K38b1. A bird kidnaps foals, a hero kills a snake. .34.

Every time a mare gives birth to a wonderful foal, a bird takes it away. Going in search of foals, the hero kills a snake that devours the bird's chicks. The bird returns the foals.

Altaians, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Khorin Buryats.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [childless old man Kogutey finds a beaver, adopts; Bobrenok asks K. to marry him to Temene-Ko, Karaty-Kan's youngest daughter; the eldest six are already married; KK orders K. to cut in half, send the corpse home on a bull; Bobrenok revives him; next time K. is burned, ash is sent home; Bobrenok revives K. with healing water, gives strength; he throws six son-in-law for the mountains, KK agrees to give TC for Bobrenk; he easily gives a rich ransom for the bride, pulling property on the mountain from under the birch tree; KK calls only beggars and cripples to the wedding; 1) six son-in-law they return without prey, Bobrenok catches six marals on foot, leaves them to his sons-in-law; they give him giblets; he turns giblets into a selected dish, makes the meat inedible; 2) next time his sons-in-law give The beaver is meat, they take giblets, but the meat is delicious, and the giblets are inedible; 3) KK tells you to catch a mare; The beaver catches, gives it to his sons-in-law, they cut off and give him their little fingers for this; 4) bring the foals stolen Kan-Kerede bird; Bobrenok sheds his beaver skin, tells his wife to hide it, turns into a hero Kuskun-Kara-Matyr; his father is a mountain, his mother is the sea; he catches a heroic black stallion; his sons-in-law do not recognize him; he promises to bring them kidnapped foals, for which they cut off and give him their thumbs; KKM comes to heaven, where Kan-Kerede's nest on silver poplar; her chicks every year a seven-headed snake eats; one chick cries (it will be eaten today), the other laughs; the snake comes out of the sea, the cash register cuts off its heads with an arrow; the elder chick held out its wing, the cash register crossed it across the sea to nest; chicks reply that their parents will arrive with rain (tears) and wind (flapping wings), hide the cash register under their wings; birds give the foals to the cash register; six sons-in-law prepared a trap pit, the cash register fell, ran into stake; his horse was hung from a pole; Kan-Kerede revived the cash register with healing water; the CSA reproaches his wife for showing her sister-in-law beaverskin, she was burned; the wife explains that she was drunk; the CSA burns her skin, Curses the KK, his people and land, goes to his father, turns him into many young men and girls, creates cattle, leaves; TC goes to look for him; she is greeted by the daughter of Solntsa-Kana and the daughter of Month-Kana, they are the wives of the CCA; The KKM also brings his wife, a chick (i.e. daughter) Kan-Kerede; he is married with all four]: Yutkanakov, Tokmashov 1935:41-171; Tuvans [Er-Sarig has an Age-Saryban horse; mother asks not to go to sunset , his father left and never returned; ES is driving, killing a monster with an arrow; while three wild geese fly over the yurt, asking if ES is at home, if his horse ASH is tied; his mother was so surprised that she cut her nose with a knife; geese are flying again, S wounded one in the paw; goes in search; asks the old man to allow one camel to be slaughtered; that: if the khan finds out, it will be bad; but allows; another shepherd with calves; asks ES drive them to the khan; they ran away by the river; khansha: is it really difficult to say "Khan's cattle, wade across the river"; ES says the calves are crossing; the khan has eyelids to his nose, he raised one finger, told the servant to give whey; hansha: cows are not milked; ES milks, they do not give milk; hansha: "Is it really difficult to say, leisya, khan's wealth"; milk has poured out; at night khan tells him to lick his heels; ES cut off his tongue from the carcass cows; khan asks why it's tough; Es says it's from whey; Khan tells you to feed ES cream; ES cuts off the tongue of a dead dog, Khan liked it, he fell asleep; ES marries Khan's youngest daughter; Khan tells seven sons-in-law to save the foal; the mare gives birth every three years, the Khan-Hereti bird takes away; the sons-in-law are sleeping, ES shoots, the bird drops the glowing feather; the khan orders to bring the bird itself; ES goes to the lower world, there are three poplars on the island, on which there are nests with birds; mangys came out of the lake, the chicks screamed; ES climbed into the throat of the mangysu, ripped it, jumped out; it rained, the bird XX flew in, ES asks her to return the foals; she tells her to prepare food, throw it to her in flight; they flew, the XX releases 9 horses out of his nostrils; ES met his older sons-in-law, sat on the carpet, fell into a hole, his sons-in-law took the horses away; the ES horse comes running to his wife, everything says; his wife pulls him out; the khan tells everyone to shoot up; the arrows of his sons-in-law kill them, ES are unharmed; gets half of the cattle, returns to his mother with his wife]: Hadahane 1984:59-65; South Altai Tuvans [a childless old woman picked up a frog with a scoop, which promised to become her son (he was the youngest son of God Gurmustu); the old man feeds him meat; at night there is a rainbow in the yurt, by morning the frog turns into boy; he herds goats; orders his youngest daughter Haraathay Haan to be married for him; for the first time an old man is killed, burned, the Frog revives him; in the second, Khan demands that a sugar tree grow on his left hand, and on the right there is a golden poplar with a golden cuckoo; the frog turns his sword and sheath into them; gets a wife; to her he seems like a young man in a white yurt, a stranger a frog in a hut; three sons-in-law go hunting, only The frog shot the game; the sons-in-law take the meat, leave it giblets; but his dish is the most delicious; the khan asks to find who is kidnapping the foals; they are dragged away by the bird Han Gardy, whose snake eats eggs; The frog kills a snake crawling to two chicks; their mother swallows and regurgitates it; returns the horses, warns that his sons-in-law have prepared a carpet hole for him; he throws them into the hole himself; cuts off the heads of khan, khansha, and their daughters, they were mangys and mangysikhs; he leaves]: Taube 1994, No. 20:196-202; Khorin Buryats [the wolf ate an orphan horse; he goes to look for him; old man: when you win Shono-khan ("shono" is a wolf), ask for the red dog and the blue chest; he did so; returns to the yurt - the corner of the chest is burnt, one leg of the dog is broken; the next day, the second corner, the second leg; on the fourth - four; he beats the dog; in the morning he wakes up in the palace (came out of the chest), next to him a beautiful woman (that dog); S. calls for a wedding; his wife warns not to step on the carpet (there is a hole under it), not sit on the bed, eat nothing; the orphan touched the food with his finger, died; the 25-headed Hongil Shara Shebshehei put it in the coffin, threw it into the sea; mangadhay's wife: if you catch the coffin, put it on the shore; the coffin is found Khan's three daughters, a baby inside, grows rapidly; every day Khan's mare gets stabbed with a golden foal, he disappears; the khan asks his daughters' grooms to guard; they fall asleep, the foundling shoots at the descending a cloud, a bird's feather falls to the ground; the foundling gives it to the grooms, for which he cuts off everyone's ear; the khan sends for the bird; the foundling sees the nest, one chick laughs, the other sings the third cries; while the father and mother Han Garaudy is flying, the chicks are eaten by a fire serpent (the crying person will be eaten today, the singing tomorrow, laughing the day after tomorrow); they deliberately steal golden foals in the hope that the strongest of people will go looking for them ; the foundling kills the snake with an arrow, Khan Garaudy gives 9 foals; the foundling gives them to the grooms, for which he cuts their belts out; they throw it into a hole; the horse digs it up, revives the foundling with his tear; he comes to the khan, shows his belts; the khan hangs the grooms alive on the branch to feed the crows; the foundling smashes Sh.'s army, crushed him himself, clamped him in the crevice for food with insects; fought with Khongil Shara for 4 months Shebshehei, the son of the foundling grew up, came to his father's aid, the body of the SHSH was burned]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 5:93-109.