K38f5. A fiery creature .14.15.28.30.33.34.45.
Acreature made up of fire is mentioned.
Tunisia, Germans (Hessen), Czechs, Russians (Vologda), Pahlavi tradition, Kyrgyz, Trans-Baikal Buryats, Seneca.
North Africa. Tunisia [Once upon a time there was a great king. He was a wise and fair ruler, but he had cunning viziers and a fortuneteller. They lied to him and robbed the people. One day, the king had a dream in which he saw seven of his sons uprooting roots from thorny trees and an angel hovering above them in the sky, as if watching and blessing them. The king asked the fortuneteller to explain to him the meaning of this dream. The predictor realized that this dream threatened him and the viziers with exposure, and together they decided to deceive the king. They said that this dream foreshadows that the queen is pregnant and will give birth to a daughter, and his sons will want to seize the throne, and if he wants to keep it, he must sacrifice his sons. Then the king waited for the baby to be born And on the day when the queen gave birth to a girl, the sons ran away from the kingdom, fearing their father. When Vadaa ("leave"; "b.meek, humble") grew up, her mother told her a story about her brothers that she was to blame for their escape, so she decided to find her brothers and bring them back. She got on her horse and set off. She met an old man on her way. She felt sorry for him, gave him money and food, then he told her that he was the brother of an evil fortuneteller and revealed to her the whole truth that her father's dream foreshadowed the death of the viziers and fortuneteller at the hands of her brothers, and she there is the same angel my father saw in a dream. The old man told her that in order to find her brothers, she had to kill the seven-headed dragon, cross the river where the fire serpent lives, and go through the magic forest without saying anything words and without turning back, don't be afraid of an old witch, catch a three-legged gazelle and pull out her heart, get the magic apple guarded by a lion, and sew 7 clothes from prickly plants to put them on your brothers. Then he gave her a magic mirror to see her brothers, a magic ring to protect her from trouble, a sharp sword, poison, three apples, a shiny spear, and wished her good luck. She killed a dragon with her sword, distracted a fiery serpent with apples, went through a magical forest, did not succumb to the witch's magic tricks, caught and killed a three-legged gazelle with a spear, and put her heart in her bag, she poisoned the lion with poison and took out a magic apple. All she had to do was find thorny plants, but she couldn't find them, so cancer came to her and advised her to look for them among the graves. She found and woven them into clothes for her seven brothers. After that, the magic mirror jumped out of her hands and ran, she chased after him and found her brothers' home. The next day, she put on her brothers' clothes, put a magic mirror on the floor, and they found themselves in their home country with a good fortuneteller who was waiting for them. Then Vadaa gave him her bag and magic mirror, and they all went to the palace together. The king ordered the traitor viziers to be hanged together with the evil fortuneteller, returned everything they had taken from them to the people, and held a feast for the whole world, and finally came the age of justice and universal prosperity] : Al-Aribi 2009, No. 37 in Korovkina MS
Western Europe. Germans (Hessen) [a fire dragon can often be seen rushing over the forest and field; when flying over the city, he sometimes hides in someone's chimney; this dragon is the devil himself]: Lyncker 1854, No. 25:20.
Central Europe. The Czechs [when leaving, the king and queen tell Janko's son to look after his three sisters; Sun, Wind, Month come successively, ask sister Y. to marry, all three agree, leave home; the king is pleased that his daughters have married kings; I go to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that everyone was defeated by the beautiful hero Ulyana; the same is in another field; I. enters the castle, changes her sword to one that hangs on the wall and jumps; W. wins, who offers to live with her; when she leaves, gives keys, forbids entering room 13; I discovered, there is a fire dragon chained to the wall with three hoops; says he is thirsty and asks for wine from the last barrel; after each jug he drinks, one hoop falls down; the dragon gives Y. life and takes W.; I. comes to The sun, which does not know where W., refers to the Month; the Month to the Wind; he replies that the dragon makes W. wash clothes for steep boiling water; he, the Wind, tries to cool the boiling water; I. takes W.; the winged horse The dragon raises the alarm, but says that there is nowhere to hurry - we will catch up; the dragon took W. and spared I., since he gave him one life; the wind reports that the witch has a dragon horse's brother overseas, who faster than him; the Sun, the Month and the Wind give Y. a peg (gold, silver, wooden) to call them for help; the wind drove me to the witch, who offers to herd three horses - her horse daughters turned around they flew away with pigeons, but the Wind drove them back and ordered them to put on their bridles; the next day they turned into ducks, the Month put a handkerchief into the lake, it dried up, I put on bridles again; on the third day, the horses turned into pine trees, the Sun began to burn them, they had to become horses again; the Sun tells them to ask for a miserable oath as a reward; the witch tells them to milk the mares; the horse: call me before swimming in milk; the milk began to boil, but the skate drew in the heat, I became even more beautiful; the witch also decided to be beautiful, but the horse released the heat and it cooked; I washed the skate, it became mighty, winged; I took W. the dragon follows, the horse Y. tells his brother to throw off the dragon, the dragon fell into the abyss; I brought my wife to my parents and received the throne from my father]: Nemtsova 1978:119-132; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kirillovsky U.) [the mouse and sparrow shared the seeds, the sparrow pecked the last one, the mouse complained to the fiery serpent, the eagle interceded for the sparrow, the serpent scorched his wings; Vasily the Sagittarius pointed at him three times gun; the eagle asks to feed him for a year, tries to fly, asks him to ride for a year, then another; after that, the eagle flew with him; throws him over the sea three times and picks him up again; stops with three sisters in copper, silver, golden kingdoms; only the older sister agrees to give the box; the eagle tells me not to open it on the way home; the ships landed on the island, V. opened the box, the city appeared; the old man put it back for promising to give what V. does not know at home; let him send him a son in 20 years, he is a seven-humped demon; when Ivan is 20, he went to the demon; A hut, a hut, backwards to the forest, to me! there is Baba Yaga, that demon is her brother; she gave a ball, he would reach her older sister; there too "the hut turned like chicken legs", "backwards to the forest, in front of me"; "The old woman lies her head on the bench, her legs in pipe"; gave a cane when she stuck and did not pull it out, you go there; 12 swans flew to the sea, one of them at a distance from the others; I. hid "to look to his knees (to the navel)"; stole her clothes; "If from the young, let him be a husband"; "What manners did you get here, Ivan Tsarevich!" ; "My owner has 38 heads, and all have to hang 40 heads - two stakes are empty. And all of us, shouldn't we be here together?" Demon quests. Make a pole from ground to heaven so that the cat can work, go up - tell 12 fairy tales, and down - sing 12 songs well"; I.'s wife performed everything by morning; the demon tells us to identify Maria Tsarevna among the 12 girls; M.: I will have a fly on my right eyebrow; then: dig a ditch overnight and let a steamer go through it; performed; identify M. among 12 swans; "The right wing has a longer wing" {incomprehensible}; out of 12 foals (one tail hair is longer); cut down the forest, plow the field, etc., by morning for the cake to be ready; M. leave saliva responsible for themselves, runs with I.; M. is the chapel, I. is the elder; the well and the ladle; the swamp and the kite; the unclean spirit began to drink the swamp; M. turned herself and I. into a ring, threw it, her sister had it; she threw it on the floor, the ring crumbled with beads, I. and M. appeared; they came to his parents ; wedding]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 34:133-148.
Iran - Central Asia. The Pahlevi tradition [In Pahlavi cosmogony, Gōčihr (Gocihr) is described as "like a snake with a head in the constellation of twins (dō-pahikar) and a tail in the constellation Centaur (N&#) 275; masp), so there are six constellations between the head and tail. It runs retrograde, so that every ten years the head and tail have changed place. It is said that it is in the middle of the sky, which may mean pointing to the circumpolar region and, accordingly, evoking an analogy with the Dragon constellation, which orbits around the Pole of the World (cf. MacKenzie, "Zoroastrian Astrology," pp. 515f. with notes). Olamā-e eslām states that Gochihra's sky is below the moon sky (Zaehner, Zurvan, p. 417; cf. Persian Rivayat, p. 429 bottom; see also Škand-Gumānīg wizā ; r, ed. Menasce, pp. 47, 55, 60). At the end of time, Gocihr will fall to the ground, terrifying it like a wolf terrifying sheep; its fire and radiance (halo) will melt the metal of Šahrewar in the hills and mountains, creating a river molten metal needed to purify people. (Gochihr is probably the only fire dragon in ancient Iran). After all, after Ohrmazd himself descends to earth to throw Āz and Ahriman into the darkness from where they came from, the serpent Gocihr Gōčihr burns in molten metal, the filth of Hell burns and Hell becomes pure (Bundahišn TD1, pp. 193.11-16, 195.17-196.2; TD2, pp. 225.3-8, 227.12-15; tr. Anklesaria. pp. 288-91; tr. West, pp. 125f., 129)]: Skjaervø 2011.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [boy asks old man Aryk-Mergen to tell us what was good and bad in his life; AM: shot the tail of a fire serpent; the serpent mountain opened and offered to dial gold; the fire serpent was her enemy; this is good; one day AM spent the night, began to cook meat on the fire; an ogre came up with steel claws and one eye in her forehead; AM wanted to shoot her, she disappeared; on at night he climbed a tree, and covered the block with his blanket; the cannibal heated her hands in the fire and plunged her into the block, her claws were stuck; AM shot, the cannibal broke the block, ran away; in the morning AM went on the bloody on the trail, found her dead by the cave; she had two children in the cave; AM killed them, but noticed the bride's hat lying in the corner and took it for his sister; warned his sister that cannibals would look for him, let her hold him a weapon was ready; one night a cannibal came into the yurt, began to heat her hands in the fire; sister AM cut off her head with an ax; it turned out that the old woman had killed all the people in the village; AM went in search of her husband the old woman was the last cannibal; MA and her companion drove up to the cave of a one-eyed old man, into which he drove either sheep or goats; the old man invited him to his place; the companion agreed to slaughter the old man his first; he slaughtered him old, began to cook and fell asleep; AM stabbed iron scrap and plunged the old man into the eye; in the morning the old man began to release sheep, groping them from above; AM stabbed one, put on his skin, went out; called out to the old man; he asked him to kill and pick up the sheep, otherwise they would turn into insects in three days; AM killed the old man, came back a month later, found no sheep]: Muchman 1944:5-9.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. ; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 5 (Khorinsky) [the wolf ate the orphan's horse; he goes looking for him; old man: when you defeat Shono Khan ("shono" is the wolf), ask for the red dog and the blue chest; he he did so; returns to the yurt - the corner of the chest is burned, one leg of the dog is broken; the next day - the second corner, the second leg; on the fourth - four; he beats the dog; wakes up in the palace in the morning (appeared from the chest), next to a beautiful woman (that dog); S. calls to have a wedding; the wife warns not to step on the carpet (there is a hole under it), not to sit on the bed, eat nothing; the orphan touched the food with his finger, died; 25- Hongil Shara Shebshehei's head put it in a coffin, threw it into the sea; mangadhayu's wife: if you catch the coffin, put it on the shore; the coffin is found by three daughters of the khan, inside the baby grows rapidly; every day the khan's mare gets killed by a golden foal, he disappears; the khan asks the grooms of his daughters to guard; they fall asleep, the foundling shoots into the cloud that has descended, the bird's feather falls to the ground; the foundling gives it to the grooms, for this cuts off everyone's ear; the khan sends for the bird; the foundling sees the nest, one chick laughs, the other sings the third cries; while Han Garaudy's father and mother are flying, the chicks are eaten by a fire serpent ( the crying person will be eaten today, singing tomorrow, laughing the day after tomorrow); they deliberately steal golden foals in the hope that the strongest of people will go looking for them; the foundling kills the snake with an arrow, Khan Garaudy gives them 9 foals; the foundling gives them to the grooms, for which he cuts the belts from their backs; they throw it into a hole; the horse digs it up, revives the foundling with his tear; he comes to the khan, shows his belts; the khan hangs it suitors alive for females to feed crows; the foundling smashes Sh.'s army, crushed him himself, clamped him in a crevice for food with insects; he fought with Hongil Shara Shebshehei for 4 months, the son of the foundling grew up, came to the rescue father, SHSH's body burned], 9 (informant unknown) [parents want to get rid of Tyshae Bishe, they send him for a black bull; this is a bear, TB brings him, leaves him in the barn, he picked up all the cows; they send him bring a cauldron supposedly given to the forest owner; TB brings the cauldron and the bound owner; lets go, leaves; meets, companions a rock-raising person, raising mountains, stepping across the sea (he catches beard fish); everyone first replies that he is not strong, but TB is powerful; they take turns cooking, the bearded dwarf hits the cook, eats everything; TB hits him himself, pinches his beard, he cuts off his beard, leaves; friends come to the crevice, TB descends on a rope; there is a beauty in the copper hut, the other in silver, the third in gold; TB tells the beauty from gold to find out what life is like in a mangadhai; in the horns of a ram; TB breaks the horns, crushes the wasps in them, except two; the beauty changed barrels of strong and weak water; TB kills the mangadhai, sends the women upstairs; when she gets up, the companions throw it; he falls, breaks his leg; sees how the speakers broke the leg of an ermine, he ate the root, recovered; TB also ate, recovered; Khan Garudi's chicks by the sea, alone crying (a serpent coming out of the sea will eat it today), another sings (eats tomorrow), another laughs (the day after tomorrow); a serpent tells its chicks to fly into his mouth; TB kills a snake with a stone; Khan Garudi arrives, hides TB from poison; brings them to the ground; eats and drinks while in flight harvested, cuts off the last piece of TB from its leg, the bird regurgitates a piece, puts it back; TB kills satellites, lives with three wives]: 93-109, 147-167.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Trans-Baikal Buryats (Khorin) [the wolf ate the orphan's horse; he goes looking for him; old man: when you defeat Shono Khan ("shono" is the wolf), ask for the red dog and the blue chest; he did so; returns to the yurt - the corner of the chest is burnt, one leg of the dog is broken; the next day - the second corner, the second leg; the fourth - four; he hits the dog; wakes up in the palace in the morning (came from the chest), there is a beautiful (that dog) nearby; S. calls for a wedding; the wife warns not to step on the carpet (there is a hole under it), not to sit on the bed, eat nothing; the orphan touched the food with his finger, died; 25-headed Khongil Shara Shebshehei put it in a coffin, threw it into the sea; mangadhayu wife: if you catch the coffin, put it on the shore; the coffin is found by the khan's three daughters, inside the baby grows rapidly; every day the khan's mare gets screwed as a golden foal, he disappears; the khan asks the grooms of his daughters to guard; they fall asleep, the foundling shoots into the cloud that has descended, the bird's feather falls to the ground; the foundling gives it to the grooms, for which he cuts off everyone ear; khan sends for the bird; the foundling sees the nest, one chick laughs, the other sings the third cries; while Han Garaudy's father and mother are flying, the chicks are eaten by a fire serpent (the crying person will be eaten by a fiery serpent) today, singing tomorrow, laughing the day after tomorrow); they deliberately steal gold foals in the hope that the strongest man will go looking for them; a foundling kills a snake with an arrow, Han Garaudy gives 9 foals; the foundling gives them to the grooms, for which he cuts the belts from their backs; they throw it into a hole; the horse digs it up, revives the foundling with his tear; he comes to the khan, shows his belts; the khan hangs the grooms alive for a branch to feed crows; the foundling smashes Sh.'s army, crushed him himself, clamped him in a crevice for food with insects; for 4 months he fought with Hongil Shara Shebshehei, the son of the foundling grew up, came to the rescue of his father, the body of the SHSH burned]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 5:93-109.
Northeast. Seneca [in heaven, the leader thinks his wife is pregnant with the Blue Puma or the Fire Dragon (=Meteor); pulls out the Tree of Light, throws his wife into the hole that has formed, follows characters who turn into cultivated plants and animals on the ground; birds catch a falling woman; everyone dives to get the ground from the bottom; the Muskrat brings the earth in the mouth; the Turtle puts her back; a woman throws the ground around, the earth grows; a woman gives birth to a daughter; a stranger hangs two arrows over the girl, one of them with a flinttip; a girl gives birth to twins; one of which the mother kills when she comes into the world through her armpit]: Cornplanter 1938, No. 1-2:19-26.