K56a4. Messenger dog. 16.21.27.-.29.31.32.34.35.
When a kind girl returns home, an animal or bird (usually a dog) reports that she is doing well, and when a bad girl comes back or when they bring her dead the body, the dog (rooster, crow) reports that everything is wrong with that one.
Germans (Grimms), Nevars, Albanians, Hungarians (rooster), Croats, Czechs, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Ryazan, Kursk, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina, Poltava), Nogais, Abkhazians, Abazins, Kabardian, Adygs, Ingush, Tabasarans, Lutsi, Setu, Estonians, Finns, Veps, Eastern Sami, Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Udmurts, Marie, Mordovians, Tomsk Tatars, Kets.
Western Europe. The Germans [the widow has a lazy, beloved and ugly own daughter, a hard-working, unloved and beautiful stepdaughter; her stepdaughter dropped a spindle into the well, her mother told me to get it; she jumped into the well, she found herself in the meadow, the oven asks her to get the bread, they are ready, the apple tree shakes off the apples, she takes out the bread, shakes off the apple tree; she comes to the old woman with big teeth; she tells her to whip the feather bed to go it snows (when it snows in Hesse, it is said that it is Frau Holle who whips her feather bed); the girl lives well with Mrs. Metelitsa, but wants to return; Mrs. Metelitsa brings her to the gate, pours on the girl golden shower; at home, the rooster screams that the golden girl has come; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she does not take out the bread, does not shake off the apple tree, is lazy to work, resin is pouring on her; the rooster sings about it; resin stayed for life]: Grimm, Grimm 1987, No. 24:88-91 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:84-86)
Tibet - Northeast India. Nevar: Aganina, Shresthkha 1971 [the goat feeds Punahun rice porridge; the stepmother finds out about this, tells the goat to be slaughtered; she asks P. to bury its bones, a tree will grow, and she will eat its fruits; the rakshasa find P. picking the fruit, take it away; the mouse asks for bread, P. feeds her; the mouse leaves the coals responsible for P., gives the key to the pantry, P. returns with jewelry; the stepmother sends to the tree own daughter; she does not feed the mouse, at night the Rakshasa eat the girl; the crow shouts to her stepmother that her daughter has only bones left]: 92-101; Heunemann 1980, No. 15 [as in Aganina, Shresthkha 1971; girl's name Punkhu Maiza; to lure the girl out of the tree, Rakshasa and Rakshasi ask her to get off and pick up the dropped fruit]: 123-129; Sakya, Griffith 1980 [Maincha is stepdaughter, Dhon Cholecha goat spits food out of her mouth, feeds M.; stepmother sends her own daughter to find out if she tells the goat to be slaughtered; she asks M. to bury her bones, a tree with rice puddings will grow; a couple of lakhe demons saw M., asked them to throw off their puddings; they ask them to get down and hand them in their hands; they brought them to them, told them to bake lavash; the mouse asks to give it, tells them to run, taking the treasures and spitting on every step of the stairs and putting a coal on top; the stepmother sends her own daughter, who kills a mouse; at night, demons began to cut off pieces of meat from the girl, ate her; the stepmother is waiting for a daughter, the crow screams that the mother is combing her hair, and the daughter has only bones; the stepmother stayed in the house on the position of a maid]: 84-87.
The Balkans. Hungarians [stepdaughter leaves home, pulls a bone out of the dog's throat, cleans the stove, pulls an ant out of the pit (they help do the right thing in the witch's house and when they leave her, make a girl invisible when the old woman chased her on the way back); cleans the witch's rooms without entering the forbidden thirteenth, chooses a simple box as a gift, does not open it on the way; at home, the rooster screams that the stepdaughter is walking discharged, carrying a box of goodness; in the box of jewelry; the own daughter is doing everything wrong, typing; the rooster screams that she is going neither alive nor dead; a snake jumps out of the box, to death bites her (or stepdaughter dies of anger); stepmother also dies of anger]: Gidash 1953:159-163 (=Hungarian... 1955:53-60); Croats [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter, tells her husband to take her away: let she will collect all the strawberries and spin all night; the girl enters the house in the forest, makes a fire, cooks porridge; shares with the mouse; a bear comes, hangs a bell around her neck and tells her to play hide and seek in the dark; mouse takes the bell for himself; the bear admits that he cannot catch the girl, gives a team of horses and a cart of silver; the dog barks: collecting strawberries and strands, our daughter has become rich; the stepmother sends her own daughter , she does not share the mouse, the bear ate it; in the morning the father went with a bag, but the dog barks that he was carrying his daughter's bones; the stepmother died of grief; the stepdaughter lives with her father, marries successfully]: Stojanović 1879:115ff in Cox 1893, No. 301:400; Albanians: Serkova 1989 [stepmother sends stepdaughter Maro to the mill at night; while the grain is grinding, M. spins; flocked genies listen to her detailed account how fabrics are created, showered with gold; in the morning the dog barks that M. returns covered in gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter Lilo, who responds ruelly to the genies, they warp her arms and neck, the dog barks that L . returns mutilated; prince sees M. in a dream, tells her to make shoes that should suit the bride; Aunt M. creates a carriage for her with servants made of pumpkins, mice and grasshoppers; Prince M.'s shoes are just right; Before 12 a.m., M. hurries to leave, loses his shoe; Prince finds M., marries; the sorcerer teaches his stepmother to turn the mother into a bird, replace Lane with his youngest daughter; Bird-M. arrives, calls his son; flies to her husband, he finds a snake in her head, takes it off, the bird turns into M.; her stepmother, Lane, the sorcerer and the midwife were executed]: 100-114; Pedersen 1898, No. 12 [Marie's mother died shortly after her birth, her father remarried, The stepmother has ugly daughters Lilo and Lene; the stepmother tyrannites beautiful M., she is called Cinderella; in the evening, the stepmother sent M. to the mill to be killed by the elves there; M. asked her father's sister to give her yarn and spindle; launched a mill, lit a lamp, began to spin and describe in detail to the elves the whole process of growing flax and making cloth; the elves gave her gold, gilded it, and then the rooster sang; at home the dog barks "Marie comes back in gold"; her stepmother sent Lilo, who replies to the elves, "Can't you see, it's flax", they skewed her face and body, the dog barks about it; doctors and priests have a hard time corrected; prince dreams of M., arranges holidays in the villages to find this girl; stepmother does not take M., father's sister gives her a dress, turns mice into horses, pumpkin into a carriage, at 12 am everything should disappear; the prince ordered to make shoes for the one he had dreamed, only M. they came; the next time the servants followed M., but the carriage suddenly disappeared; M. was found, the prince married, Lilo was also married ; M. gave birth to a son; before that, the witch gave her stepmother a pin; she agreed with the midwife, stuck M. in M.'s head, turning it into a bird, replaced her daughter Lena; the baby is crying, L. has no milk; prince I'm surprised that the wife has changed; the bird flies up to the window, the stepmother advises her to shoot, but she flew away; a month later, the prince saw the bird again, it came down, he noticed and took out the pin, the bird turned into M .; stepmother, L., sorceress and midwife were buried up to the neck in the ground, so they died]: 89-107.
Central Europe. Czechs [a neighbor persuades the daughter of a widow neighbor to marry her; becoming a stepmother, she tyrants her stepdaughter; she left home; greets everyone she meets, fulfills their requests: she turned the bridge over to another side, washed the dog's wounds, shook the pear, drove the bull out of the meadow, took the heat out of the stove; came to Baba Yaga; she told me to sweep 11 rooms, not to go into the 12th; the girl looked there, there were three barrels with gold, silver, copper; she dipped her head in the first barrel, her hair turned golden; the girl started running, Baba Yaga followed; a goby, a pear, etc. detained and hit her, the bridge broke under her, she stops the persecution; the rooster screams that the golden girl has come; the stepmother sends her own daughter, who is rude to the people she meets, refuses to comply with requests; Baba Yaga jumped into a barrel of gold and ran; a goby, etc., interfere with her, beat her, the bridge broke, Baba Yaga rips off her gold with a rake every time; a rich gentleman took her stepdaughter, her own daughter remained in girls]: Nemtsova 1977:153-162; Czechs [ when leaving, the father asks his three daughters what to bring them; the elders want outfits, the youngest Annushka asks what his hat will catch on; he brought a walnut branch with three nuts; A. dropped nuts into the well; the frog she took it out and said that each was wearing a precious dress; when the sisters went to church, A. split the first nut: it wore a pink dress and silver shoes; the young prince noticed it; the next nut contained white a dress and shoes with diamonds; the third contains a dress decorated with gold and gold shoes; the prince orders that the road to the church be lined with coniferous branches; when A. ran away, one shoe was stuck; the old woman speaks to the prince, where the owner of the shoe lives; the mother takes a shoe, cuts off her eldest daughter's heel, dresses her up, takes the prince out; the dog barks: the prince takes his fifth wife home; the prince returns, the mother takes the middle one daughter, cutting off her finger; the dog barks again (dumbless wife); the mother has to confess that A. is in the house; she comes out in a golden dress and talks about nuts - a gift from her father; when A. left with the prince , two daughters and a wife attacked their father; he had to bring three nuts from the same tree; a snake crawled out of each, they strangled the women, then they fell into the ground]: Nemtsova 1978:83-94; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [stepmother (this is yagisnya) tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to a forest hut; she did not give her butter, cereal and salt, but ice, mud and ash; but when the girl melted the stove and opened the bags, there were butter, cereals and salt; the mouse asked for porridge, the girl gave it; the feeler came; the mouse turned the girl into a pin, stuck it into the wall; the feeble could not find anyone, left the kitty and raccoon fur coat; after the second night - two kitties and fur coats, after the third - three; the stepmother sent her husband to pick up the bones; the daughter is healthy and the hemp is strained; the old man is carrying his daughter, gold, fur coats, the dog cheats about it; the stepmother sent her native daughter, she did not give the mouse porridge, fell asleep, felt and ate her with a feeble; dog: Yagisni's daughters are knocking and strumming; yagisnya is going to push her stepdaughter into a resin pit; she offers her go forward, she confronts her herself; the man set fire to the resin, began to live with his daughter]: Balashov 1970, No. 29:97-99; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Dunya's mother died, stepmother has a daughter Natasha; stepmother tells her husband take D. to the forest, let the bears eat it; D. spins in the hut; the father hung a chip on the birch tree, the wind is pounding it against the trunk, D. thinks that his father is cutting wood, but he is gone; the mouse asks for porridge, D. gave it; the bear brought a bag of gold, tells me to play blind man's buff, gave D. a bell; the mouse runs around with the bell, the bear did not grab D., left her gold; the father takes D. home, the dog chucks: D. goes, the bag of gold is carrying; stepmother: no, D.'s bones in the bag are rattling; stepmother sent N., she did not give porridge to the mouse, blurted the bell herself, the bear ate it; dog: Natasha's bones are being carried]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:149-151; Russians ( Vologodskaya) [in winter, the stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; he took her daughter to a birch tree; at night the girl: "You are frost, frost, God killed you, Frost, throw me a knife"; a knife fell from the sky, she cut the ropes; then asked for clothes; a chest with different clothes fell; when the father arrived and took his daughter back, the dog yaps, "The girl is lucky, only the money is strumming"; the stepmother beats the dog, tells her husband take her own daughter to the forest; she turns to Frost (her stepdaughter taught her this way), "You are frost, frost, damn you"; Frost froze her; dog: "The girl is lucky, only the bones are strumming"; stepmother I was upset, but then fell in love with my stepdaughter]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 52:131-133; Russians (Pskov): Ploschuk 2004, No. 31 [stepmother sent Natasha to the bathhouse to spin there all night; N. took a cockerel with her; the guys came in, N. is polite with them, they ordered the cockerel to shake - the dress became gold, the shoes were silver; at home the dog barks: tyaf, tyaf, N. covered in gold; N. enters in gold and diamonds; stepmother sent her native daughter Mary; the greenhouse came in, M. was rude to them, they beat her, smeared her; dog: M. is coming - the dress is in rags; N. got married, but M. remained in the girls]: 32 [stepmother told her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; that tied a plank to the birch tree, it knocks in the wind, as if he was still cutting wood, but he had left; the horse's head rushed, asking for food, putting to bed, the girl did everything; Frost gave the girl a fur coat, felt boots, horses and a chest of goodness; the dog barks: the grandfather's daughter is going home; the woman sent her own daughter; she is rude with a horse's head; in the morning her head tells her to get into one ear, get out into the other; the girl has aged; Frost she was very frozen; dog: Kostochka's grandfather is lucky; the woman saw her daughter without wealth and cried]: 97-98, 98; Russians (North) [Masha is hard-working, her sister Dasha is lazy; when leaving for the fair, parents tell them look after her youngest son Ivanushka; swan geese carry him away on their wings; Dasha runs after him, refuses to eat rye pie by the Stove, sour apple by the Apple Tree, taste milk, jelly by the milk river with jelly shores; The hedgehog points out where Baba Yaga's hut is, Ivanushka plays with golden apples in it; Dasha grabs him, runs, the River, the Apple Tree, the Stove refuse to cover, the swan geese take Ivanushka away; Masha eats pie, apple, jelly; River, Apple Tree, Stove hide it, swan geese stop persecuting]: Karnaukhova 1948:78-83; Russians (Nizhny Novgorod) [stepmother sends stepdaughter to guard rye at night; a man comes in, calls to marry; the girl says that she has nothing, every time she sends to bring some of the garments; a rooster who has come missing sings; she carries home what he brought; dog: stepmother carries and carries her stepdaughter; stepmother with a frying pan; sent her own daughter; she asks for everything at once, damn it, tore the girl; dog: stepmother's daughter carries bones in the basket]: Chudinsky 1864, No. 13 : 67-69; Russians (Moscow) [stepmother tells her husband to leave Masha in the forest in the cold; she repeats: Frost, did not Buog hurt you; Frost gave her a fur coat, flour, outfits, a dog, chickens; stepmother sends take the husband's body, bury her; dog: their lady's daughter is being taken; stepmother tells Dunya to be taken to the forest; Dunya Moroza: didn't they kill you? he froze it]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 46:103-104; Russians (Ryazan) [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; she gave water instead of butter, sawdust instead of cereal; father left Masha in a hut on a chicken leg; in the morning M. began to bake cakes, the water became butter, sawdust became cereal; she treats Baba Yaga and her devils; she gives a chest, dresses it in gold and silver, the dog barks about it; the stepmother tells take her own daughter to BYA; she is rude to BYA, she broke her over her knee, put her in a box, her father brought her bones, the dog barks about it]: Samodelova 2013, No. 94:102-104; Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (1) , No. 96 (Kurskaya) [the old woman tells her husband to take her stepdaughter into the cold; Frost gives her a fur coat for clever speeches, a dowry chest; the dog barks that the old man's daughter is being taken in gold and silver, and the grooms do not take the old woman ; the old woman tells her own daughter to be taken, she freezes; the dog barks that the grooms will take the old man's daughter, and take the old woman's bones; the old woman cries], 98 (Tula) [Stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter spin into the dugout; there the mouse asks for porridge, the girl feeds her; the Bear comes, offers to play blind man's buff, the Mouse tells her to put out the fire, hide, runs around with a bell herself; The bear sends in the morning the girl has a herd of horses and a lot of good things; in the morning the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to bring her stepdaughter's bones, the dog barks that she is returning kindly; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not feed the mouse, the Bear tore her to pieces, the dog barks that bones are being carried; stepmother died the next day]: 143-144, 146-147; Russians: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 38 (Voronezh) [Stepmother does not like stepdaughter Natasha (a pleasing girl who is praised by everyone) Orders her husband to take her to the forest, he does. The girl clears the ground from snow, sits under an oak tree. At night, Frost-Red Nose comes to Natasha and asks if she is cold. She says it's warm and that God brought Frost. Frost Blue Nose and Frost Grey Nose come. The girl is respectful to everyone, she answers the same. The eldest, Gray Frost, leaves the girl a coat, a shawl, galoshes and a chest of goodness, and the girl gets dressed. The stepmother bakes pancakes at her stepdaughter's wake, makes Natasha's dog bark about being taken dead and giving a pancake, but the dog barks that the girl is being taken alive and rewarded. The stepmother forces her husband to take her daughter Masha to the same place. At night, the girl talks disrespectfully to Frost, says that he "brought the hell", he hits her forehead, she freezes in the snow. The stepmother bakes pancakes again, retrains the dog again. The stepmother sees her frozen daughter, reproaches herself]: 162-165; Pukhova 2006, No. 12 (Voronezh) [The old man lived with his old woman and daughter Natasha, then the old woman died, and the old man married another 3 years later. Her stepmother had a daughter, Masha, and she did not love Natasha and told the old man to take her to the forest. The old man asked to give Natasha flour and millet, and her stepmother poured soil and ash into her bag. The old man took Natasha to the forest, left her on guard and returned home, telling Natasha that he was going to buy firewood. She was waiting for him, found that the bags contained flour and millet, and began to cook. A fox, a wolf, a hare and a bear came to her and she fed them. The animals fell in love with Natasha, brought her goodness and bread, and she began to live well. Two weeks later, the stepmother sent the old man to pick up Natasha and began to bake pancakes and gather people for a wake. Throwing the pancake to the dog, she told her to say "the bones are rattling in the back," but she said "they are taking the girl Natasha, discharged, painted, the old man is following her," the same happened with the rooster. An old man came and brought Natasha and a lot of goodness. His stepmother told him to take his daughter Masha to that place, poured flour and millet on her. When they arrived in the forest and Masha was left alone, she found that the bags were filled with ash and soil. She did not let the animals that came to her, they tore it apart, put the bones in a bag, which was taken home by an old man who returned two weeks later. The old woman gave the dog a damn thing to say "woof, woof, they are bringing the girl Masha discharged, painted, the old man is following her", but the dog says "woo, woo, bones are rattling in Kuza." The old man brings Masha's bones, the old woman cried and began to love Natasha]; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [grandfather's daughter is spinning, babina is walking with the guys; when she comes to the house, the woman took it away from her grandfather spindle, said that she strained everything herself; the stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest, gave not flour, bread and cream, but ash, clay and coals; on the way, the well asks him to clean, the apple tree to break off the dried ones branches, shepherds - get cows, sheep, goats, stove - grease it; the father left his daughter in the hut, hung a mess on the tree himself, she knocks in the wind as if he was cutting wood, although he had left; mouse, then the second, third they ask them to feed them, give them water; ash, etc. in their bags turn into flour, etc.; some people came at night, music started playing, mice were dancing with them; on the way home, the oven gives bread, shepherds give cattle, an apple tree gives apples, a well of water; the dog barks: the grandfather's daughter is going; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she refuses to comply with the requests of the people she meets, does not feed the mice; she dances with the guys; they killed her, nailed her to the wall; a dog at home : babina's daughter is nailed to the wall; grandfather went and sees: she is hanging in the hut nailed]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 220:367-372; Eastern Ukrainians [stepmother sends daughter and stepdaughter to spin; returning, daughter takes away from stepdaughter passes off her job as her own; stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter; he leaves her in a hut on chicken legs; a horse's head comes there; asks her to lift her over the threshold, lay her down, cover her; the girl does everything; the head tells you to enter one ear, leave the other; the girl becomes a rich beauty; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she refuses to serve her head, her head eats her; the husband brings a bag of bones, a dog barks about it, a stepmother kills a dog]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 99:148-149; Ukrainians (Poltava, Romensky y.) [Grandfather's daughters and grandmothers go to "scrolls", grandfather spins, Indian daughter walks. On the way back, they climb over and the second one helps hold the yarn first, then shows it in the house, says that she worked and her sister was walking. The grandmother orders her husband to take his daughter to the forest, he leaves her in the forest house to cook porridge, he leaves as if to cut firewood (he bandages the "breakers" at the pulp in the wind, they knock as if firewood is being cut). In the evening, a "mare's head" comes to the house, asks you to open it, move it over the threshold, comb its head, feed it, and give it a drink. Put him to bed. The girl does everything. The head orders me to lie next to her and look into her ears - one "wowing", the other - silk and jewelry, the girl returns home, the dog reports the girl's wealth to her grandmother, she asks her grandfather to take her daughter in the woods. In the forest house, an Indian daughter does not follow the orders of her head, "did you not listen and jizzila??" The next day, my grandfather arrives and finds her bones]: Gnedich 1916, No. 1475:6-7; Ukrainians (Poltava, Gadyachsky, p. Sar, c. 1878) [Baba does not like her grandfather's hard-working daughter, accuses her of laziness, asks her husband to take her to the forest. He leaves his daughter in a forest hut, walks away as if to buy firewood, ties a peg - in the wind he hits the tree like an ax. At night, a mare's head appears, asks you to move it across the threshold, feed it, put it to bed, then look into her right ear (she sees wealth there), look out of her left ear (she becomes beautiful). The girl marries a rich man, then comes with him to visit her father. Baba asks her husband to take her daughter to the forest as well. She does not comply with the requests of the mare's head, looks into her right ear - there she is torn apart, bones remain. The dog tells the woman that her grandfather's daughter is a pannochka, and the woman has only bones left, the woman beats her. She sends her husband to the hut, who brings her daughter's bones]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 21, 65-67; Ukrainians (Poltava, p. M. Borispol, Pereyaslavsky, ca. 1878) [Stepmother makes her stepdaughter do all the work, her own daughter is resting. The grandmother tells her husband about his daughter's laziness, sends both girls to spin for gatherings. A woman's daughter plays with boys, her grandfather spins, a woman unwinds a thread from her ball when she gets distracted, and her ball grows bigger. On the way back, the woman's daughter offers to hold her sister's ball while she climbs over the fence, runs into the house without waiting, and shows her parents threads. The grandmother says that her daughter works for two, is afraid that she will become lazy, the grandfather takes his daughter to the forest, leaves her in the hut, as if he is cutting wood, she listens - she determines which side the father is from. The girl does not wait, collects firewood herself, heats the stove, cooks dumplings, treats the mouse from the oven. The mouse warns her not to dance when she is forced by a mare's head, set conditions that she will dance when she gets the shoes, then, after receiving them, asking for a dress, etc., list everything she does not have until the rooster sings - then her head will disappear, and the gifts will remain for the girl. Mara (vision, hell) and a mare's head come into the house, ask them to dance, the girl acts as the mouse advised. The girl comes home with new clothes, the grandmother orders her grandfather to take her daughter to the forest too. She cooks dumplings in the forest hut, refuses to treat the mouse. When a mare's head asks a girl to dance, she immediately says everything she wants and gets, she dresses up, her head pulls her scarf, ties her bones and hangs her on a peg]: Chubinsky 1878, NO. 14:63-67.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Balkarians [a rich woman adopted an orphan Kulidam to make her a worker; once K. grazed a cow and spun her wool, but the wind blew her yarn away, threw it into a deep hole; K.: Mother of the Wind Kibitki, the back broom, give me my yarn; she told me to go down; asks me to mix wheat on the roof; there are gold coins, K. mixed but took nothing; when Mother of the Wind asked K. to shake off, gold did not fall; the woman made one cheek K. the sun and the other with the moon, filled her sinus with gold, gave yarn and sent it home; the rooster screams: the moon-cheeked, sun-cheeked girl is coming; the stepmother sent her mouth the cow is her own daughter; the same thing, but she collected gold on the roof and coins fell on the carpet; the old woman placed a donkey on one cheek and a dog wart on the other; a rooster: with a donkey wart, with a dog's wart, the girl is coming! ; after learning about K., the khan came to pick her up; her stepmother hid K., but she was found; then she dressed her own daughter in her clothes and covered her veil; the khan noticed that he ordered her stepmother to be torn apart with four horses; married K.]: Malkonduev 2017:293-296; Nogais [stepdaughter herds a cow, walks into the house, sees jewelry, takes nothing; the old man hits her cheeks, she becomes beautiful; at home a dog, a rooster, a goose scream, Moonfaced, Sun-faced! The stepmother sends her stepdaughter, she grabs the jewelry, the old man hits her cheeks, half of her face becomes feline, the other half is doggy; the dog, the rooster, the goose scream about it; the stepmother tells her husband to kill daughter, he leaves her in reeds; her younger brother finds her sister, they leave]: Nogai 1979, No. 28:140-143; Abkhazians [stepmother tyrants her stepdaughter, she runs away to the forest, her princely son marries her; father sees her on the balcony, she sends him home with gifts; the dog yaps, the owner carries gold and silver; the stepmother thinks she should yap, Carries her knuckles; the stepmother sends her to the forest daughter; old man brings her wolf-eaten bones; stepmother hits the dog again for yapping the wrong way]: Bgazhba 1983:281-282 (=2002:312-313); Abaza [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to a forest hut; there a mouse asks for porridge; says that a bear will come, tells her to run with a bell, if she catches it, she will eat it, if not, he will reward her; let the girl go up to the attic and the mouse run ; in the morning, the old man goes to collect his daughter's bones, returns with her alive, the dog barks: an old man with his daughter in a silver phaeton and three white horses; the stepmother gouged out her eye in annoyance, sends his own daughter, she drives the mouse, the bear ate it, the old man brought the bones, the dog barks about it; the stepmother gouged out her second eye]: Tugov 1985, No. 40:105-107; Kabardian people [=Sokolov, Broydo 1936:120-122; stepmother tells her husband should leave her stepdaughter in an empty house in the forest to be bitten to death by dogs; the girl cooks porridge, gives it to the mouse; she teaches: a bear will come, give a bell and make her run around the hut three times; if he catches up, will eat, if she does not catch up, give a silver cart and three horses; let the girl climb up the hut and the mouse pick up the bell; in the morning the stepmother sends her husband to bring her stepdaughter's bones; the dog barks: rides Shasha on a silver cart; stepmother gouged out her eye out of resentment; sent her own daughter; she drove the mouse away; the bear caught up with the girl, ate it; the dog barks: bones are being carried; stepmother gouged out her second eye]: Dirr 1922, No. 4:113-115; Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 27 [when she dies, a mother cuts off her breast and gives it to her daughter; stepmother is surprised that her stepdaughter is only working but full; finds a breast, throws it into the river; stepdaughter goes to look for a breast; helps a bird with a broken wing return to the nest; pulls the bull out of the quagmire; the stove asks to make a fire in it, the girl makes it; comes into the house, cleans up, nurses the baby; the owner gives a chest, the stove feeds, the bird gives gold, the rooster screams that the girl is returning with gold; the mother's outfits and breasts are in the chest; the stepmother cut off her chest, threw it into the river, sent her own daughter; she does not help the bird, the bull, does not heat the stove, makes a mess in the house, cuts off the baby's head; on the way back, no one gives her anything, she is starving; the rooster screams that the stepmother's daughter is carrying a chest with evil spirits; worms, snakes and lizards gnawed machehina's chest in the chest; the snake bit the stepmother and her daughter, they died]: 227-233; Tambiev 1900, No. 3 [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to a house in the woods; Mouse asks her feed, girl feeds; at night Bear gives a bell, tells her to run around the house three times; Mouse runs around, Bear rewards girl with a silver cart and three horses; dog barks, "Sasha returns"; stepmother gouges out her eye angrily, sends her daughter, she does not feed the Mouse, the Bear eats the girl, the dog barks that the bones are carrying; the stepmother gouges out the second eye]: 17-19; Huth 1987 (Bzhedugi) [stepmother harasses Faruza errands; the bird teaches to be neither in the house nor on the street (on the doorstep); crows sort out grain (their own daughter, who hits a crow, eats grain); the cow eats yarn, regurgitates the canvas; the cow is cut, where her bones are buried F. finds a rich outfit; goes to a party, loses her slipper, finds her on it, dzhigit marries her]: 248-253; Ingush [mother died after giving birth to Zag-Magali: the new wife cares for her own daughter , tyrannites her stepdaughter; she goes to her mother's grave, drinks milk from her breast; the stepmother asks God that everything she eats and drinks ZM inside her turn into thorns; suffering from pain, she comes to the house of garbash; she combed her daughters Mugali and Scarecrow; it's sunny, and there are streams on the walls; it turns out that ZM came and cries; the garbash cured her with a sharpener and a comb; going to the mill, she tells her to destroy the house, ruin her yard, tear off M. and P.'s heads; ZM cleaned everything up, bathed and fed M. and P.; garbash put her in a barrel of gold, everything turned gold; gave her, took her home; the dog barks: ZM is coming, gold- carries silver; stepmother sends her own daughter; she ruined the house, killed M. and P., swallowed her garbash; dog: stepmother's daughter with bones and giblets in her stomach; stepmother's heart burst, father began to live with ZM]: Tankieva 2003:215-217; Tabasarans [stepmother tells her husband to slaughter her stepson, the boy's blood drops turned into two birds; the father takes Kiskhanum's stepdaughter to the forest; she comes to the mill, the devils gather there, tell them to dance; the girl demands that they bring her jewelry and expensive clothes first; disperses the devils with burning smut; returns rich; the stepmother tells her to take her native to the forest daughter Fatmahanum; she begins to dance, the devils kill her, K. brings her bones to her stepmother]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 48:432-435.
(Wed. Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter Zumrat to the forest; he leaves her on a stone, hangs an ax on a tree so that his daughter can hear a knock, leaves; Z. comes to the old woman, the birds tell her that Z. is kind; Z. works at home, gets a red chest with expensive things in it; stepmother sends her own daughter Kimrat, who is rude, lazy, gets a chest of dragons; at home, the dog mutters that in the chest is full of snakes; stepmother and K. open the chest; dragons eat them, fly away]: Sheverdin 1967:35-39 (=1984:140-144; =Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:311-315).
Baltoscandia. Lutsie (West 1893) [stepmother and daughter tyrant stepdaughter; everyone washed themselves in the bathhouse and left to wash buckets and clean; hell out of the water: go for my son; the girl consistently asks bring her clothes, then fabrics, a chest, a wagon, a horse; then go around her father's house three times goodbye; going around, turns to the rooster and the dog; in the third round, the rooster screams, the dog barks, the hell disappears; everyone is amazed how good the stepdaughter is; her own daughter also stays in the bath; asks for everything at once; in the morning they just found her dress full of straw and scorched skin]: Annom et al. 2018:162-166; set [when everyone goes to bed, the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to the bathhouse for a bucket; the devil (vanapagan) arrives, demands that the girl marry his son; she replies that she does not have shoes, the hell sends her son for with shoes, he brings; the girl asks for other garments and jewelry one at a time; then asks for permission to say goodbye to her native places, sings, Barking, Father's Harmi, sing, sing, father's rooster; the rooster sings, the devils disappear, the girl's clothes and jewelry go to; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she was cruel to the dog and the rooster, they did not give a voice, the devils took the girl away], 63-65 [stepmother tells her husband to take the stepdaughter away, he leaves her in the forest hut, promises to return in three days; the girl gives the mouse porridge; when a bear comes and gives the girl a bell to catch her in the dark, the mouse tells her tie a bell around her neck, hide behind the stove herself; the bear did not catch the girl, awarded her gold; the father brings her daughter, the dog barks that she has returned with gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not feeds the mouse, the bear flutters the girl half to death, the dog barks about it; stepdaughter got married]: Normann, Tampere 1989:58-62; Estonians [stepmother puts daughter and stepdaughter in the ice-hole to wind balls of thread ; daughter - away, stepdaughter - at the edge of the ice; if she drops, let her get it out of the ice-hole; the ball fell, the girl rushed into the ice-hole, it's summer there; the cow will let her milk, cut the sheep, cut the apple tree, she does everything; in the house, the princess asks to clean the room and the barn; the girl does everything great; gets her ball, and chooses another, plain as a reward; returns to her stepmother, the dog about it barks, the plain ball turns golden; the stepmother plants her own daughter by the ice-hole; she refuses to milk the cow, shear the sheep, shakes the apple tree slightly, but eats a lot of apples; she does everything badly in the house, hits the cow; chooses the biggest and best ball, comes back, the dog barks that there will be trouble, there is resin in the ball, it lights up, the house burns down, only the stepdaughter was in the yard; she marries successfully]: Normann, Lätt 1968: 158-164; Finns [the mother of a beautiful and kind girl died, the man remarried, the stepmother also gave birth to a daughter, she is rude and ugly; the stepmother planted both strands at the edge of the ice-hole, gave her own daughter little yarn, stepdaughter - a lot; if the spindle falls into the ice-hole, let her get it; the stepdaughter's spindle fell, she dived into the water, found herself on the road, came to the big house; the old woman tells me to clean the barn; cows they praise the maid to the hostess; she asks to wash the lizards, they also answer that they have never been washed so well; the old woman gives the girl two boxes, she returns home; the dog barks: the girl brought boxes with gold and silver; the stepmother plants a spin in the ice-hole for her own daughter, who also drops the spindle, the mother pushes her into the water; she does not clean the stable well, hits the cows, they complain to the hostess; lizards complain that the maid cut off their tails, treated them rude; the dog barks: the girl carries boxes of fire and resin; when she and her mother open them, fire blazed in their faces, both burned; the girl stayed with her father]: Goldberg 1953 : 91-100 (=Klein 1946:79-83); Veps: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 48 [after her mother's death, the girl persuaded her father to marry Baba Yaga, who promised to give her milk and wash her milk; when the old man left, the stepmother took the girl to a cold hut, gave her ash instead of oatmeal, sand instead of cereal, bricks instead of bread; in the evening the girl cooks porridge, the mouse asked for permission to lick the whorl, the girl gave; the mouse tells her not to be afraid of anything, promises to hide; old people come, the girl fed them dinner, they invite them to sleep with them, she replies that she must clean the table and wash the dishes; the mouse turned her into a rolling pin put it on the shelf; the old people fell asleep; the rooster sang and they fell through the ground, the goods remained; the same the next evening (the mouse turned the girl into a needle, stuck it into the wall); many girls came in the morning the girl in the hut asks them to give it to her father to pick her up; the father comes, the girl has a chest of silver and gold, the dog barks about it; baba yaga takes her daughter to the hut; that mouse hits the old people rude (toad in your mouth!) , they killed her, put her bones in the corner; the man came, took the bones, the dog barks about it, the baba yaga beats her; when she saw her daughter's bones, she died], 54 [the stepmother has her own daughter; in winter she tells her husband to take her stepdaughter in the forest and leave her there, putting her on a haystack; Frost asks the girl if she is cold, she replies yes; he gave her felt boots, a fur coat, a handkerchief, mittens; the father brought her daughter dressed as a lady; stepmother sends her own daughter; she responds rudedly to Frost (Toad in your mouth!) , he froze it; the dog barks: the old man's daughter was brought in gold and silver, and the old woman's daughter's bones are carried in a sack]: 169-171, 185-186; Eastern Sami [husband and wife have a daughter; wife does not tell her husband cut a birch tree, for Aads is in it; the husband cuts, raised A. with her three daughters, tells them to take them home, hit his wife at home with a mitten full of ash, the woman died; A. tells the old man to leave his daughter in an empty house; Three days later, she tells me to bring them, and the girl has three baskets of gold, silver and pearls; the dog barks about it; A. tells the old man to take her daughters to that house; three days later he brings baskets with their bones; the dog barks about it; A. fell and died]: Kert 1961, No. 48:199-200; Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:221-225 [stepmother tells her husband to take his stepdaughter to the forest; he hangs a board to knock in the wind as if he were cuts wood, leaves; the bag is not flour, but ash, not lard, but a gun; the girl enters the hut, the Bear asks to open the door with even a ray; she opens the door with her hand; feeds the Mouse; ash porridge, but delicious; stelet The bear has a bed of stones, logs, millstones; The bear tells him to run around the room, ring his keys; The mouse runs, the bear throws stones, the girl sits under the stove; The bear tells him to blow in his ear, fall out pies, a carriage with horses; the dog barks that the old daughter is going with gifts; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not feed the Mouse, the Bear kills her, burns her, brings a tub with ashes six sparrows, a dog barks about it; stepmother burst angrily, father and daughter are eating pies].
Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [father, new wife, son and daughter decide to lime their stepdaughter; her brother takes her to the forest for berries, hangs a club that the wind hits a tree; the girl thinks that her brother is cutting firewood; in the evening he does not find it; asks everyone she meets if they have seen her ball rolling; herd, cow, sheep, goat shepherds each answers what they saw, ask to get the herd for a day, for it is given by a horse, a cow, etc.; comes to the witch's house on the edge of the village; she asks her to push, pull her hair, etc.; the girl does otherwise, affectionately; does not take the gold that she sees in the witch's hair; in bath; she gives her a chest, at home the girl finds jewelry in it; dogs bark that she goes to death returns rich; her own daughter does not herd the herd, says that she does not need a horse, etc.; literally does what the witch asks; takes gold, it falls to the floor when the witch asks her to dance; gets a black chest; dogs bark that the rich woman returns to death; a snake from a chest suffocates a girl]: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 3:24-29 (the same text in another paraphrase or similar to Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956:82-89, in Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 20:187-192, in Yarmukhametov 1956: 127); Marie: Aktsorin 1995 (mountain) [stepmother tells me to take Nastashka to the forest; she cooks porridge for the Bear; the mouse rings a bell for her when the Bear offers to play blind man's buff; the Bear gives her gold, silver; the dog barks that the one who has left to die returns rich; the stepmother sends her daughter, she does not cook porridge, kicks the mouse with her foot; the father comes to pick up his daughter's bones]: 117-119; Sabitov 1992 (meadow) [= Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:30-33; stepdaughter spins, stepmother throws away a ball, stepdaughter follows him; consistently helps three old women with the housework; the third tells them to climb a pine tree; seven come to butt goats with golden and silver horns; some fall dead, the girl takes them to the old lady on a hauler; so three times; returns home; the dog barks, the rich sister goes; the stepmother asks why doesn't she say, she goes dead; sends her daughter, she does not help old women, goats cut down a pine tree, kill her; dog: Dead sister goes]: 186-189; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 19 (Erzya) [the mother is dead, the daughter invites her father to remarry, the stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; he leaves his daughter in the forest house, hangs two boards on the tree, as if he is cutting a tree to get honey, himself leaves; the girl calls the forest fathers and mothers to sleep with her; Viryava brought beads and beads, tells her to string them; the caress asks for a bead, for this it will help; advises her to hide, put a lime one instead stump; at night Viryava bites a stump - oh, tough meat; in the morning the stepmother sent her husband to bring the bones, he brings his daughter in a rich outfit, the dog barks about it; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she caresses, Viryava ate it (sweet meat), father brought bones, dog barks about it, stepmother died of grief]: 157-160; Samorodov 1972 [stepmother tells me to wash black onuchi white; pike advises going to the forest hut; on the way a girl helps a cow to calve, a mare necklace, a sheep hug; an old woman gives her a mirror, says that she left home three years ago, the girl sees that she has grown and prettier; on the way back shepherds give her cattle with three years of offspring; the dog barks that the beautiful is coming; the stepmother's daughter scolds pike, shepherds, cattle, old woman; turns ugly; the dog barks that the ugly carries a bag for her bones; dogs tore her apart in the village]: 78-82; Udmurts [stepmother sends her stepdaughter and father to the forest for firewood; hearing the crackling trees, the girl thinks that her father is working, but when she comes there, she sees a house; the old woman asks for washing water from the red horse {incomprehensible}, she brings real water; bring Nadelbaum {spruce branch?} , but she brings a good bath broom; the old woman asks to kick her in the ass, beat her with a broom with a handle; the girl gently touches her grandmother, gushes with a bath broom; in the morning the old woman tells her to take a chest with her, from who can hear a jingle; lets a ball, the girl follows him and comes to the house; dog: woof woo, the girl brought gold; stepmother: you have to bark "snakes and frogs"! the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does literally everything the old woman asks for (kicks her, etc.); in the morning the old woman tells her to take a chest from which deaf sounds are heard; dog: the girl carries snakes and frogs; snakes bit her to death]: Wichmann 1901, No. 7:71-73.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tomsk Tatars [stepmother throws her stepdaughter Fatima's ball out the window; she follows him, helps guard cows, geese, sheep, horses, and gets one animal from the herd each time; old woman promises to return the ball if she heats the bathhouse and washes it; the old woman replies that it should be washed with manure, soared in stakes; she makes flower soap, hovers with a birch broom, does not take money from the chest; receives a chest of gold; at home, the dog barks that F. goes with cattle and wealth; his own daughter does not help the shepherds, literally fulfills the old woman's request, secretly takes valuables from the chest; the dog barks that the girl is lucky reptiles; snakes from the chest bite stepmother and her daughter, they run away from home]: Tomilov 1995:160-163.
Western Siberia. Kety [old man Ydohot with his daughter, and next door to the colmas with his daughter; the colmas tells Y. to take his daughter away; he left her in the hut; a bear came and ordered to loan feathers; satisfied with the work; tied her to a ring and told the girl to run around the hut; if she hits the bell's tongue with an arrow, she will eat the girl; the bear did not hit the bell's tongue, brought the girl a lot of things and let go; the knot answers the colmas: the old man does not carry his daughter's bones in the bag, she returned alive; when he sees that the old man's daughter is rich, the colmas tell him to leave her daughter in that hut; she asks the mice to help weave, but they are only all the hemp they took it away; the bear told me to run around with a bell, hit the bell's tongue with an arrow, ate the girl; the old man brought her bones to the colmas]: Dulzon 1972, No. 112:114-115.