Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

K57B. Sticky shoe. .16.27.28.31.32.

To detain a fleeing beauty, a man in love with her smears the threshold (porch) with resin and glue. The shoe sticks, it is tried on by all the girls and the owner is found.

Germans (Switzerland, Upper Palatinate, Swabia), Croats, Moldovans, Romanians, Luzhitans, Poles, Russians (Terek coast, Ryazan), Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava), Belarusians, Seto, Latvians, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Swedes, Kazan Tatars.

Western Europe. Germans: Sutermeister 1869:110-112 in Cox 1893, No. 254 (Aarau, northern Switzerland) []: 401-402; Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 32 (Baden-Württemberg-Swabia; same text in Meier 1852, No. 4:16-20) [stepmother her two daughters tyrant Cinderella's stepdaughter (Aschengrittel); the father asks the daughters what to bring them; the younger ones ask for jewelry, the eldest for a walnut stick; goes to the well, from there a dwarf comes out, asks she has three evil and three good wishes; she has no evil wishes, she only wants her stepmother and her daughters to treat her well; the dwarf says she is kind, gives a golden stick that makes wishes come true; stepmother with daughters go to the king's bar; Cinderella knocks on the edge of the well with her wand, luxurious clothes appear; the king falls in love with a stranger; so twice; the third time he tells all but one door to be locked grease the threshold with resin; Cinderella's golden shoe sticks; the king tells everyone to try it on; stepmother's daughters cut off their meat from their heels, the king noticed blood in her shoe; Cinderella came up; wedding]: 53-55; Sch önwerth 1981 (Upper Palatinate) [stepmother and her two daughters tyrant Cinderella's stepdaughter (Aschenflügel); go to church, and Z. is told to peel millet mixed with ash; like this every Sunday; one day two doves flew in, pecked millet; Z.: not into your goiter, but into my pot (nicht in euren Kropf, sondern in meinen Topf); when she saw a pot full of grain, Z. promised Z. to take her to church next time; the father went to the fair, asked his daughters what to bring them; Z.: the first thing that would touch his hat was a walnut branch; Z. put it behind her dress and dropped it into the well when she went to fetch water; from there voice: ask the nut for a beautiful outfit; on Sunday, the pigeons peeled the millet, and a luxurious outfit and golden shoes appeared from the well; a young count saw her in church; next time she ran along the trail the dog, brought the servant sent to the well; the third time the count ordered the threshold to be lubricated with resin; the servant brought a sticky shoe; the count ordered everyone to try on the shoe; the stepmother cut off the heel of one of her daughters and the count believed that her shoe; took her to his castle; the dog runs beside her and barks: the owner took his wife without a heel; the count checked and took the girl back; the same with her second daughter (mother cut her off on her leg fingers); father admits that he has another daughter, but she is no good; Z. went out in a luxurious dress, the count took her to his wife, stepmother and daughters hanged themselves]: 24-25; Meier 1852, No. 43 (Swabia) [one The mother loves and cares for the daughter, and tyrannites the other and overloads her with work; she is called Cinderella; one Sunday morning she cries in the garden under a tree; the little man promises that every time when she comes to this place and turns to a tree, a luxurious outfit will appear; but she must be the last to come to church and go first; mother and sister tell her about an unfamiliar beauty; the next once a young wealthy merchant fell in love with her; the sixth time he smeared resin on the threshold of the church; one Cinderella's shoe stuck, she ran away barefoot; the tree refused to accept the outfit because it was incomplete; the shoe of steel wear it home - whoever suits her; one cut off her thumb so that her leg could fit in, but could not step; Cinderella's mother refused to show it for a long time: the second daughter is too ugly; the shoe fit her; they fell in love and got married]: 154-158.

The Balkans. Croats (Dalmatia) [mother and three daughters agree that the one who drops the spindle three times will be eaten by others; the mother drops; the youngest daughter refuses to kill her; while the eldest goes to get the ax, the mother gives the youngest a magic wand, tells her bones to be kept; the youngest collects the bones under the table where the sisters throw them, so she is nicknamed Little Dog; the elders go to the ball, telling the youngest to clean three measures millet; she touches a bag of bones with a stick, says what she needs, the birds peel the grain; then the youngest receives a dress with images of the sun and the crew; when she returns, she touches the stick again the bag, dress and crew disappear; the same the next day (sparrows clean four measures of wheat, a dress with images of the moon); on the third day, the mice clean the wool, the dress with the stars; the queen orders to lubricate resin threshold; hurrying home, the girl loses her shoe stuck to the resin; the Queen tells her to try it on; the older sisters have to admit that they have another sister; she goes out in a star dress and wearing one shoe; the Queen takes her to the palace]: Cox 1893, No. 124:416-418; Moldovans: Botezatu 1981 [the widower took a widower, both with a daughter; the father bought nuts for both, and the woman gave her stepdaughter only alone; the girl planted him, a tree has grown; everyone goes to the festivities, the stepdaughter complains about the nut, he tells him to take beautiful clothes out of his trunk, the stepdaughter herself has also become beautiful, she gave everyone a flower, except stepmother and her daughter; next time the stepmother tells me to separate the poppy from the sand (the pigeons did), the walnut again gives clothes; the third time the stepmother mixed two bags of poppy seeds with two bags of millet (the sparrows separated); the queen took the girl by the hand, the ring remained in his hand; everyone was told to try on; the rooster screams that the girl was hidden in a well of ash; the stepmother and daughter recognized the stepdaughter as the one who came to the festivities beautiful; stepmother dressed in rags, hired a job, pushed the prince's wife into the river, she turned into a fish, then flew out as a bird, sings over a hungry child; the prince asks his imaginary wife why she she fainted; she replies that waiting for him; tells the bird to be shot; but when it sat on a nut, she turned into a woman again; the imaginary wife was tied to the tail of a horse, her mother was expelled]: 284-292; Moldavian tales 1968 [The stepmother brought her own daughter a lot of nuts, and her stepdaughter alone; she planted it, a walnut tree has grown; its branches bend only to her stepdaughter to tear the fruit; when she goes to church, the stepmother tells her separate ash from wheat (two eagles perform; next time millet scattered around the yard is pigeons; poppy seeds are sparrows); the walnut tree opens, clothes and jewelry inside; the third time bachelors smear the threshold of the church with resin; the shoe sticks, the girl throws a ring at her, runs away; the boyar's son finds the owner of the shoe, marries; when she leaves, the stepmother and daughter, disguised as beggars, came, cut stepdaughter to pieces; she laughed - the flowers grew, cried - the diamonds fell down; a passerby saw that the stepdaughter's remains were told to be taken to a nut; the nut revived her, she hired her husband as a worker, herds geese, and her stepmother's own daughter put on her jewelry, pretended to be a wife; the maid bakes bread, leaves the ring, the husband recognizes him, takes two stones of patience, tells them what happened, goes to his wife; the old woman is tied to the horse's tail; where she kicked, ravines appeared, where gullies appeared with her back, red poppies with her head; her own daughter fell into the ground up to the neck]: 204-214; Romanians [Cinderella sits on ash for days, her stepmother tyrants her; while her stepmother is in church, the rooster gives Zoleshka three nuts (walnut, hazel, peanuts; or father brings a nut); in the first a copper dress; the next time, a silver dress; the third time, golden, and the rooster advises you to lose your slipper so that it sticks to the resin in the church; the prince tells you to search, finds the owner, brings his wife to the palace; the stepmother's own daughter comes to the palace and confronts Cinderella into the well and takes its place; a willow grows out of the well; the shepherdess made a pipe, she sings: Play, young man, it's not so loud, or my heart hurts; he brings a pipe, everyone plays; when my stepmother takes it, then her daughter, the pipe sings: play, enemy; she throws a pipe to the ground, Cinderella is reborn, the prince is married to her again, the liar is tied to the stallion's tail]: Bîrlea 1966:414-415.

Central Europe. Luzhitans [my own daughter is ugly, stepdaughter is beautiful; she is not taken to church; she goes out to the meadow: take my old dress, give me a new one; the meadow gives; goes to church; the third time they smear the threshold with resin, her shoe is stuck; the prince promises to marry the owner; all the girls try on the shoe, the stepmother cuts off her daughter's fingers to make the shoe fit; stepdaughter hides her stepdaughter; when false the bride stands in front of the altar, the pigeons say her shoes are full of blood; the stepmother has to show her stepdaughter, the prince marries her]: Schulenburg 1882:39-40; Olyaki: Cox 1893, No. 57 [stepmother tyrannite stepdaughter; she herds cattle; a mistress appears from the spruce tree, gives magic dresses; in them, the heroine comes to church three times, runs three times in a hurry; throws soap and thread behind her, creating fog; the threshold is smeared with resin, the shoe sticks; all girls are told to try it on; the heroine is hidden on the roof of a barn; the rooster screams about it (then the story goes to another story)], 58 [the queen's mirror says that her The stepdaughter is more beautiful; she tells her stepdaughter to pick up the grain (pigeons perform); the girl pulls out magic dresses from under the oak tree; after wearing dresses, comes to church twice after others, runs away in time; stepmother tells her to kill, the servants bring the dog's heart and the dead man's finger with his stepdaughter's ring on it; pigeons give the girl a ball, she follows it to the treasure oak tree; wearing pigskin, hires to herd pigs; comes (in luxurious clothes) to the ball; for the fourth time the threshold is smeared with resin, the shoe sticks; it is tried on by all girls; wedding; the queen dies of envy when the mirror says she is not the most beautiful], 126 [the 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 dropped by the prince, but he does not thank her, but beats her; she pulls out outfits, a wagon, and servants from the oak tree; in the church she tells the prince that she lives in the Pick Up Whip; in next time he gives the dropped ring; "In the Golden Ring"; the third time the prince smeared the threshold with resin, OSH lost her shoe; pigeons to the prince: the shoe belongs to the one who picked up the whip and ring; Osh came to luxurious dress; wedding]: 24, 24, 427; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the old people have two good daughters, a third Bullet Slin, a fur coat (snot, saliva, a fur coat rubbed to the skin; everything was lying on the stove); tsar chooses a bride, the sisters also go; P. then, towards the old man, asks him to wash; the two sisters refused, P. led her to the stream, he let her open the stick in the Latin Stone field, outfits and jewelry inside, she became beautiful; the king tells her to grab her, but she ran away, returned her outfits to L.; the next time the king painted an arc, a ring stuck to it; the third time, the threshold, the shoes stuck; everyone is told to try it on only P. comes up, she runs to L., dresses up; wedding: Balashov 1970, No. 53:183-186 (=1991:134-142)]; Russians (Ryazan, Shatsky District, 1966) [Sokolova 1970:46-47; youngest daughter Dyaryushka is more beautiful the elders Manka and Granka; the mother died, the father remarried; the sisters called D. putty; the sisters went to a party, D. went to their mother's grave; pigeons promised to help; dressed in a gold dress and red shoes ; in the church, D. noticed the prince; the next time the dress was sewn with pearls, the shoes in gold; the prince spilled lacquer on the porch of the church; D. ran away before midnight, the shoe stuck; the prince travels to the villages try on; stepmother put D. in a barrel, and G. cut off her fingers, the shoe fit in; pigeons: Ivan Tsarevich, who you are carrying, were carried away by the brides covered in blood; I. returned G., found D.; wedding]: Kruglov 1988, No. 120:315-317 ; Ukrainians (Poltava, Mirgorod, c. 1878) [From a grandfather and a woman by daughter, a woman asks him to buy a bull, scolds his grandfather's hard-working daughter, loves her lazy, sends his grandfather's daughter to herd a bull and for one hide, wind and weave the towel. The girl cries, the goby tells her to sleep, and when she wakes up, all the work is done, she brings a towel to the woman, who hides it. The woman sends her daughter, who sleeps all day, in the evening says that the sun is hot and she has not completed the task, the woman does not scold her. The woman again sends her grandfather's daughter to herd the bull, demands that she crumple, trample the yarn, whitewash it and bring the canvas, the goby helps the girl again. The woman realizes this, makes her husband slaughter the bull, the girl tells the bull about it, he asks her to find grains in his intestines and plant it, willow will grow in this place, and will fulfill requests. The girl does so, a well with clean water appears next to the willow. A woman and her elegant daughter go to church, the girl stays at home to cook, clean and sew a shirt. She quickly completes tasks, enters the willow "The willow is ardent! hide, open - Hanna-panna go!" , asks to dress her up (silk dress, gold shoes), goes to church. The parishioners admire, the prince falls in love, no one knows who she is or where she comes from. At home, she changes clothes and is told about a beautiful stranger in church. She comes back to church a week later. The prince promises a bag of gold to anyone who finds out who this girl is. His jester suggests that the floor of the church, where the girl usually stands, be smeared with resin so that the shoes stick and find her on them. One slipper stuck. The king sends messengers to the girls to try it on. The ambassadors get tired, stop at the willow and the well, tell the woman why they came, she takes her daughter out and sends her grandfather to the stove. The slipper is not the size, the ambassadors ask to show their second daughter, the fitting is successful, they want to take the girl to the palace, the woman does not let her in. The girl wears a luxurious outfit, marries the prince]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 16:43-48; Ukrainians (Poltava, p. M. Borispol, Pereyaslavsky, c. 1878) [The beauty's daughter is surprisingly similar to her mother, when she dies, the father decides to marry his daughter: he tries on his wife's sash and shoe to women around the world, they fit just her. A girl comes to her mother's grave, cries, and she advises her father to ask her father for a dress like dawn, like a month and like the sun and "lousy" skin (made of lice skins). The mother advises the girl to put it on, make 9 dolls, say hello and say goodbye to them 9 times to get through the ground and get to the next world. In the next world, she falls asleep on the road, a coachman is driven to her and given a job in the house. On Sunday, she is released to church, dresses like dawn, mistaken for a princess. Her owner tells the girl in the casing about the beautiful princess in the church, she asks if it's not her, and she refuses. After a week, everything happens again. On the third week, the monks fill the floor with tin and the girl runs away, leaving her shoes behind. The owner tells the girl about the incident in the church - the king ordered to pour the tin, because she wants to marry, she asks if she was there. The king travels around all the yards with a shoe; no one can fit in the girl's owner's house. The girl is woken up and removed from the stove, the shoe turns out to be just the wedding. A proverb. (I'm bula there.. and damn it)]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 18:73-76; Belarusians [after his wife's death, the husband wants to marry his daughter; she goes to her mother's grave; mother advises asking her father to dress like stars and a month; then the same shoes; horses (the same); fourth time: let her take a widow with three daughters; stepmother tyrannites with work; the cow helps: enter one ear, get out of the other - the canvas is ready; stepmother sends her daughter to spy, her own mother teaches her to put her to sleep by removing lice in her hair; the same with the second; the third eye inserted; sleep the peephole, sleep the other, and the third looks; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered; bones and giblets are buried under the window, an apple tree with golden and silver apples grew; no one can reach them; on a holy day we went to church, and the stepmother poured poppy seeds into the ash and ordered them to be peeled; on the advice of my own mother, the horses did everything; dressed like a month and stars, the stepdaughter went to church; the prince smeared the threshold with resin, one slipper stuck; they began to try on, only the stepdaughter came up; the apple tree leaned towards her; the stepmother comes to visit, turns her stepdaughter into a fox in the bathhouse, replaces her daughter; the midwife carries the baby, calls the fox, she throws off her fox skin, feeds her; the prince spies, burns the skin; stepmother and her daughter were tied to a horse's tail]: Romanov 1887:292-295 (=Potanin 1891:155-157).

Baltoscandia. Setu [the peasant's two daughters are smart, the third is stupid, sitting on ash, called Cinderella (Tuhkapuskja: "throwing ash"); the old king is dead, the young wants to marry; everyone took their daughters to the screenings; Z. went to the lake; an old woman under a birch tree tells her to wash herself in the lake, gives her a golden pipe; she can call a horse, he will come running, bring beautiful clothes; for the first time the horse and clothes are copper, the second time they are silver, the third time is gold; Z. goes to church, the king falls in love with it; a week later, the same; the threshold is smeared with resin, but Z. stepped over; the third time one shoe stuck to the resin, the king tells everyone to try on; A peasant must confess that he also has a third daughter; the king recognizes her, she is wearing a gold dress; wedding]: Sandra 2004:244-251; Latvians [The king wants to marry his daughter (brother on sister). The daughter goes to her mother's grave for advice. She advises her to demand rich outfits from the king, a fur coat (made from the skin of a mouse, dog, wolf, bear), and a self-propelled cart (boat). The daughter puts on her fur coat, puts her outfits in a nutshell and runs away. He is hired as a servant to another king. He appears at the ball three times in luxurious dresses. For the third time, the shoe sticks to the porch step, the king finds a girl and marries her]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 510B: 295; the Finns [older sisters tyrant the youngest; the pig asks to remove the trough from her snouts; a cow, straw on its horns, asks her to milk; the old man asks to look in his head; only the younger sister fulfills requests, receives milk, a magic wand; hires to herd pigs; she is told to sort out the grain (the old man did it); the heroine comes to church three times in magical dresses; runs away early; the third time the shoe sticks to the resin; scattered money to distract her pursuers; girls try on a shoe; older sisters mutilate themselves in vain to make their leg smaller; wedding; antagonists are punished]: Salmelainen 1871, No. 7:73-77 in Cox 1893, No. 97:39; Finns (Sotkamo, Osterbothnia) [two girls washed their hands for three years to hire royal service; refuse to take bread out of the oven, milk a cow, shear a sheep, help the old man; the heroine does it all, the old man gives her the magic wand that opens the door to the rock, followed by treasures; she is hired to the palace as a dishwasher; she is told to separate the grain from the ash (the old man performs); she runs away, the shoe sticks to the resin; all girls try on the shoe; the elders disfigure their legs to make the shoe fit; the heroine is found, the wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 106:43; Veps: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 3 [the girl's mother died, her husband married Baba Yaga's sister, that daughter Varvey; stepmother and V. tyrant stepdaughter; go to a party, stepmother hopes that Ivan Tsarevich will like V.; tells stepdaughter to separate oatmeal from ash; the girl cries on her mother's grave; she tells me to cut off the twig, wave it crosswise, the work will be done; she will also send a horse and outfits; she must return before midnight; entering one ear of the horse and leaving the other, the girl became beautiful; at the festival she was taken to the royal mansions; V. asks I. to let the bone absorb, he threw a bone at her, her leg broke; stepmother: let's make a new one out of the hook; made her a crooked wooden leg; I. smeared the door jamb with tar, the girl left, grabbed the jamb, the ring stuck; next time, separate the millet from the sand; I. threw the bone at V., her finger broke; stepmother: let's attach a die; the girl a slipper stuck to the threshold; the third time, separate the flour from the ground; I. threw the bone, V.'s eye leaked out; stepmother: let's insert sheep; the girl's hat stuck; I. gathers all the girls to try on a ring, a slipper, hat; they came up only to Zamarashka; the wedding is being prepared; the stepmother tells her to go between her legs, sends her horses to herd, dresses her daughter in the girl's clothes; when the bride rides, the girl screams that they are carrying a leg poker, a wooden finger, a sheep's eye; the mother's daughter was stripped, stuffed naked under the bridge, the girl was dressed up; nine months later she gave birth; the stepmother thinks it's her daughter; walks across the bridge, broke the pipe, from there her voice, "Mom, it hurts!" ; the daughter is almost rotten, but the stepmother promises to make her wife I. anyway; tells his wife I. to walk between her legs and fly with geese, and dressed her daughter and brought her to the bedroom; the child cries; the goose asks the shepherdess bring her baby; seeing a flock of geese, the shepherdess asks if they have the mother of the child; they say that in another pack; in the third; the goose came down, shed its wings, began to breastfeed the baby; the same the second day; on the third, the shepherdess talks about everything I.; he came, burned his wings; I. says to his mother-in-law that he wants to slaughter a bull in the room; she hides under the bench; he hits her with an ax, every time he says that the bull kicked; finished off, the body was thrown away; the imaginary wife was cut into small pieces, put in a net, tied to the horse's tail; where the head fell, there was a rock, where the eye was a wormwood, where the nose was a spring, where the leg was there poker, where the ass is the turf (Kuna langtob pä, siga kasvab kallö, kuna silm - siga silmalähte, kuna nena - sige rodnik, kuna käzi - sihe harav, kuna döug - sihe kouk { transfer?} , kuna perze - sihe turbaz)], 10 [Varvey's third sister is dirty, picks mushrooms poorly, lies on the stove; but when she went with her sisters, only she picked up a lamb and an old man out of the mud; the sisters went to church, V. hit the pebble, the old man came out, gave him a horse and gold clothes; driving past the sisters, V. whipped them; next time Ivan Tsarevich hit V. in the forehead with a personalized ring, smeared the floor of the church with resin, V. stuck; only V. galosh came up, the ring mark on his forehead; I. was afraid that it was a mess, but V. appeared in a golden dress; wedding], 49 [parents died, the girl went begging; the cow asks to pull her out out of the mud, the girl pulled her out; the cow washed her from one ear and dressed her from the other; the girl went to church, the lordly son noticed her; on the third day he smeared the stairs with resin, the galoshes stuck; the lordly son became everything try on; Baba Yaga cut her daughter's leg, blood is pouring, but the galoshes still do not fit; they found the beggar Masha, the galoshes came up to her; she dressed again from one cow's ear, washed her face from the other, began beautiful; wedding]: 42-51, 66-68, 172-173; Karelians (northern, Tunguda district) [the wife went to look for a sheep, Syuotar tells me to spit, walk between her legs, the woman herself turned into a sheep, S. took her place; the husband did not notice, the daughter noticed; S. tells the sheep to be slaughtered; she tells her daughter not to eat meat, bury the bones; S. and her husband went to a feast, S. told her stepdaughter to separate the flour from the sand; the mother teaches her to hit with a rod - everything was divided, more - the horse appeared, the daughter washed her face in one ear, dressed in the other; leaving the feast, she lost her ring; the next day, separate the milk from the water; the prince smeared the door with resin, the girl's a kerchief stuck; on the third, to repair the fallen stove, the prince tarnished the threshold, the shoe stuck; he found Cinderella (Tukhkimus) on it, married it]: Stepanova 2000, No. 114:202-205; Karelians (Russian Karelia) [husband and wife went to look for the missing sheep; the witch turned the woman into a black sheep, took her form, the husband did not notice the substitution; the witch wife asks to slaughter the sheep; the daughter knows that it is the mother; the sheep tells She does not eat it, collect her bones and bury it; a birch tree has grown in this place; the witch wife also gave birth to a daughter, began to tyrant her stepdaughter; the king invites everyone to the feast; the stepmother tells her stepdaughter to separate barley from the ash; the mother's voice from under the birch tree tells me to take a birch branch, she does the work; the girl becomes beautiful, she is wearing a luxurious dress, a horse next to her; the queen seated the girl next to him, and the witch's daughter gnawed bones under the table; the queen smeared the door with resin, the girl's ring stuck; at home she leaves her dress and horse by the birch tree; next time the task is to separate the hemp seeds; the same, sticks to the door golden hair hoop for the girl; for the third time, a witch pours milk into the ash; a golden shoe sticks to the door; the queen gathers everyone to try it on; the witch squeezes her finger, head and leg daughters in a ring, hoop and shoe; the queen must marry a freak; he takes both girls from the witch's house; crossing the river, he throws the freak like a bridge, crosses it, marries a beautiful woman, but that's it they think that this is the daughter of a witch; the freak remains on the bridge, she grows into a cicuta; the witch wants to cut her off, hears her daughter's voice, makes her human again; comes to the young queen, turns her into a deer, leaves her daughter in her place; the royal baby cries; a widow teaches the Queen to give her a baby to take her to the forest; the deer queen comes to feed him; says that this will be the case for three days, and then she will go away forever with the deer; for the third time, the widow offers to clean the queen's head; she takes off her deer skin; the hidden king throws her skin into the fire; the queen turns into a spinning wheel, a beater for washing clothes, in a spindle, but the husband destroys these guises, the queen remains a woman; the Queen orders to cook a resin pit, light it, cover it from above, calls the witch and her daughter, they they fail, they burn; the witch has time to stick her finger out, says that (from her) worms will appear in the ground, mosquitoes in the air to cause people to suffer]: Schreck 1887, No. 9:63-74; Swedes [man wants to marry her daughter, she sets conditions: bring a crow a skin with twisted beaks; a pig asks to watch over her pig, brings the skin to the girl's father; the same: a dress like stars; like the sun; how moon; gold stockings and shoes; a flying carriage; a girl picks up her father's gifts, flies away in a carriage, is hired as a maid to the royal castle, wearing her prickly skin; the prince is going to church, asking for a comb , Stoppelpelz brings it, he throws it on the floor - it's better not to comb her hair at all than to take the comb from her hands; in church he sees a beauty in a star dress; the same: a girl brings water; towel; appears in a moonlit, sunny dress; the prince tells me to smear the stone with resin, the gold shoe is stuck, everyone is trying it on; one old woman cut off her daughter's heel and toe to make a shoe I got in, but the bird sings about it; the same with another old woman and her daughter; the prince finds a beautiful woman getting married]: Stier 1971, No. 33:133-138.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [when going to the wedding with the padishah, the stepmother tells her stepdaughter to do many different jobs; the cow shakes her horns - everything is done, expensive outfits have appeared; stepdaughter comes to wedding; the middle son smeared the step with tar, the slipper stuck; found the owner, married her; stepmother calls them to visit, wants to add poison, the old woman warned; after giving birth, the stepmother gave her stepdaughter in the bathhouse, she became a dove and flew away; the old woman tells me to take the baby, turn to the flying wild geese; each joint replies that the boy's mother is next; she went down, fed the child and flew away again; the old woman tells me to pull out the pen next time; the wife stayed with her husband, her father hacked her stepmother]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 23:199-202; Mordovians, Komi: Uther 2004, No. 510A: 293-294.