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K48. Hero's Singing Bird, ATU 550.

.14.-.17.21. (.22.23.) .27.-.31.33. (.44.) .45.-.47.49.

The

antagonist tells the hero's wonderful bird to sing or talk, but it is silent or screams in the wrong way. The bird begins to sing (talk) after the hero has triumphed over opponents.

Mauritanian Arabs, Basques, Italians (Tuscany, Calabria, Puglia), Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Maltese, Bretons, Walloons, French (Upper Brittany, Ardennes, Poitou, High Alps), Germans (Hessen), Alsatians, (Irish), Arameans, Syrian Arabs, Kirati (?) , Albanians, Romanians, Hungarians, Greeks, Croats, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Western Ukrainians (Podolia), Crimean Tatars, Georgians, Armenians, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Uighurs, Latvians, Karelians, Western Sami, Danes, (Menominee) ), seneca, omaha and ponka, iowa, sheyen, skidi pawnee, kiowa, screams, alabama, koasati, natchez, northern shoshones.

North Africa. Mauritanian Arabs [a woman gives birth to boys, but each newborn is blown away by the wind; a witch doctor promises her a talisman on the condition that when the first surviving child learns the Koran, she will give it to him; the mother deliberately leaves her son's sword in the old parking lot and sends it for her; the camel says that a ghoul is hiding behind the saber - we must grab it and the camel will quickly carry the rider away; tells her to be killed, in it, the foal is half golden, half silver; tells them to sit on it; they stopped under a tree where the green bird brought people; the jewels eaten are scattered on the ground; after eating, the bird sings; the young man took the jewels; the sultan will give his daughter to someone who spits from below to her face high in the window, only the young man succeeds; he gets the daughter of the sultan, but hides in the guise of a poor bastard; in guise a beautiful warrior smashes enemies; the wife bandages her wound with a handkerchief; finds out that her lousy husband is handsome, but keeps silent about it; the sultan is pregnant, wants to hear the green bird singing; older sons-in-law The Sultan does not know how to do this; the young man promises them to get a bird, for which he cuts off each son-in-law's phalanx of his little finger; the foal teaches them to lure the bird into a chest with meat; the bird tells the Sultan that he will not sing until he gets Bzougue's daughter; sons-in-law again do not know how to do it; the young man promises to get them a girl, for which he cuts off everyone's earlobe; the bird demands the milk of a lioness who gave birth for the first time, and with her other lionesses are the same; this time the young man cuts off the candidates' little finger legs; the young man fed and decorated the baby lioness, she has met all the requirements; now Bzougue's daughter asks for water because interpreting mountains; a young man cuts off a piece of his sons' nose; a foal tells the ants to give grain to the guards, pearls to girls, meat to dogs; to interpret the mountains to say that other mountains before the collision they go much further - one by sunrise, the other by sunset; the young man gets water, runs away, the mountains have cut off only the tip of the foal's tail; the bird sings, the daughter of Bzougue is happy, everyone praises his sons-in-law; the wife tells the young man that knows his secret; the young man appears in all his splendor, shows the Sultan his severed little fingers, etc.]: Tauzin 1993:127-142.

Southern Europe. Basques: Webster 1879:181-182 [The aged king sends three sons for rejuvenating water; the older two can't get it, stay drunk somewhere; the younger woman explains how It is safe to avoid creatures in the forest; he must take water, but nothing more; but he also takes a horse (and a bird), so all animals in the forest are awake; he passes thanks to this old woman's magic wand; finds brothers; they throw him into a hole, take water, a horse, a bird; but the water does not work; an old woman sends a fox to pull his younger brother out of the hole; he comes home, the horse laughs, the bird sings, the water does a century-old father in his twenties], 182-187 [the king will see the light if he gets a white crow (blackbird); the eldest, middle sons leave, play cards; the youngest does not play, pays the brothers' debts, they are not executed; the owner of the black crow asks to get a princess for him; the fox (this is the spirit of a dead man whose debts the young man paid) teaches what to do; the princess sings, people run, her father agrees to give her back, if a young man gets another king's white horse; the horse laughs, but people allow the young man to take him away; he asks for permission to put the princess on his horse, takes him away; the white crow flies to the princess's knees, the young man of all takes him away; the brothers throw the youngest into the water tank, take the crow away; the fox pulls out the young man, the crow flies to him; the young man returns to his father, the princess and the bird sing, the horse laughs, the old king sees the light; the young man tells everything, marries a princess; the father drives his elder sons into the desert]; Italians (Tuscany, Calabria, Puglia), Sicilians, Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 550:126; Corsicans [the king is sick, you need to get a horse that is fast like the wind, a bird that sings and plays, a beautiful woman seven times more beautiful than beauty (la donna di sette bellezze); The eldest son goes, sees the inscription "the one who goes will not return", at the inn he lost everything at cards, remains an employee; the same with the middle son; the youngest does not stop, but pays the debts of the deceased, Whose body is being mocked; the road is over, the young man walks, the fox invites him to sit on it and carries him to the owner of that horse; let the young man refuse to spend the night in the room and ask him to leave him in the stable; around midnight, the fox tells you to jump on the horse and ride away: the owner is going to eat the visitor; the young man on horseback and the fox have reached the house where the bird is guarded by lions; the fox tells him to let the lion take the horse by the tail, then he will allow him to take the bird's cage; the lion coughed and released its tail, they galloped off; the sorcerer owns the beauty; while he thinks that now he has a horse and a bird, the young man takes the beauty jumps away, the sorcerer did not have time to apprehend them; the fox warns that the young brothers were imprisoned for stealing, and she herself is the dead man he bought; if anything, she can be called again; the brothers pushed the youngest into the well, they took the horse, the bird and the beauty; the horse bites, the bird is silent, the beauty has become a freak; the fox pulled the young man out; when he arrived home, the horse was happy, the bird sang, the beauty became beautiful; the king ordered the eldest sons to be smeared with resin and burned]: Massignon 1984, No. 4:7-10; the Maltese [Tillu's eldest son tells his father that there is a bird whose singing makes old people younger, goes in search; comes to the palace, where the girl offers to play cards; T. loses everything, becomes a servant; the same with his middle son Guttu; when the youngest Giuseppe rides, he smells decay: the unburied body has been lying for months; he is told that the locals do not have the money to build a cemetery and chapel; J. gives money and orders that everything be done by his return; the deceased caught up with J. and warned him not to play with the landlady, but with his cards; J. played everything, left the palace to his brothers and moved on; the deceased met him again: in a gold palace and diamonds are a lot of golden cages with birds, take over a dirty wooden one; the guards are two lions, they sleep when their eyes are open; on the way home, the brothers threw J. into the sea; he died a rock with a tree on it; they noticed J. from the ship, took him home; at this time the brothers gave the bird to his father, but she is silent; the names of the noble gentlemen are called, but no one can force the bird to sing; J. comes, covered with coal, in a dirty clothes - the bird sang; then he washes, his father recognizes him; asks to make him not 20, but 30 years old; the brothers were expelled]: Stumme 1904, No. 12:39-45.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the king will be healed by touching the bird Dredane, she is with Princess Marcassa across the Red Sea; the eldest, middle sons left, did not return after wasting money; the youngest was sitting in ash Ludoin's mess went on a camel, found his brothers, they took his money, he drove on; buries the dead husband of a poor old woman; Lisa explains that before midnight you can go to the castle past the guards and take away the cage with the bird; he did so, took possession of the sleeping princess, took the cage; on the way he sold indestructible bread and a jug that did not run out of wine; he won with a saber taken away from the castle enemies of the King of Saxons for promising to release his brothers (they were taken into custody for debts); the brothers pushed L. into the well, took the camel and the bird; the birds are sad, the king is only worse; the fox descends into the well his tail, L. gets out; the fox tells him to change clothes with the poor; explains that she is the soul of the poor man he buried; L. got a job with the king as a swineherd, became a groom, the brothers recognized him; when he saw L., a bird sang, the king almost recovered; Princess M. gave birth to a son L., who grew up, went to look for his father, M. with him; demanded the return of bread, a jug of wine, a magic sword (L. gave it to the King of Saxons); M. comes, L . tells his story; the king finally recovers, his older brothers are burned in the oven; L. marries M., the king is dead, L. gains the throne]: Lopyreva 1959, No. 27:93-104; Walloons [old the king promises to hand over power to whoever gets the whitebird, whose singing makes them 50 years younger; the youngest son saves the fox from the trap; she teaches how to get the thrush out of the protected tower; there is also a mule that litters with gold; warriors chase, but the fox builds a wall in front of them; the young man's elder brother is hanged in the city, he buys him; he pushes the young man into a hole, takes the thrush and the mule; the fox pulls him out a young man from a hole; an old woman says that there are giants in the forest, gives them a magic tablecloth; from the first giant, a young man exchanges it for a baton with 4 grenadiers; sends them to take away the tablecloth; the second is the same in a way, the young man takes away a hat in which an impregnable fortress from the third violin, which revives the dead; the young man comes to his father, but he throws him into prison, and then expels him and intends to kill him; with wonderful objects, the young man smashes his father's army, imprisons his brother, and then revives the murdered warriors]: Laporte 1932, No. *569A: 65-66; the French (Haute-Brittany; also Ardennes, Nivernay, Poitou, High Alps, etc.) [The three sons of a rich man go in search of a whitebird whose voice rejuvenates; the eldest two remain in the tavern; the youngest buries the deceased, who is mocked, for during his lifetime he is not paid the debt; fox: a thrush in the forest under the protection of three sleepless giants; take a thrush, but not the luxurious cage nearby; the young man takes the cage, the giants grab him, let him go for promising to get a donkey" Step 7 Leagues"; fox: we must take a worthless saddle; the young man takes the best, is captured by giants and released for promising to get a gold-haired girl; she is guarded by a lion and other creatures, they fall asleep at midnight; now the young man does not violate the prohibitions, brings the girl; the fox advises to ask the giants for permission to ride a donkey with the girl, takes her away; then takes her away; the fox tells her not to stop in the city, but The young man frees the brothers, and they throw him into the well on the way and take credit for themselves at home; but the thrush does not sing and everyone is sad; on the third attempt, the fox, with its tail down the well, pulls the young man out; a young man gets home: a gold-haired girl breaks the silence, the thrush sings, the father recovers; the father wanted to shoot his older sons, but the young man begged not to do so]: Sébillot 1894, No. 10:174-176 (=Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 550:347-348); Alsatians [motive known]: Carnoy, 89-99 in Delarue, Tenèze 1964:352; Germans (southern Hessen) [the king is sick but will recover when he hears singing Felix's birds; whoever of his three sons gets it will inherit the throne; the brothers parted at the crossroads by the tree; whoever returns first will wait for the others; the elders meet the bear and refuse to answer him , younger Ferdinand tells him everything; the bear indicates the castle where to hire; take a wooden cage with a bird, do not transplant the bird into another cage; for his diligence, the prince has been appointed chief birds; but F. transplanted Felix into a golden cage; as soon as he was outside the castle gate, Felix shouted, F. was captured; a bear appeared: promise the king to get the most beautiful girl for him; the king let go F., the bear put him on his back and quickly took him to another castle; the local king has three daughters, the youngest is the most beautiful; you recognize her: she is wearing the poorest dress; and don't try to take her brocades with you dresses; F. regretted leaving expensive outfits, the princess screamed, F. was captured; the bear teaches again: promise the king to get the fastest horse for him; the bear brought F. to the third city; take the horse with with a wooden saddle, do not take gold; but F. again did not listen, the horse shouts "Thief!" , F. was captured; begged the bear to help him out again: promise the king to get the most expensive gem for him; the bear brought F. to the mountain, which opens for one hour; there is no need to be afraid of lions and tigers; you must take a stone in a simple wooden box; but F. took the gold box and filled all his pockets with gems; an invisible hand gave him the back of the head and F. flew out of the cave; bear: I'm the one who pulled you out: a minute later the cave would close; now select the best stones for the king; the king gave the horse; when the princess came out to look at the horse, F. picked it up and carried it away; having received the bird for the princess, took the princess away again; the bear warned him not to stop home, but F. stopped under that tree and fell asleep; the brothers came, took everything for themselves, and Ferdinand was thrown into the lion's lair; the bear took pity again and brought F. to his father's castle; unrecognized F. got a job at the stable; his dull horse immediately rejoiced; when he saw F., the silent phoenix bird sang; F. married the princess, his brothers were expelled; his wife gave birth to a son; the bear came joyfully accepted; asks for repay: cut your son in half with your hand to make it easier for me to swallow him; F. closed his eyes and raised his sword; immediately the bear's skin fell and he himself turned out to be a prince; got his kingdom, and then he built a castle next to Castle F. and lived there]: Wolf 1851:229-242; (cf. the Irish [the queen died leaving her son; the king took another wife, she has three sons; she is trying to tell her stepson; her sons killed the king's favorite horse, the greyhound; the stepmother accused her stepson; the gentleman told the king that the blood on the clothes of those three, not the first son; the king: whoever gets the songbird, whose voice they hear in the forest, will inherit the throne and half the kingdom immediately; the bird disappeared into a deep failure; the queen's sons go down, but when they see a warrior with a spear, everyone tells him to be raised; the king's son rushes at the warrior; he explains that he only experienced the courage of those who descended; gives a horse tells me to ride to the castle where the bird does not eat or drink there; the king in the castle: the bird is my daughter; it will be married by someone who can hide three times and find the hidden king three times, otherwise death; horse turns the young man into his hair, tooth, horseshoe nail, the king does not find; the horse teaches to recognize the king in an apple, in a drake on the lake, in a stone in a princess's ring; the king gave his daughter, they returned home; the king drove his wife away; prince and wife lived alternately on earth and in the underworld]: Danaher 1967, No. 36:112-118).

Western Asia. The Arameans [a merchant gives three daughters for three giants; gets sick; they need dancing pears, singing apples, jumping quinces to recover; three sons go to get them at the fork in the fork the roads leave their seals; the younger Adi-bek meets an old man; he teaches him to catch a sea horse, cross the sea, the Black Country, the Gorky River; there will be hay in front of the lion, meat in front of the donkey, it must be changed; in the nightingale Bulbul-Khazar castle, talking apple trees, pears, quince; beautiful there, she must be kissed; A. returns with fruits, beauty (and, obviously, with a nightingale); finds and buys older brothers; those agree to have him seal them; A. climbs into the well to get water, the brothers cut off the rope, carry the fruits (and the nightingale); A. gets out of the well, visits the sisters with his wife; the first two husbands sisters show the way to the third, who gives an invincible fiery sword; unrecognized A. conquers his father's kingdom; when he sees him, the nightingale stops crying, starts singing again, apples, pears, quinces began to sing, dance, jump; A. shows his seals on the brothers' hips; agrees to pardon them]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:287-294; Syrian Arabs [the bird flies in three times, plucking a hair from the king's beard; on for the third time he managed to snatch a golden feather from her; three princes go to get a bird; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription: you will burn along this road, you will drown along this road, you will not return along this road; brothers went to different ways, leaving their rings under the stone; younger Ala'i - on the road of not returning; on the way, ghoul, A. throws sweet mastic into his mouth; he is ready to carry A. back, but A. wants to go ahead; ghoul sends him to his brother; Tom A. cut his hair and he took it to his third brother; A. shaved him and cut his nails; he brought A. to the Birdcage Garden, told him not to take anything else; A. could not resist taking the second cage, immediately caught; the local king promises a bird for the fastest horse; the ghoul brings to the stable, but A. takes another sword; the local king promises a horse for the beautiful Badiat-ul-Jamal; the ghoul gives a candle, making her invisible; if the eyes of sleeping B. are yellow, you must run, and if they are red, you must grab her; A. got B.; the ghoul took her form, told A. to tell the tired beauty to be given only rose water; when the beautiful gulya was brought a jug, he dived into it and disappeared; the same with the horse (he drinks only rose water); with B., the horse and the bird A. reached the stone; the brothers had already taken their rings; one serves in the bakery, the other at the inn; A. bought them; B. overheard that the brothers wanted to leave A. in the well; A. did not believe; B. gives him three chestnuts: one has a gold earring, the other has a gold bracelet, and the third is brocade dress; when the brothers went home without A., B. turned into a black woman, the bird bleached, the horse became a nag; the travelers pulled A. out, gave him a horse; A. disguised as a shepherd, hired a jeweler; as soon as A. found himself in his father's town, B., the horse and the bird took their former form; B. refuses to marry one of A.'s brothers, demands a pair for an earring; the jeweler is horrified, A. gives him a second earring in the morning; B. understands that A. is close, asks the couple for a bracelet; the same is a gold dress; B. suggests that the brothers show who rides the horse faster; it is not they who win the races, but A.; the king handed him the throne, married B., A. not began to execute brothers]: Bushnaq 1987:80-88.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kirati (? eastern Nepal) [the king dreams that there is a nightingale whose singing reveals the spectacle of heaven, earth and hell; withers away from wanting to take possession of him; only the youngest of four sons is ready to go for a nightingale; sees An ascetic rishi covered in moss cleans him, he comes out of the trance; sends him to another rishi, who says that the nightingale cage on the tree is far to the east; turns the young man into a crow to he could fly there; if he looked back, he would turn to ashes; so it happened, the rishi revived him, the young man brought him a nightingale; the rishi gave him a magic stick, but took the nightingale; the stick began to beat the rishi, he returned the nightingale a young man; the same with the second rishi (gives a skin to fly on), with the first (tie a rope to a thousand people); the young man meets the brothers, who throw him into the well, take the nightingale cage, but not magic objects; the princess pulls the young man out of the well, he marries her; at this time, the brothers are trying in vain to make the nightingale sing; the young man flies in his skin, tells the rope to tie everyone but his own parents, beat everyone with a baton; the nightingale sings; the young man gets the throne, gives the brothers life, but not freedom]: Heunemann 1980, No. 3:45-53.

(Wed. Burma - Indochina. Shany [the husband loves his eldest wife, her daughter Nang Hsen Gaw, the youngest daughter Nang E; the husband caught many oysters, the wives came to carry the catch; the youngest ate everything herself, the eldest brought it; the youngest said that the eldest is a witch, she took everything; the youngest was killed, she turned into a turtle; the turtle asks her daughter to bring cotton so that she can spin and weave; the mother DID NOT follow, pretended to be sick, agreed with a doctor to recommend a boiled turtle as a medicine; the turtle was caught and cooked; she asks her daughter to bury her bones; the mother DID NOT give bones to the dogs, but one ran away, the NHG took the bone, a singing tree has buried and grown; the king sent servants to bring him a tree; they cut down with the best axes, the felling is overgrown, the servants are executed; the king promises to make whoever brings the tree an heir if it is a man , and the eldest wife, if a woman; NHG easily brings a tree, becomes a queen; an unrecognized mother is NOT hired as a maid, led the queen to the spring, stabbed her, buried her under the road, put her clothes on her daughter; the singing tree stopped and withered; the king allowed the sparrow to nest in the room, for which he told him everything; announced the replacement of the queen; the king ordered the imaginary wife to be cut off; the NHG grew up on the grave a flower, a man picked it up, brought it home; the man's mother is surprised that someone cooks and cleans the house; the woman peeked, crushed the flower, the NHG remained a girl; the sparrow told the king everything, ordered the mother to be executed NOT, bring the NHG; the tree began to play]: Griggs 1902:66-76).

(Wed. South Asia. Bengalis [the king has many songbirds; he hears a voice: the golden parrot will overshadow everyone; six sons go in search, told the youngest seventh to watch the milk: if he turns red, with they were in trouble; they stopped at an inn, robbed by robbers; the owner demanded payment, made them workers; the younger brother saw that the milk turned red; came to the hermit; he advised them to steal the wings of one of the peri, which come to swim, fly into the world of peri and bring a parrot from there; while the young man was flying, the hermit pretended to look for the missing wings with Peri; when he arrived, the young man threw up wings, peri took them, let the golden flute summon it if necessary; the younger prince bought the brothers, who pushed him into the well and took the bird; the prince played the flute, Peri flew in and carried him to the palace park where his parents took a walk; when the brothers brought the bird, they had to show the stamps burned on their bodies by the owner of the inn; the king expelled them and stayed with their youngest son]: Devi 1915:29-36).

The Balkans. Albanians: Serkova 1989 [the king is building a luxurious mosque, the dervish says it lacks a sweet-mouthed nightingale; the king's three sons go to look for a nightingale, the elders stop searching, keep a bakery and a tavern; the youngest comes to an old woman whose daughter owns a nightingale; the old woman teaches to take a nightingale with some other object, otherwise he will not sing; the young man, naming the old woman, passes by a lion, a tiger, an arap guard, takes a nightingale cage and a dish in the sleeping beauty's room, picks up the brothers on the way back, they dazzle him, come back, but their nightingale does not sing, because they did not know about the dish; the doctor restores the young man's eyesight, he enters the city incognito; the old woman's daughter comes with an army, the arap says that the older brothers are deceivers, admits the youngest, he marries a girl, older brothers banished]: 118-123; Pedersen 1898, No. 3 [the king builds a mosque; dervish: it is beautiful, but the prayer in it has no value; the king destroyed the mosque, built another one; the third is the same; he has no more money ; his three sons are waiting for a dervish; he says that Gizár's nightingale is needed to achieve perfection; sons go in search; a stone with an inscription at the crossroads; for two roads, "you will come back" for the third, "you won't come back"; the younger prince chooses her; the older brother became a barber, the middle brother began to work in a coffee shop; the youngest saw a wild woman combing her hair with a gorse branch; combed her with a comb, cleaned his head, she sent him over the mountain; there he came to the leopard's wife; every time she took bread out of the oven, she interfered with the coals with her breasts and then lay sick; the young man taught how get bread; a leopard came, grateful that his wife was healthy, sent a lion to his older brother, his eyelids closed, his wife's nipples should be venerated; the lion did not know about the nightingale, advised go back, but the young man moved on; wounded three eagles that tried to eat him; came to an old woman, she hid it; those eagles flew in, became girls, each saying that she would not harm someone who she was wounded; the young man goes out, the girls are happy, agree to bring him to where the nightingale is, if he is everyone's husband for a month; three months later they bring the nightingale Beauty of the Earth to the mistress; The guards are sleeping, he stole the nightingale's cage, put out 4 candles and lit 4 others; the eagle sisters brought him back to their place and then to the fork where he separated from his brothers; he found them; the brothers asked him go down into the well, cut off the rope; the nightingale immediately stopped singing; the brothers gave the nightingale to their father, said that the youngest was gone; the Beauty of the Earth came with an army, asked his older brother how he stole the nightingale; he answered incorrectly, he was beaten with sticks; his middle brother told in horror how they threw the youngest into the well; the king sent him to get his son, everything was clarified, he married the Beauty of the Earth, became king]: 11-19; (cf. Lambertz 1952 [the dervish gives the childless king an apple: let the queen eat it and the mare eat the peel; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not love her stepson, hears him talking to the foal; pretends to be sick, tells her husband to slaughter the foal; he tells the young man to ask permission to ride for the last time, pull three hairs out of his mane, jumps over a locked gate, jumps away; does not advise the young man raises the pen, but he raises it; refuses to give the pen to the vizier, gives it to the king; the vizier becomes the enemy of the young man, invites the king to send him for the bird itself; the horse advises to lure the bird into the cage with pearlescent beads; the bird sings while he thinks that the young man has caught it for himself; when he finds out what is for the king, he falls silent; the vizier: let Ora bring this bird; the young man asks for a ship, two daughters of a vizier and 12 maids similar to each other; now the vizier says that the bird does not have Ora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think that they have the same maid, but in fact every day is different; the young man tells the maids to pour into eating poison, on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were dying; the ship entered the harbor, the vizier's daughters complained to the cadia, but could not determine which of the 12 maids was to blame, died; the young man left the maids in the city, swam further; the distance of food to the herons and flies fighting for food, they promised to help; he comes to Oram, they promise to let the owner of the bird go with him if he separates oats from barley and revives dead fish ( flies separate, the heron brings living water from across the sea); when Ora came to the king, the bird sang, grabbed its feather, both (the bird and Ora) flew away; the young man told the vizier that his daughters were sick and died; the vizier advises to send the young man to pick up the mares Kjühelane; the horses identified the horse as their young man, followed him; the king orders to milk the mares, boil the milk - let the young man bathe in it; for a short time, mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and vizier rushed after them, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: 91-106); Romanians [ The king is building a magnificent church, but it is constantly collapsing; he dreams that the church will be completed if he gets a magic bird that will nest at the top of the tower; the elder son goes in search; the old fox asks him to share bread and wine, he refuses, the fox turned it into stone; the same with his middle brother; the younger one shared; the fox became a young man; he was bewitched until someone or he would not be friendly to him; they got a bird and a girl from the dragons; she turned her kingdom into an apple and took it with her; that young man turned the dragon pursuers into stone; they saw two statues are older brothers; former fox: if you revive them, you will repent, and if you don't, you will also repent; the younger brother asked to revive them; the elders brought him to the spring, cut off his legs, took the bird and a girl; a legless man met a blind man, who was also maimed by his brothers; they killed a three-headed scorpion, bleed, the blind saw the light, the crippled's legs grew; at this time, the older brothers began to argue who will take the girl; she refused to be a wife, they made her a maid; they brought a bird, she sat on the tower, but is silent; the youngest, disguised as a wanderer, enters the church, the bird sang; he tells the king his the story, he recognizes his son; the girl unfurled an apple, a palace appeared; the brothers were tested: to throw a heavy stone up; he fell on the elders on the head, the youngest passed; the wedding; the king handed over to the younger throne]: Nortines 1935:7-25; Hungarians [the king has one eye laughing and the other crying; three sons ask him why this is so; he gets angry but then confesses; laughs because his sons themselves will become kings; cries because two in black stole a pelican from him, whose singing makes them younger; sons jump in search; the eldest two do not pay attention to the beggar; did not look for a bird, but are engaged in revelry; the youngest gives alms; the beggar teaches: a bird in church for the Operencian Sea; the witch has two horses, she asks to herd them for a year; her year is three days, her horses are her daughters, they will disappear into the clouds or underground; here's a whistle, it can cause the king of mosquitoes, the king of fish and the king of mice; as a reward, you should ask for a thin foal under a pile of manure; you have to carry the foal to the bridge, wash it in the river; it will become a flying horse; mosquitoes, fish, mice helped bring horses back; then the beggar explained that you can only cross the sea twice a year at the end of the forest and in early spring, when two trees are on its opposite the shores will kiss each other; crossing the trees to the other side, the young man went through a golden forest, then a silver forest, then a copper forest; each has an old woman, he asks them; two kidnappers live near the church a Jesuit bird; but it does not sing here; the young man took the bird, the old women gave him gold and silver; when he returned, the young man met his brothers: they were forced to work in shackles; the brothers cut off his arms and legs and carried him away a bird; he was picked up by a swineherd; he covered his arms and legs with bloody clay and they grew back; the bird sang, everyone became 17 years old; he tied the brothers to horses and then hanged them; the father gave it to his youngest son half the kingdom; they are still alive if they are not dead]: Jones, Kropf 1889:250-262; the Greeks {there is no motive for the Non-Nightingale, but most likely the informant simply omitted it; the text is brief} [the king is told that the church is good for everyone, but there is not enough nightingale in the pulpit to sing when they read the Gospel; three princes go in search; at the fork there is an inscription: you will return along this road, you will die on the second, You will not return third; the brothers disperse, leaving a ring under the column; the younger one cuts off the snake's eyebrows, from which it saw nothing; the snake tells you to eat and praise rotten figs, drink and praise smelly water, then kill the dragons and pick up the nightingale; the young man met his brothers, who left him in the well, brought him a nightingale; the horse remained at the edge of the well, the merchants pulled out the young man; he returned to his father the father drove the eldest sons away; the nightingale's mistress asks the fig tree and the river why they did not detain the thief; they say that they were praised; she takes them with her, comes to the prince, who takes her as his wife]: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 72:77-80; Croats [in a dream the king is told to build a church; after the third dream, the king builds a church, but the same old man orders him to get the bird cage out of the Persian king's garden, otherwise the church will collapse; three sons go for a bird; the eldest two have lost cards; the youngest buys the hanged debtor to bury him; in a deserted area he meets a man; he says that he and there is a dead man bought by the prince, promises to help; tells him to take a cage with a bird, but nothing more; the young man takes a sword and dagger, is captured; the Persian king tells him to get King Wasan's horse; companion with the prince sails in a boat across the sea, the companion tells him to take the horse without a bridle and saddle, the prince violates the ban, is captured; the local king orders him to get the daughter of the Greek emperor; the companion teaches him to take away three daughters emperor; King Wasan gives a horse for them, but the prince and his companion manage to sail away, keeping both the horse and the princess; the same with the bird; the companion parts with the prince, leaving him everything they have obtained; the prince meets brothers, they kill him, take everything for themselves; but the king's bird does not sing, the horse is sad, the princesses cry; the companion sends the spirit of the wind for living water, revives the murdered younger prince; he returns, the bird sang, the king wants to execute his eldest sons, but the youngest forgives them, everyone gets a princess]: Schütz 1960, No. 20:159-177.

Central Europe. Czechs [someone steals apples from an apple tree in the royal garden; the king promises half the kingdom; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest is knocked down by the feather of the Firebird (Ohnivák, PO), she flew away the apple is left; parting at the crossroads of three roads, the brothers stick their rods: whoever sprouts has taken out a bird; Liska-Ryzhka (KH) asks each of the brothers to share food; the elders shot it, the youngest fed him; she brought him to the castle, ordered him to take a wooden cage, the Queen took a gold one, the PO squeaked, the guards woke up; the king agrees to give the bird if the Queen delivers Zlatograv's horse; the same with horse: he takes not a leather bridle, but a gold one; its owner demands Goldilocks in the Black Sea for the horse; she is the youngest daughter of a sea queen; LR orders to choose the easiest dressed girl; he chose; the girls' mother tells now identify Z. among the three sisters; a fly is spinning around her; the Queen orders to scoop out the pond with a sieve; Z. began to scoop out instead of him; LR brought a horse, ordered Z. to take Z. and ride away; LR took the form of Z. , then the horse, then the bird, each time he becomes a fox again and runs away; the Queen returns with Z., the horse and the bird; the owner of the bird has a copper one, the horse is silver, the mother Z. has a golden castle; at the fork the queen fell asleep; the brothers came up, cut his body into pieces, Z., took the horse and bird; but Z. is silent, the horse does not eat, the bird does not sing; the LR found the remains, grabbed the crow, and the crow had to bring it from the Black Seas of living and dead water, the Lord revived the Queen; when he saw him, the horse rose up, the bird sang, Z. told everything; the king executed his eldest sons, gave the youngest Z., half the kingdom, and after death another]: Erben 1976:22-31; Slovaks [the king will recover if he drinks three drops of blood dripping from the beak of a singing bird; two eldest sons leave and disappear; the youngest goes, buries an unburied corpse; in In a dream, the old man promises to send a chamois, it will lead to the goal; a chamois leads to the castle; a beautiful woman sleeps there; a young man takes a cage with a bird, a magic sword, wine, bread; takes possession of the beauty, leaves a note; along the way home with a sword defeats the enemies of one king, leaves a sword to the king; in another kingdom heals the sick with wine; in the third, he saves the hungry from hunger with bread; buys the brothers they wanted to hang for theft; brothers push the youngest into the pit, bring the bird to his father, she does not sing; the prince is pulled out of the pit by a peasant; at the sight of him, the bird sang, his father recovered; the boy born beautiful grew up, read father's note; on the way to him, the beauty takes her sword, wine, bread; her older brothers come out to her, exposes them, cuts off their heads; marries the younger prince]: Bogatyrev 1955:48-56; Poles ( mazuria) [the king is blind and will see the light from the singing of Caesar's bird (Cäsarius); the eldest son goes in search, lost cards, thrown into the basement; the same middle; the younger Ludwig, who is held for a fool, speaks to the inn that will sit down to play on the opposite way in the woods, a little old woman tells her to sit on her horse, he will bring it to her sister; the horse flies like the wind; she lets the new horse fly to her third sister; she too gives a horse, he will take Caesar to the bird; castle, enter the third room, take the bird and go straight back; in the third room, L. saw a black beauty sleeping on a golden bed; when he met her, he wrote paper, who he was and why he came; galloped away, lions and dogs did not catch up with him; on the way back, one sister gave inexhaustible bread, the other soap that made him beautiful; the third said that the L. brothers were sitting in the cellar, But don't go to them - another time; but their brother bought them, and they decided to get rid of him on the way; left them to the fishermen to kill him, but he persuaded them to leave him on the island; he lived there for 7 years; with him inexhaustible bread remained, he fed them to marine animals; and at home, the Caesar bird was silent and the king did not see the light; the princess gave birth to a son; he grew up and she went with her army to the country of L.; the king is the son who took Caesar; the elder, the middle, are rejected; the king asks them to find L.; they came to the fishermen; sailed to the island, but sea animals and fish do not allow the ship to sail; but then they missed it L. washed himself with magic soap, became handsome again; the bird Caesar sang, the king saw the light; when L. appeared, the princess told her son that it was his father; took L. to reign in her kingdom: Toeppen 1867:154-158 ; Western Ukrainians (Podolia) [someone steals golden apples from the royal apple tree; the elder queen guards, falls asleep; the same average; the youngest fool put a wreath of thorns on his head and began to read book; as soon as he bites his nose, the thorns prick, he continues to read; a bird flew in, he pulled out its tail; the queens left on different roads; the younger horse was eaten by a wolf; the queen complained see. Mykolay; he gathered the wolves, asked who ate the horse, told that wolf to take the queen; the wolf brings him to where the beautiful horse is, tells him to take it without a bridle; the queen took the bridle, was caught; he will be given the horse if will get a greyhound; the wolf brings it to the greyhound, tells you not to take the lantsukhiv (?) , he takes it, he is told to get the girl; the wolf: but don't kiss her; the cage with that bird, and the girl is sleeping next to him; the queen takes the cage and the girl, sits on the wolf; he chipped in as a girl, the queen got a greyhound; then but with the horse; sending the queen home, the wolf warns not to tell his brothers anything - they will kill; the wolf found the body, ordered the crow to bring live water; he brought it, the wolf revived the queen; tells pretend to be a doctor; at home the girl is sick, the bird does not sing; as soon as they saw the queen, the girl recovered, the bird sang; the queen told his father everything; he married him to the girl he had received, and his brothers ordered to shoot]: Levchenko 1928, No. 492:357-359.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [the padishah is blind; he will be cured by a handful of land from where the horse's hooves did not set foot; the eldest son reached the dairy spring in six months, took land; padishah: I reached there even before dawn and had breakfast; middle son went to the honey spring; father: I was getting there by lunchtime; the youngest son Matyuv, a simple man, did not receive a blessing and went by himself; secretly brought his father's duldull out of the cave and fattened him; by morning he reached Syut-Chashma, by noon to Bal-Chashma; when we reached the place where his father lost his sight, duldul ordered him to take the land here, but beware of the flying makhlyuk; Makhlyuk began to pour on the young man was boiling water, the dul cooled him; the young man grabbed his legs; the makhlyuk turned into a girl: I was waiting for you; they flew to the underworld, began to live there in a palace; once M. found it at the bottom of the sea sparkling feather; the horse does not tell me to take it; girl: it belongs to the girl Pamuk, she will separate us; the girl began to wither away; they decided to go somewhere else; at night, the vizier of the underground saw a glowing feather padishah; M. gave him the pen; he brought it to the padishah, said that the feather who found the feather could also get a bird, it could talk; the duldulle tells him to slaughter the horse and climb into the belly; the bird came down to peck, M . grabbed him by the legs, the dyuldul helped catch him; but the bird does not speak; the vizier: will speak in the presence of his mistress Pamuk; the padishah sends M. to get her; those who tried to approach her burned alive; but P. fell in love with M. and went with him; told him through the vizier that she was ready to marry a padishah if he became 25 years old; vizier: let M. go for a rejuvenating agent; {two pages missing}; M. came out of the cauldron younger, the padishah cooked; they came to Father M.'s possession; he had already died, bequeathing the throne to M.]: Emirsuinova et al. 2013:63-81; Georgians (Akhalkalaki district) [at the king's request, his three sons erected a temple; the old man says that the temple lacks Queen Peri's singing bird; the sons are going in search; at the fork there is an inscription: you will return on the right road, maybe on the middle road , if you come back, you won't come back on the left; the older brothers go right and straight, becoming employees of an innkeeper and baker, the younger George to the left; heals an abscess in the deva's ear by piercing him with an arrow, he sends him to a three-headed maiden (he needs to throw lead to chew), three-headed to an old Davy, whose beautiful daughter was kidnapped by 12 devas and seven brothers can't be repulsed; G. kills 12 devas, the old woman teaches what to do ; 1) there is something like milk in one spring, blood in the other, both liquids are disgusting, you should drink and praise; 2) go through the thorny bush and praise it; 3) swim across the salt lake, praise it; 4) the peri subjects around the palace look like pillars, you have to bow to them; take a cage with a bird in the queen's bedroom; the queen tells the guards to hold the thief, but everyone says that G. praised them; G. found brothers; they came to the crevice; the elders can not go down - it's hot; G. went down, the princess kidnapped by the seven-headed devil below; gives sabers against the deva and against the peri; after killing the deva, G. does not strike a second blow; brothers they raise the princess, leave G. below; give her father a bird, but she does not sing; they imprison the princess; G. sees two rams, sits on a white one, rises to the ground on it; returns, marries the princess, forgives brothers]: Bogoyavlensky 1892a, No. 4:57-70 (similar but not identical text in Dirr 1920, No. 8:35-42); Armenians: Kagan 1898c, No. 28 [the king ordered to grow a garden; the old man says there is not enough in the garden nightingale; the king sends sons for the nightingale; the old man teaches the younger man to call the mare with a whistle; she will carry him over a mountain that rises to heaven and then falls; the door hinges must be lubricated in the house; about swap gold and silver vessels for the sleeping princess; eat pilaf, pour ash into the cauldron; take the cage with the nightingale; on the way back, the brothers gave the younger bread and water in exchange for his eyes, took him away cage; blinded hears the dove explain to the chick: put his eyes in the eye sockets and touch this pen; the young man saw the light, but changed his eyes and became oblique; the brothers gave the nightingale to his father, but the nightingale did not sings; disguised as a bald shepherd, with his lamb's stomach over his head, the younger brother hired his father as a gardener; at that time a beautiful woman appeared and asked who took the nightingale; the older brothers answer Wrong, she turned them into pigeons; the imaginary pasth confesses that the queen marries him, at his request, restores the brothers' human appearance; the king gives the throne to his youngest son]: 219-223; Karapetyan 1967 [roughly like in Kagan 1898s]: 123-137; Khachatryants 1933:66-72 (Turkish Armenia) [=Wingate 1910, No. 4:507-511; the king builds the temple three times, the storm destroys it; the hermit: the nightingale Khazaran is needed; three they go in search of the king's sons; hermit: the one who has traveled along a wide road will return, on the middle road either return or not, on the lower road he will not return; there the river, the owner of the nightingale Khazaran, does not drink from it; it is necessary drink, say, "Oh, living water"; tear off the thorn, say "Flower of Paradise"; in front of the wolf, the grass, the meat in front of the lamb, must be changed; the pretended gate leaf should be opened, the opened door must be pretended; the hostess the nightingale sleeps for 7 days and is awake for 7 days; the elder brother went to serve, the middle black Arab turned into stone; the youngest drove along the lower road, did everything, kissed the girl, took the nightingale away; the gate, the wolf, etc. they did not detain the young man; he gave the hermit a nightingale, brought his older brother to him, turned an Arab into stone and revived his middle brother with a whip; the brothers lowered the youngest into the well, left, taking the nightingale; but their nightingale does not sing; the girl came, put the king and older brothers in prison; the reapers released the youngest, he told the girl how everything happened, how he kissed her; wedding, the nightingale sang], 190-215 ( Ararat Valley) [=Harutyunyan 1986:3-19; the beggar asked the royal gardener for apples, he did not give it, the apple trees dried up; the beggar said that the garden would bloom when the bird of paradise Azaran-Bulbul sings in it; the elder and the middle princes go in search; the younger fool Alo-Dino chooses a thin oath, tells me to feed it, it turns into a heroic horse, he catches up with his brothers; from the fork, one road leads to Tiflis, the other to Yerevan, the third is Deadly, AB is driving along it; brothers for others, went bankrupt, began to work for the bathhouse attendant; AD comes to the Red Maiden, the deva's wife offers to hide him, AD refuses; eats on a par with the devil , during a fight, cuts off his three heads; promises to marry his widow to his older brother; the White Maiden (seven-headed, wife for middle brother); Black is forty-headed, AD takes his widow as his wife; she says that King Chachonts has AB; Hell tames the sea horse, which carries him across the sea; the mare - she jumps to the window, blood pressure grabs the AB cage; returns to his wife with the treasures of the devas and the bird; goes look for brothers; they leave him in the well, leave with women, treasures and birds; the wife manages to give Hell her glove and shoe; the king father doubts that the elder and middle son have caught the bird; they are not they can make her sing; the merchant pulls Hell out of the well, he stays with the old man; finds out that the king is marrying a son, will reward the one who sews a second glove for his daughter-in-law; the king and the bride are happy; the same - a shoe; King C. and his army come for the bird; the elder, middle princes do not give the correct answer to the question of how the bird was kidnapped; when Hell comes and shows the noses and lips cut off from giants, C. gives him a bird for his courage; the bird sang; Hell does not execute, but expels brothers and their wives; soon inherits his father's throne]; (cf. Abkhazians [the prince asks the sons to bring the birds to the daughter of the deity Aerg; the eldest remains to work for the blacksmith, the middle for the baker, the youngest comes to the witch Arupap, applies to her chest; she orders unlock 12 doors, a beautiful woman sleeps in the last room, a bird cage above her head; Apupap sends a young man to kill a deer, copies 12 keys out of reindeer bones; on the way back, the young man meets brothers; they let him down the cliff to get water, throw a rope, bring the cage to his father themselves; Ayerga's daughter chased, pulled the young man out, came with him to his father, told the kidnapper to tell him how he was stole birds; older and middle brothers lie, she tells them to be locked in a stable; the youngest says she is marrying him; the father drives his older sons away]: Bgazhba 1983:111-113; Turks [father tells his sons that he fell ill because Uyuz Padishah (UP) took three nightingales from him; the youngest son rides on a road that they do not return; kills a dragon, freeing three sisters; a giant does Far from close, the young man enters the country of the UE; everyone sleeps there, he unzips the beauty's gates, takes nightingales, brings wives to himself and his brothers; older brothers cannot go down to the well for water, it's hot there; the youngest goes down; the betrothed tells him to jump at the bottom on a white ram; the young man jumps on the black one, he takes him down; the devil hides the water, eats the girls, gives only a little bloody water; the young man kills the deva; the padishah sends a young man to an eagle that can carry him upstairs; a young man kills a snake that eagles; an eagle carries him, he gives it meat and water, cuts off a piece from his leg; on the ground an eagle puts a piece back]: Stebleva 1986, No. 19:57-62).

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [a sick padishah asks his sons to get a nightingale whose singing he heard in a dream; elder Gulyam and middle Veli dev throws into the well; younger Mammadjan kills the deva with a stone, frees peri; to finish off a deva, you have to kill his soul, she is in a bottle in the dragon's right ear; M. makes the dragon sneeze, finishes off the deva; Peri tells the black maiden to bring M. to his sister, a two-headed prisoner deva; seven sisters in total, each next is a deva captive with a large number of heads, up to seven; M. kills everyone up to the sixth, each has a bottle of soul kept by a goat, an old woman, etc. (just like in the first episode); the sixth girl explains: a dragon crawls to the plane tree every year, devours chicks; the grateful bird Zamyr will bring the dragon that has killed the dragon to where the nightingale is; we must give millet to the chickens, bones for dogs, salt for camels, tie the tongues of bells with rags on 40 steps of the stairs; M. did everything, the chicks ate the chopped dragon, the youngest left a piece under his tongue to prove to his mother that the dragon was killed; Zamyr brought M. to the room with the sleeping devas and the nightingale; M. first met with the sleeping beauty, so the nightingale raised the alarm; but M. took him and managed to sit on the bird; with the beautiful M. changed rings; Zamyr throws cooked meat and water; the meat is over, he cuts off a piece of caviar; Zamyr keeps a piece under his beak, puts it back; M. takes seven girls and treasures, finds in the brothers' well; brothers dazzle him, throw him into the well; they catch the dog's eyes, but it keeps them, takes care of M.; the padishah's nightingale does not sing; the nightingale's mistress finds M. by ring, lowers him into the well puts his braids back in order for M. to get out; the nightingale begins to sing, his father recovers, his brothers are thrown into the desert]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:71-92; Uzbeks [Shah tells the craftsmen to make plane trees: the trunk is made of yakhonts, the branches are made of chrysolite, the leaves are from i0zumrud, the fruits are made of pearls; after 7 years, the plane tree is ready; the Shah put the bed under it, you can't see the sky behind the emerald foliage; but one day he fell on his cheek sunlight: someone stole leaves; the shah promises to cover with gold whoever finds the thief; the guards around fell asleep at night; the eldest, middle sons are also imprisoned; the youngest sees nightingale, rips his pen off his tail; sons go to look for a nightingale; reach a fork; whoever goes one road will return, the other will face danger, the third will not return; the youngest chose the third road, the older ones ate the first; everyone ate, began to work in the tavern; the youngest monkey eats the last cake; promises to help; tells you to take the nightingale with the cage, but not remove the veil; prince takes it off, he is grabbed; the king promises to give the nightingale for the girl; the monkey orders to take the girl quietly, the prince kisses her; her father agrees to give her if the prince gets Kara Kardylgoch's horse; the monkey helps get, turns into a horse, the prince gets the girl, the imaginary horse (monkey) returns, the prince rides the KK horse, carries the girl and the nightingale; the monkey leads to him, turns into a peri; promises to help; The prince finds his brothers; they cut off his legs, gouge out his eyes, take everything away; the nightingale refuses to sing; peri (a former monkey) makes the prince whole and healthy, brings him home; the nightingale tells the whole history, the princess is dancing, the Shah and her elder sons are fleeing, the prince reigns]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 81-94.

Baltoscandia. The Danes [doctors do not know what the king is sick with; the youngest of the three princes meets a man in the forest; he says that the king will recover if the phoenix bird sings for him; he must go pick her up on a gray donkey; do not take cages (it will ring); do not wake up the princess sleeping next to her; older brothers stop and stay at the enchanted inn; the youngest does not go there; took out a bird and lay down with a princess who kept sleeping; on the way back, the young man met brothers; they took the bird and threw it into the lion's ditch; but the lions are affectionate to him; at home, the phoenix does not sing, the king does not recover; the princess came with the army and her son, demands the one who took the bird; the boy does not recognize his older brothers as his father; they have to confess to the crime; the father sends him to get the bones of the youngest son, but he is alive and well; the boy calls him father; the phoenix sings, the king is recovering; the prince and the princess are leaving for her kingdom]: Holbek 1987:541; Western Sami [the poor young man picked berries, so I was feeding with my old mother; one day a door opened between the bumps: are you walking on our roofs? the underground residents asked to pick berries for them as well, promised money; the young man told his mother that he would not be back by night; he brought berries, everyone liked it; the underground people explained that they could not collect them themselves, because they could not collect them themselves. afraid that they will be seen; one day a young man was left underground alone with an old woman, she showed him a hat that would take him anywhere; he came again, put on his hat, was at home; then told him to move himself to the king; the king demanded that the trolls bring a golden singing bird, promised a daughter and half a kingdom; the young man came to the trolls, there was only an old woman, she showed birds and horses; ordered them to take the ugliest bird go away without looking back; the king's courtiers claim that they got the bird; but the bird does not sing and looks ugly; when the young man came, the bird sang and became prettier; the young man returned to the underground people, took him horse; got a princess]: Pollan 2005, No. 19:85-88; Karelians: Yevseyev 1950, No. 164 [Blmoilline forges, Annie flies by like a bird, he is accompanied by an old Väinämöine and Jogi-Jolgamoeni goes across ten seas to marry her; golden snakes crawl down his neck, nightingales sing in an arc, cuckoos cuckoos cuckoos, the horse's body does not sweat, his hoof does not get wet; her father Hitto demands 1) plow the snake field with your elk horse on the shore of Lake Tuomelan d'ärven rannas, 2) put a fence of snakes and frogs, 3) catch a pike in Lake T.; I. sends a smaller iron hail on the pike's back heads, more chicken eggs; H. agrees to give A., but swallows I.; he does not want to go out with feces, vomits, makes a forge out of his shirt, furs out of his pants, hammers with his fists, his knee is an anvil, forged a knife, went out by side, H. died; on the way A. asks I. to sing as he sang, killing her father; I. refuses, she breaks the sleigh, jumps into the sea with a ruff; I. becomes a burbot, swallows a ruff; does not turn A. into a crow, magpie (she she would have become famous then), turns her into a seagull], 167 [the mother replies to Ilmoillina that Hiizi-Hitto has a palisade, on the stakes of the heads of his daughter Annie's suitors, only one without a head; I. tells his father to harness the moose horse, plant nightingales behind, plant cuckoos to cuckoos, dogs bark, go with their father; young Jolgamoine meets him, does not turn, I.'s sleigh break the arc of J.'s sleigh; nightingales sing, cuckoos cuckoos cuckoos, dogs bark; Hiijen Hittolaine requires 1) plow the snake field with a moose horse, 2) put a snake fence on it, 3) bring pike from the Tuoneh River (I. drives hail from the sky); swallows I.; he sends his father to his mother ask him if he should go out with feces or vomit; his mother tells him to go out straight; XX asks him not to kill, but I. forges a knife (furs are a shirt, his knees are an anvil, his fists are hammers), goes out over his side, XX. dies; And . makes A. go with him, she breaks her sleigh in the middle of the sea, I. repairs them with a song; A. rushes into the sea with a ruff, I. with a pike, tells A. to turn to swallow the ruff from his head; A. refuses, I. turns it not a crow, a magpie (she would be a bad person), but a seagull]: 325-329, 332-337); (cf. Onegin 2010, No. 25 (Kalevalsky District) [the healer gave the man water that would make his wife pregnant; but he took a sip himself, also became pregnant, went to the forest, gave birth to a girl, threw it on a tree; the prince's dog barks, the girl (she says that her man carried her, raised the raven, the breeze rocked, the sky washed her) asks for clothes; the prince brings her to him, marries; Syuoyatar became a midwife, in the bathhouse turned the prince's wife into a vazhenka, stayed with her child; but the cuckoo does not cuckoo on her head, the bells on the hem do not ring, the child cries; the shepherd saw how the vazhenka shed her skin, became a woman; answers her that her son is crying; she asks to bring her to feed him tomorrow, and then migrate with deer; a shepherd brings, a woman asks to bring her son tomorrow; a shepherd talks about this prince; the prince threw a deer skin into the fire; the woman became a snake (the prince cut her), a lizard (the same), a rolling pin, then a man; the cuckoo ate, the bells rang, the birds on his shoulders sang; The prince orders to heat the hot bath, under the floor there is a fire pit, S. is led there on a red carpet, she rejoices; when she falls into a hole, she tells her fingers to become devils, earthworms, gnats, hair become sedge, thorny thickets; this is what happened; the prince began to live with his wife and child]: 268-271); Latvians: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 550 [younger brother pulls the feather from a golden bird that has come to steal apples; the father sends his sons to look for the bird; the wolf (bear) eats his younger brother's horse, promises him his help; takes him to the bird, but tells him to take it without a cage; the fool, without heeding advice, falls into the hands of the guard; the king promises to give the bird if the fool gets the golden horse; the wolf helps the fool get the horse, the bird and the princess; the older brothers kill the fool, take possession of the bird, the horse and the princess, they return home; the wolf revives the fool with live water; when he returns home, the bird starts singing, the horse laughs, the princess rushes around his neck; the brothers are punished]: 229-300; Grishina 1993 [three The Queen found out that there is a ring on the claw of Bulbulis's bird; whoever takes it is subject to the bird; the elder brother comes to her; B.: everyone is sleeping, does no one say, "Bird B., go to bed!" The young man utters these words, B. hits him with his wing, turns him into a birch tree; the younger brother is silent, B. fell asleep, the younger one tore off the ring, tells him to revive everyone turned into birch trees; B.: throw in every handful of sand; those who came to life began to throw sand into other birch trees; on the way home, the older brothers took the younger bird and threw it into the sea; but at home, bird B. is silent and does not listen to orders; the sea has carried out the youngest to the amber castle of the sea queen; after a while he decided to visit his father; rubbed his ring, a golden bridge appeared to his father's palace; when the youngest came, the bird B. sang; the younger one forgave brothers, took a bird and returned to his wife]: 100-108.

Turkestan. Uighurs: Jarring 1946, No. 4 (Khotan) [the king dreams of a wonderful bird; vizier: this is a peri from Mount Kaf; three eldest sons go in search, the youngest Hamra-jan joins them; at the fork roads are written on a stone; four roads from right to left: you will probably come back, or you will not return, or you will not return; H. drives on the left; everyone leaves an object under the stone with his own name; H. the old man gives X. a rod to kill the demon; H. first kills small demons, then the giant demon; follows the hoopoe, then the dove to the wall in front of the Kaf Mountains; crawls into the hole through which she flew dove; climbs a tree above the lake, in which girls who have shed their pigeon plumage bathe; X. used to dream of one of them; girls see his reflection, then himself; tell the demon to understand a young man to heaven and throw him on the ground; Hörulqa (the girl X. saw) sends another demon to save H., he picks him up; they got married; the girl says that the bird the king saw was Bulbul (nightingale), but after her father's death, it went to her younger sister Höri Zaparan; sends H. to the demon, who teaches him to take the cage but not open it; H. opens, the nightingale laughs, all demons they wake up; XS tells X. to be thrown out of the sky, but Hyorulka intervenes again; H. gets a nightingale, comes to the fork, goes to look for brothers; found two, they became employees, he paid their debts; brothers they gouged out H.'s eyes, threw him into the well, brought a nightingale to his father themselves; but he did not laugh, the king ordered him to be killed; the nightingale asked God to give him the ability to speak, told the king what the brothers had done; the king chained them; the nightingale shook, two eyes fell out from under his wings; the king came to the well, H. took it out, he burned his hair, calling Hörulka, who put her eyes in; the king married H. to Hörulka; everything is fine] : 72-104; Kabirov 1963 [The padishah has two sons with his eldest wife, one Hamra from his youngest; the padishah fell ill when he dreamed of the Bulbugia bird living on Mount Kaf; will recover if it is brought to him; sons are called to catch poultry; H. goes south from where you won't come back, older and middle brothers go west and east ("you'll come back"; "maybe you'll come back or maybe not"); Black Div owns the country on the way To Kaf; the old man orders to kill the Black Diva's mother first; H. kills her, throws her stone-eyes into the spring, the stones turn into people again; then H. kills the Diva; Peri says she was kidnapped by a seven-headed dragon; he devours the Kara-Kush chicks, takes strength from it; H. kills the dragon, Peri gives his braids to pull the rope, Kara-Kush brings him to Mount Kaf, H. goes down the rope into the dungeon, dazzles the guards An owl takes the bird away; finds impoverished brothers; they gave him drink, threw him into the well, brought the bird to his father, but she is silent; the merchants take H. out of the well, he burns Peri's hair, she arrives, he takes her as his wife, returns to his father, the bird sings, the padishah recovers, the brothers are thrown into prison]: 49-64.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [the king's golden apple ripens every year, someone steals it; he promises the kingdom to the son who caught the thief; the elder sees a golden bird, gets scared, the apple disappears, but he goes to looking for a bird; refuses to share food with the fox, stays drunk in the inn; the same middle son; the youngest tears off the bird's feather; shares with the fox; she warns not to enter the inn courtyard; he comes in, forgets everything, but the fox comes back and takes him out, leads him to a golden linden tree, teaches him to grab the bird but not to touch the branches; the young man breaks the branch, the troll grabs him, lets him go for promising to bring a horse stolen by another troll; a fox teaches not to take bridles, a young man takes it, a troll grabs it, lets him go for promising to bring the girl stolen from him by a third troll; the fox gets it by itself, they leave taking a girl, a horse, a bridle, a linden tree and a bird; the trolls are chasing; the fox puts on rye straw clothes, replies that her grandmother's grandmother saw the passers; the trolls refuse the chase, decide to sleep further; the young brothers throw him in a barrel into the sea, take everything, but the girl is sad, the horse is losing weight, the bird is silent, the linden tree withers; the fox finds the barrel, saves the young man; when she sees him, the girl said that he saved her, the horse recovered, the bird sang, the linden tree turned green; the older brothers were thrown off the cliff in barrels; the fox asks the king to cut off her head, turns into a prince - the brother of the rescued princess]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:49-55.

(Wed. The Midwest. Menominee [the young man's grandfather is always lying on the floor, overgrown with moss; the young man finds his brother, whose bottom is wooden; the brother says that his grandfather did it, that he also wants to kill him, warns of dangers; grandfather sends a young man to bring his wives; he gives tobacco to the Cranes, the Cougars, they let him in; he goes in to two women, runs back, the Cranes, the Cougars don't detain him, the women kill them for it; he, followed by women they run into the house, he takes them as his wife; the grandfather shoots him, he dodges; he shoots, kills his grandfather; turns into a feather, flies (to heaven?) , cuts off the bottom of his brother's body, the bottom falls, the brother becomes whole again; the young man goes to look for the Stupid Girl; on the way, the old man stops him, they smoke, the old man lengthens the day, the young man falls asleep, the old man changes from in his guise, takes his ear jewelry - live hummingbirds; the impostor throws a young man into the water; marries the Stupid Girl; her younger sister picks up the abandoned man, takes him in husbands; impostor says it's his dog; kills lynxes and young man turns decks into bears; spits, turkeys appear; impostor spits, bugs appear; Stupid Girl steals one a bear, he becomes a deck again; the young man climbs into an empty log, regains his appearance; gives the impostor his appearance, turns his head into a hawk; returns to two wives, gives a new one to his brother]: Bloomfield 1928, No. 108:469-483).

Northeast. Seneca: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 20 [the young man goes to marry the chief's daughter; his younger brother in the guise of a turkey goes with him; the old man asks the young man to shoot the raccoon, get him out of the hollow; makes the young man fall into the hollow; the old man puts on his clothes, takes his form; the snake helps the young man get out of the hollow; he puts on the old man's clothes, looks like an old man; the deceiver marries the leader's eldest daughter; the hero in the guise of an old man marries the youngest; regurgitates a full bowl of black, then white wampum; kills many deer; the deceiver burps lizards and worms; the hero takes back his clothes, regains their appearance; the cougar's head on his outfit growls, the loon feathers sing, the frog croaks, the snake wriggles; the deceiver turns into an owl, flies away; the younger brother takes off his turkey skin, becomes a young man; brothers return to their country; the chief and his entire tribe follow them], 22 [an uncle sends a tribesman to marry, gives him a hat, outerwear, leggings, moccasins; if they are removed, they turn into an otter, a cougar, wild cats, owls; two girls jump out of his bag of tobacco to light his pipe; two pigeons cooing at the end of the pipe; while on the way, the deceiver steals the hero's clothes stabs him with a dart in the back; the hero's sister and her daughter save him; the bride will be shot by whoever shoots an eagle sitting on a pole; the hero does this, the deceiver grabs a bird, marries a girl; unable spit out his beads; his clothes, turning into animals and birds, are barely alive; his wife refuses to sleep with him; the hero's sister and niece return his outfit to him, pierce a piece of bark into the deceiver's back; The hero is getting younger, the woman recognizes him as a real husband; the animals that make up his magical outfit are full of energy; he spits out beads; his uncle is happy to see him again]: 127-135, 139-144.

Plains. Omaha, Ponka: Dorsey 1890:55-57 [Iktinica's arrow gets stuck in a tree; I. asks Rabbit to get it; he climbs a tree with his clothes off; I. puts it on, tells the Rabbit stick to the trunk; I., under the guise of the Rabbit, marries the leader's eldest daughter; the youngest cuts a tree, peels off the Rabbit, takes him as her husband; when the Rabbit comes up, the birds on I.'s stolen outfit recognize the owner start screaming; the leader demands that his sons-in-law hit the flying eagle with an arrow; the rabbit knocks down the eagle, I. misses; the deception reveals; The rabbit takes his clothes back, throws I. high to the sky; he falls , breaks], 604-609 [the chief promises to give his daughter for knocking down a redbird from a tree; an orphan kills a bird, I. pretends to kill; marries the leader's eldest daughter, Orphan kills the youngest; in time of hunger Orphan creates buffalo by witchcraft; dives. becomes handsome; I. asks him to shoot a turkey on a tree, the arrow gets stuck; Orphan climbs a tree; I. tells the tree to grow to the sky; puts on Orphan's clothes, comes home under his guise; live birds decorating clothes do not sing, but scream; Eagle, Vulture, Raven, Magpie bring Orphan down to the ground, putting him on their backs; Orphan returns tells I. to return clothes and arrows; hitting the drum, lifts people into the air and throws them on the ground; everyone dies except Orphan's wife and grandmother]; iowa: Skinner 1925, No. 5 [see motif K27; The badger is good The hunter, the Grizzly takes all his prey; he sends his wife to pick up a blood clot, she finds a baby in this place; he grows up to kill the Grizzly; gets Badger to lure game; wears moccasins made of living hooting owls, a hat made of singing yellow birds; goes to travel; when he enters the village, takes off his dress suit; stays with an old woman; the chief promises a daughter to someone who will shoot a bird floating at its zenith; the young man does it; the younger sister refuses to marry the lousy one, the eldest agrees; the young man regains his true form, the youngest asks to take her too, but the sister drives her away; the same episode in another village], 23 [the chief has two daughters; the young man takes the eldest, the youngest also wants him; the eldest refuses to share with her younger husband; the youngest cries; the chief tells Ishiinka to get rid of young men; I. puts raccoon tails into the hollow, asks the young man to go after raccoons, tells the tree to grow to the sky; puts on the young man's clothes left on the ground, comes to his wife; but owls on moccasins do not hoot, birds on They don't sing a headdress; the wife suspects deception; the young man asks Voronov to let him down; the fourth agrees; the wind above tore off the young man's hair, he is bald; comes to his wife; birds begin to sing, owls hoot ; I. runs away]: 450-456, 484-485:43; Sheena [poor boy asks his grandmother to make a hoop, shoots through it, kills a calf; people are starving; ambassador to drop his grandmother's giblets, people ate greedily; gave meat to the chief, received the youngest of two daughters; the White Man married the eldest; at night, an ugly boy becomes a handsome adult; creates a herd of buffalo from bison cakes, turns wool into ribs; cardinals (red-birds) sit on a hat with him and his wife; the White Man caught a red-headed woodpecker, tied it to his wife's head by a string, but he bites her; the next day, a young man made of buffalo wool creates skins, meat; White wool remains wool]: Kroeber 1900, No. 14:170-172; skidy pawnee: Dorsey 1904b, No. 24 [bears take all their food from husband and wife; husband finds a blood clot, that turns into a boy; he kills bears, comes to the village; live birds decorate his hat and leggings; an old woman asks him to carry her across the river, sticks to his back; birds cannot peck it; his quiver turns into a cougar, rips the old woman off the young man piece by piece; her flesh turns into prickly grass], 45 [see motif K35; Woodpecker's hat and leggings are decorated with living woodpeckers; he goes to marry the leader's daughter; falls into a trap pit; the Coyote promises to pull him out if he gives him his outfit; leaves him in a hole, marries the chief's eldest daughter; the woodpeckers on his hat do not sing, but peck at him; the old spider woman and her grandson Woodpecker is pulled out of the hole; he kills the Coyote, marries the chief's youngest daughter, becomes the chief himself; Coyote's wife gives birth to coyotes, they are killed], 60 [see motive K35; Coyote marries the chief's eldest daughter, hero - on the youngest; live owls on the hero's legs hoot; Coyote makes raccoons out of his quiver, asks the hero to get them out of the tree, makes the tree grow; puts on the hero's clothes, takes his wife; owls stop hoot; birds bring the hero down to the ground; he drives the Coyote away, the owls on the legs hoot again; 2) the young man's clothes are decorated with live owls and other birds; the Coyote kidnaps her, spends the night with the young man's wife; she is the daughter chief; Coyote owls are silent, they begin to hoot when a young man approaches; the chief burns the Coyote alive]: 86-87, 178-184, 239-245, 253; Kiowa [the chief promises a daughter to whoever knocks an eagle off a pine tree; Senpite (Dirty Nose); kills an eagle; Sendeh replaces arrows; marries an older sister, Senpit's younger; Senpit and his grandmother dive into a pot of boiling water, become beautiful, their things are new; a mockingbird sings on Senpita's head; a lark sits on Sendeh's head, calling the audience bad names; Senpit shakes a plum branch, fruits fall from it; turns manure into bison, skinny bison in fat; Sendeh can't do that; Senpit blows his nose, beads fall, honey flows; Sendeh has snot flowing; Sendeh's wife now also wants to marry Senpita]: Parsons 1929a, No. 26:47-56.

Southeast USA. The poor boy lives in an old woman's house; each time he brings bigger game from hunting; she makes him a hat with live birds (and rattlesnakes); he comes to the village; the Rabbit calls him to dive for turtles, steals his clothes; the birds (and snakes) on the hat stop moving; they come to life again when the heel is returned to the hero. Screams: Swanton 1929, No. 6 [a woman finds a blood clot, he turns into a boy, hunts; she gets corn and beans by scratching her thighs; he spies on her, refuses to eat; she adorns his hat with live jays and rattlesnakes, gives a flute, birds sing to her play, snakes rattle; tells him to go over the mountain, where he did not tell him to go before; tells him to burn it in the house, later come to this place; marry the first girl he meets; on the way, the Rabbit offers to swim, steals the young man's clothes and flute; he comes to the village, marries, his wife finds many turtles in the puddle; The rabbit was detained as thief; when the young man appeared, silent birds and snakes gave a voice; the rabbit was thrown to the dogs, but he ran away; after swimming across the river, the young man put the fish to sleep, his wife picks it up; he hits his wife with an ax on the parting, two appear; The rabbit only accidentally crushed one gudgeon; killed his wife with an ax; in the place of the burnt woman, the young man and wife found all kinds of beans and corn growing], 7 [the old woman came, corn was pouring out of her ulcers, fills the bins; blood drips from under the roof; the old woman puts a bloody shard under the bed, it turns into a baby; grows up, hunts, spies on her grandmother, from whom corn is falling; refuses to eat; the grandmother attaches a jay and a rattlesnake to his hat, gives a flute; tells him to clear the area, drag it along it, burn it, return in three months; on the way, the Rabbit offers the young man catch turtles, steal his property; in the village, a jay and a snake shout that the Rabbit is a thief; people return the hat to a young man; he marries an old woman's daughter; washes his head in the river, putting fish to sleep; hits his wife with an ax on I'll parting, creating two wives; the Rabbit's fish does not die, the wife is killed; at the site of the burning, the young man finds grown corn and beans], 8 [the old woman picks up a blood clot on the trail, puts it in a vessel, it turns into boy; hunts, sees the village; the grandmother decorates his hat with a bird, which sings to the sound of a flute; tells him to marry, return later; the young man throws pieces of an old log into the river, the fish dies, the wife picks up; Rabbit at this time he takes his hat and flute away; but his bird does not sing; people return the stolen goods to the young man; with his wife he comes to the old place, sees a cornfield there, builds a stone shed; all the birds try break it; Owl, Eagle, Hawk change the shape of the neck and head from the blow; birds peck grain; the young man picks up what the crows have dropped, it gives rise to current corn], 9 [the widow asks her son not to go to the mountain; he sees a village from there; she adorns his hat with live birds, gives a flute, they sing to its sounds; the young man is greeted, the chief gives him a daughter; he dives, putting the fish to sleep; at this time the Rabbit kidnaps hat and flute; his birds don't sing, fish don't die, he's driven in shame]: 10-13, 13-15, 15-17, 17-18; alabama [options (17) and (18) complement each other, only overlapping slightly]: Swanton 1929, No. 17 [an orphan lives with his grandmother; she adorns his hat with cardinals and jays, gives a flute, birds sing to it; on the way to the village, Rabbit offers to catch turtles, steals the young man's property; he smears himself persimmons, marries an old woman's daughter; in the morning the house becomes new], 18 [the young man dives, the fish dies, the wife picks it up; he catches a lot of deer; where the Rabbit supposedly left the deer, people find only a piece liver; a young man hits his wife with an ax on the parting, two appear; the Rabbit kills his wife; the Rabbit is chased, he hides in the hollow, the Crane is left guarded; the Rabbit ties him by the neck, hits him, runs away; the young man replies that he made the house new by cutting down the pillars; the rabbit cuts down, the house falls on it at night]: 134-135, 135-138; koasati [a man takes a little boy to his village; he grows up hunts, chasing turkeys, sees his village; a man smears it with the blood of a killed animal, tells him to have a period like women (the episode is incomprehensible and has no consequences); adorns his head clothing and clothing with birds and rattlesnakes; tells them to kill birds at the request of women he meets, but not to raise an arrow; they ask to pick them up, he does not listen; the fourth breaks his vaginal teeth, throwing a stone into the vagina; The rabbit offers to dive for turtles, takes away the young man's clothes; he smears himself with persimmons; marries an old woman's daughter; diving, puts the fish to sleep; shooting, immediately kills deer; at the Rabbit The only gudgeon pops up; after killing a deer, he hangs pieces of meat on the trees; the young man hits his wife with a club on the parting, gets two wives; the Rabbit kills his wife; he is chased by dogs, he hides in hollow, people leave the Blue Crane to guard; Rabbit beats him, runs away]: Swanton 1929, No. 15:178-181; Alabama and Koasati [an orphan is raised by an old woman; tells him not to go to the valley, he hunts, sees the village; she adorns his headdress with bird feathers, gives a flute, tells him to go; when he plays, the jays and cardinals sing on the hat; the Rabbit invited him to catch turtles; took away the young man's clothes and flute, when he dived; the young man smeared himself with persimmons, came to the old woman, married her daughter; where he dives, fish pops up, people pick it up; The rabbit dives, the only gudgeon pops up; the young man hung it up the trees of dead deer; The rabbit took one liver, hung up pieces of liver; the young man hit his wife with a club on the parting, two wives appeared; the rabbit killed his wife, he was being chased, he climbed into the hollow; left to guard A crane with an ax, the Rabbit beat him to blue, now it's the Blue Crane; the young man turned the hut into a beautiful house, told the Rabbit to kick it; the fallen house asked Rabbit]: Martin 1977:71-74; Natchez: Swanton 1929, No. 8 [a woman sits in addition on a basket, corn pours out of her ass; her son spies, refuses to eat it; she tells him to shoot jays, chikadi and parrots He revives them, adorns them with his hat, shoulders and belt; gives them a flute, birds sing to its sounds; tells them not to go to bed with women with a toothy vagina; burn it together with the house; the young man burns his mother, leaves agrees to the persuasion of the fourth woman he met; but his penis was like stone, his teeth were broken; the rabbit leads him to swim, steals his clothes; he smears himself with persimmons; only the old woman agrees to take the dirt; he fills the whole boat with fish; the Rabbit claims the same, but his wife finds only a few fish that have surfaced; catches a lot of deer; when the Rabbit sends his wife for deer, there is only one with already with pecked eyes; birds do not sing on Rabbit's clothes; a young man asks an old woman to part her hair, cuts with an ax, creating two young wives; the Rabbit only kills his wife; people first accuse the young man, but then Rabbit; told to bring a rattlesnake; The rabbit lies that people are arguing whether the snake is long; she agrees to measure herself, replies that her life is in the middle of her head; the Rabbit hits this place, brings a snake; people say that the snake should have been alive; they tell the water to lead in a straight line; the water chases the Rabbit, he winds, leaves the water to flow winding; says that fields are better on the bank of the winding river], 9 [ a woman washes by the stream, her baby is carried away by the Puma; raises him with his wife; does not tell him to go downhill; he goes, sees people, his mother plays ball; the Puma sends him to people, decorates his hat with a parrot, jays, small birds, gives a horn; if you blow into it, the birds sing; does not tell you to talk to whoever comes out on the way; this is the Rabbit, he calls the young man to the river to catch turtles, kidnaps him clothes; the young man covers himself with persimmon fruits, drags a turtle with him; only an old woman shelters him; he leaves a turtle in the pit, the old woman finds many turtles there; gives him a granddaughter as his wife; while swimming, he becomes handsome again and puts the fish to sleep, people pick it up; the Rabbit tries to do the same, but only gudgeon emerges, and not because of the Rabbit; the young man asks his wife to part in his hair, cuts her with an ax; now he has two wives; The rabbit only kills his wife; the young man is told that he was the cause of the murder; 1) sent for arrow poles to the reeds, where poisonous snakes are teeming; the cougar gives he has four balls, snakes rush after them; the cougar also helps with advice in subsequent tasks; 2) get the ogre's beard to wrap the arrows; the ogre's wife cuts it off for the young man; 3) get clay from the bottom of the river; The kingfisher brings under his claws, there is a lot of clay; 4) the young man is left on the other side of the river, where cannibals live; he hides in a hollow; he hides the clothes of two bathing women, gives it away when they call themselves his wives; father-in-law offers a race, always pushes his sons-in-law to the point; the young man pushes him, helps him get up; at night he covers himself with a mask as if his eyes are open; father-in-law sets fire to the house, but the wives take the young man out; tell him to call a carrier by the river; the young man rejects various snakes, takes a snake with deer antlers as carriers; on the way he lets him eat four dogs; closer to the shore lets him eat arrow, rushing after it]: 230-234, 234-239.

Big Pool. Northern shoshones [Chief Eagle promises one of his two daughters to the one who kills the fox; the old woman's poor grandson brings a fox, marries his older sister; urinates at night, his wife drives him away; he finds clothes and red paint, gets big and beautiful; marries his youngest, Raven sends him to the buffalo pit; the Coyote pretends to be his friend, lowers him into the hole, begs him weapons and clothes, comes to his wife; the young man's hat was wearing a live bird, now she is constantly screaming; the grandmother helps his grandson get out of the hole; he comes to his wife; the bird screams over his head; The coyote must return all the young man's property]: Lowie 1909b, No. 23h: 274-275.