K38B. A snake threatens chicks, B364.4.
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Amonster (water-chthonic or uncertain) eats or maims the young of a mighty creature (in most cases, chicks of a mighty bird). The mother is powerless against the monster, but the man kills him. See motif K38.
Kordofan, Kabila, Arabs of Algeria, Tunisia, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tibetans, Mustang, Hindi, Himachal Pahari, Varli, Marathi, Bengalis, Oriya, Telugu, Tamils, Gondas, Condas, Baiga, Maria, Sinhalese, Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Bosnians, Albanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Belarusians, (Russians: Moscow), Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina), Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Stavropol Turkmens, Kabardian people, Abazins, Adygs, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Dargins, Avars, Lezgins, Udins, Armenians, Pshavas, Swans, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians (Khuzistan, Mazendaran, Khorasan, Yazd, Isfahan, Azerbaijan, Hamadan, Markazi), Bakhtiyars, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Baluchis, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Vakhans, Sarykols, Shughnans , Munjan, Bartangans, Turkmens, Komi, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Uighurs, Baraba Tatars, Altaians, Chelkans, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Darkhats, Baikal and Trans-Baikal Buryats, Mongols (Inner Mongolia), Dagurs, Dongxiang, Mansi, Assiniboine, Crowe, Hidatsa, Arikara, Kogi, Maue.
Sudan-East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [man's son, Faris (strong-dzhigit hero); went to pick up the bride; found a girl at the camp; she said he would find them in his footsteps; Faris returned home, and I went to pick up a girl in the morning; every evening he finds bread in the parking lot; one day the bread is still warm; but in the dark Faris lost his way; came to a house where 7 brothers sleep in one room and in the other - girl (not the one he met before); the seat next to him on the bed is empty; Faris lay down, but put his sword between himself and the girl; fell asleep; the girl woke up and called her brothers; they realized that Faris was not plotted evil, told her to continue to sleep; in the morning they told Faris that the robber and his men were trying to get their sister; asked her to fight him, because they themselves were tired of fighting; when Faris arrived at enemies, who rushed to take away his weapon and horse, but he killed many and returned to his brothers; again fighting enemies and returning to his brothers; on the third day, Faris killed the leader, took his men to slavery, took possession of the fortification and treasures, brought everything and brought everyone to the brothers' house; their sister lies down with Phariz and asks them not to put the sword between them anymore; the next day he went to look for that first the girl and on the same day reached the place where her people stayed for the night; her sheikh father promises a daughter to someone who would pick her up at a gallop and bring her on horseback; only Fariz did it, got a wife, brought her by 7 brothers; he now has 2 wives; he takes them to his parents; on the way, the fortress that Saidi And built from his severed heads; Faris knocked out one skull with a spear and promised SA to plug a hole in his own with his head; Faris easily defeated him; he said that he was born a slave; asked to take him as a slave and assistant, Fariz agreed; seeing Fariz with two wives, his father decided to kill his son and take the women for himself; Faris understood this; told the SA not to let anyone into the fortification where wives, when he himself, at the suggestion of his father, went with his father's men to bring a tree to build a new house; the father promised his people that his son will not take a weapon with him; let them poke out his eyes and pierce his heart; let them bring the eyes and blood vessel of the victim; they pulled out their eyes, but did not kill, but brought blood to the gazelle; the SA does not let Phariz's father to women; he sends his men, but SA kills many every day; at this time, Pariz heard a snake crawl to the bird's nest to eat a chick; crushed a snake; a grateful mother bird she brought her torn eyes, put them back in; accidentally changed places, making Fariz even more beautiful; because of this, SA did not recognize him at home; Fariz went to his wives (and apparently killed his father in the morning)]: Frobenius, No. 16:179-192 (this text was translated into Russian and named Nubian in Katznelson 1968:323-345).
North Africa. Kabila [the king has three wives: a black woman, an Arab woman, a cabin; an apple tree in the garden blooms in the morning, bears fruit in the evening, but the apples disappear; the son of the cabin is guarding without noticing anything; the son of an Arab woman is the same; son black women grab a bird by the tail, the feathers remain in his hands; they bring them to their father, everyone sings; the father demands to get the bird itself; the mother gives a ball to follow; the brothers refuse to follow their son black woman; meets an old woman; she teaches her to go to town, take a bird, but without a cage; he takes a golden cage; a ghoul tells you to get a spirit horse; the old woman teaches not to take bridles; the young man took it; the king of spirits orders to get cannibal daughter; an old woman teaches her to venerate a cannibal's breasts; a cannibal demands a hundred camels and a hundred camels for her daughter; the old woman teaches her to take no more than a hundred; he brings camels to a cannibal; she gives a daughter and camels also leaves the young man; the same with everyone - he gets everything he gets; meets brothers; they let him down the well to get water; there's another world; women are afraid that the cannibal will eat the young man; one warns that the cannibal would give a choice of two daggers: with a golden handle and a wooden one; the young man took the gold one and cut the ogre in half, refusing to strike a second blow; the young man sends the woman upstairs; she gave her ring: brothers will betray you; they really cut off the rope; a young man comes to an old woman; her goat has black milk: she eats coal and earth, nothing else; tells her not to herd her on foreign land; a young man goes with a goat exactly there, the milk turned white; the eagle's nest, the snake crawls to eat the chicks; the young man killed the snake with a knife; the bird orders to prepare meat, carried the young man to the ground; he came to his father; the brothers were tied to the horse's mane; from their heads were made stones for the hearth, from their hands a coal mixer]: Rivière 1882, No. 10:235-244; the Arabs of Algeria [Emhammed, the youngest of the Sultan's three sons, brings lions and panthers from hunting, the eldest - partridges; brothers envy him; they tell his father that he can bring an apple stalk whose fruits are rejuvenating; the father sends E., who brought a stalk, the apple tree soon grew, brought three apples; the sultan ate and younger; by the end of the year he has aged again, but new apples have arrived; one day someone stole apples; the eldest son guards, efreet takes both the apples and himself; a year later, the same with the middle son; when it is E. , he cuts off Efrita's hand, but he took the apples; on a bloody trail, E. comes to the hole; goes down the rope; there is a city; E. consistently meets three beauties, each on a golden bed, kidnapped on her wedding day; E. cut off Efrita's head, freed his brothers, whom he beat and walled up; found nine stolen apples, divided them between beauties; sent brothers, then women, upstairs; the youngest gave a ring: if E. is not picked up, let him open the chest, there are two reeds in it, they must be thrown to the ground, they will turn into black and white goats; white will carry them to the ground, black will lower them even deeper; the brothers cut off the rope; E. touched the black goat, which carried it down; there was an old woman, with her a dog, a donkey, two goats and a goat; in front of the dog straw, in front of the donkey, thistle in front of the goats; E. gave a thistle donkey, straw goats, dog bones; the old woman said that goats should not be taken to good pastures, they have owners; E. began to herd goats there; lions, panthers, jackals attacked, but E. killed them all; saw like a snake crawls to the vulture nest; chopped it into 7 pieces and gives them to the chicks; the mother bird is grateful, the snake was its worst enemy, the mother bird carries E. to the ground; the three rescued women do not want to go out for the brothers E., who called themselves saviors; the youngest demands a caftan sewn without scissors or needles, let her stand and dance; the sultan tells the tailor to make a caftan; E. lives with a tailor, turned this a ring for him, seven girls appeared, they all perform; now the girl demands a silver chicken with golden chickens; the same; the girl agreed with E. that at the wedding she would throw an apple to not the eldest son of the Sultan, to whom he wants to give it, and E.; E. appeared on a white horse, cut off two fingers for his older brother; the next day, against his middle brother on a black horse; the sultan slightly wounded E. with an arrow to identify him later; everything was clarified; the sultan gave the throne to E.; he forgave the brothers, married them to older beauties, and married the youngest himself]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:39-63; Tunisia [the sultan wanted to marry his son, but he only wanted to marry Muhabbil; taking his closest friend, he went in search of the girl; they came to town, where they were told that M. was the king's daughter, but he hides her and her from everyone sister; then the prince dressed in the skin of a gazelle, and his friend pretended to be a clown, took the drum, so they entertained everyone; the king invited them and took them all night to see the princesses he hid under the throne; prince took off the ring from M.'s finger, put his own on it; the next day, the prince and his friend changed into normal clothes, came to ask M. and her sister for hand; the king made a condition to find brides; they did The look they were looking for said on the seventh day that princesses could only be under the royal throne; the king was distracted, friends grabbed the princesses, ran away; a friend distracted the pursuing warriors, took them away, and when he returned, he saw that the prince had turned to the waist into stone; this was done to him by a genie who took the princesses; a friend found a genie, got a job as a shepherd, persuaded the princesses to agree marry a genie if he says where his spirit is; he said the prince's friend went in search, saved the eagle's eggs from the snake, the eagle carried him across seven seas, and he gave him the meat of a snake divided into seven pieces; found a camel, took out his heart, a chest out of it, a sparrow from his chest; the prince's friend divided the camel's meat into seven parts, crossed the seven seas again on an eagle; the genie disgraced the prince, but the prince's friend killed him anyway; they took the princesses, returned to the prince's father, the sultan invited the princesses father to the festival; wedding]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 87 in Korovkina MS
Front Asia. Palestinians: Lebedev 1990, No. 19 [the king gives his barren wife three apples to eat, she gives birth to a son three times; seeds grow three apple trees; every year the wind tears off their petals; the elders Sons Raid and Zaid guard, flee from the cloud; the younger Said shoots, follows a bloody trail to the well, descends; the kidnapped princess Dumia explains that a sleeping wounded giant can be killed only with his sword; S. kills; D. gives his dress and ring, tells him to sit on a white ram; S. sends D. and treasures upstairs; seeing D., R. and Z. throw a rope; S. accidentally sat on a black ram, got into seventh lower world; kills a snake that tried to kill piglets; the pig promises to take S. upstairs if he prepares 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; the water is closed by the evil spirit of efreet, gives for girls; S. kills and. saves the princess; the pig takes S. to the ground; he puts lamb demand on his head, is hired as an apprentice; R. became king, expelled Z., is preparing a wedding with D.; she demands to make a ring and clothes; S.- the apprentice gives them to the owner, D. recognizes them; during the wedding, the elephant trampled R., S. killed the elephant (and the bear), D. recognized him, he reigned], 24 [Sabir and his son Zafir caught a huge fish; she asked Z. her let go, gives two pearls as ransom and a hair to summon her; Z. left the pearls to his father and left; killed a snake that was about to eat eagles; a grateful eagle gives a pen to summon her; an old woman milks sheep and camels, milk and blood, pastures were captured by a giant and a monster; Z. hired a shepherd, killed a tiger, an eight-headed serpent and a giant; asks the Sultan's daughter; she will marry a groom who can hide from her a thousand dinars; Z. calls helpers; the eagle hides behind the clouds, the fish in the sea; the princess knows that the money is not on earth; for the third time Z. pours blood in the pelvis, puts gold chain mail on top, puts it under pomegranate tree; princess does not understand what she sees, Z. marries her]: 109-117, 130-138; Palestinians [the king has elder sons Ahmed and Mohammed and younger Khalil; the king wants them to marry; sons go on a journey; on the way, H. kills a monster and a seven-headed serpent; H. sees a beauty on the roof from a distance; comes to town; this is the youngest of the king's three daughters; H. kills four guards, enters to the princess's chambers and kisses her; confesses to the king that he killed the monsters and kissed his daughter; the vizier advises to agree to give his daughters to the princes, but for the youngest, let H. get a crown of gems from jeweler Mahmud; H. comes to the green plain, there is a tree, he kills a snake that is going to devour the eagle's chicks; the eagle brings him to M.; he is the brother of the monster and the seven-headed snake, but 40 times stronger than them; I agree to give a crown if H. gets Aika, the daughter of the sorceress Lahhuj; the eagle flew to A.; she turned her into stone, and H. bewitched her half; but regretted and disgraced both; asked for her release from L.; they flee, taking the castle with them, L. pursues; A. created the sea behind her, L. drank it; L. cut the glass mountain; extinguished the mountain of fire;; A. gave H. a fiery sword, he killed L. with them; they flew to M., H. and killed him, took all the necklaces; now the king asks to cross the sea; the eagle turned into a horse and H. rode across the sea as if by land; received a princess; after the wedding, everyone said goodbye to king, but H. is not, because of this his wife cries; H. returned to say goodbye, while the Jew took his wife; H. went in search; the shepherd became his companion; they killed the camel, H. climbed into his shoes and the Jew believed that the shepherd was with the camel; the shepherd lured the Jew out of the house; at this time H. learned from a girl kidnapped by a Jew {not his wife} that the Jew's life was outside his body; asked him to find out where; first he said that broom; the girl began to take care of her; Jew: no, his soul was in the claw of a lion; H. killed a lion, there was a box in his paw, a bird in it; the girl asked for a bird to be given to her; began to tear it up, tearing off the Jew's hands first, then legs and then head; H. returned to his father {apparently with three wives} and he handed him the throne]: Littmann 2016:5-26; Syrian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [the king has a rare flower garden, it has an unusual only one in a flower in the world; every night someone picks a flower; three princes take turns guarding; the eldest two fell asleep; the youngest cut his hand and rubbed salt into the wound; a huge marid appeared, the prince wounded him with a sword; in the morning, the brothers came on a bloody trail to a bottomless well; the older brother begins to go down, frightened, asks him to pick him up; the same middle brother goes down to the bottom; in the marble palace, the girl: on her chest stolen flowers, the head of a sleeping marid on his knees; the prince cut off his head; an old man appeared: we must sit on a ram to return to the ground; the white and black sheep began to butt; the prince planted the girl on a white one, and he took her to the brothers' father's palace; the prince sat on a black one and he carried him seven tiers down; the prince lay down under a tree; a griffin's nest on the tree; the snake crawls to eat the chicks; the prince cut off the snake head and fed her meat to the chicks; the griffin mother flew in and wanted to throw a stone on the prince who fell asleep, but the chicks explained that the prince had saved them; she agreed to raise the prince to the ground - to eat the sheep to fly to every next tier; after the sixth, one sheep slipped off and the prince cut off his leg for the bird; on the ground, the griffin put her leg back and it grew; the prince married the rescued princess, and older brothers are disgraced]: 104-108; Kuhr 1993 [the fisherman caught nothing, and the next day he caught a huge fish; she gave him three scales that must be burned if help is needed; the fisherman killed the snake, eagle, who was going to eat the chicks; the eagle gives three feathers; the fisherman drove away the dogs chasing the fox, the fox gave three hairs; the fisherman came to the city, where the princess's grooms heads on the walls on the stakes; on it the one who can hide from her marries; the fish takes her to the sea, the eagle to the clouds, both times the princess sees everything; the fox hides the young man in the chest in the princess's room; her mirror sees everything but this chest; after weddings, the fisherman became a vizier and ordered the skulls to be removed from the stakes]: 89-95; Oestrup 1897 (6): 82-96 in Semenov 1930 (Damascus) [the tsar gives three sons a golden pen; promises the throne to whoever brings the bird itself; the eldest, the middle, stay with the owner of the garden, who asks to tell a lie; as soon as they open their mouths, they are told that this is not a lie, they are thrown into prison; the youngest sleeps at the spring under a tree, kills the devil, who drank from the spring and is about to eat the eagle's chicks; she brings the prince to the castle, tells him to take the sword from the wall, touch nothing else; he touches the walls, 40 devils tell him to return the sword, pull the sheath, the sword remains with the young man; the bird brings it to the girl who has the bird; he puts the girl to sleep, takes her and the bird; the lie to the garden owner begins with the words, "When I was three years old and my son 50.. "; gets a garden, frees the brothers; they ask them to go down to the well for water, leave it at the bottom; the girl manages to give a chain and a bracelet; the Bedouin leader pulls him out and sends him to Damascus; the young man changes clothes with a poor man, is hired by a Bedouin; the girl makes it a condition to make a chain and a bracelet; the jeweler brings them, the girl realizes that the prince is in town; the prince defeats the brothers in equestrian competitions by knocking them down horse; forgives, gets wife and throne]: 194-199; Iraqi Arabs: Stevens 2006, No. 8 [Shamshum al Jabbar (Shamshum the Great) married a merchant's daughter; she has fun in the desert at night with 40 devas, plays with they play chess; her son sees it, tells his father that he easily overcomes the devas, returns his wife; the devas ask her to know what her husband's strength is; he lies that in birds (devas kill all birds), in a broom (they burn everything brooms), S. does not weaken; in his hair; his wife cuts Sh. In a dream, the devas shackle him, bury him waist-deep in the desert; S.'s son frees him, brings him his sword, he kills the devas one by one, cutting off their heads; the last two heads, only one is cut off, he escapes, becomes the lover of the Caliph's daughter overseas; S. and his son come to the shore, where snakes regularly eat eagles, S. kills him with a sword, eagles say mother, that S. is their savior, she agrees to transfer S. and her son to the island, her son dies there, S. reads sacred books; the caliph's daughter finds out about him, magically transfers herself to the island; S. asks to cut off his head, bury him next to his son, the Caliph's daughter fulfills his wish]: 30-35; Lebedev 1990, No. 20 [the king is blind, grass across the seven seas will help him; three sons travel along three roads, Muhammad on the middle road; kills a snake crawling to the bird's nest; the bird first thinks that M. killed its chicks, the chicks explain; the bird carries it across the seven seas, he returns with grass; meets brothers; goes down to the well, brothers cut off the rope; the voice tells M. to grab a white ram, and if he grabs a black ram, he will go even lower; M. grabs a black one; an old woman: a black giant gives water in exchange for girls; M. wakes up from a girl who fell in a tear, killed a giant, rolled back the stone, the water poured; the tsar gives him his daughter, brings him to the ground; the brothers repented, the father saw the light]: 118-123; Yaremenko 1990, No. 17 [the tsar has a tree with wonderful flowers, someone steals flowers; three sons take turns guarding; Ahmed, Mahmud fall asleep, younger Muhammad sees Marid (evil or good spirit) tearing flowers, following him to the well; elder sons they lower them, they ask them to be lifted back; the youngest goes down to the girl who has the bouquet; she points to the sleeping marid and the sword, the young man kills him; they go to meet the old man, he explains that the white ram will lift her to the ground, the black will lower her to the seventh lower world; the girl sat on white, the older brothers brought her to her father, said they released her; she asked for the wedding to be postponed; Muhammad sat on black a ram; in the lower world he killed a snake trying to swallow an eagle; an eagle wants to kill M., eagles explain that he saved them; she takes him to the ground; older brothers run away, Muhammad marries the rescued girl, gets the throne]: 103-105; Saudia [the king has a tree, someone steals flowers from him; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the younger Muhammad noticed Marida, followed him, he disappeared into the well; the older brothers are afraid, M. came down; there was a girl, holding flowers from the royal garden in her hands; a sword on the wall; M. hacked marida with them; he managed to close the door, M. and the girl went and met the old man; he herded two rams; white will take them to the ground, black will lower them to the seventh underworld; M. put the girl on white; the older brothers attributed her salvation to themselves; the girl asks to postpone the wedding; M. saw a snake who is trying to swallow an eagle; M. killed a snake, threw snake meat to eagles; an eagle flew in, wanted to pick up a stone and kill M., the eagle told her everything; M. asked to take it to the ground; when he saw M. the older brothers ran away and he married the rescued girl]: Juhayman 1999:50-53.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the poor man has a deformed son; he grows up, sees a white drake on the lake; catches him in a noose; he says he is the ruler in heaven, promises his daughter; sends the youngest to marry a young man and live with him for 9 years; she goes down, creates a palace and treasures, after 9 years everything disappears; the young man wanders, sees griffin chicks on a rock by the lake, a dragon crawls towards them, a young man kills him with a sword; a grateful adult griffin brings the young man to heaven; the wife sees him, asks his father to send her back to earth; the gods agree, but take away the girl's immortal properties; the griffin brings the couple to earth, they are happy]: O'Connor 1906:92-102; Tibetans (Amdo) [a mare gave birth to a boy, an old lady adopted him; with two friends he hides from the rain in a cave; they see 3 turtles fly in, steel girls, prayed, flew away again; the same day on August 15 the following year; two years later, the young men grabbed and destroyed the pigeon bodies, took the girls as wives; wives wither away; the young men saw how a kite flew in, became a copper-billed witch, she drank the girls' blood, flew away, the mare's son managed to injure her with an arrow; the young men follow the bloody trail, the companions let the mare's son down, cut off the rope, Garuda picked him up; a local shepherd says that a witch was wounded by an arrow; another shepherd herds many goats; this is the son of a witch; replies that in order to tie up goats, you must tell them to "Contact"; cross the river, tell the river to retreat up and down, cross the dry; after bringing goats, he will lick the wound on the mother's back inflicted by the mare's son; the mare's son offers to remove his lice; son witches: I have a black mole around my neck, my mother's strength is in it, be careful; the second part of my mother's life is at home in a needle in a salt bag; a mare's son crushed a mole {and obviously killed a shepherd}, put on his clothes, took a yak tongue with him; told the waters to part, the goats to contact him; the witch takes him for a son, asks him to lick the wound; he explains that his tongue is hard because he did not drink water today; breaks a needle, witch dies; leaving the witch's house, the son of a mare killed a snake that was about to eat Garuda's chick; the chick explains to its mother that the man saved him; the mare's son asks to be brought to the ground; the garuda asks prepare 100 bird carcasses and 100 wineskins full of water; carries the mare's son across the sea; he forgives his companions, reigns, everything is fine] Kajihama 2004, No. 28:117-123; Mustang: Kretschmar 1985, No. 27 [ the eldest queen is childless, the youngest is pregnant; when the king returned, the eldest said that the youngest gave birth to a puppy to lick the king's brains and pest to break his head; the king ordered the youngest to be sent away, the eldest expelled her from countries, the baby was thrown to be eaten by a guard dog; she has been raising a baby for three years, losing weight herself; the kennel tells the king that a child eats everything; the king orders to kill the dog; she has managed to pass on the child to the cow; she is losing weight, the shepherd made sure that everything is eaten by an Otrung Gepo child with a golden top, a silver bottom, a mother-of-pearl belt; the king orders to kill the cow, she managed to pass the OG to the horse; the same is with her ; she tells OG to bring a saddle, reins, bow and arrows, he got on a horse and rode away; killed a snake with an arrow that was about to eat three cubs; adult tigers came, saw the cubs sleeping, thought that their man was theirs killed; the cubs woke up, told everything, the tigers gave the OG one tiger cub; three Garuda's chicks had their eyes stuck together, OG washed them, the chicks fell asleep (the same as with the cubs - adults gave one chick); the old man herds the herd, says that in three days the elephant will choose a groom for the royal daughter; OG killed the shepherd, put on his wrinkles, the elephant chose him; the king expelled the young to live in the forest; OG tells his wife bring a copper cauldron, benches with tables from her mother, invites the king and the people to the feast; the king tells her daughter to follow her husband; in the evening she pretends to fall asleep; when OG takes off the old man's skin, she threw her into the fire; father-in-law and everyone is happy; OG comes to his father, who says he does not have a son; oh demands that his mother be returned; she is covered with hair like a tiger, calls her son every time; she was given food with with alcohol, she fell asleep, she was smeared with flour and butter, the wool came off; OG ordered both queens to be planted on mats, each with an egg on her head; killed the eldest queen with an arrow, ruled two kingdoms], 28 [old woman, Lhawa Döndrub, who sheltered the boy, said that the demon killed his father and took his mother away; he goes to take revenge; another old woman tells the demoness to fall to her chest and call her mother; she tells her to put big ones the demon's fingers in his mouth, then he will not eat it; he tells him to go only during the day, the young man's mother is across the river; the demon senses that his wife's son has come, advises him to pretend to be sick, send his son 1) for the tigress's milk; After shooting at the tiger, LD shot him a goiter, a grateful tiger gave him milk and a medium tiger cub to boot; 2) behind Garuda's pen; LD killed a snake that was about to eat Garuda's four chicks; she gives a feather and one chick; 3) a golden pen from the demon brother's forehead; the tiger jumped on his chest, Garuda grabbed the pen, the demon shouted that he would go; they brought him in, LD killed his mother and her demon husband; went to look bride; the king has three daughters, LD chose the youngest when they came for water, but the king did not give it back; Garuda found the heavenly fairy's home, LD married her; they planted two trees: if someone is in trouble, it will dry up; while LD was hunting, an old woman came to the fairy to look after the dogs and cattle; she guessed that LD's life in a golden dagger threw him into the fire, LD fell dead; then the old woman invited the fairy to feed the fish rice, drowned; Garuda saw that the trees had dried up, a friendly demon (who had a feather on his forehead) threw the amulet, found out that the old woman was to blame; she was tied, nailed to a tree, and the remains of a golden dagger were taken out from the hearth; everything is fine {no details}]: 158-164, 165-168; Bhutan [a smart and resourceful guy was wandering; two are fighting over an invisible hat; the guy tells them to move away and run to him, who He will be the first to run, he will get a hat; puts it on himself, leaves; he also gets a wooden vessel that gives any food and a drum-plane; marries; told his wife about the vessel and the drum; flew with her across the lake to mountains to pray; she sat on a drum, took a vessel and flew to her parents; pieces of food fall from above into the cave; this garuda made a nest in a tree and feeds the chicks; this is what the guy eats; one day he sees how A snake crawls the nest; killed it; grateful garuda parents carried him back across the lake; he saw a hermit pick up a yellow flower, become a monkey, climb a tree and eat fruit, and then take it white and becomes human again; the guy tore off a flower, came to his wife in an invisible hat, turned her into a monkey; then appeared in the guise of a soothsayer; said that there was stolen goods in the house;; he was given vessel and drum, he restored his wife to her human appearance and left]: Choden 1994:73-77.
South Asia. Hindi; Himachali is a plowman [Bhinwa is a wealthy peasant and his brother Hinwa works for him for 4 dry cakes a day; B.: this is because your Destiny sleeps across the 7 seas; H. went to look for it; saw a snake crawling to an eagle's nest in a big tree; killed it; parent eagles flew in; a grateful eagle father agreed to take X. to his Destiny; before that, the Tree asks Destiny to know why he the leaves are dry; upon arrival, H. woke up Destiny; the tree dries because a snake is guarding treasures under its roots: let him kill the snake and dig up treasures; upon learning this, H. returned to his land on an eagle; killed the snake, took the treasures, the tree turned green; H. tamed and saddled a wild horse; found out that the princess was sick, cured her, got her as a wife; returned home with treasures and his wife; the brothers healed well]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 15:56-57; Varli; Marathi; Bengalis; Oriya; Telugu; Tamils [at the Raja and the Minister for Son; the prince asks the father to allow him first see the world and only then get married; went with the minister's son; the minister sees a statue of a girl with a bouquet in the temple; decided not to show it to the prince so that he would not fall in love; but he saw; priest: this is a daughter a ruler named Chettiyar across the 7 seas; the minister's son left the prince in front of the sculpture and went after the woman himself; killed a snake that ate birds; his parent birds carried him across 7 seas; he saw gems below; asked to let him down for a while to relieve his need, and collected gems; C.'s daughter fell in love with him; he passed her off as his wife, and C.'s father did not recognize his daughter; she crossed over an underground passage from the palace to the house of the Minister's son; C. released them, believing that it was not his daughter, but the guest's wife; they flew back to the temple on birds and the girl gave the prince a bouquet as it was depicted ; said that the minister's son died; then the prince died, and then the girl; whose death was justified?] : Blackburn 2005, No. 10 (about the same No. 78); Tamils [Raja's son and minister's son went hunting; entering the temple on the mountain, the prince saw a portrait of a beauty with a bouquet in her hands; stunned: he must get a woman and a bouquet; the priest sent the minister's son to the artist; he said that he bought a radiant female nail from the hunter and recreated the appearance of someone to whom the nail could belong; the hunter pointed him to the banyan, under with which he found a fingernail; the minister's son remained under the banyan; every day the snake eats eggs in the nest while the parent birds fly across 7 seas for food; the minister's son hacked a snake, the chicks spoke about it mother; she told me how she picked up a shining nail across the 7 seas; took the young man there; he picked up diamonds and gold on the roof of the palace; the bird gave a pen to summon it when it was time to fly back; the young man became sell jewelry near Raja's house; dug a secret passage there; told Raja that he would leave for a week, and he made his way to the palace, made an agreement with the princess, and warned the Raju that he would bring his wife to his place; Raja's face seemed familiar, but when he went to the palace, his daughter was there again; the minister's son flew away in a male bird and the princess on a female; to check on the prince, the minister's son told the princess to say that animals tore him to pieces; the prince immediately cut off his head, and the princess was stabbed to death; the minister's son brought the coffins home; the minister's son and the prince had wives at home; the minister's son's wife promised to cut off her right hand in the temple of Kali if her husband returns alive; Kali stopped her and, for her piety, gave her strength to raise the dead; the prince's wife decided that the minister's son killed her husband and demanded his execution; son the minister warned his wife that the birds had vowed him; if he told what happened, he would fall to pieces; but if they were folded, he would come to life; the minister's son had to tell everything; his His wife revived him and revived the prince and princess; his ex-wife was burned alive in a lime kiln]: Blackburn 2005, No. 47; gondas; condas; baiga; maria; Sinhales.
The Balkans. Moldovans; Romanians [dragons stole the sun, moon, stars, and the king's eyes; two senior princes went in search, but engaged in trade, lost money and were detained as debtors; The younger Dragan Chenushe ("chenushe" means "ash"), who had previously sat in ash, got on a horse that ate hot coals, took weapons and armor, as well as ash cakes given by his mother, and went in search; he bought the brothers, taking gold from the horse's ear; while the brothers were sleeping, he killed the dragon on the copper bridge that stole the stars, they returned to heaven; on the silver bridge, the moon; the long battle on the golden bridge; DC promised the crow more meat than the dragon promised, he sprinkled it with cold water and the dragon with hot water; DC killed the dragon, freed the sun; chipped in with his mouse, penetrated to the mother of the dragons and carried away the box with his father's eyes; the dragon sent her two daughters to look like an apple tree and a well, and starved and thirsty on the brothers; DC crossed them with a sword, bleed; sent the brothers home to carry their father's eyes, and came to Mark himself Armenasha, asked for 99 quintals of hot coals; when the dragon tried to stick her head, poured coals into her mouth and it exploded; DC went with MA to get a bride, the daughter of the Green King; they they meet and accompany someone who hears oats grow and sees what is happening in another world; an arrow, a tree destroyer; drank; ate; capable of freezing the sea; this last one covered the sea with ice to cross to the country of the Green King; they were put in a hot iron house, which froze it; drank and ate and ate everything they were offered; compete on the run with an old woman, she put the runner to sleep with a dragon bone under his head; the shooter knocked out the bone; they got a princess, crossed the ice, the freezer melted the ice again, the king and queen who rushed to pursue drowned; DC I met an old man: there is no water, the dragon closed the spring, allows you to take water in exchange for people, the princess's turn; DC killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; a dwarf with a long beard came to his hut, ate all the meat; DC split the beech, pinched his beard in the trunk; the dwarf pulled out the beech, disappeared into the lower world; DC came on a bloody trail; ordered him to be lowered into the black world on a rope; pretended to be a musician; devils They promise a lot of wagons of gold if he can free their king's beard from beech wood; DC cut off his head, ran up to the rope, pulled, but no one picked up the rope; hears the squeak of the griffin chicks: to the nest the dragon crawls to eat them; (killed the dragon); the griffin swallowed it and regurgitated it, making it stronger; agreed to carry them to the ground; on the way, the meat ran out, DC cut off a piece from his feet and from under his knee; The princess recognized DC by the dragon's severed tongues; the brothers' wives poisoned DCH's wife out of envy; he went for living water; the old man gave him a staff and a sheep, telling him not to leave them in the forest, where the entrance to hell is located; The bird, while flying, dropped three feathers (her wife's hair) and three drops of blood (which fell from her wife's cheeks); DH left his staff and sheep in the forest and went home; turned into a walnut tree]: Bîrlea 1966:384-387; Gagauz people; Macedonians; Serbs [the king has an apple tree with golden apples, every night the dragon takes them away; sons take turns guarding; the elder brother saw the dragon and was frightened; the middle brother too; the younger brother saw the dragon took nuts with him, ate so as not to fall asleep; wounded the dragon, a blood trail to a deep hole; the brothers began to lower the elder on a rope, he was frightened; the same middle one; the youngest came down, three daughters of the dragon ready to help him; he finished off the wounded dragon with a club; sent the girls upstairs; seeing that the youngest was the most beautiful, the brothers cut off the rope; the youngest noticed the door, went out into the light; there the snake was going to eat eagle chicks; killed the snake and fell asleep; the eagle wanted to peck out his eyes, but the chicks told him everything; the prince asks the eagle to take him to his city; there was not enough prepared food, the prince cut off a piece from his buttocks; when they arrived, the eagle put what was cut off back; the prince immediately met his betrothed; wedding]: Eschker 1992, No. 27:140-144; Bulgarians; Greeks; Albanians; Bosnians.
Central Europe. The Czechs [Janko's ninth son is the strongest; leaves home, wins, takes Vyrvidub, Lomayiron as his sister brothers; dragons kidnap the king's three daughters, brothers go looking for them; each in turn cooks; a dwarf with a huge beard knocks down the cook, eats porridge; I. hits a dwarf, who shows a hole where the dragons have disappeared; only I dare to go down; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of copper, silver, gold castles; sends them upstairs, then the stone, the twins cut off the rope, the stone falls; I kill a snake ready to eat the chicks; they explain to their mother that he is their savior, not their enemy; the bird carries me on itself, he throws meat into its beak, pours water, cuts off the last piece from her leg; on the ground it spits it out, applies it; I beats, but forgives my brothers, everything three marry three rescued princesses]: Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (4): 71-88; Slovaks [an old woman gives birth to a son Lomidrevo at the age of 90 (=Valibuk; Valigora), breastfeeds him until the age of 7, then, according to him request, another three years; he is incredibly strong, easily pulls oaks, goes wandering at the age of 17; meets, wins, satellites 1) rearranging mountains named Valivrych (Kopivrych, Scalilamay; The jelly is digging wells), Meat and iron; they contracted to threshing the grain; the fee is how much they will carry; they demolished the grain and carried them away; the rich man sent after the bull, then a boar; L. killed them, carried them with him; he chased the servants on the wagon, but L. piled oaks onto the road; told M. to make him an iron club; threw him up, put his back up, the club fell apart; ordered him to make another one; the king lost three daughters, dragons dragged them into a hole in the ground; three promised to return the princesses; settled in a hut in the woods, cook in turn; a dwarf comes out of the chimney, a beard from his elbow, hits the cook, dumps hot porridge on him stomach and eats; when L.'s turn, he pinched a dwarf's beard in the log, beat him with an iron club until he gave his beard with his strength; the dwarf disappeared into a hole under the stone; the companions envy L.; V., M. they try to go down, but tell them to lift them back - there are frogs and snakes; L. promises the dwarf to return his beard, for which he tells him to show the way to the older princess; there is a copper lock on his magpie's leg; L. stomped, he stopped shaking; the 6-headed dragon throws his iron club, L. throws it back; the dragon eats lead bread, calls for lead current, offers to drive each other into lead; they drove each other into lead; they drove each other belt; then L. drove the dragon up to the neck, demolished his head with a club; the princess turned the castle and all the riches into a copper apple, L. sent it to the ground; the same in the silver castle (9-headed dragon, iron bread), in in gold (12-headed, steel bread); before asking himself to pick himself up, L. sent a stone upstairs, his companions cut off the rope; L. came to the Knochta (Knofta; a giant mythical bird), killed a snake , which always devoured the chicks; or protected the chicks from the rain, one drop of which always killed them; the chicks told their mother about L., who did not swallow it, but promised to help; tells them to stock up a hundred rams and a hundred barrels of water; flying with L. to the ground, there was not enough lamb, L. cut off a piece from his thigh; bird: if human knew that human beings were so tasty, they would eat you; but regurgitated a piece and put it back; in town weddings are being prepared, but the princesses demand the same dresses they had underground; L. hired a tailor; at night he took out copper, silver, golden apples, took out their dresses; let the princesses follow them themselves they will come; L. called the elders freaks and drove them away, gave the youngest a golden dress, married her; took out the locks from the apples; gave the two older princesses to his companions (forgiving them)]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 10: 50-66; Poles [every night a witch in the form of a huge falcon breaks the church windows; the older, middle brothers guard, but the witch sleeps and they fall asleep; the younger one puts thorns under his chin and wakes up when he starts to bite his nose; a shot hits a falcon in the wing, it falls on a stone, a hole opens in it and the witch goes underground; the young man tells his brothers to lower him on a rope; in the castle the princess combs her golden hair; explains that a witch can only be killed with a heavy sword that hangs on the wall in the next room; there the second sister combs her silver hair; the third comes out third room and gives the young man drops that make him strong; now he can raise a sword, kill a witch; sends princesses and treasures upstairs; fearing betrayal of his brothers, puts a stone in his place; After lifting it to half, the brothers let go of the rope; the young man walks along the blooming plain, towards the magician; he will take the young man to the ground if he helps him save his children; they are on an apple tree; the young man climbs an apple tree; at midnight a huge worm crawls down the trunk to devour the children in the nest; the young man cut off the dragon's head; then the man put the young man on his back and carried him to the ground; the young man returned home, only the bride recognized him; the brothers returned the treasures and fled; the young man returned them, shared them equally and married a princess from the golden room]: Woycicki 1920:71-74; Belarusians [ from the king, a polar bear from the dead kidnaps horses every night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest Ivan the Fool tells you to dig up a club for 10 pounds, throws it up, puts his finger up - crashed; by 15 pounds, knee - the same; at 25 - bounced off her forehead, did not break; I. hit the bear with it, he went down to the ground again; I. goes down on a rope into the hole, tells his brothers to wait for him for a month; came to the copper court; there is a bear's daughter, complaining that he, three daughters, is slaughtering; she showed the way to her sister in the silver palace, she to her sister in gold; she ordered to replace barrels of strong and weak water; the bear is sleeping, I. I pulled out the keys from under it to the basement, where the barrels are; when I drink water, the bear loses his strength, I. grows; each of the sisters turns her kingdom into an egg; the brothers picked up the girls, removed the rope; the nest on the oak tree , there are 4 chicks in it, one snake has already eaten; I. killed her; the chicks hid I. from their mother under the shell; the bird agrees to take I. to the ground if he prepares wine and meat; the 6-headed snake must eat the princess, I. killed him; then 9- and 12-headed; for this the king gave 18 cows and 8 barrels of wine; the last piece of I. cut off his legs from his calf, the bird coughed him up and put him back; the shoemaker complains that the saved princess demands from the groom such diamond boots as she had in the underworld; I. unfolded a golden egg, took her boots; the princess recognized them; I. opened all three eggs, gave two princesses to his brothers]: Romanov 1887, No. 10 : 78-85; Russians (Moscow; Western E.V. Dobrovolskaya in 1989; book borrowings are likely in the computer woman's repertoire; V.E. Dobrovolskaya, personal report 19.09.2020) [three princesses went to the garden, a whirlwind took them away; the tsar promises one of his daughters and half the kingdom; the son of a peasant went in search; meets, takes Ivan Kamnelom as his companions, Ivan tear an oak tree; they cook in the hut in turn; a man comes in with a nail, a beard from his elbow, eats everything, from the back the cook cuts out the belt; when Ivan the peasant son (I.) remained, he pinched his beard into the stump; he escaped, they followed the trail, under the hole stone; there was first cold, then fever; only I. endures, went down; I. killed the three-headed serpent at the copper palace saved the princess; the same for the silver (six-headed), gold (nine-domed); each princess turned her palace into an apple; the princess was raised, the youngest gave the golden apple Ivan; the brothers began to pick it up, cut off the rope; I. did not break; there are three chicks in the oak nest, a snake crawls towards them, I. killed her; for this the bird carried him to the ground; the king promises the youngest daughter to the one who will get the gold rings she had in the lower world; I. built a palace, and rings in it; the brothers were forgiven]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 24:61-65; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [cow gave birth to a boy; the owner is going to slaughter her; the cow named the boy Belokorov (B.), tells him to run, flies with him under the clouds; tells him to uproot the sycamore; B. cannot; the cow raises B. for a year, again tells snatch the sycamore, B. snatched out; the cow flew away, B. found a golden sword; meets, takes Lupaikamen, Krutibuk, Hitaigor as companions; razed the mountain and built a house; hunt and cook in turn; each time Lictiboroda comes, eats everything; B. is the last, split the sycamore, pinched L.'s beard; he uprooted the sycamore and ran away; the brothers follow the trail to the hole in the ground; everyone tries to go down, afraid; B. went down; comes to the house, where Panna and L., he cut off L.'s head; there are three more girls; B. took them out, burned down the house with L.'s body; sends the girls to his brothers upstairs; suspects companions in infidelity, B. puts stones in his place, companions cut off the rope, raising the stones to the middle; B. kills the 12 bears who attacked him; a snake crawls from the well to devour an eagle; B. killed a snake, the eagle hides him from his mother, then explains to her that B. is the savior; the eagle agrees to take B. to the ground, let him store water and meat; there was not enough meat, B. cut off a piece from the game of his leg; on the ground, the eagle asks what for the sweet piece was the last; regurgitated and raised; B. meets the boy, this is his son from that panna, she is a cook for others; B. tells his companions to throw a golden sword; when Krutybok and Hytaigor were abandoned, the saber pierced the ground; when Lupaikamen cut off his head; Lupaikamen's wife became a cook]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 104:311-325.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray District, Karalez) [the padishah has two sons; he does not order to hunt in the west and east, let them go towards the Kaaba; there is no game there, the elder suggests going east; the well can be seen for a month; the youngest begins to lower the elder, he tells him to pull it out: he burns; the youngest comes down, does not tell him to pull it out; below the door the beauty has a golden tray, on it a golden greyhound chases a silver hare; then a man nailed to the wall, the young man freed him; the dove at the spring tells him to return to the beautiful woman; she is the daughter of the seven-headed Azhdakh, gave Zulfikar the sword; the young man drove Azhdakha into knee-deep, cut off 6 heads; the seventh refused to cut - you are not my father's pair of oxen; the young man sent the girl and the treasure upstairs, then the older brother threw the rope; at home told his father that the youngest was gone to seek his fate; the youngest plunged into the spring and found strength; in the city, the old woman gives her urine instead of water; the seven-headed ajdaha gives water in exchange for the girls; the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man fell asleep at her place on his knees, woke up to her tears; the young man and Azhdaha drive each other into the ground; the young man drove him to his knees, cut off six heads; abandoned the daughter of the padishah, who gave him gold; he crawls to the nest of the bird Chan-Kushu a three-headed snake, the young man chopped it, fed the chicks meat; Chan-Kushu thinks that he killed her chicks every year, but the chicks explained everything; the young man asks to take him to the ground; took a barrel of meat and a barrel with him water; the last piece was cut off from his thigh; on the ground, the bird put it back; the young man came to the wedding of his older brother; the bride: I have been in mourning for 40 days; the young man sees a young man under his window; the young man pointed a mole to his father recognized him in his body; his older brother was beheaded, the youngest married a rescued girl]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 30; Kalmyks; Stavropol Turkmens; Stavropol Turkmens [y the king has three sons with his first wife; she died, he remarried; the new one gave birth to a daughter; mares disappear in the herd at night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes and cooks dinner; an old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a rock; the young man goes down there; 40 robbers sleep there; the young man hit one with his boot, hides; then says he is the son of a thief and wants to steal with them; promises to get three the king's daughters; killed the guard, went to the princesses; each had a sword; he hit his own, cut the first two, when he hit the youngest's sword, his sword crumbled; the young man took this sword; called the robbers and killed one at a time everyone, strung his ears on a thread; killed an old woman, taking the keys to the pantry; shot into a black cloud, a shot child's finger fell to the ground; at home, the queen says that her daughter's finger was cut off; the young man gave he found a finger in the steppe; the king (the one who is the father of three princesses) summons people, looking for a hero, only the young man's sword came to the sheath; three princesses are presented as three princes; the stepmother orders to drive the younger one away; he came to tree; the snake crawls to the eagles nest, he killed it; for this the eagle gave him two out of three eagles; the young man went on, took the splinter out of the lioness's paw, who gave him two out of six lions; left the lion cubs and eagles to guard the horse, put on lamb skins and tripe himself, went to the city; the youngest of the king's three daughters realized that she was a prince; invited the sisters to send three apples to the king: green, half-ripe, ripe; the king ordered all men to go outside the window, let every daughter throw an apple at whoever she wanted to marry; the elders threw the viziers at the sons, the youngest into an imaginary beggar; the king placed them at the stable. the king fell ill, he needed chicken meat; the imaginary beggar in his true form, with the help of his lions and eagles, obtained a flock, gave the meat to his older sons-in-law, who allowed them to be stamped on his sacrums; the king became worse with his elder sons-in-law; and from the bowels cooked by his youngest daughter, he recovered; at the feast, the prince truly said that two slaves had escaped from him, and his elder sons-in-law had to show stigma; the prince gave slaves to the king; everything was clarified; the prince decided to visit his home; let the eagles go, but the lions said they would still be useful, stayed with the prince's wife; the city was intact at home, there were no people; in the hut The werewolf sister has a thin father, stepmother, brothers and wives; the sister consistently asks if the brother came on horseback with three, two, one legs, whether he came on foot; tells me to play the balalaika; fox volunteered to play for him, and let him hang up her boots, which can be seen from the kitchen - as if he were still sitting; his sister was chasing, the prince turned three arrows into trees, climbed the first one, his sister gnawed at him, it fell, the prince moved to the second, then to the third; the lions feel something, their wife released them, they tore the cannibal; they brought a lot of cattle; at home, the prince handed over power to his older brother; he himself began to live with two wives (it is not said how he married the first one)]: A.K. 1875, No. 1:1-13; Kabardian people; Abkhazians; Abazins; Adygs (Shapsugi, Temirgoyevtsy); Karachays, Balkarians ; Ossetians; Ingush; Nogais [the woman rolled out the dough (reeds), covered it with a tablecloth, and when she took it off, the boy Kamyr Batyr was there; he grew up, took a horse from his father, went wander; meets, companions several dhows, everyone says that he is not amazing, but K.; one pulls trees, the other throws rocks, the third drinks the sea; they put up a hut, along queues are cooking; a rider is an inch tall, a 40-inch beard eats everything, ties the cook with his hair; when K.'s turn, he tied the dwarf between the trees; he uprooted them, the trail led to the well K. went down on a silk rope; there were three daughters of a dwarf, one gave K. strong water, he killed a dwarf, sent the girls upstairs, his companions threw the rope; K. came to the old man; he teaches him to sit on white a ram, but K. accidentally sat on a black one, who threw it even lower; below, the old man advises killing Azdag, which eats the chicks of the Caracus bird, which will take it to the ground; K. killed Azdag, the chicks hid it; the wind rose (from the wings of the mother bird), an icy tiny (her tears) fell from the sky; the bird tells me to cook meat and water for 9 months; the last piece of K. cut off the thigh; the bird swallowed it and spit it out healthy; K. executed treacherous companions, took the girls]: Kapayev 2012:209-218; Dargins; Lezgins; Udins; Armenians; Pshavas, Svans; Georgians ; Azerbaijanis; Turks; Kurds.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Khuzistan, Mazendaran, Khorasan, Yazd, Isfahan, Azerbaijan, Hamadan, Markazi); Bakhtiyars; Tajiks in Sistan; Baluchis; Uzbeks; Yagnobs; Vakhans; Sarykol residents; Shugnans; Munjan people; Bartangans; Turkmens.
Volga - Perm. Komi; Chuvash; Kazan Tatars.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [a mergen hunter dressed in skins is going to shoot an argali, but at that moment he is carried away by a golden eagle; mergen lives in its nest on a high cliff, feeds on the same as the chicks; sees a flying Idahar dragon, which annually devours golden eagle chicks; mergen hits Aidahar with an arrow, makes belts out of his skin; ties himself with belts to grown chicks, descends from a cliff; returns home when they wanted to wake him]: Bosingen 1985:92-93; Kazakhs; Kyrgyz; Kyrgyz (Issyk-Kul Province) [Nurzhan, his daughters Aikyz, Gulkyz, Nurkyz, Nurkyz, and son Sarytai; his wife dies, Nurzhan suffers, wants to marry again, but I feel sorry for the children; in a dream, a voice tells her daughters to be given away without dowry, someone hands Kyzyr Niyaz a ring, it fulfills wishes if you turn to by name; in the morning a ring on his right thumb; to check, Nurzhan demands good food from the ring; the family has healed for pleasure; Nurzhan announces a will to his son during his lifetime: after his three dervishes will die, who will wash his body and bury him, his son must give them sisters without dowry, as well as all the goods at home; let him keep only the ring, his name is not to anyone report; S. fulfilled his father's will and went to distant lands; he forgot that the ring makes wishes come true; he almost drowns in the river, the fish takes him ashore; in the forest he hides from predators in the tree, by morning they eat each other friend; S. reaches the mountains, cannot pass them, falls asleep; Perishte spirits carried him over the mountains; S. enters an area where the wind is raging, clouds of poisonous insects in the air; in some old courtyard he finds an old man and an old woman, invites them to become their son; they ask them not to go outside at night; he goes out and sees two moons in the sky; one goes out in the morning, becomes darker; the old woman says that The ruler has a married daughter named Sahipzhamal, she plays in the palace courtyard with her friends and is so beautiful that the radiance on her face is the second moon; S. falls ill from love; notices on her hand the ring, recalls, tells him to fill the house with food; asks adoptive parents to marry him to Sahipzhamal; the old woman comes to ask her to marry S.; the vizier advises to give an impossible task: to bring 40 precious stones; S. orders the ring to deliver 40 camels, 40 horses, 40 mules and 40 donkeys loaded with precious stones; let them be accompanied by 25 beautiful people whose clothes are decorated with buttons made of gems, the bangs of their horses are also decorated with gemstone bells; the mother should allocate a separate horse, let her clothes be luxurious, like the harness on horses; the ruler is shocked, asks to come himself groom; wedding; S. tells the ring to create a new palace on the cloud, and under it a lake of milk and a lake of butter; the vizier persuades Sahipzhamal to find out her husband's secret; S. says the name of the ring; the vizier says it he orders that the palace and Sahipzhamal be moved to seventh heaven; S. is looking for sisters, their dervish husbands are helping him; the eldest's husband is guilty of sleeping for 40 days and 40 nights, all this happened while he was sleeping, takes S. to his younger sister's husband, who reports that the Zymyryk bird can take him to the palace, the Zymyryk bird lays 2 eggs every year, but the dragon eats the chicks, you need to kill the dragon, save the chicks and Zymyryk will help; the dervish hands the young man a one-inch long sword, which, when waving, extends to 40 fathoms, and carries him to a tree with a nest Zymyryk; S. drinks from a spring at the foot of the tree and waits falls asleep; he wakes up from the rain, it is the tears of the chicks, sees that the dragon is preparing to swallow them; he kills the dragon, feeds its chicks with meat, and himself, having eaten a leaf from a tree, begins to understand the language of the chicks; they they say that their mother will arrive soon, they hide it under her wings; storm, wind, tornado, rain and hail notify the appearance of the bird Zymyryk; seeing that the chicks are intact, the bird is happy, ready to fulfill any wish savior; S. asks to take him to seventh heaven; they take 40 wineskins with water and 40 with meat; the bird teaches: if you look to the right, you have to throw her a wineskin with meat, if to the left, a wineskin with water; supplies run out, S. gives the bird meat from his right thigh and moisture from his left eye; oh, appearing at the palace, sees through the gap how the vizier pulls Sahipzhamal to his bed, and she shouts that she has a husband; waiting for the vizier falls asleep, S. says "Kyzyr Niyaz" and the ring is on his finger; he orders them to be transferred to Father Sahipzhamal; shows him the sleeping vizier and Sahipzhamal, the king orders the vizier to cut off his head, scolds his daughter; calls to imitate Sarytai, true to his word]: Sabyr uulu 2008:119-125; karakalpaks [khan has no son, he gives his daughter Gulzib as a boy; hands over the throne, son, to his imaginary son The vizier becomes a vizier; finds out that the young khan is a girl; they agree to flee, but at night the vizier is replaced by the chieftain of the robbers; G. suggests that the robbers organize races, she will marry the winner; runs away; marries shepherd Meytin; sews skullcaps, M. sells them for dearly; the merchant finds out about this, the khan takes M. into service, gives difficult assignments to take possession of G.; 1) build a palace of tigers fangs (M. takes out a splinter from a lion, he tells the tigers to give a fang); 2) a palace made of the feathers of the king bird; Aydarkh's serpent devours its two chicks every year; M. kills a snake, a storm begins with rain; rain - the tears of the birds, the wind from their wings; all the king birds give a pen; the khan wants to burn M. at the stake to say hello to his parents in heaven; M. burns the feather of the king bird, she brings it to her, gives fruit for the khan ; Khan and Viziers behave to burn themselves, M. becomes khan]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:3-13; Uighurs; (cf. Kazakhs (Dzhezkazgan Province) [the Shynyrau bird was Simurg; it nestled on the top of one baiterek for 15 years, during all this time it has not been able to breed a single chick; having gone far, now returns, carrying prey - several carcasses; tears drip from her eyes and turn into rain and snow; singer Ikhlas gave this crying, the whistle from the flapping of her wings, the wind they raise; the chicks aidahar ate]: Kaskabasov 1979, No. 22:51).
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Baraba Tatars; Altaians; Chelkans; Tuvans; South Altai Tuvans; Darkhats; Baikal and Trans-Baikal Buryats; Mongols ( Inner Mongolia); Dagurs; Dongxiang.
Western Siberia. Muncie.
Plains. Assiniboine; crowe; hidatsa; arikara.
The Northern Andes. Kogi.
Central Amazon. Maue [the man is lost, spends the night in the forest; the boa constrictor invites him into his hollow; the wind blows; the man replies that it smells nice; the man leaves, climbs a tree where the macaw parrots nest; In the morning, the boa constrictor climbs a tree for the chicks; the man taught x to shout Ha-Han; mother Ara flew in, shouted Ha-Han, the boa reclined, fell on the sharp leaves of the palm tree, cut into pieces; the tail turned into a big sloth, a head in a red inambu (bird), two veins into two plant varieties for weaving tipiti bags; man turned Boa's son into sweet potato]: Ugge 1991, No. 3:147-156.