K38D. The serpent closes the water. .11.-.14.17.21.-.23. (.24.) .26.-.30.32.-.35. (.41.) .45. (.52.)
A strong and dangerous character prevents others from using water (or sending floods), in most cases allows you to take water (promises not to send floods) in exchange for people or values {in italics in the list of traditions}.
Venda, Laadi, Lamba, Kikuyu, Maragoli (cf. Tsonga), Hutu, aka, Ramba, Mandingo, Malinke, Nalu, Moshi , Hausa, Fulbe, Zaghawa, Nubians, Kordofan, Sudanese Arabs, Somalis, Berbers of Morocco (Fez), Berbers Zouahua (Kabylia), Kabila, Algerian Arabs, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tibetans (Amdo), Tibetans, Shans, Thais, Ancient India, Gondas, Sora, (Tetum or kemak), Ancient China (Sichuan), Chinese (Shanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Zhejiang), Bosnians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Romanians, Albanians, Greeks (incl. Lemnos), Moldovans, Gagauz people, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Cherkasy region, Kherson region), Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Abazans, Adygs, Kabardian people, Ossetians, Karachays, Balkarians, Stavropol Turkmens, Nogais, Ingush, Chechens, Avars, Tsakhurs, Lezgins, Aguls , Udis, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Persians, Baluchis, Yagnobs, Turkmens, Uzbeks Khorezma, (Danes), Chuvash, Mari, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Hotanosaki, Mongols (Inner Mongolia), Dagurs, Kets, Chilkotin, (beaver), mikmaq, malesit, (Maya Yucatana).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Venda [(2 var.); Boa has two wives; the eldest knows that the husband is a boa constrictor, the youngest does not know; at night she feels something strange, the Boa tells her to remain silent; despite the eldest wife's prohibition, the youngest returns in the afternoon from the field to the village, Boa sees Boa in the company of other men; The boa goes into the lake, all the water disappears (it remains only in this lake); the youngest wife of Boa is told to go to the lake, carrying a vessel of beer; as soon as she disappeared into the water, the rains returned, the reservoirs filled]: Roumeguère-Eberhard 1963:14-16; laadi [(European borrowing); Samba went into the house, asked the old woman for water; she gave rotten at the bottom calebasses; the crocodile holds the water, gives a little in exchange for the girls, the turn of the chief's eldest daughter; S. shot the crocodile, cut off its tail, left, leaving his sandals; the crocodile was abandoned by the chief's daughter, then another girl; she found out that the crocodile was dead; everyone began to try on their shoes; only S. came up, his crocodile tail was cut off; S. received the leader's daughter]: Aksenova et al. 2005:103-105; lamba [ The Lioness and the Cow live together; each gives birth to a human son; the Cow warns her son that the Lioness can kill her; it happened; the Lioness's son finds out about this, offers to kill his mother; they they order axes for the blacksmith, cut off the Lioness's head when she enters the house; they come to a village where there is no water; water is given by lake spirits for human sacrifices; it is the turn of the leader's son; the Lioness's son cuts off the heads of the spirits, tells the leader's son to bring them to his father; he gives the daughter to the Lioness's son; the son of the Cow leaves the wife of the Lioness's son a pot of porridge; if the porridge dries, something has happened to him; leaves ; comes to the ends of the earth, where clouds touch her, puts a ladder, climbs into heaven, comes to God's daughter; God sends an army, the son of the Cow kills everyone; the same second time; on the third son of the Cow hears the howling of a dog eating cow's giblets; says that now he will die; tells his enemies to raise two sticks and dies immediately; the daughter-in-law sees that the porridge is dry; the Lioness's son comes to revive the Cow's son by hitting the animal's tail; the son of the Cow gets a wife]: Doke 1927, No. 11:15-23; kikuyu [during the drought, the sorcerer ordered cattle to be collected as a gift to the father of the girl they decided to sacrifice; when she dives into the water, she turns first to strangers, then to her father, mother, relatives, friend: "Do you say that I am dying, let it rain"; when she disappeared under water, it rained; girls go to get water, each helping to put a vessel of water on the other's head; no one wants to help the sacrificed younger sister, they call her sister who sold her for the rain; then the girl asks for water the lake go out to help her; the lake's beast (so!) answers: I have a son, I have a daughter, I can't leave them; but she went out, with her two children, gave her sister beads, corn, bananas, meat; she buried them at home, asked her mother if she would beat her, began to tell her the mother forbade remembering the one who was missing, beat the girl; she told her father, they went to the sorcerer, who could not help, went to another, said that the beast kept the girl in the lake; the sorcerer ordered to cook mead, dig holes from lake to house, pour beer into each one, let the girl start luring her sister; at every hole, closer to home, the girl sang, "You river man, my father invites you to drink beer" ; the beast goes from one hole to another, with a girl and her two children; they slipped away from him outside the house, and the river man swung into the river again; the girl stayed at home]; Mwangi 1983:72-75; maragoli [ the cannibals ate everyone; the boy and the girl were left; in the absence of other people, they came together, but the house burned down and they with him; the remains of the young man grew a bitter plant, the girls grew sweet; in another village, a man with many wives; barren found these plants, cooked them, but they were bitter; left them in a pot; they turned first into two bones and then into a boy and a girl; they grew up; the cannibal came to ask but he was refused; then he began to live in the sea and dried the rivers and lakes; people offered him girls and cows to return the water, but he only wanted Namulagi (that daughter of an infertile woman); brother N. told him to tell the ogre that he would give it to him tomorrow; then it started raining; when the ogre got out of the water, N.'s brother killed him with a spear; brother and sister took their mother and lived separately from other people]: Kavaji 2005, No. 1:184-193; Hutu [Isacilisa is the son of a woman from her first marriage; stepfather does not love him; the old woman gives I. a magic wand; the nine-headed serpent in the lake does not give people water; the chief agrees to give his daughter for I. if he kills a snake; I. kills a snake, gets a wife; I.'s stepfather and half-brother apologize to him]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:432-434; (cf. tsonga [there is almost no water in the river, but Timba always brings a vessel full of clean water; says she is getting married; her fiance is a serpent, the owner of the river; he sends her father cattle as a ransom and tells T. not to be afraid of anything; the river is filled with water; T. finds himself in the house at the bottom and then back on earth, the serpent turns into a mighty leader; the sorcerer turned him into a snake for a while until he finds a girl who would not be afraid to go with him; now he must conquer the kingdom; they come to Volha-Volha, who orders all black newborns to be killed; only those who have skin remain copper colors; a former snake kills BB, rivers fill with water]: Bouthill, Drake 1908, No. 8-9:80-114); ramba [Leo and Ox became friends; came to the old woman to ask for water; she says that water in exchange for girls are given by an eight-headed serpent; friends kill him]: Frobenius in Baumann 1936:194; pygmies aka [Nzôya is a great hunter, other men are jealous, try to kill him unsuccessfully, he leaves; in in one place, a large crocodile does not allow him to approach the river, a girl must be given every year for the right to use water; N. killed a crocodile, ripped open his belly, swallowed children came out of it all day, but one died when N. hit a crocodile with a knife; the leader handed over his post to N., married the rescued girl and another]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 33:146-155.
West Africa. Mandingo (Guinea Bissau) [(European borrowing?) ; Malan goes hunting, his stupid and angry sister Njatta tells him not to take dogs with him; M. throws beans behind to find his way home, N. follows and picks up; M. searches for fire, sees smoke, comes to a blind cannibal; a huge cat brings her a man; M. sneaked in to take a coal, but N. tells the cannibal that her brother has come; the cannibal tells her hair to tie those who have come; dogs hear, come running, they kill the cannibal; M. and the dogs go one way, N. the other; dogs see how the hedgehog kills the frog and immediately revives it with grass; M. collects this grass; the girl Maria Futuma is given to be eaten the seven-headed snake in exchange for water; M.'s dogs kill the snake, he carves out his tongues; the swineherd says that he killed the snake, N. confirms; everything turns out that the swineherd and N. pull out their tongue; N. puts a knife in bed M., he dies, he is buried; dogs find revitalizing grass, killing N., reviving M.]: Mendelssohn 1971:203 -212; raspberries [the snake Bida sends a golden shower three times a year in exchange for 9 girls; agrees to one thing; a beautiful woman is born, Mamadi Sefe Dekote becomes a lover, who cuts off the snake's head when it sticks out of the reservoir; the head soars and falls far away, there is now a lot of gold]: Frobenius 1921c, No. 3:64-72; Nalu [Ilena has a son Alexandre, she adopts orphans Antonio and Augusto; all three are indistinguishable; I. identified her son by pretending to be dead; all three rushed to her, but only Alexandre said that his mother is dead; Antonio goes on a journey; shares corn with a snake twice, which allows him to spend the night and dine in the baobab; he comes to the village where the snake has closed the water; he goes collect water; a local serpent asks where he spent the night; when he finds out that he spent the night with his younger, middle brother, he lets go; for the third time Antonio fights a snake, kills his ring, shoe and leaves his spear by the lake; the chief suggests using them, none of the applicants can; Antonio is found, the chief gives him his daughter and power; other young men offer to run to the baobab, where the brother is a snake; the baobab opens up for Antonio and slams shut; Augusto came to help him out, opened the baobab; Antonio forgave his enemies]: Nikolnikov 1976:62-71; mosi [a man comes to the village, asks an old woman of water, she says that there is not enough water, a snake keeps it; every 7 days the chief gives him a girl to eat; a man goes to the spring, cuts off the snake's head, tells the girl to go home; the next day, water enough, the chief gathers people to find out who killed the snake; the man says he is; he is being rewarded, he leaves]: Tauxier 1917:496-497 (retelling in Klipple 1992:120); hausa [man stays at home old woman, asks water to give the horse a drink; the serpent does not let him into the bucket of water at night; threatening with a sword, a man makes the snake get out of the bucket, water the horse, then tells the snake to return to the bucket, kills it, takes it head with him; the king gathers the people to find out who killed the snake; the man shows his head, gets half the kingdom as a reward]: Klipple 1992:120-121; fulbe [when Hambodeju is 10 years old, his father-king dies; His uncle (father's brother) takes the throne; H. has grown up, his uncle's son tells him to get out; H. goes on Bonnujuwadu's horse to seek allies to fight his uncle; comes to Elle, king of the Tuareg city; his son is enough hat, H. kills him; three-headed Kurua lives in a pond, gives water in exchange for a girl who is given to him every year; it is the turn of Fatuma Elle, the daughter of the tsar and sister of the murdered prince; H. stayed with an old woman, she says that there will be no water until F. is sacrificed; the servant leads H. to the reservoir, H. consistently cuts off K.'s heads that come out of the water; cuts off the tail, gives it to the servant for storage; the king collects people find out who the hero is; H. shows the tail brought by the servant, says he came for military help; gets F. and warriors, regains his father's throne]: Klipple 1992:121-122.
Sudan - East Africa. Zaghawa [the king is old and childless; marabu: a sword will hit you on the leg; take him and lie down with your wife, the son of Mahamat Sword Son will be born; the king ordered to bury treasures, kill those who buried them, only the faithful maid knows the place; after the king's death, his brother took the throne; M.'s mother agreed to poison her son for promising the new king to make her the main wife; the maid threw meat to the dog, which died; M. went on a journey; met and accompanied two older young men; the dragon surrounded the garden with his body where the spring is; the brothers are thirsty; M. killed the dragon; the king wants to give him his daughter, but he asks to give it to his older brother; elsewhere M. kills a lion, asks the king to give her daughter to his second brother; on an island in the sea there is a palace, in which a girl who gives youth to those who marry her; an elderly the king captured her and settled her on the island; the king sent an army of devils against M., M. killed him; the king sent an old woman to M., who supposedly had nothing to eat; she threw M.'s sword into the sea, the old king took the girl away; companions M. found out about this; they dived for a long time, finally found a fish with a sword stuck in her throat; M. came to life; all three, disguised as girls, came to the king; the king's bride recognized M., chose her as a servant; M. forced the king give the names of all his servants and subjects; killed him; went out to the people in the morning and said that he was the old king, but after a night with that girl he rejuvenated; made his brothers kings and drove his uncle with father's throne; settled in the village with his mother; married a faithful maid himself]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (2), No. 28:35-52; Nubians [lying in a puddle, the woman gave birth to a donkey from the seed; Ahmed Son of Donkey (ASO) beats his wife twice a day, who confirms that he is daring; the old woman advises his wife to answer that there are better daredevils; ASO leaves, meets, takes Ushasty, Glazasty as companions, Angry, Inexhaustible (irrigates the beds with his urine); everyone first replies that if he met ASO, he would fraternize with him; the king sprinkles poison, the Eyed takes away the poisoned pieces; the king sets fire to the house, The inexhaustible floods; the angry almost killed everyone; the king is ready to give his daughter, the ASO only takes a receipt that they are daring; each one cooks in turn, the giant eats everything; when it is the ASO's turn, he throws him into the fire, the giant disappears into the well; the ASO goes down the rope, the beauty says that the giant's soul is in the chest, the ASO breaks it; the twins pick it up, take the beauty and share the treasures, cut it off rope; ASO falls into the fifth underworld; there the crocodile closed the river, gives water in exchange for girls; ASO promises to cause ritual scars to the crocodile when he and the girl are eaten, kills; hides at old woman, leaving a handprint on the princess's thigh; the king finds the hero, tells the eagle to take him upstairs; there is not enough meat, ASO cuts off a piece from his thigh, gives it to the eagle; he puts it back; ASO forgives twin brothers, returns to his wife]: Katznelson 1968:78-94; Kordofan (ethnicity not specified; F. attributed this text to those borrowed from the Berbers {which ones? in Kordofan?}) [The king refuses his daughter's suitors; when he died, Ghoul came and took her away; her younger brothers Ahmet and Hasan grew up; playing with the other boys, A. threw a piece of wood and broke the old woman's jug; she advised him it is better to return the sister kidnapped by the ghoul; A. asked his mother to boil water for washing; bent her head to the cauldron: if you do not tell us about his sister, she put her in boiling water; the mother admitted that her sister was kidnapped by Ghoul Ibrahim; when leaving, A. left Hasan a ring: if he starts to squeeze his finger, he is in trouble; A. drove up to the well; an old man next to the fig tree; he tells Ahmet to collect water himself; he is unable to lift his wineskin from the well; old man: so you can't win either; but if you still want to go, follow the ram, lead to a ghoul; your sister asks you to leave; the ghoul who came shook hands with A. - she hung powerlessly; invited her to the garden, ordered to go ahead, pushed them into a hole in which all the prisoners; as needed, the ghoul eats them; the ring on H.'s finger clenched; he went after A.; with H. everything was the same as A.; the mother realized that she had ridden a donkey thirsty, drank donkey urine, became pregnant; the baby says from her womb that Gulya will win; runs right after birth; his name is Wudan Dahasch ("Donkey Ear"; VD); they came to town; salesman oils and the honey seller tried to laugh at the baby, but he hit them so much that no one else laughed; asked his mother for a stick; consistently breaks two wooden, iron; satisfied with a huge iron club; VD beats people with it; the vizier advises the king to tell VD to herd goats and sheep in the garden where Gul Madina lives (in the local language, the steering wheel, not the ghoul); he will kill him; M. suggests dividing garden and live in peace; VD safely grazes the herd in the garden several times and bears fruit to the king; one day M. sleeps; VD covered him with brushwood and set him on fire; he died; VD cut off his head, hid it under a rock; everyone speaks that he defeated M., but only VD knows where the head is; the vizier offers another way to get rid of VD; two gulas live in the river, do not provide water, you have to take bad water from the well; two gulya have agreed turn into beautiful women; VD heard this; brought women to the city, ordered them to become ghouls; the people, the king, the vizier were horrified; VD burned the skin of the guli, they became girls forever; VD left them in his care mothers; when the king offers to shower VD with mercies, but he (as several times before) only asks for permission to continue to frighten people with his iron club; he does not kill or injure people, but only knocks people down off the feet; the vizier proposes to send VD to the mighty neighboring king with a load of manure and a letter asking him to kill VD; VD broke his club and ordered the blacksmiths to forge an even heavier and stronger one; on the ship he was surprised why are the bags light, found manure, threw it into the Nile, burned a letter and wrote another asking to honor VD; VD was solemnly received to the sound of musical instruments; at night all residents together and the king went to the fortress; VD brought it down with his club, all the people died; brought pipes and so on to his king: allegedly, another king called valuable gifts manure, so he killed him and brought valuable tools; VD came to his mother and she finally told him about the fate of his sister and brothers; VD went to the king to ask for a horse; vizier: if anyone kills VD, only this ghoul; when he reached the old man at the well, VD easily raised his wineskin with water and bent over the fig tree to give the old man figs; tells his sister that he will free the brothers; he shook hands with the gulya so much that his fingers bleed; in the garden, VD forced the ghoul to bend over the hole, hit on the back with a club, cut it into pieces; the prisoners got out of the hole; in the city they were frightened to see the crowd approaching; then they realized that this VD was leading the released; the king gave VD his daughter and throne; VD's sister went beyond son of the king]: Frobenius 1923, No. 25:273-277; Sudanese Arabs [ghulya (i.e. female ghul) closed the water, demanding a girl and a cooked sheep to eat every day; it is the turn of the Sultan's daughter; Muhammad comes, asks the old woman for water, she explains why there is no water; he unties the girl, falls asleep; red wind, rain, black rain, followed by a gulya; a girl's tear falls on M.'s face, he wakes up cuts off seven guli heads, leaves his blood-smeared palm print on the girl's thigh, gives her a ring; the sultan is looking for a hero; only M. fits the ring, his palm matches the print; M. receives Sultan's daughter as wife]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 30:149-151; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [the Sultan has two wives: a slave with two sons and a free one, whose son Muhammad; every year a palm tree brings the harvest of dates, and the snake devours them; the slave's sons went to guard, they did not notice anything; M. cut off the snake's head; two feathers fell from its head: gold and silver; M. brought silver to his father, gold disappeared; the father sends his sons to find him; at the crossroads, the woman gives them food, explains: one road, if you go, you will not return, and the other is the road of peace; M. went the road of peace; the same snake appeared at the edge of the forest, ate the dates that M. took with him, spat in the water; turned into a man with a sword; he said that the road would lead to the local sultan; he would give two chickens, black and white; they should be caught with closed eyes; a man with a sword will kill someone who catches a white one, but will let go if he catches a black one; M. caught a white one, but asked him to let him go: he himself is the son of the Sultan; M. returned to the snake; she sends to the Sultan, who will offer, with his eyes closed, to catch horses with gold and silver harness; whoever catches a horse with gold harness will be punished; (the same as with chickens); the snake sends again to the Sultan: he will give a girl, but her whole body must be carefully wrapped in cloth; if even her little finger is visible, she will burn the village, and the Sultan will punish M.; her fingers are visible, the village burned down; the Sultan let go again; M. took the chickens, horses and the girl, finds brothers who have taken the path of non-return; they ask them to go down to the well for water; there are black and white rams; if you say "white will knock down black", Allah will save; if, on the contrary, you fall by 7 worlds down; M. said just like that, the white ram threw him down; there is an old woman, M. asked for water, she gave it, a fly in the water, M. splashed water, the old woman scolds him: there is not enough water, she is held by a crocodile, gives it to in exchange for girls one a day, the king will give his daughter to whoever saves her; M. fell asleep, the princess's tear fell in M.'s ear, he jumped up, cut off the crocodile's head; so all 7 heads; each was marked with blood; exchanged rings with the princess; the king checked whether the rings were the right, ordered M. to raise his severed head; making sure that he was a hero, the king gave M. his daughter]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 9:85-87; Somalis (recorded from -Arabic) [the wife is dead, the son and daughter ask the father to marry; the new wife takes an oath from him and it turns out that he has sworn to sacrifice a son and daughter; the son heard everything, told his sister to comb her hair, grabbed her the comb, she seemed to run after the crest, they galloped away; the sister forgot the crest at the place of the night, the brother returned, the demon's comb, he gave it away; brother and sister came to the demon's fortress; the young man agreed demon that he would stay in the room under lock and key; told her sister not to open the room; she opened it, asked the demon to lie down with her; he reluctantly agreed; the sister asks the demon how to kill her brother; he: he will be killed by a snake under a certain tree; his sister pretends to be sick, asks for a branch of this tree; there his brother begins to fall into the ground, but manages to hack the snake; brings a branch; the demon advises ask for water from the source of life; the brother goes in search; asks the old woman for water, she gives only a little bit; the demon closes the water, gives on Fridays for cattle and for the princess; the young man falls asleep on the girl's lap, wakes up from a fallen tear; cuts off the demon's head, refuses to hit him again; the young man sees a man with huge ears wrapped in; he sends even more ears to his brother; The young man took water while the guards were sleeping; hid in the ears of a big-eared man; he did not give him to his pursuers; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps to the high mark; only the young man jumped and got a wife; Half a month later, he went to his sister, his wife warns that it was dangerous; he left 16 vessels of live water to his wife, took one with him; fell asleep with his sister, she told the demon to kill him, threw the chest with the body into sea; the chest sailed to the young man's wife, she found the body, revived it; the young man came to his sister, told the demon to kill her, killed the demon himself, burned the bodies, returned to his wife]: Reinish 1900, No. 2:277-287.
North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [after four days of meditation and fasting, all 40 concubines of merchant El Haj Ahmed became pregnant and gave birth to boys; the father hides them from people, teaches the Koran and other sacred things books; Qartbone is the most successful; the fortuneteller tells the Sultan that a person with that name will overthrow him; the sultan orders to exterminate babies, promises a reward to whoever finds K.; the merchant's servant gives K.; but so amazed at the boys' good manners and learning that the Sultan does not dare to execute them, but orders them to be chained and left in the desert; K. led the brothers to a date palm, under which a spring and two streams are with honey and butter; leaving his brothers there, K. came to the city; a seven-headed monster sleeps under the tree, with a saber next to him; when K. cut off one head, the monster orders to cut further; K. cut off 6, but left the seventh; the monster died, otherwise all 7 heads of the industry would have died again; the city is empty, only 40 girls remain - the daughter of the Sultan and the daughters of the viziers; the rest of the residents died of thirst because the monster closed the water; K. became a sultan, and He made the brothers officials and governors; at this time, the Sultan took everything from Father K., and sent him and one wife to the quarter lepers; K. came with the army, sued, made his father a sultan, and Sultan sent to lepers]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:60-75; Berbers Zooahua (Kabylia) [seven brothers promise to stay if their mother gives birth to a daughter, but the mother gives birth to a son; they leave; along the way, the older ones they leave the youngest in the well {it is not clear whether it is a grown baby or the youngest of seven}; he is sold to one person; a month later he turns white; the owner's wife invites him to run away with her, he refuses; she tells her husband to sell the slave, the husband lets him go; he comes to the village where the many-headed dragon has locked the water, gives it for the girls given to him to be eaten; the princess's turn; the young man breaks the dragon's heads with sticks as they show up out of the water; gets a wife and a kingdom]: Basset 1887, No. 35:72-74; kabila: Frobenius 1922a, No. 3 [the boy in his mother's uncle's house asks to take him home, he doesn't want to stay with strangers; uncle: the house is nearby, and I am your mother's brother; I'll tell you what a foreign land means; there are 77 of them on the ship, the ship sank, seven clung to the boards; the eagle takes them one by one, this man - last, throws chicks into the nest; a man kills eagles, descends on a rope made of the hair of eaten women; followed by a 7-headed hydra, he jumps off, breaks bones, crawls into the lioness's lair, along with sucks her with lions; she went out; he met six companions, the Cyclops saw them, took them to a cave with his sheep, blocked the exit with a rock; eats one at a time, planted them on a hot rod; man tells a fairy tale, the Cyclops falls asleep, he dazzles him with a hot rod; goes out, covered with a ram's skin and holding the ram's head on his head; when he goes out, throws it at the Cyclops; steals the herd; robbers they take it; in the village, the Hydra has closed the water, gives it to the girls; the robbers sell it to an old man whose daughter should be given to the Hydra; the man tells the old man to smear himself with honey, the hydra will lick him; on the back of his head there was no smeared place left, the old man was sucked through it, the skin fell, the Hydra crawled away; the man and the girl leave, ride a donkey, fall asleep; the lioness ate half the girl; people decided they ate this man; taken to the elder; he ran away from the house where he was being held; after listening to the story, the boy agreed to go home himself (Var.: ill for a long time)]: 24-30; Rivière 1872, No. 2 [son Mohamed Ben Ben from one wife Soltan, from another Ali bin Agemoun; M.'s mother died, A.'s mother began to raise both boys without knowing who her son was; neighbors advised to fake death: put chicken on his stomach giblets and shout that the bull was hurting; sons will run up, we need to look at their ears {it is not clear how this will help you get to know your own son}, give your own wheat bread, and his half-brother bran bread; M. offered to throw bread into the water; A.'s bread went to the bottom, and M. floated; M.: this is a sign that I must leave, because our mother no longer treats us the same way; when leaving, M. planted a fig tree: if it dries up, he died, and if it starts to dry out, he is in mortal danger; M. sat on his horse, took a falcon and a hound; at the source M. ask the princess to give him meat; princess: I brought him a snake and if I give part, a snake He would not give water and eat me; the serpent alternately stuck its seven heads out of the water, M. cut them all off; after that, the water flowed abundantly; while M. was eating, the princess took one of his sandals and brought it to his father; he told everyone try it on: whoever suits is the victor of the snake; M. lived in a mosque, stabbed a thorn into the knee of himself, his horse, a dog and a falcon; the king was told that the sandal was not tried on only by a lame man in the mosque; the king ordered try on, married M. to his daughter, handed over the throne, and became a vizier himself; he did not order to hunt in the side where the cannibal lives; M. chased the partridge and met her; she tied a horse, dog and falcon with a horse with her hair, swallowed M. and his animals; A. saw that the fig had dried up, came to that spring, M.'s wife mistook him for her husband; A. went to the cannibal, told the horse to kick her in the face, the falcon to peck out his eyes, the hound - to tear its stomach, but carefully; A. invited the cannibal to start with the horse, which kicked her; swallowed ones fell out of her torn abdomen; A. saw how one female tarantula killed another; A. accused her of killing her sister, but she took the grass and revived the victim; A. revived M. and his animals with the same grass; when the brothers returned to the palace, the festival lasted 7 days and 7 nights]: 191-199; Taos Amrush 1974 [younger brother Ahmed leaves home; kills a jackal, a lion, a panther, shepherds give him a sheep, a cow, etc., he asks him to keep the animal in the herd until he returns; the seven-headed dragon does not allow him to approach the water; . cuts off the heads, asks the Sultan's daughter; he offers to identify her among a hundred girls, the greyhound rushes to her; wedding; the sultan warns of danger in the forest; M. goes to the forest, Ceriel swallowed it with a horse and a greyhound; the tree at home has turned yellow, Mehand's older brother is going to save A.; shepherds take him for A., they say that the animals have produced abundant offspring; M. kills Ts, takes out the corpses of A., the horse and the dog; sees how a lizard kills another, revives with grass; M. revives those swallowed with the same grass; brothers with wife A. and herds return home]: 117-128; Algerian Arabs [ghoul steals apples from the Sultan's garden; three sons are guarding; the youngest shot at the ghoul; the brothers came on a bloody trail to a crevice in the mountains; the youngest was lowered on a rope; below is the gulya palace, there are three kidnapped princesses; the ghoul offers arguing to drink a pool of water and eat a pool of couscous; the prince prays to Allah, his pools are empty; the ghoul decides that he and the prince are equal; the prince hacked the ghoul; sends the princesses upstairs; the youngest gives his ring; if you turn it, white and black rams will appear, they will start butting; you have to jump on the white one's back, while the black one will take you to the seventh lower world; the brothers did not pick up the young man, told the princesses to confirm that he was killed by a ghoul; a young man accidentally jumped on a black ram, was downstairs; came to an old woman, she has 7 sons; has been living there for 7 years, has become bored; seven asked the eagle to take the guest to the ground; the old woman cooked 7 pancakes and 7 servings of meat; with an eagle rising to each underground tier, you must feed; the young man dropped the last portion, cut off and gave the eagle a piece of his flesh; eagle: the last portion is fresh, I would throw you off if he did not promise to bring her to the ground; on the ground, the young man saw the Sultan's daughter near the cave, she was given to be eaten by a 7-headed snake; every year, having received another victim, the snake gives the townspeople a portion of water; a young man fell asleep, the girl's tear woke him up; after each head cut off, the serpent says that the young man cut off only the first (second, etc.), and the one that the serpent received only the first (second, etc.) blow of the sword; the girl picked up the young man's lost shoe; after killing the snake, the young man came to the city, stayed in a madrasah; the sultan promises a reward to whoever proves that he killed the snake; many come, but the shoe does not suit them, like they cut off his head; when a young man in one shoe came, another came up to him, the sultan gave him a daughter and half a kingdom; unrecognized, the young man came to his hometown; there was just the wedding of his brothers with the rescued princesses; the sultan recognized his son; expelled his older brothers; the young man received all three princesses, began to live with four wives]: Belamri 1982:36-45; Algerian Arabs (Blida) [the couple has a son; the husband asks his wife to accept a drug to conceive again; she prepared the drug, went to the bathhouse; her husband accidentally ate it himself; the wife came back, a quarrel began, and a few days later the wife died {from beatings?} ; the husband's leg was swollen, a girl came out of the tumor; he told his son to get rid of it; he left the child in the tree; for three years an eagle fed the girl, then the young man took her and went on a journey; he had three dogs with talking names (the last "Pulling the lungs out of her shoulders"); the girl's name is Bent essaq ("Foot Daughter"; B.); they came to Ghoul's house; he left with the key in the door; they began to live in this house; until the brother was gone, the ghoul returned; B. did not unlock it, the ghoul broke the door; B. called the dogs, they did not come; the ghoul married B.; the brother returned, began to fight the ghoul, called the dogs, they tore the ghoul (the third dog pulled out her lungs); but his sister cured him; his brother returned again, cut the ghoul in half; left, leaving B.; in one area people are thirsty; the dragon closed the water, demands a bowl of couscous, ram and a girl; a young man cut a dragon, the water poured out abundantly; the girl exchanged shoes with her savior; all men are told to bring their shoes; the young man comes last, the princess threw it at him apple, recognized her shoes; wedding 7 days and nights; B. came, persuaded her to forgive her; collected dragon thorns, put her brother in bed; he died and buried; dogs removed the body, pulled out the thorns, young man came to life; my sister is crucified at the gates of the city so that everyone who passes by spit on her]: Desparmet 1910:140-149.
Western Asia. Palestinians [the king gives a barren wife three apples to eat, she gives birth to a son three times; seeds grow three apple trees; every year the wind tears off their petals; the eldest sons Raid and Zaid they guard, flee from the cloud; the younger Said shoots, follows a bloody trail to the well, descends; the kidnapped princess Dumia explains that a sleeping wounded giant can only be killed with his sword; S. kills; D. gives his dress and ring, tells him to sit on a white ram; S. sends D. and treasures upstairs; seeing D., R. and Z. throw a rope; S. accidentally sat on a black ram, came to the seventh lower world ; kills a snake that tried to kill piglets; the pig promises to take S. upstairs if he prepares 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; the water is covered by the evil spirit of efreet, gives for the girls; S. kills and., saves the princess; the pig takes S. to the ground; he puts lamb demand on his head, is hired as an apprentice; R. became king, expelled Z., is preparing a wedding with D.; she demands to make a ring and clothes; S.-apprentice gives them to the owner, D. recognizes them; during the wedding, the elephant trampled R., S. killed the elephant (and the bear), D. recognized him, he reigned]: Lebedev 1990, No. 19:109-117; Syrian Arabs: Basset 1894, No. 7 [that Palmyra (Tadmor) built genies for Solomon, wrote the pre-Islamic poet Nabighan Dzobyâni; these legends still exist today; S. married a Christian woman Sitt Bilqis and decided to build a palace where it is better air; to do this, he called birds that fly everywhere; the oldest eagle lost its feathers and could not fly; S. ordered him to be brought in, rejuvenated him; the eagle showed that the best place for Sitt Bilkis Palace is Tadmore; but there is no water there, because it was locked by a 40-mile long serpent; S. promised to keep him alive if he released water; when the serpent was half crawled out of the cave, S. touched it with his seal, turning it into stone]: 192; Kuhr 1993 [Prince Hassan grew up, asked his father to go on a journey, he gives him a sword; at rest, a horseman drove up to H. and offered to fight; H. offered to eat first; then two more; one has an all-seeing mirror, the other has a flying carpet, the third can be underwater for a long time; H. says that they shared bread and salt and can't fight now; they come to a city where the sun is not visible: the sea whale swallows it at sunrise; H. kills the whale with his sword, gets the princess, but gives her to his sister, who has a mirror; in the next city, the ghoul closes the water, gives the princess's turn in exchange for the girls; H. kills a gulya, gives the princess to a sister with a flying carpet; H. saw two people unsuccessfully trying to break the column with swords; they explained that the king of China hid his daughter from the king of Persia to her; who will break the column, become the princess's husband; H. easily breaks the column, gets the princess, leaves her to live in a fortress on the island, she lowers the stairs for him when he comes; the king of Persia tells him to dig underground passage, sends the old woman, she stays with his wife H., persuades her to find out what her husband's soul is; in a broom (the wife adorns the broom, the old woman does not believe); in the window frame (the same); H. admits that his life in a sword that he puts between himself and his wife at night; an old woman grabs a sword at night, throws it into the sea, H. loses consciousness, the old woman calls the warriors, they bring X.'s wife to the Persian king; if in two weeks the sword cannot be returned, H. will die; his brother with a mirror saw everything, the other provided a flying carpet, the third took a sword out of the sea; H., who came to life, made his way to Persia through the same underground passage; agreed with the old woman, she handed a letter to his wife; the wife put sleeping pills in the Persian king's wine; H. sneaked in quietly, killed the king, put on his clothes, and in the morning said that he was younger after his wedding night with the Chinese princess; later confessed what was wrong, but remained king]: 18-31; Iraqi Arabs: Lebedev 1990, No. 20 [the king is blind, grass across seven seas will help him; three sons travel on three roads, Muhammad on the middle; kills a snake crawling to the bird's nest; the bird first thinks that M. killed its chicks, the chicks explain; the bird takes it across the seven seas, he returns with grass; meets brothers; goes down to the well, brothers cut off the rope; the voice tells M. to grab a white ram, and if he grabs a black one, he will fall even lower; M. grabbed a black one; an old woman: a black giant gives water in exchange for girls; M. wakes up from a fallen one the girl's tears, killed the giant, rolled back the stone, the water poured; the tsar gives him his daughter, brings him to the ground; the brothers repented, the father saw the light]: 118-123; Yaremenko 1990, No. 16 [the tsar divorced his first wife, from her son Muhammad (M.); from her second wife, sons Mahmoud and Ahmed; kicked the first one out with M.; became blind, lion's milk will help; the older brothers reluctantly allow the youngest to go with them; the old man points three ways: 1] prosperity, 2) regret and remorse, 3) for which they do not return; each of the brothers goes their own way, M. goes last; the elders met again, wasted everything, were hired as workers in the city; a captive in a genie's castle advises M. to venerate their mother's breast; now M. has become their brother, they took him to their middle aunt, her sons to their older aunt; her sons tell them to remove the splinter from their paw a lion; a grateful lion gives a wineskin of lion's milk, sends a young lion to carry it; M. also receives camels, gold and three girls; finds brothers, takes them with him, but stigmatizes them; the brothers let him down into the well for water; there is the girl and the eagle that stole it; M. kills the eagle (if you hit it a second time, she will come to life); the girl feels that the brothers will cut the rope; if M. touches the white goat, she will take him to the ground, if she takes him down to the bottom; M. sends a girl upstairs, the rope is cut off, touched by a black goat, he fell into the lower world of genies; there a witch gives water in exchange for girls, now it is the turn of the daughter of the king of genies; M. kills the witch, the girl marks the savior with her blood; everyone brags that they killed the witch, but the girl throws a grenade at M.; the genie flies with M. to the ground, who throws it in his mouth along the way fat tails and tortillas, one piece fell, he cut off the meat from his thigh; the genie regurgitates him, puts it back; older brothers and stolen goods are waiting in an enchanted sarcophagus; M. defeats his father's army, all races says, shows marks on the shoulders of his brothers, heals his father from blindness; he gave him the throne, imprisoned his eldest sons]: 93-102; Weissbach 1908, No. 8 [the sultan killed his wives every week; the vizier's daughter remains; she ran away, found an empty castle, gave birth to a son there, he grew up; the young man hunts, each rz shares his prey with the lions, they become his friends; he unlocked all the rooms in the palace, in one found a chained black man with a lip, which he covered himself like a blanket; in the absence of her son, the mother frees the black man and lives with him, and when the son arrives, he shackles him again; to get rid of the young man, the mother with the black man agrees that she will pretend to be sick, let her son bring 1) a grenade guarded by cannibal eagles; young lions killed eagles, a young man brought grenades; 2) water from the river in which the dragon gives water residents of the city in exchange for girls; a young man comes to an old woman, who says that the dragon has already eaten all the girls, it is the turn of the sheikh's daughter; the young man killed the dragon, the girl anointed him with dragon blood; the slave claims that he killed, the sheikh is ready to give him his daughter; she says that she has noted her savior; the sheikh gathers all the men; the young man is the last to be brought, he gets a wife; goes to visit his mother; the wife gives a ring, another her: if he turns yellow, her husband is in trouble; the mother offers her son to play chess and when she finally wins, she gets the right to shackle him; he replies that he can only be tied with his own hair; she does; the black man refuses to kill him, his mother kills, throws the body away; the lions came running, one began to lick his wounds, the other brought the caravans; the young man was still alive, he was leaving, he returned to his wife; killed his mother, scoped a black man]: 43-53; Saudia [Muhammad is the son of the Sultan from his unloved wife, with whom he divorced; Mahmud and Ahmed are sons from his beloved; the sultan is blind; fortune teller: lion's milk brought to the back of a lion; the brothers went in search; at the fork, the old man points to three roads: prosperity; regret and remorse; on which they do not return; Muhammad chose the latter; the other two roads came together, they brought them to the city, Mahmoud and Ahmed squandered money, one went to work in a tavern, the other to a lamb head salesman; Muhammad came to the jinn's palace; the captive girl advises them to venerate their breasts mother; jinnia hid Muhammad from her sons; then they called him brother; brought him to her middle aunt; from her to her eldest; she teaches him to pull a splinter from a sleeping lion and ask for milk when he will stop being angry with pain; the genies rewarded the young man, he returned with 15 camels loaded with gold, three girls and a lion carrying lion's milk on his back; in the city, Muhammad found brothers and took They are only with them after they have allowed them to be branded with him; we have to get water, only Muhammad agrees to go down to the well; there is a girl and a sleeping eagle at the bottom; he can only be killed with his own sword; the eagle asks to hit him a second time; Muhammad: father and mother were not taught to finish off; the eagle is dead; Muhammad sent water and a girl upstairs; she gave a ring: if rubbed, she will come to the rescue; the brothers will cut off the rope; you have to follow this road; if a black goat hits, you will descend into the seventh underworld, and if you are white, you will go up to the ground; the goats fought, the white one missed, the black one hit, Muhammad found himself in a hot world where genies lived; old woman: a witch at the ditch lets water once a year when she is given one of the daughters of the king of jinns; today is the middle daughter's turn; Muhammad hacked a witch; rubbed the ring; that girl tells him to go to the palace of the jinns; there his daughter will throw grenades at the one who saved her; this is what happened; the king ordered one of the genies to raise Muhammad to the ground; to do this, prepare 7 lamb fat tails and 7 servings of tortillas; the seventh fat tail Muhammad dropped, cut off the meat from his thigh; on the ground, the genno regurgitated the meat and put it on the wound; meanwhile, the girl covered the camels, the lion, herself and the other girls with an iron sarcophagus; Muhammad defeated his father's army, showed marks on the shoulders of his brothers; by agreement with the girl, destroyed the iron sarcophagus; the king saw the light, the Sultan returned his first wife, the second sons thrown into prison]: Juhaiman 1999:37-47; Yemen [Sultan has many children; one son and one daughter are already grown up; daughter leaves the palace at night, devours babies, then returns; people followed after her, they said to the Sultan's son, he was convinced of the veracity of this story, said to his father, but the Sultan drove his son away; he rode to a country where the Sultan has seven daughters; Afrite closed the water, gives out every year only in exchange for the Sultan's daughters; he has already eaten four; the young man stays with a poor old woman; comes to the mouth of the wadi, sees how another girl in bride's clothes was brought; hides behind a rock; Afrit puts his sword to the ground, the young man grabs him, cuts off Afrit's head (Afrit can only be killed with his own weapon); he asks to hit him again, the young man refuses; the palace believes in the girl's salvation after they see that The wadi is full of water; the feast; the young man is found with a poor old woman, the sultan marries him to his rescued daughter; the young man decides to travel; goes to the castle; there two girls are hanged by the hair; the third explains that he will appear Afrit, will fall asleep on her lap; you have to wait until he releases gases with a terrible roar means he sleeps deeply; to kill Afrit with his own sword at once; a young man kills Afrit, frees the hanged, calls girls sisters; each gives him a magic object: a needle (will become a mountain), a salt crystal (a salt mountain), a cage with two pigeons (if the young man is in trouble, they will rush, turn into winged horses will come to the rescue); the young man returns to his wife, leaves her a cage with pigeons, admits that he is the son of the Sultan, goes to visit his native places; there the werewolf sister ate everyone; says that they are dead; he goes to the stall, eats his brother's horse, he runs himself, throws a needle (mountain), salt (salt mountain), but his sister overcame them; just as the sun went down, the pigeons at the young man's wife's house were worried, she had them released, the horses flew in, the young man sat on one, the second runs behind, the young man returned to his wife]: Daum 1992, No. 4:38-55.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [The frog and the turtle have settled in the lake; they only give water when young men are sacrificed to them; it is the turn of the hunter's son and the son of a peasant; they hid behind the rocks; the son of a hunter threw a stone at the Frog; she thought the Turtle did it, they quarreled; the young men grabbed them by the necks; whoever kills the Frog with a stick on the head and eats it will spit gold; who stones the Turtle - turquoise; they did so, went home, spit gold and turquoise]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:58; Tibetans [one of the "ghost stories"; turquoise and golden frogs they give water only in exchange for people who are sacrificed; the prince and his friend kill frogs, they tell them to eat them, they will burp turquoise, gold; the inn owner and her daughter solder them to make them regurgitated more gold; friends take away, supposedly resolving their dispute, an invisible hat from children, speeding boots from demons; a prince is elected king, a friend is elected minister; the prince marries the daughter of the former king; the minister watches how the prince's wife comes to the old fortress to meet Togkarko, who arrives in the form of a bird; the minister lures the bird into the palace, burns it; finds a carpet lying on which turns into a donkey and back into a man; puts it on the inns; three years later, the king orders that hard-worn donkeys be turned back into women]: Waddell 1931:187-192.
Burma - Indochina. Shany: Griggs 1902 [a man with his wife and children went for bamboo: a bear came out at him; the husband ran, and the wife put sharp bamboo in the bear's mouth, killed the bear, took off his skin, brought it to she had meat; her husband locked himself in the house, thought that his wife's spirit had come to him; in the morning he realized that his wife was alive; the clever wife said that her husband killed the bear; he was named Gon Han Me ("seeing a bear"), was known as a brave man; The king asked him to kill a cobra that did not allow him to approach the well; GHM goes to the well in horror, falls down in fear, his rice bag accidentally wraps around the snake and it dies; the king appointed GHM army commander; GHM does not know how to ride a horse, his wife tied him to a horse; the horse gallops in fear, the saddle slides over his stomach, then back on his back; enemies see that the rider appears on the horse then disappears, they think that he is able to become invisible, they run in fear; the GHM horse falls, the rider has difficulty freed himself; the king gave him a palace and treasures]: 19-31; Milne 1910 [the leader stopped to sacrifice to the spirits, they asked the great crocodile, the lord of clouds and springs, to intervene; the rains stopped, the situation became catastrophic in the third year; the leader sent a soothsayer to kill the crocodile; he reluctantly went, but only hit the crocodile with an arrow in the eye; the chief sent him again; the crocodile asked the hunter to help him; he shot the soothsayer with a bow, threw his body into the lake; 7 heavenly fairies were descending to swim there; the hunter asked the crocodile to help get one as his wife; he gave a magic rope, the hunter threw it, catching all seven; demanded the youngest to marry; brought him home; but the hunter's wife and himself frightened of the heavenly maiden, whose body emanated light; the hunter took her to the royal palace, the maiden married the prince and they were happy]: 226-229; Thais [the princess finds a crocodile egg, holds himself, a crocodile was born, grew up, went into the river, kills people; people tell the king to sacrifice the royal daughter; the king sends his daughter to the river; she takes her beloved cat with her; rushes into water and stays on the lotus flower; the crocodile wants to grab it, but attacks the thorns on the stem and dies; the cat does not advise the princess to return home; the rakshasa grabs the princess, makes her daughter; the neighboring king hunts, chases the golden deer (Indra took his form), who brings the king to the Rakshasa house and disappears; the king brings the princess to him and marries him; when the princess gives birth, the old wife says she gave birth to a log; but it all ends well]: Low 1836:348.
South Asia. Ancient India [Indra killed Twashtar's son Vishwarupa, cutting off his three heads; T. deprived Indra of his share of the catfish, he came and drank catfish rightfully strong; then Twashtar created a snake from catfish and fire Vritra, who swallowed all the water; Indra rushed at him, Vritra swallowed it and fell asleep; Shiva sent him Yawning, Vritra yawned, Indra went out, cut Vritra's head with his vazdra; from Vritra's skull Indra He made a cup for himself, cut his body in two; the good part made of catfish rose into the sky and became the moon; the demon part became the womb of all living beings; because Vritra and Vishvarupa were brahmanas, Indra did grave sin; he hid in a lotus stem at the end of the world and stayed there]: Erman, Temkin 1985:49-50; sora (Hill Saora) [a crocodile in a pond eats those who come up, people can't use water; the old man and the old woman began to drink through a long pipe; the crocodile decided that he could not eat them, offered to cultivate the field together; they sowed root crops; the crocodile replied that will take the fruits, the roots go to man; the crocodile offered to plant rice, chose the roots, lost again; sent his seven sons to study; the man locks them, alone every day eats, then runs away with his wife; the crocodile hides in clear water, the man says loudly that he will drink muddy; then vice versa; the crocodile comes ashore, pretends to be dead; the man speaks to his wife that dead flesh must sway; the crocodile died in the sun, a man and his wife ate it]: Elwin 1954, No. 17:288-289; gondas [the peasant's wife suggested slaughtering a cow to attach it liver to his forehead and get rid of the headache; the husband let the cow go into the forest, brought the goat's liver; the cow became friends with the tigress, each giving birth to a human boy; the tigress's son decided that his mother could kill a cow and kill a tigress himself; the king of the city promises a daughter to whoever kills Dana and brings his ears and tail; young men killed Dano, the princess gets the son of a cow; young men killed fish that devoured those who came for water; after that, the tigress's son also got a wife; the young men found that cow, came with her to the village where her owners lived, and became landowners there]: Elwin 1944, No. 5:430-431.
(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Tetum or kemak (probably European borrowing) [after throwing a net off the shore, the brother pulls out a singing coconut, seven sisters like it; their mother finds it, cooks it for food; brother promises to find another one like it; climbs a palm tree, where a seven-headed snake demands seven girls in exchange for a coconut; the young man takes them away, goes to fetch water, the kite raises them to the tree; when the snake has almost gnawed a trunk, a kite invites her to open her mouths to throw girls at them, throws pieces of iron; the girls return home]: Pascoal 1967:319-321).
China - Korea. Ancient China (Shu Kingdom in western Sichuan) [every year, people collected money and bought two girls to pass them off as the spirit of the Min River; otherwise it would break up; Li Bin married the spirit of two his own daughters; put them on the throne on the shore and offered the spirit to drink with him; but the spirit did not appear; Lee Bin pretended to be insulted, took up his sword, summoned the spirit to fight and left; appeared on the shore two bulls began to butt; Lee Bin returned, breathing heavily, and said that the bull looking south was him, Lee Bin, and the one looking north was the spirit of the river; let the assistant help kill him; the assistant stabbed him bull]: Sage 1992:150-151; Chinese (Shanxi, Wu. Zhangzi) [during the time of Fire Lord Shennong in Jizhou, a black dragon climbed into the Zhanghe River and caused a flood; the Shandang Basin was filled with water, and the waves reached the foot of the mountain Yantou, and they almost took away S. Five cereals; the guardian of the scepter, Geng Zhu-tzu, reported, S. gathered advice; S.'s youngest daughter named Nuiwa (the second character is different from the one in the name of Nuiva, the creator of mankind); went to catch the dragon, S. gave her the Putas to pacify the dragon; he hid in the East Sea; N, waited a long time by the sea, and then began to check the rivers and lakes; after a few years, the waters of Zhanghe began to boil again; N. saw Geng Zhu-tzu, who taught people agriculture in the field; N. went to G, left her fetters, a huge wave carried them away, a one-horned black dragon appeared out of the water; the flood flooded the Taihangshan Mountains and the plains Jizhou region; the dragon hid in the sea, and N. and G. died; after death, N. turned into a turtledove with a white beak, a motley head and red paws and screams, Jingwei! Jingwei! It's a shame (cankui)! ; throws pebbles and branches into the water to cover the sea and crush the dragon, thereby correcting his mistake; G. also regretted that he could no longer teach people agriculture and turned into a cuckoo; flies, shouting: Sow cereals (boo-gu)! Sow cereals! because the mistake was caused by his love for N., the turtledove flew east, and he flew west and reached a mountain on the banks of the Fenhe River; it became known as Jiwang ("The Millet King")]: Zhou Yang et al. 1999, No. 7:9-10; Chinese (Henan, Wu. Anyang, village Fengle; recorded in 1982) [Ye Town in Hebei was a county seat in ancient times, and Ximen Bao was appointed county head there. He arrived at the Zhuanghe River, Yongle village was at the pier on the south bank; the SB saw that arable land was abandoned, many houses had bricks in windows and doors; he met an old man grazing goats; he said that every year, locals had to choose the most beautiful girl in the village; on June 24, she was put in a paper boat and pushed into the middle of the river; soon the boat sank and the girl was believed to become the wife of the river god; otherwise he sent a flood; three shamans did this: the elder head of the spirits, the second and third heads of spirits; after harvesting wheat, they charged people grain to prepare for marriage the god of the river, then chose a girl to marry God; the rich paid off, so they chose girls from the poorest families; they also did not want to give their daughters, sealed their house and fled; on June 24, the Security Council addressed shamans: "Today is a joyful event, the river god is getting married, I congratulate you! Can you see what your chosen girl looks like, let me come over so I can look at her?" The shamans brought a girl; SB: "This girl is not the best, I'm afraid the river god won't like her! Can I pick the best one myself and send it instead of this one?" The shamans agreed. SB: "I think we've come to an agreement, but we don't know if the river god doesn't like it, who will go to him for advice?" ; The SB sent the eldest head of the spirits; two warriors threw her into the river; the same with the second; the third began to beg for mercy, admitted that everything was not true; the people who fled to other places returned and healed peacefully]: Henan 2001:60-62; Chinese (Sichuan) [the dragon caused floods; to propitiate him, he had to marry girls; the ruler rushes into the waters and defeats the dragon]: Eberhard 1937, No. 93.I: 135-138; Chinese (Zhejiang) [a water dragon threatens to flood the surrounding area; a man descends into the water, fights and defeats it]: Eberhard 1937, No. 93.II: 138-139.
The Balkans. The Bosnians [when they die, the father tells the three brothers to give three sisters to be the first to come for them; strangers take the sisters away; the brothers go look for them, find them from the giant, who tells them to make a fire to they cannot return, he chained them to a pole; the mother sees a grain of pepper, asks God for a fourth son, even if he is just as small; The pepper is born, tells them to forge a huge iron club; the giant makes a fire with his flint, the giant becomes his slave; P. wins, takes giants with two and three heads as servants; each cooks in turn, the dwarf takes food; P. is pinched a dwarf's beard in a split beech tree; he tore off his beard, went underground; P. goes down, there are three girls with a gold loom, chickens, herd, hoop; they tell them to kill their dwarf brother with a wooden sword; servants they pick up the girls, cut off the rope; P. comes to the spring, where the dragon gives water in exchange for the girls, it is the turn of the royal daughter; P. falls asleep, wakes up from the girl's tears, kills the dragon, cuts off his ears; the arap tells the king that he killed the dragon, P. shows his ears, the arapa is executed; the king advises saving the chicks of a giant bird from the dragon; the chicks tell their mother that P. did not attack them, but killed the dragon; the mother bird tells collect a supply of meat, bread, water, feed it on the way to the upper world; P. cuts off the last piece of P. from the hip, the bird belches it, puts it back; P. kills giants, marries and gives princesses to his brothers]: Arkhipova 1962:30-42; Bulgarians [as soon as the old man's apple tree brings golden apples, lamia steals them; the eldest, middle sons guard and fall asleep; the youngest pierces the lamia's tongue with an arrow, brings an apple to his father, along with his brothers, follows a bloody trail to the well; the elder, middle brothers cannot go down because of the heat, the younger one goes down on a rope; there is a garden and a beautiful girl, the young man sends her upstairs, she gives him a wishful ring, tells him to jump on a white ram, while the black one will let him down into a world even lower; at the top, the brothers are fighting over a woman, she promises to marry the one who gives the dress which fits into a nut; a young man hits a black ram, ends up below; an old woman tears in flour instead of water, lamia closes the water, gives her a jug for a man; the old woman fed her six sons, Today she sent a daughter; a young man killed lamia with a dogwood baton, stayed under a tree; a three-headed serpent crawls to eat eagles, the young man killed him, the chicks told their mother who saved them; the eagle agrees to take them to the ground, it is necessary to prepare water, meat and bread; the young man cuts off the last 2 pieces from his feet; on the ground, the eagle returns these pieces; the young man tells the ring to appear a nut with a dress; the brothers admit younger superiority; wedding]: Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1951:44-52; Bulgarians []: Leskien 1916, No. 18:73-77; Macedonians: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991 [the lazy man slammed his flies, ordered to forge a sword with with the inscription "40 souls in one blow"; fell asleep, the robbers saw the inscription, made him an chieftain; the dragon settled in a pond, gives water in exchange for a person a day; a lazy man climbed a tree in fear and fell on the dragon, ordered the robbers to finish him off; the king asks to defeat the attacking enemies; the lazy man ordered to tie himself to a horse and to a dry tree to tear it apart; but the tree broke; at the sight of a rider with a club- enemies ran like a tree; the lazy man received the royal daughter]: 103-105; Derzhavin 1945 [the same story from the Serbs in Vuk Karadzic's recording; one of the songs says that the inhabitants of St. The three did not believe in Jesus Christ, but believed in gold and silver; when their 70 springs were dry, they asked God to fill them with gold and silver; they became rich but thirsty; God he took pity and a lake opened in the vicinity, but Sura Lamia owned it; in exchange for water, she demanded a girl a day; in the fourth year it was the turn of the royal Christian daughter; when she was standing on the shore of the lake, St. Giorgi got off his horse, lay down to doze off; the girl's tear woke him up and he put his spear in his mouth, brought him to the city alive; hit him in the heart, lamia vomited 300 living girls, they danced in a round dance; hit the second time - half alive, half dead; third time - all 300 dead; after that, the king and all people became Christians; George went around all the springs, from which water flowed]: 87-88; Romanians [ Prince Theodor fired an arrow and went to look for it; pulled out an arrow that had pierced the ground, a bull, a sword and a note in the hole: the bull will revive the owner if you give him wine, and turn everyone's sword into stone; stopped the old woman has; she gave wine, but there is no water; the 12-headed monster gives water only in exchange for girls; it is the princess's turn; whoever saves her will marry her; the young man fell asleep on the princess's lap, woke up to her tears ; by evening, the monster had only one head and the young man had only one arrow; he tied a broken bow with the girl's curl and finished off the monster; the gypsy cut T. to pieces, brought the king the heads and tongues of the monster; the princess left the ring and handkerchief next to T.'s remains; the bull asked the old woman to take him to the spring; ordered the chopped pieces of his body to be folded; licked them and breathed - T. came to life; at the wedding feast of gypsy T. threw a ring and a handkerchief into the cake that the old lady gave to the bride; the gypsy was torn by two horses; they built a palace for T. and his wife]: Mawr 1881:32-37; Albanians: Lambertz 1952:29-36 [Kjoftlá rgu (hell) fed the louse, she became the size of a ram, brought the king, suggested that whoever guessed what kind of beast it was should marry the royal daughter; only K. guessed, took the girl to the lower peace, concluded in the far corner of his palace; of the king's three sons, the eldest hears, the middle sees that underground, the youngest goes down a rope into the well; bones in front of the horses, grass in front of the dogs, a young man shifts; horses and dogs promise to help, give the young man an eagle ("doodle bird"), he must be fed with meat; they do not give the young man K., he leaves again; the brother puts his sister on a doodle, that flies to the ground, she feeds him meat, there is not enough meat, she cuts off a piece of calf from her leg, returns home; her brother stayed downstairs; a crying girl comes, she is the daughter of the richest citizen, given to eating K., who closed the water sources, passes water off as girls; the young man shot K. with a gun; blood flowed immediately from the springs, and clean water two days later; the young man married a girl, they were helped return to earth], 37-49 [when dying, the father tells three sons to guard the apple tree, the fruits of which are stolen by an evil spirit; the elder, middle brothers are afraid, the younger Kjelani injures the kidnapper; on a bloody trail brothers come to the crevice; the elders are afraid to go down, K. goes down the rope; three kidnapped girls give white, red, black scarves; fighting the spirit, you have to wipe the sweat off your face with them, you will lose your spirit strength; K. cuts off his head; sends the girls upstairs; when he gets up himself, the brothers cut off the rope; old woman: the white goat will carry him to the ground, the black goat will lower it even lower, there is still a red one; two slip out out of hand, K. grabs black, falls deeper; kills a snake that was going to eat the chicks; Corshun mother is going to eat K. first, the chicks explain who their savior is; K. asks to take him upstairs, the bird tells us to prepare meat and wine; K. meets the princess, she is eaten by Kutschedra (a woman with a tail and nine tongues, connected to black clouds), who has closed the water sources; K. cuts off her head the waters are free; the grateful king gives meat, wine; there is not enough meat, K. cuts off a piece of caviar from his leg; on the ground, the bird puts a piece back, gives the pen to summon it; K. is hired as a servant; the girls refuse marry until they are given breast jewelry made without scissors and needles (they gave them to K. in the lower world); K. gives them away; tells the bird to give him a white horse, clothes and a sword, wins the competition older brother; same middle brother (red horse, etc.); is on a white horse, marries the youngest girl]; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 []: 449-453; Megas 1978, No. 21 [old woman advises childless wife fisherman catch a goldfish, divide into 6 parts, eat 2 with her husband, 2 give to a dog, 2 to a mare, 2 to bury; two brothers are born, two puppies, two foals, two cypresses grow up; first brother comes marry the princess; her father tells her to tear down a giant stump with the blow of his sword (the princess wraps her sword in her hair), gallop without splashing water (she gives a ring, it freezes the water), defeat the black man; the black man is princess, she orders her horse to be hit between her ears; after receiving the princess, the young man leaves for a while; kills the monster that gave water in exchange for the girls, was the turn of the local princess; the old woman asks for permission touch the young man's dog with a rod, turns the dog and the young man into marble; the cypress has withered; the brother arrives, he is mistaken for the first young man; he tells the dog to grab the witch, forcing him to show his witchcraft sticks; revives the brother, the dog swallows the witch; the first brother gets the first princess, the second - saved from the monster]: 37-42; 2012, No. 300 [general description of the plot, many options]: 20-21; Paton 1899, No. 1 ( Lemnos) [the king's tree brings three apples a year; someone steals them; only the youngest son was not afraid of the roar, cut off the ogre's hand, brought it and the last apple to his father; the brothers are on the trail of blood, the youngest asks to let him down on a rope into the dungeon; consistently meets three girls; each says that the cannibal sleeps with his eyes open; the young man cuts off the head of cannibals, contrary to request, does not strike twice; the last girl warns that if the brothers do not pick him up, you have to jump on a white ram, he will take him to the ground; gives three nuts, dresses with flowers, fish, stars; the young man jumps on a black ram, falls even lower; the old woman says that the seven-headed monster gives water in exchange for girls; the young man cuts off all seven heads, cuts off his tongues; the king wants to marry him off his saved daughter, but he asks to be brought to the ground; he sleeps under a tree where all the birds rest at night; kills a monster crawling to the birds; birds carry him to the ground; he sits on an eagle, supplies run out, he cuts off a piece of his own leg; on the ground, an eagle puts it back on him; the young man's elder brother wants to marry the third girl rescued; she demands dresses with flowers, fish, stars; a young man pretends to be a merchant, hangs out dresses; this is how the bride finds out that he is back; wedding]: 495-498; Moldovans [mother tells Fat Frumos that his father was eaten by wolves; but he still became a hunter; saw Bird maidens who come down to swim in the lake hid their wings; fairies follow him, sing; FF looks around twice, two pairs of wings fly away; FF brings the third fairy home without looking back; at the wedding, people are delighted by the bride's dance; she promises to dance even better if the groom gives her wings; FF reluctantly gives it back, his wife flies away; FF wanted to shoot her, but she turned into a cuckoo and you can't shoot the cuckoo; she tells look for her in a golden palace in the golden forest; FF goes in search; the old man calls animals and birds; the goat comes last, she knows the places, but now there is a terrible drought; the man says that the mistress snakes stole the palace; people milk sheep in nutshells, milk drops; FF leads sheep to snake pastures; watchmen wolves and bears are fascinated by FF's play on the pipe; he says that the pipe needs to be repaired with wood from the middle of the oak tree, splits it, wolves and bears stick their paws, FF takes out the wedge, burns the clamped wolves, one charred one escapes; pulls out the heart of the bears, one escapes; the shepherd tore off his tail , since then, the bears have no tail; the Vyzh-Surviil guard cuts off FF's arms and legs; he grabs the spring vein with his teeth, tells him to return his limbs, gives him strong water, FF killed BV; the snake opened its mouth from the ground to sky, but FF killed him and returned his wife]: Moldavian tales 1968:434-450; Gagauz people [brothers followed a strange trail, came to a dried well, white and black sheep were fighting at the bottom; younger brother Vanciu offered to go down, the elders refused, lowered him on a rope; wanted to sit on a white ram, but the black ram pushed him, V. found himself on black, fell into the dark kingdom; saw the snake crawl to the nest a huge eagle, killed her; the eagle father is grateful; says that the five-headed fire-breathing Goguzhu-Moguzhu closed the waters, passes it off as people given to him to eat, now it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; we must wet clothes so as not to burn; V. cuts off two heads, four grow up; V. suggests that GM show how he sleeps; he puts his central head on two, covers the other two; V. cuts off all 5 heads immediately; the princess orders to cut off the tongues; the impostor brings the padishah the heads of the monster, V. shows his tongues; the impostor is expelled, V. gets the princess; the padishah lets them visit V.'s parents; the bird carries B . with his wife, during the flight he feeds her meat, bread, water; the meat ends, V. cuts the meat off his soles; the eagle did not swallow them, reaching the ground, put them back, but since then on the soles of people depression; brings V. and his wife to V.'s parents; after staying, V. and his wife return to the lower world]: Syrf 2013:138-145.
Central Europe. Eastern Ukrainians (Dnipropetrovsk region, Aleksandrovsky district, p. Tremsynovka, Manzhura) [the princess fell ill; they caught, fried the loin fish, let her eat; she ate one, recovered, but became pregnant; the cook ate all the fish, also became pregnant; babies born they were taken to the forest, found them, raised by a clerk; they grew up, went to look for happiness, their names are Ivan Tsarevich (IC) and Ivan-Kukharevich (IK), he is stronger because the cook ate more magic loins; at a crossroads inscription: whoever goes to the right will become a tsar's son-in-law; whoever goes to the left devours snakes there and does not give water, and such dew that a drop falls on will tear him apart; IC and IK parted, sticking a knife into the pole; with each lion cub, bear cub, wolf cub given by a lioness, a bear and a she-wolf; IK went to the left, his mare had enough dew, it was torn; they come to the city, there is a pole where they put those given to eating a snake, then he gives water; IK killed a snake, took the princess's ring; another hero took the victory for himself; at the wedding, IK showed a ring, married a princess, hung the hero; once IK drove into the forest, there is a hut, her mother is a snake, asked her not to kill, waved a towel, IK and the animals are petrified; the IC sees blood on the knife, follows the trail of IC; the princess takes him for her husband, but he denies; she calls him brother ; The IC grabbed the snake, ordered the petrified ones to be revived; it leads to the well, the IC throws a branch at it, it turned to ashes; the same in the other; in the third it turned green; the IC sprinkled live water on the petrified, the snake was killed, the ashes were scattered]: Pankeev 1992:193-196; Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson) [Ivan goes to see the world; wanted to shoot a viper, she asks not to shoot; wrapped around his neck, tells her to take her to the destroyed castle; the cow asks his horse to tell I. to buy it; showed the way; in the castle, the snake turned into a girl; she has two older sisters; they ask to serve every year; they give boots- speedboats, an invisible hat, a shirt that protects him from a bullet; in one hut he is given only dirty water; he covered the snake clean; I. killed the snake, buried it, put a pole on top to the sky; the king married I. his daughter, but that the snake loved; asked for I. (supposedly to wash), gave the snake; he put it on, tore out the pole, chopped I. into pieces, tied it, tied it to the tail of his horse; the horse came to those three sisters; the eldest revived I.; gave the trick to become a drake; the serpent saw a drake, took off his shirt, climbed into the water to catch; I. became a man again, put on a shirt, killed a snake; in another version, I. kills a snake that ate the girls; marries the rescued one]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 14: 143-145; Eastern Ukrainians (Kyiv region, now Cherkasy region, near Chigirin, p. Adamovka, V. Kravchenko) [the elderly are 70, the wife tells her husband to hand over the ax in the forge, cut down an oak tree, slaughter his son; the child came to life, named Ivan Belodrev; he instantly grew up; tied the oaks with a church, knocked down everything at once; cut down the hut, sold my father and mother to my father, came to the hut: she is spinning on a chicken leg, where the wind will blow; there is an old woman telling me to buy a horse from her priest - not what is in the stall, but what is in the yard; information security gave all the proceeds for parents have money; the horse's magpies and crows have already pecked its sides; the horse tells you to dig a hole, burn coals, jumps twice in the heat, becomes a heroic horse; for the third time he pulls out harness and equipment; brings air to that old woman; information security asks for a drink; old woman: stepmother collected all the water in one well; whoever needs water, either carry the child or eat it himself; information security killed a snake, brought water; the king's daughter is sitting at the well, the other the snake was given to be eaten; the water rustled in the sea, the princess is trying to wake up IS, he woke up when her tear dripped on his face; the IS snake hit - only the soles stuck to the current, the IS hit - drove the snake into knee-deep; killed, cut out tongues, burned bones, scattered ashes (languages are no longer mentioned); wedding]: Pankeev 1992:161-166; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [widower marries a neighbor; she makes it a condition that he gets rid of the children Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving the deck beating against the tree in the wind as if he were cutting wood; they returned home; next time the father took them on, children stayed in the forest; they bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; bear, wolf come, are surprised at the outlandish beast, leave; in the morning there is good bread in ash; on sycamore there is a magic shirt, a gun, a saber ; I. gets them, becomes a strongman; breaks into the robber's lair, there is a princess; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. left the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. bring live water, pour it into the keyhole; the door opens, the robber's severed ear grows, M. takes the robber as her husband; to destroy his brother, pretends to be sick, asks for a wolf, then bear meat and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives them a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests that M. send his brother to fetch water from a spring between the mountains; noon they stop, I. took out water; bring flour from mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. picks up flour, manages to jump out, doors slam shut, his animals stayed inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he was confused, she tied him with horsehair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they gouged out I.'s eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; he bought good clothes, changed clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one was young, the other was old; he came to M. and the robber under the guise of beggar; when they fell asleep, he took their shirt, sword, gun; ordered him to be given his pipe; he began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, ran, tore the robber; left M. two barrels to cry, one to cry for him, the other for a robber; in the neighboring kingdom of snakes, locked water, gives it in exchange for girls; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying a snake, cut off snake tongues, cut off the gypsy from each tongue piece by piece, demanded the tsar's princess as his wife; at home, almost all tears cried out for the robber; I. shows the king not the tips of his tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore the gypsy, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; they escaped, the Fox brought live water; next time M. locked the verey again, put I. pitchforks in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:232-243; Slovaks [The widow's two sons look like drops of water; they have grown up and are preparing to go on a journey; the mother asks them to go hunting and fetch meat; they hunt three times but do not find game; instead they give bacon and bread to the couple wolves, bears, lions; brought home; predators are muzzled; brothers parted at the linden tree, stabbing it; from which blood will flow, so trouble; the eldest comes to the city where a fire-breathing 12-headed snake demands a girl to be eaten every day, otherwise he does not allow her to go to the well; the princess's turn; her savior will receive her; the young man cut off the snake's heads with the help of his animals, but they they grew up again until the lion tore his neck; the young man cut off his tongues, came to the princess, she gave him half the ring; when he fell asleep, the coachman ran up, cut off the young man's head, made the princess name him savior; the lion tells the wolf to run to the snake, which is just about to revive another one crushed by a wagon with grass; but the wolf came across the wagon himself, frightened the people; then the lion sent the bear, he took it away from snakes potion, the young man came to life, but his head was put backwards; the bear tore off his head again and put it right; when the young man came to town, they were preparing the wedding of the princess and the coachman; the young man sent a letter to the princess with the bear and half of the ring; the princess sent back food, wine and her half of the ring, the half grew together; the young man showed snake tongues; the coachman was given to the animals to pieces; once a young man I saw an enchanted yellow forest from the window; a fox appeared, the young man chased her, found himself in a dark forest; began to fry bacon; an old woman on the tree, screaming that she was cold, gave her wand to touch the animals, and then she is afraid of them; the animals are petrified; the old woman began to fry the frog, not bacon; she touched the young man with a stick, he also became petrified; the younger brother saw blood on the knife, went in search of the elder; his wife accepted him for her husband, but at night he put a sword between them; he did not touch the animals with an old woman's wand, but let them put them on her; made him give him a golden stick to revive his brother's animals and the ointment to revive him; then the animals killed the old woman; first the older brother's beasts became knights, then they killed their younger brother's animals, and they also became knights; they were six brothers, they quarreled, and became predators for this; the older brother returned to his wife, and the youngest with six knights came to their domain and became king there]: Dobšinský 1970:3-10 (translated to Bogatyrev 1955:37-47).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars: Useinov 1992, No. 11 [a childless tinker complains to a gypsy woman that he has no children; takes care of her family; a gypsy woman tells his wife to throw an egg into the wall, 40 jump out of it little men, call the tinker father; he tells the gypsy woman to take them away; one named Kichkene hides, the tinker agrees to recognize him as his son; he brings pancakes to his father, sits on a bowl, tins jugs, plows getting into the bull's ear; 40-headed Azhdaga closed the water, gives it every day for a bull; K. brings A. the yellow bull Sary-Bey, who took all the bulls from the villagers; asks him to leave his rectum; throws him out contents in bed by S. and his wife; ties buckets of water to the backs of S.'s sons; S. and his wife fight, accusing each other of spoiling the bed; their sons jump up, knocking over buckets; the pipe plays, K. laughs, everyone is going to watch; A. bursts with laughter, S. runs away from shame, peasants take back their property]: 140-152; Zherdeva 2020, No. 30 (Bakhchisaray district, Karalez) [the padishah has two sons; he does not tell you to hunt in the west and east, let them go towards the Kaaba; there is no game there, the elder suggests going east; you can see a month in the well; the younger begins to lower the eldest, he tells him to pull it out: he burns ; the youngest comes down, does not tell him to be pulled out; below the door of the beautiful woman there is a golden tray, on which a golden greyhound chases a silver hare; then a man nailed to the wall, the young man freed him; the dove at the spring, she tells me to return to the beautiful woman; she is the daughter of the seven-headed Azhdakh, gave Zulfikar the sword; the young man drove Azhdakha to his knees, cut off six heads; he refused to cut the seventh - you are not a pair of my father's oxen; the young man sent the girl and the treasures upstairs, then the older brother threw the rope; at home he told his father that the youngest had gone to seek his fate; the youngest plunged into the spring and found strength; in the city, the old woman gives instead water his urine; the seven-headed ajdaha gives water in exchange for the girls; it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man fell asleep on her lap, woke up from her tears; the young man and Azhdaha drive each other into the ground; the young man drove him knee-deep, cut off six heads; abandoned the padishah's daughter, who gave him gold; a three-headed snake crawls to the nest of Chan-Kushu, the young man chopped her, fed the chicks meat; Chan-Kushu thinks it's him every year killed her chicks, but the chicks explained everything; the young man asked to take it to the ground; took a barrel of meat and a barrel of water with him; cut off the last piece from the thigh; on the ground, the bird put it back; the young man came to older brother's wedding; bride: I have been in mourning for 40 days; a young man sees under his window; the young man showed a mole on his body, his father recognized him; the older brother was beheaded, the youngest married the rescued girl]; Kalmyks: Jimbinov 1962 [Khan Gyukhan has a son Solntsevet with his first wife, Lunosvet from his second; foxglove of a new khansha: let Lunosvet go with his half-brother and kill him while hunting; he hears a conversation, tells S. to run, leaves with him; L. is exhausted from thirst, fell; S. found old man Arshi, brought his brother back to life, both settled with A.; the evil khan has two crocodiles clog river springs, in The victim is demanded by a young man born in the year of the Tiger; this is S.; the khan sends warriors, brings S., the khan's daughter fell in love with him; the khan orders her to be thrown into the river with S.; the crocodiles felt sorry for them, threw them ashore; that S. and L. are sons G., Khan marries S. to his daughter, gives wealth; brothers and wife S. return to G.; stepmother died of anger]: 82-86; Gelber 1921 in Sutrop 2018 [approximately like Jimbinov 1962] : 451-456; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the brothers envied Sasrkva, offered to jump over the abyss, put up a leg; in the lower world, an old woman complains that the dragon is devouring those who come for water; S. cuts off the dragon's head, two grow up, then three; he sprinkles ash on them, the dragon dies; the Eagle says that the dragon devoured its seven eagles every year; brings S. to the ground; the last piece of meat S. cuts off from his leg; the Eagle heals him, he returns home]: 58-59; Inal-ipa et al. 1988, No. 24 [the brothers envied Sasarkva, pushed him into an "otherworldly pit"; in the lower world, S. came to an old woman who drinks a donkey urine, says that the dragon gives water only in exchange for people; S. cuts off the dragon's head; the snake crawls to the eagle's nest, S. kills it; the grateful Eagle takes S. to the ground; there is not enough meat and water, S. cuts off a piece of his thigh; on the ground, Orlitsa tells her to run her pen over the wound, his thigh heals]: 143-150 (about the same Salakai 1976, No. 10:192-195); Shakryl 1975, No. 8 [the peasant caught an unusual fish, gave son to keep it until his return; the fish promises to help the young man, he let her go; his father beat him and the young man left home; hid the fox from the hunters; saved a deer whose horns are entangled in the thickets; an old woman says she cannot feed the young man: the Adaui at the spring devours everyone who comes; the young man cut off the head of the adaui; the old woman: on the top of the mountain there is a palace, there is a lonely princess, she has an all-seeing mirror; she will go out for someone he can't find and executes losers, their heads are on stakes, one place is still free; the fish hid the young man behind seven seas, the deer in the crack of the glacier, but the girl found him; the fox dug a hole hid the young man under the palace, the girl did not find him, became a wife; created a new palace; parents did not recognize their son at first; a common feast], 78 [the adaui son finds out that his mother is a kidnapped girl; demands from his father allow them to see their relatives; in order not to quarrel with his son, the father rushes into the abyss; the mother is horrified: the other adaus will take revenge; then the son leaves, hires a mullah, brings a pile of trees on his shoulders, drags an elephant by the ear; people ask the mullah to calculate the worker, who gives money, the adaui buys the prisoner with it; takes Adaua, who has a mill on his big toe, as his companion; another who turns the trough on his thumb; cooks one by one; a bearded man arrives on a rooster, ties up the cook, eats everything; when Adaua's son remains, he pinched the dwarf's beard with a tree; but he pulled out the tree has gone into the abyss; the companions brought the son of Adaua down there; three girls say that the dwarf is dying; the son of the Adaua sends them upstairs; the youngest warns that if his companions do not pick him up, he must jump on a white ram that will take it to the ground and the black sheep will lower it even lower; the companions left Adaua's son below; he accidentally jumped on a black ram; old woman: an elephant guards the water once a week allows him to take him for the girl he brings; the son of the Adaua has overcome the elephant, brought him by the ear; only a kite can carry it to the ground; the chicks are attacked by an elephant, the son of Adaua killed him, a grateful kite promises to carry him upstairs, tells us to stock up on meat and water; the meat is over, the son of Adaua took the last piece out of his hand; on the ground, the kite healed the wound; the son of Adaua killed his companions, and made their wives his wife's slaves]: 28-31, 353-361; Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 27 [giant (Ainizh) took the girl, a boy was born, the Son of an Ainizh (S.); after the death of his father he went on a journey; met, took Grain as his companions, holding a millstone on his knees holding a tree on his finger; they take turns cooking; a long-bearded dwarf riding a rooster ties the cook with beard hair, eats everything; when S.'s turn, he split the tree, pinched a dwarf's beard; he uprooted a tree, went to the dungeon; S. went down on his belt, there's a girl, he sends her and the treasures in the basket upstairs; she warns that if his companions refuse him raise, let S. fall on the white ram, he will take it to the ground, and lower the black one to the seventh bottom of the earth; the satellites did not lower the belt; S. fell on the black ram; there the snake closed the water, gives it out in exchange for girls; S. sees a girl crying, a snake kills him; he was shown where the eagle lives; every year a snake kills her chicks; S. killed a snake, the chicks hid it from their mother, then showed him; she ordered to prepare meat and water, flying upstairs with S., there was not enough meat, S. cut off the last piece of S. from his leg; the eagle put it back; S. tied traitors to the tails of horses, married a girl], 90 [his friend came to Murza Sali; M. explains that everything in the house depends on the man; S., that the house is based on a woman; Hajat, M.'s daughter, supported the guest; her father told her to get out and passed her off as a silly young man named Mhamat from far village; he is strong but lazy; at first, H. taught her husband to cut forests and harvest firewood by example; excess firewood was exchanged for millet; by example, she taught her how to use a shovel, dig up and sow field; then taught her husband to cut down a dogwood stick; atko (dragon) captured a river in a mountain village; H. told her husband to cut down a dogwood stick; he killed a bear with it; let him now invite people to kill atko if they they will give him gold; M. killed atko, freed water, got gold; they became even richer; H. told her husband to make friends with one man (without saying it was her father) and bring him to them; H. gave her father a gift wealth and let him go home]: 46-51, 273-276; Kabardian people [the same or very similar Adyghe text in Kerashev 1957:153-164; a son was born childless old people, took him away, raised him the bear, called Batyr, made him strong, sent him to his parents; the princes want to lime him, give difficult assignments; 1) the multi-headed serpent takes water, demands girls to be eaten; B. won, saddled, killed him; 2) harnessed cannibals, plowed the ground on them; 3) harnessed ferocious boars, brought firewood for them; two hunters became his brothers; all three chased the deer, he disappeared into the crevice; B. goes down, there three girls, one cries (her friend will eat her today), the other laughs (her tomorrow), the third song sings (the day after tomorrow); B. kills him, his brothers raise women upstairs, throw off the rope; a white ram will throw seven tiers up, black - down, B. accidentally grabs black; kills a boa constrictor crawling to eat three eagles; Eagle arrives with a cloud and storm, eagles hide B., tell his mother about his feat; she promises to take him to the upper world if he earns buffaloes for food; snakes do not provide water, demands girls; B. kills a snake, gets buffaloes; there is not enough meat, B. cuts off a piece of leg when he reaches Orlitz heals his wound; B. killed traitors and their wives, married the youngest, whom they kept as a slave]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 11:111-119 (=Huth 1987:208-218); Sokolov, Broydo 1936 [the old man pushed into the evil wife in the forest; the dragon living there prayed to save him from the evil woman, promised to help him; the old man helped him get out; he promised to fulfill his three wishes, but not to ask for the fourth time; blocked his body the waters of the river; the old man asked him to leave; the dragon crossed to another river, and the old man's men rewarded; so three times; the fourth time the old man says that he did not come with a request, but to warn that his wife got out of the hole and looking for a dragon; he fled in horror]: 110-113; Ossetians: Byazirov 1971, No. 1 [the son of a witch from the Borata family (SK) and his son Malik (SK) go to marry the sister of seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; giants and the UK go hunting, tell their sister and the UK not to open the seventh door; SM threatens to leave, the bride opens, the waig from Black Mountain (UCHG) is released, takes the girl; SK goes to look for her; meets, takes at the comrades of the Sea Drinker (he shoots after the UCHG, tears off his leg), Zorky, Carrying mountains and valleys on his back, each in response says that he is not amazing, but SK and SM; UCHG goes underground; only SK could push the stone away, go down on a rope through the flame; sends the girl upstairs, the comrades remove the rope, fill the exit with a stone; the UK tells an old woman, whose fang touches the sky, the other to the ground he rests on saying how to kill the UCHG (burn it, it burns), get upstairs (grab the horn of a white ram); SK grabs the black horn, which takes it even lower into the world of Donbettyr; there the dragon closed the water; swallows the UK, it cuts it from the inside, refuses to be belched, spit out, goes over its side, the dragon exhausts; Tsar Donbettyrov sends the UK to the black eagle; the UK hears one of her daughters singing (her snake will eat the day after tomorrow), another laughs (tomorrow), the third cries (she will be eaten today); SK is killed by a snake; a downpour begins (eagle tears), the sun shines (the eagle sees that her daughters are alive), a whirlwind (flies); eagle takes the UK to the ground, he feeds it with supplies given by the Donbettyrs; they are not enough, the UK cuts off the meat from the hips; the eagle puts it back; the swineherd says that three brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, got married; the SK changes clothes with the swineherd, the elder princess chooses him, noticing his golden curls under her hat; everyone tries the SK quiver and arrows; the SK takes them, puts on gold clothes, destroys guests with arrows, takes his wives for himself and SM]: 5-19; Dzagurov 1973, No. 45 [a childless man is told to slaughter a black chicken, the wife must eat a goiter; the crawler is eaten by a female, gives birth to a golden-haired boy, the wife ordinary; the son of a female performs the tasks of seven waigs (cannibal giants), who give their sister for the woman's son; tell them not to open the eighth ward; the woman's son opens, releases the seven-headed Waig, that takes his wife away; the son of the female goes looking for her; finds three friends (one carries the church, the other runs with millstones on his feet, the third drinks the sea with a sip), they bring him down on a rope to the lower world, he sees a kidnapped woman; she finds out that the soul of the Waiga is in swallows, those in the casket, the casket in the hare, etc.; the female's son killed the soul, the comrades pulled the woman upstairs, threw off the rope; in the corner of the house, the female's son found the mother of the Waiga, one fang is above the sky, the other is in the underworld; she tells him to grab the right horn of a ram, which accidentally grabs the left, does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world; there the dragon does not provide water, devours women; the son of a female kills the dragon to save the prince's daughter; he advises turning to Orlitz, who flies to earth once a year; the Zaliaga serpent devours her three years chicks; the son of the female kills him; the chicks hide the female's son; the rain gushes, then the sun shines, then the wind blows; the chicks explain that the rain is their mother's tears, the sun rays from her eyes when she saw that the chicks are alive, the wind is from its wings; the bird puts the female's son on his back, he throws her wineskins with beer, bovine carcasses, and finally cuts off a piece of his leg; she does not swallow, when she reaches, puts his muscles back; Suki's son kills traitors, reunites brother with his wife, revives when devils turn them into stone]: 162-177; Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 47 [for Yoryuzmek to recover , he must eat goldfish from the pool owned by a beautiful woman across the seas in the forest; two sons go west, the younger Sosruk to the east; the herd gives him a plain foal; the blackbeard sends to the middle brother, the youngest to that evil beauty; each of the brothers gives the horse to the next one; while the beauty is sleeping, S. takes the fish; returning, he changes from horse to horse; the stalker is ready to grab a plain foal, which soars to the sky; S. meets the brothers; they take fish from the sleeping person, throw it into the abyss; on the ledge of the cliff, a woman says that two the ram will butt; the white will throw it to the ground, black down; S. accidentally grabs the horn of the black; in the lower world, the nine-headed emegen closed the water; S. asks a woman to make him 8 stuffed heads; emegen hits them with arrows, S. hits all 9; the grateful ruler says that the dragon devours eagle chicks every year; S. kills the dragon with an arrow and sword; the chicks explain that the rain is their tears desperate mother; warm rain in half with the sun - she hopes for salvation; Orlitsa orders to fill wineskins with buffalo meat and blood, takes off with S.; almost the ground runs out, S. cuts off a piece legs; on the ground, the Eagle belches him, puts him; S. stops at the shepherd's wake; comes to his wake, talks about what happened; his arrow falls right in the middle of the sheep's shoulder blade; the brothers' arrows - by; people believe S.]: 383-387; Tekeeva 2013 [Sarubek, a 12-headed serpent, sits on top of the mountain, drinks all the water; now, during a drought, they say that S.'s breath makes stones crack; Ganjakeshaui went to the mountain, killed by a snake with a sword, freed the country from drought]: 35; Karachays [Khan has a daughter Fatima and stepson Jankir; the khan's legs were lost, you need to wrap them in the skin of a deer living at the bottom of the sea with golden horns ; D. and F. caught a deer, but D. cut the net and let him go; F. told his father; Khan ordered D. to be executed, F. warned, D. rode away, rider Boshasan joined him on the way, left him in a forest house near Karakyz women, went on himself, met mowers; they say that a ram with 12 horns will come, if they do not mow hay, he will kill them; D. grabbed a ram, he turned into a girl, D. took her to Karakyz for D.; next time B. came to a house where there is no clean water, 9-headed emegen locked the river; the woman wants to burn her clothes to bake bread, emegen does not let him into the forest; B. defeated emegen, who turned into a girl , B. brought her to K., and the first girl disappeared somewhere during this time; the second one disappeared; D. says that he met the girl himself, asks B. to help her marry; girl: you have to hide from me three times, otherwise I'll turn them into stones; 1) B. - kite, D. - sparrow; 2) B. - boa constrictor, D. - hare he swallowed; both times the girl found them; third time B. - loop, D. - button around the girl's neck; didn't find, wedding; D . wants to return to his father; B. took out sea grass, Father D. recovered; B. tells him to build 9 iron fences around his house where he lives with his wife; Khan called him to hunt, gave him salty cake, ordered jump off a cliff by a breath of water, then pushed him off a cliff; the horse told Boshasan, D.'s wife saw that her husband was dying in the gorge, B. gave him sea water, D. recovered; Khan was trying to break the fences around him at home of his wife D., D. was in time, killed the khan; B. tells D. not to invite him to enter the water; D. insists that B. enters the water and says that he is the same deer; then the spell fell off him, and now he is again became a deer and will never return]: Rumyantseva 1981:11-21; Balkarians: Malkonduev 2017:414-416 (western 1958) [the wife is always unhappy with her husband; when he goes for firewood, he sees a crevice and a lake in it; tells his wife that he has found good; she went with him, he pushed her into the lake; later returned; the dragon begs him to save him from an evil woman who has fallen to him; when he gets out, the dragon promises to close the water in the villages three times, and when a person begins to free it, he will let it go himself; for this, the inhabitants of each of the three villages give the cost of an ox; for the fourth time a person tells the dragon that that woman got out of the lake and is coming here; the dragon died of fear, the waters are free, the man has taken another wife], 418-419 (Western 1965) [approximately as on p. 414-416]; Stavropol Turkmens: Bagriy 1930 (2): 109-114 [the hero takes two brothers and families; the youngest son of one, Aigyr, was in the steppe at that time; grew up with a shepherd, met a hero, killed him; wanders, takes a clever thief and runner as his companions; each takes turns cooking dinner; a bearded dwarf eats meat, beats the cook; A. cuts off his head, she rolls to the mound; companions descend A. on a rope; there three girls mourn the death of their father; A. promises that he will not kill them, sends them upstairs on a rope; satellites cut off the rope, A. stays below; in the underground The city of Azhdakha took water; A. kills him, the khan gives his daughter to A.; A. wants to go to the ground, he is advised to go to the oak tree; two eagles say that every year Azhdaha devours chicks; A. kills the one who has arrived azhdaha; the eagle raises A. to the ground, flies for 40 days; A. forgives his companions, takes the most beautiful of the three girls], 146-152 [the girl Sas is kidnapped by a bear; she gives birth to a boy with bear ears; he he rolls back the stone with which the bear blocks the exit from the cave, comes with his mother to the village; plays with his peers, maims them; the khan sends him to the forest for firewood, he brings it in a bear (his father), kills him; he is pushed into a hole leading to the lower world; he kills a crocodile holding water; people send him to the tree where the eagle lives; Bear Ear kills a crocodile ready to eat eagles; the Eagle takes him to the ground; he feeds it with meat and water, cuts off the last piece from his leg; on the ground, the eagle regurgitates it, puts it back; at home Bear's Ear killed all residents except his family]; Nogais: Nogai 1979, No. 10 [father sends sons to guard a thief stealing golden apples; older, middle brother falls asleep, younger grabs a goldbird feather; older, middle brother goes to look her, they disappear; the youngest comes to the fork, "you will die on the right road, the horse on the left road"; walks on the left; the wolf eats the horse; the young man is lucky; tells you to take the bird without a cage; he takes the cage, raises the alarm; the king promises to give the bird for a horse with a golden mane; the wolf tells not to take a bridle; the young man takes it, the king promises to give the horse for a gold-haired girl; the young man kills Azdaa with one, two, etc. (until seven) heads; The wolf pretends to be a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; he meets brothers; they throw him into a hole; a seven-headed serpent gives water in exchange for a girl; a young man kills a snake; The king puts the young man on an eagle, food and water for seven days; he is not enough; the young man cuts off the meat from his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on earth the eagle returns everything; in the guise of a beggar, a young man comes to the wedding gold-haired and older brother; shows the firebird's feather; brothers were torn by horses], 15 [Azdaha tells the shepherd to either give his son or die himself; only the youngest of three sons agrees to go to Azdaa; he passes off his daughter as a young man; tells him not to go south; the horse says that the bull living in the lake does not provide water, people give him their children for a sip of water; the young man kills a bull, Azdaha is ready to do his three wishes; his wife tells him to ask permission to return home, take a gray mare and a black whetstone; the young man and wife leave, the whetstone fulfills their wishes (home, food appear); at the suggestion of the envious brothers, the young man's father tells him to bring him a gold ring from the finger of his deceased father; the wife teaches him to ask the cemetery old man for a ring, throw land on the brothers, who turn into spotted pigs]: 34-45, 74-77; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 1 [=Kibiev, Malsagov 1973:155-171, =Tankieva 2003:153-159; the prince has a tree with golden leaves, someone steals them; three sons take turns guarding; only the youngest is not falls asleep, cuts off someone's finger and head; follows a bloody trail; takes a well-aimed shooter pulling trees, drinking the sea as companions; they lower the prince's son into the hole; the girl says that they are three daughters of a three-headed eagle, their father has been cut off one head and finger; she asks her father what can kill him; he answers that there is a ram around the corner, there is a hare in it, a duck in a hare, there are three chicks in a duck; a son the prince kills them all, the companions bring the girls upstairs, the youngest leaves the prince's son a ring; tells him to touch the white horse, he will take them to the upper world; red - stay here, black - you will find yourself below; companions cut off the rope; the prince's son touches the black one; the old woman says that the Sarmak (dragon) has closed the water, passes it off as girls he needs to bring every day; Sarmak gives three times water, then the prince's son kills him; the padishah sends him to the eagle on the black mountain; the young man kills the snake that devours the chicks every year; the eagle takes him to the ground; there is not enough meat, he cuts off his flesh from legs, on both hands; the eagle regurgitates the meat, puts it back; under the guise of a shepherd, the young man comes to the wedding of the rescued princesses; the youngest recognizes him by the ring; the young man kills traitors, marries two princesses marries brothers], 3 [the bear took the girl, she gave birth to a son, his name Chaitong; he takes as companions a man playing with a log and a second one listening to ants talking; take turns cooking; yeshap comes, eats everything, ties the cook; when C. remains, he ties the yeshap by the mustache himself; friends follow the bloody trail to the pipe that goes into the ground, C. goes down, wins, kills the yeshap, picks up upstairs his three wives; companions drop the rope; C. does not touch a white stallion, but a black stallion, finds himself not in the upper world, but in the lower world; further as in (1); companions run away from C.'s revenge], 3 [the girl was kidnapped bear, she gave birth to a son Chaitong ("bear cub"), he grew up, his mother brought him to her parents; he did not enter the house, but went on a journey; met a log with his little finger; he met a log with his little finger; he met: this it's nothing, the bear's son C. does miracles; C. took him as a companion; the same with a man who listened to the ants talking; all three stopped in a forest hut, cooking in turn; yeshap came, ate everything, tied the cook to the bed with a hair from his beard; when his comrades returned, the cook, who was struggling to free himself, replied that he was sick; the same with the second companion; C. tied the yeshap by his mustache to a pole; On a bloody trail, friends came to the pit; only C. decided to go down; there in three rooms there were three wives of yeshap, the youngest he put his head on his knees; C. hardly won and killed yeshap; sent three women upstairs the youngest gave him a ring, told him to touch the white stallion, he would take him to the ground; forbid touching black and red; the companions did not pick up C., took the women away; C. went into the stable, accidentally touched a black stallion, finds himself in the lowest world; there an old woman cooks food using dirty water; a Sarmak at the spring gives clean water in exchange for girls; Sarmak forgives C. twice as a guest when he collects water; leads the girl, C. killed Sarmak with a dagger; "Let the one who stabbed him pull out the dagger"; tells the rider to say that he saved the girl; but no one can pull out the dagger; C. did it easily; grateful padchah advises killing Sarmak, who regularly devours eagle chicks; the chicks hid C. so that the returning eagle does not think that he killed the chicks; the eagle orders to cook meat, bread and water for 12 days; there was not enough meat, C. cut off a piece from his leg and arm; on the ground, the eagle put pieces back; the girl recognized C., former friends ran away; =Tankiev 1997, No. 12:257-263]: 23-28, 33-39; Potanin 1883 [the bear makes the ploughman meet her; on the same day his son, who was immediately born and grew up, approaches him; the son became an abrek, taking another one as his comrades; each in turn, it remains to guard the hut; the man himself is six quarters, the beard of seven ties the guard, takes what he needs; the guards are sick; the bear son drives the bearded man into the tree like the axe; he breaks out, they follow the bloody trail to the tower, the woman picks them up; the bearded man comes, they kill him; the bear son chains his comrades, he cannot; the woman warns that they will come three rams; if he jumps on black, he will fall into the third underworld, on red into the second, on white he will be on the ground; he falls on black; in the lower world, a woman is going to knead dough in the urine; the serpent Sarmyg lay down at the spring, gives water in exchange for the girl; the bear son takes water twice, the third time S. swallows it, he cut it from the inside with a sword, went out; tells the sword that no one was able to remove a snake from his body except him; the king, whose daughter was supposed to be eaten, tells me to turn to the eagle in a tree in the middle of the sea; the chicks ask their father for a man; on the way, the Bear Son throws an eagle buffaloes and rams, at the end cuts off the flesh from his thigh; on the ground he belches a piece back; The bear son finds comrades, marries a woman from the tower, marries his comrades]: 782-784; Tankiev 1997, No. 12 [ the bear stole the girl, she gave birth to a son, he grew up right away, they came to her parents; the son of the bear Chaitong (C., "bear cub") immediately left; meets, takes as companions 1) throwing a log with his little finger, 2) listening to ants; they cook one by one, the yeshap eats everything, ties the cook with a mustache; C. ties him by his mustache to the door; he tore out the pole, the blood trail leads to a cast-iron pipe; only C. is solved go down; kills yeshap in a duel, sends two older wives upstairs, changes rings with the youngest; she warned to touch the white horse, he will take him to the ground; the red and black you can't touch it; his companions pick it up, cut off the rope; C. touched the black, got into the lower world; the water dragon covered the water; allows C. twice as a guest to collect water; the third time fights because C. protects the princess given to the dragon; kills him; no one can pull C.'s dagger out of the dragon's body, only himself; the king teaches to kill a dragon that ate eagle chicks; the eagle picks it up, C. feeds cuts her off the last pieces from her leg, arms; comes to a girl, they want to marry her, C. shows her ring, marries]: 257-263; Sadulaev 2004, No. 63 [to get rid of his grumpy wife, the man says to her, who found a treasure in the forest; the wife is eager to go down into the hole, and at the bottom of the snakes; the woman clung to it, the serpent began to belittle him to pull it out, promised to fulfill three requests; lies down with the water locked so that the man could drive away; people paid the man well; so three times; the fourth time a person tells the snake that the woman got out of the hole; he runs away in horror]: 177-179; Chechens: Malsagov 1983:126-128 [(No. 25); The young man goes to face off with seven Nart-Orsthoys, who marry him; when he goes home with his wife, her brothers warn that they will be mirrored when crossing the river; the young man held on, and horses and his wife fell into the lower world; the young man made a hut, two more came to live; it is clear that a girl has gone to the lower world; the companions can't go down - it's hot, the young man came down, there are three girls, he sent them to the ground when he began to climb himself, the companions cut off the rope; the old woman says that a sarmak lies by the stream, does not provide water, the young man cut it into 9 pieces; old woman: on the road white, gray and black sheep, if you touch black, you will go even lower; the young man takes white, goes up to the ground; finds his father; the insidious companions have been expelled, the young man married one of the girls raised which he liked], 339-341 [while the husband herded the cows, the wife gave birth to 7 sons; the youngest goes to his father, he runs away because he is afraid that he will not feed his sons; the mother raised them, gave the younger father's ring, he found a feral man, showed the ring, the man turned out to be a father; he met the father of 7 daughters, agreed to marry them; 6 brides arrived, the tower with the seventh was wrapped around the Sarmak; answers the youngest of the brothers that the tower will be penetrated by someone who venerates a garbash; a young man goes in search, sees a woman kneading dough in dirty water; Sarmak seized water, gives water in exchange for people; Sarmak allows the young man to dial three times water; the woman shows him the way to the garbash; she turned the young man into a dove, he flew into the tower to the girl, became a young man, they returned home; the wedding of 7 sisters with 7 brothers]; Avars [Aigurova Ali so strong to harness dragons into the arba; takes a river swallower and a sharpshooter as companions; the swallower, then the shooter stays cooking, the dwarf ties them with his hair, eats lunch; AA pinched the dwarf's beard with a plane tree ; he escaped, went into the hole; the companions are afraid to go down, it's hot; AA kills a dwarf, sends his captive upstairs; she warns that if the rope is cut, AA must jump on the white ram, whoever runs to butt black will take him upstairs; AA hit black, fell lower; there the 9-headed dragon closed the water, gives it in exchange for the girls; AA kills him; Khan says he can go to earth only the kwankwa bird can carry; a three-headed snake crawls to its nest, AA kills it; the grateful kwankwa picks up AA, who feeds it with buffalo meat, gives it water; cuts off the last piece from the leg; kwankwa belches it, puts it back; AA kills a swallower and a shooter fighting over a girl, marries]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:174-183; Tsakhurs [padishah asks three daughters who makes the house home - husband or wife; the elders say that Gulperi's husband, youngest, is a wife; the padishah gives her for the lazy poor Ahmed; G. adjusts that A. is forced to go fetch water and firewood; he hires to herd camels; the three-headed ajdaha in the well does not provide water, the caravans do not feel sorry for A.; he negotiates with Azhdah, greeting him and giving him a ram; Azhdakha allows him to collect water and gives two grenades; A. does not know that they are golden, she sends to his wife; she sells gold, builds a house; on the way home, A. releases a goldfish into the sea, she gives jewelry; the padishah comes, sees a rich house, admits that the youngest is right daughters]: Aliyeva 2012, No. 81:366-370; Lezgins [Zulum-Magoma eats and works like a giant; fellow villagers are afraid of him; mother pretends to be sick, asks for lion meat; he easily does the task, goes to fight dragons; on the way he meets trees pulling trees and leveling mountains; companions cook; the long-bearded dwarf ties the cook with his hair every time, eats everything; Z. throws up him to the sky, the dwarf falls, hides underground; companions can't go down, it's hot there; Z. descends, kills three dragons (3-, 5-, 7-headed) sleeping on the knees of three girls; companions raise the girls are left on the ground, M. is left below; the youngest manages to say that he must grab the leg of the white gazelle, which will take him to the upper world; M. mistakenly grabs black, he takes him to the black world; The seven-headed dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; Z. kills him; the king advises to go to the plane tree, where the parrot's nest; Z. kills a snake that is about to eat chicks; the parrot carries it to the upper world; the last Z. cuts off a piece of meat from his leg, a bird puts it back on the ground; Z. comes to the wedding, kills traitors, marries, gives the other two girls for laborers]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 79-91 (= Khalilov 1965, No. 34:54-68); aguly [the shepherd has an evil wife; he noticed a deep hole, told his wife that he had found a chest of gold, brought him to the hole and pushed it there; but at home the children shouted so much that the shepherd returned and lowered a pole into the pit; Azhdaha jumped out, thanked him for his salvation from the evil old woman; promised to reward: he would close access to the spring, and the shepherd would drive him away; but this should not be repeated; ajdaha promises to give him water if the khan's daughter is given to him to eat; the shepherd came with a weapon, Azhdaha fled, the shepherd married the khan's daughter; the neighboring khan also asked for relief from Azhdakhi; the man asked where he lives the angriest old woman, deliberately infuriated her, ran to the spring, shouted to Azhdaha that an old woman, who was even worse than the first, was running to him; Azhdakha ran away, the former shepherd received an award]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 57:508-509; the Udins [the shepherd's son Rustam, very strong, playing with other children, maiming them; the old woman advises sending R. to the forest where three divas live for firewood; the king sends, R. easily kills divas, brings firewood; the king sends R. to the white diva; after a hard struggle, R. kills him too; decides to leave; meets and companions a man who holds a torn tree over the plowman to create a shadow; tying a millstone to his feet and grinding grain; drinking a river; everyone, not knowing who is in front of him, says that his abilities mean nothing, but R. is a hero; they live in a hut, each in turn cooks; Azhdakha comes, asks for pilaf broth, the cook asks him to wait, Azhdakha ties him with hair from his beard, eats everything; when R. remains, he cuts off his head, she rolls into the crevice; The tree holder tries to go down first, but shouts that it is burning, he is pulled out; the same with others; R. tells him not to pick it up if he screams; below R. opens 7 iron doors, sees a sleeping diva on a girl's lap; kills him; so four girls and four divas, R. kills the divas and Azhdakha's head; sends three girls upstairs; the most beautiful one is afraid that her companions will not raise R.; leaves him two feathers: if you hit one another, a white ram (carry him to the ground) and a black goat (lower it even lower) will appear; the companions picked up the girl and left; R. called the animals, accidentally sat on a goat, I was downstairs; asked the old woman for a drink, she said that the snake in the well only gives water in exchange for gifts, now it is the king's daughter's turn; she brings a bowl of pilaf to the snake; R. was chopped by a snake, a princess put her blood-soaked hands on R.'s back; the king called everyone together, made sure that the hero was R.; he could not understand him to the ground, but said that the snake eats the bird's chicks; R. kills the snake; the chicks tell the bird so agrees to bring R. to the ground, he must ask the king for meat and water; he cuts off the last piece of R. from his thigh; on the ground, the bird sees that R. is limping, puts the meat back; gives two feathers Call her; R. forgives his companions, leaves them beauties, takes the best for himself; companions change rings; if the stone on the ring turns black, the owner is in trouble; R. comes to another country, kills a diva, takes his wife is his second wife; the local king also wanted this woman; the old woman asks to make a flying chest; asks R. to take her into service; persuades R.'s second wife to find out what his strength is; he says that without the rings would weaken, and in two weeks she would die; the old woman removed the ring from R., invited his wife to sit in the chest, the chest flew to the king; companions came, the water bread drank water in the well, found a ring there; R. defeated and killed the king, returned his wife]: Dirr 1921, No. 58:210-218; Megrelians: Mashurko 1894 (Eki village) [mother of four daughters conceived a son by swallowing grain; named Kazhandi; he ordered from a blacksmith an unthinkably heavy club and bow and arrows, went on a journey; met and accompanied Ahmet (moved mountains) and Bosch (raised part of the land); they live in the forest, cook in turn; a priest comes, binds the cook, eats food; when K. stays, he beats the priest, he runs away, his companions follow him, he has disappeared into a hole in the ground; his companions let K. down into it; there is the house where the priest dies, he has three daughters; K. filled the priest with hot bacon; sent the girls and treasures upstairs; wanting to check his companions, put a stone in the basket instead of himself; they cut off the rope; K. comes to the old woman, who has only dirty water ; for each jug of water, you must give a man to the dragon; K. killed the dragon; he is advised to return upstairs on the eagle's back, prepare meat for the journey; there was only enough meat halfway, the eagle returned; K. came to people who guard giants that cause the wind; K. released the giants, a hurricane began, they were caught again; K. flies on an eagle again, gives meat from his leg; on the ground, an eagle heals a wound by touching it with his pen; K. married the youngest of the girls, the companions apologized]: 393-399; Glushakov 1904, No. 1 (Imereti) [nine brothers buy a plot of land, go to work there; sister is told that the paths will throw garlic heads; the old Mdevi picks up garlic, scatters them on the way to her house; hungry and unable to find her sister at home, the brothers come to Mdevi, her sons defeat them, lock them in a barn to eat at the festival; God sends the Raven to find out why the mother of the missing is crying; the crow promises to tell God if the old woman gives her eye; He tells God that she is crying for a murdered child; It's the same with the second eye; God sends a dove, he tells the truth; God curses the Raven, and with the Dove sends a handkerchief to wipe her eyes and see the light, an apple, to conceive a son; he becomes a giant hears from his playmates that he had brothers and sister; comes to Mdevi, fights; the severed head of the younger monster grows back, the bird tells him to sprinkle ash on the wound; so the hero kills all the mdevis, frees his brothers and sister; the brothers offer to race, provoking the hero to step on the carpet that closes the hole; the hero falls at the well, the daughter of the underground king cries next to him, who is given to eaten by a dragon that has covered the water; the hero falls asleep, wakes up from a tearful beauty, kills a dragon with an arrow; a grateful king puts the hero on an eagle along with a load of meat; there is not enough meat, the hero cuts him off from his own leg, an eagle heals him on the ground; the hero returns to his mother, does not take revenge on his brothers]: 1-6; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 31 [three brothers hunt, meet a beautiful woman kidnapped nine devas; they killed them; the older 9-headed grabs the woman again, takes her underground; the younger brother goes down there on a rope; sends the woman upstairs; when he should go up himself, just in case ties a block, the brothers cut off the rope; going upstairs, the woman gave the key to the stable, told me to sit on a white horse; he would take it upstairs, and the black one would lower it even lower; the white man ran away, the young man sat on black; there a woman kneads the dough in the urine: the water covered the gveleshapi, demands people to eat, the boy's turn; the young man shot the gveleshapi; people are happy; the king advises you to go to the eagle, he will take it to the ground; eagles first they hide a man so that the eagle does not swallow him; on the way to earth, the young man feeds the eagle meat, cuts off the last piece from his leg; the eagle says that the last piece was the sweetest - he should not eat it man; a young man returns when his middle brother marries that woman; kills brothers, marries a beautiful woman himself]: 79-83; Mashurko 1894 [(vol. 20, dep. 3, p. 57-61); Lom-Katsi is conceived from the skin an apple; meets and companions a catching up hare, tied to a millstone to his feet; stealing eggs from the nest so that the pigeon does not notice; comrades live in the forest, cook in turn; the giant overcomes the cook, eats lunch; LK hits him with an arrow, follows him into the crevice where the girl kidnapped by the giant; his comrades pick up the girl, leave LK below; he comes to the old woman, where the gveleshapi gives water to exchange for people; LC kills Gveleshapi, climbs to the ground on a bird's back; kills a traitor, marries a rescued girl]: 400; Chikovani 1954, No. 3 [=1985, No. 3:19-22, =1986:129-136; someone kidnaps wonderful apples from the royal garden; the elder, middle princes are guarding, sleeping; the younger one wounds the deva with an arrow, a bloody trail leads under a stone; the older brothers are afraid to go down, the youngest mother of the deva says that her the son is wounded; the young man advises to pour boiling oil into the wound, takes out his arrow; the devil dies, the young man kills his mother, frees three beauties; the youngest warns that if his brothers betray him, he must sit not on a black sheep, but on a white sheep; she will carry it to the underworld, I must say, "Babkin's roof is soft, cotton", will fall on a soft one; brothers raise beauties, cut off the rope; on a sheep, a young man gets to a crooked old woman, eats porridge from the side where she has a blind eye; the old woman adopts him, says that the dev took the water; the young man cut off his head; asks the king to lift him upstairs; he says that only Pashkunji can do this; P. constantly eats gveleshapi chicks; one chick cries, it will be eaten today, the other laughs tomorrow; the young man kills Mr. with an arrow; there is thunder, it is raining, it is the mother of the chicks cries, thinks that the children are swallowed; the children first hide the savior, then show their mother; she tells them to store meat; in flight it ends, the young man carves meat from under his knee; P. says he would eat it, She knows that people's meat is so tasty; heals the young man's wound; the swineherd says that the king's eldest son marries the youngest's bride; the young man asks for his clothes, one can pull his bow; the bride recognizes him; he kills his brother with an arrow, marries]: 28-33; Armenians [the king will heal only apples from the tree of immortality in India; the elder, middle sons fall asleep, the demon takes apples; the middle one cuts his finger so as not to fall asleep, injures a demon, brings apples, the father recovers; three brothers follow the demon's bloody trail to the cave; only the youngest is not afraid of being burned when he is lowered on a rope; kills three demons freeing three princesses; sends treasures and princesses upstairs; the brothers leave the young man below; the youngest girl taught him how to jump on a black ram, he will jump on red, red on white, white will take it to the ground; the young man jumps on white, white on red, red on black, black down; the old woman says that the dragon gives water in exchange for girls; the young man kills the dragon, saves the princess; The lower world is dark: the dragon devours the eagle's chicks, the eagle closes the light; the young man kills the dragon, the chicks tell their mother who their savior is; the Eagle orders him to be fed and watered on the way; the father of the saved princess gives supplies; the young man cuts off the last piece from his leg; on the ground, the Eagle puts it back; the young man is hired by a jeweler; with the help of a magic ring, he makes a golden mouse and cat alive, and other animals; the wedding time of princesses and brothers is handsome on a horse; kills brothers, a king, takes the princess]: Wingate 1911, No. 6:351-361; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [Shah's apple tree brings every year one rejuvenating apple, someone takes it away; the older, the middle one falls asleep, the younger Melik-Mamed injures the diva, the brothers are on the trail of blood; the elders cannot go down to the well because of the heat, MM consistently meets three girls and three divas at the bottom; each points a diva's soul bubble, MM breaks it; sends the girls upstairs; the youngest says that if the brothers cut the rope, MM must jump on white ram; cuts the rope, the white ram drops MM on the black one, which takes it to the realm of darkness; there the dragon devours the chicks of the Zumrud bird every year; MM kills him; the bird promises to take MM upstairs, If he gets forty oxen carcasses and forty wineskins of water; MM kills the dragon that covers the water for the girls; the king gives him meat and wineskins full of water; the last piece of MM cuts off his thigh, the bird puts it back; MM is hired by a tailor; in its true form, on horseback, cuts off the head of his older, middle brothers; opens, marries, gives two other girls for courtiers]: 50-63 (= Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 463-474); Stamboliev 1896, No. 1 [the diva took the son and daughter of a man who was born hero Hasan; he kills the diva, tells the witch to spell his brother turned into a donkey; on his way home brother kills sleeping G.; mother is happy, because G. was too strong; pigeons revive him; G. kills his brother; mother informs the king about this; the king sends G. to the forest to be torn to pieces by animals, he kills animals; Yeah- Kerim splashes water from the river for several miles; Gul-Mamed throws stones; G. defeats them, takes them as companions; each one cooks in turn, the old man ties the cook with his hair, eats everything; G. remains. He tears off the old man's head, head and body roll; on a bloody trail, G. goes down to the well, goes down; sends three girls upstairs; the latter tells him to jump on the black ram, he will throw him at the white ram, white - upstairs; the companions threw the rope; G. jumped on white, was thrown on black, then into the lower world; there the snake gives water in exchange for the victim, the princess's turn; G. kills the snake; the king offers the princess, G. asks him to be taken upstairs; the king sends him to the bird Roch, her crocodile eats her children; G. kills him, Roch carries him to the ground, supplies run out, G. cuts off a piece of meat from his thigh; his bird is on the ground regurgitates, puts it back; G. burns the bird's feather, it arrives, gives a horse; at the wedding, AK and GM G. kills them while horseback, passes two girls off as others, takes the youngest for himself]: 1-8; Turks : Dmitriev 1967, No. 1 [apples disappear from the padishah's garden; the eldest, middle son is frightened of the storm, the youngest hits one head of a double-headed dragon with an arrow; the brothers follow the footsteps to the well; the eldest, middle command drag them back, the youngest goes down to the bottom, cuts off the dragon's second head; three girls are pulled out of the well; the youngest warns that if the brothers abandon the young man, he must fall on the white ram and rise on it to the ground; he falls on black, falls seven layers down; the old woman says that every year they give the dragon a girl while he eats her, take water; it is the turn of the padishah's daughter, a young man cuts off seven heads of the dragon; the girl identifies the savior, the young man asks the padishah to bring him to the ground, he is unable; the dragon eats the Sumuranka bird's chicks; the young man kills him, the chicks tell their mother that the young man saved them; S. tells them to immerse 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; the young man cuts off the last piece from his foot, Sumuranka puts it back; the young man pretends to be a bald poor man; the sisters agree to marry, if they get a gold spinning wheel, a hoop, a hen with chickens (they had it, now the boy); the young man pretends to do these items, the sisters realize that he is back; he looks handsome in green clothes, comes to the palace, receives a wife and kingdom from his father; brothers are forgiven], 2 [three-legged dev swallows his sister, two older brothers, the youngest kills the deva and his female, releases him from the womb swallowed; brothers let him down the well to get water; he kills a deva, frees three girls; (then about (1); on the ground, a young man picks up his bride, a bird carries them both, gets tired, here is a young man cuts off her meat from her thigh; when she reaches, the bird puts a piece; they arrive at the padishah, the young man marries both his beloved and the daughter of the padishah]: 31-39, 39-48; Dmitriev 1967, No. 2 [the woman has a daughter and three sons, the youngest rode in ash; the older brothers ask the mother to send them their sister to bring them lunch; she went the wrong road and came to the three-legged deva and his three-headed wife; the deva's wife asks the girl to light the fire, dev swallows it; the older brother goes to look for the girl; in the bakery he cannot eat all the bread on offer, drink all the wine, crosses the river on an iron bridge, not a wooden bridge, eats sweet rather than sour apples; with he is the same as with the girl; the middle brother is the same as with the older brother; the youngest ordered a club from the blacksmith, threw it up, caught it with his finger, it crashed; ordered a new one; ate everything in the tavern; went on a wooden one on the bridge, ate sour apples; dev threw his club, the guy put his little finger, it crashed; he killed the deva with his club; refused to hit a second time; ripped the deva's belly, released his brothers and sister alive; killed deva's wife; the brothers went to the well, began to let the elder go to get water, he screamed - hot; the same average; the youngest was lowered, there were three beauties and a deva, the guy killed the deva with a club; sent the girls upstairs ; the youngest gave a box, in which flint to call an Arab, he will follow orders; white and black rams will come to the pool; if you sit on black, he will carry him down seven layers of land; the guy accidentally sat on black; summoned an Arab - one lip on the ground, the other in the sky; the guy ordered him to bring him the merchant's clothes, hired him as an apprentice in a shop; dev gives water to the city once a year, for which he demands a girl, the turn of the padishah's daughter; the guy killed the deva, got the daughter of a padishah; told him to wait 7 years - he would bring another love from above; the snake crawls to the nest, the guy killed the snake with a mace, the birds told the mother that the guy who fell asleep saved them; the bird I agree to take it to the ground, let him cook meat and water; the bird takes it to the ground, brings him back with the girl; there was not enough meat, the guy cut off a piece from his thigh, the bird put it back; wedding with two wives]: 39-48; Stebleva 1986, No. 19 [the father tells his sons that he fell ill because the Uyuz padishah took three nightingales from him; the youngest son is driving on a road that they do not return; kills the dragon, freeing three sisters; the giant makes the distant close, the young man enters the country of Uyuz Padishah; everyone sleeps there, he unzips the beauty's gate, takes nightingales, brings wives to himself and brothers; older brothers can't go down to the well for water, it's hot there; the younger one goes down; the betrothed tells me to jump at the bottom on a white ram; the young man jumps on the black one, he takes it down; dev hid the water , eats girls, gives only a little blood water; a young man kills a deva; a padishah sends him to an eagle that can carry him upstairs; a young man kills a snake that eagles; an eagle carries him, he gives her meat and water, cuts off a piece from his leg; on the ground, an eagle puts a piece back]: 57-62; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 1 [the blind padishah will see the light if he gets the land from where he has not been; the eldest, middle son they jump for three, six months, come back; the younger Kerloghlan ("bald") threatens his mother to kill her; she gives a bridle to summon his father's horse from the bottom of the reservoir; K. comes to one, then to the second old woman, brings their daughters out for their older, middle brother; the first old woman: the land unkempt by the father is under the head of a lying monster; the horse: the monster can burn everything, the father is blind to his fire; the monster promises to give land for the girl Khoja Kyz; seeing her, K. goes blind; she heals him, but his eyes turn dark, without proteins; HC promises to go with K. if he brings a mare living in the river with six foals; these are the horse's brothers K.; the horse rushes into the river; if red foam pops up, it means he is dead; the white one pops up; the mare comes out, the foals follow her; HC recognizes the strength of K., the monster gives land, leaves the young man HC, father K. immediately sees the light; HC gives K. two nuts, inside one dress, the other a gold tray with moving figures; gives a ring, teaches them what to do; the brothers put K. on the carpet above the hole, he falls through, they pick up the girls; K. licks the ring, white and black rams appear, K. tries to jump on white, black takes him to the seventh lower world; the old woman has only bad water, the seven-headed giant took the good one, gives it in exchange for devoured girls; it was the turn of the royal daughter; K. cuts off six heads, the giant dies; if the seventh was cut off, he would come to life; the princess's hands were covered in the giant's blood, she put them on K.'s back, so they found that he is the hero; K. kills the snake that devoured the bird's chicks Anka; she agrees to take him to the ground; the harvested 40 kg of meat and water run out, K. cuts off a piece of flesh from her caviar; on the ground, Anka puts him back; K. is hired by a tailor, then to a jeweler; they bring the dress, the tray that HC required as a condition for marriage; HC knows that K. is back; a tournament is held twice (jirit); for the first K. wears black clothes, kills his older brother, the second in red, kills the middle brother; HC tells the padishah everything; wedding 40 days and nights]: 10-24; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989 [elder and the middle brother falls asleep, only the younger Kuchuk Avdla cuts off the tail of the dragon that has ruined the garden; with his brothers he follows him into the gorge, they lower him on a rope, the youngest daughter of the dragon teaches that her father needs hit with a sword only once; he kills the dragon, the brothers raise three dragon daughters upstairs, cut off the rope; before that, the younger sister explains to KA that black and white sheep will eat grass, black turns white and white turns black, you have to jump on the white back; the KA does the opposite, the ram does not lift it up, but lowers it even lower; the dragon hides the water, gives halva and the girl in exchange for two cauldrons, the spacecraft kills him, marries the Shah's daughter, whom the dragon was supposed to eat; another dragon devours Simr's chicks every year; the KA kills him, the bird agrees to raise him to the ground, orders him to be trained for seven lambs fat tails, bread, wineskins of water; KA drops one fat tail, cuts off the meat from his thigh; when he reaches, Simr returns the meat to him, it grows; the KA takes the form of a bald tail, wins competitions incognito, comes to his fiancée's wedding, marries, kills enemies], No. 2:46-59; Rudenko 1970, No. 51 [Krale Kafyr agrees not to kill orphan Zalia and his sister; Zal defeats a sea monster, finds himself under the skin of the beast beautiful Rudabe; KK is afraid of the monster, everyone converts to Z., he establishes Islam; passes his sister off as Kambar; R. cannot be born, the Simurg bird gives a sword to cut R.'s stomach, Rostam is born; wife K. gives birth to a son named Bedran; K., the patron and companion of 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 by K. leaves; Div Heungrman 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 Div H. is; O. kills the dragon crawling towards Simurg's 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, cuts off the diva's steel hand, his sister releases 300 petrified horsemen during her life; O. and R. release Bedran, who has fallen into the dungeon; exterminate infidels]: 155-174; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [a dying father tells his sons Suleiman, Osman, Ismail to be on duty at his grave; younger I. injures a diva who has come to dig up the grave; brothers go to look A diva, a mother follows, drinks from a donkey's hoof, gives birth to Long-Eared Harzam; he finds brothers, they are afraid to go down into a hot failure, H. goes down; the youngest of three daughters, the diva shows Golperi's sword, H. cuts off the diva's head; G. predicts that the brothers will cut the rope, tells them to jump on the white ram; after picking up the girls, S. and O. cut off the rope; H. jumps on the black ram, falls through seven worlds; instead of water, an old woman brings him urine, water is given by a dragon in exchange for girls; H. kills a dragon, saves the padishah's daughter; he says that the dragon has been eating Simur's chicks for many years; H. kills dragon, chicks explain everything to their mother, Simur brings X. to the ground; in flight he feeds and wateres the bird, cuts off the last piece from the leg, it regurgitates, puts it back, gives a pen; H. finds G. and I., around a dragon wrapped around their tent, he tells them to learn the story of Gule and Sinam; Sinam Padishah tells how he changed clothes with a groom, accompanies his wife unrecognized at night to the robbers cave; turns the traitor into a crow, a chieftain into a horse, then hangs an incense with his lover's ashes around the crow's neck; wants to kill H., he pulls out Simur's feather, she takes him to the dragon; when she hears the story, the dragon turns into a girl, she does H.'s ears are normal; H. marries her, reigns, forgives her brothers]: 60-72; Kurds [the king found a box, a boy in it, named Nachar Ogly (NO); the queen gave birth to her son Mirza Mehmet (MM); they are friends; BUT he is very strong; after he tore off one boy's ear, his mother scolded him and called him a foundling; after that, both BUT and MM left; at the night BUT walked away, saw 7 divas sitting by the fire and killed them; we met and accompanied a diva who lay down on a bridge over the river so as not to miss the NO, whose fame he had heard about; another diva who ran around the village with millstones on his feet; at rest, divas with remained to cook with millstones; the dwarf, the father of the killed divas, beat him and ate everything; the same with the diva bridge and with the MM; BUT defeated the dwarf, he disappeared into the cave; BUT filled the exit with stones; everyone tried to lower it on a rope, but right back: it's hot; BUT went down, killed three divas, freeing three girls; slept with his sword between himself and the first girl, because she was meant for his brother; the third, which was intended for him herself, warned him that his brothers would leave him; but in a week the white and black sheep would come to butt, he had to jump on the white one, he would lift him to the ground; black would lower seven tiers; he jumped on the black one; asked the old woman for water; there is no water: the dragon closed all the springs, passes water off as a girl a day, the princess's turn; BUT killed the dragon; the princess marked the savior by running his hand smeared over his back with dragon blood; local king: the dragon devours the chicks of the bird Taire Semer; if killed, the grateful bird will take him to the ground; after killing the dragon, BUT fed its meat to the chicks and fell asleep; the chicks asked the mother not Kill a man: he saved them; she asked for water and meat to be harvested; the meat ran out BUT cut off a piece of flesh from his leg; the bird grafted the piece back; BUT cut off the heads of traitors, along with MM and brides returned to parents]: Chalatianz 1907:411-413.
Iran - Central Asia. Lura [the king has three sons, the youngest Jahantigh; his father's wife offered him love, J. refused; the woman grabbed him by the clothes, he cut off the piece of dress that was left in her hand, ran away; she accused him of an attempt on her honor; the king wanted to execute her son, but the vizier advised him to simply expel him; the older brothers left with the youngest; at night they take turns keeping the fire; when J. the wind blew out the fire; J. came to 16 demons; they cannot get the princess, because there are bells everywhere, which start to ring when they approach and the guards wake up; J. suggests stuffing them into the bells cotton wool; then tells the demons to go up one by one and kills everyone; kisses the princess and changes rings with her; brings a brazier to the sleeping brothers; in the city everyone claims that he destroyed it demons; when J. came, the king wants to give him his daughter, but he gives her older brother and moves on; in another village, the inhabitants are exhausted; the dragon closed the spring, every day gives water for sheep, bread and girl, turn of the royal daughter; clenching the back of the sword with his teeth, J. and the girl rushes into the dragon's mouth, ripped it apart with the blade of a sword; the girl marked the savior with dragon blood; all sources are here But they were filled; the men gathered, the princess found her savior; J. gave in to her middle brother, went on; J. comes to a city whose inhabitants are invisible; the fairy saw J. in a dream and will break the spell, if J. comes to her; when she saw him, she made everyone else visible; J. married his servant to the fairy and came to a city where there are only women; the fairy king invites everyone to overcome him, but no one can and he killed all men; the old woman teaches: we must take possession of the king's seahorse; hide in the stable; the horse will light up, the king will come to give him sugar; so twice; the third time the king whips off the horse and leaves; then J. the horse will be pigeon; after defeating the king, he can be released only after he says "with my mother's milk and father's pain"; the fairy king gave his daughter J.; once his wife combed her hair and her hair fell into the river; his prince picked it up, the old woman promised to get the owner if she was given as much gold as she weighs herself; she came to J.'s wife; she did not want to keep her, but J. ordered her to keep it; the old woman persuaded J. to find out what his strength was; his wife pretended to be offended, J. admitted that his strength was in his hand (blade in his arm); when he fell asleep, his wife took out the blade, gave it to the old woman, who threw it into the river put the woman to sleep and took her to the prince; J.'s wife told him she was in mourning for 40 days; his older brother J. saw that his star had set and the middle one knew how to be underwater; they came, the middle brother took out a blade from the bottom of the river, J. regained consciousness; the brothers bribed the old woman to take J.'s wife out of town; J. returned his wife, ordered the old woman to be burned]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 1:1-9; Persians: Rosenfeld 1956 [the dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; a son Jehantig is born, the dervish ties a diamond dagger to him in which his soul; D. grew up, opened the forbidden room, there is a portrait girls with 40 braids, he goes to look for her; meets, takes the Stargazer and the Sailor as companions; the dragon has closed the water, gives her for the girls, the Shah's daughter is intended to be eaten; D. kills the dragon, gets the princess, gives it to the Stargazer; in another city he kills ferocious lions, gives the received princess to the sailor; at Mount Kaf sees petrified people trying to get the princess; hits a cat with an arrow around whose neck petrified keys come to life; girls sweep the yard with their eyelashes, D. gives them brooms; kills divas guarding the sleep of a girl with 40 braids; marries her, lives in a palace; another shah-zade wants to take her away; an old woman persuades his wife D. to find out what his soul is; throws a knife into the sea, D.'s body into the well; the Stargazer sees that the star D. is clouded; together with the Sailor they come, take out a knife, and D. comes to life; D. kills old woman and kidnapper; all is well]: 175-185; Osmanov 1987:56-71 [Malek-Mohammad, Malek-Jamshid, Malek-Khorshid are sons of the Shah; MM's mother is dead, others are alive; someone steals grenades; MM cuts off a finger stretching out of the clouds; on a bloody trail, the brothers reach the well; only MM goes down to the bottom, kills three divas, frees three girls, marries a third; brothers pick up treasures and girls, cut off the rope; the betrothed before that tells the white ram to jump on the back, he lifts seven tiers up; MM jumps on the black one, falls seven tiers down; the lion lets in to the water if he is given a girlfriend that day; MM harnesses a lion into a plow; a plowman says that only a Simorg bird can help him; MM kills a lion; kills a dragon crawling to eat Simorg's chicks; chicks tell their mother that MM is not an enemy, but a deliverer; on the way, MM throws Simorg meat, gives water; cuts off the meat from his thigh, Simorg hides it under his tongue, puts it back on the ground; gives MM his feathers, if burned, he will come to the rescue; The named MM is given off as the son of a vizier; MM pretends to be a tailor to sew dresses for brides; Simorg sews his youngest dress for him; girls recognize MM, his brothers are forgiven], 109-124 [father tells after his death not go hunting a mountain; the elder, middle brother goes, the green rider kills them; the younger puts a wooden figure on the horse, sneaks into the mountain after the rider; the ploughman is afraid to talk to him, MM harnesses two lions; the fish in the well provides water in exchange for the girl to be eaten; MM kills the fish, refuses the crown and the daughter of the padishah, asks for help to return home; the padishah tells them to contact Simorg; MM kills a dragon crawling to her nest; Simorg carries MM up, he feeds and water her, cuts off a piece of her thigh, on the ground she puts meat back; MM enters the fortress, ready to kill the green rider, he turns out to be the daughter of Padishah Peri; they fall in love; the diva takes her away, MM burns Simorg's feather, who tells me to ask the horse for eight legs at the stone on the seashore, disagree to the six-legged one; MM takes a six-legged one, Peri sends him back, he brings the eight-legged (between that, the divas grabs him, MM replies that he wants to be thrown into the mountains, he throws him into the sea, he swims out); Peri's father takes her away; MM takes her away from the divas Soleiman flying carpet, an invisible hat, a magic bow and arrows; Peri's father returns his daughter to him; her relatives tell him to instruct his son-in-law to find out the secret Garden and Sanoubar; MM completes the task, gets wife], 267-278 [the dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; a son is born, but he is breathless; the same dervish tells him to make a hole in the sword that fell out of the womb with the child, and hang a sword around the boy's neck; he came to life, and if the sword was removed, he lost consciousness; the boy was named Jantig ("life by the sword"); he grew up, he was given the keys to all gardens except one; he broke the door in that garden portrait of beautiful Chelgis ("forty braids"); D. followed her; he was joined by Minutochetr and the Stargazer, who also want to marry C.; a girl and a boy meet him; every day the dragon requires one the young man to eat, otherwise she does not give water, the girl hopes to appease the dragon with food; D. cut the dragon, a dove flew out of it; the impostors tried to attribute the feat to themselves, but the girl smeared D. with her hand, soaked in dragon blood, and identified him; D. married the girl to the Stargazer and went on with Minutochet; elsewhere, ships carrying grain from across the sea die; this time the ship must be the only son of the padishah; D. swam himself, the dragon appeared from the sea, D. cut him, the dove flew out; D. married Minutochet to the daughter of the padishah, went on; the man invited him to dinner; his mother was wet nurse C.; the old woman will tell the secret of C., if she is not heard, otherwise she will petrify; D. overhears the old woman speaking alone; you have to climb a tree, throw 7 dates to seven divas, they will eat and fall asleep; C. in the ear of one of the divas; you have to throw a lollipop, C. will come out to pick it up; D. grabbed C., they jump away, D. gives C. an armful of swords (as the old woman taught), they turned into a mountain of swords; then salt mountain; divas cut themselves, their wounds were eaten away by salt, they died, only the White Diva continues to chase; a jug of water - the sea and a rock with a cave; D. advises the diva to stick her head into the cave - then he will fly off; instead, divas fell, drowned; C. washed his hair, two hairs fell into the well, D. did not pick it up; from the well they sailed to the padishah's garden; he smelled C., sent the old woman to pick her up; the old woman began to serve C., found out the mystery of the sword, threw her sword into the well, brought C. to the padishah; she demands to postpone the wedding for 40 days, a time of mourning; the Stargazer sees that the star D. goes out, goes in search with Minutochet; they got the sword from the well, returned to D., he came to life; killed the old woman, took C.; she gave Minutochet and Stargazer her hair - if you want to eat, they create any fruit they wanted; D. brought C. to his father; she warns that his father wants to kill D.: there will be a carpet-covered trap pit, poisoned tea and pilaf; D. jumped over the carpet, changed dishes, his father died himself; D. reigned]; Baluchi [dervish gives an apple to the childless king; the king's wife eats him, gives birth to a dead boy; Azrail takes him away, revives his name is Janteg; D. takes Stargazer, Water scholar, Buzlangi named Ded- gargashang (DG); the dragon closes the water, the king's daughter is led to be eaten; D. lets herself be swallowed, immediately cuts the dragon in half with a sword; gives the girl to the Stargazer; DG destroys enemies, the princess gets Water expert; DG brings D. to the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin, who marries; another king sends an old woman; she encourages his wife to ask D. where his soul is; in a sword; the old woman takes the girl in a flying chest, a sword throws him into the river; brothers take out a sword, revive D., who returns his wife with the help of DG; finds his father]: Zarubin 1932, No. 10:121-133; Yagnobs [unloved wife pushes her beloved into the pond; her son feeds well, stepson poorly; the ram tells him to feed him rough bread, gives him delicious food from his horn; the stepmother pretends to be sick, will recover if he eats his stepson's meat; he goes to the pond, complains mother; she makes the knife turn into nightmare and dough; the king orders to drain the pond, the wife is alive at the bottom, the twins Hassan and Hussein are on her knees; the feast; the divas took the king's daughter away from another wife and the daughter of another king; Princes Soka and Boka find them, B. kills one, the second diva; S. envies, lowers B. into the abyss for a gun, cuts off the rope, he falls on a gray horse, with gray on a bull, from a bull in front of an old woman; kills foxes that ate her chickens; kills tigers that devoured the ploughman's bulls; wolves that ate the shepherd's cattle; they all send to the plane tree on which the Simurg bird's nest; the dragon comes out of the pond kills chicks every year; B. kills a dragon; Simurg asks for meat for 40 lambs, 40 wineskins of wine; a shepherd, a ploughman gives; Simurg brings them to the ground, there is not enough meat, he bites off a piece of B.'s leg, belches on the ground and takes root; B. takes his gun, which S. could not take away, kills a dragon in a village on earth, which provided water in exchange for people left to eat; the king asks B. not to kill his brother, marries his daughter vizier]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 10:79-87; Turkmens [son of a bay, son of a merchant and sir see traces of a maiden at the well; the son of a bay, the son of a merchant cannot go down because of the heat; an orphan descends, kills a deva, tells the companions to pick up the freed peri; they throw away the rope, the son of the bay takes the peri, the merchant's son takes the treasures; in a dream, someone tells the young man that white and black sheep will fall from above, he must jump on white, he will take him upstairs; he jumps accidentally on black; the daikhanin lets him plow, tells him not to make noise, tigers rush at him, he harnesses them; the dragon crawls to eat the chicks on the plane tree, the young man kills him, Simurg gives him his feathers; in the city, the dragon has locked the water, demands the girls to eat; the young man kills him, the grateful padishah adopts him; Simurg takes him to the ground, he throws meat and water to it, cuts off the last piece from his thigh, she hides it under her tongue, puts it back; at home, the young man turns into an old man, restores his mother's vision with a Simurg pen, becomes young again, his mother recognizes him; he kills the sons of a merchant and a bay, takes both wives]: Stebleva 1969, No. 33:170-179; Uzbeks in Khorezm [a man owes a Jewish moneylender, he demands the debtor's daughter; Ali sells himself into slavery to to repay the debt; the padishah promises to buy it if he pacifies the Amu Darya, kills the dragon that prevents the river from damming, polonite A., i.e. himself; A. moved the mountain, then held the branches of the river with five fingers; jumped from with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cut his belly to tail; offered to shackle himself, lead him to the padishah (the end is cut off)]: Snesarev 1983:56.
(Wed. Baltoscandia. Danes [a lazy young man sees a crow on an apple tree; shoots three times, each time the raven pretends to fall; the young man comes up to him, he puts it on his back, flies away; three times pretends to He throws the young man into the sea, and explains that he was just as afraid when the young man shot; the raven brings the young man to the field, tells him to go to the house, say hello from the crow from Salby and ask for porridge and butter; eating, a young man gains the strength of 20 men; sees a white rug with a red thread in the air, follows him, finds a crow; so three times; the last time he finds himself on a mountain and rolls down from it out of laziness, and does not descend slowly; the raven brings the young man to the castle, tells him to hire him in the kitchen, walk the long road; the young man tries to go straight, gets into the swamp; the raven helps for the last time; the local king promised the daughter of the sea to the king, if he helps to cope with the lack of water; now promises a daughter and half the kingdom to the one who will save him from the water king; the Red Knight went to protect the princess, but when he saw the wave, he ran away; the young man waited The third wave, in which the sea king, the young man overcame him and killed him, then fell asleep; the princess woven a gold ring into his hair, but was forced to go with the impostor, the Red Knight; their wedding was being prepared; the king must check who has the ring in his hair; the young man does not go, the king is forced to come by himself; the young man gets the princess and half the kingdom, the Red Knight is hanged; the young man meets the Raven in the form of a man; that takes him home, marries his sister]: Grundtvig 1920:166-174).
Volga - Perm. Marie: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [childless old man and old woman made their son out of dough (nönchyk), he came to life, became Nönchyk-patyr; he is told to gather guests, N. asks his husbands to come without wives; his sent for wives, he asks them to come without children; sent for children, he loads the children on the cart with a pitchfork; they decide to get rid of him, they send him to the far field for sheep; he brings wolves; bears instead of horses; brought a devil girl; his father tells him to leave; N. asks the blacksmith to forge a weight, throws it under the clouds; the 150 pound girl crashed on his head, withstood 200 pounds; N. met I took Tumo-patyr ("oak") and Kürtnö-patyr ("iron") with him; they take turns cooking; an old dwarf with a beard beards beats and eats the cook; N. hung him by the beard on a birch tree; he fell off, left; patyrs followed a bloody trail to a stone, a hole under it; T., K, afraid to go down, N. went down, there are three girls, they say that the father returned without a beard, went to the bathhouse; N. killed a dwarf, burned it in the stove; sent the girls upstairs; when he got up himself, the companions cut off his belt; N. fell to the waist into the ground; grabbed the wolf's tail, he pulled it out; the old woman complains that the snake had closed the water, gave the princess's turn for the girls; N. killed a snake; the bird Arslan-kayyk carried him to the ground; there T. wants to marry a girl from the ground; she recognized her ring given by N.; N. suggests shooting arrows up; T. and K.'s arrows pierced them, N.'s arrow went into oil; he began to live with his wife]: 39-49; Beke 1938, No. 36 [the son of a mare, son of a wolf and son of a bear came to the house where three girls cook pancakes; the skull will eat them when he comes; but the pancakes have been eaten young men who came; the skull was furious, went to bring 300 warriors; the boys prepared 300 arrows; all three were killed; the girls were taken underground by the skull; the mare has three souls; she found a son, gave him a soul, he came to life; asked to revive two comrades; the mare gave them souls, died herself; her son wrapped her in birch bark, buried her; the comrades lowered the mare's son on a rope into a hole in the ground; below the house, in which the old woman, hid the mare's son under the hollow; her three sons came, each brought three deer; they feel the man, promise not to harm him; in the morning they showed the way to the skull; the mare's son came to another woman; she has no water, a snake has been lying on the way to the river for three years; a young man killed him with a club, brought water; a woman shows the way to the house of the skull; do not enter, wait for his wife to leave; the wife says that she goes to get water and she has baby; the wife of a wolf's son herds cows, and the wife of a bear's son sleeps with a skull; promises to ask the skull where his soul is; the woman quietly stabs the baby with a needle, he cries, she explains what the baby wants to know where the soul of his skull father is; the skull: in a duck on a pond in the middle of the forest; the woman stopped stabbing with a needle, the baby died; the mare's son went to the skull and killed the duck, he died; the mare's son led the women to the rope; his comrades picked up the women, and he was only half the height, threw the rope; he fell on his feathers; came to the sons of the first old woman; two say they could not take him to the ground; the third tells him to prepare it meat and feed him when he flies upstairs; the mare's son cut off the last piece from his leg; the old woman's son blew on the wound, healed his leg; married his wife; confesses (alive?) mothers, that his comrades were worse than he thought]: 311-324; Chuvash: Grigoriev 1971 [the old woman sculpts her son Chust Patar out of dough; he goes to travel; Yuman frees from oak and osokor Patara and Tar-Patara; a dwarf with a huge beard eats food every time, hits the cook; C. ties him with his beard to a tree, which breaks; C. goes down into the dungeon, Yu and T. untie the chain; in a copper palace the girl teaches to replace tubs with living and dead water, the three-headed serpent is defeated; in silver - 6, in gold 9-headed; the snake holds water, C. kills it; hides the eagles under the grass, the three-headed snake does not find them, flies away; the eagle takes C. to the ground; when the meat runs out, C. gives her flesh, the eagle heals him; he kills Yu and T., marries]: 78-89; Chuvash tales 1937 [spouses are childless; god Pigambar in a dream tells the old woman to put a piece of oak bark in the sauerkraut; their son Ivan appears; wins, makes copper, silver, golden eagles brothers; each takes turns cooking food in the hut; every time a bearded dwarf comes, says that the bulls eat everything, ties the cook up, that evening says that he does not remember anything; I. defeats the dwarf, hangs it on a tree; the beard remains, the bloody trail stretches into a hole; Eagles lower I. on a belt into the lower world; he kills Chiga an old man, a khursukhal 'a, the father of three sisters; the eldest gives I. a strength-increasing ring; Eagles lift women upstairs, drop their belt; I. kills a 12-headed snake, frees fresh water and people; a snake crawls along a pine tree to the nest of the Vagrant Eagle; I. kills the snake, the Eagle agrees to raise it to the ground; in flight, I. feeds it with meat, it ends , he cuts off a piece of his thigh; kills sister traitors, marries his eldest sister who recognizes him, lets others go]: 67-83; Shurtakov 1984 [the old man exchanges one thing for another, a horse for two staff; the old woman hits him with her staffs, they turn into a boy by Toy Tubal; he goes hunting, meets, takes as his companions the Son of the Sun, the Son of the Month, the Son of the Bear; they take turns cooking, the old man does everything eats him; TT hangs him by the beard on a tree, he runs away without a beard; TT goes down into a hole for him; his three daughters say where barrels of living and dead water are, TT replaces them, kills the old man; companions they pick up girls, cut off the rope; the serpent does not give water from the well, the TT kills it; three snakes are ready to eat three Eagle chicks, TT kills snakes; the Eagle takes TT to the ground, in flight it feeds and waters the Eagle, cuts off the last piece of meat from his thigh; the Eagle sticks it back; TT drove his companions away, married his youngest girl]: 47-56; Eisin 1993:197-207 [just like in Chuvash tales; the bird's name is Amart] 207-218 [an old woman sends her husband to sell peas; he sells, buys a goat with the proceeds, exchanges it for a cow, a cow for a horse, a horse for posts, they are easy to walk with; the old woman hits her husband with them, puts the wreckage in bag; from them comes the boy Tui-Tubala ("from the staff"); grows up as a hero, goes on a journey, meets, and companions men named Hwetke (son of the Sun), Uip (son of the Month), Udaman (son of the Bear) ; they hunt, take turns cooking in the hut; the old man comes and eats the cook; when TT stays, he hangs the old man by the beard on an oak tree; he breaks down, goes into the hole; the companions go down, afraid, tell them pick up; TT sees Chige-Khursugal lying wounded by him; they are fighting, three girls tell them to replace barrels of strong and weak water; TT killed, burned CH; the companions picked up the girls, threw the rope, lifting the TT; the old woman drools the dough, locks the water in the snakes; allows TT to collect the bucket three times, gets out of the well, TT rips open his belly, swallowed people come out; it is said that an eagle on an oak tree could raise to the ground ; one-, three-, nine-headed snakes crawl to the nest, TT cut them; the chicks explain to the big eagle (or eagle) who their savior is; the eagle picks up the TT with a supply of meat and water, the meat runs out, the TT cuts off the thigh , on the ground, the eagle puts a piece back; TT drives his companions away, marries the youngest daughter CH], 282-289 [the old people have no children; the sorcerer advises making the child out of dough; he came to life, grew up quickly, this is Chusta- batyr ("chusta" means "dough"); he went on a journey, hears a voice from an oak tree, then from the osokor with a request to be released; C. broke trees, Yuman batyr ("oak") and Tar-batyr ("osokor") came out; all three stopped at in some house, they take turns cooking; an old man with an elbow with a planted beard hits the cook, eats the bull; when C. remains, he tied the old man with his beard to a tree; he cut off his beard and ran away; three companions came to another house, there was a lost princess; came to a hole in the dungeon; C. began to descend, the companions untied the chain; in the underworld there is a copper palace, the girl tells me to change the tubs from strong and weak with water, C. killed a three-headed serpent; the same in silver (six-headed) and golden palaces (nine-headed serpent); C. came to the village where the serpent is not allowed to enter the water; C. killed the snake, asks people to help them get out; those they advise you to go to the tree on which the eagle; C. hid the eagles, covering the nest with turf, the snake that arrived did not find it; the eagle orders to prepare water and meat; the last piece of C. cut off from his leg; his eagle regurgitated and put them back; Yu and T. are still quarreling over the girl; C. killed them and married a girl]; Kazan Tatars (western in Irkutsk; there are options from Novosibirsk and Tatarstan) [padishah sees a boy playing in the dust; adopts, keeps him in a cast-iron basement with a teacher until the age of 17, gives the name Biktimer ("iron"); lets him see the city; B. ends up in a meadow by the river; there is a girl and her father make him strong, give him magic pants, shirt and belt; they cannot be trusted by a woman and you cannot go to the bathhouse with his wife; B. came to a city where a serpent gives water in exchange for people, it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; B. killed a snake, hid 7 heads under a stone; the princess gives a handkerchief; the same with the middle princess, with the youngest princess (9- and 12-headed snakes); the youngest gives a ring, B. married her; the 12-headed is imprisoned in the basement; his wife found him, agreed to call her husband to the bathhouse, steal his shirt; B. asks his bones to put his bones in a bag under the saddle of his horse and let the horse go; the horse came to the girl in the meadow, she revived B.; made the padishah green red and white snakes; B. came to live with an old man, tells him to sell him as a horse to the padishah, but without a bridle; he sold it with a bridle; the horse asks the maid, after being torn to pieces, to pick up and bury one tooth; a flower has grown; asks the maid to throw the petal into the water when Azhdaha tears out the flower; Azhdaha took off his magic shirt, began to swim; chased Duck-B; she flew up, grabbed her clothes and sword, B. killed azhdakhu; wife rushed down from the balcony; B. married a maid, became a padishah]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 48:402-413; Bashkirs [a childless old woman makes her son out of dough, this is Kamyr-Batyr; he is strong, crippling other children, his father drives him away; he meets and takes the names of Batyr and Tau-batyr as companions; they sleep in the hut, three girls cook, leave; on the third day, the warriors catch them; in their absence, they come to their wives Karsyk, tells her to look in her hair, sucks their bone marrow; I., T. guard, everyone sees, but is afraid to say; K. cuts off the old woman's head; she promises that there will be a thousand heads; every day an army of demons More and more, the batyrs are defeated, their wives are kidnapped; K. on a rope descends into the lower world; women pinched the baby deva, they say he cries to be at the father's soul; dev: she is in a dove, the one in the chest a chest in a mare; K. kills a deva, his companions pick up women, cut off the rope; Azhdaha does not allow him to approach the sea, he is sacrificed every day for a girl, K. kills him; kills a snake, Samrigush, crawling to eat the chicks; she agrees to take K. to the ground; on the way he feeds it with starlings, cuts off the last piece from the leg, the bird puts it back; K. offers I. and T. to shoot up, fallen arrows kill them, K. gets three wives]: Barag 1988, No. 23:154-158.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [the dragon has blocked the rivers, demands a girl to eat every day; when it is the turn of Khan Azil's eldest daughter, the young man Naabat promises to kill the dragon; disguised as a woman, hacked down a dragon, received three khan's daughters for himself and his two brothers]: Ledenev 1987:133-135; hotanosaki [Chinese chronicles on the history of Khotan in the 8th or 9th centuries AD have a legend about how big the river is, from on which people's whole lives depended, suddenly dried up; the king turned to those dealing with higher powers (les religieux) and asked what he had caused Heaven's anger; Rahan replied that the government was perfect, and the water was blocked by a dragon to make a sacrifice; a woman appeared out of the water and told the king to sacrifice one of the noble men; and an old man Mieou was found who agreed to take on the role; he sat on a white horse and disappeared into the water; the river flowed again; the horse took it out, and on his back was a drum and a note: M. became like deities, he now cares about the welfare of the country and sends a drum, which should be hung at the SE gates of the city; when enemies approach, the drum will signal]: Basset 1894a, No. 4:76-77.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols (Inner Mongolia) [Hunter Wen kills a kite that was chasing a lark; the lark turns into a girl, she says a magic horse will descend to the lake; W. exterminates forest predators, catches a horse; flies it to Afghanistan, where the dragon has closed the water; W. kills him with arrows; in another kingdom wins shooting; two older princesses choose ministers as husbands, the youngest W.; her father is dissatisfied, gives them an old tent and some sheep; the horse says that the sick king will be healed by the grass guarded by the nine-headed lion; W. kills the lion, brings grass, the king recovers, grateful; W. takes his wife home]: Cherkasova 196:112-120; Dagurs [the official has six sons crippled, the youngest seventh is well done; someone kills people; the official wants to ask for resignation, but the youngest son asks him to wait; receives a precious ancestral knife from his father; comes to the giantess, who hides it, her five sons return; they tell her that people are killed by a dragon; when sons fall asleep , their mother tells the young man that he must first find the nest of a huge hawk; the young man sees a snake crawling to a nest with five hawk chicks; kills a snake; a grateful hawk is ready to carry it Where the dragon is; on the way there is not enough food, the young man feeds the hawk with his fingers; when he arrives, he regurgitates them, his fingers grow; the young man comes to the dragon's house when he sleeps; cuts off two of his heads fights, cuts off a third; comes to a village where another dragon or snake has locked the water; a young man descends into a well, kills a dragon; a spirit comes that eats 99 people, if he eats the hundredth, will become immortal ; the young man became friends with him, prevented him from eating his child, the newlywed; that man is happy, now he will get the position; the young man returns to his father, inherits his position]: Stuart 1994:120-122.
Western Siberia. Keta [Sintep ("old dog") lives with his grandmother in the form of a dog; tells her to ask for two daughters Ydat 'a for him; dries the well; gives water in exchange for her daughters; smears his face dog crap; son Y. Ky disdains to go to her sisters house, but finds not a dog there, but a handsome man; decides to mislead S., harnesses his two-legged horse; S. turns a bunch of dead wood into a three-legged horse; a woman- The sun raised S. towards her; the older sister is looking for her husband, sees that he is chained to a stump in the sky; she flew up as a woodpecker, broke the chain, S. fell down, she put dog skin on him, took him home, he became again handsome; The Sun is crying, says he would not take S. if she knew he was married]: Dulzon 1966, No. 46:109-113.
(Wed. Subarctic. Beaver [Tumashale comes to the beaver dam; a girl cries there; says that a giant beaver can only be pacified by people who give it to him, now they have given her away; T. kills Beaver with an arrow, cuts into small pieces, from which the current beavers emerge; T. puts a trap, the Sun falls into it; it becomes dark; T. cannot approach because of the heat; other animals also fail , only the Mouse gnaws through the fetters; T. meets an old man who eats lynx meat, they spend the night in the forest; T. replaces moccasins drying by the fire in advance; the old man throws his own into the fire instead of T.'s moccasins; in the morning T. gives him one a moccasin from his pair; an old man gives him an arrow; T. shoots, follows her, ends up in the sky; an old woman lowers him on a rope; he thinks he has reached the ground, gives a signal, the rope falls; in fact, he's in a large nest; kills two chicks; the third replies that the father will arrive with hail, the mother with rain; T. kills adult birds, turns the chick into an ordinary bird, teaches how to fish; T. comes to a woman, she says that inside her three daughters are bad creatures that kill men; T. destroys these creatures (without details), marries girls; father-in-law consistently orders to bring various materials for making arrows, the old woman warns of dangers every time; 1) bring saskatoons (probably reeds) to make poles (there are snakes, T. puts on stone moccasins, brings reeds); 2) get a grinding stone; on the edge of a cliff, an elk man throws down those who come, his wife kills them; T. throws off the Moose himself, the wife takes the falling for a stranger; T. kills her with a stick, brings her stone; 3) bring feathers for arrows; T. kills huge eagles, brings feathers; 4) bring the tendons of a huge bison; he has two snipes sitting on his horns, warning people of approaching; T. turns into a rodent, digs passages in different directions, gnaws hair from the bison's chest (shoulder), pierces it in this place, brings tendons; 5) bring resin, it is between two collapsing trees; T. puts on stone mittens, brings resin; 6) hunt bears; father-in-law turns his daughters into bears, T. kills them; chases his father-in-law, he jumps into the water; T. tells the pelican to drink the lake; father-in-law drowned; T. meets an old man who turns out to be his younger brother, they tell each other about their adventures]: Goddard 1916:232-237).
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [women pick berries; one girl brings nothing, says the bears messed up everything; the next day, her basket strap breaks off; everyone goes home; two people approach her Black Bears in the guise of young men; when she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a large village; all the animals take turns dancing and saying what they will feed their wife; Muskrat, Raven, Laska, Frog, Caribou, The marten is rejected, she marries the Grizzly; in the spring he says that the youngest of her four brothers will kill him; this is what happens; the brothers ask what part of the carcass she will take home; she drags her skin and head , turns into a Grizzly on the way, kills brothers, then other people; the youngest brother and sister return from squirrel hunting; the boy tells his sister to run between the Grizzly's legs; then she takes off bear skin, promises not to harm the girl; the girl asks where the Grizzly's heart is; she shows what's in the palm of her hand; the brother kills the Grizzly by hitting the palm of his hand with an arrow; says that if they run around the mountain with different sides and jump between two trees at the same time, they can marry; he manages to catch up with his sister, jump; she gets pregnant at the touch of his foot; gives birth to a son; she is killed by an ogre; brother kills an ogre, burns both bodies; goes to the village, carrying a baby on his shoulders; he kills him by spreading his throat and pulling out his tongue; in the village takes out the tongues of sleeping people; two girls who were in ritual isolation; they push the baby into the fire; its ashes turn into mosquitoes; one girl conceives from a stone and dies, the other conceives from a pen, gives birth to Ahlnuk and his three brothers (Ahlnuk, Tachandalkan, Taslas and one more); they kill a large snake that drowned people passing by; in the village they are allowed to chew willow branches: there is no water, two grizzlies kill people coming to the spring ; brothers kill a grizzly; A. asks the man what he is doing; "I cut out a club to kill A., said the old man, turning around and raising his eyelashes to see who asks him"; A. touches his finger his lips, he falls dead; brothers come to people who cry because they are going to cut a woman to extract a child; A. teaches childbirth; man harpoons fish with his pointed tibia; A. turns into salmon, a person misses, breaks a bone against a stone; sharpens again; A. makes him a normal leg, gives him a jail (the origin of the jail)]: Jenness 1934, No. 6:129-136.
Northeast. Mikmak: Leland 1968 [a giant blocks the river with a dam; a man asks for water, gets only a drop; Gluscap pierces the giant's belly with a spear, from there water flows; a giant turns into a bull frog with wrinkled skin, living in the same village as it - leeches, crabs, fish and other aquatic creatures]: 114-119; Parsons 1925 [The bull frog swallows all the water, gives only exchange for wives; two brothers kill him, make a hole, water spills out]: 57-58; Speck 1915b [the woman has a 6-year-old son, she is pregnant again; the husband tells his father to kill her; the old man tells the woman to bend down, burns her heart with a stick, throws her insides into the water, takes her body to eat; the boy tries to catch his little brother in the water; finally brings her home; when his grandfather appears, he every time returns to the water; the old man catches him, gives him blue jay feathers; the older brother tells how their father told their grandfather to kill their mother; they burn their father in the house; found in the intestines (NC) pushes his bones, they turn into mosquitoes; brothers pour boiling fat on their grandfather, let his grandmother fry his heart, kill her with an ax; go to kill other giants; Grandma Marten says that the Ox Frog took all the water, gives for the girl; NC sends Marten, he brings dirty water; NK goes by himself, kills the Frog with an ax, sends girls home, breaks blood vessels, the rivers fill up again; the brothers come to the Porcupine breeds hot fire; brother dies, NC complains about the cold, Porcupine dies from the heat, NC revives his brother; interpreting rocks crush passers, NC breaks them with an oar; on the lake, geese are Gluscap's guards; NC tells them keep silent; NK and G. both have time to smoke a pipe; NK withstands the cold and wind; G. gives an inexhaustible piece of fur, NK's brother becomes a fur merchant; NK marries; his mother-in-law takes him to the island to collect seagull eggs, throws him there; seagulls bring him back; at night his mother-in-law lies down with him, tries to poison him with her gases; he made a hole in the blanket with a knife; threw it into the hole, at the bottom of her turtle always devours her sons-in-law; NK got out, kill him]: 61-64; Whitehead 1988 [a woman marries her son Kukwes (an ogre giant); for her and her son, he hunts animals, for himself and her parents, people; does not tell you to touch a bear's stomach; son hits the stomach with an arrow, liquid drips, K.'s strength melts; he allows his father to eat his wife; the old man heats his iron staff, pierces his daughter-in-law, gutts, throws the baby from her womb into the river; The turtle brings him up, he goes out to play with his brother; he asks his father to make two bows, two arrows, etc.; they make a mess in the house, the family is forced to confess to his father; the father makes jewelry from bird tails; Domashny grabs in Rechnoy's house, keeps him, father comes running; first Rechnoy throws his tails into the fire, then smiles; the father fell asleep, the brothers burned him in the house; the bones collided, they turned into flies, mosquitoes, sand fleas; because they were pushed on the doorstep, insects enter the house through the entrance; The river beats the birch tree with a spruce paw, since then there are traces on the bark; brothers put their grandfather to sleep, looking for insects from him, stick to him fat, burn it, let his wife eat the liver, kill her with an ax; the bull frog hides all the water in his house in birch bark buckets, gives it in exchange for women; the River kills the Frog, breaks blood vessels, water fills rivers; brothers sail in a boat, River kills giants; Porcupine drowns so hot that Domashny dies; Riverboat wraps himself in a blanket, Porcupine dies herself, River revives her brother; house Kluskap is guarded by geese, River tells them to remain silent; K. causes frost, Domashny dies, revives him in the river morning; Domashny receives a growing beaver skin from K., becomes a merchant; River marries Skunsiha's daughter; she takes him to collect bird eggs, leaves him on the island; seagulls bring him home; his mother-in-law tells her to sleep with her, tries to strangle him with her gases, he makes a hole in the blanket; she throws into a hole, at the bottom, the Turtle devours his sons-in-law; the river gets out; meets a man walking on bent legs, kills him, makes a door out of him, brings the corpse to his relatives; snakes and frogs fall from their faces; both Brother returns to the island, turns into two stones]: 140-154; Malesit: Mechling 1914 [Aquelabem gives water in exchange for girls, tortures them; Gluscap sends an old woman to ask water; smashes Aquelabem's head with a club; water returns to the springs], No. 1:6-7; Stamp 1915 [The frog widower keeps the water; the Raccoon sends Nork to ask for water; the young man kills the Frog, marries his daughter, opens water sources]: 246-247.
(Wed. Mesoamerica {For America, the story is probably unique, European borrowing}. Maya Yucatana [Uxmal; local Indians said that a childless woman lived in front of the Ruler's House; one day she found an egg, brought it into the house and covered it with a rag; a boy hatched; a year later he began to walk , but did not grow up; she predicted him to become king; sent him to measure his strength; he offered to understand the stone weighing 75 pounds; the boy cried and returned to the woman, and she sent him to say to the ruler: Let he will first raise it himself; the ruler raised it, the dwarf too; so several tests; then the ruler ordered to build a palace above his own overnight; ready in the morning; the ruler ordered to bring sticks from heavy tree: first he will hit the dwarf on the head, and then his dwarf; the mother put a tortilla on the dwarf's head; the ruler broke all the sticks he had brought against the dwarf's head, and he crushed his skull with second blow; the dwarf was made the new ruler; a woman is sitting in a cave in a cenote, a snake next to her; she gives water only in exchange for a child eaten by a snake; this woman is the mother of a dwarf]: Stephens 1841:423-425) .