K66B. The princesses were given to their companions .13.17.22.23.27.29.30.33.34.37.
Wandering from one place to another, the hero leaves one of his companions in each of them (usually marrying them to princesses he received as a reward), and moves on. When he gets into trouble, his companions come to his aid.
Zaghawa, Syrian Arabs, Karen, Cham, Kashmir (Hindi), Uttar Pradesh (Hindi), Punjabi, Condas, Sinhales, Albanians, Adygs, Abkhazians, Abazins, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Lurs, Baluchis, Kazakhs, Tuvans, Nanais.
Sudan - East Africa. Zaghawa [the king is old and childless; marabu: a sword will hit you on the leg; take him and lie down with your wife, the son of Mahamat Sword Son will be born; the king ordered to bury treasures, kill those who buried them, only the faithful maid knows the place; after the king's death, his brother took the throne; M.'s mother agreed to poison her son for promising the new king to make her the main wife; the maid threw meat to the dog, which died; M. went on a journey; met and accompanied two older young men; the dragon surrounded the garden with his body where the spring is; the brothers are thirsty; M. killed the dragon; the king wants to give him his daughter, but he asks to give it to his older brother; elsewhere M. kills a lion, asks the king to give her daughter to his second brother; on an island in the sea there is a palace, in which a girl who gives youth to those who marry her; an elderly the king captured her and settled her on the island; the king sent an army of devils against M., M. killed him; the king sent an old woman to M., who supposedly had nothing to eat; she threw M.'s sword into the sea, the old king took the girl away; companions M. found out about this; they dived for a long time, finally found a fish with a sword stuck in her throat; M. came to life; all three, disguised as girls, came to the king; the king's bride recognized M., chose her as a servant; M. forced the king give the names of all his servants and subjects; killed him; went out to the people in the morning and said that he was the old king, but after a night with that girl he rejuvenated; made his brothers kings and drove his uncle with father's throne; settled in the village with his mother; married a faithful maid himself]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (2), No. 28:35-52.
Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [Prince Hassan grew up, asked his father to go on a journey, he gives him a sword; at rest, a horseman drove up to H. and offered to fight; H. offered to eat first; then more two; one has an all-seeing mirror, the other has a flying carpet, the third can be underwater for a long time; H. says they shared bread and salt and can't fight now; they come to a city where the sun is not you can see: in the sea, a whale swallows it at sunrise; H. kills a whale with his sword, gets a princess, but gives it to his brother, who has a mirror; in the next city, the ghoul closes the water, gives it in exchange for the girls, a queue princesses; H. kills the gulya, gives the princess to her sister with a plane carpet; H. saw two men unsuccessfully trying to break the column with swords; they explained that the king of China hid his daughter from the king to her Persia; whoever breaks the column will become the princess's husband; H. easily breaks the column, gets the princess, leaves her to live in a fortress on the island, she lowers the stairs to him when he comes; the king of Persia commands to dig an underground passage, sends an old woman, she stays with his wife H., persuades her to find out what her husband's soul is; in a broom (the wife adorns the broom, the old woman does not believe); in the window frame (the same); H. admits that his life in a sword, which he puts between himself and his wife at night; an old woman grabs a sword at night, throws it into the sea, H. loses consciousness, the old woman calls the warriors, they bring his wife X. to the Persian king; if in two the sword cannot be returned for weeks, H. will die; his brother with a mirror saw everything, the other provided a flying carpet, the third took a sword out of the sea; H., who came to life, made his way to Persia through the same underground passage; agreed with an old woman, she gave her wife a letter; the wife put sleeping pills in wine to the Persian king; H. sneaked in quietly, killed the king, put on his clothes, and in the morning said that he was younger after his wedding night from Chinese princess; later confessed what was going on, but remained king]: Kuhr 1993:18-31.
Burma - Indochina. Karena [as soon as the pregnant woman hung her clothes to dry, the sun disappeared behind the clouds; got angry at the Sun and cursed her; she remained pregnant for three years and gave birth to a son Ta-ywa the size of a yuyuba fruit; it is voracious; becomes monstrously strong; makes an onion; comes to a spring from which 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 he is forced to comply with the requirement; people are afraid of the strongman, they try to get rid of him; he leaves, meets, takes Long-legged as companions, then Long-armed, Big-Eared, Three-Toothed, Empty; they quarreled while sharing fish; T. went one way with Long-armed and Long-legged and others to the other; T. and his companions decided to cook rice, there was no fire; came to Shie-oo for fire; he offers to fight: the loser will support the ground; they knocked him down and drove him into the ground; when Shie-oo moves, earthquakes occur; come to an empty house; under the floor where T. lies down is a girl; she stabs him with a needle; he thinks that someone is biting, raised the floorboard; the girl says that the eagle ate her parents and siblings, and her parents herself managed to hide; T. hid the bamboo iron roof, the eagle could not break through the roof; T. asked for permission to shoot it with an old bamboo bow, but shot an iron bow and killed; then killed the other two eagles; T. took out swallowed bones from the eagle's womb, spread them out in groups (men, women, buffaloes, pigs, etc., hit each with a rope and revived them; revived the girl's parents; left Long-legged there, commanding look at the plants planted: if they wither, he's in trouble; goes on; the same episode with another 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 the 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; the tenth arrow hit him; 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]: Mason 1865:178-187; the tyamas [astrologers promise the childless king that he will have a son if he brings 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, the father calls him to the forest, knocks down a tree on him; in the evening the son brings a tree father; tells him to forge a heavy axe, leaves, his name is Strong; meets the Wagon Pulling (without bulls), Reed (cutting reeds on five mountains); both cannot lift the Strong's axe, become his youngest brothers; giants Sharp ass, Snotty, Big foot fishing; Strong asks for fish, each giant tells the other to give, finally Big foot gives, Sharp ass hits the ship in anger , Snotty snotty fills 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 cart comes to the old woman, she throws it into the cauldron; the same with 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 her husband to be sent in their footsteps; the giant husband defeats the Wagon Pulling 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 fish to China; the emperor promises a daughter to the one who cleans a 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 his head at Siam; throwing it into the sea, gets Princess of Siam, gives to the Reed; returns to the land of the Tyams; The pulling wagon allowed people into the garden, the tree of immortality flew to heaven, the Strong immediately died; The Wagon Pulling and the Reed came for him to the country of the Tyams, also died]: Landes 1887, No. 8:67-76.
South Asia. Kashmir (translated from Hindi) [the fakir lets the childless queen eat barley grains, a son Sherdil ("lion's heart") is born; he goes on a journey with a blacksmith, carpenter and grinder; they come to an enchanted city, everyone takes turns cooking; a dwarf rides up on a rat, demands food, turns into a giant, throws the cook at the tree; when it's S.'s turn, he kills the enemy, leaves the grinder king of the city; in another city, S. kills a witch who appears to be a girl, puts a blacksmith king; in the third, a carpenter; each sister has a grain of barley, while the barley plant is green, with S. all in order; flowers float along the river; S. finds a tree, a basket on it, the head of a beauty in it, drops of blood fall into the water, turn into flowers; finds the body on the bed; puts her head to the body, the princess comes to life; The genie who stole the princess decapitates her during his absence; S. asks to know where S.'s soul is; in the desert there is a tree, grass in front of the dog, bones in front of the horse; we must pass by them, remove the cage from the tree with a starling, a bee in a starling, a genie's soul in it; to pass, you have to give the horse's grass and bones to the dog; S. did so, killed the bee, the genie died; the princess let a box with her hair along the river, found it royal son; sends the old woman to his wife Sh.; she found out that S.'s life was in his saber; on the advice of the old woman, the wife changed her sword, the old woman threw her into the fire, S. died; the old woman brought her to her master, princess asked to wait six months; the barley shoots wilted, the brothers found them, repaired their sword, S. came to life; the carpenter made a flying palanquin, brought the princess, threw the old woman from a height; S. returns to his homeland]: Zograf 1964:327-339 (=1976:71-80); Uttar Pradesh (Hindi) [shepherd, carpenter, brahman, and king went on a journey; the shepherd stayed where they were looking for the missing buffalo to learn how to search; brahman where they were preparing to revive the deceased in order to learn how to revive; a carpenter, where flying lodges were made, to learn; the king came to a tree under which a serpent with a precious ring that illuminated everything around in the dark; when the serpent left, the king covered the ring with a metal basin; the serpent began to fight against him and died; the king put the ring on his finger, dived into the river, there is a beautiful daughter of the serpent; one day they went out to the shore to play dice; the beautiful woman was noticed by a prince passing by; she dived but lost her shoe; the prince told the king father that he should get the second one, as well as the owner of the shoes; the king summoned two cannibal; the first knew how to make holes in the clouds, and the second also covered them with straw; the king ordered the second to find a beautiful woman; she came to the king's wife, persuaded her to let her in as if she were her mother's sister; the king did not believe it; told his wife not to burn his body when he died, but to preserve it; the cannibal poisoned the king; forced his wife to throw the snake ring into the river; she promised to marry the prince in 12 years, and before that she would give it away alms; 12 years later, the king's three friends came to look for him; each asked the king's wife, not knowing who she was, not one, but four servings of food: for himself and for the king; the wife understood what he was talking about; the friends took a ring from the bottom, they opened the coffin with the king's body, revived it; they flew to the king's wife on a flying bed and took her; everything is fine]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 13:38-42; Punjabi [the fakir gives the queen barley grains to eat, she gave birth to a boy; he grows up, takes the Knife Grinder, the Blacksmith, the Carpenter as his companions; in a city devastated by a demon, the Grinder cooks, the dwarf on his mouse demands to give him food, turns into a giant, hangs the cook on the banyan tree, eats everything; the same with others, but the prince kills the demon; people come back, the prince makes the Grinder king, leaving the barley stalk: if it dries up, the prince is in trouble; the same is the other in the city, the food is devoured by an old woman, the prince kills her, the Blacksmith remains king; in the third city, the Carpenter becomes king; the prince goes alone, sees a ruby carried by the river; upstream a tree with a golden basket, in her head is beautiful, drops of blood fall in rubies; he puts his head to her body, the beauty comes to life; she is a kidnapped princess, a genie decapitates her when he leaves; she provokes the genie to tell her where he is soul; it is in the form of a bumblebee in a goiter, a lark in a cage on a tree, guarded by a dog and a horse; we must shift the hay from dog to horse, bones, on the contrary; the prince did everything, the genie died; the princess washed her in the river golden hair, put one on a leaf, let him go along the river; the king saw him, the old woman promised to find a woman; came beggar, persuaded the princess to find out what the prince's life was like; prince: in my sword; old woman first she changed her sword, then put it in the fire, the prince rushed to the palace, but fell decapitated; the old woman brought the princess to the king; the barley stalks dried up, the prince's friends came, the blacksmith fixed his sword, the prince came to life; The carpenter comes to the kidnapped woman, offers to sit in the palanquin, he flies away; the king's sister and that old woman who sat down with the princess are thrown down; everyone returns to the prince's father]: Steel, Temple 1984, No. 5:47-58; condas [the tsar wants to marry his son to the most beautiful girl; she is nowhere to be found; the prince himself goes in search; meets and companions the son of a carpenter, the son of a blacksmith (all three introduce themselves when they meet orphans); in one city, a monster has enough people at night; the prince kills him; the king gives a daughter and half a kingdom, but the prince leaves them to the carpenter; in another city, a tiger is rampant (the same, the blacksmith is left); each prince leaves a green branch - if it dries up, he is in trouble; he comes to the monster's dwelling; there is a kidnapped princess; she is the most beautiful; when the monster returns, the princess turns a prince in stone, his sword in a broom, a horse in bamboo; says that the life of a monster in two doves on the sea of milk; the prince caught the doves, killed them in front of the monster and he died; the prince and the princess began to live together; one day the princess was seen by hunters, told the king; he sent the old woman; she began to say that she would die soon; in response, the princess said that her husband was alive and well as long as his sword was with him; at night the old woman stole it and threw it into the fire; the prince died; the prince's friends saw that the green branches had dried up; they made a new sword, came, put it on the prince's chest, it came to life; the carpenter and blacksmith made a flying ship; the princess told the king who sent the old woman to her that she was waiting for him with her entire entourage; they came and saw the ship; they boarded it, it flew away and disappeared in the deep ocean; blacksmith and the carpenter returned to their homes, and the prince and the princess arrived at the prince's father; everything is fine, and we are unhappy poor kuvi]: Schulze 1922, No. 2:27-33; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 75 [the tsar has a son strongman, giant; goes on a journey; an old woman is afraid to go to the forest for fuel, to the river for water; the prince kills a leopard and a crocodile, cuts off their tongues; another man brings bodies to the king, the prince shows tongues, a liar is executed; the prince takes a palm nut merchant and a gunsmith as his companions; heals a girl, husbands a merchant; elsewhere leaves a gunsmith to take care of orphans; both times he imprisons lemons - if he is in trouble, they will wither; saves the nobleman's daughter by killing an ogre yaksha, marries her; the ex-fiancé asks the woman to get him the prince's wife; she is hired as a maid, finds out that the prince's life is in his sword, leaves his sword in a pile of burning nutshells, the prince loses consciousness, the woman takes his wife away; the prince's friends see dried lemons, peel the sword with lemon juice, the prince comes to life; friends catch up with the ship, everyone is killed, the prince's wife is returned], 92 [the youngest of the seven giants (MB) does not work, lies on the ash; the brothers send him to the plot, he grows a giant field of rice; the brothers lie like there is no field, he leaves; takes as companions a banyan picking his teeth, fishing with bait from an elephant that blocked the river with his feet; the satellites are killed by a woman they come to ask for coals; MB threatens to kill her, she revives her companions; 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 is swallowed by fish, gets to 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 away; MB's companions see that lemon trees and lotus flowers have withered; find and they clean their sword; living MB finds his wife, kills the kidnapper, takes his kingdom]: 159-163, 222-225.
The Balkans. Albanians [the boy was born after his father's death; grew up, began to ask if there was anything left of his father; only a sword (Sabel); since then his name is Sword; goes wandering, meets, takes companions of his peer named Star; they are joined by a third, the Sea; now they are twin brothers; the king will give his daughter to someone who jumps over the ditch, losers are beheaded; The sword, hugging his brothers, jumps over with them; gives Princess Star; then goes alone; kills a coachman (the same as a lamia), finds the Beauty of Peace; other kings go to war to get her themselves, but he smashes their army; The beauty of the world is sent to an old woman; she asks the Beauty of the World to know what her husband's strength is; when she finds out what is in the sword, she throws the sword into the sea; the sword is dying; the brothers see blood on the pen left by the sword, they find the sword on to the bottom of the sea and return the Sword; it smashes enemies and restores the Beauty of the World; all three decide to return to the mother of the Sword, but the Star's father-in-law refuses to let his son-in-law and daughter go; they have to defeat his army]: Meyer 1994, No. 3:96-105.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [old Kurtyzh had a son Kambolet; an old warrior took him up; teaches him to ask his father for a small foal; then teaches him to beat a grown foal with a family with dogwood with rods until he obeys; K. went camping, met and accompanied the Son of the Sun, the Son of the Moon and the Son of the River; Pshi would give the gouache to whoever falls into the eye of the needle; K. knocked down the head of the bend, gave it to the gouache To the son of the Sun, he went on; the same thing for another psha (hit a needle, gave the gouache to the Son of the Moon); the third has a horn with a drink on a pole; whoever gets in, takes it off and does not spill, will receive gouache; K. performed, gave the gouache to the Son Rivers; each friend must shoot arrows into the sky; if milk flows from a fallen arrow, then K. is fine, and if there is blood, trouble; at the crossroads of three roads, a stone with the inscription: happy journey, neither bad nor good, unhappy path; K. chose an unhappy one; hacked down a hundred cannibal horsemen; in the house their mother, one tooth rests against one beam of the ceiling, the other against the other; you can see shine overseas, this is beautiful; the cannibal mother teaches a guinea pig to tame, she will transport her across the sea; overseas, K. married the beautiful woman; at this time, his abandoned horse knocked out both of the old woman's teeth; she made a bridge with her handkerchief, and also crossed across the sea, disguised as an old woman, she came to her wife K., advised her to find out what her husband's soul was like; he first says that in his thigh, shoulder blade, then in his sword; the old woman stole the key, threw her sword into the sea; K. died, and his The old woman beat his wife and threw her into the reeds; comrades see arrows covered in blood, come to the cannibal mother, she puts her handkerchief like a bridge, they cross the sea, find K.'s wife; the son of the Sun and the son of the Moon rise, they illuminate the sea, the son of the River goes under water, the turtle tripped over the sword, he pulled it out, revived K.; he and his wife returned home]: Kerashev 1957:177-187; Abazins [a man named Shepherd comes to visit to another named Son of the Sun, then both to the Son of the Moon; the prince will give his daughter to someone who knocks down a needle suspended at the height of a bird's flight with one shot, catches fragments in the hem of a Circassian; P. performs the task, but gives the girl to the Son of the Sun; elsewhere the same to the Son of the Moon; comes to the old woman, she sends her to the giantess, telling her lips to touch her breasts; the giantess directs to the hero who kills the grooms; tells first hide in a hole, lure the hero's dogs, she'll get tired, she'll beat them half to death; then the same with her horse; then find her sleeping, beat her with a bronze whip until she comes to terms; so it all came out; one day the wife washed her hair, swam her hair down the river, an old woman found him, showed him to the prince, promised to bring this woman; she became a maid to P.'s wife, persuaded him to ask what his soul was wearing; in the casket, the old woman threw him into the river, P. died; the old woman lured the woman into the boat, brought him to the prince; the Son of the Sun and the Son of the Moon fired arrows into the sky, they returned bloody; the Son of the Moon asked Keith to regurgitate, what was in his stomach, he regurgitated the casket with P.'s soul, P. came to life; P. threw his ring into the vessel with which the maid of the prince's new bride came to fetch water; the twin brothers threw the prince off the high porch, the old woman torn by horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 43:110-117; Abazans [a man named Shepherd comes to another named Son of the Sun, then both to the Son of the Moon; the prince will give his daughter to the one who knocks down with one shot a needle suspended at the height of a bird's flight will catch fragments in the hem of a Circassian; P. performs the task, but gives the girl to the Son of the Sun; elsewhere the same to the Son of the Moon; comes to the old woman, she sends her to the giantess, telling her lips to touch her breasts; the giant directs her to the hero who kills the grooms; tells her to hide in a hole first, lure the hero's dogs, she will get tired, she will beat them half to death; then the same with her horse; then find her sleeping, beat her with a bronze whip until she put up with it; that's how it happened; one day the wife washed her hair, swam her hair down the river, the old woman found him, showed him to the prince, promised bring this woman; she became a maid to P.'s wife, persuaded him to ask what his soul was wearing; in the casket, the old woman threw him into the river, P. died; the old woman lured the woman into the boat, brought him to the prince; Son of the Sun and Son The moons fired arrows into the sky, they returned bloody; Moon's son asked Keith to regurgitate what was in his stomach, who regurgitated his chest with P.'s soul, P. came to life; P. threw his ring into the vessel with which The maid of the prince's new bride came for water; the twin brothers threw the prince off the high porch, the old woman was torn by horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 43:110-117; Armenians [the dervish tells the childless king to rip off give an apple to his wife, and the peel to a mare; a son Kajik and a fiery foal were born; both grew up, K. feels pain under his clothes, there is a dagger, wearing a portrait of Princess Tsovinar; K. goes in search on Fire; wins , makes a man from black, white, green countries sister; leaves everyone where he helps local princes defeat an entire army, marries a local princess, gives everyone a ring or belt - they will turn black if something happens; K. infiltrates Ts, killing her three Lviv defenders; upon learning about this, the king of the Red Country decided to kidnap Ts; sent the old woman, she overheard K. explain to Ts that his strength in his dagger; the old woman threw him into the sea, K. lost consciousness, the old woman transported Ts in a butter churn across the sea to the king of the Red Country; the twins understood everything, white began to search among the stars, black in the sea; they brought a fish with a dagger in its back; the black brother pulled it out with its bones; said that this fish (ishkhan, "prince", Sevan trout, would be king among the fish; having received a dagger, K. came to life; during the Red King's weddings, the white sister smashed the king against the stars, the black drowned the old woman, K. returned Ts.]: Nazinyan 2014:62-69; the Turks [an apple tree in the garden of the childless padishah of Egypt brings one apple a year; the old man tells him to eat him in half with his wife, and feed the peel to the mare; not to give his son a name, the old man himself; they laugh at the boy - "nameless"; parents arrange a holiday to give a name; an old man comes, gives the name Hüznügüzel ("beautiful soul"), and calls the foal born at the same time Altai; then the old man disappeared, it was Hizir; H. dreamed three times of the Most Beautiful Woman in Mira (SCZHM) and fell ill with love; his father tells him that he himself had been looking for her for 12 years without success; gives his sword; sitting on his horse, H. set off; met Padishah Moray's son, who offered to go together; the same is the son of Padishah the Stars; they stopped in the land of the Padishah Arabs; the guards threaten them, H. cut off their ears, sent them to call the PA; he sent 300 soldiers, H. cut off their ears again; the PA came himself, passed off his three daughters as those who had arrived; H. put his sword between the younger princess and himself; if he returned without getting the SCJM, he would marry this princess; left his sword; if he had three drops of blood on it, immediately inform the brothers; H. comes to Hizir; here he directs to the SKZHM palace; on the other side, the glow is the light from one of her hair that hangs from the window; Hizir gave a magic sword, and his father's ordered to leave it; to enter the palace, you should notice the place, go around the palace three times and then hit this place, the door will open; H. spent a week with the SCZhM, went hunting; but the image of the SKZHM prevents him from aiming; The SKZHM gives its hair to pull the look over himself; one of her sandals were blown away by the wind into the garden of the Padishah Giants; then, when the SKZHM was swimming in the sea, one of her sandals was carried away; the witch promised to get SKZHM; pulled on goatskin on a clay pot, sat down and flew, pretending to be a hunchback, persuaded H. to take her into the house; persuaded SKZHM to find out what her husband's life was like; he was in the mirror; the witch broke the mirror , but nothing happened; the same in a broom (the witch burned her); in a sword; the witch threw him into the sea; H. huddled in convulsions, and the witch in her pot carried the SKZHM to the Padishah of the Giants; on the sword left behind, three blood stains; the son of Padishah of the Stars determines by the stars where H., the son of Padishah Moray, took his sword from the bottom, H. came to life; came to the land of giants, changed clothes with the shepherd; penetrated the SCZhM, killed Padishah Giants when he entered her after the wedding; in the morning H. is mistaken for a younger padishah; the SCJM leaves the keys to the vizier; just do not unlock the closet (it contains the severed body of the padishah); H. killed the old woman, took his Shah's clothes from the shepherd; the body of the victim was found, the vizier leads the army in pursuit; H. and the SKZHM beat him, sent the vizier back; taking the youngest daughter of Padishah Arabs, H. and his two wives returned to Egypt]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 3:34-54.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Rosenfeld 1956 [the dervish gives the childless padishah an apple to eat in half with his wife; a son Jehantig is born, the dervish ties a diamond dagger to him in which his soul; D. grew up, discovered a forbidden room, there is a portrait of a girl with 40 braids, he goes to look for her; meets her, takes the Stargazer and the Sailor as companions; the dragon has closed the water, gives it for the girls, the Shah's daughter is intended to be eaten; D. kills the dragon, gets the princess, gives it to the Stargazer; in another city he kills ferocious lions, gives the received princess to the sailor; at Mount Kaf sees petrified people trying to get the princess; hits with an arrow at a cat, around whose neck the keys, petrified, come to life; the girls sweep the yard with their eyelashes, D. gives them brooms; kills the divas guarding the sleep of a girl with 40 braids; takes her as his wife, lives in a palace; another shah- zade wants to take her away; the old woman persuades D.'s wife to find out what his soul is wearing; throws a knife into the sea, D.'s body into the well; the Stargazer sees that the star D. is clouded; they come with the Sailor, he comes to life; D. kills the old woman and the kidnapper; everything is fine]: 175-185; Osmanov 1987 [the dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; a son was born, but he is breathless; the same dervish tells him to do it a hole in the sword that fell out of the womb with the child and hang the sword around the boy's neck; he came to life, and if the sword was removed, he lost consciousness; the boy was named Jantig ("life by the sword"); he grew up, he was given the keys to all but one of the gardens; he broke the door, in that garden there was a portrait of beautiful Chelgis ("forty braids"); D. followed her; he was joined by Minutochetr and the Stargazer, who also want to marry C. girl with boy; every day the dragon demands one young man to eat, otherwise it does not provide water, the girl hopes to appease the dragon with food; D. cut the dragon, a dove flew out of it; the impostors tried attribute the feat to herself, but the girl smeared D. with her hand soaked in dragon blood and identified him; D. married the girl to the Stargazer and went on with Minupoint; elsewhere, ships carrying grain because of the seas are dying; this time the ship must have the only son of the padishah; D. sailed himself, the dragon appeared from the sea, D. cut it, the dove flew out; D. married Minutochet to the daughter of the padishah, went further; the man invited him to dinner; his mother was C.'s wet nurse; the old woman would tell C.'s secret if she was not heard, otherwise she would become petrified; D. overhears the old woman talking alone; we must climb a tree, throw 7 dates to seven divas, they will eat and fall asleep; C. in the ear of one of the divas; you have to throw a candy, C. will come out to pick it up; D. grabbed C., they jump away, D. gives C. an armful of swords (as the old woman taught) , they turned into a mountain of swords; then salt is a mountain of salt; the divas cut themselves, their wounds were eaten away by salt, they died, only the White Div continues to chase; a jug of water is the sea and a rock with a cave; D. advises a diva put his head into the cave, then he will fly up; instead, the divas fell, drowned; C. washed his hair, two hairs fell into the well, D. did not pick it up; from the well they sailed to the padishah's garden; he smelled C., sent the old woman behind her; the old woman began to serve C., found out the mystery of the sword, threw her sword into the well, brought C. to the padishah; she demands to postpone the wedding for 40 days, a time of mourning; Stargazer sees that star D. goes out, goes in search with Minutochet; they took the sword out of the well, returned D., he came to life; killed the old woman, took C.; she gave Minutochet and Stargazer through her hair - if you want to eat, they create any fruit he wanted; D. brought C. to his father; she warns that his father wants to kill D.: there will be a carpet-covered trap pit, poisoned tea and pilaf; D. jumped over the carpet, changed dishes, his father died himself; D. reigned]: 267-278; Lura [the king has three sons, the youngest Jahantigh; his father's wife offered him love, J. refused; the woman grabbed him by the clothes, he cut off the piece of dress that remained in her hand, ran away; she accused him of attacking her honor; the king wanted to execute her son, but the vizier advised him to simply expel him; the older brothers left with the younger; at night they took turns keeping the fire on; when J. is awake, the wind blew out the fire; J. has come to 16 demons; they cannot get the princess, because there are bells everywhere that start ringing when they approach and the guards wake up; J. suggests stuff cotton wool into the bells; then tells the demons to go up one at a time and kills everyone; kisses the princess and changes rings with her; brings a brazier to the still sleeping brothers; in town everyone pretends that it was he who destroyed the demons; when J. came, the king wanted to give him his daughter, but he yielded to her older brother and went on; in another village, the inhabitants were exhausted; the dragon closed the spring, providing water every day for sheep, bread and girl, it is the turn of the royal daughter; clenching the back of the sword with his teeth, J. and the girl rush into the dragon's mouth, ripped it apart with the blade of a sword; the girl marked the savior with dragon blood; all the springs were immediately filled; men gathered, the princess found her savior; J. gave in to her middle brother, went on; J. came to a city whose inhabitants are invisible; the fairy saw J. in a dream and will break the spell if J. comes to her; when she sees it, she made everyone else visible; J. married his servant to the fairy and came to a city where there are only women; the fairy king invites everyone to overcome him, but no one he cannot and he killed all men; the old woman teaches: we must take possession of the king's seahorse; hide in the stable; the horse will light up, the king will come to give him sugar; so twice; the third time the king whips off the horse and leaves; then J. the horse's path will be blue; after defeating the king, he can be released only after he says "with my mother's milk and father's pain"; the fairy king gave his daughter J.; once the wife combed her hair and her hair fell into the river; the prince picked it up, the old woman promised to get the owner if she was given as much gold as she weighs; she came to J.'s wife; she did not want to keep it, but J. told her to keep it; the old woman persuaded J.'s wife to find out what his strength was; his wife pretended to be offended, J. admitted that his strength was in the blade in his arm; when he fell asleep, his wife took out the blade and gave it to the old woman, she threw him into the river, put the woman to sleep and took him to the prince; J.'s wife told him she was in mourning for 40 days; his older brother J. saw that his star had set and his middle brother knew how to be underwater; they came the middle one took the blade from the bottom of the river, J. regained consciousness; the brothers bribed the old woman to take J.'s wife out of town; J. returned his wife, ordered the old woman to be burned]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 1:1-9; 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; before his maturity, the padishah decided to leave with his wife, leaving the state for 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 called S. rootless: the vizier 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; Baluchi: Zarubin 1932, No. 10 [the dervish gives the childless king an apple, his wife ate and gave birth to the boy Janteg; Azrail took him away, but revived him; sent him to his father; meets him, takes him as a companion Stargazer 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 Ded Gargashang buzlanga, who puts them in his boot; when J. comes, returns his companions, goes fourth with them; the dragon gives water to the 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 to the Stargazer; after defeating the enemies of another king, gets another princess, gives it to the Water Piper; the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin lives on an island in the middle of the river; Grandfather Gargashang takes J. there, who converges with a girl; an old woman persuades the girl to ask J. where his soul is; in a sword; an old woman throws a sword into the river, lures the girl into a box, delivers it to someone else's king; the Stargazer and the Waterway pull 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, stay watch over the house; on the way back, the buzlangi (white diva) picks up his wife; A. learns about this from a dervish conversation; A. goes to look for a wife; wins along the way, takes Buzlanga the plowman as his comrades and Grinding grain, hitting stones; at night, first the Ploughman, then the Mukomol, go to look for fire; the Forty Buzlangi, who owns him, puts them under his knee; A. defeats him, takes him as the fourth companion; S. brings A. to the border of the country 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 Ploughman and Mukomol; A.'s wife's hair falls into the river, it was swallowed by fish, the hunter's son caught it, took it to the prince, he found hair; whoever finds the owner promises twice as much gold as her weight; sends an old woman, she persuades her wife to find out where her husband's soul is in her sword; throws her sword into the well, lures the woman into the box, brings the prince; the Ploughman and Mukomol see blood instead of milk, fly in 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.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Babalar sozi 2001, No. 10 [old people are childless; the old man went to the one who was arranged by the khan on the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter; the old woman dreams: a tall black man has come, He 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 a bar and knocked down a fighter, 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, a penknife was found 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 which K. spent one night); everything is fine]: 90-96; Sidelnikov 1952 (Turgai district) [Ashken, Moshken and younger Zhumageldy leave their father's house; he does not tell them to spend the night in the forest, on a lonely grave, in a cemetery; they spend the night; every night the brothers sleep, J. kills a seven-headed bird, a seven-headed bird dragon; goes underground, eats more than 60 giants meat, kills each one at a time, cuts off their ears; all three brothers go down to that country; the local khan is grateful that the bird, the dragon and giants are killed; J. renounces the khan's daughter and the throne, leaves the throne and the khan's daughter to Ashken, with M. goes on; M. says he can drink the sea, J. - that his heart is in his dagger; the snake every day she eats a girl and a ram, it's the turn of the khan's daughter; J. lets herself be swallowed, rips the snake open from the inside with a dagger; runs away, the edge of the robe remains in the girl's hands; everyone is invited to a feast, J. identified, gives the girl and the throne to Moshken; kills three giants, marries their sister; the khan is jealous; the old woman asks his wife to ask J. where his soul is, throws a dagger into the sea, takes the widow to the khan; A. and M. see blood dripping from the star, M. drinks the sea, they take out a dagger, revive J., who exterminates Khan and his men, returns his wife]: 213-228; Coyaud 2012, No. 70 (China) [Khan learned to fly, but still could not find the beauty he dreamed of; ordered her to be painted, hung her in a locked room; got married, had a son Jiangde; he came in and fell in love with the beauty in the portrait; goes to look for her; along the way He meets giants one by one; everyone says they would like to fight J.; J. wins, takes them as companions; they have different abilities; they come to a city where they feed the dragon every day, otherwise he will swallow everyone; J. cut the dragon in half, cut off his belts as proof; the king made him minister; he gave this post to one of the giants, and led the others on; the same in another city (serpent, J. made khan, but handed over the position to the second giant); in the third city (killed a giant who muddied the river, received half of his wealth and gave the position of vizier, gave it to a third companion); in In the fourth city, an old man teaches where to find and grab a beauty; you must demand her book, then she will not run away; J. married a beautiful woman; once she washed her hair and swam away along the river; a fisherman brought his khan; the horned witch ordered her to be given a fast camel, asked J. to shelter her, persuaded his wife to find out what J.'s life was like: in the spear of life in his sole; when J. fell asleep, the old woman got him and threw it into the river, J. died; his wife wanted to fly away, but the old woman cut off her wing and brought her to the khan; she asked to postpone the wedding for 17 days; one of his giant friends understood everything from the stars, the other took it out out of the water, J. came to life; they killed the khan and the sorceress, J. returned his wife, came with her to his parents]: 161-173.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. 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 is happening in the 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 on and married in 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 her to say ; AM: in the wick of the lamp, in the bow string, in the horse's four legs; the old woman cut it all, cut it all, AM died; the old woman offered AD to board her boat, took it to K.; AD gave birth to a boy who every day grew 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 by the mice, and Ak-Dangyn found their bones, which were taken away by the mice, and Ak-Dangyn found them folded and revived with a swipe; drank drained the sea and they all came dry to K.; defeated his army; the son of AK found his father and his companions; K. prepared an iron house; the one who perforated the mountains made dig 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 of the twin brothers says what he did to save AM; to stop the dispute, Ak-Dangyna suggested: seven twins would become seven stars of Ursa Major, AD with her son Morning Star (Dang Sholban), and she herself would become Evening Star star (Ak Sholban); that's what happened]: Taube 1978, No. 38:206-212/
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, She consistently meets three madchiks, they are children of the moon, star, sun; they come to people, four women raise them, their named brothers stay and marry; the fourth woman wanted to take the son of a pig, But he left; he came to another woman; when she went hunting, he told his wife not to give his bow and arrow to anyone; an old woman with a thin neck and a big head tickles a woman until she says where the bow and arrow are, takes them away; the husband comes, all broken, dies when he says 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 the star can swim in the lake of fire; the son of the moon leads to the lake, the star's son pulls old woman Senge and fragments of bow and arrows from there, the star's son makes them whole; the old woman is burned, the mergen is revived, he married the youngest Pudin, who could not hold him, all came to live in Mergen's homeland]: Kiel 1996, No. 15:183-191.