K38E. Copper, silver, gold.

.15.-.17.21.23.26.-.35.65.

Loci or objects made of three (rarely four) materials with different degrees of value are mentioned, but all evaluated positively (copper, silver, gold; silver, gold, diamonds, etc.).

Italians (Piedmont, Ticino), Sicilians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Corsicans, Italians, Ladins, Maltese, French, Bretons, Scots, Germans (Hessen), Ugarit, Arameans, Tibetans, Tibetans (Ham), Mustang, Punjabi, Telugu, Lisu, Lahu, Miao, Chinese (no place of recording), Hungarians, Greeks, Slovenes, Transylvania Germans, Romanians, Bosnians [silk, silver, gold], Montenegrins, Moldovans, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina, Kiev), Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Moscow, Ryazan, Tambov, Voronezh), Terek Cossacks, Lezgins, Georgians, Armenians, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Livs, Lutsi, Estonians, Setus, Finns, Karelians, Eastern and Western, Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Komi, Udmurts, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Khakas, Khalkha Mongols, Buryats, Mansi, Huaura (Lima Department).

Southern Europe. Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 13 (Piedmont; the text is combined from two one-story stories - the beginning is from one, the end is from the other) [at confession, the priest tells the young man that stealing from thieves is not a sin; he came to the forest to the robbers; they say that they are also sinless because they rob tax collectors; the young man loaded the robbers' treasures on a mule and brought them home; hired the king as a shepherd; he warns not chasing sheep across the stream; there is a serpent that eats sheep; when the young man was on his way to pasture, the princess threw him a cake from the window; across the stream, the young man sat on a rock to eat a cake, and the sheep began to graze on the good grass ; a three-headed serpent crawled out from under the stone; the young man killed him with his staff; one of the heads had a crystal key; the young man opened the crystal door to the dungeon with them, where crystal servants are ready to serve in the crystal world; the young man collected crystal flowers, gave the princess; in the other two heads a snake has the keys to the silver and gold worlds; the king announces the tournament; the young man wins three times on crystal, silver and golden horses; marries a princess]: 40-42; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [father sent his son to study to be a blacksmith; he is so strong that he broke an anvil; forged an iron staff for himself, went to wander; took companions of a man who broke trees with a wooden staff and threw millstones into the sea; they were told about a castle from which they do not return; they come there, cook one by one; the owner comes, the cook hits him, but the food burns; everyone tells his comrades that he suffered from his stomach; when the blacksmith's apprentice remains, he hits the person who comes so hard that he shows a well; if you go down, you can save the three below princesses; the blacksmith's apprentice goes down, frees the princess from the chains, sends her upstairs in the basket; she left a silver apple to the savior; the same with the second princess (gives gold apple), with the third (diamond); the blacksmith's apprentice is left below; princesses are brought to the king; weddings in a year and one day; both elders demand silver and gold from the groom an apple, they show only rough copies; the blacksmith's apprentice went out, went to earth; the king gave him the younger princess, punished the deceivers]: 224-228; Sicilians [in the reception room of a wealthy merchant three armchairs: silver, gold, diamond; his daughter Katerina comes to her fate and asks if she wants to suffer in her youth or old age; she chooses the former; her father is broke and died, she is hired by different housewives, but her Fate makes the house mess every time, forcing K. to leave; after all, K. marries the king, everything is fine]: Crane 1885, No. 28:105-109; Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 480B (Ciudad Real) [the mother sends the boy to the field to take lunch to his father; the old woman, asks for some food for her hungry children, the boy does not give; the same is another old woman; she sends him to the black doors, devils come out, ask him if he wants to sit on daggers, knives or awls, put him on awls; another boy brings food to his father, shares with the old woman, she sends to white doors, they offer seats made of gold, silver, gold with diamonds, put on gold]: 363-366; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 306 [the princess will be received by whoever finds out why she wears 3 (7) pairs of shoes every night; the hero does not drink sleeping pills, gets and wears an invisible hat; wearing magic shoes, walks through a copper, silver, golden forest; sees how a princess dances me with a devil (or she wears off her shoes on the way); objects brought from another world prove the hero's words correct; he marries a princess or a princess is punished (executed)], 511A [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter, father's bull protects her; he has a magic tablecloth in his ear or horn; either he helps her find food or helps her spin; stepmother watches the bull; pretending to be sick, asks slaughter him; his stepdaughter runs away with him; the bull carries her through a copper, silver, golden forest; tells her not to touch the trees, but she accidentally touches them and takes them with her; because of this, the bull every time he must fight demons; the girl lubricates his wounds; he tells him to kill and bury him, everything a girl needs appears in this place; or the killed bull turns into a prince and takes the girl in wives]: 53-64, 126-128; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 7 [the king does not allow his daughter to leave the house; one day she went out into the garden, a flower came down from the sky, she smelled it and disappeared; they are looking for her everywhere; one of the bereytors, Ghuanigula ("Jean-Nicolas"), takes two companions with him, goes in search; in the hut they cook one by one; each comes a dwarf, beats the cook, eats everything; when he stays G., he hits a dwarf, follows him to a stone under which there is a hole; G. goes down, his companions stay upstairs; G. finds himself in another world, there are many young men and women, including a princess; she says that the dwarf is wounded and sleeping, you must first break the glass in which his soul is; G. does so, sends everyone upstairs; then sends a heavy stone; the companions think it's G., cut off the rope; G. finds an old lamp, rubs, the spirit from the lamp, who fulfills wishes, takes it to the ground; under the guise of a bastard, G. remains to work in the royal stable; easily reassured his horse, to which no one could approach; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps a wide ditch on horseback; G. asks the lamp three times for himself and his horse for metal armor - first bronze, then silver, then gold; the king cooks daughter's wedding; G. tells the lamp to make sure that there is crap on the plates instead of food; he calls to be a cook himself, the dishes are great, he appears as guests in bronze attire; then in silver, gold; the princess recognizes him; the king gives G. his daughter and crown; the companions who betrayed G. were smeared with resin and burned], 42 [on Christmas night someone steals oranges from a tree in the royal garden; elder, the middle sons are hiding from the thunderstorm in the house; the middle shoots a white eagle, which falls somewhere in the meadow; the brothers raised a stone, the youngest went down the rope; consistently meets the girls in marble, silver, gold palaces, sends upstairs; the youngest gives her ring, tells no one to hug, otherwise she will forget everything; when she wants to go by himself, the brothers throw the rope; the youngest finds girls' father {is this the eagle?} , heals his wounds with ointment, he promises to raise him to the ground, tells him to shoot a stock of thrushes; returns for the first time; the second time he reaches the ground, but the young man cut off the last three pieces of meat from his own calves , then cured him with ointment; when he returned, his mother hugged him sleeping; but when he saw the ring given in the bowl, he remembered everything; the wedding, the younger queen and his wife receive the crown]: 14-18, 93-97; ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 30 [the lumberjack caught a bird, at home with his wife they forgot to feed it; when they went to bed, the husband remembered and told his wife to feed the bird; she found a silver egg next to her; the next once gold; diamond; each time she took eggs to a jeweler; he asked him to show him a bird; the couple were illiterate, and the lumberjack read on her goiter: whoever eats her head would become king , and whoever has a heart will find a purse with money at the head in the morning; to take possession of the bird, the jeweler married the daughter of a lumberjack and asked her to cook poultry for the wedding day; her younger brothers from curiosity ate one head, the other heart; the mother screamed and the brothers ran away from home; the hotelier left the boys for the night; in the morning the maid found the purse; the owner kept the boys at home; sent to school; got rich; when a new king was chosen, a dove sat on the head of a brother who ate a bird's head; and the hotelier married the other brother; everything is fine], 50 [a childless miller picked up at the mill the box that came, it contained a baby; he and his wife raised him with donkey milk, because there was no wet nurse; he studied to be a blacksmith; leaving the craftsman, he made a club out of iron that had always been in the forge; met, won, accompanied three giants; one dug trees, the second set in motion many mills, the third released fog from the bag, creating rain; four live in a hut, cooking queues of bulls; every time a long-bearded dwarf comes, hits the cook, eats everything; when the Blacksmith is left, he beat the dwarf, he ran, disappeared into a hole; everyone tries to go down there on a rope, but screams that it's hot; the blacksmith set off; below there is a plain and three palaces, glass, silver, gold; each has a princess; in the first, a five-headed dragon, the blacksmith killed him, carved his tongues, sent the princess upstairs; the same in two other palaces (seven-; nine-headed dragon); picking up the blacksmith, the companions cut off the rope; he met, grabbed a bearded dwarf, made him tell him how to get to the ground; on the mountain, eagles, must catch one, sit on him and feed him on the way; the meat is over, the Blacksmith cut off the last piece from his leg; came to the wedding of three giants with princesses, showed his tongues, killed giants, married the most beautiful (from the golden palace)]: 117-118, 242-248; Maltese [only a blacksmith's apprentice was able to pick up an iron stick, received it as payment for his work; with two companions, the guy came to the forest, they began to cook; a lion attacked; they chased him, failed, the guy went down; in the lead room, a princess and a 7-headed serpent, the guy killed him; in the silver room, the same one that was there the princess indicates which sword to take, for the other is clay; the last girl in the golden room is the same; the princesses suggest that the guy be the first to get up, but he sends them upstairs; then the companions start throwing stones at him, took the princesses, pretended to be liberators, showed the king snake heads, the king promised to marry them to princesses; the guy brought princess capes and presented snake tongues; asked to cook his companions in oil]: Stumme 1904, No. 24:68-69.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the king orders the execution of the first woman to give birth to an illegitimate child; the king's daughter is pregnant by her own brother, both fleeing to a deserted area, building a hut, princess gives birth to a son named Mabic; he grew up; when his father was hunting, a black horse ran up and told him to sit on him, brought him to the giant, who killed him, throwing his head against the ice into the frozen pond; M. went in search the black horse also took him; he saw his father's body; the giant said that he had no power over M., but kept it; M.'s mother also came; the giant said that he had no power over her either, but kept her in a cage, surrounded by tips, forbidding her son to complain; promised to marry her if she asked M. to bring a rusty sword from hell; M. went there on a black skate; he does not advise going into a glass skate the castle is 12 giant brothers, but M. comes in; the giants ask them to come back when he gets a sword; the same in the silver castle there are 30 giants; in gold 40 giants; every time you hear a roar and scream from the castles, but it's quiet inside; 40 giants give a golden ball, it rolls, M. follows it to hell; the skate remains at the door, explains that the devil will offer to choose any treasure, but you only have to take a sword; the devil takes M. as a groom, tells you to feed one horse well, give others only thorns; forbids unlocking one room; M. unlocks, there is an exhausted thin horse; she is a Spanish princess, teaches you to find the devil's magic book and spell it; then she explains where the saber hangs, teaches you to plug the bell that notifies the devil of danger with straw, fill your pockets gold and diamonds, take a scraper and a bag of straw with them; they gallop away on a black skate; the bell still rang, the devil rushes to catch up; seeing the storm cloud approaching, the princess tells pour out straw, a wooded mountain appears; next time a scraper, a chapel appears, M. is a priest, a princess and a horse are two saints; the devil did not understand this, stopped chasing; the princess returned to Spain, and M., going to the giants, cut off their heads with a sword; kills an old woman, the mother of giants; another old woman gives a buton {i.e. a button?} to call her for help; at home, his mother steals her sword while M. was sleeping; the giant cut off his hands, placed him on his shoulders in an ice pond, tied to a pole; M. touched the button with a stump of his hand, and an old woman appeared, returned her hands, freed him, M. went to the sleeping giant, cut off his head with a sword, cut off the head of his traitor mother; the black horse explains that he is the spirit of his father, who will now go to heaven; indicates where are the papers confirming that M. is the king's grandson; the king is happy to have an heir; died soon, M. reigned]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 1:3-19; the Scots [three giants took to the underworld of the king's daughters; to get there, you have to build a ship moving on water and land; the widow's eldest son is going to build; the mother asks if I can give him a small bread with a blessing or big without, he chooses the big one; cuts down a tree, Uruisg (the mermaid) comes out of the water, asks for bread, the young man does not give; the felled tree is reborn; the same with the middle brother; the youngest takes a small loaf, feeds the mermaid, she tells her to come in a year and a day - the ship will be ready; the young man sails on it, takes opivala, a meal, a rumor; the rumor determines the place under which giants are underground; they they go down; the first giant will give the queen if anyone drinks more than him, the second one eats more; drink and eat, the giants burst; the third requires the young man to spend a year with him and day; then the young man's companions go upstairs, raise the queens, leave the widow's son below; the giant tells the eagle to pick up the young man; he returns twice, because there is not enough food, you have to wait another year and a day; the third time a young man cuts off a piece of meat from his leg; on the ground, an eagle blows a whistle to call him; he hires a blacksmith; the elder queen demands a golden crown from the blacksmith, as she had when she lived with the giant; the young man summons the eagle, he brings; the same with the second (silver crown), the third sister (copper); the king orders the one who made the crowns to be brought; the servants drag the young man, but bring a pile of stones; then a pile of stones garbage; for the third time, the servant politely asks the young man to the king; he tells the eagle to bring gold clothes; receives the elder queen; the companions are hanged]: Campbell 1890, No. 16:244-251; Germans (Hanover) [ the drummer, corporal and sergeant spent the night in the forest in a tree; the sergeant saw light in the distance; they came to the castle; the table was set; at midnight there was a rumble and then silence again; they stayed there to live; they took turns cooking; a bearded dwarf appears, asks for food, beats the cook; when it is the sergeant's turn, he pulled out part of the dwarf's beard, depriving him of his strength; they came on a bloody trail to the hole; the drummer was the first to lower - the rope is short; they took a longer one, the corporal climbed - the same; the sergeant, a long rope, went down, there was an old woman; sent him to the eldest kidnapped princess; she gave him strong water, and the giant who came sleepy; the sergeant cut him off head, the princess gave her handkerchief with a silver star; the same for the second princess (gave a golden apple); with the youngest, a seven-headed dragon; the battle is three days, the princess still gives strong water; the sergeant cut off all 7 heads, took tongues, the princess gave a handkerchief with diamond stars; the companions raised only the princesses; the sergeant descended into a world below this, where dwarfs live; ready to make the sergeant their king, but raise they can't land; they advised me to contact an old woman, she has a vulture bird; a sergeant feeds her in flight; on the ground he came to the wedding of two older princesses; companions told them to call them saviors; soldiers about everything tells, shows tongues, scarves, an apple; marries a younger princess; forgave his companions and married his elders]: Wolf 1845, No. 21:93-105.

Western Asia. Ugarit: The epic of Vaal [Ba'lu learns from Anatu that he can build a palace for himself, mentioning three expensive materials: gold, silver, lapis lazuli] KTU 1.24 [Yarikh, "heavens shine" {i.e. month}, sends a message to R b, "king of summer heat", asking him to marry Nkl - w - 'ib. As a dowry, Yarikh promises silver, gold, lapis lazuli, fields and vineyards. R b replies, calling (apparently in the future) Yariha "Ba'lu's son-in-law" that he should marry Pdry, Ba'la's daughter, and that he is ready to facilitate the marriage. It is also mentioned that God Astar will be happy about this marriage. Yarihu refuses the offer and insists that Nkl should become his wife]; the Arameans [someone steals goose from Pasha's poultry house; Pasha, his brother, elder son, are guarding, falling asleep; the youngest son scratches his hand, injures a flying giant, a blood trail leads to a well; only the youngest son did not suffocate from the stench, went down to the bottom; consistently meets three girls, the first of them tells the giant to hit the leg with a sword, not the neck; the young man finishes off the wounded giant, sends girls and treasures upstairs; the third, the most beautiful, knows that the young man's brother will cut the rope, gives three rings and bird; after falling, the young man will fall even deeper, must pull the hairs out of the tails of three horses (he will be on the ground), tell the bird to take himself to the right place; pulls a goat bubble over his head; participates in older brother wedding competitions; causes her winged horses with hairs, wins by ripping a turban off her uncle's head; the bride says she will marry Pasha's eldest son if he gets it a golden chicken with silver chickens pecking pearls, a magic dress and a shoe; these items come out of the rings given to the young man; they are brought by a jeweler; everything is explained; Pasha punishes brother and elder son]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:398-404; Arabs of Syria [the king has a tree with gold, silver and diamond leaves; a falcon comes to tear them up; the king tells his sons guard; the eldest two fall asleep, the youngest Aladin, the son of a black concubine, sprinkles salt on the cut so as not to fall asleep, knocks down the falcon's three feathers; the brothers go after the falcon, break up at the well; A. kills a male snake, chasing a female; she turns into a girl, promises to help, flies with him to heaven, tells him to swallow pistachio seed (he will find the falcon speech), take the falcon but not take the cage; A. takes the cage, but the local the owner lets him go to get the horse; A. again violated the ban (not to take the stirrups); bring a sword (not to sheath); bring the king's daughter Fatima, who was carried away by the ghoul; F. explains that the ghoul can be killed only with his own sword; A. gets a sword, kills a ghoul, takes F., also receives a sword, a horse and a falcon; the brothers throw it into the well; below the genie, who has a black and white woman, A. chooses black, for he himself black son; summons a snake girl, she takes him to her father; he gave him the throne, executed his eldest sons]: Kuhr 1993:134-143.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [elder Prince Gedon, Jr. Dikdon; G. is kind, asked his father to allow him to help the poor; almost emptied the treasury, went on a ship overseas to look for new treasures; D. him; they sail past the silver mountains, the old sailor does not tell them to stop; past sapphire trees - the same; they stick to the golden ones; but the sailor again tells us to sail further: there will be a palace of 7 types of precious stones; let G. take the blue stone from the hands of the beauty - the first is 500; he fulfills wishes; after that, the old sailor died; D. and the merchants collected precious stones; on the way back to the storm the ship sank; G. sailed out and saved D.; G. showed his brother a blue stone; D. blinded him and carried the stone away; the shepherd went out to town, hired a gardener to drive away the birds; D. returned home, but the stone He no longer fulfilled his wishes; the king sent the goose to look for G. - suddenly he was alive; Prince Wangmo's daughter heard G. playing the flute and fell in love; when she said that she loved the young man as he is, G. saw the light for one eye; when G. said that he did not hate his brother, the second eye also began to see; the goose came down, G. sent a note with him to his father; the prince gave V. as G.; G. arrived at his father, the blue stone glittered again, G. wished all poor people to have delicious food]: Komissarov 1997:99-110; Tibetans (Ham): Hyde-Chambers, Hyde-Chambers 1981 [the young man refuses to kill animals; when hunting, he prevents his father from killing a hare ; he throws a stone to kill his son, a stone falls into his leg, the son hides in a cave; three monks find him, take him with them; young men who live with their husbands come successively to the three sisters; the youngest recognizes his brother; his sisters give him a magic horse; the horse asks him to kill him, stretch his skin, scatter his fur across the plain; the young man refuses to kill the horse; that night he rushes off the cliff; the young man stretches his skin she turns into a rich house, her fur into cattle; a young man brings his parents, puts his father on the golden throne, his mother on a silver throne, sits on a throne of pink shells himself]: 76-82; Lhamo 2012 [the young man refuses to kill animals; his father places him in a hole and covers him with a stone slab; three monks free him, take him with them; they come successively to the boy's three sisters, each taking one of the monks as a confessor; the youngest recognizes his brother; the older sister gives him a magic horse, the middle bull, the youngest a ram; the horse asks him to kill, stretch his skin, scatter his fur across the plain ; the young man refuses to kill the horse; that night he rushes off the cliff; the young man stretches his skin, it turns into a rich house, his fur into cattle; the young man, disguised as a monk, comes to his parents; looking into the house, sees them poor and hungry; throws a cake, the mother decides that it is alms from heaven, the father takes them and eats them himself; the son throws the second cake to his mother; enters, the mother recognizes him by his birthmark; he brings them to him parents, puts his father on the golden throne, his mother on the silver throne, sits on the throne of pink shells himself]: 213-216; (cf. Tibetans (Amdo): Potanin 1891 ("Tanguts") [{cf. Evenki Podkamennaya Tunguska, K32e motif}; the king has daughters Ngulyggun (silver princess) and Kserlyggun (golden princess) ), their servant Eg-Tamu-ntso; E. offered to throw the buckets into the water, the golden and silver buckets of the princesses drowned, the wooden E. swam; the maid lied as if the king told the princesses to leave; puts on their dress, they put on a maid's dress; the prince chooses K., E. threw her into the lake, took her place, sent N. to herd the sheep; K. leaves the lake every day, gives N. bread and meat; one day she brought a piece to the palace; E. came to the lake, sang the same song, K. came out, E. cut her head with a red-hot coulter; K. did not go out anymore; N. gave birth to a semi-golden, semi-silver child; E. ordered throw it to sheep, horses, cows, bury it under manure; told the king that N. gave birth to a puppy; a flower grew on the child's grave, eaten by a sheep, gave birth to a piebald lamb; he herds the herd, tells his mother to complain E., she will slaughter him, the bones must be hidden in a cave; a llama is born from bones, tells a story, the king ordered E. to be torn with horses]: 144-146; Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007 [daughters of King Gold and Silver, they have a Wooden maid; she offers to see whose vessel will not drown in the river; gold and silver are sinking, Gold jumps into the river, Silver is afraid to return to her father; together with Wooden comes to the place where the king gathered the girls, marries the flower he had thrown; catches the Silver, the Wooden one takes away, marries the king, the Silver one is sent to herd cattle; she complains by the river, Golden comes out of the river, says that she became the wife of the River King, gives food, orders not to show leftovers at home; Silver violates the ban, Wooden herself goes to herd cattle to kill Gold; Silver's tear drips on the king, she tells everything, he prepares a hole with fire at the bottom, covers it with cloth; Wooden returns without killing Gold, falls into a hole; Silver marries the king]: 214-215); Mustang [son the minister goes on trade affairs, the king's son gives him silver to buy something valuable; he finds nothing for a long time; the princess sees him from the window, sends a maid, sells cloth with her for silver portrait; the minister's son returns, the prince sees the portrait, falls in love, comes to the princess's city with the minister's son; she can be seen once a year when she shows herself to the people; the maid teaches how to quit tigers and leopards of meat, fruits and other animals, they will let them into a little pearl rest, where you can wait for the princess; the prince enters peace, but falls asleep there; the same next year - silver rest; on the third - golden; the prince does not sleep, agrees with the princess to kidnap her at midnight; falls asleep again; two robbers are going to steal three prepared horses, at this time the princess comes out, they ride away with her; they are going to drown her in the lake; the princess asks for permission to drink and pray first; pushes the robbers into the lake, disguises himself in men's clothes; the king of another country wants to marry his daughter; the imaginary man says he must first build three stupas in memory of his deceased wife; orders him to draw on the wall has their own portrait in a woman's form, let everyone who pays attention to it bring to it; the prince and the minister's son follow the princess's footsteps, see the portrait, explain everything; at night all three run; by the river the minister's son goes to buy a curry for the princess, the prince falls asleep, the shepherd takes the princess to marry the king; the minister's son sends the prince home, comes to the palace in women's clothes under the guise of a wreath saleswoman; the princess sees him from the window, finds out, sends a maid to bring the flower girl, they negotiate, run at midnight; when the princess and prince are married, the grass is green on the bare ground, and in the waterless valleys scored streams]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 3:31-38.

South Asia. Punjabi [{only part of the text is available}... the younger brother receives three horses - bronze, silver, gold; the king promises a daughter to whoever pulls three golden apples from the top of the glass mountains; young man jumps on his horses...]: Sheikh-Dilthey 1976, №? : 87 (?) -90 (?) ; Telugu [four poor people turned to Kali, who gave everyone a talisman; where he falls, you have to dig; the first found copper, the second silver, the third gold; the one who found gold offered to share it with fourth, but he decided to go further; his talisman fell, iron in the ground; the disappointed man went to look for someone who offered him gold but did not find it; wanted to return to iron, but did not find it either]: Pantulu 1905, No. 23:69-71; (cf. India (translated from Hindi) [after changing clothes, the king goes to town at night; hears one sister saying that if the groom married her, she would eat peas fed to horses; the other if she married her the royal cook, she would get something; the youngest - if the king married her, she would become a real queen; the king marries the youngest, passes the elders off as a groom and cook; the queen gave birth to a son, sister they threw him in a jug into the river, replaced him with a puppy; the second with a kitten; his daughter with a wooden doll; the king ordered the queen to be put on a donkey and driven away; the brahmana picked up the children, the boys Arun and Varun, the girl Kiranmala; the brahmana died; the king got lost and went to his house; when the king left, K. advised the brothers to build a palace, they are building; the hermit says that the golden bird is missing, silverwood and a pearl spring, all this on Mount Maya; A., then V. leave, turn into stone; at home, the saber rusted, the bowstring broke; K. came to the mountain, the bird told sprinkle water on the brothers, they came to life; at home, the bird ordered the king to visit; the king is given gold, he says it should not be eaten; the bird asks how a woman can give birth to a puppy; the king returned his wife and children and sisters were buried alive]: Zograf 1964:302-310).

China - Korea. Lisa [parents ask 7 daughters whose happiness and virtues they live with; the six eldest, answer that they are parental, the youngest Atsïma, what are their own; the father wants to kill her; the mother tells you to ride a white horse, take a red rooster and a gold bar, stay where the horse stops and the rooster sings; the horse does not stop in a city where there is a golden palace and cheerful people; likewise, where is the silver palace; the palace is made of precious wood; stays at a poor hut, the rooster sings; the young man living there is very poor, A. gives him a bar of gold; he cannot sell it (because people do not have so many valuables), throws them to dogs; tells Atsima that where he collects leaves, there are many similar stones; A. goes with him, there is gold; they are building a palace; the young man wants to get rid of A.; suggests get a flower out of the lake, push her into the water; she is saved by a dragon, takes on a human form, she becomes the queen of dragons; the young man is poor again]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:393-400; lahu ( northern Thailand) [at first, only G'ui-sha in the center of the world is like a spider in a web; he scraped off the dirt from his arms and legs, made it four fish: gold, silver, copper and iron; put on they were on a pole; laid 4 beams of heaven and 4 earth; made poutrelles out of the same scraped mud, creating heaven and earth, but the earth staggered; G. rolled 70,000 balls out of the same mud, filling them with them cells (mailles) of the earth; he made the bones of the sky out of his bones and the bones of the earth from the bones of his legs; to find out the thickness of the earth and the thickness of the sky, he created two ants from the mud; one climbed through the sky, the other through the ground; when they returned, they said that the thickness was the same; G. had two assistants: Ca Law, the man he told to make heaven, and Na Law, a woman who was told to make earth; NL worked a day and night, and KL was drinking tea, so heaven and earth were not the same in size: the sky was like a large canopy, and the earth was narrow, wrinkled; due to the fact that the earth was compressed, valleys and mountains appeared; the earth did not swell, G. put a rock on it, but it slipped; the bulbul bird (Hypsipetes mcclellandii) told it not to slide; G. placed fire in the Sun, fireflies in the moon; but they do not go to heaven, afraid of people; then G. gave them needles {obviously rays that hurt their eyes}; tiger to the Sun: you're too bright; he bit him, hence the eclipses; frog to the Moon: you're too cold; she tried to swallow it, therefore, there are spots on the moon; by letting a tiger and a frog into the sky, G. made the sun go east and the moon west, otherwise they were constantly in the sky; from the mud scraped off his hands and feet, G. created stars, and chicken and rooster; the rooster sang three times and the east lit up; this is how the light separated from the darkness; G. moon: it will be 12 months in the year]: Coyaud 2009, No. 1:9-12; miao [man was created from different materials; skull - an inverted pot, his tongue a vine, hemp stalks hair, a piece of cloth a leather; his wife had a gold back, a silver chest, a brass body; she was buried in the ground and deposits of metals came from her; pangolin found them (? "a mole with a scaly back the size of a dog")]: Schotter 1908:420; Chinese (no place of recording) [Yaochenshu ("a tree with gold, silver and copper") is popular in folk Chinese mythologies; shake, and jewelry falls; often depicted in pictures that are hung for the New Year; a man went to the mountains, fell into the abyss, but caught on a tree branch that grew at the top of his head down; saw a black and white mouse gnawing at its roots; next to me I saw another tree with gold, silver and copper coins growing on its branches; it was Yaoshenshu; forgetting about dangers, began to pluck these gold and silver fruits; the mice gnawed through the roots, the man flew down, but woke up: he dreamed of it all]: Arndt 1891:329.

The Balkans. Hungarians [the king is angry with three sons who have dropped out of school; always stands by the window facing east - one eye is crying, the other laughing; the brothers have grown up and decided to find out why this is so; The elder came to ask, the king threw his sword at him, the young man managed to hide behind the door; the same with the middle one; the younger Mirco did not run away, but pulled his sword out of the wall and put it in front of his father; king: you understand better than your brothers; I cry because my sons are worthless, and I laugh because my faithful friend Hero of the Plains (GR) promised to come to live with me after defeating enemies; I'm waiting for him by the window; his enemies are like grass in the meadow and everyone a day he mows them; the eldest went to test his strength, a year later he brought part of the copper bridge; father: when I was young, I reached that bridge in two hours, leave; the middle one brought part of the silver bridge - all the same; M. does not find a suitable horse in the stable; the witch advises you to ask your father for the horn with which he summoned his gold-maned horses; when they come running, choose an old bowlegged mare; father: the horn is embedded in the wall in the seventh cellar; M. summoned the horses, chose a mare, which tells her to be fed first; after the grain, hot coals; the mare tells me to bring the old saddle, blows on it, it becomes the best; the same with the sword; in three jumps the mare passes the copper, silver and gold bridges; then the glass mountain; then the mare jumps across a narrow glass bridge and enters the meadow of the Hero of the Plains; he sleeps, his sword rushes over him to protect him; M. does not try to kill him, but falls asleep himself and his sword also protects him; heroes meet; fight; M. pursues warriors and descends underground for them; there instead of the sun a glowing diamond palace; a witch weaves, but instead of cloth, warriors are obtained; two hussars for one move of the person; by order of M., his sword crumbles a witch; M. burned the loom; the witch was also burned, but she revived from a burnt rib; asked her to stop killing her, gave 4 diamond carnations, without which M. could not get to the ground; after that M. finally burned the witch; on horseback he slipped back into the meadow to GR; asks him to go with him to the king father; diamond carnations have long fallen out of the GR horse's horseshoes, he cannot drive through the glass mountain; M. shod the GR horse using the carnations given a witch; the king hugged the visitors, both his eyes laugh; M. hears his father say to GR: but his son still cannot cope with the Doghead; the horse brings M. to the seven-story diamond castle; there was no Psoglavets at home, and his beautiful daughter turned Vladnik into stone; when she saw that the young man was handsome, she revived the horse and M. with a golden stick; gave M. a flask of strong water: every drop contained the strength of 5,000 men; after that M. went down to the cellar himself, drank strong water, and poured out the rest so that Psoglavets would not use it; Psoglavets's daughter set a condition: M. would not kill her father; approaching from the land of sunset, Psoglavets always throws an iron club; this time M. threw it back; fighting, Psoglavets drove M. into the ground to the waist; M. took a sip from the foyage, threw Psoglavets into the water from the bridge and told his sword to cut off his head; his daughter forgave M. and went with him, turning the diamond lock and himself in it into an apple; M. put it in his pocket with a diamond stick to unfold the apple later; M. came to his father, unfolded the lock, began to live with daughter of Psoglavec and inherited the throne; father and GR retired]: Curtin 1890:434-456; Hungarians: Hungarian... 1955 []: 35-52; Gaal, p. 32 in Cosquin 1887 [royal swineherds disappear one by one others; a guy named Pista ventured to hire; the oldest boar advises asking the king for bread and wine to give to the dragon; the dragon drank, fell asleep, P. stabbed him; found a copper key to the copper key in his throat castle, where there is a rose, P. gives his youngest daughter a king; the same with two other dragons (silver and gold castles); P. wins the tournament three times in different guises, each time knocking down a golden one with a spear blow an apple with the name of one of the princesses; P. comes, three apples under her hat; the younger princess picked it up, the apples fell, P. married a younger princess]: 93-94; Gidash 1953 [a white horse has a boy, goes wandering; meets Koroder, Stone Crusher, Iron Blexor; everyone replies that they would like to measure their strength with the Son of the White Horse (SBL), defeated, comraded; each takes turns cooking porridge , Bakarast (a little man with a big beard takes it away); SBL ties him by his beard to a tree, he pulls a tree, hides in a hole; only the SBL decides to go down on a rope; pours porridge on B.'s belly, eats, leaves tied; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of the copper, silver, golden castle; companions raise princesses, leave SBO underground; SBO covers the vulture chicks from the rain with its fur coat; their mother takes them to the ground; there is not enough food taken, the SBO feeds her right hand, right leg; on the ground she gives him wine, hand and leg grow back; SBO kills traitors, takes girls to their father, marries the youngest]: 81-89; Ortutai 1974, No. 5 [the old woman advised a childless woman to swallow legumes that she sweeps away from home; the woman found, swallowed three grains, gave birth to sons named Evening, Night Owl, Dawn; they grew up, went to seek service; the king asks to clean the well, promises three daughters; the brothers fulfilled work, but the king admitted that his daughters were guarded by dragons; the brothers saw a hole in the forest, stopped, took turns cooking; every time the little man knocks down the cook, eats everything; when Dawn is left, he pinched the little man's beard with a tree; his brothers let him go for promising to show him how to go down into the hole; Dawn came down, the queen gave a multiplying ring, Dawn demolished the dragon 9 heads; hitting the table with this royal stick, turned the palace into a silver apple; the same with two other royals (12-headed dragon, golden apple; 18-headed, diamond apple); sent queens upstairs; tied a stone instead, the brothers cut off the rope; Dawn sees blind spouses handing food to each other; their eyes were pulled out by a 24-headed dragon; Dawn quietly took the meat; then opened; the couple ordered not to herd sheep in the dragon's realm; dawn killed the dragon, brought her eyes blinded; one of the woman's eyes was swallowed by a cat, Dawn put a cat's eye in the woman, she began to catch mice at night; Dawn sheltered the vulture birds from the hail; the mother bird tells you to cook meat and wine, brings Dawn to the ground, there was not enough meat, he cut off the meat from the calf; the bird: it was delicious, I would know it ate you; under Looking like a beggar, Dawn came to the king, the brothers did not recognize him; they answer that whoever brings his brother to the tail of a horse must be tied to the tail of a horse, and the queen who saved him must be married to her; the royals recognized their rings; Dawn forgave the brothers, married a younger princess], 7 [the wife died, the poor man took another, she has 5 daughters with three, four, five, six and seven eyes, the latter has one on the back of her head; an ox The mischievous man teaches the owner's son to take food from his right horn; the stepmother sends his daughters to spy; every time the young man waits for all eyes to fall asleep; he forgot about the seventh eye; the stepmother asks her husband to slaughter the ox; he tells the young man to sit between the horns, flies away; they fly into the copper, silver, golden forest; each time the ox tells him not to pick a flower, the young man plucks; the ox defeated the copper wolf, the lion of the silver forest; in gold tiger, dragon, hare; a tiger killed, a hare tore it up; a young man picked up a horn; a herd came out of it at rest, the young man does not know how to put it back; a witch drives him for a promise never to marry; a young man marries the miller's daughter, she leaves bread and a scoop at the door with the broom with the handle down; the witch tells her to open it, the scoop, the broom, the bread refuse; the witch admits that the mill is stronger than her and bursts]: 141- 150, 158-164; Hungarians [the king has one eye laughing and the other crying; three sons ask him why this is so; he is angry but then confesses; laughs because his sons will become kings themselves; He cries because two in black stole a pelican from him, whose singing makes him younger; his sons are jumping in search; the older two do not pay attention to the beggar; they did not look for a bird, but began to revel; the youngest gives alms; the beggar teaches: a bird in church for the Operencian Sea; the witch has two horses, she asks to herd them for a year; her year is three days, her horses are her daughters, they will disappear in the clouds or underground; here a whistle, it can summon the king of mosquitoes, the king of fish and the king of mice; as a reward, you should ask for a thin foal under a pile of manure; you must carry the foal to the bridge, wash it in the river; it will become a flying horse; mosquitoes, fish and mice helped bring horses back; then the beggar explained that you can cross the sea only twice a year at the end of the forest and in early spring, when two trees on its opposite banks kiss each other friend; crossing the trees to the other side, the young man went through a golden forest, then a silver forest, then a copper forest; in each one there is an old woman, he asks them; next to two Jesuits who stole the bird live in the church; but it does not sing; the young man took the bird, the old women gave him gold and silver; when he returned, the young man met the brothers: they were forced to work in shackles; brothers They cut off his arms and legs and took the bird away; he was picked up by a swineherd; he covered his arms and legs with bloody clay and they grew back; the bird sang, everyone became 17 years old; he tied his brothers to horses and then hanged; the father gave his youngest son half the kingdom; they are still alive, if not dead]: Jones, Kropf 1889:250-262; Bosnians [three brothers, younger simpleton; someone steals hay from a haystack; the elders hear a rumble, they run away; the youngest catches a snow-white horse with a pitchfork in silk harness; then a horse in a silver gun; then a bay in gold; hides everyone in a summer stall; the sultan promises a daughter to whoever jumps on horseback a ditch, each time it is wider; on three horses, the young man fulfills the condition three times, gets three princesses as his wife; the sultan thinks that there were three suitors; the wedding will take place when all three appear; and let them build a ship, which travels on water and on land; St. Peter asks everyone what they are doing; the older brothers answer rude, the younger brothers explain politely; Peter gives an ax: if you turn, the ship will move, stop in the other direction; the young man brought him to the ship and swam his three horses; on the way he took a hungry Obedala, a starving horse, and a man who ran after hares with a millstone on his leg; the king orders to eat bread from 70 ovens overnight (Eat eats); for the horse to eat 90 carts of hay during the night (the hungry horse ate); tells him to catch three birds with one stone (a giant catches a millstone); the sultan sent his daughter to buy one hare; he went in a gypsy costume; the giant sold them, but they ran back; the young man and his brothers received a princess]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:116-126; Montenegrins [the boy chose to marry only a princess; the king demands three horses, each special and of a rare suit, and to load everyone with as much gold as he can carry; the princess fell in love with the boy, gave a magic knife and taught them what to do; to go east, there will be a meadow where horses graze; use the blade of a knife to direct reflected sunlight into the meadow, horses will go like sheep; in the meadow, cypress - copper roots, silver branches, golden needles; you have to knock on the roots with a knife, gold will appear in abundance; and so it happened; as a dowry for the bride, the guy asked for and received a knife]: Eschker 1992, No. 25:135-137; Greeks: Schmidt 1877, No. 23 (Zakynthos) [the king sailed on a journey, found himself on a lion island; lions won, but many fell in battle; the king and his companions came to the garden, where one source with málama (some metal other than gold and silver), the other with gold, the third with pearls; they collected treasures, went to the lake; it spoke; the seven-headed serpent king will soon wake up; so that he does not swallow them right away, let them lay out the way with clothes - the snake likes to crawl along soft; the serpent let the arrivals go, but ordered him to send him 12 girls and 12 boys to eat every year; the queen is childless; the nun gave birth to an apple, the queen gave birth to a son, and the mare gave birth to a foal from the seeds; he became the prince's horse; when his parents died and the boy was 19 years old, the horse told him to go to the cave in which the monastery was; the abbess (she was that nun) explained where to find a sword that could kill a snake; a young man seven heads; everything is fine], 20 [the priest's son is a goat shepherd; Pan gave him a goat - gold wool, silver ears, hooves from m á lama; the young man brought him to sacrifice to God; God sent an angel to ask what the young man wanted; he asked for a pipe: if he started playing, everyone would dance; the king threw him into prison; he played, the walls began to dance, collapsed, crushed the king and his people; only the young man himself and his family remained; all this was done by the pan to cleanse the world of bad people]: 115-116, 118-122; Slovenes [the young hero is unable to learn from a shoemaker, from a blacksmith , goes to wander; meets, takes as companions 1) turning pine trees, 2) throwing millstones; brothers stop at the castle, cook in turn, the beggar takes food, beats the miller, the pine tree; the blacksmith hits him himself, the old man disappears into the abyss; the miller, the pine man is told to immediately lift them back, the companions bring the blacksmith down, he kills three snakes guarding the golden, silver, sparkling locks , frees three girls, who give a ring, a sword, companions pick up the girls, leave the blacksmith; he makes the brownie ring the bell, the locks fail, the blacksmith goes to the ground; forgives his companions, gives them a wife, takes a third girl; the strength of the heroes is gone, but everyone has a glorious family]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:65-68 (=Arkhipova 1962:45-49); Slovenes [elderly the king asks her son to marry; the old woman tells the prince to go to the glass mountain and pick three lemons; the prince comes to the lead castle, in front of Jezibaba Castle (the embodiment of winter), leans on a lead staff; she does not know the way to the glass mountain, hides the young man; son J. did not eat him, advises him to go to his brother's silver castle; he eats lead cakes for dinner; the young man came to the silver castle, where another Yezibaba (all the same, but the objects are silver); then the golden castle; its owner shows the way to the mountain, there is a tree on it, there are three lemons on it; only the one to whom the fruit is intended can pick; at first, the prince cannot climb the glass, but decides to throw away the metal pies that each of the cannibals gave him; they turned into steps; he picked the lemons, after which the tree and mountain disappeared, he found himself in the middle of the plain; on the way home, one lemon cut; a girl appeared, but when she found out that the prince had not prepared food, drink and clothes for her, she disappeared; the same with the second; the third allowed her to go home, the girl got everything, the prince married her and reigned after his father's death; when he went to war, he left his wife on a throne that others could only ascend to if his wife lowered their silk rope; under the throne in the garden there is a pond; the maid- the gypsy came to get water, saw a reflection, decided that she was so beautiful, broke the jug; then she realized her mistake; the old woman advises the gypsy woman to ask the Queen to lower the rope so that she could comb her hair; put a pin in her head, she will turn into a white dove, and let the gypsy woman put on her clothes and sit on the throne; this is what happened; when the king returned, the imaginary wife explained that she had changed from suffering, waiting for him to return; a dove flew in, the king stroked her, felt for her and took out the pin, the wife was reborn; the maid and the old woman were burned; the king still reigns happily if he is still alive]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 10:63-74; Romanians [a handsome young farmhand does not look at girls; dreams three times how a fairy tells him to go to the emperor; is hired by the emperor's gardener; 12 daughters of the emperor They dance secretly at night, wearing out a pair of shoes during the night; their father promises any of the daughters to someone who finds out why their shoes wear out; trying to solve the mystery, 11 young men disappear, the rest leave attempts; the fairy tells the young man to grow two laurels; with a laurel flower, the young man quietly penetrates the girls; the eldest opens an underground passage, the young man follows the girls, steps on the younger one's dress, others do not believe to her that someone is watching them; after passing through a forest with silver, gold, diamond trees, girls approach the boats, 12 men take them to the castle on the island; her younger sister's boat heavier than others, an invisible young man sits in it; on the way back, the young man broke off a silver branch, put it in a bouquet for his younger sister in the morning; the next day he found out what the sisters were plotting against him, the young man takes the second laurel flower, his mind is sharpened, he is wearing luxurious clothes; in a new look, recognized only by his younger sister, the young man openly comes to watch the girls; the younger sister does not allow him drink a drink of oblivion, the spell dissipates; a young man marries a younger princess, others marry too; a wife burns laurels to keep the couple equal]: Browne 1915:389-400; Romanians [Cinderella sits on the ash for days, her stepmother tyrants her; while her stepmother is in church, the rooster gives Zoleshka three nuts (walnuts, hazel, peanuts; or her father brings a nut); in the first copper dress; the next time the second time silver; the third time it is golden, and the rooster advises losing the slipper so that it sticks to the resin in the church; the prince orders to look, finds the owner, brings his wife to the palace; the stepmother's own daughter comes to the palace and pushes Cinderella into the well and takes her place; a willow grows out of the well; the shepherdess has made a pipe, she sings: Play, young man, it's not so loud, or my heart hurts; he brings a pipe, everyone is playing; when her stepmother takes her, then her daughter, the pipe sings: play, enemy; she throws the pipe to the ground, Cinderella is reborn, the prince marries her again, the liar is tied to the stallion's tail]: Bîrlea 1966:414-415; Romanians [dragons stole the sun, moon, stars, and the king's eyes; two older princes went in search but went into trade, lost money, and were detained as debtors; younger Dragan Cenusa ("chenushe" means "ash"), who had previously been in ash, got on a horse that ate hot coals, took weapons and armor, as well as ash cakes given by his mother, and went in search; bought it the brothers, taking gold from the horse's ear; while the brothers were sleeping, killed the dragon on the copper bridge that stole the stars, they returned to heaven; on the silver bridge, the moon; the long battle on the golden bridge; DC promised the crow more meat, than promised by the dragon, he sprinkled it with cold water and the dragon with hot water; DC killed the dragon, freed the sun; chipping in with his mouse, penetrated to the mother of the dragons and took away the box with his father's eyes; the dragon sent her two daughters to look like an apple tree and a well, and starved and thirsty on the brothers; DC crossed them with a sword, bleed; sent the brothers home to carry their father's eyes, and came to Mark Armenash himself, asked for 99 quintals of hot coals; when the dragon tried to stick her head, poured coals into her mouth and it exploded; DC went with MA to get a bride, the daughter of the Green King; they meet they accompany someone who hears oats grow and sees what is happening in another world; an arrow, a tree destroyer; drank; eaten; capable of freezing the sea; this latter covered the sea with ice to go to the country of the Green King; they were put in a hot iron house, which froze it; drank and ate and ate everything they were offered; to compete in the run with an old woman, she put the runner to sleep , putting a dragon bone under his head; the shooter knocked out the bone; they got the princess, crossed the ice, the freezer melted the ice again, the king and queen who rushed to pursue drowned; DC met the old man: There is no water, the dragon has closed the spring, allows you to take water in exchange for people, the princess's turn; DC killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; a dwarf with a long beard came to his hut, ate all the meat; DC split the beech, pinched his beard in the trunk; the dwarf pulled out the beech, disappeared into the lower world; DC came on a bloody trail; ordered him to be lowered into the black world on a rope; pretended to be a musician; devils promise a lot carts of gold, if he can free their king's beard from the beech; DC cut off his head, ran up to the rope, twitched, but no one picked up the rope; he hears the squeak of the griffin chicks: their dragon crawls to the nest eat; (killed the dragon); the griffin swallowed it and regurgitated it, making it stronger; agreed to take it to the ground; along the way, the meat ran out, DC cut it off piece by piece from his feet and from under his knee; the princess recognized DC by the dragon's severed tongues; the brothers' wives poisoned DCH's wife out of envy; he went for living water; the old man gave him a staff and a sheep, telling him not to leave them in the forest where the entrance to hell is located; a bird flying, dropped three feathers (her wife's hair) and three drops of blood (which fell from her wife's cheeks); DH left her staff and sheep in the woods and went home; turned into a walnut tree]: Bîrlea 1966:384-387; Moldovans: Botezat 1981:169-181 [The old woman quickly grew up three hero sons; one chased a frog, the other a duck, the younger Dragan after a squirrel; they went up to heaven, brothers after them; three snakes were carried away to the next world three royal daughters, as well as the sun, moon and stars; the old woman asked to spread three buckets of red wine and red cloth on the roof; the brothers think that the house is on fire, they chase, they go down, they are angry, but their mother gives them wine; they did not recognize each other at first; the mother said why she called them; they do not know what to do; the brothers reached the hole, go down the silk cord, the elders were frightened, D. went down, became bumblebee, listens to how the wives of snakes respond to their mother Scorpia, how their husbands come home (across a copper bridge, a silver bridge, a golden bridge; eats 12 fried cows, 24, one hunk of bread); S. says that the bumblebee is D.; the eldest daughter-in-law promises to become a well, the second apple tree, the third fire; and S. will fall from ground to sky; D. killed all three snakes {described in detail}; stars, moon and sun; D. chopped a well, an apple tree, a fire; came to the blacksmith, this is Kozma-Dimir, his mother's brother; S. managed to bite off a piece of her heel; when S. put her head in, she was killed with a club, the corpse was burned; in copper, in a silver, golden garden, D. meets the kidnapped princesses, sends them upstairs; each turns her wealth into 3 apples - copper, silver, gold; after pulling out three princesses, the brothers cut off the rope; D. came to CD; he tells us to go to the apple tree of life on Synzyen Day when it rises from the ground into the light; if Grandfather Odolyan wants to say hello, you should reach out not your hand, but the coulter; O. is the father of those snakes; when he the coulter squeezed, three drops of blood fell, O. burned, and the blood turned into an tin flower; the apple tree carried life to the ground; D. released the stars into the sky; tied the brothers to the tails of horses], 190-200 [], 209-217 [ Tsarevich Fat-Frumos; when he dies, the king orders him to pass off three sisters as snakes that will come for them; FF gave the snakes 3, 6, 12 heads; FF finds a portrait of Ilyana Rosolyana in one of the rooms; took it after passing copper forest, came to the elder sister's copper palace; her serpent husband gave him strength; the same with his middle, older sister (silver, golden forest and palace); the eldest husband tells me to go to Och; he gave two cornflowers turn into a fly and back; 24 IR brothers must be avoided; FF got in, moved it twice, turned off the lamps a third time, took IR's oath with her three horses to become his husband; she gave the keys to all the rooms forbid entering one; FF unlocked the lock, there is a snake chained with 24 heads; asks for hay and water; ate, drank, fell off the chain, then ate a herd of oxen and 12 barns of bread, tells FF to get out; horse the snake asks whether to jump like a thought or like the wind; as a thought; IR took away the serpent from the silver forest; next time from the copper one; this time the older sister's husband gave FF 25 snake powers, and the snake 24; FF a snake won and killed; during the struggle, IR gave FF wine and bread, not a snake; wedding]; Moldavian tales 1969:158-168 [three fellows kidnapped three princesses; the king promises a reward to whoever finds his daughters; Calin the fool and his two older brothers go in search; K. guards at night, kills three-, four-, eight-headed dragons; the latter's blood has filled the fire; K. goes into the light, meets, tied up the Evening, Midnight, Dawn, so that the day does not come until it returns; 12 dragons and their mother sleep around the fire; K. takes coal, but also meat; dragons wake up, tell them to bring the daughter of the Red King (they themselves are not they can, because they are afraid of a puppy with a rooster); K. leads dragons with him, kills one at a time when they climb over the city wall; K. took off the ring from the princess's finger; cut off the dragons tongues; killed them in their lair one dragon, and the other ran away; fed and released the bound Evening, Midnight, Dawn; passing through a golden, silver, copper forest meets three kidnapped princesses, each preparing food for her dragon; kills two dragons; when he fights a third, both call a crow, but K. calls him a blessed king, the raven pours water on the dragon's flame, he dies; when K. falls asleep, his brothers cut off his legs; he found him armless; K. grabbed the runaway dragon, she showed the lake; when K. and his sister plunged, their legs and arms grew; they killed the dragon; the princess is given to a gypsy who allegedly killed dragons; K. sends his ring, recognized, showed his tongues; a gypsy with a bag of nuts was tied to the horse's tail; where the nut fell, a piece of body fell off there; K. gave the princess to his former betrothed; K. came home, his wife was made a maid; he offered to throw a core up; when it fell, it crushed his brothers], 232-250 [poor Nekulai saw an eagle freezing and brought it to the hut; he explained that he was a prince, bewitched by the mother of three dragons, because he did not agree to marry their sisters; if N. pulls out the box from one of the sisters, the spell would be destroyed; the eagle brought N. to the copper palace, then to the silver palace, then to the golden palace ; the first two sisters did not give the box, the third gave it, the eagle became a prince and left; N. carried the box, was hungry and told it to open; tables with food appeared; N. does not know how to close the box; Having received N.'s promise to give what she does not know at home, Baba Yaga tells the box to close; Stefanel-Fat-Frumov was born at home at that time; when he is 7 years old, a tornado took him to Baba Yaga; she orders 1) to drag him 10,000 carts of firewood (stepdaughter tells dragons); 2) bake bread from 10,000 bags of flour (same); 3) get out of a clogged keg thrown into the sea (dragons got it); S. and the girl run, she turns him into the mill, herself into the miller; the field and the old woman; the third time the girl threw the pipe, a pond appeared, they became swans, the pursuer became goose; the swans became people and twisted the geese's neck; the girl She calls herself Marioara-Tsvetik, changes rings with Sh.; at home, S. forgot her, was going to marry; M. came to the house as a maid, bakes two pigeons from dough, puts her in one ring; S. finds him, remembers everything; but M. leaves, saying that once he forgets, he will forget again]; the Germans of Transylvania [in the German text from Transylvania (Haltrich, no. 10), the hero, on the advice of the horse, and not in spite of it, consistently selects three feathers - copper, silver, gold]: Cosquin 1887:296.

Central Europe. Czechs: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000 [the king is surprised why his daughter's shoes are worn out; the hussar agrees to guard; the princess and the maid go through the hatch under the bed; the hussar follows them, carries them away an invisible cloak and a self-supporting saddle from two debators, in a tin, silver, golden forest, breaks off a branch, the devil does not see it; eats the dinner served to the princess, everyone wonders where food and bowls were shared; the princess dances, the hell does not want to let the bride go anymore, the princess asks to let her go for the last time; the hussar returns earlier; tells everything to the king, he passes his daughter off as a hussar; in proof of what he saw, the hussar shows his wife the broken branches; the wife orders him to make the same cloak and saddle, accuses the hussar of deception, the king drives him away; in the forest he eats an apple, horns grow, pear - horns disappear; she goes to sell apples, the princess has horns; under the guise of a doctor with pears, she tells the princess to tell her what's in her heart, she brings a cloak and a saddle, the hussar flies away, the princess remains horned]: 290-295; Erben 1976 [someone steals apples from an apple tree in the royal garden; the king promises half the kingdom; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest knocked down the feather of the Firebird (Ohnivák, PO), she flew away the apple is left; parting at the crossroads of three roads, the brothers stick their rods: whoever sprouts has taken out a bird; Liska-Ryzhka (KH) asks each of the brothers to share food; the elders shot it, the youngest fed him; she brought him to the castle, ordered him to take a wooden cage, the Queen took a gold one, the PO squeaked, the guards woke up; the king agrees to give the bird if the Queen delivers Zlatograv's horse; the same with horse: he takes not a leather bridle, but a gold one; its owner demands Goldilocks in the Black Sea for the horse; she is the youngest daughter of a sea queen; LR orders to choose the easiest dressed girl; he chose; the girls' mother tells now identify Z. among the three sisters; a fly is spinning around her; the Queen orders to scoop out the pond with a sieve; Z. began to scoop out instead of him; LR brought a horse, ordered Z. to take Z. and ride away; LR took the form of Z. , then the horse, then the bird, each time he becomes a fox again and runs away; the Queen returns with Z., the horse and the bird; the owner of the bird has a copper, the horse is silver, and the mother Z. has a golden castle ; at the fork, the queen fell asleep; the brothers came up, cut his body to pieces, Z., took the horse and bird; but Z. is silent, the horse does not eat, the bird does not sing; the LR found the remains, grabbed the crow, and the crow had to bring from the Black Sea of living and dead water, the LR revived the Queen; when he saw him, the horse rose up, the bird sang, Z. told everything; the king executed his eldest sons, gave the youngest Z., half the kingdom, and after death and other]: 22-31; Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (4) [Yanko's ninth son is the strongest; leaves home, wins, takes Vyrvidub, Lomayiron; dragons kidnap the king's three daughters, their sister brothers go search; everyone takes turns cooking; a dwarf with a huge beard knocks down the cook, eats porridge; I. hits a dwarf, he shows a hole where the dragons have disappeared; only I dare to go down; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of copper, silver, gold castles; sends them upstairs, then the stone, the twins cut off the rope, the stone falls; I kill the snake, ready to eat the chicks; they explain to their mother that he is their savior, not their enemy; the bird carries me on itself, he throws meat into her beak, pours water, cuts off the last piece from her leg; she spits it out on the ground, applies; Y. beats, but forgives her brothers, all three marry three rescued princesses]: 71-88; Nemtsova 1977 [a neighbor persuades her widow's daughter to marry her; becoming a stepmother, tyrants her stepdaughter; she left home; greets everyone she met, complies with their requests: she turned the bridge over to the other side, washed the dog's wounds, shook the pear, drove the bull out of the meadow, took the heat out of the stove; came to Baba Yaga; she tells me to sweep 11 rooms, not go into the 12th; the girl looked there, there were three barrels of gold, silver, copper; she dipped her head in the first barrel, her hair turned golden; girl started running, Baba Yaga followed; a goby, a pear, etc. detain and beat her, the bridge broke under her, she stops pursuing; the rooster screams that the golden girl has come; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she she is rude to the people she meets, refuses to comply with requests; Baba Yaga jumped into a barrel of gold and ran; the goby, etc. interfere with her, they beat her, the bridge broke, Baba Yaga rips off her gold every time; The stepdaughter was taken by a rich gentleman, his own daughter was left in girls]: 153-162; 1978 [the king sends three sons to see the world; the eldest reaches the copper forest (father: I walked there before breakfast), medium to silver (he walked before lunch), the youngest Lezhebok on a thin nag, who turned into a flying horse, gets to gold; the local king complains about Baba Yaga and her dragon sons ; L. cuts down an army of dragons with a rusty sword, but new warriors appear in place; when she kills Baba Yaga, her army has disappeared; L. returns, tells his father everything; says that Baba Yaga's three sons the daughters of his friend, the owner of that castle, were stolen; L. killed many-headed dragons, brought back the daughters of the castle owner; his father tells L. that the Iron Monk is stronger than him; he is in the castle on a chicken leg; JM turned L. into millet and told the rooster to peck him; the princess kidnapped by ZhM asks if it is possible to revive L., what is the soul of ZhM; ZhM: you must be between two sabers hanging on the wall; life in an egg in a golden duck; prince slaughtered a rooster, took out a millet seed, L. was born; L. caught a duck, took an egg in his mouth, turned ZhM into a wild boar, which ran into the forest; wedding]: 172-190; Czechs [the king has 7 sons; younger Yalmir weak, hard to walk; brothers go to see the world; at night the old man makes Y. healthy and strong, gives me a white horse; he instantly caught up with his brothers on it; paid for them at the inn; they did not recognize him; they come to see a cannibal who has 7 daughters; I quietly pour out the wine; when everyone lies down, the cannibal tries to see if the brothers are sleeping; first she hits with a broom, then burns tar on her chest; each time she says 6 times they sleep, then the seventh sleeps; I change the cannibal's brothers and daughters, she cuts off the heads of her daughters; in the morning the brothers gallop away; I open up to the brothers, they envy that he was the best; horse: I am I asked your brothers not to open up, now there will be trouble; they all hired the king; the brothers told him that I could get birds that the king did not have; I took the horse back to that cannibal; in three rooms. birds in silver, gold, diamond cages; we must take a plain bird in a wooden cage in the fourth room; I brought a cage and the horse ordered the bird to be released; in the morning the royal garden is full of birds; now the brothers offer to send Y. to get animals; (all the same, but instead of cages, chains on animals); in the morning in the king's garden, deer, rabbits, squirrels, etc.; brothers They suggest sending Ya for wine; the horse tells me to make a rope and net out of his two hairs; you have to go down to the cellar, take a vessel with a wooden cork, not vessels with silver, gold, diamond, and run; or jump into the net and the horse will pull him out by the rope; as it happened; the king found that the wine in the vessel did not decrease no matter how much you drink; the king appointed I. First Minister; brothers: get the princess from a golden castle in the middle of the sea; the horse tells me to ask the king for a lot of bread, wine, etc.; this was fed to three giants; in addition, I. released fish into the sea and fed the eagle; the giants built a dam to the island; the princess went with Y., but demanded that the king deliver her golden castle; I fed the giants again; they delivered the castle; the princess demands the lost key; the fish found it; the princess demands the water of death, life and youth; I. walked along the dam that had been built, but the waves understood it; the eagle pulled out and showed the sources of water; then moved it to where the horse was; the princess rubbed the king with different water, but by chance twice - the water of death; after that it is impossible to revive; the princess called King Y., and he called her queen; the people burned the brothers alive; the horse tells him to cut off his head, a white dove flies out of his body and hides in the sky; I. rules and is happy with his wife]: Curtin 1890:370-405; Slovaks [Janko is hired as a shepherd; sheep go missing; the snake doubles the number of sheep on the condition that I come again; so three times (sheep three times, four times more); tells me to wrap her in a handkerchief, take it with you, not lie down on the feather bed; at home I lie down on the stove; the mother sees the snake become a girl; the next day I do not sleep, takes a beautiful woman as his wife; king falls in love with her; gives instructions to lime I.; 1) level the pond in the morning, grow grapes there, make wine; 2) level the rock, sow it in that place, bake bread; everything is done; 3) bring the girl's father; The snake's father-in-law asks Y. to give the king two grains and two grapes with a request to bake bread, make wine; the king throws them away; the Serpent reproaches him, the king falls to hell, the Serpent tells him to make King Ya.], 117-122 [someone crumples oats; two older brothers guard, drink wine, fall asleep; the youngest eats apples, tames the horse, he gives a halter, promises to help; so three times; the king promises home to someone with the sky will be torn off by a gold ring on a gold cord, an apple, a shawl; the younger brother wins three times on a copper, silver, gold horse; the king is looking for a winner, he is handsome, gets princess]; Dobšinský 1970, No. 8 [the peasant has 12 sons, 11 despise the youngest Janko; hired by the king, a year later they each got a ox; next time a cow; then a horse; I. is afraid choose a strong horse; a thin skate advises him to choose one; brothers galloped off; horse: will we jump like the sun or like the wind? I.: so as not to suffer; the horse is brass and the horseman is copper, I. ends up in the inn before the brothers, who say they saw the bronze horseman; next time he is silver ; golden; brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch plowing on 6 horses; she says she has 12 daughters; whips horses, they turn into 12 girls; before the wedding, the horse teaches me: he does not sit in the middle, say that he is the youngest, must watch the horses; do not drink wine, eat soup, roast, pour it out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup - with a brush, roast with a comb, hide them under their clothes; let the brothers lie in the place of the witch's daughters at night, and they in the place of the brothers; at night, the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking that she was killing young men; the horse tells jump away, pick up nothing on the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, I. asks if to pick it up; the horse: you'll pick it up, it'll be bad, you won't pick it up, even worse; I picked it up; the skate tells you to throw the comb ( mountain covered with dense forest); then the same: the witch throws a golden pen, I. throws a brush (prickly thickets); golden hair - glass (the sea, the witch stops chasing); made peace with his brothers, the horse tells me to hire serve the king; other grooms (in some versions Brothers Y.) burn candles, but I. do not; the grooms have seen that I. illuminates the witch's golden horseshoe stable; the king demands a horse whose horseshoe; they they rode to the witch, and while she was sleeping, I stole the keys from under the pillow, took the horse away, hid her sword; shouted about it to the witch, she chased, but she could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that it was light in Y.'s stable again, the light from the pen; the king demands a bird; I took off the keys from the sleeping witch's belt, broke her sword, took the cage with the duck laying the golden eggs; for the third time, golden hair, the king demands a girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in his teeth, I took them out carefully, broke the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl away; I shouted to the witch from across the sea that she would never return to her again; she turned into tar out of anger; the girl only wants me, the king is going to execute him; the horse tells me to boil the pot of milk, absorbed the heat, I swam, became gold; the king also decided to swim, the skate returned the heat, the king cooked; I. became king]: 36-46; Slovaks [an old woman gives birth to a son Lomidrevo at the age of 90 (=Valibuk; Valigora), breastfeeds him until the age of 7, then, at his request, three more years; he is incredibly strong, easily pulls out oaks , at the age of 17 he goes to wander; meets, wins, satellites 1) rearranging mountains named Valivrych (Kopivrych, Skalilamay; Studnyak digs wells), Meatiron; they contracted to threshing grain; pay - how much they will take; they carried the grain into the lock and carried them away; the rich man sent after the bull, then a boar; L. killed them, carried them with him; he chased the servants on the wagon, but L. piled oaks on the road; told M. to make him an iron club; threw him up, put his back, the club fell apart; ordered him to make another one; the king lost three daughters, dragons dragged them into a hole in the ground; three promised to return the princesses; settled in a hut in the woods, cook one by one; a dwarf comes out of the chimney, a beard from his elbow, hits the cook, dumps hot porridge on his stomach and eats him; when L.'s turn, he pinched his beard in the log the dwarf, beat him with an iron club until he gave his beard, which is his strength; the dwarf disappeared into a hole under the stone; the companions are jealous of L.; V., M. try to go down, but tell them to lift them back - there are frogs and snakes; L. promises the dwarf to return his beard, for which he tells him to show the way to the older princess; there is a copper lock on his magpie's leg; L. stomped, he stopped shaking; the 6-headed dragon throws his iron club, L. throws it back; the dragon eats lead bread, calls for lead current, offers to drive each other into lead; they drove each other to the waist; then L. drove the dragon up to the neck, demolished their heads with a club; the princess turned the castle and all the riches into a copper apple, L. sent her to the ground; the same in the silver castle (9-headed dragon, iron bread), in gold (12-headed, steel bread); before asking Pick himself up, L. sent a stone upstairs, his companions cut off the rope; L. came to the Knochta bird nest (Knofta; a giant mythical bird), killed a snake that always devoured the chicks; or protected the chicks from rain, one drop of which always killed them; the chicks told their mother about L., who did not swallow it, but promised to help; tells them to stock up a hundred rams and a hundred barrels of water; flies with L. to the ground, lamb does not enough, L. cut off a piece from his thigh; bird: if he knew that man was so tasty, she would eat you; but she regurgitated a piece and put it back; weddings are being prepared in town, but princesses demand the same dresses what they had underground; L. hired a tailor; at night he took out copper, silver, golden apples, took out their dresses; let the princesses come for them themselves; L. called the elders freaks and drove them away, the youngest gave a golden dress, married her; took out apple locks; gave two older princesses to his companions (forgiving them)]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 10:50-66; Poles [fisherman caught a fish with silver tail and gills; fish: let it go, your happiness is ahead; the same with gold; with diamond ones; she tells you to cut it, give it a piece to your wife, mare and female; bury it along the rib in the garden , three oaks will grow up; the wife will give birth to three sons, a mare three foals, a female will have three puppies; all the twins are similar to each other; the eldest comes to the city where the dragon demands a person a day, queue royal; the young man cut off 12 heads of the dragon, cut off and hid the sting; the horse and the dog helped; the young man left, the forester told me that he was the winner of the dragon; the young man returned after a year and 6 weeks; the impostor is preparing a wedding; the young man sent his dog with a letter to the Queen; stings at the feast; the forester was torn apart by four horses; on the first night the young man put a sword between himself and his wife; on the second he slept with her; went to the forest; an old woman came to the fire to warm up; gave a twig to whip the dog, they all petrified; at home one oak tree dried up; the middle brother, mistaken for the elder, goes, puts a sword on the bed; the same with him; goes younger; also puts a broadsword on bed; chases a deer with golden antlers; spends the night in the forest; an old woman comes; a young man grabs her, makes her younger brother revive with grass; both brothers force her to revive middle; brothers cut down an old woman, pieces grow back; brothers tell dogs to bury pieces; the forest has turned into a city with people; the queen recognized her older brother as her husband; the narrator was shot at the ball from guns]: Shcherbakov 1980:93-104; Belarusians (western in Bryansk governorate) [The beast mink destroys cattle; only the king's youngest third son goes to guard, fights the beast, which goes underground; brothers on a rope bring the prince down; there a horse is waiting for him; he comes to the princesses in copper, silver, gold (younger) palaces, they teach their brother Norka to cut off his head; he sleeps on a rock in the middle of the sea, the prince kills him; the sisters place their palaces in three eggs , give it to the prince; the brothers raise their sisters, cut off the rope; the prince suspected this, tied a stone to it, did not break; during a storm, he covers the chicks of a mighty bird from the rain; their mother takes it to land, on the way he feeds the bird; he is hired by a tailor; he says that the princesses agree to marry only the one who sews the dress they used in their kingdoms; the prince pulls everything out of the eggs; the youngest identifies him among the poor on the ring; three weddings]: Afanasiev 1938 (1), No. 132:247-251; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, d. Novaya Bych, Bykhov. u., from kr. Pavel Ivanova, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, she is carried away by a bear, after 3 years she gives birth to her son Ivashka a bear ear; after 3 years he grows up and leaves, meets Duba-Dubovik and Gora- Gorovik, three of them go; they find a house, leave Goro-Gorovik to cook dinner, go hunting themselves, Kashchei ("Koschey") appears, demands to bring him into the house, put him at the table and serve food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik cuts another ox, puts it to cook, comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovka does not talk about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dubo-Dubovik; Ivashka remains to cook dinner on the third day, Kashchei arrives, Ivashka refuses to obey his orders (does not bring him into the house or sit down at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashcheev's beard in the oak crevice, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds they follow Kashchei, but he flew away; the three of them go after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the road, Gora-Gorovik digs up a mountain, find a huge stone and a hole under it, make cowhides belt, Ivashka goes down, agrees that in a year his comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, where the girl says that they have not seen a Russian person here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; she reaches the silver house, there is also a girl sitting there, the story repeats; Ivashka reaches the golden house, there the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei arrives, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashcheev's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in a hare, an egg in the duck, Hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite (and eat it) on the way, but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees sea cancer on the shore, does not kill, but helps him sail into the sea; in gratitude, the cancer brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it, the duck flies away, a kite catches her, tears her apart, Ivashka carries an egg to wash in the sea, but drops it, the cancer returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving her a golden house, a girl takes an egg, rolls it around and the house gathers in an egg, Ivashka puts the egg in her pocket, the second girl collects a silver house into an egg in the same way, the third a copper house; they come to going upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades pick up the girl from the copper house, argue who will marry her, she assures that she is "more beautiful" than her, raise girls from silver and gold houses, decide marry them, and the first as servants, and Ivashka cut off his belt on the rise so that he breaks; Ivashka ties a stone instead of himself, his comrades cut off his belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak tree, birds scream, he climbs an oak tree, covers the chicks from the rain, then gets off and hides, the bird Half-Gritsa arrives, promises to thank his chicks for saving his chicks deliver it upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from barrels, meat into the bird's mouth ends, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird takes him out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, expectorates, caviar grows; Ivashka comes to town, is declared a shoemaker ("Ivanichka Drunkard"), She does not know how to sew, she lives with a Jew; a girl from the golden house promises to marry someone who sews the shoes she had in her golden house, Ivashka takes an order through a Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day, she rolls a golden house out of the egg, pulls out her skulls, the Jew takes her skulls; the girl asks for the same dress - the story repeats, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to to the blacksmith, pulls out a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each living in their own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36:340-347; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia; p. Zbui of the Zemplin Committee of Hungary) [the emperor has no children, he walks to sorcerers; one replies that the queen spat in the water, swallowed saliva by fish, brought offspring, and the queen has no children; it is necessary catch this fish in the lake under a stone slab and cook it, but so that no one else tries it; the maid tries the fish, the queen eats the fish, throws the bones to the dog; the maid, queen and dog get pregnant and through nine months give birth to a boy; the emperor is frightened; the advisers order to hire nurses; the boys have grown up and went to school; the son of the female Yanko has learned all the sciences and languages; the king is happy; I learn from books that Once there was a sun, a month and stars, but now there is nothing, the earth is covered in darkness; asks his father, the king says that three shufflers (dragons) have arrived; a 24-headed sun grabbed a sun with 12 heads - the month that had was a star; three royal sons saddle horses, went to look for the sun, the month and the star; the father told them that his brother, i.e. their uncle, studied to be a blacksmith in the Shedzmerice Region; the hell brought a letter: brother serves as a blacksmith for these three shufflers and their paternal uncle Laccibrade, who is elbow tall but has a long beard; the sons must go to Schedzmeritz, where their uncle is; there he is 100 meters Iron gates up, 24 comrades blacksmiths and 24 students; taking a letter to their uncle, the blacksmith, the brothers come to the Shedzmerice region, knock, the gate rings, the uncle comes out; making sure that their nephews are welcome accepts; knows where the lights are, because he is the blacksmith of kidnappers, whom he calls devils; one has a house made of gold, the other has silver, the third has copper; they are 24, 12, 6 miles away, respectively; their girlfriends - 48, 24, 12 miles away; at noon everyone leaves before midnight to see a friend - then you have to come; the princes will come to the copper house and the copper gate, where the weakest (with a star); he has a bridge from him to his home friends; his horse does not walk on the ground, only across the bridge; you have to take out one board in the evening to make a hole; I must sit under the bridge and listen to the shuffling go home; the shuffling sits on the horse the ground is shaking; his horse comes across the bridge to the hole, gets scared, rushes back; the shuffling calms down: there is no horse like him and no good man like him; only his mother-in-law Gynjibaba said she saw Suchiy Yanko, but if he met now, the shuffler would cut him to pieces; I.: I'll cut you down, blows all your heads off, sits on the shuffler's horse, takes his sword and star, throws a star into the sky, she rises to his seat, becomes lighter; the brothers go to the 12-headed shuffling; Y. breaks two silver plaques from the silver bridge; the shuffle promises to chop Suchiy Yanko, mentioned by G. throw meat away to magpies and crows; I blow 6 heads, then 6 more; each one cuts off the end of her tongue, hides it in her pocket, lets go of a month; tells my brother from the maid that he will have a 6-headed horse, brother from the queen - 12-headed, he himself will take the 24-headed shuffler's horse; invites the brothers to take the sun, they are afraid; leaves them the spoon given by the uncle for the matitsa: if it has blood, hurry to help; pulls it out bridges 4 gold plaques; the shuffler promises to chop the son of the dog mentioned by his mother-in-law, throw it away to magpies and crows; I.: I will do it with you; they fight for 24 hours; both ask crows for help, but I promise the more. meat; the shuffling breathes fire, the crows stuff weeds into his mouth, take away the sun, it rises to the sky; the shuffling throws fire even more, the crows in their beaks carry water, pour on I., others grab the shuffling legs, he fell, I killed him, cut off the tip of his tongue from each head; there is blood on a spoon behind the matitsa, the brothers take their horses out to flee; when I appear, they say that they were going to help him, he accuses him they lie, share horses; on the way home, their mother-in-law's hut of shufflers drive home; her daughters met there; I became a cat, climbed through the chimney, the youngest daughter, whose lover had 6 heads, recognizes Me by my eyes, the other two confirm; Gynjibaba: I would know if I saw it; the youngest looks up one century to her mother; G. sees Y., tells his daughters to put him in fur; they think that they did it and burned the fur from which, But I am a sorcerer and escaped; a mother tells one daughter to become a red handkerchief and lie on the road, strangle his two brothers and horses; the other with a silver pear, the fruits of which brothers and horses will choke; the third should become a meadow with silk grass and a well in the middle, people and horses will die from its water; I cut the handkerchief crosswise with a sword, it pours blood knee-deep to horses; the same with a pear, with a well; royal The brother, the chief blacksmith, orders the Iron Gate to be opened because her nephews will run away from G.; she chases with her mouth open, the young men rush to the uncle's yard, his students and comrades close the gate and G.'s eyelids are supported; G. demands to show her Y.; he tells the audience to take up one leaf, and he lets G.'s head into the yard and lock the gate with a key; G. is amazed that some worthless killed six (her daughters and shufflers); Y. replies that he will not let her go; let her become a horse that runs around the light in an hour, better than the Sharkani ones; G.: you can't wait; I ask my uncle for workers with with hammers; they hit G. on the head, she asks for mercy, but does not agree to be a mare; I tell you to hit harder; G. swears to serve faithfully; iron stirrups and a saddle are forged for her; I sit on horseback, take it in my hand a strand of flax lights him, linen does not have time to burn while the mare runs around the world; his uncle praises him, gives him a letter to his father and punishes him not to react, no matter what wonderful things he sees on the way; the brothers go home towards the ditch is old Laccibrad on a hare, followed by his casing and beard; he says that I am not a man; I dismount, L. is in the saddle and flies away on a horse; I tell my brothers to notify father that the sun, the month and the star are already in the sky, and he will go for the horse, which was made in his uncle's forge out of sharkanikha; he returns to his uncle, he reproaches him for his disobedience, tells him to take a hammer and go to the plain, where L. herds a mare and sleeps on iron saddles and stirrups; he must crush his head, take a mare; when he finds L., Y. decides that he is so small that he is not dangerous, grabs the mare, shouts at L.; he wakes up, hits Y. with stirrups and a saddle; I beg for mercy, L.: his sister will no longer wear I., for although Y. beat her, L. himself beat him, so we should honestly leave; I leave; my uncle sends him back; L. agrees to give the mare if Y. brings him a princess from the other side of the world; uncle: it's in the seventh land, it's easy to get there, any novelty you see must be taken with you, the royal daughter will be given for him ; on the way, Y. sees, takes with him hungry (he gets bread on carts), drank (drinks the river, but can't get drunk), cold (he can't warm up near the fire in 12 fur coats and 12 covers), throwing a hammer at the end of the world; crossing the whole world in two steps; having a huge eye and seeing everything; the king receives them, offers to eat a thousand oxen and bread out of three thousand measures of flour in one supper, drink a thousand barrels of wine and a thousand vodka; Y.'s companions eat and drink everything; the king puts him to bed in an iron house, sends blacksmiths to bring bags of coal, kindles a fire; the freezing one takes off one fur coat and one cover, the coals go out, everyone goes to bed; the craftsmen bring more fire; the freezing one sheds two coats and two covers, the coals go out, the craftsmen freeze to death; the king orders in three hours go to the end of the world and take leather and gold to the craftsman to cast a ring and sew shoes; companion Y. steps once and finds himself with the master; on the way back he enters the city, where Sister G. lets he sleeps, puts his horse head as a pillow, takes his ring and shoes; half an hour before the deadline; the seer sees the sleeper and sister G.; another companion throws a hammer, knocking his horse's head out from under the runner's heads; he catches up with sister G. in one step, takes away his ring and shoes, and the other steps he finds himself at the wedding; I. and the princess are married, given the wagon and the army to accompany him to the border; L. pretends to be married stuck in the swamp, Y. tries to help, L. pulls him knee-deep into the swamp, runs on his horse with his wife; I. rides a Sharkan horse to the Shedzmericki region to visit his uncle; uncle: go to the oak grove, where there is a hollow, through it you will get to a city 7 miles deep into the earth, in the city a three-story house on a duck leg is L.'s home; Y. finds a house, hides by a well, meets his wife: let him know where L. has power; L. to his wife: he is called to war, whoever he helps will win; in response to his wife's persuasion, he explains that a wooden deer drinks water near the well, a chamois in it, a hare in the chamois, a duck in a hare, two eggs in the duck; if you break one, he will lose half his strength and both will die; if you take a golden apple on a gold cord and put it in your pocket, you can take the house with you; L. goes to the seventh land for a month to war; I cut animals with a sword, breaks one egg; L. flies home on a mare - he is still stronger than I.; I break the second egg, L. falls, I kill him; turns the house into an apple, takes his wife home, stops by my uncle on the way, he advises him to return to his homeland and secretly build the house; his father's servants discover an unknown house; the princes are guarding a possible enemy, warmly greeting his brother, he says that he has obtained a mare and married the daughter of a tsar from the seventh land]: Gnatyuk 1898, No. 8:39-54; Eastern (?) Ukrainians (western in Kiev) [healers tell the childless queen to catch and cook pike, eat her head; a year later, the queen gave birth to a snake; he immediately spoke; ordered the tsar to leave him in the stone house and through a month to marry; in a month it has become long; no girl agrees to go for a snake; the woman has 12 daughters, the youngest is single; when he found out that the youngest wanted to marry, the king summoned her and she agreed, but told her to give her 12 dresses, shirts, shoes; she is led to a snake; he demands to throw off her dress, she demands to throw off her skin; when the girl is left in her last shirt, she has shed her last skin and became human; she threw snakeskins into the fire; the serpent tells her parents not to tell her parents that he has become human; she said her husband is gone; she went to look for him; the mother of the Wind hides her from her son, who senses the spirit, but tells her to give it to the girl silver apple; came to the mother of the Month; the same (the Month tells me to give the golden apple); the mother of the Sun (the same, gives a diamond apple; her husband already has a different wife; it is necessary take the form of an old woman, put a silver apple on a handkerchief and play with it; the girl sells it to her new wife overnight with her husband, but she put him to sleep; the same on the second day (golden apple); on the third night, the husband just pretended to be sleeping; his new wife was smashed to pieces by horses]: Rudchenko 1859, No. 43:81-85; Ukrainians [(reported by A. Maksimovich, probably translated from Ukrainian to Russian); the beggar tells the childless tsar to strain seven-year-old girls, seven-year-old boys weave out a seine overnight, they catch bream in the sea; the queen ate, cook she ate the bones, the dog ate giblets, three horses drank slop; the queen, the cook, the dog gave birth to a boy (Ivan Tsarenko, Ivan Povarenko, Ivan Suchenko), horses - to a foal; three brothers saddled them, let's go on a journey; the IS arrow flew the farthest, to the kingdom of far away, he was recognized as the elder; the brothers take turns coming to Bely Polyanin, he connects the elders, IS defeats him, the BP is taken sister; everyone takes turns cooking dinner; every time a grandfather arrives in a mortar, eats up, beats the cook, takes off his skin from his back; IS hits him, clamps his beard into a stump, he goes into a hole in the ground, dragging a stump; IS on his belt follows, consistently meets three princesses, kills the three snakes who kidnapped them; before a fight with the third, 12-headed, replaces his club with his club; the princesses turn their riches in gold, silver, copper eggs, give IS; when brothers raise princesses upstairs; when IS, BP cuts off the rope; IS comes to his grandfather, drinks strong water, that is weak; asks not to kill him, gives the chair and hair of three horses; IS sets fire to the wool, the horses are, the red IS returns to earth; is hired by a jeweler, who brings the princesses to the wedding by a ring, everyone recognizes their own, given IS ; IS gets into the horse's left ear, gets out of the right ear well done, removes the roof from the house (this was the task), raises the PSU, throws it, it breaks to death; three brothers married princesses]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 139:292-298; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the king has a meadow with silk grass; someone grazes on it; the tsar promises his daughter what he learns; three sons of an ordinary man undertake to guard; middle, the youngest did not see it; the younger Ivan the Fool feeds the mouse; she says that these are silver, gold, diamond horses; everyone must remove the bridle and not give it back; I. hid the bridles in hollow, did not tell anything; the grass is intact; the king does not want to give his daughter for I.; will give the one who jumps to the third tier {tower}; each of the horses orders to remove the harness and sword (silver, gold, diamond); the princess gives I. a handkerchief, then a ring, then hit I. in the forehead with a royal seal; he hides gifts in ash, pulled a stocking over his forehead, but it was found; the young were placed in a goose barn; enemies attacked, unrecognized I. smashes them; replies to the king that he is from Libováros (Hungarian: goose town); so three times; the king bandaged the knight's wounded finger; recognized his handkerchief; handed over to I. the crown]: P. Lintur to Pankeev 1992:112-122; Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [Golden horse: carries a boy through a copper, silver, golden forest; the horse is eventually killed]: SUS 1979, No. 511A: 146; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the pop hired a worker; two months later he leads him to a copper mountain, sewed up the drunk in cowhide, the bird lifted his skin to the mountain, the worker woke up, got out, the pop tells throw copper, a man zipun covered three birds from the thunderstorm; the chicks ask the mother not to kill the man, she agreed to lower him to the ground; the man was again hired to the ass (still the same, silver mountain); for the third time, at the Golden Mountain, a worker sewed his priest in his skin; he found a nest, ruined it, the bird pecked him; the worker married a popadye; I was at the wedding, I drank honey beer, flowed down my mustache, did not get into my mouth]: Balashov 1970, No. 28:94-97; Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [princess and cook wear seven pairs of shoes overnight; the tsar promises a daughter and half a kingdom to anyone who finds out what's going on; Gol Kabatskaya volunteered ( GK), fell asleep, his head was cut off; the second is the same; the third goes to the kisser; he gave an invisible hat and speeding boots for promising to give half of his future wealth; follows the girls through copper forest, the knot broke, the princess heard a crunch, but no one was visible; the same silver forest; gold; the cook says every time that she touched her dress (shawl); the carrier across the river: why Are you a cargo boat today? princess: they ate a lot; after dancing, the GK returned before the girls, pretends to sleep; shows the king branches of metal trees; received the princess and half the kingdom, gave half of his wealth to the kisser]: Balashov 1991:64-71; Russians (the summer coast of the White Sea, Nyonoksa) [After going fishing, three brothers walk along the blood river to the barnyard. One is left to fry the bull, the others hunt. He appears with a fingernail, a beard from an elbow (hereinafter referred to as Himself), demands to take him to the table, eats a bull, hits his brother and leaves. The brothers return, spend the night hungry, and the next day the other brother stays to fry the bull (same). On the third, the youngest Ivan does not agree to carry Himself to the table, hangs him by the beard to the matitsa. The brothers come back, eat and throw bones at Himself's beard. They let him go and move on, and Himself goes under the rock. The brothers cut the belt out of all the bulls in the yard and lower Ivan into the hole, promise to wait for him and pick him up when he pulls the belt. Ivan enters the kingdom of copper and sees a red girl. She weaves and soldiers jump out of each cotton with stuffing (a bird in a loom) and two more, saying that this is an army against Ivan the Fool. Ivan asks her not to weave. She sends him to her sister in the silver kingdom, everything repeats itself, she to the third girl in the golden kingdom (the size of a sieve). She also agrees not to weave more soldiers, tells me how to get three girls out and defeat Himself. Ivan finds him by the sea (in a strong spirit), they are fighting, thirsty and leading Ivan to the field. There are bowls with strong and empty water, the girl swaps them in advance. Ivan drank a lot, defeated Himself - he put it in the palm of his hand, pressed down the other. He took the girls, rolled each of the three kingdoms into an egg. Brothers raise girls, but they don't want Ivan. A girl from the golden kingdom begs her betrothed (Ivan) to get her betrothed. They lower his rope, Ivan ties a stone to his belt, and his belt breaks off. The brothers wanted to marry the girls, but they refused. A girl from the golden kingdom goes to work as a cook for her ass. Ivan in the lower world is hired by a blind old man as a shepherd. The old man warns that Baba Yaga pulled out his eyes and will pull Ivan out. Ivan herds the herd in Baba Yaga's field, she sends her daughter to grab him, Ivan tears off his daughter's head and brings him home to the shop, and tells the old man that it is birch bark for bast shoes. She does the same with her second daughter. On the third day, she drives the cattle to Yaga's house, and she goes out to catch them. Ivan sits on horseback, holds her hair, chains Baba Yaga, cuts her with iron bars, and she says where the old man's eyes are. With his eyes inserted into the old man, Ivan cuts Yaga to death. The old man gives Ivan a bird to get to his world and feed the bird a bucket of meat in flight. Ivan returns to his village, finds out that girls don't want to marry his brothers until they get dresses from their kingdoms, Ivan rolls out kingdoms, takes dresses and rolls the kingdoms back. The girls understand that Ivan is near. Two marry brothers, a princess from the golden kingdom for Ivan]: Onchukov 2008, No. 86:226-229; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the tsar shakes his newborn son Ivan; if you grow up, I will marry you Beloved Beauty, three mothers daughter, three grandmothers granddaughter, nine brothers sister; after 9 days I. wakes up as an adult, goes to look for NC; the old man teaches him to choose a horse among the 30 that the king has in the stable (he will stir up the sea); the horse brings to the hut, where the old woman, there is a copper ring on the door; she sends her older sister with a silver ring; she sends to the oldest (a golden ring); this old woman calls fish, bastards, birds; only a bird knows Mogol: she "shook" the GK by lunchtime; carries I., he feeds and drinks her, cuts off the last pieces from her calves; in the meadow, the bird regurgitated them, put them back; I. meets NC in the church; ships sail 6; 12; 24 heroic suitors, speak contemptuously of I.; he waved his hand - the street became, waved another - cleanly and smoothly around; I. guards NK's sleep, and when he lies down, Koschey the Immortal (KB) took her away; I. comes to NC, teaches you to find out where the death of KB is; KB: in a broom; I. the broom is gilded; you have gilded it with an oak tree; I. also gilded it; KB: in an egg, in a duck, in a cocoon, a coconut swims in the sea; I. spared a hawk, a bear, a pike; the sea carried the cocoor ashore, the bear broke it, the hawk caught up with the duck, the pike brought an egg that fell into the sea; I. crushed the egg, the KB died; the kings neither cook beer nor smoke wine; did not fall on the mustache]: Afanasiev 1958 (1 ), No. 157:362-369; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky District, p. Vozhgory, 1928) [Pop got lost, met a bear, helped arrange a den, and winters in her. Palfil Popovich (PP) was born to a bear. In spring, pop returns to the village with his son. Popadya does not immediately recognize her husband, she is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, it is difficult for parents to feed it, they send it to the forest to herd cows. PP catches a bear who wants to pick up a cow, brings him to the village and locks him in the barn. The maid comes in when the bear eats the last cow. Pop sends PP to the king for tribute, he rides a bear, meets an enchanted man. To break free from the spell, he must "bring the mountains to one place." PP helps him, they go together. It's the same with having to uproot an oak tree. The three of them and the bear come to the king, the PP demands tribute, the king pays to leave as soon as possible. PP gave one bag of gold to his ass, and left with the other four. The three of us stayed in a hut, catching bulls. Two go to town for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands a treat, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. It's the same when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, reproaches his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there's any other ground under the floor. He cuts bulls, makes belts, and his comrades pull him down. PP enters a copper, silver and gold tower, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls are happy and ask to take them with them. It's a pity for PP to leave the tower. Everyone throws the ring from her hand onto the roof, the tower turns into rings, they are given to PP. Satellites lift the girls, but the PP is too heavy, the companions cut off their belts, the PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. He is hired by a blind old man to herd cows. He shows the border of the Baba Yaga glade and forbids herding cows there. The PP complies with the ban three times, and the fourth time she drives cows to Baba Yaga's land, she is angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows are full and roaring. PP takes the herd back to Baba Yaga's meadow. She says she would fight with the PP hero and hear about his strength. We agreed to hit three times. Two PP blows do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a bag and tramples her, lets the old man feel at home, who makes sure that Yaga has been killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into his skin, catches a crow that has flown up, sends the other for living and dead water. After receiving water, he tests it: he tears the bird, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he sees the light, and in gratitude promises to bring the PP to the ground. His witch daughter does this, she eats people and knows how to turn into a bird. Orders to tie an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off its calves. The bird says its meat is sweet and would eat it, but his father's request doesn't allow it. Spits out swallowed, PP's legs are intact again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom, the girl from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one arm and the other's leg. He puts up a silver and gold tower, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278; Russians (Olonetskaya or Arkhangelskaya, i.e. Zaonezhye or Pinega, Poganets, 1927, E.F. Fofanova, 12 years) [The king takes turns sending his sons to watch the garden where apples are missing. The elders fall asleep and don't see the thief. The youngest sees that the apples are being stolen by a polar bear. He asks his brothers to let him down into the hole from which the beast comes out. He finds himself in a copper hut, the girl transfers threads from ball to ball, feeds, poit-puts to bed (at the request of the guest), finds out about his goal and says that there are 2 more girls ahead and grandma. In a silver hut, a girl winds silver threads, everything repeats itself, and the same goes in a golden hut (a girl with gold threads says that the bear lives with her grandmother). He promises to marry each of the girls. Ivan turns his hut on his chicken foot, the old woman tells him that the bear will force him to heat the bathhouse, and then ask him to give it up, but this cannot be done, otherwise the beast will eat him. He follows the old woman's advice, does not give up when the bear asks, the beast writhes and dies. Ivan rips off his skin, picks up his grandmother and three girls. Every girl twists the hut into a ball and puts it in her pocket. They go to the hole, Ivan warms the crows with a bear skin, sends them upstairs to the girls' brothers, and they start fighting over them. The brothers lift Ivan up, but not completely and throw him back into the hole. The raven brings Ivan to the surface of the earth, and on the way, the bird eats the bull's meat it brings, which Ivan throws into his beak when it ends, cuts off the meat from his legs. The raven sees that the prince is limping, spits out his meat and putting it at his feet. He returns to his kingdom during the wedding of a girl from a golden hut, marries her, she develops a hut out of the ball]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 77:175-178; Russians (Vologda) [the tsar and queen are childless, both 80; the king tells the fishermen to throw a net for his luck; the pike looked like gold; the king tells the nanny to bake a cake; ate the middle part with the queen, the one where the head was eaten by the nanny, the tail - dog; everyone gave birth to a boy, only the dog's son has dog ears; the priest gave the names: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Nyankin, Birth; brothers grew up; C. suggests considering the elder who will leave 4- a pound club; he himself threw the furthest; went hunting, got lost, stopped in an empty house, next to the bridge across the river; the brothers take turns guarding; the IC sees a three-headed monster riding, disappeared, not said to the brothers; the same IN (6-headed); on the third night S. leaves a glass: if full of blood, hurry to help, and if the blood is over the edge, save themselves; the 12-headed monster prevails, S. threw his the boot, the gate disappeared, the horse ran, helped kill the monster; S. put 12 heads under a heavy stove; the brothers apologize for hiding and not helping; when they went, S. asks to return - gloves forgot; he fell off the stove, under it 12 heads; the brothers kept silent; three sisters of the sorceress gathered; one promises to become an apple tree, the other a feather bed, the third a well; although the brothers eat apples, lie on the feather bed, drink water, S. does not give; brothers find a hut, hunt, cook in turn; a dwarf with a long beard came, ate everything, beat the IC; the same with IN; S. beat the dwarf, pinched his beard in the stump; he pulled out a stump from root, gone, a trail of blood leads to a hole; S. orders to kill a bear, make it out of the skin of belts, lower it on belts; the girl of the copper kingdom sends silver to the girl, she to the golden one; each asks to take married her; the girl of the golden kingdom orders to change wells with strong and weak water; the dwarf drank weak water, S. killed him; S. sends the girls upstairs, each turned her kingdom into a ball; when the brothers they picked up S., they were flattered by the girls, cut off the belt; S. fell, found the Firebird, she carried him upstairs, because he defeated her villain; IC took the maiden of the silver kingdom, in the copper kingdom, and the maiden of the golden kingdom his kingdoms were his servants; having learned how things were, the tsar executed the IC, drove away the IN, made S. an heir, who married the princess of the golden kingdom]: Gura 1965, No. 20:230-233; Russians (Vologda) [ Elena the Beautiful (EP) wears out her shoes every night; the shepherd undertakes to find out what's going on; if he can, the tsar will give him his daughter; follows her to the copper forest, hides a leaf; two imps are fighting next to him over speeding boots; shepherd: whoever counts all the leaves on trees faster will receive; put on boots, and the devils are still running; the same in the silver forest (gets an invisible hat); in gold (self-cut saber) ; an invisible shepherd sits next to the EP and drinks vodka, which her lover pours her; when she returns, the shepherd tells and shows the leaves; EP summoned her lover, the shepherd who became her husband, destroyed his army with his sword; after finding out about the wonderful objects, the EP ran with them to her lover; the shepherd went to look, the devils grabbed him in the copper forest; he explained that he did not have the objects; they taught bribe a girl, hit the ground - you will become a horse; EP tells you to cut it, and let the girl bury a piece, grow an "apple tree"; order to cut down, let the girl throw a sliver into the pond, there will be a swan; the king takes off clothes (and he carries items with him), will enter the pond; we must fly ashore, become human and take possession of objects; the shepherd killed the king, moved on with the EP]: Burtsev 1895, No. 9:51-58; Russians ( Vologodskaya) [the man asks his three sons what they dreamed of at night; one was visiting his mother-in-law, the other was in a tavern; Fedor replies that it's okay, because the dream said: if you don't tell your dream, then you will receive happiness and a kingdom; the father sold F. to the master; he did not tell the master either; and to the king; the king put him in prison; he himself went far away for Elena the Beautiful; F. begged the royal sister to release him, promised to return to the king; to the king's sister: pick up 11 more fellows like me, go to the EP, otherwise the tsar will not get it; along the way, three features are fighting for self-propelled boots, an invisible hat and a flying carpet; F. threw a stick on the spruce tree: who can get it; took away wonderful objects, flew away with his comrades on a flying carpet; the invisible is present when talking between the EP and the king; the EP demands the same dress as his grandfather made; F. stole the EP's dress, pretended to sew himself; the same with his shoes; three copper, silver, golden hair I would have tomorrow; F. secretly follows the EP; she summoned my grandfather from the lake: copper head, silver beard, golden mustache; EP pulled out three hairs each, and F. pulled out a braid, half a beard, half a lip; married, but the EP decided to destroy F. and then the king; F. persuaded 11 companions, so that everyone does like him, everyone so that Fedka is a servant; EP cannot understand who F. is real; F. returned to prison; the king wants to execute him, but F. gives a paper explaining; the king made him a prince; The bishop drugged the tsar, F. took his place and married his sister]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 7:43-52; Russians (Vologda, Kirillovsky U.) []: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 54:204-209; Russians ( Pskov) [the tsar has two kingdoms; he sends people to find out why people in one of the kingdoms do not know where they are going; the old man is sent: the seine must be abandoned three times; the first two times there will be a lot of fish, her throw it away; on the third - three white fish pike; let the princess eat - then the tsar will find out where the people are going; the cook cooked the fish, tried it herself and gave birth to the female; everyone gave birth to a son: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan- cook, Ivan-Suchkin-Ploshkin (ISP); grew up quickly, went in search; before that, the ISP whistled in three stables, each had only one horse left, the brothers took them for themselves; chose the eldest one who he will throw a club higher; when he threw the ISP, they had time to drink tea before it fell; made him senior; stopped at the bridge over the Kalinovka River; they guard in turn, but Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan-Kukharkin fall asleep all three times at the ISP bridge; each time the snake drives the ISP into the ground "on the trail", and the ISMP cuts down all three heads of the snake; the third snake drove the ISP to the waist, and the ISP demolished only two heads, but the horse finished off the snake; becoming a fly, The ISP overheard the snakes talking; one will thirst, the other will turn into a spring, the third has one mustache in the ground and the other into the sky: as they go, so in her mouth; the brothers are thirsty; the ISP crossed the meadow - blood , crossed the key - also blood; told the brothers to go forward, they drove into the snake's mouth, and he told the blacksmiths to light the horn; the snake gnawed through the iron doors, stuck its tongue, and began to hit her tongue with a hammer; The ISP beat until the snake regurgitated the brothers and died; a golden-haired ram ran out; the ISP threw a club at him, and the ram grabbed it and carried it down the hole; the ISP tells the brothers to lower it on a rope; picked up a club, came to the copper kingdom, there was a girl, a snake flew in, the ISP killed him; the same in the silver kingdom; in the golden kingdom, the princess hides under the hem, the serpent flies around, the ISP, according to the teachings of the princess, grabbed him by the tail, the serpent flew, hit the ground and shattered to pieces; each of the princesses turned her kingdom into a testicle; the princess of gold branded the ISP with her ring and ordered the snake to take the tail: he will deliver you wherever you want; the brothers pulled out the princesses, began to argue over the princess of the golden kingdom, decided to get rid of the rival, raised the ISP to half the hole and threw it; the ISP shifted the snake tail from hand to hand hand, found himself on the ground, exchanged clothes with the old woman's son, came to a feast; the princess saw her stigma on him; traitor brothers were shot]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 2:10-18; Russians (Pskov) [ when he dies, the father tells his son Panteley to pass off the three sisters as the first to marry; he gave it away, came to the copper kingdom, took his wife; his wife tells him not to enter the building in the garden; P. went in, it boils in resin nine-headed serpent; asks for a drop of water; P. dripped, the serpent flew out and carried away P.'s wife; he consistently comes to the sisters' husbands, this is Thunder, Lightning (Silver Kingdom) and the bird Agei, the main bird above the animals and with fish (the golden kingdom); she gave a ball to follow him, and her pen to summon it if trouble occurred; on the way, P. regretted two wolves, fish and cancer, bees, they promised to help; P. reached the house a snake, took his wife away; the western blue reports this to the snake; he asks his horse if we will catch up; the horse: if we sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, we will still have time; the serpent took his wife, but forgave P. for releasing him; chopped it to pieces for the second time; the witch's grandmother burned the feather, the bird A. flew in, collected the pieces, sent two crows for living and dead water, revived P.; first you need to know from the witch's grandmother where to get one the same horse is like a snake; the witch's grandmother says that there is a witch more cunning than her; she turned her three daughters into mares; the witch's grandmother gave a ball that will lead to a black girl, a baba ega's shepherdess; a girl explains that Baba-ega demands that her mares be herded without losing her mares; whoever can will take any foal; the girl gave a pipe to lure the horses in the evening; the pipe helped twice; on the third day, Baba Ega threatens to kill horses if they come back, but they were driven back by wolves, bees and pike with crayfish, who promised T. their help; baba ega allows you to choose a foal; the girl teaches you to ask for the thinnest and more wool pud; the girl teaches first kill a West dove from the snake; the foal quickly got a walk, took P. away from his wife; the serpent caught up, but the horse killed him and his horse; P. and his wife returned home]: Smirnov 1917, No. 108:342-348; Russians (Moscow) [three princesses went to the garden, the whirlwind took them away; the tsar promises one of his daughters and half the kingdom; the peasant's son went in search; meets, takes Ivan Kamnelom as his companions, Ivan tear an oak tree; in they cook the hut one by one; a man comes in from his fingernail, beard from his elbow, eats everything, cuts out a belt from the cook's back; when Ivan the man's son (I.) remained, he pinched his beard into the stump; he escaped, they went along in the footsteps, under the stone there is a hole; there is first cold, then heat; only I. endures, went down; I. killed a three-headed serpent at the copper palace, saved the princess; the same for the silver (six-headed), gold (nine-headed); each the princess turned her palace into an apple; the princess picked it up, the youngest gave the golden apple to Ivan; the brothers began to pick it up, cut off the rope; I. did not break; there were three chicks in the oak nest, a snake crawls towards them, I. killed her; for this, the bird carried him to the ground; the king promises his youngest daughter to the one who would get the gold rings she had in the lower world; I. opened the palace, and rings in it; the brothers were forgiven]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 24:61-65; Russians (Ryazan) [father and son lived, son was a fool; sends his father to the city to buy foil; father sowed peas; went, put the film; cranes got into the habit of flying on peas; the son caught one, wants to beat; the crane asks not to beat and gives a tablecloth to the sewn brana; the tablecloth was sewn on request, turned around and everything appeared; the fool let the crane go; I went with a tablecloth to my aunt for the night; tells me not to say: tablecloth, turn around; aunt changed the tablecloth; the son comes a fool to his father, tells me to call the merchants; the tablecloth does not turn around: the fool caught again a crane, he gave a horse; if the horse is told to stomp with one foot, copper money will fall; the other will fall in silver, the third is gold, the fourth is precious stones; the fool let the crane go; he went to the aunt, she changed the horse; the fool again to the crane; he says that it is the aunt who is lying; gave a bag; the fool said: two from the bag, three from the bag, come out; good fellows with whips came out of the bag; went to Aunt, tells her not to say these words; she goes to take a steam bath; the aunt said "two from the bag, three from the bag"; good fellows whip her, she returned the tablecloth and the horse; the fool comes home; tells her father to call merchants, gentlemen, rich men; father called everyone; the fool shows a tablecloth, a horse and a bag; good fellows came out of the bag, began to whip the guests]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 9:76-77; Russians (Tambovskaya obl.) [An unclean spirit stole Anastasia the Beautiful from Tsar Pea; three sons go in search; the youngest Ivan sees how three spoonbills became maidens, began to swim; I. hid the sash as the most beautiful; she answers that his mother was kidnapped by her father Raven Voronovich; tells him to follow a bird with a golden tuft; I. goes with her brothers, they bring him down to the lower world; 33 spoonbill girls in copper, silver, gold kingdoms are sent I. to go for a ball; the princess of gold gives a ball to go to the pearl kingdom, where mother I.; orders to rearrange vats with strong and low-power water there; I. enough BB, makes him give him a feather road; princesses and mother I. they twisted the four kingdoms into balls, the I. brothers pulled them all out, cut off the rope, lifting I.; 12 fellows carried him to the ground; I.'s father executed his wife, wants to marry the princess of the golden kingdom; she demands to sew boots, then a dress without measure; I. does everything, hiring artisans and revealing hidden kingdoms; the princess tells I. to cook in milk, he becomes handsome; his father jumped, cooked; I. marries, reigns]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 130:239-243; Russians (Voronezh Region) [the mouse quarreled with V No. 224:197-204. To rip out her eyes, the cat tells her to wait every time for him to eat bread, drink milk, etc., stealing grain from the barn, the animals began to fight with birds; wounded The eagle asks the merchant three times not to kill him, but to care for him; three years later, he carries him on his back; throws him three times over the sea and catches him so that the merchant feels like he, the Eagle, was afraid of being shot by him; sisters An eagle in the copper and silver kingdoms refuses to give the merchant a casket, a sister in the golden kingdom gives it; the eagle orders not to open it along the way, the merchant opens it, a palace and servants appear from it ; Unbaptized Forehead collects everything in a casket for promising to give that he does not know at home; the merchant is met by his wife with his newborn son; Ivan grows up, goes to NL; Baba Yaga advises to hide the wings of a colorful cabbage roll, when three cabbage rolls arrive for a swim; this is Vasilisa Premudraya, NL's favorite daughter; his cook Chumichka lies as if Ivan promised 1) to cut down the forest in a day, harvest, bake pies out of flour; 2) make flying ship; VP does everything, Chumichka is thrown off the ship; 3) NL tells him to go around the stallion; this is NL himself, Ivan hits him with a hammer; 4) choose a bride among three mares, three cabbage rolls, three girls (VP has a a dull glitter to the bridle; waves its wing; a handkerchief); after the wedding, the young run, the VP turns Ivan into a vegetable garden, himself into a head of cabbage; a well and a falcon; when NL himself is chasing, VP throws a brush (forest), a comb ( mountain), towel (sea); Ivan is the first to come home, kisses his godmother, forgets VP; she is hired as a worker, Ivan is ready to marry; VP comes to the wedding with a pie, a dove with a dove comes out of him, the dove says that the dove will forget her, as Ivan forgot the VP; Ivan recalls]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 224:197-204.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Terek Cossacks (art. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar's eldest daughter asks to let her go to the "unhappy" garden; there a storm rises and takes her away; the same with her middle daughter; when the youngest began to ask, she was chained to bed, covered with iron canopy and left in the garden in a room with 12 iron doors; a 12-headed serpent arrives, takes the girl along with the bed; Ivan Tsarevich calls to find the kidnapped, takes three generals as assistants; sees how 12-, 9- and 6-headed snakes fly out of the passage to the underworld one by one; I. tells the generals to lower him on a rope into the underworld and wait above; comes to a city where all tailors; those they give I. a ball of thread and tell him to throw it in front of him; the ball leads to the palace; the princess says that her husband is a 6-headed serpent; hides I. in the room, in it a tub with strong and a tub with powerless water; I. tries both; changes tubs in places; takes a kladenets sword from the royal daughter, hides; a 6-headed serpent who has arrived drinks powerless water instead of strong water and falls asleep; I. cuts off his heads; princess gives I. a ball of thread; he rolls to the palace in which her sister; I. drinks strong water, moves the tubs of water, kills the 9-headed snake; the princess gives a ball of thread; warns that the younger sister's husband - 12-headed serpent, he shackled his 12-headed father in the basement; with the help of a ball of thread, I. finds a crystal palace; meets the princess there, drinks strong water, changes the tubs; a snake that has arrived falls asleep; I. cuts off his 9 heads; the serpent growls, his father hears, breaks 6 chains; I. princess: "Run to your father-in-law soon; if he asks what this noise is, you say that a strong storm has risen, turned it around the root is a large oak tree that stood by the window: this oak hit the palace and broke all the windows; yes, take an iron pitchfork, hot; when my father-in-law says: "Raise my eyelids with a pitchfork, I'll see what is being done," you and if I come to help you with a pitchfork; the princess runs to the basement; I. cuts off the remaining 3 heads of the snake; the princess says to her father-in-law what was commanded; father-in-law: "Take a pitchfork, and raise my eyelids - I'll see what is being done"; the princess stabs his eyes with a hot pitchfork; I. comes running and killing him; regrets not seeing such a palace on earth; the princess gives him a silk shawl saying: "Wave them - I give you this one palace"; I. waves his handkerchief, a golden egg appears in his hand; with the help of a ball of thread, I. returns with the princess to her sister; she also gives him a silk shawl; I. waves at them, receives a silver egg; throws a ball of thread in front of him, goes with both princesses to their older sister; waves her handkerchief, receives a copper egg; when he reaches the aisle, I. alternately ties the sisters to the generals raise them to the rope; saying goodbye to the third princess, I. takes off her personalized ring; I. ties a stone to the rope; the generals lift it to the middle and let it go; they tell the king that it is them saved his daughters; the younger princess refuses to marry the general and tells the truth; the king does not believe it, but postpones the wedding; I. wanders; climbs into a huge nest in a tree during the rain ; there are three chicks; I. covers them with his last hollow and warms them; the chicks tell the vulture bird about their savior; she offers I. help, tells them to prepare 12 barrels of game and 12 barrels of water; during the flight, I. feeds and wateres her: "When the bird looks to the right, he will splash water on it; if he looks to the left, he will throw a piece of meat"; there is not enough meat for the whole journey; I. cuts off meat from both calves, feeds the vulture bird; she flies into the light, falls to the ground; asks I. what kind of delicious meat was the last time: when he finds out, he expectorates both calves and puts them at I.'s feet; he heals, goes to the king; the younger princess finds out I. on a ring on his hand; the king orders the generals to be tied to horse tails and let them go across the field, the youngest daughter marries I.; I. waves silk scarves; three palaces appear; one of them I. gives the eldest princess, the other is middle, lives with his wife in the third]: Butova 1889, No. 3:128-141; Lezgins (western 1935) B. Nabiev) [Shah-Abbas (SHA) overheard the conversation of three sisters; the eldest wants to marry SHA, the middle wants to marry his Nazir, the youngest wants the king to be her slave; the SHA marries the eldest, the middle one gives Nazir and tells him to kill the youngest; he let her go; she found three mounds, one silver coins, the other gold coins, the third copper; disguised as a man, she began to live with an old woman whose son a brushwood seller; gave her money to buy a plot of land on which mounds; built a palace; he was visited by the SHA, she took the guests to the bathhouse, the SHA carried a basin of linen behind her; the SHA opened, who apologized; Nazir advised him to run, SHA and his men were captured, but the girl forgave him; married the old woman's son; advised him to learn a craft, he became a carpet weaver; while hunting, her husband got lost, his they brought him to the house and threw him into a hole; the robbers agreed not to kill him when he promised them to weave expensive carpets; asked them to sell a carpet in such a city, weaved a message on it; the wife found out, read it, forced those who came to tell us everything, sent an army; her husband was released, the robbers were beaten to death]: Khalilov 1965, No. 88:270-279; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894a, No. 2 (Imereti) [the hunter sees the wounded nine-headed eagle, who asks him not to shoot, to heal him; brings him for a reward to his sisters, they are married to the kings of the white, red, blue seas; the older two refuse to give the box, the youngest gives; the eagle warns not to open it on the way; the man opens, the city appears from the box; the eagle in anger tells you to collect everything back, for this is his land; agrees to lay it down for the promise give what he did not leave at home; the man has a son at home; he grows up, goes to look for Eagle; the old man says that three eagles with copper, silver, gold feathers will come to swim, tells hide the gold ones; the young man returns for his promise to marry him; wearing feathers, the eagle carries him to his father; the 9-headed Eagle orders to build 1) a church, 2) a garden, 3) a bridge, the bride creates everything; 4) identify in which of three eggs are the bride; she says that the egg will move; the Eagle is still going to kill the young; they flee to the kingdom of the young man's father, everything is fine]: 8-19; Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 34 (record area not specified) [princess kidnapped; a mighty forest man saw two devas fighting, killed both, the princess stayed with him; when she became pregnant, a forest man sent her to her father, giving a ring for her son to be born; a boy they called Christagan; he became a tariel hero; out of mischief, he pierced the old woman's jug with an arrow; she scolded: he put on a ring, but the former Tariels did not have rings in mind; H. tells his mother to talk about her father; unrecognized, fighting a forest man; he killed him, and then found his ring in his pocket; wept; God had mercy, sent a dove to put a handkerchief over H.'s face, he came to life; the forest man sent X. to become Tariel Beltagan's friend; they fraternized, killed giants in the fortress, freed the princess; H. gave her to Beltagan; she gave X. vestments in three types: gold, silver, copper; H. B. left daggers: if he fails, he is in trouble; H. changed clothes with the shepherd; hired first as a groom, then as a cook, then as a gardener; now his name is Kochora; the youngest of the three princesses noticed that he was a hero; at a feast she gave him an apple; the king placed them in a stable; the king fell ill, he would be cured by the insides of a wild boar; K. killed a wild boar on a heroic horse in silver attire; gave it to the elder son-in-law, for this he ripped off his little finger; the king is worse; he needs deer milk; K. in a golden dress cut off his middle son-in-law's ear; smashes the enemy, the king bandaged his finger with his handkerchief; everything is clear; wife K. swam in the sea, her hair swam away; the prince of the overseas kingdom picked him up, sent him to K. an old woman; she persuaded K.'s wife to ask her husband what his soul was; in the thick hair on his head; the old woman pulled him out, threw him into sea; B. realized that H. was in trouble, he found hair, put H. on his head; the old woman was tied to the horse's tail; there was even bird's milk at the wedding]: 98-114; Chikovani 1954, No. 1 [the wife of a childless blacksmith caught from rivers three apples, ate with her husband, gave birth to three sons; each flies to heaven after baptism; their names are Evening, Midnight, Dawn {in the text: Ivan Evening, -Midnight, -Zarya}; the king has lost three daughters; grandmother The blacksmith's wife says that only his three sons could find them; the brothers stay with their mother for the night and see each other for the first time; only Dawn saw a deva taking the girls away; Dawn met Iron giant (Iron man); but even he could not climb the mountain where the devil; Dawn climbed himself; consistently drives him into the ground, defeats 7-, 9-, 12-headed devas, held in copper, silver, gold the house of three sisters; the youngest Dawn takes for herself, the elders for the brothers; Dawn lowered the girls down the mountain, after which Iron broke the chain and took them away; the bride had time to shout where the deva's horse was hidden; on it Dawn rode home; hired a blacksmith; my younger sister does not have a ring, she gave it to Dawn; during weddings, Dawn beats brothers, drives Iron into the ground; marries a younger princess]: 15-21; Armenians [The dervish promises the childless king two sons on the condition that he gives him one; after 10 years he takes his youngest son; to overcome the sea, the dervish turns into a monster and steps across the sea; tigers they tell the boy to push the dervish into the oven himself, he burned down, the boy let the tigers go; they show springs with golden, silver, pearl water; to hide his new appearance (golden hair), the prince pulled a bubble over his head; white, black, red horses will come to him on demand; the king was attacked by enemies, the unrecognized prince smashes them three times, each time on a different horse, the king He bandaged his hand with his handkerchief; the king's milk will be cured; the young man gives it to the royal people for permission to label him; this is the milk of ordinary tigers, and the young man brings the milk of the queen of tigers, shows his marks on the bodies of the nobles; they are severely punished; the tsar recognized his handkerchief and found his son again]: Epiphany 1892b, No. 8:99-107.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [a tiny boy Yarty Gulak ("half an ear" (camel) hides under a camel's ear; people think it's a camel talking; Khan demands his doctor and stargazer to show He had a miracle; he brought a talking camel; both he and the camel were covered in mud, but the stargazer boldly passed the copper gate, then the silver gate, then the golden gate and came to the garden where the khan was; I. hears how the vizier offers the khan to block the river and divert all the water to the khan's fields, depriving the dehkan of water; Y. gives a voice on behalf of the camel; tells the khan that he is a great sage who built a bridge from the ground to heaven, but quarreled with Peri and she turned him into a camel; advises not to build a dam on your lands, it should be built high in the mountains and then the khan will take possession of all the water in the world; vizier: who will go up to mountain peaks? camel: I, who has already built a gazebo of fire tongues for devils and a birdbone palace for good genies; asks for rice and butter and wait to return in 33 years and 33 days; he will return to Friday after the heavy rain; the khan did not wait for the camel]: Alexandrova, Tuberovsky 1963:147-154; Uzbeks [the Shah orders to expel the elderly into the desert; the young man accompanies his father; weight on the stone, that thinks: what the Shah will say when his own son brings him to this stone; the young man returned and hid his father; during a drought, his father teaches him how to find water (birds hammer a stone, and water under it); a young man He asks for permission for the elderly to live in villages as a reward; the shah did not know what to answer; people brought water; the shah began to drink from gold, silver, copper vessels, burst; the young man and his father made advisers to the new Shah, who was always followed by three water vessels: copper, silver, gold]: Rogov 1980:278-281.

Baltoscandia. Latvians: Aris 1971 [three owners drive the shepherdess away without paying; the fourth leaves for three days, telling them to burn the fire under the boilers, not to look into the well; those three owners are in the boilers; the shepherd put his hand in the well, his finger was covered with blood, it could not be wiped off; the owner beats the shepherd who violated the ban, next time he did not tell him to enter the room; there is a horse, oats behind him, candles in front of him, a young man gives oats to the horse, he tells him to run, take a comb, a handkerchief, a bottle; they turn into a forest, into rocks, into a sea; hell stops chasing; the horse tells you to call silver, gold, if necessary, diamond, black horses; a young man is hired by a water truck to the king; consistently calls horses, goes to smash enemies; the servant claims that he saved the kingdom; the king discovers a fragment of his spears in the leg of a water carrier; the water carrier marries a princess, the servant is tied to the tail of a black horse; the horse tells him to cut off his head, turns into a prince bewitched by the devil]: 167-175; Grishina 1993 [dying, the father tells his three sons to take turns guarding his grave for three nights; the older brothers are afraid, the youngest is a fool three times; receives silver, gold, diamond pipes from his father to call the same ones ( silver, etc.) horses with the same sets of clothing; in addition to the diamond pipe, a diamond apple; the king will give his daughter to someone who drives her on a glass mountain; the fool in his new form rises to a third, to half, up to the top of the mountain, throws a diamond apple to the princess, she puts a silver star on his forehead; brothers tell the youngest about an extraordinary rider; the king seeks him; the messenger rips off his forehead towel, the young man is taken to the palace; wedding]: 271-276; Niedre 1952:92-103 [the elderly couple had a hairy son, Jan Bear; he asks his father three times to forge an iron staff for him; each time throws it into the sky; takes one that is hardly bent, picked up when falling with his finger; meets, takes as companions a digging mountain (Kalnuratseis) and fishing with a rod - a mast tree; stopped in an empty castle; they cook one by one, every time the old woman beats the cook, takes food; when it's my turn, an old man comes up, MIA drove his beard into a block, hit the old woman with a staff; three nights he guards bloody river; kills a three- and six-headed man on a silver, golden horse; when fighting a 12-headed diamond horse, help is needed; the companions are sleeping, I woke them up by throwing his staff into the castle; to this while the water left in the vessel turned red (a sign of danger); killed a 12-headed man; rolled back the stone, tells him to lower it into the abyss; there that old man, I killed him; in silver, gold, diamond there are three girls in the cities, sewing clothes out of silver, gold, diamonds; each collects her city in an egg; the companions raised everyone; I came back behind the hat; the companions began to raise, decided what the hell, let go of the rope; MYA fell, breaking through three worlds; in the fourth thunderstorm, he covered the eagles; the eagle promises to raise them to the ground - let ME kill the monster and feed it with meat in flight; at first there was not enough meat, returned; the second time they almost flew, Mya cut the last piece of her leg out of her calf; I married a girl from Diamond City, my companions to the other two, each living in their own city out of an egg], 116-146 [ the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets by the mare; each gives birth to a son, the mare's son is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed on the bridge there is a three-headed giant, on the second night a six-headed giant; on the third night he is nine-headed, his heads grow, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see what is in the bucket water became blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife become a bed , the second with a spring, the third with a cannibal snake; K. does not allow him to lie down, get drunk, cuts a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line in the door there, he gave a pipe (10 will come out dwarfs to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, there was a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers were afraid, K. went down, cut off the line; silver, gold, diamond castles of the princess; gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give K. K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with hail; K. killed the ogre, poted the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. reveals eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9th head must be killed; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged for K. the horse to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell with the worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from the back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (then same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother of the devil, K. threatens to cut her belts with sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings behind his shirt, but the hell ate his pound, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends that ripped open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) hell leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, his younger brother; the devil can't catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree ; killed the devil's children; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream in his place for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and his mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the devil drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured out bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but died himself], 156-159 [during the day the princess wears out her dress; the servant watches, jumped on the back of the carriage in which the devils took the princess; they go through the silver one, golden, diamond forest, across the river like on ice, to the castle; hears the devil answering the princess that his strength is in the egg in the hallway; the servant took an egg; on the way back three forests came after the carriage; servant He broke the egg, the devils lost their strength; but the king did not give his daughter to the servant; he found apples that make horns grow and disappear; gave it to the king and the princess; removed the horns for promising to give him the princess; wedding]; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 47 [when Elanele's stepdaughter, stepmother, took her clothes and locked the door from the outside; hell came and offered to dance; she asked for clothes and jewelry, one at a time to the object at a time, then build a palace - three houses with roofs made of silver, gold, diamonds; the rooster sings, the devil leaves E.; the stepmother leaves her own daughter Mara in the bathhouse; she asks for all the clothes right away; hell began to dance with her, bore against glass], 120 [the queen takes three knots of dresses in the evening, and returns in the morning in one dress; king: whoever follows and gets the hair from under her daughter's arm, that I'll marry her; the poor man has a plane saddle and an invisible hat; he flies through a diamond, gold, silver forest; dancing, the queen changes her dresses; the poor man stole a diamond plate and fork; broke off along a branch in silver, gold, diamond forests; when he returned, the poor man showed evidence; agreed not to take the queen, but to receive a ransom], 121 [the king's daughter wears 12 pairs of shoes overnight; Jonas sees two fighting over speeding boots, an invisibility cloak and a glass over which to cross the water; offers to race, carries objects; follows the lady twice into the hole to silver; to the golden forest, broke off the branches, the lady had to return; the third time through the glass through the waters; the lady explains the line that two nights prevented her; J. stole the dresses brought by the devil: the star dress must be worn before the wedding, the sun dress during the wedding, the moon dress after; in the morning he presented evidence, received an award; once Mr. asked Y. to play at the wedding; panychi dance, they run their fingers along the wall and smear his eyes; J. also anointed: he is on a stump, around the devil, the girl is hanged from the willow; he came to live with Mr.]: 109-111, 295-298, 298-300; Livs [after the death of his father, two brothers they share the inheritance, the youngest fool is sent to herd pigs; the king puts his daughter in a glass tower, promises to give whoever gallops the tower to the top half the kingdom to boot; every brother must spend the night at the father's grave; the elders are afraid, send the younger one instead; every time the father gets up from the grave, whistles into the pipe, comes running a horse (gold, then silver, diamond) father gives a pipe to his youngest son; he hides everything from his brothers; on a golden horse he rises to half; at home, older brothers tell their wives that they are afraid of tickling; younger: you were the one who was maimed when you fell from glass slope, I saw this from the roof of the house; brothers burn the house, live in a barn; the same with a silver horse (they burn the barn, live in a bathhouse); on a diamond horse, the youngest went to the top, received a ring, a handkerchief and princess kiss; brothers burned down the bathhouse, live in a pigsty; they call men, a fool's ring, the king settles the young in a separate city; the king's son is fighting, an imaginary fool with him, is not recognized; wounded, the king bandaged the wound with a handkerchief, recognized the handkerchief, returns her daughter and husband to him, recognizes the smartest]: Setälä in Kippar 2002:61-65; Nierde 1952 [=Alksnite et al. 1958:227-250; a very similar option in Grishina 1993:129- 161; the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets by the mare; each gives birth to a son, the mare's son is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night, K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, a six-headed giant on the second night; on the third night he was nine-headed, his heads grow, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see what's in the bucket became blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife become with a bed, the second with a spring, the third with a cannibal snake; K. does not allow him to lie down, get drunk, cuts a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line in the door there, he gave a pipe ( 10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, told the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers were afraid, K. went down, cut off the line; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak instead of her; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give K. ; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with a hail ; K. killed the ogre, poted the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. reveals eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9th head must be killed; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged for K. the horse to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell with the worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from the back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (then same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother of the devil, K. threatens to cut her belts with sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings behind his shirt, but the hell ate his pound, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends that ripped open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) hell leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, his younger brother; the devil can't catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree ; killed the devil's children; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream in his place for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and his mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the devil drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured out bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but died himself]: 116-146; Lutsie (4 records, 1 from Russian and 1 from a latgalka) [the straw king took the guy as a blacksmith, was happy with him, ordered him to marry, went to war; the queen and wife of the blacksmith are giving birth; the blacksmith's mare gave birth to a foal; the blacksmith and his wife went to visit the queen, the foal followed; the blacksmith: the cart gave birth to the foal; the blacksmith: no, the mare; the queen: for whom Does the foal go - for the cart or for the mare? blacksmith's wife: behind the cart; {it is clear that the queen took her side}; the Queen's unborn son: he's judging in a damn way, a mare gave birth to a foal; the queen hated her son and, when he was born, told kill him to the cook, cook his heart and let her eat; the cook killed the puppy; the queen: the dog smells like a dog; the old woman advises leaving the baby in a pile of straw in the field; from the king a letter: who was born? the queen tells the blacksmith to give her his son, otherwise he will kill; offers any price; cook: ask for a bunch of straw; the blacksmith found a boy in the straw; he grows by the minute; came to the shepherds, stamped his foot, everything animals jump; tells frogs to be silent - they are silent; says he will become straw king; on the third day he tells all trees and bushes to bow to themselves; the king begins to guess that the blacksmith has - his son, and he has a blacksmith's son; tells the blacksmith to come without eating or on an empty stomach; son: make a chatter out of oatmeal and take three sips; king: who taught? no one; king: then arrive not on foot, on horseback, not on the road, not on the side of the road; son: sit on a goat, go where the railroad rails are; same; come naked or naked; son: wrap yourself in a net; then But; king: since no one taught me, let your son come to me tomorrow; but he ran away; the king told me to send a golden carriage and ask everyone how much it costs; on the road there is a boy: in good times, unthinkable much, but nothing for bad; the servants said, king: this was my son; the straw king went to return his fleeing wife; {apparently she is another king's mistress}; she wants to hang him on copper gallows; king: I don't even hang dogs; he was put in a chest, his wife sat on the chest; then they began to hang him on the silver gallows (same); on the gold one; he asks for a pipe to play; he began to play, his army appeared, everyone was beaten, his wife was brought, tied to the horse's tail, the horse scattered her]: Annom et al. 2018:63-69; Lutsie (West 1893) [the family has two sons and daughter; mustababa (must - "black", est.) took the girl; brothers went in search; shepherds: if you can kill all the sheep at once, free your sister; brothers: it takes a week to slaughter everyone; the same with cow shepherds ; horses; they say that their sister is married to Big Yuda; they came to their sister, the BU hung them from a tree; the sister put a block under her feet; the mother cried, peas grew out of tears, and there was only a pea in the pod; she ate it, gave birth to it nine months later; the boy is a strongman, grew up quickly; asks if there were siblings; ordered a five-pound iron club from the blacksmith, threw it up, a day later she fell, he put his finger up, the club split; the 10-pound club bent; the 15-pound club remained intact, suitable; killed all the sheep; cows; horses at once; horse shepherds order to make an iron hand, heat it, put the BU in the face; Pea ate, drank more than BU; drove BU three times into the ground, on copper, silver, gold fields; BU drove him to the waist, and he killed him up to the throat; put BU's palaces and treasures in a ball, put him in his pocket; freed him captured girl, married; began to live again, they still live]: Annom et al. 2018:101-105; Lutsie (West 1893) [when dying, the father tells each of his three sons to guard his grave for three nights so that the grass no one ate on it; the stems of the grass are copper, silver and gold; the eldest fell asleep before dawn; a horse with golden harness and a golden saddle rode, ate everything; the next night the grass grew up again, the same on the second night (a horse with silver harness and a saddle); on the third (with copper ones); the same with her middle brother; the youngest is a loafer, sitting on ash, nicknamed Cinderella, woke up before dawn, brought the golden horse to his stall; then a silver horse; a copper horse; in the village, a wedding, the elder brother went on a goat, the middle brother rode on a hog; the youngest is told by a golden horse enter his left ear, go out of the right ear, Cinderella became handsome; he galloped past his brothers: the goat into the ditch, the hog into the puddle, the way to the master; the bride brings beer, he grabbed her and carried her, left her in the stable with a golden horse, he sits in the house again on ash; a week later, a wedding in another village; all the same (silver horse); next time he sits on a copper horse; in his stable, he told his older brother to go through his ears a copper horse, a silver horse, gave them two brides, took the first one for himself]: Annom et al. 2018:247-254; Estonians: M.E. Eisen in Põder, Tanner 2000 [the king's horses disappear one by one; the older, middle brothers fall asleep, the youngest injures a polar bear that has come out of the ground; tells him to let him go to a hole for the bear, he receives copper, silver, golden eggs from three stolen bears princess; wakes up a sleeping wounded bear, kills him; brothers take girls and treasures upstairs, his younger brother does not let the rope down; he kills a snake fighting an eagle; he agrees to carry the young man goes upstairs, asks to feed the bull meat on the way; the young man cuts off his legs from his calf, he is the most delicious; he is hired by a shoemaker; the brothers said that the youngest is dead, they marry the princesses; they hope that the young man will return, tell the grooms to bring the shoes they had in the lower world; the young man pulls out copper egg shoes, sends a shoemaker with them to the king; the same is clothes made of a silver egg; locks are from golden; a young man marries a younger princess, brothers marries elders, reigns]: 36-46 (=Raud 2004:190-196; transferred to Yakubinskaya, Turkina 1965:195-204); Järv et al. 2009, No. 6 (Viljandi) [the tsar is gone to war, ordered three daughters not to be released from the house, they asked the maid to release, disappeared; the king promises them to be married to those who would return them; a soldier, an officer, a general go; they cook in a house in the forest in turn; a dwarf with he eats up with a long beard, beats the cook; when it is the soldier's turn, he hits the dwarf with a copper, silver, gold bar, makes him lift the stone under which the hole into the lower world; only the soldier descends , kills one-, two-, three-headed serpent who guard three princesses; sends the princesses upstairs, receiving her dress from each of them; puts a stone instead, the general and officer let go of the rope; soldier He finds copper, silver, gold whistles, servants, horses appear, take the soldier to the ground; he hires a tailor, pretends to sew wedding dresses for princesses; they recognize their dresses; a soldier asks a general, an officer, how to punish someone who lowered another into a hole, who took another woman from another; bring them down the mountain in a barrel of nails, tie them to eight bulls; they are executed respectively; a soldier marries a younger princess, others were presented as queens]: 54-57; Estonians (Sangaste) [a person earns money by going to the forest and making brooms; well-dressed gentleman offers him a trough of copper money if he gives his eldest daughter; he refuses, but the daughter disappears, and a trough with money appears; the same with the middle (silver), with the eldest (gold) daughter; for spouses a son was born; grew up looking for sisters; two are fighting over bast shoes (they will deliver it to the right place), invisible hats and sticks (whoever you hit will disappear); the guy asks to give him a try, touched those with a stick two, ordered to take himself to her older sister; her husband, a bear, gave fur to call him; (her house, apparently, is copper); the same with her middle sister (the eagle gave feathers, silver house), younger (pike, scales, gold); the guy came to hell (vanapagan), demanded the keys to the dungeon; he says that the keys are in the barn; in front of them there is an evil bull, a horse; the guy called a bear, the bear tore them apart; a pigeon flew out of the stallion (the eagle tore it), the keys fell into the sea (the pike took out the pike); the guy released the prisoners, burned the IOU, touched the line with a stick; the sisters' son-in-law were human appearance; they all still live if they don't die]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 78:241-245; setu: Sandra 2004:192-202 [the princess disappears every night unknown where and stumbles 7 pairs of shoes; the king promises to give it for someone who solves the mystery; when he dies, a rich man bequeathed money to his eldest son, an average hat that allows you to see everything {obviously without being noticed}, the youngest the last moment gave his speedboat boots; the middle son is dissatisfied with what he received; the youngest puts on his hat and boots, comes to town, is hired by the king as a soldier, promises to solve the mystery; the young man sees a sleigh without a horse comes as a princess, takes him to the king who lives at the bottom of the sea, the young man barely has time to catch up with the sleigh; they rush through the copper, silver, golden forest, the young man breaks off every time a branch; in the palace, the princess is fed and watered, then she dances in a room where the floor is covered with sharp carnations; the young man picks up the shoes trampled and discarded by the princess; when the last pair is trampled, the princess dances barefoot, hurts her legs; before leaving, the young man picks up a golden plate with the name of the sea king on it; in the morning he tells everything to the king, showing evidence (branches and a plate); receives princess], 252-256 [the youngest of three sons is a lazy man and a fool, nicknamed Viruskundras; the father tells him to guard the grave for three nights after his death; a flower grows on her every night; the eldest the son does not guard, he comes in the morning, the flower has already been eaten; the middle one is also asleep, there is no flower; the youngest smokes a pipe, grabs a copper horse, gets a bridle to call the horse when necessary; then two more nights, Z. received a bridle from silver and gold horses; tells his brothers that every time he slept, knows nothing; the king will give his daughter whoever gets to her on horseback; she is in a glass tower on a glass mountain; unrecognized Z. tries three times; the copper horse has reached half, the silver horse is almost to the end, the gold horse has reached the princess, she gave her ring; the king tells all men to be called; Z. comes tied finger; princess tells me to untie, sees his ring, Z. shows horses; wedding; daughter was born; after the death of the old king Z. inherited the kingdom; put his wife on a golden horse, daughter on a copper horse, himself sat on silver, they flew to heaven], 257-261 [the king's three daughters reject the suitors; one did not like the long-nosed prince, she said she would rather go beyond the line; the devil took them to the lower world; the king promises a reward to whoever returns them; a soldier enters a cave, comes to the lower world; in a copper, silver, golden city, he consistently sees three kidnapped, each time he kills a local the devil, driving him into the ground; every time he gains strength, thanks to the princess, who gives him a drink of strong water, and the devil drinks weak water; each princess turns her city into a handkerchief, soldier takes them to the ground, receives a cauldron of gold and the rank of general], 270-275 [a man walked with a bear, he danced; in the house where he spent the night, the bear became pregnant with a girl; she gave birth to a son with bear ears; he incredibly strong; he was nicknamed Ivvan the Bear; he took three companions, went on a journey; they made a living as woodcutters; each one takes turns cooking, a dwarf with a big beard comes, eats up the cook; when IM remains, he hits a dwarf, lets go, he hides in a hole; IM goes down there on a rope; consistently meets three kidnapped princesses, one spins copper, the other silver, the youngest gold; on the way to each two lions, IM kills them by hitting each other; each replaces bottles of strong and weak water; the devil kidnapper drinks weak, IM kills all three, driving them into the ground; sends the princesses upstairs, the youngest gives him a ring, it splits in half, the princess and IM take half; the companions did not lower the rope to pick them up; he comes to the pine tree on a hill, from under the pine tree devils climb like mice, they kill them all, cut off their tongues; there is an eagle's nest on a pine tree, they feed them with damn tongues, they are incredibly tasty; when a giant eagle arrives, eagles do not want what it brings horse, they say that food was better; the grateful eagle agrees to take THEM to the ground; he throws her cooked food when flying across the sea, it is not enough, he cuts his meat off his calves; almost a year lies down while she can walk again; comes to the king when the younger princess must marry an imaginary savior; she recognizes half of the ring; the deceiver was left in a barrel in the forest, the wolf lowered into it tail, the deceiver got out, was happy to be alive; after the death of the king, IM inherited the throne]; the Finns [the king has three sons, the eldest is a fool; the king (the other), the general and the courtier lost daughters, the king sent his sons to look for them; the fool has 7 pounds of sword; they reached the cliff, it failed, the brothers lowered the elder there; he came to the copper palace, in which one of the missing girls; her husband has 7 heads and 10 horns; he came and offered to drink; the young man poured it out unnoticed, and the 7-chief drank, fell asleep, the young man cut off his heads; the palace turned into an egg, the young man put it in his pocket and they came to the silver the palace, where the general's daughter; the same (the monster has 8 heads); the same in the golden palace (10 heads and 15 horns); the brothers picked up the girls; the young man put a stone in the basket instead of himself, the brothers cut off the rope; in the nest naked eagles, he covered them with a cloak, they fell asleep; for this, the eagle carried him to the ground; he dressed as a musician to play at the wedding of the general's daughter {should have been: princess}; she recognized him, brothers father ordered to hang, the eldest married Genetal's daughter]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 28:81-84; Finns: Konkka 1993 [the father has been plowing the field near the shore for 10 years, but each time the storm destroys the crop; attempts the older and middle brothers are just as unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees swans descending from the cloud, turning into girls, dancing, trampling the field; the soldier hid the swan robe of one girl, to her he had to marry him; she explained that the witch had turned her and her sisters into swans, and only the grass that grew in this field could break the spell, so they trampled on the crops; the king found out that the soldier had beautiful wife; tells you to bring all creatures in pairs to tomorrow; wife tells you to wave a handkerchief - the animals have appeared; all the birds are the same; get the lost keys; wife: they are behind the altar in the church, we must take it and run without looking back; the soldier looked around, immediately fell from his horse to the rock and lost consciousness; the horse brought the keys to his wife, who gave it to the king; to avoid his harassment, the wife told her husband's parents that You should look for her across the black and white seas in a copper castle at the bottom of the Red Sea; put on swan plumage and flew away; when the soldier woke up, he saw three dead fighting over an invisible hat, leaps and bounds of boots and a self-cut sword; tells them to give him curiosities and go to the graves themselves; went east; stayed in a pagan house, where he did not get baptized; the owner showed three barns with copper and silver, gold coins; the soldier took the gold; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; the soldier told her to stop; in the hut an old woman, a nose three cubits; she agreed to transport her across the Black Sea on condition that he would then cut off the soldier's hand; when he reached the other side, the soldier put on an invisible hat and fled; there was another hut on a chicken leg, the hostess moves the coals in the oven with her nose; the same (transports across the White Sea); the third hut is spinning and does not want to stop; the soldier threw a merezha under the crane's feet, the hut stopped; the old woman collects birds, then fish; only the whale knows about the copper castle, its tail is entangled in the teeth of the wall; the whale brought the soldier to the castle; the soldier cut the chains, the castle surfaced; the soldier threw a ring into his wife's bowl; she brought him to his house on her swan wings; the king sent army, but the soldier sent a samob sword, the king and his army fell into the ground]: 17-28; Salmelainen 1947 [the young man is going to shoot the capercaillie, he asks not to do so; so three times; the young man agrees take the capercaillie home and feed it for a year; the capercaillie grew a copper feather on its tail and when it fell out, he flew away; in the evening he returned, asked for another year to feed; a silver feather grew; after the third year, a golden feather; the capercaillie ordered to sit on it; they fly across the sea, the capercaillie throws off three times and picks up the young man so that he would experience the same fear that the capercaillie felt when he was aimed at; they fly into the copper the castle of the younger sister of the capercaillie; he tells her to ask her for a chest without a key, but she did not give it; the middle sister in the silver castle had the same; the eldest in the gold castle gave; on the way back, the capercaillie was tired and left a young man on the mountain; he did not want to carry the chest, he abandoned it and a palace, household, people, etc. appeared; the old man promises to put everything back if the young man promises to give him what was born in his house; the young man knows that his wife was not expecting a child and promised; the old man allowed him to leave the baby for a year, told him to give his name Krummdreher; in a year the boy grew up, became a young man, went to the old man; between the sea and Oak lake, he climbed on it, saw girls coming on the ship; they began swimming, he hid the clothes of one of them; gave it for a promise to become a wife and help; this is the daughter of an old man; she gives her handkerchief, he makes him invisible and offers any food; before entering the castle, you have to pull an iron stake out of the ground with a ring at the end; the young man pulled it out easily; the young man knocked on the lock door with them, the old man left, but no one did not see, and an invisible young man entered the bride's castle; the old man tells 1) to create a castle neither on earth nor in the sky; 2) cultivate the field in one night, harvest and bake bread; 3) bring three from across the sea iron-billed capercaillies; bride: bribe 7 out of 9 horses, and we can ride away on two; the old man chases; the girl waved her handkerchief, a mountain arose, the old man ran after the ax; cut through; the girl turned horses to the church and bell tower, themselves to be a priest, a young man to a clerk; they replied to the old man that the fugitives were already across the river; he was chasing again, but the girl created the river with a handkerchief; the old man stopped persecuting; everything good]: 19-25; Schreck 1887, No. 16 (Satakunta) [predictors tell the king not to let three daughters out of the house until they are 20; when the youngest is 15, the king lets his daughters and servants go into the grove, there is a rumble and the girls disappear; those who go in search do not want to take the young groom, come back with nothing; the groom meets the old man, asks for help to pull the axe out of the stump, the old man sticks his finger, the guy takes out his ax, his finger is pinched, the guy promises to release the old man if he says where the kidnapped princess is; the old man: they are at the mountain kobold; the youngest in an iron underground cell with an iron a crown and an iron ring; others in a silver, gold chamber, with silver, gold crowns and a ring; the guy freed the old man; he gave a rope, a sword, a flask of living water and a pipe; if start playing with her, the old man will come to the rescue; the king allowed the guy to go after the princesses; the guy called the old man, who drove him to the iron door in the mountains, told him to hit her with a sword, the door fell apart, behind her a younger princess and a kobold; he has a horn, one eye, he can't see well; he smelled a man, but the princess said that it was the raven who flew by, carrying carrion in his beak; the guy heated the poker in the hearth, burned the kobold's eye; He cut off the head of the blinded man; the old man ordered to leave the iron crown, cut the ring, take half for himself, return half to the princess; the same with the princesses for silver and gold animals; the old man picked up princesses on a rope; when he wanted to pick up the guy, the courtiers arrived in time, cut the rope; told the princesses to tell the king that they had released them; the guy did not crash to death, drank from the flask alive water and recovered; played the flute, an old man came, put the guy on a crow, he carried him to the ground; the guy hired a blacksmith; princesses demand their own crown; the blacksmith can't make; the guy summons the old man, he gives these crowns; the blacksmith brings the iron, silver crowns; the guy calls the old man, who gives horses and a carriage, the guy carries the golden crown himself; the courtiers sent murderers, but they are not realized that this gentleman was a former groom; the guy showed the princesses his halves of his rings; the princess in the golden crown called him husband and gave the kingdom; he punished the courtiers: he told one to wear bast shoes from birch bark, another ride a pig, the third was thrown into the air]: 137-151; Cox 1893, No. 105 (Sotkamo, Osterbothnia) [the king hired two maids for clean work, one for dirty work; the oven asks for bread; two maids say they cannot, because they have been washing their hands with German soap for three years, Cinderella takes out her bread and gets a loaf; the same goes to milk a cow; shear a sheep; only Cinderella pulls out the stuck in The old man's crevice gives a magic wand; on Sunday, two maids go to church, pour grain into the ash and tell Cinderella to clean it; she hits the rock with a wand, and a brass dress appears, the wagon and the horse; next time they are silver; gold; the prince smeared the threshold with resin, the golden shoe stuck; everyone is trying on, the two maids cut off their fingers, but their legs are only more swollen; Cinderella's shoe is just right; wedding]: 387-388; Northern Karelians: Cox 1893, No. 252 (Uhtne or Wuskkiniemi) [two older sisters go to serve the king, refuse to take their youngest Cinderella with them; on the way, they refuse to cut the sheep, milk the cow, wash the dirty old man; Z. follows, fulfills requests; the old man gives her a stick with which she must hit the rock near the palace; there is food in the rock and expensive clothes, but she takes nothing; she sits in a corner in the palace; sisters ask the king to take her maid to clean up the ash; on Sunday, the older sisters go to church; Z. appears there in silk dress; next time in a silver dress, the prince notices her; the third time in a gold dress; hurriedly runs away, does not have time to take off the gold one, only throws leather over; the prince asks to look in his head, tears off the leather one, the gold underneath it; Z. marries the prince, the older sisters are ashamed]: 394-395; Concca 1963, No. 5 (Tver Karelians) [three mares in his father's herd: a mare father - golden-mane, brother - silver mane, poor brother - copper-mane; (further about cows with gold, silver, copper horns; girls (golden-haired, etc.); women (golden-fronted, etc.)]: 17-18; 1972 []: 43-52; Onegin 2010, No. 13 (Kalevalsky District) [The elderly have three sons; the eldest comes to the king to hire workers; the tsar tells him to find out where his daughter goes at night; the guy waited at the princess's door, not I was able to find out that the king ordered him to cut his nose in half, add salt to the wound; the same with his second son; the youngest Tuhkimus hears a dispute between two invisible people over inheritance - invisible hats; throws a stone - Whoever catches will get it; put on his hat and left; remaining invisible, he entered the princess's room; she goes down on a rope through the window, gets into the carriage, T. next; the coachman is surprised that the carriage is slow goes; we came to the copper forest, boarded a copper boat on the lake, landed on the shore where the silver forest is, got into a silver sleigh; then a silver boat; then a golden forest, a golden horse and a sleigh; in the golden house ugly old man; there is food on the table, the old man wonders why the food quickly disappeared, apparently the girl is hungry; the old man and the girl began to "play"; after that T. put the table, chairs and the old man himself in his bag, ordered to remain silent; the princess is surprised that the boat is heavy; on the way T. breaks off gold, silver, copper branches; at home T. tells the king what he saw, the princess replies that everything is a lie; T. orders to bring his bag; no one can lift; he brought and opened it himself; inside there was a horse, a sleigh, a table, etc.; the old man jumped out the window and left, the copper, silver, gold things remained; T. married a princess], 16 ( Kalevala district) [the husband went to the forest, took aim at the Vuoka bird; she asks not to shoot, but to bring and feed him for a year; so three times; explains that he was wounded when she fought with the capercaillie; when the bird recovered, ordered to slaughter a cow, take meat with her, she would bear it for a reward; she dumps and picks up a man over the sea three times so that he would feel the same fear as she did when he aimed at it; a bird successively stays with her three sisters in a copper, silver, golden house; only a sister from the golden house agrees to give the box with the key; when flying away, the veika hits her wings, copper, silver houses burn down; the man opens the box on the way, countless things fall out; the giant demon puts everything back for promising to give what was born in his house during the man's absence; it turns out he was born and the boy has grown up; the boy accidentally broke a pot of soup on the old woman's window; she says that he was promised to an Arab guest, let him go to him; the boy (now more like a young man) leaves; sees three the swans came to swim, took off their clothes, became girls; he hides his clothes alone; the girl agrees to take him as a groom; says she was cursed to be the daughter of an Arab guest; the swan took the young man under her wing and brought him to an Arab guest; the young man spent the night with the girl, in the morning she gave him a drink of live water, ordered him to break all the axes and saws that his father would give to harvest a huge amount of forest; after this devil gave his ax, the young man told the demons to do the job; the second task was to dig a giant field on the rock (the same is to break hoes and shovels); the devil tells you to choose a bride among three identical girls; chickens; mares; the girl teaches that she will have a longer tie on her apron; puts her finger aside; puts her back leg aside; the devil offers to ride a horse, this is himself; the girl teaches how to whip the horse and with a sledgehammer in the forehead; the beaten devil is sick, the girl tells me to run; they turned into a shepherd and a cow; the priest and the church; the demons did not understand, returned; when they became a lake and a ruff, the devil himself ran, tried drink the lake; the ruff ripped open his belly, the water has flowed out, the devil is dead; the girl sends the boy home, and she must be water for another three years; the young man has become a rich merchant, forgot his bride, is preparing a wedding with the princess; the girl comes and offers to buy buns from her; the buyer wants to sleep with her; she tells her to come in the evening; the girl sent her boyfriend to buy firewood, she stuck to the doorknob all night; the next evening But with the second one, who went out to bring a bag of flour; on the third evening the merchant himself came; she lay down with him, said who she was; they stayed together]: 149-154, 182-193; Eastern Sami: Yermolov 1959 [ childless old people dream of a son even with a dog's nose; a boy in dog skin was born; grew up asking his father to marry him; the girl eats meat herself, throws bones to the groom like a dog; at night he tore it apart; same with the second girl; the third gives the groom meat; at night he took off his dog skin and became handsome; the old woman tells his daughter-in-law to burn her skin; husband: you won't see me until you drown three pairs of iron boots, three iron boots the buttons will not melt in her mouth, three iron staffs will not be worn off; the girl went, trampled one pair, melted, worn out; she sees a hut - she turns around; "Turn to the forest with a window, and a door to me!" ; in the hut they answered: they did not see the passers, only the wind missed; they gave copper and a copper scallop; the same in the second hut (the silver ones hung and the comb); in the third - gold; let him comb hair and will put up copper hangs and comb where beautiful Katerina and her husband are playing ball at the extreme hut; give the comb to sleep one night at the door at the doorstep; the same for the second night (silver); on the third (gold); then KK grabbed a box of needles, threads, beads, colored scraps and ran to the seashore; threw it all into the sea and ordered it to turn into shells; so shells, starfish, etc. scattered on the bottom; and husband and wife returned home]: 67-69; Kert 1961, No. 19 (Lovozero) [childless old man and old woman want a son, even in dog skin; son has grown up, wants marry; the old man has three daughters; the eldest comes; asks why the dog is barking; mother-in-law: this is your husband; the young woman throws bones to the dog; at night the husband ran over her; the same with the middle sister; the youngest caresses dog; at night she sheds her skin and becomes a young man; one day my wife burned her skin; husband: in three years I was destined to take off my fur coat; and now you will look for me while you wear out three pairs of boots and three staffs three tin buttons in her mouth will melt; the wife wore everything out, came to town, where they play ball, her husband was playing among the players; she hid the ball; gave it back on the condition that her husband would take her to sleep in her sleeping bag (and he already remarried); the husband does not recognize her; the second time the wife says who she is; the husband turned away from the new one, turned to the old one; when they returned, the old woman burns fire at the end of the spindle, and the old man at the end of the knitting net needles; when they found out that their son and daughter-in-law had returned, the old people were happy and died], 52 []: 58-61, 209-211; Charnolusky 1962 [childless old woman is ready to give birth to at least a dog; gives birth to a puppy; son asks bring him a bride; the bride is afraid of him, he tore her teeth; the old woman brings a new one, she takes a dog, at night he turns handsome; mother and wife burned the dog's skin; the handsome man left, saying that the wife will find him, wearing out three iron jars; the wife comes sequentially to three old women, they give copper, silver, gold combs; the husband plays ball, the wife combs her hair, the ball flies in every time out her window; she asks players to let her husband's wife Ulita let her sleep 1) on the doorstep of the house, 2) at her feet, between spouses; husband recognizes his wife, Ulita jumps into the lake; husband and wife return to his parents]: 171- 175; Eastern Sami [a merchant drives through the battlefield of birds and animals; an eagle asks him to be cured; after a year or two he tries to take off, three years later he puts him on his back, takes him to his brothers and mother; brothers in copper and silver houses reject what was brought; in gold, the parents of the eagle give him golden eggs; the eagle tells him to throw them from hand to hand at home; he throws them along the way, appears the golden house, and the eggs become soft; to hell with them, says the man; the devil grabs them; for a promise to give, what you do not know, takes the merchant home to the golden house; to meet the wife and the baby; he grew up, went search for the Trait; dwarf chuckles teach what to do, how to identify the bride; Devil has 39 daughters - illnesses; The devil tells him to choose three times, the young man chooses the one he is the same age each time; the young run; the wife turns himself into a duck, her husband into a feather; The devil can't catch up with them, tells them not to marry for three years; the father involuntarily his son to marry; at the last minute a duck arrives, turns into a girl, marries a guy]: Charnoluski 1962:270-277; Eastern Sami (Skolts, Neiden) [the old man has three sons, the youngest is a booby; when he dies, the father tells his sons to guard his grave for three nights; only the youngest son comes each time, consistently receives copper, silver and gold horses from his father; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps on horseback to the third floor, where she will stand; on the first day, the younger brother put on copper clothes on a horse with copper hooves jumped to the first floor, on the second in silver to the second, on the third day in gold to the princess, she tied him a silk a handkerchief with her ring in it; the king gathered the people, the last to bring his younger brother, who showed his handkerchief and ring; the king ordered it to be washed, he opened the door in the rock, where his horses were]: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 297: 150-156; Western Sami [the guy was hired as a worker for a giant; chose the largest tree; the giant took to the top, the guy sat on the butt; replies that he was not tired at all; bringing the tree, the giant tells the guy to go into the barn but not to the stable; horse: tomorrow you will be asked to launch the boat; say that if you venerate it, the boat will shatter to pieces; the giant has lowered it himself; asks to take the oars; guy: if I take it, they'll break; the same goes on (all the fishing gear will tear); when they come back, the horse tells me to go into the barn, slaughter the cow, cut the heart in half; the cow's life is a giant; if he doesn't die, then cut it into small pieces; then they jump away, taking a box (Bühse), a sword, a piece of sulfur, a flint, a comb; when they gallop, the horse asks if he hears and sees anything behind him; like the wind is whistling; horse: this giant has come to life; throw sulfur: water space; the giant ran home for a ladle, drank water with a ladle; wanted to leave it to pick it up on the way back, but the bird: if you leave it, I'll take it; I had to run home again; the flint is the mountain; the giant runs after the storm (again about the bird); the comb is the forest, ran after the ax (bird); the guy on horseback galloped to the world where the giant does not enter; there is a copper forest ahead, you can't break branches; the guy broke the last one, a giant in copper clothes appeared, the horse defeated him; the same with the silver forest and giant; with gold; now the horse told the young man to hire the king; he was always wearing a copper hat so that he could not see the gold (Goldhut); told the king that he had scab; became a gardener, the youngest of the three princesses saw him take off his copper hat; she asked her father to pass her off as a young gardener; her sisters chose noble young men; her younger son-in-law called a horse, shot a lot of birds, gave them the elders, and he brought only an owl himself; wedding; horse to a young man: you forgot about me, cut off my head; he cut off, the horse himself turned into prince charming {the end without the details common in one-story fairy tales}]: Poestion 1886, No. 21:84-92; Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [the old woman promises the king that he will have three daughters, tells them not to let them out of the house until they are 15 years old; the queen gives birth three daughters one by one; one spring they ask the guard to let them into the garden, they are carried away by a snowstorm; the captain, lieutenant and soldier go in search; they see an abandoned estate; a soldier throws meat the bear and the lion, they let in; the companions prepare one by one; a dwarf comes to the captain, the lieutenant, asks for a coin, hits; when the soldier remains, he splits the log, invites the dwarf to look into the crack, pinches his beard; he has to tell him where the princesses are; the soldier lets him go; his companions raise the stove, under it the way to the lower world; only the soldier descends in the basket through water and fire; in the castle the princess spins a copper thread; gives a drink of strong water, hides; a three-headed troll comes, falls asleep, a soldier cuts off his heads; the same with a princess spinning a silver thread, six-headed troll; gold, nine-headed; companions pick up princesses and treasures, cut off the rope; the youngest managed to give the soldier her golden ring; the soldier opens the closet, fly out chicks, unable to lift him; call her eagle mother; she carries the soldier upstairs, he feeds her prepared meat; she brings him to the king's palace, blows a whistle to call her if necessary; a soldier is hired to the jeweler; the younger princess demands the gold playing board she had in the lower world; the soldier calls the bird, which brings the board, the jeweler gives it to the princess, admits that he did not do; the soldier marries, gets half the kingdom, the captain and the lieutenant are executed]: 31-48; Cox 1893, No. 319 [the troll takes the girl and the boy underground; the girl becomes a maid, the boy is a shepherd; the ox teaches him to get the pipe out of his ear, to blow, a magic tablecloth appears; the troll sent the girl to find out why the boy is not losing weight; the fairy (huldre) put her to sleep; then the troll attached two sleepless shirt eyes to the girl's neck; going kill a boy and an ox; an ox tells you to run; they drive through a brass, silver, golden forest, the boy happens and does not touch anything; on the mountain, a princess, an ox climbs a mountain; the king will give it to someone who She will be able to find her three times; she hides in an ox's ear, in a pin, in loaves of bread; an ox indicates where to look; wedding]: 447; Dasent 1970 [=Suritz 1991:218-227; the youngest of the king's two sons leaves, is hired to the giant; he tells you to clean the stable in a day, not to go into other rooms; the young man comes in, in one cauldron boils without fire, what gets into it becomes copper; in the second - silver, in the third - gold; the young man lowers a curl into each; in the fourth room there is a girl; she teaches to dig a shovel with a handle while cleaning the stable, the work will be done immediately; the giant suspects that his maid taught; the next day - to bring a horse; girl: the horse is full of fire, you have to throw bits in his mouth; on the third day: bring a fee from hell for the borrowed fire; girl: knock on the rock with a club, door opens, ask for as much as possible; on the fourth day, the giant himself brings the young man to the maid, tells her to cut his throat, cook the broth; she puts three drops of the young man's blood to cook with with old rubbish, both run away, sail on a ship across the sea; drops of blood are responsible for the giant; when he understands the deception, he calls stream-sucker, he drinks the water of the sea, the ship is already visible; young man throws a piece of salt, a mountain appears; the giant drilled it, Drinker wanted to start drinking, but the young man drips into the sea from the flask, it fills up again; the fugitives reach the shore; the queen goes after the horses, the bride tells him not to talk to anyone; the brother's bride's sister gives an apple, he bites off, forgets the bride; she goes to the old woman, makes the house golden; the constable brings money, wants to marry; she tells him to kiss the night to throw hot coals at himself; then the lawyer tells him to push in the door; the sheriff drags the calf by the tail; the young man must marry the bride's older brother's sister; the carriage falls apart, succeeds go thanks to the magic items borrowed by the giant's daughter; she was invited to a feast; she puts a golden rooster and a chicken on the table, they fight over a golden apple; the Queen remembers everything; gave his witch tore an apple with 24 horses]: 71-90; Hodne 1984, No. 511A (Nordland) [an orphan young man finds a caterpillar on his parents' grave and fattens it; it grows into a bull (ox); a young man sits on it, leaves; they drive through three forests - with brass, silver, gold leaves; each time the bull must fight monsters, because the young man violates the ban on touching the leaves; the bull orders him to be slaughtered, turns into a prince; a young man marries his sister and gets half a kingdom]: 119; Norwegians [on Ivanovo night someone eats grass in the meadow; the eldest, middle son guards when they hear a rumble, run home; the youngest sees a horse, a harness, copper armor, catches and hides a horse, and everything else; in a year the same thing - silver armor, a year later - gold armor; the king will give his daughter for someone who jumps up a glass hill and will take the golden apple from the princess's hands; an unknown rider does it three times; the king orders to gather all the men to find the owner of the apples; he turns out to be the youngest son, gets the princess and half the kingdom; wedding; and if they're not done having fun yet, they still do it]: Dasent 1970:92-103; Swedes [two older daughters ask the king to bring expensive gifts, and the youngest three singing leaves; the king sees a hazel tree, it has three golden leaves, music from them; he tore them off; the Underground Prince Hutt demands to give him the first living soul that will come out to meet the house; the youngest daughter came out; the king left her under a hazel tree, she found herself in an underground hall, a prince came out to her, and left in the morning; when his wife gave birth to a son, H. allows her to go to her father, who is remarried, but to reveal the secret; also after the birth of the second son - for the wedding of his older sister; after the birth of her daughter - for the youngest's wedding; the stepmother persuaded the princess to light a candle and look at the prince; a drop of wax fell on his chest; the palace disappeared, H. is blind, his wife and children went with him; he tells him to leave the eldest son with his older sister, who lives in a copper house, the youngest with the middle one in silver, the daughter with the youngest in gold, but he should not see the sisters himself; the younger sister went out, H. disappeared; the old trollich Bertha sends the princess to his older sister, gives a spinning wheel spinning gold; the second sister gives a golden reel, sends her to her oldest sister; she gives an inexhaustible purse, sends her to the palace, where the trollich wants to marry H.; the princess was accommodated in a chicken coop, which she soon turned into a beautiful room; buys permission to spend the night with X. for a spinning wheel, for a reel; both times the trollich gives H. a zone potion; the third time the princess gives a purse, and the trolich's stepdaughter, who was a baptized family, tells H. not drink potions; the princess teaches the trollich to cook meat in a hot cauldron, pushes it into boiling water; sisters H. appear with the princess's children and a bush with singing leaves; the princess and H. live in the palace like a king with Queen]: Suritz 1991:112-123; Cox 1893, No. 117 (South Smaland) [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter, she herds cattle; white bear helps; she calls him with a golden whistle; traps are placed on him; girl rides a bear through a silver, gold, diamond forest; despite being asked not to do so, he tears off a leaf every time, then wild animals chase them; the bear asks him to be killed, throw her body at the spring; the girl puts on a bear skin, is hired to the castle as a dishwasher; when she whistles at the golden whistle, the gnomes cook dinner, bring magic dresses; she goes to church; loses shoe; everyone is told to try it on; wedding]: 47; Danes [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter; she herds cattle; red bull tells them to get food out of his horn; they run away; despite the ban, the girl breaks a twig, when they jump through a copper forest, a bull fights a copper bull; then a silver bull in a silver forest; a golden one kills him; the girl saves the bull's right ear, it gives her everything it is necessary; is hired as a maid in the kitchen; comes to church three times in a different form; names objects (token objects): water, comb, towel; when he runs away for the third time, he loses his golden shoe; wearing a gold dress , sitting in a golden carriage, is behind a shoe; wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 59:24-25.

Volga - Perm. Komi [three brothers and sister buried their mother under the stove, their father under a millstone, went to look for happiness; the eldest climbs a silver birch tree to break silver branches; sister warns that he will get stuck; he really can't go down, stays on a birch tree; the same with his middle brother (golden birch), with his younger brother (pearl); the girl came to the prince's house, hid under an overturned vat, began to sing a song about her brothers; the prince's eldest, middle sons cannot find a singer, the youngest finds it; the girl says she heard him promise to help her out brothers; they find a younger brother, the prince's son waves his sleeve, stuck on a pearl birch tree descends; the same with the brothers on gold and silver birches; the girl marries the prince's youngest son]: Plesovsky 1975:15-17; Udmurts [a soldier's son offends other boys as a child; when he is 12 years old, he tells blacksmiths to forge a 300-pound club, carries the whole street with it, leaves; meets, takes companions of Ivan Berezkin and Ivan Dubovkin; they are the sons of a soldier whom she gave birth when her husband was on duty and threw them into the water; that is, they are his brothers; one carried a thick birch tree, the other an oak tree; people are digging a mountain, looking for copper; the heroes turned the mountain upside down, two blue pigeons, the mother of copper, flew out from under it; the same with a silver mountain (white pigeons are the mother of silver); with a gold one (three red ones); came into the house where is the bull in the oven; they ate; three sisters wonder who was; they went to the bathhouse; Berezkin, Dubovnik tried to prop up the door, the sisters easily knocked her out; when the younger brother supported her, they did not knock it out; three heroes married on three heroes; the youngest's wife disappeared; he came to rescue, there were old women - their girls were carried away by a wind demon; his soul was under 20 oak barks, there was a chest in the oak, a hare in the chest, a duck in a hare, there are 3 eggs in the duck, in them the soul of a wind demon; the hero came to his wife, ordered her to hang brushes on the shoals and play as if she thought the soul of a demon was in the jambs; he says that there is a kid inside; the wife adorns the kid; the demon reports where the soul really is; the hero on the way spares foxes, hawk chicks, crayfish; the fox caught up with the hare, the hawk grabbed the duck, the cancer took out eggs that fell into the water; the hero broke three eggs, three demon heads on the floor fell down; the hero burned the demon's body, began to live in his house with his wife]: Aldan 1936:35-44 (=Kralina 1976:149-154); the Udmurts [three daughters of the tsar were carried away by the serpent Azhdagn-kyy; the soldier drank his salary in the tavern, boasted that he would return the princesses; summoned to the palace; asked permission to feast duty-free for three days and two comrades; they found a hut in the forest, with her bull, take turns staying at home; came old man Kuat Sultush, a quarter tall, beard 6 fly fathoms, beat the guard; on the third day, the soldier's turn, he beat the COP himself, forced him to take the princesses to where the princesses were; he brought him to the hole; his soldier killed, ordered his comrades to put him on chains; in the underworld, a princess in a copper house taught him to change barrels of strong and weak water; a 6-headed serpent came with thunder, rain and hail, the soldier killed him; while He slept, the princess put a seal on his forehead, rolled the copper house into an egg, gave it to the soldier; the same happened to another princess in a silver house (9-headed serpent), in gold (12-headed); two comrades raised him to the ground princesses, then cut off the chain; the soldier found a balalaika, hit it, a ram came out, the soldier rose on it; he was let into the hut; he rolled three eggs, copper, silver, gold palaces appeared; princesses noticed, stopped weddings, demanded one shoe, a second handkerchief, a third dress; the soldier sent everything they needed to the princesses and the old woman; they asked to invite a tailor to the wedding; he came with a balalaika, hit it, and a man came out of it with the seals on the princess's forehead; the tsar executed two comrades of the soldier]: Potanin 1884, No. 5:232-233; Marie [Mouse and Sparrow were friends, shared food; Sparrow one swallowed the seed, they quarreled, the Mouse called the animals, the Sparrow called the birds, the Lion broke the Eagle's wing; the hunter took aim at the Eagle, agreed to take it home and feed it; the Eagle ate all its cattle, flew away, came back, carried for an award; dropped it on purpose, then picked it up to show how afraid he was at gunpoint; the eagle's younger, middle sisters in the bronze and silver palaces answer that they love their father and mother more than their brother; the youngest in gold - that there is more brother; gives a parcel, tells them not to open it on the way; the eagle carries the hunter back over the mountain; he opens the bundle a golden palace appears, the sorcerer gathers the palace back for promising to give what he does not know at home; a son was born at home; goes to the sorcerer; the old woman gives a skein of thread, he leads to her older sister, she explains how to take the clothes of one of the twelve duck girls who come to swim; the girl tells her father to hire her father (this is the sorcerer), identify among the 12 doves (she will bite harder); in a hot young people turn into flies, fly away, spit is responsible for them; the girl turns into a herd, the guy into a shepherd; into a monastery and a priest; into a lake and a goose; the sorcerer stops chasing]: Chetkarev 1948:19- 36; Mordovians (Erzya) [mother died, children are small, husband married Baba Yaga's daughter; she has 7 daughters - One-eyed, Two-Eyed, etc. to Seven Eyes; stepmother does not feed her sister and brother, tells her to row manure from under the cow; the cow tells her to milk; the stepmother is surprised that the stepdaughter and stepson are getting fat, sends Seven-eyed to watch; the girl looks in her hair, says, "Sleep a peephole, sleep the second one..", etc. The seven-eye falls asleep; so with everyone; the last one is One-eyed, her huge eye does not fall asleep, she tells her stepmother everything; she tells her husband to slaughter a cow and kill the children; the cow agrees with the children that the moment when they start slaughtering her, she will run, let them jump on her back, taking a stone, soap and a spindle; her stepmother is chasing, the cow tells her to throw the spindle (thorny thickets), stone (mountain), soap (soap the mountain, it is slippery, the stepmother has stopped chasing); they drive through an iron, copper, silver, golden forest; every time the cow tells me not to break off the branches, but the sister answers every time what she takes with her; they settled in a mushroom leg house covered with nettles; one day a silver bull came and demanded that a cow come butting at silver for the children they broke the silver branches; the cow won, the bull fell into pieces; the same with the copper bull; but the plain iron goby himself broke it into pieces]: Paasonen 1941:236-257; Mordovians [Vanya comes with services; stopped in a forest hut, climbed onto the stove; the old man pulls out a magic mirror, but does not see it; asks to go out; he has three daughters; asks to serve for a year, take care of Sivka, and he and his daughters will leave for a year; daughters they flew away with doves, the old man in a whirlwind; a year later, for his service, the old man gave a sword that cut down the army, his daughters received speeding boots, an invisible hat, a self-shaking wallet; in the city, the princess disappears every night; unsuccessful guards are beheaded; Vanya takes to watch; the invisible catches up with the princess, hits her face with a broom, she thinks it's hail, Vanya returns faster than her; the next night he smeared his dress with mud; on the third night he flew to the palace, where the princess and the prince would marry; the footman agreed to help; Vanya took the wedding dresses and tore the rest; Vanya brings the footman with him; he confirms Vanin story; Vanya shows wedding dresses, marries a princess; the prince went to war, Vanya destroyed his army with his sword; his wife changed her sword, gave it to the prince, he chopped Vanya, the pieces in the barrel were tied to the horse's tail; the horse came to that old man; the old man and his daughters boiled them in copper, silver, gold cauldrons; the water was poured out, the apple tree grew: the trunk was copper, the branches were silver, the apples were golden; the revived Vanya in in the form of a falcon, he flew to take revenge on the prince; settled in with an old man, became a horse, ordered him to sell it, the prince bought it, his wife realized that it was Vanya; the horse tells the maid to bury a drop of his blood when they were slaughtered; an apple tree grew, hers cut down, the maid picked up a sliver, Vanya had previously taught her to throw a sliver into the bath; the sliver became a drake, the prince undressed and began to catch it; the drake became Vanya, took possession of the sword, hacked the prince and his wife, married a maid, freed the old tsar imprisoned in the tower]: Samorodov 1972:160-177; Chuvash: Grigoriev 1971 [the tsar asks his sons to see who is stealing his horses; the youngest of the three sees like a copper bear hides underground with a horse; brothers dig a well, lower the hero; he meets the princesses of the copper, silver and golden kingdoms; kills a bear, brothers raise upstairs, the princesses, picking up the hero, think that it is a bear, they throw a rope; the old man gives the hero a sword, he kills a snake crawling to the oak tree, saves the eagles; the eagle takes him to the ground; on the way, the hero feeds and wateres her, at the end, he cuts off a piece of his flesh, the eagle heals it; the brothers marry three princesses]: 57-64; Chuvash tales 1937:27-40 [the serpent knocked it down from the sky with its tail and captured the sun and the month, swallowed peoples and tribes; there were three babies left and each foal - white, black, savry; one in the steppe, the other in the forest, the third in the crevice of the rocks; grew up, became Ser-Pattar, Juman-Pattar, Tu-pattar ("earth-, oak-, mountain- heroes"); S. met first J., then T., went together; stopped in a house, near the bridge over the river; at midnight S. woke up: a wave carries a snake sitting on a copper throne with three crowns on three heads; S. fights him on the bridge, killed him, hid his heads and pieces of body under the bridge, did not say anything to the brothers; they drove up to the village; S. peeks through the window of the hut: there a woman rocks the baby, she has a star in her forehead , in the ears of the star; she tells the baby that to avenge the death of his father will become a raspberry bush, the heroes will eat berries and die; S. cut the bush, black blood has flowed; the brothers stay in another house near the bridge over Shura-Shyv ("white river"); J. must guard, but falls asleep, S. sees how the ninth wave carries a snake on the silver throne, silver crowns on 9 heads; he drove S. waist-deep into the ground, but S. cut off all the heads, hid them under the bridge; S. peeks into the hut again; the same episode, there are even more stars on the woman, sits on a silver chair, promises to turn into a spring; S. cuts down a spring, black blood; brothers spend the night at the bridge over the Black River, T. goes to guard, falls asleep; the twelfth wave carries a 12-headed snake with gold crowns on their heads; he drives S. into the ground, but S. went out, cut off 11 heads; to preserve the last one, the serpent took the sun out of one ear, gave it back from the other; S. cut off his head anyway; in the hut, a woman with stars on her body sits on a golden chair, promises to turn into a bed with a feather bed; S. cuts, black blood has flowed; the mother of the snakes surrounded the heroes with her body, swallowed J. and T., S. jumped over his horse, jumps away, the snake pursues; S. locked himself in the forge, asked the snake to lick the iron door, grabbed his tongue with hot forceps, went out, began to cut off the tail, all the swallowed ones came out, each threw a handful of earth, formed a mountain; S. took it out of his pockets sun and moon, they returned to heaven], 67-83 [the couple are childless; Pigambar in a dream tells the old woman to put a piece of oak bark in the sauerkraut; their son Ivan appears; wins, makes brothers copper, silver, golden eagles; each takes turns cooking food in the hut; every time a bearded dwarf comes, says that the bulls eat everything, ties the cooks, that evening says that nothing does not remember; I. defeats a dwarf, hangs him on a tree; a beard remains, a bloody trail stretches into a hole; the Eagles lower I. on his belt into the lower world; he kills Chige the old man Khursukhal 'a, the father of three sisters; the eldest gives I. a strength-increasing ring; Eagles lift women up, drop their belt; I. kills a 12-headed snake, frees fresh water and people; the snake crawls along the pine tree to the Vagrant Eagle's nest; I. kills the snake, the Eagle agrees to raise it to the ground; in flight, I. feeds him meat, it ends, he cuts off a piece of his thigh; kills sister traitors, marries his eldest sister who recognizes him, lets others go]; Eisin 1993 [old people do not have 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 came out of the special room with a request to be released; C. broke trees, Yuman batyr ("oak") and Tar-batyr ("osokor") came out; all three stopped in a house, cooking in turn; an old man with an elbow with a planted beard beats 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 orders to change the tubs with strong and weak water, C. killed a three-headed serpent; the same in silver (six-headed) and gold 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; they advise them to go to the tree on which the eagle; C. hid the eagles, closing 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; the eagle regurgitated it and put it back; Yu and T. are still quarreling over the girl; C. killed and married a girl]: 282-289; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 54 [Akhan and Karakhan decided to marry children if their wives give birth to babies of different sexes; A. has a son, K. has a daughter; A. died, K. forgot his promise ; A.'s eldest daughter-in-law to his son: it would be better to go to the bride than to flirt with me; the son asked his mother to fry wheat, held it in her hand, she had to confess; K.'s wife died, telling him to take a new wife more beautiful than her; K. did not find anyone more beautiful than her daughter; she set a condition: sew a flea fur coat and a handkerchief out of lice leather; K. did it; she dug a hole in the bathhouse and covered it with a carpet; K. went and failed; the daughter left, began to live with the elderly; son A. found K., pulled it out of the hole; K. says that his daughter killed her mother and went to the maiden; A.'s son came to the house where daughter K. lived; began to pluck the wool from the ram, put meat on an inverted cauldron and poured water from above; the girl, seeing this, laughed and became more and more beautiful; they fell in love, he brought her to his mother, married her; poor K. came; at night he stabbed his daughter's son, put a knife on her; said that this witch killed her mother; the mother kicked her daughter-in-law out; the young returned to those old people, taking the child's body; son A. sees how the snake revived another by dragging her around the hummock; revived son; the young man grew up, went to fight the devil; stayed with an old woman who wants to burn him in a copper bath, he drags her there himself, tells her to show the way to the deva; she sends him to his sister; she silver bath; the same goes to the older sister; golden bath; the old woman orders to oil the deva's gate, chop snakes and lions with a sword, gives a handkerchief to heal the horse's leg if his lion hurts; the young man drove the deva up to his throat into the ground, then put him in a cage, freed the beauties, the princess gave him a ring; he brought his mother to him; K. came, opened the cage with the devil, who advised him to send the young man for bear milk; K. called himself the young man's grandfather - his mother is unconscious, must be cured; the young man pulled a sharp stone out of the bear's paw, she gave milk; K. released the deva, the young man defeated him, he fell under ground; the young man sprayed milk on K., who petrified, the millstone closed the place where the devil was; the young man threw a ring into the jug of the princess's maid; she recognized him; wedding]: 377-385; 1989, No. 6 [buy wants to know where his daughter spends the nights; with an invisible ring, Bald undertook to find it out; pretended to be drunk and fell asleep, followed the girl himself; she came in a stroller to the stone garden (Bald broke off the stone garden leaf); the same in iron, copper, silver gardens; in the garden of the seven-headed maiden with whom the girl danced, wearing out seven pairs of shoes, Bald picked up a gold knot, returned earlier the girls, Bayu told him, showed what he had hidden, bai married him to his daughter; his wife gave him drink, told him to throw him into the sea on the island; the old man returned him, giving him rejuvenating and aging apples; Pleshivy's wife thought eat rejuvenating, and ate the old one; Bald pretended to be a tabib, promised to cure, beat his wife for a long time, she promised to become a faithful wife, he made her beautiful again]: 61-63; Khusainova 2014 [after death mother brother and sister get a brown cow; stepmother tells her to slaughter her; children ask for permission to ride a cow; she takes them to the forest - gold, silver, copper; every time, despite Brother's ban, sister tears off a leaf and hides it in pigtails; then turns into stone; the cow tells her brother to burn three hairs from her tail; the sister comes to life, the stepmother turns into stone]: 57-58; Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 45 [the padishah's wife was kidnapped by divas; the eldest son and warriors go in search; he is rude to a white wolf in the forest, he turns those who come into stones; the same is the middle sons; the youngest is polite; the wolf revives the petrified, teaches how to get a magic horse; he carries stones through fire, water, forest; Semrug carries over Mount Kaf; a young man meets girls, finds a mother; she replaces vessels with strong and weak water; the 9-headed diva drinks weak, decapitated; the young man takes his mother; rolls the golden kingdom into an egg, then the silver, copper kingdom; in each bride; upon return, the young man's mother commands The Ifrites build a golden bridge from the palace to the city; the padishah remarried his returned wife; the young man lives with three wives; the eldest sons also received wives]: 169-189; Yarmukhametov 1957 [three the padishah's daughters are carried away by a whirlwind; the brothers Kich-batyr (kitsch - evening), Ten Batyr (night), Tan-batyr (morning: younger) play; the old man advises them to better look for the padishah's daughters; they come to the cave where he disappeared divas; only Tan-B. pushes the stone away; the elders do not reach the bottom of the cave, Tan-B. cuts the rope, jumps; the mice undermine the walls of the well, send Tan-B. through the passage to the copper palace; Tan-b. kills the diva, frees the eldest daughter of the padishah; the same with the silver, gold palaces, middle and eldest daughters, two other divas; during the fight with the last diva, T. replaces barrels with with strong and weak water, the divas weakens, is killed; the younger sister puts the palaces in copper, silver, golden eggs, gives Tan-b; the brothers pull out the girls, cut off the rope, raising Tan-b; The mouse man tells him to sit on a white goat, not a black goat; Tan-B. sits on a white goat, is taken to the upper world; the brothers tie a sword in front of the tent, Tan-batyr cuts off his legs; a blind man comes to him and armless; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch Ubyrly Karcik; she orders to pour ash behind her so that she can come to visit; when she comes, she tells me to look for hair, drinks the girl's blood; three brothers take turns guarding, Tan-B. ties the witch, beats her; she swallows everyone, belches healthy; Tan-B. does not belch; others chop her, see a fleeing finger, in Tan-b is found in him; at home he is hired by a shoemaker; for the wedding of his youngest daughter, the padishah uses copper and other eggs to order; opens, marries; drives away brothers and sisters passes off his wives as his brothers]: 39-61 (=Bulatov, Sharipova 2000:49-89; =Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 40:103-127); Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 38 [the mare gives birth, but foals disappear every time; the eldest, the middle son goes to guard, falls asleep; the youngest Kyran-Batyr rips his hair off his head with a sword, does not sleep, cuts the cloud that carries the foal; follows a bloody trail to copper, silver, golden houses ; each has one of the kidnapped foals and a woman; K. consistently fights three devas, kills them; tames a piebald mare; tries to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; the mare explains that the reflection of the sword to the water, he himself pierced into a pine trunk that split the sky and went further up; K. climbs a pine tree, squeezes to the other side of the sky (after that, a pile of stars remains in the sky), brings a sword rolls three houses into three eggs, gives two wives to his brothers; they are jealous, hang their sword in front of the tent, shout that enemies have attacked, K. runs out, the sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer , carrying the sun on his horns, a man runs after him; says that he sees only when he is near the sun; the blind man puts legless K. on his back, walks, K. sees an armless man chasing the same deer; he explains that the deer promised to bring it to people the sun, but did not bring it, people froze, the handless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get a female cook, kidnap the khan's daughter, and tell them not to let it go out fire; the fire goes out, the girl comes to the old woman for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on an ash trail, asks her to look in her hair, sucks her bone marrow; the girl turns yellow, the companions take turns they guard, only K. hits her so that she can not withstand the blows; K. makes her swallow and belch the girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; swallowing K., does not want to belch him; exes blind and armless cut her into pieces; the sparrow screams "little finger", the companions cut his little finger, K. comes out, he has legs again; returns his daughter to Khan; K. marries a woman from the golden house, gives the other two companions, brothers makes them servants]: 252-267; 1989, No. 6 [bai wants to know where his daughter spends the nights; having an invisible ring, Bald undertook to find out; pretended to be drunk and fell asleep, followed himself for the girl; she came in a stroller to the stone garden (Bald Man broke off a stone leaf); the same in the iron, copper, silver gardens; in the garden of the seven-headed maiden with whom the girl was dancing, wasting seven pairs of shoes, Bald picked up a gold knuckle, returned before the girl, told Bayu, showed what he had hidden, buy married him to his daughter; his wife gave him a drink, told him to throw him into the sea on the island ; the old man returned it, giving rejuvenating and aging apples; Bald's wife thought to eat rejuvenating, but ate the old one; Bald pretended to be a tabib, promised to cure, beat his wife for a long time, she promised to be faithful wife, he made her beautiful again]: 61-63.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [Kuluke's elder brother goes to look for a bride; a bearded dwarf offers him to push back the stone, he can't; the same middle brother Turuke; younger Bereke pushes it away, the dwarf lowers it on Arcana into the hole that opens; three khan's daughters consistently give B. copper, silver, gold rings; brothers pick up girls on the arcana; when B. rises, they cut him off; the former dwarf tells me to go to the witch; she has a bird in her thirtieth pantry Alpkarakush; after opening other storerooms, he defeats a six-headed snake, a tiger, a lion, pulls out treasures; the bird takes him to the ground; he marries the girl who gave the gold ring; the brothers fled]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981:24-27.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [Kara Kana's daughter becomes pregnant; her father tells her to be dazzled in the forest, the soldiers leave the girl, bring her father the dog's eyes; the girl gives birth to three boys in the hut during the night, each immediately runs away, three days later he returns as a hero, their names are Ulug Irgek (irgek - "finger"), Kichik Irgek, Ivan Sarchyk; seven-, nine-, twenty-headed snakes took the king's three daughters to the golden mountain; the guard whistles, the older brothers fall, IS is not afraid; on the mountain in the copper house, the girl replaces the barrel; the snake drinks, his strength decreases, the power of IS grows, the serpent is killed; the same in silver and golden houses; sisters take home with them, rolled into headscarves; the IS brothers and the guard take three princesses, throw away the olestnitsa, IS remains on the rock; the blind witch promises to let him down if he will return her eyes; they are under the waterfall; the horse asks him to be freed from his luggage, tells him not to listen to the witch, chain her to the floor, supposedly to heal her, pour cast iron into his eyes; the horse lowers the IS; disguised as bald IS comes to the wedding of a false IS with her younger sister; she recognizes her handkerchief given to the real IS; the guard is beheaded, the brothers marry three princesses]: Katanov 1907, No. 384:396-409; khalha- The Mongols [Eryn-Sain-Borny-Hoo Khan (Borny-Hu, B.) is a giant and strongman; hears from flying crows that the khan of the eastern land of Typka Hara Khan is larger and more beautiful than him; asks his four horses how for a long time each of them will be able to carry it, they respond; bay, savras carry every one day, then the stirrups are worn off; the word shows ribs on the third day; brown drove to the goal; B. changed his appearance: together with the horse they became small and inconspicuous; they reached the coral yurt, then the silver yurt, then the golden yurt; at first he was served the insides of rams at the table, but when he threw them away, served the best meat on a gold platter; B. said that he came to face off; overtook all horses and camels at the races; a man with a saw runs ahead, this is a chutkur; B.'s horse killed him with a stone and came first; B. won the target shooting; began to fight T.; realized that he had no soul; found a golden box on Mount Sumbur-Ula with a golden hare in it, swallowed it, T. died; B. took his people to him]: Benningsen 1912:91-94; Buryats (unknown informant) [parents want to get rid of Tyshhe Bishe, send him for a black bull; this is a bear, TB brings him, leaves him in a barn, he picked up all the cows; they send to bring a cauldron supposedly given to the forest owner; TB brings the cauldron and the bound owner; lets go, leaves; meets, satellites a person raising stones, raising mountains, stepping over the sea (he beard fishing); everyone first replies that he is not strong, but TB is powerful; they take turns cooking, the bearded dwarf hits the cook, eats everything; TB hits him, pinches his beard, he cuts off his beard, gone; friends come to the crevice, TB descends on a rope; there is a beauty in the copper hut, the other in silver, the third in gold; TB tells the beauty from gold to find out what mangadhai life; in ram horns; TB breaks horns, crushes wasps in them, except two; beauty changed barrels of strong and weak water; TB kills mangadhai, sends women upstairs; when gets up, his companions throw him; he falls, breaks his leg; sees how the speakers broke the leg of an ermine, he ate the root, recovered; TB also ate, recovered; Khan Garudi's chicks by the sea, alone crying (coming out from the sea of snakes will eat it today), another sings (eats tomorrow), the third laughs (the day after tomorrow); the serpent tells the chicks to fly into his mouth; TB kills the snake with a stone; Khan Garudi arrives, hides TB from poison; takes it out the ground; eats and drinks the prepared food in flight, cuts off the last piece of TB from its leg, the bird belches a piece, puts it back; TB kills satellites, lives with three wives]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 9:147- 167.

Western Siberia. Muncie (b. Yukonda) [the capercaillie asked the hunter to let him go; the young man's mother is dissatisfied; the young man went there - the capercaillie turned into an old man, put food in the back and a golden circle on top; the young man hung it on the house, the Old City Hero stole; the same twice more (silver, copper circle); the fourth time the young man hit the old man and took his magic stick, killing the Old City Hero with it]: Lukina 1990, No. 182:467-468.

The Central Andes. Huaura (dep. Lima) [three eggs are sent from heaven; in gold the ancestors of the nobles, in silver - their wives, in copper - commoners]: Calancha 1638, vol.2, ch. 19:413-414; (cf. Huacho, Vegeta (dep. Lima) [The sun went down to earth, laid two eggs; kashiki {chiefs} came out of gold, and the rest of the Indians came out of silver]: Arriaga 1910, ch. 17:40).