K56a6. The food asks her to eat.

.11.12.16.23.27.-.29.31.32.34.

On their way to another world, people or objects ask the child (girl) to eat the food they offer or ask them to do work. The child (girl) does everything (less often does not) and therefore achieves the goal.

Basa, Banen, Songhai, British, Irish, Germans (Grimms), Frisians, Rajastans, Tamils, Romanians, Gagauz, Czechs, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Pskov, Ryazan), Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchyna), Northern Ukrainians (Chernihiv), Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson), Adygs, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Finns, Karelians, Lutsies, Lithuanians, Latvians, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Siberian Tatars.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Basa [stepdaughter broke a wooden spoon; stepmother tells her to go to her deceased mother to give her a new one; on the way, the pot asks for his soup (the girl eats), the tree for fruit (the same); the old woman gives seed and rice to cook, a lot of meat and rice appears; hides the girl under the bed; her children come to the night, wild animals; the old woman tells the girl to prick them at dawn; they think that fleas bite, run away; the old woman tells me to take the egg that will ask him not to take; it turns into a bird, sings, the old woman gives it to the girl; on the way back, the bird sings, the dead mother appears, gives a spoon and three pots, teaches when to break them; from the first, people come out, warriors, call the girl lady; from the second comes a village; from the third lions, warriors kill them; the girl gives her stepmother a spoon, stays in her own village; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she breaks a pot, burns a tree, cooks meat and lots of rice (they turn into a bone, rice), takes an egg that asks for him take it; the bird is silent; the old woman gives a spoon and three pots herself; the girl first breaks the last one, the lions eat it]: Pozdnyakov 1990:205-212; (cf. kikuyu [the girl refuses the offer of a rich old man; her relatives are furious; she leaves home; on the way, a varied meal asks her to be full, but she thanks and refuses; comes to a beautiful village, lives there for five days; the owner of the house asks her to put her hands and feet in liquid, they are covered with luxurious ornaments; the girl receives a jar of beer and returns home; according to her, she hides behind a fence near the hearth, fills the fire with beer; tells her to slaughter the sheep, pour fat on her skin "so that it can die there"; it turns out that everyone is happy; younger sister she also wants to get jewelry; she is still the same, but on the way she eats the food offered greedily; when she immerses her legs and arms, they become covered with ulcers; she is given water, not beer, she must tell her to pour it on goat skin ash; it remains ugly, and everyone loves the older sister from now on]: Gagnolo 1953, No. 24:66-69).

West Africa. Banen [one wife has two children, the other has one son; she is dead, father and stepmother are tyranting the boy; they sent him to the river to wash wooden bowls, one swam away, the boy was told to find her; old woman shows the way, tells you to wait for it; a pot standing on the fire asks to fill it with water, the tree asks to pick fruits, under the weight of which the branches bend; the boy does everything; an old woman comes and tells not respond to the young woman's suggestions if she appears in her absence; the old woman leaves, turns into a young woman, comes, invites the boy to play, he refuses; the old woman comes again, praises boy; tells him to choose an egg that asks him not to take, break it at home in the square; at home, the boy gives a bowl to his stepmother, breaks an egg, women, slaves, elephant tusks appear; parents send a son the other wife deliberately misses the bowl, follows it; he does not pour water into the pot, does not collect fruit, begins to play with the young woman, at the same time all the dishes in the house are broken; takes an egg that asks him to take it; red men came out of the broken egg, beat the man and his wife, beat them to death in the evening, their son also died, everything went to an orphan]: Dugast 1975:386-394; songhai (zarma) [ the widower and the widower are married, both have daughters; they sleep together, the widow's daughter peed herself, and the widower's daughter sent to the Bagazi swamp to wash the bed; along the way, a stream of milk, a stream of dates, meat, a stream of honey ask drink them, eat them; the girl does not do it; she comes to the old woman, she is the Bagazi swamp; asks her to rub her back; a hole forms in her back, there are 7 eggs; the old woman tells me to take five little ones, the girl still does; the old woman tells them not to leave them where she hears a voice asking them to leave, but where to the question "are they here?" no one will answer; eggs make camels, cows, slaves, prisoners, a house with blacksmiths and women; stepmother sends her own daughter; she drinks and eats everything; takes three big eggs; throws where her voice suggests leave them behind; lions, hyenas, wild dogs and other predators come out of them; they have killed a girl]: Calame-Griaule 2002:154-157.

Western Europe. The British [have two daughters in the poor family, one went to look for a job; the oven asks to take the bread out of it, the cow to milk it, the apple tree to free it from heavy fruits; she does everything; comes to a witch; she tells her to clean the house but never look into the chimney; she looks in several times, each time a bag of money falls from there; after saving money, she runs, asks for an apple tree, a cow, a stove hide it; the stalking witch asks if they are hiding the girl, but they say not; the stove invites the witch to go inside and make sure that no one is there; hooks the flap, keeps the witch until then until the girl ran away; the other sister followed in the footsteps of the first, but did not do what the stove and others asked her to do; grabbing the money, she immediately runs away, but the stove gives it away; the witch took the money and the girl came back with nothing]: Jacobs 1894:101-106; Irish [stepmother pushed her stepdaughter into the well; there is a sunny meadow; the fence asks you to step over her carefully; the buns in the oven are to take them out ( they have been baking for 7 years, they will burn); the girl does everything; the buns are told to take one of them with her; the girl shared a bun with a hungry woman; then the apple tree asks to pick her apples, the ram to cut her, the cow - milk; she does everything; comes to a fanged bearded old woman, her daughter is also fanged; the old woman advises her to stay with her, no one lives any more; tells the cows to milk; they kick, but sparrows they sit on their ears and the cows freeze; sparrows: this is for giving us crumbs; now the witch demands that the black wool be washed white and the white coat is for her daughter; the old woman to whom the girl gave the bun did everything instantly; third task: bring water with a sieve; sparrows: plug holes with moss and cover them with clay; the witch tells you to choose one box out of three as a gift: gold, silver or lead; sparrows: take lead; the girl took it, ran, the witches were chasing; the cow hid the girl, sent her pursuers into the forest; the same ram; the apple tree hides under a pile of apples, and holds the witches with branches; a fence she let the girl pass and detained the witches; the girl woke up on the ground by the well; opened the box at home with treasures in it; the stepmother threw her own daughter into the well; she did not respond to requests, could not complete the tasks, chose a gold box; snakes crawled out of it, toads jumped out of it, stepmother and daughter died, the father stayed with his daughter, the king married her]: Kennedy 1875:33-37; 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, ended up in a meadow, a stove asks her to get bread, they are ready, the apple tree to shake off the apples, she takes out the bread, shakes off the apple tree; she comes to an old woman with big teeth; she tells her to whip the feather bed to make it snow (when in Hesse it's snowing, they say it's Frau Holle whipping her feather bed); the girl lives well with Mrs. Metelitsa, but wants to return; Mrs. Metelitsa brings her to the gate, golden rain pours on the girl; at home the rooster screams that a 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; the resin remains for life]: Grimm, Grimm 1987, No. 24:88-91 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:84-86); friezes (western) [Little Ehike and Bolshaya Ehike were spinning at the well; the spindle fell into the well; BE invited ME to go down to get him; she went along the path; the apple tree asks her to take the apples; the cow to milk; the oven to take out her warm bread; the girl has come to the old woman's house; she asks her to look in her head, not to go into the seventh room ; under the stove, a hen with chickens; the girl put the chicken on the head of an old woman who had fallen asleep, took a small purse of gold from the forbidden room, ran; the stove, the cow, the apple tree promised not to say that she was I passed by them; when she saw that ME returned with the money, BE also went down to the well; did not respond to requests; took all the gold from the forbidden room; the stove, the cow, the apple tree: we must say; the old woman caught up with EB and tore it with hot mites]: Clement 1846:164, 320.

South Asia. Rajastans [two sisters: Haldi and Sonth {text title: Tumeric and Ginger; this is probably how these names are translated}; H. is kind, hard-working; S. is angry, lazy, unaccommodating; H. goes to her grandmother; by the sand dune asks to clean it of dust, the brazier from ash, the cat to comb it, the berry bush to clean the thorns, the sea to collect dirt from the surface, the camel to clean the place where it is from insects goes to bed; H. does everything; grandmother is good with everyone; she is given treats and clothes; on the way back everyone is rewarded: the camel offers to ride it, the sea throws away jewelry, the bush gives berries, the cat - khajas {something edible}, a brazier - hot ghewars and a new pan, dune - decorations; now S. comes; answers requests with rudeness; no one likes her; everyone drives her on the way back; she comes back and cries]: Dinesh 1979:38-44; Tamils [stepmother kicked her stepdaughter out; she goes, ended up in the forest; the stone asks to water it, otherwise it will split in the heat; the plant will rise, otherwise it bends to earth; elephant - pull a splinter out of her leg; the girl does everything; came to the old woman's house; did all the job offered well; when asked if she wanted freshly brewed rice or old and warmed, she answered which is quite good and old; she gave up new clothes to replace her worn ones; chose to sleep on a mat rather than on a mattress; living with an old woman, the girl became beautiful; the prince saw her, asked her to be married the old woman gave her jewelry and blessed both; an elephant was already waiting for them, they sat on his back; that plant became a huge blooming tree and gave flowers; that stone turned into a paved road; when they came to their stepmother and the stepdaughter told her everything, she told her own daughter to go to the old woman, repeating her stepdaughter's actions at every step; but she refused to help the stone, the plant and the elephant; in the old woman refused to work at home; chose freshly brewed rice, new clothes, a mattress; a shepherd came, the old woman changed his clothes and the girl thought it was a prince; but instead of jewelry she received it from the old woman blows with a broom; the elephant did not offer to sit on it, but chased to trample it; the stone turned the road into sharp stones; thorns fell from the tree; when he saw his own daughter and the shepherd, bruised, scratched, her stepmother told her to clean up and never come back]: Beck 1987, No. 34:118-121; the Tamils [when leaving, the mother left seven pies for her seven daughters; the youngest ate two; the youngest began to cry, and her sisters drove her away; on the way, a rose bush asks him to water, a millstone to put one on top of the other, a cow and a calf to give him drink, a mare with a calf to put it side by side, the sea gently spread it with your hands and go dry; the girl came to an old woman, worked for her housework, grew up, she wanted to marry her; on the way back, the sea gave her pearls, a mare a foal, a cow a calf, a millstone, pink the bush was roses; she brought everything home; when she saw this, the sisters kicked out the one who ate two pies; she did not comply with a single request and returned empty-handed]: Blackburn 2005, No. 22.

The Balkans. Romanians [stepmother tells her husband to drive her stepdaughter out; the stove asks her to melt and peel, the pear to cut off the wormy fruits, the vine to weed, the well to clean; the girl does everything; comes to the forester; she tells me to cook bran, feed snakes, lizards, bats; offers to choose a gift; the girl takes an inadequate chest; on the way back, the pear gives her ripe fruit, the well - clean water, etc.; in a treasure chest; stepmother sends her own daughter; she does not respond to requests; scalded snakes and lizards with hot bran; chose the largest chest; there are snakes in it, they bit her; stepdaughter married happily]: Mirener 1958:112-118; Romanians (Bukovina) [stepmother forces her husband to drive her stepdaughter out of the house; on the way she left the sick dog, cleaned the pear from the caterpillars, cleaned the pear, cleaned the pear a well, covered with clay in a wreck stove; comes to the forest house, washes the children of an old Holy Friday woman - snakes and other creatures; chooses the ugliest chest as a gift; on the way back, the oven is full of pies, the well is pure water, the pear is pears, the dog gives a necklace of gold coins; horses, cows, sheep come out of the chest; the stepmother's daughter does not help her meet, rude children to Holy Friday, scalds her children, chooses a large chest; the oven does not give pies, a water well, a pear of fruit, a dog bites; snakes that crawled out of the chest ate the old woman and her daughter; the old man passed off his daughter as a good man]: Staufe 1853:42-50, 469-472 (=Kremnitz 1882, No. 19:228-237; also in Moldavian tales 1968:113-118; only here the old woman is called Holy Friday); Gagauz people [the old man's daughter is hardworking, the old woman's daughter is lazy; old woman the old man's daughter drives away; she goes, unwinding a ball of thread; fruit trees ask to be cleaned of caterpillars; the well is from silt; the oven asks to cover her with pies, then promises to feed her; half-crushed the puppy should be cleared of worms; the girl does everything, comes to Jumaa báb (makes sure that no one spins on Friday); she asks to keep track of her children, these are animals and birds; she does everything well; J. tells catch any of the chests floating on the river as a reward; the girl takes the smallest one; meets a dog with a gold necklace around his neck, asks for a necklace; the oven gives pies, the well gives water, trees they feed fruit; when they open the chest at home, there are dresses and shoes; the old woman sends her daughter; she does not fulfill requests, scalds the "children" with boiling water, takes a large chest, the dog that she meets bites her, burns her, burns her, A snake jumps out of the well, the trees do not produce fruit; there are 12-headed snakes in the chest, swallowed the old woman and her daughter and disappeared; the old man passed off his daughter as a good boy]: Syrf 2013:158-163.

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; Russians ( Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [stepmother sent her stepdaughter to spin to the ice-hole; the spindle fell into the ice-hole; the stepdaughter asked for the pike, she did not answer; she went down herself; horse, cow, sheep shepherds in the service of Raven Voronovich, Grokhotovich Grokhotovich is asked to plow, rake; the girl does everything; asks the hut on chicken legs to turn her eyes to the forest, her gates; baba yaga, bone leg, tits spring through the bed, rows the coal with the nose, plows the stove with his tongue asks to heat the bath and wash it with seven children; carry water with a sieve, the bird teaches how to smear it with clay; every son of Baba Yaga praises the girl how well she washed it; Baba Yaga gave her a bag, the shepherds brought a mare with a foal, a cow with a calf, a sheep with a lamb; the father came to the ice-hole, a spindle swims in it, he pulled the daughter pulled out the rope; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she is rude to the shepherds, she does not wash Baba Yaga's children well; there are bricks and rot in the bag, the shepherds beat the girl; the stepmother pulled out the spindle, pulled out the bag with rot; the old man divorced his wife]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 69:320-325; Russians (North): Karnaukhova 1934, No. 87 (Arkhangelskaya: Pinega, 1927, p. Sura Pogost) [Parents leave their sister to look after their younger brother and not let him out on the porch. She forgets, plays with her friends with dolls. Egibov arrives in a mortar and takes the boy away. The girl is following her. On the way, she meets a fire, a sheep, a stove, she asks them where the boy is, but she does not help them: she does not plow under the fire (does not throw firewood) and an ovin, does not eat cake from the stove. She sees Ivashka chewing on iron crackers, Egibova asks the girl to look in her head, she searches for and stabs Yegibov, takes her brother and runs back. She asks for a stove, sheep and bonfire to help her, but they refuse because she did not help them. Egibova catches up with the girl and selects Ivashka. She comes home crying. She is replaced by another girl, Masha, who fulfills the requests of a bonfire, an ovinnik and a stove, and they show her the way to the boy. Egibova asks Masha to look in her head, the girl stabs her, takes the boy and runs. The stove, the ovinnik and the fire hide it from Egibova. Masha brings Ivashenka home]: 175-176; Karnaukhova 1948 [Masha is hard-working, her sister Dasha is lazy; when they go to the fair, their parents tell them to look after their youngest son Ivanushka; swan geese take him to wings; Dasha runs after him, refuses to eat rye pie by the Stove, a sour apple by the Apple Tree, to taste milk, jelly by the milk river with jelly shores; The hedgehog indicates where Baba Yaga's hut is in it Ivanushka plays with golden apples; Dasha grabs him, runs, River, Apple Tree, Stove refuse to cover him, swan geese take Ivanushka away; Masha eats pie, apple, jelly; River, Apple Tree, Stove hide her, geese -swans stop persecution]: 78-83; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pomors) [stepmother gave her own daughter a spin of wool, and her stepdaughter moss; the moss broke off, the stepmother sent him into the ice-hole to wet it; towards him sheep, scissors on their horns, ask them to cut their hair, take them for themselves; cows, windowsills on their horns, milk for themselves; in a hut an old woman, rakes coal with her nose, plows the stove with her hair, sits down cooking with her tongue; tells do not look for an ice-hole, but to dress her cows; heat the bath, gives a sieve for water; the bird tells the holes to be covered with clay; wash her children; they are happy; the cows are also happy; the old woman gave a box of outfits; stepmother sent her own daughter to the ice-hole; she did not cut the sheep, did not milk the cows, beat old cows, threw a stone at the bird, beat old women in a cold bath with a dry broom; the old woman gave bad things in the box dress and barn lock; stepmother and daughter went into the barn, opened the box, locked the barn, could not be opened; and the grooms began to marry the old daughter, she got married]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:168-171; Russians (Pskov) [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; he tied a board to a birch tree, she knocks in the wind; the girl thinks that her father is cutting firewood, but he is gone; the bear took her home, tells make him a bed: a row of stone, a row of logs, a stupa at her head; she did it all; the bear gave her keys and told her to run around the hut; the mouse took her keys and ran with them instead of her; while the bear was running, the girl put on the outfits he had and left; towards horses (they demand to be remembered), cows (milk), lambs (cut), oak (sweep it and climb on it); the girl did everything; they all answer a bear that the girl did not see; she came home with wealth; her stepmother sent her own daughter; she did not give the mouse keys, did not fulfill the requests of the horses, etc.; the witch caught up with her, collected her bones in a bundle, hung her on oak; dog: your daughter's bones hang on an oak tree]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 33:99-104; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [parents told Alyonushka to follow brother Tereshechka (or Ivanushka - the informant is confused); The girlfriends came, A. forgot, the swan geese took T.; A. then refuses to eat the sour apple from the apple tree, eat oatmeal from the river, take the bread out of the oven (her parents are getting better); Baba Yaga is trying put T. in the oven, he spread his hands, asked him to show it, shoved it himself, A. took her brother away; BYA got out, tells the geese to catch up; this time A. fulfills the requests of an apple tree, a stove, a river, they hide it, geese she was found, A. brought her brother to her parents]: Samodelova 2013, No. 72:82-84; Western Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [grandfather's daughter is spinning, babina is walking with the guys; coming to the house, the woman took 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; northern Ukrainians (Chernigovskaya, Nezhinsky u.) [the grandfather has a granddaughter and a woman have a granddaughter; the grandfather went along the road; the stupa asks her to sweep, the stove to lubricate, the dog to wash it, the apple tree to weed around, everyone promises gold, etc.; the girl has done everything; a year served with Mr.; he gave the wagon with goodness; on the way back she picked a golden apple, golden millet, etc.; when her grandfather's granddaughter returned, the woman sent her to serve; she did not comply with the requests, but also served with Mr.; returned kindly, but my grandfather had more]: Malinka 1902, No. 22:289-291; Ukrainians (Kherson) [Baba Yaga stole the boy, put him on the window, let him play with an apple; parents sent an eldest daughter for her brother; she refuses to pick apples from an apple tree, turn a loaf of bread over, take tar; goes to the hut on chicken legs; began to look for the BYU in her head, took her brother away; those whose She did not comply with the requests, she was not covered, the BYU caught up, took the boy away; the same with her middle sister; the youngest does everything, smeared resin on the eyes of the fallen asleep BU; the cat did not clean them of resin, but scratched them out; BYA went blind , and the girl brought her brother home]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 19.2:156-157.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [when she dies, the mother cuts off her breasts, gives it to her daughter; the stepmother is surprised that the stepdaughter is only working, but full; finds breasts, throws them into the river; stepdaughter goes to look for breasts; helps the bird return to the nest with a broken wing; pulls the bull out of the quagmire; the stove asks to make a fire in it, the girl makes it; comes to the house, cleans, nurses the baby; the owner gives a chest, the stove feeds, the bird gives gold, the rooster screams that the girl comes back 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 of evil spirits; worms, snakes and lizards in the chest they gnawed at the machehina's chest; the snake bit her stepmother and her daughter, they died]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 27:227-233.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [stepdaughter and own daughter are spinning; agree that whoever breaks first will climb into the well; she is torn at the stepdaughter, because she does not spin flax, but thistle; she goes down to a well, walks through a green meadow; at their request, 1) gently climbs over the wattle fence without damaging it; 2) milks a cow, drinks milk, pours the rest on its hooves; 3) shears the ram, wraps its neck with wool; 4) she tears apples from an apple tree, eats, puts the rest at the roots; comes to the old woman, she tells 1) to bring water with a sieve; birds at the well are advised to cover the holes with clay and straw; 2) sweep out the manure, milk the cows; the birds tell them to take revenge with the broom handle (everything is clean right there), give them a drop of milk (the cows stop kicking); 3) wash the black wool white (the birds tell them to dip the wool into the barrel); the birds tell you to choose the reward is not red, not green, but a blue barrel; when leaving, the girl dodges a red-hot iron bar thrown by a witch (the birds warned); the witch and her daughter are chasing, Apple Tree, Ram, Cow , The wattle fence hides the girl, the pursuers stop chasing; the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to live in the pigsty; she opens the keg, there is gold, the pigsty turns into a beautiful home; now her own daughter is spinning thistle, thread breaks, girl goes down into the well; breaks the wattle fence, drinks all the milk, takes all the wool with her, breaks apple tree branches; does not listen to birds, cannot complete the old woman's tasks, chooses red barrel; opens at home, reptiles and parasites crawl out of it, snakes and toads fall from her mouth]: Dasent 1970:113-124; Danes [a woman gives her daughter a spin of good linen, and her stepdaughter a rude one; The agreement is that whoever has more fires will be lowered into the well; the stepdaughter has more; in the well she comes to the dwarf, works for him, taking a gold ring and a wand, runs away; on the way, a woman asks her for help get bread out of the oven; the other is to remove the apple tree, take the goats to another pasture, milk the cow; when the dwarf rushes in pursuit, the women, the goats, the cow say that they did not see the girl; she comes home; stepmother tells the girls to spin under the same conditions, but now gives rough linen to her own daughter; running away from the dwarf, she refuses to help women and animals; the dwarf tore off her head and she fell on her mother's knees]: Holbek 1987:521; Swedes [stepdaughter spins at the well, stepmother and her own daughter pushed her down; the apple tree allows her apples to be eaten but not taken with them; same cow: don't take them milk with her; a girl comes to an old woman's house, is hired; must bring water with a sieve, but lizards and snakes have closed their holes, the girl brought water; the old woman offers to choose as a reward a blue or red chest, the cat tells her to take a blue one; at home, her stepmother puts her in a pigsty; she cleans it up, opens the chest, there are treasures; the stepmother confronts her own daughter, she takes it with her apples and milk, chooses a red chest, although the cat offered to take a blue one; a bird with a fiery tail flew out of it at home, the stepmother and her own daughter burned down, the pigsty became a castle, the stepdaughter became in it life]: Stier 1971, No. 14:68-71; Finns: Cox 1893, No. 106 [two girls washed their hands for three years to be hired for royal service; refuse to take bread out of the oven, milk a cow, shear a sheep, help the old man; the heroine does all this, the old man gives her a magic wand that opens the door to the rock, behind her treasures; she is hired to the palace as a dishwasher; she is told to separate the grain from the ash (old man performs); she runs away, the shoe sticks to the resin; the shoe is tried on by all girls; the elders disfigure their legs to make the shoe fit; the heroine is found, the wedding], 105 (Sotkamo, Osterbotnia) [the king hired two maids for clean work, one for dirty work; the oven asks for bread; two maids say they cannot, because they have been washing their hands with German soap for three years, Cinderella takes out the bread and gets a loaf; then But milk a cow; shear a sheep; only Cinderella pulls out an old man stuck in a crevice, who gives him a magic wand; on Sunday, two maids go to church, pour grain into the ash and tell Cinderella to do it clear; she hits the rock with a stick, a copper dress, a wagon and a horse appear; next time silver; gold; the prince smeared the threshold with resin, the golden shoe stuck; everyone tries on, two maids their fingers were cut off, but their legs were only more swollen; Cinderella's shoe just right; wedding], 300 (western Finland, Ilöjärvi) []: 43, 43, 387-388; Konkka 1993 [mother died; widow neighbor, whom her daughter persuaded the girl to advise her father to marry her; began to tyrant her; sent her in the winter in the same shirt for strawberries; the girl asked Frost to give her warm clothes, he gave her; she came to the house there are three little men, a girl shares bread with them; they sent her revenge with snow and strawberries under her; one gave the girl even more beauty, the other made gold coins fall from her mouth, the third promised that she would marry the Queen; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she refuses to take revenge on the snow; the little men make her even uglier, toads fall from her lips, she was destined to die miserably; once her stepmother gave The stepdaughter has a piece of bread; he rolled, the girl after him; the ram asks him to cut his hair, the cow to milk, the sheaf to tie; the girl does everything; comes to Hiishi's estate; his wife is at home, she tells him to heat the bathhouse and at the same time weave cloth out of wool; while the girl was drowning, the mice hid and weaved everything; H. orders to milk the cows, these are she-wolves and bears, the cat is milking; strain the milk - sparrows perform; Hiisi himself came, gives a bell, extinguishes the splint - he will catch a bell at the ringing; the mouse runs with a bell; in the morning H. gave the girl gifts, put her on the cart and sent her home; old woman H. tells the cow, the ram, to detain her, they refuse; tells the oak to beat it with branches, the sheaf protected it; the stepmother sent her own daughter to X.; she refuses to shear the ram, milk the cow, knit a sheaf; drives away mice, cats, sparrows; the mouse did not running with a bell, H. caught the girl and crushed it badly; on the way back, the oak whipped off, the cow beat her hooves, the ram butted; the girl returned barely alive; the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to wash her skeins in the ice-hole wool; the Queen saw her and married her; she gave birth to a son; her stepmother came, cut off her golden hair, tied her daughter to her head, pushed the Queen's wife into the water; the horse pulled her out and hid her in the stall; the king found her there; asks the old woman what to do with someone who will replace his wife and push the real one into the water; the old woman: put her in a barrel of thorns, throw it into the water; they did so with the old woman and her daughter; all is well]: 94-104; Karelians: Cox 1893, No. 104 (Entrea) [two older sisters go to church and the youngest Cinderella stays at home; the cow asks her to milk; the sisters refuse: they washed their hands for five weeks with soap and milk; the same is to take the bread out of the oven; cut the sheep; Z. follows and does everything, gets milk, bread, wool, and beautiful clothes; loses his shoe, the general's son picks it up; a shoe only fit Cinderella, the general's son married her], 252 (North Karelia, Uhtne or Wuskkiniemi) [two older sisters go to serve the king, refuse to take their youngest Cinderella with them; on the way refuse to cut the sheep, milk the cow, wash the dirty old man; Z. follows, fulfills requests; the old man gives her a stick with which she must hit the rock near the palace; there is food and expensive clothes in the rock, but she takes nothing; she sits in a corner in the palace; the sisters ask the king to take her maid to clean up the ash; on Sunday, the older sisters go to church; Z. appears there in a silk dress; next time she goes to church silver dress, the prince notices her; for the third time in a gold dress; hurriedly runs away, does not have time to take off the gold one, only throws leather over; the prince asks to look in his head, tears off the leather one, under he is golden; Z. marries the prince, the older sisters are ashamed], 253 (Suoyarvi) []: 386, 394-395, 295-296; Konkka, Tupitsyna 1967, No. 17 [the stepmother gave her daughter Lena a good tow, planted it in the room, and her stepdaughter Masha sent her hair to the ice-hole; the spindle fell into the ice-hole; The raft bird, give me a spindle! - Young legs, walk along the path by yourself; M. went down the ice-hole; cows ask them to milk, horses to cut their manes and tails, take the bread out of the stove; the woman in labor in the house ask them to heat the sauna and wash it; Masha everything performs; the woman in labor gave a chest of clothes, pushed the layer with her head on the ridge - she found herself on the ground; told her stepmother, but as if she was beating cows and horses with a rod, she refused to heat the bathhouse; when L. pushed head that place, a barrel of resin on her head; covered in resin came, her father kicked her out with her mother]: 136-138; Makarov 1963, No. 42 (Tver Karelians) [grandfather and woman decided to leave their stepdaughter in the forest; her grandfather took; a goat to meet him, asks for milk; the girl milked; the goat gave a cane: to knock on the mountain, it will open up, there is a lot of good inside; the girl returned home; the grandfather took her own daughter, she froze in the forest]: 60- 61; Lutsie (Western 1893) [when she dies, the mother gives her daughter a spindle: let her follow him where she goes; the father brought his stepmother, who also has a daughter; the spindle fell into the well, the stepdaughter behind him; shepherds of cows, sheep, horses, pigs are asked to help herd, the girl willingly does it; she comes to a place where there is a lot of money, takes as much money as she can, returns; everyone she meets hurries her, she manages to get out of the spindle the hell didn't catch up with her well; her own daughter took a spindle, went down into the well, did not help anyone, on the way back the hell caught up with her, killed her, threw the corpse out of the well]: Annom et al. 2018:167-169; Lithuanians: Grishina 1993 [boy Bebenciukas is swimming in a boat, fishing; he has two smart sisters, one fool; she brings him food: I'll give him boiled fish, and you give me raw fish; lauma overheard; B.: u the sisters have a thin voice, and this one is rude; lauma told the blacksmith to tie her thinner tongue; B. swam, lauma took him away; the fool came, released the fish left in the boat, she told her where to look for B.; the eldest went sister: refuses to pick apples from an apple tree, milk a cow, bake bread in the oven, wash the board across the river; laume sits in a bluegrass hut covered with fern, lip to floor, asks her to comb; the girl began to comb, the laume fell asleep; the girl covered the black dog with a pot, grabbed B., ran; laume and the dog were chasing, the board, the stove, etc. were sending them; laume grabbed B. along with sister, took it back; the same with her middle sister; the fool picked apples, milked the cow, etc., grabbed B. and the sisters, ran; objects prevent the lauma from chasing, do not tell me where the fugitives went; they returned home]: 23-32; Lebite 1965 [three sisters, the eldest has a child, the youngest advises not to wash it white, otherwise the swan will take it away for a swan; a witch in the form of a swan takes away what was left on the child's shore; the older sister follows him, does not pick pears, cherries, apples, take pies out of the oven, milk the cow; the witch tells her to look for a log in her head; a woman runs with a child, a cow, etc. they do not help her, the witch takes the child; the same with the middle sister; the youngest fulfills the requests, the cow, etc., protect her from the witch, she is exhausted, dies]: 121-125 (about the same Kerbelite 2014, No. 38: 89-91); Latvians (Livonia) [to get rid of her stepdaughter, her stepmother pushed her into a well; when she comes to another world, the girl fulfills the wishes of the animals and objects she meets: she gives water to horses, milks cows, shears sheep, bakes bread; the old man asks to heat the bathhouse, wash it and others; these are snakes; they tell the girl not to be afraid, she splashes warm water on them; the old man gives them a box and a stick, tells them to open when the girl will return home; a lock jumps out of the box, a church appears when hit with a stick; the stepmother pushes her own daughter into the well; she does not fulfill the wishes of the people she meets, pours hot water on the snakes, hits them with a baton; when I opened the box given by the old man at home, a fire burned out of it, burned everyone present]: Brivzemniax 1887, No. 128:264-267.

Volga - Perm. Marie [sister goes to save her brother: she treats the stove, apple tree, milk river with affection; they help her escape from Vouver Kuva, her geese and carry her kidnapped brother]: Sabitov 1989, № 480A*: 30; Mordovians (Erzya) [parents tell their daughter to watch her brother; two wild geese took him away; the girl rushed to catch up; the oven asks for bread, wild apple tree - apples, dairy the river with jelly banks is jelly; the girl does as asked; the hedgehog shows the way; Yaga sleeps in the house, his brother is playing with the golden testicle; his sister grabbed him, ran back; again fulfills the river's requests etc., they hide from stalking geese]: Evseviev 1964, No. 41:288-289; Chuvash [an orphan girl was taken into the family; ordered to monitor the baby boy, he is as bright as the moon; the girl played with too much other children, the goose took the boy away; the girl ran to look for him; the oven asks to eat her cake, the girl replies that she has white rolls in her house; the apple tree is to eat her apples, the girl: we have sweeter; milky stream - drink his milk, girl: we have enough of our own; the hedgehog complains about his misfortune; he teaches what to do; the goose's mother sleeps in the hut, legs, head, stomach touches the walls and ceiling; we must grab the boy and run, do what a stream, an apple tree, a stove require; the girl returned safely]: Chuvash tales 1937:100-105.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Tomsk) [stepmother threw a ball of thread from Fatima's stepdaughter through the window; she follows him, helps guard cows, geese, sheep, horses, and receives one animal from the herd each time; the old woman promises to return the ball if she heats the sauna and washes it; the old woman replies that she 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 carrying reptiles; snakes from the chest bite her stepmother and her daughter, they run away from home]: Tomilov 1995:160-163 (=Lukina 2004, No. 4. 11:93-95).