K38b3. The hero takes care of the chicks.

.14.-.17.21.23.27.-.29.31.32.35.

The hero feeds, heals, decorates or protects the chicks of a giant bird (the Finns have a flying dragon) from bad weather. For this, an adult bird helps him.

Kabiles, Maltese, Germans (Pomerania), Sumerians, Mustang, Bengalis, Moldovans, Hungarians, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Kursk), Belarusians, Ukrainians ( Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Pokutje), Terek Cossacks, Turks, Latvians, Lutsies, Estonians, Setu, Veps, Karelians, Finns, Mari, Northern Khanty.

North Africa. Kabila [a sick father tells his seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), those they cook 99 dead people in a cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws him into the hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to enter the same room, leaves hunt; the wife comes in, sees that one dev is only injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, puts on her chest, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of The woman's husband, Dev, advises her to ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will furiously throw horns, you will fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on the apple tree, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring it back; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell to my husband, if you are afraid, let him be tied; when he cannot break his fetters, I will get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: they will kill you, ask you to put your bones in a bag, load it on a donkey, he will come, I will revive you; when he returned to his wife, she offered to tie him with her hair, he could not escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with hair and silk, poured milk, his body recovered, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and his wife sink into the ground, he cuts their heads off; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives the box (do not open on the way) and a black man; he opens outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he leads the young man hunts, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for eyes, brings them to the young man's father; he goes with the warriors to take his wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks to cover him; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with his son who is under a tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of a tree; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered an eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he killed a black man alone; the young man agreed with his wife that the black man would be tied to blood, blood He will spill, he will fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father hands over power to his son without knowing who it is; before that he asks the wise men if the father can marry his daughter-in-law; six say yes, seventh, what is not; the father tells him to be killed, the young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish 6 wise men]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2:11-24.

Southern Europe. Maltese (many options; it is difficult to restore specific texts in detail from the paraphrase) [someone steals golden apples; the elder, middle princes fall asleep (or for some other reason I can't grab the thief), the younger one injures a many-headed monster, follows a bloody trail to a cave, a failure, etc.; brothers lower him down on a rope; brothers leave and carry the rope; or companions, not brothers, they they throw a rope, but the hero tied a stone instead of himself just in case; each of the three rescued princesses gives the hero a small object in which her luxurious dress is an almond, a walnut and a chestnut; the hero the many-headed snake defeats, which glows because it eats gold; the last princess advises you to get up first and then pick it up, but the hero does not listen; the companions cut the rope; the shepherd tells the hero jumps on a white ram, but he accidentally jumps on a black sheep, falls even lower; he feeds the hungry chicks of the mighty eagle, they explain how to open the heavy iron door; or their grateful mother explains everything; this eagle is the guardian of three girls; one of them tells you to choose the rusty sword to fight the monster; his body glitters because he eats gold; the eagle carries the hero and the girl on the ground, he feeds and gives her water, cuts off the last piece from his leg, the eagle puts it back; the elder prince wants to marry the youngest of the rescued girls; she demands from the groom a dress without stitches, etc. (the hero has it); the king asks his youngest son to punish the elders; they are boiled alive or skinned, used as a rug or napkins]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 301:33-41.

Western Europe. The Germans (Pomerania) [a son born to a peasant immediately walks and talks; tells the pastor to call him Sonderbar ("extraordinary", Z.); his parents gave him supplies and sent him to wander; carries loaded carts through the water; ordered a huge iron club for the blacksmith; bent it, hitting a rock; ordered a new one - even harder; meets, takes as companions 1) putting mountains one on another; 2) uprooting trees; juggling millstones; gives everyone to hold their club: they cannot do it; noticing a light from the tree, the strongmen came to the house; it has a kitchen and a room; they they hunt and take turns cooking; a dwarf comes, asks for food, beats the cook and eats everything; Z. pinched the dwarf's beard, split the tree and knocked out a wedge; he tore off his beard and left; a bloody trail reaches for a hole in the ground; there is a rope with a basket; satellites can't, Z. descends; he went down so long that winter and summer changed; to test the satellites, Z. sent a stone in the basket up; those the rope was cut off, the stone fell and shattered; the princess in the castle, there were three bridges to it, along which three-, six, nine-headed dragons; Z. easily killed the three-headed and hardly the six-headed; princess gave to drink strong water, Z. managed to raise the sword that hung above the well; Z. waited for the 9-headed man to fall asleep with his heads on the princess's knees, threw it away and cut off his heads; the dwarf: to return to earth, we must feed the chicks of a huge bird; its flight to the upper world takes so long that the chicks starve to death every time; Z. fed the chicks, they hid it, and it opened after the father bird promised that he would not eat it; he took Z. and the princess in his claws and flew; Z. threw food for him, a piece was not enough, cut off his legs from his calf; this piece is especially tasty; when the bird found out what was going on, the bird regurgitated it and put it back; Z. killed traitors and companions with a club, brought the princess to her father and married her; they are alive unless they die]: Jahn 1891, No. 19:120-128; Germans (Pomerania) [son born to a peasant, immediately walks and talks; tells the pastor to call him Sonderbar ("extraordinary", Z.); his parents gave him supplies and sent him to travel; carries loaded carts across the water; ordered a huge blacksmith iron club; bent it, hitting a rock; ordered a new one - even harder; meets, takes as companions 1) putting mountains one on top of another; 2) uprooting trees; juggling millstones; gives everyone hold their club: they can't do it; when they notice a light from the tree, the strongmen came to the house; it has a kitchen and a room; they hunt and take turns cooking; a dwarf comes, asks for food, hits the cook and eats everything; Z. pinched the dwarf's beard, split the tree and knocked out the wedge; he tore off his beard and left; the bloody trail stretches to a hole in the ground; there's a rope with a basket; the companions can't, Z. descends; he went down so long that winter and summer changed; to test his companions, Z. sent a stone up in the basket; they cut off the rope, the stone fell and shattered to pieces; the princess in the castle, to him three bridges, three-, six, nine-headed dragons; Z. easily killed the three-headed and with difficulty the six-headed one; the princess gave a drink of strong water, Z. managed to raise the sword that hung above the well; Z. waited until the 9-headed falls asleep, with his head on the princess's knees, throws him away and cuts off his heads; dwarf: to return to earth, you have to feed the chicks of a huge bird; its flight to the upper world lasts so long that the chicks starve to death every time; Z. fed the chicks, they hid it, and it opened after the father bird promised not to eat it; he took Z. and the princess in their claws and flew; Z. threw food for him, the piece was not enough, cut off his legs from the calf; this piece is especially tasty; when he found out what was going on, the bird regurgitated it and put it back; Z. killed traitors and companions with a club, brought the princess to her father and married her; they're alive unless they're dead]: Jahn 1891, No. 19:120-128.

Western Asia. The Sumerians [King Uruka Enmerkar organizes a trip to the mountainous country of Aratta to persuade its king to submit; Lugalbanda goes with his brothers to Aratta; he falls ill and leaves his brothers him; he climbs into the nest of a huge, shark teeth, Anzu (Anzud) eagle, feeds honey and decorates the chick; male and female eagles return; not hearing the chick's response, they think that his kidnapped; finding the chick decorated, Anzoud offers L. a reward; he asks A. to take it home to Uruk; Anzud does so]: Afanasyeva 1997:192-203.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the eldest queen is childless, the youngest is pregnant; when the king returned, the eldest said that the youngest had given 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 the country, left the baby 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 dog; she managed to hand the baby to the cow; she is losing weight, the shepherd saw that an Otrung Gepo child with a golden top, a silver bottom, a mother-of-pearl belt eats everything; the king orders to kill the cow, she managed to kill the cow give OG to the horse; the same with her; she tells OG to bring a saddle, reins, bow and arrows, he got on a horse and rode off; killed a snake that was about to eat three cubs with an arrow; adult tigers came and saw them sleeping cubs, they thought that a man had killed them; the cubs woke up, told everything, the tigers gave OG one tiger cub; three Garuda's chicks had their eyes stuck together, OG washed them, and the chicks fell asleep (the same as with 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 young people to live in the forest; OG tells his wife to bring a copper cauldron, benches with tables from her mother, invites the king and the people to the feast; the king tells his daughter to follow her husband; in the evening she pretends to fall asleep; when OG took off the old man's skin, she threw it 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 in hair like a tiger, calls her son every time ; they threw food full of alcohol on her, 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, began to rule two kingdoms]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 27:158-164.

South Asia. The Bengalis [the king has a Rakshasi wife and a woman each son; the Rakshasi ate the woman; the invited Rakshasi Rakshasa swallowed her son and Rakshasi herself her own son; the Rakshasa regurgitated the golden ball, and the Rakshasi is iron; bamboo buried them, grew bamboo, the peasant cut it off, found a red and blue egg; the woman's son Neelkamal came out of blue, and the son of Rakshasi Lalkamal came out of the red one; they came to a city where demons were exterminated by demons; while L. was sleeping, the demons came to the house; N. replied that L. was with him, the demons were frightened because he was Rakshasa; offered L. to show his nose; N. showed them a knife; to spit - N. threw burning fat from the lamp at them; showed his tongue, the sword; when the demons came for the second time, N. said that he was waiting for them alone; they rushed at him, but L. woke up and chopped them; the king gave the brothers two daughters; to destroy his brothers, Rakshasi sends news that their father is ill, he will be cured by Rakshasi's brains; the brothers went in search; under the tree they hear two birds Bangoma and Bangami talking: if L. touch their chicks, they will be cured of blindness; the birds will do a favor for this; L. healed the chicks; B. told the chicks to take the brothers to the Rakshasi country with peas; he will need him chew when the Rakshasa are asked to chew iron peas; the old Rakshasi suspects that N. is human, but he successfully pretends to chew iron peas; L. took out a box with two hornets from the well; in one is the souls of all the local Rakshasa, the other is the soul of Mother L.; they immediately killed the first, brought the Rakshasi head to L.'s mother, killed the second; they inherited both kingdoms]: Bradley-Birt 1920:168-173.

The Balkans. Moldovans [when she dies, the mother tells her daughter to marry the one who fits the ring; the monster The peasant with the nail found out the size of the ring, forged a finger for his grandson in size; the girl complains about her mother's grave, what should go for the Snake; she advises to demand a dress from the groom like sunset, noon, dawn; like morning; like night; the serpent brings three times; on the advice of the mother, after the wedding, the girl says, Light is ahead, darkness backwards and disappears; spends the night in the forest; Snakes find her with dogs, cut off their hands, give them to dogs; the girl tries to cover the fallen chicks, the grateful bird turns her into a chick, raises with others; chicks peck Green King's apples; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is an armless beauty; the prince goes to fetch water from under the dragon rock; three traits fight over a boot to walk on water, invisible hats and a musical instrument (transfers them to any place); the prince invites them to race, takes away wonderful objects; at the spring, an invisible prince hits snakes, those they think at each other, fight; the prince puts the last one in prison, brings water to the girl, her arms grow; the prince finishes off a snake, the girl manages to tear off his ring from his finger, the snake turns to dust]: Botezat 1981:200-210 (=Moldavian tales 1968:266-275); Hungarians: Gidash 1953 [a boy is born to a white horse, goes on a journey; meets Koroder, Stone Crusher, Iron Flexor; everyone replies that they would like to measure their strength with the Son of the White Horse (SBL), defeated, comraded; each takes turns cooking porridge, Bakarast (a little man with a big beard takes it away); SBL ties him by the beard to a tree, he pulls out a tree, hides in a hole; only the SBL decides to go down on a rope; pours porridge on B.'s stomach, eats it, leaves him tied; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of the copper, silver, golden castle; companions raise princesses, leave SBO underground; SBO covers the vulture chicks from the rain with its fur coat ; their mother takes him to the ground; the food she has taken is not enough, the SBO feeds her right arm and right leg; on the ground she gives him wine, his arm and leg grow back; SBO kills traitors, takes the girls to their father , marries the youngest]: 81-89; Ortutai 1974, No. 5 [the old woman advised a childless woman to swallow legumes that she will sweep out of the house; the woman found, swallowed three grains, gave birth to sons named Evening, Night Owl, Dawn; they grew up, went to seek service; the king asks to clean the well, promises three daughters; the brothers have done their job, but the king admitted that his daughters are guarded by dragons; in the forest the brothers saw a hole, stopped, began to cook one by one; every time the little man knocks down the cook, eats everything; when Dawn was left, he pinched the little man's beard with a tree; his brothers let him go for his promise show how to go down into the hole; Dawn came down, the queen gave a multiplying ring, Dawn blew the dragon 9 heads away; hitting the table with this royal stick turned the palace into a silver apple; then But with the other two royals (12-headed dragon, golden apple; 18-headed, diamond apple); sent the queens upstairs; tied a stone instead, the brothers cut off the rope; Dawn sees blind spouses , passing food to each other; their eyes were pulled out by a 24-headed dragon; dawn quietly took the meat; then opened; the couple ordered not to herd sheep in the dragon's domain; dawn killed the dragon, brought their eyes blinded; one woman's eye was swallowed by a cat, Dawn put a cat's eye in the woman, she began to catch mice at night; Dawn sheltered the vulture birds from the hail; the mother bird tells me to cook meat and wine, brings Dawn to the ground, there was not enough meat, he cut off the meat from the calf; the bird: it was delicious, I would know it ate you; under the guise of a beggar, Dawn came to the king, his brothers did not recognize him; they answer that the one who He will know his brother, you must tie a horse to the tail, and the queen who saved him must marry her; the royals recognized their rings; Dawn forgave the brothers, married a younger princess]: 141-150; Jones, Kropf 1889 []: 244-249.

Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg): Balashov 1970, No. 28 [the pop hired an employee; two months later he leads him to a copper mountain, sewed up a drunken man in cowhide, the bird lifted his skin to the mountain, the worker woke up got out, the pop tells me to throw copper, the man covered three chicks from the thunderstorm with a zipun; the chicks ask the mother not to kill the man, she agreed to lower him to the ground; the man was hired again to the ass (all the same Silver Mountain); the third time, at the golden mountain, the worker sewed his priest in his skin; he found a nest, ruined it, the bird pecked it; the worker married a priest; I was at the wedding, I was drinking honey beer, flowing down my mustache, did not fall into his mouth]: 94-97; 1991 [the childless king promises half the kingdom to whoever would hide from him; Gol Kabatskaya (GK) fell asleep with his horses, the king found him from the book, executed him; the other fell asleep on a lead - the same; the third crumbled into 303 pieces of grass in the field; the king found (but did not execute); the next time the GK of grass gathered in a ball, became a dove, then into the sky at 303 stars; the king found it again; then the GK went where I stood with my head; the weather fell terrible, there were chicks on the oak with an aunt's foot, GK wanted to eat one; chick: you won't be full, but your mother will find you; then he removed the shell and covered them; the chicks are not froze, grateful N. stuck the GK in her hat with a pen that made him invisible; the Civil Code came to the tsar, he could not find him; brought the Civil Code closer to him, and after death handed him the kingdom]: 26-32; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the doctor tells the tsar that there is a fish - if you eat, a child will be born; the tsar was delivered a fish, the queen ate it, the cook tried it, gave a swipe to the cow; Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan Kukharkin were born son, Ivan Korovich; grew up and came to the kingdom where miraculous yudo people ate; the brothers cut off the miracle's heads, who should take the princess? The Tsarevich and the cook's son threw Korovich into the abyss; eagles are squeaking in the nest, he fed them crumbs and warmed them; the eagle promises to help; Korovich came to the old man; he says that the worst Miracle Yudo is here, only his relatives, we need to change the tubs with living and dead water; after drinking dead, the Miracle weakened, Korovich killed him; immediately the birds sang, the kidnapped princess nearby; the eagle carries them upstairs, it is necessary to feed the prepared meat, it was not enough, Korovich cut off the meat from his leg, gave the eagle his own blood; when he reached the ground, the eagle regurgitated this piece, brought Korovich and the girl to life with live water; Korovich forgave his brothers, married a rescued woman; wedding; I was there, ate and drank, flowed down my mustache, but didn't get into my mouth]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:104-108; Russians (Olonetskaya epic Vanka Udovkin son , Prionezhye, known in a single record) [Vanka Udovkin's son marries Volshan Volshansky's daughter; if he manages to hide, he will receive Mary, if not, he will be executed; turns into an ermine, penetrates to M., returns, sits behind an elm tree; BB learns everything from the book; the episode repeats; for the third time after visiting M. WU comes to an oak tree on the seashore, shelters the Mogul bird from the cold; the grateful bird gives three feathers, he must anoint them with BB, the spell of his books; VU does so, hides under bed, BB does not find it; VU gets M., reigns after the death of BV]: Putilov 1957:316-323; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Gorynya and Koromyslo went to travel and met Ivan Bogatyr; I.: stir up the mountain; they couldn't, I. destroyed it with his fist; open the gate! they could not, I. tore off his hinges with his finger; there the old underground king eats sweets; Gorynya and Rocker knocked down, Ivan was frightened, went under a stone; there was a hole; they weaved a rope hundreds of miles, I. went down; around the crystal palace, an army with fiery swords, I. pushed him apart, entered, the underground king by the beard and on the floor, put it under the floorboard; beautiful: my husband is next to him in chains; I. freed him, but he immediately died; an eagle fell out of the nest; I. covered it with his clothes; eagle: what should you do for caressing the chick? I.: bring it to the white world; I. and the beautiful woman returned to earth on an eagle and began to live happily ever after and make children]: Burtsev 1895, No. 3:13-16; Russians (Vologda, Belozersky Krai) [Tsarevichi Fedor, Vasily, Ivan; to whoever brings a jug of twelve stigmas with living water from the Blue-eyed girl, the tsar promises half the kingdom; F. reached the crossroads, on the slab there are inscriptions: hungry; he himself is full, but the horse hungry; sleeping with the girl; driving along the third road; the girl put him against the wall, he fell into a hole; the same with V.; I. turned to the road where he was hungry; a hut on a chicken leg, on a dog's shank; turn your back to the forest and in front of me; there Baba Yaga, Blue-eyed, is her niece, her brother's daughter; gives her horse, he is better than I.'s horse; I. comes to the second sister Yaga, she gives an even better horse; third; she teaches you to jump over the wall, take water; I. sinned with S., so the horse, jumping back, hit the strings; S. after one baba yaga to another; "I'm not sorry that the horse got drunk, but it's expensive that He did not cover the well"; S. caught up, they got engaged, she promised to come in three years; girl I. shoved her down, took her brothers out of envy; they threw him into a hole out of envy, he flew for three days and three nights; Nagai birds squeak oak by the sea, I. covered them with a robe; they tell their mother about this, the bird is ready to raise I. to the ground, let him cook meat; almost enough, he cut off his fingers and toes; bird: did not know what was so tasty; regurgitated, I. put them back with live water; S. came, demands "guilty"; F. goes, then V.; sons think that this is the father, S. does not; and when I. comes to the image of a drunkard is him; wedding; older brothers were expelled]: Azadovsky 1934, No. 8:186-199; Russians (Vologda, Kirillovsky U.) []: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 54:204-209; Russians (Kurskaya, Valuisky District) [The only son of a poor widow is forced to beg, then he is hired by a rich old man and promises that he will cope for three. He grinds his life, agrees with two men to work together. At night, they look for fire in the field, the grandfather by the fire agrees to give fire in exchange for a fairy tale, the men can't tell, he cuts a belt out of their backs. The widow's son agrees to tell the story, on the condition that the old man does not interrupt him. He tells stories for a long time, then says that his grandfather rode his old grandfather in the next world. The old man shouts "you're lying", the widow's son clamps his beard into the crevice (in the stump), takes the fire. Guys want to see an old man running away with a stump. They follow the trail from the stump that leads them to a bottomless hole, the widow's son comes down and finds himself in another world. In the mansions, three beauties warn him of an evil old man, the youngest shows kegs with weakness and strength, he swaps the contents. The grandfather returns, senses the Russian spirit, the widow's son goes out to fight with him, then both drink from kegs. The widow's son wins, takes treasures and three beauties, but men only pull girls out. He sees that the chicks are threatened by thunderstorm and rain, and covers them with a cloak. In gratitude, their mother promises to take them out of the dead, he is collecting meat for her on the road. The meat runs out on the way, and the man is forced to cut off his thighs. When a bird lands and finds out what it has eaten, it spits it out and returns it to its place]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:73-76; Belarusians (West in Bryansk Gubernia) [The mink beast destroys cattle; only the king's youngest third son goes to guard, fights the beast, which goes underground; brothers on a rope bring the prince down; there a horse is waiting for him; he comes to the princesses in copper, silver, gold (younger) palaces, they teach their brother Norka to cut off his head; he sleeps on a stone in the middle of the sea, the prince kills him; the sisters place their palaces in three eggs, give it to the prince; brothers they raise their sisters, cut off the rope; the prince suspected this, tied a stone to it, did not break; during a storm, he covers the chicks of a mighty bird from the rain; their mother takes it to the ground, ways he feeds the bird; he is hired by a tailor; he says that the princesses agree to marry only the one who sews the dress they used in their kingdoms; the prince pulls everything out of their eggs; the youngest identifies him among beggars on the ring; three weddings]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 132:247-251; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, d. Novaya Bych, Bykhov. u., from kr. Pavel Ivanova, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, she is carried away by a bear, after 3 years she gives birth to her son Ivashka a bear ear; after 3 years he grows up and leaves, meets Duba-Dubovik and Gora- Gorovik, three of them go; they find a house, leave Goro-Gorovik to cook dinner, go hunting themselves, Kashchei ("Koschey") appears, demands to bring him into the house, put him at the table and serve food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik cuts another ox, puts it to cook, comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovka does not talk about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dubo-Dubovik; Ivashka remains to cook dinner on the third day, Kashchei arrives, Ivashka refuses to obey his orders (does not bring him into the house or sit down at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashcheev's beard in the oak crevice, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds they follow Kashchei, but he flew away; the three of them go after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the road, Gora-Gorovik digs up a mountain, find a huge stone and a hole under it, make cowhides belt, Ivashka goes down, agrees that in a year his comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, where the girl says that they have not seen a Russian person here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; she reaches the silver house, there is also a girl sitting there, the story repeats; Ivashka reaches the golden house, there the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei arrives, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashcheev's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in a hare, an egg in the duck, Hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite (and eat it) on the way, but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees sea cancer on the shore, does not kill, but helps him sail into the sea; in gratitude, the cancer brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it, the duck flies away, a kite catches her, tears her apart, Ivashka carries an egg to wash it in the sea, but drops it, the cancer returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving her a golden house, a girl takes an egg, rolls it around and the house gathers in an egg, Ivashka puts the egg in her pocket, the second girl collects a silver house into an egg in the same way, the third a copper house; they come to going upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades pick up the girl from the copper house, argue who will marry her, she assures that she is "more beautiful" than her, raise girls from silver and gold houses, decide marry them, and the first as servants, and Ivashka cut off his belt on the rise so that he breaks; Ivashka ties a stone instead of himself, his comrades cut off his belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak tree, birds scream, he climbs an oak tree, covers the chicks from the rain, then gets off and hides, the bird Half-Gritsa arrives in gratitude for saving his the chicks promise to bring them upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat into the bird's mouth from barrels, meat runs out, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird takes it out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, expectorates, caviar grows; Ivashka comes to town, is declared a shoemaker ("Ivanichka drunkard"), does not know how to sew, resides with a Jew; a girl from the golden house promises to marry someone who will sew the shoes she had in her golden house, Ivashka accepts an order through a Jew, two drinks the day, on the third day she rolls a golden house out of the egg, pulls out her skulls, the Jew carries her skulls; the girl asks for the same dress - the story repeats itself, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes to Serving a blacksmith, pulls out a wreath in the same way; a girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each living in her own house ]: Romanov 1901, No. 36:340-347; Romanov 1887, No. 14 (Bykhov University) []: 92-99; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [Ivan worked, earned a calf, she brought a calf, I. began to suck milk himself, was nicknamed Cow Son; goes on a journey, wins, takes Razotrikamen, Debrilom as companions; they hunt, cook in turn; grandfather with a fingernail, a two-meter beard asks for food, puts hot meat on his stomach to the cook, cuts the belt out of his back; I. pinches his grandfather's beard in the beech tree; he leaves, dragging the tree; the companions lower I. into the well, he kills his grandfather, sends three captured princesses upstairs; the companions want their youngest, cut off the rope (I. suspects this, ties a stone instead of himself); I. covers three snakes on the tree from the fiery rain; the grateful Serpent agrees to take him to the ground; in flight, I. feeds him, cuts off the last piece from his leg, the Serpent applies him back; I. is hired by a tailor, works with a magic needle, scissors, etc., received from princesses; princesses bring an order for grooms, recognize I., invite them to a wedding; I. cuts off the heads of traitors, marries a younger princess]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:181-188; Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia) [a son under 16 sucks his mother's breast, becomes a hero, pulls out and drags a beech tree alone, leaves wander; meets, companions 1) Pulling oaks, 2) Month-old iron; they are given jobs, but they have so much strength that they break everything; they take turns cooking in the forest, damn it, everything eats, hits the cook; Messiiron asks the devil to help split the log, knocks out the wedge, the devil's hands are clamped; M. hits him, forcing him to say where the three kidnapped princesses are; hell runs into the hole, Vyrvibuk, Vyrvidub afraid, M. comes down, hell says princesses have 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons; the 6-headed smells a man, the younger princess says her brother has come; they fight, M. drives the dragon into the ground, cuts off their heads, cuts off their tongues; this is how he frees all the princesses, Vyrvibuk and Vyrvidub pull them out, throw them away; he covers the chicks from the fiery rain, their mother takes them to the ground; to feed her, he cuts off the meat from his leg, on the ground she puts it back; the king gives her daughters, M. shows dragon tongues, rings donated by princesses, takes the eldest]: Giryak 1978:215- 237; Ukrainians (Pokutye) []: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 1:5-14.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Terek Cossacks (art. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar's eldest daughter asks to let her go to the "unhappy" garden; there a storm rises and takes her away; the same with her middle daughter; when the youngest began to ask, she was chained to bed, covered with iron canopy and left in the garden in a room with 12 iron doors; a 12-headed serpent arrives, takes the girl along with the bed; Ivan Tsarevich calls to find the kidnapped, takes three generals as assistants; sees how 12-, 9- and 6-headed snakes fly out of the passage to the underworld one by one; I. tells the generals to lower him on a rope into the underworld and wait above; comes to a city where all tailors; those they give I. a ball of thread and tell him to throw it in front of him; the ball leads to the palace; the princess says that her husband is a 6-headed serpent; hides I. in the room, in it a tub with strong and a tub with powerless water; I. tries both; changes tubs in places; takes a kladenets sword from the royal daughter, hides; a 6-headed serpent who has arrived drinks powerless water instead of strong water and falls asleep; I. cuts off his heads; princess gives I. a ball of thread; he rolls to the palace in which her sister; I. drinks strong water, moves the tubs of water, kills the 9-headed snake; the princess gives a ball of thread; warns that the younger sister's husband - 12-headed serpent, he shackled his 12-headed father in the basement; with the help of a ball of thread, I. finds a crystal palace; meets the princess there, drinks strong water, changes the tubs; a snake that has arrived falls asleep; I. cuts off his 9 heads; the serpent growls, his father hears, breaks 6 chains; I. princess: "Run to your father-in-law soon; if he asks what this noise is, you say that a strong storm has risen, turned it around The root is a large oak tree that stood by the window: this oak tree hit the palace and broke all the windows; yes, take an iron pitchfork, hot; when my father-in-law says: "Raise my eyelids with a pitchfork, I'll see what is being done" , if you are in the eye with a pitchfork, and I will come to help you; the princess runs to the basement; I. cuts off the remaining 3 heads of the snake; the princess says to her father-in-law what was ordered; father-in-law: "Take a pitchfork, yes raise my eyelids - I'll see what is being done"; the princess stabs his eyes with a hot pitchfork; I. comes running and killing him; regrets not seeing such a palace on earth; the princess gives him a silk shawl with with the words: "Wave them - I give you this palace"; I. waves his handkerchief, a golden egg appears in his hand; with the help of a ball of thread, I. returns with the princess to her sister; she also gives him a silk shawl; I. waves at them, gets a silver egg; throws a ball of thread in front of him, goes with both princesses to their older sister; waves her handkerchief, receives a copper egg; when he reaches passage, I. alternately ties the sisters to the rope, the generals raise them; saying goodbye to the third princess, I. takes off her personalized ring; I. ties a stone to the rope; the generals raise it to the middle and let go; they tell the king that they saved his daughters; the younger princess refuses to marry the general and tells the truth; the king does not believe, but postpones the wedding; I. wanders; the time of rain climbs into a huge nest in a tree; there are three chicks; I. covers them with his last hollow and warms them; the chicks tell the vulture bird about their savior; she offers I. help, orders to prepare 12 barrels of game and 12 barrels of water; during the flight, I. feeds and wateres it: "When the bird looks to the right, it will splash water on it; if it looks to the left, he will throw a piece of meat"; there is not enough meat for the whole journey; I. cuts off meat from both calves, feeds the vulture bird; it flies into the light, falls to the ground; asks I. what kind of delicious meat was the last time: when she finds out, she expectorates both calves and puts them on I.'s legs; he heals, goes to the king; the youngest princess recognizes I. by the ring on her hand; the king orders the generals to be tied to horse tails and let them go across the field, the youngest daughter marries I.; I. waves silk with scarves; three palaces appear; one of them I. gives to the elder princess, the other to the middle princess, and lives with his wife in the third]: Butova 1889, No. 3:128-141; Turks [padishah forbade lighting a fire; three sisters- orphans violate the ban, they must work; if the padishah married her, the eldest would weave a carpet on which the army and all the inhabitants would sit; the average would cook a pilava cauldron, it would be enough for everyone; the youngest would give birth to a boy with a month and a girl with the sun in her forehead; the padishah hears this, tells me to bring sisters; the older two confess that they only wanted to marry, were sent to a goose stable; the youngest became a wife Padishah, gave birth to the promised children; the sisters tell the midwife to lower the babies in the chest along the river, the mother to put the puppies; the padishah tells the wife to be buried waist-deep at a fork in the road, no one cares about her face; the old dervish found the children; when he died, he left them a ring (wearing it a wishful arap), a skin and a whip (if you sit on the skin, hit them with a whip, the arap will take them anywhere or destroy it as ordered); brother and the sister is transported to a fork in the country of the padishah; their mother's sisters find out about this, send a midwife to persuade her sister to ask her brother to bring 1) a poplar with playing leaves; an arap brings him to the borders of that country, teaches him to politely treat the half-blind Balkis Khan, she sends him to the Nailan, the young man grabs the topolek, N. does not have time to turn the person who comes into stone, B. does not detain him, because he was kind to her; 2) a bird from that tree (the same; you have to drink it from a source of blood and a source of pus, praise her, they do not detain the kidnapper); but the tree does not play, the bird does not sing; 3) the mistress of the poplar; the young man picked up the Zumranka chicks that had fallen out of the nest; their mother spat in the water he had prepared for him to die of the poison, but the chicks explained that he helped them; Z. poured water and gave 4 feathers ; N. gradually turns the young man into stone, but he burns feathers one by one; after the fourth he is alive again; N. returns with him by his wife; calls the padishah to visit, tells him to put gold in his pocket a spoon, accuses him of stealing; just as the padishah could not steal the spoon, so the woman could not give birth to puppies; the padishah tells his wife to open and buy, return the children, execute his wife's sisters and midwife at the top of the mountain]: Stebleva 1986, No. 72:293-299.

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Niedre 1952:92-103 [The elderly couple had a hairy son, Jan Bear; he asks his father three times to forge an iron staff for him; each time he throws him into the sky; he takes him who hardly bent, picked up when he fell with his finger; meets, takes as companions a digging mountain (Kalnuratseis) and fishing with a rod - a mast tree; stopped in an empty castle; one by one cook, every time an old woman beats the cook, takes food; when it's my turn, an old man comes up, MYA drove his beard into a block, hit the old woman with a staff; guards three nights by the bloody river; kills three- and six-headed on a silver, golden horse; when fighting a 12-headed diamond horse, help is needed; the companions are sleeping, I woke them up by throwing his staff into the castle; by this time, the water left in the vessel blushed (a sign of danger); killed a 12-headed; rolled back a stone, tells him to lower it into the abyss; there is that old man, I killed him; in silver, gold, diamond cities, three girls sew clothes out of silver and gold , diamonds; each collects its own city in an egg; the companions raised everyone; I returned behind the hat; the satellites began to raise, thought they let go of the rope; I fell, breaking through three worlds; in the fourth thunderstorm, he covered the eagles; the eagle promises to raise them to the ground - let MYA kill the monster and feed it with its meat in flight; at first there was not enough meat, they returned; the second time they almost arrived, I cut the last piece of calf out of his leg; Mya married a girl from diamond city, his companions to two others, each living in his own city from an egg], 116-146 [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; a piece was eaten by a maid, a giblets by a mare; each gives birth to a son, the son of a mare is strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, and the second - six-headed; on the third night he is nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see that the water in the bucket has become blood; K. threw pastals at them ( shoes); brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second a spring, the third an ogre snake ; K. does not let me lie down, get drunk, cuts the bed, the spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched the line in the door, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs will come out to do the job), said that there is a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers are afraid, K. went down, cut off the line; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak water instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give them to K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with a hail; K. killed the cannibal, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells them to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. opens eggs, lives with the youngest royal in diamond castle; we must kill the wife of the 9th head; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged a horse for K. to catch up with the witch, told him not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank off, lost strength for a year; went to hell as a worker, who became angry, cut him out of his back three strips of meat; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much a white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned it); 6) bring firewood to the mare (the mare is the mother of the devil, K. threatens to cut her belts from the sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep, who looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings by the shirt, and the hell ate his pood, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) hell leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, a younger brother; the devil cannot catch up with him; agrees to carry a felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed the devil's children; tore it out to a mare eyes; put a pot of sour cream instead of himself for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and his mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the devil drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but and died himself], 147-156 [the blacksmith forged his son, Iron Martyn; he ordered him to forge a giant club, went on a journey; met and accompanied the Overturning Mountain and the Overturning Oaks; they they climb into a hole, there is a palace, everyone cooks in turn; The copper beard asks for food every time, drinks all the soup; ZhM pinched his claws in the log; he broke the log, went to the cave; only JM agrees go down; killed the Copper Beard and other devils, sent the kidnapped princess and gold upstairs; the companions wanted them for themselves, did not pull them out the ZhM; he killed pigs, cows, horses, devil; girl: devils in lake the water is muddy, they do not allow the shirt to be washed; ZhM killed the devils; covered the eagles from the rain; the eagle orders to prepare meat, carries it across the sea; the last piece of ZhM cut off from its leg; the eagle regurgitated, put it back; JM took the girl and gold from his companions, found the king whose daughter was stolen, reigned after his death]; Lutsi (1893; the informant heard a fairy tale from those who did not know Estonian) [spouses childless, her husband died, the widow cried, peas grew out of her tears, there was only a pea in the pod; she ate it, gave birth nine months later; the boy was strong; mothers: if she waited to eat, he would be even stronger; ordered a five-pound iron club from the blacksmith, threw it up, a day later it fell, he put his finger up, the club split; the 10-pound one bent; the 15-pound one remained intact, good; Pea meets, takes as satellites 1) pulling oaks; 2) rearranging mountains; they hired the owner for the right to carry what they could; he ordered to level the mountains; they began to make ropes out of sand, throw them over the mountains, pull them off from the place, now the field is flat; one took all the flour from the owner, the other all the grain, the third all the cows; set up a farm in the forest; the demoness (mustabaaba) began to go to them, eat everything; remained on guard pulling trees; she spat in his eyes, ate everything; the one who moved the mountains was the same; G. beat her with a club, she grew to the clouds, he kept hitting, she shrunk again, he tied her to an oak tree; she pulled her out the oak tree and went to the lower world; only G. decided to go down; killed the woman's five-headed son; the girl knits stockings, G. pulled the rope, both were picked up, he gave it to the oak puller, went down again; killed the 1-headed, gave it the second girl who moved the mountains; for the third time she fights with the 15-headed; drove him into the ground waist-deep, and he drove him up to his neck; agreed to take a break; G. drank strong water, and gave the enemy weak water, killed him; went upstairs, but G. went down for the fourth time; the companions are sorry that G. took the most beautiful girl for himself, threw the rope down; thunderstorm, eagles on the Christmas tree say that whoever protects them from the weather is theirs mother will help; he covered them; chicks: don't leave until mother arrives; eagle: I know G., when he was born, the earth trembled for three days; the eagle agrees to carry it across the Sea of Fire, but let it fill three barrels forest birds; he spit them; there was not enough meat in flight, the eagle tells her to cut off and throw her little finger first, then her calf; then the little finger of her legs; flew; G. caught the little cat, began to twist; ordered the daw bring living water from the island in the sea of fire; my body has healed with this water; came to my wife, forgave my companions, but drove them away; they began to live, they probably live now]: Annom et al. 2018:93-100; Estonians ( Yuri; recorded in Sukhum-Kala) [the king of the north (KS) saved the crows, the raven helps him; says that the King of the South (KYU) has a beautiful daughter, but refuses everyone; the COP went to marry her, and his three sisters were kidnapped by a lion (he is the king of animals), the eagle (the king of birds) and the whale (the king of fish); CS's mother decided that her son would rather die in front of her than disappear in a distant land, took out poisonous drops from the witch and dripped goodbye at the CS; but the drops hit the horse; the COP made 12 pies with this horse meat, sat on another horse and left; 12 robbers attacked, each ate a pie and died; the COP came to her older sister, she feeds the child; her husband is a lion for 3 days and a man for 3 days; gives his hairs: if burned, he will come to the rescue; his handkerchief will also show if the CS is in trouble, it turns red; the sister herself gives a magic tablecloth; the middle sister (eagle gives feathers); from the youngest (the whale gives scales); near the Sea of Fire, a tree with a hawk's nest, where chicks are squeaking; the raven teaches: their mother will return in 3 days, they will starve to death and be beaten by hail; it is necessary slaughter the horse, feed the chicks with meat and cover them with skin; let their mother carry them across the sea as a reward; the mother bird orders to prepare 12 barrels of poultry meat and 12 barrels of water; KYU's daughter planted the COP in a dungeon, where other contenders are on her hand; he feeds them all thanks to a magic tablecloth; sells a tablecloth to Kyu's daughter for the opportunity to look at her bare neck; says there is nothing to see; pulls out a tablecloth received from her middle sister; same (Kyu's daughter shows her breasts); same; KYU's daughter agrees to spend the night with the COP; first he turns away, then agrees to hug her; wedding; wife gives keys, does not tell you to unlock the seventh room; once he unlocked it; the sorcerer locked there asked for water three times, promised to forgive the COP three times for this; flew away and took his wife; the raven said that the sorcerer had a flying horse that sees and guards far away; the COP took his wife, but the sorcerer easily caught up and took it away, said that one forgiveness was less; so three times, and the fourth time the sorcerer tore the CS to pieces; lion, eagle and the whale collected the remains, brought live water; tried it on a crow: they tore it and revived it; then they revived the COP; he did no harm to flies, horseflies, cancers, they promised to help; the COP met an old woman, she offered herd her 12 horses; this is her 12 daughters; flies brought horses on the first evening, horseflies on the second; on the third day, horses climbed into the water, but they were driven out by crayfish; the witch agrees to give one horse as a reward; raven: if you sit on it, you will die; requires the son of a toad; this toad is the mother of a sorcerer's flying horse, and the toad is his brother; the frog-horse tells you to wait three days for him to gain strength, three more to learn from mother, the last three to take an invincible weapon; the COP cut off the witch's head, but she grew back and he hardly rode away from her; the wife found out that the sorcerer's soul was in the egg, the egg was in the duck, the duck was flying over the sea; the COP summoned an eagle, he grabbed a duck, the whale took out an egg that fell into the sea, the COP crushed it, the sorcerer died; the COP began to rule the north and south]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 79:246-264; seto [the man walked with the bear, he was dancing; in the house where he spent the night, the bear became pregnant with a girl; she gave birth to a son with bear ears; he is incredibly strong; he was nicknamed Ivvan the Bear; he took three companions, went on a journey; earned money woodcutters live; each one takes turns cooking, a dwarf with a big beard comes, eats up the cook; when he remains IM, he hits the dwarf, lets go, he hides in a hole; IM goes down there on a rope; successively meets three kidnapped princesses, one spins copper, the other silver, the youngest gold; on the way to each two lions, IM kills them by hitting each other; each replaces bottles with strong and with weak water; the devil kidnapper drinks weak, IM kills all three, driving them into the ground; sends the princesses upstairs, the youngest gives him a ring, it splits in half, the princess and IM take half; the companions are not they lowered the rope to pick them up; he comes to a pine tree on a hill, devils climb like mice from under the pine tree, kill them all, cut off their tongues; on the pine tree there is an eagle's nest, IM feeds the damn eagles in tongues, they are incredibly tasty; when a giant eagle arrives, the eagles do not want the horse it brought, they say that the food was better; the grateful eagle agrees to bring THEM to the ground; he throws it into when flying across the sea, cooked food is not enough, he cuts his meat off his calves; lies down for almost a year while he can walk again; comes to the king when the younger princess must marry an imaginary savior; she recognizes half of the ring; the deceiver was left in a barrel in the forest, the wolf lowered his tail into it, the deceiver got out, was happy to be alive; after the death of King IM inherited the throne]: Sandra 2004: 270-275; Veps: Vinokurova 2006 [a soldier saves the royal daughters, ends up in the underworld because of the deception of officers; saves hawkish chicks from starvation there; for this the hawk carries it to the ground; the bird eats pork and bovine meat from barrels made from the leather of 40 cows, drinks 40 buckets of water; the soldier cuts off the last piece from his buttock; when he reaches the ground, the hawk spits back the soldier's flesh]: 70; Vlasyev 1941, No. 2 (told in Russian) [priest Diy-Popovich's son is too strong; brings a log on a bear from the forest, collects water tax; meets, takes as companions to Dubynya, Usynya, Goryn; they cook one by one, "himself from his fingernail, beard from his elbow" hits the cook every time, eats everything; D. wants to cut off his head, but cut off only his beard, the dwarf fell into dungeon, D. orders him to be lowered on his belts after him; killed a dwarf, freed three princesses, each assembles the palace in a handkerchief; companions raise the princesses, cut off the rope; D. covered the chicks from the cold, fed them; their kite mother takes D. to the ground, he throws her pieces of meat, the last piece of his caviar, the bird belches it, puts it on; two princesses went beyond companions, Elena from the golden palace is waiting for D., demands the same shoes and dress; D. unfolds the palaces, pulls it out; Usynya was shot, Dubynya, Goryn was demoted]: 15-25; Karelians [childless man carved a doll out of an aspen tree, it came to life, it is Osinovich, very strong; he leaves his parents, meets and companions an angler (chain - forests, horse - bait) knocking a rock on a rock; they take turns cooking ; a dwarf with a two-cubit beard comes out of the ground every time, eats everything; when O. remains, he pinched the dwarf's beard between the logs of the hut; tells him to go down the dwarf's hole; his daughter is there; he sends her to cradle upstairs; satellites cut the rope; O. sheltered the crows from the cold rain; they ask their mother not to harm him; the crow carries him to the ground, he feeds it with cow meat, it ends, cuts off the last piece from its leg; the crow his leg disappears; O. takes the bride, drives his comrades away]: Concca 1959:23-26; the Finns [standing on guard, the sergeant hears a woman scream from the swamp; crossing the girl, pulls her out; she is overseas the princess who took the hell away; let the sergeant come to the pier, she would take him away by ship; but the devil, disguised as an officer, came up and quietly stuck a sleeping pill needle into the sergeant; so three times; after the third once the princess sails away on the ship, and the sergeant must find her himself; not knowing what to do, the sergeant is going to hang himself on an oak tree; a thunderstorm has begun, he hears a squeak; these are dragons suffering from heavy rain; sergeant covered them with an overcoat; the dragon flew in and wanted to eat it, but when he heard from the cubs how it was, he told them to sit on his back and took it to the princess; there the sergeant hired a gardener; dug up the bones a giant and buried in consecrated land; an enemy attacked; the giant came to life, grateful to the sergeant, teaches him to find a bottle of strong water, weapons and clothes in the dungeon; hay in front of the lion, and meat in front of the horse , the sergeant swapped them; jumped on his horse and defeated the enemy; he was given an order; when he returned, the sergeant drank weak water and took on his former form; the enemy attacked again, this time the sergeant came with the lion, defeated the enemy again; the princess recognized him; wedding]: Concca 1993:111-122; the Finns [a man slaughtered a boy out of an alder and rocked him for three years; he came to life, eats a lot; the man sent him to work; it is so strong that they try to lime it, but everything is useless; asked to go down into the well and threw it on top of the millstone - he threw it back; finally left; met, took a fisherman as his companion (threw it in the sea is its huge hook), a boulder thrower; they reached a hole in the ground; the companions tried to go down, but it was cold at first, then hot; Olkhovnik went down, sent back two girls, and his The satellites did not pick it up; he saw the eagle's nest, covered the eagles with a frock coat; the grateful eagle carried it to the surface; he cut off his companies' heads]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 32:96-97.

Volga - Perm. Marie: Akzorin 1995 (mountain) [the princess lowers the rope out of her sweetheart's window at night; one day an unclean one comes earlier, enters her instead of a boyfriend; next time she thinks she's downstairs again unclean, and this is a guy, she cuts off the rope; the guy is ill for a long time; the serpent sits on the princess's clothes when she bathes; she has to agree to marry him; the recovered lover goes with the soldiers look for the princess; three sisters consistently show the way to the abyss, where the descent to the lower world; the guy descends on a rope, picks up the princess while the snake is away; she is raised; the officer orders to be considered a savior him; the princess throws a letter down, promises to wait; the guy ties a stone to the rope, the officer cuts the rope; the guy hides the chicks of a huge bird from the rain; she lifts it upstairs; on the road, he feeds her meat, cuts off the last piece from her leg; on the ground, the bird regurgitates it, puts it back; the guy comes to the bride's wedding, exposes the officer, marries, reigns; the officer tied by the legs to the horse's tail]: 142-147; Beke 1938, No. 37 [the master has a son and a beautiful daughter; a young man came to her, said that he had come from behind 30 lands, persuaded him to flee without asking his father; in fact In fact, he was the master of the winds and the underground king; when they went out into the field, they boarded his wagon and flew for three or four months; then it became dark; the girl found herself in an underground dwelling; when her companion lay down on the bed, he became an old man; her brother liked to feed the chicks with hemp seeds in the forest, going up to the nests; once he fed the chicks and their mother promised to help them; when he learned that his sister had been kidnapped, the young man turned to the bird; she said she knew who did it, put the young man on his back and flew; three months later they flew to a hut in the middle of the forest; the bird told me to go to the old woman to ask for the door to unlock grass {tear-grass}; if she asks where it came from, you must answer what the eagle brought; after receiving grass, they fly on; after two or three months it turns dark; near the house, where there is a sister behind 12 doors, they stop; eagle: 11 doors can be opened easily, and the 12th with grass; the young man comes in, his sister hides him in the chest; when the underground king returns, she says that the door was opened by his impulse wind; the king has fallen asleep; the sister tells his brother to cut off three golden hairs in his beard; not in his beard; eat in his mustache; the young man cuts them off with his lip, he and his sister run away; they are flying on a bird; the underground king has woken up set off in pursuit; it is difficult for the eagle to fly because of the wind, and the people of the underground king are chasing the ground; he tells him to wave his golden hair; turns into a forest, his sister into flowers, his brother into a rose hip bush; the underground king he did not recognize them; next time he was a boat (eagle), a man with an oar (brother), a duck (sister); the underground king asks the young man on the boat if he saw the fugitives, he is directing him on the wrong path; they fly to eagle nest; brother and sister return home; girl gets married]: 324-334.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (b. Kazim, 1961) [two brothers are hunting, the third youngest, Ratparho-Hishparho, is sitting in ash; the eldest went to look for people; when the arrow he left bleeding, the middle one went; same; RK went to look for them; Kirp-nyulup-im carried him in a boat, told him not to sit in the middle of the boat, but he sat down; sees human bones in her hut; she threw a hare head at him; RK caught her on the fly, threw it at K., hit, K. was killed; RK burned her and scattered the ash; chicks are screaming in the eagle's nest, the RK fed them fish; they tell them to hide, their parents will arrive now; they are surprised that the chicks do not want meat; they talked about the Republic of Kazakhstan; grateful eagles offer help; the Republic of Kazakhstan asks to revive the brothers; the eagles grabbed the crow's chicks, ordered them to bring living and dead water; she brought it; they tore the crow, revived it, then released the chicks; they brought water, revived the brothers of the Republic of Kazakhstan; the brothers live together]: Lukina 1990, No. 85:211-213.