Mons, Viets, Zyaray, Bengalis, Kannadas, Tamils, Chinese, Moldovans, Romanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Greeks, Czechs , Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Tula, Oryol, Voronezh, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya), Ukrainians (Volyn, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Podolia, Poltava, Kherson), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Abazins, Ossetians, Balkarians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Bakhtiyars, Bukhara Arabs, Latvians, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Swedes, Danes, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Komi, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Dungans, South Altai Tuvans, Trans-Baikal Buryats, Mongols, Darkhats, Central (?) Yakuts, Japanese (including North Ryukyu), (coastal Koryaks).
Sudan-East Africa. Sudanese Arabs [orphan Ahmed heard voices at night; the old man tried to take the old woman's chicken; A. threw stones, the old man got scared, ran away; the old woman did not say the secret of the chicken; A. stole it in finally ate; old woman; the chicken who ate the heart has the strength of 40 people; the sultan will give his daughter to the one who wins her in martial arts; more than a hundred contenders have already been executed; A. defeats the girl several times, marries; at night, the former chicken owner comes, rips A.'s stomach, pulls out the chicken's heart; in the morning A. discovers that he has lost strength; the sultan drives him away; A. eats green and yellow dates; from the first they grow, 4 horns disappear from the second; A. first sells green ones to the Sultan, his daughter grows horns; then, under the guise of a doctor, feeds her yellow, the horns disappear; the Sultan recognizes A. as his son-in-law]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 32:155-159.
North Africa. Arabs and Berbers in Morocco: El-Shamy 2004, No. 566:325-327; Nowak 1969, No. 131:142-144; the Kabilas [the Kabilas fought against the Spanish, killed so many enemies in the mountains that rivers of blood formed a lake of blood ; it grew a Tzeschera-buensa tree with gold-colored leaves; Teriel ate them, became pregnant; wild animals came to eat what she would give birth, but she disappeared into a cave, gave birth to seven Wuarssen, and their sister; every Wuarss lay down in a hole and gained the strength of many men; people were afraid that T. would give birth to some more monsters, cut down a tree, dragged it away, burned it; two streams flowed in place of the tree - white and animals and blacks; if you put your finger in this second one, your finger will turn black; while you were dragging, the branch broke off, figs, olives and 5 other types of fruit trees grew out of it; the tree was burned, the sparks turned into the lights of St. . Elms; from ash thrown on a pile of manure, a vine with two branches grew; one black bunches, the other white; if you eat black ones, horns will grow, if white, horns will disappear; the wind has dispelled the ash around the world, it grew valuable and useful plants]: Frobenius 1921a, No. 15:85-87; the Arabs of Egypt [the poor musician's wife is giving birth; he went to beg, but found a chicken and an egg; she began to carry eggs, which a Jew bought for good money; when the musician went on Hajj, the Jew gave his wife silver and told him to cook chicken; the son came and ate goiter; the servant told him to run; his Jew for a long time chased him, caught up, rushed at him with a knife, but the boy knocked him down and killed him; came to the king's palace, 39 heads hang at the gate; the king's daughter tells the suitors to overcome her, kills her; on the first day, a young man and a princess they are fighting, but the winner is not determined; when the young man falls asleep, the king tells his healers to find out what was going on; they cut the young man's chest, took out that chicken's goiter, sewed up the wound imperceptibly; in the morning the young man realized that lost his former strength and ran away; three are fighting over a flying carpet, a bowl filled with food, a hand mill that gives money; a young man throws a stone: whoever gets first will receive wonderful items; himself picks them up, flies away on a flying carpet; flies to the palace of the royal daughter, puts her on the carpet, takes her to Mount Kaf; but as soon as he gets off the carpet, the princess picks everything up and flies away; the young man found dates: from a huge horn grows yellow, disappears from the red one; he collected them, returned to the palace, sold yellow dates, the princess grew 8 horns; under the guise of a doctor, the young man fed the princess one date - one horn disappeared; One horn every day; the king married him to his daughter, made him a vizier; the young man asked his wife where his wonderful objects were; the princess promised to obey and they began to live well]: Spitta-bey 1883, No. 9:112-122.
Southern Europe. Basques [the mother of two boys's fiance gives her two eggs, tells her to cook them; she leaves them to the cook, goes to church with the groom; the boys accidentally ate eggs; the woman's husband kicked them out; they see three fighting for an invisible hat, a cloak that carries an inexhaustible bag wherever you want; the brothers invite them to run to the tree, the winner will get the items themselves, wrapped in a cloak, they fly away; one became a bishop, the other decided to marry a princess; she stole his objects and left him on the mountain; he meets people giving him figs that make him grow on his head the horn, and the juice of the same fig tree removes the horn; lets a friend sell figs to the palace, the princess and the king and queen grow horns; gives juice in exchange for magic items; marries a princess]: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 36:136-139; Catalans [when dying, father tells three sons to go to the pit, there is a door, we must tell her to open; let them get whatever they have for him; younger Bernhard took out an inexhaustible purse with money, the middle one is a chain that carries wherever you want, the eldest is the horn from which soldiers come out; the brothers broke up; B. fell in love with the count's daughter, but she rejected him; he ate in the forest pears - thorns grew on his head; ate figs - the thorns disappeared; dressed as a shepherd, he went to sell pears, the count's daughter had thorns on her head; in the doctor's clothes he offered to cure her, the count promised her in wives; B. fed her figs, the thorns disappeared; borrowed a chain and horn from her brothers, moved the count to China and back, brought soldiers out of his horn; wedding]: Salvator 1896:49-60; Sicilians: Calvino 1980, No. 189 []: 675-679; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 26 [the princess is always sad; the shepherd finds a ring worn constantly sneezes; goes to wander, sleeps in a tree, hears the devils talking; one says that he stole a magic tablecloth from a monk, an inexhaustible purse, a flute to which everyone dances; the shepherd gives the king a ring, everyone laughs, including the princess; the king refuses to give his daughter to the shepherd, throws him at prison; he feeds all prisoners; the king takes away a magic tablecloth; a purse; a flute too; a shepherd escapes from prison; finds dates, horns grow from black ones, disappear from whites; sells black ones to the palace , members of the royal family grow horns; the shepherd gives white dates in exchange for selected items and the princess; wedding]: 174-178 (=Crane 1885, No. 31:119-122); Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Basilicata, Calabria): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 566:135; the Portuguese [a priest or woman gives a person a bag that fills himself, a flying carpet, a blanket, an armchair, an accordion, jewelry jewelry, a magic tablecloth, a mirror that gives beauty, or something else; the princess steals these items one by one; a person finds magic figs or grapes: eat some, horns will grow, others the horns will disappear; the person gives figs to the princess (queen, king) to eat, and returns the stolen items as payment for the cure]: Cardigos 2006, No. 566:142-143; Spaniards (Extremadura) : Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 566 [brothers Juan and Perico separate roads; H. sees three arguing over an inexhaustible purse, the whistle everyone hears, the airplane cloak; H. offers arguing to race, flies to Rome; becomes a pope; P. becomes poor, comes to Rome, H. recognizes him, sends him three times to marry a princess, each time giving one of the wonderful items; the princess takes them away every time; the old woman gives P. three figs, the king buys them, the king, the queen, the princess eat them, their horns grow; the old woman gives him other figs, tells him to come disguised as a doctor, he lets the king and the queen eat them, and the princess after she returns the wonderful items; he flies with her to Rome, the wedding returns, is made by the king; everything is fine], 567 [one of two friends went broke; started hunting; caught a bird that did not lay eggs, but diamonds; he became rich; his ex-friend wanted to accuse him of stealing, but when he found out about the bird, he asked to sell it to him; a former poor man agreed in exchange for all the rich man's possessions; he read under the wings of a bird that he who eats his head would become king, and the one who swallowed the heart would find money at the head in the morning; he told the cook to fry a bird; his two sons accidentally ate the older head and the younger heart; the father began to beat the maid, but the sons confessed; every morning the father began to take money from under the youngest son's pillow; one day sons went somewhere else, the youngest began to find money; when they returned, the father told them everything; they went on a journey; the elder was chosen king; the youngest went on; married the poor, but a pretty girl; her aunt found out about the bird's heart, persuaded her niece to put powder in her husband's wine; he felt bad, he regurgitated the bird's heart, his aunt swallowed it, kicked his niece's husband out; he went away, ate figs, became a donkey, then ate grass, became human again, collected figs and herbs, gave the figs to the house where his wife, she, her aunt and maid ate them, became donkeys; the young man tortured the donkey aunt work; she regurgitated her heart, he swallowed it; allowed donkeys to eat herbs; returned to brother king]: 566-570, 571-577; Catalans: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 566 (including all Balearic Islands) [person does good to the old man, he gives a deck of cards (they always win), a pipe (makes him dance), a flying cloak; the king takes items; the old man gives figs that make a long nose grow, and others, from whose nose becomes normal again; with their help, the man makes the king return the items], 567 [after eating the heart of the magic bird, the hero finds a purse with money every day; the woman makes him vomits and swallows his heart herself; the hero eats figs, turns into a donkey, eats grass, becomes human again; gives figs to that woman, she becomes a donkey, he takes possession of the bird's heart again and leaves]: 126, 127; ladins [after the death of their parents, the brothers left home, broke up; smart and hard-working Gian came to the house of 12 robbers, climbed a tree; each robber reported what he had done; chieftain made the sorcerer talk about the troubles he had caused; 1) there is no water in Mantova, you have to knock on the stone slab with a gold stick, the stove rises, the water will flow; 2) here is the tree from the fruits of which a nose grows, and in the king's garden in Vienna, the fruits of which make him normal; it is also necessary to crush the shell of the turtle that lives there under the well; the chieftain killed the sorcerer, took a golden stick, apples from the first wood, in Vienna, under the guise of a merchant, sold them to the king, who grew his nose; the king will give his daughter to whoever heals him; the robbers left, Gian tears, dug up a gold stick; when he came to Vienna, he made an ointment from the shell turtles, the king's nose was halved; then returned to Mantua, let the water go, brought the soldiers to the robbers' house, they were captured; the king offered to choose a daughter or half of the possessions as a reward, Gian chose possessions; returning to Vienna, he finally cured the king there, married his daughter; paid off the debts of his drunkard brother Giachen]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 6:218-230.
Western Europe. Scots [the widower got married, the stepmother treats his two sons badly, they leave; they caught a beautiful bird; the stranger asked to see; under the feathers it was written that the one who ate the heart will get a best wife, and the one who eats the liver will find gold under the pillow in the morning; buys poultry from the boys, leads him to him, tells the cook to cook his heart and liver; the younger brother accidentally ate liver, elder heart; the cook tells them to run; they live with an old woman for a year, she collects gold in the morning; tells them about their happiness; the king's daughter takes the elder as her husband; the youngest marries the widow's daughter; she vomits, the wife swallows the bird's regurgitated liver, drives her husband away; he works for a miller; his wife teaches her to wear a hat that carries her anywhere; they find themselves on a distant island; the wife asks her husband to get fruit, puts on the hat, returns home; the younger brother eats the fruits, his horns grow; eats others, the horns disappear; eats red lettuce, becomes a horse, the green brother becomes a man ; returns home on a passing ship; sells fruit to his ex-wife, she grows horns; treats others for taking vomiting, regurgitating the liver; swallows the liver herself; the wife returns to him; he gives her and mother-in-law a red salad, both become mares; he gives them to the miller, becomes lord]: McKay 1925:131-159; Irish: Danaher 1967, No. 30 [=Kennedy 1875:67-74; poor widow's son brown hair; he went to look for work; shared his food with the old woman he met; at night she appeared to him in a dream as a noble lady, left her purse; in the morning a purse at his feet, containing a gold coin; if you take it out hers, immediately different in her wallet; the guy became rich; the king promised him a daughter, but changed his purse and kicked the guy out; the old woman gave a cape that carried anywhere; the guy broke into the king, but he again he snatched out his purse, taking the cape; the old woman gave a horn - if you blow, everyone followed the owner's orders; the guy told the warriors to grab the king, but he asked permission to wear the cape, and took the horn away; the old woman sent the boy to the garden, where the apples that make his nose grow and the pears that make him disappear; the guy sold apples to the king, then came disguised as a doctor; for each pear bite he ordered to give stolen; but left the king a 6-inch nose; the guy was made king, he married a princess, and the old king was sent to a distant castle]: 73-81; Jackson 1936 [the hero's wife stole three magical item; he pulls out apples that make horns grow; items returned, hero healed]: 288; Bretons: Luzel 1887 (3) [after the death of his wife, the King of Spain promises to marry whoever suits him the outfit of the deceased; this is his daughter; the fairy advises asking the father to bring a starry, moonlit, sunny dress first; he does everything; taking a dress and leaving the palace; the girl is hired to herd pigs; sometimes puts on his dresses; a local prince sees this from afar; one of three girls is married to him; he pretends to be a dying beggar, asks the landlady to bring him broth one by one; comforting the dying woman, they confess that they killed their children born before marriage; the princess comes, tells her story; the prince calls them all, beats those girls, marries the princess]: 247-261 (translated into Lopyreva 1959, No. 34:134-142); Orain 1904 [Louis goes begging with his older brother; his brother is given more generously, he drives Louis away; he comes to the fairy's castle; she lets him eat a roasted pigeon and in the morning he finds 50 coins under his head; does not take them; the fairy tells you to return, educates and teaches Louis; promises to help him marry a princess; she is sick and will recover if she is laughed; the fairy gives a self-propelled a wagon with mill blades on each wheel; the princess laughs, Louis marries her; the princess wants to have money on her pillow in the morning; her godmother advises her husband to vomit; Louis belches the pigeon's heart and the princess swallows it; the fairy helping Louis gives him a wish-fulfilling hat in return; on the advice of the godmother, the princess takes Louis into the forest, steals the hat and leaves it alone; when he wakes up, hungry Louis takes the roots of a lily (Lilium martagon L.) in his mouth and turns into a donkey; seven years later he comes to his fairy, she restores his human appearance; Louis collects the roots of a lily; unrecognized, gives them to the princess under the guise of a rejuvenation remedy; the princess and her godmother turn into donkeys; they work for seven years, and then the fairy Louis restores their human appearance; the princess has improved ]: 50-63; French (Nivernay, Picardy, Ariège et al.): Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 566:437-443; French (Lorraine) []: Cosquin 1886, No. 11:121-123; French (Haute-Bretagne, West . 1878) [A peasant saw a beautiful blue bird in the forest; the children asked to catch it; every day she brings an egg; egg buyer: I have no money - the eggs are golden; the prince went to drink water and read it the inscription on the wings: the head will become king, the one who has eaten the heart will find a purse of gold under the pillow in the morning; the mistress does not sell the bird; the prince promises to marry her daughter if at the wedding He will be served this bird to a feast; his sister persuaded the brothers to agree; the brothers replaced the blue bird in the pan with another; the prince ate it, and the brothers ate the real one, but, fearing exposure, ran away from home; handfuls of gold were bred in the inn; then they found out the value of the coins; in a foreign city, they found out about their wealth, the princess married the youngest, who became king after the death of his father-in-law; the eldest came to a city where they did not know about gold before; married the daughter of a noble master; the sorcerer explained to his young wife that her husband had eaten the heart of a blue bird; gave a silver wire to extract this heart from the sleeper's stomach husband; invited him to the ship and left him alone on a deserted island; the young man found herring-like grass, ate, became a donkey; ate another, became human again; the young man picked up both types of herbs, his picked up the ship; pretending to be a greenery merchant, sold the herring to the princess, who became a donkey, her maid too; the young man brought both donkeys to the stall and fed only hay; gave the donkeys to work as a coal miner; Eight days later, he returned it to the stall; a year later, the princess donkey made it clear that she was ready to return the bird's heart; the young man let another celery be eaten; with a silver wire he pulled out the bird's heart and swallowed it; the couple lived together, they have two children]: Sébillot 1880, No. 14:97-104 (=Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 567:444-445); Walloons [three brothers come to a castle where no one can stay ; on the first night, the elder gets a cloak that he carries wherever you want; on the second night, the middle brother gets a magic tablecloth; on the third night, the younger brother gets an inexhaustible purse; the younger one buys their wonderful ones from the elders items; is hired by the king as a cook; the princess steals wonderful objects and drives the young man away; he finds two varieties of pears: one grows, the other loses a long nose; lets the first pears eat princess and heals her long nose only after she returns the stolen goods]: Laport 1932, no.*566A: 64-65; Walloons [Richard's older brother, followed by Pierre and Jean; each takes turns deciding to go to soldiers and does not return; Jean is the last to leave; R. tells him and P. that he has insulted the officer and will be hanged; the brothers are fleeing; the miller warns not to enter the Devil's castle; they come in, the table is set there; they lock themselves and guard one by one; every night the Devil comes; each of the brothers unlocks him for a gift and a promise of no harm; this is how the brothers received a magic tablecloth, a rod that turns gold items and a cloak that carries him anywhere; the king of France promises a daughter to someone who will have a feast for 500 people; R. has set the tables, the princess takes him to her place, asks how he did it; he talks about a tablecloth; she snatches it out, calls for help; R. is imprisoned to be executed; the same with P. (get a lot of gold, the princess takes the rod); with Jean (travel to a remote place), but although the princess grabs her cloak, Jean manages to jump out the window {in the text below instead of Jean Pierre, but apparently this mistake and I write "Jean"}; there are two varieties of pears in the garden: some grow a long nose, others disappear; unrecognized J. sells pears, the princess grows a long nose; J. promises to cure everyone if the king will free the brothers and return wonderful items; as it happened; wedding]: Carnoy 1883, No. 6:292-307; Germans (Hessen: Zweren) [three soldiers spend the night in the forest, guarding one by one; a little man comes up; the first is given a cloak that turns into anything, the second a inexhaustible purse, the third a horn with an army in it; everyone loses their magic item to the princess; the wallet owner eats in the forest an apple, a long nose grows, a pear - the nose disappears; sells to the princess, comes disguised as a doctor; she returns everything, the young man heals her by giving her a pear]: Aarne 1908:98; Germans (Austria and other districts): Aarne 1908:98-100.
Western Asia. Mehri [the father of two boys died, leaving them chicken; the mother married another; the new husband told the slave to fry the chicken, not show it to their stepsons; when they returned from school, they saw roast, ate one head, other heart; go to wander; break up; one came to town, got married; the wife told her mother that in the morning she found gold coins at her husband's headboard; they gave him poison, he fell ill, his began to vomit, he regurgitated his chicken heart, recovered; the wife hung the heart in a bag on a nail; the husband heard two people talking: there are two trees, good and bad; he collected dates from both and let his wife eat and mother-in-law, they had a horn on their heads; the wife asked her husband to cure them; he gave them other dates for his wife returning the chicken heart; he killed these women, left; (text cut off)]: Müller 1909, No. 35:91- 94; jibbali [mother died leaving two sons; boys came to the grave, from there a bird flew to them; the elder invited his father to remarry; the stepmother decided to lime the stepsons; put poison in food; the bird told the boys about it; the old woman advised the stepmother to pretend to be sick; the husband asked the old woman what to do; she ordered to kill the bird; the maid cooked it; the older brother ate the head, the younger brother ate the head, the younger heart; the brothers left home; parted at a fork in the roads; the youngest came to the city, fell asleep in a mosque; the minister found a purse of gold on this place, gave it to the boy; he lived with the old woman every morning found gold under her head; the old woman said this to the Sultan's daughter; she called the young man, offered to spit, he regurgitated the gold ring, she swallowed it; he bought a flying carpet at the bazaar, came to his daughter Sultan, flew with her to the island; when he left the carpet, the Sultan's daughter flew home on it, and the young man stayed on the island; found three varieties of berries: some turned into a donkey, others grow horns, and others they are returning to normal; he swam to the mainland, came to town, offered a pregnancy product; the old woman ate, became a donkey; he freed her when she returned his chest {apparently with gold, which she took}; offered berries to the Sultan's daughter, her horns grew, he freed her when she returned the ring and the flying carpet; he built his own house; his older brother came with a camel caravan; when the caravan left, the younger one put an expensive dish; then sent people, they accused the elder of stealing; he was brought to the younger one, the brothers recognized each other, told them what happened to them, stayed together]: Müller 1907, No. 13:52-58; Arabs of Qatar, Jordan, Palestine, Syria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 566:325-327; Nowak 1969, No. 131:142-144.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [(one of the "ghost stories"; turquoise and golden frogs give water only in exchange for sacrificed people; the prince and his friend kill frogs, they tell them to eat them, they will become regurgitate turquoise, gold; the inn owner and her daughter solder them to regurgitate more gold; friends take away, supposedly resolving their argument, the invisible hat from the children, the speeding boots from the demons; a prince is elected king, a friend is elected minister; a prince marries the daughter of a former king; a minister watches the prince's wife come to the old fortress to meet Togkarko, who arrives in the form of a bird; a minister lures a bird into the palace, burns it; finds a carpet lying on which it turns into a donkey and back into a man; puts it on the hostesses of the inn; after three years, the king orders to turn it worn-out donkeys are back in women]: Waddell 1931:187-192; Tibetans (Sichuan) [the king's son, the son of a nobleman and the son of a tarkhan (master) went on a journey by planting a tree; who would be unhappy, his tree will wither away; the king's sons and nobles have married; the son of Tarkhan saw three devils arguing over an invisible hat, a stick and a bag; the young man tells them to race, puts on a hat, takes away objects ; sees a person collecting red leaves (turned into a monkey) and white leaves (restoring their human appearance); takes a supply of leaves of both kinds; told the stick to take him and that man's daughter to an island where there are no people and many fruits; a child was born; a young man went to get the eggs of the Garudi bird, and his wife told the stick to carry her and the child to her father; the young man fed three poultry chicks, one with meat and the other tendons, the third with bones; only the third was able to fly across the sea; the young man flew over it; rubbed the faces of his wife's children with red leaves, who became monkeys; under the guise of a llama, he said that he was in the house a dangerous object brought from across the sea, it is the cause of the misfortune; the wife returned the stick, and the young man restored its human appearance to its children; received a drawing of a donkey that turns into a donkey; the tree of the nobleman's son half dry; the young man found him, he has an evil mother-in-law; the young man turned her into a donkey, sold her for hard work; comes to the king's son; his wife locks him at night and disappears himself; the young man, wearing his hat, follows that woman to her son Tengria; he senses bad things, promises to come to the woman himself, forbids her to make a fire and hold the cat, tries to hand over the ring, and the young man intercepts it; the prince did The appearance that he is sick tells him to make a fire and give him a cat; the son of Tengria arrives in the form of a bird, the cat caught it, the prince threw the bird into the fire; the prince had a feast; the young man appeared, wearing that ring and bringing dog; when she sees the ring, the prince's wife thinks that her former lover is in front of her, but the dog is confused - suddenly he is a shepherd; she has grown cold to her lover, fell in love with the prince]: Potanin 1912:421-424; Mustang [the king, the rich man and the beggar each have 3 sons; the middle sons go on a journey; in one place they choose a king by firing an arrow, she falls on the prince, who remains king in this city; elsewhere the elephant points to the son of a rich man as the groom of another rich man's daughter; the son of a beggar goes alone; three boys argue about who will get an invisible hat; the son of a beggar invites them to race, picks up a hat; Elsewhere, three boys argue over an iron stick that takes you anywhere and wins everyone (the same); the beauty will be given to the one who gets the golden peacock; the invisible son of a beggar stands for with a statue of a deity and on his behalf, orders the girl to be passed off as a yoga who will come and beat the drum; the son of a beggar married a beautiful woman, she learned the secret of wonderful objects and took them away; the monkey gives him two types of flowers: turning into monkeys and turning back into people; to fly across the ocean, the beggar's dreams were fed by a swan, he carried him; at his wife's wedding, the young man mixed flowers into beer, people turned into monkeys; he turned his wife back into a man, promised to turn the others if he got his staff and hat back; they were returned, he turned monkeys into humans, went to the rich man's son; they flew with him to his son king; he was attacked by enemies, the son of a beggar defeated them with his staff; then all three went to the lower world and got a wife for the son of a beggar]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 45:247-254; Bhutan [smart and resourceful the guy was wandering; two are fighting over an invisible hat; the guy tells them to move away and run to him, whoever gets the hat first; puts it on himself, leaves; also gets a wooden vessel, giving any food, and a drum-plane; marries; told his wife about the vessel and drum; flew with her across the lake to the mountains to pray; she sat on a drum, took a vessel and flew to her parents; they fell from above into the cave pieces of food; this garuda nests in a tree and feeds the chicks; this is what the guy eats; one day he sees a snake crawling to the nest; killed her; grateful garuda parents carried him back across the lake; he I saw a hermit pick up a yellow flower, become a monkey, climb a tree and eat fruit, and then take a white flower and become a man again; the guy picked a flower, came to his wife in an invisible hat, turned her into a monkey; then appeared as a soothsayer; said that there was stolen goods in the house;; he was given a vessel and a drum, he returned his wife to her human form and left]: Choden 1994:73-77; meitei [From Manipur folk tale Book called "Fungawari Singbul" by B. Jayantakumar Sharma; when enemies attack, the king asks three young men to save the state and promises half of the possessions; friends have defeated enemies , but the king forgot his promise; they went on a journey, they take turns fighting at halts; each time the spirit gives one of the brothers a wonderful object; so they got an inexhaustible purse, all-seeing an object (without specifying), a horn whose sounds gather people; the princess learned about wonderful objects and replaced them; friends were beaten and kicked out; the youngest ate an apple and had a long nose; the same spirit gave another apple and his nose was gone; taught me what to do; the brothers brought apples to the palace and the princess's nose grew; the youngest dressed as a doctor; said that the princess stole something, so it was such a misfortune; she returned the items, and the imaginary doctor gave her another apple; her nose was gone; the brothers left with wonderful items]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Burma-Indochina. Burmese [two poor young men hired a rich man to harvest rice for a negligible fee; one was tired, he did not go wandering; sniffed trees; one had a long nose, the other became first; the young man made two types of powder and bark and leaves, sent the princess a wreath that made her nose grow; the king promises to give his daughter to someone who will cure her; the young man cured the princess and married her, brought a friend who remained on the field to live in the palace]: Nikulin 1988:456-459: (cf. Zapadova 1977 [two friends went to look for happiness; one spent the night in the forest, made a fire; five spirits flew in, smelled a man; he counted them in response, said "six with me" where to be here man; the perfume calmed down; the man asked where the gold was buried - in the left corner of the gazebo; the man dug gold, became rich; his friend went to the place; was frightened; one of the spirits began to count; who he touched, his nose grew; his friend decided to help; went to the cemetery, counted to six, asked how to shorten his nose; one of the spirits: the widow has a pepper pest, they knock on the nose; the man cured a friend]: 27-29); Inta [one minister of King Naratik says he owes success to a lucky lot, the second to wisdom, and the third to diligence; the king: they owe everything to me; he expelled them; the Minister by the Will of Destiny (SC) sees how monkeys become naked in one pond and covered with hair in the other; asked his companions to bring him water from both; two zoji argue over magic objects; the Sun awarded them two, and a basket kept it for himself, it was filled with jewelry; King N. would give his daughter to the one who would build a bridge of precious stones; when he learned that the bridge was being built by expelled ministers, he ordered them to be seized: let them dig a pond for king and courtiers; the Armed Forces added water from the monkey pond, the bathers became monkeys; the king had to return the basket (which he still did not know how to use), the Armed Forces added other water to the pond, everything became human again, the Armed Forces received a princess and a throne]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 46:155-158; the Arakan people [the guy stayed working for a rich man, and his friend went to the forest; he grew up from the smell of one tree a long nose, and the smell of the other made the nose normal again; the young man took the branches and leaves of both trees with him, made it out of nrih powder; put the first powder into the wreath for the king's daughter, and then came under looked like a doctor and made her nose normal; he received a princess, became an heir, summoned his friend to the palace]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 62:194-196; monk [the lazy young man starved to travel; the ascetic gave him ripe mangoes that turn old people into young men, and immature ones that turn people into monkeys; the young man began to rejuvenate old people, became rich; the evil king ordered him to be brought to him ; he rejuvenated his sister; then the king himself and the courtiers tasted the green fruits and became monkeys; the young man became king, keeping his name Ngapyin ("lazy")]: Zapadova 1977:177-183; Viets: Bystrov et al. 1962 [the farmhand lost to the master buffalo; the crows thought he was dead, the farmhand grabbed one, she gave him jasper to make wishes come true; he wished for a palace and a beauty; his wife stole jasper, returned to his wealthy parents' house; Buddha gave him white and red flowers; white made his wife and her parents' noses look like trunks; the husband, disguised as a doctor, ordered the jasper to be returned and let him smell the red flower; the noses became the same, the wife improved]: 78-81; Sun 1957 [the raven was unsuccessfully looking for food for his hungry chicks and wife; saw a boy lying down, thought he was dead; but the boy was alive: he thought what to do, for the master buffalo, whom he herded, disappeared; he grabbed the crow, but out of pity let him go; for this, the raven gave him a jewish-fulfilling gem; the boy first wanted the buffalo to return; then the palace, the land, wife; once his wife stole a gem and returned to his parents; Buddha gave the young man a white flower, whose nose grows like a trunk, and a red flower, which makes the nose normal again; the young man laid down a white flower at the gate of his wife's parents' house; everyone came to smell it, their noses grew; the young man spoke of their daughter's unseemly act, got the gem and his wife back, let them smell the red flower; good lived his life with his wife and children; when he was old, the raven asked for the gem to be returned, flew away with it]: 131-135; zyaray [young Mlan spent the night in a hut to worship spirits; at midnight someone told him where the treasure was buried; he dug a jug of gold; the rich old man also went to spend the night in the hut; heard a giggle and his nose stuck to the floor; when he tore it off, his nose became as long as a trunk; Mlan went back to that hut and the perfume told him to pick leaves into the tree, with which he cured the rich man]: Nikulin 1970a: 257-258.
South Asia. The Bengalis [the prince and the minister's son are friends; the prince says that training is better than the natural mind, his friend is on the contrary; they go to find out who is right; Muni (the human bird) gives the prince a ring, wish-fulfilling; the princess promises to marry someone who will bring her what she asks for every day for a month, otherwise she will make her a water carrier; the prince is sure of victory; the princess sends a maid, she learns about the ring; the princess asks for a ring and then something else; the prince becomes a water carrier; the minister's son stays with a brahmana, where everyone argues who to eat at the Rakshasi; the son goes Minister, enters Rakshasi's house while she is away, says he is Yama; Rakshasi asks for her hair, he shows a rope; his fingernail is an iron shovel; saliva is a bucket of lime; Rakshasi wants to look at the monster he pierces hot rods into her eyes, she dies; he cuts off her tongue; he is found sleeping, he shows his tongue, he is married to a princess; he goes to look for the prince; he sleeps in a tree; Rakshas opens an underground passage, carries a monkey, turns him into a beauty, then again into a monkey; the minister's son goes down, turns the monkey into a beauty; when Rakshasa comes, turns him into a monkey, takes the beauty away ; two types of leaves are used for transformation; he gives one leaf to the water prince, the princess becomes a monkey; the prince restores her human appearance with the help of other leaves, gets her as a wife; The prince is happy with one, the minister's son with two wives; the prince admits he is right]: McCulloch 1912, No. 26:255-282; kannada [three brothers in despair - no food, no work; God gave one gun, the second hat (cap), the third wheel; the one who received the hat decided to marry the princess; it turned out to be an invisible hat; he entered the palace and combined with all the maids; when he took off his cloak, the guards they beat him and drove him away; he borrowed his brother's gun and came with him, but the gun was taken away, and the young man was kicked out again; he took a wheel that takes him wherever you want; he wore it to sell bracelets and took the princess away; she asked for a drink, the young man cried to bring water, and the princess returned on a wheel to the palace; the hermit sheltered the young man; forbid eating bananas from a certain tree; the young man ate, his horns grew; the hermit dripped The juice of some herbs in his ear, the horns are gone; the young man sold bananas to the palace, everyone grew horns; gave an antidote in exchange for a gun, a wheel, a hat and a princess as his wife; everything is fine]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 66:182-184; Tamils [the sage predicts the childless king that he will have two sons, but first he will lose his kingdom, although his sons will eventually help him; enemies drive the king out of the city, he and his wife they serve in a wealthy house; the hostess takes care of the elder and then the younger boys; they decide to leave to earn their own living; they see an extraordinary mango fruit in the forest, hide it in the woods portions of rice; the hermit waited a hundred years for the fruit to fall, and then left to bathe; he believes that the boys did not take the fruit; explains that the flesh who eats will become king, and the one who eats the bone will fall from the lips jewelry every time he laughs; the elder ate the flesh, the youngest the bone; after the king's death, the one on which the elephant hangs a garland will become new; the elephant goes to the forest, hangs it on the elder boy; the youngest thought that a wild elephant had killed his brother; the youngest stayed at the house of the dancer and her mother; when they learned of the falling jewels, they vomited him and, taking possession of the bone, kicked him out; he I saw a dying saint with a bag that gave everything you asked for, a cup containing any food, a baton that would win everyone, speedboat sandals; the students began to argue over wonderful objects, went to look for a judge; the young man took objects, the saint from the grave blessed him; the dancer's mother pretended to accidentally close the door in front of the young man that time; he asked the bag for the palace; told the women everything; they invited him to visit the temple on the island, left him there, picking up wonderful items; there is a tree with four varieties of fruit that turns into a monkey, a kite, an old woman and again a young man; becoming a kite, he returned to the dancer's palace, gave them fruit, the dancer became a monkey and her mother became a kite; the young man took magic objects; came to his brother's city, they recognized each other; put a baton on enemies father, gave him back his kingdom]: Natesa Sastri 1886:120-139.
China - Korea. Chinese: Riftin 1972 [the elder gives poor young man Zhang Tsai a hoe digging up silver and a hat he wears through the air; the landowner's daughter lures the CC, deceives both gifts, leaves him in the forest; after climbing a tree, the CC hears the Monkey telling the Fox that the one who eats the fruits of a peach tree will become a fox, plums will become a handsome person; the CC picks up peaches and plums, the old man carries him home; CC gives the landowner's daughter a peach, she turns into a fox, her parents fall, die; CC takes a hoe and hat]: 201-207; Fielde 1893 (Guangdong) [the man is impoverished, went to the island and someone gave there he has three wonderful objects; if you put a hat to your chest, you will become invisible; the cloak will carry him through the waters; the basket is filled with jewelry; after the death of his father, three sons inherited the objects, the youngest basket; went to the capital, offered the princess jewelry; she gave the money as payment through the maid, and took the basket for herself; the young man borrowed other items from his brothers, but he was grabbed at the walls of the palace, all taken away, beaten; he went to the mountains, found two types of bananas: some grew horns, others disappeared; introducing himself as an old man, sold the princess first-class bananas under the guise of the fruits of immortality; she and the maid tried it, both grew a horn; introducing himself as a doctor, the young man gave second-class bananas; the horns were gone, the young man got back wonderful objects and the princess as his wife]: 9-17.
The Balkans. Moldovans [a poor man finds a bird with golden feathers in the forest; brings it home, it lays golden eggs, he sells them to a merchant; a merchant reads to a bird's goiter that whoever eats her heart will become king, who the navel will find a purse with gold under the pillow, the liver will be lucky; the merchant persuades his wife to kill the poor man, marry him, fry a bird; the woman's three sons accidentally eat the bird's giblets; the merchant wants to kill the children, they run away; the elder becomes king, the middle becomes rich; the younger one is lazy; the sorcerer leads him into the forest, asks him to go underground, bring a key and an iron stick; the boy recruits golden apples; refuses to give the wizard the key before he raises him to the ground; the sorcerer covers the ground; the boy rubs his wand, the iron man appears, promises to lift him to the ground if the boy he will feed him in flight; he cuts off the last piece from his own thigh; on the ground, the iron man says he would eat the boy if he knew how he tastes; disappears; the boy returns to mothers, bringing golden apples and a key; this is the key to hell; if it is rubbed, the servants grant wishes; the boy sends the mother to marry the king's daughter; the king demands 1) to create a palace, a road with birds and trees; 2) come on horses that eat coals and drink flame; the servants perform everything; the princess's first fiancé and herself are taken to the yard and basement for the night; wedding; the sorcerer asks the young man's servant to bring a rusty key in exchange for a gold one; the young man loses his magical helpers and everything they have created; goes to wander around the world; rubs his wand, the iron man teaches him to turn into a fly, get the key from under the sorcerer's pillow; the young man returns everything; the wife is ill; the sorcerer turned into a holy maiden, told his wife that she would recover if she got a marble egg from the center of the earth; hellish servants say that he has all their power, they teach instead To kill the sorcerer; the young man kills; helps the brother-king defeat enemies; the Beauty of the world who swallows the navel solders, he belches him, loses everything; rides through the meadow, his horse eats grass, becomes a donkey; drinks water - a horse again; he lets a woman smell the grass, she becomes a donkey; he rides it, meets brothers, forgives a woman, makes her the Beauty of the World again]: Moldavian tales 1968:172-184; Romanians []: Aarne 1908:106-107; Romanians [Serecuc Petru is poor, he has two children; his rich Schwager calls for help knit sheaves; some old man eats food for SP; it is Happiness for his brother and his his own got drunk and sits in a shank; let him go there and get the chicken of happiness; the chicken rushes every day and the SP got rich; the teacher fell in love with the SP's wife; read what the chicken has under its wing; who the kidneys will eat, find gold under the pillow, and whoever the heart will become king; the teacher tells the woman to kill and cook the chicken, but the kidneys and heart were schemed by the children of the SP; the teacher sends the hangman to kill children in the forest and get what they ate, but they persuaded the hangman to let them go; the boy ate pears from the tree, they grew horns, ate apples - their horns were gone; they came to live with the old man; then they came to town; the crown flew in and sat on one of them; the second brother returned to the old man and married the minister's daughter; she had a lover who gave her a drug; she put it on her husband, he regurgitated pieces of swallowed liver; their wife herself swallowed it and kicked him out; on the advice of the old man, the young man picked pears and apples from those trees, sold it, his wife grew horns; the brothers turned into two stars {not very clear}]: Bîrlea 1966:445-446; Albanians []: Aarne 1908:112-113; Bosnians [when dying, the vizier gives his wife the keys to three rooms; three servants decide to extort money from the vizier's son; one says he sees his late father living on in the next world, sells him magic water - rakia; he drank, drank his inheritance; his mother gave one key, there is a purse, he turns everything that was put in it into gold; the Sultan will give his daughter as her he will laugh, the attempt costs money; the vizier's son pays, tells the princess in simplicity, she took her purse; in the second room there are trousers that make them invisible; the princess took them away; in the third pipe, from her two araps pop up, following orders; the young man tells them to gather an army, but the princess takes the pipe; the young man finds the cherries from which the horns grow and the grapes from which they disappear; sells cherries to the Sultan; then treats him and others with grapes; gives grapes to the princess after she has returned the magic items; marries her]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:95-101; Bosnians []: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:27-28; Bulgarians [6 entries; the young man receives from the old man (or inherited from his father) an inexhaustible purse, an invisible hat (mirror), a ring from which warriors come out and etc.; the princess deceives the young man to extort these items; (once on a deserted island), the young man eats two varieties of fruit: some grow horns, others restore their normal appearance; he gets unrecognized to the palace, sells fruits of the first type; for the fruits of the second type, the princess returns magic items to the young man]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 566:212; Greeks (Epirus, Euboea): Aarne 1908:112.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Novgorod, Tver, Tula, Ryazan, Oryol, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Volyn, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankovshchina, Podolia, Poltava), Belarusians [Horns: the hero receives various magic items and marries a princess; she learns these items; the hero finds berries that make horns grow and berries, which give beauty; with the help of these berries, she helps out the princess's magic items]: SUS 1979, No. 566:162-163; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908, p. Colezhm) [A childless man separates himself from his brother, does not want to "feed his children". But he lives poorly and his brother is rich. The childless brother went broke completely, went to ask for money, but on the way to the field, his brother saw a white man, asked who was plowing his brother's field, the man answered "fraternal happiness." He explains that the childless brother did not save his happiness, he fell asleep, sends him to the birch tree around which it is wrapped, gives a ball and a whip, hit his happiness three times and wake up. The man wakes up his happiness ("Fu-fu-fu, how long he slept. - He slept for a long time, but got up at the right time"), it leads the man to the lake, they put their snare, happiness orders not to take any prey while he sleeps. The man can't stand it and takes one of the golden birds out of his snares. Happiness reproaches the man for not following his instructions, leaving him with the bird, advising him to put it in between and sell its golden eggs. The man sells eggs for a hundred rubles, got rich, bought steamers and ships. The wife asks her husband how she got rich, transfers the bird to the kitchen so that it would not be stolen from the field. She is having two children. Her husband is going overseas, she falls in love with a clerk and talks about the bird and shows it. He sees predictions on his wings that whoever eats one wing will become king, the other becomes king. The clerk asks to kill the bird, the wife is afraid of her husband, but he threatens not to appear for a month and she agrees. Orders his servants to fry the bird. Children accidentally eat poultry meat, the clerk finds out and demands that the children be killed, the wife orders the workers to do so. They feel sorry for the children and let them go; instead of children, they kill the dog, fry it. The clerk eats. Children grow up in the forest and are afraid to go to the city. Vanya is the first to go, they are looking for a king in the city - he will be the one on whom the lamp falls from the city gate, she falls on the boy. Kolya goes to another state, stays with her grandmother, sews shoes and spits "golden drools". The princess buys them and is interested. Grandma brings Kolya to the princess. She makes him drink wine, he refuses, but she threatens, he drinks and spits out the golden top, the princess takes it, washes it and swallows it, and sends Kolya in one vest to Buyan Ostrov. He tries different berries - some grow horns and tails, others make him beautiful. He hears birds squeaking, covers him with his vest. The mother of the chicks wants to thank Kolya - if not for him, they froze and promises to take them to the city. Kolya takes berries with her and sells them at the royal palace. Gives one free of charge to the cook, she is noticeably prettier. The princess notices this and asks to buy her berries, he sells her the berries that produce horns and tails. No one can cure the princess, Kolya is called to help. Her father promises to make king whoever cures the princess. Kolya orders to build a bathhouse outside the city, whips the princess and says that this is because she drugged him and sent him to Buyan Ostrov. She spits out the top, Kolya washes and swallows it, gives the princess another berry, she becomes beautiful. They are getting married]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 13:11-14; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, d. Lebskaya, 1927) [the son of an old man and an old woman (S.) found a hare in the trap, galloped his mother, which he shot himself. It's the same with capercaillie. For the third time, she sees a golden chicken in the forest, finds its nest, takes two golden eggs, takes it to the merchant (K.), who reads a warning on them: "No one will touch these eggs, otherwise he will be in trouble," asks get the chicken itself for her. S. catches the chicken in the snare, takes it to the merchant, and receives a ruble for it. Her lover, an officer (O.), comes to K., at which time her husband and both stepsons Vasya and Vanya were absent. O. reads under the chicken's wing: "Whoever eats my head will be a king in the kingdom. And Max doesn't care who eats my food." He persuades K. to cook chicken for him, but Vasya eats her head when he returns from school, and Vanya eats her liver (max). When O. threatens K. to weaken her all over the city and leaves, K. beats Vasya and Vanya, they ran into the forest and accidentally found out that Vanya was spitting gold. They come to their grandmother's hut, give her a damn about gold and stay with her. At this time, the successor of the deceased king is chosen, everyone is gathered in the church by throwing a candle, only Vasya's candle lights up in his hands, he becomes king. Vanya goes to search for his fate, reaches a foreign kingdom and lives with an old woman without giving a damn about gold. Fame reaches the local princess (C.), who invites Vanya to her place and learns from him that the reason for his gift is the golden liver she has eaten. She drinks Vanya, starts to vomit, and he spews his liver. C. washes this liver and eats it herself, and orders Vanya to be thrown into the forest. In the forest, Vanya finds out that he has lost his ability, climbs an oak tree and overhears the conversation of three goblins, one of whom has obtained a flying carpet, the second is scab grass, and the third is gum grass. When the goblins lay it all out on the carpet, Vanya jumps down and flies to the kingdom of C., where he gets a job as a palace cook and puts scab grass in her birthday cake. Nine sorcerers and doctors tried to cure Ts's scab, could not and were deprived of heads. The tenth peak for the head on the palace parade ground is empty. Vanya is to treat C., soars her in the bath, drinks her with moonshine, she spews her golden liver, Vanya washes this liver and eats it again himself. Asks C. if she lied to anyone. She does not confess, Vanya hits her first with a copper, then with a silver rod, then with a gold rod. After the first, she admits that she lied, after the second, that Vanya, after the third, promises to become Vanya's faithful wife. Vanya gives her gum herbs, she becomes Vanya's wife, and he becomes tsar]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 139:320-325; Russians (1926, Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye, d. Shunga-Bor) [The poor blacksmith heard that a serpent was flying to Tsarevne-Bor and drinking blood. Tsar: The snake that kills will receive the princess. The blacksmith forges iron bullets and pliers. She is dressed in cowhide. She goes to the princess. A snake arrives. The blacksmith clicks the nuts, and the snake asks for them to be given to him The blacksmith fired iron bullets and the snake broke its teeth. The serpent offers to play cards, the blacksmith loses, the snake hits him in the forehead. The blacksmith loses his memory, the serpent drinks the princess's blood. The blacksmith gets up, offers to recoup, wins. A snake hits the forehead with a hammer. The snake offers to recoup. The blacksmith lost, the serpent ripped off his skin - a cowhide. The blacksmith recouped, ripped off the skin of the snake, and the snake died. The princess gets married, gets fat, does not want to live with the blacksmith, tells the hunters to take him to the forest and bring her heart. The hunters let the blacksmith go, kill the dog, and take her heart to the princess. The blacksmith is crying and hungry. He eats a red apple from a tree. I had a headache and went to moisten it with water. He sees that his horns have grown. He is eating a yellow apple. He becomes beautiful like a prince. He picks apples, goes to the palace. The princess sends a servant for apples. The blacksmith gives the red ones and runs away. The princess eats, horns grow. He's crying. Doctors can't do anything. The king announces that he will pass off the princess as someone who will cure her. The blacksmith pretends to be a doctor, comes to the princess, makes her confess who she has offended. The princess regrets what she did. The blacksmith gives her a yellow apple, forgives her, they live together]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 3:57-59; Russians (Vologda): Azadovsky 1934, No. 11 []: 245-266; Russians (Vologda) [father died; two There are no sons, the fool Vanya has seven; he goes to ask for grain from his older brother; daughters-in-law are indignant; on Sunday he went wherever his eyes looked; the woman cuts firewood, says that she is the older brother's fate, and his , Vanya, fate, and does not work on weekdays, but works with her lover; the woman teaches how to find Vanya's fate, tells the blacksmith to order three iron rods; the fate will offer vodka, two shots to drink, the third not to drink, and beat fate until the bars are destroyed; she gives a chicken that lays golden eggs; the brothers sail away on commercial ships, Vanya asks to sell three eggs laid by his chicken; the brothers do not know that they are gold; they received three ships with goods for eggs, wanted to take them for themselves, all the ships immediately stopped; they had to give goods and ships to Vanya, who became rich; Vanina's wife had a lover; he read on chicken scallop: whoever eats the scallop will become king, who is the navel will spit gold; lover: if you don't kill chickens for me, I'll leave you; Vanya's children Mishka da Grishka ate chicken; hear how mother promises to peel them off; they left home; they stayed with the old woman, paid in gold; she says that they will choose a tsar; whoever has a candle in his hands will be chosen; Grishka's candle lit up, he became king; married; Mishka went to look for a wife; ate one herb - got sick, ate another - recovered; healed the queen, married her; she gave him so much drink that he began to vomit, his navel fell out, his wife ordered him to be thrown into the toilet; M. woke up, left, found apples that make horns grow, and others that fall off his head; sold the first to the king, the royal's horns grew; under the guise of a doctor ordered the queen to be sent to the bathhouse; beat her with iron bars until she lost consciousness and her navel belched; then fed her other apples; the young forgave each other and began to live well; both brothers Let's go, found their father, he herds pigs; they tore their mother in half, taking her by the legs, and shot her lover on the door], No. 32:249-254; Russians (Moscow) []: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 58: 161-162; Russians (Gorkovskaya): Borovik, Mirer 1939, No. 97:243-247; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the poor man finds an egg, it turns out to be golden, catches a bird; the teacher fell in love with the owner's wife, said that he would recover if he ate the heart and heads of that bird; the owner's children accidentally eat them; the teacher asked him to eat the heart and head of the children; the forester lets the boys go, brings his heart and head dogs; brothers live with an old woman, a crown falls on Yurka's head, he is elected king; Vasil helps him, finds gold at the head in the morning; the beauty solders him, he belches his head, she takes it away; V. takes the plane saddle from the devils arguing for him; collects jewelry overseas; the beauty rides with him, is carried away in the saddle; V. finds a pear, an apricot, a plum, turning it into a horse, a deer, back into a person; sells a beautiful woman, turns her into a mare, chases her; brothers come to their mother, talk about themselves, her heart breaks; they fly to their kingdom with their father and sister]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:217-223; Ukrainians (Kherson) []: Yastrebov 1894, No. 16:148-152; Czechs: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000 [the king is surprised why his daughter's shoes are worn out; the hussar agrees to guard; the princess and the maid go through the hatch under the bed; the hussar follows them, carries the invisibility cloak and self-supporting saddle from two debators, breaks off a branch in a tin, silver, golden forest, the devil does not see it; eats it dinner served to the princess, everyone wonders where the food and bowls went; the princess dances, the hell does not want to let the bride go anymore, the princess asks to let her go for the last time; the hussar comes back earlier; everything tells the king, who passes his daughter off as a hussar; to prove what he saw, the hussar shows his wife the broken branches; the wife orders to make the same cloak and saddle, accuses the hussar of deception, his king drives away; in the forest he eats an apple, horns grow, a pear - horns disappear; he goes to sell apples, the princess has horns; under the guise of a doctor with pears, tells the princess to tell what's in her heart, she brings a cloak and the saddle, the hussar flies away, the princess remains horned]: 290-295; Nmcová 1970 [=Nemtsova 1978:57-70; the hunter shot an unusual bird; the woman in the forest explains that the bird who ate the head will become king, and the one who has eaten the heart will find money under the pillow in the morning; the hunter tells his wife to cook the bird; she leaves her sons Fortunate and Alex to watch her; the head and heart fall out, F. eats heart, A. head; mother is furious, brothers run away; in the house where they spend the night, the owners find gold coins in the morning; the same in the landowner's house; he decides to keep the children with him, sends them to the city to study; sends the servant picks up gold, intending to return it to the brothers when they grow up; the brothers do not return to the landowner, go to another city; A. becomes the old king's favorite; F. wanders; in one of places where he, unknowingly, left gold, the hostess goes to the leader, who explains that F. ate the heart of the bird of happiness; lets the hostess eat the heart of an ordinary bird, she believes that she will now have gold under her with a pillow, drives F. away; in the forest, F. eats a wild apple, turns into a donkey; after eating an apple from another tree, restores its human appearance; in a dream, a woman explains to him its secret; unrecognized F. gives an apple an evil hostess, who turns into a donkey, jumps over the fence, crashes; F. saves a big fish on the shore; becomes the king's favorite; an envious courtier says that F. promised to get it a beautiful woman living at sea; a fish brings F. to the palace of the sea king, tells him to kidnap his daughter and take her box; F. brings the princess to the king; she does not want for the old man, but says that the ointment is in her box revives the dead, making them young and beautiful; F. offers to cut off his head; the ointment makes him whole again; the king agrees to be beheaded; he is not revived, F. receives the throne and his wife; comes to the city where A. left, he married the king's daughter there, also received the throne; the brothers visit the good landowner and parents; everyone is happy]: 12-28; the Czechs [12 cuirassiers ran away from service; we saw the castle, there are tables with food; a witch comes in: you can lie down, but a box is prepared for everyone: don't open it; 9 are dead in the morning: they opened the box without asking; witch: now you can open it; one he took out an invisibility cloak, another cape in which you can fly, the third is an inexhaustible purse; at the inn, the princess beats and whips everyone away; the owner of the purse began to play; he lost, but he had all the money; the princess put sleeping pills in his wine, changed his purse; did not beat him, but told him to leave; another cuirassier put on a cloak and cape, grabbed the princess from leaving the pear somewhere- then in the woods; she asked him to pick up pears, his cape and cloak fell, the princess flew home; the cuirassier ate pears, horns grew; he came to the Wind; he was not strong enough to take him home, sent him to his brother; this Wind offered to eat apples that lose their horns; after picking apples and pears, the cuirassier returned to his friends; told one of them to pretend to be a merchant and sell pears to the princess; she grew horns, she unable to walk; the cuirassier disguised as a doctor, told the princess that she had probably committed a grave sin; she returned the wonderful items and he gave her apples; the king gave her daughter for the savior, his two friends held senior positions in the kingdom]: Curtin 1890:356-369.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002:117-122 [{the text is inconsistent, confused}; the orphan found, brought the khan a golden egg; the khan had something else; the orphan identified his own; the khan sent him to bring chicken; he brought and received Khan's youngest daughter Othan; they have sons Gunukh and Donyak ("three-year-old" and "four-year-old"); Khan fell ill, sent an orphan for golden apples, he died; shulmus, under the guise of a doctor, began to live in palace, became a friend of the hanshi; said that Khan would heal the heart and liver of G. and D.; the servants first brought the dog's giblets, then sent G. and D. to travel; D. fell into the possession in which the khan died, and began khan; G. became handsome because he ate the head of a golden chicken, the khan's daughter admired it; the maid advised him to shut his mouth with wormwood, he regurgitated his head, the khan's daughter swallowed it herself; G. judged who shared a flying carpet, a stick to control it and an invisible hat, told them to race, took possession of the objects himself; kidnapped the khan's daughter; she, at the instigation of old Shulmuski, found out his secret and kidnapped objects; G. overheard the conversation of crows - after eating black apples, you will become a donkey, red apples - you will take your form; arrives at brother Khan, turns 40 daughters of another khan into donkeys; brother Khan says what is necessary return three magic items; he returns, G. restores the girls to their former appearance; the eldest daughter regurgitates the head of a golden chicken; kills D.'s wife, who tried to poison him], 195-197 [two boys found the sparrow was hidden in a chest; the sparrow was blown away with gold; the khan took it away, ordered the bird to be cooked; one boy ate the head (will become a khan), the other wing (defecates with gold); the khan orders to kill the boys, they they hide under the woman's skirt, then leave; the khan's servants argue over the flying carpet, the sword that controls him, the invisible hats; the brothers invite them to compete, pick up objects, fly away; the elder became khan, the youngest stayed with his parents]; Vatagin 1964 [two daughters ask the father to bring outfits, the youngest Tsagan asks the khan's black-browed son; the khan agrees, asks Ts to make a shirt and trousers with work satisfied; Ts goes to the khan accompanied by a neighbor, old woman Syavda and her daughter; they took food from Ts, gave them food in exchange for their eyes, threw it into a well; daughter S. explains to Khan that she was looking for everything, sniffing , how far is the Khan's ulus, so her eyes have become ugly, his nose is long; the old man pulled Ts. out of the well; she made a pouch, asks to exchange it for an eye; the same is the second; S. knows that Ts.'s soul is silver in her heart fish, pretends to be sick, tells to catch, S. takes a fish heart; dying, C. tells her body to be thrown into the lake; khan comes to the lake, there is an underwater palace, a girl lies, a girl cries next to her; when the khan gave her heart is a fish, she put it in Ts's mouth, she came to life, told everything; Khan asks S. and her daughter if they want sword and blood or horse tails; they say that tails; they were tied to the tails of horses]: 239- 245; Abaza [the old man drove away two fighting snakes, took a gold-filled pouch, a zurna that carries anywhere, an invisible hat, but did not know about the wonderful properties of the objects, and soon died; son Karabek accidentally discovered them; married Princess Kabahan; she agrees each time, but taking possession of the object, drives K. away, tells him to move it across the seven seas; returning, Karabek found apples, from which the horn grows and from which it disappears; sold first-class apples to the prince, the princess grew a horn; the prince promises a daughter to the one who will cure her; Karabek gave other fruits, married Kyabakhan]: Tugov 1985, No. 71:216-219; Balkarians: Baranov 1897, No. 7 [stepmother did not like her stepson; he took food from his married sister, went on a journey, met three emegenes who were fighting over an invisible hat, chewing resin that turns spits into gold, wagons that instantly get you where you need to go; the young man invites the emegens to move away until he comes up with a way to divide the property, takes everything and disappears; comes look at the princess paying in gold; she gave him three drinks, took away all three items; he went to the emegen garden; where pears are turned into buffalo, horns grow from horns, apples are made human again; sold pears and horns to the princess, who became a buffalo; the king ordered the maid to be drowned, buried her daughter instead of her daughter, declaring that she was dead, sold the buffalo; the young man bought a buffalo, beat her with a stick, turned her into a princess, took it wives, everything is fine]: 34-44 (=Aliyeva, Kholaev 1971:115-120); Kapiyeva 1991 [three emegens are fighting over a self-driving cart, golden gum (gives coins), invisible hats; the young man invites them to race, takes his things, gets to the khan's daughter; she gives him a drink, finds out the secret, tells him to take him to the forest; the first time he has a cart with him, the second time nothing; he finds pears that turn apples into a vow, making handsome; under the guise of a merchant, sells pears to the khan's daughter, she becomes a nag, she is driven away; the young man takes his items, makes the oath work; turns her into a beauty again, marries]: 91-98; Ossetians: Sokayeva 2004, No. 566:87; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 5 [when dying, the tsar bequeathed the throne to his eldest son, and a horn and a bag to the youngest; the youngest went on a journey; found out that in a snake horn that makes wishes come true, and the bag is filled with money; having built walls, planted a garden and erected a building, he should have received a princess; the king gave him drink, found out everything, took away the horn, ordered the snake to drown the prince was at sea, but he left him on the island; the prince tried two varieties of dates; one grew a horn on his head, the other disappears; returned to the king, sold the date, was a healer; the king returned kidnapped, gave his daughter away]: 116-119; Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 85 [the tsar sent his lazy son to another; before his death he walled up an invisible hat, an inexhaustible purse, and a tambourine in which the horse army was wearing; put a hook in this place, writing: if the son goes broke, let him hang himself on this hook; the son went broke, hung himself, found objects; the princess promises to marry him, puts opium in his food, takes away his purse; wearing an invisible hat, she gets women's clothes, brings the princess the same thing; comes with an army, the princess took away a tambourine; the young man decides to hang himself in the forest, but first eat pears; he grows around his neck pear tree; he reaches for a wild pear, eats, is healed; through an old woman he sends pears to the king, queen and princess; gives wild animals to eat after the king and the family have signed a promise to give them away princess for a young man; wedding]: 90-99; Chikovani 1954, No. 17 [the poor man left home to die; three people he meets consistently ask him not to do so and give him a pipe, hat and bag; unaware of them properties, the poor man returned home; his son went to sell eggs, put money in his bag, it doubled; then tripled; the family became rich; wearing a hat, the young man became invisible; played the pipe, came out army; the young man came to the old woman, she says that the king will give his daughter to someone who will fill his palace with gold; he did it, let the princess slip, she stole the bag and drove it out; then she also took the pipe and a hat; the young man sees three fighting over the flying carpet; invites them to race, flies away on the carpet himself, flew to the palace, took the princess, took him to the forest, but she drank him with wine, sat on the carpet and returned to her place; in the forest, the young man ate red grapes and became a donkey, ate white grapes and became human again; picked grapes, went to the palace to sell; the princess first sent maids, then went herself, each tried it, turned into a donkey; the young man hired the king, carried bricks on donkeys, beat the princess donkey; then fed the donkeys with white grapes, the princess was the last to regain her human appearance]: 99-103; Armenians [the young man became the owner of a wallet that doubles money, a hat that makes him invisible, and a flute from which forty Arabs appeared; the princess tricked her into taking away magic items and kicked him out a young man; a young man found apples that were turned into a donkey and small apples that restored their human appearance; with the help of apples, the young man recovered stolen items]: Gullakian 1990, No. 566:31; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:168-170 [The merchant left his son an invisible dad, a pipe that makes others act at the owner's request, a bag filled with gold; young man he is idle because he is rich; the princess invited him to play backgammon, he lost everything except his hat; he came to the princess to eat pilaf, she accidentally wiped the hat off his head, won it too; he came to the garden, ate apples, horns grew; ate cones, horns disappeared; collected apples and cones; sold apples to the king, everyone grew horns; gave cones for promising to marry him to the princess; the tsar gave his daughter], 304-313 []; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 9 [younger prince Ibrahim dreams how the moon descended on his herd; tells Brother Rustam and others; after giving his share of the inheritance and taking a heavy staff, he goes on a journey; in another In the city, the son of the vizier Ibrahim agrees to flee with Princess Kul-Shad; at the last moment he changes his mind, and the imaginary shepherd I. accidentally finds himself in his place, the KSH runs with him; they talk about each other for himself; I. picks up a stone, the KSH says that it is expensive; builds a palace; the KSH gives a stone to King Melik-Aslan; the vizier Mamed-Ali is jealous, suggests demanding new stones; I. returns to the spring, where he found a stone descends under water, where Princess Shah-Sanam ("queen of beauties"), kidnapped by a diva; stones are formed from her blood; I. kills a diva, takes SHS with his wife; when she hits her nose, from drops of blood gems are formed; the king tells the mother not to drop the atri-lala rose; I. kills a snake that is about to eat the chicks; the chicks tell the mother not to drop millstones on I., he is their savior; the bird teaches how to get a rose; two girls in the form of doves fly to a tree by the lake, take off their clothes, swim; you have to climb a tree, take clothes, change them for a rose; one girl laughed, her laughter formed a bouquet of roses, the girls gave their hair; if burned, they will come to the rescue; I. brought roses to the king, the vizier advises sending him for pears from behind the blue sea; the bird carries across the sea; there are apples that form a tail, and pears from which he disappears; the king declares war on I., he kills him, the vizier and the warriors, reigns himself]: 71-81; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 174 [the poor man finds a bird's egg, sells it to the merchant ; so several times; then puts the bird in a cage, goes on the Hajj; the wife becomes the mistress of the merchant, who orders the bird to be fried, the poor man's sons eat the head and liver (or kidneys, goiter, heart); merchant tells them to be killed, they run away; a liver eater meets people arguing over wonderful objects (an invisible hat, a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth), falls in love with a beautiful woman, performs difficult assignments; the one who ate the heart finds gold under the pillow in the morning); the beauty gave him a drink, he regurgitated his liver, she took it away, the young man kicked it out; (or deceives him to take away wonderful objects); the young man finds apples from which horns grow, figs that turn into donkeys, grapes that return to normal appearance; he incognito sells fruits to the princess, makes her return to her liver, turns her into a donkey; comes to a country where his brother was chosen as a padishah when a bird sat on his head; restores the donkey's human appearance], 175 [the poor man gets an inexhaustible purse and other wonderful objects; with their help he tries to marry the donkey to the princess, but she deceives objects; in the forest he finds fruits that turn them into animals and back; lets the princess eat first; then gives the latter, marries her]: 196-198, 198; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 2 [due to bad behavior, the son of King Mehmed of Egypt was nicknamed Mad; after his father's death, he was left with nothing; lives with his mother, became a lumberjack; saw two snakes with human heads; snakes fought, M. cut off the head of the black one who prevailed; the other {color not specified} turned out to be the daughter of the serpent king, who was kidnapped by the court; ordered her father to ask her father for a hat, whistle and seal; it turned out that two genies come out the whistle, ready to obey the order, the seal turns what he touches into gold, the hat is invisible; M. created a golden ship, sailed to another country, the king gave his daughter for it; she found out the secret of the whistle and seal, told the genies to take M. away; he returned, made his way to the king invisible; he reopened to the princess, she sent him far away again; he ate apples, horns grew; ate figs, horns are gone; he came back, sold the apple to the princess, she, the queen and the vizier's wife grew horns; he came under the guise of a doctor: the princess cannot be cured as long as she has magic objects; she returned everything; he gave her a fig tree, but refused to marry her again, and ruled his country]: 24-34.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the firewood collector became a widow, took a new wife; gave the beggar the money raised for the brushwood; the next day he left part of the brushwood in the cave; when he returned, he saw that he was burned in ash A shining bird is sitting; he brought it home, she lays golden eggs; the jeweler Sham'un, who bought them, realizes that the bird's head will become a shah, and the one who eats the liver and heart will find a hundred under the pillow in the morning gold; when the firewood collector leaves, S. sends the old woman, the collector's wife agrees to receive him in the evening, fry the bird; stepsons Saad and Said eat their head, heart and liver; when they hear that S. demands cut them and get what they eat, run away; S. ripped the woman's belly, killed; the brothers hear the doves talking about the virtues of the bird; they disperse after reading on a stone at the crossroads that they went together they will die; a falcon sits on Saad's head, he is made a shah instead of the deceased Shah; anyone who wants to see Princess Delaram must give 100 coins; Said gives it away; D. has 40 maids like her, she is each the night sends one of them; wonders where Said got so much money; solders, beats, he belches the bird's heart and liver, D. swallows them; Said leaves; S.'s three sons argue over his inheritance ( flying carpet, magic casket that makes Suleiman's antimony invisible); Said: let the one who comes running first get it; fly away, picking up wonderful objects; flies to D., deceived again and left on Mount Kof ; hears the conversation of doves: after rubbing your feet with the bark of a tree, you will cross the sea, turn the stick into a donkey and back, the leaves will cure blindness and deafness; Said comes to the city, heals the Shah's deaf daughter, marries to her, comes to D., turns her, her maids and servants into donkeys; D. returns the kidnapped, becomes human again; Said heals his blind father; finds her brother; everyone is happy]: Rosenfeld 1956:41- 51; the Bakhtiyars [the poor man cannot pick up a bunch of brushwood; it has an unusual egg; the wife sells it for 200 mists; on the second day, the husband sees how a beautiful bird has laid an egg, picks it up again; the merchant to whom his wife sells eggs learns that the one who has eaten the bird's head will become the ruler, the one who eats the liver will find a hundred mists under the pillow in the morning; the merchant asks the old woman to bring him together with the poor man's wife , promises to give her flour and molasses every day for food; the woman falls in love with the merchant, who demands that she convince her husband to catch the bird; he brings the poultry, the merchant tells her to make soup with it; two sons women see soup, eat some food, Ahmad took his head as a talisman, and Mahmad took the liver; the brothers hear the merchant talking to their mother, they understand that he will kill them, run away; parents are desperate, father goes blind with grief; brothers come to the fork; the inscription on the stone; if two go together, they will die; the one who goes to the left will achieve what he wants; the one who goes to the right will get his own faster; M. goes to the left; The sons of a merchant and khan sitting in the dust by the road say that each spent the night in the castle; the mistress of the castle has slaves like her, she sends them to guests over 100 mists; in the morning M . says she will stay; the hostess saw that M. came with nothing, tells the slave to find out where his money came from; she sees him take money out of under his pillows; the hostess tells M. to drink, takes his talisman, tells M. to be thrown into the desert; M. meets three sons of a merchant who share the inheritance: a wish-fulfilling bag, a flying carpet, an invisible antimony; M. shoots: whoever brings the arrow first will get everything; says that he takes things rightfully, because the father of the debators threatened his life and forced him to flee; flies away on a flying carpet; returning to the owner of the castle, he takes him to an island in the ocean and marries him; says about wonderful objects; while she is washing, the woman flies away, taking them; through sleep, M. hears two pigeons talking: if M. wakes up now, he will help him, and if not, he will stay on the island to die; M. wakes up ; dove: the bark of a tree, if wrapped around its legs; will allow you to walk on water; a tree branch will make everyone a donkey to point at by saying "haush", and if you say the name "Adam", it will bring back a human appearance; the leaves of the tree restore sight; A. comes to the castle by water; the owner orders not to let them in; M. turns the servants into donkeys, the mistress into a donkey; she cries; M. took the bird's liver, disgraced the woman, stayed with her; Ahmad approaches the city where the ruler died; the hawk sits on his head three times, he is elected king; he finds his brother and parents, both blind; M. restores their sight; the mother repents]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 31:197-211; Bukhara Arabs [a man found an egg, sold it for 1000 tenegs; his wife ordered to bring a bird as well; bring a handsome man; makes her husband a servant, a handsome man a husband; he fell ill the stargazer told him to eat the bird; his stepsons eat his head and heart; the next time he drinks the blood of his stepsons; the old man brings the blood of the puppies, the children run away; the one who has eaten the bird's head is chosen as the emir; the second lives the old woman has a hundred tenegs under his pillow every night; the emir's daughter gave him a drink, ate his vomit (it has the heart of a bird), told Gin to throw him into the steppes; three fight, sharing an invisible hat, a tablecloth- a magic, a flying carpet; a young man tells three to race, picks up objects; at night he visits the emir's daughter; the stargazer tells her to tell the young man, "Let your penis into my vagina", tear off his invisible hat; The diva again takes the young man to the steppe; he hears a nightingale talking with a parrot: a leaf from this tree will heal the wound, the branch will fulfill wishes; the young man turns the daughter of the emir and her 40 slaves into horses; finds a brother, turns horses are back in women; marries Peri, brother emir to one of the slaves; those who helped were awarded, the mother was thrown off the roof on horses]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 33:217-221.
Baltoscandia. Latvians: Arys, Medne 1977, No. 767 [A wonderful bird. Two boys eat the heart (wings, head) of a magic bird, unaware that they have acquired wonderful properties and capabilities: one will spit gold, the other will become king. A man who takes a bird himself wants to kill boys. The boys run to the woods and break up. A young man spitting gold is lured by a swallowed bird's heart and driven away by girls. With the help of magic fruits (whoever eats them turns into a horse), the young man regains the heart of a bird. They want to punish the young man, but it turns out that the king is his brother]: 303; Niedre 1952 [during the day the princess wears out her dress; the servant watches, jumped on the back of the carriage in which the devils took the princess; they go through silver, gold, diamond forest, across the river like on ice, into the castle; hears the devil answering the princess that his strength is in the egg in the hallway; the servant took the egg; on the way back, three forests came after the carriage; The servant broke the egg, the devils lost their strength; but the king did not give his daughter to the servant; he found apples that grow horns and from which they disappear; gave them to the king and the princess; removed the horns for promising to give him the princess; wedding]: 156-159; Karelians: Onegin 2010, No. 40 (Kalevalsky district) [the guy was wandering, saw a bearded head under an oak tree, began to beat it, his head gave a magic tablecloth; the guy stopped at the widow; she agreed with the princess, they gave the boy a drink, took away the tablecloth; the same was an accordion, to which even animals dance; a flying chair; his head told him not to come or eat it anymore; in the forest the guy ate blue berries, he grew a horn; ate red ones - the horn was gone; he picked berries, gave the princess's red maids, they became beautiful; he sold the blue ones to the princess, told them to eat them when he lay down with her husband; the horn grew; the guy came to heal, went with the princess to the bathhouse, gave red berries, then beat her with iron bars until the princess returned the magic items; sat on a flying chair, threw her and that widow into the sea]: 362-366; Schreck 1887, No. 4 (Finnish Karelia; in Salmelainen 1947:8-13 this text is published as Finnish with no indication of origin) [the hunter made a noise in the forest: devils share the inheritance; among things is a ship sailing on water and ground, and a self-propelled wagon; the hunter fires an arrow: whoever brings first will inherit; loads everything onto the ship, sails away; the ship stops at the royal castle; the princess persuaded for a week the hunter to take her as his wife, he finally agreed; the princess asks to go to an island where there are many fruits and berries; the hunter went out to pick them, fell asleep, the princess sailed home on the ship; at the hunter only one purse of gold was left; he began to eat different berries: some of them grew horns, others disappeared and he became handsome; the hunter was picked up, brought to the palace; he began to drink from the clean inheriting the spring with dirty feet; the king wanted to cut off his head; but the hunter gave the chief chef berries that made him handsome; princess: if he made me beautiful too, I would be his fiancée ; the hunter did not recognize, offered a self-propelled ship as a reward; the hunter gave berries that made the princess grow horns; the king promises the princess to the one who will heal her; the hunter promised to heal; hung in bath by the horns, began to beat her with twigs; the princess promised not to harm her anymore; the hunter gave her the right berries, her horns fell off, she became beautiful; the hunter married her, became a field marshal]: 28-35; Veps : Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 65 [the princess is a master of playing cards; Vanka's partner does not run out of money; becoming his wife, she learns about the existence of a self-shaking wallet, steals it on a flying carpet flies away; the hero discovers magic apples, sells them to his wife's maid, the mistress eats an apple - horns grow on her head; her husband "heals" her, reconciles], 101 [the traditional story of "The Horns"; all The hero returns the stolen princess's items with the help of magic apples that grow horns]: 206, 209; Estonians, Swedes, Danes: Aarne 1908:97.
Volga - Perm. Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 42 [after the death of his parents, the young man leaves with a cat; kills a snake that devoured the young bird Semrug; they order to ask her for a ring as a reward; the owner commands all pearies and genies; the young man asks to be moved to Mohit Island, where there are many fruits and no people; orders to build a palace, bring flowers to the padishah's daughter; the witch promises her padishah return; sails there, tells the young man's wife to lure his ring; the wife tells the genies to carry it with the palace to his father, and throw her husband and cat in nettles; the cat tells them to make a raft, they have arrived in flower state; the old woman recognized the young man; the vizier saved him not by throwing him into the well, but by lowering him there on an arcana; the cat began to kill mice; promised not to kill again if they took out the ring; it is tied to the hair of the padishah's daughter; the mice gnawed off, brought the young man; he returned everything, began to beat his wife three times every day; the old woman arrived again, taught how to give the young man tobacco, he sneezed the ring fell out, he stayed with again cat in nettles; the cat died; the young man swam across the sea again, found berries that grow horns, tail and hair, and from which they disappear; asks the old woman to sell the first berries to the palace; the princess became monster; padishah executed a sorceress; the young man came, first beat his wife with a stick, took the ring, then cured it; threw the palace into the sea; married a girl who helped him], 44 [the young hunter got lost; fiery- red and white winged snakes each ask to shoot the other; the hunter killed the red one; the white one fell asleep, the hunter tied her wings so as not to fly away without rewarding him; the snake praises the hunter, gives the pen to do a whistle from which warriors come out waiting for an order; the other is a magic table in it; the third is horses and coachmen; a young man marries the daughter of a padishah; soldiers build a palace; a silver bridge; move houses, gardens, ships are allowed through canals, etc.; a young man gets a wife; her mother tells her to find out the secret; the wife calls the warriors, tells her husband to be transferred to a distant island; he finds apples there with wool and horns grow up and disappear from which they disappear; sells to the palace; being a healer, the husband beats and tortures his wife for a long time, then, returning the magic whistles, regains his human appearance; takes his wife again, lives with her mothers]: 344-358, 367-383; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the old man tells three sons to come to his grave one at a time; the eldest received an invisible robe, the middle one - a horn (if sounded, an army will appear), the youngest - an inexhaustible bag of money; the youngest has more money than the padishah, who gives his daughter for him; the wife found out the secret, changed the bag, ordered her husband to be driven away; he takes his brother's horn, blows, his wife pretends to have nothing to do with it; the same as with the bag; the same with the robe, the wife tells her husband to be sent to the island; he hears the conversation between the bird and the chick: there are trees with four varieties of fruit: they make them handsome, dress up in gorgeous clothes, horns grow from the fruits, disappear from others; if you tie leaves to your feet, you will sail by sea as if by land; under the guise of a merchant, the hero sold the fruits to the maid, the princess grew horns; under the guise of a merchant The doctor's hero looked like he came to her, began to beat her with a club, forcing her to give her wonderful objects; then removed the horns, the princess became an exemplary wife]: 201-209; the Bashkirs [two soldiers with a non-commissioned officer left services, spent the night with the old man, his daughters gave them an inexhaustible pouch with money, an invisible overcoat, a stick calling servants (warriors); the soldiers were missing, the non-commissioned officer met with the girl, she replaced magic objects were fake; he came to the garden, ate an apple, became a goat, another man again; sold apples to that girl, she became a goat; came to heal, beat her, ordered her father to bring the kidnapped magic objects, gave another apple, the goat became beautiful, the non-commissioned officer married her]: Zelenin 1991, No. 104 (99): 447-450 (=Barag 1989, No. 51:230-232); Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 63 [Vanka fell in love with the princess, the king ordered him to be taken to the forest; there the old man took him as a worker; the old man meets a 12-headed serpent every day, must take away the candle burning on one of his heads; V. crept up to the sleeping snake, took the candle, the serpent turned into 12 soldiers, V. ordered the old man to be dragged into the ditch and brought the princess to him; then returned her; the king tied bags of flour to his daughter, and sent an army on the trail, 12 the soldiers defeated him; the king pretends to marry his daughter to V.; pulled out a candle from him, ordered the soldiers to take V. to the log; V. found an apple tree, horns grow from red fruits, disappear from white fruits; V. comes to the princess's wedding, gives red apples; comes again unrecognized, gives white ones; steals a candle at a feast, orders the king and groom to be taken to the log, took the princess and the kingdom for himself], 65 [three pigeons answered the soldier, from which an invincible army comes out, an inexhaustible purse and an invisible handkerchief; the king kidnaps all this; in the forest, a soldier eats fruit, turns into a beast, then eats others, becomes a man; gives the first fruits to the king, promises to cure him, beats him, makes him a man, drives him away with all the courtiers, stays in the palace]: 173-176, 180-183; Marie (mountain) [a man caught a beautiful bird in the forest, brought him home with an egg, which was in the nest; sold an egg to a merchant for 100 rubles; then the second; the merchant told {the man's wife?} to fry a bird for him, only then will he give the money; but the man's two sons accidentally ate the most important parts of the bird; the merchant orders him to give him the children's liver; the father sent the boys to school, but they ran away; parted at a fork in the roads; one brother, Ivan, comes to an old woman who has no food, but in the morning I. gives her money: every spit turns into gold; in the end he gets rich, sometimes the king; three royal daughters give him a drink {poisoned?} wine, he falls dead, they cut out his liver, fry him, eat it, now they have gold themselves; I.'s body was cut to pieces, put it in a barrel, lowered it down the river; the sailors caught it; when the raven came down peck meat, he was caught and told to get living and dead water; the raven brought; I.'s body was raised and revived; he first was a cook on the ship, then asked for time off; came to the garden, ate and picked apples; from some grow horns on their heads, disappear from others; the other two varieties of apples turn into a black stallion and back into a person; I. sells apples to the palace: three princesses have turned into black stallions, and queens grew horns; I. promises to cure the transformed ones for a lot of money; he drove horses until milk poured out of them; I. licked him and regained the ability to spit gold; returned them human appearance; left and married safely]: Ramstedt 1902, No. 2:173-180;.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Kanbak-shal 1985 [the wife died, leaving two sons, the husband took another; when he left, he said that he had a bird of wealth; the fortuneteller tells his wife's lover that if you eat the heart of a bird wealth, you will become a padishah, if the right wing will understand the language of animals and you will spit gold; the wife slaughtered the bird, but the cook fed the heart and wing to the boys; the younger brother hears sparrows talk: their mother hired a robber to kill them; they give him gold, run away; three horsemen ask for help to share their father's inheritance: a flying carpet, an invisible skullcap, a gold box; the boys pick up the items, leaving gold for the horsemen; the older brother was chosen khan (the bird fell on his head), the youngest flew away on a flying carpet; the old man says that the khan's daughter wears 40 days pairs of shoes; whoever guesses why she beats a girl in the dice, she will marry, unlucky applicants will be executed; the girl wins everything, but her younger brother has an inexhaustible supply of gold; Mystan Kempir advises to replace the box; before execution, the younger brother puts on an invisible hat, flies away on a flying carpet; finds fruits in the forest that turn into a wolf, forty, again into a man, and a handsome man; a young man gives the last apple to the maid, and turns the khan's daughter into forty; in the form of a mullah, she restores her human appearance, but reports that the khan's daughter wore off her shoes when she went to debauchery at night to the giant, here is his head; cuts off the head of the khan's daughter, flies to his older brother; he says that the viziers kicked him out of the palace, now he is a beggar; the younger brother turns the viziers into wolves; brothers return to their father, kill their mother and her lover; magic objects return them to their former owners]: 271-278; Potanin 1916, No. 40 [Abi's elder brother took the leopard Koehler road ("if you go, you will come"), the youngest Tabi on the leopard Kelmes ("if you go, you won't come"); A. married the daughter of a wealthy merchant; T. is hired by a shepherd, sees the sun not going down, and under his mattress they find themselves gold coins; disguised as a bad boy, she comes to a girl who rejected her suitors; she wants to marry him, her father refuses; they fly away on his father's throne; the wife returns to her father; 40 sparrows say that this branch turns into a flying throne and another turns people into animals; T. turns Khan's people into mares; meets A.; turns mares back into humans]: 144-145; Kyrgyz [Khan Sarybay wants marry a young widow; tells her to slaughter the chicken she feeds her children with eggs; the widow gave one son a head and another a liver; the khan demands the liver and head of her sons; the butcher grabbed them, but black the bird told them to be released, he gave the cat's head and liver; the elder brother let the youngest into the well to drink water, the rope broke off; a bird sat on the elder's head, he was chosen khan; the youngest was rescued old man; every spit of the youngest turns into silver; the girl Myskal beats everyone; the young man beat her, but she gave him a drink, he regurgitated the chicken's liver, then lost everything; three brothers argue over legacies: a magic tablecloth, a wineskin filled with koumiss, a wish-fulfilling stick; the young man invites them to race, takes wonderful objects; wants to become rich and have M. by his side; she stole a stick; a young man hears three pigeons talking: who eats a red apple will become rosy, who is white - white-bodied, who is green - will become an old man or an old woman; the young man fed M. a green apple, gave a red apple after she found his brother; the youngest married her to his brother, returned to his mother himself]: Brudny 1954:100-104; Uighurs [Khan promises to give Shamshizhamal to beat her at chess; all they lose, they are executed; after offering two peri to resolve their dispute, Tair takes their invisible skullcap, a flying carpet that gives food to a cane; puts S. to sleep with a long game, takes her away on a flying carpet; she flies back while T. sleeps; he finds four apple trees, their apples turn people into animals and back into women and men; appearing as a beggar, he turns S., her father Sh. Dith, four apple trees, their apples turn them people in animals and back, to women and men; appearing as a beggar, father and courtiers in maral, horses; restores human appearance; marries Sh., flies with her to his mother]: Kabirov 1963 : 154-159; Dungans [firewood collector Shynbor finds two eggs in a bird's nest, a stranger buys them for a lot of money; S.'s wife goes with him, brings home a bird, S. sells eggs, gets rich; Sh. leaves, the wife takes a lover named Sychyn, who asks to slaughter and cook poultry; sons Shynmyn (younger) and Shynfu (elder) accidentally eat their heart and head; S. demands that the woman let him eat the heart of the youngest and the head of the eldest sons; they run away; Shynfu goes down to get water out of the well, cannot get out; Shynfeng goes for the rope, blind old people find and adopt Shynfa; under his pillow every morning they find gold coins, he does not know about it; he says that the person driving along the western road will return with gold, so blind old people find and adopt Shynf Eastern - on the same day, along the south - without clothes; a widow lives in the east, beats travelers; Shynfu beats her; the fortuneteller says that if Shynfu vomits, he will regurgitate the bird's heart; the widow gave him drink, swallowed his heart, Shynfu lost everything; three fight for a bag (gives them gold), a table (food), a stick (will take them where they need to go); Shynfu invites them to run to the distillation, picks up items; tells the stick to take the widow's house to the desert; the widow takes the stick, returns home, Shynfu stays in the desert; hears three pigeons talking (under poplars on an apple; the first one who smells will be covered with red hair; the second will become beautiful, the third will turn into a donkey or a mule ; Shynfu gives the second to the maid (becomes beautiful), the third to the widow (made by a donkey); the donkey comes to the council, officials decide that he has come to complain; the governor is Shynfeng; orders to return The widow's human appearance, letting her smell the first apple, give her a drink, she regurgitated the bird's heart, swallowed it again, married a widow]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 6:62-68.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans [the eldest son of an old man wants to learn wisdom, the middle son wants to become a shepherd, the youngest wants to become a merchant; left the elder with a hat that carries anywhere, the middle son wants to become cattle, and the youngest - black purse; the youngest, bribing the guards, entered the palace of the khan's daughter, to whom men were not allowed; she gave him a drink, told the maids to throw him into the well; but they only left him in the steppe; he came to to his older brother's wife, and she gave him a magic hat; in it he entered the khan's daughter again, and then flew with her to the mountain; when he fell asleep, the khan's daughter left him there and, wearing a hat, returned to her place; the young man saw Bigfoot eat yellow fruits and become a deer, and then ate red fruits and became snowman again; the young man picked up fruit, came to town, sold yellow fruits to the khan's daughter, who became with a deer; volunteered to cure her for promising to give him khan's power; first whipped off the deer with a rod; then gave red fruits; the khan handed him power; the young man returned to his older brother]: Taube 1978, No. 42: 223-227; Trans-Baikal Buryats (Selenginsky: Tabanguts) [when dying, the father bequeaths a rug and a scourge to his three sons; they cannot share the inheritance; the traveler fires an arrow: who will bring it back first, he will get things; sits on a rug, whips, flies away; flies away; flies to a meadow where there are 6 khan's daughters; one of them sat down on the rug, the man flew away with her; one day she finds a rug and a scourge, flies away; a man meets an old man, he gives him drugs; what is in a red knot turns into a horse, in blue he returns to its former appearance; a person turns a dog into a horse, goes to the khan, hires a cook; turns himself and the khan's daughters into horses, drives them, then regains their human appearance; returns his wife]: Dugarov 1990:363-366 (first published in Smolev 1902b, No. 6:57-62); the Mongols [the Nomin brothers- Bayasgalan (elder) and Erdenin Bayasgalan cannot cut down a dry tree; the father goes with them, they have knocked down a tree, under it a gold box, with a chicken in it; the lumberjack's wife died, he took another one; he was dying himself; tells sons to eat the chicken brain (the eater will become khan) and the heart (will become an important official); the lama advises his stepmother to pretend to be sick, and he will say that she should eat the chicken's brain and heart; but brothers they guessed it, ate their brain and heart, left, began to live with a woman in a white yurt; she offers N. to marry; the bride's father demands gold, etc.; E. goes to the llama for advice on how to get treasures; the snake asks why it has been lying in one place for six years; a tree - why did the foliage fly from it 9 years ago; fish - why has it been lying on the shore for 13 years, monks - why did the monastery become impoverished; llama: you have to dig up from under the snake silver, gold from wood, bronze from under the fish, topaz from under the monastery wall; E. did everything, brought treasures, married; the wife herself wants to take possession of the bird's heart; the llama advises to give E. vomit; wife swallowed the bird's heart, and N. began to wither away; smelling a black flower, he became a kid, smelling yellow - again a man; let his wife smell black, she became a goat; regurgitated his heart, N. himself again swallowed; feeling sorry for his wife, restored her human appearance; after the death of the old khan, the wise men made E. new, and N. a minister]: Mikhailov 1962:50-55; darkhats [a man caught a bird, then animals they began to come by themselves, the hunter became rich; the wife met with the merchant, who asked them to cook a bird, her two sons accidentally came in, the youngest ate his head, the older wing; the mother began to beat them, they ran away, lost each other; the youngest lives with an old woman, sells hay, is paid at exorbitant prices; Noyon's daughter lures him to her, gets him drunk, he regurgitated gems first, then the bird's head; noyon's daughter threw it away, he returned to the old woman, happiness was gone; the young man leaves, undertakes to judge his father arguing over the inheritance: who will get an invisible hat, a wish-fulfilling box and a staff with which you can walking on the water; he threw a rock, told him to race, took possession of his things, came back to Noyon's daughter, she took everything again, leaving only her staff; he came to live with another old woman, pretended to be asleep saw that it was a shulmusikha with one eye in her forehead; pretended to wake up, shulmusikha again took the form of an old woman; replied that the flowers on her box made her wishes come true; fell asleep; young man burned her eye with a hot staff, ran away, crossed the sea with the help of a staff, shulmusikha followed her and drowned; the young man came to Noyon's daughter, turned her into a horse by the power of flowers, the maids in donkeys; promised Noyon to find his daughter if he gave him her box; it contained all the magic objects; the young man restored Noyon's daughter to her human form, but left only one eye; gave a second after got Noyon's daughter as his wife; noyon made him a senior dignitary; he found his father and mother, made his father a boss, his mother a maid; his older brother caught forty, agreed not to kill, she became a girl, her the father gave a piece of cloth, it fulfills wishes, the fabric was changed in the ail; then he gave a baton, she began to beat the deceivers, they returned the matter; servants and cattle came out of it]: Potanin 1883, No. 160:535-539.
Eastern Siberia. Central (?) Yakuts (summary of several archival texts, places of recording are not specified; central? recent Russian borrowing?) [the son of the White King intends to marry the daughter of the Blue King; Bakhsy's blacksmiths build ships for him; the hero's peasant son throws the tsarist ships ashore, for which he is imprisoned; from the hero's dungeon the king's sister frees; he becomes the captain (soldier) of the ship; obtains an invisible shirt, a magic tablecloth and a flying carpet (or iron horse); the heroic princess gives the prince difficult tasks: shoot with his grandfather's bow, tame the heroic horse, bring the golden hair of the sea spirit; instead of the prince, all this is done by his servant and he also saves the prince from the princess's iron embrace; the princess finds out about deception, the prince is thrown into prison (at sea), his legs and arms are cut off; the servant finds magic berries that make a person strong, handsome or ugly; then frees the prince; disguised, The two of them come to the princess, treat her to berries, after eating which she turns into a beast (abaasy kyysa); the servant restores the princess's human appearance; her wedding with the prince takes place; the princess asks grandfathers of the sea spirit of his horse, heroic strength and one hair of the sea spirit, but the servant pulls out a lot of them; because of this, the princess loses her strength; the servant marries the prince's sister]: Ergis 1967a, No. 154:199.
Japan. Japanese (including northern Ryukyu) [two, three or seven travelers spend the night in the mountains in an inn; one spies on the owner or hostess sow seeds in the ashes of the hearth, of which immediately plants grow, cakes are baked from seeds (porridge is cooked), guests are given to eat, they turn into horses; only the person who looks is saved, the cannibal hostess runs after him, stops the persecution after sunrise; a person finds an antidote grass, lets his comrades eat, who become human again; unrecognized, he gives magic food to the hostess, who turns into a horse]: Ikeda 1971, No. 567:152-153.
SV Asia. (Russian borrowing). Coastal Koryaks (Palana) [Akachgun is a poor boy, his parents died, left him a beautiful spoon; her relatives took her away, hid her in a jug; A. came to a stone house, in which an old woman, she has many dogs; she fed them stones, did not eat anything herself; A. stayed with her, accidentally broke the jug, it contained his spoon; A. came to the cedar tree, ate an unripe berry, he grew bunny ears, ate mature - ears are gone; A. picked berries, sold immature ones to the shop, a well-dressed man bought them, everyone who ate grew bunny ears; that man asked A. to cure his family; A. gave ripe berries; man married him to his daughter]: Zhukova 1980, No. 17:191-192.