K39. Simurg Poultry Feeding, B322.1.

.14.-.17. (.24.) .26.-.36.40.41. (.46.65.72.)

The character must feed a powerful creature by regularly throwing pieces of meat at him. The harvest is not enough; he cuts off the last piece from his own flesh. See motif K38 (the bird carries the hero where he needs to go; on the way, he throws pieces of harvested meat into its beak; supplies are scarce, it gives the bird a cut off piece of its own flesh).

Berbers of Morocco, Arabs of Algeria, Tunisia, Portuguese, Maltese, Sicilians, Corsicans, Italians, Ladins, French, Walloons, Germans (Pomerania, Hanover), Scots, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia (fox, ngaju), Koreans, Hungarians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Greeks, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Bosnians, Albanians, Russians (Terek coast, Arkhangelskaya, Zaonezhye, Pskov, Vologda, Moscow, Tambov, Kursk), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Eastern Slovakia, Hutsulshchina), Belarusians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Stavropol Turkmens, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Kabardian people, Karachays, Balkarians, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Ingush, Nogais, Lezgins, Udins, Nogais, Avars, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Kurds, Turks, Azerbaijanis, Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Vakhans, Sarykols, Ishkashim, Bartangans, Turkmens, (Norwegians), Veps, Estonians, Setu, Lutsi, Latvians, Finns, Karelians, Komi, Udmurts, Chuvash, Mari, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Salars, Chulym Turks, (Tuvans), Buryats, Mongols, Dagurs, Southern Khanty, Nganasans, Northern (?) Selkups, Ingarigd Evenks of Katanga District, Baikal Evenks, Asian Eskimos (Naukan), Hea, (Quechua District Cusco, Mokovi).

North Africa. The Berbers of southern Morocco [the poor firewood seller has two sons; he caught a beautiful bird in the forest and brought it home; his wife did not let its children play, but hid it; every day a bird lays an egg, every Jew buys for a hundred mitkals; the husband went on a pilgrimage, and the Jew became his wife's lover; asked to slaughter and cook poultry; returning in the absence of their mother, the boys opened the lid of the cauldron, the youngest Hammed ate his head, and the elder Muhammed ate the heart of a bird; unable to find her head and heart, the Jew tells the woman to slaughter the children and take out the contents of their stomachs; she tells the maid to do so; she let the children go, brought the head and heart of a dead bird; Jew: that's not it; the woman drove the maid away and married the Jew; M. went to the right from the fork, came to the locked gates of the city; the king died there, the residents will choose a new one king is the one who comes first to the gate in the morning; M. became king; H. went to the left, hired a bagel baker; brought happiness to the house; he has a magic ring; if you turn it, a palace appears; the youngest of seven The king's daughters saw this, asked the father to marry them; the king called all the men, gave each of the daughters an apple to throw at the chosen one; everyone was abandoned, the youngest is waiting; when they brought the lousy baker's worker, she threw an apple at him; the king fell ill; the vizier: let the sons-in-law bring lion's milk in lion's clothing, the lion carry it, and the other go ahead; the lousy man turned the ring, told the servant to give him white horse, weapon, etc.; promises other sons-in-law to get what they need in exchange for apples received from princesses; brought slaughtered bulls to the king of lions, he gave what he needed; vizier: you need another medicine - water taken between rocks that open once a year; same (red horse; H. requires sons-in-law to cut off their earlobes); H. managed to get water, the rocks only cut off the horse's tail; third cure: an apple from the Rhalia garden Bint Manssor, who lives across seven seas; a black horse; cut off the phalanges of his little fingers; a servant from the ring: only an elderly spirit, who has almost lost his feathers, will take there; he asks to take 7 blood vessels on the road and 7 pieces of meat; when flying, asks which X. sees the earth; he answers (less and less); the seventh piece slipped out of his hands, H. cut off the flesh from his hand; when he reaches, the spirit teaches how to go through three the gate to the sleeping RBM; H. took an apple, left a note that he was here; King H. says that he got everything, tells his sons-in-law to show apples; the king executed 6 sons-in-law, arranged the wedding of H. with his youngest daughter; father The brothers returned, but his wife, who became the wife of a Jew, refused to recognize him; he asked King Sidi Mohammed (i.e. his son) to judge them; he called Brother Hammed, each told everything; mother and Jew burned]: Stumme 1895, No. 15:119-131; Algerian Arabs: Aceval 2005, No. 3 (Tiaret Plateau) [the Sultan's six daughters married noble men, the seventh for Parchivets, who combed his hair with a lamb scar, rode a black sheep backwards, holding his tail; in fact, it was Harun Rashid, to whom God assigned seven years of suffering; the sultan pretended to be sick, demanded that the lioness's milk be brought; six The sons-in-law went together, they did not take Parshivets, he went his own way; he met Saint Sidi Abdelkader, made him handsome, gave them lion's milk; when he met the brothers, he gave them milk, and in return asked permission to cut off their earlobes; returning to the Sultan, GR again took the form of Parshivets; the Sultan demanded an apple from the cannibal garden; the same saint gave Parshivets 14 partridges; they would have to be fed to the eagle, who will take him across seven seas - along a partridge across the sea to the cannibal garden and back; returning with an apple, the bastard dropped the last partridge, cut off the meat from his leg; when he returned, the eagle regurgitated him and put it back; the same episode with the brothers, GR cut off the tip of everyone's little finger on his leg; seven years came to an end, GR appeared before the Sultan in his true form, showed his earlobes and fingertips; with since then, the lobe is smaller than the ear, the little finger is smaller than the rest of the fingers, there is a notch under the knee, the calf of the leg is thick - meat cut off from under the knee was put there in a hurry]: 15-18; Belamri 1982 [ghoul kidnaps apples from the Sultan's garden; three sons are guarding; the youngest shot at the ghoul; the brothers came on a bloody trail to a crevice in the mountains; the youngest was lowered on a rope; below is the Gulya Palace, in which three kidnapped princesses; ghoul offers to drink a pool of water and eat a couscous pool; the prince prays to Allah, his pools are empty; the ghoul decides that he and the prince are equal; the prince hacked down the ghoul; sends the princesses upstairs; the youngest gives her ring; if you turn it, white and black rams will appear, they will start butting; you have to jump on the white's back, while black will take you to the seventh lower world; the brothers did not pick up the young man, told princesses confirm that he was killed by a ghoul; the young man accidentally jumped on a black ram, was downstairs; came to an old woman, she has 7 sons; has been living there for 7 years, became bored; seven asked the eagle to take it out the guest on the ground; the old woman cooked 7 pancakes and 7 servings of meat; with the eagle rising to each underground tier, the eagle must be fed; the young man dropped the last portion, cut off and gave the eagle a piece of his flesh; eagle: the last the portion is fresh, I would throw you off if I hadn't promised to take you to the ground; on the ground, the young man saw the Sultan's daughter near the cave, she was given to be eaten by a 7-headed snake; every year, having received another victim, a snake gives the townspeople a portion of water; the young man fell asleep, the girl's tear woke him up; after each head of the snake cut off, he says that the young man cut off only the first (the second, etc.), and the one that the serpent received only the first (etc.) second, etc.) sword strike; the girl picked up the shoe lost by the young man; after killing the snake, the young man came to the city, stayed in a madrasah; the sultan promises a reward to someone who proves that he killed the snake; many they come, but the shoe does not fit them, they cut off their heads like this; when a young man in one shoe came, a second one came to him, the sultan gave him a daughter and half a kingdom; unrecognized, the young man came to his hometown; there his brothers' wedding with rescued princesses; the sultan recognized his son; expelled his older brothers; the young man received all three princesses, began to live with four wives]: 36-45; Scelles-Millie 1963 [prince sees princess; with the help of the chief of the guard, he entered her; she was married to him; on the way to the prince's city, his wife is kidnapped by Khatafa el'araïs; the healer tells him to go to the sea, sit on a big eagle, he will carry him across 7 seas ; on the way he must be fed meat; overseas there is a silver chest, with a second chest in it, an egg in it, hair in it; if his hair is burned, H. dies; during the flight there is not enough meat, the prince cuts off a piece from his thigh; X. many abducted women, they are intoxicated by the smoke of incense burners; the prince extinguishes incense burners, burns her hair, takes his wife, sends other abducted women to where they were kidnapped from; the bird carries them back across the seas] : 269-277; the Arabs of Tunisia [the king imprisoned Ali's only son with a wet nurse under a glass cap; ordered to feed boneless meat and bread without crust; once the prince was accidentally brought meat with bone and bread with a crust; he broke the glass with his bone, went outside; tells his father to give him freedom; in the city he runs over the townspeople; old woman: what kind of violent you are, it would be better to bring Sineddur on the back of a vulture because of 7 of the seas; Ali orders the old women to be gathered, the last to be brought to say these words; she explains that S. is the princess of spirits in the land of cannibals; Ali goes on a journey, the king tells the son of the vizier Mohammed to go with him; at the fork there is a stone: you will buy to the right, you will lose to the left; they draw lots, Ali goes right, M. to the left; he ate everything, hired a bagel seller; Ali goes, greets the hungry giant, sitting next to a fallen camel; cuts and roasts meat for him; the giant sends him to his older sister, tells him to fall to her nipple, otherwise he will kill him; her 7 cannibal brothers give Ali a hair out of their beards - if burned, they will come to the rescue; heads on stakes on the walls of the city; Ali stays with the elderly; they explain that the princess's grooms are told to sort out several varieties of grain overnight; no one can, everyone executed; Ali summons the ogre, who tells the ants to disassemble the grain; Ali received a princess; wants to go further after S.; the first wife teaches how to slaughter a bull near the seashore, feed the vultures (eagles), they will help; the oldest vulture knows the way to S.; carries Ali across 7 seas, who feeds him with stored meat; in the castle there is a beauty who sleeps and stays awake for three months; Ali wrote a prenuptial agreement, got together with sleeping; exchanged rings; on the way back, the seventh piece of meat fell, Ali cut off his forearm; on the other side, other vultures tell him to regurgitate the meat, put Ali back; he takes his first wife and goes home; the Sultan decided to return his daughter and kill Ali; he smashes enemies, the rest are finished off by a summoned cannibal; Ali finds M. in the shop; they go together; M. invites Ali to go down to a well to get water, cuts off the rope; tells everyone to say that he got the princess; monkeys, male and female, ask for a settlement; Ali advises the male to keep the monkey with him and let go of the gazelle; The monkeys are happy, they pulled Ali out, he came to his city; S. and his three-year-old son surrounded the city with an army; M. cannot provide evidence of marriage to S.; Ali's wedding with S., his first wife is also with them; the vizier wants to kill his son himself, but Ali forgave M.]: Stimme 1893, No. 4:57-78 (translated to Lebedev 1990, No. 16:80-95).

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the hero is powerful; he is the son of a bear from a woman kidnapped by him; he is fed by a donkey's milk; when he leaves home, he tells him to make an iron club; he meets and takes companions of heroes with unusual abilities (pulling pine trees, comparing mountains, etc.); they live in a house in the forest, each one cooks in turn, the monster defeats the cook and spoils the food; when it's his turn the hero defeats the monster; follows him into a hole in the ground; or someone steals apples from the royal garden; the older brothers fail, the youngest manages to see the kidnapper, he follows him to failure in earth; below are three kidnapped princesses; the hero defeats several monsters, uses a rusty sword instead of a new one; brothers lift the princesses upstairs, leave the hero below; he enlists the help of the spirit whose He bites his ear; either he flies upstairs on a huge bird, cuts off a piece of his flesh and feeds it; the hero returns to the princesses's scheduled wedding day; they recognize him by his ring, etc., or only he can Raise a rusty sword; he punishes traitors and marries one of the princesses]: Cardigos 2006, No. 301:56-57; Maltese (many options; it is difficult to restore specific texts in detail by paraphrase) [someone steals golden apples; the elder, middle princes fall asleep (or for some other reason can't grab the thief), the youngest injures a many-headed monster, follows a bloody trail to a cave, a failure, etc.; brothers they lower him down on a rope; brothers go away and carry the rope; or companions, not brothers, they throw a rope, but the hero tied a stone in his place just in case; the shepherd tells the hero to jump on white a ram, but he accidentally jumps on a black one, falls even lower; he feeds the mighty eagle's hungry chicks, they explain how to open the heavy iron door; or their grateful mother explains everything; this the eagle is the guardian of three girls; one of them tells you to choose the rusty sword to fight the monster; his body shines because he eats gold; the eagle takes the hero and girl to the ground, he feeds and gives her water, the last cuts off the piece from his leg, the eagle puts it back; the elder prince wants to marry the youngest of the rescued girls; she demands a seamless dress from the groom, etc. (the hero has it); the king asks the younger son punish the elders; they are boiled alive or their skin is ripped off, used as a rug or napkins]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 301:33-41; Sicilians: Crane 1885, No. 7 [two senior princes do not though take the younger Salvatore with you; then ask him to go down to the well and leave him there; there the old woman tells him to open the doors; behind them are three princesses; the eldest gives an apple, a medium pomegranate, a younger crown, who fulfill wishes; he kills the sorcerer, does not drink water (the drinkers are petrified); the king sends his sons to find the youngest; they lower the rope into the well, pick up the princesses, leave Salvator; he tells raise an apple to the ground; in some versions, the hero climbs a bird, feeds it in flight; the meat runs out, he cuts off the flesh from his leg, or his entire leg; on the ground, the bird regurgitates what has been swallowed, puts back; S. is hired by a blacksmith, makes a crown for the younger princess, who calls him husband, the other two princesses are a savior]: 36-40; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 38 [the elder prince goes with his father to the magnificent valley, wants to stay in the house built by his father; at night he hears a roar, runs out, the house collapses, he returns home in horror; the same with the middle man; the youngest is indifferent to the appearance of a wild man , he disappears; the brothers find a well; only the youngest dares to go down; kills a sleeping wild man, freeing three princesses; the youngest gives him a ring, she gives him a magic wand; the brothers raise girls, leave the youngest one downstairs; he calls an eagle with a stick, cooks meat, climbs the eagle to the ground; there is not enough meat, he cuts off his arms and legs; the eagle puts them back; the youngest is hired to the tailor; the princess's ring glitters, which means that her savior is near; requires a dress, an imaginary tailor's apprentice creates it with a magic wand; the king calls men, the younger princess must throw it a handkerchief at the groom; she throws them at the dirty apprentice; the king resettles them; the brothers hunt, the imaginary apprentice beats the game, gives them marks on their shoulders; everything opens, the king leaves the throne youngest, expels elders]: 252-262; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 42 [on Christmas night, someone steals oranges from a tree in the royal garden; the eldest, middle sons hide from a thunderstorm in the house ; the middle shoots at a white eagle, which falls somewhere in the meadow; the brothers picked up the stone, the youngest went down the rope; consistently meets the girls in marble, silver, gold palaces, sends upstairs; the youngest gives her ring, tells no one to hug, otherwise she will forget everything; when she wants to walk around on his own, the brothers throw the rope; the youngest finds the girls' father {is this the eagle?} , heals his wounds with ointment, he promises to raise him to the ground, tells him to shoot a stock of thrushes; returns for the first time; the second time he reaches the ground, but the young man cut off the last three pieces of meat from his own calves , then cured him with ointment; when he returned, his mother hugged him sleeping; but when he saw the ring given in the bowl, he remembered everything; the wedding, the younger queen and his wife receive the crown], 100 []: 93-97, 215-221; ladins [A childless miller picked up a box from the mill, containing a baby; he and his wife raised him with donkey milk, because there was no wet nurse; he studied to be a blacksmith; leaving the master, he made a club from the iron that was always in the forge; met, won, took three giants as companions; one pulled trees, the second set in motion many mills, the third released fog from the bag, creating rain; four live in a hut, cooking bulls one by one; each time a long-bearded dwarf comes, beats the cook, eats everything; when the Blacksmith is left, he beat the dwarf, he ran, disappeared into the hole; each tries to go down there on a rope, but shouts that it's hot; the blacksmith has set off; below there is a plain and three palaces, glass, silver, gold; each has a princess; in the first there is a five-headed dragon, a blacksmith killed him, cut out his tongues, sent the princess upstairs; the same in two other palaces (seven-; nine-headed dragon); picking up the blacksmith, the companions cut off the rope; he met, grabbed a bearded dwarf, made him say how to get to the ground; on mountain eagles, you have to catch one, sit on him and feed him on the way; the meat is over, the Blacksmith cut off the last piece from his leg; came to the wedding of three giants with princesses, showed his tongues, killed giants, married the most beautiful (from the golden palace)]: Uffer 1973, No. 50:242-248.

Western Europe. French (Dauphine): Joisten 1991, No. 3.1 [pregnant wife and husband went to the forest for firewood, the bear took the woman away, closed her way out of the cave with a stone; the woman gave birth to a son when he is seven years old, he the stone fell off, he and his mother ran home; the children tease him Bear Jean (MF, Jean de l'Ours), he hits them; tells his father to order the blacksmiths a 10 ton iron stick, goes to wander; meets, takes as fellow travelers 1) an ax felting trees with one blow (Jean-Woodcutter, Railway), 2) Jean the Fearless (RC); only MF can climb a huge tree, you can see an iron castle from it, they break through its wall, eat and they drink; the next morning the railway remains to cook, the seven-headed cannibal (Mâgou) comes, beats the railway, the ogre's sister serves him food; the same with the RC; MF blows his head off, takes his healing ointment; brothers find cannibal sister, learn about three kidnapped princesses, kill her sister; only MF can go down through the hole leading to the lower world (RC and Railway tell them to pick them up, it's too hot or cold there); old woman advises to save the princesses, they are taken upstairs when they raise the MF, the twins cut off the rope; the MF crashed but was healed with the ogre's ointment; the old woman says that the cannibal climbed an eagle; MF prepares meat, throws an eagle into its beak while it carries it; the meat is over, it cuts off its buttocks, heals himself with ointment; MF prepares meat for the eagle again, she brings it to the mountain, from where you can see the city with princesses ; MF manages to take a seat at the altar instead of the railway, beats him, marries a princess], 3.2 [about the same, shorter]: 58-64, 65-67; Walloons [the young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him to recoup on the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille de Plomb Castle; the young man came to the old man, the animals obey him; the pig carried him, he broke the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; the giant is subordinate to a bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; on the way, the supply runs out, the young man cut off a piece from his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, kidnaps the youngest's clothes, returning him for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul by 1) get the ring from the bottom of the well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings a ring, connects to the bottom; because a drop of blood has been lost, one finger is missing; 2) squeeze, grind wheat from a vast field in a day; 3) create a sea with all types of fish ( the girl helps to perform); you need to recognize the bride three times under the veil among her sisters; the young man recognizes by the missing finger; the wedding; the young run; turn into peasants; into a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again]: Laport 1932, No. 313:43-44; Flemish [motive is]: Meyer 1968, No. 301: 33-34; Germans (Pomerania) [a son born to a peasant walks and talks immediately; tells the pastor to call him Sonderbar ("extraordinary", Z.); his parents gave him supplies and sent him to wander; carries loaded carts through the water; ordered a huge iron club for the blacksmith; bent it, hitting a rock; ordered a new one - even harder; meets, takes as companions 1) putting mountains one on another; 2) uprooting trees; juggling millstones; gives everyone to hold their club: they cannot do it; noticing a light from the tree, the strongmen came to the house; it has a kitchen and a room; they they hunt and take turns cooking; a dwarf comes, asks for food, beats the cook and eats everything; Z. pinched the dwarf's beard, split the tree and knocked out a wedge; he tore off his beard and left; a bloody trail reaches for a hole in the ground; there is a rope with a basket; satellites can't, Z. descends; he went down so long that winter and summer changed; to test the satellites, Z. sent a stone in the basket up; those the rope was cut off, the stone fell and shattered; the princess in the castle, there were three bridges to it, along which three-, six, nine-headed dragons; Z. easily killed the three-headed and hardly the six-headed; princess gave to drink strong water, Z. managed to raise the sword that hung above the well; Z. waited for the 9-headed man to fall asleep with his heads on the princess's knees, threw it away and cut off his heads; the dwarf: to return to earth, we must feed the chicks of a huge bird; its flight to the upper world takes so long that the chicks starve every time; Z. fed the chicks, they hid it, and it opened after the father bird promised, that he would not eat it; he took Z. and the princess in his claws and flew; Z. threw food for him, a piece was not enough, cut off his legs from his calf; this piece is especially tasty; when the bird found out what was going on, the bird regurgitated it and put it back; Z. killed traitors and companions with a club, brought the princess to her father and married her; they are alive unless they die]: Jahn 1891, No. 19:120-128; Germans (Hanover) [the shepherd's wife was looking for a cow, got lost, spent the night in a cave; a bear came there; when he left, he blocked the exit with a stone; she gave birth to a boy, at 9 months he was already grown up, incredibly strong; they went down to the village, people drove the bear away; a boy Peter Beer ("bear", PM) was baptized by Peter; he forged a huge iron club for himself, went on a journey; the boulder thrower replies that he is weak compared to PB; he says he is PB, takes him as a companion; another strongman ties and unties an iron stake (same); a third uproots trees (same); they settle in a house in the forest, take turns cooking; long-bearded the dwarf asks for food, eats everything and hits the cook; when it was PB's turn, he tied him to the bed with his beard; companions came, everyone ate; the dwarf cut off his beard, ran, disappeared into the well; PB told him let it down in the basket; there's an old woman; you can see a castle through the window; an old woman: a princess kidnapped by four giants in it; PB killed them with her club; princess gave a handkerchief and a ring; through the window you can see another castle, there the sister of the first princess, with 8 giants; (still the same); the window shows the castle where the younger sister is guarded by a fire-breathing seven-headed dragon; PB killed 4 giant guards, then a dragon, then another 12 giants sitting at the table in the hall; healed the wounds with the ointment given by the old woman; the companions pulled the princesses out; for the fourth time, PB put a stone in place of himself just in case; the satellites threw a stone on top and cut off the rope; PB makes the old woman tell her how to get out; she has a dragon, but must be fed in flight; cut off the last piece from her leg; healed the wound with an old woman's ointment; the king promises a thousand ducats to someone who would bring the rings they had when they were kidnapped for the rescued princesses; PB hired a jeweler, drank and ate at night, and gave rings in the morning as if he had made them; the princesses recognized them that their savior was not far away; then appeared disguised as a beggar, showed his scarves; the king married him to his youngest daughter, and after his death, PB inherited the throne]: Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 5:18-30; (cf. Germans (Pomerania) [the gentleman went to the princess; one day they went to the forest; he turned into a white wolf; his fur is a louse, he tells the princess to throw her on the road: if the louse runs over the carriage, in which his wife, he will disappear; the carriage has passed, the princess is left alone; the soldier showed her the way to the old woman's house, the princess promised to reward him; the old woman hides the princess, for her sons Sun, Month and the Star is cannibals; but he promises those who come not to harm the guest; The month knows that you have to walk to the big water and throw chicken bones in front of you - you'll walk like across a bridge; each gives three dresses: with the sun, with a month, with stars; the princess throws bones, but one is missing, she cut off her little finger; on the other side of the city; the princess buys from the White Wolf's wife for a dress with the sun is the night with her husband, but she gives her husband a sleepy potion; the same on the second night (a dress with stars); on the third evening, the White Wolf quietly poured out the potion; remembered the princess and gave her enough gold, so that she could return home; there she told her father to gather all the soldiers, recognize her savior and marry him]: Jahn 1891, No. 60:331-335); the Scots [three giants took to the underworld the king's daughters; to get there, you have to build a ship that moves on water and on land; the widow's eldest son is going to build; the mother asks if I can give him a small bread with a blessing or a large without, he chooses a big one; cuts down a tree, Uruisg (mermaid) comes out of the water, asks for bread, the young man does not give; the felled tree is reborn; the same with the middle brother; the younger takes a small loaf, feeds a mermaid, she tells her to come in a year and a day - the ship will be ready; the young man sails on it, takes opivala, eats, rumors; the rumor determines the place under which the giants are underground; they descend; the first giant will give the queen if anyone drinks more than him, the second one eats more; drink and eat, the giants burst; the third requires the young man to spend a year and a day with him; then the young man's companions go upstairs, raise the queens, leave the widow's son below; the giant tells the eagle to pick up the young man; he returns twice, because there is not enough food, you have to wait another year and a day; for the third time a young man cuts off a piece of meat from his leg; on the ground, an eagle blows a whistle to call him; he is hired by a blacksmith; the elder queen demands a golden crown from the blacksmith, as she had when she lived with the giant; a young man summons the eagle, he brings; the same with the second (silver crown), the third sister (copper); the king orders the one who made the crowns to be brought; the servants drag the young man, but bring a pile of stones; then a pile of garbage; For the third time, the servant politely asks the young man to the king; he tells the eagle to bring gold clothes; receives the eldest queen; the companions are hanged]: Campbell 1890, No. 16:244-251.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Syria [the king has a rare flower garden with an unusual only flower in the world; someone picks a flower every night; three princes take turns guarding; the eldest two fell asleep; the youngest cut his hand and rubbed salt into the wound; a huge marid appeared, the prince wounded him with a sword; in the morning the brothers came on a bloody trail to a bottomless well; the elder brother begins to descend, frightened, asks him raise; the same middle; the youngest goes down to the bottom; in the marble palace a girl: stolen flowers on her chest, the head of a sleeping marid on his knees; the prince cut off his head; an old man appeared: we must sit on a ram to return to earth; the white and black sheep began to butt; the prince put the girl on white and he took her to the brothers' father's palace; the prince sat on a black man and he carried him seven tiers down; the prince lay under a tree; a griffin's nest on the tree; the snake crawls to eat the chicks; the prince cut off the snake's head and fed the chicks its meat; the griffin mother flew in, wanted to throw a stone on the prince who fell asleep, but the chicks explained that the prince saved them; she agreed to raise the prince to the ground - you need to eat a sheep to fly to every next tier; after the sixth, one sheep slipped and the prince cut off his leg for the bird; The griffin put her foot back on the land and it grew; the prince married the saved princess, and the older brothers were disgraced]: Bushnaq 1987:104-108; the Arabs of Iraq [the king divorced his first wife, her son Muhammad (M.); from his second wife, sons Mahmud and Ahmed; kicked out the first with M.; became blind, lion's milk will help; the older brothers reluctantly allow the youngest to go with them; the old man points three ways: 1] prosperity, 2) regret and remorse, 3) for which they do not return; each of the brothers goes his own way, M. goes last; the elders met again, wasted everything, were hired as workers in the city; captive in the genie's castle, he advises M. to venerate their mother's breast; now M. has become their brother, they have taken it to their middle aunt, her sons to their elder aunt; her sons tell them to remove the splinter from the lion's paw; a grateful lion gives a wineskin of lion's milk, sends a young lion to carry it; M. also receives camels, gold and three girls; finds brothers, takes them with him, but stigmatizes them; brothers they let him down into a well for water; there is a girl and an eagle that stole her; M. kills an eagle (if hit a second time, she will come to life); the girl feels that her brothers will cut the rope; if M. touches the white goat, she he will take him to the ground, if he takes him down to the bottom; M. sends a girl upstairs, the rope is cut off, touched by a black goat, he fell into the lower world of genies; there a witch gives water in exchange for girls, now it is the turn of the daughter of the king of genies; M. kills the witch, the girl marks the savior with her blood; everyone brags that they killed the witch, but the girl throws a grenade at M.; the genie flies with M. to the ground, who throws it in his mouth along the way fat tails and tortillas, one piece fell, he cut off the meat from his thigh; the genie regurgitates him, puts it back; older brothers and stolen goods are waiting in an enchanted sarcophagus; M. defeats his father's army, all races says, shows marks on the shoulders of his brothers, heals his father from blindness; he gave him the throne, imprisoned his eldest sons]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 16:93-102; Saudia [Muhammad is the son of the Sultan from his unloved wife, with whom he divorced; Mahmud and Ahmed are sons from his beloved; the sultan is blind; fortune teller: lion milk brought on the lion's back will help; the brothers went in search; at the fork the old man points out on three roads: prosperity; regret and remorse; on which they do not return; Muhammad chose the latter; the other two roads came together, brought them to the city, Mahmoud and Ahmed squandered money, one went to work to a tavern, another to a lamb head salesman; Muhammad came to the jinn's palace; a captive girl advises them to venerate their mother's breast; Jinnia hid Muhammad from her sons; then they called him brother; brought to their middle aunt; from her to her eldest; she teaches him to pull out a splinter from a sleeping lion and ask for milk when he stops being angry with pain; the genies rewarded the young man, he came back with 15 camels loaded with gold, three girls and a lion carrying lion's milk on his back; Muhammad found brothers in town and took them with him only after they allowed them to be branded with him; get water, only Muhammad agrees to go down to the well; there is a girl and a sleeping eagle at the bottom; he can only be killed with his own sword; the eagle asks to be hit a second time; Muhammad: father and mother were not taught to finish off; the eagle is dead; Muhammad sent water and a girl upstairs; she gave a ring: if you rub it, she will come to the rescue; the brothers will cut the rope; you must follow that road; if a black goat hits, you will go down to the seventh the underworld, and if white, you will go up to the ground; the goats fought, the white one missed, the black one hit, Muhammad found himself in a hot world where genies lived; old woman: the witch at the ditch lets water once a year, when she is given one of the daughters of the king of jinns; today it is the middle daughter's turn; Muhammad hacked the witch; rubbed the ring; that girl tells her to go to the palace of the king of the jinns; there his daughter will throw grenades at whoever is hers saved; and so it happened; the king ordered one of the genies to raise Muhammad to the ground; to do this, prepare 7 lamb fat tails and 7 servings of tortillas; the seventh fat tail Muhammad dropped, cut off the meat from his thigh; The genie regurgitated the meat to the ground and put it on the wound; meanwhile, the girl covered her camels, the lion, herself and the other girls with an iron sarcophagus; Muhammad defeated her father's army and showed marks on her shoulders brothers; by agreement with the girl, he destroyed the iron sarcophagus; the king saw the light, the Sultan returned his first wife, the second sons were thrown into prison]: Juhaiman 1999:37-47.

(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Ngaju [Ranjung Mahatala Langit told a man and his wife to descend from heaven to earth ("to the banks of the river of peace" {the usual formula}); the man became chief, and Djangga married their daughter (Month, Chief people on the moon), visits his wife every new moon; she is pregnant, at this time sex is limited, he is offended, says that the earth smells bad, leaves, leaving seven arrows for the son who will be born; he must He will tie seven silver bamboos, climb them, release darts from the sarbakan into the sky, they will form a chain, it will turn into a vine, and he will climb it to the gates of heaven; D. himself rose in the same way Thus; due to the fact that the father left his pregnant wife (this is taboo), a half son (vertically) was born, his name is Silai; the mother tells us who his father is, advises to go to his father's brother Sun first; S. comes to the orangutan leader, he sends ravens to the chief; he asks for a boa constrictor to eat on the way; S. sits on a crow, throws pieces into his beak, he brings him to the gates of heaven; on the way S. saves drowning ants, fish left in a drying pond, a deer entangled in vines, a monkey stuck between branches, a crocodile lost on land frees a firefly from the web; Uncle C . the chief of the sun (Djangkarau Matanandau) brings him to the lunar village; the month calls S. a geek, a liar; offers tests; 1) separate water, oil, ash, sand (ants, fish mixed in the vessel) share); 2) pave a path to the forest garden without scratching (S. goes back and forth on a deer's back); 3) climb a tall tree (a monkey dressed as S. climbs); 4) win boat races ( the crocodile pulls the boat S.); 5) go to the bed in a dark house at night, where he, Month, sleeps (firefly shows); Month recognizes S. as son; cuts four times, cooks, sculpts again; for the first time S. black dwarf, then red, then rooster, then strongman, handsome; he is the ancestor of those Ngaju with lighter skin]: Schärer 1966:124-135).

China - Korea. Koreans [a blind fortuneteller helps the monk find a spring of water that gives strength; the monk becomes a robber Karado, attacks the young, takes the bride away; the groom hides from stork hunters; a grateful stork asks for fish for the future, puts the young man on his back, flies; every time he screams, Hug, the young man throws fish into his beak; the fish runs out, the young man puts the stork in his beak finger; he cannot swallow it, spits it out, throws the rider into the water, the young man swims to the shore; old man Dogu tells him to throw rice to geese, bread to dogs, money to wars, they will let K. into castle; wife tells the young man to call himself her brother; sticks Man-li ma needles into the horse's tongue, K. leaves on another horse; taking out the needles, hacking down the sleeping servants with a sword, the wife and the young man go to M.; the fortuneteller reports this K.; D. turns a woman into a monastic hat, her husband into a cassock, a horse into goats; when asked by K. D. answers with a Buddhist exclamation; K. returns, the fortuneteller finds out the truth, K. pursues again, D. kills his horse, the fugitives escape; when their son is 9 years old, K. arrives; the boy promises tell me where the parents are if K. ties a stone to a hanging rope and swings it; the stone swung back, killed K.]: Shkurkin 1941:43-62; (cf. meo of North Vietnam [two brothers were plowing the field, but by morning it had hardened again; in the middle of the night they saw an old man trampling the ground; he says that there should be no work, because there will be a flood; tells one brother to make a drum out of wood, the other from copper, take seeds and pets; the rain flooded the ground with a flood, the copper drum drowned; the younger brother and sister escaped in the wooden one; God ordered nine the dragons should dry the ground; the water came down, but it was still viscous; the eagle carried his brother and sister to a dry place; tore off a piece from him and let them eat, and they cut off the Eagle piece by piece; brother and sister threw them into the sky is two rafts, two needles, two coins; God put them together, brother and sister got married; sister gave birth to an egg, it contained meat; it was cut into pieces, they turned into people]: Karpov, Tkachev 1958:256; fox [The Lord of Heaven was angry with people; gave one man pumpkin seeds, a huge pumpkin grew; during the flood, a man swam in it with his younger sister; the water came down, they went out; to find out Can they get married, brother and sister lowered two millstones from the mountain, they lay on top of each other; 9 sons were born; 7 became the ancestors of people, and two lived in the mountains; the eldest married a monkey, her youngest accidentally killed; the elder married another monkey, the youngest and killed her; the mountain spirit sent two girls, beautiful and ugly; the younger brother smeared the beauty's face with mud and he chose an ugly one; when he realized deception, took a beautiful one, and threw his brother into failure, he ended up in the lower world; there were tigers, a young man shot them; a flying squirrel agreed to take him to the ground if he did not laugh at her; she was 9 tails; the young man grabbed his tail, laughed, the tail came off; so consistently with all his tails until he was left alone]: Heine-Geldern 1976:87-88).

The Balkans. Hungarians; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 []: 449-453; Kretschmer 1919, No. 61 (Epirus) [When the childless king finally had a son, he placed him in a glass castle with his teachers; one day the young man was brought meat and bone, he threw it, broke through the wall; his father had to let the young man go; he became a hunter; he chased a deer, got lost, ate roots; a Jew appeared, brought him to the mountain, asked throw gold off him; to do this, he placed the young man in buffalo skin, the birds lifted him up the mountain, he threw gold to the Jew; the Jew took the gold, leaving the young man; digging the roots, the young man found a passage in it stairs; it led to the palace, in which an old man with a knee-length beard chained; he teaches him to take 40 keys from his pocket, open one of the rooms, its wand; if you hit, any food will appear; the young man was full, his strength returned and he freed the old man; the old man took the key to the 40th room; said that behind him the lake, where three fairies were flying, they had already killed many young men; the young man persuaded him to give the key ; old man: the youngest is the most beautiful, she bathes after her sisters, we must take her clothes; you can't let her touch the edge of her clothes; he let her, she tried to pull out her clothes, but failed; young man asked for a horse, the old man gave him a flying man; on the way they stopped to eat; a dervish came up, asked for food, said that his stick hit the head on orders and killed anyone; the young man asked to hold the stick, said to kill the dervish, took the stick; this dervish was the brother of a winged maiden; the second brother came in the form of a Jew; he appeared and disappeared; the young man asked to see the invisible hat, sent a stick to kill Jew; the fairy says that no one will help her now; the king is happy that the son has returned; he gave his wife's clothes to his aunt for preservation; the wife asked her for clothes to dance; received and danced flew out the window, telling her to look for her in the glass city; the prince returned to the old man, who gave a letter to his father, and he gave a letter to his mother; the mother gathered the birds, the last to deliver the old Schnapphahn, who knew about glass city; when the prince was carried, the supplies ran out, the prince cut off the meat from his own leg; in the city of Haji he said that the local king was at war with another; the young man promised to defeat the enemy alone; the prince's stick killed all the enemy soldiers; the king gave off her youngest daughter as the winner; she did not want to at first, but when she found out that it was her husband, she was happy; they returned to the prince's country]: 287-296; Moldovans; Bulgarians; Macedonians; Albanians [the sister's three brothers are married to the Sun, Month and South; they decide to visit them; they spend the night three times, each time one brother guards the others; the elder killed lamia, did not tell the brothers about it; the same middle; the youngest too, but the lamia managed to extinguish the fire with her tail; the young man sees the light in the distance, goes there; on the way he meets the mother of the night, asks her to prolong the darkness; she promises to do this, but he does not believe it and binds it; when he goes to the light source, he sees a huge cauldron with 12 ears standing on fire; picked it up, lit the torch, and put it in place; the 12 robbers are amazed by this power: they can only raise the cauldron together; they led the young man to rob the king; after breaking through the wall, they climbed into the stable; the young man stayed outside; raised the alarm, cut off the heads of the robbers as they they got out; left his knife there; on the way back he freed the mother of the night; the king found the dead robbers and the knife; ordered a tavern where food was free, but let everyone tell us what they had done; The elder and middle brothers described how each killed a lamia, the youngest also about robbers; the king gave his daughter for him; on the occasion of the royal wedding, prisoners were released, half of them made of iron; the young man persuaded the king to release him too; as soon as the king broke his shackles, the monster swallowed the princess and flew away; the young man asks the king to give iron shoes and a staff, promises to return the princess in a year; comes to his sister whose husband is the Sun; she hid her brother, the Sun senses a man, but promises not to touch her brother-in-law; advises to ask the Month; he sends to the South; the South also does not know where the Iron Man is, directs him to the huge falcon , tells him to come up from behind and threaten to slaughter him if he does not tell him where the Iron Man is; the falcon tells him to prepare meat and fix his wings - he is too old; they fly to a high mountain, the last piece of meat the young man cut off his thigh; when he reached, the falcon regurgitated this piece and grew it back; the wife hid the young man, but the iron found him, drank blood, and spit out his skin and bones; the falcon saw, flew between the crusaders mountains, took swallows milk into his beak, revived the young man with it; he taught his wife to pretend to be dead and ask her husband where his strength is; iron; in a broom; the wife burned the broom, but nothing happened; pretended again sick; iron: there is a boar on the mountain, he has a silver fang, a hare in his fang, there are three pigeons in the hare, they are strong; the young man came to the shepherd, began to ask about the boar, he heard, the young man began to fight with him; boar: I would like to sharpen my fangs racine de gouet; young man: I would have flour, fried fish and wine; the shepherd brought everything, the young man killed the boar, took out pigeons; turning his two heads, the young man came to the Iron Man, killed the third, the iron died; the falcon brought the young man and princess to the king; everyone is happy]: Dozon 1991, No. 15:121-134; Albanians: Lambertz 1952:29-36 [Kjoftlárgu (devil) fed the louse, it became the size of a ram, brought the king, suggested that whoever guessed what kind of beast it was should marry the royal daughter; only K. himself guessed, took the girl to the lower world, imprisoned her in the far corner of his palace; out of three The elder hears the king's sons, the middle sees what is underground, the youngest goes down a rope into the well; in front of the horses, the grass in front of the dogs, the young man shifts the grass; horses and dogs promise to help, they give the young man an eagle ("doodle bird"), he must be fed meat; they do not give the young man to K. who comes, he leaves again; the brother puts his sister on a doodle, he flies to the ground, she feeds him meat, no meat enough, she cuts off a piece of her leg from the calf, returns home; her brother stayed downstairs; a crying girl comes, she is the daughter of the richest citizen, given to be eaten by K., who closed the water sources, gives out water for the girls; the young man shot K. with a gun; blood flowed immediately from the sources, and clean water two days later; the young man married a girl, they were helped to return to earth], 37-49 [when dying, the father orders three sons guard an apple tree, the fruits of which are stolen by an evil spirit; the older, middle brothers are afraid, the younger Kjelani injures the kidnapper; on the trail of blood, the brothers come to the crevice; the older ones are afraid to go down, K . goes down a rope; three kidnapped girls give white, red, black scarves; fighting the spirit, you have to wipe the sweat off your face with them, the spirit will lose its strength; K. cuts off his head; sends the girls upstairs; when she gets up by himself, the brothers cut off the rope; old woman: the white goat will carry it to the ground, the black goat will lower it even lower, there is still a red one; two slip out of their hands, K. grabs the black one, falls deeper; kills a snake that was going to eat the chicks; Corshun mother is going to eat K. first, the chicks explain who their savior is; K. asks to take him upstairs, the bird tells him to prepare meat and wine; K. meets the princess, she is eaten by Kutschedra (a woman with a tail and 9 tongues, connected to black clouds), who closed the water sources; K. cuts off her head, the waters are free; the grateful king gives meat, wine; meat is not enough, K. cuts off a piece of calf from his leg; on the ground, the bird puts a piece back, gives the pen to summon it; K. is hired as a servant; the girls refuse to marry until they are given made without scissors and needles are breast jewelry (they gave them to K. in the lower world); K. gives them; tells the bird to give him a white horse, clothes and a sword, wins the older brother's competition; the same goes to the middle brother (red horse, etc.); appears on a white horse, marries the youngest of the girls]; Gagauz [brothers followed a strange trail, came to a dried well, white and black sheep were fighting at the bottom; 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 ram pushed him, V. found himself on black, fell into the dark kingdom; saw the snake crawl to the nest of a huge eagle, killed her; 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 is the turn of the padishah's daughter; you need to wet your clothes to do not burn; V. cuts off two heads, four grow up; V. suggests that GM show how he sleeps; he puts his central head on two, covers himself with the other two; V. cuts off all 5 heads at once; princess orders to cut off tongues; the impostor brings the padishah the heads of the monster, V. shows his tongues; the impostor is expelled, V. gets the princess; the padishah lets them visit V.'s parents; the bird carries V. and his wife, in in flight, he feeds her meat, bread, water; the meat ends, V. cuts the meat off 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 visit V.'s parents; after staying, V. and his wife return to the lower world]: Syrf 2013:138-145; Bosnians [when dying, father tells three brothers to give three sisters off as the first to come for them; strangers take their sisters away; brothers go looking for them, find them from the giant, who tells them to make a fire before they return, they cannot, he chained them to a pole; the mother sees a grain of pepper, asks God fourth son, even if he is just as small; Pepper is born, tells to forge a huge iron club; the giant makes a fire with his flint, the giant becomes his slave; P. wins, takes giant servants with two and three heads; each one cooks in turn, the dwarf takes food; P. pinched a dwarf's beard in a split beech tree; he tore off his beard, went underground; P. goes down, there are three girls with a golden loom, chickens, herd, hoop; they tell them to kill their dwarf brother with a wooden sword; servants pick up the girls, cut off the rope; P. comes to the spring, where the dragon provides water in exchange for the girls, it is the turn of the royal daughter; P. falls asleep, wakes up from the girl's tears, kills the dragon, cuts off his ears; the arap tells the king that he killed the dragon, P. shows his ears, the arapa is executed; the king advises saving from the dragon giant bird chicks; chicks tell their mother that P. did not attack them, but killed the dragon; the mother bird tells them to collect meat, bread, water, feed her on the way to the upper world; the last piece of P. cuts off from hips, the bird regurgitates it, puts it back; P. kills giants, marries and gives princesses to his brothers]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:52-63 (=Arkhipova 1962:30-42); Moldovans [poor man finds a bird in the forest with with golden feathers; brings home, she lays golden eggs, he sells them to a merchant; the merchant reads to the bird's goiter that whoever eats her heart will become king, whoever navel will find a purse of gold under his pillow, liver - that will be good luck; the merchant persuades his wife to kill the poor man, marry him, fry a bird; the woman's three sons accidentally eat the giblets of a bird; the merchant wants to kill the children, they run away; the eldest becomes king, the middle one is rich; the younger is lazy; the sorcerer leads him into the forest, asks him to go underground, bring a key and an iron stick; the boy collects golden apples; refuses to give the key to the sorcerer before he will not lift him to the ground; the sorcerer covers the ground; the boy rubs his wand, an iron man appears, promises to lift him to the ground if the boy feeds him in flight; he cuts off the last piece from his own thigh; on the ground, the iron man says he would eat a boy if he knew how delicious he was; disappears; the boy returns to his mother, bringing golden apples and a key; this is the key to hell; if his rub, servants make wishes come true; the boy sends his mother to marry the king's daughter; the king demands 1) to create a palace, a road with birds and trees overnight; 2) come on horses that eat coals and drink flame; the servants perform everything; the princess's first fiancé and herself are taken to the courtyard and basement for the night; wedding; the sorcerer asks the young man's servant to bring a rusty key in exchange for gold; the young man loses his magical helpers and that's it created by them; goes to wander around the world; rubs his wand, the iron man teaches him to turn into a fly, get the key from under the sorcerer's pillow; the young man returns everything; the wife is ill; the sorcerer turned into a holy maiden told his wife that she would recover if she got a marble egg from the center of the earth; the hellish servants say that he has all their power, teaching her to kill the sorcerer instead; the young man kills; helps the king brother win enemies; the Beauty of the world who swallows the navel solders, he belches him, loses everything; rides through the meadow, his horse eats grass, becomes a donkey; drinks water again as a horse; he lets a woman smell the grass, she becomes a donkey; he rides it, meets brothers, forgives a woman, makes it again the Beauty of the World]: Moldavian tales 1968:172-184; Serbs [a childless woman asks for a child even with a pepperseed; gives birth Pepper Boy (MP); the princess cries because the dragon steals golden apples; at the bottom of Lake MP throws parts of the sheep's carcass to the dragon, grabs one of the apples each time; cuts off the last piece from her leg brings apples to the princess; becomes a slender handsome man, kills a dragon to whom the princess is given to be eaten, hides her tongues from 9 severed heads; a deceiver brings heads, MA brings tongues, a false groom falls through the ground, MA marries a princess]: Karadzich 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:138-141.

Central Europe. Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians [Three Underground Kingdoms: Heroes Go to Search for the Missing Princess; they cook dinner one by one; the old man maims his brothers or companions from his fingernail strongman, but he is defeated in his grip; in the footsteps of the old man, he descends underground or (less often) climbs the mountain, frees three princesses and, despite the betrayal of his brothers (companions), does not those who want to pull it back, returns upstairs (on a giant bird; {this episode is not included in this description, but usually it is}); comes to the wedding of the princess and imaginary savior, marries the princess ]: SUS, No. 301A, B: 106-107; Belarusians [the tsar's polar bear from the dead steals horses every night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest Ivan the Fool orders to dig up a club for 10 pounds, throws up, puts her finger - broke; 15 pounds, knee - the same; at 25 - bounced off her forehead, did not break; I. hit the bear with it, he went back into the ground; I. descends on a rope into the hole, tells the brothers have to wait for him for a month; I came to the copper court; there is a bear's daughter, complaining that he, three daughters, was slaughtering; she showed the way to her sister in the silver palace, she told me to replace the barrels with strong and weak water; the bear is sleeping, I. pulled out the keys from under it to the basement, where the barrels are; when I drink water, the bear loses his strength, I. grows; each of the sisters turns her kingdom into an egg; brothers they picked up the girls, removed the rope; there was a nest on the oak tree, there were 4 chicks in it, one snake had already eaten; I. killed her; the chicks hid I. from her mother under the shell; the bird agrees to take I. to the ground if he prepares wine and meat; the 6-headed serpent must eat the princess, I. killed him; then 9- and 12-headed; for this the king gave 18 cows and 8 barrels of wine; the last piece of I. cut off his legs from the calf, the bird coughed it up and put it back; the shoemaker complains that the rescued princess demands from the groom the diamond boots she had in the underworld; I. unfolded a golden egg, took her boots; the princess recognized them; I. opened all three eggs , gave two princesses to his brothers]: Romanov 1887, No. 10:78-85; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Western 1888-1891, d. Novaya Bych, Bykhov. u., from kr. Pavel Ivanova, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, she is carried away by a bear, after 3 years she gives birth to her son Ivashka a bear ear; after 3 years he grows up and leaves, meets Duba-Dubovik and Gora- Gorovik, three of them go; they find a house, leave Goro-Gorovik to cook dinner, go hunting themselves, Kashchei ("Koschey") appears, demands to bring him into the house, put him at the table and serve food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik cuts another ox, puts it to cook, comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovka does not talk about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dubo-Dubovik; Ivashka remains to cook dinner on the third day, Kashchei arrives, Ivashka refuses to obey his orders (does not bring him into the house or sit down at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashcheev's beard in the oak crevice, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds they follow Kashchei, but he flew away; the three of them go after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the road, Gora-Gorovik digs up a mountain, find a huge stone and a hole under it, make cowhides belt, Ivashka goes down, agrees that in a year his comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, where the girl says that they have not seen a Russian person here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; she reaches the silver house, there is also a girl sitting there, the story repeats; Ivashka reaches the golden house, there the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei arrives, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashcheev's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in a hare, an egg in the duck, Hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite (and eat it) on the way, but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees sea cancer on the shore, does not kill, but helps him sail into the sea; in gratitude, the cancer brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it, the duck flies away, a kite catches her, tears her apart, Ivashka carries an egg to wash it in the sea, but drops it, the cancer returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving her a golden house, a girl takes an egg, rolls it around and the house gathers in an egg, Ivashka puts the egg in her pocket, the second girl collects a silver house into an egg in the same way, the third a copper house; they come to going upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades pick up the girl from the copper house, argue who will marry her, she assures that she is "more beautiful" than her, raise girls from silver and gold houses, decide marry them, and the first as servants, and Ivashka cut off his belt on the rise so that he breaks; Ivashka ties a stone instead of himself, his comrades cut off his belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak tree, birds scream, he climbs an oak tree, covers the chicks from the rain, then gets off and hides, the bird Half-Gritsa arrives, promises to thank his chicks for saving his chicks deliver it upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from barrels, meat into the bird's mouth ends, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird takes him out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, expectorates, caviar grows; Ivashka comes to town, is declared a shoemaker ("Ivanichka Drunkard"), She does not know how to sew, she lives with a Jew; a girl from the golden house promises to marry someone who sews the shoes she had in her golden house, Ivashka takes an order through a Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day, she rolls a golden house out of the egg, pulls out her skulls, the Jew takes her skulls; the girl asks for the same dress - the story repeats, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to to the blacksmith, pulls out a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each living in their own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36:340-347; Russians (Terek Bereg) [the tsar grew old, sent his sons for rejuvenating berries; the eldest, the middle son went did not return; there are three roads from the pole: he is alive - the horse is hungry; I don't live myself; the woman is smooth, the feather bed is soft; Ivan Tsarevich goes where I don't live; the old woman gives a horse, sends it to her sister, she sends it to the other, the third to their brother; there everyone should bow: the old man, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law, from the eldest to the youngest; the old man has a head in a big corner, his legs are on the doorstep; the owner of the rejuvenating berries is sleeping, you have to jump around the house to the strings did not ring; I. took live water, rejuvenating berries, kissed the heroic girl; on the way back, the horse hit the strings; the girl woke up: she was unwashed, unwashed, drank and did not close the well; old women they detained the girl, I. managed to jump to his land; I. came to the girl, there was a bed with screws, he unscrewed the screws, pushed the girl into the cellar, where people, rescued those who were still alive, including his brothers; when he fell asleep, the brothers pushed I. into a hole, took everything for themselves; in the lower world, I. came to an old man; he asks not to herd oxen on the east side, where Baba Yaga and her three daughters blinded him, and his old woman killed; I. leads cows there, each time tears off the head of one baba yaga, puts it under the bed; the latter made the old man look away; he is grateful, calls the bird to his aunt's foot; she takes I. to the ground, meat not enough, he cut off his legs from his calves, the bird regurgitated and put them back; I. returned to his parents; the girl sailed by ship, with her two boys; the elder, middle brother call themselves fathers, the girl tells children accept them, they beat them, cut the buckle out of their ass; I. goes, seemingly gol Kabatskaya, his wife meets and takes them home]: Balashov 1970, No. 43:139-146; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) []: Onchukov 2008, No. 8: 100-106; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the tsar shakes his newborn son Ivan; if you grow up, I will marry you Beloved Beauty, three mothers a daughter, three grandmothers, a granddaughter, nine brothers and a sister; in 9 days I. wakes up as an adult, goes to look for NK; the old man teaches him to choose a horse among the 30 that the king has in the stable (he will stir up the sea); the horse brings a copper ring on the door to the hut where the old woman brings a copper ring on the door; she sends it to the eldest sister with a silver ring; she knows to the oldest (golden ring); this old woman calls fish, reptiles, birds; only the Mogol bird knows: she "shook" the GK by impoverishment; carries I., he feeds and waters her, the last pieces cuts them off from his calves; in the meadow, the bird regurgitated them, put them back; I. meets NC in the church; 6; 12; 24 heroic suitors sail on ships, speak contemptuously of I.; he waved his hand - the street became, waved another - cleanly and smoothly around; I. guards the sleep of the NK, and when he lies down himself, Koschey the Immortal (KB) took her away; I. comes to the NC, teaches you to find out where the death of KB is; KB: in a broom; I. gilded the broom; you are oak Tynu; I. also gilded it; KB: in an egg, in a duck, in a cocoir, a cocoon swims in the sea; I. spared the hawk, the bear, the pike; the sea carried the cocoor ashore, the bear broke it, the hawk caught up with the duck, the pike brought it an egg that fell into the sea; I. crushed the egg, the KB died; the tsars neither brew beer nor smoke wine; did not fall on the mustache]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 157:362-369; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, p. Vozhgory, 1928) [Pop got lost, met a bear, helped arrange a den, and winters in her. Palfil Popovich (PP) was born to a bear. In spring, pop returns to the village with his son. Popadya does not immediately recognize her husband, she is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, it is difficult for parents to feed it, they send it to the forest to herd cows. PP catches a bear who wants to pick up a cow, brings him to the village and locks him in the barn. The maid comes in when the bear eats the last cow. Pop sends PP to the king for tribute, he rides a bear, meets an enchanted man. To break free from the spell, he must "bring the mountains to one place." PP helps him, they go together. It's the same with having to uproot an oak tree. The three of them and the bear come to the king, the PP demands tribute, the king pays to leave as soon as possible. PP gave one bag of gold to his ass, and left with the other four. The three of us stayed in a hut, catching bulls. Two go to town for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands a treat, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. It's the same when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, reproaches his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there's any other ground under the floor. He cuts bulls, makes belts, and his comrades pull him down. PP enters a copper, silver and gold tower, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls are happy and ask to take them with them. It's a pity for PP to leave the tower. Everyone throws the ring from her hand onto the roof, the tower turns into rings, they are given to PP. Satellites lift the girls, but the PP is too heavy, the companions cut off their belts, the PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. He is hired by a blind old man to herd cows. He shows the border of the Baba Yaga glade and forbids herding cows there. The PP complies with the ban three times, and the fourth time she drives cows to Baba Yaga's land, she is angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows are full and roaring. PP takes the herd back to Baba Yaga's meadow. She says she would fight with the PP hero and hear about his strength. We agreed to hit three times. Two PP blows do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a bag and tramples her, lets the old man feel at home, who makes sure that Yaga has been killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into his skin, catches a crow that has flown up, sends the other for living and dead water. After receiving water, he tests it: he tears the bird, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he sees the light, and in gratitude promises to bring the PP to the ground. His witch daughter does this, she eats people and knows how to turn into a bird. Orders to tie an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off its calves. The bird says its meat is sweet and would eat it, but his father's request doesn't allow it. Spits out swallowed, PP's legs are intact again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom, the girl from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one arm and the other's leg. He puts up a silver and gold tower, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [two princes went for a walk with their sister Maria, lost her; the father gave a portrait of his sister, let they are looking for; after their departure, the Queen gave birth to another son named Pokati-Pea; the brothers came to their sister, she hid them; Raven Voronovich flew in - shuryaks, come out; he killed them and drank them like alive; tells his wife that his birth was written to death only from Pokati Groh; PG grew up, "threw my grandmother in the back"; she cries: your two brothers and sister did not bother me; PG comes to my sister, not hides; greets BB, both shake hands to blood; both eat and drink a lot; when flying away, BB tells him not to enter the back room of the front stable; PG goes, there is hay in front of the lion, meat in front of the horse, PG shifted; then he opened the door - two girls flew out and disappeared; PG ran to BV's mother, asked for forgiveness; she persuaded BV to forgive too; both go to war, PG on the horse that BV fed meat; when BB fed meat; when BB fights, a street will wave in one direction, a lane in the other; but there is only more enemy power; PG came to the blacksmiths: soldiers appear from hammer blows, non-commissioned officers in another place, girls in the third they sew on the hoop like they are poked with a needle - officer; PG: amen to your work; they are grateful for stopping them; the warriors are no longer there, BV killed everyone, joyfully rolls like a hay pile; PG killed him; guilty in front of his mother, she led her to the well to collect living and dead water; PG drowned it in it, took water for herself; revived the brothers, went home with them and his sister; picked up a stone, a hole under it, told his brothers put him down in his belts; sent two girls to his brothers from below, but they couldn't pull him out; married those girls; PG came to the old man, began to herd his oxen; he tells them not to drive them to protected meadows; PG drove there, towards the monster with three heads, he killed him; the next day about five heads, the same; then six; hid these heads under the bed; the old man found it, glad; promises to ask The firebird, will it carry PG to the ground; sitting on the bird, PG feeds the poultry meat, it is over, it cut off its legs from its calves; the bird flew to the ground, died exhausted; PG revived it with living water, it regurgitated the meat from his legs, he took it with dead and living water; returned home, got married]: Smirnov 1917, No. 11:111-121; Russians (Zaonezhye or Pinega, Poganets, 1927, E.F.Fofanova, 12 years old) [The king takes turns sending his sons to watch the garden where apples are missing. The elders fall asleep and don't see the thief. The youngest sees that the apples are being stolen by a polar bear. He asks his brothers to let him down into the hole from which the beast comes out. He finds himself in a copper hut, the girl transfers threads from ball to ball, feeds and poit-puts to bed (at the request of the guest), learns about his goal and says that there are 2 more girls and a grandmother ahead. In a silver hut, a girl winds silver threads, everything repeats itself, and the same goes in a golden hut (a girl with gold threads says that the bear lives with her grandmother). He promises to marry each of the girls. Ivan turns his hut on his chicken foot, the old woman tells him that the bear will force him to heat the bathhouse, and then ask him to give it up, but this cannot be done, otherwise the beast will eat him. He follows the old woman's advice, does not give up when the bear asks, the beast writhes and dies. Ivan rips off his skin, picks up his grandmother and three girls. Every girl twists the hut into a ball and puts it in her pocket. They go to the hole, Ivan warms the crows with a bear skin, sends them upstairs to the girls' brothers, and they start fighting over them. The brothers lift Ivan up, but not completely and throw him back into the hole. The raven brings Ivan to the surface of the earth, and on the way, the bird eats the bull's meat it brings, which Ivan throws into his beak when it ends, cuts off the meat from his legs. The raven sees that the prince is limping, spits out his meat and putting it at his feet. He returns to his kingdom during the wedding of a girl from a golden hut, marries her, she develops a hut out of a ball]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 77:175-178; Russians (Zaonezhye) [widow became pregnant, gave birth son Okati-Goroshka; the tsar heard rumors about his pampering, OG asked the tsar not to execute him, he would find his three missing daughters; the tsar agreed; OG meets, takes Roznigor's heroes as companions, then Usinya; came to the house, R. and W. could not shake the gate, OG opened the gate; R. cooked lunch, but came Himself with his fingernail, beard off his elbow and ate everything; the next day the same with W.; on the third day, OG carried out Sam- with-fingernail into the yard, pinched his beard; the heroes went to throw an anchor to the mountain, R. and W. did not anchor, OG, climbed the chain and came to the copper kingdom; the elder princess hid it, her husband flew in, smelled Russian spirit, the princess began to caress him, he fell asleep, OG cut off his head and followed the second princess (the same, the silver palace); the third in gold; each packed her palace in a box; the princesses went down, the heroes they pulled off the chain and OG was left alone upstairs; came to the lake house; there the old man asked to herd his cattle, but on the road, not on the grass; OG disobeyed and the snakes began to sting the cattle; OG killed them with a sword; on the third day A 12-headed snake flew in, the mother of the dead, tried to eat OG, he cut off her 6 heads, who brought alive and dead water for leaving the other 6; he smeared the old man's eyes with them, he saw the light; grateful old man sent OG home, planting it on an eagle; there was not enough meat, I had to cut it off from my own calves; the shoemaker said that the first princess followed R., the second for W., and the third for who would sew her shoes, which were in the golden kingdom; OG opened the box in which the golden palace and took out gold boots, sent a shoemaker with shoes to the princess, who understood everything and asked for the same dress; then the whole palace; in the morning The shoemaker was asked who the builder of the palace was, he pointed to the OG; OG married the princess, R. and U. to two other princesses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 41:119-123; Russians (Vologda, Kirillovsky U.) []: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 54:204-209; Russians (Pskov) [Tsar sent his son to the end of the world to marry his beloved beauty; he came to his grandmother, tied his horse to a copper ring; she shouts that he there is no ring worth it, let alone copper; the prince tells him to feed him first and put him to bed; the old woman does not know about her beloved beauty; the same applies to an old woman with a silver ring; an old woman with a gold ring called and began to ask fish and reptiles, then birds; only the mogol bird knows, agreed to take the prince there; on the way, the prince feeds the bird meat and gives wine; there was not enough meat, he cut off pieces of calves legs; when he reached, the Mogul spit them out and put them back; after marrying his beloved beauty, the prince fell asleep, at which time Kashchei the Immortal stole it; the prince came in his absence, told his wife to find out than Kashchei's death; he said that he was in a wreath; next time he confessed: there was a stump in the lake, an egg was the death of Koshchei; the fish delivered a stump, the prince broke it, threw the egg until Kashchei died; everything is fine]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 35:76-79; Russians (Moscow) [the old man weaved bast shoes, sold it; 12 brothers are dragging a mare; the old man gave for her what he took for bast shoes; the mare has a pearl tail, the mane is golden; tells you to sit on it, but not cling to the clouds with its head; at home, the mare immediately necklaced and gave birth to a foal; the landowner bought it for 500 rubles; the mare to the old man: but he forgot about me; he fed her, she flew to the steppe and gave birth to a son (IK); he went to rescue the princess, she was carried away by a 12-headed serpent; he met Gorynya and Dubynya as companions; they were afraid to go down into the snake kennel, IK descended; the princess has the serpent on her knees, she is looking for lice in his heads; tells him to mark strength with impotence in places; the serpent has drunk impotence; they fight with sabers; IK: Serpent, look around, your kingdom is burning" snakes looked around, IK cut down all the heads; the princess gave her ring; her companions picked her up; IK tied a stone, they cut off the rope, believing that they were raising the IR; 12 cabbage rolls promised to bring IR to the ground, telling them to prepare water and meat; the last portion was not enough, he cut off the eggs from his right leg, divided it into 12 parts, gave it to cabbage rolls; on the ground, the birds coughed up pieces, put them back; the mare's mother came running, hit the stone, the crows became to peck at her; IC grabbed a crow, ordered the crow to bring alive and dead water, revived his mother; dressed as a beggar, he came to the princess's wedding with Dubynya; the bride recognized her ring; Dubynya was opened across the field, IK received the kingdom]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 23:58-61; Russians (Tambov Gubernia) [the king is old, blind; we need rejuvenating apples, living water; the eldest son comes to a woman, she offers to lie down with her Duneya, he falls into the dungeons to threshing raw rye; the same average; the youngest hits D . in the bathhouse, makes the brothers let go, they go wandering; the youngest comes to the girl, she refers to her sister, she refers to the other, the eldest to their witch aunt, teaches her 6-winged horse to cut the veins of an aunt, carry apples, water on its 4-wing; brothers steal from a sleeping apple, but not water, into the underworld; there they give maidens to be eaten by a snake, the turn of the royal daughter; the hero cuts off the snake's seven heads; the deceiver kills him, makes the princess recognize him as the snake as the winner; the princess catches his head and torso in the sea, revives him with living water; he shows the snake heads hidden by him; the deceiver tied to a horse, let her into the field; a hat bird lifts the young to the ground, on the way she feeds her a bull, the princess cuts off the last piece from her thigh; the bird regurgitates it, the prince applies back; restores sight to his father with water; deceiving brothers rushed into the river]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 171:431-435; Russians (Kursk, Valuisky District) [The only son of a poor widow is forced to beg alms , then he hires a rich old man, promises to do it for three. He grinds his life, agrees with two men to work together. At night, they look for fire in the field, the grandfather by the fire agrees to give fire in exchange for a fairy tale, the men can't tell, he cuts a belt out of their backs. The widow's son agrees to tell the story, on the condition that the old man does not interrupt him. He tells stories for a long time, then says that his grandfather rode his old grandfather in the next world. The old man screams "you're lying", the widow's son clamps his beard in the crevice in the stump, takes the fire. Guys want to see an old man running away with a stump. They follow the trail from the stump that leads them to a bottomless hole, the widow's son comes down and finds himself in another world. In the mansions, three beauties warn him of an evil old man, the youngest shows kegs with weakness and strength, he swaps the contents. The grandfather returns, senses the Russian spirit, the widow's son goes out to fight with him, then both drink from kegs. The widow's son wins, takes treasures and three beauties, but men only pull girls out. He sees that the chicks are threatened by thunderstorm and rain, and covers them with a cloak. In gratitude, their mother promises to take them out of the dead, he is collecting meat for her on the road. The meat runs out on the way, and the man is forced to cut off his thighs. When a bird lands and finds out what it ate, it spits it out and returns it to its place]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:73-76; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [Ivan worked, earned a calf, she brought a calf, I. began to suck milk himself, was nicknamed Cow Son; he goes on a journey, wins, takes Razotrikamen, Debrilom as companions; they hunt, cook in turn; grandfather with a fingernail, asks for a two-meter beard eat, puts hot meat on the cook's stomach, cuts the belt out of his back; I. pinches his grandfather's beard in the beech tree; he leaves, dragging the tree; the companions lower I. into the well, he kills his grandfather, sends him upstairs three captive princesses; companions want their youngest, cut off the rope (I. suspects this, ties a stone instead); I. covers three snakes in a tree from the fiery rain; grateful Serpent agrees to take him to the ground; in flight, I. feeds him, cuts him off the last piece from his leg, the Serpent puts it back; I. is hired by a tailor, works with a magic needle, scissors, etc. received from princesses; princesses bring an order for grooms, recognize I., invite them to a wedding; I. cuts off the heads of traitors, marries a younger princess]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:181-188; Ukrainians ( Eastern Slovakia) [a son under 16 sucks his mother's breast, becomes a hero, pulls out and drags a beech alone, goes on a journey; meets, takes as companions 1) Pulling oaks, 2) Month-old iron; them they give jobs, but they have so much strength that they break everything; they take turns cooking in the forest, hell comes, eats everything, hits the cook; Messiiron asks the devil to help split the log, knocks out the wedge, hands the line is clamped; M. hits him, making him say where the three kidnapped princesses are; hell runs into the hole, Vyrvibuk, Vyrvidub is afraid, M. goes down, hell says princesses have 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons; 6-headed smells a man, the younger princess says that her brother has come; they fight, M. drives the dragon into the ground, cuts off their heads, cuts off their tongues; this is how she frees all the princesses, Vyrvibuk and Vyrvidub them they pull them out, throw them; he covers the chicks from the fiery rain, their mother takes them to the ground; to feed her, he cuts off the meat from his leg, on the ground she puts it back; the king gives her daughters away , M. shows dragon tongues, rings donated by princesses, takes the eldest]: Giryak 1978:215-237; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [the cow gave birth to a boy; the owner is going to slaughter her; the cow called the boy Belokorov (B.), tells him to run, flies with him under the clouds; tells him to uproot sycamore; B. cannot; the cow raises B. for a year, again tells him to pull out the sycamore, B. pulled out; the cow flew away, B. found golden saber; meets, takes Lupaikamen, Krutibuk, Hitaygoru as companions; they razed the mountain and built a house; they hunt and cook one by one; every time Liqutibeard comes, eats everything; B remains the last ., split the sycamore, pinched L.'s beard; he uprooted the sycamore and ran away; the twins follow the trail to the hole in the ground; everyone tries to go down, afraid; B. went down; comes to the house, there is panna and L., he cut off L.'s head; there are three more girls; B. took them out, burned down the house with L.'s body; sends the girls to his brothers upstairs; suspects his companions of infidelity, B. puts stones in place of himself, his companions cut off rope, lifting the stones to the middle; B. kills the 12 bears that attacked him; a snake crawls from the well to devour an eagle; B. killed the snake, the eagle hides it from its mother, then explains to her that B. is the savior; the eagle agrees to take B. to the ground, let him store water and meat; there was not enough meat, B. cut off a piece from the play of his leg; on the ground, the eagle asks what kind of sweet piece was the last; regurgitated and grew; B. meets a boy, this is his son from that panna, she is a cook for others; B. tells his companions to throw a golden sword; when Krutybok and Hytaigor were thrown, the saber pierced the ground; when Lupaykamen cut him off head; Lupaikamen's wife became a cook]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 104:311-325; Poles [the king has 12 sons and a daughter; 12 years after the Queen's death, he marries the witch's daughter; she turns stepsons into eagles, stepdaughter into a dove; the old man turns her into a basilisk, everyone falls dead at his gaze; the same old man has restored the dove to its human appearance; gave an inexhaustible bun; she approaches the gates of another peace at the bottom of the abyss; Death with a scythe says that eagles come here but are not allowed in; because of tears, royal eagles have become young men again; a huge bird descends to carry them from the bottom of the abyss; brothers and sister they sit on it, the queen feeds her a bun; the wind pulls out her bun; the queen cuts off her breasts, feeds the bird; on the ground, the bird breathed on her wounds, her breasts grew; the king returned from the war, killed the voivode using a mirror, the king ordered the basilisk's body to be burned; everyone is happy]: Dombrovsky 1992:68-76; Slovaks [the hunter, at the direction of Baba Yaga, went to hell and went down to the abyss for this purpose; he was taken flying serpent, and when supplies were scarce, the wandering man was forced to give the snake a piece of meat from his own leg and remained lame forever]: Afanasiev 1994 (3): 21; Slovaks [an old woman in 90 years old gives birth to a son Lomidrevo (= Valibuk; Valigora), breastfeeds him until the age of 7, then, at his request, three more years; he is incredibly strong, easily pulls oaks, goes wandering at the age of 17; meets, wins, Satellites 1) a mountain rearranging named Valivrych (Kopivrych, Skalilamay; Studnyak - digging wells), Meatiron; they contracted to threshing grain; the fee is how much they will carry; they demolished the grain in the bins and they took them away; the rich man sent after the bull, then the boar; L. killed them, carried them with him; he chased the servants on the wagon, but L. piled oaks on the road; told M. to make him an iron club; threw them up, set them up back, the club fell apart; ordered another; the king lost three daughters, dragons dragged them into a hole in the ground; three promised to return the princesses; settled in a hut in the forest, cooking in turn; from the chimney a dwarf comes out, a beard from his elbow, hits the cook, dumps hot porridge on his stomach and eats him; when L.'s turn, he pinched a dwarf's beard in the log, beat him with an iron club until he gave his beard, in whose strength is; the dwarf has disappeared into the hole under the stone; the companions envy L.; V., M. try to go down, but tell them to lift them back - there are frogs and snakes; L. promises the dwarf to return his beard, for which he tells him to show them the road to the older princess; there's a copper lock on his magpie's leg; L. stomped, he stopped shaking; the 6-headed dragon throws his iron club, L. throws it back; the dragon eats lead bread, calls for lead current, suggests driving each other into lead; they drove each other to the waist; then L. drove the dragon up to the neck, demolished his head with a club; the princess turned the castle and all the riches into a copper apple, L. sent it to the ground; the same in a silver castle (9-headed dragon, iron bread), in gold (12-headed, steel bread); before asking himself to be picked up, L. sent a stone upstairs, the companions cut off rope; L. came to the bird nest Knochta (Knofta; a giant mythical bird), killed a snake that always devoured chicks; or protected the chicks from the rain, one drop of which always killed them; chicks told his mother about L. who arrived, she did not swallow it, but promised to help; told them to stock up on a hundred rams and a hundred barrels of water; flies with L. to the ground, there was not enough lamb, L. cut off a piece from his thigh; bird: if only I knew that a man was so tasty, she would eat you; but she regurgitated a piece and put it back; weddings were being prepared in town, but princesses demand the same dresses they had underground; L. hired a tailor; at night he took out copper, silver, golden apples, took out their dresses; let the princesses come for them themselves; L. called the elders freaks and drove them away, gave the youngest a golden dress, married her; took out the locks from apples; gave two older princesses to his companions (forgiving them)]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 10:50-66; Slovaks [a woman does not know who will take lunch to her husband on the field, dreams of a son at least with a pea the size of a pea; a pea turns into a boy; he carries soup and dumplings to his father, fell into a ditch, the soup spilled, he almost drowned in it, got out of the dumplings, collected them again, they were in the mud; brought it to his father, said that the dog spilled soup, that there were poppies in dumplings; the father did not believe it, he 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 it, he 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 arrived, he hid in a pot; enriching his parents, he went on a journey; people are taking them to 12 iron in carts, they can't go uphill; G. proposes to remove the mountain if that date he has as much iron as he can carry; moves the mountain, takes everything away; tells the forge to make a club out of it; in 24 days 24 the worker was forged; 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 he 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 ordered him to steal four oxen from the peasant; 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 began to divide the money and they sent G. to wash his giblets so as not to give him his share; by the river he began to beat his giblets and shouted: it was not me, but them; the robbers ran away, G. took their money to his parents; but they just died; during the funeral fell into the grave, and the gravedigger refused to pull him out; he got out himself, buried the gravedigger alive; became a robber again, came to the fire, which has 11 robbers; they argue when to 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 watchman rooster; 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 could hardly walk; G. threw his club and knocked down a 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 their heads the king is ready to give him his daughter; but G. showed his tongues; after the wedding, G. confessed, his skin burst with a crash, a beautiful young man appeared; a merry wedding]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 30:161-170; Czechs: Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (4) [Yanko's ninth son is the strongest; leaves home, wins, takes Vyrvidub, Lomayiron as his brothers; dragons kidnap the king's three daughters, sister cities go to look for them; each one cooks in turn; a dwarf with a huge beard knocks down the cook, eats porridge; I. hits a dwarf, who shows a hole where the dragons have disappeared; only I dare to go down; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of copper, silver, gold castles; sends them upstairs, then the stone, the twin brothers cut off the rope, the stone falls; I. kills a snake ready to eat the chicks ; they explain to their mother that he is their savior, not their enemy; the bird carries me on itself, he throws meat into her beak, pours water, cuts off the last piece from her leg; on the ground she spits it out, puts it on; I beats, but forgives his brothers, all three marry three rescued princesses]: 71-88; Němcová 1990 [Mikesh asks his blacksmith father to give him iron to forge a staff; he gives 25 pounds, then 7 quintals; M. wanders, meets, and companions a mill worker (one carries a millstone), his name is Cuba; the carpenter Bobesh in the forest (pulled out and carried a spruce); the king's three daughters disappeared when each was 18; friends go to look for them; in the forest, B. finds a cave, food, drink, beds in front of it; M. and K. go to bed, B. guards, falls asleep; a long-bearded dwarf comes and hits him; friends enter the cave, there is a kitchen; B. stays first to cook; a dwarf appears, says the meat is in the chimney; B. climbs the stairs, the dwarf cleans it, B. breaks his neck; but the parchment has a spell written, M. reads, B. comes to life; the next the day is the same with K.; M. tears off the dwarf's beard, he turned into an old woman, she disappeared into a cave; the old woman returned, M. demanded to feed them, then tell them where the princesses are; in the dragon's cave; the old woman M. lowers on a rope, the castle is below; the old woman teaches how to light a candle, she will dazzle the guarding lions, then kill them with Mikesh's iron staff; B. and K. raise the girls to the ground; the old woman warns that they they will throw M. into the abyss - let her tie her staff first; they raise their staff, throw it; the old woman says that she is the youngest enchanted princess; everything that happened was a condition for her release; it remains to throw the dragon into the sea; take a barrel of meat in the castle, jump on the dragon, he will fly, feed him meat on the way; throw the barrel down by the sea; the dragon will go down, put him to sleep with a candle and kill him with a staff; the old woman will become a girl; for M. to identify her, she gave him half of her ring; the boat took M. from the sea to the shore, disappeared; the returned princesses asked her father to postpone the wedding with K. and B. for a year; M. found the castle, threw half of the ring into the wine goblet, told the innkeeper to take it to the princess; she recognized her ring; M.'s wedding with the princess; they came to her father; the liars fled; the elders princesses found other husbands]: 100-119.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray District, Karalez) [the padishah has two sons; he does not order to hunt in the west and east, let them go towards the Kaaba; there is no game there, the elder suggests going east; the well can be seen for a month; the youngest begins to lower the elder, he tells him to pull it out: he burns; the youngest comes down, does not tell him to pull it out; below the door the beauty has a golden tray, on it a golden greyhound chases a silver hare; then a man nailed to the wall, the young man freed him; the dove at the spring tells him to return to the beautiful woman; she is the daughter of the seven-headed Azhdakh, gave Zulfikar the sword; the young man drove Azhdakha into knee-deep, cut off 6 heads; the seventh refused to cut - you are not my father's pair of oxen; the young man sent the girl and the treasure upstairs, then the older brother threw the rope; at home told his father that the youngest was gone to seek his fate; the youngest plunged into the spring and found strength; in the city, the old woman gives her urine instead of water; the seven-headed ajdaha gives water in exchange for the girls; it is the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man fell asleep at her on his knees, woke up to her tears; the young man and Azhdaha drive each other into the ground; the young man drove him to his knees, cut off six heads; abandoned the daughter of the padishah, who gave him gold; he crawls to the nest of the bird Chan-Kushu a three-headed snake, the young man chopped it, fed the chicks meat; Chan-Kushu thinks that he killed her chicks every year, but the chicks explained everything; the young man asks to take him to the ground; took a barrel of meat and a barrel with him water; the last piece was cut off from his thigh; on the ground, the bird put it back; the young man came to the wedding of his older brother; the bride: I have been in mourning for 40 days; the young man sees a young man under his window; the young man pointed a mole to his father recognized him in his body; his older brother was beheaded, the youngest married a rescued girl]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 30; Kalmyks; Stavropol Turkmens; Abkhazians; Abazans; Adygs; Kabardian people; Karachays; Balkarians; Ossetians; Terek Cossacks (art. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar's eldest daughter asks to let her go to the "unhappy" garden; there a storm rises and takes her away; the same with her middle daughter; when the youngest began to ask, she was chained to bed, covered with iron canopy and left in the garden in a room with 12 iron doors; a 12-headed serpent arrives, takes the girl along with the bed; Ivan Tsarevich calls to find the kidnapped, takes three generals as assistants; sees how 12-, 9- and 6-headed snakes fly out of the passage to the underworld one by one; I. tells the generals to lower him on a rope into the underworld and wait above; comes to a city where all tailors; those they give I. a ball of thread and tell him to throw it in front of him; the ball leads to the palace; the princess says that her husband is a 6-headed serpent; hides I. in the room, in it a tub with strong and a tub with powerless water; I. tries both; changes tubs in places; takes a kladenets sword from the royal daughter, hides; a 6-headed serpent who has arrived drinks powerless water instead of strong water and falls asleep; I. cuts off his heads; princess gives I. a ball of thread; he rolls to the palace in which her sister; I. drinks strong water, moves the tubs of water, kills the 9-headed snake; the princess gives a ball of thread; warns that the younger sister's husband - 12-headed serpent, he shackled his 12-headed father in the basement; with the help of a ball of thread, I. finds a crystal palace; meets the princess there, drinks strong water, changes the tubs; a snake that has arrived falls asleep; I. cuts off his 9 heads; the serpent growls, his father hears, breaks 6 chains; I. princess: "Run to your father-in-law soon; if he asks what this noise is, you say that a strong storm has risen, turned it around the root is a large oak tree that stood by the window: this oak hit the palace and broke all the windows; yes, take an iron pitchfork, hot; when my father-in-law says: "Raise my eyelids with a pitchfork, I'll see what is being done," you and if I come to help you with a pitchfork; the princess runs to the basement; I. cuts off the remaining 3 heads of the snake; the princess says to her father-in-law what was commanded; father-in-law: "Take a pitchfork, and raise my eyelids - I'll see what is being done"; the princess stabs his eyes with a hot pitchfork; I. comes running and killing him; regrets not seeing such a palace on earth; the princess gives him a silk shawl saying: "Wave them - I give you this palace"; I. waves his handkerchief, a golden egg appears in his hand; with the help of a ball of thread, I. returns with the princess to her sister; she also gives him a silk shawl; I. waves at them, receives a silver egg; throws a ball of thread in front of him, goes with both princesses to their older sister; waves her handkerchief, receives a copper egg; when he reaches the aisle, I. alternately ties the sisters to the generals raise them to the rope; saying goodbye to the third princess, I. takes off her personalized ring; I. ties a stone to the rope; the generals lift it to the middle and let it go; they tell the king that it is them saved his daughters; the younger princess refuses to marry the general and tells the truth; the king does not believe it, but postpones the wedding; I. wanders; climbs into a huge nest in a tree during the rain ; there are three chicks; I. covers them with his last hollow and warms them; the chicks tell the vulture bird about their savior; she offers I. help, tells them to prepare 12 barrels of game and 12 barrels of water; during the flight, I. feeds and wateres her: "When the bird looks to the right, he will splash water on it; if he looks to the left, he will throw a piece of meat"; there is not enough meat for the whole journey; I. cuts off meat from both calves, feeds the vulture bird; she flies into the light, falls to the ground; asks I. what kind of delicious meat was the last time: when he finds out, he expectorates both calves and puts them at I.'s feet; he heals, goes to the king; the younger princess finds out I. on a ring on his hand; the king orders the generals to be tied to horse tails and let them go across the field, the youngest daughter marries I.; I. waves silk scarves; three palaces appear; one of them I. gives the eldest princess, the other is middle, lives with his wife in the third]: Butova 1889, No. 3:128-141; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 3 [the girl was kidnapped by a bear, she gave birth to a son Chaitong ("bear cub"), he grew up, mother brought him to her parents; he did not enter the house, but went on a journey; met a log throwing up his little finger; he met: it's nothing, the bear's son C. does miracles; C. took him as a companion; then but with a man who listened to the ants talking; all three stopped in a forest hut, cooking one by one; yeshap came, ate everything, tied the cook to the bed with a hair from his beard; when they returned comrades, the cook, who was struggling to free himself, replied that he was ill; the same with the second companion; C. tied the yeshap by his mustache to a pole; on a bloody trail, friends came to the pit; only C. decided to go down; there are three yeshap wives in three rooms, the youngest he put his head on his knees; C. hardly won and killed yeshap; sent three women upstairs, the youngest gave him a ring, told him to touch the white stallion, he will take him to the ground; forbid touching black and red; the companions did not raise C., took the women away; C. went into the stable, accidentally touched the black stallion, found himself in the lowest world; there was an old woman cooks food using dirty water; Sarmak at the spring gives water to clean in exchange for girls; Sarmak forgives C. twice as a guest when he collects water; leads the girl, C. killed Sarmak with a dagger; "Let the dagger will be pulled out by whoever stabbed it"; tells the rider to say that he saved the girl; but no one can pull out the dagger; C. did it easily; grateful padchah advises killing Sarmak, who regularly eagle eagles chicks; the chicks hid C. so that the returning eagle would not think that he was killing the chicks; the eagle orders to cook meat, bread and water for 12 days; there was not enough meat, C. cut off piece by piece from leg and hand; on the ground, the eagle put pieces back; the girl recognized C., former friends ran away; =Tankiev 1997, No. 12:257-263]: 33-39; Potanin 1883 [the bear makes the ploughman meet her; on the same day His son, who was immediately born and grew up, approaches him; his son became an abrek, taking another one as his comrades; each one takes turns guarding the hut; the man himself is six quarters, The beard of seven ties the guard, takes what he needs; the guards are sick; the bear son drives the bearded man into the tree like an ax; he breaks out, they follow the bloody trail to the tower, woman picks them up; a bearded man comes, they kill him; a bear son chains his comrades, he cannot; a woman warns that three rams will come; if he jumps on black, he will fall into the third the underworld, on red - in the second, on white - will be on the ground; it falls on black; in the lower world, a woman is going to knead dough in urine; the snake Sarmyg lay down at the spring, gives water in exchange for girl; Bear son takes water twice, the third time S. swallows it, he cut it from the inside with a sword, went out; tells the sword that no one but him can remove it from the body of the snake; king whose daughter owes was to go to eat, tells me to turn to the eagle in a tree in the middle of the sea; the chicks ask their father for a man; on the way, the Bear Son throws buffaloes and rams to the eagle, and finally cuts off the flesh from his thigh; he belches a piece back to the ground; Bear son finds comrades, marries a woman from a tower, marries comrades]: 782-784; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [the woman rolled out the dough (reeds), covered with a tablecloth, and when she took it off, the boy Kamyr Batyr was there; he grew up, took a horse from his father, went on a journey; he meets and companions several dhows, everyone says that he is not amazing, but K.; one pulls trees, the other throws rocks, the third drinks the sea; they put up a hut, cook one by one; a rider is an inch tall, a 40-inch beard eats everything, ties the cook with his hair; when K.'s turn, he tied the dwarf between the trees; he uprooted them, the trail led to the well, K. went down on a silk rope; there were three daughters of a dwarf, one gave K. strong water, he killed a dwarf, sent the girls upstairs, his companions threw the rope; K. came to the old man; he teaches him to sit on a white ram, but K. accidentally sat on a black one, who threw it even lower; below the old man advises killing Azdag, who eats the Caracus bird's chicks, it will carry it to the ground; K. killed Azdag, the chicks hid it; the wind has risen (from the wings of the mother bird), an icy tiny (her tears) fell from the sky; the bird tells cook meat and water for 9 months; K. cut off the last piece from the thigh; the bird swallowed it and spit it it out healthy; K. executed treacherous companions, took the girls]: 209-218; Nogai 1979, No. 10 [father sends sons to guard a thief who steals golden apples; the older, middle brother falls asleep, the youngest snatches out the feather of a golden bird; the older, middle brother goes to look for it, disappear; the younger comes to the fork , "you will die on the right road, a horse on the left road"; walks on the left; the wolf eats the horse; carries the young man; tells you to take a bird without a cage; he takes the cage, raises the alarm; the king promises to give the bird for a horse with a golden mane; a wolf tells not to take a bridle; a young man takes, the king promises to give a horse for a gold-haired girl; a young man kills Azdaa with one, two, etc. (up to seven) heads; The wolf pretends to a girl, a horse, a young man returns with a girl, a horse, a bird; meets brothers; they throw him into a hole; a seven-headed serpent gives water in exchange for a girl; a young man kills a snake; a king puts a young man on an eagle, a stock food and water for seven days; it is not enough; the young man cuts off meat from his hips, gives his eyes instead of water; on the ground, the eagle returns everything; in the guise of a beggar, a young man comes to the wedding of his gold-haired and older brother; the firebird's feather shows; brothers were torn by horses]: 34-45; Lezgins; Udis; Armenians; Georgians; Kurds; Turks; Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959 [ when they die, the parents tell their three daughters not to refuse their matchmakers; they marry the Wolf, the Raven Bear; the brother comes to their sons-in-law, they are handsome men; they decide that the sisters' brother deserves a beautiful woman from the lower world; a young man lowers a chain, pulls out a five-headed giant guard, kills; goes down; three girls complain that a crocodile gives water for a person to be eaten; a young man kills a crocodile; their mother Voronikha; a young man marries a Malik's daughter, Voronikha takes them to the ground; on the way, the young man feeds her, the meat runs out, he cuts off his legs; on the ground, Voronikha puts it back; a feast with his sons-in-law]: 76-83; Ossetians [a farmhand boy took refuge from the rain in a fallen horse; the eagle brought it to the nest; the boy cut his skin into ropes, went down, came to the old woman; her seven sons returned, sensed the human spirit; accepted the boy as a brother; they are the eagles, one of which picked up the carcass; the middle eagle brother carries him on his back, who throws meat into his mouth; cuts off the last piece from his leg; the eagle attaches a piece back]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 39:127-130; Abkhazians: Inal-ipa 1977 [Sasrikva is the youngest of many brothers, stronger than them; out of envy they push him into a hole; in the lower world, a dragon at the spring of almost everyone devoured, the old woman remains; S. kills the dragon; the grateful eagle takes S. out of the hole; on the way S. feeds him meat, pulls the last piece out of his body]: 20; Salakaya 1976, No. 16 [chasing his sister's kidnappers Gunda the Beautiful's sledge, Sosrykva falls into the abyss; in the lower world he kills a dragon that gives water in exchange for girls; the Eagle lifts him to the ground; on the way S. feeds him, cuts him off the last piece from his thigh; The eagle regurgitates it and puts it back; S. beats G.]: 206-211; Avars [Aigurova Ali is so strong that he harnessed dragons into the arba; takes a river swallower and a sharpshooter as satellites; swallows, then the shooter stays cooking, the dwarf ties them with his hair, eats lunch; AA pinched the dwarf's beard with a plane tree; he escaped, went into the hole; the companions are afraid to go down, it's hot; AA kills the dwarf, sends upstairs his captive; she warns that if the rope is cut off, AA must jump on a white ram that comes running to butt black, he will take it upstairs; AA hit the black one, fell lower; there 9- the head dragon closes the water, gives it in exchange for the girls; AA kills him; the khan says that only a kwankwa bird can carry to the ground; a three-headed serpent crawls to its nest, AA kills him; grateful kwankwa picks up AA, he feeds her buffalo meat, gives her water; cuts off the last piece from her leg; kwanqua belches it, puts it back; AA kills the swallower and the shooter fighting over the girl marries]: Saidov , Dalgat 1965:174-183; Georgians (Kartli) [the eagle spread out on three oaks, asks the hunter not to kill him, cure him; carries him to his parents, tells them to ask them only a box for treatment; on the way the hunter feeds the eagle, cuts off the last piece from the leg; when it reaches, the eagle heals it; the eagle's mother tells him not to open the box on the way; the man opens, the whole city comes out of it; the devil puts it back behind a promise to give what you don't know at home; this is a newborn son; he grows up, goes to the maiden to be eaten; the old woman tells the youngest of the deva daughters to hide the dress when they swim; she becomes his wife ; dev tells you to cover the house and yard with gold cloth; put up a palace by morning; the wife's people perform; go around the horse, this is the dev himself, the wife gives a bit and a hammer; the spouses run; the wife turns into a field, the husband becomes a reaper; in forest and old man; into the lake and duck; the first two times are chased by the mother, the third by both; they drink the lake, they burst]: Chikovani 1954, No. 31:167-172; Megrelians: Mashurko 1894 (Eki village) [mother of four daughters conceived after swallowing the grain, his son named Kazhandi; he ordered an unthinkably heavy club and a bow and arrows from the blacksmith, went on a journey; met and accompanied Ahmet (moved mountains) and Bosch (raised part land); they live in the forest, cook in turn; a priest comes, connects the cook, eats food; when K. stays, he beats the priest, he runs away, his companions follow him, he disappeared into a hole in the ground; companions K. is lowered into it; where the priest dies, he has three daughters; K. filled the priest with hot bacon; sent the girls and treasures upstairs; wanting to check his companions, put a stone in the basket instead of himself ; they cut off the rope; K. comes to the old woman, she has only dirty water; for each jug of water, you must give a man to the dragon; K. killed the dragon; he is advised to return upstairs on the eagle's back, prepare it in the road of meat; there was only enough meat halfway, the eagle returned; K. came to the people who were guarding the giants that caused the wind; K. released the giants, the hurricane began, they were caught again; K. flies again on the eagle, gives meat from his leg; on the ground, the eagle heals the wound by touching it with its pen; K. married the youngest of the girls, the companions apologized]: 393-399; 1904, No. 1 [nine brothers buy a plot of land they go there to work; the sister is told that they will throw garlic heads on the way; the old mdevi picks up garlic, scatters it on the way to her house; when hungry and unable to find her sister at home, the brothers they come to the mdevi, her sons defeat them, lock them in a barn to eat at the festival; God sends the Raven to find out why the mother of the missing is crying; the crow promises to tell God if the old woman gives her hers eye; God tells God that she is crying for the killed child; the same is true for the second eye; God sends a Dove, who tells the truth; God curses the Raven, sends the old woman a handkerchief with the Dove to wipe her eyes and see the light, an apple to conceive a son; he becomes a giant, hears from his playmates that he had brothers and sister; comes to Mdevi, fights; the severed head of the younger monster grows back, the bird tells sprinkle ash on the wound; this is how the hero kills all the mdevis, frees his brothers and sister; the brothers offer to race, provoking the hero to step on the carpet that closes the hole; the hero falls at the well, next to him the daughter of an underground king cries, who is given to be eaten by a dragon that has closed the water; the hero falls asleep, wakes up from a tearful beauty, kills a dragon with an arrow; a grateful king puts the hero on an eagle along with a load of meat; there is not enough meat, the hero cuts him off from his own leg, an eagle heals him on the ground; the hero returns to his mother, does not take revenge on his brothers]: 1-6; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [Shah's apple tree every year brings one rejuvenating apple, someone takes it away; the older, the middle one falls asleep, the younger Melik-Mamed injures the diva, the brothers follow the bloody trail; the elders cannot go down to the well because of the heat, MM successively meets three girls and three divas at the bottom; each points a bubble with the soul of a diva, MM breaks it; sends the girls upstairs; the youngest says that if the brothers cut the rope, MM must jump on a white ram; cuts the rope, the white ram drops MM on the black one, which takes him to the realm of darkness; there the dragon devours the chicks of the Zumrud bird every year; MM kills him; the bird promises carry MM upstairs if he gets forty oxen carcasses and forty wineskins of water; MM kills the dragon that covers the water for the girls; the king gives him meat and wineskins full of water; the last piece of MM cuts off from his thigh, the bird puts it back; MM is hired by a tailor; in his true form on horseback, cuts off the head of his older, middle brothers; opens, marries, the other two girls are given for courtiers]: 50-63 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 463-474);; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [someone is ruining the royal vineyard; the elder, middle prince falls asleep, the younger shoots an arrow at the diva, he disappeared into a hole under with a stone; the prince asks his brothers to lower him into the hole; there are three girls; the prince broke the vessel in which the soul of the diva, the diva, died; the prince sent the girls upstairs; the youngest warns that the brothers may try get rid of it; if you sit on a white ram, it will throw it into the world of light, and the black sheep into the world of darkness; the brothers cut off the rope; the prince accidentally sat on a black ram, found himself in a world of darkness; there the dragon closed water, they feed him, collect water while he eats; the prince killed him; the girl who was carrying food to the dragon dipped her hand in blood, left a mark on the prince's back; the prince fell asleep under a tree; killed a snake that crawled to ruin the nest; mother's chicks: this man saved us; the bird told us to cook meat and milk to feed and water her on the way up; the prince asked the local king for the girl who left mark; the tsar was convinced that the mark was there, gave it back; the prince cut off the last piece of meat from his thigh; on the ground, the bird put it back; the wedding; the tsar punished the elder brothers]: 103-110; Stamboliev 1896, No. 1 ( Shusha) [the diva took the son and daughter of a man, who was born hero Hasan; he makes an iron club for himself, comes to his sister, kills the diva, tells the witch to spell his brother turned into a donkey; on the way home brother kills sleeping G.; mother is happy, because G. was too strong; pigeons revive him; G. kills his brother; mother informs the king about this; the king sends G. to the forest to be torn to pieces by animals, he kills animals; Yeah- Kerim splashes water from the river for several miles; Gul-Mamed throws stones; G. defeats them, takes them as companions; each one cooks in turn, the old man ties the cook with his hair, eats everything; G. remains. He tears off the old man's head, head and body roll; on a bloody trail, G. goes down to the well, goes down; sends three girls upstairs; the latter tells him to jump on the black ram, he will throw him at the white ram, white - upstairs; the companions threw the rope; G. jumped on white, was thrown on black, then into the lower world; there the snake gives water in exchange for the victim, the princess's turn; G. kills the snake; the king offers the princess, G. asks him to be taken upstairs; the king sends him to the bird Roch, her crocodile eats her children; G. kills him, Roch carries him to the ground, supplies run out, G. cuts off a piece of meat from his thigh; his bird is on the ground regurgitates, puts it back; G. burns the bird's feather, it arrives, gives a horse; at the wedding, AK and GM G. kills them while horseback, passes two girls off as others, takes the youngest for himself]: 1-8.

Iran - Central Asia. The Persians [Wolf, Leo, Eagle marry three daughters of the deceased Shah; their brother Malek-Ahmad is hired by a Jew; he feeds him for 39 days, tells him to slaughter a camel on the fortieth, climb inside; birds they take MA to the mountain; a Jew tells her to drop gems, leaves; MA comes to a dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of divas, she asks her sons not to kill him; he opens the forbidden forty-first door; there Yusuf Shah Peri is thirsty; MA gives him water, he breaks his chains, gives his seal, flies to Mount Kof; outside the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA steals the clothes of one of the three dove girls; the wife gives birth two boys, divas bring them down to the ground; the wife asks for her clothes, tells them to come to Mount Kof for them; MA again hires a Jew unrecognized, kills him by throwing a stone at his head from the mountain; divas forgive him , but do not know the way to Kof; among the husbands of the MA sisters, only Orel can help: the mother of the bird under his command knows the way; asks to take fat tails and wineskins with her; the meat runs out, the MA cuts off a piece of the thigh; Having reached the goal, the bird puts the meat back; the MA shows Yusuf the seal, who sends his sister, her husband and sons to the ground with gifts; without MA, there is drought, hunger; MA makes a shah, abundance begins]: Osmanov 1987:243-250; Persians; Tajiks [blacksmith's son Halim tells his father to tie him a 40-pound iron chain, goes on a journey; meets, wins, takes Sadakan as his companion, who uprooted trees; someone ate all the supplies, took away animal skins; at the bottom of the divas gorge, H. kills him with his chain, the heroes go down, free the captives, the most beautiful X. takes brides; throws the chain to the edge of the gorge; S. rises, followed by a girl, then he drops the chain over H.'s head; a cloud flies up, throws H. the ram, he eats, recovers; threw the chain up again and got up; saw that the chain helped him pull out a huge bird; came to a city where the dragon devours a camel, a ram and a girl every day; when the dragon comes out of the river, H. kills him with a chain, saving the daughter of the padishah; padishah: H.'s bride, kidnapped by the insidious S., can only be found by the Simurg bird; H. killed a snake crawling to devour the chicks with a chain; Simurg carried H. to the island where his fiancée; on the way, H. feeds her with sheep, the last piece cuts off from his own thigh; when he reached, Simurg touches the wound with his beak, the wound healed; H. raised S. and threw it so hard that he went all into the ground; returned home with his bride]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:103-108 (=Ulug-zade 1967:103-112); Uzbeks; Yagnobs; Sarykoltsy; Vakhans: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 8 [the maid tells the king that his three favorite sons are sleeping and his son from his unloved wife, he wants to go to Mount Kaf to bring the Pearl that Shines at Night; the king sends sons, loved ones go along the road from where you return, the unloved ones from where you will not return; kills black, white, red divas, three wagers remain waiting for him; the latter sends him to the Simurg bird; she has a nest on a plane tree; every year the dragon comes out of the pond, eats its chicks; the prince cuts off his three heads, chicks they tell their mother that he saved them; Simurg carries him, runs out of meat, he cuts off some of the caviar; on Mount Kof Simurg regurges a piece, puts it; explains how to take the Pearl and the White Falcon from the Queen with Hair in Forty Gyazov; the scorched garden should be called blooming, the crooked bridge and the crooked gate should be called straight; under the dog, the hay, in front of the horse, the bones must be changed; the hair of the sleeping Queen with Hair in Forty Gyazov you need to nail it to 40 pillars; swap the pearls in the legs and heads, inner and outer trousers; in the inner keys, you need to unlock 40 rooms, take the Falcon and the Pearl; the Queen woke up, tells the guards (gate, bridge, etc.) to hold the kidnapper, they refuse; on the way home, the prince buys the brothers from slavery; they tied a sword to the doors of the tent, the prince stumbles upon him, remains without legs; brother they pulled out his eyes, put him side by side; the dog and the horse take care of the prince; the voice tells him to hold on to the dog's tail, which leads to the spring, the legs grow, the eyes grow in the eye sockets; the brothers bring the Falcon and the Pearl; the Queen with Hair comes to Forty Gyazov, asks each of the brothers how they managed to get things; she cuts off one nose, the other's arm, and the third leg; makes them find the prince, takes him to her husband, his father gives him the throne], 12 [the cat tells the sheep that today she will be slaughtered and she will eat her fat tail; the sheep asks the cat to bring a knife, cuts off her fat tail, she opened the door, the sheep went to Mount Kof, gave birth to a herd of sheep and a boy Mai-Zman ("son of a sheep"); tells him to go to people; the Ministry of Health meets, wins, takes Chinorboz ("playing plane trees"), Kuboza ("playing with mountains"), Khdorgboz ("playing with mountains") millstones"); companions come to an empty house, food is ready there; they take turns guarding; a girl comes out of the crack in the pole, washes, paints the rest, puts a dish with food, turns into a needle, goes back; the rest stains his face with mud without anyone noticing; when the Ministry of Health remains, he sprinkles salt on the cut, grabs the girl, the companions agree to have him take her wife; MH tells his wife to watch the fire; she dropped a red bead, thought that the coals were turning red and they went out; she sees smoke over a pile of stones, comes, there are Barzangi; tells me to sprinkle the road with fried lice, then the dung in the hearth will catch fire; on the trail she comes riding a goat, sticks needles into the bread, tells the girl to dance on them, she hurts her legs, he drinks blood; the companions take turns guarding, everyone is afraid; the Ministry of Health hits with a dagger, kills 5 heads of Barzanga, the sixth under a stone, the seventh ran away, returned with an army; the Ministry of Health burns the hairs of his mother sheep, which heals his wounds and the wounds of his companions; the Ministry of Health orders him to be lowered into the hole under the stone, where the sixth head disappeared (the companions tried, but could not); Barzanga's shepherd is below; the Ministry of Health asks him how to count the cattle (hit the tree, how many leaves did not crumble, so many sheep were missing), how cross the river (say "chuck", the waters will part), where our grandfather's soul, i.e. Barzanga (in a staff, if you break it on the knee, he will die), grandmothers (in the stones that grind salt; hit each other, the wick will flash, blow it out), the shepherd himself (in the lice on the back of the head); the Ministry of Health suggests cleaning the shepherd's head, presses the louse, "pulls on the demand that was on the shepherd's head"; under the guise of a shepherd crosses the river; the grandmother asks to bring a sheep, a goat, he brings a ram, a goat; says that he has confused everything in the sun; breaks the staff, blows out the wick; sends the cattle upstairs to his companions; tells him to drag himself, but does not tie themselves; they cut off the rope; a forest has grown out of a thorn that has fallen into the leg of a Simurg bird; the Ministry of Health frees Simurg; her children think that a man wants to kill her, she explains everything; tries to raise the Ministry of Health to the ground, there were not enough supplies, he throws the meat out of her hand, but she comes back; the next day, from her leg, they reach the ground, Simurg regurges, puts pieces of meat back to the Ministry of Health; gives two feathers - turn an old man and a young man; under the guise of an old man, he comes to his companions, becomes young, kills them with a dagger; lives with his wife]: 113-125, 153-163; Ishkashim [someone pulls trees in the royal garden; two elder They guard the brothers, they do not see anyone; the younger Bald cuts off the hand of a woman who comes, the woman hides in a cave under a stone; the brothers let Pleshivets down on a rope, he kills that woman, sends her upstairs The brothers leave the girl, Pleshivets, in a cave; he sleeps with an old woman; on the one hand you can hear crying (the dragon takes the girls there), on the other hand, fun (he finished taking it there); Plesivets cuts off 7 dragon heads; the grateful king says that there is a bird that will take him to the upper world; on the way Plesivec feeds her meat; returns to his father]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 1:113-117; Bartangans [the king has three sons, there are nothing, the eldest went hunting; chasing the goat, the owner comes out; the prince: I did not know it was yours; the owner indicates where there are many goats; the prince is coming, there is a beautiful house, there is a girl in it; she will marry who says what Gul did to Sinavbar and what S. did to G.; the one who did not find an answer will be executed; for three years, the elder prince did not find an answer; the girl cut off his head and threw his body into the well; the same middle prince; the youngest came to a tree by the pond; there is a three-headed dragon in the pond, the Simurg bird's nest on the tree; the dragon eats a cub every year, the last one remains; the prince cut off the dragon's heads; Simurg tells us to prepare food: she will take the prince to Mount Kof, where you can find the answer; there was not enough food, they returned; next time they almost arrived, the prince cut off the meat from his hand; when they arrived, Simurg regurgitated him and grafted him back; gave a hair to summon her; the prince met the old woman, asked a question; the old woman: S. is the tsar, G. is his wife; the prince came in to them; S. is sitting on the ottoman, his wife is in a cage; S. feeds the dog and throws the leftovers to his wife; S. agrees to tell his story, but after telling it, he will kill the listener; G. goes to 41 divas every night; S. follows her quietly with the dog, spies on her; everyone The diva slapped G. in the face, and she laughs; asks to go tie up her horse so as not to be free; S. kills 40 divas one at a time; in combat with the main one, he prevails, but G. sprinkles sand under the diva's feet; after this diva was knocked down by S., but the dog saved him by squeezing the diva's throat; S. tells the torturers to execute the prince, but he lit Simurg's hair, she took it away; brought it to that girl; the girl is sister G.; the prince tells revive the brothers, otherwise she will tell everyone about G.; the girl pulled them out of the well and revived No. Tsarevich returned home with her and her brothers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 9:47-55; Turkmens.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [the elderly couple had a hairy son, Jan Bear; he asks his father three times to forge an iron staff for him; each time he throws him into the sky; takes one that is almost not bent, picked up when he fell with his finger; meets, takes companions a digging mountain (Kalnuratseis) and fishing with a rod - a mast tree; stopped in an empty castle; they cook one by one, everyone once an old woman hits the cook, takes food; when it's my turn, an old man comes up, MYA drove his beard into a block, hit the old woman with a staff; guards at the bloody river for three nights; kills three- and six-headed on silver, gold horse; when fighting a 12-headed diamond horse, help is needed; the companions are sleeping, I woke them up by throwing his staff into the castle; by this time the water left in the vessel has turned red (sign dangers); killed a 12-headed; rolled back a stone, tells him to lower it into the abyss; there is that old man, I killed him; in silver, gold, diamond cities, three girls sew clothes from silver, gold, diamonds; each collects his city in an egg; the companions raised everyone; I returned the line behind his hat; the companions began to raise the line, thought they let go of the rope; I fell, breaking through three worlds; in the fourth thunderstorm, he covered the eagles; the eagle promises to raise it to the ground - let ME kill the monster and feed it with its meat in flight; at first there was not enough meat, they returned; the second time they almost flew, I cut the last piece of my leg out of the calf; ME married a girl from Diamond City, his companions to two others, each began to live in their own city out of eggs]: Niedra 1952:92-103; Veps; Estonians [the king's horses disappear one by one; the older, middle brothers fall asleep, the youngest injures a polar bear that has come out of the ground; tells him to be lowered into a hole for the bear, he receives copper, silver, golden eggs from three princesses kidnapped by the bear ; wakes up a sleeping wounded bear, kills him; brothers take girls and treasures upstairs, his younger brother does not let the rope down; he kills a snake fighting an eagle; he agrees to take the young man upstairs, He asks to feed the bull meat on the way; the young man cuts off his legs from the calf, it is the most delicious; he is hired by a shoemaker; the brothers said that the youngest is dead, they marry the princesses; they hope that the young man will return, tell the grooms to bring the shoes they had in the lower world; the young man pulls out the shoes from a copper egg, sends a shoemaker with them to the king; the same is clothes made of a silver egg; the locks are made of gold; a young man marries a younger princess, marries his elders, reigns]: M.E. Eisen in Põder, Tanner 2000:36-46 (=Raud 2004:190-196); seto [a man walked with a bear, he danced; in a house where spent the night, the bear became pregnant with a girl; she gave birth to a son with bear ears; he is incredibly strong; he was nicknamed Ivvan the Bear; he took three companions, went on a journey; they made a living as woodcutters; each one cooks in turn, a dwarf with a big beard comes, eats up the cook; when he remains IM, he hits the dwarf, lets go, he hides in a hole; IM goes down there on a rope; meets consistently three kidnapped princesses, one spins copper, the other silver, the youngest gold; on the way to each two lions, IM kills them by hitting each other; each replaces bottles of strong and weak water; the thief is a devil drinks weak, IM kills all three, driving them into the ground; sends the princesses upstairs, the youngest gives him a ring, it splits in half, the princess and IM take half; the companions did not lower the rope to pick them up; he comes to a pine tree on a hill, devils climb from under the pine tree like mice, kill them all, cut off their tongues; an eagle's nest on a pine tree, IM feeds eagles with damn tongues, they are incredibly tasty; when he arrives a giant eagle, eagles do not want the horse she brought, they say that the food was better; the grateful eagle agrees to bring THEM to the ground; he throws her cooked food in flight across the sea, it is not enough, he cuts his meat off his calves; lies down for almost a year while he can walk again; comes to the king when the younger princess must marry an imaginary savior; she recognizes half of the ring; the deceiver left in a barrel in the forest, the wolf lowered its tail into it, the deceiver got out, was happy to be alive; after the death of King IM inherited the throne]: Sandra 2004:270-275; Lutsie (1893; the informant heard a fairy tale from those who did not know Estonian) [the spouses are childless, her husband died, the widow cried, her tears grew peas, there was only a pea in the pod; she ate it, gave birth to it 9 months later; the boy is strong; mothers: if if I waited to eat, he would have been even stronger; he ordered a five-pound iron club from the blacksmith, threw it up, the next day it fell, he put his finger up, the club split; the 10-pound one bent; the 15-pound one - remained intact, good; Pea meets, takes as companions 1) pulling oaks; 2) rearranging mountains; they were hired by the owner for the right to carry what they could; he ordered to level the mountains; they began to do sand ropes, throw them over the mountains, pull them off, now a flat field; one took all the flour from the owner, the other all the grain, the third of all the cows; set up a farm in the forest; the demoness (mustabaaba) became walk with him, eat everything; he stayed guarding the trees; she spat in his eyes, ate everything; the one who moved the mountains was the same; G. beat her with a club, she grew to the clouds, he continued to beat, she again shrunk, he tied her to an oak tree; she pulled out the oak tree and went to the lower world; only G. dared to go down; killed the woman's five-headed son; the girl knits stockings, G. pulled the rope, both were picked up, he gave it to the oak puller, went down again; killed the 1-headed, gave the second girl to the one who moved the mountains; for the third time he fights with the 15-headed; drove him into the ground waist-deep, and he drove him up to the neck; agreed to take a break; G. drank strong water, and gave the enemy a weak one, killed; went upstairs, but G. went down for the fourth time; it's a shame for the companions that G. took the most beautiful girl, threw the rope down; thunderstorm, eagles on the Christmas tree they say that whoever protects them from the weather will help their mother; he covered them; chicks: don't leave until their mother arrives; eagle: I know G., when he was born, the earth trembled for three days; the eagle agrees to endure across the sea of fire, but let him fill three barrels of forest bird; he filled them with spits; there was not enough meat in flight, the eagle tells her to cut off and throw her little finger first, then the calf of the leg; then the little finger of the leg; flew ; G. caught a little boy, began to twist; ordered the daw to bring living water from the island in the sea of fire; he healed his body with this water; came to his wife, forgave his companions, but drove him away; they began to live, probably live now ]: Annom et al. 2018:93-100; Karelians [a childless man carved a doll out of an aspen tree, she came to life, this is Osinovich, very strong; he leaves his parents, meets, takes an angler as his companions (the chain is forests, horse is bait), knocking a rock on a rock; they take turns cooking; a dwarf with a two-cubed beard comes out of the ground every time, eats everything; when O. remains, he pinched the dwarf's beard between the logs of the hut; tells him to let him down the dwarf's hole; his daughter is there; he sends her upstairs in the cradle; the companions cut the rope; O. sheltered the crows from the cold rain; they ask his mother not to harm him; the crow carries him to the ground, he feeds her with cow meat, it ends, cuts off the last piece from his leg; the crow disappears his leg; O. takes the bride, drives away his comrades]: Concca 1959:23-26; (cf. Norwegians [the old woman promises the king that he will have three daughters, tells them not to let them out of the house until they are 15 years old; the queen gives birth to three daughters one by one; one spring they ask the guards let them into the garden, they are carried away by a snowstorm; the captain, lieutenant and soldier go in search; see an abandoned estate; a soldier throws meat to a bear and a lion, they let go; companions cook queues; a dwarf comes to the captain, the lieutenant, asks for a coin, hits; when the soldier remains, he splits the log, invites the dwarf to look into the crack, pinches his beard; he has to tell where are the princesses; the soldier lets him go; the companions raise the stove, under it the way to the lower world; only the soldier descends in the basket through water and fire; in the castle, the princess spins a copper thread; gives a drink to the strong water, hides; a three-headed troll comes, falls asleep, a soldier cuts off his heads; the same with a princess spinning a silver thread, a six-headed troll; a golden, nine-headed; companions raise princesses and treasures, cut off the rope; the youngest has managed to give the soldier her gold ring; the soldier opens the closet, the chicks fly out, cannot pick it up; call her eagle mother; she carries the soldier upstairs, he feeds her harvested meat; she brings it to the king's palace, throws a whistle to call it if necessary; a soldier is hired by a jeweler; the younger princess demands the golden playing board she had in the lower world; the soldier calls the bird, she brings the board, the jeweler gives the princess, admits that he did not do; the soldier marries, gets half the kingdom, the captain and lieutenant are executed]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:31-48).

Volga - Perm. Komi: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 1 [Someone gave an egg to a rich childless merchant: let his wife and mare eat it; his wife gave birth to a son Vasily, a foal mare; father is always on the road; V. grew up, his mother has a lover; he orders her son to be killed, otherwise she will kill her; when V. returned from school, the horse warned that his mother wanted to poison him; V. quietly poured out the poisoned soup; mother's lover: you fed the soup under the bench, the poison burned the hole there; the same the next evening; the dog tried it spilled out, died; horse: tomorrow the mother will even poison the bread, you have to run; the horse tells him to be bored three times, turn, sprinkle dew with three trees; then able to jump from one hill to another; they went to get living water overseas; they rode to the hut on a chicken leg, the hut rotates, there was a witch in it; from her they rode to the other is the same, there is a second witch, she teaches: there will be three pillars, three gates, a key hangs on the middle one, you have to grab it; "soon the fairy tale affects, it's not done soon" {this saying is inserted a few times}; the third witch in the third hut tells you to leave her horse, gives her own; hit him on the shore, he will become a crow, carry him across the sea; on the other side you will become a dove, you will steal the girl's living water; when you fly a crow, cut off the meat from the calf of the leg, feed it; when V. flies, the crow gets tired, sits on the bapka-kotil plant in the middle of the sea, B. gives her a piece cut off from her leg; so several times, on only bones remain in her legs; V. first flies in as a dove, hears the girl saying out loud that she will not sleep that night, she will guard the water; V. became a man again, put the guards and the girl to sleep with this witch with a potion, took the water, kissed the girl and wished her to be his wife; across the sea back on a crow horse {it does not say how her legs are again overgrown with meat}; the girl's brother pursues; one of the three witches replies that V. has long been galloped by; brother: to whoever took water and kissed my sister, I will send her as a wife; gave V. a letter to prepare to receive the bride; she appeared, they live poorly, they want to take his wife away; the king orders to create by morning a golden palace; the wife creates; the golden passage to the royal palace (the same); the third time: create a water supply and a telegraph; at night, the wife called her workers again, everything is ready; everything is fine, wedding]: 11- 35; Konakov 2003 [in many Zyrian fairy tales, satellites leave the hero in the lower world; he saves Eagle's chicks devoured by the Serpent; the grateful Eagle takes him to the ground; stocked bulls and kegs with There is not enough water (9 or 30), the hero cuts the meat off his leg, gives the Eagle his blood and flesh; on the ground, the Eagle regurgitates them, puts them back]: 183; Chuvash; Marie [son of a mare, son of a wolf and son of a bear came to a house where three girls were making pancakes; the skull would eat them when it came; but the pancakes were eaten by the young men who came; the skull was furious, went to bring 300 warriors; the boys prepared 300 arrows; all three were killed; The skull took the girls underground; the mare has three souls; she found a son, gave him a soul, he came to life; asked two comrades to be revived; the mare gave them souls, died herself; her son wrapped her in birch bark, buried her; the comrades lowered the mare's son on a rope into a hole in the ground; below the house, in which an old woman, hid the mare's son under her hollow; her three sons came, each brought three deer; they feel a man, they promise not harm him; in the morning they showed the way to the skull; the mare's son came to another woman; she has no water, a serpent has been lying on the way to the river for three years; the young man killed him with a club, brought water; the woman shows the way to skull house; no need to enter, wait for the wife to go out; wife says that she goes to fetch water and has a baby; the wife of a wolf's son herds cows, and the bear's son's wife sleeps with a skull; promises to ask the skull is where his soul is; the woman quietly stabs the baby with a needle, he cries, she explains that the baby wants to know where the soul of his skull father is; skull: in a duck on a pond in the middle of the forest; the woman stopped stabbing with a needle, the baby died; the mare's son went to the skull and killed the duck, he died; the mare's son led the women to the rope; his comrades picked up the women, and he was only half the height, dropped the rope; he fell on feathers; came to the sons of the first old woman; two say that they cannot take him to the ground; the third tells him to prepare meat and feed it when he flies upstairs; the mare's son cut off the last piece from his legs; the old woman's son blew on the wound, healed his leg; married his wife; confesses (alive?) mothers that his comrades were worse than he thought]: Beke 1938, No. 36:311-324; Udmurts [someone steals peas from his butt; pop guards, finds a child in peas; Mikhailo Popov grows unusually strong, maims other children; the pop sent him to bring sheep out of the forest with wolves and lock him up to the sheep; M. brought the wolves, they ate the sheep; the same is to bring bulls (brought bears); the men advise sending M. to the lake, collect the devil's rent; the devil offers to race, M. sent a hare instead of himself; throw weights; M.: I'll throw it on the cloud; hell asks not to throw; devils give money; M. tells me to pour into a hat in which made a hole, filled a big bag; hell offers to fight, M. sends a bull instead of himself, i.e. a bear; M. harnessed a bear and a devil into the cart, brought money to his ass; M. left them to work at the mill, went further, met, took Usinya (twists his mustache Kama), Gorynya (shakes the mountain with his little finger); they take turns cooking; the man from the nail, the beard from the elbow beats the cook, goes underground again; when M. stayed, he beat the peasant, pinched his beard, he cut off his beard, went down the hole; only M. decided to go down on a rope; the girl sews a paper dress, walks with M., rolling his hut into an egg; the same a girl with a woolen dress; with a silk dress; that man is their grandfather, went to grow a beard; Usynya and Gorynya picked up the girls, did not pick up M.; M. wants to kill the cat; the duck; they ask not to kill; then they transport M., pretend that they want to throw it off; M.: I didn't kill you; so three times; cat: I have no strength, I want to eat; M. cut off meat from caviar, gave it to the cat; on earth M. changed clothes with an old man; came to Usyn and Goryn, drove them away, began to live with three girls]: Kralina 1960, No. 43:108-118; Bashkirs.

Turkestan. Kazakhs; Kyrgyz; Kyrgyz (Issyk-Kul Province) [Nurzhan, he has daughters Aikyz, Gulkyz, Nurkyz, and son Sarytai; his wife dies, Nurzhan is suffering and wants to marry again, but it's a pity children; in a dream, a voice tells daughters without a dowry, someone hands Kyzyr Niyaz a ring, it makes wishes come true if you address him by name; in the morning, a ring on the right thumb; to check Nurzhan demands good food from the ring; the family has healed for pleasure; Nurzhan announces a will to his son during his lifetime: after his death, three dervishes will appear who will wash his body and bury him, son must give them sisters without dowry, as well as all the goods at home; let him keep only the ring, do not tell anyone his name; S. fulfilled his father's will and went to distant lands; he forgot that the ring fulfills wishes; almost drowns in the river, the fish takes it ashore; in the forest he hides from predators in a tree, by morning they eat each other; S. reaches the mountains, cannot pass them, falls asleep; perishte spirits they moved him across the mountains; S. finds himself in an area where the wind is raging, clouds of poisonous insects in the air; in some old courtyard he finds an old man and an old woman, offers them to become their son; they ask not to go outside; he goes out and sees two moons in the sky; one goes out in the morning, becomes darker; the old woman says that the ruler has a married daughter named Sahipzhamal, she plays in the palace courtyard with friends and so beautiful that the radiance from her face is the second moon; S. falls ill from love; notices a ring on her hand, remembers, tells her to fill the house with food; asks adoptive parents to marry him Sahipzhamal; an old woman comes to ask her to marry S.; the vizier advises to give an impossible task: to bring 40 gems; S. orders the ring to deliver 40 camels, 40 horses, 40 mules and 40 donkeys, loaded with precious stones; be accompanied by 25 beautiful people whose clothes are decorated with gem buttons, decorate the bangs of their horses with gemstone bells as well; highlight mothers a separate horse, let the clothes on her be luxurious, like the harness on horseback; the ruler is shocked, asks the groom himself to come; wedding; S. tells the ring to create a new palace on the cloud, and under it a lake milk and a lake of butter; the vizier persuades Sahipzhamal to find out her husband's secret; S. says the name of the ring; the vizier says it, he orders the palace and Sahipzhamal to be moved to seventh heaven; S. searches sisters, their dervish husbands help him; the eldest husband is guilty of sleeping for 40 days and 40 nights, all this happened when he slept, takes S. to his younger sister's husband, who reports that the Zymyryk bird can move it to the palace, the Zymyryk bird lays 2 eggs every year, but the dragon eats the chicks, you need to kill the dragon, save the chicks and Zymyryk will help; the dervish gives the young man a one-inch sword, which the wave extends to 40 fathoms, and takes it to a tree with a nest Zymyryk; S. drinks from a spring at the foot of the tree and falls asleep in anticipation; wakes up from the rain, these are the tears of chicks, sees that the dragon is preparing swallow them; he kills the dragon, feeds its chicks with meat, after eating a leaf from a tree, he begins to understand the language of the chicks; they say that their mother will arrive soon, hide it under their wings; storm, wind, tornado, rain and hail notify the appearance of the bird Zymyryk; seeing that the chicks are intact, the bird is happy, ready to fulfill any wish of the savior; S. asks to be delivered to seventh heaven; they take 40 wineskins with water and 40 with meat; the bird teaches: if you look to the right, you should throw her a wineskin with meat, if to the left, a wineskin with water; supplies run out, S. gives the bird meat from his right thigh and moisture from his left eye; oh, appearing at the palace, Through the crack, the vizier sees Sahipzhamal pulling to his bed, and she screams that she has a husband; after waiting for the vizier to fall asleep, S. says "Kyzyr Niyaz" and the ring is on his finger; he Orders them to be transferred to Father Sahipzhamal; shows him the sleeping vizier and Sahipzhamal, the king orders the vizier to cut off his head, scolds his daughter; calls him to imitate Sarytai, true to his word]: Sabyr uulu 2008: 119-125; Uighurs: Kabirov 1963:125-153 [a girl is kidnapped by a bear, she gives birth to a hero's son, he kills a bear, returns to people with his mother; his name is Tugluk-Batur; the khan is afraid of his strength, vizier offers to give difficult tasks; 1) kill the dragon; T. rushes with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cuts it from the inside; 2) kill the diva; along the way, T. consistently wins and companions heroes named Er ( land), Chol (desert), Su (water), Tag (mountain), Ashlyanpu (cold noodles), Muz (ice), (Uighur name is not given) (millstone), Tomir (iron) -batur; without recognizing T., A. brags that he will run easily, himself defeated; in the house, the diva remains guarded while others hunt; the diva ties him with a snake hair, sucks his blood; next time T. remains guarded, the diva wounds, follows the bloody trail to the well, descends on his belt; frees the two daughters of the diva, whom he was ready to kill for pity for his victims; they explain where their father's soul is (kill two roosters with green beans; go down to the basement, in a chest a fish swims, an egg in it, a box in it); T. burns the box, the divas dies; T. sends treasures, diva daughters, four more women; A. cuts off his belt, T. falls, divas heal him; T. kills a snake that devours the chicks of the Simurg bird; she brings it to the surface, cuts off the last piece of meat for Simurg T. from her leg; the diva's daughters turned four women into cats, they scratched A.; T. married diva on daughters]; Malov 1956, No. 10 [the king's three sons went on a journey, went to three roads; there was a drum; two hit the drum; a girl came out and asked: what Gyal-Gyal and Gul-Samarbek did; they were not they were able to answer, they were thrown into prison; when his younger brother came, he saw an old woman turning a cotton machine, he asked her this question; she told her to go to the steppe, where there is an elm tree, on which there is a bird's nest Simurg, the chicks are devoured by a dragon; the dragon is three days away; we must take a sword; the young man came up, the dragon is resting; the young man entered the dragon's mouth with a sword and he died; he fed the chicks with his meat; Simurg: What do you need? young man: what Gul-Gul did and what Simurg did (sic!) ; Simurg told me to stab two yaks, take meat and water; did they fly three days and three nights to the upper universe; when they arrived, Simurg: did he give me meat from his chair? gave the young man fluff to summon him (the fluff must be burned); the young man went to the same land, the sound of a drum rang; young man: play tambourine! Why don't you play? What did Gul-Gul do and what did Semir-Gul do? he kicked and chased {it's not clear who}; {he finally tells}; Semir-Gul had a wife; she had a cloud horse; and a wind horse; those horses Wind and Cloud walked and came back; he caught them and tied them up; went to a woman; horses are standing in the yard by the dog's trough, below the maize tops; this woman has seven divas; when he started fighting with those relatives and fighting with the diva (?) Gul-Semer-bek, then this woman Gul-Semir-beku poured one fur into his legs; he overcame the diva and tied it; then the woman was given seven divas, he returned home; that young man Gul-Gulu did and did what he did Semeru (?) ; they were my younger brothers; and they gave one iron rod; go to his house, pierce it with a rod; then that cauldron shouted {incomprehensible at all, cut off}]: 63-67; salars (Ullagyl, Xunhua-Salar autonomous county) [on a deserted mountain, a mare gave birth to a child; he grew up, went looking for brothers; shot a bow at a stone from which smoke was coming; a man screamed inside the stone; both went on; let an arrow into the tree; from there a man shouted; the three of them began to live; the one who came out of the stone was named Tash-gaga (brother Kamen), from wood, Agash-gaga (Brother Derevo), and the one born as a mare was named Masemba; they went to look wives, came to a dwelling; no one was there, food was being cooked in the cauldron; the next morning the brothers went hunting, returned in the evening; bread and tea were prepared; in the morning they left T. in the house and went hunting together; T . hid, saw three pigeons fly in; they threw off their feathers, turned into girls; one cooked food, the other started a fire, and the third swept the yard; then they put on their raincoats and flew away; one of them was Kyun-ana (maiden Sun), the other Ay-ana (maiden Luna), the third Yultus-ana (Maiden Star); in the evening T. told his brothers what he saw; the next morning A. ; he saw and told his brothers the same thing; the next day M. stayed in the house himself; when the girls started cooking, he jumped out of the shelter and threw their feather cloaks into the fire; Kyung-ana covered herself with dust and soot; twins came in the evening; T. chose Ai-ana, A. - Yultus-ana; M. went to Kyung-ana; in the morning she washed her face and turned out to be beautiful compared to the other two girls; T. and A. did not like it; they threw M. into the abyss, took his bow and arrows, and Kyung-anu gave Kyung-anu to herd his sheep into someone else's house; a bird that flew into the abyss told M. that she had a chick there; M. told her about those who betrayed him brothers; the bird promised to carry it on its back; then it brought a hundred sparrows and said to M.: "Sit on my back, get all the sparrows. When I make a circle, open my mouth, you throw [there] one at a time!" ; M. did as she commanded; fed her all the sparrows and, when he was upstairs, set off; came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said that her husband had a similar mole; M. admitted that he had escaped the abyss; they came to his brothers; they played with a bow and arrow; said to M.: "You will not be able to pull the bow. Masemba played with that bow and arrow!" ; M. replied that he would pull a bow, grabbed it, put an arrow and killed both brothers; he got their wives]: Tenishev 1964, No. 53:104-105; salars [the horse gave birth to Atdn Qihkhn Masinbo; he set off; shot at rocks with a bow; from there Daxdən Qihkhn Daxdakhu came in; they continued their journey together; AtQm shot wood salt, from there Aghxdn Qihkhkhn appeared Monigu; all three fraternized; one day they returned home and saw that the food was cooked; the next day, DQD stayed to guard the house; saw the Sun Girl, Moon Girl and Star Girl cooking; DQD turned into a stick and lay outside the door; the girls used it as a poker; DQD told his brothers about the incident; AgQM remained on duty the next day; it turned into a bench and also didn't was able to catch the girls; AtQM left guarding the house; he hid on the roof and frightened the girls with his scream; they agreed to become sister wives; AtQM stained DS's face with black paint; DQD and AgQM took to marry DL and DZ; DS became AtQM's wife; when the brothers went hunting, the girls stayed at home and embroidered; the cat confused the threads and one of the girls beat her; the cat put out the fire; the girl I went looking for him and went to the old woman; she shared the fire; she came to the girls every day, and asked her to look for them in her head and drink their blood; the girls began to wither away; the husbands noticed it; DQD stayed to guard the house and turned into a saddle cover; the old woman sat on her and sucked the girls' blood; DQD could not stop it; AgQM remained on duty the next day, but also to no avail; atQM hid on the roof and waited for the old woman to arrive; killed her by shooting her nine heads (which appeared one after another); when DS washed her hair, DQD and AgQM realized that she was beautiful; told the girls to quit the ridges into the well; the DL and DZ combs were wooden, and the DS comb was gold and therefore drowned; atQM went down the well along a rope and took out all three ridges; then handed them over to the brothers; they let go of the rope and AtQM fell down; met a man with a grindstone and told him what had happened; the man promised to help and told him to catch a hundred sparrows; atQM brought 99; the man turned into an eagle, told him to sit down on his back and feed him sparrows while flying; sparrows ran out, AtQM cut off a piece of meat from his leg; when they landed, the eagle saw AtQM limping and, after learning what was going on, regurgitated a piece of his leg ; AtQM came to his wife, asked her to look in his head; the wife cried, said her husband had a similar birthmark; atQM admitted he got out of the well; then went to his brothers and killed them alone arrow]: Ma et al. 2001, No. 4.1:39-60; salars [in a mountain village, a mare swallowed a piece of red cloth, gave birth to a boy, he was named Atentzigen Masymu ("a child born to a horse"); he became a hunter; he was an excellent archery; one day, in late spring and early summer, he stopped on the river bank and began to sing smoke from the crevice. "Hey-hey-hey, what kind of little guy is this freaking out here? If a passer-by, then go your own way, if you are looking for relatives, let's get to know each other"; a young man in white clothes came out of white smoke; M. said he was looking for relatives, offered to become sister cities; the young man took the name Dashitentsigen Dashidagu ("a child born from a boulder"); young men came to the forest, saw fog come out of the grove; M. shot, a young man came out, also became a sister, his name was Agaishitentzigen Munigu ("child born from a tree trunk"); the brothers began to cook; three white doves sank to the lake shore, removed their plumage, turned into girls, threw them into the water to swim; these are the celestials of Guni-ana , Ie-ana, and Yulutusa-ana. ("Sunny Maiden, Moon Maiden, and Star Maiden"); the brothers took their clothes; the girls agreed to marry them; three married couples returned home and began to enjoy life; but G., M.'s wife, suddenly she became gloomy and taciturn, and frowned, refused to explain why; one evening her fire went out; she saw smoke from the chimney in the distance, went to ask for fire; old woman Mansikhanyer was in her house ( nine-headed demon); gave fire, but put sesame seeds in her pocket so that they would fall through the hole on the road; began to come to G. to comb each other's hair; G. began to think how from her to get rid of it, told her husband; was the first to guard; Dashidag; he turned into a pillow and sat on the doorstep; Mansikhanyer came, sat on the pillow; when she left, D. complained that it was terribly heavy, he was nothing could not do it; the next day Munigu turned into a broom; Mansihaner swept the yard with it; G. told her husband that Mansihaner could only be defeated by cunning; Masymu hid and shot only when Mansihaner turned into a nine-headed six-armed blue-faced fanged monster; Masymu and Mansihanyer began to fight, Mansikhanyer went to a hole under the mill; Masymu ordered him to be lowered on a rope; G. broke the mirror and gave it half; in the lower world, M. met an old man who told him not to scream; M. shouted, a tiger appeared, M. killed him with a sword; elsewhere M. was attacked by a boa constrictor, he shot him and hacked him; they were two Mansihaner commanders; M. exchanged clothes with the shepherd, drove cows and sheep; Mansihanier: "Go faster, faster! Finish eating and go to lick your wounds faster"; M. 8 heads wounded with an arrow enjoyed being licked by shepherds; M. prepared cow tongues in advance and began to stroke Mansikhanyer's wounds with them; she screamed from The sword hurt, and M. hit her sword, but Mansihanyer slipped out and ran, and then rushed at M.; feeling that M. was stronger, she emitted a cloud of black smoke, rushed to run, but M. pointed a mirror at her light and killed with arrows; I heard a scream, an iron cage came up, inside the eagle, asking for release, around the bone; this is the real Mansikhanyer nest; an eagle flew in, the eagle first hid M. under the wing, then told his mother who saved him; the eagle agrees to take M. to the ground, tells him to harvest 100 sparrows; the last sparrow was not enough, M. cut off the meat from his leg; met his wife they recognized a friend a friend in half of the mirror, so changed from exhaustion; Dashidag and Muniga forced G. to work when she refused to be their mistress; under the guise of a beggar, M. offer to entertain them with archery; pierced both with one arrow; people were prosperous, M. and G. are happy until old age]: Chen, Wang 1989:420-439.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [three swan maidens (aka ducks) fly in, clean the house for three brothers; the elder, middle brothers see nothing, the youngest hides the girls' clothes, the brothers get married; the hell comes out pipes under the hearth to drink women's blood; younger brother shoots, hell, taking the youngest's wife, falls into the ground; brothers lower the youngest on a rope; the woman gives the devil - the iron king vodka, that says that his soul is seven eggs in a box, a box in the stomachs of seven deer; the hero pulls out, breaks eggs, kills a devil born to a woman's son, his brothers pick up the woman, the elder cuts off the rope, picking up the younger one; he falls; sees how the mouse has recovered, gnawing grass, heals himself; the kite cooks meat, lifts the hero to the upper world, the meat runs out, the hero cuts off the flesh from his leg; the kite regurgitates this a piece, puts it to his leg; the hero marries; shoots in the air, an arrow pierces his older brother]: Porotova 1980:76-80 (=Lukina 2004, No. 5. 12:117-122); Buryats (informant unknown) [parents want get rid of Tyshae Bishe, sent for a black bull; this is a bear, TB to bring him, leaves him in a barn, he has picked up all the cows; sent to bring a cauldron supposedly given to the forest owner; TB brings the cauldron and bound owner; lets go, leaves; meets and companions a person raising stones, raising mountains, stepping across the sea (he is fishing with his beard); everyone first replies that he is not strong, but TB - mighty; they take turns cooking, a bearded dwarf beats the cook, eats everything; TB hits him, pinches his beard, he cuts off his beard, leaves; friends come to the crevice, TB goes down on a rope; there in copper the hut is beautiful, 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, presses the wasps in them, except two; beautiful changed barrels of strong and weak water; TB kills mangadhai, sends women upstairs; when he gets up, his companions throw him; he falls, breaks his leg; sees the speaker break the leg of an ermine, he ate the root, recovered; TB also ate, recovered; Khan Garudi's chicks by the sea, one cries (a serpent coming out of the sea will eat it today), the other sings (will eat it tomorrow), the third laughs (the day after tomorrow); the snake tells chicks fly into his mouth; TB kills a snake with a stone; Khan Garudi arrives, hides TB from poison; takes it to the ground; eats and drinks what he has prepared in flight, cuts off the last piece of TB from his leg, the bird is a piece belches, puts back; TB kills companions, lives with three wives]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 9:147-167; Dagurs: Stuart et al. 1994:114-116 [the bear took the girl, she gave birth to a boy; they ran away, the bear followed, the boy killed the bear with a stone; he is very strong, accidentally killed a bull in the village; to get rid of him, the official tells him to kill the tiger, the dragon; he does it (the dragon swallows it, he cuts his heart); he stops in an abandoned house, two spirits come there, he grabs them, they ask him to make their assistants; a giant comes in, the bear's son cuts off his head, but his head grows up; so many times, then the monster becomes small, disappears into the abyss; companions let the bear's son down on a rope; the kidnapped beauty says the monster's life is in two metal balls; son the bear takes them, the monster dies; the companions pick up the girl on a rope, cut her off; the old man says that a huge bird can take them upstairs; they fly for 17 days, the bear's son throws food into her mouth; on the 18th supplies run out, he cuts off meat from his leg; a bear's son kills companions, takes a girl as a wife, gets a high position], 120-122 [the official has six sons crippled, the youngest seventh is well done; someone kills people; an official wants to ask for resignation, but the youngest son asks him to wait; receives a precious ancestral knife from his father; comes to the giantess, she hides it, and her five sons return; they tell her that a dragon kills people; when sons fall asleep, their mother tells the young man that he must first find the nest of a huge hawk; the young man sees a snake crawling to a nest with five chicks hawk; kills a snake; a grateful hawk is ready to take him to where the dragon is; on the way there is not enough food, the young man feeds the hawk with his fingers; when he arrives, he regurgitates them, his fingers grow; the young man comes to the dragon's house when he sleeps; cuts off two of its heads, fights, cuts off a third; comes to a village where another dragon or serpent has locked the water; a young man goes down to a well, kills a dragon; a spirit comes if he eats 99 people, if he eats the hundredth, will become immortal; the young man became friends with him, prevented him from eating the child, the newlywed; that man is happy, now he will get the position; the young man returns to his father, inherits his position]; (cf. Tuvans: Samdan 1994, No. 2 [the son of a woman and a bear, Iygylak-Kara, takes Uzun-Saryg Larch Urower and Ulug-Kara Rock Urover as his sister brothers; each one takes turns cooking; comes Adygyr-Kara shulba with copper claws and nose, heats them, fights with the cook; younger brothers do not talk about what happened, YK wins, injures the shulbus, he goes to the cave, to the lower world; the brothers descend YK on the arcana; below, the woman says that she must give her daughter to the shulbus to be eaten; YK finishes off the wounded shulbus, marries the youngest of the sisters, takes the other two for the brothers, lifts them upstairs; brothers lasso is cut off; the girls' mother advises helping the Khan-Hereti bird, which lives on the middle of three iron poplars; every year a fifteen-headed serpent crawls out of the lake, devours chicks; YK cuts off all 15 heads with an arrow; one chick cries, the second laughs, the third sings (thinks it will be eaten last); wind and rain are the whiff of wings and the tears of the mother of the chicks; she carries YK on her back to the upper world, he throws her shot ducks; ran out, threw his hat; the lasso cut the US, he also took his younger sister as his second wife; YK killed him against larch; with the UK and their wives they came to YK's mother]: 227-248; Hadahane 1984 [ Ar-Sarig has an Age-Saryban horse; his mother asks not to go to sunset, his father left and never returned; ES is going, killing a monster with an arrow; at this time, three wild geese fly over the yurt, asking if the ES is at home, whether his horse Ash is tied; his mother was so surprised that she cut her nose with a knife; the geese are flying again, S wounded one in the paw; goes in search; asks the old man to allow him to slaughter one camel; that: if the khan finds out, it will be bad; but allows; another shepherd with calves; asks ES to drive them to the khan; they ran away by the river; khansha: is it really difficult to say "Khan's cattle, wade across the river"; ES says calves are crossing; y Khan eyelids to nose, he raised one finger, told the servant to serve whey; hansha: the cows are not milked; ES milks, they do not give milk; hansha: "Is it really difficult to say, leisya, leisya, khan's wealth"; the milk poured out; at night, Khan tells him to lick his heels; ES cut off his tongue from the cow's carcass; Khan asks why it's hard; Es says it's from serum; Khan tells me to remind ES with cream; ES cuts off the tongue of a dead dog, Khan liked it, he fell asleep; ES marries Khan's youngest daughter; Khan tells seven sons-in-law to save the foal; the mare gives birth every three years, the Khan-Hereti bird takes away; the sons-in-law are sleeping, ES shoots, the bird drops the glowing feather; khan orders to bring the bird itself; ES goes to the lower world, there are three poplars on the island, with nests with birds; mangys came out of the lake, the chicks screamed; ES climbed into the throat of mangysu, ripped it, jumped out; it rained, a bird XX flew in, ES asks her to return the foals; she tells her to prepare food, throw it in flight; they flew, XX releases 9 horses from his nostrils; ES met his older sons-in-law, sat on the carpet, fell into a hole, his sons-in-law took the horses away; the ES horse comes running to his wife, tells everything; the wife pulls him out; the khan tells everyone to shoot up; the son-in-law's arrows kill them, ES is unharmed; gets half of the cattle, with returns to his mother with his wife]: 59-65).

Western Siberia. Southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut her husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; at home I found out that the COP had left the house - he hit him, why did they release him? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the Menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, the VM drives cattle there; he hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot be cut down, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap it around his neck, then cut; then the VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman should be stabbed in the chin with a knife ; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man, she will fall into the fire; she she fell, there were lizards from it too, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, brought them, they saw the light; ordered them to prepare meat, put Kars ("firebirds" in Patkanov's translation) on his back; she brought to the ground the last He cut off two pieces from the calves of his legs; Kars regurgitated them and put them back; the wife is lying between two men; the VM wanted to hack them, the wife: they are your sons; the VM cut the youngest son, sprinkled blood on him on the body of the COP , he came to life; revived his son with live water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM made a silver one; everyone lets a block of stone on his site with his foot; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands; when he throws his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; along the way they they go to those three old women, the wife turns them young; at home, VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed, putting out their fire; they swear; he opened, daughter-in-law turned them young; VM scatters chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237; northern Selkups: Tuchkova 2004:117 and 308 [(zap. G.N. Prokofiev); And (aka Iy; Icha does not replace him in this story) consistently defeats two devils, cuts off one's ears, gives the name Crazy Comrade, the second nose, gives the name Noseless Comrade; to moderate their appetite, both inserts bird stomachs; a devil from the Lower World got used to the dugout where I. and his comrades settled, his "chin scratches the floor"; I. cuts off his arm, goes down the rope after the line into the underworld, agrees to fix the line with his hand, for which the devil gives I. his daughter; comrades insidiously cut off the rope; I. the bird Jeonä takes I. to the ground; on the way he must throw her harvested pieces of duck, give water; supplies run out, I. feeds H. meat from the caviar of his leg; upon learning about this, the bird regurgitates the meat, puts it back to the leg I.], 112 [I/Icha feeds the bird, on which flies to escape the devil, with a piece of meat cut off from its thigh; the bird decided to throw it down, I. demanded that the part of the leg eaten be returned, the bird did it, the meat grew]; nganasana ( Avam and other informants did not know the plot, they considered it a shamanic fairy tale; zap. 1961) [Suruny-NGO ("Orphan Boy") goes to look for the soul of his deceased father; his mother tried to hold him for 7 days, could not; she meets the giant Bydy-Nguo (bydy - "water"), who keeps all the fish in the sea, at the request of S. lets her go into the rivers, goes with him; another giant, Babi Nguo (babi, "wild deer"), holds the deer, at S.'s request, releases them into the tundra, goes with him; the giant Moo-nguo (mou - "land") throws stones the earth trembles, S. says that people will not be able to live on the shaking ground, M. goes with him; their strength is running out, the spruce is coming; S. kills an iron loon with a stone, the companions could not; they come into the house; in turn cook; half-skeleton old woman Kamynkuo-nguo (kamynkuo means "blood") picks up food every time, hits the cook; S. grabs it, she promises him three daughters, says that her husband (Plague) chews on his father's head; that she in fact, Syrada-nyama ("mother of underground ice"), hides; S. tells his companions to make a rope out of grass, pushes the stone, under it the move down, S. goes down; sends three daughters of Syrad upstairs- yams, when he climbs himself, the companions cut off the rope, he falls to the lower ground; comes to the plague of the Mother Bird; next to him the one who gnawed Father S.'s head; agrees to send him to earth on a bird, S. must feed her with his meat; the bird brought S. to the ground, but his eyes and spine were left; the bird regurgitates, S.'s body is recovering; S. cut off three nguos in the ear, sent it away, took three for himself girls]: Simchenko 1996 (1): 39-53.

Eastern Siberia. Ingarigdov Evenks of Katanga District; Baikal Evenks [Mouse and Sparrow sowed rye, harvested, did not share the last grain; The mouse brought the animals, the Sparrow brought the Eagle, who broke the wing, hitting the wild boar, asked the man to be cured; three years later he hit the larch with its wing, did not knock it down, cried; ordered the man to stab, cook the bull, feed him in flight; there was not enough meat, man cut off a piece from his leg, the Eagle felt that the meat was sweet]: Titov 1936, No. 59:204-205.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Naukan).

Subarctic. Hea [the older brother sews the youngest in the skin, lets him go down the river; the fox gnaws through the fetters; the man gets to people who are dogs below the waist; marries; the dog people leave him, his son hides for he is fire; the old man gives him a white eagle, he takes the form of an old man, flies home in an eagle; on the way he feeds him, cutting off meat from his own thighs; takes his true form, kills his angry wife and brother ; marries his brother's wife]: Petitot 1886, No. 19:169-176.

(Wed. Plains. Crowe [Yellow Greaves climbed into the hole to catch eagles with bait; a stone rolled down and closed the exit; JN asked the mouse for help, she led him down the hole into another world; there's old White Owl gave a single arrow and ordered the monstrous moose to be killed; JN did not eat the soup served - there was a human hand in it; the bullfinch advised to contact the moles; the mole dug an underground passage under the moose - where his heart; JN pierced the moose with an arrow and ran; the elk plowed the ground with a horn, rushed after him, but fell dead; ZhN brought the tip of the horn to the old man; he asked to bring the head of the Red-haired; the bullfinch advises turn to an ant woman; JN exchanged bodies with her, brought a louse with her; Red-haired and her mother live on the island; the ant gave a corn pemmican for the dog, she transported it to the island; while the dog was swimming, JN put a pemmican in her mouth; Red-haired's mother suspected deception, but the son lay down with the imaginary ant woman at night; she avoided copulation, and when Red-haired fell asleep, She cut off his head and put a louse in her place; she answered Red-haired's mother, and when her voice weakened, his mother came in, saw her son killed, and rushed in pursuit; JN managed to swim across the ant; the stalker came, with a spear on her forehead, she hammered a typical rock, inside which there was an ant with a JN, but the ant immediately repaired the damage with its saliva; they opened the door slightly The stalker stuck her head, they slammed the door shut, cutting off their heads; they swapped their bodies back, but not their armpits, so women's armpits are more muscular than men's; the ant advises asking the old man for bringing his head to his head; JN received the power of an owl and a deer; on the way back, JN meets three women who turn into an otter, a deer and an elk, run away; the fourth remains a female wife of JN; she seven brothers; JN and his wife came to the youngest; when the others came, they teased their son-in-law, throwing their limbs over; JN called an owl, who began to torment the deer, the brothers were in pain they left JN alone; the younger brother gave his son-in-law a bear, and since then the wife's relatives have been giving gifts to her husband; everyone has begun to think what to become; - Trees? - They're dying. - Rocks? - They crumble from time to time. - Water? - It dries up. To the stars {Ursa Major}! The younger brother took his pet cougar, which is a star near the handle of the {Alcor}] bucket: McCleary 1997:65-69).

(Wed. Central Andes. The motif of meat cut off from the leg, like a number of others, is undoubtedly of European origin. Quechua (Marangani, prov. Canchis) [= Arguedas 1949:105-114; Lira 1965:133-139; 1990:1-7; someone steals potatoes from a young man's field; he guards, falls asleep, grabs one of the star girls for the third time; first hid it in a hut next to in the field, then brought her to her parents; her clothes were hidden, another was given; the child died for an unknown reason, the wife flew to heaven; the husband rises to heaven on a condor, there is not enough llama meat along the way, the young man cuts off his own leg, feeds the condor; after swimming in the sea in the sky, he is younger; all the star girls have come to the temple to honor their parents the Sun and the Moon; the young man must identify his wife; the condor warns that she will elbow him; he lives with the star for another year; puts too much quinoa to cook; the star is afraid of the anger of his parents, the Sun and the Moon; the condor lowers the man to the ground; before flying they swam again because they have aged a lot in a year; the young man remains single on earth]: Itier 1996, No. 3:161-164.

(Wed. Chaco. Mokovi (European) [The father of All Serpents sucks people into his cave; three shaman brothers kill him with spears; the cave has a hole in the lower world, the eldest descends there by rope; the younger two failed to do so, frightened the stench of rotting meat, heat, cold; the elder meets three women, marries one, sends two upstairs; his brothers marry them, cut off the rope; the elder cries; the eagle tells him to feed him, becomes big, flies upstairs with him; the hero feeds him lamb; it ends, he cuts the meat off his buttock; on the ground, the eagle belches him, heals the man; he turns the brothers into roosters]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 188:223-226).