K37. Find out your own among the same ones, H62.1, H161, H324.

.11.-.17.21.-.34.36.-.38.43.44.46.50. (.65.)

In order to return or receive a wife, son or husband (also a pet or object in Africa), a person must identify her or him among several identical people or animals ( items).

ATU 325 (The Magician and His Pupil) {motive needs to be checked} [Syria, Palestine, Arabs Jordan, Iraq, Qatar, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Kabila, Tanzania, Finns, Estonians {Seto?} , Livonians, Karelians, Swedes, {Norwegians - no motive}, Faroese, Icelanders, {Catalans - no motive}, Friesians, Flemish, Germans (Grimms; Austria, etc.), Hungarians, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Luzhitans, Adygi]: 208.

Luba, Hungwe, Swahili, Ganda [identify cow], ovimbundu, basa, bobo, douala, (lenje), benga, temne, baule, yoruba, senufo [identify a monkey who bought a bull], a boulsa [identify cows], mofu-gudur [identify a horse, a woman], a malgashi (a sakalava) [identify a cow, a woman], the Berbers of Morocco, the Kabilas, the Spaniards, the Basques, the Portuguese, the Sicilians, the Sardinians, Corsicans, Italians (Liguria, Lombardy), Ladins [including identifying one special one among many stone columns], Bretons, French people (Dauphinay, Lorraine, Upper Brittany), Walloons, Irish, Welsh, Scots, Germans (Grimms), Mehri, Tibetans (Yutzang, Ham, Amdo), Lepcha, Burmese, Thais, Vietnamese Tai, Konkani (Goa), Ancient India, Northern India (Hindi), Sindhi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamils, Sinhales, minangkabau, dusun, murut, toraja, minahasa, bantik, tabaru, Tidore, Bali, tetum, ilianen manobo, dibabawon manobo, mamanwa, central subanen, kasiguran agta, northern kanai, Chinese, Chuan miao, foxes, Koreans, Moldovans, Romanians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Gagauz, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Luzhitans, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Karelia, Vologda, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Ryazan, Vyatka, Voronezh), Western, Eastern and Northern Ukrainians, Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Balkarians, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Avars, Svans, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Kurds , mountain Tajiks, Persians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Lutsies, Estonians, Setus, Finns, Karelians, Western and Eastern Sami, Danes, Swedes, Komi, Udmurts, Chuvash, Mari, Mordovians, (Bashkirs), Kazan Tatars, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Yellow Uighurs, Baraba Tatars, Kumandins, Tubalars, Shors, Tuvans, Buryats, Mongols, Dagurs, Mongors, Evenks of the Baikal Region, central (?) Yakuts, Dolgans, Ulchi, Udege, Orochi, Japanese, Thompson, Ojibwa Steppe, Black Legs, Crowe, Arapahoes, Sheyens, Mandan, Teton, Santi, Omaha and Ponca, Osage, Oto, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita, Hopi.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Basa [daughter from his beloved wife, a son from an unloved one; an unloved wife and beloved daughter die; the father wants to destroy his son; the grandmother teaches the boy how to do difficult tasks; he 1) pulls out bananas from on the other side of the river full of crocodiles, 2) leads lion cubs (at this time the lioness eats a goat), 3) comes to the country of Liboi Lee Kundung's ancestors who died at the drum; snakes, birds, bats are transported and carried him across the river, fire, rocks, for he treated them; his mother's spirit tells him to go boldly; in his ancestral village he feeds a dog, a cat, a mouse; the chief tells him to identify a woman named Ngo Mbelek (the dog runs past her); 2) identify the drum itself (the mouse throws nuts at it); after receiving the drum, the father gives his son the house, goes to the forest himself]: Binam Bikoï 1977:36-49 (translated into Pozdnyakov 1990:199-205); duala [ See motive F50; Inono Njambe kills his wives and children to gain magical powers; Njambe Inono's son remains; people beat his father, he dies soon after passing on knowledge to his son; he continues to kill people; he and his wife are sent in a boat downstream; he establishes a settlement where he plants a huge palm tree, a bird on top, a crocodile in a pond, a leopard in a cage; these are his magical defenders of the village; NI Njambe's wife gave birth to a girl, a Chimpanzee comes to play with her; when the girl grew up, he kidnapped her; NEITHER takes other wives, everyone gives birth, but N. is pregnant but does not give birth; NOR chases her away; in the woods she must be slaughtered firewood; the boy from her womb says he will chop it, goes out, becomes an adult Jeki man, cuts wood, returns to the womb; forbids his mother to see him and cut his umbilical cord; one day he goes out pick shrimp on the seashore; other NI wives see this, throw baskets in horror, J. also delivers their baskets full of shrimp to the village; when J. is finally born, from the mother's belly first various vessels, a boat, fabrics, etc. fall out; then J. tells him to give birth to him on a pile of garbage; NI does not like J., he performs his difficult tasks; goes to the land of spirits for his sister kidnapped by the Chimpanzee; in the house many girls, J. must identify his sister, releases a bee, she sits on her sister, J. brings her home]: Belcher 2005:268-281; {mistake; this post does not have this text; bast [trapped the hunter falls into a dragonfly, a shrew, an elephant; everyone asks him to let go, promises to help; the daughter of the creator god Kabezia Mpungu gets; he calls a person to him, gives difficult assignments; 1) a lot eat (the shrew dug a hole, the man threw food there); 2) clear a huge plot (the elephant is knocking down trees); 3) identify the bride among many girls (the dragonfly touches her ear); KM gives her daughter]: Kotlyar 1975:55}; ganda: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010 [Kintu lost a cow; after climbing the rainbow, he came to heaven to look for it; god Gulu told him 1) to bring a piece of heaven; hit the rock lightning, chipped off a piece; 2) identify his cow in the herd; the fly first buzzed at K.'s ear, then flew up to the cow; K. got a cow and daughter G. Nambi; her brother Walumbe warned her not to return to heaven, otherwise he would kill her children; N. forgot food for her favorite bird, returned across the rainbow; V. did not catch up with N. on the ground, disappeared underground; since then sometimes he goes out, kills his sister's descendants; three sons K. and N. give rise to rulers, farmers and craftsmen, slaves; but V. kills everyone]: 409-410; Roscoe 1911 [Kintu had only one cow, he ate milk; Nambi's heavenly woman, Gulu's daughter, fell in love with him, but his father took her back with the cow; K. went to heaven and was offered 1) a lot to eat and drink (he threw everything away and poured it into a hole in floor); 2) cut down a rock for firewood with a copper ax (K. found a rock with cracks, cut it down); 3) bring a bucket of dew (the bucket left in the field was filled with dew); 4) identify your own cow among L. (the bee said it would sit on its horns; there was no cow in the first two herds; in the third herd, K. immediately found a cow with a bee on its horns; the bee sat on its horns and on its horns, K. and identified them); L. gave his daughter to K.; G. tells K. and N. to leave faster while brother N. Death (Walumbe) did not follow them, do not return if they forgot anything; N. forgot chicken grain, came back, V. followed her; K. and N. have many children; V. asked their daughter to be a cook, K. refused; after This children began to die; G. sent Brother V. Kaikuzu persuaded him not to kill children; V. refused, ran underground; Kaikuzu told people and animals to stay in their homes, not to shout, if they saw V., then he would catch him; but the children drove the goats to pasture. saw V., called out; since then V. has been killing people, hiding underground]: 461-464 (=Radin 1952, No. 16:69-72; retelling in Parrinder 1967:41-43; Zhukov Kotlyar 1976, No. 28:76-81); benga [four young men consistently go to marry the same girl; the first three do not share food with Elephant, Behemoth, Leopard, Mukha; the girl's father orders to clear the plot in a day, sow; the first three cannot; the latter named Ogoula shares food with animals, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Leopard do the job; the girl's father demands to distinguish her from her mother, the fly sits on the bride's shoulder, O. gets a wife]: Raponda-Walker 1967:167-170; Swahili (western on the coast of Mozambique from a migrant from Zanzibar) [the Sultan's son comes to the island, eats fruits, spits out seeds, and instantly grow new trees with fruits; sails to another island, tries to show the local sultan a miracle, nothing happens, the sultan puts him in prison; the same with five other brothers; the youngest seventh Sadaka, visiting the islands, feeds the birds, flies, genies, they promise to help; gin explains that the seeds will only germinate on land collected from that island; they germinate; the sultan gives new tasks, passing off his daughter as S.; 1) disassemble the mixed grain different varieties (birds make); 2) pierce the baobab with a sword blow (genies bring woodworm ants, they make a hole in the trunk in advance); 3) identify the bride among many girls (she sits on her fly); S. gets a wife, frees brothers]: Baker 1938, No. 1:183-187; hungwe [the youngest of nine sisters became pregnant, gave birth to a boy; others told her to throw him into the river; under water Lions put it in a vessel; the boy's father and the girls' parents are dissatisfied; the boy's father has an amulet horn; the boy's father and mother have both gone under water; Lions are ready to return the child if the father finds out which vessel he is in , show a series of identical ones; the horn tells us which one; Lions promise to let the boy go later, go hunting; the father puts his wife, son, himself in his horn; Lions think that people have run away, find a horn, they throw it ashore; father, mother and boy come out of their horn]: Frobenius 1931:362-363; ovimbundu [Goat and Leopardicha have agreed to eat their children when they are born; Leopardicha has given birth, children eaten; The goat does not give birth, finally gives birth to a spear, bow and arrow, a gun, Kalitangi; Leopardicha tries to eat it, but he threatens her with a weapon; kills Leopardich; god Suku takes the Goat to heaven; K. with animals goes there to return his mother; a competition begins between S. and K. in trickster tricks and transformations; K. on a tree, asks S. to wear his belt; S. sends the tree to the sky, but K. tells the belt to shrink, S. is forced to return the tree with K. to the ground; the fly helps K. find out which box his mother is in, K. takes her]: Scheub 2000:97 -98; (cf. Lenge [Tilo promises daughter Maria to whoever beats him at cards; Jewawu beat him; T. makes wooden figures, offers to choose a bride; M. warns J., he wants M.; T. throws beads, tells you to pick up; M. calls people, they pick up; J. tells them to sow rice, harvest immediately and cook food; M. tells people to do everything; tells them to choose a small knife, not a big knife; M. and J. . take horses, jump away; M. returns to return his father's pendant; returns to J.; T. wakes up, rushes to chase; M. turns himself and J. into children who play sand, T. them did not find out; T. summoned J.; J. promises to kill M. if she gets along with another man in his absence; Antonio comes instead of J., M. unlocks, converges with him; J. came back, stabbed M., took another wife, A. fell into the ground; M. became a bird, flew to J., became a woman again; J. returned her, drove her other wife away]: Earthy 1937:295-301).

West Africa. Bobo [the fairy zin tells the young man in a dream that the inscription of Uro Irib on his ring is the name of his father, the leader, who was killed by another leader; the young man goes to search for his homeland; on the way he saves the tree from the ax (allowing arguing a tree and an ax, telling them that both are right, the ax has served people since then), a cat, a fly, a bee; the evil leader grabs him, wants to kill him with a special arrow, because in this case he will gain immortality; the young man plays on a pipe, bees bite the audience, carry away an arrow; the young man was thrown into a pit with rats, the cat strangled them, has been living with people ever since; a tree from the young man's bag fell on the leader, killed him; the young man was chosen as new chief; he sees a girl, wants to marry; father asks to know who is the chosen one and who is her sister; a fly sits on the bride's head; wedding]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:144-148; baule [the leader promises to give Maii's daughter is the one whose neck can withstand two blows of a sword; many suitors are killed; Kofi sees girls bathing, takes the dress alone; this is M.; 1) she tells her name to be named when her father brings the sword; 2) the father tells grow beans overnight, cook beans; M.: say her name three times; 3) distinguish M.'s finger, stuck in one of the holes in the wall of the house, from the fingers of other girls (M. warns that he will cut himself finger); the young run away, the mother catches up; M. throws an egg on the ground for the goddess Assie to help; M. has three eggs with her, her mother has two, the last word is M., they run away; K. goes to prepare a meeting at home, M. she climbs a tree; two women see its reflection, take it for their own, throw their jugs, for such beauties should not work; one notices M. in a tree; she warns that the comb is dangerous for her; the old woman sticks the comb in her hair, M. flies away as a bird; the old woman claims that she is M.; brother K. catches a bird, the comb falls out, M. takes its form; the old woman was beaten to death]: Himmelheber 1951b : 127-134 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:169-180); dark [the king is jealous of the young man's wealth; the adviser suggests sending someone for the leaves of a tree on which poisonous ants; white ants get the young man leaves; the young man must choose the right cow in the herd, the butterfly sits on it; the young man is asked to sit on a mat above the pit with knives and broken glass; the young man pokes the mat with a stick, opening the hole; The king orders to put the young man in a bag, throw him into the river; the servants left the bag, the passer-by untied it, the young man put stones in the bag; said that at the bottom he was crowned king and now they want to crown the counselor; people drowned the counselor, left the young man alone]: Cronise, Ward 1903:249-256; boulsa: Schott 1996:159-179 [the father and three sons lost their cows; then someone trampled on the millet; the brothers were caught, but let go of the monkey first, then the hippopotamus; followed the cows; the monkey helped him get over the rocks, the hippopotamus across the river; they came to the chief in heaven; he has many cows and all black cows are the same like brothers cows; the chief tells him to identify his own; the cat waves its tail in front of those who belong to the brothers; the chief gives the younger a ring from his finger; if he does not return him by a certain time, it will be executed; and if he returns it, the leader himself must be killed; the young man marries, the wife stole the ring, gave it to his father, who threw it into the river; the young man found his ring in the belly of the caught fish; brought it to the chief term; the chief does not know what to do now], 181-189 [the father and three sons lost their cows; then someone trampled on millet; the brothers found, but first released the monkey, then the crocodile; the cat bit to death the rooster, but the brothers let the cat go; the ant stole the millet seeds, the brothers caught it, brought it to his father, he told the ant to let go; the brothers followed the cows; the monkey helped him get over the rocks, the crocodile over the river; they came to the chief in heaven; his wife scattered millet; the chief tells him to separate it from the sand, the ant separated it; he has many cows and all black cows are the same as the brothers' cows; the cat helped identify the cows]; Yoruba [the king is always served food by the same girl, always feeds a parrot; brags that he knows the king; he puts on simple clothes, tells her to identify him among other men; grateful the parrot points at the king with its wings; the king gives the girl half of his possessions]: Walker, Walker 1980:63-64; senufo [the black monkey bought a bull from the hyena, promised to give the money; the hyena came for them, but the monkeys said that she would only receive payment if she identified the customer; all the monkeys are similar; the hare promised to help; praised the resourcefulness of the monkeys, gave the cowrie to the liar, hanging a shell around her neck ; by this sign, the hyena recognized the bull's customer and rushed at her; the monkeys fled into the swampy thickets along the river and have been living there ever since]: Diep, Bamba 2007, No. 11:41-43; mofu-gudur: Sorin- Barreteau 2001, No. 24 [the mother gives rooster horses to the two eldest sons, the youngest a chicken horse; he is given water and ash; he complains to his mother; she gives him a honey drink, he goes to the savannah; for the drink a hare ready to be his horse, but for a young man he is not fast enough; the same is céphalophe; then an antelope; with this horse, the young man is the fastest, brings many more guinea fowls from hunting than others; the leader is jealous invites the older brothers to push the youngest into the hole; in the pit, he asks the monkey to lower his tail, gets out; follows the trail of bloody urine for his antelope horse (he asked him in advance to leave a similar trail ); comes to the leader of heaven; his child and wife say that meat has come; the young man is locked, fed with sesame seeds, he swims fat; the chief's daughter says that she does not want to drink from the common calebas, follows another, lets the young man out, washes, opens the stables, the young man finds his antelope horse, both sit on him, run away; the horse has jumped over two rivers, the chase fell into the second river; the young man saves the drowning leader and his two servants, lets the leader's wife drown; the grateful leader lets the fugitives go; the horse falls into the third river; the daughter of the water master saves them for promising to make her second, i.e. beloved, wife; during the day, the daughter of the Sun saves them from heat for the same promise; the daughters of the Night, the Moon join them under the same conditions; the daughter of the owner of the waters creates a village, people, the young man becomes a great leader; Djalo comes, he is fed selected to the dump with meat, he tells the mountain leader that there is a better leader than him; he offers challenges; 1) deliver a stick of unknown wood, an iron spear (the owner's daughter gets them); 2) separate sesame seeds from the sand (the daughter of the Sun tells ants to do this); 3) identify the mountain leader's favorite horse; the daughter of the water master comes in the guise of an old woman, finds out that the horse's tail, the white spot on the forehead, will be cut off; 4) identify him beloved wife (same - there will be a scar on his forehead, a measles apron covered in ash); Djalo kills a mountain chief, a young man becomes a common chief], 25 [in the absence of a husband, the wife does not feed his younger brother; one day cooks a good dinner, calls a young man; he does not believe in her kindness, calls friends for dinner, does not eat himself, hides his portion in a calebass; an enraged woman makes a mess like she was raped, complains to her husband; he waits for his brother, blocks him; the young man tells him how it was, calls friends as witnesses, shows the Calebass with untouched food, leaves; he is joined by the daughter of darkness, the daughter of the moon, the daughter of the spirit of the waters (for the right to join, she creates a dry corridor across the river), the daughter of the sun (the heat decreases); in the forest these women create a rich household; they are surprised that the young man does not sleep with them; he hides his impotence, runs away, meets an old woman; she consistently shows him 4 boxes of penises: old people, children, adults, boys; tells him to take from the latter, attaches him a new penis, tells him to meet her first, he she does it; she tells him to bring him the first child born, she will eat it as a reward for this penis; he and his wife bring the baby; as soon as the old woman holds the knife to his neck, the baby laughs; the old woman decides not to cut it, returns it to his parents; Djalo tells people that their leader is not real, but the real one lives in the forest; people come there, they are well fed, and the mountain chief does not feed well; he calls a young man, requires 1) split the round stone into two equal parts (the daughter of darkness splits); 2) divide the sesame seeds and sand (wives tell ants); 3) bring a long, even spear (wives give); 4) identify the leader's last wife and favorite horse; the daughter of darkness comes to the leader disguised as an old woman, finds out what handkerchief his beloved wife has, that the horse is gray; the answers are correct, the old leader is killed, a young man is chosen; wives command always leave them the liver of dead animals; the servant persuades them to give them simple meat; the wives tell everything to disappear, the young man has only the skin to cover himself; he apologizes, the wives return everything, now he listens to them]: 177-199, 200-226.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi: Lombard 1976 (Sakalava, West 1971) [the couple already has a son, the wife is ready to give birth to a second one; he says from the womb that his name is "Zatovo not created by God", asks his mother to swallow a razor, to circumcise himself; his mother did not get hurt; the father gave 100 bulls Z., the other 100 to his eldest son; Z. met an old man, exchanged all his bulls for a talisman, went on a journey, leaving an orange a tree and a banana; if he withered, he fell ill, if they dried up, he died; he climbed a mountain, there was a thunderstorm, he pointed a talisman at her, the thunderstorm stopped; he crossed the river with the help of a talisman (it does not say exactly how) ; quicksand converge and diverge, Z. sent a talisman at them, the sands froze and hardened; Z. gives the king of birds, wild boar, fly to get enough; in God's village, the talisman advises Z. to turn into a kingfisher ( martin-pecheur); allows God's daughter to take him, turns into a man at night; she is afraid that her father will kill him; Z. replies that he will not be able to kill someone who is not created by God; father notes oddities in his daughter's behavior, Z. opens to him; knows about the trap pit in his father-in-law's house, does not fall into it; father-in-law tells 1) to cultivate a huge field (wild boars dig up, weed teals, parrots, sparrows collect grain); 2) recognize the main cow in the herd (the bird shows); 3) recognize the bride among several women (the fly sits in front of her eye, she blinks); on a winged horse, Z. brings his wife to the ground; she doesn't tell him to look at her child, she goes to get water; she looks, there are twins, a boy and a girl; the wife dies immediately; these children are the ancestors of Europeans and other foreigners in Madagascar]: 175- 205; Rodman 1965 [each of the seven brothers goes successively to marry Ramituviamandrenini's girlfriend; the elder refuses to share food and rejects offers to help flies, wasps, larks, pigs, chomgi; Father R. tells 1) to count the rice sown, 2) find out which of the cows calved first, 3) cultivate a huge rice field, 4) get a pearl thrown there from the pond, 5) distinguish R. from her mother ; neither the older brother nor the other five brothers can complete the tasks; the younger Faralahi shares honey and rice; the lark collected and counted the rice, the wasp sat on the head of the calving cow, the chomga took it a pearl, the pig dug up the field, the fly sat on R.'s cheek; F. received R.; when he gave birth to a son, the brothers decided to kill F.; they took turns going down on a rope into the hole where the crocodile lived; when F. was lowered, they threw rope; but Zanahari (the supreme deity} led F. down the aisle used by the crocodile himself to his treasury and then outside; F. came wrapped in his skin, nasal, sent him like a beggar spend the night in R.'s hut; opened to his wife; at a circumcision festival, he demonstrated his newfound wealth]: 170-176.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the sultan is afraid that his son will take away his throne; he sends all the boys whose wives give birth to them away; one wife hid three sons; after the death of the Sultan, the eldest of them , Sidi Mohammed, took the throne; the daughter of the neighboring sultan will marry the one who makes her speak first; unsuccessful applicants are beheaded; SM tries, his head is 98th; seeing that the plant left by SM has dried up, Moulay Ahmed's middle brother, taking the throne, also goes to the princess and loses his head; the youngest, Moulay M'Hammed is smarter than others; hears two doves (fairies) talking; when the test will begin, you must read Dalil el Khairat's book out loud; after closing it, ask someone present to tell the story; the first story; the carpenter, merchant and Talib spent the night under open air, they take turns on duty at night; the carpenter made a female figure out of wood, the merchant dressed her up, the Talib turned to God and revived her; who should belong to her; MM: carpenter; princess: talibu; repeated the next night's test, the second story; the burnus maker, merchant and scientist set off; before that, the first borrowed money from the other; in the desert, a merchant demanded them back; what should I do? MM: he should get the money back; princess: what nonsense! third story; the Sultan of the Efreet cannibals ("Sultan Executioner", SP) has 7 brave men in the service, each has a gift; open any door; make any move in the ground; get hair out of the dough without hitting anything one grain of flour; cut through walls with a saber; jump over walls; jump from any height; cause a thunderstorm with a storm; SP marries another sultan's daughter for his son; he asks for a huge emerald for her; SP sends a caravan of such emeralds; had to give her daughter; she is terrified; SP is going to eat her; sleeps with her head on her hair and hiding behind the other part of her hair; the mother of 7 brave men tells her to write a letter to his father in blood - her sons would deliver it; the princess's father asked them to save his daughter; one opened the gate, the second jumped over the wall, the third pulled the princess's hair from under SP's head, the fourth stopped the pursuers with a storm; the fifth cut off the head of the SP; he turned into a 7-headed ghoul, but the young man cut off all 7 heads; who did more? MM: the one who opened the gate; the princess: the one who freed the girl from the ghoul's arms; MM won, but now he must know which of the 7 cocoons (the structure the bride sits inside) the bride will be in; prince again listens to the conversation between two doves: the cocoon in which the bride will sit, he looks the most inconspicuous; everything is fine, the wedding]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:178-208; kabila (Blida) [Emhammed lives with his mother and brothers; began to steal treasures from the Sultan's treasury; when he found a hole, the Sultan ordered a resin pot to be placed there; the thief would fall into it; on that day E.'s mother advised me to take her younger brother with him - let him also learn to steal; his brother fell into the resin; E. cut off his head and brought him to his mother; said that if she left the house today crying, he would kill her; the next morning the Sultan ordered the headless body to be crucified and bring all the residents of the city there; E. told his mother to bring a jug of butter with her and drop it; everyone would believe that she was crying for the missing oil; the sultan tells the adviser to feed the ostrich with pearls and diamonds and lead them to the castle; anyone who is used to stealing, if he sees jewelry in the feces of a bird, will rush to collect them; E. dressed up as an old woman, went to the castle and woke up grains; the ostrich became them peck, E. lured him, stabbed him and took the jewelry out of his stomach; the adviser offered to send an old woman around the city, who would say that the Sultan would pay a lot of money to someone who had ostrich fat (considered a powerful medicine); E.'s mother naively replied that she had fat; noticing this, E. killed the old woman and buried the corpse; adviser to the Sultan: arrange a holiday for the people, warning that old people, big and crippled should not come; give everyone wine, their tongues will be untied; E. began to talk about his exploits; the Sultan ordered him to shave half his beards to find him later; E. took a knife and began cut off half a beard to everyone he could; the Sultan ordered everyone to be imprisoned; at this time, the Sultan's son brought the horse to drink, pushing the old woman away from the water; old woman: it would be better to get King Cefretmâge's daughter ("King in yellow boots"); the prince demanded to let him go in search of the princess; E. admitted that he was stealing, asked the others to let go; the Sultan did not execute him, but ordered him to accompany his son; on the way, the prince fell asleep , and E. went to explore the area and entered the castle of two gulas; they warned that if the prince wanted to drink, he should ask them for water; the stream was poisoned by the venom of a seven-headed snake; when the prince woke up, E. brought him to the castle; they did not find the ghouls, and the cellars were full of human and animal bones; when the prince fell asleep again, E. went to the stream and cut off six heads of the snake; snake: for the first time such a brave man came; bring the prince and get a gift; E. and the prince came to the dungeon; there are two naked beauties; one is a princess, the other is the daughter of his vizier; 7 days ago someone kidnapped them from the royal garden; leaving the girls, E. and the prince ride on horseback; the old man herds his camels; says that only guli live on; gives a razor, a comb and a mirror; if you get to the stove, pick it up, you'll be underground; there's an old man whose eyelashes they close their eyes; he asks him to shave - shave and only then ask questions; spears are always ready; this old man gave a mirror and sent him to his older brother; and so 7 brothers who need to be cut off eyelashes, each sends to the elder; the seventh to the old woman, the mother of all seven; she will take the King in yellow boots to the gates of the city; but do not approach her if she pushes salt and black flies around her dove; turn when the grain is pushing and the white dove flies; lay down on her breasts; E. and the prince did everything, the old woman had a feast for them; says that 90 young men have already been decapitated for asked for the princess's hand; leave my horses and clothes, put on rags; for money, a woman in town agreed to show me the house where the princess lives; when he entered the sleeping princess, E. made up those standing together left in the corners of the chandelier; so three times; when the princess grabbed his finger, the hair that Gulya wrapped around him turned into a shining ring; the princess changed it to her magic; it did any wishes that are not aimed at harming the princess; they came to the Sultan; he offers difficult tasks; 1) find out what three items are in the bundle inside the chest; E. learned this from the princess: the comb the princess's mother, her marriage contract and the "black skin of the Black Ocean"; 2) holding a bowl of milk in her teeth, climb a palm tree without splashing it; E. told the ring to make the prince complete the task; 3) indicate which of the hundred closed palanquins the bride is in, grab her camel's reins and take her away; thanks to the ring, everything was successful; gulya met them as a young girl; when they got out of dungeons, a cloud took the princess away; E. turned to the ring, but it was gone; E. went in search alone; the camel driver and then the shepherdess direct him to the Women Thief; overhears how he succumbs to the princess's persuasion to tell him what his life was like; in a thread in an ostrich egg in the dungeon where the ghoul king lives; the shepherdess agreed to take him there; after driving the ostrich to the ground, E. stabbed him and smashed it an egg and burned a thread; the kidnapper burned down with her; hundreds of kidnapped women are happy; E. brought herds to the prince; the magic ring was found again, the women were sent home, the prince married the King's daughter in yellow boots]: Desparmet 1912:241-251; kabily: Taos-Amrush 1974 [younger brother Ahmed leaves home; kills jackal, lion, panther, shepherds give him sheep, cow, etc., he asks leave the animal in the herd until its return; the seven-headed dragon does not allow it to approach the water; A. cuts off the heads, asks the Sultan's daughter; he offers to identify her among a hundred girls, the greyhound rushes to her; wedding; the sultan warns of danger in the forest; M. goes to the forest, Ceriel swallowed him with a horse and a greyhound; the tree at home has turned yellow, Mehand's older brother is going to save A.; shepherds mistake him for A., they say that animals have given abundant offspring; M. kills C., takes out the corpses of A., a horse and a dog; sees a lizard kill another, revives with grass; M. revives those swallowed with the same grass; brothers and wife A. and herds coming home]: 117-128; Frobenius 1922a, No. 4 [Chief's son (Agelith) is smart but not busy, in bad company; black woman: your father could be the new chief, or better yet you, but you're missing him money; the young man vows to return to the rich, leaves, enters the country of Wuarssen (devas); the deva has three daughters, the youngest's fingernail on the little finger gives advice, and the deva's wife has all her nails like this; dev tells the boy 1) sow the field, harvest fruits in the evening; the eldest, middle daughters refuse to bring dinner to the young man, the youngest brings them, they eat and make love, she creates a garden with a magic wand, the young man brings a deva fruits; 2) bring water from the sea to the spring with a sieve so that the bottom of the sea is exposed, the sand dries, bring dry sand (the same, the young man pours sand on the deva's head); 3) get an eagle's nest with chicks in the evening, it on a steep cliff; the deva's wife hides a magic wand; the daughter tells me to chop it into pieces, throw it against a rock, they will turn into a ladder, get a nest, fold the pieces, smoke it with incense, she will come to life; a young man he does so, forgets his toe; dev promises to give him his youngest daughter if the young man identifies her among his sisters; he recognizes her by her missing finger; at night the girl tells him to run, take the worst looking horse , the young man takes the good, the devil catches up; she turns 1) the horse into a hut, herself into a melon, the young man into an old man; 2) the horse on the road, herself in the basket, the young man into an employee; the devil does not recognize, returns; for the third time he catches up deva wife; a girl creates a board, they swim across the sea on it; mother: if your husband is kissed by relatives, he will forget you; on the other side, a young man finds gold, his wife creates a palace; he goes visit parents, bring gold, as he swore; father becomes chief; son is kissed by his mother's sister, he forgets his wife; she comes, buys a coffee shop, everyone goes to the beautiful woman; she consistently promises night for two friends of the young man and him, if everyone pays 500 coins and does a little job while she sleeps; 1) close the window (the window closes, the hand sticks, so all night; 2) pour water from the jug ( as soon as you touch the jug and it is empty); 3) close the door; the young man breaks the door, recognizes his wife; everyone is happy; after the death of his father, the son becomes the chief]: 30-48; Rivière 1882 [Sultan's son Mohamed kills townspeople; the old woman promises to save the people; brings the jugs to the spring, begins to fill them with acorn shells; M. broke the jugs; the old woman tells him to marry Thithbirth better - 70 suitors have already died ; M. went on a journey, met a fellow traveler; took off the ring from the dead son of the cannibal, showed it to the ruler of the city, who demanded the second one, M. took it out; on the way they hear a talking bird; arriving at T., M. sings the same song as the bird, says he invented it himself; T. demands a bird; M. brings it (the bird flew into the cage itself); T.'s father will give his daughter if 1) M. finds her; the bird indicates to M. that she hid under father's seat; 2) identify T. among 70 identical girls; T.: I will be on a lame horse; after receiving T., M. took her home, giving her companion another woman; the cannibal stole T.; M. came and asked the ogre where he was life; the cannibal% in an egg, in a throat, in a camel, in the sea; M. took out an egg, the cannibal died; M. brought T. to his father's city, who promises a herd to the one who would kill his son; the warrior came to M., blinded him and left him in the desert ; the eagle showed leaves that restore sight; the elders denied the Sultan the right to take his son's wife; M. killed his father and reigned]: 187-192.

Southern Europe. Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 4 [the young man lost; a certain Castillo Branco tells him to come to him to carry out assignments, then he will compensate for the lost; the young man goes to the animal house, the deer sends him to the lion ; the lion tells you to cook the carcasses of four bulls, carries a young man on his back, eats carcasses along the way; the KB has two devil daughters and one of divine nature; KB requires 1) to cut down the forest in a day, plow, etc. - grind flour, bake bread (KB's daughter performs); 2) pacify three horses (he and his two eldest daughters, the youngest helps); 3) get the youngest daughter's ring from the bottom of the sea; she teaches her to cut her body into pieces fill the bottle without spilling blood, throw it into the sea; the bottle returned with a ring; you have to pour blood on the pieces of the body; the girl came to life, but the young man shed a drop, so his little finger is not enough; KB gave money, promised daughter, let him choose blindfolded; the young man felt the girls' hands, chose the one who does not have a little finger; got a wife; they are running, the wife left the spits responsible for her; left a wineskin in bed ; KB asked until the saliva dried; broke into the room, pierced the bed, mistook the wine for blood; then chased a horse as fast as thought, and the young had a horse like the wind; asks the reapers, who answer that the young people passed 9 months ago; the KB decides that if so, he will catch up; when he sees the chase, the girl becomes an onion field, the young man digs bulbs; next time the horse goes to church, himself in image, the young man in priest; KB is back with nothing]: 17-25; Webster 1879 [the poor young man leaves home, is hired by Tartaro; he tells one of the three pigeon girls who will fly to swim in lake; return for a promise to help; tells you to go to hire her father; he demands 1) uproot the oak grove, sow, harvest, bake bread; the dove maiden tells her crest to do everything; 2) get it out rivers lost ring; the dove maiden tells you to ask for a rusty sword, chop it to pieces, throw it into the river, comes out whole with a ring; the young man has lost her little finger, she pretends to slam it with the door; 3) tame a horse with three foals (this is the owner with three daughters, you have to beat them with a club and just pretend to beat her); in the morning the owner and daughters look beaten; 4) choose a wife with her eyes closed (she does not have little finger and she will give her hand twice); the young man gets a wife, she tells him to run, leaves the spit responsible for herself; the father chases, the daughter throws the comb (fog, hail), throws again - the river, the father drowns; on the border Christian land, the wife tells you to go to pick up a priest to baptize her, not kiss anyone, otherwise her husband will forget her; the old aunt kisses him; the wife creates an inn, the husband and two friends come in; she promises with spend the night with everyone; makes morning come before they do anything with his comb; opens to her husband; he brings a priest; everything is fine]: 120-130; Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [ childless king and queen want a child, even if the Devil gets it in 20 years; the young man grows up, loses his soul to the Devil, goes to him; the old woman advises to hide the clothes of Blancaflor, the youngest the Devil's three bathing daughters, pigeon girls; the other old woman, the mistress of the birds, sends her Moon sister to the Sun Brother; only the Lame Eagle is called to take her to the Castle Where There Is No Return, tells her to feed her meat on the way; the meat runs out, the Queen is ready to cut off from himself, but the Eagle still arrives; The devil tells 1) to cultivate the plot in a day, bake bread from the harvest; 2) grow grapes; B. all performs; 3) bring the ring dropped by his grandmother into the sea; B. tells her to kill, collect blood in a jug, throw her body into the sea; the young man sheds a drop of blood; B. leaves the sea carrying a ring, she lacks an edge little finger; 4) recognize B. among the sisters; girls put their little finger in the crack, B. has a scar; B. tells the Queen to take a bad horse, a rusty sword, run; leaves saliva responsible for himself, puts two on the bed wineskin; the devil pierces them, thinks he killed his daughter and son-in-law; the Queen took a good horse, a steel sword, the Devil catches up with them; B. throws a comb (forest), salt (mountain); the horse becomes a chapel, B. becomes a statue, the husband a hermit; the devil does not recognize them, at home the wife explains that they were fugitives; the Queen leaves B. at the source, comes home, is hugged by an old nanny, he forgets B.; prepares to marry another; B. is hired as a maid, asks for a stone of sorrow, a dagger of love; the devil sells them to the Queen; B. asks them if she helped the Queen; they confirm that the Queen recalls B.; the dagger tells B. put it in her heart, the Queen stops him; wedding]: 268-276; Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 313C (Salamanca) [Lisardo boy plays cards and always loses; the demon offers a condition: he will always win, but in 5 years he will go to the castle Go Don't Come Back (PN); after 5 years he goes, asks the eagle for directions, he refers to another who is older, it brings him to the castle, tells him to hide the clothes of the three bathing daughters of the PN, who is holy, her name is Blancaflor; he hides and returns her clothes, the girl promises to help; PN tells 1) scatter a bag of rice in the forest, bring it the next day safe (B. does everything); 2) arrange a field on the site of the forest, collect wheat, bake bread, all in a day (the same); 3) the same thing - a vineyard, wine; 4) get the ring lost by his great-grandmother from the river; B. tells cut it, put it in a vessel without spilling a drop of blood, throw it into the river; in the evening he brings a ring, says that a drop has spilled, but from his little finger; 5) tame the horse; this is the PN himself, his wife and daughters, B. will on the right, do not hit the right side; 6) three daughters will stretch out their arms, and L. is blindfolded, you must choose the bride's hand; B. can be recognized by the missing phalanx of the little finger; B. tells you to leave the spits responsible for them, choose a skinny oath Thought rather than a well-fed Wind; L. does the opposite; father chases, B. throws a comb (thicket), a handkerchief (lastral), a garter (river); PN comes back every time, his wife sends it again; B. turns a horse into a vegetable garden, L. into a peasant, herself into a lettuce bed; a chapel, a hermit, an icon; the PN's wife decides not to chase herself, but to make L. forget B. if she kisses someone; B. warns, but an old woman kissed him from behind, L. forgot B.; she comes and stays disguised as a prostitute; L. comes to her three times before the wedding, but she tells him to do something every time (for example, serve coffee), and he freezes at this case until morning; at the wedding, he tells two dolls to pretend to be themselves and L., they tell me everything, L. remembers marrying B.]: 85-95; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 313 [ the prince goes to hell, he gives him difficult assignments; 1) plant a vine in the morning, wine is ready in the evening; 2) get the ring from the bottom of the sea, to do this, you need to dismember the girl; 3) sow wheat in the morning, bake bread in the evening; 4) tame the horse (that's the devil himself); 5) build a palace in a day; 6) disassemble the mixed seeds; and something else; he denies that the girl helped him; must identify the girl among several identical (only on the arm; the girl does not have enough finger, so he recognizes her); the spouses run, the wife leaves the saliva responsible for herself; the wineskin is left in bed; the young man chooses a fat horse, he is like wind, you had to choose a skinny one, he's like a thought; a horse turns into a church, a girl into an image, a young man into a hermit; a garden, a salad (flowers) and a gardener; a river, a boat, a boatman; throw objects: ash (occurs fog), needles or pine needles (thorny thickets), salt or water (sea), sand (hill); the devil's wife cast a spell: after kissing his mother or grandmother against will, the hero forgets his wife; she attracts him attention (many options), he recognizes her], 425D [after her husband is gone, the heroine gives alms (feeds free of charge) to those who come, and for this she requires stories to be told; from one of them she learns that her husband was turned into different animals and is now fed with animals; she disagrees with him, in particular after she has been able to recognize him among several identical animals]: 68-69, 99; Sicilians [when he dies, the king tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first to meet when the buds open on the bush; he passes them off as kings of crows, wild animals, birds; he bothers the young king old woman, he pushes her; she tells him to lose his peace until he finds Cardia; the king goes in search, goes to his older sister; she first hides him from her husband; the husband gives almonds; the middle husband chestnut, the youngest is a nut; explains that K. has a witch, who will require K. to know among many girls, K. will have seven veils; the witch requires that there be no heaps of beans by morning; almond crows eat; basement corpses - chestnut animals eat; fill mattresses with feathers - walnut birds fill; the king recognizes K. by seven veils; the witch demands that their child call her grandmother by morning; in the morning K. shows a doll, and the king cuts off the witch's head; returns home with his wife]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 27:179-184; the Sardinians [Prince Ginó lost everything, including himself; after a year, 3 months, 3 days and 3 days minutes must come to the winner; on the eve of the expiration of the term, he leaves; comes to the old man, asks him for gold; he refers to his older brother, and the brother to their older sister; she shows the lake where 10 doves fly to swim; you have to wait for the eleventh and hide le chiavi, return it when she agrees to become a wife; the prince does everything, comes to the sorcerer (orco); he demands to raze the valley, demolish the mountain, build a palace in the middle of the sea; the dove maiden (she is the sorcerer's daughter) does everything - the third task, dismembering himself; the prince must identify his wife among the doves, finds out by a predetermined basis; spouses flee; turning into a church and sakristan, a vegetable garden and a gardener; without catching up with the fugitives, the sorcerer's wife tells the prince to forget his wife when someone kisses him; so it happened; prince with two friends come to his forgotten wife's house; hoping to spend the night with a woman, everyone spends her hard work; prince remembers his wife]: Aprile 2000:274; Corsicans [prince lost cards; when lost his soul, the sorcerer returned his money and crew, but ordered him to arrive at the Seven Golden Mountains a year and a day later; the old woman teaches him to seek help from the sorcerer's youngest daughters; he gives tasks: to demolish in a day mountain and sow wheat in this place (according to the girl, everything happens instantaneously); get the ring that the sorcerer dropped in the Red Sea; the girl tells her to be slaughtered at the seashore, collect all the blood in the pelvis, pour into the sea; because one drop fell to the ground, the girl, bringing the ring, returned from the sea later and was left without a little finger; the sorcerer tells us to tame the horse; the girl: the horse is himself, the saddle is her, the stirrups are hers two sisters, you have to hit the horse on the head with an iron stick; the sorcerer promises a daughter as his wife, but the young man must choose a bride with his eyes closed; girl: feel her hand, she has no little finger; after the wedding, the wife tells run; one horse is like the wind, the other is like breathing, you must take the one who is half asleep; the young man took the cheerful one; the sisters chase the first two times, the young man's wife throws a bottle of cologne (river), a comb (prickly thickets), the pursuer returns; the sorcerer himself jumps, the wife throws soap, the sorcerer is unable to climb the slippery mountain; the couple escape, the feast]: Massignon 1984, No. 102:227-233; Italians: Andrews 1892, No. 34 (Liguria) [the fisherman has three sons; the catch is scarce; there is a place where there are a lot of fish, but the father forbids his sons to go there, for hell; the youngest son has gone, the hell took him to him, sets difficult tasks; 1) scoop out the lake with a basket; tells the youngest daughter to take lunch to the worker; when she sees the young man, she tells her ring to dry the lake; 2) get eggs out of the nest on a high cliff, and the stepladder is only a meter high; the girl tells the ring to get the eggs; 3) get the ring from the bottom of the well, if she does, she will marry one of the seven daughters; the girl tells me to cut it into pieces and throw it into the well; he forgot to throw it a bone from the little finger on her leg; the girl took out the ring and was whole again, but the little finger on her leg was not enough; she said that on this basis the young man would be able to identify her among her sisters; and that he should have the night spend on the window of the room, because the father will throw a millstone on his bed; in the morning the young man says a line that a rat fell on him at night; the young man identified his youngest daughter as a trait; the girl tells him to run and, for this purpose, take the stable has the skinniest oath; but the young man took a well-fed horse; the girl says that this is the worst, but now it's too late to change; hell chases, the girl turns the horse into a chapel, the young man into a priest and herself into a servant ; hell did not recognize them, the devil's wife calls him a fool, sends him again; a rose bush, a hunter, a bird; a river, a fisherman, an eel; they manage to cross the border of the line's possessions, he gets only the back half horse; everything is fine]: 155-160; Calvino 1980, No. 22 (Milan) [a young man wins billiards against a man who calls himself the Sun King, the bet is the daughter of that; the young man goes in search; the old man says three daughters The Sun King comes to swim in the lake; the young man hides one of them's clothes, promises to return him for promising to deliver him to their father; the young fell in love with each other and the girl taught: when the father demands identify the bride with her eyes closed, you have to feel her hands: she will miss one finger; on the night after the wedding, the wife tells the young man that her father is going to kill him; they run, the father-in-law sends him in pursuit soldier; the wife throws the comb; he turns into a forest where a man and a woman uproot stumps; when asked if they saw the fugitives, the workers say that as soon as they uproot a full cart, they will go home; King The sun tells the returnees that they were the fugitives; the next crest abandoned turns into a vegetable garden where a man and a woman dig radishes (the same); the third crest is a church and two servants; {apparently it was sequel; p. 720: The aborted ending is my own}]: 65-67; ladins: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 59 [older, middle brothers go to work, do not return; younger also went, met two beggars, these are brothers, they did not recognize him; they want to ruin an anthill, a hive, kill ducks on the lake; the youngest did not allow it; they came to an empty castle, there is food and drink; the old man tells 1) to collect what they have scattered grain; the elder, middle brothers cannot, turned into stone; 2) which of the stone columns belongs to the bees; a swarm of bees rescued by a young man sat on it; 3) get the golden key to the room from the bottom of the lake, in who is sleeping the princess; the ducks took out; the old man gave a rod, ordered them to hit all the stone columns; the petrified ones are split; the wedding; the young man also moved his parents to the castle]: 157-161; Uffer 1973, No. 44 [widow's son goes to work; sees 10 winged maidens fly to the lake, take off their wings, start swimming, then fly back to the mountain peaks; next time the young man hid, took the wings of the youngest; she became his wife; he put his wings in the chest and told his mother not to leave the key in the lock; she left it, the wife found wings, flew away, telling her to look for her on the glass mountain; the young man went in search; the young man guides He sent him to the old man; he sent him to his sister Moon to the top of the mountain; the Moon sends the Sun to his older brother; he sends him to his older brother Wind; he gives a ball that rolls towards the glass mountain; the wind took the young man up the mountain; there in the house, the mother of bird girls offers tasks; 1) cut down the forest with a lead ax (the bride tells me to go to bed, the job is done); 2) scoop out the lake with a scoop of holes (the same); 3) find out the bride among her sisters (she tied a red ribbon to her leg); the bride tells her to run, throw three red lice behind one another; each turns into a mountain, one taller than the other; the mother cannot overcome third mountain, stops persecution; young man brings his wife to him; wedding]: 211-220.

Western Europe. The French (Dauphine): Joisten 1991, No. 1.1 [Jean loses, meets a man, gives him a talisman that allows him to always win, tells him to be on Black Mountain in three months; Jean gets rich, but not him mother, nor other old people know where Black Mountain is; he comes to an old man who calls birds, knows only crows, brings Jean to an old woman by the mountain, who teaches him to be modest in everything, there are three girls, one leads to house; the owner was waiting for Jean, tells 1) to cut down oaks, prepare firewood, collect a bouquet of flowers; Jean cut down only three trees; the owner's daughter tells him to fall asleep, everything comes true (the girl's mother tells her husband every time that his his daughter betrays him); 2) cultivate the land, harvest vegetables, fruits, flowers (the same); 3) get two eggs from the top of the pyramidal mountain from the goldfinch's nest; it's impossible to climb, Jean slides back; girl tells her to throw her into a boiling pot, collect the bones, make a ladder out of them, then the bones back into the cauldron, she will come out whole; as it happens, Jean took out two eggs; the girl does not have enough little finger on her left leg ( Jean forgot the bone upstairs); 4) identify the bride among her two sisters in a dark room; Jean identified it by groping for the missing little finger; the bride tells me not to go to bed (millstones will fall on the young), but run, choosing a thin skate; Jean takes a fat one; the girl's father easily catches up with them on a thin horse; the daughter turns 1) the horse into a laundry platform (lavoir), Jean in goulot, herself in cardaline, who sang, answered that she did not see anyone, the girl's father returned, the wife explained that they were fugitives; 2) the horse to the river, Jean to the ship, herself to the carrier; replies that he would transport him only for money, the father returned; it came day, the Devil is out of power; Jean and his bride came to the Holy Land; the girl must wait three years to enter there, for she is the daughter of the Devil; she told Jean to go to his mother but not to hug any woman; mother and others hugged him when he fell asleep, he forgot his wife; she comes beautiful, promises a night to someone who pays 3,000 francs; the first person who comes sticks to the door, sticks in the morning; the second to the night pot; third Jean, the girl says she is his wife, he remembers her; wedding], 1.2 [about the same as (1.1); the girl's name is Marie Petassole, the hero's name is Pierre]: 21-29, 29-40; French (Lorraine) [Jean gets to hell; his daughter Green Pen helps her father complete her father's difficult errands; get it (where from?) the spire for the castle to be built; to do this, he dismembers the girl, and when he reassembles him, his little finger is missing; he must identify the bride among several girls; finds her missing little finger]: Hartland 1891:293; the French (Haute-Brittany, 1879) [a boy {rather a young man} was collecting firewood in the forest; the gentleman gave him money on the condition that he would come to the same place in a month; via The young man did not find a master for a month, and there were three girls on the pond: in white, gray and blue clothes; the one in white sent him to the master and taught him to refuse when he offered food: I must serve you, not you are happy with me; gentleman; in the morning he gives me a lead ax, a paper saw and a wheelbarrow made of oak leaves; you have to cut down the forest in a day and stack logs; a girl in white gives a magic wand, with her wave everything comes true; the next day: in one day there should be an orchard and a pond with ducks on the site of the hill (same); then: get a dove from the top of a marble tower with steep walls; girl: cut me into pieces, cook in a cauldron and make a step out of each bone; the young man did not put the little finger of his left foot in the cauldron; when he went down, the girl was intact. The young man admitted that he had hidden his little finger and she allowed him to keep it ; when the master offered to choose a bride among three sisters, the bride taught the young man to recognize her by the absence of a little finger; after the wedding, the master hung the newlyweds bed over the failure; asks three times: Son-in-law, are you sleeping? the wife will tell her not to answer for a third time, and then race away on a horse named Little Wind; then the master asks her daughter; the third time she did not answer, ran away, and the master and wife cut off the ropes; Having caught up with the young man, his wife reproaches him: you have saddled the Big Wind, now someone will die; chase; the wife has turned the horse into a garden, herself and the young man into gardeners; the gentleman and his wife ask if they have seen the fugitives; in answer: three pears for su; - That's not it! - Four for soo! next time: church, altar and priest; he mumbles when asked by the pursuers: Dominus vobiscum; for the third time, the river, the boat and the carrier; -Just transported them; the gentleman and his wife got into the boat, she sank and they drowned; the couple rode home safely]: Sébillot 1880, No. 31:197-205; Walloons [the young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him recoup with the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille de Plomb Castle; the young man came to the old man, the animals obey him; the pig carried him, he broke the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; at the giant subordinate to the bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; on the way, the supply runs out, the young man cut off a piece of his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, steals the youngest's clothes, returning for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul by 1) getting the ring from the bottom of the well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings the ring connects to the bottom; because a drop of blood was lost, one finger is missing; 2) squeeze and grind wheat from a huge field in a day; 3) create a sea with all types of fish (the girl helps to perform); it is necessary to recognize the bride three times under the veil among her sisters; the young man recognizes by the missing finger; the wedding; the young run; turn into peasants; into a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again]: Laport 1932, No. 313:43-44; Bretons: Lopyreva 1959, No. 32 [son of the king got lost hunting, lost all his money and his head at the inn; Barbower Greenbeard tells him to come in a year; the old man gives a ball, it rolls to Castle B.; scissors cut the way into the prickly bush; when three birds arrive, throw off their clothes from their feathers, swim, jump on the younger Quantic's back; she brings the young man to her father; B. gives tasks, K. teaches what to do; 1) cut down with a wooden ax (hit once, all the trees will fall down), 2) demolish the mountain with a wooden pickaxe (the same), 3) get her grandfather's anchor from the bottom of the sea (K. tells her to cut off her head, throw her into the sea, and not sleep; anchors, B. has not yet fallen asleep, puts K.'s head to the body); 4) B. is ready to give it to young K. if he identifies her among the three mice in the bag (K.'s two sisters rush to the young man's hand, she herself is hiding in the corner); Upon entering marriage, K. throws a candlestick on the bed, it falls into the abyss (this is the work of her sisters); the spouses return to the young man's father, after the death of his father, the son inherits the throne]: 122-120; Luzel 1887 (2), No. 10 [The fisherman has 6 children, the catch is always poor; he has caught a mermaid, she promised a rich catch, but wants to kiss a boy whom the fisherman's wife has just given birth; after baptizing the baby, the fisherman brought it to the mermaid; she gave a piece of gold to be put on the edge of the hearth; then gold would fall out of the chimney all day; the mermaid tried to pick up the child, but the fisherman took him away; the mermaid disappeared, saying that the boy (his name is Fanch) still belongs to her; the fisherman became rich; people thought that the fisherman sold himself to the devil, stopped communicating with him; F. reached the age of 18, went on a journey with a servant; his father forbade him approach the seashore; the wolf, the hawk and the bumblebee are arguing over the horse's carcass; F. shared: meat to the wolf, giblets to the hawk, blood to the bumblebee; they gave F. the ability to take their form; F. became a wolf for testing, the servant got scared and rode away; there was a pond in front, there were geese; F. swam on horseback, giving the geese bread; the main goose promised to help; on the way ants, F. gave them all the rest of the food, they promised to help; F. came to a castle, there is food and wine, a soft bed; in the morning the old woman throws a purse with money into the well and tells her to get it, letting the sink scoop out water; otherwise she will kill; F. calls the goose, she dives, brings it; the next day - divide three varieties of grain (ants divided); on the third day: find out in the dark which of the three sisters is more beautiful, because three old women are the enchanted daughters of the Spanish king; let F. getting married; the bumblebee will buzz around the head of the one to choose; the old women have become princesses, but F. said he is too young for now and will come to Spain later; returned to Paris, lives in front of the palace , sees the princess, became a hawk, let the princess catch himself; at night he becomes a young man; the pregnancy is obvious, the king was told that he ran into his daughter's room, F. opened, had to marry him off the princess; her former fiancé, a Turkish prince, invited F. to go by sea, pushed F. into the water, F. was picked up by a mermaid; two years later, F. asked her to raise him above the water for a while, flew hawk to Paris; tomorrow's wedding his wife with a Turkish prince; F. came to the wedding in a luxurious outfit, opened himself to his wife; the princess asks the king and Turkish fiancé what key to keep: old and found or made in return; both they answer that he is old; F. tells the Turkish prince to be thrown into a hot stove; everything is fine]: 381-418; Irish: Curtin 1975 [the fisherman and his son see the boat, a stranger comes out of it, asks to send his son to year and day in study, promises to return; he is Gruagach na g-cleasan ("Gruagach of tricks"); a year and a day later he asks to give for another period; the father forgets to promise to return the young man; G. shouts that he He will not see him again; the father comes to G.; he tells him to recognize his son among 12 pigeons; at night the son comes, says that he will avoid other pigeons, and he has a speck under his wing; the father identifies the son, receives back; the son says he will become a horse, tells him to be sold without a bridle, wins the race; when sold, he returns; next time he becomes a hound, but the father forgets to take off his leash; who bought the hound G. binds a young man in a cave, poison drips on him; the young man asks the maid to give a sip of water and loosen one knot; turns into an eel, slips into the river; G. and his 11 sons follow eels; the young man is salmon, the pursuers are otters; the whale is killer whales; the swallow is hawks; the young man falls in a ring on the knees of the daughter of the King of Ireland; G. and his sons arrange performances in the palace, ask for the ring; the young man teaches the princess throw the ring into the fire, cook a barrel of millet with alcohol; G. with her sons - ticks, the young man - a spark in a barrel; G. and his sons - roosters, pecked, intoxicated, fell asleep; the young man was a fox, strangled them; married the king's daughter, who handed over the crown to his son-in-law]: 85-98; Neely 1944 [western in an Irish settlement in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, Illinois; the king of France wants to marry; the monk says that three swans, girls who come to the lake; gives the king ten-mile boots, he steals the girls' clothes; gives it for a promise to take it with him; the older, middle, younger sister takes turns carrying it; he wants marry the youngest, must identify her; she warns that she will sit with her knees clenched; in a few years, the king wants to visit the house; the wife warns not to do so; gives a flying ship, tells not to go out of it; the king goes out, Death immediately grabs him; the king asks to take the old men instead of him, but Death wants only him; the king asks Death to get into the box first, attaches it with a lid, returns to his wife, wants to open the box, the wife doesn't tell; they throw the box into the sea, the waves bring it to Ireland; people open the box, Death begins to kill everyone; so the Irish moved to America]: 90-91; Welsh (South Wales) [a widow's son herds cows by the lake, sees a woman sitting in the lake combing her hair; offers her bread twice, she says it's too baked; on accepts for the third time, agrees to marry a young man if he promises not to hit her three times for no reason; the girl's father comes out of the lake, tells him to identify the bride among many identical girls; he performs the task, gets his wife and a herd of cows coming out of the lake; he touches his wife's shoulder three times (the first time with a friendly glove, the second time asking why she is crying, the third time asking her not laugh when she laughs during a funeral; after the third time, the wife disappears with the cows; later she gives one of her sons medication, makes him a famous healer]: Rhys 1901 (1): 2 in Walter 2008:80-81 (same text in Hartland 1891:274-276, but the waterman shows only two girls to the boy; he recognizes the bride by the lace on her shoe, whose features he noticed the day before); Scots [(= Kharitonov 2008:383-394 with minor differences; no mice and sparrow quarrel, magpie's nest on spruce rather than pine; episodes of escape and persecution in Clouston 1887:440-441); sparrow and mouse quarreled over grains; a war between birds and animals has begun; the Queen of Tetertyne killed the Snake when she was ready to kill the Raven in a duel; he carries him across valleys and lakes to his first, second, third sisters, the third becomes a young man; gives them a bag, tells them not to open it on the way; the young man opens, a palace with a garden appears; the giant puts them back for promising to give their son, who will be born when he is fulfilled seven years; a young man becomes king, marries, seven years later a giant is his son; the boy's mother gives her son a cook instead of her son; the giant asks what his father would do if he got a rod; he replies that he would drive dogs and cats away from treats; the king has to give his promised son; the young man grows up in a giant's house, who offers him a choice of one of two daughters; the young man demands a third, Red-haired Mary; the giant demands 1) clean the barn (M. does everything), 2) cover the house with bird feathers (the same), 3) get magpies out of the nest and cook magpies (M. cuts off his fingers and toes, they turn into steps of the stairs, the young man pulls out his eggs, his fingers grow, except for the little finger, which the young man did not touch when he climbed); 4) recognize the bride among her sisters (she does not have a little finger); M. tells run, leaving apple slices to answer; M. tells you to take the mare out of the mare's ear, throw behind 1) a branch of thorn (thorny thickets; the giant runs home for an ax, then carries it back, because the crow promises an ax steal), 2) a pebble (a mountain, a giant runs home for a pickaxe and a hammer), 3) a bottle of water (a lake, a giant sinks); M. tells not to kiss anyone at home, a dog kisses a young man, he forgets M.; M. hides in a tree , the wife, the daughter of a shoemaker, see her reflection, take it for their own, refuse to carry water, since they are so beautiful; the shoemaker takes M. into the house, says that the Queen is marrying, takes M. with him to a feast; from one Two pigeons fly out of the glass, tell the story of M.; Korolevich marries M.]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 2:25-38 (translated to Shustov 1994:363-373); Germans: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 62 [=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 193-194; two elder queens went on an adventure, led a promiscuous life. The younger Simpleton went in search of brothers; did not allow them to ruin the anthill; kill ducks on the lake; smoke bees ; the brothers came to the enchanted castle, its inhabitants petrified; only one person led them to the laid table, then to the bedroom; showed the inscription, these are three tasks, if they are fulfilled, the castle will be disgraced; those who did not perform will petrify themselves; the older brothers petrified, the Simpleton did everything; 1) find a thousand royal pearls in the forest under moss (ants collected); 2) get the key to the bedchamber from the bottom of the lake royal (ducks get it); 3) three royals are sleeping, we must identify the youngest (the bee sits on her lips); petrified ones come to life, the Simpleton marries the youngest, his brothers to older princesses], 68 [=Grimm, Grimm 1987 : 207-208; Jan went to church to ask God what craft to teach his son; a clerk stood beside him and repeated: stealing, stealing! Ian decided that his son would become a thief; he came to a house in the forest, there was an old woman; her son agreed to teach stealing for free, but in a year Ian must identify his son, otherwise he would pay dearly; a year later he ran out to meet him little man, warned that the son would be a bird, would look out of the cage; the son became a greyhound, the father sold him, the son returned; when the son became a horse, the father forgot to remove the bridle from him before selling it; in the stable the horse asks the maid to remove the bridle; turned into a sparrow, then a fish; the sorcerer is also a sparrow, a fish, they fight; the sorcerer has become a rooster, the young man is a fox, bit off the rooster's head]: 232-235, 246-248; Germans (south ?) [the old woman predicts to the childless king that he will have a son, but will disappear in the 12th year; when Ferdinand is 12 years old, he goes to a wedding with his parents, chases a deer, loses his way; an old woman appears offers to carry it, transfers it across the river to her house; she has 3 daughters, the youngest Lenore; after a while, the old woman tells 1) to scoop out the lake with a spoon (L. drains it); 2) turn the forest into firewood (L. performs); 3) build a palace not out of wood, brick or stone (L. builds from gold and silver); 3) choose a bride among the old woman's three daughters (L. has a speck of blood on her forehead); at night L. turns 2 pillows into a kind of people, young people run, an old woman hits pillows with an ax; the middle sister chases, L. turns herself into a mug of beer, F. into a mug lid, tells her to hit her sister in the teeth; the eldest sister (a cherry tree and a thorny bush, the thorns are scratched); an old woman chases, L. turns herself and F. into two ducks, they swim across the river; the old woman sends her daughter a dowry in three boxes across the river; prince leaves L. to prepare a reception at her father's castle; L. tells no one to kiss, the old nurse kisses, F. forgets everything; L. became a townsman, three of the prince's servants take turns coming to her; she is the first asks to close the door, he sticks to the hook; the second to the scoop by the stove; the third to the calf in the courtyard; the king marries the prince, the wedding carriage breaks down near the house in which L.; she gives the door to the repair boards carriages, asks her to take her to the wedding; wears the first dowry dress given by her mother; the young gives F. for the night for the dress, but puts F. to sleep; the next day, the glob broke in the carriage, L. gives his scoop; same; on the third day only that calf moves the carriage; the servant told F. everything, he waits for L., but she accuses F. of forgetfulness, retires to the castle between earth and sky; F. goes in search; two giants argue over leaps and bounds; F. invites them to race, runs away himself in boots; the other two giants, an invisible coat; still others, a saddle that carries through the air; F. gets to his mother Months, Mother of the Sun, Mother of the Wind; only the Wind knows where the castle is - he dried the laundry washed before the wedding there; F. appears in front of L.; her new fiancé himself says that if they find the old keys, they don't need new; F.'s wedding with L.]: Cerf 1992:53-76.

Western Asia. Mehri: Müller 1909, No. 25 [a man's three sisters married a bird, an ant, a genie; he goes to marry the daughter of sunshine (Sonnenblitz); a bird and an ant give each pearl; thanks to them, the man flew in the form of a bird, entered the palace as an ant; the girl's father: the groom must spend the night in a room with an elephant that kills people; the man turned into an ant, climbed an elephant into trunk, killed him; recognize the bride among many girls; she warns that she will have a marked Siegelring on her hand; the sultan tells me to build a house overnight; the man calls the genie brother-in-law, who builds; the sultan gives man a daughter and slaves], 42 [three sisters of a man married a bird, an ant, a genie; he goes to marry the daughter of sunshine (Sonnenblitz); the bird gives a ring, an ant - a pearl; if you take it in your mouth, you will become a bird, an ant; a man entered the palace as an ant; the girl's father: the groom must spend the night in a room with an elephant that kills people; the man has become an ant climbed into an elephant's trunk, killed him; recognize the bride among 100 girls; he makes a mistake for the first time, guesses the second time; gets a wife; father-in-law tells him to build a house overnight; a man calls a genie brother-in-law, Genies build; a man and his wife run away; they meet an old woman Kašmêt, she refuses to give them a drink; another old woman; a slave named "sea of darkness", they kill her, return home]: 54-58, 112-116.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [ambassadors of the seven kingdoms come to marry a Chinese princess, only the ambassador of Tibet performs tasks; 1) to identify which young mare is from which old (the young one resorts to the call of the old one, when she is full); 2) thread the thread through the hole in the jasper (tie it to the ant); 3) point to the log where the butt is and where the top is (throw it into the river, the heavy butt will turn back); 4) identify a bride among 300 girls (above her there is a bee attracted by honey rubbing); the bride goes to Tibet, taking craftsmen and cereal seeds with her]: Osipov, Riftin 1962:31-37; Tibetans (Ham): Potanin 1903 [legend about the construction of the main temple in Lhassa; Sronzang Gambo wants to marry a Chinese princess; the Tibetan ambassador is asked to identify the princess among 300 girls; the maid reports signs (eighth from the left, on the right cheek, the chakra sign, etc.)]: 12-13; 1914, No. 1 (Sichuan) [Tan-wang agreed to give his daughter if Longbu-Ga, who marries her to Srontszang Gambo, recognizes her among 500 girls; L. planted the maid was covered with stones and trees, a copper pipe was held into the pit, in this condition the maid said that the princess had a white face, a bee would sit on her right shoulder; the soothsayer could not determine who said ("A woman with a copper beak behind mountains, forests, etc.")]: 391; Tibetans (Amdo) [identify the daughter of the Chinese emperor among 321 maidens (eighth from left, a bee will fly above her)]: Potanin 1893:219 ( retelling in 1903:14-16); lepcha [in heaven in the country of Rum, King Ling Gyaso's youngest seventh son; the eldest six want to take away his father's throne; the father decides to send him to earth to destroy demons; he takes a dog, a horse, a goat, a golden rooster; these animals die in their heavenly life, become wheat grains in LG's pocket; he sees a virgin on the ground behind a spinning wheel, falls like a hailstone, a virgin swallows it; gives birth to a bag; throws it off the mountain; a crow covers the bag from the scorching sun; a heavenly mother came down, took the boy out of her bag, threatened her earthly mother to kill her if she will give the child to strangers; two demons demanded that he be given, put him in a cauldron to cook; LP got out, hacked them with a sword; became king, brought his wife to the palace; burned the demontes; learned from the demon's wife that her husband's life was in two sago palms and two flea bags, destroyed them, took the demon's wife; while he was living with her, his father's brother sold his first wife to King Hore; he said his wife had been kidnapped, went with LG to return her; they they spend the night on the edge of the cliff; the uncle invites LG to lie on the edge; he puts bags in his place, at night his uncle throws them off; LG invites his uncle to carry a stone; a rope is needed, LG offers a leather belt with his own backs; the uncle picks up a stone, it gets heavier, presses it into the ground (the uncle was killed not by LG, but by a stone); in the country of Hore, LG turns into a baby, H. picks him up; he grows up; if LG is the nephew of H. in a new rebirth, he must identify X.'s weapons among others; mother H.'s sister turns into a white fly, sits on every object; H. recognizes LN as a nephew; LG becomes a blacksmith, forges a sword around H.'s neck; asks to send an army to enemies, all warriors X. are killed by magic arrows; LG says H. is eating his hand; he allows him to cut off his own, LG gives him rice, H. thinks he eats his hand; the same leg, nose, ears; cuts off his head, takes his wife; hangs son H. upside down over a plate of rice; leaves a cat, a rooster, a donkey, two crows next to him; answers the beggar that the prince eats, the animals do something and that; but Vizier H. understood everything; pursues, LG shot him]: Stocks 1925, № XXVIII: 406-420, 427-435.

Burma - Indochina. The Burmese [silver mountain is guarded from the mortal world by thorny reeds, a river of liquid copper, and belu demons; surrounded by a magic belt, 9 princesses from this mountain are able to fly like birds; they flew to the ground, began to swim; the hunter caught the youngest Mananhurree in a snare {and hid her belt}; brought the maiden to the prince, who immediately made her the main wife; the main one was the daughter of an astrologer; prince left, and the king ordered to interpret the dream; the astrologer interpreted it as if M. should be sacrificed; the Queen Mother heard this, gave M. her belt, which the prince entrusted to the Queen; M. gives the old man- a hermit a ring and potions that allow him to avoid obstacles on the way to the Silver Mountain; the returning prince goes in search of his wife, meets a hermit, receives a ring and potions from him; in a city on the mountain throws a ring into the jug of a maid who has come to fetch water for the princess; the ruler of Silver Mountain is dissatisfied with the appearance of a mortal; he is ready to give him his daughter if he can shoot his bow in the palace; the prince did it easily; recognize his wife among her sisters when each shows only her little finger (the natov king helped do it); {that ends the text}]: Blundell 1839:536-551; Thais: Toth 1971, No. 14 [similar to Wrigglesworth 1991; challenges: 1) raise a stone bench (prayed to a god of strength), 2) identify his wife (a butterfly flew up to her), 3) shoot through many obstacles with an arrow (hero does it himself)]: 106-115; Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 7 [=Nikulin 1988:421-427; in Sawan Nakol ("golden city"), at the foot of the Himalayas, lived the king of birds; the youngest of seven daughters was Ma Nora; they flew on full moon swim in a pond near the hermit's cave; forester Bun visited him, found out that a bird girl can only be caught with a "snake loop"; before that, he saved the king of snakes, he gave a noose; when the bird maidens took off their tails and wings, B. caught MN with a loop, gave Sutone, Prince of Pawnkala; while S. was at war, the evil adviser said that MN must be sacrificed, otherwise the king would die; MN asked for her tail and wings to dance a farewell dance; flew away; S. returned, threw the counselor into prison, went to look for MN; the hermit gave him the ring left by MN; gave him a guide monkey; after 7 years, 7 months and 7 days S. reached the kingdom of birds; heard two women who came for water say that today is the end of the deadline after which MN will eliminate the memories of what happened to her; S. threw a ring in jug; MN recognized him; the king of birds makes it a condition for marriage that S. must identify his wife among her sisters; S. recognized her by his ring on her finger; S. and MN returned to Sawan Nakol, during their reign humans and the birds were friends]: 290-293; Kornev 1963 [Prince Chau Nechi came to the lake, there are 7 peacock girls, he hid his youngest's clothes, brought her into the house by his wife, her name is Namarona; the vizier wanted to pass off his daughter as an emergency, persuaded the neighboring king to attack, the emergency went to war; the vizier spread the rumor that the enemies had won, and the witch N. was to blame; before her execution, she asks for permission to dance in her clothes, flies away; the emergency returned victorious, went to look for his wife; she gave her bracelet to the hermit, ordered her to hand it over to her husband and tell her about the road; the hermit gave companions a pet monkey; the snake lay down as a bridge over the hot river in which Even the sword melted; the arrow fired pushed the mountains apart, the travelers managed to slip through; cannibal birds fell into the hollow, they ate the monkey, did not notice the emergency; he hid in the pen of one of them, the bird brought him to the kingdom, where the peacock sisters; ES threw a ring into the bucket of maid N.; she is happy, but her father offers tests: 1) break the stone that dammed the river with an arrow (the emergency broke; 2) recognize the finger wives when 7 sisters put their fingers in the holes (a firefly sat on their finger); ES and N. returned home]: 35-51; lao: Fleeson 1899 [the young man sees seven nymphs bathing, one agrees to go with him; his the mother asks for her wings to be stored; the chief prince envied, sent the prince to war; the wife asked her mother-in-law to return her wings; she tied a rope to her daughter-in-law, but she cut it off; when she returned from victorious, the prince went to look for his wife; when he heard his story, the monkey went with him; died; the fly began to eat the corpse, promised to help if the prince allowed her to do so; he allowed it; hid under the wing of one of the two eagles who are ready to fly across the sea to the country of Kow Kilat, whose ruler celebrates the return of his daughter; there the prince threw a ring into the jug of a maid who came for water; the wife asks the father for permission she should return to her husband; he tells the prince 1) to identify her table among her sisters' tables; the prince called a fly, she sat on his wife's table; 2) let each of the princesses stick a finger out from behind her daughter (the same husband sits on the finger of the prince's wife); the couple return home]: 51-57; tai (Vietnam) [after the father dies, two brothers find a huge egg; people roll it to the village, but it rolls to the house brothers; when the brothers return from the field, the house is tidy and the food is cooked; the elder guards, sees a winged heavenly maiden come out of the egg and five maids with her; afraid to find himself the next day The younger brother guards, grabs the maiden; they have two sons; the mother finds out from them where her father hid her wings, flies away; the father beat them with a rod, went to look for his wife; left alone, the brothers plant a palm seed, on she immediately has fruits; her brothers ask the birds to take them to their mother, they fly away; then she carries the rhinoceros bird to the river; there a nine-tailed dog carries them to the other side; they ask the old woman to drink, they throw their mother's gold ring into the vessel; the mother realizes that her sons have come; mother's father Po Then demands that the rope that is tied to the horns of each of the 200 or 300 buffaloes be tied to him; the insect tells you to tie it to the buffalo it sits on every time; tells them to count many needles (nieng Khim thinks); tells all women to stick out their hand, let the sons recognize their hand mother; an insect sits on her; Po Then lets her sons see their mother; they return home, but a tree trunk blocks the woman's way; sons cut him with swords, blood has flowed; mother to sons: you killed your father; left them, telling them not to sit down to eat rice on a crooked stone, not to enter the bubbling stream; the elder does everything wrong, marries various animals; the youngest kills the one who descends from the sky and a snake that devours people and animals, revives the dead, marries a heavenly maiden; comes to the youngest and kills his animals; the elder pushed the youngest into a hole; animals helped him get out; he killed the elder with an arrow while hunting birds]: Degeorge 1924, No. 15:58-68.

South Asia. Ancient India [the ascetic of Chiavana stood by the lake for many years, an anthill grew above him, only his eyes could be seen; King Sharyati's daughter Sukanya, not knowing what it was, poked them with a branch; C. sent to the kingdom of S. strife and illness; removed the punishment in exchange for promising to give him S.; the Ashwins offered her to leave the old man for them, she refused; then they promised to make C. young and choose between three of them; all three sank into the lake and went out as the same young men; C. gave S. a symbol, she chose him; grateful C. gave A. a share in catfish libations, which they had previously been deprived of, offered them catfish first; for it was Indra who wanted to punish C., but he stopped his hand; created the monster Mada ("Intoxication") as punishment for Indra to punish Indra; his lower jaw touched the ground, his upper jaw reached the sky; C. He had mercy, dividing M. into four parts and distributing them between intoxicating drink, women, dice and hunting; whoever falls under these four temptations dies]: Erman, Temkin 1975, No. 22:57-59, 214 (note) [conditional signal episode only in Jaiminya Brahman]; Ancient India [King Vīrabhuja's sons want to get rid of Çringabhuja, their father's other son born to his beloved wife; they they persuade him to take his father's golden arrow and shoot at the Rakshasa, who took the form of a crane; the Rakshasa flies away, carrying an arrow that pierced him, the brothers tell C. to return it; C. comes to the Rakshasa Palace, his Rūpaçikha's daughter fell in love with him; Rakshas tells me to 1) identify her among 100 girls; 2) cultivate a giant field in a day; 3) sprinkle and collect sesame seeds again; the bride helps to do everything (she will have a pearl ribbon on her head, ants collect sesame seeds); Rakshas tells C. to invite her (Rakshasa) brother Dhūmaçikha to the wedding; the bride gives him a horse, earth, water, thorns, fire, tells, after handing over the invitation, to immediately suffer; D. chases, C. throws land (mountain), water (river), thorns (forest), fire; Rakshas stops persecution, C. returns, gets a wife; the young run away, taking golden arrow and treasures; R. turns himself and her husband into a lumberjack peasant; Rakshas does not recognize them; the imaginary woodcutter replies that he mourns the newly deceased son of Rakshas and cuts wood for him funeral fire; Rakshas hurries back, sees his living son, chases again; R. turns into a messenger, says that Rakshasa's son is dying; Rakshas comes back again, pursues again; story ends with the release of C.'s mother, who was imprisoned by other wives, and the expulsion of C.'s brothers]: Kathāsarit-Sagara (11th century, Somadeva) in Aarne 1930:7-8; northern India (Mirzapur) [six princes are married; the youngest seventh says he marries one of Indra's fairies; goes in search; in the village of the untouchables (Chamar) sees a girl who remains dry in the rain; realizes that she is a fairy; the king thinks that his son has really found a heavenly maiden; he is outraged to learn that the bride is from the village of untouchables; the wife demands that her ring be taken from the fakir across the 7 seas; he sleeps for six months, overgrown with grass; the young man is careful shakes the ground off him; the fakir did not kill him, but gave him a ring; warned him not to give it to his wife immediately upon his return; the young man did not give it back, but his wife quietly took the ring when the young man was sleeping, flew to heaven; the young man returned to the fakir; he teaches them to go to the river where the fairies bathe, pick up their clothes and come to him; the fairies will come and agree to return what belongs to the young man; he must guess three times; let him grab it for the first time the eldest, the second the youngest, does not let go; the fairies will shout, "He forgot!" ; grab the leper for the third time; the young man brought his wife back; she lets the flute call her; if Indra finds out about their marriage, kills both; the prince comes to a group of people, calls his wife, asks for a fairy dance, that he does it; those people change their stick that hits whoever you want; the prince tells the stick to beat those people, takes the flute back; the same with the pot he cooks himself; with the goat that litters gold; the prince returned to his brothers; one day he left the flute at home, and his older daughter-in-law found the flute; the fairy appeared, took the flute and flew away; fakir: a laundress brings a cart of fairy clothes to wash in this world; on this cart you can get to the fairies; the laundress agreed to take the prince; wife: we will dance to the drum; I must say that the drummer is no good and start playing on his own; Indra will like it, he will allow the marriage; The prince lived well with his wife]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 574:153-155; Sindhi [the fakir gives ash to the childless king Lalu: let him give his beloved wife a drink with water; a son Amul Malik will be born when he finishes his studies, let him come to the fakir; the fakir leads AM to another country, they see the radiance coming from the body of King Gulasta's daughter Princess Husini, AM asks the fakir, then the father to help marry her; the Saiphal vizier comes to marry King G. to marry his daughter; H. makes it a condition to live with her husband in separate palaces; the fakir gives AM an invisible hat, says that H. loves a maiden named Supped; every Thursday she and her maids enters the banyan tree, who takes her across the seas to the maiden's garden; the fakir teaches her to eat food brought for H. unnoticed, hide in a banyan; the dev will ask H. to dance, give jewelry and clothes, they must be stolen and hide it, pretend to be sleeping at home; she will come to look for jewelry, she must jump up, pick up her wings; instead, AM tells H., she grabs her clothes and jewelry, flies away; the fakir tells her to follow H. is on a winged horse; on the way he takes out a splinter from a lioness, she gives him two adult lion cubs as assistants; sister H. teaches that when H. and other peri arrive to swim in the lake, they should hide her clothes; lion Sits on his clothes; H. gives AM his nose ring, tells him to come with him, throw it in the jug to the maid, who will give it back to H.; the virgins will say that if AM is X.'s legal husband, he must identify his wife among the hundred peri; she will have this ring; the maidens gave three attempts, H. attached the ring for the third time, the maidens gave X. Amul Maliku; on the way back, H. kidnapped the maidens who lived in the well; the lions went down there (there is a whole country, a palace), tore the maiden, returned from H. to the ground on a winged horse; everyone returned to King L., lived happily]: Kinkaid 1922:75-88; Telugu [the king and vizier agreed that if they had children of different sexes, they would marry them; the queen's son is lazy and sloppy, the vizier's wife has a clever daughter and beautiful; the girl agrees to marriage on the condition that at 6 pm she will go to her father's house and return from there at 6 am; out of shame, the prince rushed into the well, but did not drown; the old man gave him a magic ointment to turn into a fly and follow her wife; she came to the pond; five maidens descended from the sky on a white elephant, all of them began to play and swim together; the prince stole one pearl necklace; at home began to describe what he saw, as if telling the content of the dream; his wife understood everything and asked me to return the necklace; he said he would return it only after she stayed overnight; she asked me to wait alone night; told the heavenly maidens everything (the necklace belonged to the eldest of them); they suggested that the prince fly with them to Indra; take the form of a musician playing the drum; I. would ask recognize your wife among other virgins, a fly will sit on her knee; that's what happened; the prince and wife returned to earth to the palace and began to live together]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 34:82-88; kannada [the mighty king asks four sons what they will do after his death; the elder: I will continue my father's work on the throne; second: I will help my brother rule the state; third: I will lead the army; fourth: I will become king kings, I will build my own city and marry four heavenly maidens; the king expelled his youngest son; once in the forest, he came to the old woman's house; she is the daughter of a sage hermit who has lost over him control and raped a girl; then he was torn to pieces by a tiger and his daughter born was ugly; her mother died and she became a hermit in the forest; as a result, she gained power; the young man began to herd her cows; she told them not to take them north; he went, hid by the pond; Indra's four heavenly daughters came down, took off their sari, began to swim; he stole one sari; the maiden ran after him, promised to become a wife, he was in He looked around in amazement, she took the sari and turned the young man into stone; the old woman found him and revived him; told him to take the sari and run to her house without looking back; he did so; the old woman turned him into a baby, and she hid the sari inside his thigh so that the seam was not visible; when the maiden came running, the old woman advised her to cover herself with a cotton sari; then promised to return the sari if the virgin agreed to marry the young man; the young man and his wife came to the city; the king's servants saw the maiden, told the king; he pretended to be sick, sent the young man to extract the venom of the serpent Karkotak; the wife sent him to the mountains to the snake hole and gave a letter to the snake; ways he saved a worm from the web; threw a letter into a hole; four snakes took it to the lower world to the king of snakes; the letter asked him to marry the applicant's daughter and comply with his request for poison; returning with his second wife and poison, the young man gave the poison to the king's servants; when they opened the bottle, the tamarind next to him broke out and burned; the king ordered the poison to be buried deeper; sent the young man to bring crocodile bile; along the way a young man let a young crocodile on land into the water; the young man threw letters from his wife to the crocodiles; the king of the seas gave him a daughter, diamonds and bile; now the king asks him to go to heaven to Indra and find out how his deceased parents and brothers live; his wives wrote many letters, the young man jumped into the fire, the god of fire took him to heaven, where Indra gave him a daughter, letters to the king and minister, and returned him to earth; on the way, the young man saved ants when the anthill was flooded with water; the young man gave letters; inviting them to heavenly paradise - you must also jump into the fire; the king and minister and their families burned down; the young man made a poor brahman king; himself he built a new city with 4 wives; at this time his father lost his kingdom and became a firewood seller; he came with his family to the young man's city; he sheltered them; gave his first wife's sari to his mother for storage; his wife asked him she, she put on her, and all four wives flew to heaven, and the city turned into a jungle again; the young man brought his brothers and mother to the city, where he made a brahmana king, and he went to look for wives; his wives met him and was the first to say that he must be tested by Indra to recognize him as his son-in-law; his wives took him to heaven, turning him into a fish in a vessel of water, and left him; I. tells 1) to collect the scattered sesame in 3 hours ( the young man called the ants - they perform); 2) get the ring thrown there from the well (the frog took it out; when meeting the hero with the frog, the informant lowered; for this purpose, the frog threw the tadpole to be eaten by snakes on at the bottom of the well, and found the ring myself); 3) cut the banana tree into three parts with one blow (the crocodile cut it); 4) recognize the first wife among three identical girls (the worm, now flying insects, sat on her sari); I. arranged a wedding; on earth, a young man conquered kingdoms; his father admitted that he was right]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 3:5-15; Tamils [the king asks seven sons what everyone would wanted to be busy on this cool night; one wants to invade neighbors at the head of the army, the other wants to irrigate, the third wants to hunt, etc.; the seventh wants to have four wives, Indra's daughters, Agni, by his side , Varunas and Adisheshes; the father is furious to execute his son, the mother warns him to run; the torturers brought the king the blood of an animal; the prince lives with an old woman and grazes cattle; contrary to the prohibition, he goes north, climbs a fruit tree and sees Indra's daughter swimming in a pond; steals her clothes, runs, she asks him to look back, he turns into stone, Indra's daughter returns to heaven with four other maidens; the old woman revived the prince, told him not to look back next time, but to bring her clothes; turned the prince into a three-year-old child by sewing clothes into his thigh; gave Indra's daughter her clothes, who stayed with the old woman; she convinced her to marry the prince, turning him back into a young man; six months later she sends them to live alone, telling the prince not to give his wife her heavenly clothes; they come to town, vizier advises the king to select his wife, to pretend to be sick, to send the prince for snake venom; the wife gives a note to his uncle, tells him to put him in any anthill; he sends the prince the necessary poison and another wife {Adishesha's daughter?} ; when the poison bag was slightly opened, he burned half of the forest; the vizier suggests sending the prince for whale fat; the wives wrote a note to their uncle Varuna, Mr. of the Seas, who sent a daughter and fat; the vizier: send the prince to convey messages to the dead; the wives write a letter to Agni, the prince throws it into the fire, jumps himself, returns to his wives, and then comes out of the fire unharmed, supposedly answering letters from the king and courtiers; the dead ask them to visit them; the king and all the others threw themselves into the fire and burned down; the prince and four wives go to their father; in the middle of the journey, the wives create a magnificent city; the prince's father was deprived of power enemies, collects firewood with the whole family; they come to the city, their son and daughters-in-law greet them; one day, the prince went hunting, taking the clothes of Indra's daughter sewn in it from his thigh and handed them over mother; she showed her daughters-in-law and they flew to heaven, and the city and all her possessions disappeared; the prince went to an old woman who helped get Indra's daughter; on the way he saved ants, a frog, a cricket from the river, who were dying without water; the old woman sent him to sit by the path that those heavenly maidens walked every day after bathing; on the 40th day they agreed to take him to Indra in heaven; moved him, turning him into a frog; Indra agrees to give him his daughter, but he must complete three tasks to get her sisters; 1) reassemble the sown sesame (ants collected); 2) get the ring out of the snake well (frogs they dive into the well, most are eaten by snakes, but one pulls out a ring); 3) cut down 7 fused plane trees with one blow (Agni's daughter does it herself); 4) I. gave all four maidens the same appearance, ordered identify his daughter (the cricket jumped on her leg); the prince with four wives returns to earth, regains the city and power]: Natesa Sastri 1886:80-119; Sinhalese [two sons of one king and the daughter of another came to swim from different sides of the river; the elder hid the princess's clothes, brought her to the palace; the king drove him away with his wife; they stayed with the widow, the prince told her to hide his wife's clothes, she persuaded her give it back to her; said that the prince would not see her before the elephant's chicks (Aet-Kanda-Lēniyā, at kanda lihini); the prince came to the forest, killed a cobra that crawled to the elephant's nest, fed the chicks; they asked their mother not to kill their savior; she took him to the princess's palace (he grabbed a branch, the bird held it in its beak); the prince buys and releases elephants, pigeons, pigeons, fireflies; women carry water to wash the princess's hair, the prince throws a ring into the jug; the princess calls him, agrees to return if he completes the tasks 1) clear the area in the forest under peas (elephants fulfilled), 2) sow (pigs), 3) collect peas (pigeons); the king orders 4) to identify the daughter in a dark room among eight girls (fireflies); the prince gets a wife]: Parker 1910, No. 51:291-299 (translated to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 78:169-173); Konkani (Goa): Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 3 [Moses and Edward sleep in a hut; a beautiful woman (demon's daughter) enters, puts a ring on the finger of good M.; the old man does not tells you to follow a certain path, M. and E. go; evil E. enters the house to dance, plays, loses everything, is captivated; the daughter of another demon explains how to get to the beauty who left M. the ring; we must leave a grain and an egg at seven gates for seven demon guards; M. finds the owner of the ring; her father demands to identify her among 500 girls (she will take a pin in her mouth); gets a wife; buys E., who kills M. puts on his clothes; his wife does not believe, finds and revives M.; E. is executed, M. stays with his wife in the palace], 4 [the king has seven sons; the youngest replies that he fears God more than his father; the king drives him away; he herds old woman's sheep; hides the clothes of one of the two princesses who have come to swim; people choose a king, an elephant points to the young man three times, he is made king; the wife finds clothes, flies away; on the way, the young king buys from frogs, mongooses, flies killing their people; two princesses demand 1) fill the room with water (frogs fill), 2) identify which of them is his wife (flies indicate), 3) dig an underground passage (mongooses) they break through); the young man and his wife fly away, the wife's sister kills both out of jealousy]: 19-22, 22-24.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Minangkabau [parents went to the bazaar, the bridge was washed away, they will not return; their sons Dahar and Dahir dream of working for a wealthy farmer; Bujang Permai's youngest son wants to marry a beautiful woman, become king; brothers tie him to a pole, leave; in a dream, an old man appears to him, promises to send a bird to follow, leaves 7 palm leaf cuttings that revive the dead; following the bird, DB consistently revives a monkey, a squirrel, a firefly, an elephant; everyone gives incense, promises to appear if it is lit; BP revives the dead princess, the king orders 1) to level the mountain (elephants), 2) collect betel, braided dry tree without damaging the tree (squirrels, monkeys), 3) identify the bride among 40 girls (a firefly sits on her); BP marries, reigns; recognizes brothers selling grain, milk; through them finds parents; discovers himself, brothers are ashamed, BP does not take revenge]: Bunanta 2003:31-36; Dusun (Tempassuk) [Serungal goes to marry Raj's daughter; sees people going to kill an ant along the way saves him; firefly also saves; squirrel; raja requires 1) collect scattered rice (ants collect), 2) get the betel from tree to heaven (squirrel pulls out), 3) identify in the dark the seventh (youngest) of daughters, she is the one that S. should marry (firefly sits on her); S. gets a wife]: Evans 1913:466-468 (retelling in Dixon 1916:216-218, Thompson 1932-1936. H324. Type 554); Murut (Keningau band) [(Brooks 1960:34-47); Baiagong hunter went to look for prey at a watering hole; sees seven girls bathing, hides the youngest's rainbow clothes; the elders could not pick up, fly away; B. brings the maiden into the house, hides her clothes in the chest; the wife gives birth to a son; feels that her mother-in-law does not love her and does not believe that she is a heavenly maiden; tells her son her story, that she knows where her clothes are; when she flies away, the heavenly maiden teaches her son how he and his father can find her; in the place where K. met her, the old man is fishing; you have to grab his hook, he will throw a fishing rod into heaven Kayangan country; on the way, B. frees fish from the top, builds a bridge over a stream for ants, frees a squirrel from a trap, a deer entangled in vines, a firefly from a web; a fisherman throws B. and his son to heaven, the wife meets B.; her Raja father says that her daughter also has a prince fiancé in heaven; gives tasks; 1) get beads thrown into the river (they get the fish); 2) collect rice scattered in the grass (ants harvest); 3) collect all the fruits from the chopped tree without breaking the branches (the squirrel collects); 4) race red leaves from a tree in the distance with the local prince (the prince flies, but B. rides a deer, returns first); 5) identify his wife's cup among many (firefly shows); Raja gives B. a wife, but does not tell him to return to earth; celestials want B. to swim in the pond, getting rid of the smell man; crocodiles in the pond, B. sticks his finger, he turns white, B. refuses to swim; he is thrown like garbage through a hole in the floor of the house, he finds himself on the ground, a drum, an ax, a coconut fell nearby; a whole grove immediately grows out of coconut, the drum scares off enemies, the ax kills them, getting trophy heads; the son occasionally descends to him from the sky, then stops; after B.'s death, his white finger, ax and the drum became murut relics]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 5:276-285; toraja [Deatanna descends from the sky on the rainbow, Polopadang grabs her, marries her; she promises to leave him if he swears; their little son hits his father with a golden top, T. swears, D. and his son return to heaven across the rainbow; the white buffalo asks P. to pull his spear out of his back, takes him to the horizon; the sun is too hot, to take P., her younger brother Month takes him; P. throws a golden top into the bucket of a slave who has come for water; the son recognizes the toy; the servants promise P. to return his wife if he 1) brings a basket of water ( eel lubricates the basket with mucus), 2) irrigates the garden (crabs dig a ditch), 3) fill four baskets by grain (mice fill), 4) eat all the sweet potatoes in the field (pigs eat), 5) get to know your wife in a dark room (the cat meows at D.'s feet, the firefly sits on her hair); with his wife and son P. returns to earth]: Teselkin 1958:72-77 (=Braginsky 1972:85-89); minahasa [Mamanua dreams of what he finds a spring under the stone; pulls out a stone, a lake forms, M. arranges a vegetable garden on the shore; someone steals sugar cane and fruits; M. guards, 9 girls in the form of swans {translated by Braginsky as geese} they come to swim, take off their birds' clothes; M. hides the clothes of Lingkambene, the daughter of the supreme god Muntu-Unta, takes L. as his wife, she gives birth to her son Wulansendow; contrary to warning, by accident cuts off one of her hair; she must return to heaven to heal her wound; M. and V. sit on a falcon, which is unable to lift it; they climb the rattan, it breaks, they fall into the water, the fish takes them to the horizon, the dog takes his wife across the sky to the palace of M.-U.; he tells her to be identified among nine girls (the dog sniffs her out, wags her tail); they remain in the sky; V. grows up, asks his grandfather to lower him to the ground; he brings him with him a nodule, an egg in it, a wife for V. comes out of it; in another nodule there are seeds of fruit trees; since then they have been growing on the ground]: Kratz 1973, No. 44:212-216 (=Braginsky 1972:117-121; the same or very similar text in another translation in Bystrov et al. 1962:205-209, girls are swans, not geese); bow [seven doves flew to swim, Kasimbaha hid one of them's clothes, got married; her name is Utahagi ( Oetahagi); she has white hairs on the top of her head, they cannot be pulled out; he pulled out his hair, the storm took O., their son Tambaga remained; taking him, K. climbed the vine into the sky (the rat gnawed thorns from the vine), fell east; The sun is too hot, the Month helped to get to the sky; the bird showed where W.'s house was; the firefly warned that the house had seven rooms, each with a sister; he would sit on the door behind which W.; Brother W. says K. is not an immortal and therefore cannot marry W.; offers trials; rice in 8 vessels, something else in the ninth; if K. touches the ninth, then he is the son of an earthly woman; husband: I I will consistently get into all the vessels and cure him back; I will not cure him from the unclean, do not touch him; K. is recognized as the son of the immortals, he is allowed to marry W. and remain in heaven; but they decided to return his son to ground; T. grows up, goes down, marries, comes from him a bow]: Spreeuwenberg 1845:25-28 in Backer 1874:98-101; Tabaru (Halmahera) [someone is dancing on the shore; a young man saw two fish shed her skin, became girls; hides her skin alone, marries a girl, she gives birth to three children; sees a shadow from her fish clothes hidden under the roof, promises children a plentiful catch, swims away; husband with She finds his wife with the help of birds and flies; her father Djini gives difficult assignments, including identifying his wife among her six sisters; fish, eels, ants help to do everything; the spouses return to earth]: Fortgens 1928:477-481 in Lessa 196:126; Tidore Island (off the west coast of Halmahera) [a sailor from a wrecked ship lives in an old woman's house on an island; 10 winged heavenly maidens go down to swim; the sailor hides the youngest's winged robe, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to two sons; finds hidden wings, flies away; the children tell their father about what happened; the husband asks the birds to take him to heaven, only honey the bird is able to pick him up; the man in the sky gives him flies, they will sit on his wife (she will have to be identified, all the women in the sky look the same); warns him not to talk to anyone; the husband does not answer talking logs, bamboo; the king orders to identify his wife; then separate the millet seeds from the others (flies separate); the wife gives birth to a third son; the king allows you to go down the silver rope stairs; on earth, a wife gives birth to a fourth; sons become chiefs of Tidore and three neighboring islands]: de Vries 1925 (1): 161-166 in Klappert 1999:299-301; Bali [poor orphan Lentir saves a fly from a web, an eagle from a plexus of branches; by the lake, she hides the clothes of one of the heavenly maidens who have come down to swim, her name is Nilotama; one day she finds her clothes, flies away; the eagle brings L. to heaven; the old man tells identify his wife among her sisters; a fly sits on her; L. and his wife return to earth on an eagle]: Leuven Bomkamp 1983, No. 47:224-227; Tetum: Vrocklage 1962 (Lassiolat) [Liurai Suri Ikun saw how to Seven heavenly maidens descend to the spring; sends their slaves Letti and Lamo to hide Buik Ikun's clothes; these clothes are the skins of beautiful birds; the maidens fly away, and BI marries LSI, gives birth to a son; finds bamboo vessel his clothes, they are dusty; BM shakes them out, flies away; LSI tries in vain to climb into the sky from a tall tree; the bird offers to take him and his son to heaven; BI's parents want him test; 1) determine which of the bamboo vessels contains palm wine (the rest have water); the fly warns the LSI that it will sit on this vessel; 2) the cockfight, the rooster on whom the LSI placed wins; 3) separate the grains from the sand (rice birds separate); 3) identify BI from other girls; the dog flea warns that it will bite it, it will move; but these fleas bit everyone, everyone moved; LSI tells they no longer bite people, but crawl in the ashes of the hearth; another flea promises to bite only BI; LSI offers her a gold or silver ring, but she only agrees to be allowed to sleep with people; It happened that LSI identified BI; parents send BI with her husband and son to earth; before that, she asks them and receives a wish-fulfilling ring; there is a holiday on earth]: 130-133; (cf. Sá 1961 [Samoro people came to marry the chief's daughter from We-Hali; learned from the servants that there was no princess among the girls in rich outfits, that she was dressed as a maid; pointed to the princess, ran with her at night; like Daughter of the Sun, she told the crocodiles to transport them to the other side of the river; since then, Samoro's people have not eaten crocodiles; when the pursuers appeared, the river became wider, the crocodiles prevented crossing]: 26-32).

Taiwan - Philippines. Ilianen Manobo: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 2 [Itung makes anklets, goes looking for suitable vines, lost his way, came to a woman's house (this is his father's sister), who says that at noon Seven heavenly maidens go down to swim in the pond; their tame monkeys guard their clothes, the woman advises taking bananas to distract the monkeys; I. hides the youngest's clothes, others fly away, he marries the youngest, she warns that she will fly away if she finds her clothes; she gave birth to a girl; she asks for a package hidden under the roof; I. is forced to reach and open them; the wife grabs her clothes, flies away; I. leaves her daughter to his parents, goes to look for a wife; meets an old man, who is the chief of birds; birds do not know the way to the country "where the moon rises and the sun sets"; fish also do not know, but then the eel says to go west across 7 ridges and 7 valleys; the local chief promises to give I. his wife if he identifies her among 7 of the same; I. recognizes by the needle spot on his little finger; takes his wife, returns home], 4 [Terengati went catch wild chickens; at noon I saw 7 heavenly maidens come to the pond to swim; hides clothes alone, six fly away; the rest says that her father pay the ransom with cattle and slaves, but T. replies that he did not take the clothes; they got married, she gave birth to a daughter; the girl leaned upstairs, saw a banana stalk flute under the roof; the mother pulls it out, finds her clothes inside the flute; after feeding the child, she flies away; taking daughter, T. goes to look for a wife; the old man guides him over ten mountains; the chief, the father of the heavenly maidens, tells T. to identify his wife among her sisters; T. brings his daughter, she rushes to the woman in the middle, her mother; T. adds that she has needle needle marks on her fingers because she sewed all the time]: 31-51, 59-81; dibabawon manobo [the hunter went to the lake for ducks; seven heavenly sisters flew in, they began to swim; he hid one of them's clothes; she must go with him to become his wife; after three years they have a son and daughter; playing, they find their mother's clothes; she tells them to give them to their father to look for her "east of the sun, west of the moon"; the hunter went searching down the river to the sea, where he asked the owner of the birds, who sent fish to the owner; one of the fish replies that their owner is the father of the hunter's wife; The husband identified his wife by pricking a needle on his fingers; they remarried, stayed "east of the sun, west of the moon", took their children off the ground]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 6:95-99; agusan manobo [on Seven sisters lived in the sky, went down to swim in the form of ducks; Juan was the last to hide his clothes; gave her his shirt, brought her into the house by his wife; her name was Maria; mother H. was rude to her; M. found a flute under the roof, she was in it her clothes; saying goodbye to her husband, flew away; Boa tells X. to bring 70 eggs, sit on his back; carried H. across the sky, he must feed him eggs all the time; H. jumped into the sky, Boa fell and crashed; people answer H. that the chief's youngest daughter returned, gave birth, they were going to determine who the father of the child is; the mother asks the boy to give the betel to who his father is; the boy sat on H.'s lap, gave the betel to him; the chief says he'll believe it if H. finds where M. and her child are hidden at night; the firefly showed H. to M. (it's in the middle); the chief held a feast]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 8:107-115; mamanwa [seven heavenly sisters went down to earth to swim, take off their clothes; the youngest was Ilya Manlangitnen ("living on sky"); Tawtamisaá hid the youngest's feather clothes, married the maiden; one day their little son saw a flute under the ceiling, began to cry and ask her; his mother took it out, found her clothes in her, flew away together with his son; Boa constrictor brought T. to heaven; the virgin's father demands 1) pull a piece of iron out of the ground, 2) bring water in a basket of holes; the eel has completed these tasks; 3) find his wife in the dark room where she sleeps together with his sisters; the firefly said he would sit on his wife; the father of the heavenly maidens arranged a feast, and also brought Mother T. to heaven]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 10:133-137; central subanens [man lived on the island of slaves; saw heavenly maidens come to the river to swim, stole the youngest's clothes, brought them into the house, hid it under the roof; the girl had to become his wife; their daughter climbed under the roof, her mother pulled her feather clothes fell out; she put it on, flew away, taking her daughter; her husband went to look for them; the eagle offered to carry him off the cliff, but was tired, left bamboo on the shoot; the rhino bird brought it to heaven to to the spring, his wife is there, they remarried; the king, the girl's father, demands 1) bring water in the basket (the eel curled up in rings, closed the holes in the basket), 2) find that brass vessel in the dark room for the betel, which belongs to his wife; the firefly showed; the man brought the vessel to his father-in-law, who was happy, allowed the couple to live together]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 11:139-145; kasiguran agta [old man advises Juan to hide the clothes of the last heavenly maidens who will come to swim at the spring; H. hides the youngest's clothes, the rest have flown away; the youngest becomes the wife of H., gives birth to a son; the wife asks to show her clothes; contrary to the old man's warning, H. shows that she puts them on, flies away; the old man sends H. to look for a wife, does not tell me to look at the centipede on the way, H. looks, comes back; the old man gives handkerchief; holding it in front of him, H. passes the centipede, fire, mountains; comes to his wife's father; he demands 1) to identify his wife's clothes (the fly says he will sit on his clothes); 2) identify his wife's hand (the same); 3) cut down banyan (Ficus benjamina); ants gnaw roots and branches; H. gets a wife]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 19:211-215; northern kanai [Lopi went to the pond from which his buffalo drank him in the morning, see if there were any wild ducks there; 7 girls were swimming there, he hid his youngest's feather clothes; her sisters flew away; L. brought her wife to his house, they have two boys; playing, they found their mother's clothes in the corner ; she flew away, telling her sons to tell their father that they should look for her "where the moon sets and the sun rises"; L. came to the chief of the birds, who sent them to the chief of buffaloes, lions; he went to Dalag, the leader of the fish; only one the fish knew the way, D. told her to take L. on her back; the king father of the heavenly virgins demands that L. identify his wife among her sisters; L. remembered that his wife had needle injections on her fingers when she was sewing; the king let L. and his wife go home]: Wrigglesworth 1991, No. 20:217-219.

China - Korea. Chinese: Riftin 1972 [Nyu-lan's younger single brother works hard, the older married man eats hearty; the ox invites N. to break the plow, plough, plough handle, return home early, eat prepared; the elder offers to share, the ox tells N. to take only him, the ox, to go south; says that on the seventh day of the seventh moon, the Southern Gate of Heaven will open, Wan-mu's granddaughters will fly to wash clothes; the seventh from the west side is Ji-nyu; N. hides her clothes, C. becomes his wife, her sisters fly away as doves; when her daughter is 6 years old and her son is 3 C. offers N. to return her clothes; N. returns, C. flies away; the ox tells him to slaughter, burn his bones, put on his skin, take his son and daughter in baskets; the guards of the heavenly gate (gold, silver lions, devil) say, I am your husband the seventh aunt, and these are her children; the wife must be identified in the house among the seven girls; we must let the son go, he will rush to suck his mother's breast; father-in-law suggests 1) hide; C. says that her father first will become a bug, then an apple in the chest; when it's N.'s turn to hide, C. turns it into a needle, his father-in-law does not find it; 2) race; you have to throw red seeds and chopsticks behind, their father-in-law picks up; at the end throw a hairpin in front of him; N. throws behind, a heavenly river appears; wife, children, mother-in-law remain on the other side; on the seventh day of the seventh moon, all birds rise into the sky, mother-in-law pulls out a feather from each of them, builds a bridge - the Milky Way - out of feathers; N. (Volopas) and C. (Weaver); on the sixteenth day, C. returns, during which time he washes all the dishes (each item numbered 360), washes, darns the sky, an-mu's granddaughters will arrive to wash clothes; gray from the west]: 294-303; Wilhelm 1921, No. 10 [the boy complains to his mother that he does not have a grandmother; they invite a dirty beggar to his grandmother, wash her; she asks to bury the vessel with her lice, dig it out when the eyes of stone lions are at the pit they will turn red, then there will be a flood; tells you to make a small wooden boat, take animals, but not people, into it; the boy constantly runs to look at lions; the man smears the eyes of lions with chicken to laugh blood; the dug up lice became pearls, the boat became big; it rained, the flood flooded the ground; the boy and mother saved the dog, mice, cat, crow, bees; yet they took a man; he stole them after the flood pearls, filed a complaint to the ruler against the boy and his mother, they were imprisoned; the rescued animals brought them food, the raven brought a letter to the ruler from the deity; he wrote that it was he who appeared under the guise of a beggar; the liar was punished; the boy grew up, came to town, where they pass off the princess as someone who guesses what palanquin she is wearing; bees sit on him; the young man marries happily]: 22-25; chuan miao [orphan does a flute, a wreath of gold and silver, with two {hereinafter mentioned one} companions goes to marry Ntzï Ni Leo's daughter; gives jewelry to girls, who tell them to be friendly to guard dogs; this black tigers, then striped, they let the young men in, receiving and swallowing gold and silver; the orphan chooses a bed not made of gold, but of bamboo; NNL asks to choose a wife among many women; his daughter warns that she will be dressed like a criminal, carrying a broken pot and a basket of holes; an orphan plays the flute in front of the girls, the bride responds, repeating how she is dressed; he chooses her; the bride gives amulets, with their help knives and spears are immobilized, NNK recognizes the orphan as his son-in-law; the wife tells you to choose a bad horse; at home, the Chinese landowner demands to catch 260 birds (hawk-cuckoos), otherwise he will take his wife away; immediately invite the emperor to the feast; the wife makes birds out of clay, the horse immediately brings the orphan to the emperor and brings him; the emperor takes his wife; the orphan is dressed in birdskin; the wife I never laughed, now she laughed, asks the emperor to change clothes with the orphan; the wife tells the guards to kill the emperor in feather clothes, the orphan becomes emperor]: Graham 1954:242-244; fox [one of the ancestors, who knew how to carve wood well, lived with his wife and daughter; he carved 12 figures on the site that were indistinguishable from himself, they came to life; the daughter came, could not understand who the father was, divided lunch for 13 small servings; the wife came the next day; said that lunch was only for one; everyone stood still, but the thirteenth's nostril trembled slightly; the woman realized that it was her husband; the other 12 They went to the mountains, becoming the ancestors of 12 fox clans; so the fox lives in the forest, everything is made of wood and bamboo; when a child is born, a tree is planted, and when a person dies, this tree is cut down to find out how many years did he live]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:240-241; Koreans [the cinnamon tree grew to the moon; the inhabitants of the moon decided to drag it towards them; in three years and three months they raised it; left on On earth, a pit is a lake in the Paikdu Mountains; now the tree has begun to obscure the moonlight, the night is very dark; God sent a storm, it has uprooted a tree on the moon, killing all its inhabitants; moonspots are the trail where it grew; When the tree is back on earth, God sent an angel girl to protect it from the Stars; she gave birth to a boy from the spirit of the tree; God told him to protect the tree himself now, his mother brought him back to heaven; rain flooded the earth with a flood ; The tree told his son to climb it, then swim on it; while swimming, the young man saved ants and mosquitoes; but the Tree refuses to save the drowning boy three times; hardly agrees to the son's request; after the flood both young men come to the hut, where the old woman and her daughter are there; when she dies, she must choose her husband; the rescued man lies that the son of the Tree can quickly clean and collect the millet scattered in the sand (ants perform); the old woman says she will give her daughter to someone who guesses what room she is in; the mosquito whispers to the son of the Tree that is in the east; the son of a tree marries, people come from them]: Cho 2001, No. 79:122-126.

The Balkans. Moldovans: Botezat 1981:293-300 [the hermit gives the childless queen grapes, she conceives a son; the king hunts, enters the fortress a line; he releases the king when the king promises to give what does not know at home; son Daphin has grown up, the hell takes him away; D. learns the language of birds from him; overhears the conversation of birds, who say that the unfortunate Arap has been drawing water from a bottomless well where the kidnapped bathes for 180 years West's trait; old man A. teaches D. to steal the clothes of bathing V., run without looking back; A. blesses their marriage, gets rid of the punishment of the devil, disappears; hell agrees to let D. and V. go if D. 1) in a day will plow the field to the horizon, harvest, bake bread (V. orders the demons); 2) shoot a hare in the garden with a devil (this is the devil himself, V. drives him in the form of a hound, D. beats him, his wife asks to give the devil so that fry, in the evening the devil is bruised); 3) identify among hundreds of girls (tears in V.'s eyes); hell puts D. and V. in prison, they fly away in midges, hell sends demons in pursuit, V. turns 1) himself into a garden, D . into the gardener; 2) a wheat field and a reaper; 3) a duck and a river; hell tries to drink water, bursts; D. and V. come to live with parents D.], 300-304 [childless old woman asks her husband to find her a baby; he brings snake, snake grows; gets the name Stan Polozan; tells him to be taught; the old man asks to save his goat from the wolf, SP killed the wolf; the old man indicates who teaches wisdom; when the father goes for a year son, let him go to him; but the old man forgot to go in; could not identify his son among three pigeons; dogs; in the third year he remembered; the old man teaches to identify his son among three horses - the middle one, he will immediately turn into a young man; on the way home, he tells him to sell it to his boyar when he turns into a greyhound dog; next time he turned into a horse, ordered him to sell it without a bridle; the daughter of an innkeeper, who was washing his purchase, let go of the horse, he flew away like a dove, the boyar chased the falcon; the dove turned into a wheat field, the falcon into a reaper; the wheat became a loaf, it ended up in the oven; the falcon became a poker, pulled out a loaf; the loaf crumbled poppy seeds, the poker became a lark, began to bite seeds; the poppy became a cat, swallowed the lark, one feather was left, became a wolf; the cat jumped a golden ring on the finger of the innkeeper's daughter; she screamed, people with axes drove the wolf away; the ring turned into a guy; when he entered his parents' home, he became a snake again; the girl ordered to throw off the snakeskin, SP did so; from the skin thrown out the window the palace grew up; the wedding]; the Romanians [the king has a golden walnut tree, but neither leaves nor fruit can be found; he promises a daughter to whoever does it; the widow's son made iron wedges, hammered it into the trunk and got up on a tree; there is a house on top with three fairies; the young man falls in love with the youngest; everything in the house is done by himself; the young man brought his mother to the tree; she broke the ban on working herself; the wife turned into a bird and flew away zu einem Neige- und Lehnebirnbaum; son and mother went down for three days; now the branches could not stand it, the woman fell and crashed to death; the young man brought leaves and nuts to the king, but rejected the princess and crown, left to wander; the goat asks her not to kill, opens her fur, there is any food; he must spend three days there; after that, the goat turns into a girl, and around a city; the old woman offers the young man an apple, the girl tells me not to take it; he takes it, the city turns into stone, the girl turns into a goat again; says he can get it back if he reaches Neige- und Lehnebirnbaum; in the forest, three lines argue because of the hat- an invisible man, a cloak that will take you wherever you want, and a shoe {it is not clear what he is for}; a young man reaches the house where his wife and child are; there is a dragon that turned 360 girls into peacock; to get his wife and son back a young man must identify her among others; he does it knowing the sign; they return to a city that comes back to life; a young woman with three apples is killed by a young man with an arrow; builds a palace that revolves on a chicken leg]: Bîrlea 1966:411-412; Albanians [the king spent the night with a wealthy Wallachian shepherd; that night the mistress gave birth; the king ordered the boy to learn languages and gave a cross; when the young man was 15, let him come to him and show him the cross; the young man grew up, went to the king, went down to the spring; the servant, threatening to throw a stone at him, forced him to change his clothes and status; swear that his young man would not he would expose; he promised that he would be released from his oath only when he died and was resurrected; the king kindly received the deceiver, and the young man was among the servants; the deceiver pretended to be sick and asked to send his servant (i.e. young man) for cabbage, which is being guarded by Luby; in a dream, an old man appeared to the young man; ordered him to take 14 measures of honey, 14 milk and come at noon when Luby is not at home; on the way, the young man met that elder; he teaches: in Luby's house clean the walls of the tone, hide, leave honey and milk; Luby will eat and ask the person who brought this dish to appear; ask for cabbage; eat three stumps, and he, the old man, will give a head of cabbage on the way back for deceiver; that's what happened; the deceiver pretended to be sick again: we must get the Beauty of the Earth; the old man tells us to ask the king to give him a thousand lambs, rams, a hundred measures of wheat and honey and 10 brooms; throw lambs to eagles, wheat to ants, honey to bees, rams to lions, clean the walls and door to the chambers of the Beauty of the Earth with brooms; animals will ask what reward the young man would like; ask lions, bees, ants and catching fur, feather, etc.; if fur, etc. is burned, the animals will come to the rescue; the Beauty of the Earth asks the guards why they did not stop the young man; guards: you did not feed us like this, did not clean us; she tells us divide the mixture of wheat, barley, rye and land overnight (the ants separated); bring living water from behind the crushing mountains (eagles: at noon, the mountains stop for half an hour; they brought a young man who collected water and they brought him back); identify her among 12 girls (a bee sat on her); the deceiver asks the king to kill the young man, he did it himself; the Beauty of the Earth sent a servant to bring the victim, revived him with live water; the young man was able to tell the king everything; the deceiver was torn into four trees; the young man went to visit his parents, leaving the king's wife the robe he had bought for the Beauty of the Earth; ordered him not to give it to her until he returned; there were dances and the Beauty of the Earth refused to participate without this robe; the king's youngest daughter secretly handed it to her; she tells the young man that he will find it, wearing out three pairs of iron shoes; wearing out his shoes, he stopped at a tavern, where food is free: you just have to tell us what he saw along the way; one person told how he dropped a bottle of water, went down to the ravine and saw 12 girls bathing; the young man went to the ravine, grabbed his wife's clothes and threw it into the fire; the beauty stayed with the young man forever]: Dozon 1991, No. 12:83-96; Albanians [going out into a storm with a lantern for the midwife, the husband saved the king who could crash on the rocks; the captain baptizes the boy, tells him to come to Istanbul when he grows up, but not to take a beardless man as a companion; he imposes himself as a companion, invites the young man to go down to the well, takes his oath to change his status and clothes with him; the king (apparently a former captain) considers a beardless godson, a young man a servant; an old woman teaches him to kill a monster guarding the water, an elephant with diamond skin, get the Beauty of the Earth, follow the road that says "you will go, you will not return", do not go where you "return"; give meat to eagles, grains to ants, honey to bees; they miss, promise to help; the mother of the Beauty of the Earth tells 1) disassemble three varieties of grain overnight (ants disassemble), 2) get a ring from the river (eagles tell ducks), 3) identify her daughter among 12 girls (the bee sits on her); eagles carry the young man and the Beauty of the Earth to Istanbul; the beardless kills him, cuts him to pieces; the beauty of the earth revives him with living water; after dying and resurrecting, the young man is free from his oath, tells the king everything, marries the Beauty of the Earth; the beardless man is hanged]: Serkova 1989:136-151; Bulgarians [the hero (the youngest of three brothers) saves animals (ants, bees, eagles, fish, fox, etc.) or helps them; with their help he performs the tasks of the beautiful father (princess) - separates mixed grains, pulls a ring (key) from the bottom of the sea, brings living water, identifies the bride among several identical girls, hides so that the princess cannot find it; or accepts the appearance of animals he saved (lion, fish, ant, etc.)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 554:206; Greeks [the king sails on a ship, finds himself on a foreign shore, comes to a shepherd; baptizes him newborn son; leaves a ring and a note; it does not tell you to take a lame, blind, beardchin as a companion; the young man goes to look for a godfather; takes a lame, blind man, but they are slow, he leaves them behind; the beardless offers to let him down to get water into the well; takes after an oath that he will give him a ring and a note, will remain silent to death; the king sends a young man to herd cows, takes the deceiver for son; the young man understands the language of birds and animals, laughs at swallows; the deceiver persuades the king to send him 1) from India the Pipiree bird; the maid teaches to fly a flying horse, avoid the fire, young man brings a bird; 2) bring Gold-haired; the maid explains what to take with him; the horse wakes up the young man, he kills the snake that ate the eagle's chicks; she first thinks that it was the young man who killed the chicks, the chicks they explain; the eagle gives a pen; the horse tells them not to trample on ants, the young man feeds them with grain; the ant gives its wing; the young man saves the fish aground, it gives a seed; he saves bees from the water, feeds them with honey, they give sting; the king promises to give his Gold-haired daughter if the young man 1) pulls out a ring thrown into the sea (the fish bring), 2) divides the mixture of different grains (ants perform), 3) brings the water of life; the eagle tells go to the interpreting mountains, fills the young man's golden vessel with water; the king believes, ordering to kill the Moor and reviving him; 4) identify the bride among 40 girls (the bee sits on her); the young man brings Gold-haired; beardless tells him to take an apple from the very top, the young man falls, breaks, buries it beardless; the gold-haired revives it with living water; the young man is released from his oath; the beardless man is tied to the horse's tail]: Megas 1970, No. 33:83-93; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 40 [the father takes his son to work, says at the well, Oh! hell comes out, his name is Oh, takes his son to study; tells him to recognize among three bulls, three pigeons, the father finds out; the son has returned, became a dog, tells him to sell, but without a bridle; next time he is a horse; the father sold with a bridle, the buyer was hell, the bridle became a bird, a devil a falcon, a bird a hare, a devil a dog, a hare a fish, a dog a catfish, a fish a millet, catfish a chicken, I didn't find two grains, they became a fox, she bit a chicken; the guy returned to his father], 40b [the father takes his son to work, says at the well, Oh! hell comes out, his name is Oh, takes his son to study; in two years, the father must recognize his son among pigeons, the son warns that he will tie a thread over his leg; the father gets a son, he turns into a horse, tells him to sell He, the hell became a master, bought a horse, tied him up; the other devil asked for a horse, he threw himself into the sea, swam away, and the imp drowned and now lives at the bottom of the sea]: 59-61, 62-63.

Central Europe. Slovaks: Dobšinský 1970, No. 45 [the elder and two half-brothers are rich and angry, the youngest is poor of good; he froze and decided to go to the glass mountain; there were 12 men sitting around the fire, changing places one by one; finally, the bearded old man told him to take the coals and go home; at home, the coals turned into golden ducats; he asked his brother for scales, who smeared them with resin, and a few coins stuck; the older brother told me where the money came from, otherwise he would report that the younger brother had stolen it; came to a mountain of glass; 12 people sitting by the fire took turns beating and torturing him, the elder ate him; the younger brother was good healed, married; once his wife disappeared, he went in search; the water lord sends him to the fire lord, and he sends him to the glass mountain; witches and sorcerers demand that he recognize his wife among a hundred women; he can easily I found out, my wife rushed to him and whispered that tomorrow it would be difficult to recognize her among 200 women; I had to go up the glass mountain to the time lord and ask him; the wife also said that the hunter turned her and other women into ducks and brought her to the mountain; on the mountain, the time lord (this is the same old man by the fire) says that the wife of the visitor will have a black thread on his shoe; the husband recognized his wife and they returned home]: 229-234; Nmcová 1970 [the father takes his son to study; in the forest, the sorcerer takes him for seven years; will return him if the father identifies his son after 7 years; the young man has read all the witchcraft books; tells the father that the sorcerer tells him to be identified among pigeons, he will lower his wing; the sorcerer promises to let his son go later, but he returns to his father; tells him to be sold as a horse without a bridle; the father sells the sorcerer with with a bridle; the sorcerer tells the blacksmith to shove the horse with hot horseshoes; the horse asks the passing girl to loosen the bridle; frees himself, flies away with a dove, the sorcerer chases the hawk, the dove falls ring at his feet princess, a sorcerer comes to her sick father disguised as a doctor, asks for a ring for treatment; the ring turns into wheat grains, the sorcerer turns into a pigeon, bites them, the last grain becomes a hawk, kills a dove becomes a young man, the king gives a daughter to the young man, he inherits the throne]: 104-111; Czechs [the old woman gave the king a snake (hereinafter referred to as fish): if eaten, you will understand the languages of animals and birds; the king ordered Jiri fry the fish, he licked it himself; the king feels that I. received this gift, is trying to destroy it; two birds got into a fight over three golden hair, one fell, I. picked it up; the king tells him to bring him Goldilocks; I. saves ants from a burning stump; fed crows whose parents flew away; bought from fishermen, released goldfish; the king of the crystal castle promises to give his gold-haired daughter if I. 1) will collect beads scattered in the meadow (ants collect), 2) get a ring lost in the sea (the fish got it), 3) bring living and dead water; the ravens brought; on the way I. sprinkled dead water on the spider, revived a fly with live water; the king tells Goldilocks to be recognized among her sisters, the fly shows; having received Z., the king ordered I. to cut off his head; Z. revived him with living and dead water; I. became handsome; the king he wanted it too; but his head was only raised back, and living water was already used up; I. became king]: Erben 1976:38-42 (transferred to Lifshitz-Artemyev 2017:95-103); Poles [father gives his son to teaching a warlock; in a year or three he must recognize his son among the same animals or birds; the warlock gives the young man or he runs away in the form of an animal; the son orders him to be sold as a hound, an ox or a horse, but not sell a bridle; however, the father sold it with a bridle and bought a warlock; after running away (with the help of a girl), the young man takes the form of a bird, a hare, a fish, etc., and the warlock chases, taking the form of a more a strong bird (animal, fish); a young man turns into a princess ring; the ring falls, crumbling in grains; the warlock becomes a rooster and bites grains; one grain turns into a bird of prey or a fox and tears off a rooster's head]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 325:102-103; Poles [a poor woman leads a boy through the forest; she has no money to feed and teach children; a man under an oak tree asks why does she cry; undertakes to teach the boy a craft, he is a tailor, but in fact a sorcerer; three years later, the son meets his mother in the meadow; teaches him to distinguish him among pigeons: he will not bite peas, but will wave his wing; the sorcerer let the young man go; he promises his father to turn into a cow, an ox and a sheep - let him sell it, and he will return; but he cannot become a horse; but his father turned him into a horse, the sorcerer bought it, chained, starved and whipped; the maid let the horse go; the young man flew away as a starling, the sorcerer chased as a crow, the young man into the king, the sorcerer into the starling, the young man in the ring, jumped on his finger princess; she had a young man in her room again; the next day, the sorcerer appeared prince, asked for the ring to be shown; after agreeing with the young man in advance, the princess dropped the ring and it fell into peas; the sorcerer became a flock of pigeons; one grain remained in the princess's palm, crumbled in poppy seeds, the sorcerer summoned starlings; the young man became a crown and killed a sorcerer's starling; wedding; it flowed down his chin but did not fall into his mouth]: Woycicji 1820:64-67; Luzhitans [{sketchy retelling of 8 typical versions of tales about a sorcerer named Krabat, mentioning individual details and episodes}; parents deliberately give their son to learn a wizard named Kravat; the young man spends 3 or 4 years with him; it is the devil's mill or school of black magic; 12 students; every year one disappears but a new one appears; the father or mother must identify the son among 12 ravens; at his suggestion, they succeed; parents sell their son in the form of a bull or horse; (they should not give bridles, but they give it away); K. takes possession of the horse and leads to shove; the young man is released on his own, turning into birds and animals, and K. chases him, turning into others: a dove is a raven, a lark is a hawk, a mouse is a cat; a fish; or a random assistant removes the check from the horse; finally, the young man turns into a ring that falls into a girl; when the ring falls, the ring crumbles with grains, one of which is made by a fox and kills a rooster wizard; in the 1880 version, a girl kills a rooster]: Troshkova 2019:1028-1034; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pechora) [son advises his father not to cut firewood, but to give it to work, taking money from the owner; they gave it to the old man; he burns and revives the guy three times - this is learning; the guy chipped in an ant, came to his parents, said that he would need to be recognized among 6 fellows: his right eye would have one eyelash longer; the next day the same (6 pigeons, one kitten is longer); then 6 roosters (he will ride taller than others); the father took his son, went to cut wood; the father asks what the raven is screaming? son: that you will wash my feet and drink this water; the father expelled my son; he tells me to sell him in the form of a bay horse, but for no reason; the old man (that sorcerer) bought it, but the horse ran away; next time the same (gray horse); on the third, a black horse, the old man sold it with a reason; the old man hits the horse with an iron whip; they reached the hut, the old man tells her to turn the gate to him, to the forest with windows; the old man hung the horse to beat him death; the old man's sister let him go; the guy turned into a loon, the old man became a teternik (i.e. a hawk); the ruff hit the princess's bucket, turned into a ring; at night he becomes a guy, sleeps with the princess; teaches : when the old man comes, drop the ring on the floor; it turned into 7 ducks {?} , the princess stepped on one; becoming a rooster, the old man pecked the rest, choked on the last one, burst, disappeared; the guy married the princess; one day they came to his parents, they were almost blind; the father got up at night drink water and drank the one in which her son washed his feet]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 165:405-410; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, Sura, 1927) [The old woman becomes pregnant and asks her husband to go hunting and bring her meat. In the forest, a man drinks from the lake, his beard is enough for his beard, demands to promise what he does not know at home, the man agrees. At home, he finds out about his son, his wife does not admit that he promised him. When the boy is 5 years old, the hell comes, demands to bring the child to the lake, the man does it. The boy (actually a young man, although he is 5 years old} enters a hut by the lake, the old woman advises to wait for 12 swans. They'll sit by the water and turn into girls, and they should be the last to hide the outfit. The girl does not find her dress, asks for her back; then promises to become the young man's bride, complete all her father's tasks for him. 1) plow the field on a hundred horses on a hundred tithes of the forest and grow bread by morning. The girl sends the young man to bed, calls the demon, they do everything. 2) Choosing a wife from 12 daughters is a trait: she will see a handkerchief on her left hand from under her sleeve. The young man chooses the right thing, but the devil orders him to guess again. This time, the young man recognizes the bride by a pin in a braid. The devil promises to give her daughter if the groom digs up clay, burns bricks, and builds a house for the wedding. The girl again orders the hell to complete the task, her father is happy, but orders to once again identify the bride among the 12 sisters. The girl says that a fly will fly to her nose. The devil sends the newlyweds to a new home to feast, the girl warns that they have to run at night, orders to find the worst horse in the field (the hell is the opposite), the young man does not obey, takes a good one. They run, drool on the table, and she's responsible for them. The fugitives hear the chase, the wife turns her husband into a hut ("flip over your head"), the horse into a swamp, she becomes an old woman herself. The chase comes back, damn it explains what they actually saw. Next time, a girl turns her horse into night, herself and her husband into stars, they won't be recognized. For the third time, the devil himself chases them, the girl throws a button, a river appears, a whip appears, and a bridge appears. When the hell's on the bridge, he falls through, the hell curses his daughter - she'll be a star for three years. The devil returns to his realm, the young man goes to his aged parents, they don't recognize him, but he talks about himself. She has not been able to choose a bride for three years, he is forcibly married, on her wedding day, her daughter falls from the sky and marries a young man]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 49:117-123; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [widow took her son to study; sighed for her husband - Oh! Human: Why do you remember me? He took his son to study, tells him to come for him in three years; the widow cannot recognize her son among 12 rams; a year later, 12 pigs; a year later the son comes - he has become more cunning than the teacher; I will be the fourth on the edge a horse of 12; the widow received a son; he orders him to be sold as a horse, but without a bridle; the widow sold him twice, the son returned, and the third time the buyer snatched the bridle from her hands; the sorcerer chased the horse, tied it, went to the tavern; the horse asked the groom to let him go to the watering place; disappeared into the water with perch, the sorcerer followed the pike; the perch ashore in a ring, the princess put it on her finger, at night a young man next to her; warns that a man will come, call himself the owner of the ring; we must throw it on the ground, the ring will crumble with grains, let one press down with his foot; the sorcerer became a rooster, pecked the grains, the princess released the last one from under her foot, it became a hawk, he pecked a rooster, became a young man; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:216-222; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Ivan Tsarevich sees how 12 swans flew to swim, threw off their feathers, became girls; hid her clothes alone; she asks for return, promises to sail on two ships in 2 years; after 2 years, an envious uncle asked for a comrade, stuck a sleepy pin in I.; the girl did not woke up, left a note: I'll sail in 3 years on 9 ships; the same; after the third time she wrote that she would never see I.; I. ordered to tie 3 pairs of iron bast shoes, 3 staffs, hats, caftan, prospira; met, did not kill a lion, a bear, a pike, everyone promises to come in handy; bast shoes and the rest wears out; there is a hut on chicken legs, on birch bark heels; "Turn to the forest with your eyes, the gate to me "; gives a ball, he rolls to her sister; sister gives another - to her third sister; bride I. comes to her once a month; her father put longing in an egg, an egg in a box, an oak turnkey box on the island, a key I threw it into the sea; you have to get an egg, the old woman will make scrambled eggs out of it, the bride will eat and remember I.; the lion moved I. to the island, the bear knocked down the oak, the pike took out the key, the old woman made scrambled eggs, Marfida (this is hers name) ate, remembered I.; the old woman turned I. into a needle, stuck it into the wall, and now took it out; I. comes to Father M. to marry her; he tells her to find a bride among the 12 sisters (a white fly will curl above her); M. tells I. to take the horses and run; turned I. into a chapel, herself a watchman; a well and an old woman with a scoop; a ruff and a pike; the king chases perch; pike perch: gnaw the ruff from the tail; there are thorns, the end of the perch; seeing I.'s bride, uncle died of envy]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:123-128; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the widow took her son to study; sighed for her husband - Oh! Human: Why do you remember me? He took his son to study, tells him to come for him in three years; the widow cannot recognize her son among 12 rams; a year later, 12 pigs; a year later the son comes - he has become more cunning than the teacher; I will be the fourth on the edge a horse of 12; the widow received a son; he orders him to be sold as a horse, but without a bridle; the widow sold him twice, the son returned, and the third time the buyer snatched the bridle from her hands; the sorcerer chased the horse, tied it, went to the tavern; the horse asked the groom to let him go to the watering place; disappeared into the water with perch, the sorcerer followed the pike; the perch ashore in a ring, the princess put it on her finger, at night a young man next to her; warns that a man will come, call himself the owner of the ring; we must throw it on the ground, the ring will crumble with grains, let one press down with his foot; the sorcerer became a rooster, pecked the grains, the princess released the last one from under her foot, it became a hawk, he pecked a rooster, became a young man; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:216-222; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [the ship stood in the middle of the sea; the sea king wants the merchant to give it back, that he does not know at home; there his wife gave birth to a son Ivan; the boy grew up, went to the king of the sea; 12 swans flew in, became maidens, they are daughters of the sea king; I. hid clothes in one, this is Vasilisa Premudraya, she agreed to be betrothed to Ivan; went down to sea; the sea king orders to build an airy crystal palace; the VP calls the servants they built overnight; an aerial crystal ship (the same); tame stallion; VP: this is the king himself; you have to beat him with iron hammers and bars, pour ash into my eyes; the horse had to descend from heaven; now the king tells me to choose a wife among his 12 daughters; VP: on my nose there will be a mosquito; again (fly); third time (the mouse will run between my legs); VP: we have to run in the evening, it will eat us in the morning; she wrapped I. in a church, a watchman herself; the lake and the duck; the third time, the VP threw a "raft" the river of fire became; the king of the sea asked to put on the towel, walked on it, the VM cut off the towel, the king burned down; I. left the VP, went ahead; VP: forget me; he met his parents and forgot, they picked it up his bride; the VP sent his backyard grandmother with a pie; two doves flew out of him, began a conversation; I. remembered everything, married the VP]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 48:238-243; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [contrary to the owner's order, the workers left several grains on the field; the mouse and the bird argued over them, a war of birds and animals began, everyone died, the eagle remained wounded; the prince pointed three times at he had a gun, the eagle asked him not to shoot, but ordered him to feed him for three months; tried to fly - three more; then more; ordered him to sit on it, took him to receive a reward; on the way he threw him and picked him up three times so that the prince he was as afraid as he himself when the prince pointed his gun; he tells him to take a multi-colored box from his worn sister, a self-shaking purse from the middle sister, and the youngest one has a key to a multi-colored box; the eagle tells not open along the way; he opened, everything flew up, the road became difficult; tall man: I'll bring everything back if you give it back, what you don't know at home; he was a magic king; people came out of the box at home, became uproot, harrow, etc.; wife gave birth to a son during this time; Ivan Tsarevich grew up, shot, hit his grandmother's window; grandmother: you won't break windows for long, in a year the magic king will take you away; father denies; the second time it was the same; my grandmother gave a cup of water to drink, I. became a mighty handsome man; tells the most beautiful of the 12 swans to hide the dress when they arrive and become girls; she promises to be faithful to Ivan; king tells me to rebuild the palace overnight; Elena Korolevna flew in like a bee, tells I. to go to bed, orders the spirits to do everything; the ship will work out of a gun that is 30 years old under the window; E. gives a lash, I. hit on the head, she soon returned by ship; cut down the forest, etc., and bake pancakes out of flour by morning; the same, the spirits are all doing; choose E. from 12 mares (one hair on her face is slightly longer); the same out of 12 pigs (red speck in the ear); out of 12 girls (fly above her right eye); E. and I. are running, E. left saliva in the bath to be responsible for herself; chase; what can you see? - The cloud is high behind; turned into a chapel and an old man; two pigeons on a pile of manure; himself with a ruff, I. - a ring, swallowed the ring, dived into the lake; the king became a pike, but he could not catch the ruff; drank water, but the ruff became a duck, the duck flew away; the king followed, hit the rock, burst with the water he had drunk; E.: I'll stay in the field as a pebble, and you go to the house, don't forget to say hello to your older sister, otherwise you'll forget me; I. did not say hello, forgot, a new wedding is being prepared; two pigeons came out of the cake, talking about the forgotten E.; at first E. does not want to get up: I. has already been blessed; but he persuaded her, she came out of the pebble, I. became live with E.]: Nechaev 1938:85-110; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Severnaya Dvina) []: Mitrofanova, Fedorova 1966, No. 5:112-113; Russian (Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye, d. Shunga-Bor, 1926) [The Tsar goes hunting. Tired, leans down to drink from the well, grabbed by the beard: let him give someone he does not know at home. At home, the king is greeted by his wife and child, whom she gave birth while the king was hunting. After 15 years, the Tsar sends his son Ivan to the water. The old woman asks I. where he is going. I. is rude to her, then he is ashamed and comes back to apologize. The old woman tells me to go to the lake, there will be 12 pigeons and a marten. You need to take the skin from the marten, then he will be happy. I. comes to the lake, where cabbage rolls threw off their feathers, marten skin, turned into girls, went swimming. I. hides the marten skin. The girls go out, the marten (her name is Vasilisa), cries and asks for her skin to be returned, promises to become a daughter or wife if the thief is an old/old man or a young man. I. and V. go to the underwater kingdom. There are far away spokes: for all but one head, it is for Ivan Tsarevich. The waterman tells us to build a wax church overnight. I. sends I. to sleep, calls on the servants, they build a church. The second task is to plow the field, grow crops and bake bread from it. V. helps again. The water tells you to choose a wife from 12 sisters. Q: you need to go through all 3 times and choose the one with which the fly will sit on your left cheek. He did so, chose his V. The waterman is angry, crowns them. After a few months, they decide to run away from the water. V. spits on the stove, the servant knocks, saliva answers him twice. The waterman breaks the door, sets off in pursuit. V. lies down on the ground with his ear, hears the chase, draws himself to the lake, and I. to the chapel. The servants are returning to the waterman. The waterman chases himself. V. wraps I. with a drake, himself with a duck, a water one flies in an eagle. V. wraps himself in a ruff, I. wraps himself in catfish, and the water one chases pike. The sun came out, the pike warmed up, and she fell asleep. I. and V. came to their kingdom. V. tells you not to kiss anyone on the right cheek. I. kissed his mother, forgot everything, and marries another princess. At the feast, V. serves the cake she baked, and a dove and a dove fly out of it. The dove talks about Vasilisa, I. recalls. Wedding]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 1:52-55; Russians (Olonetskaya) [chicken and mouse quarreled over a grain, the mouse called animals, and the chicken called birds; the eagle's wing was torn off; he asks the man for him for three years feed; he wants to throw it away, then feeds again; the eagle put the man on his back, they fly to the eagle sisters; tin, silver did not give the box, but gave the gold box; ordered not to open it on the way; he discovered, Koschey the Immortal put the good back for promising to give what he did not know at home; his son returned at home; once broke the window; grandmother: oh, you, mother-born, fatherly promised; said that he was given to Koshchei; gave a ball; 12 swans - Koshchei's daughters - flew to the lake; the guy took his youngest's clothes; the girl promised to marry; Koschey tells me to go around the horse; the bride: hit the club between his ears; this is Koschey himself; tells me to choose a bride among 12 sisters; bride: a fly will sit on me; they ran away; they threw flint (mountains), flint (fiery river); the bride made the guy a lake, a duck herself; Koschey shot, missed, left; swore not to prosecute anymore]: Vlasova 2011, No. 51:86-88; Russians (Vologodskaya, Vologodsky y.) [the father took his son to study: if only he took an unclean spirit! an old man comes up: I take it for three years; when the father returns, let him recognize his son among 12 pigeons; son: I'll put out the right wing; the same: pigeons ("I'll fly along artily"); the same - well done (I'll drop my handkerchief); son at home advises to squeeze it in the form of a horse, but without a bridle; but the second time that old man snatched the bridle from the old man's hands and rode away; the sorcerer's sister untied the horse, brought him water; the horse became a ruff, the sorcerer chased pike; the ruff sailed to the Turkish state; the maid came for water, he was in the bucket with a golden ring, the maid gave it to the princess; at night the ring turns into a good job; the sorcerer came, demands a ring, otherwise the whole kingdom will burn; well done, tells you to throw the ring, crumble with wheat, the dove will bite, you need to hide a few grains under your foot; the dove flew away, deciding that he was done well, and well done married that princess became tsar]: Burtsev 1895, No. 13:86-92; Russians (Vologda, Kirillovsky University) [the mouse and sparrow shared the seeds, the sparrow pecked the last one, the mouse complained to the fiery serpent, the eagle interceded for the sparrow, the serpent scorched his wings; Vasily the Sagittarius pointed his gun at him three times; the eagle asks feed him for a year, tries to fly, asks him to ride for a year, then another; after that, the eagle flew with him; drops him three times over the sea and picks him up again; stays with three sisters in copper, silver, gold kingdoms; only the older sister agrees to give the box; the eagle tells not to open it on the way home; the ships landed on the island, V. opened the box, the city appeared; the old man put it back for promising to give what V. does not know at home; let him send him a son in 20 years, he is a seven-humped demon; when Ivan is 20, he went to the demon; A hut, a hut, backwards to the forest, in front of me! there is Baba Yaga, that demon is her brother; she gave a ball, he would reach her older sister; there too, "the hut turned like chicken legs", "backwards to the forest, to me in front"; "The old woman lies twice as her mother head on the bench, legs in the pipe"; gave a cane when she stuck and did not pull it out, you go there; 12 swans flew to the sea, one of them far from the others; I. hid "to look to his knees (to the navel)"; stole her clothes; "If you are young, let her husband be"; "What manners did you get here, Ivan Tsarevich!" ; "My owner has 38 heads, and all have to hang 40 heads - two stakes are empty. And all of us, shouldn't we be here together?" Demon quests. Make a pole from ground to heaven so that the cat can work, go up - tell 12 fairy tales, and down - sing 12 songs well"; I.'s wife performed everything by morning; the demon tells us to identify Maria Tsarevna among the 12 girls; M.: I will have a fly on my right eyebrow; then: dig a ditch overnight and let a steamer go through it; performed; identify M. among 12 swans; "The right wing has a longer wing" {incomprehensible}; out of 12 foals (one tail hair is longer); cut down the forest, plow the field, etc., by morning for the cake to be ready; M. leave saliva responsible for themselves, runs with I.; M. is the chapel, I. is the elder; the well and the ladle; the swamp and the kite; the unclean spirit began to drink the swamp; M. turned herself and I. into a ring, threw it, her sister had it; she threw it on the floor, the ring crumbled with beads, I. and M. appeared; they came to his parents ; wedding]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 34:133-148; Russians (Vologodskaya): Gura 1965, No. 23 [the man sent his son to study in the forest; he has three daughters; he tells each to heat the stove, throws a boy at it ; after two times he replies that he knows nothing, after the third, that he knows more than Lesovoy; Lesovoy told the man to come for his son; he warned: 12 guys would be taken out, everyone would take out handkerchiefs from the left pockets, and he is from the right; the father got a son; on the way home he asks what the crow is screaming about; son: I will wash my feet and you will drink this water; the father is angry; the son tells me to sell him as a stallion, but without a bridle ; the second time his father sold him with a bridle, the forest began to drive him; when he went to eat, the stallion asked the princess to pour a bucket of water on him; became a ruff and swam away; the forest chased the pike; the ruff became a ring, jumped in the princess's bucket; she wears the ring on her hand during the day, and sleeps with a good man at night; the forest told the king about this; the boy taught the princess to throw the ring on the floor, it fell into five parts, one under the princess's foot, the forest turned into a rooster, pecked four parts, but did not find the fifth; the guy married the princess; the father came, did not recognize his son, drank water in the hallway at night; son: I washed my feet with this water; opened up to my father, took him to live for himself]: 236-237; Smirnov 1917, No. 24 (1880s) [the father takes his son to study; the old man tells him to come for the guy in three years and get to know him; a pigeon arrives, becomes a son: there will be 40 young men, he has a scarlet ribbon will come down the sleeves; the old man gave his son to his father; he orders him to be sold in the form of a horse, but without a bridle; on the way, the old man whips the horse with a whip, gives a pot of food hot coals; the sister freed the horse, brought her to the ice-hole for a drink, the horse left with a ruff, the sorcerer followed the pike; Princess Anastasia scooped up water, the ruff became a ring, ended up in a ladle; at night it turns into guy; the sorcerer gave A. illness, asked the king for his daughter's ring for treatment; A. threw the ring on the floor, it became grains, the rooster began to bite, A. stepped on one, the grain jumped out with the guy, he stabbed rooster; the tsar gave him his daughter and throne]: 143-147; Russians (Novgorod, Cherepovets) [the grandfather gave his son to the forest to science; he consistently tells three daughters to throw the guy into the oven; after the third time he knows more than the forest himself; teaches his father to recognize him among 12 snotty guys - he has there will be a handkerchief not in the left pocket, but in the right pocket; having received his son, the father asks what the crow is screaming about; son: that I will wash my feet and you will drink this water; tells me to sell him as a stallion, but without a bridle; the second time I bought a forest with a bridle; when he tied it and went to eat, the horse asked the princess to pour water on it, swam away with a ruff; the forest chases pike; the ruff is chasing a ring in a bucket to the princess; she walks with a ring during the day, and at night sleeps well done; the guy tells me to throw the ring on the ground, it crumbled in grains, the grandfather {must be: the sorcerer} became a rooster, the princess hid one grain under her leg; married the guy; not recognizing her son, the father came; went out into the canopy at night, drank water, my son washed his feet with this water]: Smirnov 1917, No. 72:285-287; Russians: Afanasiev 1985 (2), No. 220 [the fairy tale "The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise"; 1) the tsar shows the hero twelve of his daughters, tells me to guess the younger daughter; well done, looked: who has a midge on her left ear, he pointed to her; 2) build white-stone chambers in a day]: 180; Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians: SUS 1979, No. 325 [cunning science: a father gives his son to a sorcerer; gets him back after recognizing him three times among young men equally turned into animals (birds); sells his son who has turned into a horse several times until he is bought by a magician; after a series of transformations, the student prevails over his teacher]: 118; Potanin 1903:1-2 [the one who comes to take the bride must choose from 12 daughters of the sea king, 12 spoonbills, ducks, cabbage rolls, 3 pigeons, winches, 77 ducks, out of 7 daughters of Baba Yaga converted to animals; the girl will give the sign herself]; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Pechora) [the son advises his father not to cut firewood, but to give it to work, taking money from the owner; they gave it to the old man; he burns and revives the guy three times - this is learning; the guy chipped in as an ant, came to his parents, said what he will need to learn among 6 fellows: he will have one eyelash longer in his right eye; the next day the same (6 pigeons, one has a longer kitten); then 6 roosters (he will jump taller than the others); the father took his son, went to cut wood; the father asks what the raven is screaming? son: that you will wash my feet and drink this water; the father expelled my son; he tells me to sell him in the form of a bay horse, but for no reason; the old man (that sorcerer) bought it, but the horse ran away; next time the same (gray horse); on the third, a black horse, the old man sold it with a reason; the old man hits the horse with an iron whip; they reached the hut, the old man tells her to turn the gate to him, to the forest with windows; the old man hung the horse to beat him death; the old man's sister let him go; the guy turned into a loon, the old man became a teternik (i.e. a hawk); the ruff hit the princess's bucket, turned into a ring; at night he becomes a guy, sleeps with the princess; teaches : when the old man comes, drop the ring on the floor; it turned into 7 ducks {?} , the princess stepped on one; becoming a rooster, the old man pecked the rest, choked on the last one, burst, disappeared; the guy married the princess; one day they came to his parents, they were almost blind; the father got up at night drink water and drink the one in which my son washed his feet]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 165:405-410; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, year? Lapinskaya parish, peasant woman) [The princess prevents her mother from cooking in the kitchen, she says "Na, those to the water." The girl goes to the river, where she is dragged away by a water bottle. The mother regrets what she said, prays, gives money to the wanderers. The soldier grieves that he has a name day the next day, but he has nothing to buy to his comrades, prays to Mikola and hopes to find money. He meets an old man on the road "he is vilified by the wind", and he promises to give the soldier a bucket of wine and a cake if he agrees to marry the daughter of a water tree. The soldier feasts, treats his comrades, goes to the king for a blessing, who warns that the water tree will not leave him alive. The old man leads the soldier through a large threshold, both fall into the water, they find themselves on the road, come to the waterfall hut, who shows all his daughters, the old man advises choosing the pale one ("the worst he sits"), the soldier chooses her, feels sorry for the water, but gives the girl with a dowry (carriage and precious stones). On the big threshold, an old man cuts the girl into three parts, sprinkles dead water, she comes to life and becomes as beautiful as before. The city is surprised how a soldier managed to marry such a rich woman. He is going to get married to the king. The Queen recognizes her daughter, the soldier becomes tsar]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 17:19-21; Russians (Vyatskaya, Sarapulsky, d. Bygi) [The glorious Tsar Rakit Timofeyevich and his wife Tykva Timofeyevna live in the Sabur Kingdom; they have no children. In another realm, a famous magician. King Rakit goes to him for an apple, which his wife will eat. The magician tells him to give half an apple to his wife and hold the other. Two sons will be born, the first one must be given to him. The queen gives birth to a son, a year later she gives birth to her second. The first one grows for 15 years and is called Falcon (S.). His father sends him to a magician. In the forest, S. stumbles, falls, falls asleep until morning; so three times. He comes to the hut on chicken legs, tells him to stand in front of him, and back to the forest. In the hut, a beautiful woman (taken by the wizard from the king, trained in magic) warns that the wizard will bring a glass of rum. You can't drink, otherwise you'll eat it, I must say: "I'm not here to walk or feast, but to work." There'll be a lake on the way Twelve cabbage rolls will arrive, undress, become girls, they look the same, including her - she will begin to spread her wings on the shore. When the girls start swimming, let her sit on her dress. S. does it all. Eleven girls put on their dresses and fly away, the twelfth stays. S. kisses her and gives her dress. Girl: If the magician gives errands, let him turn to her; turn into a pigeon, fly away. S. comes to the magician, who sits in a chair. "Lackey servants! Lift my eyelids out of my eyes with an iron pitchfork: I need to see who's here." The servants raise their eyelids, the thorn opens. The magician recognizes S., tells him to bring rum, S. refuses. The magician tells us to build a bridge across the sea overnight. The girl tells her to take off her pants before going to bed. The bridge is ready in the morning The magician tells us to ride around his horse, he is fierce and ferocious. The girl gives S. an iron rod, tells him to go to bed with his pants off, and quilt the horse with a rod in the morning. The falcon hits the horse, he kneels, S. continues to beat, locks him in the stable, and goes to spend the night with the girl. The horse is a magician himself. In the morning S. comes to him, he groans in pain. His servants lift his eyelids with an iron pitchfork. He says he will now marry S. and has 12 pigeon brides. Girl: A fly will sit on her forehead. The next day, a mare (she will throw back her back leg). The magician invites S. and his fiancée to celebrate their wedding the next day. Girl: He'll eat us, we gotta run. They spit in all corners in the hut and go out. In the morning, the servants tell them to get ready for the wedding, drool that they are going to; they dress; etc. The magician looks at the black book: S. and the bride ran away. Sends a chase. The girl wraps herself in a well, S. wraps herself in a scoop. Those sent drink water and come back. For the second time, a cow and a shepherd, the shepherd replies that he just woke up and did not see anyone. The magician goes by himself, the earth trembles. The girl by the lake makes herself a duck, and S. makes herself a drake. The wizard raises his eyelids, recognizes them, drinks all the water, the duck and the drake fly away. The magician throws thick smoke on them, the girl disperses him with a headwind. The wizard gnashes his teeth like Satan in the underworld, stays at the bottom of the lake, the duck and the drake fly to Father S., become human, get married]: Vereshchagin 2002, No. 12:36-40; Russians (Voronezh) [Tsar aims at the eagle three times at the oak tree; agrees to feed it for three years; every year the eagle tries its power; after the third, it puts the king on its back, carries it, throws it into the sea three times and picks it up again, so that The king was as afraid as he was when the king aimed at him; the eagle's younger sister refused to feed the king, let the dogs down on him; when the eagle carried the king further, the younger sister's house was burning behind him; same with the middle sister; the elder feeds generously; after that, the eagle gives the king a ship and two chests: the red one in the backyard, the green one in the front; but the king opened the red one along the way, and the cattle came out of it; a man came out of the water, put the cattle back for promising to give what the king of the house did not know; at home, the tsar unlocked both chests, a garden appeared from the green one; Ivan Tsarevich was born at home; when he grew up, he was left on the shore seas; Baba Yaga's hut nearby; she teaches: 12 spoonbills will arrive at sea, take off their clothes, start swimming, it is necessary to hide the clothes of the eldest, Vasilisa the Wise; gives for a promise to help when I. comes to her father, the Water King; I. met, took Obedala, Opivala, Frost with him; the water tells him to build a crystal bridge overnight (the servants of the VP did everything); plant a garden (the same) recognize the bride from his 12 daughters (that will wave a handkerchief; fix the dress; the fly will fly); tells you to eat a lot; drink; survive in a hot bath (assistants helped); the young are running, the VP turned the horses into a well, herself into a bucket, the prince in old man; pop and church; honey river with jelly shores, prince - drake, VP - duck; waterman began to drink, burst; VP tells you to go forward to parents, but not to kiss his sisters; I. kissed, forgot VP; beret another wife; VP chipped in as a beggar, brought a pie with a dove with a dove in it; dove: you will forget me like I. Vasilisa Premudruya; I. remembered, everything is fine]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 219:171-177; Russians (Voronezh Region) [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. The cat tells her to wait every time for him to eat bread, drink milk, etc., stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight with birds; wounded The eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later, he carries him on his back; throws him three times over the sea and catches him so that the merchant feels like he, the Eagle, was afraid of being shot by him; sisters An eagle in the copper and silver kingdoms refuses to give the merchant a casket, a sister in the golden kingdom gives it; the Eagle orders not to open it along the way, the merchant opens it, a palace and servants appear from it; Unbaptized Forehead collects everything in a casket for promising to give that he does not know at home; the merchant is met by his wife with his newborn son; Ivan grows up, goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises to hide the wings of a colorful cabbage roll when three cabbage rolls will come to swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's favorite daughter; his cook Chumichka lies as if Ivan promised 1) to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake pies out of flour; 2) make a flying ship; The VP does everything, Chumichka is thrown off the ship; 3) NL tells him to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three cabbage rolls, three girls (the VP has a dim bridle sequin; waves his wing; handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable garden, himself into a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, VP throws a brush (forest), a comb (mountain), a towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets VP; she is hired as an employee, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to the wedding with a pie, a dove and a dove come out of him, that the dove will forget her, how Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 224:197-204; Russians (Tver Gubernia) [the merchant began to drink from the river, he was seized by Miracle Yudo the Lawless, tells him to give him that he does not know at home; while the merchant was away, his wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, went to Chu; baba yaga gives a ball, he rolls to her sister, she gives the other goes to Chu's daughter, her ball is rolling CHU; there are 77 ducks on the sea, followed by a fence with heads on poles; the girl tells you to take three steps back, the young man ends up in Chu's house; he gives tasks 1) to put up a barn overnight , 2) grow up overnight, collect wheat in a barn; Vasilisa Premudraya does everything; 3) recognize VP among his 77 daughters (waving a handkerchief, shifting a ring); wedding; young people are running, VP leaves 4 dolls responsible for himself; throws a comb (forest), soap (mountain), ubrus (sea); VP warns her husband not to kiss the child when he comes in; he kisses, forgets her, is going to marry another; VP makes a cake at a feast a dove with a dove comes out of it, the dove asks the pigeon not to forget it, as Ivan VP forgot; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 225:205-208; Russians (Moscow) [father took his son to study; sat on stump, sighed, Oh! old man: what do you need? takes to study with the condition of identifying his son in three years; three years later the dove knocks on the window; becomes a son; there will be 30 horses, he will beat him with a hoof; the man took his son; he orders him to be sold as a horse, but without a bridle; the third time the father gave it with a bridle, and bought Oh; the maid let go of the horse, he became a dove; Oh chases a kite; fish and pike; the fish became a ring, the royal daughter washed and picked it up; at her house the young man took his form: Oh, ask your father for me, throw the ring on the ground; it crumbled into millet, Oh became a rooster, it bites; one grain under the princess's heel became a fox, bitten to death a rooster; wedding]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 31:79-81; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [the merchant leaned to the water for a drink, grabbed by the beard, must give what he does not know at home; son Ivan; at the age of 18 he went to the sorcerer; his Twelve daughters are swimming, the young man hid Mary Tsarevna's clothes; the sorcerer tells her to be recognized among her sisters (her husband will sit on her face); collect the scattered grain (the birds have collected); build a golden palace by morning; the palace is ready M. tells me to run; chase; she chipped in as a goat, and I. as a shepherd; an apple tree and a watchman; when the father himself is chasing, M. tells Ivan to cross the river, she will grow there as a flower, you must pick it; and if you don't pick it, you'll forget it; and you won't you will completely forget to take houses that you don't know; M. became a crucian carp, and his father became a pike; he chased for three years, retreated; I. took his newborn brother in his arms at home, forgot M., did not come to pick a flower; the shepherd cut off make a flower; pipe: I. forgot me; M. became a teacher, I. met her (the informant does not remember)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 69:78-80; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [Yurko's 12th son goes to look the godfather, who gave a letter for him at the christening; this is the king; the grandfather suggests that Yu be his servant, pretends to be his godson; the king does not believe, orders to bring the golden-haired daughter of Tsar Poganin; Yu goes, bird, ant, bees promise to help; P. tells 1) to disassemble the grain (birds, ants disassemble), 2) identify the bride among the 12 sisters (the bee will hit her eye); grandfather kills Yu in the forest, the bride revives him live water, grandfather was torn apart by horses]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:356-361; Ukrainians (the place of recording is not a decree., according to M. Wozniak, vol.3) [the sea grandfather stopped the merchant's ship, tells him to give him that he does not know at home; while he was not at home, his wife gave birth and raised a son; at 12 he went to his sea grandfather; 12 ducks turn into girls they take off their clothes, bathe; the young man hides his youngest's clothes, gives him for a promise to become his wife; tells him to go without turning to vipers and animals in a hut on a chicken leg; the betrothed waits for him there; teaches him to answer boldly lions, break the gate, recognize her among 12 identical girls; so three times; the merchant's son gets a wife]: Pankeev 1992:151-160; Eastern Ukrainians: Chubinsky 1878 (Poltavskaya, Pereyaslavsky U.), No. 102 [the man decided to give his son to someone; on the way they saw a grave above the road; they went to rest; the man sat down and sighed: "Oh!" ; an evil spirit jumped out of the grave, asked why she was called; the old man replied that he did not call; the evil spirit said her name was Ohom; Oh asked where they were going, and when he found out, he said he wanted to hire a boy for a year; a year later, the man came for his son, called Och; he said he would give all the money, but if the old man did not recognize his son, the boy would stay for another year; brought the old man to the grave, there were three roosters; the old man did not recognized a son among them; a year later he came again; Oh said the same thing as the first time; they look - three drakes were walking; the old man did not identify his son this time; took the money, went home; a year later he began to gather go again; the son knew what time he would come; ran to meet him in a whirlwind; the father said that Oh warned: if he did not recognize his son a third time, he would take him away forever; the son said that Oh would make them pigeons; whoever has a right wing bulging is the son; the father came to the grave, called Okha, identified his son; Oh gave his son and the money; the father asked his son if he had learned anything; the son replied that even Okha will hold it; said he would become a horse during the fair, and told his father to sell it to the one who had the most money (that would be Oh); warned him not to give the bridle; the fair began, the son turned into a stallion "sribna wool, gold wool, and if you look at his hair"; his father brought him to other horses; came Oh, paid the most; the father gave the horse, but without a bridle; went to wash, Oh stole the bridle; the horse galloped fast to throw Och off; decided to run to the church; ran past two crosses - Oh held on; at the third church the horse stopped at the cross; Oh sensed frankincense, ran away; the horse turned back into a man, returned to his father; "here is the song and live"], 103 [the woman told his grandfather to take her son to school; the grandfather took him, climbed a big mountain and said: "Oh!" ; pan came out, asked why his grandfather called him; when he found out that he was taking his son to school, Oh offered to give his son to him; promised to learn, asked for a pile of spoons in a year; the grandfather did it, came to Och; he brought three hawks and let them eat; told the grandfather to recognize his son; he did not know; Oh said to make a pile of plates; the grandfather did, brought it; Oh took out three roosters, poured them to eat; told them to recognize the son, the grandfather could not; Oh said to do it again spoons; the grandfather brought him, Oh brought him to the stable, ordered him to recognize his son among the three horses; the grandfather said he would not know; Oh told him to make spoons; the grandfathers son cut firewood and told the Naimichka to give it to his grandfather: when he would come , the son will stand on his right side and stomp his foot; the grandfather came, the namichka told me how to recognize his son; Oh called the grandfather to the stable, he identified and took his son; went home; began to think about how to make money; son turned into a hawk, said to sell himself for a hundred carbonavtsy; his grandfather sold him to his lord; the hawk brought him quails; one by one he flew to the yar and turned into a hare there; he ran to his father, took the form of a man; we found out about the fair, the son said that he would become such a horse that "one wool is short, and the other is gold"; told his father not to sell it until five bags were filled with gold, and forbade giving the bridle; Oh came, paid in gold, snatched out the bridle; tied the horse tightly to the stable; his grandfather's son's comrades were there; he asked them to loosen the rope, as a result he ran away; Oh rushed in pursuit, turning into a wolf; by the sea the horse turned into a perch and the wolf into a pike; they saw the royal daughter and the maid; the son turned into a ring, Oh into an old man; the princess said that she would give up the ring after seven years of service, Oh agreed; at night the young man He lay with the princess, and during the day he was a ring; said that when it was necessary to give it back, let it be sown with poppy seeds; one top would roll, the princess should step on her; they did so; the grandfather turned into a rooster, poppy began to bite; the top under his foot became a hawk; he killed the rooster; the young man and the princess got married; "live and chew, but they don't let us"]: 368-375; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Gadyachsky y., ok. 1878) [The poor give birth to a lazy son (they will eat, they will not let them eat, they will not let them do, lies on the stove "without pants"). His mother offers to send him to work so that he can learn something, they give him to a tailor - he returns in 3 days, gives him to a Swedish man, and runs away to a blacksmith. Father wants to send him to another realm, believing he won't run away from there. The path lies through the forest, the father sighs down to rest on a stump - a wrinkled grandfather with a green beard knee-deep comes out, introduces himself as King of the Forest Och, asks why his father called him, said" Oh," when I sat down. Oh, he asks him to study for a year on the condition that he stays in service for another year if his father can't recognize him. Oh takes the guy to the next world, to a hut where everything is green, including Okha's wife and children. Oh sends the guy to cut wood, he falls asleep, Oh ties him up and puts him on firewood, sets him on fire, the guy burns. Oh splashes live water, the guy comes to life and becomes handsome. A year later, Och's father comes to pick up his son, Oh scatters the measure of millet, the same roosters run, the father can't find his son, he stays for another year. A year later, Oh shows the sheep "one by one", but his father doesn't know again. In his third year on the way, he meets an old white man (clothes, white beard), tells his story, who suggests that his son can be distinguished among pigeons - everyone will eat millet, and he will be the only one who will sit down under a pear - with the help of a hint, the father recognizes his son and takes him home. Having turned from a bird to a person, the guy becomes even more beautiful. The father grieves that they are poor, the son turns into a greyhound, catches a fox, predicts that the pan will want to buy it for 300 rubles, but forbids his father to sell the chain. A dog is bought without for a hundred rubles, it turns into a human being and returns to its father. The guy turns into a falcon, his father sells it to gentlemen without a hat for 300 rubles. At the fair, the guy turns into a horse, his father forgets about the ban and sells Okha, who turned into a gypsy, halfway. He leads the horse into the steppe, leads to the hut, the horse becomes a perch, swims away, Oh becomes a pike. The perch swims to the shore, turns into a pomegranate ring, and is pulled out of the water by the princess. Oh turns into a merchant, asks the king to return the lost ring, the girl does not want to give it back, throws it "neither to you nor me", the ring hits the floor, crumbles with millet, the merchant wraps it in a rooster pecks all grains except for the princess who has rolled under her leg. Millet turns into a guy, the princess falls in love with him, persuades her father and marries him]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 29:107-114; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Piryatinsky, wrote L.M. Zhumchuzhnikov) [tsar {or prince; the narrator uses both designations alternately} goes with two sons; asks what they would make of three oaks; elder: barn boards; younger: would hang on the oak of princes; the king pushed him into the sea, swallowed him by a whale, then swallowed carts of water and horses; the prince made a fire, began to smoke a pipe, the whale jumped ashore; the hunters began to cut the carcass, prince gave a voice, the hunters ran away, he got out, sat naked, because after a year of being in the fish, his clothes had decayed; at that time the old king died, the eldest son reigned; the king must marry, the messengers saw naked man; he said that his name was Ivan Golyk and the tsar would not marry without him; the prince {aka tsar} was traveling with IS; he does not order to crush mice, allows mosquitoes to pump his blood, released two pikes into the sea; they come to the thirtieth kingdom, where snakes rule; there are no heads on the stakes, on the last 12; the snake has 12 daughters, the prince liked the youngest; the serpent orders to threshing 300 ricks overnight, spread the straw to the straw, grain to grain (IS tells the mice to perform); get a ring dropped into the sea (IG: the serpent threw it into the sea himself; tells the pike to get it); shoot a hundred pounds with a bow; prince: it's shameful for me to shoot from such a thing, let the servant shoot; IS pulls on the bow, it breaks; drive around the horse behind 12 doors; IS: this is the youngest daughter; say you don't want to be ashamed, let the servant go around; IS hits the mare with a piece of bow, says go down, fall and spread her legs; identify the bride among her sisters (the mosquito will sit on her nose); the prince got a wife, IS tells her not to trust her for 7 years; a son was born in the third year; the prince said that's it performed IS; his wife waved a towel, cutting off IS's legs, and his torso fell into the forest; the legless fraternized with the armless; the armless brought him in a cart to the city; past the queen, all yellow; the legless promises to heal if she will tell the truth; queen: in the morning the serpent flies, the blood sucks; the legless and armless hid, grabbed the snake, forced them to be carried to the aiming water, became whole and healthy (the snake first tried to slip they had dead water, but they put a stick in it - it burned down); IS returned and recognized his brother in the swineherd; hugged them; when the former prince drives the pigs home, he must kiss one pig three times, otherwise he will not move; the princess is feasting with snakes and this is a signal to her that the swineherd is returning; IS took out a tow and tar, made a whip, killed a pig, beat the princess until she gave up her snake temper and began to live with the prince]: Kulish 1857 in Pankeev 1992:84-99; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Novograd-Volynsky district) [the grandfather had no children; the woman asked God for a child; he gave them a boy; in a few years he grew up big; the woman told his grandfather that there was a lot of money, but the son could not do anything; the grandfather sent the boy for horses, he He did not find them; his grandfather took him to town, sat on the deck on the way and said: "Oh, moss"; a warlock jumped up and asked him what his grandfather wanted; he replied that he wanted to teach his son a craft; the warlock said that he would learn; a year later, the grandfather brought money; the warlock played the horn, two rams came running; the warlock asked if the grandfather recognized his son; the grandfather replied that he gave the man and he was shown cattle; warlock ordered to bring another hundred rubles a year later; when the grandfather returned, he played trumpet; two stallions with silver manes came running; the grandfather did not recognize his son again; returned a year later; on the way he walked through the city, there met a girl; she asked where he was going; said that his son's grandfather would not help him out and that she would teach him, but the owner would bake her in the oven; the grandfather replied that if she told me, he would go to the oven himself; the girl warned that the owner would put millet on the table and a pigeon that would not bite would be his son; the grandfather came to the warlock, who poured millet, clicked pigeons; the grandfather pointed to his son, the son became a man; the warlock let him go; at home, his son made a mill that had milled so much flour day and night that there was nowhere to go; the woman sent his grandfather to ask if her son wanted to marry; he replied that until he earned money; said that there would be a fair and he would become a silver ram; ordered to bring a lime branch; made a gold cord out of it; said sell it (i.e. a ram with a cord) for three hundred rubles; the grandfather sold to the lord; the ram turned into a pigeon, returned home; said that tomorrow there would be a fair again; ordered to bring a fake branch, made a bridle; said that he would become a stallion with a golden mane and tail; forbade selling the bridle, otherwise they would buy it forever; a warlock came up, bought a horse, stole a bridle; at home he tied it to a cast-iron gutter; a girl was walking to help his grandfather; the horse asked him to untie; turned into a dove, flew away; the owner took the form of a starling, flew after him; the dove fell into the water, became a roach; the starling turned into a pike; the young man jumped ashore, became a ring; the royal girls washed there; one put a ring on her finger; the young man said, When the king orders to give it back, he would become a pea, let it step on one pea; they did so; the owner became a rooster, began to peck peas; from a pea under a kite appeared with his foot, killed a rooster]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 104:375-379.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars: Kondaraki 1875, No. 4 [when dying, the water carrier asks his wife not to tell her son Asan what his father did; hands over a purse with an inchangeable chervonets and a pipe in which an invincible army; A. got drunk and lost his purse; taking the pipe, he went to Shah Azamat; he would give his daughter for someone who solved her riddle; he executed those who did not solve; the old woman sold Asan a talking bird; Princess Emine Sultan ordered recognize her among 40 girls in veil; the bird turned into a bee, pointed out; the Shah was going to throw Asan out, but he called an army; the Shah and daughter pretended to marry, Asana got drunk, E. took her pipe, Asan returned to his mother; made her tell her what her father did; went to the capital, became a court water carrier; Princess Suadet Sultan fell in love with him; they agreed that Asan would send his mother treasures and S. herself in the chest, then she will arrive by himself; Asan's mother quarreled with S. (she refused to move to a new home until Asan returned) and wrote to her son about S.'s debauchery; he returned and hit S. with a sword, the body was thrown away to be eaten by the birds; the Jewish doctor healed S.; she fled from baths, put on men's clothes and galloped off; a falcon sits on her head three times; he was released to determine the future king; S. was made a padishah; tells her to wear her portrait and bring those who recognize her; a Jew was brought, S. rewarded him; Asana; S. forgave him and made him a husband]: 52-62; Useinov 1936, No. 14 [Usein, Asan's son, shoots a bird, she asks not to kill it, sell it to the padishah; he leaves W. bodyguard; viziers persuade the padishah 1) to order the bird to build an ivory palace; she teaches W. to pour wine into the lake, the elephants are drunk, W. builds a palace; 2) get the daughter of the king of jinns; a bird orders to feed kites with meat, bees with honey; on the way, W. takes a meal, a cliffbreaker with his fist; the kite gives a feather, ants (W. fed them with millet) and bees on the wing; the king of genies tells 1) eat a yogurt pot, remove the rock, sow the ground (satellites complete tasks); 2) get living water from Mecca to resurrect a dead stallion (kites bring); 3) count the grain in bags (ants); 4 ) recognize your daughter among 999 girls (the old bee recognizes); when he sees W. Padishah returning with a beautiful woman, turns into a pig, viziers into dogs; W. marries]: 202-216; Kalmyks: Basangova 2002 [Syayady - a good man, his daughter was married to khan; S. died, the daughter remained in the care of bad Mu; she was sent to herd cows; the old woman asks to scratch her head, fruits grow on her head, the girl does not eat them; the old woman She wishes her happiness, she becomes beautiful; when she finds out what is going on, Mu sends her own daughter to eat fruit, the old woman tells her to grow a bump on her cheeks; Mu sent an orphan to get water with a bottomless vessel, sent a man after her to kill her; she fell into the sea, became a golden carp; Moo thinks that Khan is now marrying his daughter, teaches her to say that the bumps on her cheeks are a sign of a shamanic gift; that meat will heal her golden carp; it happened; one golden sparkle fell on the bars of the yurt, became the daughter of S., lives with an old shepherd; Khan invites all the girls to tell stories; daughter S. tells her story Khan marries her, drives the evil ones away]: 176-177; Vatagin 1964:61-78 (Orenburg merchants) [elderly parents promise to send their son to khurul if he is born to them; they give it away; Manji's boy is superior to Bakshi in wisdom; he agrees to return his son if his parents find him among eight crows, eight rams, eight black horses; the son reports signs (a crow with a red foot, a ram with a yellow ear, a horse stands taller three, below four); bakshi still does not give, ties M.-horse under the scorching sun; bakshi's niece persuades him to let the horse drink; he runs away, turns into a fish; bakshi chases pike; duck - falcon; wheat - chicken; M. becomes human, takes an ax from the llama, cuts off the chicken's head, the bakshi's head falls; the llama promises to save M. from sin by sending a joke, giving a needle that will fix it clothes, quench your thirst; you have to return silently, and jokingly provokes a conversation, tells a fairy tale, M. comments, jokingly flies back to his poplar; so three times, for the fourth time, brings; llama Bakshi revives, he forgives sin, M. returns to his parents], 156-160 [the lama promised that Bayin-Bath had a son, but he could be carried away by a black-bald wolf; Badm's son grew up, married, and goes with his wife to his parents; at rest, a wolf took him away; his father ordered him to put a house on this place; three years later, a passerby noticed that a big man had entered the house, ate and left again; Batma's mother went to guard, was frightened; his father fell asleep; Ijimya's wife could not hold back; parents came together; Batma: I have to go to me between 900 burning trees, swim in boiling milk 900 mares, then solve the wolf's problems; my father did not pass, my mother passed, but did not decided to rush into the cauldron, the wife passed, swam; the wolf: 1) determine which of the two mares are the mother and who is the daughter; I.: the mother pushes her daughter's oats; 2) which of the two snakes is male and who is female (the female lay lazily, and the male began to hiss); 3) which of the three Batma pigeons (he has tears in his eyes); the wolf gave it to Ijima Batma]; Basangova 2017, No. 86 [Zaisang will give his daughter to someone who recognizes her among 12 girls; went from afar the son of a rich man to try his luck; stopped at the old woman; she filled the boiler with water, climbed into it, poured goose feathers on the water and suggested signs through a pipe from under the water; the young man easily found a girl; Zurkhachi asked his book who gave the young man the answer; the book revealed that he was a man living in water, with bird wings and an iron neck; Zaisang gave his daughter to a young man, and tore the book and scattered across the steppe; the scattered leaves were eaten by sheep; so lamb meat became healing]: 165-167; Balkarians [sons go to look for their father's stolen herd; the youngest promises to marry a snake, gets a herd; returns to the snakes; the woman explains that out of forty identical girls, he must choose the seventh - the snake prince's beloved daughter; the young husband misses home, the wife tells her to ask her the father is a horse on three legs; the wife turns into a snake, climbs into a bag; the father and brothers of the young man drive the young to live in a dugout; the brothers spy, see that the daughter-in-law is beautiful; ask the father to lime his brother; he tells me to bring 1) a tree that sounds like music (an old woman helps steal it from giants); at this time, the wife stuck scissors in the ground, an iron palace appeared, she took refuge in it from her husband's brothers; 2) a mill that gives a large grain (the same, the wife sticks a comb, hides in a bone palace); 3) bring a wonderful book; the young man rides a three-legged horse, people are frozen around, the horse becomes four-legged, carries through the cold to the elder; he replies that the young man's father and brothers will become wild boars; the wife, meanwhile, has made a glass palace for herself from a needle and a mirror; the wife is disgraced, the father and brothers turn into boars]: Kapiyeva 1991:84-91; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [father leads his bad son to teach a craft; by the sea he says, Hite (an expression of annoyance); Hite comes out of the sea, invites his father to come for son in a year; a year later, at the bottom of the sea, H. orders him to identify his son among many; the son warned that a fly would sit on his cheek; at home, the son orders him to be sold in the form of a horse, cow, buffalo, not to sell halter; he sells; buffalo asks H. to let him drink, rushes into the sea, swims away with fish; H. is a cormorant; dove is a hawk; an apple on the princely daughter's lap is a knife; millet is a chicken; the last grain in the needle, H. - thread; goes into the needle, but it rushes into the fire, the thread burns; the young man marries the princess]: 182-186; Mikawa 1960 [Dzhanchyk sees a huge eagle; he asks him to feed him; D. carved a piece of flesh from his thigh, then brought two bulls; the eagle still could not get up; D. brought him home on the arba, fed him; the eagle tells him to hang a basket of a hundred bulls from his neck, sit on his back, with every scream throw meat down her throat; the elder, middle sisters of the eagle refuse to give a ring, a handkerchief; the youngest gives a box; D. ends up in the forest, with him a box; a red man (this is a forest prince): if you give yours I will teach the child who is now born how to open the box; D. promised; opened the box, found himself in the palace; closed it at home; his son Ahmet-Omar grew up, went to the forest prince; venerated his chest giantesses, her many-headed sons, recognized him as a dairy brother; teach the 12th of the pigeon girls who will come to swim to hide the clothes; the girl explains that the forest prince is her father; teaches you to walk in front of at dawn, when the guardian animals sleep; in her room the lamp will be the last to go out; at the screenings she will raise her heel, a tear will drop from her eye; AO identified the bride, married; the prince orders 1) to build a city overnight; the wife teaches you to tame Rashi (the magic horse), go around the site, the city will appear; the wife tells her to run, because the judges slander her father against AO; the wife leaves the pillows responsible for herself; the mother understands, tells her husband chase; the wife turns horses into trees, saddles into vines, herself and AO into an old man and an old woman; now the mother is chasing; her daughter creates a thicket, a boxwood forest, a sea in a word; the princess's horse drank it, galloped on; the fugitives flew away with falcons; the princess cursed her daughter: her husband would forget her; AO went ahead and forgot the bride, took another wife; she came for water, the prince's daughter threw her ring into the jug; AO remembered everything, brought his wife, the former was spent with honor]: 18-26; Abaza [disguised as poor, the padishah sleeps in a poor house; that night a son was born there; when leaving, the padishah leaves gold and a letter with which the young man, when grows up, must come to the padishah if he wants to marry; when the young man goes on a journey, his father warns him not to take a beardless man as a companion; the beardless begs to be companions, agrees to go a short road where there is no water; he lowers him into a well for water and picks him up after the young man has given the padishah's letter; the beardless pretends to be a young man and he is a groom; wants to marry an overseas beautiful, asks the padishah to send an imaginary groom for her; on the way, the horse tells her to feed the eagle, bees, throw fish into the water; the fish lay down on the water, the horse crossed the sea over it; the girl's father wants medicine for her daughter from death (the eagle brings); recognize the bride among other girls (a bee is spinning above her); get an abandoned ring from the bottom of the sea (the fish got it); before leaving, the daughter stole a bottle with the medicine of immortality, which his father hid; the girl told the beardless man to ask the padishah to kill the groom young man, then revived him; he told the padishah everything - death and resurrection freed him from this beardless word; a beardless man was torn apart by horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 46:125-131; Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:88-94 [The eagle flies to the poor man three times to steal chickens; every time he asks not to kill; on the fourth day asks him to sit on his back, brings him to his sisters; on the way he pretends to leave him on the rock twice, once among a wolf pack, so that the person also feels the fear that the Eagle felt; the first and second sisters they do not give a magic whip, a ring; the youngest gives birth to a childless woman; on the way home, a person falls asleep; does not find a bandage; the sorcerer returns her from the water, demands to give birth to the boy A year after he is born; he becomes a young man in a year; the sorcerer's daughter teaches him to complete his tasks, gives a magic whip; 1) build an iron bridge; 2) sow the field and harvest in a day; 3) choose one horse out of a dozen (this is the sorcerer's daughter, the bride will stand still); 4) one goose (the same); 5) a pigeon (the same); going to the bathhouse, the young man and the bride run away, leaving a spit to answer for themselves; the girl turns into a bush, a young man into a bird; into a church and a priest (the sorcerer's wife explains that they were fugitives); the sea and the swan; the sorcerer's wife pursues herself, becoming an eagle; trying to drink the sea, bursts; hitting the young man's parents with a whip, the girl makes them young; (=Sokayeva 2012:11-18)], 219-222 [(=Britayev, Kazbekov 1953:41-44); the old man leads his son to study; sighs, crouching on the mound; Oh- oh; takes his son for a year; a year later he invites the old man to recognize his son among two identical boys (the son warned that he would scratch his ear); the son orders him to be sold as a ram; returns; in the image trotter; father is tempted for money, sells with a bridle; Oh oh tortures the horse with work, he runs away; Oh oh - hound, horse - fox, then dove, stalker - eagle; dove - apple, oh - boy, needle - thread, thread into the fire - the needle burned; the young man returns to his parents]; Dzagurov 1983, No. 123 [the eastern Aldar had a bear son; marries the daughter of Western Aldar; he refuses, but is lucky a bear cub to seven brothers and their sister agrees to marry him; at night, a bear cub becomes a young man; one woman, at the instigation of a healer, threw a bear skin into the fire; the husband flies to heaven as a golden bird; later tells his wife that he is an employee of Falwar's livestock owner; he needs to prepare more hay, a harsh winter will come, F. will come to ask to sell the hay, he must exchange it for an employee; F. will offer to choose; I I will be on the far left; my wife chose the right one, everything is fine]: 527-533; Terek Cossacks (art. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar has 12 wives, but has no children; he sends Elder Pirigrim on a trip around the kingdom to find out what to do; the elder listens outside the window of a village house to what the girls are talking about; first: "If I went out getting married, I would sew all the shirts for my husband - shirts like there are no shirts in the whole kingdom"; second: "I would embroider all the carpets"; third: "I would write all the papers..."; youngest: "If I get married, I will give birth to 12 sons"; king takes the youngest as his wife; she cannot give birth; sends the old man to the market, tells him to buy from the first person he meets what he will carry; the old man buys apples; the queen cuts one of them in half; one half She eats herself, gives the other to the king; then gives birth to a son, Mohammedan Magometanovich; the king leaves, leaves the general for himself; he takes care of the queen; MM reproaches her; the servants say: "Your father has it sworn horse, Black Whirl: he has been underground for thirty years, on 12 iron chains, behind 12 iron doors, on 12 iron locks"; MM spends the horse; the witch advises the general that the queen fed MM bread baked in snake fat; the horse warns of danger; MM gives bread to dogs, tears them apart; the witch advises giving MM herbal tea; the horse anticipates trouble, tells them to give MM herbal tea MM do not drink; MM breaks the glass; the general brings a red shirt from the witch to give MM in front of the bath; horse: "When you wear it, you will turn to ashes... But if you take an iron pitchfork, pick me up There is an eyelid in the right eye and see: there is a red shirt in one corner - take it and hide it in your pocket"; in the bath, MM wears the shirt received from the horse, not the one given by his mother; the king returns home ; the queen pretends to be sick; says she will recover if the heart and liver of the Black Whirlwind are fried for her; the king orders the horse to be killed; MM asks to be allowed to ride for the last time; sits on the horse flies away; they find themselves in the kingdom of Bartholomew; the horse tells them to wear pistons and old clothes picked up along the way, pour a potion out B.'s window, from which mosquitoes will appear (there are no mosquitoes in Kingdom B.), stand by the window and answer the same thing: "I don't know, he was"; MM follows his instructions; V. makes him first an assistant cooks (MM eats meat there), then a yard worker (MM ties the reins to the horse's tail, pulls them, rips off the horse's skin), and then as a gardener; another king declares war to Tsar V.; V.'s youngest daughter tells her father to consult with MM; MM replies: "I don't know, it will be so"; V. plants him into prison; MM breaks down the wall, changes clothes, flies on horseback to the battlefield, defeats the enemy, returns; V. arranges a feast to recognize and reward the hero who saved him; youngest daughter asks if this is not a gardener; V. comes to prison, recognizes MM as a hero; MM asks to give his youngest daughter for him; V. sets a condition: to recognize her among the rest of his daughters; the horse arrives in the form of a fly, warns MM that she will sit on the forehead of the younger princess; MM identifies her among the 6 royal daughters; receives the princess and half the kingdom]: Butova 1889, No. 4:141-156; Terek Cossacks (v. Borozdinskaya) [the old man leads his son to send him to study; the sorcerer suggests: "Give me your son, I will teach him; give him away for three years and come here every year: if you know your son, it will be yours, and If you don't know, it will be mine"; the old man agrees; the sorcerer tells the boy to see his father off; the boy warns: "When you come to recognize me in a year, we will be pigeons: we will be twelve pigeons, and I I'll pinch my comrade"; the father returns, identifies his son among 12 pigeons; the sorcerer tells him to come again in a year; the son tells his father: "When you come, we will all sit on the lake in the cliffs: I will wake up - you will recognize me"; the father identifies his son among 12 ducks; he says: "When you come in a year, we will stand as suited stallions; I will lie down a friend, and you will recognize me"; the father identifies his son among 12 stallions, takes him home; the son says he will turn into a stallion and orders him to sell himself without giving a halter; the old man follows his instructions, receives money from the merchant; the son turns into a sparrow and returns to his father; he sells it again; the son returns home, turning into a dove; becomes a stallion; the old man sells it to the sorcerer, forgets to remove the halter; the sorcerer rides the stallion home, hangs him upside down from the matitsa in the stable; the sorcerer's wife unties the stallion; he turns into a pigeon and flies away; the sorcerer goes to look; the dove falls at the well and becomes a ring; the girl carries him to his home; he warns: "When a rooster comes to the yard, take me off, hit the ground - I will crumble with millet, and you step on one seed"; the girl does; the rooster bites the grain; from under the girl's foot a hawk flies out, kills a rooster; turns into a man, marries a girl]: Butova 1889, No. 2:125-128; Terek Cossacks (v. Ardon) [the old man has two sons; one dies; the old man goes hunting, finds a well; a cup swims in it; the old man drinks water; the cup sticks to his lips; the old man asks him to let go; the cup: "Give it back, What do you have, then I'll let you go!" ; the old man agrees; the cup gives him a sealed letter and falls into the well; the old man's son Ivan grows up, finds a letter; it talks about 12 beautiful sisters; I. comes to the house of the Snake King; he says that he has 12 daughters; he is ready to give his youngest, Elena, for I. if he guesses her among others (he eats her otherwise); E. wants to help I.; warns that he will put a piece of black thread in his bosom; thanks to this, I. identifies her among her sisters; CZ says he will release his daughters as doves; E. presses the middle toe; I. identifies her; CZ gives the task: to teach his dashing horse to ride; E. advises I. to he ordered the CZ to buy 12 tires and the same number of half-tires; I. does so; E. puts on a man's dress, sits on a horse, hits him on the hips with tires and half tires; I. hands over the horse to the CZ; after the wedding E.'s feast tells I. that you need to run; on the way he asks him: "Lie down, my darling, on the ground sideways and listen with your eye to see if they are catching up with us"; I. lies down, listens, says that they are running and catching up; E. turns into a strip of millet, and I. is the watchman of this millet; sisters E. come running, asking the watchman if he has seen the fugitives; the watchman: "Live, live, sparrows from millet!" ; the sisters decide he is a fool and return home; the CZ tells them they were fugitives; chases himself; E. becomes a duck and I. turns him into a drake; they fly to the sea; the CZ runs to the shore drinks water; duck: "Don't drink, dad, or you'll burst!" ; CZ does not listen, continues to drink, bursts; I. and E. turn into people and go to his parents]: Gusev 1893:354-358; Avars [the old man tells the childless khan to eat an apple with his wife, son at the age of 18 to send him; on the way, a woman tells the young man to hide the clothes of a white dove; first 40 blacks arrive to swim, he hides his clothes white; these are the daughters of that old man; the named performs for young man father's errands: make a lot of dishes, a silver lock, a horse with gold harness; identify his wife among her sisters with her eyes closed (she warns that she will take off one earring); the spouses are running, the wife turns her husband into a cart, himself into a driver; into a gardener and a cucumber; into a shell collector and the sea; this time the mother is chasing, telling her daughter to be the sea for seven years; the young man collects gold shells from the bottom; marries; seven years later he meets his real wife, goes to her]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 100-106; (=Khalilov 1965, No. 41:94-99); Svana [the tsar has three daughters, his wife died, he took another one, she tells me to get rid of scoundrels; the king found an apple tree in the steppe, brought an apple to his daughters; they asked them to be brought to the apple tree; the king dug a hole there, covered it with a carpet, the daughters failed; the sisters ate apples, they ran out, but the youngest hid it; these were over; the eldest wanted to eat her, but the youngest turned her hands into a shovel and an iron-tipped stick; they dug a passage into the tin house; there the servants feed the royal horses boiled wheat; sisters eat everything, horses lose weight, the king executes servants; the witch doctor orders to guard; the sisters are caught, the king wants one of them to marry his son; the eldest: a hundred carpet so that the king and all subjects have a bed and veil; middle: I will drink wine to the king and the people; youngest: I will give birth to a son and a daughter {then we are talking only about a son}, so that their lower and upper halves are golden; this sister was given for the prince; the older sisters abandoned children born into the river were replaced by puppies; the king tied the bride to a stump at a fork in three roads; let everyone spit in her eyes; the children were picked up by a priest who owned the mill; the priest raised young man, he is the best hunter; his mother's sisters understood who he was; advised the priest to send the young man to Elbrus for a golden apple tree; divas on the way, petrified to the waist; says that everyone is so stony; we must remember his mother's nipples; the young man thought about them, brought an apple tree; the divas chased the young man, but that divas drove them away; the sisters advise asking the young man to bring a mirror from Elbrus; everyone was stony, and the young man remembered the nipples mother and brought a mirror; sisters: to kidnap the wife of the Western sovereign; the young man came to the tower, where the king's daughter; the king will give her if the fruits in the garden are ripe by morning; the princess orders them to put a stick in the ground and pour water over them, in the morning a tree with fruit; king: jump across the sea, build churches everywhere so that all the bells would ring; the princess gave a towel, she created everything; tame the horse; the horse: order an iron hammer and beat the horse with it; recognize the bride among her sisters (she will have a ring on her finger); the princess tells her to run, the king sent an army; the princess turned the young man into a monk, a horse into a church, herself into an icon; arrived to the tsar-father; the mother of the young man released, sisters executed]: Nizheradze 1890, No. 1:176-187; Megrelians: Mingrelian Tales of 1890, No. 2 [the old man put his little son on his shoulders and carried him to study; crossing the river, he staggered and exclaimed "atu!" ("ah!") ; A man appeared on the shore: I'm Atu, what do you want? promised to learn his son, in a year his father should recognize him; a year later the old man went for his son; old woman: when you enter the house, your son will sit by the hearth; by the hearth, a mustachioed man; the old man pointed to him, Atu I had to return my son; on the way back, the son ordered him to be sold as a boat (horse); bought him Ata, spurred him and galloped; the horse became a rooster, Atu a hawk, a rooster a fish, a hawk a fishing rod, a fish a needle, the fishing rod with a thread; the needle went through the fire and the thread burned; the boy returned to his father]: 322-324; Teptsov 1894, No. 10 [the old woman ate an apple, gave birth to a lazy son; the old man took him to study, crossing the river, fell, said, "Oh!" , an old man jumped out of the water, asked what his name was; a year later the father returned; must recognize his son among 500 boys (son: I will have a stick in my hands); when I return home, the son tells me to sell him in the form of a bull , but not a red-bearded ass without front teeth; then into boats {some pet}; into a horse; father sells a red-bearded toothless ass; he brought the horse to him; the horse to the mouse, the sorcerer to the cat, the mouse into the swallow, the sorcerer into the falcon, the swallow into the needle, the falcon into the thread, the needle into the stove, the thread burned; the boy returned to his father]: 23-26; Georgians (Imereti) [the hunter sees a wounded nine-headed eagle, he asks him not to shoot, to heal him; brings him for a reward to his sisters, they are married to the kings of the white, red, blue seas; the older two refuse to give the box, the youngest gives; the Eagle warns do not open it on the way; the man opens it, the city appears from the box; the Eagle, in anger, tells us to collect everything back, for this is his land; agrees to lay it down himself for a promise to give what he did not leave at home; the man has a son at home; he grows up, goes to look for the Eagle; the old man says that three eagles with copper, silver, gold feathers will come to swim, tells him to hide the gold ones; the young man returns for his promise to marry him; wearing feathers, the eagle carries him to his father; the 9-headed Eagle orders to build 1) a church, 2) a garden, 3) a bridge, the bride creates everything; 4) identify which of the three eggs the bride is in; she says that the egg will move; the Eagle he is still going to kill the young; they flee to the kingdom of the young man's father, everything is fine]: Bogoyavlensky 1894a, No. 2:8-19; Georgians [the peasant woman asks her husband to send her son to study; the husband leans to the stream, says Ahkahar (How good!) , a demon with this name pops up; the peasant agrees to give him his son to study; a year later, the son warns his father that the hell will turn his disciples into pigeons, he will fly first, then last; The young man has to return the line; on the way he shows his father how he can turn into a golden egg, chicken, rooster; the peasant sells his son as a hound, falcon, horse; he warns not to sell a bridle; hell buys a horse with a bridle, locks him in a stable; a young man slips out with a mouse, chases a cat; a fish is a man with a net, a pheasant is a kite, an apple in the king's basket is a knife, grains are a chicken, a needle is a devil threaded, the needle jumps into the fire, the devil burns]: Chikovani 1954, No. 25:141-144; Armenians [the king wants to get a precious pheasant; hunters who try to do so are killed by the dragon by throwing they have a star from the sky; Ovchi-Nazar ("sheepskin" means "hunter") thinks that his father was a farmer; his mother admits that he was a hunter and was killed by a dragon; HE crushed a star shot at him with a bullet, a dragon out of grief fell from heaven and was killed; HE brought the pheasant home; the old woman told the king; HE begged not to execute him; then the king orders to build a tower for the pheasant (HE built a relative); the old woman persuades the king to send HIM for the princess; HE sets off; three devas fight over an invisible hat, a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth; HE invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; HE feeds the other two Devas, who promise to help, give hairs; HE killed a snake that crawled to the Zumrud-kushi nest; she gives a pen, promises to help; HE feeds ants, they give a wing, promise to help; the princess's father demands victory his two strongmen (the devas defeated); his two zumrud gushi (Zumrud gushi, whose chicks HE saved, and his husband kill the king's Zumrud gushi; separate poppy, millet and colza seeds in a dark room (ants) divided); go up a tree and go down with a full glass of water (the princess gives a gold and silver ring; they can be used to freeze and thaw water again); at the top of the tree HE shed a tear, remembering mothers; doctors confirmed that it was a tear, not a drop of water from a glass; to identify the princess among 111 girls (HE named 101); when she arrived at the king, the princess quietly pushed him into the ditch, called HIM her new husband]: Kagan 1898c, No. 21:175-184; Armenians [the king has three sons, the youngest advises marrying them to sisters, the king of Istanbul gives three daughters; the younger prince asks to bring him a bride, he remains watch the house, tells him not to spend the night under Red Hill; the vizier insists on sleeping; in the morning the camp is surrounded by the body of a vishap; he needs a younger prince, he leaves his bride as collateral; vishap tells the youngest to the prince to get him the princess of the country Chinmachin; gives him a magic tablecloth; with her help, the prince feeds two devas, in gratitude one brings him to Chinmachin; feeds the ants, they promise to come to the rescue; monkeys; their king gives two rings, one freezes water, the other heats the ice; the young man stops at the old woman; Tsar Chinmachin demands 1) to climb on a plane tree with a glass of water without splashing a drop (young man freezes the water, then thaws); 2) fill three vats with oil and eat it (the devas ate it); 3) separate the millet, millet and barley (the ants divided); the princess tells the old woman to dress up the young man as a girl, in the evening lead to her; says that there will be the 20th out of 40 girls under black veils; the young man points to her; the same is the riders under red veils (will be the last); under the white ones (will be the first); the young man leads the princess to the vishap, follows the bride (i.e. the daughter of the king of Istanbul); vishap tells the princess to wrap her hair around him, turns into her missing brother; the young man marries the princess, the former vishap to daughters of the king of Istanbul; everything is fine]: Nazinyan 2014:5-17; Turks [adventure series, many options; the girl requires the hero to 1) disassemble different varieties of grain; 2) recognize her among several girls dressed alone]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 212:248-249; Kurds [40 Shah's sons promise to marry only 40 sisters; padishah finds a shepherd with 40 daughters, gives him wealth; brothers take him brides home, the dragon lies around their camp; the padishah is forced to send his son Baksamat with him; the dragon turns into a young man; says that his father kills his sister's suitors; B. asks the old woman marry the girl; her father demands 1) separate millet from wheat (ants separate); 2) defeat the royal pahlevans (B. exposes his own, they win); 3) defeat the padishah's birds (B. releases his own); 4) Recognize the bride three times among 40 girls (she says she will be in the middle, at the end, at the beginning of the row); B. and his wife return to their father]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 6:90-97.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks [after his father's death, Sodikjon catches sparkling fish, gives it to the Shah; the vizier persuades the Shah to tell S. to bring colored water for the fish, a stone pool, a climbing tree; each once those in love with S. peri do what they want; the last task is to bring the daughter of a Shah who does not exist in the world; on the way, S. consistently meets giants, takes them as companions; these are Oj-Obedala, Ozh-Opivala, Oge-Sharpshooter; digs a way into the girl's chambers, she explains how to fulfill her father's conditions; 1) split the log with one blow; 2) spend the night in a red-hot room (Opivala drinks and belches river); 3) eat a lot; 4) hit an egg from three miles; 5) choose a wife among hundreds of girls (she will wear a canvas dress, dirty boots, she will sit on a white donkey); S. kills the Shah, at home his wife kills the Shah and the Vizier who sent S.; S. gains wealth and power]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 1:22-37; Persians: Osmanov 1958:109-114 [camel driver Najma and the royal daughter fell in love with each other friend; spends the night with her; the vizier advises not to execute N., but to test it; 1) recognize your beloved among 40 girls in the same clothes; 2) bring a glass vessel from Baghdad; 3) find out what's in the bales loaded with camels; 4) get to know his beloved again among 40 girls; N. marries her; (it is not specified who or what helps N. complete the tasks)], 240-248 [poor boy Boo Ali asks his father to let him go looking for a job; sits down at the source to eat a cake, sighs, hey wai! Hey-wai is as tall as an elbow, a seven-cubit beard comes out of the spring, takes him to study; E.'s daughter cuts B. into pieces, cooks it, pours cold water, turns him into handsome; so several times; after each B. replies that he has learned to turn into a horseshoe, a pigeon, etc.; the girl does not tell her father to admit that he knows more than becoming a pigeon and a horseshoe; the year then consisted of three days; Father B. will come on Sunday and must identify his son among the many pigeons; the girl explains that B. pigeon will fly to his feet; the rest of the pigeons are not identified by their fathers; the father takes the son; on the road, he turns into a hunting dog, tells him to sell himself off a leash, returns; turns into a horse; E. buys it with a bridle; borrows shahzadeh, telling him not to let the horse drink; the young wife reproaches Shahzade is cruel, the horse drinks, turns into a fish, swims away; E. chases a big fish, then a falcon after a pigeon, a dove flies to the padishah's daughter, talks about the chase, turns into a golden ring ; a mason asks for a ring for work; the ring turns into grains, E. into a rooster, one grain into a young man with a sword killing a rooster; B. young man marries the daughter of a padishah]; Shah-name [King Faridun's elders sons Salm and Tour from his wife Shahnoz, the younger Iran from Arnavoz; F. sends a servant named Jandal to marry three sons; he finds the daughters of a king named Sarv; S. sets a condition identify the eldest and youngest among the daughters (F. warns that the youngest will go first, the eldest will be the last); leaving the grooms to spend the night in the garden, sends severe frost (they are unharmed); they get wives]: Ulug-zoda 1989:42-47.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [father is dissatisfied that his son does not know why the raven croaked; sends him to Voronov's school; a year later, the son arrives as a crow, explains that he will first be third and then fifth among the students, then a fly will fly by his head; the father identifies his son among other crows, he turns into a man, they sail on a ship; the son refuses to say what the raven that has arrived croaks about, for the father will throw it away for this he is at sea; an angry father throws his son away; he swam to the shore with fish, settled with an old man; tells him to sell him in the form of a bird, not to sell the cage; as a bull without a rope; a horse; a sorcerer begs and bridles, takes him home, tells him to feed badly, but the groom releases the horse; the young man and the sorcerer swim across the sea with fish; the first fish became a ring, the younger princess picked it up, brought it home, young man became human; musicians (including a sorcerer) ask for a ring to play; a girl throws a ring, musicians peck at it with crows, the ring becomes a hawk, drives away the crows; married a princess]: Aris 1971:127-129; Lithuanians: Löbite 1965:149-153 [The fisherman did not catch the fish, says let the hell cling, Damn gives fish for promising to give what you don't know at home; a son was born at home when grew up, his father sent him to the old man of Gray Mountain Kost (SGC); the young man comes to one, then to another old woman; the first calls birds, the second to animals, no one knows the way to SGC; the old man sends to the river in which three swans, the daughters of SGC, bathe, tells the youngest to hide the wings; he hides the wings of the eldest, middle swans, the swans take their wings, fly away; then the youngest, she asks for her wings to be returned, puts the young man on her back brings him to SGC; he promises him a daughter if the young man 1) uproots the forest, plows the field, collects wheat, bakes pies for the wedding (by order of the Swan, the devils do everything); 2) drive around one of the three stallions ( this is SGC himself, the Swan tells him to stab him in the neck with a knife); 3) identify the bride among the crows (she will sit on the edge, scratch his beak); identified him three times; 4) swim in boiling milk (the wife bewitched the vat, the husband is unharmed); wife leaves drools responsible for her, runs with her husband; 1) turns into rye, her husband is old, the devils come back; 2) the church and the priest (the same); 3) the lake and the pike; SGC pursues himself, becomes a bull, tries to drink lake, bursts], 174-178 [the woodcutter brings home a hedgehog; while sleeping with his wife, he cooks, cleans; the old people adopt him; he asks to marry him the queen; the king tells 1) to take out all the manure overnight, plow the field, collect wheat, bake bread; The hedgehog does everything, gets a wife, sheds his skin for the night, becomes handsome; the queen burns her skin, the husband goes to the sea for seven years, says she is royal will turn into iron what he touches {this motive is no longer used}; the father visits the Hedgehog, who allows his wife to come; tells her to collect white foam, not red foam in a bundle; pulls his wife across the sea, through fire; teaches him to identify him when he becomes one of the storks (lowers his wings), one of the horses (scab); her husband is returned to her, everyone is happy], 206-211 [the father gives his son to study to the magician; in three years, he should recognize his son among 1) bulls (one will step aside), pikes (splashes to the edge of the tub), pigeons (sit on the stove); how to identify, teaches the shepherd, the father takes his son; asks to say what a raven shouts; "That the father will bow to his son"; an offended father pushes his son into the sea, he is swallowed by a fish, in her stomach there are two fishermen with a shuttle; they make a fire, fry fish meat, it dies, pops up, they go out ; the prince goes to marry the queen, takes the wizard's apprentice as his companions; the king sets riddles, the unguessed person will be cut off; the young man wears a prince's dress, solves riddles (the king releases a goat with goats, the young man is the wolf who tore them apart; the same is a chicken and a hawk; then he tells the prince to release the nightingale and the lark himself {this is not explained directly}); the prince gets a wife; the young man hears two birds talking: 1) the stepmother princess will bring poisoned wine to the young, 2) send them to ride on immense horses, 3) snakes are hidden in the bedchamber; who tells, will petrify; the young man seems to inadvertently pours wine, kills horses, kills a snake; a drop of blood drips on the young woman, the young man wants to erase it, the princess shouts that he wanted to hack the father; at the place of execution, the young man tells everything, turns into stone; after the birth of his son, the father learns in a dream that his blood should be anointed with his blood; the baby's finger was pricked, the young man came to life; beggars come to his wards, it turns out his parents; the raven told the truth], 212- 216 [the Queen goes to see the world; divides carrion between a lion, a hare, a dove, a starling, an ant; they give him the ability to transform; in the form of a starling, the young man lets himself be caught by the youngest of the three queen, at night in the form of an ant gets out of the cage, becomes handsome; the girl says that the king tells him to identify which of the sisters is the youngest, she will have a white handkerchief in her hand; he gets a wife, forgets there is a ring on the window, so the mermaid drags it to the bottom; the wife forged a sparkling apple, promised to show the mermaid if she lifted the queen out of the water; he became a dove, returned to his wife; for this the mermaid made sparks fall from the royal's mouth; the queen must take out a silver bullet, shoot his wife, then she will recover; turning into different animals, he kills a lion inside a hare, then a dove, a starling, there is a bullet in it; everyone is happy]; Lutsie (West 1893) [in the forest a man leaned to the water for a drink; a water man grabbed his beard: give what you do not know at home; a son was born at home; grew up, went to the forest, his mother gave 9 cakes with her milk; the devil got involved; the boy consistently throws cakes over his left shoulder; they close the way to the line, he runs to the spring to drink every time; blacksmith hid the boy; the devil demands to be unlocked; the blacksmith: spill your tongue; grabbed his tongue with hot mites, the devil ran away; the blacksmith gave a horse, tells you not to look at what he meets; the young man did not look at the underground dwarfs, naked old women, but looked out of the corner of his eye at the girls; the horse was gone; hell tells me to get him a princess; gives ducks, piglets and veal - these gifts are enough; he gave it to the wolf, bear and swan ; on a stone, a man as tall as a thumb advises me to take it with you; a young man comes to the king; king: I lost 30 stallions in the forest 9 years ago; bring and get a princess; bear brought; 30 oxen : the wolf brought; the princess lost the ring in the sea: get it; the swan dives, took it out on the third attempt; the king orders to go to a hot iron bath; the man with a finger enters first, the bath becomes cold, the tooth does not fall on the tooth; so three times; swim in boiling water; the man with the finger first, the water is warm, wash well; recognize the princess among many girls; she warned: she will stand on her left heel; next time: I'll stand on tiptoes; for the third time: I won't be among others, I'll carry the bowl across the meadow; the king sends the young, giving money and gold; that's the hell, a grave with burning resin, a rope through it: go and I'll get back the horse; young man: show me how; hell went on the rope, the young man cut it with a sword, the hell fell into the resin, only the smoke remained; came home on horseback; wedding; ate and drank, flowed down his lips, didn't get into his mouth]: Annom et al. 2018: 215-220; Lutsi (1893; the informant heard a fairy tale from those who did not speak Estonian) [the man took his son to study; towards the Sax (in this case, hell): I'll learn; a year later my father came to the same place; old man : you wait in vain; gave a staff, go with it, ignoring the wolf, the bear and the devil; knock, the door will open; the devil (must) will offer to identify his son among the three pigeons; he will have a tear in his eyes; On the way back, the son turned into a horse, tells him to sell himself, but without a bridle; the first time he has copper hair in his skin, the second time he has silver hairs, the third time the devil pays in gold, the father gave the bridle; the devil hung the horse from the ceiling at home; his wife cut off the ropes, she felt sorry for the horse; the horse became a wolf, the devil a hound, a ruff a pike; the ruff jumped a golden ring on the princess's finger; in the room turned into a young man; the princess wanted to marry him, told the king; he would give the devil the ring if he turned into a horse and served him for three years; after three years, the princess threw the ring on the floor, it six grains crumbled, she pressed two with her heel, the devil became a rooster, two grains became a kite, killed a rooster; the young man stayed with the king and sent bread to his father]: Annom et al. 2018:221-226; Estonians: Dä ; hnhard 1910 [his son grew up, his father took him to school; they met a black man, offered to take the boy to study for three years; three years later he asked for an extension; three years later, the father was at this place I did not find anyone; I went into the house, there are three pieces of bread; the first bread says that you should go to hell for my son and identify him among several identical ones; the son will have a handkerchief in his pocket; the second bread: identify among several fish, one will have a speck on its tail; the third is bread: identify from several black roosters, one will have a speck on the scallop; the devil returned the old man's son in the form of a rooster; he tells him to sell him in city, but without a basket; the son returned as a man; tells me to sell in the form of an ox; a stallion; the buyer was the devil himself, persuaded him to sell a stallion with a bridle; the devil went into the pub, tied the horse high under the roof, so that he was left standing on his hind legs; the man who came in saw the horse and freed him; the stallion ran to the sea, became a stickleback, became a whale; still looking for a stickleback]: 460-462; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 50 (Hargla) [the king had a feast, brought a beautiful bird as a gift, he put it in a cage; a man came out of the cage, he is the king of the Beyond (the one behind, Tagutsemaa) country; invited him to his place; became a bird, carried our king over the Front Country (Editsemaa), the Middle Country (Keskpaigamaa); in the Beyond Land he gave a box, ordered him not to open it on the way back; the king opened, a city arose, but without people, and you can't leave the city; an old man puts the city back in the box and takes the king out on the road for promising to give his son; a young man is needed to place three Christian souls under the fourth corner of the house already there; the old man tells 1) to plow the field in a day, etc. and ready-made bread on the table; the captive girl gives a silver whistle; the young man whistled, everything appeared; 2) overnight the bridge over Lake Peipsi (the same; old woman came to destroy the bridge, the girl tells me to grab the old woman by the hair, throw her into the lake); 3) tame the black stallion; the girl: make iron tools in the forge and beat the horse with them; the old man is ready to give his daughter, must be identified among three doves; girl: swinging my left wing; three horses: gray hair in the tail; three girls under black blankets (the veil on my face moves slightly); wedding; boy and girl are running; she turns herself into a herd, him into a shepherd; the old man's sons do not recognize them; into a church and a priest (the same); into a lake and a duck; the old man comes running himself, tries to drink the lake, tells his sons to shut his ass, bursts; the king brings his wife home]: 114-120; Mälk et al 1967, No. 51 (Rannu) [the king saw a spring in the forest that did not exist; leaned down to drink, captured; released, promising to give what was at home he does not know; and then he guessed that he had forgotten about his son; the devil took the boy and left him in the forest, but so that as soon as you knock on the stump, food appears; the young man has grown up; the old man teaches: three women will arrive, take off their clothes, they will swim; you must take the clothes that will be put away from the others; the guy takes the clothes twice and the girl picks them up twice; the third time the old man teaches not to show; the girl promised to stay; she does not the daughter is like others, and was kidnapped by him as a child; hell tells them to build a stone bridge across the lake; cut down the forest and make beer {apparently finish all the work: sow barley, etc.}; girl everything performs; tame a black stallion; girl: it's the devil himself, you have to put a hot scrap in your throat and hit the head with a hammer; recognize the girl among others (the handkerchief will be beveled to the left; then one leg to the side) ; now we have to run, the girl left a spit to answer for her; the farmhand catches up with the devil, the girl became a herd of geese, the guy became a goose herd; then she was an ox, the guy was a plowman; the lake and the duck; hell in the lake to catch a duck, but the shores came together and he was gone; the guy went ahead to the house; girl: do not kiss anyone; but when he put his younger brother to bed, he kissed him and forgot everything; the girl came to the wedding with a new bride, the guy recognized her; asks guests what is better - an old gold ring or a new one; guests: old; guy told everything; wedding]: 121-126; set: Järv et al. 2009, No. 33 (Satserinna; recorded in Estonian) [the man went to sell linen, returned a year later, leaned to the water for a drink, someone grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know at home; during this time, his wife gave birth to a son; (he grew up); one girl told the young man to take with him two loaves, two belts and a ball of yarn; the ball rolled, the young man followed him; threw two lions on the waist, the other two on bread, they missed it; Damn (vanahalb) tells me to plow the field, etc., bake bread; 2) build a church; 3) build an iron bridge; daughter Devil tells me to go to bed, does everything; 4) choose a wife among his daughters, turned into mares, turtles (the assistant will bite and bite other horses and pigeons); the young man gets a wife; she tells him to run, leaves saliva responsible for herself; the devil sends sons to chase, wife throws bark behind (forest grows; sons Devil chop, hide axes, lark says he sees where they have to hide), clay (mountain; same: lark, shovels), water from a glass (lake ; Devils drink, burst); a young man brings his wife home]: 139-141; Sandra 2004 [an old woman leads her son to study, a forge on the mountain, a blacksmith takes the boy, tells him to come for him in three years; when an old woman comes six months later, there is no forge; he comes three years later, the blacksmith orders him to identify his son three times among 12 chickens, 12 horses, 12 young men; each time the son warns what sign he will give (move his tail) , etc.); the blacksmith has to let the young man go; he offers his mother to sell him as a purebred dog, but without a leash; a bird, but without a cage; a horse, but without a bridle; the horse runs away, turns into a ring , the princess finds it in the spring; at night the ring turns into a young man who sleeps with the princess; a merchant (this is the blacksmith) comes, offers a lot of money for the ring; the princess gives the ring, it falls under her leg; a merchant turns into a kite, a young man into a rooster, pecked a kite to death; marries a princess, inherits the throne]: 154-159; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the vuoka bird; she asks not to shoot, but to bring and feed a year; so three times; explains that she was wounded when she fought with a capercaillie; when the bird recovered, ordered the cow to be slaughtered, to take meat with her, she will bear for reward; over the sea throws and picks up a person three times so that he feels the same fear as she did when he aimed at it; the bird consistently stops with its three sisters in copper, silver, golden house; only a sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when flying away, the veika hits her wings, the copper and silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, falls out countless good; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out that a boy was born and has grown up; the boy accidentally broke the pot with with a soup on the window of an old woman; she says that he has been promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; the boy (now more like a young man) leaves; sees three swans come to swim, take off their clothes, and begin girls; he hides his clothes alone; the girl agrees to take him as a groom; says that she was cursed to be the daughter of an Arab guest; the swan took the young man under his wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with as a girl, in the morning she gave him a drink of live water, ordered him to break all the axes and saws that his father would give to harvest a huge amount of forest; after that, the devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons do the work; the second task is to dig a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); hell tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches what she will have longer tie on the apron; puts her finger aside; puts his back leg aside; hell suggests riding a horse, it's him; the girl teaches how to whip the horse with a whip and a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells him to run; they turned into a shepherd and a cow; the priest and the church; the demons did not understand, they returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, the devil himself ran, tried to drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water flowed out, hell is dead; the girl sends the guy home, and she must be water for another three years; the young man has become a rich merchant, forgot his bride, is preparing a wedding with the princess; the girl comes and offers to buy buns from her; the buyer wants to sleep with her; she tells her to come in the evening; the girl sent her boyfriend to buy firewood, she stuck to the doorknob all night; the next evening, the same with the second one who went out to bring a bag of flour; The merchant himself came in the third evening; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together]: Onegin 2010, No. 16:182-193; Finns [West 1887; there are 99 students at the warlock school; each is returned father only if he identifies his son; 1) the warlock turned the students into chairs, the young man put his portrait there and the father found out; 2) the same thing into tables; 3) into sofas; returned to his father; the son says he will turn into stallion, tells me to sell, but without a bridle; the father did so; but next time the warlock gave the price higher, the father sold it with a bridle; the young man asks another to untie the rope - he will free them all from warlock; bewitched the all-knowing warlock book so that she replied: the stallion ran away by himself; the warlock turned himself and 98 students into eagles, they flew after the ship on which his father sailed with son; the son tells his father to cut him in half, throw him into the sea; the young man became a little pike, the warlock became a big one; the little one slipped into the royal spring, but the big one did not crawl there; the young man became a ring the princess came for water, put it on her finger; the warlock came to sing and play, asked for a ring from the princess's finger; the young man asked the princess to throw the ring on the ground; the ring became peas, the warlock with students - roosters, began to peck peas; the princess stepped on one pea; she became a fox, strangled the main rooster; so the young man freed the others]: Kippar 2002:28-31; Finns [king swam 7 years; suddenly the ship stopped; the devil demands to give him what the king of the house did not know; when he returned home, the king found out that a son had been born; the couple hid their son from hell twice, he destroyed everything; but they had to give; hell has two daughters and a kidnapped girl; hell wants to marry a young man to his daughter; let him identify the bride; girl: a fly will sit on her; second task: build a glass bridge across the sea overnight; the girl created a bridge, the birds are singing on it; the hell drank beer, falls asleep, they ran away; the girl became a perch, and the young man became a swimming bubble in her; the devil can't swallow the perch from his tail, slips out; got to the shore; the girl tells me not to give her hand to her older sister, otherwise she will forget her; the sister cries that she did not give her hand; the young man gave and forgot the girl; the young man is going to marry; the sister goes to fetch water, sees that girl thinks that this is her reflection and she herself is so beautiful; when she looked in the mirror, she came back, told her to go out the one in the river, gave her clothes; they both came to the wedding; the prince saw the old the bride, remembered and married her, and the new one stayed in prison]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 29:84-87; the Veps [the poor woman and her son went to work; gasped on the way, a man appeared: why was they called? takes her son to work, tells him to come for him in three years; when he came, the man showed her 12 birds, she could not choose; the same next year - 12 dogs; the third time the old man warns: man will show 12 horses, one will be with his head down; the mother found out that she has received a son; he tells me to sell him as a horse, but without a bridle; the mother sold it; the man who bought it tied the horse tight, went to the pub; here the mother passed, the horse asked him to untie; the man chased the wolf, and the horse turned into a dog; the dog became a lake, the wolf became a pike; the lake dried up, became a bird, flew to his mother; the pike remained on land, died ; mother and son became rich, son got married]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 36:141-143; Western Sami [the king's ship stopped at sea; the sea lord demanded a royal son as a son-in-law; prince came for the bride; the sea king tells me to identify the bride among 17 equally dressed sisters; one called the young man, he chose her; told her to run, drive the horse with hot mites; the wave rushes behind, but they managed to reach the ground; the prince drank fresh milk and forgot his bride; bird: Ivvár Kristiján forgot his beloved; when he heard it, he remembered, but the girl had already gone to another person who sent her back to my father; there is a saying: don't drink fresh milk, otherwise you'll forget your beloved]: Pollan 2005, No. 22:93-94; Eastern Sami [a merchant drives through the battlefield of birds and animals; an eagle asks him to be cured; After a year or two, he tries to take off, three years later he puts him on his back, takes him to his brothers and mother; brothers in copper houses, in silver houses, reject what he brought; in gold, the parents of the eagle give him golden eggs; the eagle tells them to be thrown from hand to hand at home; he throws them along the way, a golden house appears, and the eggs become soft; to hell with them, says the man; Damn enough of them; for a promise to give, what you don't know, takes the merchant home to the golden house; the wife and the baby meet him; he grew up and went to look for the Trait; the dwarf chuckli teach what to do, how to identify the bride; the Devil has 39 daughters - illnesses; The devil tells three times to choose, the young man chooses the one he is the same age each time; the young run; the wife turns herself into a duck, her husband into a feather; the devil cannot catch up with them, tells him not to marry for three years; the father involuntarily his son to marry; the last minute a duck arrives, turns into a girl, marries a guy]: Czarnoluski 1962:270-277; Danes [the young man was hired by the owner of a castle in the woods with the condition of receiving 1 bushel of money for the first year of service, 2 for the second, 3 for the third; service - to feed wild animals; then the owner turned the young man into a hare for a year; the second year he is a raven; the third is a fish; ends up in an underwater palace where his daughter is hidden sorcerer; turns into a young man and then back into a fish; the girl teaches what to do; the other king owes the sorcerer money, the sorcerer wants to kill him; you must lend the king the 6 bushels earned from the sorcerer (just in time the amount of debt) on the condition that when he comes to the sorcerer, the king will take him with him as a jester; the jester will be ugly at the sorcerer, and for this the sorcerer orders the king to be executed, even if he has paid a debt; the only salvation is if the king answers the sorcerer's questions; here are the questions (tasks) and answers: 1) Where is the sorcerer's daughter? (at the bottom of the sea), 2) which of the same girls is the sorcerer's daughter (she will touch him with her hand), 3) where is the sorcerer's heart? (in such a fish; the sorcerer will bring out the fish, it will be on the right, the girl will also tell you); the young man immediately gutted the fish and the sorcerer died; at the same time, all the enchanted animals and birds became human again; the young man married the sorcerer's daughter, they began to live in the castle]: Cramer 1919:89-99 (=Grundtvig 1878:28-45); Swedes [the girl tells her lover that when she is with her other water daughters will appear in a terrible and disgusting form, she will be a cat with a scorched side and a sagging ear]: Hartland 1891:294; the Swedes [king and queen are childless; the queen loved boat trips; the ship stopped suddenly; voice: give what was under her belt; she agreed, not knowing that she was pregnant; the ship sailed again; when he found out what was going on, the king assured his wife that he would protect her from the siren (Meerweib); The prince grew up, playing with two cousins, the sons of the neighboring king; his horse carried him into the sea and they disappeared into the waves; the prince at the bottom of the sea walks along the path to the golden castle of the siren, the lady winds and waves; the siren designates him as her page; if he serves well, she will return to her parents; first task: wash her daughter's white yarn and white black yarn; princess: my name is Messeria; promise to be faithful to me, I will do everything; but don't tell anyone; I called my mother's little men, each took one hair and washed it properly; the second task is to separate the two types of grain (wheat and Korn); the little men were divided; the third task is to clean the barn in which oxen had been standing for 20 years; now the young man must choose one of her daughters; all of them in the form of different animals; the princess warned what would happen kitty; the siren sent the young man to her sister to borrow her wedding dress for his daughter; M.: there will be a grille in the gate, apply ointment from this horn, you can open the gate; then the two men will cut the oak tree with wooden axes, give them iron axes; then the other two threshing with iron flails - give them wooden ones; give meat to two eagles; sister does not eat sirens; the prince did everything; hid it imperceptibly the food offered; but the food answered the siren's sister's question: I'm here under the bed; the next time the prince hid the food in the oven - the same thing; the third time he hid it under his clothes on his body; the siren's sister believed that the prince ate everything; gave him a box with wedding dresses; when the prince left, the siren's sister consistently ordered the guards (eagles, woodcutters, etc.) to detain him, but they say that he helped them and they did not they would detain him; on the way to the siren, the prince opened the box slightly, although M. did not tell him to do so; a sheaf of sparks broke out; the prince remembered the little men M. had summoned; knocked on the stone, asked help them; they jumped out, each grabbed a sparkle and returned them to the box; the siren asked for the prince's luxurious wedding with M.; then the young went to the prince's homeland; when he arrived at the king's city, the prince insisted to go alone first; M. ordered not to eat anything; but he succumbed to persuasion and ate cookies (Pfefferkorn); immediately forgot M. and everything that happened to him; they decided to marry the princess next door; during At the wedding feast, M. came in as a maid and released two doves; the dove tells the dove three times that he will forget her, as Prince forgot M.; the prince remembered everything, hugged M. and called her his only bride]: Hyltén-Cavallius, Stephens 1848:255-274.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Novikov 1938, No. 41 [at her husband's grave, the widow says, Oh, oh! Oh oh tells her to teach her son, come for him in three years; she cannot identify him among 12 pigeons, 12 geese in the next three years; one day at the church, a horse (this is her son) tells her that will be sixth on the right side; she takes her son away; sells him several times, he comes back; one day he forgets to remove the check, sells Oh oh; his fiancée takes off his horse's bridle, Oh oh and the young man turns into different animals, birds, a young man kills an enemy], 42 [about the same, the old man gives his son to study Okhma]: 146-148, 149-153; Udmurts: Aldan 1936 [the widow sighs, Oh oh! Oh asks why she called; offers to take her son to study; the widow comes to see her son, must find out among the nine wolves; she did not know; next time the son warned that he would be on the far left; returning to his mother, he tells me to sell himself in the guise of a horse without a bridle; returned; Oh managed to persuade him to sell in bridle; Oh went to the pub, tied the horse high; the old man untied it out of pity; the horse in the ruff, Oh in the pike; a woman caught a ruff, agrees to sell Okha; a ruff in poppy seeds, Oh a rooster, a seed in a hawk, killed a rooster ooh]: 45-47; Wichmann 1901, No. 17 [the man went to look for the missing horse, came to the house where 30 daughters; their father suggests identifying the youngest; she says that the father will turn them into pigeons, she will drop two or three feathers; next time, identify the youngest of 30 daughters wearing the same capes (Fitzen) ; youngest: the ends of the two threads will be released; get all the grain from 30 copes without disturbing the straw (the birds perform); ride 30 horses; girl: ride a plain foal and ride away! the old man sends his other daughters after; the fugitives have become part of a wattle fence; into a church, a priest and his wife; a duck and a drake on the river; when approaching the house, the girl tells not to kiss the one chosen for the guy in brides; she was forced to kiss her and he forgot his real wife; but one day an old man asked what kind of girl was crying behind the field; the guy remembered everything, took his wife, got rich with her help, and others hers did not see]: 94-97; Chuvash: Grigoriev 1971 [=Aisin 1993:265-271; The sparrow quarreled with the Mouse, a big bird stood up for him, the Mouse gnawed on her wings; the man cured her, she took it to her own his sister, who gave a casket, forbidden him to open it on the way; the man opened it, the garden and palace fell out; the old man Shige-Suhal hid it back for promising to give what he did not know at home; when he reached the age of 18, the son went to MF; the old woman says that his fiancée will be the ninth out of 18; his wife helps to fulfill emergency assignments; 1) build a church overnight; 2) grow wheat - bake rolls; 3) tame the horse; the spouses are running, swan girls are sent in pursuit, the wife turns into an apple tree, the husband into a gardener; a field and a peasant; into a lake and fry; MF flies like a hawk, chases perch, a baby turns into a pike, swallows it; spouses return to their husband's parents]: 70-77; Chuvash tales 1937:17-16 [the father sends three sons to spend the night in a new log house, asks them to tell us what he dreamed; the eldest sees sheaves, among horses, the youngest, that the father drank the water with which he washed his feet; the father wants to drive him away, but then gives him to study the sorcerer; in a year he must identify his son among 10 soldiers (the son teaches: he will wave his handkerchief), 10 horses (he will hit his hoof on stone), 10 fish (splashes his tail); the magician returns his son; he orders him to be sold in the guise of a greyhound, but not to sell the collar; in the form of a falcon, keep one feather; both times the son returns; the horse, the father sells halfway; the magician buys it, the sorcerer's daughter leads him to water, the guy swims away as a fish, but the magician becomes a pike, catches up and returns him to the underground stable; the guy became a mouse, got out, flew away like an eagle, became a bracelet, the princess picked it up; the magician comes to buy it, the princess throws it on the floor, the bracelet turns into grains, the magician into a rooster, the grains into a hawk, he kills the rooster, becomes handsome; the king gave him his daughter and the throne; the new king summoned his father, who did not recognize him, got up at night, drank the water with which the king washed his feet; the son opened to his father, everything is fine], 89-94 [The eagle asked the man not shoot him, heal his wing; he feeds him cows and sheep, his wife curses; the eagle raises the man to the sky, throws him, picks him up, now the man also feels afraid; the eagle takes him to his sisters, the middle one gives a casket, the person opens it on the way, the silver falls out; the old man puts it back from his elbow for promising to give what you don't know; during this time, his son Ivan was born and grew up; comes to the lake , hides the dress of one of the three swan girls bathing; I. gives it when she calls him not a brother, but a sweet one; gives a ball, I. comes to her father; 1) to give the stallion and the mare (these are the girls' parents; I. beats give them water); 2) identify the youngest of the sisters (she will blink an eye); I., gets married; when he comes to his parents, he forgets his wife's request not to kiss the child in the cradle (this is an old man with an elbow), forgets his wife; they want to marry him, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo turns into an ex-wife, he remembers, returns to her], 17-26 and 177-187 [just like a Komi, to identify his son among horses]; Shurtakov 1984 [the old man leads Ivan to study; from under stump Wow grabs I., drags him underground, tells him to come in a year; the son tells his father how to recognize him among 12 pigeons, dogs, trotters, girls, guys; I. tells him to sell him in the form of a trotter, a heavy truck, not sell bridles; the old man sells, I. turns into a pike, Knot into a catfish; I. into a ring, tells the girl not to give it to Ear; in millet, a rooster, a hawk kills a rooster; I. marries, takes wealth Wow; comes to them beggar, he turns out to be Ivan's father]: 92-96; Eisin 1993 [father leads Yuman to study, Y. sits on a stump, Chadukh drags him to him; tells his father to come in a year; a year later the father comes, C. takes him to his place there is the same world as ours; the son warns that his father should recognize him among 12 pigeons (he will touch the floor with his wing), 12 dogs (his left ear will bend), 12 beauties (there will be a ring on his middle finger); C. Yu lets go; he will turn into a trotter, tells his father to sell him without a bridle; as a black horse; while his father was counting the money, C. took the horse by the bridle; C.'s servants felt sorry for the horse, loosened the fetters, the horse dived pike into water, C. chased, becoming a catfish; Yu rolled a golden ring into the girl's bucket, tells not to give the ring to the old man, but to throw it on the ground; crumbles with grain, Ch.-rooster pecks, one girl pressed her foot, Yu. became a hawk, pecked C.; took his wealth, married a girl]: 49-53; Marie: Aktsorin 1984 [old people give their son to study to the priest (cards); he returns as a dove, explains that the father must come to the map, identify the son among three soldiers, three swans, three pigeons; each time the son will give a sign (winks with his left eye, moves his left wing); the son returns, tells him to be sold in the form of a horse, but without a bridle; the old man sold with a bridle, bought a horse, started hitting, went to rest; the girl cut the leash; the horse rushed the mouse, the card to the cat; the fish to the pike; the fish turned into a ring, the girl picked it up, tried to take it away, the ring crumbled with beads, the cards began to bite with a rooster, the bead did a great job, twisted the rooster's neck; married a girl]: 139-142; Chetkarev 1941, No. 37 (meadow) [soldier returns home, leans to the pond by the mill for a drink, the devil grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he does not know at home; his son Ivan is at home; I. goes to look for someone to whom he was sold; enters the door is in oak, the stairs are down; the old man (he is the younger brother of big Satan) tells you to walk three hundred miles, 11 pigeons will fly to the lake, turn into girls, swim, put on their clothes again and fly away; after This will arrive on the 12th, her clothes must be hidden, returned for promising to become a wife; she promises that she is three years away, she will hang a ribbon from the window, her house will be the third on the edge; I. comes, his wife tells me to go to her father, slam the door loudly, take away his spoon, start eating himself; Satan is surprised, promises to give work in a week; tells 1) to uproot the forest overnight (the wife sends workers, I. offers last stump); 2) plow, sow, harvest, bake bread, bring one boat of bread (same); 3) build a church and let the pop serve; same; Satan will turn into a pig, the wife tells you to throw it at it hammer; tame the stallion; this is Satan himself, we must beat him with a hammer; Satan tells you to choose a wife from 12 girls, they are in the form of pigeons; wife: I will go down and rise; 12 sheep (the wife will come out third); 12 dewdrop (third on the edge, about to drip); Satan sends young people to a cast-iron bath, wants to burn; the wife tells the broom, trough, bucket to answer that they are still soaring, washing; the young are running, Satan's 11 daughters in chase; the wife turns I. into a chapel, an old woman herself, the sisters return; Satan chases himself, his wife a ruff, her husband a lake; Satan becomes a pike, cannot catch a ruff, breaks the shore so that the young do not go out, but I.'s wife restores everything; wedding at Father I.'s house]: 282-286 (=Sabitova 1992:102-109); Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 34 (Erzya) [the father decided to teach his son languages: old man: come for him in three years; when the father comes for his son, he teaches how to recognize him among 30 falcons (third on the right), stallions (moves his right ear), pigeons (third on the left side); the old man received a son; on the way home asks what the raven was shouting about; the son: that you would drink the water in which I wash my feet; the old man drove my son away; he began to live in the forest with two other young men; they turned into a falcon, a crow, a sparrow; Having met the princess; he leaves, agreeing that the three of them will help each other; he and the enemy general compete to see who will be the first to deliver the letters; the princess snatched a passerine, falcon, crow from his head pen; he fell asleep on the way, the general killed him, took the letters; his comrades found him, revived him; the king gave his daughter for him, the general was beheaded; the father became impoverished, came, at night he drank water from a silver basin, whose son washed his feet]: 243-248; Samorodov 1972:282-292 (Erzya) [in the forest, old man Uncle Nai-Nai tells the old man to give what he does not know at home; he finds his son at home; he grows up, goes to D., greets him in the hut Viryava; she sends to her older sister; she teaches the youngest of D.'s three bathing daughters to hide the clothes; this is Marya the Beautiful; give it when she calls him not brother, but husband; D. tells 1) to count millet in the barn, 2) build a palace and a glass bridge (the wife performs), 3) drive around the stallion; this is a seven-headed serpent; the guy cuts off his heads with an iron club; 4) recognize his wife among three doves (will bite others in back); 5) among three girls (wipes a fly off his face); M. leaves his ring to answer, runs with her husband, turns himself into a herd, him into a shepherd; both into two flowers; into a lake and a duck; this time they are not chasing servants, and D. himself, is unable to drink water; M. tells her husband not to kiss his younger sister at home; he kisses, forgets M., prepares for a new wedding; sees M.'s reflection in the well, recalls, marries her], 306- 311 [The father replies to curious Yurtai that he would at least take him to study; Damn appears, tells him to come in three years, recognize Yu among other students; the old man does not recognize among dogs; the next year among kites; for the third time Yu says he will be the third on the right among stallions; father sells Y. in the form of a dog; a hawk; a horse sells with a bridle; the devil's servants lead him to a watering hole, he swims away with perch; Damn - pike; turns Yu into a ring; many years later, the merchant's daughter finds him in the river; Damn comes to buy it; the girl drops, it breaks, the devil did not notice one shard; he turns into Yu, marries]; 1985 [Vanya's father has no money to continue teaching him; the old man offers to send V. to him for study; in three years, the father must recognize his son, otherwise he will not get him back; the wife drives the old man to look for his son; the sparrow has turned into son, teaches how to identify him among rooks, then eagles, dogs; he will be third in the middle, third on the right, left extreme; the old man recognized his son three times and returned him; V. found out that the sorceress princess sets tasks, not executes those who decide; the prince is going to marry, he will probably die; V. and 11 peers go to the princess; at night, when the others are sleeping, he sees two trees uproot, knock and so on again; this devils cannot share a purse with money, an invisible hat and a flying carpet; V. shot a copper button, no one can grab it, the devils give him wonderful items themselves; V. and his comrades they fly into the princess's kingdom; wearing an invisible hat, V. sees and hears how the princess tells the prince to make from the same material as her, the wedding dress is not sewn or knitted, but cast; V. follows the princess, clinging to her carriage; steals the matter she bought, she has to buy it again; then steals ready-made cast clothes from the workshop, throwing in uncut material; the craftsmen do everything again; the prince shows the princess the same clothes as she wears; the second task is the same (the same shoes); the third is the same wedding rings; the princess summoned a line from the lake: let her give her three hairs from his beard to make rings; while the princess pulls out three hairs, V. pulled out a piece of beard; now the princess demands 12 matchmakers from the prince's state; this is V. and his comrades; buabushka princess: the most the cunning one sleeps on the side, sharpen half his head at night; V. woke up and cut off everyone's heads; pin a pin to the collar (the same); let one of the 12 appliances and chairs be golden, their main one will sit on it; but that's it 12 are arguing over gold instruments; the groom took the bride, and V. and his comrades flew to the same city to play the role of matchmakers; princess: where is half of my scarf; the groom does not know, V. presented it, but refused to take it Tsarevna, Tsarevich still married her]: 284-302; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 58 [the fisherman leaned over the water; someone grabbed him by the beard, ordered him to give what is not in the world; fisherman caught an unusual fish; ate with his wife, who gave birth to a son; the divas began to demand him; the fisherman promised that the young man would come by himself; he goes to the forest, through the gate to another world; refuses the help of his eldest, middle daughters diva, promises to marry the youngest; she helps to fulfill the diva's instructions: 1) uproot the forest, arrange a field, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame the argamak (this is the diva himself); 3) distinguish the bride from her three sisters (raised her feather); the divas locked the young in an iron bath; the girl became a needle, turned the young man into a thread, they got out through a small hole; they run, the divas sends their men in pursuit, they do not understand that the fugitives have become 1) a yellow and red flower; 2) a church and a bell ringer; the divas are chasing himself, the fugitives have become a lake and fish; the divas tries to drink water, the daughter tells him to fall knee-deep, turns into stone; the fugitives took the diva's treasures, returned to the young man's parents]: 264-273; 2008b, No. 13 [the father leads his son to study; the old man tells him to give it to him, come in a year; a year later the father comes to the same place; a dove flew in, became a boy; teaches him to recognize him among many pigeons: he will walk with his wing down; the mullah sorcerer gives the boy; at home he tells him to be sold in the guise of a stallion, not to sell the bridle; for the third time, a mullah buys with an Uzbek woman, locks him in a barn; his three daughters ask permission to harness a stallion; they take off the bridle, the horse jumped into the water and became a fish; the mullah chased in the guise of another fish; a young man turned into a ring, fell into a girl's bucket; tells her to throw the ring on the floor when the old man comes; he became wheat, the old man became a rooster, the girl hid one grain, it became a golden eagle, he killed a rooster; a young man married a girl, brought her home], 39 [recognize his wife among 12 doves], 47 [horseman dives from the ship to the bottom to get bayu gems; the third time the ship sails away; the horseman descends again to the bottom ; there is a diva; when he sneezed and woke up, the horseman says that the diva has sneezed him out; there the girl asks her to save, take the diva's keys, unlock the palace; the dzhigit unlocked, 12 girls flew away; the diva put on wings, caught up with them, returned; the girl teaches to remain silent in response to questions from the diva - after that he will agree to any request; the diva agrees to let the horseman go with the girl, but he must identify her among 12 mares, 12 doves, 12 twin girls (she reports on what grounds); the horseman and his wife returned to his mother; the wife gave three feathers to call for help and the ring, telling him not to take it off; but he took it off, put it in the chest; went with his mother to guests, but the wife did not go; the neighbors send her; she says that the beautiful dresses are in the chest; the husband gave the key, she opened the chest, put on the ring, flew away, telling her to look for her through 6 countries in the seventh; he was hers found it; she points to 11 severed heads, wants to execute a young man; the viziers offer the young man to hide; he breaks his feathers, calls a lion (hides it in his mouth), a turtle (puts it in his mouth and dives into the sea) a bird (takes it to a distant land); it can never be found; the maid turned it into a pin, brought him to the daughter of the padishah, the young man hacked her and the vizier, married a maid, became a padishah himself]: 123-127, 312- 326, 395-402; Yarmukhametov 1957 [Safa said goodbye to his wife, walked around the world, saved a swan attacked by Ubyr; she carries him to her older, middle, younger sister; the older, middle sister refuse to give a gift, the youngest gives a chest, tells not to open it on the way; S. opens, a shop appears, gold; the old man asks that S. groans, puts what fell back for a promise to give that you do not know at home; for this time a son was born; grows up, leaves, sees swans swimming, grabs one, this is the daughter of that old man, teaches her father to ask for a job, her servants do everything; 1) the night from cutting the forest for arable land to harvesting ; 2) transfer water from one lake to another with a sieve; curb the stallion; this is Satan himself, the girl teaches him to hit him with a hammer, put on a 40-pound bridle; 4) identify the bride among pigeons (he dances, she looks at his legs, the rest on his head); Satan threw both into the zindan, they flew away in flies, leaving their saliva to answer; the wife turns into a mosque, the dzhigit into a muezzin; she into the sea, he into a goldfish; Shaitan became catch fish, drowned, horseman and his wife settled with his parents]: 184-190 (=Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956:56-66).

Turkestan. Kyrgyz: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:108-115 [Aalybay adopted Chotur, the son of his deceased friend; C. saves and heals a frog; she gives him a stone that revives the dead, tells him not to revive a person; C. goes to Baghdad, revives a snake, mouse, wasp, skull on the way; a revived man deceives him to take away his stone, lowers him into the well to get water, throws it there, becomes a vizier himself; the mice dry the well, C. comes to the khan, upon the libel of the vizier, he is thrown into the zindan; the snake he saved bites the khan's daughter so that C. can cure her; the vizier persuades the khan to dress up his daughter and several other girls in the same way, let C. identifies her; the saved wasp points to the bride, C. marries the khan's daughter; he tells his son-in-law and vizier to touch the stone, the vizier's hand turns into a head, C. reigns] (=196:138-147; 1981:98-103; =Ledenyov 1987:88-98); Sulaimanov 1998 [the parents decided to starve their son to foster care; the old man led him, sat on a rock, sighed "Oh!" ; a white-bearded old man appeared, asked why his name was; said that his name was Okyush; took the boy and told him to come for him a year later; O.'s daughter began to teach the boy to surpass O.; when his father came, O. ordered to identify his son among 7 black cats; the old man did not try, returned the following year; 7 red foxes - the same; 6 years old; seventh year - last chance; son in the form of a black horse suggested that would be third from the left; O. returned the young man; he told his father to sell him as a horse, but without a bridle; next time O. bought a horse for a lot of money with a bridle, told his daughter to tie it; she let the horse go; O. he became a horse himself, followed him; the young man became a leopard, O. became a tiger; the young man fell like a golden ring at the feet of two beauties, one put it on his finger; the old man said that the ring was his; the Baja daughter took it off, the ring crumbled into wheat grains; O. became a chicken, began to bite; the last grain turned into millet, O. turned into a sparrow; one millet grain became a hawk, he killed a sparrow, became a young man again; freed O.'s prisoners and married his Bai daughter]: 49-58; Kyrgyz [bai sent him to study with his only son; in the third year, the young man began to study worse, leaned, avoided peer society; moldo (mullah, teacher) ordered to follow; he was told that the young man was sitting on the shore, cutting the meat off his thighs and feeding the frog; Moldo summoned the young man to his place, but he refused to study and returned home, and then went to wander; towards a huge herd; suddenly the cattle split, the wind dragged the young man in front of the dragon opened its mouth; it was the same frog; when he recognized the young man, the dragon slammed its mouth shut, greeted the young man, gave a satiating stone; you bring it to your mouth, and food appears at will; it also revives the dead; going on, the young man revived a 12-year-old boy, a snake, ants, bees; after putting the stone in his mouth, the young man did not need food at all; together with the rescued boy, the young man went to the well for a drink, the boy pushed him down; the snake promises to save: it will sting the khan's daughter, the young man will volunteer to treat her, the snake in three days will extract the poison, the young man will receive this girl; it happened, but the khan offers difficult tasks; separate wheat, barley, oats and millet in a dark house; ants separated; daughter in one of the sixties covered wagons, indicate which one; the bees began to spin there; the khan gave his daughter and made his son-in-law a vizier; the wife found a stone, called the boy, he explained everything; the khan asked his son-in-law to revive the dead animals, he did it]: Sabyr uulu 2008:46-48; Kazakhs: Daurbekov 1979 [the golden eagle asks the tsar not to shoot, but to leave him; after recovering, he carries the king on his back, throws him into the sea twice and catches him, because the king was going to kill him; the younger, middle sisters of the golden eagle set a dog against the king, the golden eagle sets fire to their houses; the golden eagle's mother welcomes him cordially; the golden eagle gives two chests, they must be opened behind and in front of the palace; the king sails on a ship, opens a chest on the island, cattle come out of there; a man brings cattle back out of the water for promising to give back what the king does not know at home; he is a son; the prince grows up, the water demands him; in the forest, a cannibal advises stealing the feathers of the eldest of 12 swan girls (they are daughters of water) who will come to swim, give it for a promise to become a wife; this is Gainizhamal; water requires 1) to build a night bridge, 2) nightingale garden (G. does everything), 3) identify one of the daughters three times (G. promises to fix the handkerchief for the first time, the dress, the third will have a fly on her head); the waterman is going to burn the young bath, they run away; G. turns horses into a forest, her husband into an old man, himself into a well; 2) her husband into a walk, himself into a mosque; 3) the end into the river, her husband and himself into ducks; water drinks, bursts; G. tells her husband not to kiss no one at home; the prince kisses his sister, forgets G.; she comes to his wedding, brings a pie with live pigeons, the dove replies to the pigeon that he will forget her like Tsarevich G.; he remembers everything; wedding]: 87- 92; Sidelnikov 1952 (Akbulak District, Aktobe Region) [the son of a poor old woman caught a golden doe and took the khan; the vizier advises not to give the young man rewards, but to demand a fallow deer stand, one wing is gold and the other is silver; the mother went in search; the old woman sews a gap in the ground; says the master makes such stands near Mysyr for 1000 dill; the young man received a stand, but the wings are simple; on the way, wells with gold and silver water, the young man immersed him in they are the wings of the stand; now the vizier advises to order to bring a golden tree; the old man teaches: the hare will run, hide in the den, there are two pits, the hare in the heal, and you will run to the right; there is a cave of 40 robbers; it is necessary take to cook them lunch and hit the cauldron with an iron stick; the old man gave this stick; there is salt in the chest, you have to salt the food, the robbers will eat it and die right away; there's a golden tree; you have to rest, close your eyes and pull - the tree will be in front of the palace; but the young man forgot to knock on the cauldron, remained a cook for the robbers until the old man reminded him in a dream; now the viziers are advised to deliver the beautiful Kunkey; the young man goes, meets, companions giants; 1) holding mountains in his hands; 2) hearing everything; 3) holding two lakes of water by his cheeks; 4) a speedboat (tied to each leg on a rock); a young man rescued an ant from a pit (dal wing); Kunkei is guarded by a dog, the first giant killed her, leaving the mountain; Khan Father K. proposes to defeat the bull, the giant killed him; overtake the old woman; she gave the speedboat wine; the hearing says that the speedboat sleeping; the young man hit the ground with an iron stick, the speedboat woke up, threw sand in the old woman's face, came first; to find K.; hearing: she is in an underground palace; her brothers found her; the khan invited them to the iron house, ordered to burn, the water holding his cheeks cooled the house; to identify K. among 40 beauties (the ant crawled to her feet); the young man took K., left every giant where he met on the way back; K. told the young man ask the khan and the vizier to go out to meet her; turned the khan into a wolf, a vizier in the forest; the young man became a khan, married K.]: 253-260; yellow Uighurs [two brothers tyrant her sister; she dreams that she is in her the sun and moon have entered; finds a golden spinner in the spring, hides it on his chest, it disappears; so twice; the third time he puts it in his mouth, swallows it; the brothers drive it out, giving it a mare, a dog and three goats; all the animals immediately brought offspring, the sister gave birth to the boy Gesar; the brothers send the crow, the dog to kill him, G. easily kills them; send a monster; G. turns into an egg, teaches his mother to advise the monster swallow it, gets stuck in his throat, grows up, the monster dies; they come by themselves, supposedly with gifts; when they leave, one returns, nails the baby to the cradle, puts a stone on top, lowers it into the river; his mother finds it, cannot move the stone, G. throws it off, gets up unharmed; they live in a hut; two princesses look at them, thinking of destroying the hut; G. accuses them of stealing marmots, finds marmots in their clothes; the khan will marry the eldest to someone who 1) wins the race (G. overtakes the riders on a bull), 2) threads a thread through a twisted horn (G. ties it to an ant), 3) will cover the mountain with silk (G. throws a piece of silk, it covers the whole mountain), 4) recognizes the bride among a hundred horsemen (the goose reports that a bee will curl next to her); G. gets a wife]: Stuart, Jhang 1996:40-43.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Baraba Tatars [a man leaned to the river for a drink, peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give what he did not know at home; at home, a man finds out that he had a son; at the age of 16, he went to look Peri, three old Peri sisters give advice in sequence; first 37, then 3 more Peri's pigeon daughters will come to swim, take off their clothes; the young man must take the middle of three clothes; peri requires identification a bride among 40 girls, she warns that a fly will sit on her nose; a young man takes Peri's daughter as his wife; he tells her to uproot the forest by morning, plow, sow, bake bread; the peri do it, then again; father-in-law locks the young in the bath; when he leaves his spit to answer, turns her husband and herself into a needle and thread, they go out through the gap; the father sends a chase; the daughter turns 1) her husband into millet, herself into a reaper; 2) the husband in a mosque, herself into a grandfather; the father chases himself, she turns her husband into a lake, herself into a duck; the father tries to drink the lake, the duck presses his stomach, the water flows out; the young go to her husband, the wife does not tell him to kiss him younger sister, who kisses him herself, he forgets his wife; at a new wedding, the peri-dressmaker creates pigeons, they kiss, remind the young man of his former wife; he reunites with peri]: Dmitrieva 1981, No. 6:111-115; Kumandins [Ak-Kaan a and Kyumyush-Aryg had a frail boy Altyn-Kanpyuk, they threw him away to bulls, he disappeared; in another world, Kara-Kaan picked him up; he refuses from eating from the eldest and middle daughters, eating at the youngest Tany, immediately grows up, wants to marry her; KK tells 1) to recognize her among the sisters; T. said she would lower the end of the handkerchief; 2) among three geese (T . will throw wheat); 3) build a large yurt (örgë) overnight; T. put her mother to sleep, looking for it in her head, took her poplar book, waved, there was a yorgë; wedding that nine years old; old woman advises fleeing to AT's homeland; KK chases; T. turned herself and AT into two flowers; next time into fish in a stream; KK's wife Shipildey chases herself, T. turns AK into stone, sits on him; her mother cannot persuade her to return, gives her two eggs with outfits in them; AK enters the house, T. waits for a long time; finds out that AK is marrying Patlyt-Kodyr; T. gives her dress to her sister AK, she puts T.'s ring into his cup; he remembers his wife, arranges her for 30 years]: Sadalova 2002, No. 21:215; tubalars: Sadalova 2002, No. 23 [when old man Ölengmir cuts down the third stump, from a red dog pops up in it, bites him; YE. is forced to promise him a daughter; the eldest, middle refuse, the youngest agrees, follows the dog to his camp, there are two dogs; the dog is invited three times to that one; every time his wife loses his tracks, and a handsome man pulls up to her; the third time he takes out the hidden dog skin, explains that he was a dog; sisters visit the dog's wife, she reveals it to them the truth, they throw their skin into the fire; the wife snatches her out of the fire; the charred husband enters; says he will leave, tells him to look for him; the wife climbs the mountain, falls, breaks her hip; breaks the mouse's leg; she eats the root, runs away; the woman also eats, recovers; the old man gives her a staff; tells her to go through the swamp on bumps; there will be birds on the river; the husband will be one of the ducks, he will swim in front and behind; one of the geese, will wave her wings; one of the birds will go down to the ground and climb to the top of the tree; the wife identifies her husband; he takes his form, leads to the camp, those two dogs are parents; the spouses live good], 25 [Saatakai lived, his son Yodgeui-Bagay went to look for a wife, fell into a stump; Dylan-Biy does not tell him to open three doors in his palace; ÖB finds behind every girl, plays with them, marries one; his wife says that DB tells him to identify her among birds (she will fly), coals (lie down at a distance), rings (sparkles like gold); then DB tells EB pick up the chest; at first, after drinking araki and eating meat, he picks it up; DB tells his wife not to give anything until she gives birth; at home he gives her all the outfits from the chest, the wife disappears; DB's mother hides it from her son; he hires his wife as a blacksmith, she does not recognize him; he rips her magic off the seam of her fur coat with ticks, hits him; she recognizes him, stays with him]: 223-233, 239-249; Shors: Arbachakova 2010, No. 4 [the old man sold son for three years; at the end of the term he followed him; woman: there will be 40 girls, one will stand up, rubbing her legs, this is your son; 40 pigeons - one will fly away, this is a son; 40 bulls, one will chew - son; the father took the son; the son orders to sell him at the bazaar, he will become a horse, but not sell the reins; next time he (the sorcerer) took the horse away; woman: a hangover soldier will come, give vodka, he will help; soldier turned into a hundred mice, freed the horse; (the sorcerer) took possession of the horse again; the horse flew away as a dove, the owner flew away as a hawk; the dove became a golden ring, fell into the bucket of Saryq Kan's daughter, who put it on her finger; the sorcerer demanded a ring, it fell, became a pea; the sorcerer became a black rooster, peas were biting; one grain became a young man again; CX is angry, locked his daughter and boy in the barn to shoot; they flew away, young man returned to his parents]: 215-223; Chudoyakov 2002 [the poor man's son has grown up, his father sends him to the taiga, he is ready to die in the swamp; the Kaan bird takes him away, turns him into Kara-Kaana, locks him in a chicken coop, says 40 feed daughters with bran; the youngest feeds like a person; K. tells them to scoop out the lake with a sieve, 2) cut down the forest with a wooden ax, 3) build a palace overnight; the youngest daughter does everything herself; teaches her to recognize her among 40 sisters: everyone will read books, she will open and close the book crust; among 40 geese (she will raise her wing); K. settles the young in a golden palace; the young man wants to go home, the wife explains that she not her own daughter K., he kidnapped her parents; if he catches up, kills; tells the bed, table, doors and all objects, answer that they just woke up, gather, etc.; K. orders to break the door, sends them in pursuit 9 sons; the wife creates a church, they themselves are an old man and an old woman; K. himself pursues, the girl creates a lake, they themselves are sand at the bottom; K. became a pike, swallows sand, did not notice two grains of sand, left, young ran away; the wife threw her shoe - there was an iron bridge across the river; the girl's mother from the other side asks for the return of her shoe and black book, otherwise K. will kill her; the daughter returns, they arrived at her husband's parents; daughter turns his handkerchief into a crow, sends it to K., the raven pecked out his eyes, brought the girl's mother; everything is fine]: 51-63; Tuvans [Karatti Khan put up a hundred yurts, each with a girl; Erteni-Mergen must guess which princess is in; var.: all girls are beautiful, but the princess is ugly with a long face; it is possible that the record is bad, that turning a princess into a freak is a means of identification; for the first time a horse takes E. to the right yurt]: Potanin 1903:22; the Buryats [Khan of Tibet gives Yunzu Erdene's daughter to have passed the test; Suranzan Gombo Khan sends Uranus Tangarig- tushamel 'a; 1) there are one hundred mares in one herd, there are hundred foals in the other, we must find each foal's uterus; UT let them into one pen, the foals found queens; 2) the same with the chickens; 3) stab them in a day one hundred sheep, eat meat, make skins (UT invited guests, they did everything); 4) recognize the bride among 100 identical girls (the maid said that the first word of prayer would be written on the bride's cheek; when This is how the maid hid in a cauldron under a pile of wool, spoke through a copper tube; the astrologer said that the secret was revealed by a three-legged cast-iron bird, Khan burned it); UT tells SG that his fiancée has no nose, and YUE, that the groom has an abscess on his head; he marries YUE himself; SG found out the truth, blinded UT, married YUE himself; began to build a subargan; sent servants to ask UT how to build; he told; sent his sons to snatch their tongues sent; they decided to tear their legs out, tore off their boots; the subargan was completed; UT broke it; SG forgave UT, he cured his eyes]: Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 16:63-68 (about the same Barannikova et al. 2000, No. 49:199-207); the Mongols [the man asks the shaman Taewne to marry Khan's daughter Altan; T. asks the maid how the khan's daughter differs from 80 beauties; the maid says that the khan has a magic mirror; if she says it, the khan immediately recognizes and executes her; T. put the maid in a hole, put a pot of water on top, a fire under it, an iron pipe wrapped in cotton wool in the cauldron; the maid says that if the princess is laughed, golden light emanates from her teeth; T. made the girls laugh, identified A., put a mark on her; when Khan took the girls out, she identified A.; the mirror told Khan that he had given the secret a man with a clay back, a fiery soul, a watery chest, an iron skeleton, a cotton head; the khan angrily threw the mirror into the fire; the ashes have licked the sheep; since then, the lamb's shoulder blade can be identified past and future]: Skorodumova 2003:32-34; Dagurs [a poor woman and her son are told to make a ship - there will be a flood; animals can be saved, people can not; they save bees, mice, ants; a man clings to the boat; the son wants to push him, but the mother feels sorry; after the flood, the rescued person is considered the eldest, and the woman's own son is the younger brother; they found the emperor's lost treasure, which he promises to give to his daughter; his older brother brings him, conceals that he has a family; the youngest comes three years later, finds out that his older brother has become an official and will soon marry the 18th princess; his older brother puts him in prison; ants teach: they bite the princess, and he will dare to cure her; the emperor promises the princess to the one who cures; when he finds out that the poor man has cured, he demands to identify her among sisters; a bee says it will bite her in the forehead; younger brother gets a wife, the older one is executed]: Stuart et al. 1994:133-134; the Mongors [Danjiansirang has been feeding the toad for years, although the father tells me to throw it away; when he grows up, he goes to the capital to take an exam; the Toad rewards D. with a bead that revives the dead, tells them not to revive people; D. revives a fly, mice, a bee; revives a corpse by the road; this is Lamurenqian; he first accuses D. of murder, then goes with D.; lowers water into the well, throws it, takes the bead away, gives it to the emperor, receives the rank of "Hero who gave the treasure"; a passerby pulls D. out of the well , he comes to the capital, accuses L., L. throws him in prison; the rescued Bee teaches how to cure a dying princess; D. heals, gets her as his wife, D. persuades the emperor to test his son-in-law; 1) overnight separate millet from rice (mice separate); 2) identify the princess's palanquin among 22 identical ones (the fly sits on it); D. finds his bead in the treasury, his wife tells his father that he executes L.]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:118-119.

Eastern Siberia. Central (?) Yakuts (a summary of three archival texts, no places of records are specified) [the old woman sends her son to study to the sorcerer; in 13 years she should recognize him among 13 identical ones; recognizes him among foals, birds, bees; the son turns into a bird in a cage, into a horse; the old woman sells it to the sorcerer; the sorcerer's daughter frees; the sorcerer chases the boy, who turns into a bear, a wolf, a fish; a ring on the finger of the younger princess; the sorcerer smashes the ring, it crumbles in grains, the rooster sorcerer pecks, one grain becomes a hawk, kills the sorcerer]: Ergis 1967b, No. 106:183; dolgans [the daughter of an old Samoyed died; he did not become hers to bury her, but carried her on a sleigh, asked shamans to resurrect her; no one agreed; two years later, the old man found two shamans who were camlali but could not help; a visionary shaman who felt sorry for the old man had a dream and told the old man that those shamans would not resurrect the girl; the old man promised the seer half of his wealth and a daughter; the seer fell asleep and reached the place of illness, then went to another place ; there he met three identical girls, one of whom was an old man's daughter; the girls lived in three identical plague; the seer took turns spending the night in each of them, but did not understand which one the girls are the daughter of an old man; the three of the girls gathered in the same plague; hiding in advance, there was a seer who overheard the conversation and understood who the old man's daughter was; when the girls fell asleep, the seer took her away from plague; he hugged her, ran and woke up; his body had been asleep for nine days; a girl was found near her bones who did not move; the seer placed her bones inside the girl; she came to life and became a daughter old man; a seer married her; two deceased friends got angry, made the girl a shaman and forced her to cover her tambourine with an old woman's skin]: Popov 1937:64-66; Evenki of the Baikal region: Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 10 [Lamunay leans to wash his hands in the sea, the Master of the Sea grabs his beard, lets him go for promising to give him his unborn child; his son is Chocondon; the fox brings him to the lake, he hides his clothes one of the twelve swan girls who came to swim; her father Deraulov tells him to identify his daughter among twelve birds with one stone; his wife warns that she will limp on her left leg; D. says he still does not will give her daughter; she offers C. to run; turns C. into a stone, herself into the mistress of the lake; D. arrives in the form of an eagle, says that they will remain in this form; the daughter says that then he will remain an eagle; D . lets them go, they come to Ch.'s parents]: 35-37; Titov 1936, No. 60 (many unclear places; the text is clearly borrowed and not fully understood) [two guys learned to read and write, they ate that bird; their youngest merchant husband the sisters told them to be brought in; she admitted that he wanted to carve the duck out of their bellies; they ran away; three doves became girls on the shore; one of the boys hid the youngest's skirt; she showed the way; the khan told identify that girl among the three doves; she says she will be middle, wave her wing; the khan gives him the girl, tells him to bake bread; they run away; the swan is chasing, they have become fish, the swan is back, khan He sent a bear, he sees a house, they pray in it; the khan is chasing himself; they have returned to their land with a broken wing]: 205-207.

Amur - Sakhalin. Ulchi [Mergen comes to the head of the city, who has three daughters, he promises to give the youngest, demands 1) bring a golden carp (M. catches, brings); 2) get to know the youngest among the sisters (finds out); father chases M. and her daughter; on the way 1) fire, 2) the sea (abandoned items are not mentioned); the old woman gives a box; houses from it are chickens, goats, wealth]: Aurora 1981, No. 2:130; Udege [old woman sends her husband to fish; he does not want to, but goes; the serpent wraps around him, tells him to take him; crawls to live with them; tells him to find a wife; the old man swims downstream; there are four girls in the house, only the fourth is a maid, I agree; for three years a snake brings game, but does not live with the girl as a wife; she is going to hang herself, but first hits a snake with a stick; the skin falls off, it hides it; instead of a snake comes a handsome man; three others girls tickle the Snake's wife to confess where the skin is, they burn the skin; the husband burns, rushes into the fire, leaving his wife with a knife; if you stick a beast in the trail, the beast dies; taking her son, she goes to look for her husband; wants to be stabbed, her husband's spirit tells her to climb the vine into heaven; the old man (he is the master of heaven) and the old woman accept her; the old man tells her to identify her husband among 20 identical ones; the old woman teaches her son to hit, his father will cry; the old man puts the couple on a horse, sends them home to the ground]: Nikolaeva ao.o. 2003, No. 12:86-90; the Orochi [the ox tells the owner to go to the sea, 12 swans will arrive, take off their clothes, become girls; it is necessary hide the youngest's plumage; she clapped her hands, created a rich house, fed her, put her to sleep; he woke up - neither at home nor at home; the ox reproaches that the young man did not make her a wife; two sunflower seeds must be sown , they will grow to the sky; we must climb them; the stars are the roots of the trees in the upper world; the ox also tells him to get into one ear, get out of the other, the young man is great and handsome; the young man hit his head against the sky, it parted, he saw houses, in one of them that beauty; her father gives difficult tasks, the girl helps to solve it; 1) recognize the bride among three chickens (she will raise her wing, there is a white feather); 2) recognize among 12 girls with curtained faces in identical dresses (the bride sticks a needle to her clothes); 3) find and bring three arrows fired in different directions; the bride tells you to choose a frozen skate, his hair in the opposite direction; gives a bottle of medicine to heal wounds; the first arrow in the side of the sturgeon; the young man took the arrow, cured the sturgeon; the second was brought by the mice to their queen; ate the young man's horse; the mouse returned the arrow and revived the horse; the young man helped the weaker army; after the victory he found out that the princess in their city was wounded by an arrow; took out an arrow, put medicine, the princess recovered; the young man returned to the bride, her father gave it to him; one day a man decided to visit the ground; his wife warned him not to eat chicken; he was greeted, given cock meat; he ate it and became a rooster, so the rooster greets the morning dawn]: Aurora, Lebedev 1978, No. 82:133-135, 150 [a borrowed tale, probably of Manchu origin, but the motifs of swan girls and hidden clothes are "inherent in Oroch folklore"].

Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 400 [(59 versions); see motif K24; a man hides clothes made from the feathers of one of the girls swimming in the lake; they have children; she learns from them where the clothes are; flies away with children; he comes to heaven for her; father-in-law gives difficult assignments 1) cut down the forest under the field in a day, plow the field in a day, grow melons in a day, harvest them in a day; the wife helps to do all this; (2) a person must identify his wife among her sisters who look the same; the bee he saved points to his wife; he is told not to eat melons; he cuts one, a stream gushes out of it, the husband and wife stay different sides of the Milky Way; can only meet once a year, on the eve of July 7, when the stars are celebrating; some versions end with episode (1) marrying a heavenly girl, (2) her returning to heaven, (3) reuniting a person with his wife and children in heaven; (4) if a father-in-law tests a son-in-law, he usually cannot stand the latter, so he and his wife remain separated from Heaven By the River (Milky Way)], 554 [a young man saves a bee, a turtle, a monkey; they help him complete difficult tasks, marry a princess; 1) indicate the number of bamboos in the grove; 2) get eggs that will cure a princess or her father, from a bird's nest on a tree on a sea island or across the river; 3) identify the princess among the same girls]: 96-97, 97.

The coast is the Plateau. {There are European motives}. Thompson [the son of the Heat Men goes to marry the daughters of Cold; the old woman gives him a golden staff, tells him to put him under himself, when asked to sit on an ice seat, he will not freeze; the youngest daughter of Cold puts him to this test, agrees to marry him, teaches him what to do; 1) he brings warmth, Cold cannot freeze water; 2) the cold asks to distinguish the bride from her sister, the girls are the same (the bride winks); Cold allows a person to marry, forbids him to leave his country; wife and born son want to see his relatives; young people run away; Cold sends his wife in pursuit; her daughter turns her husband into a duck, a son into a duckling, herself into a lake; the old woman returns; next time into an old man, a boy, an old house; into a priest, bishop, church; for the fourth time Cold himself goes in pursuit; The husband's father (or grandfather) releases the chinook wind from the bag, the Cold is defeated; asks for permission to visit his daughter every winter; since then, the heat and frost have been moderate]: Teit 1917b, No. 36:56-62.

The Midwest. Steppe Ojibwa [eight brothers find firewood cooked; take turns guarding; a woman comes to the youngest; breaks trunks with her hand; older brother kills out of jealousy her; she flies away; the youngest shoots arrows, follows them; meets four old women one by one; they give sharp claws, bones, horns to climb the pointed mountain, explain what to do; the house will be eight identical sisters, the wife will sit closer to the entrance; the young man sits next to her; the father-in-law sends all eight daughters with him, they fly to the brothers; the animals mock the brothers, saying that the youngest is back; this time it is; brothers get married]: Skinner 1919, No. 4:293-295.

Plains. Black-legged [young men see a bison stuck in the snow, one puts a gun barrel in her vulva; she gives birth to a child, turns into a woman, comes to him; asks her not to hit her with fire; one day he hits With her head, she leaves, taking her son; her husband comes to the buffalo; their leader tells her son to be identified among ten dancing calves; each time the son gives a sign (moves his ear, tail, etc.); the chief tells the others the calves repeat his movements after the man's son; the man is wrong, the bisons trample on him; his father sends forty to bring a piece of his son; they bring hair, the father revives him; he comes back to the buffalo, Brings his wife and son back; hits her again with his head; she goes out and dies, he stays with his son]: Josselin de Jong 1914:52-59; Crowe: Lowie 1918 [young man marries Bisonicha and Kukuruza; both wives give birth for a son; Bisonicha and her son turn into bison, go to her mother; Bisonicha mother-in-law wants to eat him, demands 1) to identify her son among ten calves (son, I move my left ear), 2) identify wife among ten cows (son, I'll throw my tail on my mother's back), 3) identify my bed among ten (son, I'll hit the pillow with my tail), 4) withstand the hot steam room (mother-in-law is the worst), 5) bring a tree for firewood (there is a nest of thunderbirds at the top of the tree; the hero asks his father for help, he breaks the tree with lightning), 6) bring the wolf (the hero asks the wolves to send one of them with him), 7) bring reeds growing between moving hills (hills are mother-in-law's knees, reeds are her pubic hair; swallow brings three times, fourth time hills pinch her tail; corn sprouts from under land, freeing the swallow's tail), 8) race around the world (magpie, snipe, duck help the hero, mother-in-law falls); Bisonicha sends bison to people, Corn sends corn to people]: 110-115; Simms 1903, No. 12 [ Moose and Bisonicha get stuck in the mud; Old Coyote invites a man to have sex with them; later two boys come to the man, they are the children of Losiha and Bisonicha; their mothers come in the guise of women; man takes only Bisoniha; one day she scolds her, she takes her son, goes to the Bisons; they demand to identify her son and wife among several identical buffalo; the son helps his father (moves his ear, stains his mother with clay); man returns wife and son]: 289-290; arpahoes: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 144 [Bluebird marries Bisonikha and Losiha; wives quarrel, Bisonicha takes her son, leaves; her father demands 1) run away from race with bison (calf son runs instead of his father); 2) get to know your son among calves (he moves his ear, leg, tail); 3) dance for three days (son dances); 4) stay awake for four days; on the fourth morning The Bluebird falls asleep, is trampled to death; his brother Magpie finds his feather, revives him in the steam room; Bisonicha leads the buffalo to kill her husband; Moose helps destroy buffalo, they are made food for people; Moose turns into a moose], 145 and 146 [as in (144) with minor differences]: 388-395, 395-404, 404-418; Sheena [man married to Corn and Bisonicha; wives quarrel, Bisonicha takes her children, leaves west to the bison; a person comes for them but cannot identify them among other buffalo]: Kroeber 1900, No. 25:186-187; mandan [man marries Bisonicha and Corn; jealous Bisonicha quarrels with Corn, goes with her son to the bison; the husband follows them in the form of a hawk; Bisonicha mother-in-law gives difficult tasks to kill his son-in-law; his son helps to complete the first tasks with advice; 1) enter the house with with a stone door (a man turns into a feather, the door falls but does not press him), 2) identify his wife's bed (the calf son butts the bed three times), 3) identify the son among ten calves (the son moves his ear), 4) withstand a hot steam room (the spider hides it in the fourth underground tier), 5) bring firewood (an eagle sits on the poplar, sends lightning; splits the tree so that the hero can take firewood), 6) bring redheads cubs (the flame is full of wolves; wolves do not eat the hero, give him cubs; like other dangerous creatures, they are all servants of the bison; she lets them go when her son-in-law brings them), 7) bring white beavers (from beaver tails fly sharp flints; beavers give beavers), 8) bring arrow blanks (bushes grow in a gorge that is mother-in-law's ass; a person is inside it; flies out like a swallow, brings blanks), 9) view a distant island (The Raven gives the hero his sharp eyes), 10) shout loudly (The Seagull gives his voice; the hero's cry is louder than the roar of Mother-in-law Bisonikha), 11) race (the whole world is Bisonicha's home; the hero turns the land into a swamp in the way of the bison; a silver fox, a red fox, a coyote run three quarters of the way for the hero); the old woman unfolds the ground, summons four after another herds of bison; the first three are strange, the hero abandons them; in the fourth herd his wife and son; the hero brings buffalo to people]: Bowers 1950:276-281; teton (oglala): Walker 1917 [man marries Bisonikha and Trostinka; their children quarrel, Bisonicha leaves with her son, Reed helps her husband; further as 1983; Reed gives people corn and pumpkin seeds]: 183-190; 1983 [starting in 1917; a man marries on Bisonicha and Maize; Corn dies, tells you to dismember itself and bury it; its remains grow the first corn; a man flies after his arrow, hits the bison; 1) identify his wife among four sisters -bison (the calf plays next to her); 2) enter the stone tipi (the tornado carries the person inside, he is not crushed by the floors of the tent); 3) put the quiver on his wife's lap (the calf rubs against the mother); 4) bring cherry twigs (the bushes are snakes, it turns them into rods); 5) bring the Thunderbird chick (the whirlwind lifts it up the mountain, it brings the bird); 6) dance with other buffalo (the father-in-law tries to hurt him, killed himself); a man strikes his mother-in-law and her daughters (except for his wife) with thunderbird feathers with thunderbird feathers; chosen as the leader of the buffalo, leads them to people]: 109-118; Santi [a man marries Bisonikha and Losiha; Moose scolds Bisonicha's son, she takes him, goes to the buffalo; the husband follows her; the son explains that the bison will demand to be identified 1) his wife's bag among her and her three sisters' bags; 2) a wife among four bison sisters; 3) a son among four calves; promises to put a pebble on her bag, a bunch of grass in his mother's ear, wiggle his tail and pull his ear; man performs tasks, but the bison trample him to dust; Moose finds drops of his blood, revives him; the bison go to kill them; they climb onto a pole, their friends kill buffalo]: McLaughlin 1990:170-178; Omaha, ponca: Dorsey 1888b [a man marries Corn and Bisonicha; their sons fight, Bisonicha and her son go to the buffalo, the man follows them; his magic pen helps to overcome difficulties; Bisonicha mother-in-law 1) tries to kill him in a hot steam room (he is not hot, she loses consciousness); 2) demands to identify his wife among her four sisters (he identifies); 3) identify his son among the calves (the son reports what will run sixth); 4) mother-in-law races with his son-in-law (the pen carries him, he wins); 5) tells him to swing on a swing on the edge of the cliff (the rope breaks, he flies like a feather); The buffalo father-in-law tries him to care; he kills his father-in-law and mother-in-law with arrows]: 74; 1890:55-57 [Iktinica's arrow gets stuck in a tree; I. asks the Rabbit to get it; he climbs a tree with his clothes off; I. puts it on, tells the Rabbit stick to the trunk; I., disguised as Rabbit, marries the leader's eldest daughter; the youngest cuts a tree, peels off the Rabbit, takes him as her husband; when the Rabbit comes up, the birds on I.'s stolen outfit recognize the owner, start screaming; the leader demands that his sons-in-law hit the flying eagle with an arrow; the rabbit knocks down the eagle, I. misses; the deception reveals; The rabbit takes his clothes back, throws I. high to the sky; he falls , breaks], 172-175 [as in 1888b], 604-609 [the chief promises to give his daughter for someone who knocks a redbird off a tree; an orphan kills a bird, Iktinica pretends to kill; marries the eldest the leader's daughter, Orphan on the youngest; during hunger, Orphan creates buffalo with witchcraft; dives. becomes handsome; I. asks him to shoot a turkey on a tree, the arrow gets stuck; Orphan climbs a tree; I. tells the tree to grow to the sky; puts on Orphans's clothes, comes home under its guise; live birds decorating clothes do not sing, but scream; Eagle, Vulture, Raven, Magpie bring Orphan down to the ground, planting him on his back; Orphan returns, tells I. to return her clothes and arrows; hitting the drum, lifts people into the air and throws them on the ground; everyone dies except Orphan's wife and grandmother]; Osage [the girl's parents they don't marry her; she leaves with a stranger, he turns out to be Bison; she gives birth to him a Calf; another Bison kidnaps her, creates two more women of the same appearance; promises to return her to her husband if he identifies wife; The calf tells the father that the mother moves her right ear; the husband takes his wife, they come to people; The calf kicks another boy with his foot, he calls him names; the calf cries; the father takes him, goes to bison; all bison (skins?) at the camp they turn into bison, follow]: Dorsey 1904c, No. 23:27-30; from [a woman and her husband treat her little brother badly; he is taken away by an unknown woman; leads him to the underground a cave where bison stands; she is the buffalo spirit; he grows up, marries her, they have two sons; she says the Big Bison wants to take his place; says he'll find them where rose hips grow; she and her sons become bison, leave with others; the bird says that the traces of his wife and sons will be red; the young man finds his wife and sons; wins the Big Bison duel, returns his wife and children]: Anderson 1940:121-126; Arikara: Dorsey 1904, No. 29 [the young man is a good hunter, does not look at women; he dreams of a bison and two bison, bisons turn into two sticks; young man The hoop also looks at them; when he wakes up, he sees a sleeping bison, converges with her; finds a hoop seen in a dream, makes sticks; playing with a hoop, wins property; the old woman asks to be carried across the river, refuses to get down; healers are powerless; the boy, the son of Lightning, knocks down with four arrows, kills an old woman, heals ulcers on the young man's back; the old woman is burned; at this point a tipi appears, in which a woman with a child appears; the young man follows them, they are human first, then bison; the calf calls the young man his father; crossing the rivers, the bison raises dust, it lies on the water, the young man crosses it; calf bison cake turns into a pemmican, the young man eats; at every night, the wife, turning into a woman, lets the young man lie closer, finally sleeps with him; in the buffalo camp, the young man ties feathers to their horns, but not enough for everyone ; the bisons want to kill him; the young man asks the gods to create a stone wall around him; 1) the boy's son and his friend Yellow Calf overtake other calves; 2) the boy's son marks his mother with a thistle, the young man finds out a wife among five buffalo; 3) the bison cannot trample on the young man, for there is flint around him; the bison send the young man, wife and son home to the people; all three go in the form of bison, part of the herd intended hunters, then; young man, wife, son people again; young man gives gifts to buffalo, they agree that people kill them; calf son taught people the Bison ceremony (connected with a hoop and chopsticks)]: 94-101; Parks 1996, No. 9 [The bisonic wife leaves, takes her son away; the man follows them; the son's manure turns into a pemmican, the water in the hole from his hoof is clear; the father-in-law and other bison require man 1) to identify the son among ten calves (son moves his ear); 2) wife among ten cows (son puts burdock on her tail); son and father escape from buffalo on a rock, a man shoots them with a bow; returns to the village, son brings buffalo to people]: 162-165; throw off the pawnee [a virgin young man copulates with the daughter of the bison chief; ties his shell pendant to her horn; the bison has a son; he and her are sent bring ritual gifts from them to people; bison is offended that a person recognizes his son only when he sees his pendant; returns with his son to the buffalo; the person follows them; the bison requires him to 1) identify son among ten calves (son, I wiggle my tail), 2) identify my wife among other buffalo (son, I'll lick my mother on the lips), 3) race with young buffalo (man produces ice, he becomes light as a feather, wins), 4) becoming a bison, fighting an opponent (cared for him); a man with his wife and son return to people; wife and son help to get a lot of buffalo; go to bison when the hero cheats on his wife], 85 [the witch offers to compete, kills losers; 1) stay underwater longer (she has a cave under the shore; the young man turns into a beaver, emerges later than the witch ), 2) slide on ice (a young man turns into an otter, slides faster); people help a young man kill a sorceress]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 79:284-393; wichita [bison takes on human form, goes beyond the chief's son; pregnant, the young man leaves her; she returns to the buffalo, he follows her; she helps him identify among the many buffalo 1) his uncle (tail mark), 2) son (squinting his eyes to the right) 3) herself (a bunch of grass under his nose), 4) her father (a thorn in his ear), 5) her mother (dried dirt on his right hind hoof); her sister says he will not be able to complete the tasks, offers to marry her ; the hero completes tasks, stays with the buffalo; bison and humans have been exchanging what they have with each other ever since], 30-31 [The Shadow of the Sun offers to compete in the run, kills losers; three or four brothers die; their father kicks an opponent on the run or flies like a hawk; wins; kills the Shadow of the Sun with a bowstring, burns a corpse]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 29:199-206.

The Great Southwest. Hopi [hunters disappear one by one; they are seduced by women with teeth in their vaginas; the spider gives the boy a wooden penis; he breaks the genital teeth of the girl who brought him first, then the rest; these are the girls Jimsonweed (Datura L., dope) and Four O'Clock (Mirabilis L., night blossom); after that, he really copulates with the one who brought him; Spider warns that he they will be asked to identify the girl who brought him; if he guesses right, he can take her home; he guesses correctly; the Spider teaches you to snatch the dope and nightblossom that grow around the kiva, chew and spit out the potion inside the kiva; those inside turn into stone; the young man brings his wife home, gives Spider two dead rabbits]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 1:1-7.

(Wed. The Central Andes. The motive for identifying the wife is probably of European origin. Quechua: Itier 1996, No. 3 (Marangani, prov. Canchis; = Arguedas 1949:105-114; Lira 1965:133-139; 1990:1-7) [someone steals potatoes from a young man's field; he guards, falls asleep, grabs one of the star girls for the third time; first hid it in a hut next to him with the field, then brought her to her parents; her clothes were hidden, another was given; the child died for an unknown reason, the wife flew to heaven; the husband rises to heaven on a condor, along the way of taking llama meat with him enough, the young man cuts off his own leg, feeds the condor; after swimming in the sea in the sky, he is younger; all the star girls have come to the temple to honor their parents the Sun and Moon; the young man must identify his wife; the condor warns that she will push him with her elbow; he lives with the star for another year; puts too much quinoa to cook; the star is afraid of the anger of his parents, the Sun and the Moon; the condor lowers the man to the ground; before They swam again by flight because they have aged a lot in a year; the young man remains single on land]: 161-164; the Ausangate massif south of Cusco ((high-mountain shepherds) [shepherd sees women stars they go down to swim in the lake; hides the shining clothes of one of them; the Star has only one eye; the shepherd gives her a poncho, leads her to him, the others fly away; the wife gives birth to two children; when they are still young, the father shows them shining clothes, tells them not to tell their mother, goes to the valley; the children show their clothes, the mother flies to heaven; the returning shepherd scolds the children, makes a flute, the flute advises them to give a cow the vulture will take it to heaven; on Holy Saturday, the vulture leaves the shepherd in the sky in front of the church gate; says that all the Stars are the same, one-eyed, the wife will be the last to come out; when she goes out, the wife herself turns to the shepherd, promises to return tomorrow, sends him home with a canyua (Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen; at an altitude of about 5000 m, the main crop); a shepherd descends on another condor ; lives with children, their kanyua supply never ends (apparently, we are talking about the first kanyuah, its heavenly origin; it does not say that the Star is back)]: Lanata 2004:260-261).