K67A. Drowned wife, ATU 1120.

.13.-.17.23.27.-.34. (.36.)

A low-status character annoys high-status characters. When he learns that high-status characters intend to drown himself or his property (rarely: strangle him), he adjusts that one of them or their property is drowned.

Sarah, Arabs of Sudan, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians (Calabria), Maltese, Irish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), Arabs of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Bengalis, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Moldovans, Romanians, Poles, Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Ossetians, Varnishes, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Vakhans, Yazgulyams, Sarykols, Baluchis, (Swedes), Eastern Sami, Finns, Veps, Estonians, Lutsis, Latvians, Lithuanians, Livs, Chuvash, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Mongols, Dagurs, Dunxians, (Yakuts).

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai) [Su and the nightjar came to the bride (there are many grooms, and the girl spends the night with whoever she chose; the girl's mother left all three in the hut; the girl's nightjar lay down on the bed, and Su on floor; hears the bride with a nightjar to kill Su at night; when they fell asleep, Su carried the sleeping girl to his seat, takes off her belt, girds herself with it and lies next to the nightjar; at night both got up and killed the girl, then lay down again; when he fell asleep with his nightjar, Su put her dead next to him, returned her belt, lay back on the floor; {then no conflict between the nightjar and Su}; both carried the body out in the morning, planted by a tree and stretched out in a smile; the girl's mother tells her to take water to her lovers; she does not react, her mother hit her, her body has fallen down; the woman screams that her daughter has been killed; and Su ran away with a nightjar; the girls gather on the field correctly; to distract them, he pretends to be unable to fly with his nightjar; the girls try to catch him, while Su picks up the grain; then refused to share it with the nightjar; he promises arrange that she will copulate with Su's wife in front of everyone; women attach Caesalpinia branches to their belt when performing rituals; the nightjar has become this tree; people go to the funeral; Su's wife attached to the belt of the branch; the nightjar, becoming a (anthropomorphized) bird again, began to copulate with it in public; Su tells his wife to hide it in a pot of porridge; the wife brings the pot with a nightjar; he asks his daughter to bring a knife to cut meat; Su jumped out, ran away, licked the porridge from his body]: Fortier 1967, No. 13:227-231; the Arabs of Sudan [the monkey drove all the inhabitants out of the village; Muhammad and his sister Fatma came there, stayed; F. met the monkey, gave birth to a boy; he grew up, told him who his father and uncle were; came to M., brought him to the monkey, M. shot her; F. tried to poison his brother, but the son of a monkey (SO) ordered to give food to the dog first; she died; M. ordered F. to eat, she died; M. agreed to give SO to some person as workers; SO killed his children, poultry, ruined the garden; a man and his wife tried to escape, SO caught up with them; they agreed to throw him into the river at night; he changed the covers with the man's sleeping wife, the man drowned his wife; before that, they agreed that whoever gets angry first, the other one rips his skin off his face; the man got angry; SO ripped off his skin, left]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 71:223-226.

North Africa. The Arabs of Morocco [brother and sister; sister found a zest on the floor and ate it; the serpent crawled out and demanded his twist back; refused to take the others - let the girl be his husband now; that agreed; gave birth to a boy Smemi' an-Nada (SN); his hearing is so sharp that she hears dew falling on the ground; the sister asked the snake to hide in the wineskin; she will ask her brother to give her water, the snake will bite him; SN hears and when his mother asks his brother for water, she is called to do it himself; the snake asks if he was really going to kill his uncle; the serpent: I just took refuge in my wineskin from the heat; now the sister asks for a snake hide in a quilt; SN and his uncle brought a blanket and other bedding to the river to knock them out and wash them; began to hit the blanket with sticks; the sister cooked the meat of the killed snake and offered to brother; mother's dream: eat first; sister ate and died; SN told his uncle how his mother and her snake husband tried to kill him; they went on a journey together; broke up at the fig tree; SN warned his uncle to be afraid of a bald man; he met a bald man, refused to hire him; but the bald man covered his head and the man was hired; he must herd sheep and catch 7 chicks a day for 7 bald children; if a bald dog will be the first to come home, it can eat both its own and the worker's food, and if the worker comes first, it can eat what is left for the dog; while the worker is catching the chicks, the dog ate everything; soon the man died of hunger; SN came to the fig tree and realized that his uncle was dead; hired a bald man on the condition that whoever gets angry would be beheaded by another; SN does not let the dog into a tent with food; caught 6 chicks and a viper; the seventh child put his hand behind her, was bitten, died; so every day, the last boy Kharouf ("lamb") survived; all this time, the bald man says that not angry; ask to cook lamb for the guests; SN killed Haruf; the bald man agreed with his wife: let SN lie between them in the pasture at night and at the signal his wife put a belt around his neck, they will strangle SN; at night, SN swapped places with his wife, the bald man strangled his wife; the bald man invited SN to leave and he left]: Bushnaq 1987:367-370; Algerian Arabs (eastern Algeria) [usually a continuation of the story of a girl who runs away from the cannibal and asks the snake to save her; the serpent kills the cannibal; see the M21 motive; becoming a snake's wife, the girl gave birth to two sons; Ali is cheerful and smart, the second son is stupid and weak, his name is Jerk; his mother is not loves and asks the snake to kill him; he hides in a wineskin, his mother tells the Jerk to bring water; Ali knows everything, opens his wineskin and asks the snake what he is doing there; he asks forgiveness; next time the snake hides next to bread covered with a handkerchief; Ali lifted his handkerchief with a stick (same); the snake hides in a rolled blanket, his mother tells the jerk to take him to the river to wash; Ali hits the veil with a stick, the snake remains only pieces of meat; the mother cooked the poisonous parts, but Ali turned the food dish, the jerk survived, and the mother ate the poison herself and died; the brothers go on a journey and leave; Ali tells his brother not hire a blue-eyed man; the blue-eyed man goes out to meet the Jerk three times; he does not understand that he has the same person in front of him and believes that everyone in this area is blue-eyed, so he agrees to become worker; The jerk is tortured by work; one day he meets another shepherd and he turns out to be his brother Ali; Ali takes his brother's place; pierces the dog's needle in the leg; drags the owner's mother along the thorns, and then she clogs her throat with couscous - as if she died choking; brings children not 7 birds, but 7 scorpions, the children are bitten to death; cuts off the heads of sheep; the owner and wife decide to flee, Ali hides in them luggage; they agree to push Ali into the abyss at night; Ali quietly swapped seats with the hostess and the owner threw her into the abyss]: Bellarmi 1990:81-91; Egyptian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1120: 706.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1120:40-41; Portuguese (one entry) [the scoundrel is going to push the trickster into the water at night; he set it up so that the first one pushes not him into the water, but the saddles]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1120:1120; Italians (Calabria): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 1120:264; Maltese [after the father's death, the older brother was hired on condition: who would be the first to decide to leave another or complains of fatigue, the other will skin off his back and take the money; tasks: release and then collect birds or hares; bring goats from the pasture so that half of them laugh, and the other danced; bring the cow to the pasture without opening the gate; the worker loses; the younger brother tortured the employer himself (broke the legs of one half of the goats and cut off the lips of the others; cuts the cow into pieces and slips into the crack); overheard how the owner agrees with his wife to push him into the well at night; gets up unnoticed, the wife sleepily pushed her husband into the well; realizing the mistake, leans over the well, the worker leans over the well pushes her there too]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1000+116*: 418-419, 442.

Western Europe. Irish, German (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (2), No. 1120:40-41.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the cannibal kidnapped the young man's sister; he found her, stayed there; when he left, his sister's son warned him to be afraid of Goat-Bearded, gave his three hairs - if burned, he would come to the rescue; the young man was hired as an employee to Goatbeard on the condition that an angry other would cut out the belt from his back; the Goatbeard sent his daughter with food for the worker, but on condition not to untie the knot or break the cake; in the evening, the young man confesses that he is angry, Goatbeard cut out his belt from his back; the young man burned his hairs, his nephew (cannibal's son) appeared and hired instead of him; commits ugly actions (throws him from the roof) Goatbeard's mother, cuts off the legs of oxen when they do not want to enter the river, etc.); Goatbeard and his wife decide to flee; the worker hides in a bag of dates; when the owners stay by the sea for the night, goes out; hears Goatbeard negotiating with his wife to throw him at sea at night; gets up at night and throws his wife into the sea with Kozlobeard; this time Goatbeard cried, angry, worker cut a belt from his back]: Weissbach 1908, No. 18:114-119; Lebanese Christian Arabs ("The stories are written in the dialect of the Christians of Beirut") [one of the two brothers went look for work; the second, named Jiī, advised not to hire a person without facial hair; the brother became an employee of a priest without a mustache or beard on the following condition: the angry person will a strip of skin between the eyes was cut off; the priest ordered to take the dog, donkey and wheat, while feeding the dog wheat bread and eating barley himself; the young man fulfilled this requirement; he felt dizzy head, so he sowed only half of the grain; the priest beat him; the young man confessed that he was angry; the priest cut off a strip of skin between his eyes; the young man returned home and told him what had happened J.; he hired a priest on the same condition; the priest told him to take a donkey, a dog and sow six measures of wheat, feed the dog wheat bread and eat barley himself, and bring him on the way back some firewood; J. ate wheat bread, beat the dog to death, took two sticks, put them in the ass and buried the wheat; then returned to the priest and told him what had happened; the priest told him to take it out the child outside; J. threatened the child, he cried; the priest ordered him to slap his hand; J. hit the child and killed him; the priest told J. to take a pair of pulled bulls and take them to the sun; J. stabbed them and threw the pieces on the roof; the priest told his wife to slaughter the chickens before leaving; J. overheard, climbed into the box and ate the chicken meat; the priest and his wife took a box with they reached the sea with themselves; J. got out and asked if the priest was angry; the priest told his wife that when J. fell asleep, they would throw him into the sea with her; J. wrapped himself in a veil stolen from the priest's wife; he woke him up at night and told him to help throw J. into the sea; as a result, his wife was drowned; the priest confessed that he was angry; J. cut off a strip of skin between his eyes and left]: Huxley 1902, No. 108:253-255; Arabs Syria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1120:706.

South Asia. Bengalis [stingy spouses hire an employee on the condition that whoever wants to terminate the contract ahead of time cut off his nose; everyone is driven to the point that the employee is ready to be left without a nose just to do not tolerate bullying; the older brother returned without a nose, the younger one went; while the owners are not at home, eats supplies; the owners ask for lamb, the worker slaughtered all the rams; calm the baby - The worker strangled him; the couple decided to run, but the boy hid in the chest they had taken with them; at night, in the parking lot, the couple agreed to push the boy into the well; he lay quietly between them, husband pushed his wife into the well; went to her parents; the guy ran ahead, said that the owners' son-in-law was crazy, so their daughter asked him to give him leeches when he came to remove bad blood; they grabbed and stuck leeches; when they saw the worker, the owner agreed that he would cut off his nose just to leave; the guy stuck the owner's nose to his brother instead of the one cut off; the owner's wife was caught and she told parents, what happened to them]: Devi 1915:101-106.

The Balkans. Slovenes [the master sets a condition to the farmhand: whoever gets angry first pays the other and cuts out his belt from his back; the elder, middle brothers lost; the younger one broke the plough, chopped the oxen, to take them to the pen, took meat, grain and wine to the brothers, burned down the house and wine cellar; the master agreed with his wife to push the worker into the sea at night; he exchanged seats with his wife, the master drowned his wife; got money from his master, cut out his belt from his back and left]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:302-307; Moldovans [older brother hired his ass as a farmhand; if he gets angry, the pop will cut off his ear and nose; pop him not feeds, the worker is angry, the pop cut off his ear and nose; the same middle brother; the younger Pekale has agreed on the same terms until he eats the cuckoo; sold oxen, eats and drinks for his pleasure, sheep exchanged for bagpipes to which the pop dances against desire; the pop calls P. to show the bagpipes and the ass; tied millstones to his feet, still dances; tells him to make a bridge from porch to gate so that he was strong on the one hand, and caved on the other; P. kills sheep, makes a bridge out of their bodies; the pop sends P. to hell to the mill, but pours ash into the bags, not grain; P. puts the devils under the millstones, threatens burn the mill, they give 12 bags of flour; break the wagon, P. makes new wheels, gullies from the bodies of the devils; the wolves ate the oxen, P. harnessed the wolves; they ate the cattle in the barn; the priest's mother-in-law climbed the tree, cuckoo cuckoo, P. killed her with a stone; the pop and his wife decided to flee, P. hid in the bag they took with them; swapped places by the river at night, the pop drowned his wife; got angry; P. cut off his ear and nose]: Botezat 1981:339-349; Bulgarians [spending the night on the river bank, pop pops decide to drown the worker by pushing him into the water at night; he quietly changes with hitting (pops) and drowned turn out to be popadya or pop]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1120:385; Romanians [two older orphan brothers are hired as laborers to the ass; whoever gets angry first will cut belts out of the back ; after working for a year and suffering from hunger, orphans are angry; the pop cut their belts from their backs and drove them away without paying; the youngest, Janos, wanted to eat, stabbed a goat; next time he made a fire out of the plow, stabbed and roasted the ox; when they were sent to the forest for firewood, the wolf and the bear ate the ox, and the devil broke the wheel; I harnessed the wolf and the bear, told the line to hold the wheel; the ambassador to herd pigs and goats; I trained them, they lined up when visiting the king; having agreed with the burgomaster, the pop sends I. to war; he returns with a killed horse, which he took from his priest; adjusts as if the horse was accidentally killed by the pop himself; pop with They decided to run away from the worker; he got into the bag; in the evening he got out at rest; the pop and the poped agreed to drown him; I swapped places and he and his ass drowned her; I marry princess and inherits the throne]: Bîrlea 1966:475-476; Croats, Serbs, Greeks, Hungarians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1120:40-41.

Central Europe. Poles [two brothers are hired by the lord on the condition that the first person who gets angry will be cut off his nose; they are angry, return without a nose; the third fool brother was hired under the same condition for up to the first cuckoo; does everything badly, ruins the farm, burns down the house; the owner and wife decide to run away from the worker; he hides in the bag they took with them; they agree to drown the worker; that at night he changes places with a lady, the pan drowns not the employee, but the wife; or the pan tells his wife to climb a tree and cook, the worker shot her]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1000:9; Slovaks [two brothers smart, the third fool; the eldest was hired as a farmhand on the condition that if he was angry, the owner would cut off his nose; the owner did not feed him, cut off his nose; the same with his middle brother; the younger Adam sells grain; the owner tells slaughter the sheep that looked at him; everyone looked, A. slaughtered them; cooked one, throwing not parsley into the cauldron, but a dog named Petrushka; for Christmas, the owner tells the house to be properly lit, A. his set fire; I had to go on a journey; the owner agreed with his wife to push the worker into the water at night; he exchanged seats with his wife, the owner drowned his wife; became angry, A. cut off his nose]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 13: 89-91; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonets, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians [Hostess (pop) dumped into the water instead of an employee]: SUS 1979, No. 1120:264-265; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [An employee is hired for the ass and ass. He cuts down an incredible number of trees at a time, the pop is surprised and sends him to pick up his cows from the field (there were no cows in the field). A worker meets a bear, grabs his head and saddles. He brings the bear into the barn and the bear eats the cows. Pop sees his task completed, sends a worker to the lake to find the cross he lost. He himself hopes that the "water tank" will eat the employee. The worker grabs the "water tank" for his long hair and brings him to the yard to the ass. Pop orders a worker to bring his money from the woods. He harnesses a bear into the wagon, plants the water as a coachman and goes to the forest. He meets the devil, plays cards all night and the employee wins. He brings the money he won to the ass. Pop and popadya decide to run away from the employee. Popadya prepares a purse with food for the trip and hangs it out to the "crow" in the evening. The employee eats everything and gets into the purse. Pop and popadya take their purse and run away, the worker shouts "catch up", they decide to eat by the lake, see that an employee is sitting in the purse. At night, pop and popadya want to throw an employee into the lake, but he changes places with his ass and throws off his husband, and her worker. He took their money and left]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 5:12-13 (=Azadovsky 1947, No. 25:136-138); Russians (Voronezhskaya, p. Verkhnyaya Toida, Anninsky District, 1936) [The pop orders an employee to slaughter a sheep when he asks which one and answers: "Which one will look at you." The worker slaughters all the sheep, explains his act by the fact that all the sheep looked at him. Pop decides to set fire to Ivan's house and run away. They prepare two bags, put an employee in one, put books in the other, and at night Vanya climbs from one bag to another. In the morning, the pop takes a bag with Vanya, sets fire to the house and leaves. In another village, a pop comes to church and finds Vanya in a bag. The three of them spend the night on the river bank, put Vanya on the very edge, and at night he climbs upstairs. In the morning, the pop drops into the water, believing that it was Vanya. Pop puts it in a bag and leaves it on the bridge. A master rides by, asks Vanya why he is crying, Vanya says that he is not literate, and he is being registered as a sergeant. He changes places with him. He meets a priest and says that in the next world he was given bad horses, and the best ones were given to priests. He asks Vanya to put him in a bag and throw him into the river "where deeper"]: Pukhova 2006, No. 4:81-82; Ukrainians (Volyn, Kremenetsky district) [Ivan Balaban hired his ass; whoever gets angry, cut off his tongue; pop tells him to brew pickle with parsley and bathe his little son; I. cooked a dog named Petrushka; first tried to feed the boy dog, then poured hot broth; the child was smeared with ointment, he survived; later the pop tells him to watch the boy; I. put him on a stake; where is the boy? looks at the stars; the pop decides to run; I. hides in a bag with books; first slowly, then calls out louder; the fugitives think that I. is catching up; at rest they agree to push I. into water; I. swapped places, the pop drowned his wife; the pop and I. stayed at the house; the pop put his hand in the pot of cereal and could not take his fist back; while I. was eating, the pop hid his hand under his clothes; at night he decided break the pot, hit the owner on the head, and he killed the priest; this I. the devil was]: Malinka 1902, No. 53:328-330.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars: Birzgal 1992, No. 21 [the shepherd has three sons; the eldest went to Kose-bay as a laborer; he makes it a condition to plow as much land in a day as his dog runs; if he does not have time, let him plow with a load of salt; if he can't, buy rips off his back seven leather belts; the guy fell exhausted, buy him to death; the same year later with his second son; the youngest Kulbasty hung up the dog, stabbed the oxen, explained to bay that since he forgot to send lunch, the dog hanged himself out of grief, the oxen died, and the skins bequeathed to him, K.; bai goes to the wedding, tells the cows not to go out the gate; K. everyone He stabbed the cows, cut off their heads: the cows tried to go to the well, violating the will of the bay, punished for this; the same with the rams (they should not jump into the garden); K. heard how bai promises his wife to shoot him at night with a gun; puts a deck and a rooster on the bed, covered with a blanket; alive and well in the morning; the same on the second night (bai poured boiling water, the rats hidden under the blanket squeaked); bai serves K. poisoned chebureks, that puts them on Bai's son; Bai agreed with his wife that they and K. go to bed over the cliff, at night they will push K.; he quietly swapped places with his wife, bai pushed his wife, she crashed; buy hid in the crypt; K. found a gravedigger digging the crypt, found out from him where the buy was; began to moo like an ox; buy got out to catch an ox; K. K. tied it to a tree and blew it to death]: 286-288; Zherdeva 2020, No. 28 (Bakhchisaray district, Karalez) [beardless (kose) hired an employee; in the morning he gave a piece of bread and a glass of butter on the condition that in the evening the glass must be full, otherwise it will wipe it on the back with a belt; the worker ate oil, received it with a belt; the second one; the third filled the glass with sand; kose and his wife realized that this worker was dangerous, decided to run away; the farmhand overheard, hid in a chest of chebureks; on the way he peed himself; kose: oil was flowing from the chebureks; at rest, the farmhand got out; at night he swapped places with his wife kose, who pushed her off the cliff; in the morning kose ran to the village, hid in the grave; the farmhand was told that the kose was dead; the farmhand put an apple in the grave, kose began to eat it; the farmhand pulled it out, killed it, and buried it here]; Kalmyks: Jimbinov 1962 [ the young man saw a rich man in a kibitka scorching his lamb legs, his daughter cooking cakes; came in, asked him to spend the night; hears a rich man and his wife agree to burn his boots at night and drown his horse; changes boots in places, paints his horse black, sprinkled flour on the rich man's horse; the rich man burned his boots, drowned his horse; in the morning he catches up with the rich man, complains that his daughter does not give him his beshmet; the rich man tells take the beshmet with his daughter; the mother does not give her daughter; the rich man shouts to give it back; the young man is happy with his wife]: 156-158; Sandalova 2002 [the young man promises to marry the daughter of a rich man; comes to the point asking permission cook the meat he brought along with the meat cooked by the owners; throws the lamb shoulder eaten by lamb into the pot, then says that the owners' meat has eaten his meat, gets the whole pot; hears the rich man talking to his wife, who will throw the boots of the person who comes into the fire at night; then, what will drown his horse; the young man changes his boots, drowns his horse; decides to eat fresh hot a cake away in the steppe; the young man hugs him, bringing a hot cake to his stomach; the rich man has left, the young man shouts to him that the rich man's daughter does not give him his whip; he tells him to give it back immediately; young man: to give for my daughter; my mother asks again, my husband shouts: yes, immediately; the young man is getting married, everything is fine]: 165-169; (cf. Jimbinov 1962:61-67 [the khan hired the poor man to work on the condition that whoever gets angry will allow the other to cut the belts from the back; the khan orders to stroke the horse so that it loses weight; the poor man pretends that he is going to release her guts; the khan sends flour to the mill at night, gives ash; the poor man carves fire, the devils are afraid of it, gives a cart of flour; the khan allows the sheep to be slaughtered to look at the poor man; he calls the sheep, they watch, he cuts everyone; the khan sends bulls for firewood; the young man gives bulls to bears, brings firewood on bears; the khan tells us to go around the stallion, this is himself; the young man beats him, the next morning the khan sick; Khan and Khansha take a chest of gold, run away; the poor man sits quietly in the chest; broadcasts from the chest, tells them to take off their clothes, run into the reeds; tells another khan that two evil spirits in the reeds are to blame for his daughter's illnesses; the army drove the fugitives out of the reeds, drove them into the dense forest; the khan's daughter recovered, the poor man married her]); Ossetians [Homebody remained sitting in ash, his brother Saglag went to look work; Aldar hired him, giving him a churek and telling him to eat it himself, feed people and bring him back whole, otherwise he would cut off his tongue; S. cannot fulfill the condition, returns without a tongue; D. goes; slaughtered Aldar's cows, ate, fed others, brought the churek whole; D. had a pipe, began to play, everything danced, Aldar hid in the box, but fell out of the attic in it; agreed with his wife to leave, D. overheard, climbed into a bag, by the river changed clothes with Aldar's sleeping wife; Aldar drowned his wife; D. cut off his tongue, returned to his brother]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:357-358; Chechens [when dying, the poor man does not tell his son to hire a beardless man; beardless, changing clothes, meets the young man three times, hires him on the condition that the one who is first offended will pay, and the employee will be fed until the hoopoe is sharpened; the owner sent the young man for firewood and told me to go where the hound was running; it climbed into the hole under the gate, the young man cut the arba, threw it through the hole into the yard; make a fence; the young man sprinkles a chaff: no one will pass through it ; the owner steps, the young man hits him in the legs with a stake: well, has it passed? the owner tells his mother to climb the apple tree and sharpen the hoopoe; the young man shot the hoopoe, the mother fell dead; the owner and his wife decided to flee, the young man hid in the chest, left when the chest was opened on the river bank; they decided to push the worker into the water at night; the young man dragged his sleeping husband to his seat, his wife kicked him off the high bank]: Malsagov 1983, No. 66:215-217; Lucky [mother is old, elder the son went to look for work, hired Beardless on the condition that if he regretted being hired, the owner would peel his skin off his back; he could not clean the huge barn, lost his skin band and was thrown into the chest; the same with middle brother; the youngest did not row manure, but broke shovels one by one; began to force Beardless to feed him well; when leaving for the wedding, the owner ordered the buffaloes to be fed so that their heads would not be from under the hay were visible; the guy cut off the heads of buffaloes, spread them out in feeders, covered it with hay; the son of the Bearded asks for a buffalo leg; father: leave it to hit your head; the guy killed the child with a buffalo with a leg; Beardless sent the guy for a pickaxe, the daughter said she did not know where the pickaxe was; Beardless: to have a hoe on her head, the pickaxe is under the bed; the guy killed the girl with the heel of a pickaxe; Beardless with his wife decided to run away; the guy quietly climbed into the chest; at night Beardless and his wife agreed to push the guy off the cliff at night; he swapped places with the woman, Beardless pushed his wife; the guy tore off the cliff skin from Beardless's back, freed and cured his brothers, threw Beardless into the same chest, took possession of his property]: Khalilov 1965, No. 79:247-251; Georgians [the employee agreed with the owner: if he he will be surprised, he will receive a hundred chervonets, but nothing; the worker sold all the household goods; the owners decide to run away from him, put the bread in the chest; the worker secretly climbed there himself; during the night, the owner agreed with his wife to push the worker into the ravine; he quietly dragged the hostess to the owner's feet, lay down on his side, the owner pushed his wife; this time he was surprised: the worker destroyed both his property and his wife]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 129:253-254; Armenians (Van Governorate) [the elder brother is the elder, the youngest is a peasant, both are rich; Satan: we must make them gouge out each other's eyes; persuaded the youngest to make him the head; does not know Turkish, he was driven away; then he went on a journey; pop: whoever of the workers does not get angry before the cuckoo arrives, I will pay him, otherwise I will cut the skin off his back; tells to plow where the hound sat; she sat on a rock, the pop carved the skin of his younger brother; the elder threw the dog into the river, raped the priest's daughter, who brought lunch; the pop puts the mother on a tree to scream cuckoo; the farmhand hit her with a stick; the pop and his wife decided to run, the farmhand hid in the basket; urine is flowing, the pop thinks it's oil; when he sees that the farmhand is with them, the pop suggests lying on the bridge and throw the farmhand into water; the farmhand threw off his ass; the pop allowed his skin to be cut]: Orbeli 1982, No. 47:83-86; Azerbaijanis [when dying, the father bequeaths his son Beida and two daughters not to deal with blue-eyed keos; B. bald, that is why his name is Kechal-Beide; he married his daughters, but he still hired Keos; he hopes to torture him with work by telling him to plow unprecedented land; his wife gives milk, but so that the sour cream remains on top whole, and a churek, but so as not to touch the edges; KB carves out the middle of the churek, pierces a hole in the bottom of the jug, leads the oxen into the forest, the plow is broken, one ox is dead; keos and his wife decide to take their forehead to the wedding, spend the night at rivers and push it into the water; KB swapped places with his wife Keose, she was thrown into the river and drowned; keose offers to rob a rich house, the owner killed him, and the loot was taken by the KB; (hereinafter referred to as KB's wedding description) ]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:540-547; Turks: Kúnos 1901 [After his father's death, mad Mehmet agrees to share cattle with his brother: the brother will get whoever enters the new stable; only an old ox he goes into an old one; one day he turns to a noisy tree, it does not answer, he hits it, a gold treasure falls out; brother takes a measure from a neighbor, a gold coin sticks; brother buries money, leaves; sends M . close the door; he decided to buy them back to his old mother (having welded her), removed the door from the hinges so that they would not enter the house, carried it; seeing the chase, the brothers climbed the tree; the door fell, the pursuers ran away in horror; M. was hired as an employee on the condition that if one gets angry, the other can drown him; the owners, horrified by what M. is doing, decide to leave, M. hides in the chest they carry; M. they arrange for him to stumble and drown by the river; he changes places with the owner's wife, she drowned; the owner was angry, M. drowned him; M. dropped a dry crust into the river, shouted for it back; genie gave him a magic table; M. began to feed others, changed the table; the genie gave him a mill from which gold and silver pour in; the same; the genie gives two batons, they beat the deceivers, they return everything; M. married and became a wise man]: 42-52; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 6 [each of the three brothers is consistently hired by köse on condition not to be angry; whoever gets angry, the other will rip so much skin off his back how much is needed for a pair of sandals; the elders are back with a bloody back; the younger Keloghlan eats yogurt with a hole in the pot; kills the dog; sticks the oxen through a small hole, dismembering them; with his foot an ox killed his daughter kose; killed all the sheep; cut down all the trees in the garden - you have to sleep; comes to the wedding, removing the door from its hinges and dragging her on his back (he was told to look outside the door); kose and his family decide to run, K. hid in a bag; when he left, he drove away the attackers - dogs; killed a child with a stone; at night he put on a woman's dress, drowned his wife together with kose (kose thought that K. was drowning); tore off the skin from the back of the kose; Kose sent people to kill K.; K. told the shepherd that they wanted to marry him to the daughter of the padishah, they changed clothes; the shepherd was drowned, K. brought the herd, said that from the bottom; the kose people jump into the water; going under water, make a sound reminiscent of the word krk ("forty"); kose also jumped; K. brought the herd to his father's house]: 71-77.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1987 []: 388-390; Marzolph 1984, № *1000 [the cunning man is hired as an employee (sometimes after his brothers; sometimes he makes an agreement with the owner: whoever gets angry, rip off back skin); does not work, but only spoils good; must eat bread without untying the handkerchief in which the bread is wrapped - the handkerchief tears; eat yogurt without opening the wineskin - makes a hole; collect just sown wheat - brings grass; bring game from hunting - kills oxen; bring firewood - breaks the plow for firewood; wash, feed the cow - kills it; watch the spinner girl - kills her; remove the yard so that at least there is oil there - he pours oil on the yard; etc.; the owners secretly leave, but the worker hides in the lodge; the owners take his urine for melted butter; they want to throw the employee in at night river; he slowly gets up, helps the owner throw his wife into the water]: 183-184; Tajiks [the elder brother was hired to work for a year for a goat every month; the owner feels sorry for the goats, he fed the farmhand so much that he died; the same middle brother; younger Plesivets follows orders literally; cut off the legs of pets and threw them into the water ("so as not to be separated from the water"), washed the floors, poured oil on them; removed the door from their hinges and carried them out into the yard; the owner and his wife decided to flee; Pleshivets hid in a khurjin with meat; went out; they agreed to throw him into the water at night; at night he woke up Bai's wife, and they drowned himself with her baya; Bai Pleshivey lodged his mother in the house]: Osmanov 1989:526-529; Turkmens [when dying, the father does not tell three sons to hire a beardless bay; the eldest is hired; whoever gets angry has the other he will cut off the strap from the back of his head; that same evening the young man is angry that there is so much work, bai cut out his strap; the same middle brother; the younger one does everything literally; he is told to crack a crying child, he hits killed him against the wall to death; killed his youngest wife by hitting him with a spade; cut the throats of the bulls (so that they could not stick their heads out of the barn); buy and his old wife decide to run, the young man hid in a bag; on the river bank they agree to throw the worker into the water at night; at night he pretends to be the wife of a bay, together they drown his wife; bai is angry, the young man cut his strap from the back of his head]: Stebleva 1969, No. 52:290-295; Uzbeks [the old woman sends his eldest son Yarmat to work for the rich Sattarbay; S. orders to bring water with a sieve, Y. cannot, S. killed him; the same with his middle son Sharip; younger Aldar buys a basin, brings a basin of water and a sieve in it; when leaving, S. orders horses not to raise their heads from the feeder (A. cuts off the horse's head, puts it in the feeder), the yard glitters (pours oil on it), the gate is tightly locked (builds behind wall with a gate) so that there is not a speck of dust on the walls (broke off the alabaster carving); S. and his wife decide to move secretly; A. hides in a leather trunk; leaves at rest; S. and his wife agree to drown him ; A. puts on S.'s robe with his wife throws S. into the river; leaves]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 217-221 (=Rogov 1980:230-235); Vakhans [older brother enters the diva's house; at night he asks who sleeps , and who does not sleep; the guy is silent; the divas kill him with a club, he and his wife eat him; the same with his middle brother; the younger Samadyk replies that cows do not let him sleep; divas kill cows; the same sheep; camels; The divas tells his wife that S. will destroy them; they decide to leave tomorrow with a full butter churn; S. hides in her; urinates on the way, the divas thinks that the sun has melted the butter; then saw S.; at night S. changed in some places, a diva with his wife; he throws not S. into the sea, but his wife; out of grief he threw himself into the sea; S. took his wealth]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 59:459-461; Yazgulyam people: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1976, No. 58 [stepmother does not love her five-year-old stepson, carries food not to her husband, but to her lover; stepson overheard, collected an eggshell, which the lover crumbled on the way to his field, put it on the road to the father's field; the wife brought scrambled eggs there; the stepson hides in the mazar, answers his stepmother that if she wants to get rid of her stepson, let him feed him fried lamb, he will go blind; the stepson gets fat and does pretending that his eyes are bad; pours boiling water into the trough where his lover is hiding, he dies; stepmother and husband decide to leave, stepson hides in the basket in which they carry property; urinating, they think that the butter has melted; they regret that the stepson is not to climb the apple tree; he gets out of the basket, climbs the apple tree, throws not an apple into his stepmother's mouth, but a stone, the husband barely took it out of her throat; they decide push the boy into the river at night; he changes places with his stepmother, the father pushes his wife off the cliff; returns home with his son]: 454-459; Edelman 1966, No. 9 []: 201-202; Sarykoltsy [from the older brother three children, the youngest has none; he asked for his nephew to help him; he works, but his uncle decides to torture him more; tells the donkey to go to the forest so that his nephew can bring firewood himself; he sets fire to the forest the donkey returns; the uncle and wife decide to move; they regret that there is no nephew: he would pick apricots for them; he appears, climbs a tree, invites his uncle to open his mouth, throws not a ripe apricot, but a raw apricot and hard, the uncle screams in pain; agrees with his wife to push his nephew into the river at night; he changes his place with his aunt, the uncle drowns his wife]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 60:461-462; baluchi [ after the death of his father, two brothers went bankrupt; the elder went to work; agreed with the man that if he did not obey his orders, he would allow his ears and nose to be cut off; the man tells him to plow oxen where they are they will stop; the daughter will bring bread and a pot of sour milk, you must drink it so as not to tear the foam; bring him two mana of meat every day; the guy does not know how not to tear the foam, ate only bread; not knows where to get meat; the man cut off his ears, nose and lips; his younger brother went; punched a hole in the pot from below, drank milk and spoiled the girl; stabbed one ox, brought meat; same the next day; man tells you to sweep the yard so that oil can be poured and licked; the guy took a wineskin of oil from the man's wife and poured it out in the yard; the man and his wife decide to run; the guy hid in the bag they took with them; the bridge stopped, the guy got out of the bag; in the evening they agreed to drown him; the guy moved the owner to his place, threw him into the river with the owner's wife; took the owner's wife and married her; so avenged his older brother]: Zarubin 1949, No. 9:67-79.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami (Kildin dialect) [worker hired ass; payment: he will give his ass three slits in a year; pop tries to get rid of it; tells wolves, bears to herd, he killed everyone; bring water rent; he agrees; the man put up a leaky hat, gold falls into a large bag; the pop offers to go fishing on the lake; agrees with his wife to push the worker into the water at night; he swapped places with his wife, the pop drowned his wife; the pop threw his wife into the water (and drowned too)]: Kert 1961, No. 35:125-127; the Livs [Ants is hired as a servant (Vanapagan); he goes to the funeral, tells take care of the children, come to the funeral in the morning too, look at the stove where the hell will sleep; A. gutts the children, hangs their bodies on the walls, takes out his eyes, goes to hell, throws them to him; on the way the devil pulls an oak home: let A. carry the top, and he, damn, take up the butt; A. says that he is stronger, chooses butt, sits on an oak tree himself, which the hell drags without looking back; at home, the devil threw an oak tree, And . jumped up from the blow and grabbed the bird; offers to compete who will throw the stone further; releases the bird, it did not return, A. won; offers to drill oak bark with his penis; hell could not, And drilled a drill hidden in his pants; A. agrees to leave if the hell gives him a bag of money; there is a hole in the bag, the hell sprinkles all the money he has; the horse laughs, A. says it's his father pulling pants; damn scared; hell invites his wife and A. to spend the night in bags by the river; A. persuades his wife to change the devil, throws the bag with his wife into the water; now A. agrees to leave]: Setälä 1953 in Kippar 2002:68-71; the Finns [the older brother hired to hell; whoever gets angry first will cut a belt from the back; the devil told me to chop firewood, and the ax does not pierce the tree; the young man is angry hell cut out his belt from his back; the same with his middle brother; younger Mathias hacked a gray cat, after which the logs began to split easily; hell sent M. to bring firewood from the forest on oxen and let returns where the dog runs; she crawled into a hole in the fence; M. put firewood into it, chopped the sleigh, then chopped the oxen into pieces and stuck all the pieces into the same hole; hell agreed with his wife to kill M ., but he overheard; at night he changed places with his wife; the devil hacked his wife with an ax and they threw the corpse into the lake together; hell took a new wife, told M., that by the time the young man arrived, the whole farm should be in red; M. set him on fire; hell tells him to build three bridges across the river, neither stone, nor wood, nor iron, nor earth; M. slaughtered all the cattle, made bridges out of skulls and bones; hell tells me to come and take an eye at him wedding; M. snatched all oxen in the eye, threw it into hell; hell wants to kill M. again at night, he puts a stone in bed for himself; hell hits a stone with an ax; M. in the morning: fleas bit; hell sends M. sleep in the barn, M. goes to another place, at night he burned the barn; hell and his wife decided to secretly move to the island; M. hid in his bedding, went out for breakfast in the morning; hell decided again to hack M. at night, M. swapped the line with his wife again, he hacked her; got angry, M. cut his belt out of his back and left]: Salmelainen 1947:63-68; Veps: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1120:247; (cf. Swedes ["when a guy is told to bring water, he pushes the ogre's wife or daughter into the well" - {that's another motive!}] : Liungman 1961, No. 1120:264); Lithuanians: Lebite 1967:326-329 [two brothers are smart, the third Jonas is a fool; after the death of his father, the eldest got a bag, the middle one got an ax, J. was hired by the master behind the sieve of beans a year; the master tells him to plow as much as the dog Petrushka runs; the dog climbs into the crack under the gate; J. cut the bulls and the plough, put them piece by piece into the same gap; the master orders to slaughter the sheep that looks at J.; he stabbed everyone - they turned to him; the master left, told him to guard the door; J. took it off its hinges and took it to a party; the master and his wife decide to leave, J. hid in a bag; they they agree to push him into the river at night; J. swapped places with the lady, the master drowned his wife], 330-333 [the master takes the farmhand: if he gets angry, he will cut his belt out of his back; the elder brother is angry, then but the middle one; the youngest exchanged grain for rolls, killed an ox, sold the pigs, and stuck his tails into the quagmire, said they were drowned; he picked one cow up to the birch tree, and gave the rest to the butcher: the cows flew to heaven; the master decided to burn J. together with the house; J. climbed into the chest of money; the master pulled out the chest and set fire to the house; the master and his wife decided to drown J., lay down on the river bank, at night he swapped places with the lady, J. drowned He took possession of both and everything]; Lutsie (Western 1935 Catholic) [poor Peter went to look for work; hell: come to me; when he found out my name, the hell refused: Peter is a bad name; P. went around the house and met me halfway again; hell I did not recognize him; after the third time he believed that all Petra was here; P. does as ordered; to keep everything clean: he burned down the house and collected the ash in a heap; hell decided to run away from P., and then; at night, the hell decided P. push into the water; P. swapped places with his damn wife, damn drowned his wife]: Annom et al. 2018:335-336; Latvians [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets - a mare; each gives birth to a son, the son of a mare is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, on the second night a six-headed giant; on the third night, nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers are sleeping, they do not see that the water in the bucket has become blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running and became burn severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not let us lie down, get drunk, cuts the bed, the spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched the line in the door, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, under him the hole, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, told the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers are afraid, K. went down, cut off the line; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak instead of her; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give them to K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and filled it with a stone hole; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with hail; K. killed the cannibal, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. opens his eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9-headed must be killed; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged a horse for K. to catch up with the witch, told him not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; . fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell as a worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from his back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; the dwarfs gathered everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; the devil has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5 ) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned it); 6) bring firewood to the mare (the mare is the mother of hell, K. threatens to cut her belts from her sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, everyone looks at you stabbed); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. lowers the dumplings by the shirt, and the devil ate his pud, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) the devil leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings the hare is the younger brother; the devil can not catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed the devil; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot with sour cream, hell and his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and his mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, damn drowned his mother; K . killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but died himself]: Nierde 1952:116-146.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi (Malo-Yalchikovsky District, 1926) [Ivan has a magic club, he was hired to work for his ass; he tells him to watch the door, I. removed all the doors from the hinges, began to watch; the pop ordered two sheep to be slaughtered - I. stabbed 12; bring a cart of sand from the heat; I.'s club hits the devils, they load sand; on the way back, the wolf ate the horse; I. put a club on him, harnessed him instead of a horse; locked him in the priest's stable, the wolf ate the foal; the pop decided to secretly leave, And . hid in a bag of breadcrumbs; at night all three lay down by the river; he is going to push I. into the river; he changes places with his priest, hits her husband; in the morning I. and drowned her]: Chuvash tales 1937:53- 57; Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 72 [three brothers take turns hiring to work for the ass; he sets the condition: whoever gets angry will cut off the other nose; the elder Mikal cuts firewood, does not receive food, angry, left without a nose; the middle Tepan is the same; the younger Ivan is not angry and does not work himself; sells cows to the merchant for a pittance, cutting off five or six tails; hangs them on trees, the latter brings them ass, says the cows ran away, he tried to hold them; the pop believes it was the work of the forest owner; I. sells pigs, sticks his tails into the quagmire; pop tells us to dissolve the bread, I. pours all the flour into the quagmire well; pop goes to the bazaar, tells them to do the same as the people; I. sees someone cover the roof with straw; tears iron off the priest's roof to put straw; pop tells us to slaughter the sheep that looks at I.; everything they look, he killed everyone; I. got together with the daughter of the priest, he has to endure; decides to run away, taking valuables and setting fire to the house; I. hides in the chest, the pop carries him, thinking that there are food; in the evening, pop with his wife agrees to push I. into the river; at night I. pushes his ass, he thinks that his wife, they throw his ass's wife into the water together, and he thinks that I. cut off his ass, married a popon], 85 [farmhand cheats ass, pop and wife leave, farmhand hides in a bag of breadcrumbs; gets out of there; they settle down for the night by the river; at night, the farmhand changes places, helps the ass throw it into the water, he thinks that he and his wife are drowning a farmhand]: 206-219, 252-254; Mordovians [the priest has an adopted son; he grew up eating a lot; they sent him to the forest to find the missing ox; he dragged a bear by the ear and let the cows go to the stable; the pop tells us to go to the mill to pick up rye; there are devils; the guy harnessed a bear, planted the line as a coachman and came; the pop and hit decided to spend the night with the guy on the river bank, to push him into the water at night; he overheard, put on his priest's clothes, pushed his priest into the river; in the morning, the popadya screamed and still screams]: Paasonen 1941:339-341; Bashkirs [ orphan Calmccul was hired as a farmhand for bay; no payment is needed, but in two years he will click the bay on his forehead; and a deal not to be angry; asks which sheep to slaughter; buy: who will run up to the stern; everyone ran up, K. He stabbed everyone; to get rid of K., bai sent him to the forest to look for the missing stallion; K.'s horse was eaten by a bear, but K. harnessed him into the cart himself: here, he brought the stallion; buy tells him to put him to the rest of the horses, during the night, the bear picked them up; K. must guard bags of bread in the yard; he lay down on the hayloft and put a block of wood instead of himself; buy and his men cartilaged under this place and threw the body (i.e. a block) into the basement ; in the morning, K. allegedly came out of the basement; K. was sent to the lake to collect two hats of gold from the devils; K. sat on the shore, pretended to weave a rope to hang the lake to the sky; the devils offer to compete in running (K. releases his younger brother, a bunny); fight (offers a grandfather, a bear, instead of himself); who will throw a weight higher; K. pretends to throw it on the clouds; K. made holes in his hats, put it in the necks of two bags hidden under water; brought home two bags of gold; when they saw K., bai and his wife decided to flee; K. hid in a bag of breadcrumbs; at night he swapped places with his wife bai, who pushed him into the water wife; K.: just two years old; bay snapped on the forehead with a gun]: Barag 1992, No. 2:23-26.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Kanbak-Shal 1985 [the poor man bequeaths three sons not to be hired as laborers for an insatiable bay; he tells him to take care of his camel; the elder, middle brothers are hired, the camel is losing weight, buy cuts off the heads of the laborers; the younger Birkarsa ("one top") ties the camel so that it stands on its feet, but cannot reach hay and water; seeing hay and water in front of the camel, the buy does not have claims against the employee; bai orders to equip the camel for firewood, B. sets it on fire (a play on words: firewood and fire); bai orders to bring the black Haidamak Axaktemir; B. demands half of the property for this; B. time baigi rips open the pillow, the fluff blinds the participants, B. wins; exchanges his horse, who was considered extremely fast, for Haidamak; in order not to fulfill the promise to give half of the property, buy decides to run; B. hid at the bottom of the chest; in a new place, bai is going to throw B. into the well; at night B. changes places with his wife bay, he drowns his wife; bai runs again, hides in tugai, B. set them on fire, buy died]: 156-159; Sidelnikov 1962 []: 288-291.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols [Balyn-Senge became a llama's apprentice; he has a pig; the llama allows her to be slaughtered only if fat flows from his nostrils; BS gives the pig not a warm swipe, but boiling water, it scalded the patch, dripped pus, llama believes lard; BS asks if the llama wants meat or broth; he wants meat; BS cooks until the meat is dissolved, the lama gets the bones; next time the llama wants broth, BS cooked a little, ate meat; they set off, spent the night by the cliff; the llama asked the BS to lie on his feet to warm them; intended to push them off the cliff; fell asleep; BS put a llama tambourine in his place, that pushed a tambourine; BS told the Lama that spirits in the area were evil: when one cuts a tree, the other must climb it; first cuts down the llama, then the BS, the tree collapsed, the llama fell and died; BS took it from the chest jewelry, put a llama in there; thieves came, he gave them the chest; Yerlik sent a messenger to the BS with an order to come to him; BS pretended to be sick; next time he pretended to be dead, put it in his heads freshly brewed rice, next to medicinal powders, a cabbage sprout stuck in the ass; Yerlik's messengers do not understand: if he died recently, how the sprout grew, if long ago, why is the rice still warm, if hungry, eat rice, if there are powders from illness; Yerlik orders to bring at least the dead, prepared himself - changed his clothes so that he would not be recognized; BS came in a blue bull, three stirrups on one side; went into the yurt, there the girl, began to eat hurut, said his name was Past; the girl ran to her mother: The past ate all our hurut; the mother decided that the girl was stupid, did not pay attention; the person she met asks BS to deceive him; BS: straighten the bull; he straightened it up, and the BS left, only in vain straightened it; the man carries the cauldron; BS: there is a fire in the sky; the man raised his head, the cauldron fell and crashed; BS tells Yerlik that if you step on the lower stirrup, you will find yourself in a country of eight luses, if the average is in the Tengrian country, if you go to the upper one, you will travel all over the world; while Yerlik is trying, BS rode on his horse]: Potanin 1919, No. 6.5:19-23; Dagurs [at seven The brothers are Temuodi's servant, he has a Yamadi son; the brothers tell T. to cook porridge with bovine milk; I tell my father to pretend that he is giving birth, so he cannot cook; answers the brothers that once the bull gives milk, then and a man can give birth; the brothers took Y. to hunt, put up a tent for him by the river; he carried his brothers' saddles there, and he stayed in the saddle tent; at night, the brothers pushed the tent into the river, thinking that I had drowned. in the morning they saw that they were wrong; fearing revenge from the brothers, I ran away with my father]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:174-176; Dongxiang [the old man and the old woman agreed that the sheep would be received by the one who had vegetables cooked earlier; the old man put his vegetables into the old woman's cauldron and put his own from her cauldron; the old woman's vegetables were raw, the old man got a sheep; the old woman chased, tore off her tail, hid the sheep's tail in a box; the llama old woman: how many times did you dig a shovel? If you don't count by tomorrow, I'll kill him; the tail boy from the box tells you to take it into the field and hide it under the basket; llame: how many traces did your horse leave? Lama to an old woman: how much hair is on your head? tail boy: what about your horse? The llama tells the old woman to give him her grandson; the tail boy tells her to agree; the llama left the boy in the hay, set fire to the hay at night; he screamed: the old woman's grandson has burned down! tail boy: the llama's horse burned down; at night, the boy lay down where the llama had put his saddle and put the saddle in its place; at night, the llama threw his saddle into the river; "The water took the old woman's grandson away!" tail boy: the llama's saddle has been carried away by water; the tail boy eats balls - fried flour with honey; tells the llama to feed the dog flour, beat it, it will leave the balls; it is impossible to eat what the dog has left; the tail boy sent the llama for honey; the bees began to bite, the llama screams for the boy to kill them; he killed the llama with a hammer; hid it in the chest; the porters stopped for the night; the boy told them what was in the chest silver; they took the chest; when they found the dead man, they left him standing in a pea field; the landlord threw a lump of land at him, the corpse fell, the man thought he had killed another; the porters fled, leaving the cattle and things, but having seized the llama's body; the boy took cattle and things]: Todayeva 196:85-87.

(Wed. Eastern Siberia. Yakuts [Kharys-Tökiai came to Khan-Kharahan, Mr.; he has a baby but does not have a wife; he makes the guest mess with the child; then clean up the manure; old woman Simyakhsin killed him with a shovel; on a visit Tiyukum-Tökiai comes; kills the child and throws it into the water; XX has prepared meat and decided to run; HT hid in the same bag; says that "HT made you tired!" XX thinks that XI's voice is absorbed into his right ear; into his left ear; into his brain; cuts off one ear, the second ear, his brain; when a voice from the middle of his body, XX pierced his heart, died; HT took possession of his property]: Khudyakov 1890:245-246).