K38e4. Gold and silver brick palace, F771.1.1.2. .13.-.15.17. (.27.) .28.-.30.

The narratives (in different contexts) mention a palace (castle, crypt, church) built of gold and silver bricks.

Nubians, Berbers of Morocco (Rif), Maltese, Ugarit, (Romanians), Belarusians (Mogilev), Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Baluchis.

Sudan - East Africa. The Nubians [the man suggested that the lumberjack change his two bundles of firewood for a baboon; the baboon advised him to drive his wife away, promised to marry the princess; the king will give his daughter for gold, which weighs the same how much a girl; the baboon asks the princess to show how rich she is; the princess opens the treasury; the baboon stole the key, stole gold, bought the owner luxurious clothes, a horse, etc.; the woodcutter received princess; once laughed, his wife began to question why; the baboon advises to explain that he used to live in a palace made of gold and silver, and now in clay bricks; the princess wants see this palace; a baboon comes to such a palace; a slave lives in it who took possession of the property of the childless king after his death; the baboon says that the king has a son and will now arrive; (the slave runs away) A former woodcutter with his wife and people settles in the palace]: Basset 1903, No. 52:133-137.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Reef; recorded in Orleansville) [the king does not give his son the key to the garden; the prince told the maid to steal the key; he almost fell asleep in the garden; Mes'aouda, the daughter of good spirit and guli, appeared; she exchanged rings with the prince; they began to meet; one day the dove brought a letter from her: she agrees to marry the prince if he builds a palace of gold and silver bricks, with ivory doors, a glass roof; and will give one hundred thousand dinars and one hundred thousand rams for it; the king did everything for his son, the king of good spirits appeared and they signed a contract; soon the king died and The prince himself became king; M. mixed her husband with sleeping pills, at night she became a ghoul and devoured corpses; her mother came to her and they ate carrion together; one day the king's sister came to visit; M. put her to sleep, she and her mother strangled her and they ate her; after that, M. constantly asked her husband to invite relatives and friends, and no one else saw them; the fortuneteller advised the king to slowly pour out what was in the evening the wife will offer a drink; the king watched and heard that the Guli were going to eat him the next night, for the rest were all eaten; the fortuneteller advises to order him to dig a hole and make a fire in it, cover with a carpet; let someone tell M. that her husband is dying; she will throw herself and fall into a hole; that's what happened; in the end, the king of good spirits gave the king his other daughter, kind and beautiful]: Desparmet 1910 : 374-394.

Southern Europe. Maltese [in a house on a golden mountain, a young man shoves off a lamp with his foot and hears a voice: Order! using the spirit of the lamp, he creates a castle of gold and silver bricks that appears in front of the royal one; a young man marries a princess and receives the throne; his former employee comes in the form beggar and changes the magic lamp to an ordinary one (the maid advised the young man's wife to do this); the young man goes in search; three giants are fighting for a magic tablecloth, speeders and a cloak invisible, objects go to the young man; invisible, the young man comes to the mother of the winds (southwest, west, northwest); their mother promises them not to harm the young man; the western wind leads the young man to his wife ; she invites the kidnapper to compete to see who drinks the most; they take the lamp, leaving the kidnapper chained, and the petrel bites his meat]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 561:194-195.

Western Asia. Ugarit [Ba'lu learns from Anatu that he can build a palace for himself, mentioning three expensive materials: gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. Anat is so happy for Ba'la that she begins to transmit her message from afar (the huge distance that separates her from Ba'lu is named). Kosar-wa-Hasis arrives at Ba'l; Ba'lu treats him and tells him to build a palace. Kosaru-wa-Hasis offers to make a window in the palace, but Ba'lu refuses (it is not entirely clear why: apparently, he is afraid of the penetration of Jammu and other potential enemies, and his three are also mentioned daughters). Kosaru-wa-Hasis predicts that Ba'lu will change his mind again. Then the construction of the palace begins . For seven days, the fire, apparently necessary for making gold and silver bricks, burns in it; on the seventh day, the work is finished. After the palace is built, Ba'lu has a feast]: Kogan et al 2021.

(Wed. The Balkans. Romanians [the poor man goes to the forest for firewood; the giant sits in the cart, tells him to turn, eats bread, oxen, brings to his parents; tells him not to drink, walking through the field of thirst, do not pick flowers on flower meadow and not sleep in a sleepy field; in the parents' house, advises parents to quietly steal the box in the heads of the bed; takes it back on the road; the box will give any drinks and food; the person meets the owner clubs that hit themselves on orders, exchanges it for a box, orders the club to take away the box; the same with a gypsy who has a gallows that revives the dead; takes the hell away a cloak in which all devils; when a wife gives birth to a child, a man asks the king to be godfather; he agrees if a man builds a bridge of gold and silver, and there are different trees and birds around; everything is done, king comes; demands to give the box, sends an army; a man lets devils and a club; the king admits defeat, gives half the kingdom; the man tells the gallows to revive the fallen soldiers]: Bîrlea 1966:447-448 ).

Central Europe. Belarusians (Mogilev Province, Orsha District) [The childless grandfather has a dream: collect bird eggs and sit out; he collected 31, the woman sat out, boys were born; everyone was baptized, the last name was not enough, they called Mal-Malyshok; the sons went to mow, M. broke an oak tree, mows it; every night one haystack disappears; ten brothers are guarding, no one has been noticed; M. orders to forge an iron club, threw it up, put his forehead up, it split; the one with 40 pounds does not split; M. hits the mare with a club, she gave him the foals, M. took the worst one; the brothers left; after the death of his parents, M. caught up with them; the first Baba Yaga has 29 daughters, she refers to her sister, who is 30, she to the other, she has 31; the horse tells M. that at night the brothers quietly put their hats on the brides and tie their scarves for themselves; Baba Yaga cut off the heads of her daughters with a self-made sword; Baba Yaga catches up with a goat, M. killed; brothers hired the king, M. the elder, the brothers persuade the king to order M. to bring Baba Yaga's self-made sword; M. took it away; brothers: get the samogudi; M. took it away; brothers: M. can find out why the sun stood in one place for three hours; M. goes to the sun; whale fish asks to know why it is lying on the shore; M. arrives for the Month, who first hides him from the Sun Brother, then M. opened; Sun: looked at the maiden -Bagpipes when she sailed in a golden shuttle; let the whale spit out 40 swallowed ships; the king orders to get the bagpipe girl; M. offered V. wine, she got drunk, he took her away; V. tells me to get a chest from the bottom of the sea with her clothes; M. sends a self-made sword to cut fish, whale fish asks not to do so, pulls out a chest; V.: now the keys to the chest are from the bottom of the sea; the last cancer brought the keys; V. to get married, build a church made of gold and silver bricks and the same bridge; and to make the resin boil in the cauldron; V. did everything herself, the tsar fell into the resin, M. became tsar, married V.]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:94-109.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Azerbaijanis [fairy tale episodes: "In the middle of the valley , there was a palace made of gold and silver bricks. His towers went into the clouds"; "Ahmed immediately opened the door and left. He was curious and eager to quickly explore where he had come. The walls of the fortress, made of gold and silver bricks, rose almost to the sky. Everything around was decorated with precious stones, pearls, gold"; "Kechal took the ring, petted the cat and dog and gave them food. And then he says, "Oh magic ring, I'm not asking you much. Only one palace. And that it should be made of gold and silver bricks. And his towers should reach the clouds. I don't need anything else." As soon as he said this, there was a rumble and a palace so beautiful grew before his eyes that Kechal never dreamed of"; "The cat ran in front, and the dog was not one step behind her. For forty days and forty nights, they walked so fast that even a bird could not catch up with them, they swam across many rivers and crossed many mountains. They finally reached the city where the palace, made of gold and silver bricks, stood"; "They gave Kechal a carpet and a ring. He immediately asked: "Oh my magic ring, give me back my palace made of gold and silver bricks." Before he had time to say these words, he returned to the palace with his grandmother, cat and dog. It was really fun and fun. Since that day, a cat and a dog have been guarding the palace without allowing a single person to approach it. And Kechal lived and lived in a palace made of gold and silver bricks and made good money"]: Seyidov 1983:8, 22, 77, 81-82; Talyshi [the king has bad eyes, the dervish advises to smear them with blood some fish; the king sends Ibrahim's son with his army; he is fishing, but the rest of the fish are going to sink the ship; I. releases fish, the king finds out about it, wants to execute I., the vizier simply persuades him expel; some dervish becomes a travel companion; seeks water for I., receives seven devas from a servant, tells him to put sleeping pills in the devas pilaf, kills the devas; they fought with peri, she is grateful, gives a ring, from whom four servants come out, a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth; I. and a dervish send an old woman to marry the king's daughter; he demands 1) a hundred camels loaded with jewelry, otherwise he will kill the old woman; 2) a palace made of gold and silver bricks; the servants from the ring bring everything, build everything; I. gets a wife, the dervish leaves, promising to return in 6 months; once the wife asked to explain how I. completed her father's tasks; in response, he scolds and beats her; then softened, showed magic objects; the slave overheard, took possession of the ring, the servants from the ring threw I. into the well, the palace with the royal daughter they were moved to the top of the mountain; the king heard moans, I. was pulled out, the dervish came, cured him; found the palace, told I.'s wife to give the slave sleeping pills; {the story ends}]: Miller 1930:126-142.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [Hasan did an excellent job at school; when he learns that his classmates are going to come to his feast, he runs with his parents to avoid shame: they do not have the means to receive guests; H. a clairvoyant, he knows when a person will die; knowing that a shepherd will die in 14 days, he makes an agreement with him; the shepherd dies, his 6 sheep go to Hassan; his flock multiplies; he buys sleep from the thorn collector, giving 20 sheep; goes on a journey; at night he sees a rider in the ruins; a woman's voice calls: Hasan! H. goes with a woman, in the morning she realizes that she is a stranger; they have settled in the city; the barber told the king that H. has a beautiful wife; the vizier advises to send him for the leaves of the magic tree; H. killed the dragon, the local king (obviously king peri} married him a daughter, H. picked up tree leaves and returned with his second wife; now the king sends X. to bring water from a certain place; the second wife H. is a fairy; teaches you to come to the pond in the middle of the thickets; three doves will arrive, throw off their clothes, bathe; you must hide the youngest's clothes, take an oath from her; when you hear that Hasan knows about her abduction, a peri-dove stays with him because her reputation has already been damaged; they have collected water from a spring; the barber tells the king that H. has a third wife; the vizier advises to demand that H. make a bridge of gold and silver bricks from his house to the palace; King Peri's daughter: there will be a bridge; the vizier advises to lure H. to the bridge and push him into the river; wives: ask the king and all those close to him to gather on the bridge; we will overturn him , we'll save you and the rest will drown; after that, Peri told H. to marry the one he ran with first and marry them after her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 5:29-34; Persians [fairy tale episodes: "The girl did not say anything, she drank tea, returned to the house, and then told her mother to close all the doors tightly and not let anyone into the yard and drain the water from the reservoir. She went down to the bottom herself and saw that, with God's blessing, the whole bottom was covered with pearls and rubies. She picked up jewelry with the help of Mother Pleshivets. She sold some of them and, having destroyed a recently bought house, rebuilt it, making walls of gold and silver bricks"; "She went to the nursery and looks - it's a miracle what a child it is! As soon as he laughs, blooming roses fall out of his mouth, as soon as he cries, large pearls roll out of his eyes, and gold and silver bars grow from under his feet like bricks. Out of envy, her eyes climbed onto her forehead. Then one day, a husband and wife built a beautiful new house for themselves from those gold and silver bricks, laid out a garden in front of it, and built marble pools and golden fountains in the garden. What fruit trees, all the flowers there weren't in that garden! As if in paradise on earth"]: Osmanov 1987:76, 127; Tajiks [=Niyazmukhamedov 1945:128-137; stepmother torments stepdaughter with work, tells cotton to strain; the cow eats it, releases yarn from her mouth; the wind blows away cotton into the old woman's cave; she tells her to comb her hair, clean her house; promises that laughing roses will fall from the mouth of a laughing girl, tears will turn into pearls, from her right foot, if necessary, gold bricks will fall, silver bricks from the left; the stepmother's daughter goes to herd a cow; carelessly combs the old woman, sweeps poorly; takes gold from the pantry; she grows a lump on her forehead, gold turns into stones; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, the cow tells the girl to bury her bones in a hole; the stepmother and stepdaughter go to the wedding, tell them to separate the rice from the wheat; the chicken does it, in the place of the cows bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does not recognize her stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), the padishah's son is looking for him, finds a girl in good shape, where her stepmother hid her; on the way, the stepmother gives the bride eat salty, thirsty, stepmother gives water in exchange for torn eyes; throws stepdaughter into the well, replaces her daughter with her daughter; poor old man finds beauty and pearls; saves her, gathers laughing roses; changes them for the eyes of her stepmother's daughter, the current wife of the padishah; now pearls fall out of her eyes, roses from her mouth; stepmother sends a witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl tells her to be buried in a tomb made of gold and silver bricks; the stepmother takes her heart away, gives a bag with it to her daughter; when she takes it off her neck for the night, the stepdaughter comes to life; the padishah's son finds her at night arrives; she has a son and daughter; the boy has grown up, pulls out a bag with her heart; the stepmother and daughter of the padishah asks if they want 40 horses or 40 whips; they want horses; they are tied by braids to 40 horses with tails, a beautiful woman and her son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:175-182; Tajiks Sistan [fairy tale episode: "She gathered a whole army of divas and bets and began to look for him everywhere, but couldn't find it anywhere. And she finally came to the city where Malik-Muhammad's father ruled. Her army besieged the city, and she became a camp and built a castle for herself in the camp, so much so that the bricks in it were made entirely of gold and silver"]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 9:127-128; Baluchis [two princes went hunting; the youngest saw a snake swallowing a ram, but the horns were stuck in its mouth; the youngest called the elder, they sawed off the horns, the serpent swallowed them; they brought the snake to to his father, he gave him a carpet; serpent: let one of you come; the youngest was frightened, the eldest went; the serpent asked his relatives if he would give him his daughter for a man; they said that if he was for three the night does not work with her, they will fill his skin with hay, and if he is sweet, let it be; at night the girl took off the snake's shell; the young man slept for two nights, but cut his finger on the third, did not fall asleep and got along with the girl; in the morning a serpent came and joked; his wife ordered his father to choose a thin horse, an old harness and a saddle, and his mother to take the incense of the Holy Prophet Suleiman; going to his father, the prince waited at the crossing; saw a snake and threw a stone at her; wife: you killed me, put the medicine from that bag on my head; the younger brother saw the elder's wife and wanted her himself; the king ordered the vizier to help get rid of his eldest son and give his wife to the youngest; the vizier orders to fill three jugs with marvelous milk by morning; the wife called the divas, they gave milk; bring a flower from the dead; wife: sow sesame seeds at the spring; when it blooms, pearies will come; take a medium dress and don't look back; she's my uncle's daughter; the prince did so; the other pearies flew away; he returned the clothes when that peary said "for the love of husband and wife"; she brought a flower and brought the prince to his house {and became his wife}; vizier: there are 7 vessels of gold, the key disappeared with your late mother, get it; wives: in such a place the entrance to the grave will be opened; the prince goes and sees two bulls attacking their owner; two dogs (same); one woman hanging, the other makes a fire under her; each time she asks what this means, he is promised an answer on the way back; his mother in the cauldron jumped out and gave the key; the one that hangs did not give the one that burns it half a man of oil; the owner fed one dog and did not feed the other; one bull gave hay, the other did not; the young man gave the key; the vizier: create a castle on the river, one brick is gold and the other is silver; the wives called pearies and angels, they built them all; the king, the vizier, who came close there rose; the pearies and the angels took the bricks, king, vizier, close associates drowned]: Zarubin 1932, No. 15:190-197.