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K66. Heroes with different abilities, ATU 513, 653, F601. .11.-.17.20.-.38. (.39.43.) .46.48.60.

Each of several companions or brothers is somewhat superior to other people (he sees, hears, runs best of all, etc.); the hero consistently meets men, each of whom does some special and unusual thing, takes them as companions.

Lunda (or mbundu), mindumu, ziba, (lamba), shona (hungwe), Tonga, Cameroon, mosi, senufo, liela (probably), ashanti, baule, hausa, grusi, songhai, Cape Verde, Namibia, lango, Zaghawa, Nubians, Sudanese Arabs, Amhara, Tanzania, Malgashi, Tunisia, Algeria, Kabila, Morocco, Egypt, Italians (Ticino, Lombardy, Liguria, Campania, Calabria), Sicilians, Sardinians, Maltese, Spanish, Aragon , Catalans, Portuguese, Corsicans, Basques, Ladins, French (Upper Brittany, Dauphine), Walloons, Bretons, Germans (Lower Saxony, Hessen, Grimms, Swabia, Austria), Frisians, Dutch, Flemish, Irish, British, Scots, Arabs of Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Oman (Muscat), Yemen, Tonga, Rarotonga, Tibetans, Bhutan, Koireng, Viets, Tyams, Karen, Pao, Thais, Northern India (Hindi?) , Kumaoni, Nepali, Santals, Baiga, Oriya, Sinhalese, East Timor, Tingyan, Chinese (no place of recording), Chinese (Guangdong), Chuan Miao, Meo Vietnam, Yi, Lee, Koreans, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Croats, Slovenes, Serbs, Bosnians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Novgorod, Pskov, Moscow, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Kashubians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Stavropol Turkmens, Abazins, Abkhazians, Adygs, Kabardian, Karachays and Balkarians, Ingush, Chechens, Nogais, Kumyks, Avars, Dargins, Lucks, Rutulans, Lezgins, Kurins, Udis, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Bakhtiyars, Baluchis, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks (Darvaz), Yagnobs, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Vakhans, Ishkashim, Shugnans, Yazgulyam, Sarykol, Turkmens, Pashais, Latvians, Lithuanians, Lutsies, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Western Sami, Norwegians, Faroese, Danes, Swedes, Kazan Tatars, Mordovians, Mari, Udmurts, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Siberian Tatars, Chulym Turks, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Shors, Altaians, Buryats, Darkhats, Mongols (Khalkha, Ordos), Oirats (Khukhunor Olets), Dagurs, Nenets, Northern Selkups, Nganasans, Baunt Evenks, Aldan Evenks, Amur Evenks, Central (?) and northeastern Yakuts, Nanais, Japanese, (coastal Koryaks), kutene? , teton, mandan, kiowa, wichita, chumash, navajo.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Lund {referred to as the Mbundu text, but Olderogge's text is the Lund text; the same attribution with reference to Olderogge in Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976} [Nzua marries, but his father immediately tells him to go on business in city; upon return, he learns from his wife that the ma-kishi robbed and killed everyone; the twins Sudika-Mbambi and Kabundu Ngulu speak from their mother's belly; when born, they build a house for their parents, materials themselves they lay down; S. goes to take revenge on the ma-kishi, tells K. to watch the planted tree (if it wilts, he is killed); on the way he meets and companions people, the first part of the name of each of whom is "Kipaland", and the second different; 1) Building a house on a rock (synonym for "doing the impossible"), 2) Carving eight clubs in a day, 3) Harvesting in Kalunga (underworld), 4) Bowing his beard towards Kalunga; the last Kiyandala-midi, who eats a thousand, rinses his mouth by a hundred; when he hears the name S., who "puts a stick on the ground, raises an antelope to the sky", runs away in fear; while the others are fighting the ma-kishi, each four K. stays at home in turn; an old woman comes, promises her granddaughter, if K. defeats her, defeats everyone; S. remains the last, kills the old woman, frees her granddaughter from the stone house; K. is jealous they dig a hole, S. falls, they bury it; at home, the brother sees that the tree withers, waters it, it comes to life; S. finds a way in the hole, comes to an old woman, whose bottom of her body is resting, and the top is digging up the ground; S. helps her dig; she tells her to walk along a narrow road, gives her a jug of red pepper and a jug of wisdom; S. gets her daughter Kalunga-Ngombe for them, but she must be taken away from the kidnapper snake; S. cuts off 5 (or more?) the snake's heads, brings the girl; the father-in-law demands the return of the goats and pigs stolen by the crocodile, the crocodile swallows S.; the brother again sees the dried tree, finds Kalunga-Ngombe, kills the crocodile, revives S. from bones; brothers drive four Kipaland away, quarrel over women (Kabundu Ngulu wants one of S.'s two wives), separate; older brother thunder in the east, younger brother in the west]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975: 169-177 (=Olderogge 1959:61-70; Quail in Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 113:261-269; = Knappert 1977, No. 2:163-169); Mindum [four brothers named Wind, Blacksmith, Clairvoyant, Hunter, do not command sister to go to the forest; the child refused to go for water, she went by herself, she was carried away by the Eagle; the clairvoyant found out where her sister was, the Blacksmith cast bullets, the Wind brought his sister, put her in a boat, the Hunter killed the Eagle; everyone speaks that it was he who saved his sister, so he must eat bananas; their father ate bananas]: Raponda-Walker 1967:308-311; ziba [one brother is a shooter, the second sees far, the third listens, the fourth dives; theirs father's legs hurt, we need to get a medicine - millet; they got it, lost it on the way; one realizes that millet is lost in the Buroi bush, the other sees that this bush is in the sky, the other knocks him down to the ground, he falls into the water, the third one dives and pulls out; the father is healed]: Klipple 1992:221-222; (cf. lamp [a person takes the Aardvark, the Rat, the Spider as his companions; the aardvark drills a passage in the termite, the Rat gnaws through the reeds, the Spider makes a web bridge across the river; the leader is surprised how the man overcame obstacles on the way to him, he explains]: Doke 1927, No. 77:151); Shona (hungwe) [Khamba goes with his wife; throws an elephant into the sky who tried to take her away; meets Strelka, the Strongman, The Lion Tamer; everyone says that they are afraid only of K.; joins him; everyone takes turns coming to the old woman in search of fire, she connects those who have come; when K. enters, the elephant he threw into the sky is just right falls, presses the old woman; K. frees his companions, they cook dinner]: Frobenius in Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 118:285-287; Tonga [Makoma was born from his mother's knee; leaves, meeting, making his staff tiny, putting in your pocket and taking with them the Tree Eater (PD), the Grass Eater (PT), the Water Drinker (PV); PD, PT are paving the way to the land of Rain Lord Nyandebwu ("a beard made of hair as thick as elephant tail"); satellites are building a house by the lake; while M. is hunting, N. comes three times, his companions are unable to let him eat all the meat; PV drinks the lake, M. fights N., both sink to the bottom of the lake]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 119:288-290.

West Africa. Mosi [only one of nine wives gave birth; the boy said his name was the Son of Nine Mothers; went on a journey, met and accompanied 1) Pulling trees to pick his ear, 2) Bearded sky, 3) Speedboat (step - he's 180 km to Mankarraga); satellites take turns guarding prey (elephant, buffalo, antelope); each time a huge hawk carries it away; Son of Nine Mothers knocks him off with a bow, finishes him off with a stick, a dagger]: Frobenius 1986:80-82; senufo [one of three friends says he cannot get enough of women, the other with food, and the third with clothes; the king tests them; the first met with all the women and they immediately gave birth; all the women brought food and the second ate it immediately; everyone brought clothes, the third's body became large, there were not enough clothes; and now some people were not enough and four wives, others are gluttons, and others need a lot of clothes]: Diep, Bamba 2007, No. 40:132-134; lyela (Grumshi; probably Gurunsi, i.e. lyela) [the chief's daughter rejects suitors; the snake has taken the form of a handsome man, the girl leaves with him, at night he swallowed it, becoming a snake again; one person smelled the snake's trail to the water, the other drank the lake, the third removed all the silt, exposing the hole, the fourth reached out and pulled out the snake , the fifth revived the girl found in the snake's stomach; who made them bigger?] : Abrahams 1983, No. 30:130-131; Ashanti [spider Anansi has sons Able to Predict Trouble, Road Builder Draining Rivers, Stone Thrower, Lying on the ground like a pillow; A. is gone; the first son found out that he fell into the river, the second paved the way through the forest, the third drained the river, the fourth cut the fish that had swallowed A., freed his father; the hawk took A., the stone thrower hit him, the last son lay down with a pillow so that his father would not crash; A. found the moon in the forest, asked the god of heaven Nyama to give it to one of his sons, who distinguished himself the most in saving him from the river; as a result, the brothers quarreled, and N. took the moon to heaven]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 55:131-132; baule [a lion lifted up a man and drowned himself in the swamp; seven orphans are raised by a grandfather; other boys say they call their grandfather's father; grandfather talks about what happened; the elder says that his name is now Seven Years Ago Seeker of the Lost Father, finds a swamp; the rest are Water Absorber, Bone Seeker, Healing Root Seeker, Gluer Kostya; the younger two are silent, they are too young; the father has come to life; since then, it has not been hidden from the children if they lost their father]: Himmelheber 1951b: 105-107 (translated in Himmelheber 1960:144-146); hausa [ six friends went to travel; Sensitive noticed that at the crossing one grain fell into the water; The savvy counted the sherna in the bag and was convinced that one was missing; Zorky saw him in the river; The diver took it out; then Sensitive heard a noise, Zorky saw that someone in the sky was milking a cow, the Thrower hit him with a stone, Clever caught someone who fell with a cow on the fly]: Laptukhin 1964:95-96; pears [the girl rejects the grooms; the boa constrictor took the form of a handsome man, she fell in love with him; at night the groom became a boa constrictor again, swallowed the bride and returned to the lake; one person sniffed out the trail, the other drank the lake, and the third removed all the mud, the fourth with a long arm took the boa constrictor out of the hole, the fifth revived the swallowed one; which of the five is the best?] : Campbell 1931:203-204; songhai [after the death of a hunter, his pregnant wife hears her son saying from the womb he wants to go out; born prematurely; when the mother goes to get water, gets up, gets dressed, cuts herself with a razor, the mother finds the baby covered in blood; the neighbor spies, says to the mother; she asks her son, his name is Izé-gani, to leave; he tells the blacksmiths to make him a heavy iron club; I. easily defeated 1) two Bellas who attacked him; 2) a giant pulling baobabs; 3) collecting sand dunes; 4) draining water bodies with his beard; a giant eagle attacked the spiders, I. defeated him; ordered her companions return to where everyone came from; giantess Fatuma came to the land, she has 13 daughters; she put him next to her baby; that night he pee-pee, the stream washed away I., took him there from where he didn't come back; there's always a stronger one in this world]: Hama 1967:251-254.

Sudan-East Africa. Zaghawa [Tirène's seven-headed snake swallowed the villagers; a woman lived nearby, with seven sons and a daughter; she quarreled with an old woman, and the old woman advised that the girl should, out of revenge, sent her brothers to get a bell from T.'s neck; each of the brothers cut off one of the heads, was swallowed by the other; the youngest remained, cut off the last head, released the brothers from T.'s womb, all swallowed animals and people; he was allowed to marry the most beautiful girl; he chose a swallowed slave; the brothers brought his sister a bell; the youngest's wife has 6 brothers; 1) catching everything that falls from the sky; 2) discovering the ground; 3) throwing a spear to the center of the earth; seeing what is in the sky; 5) running like the wind; 6) cultivating the field; the husband beat their sister; the old woman advised me to tell him that her brothers are stronger than him ; she led her husband to them; said that the river was her mother's urine, if he set foot, he would die; he stepped, lost consciousness, she pulled him out; the same happened to the second river (her mother's excrement); his wife's parents were giants; The servant mistook him for a stick, threw him at the bulls, he flew into his mother-in-law's eye; a week later she said that something had caught her eye, his wife pulled him out; he fell into the well, his servants pulled him out; one cow was missing; six brothers, using each of their abilities, began to look for her; she was tied in heaven, they knocked her down, caught her; her husband recognized the power of his wife's brothers, did not beat her again]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (1), No. 16:92-100; lango [The hare goes to marry, takes Fat Dog, Long-Handed, and One-Eyed as companions; they help him accomplish the bride's father's difficult tasks]: Wright 1960:105; Nubians [ lying in a puddle, the woman gave birth to a donkey from the seed; Ahmed Son of Donkey (ASO) beats his wife twice a day, who confirms that he is daring; the old woman advises his wife to answer that there are better daring people; ASO leaves meets and companions the Eared, Glazed, Angry, Inexhaustible (irrigates the beds with his urine); everyone before that answers that if he met ASO, he would fraternize with him; the king sprinkles poison, The big-eyed takes away the poisoned pieces; the king sets fire to the house, the Inexhaustible floods; the angry almost killed everyone; the king is ready to give his daughter, the ASO only takes a receipt that they are daring; each in turn cooks , the giant eats everything; when it is the ASO's turn, he throws him into the fire, the giant disappears into the well; the ASO goes down the rope, the beauty says that the giant's soul is in the chest, the ASO breaks it; sister cities they pick up, share beauty and treasures, cut off the rope; ASO falls into the fifth underworld; there the crocodile closed the river, gives water in exchange for girls; ASO promises to cause ritual scars to the crocodile on the occasion eating him and the girl, kills; hides at the old woman, leaving a handprint on the princess's thigh; the king finds the hero, tells the eagle to take him upstairs; there is not enough meat, ASO cuts off a piece from the thigh, gives it to the eagle; he puts it back; ASO forgives brothers, returns to his wife]: Katsnelson 1968:78-94; Sudanese Arabs [widow's son asks mother to boil bath water; if she doesn't say who he was father, he will throw himself into boiling water; when he learns that a fisherman, he throws a net, pulls out a golden chicken with chickens; the vizier asks to sell for 20 pounds, the young man refuses; the vizier tells the Sultan that he calls a young man buys a chicken for the same price; tells him to get 1) a winged horse; the old woman sends the young man to the desert, he puts a saddle on the horse, brings it; 2) singing water and a dancing branch (the old woman teaches how to cut a branch, collect water without turning to the voices of the genies); 3) the daughter of another sultan, who is guarded by the guli; old woman: shave a sleeping fat man on the way, sit next to him; the same - big-eared; a man with long leg; big eye; this is guli; everyone becomes his companion and comrade; the big-eared hears that the Sultan's people want to burn them, the big-eyed sees the tent covered with firewood, long-legged scattered coals, the fat man, having drunk the river in advance, filled the fire with water; the same with an attempt to poison those who came (the fat man eats everything without harming himself); the Sultan's daughter was sent away, but big-eared and the big-eyed saw and heard it, the long-legged returned it; the sultan died of grief; after the funeral, the bird sat on the head of the fisherman's son; he was elected sultan, married the daughter of the deceased]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 29: 144-148; amhara [the witch doctor says that snake fat will heal a blind father; the sons of the first three wives are afraid to enter her lair, push the fourth son there; he kills the snake, his dog helps; brothers take away fat, but the father does not see the light; when the victor of the snake touches the father's eyes with his fingers with the remains of fat, he sees the light; the father is grateful; sends the son on the road, tells him to take it along the way seven servants; he is a strongman, ate, an expert in military techniques, a wise adviser, a speedboat who knows what is being done in distant countries, a builder; satellites help to find out that a distant Negus has a daughter for marriage, get to that country, eat food for a thousand people, defeat an army; the young man reigns, appoints satellites as ministers]: Gankin 1979, No. 68:82-85; malgashi [the old woman tells two childless sisters look in her head; one finds a blade of grass, the other a piece of amulet; all the trees in the forest promise children, one is silent; the sisters took its root, cooked the potion, the eldest gave birth to a girl Iampelasuamanura; The youngest unborn son tells her to swallow a knife, goes out with her side cut, heals it, jumps into the fire, is unharmed, he is "holy and all-destructive Bunia"; marries I.; Ifuzanatukundrilyahi wins by driving he is stoned, his men are given to the Swimmer, the Connector, the Reviver; B.'s wife is kidnapped by Ravatuvulyuvuay; B. asks the old man what he presents to the king, puts on his skin, and brings R. bananas in his guise; wins the game, ties wild bulls; R. suspects that this is not an old man; B. takes his wife away, warns him not to contact him; she asks where the ford is, the bullet immediately hits him; houses see that the banana he planted withers; the swimmer pulls his bones out of the river, the Connector and the Reviver revive; B. kills R., takes his wife]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, 116:276-282.

North Africa. Arabs of Algeria, Morocco, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 513:269-370; Kabyles: Frobenius 1922a, No. 6 [daughter asks her father to bring invisible pants from the market that dance themselves; he did not get it, his daughter fell ill; he was advised to go to Wuarssen (devas); dev gives pants for promising to give his daughter; father: come when snow, rain, thunder and lightning are together; he came in a storm, took the girl; her three brothers went to look for her; sheep shepherd: the devil fights the ram every day, the forces are equal, if you defeat the ram, you will defeat the deva; the ram picks up the brothers with horns, throws far away; the same with the bull; the rooster refuses to fight such nonentities at all; black woman: Dev drinks a buryuk of water, eats melons floating in them; brothers can't; come to his sister; dev offers them a lot to eat, sister throws food into the basement; offers to fight, they pick sabers; dev throws the brothers into a dry well; parents go to look for sons, the father seeks water, the mother drinks mule urine, conceives a son; they come back; M'hammed Asserdun is born, he has a mule head; incredibly strong; 99 horses have broken under him; his father found him a horse born at the same time; MA asks his mother for boiling water, tells him to get it coal from it, puts her hand in boiling water; she has to tell me in which direction the brothers left; tells her to forge an iron club (broke the first two); easily kills a ram, a bull, a rooster; drinks water, eats melons; swallows food in the deva's house; kills him, brings his sister and brothers home; MA leaves again, meets, companions a man with giant lips; a man with ears in which he wraps up; with a beard in which a herd of sheep; they find a home in the forest, stay in turn to cook; every time Luash comes, eats everything; MA fights with him, cuts off his head, hides him in the house under a pot with water; consistently sends satellites to take water, everyone is scared, says they have stumbled; MA shows her head, breaks up with his satellites the next morning], 7 [Wuarssen takes the sister of three brothers; two older adults come for her, cannot eat the food offered, voirssen throws them into a vessel in the barn; the youngest has grown quickly, is strong, kills the kidnapper, sends his sister and brothers home; leaves wander, meets, companions a long-legged, long-bearded man pulling trees; in the forest they take turns cooking, the lion comes, eats everything; the younger brother remains, kills the lion, others are frightened, Seeing the lion's head; the younger brother leaves alone]: 52-66, 66-70; Tunisia [after the death of the king, the widow] gave birth to Mohammed; he is incredibly strong; kills the ruler's warriors; goes to travel; meets, Satellites Upside Down Mountain and Fettäl Elhebäl (Rotating Ropes {? Seildreher}); they enter the castle, where the treasures take turns cooking; every time an old woman comes, ties and hits the rest; when it's M.'s turn, he cuts off the old woman's head; her head rolls away, disappears into the well; companions descend M. down; there are three kidnapped princesses; M. killed the demon kidnapper, sends the princesses upstairs, each gave him 2 nuts; lifting M., the companions cut off the rope, took for himself as a princess, and the third was presented to the Sultan; he appointed them viziers; M. split one nut, there was an assistant spirit, brought M. to the Sultan's city; M. hired a tailor; the princess demands a dress without seams and pins , otherwise they will not marry; the Sultan tells the tailor to make them, M. calls an assistant spirit, who brought dresses; the princesses realized that M. has returned; M. requires a black horse and a black outfit from the spirit; came to merrymaking, grabbed the bride, flew away with her on horseback; the next two days, the same with two other princesses - M. on a red horse, on a white horse; last time wounded in the arm with an arrow; thanks to this, found; appears to to the Sultan, wearing the Sultan's robe himself; the deceivers are executed, one princess was received by M., the second sultan, the third sultan allowed him to give to whoever M. wanted; made him a vizier]: Spiess 1893, No. 1:3-13.

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 []: 214-220; Cardigos 2006, No. 301 [the son of a bear and a woman kidnapped by that woman grows up quickly eating donkey milk; when he sets off, takes an iron club; meets He takes the Pine Digger, the Comparing Mountains (etc.) as companions; they come to the house in the forest, each one stays at home in turn; the monster comes, defeats the cook, throws ash into the food; the hero defeats him , follows him into the abyss; in the lower world, defeats monsters, choosing a rusty sword instead of a new one, frees three kidnapped princesses, sends them upstairs; companions leave the hero below; he rises to the ground, biting the monster's ear, forcing him to obey and flies up, or on the back of a bird that gives a piece of his own flesh; princesses must marry, at which time the hero comes and shows rings or other items that the princesses gave him; or raises a sword that no one else can lift; the hero marries one of the princesses, the companions are punished], 513A [younger The brother, as opposed to the elder, is kind to the old man; he helps him get a ship moving on water and on land; the king gives him a daughter for the ship; St. Virgo is an assistant; on the way, the hero meets a strongman, a shooter, a blowing, hearing, a runner, eating (either opival or having control over the weather); they help to complete additional difficult assignments which are the reason for getting a bride]: 56, 128; Portuguese []: Dias Marques 2019, No. 100:149-151; Spaniards [the king tells you to fatten the louse, take care of the parsley stalk; both are made huge; parsley wood is used to make a tambourine hoop, lice skin is pulled over it; the one who guesses what the tambourine is made of will be given to the princess, the unguessed ones are executed; the shepherd goes to marry, meets and takes companions of the Strongman, Zorkoeye, Hearer, Windbreaker, Skorokhod; The rumor hears the princess's conversation with the maid, the shepherd guesses; the king orders the princess's papers to be immediately delivered from Rome; the Skorokhod brings, A keen eye from a distance kills a witch who tried to speak a shepherd; the king orders to take good corn from the bad one overnight, the rescued ant takes away; the shepherd gets the princess, the count offers for she has as much money as she can carry; The strongman takes everything, the king sends an army, the Windblower throws him away with the wind]: Malinovskaya 2002:219-224; Aragon [a bear kidnaps a woman, she gives birth to a son with him Juan el Oso; he grows, pushes back the stone that closes the exit, and is joined by satellites, each of which has a certain advantage (Pulling Pines, Crashing Mountains, etc.); H. wins demon, tears off his ear, which subdues the demon to his power]: González Sanz 1996, No. 301B: 74; Basques: Azcua 1942, No. 4 [a rich man goes to see the world; meets, companions 1) a strongman, carrying a huge bunch of firewood; 2) an arrow whose bullet fired into the sky returns in two hours; 3) putting his ear to the ground (hears everything, trying to hear the sound of germinating grain); 4) closing with his finger his nostril (if he opens both, the wind will blow everything away from his nostrils); the king suggests lifting bags of gold and silver at once (only the strongman picks up, receives gold and silver); the rumor hears how The troops sent by the king are approaching; the shooter kills them all with a gun; friends sail by sea, the king sends ships, the blowing sinks them, revealing both nostrils]: 26-28; Barandiaran 1962a, No. 7 [king fell ill, the speedboat went to Madrid; on the way he meets and companions someone listening to the seed growing in the ground; shooting into the sky, where the game is (others do not see anything, but he waits for him to fall); blowing with his nose to rotate the mill; chopping an oak tree, which he would then carry on his shoulders; the doctor ordered water to be drawn from a distant well, from which the king would recover; whoever returns first would receive seven wineskins of gold; one woman also runs; the speedboat speaks, put him to sleep, takes water from him; the listener hears this, the shooter wakes up his comrade with a shot, he runs again to the well, returns first; able to drag an oak tree takes gold; friends are chased, the blew scattered their army], 28 [the son is so strong that his father is afraid of him; he sends him to travel; meets a runner, a millstone on his foot to move more slowly; a strongman, there is a stone on his back, this stone can crush the world; a blow who blows his nose rotates the mill; everyone takes turns cooking; an old man appears from the chimney, eats everything, the cook wins; when it's the turn for blowing, he blows so that the old man is pressed against the roof; friends come to the king; he will give a gold-filled bull skin if the applicant returns from the spring faster than his daughter; they began to take out the lice, the hunter fell asleep, the daughter was almost back, the hunter was woken up with a shot, the wind threw the princess away, the hunter came first; they wanted to deprive the other king of the gold he had received from the first king, but the soldier was swept away by the wind; friends began to live well], 29 [the girl was stolen by a bear, she gave birth to a son; he pushed the rock that blocked the entrance to the cave, killed the bear into the village; too strong; asks him to do it hammer, breaks; the other, heavier, good; goes wandering; meets and companions a man who supported a rock so as not to fall on a church; leveling mountains; they see a gap in the ground; one they let them down, he tells them to lift them back; then Juan Oso (XO) breaks the door below, behind her the princess; she tells you to choose a rusty sword if the devil offers a choice; XO takes a rusty one, cuts off the devil's ear; companions gone, no rope; XO bites the devil's ear, he appears, understands them to the ground; HO forgot his hammer below, the devil brings them; they come to the princess's village; she says she's cursed because she dropped the icon ( ? habiendo recibido al Señor y llevado en la boca del portico de la iglesia, lo lancé fuera); HO says that there is a toad under the portico stone, abandoned in her mouth; the princess got it, went beyond XO]: 34-38 , 104-108, 108-112; Barbier 1931, No. 5 []: 84-90; Webster 1897 [an old sailor does not kill a snake; she teaches you to order to build a ship, take 12 sailors with him; during a storm, the Shooter kills a black bird, the storm stops; in the harbor, the Runner takes away the old woman's chair, flint, tinder; twice she almost catches up with him, tearing off a piece of clothes and leather; the third time she rips off her skin from neck to toe; the snake gives medicine; tells fire a volley; says that when the captain is captured, he must ask him to board the ship again before his execution; the king says that the city mourns his son, it is forbidden to shoot; he meets on the ship the son is a broken snake; everyone is happy]: 100-106; Catalans: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 301 [the son of a bear and a woman kidnapped by that is extremely strong, goes to wander, meets, takes companions of the Pine Puller, the Listener, the Mountain Moving, the Blowing; they stay in the house and cook one by one; the owner hits the cook and spoils the food every time; the hero defeats the one who walks through the bloody on the way to the well; when he goes down, he meets the princess kidnapped by a giant; she advises choosing a rusty sword to fight; after killing the giant, the hero sends the princess upstairs; his companions throw him in the lower world; he returns using his severed giant ear], 513A [the hero goes on a journey, meets a listener, a runner, a strongman, chewing (gnawing), drinking, blowing, etc.; they help complete the king's difficult assignments]: 61-64, 113-114; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 14 [the king promises a daughter to someone who builds a ship moving by sea and land; two older brothers they reject the old man's help, their ships explode; the youngest appoints St. Joseph the elder, the ship is ready; they take as companions 1) a bag of fog, 2) carrying half of the fallen forest on his back, 3) drinking a river, 4) aiming at a partridge sitting on a branch in underworld, 5) taking one step from Catania to Messina; the king demands 1) to deliver the letter to the prince of the lower world in an hour and return; the runner reported, fell asleep, the shooter woke him up with a shot, he managed return; 2) drink half of what is in the basement (the drinker drinks the river); the king promises as much dowry as one person who carried the trees takes everything; the king sent a fleet after, collecting the fog released him; at the house of St. Joseph demands that everything be divided in half as agreed, including the bride; the young man is ready, but St. Joseph only tested it, leaving everything young]: 96-102; Italians (Lombardy, Calabria): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 513; Italians: Andrews 1892, No. 40 (Liguria) [husband worked in the forest, wife took lunch, got lost, found a cave to hide at nightfall; a bear came and married her; when Jean was eight years old, his mother returned home with him and they moved to the city; he was sent to study a shoemaker, then a blacksmith, but he is too strong, he makes everything awkward; forged a huge iron club for himself and went on a journey; met and accompanied 1) playing with millstones, 2) moving the mountains; they stopped in an empty castle, cooking one by one; someone goes down from the chimney and beats the cook until they lose consciousness; Jean beat him himself; friends found a hole in the ground, only Jean decided to go down; there is a girl, Jean sends her to the surface, she gives a ring that will take her anywhere; the same with the second girl (magic tablecloth); the old man and the third girl are not happy with Jean, the girl called the servants, he killed them; at this time, Jean's companions left, picking up the girls; Jean told the ring to move it to the ground, killed his companions, married one of the girls raised]: 181-186; Basile 2018 ( Naples) [retelling in Aarne 1930:13; an orc (cannibal) guesses whose skin (fleas) it is; gets Princess Porciella, takes her to the forest; brings meat to people and wild boars; P. does not want to eat it, complains to the old woman; she promises that her 7 sons will help; the first hears everything; the second, if he spits, will be a soap lake; the third, if she throws a piece of iron, there will be a field covered with sharp knives; the fourth will throw a splint, appear forest; the fifth will splash water, there will be a river; the sixth will throw a stone, a tower will appear; the seventh is a sharpshooter; the brothers run away with P., each creates obstacles; when the runners hide in the tower, The cannibal returns to bring the stairs, but his seventh brother hits him with an arrow, his head is cut off with a knife; P. runs to his father, who rewards his brothers and their mother]: 86-93; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [the king has sons Luigino is 24 years old and Giovanni is 18; they leave home, at the fork J. goes right, L. goes to the left, arrange to meet here in 2 years; after 2 years L. returned home; J. meets, takes to the satellite 1) Magnet (puts a flock of pigeons at her feet with a movement of his hand); 2) Cannoneera (turns his hat, a shot follows, the game is hit); 3) Iron Shoulders (J.; holds the mountain ready to fall on the village); 4) Runner ( Corri-Corri); in Roccapiana, King Roccause's daughter Fulmine ("lightning") will marry whoever overtakes her; the losers are executed; the Runner wins as Magnet detains F.; but she refuses to leave for J., wants for the one who overtook her; the king asks J. to take as much gold as he takes; J. takes everything; friends sail away on the ship, the Gunner shoots the chase; F. decides to marry J.]: 261-265; Maltese [older brothers are rude to the old woman, the younger one is kind; she helps him get a ship moving on land; a young man meets, companions 1) someone who can drink a lot, 2) carry weights, 3) a runner, 4) a listener, 5) a sharpshooter, 6) capable of causing good and bad weather, lying on his stomach or back; the king will give his daughter to those who perform difficult assignments, including drinking a wine cellar, picks up all the gold from the treasury, overtakes the princess (you have to run to the spring and bring a jug of water); the princess puts the runner to sleep, offering to look in his head, but the rumor hears it, and the shooter wakes up knocking a stone from under his head; changing the weather destroys the royal army trying to destroy the hero; the hero reigns]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 513B: 152-155; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 35 [ receiving an inheritance, each of the three queens builds a ship and triples the feast; the elders are for the rich, the youngest for the poor; the old woman gives him a wand that allows the ship to move on the ground; he takes the poor with him, meets them, takes on the ship 1) throwing millstones, 2) eating a couple of bulls at once, 3) drinking a river, 4) carrying a mountain on his back, 5) a runner, 6) listening to the grass grow, 7 ) driving fog into a bag so that it does not harm the flowering trees; the Queen is outraged that the ship has arrived on her land; tells 1) to eat mountains of bread (eats), 2) drink all the wine (drank), 3) move 4 heavy guns (the strongman carries), 4) bring water from a spring 100 km away in a bottle (the runner overtakes the old woman, although she picks up dust and the runner sleeps first); the queen swims away on her ship, the Queen sends an army in pursuit, they eat and drink them, regurgitating what they eat and drink; the king hands over the crown to his youngest son], 45 [(approximately as in (35)))]: 78-82, 108-111; frets: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 13 [the king consistently sends three sons into the forest for firewood; when the elder breaks a chip off a tree, a man jumps out; the guy calls him crap brings firewood in the shoulder basket, but it turns into crap; the same with the middle brother; the younger one is polite, invites the little man to share a meal with him; he says that another king will give his daughter- I don't laugh for someone who would make her laugh or give him half the good; the little man gave her a wagon and a donkey, told her to go to that princess and pick up everyone who was in need; so they joined the young man a hungry dog, a thin man, a drunkard with a red and blue nose, a man with his pants down and everlasting diarrhea; his ass was gagged; the princess saw, laughed, the young man demanded her hand; but the king now demands that the groom drink all the wine and eat all the food, as well as the hay; the donkey eat the hay, the drunkard drink the wine, the dog and the hungry eat food supplies; the king and queen still do not want to give their daughter the young man, but she ran away with him; the king sent knights; the man with diarrhea took out his plug, filled his pursuers with crap; then the young man rewarded his companions, dressed like a king, and reappeared to his parents wives; he was recognized as a prince; wedding], 38 [the king fired a soldier and paid pennies; he meets and companions a man who uproots trees; blowing from hill to valley with one nostril plugged: he rotates windmills, and if he opens the second nostril, a hurricane will begin; separates one leg (it lies side by side): he runs too fast on two; sitting smoking tobacco with a hat sideways: if he moves smoothly, a terrible frost will begin; aiming at a fly on a neighboring mountain; they come to the king; whoever overtakes his daughter will receive her and half the kingdom; we must run to the source, recruit there herbs (water cross, Nasturtium officinale) and bring to the king; the runner lay down and fell asleep, and the princess had already run back; the hunter woke him up with a shot and the runner ran first; the king does not want to give his daughter, and the soldier does not need it; he agreed that instead of his daughter, the king would give as much gold as one man could carry; the tree who uprooted took the entire treasury of the kingdom; the king sent an army that blew alone his nostrils scattered; the second army froze the owner of the magic hat]: 105-116, 234-239; Uffer 1973, No. 50 [a childless miller picked up a box from the mill, containing a baby; he and his wife raised it, feeding a donkey with milk, because there was no wet nurse; he studied to be a blacksmith; leaving the master, he made a club out of iron that had always been in the forge; met, won, took three giants as companions; one dug trees, the second set in motion many mills, the third blew fog out of the bag to make rain; four live in a hut, cook bulls one by one; each time a long-bearded dwarf comes beats the cook, eats everything; when the Blacksmith is left, he beat the dwarf, he ran, disappeared into the hole; everyone tries to go down there on a rope, but shouts that it's hot; the blacksmith set off; below is a plain and three palaces, glass, silver, gold; each has a princess; in the first, a five-headed dragon, a blacksmith killed him, carved his tongues, sent the princess upstairs; the same in two other palaces (seven-; nine-headed dragon); picking up the blacksmith, the companions cut off the rope; he met, grabbed a bearded dwarf, made him tell him how to get to the ground; on the mountain, eagles, you have to catch one, sit on him and feed him on the way; meat It was over, the Blacksmith cut off the last piece from his leg; came to the wedding of three giants with princesses, showed his tongues, killed the giants, married the most beautiful (from the golden palace)]: 242-248; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 513, 513a: 298-300

Western Europe. Dutch, Friesians, Germans (Austria): Uther 2004 (1), No. 513, 513a: 298-300; Germans (Hanover) [the shepherd's wife was looking for a cow, got lost, spent the night in a cave; came there bear; when leaving, he blocked the exit with a stone; she gave birth to a boy, at 9 months he was already grown up, incredibly strong; they went down to the village, people drove the bear away; the boy was baptized by Peter - Peter Beer ("bear", PM); he forged a huge iron club for himself, went wandering; the boulder thrower replies that he is weak compared to PB; he says he is PB, takes him as a companion; another strongman ties and unties an iron stake (same); the third uproots trees (same); they settled in a house in the forest, take turns cooking; a long-bearded dwarf asks for food, that's it eats and hits the cook; when it was PB's turn, he tied him to the bed with his beard; companions came, everyone ate; the dwarf cut off his beard, ran, disappeared into the well; PB told him to lower him in the basket; there was an old woman ; you can see the castle through the window; old woman: a princess kidnapped by four giants in it; PB killed them with his club; princess gave them a handkerchief and a ring; through the window you can see another castle, there is the sister of the first princess, with her 8 giants; (still the same); you can see the castle through the window, where her younger sister is guarded by a fire-breathing seven-headed dragon; PB killed 4 giant guards, then a dragon, then 12 more giants sitting at the table in the hall ; healed the wounds with the ointment given by the old woman; the companions pulled out the princesses; for the fourth time, PB put a stone in place of himself just in case; the satellites threw a stone on top and cut off the rope; PB makes tell the old woman how to get out; she has a dragon, but she must be fed in flight; cut off the last piece from his leg; healed the wound with an old woman's ointment; the king promises a thousand ducats to someone who is rescued the princesses will bring the rings they had when they were kidnapped; PB hired a jeweler, drank and ate at night, and gave the rings in the morning as if he had made them; the princesses knew from them that their savior was not far away; then appeared disguised as a beggar, showed his scarves; the king married him to his youngest daughter, after his death PB inherited the throne]: Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 5:18-30; Germans (Hanover) [the king will give his only daughter to the one who will build a ship that moves on water and on land; a carpenter, cabinetmaker and shoemaker who made wooden shoes, each decided to try it; the old woman asks the carpenter what he is doing; he is her rude; she replies that she already knows - she may not try, it won't work; the same with the cabinetmaker; the shoemaker talks kindly; the old woman promises that his princess is his; when she goes to the king, let him take everyone who gets in the way; it drank, ate (gnawing bones), runner (holding his knee, otherwise he will immediately be far from here), shooter (if he shoots, he will sweep everyone around); king tells him to drink all the wine in his cellars (he drank), eat 8 cows (ate), deliver a letter to the king's brother in 24 hours and bring an answer (the runner carried it, but fell asleep, the shooter woke him up with the thunder of a shot; After the wedding, the king sent his son-in-law to war; the shooter destroyed enemies, and then the king and his entourage; reigned, making friends ministers]: Wolf 1845, No. 25:105-106, 121-126; the Germans [the master was at war, then went to the king; meets, takes as companions 1) pulling trees, 2) a well-aimed Shooter, 3) blowing at the mills, they turn around; 4) Speedboat (he unfastened one leg, otherwise he cannot stand on the spot), 5) causing frost if he puts a hat over his head; the king will give his daughter to whoever overtakes her; The runner and the girl run to the well to get water; on the way back, the Runner fell asleep with a horse under his head skull; the keen Shooter saw, knocked the skull out from under his head with a bullet, the Runner woke up and ran first; the king ordered his friends to be locked in an iron room and make a fire, but the frost-causing hat pulled over; the king does not want to give his daughter, promises as much gold in her place as those who come can carry away; the one who pulled out the trees took everything; the king sent an army, the Blowing scattered him; six brought wealth home and shared]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 71:253-256 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:212-216); Germans (Swabia): Meier 1852a, No. 8:42-46; Germans (Swabia) [the king will give his daughter to whoever makes a ship moving by water and by land; the miller has three sons, the eldest was the first to try; did not share bread with the old man; he advised him to quit his job - it would not work; the same with his middle son; the youngest Hans shared; optional The old man has a ship; realizing that the brothers are going to kill G., his father tells him to immediately go on his ship to the capital; on the way he sees and takes with him a shooter aiming at the spire of the church in Berlin; listening (he has a huge ear, puts it to the ground); a runner in huge boots; another can the whole world vollmachen; the king orders to bring water from a distant well; the runner ran, typed, but fell asleep; the listener heard him snore; the shooter woke the runner up with a shot; the king offered to fill the ship with money instead of the princess, and G. agreed; the ship flew back, but the king sent an army to return the money; the one that can vollmachen the world has reversed it; G. and his satellites have returned to themselves]: Meier 1852a, No. 31:111-118; the Bretons [the king promises a daughter to whoever will build a ship moving on the ground and by sea; the older brother decides to try; sees in the forest that many trees have already been felled down; sits down for lunch; the magpie asks for a piece, he does not give it; tries to cut down trees, they do not cut down; he returned to his father; then the middle brother; the younger Luduenn (Cinderella) gives bread to the magpie, after each axe hit, the ship's part is immediately ready, the parts come together; L. gets on his ship, meets, takes satellites Obedalu, Opivalu, Runner (chasing hares with a millstone tied to his leg), Arrow (aiming at a hare on a distant mountain), Listening to grass growing; along the way they buy an egg, a plow, a hat; (these items are needed when talking to the princess); then the king demands 1) eat 40 bulls (Ovedelo eats), 2) drink 50 barrels of wine (Opivalo drinks), 3) overtake the maid who will go to a distant source for water; She put the runner to sleep, but the Listener heard him snoring and her words; the shooter saw that the Runner was sleeping with a horse's corpse under his head, fired an arrow, woke him up, the Runner was the first to bring water; L. received the princess, and soon throne]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 8:296-311; the Irish [while hunting Finn and Fennias met seven young men: Strong, Son of Power, Wise, Son of Wisdom, Builder, Son of the Builder, Whistler, Son of the Whistler, Guide, The Guide's son, the Climber, the Climber's son, the Thief's son; they were hired to serve for a year and one day; the King of France asks Finn to come; the Builder builds a ship, the Strong pulls him to the coast of France; each a year the queen gives birth to a son, he immediately disappears; so three times; the king asks to save the son who must be born; the young men guard, the Wise warns that a hand will reach out to the chimney; the Strong fights all night with her, he tears it off in the morning; they come to the castle, where Mal MacMulcan, where the king's kidnapped sons carry water to cool the wound; the Climber climbs into the castle, takes the children with the Wise and the Guide; the king rewards Finn; when they sail back, M. tries to sink the ship, but his left arm is pulled out and his head is cut off; F. plays cards with the old woman, loses; she demands to bring Curucha na's head Gras and the sword guarding his castle; F. takes the worst servant with him; the red-haired boy kills him, serves Finn himself; kills K., brings his head and sword, tells him not to give them to the old woman, but only show them; revives the murdered servant; explains that he is the younger brother of those seven young men; when the old woman opens her mouth, K. should be thrown at her; F. throws, the old woman dies]: Curtin 1975:186-194; the British [ the king promises to give his daughter to whoever defeats the royal sorceress; she easily defeats Bill and Tom, they are beheaded; their younger brother Jack tells the old man that he is looking for a ship sailing on land; he gives a ship and a stick that turned water into wine; tells him to put on the ship those he meets; these are the Fighter, Oat, Drank, Runner, Shooter, Far Seeing; the Fighter's fight with the sorceress ended in a draw; Eating and Drinking defeat her; the witch puts the Runner to sleep, the Seer notices, the Shooter knocks the magic bone out of his head; Jack gets the princess]: Kharitonov 2008:276-281; Scots [three giants carried the king's daughters to the underworld; to get there, you have to build a ship moving on water and land; the widow's eldest son is going to build; the mother asks if he should give him a small loaf with or without a big one, he chooses a big one; cuts a tree, Uruisg (a mermaid) comes out of the water, asks for bread, the young man does not give it; a felled tree is reborn; the same with the middle brother; the youngest takes a small bread, feeds the mermaid, she tells her to come in a year and a day - the ship will be ready; the young man sails on it, takes opivala, ate, rumor as companions; the rumor determines the place under who are giants underground; they go down; the first giant will give the queen if anyone drinks more than him, the second will eat more; drink and eat, the giants burst; the third demands for the young man to spend a year and a day with him; then the young man's companions go upstairs, raise the queens, leave the widow's son below; the giant tells the eagle to pick up the young man; he returns twice because there is not enough food , you have to wait another year and a day; the third time a young man cuts off a piece of meat from his leg; on the ground, an eagle blows a whistle to call him; he is hired by a blacksmith; the eldest queen demands a golden crown from the blacksmith as she did to her when she lived with a giant; the young man calls the eagle, he brings; the same with the second (silver crown), the third sister (copper); the king orders the one who made the crowns to be brought; the servants drag the young man, but they bring a pile of stones; then a pile of garbage; the third time the servant politely asks the young man to the king; he tells the eagle to bring gold clothes; receives the elder queen; the companions are hanged]: Campbell 1890, No. 16: 244-251; French (Dauphine): Joisten 1991, No. 2.1 [the son of a peasant Jean, 40 years old in the cradle; the father asks for help in leading the oxen; he gets up, grabs two oxen by the horns, pulls, their heads come off; requires an iron stick weighing 10 tons; it is transported on 40 horses, he picks it up easily; goes to wander, meets, takes as companions 1) a millstone, 2) a hare seeing in the distance, 3) easily catching up with a hare, 4) listening to grass grow, 5) able to drive away clouds if it blows on them; the king offers to compete to the source and back with his aunt, who has always overtaken everyone; she resorts to the spring, goes to bed; the blowing throws her far away, the runner resorts to the spring, brings water; the heroes receive gold from the king; take turns staying at home to cook; from under the stove A little man comes out, beats the cook; when it's Jean the Bear's turn (first named), he kills the demon with his iron stick; the heroes disperse], 3 [pregnant wife and husband went to the forest for firewood, bear took the woman away, closed the exit from the cave with a stone; the woman gave birth to a son when he is seven years old, he fell off the stone, he and his mother ran home; the children tease him Jean de l'Ours, Bear, he hits them; tells father order a 10-ton iron stick for blacksmiths, goes wandering; meets, takes as fellow travelers 1) an ax felting trees with one blow (Jean-Woodcutter, Railway), 2) Jean the Fearless (RC); only MJ can climb a huge tree, you can see an iron castle from it, they break through its wall, eat and drink; the next morning the train remains to cook, the seven-headed cannibal (Mâgou) comes, hits the railway, the ogre's sister serves him food; the same with JB; MF blows the cannibal's head off, takes his healing ointment; twins find the ogre's sister, learn about three kidnapped princesses, kills his sister; only MF can go down through the leading to the lower the world is a hole (RC and railway tell them to pick them up, it's too hot or cold there); the old woman advises saving the princesses, they are taken upstairs when they raise the MF, the brothers cut off the rope; MF crashed, but healed with cannibal ointment; the old woman says that the cannibal climbed the eagle; MF prepares meat, throws the eagle into its beak while it carries it; the meat is over, he cuts off his buttocks, treats himself with ointment; MF again prepares meat for the eagle, she brings it to the mountain, from where you can see the city with princesses; MF manages to take a seat at the altar instead of the railway, beats him, marries a princess]: 51-57, 58-64; French ( Upper Brittany) [when the princess was born, the fairy predicted that she would marry the man who would bring a basket of peaches; the princess grew up and the king announced that he would give her daughter to the one whose peaches would be better; the rich landowner carried peaches; replies to the old woman that he has horns in the basket; in the presence of the king he opened the basket - it contains smelly goat horns; he is expelled in shame; the peasant's son is the same (goat litter); a farmhand who herds cows is kind to an old woman; she gave a magic wand that can fulfill three wishes; with his wand, the young man created a carriage with a team of horses; on the way he sees and takes it with him 1) moving the church to another place; 2) listening to oats grow; 3) blowing to make the mill spin; 4) spitting on the ground, the ground freezes; 5) carrying a bag with two compartments: in one day, another night; 6) a man with a sword reaching 7 leagues; there are few peaches, the king gives difficult assignments; lets a flock of pigeons, they fly to a remote place, then return; they let a second flock follow them: let the second return before the first; the listener knows where the pigeons are now, and the blowing one drives away the first pack; the second one returns earlier; tomorrow there will be a battle: let our army defeat the enemies whose army more; (defect in pdf: apparently, the spit froze the ground and the enemies began to slide; then another pass); the young man received a princess]: Sébillot 1880, No. 13:89-96; Walloons: Laport 1932, no.*513 [ an old woodcutter is cutting down a tree; Jesus and St. Peter, his wishes come true, he gets a ship moving on land and sea; meets and companions the Listener, the Runner, the Blowing, the Strongman; the princess always defeats the grooms on the run; Her runner overtakes; she asks her father not to give her up, but the Strongman takes away all the gold and silver, the Hearing hears the approach of the royal troops, and the Blowing dispels him], *514A [The 15-year-old princess comes out for the first time palaces to the seashore; sailors kidnapped her; the king summons the Marquises; the Marquis Matacon is too old, replaced by his daughter, who pretends to be a man; the queen fell in love with an imaginary young man, he refused ; then she told the king that M. volunteered to save their daughter; the hunchback tells M. that the princess is in a golden castle in the middle of the sea; M. saves a fly from a spider; saves a pig; pushes a pig into the water dry the fish; the pig puts M. on his back and brings him to the castle; he is brought to a room full of girls, each saying she is the daughter of a French king; a fly sits on the cheek of a real princess; a pig transports M. and the princess back; the princess loses her shoe, but the fish pulls it out; the Queen again seeks M.'s love in vain; tells her husband that M. boasted to get the treasures of the Turkish Sultan; on advice the hunchback, M. takes the Strong Back as his companions; a lumberjack throwing a pole for 300 leagues; the Listener; the Runner; the Blowing; the Sultan tells, overtaking the old woman, to fill the bottle with water from a spring over 700 leagues; The runner at the spring falls asleep, the listener finds out, the Blower throws the old woman 300 leagues beyond the spring; M. takes the treasure, but the sultan sends an army after him; the Blowing man has scattered him; now the Queen accuses M. of trying to seduce her; he is taken to the scaffold, but the hunchback reports that M. is a woman; the queen was beheaded, the king married M.]: 61-62, 62-63.

Western Asia. Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Oman (Muscat): El-Shamy 2004, No. 513:269-270

Micronesia-Polynesia. Tonga [Lasa (Laka) cuts down a tree to make a boat for a trip to Fiji; Haelefeke revives a tree; on the fourth day, L. waits, grabs him; he helps build a boat, sails with L.; they are also Eater and Thief; Fiji's demons offer to compete, 1) eat a lot (Eater wins), 2) catch fruit thrown from a tree, 3) fill the basket with crabs (The thief waits for the Fijian to fill his basket, puts him to sleep, puts the crabs into his own)]: Beckwith 1970:271; Pukapuka (South Cook Islands) [Lata came to the forest in Samoa, chose a tree, cut down, began to hollow out the boat; the grove belonged Yanata, he got used to resting under this tree; J. came, they began to fight, J. magically restored the tree; but L. magically replaced the trunk under the bark with another, keeping his boat; finished it; selected a team, trying to see if a person bends his neck if L. presses on it; they sailed to Fiji (Witi); along the way, the satellites mobilize their witchcraft powers to protect themselves from the weather, cannibal fish (Wakapeyi and Wakapalalu has the ability to spew a lot of crap out of themselves, the fish ate it and fall behind); when a huge tridacna attacks, L. himself jumps into it, cuts it from the inside with a wooden knife, pops up; the flesh of the mollusk distributes it among all Pacific islands, forgetting Pukapuka; dives, pulls out the root of the shell (it is not edible); Fiji offers competitions to have an excuse to kill and eat strangers; 1) collect more crabs; before sunset, the Fijian hero collected three baskets, volunteered by Tupua-Kaia from Team L. one; offered to spend the night in the forest, put stones and leaves in his baskets, covered with crabs; punched two opponent's baskets as if the crabs had gnawed; the opponent was eaten; 2) weave the mat; Mata-Pili-kawa from Team L. worked harder, won; the people of Fiji decided to fatten and eat strangers, not waiting for an excuse; Tupua-kele-ana of L.'s team dug an underground passage from the stockade they were holding to their boat; they were the last to leave, Wakapeyi and Wakapalalu filled the passage with crap; the boat turned out to be Unpacked, but Matai-Monomono patched it; they sailed, returned, unraveled the Fijian boats, broke their scoops, sailed away again; the Fijians were flooded with crap, the boats began to sink; L. and his companions continued their journey]: Beaglehole, Beaglehole 1938; Tuamotu (Pukapuka) [to make a boat, Lata from Samoa cuts down a tree owned by the sorcerer Hinata; they are fighting, their strength is equal; H. revives wood; L. makes a boat out of a different trunk; recruits a crew; this is Head of stone, Flat head, Hole dagger, etc.; while sailing, each of the satellites overcomes some difficulty, danger, based on his unique abilities; L. himself dives into a giant oyster, shares meat; in competition with Witi residents, each of the companions shows their abilities; one of the tasks is to fill the basket with crabs; a man from Witi is put to sleep, put his crabs into his own basket]: Beckwith 1970:270.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the king kicked out his young wife; three years later she gave birth to a son in the mountains, who spoke immediately and was extremely strong; when he learned that his father was king, he gave him a tiger dog as a gift skin; the king wants to get rid of the strongman, orders to get the lion; the old man sends to the llama, the llama will hide in the branches of the sandalwood and beat the lion with a sandalwood branch; the young man has tamed the lion and can summon him to at any time; when he saw a lion in the palace, the king ordered him to be removed; he orders to get the daughter of the demon king; the young man meets and companions a woman who could drink half the sea; a giant who steps with one mountain to another; a female shooter; everyone, without recognizing a young man, says he is insignificant compared to a lion tamer; the raven reports that the daughter of the demon king has "Om" written on her forehead and "Hum" on her chest; the young man and his companions grabbed her, the young man shot the demon king, the hero swallowed everyone who was in the palace; the young man returned to the king, shot him, the hero swallowed the ministers, and the giant destroyed the palace; he himself married the daughter of the demon king]: Komissarov 1997:68-76; Bhutan [the son is idle; his parents have managed to change his character; the father hung a basket of meat on a tree, sent his son to look why did the crows gather; pretended to be happy with the unexpected find when the son brought meat; believing in himself, the young man asked him to make him a pipe of 9 tops and a sword of 18 tops, and went on a journey; meets, companions a smashing boulders on a mountain; a river who has dammed his feet; he has run out of tobacco, went to look; an old woman is frying something in the middle of the forest; grabbed a boulder breaker, put it under her left knee; then the river dammer under the right; the young man knocked over the frying pan on which the old woman was frying human nails, burned to death with a burning log, freed his companions; then they had many adventures (not described)]: Choden 1994:133-135; koireng [Yamlut is mighty; one day, in his absence, his daughter danced with spirit; he forbade responding to her father's hail; she told her father and immediately disappeared; I went to searches; meets, companions 1) a scorching pig with the carcass on one finger; 2) killing a deer with his hands; 3) a banyan who puts a trunk in his ear; everyone, not knowing who is in front of him, says that his strength is nothing compared to the strength of I.; at rest, Y. sent his companions to hunt; they brought a deer, but there is no fire; a hut in the distance; one went, there was a woman weaving; ordered to take coal; the man put it immediately in the pot and I found myself there; the corpse became tiny; so with all three companions; I tore off the straw from the roof and made a torch; began to fight the old woman and defeated her; took his comrades out of the pot, they came to life; came to their homes and they roasted the deer; Omlai is this old woman's husband; four grabbed him, tied him up, but he easily tore his fetters; said what plants to make ropes from; he was tied; O.: girl under my wife's pillow; she I gave the girl - a thin corpse; the old woman gave a bone to revive the girl; I threw her away, thinking that there were many bones, but I could not revive my daughter with other bones; I had to go back and take that bone; the girl has revived even more beautiful]: Oinam et al. s.a.

Burma - Indochina. Vietnam: Karpov, Tkachev 1958 [Nong goes to look for money in the capital; joins five young men; their names are Strong Shoulder (strong), Shooter (tags), Wind (blows hard), Flyer (runs fast), Warm-Cold (shifting his hat creates heat and frost); the king gives his daughter for the winner in the run; you have to run to the well, bring water; the flyer comes running, falls asleep; the princess pours water into her jug, runs back; The shooter wakes up Letuna by knocking down a mosquito in his ear; the princess refuses to marry Letuna, who instead asks for gold on one shoulder; the Strong Shoulder takes the entire treasury; friends are locked in the refectory, they set fire to the house; Warm-Cold extinguishes the fire, the Wind blows the flame away to other buildings; the army sent in pursuit dies from heat and cold, scattered by the Wind]: 139-145; Nikulin 1970a [father will give Le for a man, in fluent in some craft; the shooter, the diver, the doctor are equally skillful; the father takes them to the temple to fortune, at which time the vulture takes Le; the shooter hit the vulture with an arrow, the diver took them out of the sea, the doctor revived; a wise official awards a girl to a diver]: 52-55; Landes 1886, No. 102 [a virgin gave birth to five twins; each has special qualities; the strongman takes all royal rice as a fee for the work done; each time he sends one of his brothers instead; Sukhoi dries the pond in which they want to drown him; Wet floods the fire where they want to burn him; Bronze cannot be decapitated; the seer warns of the king's intentions; he tries to behead the king himself; the king realizes that heavenly spirits are in front of him, leaves the throne to the Seer, and repents himself]: 245-247; tyamy [ astrologers promise the childless king that he will have a son if he makes sacrifices at the mouth of the river, but this son will ruin the kingdom; the king makes sacrifices; the boy eats a lot, the king is broke; when the son is 15 years old, his father calls him to the forest, knocks down a tree on him; in the evening the son brings a tree to his father; tells him to forge a heavy ax, leaves, his name is Strong; meets the Wagon Pulling (without bulls), Reeds (chopping reeds on five mountains); both can't lift the Strong's axe, become his younger brothers; giants Sharp Butt, Snotty, Big Foot fish; The Strong asks for fish, each of the giants speaks to the other for him to finally give, Big Foot gives, Sharp ass hits the ship in anger, Snotty closes the hole with snot; the portion of fish is so large that there is no firewood in the village to fry it; the brothers go to the forest, they have no fire; The pulling wagon comes to the old woman, she throws it into the cauldron; the same with the Reed; The strong makes the old woman give the plant of immortality, revives the brothers, sews up the old woman's eyes and mouth, tells send her husband in their footsteps; the giant husband defeats the Wagon Puller and the Reed, the Strong hammers him into the ground; the old woman goes to look for her husband, urinates where he is in the ground, hears his voice, digs him up; The strong throws the head of the fish at China; the emperor promises a daughter to the one who removes the smelly head; The strong cleans up, marries the princess of the Wagon, leaves him a tree of immortality, tells him to make sure that no one enters the garden; throws a fish head at Siam; throwing it into the sea, gets the Princess of Siam, gives it to the Reeds; returns to the land of the tyams; The pulling cart allowed people into the garden, the tree of immortality flew to heaven, the Strong died immediately; the Wagon and the Reed came for him to the land of the Tyams, died too]: Landes 1887, No. 8:67-76; the Tyams [the childless king calls on fortunetellers, they advise give alms to the people; the son will be born, but will bring poverty and grief; the king agrees, the boy born is voracious, grows up to be a hero; the father wants to destroy him, leads to a mango tree, promises shed fruit, cuts down a tree, leaves; the son drags the tree to the palace, orders it to be planted, it has taken root; the prince wanders, meets, companions the heroes Tasa (drags a huge cart), Havihava ( cuts mountains of reeds), but they can't raise its axe; three strange people (one with a long nose, the other with a tail, the third with duck legs) catch fish, give them to their brothers, there is so much of it that the village does not enough firewood to fry it; brothers go to the forest, look for fire; they see fire, T. follows him, where the witch kills him, throwing an iron loom shuttle, throws him into the cauldron; the same with H.; the prince catches the shuttle, makes the sorceress revive T. and H., binds her up; her husband comes, eats an elephant, chases his brothers, defeats T. and H., the prince tears off his head, she rolls to China; for abandoning the prince her in Siam, the emperor gives him a daughter; the prince marries her T., plants grass that brings life back to life in the imperial garden, tells no one to let her in; removes the sorcerer's head from Siam, marries H. to a Siamese princess; strangers have approached the grass of immortality, the prince is dead; T. and H. return to Champa]: Nikulin 1990:202-207; Thais [the son of the poor eats terribly much, his name is Seven Pots; father blames him a tree, he brings a tree on his back; the father invites his son to catch a wild horse, he brings a tiger; parents say that the giant owes them money, the son goes to collect the debt; takes 100 as his companions carts of bricks, pulling 100 bamboo stems at once, trees rolling their heads; brothers need fire to fry a huge grasshopper; they take turns coming to the old woman for fire, who ties them with silk yarn; Seven Pots binds her together; kills her, revives her companions with her magic rod; they kill a giant, Seven Pots marries a princess, companions gain posts in the kingdom; Seven Pots cares for parents]: Vathanaprida 1994:96-103; Karen: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 173 [Sharpshooter meets a bowlegged Runner, Owner of a cool hat uprooting trees A strongman who causes the wind of the Whirlwind; the king promises a daughter to the one who overtakes her; the Runner falls asleep halfway, the Shooter wakes him up by knocking out the headboard underneath him; the king orders to burn friends, saving them from the fire when worn hat; they abandon the princess, the Strongman takes all the gold, the Whirlwind drives away the army sent after him]: 467-471; Mason 1865 [as soon as the pregnant woman hung her clothes to dry, the sun disappeared behind clouds; angry at the Sun and he cursed her; she remained pregnant for three years gave birth to a son Ta-ywa the size of a yuyuba fruit; he is voracious; becomes monstrously strong; makes onions; comes to the spring, from whom the children of the Sun take water, threaten them, they have to ask their father to make T. larger; the Sun sends different animals against T., but in the end they have to comply with the requirement; people are afraid the strongman, trying to get rid of him; he leaves, meets, takes Long-legged, then Long-Handed, Big-Eared, Three-Toothed, Empty Breasted; they quarreled sharing fish; T. with Long-armed and The long-legged went one way and the others to the other; T. and his companions decided to cook rice, there was no fire; they came to Shie-oo for fire; he suggests fighting: the loser will support the earth; they are his knocked down and driven into the ground; when Shie-oo moves, earthquakes occur; they come to an empty house; there is a girl under the floor where T. lies down; she stabs him with a needle; he thinks someone is biting picked up the floorboard; the girl says that the eagle ate her parents and siblings, and her parents managed to hide her; T. hid the bamboo iron roof, the eagle could not break through the roof; T. asked for permission shoot it with an old bamboo bow, and shot an iron bow and killed it; then killed the other two eagles; T. took out the swallowed bones from the eagle's womb, spread it out in groups (men, women, buffaloes, pigs, etc., hit each with a rope and revived them; revived the girl's parents; left Longlegged there, telling them to look at the planted plants: if they wither, he is in trouble; goes on; the same episode on the other a girl where tigers instead of an eagle; T. kills them, leaves the Long-armed one there; with the third girl, three snakes; killed two T., the third swallowed him; the plants planted by T. dried up, Long-legged and Long-armed understand that T. is in trouble, they come, kill a snake, revive T.; he returned home and saw his brother cook live fish; he shot him in anger; repented; fired an arrow into the sky to hit him himself; the tenth arrow hit; he weakened; sent a monkey-tiger (?) bring the Karen and the tupaya to him - bring the Burmese; gave the first flint to cook the shrimp quickly; the tupaye gave two pieces of bamboo: it is difficult to get fire with them, let him hesitate; but monkey-tiger decided that the shrimp was still raw, since it was red, waited, and the dumaya quickly came to the Burmese, who were the first to come to T., asked him for elephants, horses, oxen, and their dogs asked for ears of rice the size of the ends of their fluffy tails and three harvests a year; the karen came when T. had already died and was burned, with baskets and wicker fans; only a trace of the patterns remained on the ash, the karen remembered him; buffaloes and The Karen could not catch elephants, they only caught a pig; so the Karen have pigs]: 178-187; pao [the wind knocked the old man down, he hurt himself and died; the grandson went to take revenge on the wind; meets, takes companions Heavier than a stone, Sharper than a knife, Hotter than fire; when they came to the cave of the wind, it began to blow, but it overshadowed the others heavier than the stone; the wind sent a fighting rooster to meet him Sharper than a knife; sent a pig, hot fire fried her; the guy demanded as much gold and silver for his grandfather as they could carry, distributed the houses to his fellow villagers; one received less than the others, pushed his grandfather off the tree himself, went to to the wind; in order not to share, he refused the help of the people he met; the wind destroyed it]: Zapadova 1977:258-260.

South Asia. North India (Hindi?) [the youngest son goes on a journey, meets, companions Slow Leg, Eats Little, Drinks Little, and Lots of Rats; Raja promises her daughter to whoever eats a room full of cakes will jump across the river , will drink the pond; with the help of his companions, the hero performs tasks]: W.H.D.R. 1896:409; kumaoni [the king's seven sons are preparing to marry with the brahmana's seven daughters; the youngest son decides to stay watching behind the house, tells his father and his brothers who have gone to pick up the brides not to stop at the lake; they stop, the lake floods the camp, everyone but the king drowns; the king wants to drown, the yogi pulls out the wedding a train ashore for a promise to give him his youngest son; he goes to Yogin, his wife is with him; a yogi sends him to marry a princess who laughs with rubies, cries with pearls; the prince consistently meets pulling trees, a blind man catching arrows, a carpenter instantly building a palace, one-legged, running around the world; everyone replies that he is not the strongman, but the prince who is going to marry Princess Hira; when he learns that this is he, accompanies the prince; the king gives Princess Hira, the yogi returns his first wife, the prince comes home with two wives]: Minaev 1968, No. 33:88-92; Nepali [the hermit speaks to two to the king's wives who cannot accept alms from the childless; let the king endure the art; the king has been fasting in the forest for 12 years, Vishnu gives him two apples, both wives ate and become pregnant; the second wife replaced her son with the first with a bar (chopping block), lowered it in a box along the river; the king told his first wife to retire to the forest; the boy was picked up by a fisherman, he grew up to become a young man Chandra Mukhi; the son from his second wife is evil; the king promises to do the successor of someone who rides his horse, on which only a man fit for king can sit; only the World Cup succeeds; the king found out everything, expelled the midwife with his nose cut off, returned the first wife, sent the second wife to the forest ; the king is ill, the medicine will cure him from the hands of the gold-haired princess Sunkeshari, let the World Cup marry her; when she steps, gold falls; her father's difficult errands must be fulfilled; the World Cup saved the rats and snakes from the burning forest, sparrows from the birdsman's net; rats, snakes and sparrows have promised to help; the World Cup meets, takes as companions 1) a person with an arm stretched out to grab any food; 2) a person who puts one ear under him, covers the other, disperses the clouds with his ears; 3) the companions stopped in the house, cook one by one; every time a dwarf comes with a huge mustache, sweeps the cooks with them, everything eats; when it's the turn of the World Cup, he grabs the dwarf by the mustache, throws him out the window; the rats made their way to the princess, she gave the World Cup grains of magic rice; Father S. tells 1) to sow the field, harvest tomorrow (World Cup) sows magic rice, it ripens immediately); 2) plant trees from all over the world (long-armed reaches them, brings them); 3) separate chaff, rice and millet (long-eared chaff, sparrows they sort the grain); the king gives S., she cures the father of the World Cup; his evil brother poisoned him, kidnapped S.; the snakes extracted the poison, the World Cup came to life; the king executed his son from his second wife, handed over the throne to the World Cup]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:70-79; santala [Gumda herds Raja goats; walking down the street, the Raja elephant rubs against the wall of G.'s house every time; G. promises to take him by the trunk and throw him overseas; keeps his promise; the Raja orders him to find bones an elephant; G. goes, meets, companions a fishing rod from a tree trunk, an elephant is bait; holding a banyan in his hand to protect those working in the field from the sun; two people lifting water from the pond into the ditch with the power of singing; everyone says when they meet that he is not strong, but G.; they cross the sea, live in the forest, cook in turn; each time the demon defeats the cook, hangs a stone around his neck, eats everything; when it's G.'s turn, he kills the demon with the same stone, marries his wife, takes his property, becomes a raja; calls his mother to live with him; the former Raja decides to be friends with G., not to demand an elephant bone] : Campbell 1891:57 -62; baiga [the potter has 12 married potter sons and the 13th youngest is single, sitting at home; brothers tell him to bring 12 carts of clay without harnessing animals; he should do it; brothers frightened and drove him away; he meets, takes as his companions 1) a baiga who plowed a tiger, 2) a lohara who bent the hot iron with his bare hands, 3) ahira who forked a rope of dust, 4) teli, who he squeezed out 12 measures of oil with his hands; the potter's son (SG) tells everyone that he has never seen such a strong (dexterous), and they say that a real strongman (trickster) SG; friends hunt and take turns cooking; when teli's turn, Rakshas comes in the guise of a boy, eats all the rice and beats the cook; beats ahir, lohar, baiga who came to the rescue, but SG killed him; Rakshas has 5 beautiful daughters, SG married one, and him her companions could also sleep with her; but she only liked baiga; then SG gave each one a wife; Baiga and his wife stayed in that place, and Dharti Mata gave them everything they needed; wife washed their hair, a few the hair swam away, the son of the Raja Gonds picked it up; Raja sent Malin, who introduced herself as the sister of the young woman's mother; asked what her husband's life was like; in the arrow; M. burned the arrow; Baiga rushed home, had time kick his wife in the chest, the trail remained; the baiga died; the woman was dragged to the king of the gondas, but four friends came out to meet him, killed M. and her servants, returned the woman, found a piece of an unburned arrow, the lohar revived baigu and they all lived under the auspices of Dharti Mata]: Elwin 1939:489-491; oriya (dombo) [the prince only wants to marry a girl who was kidnapped by a monster; meets and companions on the way 1) a blind man who sees everything in the distance; 2) tall, who can quickly take him anywhere; a fat man who can dry the sea; the monster will give the girl if the prince finds a ring thrown in the forest ( the blind saw, the long one delivered); 2) get the same ring out of the sea (the fat one drained the sea); the girl orders to kill the monster and sprinkle blood on the stones; the prince did so, the petrified people came to life; the prince brought his wife Home]: Tauscher 1959, No. 75:144-146; Tamils [king wife: I can hit a person's forehead with an arrow, hit any animal; wife: there are others no worse than you; the king goes on a journey (look for such same); meets and satellites 1) a deer who has aimed an onion at the sky: there is a deer pregnant with two deer, it can hit a female embryo without hitting a male; 2) a person holding the river water with his toe, until he brushes his teeth; 3) an old man with a beautiful flower, he brought it from a country that from sunrise to sunset; all four go to marry the princess; the king demands a beautiful flower; the old man went after him, tore it off and carried it; this is a lotus, and it has a five-headed cobra; the old man fell asleep and the cobra was about to bite him; the one who stopped the river with his finger saw it, and the man aiming at the sky shot the cobra; the old man woke up and brought a flower; the king gave his daughter, but four began to fight over her; the king told them to swim and then stand beside his daughter: capable of hitting a man in the forehead - behind, stopping the river - on the left, aiming at the sky on the right, bringing a flower in front of the girl; princess: my father standing behind me, brothers standing next to me, my husband; the old man received the princess and was happy with her]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 7:19-22; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 87 [the tsar drives four sons away to study science; the eldest stays in a city where clairvoyance is taught, the rest respectively, theft, archery, carpentry; successfully demonstrate their abilities to their father (the youngest repairs a broken egg); return the mother kidnapped by Rakshasa, kill Rakshasa; argue who did more to achieve the goal; they decide that the eldest, he reigns], 92 [the youngest of the seven giants (MB) does not work, lies on the ash; the brothers send him to the site, who grows a giant field of rice ; the brothers lie as if there is no field, he leaves; he takes as companions a banyan digging in his teeth, fishing with bait from an elephant that blocks the river with his feet; the companions are killed in turn by the woman to whom they come to ask for coals; MB threatens to kill her, she revives the satellites; they throw a fish bone, blocking the river; the river dries up; they take out the bone themselves; someone brings a piece of bone to the king, gets the princess promised by the king; MB exposes the impostor, gives the princess to the first companion; similar episodes with other kings, each companion gets a wife; MB marries the daughter of the cannibal king he killed; her hair swallowed by fish, gets to the king; the old woman promises to bring a woman; asks MB's wife to find out where his life is; in a sword; the old woman puts her sword into the fire, takes the woman; MB's companions see that lemon trees and lotus flowers have faded; they find and clean the sword; living MB finds his wife, kills the kidnapper, takes his kingdom]: 204-206, 222-225.

Malaysia-Indonesia. East Timor [João Projora eats up his parents, quarrels with his father, goes on a journey; he meets Strelka, who at first refuses to go with him, but agrees when he is unable to raise the abandoned J. Chris; the same with the Listener; the chief plays the heir's wedding, J. accepts the challenge to eat everything on the table, eats up for the first time in his life, becomes the leader of Asen when he is not in the power to raise the abandoned to wander;]: Anonimo 1956c: 20-21.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tinghian (the story is only for Tinghian groups who are in contact with the Christianized population) [Dogedog is a lazy slacker; but decided to lay bamboo on the ground before the rainy season begins in his hut; took rice wrapped in banana leaf; the cat ate rice; the same the next day; on the third, D. set a trap; the cat asked him not to kill - he would still be useful; in the morning in the cat's place rooster; D. took him to Magsingal, where cockfights; on the way he meets and companions a crocodile, a deer, an anthill, a monkey; the rooster D. easily defeated all the roosters, because in fact he is a cat and has claws; further competitions: 1) who will sit under water longer (crocodile); 2) who runs faster (deer); 3) who will win the fight (anthill defeated the wrestler); 4) who will climb higher on the tree (monkey); D. bought two horses to take home all the silver he received and never worked again]: Cole 1916:91-94.

China - Korea. Koreans: Bystrov et al. 1962 [father gives his seven sons the names "Far away, but I hear everything", "High, but I'm low", "I'll open it without a key", "It's hot, but I'm cold", "Cut it down and I'll grow again", "It's heavy for me easy", "Beat, it doesn't hurt"; all the rice was taken by the landowner, the brothers stole it; the landowner tries to execute the thief, the brothers replace each other; one is not afraid of lashes, the other does not burn, the third does not break when he falls off a cliff, the fourth has a severed head, and a torso from the head, the brothers kill the landowner]: 275-278; Choi 1979, No. 287 [the giant goes to save the princesses; on the way he takes three more comrades - the shooter, runner (tied one leg to his shoulder so as not to run so fast), wind turbine; monster offers to compete; 1) running; 2) shooting; locks in an iron cage, makes a fire on the roof; windbreaker turns hat, cold wind moderates fever; first giant beheads monster; princesses saved]: 113; Lin Lin, Ustin 1959 (Chinese Koreans) [girl rejects suitors; one of the rejected faces her against rocks; while she fell, the young man below wove the basket, caught it; she took it by her husband; each of their six sons has special abilities (wise, opens locks instead of a severed head a new one grows, does not burn, does not sink, holds any weight); the official demands money, puts the brothers' father in prison, they release him, replace him with a son who grows a new head; those who do not burn; does not sink; a rock is thrown over the whole family, the last brother keeps it; the official leaves the family alone because you can't see it behind the rock]: 357-361; Cho 2001, No. 102 [=Pack 1991:164-166; childless spouses find in a baby in the forest; he grows up quickly, is extremely strong, he is called Jangsoi ("iron giant"); he goes to war, meets, comrades the Snoring Man so that the tree swayed, the Moving Mountains, Pissing like a river; they easily defeat enemies; cannibals lock them in a closet, they run away, they are put in an iron closet under fire; the snoring person causes an icy wind; in the morning, the sister cities kill the chief's servants winged cannibal, playing gonoo with their bones; J. and Winged fight high in the sky; J.'s hand falls; brothers sprinkle it with wheat flour, throw it back, it grows; prevent Winged's wife from sprinkling hand with ash; they do not allow the Winged's hand to be sprinkled with flour, sprinkled with ash; the same happens to his head; J. beats the Winged's wife, she turns into a nine-tailed fox; brothers share treasures and supplies, return to houses], 103 [the father sends four sons to study, promising to divide the property depending on their success; three years later, one son sees a kite nest on the mountain, the other steals unnoticed by the bird, and brings eggs, the third knocks everything down with one arrow, the fourth stitches them, making them whole again, the second carries them back again; the serpent stole the princess; the brothers find out that she is far at sea, they take her away, hit the flying a snake with an arrow, he falls, breaks the boat, the boat is sewn; the king divides the kingdom between brothers]: 188-192, 192-195; Ząng 1952, No. 71 [a childless man picks up a baby, he grows up, is strong, leaves wandering, his name is Iron Shoes, he meets, takes friends 1) snoring trees, 2) leveling mountains, 3) spewing the river while urinating; they spend the night with a woman and her four sons; they hear them talking at night, they are cannibals; those 1) set fire to the building where the brothers spend the night, Khrapun blows out the fire; 2) set fire to a pile of pine logs, the urethra floods the fire; Snore froze the stream, cannibals froze into it, their brothers are killing them]: 162-166; Chinese (no place of recording) [the peasant asks his sons Strongman, Blow Out the Wind, Iron, Nothing Heat, Long Leg , Big Foot, Big Mouth to push back the mountains and the sea; they did it, sowed bread, the emperor ordered the harvest to be taken to the treasury; brothers come to the city, breaking through the wall; Iron breaks the target at them sword, No matter the Heat extinguishes the fire they wanted to burn them with; Long Leg and Big Foot calmly enter the sea, where they are going to be drowned; Big Mouth collects water, pours it onto the palace, drowning the emperor]: Riftin 1972:218-221 (=1977:203-206); Chinese (Guangdong) [=Fielde 1893:5-9; the woman has 5 sons, all look the same; one can drink the sea, the other's body is not afraid of iron, the third leg has a third leg stretch to any length, the fourth is not afraid of fire, the fifth can hold his breath for any length; the former uses his gift to catch sea fish; people send their sons to learn from him; he the sea swallows, they rush to collect fish, it regurgitates the water, everyone drowns; he is sentenced to be beheaded, allowed to go say goodbye to his mother; then other brothers come instead, they are not manages to execute (everyone thinks they are the same person); do not cut off his head; do not drown in the sea (stretches his legs to the bottom); do not cook in boiling oil; do not strangle by placing a huge pie inside; in all brothers were eventually released]: Fielde 1893:5-9; Chuan Miao [a person gives a 60-year-old childless woman seven pills, tells her to swallow one a year; she swallows everything at once, gives birth to seven sons; one The strongman, the second Long-legged, the third Big-legged, the fourth Pot-bellied, the last three without a name; the second easily crosses any river, the fourth can eat a lot; the mother says that the Thunder liver will heal her; the brothers pour boiled rice, the Thunder comes down, they tie it up (the mother tells me to wait to cut it, maybe he will recover anyway); the thief thought it was a rooster, unleashed Thunder, he flew away since then patronizes thieves; brothers were killed by the Chinese in the war; they became seven demons, they are summoned if the Chinese are to be harmed]: Graham 1954:128-129; meo Vietnam [childless wife swallows four pills, gives birth to four sons - Sensitive Ear, Giant, Sharp-Knife-Nipochem, Boiling, Non-Cooked; the ruler is building a new palace, it will fall apart; the brothers promise to build it in a day, but for reward; Sensitive Ear hears how the ruler promises to cook the one who has come for payment in wine; cut into pieces; drown in the lake; three brothers come successively, one cannot be cooked, the other cannot be cut, the third lake is up to the navel; the ruler comes with an army; brothers turn insects into warriors, bamboo into weapons, kill the ruler, rule one by one]: Nikulin 1990:94-98; yi [elderly childless a woman is about to drown herself; an old man gives her 9 pills, each of which she can conceive and give birth to a son; instead of taking one pill a year, a woman swallows everything at once, gives birth to 9 boys; cannot to feed them, goes to drown them; the old man promises that they will feed themselves, gives them names: House of Power, Big Belly, Never Hungry, Never Beat Him, Long Leg, Never Freeze Him, Fireproof, He's Not To cut, not to drown Him; a pillar collapsed in the emperor's palace, the emperor promises a reward to whoever repairs it; the House of Power has put support in place; the emperor orders to eat a lot as proof rice (Big Belly ate); the emperor is afraid of such a strongman, tells him to starve him (Never Hungry comes instead); tells him to beat him to death (He is not sensitive to blows); throw him into abyss (Long Leg takes a step down); tells to burn (Fireproof does not burn); tells him to leave it on a snowy top (He does not freeze sitting in the snow); tells him to cut with swords (they bounce off the body); tells drown; He was not drowned, he took water into his mouth, released it into the emperor, he was carried away by the river; the tyrant was gone, everyone was happy]: Miller 1994:190-193; li (Hainan, w. Changjiang) [husband and wife were fishing; they made an aloe fire by the river; fragrant smoke reached the sky; the god of thunder came down to find out what was going on; the couple replied that they had no children, life was boring, They made a fire to keep them warm; the god of thunder brought them five bananas from the sky; let the wife eat one every three years, then she would have children; but she ate them all at once; for three years she had 5 children; finally told her husband to cut her belly; the eldest in the womb heard this, told the brothers that they needed to go outside, and soon the brothers were born; when the children were 10 years old, parents sent them to work in the fields, but they can't do anything; when the god of thunder came down again, the couple complained about the children; he ordered the children to be named Bajiao (Legs with eight joints); Kanbafan ( Looking at eight sides of the world, he is keen); Tingjiuzhou (Hearing [everything that happens] in 9 areas); Sipisi (Hard temper); Baishoutong (Communicating with hundreds of animals, understanding their language); mother in the morning answered her sons that today they would eat dragon liver; the elder told the second to see what river the dragon was in; the second saw a dragon in the river under the mountain; the elder caught him; the brothers killed the dragon, they cooked the liver, served it; this dragon was a friend of the god of thunder; he sent wind and rain; the elder told the third to listen to what was going on in heaven; third, the god of thunder was about to kill them; the fourth offered climb into the river, get green moss from the bottom and build a hut where you can hide from the god of thunder; when the god of thunder came down to the ground, he stepped on the hut, slipped, fell, and The brothers ran out and grabbed him; they locked him in a hut, cut off his meat with a knife and sprinkled salt on his wounds; children from all over the village ran to scream; when the five brothers left, the dragon told the children that if They want to hear him scream, they must take an awl and bring him a pumpkin with clean water; among the children were brother and sister who did as the dragon commanded; the god of thunder pulled out his tooth and gave it to them, commanding him to plant him in the ground, wait for sprouts to appear, leaves grow, flowers bloom and fruit, and then bring him a ripe throat pumpkin; the god of thunder planted brother and sister inside, and he ran away from the hut, digging; going up to the sky, sent wind and rain, flooded the ground, people drowned; the eldest of the five brothers, who was walking for salt, came back, saw the flood, cut down a tree with an ax and made a boat out of the trunk; it sailed to heaven and began to fight the god of thunder; three days later he killed him; the wind subsided, the rain stopped, the water receded; brother and sister came out of the pumpkin; the god of thunder went down into the world and told them to marry; they refused: the god of thunder would punish them; the god of thunder named himself and told them not to be afraid; after the wedding, the sister gave birth to a grindstone; the god of thunder ordered to break it into pieces; let the sister throw half of the pieces on the mountain and the brother the other half on the plain; in the morning there are many miao and li on the mountain; they cut down trees and built houses, planted dry rice; and on the Han Plain they built stone houses, sowed and plowed]: Zhou 2002, No. 8:12-13; li (Hainan, wu. Ledong) [at the foot of the Jianfengling Range, there is an old peasant woman in it; she has three sons, all beautiful, and each had their own talents; the eldest is beautiful and hears everything (Know-it-Shunfenger); the middle one sees everything (Sharp-eyed - Qianliyan); he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a large mole next to his eyebrows; the youngest could move mountains and dig trees (Bogatyr - Dalishi). One day, the elder heard the god of thunder in heaven promise to go down and destroy this happy family; the second saw the god of thunder descend; the third tied the god of thunder to a tree; in the evening he made his way to the house the thief to steal the ram; when he reached the tree, he felt for the horns of the god of thunder and thought that there was a ram in front of him; untied the god of thunder; the elder brother heard a rustle and a sound like flapping wings; the younger grabbed an ax and all three ran in pursuit; the god of thunder, freed himself from his fetters, ran into the forest; his middle brother saw him; the youngest saw nothing in the dark and waved his axe following his younger brother's instructions; he injured the god of thunder has a leg; he has returned to heaven, but the wound has not healed; every time it rains, water falls on the wound and hurts; unable to help himself, he starts screaming, his scream is thunder]: Zhou 2002, No. 17 : 23-24.

The Balkans. Moldovans [An old man lives with an old woman. They don't have kids. An old man goes around the world to look for his son so that there is someone to take care of them in his old age. After wandering, he comes to the well. At the well, an old man has eyelids to the waist, eyelashes to the knees, and a beard to the toes. In response to the story about the purpose of the trip, he sends him home, because in the morning this morning his boy has been dragging jugs around the yard, watered the garden, filled all the vats and barrels. The old man returns home, sees a guy in his yard, as handsome as an oak tree, doing all the work in the yard. His grandfather and woman dress him, feed him, and call him Fat Frumos. He plows, sows, threshes, collects grapes, takes care of old people. One afternoon, when he sleeps, he hears a strong scream that makes the waters in the rivers cloudy, the trees bend to the ground, and the ground hums for three hours. FF asks who shouted it, his father and mother do not know, they send him to his grandfather at the well, who has eyelids to the waist, eyelashes to the knees, and a beard to toe. FF sets off, comes to his grandfather at the well. He explains that it was Verya-Bogatyr who shouted at Kodrul-Revakul, he heard his name, but he didn't see him, we should go to his brother and he'll tell him how to find him. FF comes to the shack, where the old man is so old that his eyebrows close his eyes and he can't see anything. The old man lays out his food and starts eating. FF eats too. The old man eats everything quickly and stays hungry. He makes lunch for himself again, and the hungry wanderer eats almost everything again. Then the old man realizes that someone is around and says: "If you are older than me, be my father, if you are younger, be my son." FF confesses that he is younger, explains that he visited his brother and wants to know why the WB shouted at Kodrul-Revakul, so that the waters in the rivers became cloudy, the trees bent to the ground, and the ground was buzzing for three hours. The old man says that only his sister, Ilana-Kosynzyan, knows, and if not, no one will tell him about it. The road to it is long, and the WB courtyard is so cleverly fenced that you can walk around it for three days and three nights without knowing where the gate is. But on the third night, you'll see a crack and light from them. You have to knock and they'll open it to him. The old man gives a horse and two dogs. After three days and three nights of travel, at dusk, the horse asks if you can see anything in the distance. FF replies that it's like it's starting to dawn, like the sun wants to rise. The horse says that the sun has just gone down - these are WB palaces. It took them three days and three nights to reach the palaces. For three days and three nights, they jump around the fence, and finally notice a crack that makes light. They knock, the gate opens. FF enters the gate, and WB IK's sister just went out on the water, walks, hums, and the jugs in front of her are jumping and dancing. FF says hello to her, and IK wonders how he got here, naming FF by name. She reports that the World Bank has been ill for 9 years, lying down, and it carries him from the shade to the sun. Why he has the disease, he does not say. FF suggests bringing him some water and asking him. IK goes with the jugs full, lets his brother get drunk and asks. The WB refuses to say it wants to destroy him. After a while, FF sends it again. The WB hits her cheek. My sister is sad, but comes back after a while. Then the WB tells him to be moved to another room and tells the secret of his misfortune. He was on a hunt and shot three turtles. I sat down with a horse and dogs under a tree so big that you can't ride it on horseback in a day, cut off a dry branch, made a fire to fry pigeons, heard the voice of an old woman from the top of the tree - complained in the cold. He offered to go down to warm up. She came down a little bit, but said she was afraid of dogs and horses. She gave me three hairs, told me to throw two hairs at dogs, and one on a horse. After that, the old woman went down to the fire with frogs on a spit. WB roasted pigeons and she fried frogs, and kept trying to touch the pigeons with her frogs. Seeing that the woman was ruining his food, the WB pushed her away from the fire, and suddenly it began to grow, hung over him as a monster, strangled him, and he felt unable to move. The old woman pulled out a small sword, ripped open his stomach and took out his insides, and put wood rot instead. In pain, the WB screamed so much that the waters in the rivers became cloudy, the trees bent to the ground and the ground was buzzing for three hours. And the old woman told WB that as soon as he revealed to someone the secret of his illness, he would die right away. As soon as WB finished the story, it gave up its breath. The yard is shaking, the trees are crouching to the ground. IK is crying, telling FF about his grief. FF jumps to Kodrul-Revakul to that tree. He shot a turtledot on the way. When he found a tree, he cut off a branch from it, lit a fire, put up a tripod, and began to fry a turtle. He hears a voice from a tree complaining about the cold, invites you to go down and warm up. The witch goes lower, complains about dogs and the horse, gives three hairs. FF throws them into the fire. He assures the witch that it was his dog who burned its tail. The woman goes down, sits by the fire with frogs on a spit, strives to touch FF pigeons with her frogs. He explains that whoever roasts pigeons should eat frogs, and whoever roasts frogs will eat pigeons. She says she killed a lot of brave men like that. FF pushes her away. The old woman gets up to grow into a scarecrow, and he tells the dogs and the horse to take her. Dogs begin to vomit and drag the woman along the ground. When she gets up, the horse knocks her down with his hoof. She asks for mercy, the FF demands to tell me where the heart and kidneys of the WB are. Old woman: At the top of the tree, in the third room upstairs between two jugs with living and dead water. FF climbs a tree, takes his heart and kidneys. When they step on the ground, dogs turn their heads. The witch opens her eyes, looks at the tree, blows at it; the tree falls down. FF turns around and throws the tree into the sky so forcefully that chips fly from the sky for three days. On his order, dogs and a horse tear it apart, FF splashes dead water on it, pieces grow together, splashes alive - the woman comes to life. Dogs throw themselves at the witch again, tear them to pieces. The FF burns what's left, and scattered the ash down the wind. The horse saddles. Goes to the IC. They go to the dead WB, cut its stomach; after throwing away the wood dust, they wash it with wine, put the heart and kidneys in their original place, splash dead water, and the entrails grow together. FF gives a jug of live water to IR, and steps aside by itself. When the sister sprayed WB with live water, he says that he slept for a long time. IK: I would have slept my eyelid and wouldn't wake up if his heart and kidneys hadn't returned to him, and FF did it. WB hugs him, kisses him and happily swallows him. The IC asks me to let him go. WB releases, FF is becoming much more beautiful. The World Bank thanks him for his return to his strength, gives his sister and all the goods in the palace. He warns that there is a manor house near where there are snakes. He's been dreaming of marrying IK for a long time. They fought many times, but neither he could defeat Verya-Bogatyr, nor his World Bank. We must beware of stepping on his land. As soon as they cross the border of his estate, he will select IC. On a holiday, FF and IK go to inspect their properties. Bypassing them, they accidentally step on the border of the snake estate, fog falls to the ground, turns into darkness and darkness, and IR disappears. FF returns in tears to Vere-Bogatyr, says goodbye, goes to look for IR. A man sits by a large river, one jaw on one bank and the other on the other, and when he swallows water, not a drop of water remains in the river, fish fight on land and the ground cracks. No matter how much water comes into that river, he drinks all over and shouts: "I'm dying of thirst, dying of thirst!" FF is surprised. The man suggests that it is better to marvel at the FF, who killed the witch and resurrected the WB. FF says it's him, going to the dragon for IC. The person asks to take it with him, promises to come in handy. They fraternize, walk, see 12 plows in a row in one field, a person goes after plows, eats furrows and shouts to plow sooner, otherwise he dies of hunger! FF is surprised. The one who ate the furrows, Flamynzila-Unsaturated, suggests that FF caught the witch, burned her, and scattered the ashes to the wind. He asks you to take it with him, maybe he will help him, or maybe he'll get food for himself, otherwise he won't remember being full since he lives. They fraternize, walk, see 12 firewood trucks burning, and among them a man dressed in 12 covers, crooked in three deaths, so that his head touches his legs and trembles with the cold. FF laughs at Jerila-Freezila, who tells you to laugh at himself, because without him, you can't get rid of the snake IC. They fraternize, walk, see a man with 6 millstones on one leg and 6 on the other. When it hits the millstones on the left with millstones on the right, it runs around half the world, and when it hits from left to right, it rushes like the wind in the opposite direction. When a sieve of water collects, it returns it to its place unspilled. This is Fujila-Runaway Dogonyu, he doesn't feel any stones on his legs. I tell myself to be surprised: where you go, it's hard to be without him. They fraternize, walk, meet an unwashed shooter: 6 pounds of dirt in each eye, and he kills a mosquito in the ninth sky with an arrow without aiming. I tell myself to be surprised: where you go, it's hard to be without him. They fraternize, walk, meet a man who sleeps on a rope and screams in his sleep that he has nowhere to stretch out. They fraternize, walk, come to the serpent's palace. The palace is surrounded by a fence of stakes, each with a human head on it. Only one pole at the gate is headless and shouts: "Head, head!" They knock on the gate, the serpent comes out. When the serpent finds out why the FF came, he says he will give him the IC, but let him follow all orders, otherwise hang out on an empty cola. The serpent tells its servants to prepare rest rooms for guests. The servant leads to the copper house, under which day and night are fire, the house is red outside and inside.. The freezer comes in first, from his breathing in the house like on a summer evening, just right to rest. Everyone goes to bed, Freezer sticks her head out so as not to freeze her friends with her breath. By morning, frost covers him like feathers, and when he sighs, he sweeps snow at the door. The serpent calls the servant to remove the ash and bones from the house. The servant opens the doors: they are icy, the guests scream that they are freezing. The snake gets scared, puts everyone at the table. If they eat and drink everything they put on the table, they will give it to IR. It brings 99 cows, 99 bread ovens and 99 barrels of wine. Insatiated and Drink-I want to tell my brothers to take as much as they need, eat and drink the rest. The serpent is telling FF to raze the hills around the castle to the ground by tomorrow morning. Drive-Hills-Encircling throws a rope and starts tying the two hills together, and then twisting it overhead so that one hill flies to one end of the earth and the other to the other. The serpent agrees to give the IC, but first you should send a brave man to bring a bucket of water from the Gray Mountains. The snake will also send a grandmother with a bucket for water, and if the FF person comes earlier, he will give the IR. The serpent sends his grandmother with the bucket through the water in the evening, and Run-Dogon goes to bed. It is difficult to wake him up at dawn. The old woman is already turning back. Run away and Dogonyu starts throwing millstones and gets to the Gray Mountains while they are still sleeping, collects a bucket of water and catches up with his grandmother. She offers to take a break, put her head in her arms and rest, puts her spell, and puts a snake bone under his head. At the request of FF Okila, the All-Seeing sees why he hesitates to Run Away and Dogon, sees that only the grandmother is coming, and Run-Catch Up is sleeping. He fires an arrow, she knocks a bone out from under the sleeping man, he catches up with his grandmother, brings water. The serpent gives to IK FF, but forbids them to walk on its lands, their way by sea. He thinks they won't be able to cross the sea and will remain his servants for life. When they reach the sea, Freezela freezes it, they cross over to the other side. The serpent is chasing. When it's in the middle of the sea, Frozen breathes fire from one nostril, the serpent sinks to the bottom and is eaten by crayfish and fish. FF and Ilyana Kosynzyana go their own way. Each assistant is left in his place. They arrive at Vere-Bogatyr, who blesses them to the crown. He turns all his wealth into three golden apples and gives them as a dowry. From there, young people go home to their grandmother and grandfather and have a wedding there]: Botezat 1981:235-246; Moldovans [a childless man complains to an old man with a knee-length beard that he and his wife do not have a child; he sends his back home, in the house, an adult worker son, Fat Frumos; FF goes to look for the one whose loud scream he heard; this is Belief the hero; on the way he quietly eats the food of a blind old man; he guesses, calls FF son, says that V. has a sister Ilyan-Kosynzyan; gives a horse and two dogs; V. is sick, FF asks IC to find out the reason; he tells how an old woman in a tree asked to throw a hair at his horse and dogs, went down, began to fry frogs, became a monster, took out his insides, put all sorts of rubbish, said he would die if he told me what happened; V. dies; FF burns hairs, horse and dogs the old woman wins, FF makes her tell her where V.'s heart and kidneys are; FF takes living and dead water there; kills an old woman; revives V., gets AI; she is carried away by the Serpent; FF follows her, takes her as companions 1) drinking the river, 2) eating the earth from hunger, 3) freezing in fire, 4) running around with millstones on his feet, 5) a sharpshooter, 6) encircling ropes; Serpent 1) leaves them in a hot house (Freezer cools); 2) tells you to eat and drink a lot (Eat, Drank); 3) compare the hills (The shingles ties them with ropes, smooths them); 4) deliver water from afar faster than the grandmother sent by the Serpent (The Runner pulls out, falls asleep, the Shooter wakes him up); The serpent gives IK, tells him to go by sea, freezes him; wedding]: Botezat 1982:235-245; Moldovans [God and St. Peter was walking by, Peter baptized the peasant's third son, who became prophetic; the godson of God (KB) plowed a furrow from the kitchen to the arable land so that his sister would walk along the furrow; the dragon recognized, held out a furrow to his home, the girl took lunch, got to the dragon; KB goes looking for her, throwing an iron core forward; the chicks say that the dragon from the well is eating them, 24 has already eaten them; KB cuts off both heads of the dragon; mother asks the chicks, where their savior is, they send her in the wrong direction so that she does not swallow KB in joy; she finds, swallows, belches, KB becomes handsome; asks the bird to find her sister; she calls her sons- Winds; Eastern self with a nail, a beard with an elbow on a lame hare; Southern tall, blind, gives hairs, if burned, will come to the rescue; KB meets Obivala, Opivala, South Wind; East and South Winds tear the dragon in half; three brothers fight for their father's inheritance - an invisible hat, a whip to fly on, an awl that lifts him to a glass mountain, where the king hides his daughter from the dragon; KB promises to throw things into the lake (whoever gets them faster), takes them himself; the king promises a daughter for killing the dragon; KB overhears Scaraosky (the devil's boss) telling the hell that KB should spray water on them from his baptisms, then he will take the treasure; so that KB does not sprinkle them with water, the devils bring him a dragon in a barrel; KB brings the barrel to the king, kills the dragon, faints; the king puts him in the barrel, drops him; KB burns hairs, a man with a nail on a lame hare frees him; the king demands for his daughter 1) a flower from the Flower Mountain (a man with a nail gives); 2) eat a herd of cows (Oat eats); 2) drink a well water (Opivalo drinks); 3) collect all the mosquitoes (South Wind collects); the king threw the awl to hell into the lake; KB again threatens them with baptismal water, they give them an awl; KYU climbs a glass mountain, marries on the princess]: Moldavian tales 1968:185-194; Slovenes [a young hero is unable to learn from a shoemaker, from a blacksmith, goes on a journey; meets and companions 1) a twisted pine tree, 2) throwing millstones; brothers stop at the castle, cook in turn, the beggar takes food, beats the miller, the pine; the blacksmith beats him himself, the old man disappears into the abyss; the miller, the pine tree is ordered immediately pick them back, the companions let the blacksmith down, he kills three snakes guarding gold, silver, sparkling locks, frees three girls, they give a ring, a sword, companions pick up the girls, leave blacksmith; he makes the brownie ring the bell, the castles fail, the blacksmith goes to the ground; forgives his companions, gives them a wife, takes a third girl; the power of the heroes is gone, but from everyone a glorious family has gone]: Arkhipova 1962:45-49; Serbs [the son dreams as if he has become a royal son-in-law, refuses to tell his parents, they drive him away; the young man refuses to tell the king a dream, he is his puts her in prison, he makes a way into the princess's room, lives well with her for three years; the princess promises to marry someone who throws a spear over the wall, tells her to summon that imprisoned slave; he throws, likes the king, gets the princess; the viziers demand that he bring a squad of 1000 people; on the way, the young man is joined by 1) listening to the grass grow, 2) overtaking birds, 3) throwing a spear to the sky, 4) eating a huge cauldron of corn, 5) drinking the lake; the viziers offer (the winner takes the loser's wife) 1) eat everything cooked (The meal eats), 2) throw it into the oven and take out a person alive (Drinking fills with water), 3) overtake the winged sorceress (The runner overtakes but falls asleep, the Rumor finds out about it, the javelin thrower kills the sorceress, the Runner brings a jug of water); young man picks up viziers at stake, lives well in the palace]: Karadzic 1853 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:36-43, in Eschker 1992, No. 38:178-188; Serbs [in order not to give his daughter to Tsar Tatar, Tsar Petar says that she is dead, and he himself goes to the King Sun to find out why the days are shorter in winter; in fact, she hides with his daughter in the tower; in three years he will call, but his daughter is missing; sentenced to execution promises to find her in exchange for a pardon; five snakes come to her mother, calls her mother; one is a thief, the second has a nose, the third is a builder, the fourth is a shooter, the fifth catcher (can even catch lightning) ; brothers swear to help man; find and take the princess from the seven-headed serpent (one builds a tower, the serpent destroys it, takes the girl away, the shooter hit him, the catcher caught the girl); everyone wants a princess for himself; The Mother of the Winds sends them to judge to the Mother of the Month, that to the Mother of the Sun, that to their own; she tells them to consider the girl a sister; 5 brothers, a man and a girl, turn into Pleiades, go around every year mothers of the Winds, the Month, the Sun, are thanked for their advice; from Yuriev's spring day to Vidovdan (June 28), they are on the road, they are not visible]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:212-218 (=Arkhipova 1962:203-208); Hungarians [dying , the poor man tells his three sons that, according to the sorcerer, one of them will return the stolen sun and moon, but he does not know who exactly; the king found out about this and called the brothers to him; promises to make him an heir the one who will cope with this task and make his assistant viceroy; the younger brother is Kiss Miklos (KM), the elders laugh at him; the king orders to choose horses and weapons; the elders take the best horses and swords, KM - a seedy and dirty skate, a rusty sword; the skate turned out to be a six-legged horse conceived by the wind, which eats hot coals, the sword on its own; brothers come to the country for 49 kingdoms, overseas Operantsia, behind a glass mountain to the silver bridge; KM tells you to hide under the bridge and wait for a 12-headed dragon with the moon tied to the saddle; the dragon horse stumbles for the first time, the dragon realizes what will happen fight with KM; KM ordered the sword to cut off his heads, he cut off; KM gave the horse with the moon to his middle brother; the same at the golden bridge, the 24-headed dragon; KM ordered the sword to cut off the dragon's heads, but they grew; KM became fight on its own, but cannot defeat him; dragon: I will become the blue flame and the dragon will become red; when the red rose above the blue, the KM brothers threw a piece of sulfur at him, as the KM had asked them in advance, a piece of sulfur, a red flame went out; sending the brothers home with the moon and sun, KM took the form of a gray kitten and climbed into a house where the mother and wives of dragons overhear their conversation; the wife of the younger dragon: I will become a source if brothers take a sip of water and then die; the elder's wife will turn into a pear with poisoned fruits; the mother of dragons asks to support her eyelids with an iron beam weighing 1200 pounds so that she can see; promises turn into a mouth such that the upper jaw is in the sky and the lower jaw is on the ground;: swallowed the KM and its brothers; the kitten rushed out, the dragon threw a beam at him and immediately went blind, because her eyelids covered her again eyes; KM reached his brothers in two jumps and went home together; on the way, KM cuts a spring and a pear with a sword, bleeding from them; brothers see an approaching open mouth, hide in the house of the one who melts lead (Lead Friend, SD); they pour molten lead into the dragon's mouth, she is dead; now SD offers KM to fight; with his little finger drove KM into the lead floor; lets go for the promise to get him the Green Daughter of the Green King; he let the older brothers go; they claim victory over dragons, marry princesses, the eldest becomes king; they let go of the lunar and sunny horses into the sky, but they began to shine sadly; KM goes in search, meets, takes as companions Runner, Drinker, Obivala, Freezing in Fire, Seeing Far Away, Strongman Throwing Iron club; The Green King (ZK) demands Pluto to bring his daughter's wedding dress faster than the local runner; but ZK sent his old witch mother to run in the evening, and the Runner only ran in the morning; he He overtook her, received a dress from Pluto, but on the way back the witch persuaded him to take his time and go together; put him to sleep, grabbed the box with his dress and ran; the Seer saw it, the Strongman threw the club, knocking it out From under the Runner's head, a horse skull on which the witch put his head; the Runner overtook the witch again, took the box and handed it to ZK; he demands to spend the night in an iron oven; the freezing oven cooled; ZK demands to eat and drink an incredible amount of meat and wine (Oat and Drank performed); KM got the princess, but as soon as he admitted that he had got it for another, she disappeared; the Seer saw her in whale belly, Vipivalo drank the sea, Runner brought the whale, KM took the princess out of his belly; the princess was gone again; The seer saw her in an apple hanging in ZK's garden, the Runner brought her; for the third time, the princess in a cocoon hanging in the sky; the strongman knocked down the cocoon with a club, the Runner ran and caught the princess; KM released his companions; told the princess that she should find out what the power of SD was; while he was talking to KM, the princess she magically opened 7 iron doors to the basement, took gold from the lead kegs and told the jeweler to gild the threshold; SD was furious, beat the princess, but she changed herself with a feature and lay down on the bed; promised not to gild anything else if SD said what his strength was; he refused; then she gilded three more thresholds; still the same; 7 thresholds; after that, SD admitted: in a silk meadow under The seventh bush is a hare, he has an egg under its tail, a hornet in the egg, it has its strength; at night, the princess reported this to the KM; he became a hound, caught a hare, then a hornet that flew out; SD died; KM and the princess on arrived in the KM kingdom as a luxurious chariot; the sun and moon immediately shone brightly; the sage explained everything to the old king; KM said that as heir to the kingdom of SD and ZK, he leaves this kingdom his own brothers; KM and his wife still rule two kingdoms if they didn't die]: Curtin 1890:477-516; Hungarians: Hungarian... 1955 []: 35-52; Gidash 1953:81-89 [a white horse gives birth to a boy, leaves wandering; meets Koroder, Stone Crusher, Iron Blexor; everyone replies that they would like to measure their strength with the Son of the White Horse (SBL), defeated, comraded; each takes turns cooking porridge, Bakarast (a little man with a big beard takes it away); SBL ties him by his beard to a tree, he pulls a tree, hides in a hole; only the SBL decides to go down on a rope; pours porridge on his stomach B., eats, leaves tied; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of the copper, silver, golden castle; companions raise princesses, leave SBO underground; SBO she covers the vulture chicks from the rain with her fur coat; their mother takes them to the ground; the food taken is not enough, the SBO feeds her right hand, right leg; on the ground she gives him wine, his arm and leg grow back; SBO kills traitors, takes the girls to their father, marries the youngest], 103-108 [Janko leaves home, meets, takes Runner, Vozupi-Gora, Vetroduv, Strelka, Listener; the king gives his daughter to Celika ("breeze") hangs the losers for the one who overtakes her; The runner overtakes (the shooter knocks down a ring that prevents him from running), friends do not take the girl, but treasures as much as Raise the Mountain can carry; C . runs with the fellows, the king chases her, Vetroblow drives her away, I. marries S.], 147-156 [the younger queen and his brothers go to get the sun-moon stallion; the neighboring king promised to pay for the daughter who brought the stallion; the old woman gives the queen a brush, the second gives a scraper; the uncle says that this is the stallion of the youngest son of the Ironnosed Hag; at the hag's house, the queen throws a brush, turns into a cat, overhears when the hag's sons return; waits for them at the bridge, kills one by one with the help of a crow that drops water on him; in the form of a cat, he overhears the conversation of the wives of the killed, promising turn into a poisonous apple tree, pear, water; cuts an apple tree, a pear, water - blood flows; the hag pursues, the queen throws a scraper, dirt appears on the way; a horseshoe pierces the hag's legs with thorns; the blacksmith hides the brothers behind the iron gate; the brothers drill the gate, the hag sticks his tongue, he is pulled out with hot mites; she leaves; the brothers meet, take Merzlyak as companions, Bey without a miss, One-eyed (sees everything), Obedalu, Drink the Sea, Runner; the king promises his daughter if 1) sit in a hot oven (Frost is sitting); 2) eat and drink a lot (Eat, Drink the Sea); 3) bring clothes from the edge light (One-eyed sees, Fast-footed pulls him out, falls asleep; wakes him up without a miss); wedding]; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 301A [the hero is the son of a bear, a horse, sat on the stove for 25 years, etc.; wanders, companions heroes with different abilities (can drink the sea; wraps a rope out of sand; very strong); while others hunt, everyone takes turns cooking; demonic comes every time the character (man, old woman) eats all the food; the hero kills or injures him; on his trail he descends to the lower world; there he receives a ring from the youngest and most beautiful of the girls who own magic objects; there it kills a snake (lamia, hala), which annually devours the chicks of a large bird (usually eagles); the bird lifts the hero upstairs, feeds her meat in flight, cuts off the last piece from his own leg; on earth, the hero fulfills the marriage conditions of three girls; punishes sister traitors; marries the youngest]: 98-99; Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (1) [the old man gives an apple to eat childless wife and two mares; wife gives birth to a son with a star in his forehead, mares for a foal, one of them horned; gives a sword for his son; the young man grew up, rode a horned horse, won, took the Strongman Who Can turn into animals, Hearing, Drinking Lake; kills a robber, marries a captive princess; her father wants to pass her off as a prince; sends an old woman to find out the young man's secret (if a stranger takes him a sword, he will die); the old woman throws her sword into the lake, but the horned horse does not let anyone into the castle; the brothers take out a sword, the young man wins everyone]: 5-21; Romanians [dragons stole the sun, moon, stars, and also the king's eyes; two elder princes went in search, but engaged in trade, lost money and were detained as debtors; younger Dragan Chenuse ("chenushe" means "ash"), who had previously been sitting in ash, sat on a horse that ate hot coals took weapons and armor, as well as ash cakes given by his mother, and went in search; bought the brothers, taking gold from the horse's ear; while the brothers were sleeping, killed on the copper bridge of the dragon that stole the stars, they returned to heaven; on the silver bridge, the moon; the long battle on the golden bridge; DC promised the crow more meat than the dragon promised, he sprinkled it with cold water, and the dragon was hot; DC killed the dragon, freed the sun; chipped in with his mouse, penetrated to the mother of the dragons and carried away the box with his father's eyes; the dragon sent two daughters to look like an apple tree and a well, and to look like brothers starved and thirsty; DC crossed them with a sword, bleed; sent the brothers home to carry their father's eyes, came to Mark Armenash himself, asked for 99 quintals of hot coals; when the dragon tried put his head, poured coals into her mouth, and she exploded; DC went with MA to get a bride, the daughter of the Green King; they meet and accompany someone who hears oats grow and sees that happens in another world; an arrow, a tree destroyer; drank; eating; capable of freezing the sea; this latter covered the sea with ice to cross to the land of the Green King; they were planted in a hot the iron house, and he froze it; drank and ate and ate everything that was offered; to compete in the run with an old woman, she put the runner to sleep with a dragon bone under his head; the shooter knocked out bone; they got a princess, crossed the ice, the freezer melted the ice again, the king and queen who rushed to pursue drowned; DC met an old man: there is no water, the dragon closed the spring, allows them to take water in exchange for people, the princess's turn; DC killed the dragon, cut off the tips of his tongues; a long-beard dwarf came to his hut, ate all the meat; DC split the beech, pinched his beard in the trunk; the dwarf pulled out the beech, disappeared into the lower world; DC came on a bloody trail; ordered him to be lowered into the black world on a rope; pretended to be a musician; the devils promise many wagons of gold if he could free their king's beard from the beech tree; DCH cut off his head, ran up to the rope, twitched, but no one picked up the rope; he hears the griffin chicks squeak: a dragon crawls to the nest to eat them; (killed the dragon); the griffin swallowed him and belched him, making it stronger; agreed to carry it to the ground; on the way, the meat ran out, DC cut off a piece from her feet and from under his knee; the princess recognized DC by the dragon's severed tongues; the brothers' wives were poisoned out of envy DCH's wife; he went to get live water; the old man gave him a staff and a sheep, telling him not to leave them in the forest where the entrance to hell is located; the bird, flying, dropped three feathers (her wife's hair) and three drops of blood (which fell from her cheeks) her wife); DC left his staff and sheep in the forest and went home; turned into a walnut tree]: Bîrlea 1966:384-387; Romanians [poor old people have three sons, the youngest Tsugul; fairies endowed him with goodness by fate, but the sorceress snake has taken away his veins; the brothers reluctantly put Ts on a mare, take him with them to hunt; the fairy gives him a belt: she can take any form to return his veins from the Snake; becoming a bee, C. arrives at the Snake's house; from a conversation between the Snake and his daughters, he learns that the veins are in the chest behind the stove; next time he arrives like a fly, takes the veins; fighting, kills three snake son-in-law of the Snake Witch, their horses He gave it to his brothers, took the youngest for himself; the Snake tells his daughters to take a different form to destroy C.; the elder brother wants to pick grapes, C. cuts the vineyard, black blood flows; the same is the plum orchard; the same is stream (the brothers wanted to get drunk, C. plunged a spear into the stream, blood flowed); the witch herself is flying, C. hides in a cave, then comes to the king, asks to forge a club; heated it, shoved it into a hole in the serf wall; The snake pulled the air into herself, a red-hot club fell into her mouth, she died; the boyars advise the king to get rid of C., suggest sending him to the Kingdom of Strier, bringing the princess to the king; Ts. meets and companions 1) an eternally hungry man who plows seven with plows; 2) hares running and stroking on the run, tied a millstone to his feet; 3) freezing on a hot day, one mustache is white, the other is black; 4) hitting an arrow at a mosquito in the sky; 5) a sage (waves a stick - birds flock); everyone, not knowing at first who is in front of him, says that he is not a hero, but a real hero - C.; the Streer king demands: 1) eat all the breads baked in 9 ovens per day (Oat eats); 2) drink 9 barrels of wine (Drinks); 3) enter a hot oven (Freezer has cooled it); 4) bring water from the magic spring, overtaking the maid (the maid put Skorokhod to sleep, looking for him in his head; the shooter wakes him up by knocking out the horse skull left by the girl from under his head, Skorokhod came first); 5) let 50 grow overnight infertile women (the Sage did so that they gave birth; touched the king with a stick - there is a brood of ducklings behind the king, everyone laughs); C. spared the eagle, pulled the thorn out of the bear's paw, they promised to help; brought the princess to the king, that gave it to him himself; the brothers stabbed C., took the horse and the bride; C. was still a little alive, his eagle and bear were coming out, the eagle brought alive and dead water, C. became the same; the eagle untied the horse Ts, the bear frightened brothers; the horse killed the brothers with his hooves, the king of Streer bequeathed the throne to C., he married the princess, received both kingdoms]: Sadetsky 1973:79-101; the Greeks (Fr. Syros, Cyclades) [the hunter sees a bird with a jewel on its head; it says that if he shoots it, it will be his happiness, and if he misses, misfortune; the bird turned its head, the bullet flew by; the hunter soon died out of grief; his son grew up, his mother assigned him to a shoemaker, but he demanded that his father be told what his father was doing; his mother had to give him his father's gun; it happened again, but the young man shot a bird; when he was carrying the stone home, the vizier asked to sell it, the young man refused; he had to sell it to the king, who paid 30,000 piastres; but soon demanded that the young man build an ivory tower - if he could shoot this bird, he could do it too; the mother explained that the vizier set it all up; advised him to ask for 40,000 piastres to build the tower and let the vizier give them; this money is needed buy wine and bread, fill the lowland, the surrounding peasants will gather and get drunk, they must be killed, a tower built out of their bones (elephants are out of the question - human bones}; the king feels sorry that many people have died, but he rewarded the young man; now the vizier advises the king to order the young man to marry the Beauty of Peace for him; mother: let the king give a ship with 40 girls, including the only daughter of the vizier; when he sailed to that the country, the young man told the girls to wait 40 days for him, went alone; meets a Moor giant, an ant man, a water bread, a speedboat, whose every step is equal to what a person walks in five hours; each says that he is not brave, but the son of a hunter yes; the young man replies that he is the son of a hunter; everyone gives his hair to summon him; the young man comes in the Beauty of the World, she advises him to leave while he is intact; gives tasks: 1) eat a monstrous amount of meat and hbeba by morning (the young man calls the giant, he ate everything); 2) survive in a hot oven (water bread cools it); 3) divide the grain by variety (ants separate); 4) bring an apple from afar in a quarter of an hour (the speedboat brings); now the Beauty of the World agrees to become the young man's wife; they return by ship and the Beauty of Peace promises to arrange everything; quietly killed the king and vizier, hunter's son recognized as king]: Hahn 1864 (2): 3-15; Croats, Macedonians, Bulgarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 513, 513a: 298-299; Albanians: Serkova 1989:36-42 [who threw a stone so high that he flies down for three days, goes to look for equals, meets, companions a team of oxen holding a village in the palm of his hand; his brothers cook one by one, the bearded dwarf eats up the cook, hides in the mountain; the thrower learns from the shepherd that the dwarf's strength is in the wild boar he herds; hired by a shepherd, kills a wild boar when another shepherd gives him during battle eat cheese pie], 131-135 [only Bilman managed to break the king's iron club, goes to get a bride; Drinking the river, Eating cattle carcasses, Not afraid of the heat, Hearing, Eating bread, Everyone who throws boulders says that the real hero is B., they go with him; they eat food prepared for an entire army, a foreign king marries King B., B. marries his king's daughter].

Central Europe. Russians, Ukrainians: SUS 1979, № 313J=AA 313 II [rare story; available only in Smirnov 1917 (2), No. 324 (Tobolskaya): 291-292 and Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 93 (recorded in Russian, but in Ukraine): 136-137; Witch and Solntseva sister: the prince escapes from his witch sister by going to the Sun Sister; meets with Vertogor, Vertodub, etc.; returns from the Sun Sister to his homeland, flees from the witch, he is helped by Vertogor, Vertodub, etc., as he added their lives]: 115; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Novgorod, Pskov), Ukrainians, Belarusians : SUS 1979, No. 513A [Six wonderful comrades: assistants (Obedalo, Opivalo, Moroz, etc.) help the hero marry while fulfilling the difficult tasks of the princess or her father]: 147; Russians ( Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Karelia, Pskov, Kursk), Ukrainians, Belarusians []: SUS 1979, No. 653:170-171; Ukrainians (eastern Slovakia) [son under 16 sucks mother's breast, becomes a hero, pulls out and drags a beech alone, goes wandering; meets, takes companions 1) Pulling oaks, 2) Month-old iron; they are given jobs, but they have so much strength that they break everything; they queues remain to cook in the forest, hell comes, eats everything, beats the cook; Messiiron asks the devil to help split the log, knocks out the wedge, the devil's hands are clamped; M. beats him, forcing him to say where three kidnapped princesses; hell runs into the hole, Vyrvibuk, Vyrvidub is afraid, M. goes down, hell says princesses have 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons; 6-headed smells a man, the younger princess says that her brother has come; they are fighting, M. drives the dragon into the ground, cuts off heads, cuts off tongues; so he frees all the princesses, Vyrvibuk and Vyrvidub pull them out, throw them M.; he closes them from the fiery rain chicks, their mother takes him to the ground; to feed her, he cuts off the meat from his leg, on the ground she puts it back; the king gives her daughters, M. shows the dragon tongues presented by the princesses rings, takes the elder]: Giryak 1978:215-237; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, p. Vozhgory, 1928) [Pop got lost, met a bear, helped arrange a den, and winters in her. Palfil Popovich (PP) was born to a bear. In spring, pop returns to the village with his son. Popadya does not immediately recognize her husband, she is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, it is difficult for parents to feed it, they send it to the forest to herd cows. PP catches a bear who wants to pick up a cow, brings him to the village and locks him in the barn. The maid comes in when the bear eats the last cow. Pop sends PP to the king for tribute, he rides a bear, meets an enchanted man. To break free from the spell, he must "bring the mountains to one place." PP helps him, they go together. It's the same with having to uproot an oak tree. The three of them and the bear come to the king, the PP demands tribute, the king pays to leave as soon as possible. PP gave one bag of gold to his ass, and left with the other four. The three of us stayed in a hut, catching bulls. Two go to town for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands a treat, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. It's the same when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, reproaches his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there's any other ground under the floor. He cuts bulls, makes belts, and his comrades pull him down. PP enters a copper, silver and gold tower, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls are happy and ask to take them with them. It's a pity for PP to leave the tower. Everyone throws the ring from her hand onto the roof, the tower turns into rings, they are given to PP. Satellites lift the girls, but the PP is too heavy, the companions cut off their belts, the PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. He is hired by a blind old man to herd cows. He shows the border of the Baba Yaga glade and forbids herding cows there. The PP complies with the ban three times, and the fourth time she drives cows to Baba Yaga's land, she is angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows are full and roaring. PP takes the herd back to Baba Yaga's meadow. She says she would fight with the PP hero and hear about his strength. We agreed to hit three times. Two PP blows do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a bag and tramples her, lets the old man feel at home, who makes sure that Yaga has been killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into his skin, catches a crow that has flown up, sends the other for living and dead water. After receiving water, he tests it: he tears the bird, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he sees the light, and in gratitude promises to bring the PP to the ground. His witch daughter does this, she eats people and knows how to turn into a bird. Orders to tie an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off its calves. The bird says its meat is sweet and would eat it, but his father's request doesn't allow it. Spits out swallowed, PP's legs are intact again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom, the girl from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one arm and the other's leg. He puts up a silver and gold tower, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278; Russians (Belomorye, Karelia, Loukhsky District, p. Keret) [the old man advises the childless king to catch salmon with his own hands, feed his wife. The king orders the footman to cook salmon. The queen eats, the footman feeds his wife, the broth is given to the ox to drink. All three give birth to boys, all Ivans. Ivan Volovich (IV) is the strongest. Ivan Tsarevich (IC) and Ivan Lakeich (IL) are afraid of him and secretly leave. Eve takes the best horse that the king never gave to anyone, catches up. They put up a tent at the bridge, and they agree to watch by lot. The first night, IL asks IV to replace him. At midnight, a trembled kite rides, speaks in three voices: someone is under the bridge, but he is only afraid of EVE, and he is not here, and if he were, he would put him in the palm of his hand and swat the other, he would stay mud and water. Eve suggests measuring his strength, cutting off three heads in half. The brothers are sleeping. Eve promises to unfasten them, they swear not to sleep. Now the IC is asking to replace him. At midnight, a six-headed serpent rides, boasting 6 votes. Eve blows 6 heads away with two blows, the brothers are sleeping. Eve hits them on the shoulders, they cry. On the third night, the 9-headed serpent, the same. Eve cut down six heads with three blows, calls his brothers, they are sleeping, he threw his boot at them, they come running. The serpent laughs at them, at which point Eve cuts off his last three heads. The brothers are going to inspect snake dwellings. The first palace is empty, but there is plenty of food, the second is better, the prince's daughter is there, they promise to pick her up on the way back, the third house is the best, there is a royal daughter, carried away a year ago, the brothers put her on an IC horse, the second, on an IL horse, they go to their kingdom. The brothers get married, their fathers and mothers are happy, and Eve's wedding is watered. An unknown old woman brings him drunk to the underground king Semera Vilishchi. This is the mother of slaughtered snakes, and she asks for punishment for his three sons killed. The king of Semera Vilshcha says: "Well, bring my seven forks and stretch my eyebrows, I'll see what punishment I give him." They bring him seven forks and stretch his long eyebrows. He demands to go far away, far away seas, bring him Elena Krasa Golden Braid, otherwise death. On the way, Eve takes with him an old man walking around a herd of horses, an old man who can't eat bread, an old man who can't drink a river, an old man who's cold under seven fur coats, an old man the stargazer who needs to see all the stars in the sky, the old man from the garden who knows all the flowers, even the unborn ones; they all promise to show up when they are remembered. The king will give his daughter if EVE completes the tasks: eat all the bread in the city, drink water from the river, take a steam bath; the old people do everything; ride around the animal horse - the old man goes around, breaking three rods. The king marries Eve, sends her home when they reach the flower garden, Elena asks if he is taking her for himself or for King Semera Vilishchi. He says it's for himself. She catches him in a lie, turns into a flower. An old gardener finds it and restores its human appearance. They're going further. Elena asks if he is carrying her for himself or for Tsar Semera Vilishchi. Eve says what's for herself. She turns into a star and flies into the sky. The old stargazer sees her in the sky, flies to the sky, brings her back. This is the third time Eve confesses. Elena: Semyry-Vilshcha will ask if he had fun with his wife on the way, he will not believe the answer, but will prepare a test in the form of a pit with burning resin, snakes and reptiles, and a shaft will be laid above it, will offer to cross the shaft. Eve must say that he does not believe that the king did not ride his horse during this time. He will go, and Eve must turn the wheel at the end of the shaft. Seme-Vilshcha falls, burns in a pit with resin. Eve and Elena take the treasury and go to his kingdom. The brothers are happy. Eve builds a house better than the royal palace, wedding feast]: Nechaev 1939:509-521; Russians (no place of recording) [childless tsar and queen dream that the queen will become pregnant from eating a ruff; fish the queen ate, the cook licked the dishes, the cow drank the slop (var.: mare); each gave birth to a boy; Ivan Bykovich (IB) is stronger than the prince and the cook's son; raises a stone, under him three horses; brothers they come to Baba Yaga, then to the Smorodina River; information security kills a 6-, 9-, 12-headed monster (the latter, cutting off his fiery finger with which he put his severed heads in place); Information Security overhears with a sparrow, how the wives of monsters promise to turn into an apple tree, a well, a bed; does not let brothers come, cuts wives into pieces; the witch dragged IB into the dungeon, her husband lies there, 12 heroes lift him up with an iron pitchfork eyebrows, eyelashes; he does not take revenge on the information security for the death of his sons, but tells the queen to get golden curls; you have to hit the oak tree, the ship will come out; the information security asks Obedailo, Opivailo, Soaring in the bath, Stargazer, Floating ruff; Obedailo eats everything, Opivailo drinks, Soaring cools a hot bath; IB gets a wife; she turns into a star, flies to heaven; Stargazer returns her; she turns into a star, flies to heaven; the Stargazer returns her; she turns into the pike, the Ruff returns it; the old man agrees to walk along the pole above the hole; the princess of golden curls makes him fail, goes beyond the information security]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 137:278-286; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya, 1929, Ust-Tsilma, Vasily Sobol, a Nenets, went as a "leader" in herds of deer all his life, i.e. he was a farmhand shepherd) [The Queen cannot give birth to an heir, the tsar decides to buy a goldfish- head, goes to the fishermen, catches it in the third tone. The fish is eaten by the queen, the maid and the bull (he gets the garbage), on the same day they have sons: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Devi and Ivan-Bykovich, grow up by months, do not feel their strength - they are maimed in games other kids. The children's parents are complaining. Three fellows go to the field, meet an old man, he says that going to the right will kill their horses, and to the left will kill them. They return to the king, asking for horses, Ivan Bykovich does not find a horse in the royal stable. He asks the blacksmith to tie a hundred pounds of club, throws it up so that he can hardly see it, catches it easily (his hand does not move), asks him to tie a club of two hundred, then three hundred pounds. He throws the last one, and she comes back quickly, he almost drops it when he catches it. At the crossroads, the fellows turn right, throw a tent at the Iron Bridge and agree to watch one by one. The first two fellows fall asleep on guard, instead of them with a 3-headed one, and the next night, Ivan Bykovich fights with 6-headed Pogany Idol. It invites Ivan to blow into the open field, but he gives way to Idolishch, it blows, and all living things burn three miles in the field. While she admires her work, Ivan cuts off her heads. In the morning, Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan Devi say that they did not sleep at night and did not see anyone. When it is Ivan Bykovich's turn, he leaves a knife to his comrades and warns that if he bleeds, they must run to the bridge. The beginning of the fight repeats, Ivan cuts down 8 heads from Idolishche, the latter remains, he asks for permission to take off his left boot, launches him into the tent, then his right one - the brothers wake up, see that the knife is covered in blood, they help fight, go waist-deep into the ground and defeat Idolishche. Three fellows come to the big house, Ivan Bykovich turns into a "goosebumps", overhears how inside an old woman ("nose to ceiling") advises daughters-in-law, wives of three Idolishches, to take revenge on Ivan, turn around poisoned with spring water, berries, and a golden bed. Ivan Bykovich saves his brothers from death three times, water, berries and a bed turned into women when they began to cut them, their heads were cut off. They hear the chase, they hide in the forge. The old woman demands that the blacksmith give them away, he asks her to stick his tongue through the door, and hits him with a copper, tin and iron rod, only the tin rod does not tear. The old woman turns into a horse, Ivan Bykovich saddles it, the old man asks if Ivan will give up his horse if he manages to overtake him, Ivan agrees and loses. The old man hangs his horse on his horse, promises to return it if Ivan gets Elena the Beautiful for him. Ivan Bykovich agrees, he meets Yaryshek on the way ("a thin leg, a golden cap, his forehead is covered, his eyes are out"), one knows how to carry people across the sea, the other to marry, the third to wash in the bath, the 4th carry people in space ("from place to place"), eat the 5th bread, drink water on the 6th, meets a woman who can travel 3 miles in 3 hours. He takes everyone with her. He meets three more Yaryshki: one brags: "I'm buzzing with a foot", the second can shoot with a cream, and the third catches what falls to the ground. One Yaryshko takes a spoon out of his pocket and carries everyone across the sea. The other performs the king's task - washing in a very hot bath ("heat for five soots"), the third goes to marry. The king locks visitors in a ram and sets them on fire, Yaryshko takes them to a safe place. The Tsar makes you eat all the bread in the city, Yaryshko eats everything. The other drinks all the water in her magpies in the city's shops. The Tsar promises to give his daughter if the visitors drink all the water in the well, Yaryshko drinks. Then she orders the princess to get a dress from the state far away in 3 hours, send the old woman, on the way back she falls asleep, Yaryshko "whipped with a foot", she woke up and arrived on time. The king gives his daughter. Yaryshko carried the first one across the sea, at night the princess flies to heaven and turns into a star. Yaryshko saw an extra star in the sky, another shot a cream, the latter caught a shooting star and gave it to Ivan Bykovich. The princess does not want to marry the old man, and persuades Ivan to deceive him when he asks him to walk on the boards above the hole and let him go first. He does so, loosens one of the boards, the old man falls into a hole on the "iron sperm". Ivan takes the old man's good, burns a mare, marries Elena]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 163:340-348; Russians (Zaonezhye) [the widow became pregnant, gave birth to a son Okati-Goroshka; the tsar heard rumors about him pampering, OG asked the tsar not to execute him, he would find his three missing daughters; the tsar agreed; OG meets, companions the heroes of Roznigor, then Usynya; came to the house, R. and W. could not gate to shake, OG opened the gate; R. cooked lunch, but came Himself with his fingernail, beard off his elbow and ate everything; the next day the same with W.; on the third day, OG took his SAM-with-nail into the yard, pinched his beard; heroes went to the mountain to throw an anchor, R. and W. did not anchor, OG, climbed the chain and came to the copper kingdom; the elder princess hid it, her husband flew in, sensed the Russian spirit, the princess began to caress him, he fell asleep, OG cut off his head and followed the second princess (the same silver palace); the third in gold; each packed her palace in a box; the princesses went down, the heroes pulled off the chain and OG was left alone at the top; came to the lake house; there the old man asked him to herd his cattle, but on the road, not on the grass; OG disobeyed and the snakes began to sting the cattle; OG killed them with a sword; on the third day, a 12-headed snake, the mother of the dead, flew in, tried to eat OG, he cut off her 6 heads, she brought her six alive and dead water for leaving the other six; he smeared the old man's eyes with them, he saw the light; the grateful old man sent OG home, putting him on an eagle ; there was not enough meat, I had to cut it off from my own calves; the shoemaker said that the first princess followed R., the second for W., and the third for someone who would sew her shoes like they were in the golden kingdom; OG opened the box in which the golden palace took out his gold boots, sent a shoemaker with shoes to the princess, who understood everything and asked for the same dress; then the whole palace; in the morning, the shoemaker was asked who was the builder palace, he pointed to OG; OG married the princess, R. and W. to two other princesses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 41:119-123; Russians (Moscow) [the old man weaved bast shoes, sold; 12 brothers drag a mare; old man gave for her what he took by the bast shoes; the mare had a pearl tail, a golden mane; tells her to sit on it, but not cling to the clouds with his head; at home, the mare immediately necklaced and gave birth to a foal; the landowner bought it for 500 rubles; mare to an old man: but he forgot about me; he fed her, she flew to the steppe and gave birth to a son Ivan Kobylin (IK); he went to rescue the princess, she was carried away by a 12-headed serpent; met Gorynya and Dubynya; they were afraid to go down into the snake kennel, IK descended; the princess's serpent is on her knees, she is looking for lice in his heads; tells him to change strength with impotence; the serpent drank impotence; they fight sabers; IR: Serpent, look around, your kingdom is burning" the serpent looked around, IR cut off all heads; the princess gave her ring; her companions picked her up; IK tied a stone, they cut off the rope, believing they were raising the IR; 12 cabbage rolls are promised to be taken to the ground, ordered to prepare water and meat; the last portion was not enough, he cut off the eggs from his right foot, divided it into 12 parts, gave it to cabbage rolls; on the ground, the birds coughed up pieces, they put it back; the mare's mother ran, hit the stone, the crows began to peck at her; IK grabbed the crow, ordered the crow to bring alive and dead water, revived his mother; dressed as a beggar, he came to the princess's wedding with Dubynya; the bride recognized her ring; Dubynya was opened across the field, IK received the kingdom]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 23:58-61; Russians (Moscow) [three princesses went to the garden, the whirlwind took them away; the tsar promises one of the daughters and half the kingdom; the son of a peasant went in search; meets, takes Ivan Kamnelom as his companions, Ivan tear an oak tree; they cook in the hut in turn; a man comes in with a nail beard from his elbow , eats everything, cuts out a belt from the cook's back; when Ivan the peasant son (I.) remained, he pinched his beard into the stump; he escaped, they followed the trail, under the hole stone; there was first cold, then fever; only I. endures went down; I. killed a three-headed serpent at the copper palace, saved the princess; the same from the middle (six-headed), golden (nine-headed); each princess turned her palace into an apple; the princess was raised, the youngest gave the golden apple to Ivan; the brothers began to pick it up, cut off the rope; I. did not break; there were three chicks in the oak nest, a snake crawls towards them, I. killed her; for this the bird carried him to the ground; the king promises the youngest daughter to the one who will get the gold rings she had in the lower world; I. built a palace, with rings in it; the brothers were forgiven]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 24:61-65; Russians (Kurskaya, Fatezhsky District) [An unlucky person goes to travel, meets a person who "knits himself" ("if I don't contact, I'll run around the world one day"), takes him with him. They are then joined by a shooter who shot a gun into the fly's left eye, a man who wrapped around the forest and started dragging it home, a man whose breath gives birth to the wind ("a man with his nostril clamped , and the other blew and set in motion a centuries-old forest"), a man who, wearing a hat, warms everything around him and freezes when taking it off. They come to the king, who promises to marry her daughter to someone who can overtake her and be the first to bring water in jugs from the pond. One of the travelers, having collected water, falls asleep on the way back (puts his head on the horse's skull and falls asleep) and leaves the jug, the princess pours its water. The hunter shoots at the horse's skull, the traveler wakes up, manages to get water again and get ahead of the princess. The king orders all travelers to wash themselves in the bath, hoping that they will "burn", one of them takes off his hat and no one dies. The king sends an army against the travelers, one of them draws in the air and warriors with his nostrils, then exhales the other and the army dies. Travelers demand that the king give them his daughter, but instead he suggests that they take as much gold as they can carry. They ask for a bag of 1,000 cowhides, a traveler who dragged the forest takes away all the gold, leaving the kingdom without money]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:55-56; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, West 1888-1891, d. Novaya Bych, Bykhov. u., from kr. Pavel Ivanova, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, she is carried away by a bear, after 3 years she gives birth to her son Ivashka a bear ear; after 3 years he grows up and leaves, meets Duba-Dubovik and Gora- Gorovik, three of them go; they find a house, leave Goro-Gorovik to cook dinner, go hunting themselves, Kashchei ("Koschey") appears, demands to bring him into the house, put him at the table and serve food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik cuts another ox, puts it to cook, comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovik does not talk about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dubo-Dubovik; on the third day Ivashka remains to cook dinner, Kashchei arrives, Ivashka refuses to obey his orders (does not bring him into the house or sit down at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashcheev's beard in the oak crevice, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds they follow Kashchei, but he flew away; the three of them go after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the road, Gora-Gorovik digs up a mountain, find a huge stone and a hole under it, make cowhides belt, Ivashka goes down, agrees that in a year his comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, where the girl says that they have not seen a Russian person here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; she reaches the silver house, there is also a girl sitting there, the story repeats; Ivashka reaches the golden house, there the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei arrives, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashcheev's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in a hare, an egg in the duck, Hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite (and eat it) on the way, but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees sea cancer on the shore, does not kill, but helps him sail into the sea; in gratitude, the cancer brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it, the duck flies away, a kite catches her, tears her apart, Ivashka carries an egg to wash in the sea, but drops it, the cancer returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving her a golden house, a girl takes an egg, rolls it around and the house gathers in an egg, Ivashka puts the egg in her pocket, the second girl collects a silver house into an egg in the same way, the third a copper house; they come to going upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades pick up the girl from the copper house, argue who will marry her, she assures that she is "more beautiful" than her, raise girls from silver and gold houses, decide marry them, and the first as servants, and Ivashka cut off his belt on the rise so that he breaks; Ivashka ties a stone instead of himself, his comrades cut off his belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak tree, birds scream, he climbs an oak tree, covers the chicks from the rain, then gets off and hides, the bird Half-Gritsa arrives, promises to thank his chicks for saving his chicks deliver it upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from barrels, meat into the bird's mouth ends, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird takes him out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, expectorates, caviar grows; Ivashka comes to town, is declared a shoemaker ("Ivanichka Drunkard"), She does not know how to sew, she lives with a Jew; a girl from the golden house promises to marry someone who sews the shoes she had in her golden house, Ivashka takes an order through a Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day, she rolls a golden house out of the egg, pulls out her skulls, the Jew takes her skulls; the girl asks for the same dress - the story repeats, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to to the blacksmith, pulls out a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each living in their own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36:340-347; Belarusians [Vasily Pepelyshka (VP) asks his father to order him an iron club; threw him over the clouds, put his knee up, the club crumbled into pieces; VP orders to make a club out of him iron, happy; leaves, meets Goryn the hero (throws mountains with a pitchfork), a heroic oak tree (pulls oaks), a hero boulder (throws boulders), takes him as companions; they live in a hut, opposite the bathhouse; there 4 doves arrive, throw off as girls; each of the heroes takes turns trying to prop up the door; the girls kill each easily; the VP found the dead in the corner of the bathhouse, blew, revived, beat the girls with a wire whip , they agreed to become wives; their father is born of Tsmok, is immortal; Tsmok expels an army, the heroes beat him three times, fell asleep; the VP fights with Tsmok himself, the severed grows, Tsmok killed everyone, daughters in He took him home in chains; the mare from above was golden, from below the silver one revived the VP, and he revived the companions; the VP came to his wife, ordered to find out what her father's death was; first he replies that he was in a goat; in a pig; she was from decorates and dresses; Tsmok admits that there is a stupa in the mountain, a hare under it, a duck under the hare, an egg under the duck, death in it; the VP broke an egg, married that princess]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:154-162; Czechs: Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (4) [Yanko's ninth son is the strongest; leaves home, wins, takes Vyrvidub, Lomayiron as brothers; dragons kidnap the king's three daughters, twins go to look for them; each cooks queues; a dwarf with a huge beard knocks down the cook, eats porridge; I. hits a dwarf, who shows a hole where the dragons have disappeared; only I dare to go down; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of copper, silver, gold castles; sends them upstairs, then the stone, the twin brothers cut off the rope, the stone falls; I kill a snake ready to eat the chicks; they explain mother, that he is their savior, not their enemy; the bird carries me on itself, he throws meat into her beak, pours water, cuts off the last piece from her leg; on the ground she spits it out, puts it on; I. beats, but forgives sister cities, all three marry three rescued princesses]: 71-88; Czechs [the old king asks his son to marry; he replies that there is no one; the king sends him alone behind the iron door; there are alive images of 12 beautiful girls; the queen chose the most beautiful and saddest, she nodded to him; the king is upset, for everyone who had previously tried to get this girl died; when she set off, Queen meets, satellites Long (can stretch to any height and length), Wide (can swell endlessly, drink all the water), Quick-eyed (sees everything and can destroy any object with a glance); B. reports that the bride is guarded by a warlock in the tower; they come there, where there are petrified people; a warlock with knee-length hair and three iron belts demands that the girl be found three times; each time her sees B. 100, 200, 300 miles away, it is hidden in the form of an acorn, a jewel, a ring in a shell on the bottom of the sea; the first two times D. easily reaches an acorn, a stone, brings, an acorn, a stone turn into girl, one hoop falls off the warlock each time; the third time S. drinks the sea so D. can get his ring, D. returns at the last moment when the warlock is ready to turn the queen and others into the stone; the last hoop fell from the warlock, he flew away like a crow; the petrified ones came to life, the Queen returned with his wife]: Erben 197:8-14 (=Curtin 1914:243-256); Nemtsova 1978 [the princess will marry someone who can watch her for three nights; Matyash-Korolevich goes to try; meets, takes Shirokiy (can swallow an army), Long (can reach the clouds), Fire-eyed (with a glance) causes fire); the princess pretended to be asleep and when M. and his companions also fell asleep, turned into an apple and rolled away; M. woke up, Long stretched out and grabbed the apple; the next night the princess flew away a dove, but Fireeyed scorched her wings, she returned; on the third night the princess flew out like a fly, went down to the bottom of the well with fish; the fire-eyed looked, the water boiled, the fish jumped out; the king sent an army, M. and his bride and brothers run away; the princess throws a handkerchief - how many threads, so many trees, a forest has appeared; the river sheds tears; the Long one covered the sun - darkness; The Broad swallowed the army, but then belched; the king found out that his son-in-law was a prince, came to the wedding]: 163-171; Kashubians [the king will give his daughter to someone who makes a boat that sails on land and water; two sons of a peasant decide to try refuse to speak to the old man; he says they will only make a gutter for the pigsty; the third younger brother politely answers the old man, made a boat; the old man tells him to take whoever the boy meets ; he met three old men; one drinks and cannot get drunk, the other is cold even in the sun, the third eats a lot; the king tells you to eat 12 loaves of bread, 12 bulls per night, drink 12 barrels of wine, sit in hot iron stove; old helpers do everything; war has begun, the king demands that the groom defeat enemies; the old man teaches where to get a horse and a bag with his army; the young man is wounded, the king bandaged his leg half of his handkerchief; after victory, he ordered to find a brave man; the boy was found sitting in ash; a servant sent in search killed the hero and the second servant sent with him, tied his leg with a handkerchief and married on the queen; the old man revived the dead; everything was clarified; the deceiver was torn at the gate, tied four bulls to them; after the feast, the narrator was beaten into a cannonball and shot, flew to your table and I'm sitting]: Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017:196-200; Poles [many records throughout Poland; options close to Kashubian]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 513:165-166; Slovaks [an old woman at 90 years old gives birth to a son Lomidrevo (= Valibuk; Valigora), breastfeeds him until he is 7 years old, then, at his request, three more years; he is incredibly strong, pulls oaks easily, goes wandering at the age of 17; meets, wins, takes satellites 1) rearranging mountains named Valivrych (Kopivrych, Skalilamay; Studnyak - digging wells), Meat iron; they contracted to threshing grain; the fee is how much they will carry; they demolished the grain in the bins and carried it away close; the rich man sent after the bull, then a boar; L. killed them, carried them with him; he chased the servants on the wagon, but L. piled oaks on the road; told M. to make him an iron club; threw them up, put his back up, the club fell apart; ordered to make another one; the king lost three daughters, dragons dragged them into a hole in the ground; three promised to return the princesses; settled in a hut in the woods, cook in turn; comes out of the chimney a dwarf, a beard off his elbow, hits the cook, dumps hot porridge on his stomach and eats him; when L.'s turn, he pinched a dwarf's beard in the log, beat him with an iron club until he gave him the beard in which his strength; the dwarf disappeared into the hole under the stone; his companions are jealous of L.; V., M. try to go down, but tell them to lift them back - there are frogs and snakes; L. promises the dwarf to return his beard, for which he tells him to show the way to the older princess; there's a copper lock on his fortieth leg; L. stomped, he stopped shaking; the 6-headed dragon throws his iron club, L. throws it back; the dragon eats lead bread, calls for lead current, suggests driving each other into lead; they drove each other to the waist; then L. drove the dragon up to the neck, demolished her head with a club; the princess turned the castle and all the riches into a copper apple, L. sent her to earth; the same in a silver castle (9-headed dragon, iron bread), in gold (12-headed, steel bread); before asking himself to be picked up, L. sent a stone upstairs, his companions cut off the rope; L. came to Knochta (Knofta; a giant mythical bird), killed a snake that always devoured chicks; or protected the chicks from the rain, one drop of which always killed them; the chicks talked about L. the mother who arrived, she did not swallow it, but promised to help; tells her to stock up a hundred rams and a hundred barrels of water; flies with L. to the ground, there was not enough lamb, L. cut off a piece from his thigh; bird: if he knew that the man is so tasty, she would eat you; but she regurgitated a piece and put it back; weddings are being prepared in the city, but the princesses demand the same dresses they had underground; L. hired a tailor; took it out at night copper, silver, golden apples, took out their dresses; let the princesses come for them themselves; L. called the elders freaks and drove them away, gave the youngest a golden dress, married her; took out apple locks; two He gave older princesses to his companions (forgiving them)]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 10:50-66.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [Usein, Asan's son, shoots a bird, which asks not to kill it, sell it to the padishah; he leaves U. as a bodyguard; the viziers persuade Padashah 1) to order the bird to build ivory palace; she teaches W. to pour wine into the lake, the elephants are drunk, W. builds a palace; 2) to get the daughter of the king of genies; the bird orders to feed the kites with meat, the bees with honey; on the way, W. takes companions eat, rock breaker with his fist; the kite gives a feather, ants (W. fed them with millet) and bees on the wing; the king of genies orders 1) eat the yogurt cauldron, remove the rock, sow the earth (satellites perform tasks); get living water from Mecca to resurrect a dead stallion (kites bring); count grain in bags (ants); recognize your daughter among 999 girls (the old bee finds out); when you see someone returning from beautiful W. padishah turns into a pig, viziers into dogs; W. marries]: Birzgal 1992, No. 14:186-199; Crimean Tatars [rich Saran-bai has Fetl's son; having brought oxen to the watering hole, he fell asleep and saw dream: he married the Sultan's daughter and became a padishah; he does not want to tell either his father or mother, they beat him, expel him from home; F. came to the city; climbed the marble fountain; refused to go down at the request the groom, for the royal horses were frightened; the groom complained to the Sultan; refuses to tell him a dream, too, he puts F. in prison; from the bones of the dead before him, F. made a staircase to the ceiling and then found a way to royal daughter Gul Sultan; kissed her sleeping and returned; so for a whole month; G. cut her finger to stay awake; they spent the night together and he told the princess a dream; so three months; G. says that the neighboring Sultan of Chursky sent a bow: it must be pulled and the arrow must be fired so that it reaches the border; otherwise, in 40 days he will capture the country, and G. will take it to the harem; F. asks the Sultan to be reminded of it; F. brought, he fired an arrow, the wedding is 40 days and nights; F. asks his father-in-law to allow him to go to the Sultan of Chursky; meets, takes as companions 1) a mullah who walks with a mosque on his head; 2) running with two millstones tied to his feet; 3) weaving wire into the wings of a sitting crow so that it did not notice anything; 4) listening to the moans of mosquitoes dying on the battlefield; 5) aiming with a gun at gyaura, who commands an army a thousand miles from here; everyone when meeting: am I strong compared to F., who fired an arrow; the hearing learns that the emergency is going to poison F. at a feast; victory at merrymaking; ES offers a competition in running; the one who had millstones on his feet runs; the one who aimed a thousand miles away sees that the emergency runner plugged runner F.'s mouth with a bottle, knocked out the bottle with a shot; when the Sultan wants to poison F., the invisible man moved the dishes and the Sultan and his family died themselves; F. annexed the emergency possessions to his kingdom, and the strongman mullah moved the palaces; a feast of 40 days and nights]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 7:82-92; Kalmyks: Basangova 2002:40-42 [(=Badmayev 1899:6-9); eight brothers marry eight sisters; the youngest ninth brother is Iestir; the Serpent orders him to be sent to him, otherwise he will kill everyone; demands to get daughter of a wealthy khan; on the way, I. meets a man sucking grass and takes another, who drinks two seas, with him; the khan orders to turn fresh bone into an old one (the person who sucked grass sucks all the juices out of the bone); fires on his brothers, drank it; the fox looks like a girl, goes to the Snake instead of her; the Serpent gives the bride a chest with his soul; I. kills the soul of a snake, marries the khan's daughter, keeps his brothers with him], 46-56 [Namjil Bumba has been living for 8,000 years, has everything but no son; asks a lama, returns, his wife has already given birth; son Byurun Teges sees three swans on the lake, they advise them to go marry the khan's daughter; on the way he meets heroes, everyone says that he is waiting to become a BT assistant, he takes them with him; this is 1) raising mountains, 2) raising the umbilical cord of the earth and bringing water out of there, 3) drinking the sea, 4) a thief, 5) listening; the khan wants to burn them, but the digger pulls out water, it almost flooded everything; the khan gives a daughter, but gives instructions; 1) bring an apple, it is guarded by shulmuska; first shulmuska overtakes, but the thief galloped first, jumps back, followed by a chase, the thief's horse calls the stalker's mare his mother; she refuses to ride, is killed; a woman comes, puts the thief to sleep, takes an apple, it was shulmuska; the thief catches up with her, brings an apple, but she managed to pull three hairs out of the horse's tail; then TT won the fight and shooting, brought his wife home]; Vatagin 1964 [immensely rich Mergen-Ergechi asks the llama has a son; the hero Burun-Teges is born, on a heroic horse they eat after the girl whom three swans told him about; he is joined by a mountain-rearranging man, listening, easily finding water, a sailor, a clever thief; the khan sets fire to the palace where they are staying, they fill the fire with water, then stop the flood by drinking water; the khan orders them to get an apple from a garden protected by five hundred shulmus; win the fight; in shooting; BT gets the khan's daughter]: 140-147; Jimbinov 1962 [a woman in India gave birth to Massang, a man with bull horns and a bull's tail; his father wants to kill him, he leaves; meets, takes to the companions of Idder (black, born in the forest thicket), Geser (green, born of grass), Adder (white, born of reeds); they hunt, cook in turn; every time a tiny old woman comes and eats everything; each explains that a hundred horsemen attacked; when M. stays, sends the old woman to bring water with a bucket of holes, replaces her wire rope, iron hammer and wet pliers in the old woman's bag and wooden; the old woman offers to fight, M. ties her with a wire rope, hits her with a hot hammer; the wounded old woman flies away; together with her companions she follows a bloody trail, descends into the abyss, sends treasures upstairs, they remove the rope; M. plants a piece of bast, falls asleep, three trees have grown out of bast in a few years to the edge of the abyss; M. gets upstairs, forgives his companions, meets a girl, comes with her to Hurmust, who asks for help defeat Humnus; M. wounds him in the eye, H.'s army runs; goes to Cave H., pretends to be a healer, does not pull out his arrow, but drives it deeper and, like taught Hurmust, throws 7 grains; Huson hit M. with an iron hammer, M. rises on chains into the air, 7 stars appear in the sky; M. comes with his wife to his father, his tail and horns have fallen off, everything is fine]: 87 -92; Stavropol Turkmens: Bagriy 1930 (2): 84-90 [Taga tells his father that he will not tell him a dream, he drives him out; he does not tell the Eastern Khan, he puts him in a dungeon; the slave tells that the Western Khan will go to war if the Eastern Khan does not guess which of the two mares is mother and which daughter; T. says that the mother will eat peacefully and the daughter will frolic; the Western requires a hero who he will throw an arrow to his palace; T. destroys the wall of the palace with an arrow; the western one asks T. to come to him; he takes old people with him on the way; one sees an igloo a hundred miles away, the other pours water from the river with his mouth into the river, the third throws mountains, the fourth grazes hares with millstones on their feet, the fifth whistles so that the ground trembles; they are soldered, placed overnight in a hot iron shed, and a drink of water cools it; Khan promises a daughter if someone overtakes his old woman; the runner overtakes him, but she drinks him drunk, he falls asleep; the far-seeing person tells the whistler to wake up the runner; the khan does not give a daughter, then the strongman takes his palace; T. gets a daughter, goes to the Eastern Khan; from his wife taken from the Eastern Khan, he has a son; in that dream he saw two suns (two khans) and a star (his son) in the middle], 109-114 [the hero takes two brothers from families; the youngest son of one, Aygyr, was in the steppe at that time; grew up with a shepherd, met a hero, killed him; wanders, takes a clever thief and runner as his companions; each takes turns cooking dinner; bearded the dwarf eats meat, beats the cook; A. cuts off his head, she rolls down to the mound; companions descend there on a rope A.; there three girls mourn the death of their father; A. promises that he will not kill them, sends them to rope up; companions cut off the rope, A. stays below; in the underground city, Azhdaha took water; A. kills him, the khan gives his daughter to A.; A. wants to go to the ground, he is advised to go to the oak tree; two eagles they say that every year Azhdaha devours chicks; A. kills the arrived ajdah; the eagle raises A. to the ground, flies for 40 days; A. forgives his companions, takes the most beautiful of the three girls]; Abaza [the sister of seven brothers rejects the grooms; she raises a louse that does not fit in the chest; the girl stabbed her, salted her meat, promised to marry someone who says whose it is; after many attempts, she guesses the one from whose head this louse fell; sparrows tell the mother that her daughter is in the dungeon; each of the brothers says what gift he has (shoots accurately, leads an army underground, catch everything shot down, not letting them fall to the ground, etc.); using these properties, the brothers penetrate the underground dragon, quietly carry their sister, then kill the dragon, return home with their sister]: Tugov 1985, No. 57:172-174; Abkhazians: Khashba, Kukba 1935 (Western 1930) [=Bgazhba 2002:164-171; the tsar picks up a boy raised by deer, taken from his mother and abandoned by enemies; this is Jamhud; when he dies, the king does not tell him to enter the room where the portrait of the sister of the seven Adau brothers lies; J. goes to look for her, meets Obedala, Opivalo, Skorokhod, Sharp, Hearter (Thief), Strongman; everyone says that only J. is amazing; after finding out who is in front of him, joins him; adau is required to 1) cut a stone with a dagger (The rumor hears their sister saying that her hair should be attached to the dagger; the Craftsman pulls out her hair); 2) eat a lot (ate), 3) drink (Opivalo); 4) run across the sea (the witch runner puts him to sleep; The rumor hears his snoring, the Sharp-eye knocks the millstone from under his foot); 5) climb onto the table with a bowl of boiling water on his head (J. cries, Seeing wolves torment his deer mother, adau takes tears for splashes, J. climbs again); 6) adau give poisoned food, the Craftsman moved the bowls, adau died; The strongman carries the bride J. along with castle; wedding]: 27-36; Shakryl 1975, No. 78 [Adauy son finds out that his mother is a kidnapped girl; demands that his father allow them to see their relatives; in order not to quarrel with his son, the father rushes into the abyss; mother in horror: other adaus will take revenge; then the son leaves, hires a mullah, brings a pile of trees on his shoulders, drags an elephant by the ear; people ask the mullah to calculate the employee, he gives money, adaui buys on them a prisoner; takes adaua as his companions, who has a mill on his big toe; another who turns a trough on his thumb; cooks in turn; a bearded man arrives on a rooster, ties cook, eats everything; when Adaua's son remains, he pinched the dwarf's beard with a tree; but he pulled out the tree, went into the abyss; the companions lowered Adaua's son there; three girls say that the dwarf is dying; Adaua's son sends them upstairs; the youngest warns that if his companions don't pick him up, he must jump on a white ram that will take him to the ground and the black sheep will lower him even lower; the companions have left his son adaus below; he accidentally jumped on a black ram; old woman: an elephant guards the water, allows him to take him for a girl once a week; Adaua's son overcame an elephant, brought him by the ear; only a kite can carry him on the ground; an elephant attacks the chicks, the son of Adaua killed him, the grateful kite promises to take him upstairs, tells them to stock up on meat and water; the meat is over, the son of Adaua took the last piece out of his hand; the kite healed the wound on earth; the son of Adaua killed his companions, and made their wives slaves to his wife]: 353-361; Adygs: Kerashev 1957 [Psha's son goes to marry the daughter of another psha; meets, takes as companions running with millstones on his feet, keen, listening to ants talking, drinking the river; the girl's father demands 1) to overtake the old goose; she gives the speeder sleeping pills, the farsighted sees, wakes up the runner, throwing a stone, overtook the old woman; 2) he hears sensitively that Pshi is going to tell them to spend the night in a hot oven; water bread drank water and spewed in the oven; 3) guess the hour when the girl gets up and sits down to sew; keen sees everything, says; the young man gets a wife]: 235-240; Maksimov 1937 (Shendzhiy village) [the bear stole the boy, he returned to his parents as a strongman Myshemyko Shao ("son of a bear"); went to prince as a gatekeeper; bodyguards pinched his fingers with the gate, he tore off the gate; the prince wants to destroy him, tells 1) to bring firewood from the forest, gives a bad ax; M. pulls trees, harnesses the wild boar instead ox, brings; 2) plow the field where the witch; M. harnesses her seven sons, plows; leaves the prince, meets, takes 1) connecting trees, 2) throwing mounds; they take turns cooking, Tlimaff, riding a rooster, demands to feed him, ties him up, eats everything; when M. remains, he ties T. by the mustache; T. pulled out the tree, went into the hollow; only M. agreed to follow him; there alone a girl cries (T. will eat her today), two laugh (she will eat them tomorrow); M. cuts off T.'s head with his own sword; M. and her brothers kill the prince, marry three girls]: 121-130; Kabardian people [from the poor widows have 7 sons; one may be a military leader, the second is strong, the third swimmer, the fourth speedboat, the fifth farsighted, the sixth thief can pull an egg from under the hen, the seventh is brave, ready to fight with a whole army; the khan tells them to return the daughter kidnapped by the monster; the thief took out the girl, surrounded by snake rings, and he did not wake up, the speedboat brought her to the sea, the brave man fought with the awakened snake, the girl was brought to Khan; she said that she would marry a brave man, because the monster had not yet been killed; the monster appeared in a storm cloud, but the brave man cut off his head and burned him; the rest of the brothers received gifts from the khan]: Lopatinsky 1891a: 112-115; Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983 [Dzhigit goes to get a beautiful woman; meets, takes as companions 1) running with millstones tied to his feet; 2) far seeing; 3) understanding the language of ants; 4 ) drinking the river; the girl's father tells: 1) to overtake the sorceress (the runner undertakes to run, the old woman gives him a sleepy potion; the far-seeing sees it, throws a stone, runs, wakes up, comes first); 2) sit in the oven for the night (water bread cools her down); 3) guess when the khan's daughter gets up; the farsighted sees everything, the khan gives her daughter; the dzhigit leaves assistants where he met them, brings his wife]: 77-82; Karachays or Balkarians: Malkonduev 2017 [the woman has 7 headed sons; the khan's daughter was kidnapped and he sent a cloth to the woman while giving alms; she promises to sew shirts for each of her sons, asking what everyone can do; 1) find any thing by smell; 2) hear everything; 3) turn everything over with a punch; 4) turn the hill over with a punch; 5) steal anything; 6) no one will catch up; 7) hit the eye of a needle in the sky with an arrow; the first finds a trail to the hill, the second hears two arguing under the hill, the third sees them and the khan's daughter with them; the fourth turns the hill upside down; the fifth stole the girl; the sixth ran away with her; the seventh killed the pursuers with an arrow; the khan made seven brothers his guards]: 543-546; Karachays [the father agreed to marry one hundred sons to one hundred daughters of another; the youngest - Kichibatyr, he is left to guard the house; he tells him to throw three balls of oil to the rocks, they part; on the way back, three felt balls, the rocks will mistake them for oil; tells him not to approach the fire, even if it will become very cold; the wedding procession began to freeze, came to the fire, stopped, in the morning a monster is nearby, demands K.; tells K. to get him the daughter of the khan, who is by the sea; the khan demands to hit him with an arrow at needle eye, catch a hundred out of a thousand running chamois, spend the night in a hot iron house; K. meets, takes as companions a shooter, chamois catcher, sailor; they fulfill the conditions (red-hot house chilled with water); the princess saves a snake from the well, she promises to help her; K. gave the girl to the monster; the snake ordered to offer to be chained, she will become a chain; she became a snake again, the girl and K. ran away, and the snake stung monsters to death; all is well]: Rumyantseva 1981:101-111; Ingush: Bagriy 1920 (2) [Tsarevich meets ants listening, running from a millstone on his leg, drinking the sea, wearing a hut; tsar the beauty is passed off as someone who 1) eats a ram (eats a drink), 2) eat poison (the rumor identifies that the speedboat changes dishes, the bride's parents die); the prince gets a wife]: 178-179; Potanin 1883 [ the bear forces the ploughman to meet her; on the same day, his son, who was immediately born and grew up, approaches him; the son became an abrek, taking friends with the tree-digging and another; each in turn it remains to guard the hut; the man himself is six quarters, the beard of seven ties the guard, takes what he needs; the guards are sick; the bear son drives the bearded man into the tree like an ax; that breaks out, they follow a bloody trail to the tower, a woman picks them up; a bearded man comes, they kill him; a bear son chains his comrades, he cannot; a woman warns that three rams will come ; if he jumps on black, he will fall into the third underworld, on red into the second, on white he will be on the ground; he falls on black; in the lower world, a woman is going to knead dough in urine; the serpent Sarmyg lay down at the spring, gives water in exchange for the girl; the bear son takes water twice, the third time S. swallows it, he cut it from the inside with a sword, left; tells the sword that no one can take it out from the body of a snake, except him; the king, whose daughter was supposed to be eaten, orders to turn to an eagle in a tree in the middle of the sea; the chicks ask their father for a man; on the way, the Bear Son throws a buffalo eagle and rams, at the end cuts off the flesh from his thigh; on the ground he belches a piece back; the bear son finds comrades, marries a woman from the tower, marries his comrades]: 782-784; Sadulaev 2004, No. 122 [the tsar sees the poor man and promises that he will give him whatever he wants; the poor man asks to fill his pouch with money; the king's men bring a handful, then a hat and a cart of coins, but they cannot fill the pouch; in the end, it includes everything royal property; the king and his people attack the poor man, he kills them and becomes king; the children of the murdered king grow up, the poor man gives them all the royal property; having settled separately, he sows wheat; her the hail beats; the poor man is hired by a rider, says: "I will remove all your bread alone before sunset, for which you will give me part of my paddocks, but if I don't harvest bread before sunset, I lose my pay"; does not have time to remove one sheaf, refuses to pay; is hired by a shepherd on the condition that if there is at least a small loss in the herd after three years, he will not receive remuneration, and if there is a profit, he will receive part of the cattle; three years pass, the number of livestock increases; the herd is attacked by a wolf, a kid takes away; the poor man keeps the wolf alive, returns the kid and abandons rewards for work; walks along the road, dies; a wolf finds and buries a corpse; three doves fly to the grave, pray, the poor man resurrects; a tower appears on the grave, the poor man lives in it with doves, turned into beauties; wives say: "Go to the mother of the Sun and ask her for a nice sofa for us. Mother of the Sun lives next to Mother Moon. Their hut doors are always locked. The Mother of the Sun sits above her baby's cradle and feeds him with one breast, while the other breast is thrown over her shoulders. As soon as you enter Mother of the Sun's hut, rush straight to her chest and start sucking it; if you can catch her breast and suck it, she'll give you a sofa"; poor man follows instructions, Mother of the Sun He calls him his third son; her son comes, moving the Sun; when he learns of the poor man's request, he says to him: "Tomorrow you will follow me to move the Sun around the world, and I will stay at home and make you a sofa. Mother of Thunder will bring you lunch by noon, and when you come to the sea, look at our vineyard there"; the next day, the poor man begins to drag the Sun across the world; by noon, Thunder's mother brings him lunch; he remembers how she beat his arable land with hail and pounding it; when he reaches the sea and finds himself near the vineyard, he remembers the loss of harvesting fees; as a result, he keeps the Sun for an extra hour above the vineyard; in the evening he tells the mother of the Sun that the journey was safe; goes home with the sofa; a man comes to him, from whom he herded sheep; asks to give one of his wives; wives turn into doves, fly away; the tower and other buildings disappear; the poor man is hired by the king, enters into a relationship with his daughter; the king throws him into a hole; a powerful neighboring king sends it the king of two identical roosters and tells him to find out which one is older; the poor man suggests: "You can find out about the seniority of roosters by age as follows: pour them red wheat and let them go to it in the wind roosters. The elder rooster will stand with his head against the wind, and the youngest with his tail"; the king follows the advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends two identical stallions and tells them to know which one is older; the poor man explains : "Give more salt to these stallions, then let them drink, the youngest will run forward to the water and start drinking greedily, and the elder will walk quieter and, when he comes to the water, overtake the younger stallion"; the king follows advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends a message: "Find out which of your people is able to shoot an arrow from your village to mine"; the poor man fires an arrow into a neighboring village; it falls into a chain on which the cauldron hung in the royal hut; a messenger arrives: "Our tsar invites you to come to our village and take one dog and one rooster with you to compete with our dog and our rooster"; poor man takes a falcon instead of a rooster, goes to the village; on the way he meets a man who sees a chamois on a distant mountain, a man who hears a snake crawling over seven mountains, a man trying to drink the sea, and a man who, with one foot in his belt, runs to the other for a hare; takes them with him; the neighboring king releases a rooster, the poor man's falcon pecked him; the neighboring king announces the beginning of a race, releases a witch; she offers the one-legged to drink a drink from a jug, he falls asleep; the one who hears snoring well, the shooter fires an arrow into the jug, the one-legged wakes up to the ringing of potsherds and overtakes the witch; the king locks the guests in a copper hut; it begins to fill with water; a person who wants to drink the sea drinks it; a strong king recognizes the neighboring king as an equal, the poor man marries the king daughters]: 314-321; Tankiev 1997, No. 12 [the bear stole the girl, she gave birth to a son, he grew up right away, they came to her parents; the bear's son Chaitong (C., "bear cub") immediately left; meets, takes companions 1) throwing a log with his little finger, 2) listening to ants; they take turns cooking, yeshap eats everything, ties the cook with his mustache; C. ties him by the mustache to the door; he pulled out the pole, the bloody trail leads to a cast-iron pipe; only C. decides to go down; kills the yeshap in a duel, sends two older wives upstairs, changes rings with the youngest; she warned to touch the white horse, he will take it out earth; red and black cannot be touched; his companions pick it up, cut off the rope; C. touched black, got into the lower world; the water dragon covered the water; allows C. twice as a guest to collect water; for the third time he fights, because C. protects the princess given to the dragon; kills him; no one can pull C.'s dagger out of the dragon's body, only himself; the king teaches to kill the dragon that ate the eagle's chicks; the eagle picks him up, C. feeds her, cuts off the last pieces from her leg and arm; comes to the girl, they want to marry her, C. shows her ring, marries]: 257-263; Tankieva 2003 [mother tells her son to protect wheat from birds; he fell asleep; he fell asleep, said he had a good dream; refused to tell his mother, sister, he was kicked out of the house, he refused to tell a dream to pacchaha, thrown into a hole, playing zurna there, daughter of pachchaha fell in love with him; Pacci wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring pacciah, but is refused; a neighboring pacci sent an onion: if someone pulls it, I will give your daughter and half of the estate; only the young man in the hole pulled it, when Pacci himself came to ask him to do this; destroyed the corner of the tower with an arrow; Pacci sent the young man to a matchmaker; on the way he meets and companions 1) listening to the children of yeshap playing alchiki across the 7 seas; 2) changing goiters in pigeons on the other side of the sea; 3) chasing fallow deer on one leg; 4) shooting at a leopard seven mountains; 5) drawing the sea into the hollow of a tooth; 6) moving the village from place to place from 9,000 hearths; everyone says, not knowing who is in front of him, that he is not a miracle, but a young man who destroyed the corner of the tower with an arrow; at pachchah, the listener hears that they want to add poison to their food (friends changed food); runner runs in a race with the witch, she offers a drink and a snack, the runner falls asleep; the listener finds out, the shooter wakes him up, the runner overtakes the witch; at night the house was set on fire, the drawing sea was flooded with fire; but the bride was given only when the hero lifted the village on his back and carried it; then the boy woke up - he dreamed of it all]: 201-206; Chechens [one prince has three sons, the other has a daughter; the other leaves the first arrow; blood came out on it, the prince sends his sons to help his friend; his daughter is missing; the brothers see fire; the elder can spend 7 days underground, the middle can fly, the youngest can pull out eagle from under the eagle; the youngest crept up to the sleeping snake, took the girl, the eldest hid everyone underground; after 7 days I had to go out, the snake grabbed the girl, he caught up with him on the fly, returned the girl; the snake guards them again; promises to let them go for promising that they do not know at home; during this time, the fourth brother Hambor was born; he grew up, came to the snake, and he told Princess Albica to get from behind the seven mountains; the old woman gives a bead, she turns it into whatever you want; H. becomes a duck, lets herself be caught, the duck is given by A., H. is given by a man again, A. takes A. through the underground passage, they fly a dove and a dove, the A. brothers are chasing hawks; then hares and hounds; grains and roosters; H. and A. became hawks themselves, tore roosters to pieces; H. cuts off the head of a snake, brings A.; wedding]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:145-153; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [the woman rolled out the dough (reeds), covered it with a tablecloth, and when she took it off, the boy Kamyr-Batyr was there; he grew up, took a horse from his father, went on a journey; meets, takes companions a few dhows, each says he is not amazing, but K.; one pulls trees, the other throws rocks, the third drinks the sea; they put up a hut, cook one by one; a rider as tall as an inch, a beard in He eats everything 40 inches, ties the cook with his hair; when K.'s turn, he tied the dwarf between the trees; he uprooted them, the trail led to the well, K. went down on a silk rope; there are three daughters a dwarf, alone gave K. strong water, he killed a dwarf, sent the girls upstairs, his companions threw a rope; K. came to the old man; he teaches him to sit on a white ram, but K. accidentally sat on a black one, he threw it even lower; below, the old man advises killing Azdag, which eats the chicks of the Caracus bird, which will take it to the ground; K. killed Azdag, the chicks hid it; the wind rose (from the wings of the mother bird) from the sky an icy tiny thing fell down (her tears); the bird tells me to cook meat and water for 9 months; K. cut off the last piece from the thigh; the bird swallowed it and spit it it out healthy; K. executed treacherous companions, took the girls]: 209-218; Nogai 1979, No. 18 [Batyrbek, the son of poor Bolat, is ashamed that his horse is worse than others; Bolat finds a trail of tulpar, exchanges him from a beggar (Tulpar looks like a thin nag); khan gives the grain to feed the tulpara; Batyrbek wins it at the races, but, contrary to his father's warning, unties the last knot on the reins, the horse rushes, dives into the sea, Batyrbek goes ashore; finds the clothes of three girls; promises to return if the girls help make Khan Olmes's daughter Soleimes ("the enduring Khan's non-speaking daughter") speak; the girls take Batyrbek to the khan, the eldest hides in S. fur coat, tells a fairy tale, at the end you must give an answer, Batyrbek must deliberately answer incorrectly, then S. will speak; then the same: talking kumgan; talking golden bowl; the story of the fur coat : three brothers take turns herding sheep; the elder carves the girl out of wood, the middle one dresses her, the youngest sprinkles her with herbal infusion, revives her; Batyrbek replies that the girl should be taken by the one who revived her, S. objects: the younger brother should not marry before the elder; Kumgan's story: one brother grazes his head, the other belly, the third hind legs of a bull; the older brother goes to the middle all day, they both - to the youngest to find out if the bull is sick; the bull is healthy; they lead him to a watering hole; the bull drank the sea, the island remains, he turned out to be a fish, she swallowed the bull, the eagle took the fish, descended on the goat's horns, in the shade of his an old man sat beards, a bull's shoulder blade hit his eye, the old man's daughter swam in a boat in her father's eye, pulled out her shoulder blade, threw it out the door; the caravans stopped on his shoulder blade, the ground under them trembled - this is the fox began to gnaw on the shoulder blade; the woman killed the fox with a rocker arm, left; 99 caravans ripped off the fox's skin from one side, but could not turn the fox over; the woman returned, turned the fox over with her toe, but doubted whether half the skin would be enough for a hat for a newborn son; Batyrbek replies that the most eagle, S. was a child; the story of the bowl: the mother of nine sons sews a skullcap for everyone answers what is for him; tells him to go to the khan, let him judge who the skullcap is; everyone tells the khan about his abilities; one finds everything, the other sees everything, the third shoots accurately, etc. (makes a bow from chips; a chip boat; a one-brick house; will feed everyone; digs an underground passage; thief); khan asks the brothers to find his missing daughter; the brothers find out that Azaa took her away, hit him with an arrow in the eye, return him girl; Batyrbek replies that the younger brother, S., who is the eldest, should receive the skullcap; Batyrbek marries Soleimas]: 86-102; Kumyks: Kapiyeva 1974 [39 brothers leave with their father to look for a wife 40 sisters; the youngest fortieth Malik-Mamed stays at home, warns not to spend the night near the city of Palace; married 40 poor daughters, go back, spend the night by the river; in the morning it turns out that they mistook a snake for the river Ashdag, who surrounded them with a ring; lets go for promising to give MA; demands that he bring him the daughter of the Shah Devas; the wolf tells them to find a good horse; MA finds, gives the old one to be eaten by the wolf; on the way meets and comrades Fastfooted, Climber, Water Bread; Shah Devas 1) tries to burn them in an iron hut, Vodkhleb regurgitates the water, cools it; 2) the Shah orders to bring water faster than the lame old woman; Speedy overtakes her, but she gave him wine, he fell asleep; MA woke him up with an arrow, he caught up with the old woman, was the first to return with a jug; 3) Rock defeats the local strongman; MA gets a girl; wolf says that the soul is a snake in an egg in a huge partridge; MA breaks an egg, Ashdagha dies, MA marries Khan Deva's daughter]: 65-71; Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 29-37 [(=Khalilov 1965, No. 49:126-136); wife gives birth Forty sons, writes a letter to the merchant husband who has left; he replies that he will kill her if he finds even one child upon return; she hides them in a hole; after 15 years, the merchant finds her sons and takes them home; leans over the spring, Azhdaha grabs him, tells him to give the youngest; tells the young man 1) to bring Bermes, the daughter of Almas Khan; on the way, a shepherd in the service of Azhdakh promises to help; a sharpshooter joins the young man, deer milker, speedboat, drinking sea, wolf; win Almas Khan competitions (defeat a dog, win a run, spend the night in a hot room; a young man brings a woman; a shepherd tells her to break into a millstone mound, there are eggs with the soul of Azhdakh; a young man kills him, takes his wife and wealth; 39 brothers are jealous, offer his father to send the youngest for a bull buried by the sea; he brings him along with the herd; the same - horse; the father orders to bring a golden pole from the dead from his deceased father; he gives and teaches them to turn the young man's parents into wild boars (the origin of pigs), brothers into dogs], 38-48 [about the same; brothers - goats; father - Khan Kara-Batyr; Azhdakha demands what you don't know at home; these are forty sons born; but the khan gives an unloved freeze born to his late wife]; Avars: Atayev 1972, No. 75 [] : 89-97; Ganieva 2011b, No. 2 [a bear stole a pachah's daughter, Bear's Ear's son grew up, killed a bear, hired a pachah worker, dragged a hundred trees, breaking walls in houses; pathah sends him to hart, allegedly for not with a debt given; Hart tries to stuff MU into the chest, he shoves it himself, brings it back, he tells him to take it back; the same thing is that Azhdaha owes the bull; patah tells him to take it back, on the way, Azhdaha swallowed a herd horses; pachah went to war on MU, he destroyed his army, went to wander; meets, takes as companions the Woodbearer, the Millstone; they take turns cooking, a bearded dwarf riding a hare binds his hair, eats up the cook; MU clamps his beard in a tree trunk, he pulled out a plane tree with roots, went into a hole in the ground; MU descends, kills the dwarf, sends the kidnapped princess upstairs; she warns that his companions will abandon him, we must jump on a white ram, and the black one will carry him even deeper; MU accidentally sat on a black one, finds himself in a village where the nine-headed ajdaha locked the water; MU cuts him off heads and ears bring a pachaha of the underworld; he offers a daughter, but MU wants to go to the ground; in the forest, an eagle, MU kills a three-headed snake that devoured chicks, the eagle takes him upstairs; there is not enough meat, MU cuts off from his leg, the eagle puts a piece back; MU kills traitors, marries a rescued princess]: 50-57; Saidov, Dalgat 1965 [Ali Aigurova is so strong that he harnessed dragons into the arba; takes the satellites of the river swallower and the sharpshooter; the swallower, then the shooter remains cooking, the dwarf ties them with his hair, eats lunch; AA pinched the dwarf's beard with a plane tree; he escaped, went into the hole; the satellites are afraid go down, it's hot; AA kills a dwarf, sends his captive upstairs; she warns that if the rope is cut, AA must jump on a white ram that runs to butt black, he will take it out upstairs; AA hit black, fell lower; there the 9-headed dragon closed the water, gives in exchange for girls; AA kills him; khan says that only a kwankwa bird can carry to the ground; crawls to its nest three-headed snake, AA kills him; grateful kwankwa picks it up AA, who feeds it buffalo meat, gives it water; cuts off the last piece from her leg; kwankwa regurgitates it, puts it back; AA kills swallower and shooter fighting over a girl marries]: 174-183; Dargin residents [Alikhan-batyr goes to marry Tetli Khanum; Waik's wife, turning ropes out of snakes, building a threshing mill out of turtles and frogs, harnessed pigs and threshed on steel; A. blew and she flew overseas; he meets, takes Mount Hunkar as his companions, listening to Lippara, making Chugurchi flowers dance with a game, Urhukhup, who drinks the sea; everyone first says that he is not strong, but A. does; W. drank the sea, the companions crossed dry to the other side, there they met runner Tsatakhan; Father T. promises a daughter if A. 1) will win the run (he fell asleep, L. heard it, C. woke it up, H. put a mountain in front of the khan's runner); 2) he would defeat the bull (A. won, and the second, who was let in from behind, C. made him dance); 3) A. and his comrades locked in a steel house, lit a fire (W. flooded the house and half the city); 4) bowls of poison were placed in front of them at a feast, L. heard this, C. changed the bowls, the vizier and his men died; A. got a wife, chose a gift for a bad arba, a plain foal, all the khan's wealth could fit on the arba]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 9:131-134; Lucky [an apple fell on the royal roof during the rain; the queen ate it in half with husband, gave birth to 40 boys; the king was frightened and ordered them to be left behind the mountain; later he returned, 40 young men named him father, asked him to marry 40 sisters; the king put on iron boots and took a steel stick, went to look for brides; the father of 40 daughters, also with an iron stick and iron boots; the father and 39 sons went to pick up brides, and the youngest Susuna stayed at home; S. to his father: when they fall from the sky snakes and stone rain, don't stop anyway; but when the stones fell, the young insisted on spending the night; at night they were surrounded by a ring of snakes, demanded their younger brother S.; tells S. to get daughter of an overseas king; S. meets and companions a person shooting at birds at the sky, drinking and belching the sea; the tsar orders 1) to overtake the old woman; the shooter ran, fired an arrow in the back of the old woman and overtook; 2) climb a tree with a full bowl and go down without splashing; S. completed the task, but from the top of the tree he saw his mother in mourning for him, dropped a tear; but the king was convinced that it was not water; 3) spend the night in iron room; the king ordered to make a fire around, but the water bread spewed the water and cooled the room; the princess did not want to see the snake; the shepherd advised to ask the snake for a sword in a felt sheath as a reward; this sword C . cut by a snake; half turned into a dog, the other into a pig, they began to chase each other; S. received two wives: the princess and the former bride]: Khalilov 1965, No. 51:137-142; Rutultsy [dying, the hunter tells his son not to go to Mount Tseylahan; the son goes, kills an animal with glowing skin; the quarantine (witch) finds out about this, tells the padishah, who tells the padishah, who tells him to make a house out of animal bones, bring daughter of a genie padishah; a father in a dream tells me to bury clay figures of frogs and snakes, an ivory palace appears on this site; in search of a country of genies, a young man meets and takes the player as his companions the mountains, drinking the river, ate; the padishah of the genies tells 1) to eat a lot (eats); 2) stay in the room around which the fire was made (the drink pours out the river); 3) win the run (playing mountains threw mountains in front of a rival); the young man got a girl, the padishah died of a broken heart, the young man married, was elected padishah]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 34:325-327; Lezgins [Zulum-Magoma eats and works like giant; his fellow villagers are afraid of him; his mother pretends to be sick, asks for lion meat; he easily completes the task, goes to fight dragons; on the way she meets trees pulling out and leveling mountains ; companions cook; the long-bearded dwarf ties the cook with his hair every time, eats everything; Z. throws him up to the sky, the dwarf falls, hides underground; companions can't go down, there it's hot; Z. descends, kills three dragons (3, 5, 7-headed) sleeping on the knees of three girls; companions lift the girls to the ground, leave M. below; the youngest manages to say that he must grab the leg of a white gazelle, which will take it to the upper world; M. mistakenly grabs black, he takes it to the black world; the seven-headed dragon closes the water, gives it for the girls; Z. kills him; the king advises to go to the plane tree, where a parrot's nest; Z. kills a snake that is about to eat chicks; a parrot carries it to the upper world; Z. cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg, a bird puts it back on the ground; Z. comes to the wedding , kills traitors, marries, gives two other girls for laborers]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 79-91 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 34:54-68; apparently another more accurate translation of the same text in Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 1: 33-43); the Curins [the childless queen suddenly gave birth to 40 sons; after that, the king left home; the wife hired nurses, raised sons; the younger Melik Mammad calls the brothers to find his father; they found him and threatened to kill them if he did not marry them to 40 sisters, daughters of one father and one mother; the king found; MM punishes the brothers not to stay in the Palace; but they spent the night there and are surrounded in the morning a huge snake; he will let everyone go if MM comes to him; MM has come, the serpent tells him to get the daughter of the king of divas for him; the wolf tells MM to ask the snake for a horse; MM stabbed his horse for the wolf; MM meets, takes in companions of someone who milks deer on the run; throws stones; drinks the river; the king of divas tells me to spend the night in an iron room, they covered it with firewood, drank water, the room has cooled down; run with a lame old woman for reindeer milk; the old woman gave wine to the deer milker, he fell asleep; MM saw it, shot it, the milker woke up, killed the old woman, brought milk; overcame the hero (the stone-thrower overcame); MM received the daughter of the king of divas; came to the wolf; the wolf orders to kill a huge hare, an egg in his heart, a snake's soul in the egg; MM broke the egg, the snake died; MM married the daughter of the king diva and the girl brought by his father; his father gave him the throne]: Lionidze, Sultanov 1892, No. 5:204-208; the Udins [the shepherd's son Rustam is very strong, playing with other children, maiming them; the old woman advises sending R. to the forest where they live for firewood three divas; the king sends, R. easily kills divas, brings firewood; the king sends R. to the white diva; after a hard struggle, R. kills him too; decides to leave; meets, takes as companions a man who holds a tree uprooted over the plowman to create a shadow; a millstone tied to his feet and grinds grain with them; drinking a river; everyone, not knowing who is in front of him, says that his abilities mean nothing, but R . - hero; they live in a hut, each cooks in turn; Azhdaha comes, asks for pilaf broth, the cook asks him to wait, Azhdaha ties it with hair from his beard, eats everything; when he stays R., he cuts his head down, she rolls into the crevice; the tree holder tries to go down first, but shouts that it is burning, he is pulled out; the same is with the others; R. tells him not to pick him up if he screams; below P . opens 7 iron doors, sees a sleeping diva on a girl's lap; kills him; so four girls and four divas, R. kills divas and Azhdaha's head; sends three girls upstairs; the last one the beautiful one is afraid that the companions will not raise R.; leaves him two feathers: if you hit one another, a white ram (will carry him to the ground) and a black goat (lower it even lower) will appear; the companions picked up the girl and left; R. called the animals, accidentally sat on a goat, was downstairs; asked the old woman for a drink, who said that the snake in the well only gave water in exchange for gifts, now it was the king's daughter's turn; she brings a bowl to the snake pilaf; R. was chopped by a snake, the princess put her blood-soaked hands to R.'s back; the king called everyone together, made sure that the hero was R.; she could not understand him to the ground, but said that the snake eats the bird's chicks; R. kills a snake; the chicks tell the bird that he agrees to take R. to the ground, he must ask the king for meat and water; the last piece of R. cuts off from his thigh; on the ground, the bird sees that R. is limping , puts the meat back; gives two feathers to summon it; R. forgives his companions, leaves them beauties, takes the best for himself; companions change rings; if the stone on the ring turns black, the owner is in trouble; R. comes to another country, kills a diva, takes his wife as a second wife; the local king also wanted this woman; the old woman asks to make a flying chest; asks R. to take her into service; persuades the second wife R . find out what his strength is; he says that without a ring he will weaken and die in two weeks; the old woman took the ring off the sleeping R., invited his wife to sit in the chest, the chest flew to the king; companions came water bread drank water in a well, found a ring there; R. defeated and killed the king, returned his wife]: Dirr 1921, No. 58:210-218; Megrelians (p. Banza Senaksky u.) [The date is the youngest of 12 brothers; they decided to marry 12 sisters; on the way they meet, take them as companions 1) who fired an arrow into the sky a year ago and waits for him to fall; 2) drinking the river and not enough; 3) plowing on 12 buffaloes, swallowing clods of earth and screaming, "not enough!" ; 4) carrying heaven, earth, stone and wood and shouting "not loaded!" ; 5) listening to where the ants went; 6) a shepherd of hares; everyone replies that it is not him, but Date is a real hero; brothers reject giants who have 6.9 daughters; having 12 daughters offers challenges; 1) who will drink more wine (the water swallower drank everything); 2) who will hit a distant target (Shooter hit); 3) who will eat more (Earthblower); 4) separate barley and grain (the one who hears ants sends them to separate) ; The strongman raised the giant; he gave his daughters]: Petrov 1894:64-69; Georgians: Kapanadze 1900 (western in the Georgian village of Sachilavo in Megrelia) [the king has 363 sons, the elder Samais ("Samasi" - 300); S. invites her father to marry them to 363 sisters at a time; the first girl replies that he has 361 daughters, the second 362, and the third 363; he gives daughters; warns that a nine-headed girl lives near the girl with 362 daughters Devi, and near the one who has 361 daughters, is 12-headed; S. does not allow him to go to the 9th, but the 12-headed attracts all newlyweds into the abyss; promises to let him go if S. gets him the daughter of the Eastern king; S. meets, takes as companions 1) lying on his ear and ear covering, 2) chasing hares, tied a millstone to his leg, 3) shooting at a beast, a bird a thousand miles away, 4) plucking feathers from pigeons, and they don't notice 5) counting the number of ants in the ant heap, 6) sipping the lake, 7) swallowing blocks of land; everyone replies that this is not surprising, but surprising that S. and 362 brothers married the daughters of a 12-headed maiden; S. jumps the wall on horseback, opens the gate, the shooter destroys the guard dogs, the king offers tests; 1) whose messenger will be the first to bring living water; the king's messenger invites the Runner to have a snack first, he falls asleep; The shooter fired an arrow, she broke the millstones, They came back first; 2) who eats more (Eating consumes food, screams that it is not enough); 3) drink 40 wineskins of water (Opivalo drinks); 4) collect the sown wheat (who considered ants tells them to collect); the king gives his daughter, but orders them to add a sleepy potion to the food; The plucking pigeon feathers changed dishes, people fell asleep king; bringing the princess, S. offers the maiden to shave him, cut his throat with a razor (if you cut him again, new girls will appear with every stroke); S. brothers dug a hole, S. fell into it, but the horse galloped away, the brothers covered the hole with earth, took the princess; the horse asks the fox to dig a hole for promising to give her his back thigh; the fox lies when it comes; the same with the wolf, the bear; the bear dug to the bottom, the horse pulled out S.; parents gave S. the throne, and made his brothers servants]: 129-141; Mashurko 1894 [Lom-Katsi is conceived from the skin of an apple; meets, takes a catch-up hare as companions, tied to his feet a millstone; stealing from egg nests so that the pigeon does not notice; comrades live in the forest, cook in turn; the giant overcomes the cook, eats lunch; LC hits him with an arrow, descends after him into the crevice, where he was kidnapped by a giant girl; comrades pick up the girl, leave LK below; he comes to an old woman, where Gveleshapi gives water in exchange for people; LC kills Gveleshapi, rises to the ground on the bird's back; kills a traitor, marries a rescued girl]: 400; Georgians [the prince, out of mischief, shoots at the jug of an old woman carrying water; the jug has broken; an offended old woman tells the prince to fall in love with the sister of nine devas; with him his peer is the son of an old woman (SS); the mother of the devas asks to raise the millstones, wants to run over the SS, he himself seems to accidentally knock out her millstone teeth; one of her fang has pierced the underworld, the other rests on the sky; the devas give their sister to the prince; he takes the key from her, finds the locked Kremen-deva; he grabs the prince's wife, flies away; the SS companions the priest carrying the church, water bread (drinks the river), the rumor ( listens to the war of ants), eyed (a year watches the arrow fly), tearing mountains, running from a millstone on his feet; they find Kremen-deva, lower the SS underground to him; the kidnapped finds out where he is keeps the soul (a deer, a roe deer, a hare, a casket, three chicks); the SS kills a deva, frees horses and women, devas feast at a wedding, the prince reigns]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 32:83-94; Georgians (Racha) [after learning that the wife gave birth to 20 sons at once, the husband leaves; the youngest son Batribeg finds his father, sends him to look for 20 sisters for them to marry; he finds them, but on the way home, the dragon captivates everyone, letting go for the promise bring B.; B.'s wife cuts off her hand, gives him with her; the dragon raises B. to heaven, asks him to get a wife; on the way, B. takes as his companions a sharpshooter catching hares, listening to ants, drinking the sea, swallowing clods of earth; the king closes those who come in an iron room (obviously hot); he drinks water; the runner wins the bride in the run, but falls asleep; the listener hears it, the shooter wakes up the sleeper when he hits the bottle on his chest; eats everyone wins in food; the dragon turns into gold and silver, B. marries]: Dzidziguri 1971, No. 4:73-77; Georgians [stepmother commands A stepson named Sismara to protect the grain from the chickens, he fell asleep, the chickens pecked the grain; his stepmother beats S., who says that in a dream he found himself in Baghdad, the moon is sitting on one side of him, the sun is on the other, the morning star pours silver water from a golden jug into his hands; his stepmother tells him to sleep, S. says that this is impossible, she drives him out of the house; S. comes to the capital of the king of the West, he is brought to the king; having learned about the dream, he demands to give it back, throws S. into the pit; Princess Mzetunahavi ("not seen by the sun") secretly carries S. food for three years; refuses to the king of the East; he 1) sends four mares, orders guess which of them is mother, eldest, middle, youngest daughter; S. teaches M. to lick salt, mother will be the first to run to the water in the morning, followed by her eldest daughter, etc.; 2) orders to break a piece of rock salt into balls; S. advises to ask to show what size balls to break; 3) fires an arrow, no one can pull it out of the ground; S. gets out of the hole along the rope dropped by M., pulls it out; Armenians: Ganalanyan 1965:72-79 [(=Harutyunyan 1986:29-36); a pop strongman met Son of a Bear (SM) in the forest, he defeated him; began to live with him, ate everything; the pop gave him to the king; the witch advised to send SM for firewood to 40 devas; he easily defeated them, they cut firewood, brought them; another witch offered to send SM to bring King Frangistan's daughter; on the way, SM meets and travels 1) Runner (millstone on his leg), 2) I drank, 3) Obedala, 4) Heard, 5) Carp game (stones, trees dance), 6) Strongman (carries mountains); the king orders 1) to eat a lot, 2) bring water from the source of immortality (The Runner overtakes the royal messenger); The king tries to burn his companions in the bathhouse, Drinker regurgitates the water, cools it; the rumor finds out that they want to poison them, Igrin drives plates of poison to the king, and the queen dies; SM sheds his bear skin, marries a princess, reigns], 121-133 [the hunter's son kills the beast Sham-chrah with glowing skin; gives it to the king, not the vizier; the king orders to pay, the vizier only beats the young man, persuades the king to give new ones errands; ivory palace (wine was poured into the stream, the elephants got drunk, they were killed); a tree of paradise (asks the king for a ship, throwing food to the fish, they give wood); Princess Fariza khanum; takes a ship from the king with musicians, swims, companions a strongman, eaten, opivala, a musician whose sheep are dancing, a rumor; the king's tasks 1) eat a lot; 2) defeat the pahlevans; 3) opivalo fills the powder charge, when they want to blow them up; 4) the musician changes poisoned dishes, the servants die; on the ship, the princess throws a handkerchief, knife, needle into the sea; the ship begins to sail back, but the fish return objects; the strongman at home kills the king and the viziers, the hunter marries, becomes king], 134-141 [the young man throws nets three times, catches a frog each time; brings home to his mother; both wonder who cleans the house; son spies on how the frog turns into a girl, throws his skin into the fire; the old woman persuades the king to send an army to pick up the girl; the girl destroys the entire army with a sword; the old woman advises the king to ask bring the mother of forty horses to the young man; the young man pours wine into the stream, the mare gets drunk, the young man comes on it; bring a wife for the king; on the way, the young man feeds the dog and baklavana, takes companions drinking a lake, a hungry miller eating flour, pushing millstones with his little finger, listening while standing on his head; eating everything, a dog and baklavan defeat the royal, drinking water with which they tried to flood the room, the young man throws a ring into the poisoned food, separating the poison; the king gave his daughter; during this time the king took the young man's wife to his palace, poisoned the water in the bathhouse; the young man collected poison with a ring, pushed there the king became king, became king, the girl brought in as his baklavan; =Nazinyan 2014:18-24]; Wingate 1911, No. 7 [the young man refuses to tell his parents a dream, his father expels him; to the king of the East; that puts him in prison; he breaks through to the king's daughter; King West gives tasks, the young man teaches the princess how to solve them; the king takes him as his son-in-law, sends him to get the daughter of the king of the West; on the way he meets Listener, Runner, Porter, Eater, Water Bread, Pipe Player; Eater eats everything, Water Bread floods the fire in which they were put, the Porter carries away the palace; the king gives his daughter; the young man talks parents their dream: two suns (two wives) on the sides, a star (son born by the first wife) in their heads]: 476-481; Turks: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 3 [the old man tells the childless padishah of Egypt to eat an apple in half with his wife, feed the horse's peel; he himself will come to give a name to the boy who will be born; when he is 12 years old, the old man comes and gives the name Hüsnügüzel (Beautiful Soul); H. dreams The most beautiful in the world (PM), goes in search; takes the son of Padishah Moray and the son of Padishah the Stars as companions; the Padishah Arabs marries them to his three daughters; H. puts a sword between his wife and himself, promises come back; if there is blood on the sword, he is in trouble; H. marries PM; her golden hair flies away, her sandal floats away, gets to Padishah Giants (PV); he sends a witch to steal PM; she persuades PM to find out than life H.: he first calls a mirror, a broom, the witch breaks them, burns them; life in a sword, a witch throws it into the sea; the witch carries the PM in a jug covered in leather, drives the jug with a whip; the daughter of Padishah Arabs see blood on her sword; finds Padishah's son Stars by the stars, Padishah Moray's son pulls his sword out of the sea; H. comes to the PV garden in the guise of a shepherd; hides in the PM's room, kills PV a day weddings; on the way home, he picks up his second wife, the daughter of the Padishah Arabs], 4 [the son of the late fisherman (SR) catches a turtle shell; someone cooks and cleans the house; the SR spies, sees the girl, SR breaks the shell, marries; the king orders the lights in the city to be turned off, sees the light coming from the wife of the SR; the vizier advises to give her husband tasks; each time the wife orders to press the seal against a stone on the seashore, will go out Arab, will fulfill wishes; 1) bring 10 lions that will defeat the king's 10 lions; 2) feed the city; 3) build an iron gate wall around the city; 4) bring a wild mare with 40 foals from the mountains ( instead of an Arab, a bridle appears; fills the pond with wine; the mare is drunk; the foals followed the mother); 5) the king personally comes up with the task of bringing the sister of the seven giants; the SR wife cannot help; SR meets I ate, drank, Flutist, Omniscient; giants tell 1) eat 7 meat boilers, 2) drink 7 wineskins of water; 3) give poisoned bread; companions complete tasks: The omniscient knows which bread is poisoned, The flutist makes the plates dance, change places, the giants die; the giant sister kills the king's army and himself, the SR reigns]: 34-54, 55-63.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1958 [when dying, the hunter tells his wife to hide his hunting equipment from his son; he accidentally finds it; catches a gazelle, refuses to sell it to the vizier, gives it to the Shahanshah; insulted the vizier suggests 1) sending a hunter for another gazelle, a female (brings); 2) for a pair of weasels (Khizr turns peas into weasels); 3) an ivory throne (Khizr teaches you to pour wine into the lake, elephants are drunk, people they got tusks); 4) the daughter of King Peri; H. teaches you to take two ants rolling a ball across the steppe on the way to his companions, an old man standing on one leg and holding a rock on his shoulder (they will give a bunch of hair), an eater of everything flour at the mill; satellites and ants perform peri tasks (deliver a letter to Iran and back in a day; separate wheat, barley and millet, eat a lot); the young man returns from peri; 5) the vizier advises send him to visit the dead fathers of the vizier and shahanshah; the young man promises, invites the vizier and the shahanshah to wait on the throne on a pile of firewood, burns it, marries a peri, reigns]: 34-49; Marzolph 1984, No. 513A ( Azerbaijan, Kerman): 108; Bakhtiyars [the man got high, went to the bathhouse; the barber began to shave him; when he saw himself in the mirror, the man decided that he was handsome enough to marry Chinese princess; goes to China; consistently meets and companions four; each name is Ahmad and so and they have different abilities; they demand a daughter from the king, they threaten if they refuse carry all the soil out of his country in bags; the vizier advises to offer 70 pots of soup; one of the Akhmadov eats; the tsar demands that the prenuptial agreement be carried around the whole country; fast-footed A. does this, but before he can return, he falls asleep under a tree; the third A. sees the sleeper, the fourth sends an arrow, he wakes up; having received the princess, they argue who will get it; the barber cracks the smoker, he wakes up in the bathhouse]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 42:288-290; Baluchi [the king sends a vizier for forgotten rosary; that is long gone; sends his son Sha-Trasan 'a; he sees the vizier with the king's wife, takes the rosary; the vizier gets back earlier, tells the king difficult tasks for Sh.; the old man teaches what to do; 1) build a city (the old man creates); 2) a tree of laughter and crying; the buzlanga has a process on his leg , S. hides in a hole, grabs a buzlanga for the process; lets go, for which other buzlangs bring a tree; 3) a tree of forty songs; S. rushes to suck the breast of a buzlanga woman; she tells her sons that it is their new brother; their puppy leads him to the buzlanga who kidnapped their fiancée; S. kills him with a sword, gives the girl to his named brothers, who bring a tree; 4) a girl from Green City; S. meets buzlangi, baking and eating bread all the time; he says he is accumulating strength to overcome S.; S. says he knows S., defeats buzlangs, takes them with him; the other throws stones from country to country with a sling; I do it so that S. does not run away from me; the same; the third listens to what is being done in another country so that S. does not run away from him; the same; the fourth walks from country to country: the same; S. puts a bridge over the ants ditch, they promise to help; Skorokhod (fourth buzlangi) delivers S. to the girl, he kisses the sleeping woman; the next night the girl cuts her finger to stay awake, talks about her father's conditions; 1) separate millet from wheat (ants separate); 2) eat a lot of bread and meat (the first satellite eats); 3) overtake the royal speedboat; the companion went to bed, the listener learned about the danger, the slinger throws a stone in time, Waking up to sleep; on the way home, S. puts his sword between himself and his wife; at home, the king himself gives him the girl he has received; 5) get a horse with forty foals; the old man orders to throw camel hair into the well; the horse does not can drink, Sh. promises to fulfill his wish; he and his people sit on her foals; when the king, vizier and others sit down, foals fly into the air, ask whether to throw the riders on the mountains or into the water; Into the water ; they throw them on the mountains]: Zarubin 1932, No. 9:104-121; (cf. Baluchi: Zarubin 1932, No. 10 [the dervish gives the childless king an apple, his wife ate and gave birth to a boy Janteg; Azrail took him away, but revived him; sent him to his father; meets him, takes the Stargazer as his companion and Water conduit; all three go for the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin; at night, the Stargazer, then the Water Pipeline, go to look for fire, come to the Grandfather Gargashang's buzlanga, who puts them in his boot; when J. comes, returns him companions, he goes fourth with them; the dragon gives water to girls; J. puts out his sword, the dragon tries to swallow J., cut in half, Grandfather Gargashang eats it; J. gets the princess, gives it Stargazer; having defeated the enemies of another king, gets another princess, gives it to the Water Line; the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin lives on an island in the middle of the river; Grandfather Gargashang takes J. there, who converges with the girl; the old woman persuades the girl to ask J. where his soul is; in a sword; the old woman throws her sword into the river, lures the girl into the box, delivers it to someone else's king; the Stargazer and the Waterfinder take the sword out of the fish's mouth, J. comes to life; Grandfather Gargashang eats the old woman, returns the girl J.; he finds the father], 11 [41 sons of one king go to marry the other's 41 daughters; the younger Amat-sha agrees to send a sword instead of himself, to stay watch at home; on the way back, the buzlangi (white diva) takes his wife; A. learns about this from a dervish conversation; A. goes to look for his wife; on the way he wins, takes Buzlanga the Plowman and the Grain Grinder as his comrades, hitting stones; at night, first the Ploughman, then the Mukomol, go to look for fire; the Forty, who owns him, puts them under his knee; A. defeats him, takes him with the fourth companion; S. brings A. to the border the country of a white diva; A. kills him with a club, takes his wife; from two kings S. in clothes A. fulfills the condition (carry a heavy stone, eat a lot), receives a princess, A. gives them to the Ploughman and Mukomol; hair A.'s wife falls into the river, the royal son finds him; sends the old woman, who persuades his wife to find out where her husband's soul is in the sword; throws the sword into the well, lures the woman into the box, brings the prince; Ploughman and Mukomol they see blood instead of milk, fly in with pigeons, wake up S., he pulls his sword out of the well, A. comes to life, S. returns his wife; A. comes to his father]: 121-133, 134-150); mountain Tajiks (Darvaz): Rosenfeld 1977 [in a Darwazi fairy tale, Sodikjon meets three giants who later provide him with services and save him from death; these are Obedala, Opivala, Sharpshooter; in Tajik each "Oj Tako-to" No. "Oj" is a variant of Ad, At, Aj, Od - a modification of a mythical giant; on Zaravshan in the Kshtu Gorge, the author recorded the toponym Kal'ai Odiyon in 1971 - "The Fortress of Odes"]: 93; Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 1 [after the death of his father, Sodikjon catches sparkling fish, gives it to the Shah; the vizier persuades the Shah to tell S. to bring colored water for the fish, a stone pool, a climbing tree; every time peri in love with S. do what they want; the last task is to bring the daughter of a Shah who does not exist in the world; on the way, S. consistently meets giants, takes them as companions; these are Oj-Obedala, Ozh-Opivala, Oj- Sharpshooter; digs a way into the girl's chambers, she explains how to fulfill her father's conditions; 1) split the log with one blow; 2) spend the night in a red-hot room (Opivala drinks and regurgitates the river) ; 3) eat a lot; 4) hit an egg from three miles; 5) choose a wife among hundreds of girls (she will wear a canvas dress, dirty boots, she will sit on a white donkey); S. kills the Shah, his wife kills at home who sent S. the Shah and the Vizier; S. receives wealth and power]: 22-37; Tajiks [the fisherman's son catches the fish Guldor, which his late father missed; it is taken away by the padishah; demands that the fisherman's son get it Princess Chin-Mo-China; he saves an ant on the way, takes a river drinker and a catman pouring a hill as his companions; the princess's father tells me to oversleep in a hot copper bath (the drink cools down) overtake the camel (the catman pours a hill in front of him), sort it out by grain varieties (ants disassemble); the princess marries the padishah, is capricious, the fisherman's son releases the fish into the river]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960 : 156-163; Tajiks [viziers did not find the padishah the most beautiful woman in the world; he himself met her at the shepherd's house; she gave birth to his son Salim; until his maturity, the padishah decided to leave with his wife, leaving the state is in the care of the right hand vizier; S. is growing rapidly; to eliminate him and take the throne for himself, the vizier sent the old woman to where S. played with money; the pig broke the spinning wheel; the old woman named S. rootless: the vizier is not his father; S. went in search of his real father; meets a man with 7 millstones in his hands: I'm going to fight S. S.: I am brother S., defeat me; S. knocked him down and wanted to behead him, but he promised to become his friend; the same with the hero who threw plane trees; with the Drinker; Salim was not given pilaf at the bazaar, he scattered local strongmen; the padishah was frightened, gave him his daughter, S. gave her Millbearers; gave her a cup of milk: if it turns red, we must hurry to help; in another city, a dragon has appeared in the house, demands daily man and bull, it was the turn of the royal daughter; S. dozed off, the girl's tear woke him up; he ripped the dragon with a dagger; the padishah gave S. a daughter (proof that he is a hero: only S. was able to lift the dragon's body) ; S. gave it to Chinaro-bearer (the same as with the Millbearer); in the third city, the padishah is a girl; she executes those who did not complete the task; fly on horseback without spilling milk (some spilled, but S.'s tear was filled the pot again and the girl did not notice); a chest with two pearls fell into the river, we had to get it (the river drinker drank the river); spend the night in the glacier; J. and C. saw that the milk turned red, they hurried to help, C. lit a huge fire from plane trees, S. slept through the night; grind 20 bags of grain in a day; J. performed; the girl married S., but he gave it to the Drinker and went to look for parents; river, island, palace, divas there; S. won and killed him; in the palace, the kidnapped daughter of the padishah; S. brought her to her father, who passed her off as S.; they went to look for S.; the fisherman is fishing with a net; this is the father; everything is fine]: Amonov 1961:323-336; Tajiks [padishah is ill; doctor: let them catch a white gazelle, slaughter him in the presence of the padishah, give him a drink of blood; the prince went with the soldiers, saw a poor girl, promised send matchmakers, brought a gazelle, but her blood is no easier; doctor: the right gazelle has a necklace around her neck, rings on her legs, 40 peri are guarding her; the prince saw a gazelle, but the main peri, Nigora, first ordered fulfill the conditions: 1) run with the gazelle to Balkh and overtake it; 2) build a palace between heaven and earth; 3) sit in a hot tone for 7 days and cook pilaf there; if you do, we will become your slaves, and if not, let's die in prison and leave the bodies to snakes; 40 baklavons fled, did not overtake the gazelle, were thrown into prison; shepherd's daughter Nulsanam {the one the prince saw first?} put on men's clothes, came to the old man; three doves flew to his three sons, turned into peri, became wives of sons, took them away, sons went in search and disappeared; in a dream, an old man teaches G. to hit each other with three swords, a horse will appear, come to the cave, go down on a rope, the divas are sleeping at this time, take a ring from under his tongue, after which the diva will become a servant; three young men the caves were lowered by G., she took the ring, ordered the diva to return the kidnapped young men and then take them all to the boy's father; the young men became G.'s assistants; the elder overtook the gazelle; the diva rose to the sky, and G. said peri: let the diva now be served with stone and solution; peri: the second requirement is fulfilled; the third young man Bahrpakhlavon sat in good shape, cooked pilaf; Nigora G. gave the main peri to her brother, the rest baklavons released from prison; the padishah recovered, the prince married G., received the throne, appointed brother G. as a vizier]: Osmanov 1989:371-379; Yagnobtsy [the bear stole the princess, she sucked thread, threw a ball out of the cave, Grandfather the Collector of Thorns found it, told the king that the princess was returned, she gave birth to a strongman; people complain about him, because in games he maims other children; he goes to travel, his name is Hirs al-Din ("hirs" is a bear); meets, wins, companions Chanor-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-din (spins a millstone on his finger); they stole the girl, made her a maid, told her to always feed cat, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; the cat was late for eating, filled the fire with urine, the girl saw smoke, came to the barzanga, she gave fire and a handful of grains; on the trail of the barzanga grains came, sucked the girl's blood; C., C . remained guarded, frightened, hid; H. cut off the head of the barzanga, but the head disappeared in failure, promised to harm; H. descends on a rope, there is a captured peri; she finds out that every diva's soul is in locked in a room, in a pair of pigeons, in two worms; gave divas drunk, H. took the keys, H. unlocked the rooms, killed worms, the divas died; peri warns that the companions will cut the rope; peri agrees to go beyond whoever picks up a knife, gun and purse H. can't; in the lower world, H. tells tigers not to touch a peasant's bulls, kills a fox that strangled an old woman's chickens; an old woman advises killing a dragon that devoured Simurg birds chicks; in flight, H. feeds Simurg with eggs given by the old woman, lambs given by the peasant; Simurg bites off H.'s leg, regurges, puts it back; gives white and black feather to become old or young; only H. picks up a knife, etc.; brothers tied to horse tails; feast, the tsar awarded the Grandfather Collector of Thorns]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 27:131-138; Yazgulyam [Kulparai-on-Kamon went to the mountainside; there a man turns a millstone, says he is going to K.; K.: I am his student, I easily defeated the one who took the millstone as companions; the same with a spinning on Little finger mountain; they live in a hut, cook one by one; the goat comes in, ties the cook with his hair, eats everything; when K.'s turn, he cut off the goat's head, it rolled into the hole; the companions can't go there it's hot to go down, K. went down; there the goat put his head on the woman's knees; K. twisted him by the beard, threw him; he came to the old woman himself, stayed there]: Edelman 1966, No. 10:203-204; Vakhans: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 12 [the cat tells the sheep that today it will be slaughtered and it will eat its fat tail; the sheep asks the cat to bring a knife, cuts off its fat tail, the cochla opened the door, the sheep went to the mountain Kof, gave birth to a herd of sheep and a boy May-Zman ("son of a sheep"); tells him to go to people; the Ministry of Health meets, wins, takes Chinorboz ("playing plane trees"), Kuboza ("playing with mountains"), Khdorgboz (" playing with millstones"); companions come to an empty house, food is ready there; they take turns guarding; a girl comes out of the crack in the pole, washes, paints the rest, puts a dish with food, turns into a needle, goes back; the rest stains his face with mud without anyone noticing; when the MZ remains, he sprinkles salt on the cut, grabs the girl, the companions agree to take her as his wife; MH tells his wife to watch the fire; she dropped a red bead, thought that the coals were turning red and they went out; she sees smoke over a pile of stones, comes, there are Barzangi; tells me to sprinkle the road with fried lice, then the dung in the hearth will catch fire; on the trail she comes riding a goat, sticks needles into the bread, tells the girl to dance on them, she hurts her legs, he drinks blood; the companions take turns guarding, everyone is afraid; the Ministry of Health hits with a dagger kills 5 heads of Barzanga, the sixth under a stone, the seventh ran away, returned with an army; the Ministry of Health burns the hairs of his mother sheep, which heals his wounds and the wounds of his companions; the Ministry of Health orders him to be lowered into the hole under the stone, where the sixth head disappeared (the companions tried, but could not); Barzanga's shepherd is below; the Ministry of Health asks him how to count the cattle (hit the tree, how many leaves did not crumble, so many sheep were missing), how cross the river (say "chuck", the waters will part), where our grandfather's soul, i.e. Barzanga (in a staff, if you break it on the knee, he will die), grandmothers (in the stones that grind salt; hit each other, the wick will flash, blow it out), the shepherd himself (in the lice on the back of the head); the Ministry of Health suggests cleaning the shepherd's head, presses the louse, "pulls on the demand that was on the shepherd's head"; under the guise of a shepherd crosses the river; the grandmother asks to bring a sheep, a goat, he brings a ram, a goat; says that he has confused everything in the sun; breaks the staff, blows out the wick; sends the cattle upstairs to his companions; tells him to drag himself, but does not tie themselves; they cut off the rope; a forest has grown out of a thorn that has fallen into the leg of a Simurg bird; the Ministry of Health frees Simurg; her children think that a man wants to kill her, she explains everything; tries to raise the Ministry of Health to the ground, there were not enough supplies, he throws the meat out of her hand, but she comes back; the next day, from her leg, they reach the ground, Simurg regurges, puts pieces of meat back to the Ministry of Health; gives two feathers - turn an old man and a young man; disguised as an old man, he comes to his companions, becomes young, kills them with a dagger; lives with his wife], 14 [seven sons go to look for seven sisters to marry them; remaining on guard, the younger Sultan Nasab offers 39 robbers to get the king's seven daughters; raises the robbers to the fortress, kills one at a time, rearranges objects in the younger princess's room; the king sends the old woman everything find out if he marries his daughters to his brothers; SN warns not to stay in the blooming garden; the brothers stop, where the dragon tells him to give him SN; demands that he bring him the Queen with Hair to Forty Gyazov; SN meets, takes Strelka, Vodokhleb as companions; saves rats and mice from hunger; the Queen tells 1) to spend the night in a steel room (they make a fire around, Vodokhleb floods), 2) overtake Wind-footed maid (The shooter breaks her jug while she returns, SN brings water), 3) collect scattered millet (rodents collect); SN marries the Queen; the eagle dragon arrives, the Shooter easily kills (it was his student); at home, the older brother wants to marry his wife SN; SN heals by throwing a handkerchief over him, rejuvenates the blind father, the older brother cancels the wedding, SN reigns]: 153-163, 172-180; Ishkashim [the youngest of the seven princes asks his father to marry them to seven princess sisters; the father replies that there is no such king; the brothers go in search themselves; at night they decide to hunt alone; six returned empty-handed ("fox" means failure); the youngest met 40 robbers; suggests that he himself climb the wall of the king's dwelling, and then pick them up one by one; each is beheaded; enters the room where the king sleeps, then to the one where his 7 daughters are; moving objects; when he returns, he says "lion" (i.e. luck) to the brothers; the king is looking for a hero, the young man has opened; the king gives his 7 daughters to the princes; on the way Brothers and wives stay home for the night; a dragon has come out of the lake, demanding to get fruit for him from Mount Kof; a young man meets and companions three dragons on the way; the owner of the fruit locks them in an iron room and makes a fire; one dragon filled everything with water; the owner demands to level the mountain (done); sketch a mountain of game (the shooter dragon performed); the owner demands that when he goes, under his foot There was not a drop of water; one of the dragons drained everything; the owner gave the fruit, the young man gave it to that dragon, the brothers and wives returned home]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 4:123-129; the Shugnans [the bear carries away makes a hunter her husband; she has a son Bear (M.), 3 years later as a 20-year-old boy; he kills the Bear, comes to his house with his father; kills the royal hero who offered move his leg off the gold bar; forced; meets, wins, takes Saxifram, Tree Uproot, Mill Straightener with his little finger; twin brothers live in the fortress, cook in turn; every time an old woman comes, eats all the pilaf, beats the cook; everyone is silent about what happened; when it is M.'s turn, he cuts off the old woman's head, she hides in the crevice; his companions lower him on a rope after him; sends the princess and treasures upstairs; the companions leave, leaving M. below; there is a horse: whoever whips twice will take him to the upper world, some once to the lower world; M. hit once, is below; sends a peasant to buy bread, tames lions, plows lions, kills them; they killed two people a day; he is made king; Simurg sees the chicks of the bird, one cries, he will now be eaten by a werewolf; M. kills a werewolf, Simurg takes him to the upper world; he takes the rescued girl, drives away his brothers, becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 3:74-84; Sarykoltsy [childless a person sees a pomegranate in the river, takes it; a dragon comes out, gives two grenades, let his wife, a mare, a dog eat them; a son, a foal, a puppy must be sent to him; then all three give birth again, these people can keep it for himself; Joneyhair is born; after finding out what is going on, he rides a horse and a dog to the river; the dragon orders to get the princess; wins, takes the Ice Bear, the Fiery Beast, the Shooter Beast, the Beast Shovel bearer; does not crush ants, their king gives his mustache to summon it on occasion; the same with mice; the princess's father offers tests; 1) sit in a cold house (The Firestorman warms, 2) in a hot house ( The ice maker cools down), 3) turn the forest into arable land (the Lopatonbearer performs), 4) collect millet scattered across the field (ants collect); 5) bring firewood on the donkey (the witch turned into a donkey, then became a bird flew away with firewood, but the Shooter hit her, she became a donkey again); the mice gnaw the wall into the princess's room; she warns that her father will put his horse against J.'s horse, the dog against his dog, tells cut an iron deck with a wooden ax; gives a bundle of his hair, it helps to cut it; the horse and dog J. win; the king gives his daughter; sends after the old woman to turn J. into a donkey; J. changed the potion, it was eaten by an old woman and a dragon, became donkeys]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 27:273-285; Bukhara Arabs [the old woman asks the Prophet Musa to convey to God her request for a son; gives birth strongman Ahmed Zamchi; AZ reached out his legs - destroyed the house; sent to the emir, eats all the pilaf, sent to another emir, takes money from him; consistently meets, wins, takes a person as companions, drinking the river to get enough fish; another fisherman running from a millstone; a dwarf tries to eat the meat they cook; they hit him, his head rolls into the cave; only AZ could go down on a rope kills a diva, frees a woman, and she and him are safely pulled back on a rope]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 46:290-293; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) [the king has daughters Mukhliyo, Mukhliyo, Mukhbat and younger Iqbal; the king wants to pass them off as richer than him; the sisters run with men's clothes on; at the fork in I. chooses the road to the right with the inscription "If you go, you won't come back"; the sisters go straight and left ("you're unlikely to return " and "you will come back"); the sisters promise to marry the one they meet; I. meets a bear; gives birth to a son with the legs and body of a bear; at the age of 14, the son pushed back the millstone that closed the cave, defeated and killed the bear; I. s his son returns to his father, he arranges a holiday, gives his grandson the name Aikpalvan ("hero bear"); playing, A. injures his peers; the vizier advises that I. pretend to be sick, and A. go to the country of divas for with the leaves and roots of the tree of life; A. meets a man playing with millstones; he trains to overcome A. (whom he does not recognize); A. defeats him, makes him a companion; the same applies to a man who moves mountains; they come to an old man; he explains that the land of divas can only be reached by riding a diva; twins hunt, cook in turn; a dwarf comes out of the plane tree himself with a quarter, a beard 40 quarters, ties the cook's hair, eats everything; when A.'s turn, he kills a dwarf; twin brothers find failure in the ground; everyone tries to go down, but tells him to pull him out right away; A. goes down to the end; comes to the castle, where the princess kidnapped by the diva; A. sends her upstairs in the chest; when he begins to climb himself, twins cut off the rope; the old man advises killing the dragon, which eats two Simurg chicks every year, she will thank you for this; Simurg brings him to the ground, tells you to go to the tree, the top of which rests on heaven; asks ploughmen to bring food; harnesses two divas who tried to attack, plows them; the old man explains that a tree to heaven is the tree of life; meets former brothers, they fight over the chest, believing that it contains gold; A. throws them into the abyss; brings the mother's tree, kills the viziers, finds and marries his mother's sisters, plows divas]: 434-444; Afzalov et al. 1971 (1) [The White Shah looking for batyrs to fight with the Black Shah; the bald man offers to take him; buys a thin oath, cares, she turns into a mighty horse; the bald man asks his mother if his father has a weapon left; a knife and a poker; he takes them; meets a young man; he tells him to rest, turns himself into a steel-clad horse, a steel horse, a magic sword in his hand, smashes the army of the Black King, tells the bald man to say that enemies he won himself; the Black Shah invites the victorious batyr and promises him a daughter; at the feast, the vizier offers to give the princess to the fastest rider; that young man appears again, gives a victorious horse, bald gets the daughter of the Black Shah; when he breaks up, the young man gives the bald man a folding knife: if you say "Vozpirahun", he will come to the rescue; the old woman tells the bald man that V. is a girl; the old man teaches how to enter her castle ; in front of the dog, the straw, the bone in front of the camel, must be changed; say "V.", the div guard will fall asleep; cut off the cat's head, remove the bunch of keys from its neck; the old man teaches to go down to the bottom of the river to mother V.; she teaches tie 40 braids of sleeping V. to 40 pegs; V. recognized the bald man, they began to live together; V. gives his portrait, but the wind flew in, threw it into the river; the fishermen pulled him out and told the king that V. wanted for him go out and sent a portrait; the old woman promises to get V., tells her to give her a boat, load her with carpets and fabrics; cuts her donkey's leg, tells the bald man that he broke his leg, bald sheltered her, against V. and her mother; the old woman persuaded her to go to the river and board the boat, took her to the king; V. sets the condition: to build three houses in 30 days; V.'s mother turned the bald man into a dervish, he came and began to drink with the king, king fell asleep, bald and V. agreed to run; at night, the bald man climbed the fence; the robbers threw him into the pit, and V. mistook the chieftain for bald, he took her away in the boat; she killed him, returned to the robbers, promised marry the one who would be the first to bring her abandoned girdle; swam home, the bald one also returned; the king found neither gold nor V.; they arrived at the White Shah, who gave his daughter and throne to the bald man; V. promised to give birth son and daughter conceived, and the daughter of the White Shah promised two sons and was infertile; when V. gave birth, the children were replaced by puppies and thrown into the steppe; V. was thrown into the zindon; the elder Khizrbuva picked up the children, told the goat feed; the boy is Sohibkurol, the girl is Sohibjamol; they live in an iron castle; the midwife guessed it; advised the girl to ask her brother to get roses over which birds curl; Hizrbuva gives the young man magic sword, shows the way; the young man killed divas, brought roses and nightingales; the midwife advises asking for a white winged horse; H. taught to catch a horse; midwife: to get the girl Sangil Sopoltosh; H.: drive up to the river, there are stones, they are petrified people; call the SS 3 times; you'll be petrified up to your throat, but if you shout a fourth time, all the petrified ones will come to life; the SS will start asking everyone who called him; finding out that The young man was sent by H., would call himself his girlfriend, and turn the others into stones again; the SS ordered not to let the midwife in, the young man hacked her; while hunting he met a bald man, had to invite her to visit, but how to receive the king? H. promises to arrange everything; the pilaf from the small cauldron was enough for all the guests; H. told everything, disappeared with the iron lock; the evil wives were tied to the tail of a mare, driven through thorns; {about V. more it is not said}; the bald man gave the throne to his son; the SS gave birth to three sons; their father saw a girl in the mirror, the sons went to look for her; at the fork in three roads on the poles the inscription: 1) Maybe you'll come! 2) You'll get there, but you won't come back! 3) Don't take risks, don't go - death lies ahead! the youngest took the last road; helped the old woman get water from the house; stays with her; at night there are two moons in the sky: the second is light from the face of the daughter of the Western king; the young man went that way to meet Hizrbuva, gave a sword, the young man cut the divas with them, grabbed the winged horse, but he escaped, a piece of mane remained; then the young man gave a cake to the lion; ants; the lion gave a piece of mane, the ants allowed them to pass; other suitors were killed by a lion, died in ant possessions; the king will give his daughter to whoever throws millstones on the roof of the palace; the lion placed a millstone on the back of a winged horse, he threw it on the palace, the palace collapsed; having received a wife , a young man on a winged horse brought her to a place where he broke up with his brothers; one became a cook, the other became a stoker in a bathhouse; on the way, the brothers tied the younger hand, threw her into the hole, and said at home that they were heroes; the younger brother managed to give his wife a piece of horse mane; the wife summoned the horse, brought her husband; the elder sons were tied to the tails of mares, the youngest received the throne; then a feast with the Western king; the bald grandson began to rule two kingdoms]: 174-200; Ostroumov 1906, No. 1 [Tsar Iron tells his son to hunt only in the west; he does not find game there, goes east; the bear takes him away, locks him in a cave; Ldekova's son is born with with shaggy legs; tells the traveler to inform Tsar I. that his son and grandson will soon return, trail the ground with a sword to know where to go; after 7 years, he throws away the stone that closed the entrance, leads, and then carries his father, kills a bear who has rushed in pursuit; I. is afraid of him, moves him to a distant dacha; orders him to deliver firewood from a swamp where devils and predators; D. loaded firewood on those and came on horseback tiger; I. ordered to unload all the firewood in the country; D. went on a journey; meets Tah Palvan, then Hyrs-Palvan, Chinar Palvan; one threw mountains, the other threw huge stones, the third plane trees; each went to Chimkent to compete with D.; D. called himself a student of D., easily defeated palvans, took them as companions; on the edge of the city there are 7 bab-yags in a row, in front of each cauldron with 40 ears, 40 rams in each cauldron; D. hit one, her head flew off and hit the head of the neighboring one, so all 7 heads flew off; elsewhere D. killed four bab-yags; the companions came to another place; agreed to cook one by one; the first was T.; a dwarf arrives on a goat, a 40-top beard, bells on each goat's fur; asks for fire, empties the cauldron in one sip, leaves; now D. remains, knocked the dwarf's head off his shoulders with a hot stone, she rolled, disappeared in a hole; everyone tries to go down, but immediately shouts to be pulled out; D. came down; two peri in an iron cage say that Raznun Divas reigns here, he has 70,000 divas, from for each drop of blood spilled, another 70 thousand appear; the divas sleep and stay awake for 40 days; D. killed them, sent girls and treasures upstairs; picking up D., the companions let go of the rope; D. recovered, met the ploughman, asked for food; while the plowman was going to buy food, D. ordered the animals and birds to plow the field, and then obey the plowman; came to an empty city; there everyone hid underground from a snake named Mundurha-adjar ; D. killed him; in another city, two idroim-azdargs come out of the lake and devour everyone; D. to an old man: if there is blood above the water, then I am dead, and if pus killed May; D. went down into the lake and killed snakes; goes further, kills several bab-yags; the last one won; she asks D. to become her son - she had the same hero, but died; he was left with a powerful bow; D. asks how to get to the ground; old woman tells you to go to the sea, there is a plane tree with a nest of a bird Sirug; her cubs are eaten by an alpan-azhdarga; D. took the old woman's son's bow, hit the ajdarga in the heart, fed two chicks, who hid it under their wings mother; Simrug smelled a man, but the chicks told her everything; she ordered 80 lamb carcasses and 80 water vessels to be cooked; there was not enough meat, D. cut off his leg; Simrug regurgitated her on the ground and put it back; said that if she knew what delicious meat D. had, she would eat it; D. came to the house where his companions and peri killed his companions, began to live with peri; one day he heard that Bukhara Khan had attacked to Iron; came and scattered the Bukhara army, and then returned to his home]: 157-182; Turkmens [the padishah has three sons, each mare gives birth to a foal, the foals are kidnapped; the brothers go three roads, the youngest Karaca is a batyr - on the one you will not return from; offers the deva to throw stones up; dev throws him on his head, dies; K. comes to three kidnapped peri, kills three devas; when fights with the youngest, the peri pour millet under his feet, and K. mash, the dev slides, falls; K. brings three peri to his brothers; they hang a diamond sword at the entrance to the yurt, K. cuts off his legs; he comes armless Amet is a rumor and blind Fast-footed Veli, also crippled by their brothers; twins bring themselves a young woman, she cooks pilaf; an old man from the top, a beard with two binds the young woman with hair from beards, eats pilaf; the young woman tells her returning brothers that she forgot to cook; the same when the first, then the second sister remains; K. himself ties up the old man; lets go when he returns to the crippled legs, arms, eyes; K. pretends to be an old man, comes to his wife; she says that her missing husband told her to marry someone who pulls his bow; he comes with a horseman, kills his brothers, tells his story, returns his wife]: Stebleva 1969, No. 22:54-66; Pashayas [Jan Bahādur ("barley hero"; YAB) at the age of three is so strong that he beat his father, threatens to beat his mother, goes to wander; meets, takes satellites 1) pushing two houses with his hands (he, like the next ones, speaks, not knowing who is in front of him, what is stronger than all NBs; does not believe that YB is defeated by him, promises to serve faithfully); 2) pushing mountains (at first he was fought by a man who collided houses, but was defeated); 3) colliding rivers; 4) colliding rocks; behind Mount Kaf they meet a fairy; companions are going to kill YAB to take possession of her; YAB suggests: he fire an arrow, let them run after it, the first person who comes running will get a woman; kills them (with arrows?) , takes a fairy as his wife]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 8:60-65.

Baltoscandia. Danes: Suritz 1991 [the husband told his wife to breastfeed his son Hans for 10 years; he could not tear out the tree; he could for another 10 years; H. is too strong to work properly; the pastor sent him for with firewood into the forest, where demons, H. threw them, brought a cart with a mountain of firewood and horses; pastor sent H. to bring paper from hell; hell suggests: who will throw the rim higher; H. pretends to throw it God the Father, the devil asks not to do this, gives the paper; the pastor is forced to pay a cart of money; H. tells the blacksmith to tie an iron club for him; meets and companions a stonemason, a woodcutter; they they come to the castle, cook in turn; every time a witch comes, hits and throws the cook into the basement, eats everything; H. takes away her magic ointment, saves her friends, the witch is gone; H. finds a hole in the ground, tells him to go down there; beat the witch, sent two princesses upstairs; then put his staff; the companions think it was H., cut off the rope to get both princesses; H. killed the seven-headed troll, freed the third princess; forced the witch to carry them to earth; the princess gave him one thing as half the sun, the other as half the moon; the king demands just such things; H. hired a jeweler pretended to forge the things himself, came to the palace, married a younger princess, who recognized him as his deliverer]: 14-19; Cramer 1919 [the father named his 6 sons the Elder, Next to the Elder, etc.; when they were between 18 and 12, their father sent them to the world to study trade; at crossroads they went 6 roads, agreeing to return to the same place two years later; when they returned, it turned out that everyone has mastered some science: 1) build a self-propelled ship; 2) drive such a ship on land and sea; 3) hear everything; 4) shoot with a mark; 5) climb walls and rocks; 6) steal; the sorcerer stole princess, the king promises her savior as his wife and half the kingdom; using their abilities, the brothers on a self-propelled ship reached the glass mountain; the climber climbed, the thief stole the princess from the sleeper the sorcerer; he woke up, followed him; he can only be killed by hitting a dark speck on his chest; the shooter is hit, the sorcerer has crumbled into thousands of pieces, these are shooting stars; neither the king nor the princess knows who should be her husband; God killed the brothers and princess, turning them into the Pleiades; the princess is the brightest and the thief the weakest star]: 11-14; Swedes: Balzamo 2011, No. 16 [the giant kidnapped princess, the king promised half the kingdom and daughter's hand to the savior; six brothers each began to learn some art; 1) build a ship; 2) control it; 3) climb a glass mountain; 4) steal - could steal an egg from under his magpie; 5) create the night over, the day ahead; 6) shoot accurately; the brothers got the princess, the fifth blinded the stalker giant, creating night, the sixth killed him with an arrow; the king and the princess herself do not know who to choose; the brothers and then the princess rose to heaven one by one, became the Pleiades]: 26-31; Stier 1971, No. 1 [when the son of a peasant is 16, he takes him to the city, that sees a gun, easily lifts it with one finger, carries it on his shoulder; tells him to call it Bären-Öra; at the age of 20 he takes an iron club, goes wandering; prevails in martial arts, takes companions 1) damming the river with his beard, 2) pulling out a spruce tree; the companions live in a forest hut, take turns cooking; the troll comes twice, eats everything; when BÖ stays, he hits the troll with a club, he leaves, from anger pulling out an oak tree and dragging it with them; friends follow the trail of a failure in the mountains; not far from the sea, friends take all the ropes from the locals, lower BÖ down the rope; there is a castle and a torn oak tree; the princess gives BÖ a drink of strength, not a drink of weakness; a troll who clutches a sword is killed by a club, his sword is killed by the troll's mother; the princess was kidnapped 10 years ago from Arabia; BÖ sends the princess upstairs; then puts a stone in the basket; the companions think they are lifting BÖ, cutting off the rope; bringing the princess to Arabia, in a year she must marry one of her imaginary saviors; BÖ finds a whistle, a servant comes out to the sound, serves food, royal attire, fast horses; they jump to Arabia, BÖ marries a princess, companions flee]: 5-11; Latvians: Arys 1971 [four brothers left home a long time ago, now the Fifth Strongman is coming; he meets the brothers consistently, this is the Sharpshooter, the Cold Maker (if he puts his hat over both ears), the Runner, the Wind-maker ( keeps one nostril closed); the king promises a daughter to whoever overtakes her; The runner overtakes her, falls asleep, the Shooter knocks a bone out of his head; the king heats the stoves around the room with the brothers, they bring cold; the brothers agree to take a bag of money instead of the princess; The strongman takes everything, the Windblower drives away the army sent after him; one soldier is entangled in twisted roots, still visible there]: 152-154; Aris, Medne 1977, № 653 [Four skillful brothers. Sons learn crafts: one to steal, the other to shoot, the third to sew, and the fourth to look. When they get home, their father tests their abilities. A person who can look through a spyglass sees a bird incubating five eggs in a tree. A thief steals eggs without scaring a tit. The shooter shoots all the eggs with one shot, and the tailor sews them together. The thief puts his eggs back in the nest. The bullet left only stitches on the backs of the bullets. The serpent kidnaps the princess. The brothers are rushing to help her. One of the brothers sees where she is, the other one steals it. The serpent is chasing brothers. The shooter shoots at him. The serpent, falling, breaks the ship. The tailor sews it]: 308; Niedre 1952 [the blacksmith forged his son, Iron Martyn; he ordered him to forge a giant club, went to wander; met him, took the Overturning Mountain as his companion and Overturning oaks; they climb into a hole, there's a palace, each one cooks in turn; The copper beard asks for food every time, drinks all the soup; JM pinched his claws in the log; he broke the log, went to cave; only JM agrees to go down; killed Copper Beard and other devils, sent the stolen princess and gold upstairs; the companions wanted them for themselves, did not pull them out; he killed pigs, cows, horses trait; girl: in the lake, the devils muddy the water, do not allow the shirt to be washed; JM killed the devils; covered the eagles from the rain; the eagle orders to prepare meat, carries it across the sea; cut off the last piece of JM from his leg; eagle belched, put it back; ZhM took the girl and gold from her companions, found the king whose daughter was stolen, reigned after his death]: 147-156; Lithuanians: Grishina 1993 [the master dreamed that the star was a month old bowed; farmhand: you will bow to me; the master is furious, the farmhand has run away; meets a man who runs with logs tied to his legs (not so fast); gnawing a birch tree (hungry); drinking lake; hearing a mosquito seven miles away; hearing grass growing; creating frost if he takes his finger out of his mouth; the king orders those who have crossed the border of his possessions to carry out difficult tasks; 1) overtake speeders (runner overtook); 2) see how much time in hours (listening and seeing: they show 10 and beat 12); 3) eat all the food in the castle overnight (hungry ate); 2) drink all the wine ( drank); the king locked those who came in a room with an iron floor, ordered them to start a fire; when the door was opened, the room was cold; the king gave the farmhand a carriage with trotters; when the farmhand reached the master's land , he bowed to the carriage; farmhand: the dream is fulfilled]: 12-17; Lebitte 1965 [the father promises an inheritance to the one who builds a flying ship; the two eldest sons cannot, the youngest beggar makes a ship, that flies away on it; takes 1) a runner (tied trees to his legs), 2) a eater (eats birches), 3) water bread (drinks a lake); 4) an arrow (hits a mosquito), 5) a rumor (hears grass growing), 6) the creator of the cold (if he takes his finger out of his mouth, frost); the king betrays his daughter, demands 1) race (the runner runs, falls asleep, the shooter fires an arrow, wakes him up); 2) find out the time on the clock a hundred miles away ( the rumor and the shooter see and hear everything); 3) eat all the food in the palace (the eater eats); 4) drink all the wine (water bread drinks); the king locks everyone in the upper room, makes a fire under it, creating frost moderates fever; wedding]: 179-182; Lutsi (1893; the informant heard a fairy tale from those who did not know Estonian) [the spouses are childless, her husband died, the widow cried, her tears grew peas, the only pea in the pod; she is hers ate, gave birth nine months later; the boy was strong; mothers: if she waited to eat, he would have been even stronger; ordered a five-pound iron club from the blacksmith, threw it up, a day later she fell, he put his finger up, the club split; the 10-pound club bent; the 15-pound club remained intact, suitable; Pea meets, takes as satellites 1) pulling oaks; 2) rearranging mountains; they were hired by the owner for the right to carry, as much as they could; he ordered the mountains to be leveled; they began to make ropes out of sand, throw them over the mountains, pull them off, now a flat field; one took all the flour from the owner, the other all the grain, and the third of all the cows; they set up a farm in the forest; the demoness (mustabaaba) began to go to them, eat everything; remained to guard the trees pulling; she spat in his eyes, ate everything; the one who moved the mountains was the same; G. beat her with a club, she grew to the clouds, he continued to beat, she shrunk again, he tied her to an oak tree; she pulled out an oak tree and went to the lower world; only G. decided to go down; killed the woman's five-headed son; the girl knits stockings, G. pulled the rope, both picked up, he gave it to the oak puller, went down again; killed the 1-headed, gave the second girl to the mountain rearranger; for the third time he fights with the 15-headed; drove him into the ground belt, and he was up to his neck; agreed to take a break; G. drank strong water, and gave the enemy weak water, killed him; went upstairs, but G. went down for the fourth time; it's a shame for the companions that G. took the most beautiful girl, threw the rope down; thunderstorm, eagles on the Christmas tree say that whoever protects them from the weather will help their mother; he covered them; chicks: don't leave until their mother arrives; eagle: I know G. when he born, the earth trembled for three days; the eagle agrees to carry it across the Sea of Fire, but let him fill three barrels of forest bird; he spit them; there was not enough meat in flight, the eagle orders to cut off and throw her little finger, then her calf; then her little finger legs; flew; G. caught the little boy, began to twist; told the daw to bring living water from the island in the sea of fire; his body healed with this water; came to his wife, Forgave his companions, but drove them away; they began to live, they probably live now]: Annom et al. 2018:93-100; Finns [a man carved a boy out of alder and rocked for three years; he came to life, eats a lot; man sent him to work; he is so strong that they try to lime him, but everything is useless; asked to go down into the well and threw him on top of the millstone - he threw him back; finally left; met him, took him in the companions of a fisherman (threw his huge hook into the sea), a boulder spreader; they reached a hole in the ground; the satellites tried to go down, but it was cold at first, then hot; Olkhovnik went down, sent two girls back, but his companions did not pick it up; he saw an eagle's nest, covered the eagles with a frock coat; a grateful eagle carried it to the surface; he cut off his companies' heads]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 32:96 -97; Finns: Viiding 1980:9-20; a blacksmith met a forest girl (metshaldja), married; Matti's son is immensely strong, parents of other children complain about him; to get rid of M., the father tells him 1 ) bring firewood from the forest, where bears and wolves (easily dispersed the animals), 2) fish from the lake, where the monster (M. beat him with a fishing rod), 3) money lent to the king (beat the tsar's soldiers, brought money); M. goes wander, meets and companions 1) a fisherman trying to catch the same water monster with a cow, 2) hitting boulders against each other (answers what awaits M. for combat; finding out who is in front of him , refuses to fight, obeys), 3) dammed the river; in the cow's pen, the companions slaughter one, leave the fisherman to cook meat; the old woman Iron Tooth binds him, eats everything; the same with the rest; M. himself she is thrown into the crevice, her companions confess what happened to them; the old woman is released, hides in the abyss, her companions bring M. down there; the kidnapped princess orders to replace the bottles with the strong and weak with water; M. defeats the old woman, she drinks weak water and dies; the companions lift the princess and the treasures upstairs, cut off the rope, lifting M.; the eagle on its back carries M. upstairs; for this M. promises to leave birds after burning a tree in the field; M. throws his companions into the abyss, marries a princess], 21-26 [the king does not want to give his daughter; promises her to someone who will build a ship moving by water and land; two The brothers tell the forest old man that they are going to make pig feeders; no matter how much they work, feeders come out instead of the ship; the younger brother is held for a fool; he shares his last bread with the old man, answers what he wants a ship; the old man gives him a ship, tells him to take those who meet on it; this is 1) holding one leg in his hand, 2) closing one eye, 3) opening only half a mouth, 4) having five in his stomach winter; the king orders to bring water from afar for the bath; the one who held his leg turns out to be a speedboat, falls asleep, the one who opens his second eye sees it, the one who opens his mouth calls out to him; the king tries to burn his friends in the copper bath, who had five winters, the fever cools down; the king gives his daughter]; Schreck 1887, No. 3 (Aunus) [the hunter met Tapio (forest owner)'s daughter Tapiotar; she told her to become her husband, otherwise she would kill her; son Mikko Miehiläinen was born , took her father home; T. caught up, but her son easily threw her away; at home MM plays ball with the children; maimed the girl three times, breaking her arm, leg, ribs with a ball; each time her father gives MM a job; 1) bring firewood (MM ordered the predatory animals to load the sleigh with fir trees, harnessed them and brought them a cart; 2) two barrels of fish (MM caught water with a fishing rod from the trunk of the spruce, forced it to catch fish, load it, bring it; 3) return the allegedly borrowed gold to a foreign king; MM came on a cart drawn by predators, water chases, received gold; went on a journey; met, took as companions 1) throwing rocks, 2) with the hands of a guide rivers; they came to an empty house, next to cows; decide to cut them one by one, cook them one by one; a witch came, put the cook's head under the beam, ate everything; the cook freed himself, welded the bones, said that the soup flowed through the cracks; the same second time; the third time MM cooks, he put the witch under the trough; friends came to a hole in the ground; they made belts out of cow skins, lowered MM down; there's a house by the sea, the silver-gold beauty tells her mother to be afraid; the witch came, MM overcame her and killed her; the companions picked up the treasures and the beauty, cut off her belt; the bird brought MM upstairs; there his two companions are fighting , sharing the treasure and the girl; MM threw both into the hole; MM and his wife began to live in a witch's house]: 14-27 (=Goldman 1953:12-30); Karelians (Kalevalsky District): Onegin 2010, No. 8 [wife, dog and cat in one the night gave birth to boys; all three went to see the world; stopped at the house by the bridge; the Woman's Son is the first to guard, but the Cat's Son falls asleep; the Three-Headed Serpent rides across the bridge, his horse stumbles; Cat Son cut off his head, hid it under the bridge; the same the next night (Dog Son's turn, Six-Headed Serpent); on the third night, the Nine-Headed Serpent rides; Cat Son left a sign in the house, but the other two didn't woke up, he had a hard time cutting down his ninth head; all three drove on, but Cat Son returned ("forgot his hat"), eavesdropping at three windows; for each wife of one of the snakes, his son is lulled and promises turn into a well and a ladle, a feather bed and a blanket, a table; the horse lies down, warning not to drink, not to go to bed, not to eat; the horse is stopped by the Bone Man, tells Elena the Beautiful to get; the Cat Son meets companions invisible people; one knows how to steam in the bath, the other eat a lot, the third shoot; the king will give Elena if the groom can withstand a hot bath, eats a lot, falls into Elena's ring, exposed three miles away; The vaper cools the bath, the Eater eats everything, the Shooter hits; the Cat's Son marries Elena; Elena's mother's sister gives a fire arrow: when the Bone Man laughs with joy, let her go in his mouth; the Bone Man burned down], 42 [the old man and the old woman have no children; the old woman asks her husband to cut down an alder chock, it would be something to rock in the cradle; the chock became a boy, he grew up quickly, incredibly strong; He plows so that he ruins a horse and breaks a plow; cutting down a forest, breaks an ax; leaves, meets, takes as his companions someone who pulls trees and hits one rock against another; they come to the house, cook one by one; a dwarf with a long beard eats everything, beats the cook; when it is Alder Churka's turn (PTS), he split the stump, pinched the dwarf's beard, began to beat him; he cut off his beard, disappeared into a hole in the rock; PTS went down to rope; there is a kidnapped princess; says that the dwarf is now ill; teaches to swap bottles of living and dead water; the dwarf has died; the princess gave PTS her ring; the PTS's companions picked her up, and PTS left her; the dwarf's wife agreed to raise the PTS to the ground: she became a crow and carried it upstairs; OCH came to the tsar, the princess recognized the ring, the deceivers were shot]: 108-110, 379-384; Karelians (but maybe the Finns) [ the old man carved a doll out of an alder chock; the old woman put it in the cradle and rocked for three years; the chock became a boy, he immediately asked his mother for bread; became a handsome and strong man; sun, month and dawn have disappeared, people live in darkness; the king has a potion; those who drink three bottles can free the dawn, six - a month, nine - the sun; 9 only Alder Chock (PTS) could; those who drank 6 and 3 bottles went with him; woman: an evil man is to blame; he cursed the sun for being hot, a month for preventing stealing, dawn woke up early; they were taken away by 9-, 6- and three-headed snakes; half of the city cries, half laughs; the king must give to eating a three-headed snake is the eldest daughter; if she does not give it back, the snake will eat half of the city; a hero who drank three bottles cut down two snake heads; threw his shoe, his companions lowered the dogs, they tore off the third head; dawn has risen; half is crying again, half is laughing; middle daughter; six-headed serpent from the sea; the sixth head was torn off by dogs; the month has risen; the third day is the same; youngest daughter; PTS cut down 7 heads; snake : look, the sun is rising; the serpent turned around, OCH cut off another head; look, your house is burning; the serpent did not look; your wife was disgraced; looked, PTS cut off his head; the last one was torn off by dogs when PTS threw his shoe; on the way back, OCH, turning into an ermine, overhears the conversation (with women who are wives of snakes?) Syuoyatar snake mothers; will starve, cover the tables; if they hit the cross with a sword, then there will be no hunger or tables; thirst (forest lake is the same); sleep (bed); whoever repeats my words will turn into blue cross; PTS destroyed tables, a lake and one bed; the companions have already rushed to the other two, S. ate them, took their horses and chained them; walking through the forest, PTS sees 9 blind girls and an eye on a stump; S. girls dazzled, leaving them one eye for everyone; he gave them back their eye, they taught them to get the horse back from S.; PTS cuts chains; S. gives all the girls eyes to see who is there; but they say no one; S. came by herself , grabbed the OCH; first ate the girls for deception; will let the PTS go if she gets Katrina from the beautiful Kii River; OCH sails in a boat, meets, takes five with him: Psar, Spoon Khrapun, Vaper, Eater, Aqudier; Kennel pacified the dogs; Spoon Khrapoon protected from the fire when they set fire to the barn where the swimmers slept; The vaper froze the hot bath; The Eater ate cows and sheep; Wonos brought water in the sieve; PTS received K.; Through clothes wine leather/The body glows under the skin/The bones under the body are visible/In the middle, the heart beats; on the way back, the companions one by one stay where the PTS picked them up and take what they brought with them parts of the boat; a narrow hollow remains; so that K. does not soak the hem, PTS picked it up with his little finger; S.: if you touched K. even with a finger, let him break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off; gnaw off his little finger; PTS: if you tormented blind sisters, let the sword break off cut you into 10 pieces; cut you; PTS burned parts of S.'s body, took the horse, silver and gold and K. as his wife; when they saw PTS, the parents became younger; PTS ask where his comrades are; I had to tell you, he turned blue cross; Katrina was married by the king, she gives birth to healthy sons and daughters; the storyteller was given a waxhorse, a turnip saddle and a pea whip at the wedding]: Konkka 1991:134-154; Western Sami [ Akubermu is an old woman's adopter; grew up and went on a journey; meets, takes as his companions a tree dragging a tree; playing with an iron stick; throwing up a mountain; they stopped at the river, one by one cook; every time a dwarf with a beard comes out of the mountain, presses the cook's knee, eats everything; when it's A.'s turn, he burns a dwarf over the fire, tears off his beard, the dwarf hides in the rock; A. and his companions broke 4 doors, took treasures]: Kohl-Larsen 1982:28-38; Veps: Uther 2004 (1), No. 513, 513a: 298-299.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956 [=Yarmukhametov 1957:10-13; =Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 43:149-152; childless old man and old woman made a boy out of dough, he came to life, he was named Kamyr (" dough"); strong, maims peers; asks his father to order an iron club for the blacksmith, goes to wander; meets, takes as companions 1) a runner (walks with his legs tied), 2) clamping his nostrils with his fingers ( if it blows, a storm will rise), 3) an old man with a hat on one ear (if he puts it on his head, a blizzard will rise), 4) an arrow (aims at a fly's eye 60 miles away), 5) another old man pouring mountains; K. marries his daughter Khan, he demands 1) to overtake the speedboat (the runner fell asleep, but the shooter woke him up with an arrow, the runner won); the khan tries to burn K. with his friends in the bathhouse (the old man put on his hat, it became cold); the khan lets warriors at K. , blowing them dispersed, the old man poured a mountain over them; K. got a wife]: 5-11; Bulatov, Sharipova 2000:13-16 [the eldest son smells any smell from afar, the average one shoots accurately, the youngest is a strongman; divas kidnaps them sister; they find her, kidnap her from a sleeping diva; they fall asleep themselves, now the divas kidnap her, take off; one brother shoots, the other catches the falling sister], 49-89 [three daughters of the padishah are carried away by a whirlwind; the Kich brothers- batyr (kitsch - evening), Ten batyr (night), Tan-batyr (morning: younger) play; the old man advises them to look for the padishah's daughters better; they come to the cave where the divas have disappeared; only Tan-B. pushes the stone away; the elders do not reach the bottom of the cave, Tan-B. cuts the rope, jumps; the mice undermine the walls of the well, send Tan-B. through the passage to the copper palace; Tan-B. kills the diva, frees the eldest daughter of the padishah; the same with silver, gold palaces, middle and eldest daughters, other two divas; younger sister puts palaces in copper, silver, golden eggs, gives Tan-b; brothers pull out girls, cut off rope, lifting Tan-b.; Mouse man tells him to sit on a white goat, not a black goat; Tan-b. sits on a white goat, taken to the upper world; brothers tie a sword in front of the tent, Tan-batyr cuts off his legs; to him they come blind and armless; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch Ubirly Karcik; she orders her to pour ash behind her so that she can come to visit; when she comes, she orders search in her hair, drinks the girl's blood; three brothers take turns guarding, Tan-B. ties the witch, hits her; she swallows everyone, regurgitates healthy; Tan-B. does not belch; others chop her, see a fleeing finger, Tan-b is found in him; at home he is hired by a shoemaker; for the wedding of the padishah's youngest daughter, he creates boots, dresses, palaces to order; opens, marries; drives away brothers; passes off his wife's sisters as her brothers]; Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 44 [9 wives gave birth to 40 sons and 40 daughters; the youngest gave birth to only one son Dutan; they all went to look for brides and suitors; at night, Zhalmavyz swallowed everyone except D.; belched for a promise by Keneckey, the daughter of a padishah; D. meets, takes as companions 1) listening to what is in the underworld; 2) a shooter; 3) a runner named Zhilayak; 4) tamed birds; 5) a strongman miller; the padishah will give K. when he kills his enemy another padishah; D. killed; tells to overtake the old woman; she drinks the runner; he managed to wake up and overtake her; the vizier comes up with new competitions so as not to give her back to K.; they are trying to take her away secretly, D.'s companions return her; so as not to give her back to K. Zhalmavyz, Zhilayak dresses as a girl, goes instead of her, then runs away; killed Zhalmavyz with an arrow when she set off in pursuit; D. marries K.; finds brides and grooms for his siblings], 49 [40 brothers want to marry 40 sisters; on the way back, Azhdakha surrounded the newlyweds with his body, demanded an older brother; tells him to get a padishah's daughter; the young man meets and takes Imyan as his companions- batyr (pulls oaks) and Tash-batyr (throws boulders); cannot cross the lake; the girl drank it, they crossed it, she regurgitated the water back, went with them; the padishah offers competitions; I. wins the wrestler , T. - runners (throws sand into their eyes), the girl drank 40 barrels of turpentine; the young man gets the princess, his companions say goodbye to him, T. gives them a sword, he hacked down ajdaha to them]: 153-167, 217-222; Chuvash: Chuvash tales 1937:27-40 [the serpent knocked down from the sky with its tail and captured the sun and the month, swallowed peoples and tribes; three babies remained and each foal - white, black, savras; one in the steppe, the other in forest, third in a crevice of rocks; grew up, became Ser-Pattar, Yuman-pattar, Tu-pattar ("earth-, oak-, hero mountains"); S. met first J., then T., went together; stayed in a house, near the bridge across the bridge over river; at midnight S. woke up: a wave carries a snake sitting on a copper throne with three crowns on three heads; S. fights him on the bridge, killed him, hid his heads and pieces of body under the bridge, did not say anything to the brothers; they drove up to the village; S. peeks through the window of the hut: there a woman rocks a baby, a star in her forehead, stars in her ears; she tells the baby that avenging the death of his father will become a raspberry bush, heroes will eat berries and die; S. cut a bush, black blood has flowed; brothers stay in another house at the bridge over Shura-Shyv ("white river"); J. must guard, but falls asleep, S. sees how the ninth the wave carries a snake on the silver throne, silver crowns on 9 heads; he drove S. waist-deep into the ground, but S. cut off all the heads, hid them under the bridge; S. spies into the hut again; the same episode, stars on the woman is even more, sitting on a silver chair, promises to turn into a spring; S. cuts a spring, black blood has flowed; brothers spend the night at the bridge over the Black River, T. goes to guard, falls asleep; the twelfth wave carries a 12-headed serpent, with gold crowns on his heads; he drives S. into the ground, but S. went out, cut off 11 heads; to save the last one, the serpent took the sun out of one ear, gave it away from the other; S. anyway cut off his head; in the hut, a woman with stars on her body sits on a golden chair, promises to turn into a bed with a feather bed; S. cuts, black blood has flowed; the mother of snakes surrounded the heroes with her body, swallowed J. and T., S. jumped over his horse, jumps away, the snake chases; S. locked himself in the forge, invited the snake to lick the iron door, grabbed his tongue with hot forceps, went out, began to cut from the tail, all swallowed came out, everyone threw a handful of earth, a mountain formed; S. took the sun and moon out of his pockets, they returned to heaven], 203-209 [the healer tells a childless man to catch fish with with gold scales, let the wife eat; the cook ate the tail, the head is a mare, three heroes were born; their peers are oppressed; they want to put them under lock and key, they leave; they stay in a hut; the son of a mare is not sleeps; a three-headed serpent rides, asks why the horse stumbles; the horse: the son of a mare will kill them; he kills a snake on the bridge, hides its heads under the bridge; the same on the second, third night; the same six-headed serpent; nine-headed; brothers are leaving; the mare's son returns for a forgotten knife; there is a monstrous old woman in the hut; he cuts off a piece from her lip, the old woman says that the fly has bitten; promises to turn into a spring; a feather bed; into the garden with comedians; the son of a mare hits the spring with a sword, the water turns into pus; the same with the feather bed; looked back at the garden, the comedians grabbed him; demand to get the daughter of the water king; the son of the mare meets, He takes his comrades as companions: a birdsman who can count trees in the forest; an invisible person; an invisible man sees and hears how the water man promises his daughter to someone who looks like him: golden hair on his head, silver in a beard; pulled out three hairs, attached a mare to the son; the waterman gave the daughter; she became a bird, the shooter knocked her down; with a tree, he who knows how to count; the son of the mare gave the bride, got the horse back; the bride returned, they began to live well]; Mordovians: Samorodov 1972 (moksha) [the prince is strong, maims his playmates, leaves with an iron club; takes two heroes as sister cities; each in turn guards the bridge; brothers sleep, the prince kills a 6-, 9-, 12-headed snake himself every time, hides his heads under the bridge; overhears how snake wives promise to become a spring, an apple tree, a bed, poison, strangle heroes; the mother of snakes will smash one lip to the sky, the other to the ground, lower one breast to the ground, raise the other to the sky; whips along the spring, apple tree, bed, blood flows; the prince's horse jumps over through the old woman, she swallows her sister brothers; by order of the prince, the blacksmiths ask the old woman to stick out her tongue, press them with ticks, she regurgitates the swallowed ones; the prince's horse disappears; she solders the watchmen, takes her away from the wizard; he looks in the mirror, catches up on a three-legged horse; promises to give her horse if the prince brings the youngest sister from a glass house at the bottom of the sea; takes as companions someone to whom it's cold on fire, who drinks endlessly, who turns into fish; sister brothers complete the old woman's tasks (one cools the hot bath, the other drinks and eats forty barrels of beer and forty pounds of bread); perch catches the bride who has swam away with fish; the wife creates a ditch with hot coals, the magician on a three-legged horse dies in it; the old man cuts the girl, takes snakes, frogs, worms, etc. out of her, revives clean, gives it to the prince]: 221-235; 1985 [someone stole the sun, moon and stars; only Ivashka Primetliv volunteered to go; he was given a coachman; while he sleeps, IP goes to the bridge; a 5-headed serpent pulls up; they fight, then the serpent offered to rest; IP took possession of the right barrel, and the snake had to drink from the left; IP cut off the snake's heads; the next night the 7-headed serpent; the same; then the 9-headed (IP changed the barrels again); IP killed the snake; took the luminaries; tells the coachman that he must return for forgotten mittens; hears the conversation between the mother and the widows of snakes; widows promise to become a spring, an apple tree, a strong storm; IP cuts the spring and apple tree with a sword, flow blood and pus; they hide from the storm in the forge; the blacksmith offers to lick the door with his tongue; the IP took his tongue with ticks, sat on a snake, followed the coachman; the girls he met: the guy is good, and the horse is rubbish; the same - guys; IP is silent; the same is the old man; the IP scolded him, and the old man scolded him, and the old man: why are you riding my parent; girls and boys surrounded the IP, asking the old man what to do with him; old man: let his daughter get him Buriagi (about like Baba Yaga); IP went to look for Buriaga; meets, takes as companions a hot bath cooler, counting fish, a stargazer; B. is invited to wash himself in a hot iron bath (cooler cooled her); B. tells his daughter to disappear in the water, disappear into the sky; the counters of fish and stars returned her, the IP gave her to the old man, received the stars; came to the king, began to release stars, then a month, the sun; took the sun from king kingdom and married the girl brought]: 273-278; Marie [Seven Semeons: seven siblings learn: one to shoot, the other to catch, the third to steal, etc.; show their art for the godfather (tsar); they get the disappeared princess; brothers cannot marry her]: Sabitov 1989, No. 653:39; Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 43 [someone steals peas from the priest; pop guards , finds a child in peas; Mikhailo Popov grows up unusually strong, maims other children; the pop sent him to bring sheep out of the forest with wolves and lock him up with sheep; M. brought wolves, they ate sheep; the same - bring bulls (brought bears); men advise sending M. to the lake, collecting the hell's rent; hell offers to race, M. sent a hare instead of himself; throw weights; M.: throw weights; M.: throw on the cloud; hell asks not to throw; devils give money; M. orders to pour a hole into the hat in which he made a hole, filled a large bag; hell offers to fight, M. sends a bull, i.e. a bear, instead of himself; M. harnessed him into a cart bear and devil, brought money to his ass; M. left them to work at the mill, went on, met them, took Usinya (twists his mustache Kama), Gorynya (shakes the mountain with his little finger); they take turns cooking; the man with his fingernail, the beard from the elbow hits the cook, goes underground again; when M. remained, he beat the peasant, pinched his beard, he cut off his beard, went down the hole; only M. decided to go down the rope; the girl He sews a paper dress, goes with M., rolling his hut into an egg; the same is a girl with a woolen dress; with a silk dress; that man is their grandfather, went to grow a beard; Usynya and Gorynya picked up the girls, did not lift them up M.; M. wants to kill a cat; a duck; they ask not to kill; then they transport M., pretend to throw him off; M.: I didn't kill you; so three times; cat: I have no strength, I want to eat; M. cut off the meat from the caviar, gave it to the cat; M. changed clothes with an old man on earth; came to Usyna and Goryn, drove them away, began to live with three girls]: 108-118; Aldan 1936 [a soldier's son offends other boys as a child; when he is 12 years old, he tells blacksmiths forge a 300-pound club, carries the whole street with it, leaves; meets and takes Ivan Berezkin and Ivan Dubovkin as companions; they are the sons of a soldier she gave birth to when her husband was on duty, and threw it into the water; that is, they are his brothers; one carried a thick birch tree, the other an oak tree; people are digging a mountain looking for copper; the heroes turned the mountain upside down, two blue pigeons, the mother of copper, flew out from under it; the same with silver mountain (white pigeons are mothers of silver); with gold (three red); came to the house where there is a bull in the oven; ate; three sisters wonder who they were; they went to the bathhouse; Berezkin, Dubovnik tried to prop up the door, her sisters easily knocked out; when the younger brother supported him, they did not knock it out; three heroes married three heroes; the youngest's wife disappeared; he came to save, there were old women - their girls were carried away by a wind demon; his soul was under 20 oak bark, a chest in an oak, a hare in the chest, a duck in a hare, there are 3 eggs in the duck, they contain the soul of a wind demon; the hero came to his wife, ordered him to hang brushes on the shoals and play as if she thought that there was a soul in the shoals demon; he says that there is a kid inside; the wife adorns the kid; without saying where the soul really is; the hero on the way spares foxes, hawk chicks, cancer; the fox caught up with the hare, the hawk grabbed the duck, the cancer got eggs that fell into the water; the hero broke three eggs on the floor, three demon heads fell; the hero burned the demon's body, began to live in his house with his wife]: 35-44 (=Kralina 1976:149-154).

Turkestan. Karakalpaks: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:45-50 [bay's son sends a poor man's son to bring new boots from Barça-Kelmez 1) new boots (the mother of three giants tells the eldest Sara-Dau to bring); 2) a winged horse ( tulpara); the same old woman tells her middle son Kara-Dow to fulfill the instructions; 3) bring a sun-faced girl living in a yurt under the Bai-Terek tree; the old woman sends her son Kok-Dow; they are joined drinking lake, strongman (moving mountains), rumor (heard tulpar's tramp in three days); the girl's father tells you to climb a tree with a bucket of water without spilling; win a jump, fight, sit on a fire, find hidden beauty; companions are on errands; bay's son died at home, the poor man's son takes everything for himself], 114-119 [They want to take Abdullah to Khan's jobs, he runs away; hiding in a tandoor, he overhears the conversation girls and horsemen; at night she comes instead of a horseman, runs away with the girl, she can only become his wife; the king appointed A. a vizier, others are jealous, advise the king to take away A.'s wife, for this purpose send him bring the daughter of the khan of Msyr; her fiance must overtake her runner, defeat her fighter, get out of the fire unharmed, withstand the blade hit her forehead; the wife gives her curl to protect her forehead; on the way to A. his namesakes: a giant strongman catching birds on the move, drinking the river; companions defeat a runner and a wrestler, water bread is not afraid of fire, the blade shatters to pieces, hitting a curl; A. arrives when the king wants take his wife; the people put A. on the throne]; Kazakhs: Babalar sozi 2001, No. 10 [the old people are childless; the old man went to the one that the khan arranged on the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter; the old woman sees Dream: a tall black man came and announced: "I will give you eight watermelons and one melon, you will have nine sons. The youngest you will give birth to from a melon is the hero Kyokzhan"; the old woman opened her eyes and saw 8 watermelons and a melon at the head; ate them; after 9 months she gave birth to 9 sons, the youngest was named hero Kyokzhan ; sons grew up; one day, in the absence of sons, an old man and an old woman saw a herd of sheep being grazed by a girl descending from the mountain; she came and asked for a drink; said that her family had nine girls, and she youngest; the old man came to her father, married his daughters to their sons; 8 sons went to the brides, but K. stayed; did not tell them to spend the night by the mountain; but on the way back, the brothers, wives and father stayed there for the night; they saw an aidahar (dragon), who clutched its own tail in its mouth, turning around the cattle; promises to return the cattle if the old man gives him K.; he spent one night with his wife and went to the dragon; he says bring him a gold-haired girl; on the way, K. met and accompanied someone who can track down a corsak; who knows the number of stars in the sky; knows how many fish there are in the world; one buy will give his daughter to someone who will shoot down a suspended gold bar and knock down his fighter; K. knocked down the bar and knocked down the wrestler, gave the girl he had received to his first comrade; the same in another village he gave the girl to his second comrade; in the third, third; K. went alone; in the village there is a gold-haired girl - "I would call her the moon, but she has a mouth unlike the moon, I would call her the sun, but she has eyes unlike the sun"; her father exposes the same conditions (knock down a bar, knock down a fighter); K. fulfilled, took the girl, went to the dragon; saw an empty white yurt, began to live in it with the girl; the girl began to wash her hair in the Yedil River, swam away alone, the horseman on I picked it up on the other side, came to the old woman Zhalmauyz, asked her to get the girl; she told me to give her a golden boat and a wineskin; the old woman to the girl: this yurt is mine; I'll kill if you don't tell me where my husband's soul is; K.: "Under with her skin laid on the right to the ground, on the edge of a pocket knife"; the old woman gave the girl drunk, pulled out a knife, heated it in the fire, threw it into the water, took the girl to the horseman's palace; the knowledgeable star said that star K. fell; whoever was tracking Korsak found K. dead; who knew about fish found that one pike was missing, caught it, found a penknife in her belly, K. came to life; came to the kidnapper, aka tulpara also took him away; tulpar does not let anyone in; K. offered to go around him; rode to the palace, took the girl; brought the dragon, but he was killed, and a man in black nearby; it turns out that this is his son (from his wife, with whom K. spent one night); everything is fine]: 90-96; Divaev 1909 (Syr-Darya) [the king's daughter is missing, the old woman's 7 sons went to look for her; she was taken away by another tsar who knew how to turn into a huge golden eagle; first brother put the guard bird to sleep, stole the girl from the king's bed; the watchdog bird flew in and grabbed her; the second brother shot her, the third pulled the princess out of the lake where the bird fell; the golden eagle king flew in, the brothers dived into the lake, the golden eagle behind them crashed against a stone; the tsar gave his daughter to one of the brothers, the throne to another, and the rest to various positions]: 88-90; Sidelnikov 1952 (Akbulak District, Aktobe Region) [the son of a poor old woman caught a golden doe and took the khan; the vizier advises not to give the young man rewards, but to demand a fallow deer stand, one wing is gold and the other is silver; the mother went in search; the old woman sews a gap in the ground; says the master makes such stands near Mysyr for 1000 dill; the young man received a stand, but the wings are simple; on the way, wells with gold and silver water, the young man immersed him in they are the wings of the stand; now the vizier advises to order to bring a golden tree; the old man teaches: the hare will run, hide in the den, there are two pits, the hare to the left, and you to the right; there is a cave of 40 robbers; it is necessary take to cook them lunch and hit the cauldron with an iron stick; the old man gave this stick; there is salt in the chest, you have to salt the food, the robbers will eat it and die right away; there's a golden tree; you have to rest, close your eyes and pull - the tree will be in front of the palace; but the young man forgot to knock on the cauldron, remained a cook for the robbers until the old man reminded him in a dream; now the viziers are advised to deliver the beautiful Kunkey; the young man goes, meets, companions giants; 1) holding mountains in his hands; 2) hearing everything; 3) holding two lakes of water by his cheeks; 4) a speedboat (tied to each leg on a rock); a young man rescued an ant from a pit (dal wing); Kunkei is guarded by a dog, the first giant killed her, leaving the mountain; Khan Father K. proposes to defeat the bull, the giant killed him; overtake the old woman; she gave the speedboat wine; the hearing says that the speedboat sleeping; the young man hit the ground with an iron stick, the speedboat woke up, threw sand in the old woman's face, came first; to find K.; hearing: she is in an underground palace; her brothers found her; the khan invited them to the iron house, ordered to burn, the water holding his cheeks cooled the house; to identify K. among 40 beauties (the ant crawled to her feet); the young man took K., left every giant where he met on the way back; K. told the young man ask the khan and the vizier to go out to meet her; turned the khan into a wolf, a vizier in the forest; the young man became a khan, married K.]: 253-260; 1964 [the man's daughter was kidnapped; he addresses the teacher 8 brothers; they know how to: 1 ) follow the trail in the dark; 2) see at a great distance; 3) cross the seas on a hat; 4) pull the prey out of the bird's claws so that it does not notice it; 5) shoot to separate the hugs in the birds flying without damaging them; (the abilities of the two brothers are not specifically mentioned, but it is clear from the following); thanks to their abilities, the brothers tracked down the double-headed eagle and snatched it out of its claws the girl; but the eagle took him away again; the fifth brother separated her with a shot, the sixth caught her falling, the seventh built an iron fortress in which they all took refuge; the eighth stamped his foot, they were all at the girl's father; he decides to give it not to their brothers alone, but to their teacher]: 39-41; Potanin 1972, No. 1 [Bulat-Pai had horses that ate people; people avoided him, he took a hundred horses, migrated, leaving them at home nine sons; horses flew away like birds, he held one by the tail; his 70-year-old wife became pregnant, ate this mare's tostyuk (breast), gave birth to a son Yer-Tyustyuk; people ask why he is not looking his nine brothers and nine thousand horses; he clamps his parents' thighs, makes them tell the truth; comes to nine brothers, takes an eight-legged horse; the youngest, then the rest of the brothers recognize E. the brothers return to their father, now he is rich again; they put him on a sixth horse, tell him to find ten brides-sisters; the old woman indicates where to look; B. and nine sons take the brides home; the youngest Kenjackay; the old woman warns not to stop at the Bai-Terek tree; B. stops, sees a lung in the water, hits with a stick, it turns into an old woman (kempir), grabs B. by the beard, lets go for a promise to give to E.; K. asks E where his goldmoney is; he thinks he is left by the Bai-Terek tree; K. talks about an old woman, gives a chain mail, a horse she took from home; E. grabs the money, the old woman is chasing after him, he falls into the ground with his horse, where 80 old women promise to let him go if he brings the Khan's golden braid; on the way, E. takes as his companions a mountain raising, drinking a lake, finding out fate; khan tries to burn them in an iron house, a drink fills the fire; in another house, a knowledgeable person says that an iron mountain will be thrown at them, a strongman catches it; the khan orders them to take the cauldron out of the well; they take it out, he gives his daughter; E. cuts off his head, brings him to the old women, they let him go; the young birds of the Alyp-Kara-Gush bird cry in the Bai-Terek tree; the dragon (Azhdagar) approaches, E. kills him with a sword; the cubs say that his mother will arrive with a storm; she swallowed and regurgitated E.; lifts her up to the upper world, he gives her water and feeds her, at the end cuts off the meat from her thighs; on the ground she regurgitates meat, puts it back, gives her a feather; man, in whose house E. stopped, dug a hole, E. fell through there; burned the feather, the bird carried it upstairs; E. returns, his wife is the first to recognize him, everyone is happy]: 104-116; Sidelnikov 1952 [poor young man catches gold-minded Doe, gives the khan; the vizier consistently advises sending the young man for a winged doe stand, a golden tree, a beautiful Kunkei (= Kunslu, "sunny beauty"); the old woman sends the young man to Mysr, there the master makes a stand; the old man sends robbers to the cave, gives an iron stick, tells them to hit the pot with food, the robbers, after eating, die, the young man takes a tree; a strongman listening, drinking the lake, the speedboat joins the young man; he saves the ant; the strongman kills the terrible dog K.; defeats the bull; the speedboat overtakes Father K.; the listener finds K. (task: find the hidden one); they are locked in a bathhouse, water bread regurgitates water; the ant indicates which of the 40 beauties K.; K. turns the khan into a wolf, the vizier into a fox, marries a young man]: 253-260; 1971 (1) [=1958: 3-35; =Daurenbekov 1979:15 = 39; after starving a horse toast, the old woman gave birth to a son Yer-Tostik; he injures a sizhik, he confused the old woman's yarn, the old woman tells ET to look for his missing 8 brothers who drove to Hunger cattle to the south; ET clamps a handful of hot wheat in her mother's hand, she admits that he has brothers; ET goes to look for them, finds them, brings them; their father Yernazar marries them to 9 sisters, ET to the youngest Kenzhekei; Peri Bectori wants ET for himself; tells Baba Yaga to grab E., he promises her a son; leaves the sharpener at the old camp, ET goes after him on a six-legged horse, takes the lead; K.'s wife gives him her father's horse as a dowry; ET, grabbing a sharpener, runs away from Baba Yaga, falls into the lower world of the snake khan Bana; he promises him a daughter if ET gets Temir Khan's daughter ; ET meets, companions Thief, Windbreaker, Sensitive Ear, Gorokat, Lake Swallower, All-Seeing Eye, thanks to them, wins competitions (1) The Lake Swallower drinks everything, eats, Sensitive Ear hears about intending to poison guests, the Thief replaces dishes; 2) the ET horse wins the race: 3) The windbreaker overtakes the old woman Mystan-Kempir, who tried to put him to sleep; 4) the horse pulls the cauldron from the bottom of the lake; first on the surface white foam means grabbed; then red foam does not pick it up; eventually gets it), gets a woman; grateful Bany Khan points the way up; on the way, the wife dies, ET goes with her slave Kunka; kills a boa constrictor crawling to the chicks; a double-headed eagle (one human head, the other a bird's head) carries him and K. to the ground; peri throws him into the well, the double-headed eagle saves; ET saves Kunkey, married to Shoin- A fist (Baba Yaga's son), overhears where the soul of the ShK (in a goat, in a box, in a chicken); kills ShK; returns to Kenzhukei]: 7-33; Surazakov 1982 [Kogyudey-Mergen meets six heroes in turn on the way ( listening, moving mountains, jumping, shooter drinking lake, throwing stones); KM whips them, they accompany him to matchmaking to Erlik Kara-Taadi's daughter; she does not know which CM who have come; in all versions (Altai, Khakass, Kyrgyz, Kazakh), those who come are imprisoned in an iron or stone palace, heated; a drunk lake pours water, cools the palace; others defeat a local strongman, learn about a trap pit, catch those who failed there; Kaan children are seven identical Kogyudey-Mergen going to a wedding; the North Star is the daughter of Ai-Kaan Altyn-Kyuskyu, the wife of Kogyudey- Mergen; the red star above the constellation Three Maralukh is the KM arrow that spread the belly of one of them]: 127-128, 134; Coyaud 2012, No. 71 [the bay has 2 sons from three wives; he wants to marry them to 29 sisters; bai with 29 They found daughters; the elders went there, the youngest Kanjikala, 18, came three months later, for him his youngest daughter Kanjiguli; something seemed floating in the water, turned into a cannibal with copper claws and grabbed Bai, the brothers' father; he had to promise to give her son K.; the father asked K. to return to shoot the goose by the river; the wife warns that there is a cannibal; she leads to the dragon, he demands get him Naezi Khan's daughter; K. meets, takes 5 people with different abilities with him; one saves ants from a shower; the hearer hears that the khan wants them, they changed plates, the ministers died; Drinking fills the fire around the iron house, where the khan wanted to burn them, floods the ground, the khan gives his daughter; the ants separated the grain from the sand; knock down a piece of silver from the top of the tree with an arrow; the khan gave his daughter; the fox took her form, K. gave it to the dragon, and the fox then became a fox again, ran away; K. returned, he now has two wives]: 173-188; Kyrgyz [each of the seven brothers is somewhat superior to the others people (a sharpshooter, a ranger who knows what is being done in this world and in this world, a food earner, a swimmer of water barriers; according to the younger, the earth will part, hide people from enemies; Khan's daughter has disappeared Bolbosa; brothers find out that she was carried away by a black bird, kill the bird and its army, return the khan's daughter]: Brudny 1954:69-72 (=Brodny, Eshmambetov 1963:61-65, =1981:116-119); Kyrgyz [bay has three sons , the youngest is a strongman; his father gave 60 horses for his weapon; asked his son to find a place for a new parking lot; an old woman by the lake; advises not to migrate here, otherwise he will take either a young man or his white camel; son chose a place far from the water; father was angry and led to move to the lake; at night, the bay lost his beloved white camel; bai went to look for her, found her in a hole, tells the old woman to give the camel; she refuses to take all the bay's cattle in return, but agrees to take his youngest son; bai promised to leave by the lake the weapon that the blacksmith made for the young man; the son will remember the weapon and return when they migrated, the father said that he paid off the old woman with his son's weapon; the young man returned and persuaded the old woman to give him his weapon for a while so as to hunt and not starve; then the old woman advises not to go to grief where her sons live; she was afraid not for the young man, but for them; he killed both the old woman's sons and herself; went to the steppe, met, accompanied a moving mountain; an overflowing lake; called his father was a traitor and never returned to him]: Muchnik 1944:65-67; Uighurs: Jarring 1946, No. 2 (Khotan) [after eating food prepared by their mother, the king's 40 sons go to marry so that their wives can cook for them; The king goes in search, negotiates with the father of 40 daughters; when he returns, sends his son Alte-Ayliq Ghilangtash Pahlavan to conclude an agreement; he meets, wins, takes as servant for a year 1) a thrower millstone; 2) a river sucking water in its back; 3) listening to the ground; he hears that the father of 40 daughters is just giving one daughter; they come there, the father of 40 daughters does not want to give them away now, offers conditions; 1 ) split a log (the strongman splits); 2) sit in a house with iron walls; blacksmiths make a fire around, the river releases water; they go out saying they are frozen; 3) eat the incredible the amount of food; that man sucked everything in his ass, sucked his companions, and then returned them; not wanting to give her daughters, their mother turned different animals into girls, gave them away; so after the wedding, they began to scratch , bite, kick his husbands; father said he could not help - these are women]: 35-53; Kabirov 1963 [a girl is kidnapped by a bear, she gives birth to a hero's son, he kills a bear, returns with her mother to people ; his name is Tugluk-Batur; the khan is afraid of his strength, the vizier offers to give difficult tasks; 1) kill the dragon; T. rushes with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cuts it from the inside; 2) kill the diva; along the way T. consistently wins and companions heroes named Er (earth), Chol (desert), Su (water), Tag (mountain), Ashlyanpu (cold noodles), Muz (ice), (Uighur name is not given) (millstone), Tomir (iron) -batur; not When he recognizes T., A. brags that he will run easily, he is defeated himself; in the house, the diva remains guarded while others hunt; the diva ties him with snake hair, sucks his blood; next time T. remains to guard, injures a diva, follows a bloody trail to a well, descends on her belt; frees two diva daughters he was ready to kill for pity for his victims; they explain where their father's soul is (with green beans) kill two roosters; go down to the basement, a fish swims in the chest, an egg in it, a box in it); T. burns the box, the diva dies; T. sends treasures, the diva's daughters, and four more women upstairs; A. cuts off his belt, T. falls, divas heal him; T. kills a snake that devours the Simurg bird's chicks; she brings it to the surface, cuts off the last piece of meat for Simurg T. from her leg; the diva's daughters turned four women in cats, they scratched A.; T. married the diva's daughters]: 125-153.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Tyumen) [was bai Tokpay-bai, he has 9 sons; they drove herds, at which time his mother became pregnant; wanted horse sternum (tyustyuk); gave birth to a son Ir-Tyustyuk; playing with money , he hurt the lousy guy; he: you'd better find your brothers; IT gave him all the money, including gold, asked his mother to cook wheat, pressed her hands against the cauldron, she had to tell him; IT found the brothers , the follower became unrecognized, living with everyone, eating everything; they got to know each other, the brothers agreed to return to their parents; IT tamed the foal and the mare, began to ride them; the older brother asked the father marry him to 10 sisters; he stayed in a fisherman's yurt; when he saw 5 hats, he cried, the other 5 laughed (at first he thought there were only 5 brides in the house, and then realized that there were 10); the fisherman gave his daughters to bay; the youngest Kunjakei tells him to spend the night on a waterless hill; bai got angry, stopped by the water, his lung swims there; bai hit him, it became an old woman (kempir) with seven heads, began to strangle him; refused take horses, 9 sons, IT demanded; Bai promised to leave her a goldgrandmother and send IT to pick her up; after the wedding, IT asked about her grandmother, IT was going to follow her; K. told Shal to sit on a white horse guiruk, take Ak-Polat's white sword, Ak-syrmal white chain mail; S. says IT that Kempir-jalmouth is sitting in place of the yurt; she replied that she could not get up; S. became huge, then small, IT grabbed grandmother, galloped; they began to fight with the old woman, both fell into the ground; S. left IT one hair to call her; IT meets, companions 1) hitting one mountain against another, 2) drinking the lake, 3) a runner who catches animals easily, 4) hears from any distance; they came to Ulmis Khan (it was his daughter who sent those comrades to IT to marry her); they said that a fugitive had allegedly fled to the village of UH, demanded daughter UH; he orders 1) to overcome the strongman (the thief overcame the mountains), 2) overtake the old woman (the runner overtook); the khan put IT and his companions in an iron house, put firewood, set fire (water bread flooded the fire) ; the listener said where his daughter UH was hidden (underground); IT went home with the girl he took; Choyun-gulak came out to him, invited him to his place, joined the fight; IT defeated him, but the saber did not take him, CHG defeated him; Sh. ran to his comrades, who saved IT; IT asked ChG's wife to find out where his soul was; she made their child cry, explained to CHG that the child wanted to add his soul to his father's soul; CHG: on top of the mountain There is an iron box at the bottom of the well, with 4 quails in it; IT killed them; everything is fine]: Radloff, Proven, IV, 443 in Potanin 1916:89-93; Chulym Turks [sister got two hero brothers drunk; neighbors dug a hole and they lowered them into it, throwing half a horse carcass and a piece of wood; they sobered up, made a balalaika, began to play; the old woman heard, pulled out the heroes; said she would overtake the goat; they took her with them; more another old woman; an old man drinks a lake, pours it into another; he was also taken; they lit a fire in front of the city; king: who are you? ready to compete in running; the king sent the old woman; the heroic old woman overtook her, went to bed; the king got her dirty and ran past her; the heroic woke up, overtook her; the tsar dug a hole, covered her with silk; another old woman warned not to walk on silk; the king wants to burn them; the lake who was drinking filled the fire with water; everything swam; the brothers tore their sister with horses]: Lukina 2004, No. 5.5:100-103; Tuvans: Samdan 1994, No. 2 [the son of a woman and a bear, Iygylak-Kara, takes Uzun-Saryg Larch Urower and Ulug-Kara Rock Urover as twin brothers; each one takes turns cooking; Adygyr-Kara Shulba comes with with copper claws and nose, heats them, fights with the cook; younger brothers do not talk about what happened, YK wins, injures the shulbus, he goes to the cave, to the lower world; the brothers lower the YK on the arcana; below the woman says that she must give the shulbus her daughter to be eaten; YK finishes off the wounded shulbus, marries the youngest of the sisters, takes the other two for the brothers, lifts them upstairs; the brothers cut off the lasso; mother girls are advised to help the Khan-Hereti bird, which lives on an average of three iron poplars; every year a fifteen-headed serpent crawls out of the lake, devours chicks; YK cuts off all 15 heads with an arrow; one chick cries, the second laughs, the third sings (thinks he will be the last to be eaten); the wind and rain are the whiff of wings and the tears of the mother of the chicks; she carries YK on her back to the upper world, he throws her shot ducks; ran out, threw his hat; the lasso cut the US, he also took his younger sister as his second wife; YK killed him against larch; with the UK and the wives of both they came to the mother of YK], 7 [each of the seven brothers goes one of seven rivers; the youngest marries; his wife asks him to go harrow, he does not want to go without her; she draws his image for him on paper; the wind pulls out the paper, she falls into the water, into the lower world to Kuzut Khan, who was walking for with water; he sends an army, takes a woman for his son, kills her husband; brothers see his staff cracked; everyone has a special gift (connoisseur, uprooter of the forest, skillfully connecting, giving flesh, giving breath), together they revive the victim; they make the Khan Hereti bird together; it brings them to the lower world, grabs the kidnapped, takes it back to the ground; seven brothers begin to take it away each other; she says they will meet her on the new moon; becomes the Moon, the brothers become the Pleiades; (the Sun is not mentioned)]: 227-248, 293-301; Hadahane 1984:23-27 [Karata Khan's youngest has disappeared daughter; old man Adygan agrees to send his nine sons in search of his nine sons, gives each an arrow; the first will find a bug on the seven-year trail; the second will see a needle on the edge of the earth; the third can pick up and carry the sarlyk to the end of the world; the fourth will climb any rock; the fifth will quietly steal the feather from the magpie's tail; the sixth will hit any target; the seventh will catch a stone falling from the sky; the eighth will build a hut of any size; the youngest ninth will dig an underground passage; the brothers find and carry away the girl kidnapped by the Khan Kereti bird together; the old man orders to give the girl for the one who worked the most: he dug an underground passage from the shelter built by the eighth brother; girl: I'll marry the sixth, he spent an arrow hitting the bird's claw to release the girl, the rest of the arrows still have], 72-78 [the bear took the woman, closed the exit from the cave with a stone; she gave birth to the Son Bear (SM), he grew up, pushed back the stone, went on a journey; he meets, wins, takes the Mountain Raising, the Forest Uproot; they live by the koshara, they eat sheep, take turns cooking, the rest hunt; Albys (a witch with red claws and a copper nose) takes meat; both companions say they are sick, did not have time to cook; SM stabs the witch, she disappears into the crevice; SM asks him to lower; below two princesses bandage the albys leg; SM killed Albys, sent the princesses upstairs; The mountain-raiser cut off the lasso; SM sees a poplar, there are three chicks on it, one cries (his mangys will eat it today), another sings (tomorrow), the third sleeps (the day after tomorrow); a six-headed serpent crawls out of the lake, SM kills him; a bird lifts him to the ground; he kills the Mountain Raiser, takes him second princess for himself]; Tuvans (Khemchik) [rich Abu Mergen went east, met, accompanied a man who fired an arrow into the sky and saw it, although others do not see it; listening to what was happening in underworld; piercing a mountain; looking for traces of a beetle and ant 9- and 7-year-old; catching gazelles on the run; drinking the sea; AM left them at the moon-clear girl Ak Dangyna, and went then married a sun-clear girl Aldyn Dangyna (AD); Karaty Khan found out about her, the old woman volunteered to steal her, asked for a golden boat, sailed to AM, persuaded AD to find out what her husband's life was like; she begged me to say; AM: in the wick of the lamp, in the bow's string, in the horse's four legs; the old woman cut it all, cut it, AM died; the old woman offered AD to sit in her boat, took it to K.; AD gave birth to a boy, which grew every day like others in a year; AM and Ak-Dangyn's brothers noticed that the arrow left by AK was bleached, dilapidated, and went in search; the ranger found his bones, which were taken away the mice, and Ak-Dangyna folded them and revived them with a swipe; drank drained the sea and they all came dry to K.; defeated his army; AK's son found his father and his companions; K. prepared an iron house; the perforating mountains dug under him with his finger; the shooter pierced K.'s neck, the runner brought the stolen blood pressure, drank the sea and flooded K.'s country with this water; now the question is who Ak-Dangyn should marry; each sister says what he did to save AM; to end the dispute, Ak-Dangyna suggested: seven twins will become seven stars of the Ursa Major, AD with his son, the Morning Star (Dang Sholban), and she herself was an Evening Star (Ak Sholban); and that's what happened]: Taube 1978, No. 38:206-212; South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses and did not return; when BN and his wife ate a horse breast, his wife gave birth, a son was named Er Töstük ("brisket man"); he grew up; an old woman wove it, he stepped on a thread and tore it; the old woman told him to look for brothers better; the father said that he had no brothers, he was deceived; another old woman's grandson pulled ET's bow, ET hit him, the boy died; and this old woman told him to find better brothers; ET found brothers first and then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for their nine sisters to marry; found them; their father did not tell them to spend the night at the Chushurlug Chuduk on the way back, but BN did not listen to his younger sister's warning, intended for ET, and spent the night there; she sent a man to her father asking her to give her a hemp shirt for ET and the best mare and camel; he did not want to, but gave it away; in the morning there was no mare; BN went to a place to sleep at the Salt Well: the mare is there, and next to the jelbege, covered with one ear, put the other under her; BN asks to give the camel; the jelbege says that he cannot get up, let the BN come by himself; he comes up, she grabbed him, threatens to eat him, refuses to let him go in exchange for his 8 sons, for 800 horses, agrees to let him go if he gives ET; BN promises to leave Jelbig's son's triangular file, with whom he sharpens arrows; says he has forgotten and sends ET after him; the bride tells ET everything; he asks his father which horse to ride; BN: sit on a six-legged and take an eight-legged with him; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me to wear that hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he tells me to shout to Jelbig: What kind of children do you have with your back? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds in a tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside a brown box, in a shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG calms down: he killed ET), ripped open the brown man's stomach, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died ; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206; Shors: Arbachakova 2010, No. 3 [the horse says Ak Kaya that his fiancée Ak Kuya is marrying another; she is lucky to go; they meet someone who can drink the sea, crumble a rock, carry everything to any distance; the horse tells everyone to feed, everyone gives a whistle to call him; Khan's father AK will pass her off as having completed tasks, failed to execute; we must move the sea and the rock in it, knock down trees overseas; Ak Kaya wants to see the girl first; the horse laughs, the girl goes to the window to see if Ak Kaya fell in love with her; horse: lead the khan to cook a bull before completing each task; everyone of the assistants eats the bull; the first uprooted the forest, the second removed the rock, the third moved the sea; Ak Kaya got a wife, returned home, repulsed his father's cattle they wanted to steal], 8 [in another translation the same Chudoyakov 2002:108-110; a bear took a woman, a son, Ay Tamash, was born, pushed back the stone that blocked the exit from the cave, AT and his mother came to her village; AT went hunting, sees a man Kaya ("rock") Chuktezhi , he raises and lowers the rock, AT takes it as companions; the same Sug ("water") Ortazhi (drinks and regurgitates the lake); take turns staying in the house to watch the cattle; a big man comes, eats his side the rest; when it's AT's turn, he ties him to the cedar; that cedar uprooted, left; AT caught up with it, grabbed it, tore it apart]: 203-215, 237-243; Altaians: Katash 1958 [seven khans lived on earth; their names were Big Mouth, Long Arm, Sorcerer, Slukhach, Runner, Strongman, Big Eye; they easily defeated everyone by exterminating what lived on earth; Karaty Khan decided to deal with them; The rumor overheard him is going to put them in an iron chest and fry them; at the Khan's headquarters they were served poisoned meat; the sorcerer made him eat by the khan's people; when seven were lured into an iron trap and made a fire, Bolshoi The mouth that had drunk the lake before cooled the trap; the Strongman knocked down the door; with the help of the Runner, they ran away; but the Pure Spirit (Ulgen) forced them to commit suicide; they threw themselves off the cliff and turned into seven stars; The Big Dipper is called Jeti Kaan ("seven khans")]: 10; Sadalova 1989 [seven brothers are wandering around the world, one is the Shooter, the other is the Jumper, the Third is a Thief...; they promise one kaan to steal the other's wife, they fulfill their promise; the Kaan leaves them the throne; the brothers rule the people, start endless wars; for this, the Creator turns them into seven stars; they are fighting the stars here too; then he chained them to Golden Coke (North Star); Var.: Seven Kaans have done a lot of evil, want to commit suicide, jump off a cliff, turn into stars; var.: seven rich man's sons sit back, consider themselves kaans; Kudai punished them by turning them into a constellation; Var.: The Seven Caans Constellation stole one of the Pleiades, so it only follows so that the Pleiades do not find it missing]: 89-90; 2002, No. 22 [seven orphan brothers they come to the kaan; he allows them to eat enough, they eat the mare in a day; everyone answers the kaan what he is intended for (to transport others across the river; to steal cleverly; to protect others from war, fire; sharpshooter; will catch what falls from the sky; kaan promises to make them kaans themselves if they bring another kaan's wife from overseas; thanks to their abilities, they fulfill the condition; becoming kaans , torment other peoples; Ych-Kurbustan turns them into seven stars; fighting the Pleiades, they take one star, it is sometimes visible; YK tells them to circle around the Golden Stake Star forever]: 215-223; Surazakov 1979 [(Maadai-Kara, Song 3); Kogyudey-Mergen rejected Erlik Kara-Taadi's daughter; KT arranged KM to drive away his horse, took another; it's a snake, he brought KM to CT; the old horse turned into a golden eagle, brought KM to the ground; his parents tell him that Ai-Kaan lives at the end of the world, he has a daughter Altyn-Kyuskyu; KM follows her, meets her, companions six heroes who look like him; KT is trying to destroy KM, but he does not know which of the seven is he; each of the heroes has a special ability; K. - water floods the red-hot iron house in which they were left; K. -the mountain wins martial arts; K.-fire destroys enemy weapons; K.-jumper runs first to bring a handful of sand from afar; CT puts him to sleep with alcohol; K.-Earth hears it, K.-shooter wakes him up with an arrow, K.-jumper wins; also knows where a hole in the yurt is dug; KM gets AK, but CT takes it to the lower world; KM breaks through a mountain with a hammer, returns his wife; Ai-Kaan tells me to get the fin of one of the two whales {apparently ker-balik}, on which the world rests; then bring the bear; KM pulls out and leads, Ai-Kaan tells you to take them back; KM and his wife return home]: 157-210; 1982 [Kogyudey-Mergen on the way Six heroes meet in turn (listening, moving mountains, jumping, shooter drinking lake, throwing stones); KM whips them, they accompany him to matchmaking to Erlik's daughter Kara-Taadi; she does not know which of the CM who came; in all versions (Altai, Khakass, Kyrgyz, Kazakh), those who come are imprisoned in an iron or stone palace, heated; a drunk lake pours water , cools the palace; others defeat the local strongman, learn about the trap pit, catch those who failed there]: 127-128; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 9 (informant unknown) [parents want get rid of Tyshae Bishe, sent for a black bull; this is a bear, TB brings him, leaves him in a barn, he has picked up all the cows; they send him to bring a cauldron supposedly given to the forest owner; TB brings the cauldron and bound owner; lets go, leaves; meets and companions a person raising stones, raising mountains, stepping across the sea (he is fishing with his beard); everyone first replies that he is not strong, but TB - mighty; they take turns cooking, a bearded dwarf beats the cook, eats everything; TB hits him, pinches his beard, he cuts off his beard, leaves; friends come to the crevice, TB goes down on a rope; there in copper the hut is beautiful, the other in silver, the third in gold; TB tells the beauty from gold to find out what life is like in a mangadhai; in the horns of a ram; TB breaks the horns, presses the wasps in them, except two; beautiful changed barrels of strong and weak water; TB kills mangadhai, sends women upstairs; when he gets up, his companions throw him; he falls, breaks his leg; sees the speaker break the leg of an ermine, he ate the root, recovered; TB also ate, recovered; Khan Garudi's chicks by the sea, one cries (a serpent coming out of the sea will eat it today), the other sings (eats tomorrow), the third laughs (the day after tomorrow); the snake tells chicks fly into his mouth; TB kills a snake with a stone; Khan Garudi arrives, hides TB from poison; takes it to the ground; eats and drinks what he has prepared in flight, cuts off the last piece of TB from his leg, the bird is a piece regurgitates, applies back; TB kills satellites, lives with three wives], 14 (Okinsky District, Irkutsk Region) [Noyon Sabzhenei goes to worship; meets, comrades a sensitive person, raises a mountain, can quietly change the feathers of a magpie and a crow running around with stones on his legs, swallowing the sea, a well-aimed shooter; the khan invites you to compete; the runner overtakes horsemen on foot; the sensitive one finds out that they want to poison them, changed food, Khan's noyons die, the shooter kills everyone Khan's Mergen, the swallower drowns everyone left; to atone for the sin of murder, seven fellows rush into the sea and find themselves in the sky - Seven Elders (Ursa Major)]: 147-167, 209-215; Potanin 1883, No. 36 (Alar Buryats) [the poor young man feels sorry to cut down trees, the owner drove him away; while he was sleeping, the old man pricked his tongue, allowing him to understand the language of birds; the young man hears the raven telling the crow about the son of the khan, whom the snake has climbed; he will recover if he breathes steam from burning fat; the young man heals the khan's son, takes seven skinny mares as a reward; on the way he meets a strongman, a rumor, a shooter, thief, water bread, runner; with their help he wins competitions in wrestling, shooting, running, gets a princess; the army pursues them, his water bread drowns him; the llama ordered them to roll down the mountain, their heads flew off; God resurrected them, took them to heaven, made Dolon-Ubugut (Big Dipper); the small star in the middle is their wife]: 200-203; Baldayev 1960 (in drill): 365-371 in Ulanov 1974 [the girl was kidnapped by a bear; she gave birth son, returned to people; Bear's son (Baabgayan hübüüün; hereinafter SM) went to see the land; became Sabudai Mergen's sister (threw up a hammer), Babudaya (threw up a hammer) tree), Habuidai Batora (moved mountains) each takes turns cooking meat; a bearded old man eats meat, throws the owner into the vessel; each of the three brothers is ashamed to confess their shame ; SM crushed the old man; he leaves his beard, goes through the crevice; SM descends into the lower world; the girl replies that the father went to the ground, returned sick; SM promises to cure him, burns him on fire; three Hardig's daughters say that the father is forced to give them to the monster Arhan; SM cuts off his head; H.-the bird takes him to earth; SM performs feats, marries Erman Khan's daughter, takes possession of it]: 39-41; Eliasov 1973, No. 8 [(Western Decembrist N.A. Bestuzhev in the 1850s); Ubugun goes to look for a wife; consistently meets three people, each of whom is not when he recognizes the hero, he replies that he is trying his hand to face off with W. (the first tore the bark with his fingernail, the second drank the lake, the third raised the cliff); each one takes turns cooking; a gray-haired old man with a huge beard eats everything, beats the cook, everyone is silent about what happened; W. hangs the old man by the beard; he breaks down, leaving his jaw, hides into the abyss; the companions lower W. on his belt, he sees three beauties crying over their deceased father, W.'s companions pick them up, throw them off belt; in a huge nest, one chick cries (a flying serpent will eat it today), the second sings (tomorrow), the third laughs (it will be eaten later than anyone else); W. kills a snake, the bird tells you to prepare meat, raises W. the ground; the last piece of W. cuts it off from the thigh, the bird expectorates it, puts it back; W. takes beauties, executes traitors]: 78-81; Mongolian Buryats (close to Khorin) [Tsoloo J., Gantogtokh G. Arvan Gurvan noyodyn dun. Ub., 2007:492; Tsagaadai ate 9 flowers in nine colors of the rainbow, gave birth to 9 eggs, of which boys arose; when she is old, she asks each son what he can do; 1) catch a leaf that has fallen from the sky papers and read what is written; 2) put up the golden and silver stairs and climb into heaven to Khan Hormusta; 3) follow the trail of a spider, who is 10 years old, and a worm, who is 20; 4) see through three peace; 5) steal a kidney from a sleeper; 6) grow a rock on the spot; 7) go through this place; 8) catch a black cobblestone; 9) younger: shoot Garuda's pen, who is behind the clouds; mother gives a bow to the youngest, dies; paper has fallen from the sky: H. invites them; asks them to find the daughter who was kidnapped by Garuda; using their abilities, the brothers returned the girl; the youngest married her, and the rest married her other daughters H.]: Egupova 2012:19-21; darkhats: Neklyudov et al. 2006 (somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag), western 20.08.2006, No. WS 30011 and 21.08.2006, No. WS 30028 (=Kozmin 2009:18) [with older brother Altan-Minjin had a Silver-red horse, the younger Mungun-minjin had an amber-red horse (var.: their horses were Red Fox and Red Lamb, dogs Asar and Basar; they tied dogs to the Golden Stake (North Star); their sister Sarisva Dagina was 18 years old, she decided to marry, told her brothers to bring a hare with black eyes and ears the size of an inch, not to take a hare with brown eyes and ears in an inch; A. brought a hare, S. drew herself, put the picture with the hare in a basket, let them into the river; the hare sailed to Khan Erg; the khan saw the picture and sent two people to S., who told them to tell E. to come at 50 warriors; she will give her brothers drunk, together with E. she will destroy them; A. became very drunk, but M. was not very drunk, took A., red horses, pulled out the stake to which the dogs were attached, led and ran away; one dog she ran away, barking; M. came to one mountain and fell asleep; when she wakes up, he calls A., he replies that he is underground, M. dug him up; the brothers go, meet, take 1) an antelope fishing on the run, 2) a thief, capable of pulling out an antelope's tongue and feathers to a bird, 3) hearing what is being done in the upper and lower worlds, 4) drinking the ocean, 5) raising mountains; runner, thief, listener, ocean drinker, mountain lifter, Altan-minjin, Mungung-minjin went further in every way...; tied two red horses and became the 7 stars of Ursa Major; they told S. to become the moon, so the Moon always looked at the stars of the Ursa Major ; they drove the Golden Stake into the sky and tied their two red horses; this stake is now the North Star; and the two horses are two stars side by side; there is a black-eyed hare on the moon, it looks like spots; the Mongols when babies are carried at night, their noses are smeared with soot, like a black-eyed hare; this custom is associated with a black-eyed hare from the legend of the Ursa Major], Zap. 24.08.2008, No. 30020 (=Kozmin 2009:18) [Khan's daughter stole mangas; the old man had 7 sons, each with a special art; one knew what was happening all over the world, the other could catch anything that fell from the sky, etc.; the first realized that Khan's daughter was mangas dragged him across the outer sea; the young men got there; the man who knew how to run fast grabbed the khan's daughter and ran, the mangas rushed in pursuit, Damchig-rinbuchi went up to heaven with the khan's daughter, threw her on the ground; who knew pick up did not let her fall; Khan awarded the father to young men; 7 sons then became 7 stars of the Big Dipper, the khan's daughter became Orion]; Sanzheev 1931, No. 3 [Alakhai-Mergen cannot be killed, but the king's warriors the manguses tied him with iron, threw him into a deep hole, stole cattle, took his sister as the wife of the Mangus king; Magpie and Raven cry because they are no longer given giblets from slaughtered cattle AM; AM asks them to bring them Khan-Garudi, who lowers her wing into the hole, AM gets out; two servants of the Mangus king, blind and armless, tear iron with their teeth, freeing AM; he finds his younger brother, they meet, take him comrades of the Listener, Runner, Thief (quietly plucks the feathers of a flying magpie), Drinking the Sea, Moving the Mountains; they put poisoned wine on the manguses, win 1) shooting in the needle's eye for seven mountains, 2) in horse races, 3) in wrestling; the mangus khan puts them in a yurt, sets it on fire, the Drinking Sea floods the fire, the subjects of the Mangus king drown in the water, the Mountain-Raising crushed him mountain; seven return her property to the kidnapped AM sister, rise from the mountain to the sky themselves, turn into seven Burkhans (seven stars of the Ursa Major)]: 87-93; Khalkha Mongols: Bennigsen 1912 ( Dunsurun) [two brothers want to destroy the third, hard-working; he leaves; consistently meets and comrades 1) listening to the conversation of sinners in hell; 2) easily catching up with antelopes; 3) knocking down an arrow from the sky stars; 4) a thief stealing eggs from under a female crow; 5) piling mountains on top of each other; 6) drinking and belching the sea; the hero returns to his brothers, who became khans; thief replaces kegs of good and poisoned wine (one khan survives); the strongman wins the fight; the rest learn about an attempt to blow them up in the palace, prevent it; becomes seven stars of the Big Bears; it was cold, Mechin (Pleiades) had 7 stars; sister cities steal one, it's getting warmer; the stolen star can be seen from the second star of the bucket]: 55-57; Ochirova 1991 [in a Mongolian fairy tale 7 comrades: poor man, strongman, shooter, listening, drinking, changing things; they took the khan's daughter, were deceived by an evil llama, ascended to heaven by the stars of the Ursa Major]: 193; the Mongols [Khan's maid on eighth year of pregnancy, she gave birth to Zhivaa Tsagaan; when the Khan's elephant went mad, J. killed him; the khan exiled him to the land of his estate, where he had previously sent someone who could swallow everything and the fastest runner; they they met and accompanied the keen and drinking sea; each one cooks in turn; the cyclops comes out of the sea, eats everything; when it's J.'s turn, he beat the Cyclops; his brothers finished him off, and four fairies, who supported the wounded man, married; J.'s wife Oyun, her slipper fell into the sea, the demon found, told the khan, the khan orders O. to steal; J.'s soul in the casket; the demon teaches O. to steal the casket, throws it into the sea, O. takes away; the companions helped: one saw J., the other ran to him, the third drank the sea, put the casket in J.'s finger, he came to life; under the guise of beggars, friends penetrated the khan, J. stabbed him, took O., Swallow the sea drank again, they were dry; when they were chased, the sea came together, the pursuers drowned]: Mikhailov 1962:126-128; Skorodumova 2003:5-8 [poor brother works for a rich man, he feels sorry to cut trees; in a dream, a woodman pierces his tongue with needles, he now understands the language of animals; the Raven tells the Raven that the Khan's son fell ill because a snake crawled into his mouth; we must throw fatty meat into the fire mares, breathe smoke; the poor man heals the khan's son, asks for 7 skinny mares and a bad horse under the blanket as a reward; on the way he meets, takes as companions 1) moving mountains, 2) listening to what's underground, 3) shooting at the sky, 4) quietly changing feathers to crows and magpies, 5) drinking the river, 6) chasing mountain sheep; the khan will give his daughter to the winner of the competition; 1) the strongman defeats the wrestler, 2) the shooter falls into a golden circle between heaven and earth, 3) the runner overtakes two old speeders (they put him to sleep by patting him on the head, but he woke up); the khan sent an army, drowned him; friends took to heaven , became the constellation Ursa Major - "Seven Elders"; the little star is the princess], 8-13 [two brothers meet a shooter (shoots at birds behind the clouds) listening to what is underground (buried to the waist), strongman (moves mountains), runner (catches antelopes); the rumor hears that Shaazgai Khan is going to attack overseas; they meet him drinking, he drained the sea to the bottom, they passed, took him as a friend; Sh. competitions 1) the khan's shooter pierces the mountain with an arrow, the arrow gets stuck in another mountain, the Shooter - five mountains, gets stuck in the sixth; 2) wrestling (the strongman defeated the khan's wrestler), 3) running (the khan's shaman fell from fatigue); sage Tushimel Saran suggests deceiving seven, burning them in a cast-iron yurt; the rumor hears this, opilo floods the yurt and the entire city of Khan with water; they ascend to the sky, become the Big Bear]; the bird Hangarid was carried away by Khan's 25-year-old daughter; eight sons of an old man (shooter, runner, keen, smelling, sucking wind, swallowing the sea, stopping the moon and sun; the youngest capturing the intangible ) We went in search. They shot H., caught the princess in flight, brought the khan; the father decides to make khan the one who catches the arrow fired into the sky; caught the youngest, became the North Star, the rest became the Ursa Major] 18-22 [an old man's cow gave birth - the top of a man, the bottom of a bull; this is Amtsagaan, asks the old man not to kill him; meets, companions woodworker Dalger, wooden Dalger, stone Dalger; cook One by one, the old woman comes and eats everything; A. asks her to bring water in a bucket of holes, takes iron handcuffs, pliers, and a hammer out of her bag, puts wooden ones instead; the old woman returned without water, offers to tie each other one by one; A. breaks wooden shackles, the old woman hardly breaks iron shackles, crawls in blood; below the cliff there is a mountain of jewelry, a dead old woman; twins descend A. on a rope, they pick up treasures, leave A. below; he rubs three skulls, sculpts three burkhans, asks for three trees to grow overnight; three years later he wakes up, climbs trees; spares twins, follows the child's trail, enters heaven; Heavenly Lord in the form of a white bull fights demon khan Shulmas every day; overcomes him before noon, gives way in the afternoon; asks A. shoot him at a star on his forehead; A. shot, the Master wants to make him immortal; he wants to visit his father; Vladyka promises to help; A. pretends to be a healer, comes to treat Sh.; his old woman misses, he drives the arrow deeper into S.'s forehead, he dies; the old woman surrounds the house with iron bars with bolts; from the sky, the Lord lowers the chain, picks up A.; the old woman throws an iron hoop, crushing A. into seven parts, they turn into Ursa Major], 26-28 [six brothers separated to study; five are back: a clairvoyant who knows what's going on in the world, able to travel anywhere, becoming invisible, fulfilling every desire; found out that the sixth brother married a beautiful woman, they are threatened by snakes on the island; they defeated the snake, returned brother and wife; everyone argues that the beautiful woman should be his; she offers to become stars, she will be Venus, the comet brothers, they will meet once a year], 58-64 [Alhai Mergen surrounds the mangas army; older sister Tsetseng Zever is with him, becomes his wife, the youngest Gunar Shar runs with seven horses; AM cannot be killed, he is shackled, thrown into a hole; he asks the crow and magpie to call the Hangarid bird, who lowers her pen, pulls AM out of the hole; two poplars turn into people, break his shackles; AM finds the General Staff; they meet, accompany 1) the listener, 2) the runner, 3) quietly taking out the feathers from the magpies, 4) opival, 5) moving mountains; at the khan of mangas, the Thief quietly changes the poisoned water to clean water; multi-headed mangas offer 1) shoot at the target (the AM arrow flies through the mountains), 2) jumps (mangas horses fell from fatigue ), 3) wrestling (fish grew out of pieces of mangas thrown into the sea); they want to burn the heroes in a yurt, they fill everything with water, the mangas was crushed by a mountain; the CC was tied to seven horses; 7 heroes and 7 redheads horses ascended to heaven, became the stars of the Ursa Major]; Mongols: Potanin 1893, No. 4 (Ordos) [six comrades help Argintai Mergen Khan be released from the box in which he was locked up by Boroltai; everyone is gifted with special abilities; one listens underground and in the sky, the other drinks the sea, the third moves mountains, etc.; at the end they attack B. for seven years, throw him into a hole, stoned; turn into stars Ursa Major]: 140-143 (retelling 1899:566); Mostaert 1937, No. 32 [two brothers meet, take 1) a bird who shot a bird, it fell only at the end days; 2) listening to what creatures are doing in three worlds; 3) moving mountains; 5) catching up with gazelles; 6) drinking the sea; they made him older brother, crossed the sea dry, he regurgitated the waters back; they came to Shajagai Khan, he offers competitions; the listener learns about everything in advance; 1) shoot - the shooter breaks through five, and the man SH only two mountains; 2) the one who raised mountains defeats wrestler Sh.; 3) runner overtakes White Old Woman Sh.; 4) Sh. Invites you to feast in a cast-iron house, makes a fire around, the swallowing sea regurgitates water; Sh. drowned; the brothers returned, became the stars of the Ursa Major] in Solovyov 2014; Mongols: Potanin 1893 (Khalkha) [The Pleiades were Hobudey-Mergen's seven sons, skilled in various things; one of them, a sharpshooter, took a bet, started shooting at the sun and moon, missed; cut off his thumb, turned into a groundhog; six brothers and marmots took to heaven]: 323; Gadamba, Čerensodnom 1984:735 in Nassen-Bayer, Stuart 1992 [two brothers meet, take friends a man waiting half a day for the bird he shot to fall from the sky; all three successively meet four more (Listener, Bulky Mountain, Runner, Sea Drinker); with such abilities, seven defeat Hana-Soroku, eventually becoming the stars of the Ursa Major]: 329; the Oirats (Khuhunor Olyots) [Pleiades are six or seven people who once lived: blacksmith, master of cutting earth space, stone breaker, carpenter, doctor (informant did not remember any other)]: Potanin 1893:322; Dagurs [Babuga ("fist") meets old men whose daughter was carried away by a three-headed mangie; goes to find her; the woman carries her plowman in buckets of water; lets B. drink, he drains the bucket; goes with the woman to apologize to her husband; they become friends, the plowman goes with B.; the shepherd complains that he is wild a bull kills his cattle; B. tames a bull, takes it with him; someone is waiting for the roller he threw into the sky (?) ; catches him; joins B.; they remove the chains from the old man's chained daughter; she says that mangie is coming to eat her today; they kill mangie; the girl marries the ploughman's son]: Bender, Su Huana: 1984 146-155.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Pushkareva, Khomich 2001, No. 2 (Nadym District, Yamalo-Nenets District) [Rebenok-Starukhi discovers that the river is dry, finds a giant lying across; they go together, take them as satellites a giant throwing a hill and a giant throwing up a rock; they can't all knock out the wader, they just hit the tail; RS creates a golden house; each one takes turns cooking, the old woman comes, that's it eats, beats the cook; the giants do not talk about what happened; RS defeats the old woman, she goes to the lower world; RS moves the stone, there is a hole under it, tells him to lower it on a rope; the old woman's daughters tell replace him with barrels of living and dead water; the old woman drinks dead, admits defeat, disappears; RS lifts the girls to the ground, the youngest gives him a ring, the giants cut off the rope; Seven-Winged Minley ( the mythical eagle, he was a sandpiper) first refuses (because they tried to kill him), then takes RS to the upper world; he pretends to be an orphan boy, the elderly couple come with him to the king, where giants though marry three sisters raised from the lower world; the youngest sees her ring from the boy, recognizes the savior; the Tsar executes giants, RS marries three sisters, he is Yav-Mal]: 109-141; Tereshchenko 1949 [a two-deer rider, he has a larch sledge, meets and travels Swan Malitsa (waves the right hollow, the northern blizzard circles, the left one is the southern one), drinking the lake, catching up with wild deer, overturning hills, seeing a ride for many days, listening seven days away; they come to the iron plague, wearing a giant, a giantess and a girl with iron ornaments; an old woman heats the plague red hot; first drinking the lake, then Swan Malitsa cool it down; the giants give their daughter, but she immediately runs away; the groom's assistants see, catch up, bring her]: 146-151; northern Selkups (Tolka , 1988) [Pachka's old wife disappeared, returned with Corka Pachka's child Iya; disappeared again, her son found her in the bear's den, brought her home; went traveling, took the Sea-closing Stump as his companions, Felting Forest, Quickswamp; a stranger comes to the person who remains at home, scalds him with boiling water; when Iya remains, he cuts the alien with a knife; asks his companions to lower him on a rope to the lower world; an old man wounded by him sits there, I. heals him, marries his daughter; I. sends her upstairs when he gets up himself, his companions cut off the rope, he falls to the seventh lower earth; there is an old man sitting and old woman, they say that their grandson dies every time thunder thunders over the plague; I. fires an arrow up, the Thunder disappears; the old people tell him to sit on the seventh of the seven cranes, he takes I. to the ground, he finds a wife; they walk around the cauldron, sink into the ground, Mount of Spirits (Lozyl Lakka) appears at this place]: Golovnev 1995:495-498; nganasans: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951 [ the king sent a man to marry Solntseva's daughter; he goes, meets, takes with him an all-seeing and all-hearing, well-aimed shooter, who is not afraid of frost, catching up with a deer, although a stone is tied to his leg, a strongman capable of moving mountains, causing a blizzard, drinking a lake; an all-seeing person says that there is a girl in the house, a shooter breaks a castle, inside a golden glass room, a girl burns copper and iron firewood disappears; causing a blizzard and water bread extinguish the fire, the strongman breaks constipation, the runner catches up, grabs Solntseva's daughter after the shooter knocks down a stone from his leg, and water bread drinks the lake, behind which the girl hides; on the way back, the first person leaves his comrades where he met them, tells them to become the owner of water, the owner of the blizzard and snow, the owner of mountain animals, the owner of wild deer, the donor hunting luck, giving newborns good eyesight and hearing; the man brought Solntseva's daughter to his place, since then the sun has been shining]: 112-117; Simchenko 1996 (1) (Avam, other informants of the plot did not know considered a shamanic fairy tale; western 1961) [Suruny-NGO ("Orphan Boy") goes to look for the soul of his deceased father; his mother tried to hold him for 7 days, could not; she meets the giant Bydy-Nguo (bydy - "water"), who keeps all the fish in the sea, at the request of S. lets her go into the rivers, goes with him; another giant, Babi Nguo (babi, "wild deer"), holds the deer, at S.'s request, releases them into the tundra, goes with him; the giant Moo-nguo (mou - "land") throws stones the earth trembles, S. says that people will not be able to live on the shaking ground, M. goes with him; their strength is running out, the spruce is coming; S. kills an iron loon with a stone, the companions could not; they come into the house; in turn cook; half-skeleton old woman Kamynkuo-nguo (kamynkuo means "blood") picks up food every time, hits the cook; S. grabs it, she promises him three daughters, says that her husband (Plague) chews on his father's head; that she in fact, Syrada-nyama ("mother of underground ice"), hides; S. tells his companions to make a rope out of grass, pushes the stone, under it the move down, S. goes down; sends three daughters of Syrad upstairs- yams, when he climbs himself, the companions cut off the rope, he falls to the lower ground; comes to the plague of the Mother Bird; next to him the one who gnawed Father S.'s head; agrees to send him to earth on a bird, S. must feed her with his meat; the bird brought S. to the ground, but his eyes and spine were left; the bird regurgitates, S.'s body is recovering; S. cut off three nguos in the ear, sent it away, took three for himself girls]: 39-53; (cf. Mansi [someone ruins a turnip field (turnip); the old man goes to guard, the bear kills him; the old woman goes, the bear takes her away, she gives birth to a son, he is a bear below the waist; they run away, the son kills chasing a bear; goes to look for a wife, meets a noseless man on the way, then a madman, both hear the voices of women from the lower world; the bear's son asks to be lowered on a rope into a hole; there is a dragon, he cuts off with an ax on his head; sends three girls on ropes upstairs; when he gets up himself, his companions cut off the rope; he asks the eagle to lift him to the ground; prepares meat, feeds him in flight (three months); drives away companions, marries]: Munkácsi 1995:118-120).

Eastern Siberia. Aldan Evenks [the girl caught a duck, began to play with it; the Moxovul bird flew in, promised to marry her; M. came as a man, took the girl away; her brothers Altaney and Tyvieney came to The old man, who said that their sister's kidnapper was the hero Kire; told him to take the people he met with him; this was Mukilka (water swallower), then Kurbeltun (throwing a big stone); they came to their sister; the house where they stopped, set fire, M. fills the fire with water from their mouths; the brothers return his sister; later Kire and the double-headed eagle to Kirelta come again; the brothers are powerless against him, but Kurbeltun breaks his wing with a stone, brothers finish him off]: Vasilevich 1966, No. 17:269-272; Amur Evenks (Tynda) [sister asks the brothers to catch her bunny, takes off his skin, writes a letter on it, asking Kurengoy to marry her, kill his wife, descends in a box down the river; tells the brothers that the bunny was carried away by a hawk; K. kills his wife, comes to the girl, blocking the exit with a net; the younger brother flies out with a fly, the elder gets stuck with a butterfly; he is killed, one eye is pulled out; the youngest finds the grave of his wife K., pulls the woman out of her, she finds, pulls out, revives his older brother; an eye is missing, she inserts the eye of the beast in him; brothers they meet, take them as friends 1) throwing stones, 2) drinking the river; K. drinks them in the house, locks them, sets them on fire; a drunken river is flooded by a fire, a stone-thrower knocks down the door; brothers kill K. and his sister ; younger brother flies out like a fly, the elder gets stuck with a butterfly; he is killed, c]: Vasilevich 1966, No. 17:272-276; Bount Evenks [Doloday meets Arunaya (pulls larch trees), Kirekana (breaks mountains with cedar); they answer that they are not strong, but D.; he takes them as travel companions; each one cooks in turn; the long-bearded old man defeats the cook, takes the meat; when D.'s turn, he hangs the old man by the beard ; he breaks off his beard, goes to the cave; K. flies there with a fly, overhears how one girl promises to make the old man hot so that the person who comes to drink water dies; the second will let the cold go, the third will spill water, to the yurt will not pass; K. does not drink, does not freeze, throws tree trunks at the lake, kills an old man, marries girls to himself and his companions]: Voskoboynikov 1958:60-62; Yakuts: Ergis 1964, No. 60 ( clearly Russian borrowing; from materials collected by students of the Momsky School, Momsky Ulus, northeastern Yakuts) [seven sons of an old peasant (Vasily, Nikolai, younger Ivan, others without a name) they come to the toyon; he asks to find his missing daughter; Vasily sees far away, Nikolai knows how to steal, the other knows how to catch, Ivan to spend it underground; there is an oak tree on the lake, an eagle on it, he sits on a golden ring - turned girl; brothers get a ring; toyon gives his daughter to Ivan, appoints the rest to high-paying positions; (=Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:147-150)]: 209-211; Ergis 1964, No. 69 (the place of recording is not it is indicated from the collection of I. Dedyakin; central?) [(=Sivtsev, Erofeev 1990:122-127, =Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:96-104); an old man and an old woman live on the outskirts of a big city; the old woman finds a boy in the test, calls Testo Bogatyr; he meets a strongman, to whom the king ordered to tear out stumps, equate ravines and mountains; the second, who is ordered to punish people with rods; the heroes take turns cooking; an old man with a hundred inches of beard, eats one inch tall cooked meat at Punishment and Mountain; The dough itself ties it to the pole by the beard; he breaks down, goes into the gorge; the dough descends on the rope; the dying bearded man gives him two daughters; twin brothers they lift them upstairs; when the Dough is picked up, the rope breaks off; The dough meets five daring men (an archery, a runner with a sensitive sense of smell, a subtle ear, drinking the sea); they go to marry the daughter of the King Worm ; the runner overtakes her, falls asleep, the shooter scratches his nose with an arrow; the king tries to burn them in a cast-iron barn, a drinking sea floods it with water; they kill the Worm, Testo marries his daughter]: 261-263).

Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [a wild pig became pregnant, gave birth to a boy; she made a bow and arrows for him with her teeth and fangs; when he killed a wild boar while hunting, his mother stopped coming to him; he went on a journey, He meets three boys successively, they are children of the moon, the star, the sun; they come to people, four women raise them, the named brothers stay, get married, the son of a pig comes to another woman; leaving to hunt, tells his wife not to give his bow and arrow to anyone; an old woman with a thin neck and a big head tickles the woman until she tells her where the bow and arrows are, she takes them away; the husband comes, all broken, dies after telling him where his brothers are; the son of the sun can renew what is broken, the son of the moon can read traces, the son of a star can swim in a lake of fire; the son of the moon leads to the lake, the son of the star pulls out old woman Senge and fragments of bow and arrows, the star's son makes them whole; the old woman was burned, the mergen was revived, he married the youngest Pudin, who could not keep him, everyone came to live in Mergen's homeland]: Kile 1996, No. 15:183-191.

Japan. Japanese (from Tohoku to southern Kyushu, although not everywhere) [the boy comes from skin scales (A1263.3), from his mother's skin, from a chestnut tree or a peach, found on fire (he is not afraid of the heat); after spending 15 years in cradles, he gets up as a strongman; eats a lot; goes in search of adventure; meets 1) a man carrying a temple on his back; 2) crumbling stones with his hand; fights with them, subdues them; on the island of cannibals on him rocks roll, he breaks them with his foot, two more strongmen appear from them, he takes them as friends; a girl cries in the village, it is her turn to be eaten by a monster; at night the monster swallows strongmen, but the hero kills him, strongmen jump out of their nostrils; three marry the owner's three daughters; (a hint of an episode with three companions who joined the hero on the way, one of whom was fishing, the other came out of the well, the third one from the cliff (they have the corresponding names) is in Kojiki in connection with Emperor Jimmu)]: Ikeda 1971, No. 301B: 70-71.

(Wed. SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (west. A.N. Zhukov, village. Palana, 1958; Russian borrowing) [the hunter fell into the bear's den; the bear gave birth to his son Kainyvil (Bear Ear); he is a man, only bear ears; four years later K. asks his father bring him to his house; his father replies that the Bear will catch up with them, kill them; they run away, K. kills the Mother Bear with his fist; K. is too strong, maims other children; goes to the tundra; meets, takes companions 1) a man carrying a birch tree; 2) carrying a hill with cedars; 3) carrying a riverside tundra; they come to the house of giants; K. lies down on their owner's bed; beats (to death?) him and the three with whom he came; K. comes to the old man, talks about the defeated giants; the old man was their father; he offers K. the bride inside the hill; lowers him into the hole on a rope, cuts off the rope; The spider picks him back; he hits the old man, hangs him by the rib in the house, sets fire to the house; returned home; there his father, the Cossacks pulled out his eyes; K. killed the Cossacks; the father said that there is a cure for blindness made from the liver; the neighbor says it is the liver of a man with a fiery head named Fire; gives a sword, teaches what to do; K. goes to the sunset, where the earth is red; cuts off O.'s head, cuts off the liver, takes bile, runs away; the fire is behind him, he has time to leave; he smears his father's eyes with bile, he sees the light]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 139:434-447).

(Wed. The coast is the Plateau. Kutene [people in the same village own bags with the seasons, let the winter go for 12 months; the Coyote tells the old woman to cry, not answer why, then complain that she will starve to death; people they gather, the Coyote asks the Soft-Stepping, the Far-Throwing and the Grizzly for help; they come to the village of summer owners; the soft-stepping warms up by the fire, covers the old woman's mouth with resin, takes the bag, the Grizzly tears him up , heat is made]: Linderman 1997, No. 15:158-166).

Plains. Teton (oglala) [the leader goes to visit another camp; on the way he meets three people consistently, they join him; the first is a runner, the second hears far away (laughs at the story, who is told in a distant camp), the wind obeys the third; The witch invites people to race, kills the losers; The rumor hears her talking about her plans, Runner turns into a hawk; a witch puts him to sleep, but the Wind wakes him up with sand in his face; he wins]: Walker 1917:219-220; Mandan [A lonely man with a group of young men sails to the island to get valuable shells; on the shore, willows turned into warriors, they had to be fought; the owner of Maniga Island gave so much food, water, tobacco and women that many of the guests weakened; but OCH and his companions let food down through hollow sunflower tubes; according to other options, he had three helpers; one could eat a lot, the other could drink, the third smoke; instead of fervor, three helpers; one multipenis used buffalo tail without hair; OCH himself copulated with all women; M. accused Mandan of killing a dog, sending a flood; PTS made sure that the water did not rise above the cedar]: Beckwith 1938:4-7; Bowers 1950:132, 140-141, 347-353, 360-361 (Lévi-Strauss 1968, No. 512-515); kiowa [every day the husband paints his wife's face red; her bear lover licks the paint; the husband watches his wife, kills the Bear; sees how a wife cries, scraping her skin; a wife plays a bear, turns into a Bear, kills all the people in the village, turns her younger sister into a slave; tells her to get a rabbit, otherwise she will kill; six brothers the girls come back, give her a rabbit, teach her how to show that she got it herself; the brothers taught her sister to stick needles into the ground, the Bear ran into them; while she took it out, the brothers and sister run away, they climb a rock; the sister tells the brothers that the Bear has vulnerabilities between her toes; the brothers shoot there to kill the Bear; they and her sister, along with the rock, rise to the sky, become stars (not specified as); brothers' names: Sensitive Ear, Sharp Eye, Fast Runner, Sharp Mind; others are not named]: Parsons 1929a, No. 3:9-11; wichita [each of the seven brothers is somewhat superior other people; 1) vision, 2) hearing, 3) strength, 4) running speed, 5)? , 6) clairvoyance, 7) fearlessness; a girl comes to the eldest at night; he smears her back with white clay; in the morning asks women to play ball, identifies his older sister; hits her with an arrow; she is angry becomes a Grizzly bear; brothers go camping, Clairvoyant says all their people are killed, Keen says Grizzly did it; Grizzly destroys people; their younger sister comes to the brothers, they give her killed rabbits; they shoot at the Grizzly's paw, where it is vulnerable, but she chases them; they throw the turtle's shell, it turns into many turtles, the Grizzly devours them; they throw a red stone (ocher?) , she paints herself; blows dust off her arrows, a dense bush appears; a deep gorge is created with a bowstring, the Grizzly crosses it; rises to the sky, turns into the Big Dipper; the Grizzly goes to north]: Dorsey 1904a, No. 9:69-74.

California. Chumash [8 men began to live together, each had knowledge; one was better at fishing than others, the second predicted the weather, the third looked for nuts and berries, the fourth caught small animals, made clothes out of their skins; once the eighth went missing; it's the Pleiades]: Monroe, Williamson 1987:90.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [the divine player Naqaílpi ("The Beating") descended from the sky; a piece of turquoise served as his talisman; the pueblo lost his property and themselves; lost two precious shells, The sun asked N. to give them to him, he refused, the Sun was angry with him; the god Qastcèyalçi came to tell the Navajo youth about this, told them to come to the meeting; there were Wind, Darkness, The Bat, the Big Serpent, the Bird, Gopher, as well as animals that submitted before N. but opposed him; Darkness quietly penetrated the sleeping Player, returned, saying that he repents; The Wind did not believed it, but came back with the same news; N. puts his body parts against the young man's body parts; puts his wives; he has no wives, but two young men wear women's clothes, pretend to be the hero's wives; 1) 13 the chips must be thrown up, they should fall white, not the red side up; The Bat hides under the ceiling, having prepared 13 pieces of white on both sides, throws them instead of the ones thrown; 2) drive the hoop ( The snake hides in a hoop, drives it where it should be); 3) knock down a tree by hitting it (Gopher gnaws at the roots of the tree that the hero pushes); 4) chase the ball over a certain line (Bird instead of a ball); animals N. told the Wind to blow harder to justify his inaction to N.; the hero wins, puts N. on the bowstring, shoots them into the sky, he flies to the god of the moon; he gives him those pets which Mexicans now have, returns to land in Mexico; he became the god of Mexicans]: Matthew 1889:90-94; (cf. Acoma keres [(European. ); The Careful Porter travels for a living; meets 1) a person who can catch up with rabbits; 2) someone who blows and creates a tornado; 3) a deer hitting an arrow from any distance; 4) far from hearing with their ears to the ground; they come to the Half Moon Chief; they defeat him]: Benedict 1930:85-87).