K35B. The most delicious dish .13.17.23.29.30.33.34.
The hero gives rivals the food that the king sent them all for, but what rivals buy turns out to be poisonous, useless, or tasteless, while what the hero brings regardless of its appearance, is praised.
Somalis, Mehri, Muria, Kalmyks, Ingush, Avars, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, Rushans, Vakhans, Yazgulyams, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Altaians, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Dagurs.
Sudan - East Africa. Somalis [Sultan's new wife and Jew agree to kill the Sultan's son with his first wife; the mare warns the young man that the food is poisoned; the sultan pretends to be sick, asks her husband to give her liver stepson's mares; he asks permission to ride a mare, rides away; in another city he sends a mare to heaven, pretends to be a poor cripple; six daughters of the Sultan want to choose husbands; throw in chosen ones are oranges; five get rich husbands, the youngest takes the poor cripple; parents go blind in horror; they will be cured by rhino milk; the mare takes the young man to the rhinos, the young man puts on the skin a cub milking a rhinoceros; gives milk to five husbands of older sisters for the right to burn their name in their ass; but gave only the first milk they fed, the second one kept for themselves; from milk, The sultan and his wife did not see the light brought by his elder sons-in-law, the young men saw the light from the milk; the young man shows his brand on his older sons-in-law; the sultan gives him the throne]: Kirk 1904, No. 1:316-318.
Western Asia. Mehri: Jahn 1902, No. 7 [the sultan told his five sons that he would kill their mother because she took the Jew as a lover; the youngest son Muhammad warned his mother, they were gone; there was no fire, M. saw fire in the distance, Seven people sat there, cooked a camel, told him to cut the meat; he took his share and the fire, but on the way the rain put out the fire; M. returned, they were angry, M. killed them, and lived with his mother in their castle; alone the demon was alive, his mother found him, cured him, took him as a lover; to get rid of M., the demon suggests sending him to a garden where lions and snakes for olives; his mother is sick, olives will cure her; M. met a man, brought him water, he gave him hair - if burned, he would come to the rescue; became a horse, took M. to the garden, M. let go of the chained lion, took olives, brought it to his mother; she sent him to bring clothes; he on horseback he arrived to the place where the Sultan's daughter was given to be eaten by a 7-eyed, 7-horned snake; killed a snake, breaking its horns with stones, gouging out his eyes with a spear; put his head on the mountain; sultan: whoever takes off his head killed the snake; M. takes off, gets the princess; returns to his mother again; she ties him up to see how strong he is; tells the demon to kill him; but he is afraid; then he throws him out of the castle; the caravans find him they release; M. kills the demon, the two children that his mother M. gave birth to him, throws the mother herself away; under the guise of a dervish, she comes to the Sultan, who gives her youngest daughter; she sees M. hiding his horse and sword; throws lemon at him; other daughters married wealthy merchants; the Sultan has eye pain, wild goat milk will cure him; M. milks a wild goat and hyena, gives his older sons-in-law hyena milk, for which he burns them scrotum; hyena milk made the sultan worse, and the goat milk brought by M. cured him; M. defeated the attacking enemies; injured his hand, tied her with a handkerchief; the slave recognized the handkerchief; the sultan saw a stamp on elder sons-in-law; made M. sultan, became a vizier himself]: 21-37; Müller 1909, No. 54 [the text is told sketchy and poorly; there was a man Muhanniš Hadbêb, he was seen by the Sultan's youngest hand, threw him into lemon (as a sign of his choice), married him; they were placed in the kitchen, and his older sons-in-law and their wives lived in rooms; the sultan fell ill, he needed wild goat milk; MX took it out, gave it to his older sons-in-law, he marked it for this - he burned their flesh under their penis; they brought milk to the Sultan, but he did not like it, and the milk given by his youngest daughter cured him; MX defeated the attacking enemies; he with his wife moved to good rooms]: 139-141.
South Asia. Muria [the Raja has seven wives, each with a son; he ordered the youngest to live in a stable; the Raja is blind, the sage orders his sons to be sent for the liver of the Shining Goat; six brothers are reluctant to take younger; Goat jumps into a deep hole; older brothers are afraid to go down, there are snakes, tigers and scorpions; the youngest goes down, the creatures disappear, he marries Rakshasi's daughter, then her sister, then gets six more daughters to Mahapurub, who also gives the Goat; the brothers pick up all this, cut off the rope, the young man falls, breaks; the girls say that they must live alone for 12 years; from the Goat's liver, the father's eyes are even more sick (this is an imaginary liver); the young man comes to life, a rope appears, he climbs upstairs, disguised as a dirty beggar, hires to guard the girls' house; tells them his story, they wash and dress it; he heals his father with a real liver; the Raja executes his older sons]: Elwin 1944, No. 1:3-13 (translated to Zograf 1971, No. 22:75-85).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002 [only the youngest of three brothers, Nusah Mu ("bad jerk"), spends the night at the grave of his deceased father, gets three hairs; if they are burned, they turn into horses; Khan gives out daughters, the unrecognized NM wins competitions three times; the eldest daughters choose beautiful knights; the youngest recognizes the NM, chooses him; the khan sends them to live in a house made of grass; the unrecognized NM smashes the attackers enemies, the khan bandages his wound with his silk cloak; the wounded khan will be cured by ish saiga meat; look, an unrecognized NM catches saiga, gives his older son-in-law a poisonous upper layer of meat in exchange for an earlobe and a little finger; the meat of his older sons-in-law makes the khan worse, from the cooked inner meat served by his youngest daughter; a black cloud carries away the foals of the mare; NM shoots, picks up a fallen gold ring; on a winged horse, a herd drives him from the sky, killing the sleeping kidnapper; older sons-in-law push him into a hole; he sees an ant heal his leg, heals its broken bones with the same grass; the wolf's tail rises to the surface; the khan understands who his younger son-in-law is; executes his older sons-in-law]: 106-114; Ingush [stepmother tells her husband to take Akhmet out of the house; he asks him to go down to the gorge for the fallen cake, leaves himself; A. is polite to the witch Garbash, she keeps him, tells him not to unlock one room; A. unlocks, there is a horse, he feeds him, breaks the chain, the horse tells him to take it treasures and flee, carries him across seven seas; contrary to the horse's warning, A. pulls a hair from the horse, it turns into a bridge, G. is going to kill A., but the horse throws it into the sea; tells A. to hide good clothes, hire to guard melons; the younger princess fell in love with him, chose him as a husband, and the sisters chose noble suitors; A. and his wife settle in a chicken coop; the king is sick, the sons-in-law go to get liver and lion's lung; A. leaves on a nag, calls his horse, teaches him to lure a lion to rush into the abyss, teaches him to spell the liver bitter and his lung sweet; A. gives the lung to his older sons-in-law, they allow quilting them on the shoulder, leaving scars; the king is only worse from the liver, but he has recovered from his lung; after that, the king moves the young to the calf; next time the king will cure the milk of a roe deer living far away; the horse teaches her to catch, pour milk into two vessels, one sweet in the other, bitter in the other; everything repeats itself, the young stay in the calf; the third time you need buffalo milk, she lives at the bottom of the sea; A. pulls it out, shares it again with his older sons-in-law, but he himself comes to the king in rich clothes, shows the scars on the body of his sons-in-law; the tsar drives away his older sons-in-law, gives A. half the kingdom, but he and his wife leave]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:117-137; Avars [a beggar gives a childless person two beans, tells him to give one of the two sons who will be born; when Arslan and Batyr grow up, the father gives A.; on the way he drinks from a stream, a skull at the bottom says that the beggar is a Black Dev, teaches to pretend that he does not know how to take revenge on the floor, heat the stove; pushes the deva into the fire; pulls out a splinter from the lioness, returns the eagle to the nest, gets lion cub, eagle; dips his finger in the stream, it turns gold; washes his hair, mane and tail of the horse in the stream; lets the animals go, they will return when he burns the pen; smears his face with mud, hires gardener; Khan's youngest daughter sees his golden hair; Khan invites three daughters to throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the youngest leaves at A.; Khan chases her away, she and A. live in a hut on the outskirts ; the sick khan will be cured by deer meat; he calls an eagle, that horse and lioness; A. catches deer, gives bile meat to his older sons-in-law, for which he stigmatizes them; venison bitter, Khan is angry, and the meat given by his youngest daughter is delicious; but he is worse, he needs lioness milk; the lioness gives it; A. stigmatizes his elder son-in-law, gives milk in a jug where vinegar was, it is sour; the khan recovered from the milk brought by A.; as a reward, he asks his two slaves, everyone sees the seals on on the backs of older sons-in-law; A. takes on his true form; brother A. Batyr follows in his footsteps, the lioness, the eagle give him the brothers of the lion cub, the eagle received by A.; A.'s wife takes B. for her husband, rejected, cries; reproaches A., who returned from hunting; he catches up with B. kills with an arrow; repents; one mouse kills another, revives her with grass; A. revives B.; feast]: Kapiyeva 1974:72-80; Azerbaijanis [padishah Deshkuvar is childless; dervish gives an apple, orders to give three wives, when the sons are 15 years old, one should be given to him; the khan's daughter gives birth to Hanbal, Beybal, the camel driver Nerbal; the dervish is given to N.; the skull warns that it will be baked in a tandoor; N. pushes him into the cauldron; in the fortieth room a lion, a horse, a bird; grain, meat, hay in front of them; N. swapped places properly; they promise to help; N. dresses poorly, lives with an old man in the city- gardener; the elder princesses do not like him, the youngest wants him to bring her flowers; the bird brings him an unfading bouquet; the son of the vizier and the son of Vekil N. in his true image gives the same bouquets, but for this puts a stamp on the hand; the padishah's daughters throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the elders throw the sons of the vizier and vekil, the youngest to N.; the sick padishah needs game broth; the lion drives everything for N. game, other sons-in-law return with nothing; N. gives game, stigmatizes the other hand of rivals; but the padishah recovered only after the broth from the head of the roe deer given by N.; padishah D. goes to war; only N. his wins; N. sues everyone, retires to dervish castle with his mother, wife, gardener, bird, lion and horse]: Nabiev 1988:218-239;
Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [the padishah's wife dies after giving birth to Muzaffar; M. learns, buys a plain horse at a high price; he warns that his stepmother has dug a hole for him, covered him with a carpet; M. jumps over her; the stepmother pretends to be sick, demands to slaughter the horse; M. agrees with him that at the last moment she will ask for permission to ride; jumps on the horse, leaves the city; at the mountain the horse gives its hairs, leaves M.; M. gets on the ship, wants to swallow him by the fish in the river, he kills it with arrows; sails in the chest to the padishah's garden, lives with the gardener, looks bald; the younger princess Malika falls in love with M.; princesses throw apples at the chosen ones; the eldest Gulsun at the son of the vizier, the middle Fatima with the son of Kaziy, Malika at the bald gardener; while hunting, M. in his true form kills the fallow deer, gives it to the other two sons-in-law, takes his stomachs; the cheese served to the Shah by his eldest daughters is bitter, and the youngest is tasty, but there is manure at the bottom; Malika explains that they live in a stable; only M. smashes enemies; the tsar bandages the hero's hand with a handkerchief, recognizes his younger son-in-law by him]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:193-204 (=1957:168-177); Rushantsy [the slave leads to water the horses, sees the reflection of three doves; they say that anyone who reports us to King Komiron will petrify; Comiron is surprised why the horses are thin, the slave sends him to see for himself; K. shoots the little finger of one of the doves, hands over the kingdom to the slave, goes to desert; takes out a splinter from a tigress, she and two cubs give them a hair to call for help; changes clothes with a bald shepherd, asks him how to behave; by the river he says, "In the name of King Peri, let this river will part; the waters diverge, K. crosses with the herd; each of the three peri tells the shepherd to rub her legs; two fingers are intact (K. scratches their feet with a cow's tongue), the third does not have enough little finger, K . puts it; when choosing husbands, the older sister throws a skullcap at the judge's head, the middle sister throws an elder, the youngest a bald sister; Peri's father tells the pleshivets to bring a hundred camel bales of gold, he brings it; orders to kill, his servants spare him; the father sends the young to live in the stable; only K. hunts successfully, gives meat to other sons-in-law , stigmatizing them on their heads and asses; older daughters bring meat for the father-in-law, it is bitter, the youngest brings legs and heads, they are delicious; leaves a piece of manure on the plate; the father moves them to the front room; the bald man plays polo with a golden stick, a golden ball; father-in-law offers a reward, he takes his people, i.e. branded older sons-in-law; older sisters understand that handsome and bald are one person; father-in-law gives him the throne]: Pisarchik 1954, No. 6:48-54; Vakhans [The childless king decides to become a calender; another calandar gives three apples to let wives, horses and dogs eat; the first child, puppy and foal must be given to him; the king did not give anything to his unloved wife, but she found it on the floor, ate it herself and gave the horse and dog an apple seed; the wife gave birth to a gold-haired son Kokulzarin, the dog to the Laughing Flower Puppy (SC), the horse to the Horse Almond Flower (CM); the calandar demands to give K.; the vizier tries in vain to replace him with the son of a lumberjack, then with his son; the old woman tells K. that the calandar is an ogre, teaches him to push him into the cauldron; teaches him to pull the splinter out of his paw The winged Lioness, who turned into the Mazendaran Forest; lions make him their brother, bring him to Mount Kof; K. changes clothes with a bald shepherd scratching the heels of the royal daughters; K. spanks elders in the ass with a calf tongue; the youngest notices the young man's face under a veal stomach stretched over his head; sleeps with K.; older daughters throw bouquets of flowers at noble suitors, the youngest at the imaginary shepherd; sons-in-law go hunting, winged lions hunt for K.; K. gives meat to older sons-in-law, for this he stigmatizes their bodies, takes the demand for herself; she is sweet, the meat is bitter; K.'s wife brings her father to a piece of manure on the plate; her father moves her and her husband from the stable to the house; K. plays ball best; K. is in his real form, shows stamps on his older sons-in-law, his lions smash attacking enemies; the king transfers the kingdom to Kokulzarin]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 18:199-213; Yazgulyam people [the servant complains to the king that every day three doves say that whoever does not tell the king about them gets sick teeth, head, etc.; the servant is slightly alive and the horses are losing weight; the king puts on his servant's clothes, walks by himself, shoots off his little finger, goes after the doves, takes out the splinter to the tigress, and the cubs promise to help him; The bald herds the cattle of the royal daughters; explains what to say for the waters of the river to disperse and come together again; at night he rubs those girls' legs; the king drowns the shepherd, pulls a goat bubble so that look like Bald; older sisters rub their heels with bovine tongue, they think that Bald's hands are coarsened; the youngest puts a torn little finger; the older daughters put flowers on the heads of Kadia's son and the son of the vizier, the youngest to the head of Pleshivy; the king tries in vain to destroy him (drowns him, hangs him upside down); orders to bring 40 camels with gold (tigers bring); older sons-in-law cannot get anything for hunting, tigers hunt for Bald, he gives meat to his elder sons-in-law, puts stamps; tripe soup is the sweetest, but it contains manure; the tsar moves his daughter and Pleshiv from the stable to the house; play The Bald ball appears in its true form; shows the stigma; gets the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 19:213-223; Uzbeks [Yalmauz-Kampir in the guise of an old woman gives the childless king an apple for his three wives; in 7 years let him give the prince away from his youngest wife; YAK comes for him; on the way, another old woman teaches the prince to ask him to show him how to look into a cauldron with 40 ears, in which oil boils, push YAK itself into it; he did so; the cat has 40 keys, the prince took them, unlocked 40 rooms, they contain prisoners, 3 demons, 3 horses, 3 birds, the prince lets them all go, they promise help; the prince dipped his hair in golden water, put a trebuchin over the lamb, came to live with an old woman; grew up; the king gives three daughters; the youngest takes flowers from the prince, then throws him an apple; the king sent his younger son-in-law and his wife to live in the stable; the elders do not take him to hunt; the prince summoned spirits, horses and birds, who brought game; the prince gave the worse to his older son-in-law, for which he gave them game a seal on his back; he brought his good one to the king, he liked it, he moved him to the palace; he removes the demand from his head, tells his elder sons-in-law to show seals on their backs; the king made him heir]: Ostroumov 1890, No. 1:3-9.
Turkestan.Turkestan. Kazakhs (Aral-Irtysh watershed) (judging by place names - Mount Begazy - Karaganda district) [Koblandy's batyr robbed the khan, killed his young son Karaman in a duel, captured the people; remained an old man covered in a cauldron and a boy covered in straw found K.'s bow; it was worn by two strongmen, and the boy picked up one; found a foal for himself; the old man named the boy Talas-pai, and his horse Koschu-gar'at; three days in a row, when T. leaves, three swans rip off the old man's face, tear his fur coat, beat him; K. put on the old man's clothes, went out by himself; squeezed the swans, but they put him on themselves, took off, but he jumped off; shot at they, a gold ring fell; having prepared meat for the old man, K. set off; met a shepherd; he replies that he was herding Kadyr Kana's cattle; I must say, "Cross, cows," they will cross by themselves sea; "Get attached, calves"; "Get it, cows"; Kadyr-kan's youngest of three daughters licking her soles; T. killed the shepherd, dressed in his clothes, sat on his bull, did as the shepherd explained; he cut off the cow's tongue, in the girl's yurt, he stroked her feet with it; maiden: did your tongue crack? T.: yes; began to stroke softer; the girl does not tell them to go to where they swim tomorrow; he went; they flew in the guise of swans; the youngest noticed the shepherd's golden crest, realized that it was T.; in the evening she pomped they slept together; girl: how to let my father know that I want to marry; T.: bake three loaves: burnt, half-burnt, good; khan told daughters to choose their husbands themselves; the youngest chose T.; the khan gave them a small yurt; upset by his daughter's choice, the khan fell ill; doctor: you need saiga meat; brothers-in-law did not get anything, T. gave them meat, but the khan only got worse; T. kept his saiga intestines, from which the khan recovered; Khan's winged black mare brings a foal every day, it is carried away by the Alyp-Kara-Kush bird; the older sons-in-law fell asleep, T. shot, cutting off the tail of the foal and the bird's silver feather with an arrow; the older sons-in-law took the tail, but did not give up T.'s pen; T. brought it himself, put it near the khan's yurt; on horseback, Goat- Gar'at reached the yurt, an old woman with 7 heads came out; T. did not eat, but invited her to her place; one man came out of the food; they exchanged salt and agreed not to harm each other; T. reached the bai-terek tree, there is a bird on it, he shot her, only his horse can carry the carcass; a girl, the daughter of a bird, caught up with him, offered to fight; three days later he defeated her and married her; prisoners in her house, they released them; after spending the night with an old woman with 7 heads, we drove on; T. saved a snake from the fire, which gave him the ability to understand the language of animals; towards the bay horse, the horse's brother T., she ran away when Koblandy took everything; Khan T. appeared in his real form; he called his daughter clever and himself a fool; T. came to his father, who was already starving; went to take revenge on Koblandy, his grown-up son with him; before the fight, T. and Koblanda became ask each other; it turned out that their mothers are sisters; they reconciled; Ir-Kosai came to take revenge, defeated and killed Koblanda and son T.; T. and he have equal strength, they reconciled]: Potanin 1916, No. 11: 73-79 (=1972, No. 6:123-130); Kazakhs [Khan's mare gives birth to a foal by a tulpar (winged horse); hanshi's lover persuades her to kill her husband and to do this first to kill her son; the foal warns that about poison; then they want to kill the foal, the khan's son leaves in it; disguises himself as a shepherd, always answers, I don't know; Khan's youngest daughter sees Dunno (N.) in the garden, falls in love; all three daughters carry melons to the father, only the youngest's melon is fresh; the khan tells everyone to throw an apple at their chosen one, the youngest throws them at N., they are locked in a donkey pen; the khan tells his sons-in-law to bring mountain goat meat; only N. kills, makes the meat bitter, gives it to other sons-in-law, the demand is sweet, the khan liked it; next time N. calls tulpara, in a noble form gives a goat from his pen, puts it on his sons-in-law stigma; appears to the khan in true form on Tulpar, says that two slaves have escaped from him; receives a khanate and slaves]: Sidelnikov 1952:205-213.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [Childless old man Kogutei finds a beaver, adopts; Bobrenok asks K. to marry him to Temene-Ko, Karaty-Kan's youngest daughter; the eldest six are already married; KK orders K. to cut in half, send the corpse home on a bull; Bobrenok revives him; next time K. is burned, ash is sent home; Bobrenok revives K. with healing water, gives strength; he throws six son-in-law for the mountains, KK agrees to give TC for Bobrenk; he easily gives a rich ransom for the bride, pulling property on the mountain from under the birch tree; KK calls only beggars and cripples to the wedding; 1) six son-in-law they return without prey, Bobrenok catches six marals on foot, leaves them to his sons-in-law; they give him giblets; he turns giblets into a selected dish, makes the meat inedible; 2) next time sons-in-law give Bobrenko meat, take giblets, but the meat is tasty, and the giblets are inedible; 3) KK tells him to catch a mare; Bobrenok catches, gives it to his sons-in-law, they cut off and give him their little fingers for this; 4) bring foals kidnapped by the Kan-Kerede bird; Bobrenok sheds his beaverskin, tells his wife to hide it, turns into a hero Kuskun-Kara-Matyr; his father is a mountain, his mother is the sea; he catches a heroic a black stallion; his sons-in-law do not recognize him; he promises to bring them kidnapped foals, for which they cut off and give him their thumbs; the cash register comes to heaven, there is Kan-Kerede's nest on a silver poplar; her The seven-headed snake eats chicks every year; one chick cries (it will be eaten today), the other laughs; the snake comes out of the sea, the cash register cuts off its heads with an arrow; the elder chick held out its wing, the cash register crossed it across the sea to the nest; the chicks reply that their parents will arrive with rain (tears) and wind (flapping wings), hide the cash register under their wings; birds give the foals to the cash register; six sons-in-law have prepared a trap pit, the cash register fell, ran into a stake; his horse was hung from a pole; Kan-Kerede revived the cash register with healing water; the CSA reproaches his wife for showing her sister-in-law beaverskin, she was burned; the wife explains that she was drunk; the CSA burns skin, curses KK, his people and land, goes to his father, turns him into many boys and girls, creates cattle, leaves; TC goes to look for him; she is met by the daughter of Suntsa-Kana and the daughter of the Month Kana, they are wives KKA; KKM also brings his wife, a chick (i.e. daughter) Kan-Kerede; is married with all four]: Yutkanakov, Tokmashov 1935:41-171; South Altai Tuvans: Taube 1994, No. 20 [childless old woman she picked up a frog with a scoop, who promised to become her son (he was the youngest son of God Gurmustu); the old man feeds him meat; at night there is a rainbow in the yurt, by morning the frog turns into a boy; he herds goats; tells marry his youngest daughter Haraathay Haan for him; for the first time an old man is killed, burned, the Frog revives him; the second, Khan demands that a sugar tree grow on his left hand, and a golden poplar on his right golden cuckoo; Frog turns his sword and sheath into them; gets a wife; to her he seems like a young man in a white yurt, a stranger a frog in a hut; three sons-in-law go hunting, only the Frog shot the game; sons-in-law they take the meat, leave it giblets; but his dish is the most delicious; the khan asks to find who is kidnapping the foals; they are dragged away by the Han Gardy bird, whose snake eats eggs; the Frog kills a snake crawling to two chicks; their mother swallows and regurgitates them; returns the horses, warns that their sons-in-law have prepared a carpet hole for him; he throws them into a hole himself; cuts off the Khan's heads, Khanshe, their daughters, were Mangys and Mangysikhs; he is leaving]: 196-202; Baikal Buryats: Burchina 2007, No. IV.9 (Alarsky District) [Uliger episode: Alasha Khan falls ill; rumor has it that he will recover if he eats the meat of the wild animal airbed; the khan sends the husbands of his eldest and middle daughters for meat; the youngest's husband, Mungen Shagai, also goes on a journey; kills the beast, brings home its meat and insides; meets two brothers-in-law who have only covered half the way; tells them that he has obtained the beast; brothers-in-law ask to sell them their loot (without recognizing MX's heroic brother-in-law); MX agrees to do this in exchange for leather from their backs to tie their booties; MX cuts straps from their backs from their necks to their buttocks and offers a choice of either meat or insides airbad; brothers-in-law take meat and leave; Khan, after eating this meat, begins to get even more sick; the youngest daughter brings him a meal from the giblets of Erbad; the khan is angry: "The daughter wants her father to die, after tasting this treat?" ; the daughter is offended, the khan agrees, eats and recovers; during his name day, the khan asks MX to take his true form; MX becomes a hero; says that he caught the beast and made the meat poisonous, and giblets are healing, and that brothers-in-law exchanged this meat for skin from their backs; shows garter belts cut from their backs; an angry khan executes two older sons-in-law], IV.11 (Nukut District) [episode Uliger: Altai Gasu Mergen comes to the city of Aryn Sagan Khan in the guise of an old wanderer; Khan has nine daughters and eight sons-in-law; AGM becomes the husband of his youngest daughter; Khan is tired of livestock meat, he sends his sons-in-law to get red deer; they do not find animals; AGM shoots a red deer, saying an arrow: "Let the meat become poisonous and the tripe become a delicious healing treat!" ; eight sons-in-law ask to give the carcass and take the demand for themselves; AGM suggests cutting off one of their ears instead of the carcass and giving it to it; sons-in-law agree; khan, after eating red deer meat, falls ill; AGM cooks the demand and tells his wife to take the food to his father; the khan recovers; the sons-in-law go hunting to get a maral with healing giblets, but do not find the beast; AGM shoots a red deer with an arrow, so that the meat becomes healing and the tripe poisoned; brothers-in-law ask for giblets; AGM declares that it will give them if the brothers-in-law cut off a strip of skin and give it to him; brothers-in-law agree; Khan eats red deer and falls ill; AGM tells his wife to take boiled red red deer meat to Khan; he eats meat and recovers; sends his sons-in-law to guard the herd, because foals for eight years the big white mare disappears, and now it must necklace ninth; AGM follows them; brothers-in-law fall asleep; AGM sees two birds kidnap a foal and sends an arrow after them; birds they come back, promise to give AGM nine foals, as well as a horse to ride; drop their pen and fly away; waking up brothers-in-law ask AGM to give the pen; he offers them, in exchange for a pen, cut them out of their back belts; brothers-in-law agree, bring the pen to the khan; the khan sends his sons-in-law on a campaign for nine horses; AGM gets to Zolto Burhan's palace; he gives AGM nine horses and a horse Hilen; AGM descends from the mountain; brothers-in-law dig a well with iron stakes at the bottom; treat AGM with arza and horza; when he gets drunk, they throw it into a well; AGM hangs on stakes; brothers-in-law, taking nine horses return home; AGM tells his horse that Khatan Khan's daughter, who revives the dead, can save him; the horse goes to the lands of Khatan Khan; when the khan's daughter sits on a horse, he does so that she sticks to him and jumps to the well; the girl lowers her pendants to the bottom and pulls out the AGM; he returns home, comes to a feast and pulls their hats off her brothers-in-law; then talks about them cunning; an angry khan drives away his sons-in-law and eight daughters]: 363-364, 394-400; Dagurs [the couple has seven daughters, two of them blind; the father leads them to collect wild grapes, leaves blind; by evening they realize that their baskets have no bottom; in the morning they hear chirping, climbing a tree, there is something round and soft, they eat it, they begin to see the light; when they wash in the stream, they see better; they come to gold and silver wells; after drinking from there, they fully regain their sight; after eating fruits from gold and silver trees, they become pregnant; they come to an empty house full of supplies; the eldest son Aletannenbo, the youngest is Mengongnenbo; young men grow up, meet an old man, who says where to find flying horses; they tame horses, return to their mothers; the demon comes out of the ground; threatens Mother A. will eat her if she treats M. well; since then she has been feeding M. with garbage; M. leaves, exchanging arrows with A.: if he rusts, the master is dead; on the way M., the demon, M., hits him with an arrow; By the river, a Tuoku shepherd herds rich Su's sheep; they must be driven across the river, saying, "If the river stops for a minute, then I won't be angry"; at Su's house, he licks his wife's feet in the evenings, they give him food cow cake; M. puts on T.'s clothes, sends the horse to graze, pretends to have forgotten the words that make the waters of the river disperse; Mrs. Su utters them herself; the imaginary T. shouts to her from the other room that Eats up the cake with measles; strokes her feet with the cow's cut off tongue; says that his tongue is rough with herbs; the mistress tells him to drink butter; he cuts off the dog's tongue, Su is happy, goes to bed; six daughters rich Su is married, the seventh youngest is not; he will pass her off as someone who bends an iron rod; only the imaginary T. bends; Su has to give his daughter; he is ill, he will be cured by bile and bear meat; M. in his He gets his true appearance, returns on horseback, sees his older sons-in-law; they ask to sell them a bear; for this he burns their butts with a hot copper cauldron; but what Su's sons-in-law brought is no better; the imaginary T. kept a part for himself, cooked it, his father-in-law recovered; his sons-in-law dug a hole, invited M. to the races, M. and his horse fell into a hole; the horse flew to heaven to the Jasper Emperor, his daughter lowered him down his braids, M. got out of them; M. recovered from her potions; sees that A.'s arrow is rusting; with his wife on horseback she rushes home; the heavenly maiden also descends to him - her father drove her away for helping a mortal; she healed A., married him; and A.'s mother had previously died]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:110-125.