K38F. Dragon Winner, ATU 300.

.11.-.17.21.23.26.-.34.36.38.41.

A monster with reptile features requires human casualties (devours people; kidnaps a girl; closes water sources). The hero kills him. The victims of the monster do not play an active role in the action.

Shauna, Pygmies aka, (Lamba), Kikuyu, Yoruba, Mandingo, Malinke, Mosi, Dagomba, Fulbe, Balant, Zaghawa, Nubians, Sudanese Arabs, Somalis, (Nandi), Berbers and Algerian Arabs, (Berbers Tunisia), Arabs of Egypt (?) , (Tuaregs), Latins, Basques, Aragon, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Maltese, Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Umbria, Tuscany, Rome, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia) Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Ladins, British, Scots, Irish, Walloons, French, Bretons, Germans (Hessen, Pomerania, Grimms, Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Upper Palatinate, Tyrol), Alsatians, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq (?) , Jordan (?) , Lebanon (?) , Qatar (?) , Bahrain (?) , Yemen (?) , Mehri, Tibetans, Tibetans (Amdo), Ancient India, Bengalis (Marathi, Santals, Kondas, Tamils), Tetum (or Kemak), Chinese (Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Hubei), Ancient Greece, Slovenes, Bosnians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Romanians, Moldovans (Albanians), Gagauz, Poles, Luzhitans, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Karelian Pomorie, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Vladimir, Novgorod, Pskov, Tver, Tula, Gorkovskaya, Oryol, Ryazan, Tambov, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Urums, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Abazins, Kabardian, Adygs, Karachays and Balkarians, Ossetians, Stavropol Turkmens, Nogais, Ingush, Avars, Lezgins, Aguls, Udis, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks Khorezma, Uzbeks, Baluchis, Yagnobes, Yazgulyam, Ishkashim, Bartangans, Pashtuns, Turkmens, Lithuanians, Latvians, Lutsies, Livs, Estonians, Warlords, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Scandinavians, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, (Western Sami), Mari, Mordovians, Komi, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Dagurs, Baikal Evenks, Ancient Japan (Kojiki), Beaver.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Shauna (karanga) [twins Shuau (elder) and Gyorre are indistinguishable; everyone has a dog and onion born with him; S. plants a plant that will wither if he dies, leaves; cuts off the heads of a four-headed snake living in the lake, who is left to eat the king's daughter; the king's sons-in-law take credit for themselves, the daughter tells her father the truth; S. shows her hidden heads the snake gets the princess; fights the two-headed snake, is killed, the dog revives it; the snake offers to tie the dog, kills both; the plant withers, D. comes to his wife Sh., she takes him for her husband, but he does not sleeps with her; revives S. and his dog; wife finds out that her husband has a twin]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1975, 120:290-294; Pygmies aka [Nzôya is a great hunter, other men are jealous, trying unsuccessfully kill him, he leaves; in one place a large crocodile does not allow him to approach the river, you must give a girl for the right to use water every year; N. killed a crocodile, ripped open his belly, all day long from swallowed children came out, but one died when N. hit the crocodile with a knife; the leader handed over his post to N., married the rescued girl and another]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 33:146-155; kikuyu: Abrahamsson 1951 [Wamweri ("son of the month"), against the advice of Wadua ("son of the sun"), marries a one-eyed girl; another, Washuma, rejects grooms; offers beans and milk, he only drinks milk; she advises stay in the house, for every night Mukunga Mbura Rainbow Serpent comes out of the lake, steals cattle; Wadua stays in the house but goes out at night, kills MM; in the morning, the girls' father offers a competition to find out who killed the snake; 1) running (Wadua wins); 2) get the feathers of a certain bird; while Washuma waits on the shore, Wadua descends into the lake, takes the cattle out of the water in the morning; the water disappears, Wadua with his wife and cattle appears to the father-in-law]: 196-197; (cf. laadi [(European borrowing); Samba went into the house, asked the old woman for water; she gave a calebasa rotten at the bottom; the crocodile holds the water, gives a little in exchange for the girls, the leader's eldest daughter's turn; S. shot the crocodile, cut off its tail, left, leaving his sandals; the crocodile was abandoned by the leader's daughter, then another girl; she found out that the crocodile was dead; everyone began to try on shoes; only S. came up, he also has a severed crocodile tail; S. received the leader's daughter]: Aksenova et al. 2005:103-105; lamba [The Lioness and the Cow live together; each gives birth to a human son; the cow warns her son that The lioness can kill her; it happened; the Lioness's son finds out about this, offers to kill his mother; they order axes to the blacksmith, cut off the Lioness's head when she enters the house; they come to a village where not waters; water is given by lake spirits for human sacrifices; it is the turn of the leader's son; the Lioness's son cuts off the heads of spirits, tells the leader's son to bring them to his father; he gives the daughter to the son of a Lioness; the son The cow leaves the wife of the Lioness's son a pot of porridge; if the porridge dries, something has happened to him; leaves; comes to the ends of the earth, where clouds touch her, puts a ladder, climbs into the sky, comes to daughters of God; God sends an army, the son of the Cow kills everyone; the same for the second time; the third time the son of the Cow hears the howling of a dog eating cow's giblets; says he will now die; tells enemies to raise two sticks and dies immediately; daughter-in-law sees that the porridge has dried up; the Lioness's son comes, revives the Cow's son with the blow of the animal's tail; the son of the Cow gets a wife]: Doke 1927, No. 11:15-23).

West Africa. Yoruba [children die in infancy; spouses donate all property, wife gives birth to boys Taivo and Keginde; husband finds two knives and two swords in the fish caught; T. and K. leave, father gives everyone a leopard, a dog, a cat, a hawk, a knife, a sword; from the fork, T. goes to the left, K. to the right, everyone leaves a knife stuck in a tree; T. comes to a city where residents sacrifice the king's daughter to the god of the sea; T. the sea monster defeats, cut off six heads, cut off the ears of two, hides them; the princess hung half of her necklace around the neck of dog T., the other half around the cat's neck; the commander attributes the feat to himself; On her wedding day, the princess's slave sees a dog in the city, a cat with a mistress's necklace; T. shows her severed ears, receives a princess, and soon a throne; the commander's ears are cut off, his head is cut off; the mother of the monster sends a rooster to lure T. and his animals into his forest, turns them into stones; K., who has become a healer, finds his brother's rusted (sign of death) knife; also follows the rooster; kills the old woman, revives the petrified with magic water; brothers come to their homes, revive their dead parents; T. - the first king Oyo, K. died, turned into the moon]: Fuja 1969:48-61; sandingo (Arabic borrowing, cf. Fulbe; Guinea-Bissau) [Malan goes hunting, his stupid and angry sister Njatta tells him not to take dogs with him; M. throws beans behind to find his way home, N. follows and picks up; M. looks for fire, sees smoke , comes to the blind cannibal; a huge cat brings her a man; M. crept in to take the coal, but N. tells the cannibal that her brother has come; the cannibal tells her hair to tie those who have come; dogs hear they come running, killing the cannibal; M. and his dogs go one way, N. the other; dogs see a hedgehog killing a frog and immediately reviving it with grass; M. collects this grass; girl Maria Futuma {Fatima} they give a seven-headed snake to be eaten in exchange for water; M.'s dogs kill the snake, he carves out his tongues; the swineherd says that he killed the snake, N. confirms; it turns out that the swineherd and N. pull out their tongue; N . puts a knife in bed M., he dies, he is buried; dogs find revitalizing grass, killing N., reviving M.]: Mendelssohn 1971:203-212); raspberries [Bida sends a snake three times to a year of golden shower in exchange for 9 girls; agrees to one; a beautiful woman is born, becomes Mamadi Sefe Dekote's lover, who cuts off the snake's head when it sticks out of the pond; the head takes off and falls far away, there is a lot of gold there now]: Frobenius 1921c, No. 3:64-72; mosi [a man comes to the village, asks an old woman for water, she says that there is little water, snakes keep it; every 7 days, the chief gives him the girl to eat; the man goes to the spring, cuts off the snake's head, tells the girl to go home; the next day there is plenty of water, the chief gathers people to find out who killed the snake; man says he is; he is rewarded, he leaves]: Klipple 1992:120; Dagomba [two boys are friends since childhood, one is poor, the other is rich; the chief's daughter will marry someone who will spend six days in her house without food and water, otherwise he will be executed; the rich volunteered to try; the poor makes a hole in the wall and gives the rich water; the girl guessed it, lay down in the same place, set a bowl of water and moistened the edge of her clothes; rich met a rat, she promised to help; ants destroyed the bowl and clothes; the chief married his daughter to a rich young man; the young man planted a tree (let his friend watch if it was dry) and went on a journey; in the village water in the river appears only if a girl is sacrificed; it is the turn of the leader's daughter; at sunset, a boa constrictor crawled out to the girl - the spirit of the river; the young man cut him into pieces, water poured out of his body; the leader refused to accept daughter, because she was given to the spirit of the river, so the young man and girl settled far from the village; but one day the inhabitants invited the young man to hunt; told him not to approach the hill; but they followed the antelope themselves; the rock opened and swallowed everyone; when he saw that the tree had dried up, the rich young man went in search of a friend; the villagers and the poor brother's wife mistook the rich girl for her husband; at night, the young man explained that he had given vow not to agree with his wife until he freed the swallowed; when the rock wanted to swallow it, he cut her with a knife, the swallowed ones came out; the poor friend explained to his wife that the rich looked like him like two drops water; which of the two is the best friend?] : Cardinall 1931:183-188; fulbe [when Hambodeju is 10 years old, his father-king dies; his uncle (father's brother) takes the throne; H. has grown up, his uncle's son tells him to get out; H. goes on Bonnujuwadu's horse to look allies to fight his uncle; comes to Elle, the king of the Tuareg city; his son grabs his hat, H. kills him; the three-headed Kurua lives in a pond, provides water in exchange for a girl who is given to him every year; it is the turn of Fatuma Elle, the daughter of the king and sister of the murdered prince; H. stayed with the old woman, who says that there will be no water until F. is sacrificed; the servant leads H. to to the reservoir, H. consistently cuts off K.'s heads that appear out of the water; cuts off the tail, gives it to the servant for storage; the king gathers the people to find out who the hero is; H. shows what the servant has brought tail, says he came for military help; gets F. and warriors, regains her father's throne]: Klipple 1992:121-122; balance [an elderly woman lets go of fish, she makes it fertile, she gives birth to three identical sons; the elder leaves the tree, if it turns yellow, then trouble with it; comes to an old woman, builds a house for her; kills a snake, to which the royal daughter was given to eat; marries a princess; comes to cannibals, they captivate him; the middle brother goes to look for the younger one; when they see him, the old woman and wife think that it is the elder who has returned; they do not go to his wife, the middle brother goes after the younger one, is captivated; the same with the elder; he frees brothers, they kill cannibals; the tsar passes off other daughters to his son-in-law's brothers]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:196-200.

Sudan - East Africa. Zaghawa [the king is old and childless; marabu: a sword will hit you on the leg; take him and lie down with your wife, the son of Mahamat Sword Son will be born; the king ordered to bury treasures, kill those who buried them, only the faithful maid knows the place; after the king's death, his brother took the throne; M.'s mother agreed to poison her son for promising the new king to make her the main wife; the maid threw meat to the dog, which died; M. went on a journey; met and accompanied two older young men; the dragon surrounded the garden with his body where the spring is; the brothers are thirsty; M. killed the dragon; the king wants to give him his daughter, but he asks to give it to his older brother; elsewhere M. kills a lion, asks the king to give her daughter to his second brother; on an island in the sea there is a palace, in which a girl who gives youth to those who marry her; an elderly the king captured her and settled her on the island; the king sent an army of devils against M., M. killed him; the king sent an old woman to M., who supposedly had nothing to eat; she threw M.'s sword into the sea, the old king took the girl away; companions M. found out about this; they dived for a long time, finally found a fish with a sword stuck in her throat; M. came to life; all three, disguised as girls, came to the king; the king's bride recognized M., chose her as a servant; M. forced the king give the names of all his servants and subjects; killed him; went out to the people in the morning and said that he was the old king, but after a night with that girl he rejuvenated; made his brothers kings and drove his uncle himself with father's throne; settled in the village with his mother; married a faithful maid himself]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (2), No. 28:35-52; Nubians [lying in a puddle, the woman gave birth to a donkey from the seed; Ahmed Son of Donkey (ASO) beats his wife twice a day, who confirms that he is daring; the old woman advises his wife to answer that there are better daredevils; ASO leaves, meets, takes Ushasty, Glazasty as companions, Angry, Inexhaustible (irrigates the beds with his urine); everyone first replies that if he met ASO, he would fraternize with him; the king sprinkles poison, the Eyed takes away the poisoned pieces; the king sets fire to the house, The inexhaustible floods; the angry almost killed everyone; the king is ready to give his daughter, the ASO only takes a receipt that they are daring; each one cooks in turn, the giant eats everything; when it is the ASO's turn, he throws him into the fire, the giant disappears into the well; the ASO goes down the rope, the beauty says that the giant's soul is in the chest, the ASO breaks it; the twins pick it up, share the beauty and the treasures, cut the rope; ASO falls into the fifth underworld; there the crocodile closed the river, provides water in exchange for girls; ASO promises to cause ritual scars to the crocodile when he and the girl are eaten, kills; hides at the old woman, leaving a handprint on the princess's thigh; the king finds the hero, tells the eagle to take him upstairs; there is not enough meat, the ASO cuts off the piece from the thigh, gives it to the eagle; he puts it back; ASO forgives brothers, returns to his wife]: Katznelson 1968:78-94; Sudanese Arabs (Jaaaliyin) [the Sultan has two wives: a slave with two sons and a free one, who has a son Muhammad; every year a palm tree yields dates, and the snake devours them; the slave's sons went to guard, they did not notice anything; M. cut off the snake's head; two feathers fell from its head: gold and silver; M. brought silver to his father, gold disappeared; the father sends his sons to find him; at the crossroads, the woman gives them food, explains: one road, if you go, you will not return, and the other is the road of peace; M. went the road of peace; the same one appeared at the edge of the forest the snake ate the dates that M. took with him, spat in the water; turned into a man with a sword; he said that the road would lead to the local sultan; he would give two chickens, black and white; they should be caught with closed eyes; a man with a sword will kill someone who catches a white one, but will let go if he catches a black one; M. caught a white one, but asked him to let him go: he himself is the son of the Sultan; M. returned to the snake; she sends to the Sultan, who will offer, with his eyes closed, to catch horses with gold and silver harness; whoever catches a horse with gold harness will be punished; (the same as with chickens); the snake sends again to the Sultan: he will give a girl, but her whole body must be carefully wrapped in cloth; if even her little finger is visible, she will burn the village, and the Sultan will punish M.; her fingers are visible, the village burned down; the Sultan let go again; M. took the chickens, horses and the girl, finds brothers who have taken the path of non-return; they ask them to go down to the well for water; there are black and white rams; if you say "white will knock down black", Allah will save; if, on the contrary, you fall by 7 worlds down; M. said just like that, the white ram threw him down; there is an old woman, M. asked for water, she gave it, a fly in the water, M. splashed water, the old woman scolds him: there is not enough water, she is held by a crocodile, gives it to in exchange for girls one a day, the king will give his daughter to whoever saves her; M. fell asleep, the princess's tear fell in M.'s ear, he jumped up, cut off the crocodile's head; so all 7 heads; each was marked with blood; exchanged rings with the princess; the king checked whether the rings were the right, ordered M. to raise his severed head; making sure that he was a hero, the king gave M. a daughter]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 9:85-87; (cf. Sudanese Arabs [ Gulya (i.e. ghul, a female demon) has closed the water, demands a girl and a cooked sheep to eat every day; it is the turn of the Sultan's daughter; Muhammad comes and asks the old woman for water, she explains why there is no water; he unties the girl, falls asleep; red wind, heavy rain, black rain, followed by a gulya; the girl's tear falls on M.'s face, he wakes up, cuts off seven guli heads, leaves her The girl's thigh gives her a ring, smeared with blood; the sultan is looking for a hero; only M. fits the ring, his palm matches the print; M. gets the Sultan's daughter as his wife]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 30:149-151); Somalis: Klipple 1992 [six robbers meet a man and tell him to join them; he says he does not have a sword, they give him a sword; tell him to penetrate first Sultan's palace; when robbers follow, a man cuts off everyone's head; in the palace, a man calms dogs by throwing meat at them; finding them sleeping, ties the hair of a woman and her husband, the hair of two princesses , a dog; kills a snake that is about to bite the sultan; leaving the palace, a person sees a dragon that demands a girl every year; defeats a dragon, cuts off his tongue and leaves; a murderer The dragon sultan promises a reward; six impostors come for her, but the sultan demands to show his tongue; the hero appears, shows the dragon's tongue; the sultan gives the hero a choice of any of the princesses whose hair is he tied up; the hero marries, the sultan gives him the throne]: 131-132; (cf. Reinish 1900, No. 2 (recorded in Arabic) [wife is dead, son and daughter ask father to marry; the new wife takes an oath from him and it turns out that he has sworn to sacrifice a son and daughter; the son heard everything, told sister to comb her hair, grabbed her comb, she seemed to run after the comb, they galloped away; the sister forgot the comb at the place of the night, the brother came back, the demon's comb, he gave it away; brother and sister came to demon's fortress; the young man agreed with the demon to stay in the room under lock and key; told his sister not to open the room; she opened it, asked the demon to lie down with her; he reluctantly agreed; sister asks demon, how can they kill her brother; he: he will be killed by a snake under a certain tree; the sister pretends to be sick, asks for a branch of this tree; there the brother begins to fall into the ground, but manages to hack a snake; brings a branch; the demon advises to ask for water from the source of life; the brother goes in search; asks the old woman for water, she gives only a little; the demon has closed the water, gives on Fridays for cattle and for the princess; the young man falls asleep on the girl's lap, wakes up from a fallen tear; cuts off the demon's head, refuses to hit him again; the young man sees a man with huge ears wrapped in; he sends to his Brother, his ears are even bigger; the young man took water while the guards were sleeping; hid in the ears of a big-eared man; he did not give him to his pursuers; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps to the high mark; only a young man jumped, got a wife; half a month later he went to his sister, his wife warns that it was dangerous; he left 16 vessels of living water to his wife, took one with him; fell asleep with his sister, who told the demon to kill him, She threw the chest with the body into the sea; the chest sailed to the young man's wife, she found the body, revived it; the young man came to his sister, told the demon to kill her, killed the demon himself, burned the bodies, returned to his wife]: 277-287); (cf. nandi [during the drought, they decided to sacrifice a virgin; she was sent to the lake shore, where she was supposed to ask for rain; her boyfriend followed quietly; when it rained, he cut it beast; both returned to the village, healed well]: Chesaina 1997:47-48).

North Africa. Berbers Zooahua (Kabylia) [seven brothers promise to stay if their mother gives birth to a daughter, but the mother gives birth to a son; they leave; along the way, the elders leave the youngest in the well {not clear, it is a grown baby or the youngest of seven}; he is sold to one person; a month later he turns white; the owner's wife invites him to run away with her, he refuses; she tells her husband to sell the slave, the husband lets him go; he comes to the village, where the many-headed dragon has locked the water, gives for the girls given to him to be eaten; the princess's turn; the young man breaks the dragon's heads with sticks as they appear out of the water; gets a wife and a kingdom]: Basset 1887, No. 35:72-74; kabila: Frobenius 1921b, No. 42 [the prince has two eldest sons with Arab wives and the youngest from a cabin wife; the elders abuse the youngest; he begged his father let him go on a journey; upon learning of this, the sons of the Arabs also went; his father told him not to stay in the golden forest and in the silver forest; the elders insisted on spending the night in the golden forest; at night the dragon Lephsa came; the older brothers hid in fear, and the younger one cut off his head; in the morning the older brothers said they had killed the dragon; the younger pretended to be grateful for their salvation ; the same with the dragon in the silver forest; here the shining girl says that he saved her and must now marry her; the young man asked her to wait, gave her his shoe, which is so small that no one else could I would like to wear it; the youngest returned to the brothers; when all three of them went on, said he forgot his shoe and returned to the girl; they went, stopped under a tree, the girl gave her jewelry to the young man and fell asleep; the crow took them away; he chased her; the girl woke up and, when she saw that the young man was missing, put on the man's dress he had left and rode his horse; came to the judge, disguised as a young man, carried out a soft verdict, the people asked the judge to make the imaginary young man their successor; the judge's daughter fell in love with him and her parents passed her off as an imaginary young man; on the wedding night, the imaginary husband prayed until morning, and the next night the girl confessed everything and promised that her husband would marry them both; the judge's daughter did not extradite her; the young man came to the city, hired a Jew to cultivate his field; found a pot of gold; a Jew gave it to a young man ; he came to the sea and asked the sailor to watch his gold, but he took the pot and sailed away with it; the young man came to the city, where the prince gave everyone an ax to cut down a tree; whoever cut down a tree will receive his daughter, and executes others; but after the fourth blow, the felling overgrown every time; the young man saw the nest of the crow that had taken away the jewelry on the tree; knocked down the tree on the third blow, refused to take the prince's daughter, only took it jewelry from the nest; came to the city where his wife was; he did not recognize her, but she recognized him, asked the bathhouse attendant to take him to the bathhouse; while the young man was washing, the bathhouse attendant took the jewelry; they came to the judge (i.e. to the disguised wife); the young man told his story; the judge asked the bathhouse attendant what punishment the priest deserved, who said that expulsion; the wife opened up to her husband, showed him and his second wife; the young man himself took the place of judge, sent the bathhouse attendant into exile]: 188-198; Frobenius 1922a, No. 3 [the boy in his mother's uncle's house asks you to take him home, he does not want to stay with strangers; uncle: the house is near, and I am your mother's brother; I'll tell you what it means a foreign land; there are 77 of them on the ship, the ship drowned, seven clung to the boards; the eagle takes them one by one, this man is the last, throws the chicks into the nest; a man kills eagles, goes down a rope of hair eaten by women; behind him is a 7-headed hydra, he jumps off, breaks bones, crawls into the lioness's lair, sucks her with the lions; she went out; he met six companions , the Cyclops saw them, took them to a cave with his sheep, blocked the exit with a rock; eats them one at a time, planted them on a hot rod; a man tells a fairy tale, the cyclops falls asleep, he dazzles him hot with a rod; goes out, covered with a ram's skin and holding the ram's head on his head; when he goes out, throws it into the cyclops; steals the herd; the robbers take it; in the village, the Hydra has closed the water, gives it for the girls; the robbers sell it to an old man whose daughter should be given to the Hydra; the man tells the old man to smear himself with honey, the Hydra will lick him; there is no smeared space on the back of his head, the old man was sucked through him, the skin fell, the Hydra crawled away; the man and the girl are leaving, riding a donkey, falling asleep; the lioness ate half a girl; people think this man ate; they took the elder; he ran away from the house where he was kept; After listening to the story, the boy agreed to go home himself (var.: he was ill for a long time)]: 24-30; Taos-Amrush 1974 [younger brother Ahmed leaves home; kills a jackal, a lion, a panther, shepherds give him a sheep every time, the cow, etc., he asks to leave the animal in the herd until his return; the seven-headed dragon does not allow it to approach the water; A. cuts off the heads, asks the Sultan's daughter; he offers to identify her among a hundred girls, a greyhound rushes to her; wedding; the sultan warns of danger in the forest; M. goes to the forest, Ceriel swallowed him with a horse and a greyhound; at home the tree turned yellow, Mehand's elder brother goes to save A.; shepherds take him for A., they say that animals have produced abundant offspring; M. kills C., takes out the corpses of A., a horse and a dog; sees a lizard kill another, revives with grass; M. revives those swallowed by the same grass; brothers with wife A. and herds return home]: 117-128; Algerian Arabs [ghoul steals apples from the Sultan's garden; three sons are guarding; the youngest shot at the ghoul; the brothers came in bloody on the trail to a crevice in the mountains; the youngest was lowered on a rope; below is the Ghoul's palace, with three kidnapped princesses; the ghoul offers to drink a pool of water and eat a couscous pool; the prince prays to Allah, his the pools are empty; the ghoul decides that he and the prince are equal; the prince hacked the ghoul; sends the princesses upstairs; the youngest gives her ring; if you turn it, white and black rams will appear and start butting; you must jump on a white man's back, while black would take him to the seventh lower world; the brothers did not pick up the young man, told the princesses to confirm that he had been killed by a ghoul; the young man accidentally jumped on a black ram and was below; I came to an old woman, she has 7 sons; has been living there for 7 years, became bored; seven asked the eagle to take the guest to the ground; the old woman cooked 7 pancakes and 7 servings of meat; with an eagle raised to each underground tier, it is necessary feed; the young man dropped the last portion, cut off and gave the eagle a piece of his flesh; eagle: the last portion is fresh, I would throw you off if I did not promise to take you to the ground; on the ground, the young man saw a daughter by the cave Sultan, it is given to be eaten by a 7-headed snake; every year, having received another victim, the snake gives the townspeople a portion of water; the young man fell asleep, the girl's tear woke him up; after each cut off the snake's heads says that the young man cut off only the first (second, etc.), and the one that the serpent received only the first (second, etc.) blow of the sword; the girl picked up the boy's lost shoe; after killing the snake, the young man came to the city, stayed in the madrasah; the sultan promises a reward to anyone who proves that he killed the snake; many come, but the shoe does not fit them, they cut off their heads; when a young man in one shoe comes, he The second came up, the sultan gave him a daughter and half the kingdom; an unrecognized young man came to his hometown; there was just the wedding of his brothers with the rescued princesses; the sultan recognized his son; expelled his older brothers; the young man received all three princesses, began to live with four wives]: Belamri 1982:36-45; Algerian Arabs (Blida) [the couple has a son; the husband asks his wife to take the drug to conceive again; she prepared the potion, went to bath; husband accidentally ate it himself; wife came back, a quarrel began, a few days later the wife died {from beatings?} ; the husband's leg was swollen, a girl came out of the tumor; he told his son to get rid of it; he left the child in the tree; for three years an eagle fed the girl, then the young man took her and went on a journey; he had three dogs with talking names (the last "Pulling the lungs out of her shoulders"); the girl's name is Bent essaq ("Foot Daughter"; B.); they came to Ghoul's house; he left with the key in the door; they began to live in this house; until the brother was gone, the ghoul returned; B. did not unlock it, the ghoul broke the door; B. called the dogs, they did not come; the ghoul married B.; the brother returned, began to fight the ghoul, called the dogs, they tore the ghoul (the third dog pulled out her lungs); but his sister cured him; his brother returned again, cut the ghoul in half; left, leaving B.; in one area people are thirsty; the dragon closed the water, demands a bowl of couscous, ram and a girl; a young man cut a dragon, the water poured out abundantly; the girl exchanged shoes with her savior; all men are told to bring their shoes; the young man comes last, the princess threw it at him apple, recognized her shoes; wedding 7 days and nights; B. came, persuaded her to forgive her; collected dragon thorns, put her brother in bed; he died and buried; dogs removed the body, pulled out the thorns, young man came to life; the sister is crucified at the gates of the city so that everyone who passes by would spit on her]: Desparmet 1910:140-149; (cf. The Berbers of Tunis [the chief sheikh and Diab are cousins; they are at odds; D. migrated; each day, the monster eats one of his camels; there is no milk to drink the mare he rides; after finding out what was going on, D. went to kill the monster; in the castle a girl with a dish of couscous and a donkey loaded grilled camel meat; all this must be sent to the monster every day; when it appeared, D. killed him fighting with swords; the girl's father offers it to him, but D. took the camels and returned to his wife; killed the sheikh and became the head of two tribes]: Stumme 1900, No. 10:59-61); Egyptian Arabs [many references]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 300:97-100; (cf. Tuaregs (Niger) [According to a legend reported by Sa'di, when Dia Aliamen arrived in Koukia, the local population there was oppressed by some fish that appeared from rivers, telling people what they can and cannot do; there was a ring in the fish's nose; YES killed the fish by throwing a harpoon at it and saved the inhabitants from this strange oppressor; the author of "History" explains the legend in this way the way that YES was a Muslim and destroyed a pagan idol, but he was rather a Christian; it is possible that fish meant sorco who wore a nose ring]: Delafosse 1912:211).

Southern Europe. Latins: Ovid. Met. IV. 670-764 [Ovid's Metamorphoses (Er Er): Perseus met Andromeda chained to a rock; she said she was there because of her mother; a huge monster appeared from the sea; P. turned to A.'s parents on the condition that if he saves their daughter, she will become his wife; the parents agreed; P. killed the monster with winged sandals and a sickle sword; the wedding feast began]; (cf. Ovid. Met. XI. 205-217 [Apollo and Neptune complete the walls of Troy; "But king {Laomedont} denies his duty, adding -/ The height of treachery! - that he never made a promise./"This won't work for you!" - says the god of the sea and waters/He began to tilt his own to the coast of stingy Troy. /Neptune turned the Earth into a continuous abyss, riches/He took away from the villagers; he brought down waves on arable land. /Kara and this is small: The royal daughter herself {Hesion} is given as a wife/The miracle of the sea is given; a virgin attached to the rock/Alkid frees and as a reward for the promised kóny/Demands and, for refusing to pay for such a great cause, /The Fortress of Troy takes, having won, - treacherous twice/Telamon left not without honor, the militia participant: /Hesion was given to him as his wife..." (trans. Shervinsky); the murder of a sea monster is not directly mentioned in this episode]); Hyg. Astr. II. 9, 11, 31 ["Astronomy" attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the era: 1) "Euripides and everyone else agree that this is {Kefei} is the son of Phoenix, the king of Ethiopians and the father of Andromeda, who tell the most famous tales, was given to a sea monster. But Perseus saved her from danger and married her. Therefore, in order for their entire family to be united forever, the ancients also ranked Kepheus in the constellation"; 2) "It is said that it was placed among the constellations by the grace of Minerva and because of the valor of Perseus, who saved her from death when she was handed over to a sea monster. But he did not receive the slightest sign of favor from her for salvation, because neither her father Kefey nor her mother Cassiopeia could force her to leave her parents and homeland and follow Perseus. However, Euripides wrote a wonderful tragedy about these events under the same name"; 3) "It is said that Neptune sent him {Keith} to kill Andromeda, which we have already talked about, but since Perseus destroyed him, the exorbitant size of his body and the valor of Perseus himself caused him to be placed among the constellations" (trans. A.I. Ruban)]; Hyg. Fab. 64, 89 [Myths attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the Era, but most likely date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries: 1) "Cassiopeia believed that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereid. For this, Neptune demanded that Andromeda, Kefei's daughter, be put to pieces by a sea monster. When she was exhibited, Perseus appeared there, reportedly flying with Mercury's sandals, and freed her from danger. As he was about to take her with him, Kefei, her father, and her fiancée, her fiancée, secretly planned to kill Perseus. And when he found out, he showed them Gorgon's head, and all of them, having lost their human appearance, became stone. Perseus and Andromeda returned to their homeland. When Polydict saw what Perseus's valor was, he became afraid of him and decided to cunning him to kill him. Upon learning of this, Perseus showed him Gorgon's head and Polydict turned from man to stone"; 2) "Neptune and Apollo are said to have surrounded Troy with a wall. King Laomedont swore to them that he would sacrifice all the cattle that had degenerated that year in his kingdom. Out of greed, he did not fulfill this vow. Others say he promised an offspring of mares. For this, Neptune sent a monster that devastated Troy <а Аполлон - чуму>. When the king sent Apollo for advice for this reason, angry Apollo replied that if the Trojan girls were tied up and exposed to a monster, the plague would stop. When many had already been eaten, the lot fell to Hesion and she was tied to the rocks. Hercules and Telamon, on their way with the Argonauts to Colchis, ended up there and killed the monster, and Hesion was returned to his father, making an agreement that when they returned, they would take her home with them, and as well as horses that could jump on water or at the tops of ears. Laomedont also deceived them and did not want to give them to Hesion. Having then equipped the ships to take Troy, Hercules sailed there, killed Laomedont, and gave the kingdom to his son Gift, who later became known as Priam #961; tea. He married Telamona, who was returned to Hesion, from whom she gave birth to Tevkra" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]; I Myth. Vat. I. 72, II. 34 ["The First Vatican Mythograph" (compiled at the turn of the I-II millennium by an unknown medieval compiler): 1) "Perseus, traveling through Ethiopia, saw that Andromeda, tied to a rock, given to the <в öертву> sea monster because of the arrogance of her mother, who boasted that she was superior to the beauty of nymphs. Captivated by the beauty of the maiden, he loved her. He agreed with her parents Kefei and Cassiopeia that she would be married to him if he killed the monster. So Perseus did what he promised. When Kefei stayed true to his word and the elders took part in the wedding feast, Phineas, for whom Andromeda had previously been married, disturbed the feasts with curses: he considered it to be the worst An insult that an alien was preferred to a close relative. A regrettable battle broke out in the royal palace: many <гости> on both sides were killed while taking up arms that accidentally came to hand. Finally, Perseus, fearing many opponents, pulled out Gorgon's head; when they saw it, Phineas and his associates became petrified" (from Narrat. fab. Ovid. IV. 19, V. 1); 2) "Laomedont, the king of Trojan, Priam's father, asked Neptune and Apollo to build the city of Troy, promising them a reward. When they built it, he refused to pay the fee. Therefore, Apollo, indignant, sent a pestilence to the Trojans, and Neptune sent a sea monster. When they asked Apollo for advice about this, he gave an ambiguous answer that all Laomedont's daughters should be given to the monster that had devastated the entire city. At this time, Hercules suddenly appeared, on his way to the kolchs, and asked Hesion, the daughter of the king, to marry him, if he saved her from the monster. Hercules, having killed the monster, demanded his promised wife, but Laomedont deceived him. Indignant, Hercules destroyed the Trojan walls, and gave Hesion to his associate Telamon" (the direct source is unknown; the account of events before Hercules arrived is close to Serv. Aen. I. 550, but is more detailed; the rest is by Serv. Aen. I. 619, VIII. 157; per. V.N. Jarcho)]; Basques: Webster 1879:22-32 [the king caught Tartaro in the forest, locked him in a stable, called guests tomorrow to show them a wonderful prisoner; the king's two sons are playing ball; the ball three times gets to T.; he returns it twice, and refuses the third; let the prince ask his mother to see what pain in his ear is and pull the key out of her pocket; then the boy put the key back, but when the king invited the guests to look at T., there is no one in the stable; the king promises to eat the heart of the culprit; the princes quarreled and one promised to tell who released T.; the queen heard, gave her son money and told him to flee; Prince's name Little Yorge (clearly borrowed from French); he calls T., who tells him to be hired as a gardener for another king; everything he uproots will become even more magnificent the next day; three beautiful flowers will grow - let her give her to three princesses; the youngest received the most beautiful one; she tells the young man that she is being eaten by a snake; T. gives the young man a horse, clothes and a sword; that quietly cut off 7 pieces from the princess's 7 robes; on the first day, a snake cuts off one head and a horse bites off the other; the next day T. gives the young man other horses, clothes, weapons; introducing himself as the brother of the first young men, the prince cuts off 14 pieces from the princess's 14 robes; like on the first day (the snake has a third head again); the third time T. gives a bottle of special water; let the princess splash it on the prince after the snake regrets that it does not have a spark on its back, then he would burn everyone; the young man cut off one head, the horse bit off the other, the dog the third; the prince each time says that he must urgently go to Rome; the coal miner brought heads, said that he killed the snake; the king hangs a diamond ring on the bell: whoever pierces him with a sword defeats the snake; T. gave the prince a sword, a horse, a robe; the prince took off the ring, but galloped away; the king threw his spear and wounded him; in the morning the gardener's leg is bandaged; the prince shows the king his mother's fleur-de-lis sign of royalty; wedding; the prince asks his parents to be invited and let the father eat the sheep's heart - half-baked and without salt (he promised to eat his son's heart like this); the prince opened up to his father, they reconciled], 88-94 [the fish asks to let her go, the fisherman lets her go twice, the third does not agrees; she tells me to give her tail to the dog, the head of the mare, the torso to his wife; they give birth to three identical puppies, foals, sons; the elder kills the seven-headed serpent to whom the princess was given, cuts off his tongues, shows them when a coal burner attributes a feat to himself; after the wedding, she sees the castle, goes there, the old woman offers him something to eat, he turns into a monster; water boils at home - something happened; the middle brother is coming, the princess takes him for her husband, the same is with him; the youngest is the princess is surprised that her husband asks about the castle for the third time; the old woman explains the secret of the mistress of the castle; the young man does not eat, makes the witch restore her brothers to their former appearance; the witch is burned in the square, the older brother and wife get her castle]; Aragon: González Sanz 1996, No. 300 [the hero with the help of his dogs kills the seven-headed dragon and saves the princess; the deceiver takes credit for himself; he is exposed when the hero shows his saved dragon tongues], 303 [from the magic fish eaten or for another reason, two twin brothers, two horses, two dogs are born at the same time; one saves a princess sacrificed to a dragon; later falls under the control of a witch in her castle or cave; the other The brother realizes that the first trouble is following his footsteps; his brother's wife does not understand that she is not in front of her husband, but his twin; the second brother saves the first, marries a relative of the princess]: 74, 75; Portuguese : Braga 2002 [The family has many children; for the latter, the father took St. Antonia; the brothers went to the forest, got to the old woman, she put them in a cage, began to fatten them, regularly asked them to show their finger whether they were fat; the godson of St. Antonia poked her rat tail; she still decided to fry the boys, but St. Antonia asked me to show her how to get into the oven, the brothers fried her; two dogs jumped out of their bursting eyes, the godson of St. Antonia took them and came to a city where mourning is; the seven-headed dragon is given to be eaten by people, it is the princess's turn; with the help of his dogs, the godson of St. Antonia killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; the deceiver cut off his heads and claimed that he was the princess's savior; the godson of St. Antonia presented his tongues and married a princess]: 231-233; Cardigos 2006, No. 300 (a lot of records) [the young man receives dogs (lions) that were born with him, or he received them by exchanging them for something either because he spared animals; he also received a magic sword; the princess is given to a seven-headed dragon, the savior will receive her hand; the young man falls asleep with his head on his knees princess, wakes up to her fallen tears; his dogs (lion, horse) help kill the dragon; the young man cuts off his tongues, takes the princess's handkerchief or piece of her dress; the deceiver shows dragon heads, his wedding with the princess is being prepared; sometimes a deceiver kills a young man, but his dogs revive him; on his wedding day, the young man shows his tongues (ring, handkerchief, etc.]: 54-56; Spaniards (Murcia) [give gifts to the young man three dogs: Lomayiron, All I Can, Brave; the princess is eaten by a 7-headed snake; with the help of his dogs, the young man defeats the snake, cuts off his tongues; the king will give his daughter to her savior; the deceiver shows heads or tails; the young man's dogs appear at the wedding, he shows his severed tongues himself, the deceiver is exposed; in some cases, the hero is given needles in his food, he dies, but his dogs revive it]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 300:85; Catalans [the fish caught tells the fisherman to let her wife, part mare and part dog eat; each gives birth to twins: boys, foals, puppies; two swords grow out of the ground; the first brother leaves with his horse, dog, sword; kills the dragon to whom the princess must be given, takes her as his wife; comes to the castle, where turned to stone; another brother sees that the blood left in the bottle has changed color and goes in search; mistaken for the first, puts a sword next to him in bed with his wife; brother revives; they talk about what happened]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 303:65-67; Maltese [a young man herds three sheep and his sister is spinning at home; a rider offered to exchange one of the sheep for a dog; the guy agreed, sister dissatisfied; the next day, the second, then the third; the sister broke the spindle against her brother's head; he took the dogs, came to another country; there is mourning: the princess is sent to be eaten by a seven-headed dragon; her the savior will receive her hand; the young man lowers one of his dogs on the dragon; she consistently tears off one head after the other; the young man cuts off and hides his tongues, leaves; the princess gave him hers cape; a Turk picks up heads, makes the princess call him a winner; on his wedding day, a young man; presents his tongues and a cape; a Turk is executed, a young man gets a princess]: Stumme 1904, No. 34:88-90 (retelling this and other versions in Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 300 [options: the dragon (sea serpent, etc.) demands a victim once a year, otherwise he will close the river; the young man falls asleep, the princess's tear wakes him up]: 27-32); Italians : Gubernatis 1872 (Piedmont) [Giacomo herds sheep; the hunter gives them three dogs: Gnawing Iron, Fast as the Wind, Passing Everywhere; Father drives J. away, he leaves with his dogs, falls into the sorcerer's castle, brings his sister there; to marry her, the sorcerer wants to get rid of J.; K. pretended to be sick, wants flour, the miller gives flour in exchange for the dog; the other two were also removed; The sorcerer tries to strangle J., but he whistles on the whistle, the dogs come running, tear the sorcerer to pieces; J. comes to town, where the princess is going to be given to the seven-headed dragon; with the help of dogs J. kills the dragon, the princess ties a flap of her shirt around the neck of the Iron Gnawing, promises to marry J.; he leaves for a year because he is in mourning for his sister; a chimney sweep (black man, Saracen, Turk, gypsy, monster) claims that he defeated the dragon; the princess asks for a delay of a year and a day; J. returns, the princess sees a bandage around the dog's neck; J. presented the dragon's tongues; wedding; chimney sweep burned]: 36-37; Calvino 1980, No. 58 (Tuscany) [the fisherman has no children; he caught an extraordinary fish, which asked to let it go and sent it to the pond, where a huge catch was waiting for him; but his wife demands to bring it to her exactly this fish; the same again; the third time the fisherman brought fish to his wife; she asks that the fisherman's wife eat its meat, the mare drink the broth, the dog eat the head, bury three fins in the garden, and bury the gallbladder hang in the kitchen; children will be born and when they are in trouble, blood will trickle out of the bubble; the wife gave birth to three boys, a mare to three foals, a dog to three puppies, three swords grew out of the fins; when The brothers grew up, alone on their horse, with their dog and sword, went to seek happiness; in the city, the seven-headed dragon devours the girl every day, it was the princess's turn; the king promised her to be his wife savior; the young man cut off the dragon's heads, carved out his tongues, wrapped them in the princess's handkerchief and went to the inn to change clothes; the coal miner picked up the heads, brought the king and took the victory for himself; when he came young man, he was not allowed in; he sent his dog to appear to the princess and pull the tablecloth off the laid table; so twice; the third time the young man tells the dog to bring the audience to his wedding; the young man presented tongues, the coal miner was hanged; the morning after the wedding, the young man went hunting; a thunderstorm began, he made a fire; the old woman asked permission to warm up, gave the young man, dog, horse food, fat to grease his sword - all turned to stone; the second brother saw blood flowing from the fish bubble, followed his older brother's trail, mistook him; at night he put his sword in bed between himself and the princess; went hunting - too petrified; a third brother came, did not let himself be deceived, forced the old woman to get an ointment and revive the petrified ones; then the brothers chopped her into pieces; when they learned that the younger brothers were sleeping with his wife, the elder killed them; repented and revived the old woman with ointment; the king gave noble girls for his younger brothers]: 189-196; Widter et al. 1866, No. 8 (Veneto) [every year a multi-headed dragon arrives, requires a girl; princess's turn; the shepherd has three dogs - Forte, Potente and Ingegnoso; he kills the dragon, cuts off his tongues, promises to return in a year, month and day to marry a princess; the coal miner cuts off the dead dragon heads, told the princess to say that he saved her; she asks her father to postpone the wedding for a year, month and day; the shepherd tells the dogs to get the keys, comes to the wedding, the princess recognizes him, marries him a shepherd was married, a coal miner was executed; one day in the woods, the princess's husband went into an old woman's hut, she turned him into stone; his brother went in search; the princess mistook him for her husband, but he avoided to share a bed with her; heard a girl say to another: statues can be revived with the blood of an old woman; I came to an old woman and as soon as she turned away, cut off her head, sprinkled the statues, they, including him brother, came to life]: 128-132; Italians (Lombardy, Veneto, Umbria, Toscana, Rome, Lazio, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia), Sicilians, Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 300 : 47-49; Sardinians [Giovanni went on a journey to experience fear; spends the night in a chapel and in an enchanted castle, plays cards with devils, saves a princess from the dragon; for the first time he gets scared when wakes up to the touch of a swallow rushing in the air; returning home, he proves that he was the one who saved the princess and marries her]: Aprile 2000:349; Corsicans [husband of a childless woman: if only A son was born, let him take the hell away; when the young man was 18 and he found out that the devil had been promised, he went to look for it himself; he stayed with the shepherd, he gave him a dog, then at the shepherdess, she gave the second; There are black flags above the city, it is the princess's turn to be eaten by the seven-headed sea monster; if not given, it will destroy the whole city; the young man cuts off the heads, the dogs carry them away; he cut off his tongues and took them with him; three Italian coal burners made the princess say that they saved her; the young man comes back, shows his tongues cut off; the wedding is being prepared; the coal burners are locked dogs, put a poisoned stiletto in the young man's bed; he is buried, but escaped dogs do not allow him to cover the body with earth; lick poison from the wound; wedding; coal burners were smeared with resin and burned]: Massignon 1984, No. 10:21-23; ladins [the traveler came to a city where mourning; the seven-headed dragon gets a girl to eat every year, the royal turn; the traveler cut off the dragon's heads, carved out tongues, promised the queen to return a year and day later; another traveler picked up his heads and attributed the feat to himself; a year later the first traveler returned; he is told that the princess marries her deliverer; he presented his tongues king, got the princess; the liar was put in prison]: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 63:323-324; ladins [three knights went to look for adventure; failure in the forest; one asked others to let him down on a rope; there is a princess; the knight defeated a one-headed dragon, then a three-headed dragon, then a seven-headed dragon; sent the girl upstairs; not trusting his companions, hung a piece of tree trunk on a rope instead of himself; they cut off the rope; the fox offered to hold it by the tail and brought the knight to the surface; he came to the palace, where one of the deceivers was preparing to marry the princess; hired him in the kitchen and threw it into the food for the princess the ring she gave him; the king gave the knight a daughter and a throne; the deceivers were torn by horses]: Jecklin 1878:100-103; ladins [the son chose the profession of a hunter, his parents gave him a gift hunting equipment and a Curasch dog; once he killed a fish, a duck and a hare with one shot; the old woman told me not to give them to their mother to cook, but to take them with him tomorrow; he went into the hut; the girl said that robbers would come; there are two beds on the second floor - don't lie in them; told the robbers that she sheltered the beggar, they pulled the rope, knives fell on the bed; he agreed with the girl, they filled the robbers with boiling water, he finished them off with a knife; the old woman said that the leader was saved and now with the girl; the girl would pretend to be sick, ask for milk from the owner's cows, who has 70 cows; there is a bear as watchmen ( throw a duck to him) and a lion (throw a hare); they will serve him; fish should be given to the dog; return to the girl, say that he did not bring anything, hide the animals; the girl will say that her chest hurts, will send him for flour to the damn mill; the ladies will be given a stone to grind, we have to lower a bear, a lion, a dog on them, they will tear them all apart; the girl will say that her chest is gone, ask permission to tie her thumbs; she will break in robber, the young man's animals will tear him apart; he will kill the girl himself; the young man forgot to give fish to the dog, which almost died, but he fed the fish pieces, the dog recovered; the young man did not take the robbers' money, but went tell the king about them; there is mourning in the city: the seven-headed dragon demands a girl every year, now it is the turn of the king's daughter; the young man let his animals on the dragon, cut off his tongues, promised the princess to return in a year and 3 of the day; when he returned, he was told that tomorrow the princess would marry the coachman: he allegedly killed the dragon; the young man sent the dog with a note to the maid; the princess told her father that she was released by a hunter, not a coachman; the young man showed his tongues, the coachman was torn by four horses]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 56:194-203 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 1:9-19); ladins [the fisherman could not catch anything for a long time; when caught a fish, she told her wife to eat her heart, she would give birth to twins; the gills to a mare, the liver to a dog; they will give birth to two foals, puppies; the twins Jakob and Josep have grown up, indistinguishable from each other, the same theirs dogs and horses; when they went on a journey, they parted at the fork in the road, leaving their sword: if it rusts, the visitor finds out that his brother is in captivity; Josep came to the inn; the hostess said he was here every evening 24 robbers come; they do not want to break the door, they dig a dig into Josep's room, he took turns cutting off his head; promises the hostess to return in a year and marry her; she gives a rod that will revive anyone , if you hit them in the bones; Josep came to another inn, where there is also a hostess and three robbers; he splashed a hot punch into their eyes, killed them; also promised to marry; came to a city where the dragon every 7 years demands a girl to be eaten; it's the princess's turn; Josep cuts off 3 heads then the remaining 4; carved out tongues, promised to return in a year; the royal servant attributed victory over a dragon to himself; a year later Josep returned; the next day the princess's wedding with the imaginary winner of the dragon; Josep sent a letter with the dog to the princess; showed his tongues, and the deceiver only his heads; he was driven away, Josep married a princess; sees a house through the window; his wife says she does not return from there; he goes, the old woman threw a bridle at him, turned him into a horse; tied his horse and dog; Jacob sees that a sword rusted; comes to the hostesses of the first and second hotels, each mistakes him for Josep, but he says he must be more tired; the princess takes him for her husband, he puts his sword in bed; in the morning he goes to that house; throws away the bridle, it ends up around the old woman's neck, she turns into a horse; Jacob threatens to kill her, the old woman returns her human form to the bewitched; when she learns that Jacob was in bed with by his wife, Josep pushes him off a cliff with a horse and a dog; after learning from his wife about the sword, he revives them with the rod given to him; everything is fine]: Uffer 1973, No. 24:93-100.

Western Europe. The Scots [a farmer in northern Scotland has a lazy youngest son Assinatl ("Lying in the Ash"); six older brothers are pushing them around; the king has a daughter Gemdelavly with his first wife; sister A. her servant; the giant sea serpent Mestern Storworth has sailed; with his breath he can destroy the country; the Queen has a magician lover, she advises you to contact him; he tells me every Saturday throw seven beautiful girls to eat the snake; A. promised to kill the snake, but they laughed at him; the wizard ordered the snake to J.; A. hears his father confess to his mother that he should blow into the goose neck so that his mare would fly like the wind; when his parents fell asleep, he stole the neck, immediately rode to the shore where the boat in which the princess was supposed to take the snake; stole it from the old woman a pot of burning peat; told the watchman that he had found gold, he ran to look, A. swam to the snake, which swallowed it with the boat, A. set fire to his liver, the snake began to fight and regurgitated the boat; punched his tongue the strait that separates Denmark from Sweden and Norway; its teeth have fallen out and turned into Orkney and Shetland; it itself has become Iceland, so there are volcanoes (the fire in the snake's womb is still burning); the Queen and the wizard fled; A. caught up with them on his horse, killed the wizard; the Queen was imprisoned forever in the fortress; A. married J.]: Klyagin-Kondratyeva 1967:30-46; the British [after the death of his father, the mother remarried; wants to get rid of her son; the man advises the young man to go with his beloved bull; he says that he will go through the dense forest, running all the predators, but the dragon will kill him; it is necessary he will cut and inflate a bull's bladder, it can kill anyone; you have to kill a dragon, cut out his tongue; the young man did so; found a princess tied to the dragon by the hair; when he left, he carved out the dragon's tongue, received a ring from the princess; the king promises a daughter to the one who would bring his tongue and ring; many bring it, but not those; the young man brought and married Princess se]: Jacobs 1894:186-191; Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 300:174-175; Walloons [the eldest, middle sons come to the witch, she gives them a potion, they turn into toads; the youngest does not drink, makes the elders spell, they they come back, meet the sorcerer, the youngest saves them again; the princess is eaten by a seven-headed snake; the young man's dogs kill him, he hides his tongues; the deceiver tries to attribute victory to himself ; the young man shows his tongues, the deceiver is placed in a barrel of thorns; the young man gets a princess, constantly hunts, the wife tries to lime him; dogs save him, then revive him; he returns to his father]: Laport 1932, No. 300:37-39; Walloons [the fisherman catches the king of fish three times and releases him twice; for his release, the king of fish gives a horse and then a dog; for the third time he orders to cut him into pieces and give him one to his wife (pour la famille), the second to the dog, the third to the mare, and the fourth should be left in the garden under a rose; the next morning a fisherman finds three dogs, three horses and three boys; or Jean de Berneau's swineherd caught fish, which tells him to cut it into 4 pieces; they turn into a spear, a horse and two dogs; three boys have grown up and consistently leave the house, each on his own horse and with his dog; if with any they are in trouble, the rose bush will wither; Jean saves the princess by killing the seven-headed dragon, marries her; in the evening after the wedding he sees some light from the window; this is a perfume castle; he went there and did not returned; fell into the hands of robbers; Pierre goes in search of his brother with his two dogs; the king promises a reward for saving his son-in-law; Pierre saves Jean, who has returned to his wife, they have many children; Pierre lives in castle]: Laport 1932, No. 303:41-42; the French [the wife of a poor miller sends her husband to fish behind the dam; he caught a little one, this is the king of fish, asks him to let go, for this he will give a lot of fish; and it happens that the miller sold a lot of fish; his wife reproaches him for letting the fish king go; the miller caught him again; he tells his wife to eat it, the fins to the mare and dog; the wife will give birth to three boys with with the sun on his forehead, a mare - three foals with the moon, a dog - three puppies with a star on their forehead; the brothers have grown up, the eldest comes to a city where mourning: girls are given to a seven-headed monster, turn princesses; a young man kills a monster, receives a ring from the princess, cuts off and takes his tongues with him, promises to return in a year and a day; three coal miners make her say that they killed the monster; in a year and the day should be a wedding with one of them; a young man comes to the wedding, shows his tongues and a ring; the coal miners are burned alive; one day a young husband notices a castle in the distance, goes there; a witch gives his hair to tie the dog, he turns into an iron chain; it leads the person who comes to the bridge, pushes him down; when he sees a withered rose, the second brother sets off in search of the first one; the princess takes him for her husband; he is the same as with older brother; the third good sorceress teaches not to let the dog be tied with hair, let the witch go forward, make them give a reviving elixir; the young man revived everyone, forced the witch to leave the castle; the husband returned to the princess, she sees how all three brothers look alike]: Delarue 1957, No. 303:147-149; the French (Lorraine) [three wandering shoemakers were walking; the youngest went the middle road, the older two on the side; the youngest divided the dead lion between the lion, giving it three quarters, the eagle and the ant, which got a quarter; they gave a hair, a feather, a leg so that the young man could turn into any of them; becoming an eagle, the young man flew to the shepherd's hut; he says that the king will give his daughter to free her from the seven-headed monster and giant; the young man entered the princess's room with an ant; she says that others are not were able to cut off the monster's seventh head, and if they don't cut it down, the other six grow back; it took the young man 2 hours to cut down one head; the next day, 4 to cut down 2; then 8 cut down 3; then 10 cut down the seventh; the princess taught me to get three eggs out of this head, throw two at the giant, he will die, and one against the wall, a luxurious crew will appear; the princess gave the young man her handkerchief; they boarded the ship, sailed to the king; the princess's former admirer pushed the young man into the sea, swallowed by a whale; the deceiver forced the princess to say that he had saved her; the beggar began to play the violin, the whale swam listen; the beggar promised to play more if the whale showed the prince's head; if to the hips; to the knees; whole; the prince became an eagle, flew away; under the guise of a beggar, came to the princess's wedding; she recognized her handkerchief; The deceiver was thrown into the fire with fireworks crackers; the hero's wedding with the princess]: Cosquin 1886, No. 15:166-170; the French (Tristan und Isolda) [After learning of her husband's death, Tristan Blanchefleur's mother died after the birth of a son. Tristan is raised by a loyal vassal, then kidnapped by Norwegian merchants. The storm crashes the ship, the waves throw the young man ashore, where his mother's brother King Mark rules. T. doesn't know about this and pretends to be a merchant. Tristan's teacher finds him, tells him and Mark about their relationship. T. conquers his country from his enemies, gives it to his tutor, and returns to Mark himself. Each year, Mark must send 300 young men and women as a tribute to the King of Ireland, who is married to the giant Morolt's sister (M.). M. arrives and challenges a daredevil to a fight. T. goes with M. to a lonely island, kills M. At the same time, it breaks the sword against his skull and leaves a point in it. The people welcome the winner, but T.'s wounds don't heal and give off a stench. T. asks to put him on a lonely ship, give him a harp and let him go to sea. The ship is coming to Ireland. The Queen's daughter Isolde, golden-haired, has healed him. Realizing that he is in Ireland, T. runs home. Mark is going to appoint T. as his heir, but his enemies demand that Mark marry and appoint his future son as heir. Golden hair falls on Mark from the swallow's beak, and Mark expresses a desire to marry its owner. T. remembers golden-haired I., goes after her. At this time, Ireland is devastated by a dragon, the king promises to marry I. to whoever defeats the monster. T. does this, but the evil and ugly court pretends to be the winner. I. finds out the truth, heals T. again from his wounds, but when he sees his broken sword, he realizes that he killed her Uncle M., rushes at T. He explains that he wants to marry her not for himself, but for Mark. I. agrees. Y.'s mother gives her daughter a love drink goodbye, which she must drink with Mark. On the ship, I. mistakenly drinks a drink with T. Arriving at the king, I. sends Brangien's maid to Mark's chambers instead of himself. Fearing that the fraud will be revealed, she hires thieves to kill B. That makes me feel sorry for her. When I. begins to repent of his evil act, they bring B. alive. Meetings between T. and I. take place near a pine tree on the bank of the stream (T. throws objects that serve as symbols for I. into the waters of the stream). The evil hunchback informs Mark about I. He is going to burn his lovers at the stake. T. runs by jumping from a high tower. Lepers ask Mark not to burn I., but to marry her. Mark agrees, but T. beats and leads I. T. and I. live in the forest, and T. can imitate the voices of birds. Lovers are found first by dog T., and then by King Mark. Mark leaves his gloves next to them and puts them between the sleepers. Then T. and I. decide to break up. T. gives I. a dog, and that dog gives him a ring with a jewel. I. returns to Mark and must prove his purity at God's judgment. T. takes the form of an old beggar and carries her across the river in front of everyone's eyes. I. swears that no one but this beggar and Mark held her in his arms. The veracity of her words is confirmed by a hot iron test that does not harm her. Her meetings with T. continue. By summoning I., T. imitates the voices of birds. T. goes to Gaul. After defeating the giant, he receives from the local king a magical dog that helps him forget all sorrows. He travels, conquers a country and is rewarded with a woman who is also named I., but with the epithet Belarusian (IS). However, he doesn't live with her. When hunting, information security wades across the river and tells her brother that the water that soaked her legs is bolder than T. The brother is insulted and wants to fight with T., but he asks permission to see I. T. comes to her disguised as a beggar, but I., who believes that T. has cheated on her, orders him to be expelled. T. goes crazy out of grief, changes his voice and appearance again, and comes to I. Now she can't recognize him anymore. But his old dog will recognize him. I. believes that T. is in front of her when he shows her ring. Their meetings continue, then T. goes back to information security and slowly dies there. He sends I. She leaves Mark, sails on a white sail ship. BI tells T. that the sail is black, which means that the golden-haired I. cheated on him. I. finds T. dead and dies of grief herself. Mark wants them to be buried side by side. From T.'s grave, blooming blackthorns grow, spreading to I. It is cut off three times, then Mark forbids him to touch it anymore]: Freudenberg 1932:8-11; the Bretons [the señor of Reranrais Castle has three daughters, but no sons; daughters ask their father to buy them a knightly outfit: they will go to serve the king, pretending to be men; the eldest Marguerite is coming; the father dressed up as a robber, jumped out on the road in front of her, M. galloped back; the same with the middle Franseason; the youngest Allet galloped forward; told the king that her father deliberately told me that he only had daughters, wanted to surprise him; the Queen fell in love with the new page; the maid of honor became pregnant and said it was the page's fault; Alieta I had to reveal to the king who she was; the maid of honor was torn apart by four horses, the king married A., a son was born; the king's men captured the strange creature Murlu, put him in a cage; the ball thrown by the prince hit the cage; M. promised to return it if the boy took the key out of the sleeping king's pocket and unlocked the cage; when leaving, M. promised to help the boy; the king swore to kill whoever releases M.; the Queen tells her son to run; he sat M. on his shoulder and M. took him to the palace of the King of Naples; the prince was told to herd pigs - not to let them into the forest, to bring the herd safe in the evening; M. helps, the pigs are intact, multiply; sheep (the same; M. drove the sheep into the forest, did not allow the forest giant to eat them); cows (back to the forest, where grass is better; M. gave the prince a magic sword, the prince himself killed the giant, took gold and gems from his castle); sees the princess, who must be given to the snake; sends his retinue, calls M., who appeared in the guise of a mighty horse; on the first day, the prince cut off 6 heads; they grew, on the second day he cut off all 7; the coal miner they were picked up, the snake called himself the winner; showed his heads, and the prince (still in the guise of a shepherd) showed his tongues cut off; the coal miner was thrown into the oven; the wedding; M. entered, turned into a beautiful queen ; it was she who tried to create an imaginary page; for this she became M. until the son of the imaginary page, i.e. the girl, marries the princess; {first it was about the maid of honor, not the queen}]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 4:296-313; Germans (Pomerania) [despite his wife's warnings, the merchant's son lowered his father's inheritance; decided to drown himself; siren: I'll give money if you promise to give what is hidden in your house; the man gladly wrote a receipt that he would give it back in 14 years; the chest at home is full of gold; wife: you sold our unborn son; the young man grew up handsome and smart; when we came to the bridge, the young man drew a circle around him with chalk; a siren: nothing, in 3 years I'll take it anyway; the young man said that since his parents gave his line, he no longer knew them, and left; in the forest he answered the hunter that he had neither a father nor mother; he took him home; in a year he became the best hunter, and the trees he planted grew in 3 months; the hunter sent him to look for more luck; on a tree, a bird with gold and silver plumage sings nightingale; asks not to shoot, gives three feathers; if you take the pen in your mouth, you will become the same bird, and when you take it out, you will become a human again; the same is a mouse (hairs, you can become a mouse); the same is a greyhound dog; a lion; in an inn The young man found out that the king was looking for a hunter; the king loved him as a son; he also worked in the garden; once he came across a high wall; the chief forester said that the king's three daughters looked the same behind her; Unsure which of them is who, they cut off his head; the young man became a bird, let himself be caught by the younger princess, she brought the bird to her room; in the evening he became human; the princess promises to marry him, If he frees her and her sisters from captivity; how can she be recognized among the sisters? will drag his right heel a little; in the morning the young man returned to the royal castle, said that he wanted to try to identify the chosen princess; three times correctly pointed to the youngest; the wedding, the young man was made heir ; the wife gave birth to a son; a year and day later, the young man chased the deer, who brought him to the bridge over the river; turned into a siren and dragged him into the water; the prince's wife offered a golden spindle for her husband; she refused, but let the young man go to the Schwartzland, kill a 9-headed dragon there; a hare will jump out of him, a dove from a hare, an egg from a pigeon, there are keys in it, they must be brought to the siren; the young man ran to Schwartzland in in the form of a greyhound, then a lion; in the city of mourning, the princess is given to be eaten by a dragon; the young man told the warrior given to him by the king to serve him food and wine when he fights the dragon in the form of a lion; cutting down 3 heads, the young man hid in a hole with a mouse; shot a hare, a dove, took out the keys; since the young man already has a wife, the princess was given for that brave warrior; gave the siren the keys in exchange for a receipt given to her by him father; as soon as the siren took the keys, the lake turned into a kingdom and the siren into a princess]: Jahn 1891, No. 62:340-351; the Germans [the rich unkind brother was a goldsmith, the poor broom knitted; he has two twin boys; the poor man saw a golden bird, threw a stone, a golden pen fell, his jeweler brother gave him a lot of money; then the poor man found a bird's nest, brought an egg; then knocked down the bird, sold it brother; he told his wife to fry her; whoever eats her heart and liver would have gold under his pillow in the morning; while the wife was away, her nephews ran in and ate the pieces that had fallen; the frightened wife fried her husband had the heart and liver of a rooster, and the boys found gold under his pillow in the morning; when he learned about this, the rich brother advised the poor to take the boys to the forest - they contacted the devil; they were found, sheltered by a hunter, saved the morning gold; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; the hunter gave everyone gold, a gun and a dog; let them stick a knife at a crossroads; if it rust, trouble with the other brother; brothers they hunt, feel sorry for animals, everyone gets a rabbit, fox, wolf cub, bear cub and lion cub; brothers broke up, the youngest came to town, where all the girls were eaten by the dragon, the turn is royal; on Dragon Mountain, a young man sees three bowls: whoever drinks can get a sword from under the door threshold; the young man drank, became a strongman, took out a sword; cut off seven snake heads, the animals tore the body to shreds ; the young man carved and hid dragon tongues; the Queen gave him her handkerchief, divided the coral necklace between the animals, the lion got a gold lock; everyone fell asleep; the marshal cut off the hunter's head and took him away princess; she made it a condition to get married in a year and one day; the animals wanted to kill a hare that did not wake them up, but he promised to get a reviving root; first, the lion put the young man's head backwards , then tore it off and put it right; he argued with the owner of the tavern that he would eat bread from the royal table; the queen recognized the hare, who brought the baker to the tavern; the same with the fox (bring meat); the wolf brought vegetables, the bear sweet, the lion brought wine; after eating, the young man came with the animals to the castle and showed his tongues; the marshal was torn by four bulls, the young man became a young king; chased a white deer in the forest; spent the night around the fire; the old woman asked her to warm up and hit the animals with her twig; they were petrified, the old woman touched the king with a twig; there were many similar stones nearby; the elder brother saw that the knife rusted; the queen mistook him for her husband, but he put his sword on the bed; in the forest he knocked the old woman off the tree with a silver bullet; made the petrified ones revive, the brothers burned the old woman in the fire; the forest became transparent and bright; when he learned that his brother was sleeping next to his wife, the king hacked him down, repented, the hare revived the uprooted; the Queen identified her husband by the golden lock that she gave him to the lion; the king learned about what was in bed sword]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 60:212-227 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:171-187); Germans (Baden-Württemberg) [the king sends three sons into the world; they part by the oak tree with swords into it; whose rust, he dies; the youngest goes straight through the forest, meets, does not kill, takes a bear, a wolf, a lion as an assistant; the seven-headed dragon demands sacrifice, it is the turn of the royal daughter; the prince and animals kill dragon; the prince cuts off his tongues, promises the princess to return in a year and day; the coachman takes the dragon's heads, attributes victory to himself; a year later, the prince returns, the city is preparing for the wedding; prince shows tongues, the princess is the gold chains she tied around the necks of animals; the coachman is executed, the prince marries a princess]: Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 2:7-11; Germans (Swabia) [noble and rich a person hires shepherds one by one, forbids sheep to herd in three valleys where giants; every shepherd breaks the ban, is killed; the fourth also drives sheep to a dangerous place; while the giant took out his sword, the guy killed him with a stick; took his sword and clothes; came to the castle, where the table was laid and the inscription: Whoever drinks this wine and controls the sword will defeat the devil; the guy drank wine, took the sword; the next day the same in the second valley with the second giant (the guy pierced him with a spear) and in the second castle; killed the third giant with a stone from a sling; in the third castle he did not drink wine; found a black horse in the stall; learning that the guy was in the land of giants, the owner forbade him to herd more sheep and ordered him to help the gardener; the owner must give his daughter the devil; the guy remembered the inscription in the castles; went to the third and drank wine there; hell appeared as a snake; the guy killed her, returned without telling anything; the next day the same (hell dragon); the third day the same thing (hell eagle); the owner noticed a wound on the guy's arm, he had to do everything tell; the guy married the owner's daughter]: Meier 1852a, No. 1:1-9; Germans (Upper Palatinate) [the young shepherd is so strong that he cannot work for a blacksmith - a shattered anvil; he gives him a magic sword; with it he first cuts off the giant's hands, and then makes him whole, hitting it with a blunt end; the same with the second giant; with the third (cuts off his legs); the 90-main dragon demands a daughter from the king to eat; the shepherd asks for the horse and equipment from the first giant, cuts off 3 heads of the dragon, cuts off the tongues; the same in the second; with the third giant; the dragon is killed; the son of the court took victory for himself; the shepherd with the giant showed up for the wedding; the shepherd showed his tongues, received the princess and the throne; the impostor was ripped apart by four horses]: Schönwerth 1858, No. 13:275-280; Germans (Tyrol) [poor widow's son went wander; helped a lion, stork and ant divide the carcass of a fallen horse between them; the lion rewarded him with the ability to become 7 times stronger than a lion, a stork to fly 7 times higher than a stork, an ant become 7 times smaller than an ant; a young man has come to the city, where mourning is; the princess was kidnapped and guarded in a distant castle by a three-headed dragon; the young man came to the castle, which is on top of a steep smooth mountain; a young man flew there like a stork; an ant got inside through a gap in the gate; a long-bearded dwarf pointed out where to get a huge heavy sword; with the power of 7 lions, he slaughtered the dragon, returned the princess and married her]: Zingerle, Zingerle 1980:18-23; the Alsatians [father gave his son three lambs, he went on a journey; in exchange for lambs, the old man gave three dogs Break Iron, Good Aim, Fast as the Wind and their whistle call; the owner of the inn, having agreed with the robbers, locked the dog, and sent the young man to get a hare in the forest; the robbers surrounded him; he asked permission to climb the tree to speak prayer; dogs heard the second time, broke three iron doors, tore the robbers; when he returned, the young man cut off the old woman's head; he comes to a city where mourning; every year seven-headed the monster is given a girl, it is the princess's turn; the young man cuts off the monster's heads, cuts off and hides its tongues; promises the princess to return in a year; one guy saw, took the heads, told the princess to speak that he saved her; the young man comes when the princess is due to be married to a deceiver; shows tongues, the princess recognized the dogs; the deceiver was torn apart by four bulls]: Delarue 1957, No. 300:101-103; Germans (Tyrol) [Zingerle, 260; a grinder with two sons went to town; sent his sons to eat; they saw a bird, caught it, brought it to their father, he saw an inscription on her head: the one who ate my head will be find a bag of gold every day; the old man told the cook to cook the bird, left; the elder brother ate it, giving the younger man a head; the old man beat his sons, found out everything, and began to find gold under the younger's pillow; the brothers left, hired a miller; the maid thinks they are throwing her gold; the brothers broke up with knives stuck in the oak tree; the elder Hans does not kill, he takes a fox, a wolf, a bear as his companions; in town every year they give the girl to the seven-headed dragon, it's royal turn; G. kills him, cuts off his tongues, the princess gives him a ring, a chain, a handkerchief; the servant cut off the head of G. who slept, brought the dragon's heads, demands a princess for himself; the fox brought the grass of life (it was given by a white deer); the bear first put his head backwards, the fox had to bring a new blade of grass; the fox, the wolf, the bear bring the princess a ring, a chain, a handkerchief; everything is explained, G. marries a princess; sees a roe deer, chases, meets an old woman, who turns him and the animals into stones; the younger brother sees the elder's rusted knife, with him too fox, wolf and bear; princess takes him for her husband; he also sees a roe deer, chases, but cuts off the old woman's arms and legs, smears stones with ointment, animals have torn the old woman to pieces; both brothers consider the princess their own, she chooses who killed the dragon]: Cerf 1992:193-203.

Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [Prince Hassan grew up, asked his father to go on a journey, he gives him a sword; at rest, a horseman drove up to H. and offered to fight; H. offered to eat first; then more two; one has an all-seeing mirror, the other has a flying carpet, the third can be underwater for a long time; H. says they shared bread and salt and can't fight now; they come to a city where the sun is not you can see: in the sea, a whale swallows it at sunrise; H. kills a whale with his sword, gets a princess, but gives it to his sister, who has a mirror; in the next city, the ghoul closes the water, gives it in exchange for girls, the princess's turn; H. kills the ghoul, gives the princess to her sister with a plane carpet; H. saw two people unsuccessfully trying to break the column with swords; they explained what the king of China hid to her his daughter from the king of Persia; whoever breaks the column will become the princess's husband; H. easily breaks the column, gets the princess, leaves her to live in a fortress on the island, she lowers the stairs for him when he comes; The king of Persia orders to dig an underground passage, sends the old woman, she stays with his wife H., persuades her to find out what her husband's soul is; in a broom (the wife adorns the broom, the old woman does not believe); in the window frame (the same); H. confesses that his life in a sword, which he puts between himself and his wife at night; the old woman grabs a sword at night, throws it into the sea, H. loses consciousness, the old woman calls the warriors, they bring his wife X. to the Persian king ; if the sword is not returned in two weeks, H. will die; his brother with a mirror saw everything, the other provided a flying carpet, the third took a sword out of the sea; H., who came to life, made his way to Persia through the same underground passage; agreed with the old woman, who gave his wife a letter; the wife put sleeping pills in the Persian king's wine; H. sneaked in quietly, killed the king, put on his clothes, and in the morning said that he was younger after his wedding night with Chinese princess; later confessed what was wrong, but remained king]: Kuhr 1993:18-31; (cf. Arabs of Iraq [the king divorced his first wife, her son Mohammed (M.); from his second wife sons Mahmoud and Ahmed ; the first one was kicked out with M.; became blind, lion's milk will help; the older brothers reluctantly allow the youngest to go with them; the old man points out three roads: 1) prosperity, 2) regret and remorse, 3) along which he does not they return; each of the brothers goes his own way, M. goes last; the elders met again, wasted everything, were hired as workers in the city; a prisoner in the genie's castle advises M. to venerate their breasts mother; now M. has become their brother, they took him to their middle aunt, that sons to their elder aunt; her sons tell them to remove the splinter from the lion's paw; a grateful lion gives a wineskin of lion's milk, sends take him to a young lion; M. also receives camels, gold and three girls; finds brothers, takes it with him, but puts a stigma on their shoulders; brothers let him down into a well for water; there is a girl and a thief her eagle; M. kills an eagle (if hit a second time, she will come to life); the girl feels that the brothers will cut the rope; if M. touches the white goat, she will take it to the ground, if to the bottom one, she will carry it down; M. sends a girl upstairs, the rope is cut off, touched by a black goat, he fell into the lower world of genies; there a witch gives water in exchange for girls, now it is the turn of the daughter of the king of jinns; M. kills a witch, the girl marks the savior with her blood; everyone brags that they killed a witch, but the girl throws grenades at M.; the genie flies with M. to the ground, he throws fat tails and cakes in his mouth on the way, one piece fell, he cut off the meat from his thigh; the genie belches it, puts it back; the older brothers and the stolen goods are waiting in an enchanted sarcophagus; M. defeats his father's army, speaks all races, shows marks on his shoulders brothers, heals his father from blindness; he gave him the throne, imprisoned his eldest sons]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 16:93-102); Mehri: Jahn 1902, No. 7 [the sultan told five sons that his mother would kill their mother, because she took the Jew as a lover; the youngest son Muhammad warned his mother, they left; there was no fire, M. saw fire in the distance, seven were sitting there, cooking a camel, telling him to cut the meat; he took his share and fire, but on the way, the rain extinguished the fire; M. returned, they were angry, M. killed them, began to live with his mother in their castle; one demon was alive, his mother found him, cured him, took him as a lover; to get rid of M. the demon suggests sending him to buy olives in a garden where lions and snakes; his mother is sick, olives will cure her; M. met a man, brought him water, he gave him hair - if burned, he would come to the rescue; became a horse, took M. to the garden, M. let the chained lion go, took olives, brought him to his mother; she sent him to bring clothes; he arrived on horseback to where the Sultan's daughter was given to be eaten by a 7-eyed, 7-horned snake ; killed a snake, breaking its horns with stones, gouging out his eyes with a spear; put his head on the mountain; sultan: whoever takes off his head kills the snake; M. takes off, gets the princess; returns to his mother; she ties he is to see how strong he is; tells the demon to kill him; but he is afraid; then he throws him out of the castle; the caravans find him, free him; M. kills the demon and the two children that his mother M. , the mother herself throws away; under the guise of a dervish, she comes to the Sultan, who gives her youngest daughter; she sees M. hiding his horse and sword; throws a lemon at him; other daughters married wealthy merchants; the Sultan is in pain eyes, wild goat milk will cure him; M. milks wild goat and hyena, gives his older sons-in-law hyena milk, for which he burns their scrotum; hyena milk has made the sultan worse, and the goat milk brought by M. has made his cured; M. defeated the attacking enemies; injured his hand, tied her with a handkerchief; the slave recognized the handkerchief; the sultan saw the stigma on his older sons-in-law; made M. a sultan, became a vizier himself]: 21-37; Stroomer 1999, No. 42 [young man brags about his strength, his mother says there is Abu Zaid al-Hilali; the boy and his mother meet him and his two companions; they divide the camel into 5 servings, the young man says he can't eat so much; they go they see the king's daughter tied to a tree; she is given to be eaten by a snake, which demands sacrifices every day, otherwise she will ruin the country; the young man trembles in horror; A. kills a snake, puts his severed head on the roof of the castle; everyone calls himself a winner: king: the winner is the one who gets his head off the roof; only A. in dervish clothes gets it; the king wants to give him his daughter, but he only asks to be taken home alone bastard (that young man who boasted)]: 113-119; Palestinians, Arabs from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen [al-Shami has many references ; it is hoped that at least in some cases we are talking about a snake, not a witch, etc.]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 300:97-100.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [The Frog and the Turtle have settled in the lake; they only give water when young men are sacrificed to them; it is the turn of the hunter's son and the son of a peasant; they hid behind stones; the hunter's son threw a stone at the Frog; she thought the Turtle did it, they quarreled; the young men grabbed them by the necks; whoever kills the Frog with a stick on the head and eats it will spit gold; who the turtle stone is turquoise; they did so, they returned home, began to spit gold and turquoise]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:58; Tibetans: Shelton 1925, No. 13 [the queen died during childbirth; from the king's new wife, the youngest son; the queen pretended to be sick: she will recover if she eats the heart of one of the princes; the king chose the eldest, his name Nyema; upon learning about this, the younger warned the elder and they both left; they came to live with a hermit lama; nearby in the city, a serpent allows him to take water from the lake if a man born in the year of the tiger is given to him once a year; all these people have already been given to the snake; after learning that the llama has There are two young men and that one of them was born in the year of the tiger, people came to the Lama and began to beat him; then the brothers left the shelter, and N. was captured; there was still time before the snake appeared and N. settled in the garden palace; the princessa fell in love with him; said that then she would be thrown into the lakes; the king was angry and ordered to do so; the lord of the lake felt sorry for them, brought them back to the shore and promised not to charge for water anymore; the king married N. to his daughter and handed him the throne; the brothers visited his father and he gave the throne to his youngest son; everyone was satisfied]: 62-69; Waddell 1931 [=Komissarov 1997:78-81; one of the "ghost stories"; turquoise and golden frogs give water only in exchange for sacrificed people; the prince and his friend kill frogs, they tell them to eat them, they will regurgitate turquoise, gold; the owner of the inn and her daughter solders them to regurgitate more gold; friends take away, supposedly resolving their dispute, an invisible hat from children, speeding boots from demons; a prince is elected king, a friend is elected minister; a prince is chosen as a minister; a prince marries the daughter of a former king; the minister watches how the prince's wife comes to the old fortress to meet Togkarko, who arrives in the guise of a bird; the minister lures the bird into the palace, burns it; finds a carpet lying on which he turns into a donkey and back into a man; puts it on the hostesses of the inn; three years later, the king orders that the hard-worn donkeys be turned back into women]: 187-192.

South Asia. Ancient India [Indra killed Twashtar's son Vishwarupa, cutting off his three heads; T. deprived Indra of his share of the catfish, he came and drank catfish rightfully strong; then Twashtar created from catfish and fire Vritru's snake, who swallowed all the water; Indra rushed at him, Vritra swallowed it and fell asleep; Shiva sent him Yawning, Vritra yawned, Indra went out, cut Vritra's head with his vajdra; from Vritra Indra's skulls made a bowl for himself, cut his body in two; the good part made of catfish rose into the sky and became the moon; the demon part became the womb of all living beings; because Vritra and Vishwarupa were Brahmanas, Indra committed a grave sin; he hid in a lotus stem at the end of the world and stayed there]: Erman, Temkin 1985:49-50; Bengalis: (cf. McCulloch 1912, #26 [see motif L44; an opponent of Rakshasi, not snakes]: 255-282); Sen 1920 [Syed, he is married, she scolds him for being poor; he brought a cobra in a pot to bite his wife; but at home in gold coins were in the pot; the wife changed them from the king's wife, and she found a baby girl instead of gold; the beguma was childless, so she was happy; Sakhi-sona grew up; at the same time, the vizier was born Manik's son; they met; the maid advised me to run because such a relationship would not be approved; S. dressed up as a young man, they galloped off; stayed in the house of 7 robbers; realizing this, they galloped away, but the mother the robbers managed to put a bag of mustard seeds full of holes; the robbers chased, but M. killed six, left the seventh as a servant; he cut off his head; S. prayed to God, the feast (saint) revived M.; they arrived at the flower woman's house; out of jealousy, she turned M. into a monkey; S. was accused of stealing two horses from the royal stable, thrown into prison; the serpent began to devour people and animals; S. said (she is considered a man) that she could kill him; killed him with a blow from behind, as the feast taught; the king gave the imaginary young man a daughter; M. takes human form at night; S. asks the king to bring this monkey to the palace ; the flower woman was forced to spell M. and beheaded; the king gave his daughter to M., he lived with two wives for a long time]: 196-202; (cf. Marathi [the enemy is a rakshasa, not a serpent]: Dexter 1938:101-104 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 300:44-45; Santals [Guja's older brother works in the field, Kara's younger brother is at home; they went to the forest dig roots; G. told K. to see if the sun was high; he replied that one was setting, the other was rising; the night found the brothers in the forest; they saw fire, came to the Tiger's cave; they began to bake roots, Tiger they gave coals, he thought the roots were not tasty; G. invited K. to eat Tiger's tail; the Tiger ran, they tore off his tail, baked it, ate it, climbed the tree; the short Tiger brought the others; they took a long time they dived when they saw the brothers' reflection in the pond; finally they saw them in the tree; the brothers said they climbed on each other's shoulders; the tigers also became, the short tiger was the lowest; G. shouted to K. gave an ax to hit the short one; the short one jumped back, all the tigers fell and ran away; the brothers came to the village, spent the night in the old woman's house; she said that every night a demon takes away one of the inhabitants, today is her turn; at night the old woman began to bite their hands; then the demon came, the brothers killed him with arrows, threw his body away, put his claws and tongue in a bag; the king promised a daughter and half a kingdom to whoever killed the demon; the manager found the body told the old wife to clean the room - he would bring the princess; the king did not believe it, for the applicant could not prove that he had killed; ordered all men to gather; the brothers received a princess and half a kingdom, the manager was beaten and kicked out]: Campbell 1891:19-22; conds [the king wants to marry his son to the most beautiful girl; she is nowhere to be found; the prince himself goes in search; meets, takes his son as a companion a carpenter, the son of a blacksmith (all three present themselves as orphans when they meet); in one city, the monster has enough people at night; the prince kills him; the tsar gives a daughter and half the kingdom, but the prince leaves them to the carpenter; in A tiger is rampant in another city (the same, a blacksmith is left); each prince leaves a green branch - if it dries up, he is in trouble; he comes to the monster's home; there is a kidnapped princess; she is the most beautiful; the time when the monster returns, the princess turns the prince into stone, his sword into a broom, his horse into bamboo; says that the monster's life is in two doves on the sea of milk; the prince caught the doves in front of our eyes the monsters killed them and he died; the prince and the princess began to live together; once hunters saw the princess, told the king; he sent the old woman; she began to say that she would die soon; in response, the princess said that her husband is alive and well as long as his sword is with him; at night an old woman stole it and threw it into the fire; the prince died; the prince's friends saw that the green branches had dried up; they made a new sword, came, put it on the prince's chest, he came to life; the carpenter and blacksmith made the flying ship; the princess told the king who sent the old woman to her that she was waiting for him with her entire entourage; they came and saw the ship; they They climbed it, it flew away and disappeared in the far ocean; the blacksmith and carpenter returned to their homes, and the prince and the princess arrived at the prince's father; everything is fine, and we are unhappy poor kuvi]: Schulze 1922, No. 2:27-33; Tamils (opponent is an elephant) [mother to son: if you get some good flour from the owners, I will bake delicious cakes; the mother baked one big cake and one small cake for her son and went to work; and he went to work all day He sat, thinking out loud: eat the little one or the big one first; his mother came back and drove him away; in the forest he kept thinking; the two heavenly maidens thought they had a monster in front of them who thought which of them eat; they gave an inexhaustible purse: you can ask for rice for 10 rupees, and they are always in her purse; only hetera had so much rice, and he started buying it from her; Hetera watched, looked into the purse, but it was empty; sent her lover to steal it; the boy thought that the purse was only for a few days and returned to the forest, repeating the same words; the heavenly maidens gave a goat that litters gold; Hetera again noticed her the lover stole the goat; the heavenly maidens gave wire and a hoe; tied the wire to the hetera, and the hoe began to beat; she returned everything; the young man came to another kingdom, went to the old woman; she tells me not to go out again; An elephant comes for three hours, kills and devours people; the Raja promises a daughter and half a kingdom to whoever kills an elephant; you must show the tip of his ear and tail; the young man went to the pond where the elephant came, told his wire tie and beat the hoe; brought the old woman a piece of ear and tail, saying that he had killed an elephant; the laundress found a carcass, also cut off a piece of ear and part of the tail and brought it raja; the wedding is being prepared; the young man is not allowed in, he screamed; it turned out that the laundress had not brought exactly what was needed; the young man showed authentic trophies, and the laundress was burned in a lime kiln; the princess married the young man, but refused to sleep with him: she saw him collecting garbage in the trash; the young man decided to visit his mother and his wife went with him; in one kingdom someone steals flowers from the Raja, he promises a daughter and half a kingdom; two flowers are stealing for the gods heavenly maidens; one got entangled in the bushes and tore her clothes; the young man persuaded the Raja to let them go; came to his mother, giving her both cakes; and added: big and small, my two wives, and he himself was the Raja of two kingdoms]: Blackburn 2005, #55).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Tetum or kemak {European borrowing?) [throwing a net at the shore, the brother pulls out a singing coconut, the seven sisters like it; their mother finds it, cooks it; the brother promises to find another one like it; climbs a palm tree, there is a seven-headed snake in exchange for a coconut, he demands seven girls; takes them away, goes to fetch water, the kite raises them to the tree; when the snake has almost gnawed through the trunk, the kite invites it to open its mouths to throw the girls at them, throws pieces of iron; girls come home]: Pascoal 1967:319-321.

China - Korea. Chinese: Eberhard 1937, No. 93 (Sichuan) [the dragon caused floods; to propitiate him, he had to marry girls; the ruler rushes into the waters and defeats the dragon]: 135-138; Eberhard 1937, No. 98 (Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Hubei) [a snake demands a human sacrifice once a year or two; a brave man kills a snake]: 135-138, 144-146.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Lycophr. Alex. 29-35, 470-478, 952-954 [Lycophron's Alexandra (3rd century BC), whose text is difficult to understand and full of complex allusions and associations: 1) "Alas, alas, an unhappy nurse, /You, torches Already burned in the old days, /What was the lion conceived in three evenings carrying, /Although the evil Tritonov dog chewed it./He snatched his inside alive, but was/So scorched in the hearths of the unwounded, /That his hair was from a couple fell to the ground"; translator's comments: stk. 29 - "Appeal to Troy"; stk. 30 - "This refers to the first capture of Troy (under Laomedont) carried out by Hercules. Having saved the city from the sea monster, the whale, the hero demanded Laomedont's immortal horses as a reward. Refused, he ravaged Troy, killed the king and all his sons, except Priam, who inherited his father's throne"; stk. 31 - "To conceive Hercules, Zeus, as Amphitryon, descended to Alkmene for three nights"; stk. 32-35 - "Hercules, fighting the monster ("Triton Dog"), let him swallow himself and, once in the womb, tore out his insides. But there he was so hot that Hercules had all his hair burned" (Surikov 2011a: 220); 2) "Once upon a time, citizens were persuaded to give her/One talker who sowed three daughters, /For a gloomy dinner, that the sea is the color, /That the whole earth was muddied up with sea water, /When he spewed the tide out of his jaws, /A wave swallowed up the surrounding plain. /But instead of a bird, a scorpion fell into the mouth, /And then, having known suffering is heavy, he prayed to Fork/, not knowing how to get rid of the trouble"; translator's comments: stk. 471 - "Trojan Phenodamant. It was his three daughters who were to be given to the whale who attacked Troy (hereinafter referred to as the "dog"). But he convinced the Trojan citizens to put King Laomedon's daughter, Hesion, to be eaten by the monster instead. This is what Hercules saved and then gave it to Telamon, who participated in the campaign"; stk. 476-478 - "Description of the episode already mentioned above with a whale swallowing Hercules instead of Hesion" (Surikov 2011b: 235); 3) "& lt;... > Lovemedont there {to the land of the Sycans}/Sent three Phenodamant daughters, /Angry at the misfortune with the voracious whale" (trans. I.E. Surikova)]; Diod. Sic. IV. 42 1-6 ["Historical Library" by Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC): "After sailing from Iolka and passing Athos and Samothrace, the Argonauts were caught in a storm and docked at Troas at Sigei. When they got off the ship, they saw a girl on the shore, chained for the following reason. Poseidon, who mythically built walls in the circle of Troy, became angry with King Laomedon and sent a monster from the sea to his country. Appearing suddenly, the monster kidnapped those who were on the coast or cultivating land in the coastal region. In addition, people were hit by a terrible crop failure and famine, so everyone was amazed at the magnitude of the disaster. Therefore, crowds of people gathered to find relief from their misfortunes, and then the king sent messengers to Apollo to ask about what was happening. This is how an oracle was obtained saying that Poseidon was angry, and his anger would stop when the Trojans, choosing one of their children by lot, voluntarily gave him to be eaten by a monster. All young people were put to the test, and the king's daughter Hesion was drawn. This is why Laomedont was forced to give up his daughter and leave her in shackles by the sea. When Hercules went ashore with the Argonauts, learned from Hesion about her misadventure, saved the girl from her shackles, took her to the city, and asked the king to kill the monster. Laomedont accepted Hercules's offer and promised to give indomitable mares as a token of gratitude. Hercules killed the monster, and Hesion was given the freedom to either go with her savior or stay with her parents in her homeland. The girl chose to live with a stranger, not only because she valued her benevolence above kinship, but also because she was afraid that if the monster reappeared, her fellow citizens would not again they subjected her to such a punishment" (trans. O.P. Tsybenko)]; Apollod. Bibl. II. 4. 3; 5. 9 [The "Mythological Library" of Pseudo-Apollodorus (I-II centuries): 1) "When he arrived in Ethiopia, where King Kefei ruled, he {Perseus} saw that the daughter of this king Andromeda was being eaten by the sea a monster. The reason was that Cassiopeia, Kefei's wife, had an argument about beauty with the Nereids and boasted that she was more beautiful than anyone else in the world. That is why the Nereids became angry, and Poseidon, angry with them, sent a flood and a monster to this land. And God Ammon said that relief from the disaster would come when Cassiopeia's daughter Andromeda was given to be eaten by a monster. Ethiopians then forced Kefei to do this, and he tied his daughter to a rock. Seeing Andromeda, Perseus fell in love with her and promised Kefei to kill the monster if the saved Andromeda was given to him as his wife. After receiving Kefei's oath to comply with this condition, Perseus fought the monster, killed him and freed Andromeda. When Phineas, who was Kefei's brother, plotted against Perseus (Phineas was the first to be engaged to Andromeda), Perseus, upon learning of this, took out Gorgon's head and immediately turned all the conspirators into stone"; 2) "It happened then that this city {Troy} suffered misfortune as a result of the anger of the gods Apollo and Poseidon. These gods, wanting to experience Laomedon's wickedness, became like humans and were hired to surround Pergamum with walls for a fee. But when they built the walls, Laomedont paid them no money. For this, Apollo sent the plague to Troy, and Poseidon, a sea monster brought by the tide and kidnapped everyone he met on the plain. When it was predicted that disaster relief would come only after Laomedont gave his daughter Hesion to be eaten by a monster, he tied her to coastal cliffs. Hercules, seeing the girl put up for eating, said he would save her if Laomedont gave him the horses received from Zeus as a ransom for the kidnapped Ganymede. Laomedont promised to give it back, and then Hercules killed the monster and saved Hesion. But Laomedont did not want to pay the agreed payment, and Hercules, threatening to go to Troy at war, sailed from Troy" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]; Ps. -Erat. Cataster. XV, XVII, XXXVI [The Catasterisms by Pseudo-Eratosthenes (1st to 2nd centuries): 1) "According to Euripides, Kefei was the king of Ethiopians and the father of Andromeda. According to legend, he put his daughter to the whale, who was saved by Perseus, the son of Zeus. Thanks to her, by Athena's will, he was placed among the constellations"; 2) Andromeda "is among the constellations thanks to Athena and reminds us of Perseus's exploits. Her arms were outstretched, as was the case when she was put to be eaten by a whale. Athena took her to heaven because, saved by Perseus, she did not want to stay with her father or mother, but chose to voluntarily go with him to Argos, thereby showing great nobility. This is what Euripides writes in her drama"; 3) "This is the {constellation} the Keith Poseidon sent to Kefei for arguing between Cassiopeia and the Nereids about the primacy in beauty. And Perseus destroyed him, and therefore he was trapped in the constellations in memory of the Perseus deeds. This is what the tragic poet Sophocles says in Andromeda" (trans. A.A. Rossius)]; Greeks: Megas 1978, No. 21 [the old woman advises the fisherman's childless wife to catch a goldfish, divide it into 6 parts, eat 2 with her husband, give 2 to a dog, 2 to a mare, 2 to bury; two are born brothers, two puppies, two foals, two cypresses grow up; the first brother comes to marry the princess; her father tells her to tear down a giant stump with a sword (the princess wraps her sword in her hair), gallop, not after splashing water (gives a ring, it freezes the water), defeat the black man; the black man is the princess, she orders her horse to be hit between her ears; having received the princess, the young man leaves for a while; kills the monster that gave water in exchange for girls, it was the turn of the local princess; the old woman asks for permission to touch the young man's dog with a rod, turns the dog and the boy into marble; the cypress has withered; the brother arrives, he is mistaken for the first a young man; he tells the dog to grab the witch, forcing him to show his witchcraft; revives his brother, the dog swallows the witch; the first brother gets the first princess, the second one saved from the monster]: 37-42; 2012, No. 300 (many records) [the dragon (snake, monster) closed the water sources, requires human casualties every year; the queue for the princess (for 12 girls and 12 boys; for the child); young man ( youngest son, prince, St. George, etc.) undertakes to kill the dragon; the tsar promises to give his daughter to her savior; the young man falls asleep with his head on the princess's knees, her fallen tear wakes him up; after defeating the dragon, the young man carves out his tongues or a girl smears him with dragon blood; a gypsy (Moor) claims that he killed the dragon; the young man shows his tongues or a sign on his body, exposes the deceiver]: 20-21; Paton 1899, No. 1 (Lemnos) [the king's tree brings three apples every year; someone steals them; only the youngest son is not afraid of the roar, cut off the ogre's hand, brought it and the last apple to his father; the brothers follow the bloody trail, the youngest asks him to be lowered on a rope in the dungeon; meets three girls in succession; each says that the cannibal sleeps with his eyes open; the young man cuts off the head of cannibals, against request, does not hit twice; the last girl warns that if the brothers don't pick it up, you have to jump on a white ram, he'll take him to the ground; gives him three nuts, dresses with flowers, fish, stars; a young man jumps on a black ram, falls even lower; the old woman says that the seven-headed monster gives water in exchange for girls; the young man cuts off all seven heads, cuts off his tongues; the king wants to marry him off his rescued daughter, but he asks to be brought to the ground; spends the night under a tree where all the birds rest at night; kills a monster crawling to the birds; birds carry him to the ground; he sits on an eagle, supplies run out, he cuts off a piece of his own leg; on the ground, an eagle puts it back on him; the young man's elder brother wants to marry the third girl rescued; she demands dresses with flowers, fish, stars; a young man pretends to be a merchant, hangs out dresses; this is how the bride finds out that he is back; wedding]: 495-498; Bosnians [when he dies, the father tells the three brothers to give three sisters the first to come for them; strangers take their sisters away; brothers go looking for them, find them from the giant, who tells them to make a fire before they return, they cannot, he chained them to a pole; the mother sees a grain of pepper, asks God fourth son, even if he is just as small; Pepper is born, tells to forge a huge iron club; the giant makes a fire with his flint, the giant becomes his slave; P. wins, takes giant servants with two and three heads; each one cooks in turn, the dwarf takes food; P. pinched a dwarf's beard in a split beech tree; he tore off his beard, went underground; P. goes down, there are three girls with a golden loom, chickens, herd, hoop; they tell them to kill their dwarf brother with a wooden sword; servants pick up the girls, cut off the rope; P. comes to the spring, where the dragon gives water to exchange for girls, turn of the royal daughter; P. falls asleep, wakes up from the girl's tears, kills the dragon, cuts off his ears; the arap tells the king that he killed the dragon, P. shows his ears, the arapa is executed; the king advises save the chicks of a giant bird from the dragon; the chicks tell their mother that P. did not attack them, but killed the dragon; the mother bird tells them to collect meat, bread, water, feed her on the way to the upper world; the last a piece of P. cuts it off from the thigh, the bird belches it, puts it back; P. kills giants, marries and gives princesses to his brothers]: Arkhipova 1962:30-42; Slovenes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 300:174-175; Serbs [a childless woman asks for a child even with a pepperseed; gives birth to a child-with-pepper boy (MP); the princess cries because the dragon steals golden apples; at the bottom of Lake MP throws parts of a sheep's carcass to the dragon, each once he grabs one of the apples; cuts off the last piece from his leg, brings apples to the princess; becomes a slender handsome man, kills the dragon to whom the princess is given to eat, hides her tongues from 9 severed heads; a deceiver brings heads, MA brings tongues, a false groom falls through the ground, MA marries a princess]: Karadzich 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:138-141; (cf. Albanians [when dying, the father tells three sons to guard the apple tree, the fruits of which are stolen by an evil spirit; the older, middle brothers are afraid, the younger Kjelani injures the kidnapper; on the trail of blood, the brothers come to the crevice; the elders are afraid to go down, K. goes down the rope; three kidnapped girls give white, red, black scarves; fighting the spirit, you have to wipe the sweat off your face with them, the spirit will lose its strength; K. cuts off his head; sends the girls upstairs; when he gets up himself, the brothers cut off the rope; old woman: the white goat will carry it to the ground, the black one will lower it even lower, there is still a red one; two slip out of their hands, K. is enough black, falls deeper; kills a snake that was going to eat the chicks; Corshun mother is going to eat K. first, the chicks explain who their savior is; K. asks to take him upstairs, the bird tells prepare meat and wine; K. meets the princess, she is eaten by Kutschedra (a woman with a tail and 9 tongues, connected to black clouds), who closed the water sources; K. cuts her off head, water are free; the grateful king gives meat, wine; meat is not enough, K. cuts off a piece of caviar from his leg; on the ground, the bird puts a piece back, gives the pen to summon it; K. is hired as a servant; girls refuse to marry until they are given breast jewelry made without scissors and needles (in the lower world they gave them to K.); K. gives them; tells the bird to give him a white horse, clothes and a sword, wins older brother competition; same - middle brother (red horse, etc.); is on a white horse, marries the youngest of the girls]: Lambertz 1952:37-49); Romanians (Banat) [retired from service, soldier Peter immediately lost all his money; in the forest he met a tree rocking trees and playing with stones; they began to live in a hut, cook in turn; each time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; all eats, hits the cook; when P. remains, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, chases him to the crevice into which he disappeared; P. orders him to be lowered on a rope; cut the dwarf to pieces, but cannot get up, for the companions removed the rope: they were afraid that the dwarf would come out; light in the distance, P. went to the ground; the house, in which a blind old woman was eating hominy with milk; P. began to eat too, the old woman felt it; if a girl, you will daughter, if a boy, then a son; asked P. to herd her sheep, but not to go to the land of the dragons that stole her eyes; P. went and began to play the flutes; the dragons listened, asked them to teach them; P., playing , brought them to the oak tree, split them, ordered them to put their paws in the gap, knocked out a wedge; ordered them to tell them how to restore the old woman's eyesight; dragons: there is a milk pond next to us, let him wash his eye sockets three times; P. cut off the dragons heads, the old woman washed her eyes, began to see; P. left the old woman, towards the fox: don't shoot, I'll give you a fox; then the same wolf and bear; P. came to the city, there is mourning; the 12-headed dragon demands girls, turn the king's only daughter; the princess was left in the swamp; P. fell asleep with the princess's head on his knees; woke up from a dripping tear; the princess took one of P.'s arrows; he hit 11 heads with arrows, and the 12th with a princess's pin; cut out his tongues; the gypsy cut off the head of P. who had slept, and brought the dragon's heads to the king; a snake crawls, grass in his mouth; a fox: why is she? snake: to grow severed heads, my son was cut off; the fox took the grass, grew his head, but P. is still dead; the wolf met a woman: what are you carrying? woman: living water; the wolf took the water, P. came to life; came to the palace, showed his tongues; the gypsies were put in a barrel of nails, lowered from the mountain; wedding; after the death of King P. reigned, his animals always reigned remained in high esteem]: Schott, Schott 1975, No. 10:65-75; Romanians [dragons stole the sun, moon, stars, and the king's eyes; two elder princes went in search, but started trading, lost money and they were detained as debtors; younger Dragan Chenuse ("chenushe" means "ash"), who had previously been sitting in ash, got on a horse that ate hot coals, took weapons and armor, as well as ash cakes, which his mother gave, and went in search; he bought the brothers, taking gold from the horse's ear; while the brothers were sleeping, he killed the dragon on the copper bridge that had stolen the stars, they returned to heaven; on the silver bridge, the moon; a long battle on the golden bridge; DC promised the crow more meat than the dragon promised, who sprinkled it with cold water and the dragon with hot water; DC killed the dragon, freed the sun; chipping in with his mouse, penetrated his mother dragons and took away the box with her father's eyes; the dragon sent 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 take his father's eyes, he 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 it for that bride is the daughter of the Green King; they meet and accompany someone who hears oats grow and sees what is happening in another world; a shooter, a tree destroyer; drank; eaten; capable freeze the sea; this last one covered the sea with ice to cross 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 had offered; to compete in running with an old woman, she put the runner to sleep with a dragon bone under his head; the shooter knocked out the bone; they got a princess, crossed the ice, the freezer melted the ice again, the king and queen who rushed to pursue drowned; DC met an old man: there is no water, the dragon 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 black world on a rope; pretended to be a musician; devils promise lots of wagons of gold if he could free their king's beard from beech wood; DC cut off his head, ran up to the rope, pulled, but no one's rope picked up; hears the squeak of the griffin chicks: the dragon crawls to the nest to eat them; (killed the dragon); the griffin swallowed it and regurgitated it, making it stronger; agreed to carry them to the ground; along the way, the meat ran out, DC cut off a piece from her feet and from under his knee; the princess recognized DCH by the dragon's severed tongues; the brothers' wives poisoned DC's wife out of envy; he went for living water; the old man gave him a staff and a sheep, telling him do not leave them in the forest where the entrance to hell is located; the bird, while flying, dropped three feathers (her wife's hair) and three drops of blood (that fell from her wife's cheeks); DC left his staff and sheep in the forest and went home; turned into walnut tree]: Bîrlea 1966:384-387; Romanians [Prince Theodor fired an arrow and went to look for it; pulled out an arrow that had pierced the ground, a bull, a sword and a note in the hole: the bull will revive the owner if give him wine, and his sword will turn everyone into stone; stopped at the old woman; she gave him wine, but there was no water; the 12-headed monster gives water only in exchange for girls; the princess's turn; whoever saves her is on her marries; the young man fell asleep on the princess's lap, woke up from her tears; by evening the monster had only one head and the young man had only one arrow; with the girl's curl he tied a broken bow and finished off the monster; gypsy cut T. to pieces, brought the monster's heads and tongues to the king; the princess left the ring and handkerchief next to T.'s remains; the bull asked the old woman to take him to the spring; ordered the chopped pieces of his body to be folded; licked them and breathed - T. came to life; at the gypsy's wedding feast, T. threw a ring and handkerchief into the cake that the old woman gave to the bride; the gypsy was torn apart by two horses; a palace was built for T. and his wife]: Mawr 1881 : 32-37; Moldovans: 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 last blood has filled the fire; K. goes into the light, meets, binds Evening, Midnight, Dawn, so that the day does not come until he returns; Twelve dragons and their mother sleep around the fire; K. takes coal, but also meat; dragons have woken up and tell them to bring the daughter of the Red King (they themselves cannot, because they are afraid of a puppy with a rooster); K. takes 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's tongues; killed one dragon in their lair, and the other ran away; fed and let go of the bound Evening, Midnight, Dawn; passing through a golden, silver, copper forest meets three kidnapped princesses, each cooking for her dragon; kills two dragons; when fighting third, both call the crow, but K. calls him the blessed king, the raven pours water on the dragon's flame, which dies; when K. fell asleep, his brothers cut off his legs; he was found armless; K. grabbed the runaway dragon , she showed the lake; when K. and her 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, is 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; K. gave the princess to his former betrothed; K. came home, his wife was made a maid; he offered to throw it up core; when it fell, it crushed his brothers], 302-312 [the woman gave birth from an infusion of grass collected for Ivan Kupala; named her son Basil Green; the princess was kidnapped by a serpent, the tsar promises her and half the kingdom for her daughter; BZ comes, consistently kills dragons - from 6 to 24 heads; Half-man comes (vertically), he is invulnerable to the sword, kills BZ, makes the princess say that he killed the dragons; wedding in a year; BZ's mother found the remains of her son, saw one ant revive another with grass; she revived the BZ with the same grass; he goes looking for Half Man; St. Friday sends to St. The Trinity, which summons birds, only the dove knows that the power of Half-man in 9 worms in a golden apple in a chrome hares crevice; gives a pipe that makes them dance; BZ hardly swam across the river where snakes (dropped the pipe, found it, began to play, the snakes began to dance); made the hare dance, killed him, took out an apple, began to crush worms; came to the king under the guise of a doctor to treat his son-in-law, finished him off, married the princess]; Bulgarians [the girl (usually the princess) is given to be eaten by a snake; the young man undertakes to save her; on the eve of the battle, he falls asleep with his head on her knees, wakes up from a fallen tear; presenting the snake's severed heads, the deceiver is preparing to marry a girl; the hero shows his tongues cut off (a ring or other objects given to him by the girl), marries the rescued woman]: Daskalov-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 300:94-95; Gagauz [brothers followed a strange trail, came to a dried well, white and black sheep were fighting at the bottom; Vanchu's younger brother offered to go down, the elders refused, lowered him on a rope; wanted sit on a white ram, but the black one pushed him, V. found himself on black, fell into the dark kingdom; saw a snake crawl to the nest of a huge eagle, killed it; the eagle father is grateful; says that The five-headed fire-breathing Goguzhu-Moguzhu has closed the waters, passes it off as people given to him for eating, now it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; you have to wet your clothes so as not to burn; V. cuts off two heads four grow up; V. suggests that GM show how he sleeps; he puts his central head on two, covers himself with the other two; V. cuts off all 5 heads at once; the princess orders to cut off his tongues; the impostor brings the padishah the heads of the monster, V. shows his tongues; the impostor is expelled, V. gets the princess; the padishah lets them visit V.'s parents; the bird carries V. and his wife, in flight he feeds her meat and bread, gives water; the meat ends, V. cuts the meat from its soles; the eagle did not swallow them, reaching the ground, put them back, but since then, people have a depression on their soles; brings V. and his wife to V.'s parents; After staying, V. and his wife return to the lower world]: Syrf 2013:138-145.

Central Europe. Poles: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 300 [after eating a fish or an apple (swallowing a pearl, drinking water), an infertile woman gives birth to a son or twins; also: after eating the same food, they simultaneously conceive and a mistress and a maid give birth; a woman gives birth to two sons, a mare of two foals, a dog of two puppies; brothers (or the mistress's son and the maid's son) go on a journey; after leaving, they leave signs (stick in knives, etc.), which will help you understand if they are in trouble; one of the young men, with the help of his animals, kills a dragon, carves out tongues, promises to return in a year and a day; the impostor appropriates victory for himself; the hero (after his animals revive him with live water) returns when the wedding takes place, presents the royal tongues or gifts, marries her; the impostor is executed; the hero meets a sorceress, turned into stone by her; her brother sees blood on a knife (or other sign), goes to help; the queen takes him for her husband, but he puts a sword between her and himself on the bed; kills a sorceress, revives his brother and his animals]: 81; Dobšinský 1970 [translated to Bogatyrev 1955:37-47; the widow's two sons look like drops of water; they have grown up preparing to travel; the mother asks to go hunting and fetch meat; they they hunt three times, but do not find game; instead, they give bacon and bread to a couple of wolves, bears, lions; they bring them home; the predators have muzzles on their faces; the brothers parted from the linden tree, stabbing it ; from which blood will flow, so trouble; the eldest comes to the city, where a fire-breathing 12-headed serpent demands a girl to eat every day, otherwise he does not allow her to go to the well; the princess's turn; her savior will receive it; the young man, with the help of his animals, cut off the snake's heads, but they grew again until the lion tore his neck; the young man cut off his tongues, came to the princess, she gave him half the ring; when he fell asleep, a coachman ran up, cut off the young man's head, made the princess call him savior; the lion told the wolf to run to the snake, which was just about to revive another one crushed by the wagon with grass; but the wolf came across himself on the wagon, the people were frightened; then the lion sent the bear, who took the potion from the snake, the young man came to life, but his head was put backwards; the bear tore off his head again and put it right; when the young man came to town, where they are preparing the princess's wedding with the coachman; the young man sent a letter and half a ring to the princess and the bear; the princess sent back food, wine and her half of the ring, half grew together; the young man showed snake tongues; the coachman was given to the animals; one day a young man saw an enchanted yellow forest from the window; a fox appeared, the young man chased her, found himself in a dark forest; began to fry bacon; an old woman shouts that she is cold, lets her wand touch the animals, otherwise she is afraid of them; the animals are petrified; the old woman began to fry a frog, not bacon; touched the young man with a stick, he also petrified; The younger brother saw blood on the knife and went in search of the elder; his wife mistook him for her husband, but at night he put a sword between them; he did not touch the animals with an old woman's wand, but let them go at her; forced him to give him a golden stick to revive his brother's animals and ointment to revive him; then the animals tore the old woman to pieces; first the older brother's beasts became knights, then they killed the little brother's animals and they also became knights; they are six brothers, they quarreled, became predators for this; the elder brother returned to his wife, and the youngest with six knights came to their possession and became king there]: 3-10; Shcherbakov 1980 [ the fisherman caught a fish with silver tails and gills; fish: let 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, the queue is 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 cooks wedding; the young man sent his dog with a letter to the queen; stings at the feast; the forester was torn 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 forest; an old woman came to the fire to warm up; gave a twig to whip the dog, they were all petrified; at home one oak tree dried up; the middle brother, mistaken for the elder, rides, puts a sword on the bed; the younger one goes; also puts a sword 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 make her middle brother revive; brothers they 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 shot a cannon at the ball]: 93-104; Luzhitans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 300:174-175; Czechs [a beggar with 7 children begs for alms; the queen cries: she is childless; the beggar tells me to catch fish, cook and eat, give the rest to a mare, a dog, whatever they can't eat, bury it in the garden; the queen gave birth to two sons, a mare two foals, a dog two puppies, two rods grew in the garden; the brothers grew up quickly, sat on their horses, each took their own the dog, by the oak tree, broke up with a knife stuck in it; the eldest comes to the city, where every year the dragon is given a girl to eat, the royal turn; whoever saves her will get her hand and half the kingdom; a young man, with the help of a horse and a dog, killed a dragon, received a queen; once he noticed a light in the forest; contrary to his wife's warning, he went there, an old woman came to the fire, buttoned a man, a horse and a dog with a twig, they are petrified; the younger brother sees that the knife is rusted, goes in search, the eldest's wife takes him for her husband, he puts his sword on the bed, snatched the twig from the old woman's hands, forced her to revive the petrified ones, cut off her head; the old woman became beautiful: she is the queen of this country, and the young man broke the spell; her younger brother married her, the elder returned to his wife]: Erben in Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017:156-165; Czechs [the eldest twin is strong, playing with the foal, the youngest playing with rags; the mother loves the youngest, tells her returning husband that he is the oldest; the horse tells the real elder to go into a world without satellites; the city hides inside a cliff, from where a young man can summon him; the young man pretends to be hired by a scribe to the king, nicknamed Bayaya for his silence; three dragons demand three daughters to be eaten king; the horse shows B. a chest with three sets of luxurious clothes and three swords; unrecognized in these clothes, B. kills dragons; the neighboring king attacks, B. again unrecognized crushes enemies; the king tells her daughters to choose a husband, each throws an apple, the youngest's apple falls into B.; the princess grieves; at competitions, B., unrecognized again, wins everyone, the princesses recognize him as the winner of the dragons; B. opens to the bride; comes to her parents, the mother confesses the replacement, B. inherits his father's throne]: Nmcová 1970:122-134 (=Nemtsova 1978:34-46); Slovaks [the widow's two sons look like drops of water ; they have grown up, preparing to go on a journey; the mother asks them to go hunting and fetch meat; they hunt three times but do not find game; instead, they give bacon and bread to a couple of wolves, bears, lions; they bring home; there are muzzles on the faces of predators; the brothers broke up at the linden tree, stabbing it with a knife; from which blood will flow, so trouble; the eldest comes to the city where the fire-breathing 12-headed serpent every day she demands a girl to be eaten, otherwise he does not allow her to go to the well; the princess's turn; her savior will receive her; the young man cut off the snake's heads with the help of his animals, but they grew up again while the lion did not tear his neck; the young man cut off his tongues, came to the princess, she gave him half the ring; when he fell asleep, the coachman ran up, cut off the young man's head, made the princess call him savior; the lion tells the wolf run to the snake, which was just about to revive another one crushed by a wagon with grass; but the wolf came across the wagon himself, frightened the people; then the lion sent the bear, who took the snake's potion, the young man came to life, but his head was put backwards; the bear tore off his head again and put it right; when the young man came to town, they were preparing the princess's wedding with the coachman; the young man sent a letter to the princess and the bear and half of the ring; the princess sent back food, wine and her half of the ring, half grew together; the young man showed snake tongues; the coachman was given to the animals to pieces; one day the young man saw from the window an enchanted yellow forest; a fox appeared, the young man chased her, found himself in a dark forest; began to fry bacon; an old woman on the tree screams that she is cold, lets her wand touch the animals, otherwise she is afraid of them ; the animals petrified; the old woman began to fry the frog, not the bacon; touched the young man with a stick, he also became petrified; the younger brother saw blood on the knife, went in search of the elder; his wife mistook him for her husband, but at night he put a sword between them; did not touch the animals with an old woman's wand, but let them put them on her; made him give him a golden stick to revive his brother's animals and ointment to revive him; then the beasts they tore an old woman to pieces; first, the older brother's animals became knights, then they killed their younger brother's animals and they also became knights; they were six brothers, they quarreled, became predators over it; the older brother returned to his wife, and the youngest with six knights came to their domain and became king there]: Dobšinský 1970:3-10 (translated to Bogatyrev 1955:37-47); Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [widower marries neighbor; she makes a condition that he will get rid of his children, Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving the deck beating against a tree in the wind as if he were cutting wood; they returned home; next time the father took them away then, the children are left in the forest; they bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; the bear, the wolf come, are surprised at the outlandish beast, leave; in the morning there is good bread in ash; there is a magic shirt on sycamore, a gun, a saber; I. pulls them out, becomes a strongman; breaks into the robber's lair, there is a princess; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. left the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. to bring live water, pour it into the keyhole; the door opens, the robber's severed ear grows, M. takes the robber as her husband; to destroy his brother, pretends to be sick, asks wolf meat, then bear meat and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives them a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests that M. send his brother to fetch water from the spring between interpreting mountains; at noon they stop, I. took out water; bring flour from mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. picks up flour, manages to jump out, the doors slam shut, his animals remained inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he was confused, she tied him with horsehair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they gouged out I.'s eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; bought good clothes, exchanged clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one was young, the other was old; he came to M. and the robber under looking like a beggar; when they fell asleep, he took their shirt, sword, gun; ordered him to be given his pipe; he began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, ran, tore the robber; left M. two barrels for tears, one cry for him, the other for the robber; in the neighboring kingdom of snakes locked the water; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying the snake, cut off snake tongues, cut off the gypsy from each tongue piece by piece, demanded the tsar's princess as his wife; at home, almost all tears cried out for the robber; I. shows the king not the tips of his tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore the gypsy, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; they escaped, the Fox brought live water; next time M. locked her verey again, put I. a pitchfork in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:232-243; Belarusians [The king and queen died, the children went around the world, came to the hut on chicken legs, with a baba-yuga, an iron leg; in the morning she told the girl to weave crosns, and the boy to cut wood, ordered the cat to guard; they they gave the cat meat, he gave them a ball and a khust, sat down at the crosns himself; when Baba South understood this, sat down in a stupa, drove a poker; brother and sister came to the Sea of Fire for the ball, waved a khust - a bridge; on that They waved the shore again - the bridge was gone; they saw the hut, began to live; while Ivan Tsarevich was gone, Kashchei the immortal came to his sister; taught him to pretend to be sick - let his brother bring animal milk; the hare gave milk and a rabbit; the same with a fox, a she-wolf, a bear, an elk, a lioness, a tar (?) ; the sister pours out milk every time; now I. has 7 animals; his sister sent him to the damn mill; I. went out, and the animals were left outside 12 doors; at home I. asks Koschey to let him wash in the bathhouse, and then eat; the animals came running, melted the bathhouse, the lion threw Kashchei into the fire; his sister found his fang, put his brother in bed; the fang pierced his head; the fox ran to get fuel and tenacious water, and the hare noticed in his head fang; pulled out - a fang into a hare, now he is dead; so from one animal to another, but the fox is only on the tail; the lion threw his sister into the oven; Marya Tsarevna was given a snake with 6 heads; I. and the animals killed him; I.'s wedding and M.; and I was there, it flowed down my mustache, I didn't get into my mouth]: Romanov 1887, No. 3:45-49; Belarusians [the princess got drunk in the garden from a crystal krinitsa and became pregnant, gave birth to twins named Avdon Avdonovich and Vadavon Vadavonovich; all horses bend under them; the old man tells the king where the horses are for the twins; at the crossroads, a pole with the inscription: if you go to the right, you will be married, to the left you will be killed; AA went to the right, and stronger BB to the left; AA married the king's daughter; BB began to live with an old woman, with a tiger and a lion; the old woman says that the three-headed serpent ordered the king to bring his daughter to the seashore; BB he went there, the serpent came out of the sea, the BB cut off his heads; the next time he was a 6-headed serpent; his heads were growing; BB told the princess to throw sand, but the serpent threw her tail away; the old woman woke up and saw that the water in the glass left behind was stained with blood; released the tiger and the lion, they came and began to tear their severed heads; BB married the princess, the king died, BB became king; flame could be seen in the forest; wife says they don't come back from there; in the forest, an old woman touched a key, turned a lion and a tiger into a bump, a BB into a stump, a horse into an eversion; AA drove up to the pole, sees that the knife is rusted, he also has a tiger and a lion; AA tells the princess that he is not her husband, but her husband's brother; his tiger and lion tore the old woman, revived everyone with her AA key; both brothers began to reign]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:143-147; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Zap. 1888-1891, Staroselskaya vol., Mstislavsky district, from a local peasant) [Two royal sons go to search for brides, after 7 years the tsar has a third son Ivan, grows up quickly, plans to marry; grandmother advises Ivan from whom to buy the horse he needs, the tsar father refuses to buy a horse the first time for 100 rubles, buys it from the third for 300; the horse speaks in a human voice and takes Ivan in the air, they fly up to a house with a high fence, a pole with a ring, an inscription on the pole: whoever jumps over the fence can marry Nastasa Prikrasya; Ivan jumps over, meets his grandmother, says that came for Nastasya, eats, drinks, takes her horse, leaves; also with the second and third houses; for the fourth time the horse takes Ivan to the golden house, the horse advises Ivan to go to the 12th room and pick it up from Nastasi keys; Ivan finds Nastasya the second time (she sleeps), commits a sin with her, the horse finds out, sends Ivan to the river three times to wash, the horse hits the fence with his hoof, Nastasya wakes up, sends chase; on the advice of the horse, Ivan writes a note on the oak tree (who can cut down an oak tree will catch the villain), buys time, reaches his grandmother, does not drink, does not eat, changes the horse; chase again, the horse gives the same advice with the inscription on the oak tree, the story of the oak tree repeats itself; Ivan changes his horses again, leaves, repeats the story with the inscription on the oak tree for the third time; Ivan drinks, eats, picks up his horse, flies away on horseback, Nastasia promises to come to him in a year with her child; Ivan goes to bed by the stone, brothers are going, one wants to kill Ivan, the other wants to send him under a stone to the next world, the brothers raise a stone, Ivan was thrown off, gifts were taken away, the horse is not given to his brothers; Ivan wakes up, walks, finds a house, asks for a drink, there is no water, the 12-headed serpent must eat the king's daughter and open the keys with water; Ivan goes to the sea, where the princess is brought, Ivan asks the princess to look in his head, falls asleep on her lap, a snake appears from the sea, the princess cries, a tear wakes Ivan up; the serpent asks whether to fight or Ivan came to put up; opponents are fighting, with two blows he cuts off the snake 12 heads, pulls out 12 tongues, sticks to the wagon; water comes; Ivan goes to the old woman; the gypsy finds out how the princess was saved, makes her imagine him as a savior, the king plays a wedding; Ivan goes to the wedding, finds a violin on the way, plays at the wedding, asks for a glass of wine from the princess, drinks, puts the princess's ring in the glass, The princess sees her ring, tells her father the truth; Ivan shows his tongues, the gypsies are tied to her ponytail and opened; the tsar invites Ivan to marry his daughter, he refuses ("but friends"); asks to be brought to this world, the princess explains how to get to this world on her father's three-legged goat, the goat carries Ivan, comes back; the horse takes Ivan home by air; Nastasya is already standing a courtyard 50 versts from his father's court; Ivan returns without gifts, he is locked in prison; Nastasya writes a letter inviting Ivan, his elder brother goes, the heroes beat him and brings him back, the same with the middle one brother; to the third letter, the tsar releases Ivan, he meets with Nastasya, they live in this palace]: Romanov 1901, No. 40:370-378; Belarusians (Gomel University) [the son is Ivan, the father is a drunkard; the neighbor took I. as an employee; he grew up, went on; hired a serpent; this is the serpent Chavolay; after 6 years I. left, C. gave him a book, ordered him not to open it, otherwise he would eat it; I. got lost, opened the book, cattle flowed out of it; C. appeared: eat; agreed that C. put the cattle in the book back, and I. promised not to marry; at home I. refuses matchmakers; still others say that they have two good dogs will fight off C.; during the wedding, C. appears; I. jumps away; the horse has fallen; the hut: turn your back to the forest; Baba Yaga fed her, put her to bed, gave bread with her, showed the way to her sister; she has the same thing, the oldest sister has the same; every dog, from afar, senses C.; every pernet and food appears; the third baba yaga gave a handkerchief to wave at the sea - a bridge appeared; when on the C. Bridge, wave again - the bridge disappeared, C. fell into the sea; I. woke up, three dogs nearby: Lomigor, Lomikamen, Lomizhelen; two kingdoms ate a 12-headed serpent, in the third he was led to eat a princess; I. and his dogs killed him, The princess tied her wounds with a handkerchief; the servant cut off I.'s head, ordered the princess to say that he had killed the snake; the dogs grabbed the viper, forced the viper to bring water growing and living; revived I.; the princess's wedding with her servant is being prepared; I. sends dogs, the princess recognized them; at the feast, the tsar sees the princess's handkerchief on I.'s hand; the servant was beheaded; wedding]: Romanov 1886, No. 9:73-77; Russians ( Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Vladimir, Novgorod, Pskov, Tver, Tula, Orlovskaya, Ryazan, Tambov, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians ( everywhere, there are a lot of sources) [The winner is the snake: the hero frees the princess doomed to be eaten and marries her - most often enters the fairy tale as an episode]: SUS 1979, No. 300 _1:103-104; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [a soldier entered the house, there is a table for 12 people; at midnight 12 swans arrived, became girls; they ask to go out, you will be a brother; they teach you to do a hundred; they arrive three nights two-headed snake; the first night you must repeat the letter "a", the second - "o", the third - "y" and plunge a fork into the snake; the snake is dead, the girls are released; they gave the soldier a self-shaking wallet, an invisible hat, a magic sword; in the city is in mourning, the princess is given a snake that comes out of the sea; the soldier killed the two-headed; then the three-headed; the impostor attributed the feat to himself; the soldier came, the princess recognized him, the impostor could not move the plates , under which the bodies of snakes, and the soldier could; the impostor was beheaded; the wedding; I was there, I drank honey beer, etc.]: Balashov 1970, No. 5:46-48; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [the hunter peasant put his snare luckily for his 12-year-old son; he was hit by a firebird; the peasant took it to the king, who gave it money and a stone house; put the bird in a cage, sent invitations to look at the curiosity; Tsarevich Ivan played and saw her; the bird asks to steal the mother's key and release her; the bird flew out and returned after 6 hours; she has to sit for another three days; then after 8 hours, three more days, only then will it be able to get up high enough to fly to his kingdom; did not return again, I. quietly returned the key to his mother; the kings gathered decided that the royal family could not be executed, but must be expelled; the king gave a thin horse and footman, he is also Ivan; we need to get water; the servant says that if he goes down to the well, the prince will not be able to pull him out; the prince came down; I.-footman forced the prince to change clothes and status, only then did he pull it out; in another kingdom, I.-footman proposes to send a real I.-Tsarevich to herd chickens; there are no chickens, 300 hares were given three years to herd, they will be punished for the loss; each pasture is a year; hares immediately scattered; a firebird appeared, told not to worry, carried it home; the bird became king: he fought against another kingdom, fell into a snare; I. lives with the elder sister of the firebird king for 11 months, she gives a bread-salting tablecloth; the tsar himself gives an accordion: if you start playing, the hares will gather; I.-Tsarevich returned, unfolded the bread pickle, played the accordion, the princess came, sat for a long time; after that, the accordion did not acts, I. cannot collect hares, the firebird brings her home again; the middle sister gives a lash to collect hares; the princess comes, I. tells her everything, she gives a ring; after that, a lash has lost its strength, the firebird brings to her younger sister; she would like to marry I., but he refuses; she gives special clothes; the firebird: when you return, snakes will come out of the lake to demand a person every day for eating; I. will easily defeat the 6-headed and 9-headed, the 12-headed will cut off 10 heads, and two in no way; when the sun rises, you must shout: look, your house is burning! he will look around, heads will be cut off; gives the horn to gather hares; under the stone there is a horse and a kladenets sword; princess at home: do whatever you want with me, I agree to anything; lived with him for two whole days; servants: I was alone princesses; a serpent appeared, the king promises a daughter and half the kingdom for the victory over him; I. drank bottles from the firebird, there was a lot of strength, took out a horse and a kladenets sword; the imaginary I.-Tsarevich bought tongues from 6 heads, and this allowed me to cut off my toe and arm; the same after killing a 9-headed snake: cut off my belt from the back on your finger; when the 12-headed one has been fighting for two days; your house is on fire! falling, the serpent scratched I.'s right arm and leg; the princess bandaged; took another belt from the imaginary prince; at the wedding, the princess orders that all servants, including the hare shepherd, be there; he sleeps, because of- blood is dripping under the bandages; I.-Tsarevich came, brought his fingers and belts from the deceiver's back; hit him, the place was wet; inherited the throne; lived to a very old age]: Nechaev 1938:11-38; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsylma) [the blind tsar has sons Fedor, Vasiley, Ivan; F. went to get live water; on the growths, one road is full - he is hungry, the other is hungry, the horse is hungry, he is full, the third is not alive; went where he was hungry; three girls were invited to the tower; one offers to lie on the bed, she falls into the underground, where there are already a lot of fellows; the same with V.; I. goes along a road where not to be alive; a hut on chicken legs, about one window, on a damp crap, and turns around; Bab-Yaga has now feathered, supported a hundred, blew, splashed her ass, cracked her ass and applied pancakes; says that she guards living water the king maiden gave the horse a golden breast; she let the horse go to the third, the third let the horse jump the strings to three wells, in which dead, living, eye water; I. filled the vessels, but also little bubbles that he hid; made love to the king maiden, but she did not wake up; when back, the horse hit the strings, the bells rang, the king maiden is chasing; every baba yaga detains her, inviting her to the bathhouse; I. drove along the hungry road, the tsar-maiden lost track; I. came to those girls, tells the girl to be the first to lie on the bed, she failed; the guys in the basement tore her apart; others the girls were told to release the prisoners and no longer harm them; on the Russians, the brothers threw I. into a hole in the ground, his horse and bag were taken away; in the lower world, I. went to sea, where the princess was given to the Snake to eat; I. kills the three-headed, then six- and nine-headed; puts his heads under the corner of the house, each with a gem, I. took them for himself; when he slept, the water carrier cut off his head, attributed the victory to himself; the princess went to wash her body, found bubbles of living and dead water, revived I.; he wants to go to earth; if so, the king will give him the kingdom (and daughter) after his death, when he enters his world; called Magovay the Bird, I. feeds her along the way, she flew with difficulty, fell down, and I. grabbed the edge and got out; came home, anointed his father's eyes with eye water, he saw the light; the king maiden with two sons sailed on the ship; rejects F. and V.; I. smeared himself with resin, rolled in feathers, children say it's hell; their mother: no, your father, wash him, take him to the ship; they have begun to live well and now live]: Onchukov 2008, No. 8: 100-106; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [an old hunter bequeaths a towel and 7 dogs to his son; do not let your younger sister wash the towel; if you need to cross the river, wave in the other direction, it will be done bridge; one day my sister sees a line on the other side; he advises taking a towel without asking and making a bridge; she did so; so that his brother would not notice him, the hell turned into a broom when he entered the house; the dogs rushed to the broom, but the sister persuaded them to recall: there would be nothing to pay for revenge; the next day, the brother suspects something was amiss; he could not find towels; the devil advises them to pretend to be sick and ask for bear milk; the bear herself gave milk and a bear cub to boot; the same with lion's milk (lion cub); hell suggests sending it to an iron mill, where they grind in three minutes; brother jumped out, and the dogs and animals were left behind with an iron door; sister asks her brother to heat the bathhouse (she is going to burn it in the bathhouse with hell); bird: take your time, your animals gnawed only two doors; when your brother went to the bathhouse, the hunt came running, I tore the line; my brother gave my sister three tubs of water and three shocks of hay: when I eat the hay, I'll let it go; my brother went to the city, where the people are crying: the serpent is used to it, today the king's daughter will eat; the hunt rushed, gnawed off The three-headed snake's head, the brother cut off his tongues and hid it; the same with 7- and 12-headed and snakes; the water carrier attributed everything to himself, but the guy showed his tongues; forgave his sister (she managed to eat two shocks of hay and drink two water tubs)]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:86-90; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the doctor tells the tsar that there is a fish - if you eat it, a child will be born; a fish was delivered to the tsar, the queen ate it, the cook I tried it, gave a swipe to the cow; Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Kukharkin's son, Ivan Korovich, were born; they grew up and came to the kingdom, where miraculous people ate; the brothers cut off the miracle of their heads, who should take the princess? The Tsarevich and the cook's son threw Korovich into the abyss; eagles are squeaking in the nest, he fed them crumbs and warmed them; the eagle promises to help; Korovich came to the old man; he says that the worst Miracle Yudo is here, only his relatives, we need to change the tubs with living and dead water; after drinking dead, the Miracle weakened, Korovich killed him; immediately the birds sang, the kidnapped princess nearby; the eagle carries them upstairs, it is necessary to feed the prepared meat, it was not enough, Korovich cut off the meat from his leg, gave the eagle his own blood; when he reached the ground, the eagle regurgitated this piece, brought Korovich and the girl to life with live water; Korovich forgave his brothers, married a rescued woman; wedding; I was there, ate and drank, flowed down my mustache, but didn't get into my mouth]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:104-108; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, p. Zasulye, 1928) [when he dies, the tsar gives his son Ivan the keys to all rooms, but forbids entering one room. Neither I. nor daughter Elena gives a blessing for marriage. I. unlocks the door, the wolf runs out, destroys the palace. I. and E. climb onto the balcony, they are carried away by a huge bull. The wolf catches up, eats the bull, returns the prince and the princess, forgives the escape. A thin bull appears, takes his brother and sister away, they doubt his strength. I. falls his ear to the ground, hears the chase, pulls a comb out of the bull's right ear with his right hand and throws it to the left, a dense forest grows, and detains the wolf. Ivan hears the chase again, pulls a handkerchief out of his left ear with his left hand, and a bridge across the lake appears. After moving, E. picks up the handkerchief, and the lake detains the wolf. The bull disappears, I. and E. spend the night with the old man, stay with him, I. hunts, E. cooks. The old man dies, leaves his guns and dogs Katay and Valya behind. E. sees a great fellow on the lake, throws a handkerchief, well done, goes down the bridge to her, hits the ground and turns into a wolf. She offers to surrender to him and kill her brother, she agrees. The wolf offers to pretend to be sick: I dreamed that in order to heal you need to get a nightingale, a bear and flour from under the millstone of the mill. If he dies, his golden tooth could kill I. I. gets everything, feels sorry for the crow, the nightingale and the bear along the way, the last two give him a cub. At the mill, the wolf locks I. inside and is going to eat it, he asks for permission to twist the cigarette. While twisting, the crow tells how many doors his hunt has gnawed, she breaks through and tears the wolf apart. I. reproaches his traitor sister, she hits him with the wolf's golden tooth, I. dies. Katay licks the place where the tooth hit, I. comes to life, the dog dies. The animals take turns reviving each other, dying on their own, the bear licks the nightingale, holds a frying pan in front of his forehead, the tooth flies out, falls into the pan, E. Ivan leaves her with a barrel and coals, says that if she cries for a barrel of tears, she feels sorry for the wolf, and if she eats the coals, she feels sorry for her brother. He comes to the city, settles in with an old woman, learns about the snake, the princess's turn to be eaten, with the help of his hunt I. wins the snake. She saves the second and third princess (snakes are torn apart by dogs and bears). She receives a personalized ring and towel from the girls, remembers her father's request not to marry. The water carrier forces the girls to admit that he is the winner of the snake. I. comes with animals to the wedding of the water carrier and the younger princess, the girls recognize him and tell her father the truth. I. shows snake tongues, a ring and a towel. The king orders that the water carrier's hand be cut off. I. marries a younger princess, returns for her sister, she cried a barrel of tears, I. feels sorry for her, brings her to herself, but settles separately. She enters her brother's room at night, hits him with a wolf's tooth, and I. dies. E. persuades I. not to feed or release animals. At the funeral, the animals are released without Elena's knowledge, they lick I., the tooth falls into Kataya, he dies, I. comes to life. Those present run away in horror. Animals lick each other, I. takes out a frying pan, pulls out a tooth, talks about his sister's actions and shoots her. She does not die, then animals tear it apart, burn her body]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 114:290-300; Russians (Pskov, Pushkinogorsky districts) [grandfather and woman have a mill with 12 gates; she took flour herself, grinded it, closed and opened by the hour; she was hysterical, the man was looking for a help; the naked promises to do everything, but tells me to give it back, which the man does not know at home; the wife gave birth to twins: Nastya and Vanya; the father gave them a needle without ears and told him to run; told the naked that they had run to him; N. threw her comb (the forest, naked came back for the ax, cut through the course); N. waved her handkerchief, they flew across the lake; came to the hut: turn around there backwards, here in front; an old man came with a gun and a dog; told them to serve I. and died; N. came to the river, naked with an accordion on the other side, offered to marry, told them to wave his handkerchief; she waved, he went to her flew over; advises to ask I. to get hare's milk; the hare fed up and gave the bunny; N. poured out milk; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, the bear, the lioness; naked: let him go to the mill of your father, his the animals will remain locked; while walking, the naked and N. weaved three ropes: silk, hemp, hair; N. suggests I. to tear them; hair I. could not tear; asks permission to heat them before death bathhouse; the raven is flying, reports how many doors the animals gnawed; the animals came running, tore her naked, N. tied two naked teeth in a handkerchief; I. chained her to an oak tree, put two barrels; let her cry in one naked, and two at him; not far from the lake, an underdog with seven heads went out to the lake; he was just convicted of the Tsareva's daughter; (hereinafter in square brackets: I. saves her, marries; his wife feels sorry for N., asks to forge; N. throws them in the tooth in their heads - they die; animals revive with living and dead water; N. was torn, tied to their tails)]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 43:86-89; Russians (Vologodskaya) [y the tsar's daughter is beautiful; he put her in a tower so as not to be stolen; she asked to let her go to the garden, found an egg, ate it in half with her nanny, both became pregnant, Ivan Tsarevich and Fedor Nyankin were born, grew up quickly , went to wander; at the fork there is an inscription: to the right - break your head, to the left - drink, take a walk, have fun; I. went right, F. to the left; they exchanged rings, if the ring turns black, trouble; The bowl remains, if there is blood in it, one of them died; I. Tsarevich came to the shack; old woman: every night they bring the girl to be eaten by a sea monster, the boyar's room remained, princely and royal daughters; I. tells the old woman to wake him up in the evening, let the horse go if he starts to worry; brought a boyar's daughter; "who sings, who plays, who roars"; at midnight he rides a horse a sea monster with three heads; I. "the field blew", three heads flew off; the next night they brought the princely daughter - the same (six heads); on the third night they brought the princess, the monster has 12 heads, the old woman is sleeping, the horse is beating; the monster threw I.; I. threw his left boot into the old woman's house, then his right boot, the house rolled, the horse escaped; I. jumped on his horse, "blew out the field", demolished the monster's head, took the princess's handkerchief, restored the old woman's hut; the vagrants told the king that they killed the monsters, the king did not believe it; I. showed a handkerchief; wedding; before they fell asleep, Baba Yaga rides (she drives every day, eats a bull, eats a cow); I. chased her, she asked for permission to "weave the horse's eyes", the horse disappeared, I. returned on foot; the next time I. allowed him to weave his eye himself, died; F.'s ring turned black, blood in the bowl; he came to that kingdom, his mistaken for I., put him in bed with his wife M.; when Baba Yaga appeared, the princess replies: "As if you don't know, I was chasing baba yaga for two days"; F. caught up with Baba Yaga, forced him to bring her alive and dead water, revive I. and his horse; having learned that F. slept with his wife, I. in redemption demands that F. travel "far away, far away seas, to the kingdom of far away to the princess for an egg"; F. comes to Baba Yaga, who gives a letter to her sister, her sister gives a letter to her older sister; the elder teaches: the princess is in the kingdom behind the wall, there are strings and bells on the wall, everyone is sleeping in the afternoon, you have to jump over the wall take the egg, soak the hat in the well to the left; F. took the egg, kissed the princess, the strings rang; F. jumps from one baba yaga to another, left the chase; a year later that queen came by ship with her son; F. first he sent a drunk, my son asks if it is his father, treats him with a belt on the back; then F. came; princess: I will treat this myself; wedding]: Gura 1965, No. 17:226-229; Russians (Vologodskaya, Veliky Ustyuzhsky University) [someone is stealing golden apples; he was caught, this is Divy's husband, put him in prison; Ivan Tsarevich shot a bird, an arrow hit D.; he asks him to release - it will come in handy; the tsar gathered the boyars, those were ordered to expel I.; he went and thought about D. immediately appeared, led him; his wife poured an apple out of his horn twice and let him eat; after the second time I. was able to raise the damask club; D. sent him to hire a groom to another king, where he will kill a snake; one groom named Devkin's son did not like I.; D. once again brought I. a drink and an apple; tomorrow the princess will be given to be eaten by a snake; I. killed a snake, princess bandaged the wound with her handkerchief; Devkin's son attributed everything to himself; D. gave I. a magic wheel (it built a golden palace) and a harp to play magic songs; the princess recognized him, the wedding; Devkin's son was cut off head]: Burtsev 1895, No. 8:44-50; Russians (Vologda) [Ivan Tsarevich was walking in the garden, saw the old man behind bars, himself from the arshin, his beard wrapped around his body; he began to ask for water; he drank and flew out, promising to help; the king expelled his son; he was hired by a groom to the Kashmiri king; the army of the king of Kampia approached, demanding a daughter from the Kashmiri sovereign for marriage; that old man appeared and brought I. to him, ordered him to drink a quarter of a bucket of wine served by his youngest daughter; after that I. was able to throw a stone of 500 pounds; then the middle daughter (half a bucket, a stone of 1000 pounds), the eldest (a bucket, 1500); I. returned to the stable, the elder scolded him for his absence, I. hit him with his fist, his head flew off; the tsar got into the matter, forgave him; the enemies were driven away, but an old man with a copper head and iron hands appeared; let her daughter send out, otherwise a three-headed serpent will come out of the sea, devour the people; one man volunteered to fight the snake, but when he saw it, he ran away; I. cut off the snake's heads, but the imaginary savior took the victory for himself; the same with 6-headed serpent; 9-headed; princess called I. savior; wedding; deceiver expelled]: Burtsev 1897:307-323; Kuzmina 2008, No. 36 [the poor brother has two sons 7 and 8 years old, and the rich is childless; poor brother has two sons 7 and 8 years old, and the rich is childless; poor shot an unusual bird; the rich offered to buy it, the poor gave it back; the rich told his wife to cook, and the heart, liver and lungs separately; nephews accidentally came in and ate; the rich man's wife changed cocks; the rich in the morning did not find gold under his pillow, but the nephews found them; the rich tells the poor that his children are evil spirits; the poor did not kill them, but left them in the forest; they were picked up by a hunter, they they lived with him until the age of 18; then left; did not kill a hare, fox, she-wolf, bear, lionesses; each gave them her two cubs; at the fork, the eldest went to the left and the youngest to the right; the eldest came to the city, there is mourning: a 12-headed serpent takes the king's daughter; the boy cut off the snake's heads, cut out his tongues, wrapped it in a handkerchief, the princess gave him her necklace; the servant cut off the sleeper's head, made the princess say that he was the savior; the hare ran away for the reviving root, the animals revived the owner; he sent a letter to the princess with the hares; came to the wedding feast, showed the princess's necklace and snake tongues; the deceiver groom shot; one day the elder brother went hunting; the old woman in the tree: cold; afraid of animals; gave him a rod; after that he and the animals became petrified; the younger brother sees that the elder's dagger has rusted; walks along it in the footsteps; realizing that he was mistaken for his elder brother, refuses to lie down with the princess, citing fatigue; did not take the rod, forced the old woman to revive the petrified, then the animals tore her apart; learning that the younger The princess, the eldest, her husband, cut off his brother's head; repented; revived his brother with the root with which he was revived; the wife only found out who her husband was by the necklace; I was there, I drank honey beer, but it didn't get into my mouth]: 79- 86; Russians (Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky U.) [the fisherman has been fishing for 33 years; he caught the crucian carp; he tells him to put the husk in a box in the attic, bury the intestines underground, let his wife eat the liver and heart, the head to the female, the tail to the mare, eat the rest yourself; the old woman gave birth to two boys Ivan and Vasily, a mare - foals, a female - males; by the age of 7, the brothers grew up, ordered 400 pounds of iron batog; gold was in the box, two bridles in the underground; brothers we reached the pole: whoever is to the right will not be alive, whoever to the left will petrify; M. to the right, V. to the left; a wall parted in front of him, he disappeared behind it; I. - to the city to the king; there a sea serpent demands 6 heads girls, the princess's turn; I. knocked down 6 heads with a club, put it under a stone, told the princess to remain silent that he had saved her; then the serpent demands all three princesses about 12 heads; the same; I. married the youngest; went to look for B ., taking half of his wife's handkerchief; after visiting V. in the Arab kingdom, I. returned; there the blacksmith marries the princess; I. sent a male dog, who dragged the blacksmith by the nose; showed half of the handkerchief, the head under the stone; the blacksmith put them in a pole; both brothers and wives returned to their father]: Smirnov 2008, No. 4:66-68; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [parents died, Dasha was called to her aunt, but began to torment her work and D. left; in the city she was hired by an evil merchant; when she went to rinse her clothes, Kashchei the Immortal took her away - count gold during the day, pour water at night; K. makes him beat him with 12 bars for hours, otherwise he cannot fall asleep; finally, snored; the mouse gave the key to the crypt in which the casket with the Kashcheev heart; she broke her heart, K. died; the eagles are happy; they dressed D. richly and carried them to the ground; one tells us to put wealth in a bundle and go to simple clothes; the old woman says that a three-headed serpent takes the royal daughter to eat; D. puts on a luxurious dress and asks the king to send her instead of her daughter; well done killed the snake and took D.]: Eremina and others 1979, No. 14:186-189; Russians (Kursk, Valuisky District) [A rich brother does not love his poor brother's family, but his wife loves his nephews and secretly feeds them. A poor brother kills a firebird in the forest, his children show feathers to his rich brother, who tells the ass who demands to cook this bird for him. It is accidentally eaten by poor children, the wife of a rich brother changes poultry for chicken, puts in the heart and liver of a firebird. The rich brother eats, the ass says that the bird was eaten by dogs. Pop wants to cook dogs for him. On the pillows of poor children, the mother finds money, thinks they are stealing from a rich uncle. The poor brother tells the rich man about what happened, who tells his ass. Pop reports that the children have been possessed by a demon and must be killed. The father takes the children to the forest and leaves them there, they come to the dugout and stay with the old mistress, her husband adopts them and teaches them science. In 20 years, he wants to test his brothers, asks them to be among the first and last bird in a flying pack, gives them a gun and a silver dagger - in case of parting, the rust on the blade will indicate that An accident happened to one of them. The brothers bury their grandfather, go hunting, animals ask for mercy and give their brothers their children - bunnies, foxes, bears, lion cubs, etc. Animals bring food and water. The brothers break up and leave a silver dagger in the oak tree at the crossroads. The first brother finds himself in a city (not allowed in immediately), cleaned with black cloth; tomorrow the princess must be given a 5-headed snake. The hunter surprises the whole city with his wealth (he orders an expensive lunch). In the morning, he sees the princess on the mountain, cuts off the snake's heads with a sword, and the animals help defeat the enemy. He hides the serpent's tongues, the princess gives him a handkerchief and ties ribbons to the animals. The hunter asks her to look after the animals and falls asleep. The butler cuts off the hunter's head, makes the princess recognize him as the snake as the winner in order to marry her and get half the kingdom. The animals find that their owner is dead, they blame the hare for death, he brings grass from the forest, chews it, lubricates the hunter's neck with it, and he comes to life. The hunter sees that the city is decorated with red cloth, learns about the princess's wedding (a year has passed) and remembers her. He writes her a note, she invites him to a feast, explains to the king that his animals are scientists. He asks for royal clothes and a carriage, she sends them. The hunter invites you to look at the snake's heads at a feast, shows the missing tongues, and proves that he is the true savior. The butler is executed, the princess is married to a hunter, and he becomes king. His wife doesn't let him hunt, he falls ill, she agrees. In the forest, he chases white deer, finding himself in an impassable thicket. She sees an old woman, a snake's mother, on the edge of a tree, asks her to go down, she says she is afraid of animals, gives him a twig. He hits animals with them, they become stony, the old woman hits them and turns them into stone. The Queen decides that her husband is missing and falls ill. The second brother lives unhappily and wants to find his brother, sees a rusted knife in an oak tree, and goes to the state where he is mistaken for a king. He finds out what happened to his brother, goes hunting in his footsteps, chases a deer, meets an old woman, shoots her, makes her brother and animals revive. She does it, he kills and burns it, blows ash down the wind. The brothers go to the queen from both sides, and she recognizes her husband by the ribbons tied to his hunt. The brothers have a feast, the second brother gets married]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:76-84.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Urums ("Greeks g. Mariupol"; judging by fragments of the original texts and other lexical materials available in the notes, these are urums, not rumei) [the widow's son beat the padishah's son and the vizier's son in the bones; the vizier's son hit the widow's son; he gave back, but missed and killed the padishah's son; the padishah wanted to execute the widow's son, but the dignitaries dissuaded him (minors cannot be executed) and advised him to send the murderer to the forest, to who lives the monster; the padishah did so; the widow's son came to the forest, straightened the bulls from the arba, went to buy firewood; when he returned, he saw that one of the bulls had only his head left; went into the thicket dragged the monster from there, harnessed it into the arba and went to the padishah; the padishah hid under the sofa and told the widow's son to leave his kingdom; the widow's son and his mother found a palace in the forest owned by the 40s the head of the serpent; the widow's son waved a piece of dagger and cut off 39 heads; the serpent asked to cut off the last one, but the widow's son dragged him into the back room and piled a millstone on him; a few years later, The widow found this room; the serpent said, "Who's there? If you are older than me, then be my mother, if you are middle-aged, be my wife, and if you are smaller than me, be my sister"; the widow opened the door, brought a piece of dagger to the snake; his serpent licked, their heads grew back; he and the widow began to live together in secret from her son; they had a child; the widow put him on the road; the eldest son saw the child, brought him home and let the mother feed him; the baby grew up, began to make a snake hiss; the widow gave the eldest son poisoned dumplings, but the youngest warned him of the danger; the eldest son killed both the mother and the snake; before going in search of his wife, he stuck a dagger into the ceiling and said to his brother: "If honey flows through the dagger, it means that my journey is safe; if blood flows, it will be a sign that I am in danger"; the eldest son came to the city and stayed with an old woman; she said: there is a well near the city, owned by a 6-headed serpent; every year he is given lot by lot; this year the lot fell on the king's daughter, tomorrow she will be taken to the well; the eldest son killed a snake, saved the king's daughter and married her; one morning he saw two suns in the sky; the wife explained: a padishah lives in the West, he has a beautiful daughter , it was her hair that was burning so much; the eldest son went to that beautiful woman; she was sitting on the balcony, he went into the garden and began to eat fruit there; because of this, he was exhausted; the padishah threw him into the cellar; the younger brother noticed that the dagger was bleeding, and rushed to search; did not eat fruit in the garden and grabbed the padishah by the beard; he let his older brother go; he returned to his former wife, and the youngest married a beautiful woman]: Markov 1892, No. 5:24-30; Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray district, Karalez) [the padishah has two sons; he does not order to hunt in the west and east, let them go towards the Kaaba; there is no game there, the elder suggests going to the east; a month is visible in the well; the youngest begins to lower the elder, he tells him to pull it out: he burns; the youngest comes down, does not tell him to pull him out; below the door the beauty has a golden tray, on it the greyhound chases the silver hare; then the man nailed to the wall, the young man freed him; the dove at the spring tells him to return to the beautiful woman; she is the daughter of the seven-headed Azhdakh, gave Zulfikar the sword; the young man drove Knee-deep into the ground, cut off 6 heads; refused to cut the seventh - you are not my father's pair of oxen; the young man sent the girl and the treasure upstairs, then the older brother threw the rope; at home he told his father that the youngest went to look for his fate; the youngest plunged into the spring and found strength; in the city, the old woman gives her urine instead of water; the seven-headed ajdaha gives water in exchange for the girls; the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man fell asleep on her lap, woke up to her tears; the young man and Azhdaha drive each other into the ground; the young man drove him to his knees, cut off six heads; abandoned the daughter of the padishah, who gave him gold; to the nest of the bird Chan-Kush A three-headed snake crawls, the young man chopped it, fed the chicks meat; Chan-Kushu thinks that he killed her chicks every year, but the chicks explained everything; the young man asks to be taken to the ground; took a barrel of meat with him and a barrel of water; cut off the last piece from his thigh; on the ground, a bird put it back; a young man came to his older brother's wedding; bride: I have been in mourning for 40 days; a young man sees a young man under his window; a young man showed a mole on his body, his father recognized him; his older brother was beheaded, the youngest married a rescued girl]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 30; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the brothers envied Sasarkva, offered to jump over across the abyss, they put her leg up; in the lower world, an old woman complains that the dragon eats those who come for water; S. cuts off the dragon's head, two grow up, then three; he sprinkles them with ash, the dragon dies; the eagle says that the dragon devoured her seven eagles every year; brings S. to the ground; S. cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg; the Eagle heals him, he returns home]: 58-59; Inal-ipa et al. 1988, No. 24 [the brothers envied Sasarkva, pushed them into an "otherworldly pit"; in the lower world, S. came to an old woman who drinks donkey urine, says that the dragon provides water only in exchange for people; S. cuts off the dragon's head; the snake crawls to the eagle's nest, S. kills it; the grateful Orlitsa takes S. to the ground; there is not enough meat and water, S. cuts off a piece of his thigh; on the ground, the Eagle tells her to run her pen over the wound , the thigh heals]: 143-150 (about the same as Salakai 1976, No. 10:192-195); Shakryl 1975, No. 29 [the older brother learned that if you eat the chicken meat that neighbors have, it will fall out of your mouth every three days gold; exchanged the burka for chicken, told his wife to fry; she let her two children eat her stomach; she fried another chicken, ate it with the children, and put her stomach with the first meat; the husband ate the chicken, but he saw that gold was pouring from the children's mouths; together with his single younger brother, the elder wove the basket, put the children in it, left them in the forest; hunter Kaurbey found them, the eldest was named Mazlow, and the youngest Jacour; the brothers grew up, felt sorry for two birds with one stone, two foxes, two bears while hunting; they parted at the fork, each took one of a pair of animals; J. came to the old woman, with a whip she turned him and him animals in stone; M. came to a village where the girl should be eaten by Agulshapa; killed him, fell asleep; the groom cut off his head, told the girl to call him his savior; animals M. they put his head back, revived him; the prince hung the groom, passed his daughter off as M.; at the fork, M. saw that the blade of the knife left by J. had rusted; the old woman says that J. was killed by her older sister; animals helped to take away the whip, M. revived Sh., his animals and other petrified ones, turned an old woman into stone; everything is fine]: 148-153; Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 27 [giant (ainizh) took the girl, a boy was born, Ainizh son (S.); after the death of his father, he went on a journey; met and accompanied the Grinding Grain, holding a millstone on his knees, holding a tree on his finger; they take turns cooking; long-bearded dwarf riding a rooster ties the cook with hair from his beard, eats everything; when S.'s turn, he split the tree, pinched the dwarf's beard; he uprooted the tree, went into the dungeon; S. went down on his belt, there girl, he sends her and the treasures in the basket upstairs; she warns that if his companions refuse to pick it up, let S. fall on the white ram, it will carry it to the ground and lower the black sheep to the seventh bottom land; the companions did not lower the belt; S. fell on a black ram; there the snake closed the water, gives it in exchange for girls; S. sees a crying girl, kills a snake; he was shown where the eagle lives; every year, a snake kills her chicks; S. killed a snake, the chicks hid it from their mother, then showed him; she ordered to prepare meat and water, flies upstairs with S., there was not enough meat, S. cut off the last piece from his legs; the eagle put it back; S. tied traitors to the tails of horses, married a girl], 90 [Murza's friend Sali came to see; M. explains that everything in the house depends on the man; S., that the house rests on woman; Hajat, M.'s daughter, supported the guest; her father told her to get out and passed off as a silly young man named Mhamat from a distant village; he is strong but lazy; at first, H. taught her husband to cut by example forests and harvesting firewood; excess firewood was exchanged for millet; by example, she taught me how to use a shovel, dig up and sow a field; then she taught me to count, M. and H. became rich; atko (dragon) captured the river in mountain village; H. told her husband to cut down a dogwood stick; he killed a bear with it; let him now offer people to kill atko if they give him gold; M. killed atko, freed the water, got gold; they are even more became rich; H. told her husband to make friends with one man (without saying that it was her father) and bring him to them; H. gave her father wealth and let him go home]: 46-51, 273-276; Kabardian people [the same or a very similar Adyghe text in Kerashev 1957:153-164; childless old people had a son, took him away, raised him, raised him, called Batyr, made him strong, sent him to his parents; the princes want to lime him, give difficult assignments; 1) a many-headed serpent takes water, demands girls to eat; B. won, saddled, killed him; 2) harnessed cannibals, plowed the ground on them; 3) harnessed ferocious boars, brought firewood for them; two hunters became his brothers; all three chased the deer, he disappeared into the crevice; B. comes down, there are three girls, one is crying (someone else will eat it today), the other laughs ( her tomorrow), sings the third song (the day after tomorrow); B. kills him, his brothers lift women upstairs, throw off the rope; the white ram will throw seven tiers up, the black one down, B. accidentally grabs black; kills a boa constrictor crawling to eat three eagles; Orlitsa arrives with a cloud and storm, eagles hide B., tell his mother about his feat; she promises to raise him to the upper world if he earns buffaloes for food; snakes do not provide water, requires girls; B. kills a snake, gets buffaloes; there is not enough meat, B. cuts off a piece of leg, reaching the ground Orlitz heals his wound; B. killed traitors and their wives, on the youngest, who they kept as a slave, got married]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 11:111-119 (=Huth 1987:208-218); Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 47 [for Yoryuzmek to recover, he must eat goldfish from the pool owned by a beautiful woman across the seas in the forest; two sons go west, the younger Sosruk to the east; the herd gives him a plain foal; the blackbeard sends to the middle one, that to younger brother, younger to that evil beauty; each brother gives a horse to the next one; while the beauty sleeps, S. takes the fish; returning, changes from horse to horse; the stalker is ready grab a plain foal, he soars to the sky; S. meets the brothers; they take fish from the sleeping person, throw it into the abyss; on the ledge of the cliff, a woman says that two rams will butt; white will throw it on the ground, black down; S. accidentally grabs the black horn; in the lower world, the nine-headed emegen closed the water; S. asks a woman to make him 8 stuffed heads; emegen hits them with arrows, S. hits them all 9; the grateful ruler says that eagle chicks are devoured every year by a dragon; S. kills the dragon with an arrow and sword; the chicks explain that the rain is the tears of their desperate mother; warm rain in half with the sun - she hopes for salvation; Orlitsa orders to fill her wineskins with buffalo meat and blood, takes off with S.; almost the ground runs out of stock, S. cuts off a piece of leg; on the ground, Orlitsa regurgitates him, puts; S. stops at the shepherd's wake; comes to his wake, talks about what happened; his arrow falls right in the middle of the sheep's shoulder blade; the brothers' arrows pass by; people believe S.]: 383-387; Tekeyeva 2013 [The 12-headed serpent Sarubek sits on top of the mountain, drinking all the water; now, during a drought, it is said that S.'s breath is cracking stones; Ganjakeshau went uphill, killed a snake with a sword, freed the country from drought]: 35; Balkarians (western 1960) [The robbers kidnapped the khan's daughter; a boy Askhat and his sister lived near their house; the sister did not love her brother; they came to this house; A. untied the kidnapped girl; with waves of a self-made sword killed 24 robbers, cutting off 8 heads with one blow; the head of the chieftain of the robbers asked sister A. to give her water, grew to her body; gives advice to sister A. on how to get rid of her brother; sister pretended to be sick, asks bring 1) wolf meat (the she-wolf gives the wolf cub and the pipe to call the wolf); the sister does not want lupus, 2) asks the bear meat (the same); 3) lions (the same); 4) to undress and swim, while the robber will steal a self-made sword; but A. took the sword, wounded the robber, the animals tore it; A. tied his sister to a tree, hanging a horse's carcass next to her to eat; came to town; the dragon eats a girl every day, queue Khan's daughters; he promises his daughter to a savior; A. cut down 8 dragon heads, pulled out and hid their tongues, the animals destroyed the remains; the girl put her ring on A.'s finger, hung gold chains around the necks of the animals; the servant Khan killed A., who was sleeping, called himself the girl's savior; the animals brought herbs and revived A.; A. came a year later; he was told that today the savior of the khan's daughter was marrying her; A. gave the bride a note with a bowl of soup, then animals carried notes; A. came and showed his tongues; the impostor was beheaded; A.'s wife sent for his sister, she was cured; she put a trap under A.'s bed, A. died; the animals brought herbs and revived him; A. ordered his sister to hang; everything is fine]: Malkonduev 2017:478-484; Ossetians [a childless person is told to slaughter a black chicken, his wife must eat goiter; a female eats a crawler, gives birth a golden-haired boy, the wife is ordinary; the son of a female performs the tasks of seven waigs (cannibal giants), who give their sister for the woman's son; tell them not to open the eighth chamber; the woman's son opens frees the seven-headed Waig, who takes his wife; the female's son goes looking for her; finds three comrades (one carries the church, the other runs with millstones on his feet, the third drinks the sea in a sip), they let him down on a rope to the lower world, he sees a kidnapped woman; she learns that the soul of the Waiga is in swallows, those in the casket, the casket in the hare, etc.; the son of the female killed the soul, the comrades pulled the woman upstairs, threw off the rope; in the corner at home, Suki's son found Waiga's mother, one fang above the sky, the other in hell; she tells him to grab hold of the ram's right horn, which accidentally grabs her left, does not rise to the ground, but falls into the seventh lower world; there the dragon does not provide water, devours women; the son of a female kills the dragon to save the prince's daughter; he advises turning to Orlitz, who flies to earth once a year; Zaliaga The serpent devours her three chicks every year; the son of the female kills him; the chicks hide the female's son; the rain gushes, then the sun shines, then the wind blows; the chicks explain that the rain is their mother's tears, the sun rays are from her eye, when she sees that the chicks are alive, the wind is from her wings; the bird puts the female son on his back, who throws her wineskins with beer, bovine carcasses, and finally cuts off a piece of his leg; she does not swallow when she reaches, puts his muscles back on him; the son of a female kills traitors, reunites his brother with his wife, revives him when the devils turn them into stone]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 45:162-177; Stavropol Turkmens: Bagriy 1930 (2): 109-114 [the hero takes two brothers and their families; the youngest son of one, Aigyr, was in the steppe at that time; grew up with a shepherd, met a hero, killed him; wanders, takes a clever man as his companions thief and runner; each takes turns cooking dinner; a bearded dwarf eats meat, hits the cook; A. cuts off his head, she rolls down to the mound; companions descend there on a rope A.; there are three girls they mourn the death of their father; A. promises that he will not kill them, sends them upstairs on a rope; the companions cut off the rope, A. stays below; in the underground city of Azhdakha took water; A. kills him, khan gives off his daughter for A.; A. wants to go to the ground, he is advised to go to the oak tree; two eagles say that every year Azhdaha devours chicks; A. kills the arrived azhdakh; the eagle raises A. to the ground, flies for 40 days; A. forgives his companions, takes the most beautiful of the three girls], 146-152 [the girl Sas is kidnapped by a bear; she gives birth to a boy with bear ears; he rolls back the stone with which the bear closes the way out caves, comes with his mother to the village; playing with his peers, maims them; the khan sends him to the forest for firewood, he brings it on a bear (his father), kills him; he is pushed into a hole leading to the lower world; he kills a crocodile holding water; people send him to the tree where the eagle lives; Bear Ear kills a crocodile ready to eat eagles; the Eagle takes him to the ground; he feeds her meat and gives water, cuts off the last piece from his leg; on the ground, the eagle belches it, puts it back; at home Bear's Ear killed all residents except his family]; Nogais [father sends sons to guard a thief stealing golden apples; the older, middle brother falls asleep, the younger one snatches out the feather of a golden bird; the older, middle brother goes to look for it, disappears; the younger comes to the fork, "on the right You will die on the road yourself, a horse on the left"; walks on the left; the wolf eats the horse; the young man is carrying; tells you to take a bird without a cage; he takes the cage, raises the alarm; the king promises to give the bird for a horse with a golden mane; The wolf tells you not to take the bridle; the young man takes it, the king promises to give the horse for a gold-haired girl; the young man kills Azdaa with one, two, etc. (up to seven) heads; the wolf pretends to be a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; meets brothers; they throw him into a hole; a seven-headed serpent gives water in exchange for a girl; a young man kills a snake; a king puts a young man on an eagle, a supply of food and water for seven days; it is not enough; the young man cuts off the meat from his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on the ground, the eagle returns everything; in the guise of a beggar, a young man comes to the wedding of his gold-haired and older brother; shows a firebird feather; brothers were torn by horses]: Nogai 1979, No. 10:34-45; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 1 [=Kibiev, Malsagov 1973:155-171; the prince has a tree with golden leaves, someone steals them ; three sons take turns guarding; only the youngest does not fall asleep, cuts off someone's finger and head; follows a bloody trail; takes a sharpshooter pulling trees, drinking the sea as companions; they lower the prince's son in the hole; the girl says that they are three daughters of a three-headed eagle, someone cut off their father's head and finger; she asks her father what he can kill him; he answers that a ram is around the corner, in he has a hare, a duck in a hare, there are three chicks in the duck; the prince's son kills them all, his companions raise the girls upstairs, the youngest leaves the prince's son a ring; tells him to touch the white horse, he will take him to the upper world; red - you'll stay here, black - you'll find yourself lower; companions cut off the rope; the prince's son touches the black one; the old woman says that the Sarmak (dragon) closed the water, passes it off as girls he must bring every day; the Sarmak gives water three times, then the prince's son kills him; the padishah sends him to an eagle on Black Mountain; a young man kills a snake that devours chicks every year; the eagle takes him to the ground; there is not enough meat, he cuts off his flesh from his leg, with both hands; the eagle regurgitates the meat, puts it back; under the guise of a shepherd, the young man comes to the wedding of the rescued princesses; the youngest recognizes him by the ring; a young man kills traitors, marries, marries two princesses to his brothers], 3 [the bear took the girl, she gave birth to a son, his name is Chaitong; he takes as his companions a man playing with a log and the second, listening to ants talking; take turns cooking; yeshap comes, eats everything, ties the cook; when C. remains, he ties the yeshap himself by the mustache; friends follow the bloody trail to the departing one into the ground of the pipe, C. goes down, wins, kills the yeshap, lifts his three wives upstairs; the companions drop the rope; C. touches not the white stallion, but the black stallion, is not in the upper world, but in the lower world; further as in (1); companions run away from C.'s revenge], 3 [the girl was kidnapped by a bear, she gave birth to a son Chaitong ("bear cub"), he grew up, his mother brought him to her parents; he did not enter the house, but left to wander; met a log with his little finger; oncoming: it's nothing, the son of the bear C. does miracles; C. took him as a companion; the same with a man who listened to the ants talking; all three stopped in a forest hut, cooked one by one; yeshap came, ate everything, tied the cook to the bed with a hair from his beard; when his comrades returned, the cook, who was struggling to free himself, replied that he was sick; the same with the second companion; C. tied the yeshap by his mustache to a pole; on a bloody trail, friends came to the pit; only C. decided to go down; there are three wives of yeshap in three rooms, the youngest he put his head on knees; C. hardly won and killed yeshap; sent three women upstairs, the youngest gave him a ring, told him to touch the white stallion, he would take him to the ground; forbid touching black and red; companions did not they began to pick up C., took the women away; C. went into the stable, accidentally touched a black stallion, found himself in the lowest world; there the old woman cooks food using dirty water; the sarmak at the spring gives clean water in exchange for the girls; Sarmak forgives C. twice as a guest when he collects water; leads the girl, C. killed Sarmak with a dagger; "Let the one who stabbed him pull out the dagger"; tells the rider to say that he saved the girl; but no one can pull out the dagger; C. did it easily; grateful padchah advises killing Sarmak, who regularly devours eagle chicks; the chicks hid C. so that she returned the eagle did not think that he was the one who killed the chicks; the eagle told me to cook meat, bread and water for 12 days; there was not enough meat, C. cut off a piece from her leg and arm; on the ground, the eagle put the pieces back; the girl found out C., former friends ran away; =Tankiev 1997, No. 12:257-263]: 23-28, 33-39; Potanin 1883 [the bear makes the ploughman get together with her; on the same day his son, immediately born and grown up; the son has become an abrek, takes as his comrades the one who pulls trees and another; each one in turn remains to guard the hut; the man himself is six quarters, the beard of seven ties the guard, takes what he needs necessary; the guards are sick; the bear son drives the bearded man into the tree like an ax; he breaks out, they follow the bloody trail to the tower, the woman picks them up; the bearded man comes, they kill him; A bear son chains his comrades, but he cannot; a woman warns that three rams will come; if he jumps on black, he will fall into the third underworld, on red into the second, on white one, on white will be on the ground; he falls on black; in the lower world, a woman is going to knead dough in urine; the snake Sarmyg lay down by the spring, gives water in exchange for the girl; the bear son takes water twice, for the third time S. swallows it, he cut it from the inside with a sword, went out; tells the sword that no one can remove it from the body of the snake except him; the king, whose daughter was supposed to be eaten, tells him to turn to an eagle in a tree in the middle of the sea; chicks ask their father for a man; on the way, the Bear Son throws buffaloes and rams to the eagle, finally cuts off the flesh from his thigh; on the ground, he belches a piece back; Bear son finds comrades, marries a woman from the tower, marries comrades]: 782-784; Tankiev 1997, No. 12 [the bear stole the girl, she gave birth to a son, he grew up right away, they came to her parents; the son of the bear Chaitong (C. "bear cub") immediately left; meets, takes companions 1) throwing a log with his little finger, 2) listening ants; they take turns cooking, yeshap eats everything, ties the cook with a mustache; C. ties him by the mustache to the door; he tore out the pole, a trail of blood leads to a cast-iron pipe; only C. decides to go down; kills the yeshap in a duel, sends the two older wives upstairs, changes rings with the youngest; she warned if you need to touch a white horse, he will take it to the ground; you cannot touch red and black; his companions pick it up, cut off the rope; C. touched the black, got into the lower world; the water was covered by the water dragon; allows C. twice as a guest to collect water; the third time he fights, because C. protects the princess given to the dragon; kills him; no one can pull C.'s dagger out of the dragon's body, only he himself; the king teaches to kill a dragon that ate eagle chicks; the eagle picks him up, C. feeds her, cuts off the last pieces from her leg, hand; comes to the girl, they want to marry her off, C. shows his ring, gets married]: 257-263; Chechens [the young man goes to face off with seven Nart-Orsthoys, who marry him to his sister; when he goes home with his wife, her brothers warn that at the river crossing a mirror will be placed at them; the young man held on, and the horses and wife have fallen into the lower world; the young man made a hut, two more have come to live; it is clear how a girl has gone to the lower world; companions cannot it's hot to go down, the young man went down, there were three girls, he sent them to the ground when he began to climb himself, the companions cut off the rope; the old woman says that Sarmak lies by the stream, not gives water, the young man chopped it into 9 pieces; old woman: white, gray and black sheep on the road, if you touch black, you will go even lower; the young man takes white, goes up to the ground; finds a father; insidious the companions were expelled, the young man married the girl he liked]: Malsagov 1983, No. 25:126-128; Avars [Ali Aigurova is so strong that he harnessed dragons into the arba; takes as companions river swallower and sharpshooter; swallower, then shooter stay cooking, dwarf ties them with hair, eats lunch; AA pinched the dwarf's beard with a plane tree; he escaped, went into a hole; the satellites are afraid go down, it's hot; AA kills a dwarf, sends his captive upstairs; she warns that if the rope is cut, AA must jump on a white ram that runs to butt black, he will take it out upstairs; AA hit black, fell lower; there the 9-headed dragon closed the water, gives in exchange for girls; AA kills him; khan says that only a kwankwa bird can carry to the ground; to her A three-headed snake crawls the nest, AA kills it; the grateful kwankwa raises AA, who feeds it buffalo meat, gives it water; cuts off the last piece from the leg; the kwankwa regurgitates it, puts it back; AA kills a swallower and a shooter fighting over a girl, marries]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:174-183; Lezgins [Zulum Magoma eats and works like a giant; fellow villagers fear him; mother pretends to be sick, asks for lion meat; he easily completes the task, goes to fight dragons; on the way he meets a lion pulling trees and leveling mountains; companions cook food; a long-bearded dwarf every time binds the cook with his hair, eats everything; Z. throws him up to the sky, the dwarf falls, hides underground; companions can't go down, it's hot there; Z. goes down, kills three dragons (3-, 5-, 7- head), three girls sleeping on their knees; the companions lift the girls to the ground, leave M. below; the youngest manages to say that he must grab the leg of a white gazelle, he will take him to the upper world; M. by The mistake is enough black, he takes him to the black world; the seven-headed dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; Z. kills him; the king advises you to go to the plane tree, where the parrot's nest is; Z. kills the snake, going to eat the chicks; the parrot carries it to the upper world; Z. cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg, the bird puts it back on the ground; Z. comes to the wedding, kills traitors, marries, gives two other girls for laborers]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 79-91 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 34:54-68); aguly [three brothers live in the mill, cook in turn; a bearded dwarf comes and eats meat, asks for more; the eldest two refuse, he ties them with his hair; younger Ahmed is polite, offers food himself, gets a wonderful sword, they must kill the seven-headed ajdaha who has closed the water, to whom the princess should be given; A. kills Azhdakha, the princess puts a mark on the savior's back; the brothers bind A., let A. go down the river in a boat, say that they killed Azhdakha; the princess objects, then they threaten with all a wonderful sword; the dwarf saves A., turns brothers into wolves, A. gets the princess]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 33:320-323 (=Maysak 2014, № P1:477-478); Udins [the shepherd's son Rustam, very strong, playing with other children, maimes them; the old woman advises sending R. to the forest where three divas live for firewood; the king sends, R. easily kills divas, brings firewood; the king sends R. to the white diva; after a heavy struggle, R. kills him as well; decides to leave; meets and companions a man who holds a torn tree over the plowman to create shade; tying a millstone to his feet and grinding grain with them; drinking river; everyone, not knowing who is in front of him, says that his abilities mean nothing, but R. is a hero; they live in a hut, each cooks in turn; Azhdakha comes, asks for pilaf broth, the cook asks him to wait, Azhdaha ties him with hair from his beard, eats everything; when R. remains, he cuts off his head, which rolls into the crevice; the tree holder is the first to try to go down, but shouts that burns, he is pulled out; the same with others; R. tells him not to pick him up if he screams; below R. opens 7 iron doors, sees a sleeping diva on the girl's lap; kills him; so four girls and four divas, R. kills divas and Azhdakha's head; sends three girls upstairs; the last most beautiful is afraid that her companions will not raise R.; leaves him two feathers: if you hit one another, they will appear a white ram (will carry it to the ground) and a black goat (lower it even lower); the companions picked up the girl and left; R. called the animals, accidentally sat on a goat, was downstairs; asked the old woman for a drink, she said that the serpent in the well gives water only in exchange for gifts, now it is the turn of the royal daughter; she brings a bowl of pilaf to the snake; R. is chopped by a snake, the princess put her blood-soaked hands on R.'s back; king of all summoned, made sure that the hero is R.; cannot understand him to the ground, but says that the snake eats the bird's chicks; R. kills the snake; the chicks tell the bird, so agrees to take R. to the ground, he must ask the king for meat and water; cuts off the last piece of R. from his thigh; on the ground, the bird sees that R. is limping, puts the meat back; gives two feathers to summon it; R. forgives his companions, leaves them beauties, takes the best for himself; companions change rings; if the stone on the ring turns black, the owner is in trouble; R. comes to another country, kills a diva, takes his wife as a second wife; the local king also wanted this woman; the old woman asks to make a flying chest; asks R. to take her into service; persuades R.'s second wife to find out what his strength is; he says that without a ring he will weaken and die in two weeks; the old woman took the ring off the sleeping R., invited his wife to sit in the chest, the chest flew to the king; companions came, the water bread drank the water in the well, found the ring there; R. defeated and killed the king, returned his wife]: Dirr 1921, No. 58:210-218; megrels [nine brothers buy a plot of land and go to work there; sister is told that they will throw heads to garlic along the way; an old Mdevi woman picks up garlic, She scatters them on the way to their home; hungry and unable to find their sister at home, the brothers come to Mdevi, her sons defeat them, lock them in a barn to eat at the festival; God sends the Raven to find out why the mother of the missing is crying; the crow promises to tell God if the old woman gives her eye; God tells God that she is crying for the murdered child; the same with the second eye; God sends the Dove, who tells the truth; God curses the Raven, with the Dove sends the old woman a handkerchief to wipe her eyes and see the light, an apple to conceive a son; he becomes a giant, hears from his playmates that he had brothers and sister; comes to Mdevi, fights; the severed head of the younger monster grows back, the bird tells you to sprinkle ash on the wound; so the hero kills all the mdevis, frees his brothers and sister; the brothers offer to race, provoking the hero to step on the carpet that covers the hole; the hero falls at the well, the daughter of the underground king cries next to him, who is given to be eaten by a dragon who has covered the water; the hero falls asleep, wakes up from a tearful beauty, kills the dragon with an arrow; the grateful king puts the hero on an eagle along with a load of meat; there is not enough meat, the hero cuts him off from his own leg, on the ground the eagle heals him; the hero returns to his mother, does not take revenge on his brothers]: Mashurko 1904, No. 1:1-6; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 31 [three brothers hunt, meet a beautiful woman kidnapped by nine devas; they killed them; the eldest The 9-headed grabs the woman again, takes her underground; the younger brother goes down there on a rope; sends the woman upstairs; when he has to get up himself, he ties a block of wood just in case, the brothers cut off rope; going upstairs, the woman gave the key to the stable, ordered him to sit on a white horse; he would take it upstairs, and the black one would lower it even lower; the white man ran away, the young man sat on a black horse; there the woman kneads the dough in the urine: Gveleshapi closed the water, demands people to eat, it's the boy's turn; the young man shot the Gveleshapi; people are happy; the king advises to go to the eagle, he will take him to the ground; the eagles first hide the man, so that the eagle does not swallow it; on the way to earth, the young man feeds the eagle meat, cuts off the last piece from his leg; the eagle says that the last piece was the sweetest - he should not eat the man; the young man returns when the middle brother marries that woman; kills brothers, marries a beautiful woman himself]: 79-83; Mashurko 1894 [(vol. 20, dep. 3, pp. 57-61); Lom-Katsi is conceived from the skin of an apple; meets He takes a catch-up hare as companions, tied to a millstone to his feet; stealing eggs from the nest so that the pigeon does not notice; comrades live in the forest, cook in turn; the giant overcomes the cook, eats lunch; LK hits him with an arrow, follows him into the crevice where the girl kidnapped by the giant; his comrades pick up the girl, leave LK below; he comes to the old woman, where Gveleshapi gives water in exchange for people; LK kills Gveleshapi, climbs to the ground on a bird's back; kills a traitor, marries a rescued girl]: 400; Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 300 (many records) [hangapi demands a princess for water; the hero goes save her, descends to the lower world, finds the princess and falls asleep on her lap; the hangers win; the king offers him a princess, but the hero refuses and asks for help to return to earth; pashkunji (griffin) brings him home]: 29; the Armenians [the king will heal only apples from the tree of immortality in India; the elder, middle sons fall asleep, the demon takes apples; the middle one cuts his finger to stay awake injures the demon, brings apples, the father recovers; three brothers follow the demon's bloody trail to the cave; only the youngest is not afraid to burn when he is lowered on a rope; kills three demons, freeing him three princesses; sends treasures and princesses upstairs; the brothers leave the young man himself below; the youngest girl taught me how to jump on a black ram, he will jump on red, red on white, white will take out the ground; the young man jumps on white, white on red, red on black, black down; the old woman says that the dragon gives water in exchange for girls; the young man kills the dragon, saves the princess; the lower world is dark: the dragon eats the eagle's chicks, the eagle closes the light; the young man kills the dragon, the chicks tell their mother who their savior is; the Eagle orders him to be fed and watered on the way; the father of the saved princess gives supplies; the young man cuts off the last piece from his leg; on the ground, the Eagle puts it back; the young man is hired by a jeweler; with the help of a magic ring, he makes a golden mouse and cat alive, and other animals; the wedding time of princesses and brothers is handsome on a horse; kills brothers, a king, takes the princess]: Wingate 1911, No. 6:351-361; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [Shah's apple tree brings every year one rejuvenating apple, someone takes it away; the older, the middle one falls asleep, the younger Melik-Mamed injures the diva, the brothers are on the trail of blood; the elders cannot go down to the well because of the heat, MM consistently meets three girls and three divas at the bottom; each points a diva's soul bubble, MM breaks it; sends the girls upstairs; the youngest says that if the brothers cut the rope, MM must jump on white ram; cuts the rope, the white ram drops MM on the black one, which takes it to the realm of darkness; there the dragon devours the chicks of the Zumrud bird every year; MM kills him; the bird promises carry MM upstairs if he gets forty oxen carcasses and forty wineskins of water; MM kills the dragon that covers the water for the girls; the king gives him meat and wineskins full of water; the last piece of MM cuts off from his thigh, the bird puts it back; MM is hired by a tailor; in his true form on horseback, cuts off the head of his older, middle brothers; opens, marries, the other two girls are given for courtiers]: 50-63 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 463-474); Stamboliev 1896, No. 1 [the diva took the son and daughter of a man, who was born hero Hasan; he kills the diva, tells the witch to spell the turned donkey brother; on the way home, brother kills sleeping G.; mother is happy because G. was too strong; pigeons revive him; G. kills his brother; mother reports this to the king; the king sends G. to the forest to be torn to pieces by animals, he kills animals; Aga-Kerim splashes water from the river for several miles; Gul-Mamed throws stones; G. defeats them, takes them as companions; each one cooks in turn, the old man ties the cook with his hair, everything eats; G. remains, tears off the old man's head, head and body roll; on a bloody trail, G. goes to the well, goes down; sends three girls upstairs; the latter tells him to jump on the black ram, that he will be thrown at white, white - upstairs; companions threw a rope; G. jumped on white, was thrown on black, then into the lower world; there the snake provides water in exchange for the victim, the princess's turn; G. kills the snake; the king offers the princess, G. asks him to be taken upstairs; the king sends him to the bird Roch, her crocodile eats her children; G. kills him, Roch carries him to the ground, supplies run out, G. cuts off from thighs are a piece of meat; on the ground, the bird regurgitates it, puts it back; G. burns the bird's feather, it arrives, gives a horse; at the wedding, AK and GM G. kills them while horseback, passes two girls off as others takes the youngest for himself]: 1-8; Turks: Dmitriev 1967, No. 1 [apples disappear from the padishah's garden; the eldest, middle son is afraid of the storm, the youngest hits one head of a double-headed dragon with an arrow; the brothers walk along traces to the well; the eldest, the middle, are told to drag them back, the youngest goes down to the bottom, cuts off the dragon's second head; three girls are pulled out of the well; the youngest warns that if the brothers leave the young man , he must fall on a white ram and climb it to the ground; it falls on a black sheep, falls seven layers down; the old woman says that every year they give the dragon a girl while he eats it, takes water; it is the turn of the padishah's daughter, the young man cuts off seven heads of the dragon; the girl identifies the savior, the young man asks the padishah to bring him to the ground, he can't; the dragon eats the bird's chicks Sumuranka; the young man kills him, the chicks tell their mother that the young man saved them; S. tells them to immerse 40 rams and 40 wineskins of water; the young man cuts off the last piece from his leg, Sumuranka puts it back; the young man puts it back; the young man pretends to be a bald poor man; sisters agree to marry if they get a gold spinning wheel, a hoop, a hen with chickens (they had it, now a young man); a young man pretends to do these things, sisters understand that he is back; he looks like a handsome man in green clothes, comes to the palace, receives a wife and kingdom from his father; brothers are forgiven], 2 [three-legged dev swallows his sister, two older brothers, the youngest kills the deva and his female, releases the swallowed ones from the womb; the brothers let him down into the well to get water; he kills the deva, frees three maidens; (approximately as in (1); on the ground, the young man takes his bride, the bird carries them both, gets tired, then the young man cuts off her meat from her thigh; when he reaches, the bird puts a piece; they arrive at the padishah, the young man marries both his beloved and the daughter of the padishah]: 31-39, 39- 48; Stebleva 1986, No. 19 [father tells his sons that he fell ill because Uyuz padishah took three nightingales from him; the youngest son is driving on a road that they do not return; kills a dragon , freeing three sisters; the giant makes the distant close, the young man enters the country of Uyuz Padishah; everyone sleeps there, he unzips the beauty's gate, takes nightingales, brings his wives to himself and brothers; older brothers can't go down to the well for water, it's hot there; the younger one goes down; the betrothed tells me to jump at the bottom on a white ram; the young man jumps on the black one, he takes it down; dev hid the water , eats girls, gives only a little blood water; a young man kills a deva; a padishah sends him to an eagle that can carry him upstairs; a young man kills a snake that eagles; an eagle carries him, he gives her meat and water, cuts off a piece from its leg; on the ground, the eagle puts a piece back]: 57-62; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989 [the older and middle brother fall asleep, only the younger Kuchuk Avdla cuts off the tail a dragon who has destroyed the garden; his brothers follow him into the gorge, they lower him on a rope, the dragon's youngest daughter teaches that her father should be hit with a sword only once; he kills the dragon, the brothers take him upstairs three dragon daughters, cut off the rope; before that, the younger sister explains to KA that black and white sheep will eat grass, black sheep will turn white and white will turn black, you have to jump on white's back; KA does on the contrary, the ram does not lift it up, but lowers it even lower; the dragon hides the water, gives halva and a girl in exchange for two cauldrons, the KA kills him, marries the Shah's daughter, whom the dragon owes was eaten; another dragon devours Simr's chicks every year; the KA kills him, the bird agrees to raise him to the ground, orders him to prepare seven lamb fat tails, bread, wineskins of water; the spacecraft drops one fat tail, cuts off the meat from his thigh; when he arrives, Simr returns his meat, it grows; the KA takes the form of a bald man, wins competitions incognito, comes to his fiancée's wedding, marries, kills enemies], No. 2:46-59; Rudenko 1970, No. 51 [Krale Kafyr agrees not to kill orphan Zalia and his sister; Zal defeats a sea monster, beautiful Rudabe is under the skin of the beast; KK is afraid of the monster, that's it convert to Z., he establishes Islam; passes his sister off as Kambar; R. cannot be born, the Simurg bird gives a sword to cut R.'s stomach, Rostam is born; K.'s wife gives birth to a son named Bedran; K. is a patron and R.'s companion; while R. sleeps, the dragon draws K. in, who cuts him with a sword from the inside; the next night K. kills the diva, cuts off his ears; R. does not believe, offended K. leaves; Div Heungrman hides R. in a dungeon on the seashore; Orynj son R. goes in search; the old woman gives urine instead of water, the dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; O. kills the dragon; the king says that only Simurg knows where Divas H. is; O. kills a dragon crawling to the Simurg chicks; she brings O. to H.; O. turns H. into a mule, R. rides it, Simurg carries O. by air; the husbands of the padishah's daughter are found dead after the wedding night; O. remains instead of the groom, the diva cuts off the steel hand, his sister releases 300 petrified horsemen during his life; O. and R. free Bedran, who fell into the dungeon; exterminate the infidels]: 155-174; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [a dying father tells his sons Suleiman, Osman, Ismail to be on duty at his grave; younger I. injures a diva who has come to dig up the grave; the brothers go to look for a diva, the mother follows, drinks from donkey hoof, gives birth to Long-Eared Harzam; he finds brothers, they are afraid of going down into a hot failure, H. descends; the youngest of the three daughters of the diva shows Golperi's sword, H. cuts off the diva's head; G. predicts that the brothers will cut the rope, tells them to jump on a white ram; after picking up the girls, S. and O. cut off the rope; H. jumps on a black ram, falls through seven worlds; instead of water, an old woman brings him urine, the dragon gives him water in exchange for the girls; H. kills the dragon, saves the padishah's daughter; he says that the dragon has been eating Simur's chicks for many years; H. kills the dragon, chicks all mothers explain, Simur takes H. to the ground; in flight he feeds and wateres the bird, cuts off the last piece from his leg, it regurgitates, puts it back, gives a pen; H. finds G. and I., wrapped around their tent dragon, he tells us to know the story of Gule and Sinam; Sinam Padishah tells how he changed clothes with a groom, accompanies his wife unrecognized at night to the robbers cave; turns a traitor into a crow, chieftain into a crow, chieftain into the horse, then hangs an incense with his lover's ashes around the crow's neck; wants to kill H., he pulls out Simur's feather, she takes him to the dragon; when she hears the story, the dragon turns into a girl, she makes H.'s ears normal ; H. marries her, reigns, forgives her brothers]: 60-72.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 1 [the king has three sons, the youngest Jahantigh; his father's wife offered him love, J. refused; the woman grabbed him by the clothes, he cut off a piece of dress that remained in her hand, ran away; she accused him of attacking her honor; the king wanted to execute her son, but the vizier advised him to simply expel him; the older brothers left with the youngest; at night they took turns supporting fire; when J. is awake, the wind blew out the fire; J. came to 16 demons; they cannot get the princess, because there are bells everywhere, which begin to ring when approaching and the guards wake up; J. offers to stuff cotton wool into the bells; then tells the demons to go up one at a time and kills everyone; kisses the princess and changes rings with her; brings a brazier to the still sleeping brothers; everyone in the city claims that he killed the demons; when J. came, the king wants to give him his daughter, but he gives way to her older brother and moves on; in another village, the inhabitants are exhausted; the dragon has closed the spring, every day she gives water for sheep, bread and a girl, it is the turn of the royal daughter; clenching the back of the sword with his teeth, J. and the girl rush into the dragon's mouth, ripped it apart with the blade of a sword; the girl marked the savior with dragon blood; all the springs were immediately filled; men gathered, the princess found her savior; J. gave in to her middle brother, went on; J. comes to the city whose inhabitants invisible; the fairy saw J. in a dream and would break the spell if J. came to her; when she saw him, she made everyone else visible; J. married his servant to the fairy and came to a city where there are only women; the fairy king invites everyone to overcome it, but no one can and he killed all men; the old woman teaches: we must take possession of the king's seahorse; hide in the stable; the horse will ignite, the king will come to give him sugar; so twice; the third time the king whips off the horse and leaves; then J. the horse's path will be blue; after defeating the king, he can be released only after he says "with my mother's milk and father's pain"; the fairy king gave his daughter J. one day, the wife combed her hair and fell into the river; the prince picked it up, the old woman promised to get the owner if she was given as much gold as she weighed; she came to J.'s wife; she did not want to leave her with her but J. told him to leave himself; the old woman persuaded his wife J. to find out what his strength was; his wife pretended to be offended, J. admitted that his strength was in his hand (blade in his arm); when he fell asleep, his wife she took out the blade, gave it to the old woman, who threw it into the river, put the woman to sleep and took it to the prince; J.'s wife told him she was in mourning for 40 days; J.'s older brother saw that the star had set, and the middle brother could to be under water; they came, the middle one took a blade from the bottom of the river, J. regained consciousness; the brothers bribed the old woman to take J.'s wife out of town; J. returned his wife, ordered the old woman to be burned], 3 [Shah Abbas dressed as a dervish, walked along the road, met an old man and they went together; asked who would shorten the road for them; when he saw a wheat field: what kind of wheat it was, if the owner had already eaten ears; when he saw funeral procession: Oh dead, if you didn't die, would you be dead? crossing the river: which one of us will be a bridge? In an old man's village: Where is your mosque? (the old man pointed out); began to tell his daughter that he was walking with some madman; the daughter explained: who would start a conversation? the owner sold green wheat; if a person has a decent son or brother, he did not die; who would carry someone across the river; by mosque, the satellite meant a house; the daughter guessed that it was SHA and told give him 12 bread and 12 eggs; he ate 3 loaves and 3 eggs on the way; SHA: Is your year 9 months old? the daughter tells me to bring SHA and give it to him; after the wedding, SHA left 3 days later, giving his wife a bead; if a boy is born, put it in his hand and tell him that his father is SHA Isfahan, who buys cheaply and sells at a high price, buys at a high price and sells cheaply; the son grew up, went looking for his father; met a herb collector (ST), stayed with him, but called himself not the son of SHA, but simply Abbas; ST called himself his father; the young man is tired of collecting herbs, he wants to go hunting; ST: but come back before dark, otherwise the gate will be closed and you will be eaten by a dragon; the young man chased the gazelle, did not have time to return; let the dragon swallow himself holding his sword with his teeth and holding its ends with his hands, ripped the dragon apart; Ali's gatekeeper saw a dead dragon and a unconscious young man, beat him, left him in some ruins; the young man was found by a shoemaker, brought him to for himself, went out; now he called himself the father of a young man; the young man began to work in a pastry shop; a maid (or daughter?) , then the vizier's wife saw him; his wife ordered him to dig an underground passage through which the young man began to come to her; SHA saw this, wanted to execute the young man; the shoemaker said that the young man was his son, took it out and showed that bead; feast; guard Ali wrapped in leather and burned at the stake]: 1-9, 18-24; Persians: Rosenfeld 1956 [dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; Jehantig's son, a dervish, was born ties a diamond dagger to him in which his soul; D. grew up, opened the forbidden room, there is a portrait of a girl with 40 braids, he goes to look for her; meets and companions the Stargazer and the Sailor; the dragon closed the water, gives it for the girls, the Shah's daughter is intended to be eaten; D. kills the dragon, gets the princess, gives it to the Stargazer; in another city he kills the ferocious lions received by the princess gives it to the sailor; at Mount Kaf sees petrified people trying to get the princess; hits a cat with an arrow, around whose neck the keys, petrified, come to life; the girls sweep the yard with their eyelashes, D. gives them brooms; kills divas guarding the sleep of a girl with 40 braids; marries her, lives in a palace; another shah-zade wants to take her away; an old woman persuades D.'s wife to find out what his soul is; throws a knife into the sea, D.'s body in well; Stargazer sees that star D. is clouded; together with the Sailor they come, take out a knife, and D. comes to life; D. kills the old woman and the kidnapper; everything is fine]: 175-185; Osmanov 1987:109-124 [father orders after his death, do not go hunting on the mountain; the elder, middle brother goes, the green rider kills them; the youngest puts a wooden figure on the horse, sneaks into the mountain after the rider; the ploughman is afraid with him say, MM harnesses two lions; the fish in the well provides water in exchange for the girl to be eaten; MM kills the fish, refuses the crown and the padishah's daughter, asks for help to return home; The padishah tells her to turn to Simorg; MM kills the dragon crawling to her nest; Simorg carries MM up, he feeds and water her, cuts off a piece of her thigh, on the ground she puts meat back; MM penetrates the fortress , ready to kill the green rider, he turns out to be the daughter of Padishah Peri; they fall in love; the divas takes her away, MM burns Simorg's feather, she tells me to ask the horse for eight legs at the stone on the seashore, disagree on a six-legged; MM takes a six-legged, peri sends him back, he brings an eight-legged (between that, the divas grabs him, MM replies that he wants to be thrown into the mountains, he throws him into the sea, he swims out); father Peri takes her away; MM takes Soleiman's flying carpet, invisible hat, magic bow and arrows from the divas; Peri's father returns his daughter to him; her relatives tell him to instruct his son-in-law to find out the secret Garden and Sanoubar; MM does the task, gets a wife], 267-278 [the dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; a son is born but he is breathless; the same dervish tells him to make a hole in the sword that fell out of the womb with the child and hang the sword around the boy's neck; he came to life, and if the sword was removed, he lost consciousness; the boy was named Jantig ("life by the sword"); he grew up and was given the keys to all gardens except one; he broke the door, in that garden there was a portrait of beautiful Chelgis ("forty braids"); D. followed her; he was joined by Minutochetr and the Stargazer, who also want to marry C.; to meet a girl with a boy; every day, the dragon requires one young man to eat, otherwise it does not give water, the girl hopes to appease the dragon with food; D. cut the dragon, a dove flew out of it; the impostors tried attribute the feat to herself, but the girl smeared D. with her hand soaked in dragon blood and identified him; D. married the girl to the Stargazer and went on with Minupoint; elsewhere, ships carrying grain because of the seas are dying; this time the ship must have the only son of the padishah; D. sailed himself, the dragon appeared from the sea, D. cut it, the dove flew out; D. married Minutochet to the daughter of the padishah, went further; the man invited him to dinner; his mother was C.'s wet nurse; the old woman would tell C.'s secret, if she was not heard, otherwise she would become petrified; D. overhears the old woman talking alone; we must climb a tree throw 7 dates to seven divas, they will eat and fall asleep; C. in the ear of one of the divas; you have to throw a candy, C. will come out to pick it up; D. grabbed C., they jump away, D. gives C. an armful of swords (as the old woman taught) , they turned into a mountain of swords; then salt is a mountain of salt; the divas cut themselves, their wounds were eaten away by salt, they died, only the White Div continues to chase; a jug of water is the sea and a rock with a cave; D. advises a diva put his head into the cave, then he will fly up; instead, the divas fell, drowned; C. washed his hair, two hairs fell into the well, D. did not pick it up; from the well they sailed to the padishah's garden; he smelled C., sent the old woman behind her; the old woman began to serve C., found out the mystery of the sword, threw her sword into the well, brought C. to the padishah; she demands to postpone the wedding for 40 days, a time of mourning; Stargazer sees that star D. goes out, goes in search with Minutochet; they took the sword out of the well, returned D., he came to life; killed the old woman, took C.; she gave Minutochet and Stargazer through her hair - if you want to eat, they create any fruit he wanted; D. brought C. to his father; she warns that his father wants to kill D.: there will be a carpet-covered trap pit, poisoned tea and pilaf; D. jumped over the carpet, changed dishes, his father died himself; D. reigned]; Christensen 1971, No. 7 [Hus Banu is the queen of Shahabad; Prince Munir wants to marry her; Hatim Tai is a prince from Yemen; he undertakes 7 HB errands, then she will marry M .; HB completed 6; now HB tells us to find out the secret of the baths in Bad'gard; HT has come to a city; the old man says that those who were looking for Badgard did not return; that in Qatan, King Harit orders everyone to be brought to him who is looking for Badgard; the old man shows the way; from the fork you have to follow the left road; the right one is better but more dangerous; in one city, the dragon takes a girl every year, turning into a person for a while; HB takes kill the dragon; let the dragon be told that he is much stronger than him; the dragon chose the princess; HT offered him a potion, he lost his miraculous power; HT invited the dragon to climb into the chest - if he got out , then the princess will get; the dragon is sure that he has strength, climbed; HT closed the lid, made a fire around, and then the chest was buried; from the fork in HT he accidentally followed the right road and could not return from- for thorny bushes; an old man appeared, ordered the drug to be thrown, the monsters devoured each other; the same during the scorpion attack; in the city of Q. HT became friends with the king and he gave him a letter to the guards of Badgard's baths; Saman Idrak's guard missed HT; King Gyomard's inscription on Badgard's giant gate: you won't return from there; there is a desert outside the gate; towards the barber baths; as soon as we entered, the exit was laid brick; water began to arrive; when HT was already swimming under the dome, the baths disappeared and he was back in the desert; then the garden, with fruits, but they did not satisfy hunger; stone statues around; the inscription: it was all designed to store the diamond that Guyomard found; to get out of here, you have to shoot a parrot; if you miss, you'll also petrify; HT missed twice and petrified knee-deep, waist-deep; third the parrot hit with an arrow; the spell broke, the petrified ones came to life, a diamond appeared in front of the HT; HT brought it to HB, she married M., and HT returned to Yemen and inherited his father's throne]: 69-89; Yazgulyam [at night the daughter gets up, eats all the food, puts a dung in the cauldron; the mother tells her husband to take the girl and her brother to the forest; the father hangs a snuffbox on the willow so that the children think he is still sitting in a tree, goes home unnoticed ; the children come to the diva, the boy kills him, buries him under the floor; they live in the diva's house, the brother tells her sister to pour dirty water out the door; she pours it on the floor, hears the voice of the diva; she pulls him out after how a diva promises to be not her sister, mother, brother, but husband; sister gives birth to a boy, divas offers to put him on the road for his brother to pick him up; he grows up, hears divas and mistress they agree to kill her brother, the diva will become a snake; the boy asks his uncle to take him to the back, prevents the diva from biting him; the next day the div snake hides under the threshold, the boy undertakes to carry his uncle himself; the snake climbs into the boot, the boy changes boots with his uncle, hits him with his toe; rata, the diva will become a snake; the atom, and the husband; c; the father hangs on Ivory Coast, the snake crawls out, turns into an eagle, attacks, the boy hurts him; the divas and his mistress agree to poison both, the boy changes food, they die themselves; the nephew decides to go right, uncle to the left; the uncle stops by the old woman, sees that half the world is having fun at night, half the world is crying; the old woman explains that today it is the king's turn to give his daughter to the dragon {apparently those whose turn did not come are having fun}; the uncle cuts off all seven heads of the dragon, gets the king's daughter; the dragon's brother kills him; the nephew sees blood on the bullet left by his uncle, comes, puts his sword between himself and his uncle's wife (both outwardly indistinguishable, the woman takes him for her husband); makes the dragon revive killed, both kill the dragon together; the uncle kills his nephew when he finds out that he slept in his house; the wife puts a spinning wheel between herself and her husband; the husband understands everything, revives his nephew; makes him king]: Grunberg, Steblin -Kamensky 1976, No. 25:258-266; Ishkashim [someone pulls trees in the royal garden; two older brothers are guarding, they do not see anyone; the younger Bald cuts off the hand of a woman who has come, a woman hides in a cave under a stone; the brothers let Pleshivets down on a rope, he kills that woman, sends the girl upstairs, the brothers leave Pleshivets in the cave; he sleeps with an old woman; on the one hand, crying is heard ( there the dragon takes the girls), on the other hand, fun (he finished taking him there); Plesivets cuts off 7 dragon heads; the grateful king says that there is a bird that will take him to the upper world; on the way Plesivets feeds her meat; returns to his father]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 1:113-117; Bartangans [the king gave his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give one; the prince stole the keys, found a portrait in a chest, fainted; to the king I had to let my son go look for a beautiful woman; Vezirbach (the "son of the vizier") caught up with him and went with him; they came to that girl's house; she has 12 brothers, they cannot lift the cauldron, V. picked up alone; the diva brothers came, V. broke their arms; the prince and the divas ate a serving, and V. 12 meat carcasses; the divas gave their sister to the prince; gave the keys to 40 rooms, but did not give one; the prince broke the castle, there were divas on chains; asks for him water; after drinking water, he tied the prince with his hair and took his wife to the next world; V. went in search, telling him to wait 110 days; as soon as V. left, the divas tied the prince and left; but the lame divas untied and tied them up again for their return; V. ate bread from that diva's sister, went down to the lake for the diva; there the prince's price was looking for a diva in his beard; V. killed the diva; sent the girl upstairs; when he was pulled out, he saw him that it was not a diva, they threw it back; V. came to the old woman's house; at night he went out: laughter on one side, crying on the other; the dragon demands a man every morning, a jug of butter and two bags of bread; the turn of the royal daughter; V. fell asleep with his head on her lap; woke up from a fallen tear; cut down all 7 dragon heads; the dragon became a bridge over the river; the servant said that he killed the dragon, but only V. was able to raise his heads; the king gave V. Simurg took the bird; V. sat on one wing himself, loaded a supply of meat on the other; Simurg carried it to the ground, gave a white feather and a black feather; to be an old man, you have to stick white in your head and black in the young; for that the girl was a fight, V. took her away; the prince did not complain about the diva brothers for tying him up; together with V. and his wife he returned home; his father went blind; the prince wiped his eyes with a handkerchief and he saw the light; everything good]: Sokolova 1960, No. 6:32-40; Tajiks: Amonov 1961 (Gonchi) [mother and youngest son fell behind, and five eldest sons came to the seven-headed diva; he swallowed them, threw their heads into the hole; when The mother and her youngest son came, who defeated the diva, threw himself into the hole; told the mother not to pour water from washing her hair; the cat brought 40 keys, in one room there was a wind horse and a whirlwind horse; the mother pours water , the diva has come to life; a wind horse is needed to pull him out; a young man rides it; a diva advises a woman to ask her son to take a whirlwind horse; the woman pulled out the diva, gave birth to a child with him; the diva left him on the road, young man found it, picked it up; he grew up quickly; the young man saw him alive, they had been fighting for a long time; the mother poured millet under her son's feet, he slipped, the diva knocked him down, but the diva's son killed him and his mother; the brothers were left alone; The elder went on a journey, leaving his sword; every day a girl and two sheep are given to the dragon; the young man killed the dragon, left to cut out a strip of his skin, and the padishah's daughter returned to her father; the drunkard said that he killed the dragon, the padishah gives it to a drunkard; a young man has arrived; no one can lift a strip of dragon skin, only a young man picked it up and threw it on the floor; the drunkard was thrown into prison, the girl was given to the young man; the wife says that her friend Makhtob (moonlight) and she swore to marry her brothers; the young man went to look for her; she is the daughter of a strongman Korunbay; he defeated the young man and threw him into prison; the younger brother saw the sword left by the elder drips pus; went in search; he was mistaken for the elder, but he refused to lie down with the padishah's daughter; killed K., married M.; the brothers met, the younger tells the eldest to shoot him finger: he pushed the elder's wife away with them, so the finger is sinful; both brothers are happy with their wives]: 68-79; Ulug-zade 1967:103-112 [=Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:103-108; blacksmith's son Halim tells his father to bind him an iron chain weighing 40 pounds, goes on a journey; meets, wins, takes Sadakan, who uprooted trees; someone has eaten all the supplies, took away animal skins; at the bottom of the gorge, divas, H. kills with his chain, the heroes go down, free the captives, the most beautiful X. takes him as brides; throws a chain to the edge of the gorge; S. rises, followed by a girl, then he drops the chain over H.'s head; a cloud flies up, throws H. a ram, he eats, recovers; threw the chain up again and got up; saw that the chain helped him pull out a huge bird; came to a city where every dragon the day devours the camel, the ram and the girl; when the dragon comes out of the river, H. kills him with a chain, saving the daughter of the padishah; the padishah: the bride of H., kidnapped by the insidious S., can only be found by the Simurg bird; H. killed with a chain a snake crawling to devour the chicks; Simurg carried H. to the island where his fiancée; on the way, H. feeds her with sheep, cuts off the last piece from his thigh; when Simurg reaches the wound with his beak, the wound healed ; H. raised S. and threw it so forcefully that he went all into the ground; returned home with his bride], 115-129 [the old man's eldest son Sitorashinos is a stargazer, the middle son is Darieband (directs the flow of rivers), the youngest Shamshirboz (brave with a sword); the brothers decided to marry on the same day; S. moves a stone, but does not crush ants, they give a wing, promise to help; whoever cuts a strip of iron will give his daughter to the padishah; Sh. cut it, but went on with his brothers; the city has a dragon in the lake, every day demands a girl, 40 rams and 10 dastarkhans, a queue of two daughters of the padishah; S. found out where the dragon, D. took water, S. hacked him with a sword; the padishah offers to choose a bride, but S. wants three for himself and his brothers; the padishah asks to collect the crumbling grains from the field (ants collect); the padishah gives his daughters for S. and D.; at their wedding, S. finds a third girl hidden by the padishah in the garden - insignificant but beautiful; S. says that his strength is in his saber; the old woman hears, grabs her sword, tells him to throw her into the river; S. finds out everything, D. takes the water away, returns Sh.'s sword; he sends the girl's maid with his ring in a jug; the padishah has to let his brothers and their brides go]; mountain Tajiks (p. Safedoron, Vahio) [the cat tells the old woman that one of her sheep hugged: a man on top and a ram below; the old woman named the born Tuclibarr ("lamb"); he grew up to herd a flock, a giant offered to fight; asked him not to kill, but to make him a friend; then T. met another one; they spent the night with an old woman; she says that in the Shah's pond, a dragon swallows a man every night it is the turn of the Shah's daughter; in half of the village they cry, they are having fun in the other; T. fell asleep, the girl's tear woke him up, he cut the dragon in two, threw him on the fence of the mosque; gathered the people to look for the winner; no one I could not move the carcass; when T. was brought in, he did it easily; got the Shah's daughter; he achieved his goal, God willing, you will achieve yours]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 6:45-46; Uzbeks: Afzalov 1972 ( 1) [the poor man has sons Rustamzod and Sherzod; after the death of his wife, he took a widow; the new wife advises him to stick to thieves; 40 thieves took him to cook; the thieves went to rob the rich sorceress; the old man rode there before them, he began to beat the tambourine; the thieves were frightened, the old man received a jug of gold and managed to get back before the thieves; next time the old man kept the property of the mill owner in the same way; after that, the old man took the money and the bird shot by the robbers, returned home; in 7 years, the bird laid 7 eggs; the old man went to sell them, he was brought to the Shah, the shah gave unthinkable wealth for eggs; when he became rich, the old man became go to trade, and the wife had a lover; the lover knew that the bird who ate the wing would find a purse of gold under the pillow in the morning, and the one who ate his neck would find a purse with silver; the lover ordered to slaughter for his bird, the boys accidentally ate his wing and neck; his father came back, his stepmother told him that his sons killed the bird, he kicked them out of the house; Sherzod hears two birds talking; first: who will shoot me, 40 days He will wander in the desert, 40 days in the forest, and then become ruler; second, whoever shoots me will sleep 40 days and nights, will wander for 40 days and nights, will experience many hardships and achieve wishes come true; S. shot the birds, cooked them, ate one, fell asleep; R. came up, ate another, went on a journey; the padishah died in the city, the released bird sat on R., he was made a padishah; S. woke up after 40 days, followed in his brother's footsteps; he was not allowed into the city where R. reigned; every midnight a dragon arrives, swallows everyone outside the city wall; S. knocked out his eyes with arrows and chopped him with a sword; guards threw S. into the pit, said that they killed the dragon; the potter found and cured him; the guards identified him and put him in zindon; R. comes to a neighboring padishah; he asks him to throw the criminal into the river: the river demands sacrifice from those who cross; at night, S. broke his chains and sent everyone unnoticed; the padishah made him a military leader; the padishah will pass off his sister Nusrat as the one who will kill a ferocious lion; S. killed his club; S. received N., went to look for his brother; at night, the soldiers accompanying S. pushed him into the river, and N. put him in a chest and transported him to the other side; R. saw this, suspected something was amiss, warriors threw him into the zindon, brought him to the palace; S. was saved by a fisherman; under the guise of a mutilated fisherman's sister, asked him to be brought in a palanquin to R.'s palace and began to talk about his fate; everything was explained, a fisherman and a potter gifted, former guards who became officials were executed]: 115-128; 1972 (2) [a poor girl settled in a cave; a winged fire-breathing dragon found her, kept her; closed the entrance to the cave with his golden with a horn; the princess promised to marry a young strongman if he killed a dragon; he killed him with an arrow, cut off his horn, took it with him; when he went to the cave, opened the entrance blocked by a stone with a horn; stayed with the girl; the princess decided that he was dead and married the son of the vizier; the Shah and the army came to take the girl away from the boy, but he rolled a stone down the mountain, the army fled; one day they both left the cave and found themselves in the garden; he grew out of tears shed by a girl while she was imprisoned by a dragon]: 25-29; Khorezm Uzbeks [a man owes a Jewish moneylender who demands a debtor's daughter; Ali sells himself into slavery to repay the debt; the padishah promises to buy it if he pacifies the Amu Darya, kills the dragon that prevents the river from damming, polonite A., i.e. himself; A. moved the mountain, then held his sleeves with five fingers rivers; jumped with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cut his belly to the tail; offered to shackle himself, lead him to the padishah (the end is cut off)]: Snesarev 1983:56; Uzbeks [only Bai's last wife gave birth to a son; ko the time when it is time to do that on the occasion of circumcision, bai is impoverished; friends went to war against him; the son is strong, moved his mother, father and all property to another place; the father died; the divas came to dig up the grave; the young man chased him, he disappeared into the cave; at the entrance a young man found a baby; this is his mother's son from a diva, his mother has been in contact with him for a long time, hides him in a chest; the young man found him, killed him, made a leather belt, left; stayed with him robbers; the diva's son grew up, found his brother; the young man left him two bowls of pilaf, which he would know if he was in trouble; left; came to the city where the dragon eats people, it was the turn of the ruler's daughter; the dragon surprised that the young man is not afraid; tells him to show his hair; the young man shows his donkey tail torn off; the dragon runs away in horror; the bald man has attributed victory to himself; but only the one who marries the daughter of the padishah the day will transplant 40 tall trees from the forest into the garden, tie a pumpkin snuffbox to the top of one and knock it down with an arrow; the young man fulfilled the condition, married the daughter of a padishah; two moons have risen; one is a reflection the faces of the daughter of a padishah from another country; she is a batyr woman; the young man began to fight her, but she won, and he was thrown into zindan; the diva's son sees that pilaf has turned into blood in one bowl and pus in the other; I came to the young man's wife, she thought it was her husband who had returned, they were so similar; he defeated the hero, married her, and the freed young man returned to his wife]: Afzalov et al. 1972:502-508; Bukhara Arabs [ the old woman and her son went to herd a cow, went into the yard; 40 divas are sleeping in the house; the young man untied two horses; the divas go out one by one to fight them, the young man killed them all, threw them into the well, one was half-alive; the young man told his mother not to look into the well; she wanted to have a husband; the old woman throws clods of earth into the well while the divas says she will be her younger, older brother, father; she pulled it out when she promised to be husband; gave birth to a child with him, left him on the road, her son picked him up, brought it; the boy grew up in 10 days at the age of 10; warns his older brother that the divas wanted to kill him; the divas attacked, the mother poured millet under her son's feet, The diva knocked him down, but the diva's son killed both him and his mother; the young man was afraid that his brother might kill him, went on a journey; his brother ordered him to plant two reed stems: if the deceased was in trouble, blood and pus would flow; the young man met a girl to be eaten by a dragon; taking a sword, entered the dragon's mouth, came out of his ass, slicing the dragon; carved a belt from the dragon's back as a souvenir; the emir's daughter throws at him an apple, the emir puts them in a stable; the son-in-law puts manure in the food he has prepared for the emir; explains that it is dark in the stable; they are moved to the barn; into the house; the older sons-in-law did not get anything from hunting; the youngest gives them game, puts a seal on the back; asks the emir to return his two slaves to him; everyone is convinced that the emir's son-in-law has a seal on their backs; now the young man is the recognized son-in-law of the emir; we see two moons; wife: the one in the west is Chulpan -Sulyuk, she shines like the moon; the young man goes to get it; her diva brother defeats him, pulls his eyes out; the boy's brother (i.e. the son of his mother's lover) comes to his wife, does not tell him to touch him in bed; defeats brother C., makes you regain your eyes; the emir's son-in-law returns from C., receives the throne; they have reached the object of desire, and you will also reach it]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 12:84-88; Baluchi [the dervish gives the childless king an apple; the king's wife eats him, gives birth to a dead boy; Azrail takes him away, revives his name is Janteg; D. takes Stargazer, Water scholar, and a buzlangi named Grandfather Gargashang (DG) as his sister brothers; the dragon has closed the water, the king's daughter is led to be eaten; D. lets herself be swallowed, immediately cuts the dragon in half with a sword; gives the girl to the Stargazer; DG destroys enemies, the princess gets a Water expert; DG D. brings D. to the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin, who marries; the other king sends the old woman; she encourages his wife to ask D. where his soul is; in a sword; the old woman takes the girl in a flying chest, throws her sword into the river ; brothers take out a sword, revive D., he returns his wife with the help of DG; finds his father]: Zarubin 1932, No. 10:121-133; Yagnobtsy [an unloved wife pushes her beloved into the pond; feeds her son well, the stepson is bad; the ram tells him to feed him rough bread, gives him delicious food from his horn; the stepmother pretends to be sick, will recover if he eats his stepson's meat; he goes to the pond, complains to his mother; she does so that the knife turns into a nightmare and dough; the king orders to drain the pond, the wife is alive at the bottom, the twins Hassan and Hussein are on her knees; the feast; the divas took the king's daughter from another wife and the daughter of another king; princes Soka and The boxes find them, B. kills one, the second diva; S. is jealous, lowers B. into the abyss for a gun, cuts off the rope, he falls on a gray horse, with gray on a bull, from a bull in front of an old woman; kills foxes who ate her chickens; kills tigers that devoured the ploughman's bulls; wolves that ate the shepherd's cattle; they all send them to the plane tree on which the Simurg bird's nest; the dragon comes out of the pond, kills chicks every year ; B. kills the dragon; Simurg asks for meat for 40 lambs, 40 wineskins of wine; the shepherd, the plowman give; Simurg takes it to the ground, there was not enough meat, he bites off a piece of B.'s leg, regurgitates and takes root on the ground; B. takes his gun, which S. could not take away, kills a dragon in a village on earth, which provided water in exchange for people left to eat; the king asks B. not to kill his brother, marries the vizier's daughter]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 10:79-87; Turkmens [son of bay, son of a merchant, and sir see traces of a maiden at the well; the son of a bay, the son of a merchant cannot go down because of the heat; an orphan descends, kills a deva, tells companions pick up the liberated peri; they throw away the rope, the son of the bay takes the peri, the merchant's son takes treasures; in a dream, someone tells the young man that white and black sheep will fall from above, he must jump on the white one, he he will take him upstairs; he jumps accidentally on black; the daykhanin lets him plow, tells him not to make noise, tigers rush at him, he harnesses them; the dragon crawls to eat the chicks on the plane tree, the young man kills him, Simurg gives he has his feathers; in the city, the dragon has locked the water, demands the girls to eat; the young man kills him, the grateful padishah adopts him; Simurg takes him to the ground, he throws it meat and water, cuts off the last piece from his thigh, she hides it under her tongue, puts it back; at home, the young man turns into an old man, restores his mother's vision with a Simurg pen, becomes young again, his mother recognizes him; he kills the sons of a merchant and a bay, takes both wives]: Stebleva 1969, No. 33:170-179; Pashtuns [the elder brother is the leader of the tribe, he has 7 sons; the youngest is childless; then the wives of both conceived; the elder suggests marrying children if they are of different sexes; the eldest had a daughter Shirino, the youngest had a son Mumin Khan; the elder brother died, the tribe divided; one half was headed by M., the other half was headed by the elder brother Sh. Zabardut; Z. does not want to give his sister, except for a few mans of gold; M. went to India with his friend Redi Gul-Khan; the Shah was amazed at his beauty and intelligence, left a voice for him: you have a heroic strength; the Shah staged martial arts, M. won everyone; another shah demands tribute; M. came there, found out that every day a dragon was sent a camel with a load of bread and a girl, the turn of the Shah's daughter; M. killed the dragon, cut out a strip of skin from his back, hid it; the servant attributed the victory to himself, but M. showed his skin; the shah gave him his daughter, but M. warned him that he would not agree with her because he loved S.; at night he put it on bed sword; took a paper from the Shah promising to refuse to pay tribute to the Shah who first sheltered M.; M. goes home with gold, his wife (with whom he never got along) goes after him; but M. incognito entered S. and Zabardut fatally wounded him; M.'s wife died of grief, she was buried next to S.; first her corpse ended up in M.'s grave; then they were buried on opposite sides of the road - now his wife cannot move to M.]: Lebedev 1958:107-112.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [two fisherman's sons go on a journey, stab a knife into a pine tree, which will rust, so the trouble is; the eldest does not kill a hare, wolf, lion, bear, they promise to help; in the city the queen they give a nine-headed snake; the animals of the older brother kill the snake, the queen cuts off his tongues; while sleeping, the young man makes the queen say that he killed the snake; at the wedding, well done shows tongues, marries a queen, a young man burned; a witch covered the sun with pomelo; well done, she splashes water on him and his animals, they turn into stones; the younger brother follows, also not kills animals, takes them as helpers; his younger brother is mistaken for the elder, he puts the royal sword among himself; comes to the witch, pulls out her cauldron, splashes on the stones, they become animals again and people; the eldest returns to his wife, the sun is shining]: Lebite 1965:163-167; Latvians [the poor fisherman is childless; threw a net to catch Laima's catch, caught the fish; she tells me to collect its scales, put it in your pocket, the scales will turn into money; the wife believes that her husband has robbed someone, threatens to bring it to the king; when she learns about the fish, she tells me to bring it; the fisherman caught it again, she orders to cut it into 5 pieces, give it eat the wife, mare, dog, cat, and put the fifth piece under the floor in the stable; everyone gave birth to twins, boys, foals, puppies, kittens had golden hair (wool); the king asked to give one boy to him; his own son is jealous - the father loves the adopted child more; he pushed him off the tower; but he did not crash, but returned to his father; decided to go on a journey, taking his stallion, dog, cat with him; under the floor the stables found a saddle and a bridle; in a foreign city, mourning: the princess is given to a 12-headed snake; the young man killed the devil, the animals helped in the battle, carved out his tongues, left; the deceiver gathered his heads, ordered to speak that he is the savior, the king promises to give him his daughter; the princess asks for a year of delay; a year later the young man returned, the princess recognized him, he showed his tongues, the wedding; the deceiver was executed]: Niedre 1952:110-115; Lutsie (western 1927) [Sergey Saraponshchik plowed, killed 700 mosquitoes and 7 horseflies in one fell swoop; he wrote about such a feat and rode on the same horse he plowed, taking a braid; two strongmen see the inscription, drove with the SS, taking him for the elder; began to herd horses in the meadow of a foreign king; he sent the strongmen to drive them away; towards the younger brothers, killed the royal; next time, the second brother, the same; the third time the SS itself must to go; blindfolded so as not to see his death; the royal strongman also blindfolded, thinking it was a military move; the SS raised his blindfold: he, blindfolded, demolished his head with a scythe; the king gave three daughters for three heroes; the three-headed devil requires an older princess; her husband went, cut off heads; the same with the middle one (six-headed); the 9-headed requires the youngest; the SS climbed {out of fear} on the oak, hell to the oak, SS fell on him, the devil died of fear; the SS lives on with his wife]: Annom et al. 2018:90-91; Lutsie (Western 1893) [the king hears a voice: cut a stone; he hit a stone with a sword, and the king of stones came out from there ( kivikuningas, KK); the king of men lured him into a trap, enclosed him in a fortress; the prince has a pipe, KK reached out and took it away; I'll give it back if you steal the key from your mother and open the constipation; if you find it difficult, think of me: I'll show up, I'll help; if the mother is taken to hang, take the blame; the king just called the other kings to see the miracle, but the room is empty; the king is going to hang his wife, the son said that KK he released; the king wanted to kill and eat him, but the crowd only asked to send the prince into exile; they also gave a letter with them and the soldier; he lowered the prince into the well and took out water; refused to pull it out until he will not promise to change his status with him; the other king mistook the soldier for a prince, promised a daughter; the servant king asked for a day off, went to sea, thought of the KK, he was already here, called him to his place; his eldest the daughter gave me a whetstone to feed and drink; KK himself gave a gray horse; the princess took the whetstone; the next time KK's middle daughter gave me an all-seeing mirror; KK himself called a horse: stand in front of me like a forest in front of the wind; gave it to the prince; the princess took the mirror; for the third time, KK's youngest daughter gave an accordion, at the sound of which everyone began to dance; KK himself gave the third horse; the princess took the accordion; the older princess is given to a three-headed dragon (must - "black"); the prince summoned the horse; woke up from the princess's tears; killed a dragon that came out of the sea; carved his tongues, hid it under a stone; the same with the other two princesses; a soldier, a water carrier, a cook attribute victory to themselves; the younger princess sees her handkerchief, with which she bandaged the hand of a wounded savior, on the arm of a sleeping servant prince; a soldier, a water carrier and a cook do not know where languages are and they can't raise them; prince married a younger princess]: Annom et al. 2018:143-156; Livs leaders: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 300:223; Estonians: Järv et al. 2015 (Virumaa, Lüganuse khk.) [father taught his son bird language, asks what crows are talking about; son: that one day you will bow to me; the father drove his son away; he bought three dogs on the way - Ass, Võts, Murra kaul ("Atu!" , "Take it!" , "Break your neck!") ; came to the city where it was the king's daughter's turn to be eaten by a snake, otherwise it would flood everything; when a three-headed serpent came out of the lake, the young man told the dogs to bite it, cut off their heads, He cut off his tongues, hid them in a handkerchief; the same with 6- and 12-headed snakes; promised to return in 5 years, cutting the princess's ring and taking half; in the fifth year, the general showed his head, demanded the princess for himself ; before the wedding, a real savior appeared, showed his tongues and half of the ring; wedding; the general was hanged]: 17-20; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 71 (Yuri) [the king saw a mushroom in the forest, and under it a dwarf with big beard; brought it to him, put him in the basement, invited other kings to look at the curiosity; the prince boy played ball, he flew into the basement; the dwarf promised to give the ball if the boy stole his mother's key ; let her cry, the mother will take her to her knees, we must take the key out of his pocket and then return it; the Queen grew up and then told his father everything; he drove him away, giving him a horse and a servant; when the Queen went down to the well to get water, the servant swore that they would change roles, otherwise he would not pull him out of the well; the other king had a deceiver as chief adviser, and the real queen got it watch the horses; he laments his share; that dwarf came out from under the stone, led him underground; the eldest daughter gave a magic tablecloth and a copper whistle; if you whistle, a copper horse and robe will appear, with they are not afraid of any enemy; next time the same (silver, golden horse and robe); a three-headed serpent coming out of the lake demands a royal daughter, otherwise he will ruin everything; the queen in his copper outfit kills, returns the daughter to the king; the same with the 6-headed (silver horse) and 12-headed (golden horse) dragons; the younger princess bandaged the savior's wound; the deceiver bribed the warriors to say that he is the savior; the king wants to give him his youngest daughter; she found the imaginary groom playing the pipe; he appeared to the king in gold, brought the heads and tongues of snakes; but the deceiver cannot; the queen is made son-in-law and heir, deceiver thrown into a well]: 204-213; Finns: Concca 1991 [man fled from court; got together with a forest maiden; when she gave birth to a son, took a boy and returned to the village; the guy is monstrously strong, better from to get rid of this; his father sent him to the king to pick up the allegedly borrowed gold and silver; the king sent soldiers against M., who easily killed them with an iron staff; he had to give gold and silver; from Father M. the griffin poisons the oatmeal field; M. met and accompanied an angler (fishing rod - pine, bait - cow) and climber (turning rocks); remained to guard the field, cook in turn; an old woman with an iron tooth gets out of the crevice, hits the cook, eats everything; when M. stayed, he killed the old woman, threw the bones into the crevice; tells him to lower him down on a cowhide belt; below the girl advises to rinse with water from troughs, and in return pour another; the same old woman appeared, began to fight; M. drank strong water, and the old woman was weak (apparently died); the companions lifted the girl and the good to the ground, cut off the belt; in the lower one the kingdom gives the dragon a girl and a sheep every day, the princess's queue; M. sleeps on her lap; their seas come out a three-headed dragon; M.: look, your house is burning; the dragon turned around, M. blew his heads off; the next day the same (six-headed dragon); the third half of the kingdom laughs, the other cries; waiting for the nine-headed dragon; M.: the monster is even more terrible behind you; the dragon turned around, M. blew his heads off, the girl put M. a sign on her forehead with a ring; M. abandoning the princess, wants to go back to the ground; king: it's only on a griffin bird; flying with M., the griffin throws him three times and catches him; each time she says that and he was afraid in the oatmeal field when M. shot at him; on the ground, the griffin forbids M. to drink from the spring; M. did not listen, an iron cat jumped out of the spring, tore out his beard; M. ran into the forge; the blacksmith heated the blank, asked the cat to open its mouth: he would throw M. there; but threw iron, the cat died; the girl rescued from the lower world promises to marry the one who pulls the bow; The angler and the Rock are not maybe M. fired two arrows from the bow and told them to pick it up; they went and did not return; M. married a girl]: 26-35; 1993 [the sister asks her brother to sell the sheep, he exchanged it for a dog; so with three sheep; dogs names Al, Tal, Everal; dogs caught an elk, a bear; when the robbers came, two dogs did not let them into the house, and the third took their money; the king must sacrifice his daughter to the dragon; dogs The dragon is thrilled three times, he promises not to come again; the man with the ax says that he saved the princess; during the wedding, the guy came with dogs, the impostor was imprisoned; the guy married princess, his sister was made a maid]: 45-50; Karelians (Olonetsky, 1936) [the fortune teller tells the childless queen to catch and eat fish, give bones to the dog, the horse's ear; the queen gives birth to three sons, puppy dog, foal horse; brothers go to see the world, part at the crossroads, leave knives - whoever rust dies; Ivan Tsarevich comes to the city, where the girls are eaten by monsters , the turn of the king's daughters; I. kills three- and six-headed; dog: I'll jump into the mouth with the 9-headed, tear it from the inside; the heroes claim that they killed the monsters, I. shows the severed tongues; I. marries a younger princess; sees fire at night; wife tells me to sleep; I.: if the first night you lie how I will live with you; goes to the fire, someone from the tree asks you to throw 3 hairs, 3 dog hair and 3 horse hair; I. throws, himself, the dog, the horse become stony; the second brother sees a rusted knife, arrives, he is mistaken for I., the same with him; the third dog tells the witch to answer that he has already thrown his fur; he grabs a witch, makes him bring living and dead water to revive the brothers, they came to life; 3 brothers married 3 princesses, I. received the kingdom]: Concca 1959, No. 7:39-46; Karelians (but maybe Finns) [the old man carved a doll out of an alder chock; the old woman put it in the cradle and rocked for three years; the chock became a boy, he immediately asked his mother for bread; became a handsome and strong man; the sun, the month and dawn has disappeared, people live in darkness; the king has a potion; those who drink three bottles can free the dawn, six - a month, nine - the sun; 9 could only Alder Chock (PTS); those who drink 6 and 3 bottles went with him; woman : an evil man is to blame; he cursed the sun for being hot, a month for preventing stealing, dawn woke up early; they were taken away by 9-, 6- and three-headed snakes; half of the city cries, half laughs; the king must give the eldest daughter to be eaten by a three-headed snake; if she does not give it back, the snake will eat half of the city; a hero who drank three bottles cut down two snake heads; threw his shoe, his companions lowered the dogs, they tore off the third head; dawn has risen; half is crying again, half is laughing; middle daughter; six-headed serpent from the sea; the sixth head was torn off by dogs; the month has risen; the third day is the same; youngest daughter; PTS cut down 7 heads; snake : look, the sun is rising; the serpent turned around, OCH cut off another head; look, your house is burning; the serpent did not look; your wife was disgraced; looked, PTS cut off his head; the last one was torn off by dogs when PTS threw his shoe; on the way back, OCH, turning into an ermine, overhears the conversation (with women who are wives of snakes?) Syuoyatar snake mothers; will starve, cover the tables; if they hit the cross with a sword, then there will be no hunger or tables; thirst (forest lake is the same); sleep (bed); whoever repeats my words will turn into blue cross; PTS destroyed tables, a lake and one bed; the companions have already rushed to the other two, S. ate them, took their horses and chained them; walking through the forest, PTS sees 9 blind girls and an eye on a stump; S. girls dazzled, leaving them one eye for everyone; he gave them back their eye, they taught them to get the horse back from S.; PTS cuts chains; S. gives all the girls eyes to see who is there; but they say no one; S. came by herself , grabbed the OCH; first ate the girls for deception; will let the PTS go if she gets Katrina from the beautiful Kii River; OCH sails in a boat, meets, takes five with him: Psar, Spoon Khrapun, Vaper, Eater, Aqudier; Kennel pacified the dogs; Spoon Khrapoon protected from the fire when they set fire to the barn where the swimmers slept; The vaper froze the hot bath; The Eater ate cows and sheep; Wonos brought water in the sieve; PTS received K.; Through clothes wine leather/The body glows under the skin/The bones under the body are visible/In the middle, the heart beats; on the way back, the companions one by one stay where the PTS picked them up and take what they brought with them parts of the boat; a narrow hollow remains; so that K. does not soak the hem, PTS picked it up with his little finger; S.: if you touched K. even with a finger, let him break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS:If you tortured blind sisters, let the sword break off; gnaw off his little finger; pts: If you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off cut you into 10 pieces; cut you; PTS burned parts of S.'s body, took the horse, silver and gold and K. as his wife; when they saw PTS, the parents became younger; PTS ask where his comrades are; I had to tell you, he turned blue cross; Katrina was married by the king, she gives birth to healthy sons and daughters; the storyteller was given a waxhorse, a turnip saddle and a pea whip at the wedding]: Concca 1991:134-154; the Veps [rich brother did gold things, and the poor man did brooms; the poor saw a bird in the forest, threw an ax, killed it, sold it to a rich man; he saw that the bird on its right wing said "Who will eat will become strong", and under the left wing, "Who he will eat, he has a gold coin under his pillow in the morning"; ordered his wife to fry the bird; the poor brother's children came in and ate everything; the hostess was frightened and fried an ordinary rooster; the rich did not have more strength, the coins were not appeared; and the poor got rich; the rich demands that he kill his children - they are devils; parents left their children in the forest; one went to get game; the bear asks her not to kill, gave two cubs; the same hare; at the fork, the brothers parted, leaving a glass of water; if the water deteriorates, one of the brothers feels bad; the younger brother came to town; there the serpent ate all the girls, the royal turn daughters; the young man sees the stove: "Whoever picks it up will find wine and a sword under it, whoever drinks wine will take possession of the sword"; the guy cut off 10 heads of the snake, the saber broke, the remaining two were torn off by a dog, a bear and a hare; the boy burned the snake and hid his tongues; the princess gave a gold ring and a handkerchief, also tied handkerchiefs to the animals; the boy and his animals fell asleep; the royal servant cut off the sleeping man's head, told the princess to say that He defeated the dragon; the animals woke up, the hare brought alive and dead water, revived the owner; at first they put their heads wrong; redesigned them; they all came to the royal daughter's wedding; the bride recognized the animals by ribbon; the king asks where the ring comes from, the guy showed his tongues; the servant was beheaded, the guy married the princess; went hunting; the wizard turned him and the animals into stones; the brother saw that water became cloudy; he came to the forest, put a cross on the bullet, shot the wizard, forcing his brother, horse and animals to revive; it flowed down his lips, did not fall into his mouth]: Onegin, Zaitsev 1996, No. 18:94-100; Scandinavians [ Herrud is a Jarl in Gautland and has a beloved daughter, Thor. H. sent her something to play with every day, and one day he sent her a snake. T. put it in a casket and put gold under it. The serpent grew quickly, as did the gold underneath it. He lay outside around the casket, then around the house, and no one dared to approach him except for one person who brought him food. H. promised to marry T. a man who would kill a snake, and the gold under him would be a dowry. At that time, Sigurd Koltso ruled Denmark and had a son, Ragnar. R. told him to make him fur pants and a fur coat and bathe them. In these clothes, he rolled on the sand, took a spear and pulled out the nail that attached the tip to the shaft. When he went to the fence where the serpent was, he hit it twice with a spear, pressed it, and the tip jumped off the flagpole. A stream of blood hit Ragnar between his shoulder blades, but he was protected by the clothes he made. He said to hang, left the tip in the wound, and took the shaft with him. When she was in Thor's house, when she heard him hang, she understood how old he was and what he had done. H. had a hard time pulling out the tip. Tora advised us to call everyone to the ting. Whoever inflicts a mortal wound on the snake will take a spear shaft that fits the tip. Ragnar's spear came up, he married T., she gave birth to him two sons, and then died]: Ragnar's saga; the Swedes [after eating a wonderful fish (apple), a woman gives birth to twins, and a dog gives birth to two at the same time puppies, a mare - two foals; the youngest goes wandering with his animals, leaving the elder an object that will show if something happens to the youngest; defeats the dragon and frees the princess; goes hunting, the witch turns him into stone; the older brother goes to save him; comes to the princess, who takes him for her husband and does not understand why he is putting him between them sword on bed; kills a witch and revives her brother; princess can't understand which brother is her husband]: Liungman 1961, No. 303:49-50; Swedes (Värmland) [queen is dead, princess has grown up beautiful; the king went to war; in order for his daughter to remain innocent, he built a tower in the forest, left food for his daughter and maids there, forbade men to come close; those who wanted to get a princess a witch was sent; she has two apples in her basket; the princess and her partner lifted the basket to the tower, ate an apple each and became pregnant; Princess Silfwerhwit's son ("silver and white"), son of Lillwacker's maid (" little guard"); both grew up strong and beautiful; after 7 years, the king returned and the boys' mothers had to bring them down from the tower to the ground and send them to the world; the princess gave her son a precious dagger; a big man met each, gave everyone a sword and three dogs; at the crossroads, the boys broke up; S. put a knife in the stream: if blood flows, he is dead, let L. take revenge; S. came to the city where mourning; the king must give his eldest daughter to a sea troll; S. went to the shore, where the princess and the court; he mistook S. for a troll, ran away and climbed a tree; the troll emerged: let them fight first our dogs; S.'s dogs bit to death the troll's dogs; then S. cut off the troll's head, he dived into the sea, and S. cut out his eyes and hid it; S. left, and the courtier made the princess say that he was the savior; the same the next day (three-headed troll, the king's middle daughter); on the third day, six-headed; younger princess; S. came to the wedding, showed the younger princess's ring and troll's eyes; wedding; once a knock on window: S., go out to talk; there is a troll whose brothers S. killed; S.'s dogs bitten to death his dogs, and S. drove the troll into a tree; he promised a ransom, asked the dogs to calm down by throwing three of his hairs on them; the dogs froze; the troll came down and killed S.; seeing blood in the stream, L. went to save S.; in the city he was mistaken for S.; put his sword between himself and the princess in bed; a knock on the window and the same thing, but L. threw hairs on the troll's dogs; forced S. to revive dogs, let water revive S. and another that makes them stick to the place; L. stuck to the stone and burst at the first rays of the sun; learning that L. lay down in bed with the princess, S. cut off his head; after learning from his wife about the sword, S. returned and revived L. with that water; L. married another princess and shared the kingdom with S.; if they did not die, they are still alive now]: Hylté ; n-ñavallius, Stephens 1848:78-94; the Swedes [the mother has a cow, her son herds her; in the forest, the old man proposes to change it to a gun and orders him to shoot it at the first living creature that meets; the guy shoots a bird, it falls from one branch to another; the same after the second shot; after the third he falls to the ground; the bird put it on its back, flew over the sea, drops it three times and picks up, it sinks into the water to the hips, to the chest, to the chin; the bird: the same fear I felt when you shot; the moon rises in the distance; the bird brings it there, the guy there gets a whistle, a sword, robe and horse; a star in the distance; then the sun; each time the guy gets the same set; arrived at the castle, where the king promised the dragon three daughters; whoever saves them will get married; the guy arrives dressed received where the moon rose; puts his head on the princess's knees to clean his head; when the dragon comes out, the guy whistles on the whistle, blows off all three heads; next time the star kit, five heads; from the sun, seven heads; the soldier claims that he defeated the dragons; the king demands that he defeat 5,000 warriors; the guy demolished the deceiver's head, married a younger princess and received the throne]: Schier 1974, No. 32:127-133; Norwegians: Hodne 1984, No. 300 [a young man with three dogs kills a monster (sea troll, ogre, dragon) to whom the king must give his daughter; a liar (Red Knight) claims that he killed the monster, a wedding is scheduled; with the help of his dogs, the young man gets to the wedding table and shows evidence (ring, comb, dragon tongue); he is recognized a true hero, and the deceiver is punished], 304 [the poor young man receives (inherits) a magic gun; shooting it, knocks food out of the hands of giants; goes with them to rob the castle or steal the queen, but kills them { apparently, as in other traditions: he cuts off the heads of those who enter}; in the castle, the young man sees the princess and converges with her; the impostor attributes victory over the trolls; the king rewards him, but the princess refuses marry him; the young man returns, tells how it happened, shows the troll tongues cut off; marries a princess]: 57-59, 67; Danes [one of the two princes does not understand what fear means; the king agreed to send him to find out; when swimming across a river or strait, the prince lost his horse; the poor couple said that there was a castle nearby, where two giants come for the night; two of them permanently live in the castle sisters; they hid the young man in the cellar for the night; their brothers exterminate enemies all day long, and in the morning they are the same; the sisters had to confess that the giants greeted the prince; the next day he went with with them, and saw them kill the 100 warriors who came to them; remained on guard; at midnight an old woman came out of the well, began to revive the dead with ointment; the prince hacked her; the giants offered him a sister and wealth, but he said he must seek fear; he came to the king, who had left the castle because it was a ghost; he allowed him to spend the night in the castle, giving two criminals; if they survived, he would have mercy on them; waiting midnight, the prince sent the criminals for firewood, they did not return; the chimney shouted "I'm falling!" , then parts of the body began to fall out; they united into an overweight man; he says he was king; one chest contains unrighteous taxes on children, the other also unrighteous, and the third legal; chests in the basement; if they are picked up, the deceased will calm down and leave the castle; unrighteous money should be given to the poor; the prince found the criminals dead with firewood in his hands, revived with ointment; the king He promised to give two chests of money to the poor, wanted to give the prince his daughter and half his kingdom, but he went on in search of fear; he came to a city where mourning; the dragon takes people, it is the royal daughter's turn; the princess climbed the mountain, the prince gave her ointment to lubricate her chest so that the dragon would not hurt her; the dragon flew in, the prince stabbed him; cut 9 tongues out of 9 heads; the princess gave him her ring; the coachman Søren cut off the heads, declared himself victorious; the prince came to court and asked why dragon heads were hanging on the wall; when answered, he showed his tongues and a ring; was declared the true winner, and Sorena took into custody; the king gave the prince his daughter and throne, and the coachman was placed in a barrel of nails tied to two horses; on his way to his father's kingdom, the prince fell asleep in a clearing and dreamed that the dragon had stolen from he is a princess; this is where he got scared for the first time, which means he has achieved his goal; returned to the kingdom that his father-in-law gave him]: Bødker 1964, No. 30:195-213; Danes [lazy young man sees on an apple tree crow; shoots three times, each time the raven pretends to fall; the young man comes up to him, he puts him on his back, flies away; three times pretends to throw the young man into the sea and explains what he has experienced the same fear when a young man shoots; a raven brings the young man to the field, tells him to go to the house, say hello from the crow from Salby and ask for porridge and butter; after eating, the young man gains strength of 20 men; sees white in the air a rug with a red thread, follows him, finds a crow; like this three times; the last time he finds himself on a mountain and lazily rolls down from it, and does not slowly descend; the raven brings the young man to the castle, tells him to hire a kitchen, walk along a long road; the young man tries to go straight, gets into the swamp; the raven helps for the last time; the local king promised a daughter to the sea king if he helps to cope with the lack of water; now promises a daughter and half a kingdom to the one who will save the water king; the Red Knight went to protect the princess, but when he saw the wave, he ran away; the young man waited for the third wave, in which the sea king, the young man overcame him and killed, then fell asleep; the princess weaved a gold ring into his hair, but was forced to go with the impostor, the Red Knight; their wedding is being prepared; the king must check who has the ring in his hair; the young man does not goes, the king is forced to come by himself; the young man gets the princess and half the kingdom, the Red Knight is hanged; the young man meets the Raven as a man; he leads him to him, marries his sister]: Grundtvig 1920:166- 174; Danes [mother wants to get rid of his naughty absurd son; he takes his three dogs as a share in the farm, leaves; he is hired by a shepherd; he warns him not to herd cattle in the meadows a troll; he herds, a three-headed troll comes out, each of the dogs tears off the head; on the troll's land, the guy found a golden robe and money; the guy brought part of the money to his father; came to the castle, where the king every year must give 10 pigs to the 9-headed sea dragon; pigs are over, must give his daughter; every day each dog tears off three heads, the guy cuts off and hides his tongues; the second time he is in black, the third in a red robe {for the first time, obviously white}; the princess tied a chain around the neck of each dog; the guy goes away for 10 years, the coal burn tells the princess to say that he has defeated the dragon; 10 years later, the guy showed up when the wedding was being prepared; the princess recognized her dog chains; the king sends the guy a beautiful outfit, but he rejects it, wears gold taken from the troll; shows languages; coal burn executed]: Holbek 1987:500-502; Danes: Holbek 1987 [parents go to the fields leaving the boy at home; when they return, the second one is the same; when they grew up, the healer taught find out who the real son is: the adopter brings the horses to the stall; he is told to leave; he leaves his brother a pot of blood: if it changes color, he is in trouble; when hunting, he spares a hare, bear, lion; everyone gives a couple of his cubs; a young man comes to a city where a sea monster ate all the women, it's the princess's turn; kills a dragon with his animals; marries a princess; sees on the shore an old woman who collects dragon bones; she lures him to her ship and makes him say "The darkness is ahead, the light is behind"; then he loses his orientation, finds himself on the island; the old woman is hit the whip turns the animals into stones and the young man in shackles; when he sees that the color of the blood has changed, the brother goes in search; the princess takes him for her husband, but he puts his sword on the bed; says "The light is ahead, darkness is over", does not lose orientation; on the island, forces the old woman to give him a wand that revives animals; frees his brother and kills the old woman; they bring the old woman's treasures; the young man stays with his wife, and brother brings treasures to parents]: 558-559; Lunding 1959, No. 303 [woman, mare, dog eat parts of the magic fish, give birth twice; first brother defeats the dragon, marries princess; a witch turns him into stone; the second brother goes in search, is mistaken for the first, goes to bed with his wife, disagrees with the first]: 12; (cf. Western Sami [two brothers look the same; they go on different roads, leaving a sword in the birch tree: if it rust, the owner is in trouble; the first saves the princess, who was supposed to be given to the three-headed sea troll; then three princesses , intended for the four-headed; one of them was married to a young man; the underground inhabitants envied his beauty and stole it; a local woman took his sword from him, forced him to live with her; the elder brother sees rust on his sword, follows in the footsteps of the youngest; he is mistaken everywhere for the youngest; when he finds out in which direction the younger one went, when he disappeared, the elder finds him; the underground wife sleeps, the brothers pierced her with a sword; returned to the youngest's wife; she can't understand who the real husband is; he explained, she believed]: Kohl-Larsen 1982:19-28).

Volga - Perm. Marie: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [childless old man and old woman made their son out of dough (nönchyk), he came to life, became Nönchyk-patyr; he is told to gather guests, N. asks his husbands to come without wives; his sent for wives, he asks them to come without children; sent for children, he loads the children on the cart with a pitchfork; they decide to get rid of him, they send him to the far field for sheep; he brings wolves; bears instead of horses; brought a devil girl; father tells him to leave; N. asks the blacksmith to forge a weight, throws it under the clouds; the 150 pound girl crashed on his head, withstood 200 pounds; N. met , took Tumo-patyr ("oak") and Kürtnö-patyr ("iron") with him; they take turns cooking; an old dwarf with a beard beards beats and eats the cook; N. hung him by the beard on a birch tree; he fell off, left; the fathers followed the bloody trail to the stone, under it a hole; T., K, afraid to go down, N. went down, there are three girls, they say that the father returned without a beard, went to the bathhouse; N. killed the dwarf, burned it in the stove; sent girls upstairs; when he got up himself, the companions cut off his belt; N. fell, going to the waist into the ground; grabbed the wolf's tail, he pulled it out; the old woman complains that the snake had closed the water, gave it for girls, the princess's turn; N. killed a snake; the bird Arslan-Kayyk carried him to the ground; there T. wants to marry a girl from under the ground; she recognized her ring given by N.; N. suggests shooting arrows up; T. and K.'s arrows pierced them, N.'s arrow went into oil; he began to live with his wife]: 39-49; Mordovians (Erzya) [the old woman gave birth to three sons in the evening, at midnight and at dawn; they were named Evening, Midnight, Dawn; they We went on a journey, met three wolves, bears, lions, each took one animal of each species; one made a fire in the forest, an old woman died, offered to look in her hair, killed him and him animals; the same with the second; the third began to hold the old woman above the fire, forcing the dead to be revived; then three brothers burned the old woman; the brothers broke up again; the dragon demands girls, the first the brother stayed with the girl in the house on the shore; the girl persuaded the dragon to put his head through the window, the young man and his animals killed him; the same with the second, with the third dragon; the young man told the animals to hide the bodies of dragons under stone; the soldier said he was the one who saved the princess; he could not lift the stone, the princess cut off his head, married the young man]: Paasonen 1941:217-224; Mordovians [the horse tells you to skin her, put it on himself; when necessary, the horse will come to the rescue; the guy was called Horseskin (LS), he hired the king as a gardener; the eldest daughter is demanded to be eaten by a three-headed dragon; LS summons a horse, kills a snake, the princess gives him her ring; the coachman tells him to say that he is the savior; the same with the 9-headed serpent (middle daughter); with the 12-headed (youngest); LS falls asleep every time, wakes up from a dripped tear; at the feast only LS presented the princesses with handkerchiefs and rings; married the youngest, and the coachman was tied to the horse's tail]: Samorodov 1972:202-213; Komi [the childless king asks God for a son; the man gave him cabbage, his wife ate and became pregnant; Ivan Tsarevich grew up quickly; the tsar died and his wife was a witch; I. gives bread to a hungry wolf, meat to a bear; shoved a pike on the shore into the water; mother tells I. to herd pigs if in the evening at least one will not be there, she will kill; the pigs have run away, the wolf collected them; the horse warns I. that his mother will try to poison him; he gave food to the cat, she died; the mother tells them to herd the sheep (the bear collected it); the mother again gives poison (the same); mother tells the cows to herd, they rushed into the sea (the pike collected); Ivan's horse: your mother took a three-headed line as her lover; the horse teaches you to hit the cross on the iron with a special stick the gate; they opened; so 6 gates, and the seventh was broken by the horse himself; followed by Father Ivan's sword and armor; the horse gives a drink of strong wine; they galloped; the horse flies below the cloud, above the forest; in the city there is a three-headed devil comes out of the sea, every day he has to give a person to eat; Princess Elena's turn; her bones can be seen through meat and brain through bones; I. asks E. to look in his head, falls asleep; E. dropped a tear, I. cut off the head of a line that came out of the sea; the same on the second day (6-headed line); on the third (9-headed); I. hid his heads under a heavy stone; I. injured his right hand, E. bandaged her handkerchief; I. received E., came with her to his kingdom, cut off the heads of a three-headed line, took his mother by the legs and tore it in half; they must still be alive and reigning]: Fokos-Fuchs 1915, No. 6:84-99; Chuvash [ Ivan's mother died; his stepmother has three daughters from father I.; stepmother baked I. a poisoned cake; the foal tells him about this, advises him to give the cake to the puppy; the stepmother hangs an ax over the door (same, the ax fell on puppy); the healer advises asking her husband to stab the foal; the foal advises asking permission to ride it for the last time, takes I.; orders to put a pig bubble on his head, hire the king guard the garden, answer "I can't know" to everything; the king has three daughters, the serpent demands the eldest to be eaten; the king promises her savior; the unrecognized I. rides his foal, cuts off his head a two-headed serpent; the same to a seven-headed serpent; he demanded his middle daughter, she bandaged the hero's broken finger, then saw I.'s handkerchief, noticed his golden hair; but still held I. for a fool; king gave his eldest and middle daughters for false saviors; the same with the youngest, a 12-headed serpent; I. comes to the wedding feast in her true form; the younger princess recognized I. as a savior; the impostor was hanged]: Sidorova 1979:108-113; Kazan Tatars [the padishah has a son and two daughters; grooms are denied; the eldest was kidnapped; the mother died of grief; the padishah married a young man; stepmother orders to drive his stepson away from stepdaughter; they came to a house in the woods; near a dugout with 12 robbers and an older sister; she got them drunk, their brother killed them; the sister regrets living with the robbers; one is still alive, she went out; they they agree to get rid of her brother; she pretends to be sick, sends for hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion, tiger milk; all animals give milk and cub; the younger sister takes care of them ; the eldest offers to play cards, the loser will be tied up; tied up her brother, the robber is ready to kill him, but the animals have torn him to pieces; brother and younger sister come to another country; there Azhdaha devours girls, turn for the daughters of the padishah; the brother kills him with the help of animals; the blind man says that he beat the double-headed ajdaha with a bucket, demands the princess as his wife; the next day the same (three-headed ajdaha, the middle princess, the imaginary savior is one-armed); then the fire-breathing azhdakha, the younger princess, is lame; the horseman comes to the wedding, shows the heads crushed by the stone and the rings given by the princesses; crushed impostors with stones, married the younger princess; returned his older sister; she put the robber's tooth in bed for her brother, the brother died; the animals pulled out the tooth, the owner came to life; the animals lifted up his older sister]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 15:133-153; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 4 [bai is childless, and then Alpamysh's son was born; grew up quickly; shook his bridle, looked at him an inferior horse; grew up before our eyes, became a tulpar; tsar will give his daughter to the one who defeats Karabatyr (A. threw him to the sky three times and caught him), shoot an arrow through the hole in the ring (A. fired) and kill the six-headed Azhdakha; he came for the royal daughter; A. fell asleep, putting his head on her knees; woke up to her dripping tears; cut off all her heads; wedding; A. fell asleep, K.'s people threw him into a hole, and locked his horse in a stone barn; the girls heard the voice of A., wife she lowered her hair into the hole, but it did not reach the bottom of the hole; A. told me to find the key to the barn; the girls opened the barn, the horse lowered its tail into the pit, A. got out; invited K. to cook in resin; he cried, A. cut off his head], 14 [the old man caught a goldfish, she tells him to eat its head to a mare, the torso to the old woman - the tail to the dog; the old woman gives birth to two sons with a golden head, a silver back, a mare - the same horses, the dog - puppies; the king takes the boys into care; the elder brother takes a sword, a dog, a horse, goes to save the princess, which Azhdaha must eat; if he drips from his knife blood, the youngest must hurry to help; the young man kills three-, six-, nine-headed ajdah; the bald man and his 40 brothers attribute victory to themselves; cannot raise their heads Azhdakhi; executed; the young man receives princess; chases victory for himself; Azhdazhi cannot raise his head; executed; the young man gets the princess; et devas starlings, the last piece of optics, she brings him to the woman, she pushes him into the cellar; brother follows in his footsteps, the princess takes him for her husband, he puts a sword between her and him; follows a bird, beats a woman, makes her brother and other warriors revive, kills her with dead water; the elder thinks that the youngest slept with his wife cuts off his head; the dog revives him with live water, but puts his head backwards; the eldest feels sorry, he does the right thing, repents; lives with his wife], 30 [evil King Takyanus is brought a swan; it says that the one who eats her head will always remain king; his sons Husain (the youngest), Hasan and Suleiman (the elder) accidentally eat their heads, wings, legs; the king tells the vizier to take them to the forest and kill them, the vizier lets the boys go; at the fork there is an inscription: whoever goes to the right will find good luck, to the left will find death, in the middle he will remain with what he has; S. goes to the right, Hasan straight, Husain to the left; hits the ring with an arrow, made by the royal son-in-law, but as a minor, he postpones the wedding and moves on; kills Azhdaha, who has closed the water, gets the daughter of another king, goes further; catches a wonderful ant, who carries it across the sea to an island, takes possession of a local beauty; a witch persuades her to find out where her husband's soul is; these are tweezers in a skullcap, the witch throws them into the sea , takes his wife H. to the khan; she manages to give the dove a letter for her husband's brothers; they take out tweezers, revive his brother, drown the old woman in the sea, give the khan and wife Husain's possessions; he gives the first two wives to his brothers; Explains who he is to an impoverished father]: 52-58, 106-116, 188-197.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Bosingen 1984 [the famous hunter Buldymergen sees a golden-haired deer in the mountains; he asks not to shoot, turns into an elder; his son is a khan of the underworld, there is a gorge, in it The seven-headed dragon takes a girl, a boy and ten rams every week; the poison does not work on him, only B. can master it; B. takes his diamond sword, lets himself be sucked into the dragon's mouth, cuts it with a sword, receives treasures as a reward, returns home]: 94-95; Sidelnikov 1952:213-228 (Turgai University) [Ashken, Moshken and younger Zhumageldy leave their father's house; he does not tell them to spend the night in the forest, on a lonely grave, in a cemetery; they spend the night; every night the brothers sleep, J. kills a seven-headed bird, seven-headed dragon; goes underground, eats more than 60 giants meat, kills each one at a time, cuts off their ears; all three brothers go down to that country; the local khan is grateful that the bird , the dragon and giants are killed; J. renounces the khan's daughter and the throne, leaves the throne and the khan's daughter to Ashken, with M. goes on; M. says he is able to drink the sea, J. - that his heart is in his dagger; the snake eats a girl and a ram every day, it's the turn of the khan's daughter; J. lets herself be swallowed, rips the snake open from the inside with a dagger; runs away, the edge of the robe remains in the girl's hands; everyone is invited to a feast, J. identified, gives the girl and the throne to Moshken; kills three giants, marries their sister; the khan is jealous; the old woman asks his wife to ask J. where his soul is, throws a dagger into the sea, takes the widow to the khan; A. and M. see blood dripping from the star, M. drinks the sea, they take out a dagger, revive J., he exterminates the khan and his people, returns his wife], 261-269 [from Sobolev 1940:158-165; the younger brother is rich and childless, the elder poor, he has sons Hasen and Husain; they brought blue-streaked white bird eggs from the forest; his uncle bought them for a high price and asked him to bring the bird itself; they brought it, the uncle told his wife to cook it; brothers they saw the brew, ate the heart in half; the uncle's wife replaced him with the heart of a rooster; the uncle ate it, but in the morning he did not find gold under the pillow, but the brothers found it at home; when the elder brother found it, the younger brother says to the younger, that his sons were spoiled by the spirit, they must be killed; the youngest took the children to pick berries and left them in the steppe; they settled with the old man; when the brothers grew up, they no longer had new gold; the brothers left, everyone left a knife; Hasen came to the city, where every day one girl and one hare are given to the seven-headed snake; it is the turn of the khan's daughter; Hasen woke up to the girl's tear, cut off the snake's head , received a ring from the girl; the vizier said that he killed the snake; but could not move the carcass, and Hasen did it easily, he received the khan's daughter; an old woman approached his fire, turned it into his stones, his horse and his dog; Husain found his brother's wife, found an old woman, pointed a gun at her, she gave her wand to revive the transformed; the brothers returned to their impoverished and blind parents; the uncle was thrown into the well] ; Karakalpaks [the king has sons from his eldest wife Esen and Usen, the youngest is Asan; he wants to find a king with three daughters; he visits an old woman and meets a king there who is going to give his daughters away, but manages to give his youngest A. to the old woman; A. comes to the old woman; asks for an assignment; the old woman offers to bring the daughter of the Rum king Myskal ("spool", this is her weight; if she meets a man, it will get heavier, so her father weighs her regularly); along the way, A. helps the queen of mice, ants, the tiger, they promise to help in return; A. lives with another old woman, gold falls from his hair, an old woman gets rich; in the morning she sees two suns - in the east and west; old woman: in the west, the sun reflects from the brow of Myskal, the king's daughter; the mouse makes an underground passage, the king weighs M., the weight has increased, he executes guards; M. gives A. a magic ring, it will help fulfill his father's tasks; 1) make gold and silver melt in two holes (the ring melts); 2) collect scattered millet to the grain (ants collect) ; 3) kill a dragon who is ready to exterminate all citizens (the tigers have killed the dragon, A. brought the carcass to the city); A. married M., they have a son; they go to the old woman who sent A. for M ., on the way, thieves kidnap M. and the boy; A. returns to the city of his father-in-law, who dies, the bird sits on the head A, he is elected king; he promises thieves to reward them if they talk about their crimes; through they learn about the cave where M. and her son return them; M. says that old woman is Baba Yaga, you have to tear off the head of a dove sitting on the stairs, otherwise she will eat them; she avenges her sons- giants who married M. but were executed (they did not complete their tasks); A. did everything, brought his wife and son to his father]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:177-186; Kyrgyz: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981 [at the khan in Osh, sons Shakir and Shakiret and daughter, wife died; Khan remarried; the new wife molested Shakir and offered to poison his father; in response, Shakir hit her; the woman accused Shakir himself as if he offered to poison his father and marry her; Shakiret suggests that the guards kill better than him; they let both brothers go, brought Khan their shirts soaked in hare's blood; Shakireta was bitten by a snake; Shakir decided that he was dead, left gold to the one who would bury him and a note; came to a city where the dragon wants to eat everyone; Shakir came to the dragon and spoke to him in the snake tongue he had learned from the mullo; the dragon agreed to leave in 6 months if a ram and a girl were brought to him every month; Shakiret's body was found by the elder, revived him; Shakiret came to the elderly, whose daughter should be eaten by the dragon; wearing a woman's dress, went instead of her; cut the dragon with two sabers, but lost consciousness; the horsemen brought the dragon's head to Khan and said that they were the heroes; the khan appointed them judges; the girl found Shakiret alive, brought him to his parents; the judges saw him, led him to the river to execute; the caravans bought him to sacrifice him to the river for the opportunity to cross; Shakiret put his finger into the water, cast a spell, a ford opened to the river; the caravans left Shakiret at home; he bought a chest with a girl in it; the caravans took her away and sold her to Khan, i.e. Shakira, and Shakiret was thrown into the river in a chest; Shakir understood everything ordered to look for a chest in the river; it was caught by a fisherman, gave Shakir to another khan, who decided to transfer power to Shakir; the brothers, now both khans, found a sister; his stepmother was tied to the horse's tail]: 69-80 Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007 (p. Budzhum, Batken District, Batken Region) [Bekjan is the khan of the city; elderly spouses live on the river bank, their son Izmail; the old man caught a goldfish; ran to tell the khan; I. released it, put a stone on the net; Khan came with horsemen; for deception promised to hang the old man with his family; the mother tells her son to run, teaches him to check those he chooses as companions; do not take someone who takes more than half of the cake broken in half; along the way pretend to be relieved; if he waits, then a friend, if not, do not go with him; I. tested everyone, no one fits; a young man caught up with him near another city; he is 16, called Israel, fulfilled the conditions set by Ishmael's mother; at the bazaar, the locals mock those who came; Israel maimed them; they complained to the khan, the khan ordered the ragged men to be brought; Israel cut off the heads of five soldiers, the other 5 ran away; the vizier advises not to attack the young men, but to recruit them; only 40 horses managed to pull the wagon in which the young men boarded; every year the dragon is given one sheep and one girl, it is the turn of the khan's daughter Guljamal; Israel cut the dragon, lost consciousness himself; Ishmael washed him and he came to life; the khan gave his daughter to Ishmael; between a lake of milk and a lake of butter, he built an ak-yorgyo wedding yurt, healed well, Forgetting Israel, he appeared dressed as a dervish and cursed: "Are there any among you who have forgotten their homeland, their parents, and have settled among strangers? If so, know that they know neither conscience nor shame, they are completely lost"; G. understood everything, Israel agreed that it was time to visit their parents; Israel and G. went on a journey, spent the night in a yurt by the spring under the plane tree; Israel hears pigeons talking - these are dragon spirits; if a pigeon key touches the sleepers, they will die, and whoever tells will become petrified; Israel ran into the yurt; the pigeon's beak managed to touch G. , Israel began to lick the poison, Ishmael thought that he was kissing his wife; Israel told everything, petrified; G. caught up with one pigeon on a white tulpar, washed the stone with blood, Israel came to life; began to destroy the soldiers Khan B., who handed him the throne; Israel proposes to divide all property, including G.; when he swung his sword, G. fell, and something like a mouse jumped out of his nostrils; Israel chopped her, it was her soul dragon; he said he was that fish released]: 50-59; Ledenev 1987 [the dragon blocked the rivers, demands a girl to be eaten every day; when it is the turn of Khan Azil's eldest daughter, young Naabat promises to kill a dragon; disguised as a woman, slaughtered a dragon, received three Khan's daughters for himself and his two brothers]: 133-135; Uighurs [the padishah has two sons with his eldest wife, one Hamra from his youngest; the padishah fell ill when he saw in a dream the bird Bulbugia living on Mount Kaf; will recover if it is brought to him; sons are called to catch poultry; H. goes south, from where you will not return, older and middle brothers go west and east ("you'll come back"; "maybe you'll come back, maybe you won't"); Black Div owns the country on his way to Kaf; the old man orders to kill the Black Diva's mother first; H. kills her, catches her eyes- stones in the spring, the stones turn into people again; then H. kills Diva; Peri says she was kidnapped by a seven-headed dragon; he devours the Kara-Kush chicks, which takes strength; H. kills the dragon, Peri gives his braids to tie the rope, Kara-Kush brings him to Mount Kaf, H. goes down the rope in the dungeon, dazzles the guard Owl, takes the bird; finds the impoverished brothers; they gave him a drink, they threw it into the well, brought the bird to his father, but she is silent; the merchants take H. out of the well, he burns Peri's hair, she arrives, he marries her, returns to his father, the bird sings, the padishah recovers, brothers are thrown into prison]: Kabirov 1963:49-64.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dagurs [the official has six sons - crippled, the youngest seventh is great; someone kills people; the official wants to ask for resignation, but the youngest son asks him to wait; receives from his father the precious knife of her ancestors; comes to the giantess, she hides it, her five sons return; they tell her that people are killed by a dragon; when sons fall asleep, their mother tells the young man that he must first find a huge hawk's nest; a young man sees a snake crawling to a nest with five hawk chicks; kills a snake; a grateful hawk is ready to take it to where the dragon is; there is not enough food along the way, young man feeds the hawk with his fingers; when he arrives, he regurgitates them, his fingers grow; the young man comes to the dragon's house when he sleeps; cuts off two heads, fights, cuts off a third; comes to a village where another dragon or snake has locked the water; a young man goes down to a well, kills a dragon; a spirit comes that eats 99 people, if he eats the hundredth, will become immortal; the young man became friends with him, prevented him eat the child, the newlywed; that man is happy, he will now get the position; the young man returns to his father, inherits his position]: Stuart 1994:120-122.

Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (Barguzin) [father, elder, middle brothers leave, disappear; the youngest is walking, the old man teaches how to ride a heroic foal; at the crossroads there is a stone with the inscription "Right dear black, left white"; the young man's father walked on the right, brothers on the left, he walks on the right; the old woman teaches him to go to Chagan-kan, around his house there is a river of blood, the banks are made of human bones; gives a pestle throw if C.'s daughters are chased; the horse transfers C. to the roof of the house, tells them to change the barrels of poisonous and eternal water; steps over one of C.'s daughters, jumps away, C.'s daughters are chasing, they can't pick up or bypass the abandoned pestle, stop chasing; comes to the daughter C., whom he has stepped over, now she is his wife; they find the remains of the young man's father, he is revived with eternal water; the young man delivers father, wife and old woman to the stone with the inscription, goes to look for brothers; throws the girl who threw his brothers at her into the pit, pulls out the brothers; an old man comes, asks for a knife, hides in a hole, in that knife there was a young man's soul; a young man descends on his belts, a girl shows where the knife brought by the devil, the young man takes it, changes barrels of poisonous and eternal water; the devil drinks poisonous water, dies, drinks after him, the devil's wife dies; brothers pick up the girl and wealth, cut off the rope; the young man is maimed, the mouse hits, she eats grass, recovers, he also recovers; C.'s daughter is sacrificed by a snake, the young man inserts He falls into the mouth of a birch tree, kills a snake; he falls asleep, throws him into the water; the girl pulls him out, revives him; the young man saves the spider's children from the fire, he gives a net to the upper world; the young man comes to the brothers' wedding disguised as an old man, takes his form; stays with three wives, older brothers tied to horse tails]: Poppe 1927, No. 2:18-31 (=Voskoboynikov 1958:72-79, =1973, No. 18:80-89).

Japan. Kojiki [Susa-no-o descended to Torikami in Izumo Country; met Oo-Yama-tsumi-no-kami, his wife and daughter, they cry: the Yamata-no Orochi dragon comes every year and swallows one of daughters; swallowed seven, the last eighth remained; the dragon has 8 heads and 8 tails; moss and cypresses with cryptomeria grow on his body, it is 8 valleys long; S. asked the old man for his daughter and, having received it, turned it into a private comb, stuck it in his hair; S. tells the dragon to leave 8 barrels of sake, he became intoxicated, fell asleep, S. cut it; when he cut the middle tail, the sword broke; inside it was another sword that S. presented to his younger sister, goddess Amaterasu]: Kojiki 1994, ch. 14:58-60 (Kojiki, I, 14).

Subarctic. Beaver {European borrowing? Only this motive, the others are definitely local} [Tumashal comes to the beaver dam; a girl cries there; says that a giant beaver can only be pacified by people who give it to him, now gave it away; T. kills Beaver with an arrow, cuts it into small pieces, from which the current beavers emerge; T. puts a trap, the Sun falls into it; it becomes dark; T. cannot approach because of the heat; to other animals it also fails, only the Mouse gnaws through the fetters; T. meets an old man who eats lynx meat, they spend the night in the forest; T. replaces moccasins drying by the fire in advance; the old man throws his own into the fire instead of T. moccasins; in the morning T . gives him one moccasin from his pair; the old man gives him an arrow; T. shoots, follows her, finds himself in the sky; the old woman lowers him on a rope; he thinks he has reached the ground, beeps, the rope falls; on in fact, he is in a big nest; he kills two chicks; the third replies that the father will arrive with hail, the mother will rain; T. kills adult birds, turns the chick into an ordinary bird, teaches how to fish; T. comes to the woman, she says that inside her three daughters there are bad creatures that kill men; T. destroys these creatures (without details), marries girls; father-in-law consistently orders to bring various materials to make arrows, the old woman warns of dangers every time; 1) bring saskatoons (probably reeds) to make poles (there are snakes, T. puts on stone moccasins, brings reeds); 2) get a grinding stone; on the edge of a cliff, an elk man throws down those who come, his wife kills them; T. throws off the Moose himself, the wife takes the falling for a stranger; T. kills her with a stick, brings her stone; 3) bring feathers for arrows; T. kills huge eagles, brings feathers; 4) bring the tendons of a huge bison; he has two snipes sitting on his horns, warning people of approaching; T. turns into a rodent, digs passages in different directions, gnaws hair from the bison's chest (shoulder), pierces it in this place, brings tendons; 5) bring resin, it is between two collapsing trees; T. puts on stone mittens, brings resin; 6) hunt bears; father-in-law turns his daughters into bears, T. kills them; chases his father-in-law, he jumps into the water; T. tells the pelican to drink the lake; father-in-law drowned; T. meets an old man who turns out to be his little brother, they tell each other about their adventures]: Goddard 1916:232-237.