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Ethnicities and habitats

K38C. The bird carries the hero.

.14.17.21.23. (.24.) .27. (.28.) .29.30.-.36.38.40.

The hero helps the bird (usually does good to its chicks), a grateful bird brings it to the place he wants, or tells the chicks to do so (we are not talking about moving between levels of the universe).

Arabs Algeria, Tunisia, Kabila, Akkad, Sumer, (French), Iraqi Arabs, Tibetans, Bhutan, Bengalis, Himachal Pahari, (Sindhi), Marathi, Telugu, Tamils, Gondas, Condas, Marias, Sinhales, ( Ngaju), Moldovans (Czechs), Kalmyks, Abazins, Adygs (Shapsugs), (Ossetians), Avars, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Bakhtiyars, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Uzbeks, Vakhans, Sarykols, Munjan residents, Bartangans, Turkmens, Setus, Finns, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, (Norwegians), Uighurs, Tuvans, Mansi, Ingarigd Evenks, Ilimpic Evenks, Baikal Evenks, Koreans, Asian Eskimos (Naukan).

North Africa. Algerian Arabs: Aceval 2005, No. 3 (Tiaret Plateau) [the Sultan's six daughters married noble men, the seventh married Bastard, who combed his lamb scar and rode a black sheep backwards holding his tail in advance; in fact, it was Harun Rashid, to whom God assigned seven years of suffering; the sultan pretended to be sick, demanded that the lioness bring milk; six sons-in-law went together, The bastard was not taken, he went his own way; he met Saint Sidi Abdelkader, made him handsome, gave them lion's milk; when he met the brothers, he gave them milk, and in return asked permission to cut off their lobes ears; returning to the Sultan, GR again took the form of Parshivets; the Sultan demanded an apple from the cannibal garden; the same saint gave Parshivets 14 partridges; they will have to feed an eagle that will carry seven seas - across a partridge across the sea to the cannibal garden and back; returning with an apple, the bastard dropped the last partridge, cut off the meat from his leg; when he returned, the eagle regurgitated it and put it back; the same episode with his brothers, GR cut off the tip of everyone's little finger on his leg; seven years had come to an end, GR appeared before the Sultan in its true form, showed earlobes and fingertips; since then, the lobe is smaller than the ear, the little finger is smaller than the rest of the fingers, there is a recess under the knee, the calf of the leg is thick - meat cut from under the knee was put there in a hurry]: 15-18; Hasluck 1925, No. 4 [the man has 7 wives, all childless; he has 7 there are no foals; a knowledgeable person tells him to buy 7 apples at the bazaar and let his wives eat; bring 7 sticks from the forest, break them on the backs of mares; after that they all gave birth; five sons are good, one is a black man , the daughter is blind; five do not want to deal with a black man; the sister asks the brothers to determine which of them is the strongest; let him get soap from the daughter of the Christian leader to make her sighted; at the fork five went one way and the black man went the other; he left a pen under the stone: whoever returns first, let him burn him; five come to the castle; everyone is told to take a woman; if she sleeps in the morning, putting her down the young man's head on his knees will marry her; and if the young man sleeps with his head on her knees, the woman will take his property; every woman tells the young man that she will not leave for long for some reason , she is replaced by another; in the morning women are awake, and the young men are sleeping, the women are taking everything; the young men left and hired a Berber coal burner; the black man met and killed a ghoul; then he saw a blind vulture; his seven the chicks cannot feed him; the young man gave the vulture ghoul meat and he promised to carry it across the sea; asks each of the chicks how long it will take for him to carry the young man; the eldest replies that in a year, others call the shorter term; the youngest promises to fly back and forth in a day; on the way, the young vulture feeds the young vulture with ghoul meat; overseas tells the Jew to make a golden rooster that will walk ; having climbed into the rooster, the young man came to the daughter of the Christian leader; that month he sleeps, is awake for a month; he changed soap, exchanged rings with the sleeping woman; when he returned, he found the pen intact, realized that the brothers were not yet returned; found a coal burner, told him to let the brothers go; in the castle, the women did not allow them to leave; each of the brothers received a woman, taking her property; on the way home, the black man went down to the well get water, the brothers cut off the rope; they didn't get his horse, stayed at the well; at home, the brothers said that they broke up with the black man on the very first day and did not see him again; the muezzin found a black man in the well, tied him the rope to the horse, the horse pulled out the owner; the muezzin brought the black man to him; the daughter of a Christian leader appeared, asked where the black man was; cut off the heads of five brothers and promised to cut them off to her father if he did not return them Negro; a black man was found by a muezzin, went with the daughter of a Christian leader and began working for her father]: 173-177; kabila [a sick father tells seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and will recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for the fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), who cook 99 dead people in the cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron kills devas, throws him into a hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to go into the same room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that one deva has only been injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to Cannibal teriel, is applied to her breast, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of the woman's husband, dev advises that she ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: before meat with ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw horns furiously, you will fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on an apple tree, give meat to the chicks, an eagle will bring back; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, let him be tied; when he cannot break the fetters, I will get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters ; T. young man: you will be killed, 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, deva him killed and ate, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with wool and silk, poured milk on his body, her body recovered, she revived it with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could it is easy to 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, the devil and his wife sink into the ground, he cuts them down heads; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives a box (not to open on the way) and a black man; he opens them 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 it for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he takes the young man hunting, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings it to the young man's father; he and the soldiers go to take his wife, but the black man does not let in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks him to hide; 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 the 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 one black man; the young man agreed with his wife that the black man would be tied to blood, blood would be shed, he would fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father handed over power to his son without knowing who it was; before that he asks wise men, can a father marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, seventh, no; a father orders him to be killed, a young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish 6 wise men]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2:11-24; Tunisia [the sultan wanted to marry his son, but he only wanted to marry Muhabbil; taking his closest friend, he went in search of a girl; they came to town, where they were told that M. - the king's daughter, but he hides her and her sister from everyone; 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 princesses he hid under the throne; the prince took off the ring from M.'s finger, put his own on her instead; the next day, the prince and his friend changed into normal clothes, came to ask M. and her sister for marriage; the king made a condition to find brides; they pretended to be looking, on the seventh day they said that princesses could only be under the royal throne; the king was distracted, friends grabbed the princesses, ran away; friend distracted the pursuing warriors, took them with him, 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 with him a shepherd, persuaded the princesses to agree to marry a genie if he told me where his spirit was; he said the prince's friend went in search, saved the eagle's eggs from the snake, the eagle carried him across the seven seas, and he gave him the meat of a snake, divided into seven pieces; found a camel, took out his heart, a chest from it, from a sparrow's chest; the prince's friend divided the camel's meat into seven pieces, crossed the eagle again across seven seas; the genie disgraced the prince, but the prince's friend still killed him; they took the princesses, returned to the prince's father, the sultan invited the princesses father to the celebration; wedding]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 87 in Korovkina MS

Western Asia. Akkad, the Sumerians [according to the "royal list" (c. 21st century BC), Ethan is the ruler of Kish; Akkadian legend came in versions of the beginning, middle, late 2nd and early 1st millennium BC, fragmented; the eagle, having made an alliance with the snake, breaks it by devouring one of its cubs, for which it is punished as a violator of the "Shamash oath", judge and guardian of contracts; the snake, on the advice of S., hides in the carcass a bull and attacks an eagle that has flown up to the carcass; throws it into a hole, plucking down and feathers; E., on the advice of S., saves the eagle; in gratitude, the eagle promises to raise it to heaven to get the "grass of birth", for E.'s wife is not may be born; apparently, the "grass of birth" was extracted, because tradition mentions E.'s son named Balich (Palich); Elian (3rd century AD) attributes eagle flight to Gilgamesh]: Afanasyeva 1982c: 671; Sumer [King Uruk Lugalbanda goes to the mountains in the country of Aratta; falls ill; his brothers leave him; he climbs into the nest of a huge eagle with the teeth of a shark, Anzoud, feeds honey, decorates his chick; The male and female eagles return; not listening to the chick's response, they think that it has been kidnapped; when they find the chick decorated, Anzoud offers L. a reward; he asks A. to take it home to Uruk; Anzud does so]: Afanasiev 1997:192-203; Iraqi Arabs: Lebedev 1990, No. 20 [the king is blind, grass across the seven seas will help him; three sons travel on three roads, Muhammad on the middle road; kills a snake crawling to the nest birds; the bird first thinks that M. killed its chicks, the chicks explain; the bird carries him across the seven seas, he returns with grass; meets brothers; goes down to the well, the brothers cut off the rope; the voice tells M. to grab a white ram, and if he grabs a black ram, he will fall even lower; M. grabbed a black one; old woman: a black giant gives water in exchange for girls; M. wakes up from a girl's fallen tear, killed giant, rolled back the stone, the water poured out; the king gives him his daughter, brings him to the ground; the brothers repented, the father saw the light]: 118-123; Stevens 2006, No. 8 [Shamshum al Jabbar (Shamshum the Great) married the merchant's daughter ; she has fun in the desert at night with 40 devas, plays chess with them; her son sees this, 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 all brooms), S. does not weaken; in his hair; his wife cuts S. in his sleep, the devas shackle him, bury him waist-deep in the desert; son S. frees him, brings him sword, he kills devas one at a time, cutting off their heads; the latter has 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, there are snakes regularly devours eagles, S. kills him with a sword, eagles tell his mother that S. is their savior, she agrees to take S. and her son to the island, her son dies there, S. reads sacred books; the Caliph's daughter learns about He magically takes himself 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.

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 to create 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; Bhutan [a smart and resourceful guy was wandering; two are fighting over an invisible hat; the guy tells them to step away and run to him, whoever gets there first is gets a hat; puts it on himself, leaves; 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 the 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 feeds on; one day he sees a snake crawling to the nest; killed her; 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 pick up a white one and again becomes a man; the guy picked 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 a vessel and drum, he restored his wife to her human appearance and left]: Choden 1994:73-77.

South Asia. Bengalis [the merchant asks his seven daughters whose money they are going to live on; six say that his, the seventh youngest, is for their own; he tells them to take her to the forest; the old nanny leaves with her ; at night, a tree hides them in a hollow from wild animals, teaches them to scatter crumbs by a pond; at night, peacocks come to peck at them, drop their feathers, the girl makes fans, the old woman sells them, the expelled get rich; the merchant But he went broke; his daughter greets him and gives him money; when he goes sailing, he asks what to bring each of his daughters; the youngest answers the servant "Sobur" ("wait"; the Muslim name Shobur is "patient, persistent"), he realizes that she needs something called Sobur; a person sells Sobur, this is a box; left alone, the girl finds a fan and a mirror in it; touches the fan, Prince Shobur appears; beret a girl for his wife; envious sisters throw crushed glass on his bed; his servants take him to his country; his wife, dressed in men's clothes, calls herself Sannyasi (religious devotee), goes looking for him; cuts a snake that regularly devours the chicks of Bihangama and his wife Bihangani; they arrive, the chicks talk about what happened; the male explains that the prince will be healed by their crushed dry droppings; brings a woman to the prince's country; unrecognized, she heals the prince, asks for his ring as a reward; returning on a bird back, touches the fan; S. appears, sees his ring; everyone is happy]: Day 1914, No. 8:124-137 (= Porozhnyakov 1990:100-107); himachali plowmen [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 her search; 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 his 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; having learned this, H. returned on an eagle to his land; killed a snake, took 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 a wife; brothers are good healed]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 15:56-57; (cf. Sindhi [The 70-year-old king of Egypt is childless; an astrologer orders to marry a Yemeni princess; she gives birth to a son Saif-ul-Mulk; he grows up, he has a vision: the beautiful Badia-ul-Jamal from the country of Peri Gulistan Aran; father says that she appeared to him in his youth, but he could not find her; SM and his friend, the son of the vizier (his name Sayad), at the head of the fleet, sails in search, the father gives him King Solomon's ring; the storm sank the ships, SM with several companions get to the cannibals; the ugly daughter of their leader wants him, he refuses; runs away with his companions; a huge eagle takes him away, is going to eat it; a boa constrictor kills an eagle; SM comes to the palace; there Mulkan is BJ's sister kidnapped by a maiden; she learns the UK maiden that his life in a box under a tree across the river needs King Solomon's ring to get it; in a dove in a box, SM kills her, sails with M. on a ship to Gulistan Aran; there they are looking for the missing M., M. and SM open; SM sees Sayyad, who also ran away from the cannibals; SM marries BJ; he is kidnapped by maidens, but Peri's army frees him; Sayyid marries M.; they all return to Egypt]: Kincaid 1922, No. 4:37-50); Marathi [rani died leaving seven daughters; youngest Balna is smarter than others; vizier's widow every time she comes to get fire, throws dirt into the food; the Raja watches, summons the culprit, who persuaded her to marry her; tyrannites stepdaughters; a tree has grown on their mother's grave, the sisters eat fruits; the stepmother pretends to be sick, tells him to uproot the tree, make a decoction; the pond at the grave is filled with bread; the stepmother tells him to fall asleep, kill his stepdaughters, bring their eyes; the Raja takes her daughters to the forest, brings him deer eyes to his wife; seven princes see seven sisters, marry; first the youngest, then the rest disappear; B. gives birth to a son; the wizard Punchkin comes to the palace, turns B. into a dog, takes B. away; the boy grows up, goes to look for his father's parents and brothers; finds P.'s castle, where his mother has been locked up for 12 years; his father and uncles are turned into trees and stones; the gardener disguises the young man as his daughter; she is told to take for B. water; the son shows the ring, the mother recognizes him; he asks to know what P.'s soul is; B. pretends to be almost ready to marry P., he says that his life in a parrot under clay vessels, demons are around; a young man kills a snake that regularly eagles; a grateful eagle gives them to him; they bring the young man to the vessels, he grabs the parrot, flies away again, the demons did not have time to attack; the young man returns the eagle, comes to P., orders them to revive those turned into trees and stones first, then tears off the parrot's wings, legs and head; P. died, everything is fine]: Frere 1868, No. 1:1-17; Telugu [son the carpenter, the son of the kotwal, the minister's son and the king's son went in search of adventures; spent the night in a deserted place; the carpenter's son was the first to guard; a girl appeared; seeing that someone was awake, she retired to in the blink of an eye; after reading the young man's thoughts, she approached again, put him to sleep, ate him and the horse completely; the same with the sons of the cat and the minister; but the prince noticed that the man could not retire in the blink of an eye hundreds of meters, and climbed the tree; the cannibal began to shake the tree; then another king and his entourage arrived; the cannibal replied that she was waiting for her crazy husband by the tree; agreed to go with the king; he made it beloved wife; at night she devours elephants and horses; she moved her bones under the bed of her main wife, who is pregnant; the king orders her to be executed in the forest, the soldiers let her go, brought the eyes of the fallow deer; the woman gave birth to a son, he grew up, went to the city, she gave him a ruby; he dropped it, the priest refused to give it back, brought him to the king; the young man promised to fill the pond with rubies if the king filled it with the same pearls; on the way back he killed a snake under the tree; she was going to eat the chicks of white crows, as she did every year; the crow's mother wanted to kill the young man, but the chicks explained that he saved them; the female brought him to the rubies princess's palace, and the male covered it while flying from the rays of the sun; the crows gave a pen to summon them if necessary; the princess, sitting in a cage in the form of a bird, manages to turn the young man into a fly before the rakshasa arrives; he gave the princess a human form; the young man tells the princess to find out what the soul of Rakshasa is; in a parrot on an iron pole in the middle of the 7th Sea; the crows brought him there, he killed the parrot, took the princess and returned to his mother; remembered that he had forgotten to take rubies, but the princess said that they were her tears; the young man filled the pool with rubies, but the king could not fill it with pearls; he came to the young man and recognized his mother as his ex-wife; He burned his Rakshasi wife a long time ago in a lime annealing oven; everything is fine]: Venkataswami 1923, No. 7:21-31; gondas [gondas multiplied, killed animals, lived in mud; Mahadeo imprisoned them in cave, four remained outside; born from a flower, Lingo taught them farming, hunting, and using fire: the youngest gonda could not steal fire from the cannibal Ricad Gawadi; L. himself came to the WG, played the violin, got his seven daughters for it, gave them to the gondas; the youngest got one wife, the others two; the wives flirted with L., he rejected them; they accused him of trying to rape them; the brothers killed L. with arrows, began to play with their eyes out; the Creator sent the Raven with live water to revive L.; M. agrees to release the gonds if L. brings the chicks of the Bingo bird; L. killed the chicks sea serpent; adult Bingo brought the brains of elephants and camels to the chicks; agreed to take L. and the chicks to M.; the gondas came out of the cave, L. became their priest, then god]: S. Hyslop in Zograf 1971:8-11; The condas [the king and queen have a son; they decided that they did not need more children; but after 10 years they wanted another child, sacrificed to the gods; however, immediately after the birth of their youngest son, both died; his raised by an aunt; the baby cries and falls silent all the time after she promises that he will marry a maiden who touches a stone into gold, the earth into cereals; at school, the prince quarreled with another a boy; he called him a sorcerer, who caused his parents to die; the prince was shocked, climbed into the cave, stayed lying; when he was found and brought to his aunt, he reminded her of her promise - it came it was time to fulfill it; he was married to a princess, but at the wedding he offered her to turn the stone into gold; she could not, the prince rejected her; they sent her again to look for the bride; the servant, who went north, stopped at Brahmana village and saw his daughter turn a brass plate into gold; her name was Geiramma; the brahmana was brought in a palanquin to the queen (i.e. the prince's aunt) and she ordered him to bring his daughter, otherwise him executed; G. agrees to marry provided that she would be with the prince during the day and returned to her father for the night; after the wedding, the prince and aunt thought that this would not last long, but even after a few years, G. at sunset, she still sat in the palanquin and went to her parents; the prince dressed as poor, followed her; when G.'s parents fell asleep, she opened the magic book, and then descended from heaven for her white elephant; prince grabbed his tail; at Indra's palace, G. joined 6 other heavenly maidens; the prince asked the old drummer to give him his seat; 7 maidens began to dance in front of I.; as a reward G. asked I. for permission to always stay either on the ground or in the sky if she wanted; he gave her a ring to do so; she came to thank the drummer without recognizing her husband; he asked The ring and G. gave him the award; G. returned to the ground on the elephant's back, and the prince clutched his tail; in the morning both were in the palace; the prince began to tell G. his supposedly dream, describing everything that happened at night; G. asked her to show her the ring, persuaded her to give it to her, put it on and flew to heaven; the prince went on a journey; saw a snake crawling through the tree to the nest, about to eat the chicks; he cut the snake apart, they turned into three mountains; parent birds have arrived, each with an elephant in their claws and beaks; chicks for parents: we will not eat until you help our savior; one of the birds put the prince on I. took her back and accompanied by another bird to the palace; that is, G. polluted herself with communication with a mortal, I. sent both to earth; G. no longer left at night and, as a heavenly fairy, became a heavenly fairy ruler of the country]: Schulze 1922, No. 23:113-123; maria [six brothers marry six sisters, the seventh is taken home for her seventh, younger brother; Rakshas turns six into stones, takes the seventh sisters; the youngest comes, asks the sisters to find out where the life of the Rakshasa is kept; she is in a golden bird on a banyan across seven seas; on the way, a young man kills a snake that devours another bird's chicks; she brings him to banyan, then back; the young man tells the Rakshasa to revive the brothers, then finishes off the bird; the brothers pull out the youngest's eyes; he is hired to protect the field from birds; maidens coming out of the water play with the young man at night, give at this time, his eyes are taken away in the morning; the owner and his fellow villagers help drive away the maidens, the young man remains with his eyes; the young man's bride promises to marry the one who sends an arrow into the sky; the young man disguised as a beggar wins, takes on his true form; the father expels six brothers, hands over the throne to the younger]: Elwin 1944, No. 13:53-56; the Tamils [Raja's son and the minister's son went hunting; going to the temple on the mountain, the prince saw a portrait of a beauty with a bouquet in her hands; he was stunned: he must get a woman and a bouquet; the priest sent the minister's son to the artist; he said that he had bought a radiant female nail from the hunter and recreated the appearance of someone to whom the fingernail could belong; the hunter sent him to the banyan, under which he found the nail; the minister's son remained under the banyan; every day the snake eats eggs in the nest while the parent birds they fly across 7 seas for food; the minister's son hacked a snake, the chicks told their mother about it; she told her 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 palaces; the bird gave a pen to summon it when it was time to fly back; the young man began selling jewelry near the Raja's house; dug a secret passage there; told the Raja that he would leave for a week, and made his way to the palace , made an agreement with the princess, and the Raju warned him that he would bring his wife; the 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 princess on female; to test the prince, the minister's son told the princess to say that he had been torn to pieces by animals; the prince immediately cut off his head and the princess stabbed after him; 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 returned 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; the minister's son warned his wife that the birds had vowed him; if he spoke about what happened, he would fall into pieces; but if you put them together, he will come to life; the minister's son is forced to tell you everything; his wife revived him and revived the prince and princess; his ex-wife was burned alive in a lime kiln]: Blackburn 2005, № 47; Sinhalese [two sons of one king and the daughter of another came to swim from different sides of the river; the elder hid the princess's clothes, brought her to the palace; the king drove him away with his wife; they stopped at widows, the prince told her to hide his wife's clothes, she persuaded her to return them; said that the prince would see her no sooner than the elephant chicks (Aet-Kanda-Lēniyā, at Kanda Lihini); the prince came to the forest, killed the cobra that crawled to the elephant's nest, fed the chicks; they asked their mother not to kill their savior; she took him to the princess's palace (he grabbed the branch, the bird held it in its beak); the prince buys and releases elephants, pigeons, fireflies; women carry water to wash the princess's hair, the prince throws a ring into the jug; the princess calls him, agrees to return if he completes the tasks 1) clear a plot in the forest for peas (elephants performed), 2) sow (pigs), 3) collect peas (pigeons); the king orders 4) to identify his daughter in a dark room among eight girls (fireflies); the prince gets a wife]: Parker 1910, No. 51:291-299 (translated to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 78:169-173).

(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Ngaju [Ranjung Mahatala Langit told a man and his wife to descend from heaven to earth ("to the banks of the river of peace" {the usual formula}); the man became chief, and Djangga married their daughter (Month, Chief people on the moon), visits his wife every new moon; she is pregnant, at this time sex is limited, he is offended, says that the earth smells bad, leaves, leaving seven arrows for the son who will be born; he must He will tie seven silver bamboos, climb them, release darts from the sarbakan into the sky, they will form a chain, it will turn into a vine, and he will climb it to the gates of heaven; D. himself rose in the same way Thus; due to the fact that the father left his pregnant wife (this is taboo), a half son (vertically) was born, his name is Silai; the mother tells us who his father is, advises to go to his father's brother Sun first; S. comes to the orangutan leader, he sends ravens to the chief; he asks for a boa constrictor to eat on the way; S. sits on a crow, throws pieces into his beak, he brings him to the gates of heaven; on the way S. saves drowning ants, fish left in a drying pond, a deer entangled in vines, a monkey stuck between branches, a crocodile lost on land frees a firefly from the web; Uncle C . the chief of the sun (Djangkarau Matanandau) brings him to the lunar village; the month calls S. a geek, a liar; offers tests; 1) separate water, oil, ash, sand (ants, fish mixed in the vessel) share); 2) pave a path to the forest garden without scratching (S. goes back and forth on a deer's back); 3) climb a tall tree (a monkey dressed as S. climbs); 4) win boat races ( the crocodile pulls the boat S.); 5) go to the bed in a dark house at night, where he, Month, sleeps (firefly shows); Month recognizes S. as son; cuts four times, cooks, sculpts again; for the first time S. black dwarf, then red, then rooster, then strongman, handsome; he is the ancestor of those Ngaju with lighter skin]: Schärer 1966:124-135).

China - Korea. Koreans [a blind fortuneteller helps the monk find a spring of water that gives strength; the monk becomes a robber Karado, attacks the young, takes the bride away; the groom hides from stork hunters; a grateful stork asks for fish for the future, puts the young man on his back, flies; every time he screams, Hug, the young man throws fish into his beak; the fish runs out, the young man puts the stork in his beak finger; he cannot swallow it, spits it out, throws the rider into the water, the young man swims to the shore; old man Dogu tells him to throw rice to geese, bread to dogs, money to wars, they will let K. into castle; wife tells the young man to call himself her brother; sticks Man-li ma needles into the horse's tongue, K. leaves on another horse; taking out the needles, hacking down the sleeping servants with a sword, the wife and the young man go to M.; the fortuneteller reports this K.; D. turns a woman into a monastic hat, her husband into a cassock, a horse into goats; when asked by K. D. answers with a Buddhist exclamation; K. returns, the fortuneteller finds out the truth, K. pursues again, D. kills his horse, the fugitives escape; when their son is 9 years old, K. arrives; the boy promises tell me where the parents are if K. ties a stone to a hanging rope and swings it; the stone swung back, killed K.]: Shkurkin 1941:43-62.

The Balkans. Moldovans [in old age, the royal couple had a son; adviser: old people are getting younger after swimming in Saturday water; the tsar and queen came to Saturday water and were younger, but the serpent took the queen away as payment for his youth; the prince has grown up, is extremely strong, the advisers whisper that this one would take the queen from the snake; the prince asks his father who his mother is; the king: a white flower; the prince does not believe, is ill; promises to recover by drinking water from under the base of the palace; raised the palace and lowered it into the king's arm; he had to tell the truth; the king teaches to ring a bridle by the sea; a thin horse came out with his side torn off; jumped so that the rider hit the ninth heaven; on the way to Saturday water he jumped over the abyss; the prince found his mother, tells the snake to ask the snake where his strength is; the serpent: under the table; the prince: clean it up; on the doorstep; the prince: gilding the threshold; snakes: beyond 9 seas and kingdoms, a dairy lake with blood Kabanikha with steel teeth, two rams butt in it, sparks fly, a quail in sparks, a box in it, three crickets in the box; ways in the forest, three eagle chicks ask for help: they will be eaten by Leia Palea; a witch has arrived, the prince defeated and killed her; the chicks hid the prince in the younger feather so that his mother would not swallow him immediately when she arrived; the eagle brings it to the lake, leaves the feather to burn if necessary; the prince killed a wild boar, rams, summoned an eagle, flew to the snake, which is sick; when the prince tore off the head of the second cricket, the snake agreed give him the whip of good luck; the prince tore off the third head; the whip of luck brought the prince and his mother home, his father gave him the kingdom]: Botezat 1981:265-175.

(Wed. Central Europe. Czechs [Mikesh asks his blacksmith father to give him iron to forge a staff; he gives 25 pounds, then 7 quintals; M. wanders, meets, companions a worker at the mill (one carries a millstone) his name is Cuba; the carpenter Bobesh in the forest (pulled out and carried a spruce); the king's three daughters disappeared when each was 18; friends go to look for them; in the forest B. finds a cave, food, drink, beds in front of it; M. and K. go to bed, B. guards, falls asleep; a long-bearded dwarf comes and hits him; friends enter the cave, there is a kitchen; B. stays first to cook; a dwarf appears, says that the meat is in the chimney; B. climbs on the stairs, the dwarf removes it, B. breaks his neck; but there is a spell on the parchment, M. reads, B. comes to life; the next day the same with K.; M. tears off the dwarf's beard, he turned into an old woman, she disappeared into cave; the old woman returned, M. demanded to feed them, then tell them where the princesses are; in the dragon's cave; the old woman lowers M. on a rope, the castle below; the old woman teaches them to light a candle, she will dazzle the guarding lions , then kill them with Mikesh's iron staff; B. and K. lift the girls to the ground; the old woman warns that they will throw M. into the abyss - let her tie her staff first; they raise their staff, throw them; the old woman says that she is the youngest enchanted princess; everything that happened was a condition for her release; all that remained was to throw the dragon into the sea; take a barrel of meat in the castle, jump on the dragon, he would fly on the way feed meat; throw the barrel down by the sea; the dragon will go down, put him to sleep with a candle and kill him with a staff; the old woman will become a girl; for M. to identify her, she gave him half of her ring; from the sea to the shore of M. took out the boat, disappeared; the returned princesses asked her father to postpone the wedding with K. and B. for a year; M. found the lock, threw half of the ring into the wine cup, told the owner of the inn to take it to the princess; she recognized her ring; M.'s wedding with the princess; they came to her father; the liars fled; the older princesses found other husbands]: Němcová 1990:100-119).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002:67-81 [old woman Nalkhan-Tsagan-eeje gave birth to a hero son named Naikhal; her 7 brothers are persuading Zagir-Bogdo Khan to destroy him; he sends him to bring Crimean cauldron and tripod; N. cuts Musa with a staff, the lower part falls into a hole; N. goes down, where the kidnapped daughter of Hormust-Tengri explains that parts of Musa's body are now fastened with steel, there is only one left to do eye, one ear, one hand; N. kills Musa and his mother, if Musa's body were full, he would be invincible; you can climb to the ground on a hairless horse, N. flies up on it, but towards the mousse, N. hits him, but he falls down, breaks his hip; the mice want to eat it, he broke the mouse's thigh, the other brought white clay, cured it; N. ate clay himself, recovered; mousse arrives every day, people don't know who he will eat tomorrow who is today; when he sees N., he turns into a hare, N. into a dog; grain is a chicken with chickens; the mousse takes its form, N. defeats him, cuts his stomach, from there live people and cattle come out; the yellow-headed snake always eats the eagle's chicks; N. kills the snake, the eagle swallows it, the chicks tell her to regurgitate; she takes N. to the upper world, which feeds her horse meat and koumiss, cuts off the last piece from his thigh; the eagle puts this piece back; N. kills the hare, but the guy takes him away; N. wants to kill him, he says that N.'s mother suffers from Zagir-Bogdo Khan; N. covers Khan and Khansha with a Crimean cauldron, they die], 81-94 [the girl is passed off as an unloved one, she agrees to run away with the shepherd; when she secretly leaves the house, she is carried away by a bear; she gives birth to a son Alvat Khar; he pushes back the stone that blocked the entrance to a cave, kills a stalker bear, comes to her parents with his mother; his grandfather brings him an iron staff on a cart, he goes on a journey; wins and takes his son's mountains as his companion (moves mountains), son ear (listens), son of water; they take turns cooking, the old woman eats everything, ties the cook with her hair; when AH remains, he ties the shulmusk with his hair behind the bush, but she goes into the hole; brothers lower him on a rope; there, the daughter of the Khan of the Upper Land Talvat explains that the eyes and soul of an old woman in three chicks in a chest in a wild boar in a reed swamp; AH catches them, kills shulmusk, sends them three girls upstairs; when AH's turn, the companions cut off the rope, he injured his thigh; broke his mouse's thigh, the other brought leaves, healed; he cured his own; in three poplars, a yellow snake ruins Khan's nest Garudi; AH hacked the snake, the chicks told the mother, she tells her to prepare meat and water, brings AH to the ground; he cuts off the last piece from his leg; the bird puts it back; AH comes to the Khan's country Talvat, where his rescued daughter is given for one of the heroes; the rescued recognizes him, he drives his companions away]; Vatagin 1964 (Orenburg merchants) [Zalta-Mergen-Baatr is vulnerable only in sleep, sleeps three days at month; a copper-billed witch on goat's feet and Ak-Sakal have been guarding his sleep for 377 years; Alachi Khan persuaded them to let him go to Z.; horse Z. Zol-Tsookhor saved him by taking him to bed; Z. took the form of a 15-year-old boy, instead comes to Khan's daughter to lick her heels before going to bed, uses a severed dog tongue; while sleeping, accidentally time takes on its true form, the princess decides to marry Z.; the father settles them on the edge of the ulus; tells her sons-in-law to find out who is kidnapping foals; sons-in-law see how the born is carried away by a haruda bird, Z. (all in the guise of a shepherdess) cuts off the foal's tail with an arrow; the khan sends his sons-in-law to find the kidnapper; in the guise of a hero, Z. promises his older sons-in-law to get the foal from across the sea, for which he cuts off from his right hand thumb and forefinger, cuts off the belt from the back; Z.'s winged horse flies across the outer ocean; a white serpent eats Garuda's chicks, which she hatches every three years; Z. kills him, Garuda spits Z. in her mouth, making her mouth three times stronger; she kidnapped foals so that a hero would come to pick them up one day; carries Z. with his horse and foal back across the sea, the herd follows; sons-in-law throw Z. into a hole; the horse Zol-Tsookhor tells the dogs Khasyr and Basyr to drive animals into the pit, the owner's two talking parrots to drive fresh air into the pit; resorts to Nomin Khan, allows herself to be locked; the khan's daughter finds out about the horse, asks for permission It seems that the horse is taking her away; she has a braid of 99 fathoms, only it can be used to get out of the pit; Z. takes the girl as his second wife; for the holiday on the occasion of the return of her sons-in-law with a herd, Z. is in true form; at the feast, he tells what happened, shows the cut off tail of the foal, fingers and skin of his sons-in-law; tells them to shoot up, the arrows of his sons-in-law kill them; Z. returns home with his wives, it's empty; comes to Alachi- Khan, takes his stolen wife and property; persuades his wife (now A.'s wife) to cry, asks the father to tell him where his soul is; a deer goes to the spring, with three sparrows in it; Z. rips open deer (he is grateful for relieving him of the burden), kills sparrows; unites uluses; finds his son who has fled from A. in the steppe, he becomes a hero]: 39-60; Abazins [Katash s two older brothers sent by the father to look for wives; cunningly kills three giants who attempted on the prince's three daughters, the brothers marry; the serpent asks K. to find out why Mukhtar Pasha is angry; K. goes, a snake that ate Orlitsa's chicks kills, she carries him across the sea to the evil Mukhtar Pasha; he is swallowed up by the sea, the Eagle brings K. back, the snake turns into a beauty - daughter M., K. takes her as his wife; at home K. returns sight to his father, who was blind from tears for him]: Tugov 1985, No. 33:75-80; Adygs: Maksimov, Kerashev 1953 [=Kerashev 1957:194-209; Psha Zedem has only son Zedeb (Z.), his father holds him for lazy and fool; when Z. heard his father's words, Z. tamed the best horse and became the first among young people; his father married him; according to custom, Z. (with his wife) left his father's house for a year; his father also left; when Z. returned, found the doors of seven rooms locked, asked his mother for keys; she gave the keys to six rooms, which were empty; Z. broke the door of the seventh, there three doves asked them to be released, Z. released them; when he learned about this, the father ordered Z. to be thrown into the steppes; Z. realized that his father kept pigeons and left him for Suret (Su-Isuret, "written beauty" in Nogai) whom no one can force him to speak; after killing a bastard who was about to eat eagles, Z. lost consciousness; the chicks told the eagle that he was their savior; the eagle carried Z. and his horse to a distance that Z. I would have passed a month before coming back because she couldn't leave the eagles without food; in an empty village, the old man says that a creature with 8 legs and one eye in its forehead ate ate people and cattle; it crawled out of the swamp, Z. hit him in the eye with an arrow and killed him; the old man warned that S. had already put 99 stakes on stakes, the last one was left; Z. lay down under the apple tree, those three pigeons flew in; they told S. to tell S. the story of how the carpenter carved the figure, Goochips (a name for blacksmiths) revived, the cutter dressed - who owns the created person; only S. can answer - let him say; second question: only S. can know who stole the gouache belt (searched maids, drovers - they did not find); the third question: Pshi fell ill, and two people did not grieve, one whispered to the other that there was half of the oxalis from which to cook the broth for treatment; the half-deaf old woman heard the farsighted saw oxalis in the gorge, the quick-footed brought it, the doctor made medicine, the pshi recovered; only S. knows who to reward for this; on the way, Z. stayed with the khan, amazed everyone by playing the violin and by making a saddle out of leather overnight; Khan gave companions; Z. asked S. the first question; three pigeons flew in: 1) the animated figure will serve each of the three for the same number of days; 2) the one who they search, quietly hand over the belt to the one who is not being searched; 3) the fee should be divided not between four (farsighted, runner, doctor, old woman), but between 6 participants (including whispers); S. each time He is silent, but after the third time, after changing his clothes, he throws Z.'s ring and promises to be a good wife; on the way home, Z., while taking S., also took the daughter of Khan and the daughter of an old man who lived in a village ravaged by a monster; the father invited Z. to play checkers: the winner will blind the loser; Z. wins many times, but does not want to maim his father; the old woman advises Pshi to force Z. to spend the night with him; Z. will think about wives and will be distracted; the father won, blinded Z., ordered him to be thrown into the forest; tried to take his son's wives, but they destroyed his army; Z. hears the pigeons talking: if Z. breaks the fetters and tears off the oxalis, he will see the light; Z. did; his wives did not let him in until he talked about how he married them; tomorrow it was S.'s turn to fight with psha; Z. will help, but the son cannot kill his father, let S. do it; she cut off her head, Z. took his father's men into his service]: 91-116; Huth 1987 (shapsugi) [Prince Zedem considers his son Zedeb worthless; he tames the horse; in the absence of his father, he takes the keys to locked rooms from his mother; in six empty; he hacks the seventh; there three tied pigeons ask them to let them go; he lets go; the father tells him to take his son away and leave him asleep; three pigeons invite him to marry Silent Suret; she will marry the one who makes her speak; Z. kills a snake that eagles; the Eagle takes him under his wing, flies with him part of the way to MC; in an empty village, an old man says that the eight-legged monster of all devoured, you have to get into his only eye; Z. kills a monster; three pigeons teach you how to ask the MC how to resolve three disputes; in the presence of the MC they give answers themselves; the MS is forced to say that the answers are correct; Z. returns with MC and two other girls married on the way; his father plays with him, wins, gouges his eyes out, throws him tied up in the woods; three pigeons teach him how to eat an apple, he sees the light; together with kills father with wives]: 96-111; Ganieva 2011b, No. 2 [bear stole pachaha's daughter, son Bear Ear grew up, killed a bear, hired a pachah worker, dragged a hundred trees, breaking walls in houses; pathah sends him to hart, supposedly for an unpaid debt; Hart tries to stuff MU into the chest, he shoves it himself, brings it back, he tells him to take it back; the same, Azhdaha owes the bull; pachah tells him to take it back, along the way Azhdaha swallowed a herd of horses; pathah went to MU in war, he destroyed his army, went to wander; meets, takes the Tree-Carrier, the Millstone Rotator as his companions; they take turns cooking, bearded a dwarf rides a hare with his hair, eats up the cook; MU clamps his beard in a tree trunk, he pulled out a plane tree with roots, went into a hole in the ground; MU descends, kills a dwarf, a kidnapped princess sends him upstairs; she warns that his companions will throw him, jump on a white ram, and the black one will carry him even deeper; Mu accidentally sat on a black one, found himself in a village where the nine-headed Azhdaha locked the water; MU cuts off his heads, brings his ears to the plowman of the underworld; he offers a daughter, but MU wants to go to the ground; in the forest, an eagle, MU kills a three-headed snake that devoured chicks, the eagle takes him upstairs; there is no meat enough, MU cuts off his leg, eagle puts a piece back; MU kills traitors, marries a rescued princess]: 50-57; Avars [young man lets go of fish, deer, they promise to come to help; kills a snake crawling to the nest of a huge eagle; it arrives with wind, cloud, rain; gives her pen to summon it; the young man saves the fox; the khan's daughter invites him to hide three times; the former the grooms could not, their heads are on stakes; fish, eagle deer hide in the sea, in a cave, in the sky, the princess finds; allows them to try for the fourth time; The fox turns into a morocco merchant, makes the young man a flea on the princess's chest; he marries a princess], 269-280 [the royal daughter wins the struggle of the grooms by showing them their breasts; the elder, middle brother is beheaded; the youngest listens to the old man, looks at the ground, receives wife; she tells me to find a pair for a golden shoe; in the castle she pretends to be a young man, fights again, is defeated; tells us to find out what happened between Balay and his wife Boti; a three-headed serpent crawls to a huge nest eagles; a young man kills a snake, an eagle brings him to Balay; Balay gives the leftovers left after the dog to a half-petrified woman; makes her eat with a whip; this is Bati; Balai's story: when Bati with she lay down with him, she was icy; Balay watches her; at night she leaves in the wind horse, he chases on a horse cloud; seven sledge giants play with her; Balay kills six, cuts off the seventh's leg; Bati returns first, turns Balai into a female for seven years; then into a horse; then into a hawk; the hawk rushes against the whip, regains his human appearance; turns Bati into a female; into a horse; into a semi-petrified woman; the young man's bride is Bati's sister; the eagle takes the young man away from Balai's arrow; the king kills his daughter, the young man kills a lame sledge in the dungeon and his son, born of a sledge as a royal daughter]: Saidov, Dalgat, 1965:240-246; (cf. Ossetians [a farmhand boy took refuge from the rain in a fallen horse; the eagle brought it to the nest; the boy cut his skin into ropes, went down, came to the old woman; her seven sons returned, sensed the human spirit; took the boy as a brother; they are the eagles, one of which picked up the carcass; the middle eagle brother carries him on his back, he throws meat into his mouth; cuts off the last piece from his leg; the eagle attaches piece back]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 39:127-130); Georgians [the vizier promises to find a boy indistinguishable from the prince; finds among the Tushin shepherds; the king's wife is afraid that the shepherd's son will take the throne, the king orders to weave an extra thread into his son's dress; the shepherd's son is offended, both young men are leaving; Gveleshapi surrounds them, orders them to bring an unborn girl, leaves the prince hostage; Tushin's son comes to an old woman, she throws a tree into the sea, while the waves gush, tells her to grab a reed from the bottom, a girl in it; they are captivated by the maidens, the son of the carcass gouges out his only eye; moves the food chained as a maiden to a dwarf, who breaks his chains, takes the girl away; the son of a carcass kills hangers, who devoured the chicks of the Pascunji bird every seven years; a grateful bird brings him to the entrance to the underground forest; he raises a stone , underneath it is a foal bridle and a bottle with the soul of a dwarf; it breaks, the dwarf dies, the foal carries the young man and the girl to the ground; the gveleshapi is bewitched by a dwarf girl; to be Disgraced, she should have seen a miracle - an unborn girl]: Chikovani 1986:88-94; Azerbaijanis [younger Tsarevich Ibrahim dreams how the moon descended on his herd; tells Brother Rustam and others; having given his share of the inheritance and taking a heavy staff, he goes on a journey; in another city, the son of the vizier Ibrahim agrees to flee with Princess Kul-Shad; the last moment changes his mind, and the imaginary shepherd I. accidentally finds himself in his place, the CS runs with him; they tell each other about themselves; I. picks up a stone, the CS says he is expensive; builds a palace; KSH gives a stone to King Melik-Aslan; the vizier Mamed-Ali is jealous, offers to demand new stones; I. returns to the spring where he found the stone, descends under water, where Princess Shah Sanam, kidnapped by the diva (" the queen of beauties"); stones are formed from her blood; I. kills the diva, takes the SHS as his wife; when she hits her nose, gems form from drops of blood; the king orders to get the atri-lala rose; I. kills the snake, who is going to eat the chicks; the chicks tell their mother not to drop millstones on I., he is their savior; the bird teaches how to get a rose; two girls in the form of doves fly to a tree by the lake, throw off their clothes, they swim; you have to climb a tree, take clothes, change them to a rose; one girl laughed, her laughter formed a bouquet of roses, the girls gave their hair; if burned, they will come to the rescue; I. brought roses to the king, the vizier advises to send him for pears from across the blue sea; the bird carries him across the sea; there are apples that form a tail and pears from which he disappears; the king declares war on I., who kills him, vizier and warriors, reigns himself]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 9:71-81; Turks [the hero spends the night in the mountains in a tree, there is a nest of the bird anka (zümrüd-u anka); the snake wants to eat the chicks, the prince kills her ; the chicks tell the mother who has arrived; she covers the prince with her wing, brings him to a distant land; on the way, the prince cuts off a piece of his flesh, the bird does not eat, heals his leg]: Birkalan, Lenx 2005:81; Kurds: Rudenko 1970, No. 51 [Krale Kafyr agrees not to kill orphan Zalia and his sister; Zal defeats a sea monster, beautiful Rudabe appears under the beast's skin; KK is afraid monsters, everyone converts to Z., he establishes Islam; passes his sister off as Kambara; R. cannot be born, the Simurg bird gives a sword to cut R.'s stomach, Rostam is born; K.'s wife gives birth to a son named Bedran; K. - patron and companion R.; while R. sleeps, the dragon draws K. in, who cuts him with a sword from the inside; the next night K. kills the diva, cuts off his ears; R. does not believe, offended K. leaves; Div Hyngrman hides R. in a dungeon on the seashore; Orynj son R. goes in search; the old woman gives urine instead of water, the dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; O. kills the dragon; the king says that only Simurg knows where Divas H. is; O. kills a dragon crawling to the Simurg chicks; she brings O. to H.; O. turns H. into a mule, R. rides it, Simurg carries O. by air; the husbands of the padishah's daughter are found dead after the wedding night; O. remains instead of the groom, the diva cuts off the steel hand, his sister releases 300 petrified horsemen during his life; O. and R. free Bedran, who fell into the dungeon; exterminate the infidels]: 155-174; Trever 1937 [ Ozman saw a serpent crawl to the Simyr bird's nest to eat the chicks; cut it with a sword, throw it to the cubs; the snake ate the cubs every year; S. gives O. three of his feathers if put into the fire , she will come to the rescue; O. calls S. in this way, she takes him to a distant country]: 22.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Marzolph 1984, No. 301E (Khuzistan, Mazendaran, Khorasan, Isfahan, Azerbaijan, Hamadan, Markazi) [a young man kills a snake that eats Simurg chicks every year; a grateful bird gives him a feather with which he summons it and flies where he needs to go; or she lifts it to the ground from the lower world; in this case, the young man feeds and waters the bird in flight; when the meat runs out, he cuts off a piece of its own flesh; when it reaches the ground, the bird puts it back to the young man and immediately heals him]: 61-62; Korogly 1991 [the popular dastan "Gul and Senuber" in Iran and Central Asia; literary source - Persian novel of the 13th and 14th centuries, translated into Russian by N.P. Ostroumov in the 19th century; the authorship of the Turkmen Dastan is attributed to an 18th century poet. Sheidai; Khurshid Shah's son dreams of a peri, goes to look for her; his ship sinks, he enters the garden, turns into a deer, Mehrengiz (the sorceress's daughter) shatters him; continuing his journey, he comes to blacks; the guts ask them to be raised on a tree, entangled it with their legs and guts; he sticks their heads between the branches, tears them off; grabs the Simrug bird by the legs, she leaves it at the nest; the dragon with With one lip to the ground and the other to the sky, he ate two chicks every year; the prince kills him; grateful Simrug, whom he feeds and wateres on the way, brings him to Gul-peri; on the way back they take M.; Khizir revives drowned sailors and Zeever, a friend of the prince; he appoints Z. Vizier]: 12 (comm.), 112-126; Rosenfeld 1958 [three brothers hunt, the eldest chases the gazelle, ends up in the palace of a beautiful woman, that tells him to divide the egg into three parts, the whip into four, answer what Rosa said to Senoubar; he cannot, he is beheaded; the same with his middle brother; the old woman tells the younger woman that the cousin knows the answers Senoubar girl's brother and fiance; the Simorg bird must help; the young man cuts the dragon crawling to the bird's nest, falls asleep; the bird wants to throw a rock on him as a killer of chicks, they explain that he is their savior; Simorg brings him to Senoubara Castle, gives his feathers to summon her if necessary; Rosa and Senobar agree that if anyone finds out their secret, they will separate; they want to know execute, Simorg takes him away, asks him to feed him harvested sheep, give him water; the young man cuts off a piece of his thigh, Simorg sticks meat back to him; Rosa revives his brothers, marries the hero, gives him his palace] : 112-117; Bakhtiyars [the only son of a rich man saw the face of a merchant's daughter and fell in love; her father will give her away on condition that the groom finds out why a merchant keeps his wife on a chain and feeds her like a dog; The young man went in search, fell asleep in the forest; heard the chicks squeak; killed the dragon when he hit the head with a stone; every year he ate the offspring of the Simurg bird; Simurg sees a sleeping man under a tree, thinks it is he killed chicks, grabs a stone to throw at a person, the chicks stop her; Simurg promises to help the young man; says that the merchant beheads everyone who tells his story; teaches , how to avoid death, gives his feathers to summon her; before the merchant is going to kill him, ask permission to go to the roof to pray and burn the pen; she will fly and carry him away; takes the young man to a merchant's castle; he treats the dog like a wife and a woman like a dog; warns that he will kill a young man if he hears his story, unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him; once he let fish into the pool, began to swim; his wife was shy: there are males among the fish; poisoned the fish; noticed that his two horses, Wind and Cloud, were losing weight; groom: you order them to ride them every night, one or the other; when his wife, as always, offered him wine and sleeping pills in the evening, the merchant quietly poured it out, pretended to be sleeping; his wife pulled out his seal from his pocket, ordered the horse to ride in his name, and galloped to diva cave; began to caress him; husband rushed at the diva; his wife ordered the diva to kill him; because the merchant's dog bit the diva, the merchant managed to cut off his head; at home he chained his wife, and favored the dog ; the young man went up to the roof, burned the pen, Simurg took it away, the young man got a wife]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 36:236-243; Tajiks [blacksmith's son Halim tells his father to tie him a 40-pound iron chain, goes on a journey; meets, wins, companions Sadakan, who uprooted trees; someone ate all the supplies, took away animal skins; at the bottom of the divas gorge, H. kills him with his chain, heroes they go down, release the captives, the most beautiful X. takes the most beautiful as brides; throws a chain to the edge of the gorge; S. rises, followed by a girl, then he drops the chain over H.'s head; a cloud flies up, throws H. a ram , he eats, recovers; threw the chain up again and got up; saw that the chain helped him pull out a huge bird; came to a city where the dragon devours a camel, a ram and a girl every day; when the dragon comes out of the river, H. kills him with a chain, saving the daughter of the padishah; Padishah: the bride of H., kidnapped by the insidious S., can only be found by the bird Simurg; H. killed a snake crawling to devour the chicks with a chain; Simurg suffered H. to the island where his fiancée is; on the way, H. feeds her sheep, cuts off the last piece from his thigh; when he reaches, Simurg touches the wound with his beak, the wound healed; H. drove S. into the ground and returned with his bride home]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:103-108; Sistan's Tajiks [the king has two wives, one has a son, Malik-Muhammad; the second wife offers herself to him, he refuses; she complains to her husband that his son wanted her to seize; the vizier stands up for him, his father expels him, but does not execute him; the pregnant mother leaves with her son; asks to catch the bird, he follows it, he is swallowed by divas; the mother gives birth to a son Khanjarsho ("Tsar- dagger"); the mother also tells him to catch the same bird; he defeats the diva, throws it into the well; the mother finds the diva, picks him up, takes him as a lover; to destroy her son, asks for 1) lion's milk (the son takes out a splinter to a lion, he gives milk); 2) dates from the White Diva Garden; H. kills a dragon that devours Simurg chicks every year, the chicks eat meat, Simurg brings him to the White Diva, the defeated Div becomes his friend; kills his mother and her lover when she tried to poison her son; gives H. to his peri wife; an old woman kidnaps her for another king, breaks the dagger in which H.'s life was; a diva repairs a dagger, returns his wife H.]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 2:24-39; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 59-64 [the padishah met three peri while hunting; the first replied that she could sew a robe from petals roses, the second to remove the pattern from the heavenly bird, the third to give birth to a son with a golden pigtail; the padishah passed off the first two as viziers, married the third himself; the first asked the old woman to replace the boy with two puppies, The padishah told his wife and puppies to be thrown into the zindan; the old woman threw the child in the desert, the steppe doe fed him; the boy wandered into the palace, the old woman put him in a chest, threw him into the river; the fisherman caught him, brought him up; the padishah notices him hunting; the old woman tells him that the padishah will take him to the palace if he 1) gets a gulikakhkah flower; the man guarding the dream of the divas hides the young man, shows where they grow flowers; 2) 40 boilers cooking different dishes; the old man teaches to tell 40 divas to carry 40 boilers; 3) a mirror in which you can see the whole world; the dragon under the plane tree is ready to eat the chicks, the old man teaches him to kill him by hitting him forehead with a stone; a grateful bird brings the young man to heaven, teaches him to take away the shepherd's staff, a mirror in it, leaves its feathers; the padishah enters the young man's house, everything opens; the wives answer that they do not want a knife, but 40 mares; they and the old woman were tied to the tails of horses, appointed the fisherman by the padishah as a vizier, gave the throne to his son, freed his mother; the young man sees the daughter of another padishah in the mirror, burns feathers, the bird appears, brings him to the top of the minaret to the girl, brings them back; wedding]; 1984 [the shah does not betray his three daughters, they run away from home; the eldest goes down the road You'll go and come back, the middle one You're unlikely to get there, younger Iqbal - You won't come back; promises to marry the first person you meet, this is a bear; gives birth to a son with a bear body; he kills a bear without knowing that it is his father; mother and the son returns to the Shah, the young man is called Aikpalvan ("hero bear"), he maims his peers; the Shah tells his daughter to pretend to be sick, sends A. to bring the roots and leaves of the tree of life to heal his mother ; A. meets two strongmen, makes him brothers; each takes turns cooking food, eaten by a bearded dwarf; A. kills him; brothers lower A. into the hole; he sends the royal daughter kidnapped by the diva upstairs; when he gets up himself, the twin brothers cut off the rope; the old man tells A. to go to the Semurg bird; every year the dragon eats its two chicks; A. kills the dragon when it climbs to the nest on a plane tree; Semurg brings it to the tree of life, he chains the two divas guarding him, brings the tree of life to the king, pushes his sister traitors into the pit on the way; kills the king and his army, marries, reigns], 498-507 [ Zabunshah's messenger asks for help against diva Aquon, who demands Princess Zubaida Zulfikor; Kahramon (the youngest son of the king of the city of Mir) rides a rhino, enters a cave, says on the iron gate his name; K. frees 12 divas led by Sanghi, chained by his grandfather Sakwon; they help overcome the diva from Z.; K. cuts off his little finger, the divas disappear; fortunetellers say that he is in a sunny country for seven seas of darkness; the old man orders to kill the flying dragon, which devours the chicks of the Semurg bird every year, she will bring him to the city of Cavus; K. kills the dragon with arrows; the storm is Semurg's breath, lightning is its brilliance eyes, sighs - thunder, hail - drops of sweat, rain - tears; chicks first hide K. from their mother so that she does not accidentally kill him; during flight, K. gives Semurg food and water; A. entangled the city of Cavus with wire, she rings from touch; throwing stones, Semurg helps defeat the divas, K. cuts off A.'s head, Semurg carries him back, he marries ZZ]: 167-177; the Vakhans [the maid tells the king that his three favorites sons are sleeping, and a son from an unloved wife wants to go to Mount Kaf to bring the Pearl that Shines at Night; the king sends sons, loved ones go along the road from where you will return, and unloved ones from where you will not return; kills black, white, red divas, three wagers are left waiting for him; the latter sends him to the Simurg bird; she has a nest on a plane tree; every year the dragon comes out of the pond, eats its chicks; the prince cuts off his three heads, the chicks tell their mother that he saved them; Simurg carries him, the meat supply runs out, he cuts off some of the caviar; on Mount Kof Simurg belches a piece, puts it; explains how to take the Pearl and The White Falcon at the Queen with Hair in Forty Gyazov; the scorched garden should be called blooming, the crooked bridge and the crooked gate should be called straight; under the dog, the hay, in front of the horse, the bones must be changed; the hair of the sleeping Queen with With hair in Forty Gyazov, you need to nail 40 pillars; swap the pearls in the legs and heads, inner and outer trousers; in the inner keys, you need to unlock 40 rooms, take the Falcon and the Pearl; The queen wakes up, tells the guards (gate, bridge, etc.) to hold the kidnapper, they refuse; on the way home, the prince buys the brothers out of slavery; they tied a sword to the doors of the tent, the prince stumbles upon him remains without legs; his brother pulled out his eyes, put him side by side; the dog and the horse take care of the prince; the voice tells him to hold on to the dog's tail, it leads to the spring, the legs grow back, the eyes grow into eye sockets; brothers bring the Falcon and the Pearl; the Queen with Hair comes to Forty Gyazov, asks each of the brothers how they managed to get things; she cuts off one nose, the other's arm, and the third leg; makes him find the prince, takes him as his husband, his father gives him the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 8:113-125; Sarykoltsy [the tsar dreams of the beautiful bird Murgi-Zarin, his three sons they go to look for her; whoever goes through the right and middle gorges will return, on the left will not; the younger Malik-Hasan goes on the left; the old woman turns him into a gazelle, her daughter disagrees with him; explains that The plane tree is the nest of the Simurg bird, every year a dragon crawls out of the lake, eats chicks; MX kills the dragon, for which Simurg carries it through seven terrible rivers to Mount Kof, where Murgi-Zarin lives; meat taken ends, MX cuts off his thigh; Simurg belches, puts a piece; MX brings the queen of Mount Kof and the cage from Murgi-Zarin, his granddaughter gives him a bullet to kill his grandmother; he frees the brothers from slavery, those they throw it into a hole; the queen asks Murga-Zarin who got her; on her orders, the devas kill the deceiving brothers, MX marries, takes the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 9:125-132; Munjans [the king's son goes to look for a wife; half of the people in the city cry, half laugh; the dragon in the lake devours a young man and a girl every evening, the turn is for the royal daughter and the son of the vizier; the prince kills the dragon; promises to marry the king's daughter, leaves, kills a snake that was going to eat the Simurg bird's chicks; she did this every year; the chicks tell their mother about it; she brings him to the betting garden, he kills diva, he comes back from a bet, takes one of the chicks Simurg gives, returns home]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 10:132-139; Bartangans [the king has three sons, nothing to eat, the eldest went hunting; chasing a goat, the owner comes out; prince: I did not know it was yours; the owner indicates where there are many goats; the prince is coming, there is a beautiful house, there is a girl in it; she will marry someone who says that Gul did to Sinavbar and what S. did to G.; the one who did not find an answer will be executed; for three years, the elder prince did not find an answer; the girl cut off his head and threw his body into the well; the same with the middle prince; the youngest came to the tree by the pond; there is a three-headed dragon in the pond, the Simurg bird's nest on the tree; the dragon eats a cub every year, the last is left; the prince cut off the dragon's heads; Simurg commands prepare food: she will take the prince to Mount Kof, where you can find the answer; there was not enough food, they returned; next time they almost flew, the prince cut off the meat from his hand; when they arrived, Simurg him regurgitated and grafted back; gave a hair to summon her; the prince met the old woman, asked a question; the old woman: S. is the king, G. is his wife; the prince came to them; S. sits on the ottoman, his wife in a cage; S. feeds the dog, and Throws leftovers to his wife; S. agrees to tell his story, but after telling it, he will kill the listener; G. goes to 41 divas every night; S. with the dog quietly follows her, spies; each diva gave G. a slap in the face, and she laughs; asks to go tie her horse so as not to be free; S. kills 40 divas one at a time; in combat with the main one, he prevails, but G. sprinkles sand under the diva's feet; after that, the divas S. knocked down, but the dog saved him by squeezing his throat; S. tells the executions to execute the prince, but he lit Simurg's hair, she took it away; brought it to that girl; the girl is sister G.; the prince orders him to revive brothers, otherwise she will tell everyone about G.; the girl pulled them out of the well and revived them, the prince returned home with her and her brothers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 9:47-55; Turkmens [the sick padishah asks for sons get a nightingale whose singing he heard in a dream; throws the elder Gulyam and the middle Veli dev into the well; the younger Mammadjan kills the deva with a stone, frees the peri; to finish off the deva, you have to kill his soul, she is in a bottle in the dragon's right ear; M. makes the dragon sneeze, finishes off the deva; Peri tells the black maiden to take M. to his sister, the captive of the two-headed maiden; seven sisters in total, each next is a prisoner a deva with a large number of heads, up to seven; M. kills everyone up to the sixth, everyone keeps a bottle of soul with a goat, an old woman, etc. (just like in the first episode); the sixth girl explains: a dragon crawls to the plane tree every year, devours chicks; the grateful bird Zamyr will bring the dragon that has killed the dragon to where the nightingale is; we must give millet to the chickens bones for dogs, salt for camels, tie the tongues of bells with rags on the 40 steps of the stairs; M. did everything, the chicks ate the chopped dragon, the youngest left a piece under his tongue to prove to his mother that the dragon was killed; Zamyr brought M. to the room with the sleeping devas and the nightingale; M. first met with the sleeping beauty, so the nightingale raised the alarm; but M. took him and managed to sit on the bird; with the beautiful M. changed rings; Zamyr throws cooked meat and water; the meat is over, he cuts off a piece of caviar; Zamyr keeps it under his beak, puts it back; M. takes seven girls and treasures, finds it in the brothers' well; the brothers dazzle him, throw him into the well; they catch the dog's eyes, but it keeps them, takes care of M.; the padishah's nightingale does not sing; the nightingale's mistress finds M. on the ring, lowers him into the well puts his braids back in order for M. to get out; the nightingale begins to sing, his father recovers, his brothers are thrown into the desert]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:71-92.

Baltoscandia. Seto [the man walked with the bear, he danced; 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 a living as lumberjacks; each one takes turns cooking, a dwarf with a big beard comes, eats up the cook; when he stays IM, he hits a dwarf, lets go, that hides in a hole; IM goes down there on a rope; consistently 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 about another; each replaces bottles of strong and weak water; the devil kidnapper drinks weak, IM kills all three by 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 at a time; the companions did not lower the rope to pick them up; he comes to the pine tree on a hill, devils climb from under the pine tree, they kill them all, cut off their tongues; on the pine tree there is an eagle's nest, They feed eagles with damn 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 take THEM to land; he throws her cooked food in flight across the sea, it is not enough, he cuts off his meat from 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; Finns [standing on guard, a sergeant hears a woman scream from the swamp; crossing the girl, pulls her out; she is an overseas princess who has been carried away by hell; let the sergeant will come to the pier, she will 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 time, the princess sails away on the ship, and the sergeant must find it himself; not knowing what to do, the sergeant is going to hang himself on the oak tree; a thunderstorm has begun, he hears a squeak; it is the dragons who suffer from the rain; the sergeant covered them with an overcoat; the dragon flew in, wanted eat it, but when he learned from the cubs how it was, he ordered him to sit on his back and took it to the princess; there the sergeant hired a gardener; dug up the giant's bones and buried him in consecrated land; the enemy attacked; the giant has come to life, grateful to the sergeant, teaches you 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 the 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; (cf. Norwegians [the old woman promises the king that he will have three daughters, tells them not to let them out of the house until they are 15 years old; the queen gives birth to three daughters one by one; one spring they ask the guards let them into the garden, they are carried away by a snowstorm; the captain, lieutenant and soldier go in search; see an abandoned estate; a soldier throws meat to a bear and a lion, they let go; companions cook queues; a dwarf comes to the captain, the lieutenant, asks for a coin, hits; when the soldier remains, he splits the log, invites the dwarf to look into the crack, pinches his beard; he has to tell where are the princesses; the soldier lets him go; the companions raise the stove, under it the way to the lower world; only the soldier descends in the basket through water and fire; in the castle, the princess spins a copper thread; gives a drink to the strong water, hides; a three-headed troll comes, falls asleep, a soldier cuts off his heads; the same with a princess spinning a silver thread, a six-headed troll; a golden, nine-headed; companions raise princesses and treasures, cut off the rope; the youngest has managed to give the soldier her gold ring; the soldier opens the closet, the chicks fly out, cannot pick it up; call her eagle mother; she carries the soldier upstairs, he feeds her harvested meat; she brings it to the king's palace, throws a whistle to call it if necessary; a soldier is hired by a jeweler; the younger princess demands the golden playing board she had in the lower world; the soldier calls the bird, she brings the board, the jeweler gives the princess, admits that he did not do; the soldier marries, gets half the kingdom, the captain and lieutenant are executed]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:31-48).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [Bulansy-Mergen laughed at the devil, who took his sister Akbikyas; B. goes to search, cleared the sheep's head of worms, she gave three hairs; saved the pike - three scales; killed Azhdah, crawling devour the Samrug bird's chicks; she gives three feathers; B. comes to the old woman, greets her, she does not eat him; sends him to his middle sister, she tells her to let A. find out from the deva where his soul is; that first replies that in a broom, then in a poplar nest, a poplar in the middle of the lake; B. burns feathers - S. brings it to the nest; he drops the egg into the water - the fish pulls it out; B. broke the egg, but before he dies , Dev filled B. and A. with a mountain; B. burned the hairs, the sheep's head rolled down, he smashed it against the mountain, and the passage opened]: Barag 1989, No. 43:199-202.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Potanin 1916, No. 47 [bai visited three sides, died on the way to the fourth; before his death he tells four sons (the youngest is from his youngest wife); his younger brother Zadà guards sleep the elders, kills the seven-headed old woman Jalmouth Kempir; another old woman said that the prince was building a ladder to reach the princess living between earth and sky; Z. was not afraid to get up, killed the dragon, The princess, who was about to swallow, returned to the brothers, leaving a note; the other dragon grabs Z., turns into a woman, tells them to know what Saduar did to the rose and what the rose did to Saduar; the old woman sends an answer to the mullah, he refers to the cherry plum kara-gus (bird hero); Z. swims to the island, lies under a tree, kills a dragon that crawled to eat chicks; their mother arrives with storm and wind; brings Z. to to the city of Saduar, leaves his pen; S., a local king; tells how he rushed at his wife Rosa's black slave, his wife's lover; his wife hit him with a cane, turned him into a crane for three years, and three more pole; into a cat; Rosa's six-year-old son touched the cat with a cane, restoring S. to human appearance; S. turned his wife into a donkey, then her and her lover into pigs, people beat them to death; S. wanted to execute Z., but alyp-kara -Hus took him away; that woman was S.'s daughter, S. married her to Z.; the king of heaven passed him off as Z. and his daughter; the brothers buried Z. in a hole to take his wives; he burned the feather, the bird brought him home; he fired arrows into the sky, they fell, pierced the brothers]: 159-162; Sidelnikov 1971 (1): 33-45 [=1971 (1): 33-45; =Daurenbekov 1979:35-45; =Tursunov 1983:180-189; Khan's son overheard his older sister at the yurt promises to weave him a gold carpet, the second to feed the people with one egg, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden head, a daughter with a silver head; the khan's son marries, in his absence, the older sisters tell the witch to replace children as younger puppies, babies to be thrown in a chest into the river; Khan tells his wife and puppies to be left in the desert; a fisherman catches a chest; the boy was named Kudaibergen, a girl named Kunslu ("sunny beautiful"); the old people are dead; Kud. kills saigas, the khan gets nothing; older wives send a sorceress to persuade Kunslu to ask his brother to get it; 1) a self-playing dombra (Zhalmauyz-Kempir here and beyond helps to get); 2) everything showing the mirror; one Simurg chick cries (the dragon will eat Idahar today), the second frowns (tomorrow), the third laughs (last); Kum. kills the dragon, Simurg carries it between the mountains, he takes a mirror, on the way back the mountains tore off Simurg's tail; 3) Tassheelar's daughter as his wife; this is Aislou, taught under water by the late adopted father, a fisherman Kudaibergen; at Kood's house. A. turns a sorceress into a needle; Kud. became friends with his father khan; A. tells the demons to build a canal, a bridge; the khan returns his wife, the sorceress was burned, the older wives were torn apart by horses], 1971 (3) [khan dreams a bird, flowers fall from its mouth, pearls from her eyes; three sons go to look for it; Asan goes back along the road, Usen may return, younger Hasan will not return; old woman Zhalmaoyz Kempir turns him into a gazelle, her daughter regains her human appearance, gives an arrow to kill her mother, sends him to the tree where the bird Samruk's nest; H. kills the boa constrictor crawling towards the chicks, they eat pieces of boa constrictor's body, they say that the rain is their mother's tears, the wind is from her wings; Samruk does not eat H., brings virgins to the country, he cuts off the meat from his thighs, lets her eat, she heals his wounds; he takes the bird, leaves a note to the sleeping daughter of Khan Virgins, returns to the bride; the brothers lower H. into the well, cut off the rope, the girl runs away to the steppe; the daughter of the Khan of the Virgins accuses Asan and Usen of lying, them executed; finds Hasan and his wife, leaves the bird to his father]: 66-75; Tursunov 1983 [Algan-bay has sons Bergen, Mergen and younger Kuim; he wants to give them cattle, they refuse, he and his wife leave, cattle turns into wild animals; B. and M. dream that they are grazing foreign cattle, K. - that Urker (Pleiades) is looking into the yurt; he refused to tell a dream, the brothers drove him away; K. lives with an old man, he herds oxen Khan Shigai; K. kills them, cuts them; he goes to the khan himself, he tells them to spend the night in the stable; the girl tells them to saddle horses, runs away with K.; realizes that he is not the one she was going to run with; reads in a divination book that K. is her betrothed; the khan falls in love with K.'s wife, the viziers offer to pretend to be sick, send K. to die for medicine; when K. leaves, the wife of the creators around her 9 serfs walls; khan's people destroyed 8, went to bed, by morning the walls are intact; K. must bring 1) aiboken milk (if she is chased, she runs to the moon); the horse says she swallowed its former owner; iboken sends a deer from K., she contains aiboken milk; khan says he has already recovered; 2) the milk of a water cow of three genies, they are beyond 6 dangerous mountains, one is fiery; aiboken tells K. to kill the dragon that devours Samruk's chicks; she takes him to the house of giants; everyone has a daughter in the house, her mouth is shut so as not to eat alone; K. cuts off the heads of giants, removes locks; brings a water cow and three girls; Khan died , K. became khan, all his wives gave birth to him sons; the eldest son Arpalys kills the giant, finds and brings K.'s parents, other sons find and bring his brothers]: 99-112; Kyrgyz [the khan is missing a wonderful bird Zymyryk; the slave's son Bekjal met six argali, they said they were human; he entered the yurt, ate, became an argali; the girl restored him to his human appearance, said that she was angry the mother turns people into argali; said that at the top of the poplar that reaches heaven, there is a nest of a doodle bird; every year a one-eyed dragon eats chicks; B. killed the dragon with an arrow, climbed into the nest; the chicks said that their mother's tears were rain, the storm was the flapping of her wings; the chicks explained to their mother that B. had killed the dragon; for this, the bird carried him across the pass, the forest and the sea, ordered him to drink water and feed him harvested meat; there was not enough meat B. cut a piece out of his thigh; everyone in the city was sleeping, B. took the Zymyryk bird, the bracelet from the hansha's hand, the karakush brought it back, he gave the bracelet to the girl who saved him; two Khan's son was pushed into the water, the girl became a swan; the Zymyryk bird spoke only when K. came with the girl who saved him]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:19-24 (=1981:19-23); Uighurs: Kabirov 1963 [The padishah has two sons with his eldest wife, one Hamra from his youngest; the padishah falls ill when he dreams of the Bulbugia bird living on Mount Kaf; will recover if it is brought to him; sons are volunteered to catch poultry; X . goes south on the road from where you won't come back, older and middle brothers go west and east ("you'll come back"; "maybe you'll come back or maybe not"); Black Div owns the country on his way to Kaf; the old man says first kill the mother of the Black Diva; H. kills her, throws her stone-eyed eyes into the spring, the stones turn into humans again; then H. kills Diva; Peri says she was kidnapped by a seven-headed dragon; he devours the chicks Kara-Kush birds, takes strength from this; H. kills the dragon, Peri gives his braids to tie the rope, Kara-Kush brings him to Mount Kaf, H. descends the rope into the dungeon, dazzles the guard Owl, carries the bird; finds impoverished brothers; they gave him drink, threw him into the well, brought the bird to his father, but she is silent; the merchants take H. out of the well, he burns Peri's hair, she arrives, he marries her, returns to his father , the bird sings, the padishah recovers, the brothers are thrown into prison]: 49-64; Malov 1956, No. 10 [the king's three sons went on a journey, went to three roads; there was a drum; two hit the drum; a girl came out, asked what Gyal-Gyal and Gul-Samarbek did; they could not answer, they were thrown into prison; when his younger brother came, he saw an old woman turning a cotton ginning machine, and he asked her this question; she ordered to go to the steppe, where an elm tree, on which the Simurg bird's nest, the chicks are devoured by a dragon; the dragon is three days away; you have to take a sword; the young man came up - the dragon is resting; the young man entered with a sword the dragon's mouth and he died; he fed his chicks with his meat; Simurg: what do you need? young man: what Gul-Gul did and what Simurg did (sic!) ; Simurg told me to stab two yaks, take meat and water; did they fly three days and three nights to the upper universe; when they arrived, Simurg: did he give me meat from his chair? gave the young man fluff to summon him (the fluff must be burned); the young man went to the same land, the sound of a drum rang; young man: play tambourine! Why don't you play? What did Gul-Gul do and what did Semir-Gul do? he kicked and chased {it's not clear who}; {he finally tells}; Semir-Gul had a wife; she had a cloud horse; and a wind horse; those horses Wind and Cloud walked and came back; he caught them and tied them up; went to a woman; horses are standing in the yard by the dog's trough, below the maize tops; this woman has seven divas; when he started fighting with those relatives and fighting with the diva (?) Gul-Semer-bek, then this woman Gul-Semir-beku poured one fur into his legs; he overcame the diva and tied it; then the woman was given seven divas, he returned home; that young man Gul-Gulu did and did what he did Semeru (?) ; they were my younger brothers; and they gave one iron bar; go to his house, pierce it with a rod; then that cauldron screamed {incomprehensible at all, cut off}]: 63-67.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [E-Sarig has an Age-Saryban horse; his mother asks not to go to sunset, his father has left and never returned; ES is driving, killing a monster with an arrow; at this time three wild geese are flying over the yurt, they ask if ES is at home, if his horse ASH is tied; his mother was so surprised that she cut her nose with a knife; the geese are flying again, S wounded one in the paw; goes in search; asks the old man to be allowed to slaughter one camel; that: if the khan finds out, it will be bad; but allows; another shepherd with calves; asks ES to drive them to the khan; they scattered by the river; khansha: is it really difficult to say "Khan's cattle, wade across the river"; ES says the calves are passing; the khan has eyelids to his nose, he raised one finger, told the servant to serve whey; hansha: the cows are not milked; ES milks, they do not give milk; hansha: "Is it really difficult to say, leisya, leisya, Khan's wealth"; milk has poured out; at night, Khan tells him to lick his heels; ES cut off his tongue from the cow's carcass; Khan asks why it's hard; ES says it's from whey; Khan tells me to remind ES with cream; ES cuts off the tongue of the dead dog, the khan liked it, he fell asleep; ES marries the youngest daughter of the khan; the khan tells his 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 its glowing feather; the khan orders the bird itself to be brought; ES goes to the lower world, there are three poplars on the island, they have nests with birds; mangys came out of the lake, the chicks screamed; ES climbed into the throat of mangysu, ripped it apart, jumped out; it rained, the bird XX flew in, ES asks her to return the foals; she tells her to prepare food, throw it in flight; they flew, XX releases 9 horses from her nostrils; ES met the elders sons-in-law, sat on the carpet, fell into the hole, the sons-in-law took the horses away; the horse ES comes running to his wife, tells everything; the wife pulls him out; the khan tells everyone to shoot up; the arrows of the sons-in-law kill them, ES is unharmed; gets half of the cattle, returns to his mother with his wife]: Hadahane 1984:59-65).

Western Siberia. Mansi [Ekva-pyris lives with her grandmother; shows her her invisible hat, goes to see people; meets four old men, one gives him a ball of thread, the other gives him an ermine skin, the third is a mouse skin, the fourth is a hatchet; Usyng-Otyr promises a daughter to someone who 1) kills two cannibal birds Tovlyng-Kars; they live on top of a larch tree in the middle of the hot sea; E. climbs on the trunk with an ermine, a mouse; kills the Heart-Free Iron Frog with a hatchet, who lived under the nest and gnawed the feathers on the chicks when they were about to take off; for this T. promises more do not kill people; first a female flies into the nest, followed by a male, brings people; E. makes sure that when they fall down, the released people do not crash; grateful T. takes E. to W.; 2) catch a golden perch (T. brings E. to the icy sea, catches perch); 3) get the Satnematur cones bird (T. brings E. to the ends of the earth, catches a bird); E. gets a wife; carries the ends of the horns broken by T. to the mammoth, brings from mammoth feathers he snatched from him; now both are still strong]: Lukina 1990, No. 134:346-352 (according to Chernetsov 1935:47-57).

Eastern Siberia. Ingarigdov Evenks of Katanga District [Charchikan stole sons from a stupid bird Kingit (Kingit (the name of one of the Mongolian families in the 12th century according to Rashid al-Din); two or three years later he asks her why does she cry; K. says that tomorrow Thunder will kill her sons; C. hides them, her sons died from the impact of the Thunder, but came to life; grateful K. is ready to take C. to any land for this; he wants to heaven hole (North Star); C. prepares two moose, feeds K. meat for four days of flight; K. asks not to say in the sky that she brought it; C. comes to a beautiful woman; she seems to be bursting fire; sees C. only after copulating with him; says that there is no land in the sky, sends C. on a winged horse to the middle world to bring land; the horse falls on the path, the old woman asks to raise fallen sledges, holds H. by the hand; the horse flies away]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 38:35-36 (retelling and explanations in Vasilevich 1959:187-188); Ilimpic Evenks (pos. Murukta, West 1943) [Hargi, in the form of a hunter boy, goes to the Middle Earth; the iron bird Kingit brings him to the rock; he hides her children in a cave; he promises to take him to the Middle Earth; they don't see him there, they think that the fire is bursting; H. touches the deer, he falls dead; sits next to the girl, she falls ill; the shaman sees H., asks to be removed from the girl, otherwise she dies; slaughters a white deer, sends H. back to the Lower World]: Yermakov 1988:47-48; Baikal Evenks [Mouse and Sparrow sowed rye, harvested, did not share the last grain; The mouse brought the animals, the Sparrow brought the Eagle, who broke its wing hitting the wild boar, asked the man to be cured; three years later he hit the larch with his wing, did not knock it down, cried; ordered the man to stab, cook the bull, feed him in flight; there was not enough meat, the man cut off piece from foot, Eagle felt the meat was sweet]: Titov 1936, No. 59:204-205.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Naukan) [a man goes to look for his missing son; on the mountain he sees a nest of eagles, warms and feeds the chicks; they first hide him from their mother, then explain to her that their man is their saved; a grateful eagle carries the hero to the "mountains of heaven", where the eagle that kidnapped his son lives; on the way, a man feeds the eagle with whale meat, and when it's over, cuts off a piece of his own flesh]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 41:97-101.