K38f1. Sliced tongues.

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When killing a monster or animal, the hero cuts off and hides part of its body, usually his tongue; when a deceiver attributes a feat to himself, the hero shows what is hidden, exposing the deceiver.

Yoruba, Somalis, Basques, Aragon, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalans, Maltese, Italians (Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, Campania), Corsicans, Sardinians, Ladins, British, French, Walloons, Bretons, Alsatians, Germans (Hessens. Grimms, Upper Palatinate, Swabia, Tyrol), (Buka), Sinhalese, Bengalis, Santals, Gondas, Tamils, Ancient Greece, Greeks, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Bulgarians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Western Ukrainians, Russians ( Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kursk), Belarusians, Balkarians, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Latvians, Estonians, Lutsies, Veps, Norwegians, Danes, Kazan Tatars, Altaians, Khakas.

West Africa. Yoruba [children die in infancy; spouses donate all possessions, 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. is the first king of Oyo, K. died, turned into the moon]: Fuja 1969:48-61.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis [six thieves 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 enter the Sultan's palace first; when the robbers follow, the man cuts off everyone's head; in the palace, a man calms the dogs by throwing meat at them; finding them sleeping, ties the hair of a woman and her husband, the hair of two princesses, the dog; kills a snake , who is going to bite the Sultan; leaving the palace, a man sees a dragon that demands a girl every year; defeats the dragon, cuts off his tongue and leaves; the sultan promises a reward to the dragon killer; 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 he knitted; the hero marries, the sultan transfers the throne to him]: Klipple 1992:131-132.

Southern Europe. The Basques [the fish asks her to let her go, the fisherman lets her go twice, does not agree to the third; she tells her 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 the coal burn attributes a feat to himself; after the wedding, he sees the castle, goes there, the old woman offers him food, he turns into a monster; water boils at home - something has happened; the middle brother comes, the princess takes him for her husband, the youngest is the same with him; the youngest is the princess is surprised that the husband is for the third time asks about the castle; the old woman explains the secret of the castle's mistress; the young man does not eat, makes the witch return to their former appearance; the witch is burned in the square, the older brother and wife receive her castle]: Webster 1879:88-94; Aragon: González Sanz 1996, No. 300 [the hero, with the help of his dogs, kills the seven-headed dragon and saves the princess; the liar takes credit; he is exposed when the hero presents his saved dragon tongues], 303 [from a 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 power of a witch in her castle or cave; another brother realizes that the first trouble comes in his footsteps; the brother's wife does not understand that she is not facing her husband, but his twin; second brother saves the first, marries a relative of the princess]: 74, 75; Spaniards (Murcia) [the young man is given three dogs: Lomayiron, All I Can, Brave; the princess is eaten 7- head 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 He shows his severed tongues himself, the deceiver is exposed; in some cases, the hero is put needles in his food, he dies, but his dogs revive him]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 300:85; 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 the animals; he also received a magic sword; the princess is given to the seven-headed dragon, the savior will receive her hand; the young man falls asleep with his head on the princess's lap, 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 a piece of her dress; the deceiver shows dragon heads, prepares his wedding to a princess; sometimes a liar kills a young man, but his dogs revive him; on his wedding day, the young man shows his tongues (ring, handkerchief, etc.]: 54-56; Catalans [caught the fish tells the fisherman to let her wife, part to the mare and part to the dog; 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 should be given, marries her; comes to the castle, where he is turned into stone; another brother sees that the blood left in the bottle has changed color and goes in search; mistaken for First, in bed with his wife, puts a sword next to him; his brother revives; they talk about what happened]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 303:65-67; Maltese; Stumme 1904, No. 24 [only a blacksmith's apprentice could pick up an iron stick, got it as payment for work; with two companions, the guy came to the forest, they started cooking; a lion attacked; they chased him, failed, the guy went down; in lead The room is a princess and a 7-headed serpent, the guy killed him; in the silver room the same, the princess who was there indicates which sword to take, for the other is clay; the last girl in the golden room is the same; the princesses suggest that the guy be the first to get up, but he sends them upstairs; after that, the companions start throwing stones at him, taking the princesses, pretending to be liberators, and showing the king snakes heads, the king promised to marry them to princesses; the boy brought princess capes and showed snake tongues; asked his companions to cook in oil], 34 [the young man herds three sheep, and his sister spins at home; a rider offered to exchange one of the sheep for a dog; the guy agreed, the sister was dissatisfied; the next day, the second, then the third; the sister broke the spindle on his 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 savior will receive her hand; the young man lowers one of his dogs on the dragon; she consistently tears off one head behind another; the young man cuts off and hides his tongues, leaves; the princess gave him her cape; the Turk picks up his heads, makes the princess call him the winner; on the wedding day, the young man shows his tongues and a cape; a Turk is executed, a young man gets a princess; a retelling of this and other versions in Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 300:27-32; options: the dragon (sea serpent, etc.) requires a victim once a year, otherwise he will close the river; the young man falls asleep, the princess's tear wakes him up]: 68-69, 88-90; Italians: Basile 2018 (Naples) [Cienzo, the son of a wealthy merchant, fights with the king's son and smashed his head; his father tells him to leave soon; went into an empty castle, was not afraid of three ghosts, there were treasures in the cellar; but C. left them to the owner of the castle and went on; in the forest he killed the robbers and freed the fairy; he goes on, in the city of mourning: Every day the seven-headed dragon is given a man to be eaten, now it is Princess Menekella's turn; C. attacked him, cut off his head, she grew; then he cut down all seven at once, carved out and took his tongues with him he also collected the magic grass used by the dragon; the man picked up the heads, brought the king, who put a crown on him; C. writes a letter to M., tells his dog to take it; C. receives the princess and forgives a liar; sees a beautiful woman from the bedchamber window; comes to her, she entangled him with her hair, he remains tied; C.'s younger brother, Meo, follows in his footsteps; his wife takes him for her husband, but he says that the doctor had prescribed him abstinence; when M. saw the girl in the window, he also came to her, but his dog swallowed her, and the dog's hairs split C.; when he learned that M. was with his wife, C. cut off his head; when he learned from wife, as it was, C. raised M.'s head with magic grass; everything is fine]: 101-114; 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, goes to 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 have also been removed; the sorcerer tries to strangle J., but he whistles on the whistle, the dogs have come running, tore the sorcerer to pieces; J. comes to the city 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 leaving for a year. he is in mourning for his sister; the chimney sweep (black man, Saracen, Turk, gypsy, monster) claims that he has defeated the dragon; the princess asks for a year and a day's delay; J. returns, the princess sees the dog's neck bandage; J. . presented dragon tongues; wedding; chimney sweep burned]: 36-37; Calvino 1980, No. 58 (Tuscany) [the fisherman has no children; he caught an extraordinary fish, it asked to let it go and sent it to the pond where a huge catch was waiting for him; but his wife demands that this particular fish be brought to her; the same again; the third time the fisherman brought fish to his wife; she asks the fisherman's wife to eat her meat, the mare to drink the broth, the dog ate Bury the head and three fins in the garden, and hang the gallbladder in the kitchen; children will be born and when they are in trouble, blood will trickle out of the bladder; the wife gave birth to three boys, the mare to three foals, a dog of three puppies, three swords grew out of their fins; when the brothers grew up, alone on their horse, with their dog and sword, went to seek happiness; in the city, a seven-headed dragon devours a girl every day, it was the princess's turn; the king promised her savior as his wife; 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 them up heads, brought the king and took the victory for himself; when the young man came, he was not allowed in; he sent his dog to appear to the princess and pull the tablecloth off the table; so twice; for the third time the young man tells bring the audience to the wedding to him; the young man showed his tongues, hung the coal miner; the morning after the wedding, the young man went hunting in the forest; a thunderstorm began, he made a fire; the old woman asked for permission warm up, gave the young man, dog, horse food, grease to grease his sword - everything turned into stone; the second brother saw blood pouring out of the fish bubble, followed his older brother's trail, mistook him; at night he put the sword went to bed between himself and the princess; went hunting - also petrified; the 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 he 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 to younger brothers]: 189-196; Widter et al. 1866, No. 8 (Veneto) [every year A many-headed dragon arrives, demands a girl; it's the princess's turn; the shepherd has three dogs - Forte, Potente and Ingegnoso; he kills a dragon, cuts off tongues, promises to return in a year or a month and the day to marry the princess; the coal miner cut off the dead dragon's head, told the princess to say he saved her; she asks her father to postpone the wedding for a year, month and day; the shepherd tells the dogs get the keys, comes to the wedding, the princess recognizes him, marries a shepherd, the 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 looking; the princess mistook him for her husband, but he avoided sharing a bed with her; heard another girl say: statues can be revived with the blood of an old woman; came to the old woman and as soon as she turned away, cut off her head, sprinkled the statues, they, including his brother, came to life]: 128-132; Corsicans [husband of a childless woman: if a son were born, let the hell take him away; when a young man turned 18 and he found out that the devil had been promised, he went to look for it himself; stopped at the shepherd, who gave the dog, then the shepherdess, she gave the second; over the city there were black flags, the princess's turn to be given to eating a seven-headed sea monster; if not given, it will destroy the whole city; the young man cuts off the heads, the dogs take them away; he cut off and took their tongues with him; three coal burners- the Italians forced the princess to say that they saved her; the young man returns, shows his tongues cut off; a wedding is being prepared; coal burners locked the dogs, put a poisoned stiletto in the young man's bed; his they bury, but escaped dogs do not allow the body to be covered with earth; lick poison from the wound; wedding; coal burners were smeared with resin and burned]: Massignon 1984, No. 10:21-23; Sardinians []: Aprile 2000:78- 79; frets: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 63 [the traveler came to a city where mourning; the seven-headed dragon gets a girl to eat every year, the royal turn; the traveler cuts off the dragon's head, carved out his tongues, promised the Queen to return in a year and day; 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 showed his tongues to the king, got the princess; the deceiver was put in prison]: 323-324; Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 68 [three princesses asked their father to let them go for a walk and are gone; the king promises daughters to their saviors; three poor young men come to an uninhabited castle; when the elder cooks, the old man comes, the cook in horror; tells his returning comrades that he has a heart disease; the same with the second young man; the third threatens the old man with a sword, he leaves; the companions came to fail in the ground, lowered the third on a rope; he killed dragons with three, five, seven heads, carved out and took their tongues with them, freed three princesses; the youngest gave him a ring; he sent them upstairs; his companions kept the rope on him, decided to say that they had released the princesses; an old man brought the youngest to the ground; he hired a baker, put the ring in the cake; the princess found it, everything was clarified; the young man's companions were beheaded]: 187-193; Uffer 1973, No. 24 [the fisherman could not catch anything for a long time; when he caught the fish, she told me to let it eat it heart to a wife, she will 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, their dogs and horses; going on a journey, parted at the fork in the road, leaving a sword: if it rusts, the visitor finds out that the brother is in captivity; Josep came to the inn; the hostess said that 24 thieves come here every night; they do not want break the door, 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 their 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; he also promised to marry; came to a city where the dragon demands a girl to eat every 7 years; it's the princess's turn; Josep cuts off 3 heads then the remaining 4; carved out his tongues, promised to return in a year; the royal servant attributed the victory over the dragon to himself; a year later Josep returned; the next day princess wedding with the imaginary dragon winner; 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; wife says that he 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 his sword is rusted; comes to the housewives of the first and second hotels, Everyone takes him for Josep, but he says he has to go; the princess takes him for her husband, he puts his sword in bed; goes to that house in the morning; throws off the bridle, it ends up around her neck the old woman turns into a horse; Jacob threatens to kill her, the old woman restores her human appearance to the bewitched; when he learns that Jacob was in bed with his wife, Josep pushes him off the cliff with the horse and a dog; having learned from his wife about the sword, he revives them with a rod given to him; everything is fine], 50 [a childless miller picked up a box from the mill, containing a baby; he and his wife raised it, feeding donkeys with milk, because there was no wet nurse; he studied to be a blacksmith; leaving the master, he made a club out of iron that had always been in the forge; met, won, accompanied three giants; one pulled trees, the other set in motion many mills, a third blew fog out of the bag, creating rain; four live in a hut, cooking bulls one by one; every time a long-bearded dwarf comes, beats the cook, eats everything; when the Blacksmith stayed, he beat the dwarf, he ran, disappeared into the hole; everyone tries to go down there on a rope, but shouts that it is hot; the Blacksmith set off; below there is a plain and three palaces, glass, silver, golden; each has a princess; in the first there is a five-headed dragon, a blacksmith killed him, carved his tongues, sent the princess upstairs; the same in the other two palaces (seven-; nine-headed dragon); raising the blacksmith, companions they cut off the rope; he met, grabbed a bearded dwarf, made him tell him how to get to the ground; on the mountain there are eagles, we must catch one, sit on him and feed him on the way; the meat is over, the Blacksmith cut off the last piece from his foot; came to the wedding of three giants with princesses, showed his tongues, killed giants, married the most beautiful (from the golden palace)]: 93-100, 242-248; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 56 [the son chose to be a hunter, his parents gave him hunting equipment and a Curasch dog; once he killed a fish, a duck and a hare with one shot; the old woman ordered not to give them to his mother to cook, but to take them tomorrow with him; he went into the hut; the girl said that robbers would come; there were two beds on the second floor - don't lie in them; told the robbers that she sheltered the beggar, they pulled the rope, fell on the bed knives; 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 escaped and is now with the girl; the girl will pretend to be sick, ask for milk from the owner's cows, who has 70 cows; there is a bear (throw a duck to him) and a lion (throw a hare) as watchmen; they will serve him; give fish to the dog; return to the girl, say that he did not bring anything, animals hide; the girl will say that her chest hurts, she will send them to the damn mill for flour; the ladies will be given a stone to grind, we must lower the bear, the lion, the dog on them, they will tear everyone apart; the girl will say that the chest is gone, he will ask permission to tie his thumbs; a robber will break in, 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, she almost died, but he fed the fish with pieces, the dog recovered; the young man did not take the money of the robbers, but went to tell the king about it; 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 days; 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 apart by four horses]: 194-203.

Western Europe. 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 leave with his beloved bull; he says he will go through the dense forest, running all the predators, but the dragon will kill him; you will have to cut out and inflate the bull's bladder, they can kill anyone; you have to kill the dragon, cut out his tongue; the young man did so; found a princess tied by the hair given to the dragon; when leaving, he cut out the dragon's tongue, received a ring from the princess; the king promises a daughter to the one who brings his tongue and ring; many bring, but not those; the young man brought and married a princess se]: Jacobs 1894:186-191; the 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 with thorns; the young man gets a princess, but constantly hunts, the wife tries to lime him; the dogs save him, then revive him; he returns to his father]: Laport 1932, No. 300:37-39; 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, she will give a lot of fish for it; and so it happened 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 the sun on their foreheads, 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, it is the princess's turn; a young man kills a monster , receives a ring from the princess, cuts off and takes her tongues with her, promises to return in a year and a day; three coal miners force her to say that they killed the monster; in a year and a day she must be married to one of them; a young man comes to the wedding, shows his tongues and a ring; coal miners burned alive; one day a young husband notices a castle in the distance, goes there; a witch gives hair to tie a dog, he turns into an iron chain; she 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 the elder 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 princess, she sees how all three brothers look alike]: Delarue 1957, No. 303:147-149; Bretons: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 4 [the lord of Reranrais Castle has three daughters but no sons; daughters ask their father to buy them knightly outfit: they will go to serve the king, pretending to be men; the eldest Marguerite is going; the father dressed up as a robber, jumped out in front of her on the road, M. galloped back; the same with the middle Franseason; the youngest Aliet galloped forward; told the king that her father specifically said that he had only daughters and wanted to surprise him; the Queen fell in love with the new page; the maid of honor became pregnant and said it was her fault page; Aleta had to reveal to the king who she was; the maid of honor was torn by four horses, the king married A., a son was born; the king's people captured the strange creature Murlu, put him in a cage; the prince threw the ball got into a 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 released M.; the Queen commands 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 intact 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 killed the giant himself, took gold and gems from his castle); sees the princess to 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 six heads; they grew, on the second day he cut off all 7; the coal miner picked them 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; she was the one 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}]: 296- 313; Orain 1904 [the fisherman caught an eel, he asks him to let it go, gives the golden key to the treasury in the forest castle, tells him not to tell anyone; his wife said the castle is gone; the fisherman caught a pike; she told eat it, the wife will give birth to three sons with a star in her forehead, a mare will drink the way, give birth to three foals; bury bones in the garden, a stream will flow; if it gets confused, the sons are in trouble; the eldest comes to the city, where the seven-headed dragon demands sacrifice every night; the princess's turn; the young man fought the dragon for seven days, cutting off the head every day; rested; the coal miner showed his head, the king agreed to give he had a daughter; the young man showed the dragon's tongues, received the princess and the throne, the coal miner was put in prison; going to look for the sorceress, the dragon's mistress, the young man met an old woman; she threw a grass rope over his horse and the dog, dazzled the young man with powder, threw a rope at him, they could no longer move, remained tied to a tree; when the middle brother saw the muddy stream, went to look for the elder; his wife mistook him for husband, but he explained who he was; pierced the sorceress with a spear, but she turned into a giant and easily defeated him; the younger brother crept up to the sleeping giant, tied him with the same grass, received an ointment from him to revive killed in exchange for permission to hide in the depths of the earth; three brothers returned to their father]: 111-137; the Alsatians [the father gave his son three lambs, he went on a journey; in exchange for the lambs, the old man gave three dogs Break Iron, Aim Good, Fast as the Wind and the Whistle to call them; 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; his robbers surrounded; he asked permission to climb a tree to say a prayer; the dogs heard the second time, broke three iron doors, tore the robbers apart; when he returned, the young man cut off the old woman's head ; he comes to a city where mourning; every year the seven-headed monster is given a girl, it is the princess's turn; the young man cuts off the monster's heads, cuts off and hides his tongues; promises the princess to return a year later; one guy saw, took heads, told the princess to say that he saved her; the young man comes when the princess should be married to a liar; shows tongues, the princess recognized the dogs; the liar torn by four bulls]: Delarue 1957, No. 300:101-103; the Germans (Hanover) [drummer, corporal and sergeant spent the night in the forest in a tree; the sergeant saw light in the distance; they came to the castle; the table was set there; at midnight there is a rumble, and then there is silence again; they stayed there to live; they take turns cooking; a bearded dwarf appears, asks for food, beats the cook; when it is the sergeant's turn, he rips out part of the dwarf's beard, depriving him of his beard strength; came on a bloody trail to the hole; they were the first to lower the drummer - the rope was short; they took a longer one, the corporal climbed - the same; the sergeant, the long rope, went down, there was an old woman; sent to the eldest kidnapped the princess; she gave strong water, and the giant who came sleepy; the sergeant cut off his head, the princess gave her handkerchief with a silver star; the same for the second princess (gave him a golden apple); with the youngest seven-headed dragon; the battle is three days, the princess gives strong water to everything; the sergeant cut off all 7 heads, took his tongues, the princess gave a handkerchief with diamond stars; the companions picked up only the princesses; the sergeant descended to a world below this, where dwarfs live; they are ready to make the sergeant their king, but they cannot raise her to the ground; they advised to contact an old woman, she has a vulture bird; the sergeant feeds her in flight; on the ground he came to the wedding of two older princesses; their companions told them to call them saviors; the soldier talks about everything, shows his tongues, scarves, an apple; marries a younger princess; forgave his companions and married his elders] : Wolf 1845, No. 21:93-105; Germans [a rich, unkind brother was a goldsmith, a poor broom knitted; he had two twin boys; the poor saw a golden bird, threw a stone, the gold fell the pen, the jeweler brother gave a lot of money for it; then the poor man found a bird's nest, brought an egg; then he hit the bird, sold it to his brother; he told his wife to fry it; whoever eats its heart and liver will have it in the morning there is gold under the pillow; while the wife was away, the nephews ran in and ate the pieces that had fallen; the frightened wife fried her husband's heart and liver, and the boys found gold under the pillow in the morning; when they found out, 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 a knife stick at a crossroads; if it rust, the other brother is in trouble; brothers hunt, feel sorry for animals, each gets a hare, fox, wolf cub, bear cub and lion cub; the brothers broke up, the youngest came to the city, where all the girls were eaten by the dragon, it was the royal turn; on Dragon Mountain, the 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; the dragon puffed with fire, the young man trampled the fire; the young man cut off seven snake heads, the animals tore the body to shreds; the young man carved and hid dragon tongues; the queen gave he had his 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 the princess away; she made it a condition for a wedding 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 she would eat bread from the royal table; the royal recognized the hare, who brought the baker to the tavern; the same with the fox (bring meat); the wolf brought vegetables, the sweet bear, the lion - wine; 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 by the fire; the old woman asked to let her 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 was rusted; the queen mistook him for her husband, but he put down his sword to bed; in the forest he knocked the old woman off the tree with a silver bullet; forced the petrified to revive, the brothers burned the old woman in the fire; the forest became transparent and bright; when he learned that his brother slept next to his wife, his king hacked, repented, the hare revived the uprooted man; the Queen identified her husband by the golden lock she gave him to the lion; the king found out about the sword in bed]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 60:212-227 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:171-187); 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; he first cuts off the giant's hands, and then makes it 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 be eaten; the shepherd asks for the horse and equipment from the first giant, cuts off 3 heads of the dragon, cuts off tongues; the same in the second; with the third giant; the dragon is killed; the son of the court took the victory for himself; the shepherd and the giant came to 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; the Germans (Swabia) [the miller sends his two eldest sons to humans; the youngest Hans considers too stupid, but he also leaves; at the fork, the brothers broke up; G. hired a noble man to herd sheep; he does not tell them to herd them where the land of the three giants begins; G. goes there; meets the princess in the castle, that gives a pipe that everyone dances when playing; G. plays, the giant dances, G. killed him with a stone; so with all three; G. cut out their eyes and tongues, took them with him; the princess returned to her father; the owner G. sends his own son to the king, allegedly he killed giants, but G. shows his eyes and tongues; now the king demands that G. win the tournament; the servants of the giants gave him vestments and weapons, G. won; the king orders to go to the monastery, captured by 30 robbers; G. plays the pipe, they danced until they died; leaving his wife, G. went to visit his father; pretended that he was just a shepherd; the father ordered the geese to herd; G.'s wife came for him; recognized her husband, but did not show it; G. spilled soup, his father beat him; at night G. climbed into his wife's bedroom; went out in royal attire in the morning; returned with his wife to his kingdom]: Meier 1852a, No. 29:101-109; Germans (Tyrol) [the master does not tell the shepherd to drive the sheep to the land of three giants; the king promises a daughter to the one who will save the country from them; the shepherd came playing guitar, got drunk the giant, pouring sleeping pills into the wine, stabbed the person who fell asleep, cut off and hid his tongue; the same with the other two; the forester found the heads, brought them to the king and demanded the princess; the shepherd presented his tongues, exposing impostor]: Zingerle, II, S. 91 in Cosquin 1887:94.

(Wed. Melanesia. Apparently European borrowing. Buka [Tubun left her baby Tione to his blind grandmother Péopéo, went to the place where all women gather for trade; Mouketek killed T.'s mother and father and everyone else; E. gives the baby suck pigs milk; his maternal uncles, Tin and Toñ, come, take, raise, now the name of the young man Enpen; he makes more and more powerful bows, he hunts; decides to go destroy enemies, Tin and Ton s him; kills an ogre dog with an ax, Tin swallows its liver, Tone swallows its tongue (the same after killing every new enemy); when he comes to Bitobit, Tin and Ton tell him to quietly throw away the poisonous betel, which she suggests chewing her own; when B. throws a stream of fire from his ass into E., he kills her with an ax; Kirin shoots E., who dodges, kills him with a spear; meets Tubun (it's not his anymore a dead mother, and a young woman; this is the name of any heroine in the story); she was sent (either as a wife or to be eaten, because it was her turn) to Tui; the terrible Tui begins to get out of the cave, E. amazes him with an arrow, Tin and Ton finish off with arrows, Tin, as always, swallows his liver, Ton swallows his tongue; E. puts signs on Tubun's back, tells them to be covered with a headdress; Tubun returns to the village, says that Tui is hers rejected, took only her jewelry; Matoune memorizes his axe against a stone, smears it in red juice, says he killed Tui; Tubun says he doesn't want this fat man; E. tells Tina and Tona regurgitate his liver and tongue, everyone sees that M. is a liar and E. is a hero; he gets Tubun; he cuts down one tree on the site - everything falls, plants one plant - everyone grows; Tin and Ton call E. to come back home, but he wants to stay in his wife's village; M. puts thorns on E.'s bed, they pierce his body, he dies; people send a servant for Tin and Ton twice, M. calls to go instead of him each time, waits nearby, says that Tin and Ton refused to come, tells E. to be buried faster; Tubun sends a servant for the third time, Tin and Ton come, magically remove thorns from E.'s body, revive him; E. are going to fight the people of M.; E. hits M. with an arrow and immediately all M.'s people die, wherever they are; Tin and Ton shoot at dead ants, they devour bodies without a trace]: Montauban, O'Reilly 1955 , NO. 13:79-82).

South Asia. Gondas [the dove laid 104 eggs, two of them huge; flew away in fear; the jackal told her to return to the eggs; these big ones were born Princes Gunjhmara and Gubjhira; the dove does not know how to feed them; Mahadeo and Parvati were flying by at this time; M. gave P. a magic remedy to pour milk from the pigeon's breast; the dove asked P. to teach the princes as well]: Elwin 1944, No. V.7:178-183; Tamils [ 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 one for her son and went to work; and he sat all day thinking out loud: eat a small one or a big one first; his mother came back and drove him away; in the forest he kept thinking; two heavenly maidens thought they had a monster in front of them who thought they would eat; they gave an inexhaustible purse: you can ask for 10 rupees for rice, and they are always in her purse; only hetera had so much rice, and he started buying it from her; hetera followed, looked into her purse, but it was empty; sent her lover to steal it him; 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 was littering with gold; Hetera noticed again and her lover stole the goat; the heavenly maidens gave wire and a hoe; the wire tied 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 her not to go out anymore; at three o'clock an elephant comes , kills and devours people; the Raja promises a daughter and half the 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 the wire to tie him, and the hoe to beat him; brought the old woman a piece of ear and tail, saying that he had killed an elephant; the laundress found the carcass, also cut off a piece of ear and part of the tail, and brought it to the raja; the wedding was being prepared; the young man was not allowed in, he screamed; it turned out that the laundress did not bring exactly what she needed; the young man showed genuine 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 for garbage dump; 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; flowers are stolen for the gods by two heavenly maidens; one is confused in 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 the two kingdoms]: Blackburn 2005, No. 55; ( cf. Sinhala, Bengali and Santali texts; Sinhala is a set of European motifs, probably a recent borrowing; among Bengalis and Santals, the languages presented are not used to expose the deceiver ); Tamils [the rich man's wife is childless; sadhu: go to a garden where mangoes, guava and limes grow, pick 7 mangoes and have 7 daughters; but the woman picked 8, saw a cobra, she turned into a man with a snake the crown on your head is Nagentiran; if you commit this offense, you will die at 56; this is me the sadhu who sent you here and I am the eighth mango; the seventh girl will be called Nagammal, "snake girl"; all daughters have grown up and married cousins, N. gave birth to a son; mantiravati (sorcerer) lived in another kingdom; he saw N. in the magic mirror and ordered bhuta to deliver her; the sorcerer and bhuta went to his wives; the sorcerer: who is more beautiful? bhuta: none of them, but N.; but it is protected by a snake; whoever touches it will burn; but it can be approached by changing its appearance; the sorcerer appeared in the form of a sadhu; turned N. into a dog and took it away in his underground chariot; the sisters' husbands rode, but the sorcerer turned them into stone; restored N.'s human appearance, but cannot touch it, she is like out of fire; N.'s son has grown up; threatens to kill himself if his aunts do not tell the truth about N. and about their husbands; they told; Nahentiran: the end of the sorcerer is near, let the young man go free his mother; gave the young man an invincible sword; the young man reached the city where the tiger is rampant; the king will give his daughter and half the kingdom to the one who would bring the tiger's tongue and the tip of its tail; the young man did it, but the laundress found out, cut off what was left, and brought it to the king; but the minister noticed that they were not the tips of his tail and tongue; then he appeared young man, received what he promised, but said that he would return for the princess and the kingdom on his way back; at the sorcerer's palace, he saw an old woman selling flowers; he lived with her and made garlands; under the guise of the flower seller studied the palace; handed the letter to his mother; she asked the sorcerer what his life was like; in a parrot in a distant cave; the young man brought it, tore it apart, as the sorcerer's dicks fell off bodies; bhutu young man killed with his sword; revived petrified ones; took the wife promised in the kingdom where he killed the tiger; when N.'s mother was 56, the snake bit her]: Blackburn 2005, No. 95; Sinhala [c With great difficulty, the king captured Yaka, who was eating people, locked him in an iron house; while the king was at war, his five-year-old son released the yak; he promised to help him; when did the king return {a few years later?} , he was going to execute his son; his mother gave him rice, money, a horse and told him to run; on the way, the prince met a man whom he asked to guard the horse while he was swimming; on the other side of the river they swam three princesses, noticed the young man; the man put on the prince's clothes and rode away; the younger princess saw it all; the deceiver called himself Manikka Settiyare, and the prince called his stable; the king invited the MC to evaluate him a gem (manikka); he said that his servant could appreciate it; the imaginary servant, i.e. the prince, realized that there was sand inside the stone and it was worth nothing; the king ordered the MC to give the servant a sword, he cut it the stone is sand inside; the younger princess asked the MC stable to herd her sheep and the shepherd to become a servant of the MC; after the prince began to herd the sheep, they bred incredibly; Yaka (another, not prince's friend) grabbed the king and released him for promising to give him three daughters; the king promises them to someone who can defeat Yaka; at this time, Yaka friend of the prince took the sheep and disappeared into a snake hole; the prince descended there; Yaka gave a sword and taught how to hack another Yaka who would go to pick up the princess; prince killed Yaka, cut off and hid his tongue; MC attributed victory to himself; same with two other princesses (two more Yakas) ; king promises daughters to be MC's wife; friendly Yaka gives prince a horse and a luxurious outfit; MC can't explain the lack of tongues in Yakas's heads; younger princess tells everything; MC decapitated, prince receives three princesses and a throne]: Parker 1910, No. 15:137-145; Bengalis [the prince and the minister's son are friends; the prince says training is better than the natural mind, his friend is the opposite; they are going to find out who right; Muni (a human bird) gives the prince a wish-fulfilling ring; the princess promises to marry someone who will bring her what she asks for every day for a month, otherwise she will make her a water carrier; the prince is sure of victory; the princess sends the maid, she learns about the ring; the princess asks for a ring and then something else; the prince becomes a water carrier; the minister's son stays with a brahmana, where everyone argues who to eat at Rakshasi; the minister's son goes, enters Rakshasi's house while she is away, says he is Yama; Rakshasi asks to show his hair, he shows a rope; the nail is an iron shovel; saliva - a bucket of lime; Rakshasi wants to look at the monster, he pierces hot rods into her eyes, she dies; he cuts off her tongue; he is found sleeping, he shows his tongue, he is married princess; he goes to look for the prince; sleeps in a tree; Rakshas opens an underground passage, takes out the monkey, turns him into a beauty, then again into a monkey; the minister's son descends, turns the monkey into beautiful; when a rakshasa comes, turns him into a monkey, takes the beauty away; two types of leaves are used to transform him; he gives only leaves to the water prince, the princess becomes a monkey; the prince restores her human appearance with the help of other leaves, gets her married; the prince is happy with one, the minister's son with two wives; the prince admits that he is right]: McCulloch 1912, No. 26:255-282; Santala [Guja's older brother works in the field, Kara's younger brother is home; they went to the forest to dig roots; G. told K. to see if the sun was high; he replied that one was setting, the other was rising; night I found the brothers in the forest; they saw the fire, came to the Tiger's cave; they began to bake the roots, the Tiger was given coals, who thought the roots were not tasty; G. invited K. to eat the Tiger's tail; the Tiger ran, they they tore off his tail, baked it, ate it, climbed a tree; the short Tiger brought others; they dived for a long time when they saw the brothers' reflection in the pond; finally they saw them in the tree; the brothers said they climbed when they got up on each other's shoulders; the tigers also became, the short tiger was the lowest; G. shouted to K. to give 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 house old woman; 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 a demon came, his brothers killed him with arrows, threw his body away, claws and the tongue was put in a bag; the king promised a daughter and half the kingdom to the one who would kill 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 did not was able to prove that he killed; ordered all men to get together; the brothers received a princess and half the kingdom, the manager was beaten and expelled]: Campbell 1891:19-22 [the king has a strongman son, a giant; goes to wander; the old woman is afraid to go to the forest for fuel, to the river for water; the prince kills a leopard and a crocodile, cuts off their tongues; another person brings bodies to the king, the prince shows his tongues, the liar is executed; The prince companions an areca palm nut merchant and a gunsmith; heals a girl, gives her husband to a merchant; leaves a gunsmith in the house to take care of orphans; both times he plants lemons if he is in trouble, they will wither; the nobleman's daughter saves by killing the ogre yaksha, marries her; the ex-fiancé asks the woman to get him the prince's wife; she is hired as a maid, finds out that the prince's life is in his sword, leaves the sword in a pile burning nutshells, the prince loses consciousness, the woman takes his wife away; the prince's friends see dried lemons, peel the sword with lemon juice, the prince comes to life; friends catch up with the ship, kill everyone, bring them back prince's wife]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 75:159-163).

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Astidamia, Acastus's wife, fell in love with Peleus but could not seduce him; then she sent a message to P.'s wife that he was going to marry Steropa, daughter of A.; A. said that P. tried to seduce her; A. did not want to kill someone he had just cleared of the filth of murder, took P. to hunt in the mountains; when the contest between hunters began, P. carved out the tongues of the animals he had killed; A.'s companions gathered the dead, mocked P. that he had not obtained anything; P. showed his tongues; when P. fell asleep, A. left him, hiding his sword in cow dung; centaurs attacked, but Chiron found P.'s sword and gave it to him]: Apol. 1972, 3, XIII, 3:69; Greeks [fisherman He can't catch anything, only one red fish is caught; asks her to let go, promises a rich catch; the fisherman is rich; women advise his wife to find out the reason for the wealth; the fisherman tells her; women advise asking a fisherman to bring it the fish itself; she teaches the fisherman to divide it into 4 parts and give it to his wife, mare, dog, and bury the fourth in the garden; two boys, foals, puppies were born, two cypress; the elder went on a journey - if the cypress dries up, then he is in trouble; the king has a sleepwalker daughter; the young man frightened her, threatening to die, and she is cured; the king tells all men to come to identify a savior; the princess threw an apple to the young man; the king wants to give him his daughter, but the young man asks for permission to wander around the world first; comes to a city where the monster has closed the water sources, gives for the girls they give him; the princess's turn; the young man killed the monster, cut off and took 7 languages with him; the coal miner found the head of the monster and attributed the victory to himself; the young man showed his tongues; wedding, the coal miner expelled; in the far corner of the palace, a young man met an old woman; she turned it into a statue, like many others; his brother found out, came, his dog tore the old woman apart; found living water among her property and revived her petrified; they made him king; brother returned to his wife, whose father had already died, and also became king]: Legrand 1881:161-176; the Greeks (many records) [the dragon (serpent, monster) closed the water sources, every year requires human casualties; the queue for the princess (for 12 girls and 12 boys; for a child); a 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 either 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]: Megas 2012, No. 300:20-21; Romanians (Banat) [after retiring from service, soldier Petru immediately lost all his money; in the forest he met a man rocking trees and playing with stones; began to live in a hut, cooking in turn; every time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; eats everything, hits the cook; when P. remains, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, chases him to the crevice into which he disappeared; P. tells him to let him down he was on a rope; cut the dwarf to pieces, but could not 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 would be a daughter, if a boy, then a son; asked P. to herd her sheep, but not to go to the land of dragons that stole her eyes; P. went and became 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 into the crack, knocked out a wedge; told them how to restore the old woman's sight; dragons: next to us milk pond, let her wash her 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, the turn of 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 knocked down 11 heads with arrows, and the 12th with the 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; Moldovans [three fellows kidnapped three princesses; the king promises a reward to whoever finds his daughters; Calin the Furen and his two older brothers they go in search; K. guards at night, kills three-, four-, eight-headed dragons; the blood of the latter has filled the fire; K. goes into the light, meets, binds Evening, Midnight, Dawn, so that the day does not come until he will not return; 12 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. leads Dragons with him, kills one at a time when they climb over the city wall; K. took off the ring from the princess's finger; cut off the dragons'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 fights with the third, both call the crow, but K. calls him the blessed king, the raven pours water on the dragon's flame, he dies; when K. fell asleep, the brothers cut off his legs; he was found armless; K. grabbed the runaway she showed the dragon 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, found out 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 a core up; when it fell, it crushed his brothers]: Moldavian tales 1969:158-168; Gagauz people [brothers followed a strange trail, came to a dried well, white and black sheep; Wanchu's younger brother offered to go down, the elders refused, lowered him on a rope; wanted to 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 closed the waters, passes it off as people given to him to eat, now it's his turn padishah's daughters; clothes must be wet 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, the other two hides behind; V. cuts off all 5 heads at once; the princess orders to cut off tongues; the impostor brings the padishah the heads of the monster, V. shows tongues; the impostor is expelled, V. gets the princess; the padishah lets them visit V.'s parents; the bird carries V. with his wife, in flight he feeds her meat, bread, water; meat ends, V. cuts the meat from his 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 returning to the lower world]: Syrf 2013:138-145; Bulgarians [give a girl (usually a princess) a snake to eat; a young man undertakes to save her; on the eve of the battle he falls asleep with her head on her knees, wakes up from a fallen tear; presenting the snake's severed heads, the deceiver prepares to marry a girl; the hero presents severed tongues (a ring or other objects given to him by the girl), marries on the rescued]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 300:94-95.

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; Czechs (Moravia) [after the death of the Count, his widow and three sons went on foot to Rome; they took turns awake for the night in the forest; when it was the younger Slavotech's turn, he noticed the fire, came to the fire of three giants; shoots, giants think one of them hit the other; then S. comes out, says he can hit a penny with a gun; giants ask him to shoot the dog that guards the castle princesses; S. shot the dog, ordered him to be thrown into the castle - he will help them enter themselves; there is a heavy sword in the castle; S. drank the contents of three bottles, was able to cut it with this sword; S. gave the giants shovels, they became dig a dig, punch a hole in the basement; S. cuts off everyone's head, cuts off, takes tongues with him; takes a ring, a slipper, half the princess's handkerchief; returned to his brothers and mother; in The centurion said that he killed the giants; the princess asks to postpone the wedding for a year and three days; changed into an innkeeper, feeds and wateres for free, but everyone must tell a story; S. tells his story; at the wedding she shows tongues, a handkerchief, a slipper and a ring; the centurion was quartered]: Erben in Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017:369-378; Slovaks [woman does not know who will take it to the field lunch for her husband, dreams of a son at least the size of a pea; a pea turns into a boy; he brings soup and dumplings to his father, fell into a ditch, the soup spilled, he almost drowned in it, got out of the dumplings, collected they were again, they were in mud; he brought them to his father, said that the dog had spilled soup, that poppy seeds were in the dumplings; the father did not believe it, wanted to beat him, Pea began to control the oxen, work went; the master wanted to buy G. as a gift to his wife, G. whispers to his father to sell, he will return; on the way he made a hole in his master's purse, threw away all the ducats and jumped out himself, brought ducats to his parents; when the soldiers came, he hid in a pot; enriching his parents, he went travel; people carry iron on 12 carts, they can't go uphill; G. suggests removing the mountain if he has as much iron as he can carry; moves the mountain, takes everything; tells the forge to make it out this club; in 24 days, 24 workers forged it; G. sat under the mushroom to fix his shoes, a man wanted to sit on a mushroom, G. stabbed it with an awl; 11 robbers around the fire; G. began to throw bumps into everyone's bowl, when he held it to his mouth; then went out, waved his club, the robbers took him to their place; he stayed to guard their parking lot, the wolf swallowed him, he cut it from the inside, went out; the robbers tell them to steal from a peasant of four oxen; when he came to the barn, made a fuss, the owner did not notice him, almost stepped on him; he threw him into the corner, took the oxen; furious that the robbers continued to laugh at him; they they divided the money and sent G. to wash his giblets to prevent him from giving him his share; by the river he began to beat giblets and shouted: it was not me, but them; the robbers ran away, G. took their money to his parents; but they were just right died; during the funeral he fell into the grave, and the gravedigger refused to pull him out; he got out on his own, buried the gravedigger alive; became a robber again, came to the fire, which has 11 thieves; they argue who make an chieftain; G.: the one whose club thrown up will be the last to fall; G.'s club fell only the next day and went into the ground; he was made an chieftain, the club was hardly pulled out; the rich king has a rooster- watchman; at the same time, the king promises a daughter to the one who would destroy the robbers; G. ordered ten to carry his club, and he sat at the eleventh in his pocket, gradually filling his pocket with stones, so that the robber barely walked; G. threw his club and knocked down the rooster; got inside through the keyhole, opened the passage, cut off the heads of all the robbers who came in as they slipped it, cut it off and took their tongues with them; another man brought heads, the king is ready to give him his daughter; but G. showed his tongues; after the wedding, G. confessed, his skin burst crashly, a beautiful young man appeared; a merry wedding]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 30:161-170; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [a widower marries a neighbor; she makes it a condition that he gets rid of his children, Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving a deck beating against a tree in the wind as if it were cutting wood; they returned home; the next time the father took him away, the children were left in the forest; they were baking wild horseradish, they went to bed with their heads in different directions; bear, wolf they come, are surprised at the outlandish beast, leave; in the morning there is good bread in ash; on sycamore there is a magic shirt, a gun, a saber; I. 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; opens the door, the severed ear the robber grows back, M. takes the robber as her husband; to kill his brother, he pretends to be sick, asks for wolf meat, then bear and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests that M. send his brother to fetch water from a spring between the crushing mountains; at noon they stop, I. took out water; bring flour from the mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. picks up flour, manages to jump out, the doors slam shut, his animals remain inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he is confused, she tied him with horse with his hair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they gouged out I.'s eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; he bought good clothes, changed clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one was young, the other was old; he came to M. and the robber under the guise of a beggar; when they fell asleep, he took his shirt, sword, gun; told him to give him his pipe ; began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, ran, tore the robber; left M. two barrels to cry, one to cry for him, the other for the robber; locked the water in the neighboring kingdom of snakes; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying a snake, cut off snake tongues, the gypsy cut off a piece from each tongue, demanded that the king marry the princess; at home, almost all tears were 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 up again Verey, put I. a pitchfork in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:232-243; Ukrainians (Pokutye) []: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 50-332-336; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, d. Desert, 1927) [An old man and an old woman have two sons. When there was nothing to eat, the old man took them to the forest to feed themselves. The sons got lost, met the hunter, who took them to his place. When the hunter grew old, he decided to send his adopters "for their fate." Hunter: Shoot a goose with one arrow from each corner, I'll bake pies out of a goose, give you a knife, you stick it in a tree at the crossroads, whichever side rusts, that brother dies. After bringing a goose, the brothers went hunting. They caught a hare and he gave them two bunnies instead. After that, a fox was caught, and she gave her two foxes instead. It was the same with the wolf, the bear and the lion. After hunting, they reached the crossroads and stuck a knife in it. The eldest (S.) went to the left, the youngest (M.) to the right, each accompanied by his animals. M. came to the city, where there is mourning, a seven-headed serpent kidnapped girls, and they are going to take the queen to him. M. drank three kegs of wine, beer and vodka and felt strong. M. told the Queen to go to church and pray for his victory. A serpent flew in, M. (=Ivan), with the help of his animals, defeated him, cut off his heads and tongues, wrapped him in the queen's handkerchief, put him in his pocket, and ordered the queen to protect his sleep. She first watched, then wanted to sleep and asked the lion to watch, then the bear, and so it was the turn of the hare, which also fell asleep. Then a courtier came and watched from the palace, cut off M.'s head, and, under threat of death, ordered the Queen to marry him and declare him savior. The Queen has scheduled her wedding in a year. The animals that woke up wanted to tear the hare to pieces, but he volunteered to revive M. and did it with a wonderful "waste". A year later, M. came to the same city to visit the old man who spoke about the reason for the mourning. Now the city was getting ready for the wedding. M. sent a hare to the Queen for vodka, a fox for beer, a bear for a snack, and a lion for food. The bear destroyed three regiments of court soldiers, and the lion destroyed the rest of the soldiers. The king sent a servant to M., M. asked for a royal dress, carriage, horses, and came to the palace, showing his tongues. The courtier was shot, and M. married the Queen. After a while he got bored and wanted to visit S. I returned to the intersection, met a deer there, chased him and drove him until night. He lit a fire and saw a woman screaming at the spruce tree, she refused to go down, afraid of animals. The woman threw off her bars so that M. would hit the animals with them and they became stone. M. did so. Then the woman came down, hit M. herself with a rod, and he became a stone. C. I also got bored and went to look for M. Driving through the intersection, I noticed that one side of the knife was rusted. I came to see his wife M., she mistook him for her husband, he lived with her for 2 days and went to look for his brother. At the crossroads of S. He also chased the deer, drove until night, cut down the fire and saw his grandmother screaming at the spruce tree. She also refused to get off because she was afraid of his animals and offered to hit them with a rod. S. hit the hare with a rod, it became stone, S. noticed many of the same stones and guessed everything. He threatened his grandmother, who was the mother of a seven-headed serpent, that she would shoot her, and she disgraced M. and his animals. Her brothers shot her and brought the corpse to the city on their horses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 133:301-306; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [an old hunter bequeaths a towel and 7 dogs to his son; younger sister Don't wash the towel; if you need to cross the river, wave in the other direction, a bridge will be made; one day my sister sees a line on the other side; he advises you to take a towel without asking and making a bridge; she I did; so that my brother would not notice him, the hell turned into a broom when he entered the house; the dogs rushed to the broom, but my sister persuaded them to recall: there would be nothing to pay for revenge; the next day the brother suspects something was amiss; not can find towels; hell advises you 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 to an iron mill, where they grind in three minutes; brother jumped out, and dogs and animals remained behind the 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 only gnawed through two doors; when your brother went to the bathhouse, the hunt came running, tore the line; the brother gave his sister three tubs of water and three shocks of hay: when you eat the hay, I'll let go; my brother went to town, there the people are crying: the serpent got used to it, today the king's daughter will eat; the hunt rushed, gnawed off the head of the three-headed snake, 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 tubs of water)]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:86-90; 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 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 her apart, burn her body]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 114:290-300; Russians (Vologda) [the tsar has a beautiful daughter; he put her in a tower so as not to be stolen; she asked 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 on a journey; at the fork there is an inscription: to the right - you'll break your head, to the left - drink, take a walk, have fun; I. went right, F. to the left; they swapped rings, if the ring turned black - trouble; there was a bowl left on the growth, if there was blood in it, one of them died; I. Tsarevich came to the shack; old woman: every night the girl is brought to be eaten by a sea monster, the boyar, princely and royal daughters are left; I. tells the old woman to wake him up in the evening, let the horse go, if he will begin to worry; they brought a boyar's daughter; "who sings, who plays, who roars"; at midnight, a sea monster rides on horseback about 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 the drunk, the 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; Kuzmina 2008, No. 36 [the poor brother has two sons 7 and 8 years old, and the rich man is childless; the poor shot an unusual bird; the rich offered to buy it, the poor gave it so; 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 replaced him with cockles; the rich man did not find gold under his pillow in the morning, 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 lived with him until the age of 18; then left; did not kill a hare, a fox, a she-wolf, a bear, a lioness; 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: the 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 sleeping man's head, made the princess say that he was the savior; the hare ran away for a reviving root, the animals revived the owner; he sent a letter to the princess with the hares; came to the wedding feast, showed the necklace princesses and snake tongues; the deceiver groom was shot; once 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 were petrified; the younger brother sees that the elder's dagger has rusted; follows in his footsteps; realizing that he is mistaken for his older brother, refuses to lie down with the princess, citing fatigue; he did not take the rod, forced the old woman to revive the petrified ones, then the animals tore her apart; when he learned that the princess had the youngest, 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 by the necklace who her husband was; I was there I was, I drank honey beer, but it didn't get into my mouth]: 79-86; 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 join 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; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, Staroselskaya vol., Mstislavsky district, from a local peasant) [Two royal sons they go in search of brides, after 7 years the tsar has a third son Ivan, grows up quickly, plans to marry; his grandmother advises Ivan to buy the horse he needs from whom, the tsar father refuses to buy a horse with the first time for 100 rubles, buys from the third for 300; the horse speaks in a human voice and takes Ivan by air, flies up to a house with a high fence, a pole with a ring, an inscription on the pole: who He will jump over the fence, can marry Nastasa Prikrasya; Ivan jumps over, meets his grandmother, says that he has come for Nastasya, eats, drinks, takes her horse, leaves; as well as 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 up Nastasya's keys; Ivan finds Nastasya (she sleeps) the second time, commits a sin with her, a horse finds out, sends Ivan to the river three times to wash, the horse hits the fence with his hoof, Nastasya wakes up, sends a chase; on the horse's advice, 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 his horse; chasing again, the horse gives the same advice with the inscription on the oak tree, the story of the oak repeats itself; Ivan changes horses again, leaves, to the third once repeats the story with the inscription on an oak tree; the third old woman Ivan drinks, eats, picks up his horse, flies away on horseback, Nastasya promises to come to him in a year with her child; Ivan goes to bed by the stone, goes brothers, one wants to kill Ivan, the other wants to send him under a stone to the next world, the brothers raise a stone, Ivan has been thrown off, gifts have been taken away, the horse is not given to his brothers; Ivan wakes up, walks, finds a home, asks for a drink, there is no water, a 12-headed serpent must eat the royal daughter and close 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 on his knees, a serpent appears from the sea, the princess cries, a tear wakes Ivan up; the serpent asks whether Ivan has come to fight or reconcile; opponents fight, 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 escaped, makes her imagine him as a savior, the king plays a wedding; Ivan goes to the wedding, on the way finds a violin, plays at a 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 her tongues, a gypsy they tie him to a horse's tail and open it; the tsar offers Ivan to marry his daughter, he refuses ("huo friend"); asks to be brought to this world, the princess explains how to get to this world her father's three-legged goat, the goat carries Ivan, comes back; the horse takes Ivan home by air; Nastasya is already standing in the yard 50 versts from his father's yard; Ivan returns without gifts, he is locked in dungeon; Nastasya writes a letter inviting Ivan, his elder brother goes, the heroes beat him and bring him back, the same with his middle brother; for the third letter, the tsar releases Ivan, he meets Nastasya, they live in this palace]: Romanov 1901, No. 40:370-378.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. 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 they revived him; A. ordered his sister to be hanged; everything is fine]: Malkonduev 2017:478-484.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (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 youngest son came, he defeated the diva, He threw him into the hole himself; told his mother not to pour water into it 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 came to life; to pull him out, you need a horse- wind; 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 from him; the diva left him on the road, the young man found him, picked him up; he grew up quickly; the young man I saw him alive, they fought 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 a 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, gave it to the drunkard; a young man 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 a young man; the wife says that her friend Makhtob (moonlight) and she swore to marry the brothers; the young man went to look for her; she is the daughter of the strongman Korunbay; he defeated the young man and threw him into prison; the younger brother saw pus dripping from the sword left by the elder; went in search; his mistaken for the elder, but he refused to lie down with the padishah's daughter; killed K., married M.; the brothers met, the youngest tells the elder to shoot his finger: he pushed the elder's wife away with them, so the finger is sinful; both brothers are happy with their wives]: Amonov 1961:68-79; Pashtuns [the elder brother is a tribal leader, he has 7 sons; the youngest is childless; then the wives of both conceived; the elder suggests marrying children if they are will be 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 led 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. defeated 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, carved 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 to bed with a sword; took a paper from the Shah promising not 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. Latvians: Grishina 1993 [a childless fisherman caught two fish, they turned into boys; they grew up to become hunters; animals ask not to shoot them; now every brother has a dog, a roe deer, wolf, hare; brothers disperse, each stuck a knife in the oak tree, if it rust, let the other help out; the first came to the old woman, she turned him and his animals into stones; the second brother forged a sword, came to the king, whose wife, dying, refused three daughters to hell; the coachman brings the eldest three-headed line; the second brother cut off the heads, cut out his tongues; the coachman told the queen to say that he was the savior; the same with the middle one (6- headdevil) and the youngest (9-headed) queens, the youngest gives a ring; the second brother dressed up as a beggar, came to the youngest's wedding with the coachman, threw a ring into the cup, showed his tongues, and the coachman was torn with horses; Seeing a rusty knife, the second brother found an old woman, forced her to revive the petrified, the animals tore her apart; the first brother came to the gate in the iron mountain, killed two devils, the mountain became a palace, the calf became beautiful, the young man married her]: 197-207; Niedra 1952 [the poor fisherman is childless; he threw a net to pull Lyma's catch, caught the fish; she tells me to collect its scales, put it in his pocket, the scales will turn into money; wife believes that her husband robbed someone, threatens to bring it to the king; when he learns about the fish, he tells him to bring it; the fisherman caught it again, she orders to cut it into 5 pieces, let his wife, mare, dog, cat eat it, the fifth piece put under the floor in the stable; everyone gave birth to doubles, boys, foals, puppies, kittens have golden hair (wool); the king asked to give one boy to him; his own son is jealous - the father loves the adopter was larger; 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; found a saddle and a bridle under the floor of the stable; in a foreign city mourning: the princess is given to the 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 say that he is the savior, the king, promises to give him daughter; the princess asks for a year of respite; a year later the young man returned, the princess recognized him, he showed his tongues, the wedding; the deceiver was executed]: 110-115; Lutsie (Western 1893) [the king hears a voice: cut a stone; he hit a stone with a sword, from there came the king of stones (kivikuningas, KK); the king of men lured him into a trap, enclosed him in a fortress; the prince had a pipe, KK reached out and took it away; I'll give it back if you steal it from his mother the key and you will open the constipation; if it is difficult for you, think of me: I will show up and help; if your mother is brought to hang, take the blame; the king has just called the other kings to see the miracle, but the room is empty; the king was going to hang his wife, the son said that he had released the KK; the king wanted to kill and eat him, but the audience only asked to send the prince into exile; they also gave a letter and a soldier; he let the prince down the well took out water; refused to pull it out until he promised 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; his eldest daughter gave him a whetstone to feed and drink; KK himself gave a gray horse; the princess took the whetstone; next time the middle daughter of KK gave an all-seeing mirror; KK himself called the 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 me an accordion, at the sound of which everyone begins to dance; KK himself gave a third horse; princess took away the accordion; the elder 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; cut out his tongues, hid under a rock; the same with two other princesses; a soldier, a water carrier, a cook attribute victory to themselves; the younger princess sees her handkerchief, with which she tied the hand of a wounded savior, on the arm of a sleeping servant prince; a soldier, a water truck and a cook don't know where the languages are and can't pick them up; the prince married a younger princess]: Annom et al. 2018:143-156; the Veps [the rich brother did gold things and the poor brother did brooms; the poor saw a bird in the forest, threw an ax, killed it, sold it to the rich man; he saw that the bird on its right wing said "Who eats will be strong", and under the left wing, "Whoever eats, has under his pillow in the morning gold coin"; 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, coins did not appear; and the poor became rich; the rich demands that he kill his children - they are devils; parents left their children in the forest; one goes to get game; the bear asks her not to kill, gave two cubs; the same is a hare; brothers at the fork parted, leaving a glass of water; if the water deteriorates, one of the brothers feels bad; the younger brother came to the city; there the serpent ate all the girls, the king's daughter's turn; the young man sees the stove: "Whoever picks it up, he 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 guy burned a snake, and hid his tongues ; the princess gave a gold ring and a handkerchief, also tied handkerchiefs to the beasts; the boy and his beasts fell asleep; the royal servant cut off the sleeping man's head, told the princess to say that he had defeated the dragon; beasts woke up, the hare brought alive and dead water, revived the owner; at first they put their heads wrong; they redesigned them; they all came to the royal daughter's wedding; the bride recognized the animals by the ribbon; the king asks where did the ring come from, the guy showed his tongues; the servant was beheaded, the boy married the princess; went hunting; the magician turned him and the animals into stones; the brother saw that the water was cloudy; 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, didn't get into his mouth]: Onegin, Zaitsev 1996, No. 18:94-100; Estonians: Järv et al. 2015 (Virumaa, Lü ; ganuse 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 turn of the royal daughter 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 and tongues cut it off, hid it 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 heads, demanded the princess to 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 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, a deceiver thrown into a well]: 204-213; Norwegians [a young man with three dogs kills a monster (sea troll, ogre, dragon) to whom the king must give his daughter; the deceiver (Red Knight) argues 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 as true hero and deceiver punished]: Hodne 1984, No. 300:57-59; Danes [one of the two princes does not understand what fear means; the king agreed to send him to find out; swimming across a river or strait, prince lost his horse; the poor couple said that there was a castle nearby, where two giants come for the night; their two sisters live in the castle; they hid the young man in the cellar for the night; their brothers exterminate enemies all day long , and in the morning the same number; the sisters had to confess that the giants greeted the prince; the next day he went with them and saw them kill 100 warriors who came to them; remained on guard; at midnight An old woman got 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 should seek fear; he came to the king, who had left the castle, for it was in it a ghost; he allowed them to spend the night in the castle, giving two criminals; if they survived, he would have mercy on them; waiting for midnight, the prince sent the criminals to buy firewood, they did not return; he heard from the chimney scream "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 taken, the deceased will calm down and leave the castle; unrighteous money should be given to the poor; prince found criminals dead with wood in his hands, revived with ointment; 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; Coachman Soren 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 Søren was taken 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 stole his princess; this is where he got scared for the first time, which means he achieved his goal; returned to the kingdom that his father-in-law gave him]: Bødker 1964, No. 30:195-213; Danes [mother wants get rid of his naughty absurd son; he takes his three dogs as a share in the farm, leaves; hired a shepherd; he warns him not to herd cattle in the troll's meadows; he herds, goes out a three-headed troll, each of the dogs rips off the head; on the land of the troll, 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 must give 10 pigs a year 9 -head 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 wears black, the third time he wears red clothes {in the first time is obviously in white}; the princess tied a chain around the neck of each dog; the guy is leaving for 10 years, the coal burn tells the princess to say that he defeated the dragon; 10 years later, the guy showed up when the wedding is being prepared; the princess recognizes her dog chains; the king sends the guy a beautiful outfit, but he rejects it, is in gold taken from the troll; shows his tongues; coal burn executed]: Holbek 1987:500-502.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [the poor brother saw a golden bird in the forest; brought the rich, who was a jeweler, first a feather, then eggs, then the bird itself; the rich man guessed that he had eaten his heart and liver he would find gold under his pillow in the morning, told his wife to cook it; at this time, the poor brother's two sons came in, ate their heart and liver; their aunt told them to remain silent, changed their hearts and liver to a rooster; rich I understood what was going on when the poor man brought him gold, ordered his sons to be taken to the forest; they were sheltered by a hunter, took gold, but raised them; ordered them to leave a knife at the crossroads - whose side would rust, so trouble; hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear, a lion are told not to kill them, each gives two cubs; the brothers separate, each took one of the cubs; the youngest comes to the city, where the 7-headed ajdaha gets a girl every year , it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man enters the house, where he drinks strong water and takes a heavy sword; the animals helped kill Azhdakha; the princess gives her handkerchief; the young man and the animals fell asleep, the vizier cut off the young man's head, said Padishah, that he killed Azhdaha; the hare brought a healing root, revived the young man; he sends a hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion to bring bread, meat, berries, belyashi, sorbet from the padishah's table; seeing them, the princess realizes that the groom is alive; the padishah orders to bring the owner of the animals, he shows the snake tongues cut off by him; the vizier was torn by horses, the young man received a princess; once he chased a white one a beast; an old woman asks to hit the animals with a twig, they turned into stone, she hit the young man herself; the elder brother sees rust, comes to the youngest's wife, who first takes him for her husband; he finds Ubyr shot her with a silver bullet, ordered her brother and his animals to be revived, then throws her into the fire; the younger brother is angry at the elder for coming to his wife; offers to enter the city from both sides, Whoever the princess recognizes will be her husband; she will recognize her husband by her ring, which is around her lion's neck; after the death of the padishah, the brothers ruled together]: Yarmukhametov 1957:106-122.

Southern Siberia. Khakasy [an old woman lives by the Nizhny Parachap River; dug a grave for herself, prepared meat, told her eight-year-old son to bury her and leave as soon as she died; the boy walked for a long time, fell from hunger; the hunter Atykji-Ool saved him; two demons, husband and wife, stole them, but AO killed them, returned the boy; raised him with his wife, called Atygci-Parachap, riding a Dark Nest Horse (AP); the messenger of Khazir Khan demands so that the AP also comes to compete: whoever shot the fiery black fox and the fiery red fox will get the khan's daughter and become khan instead of him; the main contender is the Khan's Saizang (hero); AP killed the fox, refreshed; in a hurry , left one red fox claw on the carcass, cut it off, hid it; he also hid the severed tip of the tail; put the skins under the saddle, but the tail was visible; Sizang noticed knocked down the AP, tortured him, made him swear that he would confirm that the fox killed Saizang; two brothers were driving by and saw everything, but did not dare to shoot the sizang (if they miss, he would kill them); Saizang's wedding to Khan's daughter, the wife of the eldest of those brothers became drunk and began singing about who actually killed the fox; Saizang, to whom the khan had already transferred powers, ordered both brothers with wives and AP throw him into prison and decapitate him the next day; AP's father brought his men, they grabbed Sizang, who could not show his claw and tail, they were with AP; AP married Khan's daughter and became Khan, and Saizanga decapitated]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 31:467-503; Altaians [Childless old man Kogutey finds a beaver, adopts; Bobrenok asks K. to marry him to Temene-Ko, the youngest daughter Karaty-Kan a; the six eldest are already married; KK orders K. to be cut in half, send the corpse home on a bull; Bobrenok revives him; next time K. is burned, ash is sent home; Bobrenok revives K. healing water, gives strength; he throws six son-in-law over the mountains, KK agrees to give TC for Bobrenk; he easily gives a rich ransom for the bride, pulling property on the mountain from under the birch tree; KK calls for the wedding is only poor and crippled; 1) six sons-in-law return without prey, Bobrenok catches six marals on foot, leaves them to his sons-in-law; they give him giblets; he turns giblets into a select dish, meat makes it inedible; 2) next time the sons-in-law give Bobrenka meat, take giblets, but the meat is tasty, and the giblets are inedible; 3) KK tells you to catch a mare; The beaver catches, gives it to his son-in-law, they cut it off for it and give him their little fingers; 4) bring foals kidnapped by the Kan-Kerede bird; Bobrenok sheds his beaver skin, tells his wife to hide, turns into a hero Kuskun-Kara-Matyr; his father is mountain, mother is the sea; he catches a heroic black stallion; his sons-in-law does not recognize him; he promises to bring them kidnapped foals, for which they cut off and give him their thumbs; cash registers comes to heaven, there is a Kan-Kerede nest on a silver poplar; its chicks are eaten every year by a seven-headed snake; one chick cries (it will be eaten today), the other laughs; the snake comes out of the sea, the cash register cuts it off heads with an arrow; the elder chick stretched out its wing, the cash register crossed it across the sea into the nest; the chicks reply that their parents will arrive with rain (tears) and wind (flapping wings), hide the cash register under their wings; birds foals give the cash register; six sons-in-law prepared a trap pit, the cash register fell, ran into a stake; his horse was hung from a pole; Kan-Kerede revived the cash register with healing water; the CSA reproaches his wife for showing her sister-in-law beaverskin, it is burnt; the wife explains that she was drunk; the CCA burns her skin, curses the KK, his people and land, goes to her father, turns him into many boys and girls, creates cattle, leaves; TC goes looking for him; she is met by the daughter of Solntsa-Kana and the daughter of the Month Kana, they are the wives of the CSA; KKM brings another wife, a chick (i.e. daughter) Kan-Kerede; she is married to all four]: Yutkanakov, Tokmashov 1935:41-171.