K57A. A beauty from the land of soap, (ATU 510B).

.14.-.16. (.17.) .27.28.30.31.

A noble young man, who treated an insignificant maid rude and disdainfully, does not recognize her in the guise of a gorgeous beauty and does not understand her hints of relevant episodes. Or the younger brother responds with hints to his elders after they first hit him and then did not recognize him in the guise of a handsome hero.

Egyptian Arabs, Portuguese, Italians, Corsicans, Germans (Mecklenburg), (Syrian Arabs), Moldovans, Gagauz people, Greeks, Poles, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Olonetskaya, Karelia, Vologda, Moscow, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya), Persians, Lithuanians, Karelians, Finns, Danes, Swedes.

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [after the death of his wife, the king promised to marry the one who would fit the first wife's anklet; only his daughter came up; preparations for the wedding are in full swing when the princess is talking about everything learns from the vizier's daughter; ordered leather clothes for a tanner that transformed her into a strange creature, ran away; came to another city; called herself Juleidah; the queen assigned her to the kitchen; she pretends to She does not feel or notice anything; refuses to go to the vizier's party with the women; and then came there in her true form; the Sultan's son fell in love with her; then threw gold sparkles on the floor and so far women picked them up, disappeared unnoticed; next time the prince asks where she came from; "From the land of scoops and ladles"; running away, pulls off the ring from the prince's finger; the prince is preparing for on a trip to the country of Cherpakov and Polovnikov, he is being prepared for the road; J. begged her to be allowed to bake a loaf, puts the prince's ring in it; at the first stop, the servant wanted to throw away this loaf, but her prince yet he broke it, found his ring, ordered him to turn back; ordered J. to bring him dinner; she deliberately dropped the tray; let her carry it again; the prince cut the leather cover with a knife and appeared in front of him beautiful; immediately called Kadia to marry; one day Father J. arrives with his servants, he travels to different countries in search of his daughter; J. orders to detain travelers for the night, comes in her husband's clothes, offers to tell stories and tells his own; opens to his father; the king gave his daughter and her husband half his kingdom; the old woman who advised the king to marry her daughter was thrown off a cliff]: Bushnaq 1987:193-200.

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Cardigos 2008, No. 510B [girl runs away from home after changing her appearance because her father wants to marry her or fleeing her stepmother; with her three dresses given to her by her father; to her helps a late mother, a grateful animal, a magic object; she becomes a maid in the royal palace; the prince despises her, throws a towel, soap, a basin at her; in his dresses presented by her father she dances with the prince; says she came from the land of towels, soap, etc.; the prince gives her a ring or something to identify her later, or finds her shoe, etc.; prince recognizes her by the ring she leaves in her baked bread; a bird exposes a false bride; or a bird spies on a girl when she changes her appearance; wedding]: 123; Pedroso 1882, No. 15 []: 66-72; Italians (Ticino) [mother died, father took another wife, also died; stepmother tells the servant to take her stepdaughter to the forest; the godmother advises to throw bran behind, so the girl returned home; the next time: a ball of thread; the third time: salt; but the ram licked the salt; the fairy gave the girl a magic wand; the girl hired the palace to work in the kitchen, her name was Cinderella (Cenerentola); the prince asked her serve charcoal tongs; she asked if she could come to the ball; he replied that he would then hit the head with forceps; she told the luxurious dress and crew to appear; at the ball she replies to the prince that soon will receive tongs; next time a charcoal scoop; the prince is ill, his mother tells Z. to take him the broth; she appears in a luxurious dress; tells us who she is after the prince swears marry her; they wanted to execute her stepmother, but Z. asked her to be sent to work in the kitchen]: Keller 1981:108-115; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 22 [the man's wife has a gold star on her forehead; dying, wife asks her husband to remarry only the one who has the same star; she is only his daughter; the mother from the grave tells her to bring a rosary, a poker, a comb into the room; when the father calls to the bedroom, objects they will answer instead of a girl: I pray, move the coals in the oven, comb my hair; at this time I have to slaughter a cow, her giblets will contain a golden ball; the ball will fulfill any wishes, and you have to put the skin on yourself and run ; now the girl's name is Kugyulin (from the word "skin"); she is hired to the royal castle to herd geese; when she combs her hair, wheat falls on one side, rice on the other, and geese get fat; transformed by a golden ball, K. comes to the ball in a bronze dress; the prince gives a ring, asks which country she is beautiful from, she replies that she is from the country of Saddles; the next once - a silver dress, from the land of the Bridles; the third time a golden dress, from the Land of the Spurs; the prince runs out every time, looks for K., tells her to give her a saddle, a kuzu, a spur; the prince orders for K. to cook; she locked herself in the room, took off her cow's skin, told the ball to cook everything, threw the ring given by the prince into the bowl; the prince peeks, tells his parents to marry him to K.; everything is clear, wedding], 72 [a beautiful girl was hired by a poultry house; when she combs her hair, rice falls out of her hair and wheat on the other; the prince asks her to serve a bridle; she is unrecognized comes to the ball, answers the prince that she is from Bridle Land; next time she is a saddle; stirrups; spurs; the prince gives her a ring; asks the poultry house to bring him broth; she throws a ring into the broth; wedding]: 50-53, 159-160.

Western Europe. Germans (Mecklenburg) [father wants to marry his daughter; she demands from him a dress with silver; gold; with precious stones; he got everything; then a raven skin dress and a magic a wand (Glücksruthe); after receiving them, she put on a crow's dress and ended up at the prince's palace with a wave of a wand; she was hired in the kitchen; she was hidden in oak; she was named Cinderella (Aschenpüster) ); when everyone went to the wedding, she showed up in a silver dress; the prince danced with her; as she left, she got into the carriage and said: the darkness is over, the light is ahead (Hunter mir dunkel und vorne mir klar, /Daβ Niemand sehe wohin ich gahr); next time wearing a gold dress; prince asks where she lives; in Stiefelschmeiβ (Where They Throw Boots); third time, a gemstone dress; she is from Bü rstenschmeiβ ("Where they throw brushes"; {apparently, the episodes when the prince, seeing Cinderella as a maid in raven feathers, threw a boot at her and then with a brush}); the prince put her on there was a ring on her finger; she did not have time to hide her dress, but only threw crow feathers over it; the next day she threw the ring into the food prepared for the prince; he ordered the cook to be brought; saw under crow feathers dress with gems; wedding]: Bartsh 1879, No. 4:479-481.

(Wed. Western Asia. Arabs of Syria [the king wants to marry his daughter; kadiy confirms that the tree in the man's yard belongs to him, not to his neighbor; the girl tells the felt manufacturer to make her felt clothes so that only her eyes could be seen; in the evening she asked her father to let her go out of need; he tied a rope to her, she tied her to the door, put on his felt and ran away; she was hired as a maid to another king, she is called Felt; the prince sees her swimming, wants to marry; she says her name is So and So, from the village of So and So; he gives her a ring; becoming a maid again, puts the ring in the dough, from who made pies; the prince goes to look for this village, eats pies, finds his ring in the latter; the prince returns to the palace, tells Felt to bring him water, cuts it with a sword felt clothes, takes her as his wife]: Kuhr 1993:378-382).

The Balkans. Moldovans [someone's horses trample on millet; father sends sons to guard; elder, middle, fall asleep; younger Talaesh grabs one of the horses; he tells him to take three hairs from his mane; king will pass off his youngest daughter as someone who jumps down the narrow stairs to her balcony and takes off the ring; T. first rides a white horse, his brothers overtake him and beat him; then summoned his horse Gaitan, who tells him to do one enter the ear, leave the other, T. turns into a dressed groom; G. asks: to drive like the wind or as a thought? T.: in the usual way; seeing the rider, the brothers politely ask where he comes from; T.: from Slap in the face; almost went up to the balcony, but returned; the next day the same (T. tells the horse to lead him like the wind; answers the brothers that he was from Kulakov); on the third day: as a thought; from Knutovsk; the princess gave T. the ring, touched his hair with her hand, it turned gold; the tsar ordered to check all the guys; when the kushma was pulled off T.'s head , everyone saw golden hair; the king moved his daughter and T. to a hut outside his possessions; but G. built a palace for them; war broke out, T. sat on a 105-year-old donkey, got stuck in the mud, ripped off the donkey's skin, this was seen by the king passing by; then he called G., defeated the enemies; the same second time (he sat on a nag, slightly wounded, the king bandaged his hand); the queen went into her daughter's shack, saw her son-in-law's handkerchief; the king went to see and went blind; he would be cured by the lioness's milk; G. brought him to the sleeping lioness, T. fed up with milk; G. turned T. into an old man, he met his sons-in-law, said that when he was young he went to buy milk, and only now he is returning; gave milk (it's cow's) to his sons-in-law for permission to stigmatize them; sons' milk did not help, and what his youngest daughter brought back their sight; everyone gathered, T. about everything told, ordered his sons-in-law to show stamps, their name was "T."; the king gave him the throne]: Botezat 1981:157-169; Gagauz [the widower wants to marry his daughter; the woman advises the girl to ask her father for silver dress; then gold; wooden; the woman tells me to offer to wash in separate rooms, leaving a living carp in her basin, and running away, taking her dresses; in the evening, the father decided that his daughter had become fish; the prince is going to his master's wedding; a girl in a wooden dress herds geese; the prince hit her with a whip; she came to the wedding in a silver dress, said that she was from Knutova Village; The prince wanted to marry, but no one knew Knutova Village; the next time the prince slapped the goose in the face; at the ball she replied that she had received a ring from the prince from Slap Village; The prince goes to look, everyone should bake him bread; the goose baked his ring in her bread; everything is clear, the wedding]: Moshkov 1904, No. 55:98-100; the Greeks [dying, the wife tells her husband to take only the one who will fit her shoes, ring or something else; only daughters are suitable; the father proves that the gardener has the right to eat the fruit from the tree in his garden, and the owner of the calf has the right to slaughter and eat it; To the advice of Destiny, a dead mother or someone else, the daughter demands that her father bring her a dress 1) like the sky and stars; 2) like the sea and fish; 3) like a field and flowers; a candlestick; a wooden dress; a closet; a house on legs; he brings everything (with the help of a line); untying the rope for which her father tied her, or under the pretext of going out of need, the girl runs away, taking her dresses with her; climbs into an animal's skin or into a tree; is hired to the palace as a maid; everyone laughs at her; she appears in church three times in one of her magical dresses; the prince gives her a ring; asks where she comes from; From a wooden mountain (and other answers, understandable, knowing the insults she was insulted); the prince's mother guesses what was going on, burns sheepskin (under which the girl is hiding); or the prince himself burns her; var.: prince finds a girl in the woods; or buys a piece of wood that can walk; at night a girl goes out and eats food in the prince's room; he grabs her; they have children; other options; the father comes incognito, kills children with a knife in his daughter's hand; a prince kills his wife or cuts off her arms and drives her away; magically a woman and her children are revived, her hands grow back; other options; a woman tells her story in the presence of father and husband; father punished]: Megas 2012, No. 510B: 176-179:62.

Central Europe. Poles [princess runs away from her evil father, puts on dirty sheepskin, hires another queen in the kitchen; on Sunday she tells Sheepskin (OSH) to separate ash and poppy seeds; pigeons they perform; on the way to church, she picks up a whip that the prince has dropped, but he does not thank her, but beats her; she pulls out outfits, a wagon, and servants from the oak tree; in church she tells the prince that she lives in the Pick Up Whip; next time he gives a dropped ring; "In the Golden Ring"; for the third time, the prince smeared the threshold with resin, OSH lost his shoe; pigeons to the prince: the shoe belongs who picked up a whip and a ring; Osh appeared in a luxurious dress; wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 126:427; Russians (Terek Bereg) [dying, the wife orders to marry the one who suits her ring; came up to her daughter; she asks for a sunny dress; then a month old; starry; wedding shoes and earrings; put on all the dresses, and on top of the pigskin, in another kingdom she hired to herd chickens; the prince orders him to give him soap, the girl jumped out of the chicken coop, squeezed her; the prince hit her with soap - it's not your business to serve soap; she came to church in a star dress; replies to the prince that she is from a city where they hit the head with soap; next time - the same (she gave a comb, a moon dress); a bucket (where they hit with buckets, a sunny dress); the prince came to the chicken shepherdess, cut the pork cover, got married]: Balashov 1970, No. 4:44 -46; Russians (Olonetskaya) []: Vlasova 2011, No. 53:89-90; Russians (Karelia, Zaonezhye) [the wife told her husband to take the one she would have at the time of her slipper; he only fit daughter Nastasier; she agrees if her father brings her dresses with stars, with a month, with the sun; the man bought dresses; N. asked me to make "a secret lantern so that I am high, and the same width so that I could fit in"; the father made it, on the wedding day, the daughter hid there, the father did not find her, got angry and threw the lantern into the sea; the lantern swam to the city on the island, where N. was made an "ashtray" - to clean ash; the king has a son, and when he was "coping for the evening", N. let her wash and quietly hit him on the head with her pelvis; she appeared herself in a dress with the stars; the Queen did not recognize her, began to look after her, asked why to the city? - From a city with a pelvis in the head. Korolevich could not remember such a thing. So three times (hit me with soap; boot). After the third time, he guessed it was N., got married]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 15:79-81; Russians (Vologda) [older daughters ask their priest to bring a shtofnik, and Masha to bring a pine tree; the elders go to church; M. stole a handkerchief from the royal son Ivan, he found and hit her with a handkerchief; M. to the pine tree, from there the bunny, she went out dressed, the church arrived, the people were looking at her; I. asks where she; M.: from the village where they beat with a handkerchief and do not let them cry; next time she stole a comb; "From the village where they beat with a comb and do not let you cry"; the third time she stole soap; "Where they beat with soap"; when M. ran away, I. grabbed a handkerchief, a glove, a shoe, began to look for whose; found M.; the sisters prepared poisons, M. ordered the chickens to pour it out, the chickens died; "The whole fairy tale is the kiss of a goose"]: Smirnov 1917, No. 33:185-187; Russians (Moscow) [when she dies, the queen tells her son to marry the one who fits the ring; only fits her sister; the sister ran away, sat on an oak tree; her master's children brought her, but she brought a box with everything she had left her in a hollow; calls herself Mashka-Soplivka; asks her master to take her together; he uses her boot; M. takes out a carriage and outfits from the box; at the ball replies that her name is Boot; next time the master hits her towel - Towel; for the third time, the master broke the mirror on her - Mirror; master's children: the one your dad broke; marries his master's son]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 47:104-105; Russians (Ryazan) [the queen has a son and daughter; the queen died, left her son a ring: whoever is just right, marry her; the prince walked around the world - no one fits; put it on the window; the sister put it on the window; the sister put it on - just right for her; brother wants to marry her; her sister ran away; sat in the hollow of an oak tree; the master's sons went hunting, the dogs began to bark; the brothers stole the girl from the oak tree, brought her to her parents; the girl left the box in the hollow; says that her name is Mashka-soplivka (M.); the master is going to gather; M. wants to go with him, he refuses, hits her boot; M. asks for mushrooms - they let her go; went to the forest, took horses from the box, carriage, bought mushrooms for the lady; came to the ball; she does not bow with anyone, only with the master; he asks the last name; M.: Boot; comes back, put everything in a box, brought mushrooms to the lady; on the other day, the master goes back to the ball, wipes himself off with a towel; M. asks her to take it, the master hits her with a towel; (same name: Towel); on the third day, the master cleans himself in front of the mirror; beats M. with a mirror, the mirror is broken; the surname is Mirror; the master's children come up asking if the surname Zerkalo is true; M.: the one that your dad broke; the master's children took M. with them; went into the forest; took the box; the master's son married M.]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 15:84-85; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [the father wants to pass his daughter off as an unloved one; she pulled on pigskin, began to live with an old woman; there are young hemming nearby, kicking a pig with a boot; On holidays, the girl takes off her skin, comes beautiful; the guy asks where she comes from; from the village where they pour her bootleg; the guy began to watch; the old woman's pies were burned, she agreed to bake the pig ; she put a ring in the cake; the guy understood everything, pulled out the pig, took off the skin, turned out to be beautiful]: Borovik, Mirer 1939, No. 88:200-201.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [Shah, leaving, says to his son: if your mother gives birth to a daughter, kill a child; the son feels sorry for his sister, he brings pigeon blood to his father; the girl grows up without seeing people; the nurse brings her meat without bones; once there is a bone in it, a girl throws it against the wall, a hole forms, she sees the world; gets out of the room into the garden; the shah sees her, wants to marry; the son says it is his daughter; the shah orders to execute both, but the vizier persuaded them to expel them; at the fork there is a stone, the inscription tells the travelers to disperse, take the leaves of the tree to treat any diseases, the staffs to overcome water obstacles; the sister puts on lamb skin, looks like a lamb; a man takes him away; a lamb helps cure the Shah's daughter; tells the owner to let him go to another city; the Shah's son is missing there; the lamb watches the black maid, who keeps the young man in the crypt, beats; the prince was released, the maid was tied by the braids to the tail of the mule; the lamb wants to go to the bathhouse with the Shah's wife, she hits him on the head with a comb; the girl comes to the bathhouse in her real form; wife The Shah wants her to marry her son; she replies that she lives in the Crest quarter, hitting him on the head; next time the lamb follows the Shah's wife for engagement in a rich house, she stabs him with a pin; the same, the Pin quarter, stabbing her head; before the holiday in another house, the prince spies, sees how the girl takes off her lamb skin, bathes; throws her in clothes ring; requires a tray of food to be placed on the head of a lamb, sent it to his room; everything opens; the girl asks to hang her portrait at the city gate; her brother sees him, cries, he is brought to his sister; he marries the prince's sister, and the prince marries a girl hiding under the skin of a ram]: Rosenfeld 1956:73-83.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [orphan Elenite came to his father's grave; he gave a bundle of fog, a star dress and shoes, a carriage, horses; the next night a moon dress, a carriage, horses, a coachman, and the third night a sunny one dress, etc.; tells you to hide everything in oak, it will open at will; E. hired the king as a pigsty; appeared three times at the royal feast in a starry, moonlit, sunny dress; before that, in the guise of a pigsty gave water, a towel, the Queen threw it out, hit, and whipped for the third time; the coachman replies that the beauty from the Water Estate; Towels; Lashes; when leaving, E. releases the fog, she cannot be found; the queen poured tar, his boot was stuck; came up to E.; the Queen asked for forgiveness, married]: Lebite 1965:159-162; Finns: Cox 1893, No. 109 (Hame) [stepmother hates stepdaughter; when sends cattle to herd, she brings the food back, but she is full; the stepmother sent her own daughter to spy, she fell asleep; went by herself; sees how the cow Kirju pours delicious food from the horn onto a tablecloth spread out; the stepmother and her husband agree to slaughter a cow; she puts her stepdaughter on her back, runs away; at the royal palace, a cow tells her to kill her, wear her skin; if necessary, let asks at the grave; the prince goes to the wedding, asks for a comb; the heroine, who has hired to herd the sheep, gives it to him, he throws it back; when the prince leaves, the heroine asks the cow for a dress and crew; during at the wedding ceremony, she is seated next to the prince as the first beauty; the prince asks where she comes from; "From the land of combs"; next time, soap (the same); the third time, a towel ; this time she is in a hurry, does not hide her dress under a stone, but only covers her skin, loses her shoe; everyone tries it on, it fits only the heroine; she sheds her cow's skin, marries the prince], 197 [ the father wants to marry his daughter; she requires him to get her gold, silver dresses, clothes made of crow's beaks; the mother helps her out of the grave; is hired in the palace as a pigsty; the king's son throws at she has water, a towel, shoes; she comes to church; objects (token objects) are mentioned; runs away three times; the shoe sticks to the resin; everything is ordered to try on; wedding]: 76, 390; Karelians: Concca 1972 []: 43-52; Onegin 2010, No. 32 (Kalevalsky District) [the wife has a blue finger; when she dies, she tells her husband to marry again only the blue-headed; the daughter still has the blue finger; she demands father's star-embroidered outfit (father bought); embroidered for months (the same); suns (the same); daughter takes dresses, a brush, sulfur, goes to the bathhouse; runs away, leaving the spits responsible for herself; discovering the deception, the old man rushes after him; the daughter throws a broom, a mountain covered with birch forest appears, the old man returns for an ax and hoe, cuts through the road, wants to hide the ax and hoe under the birch tree, the tit says what he says, the women will steal; the old man takes them home, runs again; the girl throws the comb (tar mountain; the old man runs again for the ax and hoe; the same); throws a bar (stream of fire; the old man does not go, he threw his balls around his daughter's neck, let them mimic her); the girl was hired as a pigsty to the king; is silent, because the eggs will mimic her; the ball is being prepared, the maids send a dumb one to carry water to the king, who is on her forehead with a bucket; the late mother gives a staff to hit the stone crosswise, a horse will come out; the girl came to the ball in a sunny dress; replies that she came from where the forehead is beaten with a bucket ; the prince followed the girl, threw the pigsty's clothes into the fire; but the girl is afraid to say a word; the prince married her, she gave birth to a son, he was stabbed to death on her lap, her eyes were gouged out and driven away , since she does not want to talk; the pigsty cooks again, the soup is cooked in the pot; the pigsty: delicious soup; eggs: delicious; the pigsty hangs the ladle around the neck below the eggs, invites them to try the soup; eggs flopped into a ladle, she brought them into a boiling pot; the pigsty brought soup to the guests; the new bride: look, the hem is carrying soup; the pigsty: you spoke early, I was silent, even when my baby slaughtered; the new bride was driven away, the pigsty was dressed in a sunny dress]: 300-304; Cox 1893, No. 199 (Varpakylä) [the man wants to marry his daughter; she asks for permission to go to her mother's grave; mother advises to ask to melt the bathhouse to wash before the wedding, and when you go to the bathhouse, run; when you go to church, take dresses, a brush, a comb, a mirror, a sword; the father pursues, the daughter throws the brush (wall; the father runs after the sword, cuts a hole, the bird screams that the daughter will see where the sword is hidden, the father runs home again to carry the sword), the comb (the wall of bones (the same); the mirror (the glass wall; the same); when he reaches royal pigsty, the girl puts on the skin of a pig, hides in the prince's pigsty; in the morning she secretly puts the farm in order; the prince goes to church, asks his sister for soap, it is brought by a pig, a prince throws soap at the pig; in church, the beauty replies that she is from the palace, where they throw soap; next time, a basin of water; a shirt; the first time a girl loses her hat; then the prince orders to smear the door with resin, the second time the glove sticks; the third time, a shoe; the prince tells everyone to try it on, promises to marry; sees a pig in a hat, with a glove and a shoe; on the way to church the heroine takes off her pigskin; wedding]: 392-394; Danes: Cox 1893, No. 59 [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter; she herds cattle; red bull tells them to get food out of her horn; they run away; contrary to the ban, a girl breaks a branch when they jump through a copper forest, a bull fights a copper bull; then with a silver bull in a silver forest; a golden one kills him; the girl saves the bull's right ear, it gives her everything she needs; is hired as a maid in the kitchen; comes to church three times in a different form; names objects (token objects): water, comb, towel; when he runs away for the third time, he loses gold a shoe; wearing a gold dress, sitting in a golden carriage, is behind a shoe; wedding], 67 [in England, a grandmother imprisoned her granddaughter princess in a tower; princes are trying to see her; the Spanish prince made wings, built a tower across the street, flies to the English princess; the grandmother stabbed needles and awls on the windowsill; the prince loses 9 drops of blood, returns to Spain, where he finds himself in a casemate; the heroine runs, comes to the palace in Spain; hearing three animals talking, he learns how to enter the palace, get a magic wand, cure a sick prince; he is hired as a dishwasher, pretends to be weak in mind; adds three drops of blackhead blood to the prince's ear three times; he recovers; the imaginary dishwasher brings the king a mug, towel, and comb (token objects) ; runs away three times, loses her shoe, girls try it on; the heroine wears dress; wedding]: 24-25, 27-28; Holbek 1987 [widowed, the king wants to marry the one who looks the most The deceased wife is a daughter; the mother from the grave advises her daughter to ask her father for a dress like the sun, a dress like the moon, and feathers to fly; he gets everything and while she sleeps, the daughter picks up her dresses and flies away; hires a maid to the castle; her name is Pulleru ("rastrepa"); the prince tells him to bring him shoes, hits her with a shoe; wearing a dress like the moon, she comes to the ball and replies to the prince that she came from a country where The maids are beaten with a shoe; next time: where they are beaten with a towel; the prince gives her his ring; the prince guesses what is going on, falls ill; when the Queen Mother prepares broth for him, P. throws a ring into it; he orders him to come to him, rips off P.'s rags - a gold dress underneath them; wedding]: 562-553; Swedes: Cox 1907:197 [the king promises his dying wife to remarry someone who will look like her; wants to marry her daughter; the old man advises her father to demand from her father 1) a dress with silk roses, 2) with gold flowers, 3) with diamonds, 4) a cape made of all types of fur, a hood, glasses; takes it all and runs away; the old man takes her to the coal burn hut, gives her the key to the boulder; the hostess advises her to hire the queen with a spinner; she opens the boulder, hides her dresses in it; three times in the guise of a mess she encounters a prince who is sick throws a log at her, etc.; appears at church three times in luxurious clothes, replying to the prince that she is from the "Land Where Logs Are Thrown"; for the third time, the prince puts her ring on her in church; she throws it into his food; everything is explained, the prince is marrying her], 197-198 [the king wants to marry his daughter; she asks for a dress like 1) a star, 2) the moon, 3) the sun, 4) a cape of crow beaks and skins; runs; is hired as a maid to another king; cries from hard work; the old woman makes the work done by herself; the prince splashes water on her, she answers that he comes from "A Land Where Water Splashes Out"; etc.; comes to church three times in star dresses and other dresses, then runs with a crow's cape; for the third time he loses his shoe, the prince tells look for an owner; fits only a girl in a crow cape; she throws her off, appears in gold clothes; the prince marries her].