K60C. She is obstinate with the king, patient with the groom.

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The obstinate wife of a decent person goes on a date with a demon or servant. He hits her, but she patiently endures beating her lover.

Egyptian Arabs, Thousand and One Nights, Iraqi Arabs (Tibetans), Ancient India (Jataki, Shukasaptati), Kashmiris, Punjabis, Avars, Turks, Kurds, Bakhtiyars, Yagnobs, Bartangans, Pashtuns, Paryas, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Oirats (Karashar's merchants), Mongols of Ordos.

North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [through a woman's prayer, God sent her daughter Shams ("the sun"); soon she became an orphan, spinning yarn and selling; one day she mistook the moon for the sun, went to the bazaar, but it was empty; I saw a rooster with three chickens, admired his singing; rooster: come on, you'll hear the singing even more beautiful; he brought S. to the underground palace; she is trying to take food, a cauldron, a jug, etc., they don't tell me - she will come now mistress; King Kamar ("month") and wife, wife come rude and obstinate with her husband; when he fell asleep, went to the slave's garden, he scolded her for being late, eating what he had brought to her, gave the woman a dry cake; Sh. hit a slave with a tree branch, hit the mistress's eye; returning to the palace, she tells her husband that someone beat her; S. returned home; to find out the truth, K. goes to sell women's jewelry for fairy tales; Sh. says he knows one thing; interrupts the story twice, afraid to admit that she knocked out the eye of K.'s wife; after telling everything, advises Kamar to pretend to be sleeping; K. chopped his wife and slave to pieces, married S. let her go to the ground; K. builds her a palace, visits her there; S. cannot get pregnant for a long time, asks God for a daughter at least half a chicken; gave birth to a little girl; she goes with other girls to steal fruit from of the royal garden, every time he tells the watchman to turn over and stay hanging upside down while they are picking the fruit; the king fell in love with her when she bathed {meaning, throwing off her chicken skin, but that's not directly about that it is said}; marries; however, at night the wife is a chicken {apparently half a chicken, but again not directly said}; according to her, pots and jugs go to fetch water by themselves; the jug's nose has broken off, they are talking; groom hears, advises the tsar to address his half-chicken wife with similar magic words; she threw off her chicken feathers and became beautiful]: Lebedev 1990, No. 27:147-155.

Western Asia. One thousand and one nights [half asleep, from a conversation between the maids, the king learns that his wife is cheating on him; he drinks him before going to bed, takes his sword, leaves; the king watches his wife; she goes to a slave sick with leprosy , humiliates himself before him; the king cuts the slave's neck with a sword brought by his wife (thinks that the slave is killed, but he is only wounded); the wife puts on mourning, builds a tomb for the slave; the slave after being wounded is half-alive, the king's wife is each the day visits him; three years later, the king goes after his wife; his wife witchcraft turns the lower half of his body into stone, and the inhabitants of the city into fish in the pond (white fish are Muslims, in red fish are magicians, in yellow fish - magicians, in yellow fish - Jews, Christians in blue); beats the king every day, dresses him in hair clothes; the sultan kills and throws the body of a slave into the well, pretends to be a slave, tells the woman to spell the king and the city, woman water talks, disagrees; the sultan stabbed a woman, cut it in half; the city has come to life; the sultan appoints the king of the enchanted city as heir; marries the fisherman's daughter, passes off the fisherman's second daughter as prince, appoints a fisherman's son as a vizier, makes a fisherman the richest man]: Salye 2010, nights 7-9:58-67; Iraqi Arabs [Hasan is the only son of a wealthy merchant; his father married him to a worthy bride, but in the morning H. disappeared; his daughter-in-law asks her father-in-law to allow her to act as his son; became famous for her hospitality; Sheikh Hatim at-Tai (HT), who is also famous for his hospitality, invited her to marry him married; she agreed to find out what happened to her missing husband; HT went in search; in one city ordered a new saddle to a saddle named Hasan as-Sarraj; HT is happy with the new with a saddle, but the craftsman suddenly cut him to pieces and returned the money; promised to explain his behavior if HT told him the story of the shoemaker Yusuf al-Iskari; HT found him and saw him break away from work every now and then goes up to the minaret and looks around; the shoemaker promised to explain his behavior if HT described to him the story of the blacksmith Yakub al-Haddad; HT saw him; standing by the anvil, he hit him with a hammer not on her, but on his head: first on his forehead, then on his temple, then on the top of his head; he fell and was taken home; HT came and began to ask questions; but the blacksmith demanded that HT first tell him the story himself Dawud as-Sammak, a fisherman who stood by the river and directed the crowd: people threw handfuls of wheat and lentils into the water; the fisherman is ready to explain if HT says what causes wind and rain; HT rode into the desert; two fought, raising clouds of dust; they argue over a flying carpet, let a man judge them; HT threw a stone: who would bring it first; HT got on the flying carpet and he brought it to a marble palace; there is an old man and a dog tied so that he cannot escape into the shade of the scorching sun; the old man reluctantly agreed to tell about himself; he is a genie in Suleiman's service; he gave him two mares; if ride one, it will rain, the wind will rise on the other; gave the magic wand to turn people into animals; a dog is the wife and daughter of an uncle whom the narrator raised and married; once woke up, but his wife was gone, like the rain mare; in the evening he cut his hand to stay awake and secretly followed his wife in the wind mare; saw a terrible efreet ask at the cave what had detained the woman: her children cry and want to eat; when the wife flew back, the narrator cut off the head of efrita, put it in a bag and flew home, having time to go to bed before his wife returned; in the morning asked his wife for fruit; wife: now out of season; husband: look what's in the bag; the wife begged for forgiveness, but he turned her into a dog, keeps her on water and bread and whips her; the dog wept; the narrator is going to kill HT once he found out about him shame, but HT asked permission to go to the roof for his last prayer; flew away on a flying carpet; returned it to the genies, told the fisherman about the rain and wind, he spoke about himself; one day he pulled out a huge fish; she regurgitated the diamond and jumped back into the water; the fisherman sold the diamond for a thousand gold dinars, but wasted it all to find that fish again; so he hits himself with a hammer - let HT inflict it on him fatal blow; HT: God punished you for refusing to spend money usefully, I'm not your judge; HT told the fisherman's story to a blacksmith; he began the story by asking HT to hack him later; he was a wealthy merchant went with a caravan, leaving his pregnant wife in the care of his mother; having multiplied his fortune, returned many years later, looked into the house: his wife and boy were there; he killed his mother, wife and alleged lover; in the morning he found out that it was his son; gradually he went broke and became a blacksmith; strikes himself three times when his mother, wife, son stand in front of him and ask what they did wrong; HT: May God will increase your suffering, you brought it on yourself; when you hear the story of a blacksmith, the shoemaker also asks you to kill him when he finishes his story; one day a huge bird sat on the minaret; the shoemaker got up and grabbed her leg, but she soared into the air, carrying him; flew into the garden, everything was there for a feast, the man tasted 39 dishes, but could not; 40 colorful birds flew in; everyone who tasted mine plates, will become my husband; the fortieth bitterly: my brother; these are 40 enchanted daughters of a genie; in a year the man has 39 sons and 39 wives; and then he encroached on the 40th; she flapped his wings and he I found myself where it is now; HT: God gives chestnuts to the toothless; I will not coat the sword with the blood of someone who rejected God's blessing; HT gave this story to the saddler and he also asked him to take his life when he will finish his own; he was married to the most beautiful girl, but in the morning she disappeared; in every saddle he makes, he paints a portrait of her, and then cannot part with it and destroys the saddle so that the customer does not took it away; HT realized that Hassan was in front of him and returned him to his wife; everyone was happy, and HT was still famous for his generosity]: Bushnaq 1987:94-104.

(Wed. Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [translated from Indian sources]: Yeongdong 1989:52).

South Asia. Ancient India: Jataki No. 384, 536; Shukasaptati, 9 [when brahman Naya laughed, pearls fell from his mouth; when N. returned home, he finds his wife and slave; the king calls him to him, but N. does not laughs; spends the night with the royal shepherd, sees the queen come to him, the shepherd hit her with a club for being late; later the king accidentally poked her with a ring, the queen burst into tears; N. laughs, tells everything; After renouncing the world, the king and brahmana become hermits]: Yongdong 1989:52 (cf. AT 1426); Kashmiris [the king learns that the merchant has returned, secretly comes to his house at night; sees the merchant's wife go out with a dish of rice, comes to the fakir, who beats her for being late, telling her to bring it her husband's head; she comes back and brings it; he hits her again: if she kills her husband, she will not be loyal to the fakir; in the morning the woman says that her husband was killed by robbers; commits self-immolation; before that, when asked by the king "If so, why this way, and if so, why is it so?" tells you to go to the woman at the spring; she tells him to go down to the spring and behead the goat; the king finds himself in the Garden of Eden; the peri give him the key to the room, the horse in it, the king sits on the horse, sees everything created by God; then Satan puts him on a donkey, he finds himself in his palace again; comes to that woman with her son, ready to kill him just to see paradise again; answer: the merchant's wife was just as eager fakir as king of the Garden of Eden]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 3:13-17; Punjabi [Mahmoud Ghaznevi returns to follow his wife; jumps after her; sees a minister in the temple beat her, smashing her bracelet (she lingers), then teaches witchcraft; when MG later asks his wife why she has a new bracelet, she turns it into a dog, tells everyone to chase her; the dog comes to live with the butcher; the daughter of that also learns witchcraft, restores the Sultan's human appearance for promising to marry her; MG marries, turns his ex-wife into a mule, tells him to carry weights, the mule dies soon]: King 1921, No. 1:211 -213 (same or similar text in Sheikh-Dilthey 1976, No. 9:45-47).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingush (Chechens? the author does not share them) [the king keeps his daughter in a locked room where only a slave goes; once she brought meat and bone and bread with a crust; the princess made a hole in the wall with bone and saw the world; heard a conversation between two young men; is there anything whiter than snow? - This is Lal-Sulta; the princess swore to marry the drug; having learned of her daughter's intention, the king ordered her to be put in a barrel and lowered into the river; a miller found her; the next day, the PM came to him; answered the miller's wife, that he will never marry, he has reasons; the miller's wife said that then she ends the relationship with him; when he meets a Nogai prince, LS explains why he hates women; he lived with his wife for two years; his horse was losing weight; he followed her; his wife rode somewhere at night, PM after her; there was a bush in front; his wife hit with a shovel: at the will of the forest husband and his wife, let there be a road; then the crystal mountains are But; there was a man in the cave; he whipped the woman because she was late; and the wife smiled: she loved him, and her husband was to blame for being late; lovers began to eat dinner, and the husband stole the spoon; when the wife was gone, the husband cut off his lover's head and hid it in a bag; managed to go home before his wife; showed a spoon and head; tore his wife with two horses; the Nogai says in response; there were 6 brothers; towards a giant shepherd with a dog -giant; they hid in a human skull; the dog picked it up, brought it to the shepherd; had to go out; the shepherd invited him to his place; ate 60 rams for dinner; then the brothers' horses; strung it on a spit, fried brothers; he ate five at once, and left the narrator for breakfast; he crawled to the ravine, picked him up and cured; he went, met a man, who led him to the tower, told him not to enter; when the narrator got up, it turned out that a man avenging his brother had stabbed 40 Aarhustoyans there; he brought the narrator to his place; when the narrator came in, there was an old corpse and a stabbed companion; he turned out to be a woman who took revenge on her brother to Aarkhus; women are different; after that, the drug agreed to marry]: Akhriev 1870:8-15; Avars [the royal daughter wins the struggle of the grooms, showing them her breasts; the eldest, The middle brother is beheaded; the younger one listens to the old man, looks at the ground, gets a wife; she tells him to find a pair for a golden shoe; in the castle he pretends to be a young man, fights again, is defeated; tells him to know that happened between Balay and his wife Boti; a three-headed serpent crawls to the nest of a huge eagle; a young man kills a snake, an eagle brings him to Balay; Balay gives the leftovers left after the dog half petrified woman; makes her eat with a whip; this is Bati; Balai's story: when Bati lay down with him, she was icy; Balay watches her; at night she leaves in the wind horse, he chases on a horse cloud; with her Seven sledge giants play; Balay kills six, cuts off the seventh's leg; Bati returns first, turns Balai into a female for seven years; then into a horse; then into a hawk; a hawk throws on the whip, restores human form; turns Bati into a female; from a horse; into a semi-petrified woman; the boy's bride is Bati's sister; the eagle carries the young man away from Balai's arrow; the king kills his daughter, a young man kills a lame sledge in the dungeon and his son, born of a sledge by a royal daughter]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:269-280; the Turks [when dying, the padishah asks three sons to guard his grave; usually the devas ate the liver of the dead; the older brothers are afraid, the younger agrees to show the devas the daughter of the padishah, cuts off everyone's heads when they lean over the wall; the padishah gives three daughters for him and his brothers; along the way Home Grandfather Gardener takes the hero's wife; the eagle brings shahzade to him, he takes his wife, rides with her, Grandfather Gardener again easily catches up on his winged horse and takes the woman away; shahzade is hired by a groom to the king, chooses an oath, this is the mother of Grandfather the Gardener's horse, shahzade leaves the chase on her, the mare tells her son to throw off the Grandfather Gardener, he dies; a huge snake wraps around the place to sleep; promises to cry wife, while Shahzadeh goes to learn the story of Gul-Sinan; she knows the padishah who kills listeners; story: the padishah's son withers; the father goes to his bed; his wife wakes him up (thinking he is a son), he walks she is on horseback, in a cave she meets an arap, who has one lip on the ground and the other in the sky; at home, his wife and mother-in-law recognize the Shah on the trail of the scourge, turn him into a dog; the servant recognizes him, turns him back into a man; the padishah turns his wife and mother-in-law into a raven, the arapa into a gun; the padishah is going to kill the young man, he summons the horse, disappears; the snake is the brother of that padishah's wife; he has now learned the secret]: Stebleva 1986, No. 26:97-105; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 28 [a mule rider caught up with a rider on horseback, drove together; saw a whip on the road; whoever has suffered more hardships in life will receive it; equestrian's story; he went to work as an employee; the old man invites him to marry his daughter; at night he leads his son-in-law to the well, asks him to go down and get gems; threw the rope and left; around the bones of the dead; the young man dug a way out; he came to that old man unrecognized, who gave his daughter again; the son-in-law pretends to be afraid to go down into the well; the old man went down himself, the young man threw the rope; the old man's daughter and daughter-in-law, whose husband died, agreed to become his wives; the story of the mule owner; the rich emir does not understand why his horses are dying; the groom tells him to pretend to be asleep and secretly follow his wife; the emir rides after her unnoticed; sees how she hugs an ugly arap in the desert; cuts off his head, ready to forgive his wife; she hit him with a wand, turned him into a dog; comes to live with good masters; they guessed who he is; gave a heart and cow's liver, this restored his human appearance; the hostess tells him to come to his wife incognito under the guise of a merchant, quietly pick up the magic wand; with her, the emir turned his wife into a mule; this is his mule; equestrian gave him a whip]: 272-278; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [the dying father tells his sons Suleiman, Osman, Ismail to be on duty at his grave; younger I. injures a diva who came to dig up the grave; the brothers are leaving looking for a diva, the mother follows, drinks from a donkey's hoof, gives birth to Long-Eared Harzam; he finds brothers, they are afraid to go down into a hot failure, H. goes down; the youngest of the three daughters, the diva shows her sword Golperi, H. cuts off the diva's head; G. predicts that the brothers will cut the rope, tells them to jump on the white ram; after picking up the girls, S. and O. cut off the rope; H. jumps on the black ram, falls through through seven worlds; instead of water, an old woman brings him urine, water is given by a dragon in exchange for girls; H. kills a dragon, saves the padishah's daughter; he says that the dragon has been eating Simur's chicks for many years; H. kills the dragon, the chicks explain everything to their mothers, Simur brings X. to the ground; in flight he feeds and wateres the bird, cuts off the last piece from the leg, it regurgitates, puts it back, gives a pen; H. finds G. and I. A dragon wrapped around their tent, telling them to learn the story of Gule and Sinam; Sinam Padishah tells how he changed clothes with a groom, accompanies his wife unrecognized at night to the robbers cave; turns a traitor into a crow, a chieftain on a horse, then hangs an incense with her lover's ashes around the crow's neck; wants to kill H., he pulls out Simur's feather, she takes him to the dragon; when she hears the story, the dragon turns into a girl she makes H.'s ears normal; H. marries her, reigns, forgives her brothers]: 60-72.

Iran - Central Asia. Bakhtiyary [the only son of a rich man saw the merchant's daughter's face and fell in love; her father will give her away on condition that the groom finds out why a merchant keeps his wife on a chain and feeds her like a dog; young man went in search, fell asleep in the forest; heard chicks squeaking; killed a dragon when hit in his head with a stone; every year he ate the offspring of the Simurg bird; Simurg sees a sleeping man under a tree, thinks it's him killed chicks, grabs a stone to throw at a person, the chicks stop it; Simurg promises to help the young man; says that the merchant beheads everyone who tells his story; teaches how to avoid death, gives his feathers to summon her; before the merchant is going to kill him, ask permission to go to the roof to pray and burn the pen; she will fly and carry him away; takes the young man to the castle a merchant; he treats a dog like a wife and a woman like a dog; warns that he will kill a young man if he hears his story, unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him; once he let fish into the pool, became to swim; the wife was shy: there are males among the fish; the husband poisoned the fish; noticed that his two horses Wind and Cloud are losing weight; groom: you order to ride one or the other every night; when your wife , as always, offered him wine and sleeping pills in the evening, the merchant quietly poured it out, pretended to be sleeping; his wife pulled out his seal from his pocket, ordered a horse to ride in his name, and the diva galloped to the cave ; began to caress him; the husband rushed at the diva; the wife ordered the diva to kill him; because the merchant's dog bit the diva, the merchant managed to cut off his head; at home he chained his wife, and benefited the dog; the young man went up to the roof, burned the pen, Simurg took it away, the young man got a wife]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 36:236-243; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 6 [Tsar tells Hasana Gulriz ("sprinkling flowers") to come to his wedding; he does not go for a long time, says that the king's wife is unfaithful; finally he goes, meets the plowman, finds out that it is his wife's lover, drives his wife away; the king locks him in the stable; at night he sees how the king's wife went to the grooms, who beat her for not going out for a long time; HG laughs, by morning all the manure is covered with flowers; when he finds out what is going on, the king drives his wife away, and goes to wander with HG], 26 [as in (6); HG and the king meet a man who is looking for a doctor for a supposedly sick wife; show him that his wife is with her lover; he drives his wife away, the three of them live in a hut]: 61-63, 125-126; Bartangans [the king has three sons, nothing to eat, the eldest went hunting; the goat is chasing, the owner comes out; the prince: I did not know it was yours; the owner indicates where there are many goats; the prince is coming, there is a beautiful house, there is a girl in it; she will marry someone who says what Gul did to Sinavbar and what S. did to G.; the one who did not find an answer will be executed; in three years, the elder prince did not find an answer; the girl cut off his head And she threw the body into the well; the same with the middle prince; the youngest came to the tree by the pond; there was a three-headed dragon in the pond, the Simurg bird's nest on the tree; the dragon eats a cub every year, the last one left; The prince cut off the dragon's head; Simurg tells us to prepare food: she will take the prince to Mount Kof, where you can find the answer; there was not enough food, they returned; next time they almost flew, the prince cut off the meat from her hand; when they arrived, Simurg regurgitated him and grafted him back; let a hair call her; the prince met the old woman, asked a question; the old woman: S. is the king, G. is his wife; the prince came in to them; S. sits on ottoman, his wife is in a cage; S. feeds the dog and throws the leftovers to his wife; S. agrees to tell his story, but after telling it, he will kill the listener; G. goes to 41 divas every night; S. with the dog quietly follows spies on her; every diva slapped G. in the face, and she laughs; asks her to go tie up her horse so as not to be free; S. kills 40 divas one at a time; in combat with the main one, he prevails, but G. sprinkles sand under the diva's feet; after that, the diva knocked down S., but the dog saved him by squeezing the diva's throat; S. tells the torturers to execute the prince, but he lit Simurg's hair, she took it away; brought it to that girl; the girl - sister G.; Tsarevich orders to revive the brothers, otherwise she will tell everyone about G.; the girl pulled them out of the well and revived them No. Tsarevich returned home with her and her brothers]: Sokolova 1960, No. 9:47-55; Pashtuns [ The vizier tells the padishah how the fakir pushed him into a well with snakes and scorpions, he clung to the board, the caravans pulled him out; the fakir meets the rescued man, cries that he did not feel sorry for his children, left hungry; the man himself invited the fakir to bend over the well, pushed him there, he was eaten by reptiles; in response, the padishah says how he noticed that his horses were driven; watching his wife, she goes to the cave to a black man, a black man beats her because she is late; his wife promises to get him the head of a padishah; the padishah cut off the head of a sleeping black man, showed his wife at home, offering to take a watermelon; his wife turned him into dog; he came to the witch, who disgraced him, gave him a handful of land to throw him into his wife; he turned his wife into a mule, gave him to work]: Lebedev 1972, No. 4:19-21; Pashtuns [the vizier tells the padishah how the fakir pushed him into a well with snakes and scorpions, he clung to the board, the caravans pulled him out; the fakir meets the rescued man, cries that he did not feel sorry for his children, left him hungry; the man himself asked the fakir to bend over the well, pushed him there, he was eaten by reptiles; in response, the padishah says how he noticed that his horses were driven; watching his wife, she goes to the cave to see a black man, the black man beats her for hitting her she was late; his wife promises to get him the head of a padishah; the padishah cut off the head of a sleeping black man, showed his wife at home, offering him to take a watermelon; his wife turned him into a dog; he came to the witch, she disgraced him, gave him a handful of land to throw him into his wife; he turned his wife into a mule, put him to work]: Lebedev 1972, No. 4:19-21; parya [the maid tells the padishah that his wife rode away; he saddles another the horse, secretly follows her; sees habash (black) hitting her, she does not complain (the padishahu complained of lower back pain, for this purpose she tied dry cakes to her lower back - as if the bones were creaking); padishah fights habash, the dog helps kill him; the wife returns before the padishah; he asks: do you choose a horse or a kamcha? she chose stallions; the padishah tells her to be tied to the tails of two stallions]: Orange 1977, No. 3:157-158; (cf. Turkmens [Mirali and Sultan-Soyun are arguing who suffered more (he will receive the gold bar they found); M. tells what the employee did to the bay; he fed him five days, then sewed him up at the cliff in bull's clothing, the eagles lifted him to the rock, buy ordered him to drop the gems from above, left; M. grabbed the eagle, he lowered it down; M. told Bayu that he had found the descent; buy wanted Go up the rock himself, where he died; the SS rides his wife at night to a diva who teaches her witchcraft; the diva turns him into a black dog; after many trials, the mullahs return the SS to his appearance; he turns wife in a donkey]: Sokali et al. 1955:188-194).

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [before marriage, the mother advises her son to ask the khan to talk about Gulbar; the khan tells how he loved his wife G. when he was young; in the morning he found the horse in soap; the groom says that G. leaves at night; Khan follows G. to the house of an ugly sorcerer in the forest; he beats G., Khan kills him, G. swears, runs away; at home G. looked at Khan, turning him into a dog; orders to exterminate all dogs in in the city; the khan dog runs away; in the forest house, Sabir (the hunter's wife and sister G.) realizes that the dog is an enchanted khan, splinters him; teaches Khan witchcraft, who turns G. into a bird; now she is Khan's cage; mother reproaches her son for marrying, but he replies that he married daughter S.]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963:108-111 (=Muchnik 1944:13-15); Uighurs (Guma) [the king's son sees his father jokingly hit his wife on the cheek with a rose, who was in bed for two days; at night she sees the groom in the stable beating his mother for being late for a date; the queen makes excuses: the king did not fall asleep; they met nursery; after that, the prince did not look at her mother or talk to her; refuses to marry; at the father's insistence, agrees that the bride will be a girl brought up from an early age in isolation in castle on the island; realizing from his son's hints that his wife had done something inappropriate, the king divorced her and handed over the throne to his son; the son suggested that the king live on the island in the same castle as the bride; one day I saw a beggar from there, who took his wife out of the bundle, got together with her, went to bed; the wife took the man out of the box, got together with him, hid him back; the young king brought the beggar to the castle, told me what he saw; the beggar said he had raised his wife since he was two years old without showing anyone; the young king gave the beggar a sword to hack that man; returned the kingdom to his father, refused to marry, left with the poor]: Jarring 1951, No. 8:65-75.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Oirats (Karashar's merchants) [loving but jealous Irembyl-tushmyl keeps his wife locked up; she dug an underground passage, began to meet a young man; he, not knowing who is in front of him, talks about a beautiful woman her husband; I. goes to Khan to punish his wife; accidentally sees khansha go on a date with an ugly old shepherd; he whips her, but she does not complain; then sees Khan accidentally touched his wife with his sleeve, she burst into tears; I. laughed and told Khan everything; he replied that it was impossible to keep track of his wives' loyalty and it was better not to interfere; I. lived happily with his wife]: Benningsen 1912:23-26; The Mongols of Ordos (Indian translation: Yongdong 1989:52) [when the Pearl Brahmana laughed, pearls fell from his mouth; he left his slutty wife; the prince tries in vain to make him laugh; one day, a brahmana saw the prince's wife enter the sheep's pen and the old shepherd beat her with a stick for staying; but the woman was not offended; another time the prince threw a dear one on his wife's cheek ring, the woman burst into tears once; the brahmana finally laughed and pearls fell from his lips]: Mostaert 1937, No. 31 in Solovyov 2014.