K67B. A deal not to be angry, ATU 1000.

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A character of low social status (who does not have supernatural abilities) undertakes to work for a character of high social status (with supernatural abilities) abilities) on the condition that the owner does not get angry with the employee. By repeatedly annoying the owner, the employee makes him angry and, as a result, be severely punished or pay a lot of money.

Sudanese Arabs, Nubians, Somalis, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Kabila, Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Aragon, Italians (Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria), Maltese, Basques, Ladins, Corsicans, Irish, Flemish, Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Upper Palatinate, Austria), Walloons, French (Lorraine, Upper Brittany), Bretons, Arabs of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Aramaians, Jibbali, Socotra, Kachari, Burmese, Santals, Sinhales, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Himachali plowmen (?) , Bengalis, Assamese, Ho, Muria, Kannada, Bulgarians, Slovenes, Greeks, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Luzhitans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Pskov, Moscow, Voronezh, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Pokutye, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Yekaterinoslav, Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Adygs, Abazins, Abkhazians, Balkarians, Ossetians, Chechens, Lucks, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Persians (Mazendaran, Isfahan, Fars), Turkmens, Tajiks, Pashtuns, (Baluchis), Swedes, Norwegians, Western Sami, Danes, Icelanders, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Setu, Livonian, Latvians, Lithuanians, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Mordovians, Udmurts, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Mongols.

Sudan - East Africa. The Arabs of Sudan [the monkey expelled all the inhabitants from the village; Muhammad and his sister Fatma came there and stayed; F. met the monkey, gave birth to a boy; he grew up, told him who his father was and uncle; came to M., brought him to the monkey, M. shot her; F. tried to poison her brother, but the son of the monkey (SO) ordered to give food to the dog first; she died; M. ordered F. to eat, she died; M. agreed to give it With a man as a worker; the SO killed his children, poultry, ruined the garden; the man and his wife tried to escape, the SO caught up with them; they agreed to throw him into the river at night; he changed the covers with as a man's sleeping wife, the man drowned his wife; before that, they had agreed that whoever was first angry would be skinned off his face by the other; the man became angry; SO ripped off his skin, left]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 71:223-226; Nubians: Kronenberg in El-Shamy 2004, No. 1000:496; Somalis: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1000:495-496.

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; Arabs of Egypt, Algeria, Kabila: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1000:495-496 ; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [the woman, taking her son and daughter, went to look for a city where there is no death; in one city she did not see the sick, stayed; the son married; then left his wife and moved on; the mother said to her daughter-in-law that she was not feeling well; she told people that they killed their mother because sick people are being killed in this city; the mother asked me to give her heart and lungs to her son; the sister left and met someone in the wasteland a man, he went underground, there is a city, married her; they have a son Muhammad; pointing his finger, he sees what is two days away; the woman's brother, i.e. Uncle M., comes; M. tells him that his mother wants him kill, and his father may turn into a snake; a snake will bite him when his sister asks for dates; M. takes dates himself; next time the snake hides in straw, the son sets fire to straw, his snake father dies; mother wants to poison them, the son quietly turns the plate, the woman takes poison in her mouth, falls dead; M. and his uncle go to the ground, walk on different roads; M. warned not to be hired as an employee for who has red hair and blue eyes; his uncle did not listen; he was told to herd cattle while dragging the owner's mother on his back and catching 7 birds for his children every day; M. comes, replaces him; beats him an old woman, makes her herd cattle, catch birds, threatens to kill if she tells her; plugged her throat with a piece of meat, she died, he said she choked herself; gave six children scorpions instead of birds, those died; said that the birds fluttered out, and the children's souls followed them; the father took the bird from the remaining child; M. slaughtered the sheep, pretended to be attacked by robbers; cut off the tails of the cows, stuck them in the sand by the sea, He covered the last cow with sea grass - the cows failed; in front of everyone, he pulled the last one out of the grass; the contract was: whoever gets angry first can tear off a strip of skin from ear to ear buttocks; the judge ordered it to be done; M. and my uncle stopped in the Bedouin tent; M.: the dog can eat my leather belt; the owner: then you will take the dog; M. fed her a belt, took the dog; in another killed the dog in the tent, planted a piece of meat on the horns of the ram, took the ram; the next time he killed the ram, fried the liver, put it next to the owner's daughter; the father gave it to M.; the next time he agreed with the girl if she cuts her forehead a little, she will pretend to be dead, and he will accuse the owner of the mare of killing and take it away; M. gave the girl and two-thirds of the money to his uncle, and left]: Stumme 1898, No. 4:104-120.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1000:7-8; Aragon [a person is hired by a stingy owner (cannibal) on the condition: whoever gets angry first takes off his belt from the back; contract valid until the first cuckoo (or until it is so quiet that even the straw doesn't move); the servant pretends to be an idiot and consistently destroys the owner's property; the master dies]: González Sanz 1996, No. 1000:106; Catalans (including Mallorca) [the hero goes to see the world; is hired to work on a farm; makes an agreement with the owner: whoever gets angry first will tear off (a piece) of leather on the other]: Oriol, Pijol 2008, No. 1000:199-200 (text on this story in Salvator 1896:105-109); Basques: Barbier 1931, No. 4 [three brothers go to look for work; mother warns not to be hired by a red-bearded man; red-bearded to meet; older brothers refuse, younger agrees; whoever gets angry first will tear off the skin from his back to make sandals; the guy is told to bring the straightest and most crooked from the forest firewood, he does everything (crooked - vine); herd pigs, and Tartar lives in these places; the guy took a bird, a son, a skein of thread with him; T. offers to compete; who will throw the stone next (guy released a bird); whoever breaks the stone by throwing it (the guy throws a piece of cheese, it breaks into small pieces); you have to separate the guy's pigs, etc.; guy: all those with two ears and one tail are mine; while running away from T., the guy wrapped himself in his pork intestines and then threw them, shouting that it was easier to run; T. ripped out his guts and died; the guy cut off the pigs' tails, put them in the swamp, and a few really drowned; the red-bearded man began to pull - the tails come off, the guy pulls out the pigs; the guy ripped off the red-bearded skin from the back, returned home rich]: 81-84; Webster 1879 [Errua ("madman"), leaves from home, is hired by the owner; whoever of them is dissatisfied with the other will peel off the other's skin; the owner tells 1) to bring the crooked branches to the firewood (E. cuts down the vineyard), 2) drive the cows to pasture without breaking a fence in which there is no passage (E. cuts cows into pieces, pushes them into hedges), 3) herd pigs on the mountain where the cannibal Tartaro lives; T. offers to compete, 1) who is next will throw a stone (the old woman advises releasing the bird), 2) who will throw a piece of iron further (a bar of iron; say: from here to Salamanca; T. does not tell you to throw it, because his parents are in Salamanca), 3) pull and drag oak (E. ties the entire forest with a rope, T. is frightened - where he will herd pigs); in T. E. goes to bed next to him for the night; puts the dead man lying under the bed in his place; T. hits him with iron, in the morning E. complains that fleas have bitten; E. must separate pigs from T. pigs; E. says he will take those with one mark and two markings; all pigs turn out to be so; in the village of E. sells all but two pigs, cutting off their tails; cuts one, hides giblets under clothes; in full view of people He stabs him in his stomach, people believe that his intestines have fallen out, he runs after the last pig; people tell T. that E. released his guts to run faster; T. rips his stomach open, dies; E. drives the pig into the mud, puts his tails in the mud, tells the owner that the pigs have fallen into the mud; the owner sends him for a spade; E. hits the hostess, she yells, he shouts to the owner - "One or both?" ; the owner replies that both {in the sense of a spade and a hoe}; E. beats the maid, brings a spade with a hoe, hits the owner with them, he can't stand it, E. rips the skin off his back; var.: E. burns T. with a hot skewer; crunches nuts, says they are Christian bones; whoever brings more water, E. is going to carry the entire spring, T. is afraid]: 6-11; Portuguese [owner concludes with employee contract: whoever gets angry first can whip another (or rip off a band of skin from his back); when hired by the owner, the first two brothers lose, the third wins]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1000:255; Maltese [after the death of his father, the elder brother was hired on the condition that whoever decides to leave another first or complains of fatigue will skin off his back and take it away money; tasks: release and then collect birds or hares; bring goats from the pasture so that half of them laugh and the other dance; bring the cow to the pasture without opening the gate; 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 it into the gap); overheard the owner negotiating with his wife at night push him into the well; gets up unnoticed, his wife pushed her husband sleepily into her well; realizing the mistake, leans over the well, the worker pushes her there too]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 1000+116*: 418-419, 442; Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 1000:251-252; Italians (Emilia Romagna, Bologna) [when he died, the father left three sons to each of them an equal portion of money; the average Fiore went to look for a job and hired a bishop with an agreement: whoever gets angry first will give his money to the other; (the contract is valid until the first cuckoo - this follows from the following ); F. went to the field in the morning, food and wine were brought to him only late in the evening, and the pot and bottle were sealed so that they could not be opened; F. returned home, losing his money; the same with Giovanni's older brother; the youngest Pírolo takes his own food, and in the evening he beats off the edge of the pot and the neck of the bottle; the next day he is told to sell 100 pigs; he sold them to the first person he meets, cutting off the tails and sticking them in the ground - the pigs fell into hell; left one pig and buried it whole; when the owner began to pull, the tails broke off, and P. pulled out the whole pig; the next day he sold the sheep; P. took the money placed one sheep on the top of the poplar and said that the sheep had gone to heaven by rainbow; the next day, the bishop ordered P. to go to mass with him; it began to rain, and the bishop sent P. to bring him a pair of wooden ones shoes; P. said that the master told him to kiss both maids; P. shouts: Isn't it true both? owner: yes, both {I mean both shoes}; to get rid of P., the senior maid put feathers on, climbed onto the roof and started cuckoo; P.: March, and already cuckoo; and shot the "cuckoo"; the owner drove P. and gave all the money; P. gave back to the brothers what they had lost, opened a business, got married, and healed well]: Calvino 1980, No. 56:179-184; (cf. Italians [Giufá hired a priest on the condition that he will receive an egg a day and as much bread as he can eat with the egg, and the contract will last until he screams in spring an owl (screech-owl in the iwy); eats an egg with a needle and bites off bread every time; the priest thinks that J. will ruin him, tells his mother to climb the tree and scream an owl; when he left, J. threw a stone at the owl, that got into the priest's mother and killed her; after that J. hired a peasant as a swineherd; sold the herd for half price on the condition that the buyer gave him tails and ears; stuck them into the swamp; the peasant called people pull the pigs out of the mud, but their ears and tails came off; J. left with the money; borrowed various meals from various sellers on condition that the money be returned tomorrow, he and his mother ate well; then J. told his mother to say that he was dead; the cheese seller climbed into the church to at least take the dead man's hat; at night, thieves came to church to share the money; J. got up from the coffin, told the thieves to get out; they ran away, leaving money; the cheese seller had to pay for his silence]: Crane 1885:297-299); Corsicans [the older brother went to look for work; the curé hired him on the condition that whoever gets angry rips off his back three belts another; when the guy goes to herd sheep, the owner forbids taking out the bread he took with him, opening the bag on top and drinking wine from the neck of the bottle; ended up with the owner ripping off his back; the same with the middle brother; the youngest cuts the bag from below, holes a pumpkin bottle; like this every day; sold a herd of pigs, cutting off their tails, stuck their tails in the mud, said that the pigs drowned in the mud; the old woman gave whistle; the guy whistles, the sheep are dancing; losing weight and do not give milk; the curé began to spy, also started dancing; the curé decided to terminate the contract, paid money, the guy ripped off three leather belts - for two brothers and for himself]: Massignon 1984, No. 23:53-55; ladins [guy looking for work; towards a man with an ear cut off; he has agreed with the owner that whoever gets angry first can cut off another ear; the boy was hired by the same owner; food was not brought to the field; then he picked up a bag of wheat, took it to the tavern and exchanged it for food; the owner sent him with four horses to bring firewood; he exchanged it for donkeys and came back; the owner asks to cut down a tree; the guy says he will sharpen the ax first; broke the axe against a rock; the owner said that there are two more axes under the bed in the house; the guy from the house window: both? The owner: yes; the guy hacked the hostess and the maid; the owner was furious, the worker cut off his ear]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 77:209-211.

Western Europe. Flemish, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Austria), Friezes: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1000:7-8; Germans (Upper Palatinate) [the peasant has three sons; the elder asked for his part inheritance, went to look for work, hired a priest; noticing that the employee had money with him, he offered to conclude an agreement: whoever gets angry first will give the property to another; the owner gave to the worker of worthless oxen, who became angry, lost money; the same with his middle brother; the younger one lets the oxen go wherever they want; he sold the cows to the merchant, only the worst was left, said to the owner that they ran away; he also sold the pigs, and cut off their tails and stuck them into the swamp; told the owner that the pigs had failed; then the owner told the boy to guard the garden at night; if something was lost, he would lose all his money; sent the cook to steal something; the guy beat her; the next day the cook is lying down and guests should come; the owner told the worker to boil water while he is in church, put leek and parsley; the guy threw a dog named Leek and a cat named Petrushka into the cauldron; after that, the owner got angry, the guy took all the money and returned home]: Schönwerth 1981:29-30; Irish: Danaher 1967, № 7 [The widow has three sons; the eldest was hired by the owner before the first cuckoo on the condition: whoever gets angry will receive 20 whips; if the farmhand is angry, he will leave without pay; at the end of the term, the owners forced get angry, beat the farmhand and drive them out without paying; the same is true with the middle brother; the younger one is told to look for scattered calves low and high, where they can and where they cannot; he broke the hayloft; to prevent the calves from soaking their hooves, dragging them across the river, turning them over on their backs, everyone drowned; he was told to guard the cabbage so that his eye was on every head of cabbage; he killed all the sheep and all the bird, took out his eyes, put his eyes on heads of cabbage; the owner's wife climbed the tree, began to cook; the farmhand knocked her down with a stone; the owner had to pay a salary, the farmhand whipped it]: 28-32; Jackson 1936 [the strongman does work that requires a huge strength, agreeing with the owner not to show that one of them is angry with the other]: 288; Irish [the poor woman has three sons; the elders consider the youngest to be useless; the eldest went to look work; agreed with the owner that whoever gets angry first would skin off his back; the owner starved the worker and tormented him with work; a year later he returned without money and crippled; the same with middle brother; the youngest eats a goose cooked for the owners; demands lunch before leaving for work; dinner for him; and then goes to bed to get up early; the next day he does not plow, but "holds the plow "; lets cows into the wheat field; the cow is gone; "Look anywhere"; the guy examines the cracks under the roof; when ordered to "follow the path through the swamp with sheep's feet", sharpens the knife to cut off the sheep on the leg; { page skipped in pdf}; after the first cut on the back, the owner is willing to give all the money so that only he doesn't get his skin ripped off]: Kennedy 1875:74-80; Germans (Austria) [eldest son Jokl went to be hired; the priest took him on condition not to be angry; the owner orders to sow the grain first and then collect the seeds back; took all the money from J. and kicked him out; the youngest son Hansle goes; does not sow at all, but brings a bag of grain back; drowns pigs in the swamp, only the tail of one pig sticks out; sold the cows, hung one on the branch, said that the herd has gone to heaven; the owner tells me to cook soup, putting it in he has parsley and celery; H. cooks his master dogs Peter and Zoller; the priest got angry, H. took his money]: Cerf 1992:223-228; Walloons [after the death of their mother, Jean, Pierre and Jacques decided on queues to go to hire; the owner warns Pierre that whoever gets angry will be cut off his ear; the owner tells him to herd cows and pigs, but does not feed; the owner cut off Pierre's ear; the same with Jacques; Jean sold the oxen for half the price, asking the buyer for permission to cut off one tail; told the owner that the oxen had taken away the whirlwind, leaving only the latter's tail in his hands; then Jean sold the pigs, leaving tails for himself, stuck them into the swamp; the owner grabbed one tail, fell into the swamp; all this time Jean refuses the food offered by the owner (he has money to eat on the side); the owner tells cut down an oak tree; Jean sold the oak to a coal miner, killed a fox, put an oak branch in its mouth and said that the fox had eaten the oak; all this time Jean was sleeping with the hostess; the owner broke the door and Jean cut off his ear; the hostess left Jean, capturing her husband's diamonds]: Carnoy 1883, No. 8:316-329; French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 24 (Lorraine) [Pierre was hired as a worker for a peasant; whoever gets angry first will beat another; P. angry, beaten, returned with nothing; his brother Jean went; sold a wagon with horses; left the other in the forest; sold threshed bread; when he was sent to the pasture to guard the piglets; when he met the ogre, he folds porridge in his stomach pocket, then pretends to rip his stomach open; the cannibal asks him to rip open his stomach, dies; Jean cut off the tails of the piglets, put them in the swamp, sold the piglets, said that the piglets drowned in swamp; the owner tries to drag the pig by the tail, falls on his back; Jean is sent to guard the geese, sells them; the hostess goes to see where Jean puts the geese; he takes a gun, shoots at a "beast" who supposedly dragged geese, killing the owner; the owner is angry, Jean hits him and leaves]: 83-86; Sébillot 1894, No. 48 (Haute-Brittany) [], 49 (Haute-Brittany) [the employee was hired by the owner on the condition: who was the first will be angry, the other one will cut a belt out of his back; angry, the owner rips off his skin; his brother goes; the owner tells us to cut off so many bundles (grass?) for bedding, how many rams; the worker cuts off the legs of sheep, kills a dog that tried to prevent it; shove horses; the worker cut off the hooves of horses, brings a bag of savvy hooves; sold cows, cut off their tails, shoved them into the swamp, said that the cows fell into the mud; the contract was valid until the first cuckoo; the owner put his wife on a tree and ordered a cuckoo, the worker killed her; the owner sent for a shovel, who is in his daughters' room; the worker tells the girls that the owner told them to meet with them; they protest, the worker asks the owner, didn't he? he replies yes; after that, the owner got angry and the worker cut his belt out of his back]: 339-340, 340-341; Bretons [January is older brother, February is younger; I went to work, knocked on the doors of the castle; the owner hired him until the first cuckoo on the condition that he would not be angry, otherwise he would be stripped off a strip of skin from his back and sent without pay; and if the master was angry, his back would be ripped off; in the morning I am told to go where the bulldog will take him; he makes sure that I work all the time; hungry and exhausted by work, I am angry, his skin is ripped off, sent home; F. comes; killed bulldog, threw the owner's children out the window; in the forest, the owner killed an old woman; F.: her three sons would take revenge; the owner sent F. to bring two shovels to bury the corpse; F. told the owner's wife and daughter that he had told them hug; F. to the owner: after all, both? The owner thinks he is asking about shovels, says both; bringing shovels, F. explains that his wife and daughter were screaming when they saw a wolf; the owner tells his wife to climb a tree and cook; F. shot her; the owner shot her Angry, F. ripped his skin off his back, took his salary, returned home]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 3:216-230.

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 he did, he would help; 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; jibbali: Rhodokanakis in El-Shamy 2004, No. 1000:695; Socotra [man hires an employee to monitor cows; employee warns that the owner may be angry with him; master: if I'm angry, you can cut a pound of flesh out of my buttocks, and if you're angry, I'll slaughter you; one day they drove the cows; it started raining, they entered the village and the cows were left in the rain; the owner told the worker to take them to the shelter, but he refused - it was cold; the owner insists that the heads of the cows must be in the cave; the worker cut off the cows and threw their heads into the cave; when it stopped raining, the owner found that the cows were killed; confessed to the worker that he was angry; he carved a pound of flesh from the owner and left]: Kogan, Naumkin MS; Arabs- Christians in Lebanon ("The stories are written in the dialect of the Christians of Beirut") [one of the two brothers went to look for work; the other, named Jiī, advised not to be hired by a man without facial hair; his brother became a priest without a mustache or beard on the following condition: the angry person would have a strip of skin cut off between his eyes; the priest ordered to take a dog, a donkey and wheat, while feeding the dog wheat bread and eating barley himself; the young man fulfilled this requirement; he felt dizzy, 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, told 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 bread himself, bring some firewood on the way back; J. ate wheat bread, beat the dog to death, took two sticks, put their donkey in the ass and buried the wheat; then returned to the priest and told them what had happened; the priest told him to take the child outside; J. threatened the child, he cried; the priest ordered clap him with his hand; J. hit the child and killed him; the priest told J. to take a pair of bulls and pick them up in the sun; J. stabbed them and throw the pieces on the roof; the priest told his wife to slaughter them chickens before leaving; J. overheard, climbed into a box and ate chicken meat; the priest and his wife took the box with them and reached the sea; J. got out and asked if the priest was angry; 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, they drowned his wife; The priest confessed he was angry; J. cut off a strip of skin between his eyes and left]: Huxley 1902, No. 108:253-255; Arameans [mother sends smart son to sell a cow, no one bought it; sends a stupid man; he goes to the field, offers a cow to a lizard; she nodded, he left the cow; he came for money in the morning; the lizard disappeared into the hole; he climbed after him, dug up dungeon in gold; takes a portion every day; smart brother followed, took, ran away; stupid after; smart hired a Bedouin on the condition that whoever gets angry first will skin off the face of the other; the worker complains about his job, the owner peels off his skin; a stupid brother brought him home and cured him; hired a Bedouin himself; killed a cow and a dog, brought stones instead of bread, killed a child to prevent him from crying; a Bedouin with the wife decides to run away from the worker; he hid in the chest carried by his wife; when they see the worker, the Bedouin and his wife decided to throw him into the sea at night; the worker changes places with his wife, the Bedouin drowned his wife; He is angry and cursed; the worker cut off his head and brought it to his brother]: Nowak 1969, No. 414:342-344; Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1000:495-496.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachari: Anderson 1895:42-43 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 1000:125.

Burma - Indochina. Burmese [grandfather decided to give his granddaughter for a man who is not angry; if his son-in-law gets angry, he will be a laborer all his life and will not get anything; the son-in-law worked in the field, the father-in-law came late at night and He did not bring food; his son-in-law said he was not angry - only the buffalo tails became short (he cut them off and baked them)]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 119:287.

South Asia. Santala [the rich miser doesn't pay the workers, they leave deceived; the young Kora agrees to be hired; asks for one rice and corn a year and enough land to sow them and all those grains what they will bring; food is a full sheet of rice three times a day; if the leaf is not full, the employee has the right to punish the owner, and if the employee does not do all the work due, the owner will punish him; if the employee tries to escape, he must cut off the little finger of his right hand, and if the owner does not fulfill these obligations, cut off the owner's little finger; the owner agrees; K. brings a banana leaf; after three K. has so much grain for years that the owner must plant all his land; K. agrees not to cut his finger and return half of the land after the owner has paid everything to the former employee and gave K. his daughter as a wife]: Bompas 1909, No. 16:60-63; ho [the prince became friends with the barber; his father drove him away, the barber went with him; the prince was hired to work on the condition that whoever requested the termination of the contract would allow another cut out a strip of skin; the prince could not stand the hard work and meager food, lost a piece of skin; the barber was hired under the same condition and worked so badly that the owner began to drive him away; the barber cut out a strip of his skin; they came to the land of jackals; the barber shaved the tip of his tail to the sleeping jackal; he thought there was perfume in the cave; he brought a bear, then a tiger, the same with them; the prince replaced the lost a piece of skin with the skin of a jackal]: Bompas 1909, No. 19:477-478; Punjabi [son of an intelligent wife - Ulphoo, stupid son - Shurphoo; stupid always does the opposite of what she is asked to; dying, the clever asks to send Wu . to work, and S. to school, stupid does the opposite; after studying, W. began to collect taxes; S. decides to take his place; a series of episodes follows: S. is beaten and humiliated; W. follows in his footsteps and punishes the offenders; S. is hired by a mogul on the condition: whoever gets angry will tear out the other's eye; S. is unable to complete the assigned work, loses his eye, returns home; W. goes to the robbers who deceived Sh. sold a donkey for a lot of money, who allegedly defecates with gold (W. put coins in manure); bought two birds with one stone, gave one to his wife; robbers came, W. released the hare, allegedly with orders to his wife cook food; another hare is at home and the food is ready; while eating, he pretends to be dissatisfied with his wife, hits her, then "revives" her with a stick; robbers buy a hare and a stick; the chief robber sent a hare to his wife; food not ready, he killed his wife with a stick; W. hired the same moguls who cut off S.'s nose; he is mocking errands: instead of a hare, he freshens, cooks and serves his wife's favorite dog to the moguls, feeds frogs for him, burns a plow and yoke, etc.; continues to mock the owner, who went for his new wife after the first death; the mogul is indignant, W. pulled out his eye]: Swinnerton 1892, No. 37:92-128; Kashmiris [when hiring workers, a wealthy merchant makes it a condition: if the worker is angry, he will cut off his nose; a young peasant has been hired and lost his nose; his brother requires that the condition applies both the employee and the owner; interpreting the orders in an unusual way, the employee hurts the owner's son; when ordered to monitor the windows and doors in the absence of the owner, turned them around, loaded them on coolies and also went to the party; the owner hit the worker in anger, who cut off his nose]: Knowles 1888:98-100; himachali plowmen {it is indicated that Himachal Pradesh}: Jason 1988, No. 1000:44; Bengalis: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 263 ("one of the most popular stories among Indian Muslims"; from Calcutta Review) [Halálzádah is a legitimate son, Harámzádah is illegitimate; Halalzada was hired to with the condition: if he leaves (before the contract expires), the casiy will cut off his ears and nose, and if the casiy chases him away, the employee will do the same to the owner; food for the day must be placed on a sheet; casiy He gave the worker food on a tamarind leaf (he is tiny), he could not work, Kaziy cut off his ears and nose; then Haramzad hired him; he immediately began to bring banana leaves with him when he received food; sold and stabbed goats and cows, said that wolves and tigers attacked; sold the horse, cutting off its tail and sticking it into a rat hole; said that the rats stole the horse; Haramzada cut off the ears and nose; some the details of the story are too indecent to be published]: 65-66; Devi 1915 [stingy spouses hire an employee on the condition that whoever wants to terminate the contract ahead of time cut off his nose; everyone is told that the employee is ready to be left without a nose so as not to tolerate bullying; the older brother returned without a nose, the younger brother went; while the owners are not at home, eats supplies; the owners ask bring lamb, the worker stabbed all the rams; calm the baby - the worker strangled him; the couple decided to run, but the guy hid in the chest they took with them; at night in the wife's parking lot agreed to push the guy into the well; he lay down quietly between them, the 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 when he came, give him leeches to remove bad blood; he was grabbed and leeches stuck; when he saw the worker, the owner agreed to cut off his nose just to leave; the guy stuck his nose the owner to the brother instead of the one cut off; the owner's wife was caught and she told the parents what happened to them]: 101-106; McCulloch 1912, No. 15 [the younger brother was hired by a brahman; he sets the condition: eat with tamarind leaves (they are very small), carry the owner's child, weave; if the worker wants to leave, he will lose his nose, and if the owner drives him away, the owner will lose his nose; hungry and Exhausted, the young man returned home after the owner had cut off his nose; his older brother came in place of his younger brother; interpreting the words in his own way, he poured cow manure on the roof, cut jute into pieces, prepared to weave ropes; hung the cow by the legs and poured water (instead of giving it water); cut down the garden ("cleaned it"); killed the owner's mother with a heavy trunk on her; the owner drives worker, he cut off his nose]: 131-137; Assames: Bezbarua, Kakadeuta 1937 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 1000:125; Muria [Tarang's younger brother, elder Kana; mother asks T. to warm up for she takes a shower, he pours boiling water on her; puts the corpse at the Raja fence; the Raja pushes the old woman, K. accuses him of murder, gets his daughter as his wife; the oxs' bells are ringing, tarang is tiring, T. thinks that oxen mock, kill them; K. tells him to take meat home, not show Raja's daughter; T. kills her, puts meat in her mouth; brothers run, meet 12 women; T. weeds rice for them, but receives food, begins to weed out rice stalks; he is sent to watch the baby; he makes him bait to catch crabs; both brothers run away; T. sucks buffalo milk, cuts off his nipple; brothers are hired work; the owner to choose: to pay a spoon or plate of food; K. agrees to a spoon, works hard, loses weight, admits that he lost, the owner cuts off his skin from the back of his head; T. does nothing, brings as a plate, a lotus leaf on which a lot of rice is placed; the owner admits to being a loser, T. cuts off his skin]: Elwin 1944, No. 9.2:271-274; kannada [stingy and wealthy merchant hired an employee of Bekabittu; if he kicks him out, he will pay 1000 rupees; B. destroys the merchant's farm, literally following his orders (pour food in front of the horse, but not feed the horse, etc.); when the merchant goes to his wife's relatives, B. adjusts him so that he is not fed, given a laxative, the police accuse his wife's relatives of intending to kill the merchant, etc.; the merchant fails and pays 1000 rupees]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 43:120-125; Sinhales: Goonetilleke in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 1000:125-126.

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; received money from his master, cut out his belt from his back and left]: Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:302-307; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 (Asia Minor): 371 [when dying, the father tells his sons not to hire a bald man; the eldest went, bald to meet him; then again; had to agree; instead of eating, he was given hot water; he said that he was angry, he was killed; the same with the middle one; the youngest killed the owners' child, stabbed oxen; the night lay down elsewhere, and put the owner's bed on his own; the wife threw a stone from the roof there, killing her husband; the guy married her and brought his mother to him], 575-579 [when he dies, the man tells his three sons not hire a beardless woman; the eldest goes, beardless; then runs forward to meet him halfway; says that everyone here is beardless; the owner's wife brings the worker cakes and cottage cheese: you can eat, but the pots should remain full; on the second day, the worker is angry, the beardless killed him; the same with the second brother; the third ate everything, put it aside a little, then defecated in pots, covered him with cakes; hair cut off their heads, put straw in front of them; the owner is angry, the guy killed him]; Hahn 1864 (1), No. 11 (Epirus) [dying, the father tells his three sons not to deal with beardless; the elder went to seek happiness, He meets a beardless man three times, agrees to go to work with him; he suggests that whoever gets angry will cut meat from his back; the beardless gives his older brother bread, tells him to eat Give it to himself and the dog, and bring it whole in the evening; the young man was angry, the beardless carved his meat; the same with his middle brother; the younger one went lame; he did not argue about bread, but stabbed and fried the best a sheep; people arrived; they had bread and wine; a younger brother slaughtered a calf and had a feast; the beardless man pretended that nothing had happened; this went on for several days; when the herd was completely small, the beardless man was indignant; the lame man cut the meat from his back, took his property and returned to his brothers]: 118-120; Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No.: 29 [Janos was hired by the elder on condition not to be angry; who he will be angry, the other one will cut out a belt from his back; the owner does not feed me, and he does not work and slaughter his cattle; I had to feed him; knowing that the elder's wife has a lover, I tell her to sketch pokes for beans behind the stove, pour boiling water over the wool; the lover hid behind the stove and in the wool; the elder sent Y. to the forest for the herd to be eaten by animals; I. dragged the bear and wild boars, the wild boars to the barn, the bear to pigsty; the owner asked Y. to go down into the well, covered the exit with a millstone; I got out of the millstone on my head; war began, I defeated the enemies, the king gave him his daughter], 30 [two older brothers were hired to ass with the condition not to be angry even until the first cuckoo; he cut out their belts from their backs; Janosh was hired to cut off the ears of someone who gets angry; destroys the entire priest's farm; threw a dog and a cat into the cauldron named Celery and Petrushka; gutted a child he was told to clean; pop tells his mother to climb a tree and cook; I shot her; cut off her ears]: 355-361, 361-368; Bulgarians [ pop hires an employee on the condition that another angry person rips off his back; an employee (often the youngest of three brothers, and the elders have already ripped off the skin from the back) drives the ass to a rage, rips off the ass his skin from the back, also receiving a salary]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1000:369-370; Moldovans [his elder brother hired his ass as a farmhand; if he gets angry, the pop will cut off his ear and nose; his pop does 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; Romanians [two older orphan brothers are hired as laborers to the ass; whoever gets angry first will cut their belts out of the back; after working for a year and suffering from hunger, orphans angry; the pop cut their belts from their backs and drove them away without paying; the youngest, Janosh, stabbed the goat to eat; the next time he made a fire out of the plow, stabbed and roasted the ox; when sent to the forest for firewood , the wolf and the bear ate the oxen, 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 they visited the king; agreeing with the burgomaster, the pop sends Y. 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; the pop decided to run away from the worker; he climbed into bag; he got out at rest in the evening; the pop and the hit agreed to drown him; I. swapped places and he and his ass drowned her; I marry the princess and inherits the throne]: Bîrlea 1966:475-476.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonets, Vologda, Kostroma, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Pokutye, Transcarpathia, Ugric Rus, Yekaterinoslav, Kharkiv), Belarusians [The agreement not to be angry: the owner (pop) and the farmhand (hired in three clicks in the forehead) are a framework for several stories]: SUS 1979, No. 1000:254; Russians (Moscow) [if the employee does not get along, the owner will cut the belt from the back and with a hammer in the head; if he gets along, then with the owner; the owner sent to bring the bear, the worker brought it; owner: harness into a cart and collect the debt from the water in the pool; on the shore, the worker began to weave ropes; imp: and to squeeze the shores and destroy yours; water imp: ask what he needs; worker dug a hole, above it a hat with a hole: a gold hat; an imp: race; the worker put a hare out ("boy with a finger"); now fight (the bear threw the imp into the air); who will throw the stick higher; the worker quietly threw her into the bushes, said that the stick had not returned from heaven; the imp filled the hole with gold, the worker brought it on a cart drawn by a bear; the owner wondered what to do with the burka; let him go to the horse; the bear ate the horse; the owner and his wife are running; the worker climbed into the bag with the crackers; got out at rest; made peace with the owner, began to live like relatives]: Khudyakov 1860, No. 27:107-110; Luzhitans [clever son hired a landowner; agreement: whoever gets angry cut a piece of meat from him; the guy got angry because he was not fed, returned; the stupid son went; he sold sheep to the butcher, threw his tails in the abyss, said that the wolf drove the sheep, they went to the ground; the owner told me to cook the lamb that looked at the farmhand; he stabbed everyone - they all looked; "And don't forget about the pepper"; the farmhand threw at the cauldron of the beloved master dog named Peretz; put a stone on the child to prevent him from squeaking; began to shine in the sheepfold, it burned down; the landowner had to pay a salary]: Romanenko 1962:122-124; northern 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; the Poles [two brothers are hired by the lord on the condition that the first to get angry is cut off nose; they got angry, returned without a nose; the third fool brother was hired under the same condition until the first cuckoo; doing everything badly, ruining the farm, burning the house; the owner and wife decide to run away from the employee; he hides in the bag they took with them; they agree to drown the worker; that night he changes places with the lady, the pan drowns not the employee, but the wife; or the pan tells his wife to climb the tree and to cook, the worker shot her]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1000:9; Slovaks [two brothers are smart, the third is a fool; the elder was hired as a farmhand on the condition that if he gets angry, the owner will cut off his nose; the owner does not feed him, he cut off his nose; the same is with his middle brother; the younger Adam sells grain; the owner tells him to slaughter the sheep that looks at him; everyone looked, A. slaughtered them; cooked one, throwing them into the cauldron not parsley, but a dog named Petrushka; for Christmas, the owner tells the house to be properly lit, A. set it on fire; had to go wandering; the owner agreed with his wife to push the worker into the water at night; he changed places with his wife, the owner drowned his wife; got angry, A. cut off his nose]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 13:89-91; Czechs: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1000:7-8;.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (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 the glass should be full in the evening, otherwise he would wipe it out with a belt on the back; the worker ate oil, got it with a belt; the same second; 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 flows 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; farmhand they said that kose was dead; the farmhand put an apple in the grave, the kose began to eat it; the farmhand pulled it out, killed it, and buried it here]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 28 (the same main motive, in short, No. 36, 37, Miskhor); Kalmyks : Vatagin 1964 [When dying, the old woman tells her three sons not to work for Khan Yad; the elder brother has been hired, the khan instructed to clean up the manure for Aranzal Knight; whoever gets angry, the other will cut out belts from the back; the elder brother worked until dark, got angry, the khan cut out his belts; the same middle brother; the younger Shovara plugged the horse's anus, the horse died; the khan was angry, S. cut out his belts from his back; so the sheep did not run away, cut off their hooves; to make the cows drink less, he fed them pieces of leather, cutting a leather bucket, the cows died; drowned the last bull; killed the hanshu; the khan sent him to the mill where shulma; Sh. took a bear as a companion, caught two birds with one stone; Shulma offers competitions: wrestling (S. puts his old father, a bear, instead of himself); race around the lake (Sh. hare, stroking the other at the finish line - like the same one); carry the horse around the lake (S. rides on horseback); shulma grinded the flour, gave a pipe that plays 68 melodies of happiness and 108 melodies of sorrow; S. harnessed the bear, came, let the bear go to the cows for the night, he lifted them up; Sh. plays the pipe, the sheep are dancing and the khan with them, stepped into the hearth, screams, S. cut out the second belt from the khan's back; he runs into the reeds, Sh. hid in the chest carried by the khan; the khan ran away, S. took the chest, offers to cure the daughter of another khan; we must kill Shulma in the reeds; Khan Yada was killed, S. married the khan's daughter]: 223-230; Dzhimbinov 1962 [Khan hired the poor man on the condition that whoever gets angry will allow the other to cut the belts from the back; the khan tells the horse to be stroked to lose weight; the poor man pretends to be 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 him, gives a cart of flour; the khan allows the sheep to be slaughtered, which looks at the poor man; he calls the sheep , they look, 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 is sick; the khan s The hanshees take a chest of gold, run away; the poor man sits quietly in the chest; broadcasts from the chest, tells him to take off his clothes, run into the reeds; tells another khan that two evil spirits in the reeds are to blame for his illness daughters; 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]: 61-67; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983 [the elder brother was hired as a worker for Spinodral - so far in the spring, the cuckoo does not eat, and whoever is offended first will tear off his back; he was hired as a shepherd, and he was told to plow the land more; he was angry, S. ripped off his back, he died; the same with his middle brother; the youngest was told to plow where the dog would lead; she stopped by the forest; the young man cut off her tail, she returned home, he plowed a little, stabbed the bulls with the shepherds, had a feast; S. orders to bring goats so that they smile; the young man cut their lips; tells the sheep to dance - he drove them over dry thorns; to get rid of the farmhand, S. told his mother to climb the tree and start cucking; farmhand is going to throw a stone at her, she slipped off, hung on a branch; at night S. and his wife decide to leave unnoticed; the young man hid in the chest; when S. saw him, he was angry, the young man went to skin him, S. his wife ran away, the young man took possession of their property]: 256-260; Shakryl 1975, No. 50 [the bastard has a brother and sister; together with his brother he stayed with one person; at night he decided to steal the bell from his door, but did not tear it off and took the whole door away; they climbed the tree, the door of the bastard; pilgrims returning from Mecca stopped under the tree; the bastard dropped the door, the pilgrims ran away, the brothers inherited the property; The bastard only took a bag of incense, burned it at the stake, smoke to the sky; God asked what he wanted; the bastard asked an Aphyartsa (two-string violin), from the sounds of which everyone danced; hired an ass with condition: if he gets angry first, he will be left without pay, and if the pop or popadya get angry, they will give them a chest of gold; the bastard led the goats to herd, played, they danced all day and stayed hungry; into the barn they gnaw a tree; pop, then they went to find out, they also dance, they could not eat, they gave gold; the bastard told his sister to hide the gold; went to the bazaar to sell geese; the general's son asks how much ducks ; I had to give geese for the price of ducks; the general's son marries the princess; the bastard put on a woman's dress, pretended to be a maid and told the bride that the groom was not a man; the princess settled in the house lousy, and the bastard pretended to be a bride; told the cooks to send food to his house; a feast begins, but there is no food; finding out where the valuables are, the bastard, disguised as a bride, pushed the groom into the well, took it valuables and married a princess; another king sent a bastard bull's wife to his father: let him cut off a piece of meat from him, send back both the bull and the meat; the bastard emptied the bull; the other king sent three people to identical clothes: who is a nobleman, who is a prince, who is a peasant; the bastard guessed by the position of his hands during sleep (thrown behind his head, one hand under his head, hands between his legs); the king recognized the bastard as his son-in-law]: 262-268; Abaza [when dying, the father does not tell his sons to be hired as laborers for a beard; the eldest went to hire, met a beardless man three times, stayed with him; whoever gets angry first, cut him out of his back a strip of leather; the rich man gave one tree for a month, the worker got angry, the rich man cut out a strip of leather from him; the same was to bring firewood (the donkey stood on the road); the same with his middle brother; the younger one slaughtered the sheep, eats himself and feeds dogs; beats a donkey; cut out two strips of skin from a rich man; a rich man gave half of his property to the worker and let him go]: Tugov 1985, No. 96:284-286; Balkarians (western 1960) [three brothers are mature; the elder goes to look for work; refuses to share food with the old man; is hired for a year and a day on the condition: whoever of the two is angry cuts off his nose; the guy is lazy, nothing does; the owner orders to exterminate the mice, the guy burned down the house; returned home, but did not receive a salary either; the same with his middle brother (he was kicked out when he began to take food without asking); the youngest, who was considered a fool, shared food with an old man, with ants; an ant advises hiring a khan; the khan will give his daughter to someone who rides a steep mountain on horseback; only the guy got up and took money instead of the khan's daughter; the forest climbs a tree, robbers share money under it; he dropped a branch, the robbers ran away, the guy took the money]: Malkonduev 2017:347-353; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:357-358 [Domosed remained sitting in ash, his brother Saglag went to look for work; Aldar hired him, giving him a churek and telling him to eat him 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; stabbed 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 in it from the attic; agreed with his wife to leave, D. overheard, climbed into a bag, changed clothes by the river with his sleeping wife Aldar; Aldar drowned his wife; D. cut off his tongue, returned to his brother], 366-370 [the father was hired by the ass on condition that he will be angry, he must pay in silver; the pop did not bring him food or water after work; the poor man sold his house, paid his ass; his son Zondabi hired him; sold one ox, stabbed the other; pop angry, forced to pay, but tells the employee to stay with him forever; the pop and his wife went to visit, told him to light the bridge; Z. burned down the house, the pop died of grief]; Chechens [dying, the poor man does not tell his son to be hired by a beardless person, changing clothes, meets the young man three times, hires employees on the condition that the one who is first offended will pay, and the employee will be fed until he is imprisoned hoopoe; the owner sent the young man to get firewood and told him to go where the hound was running; it crawled 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 chaff: through it Not a single person will pass; 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 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: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 127 [senior the brother was hired as a farmhand until the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo three times; if offended, he would leave without money, and if the owner was offended, he would pay well; in the end, the young man could not stand it, left without money; hired younger; does not work, stabbed a bull, a sheep; the owner tells his wife to climb a tree and cook; the worker is going to shoot the cuckoo; the owner pays him twice], 129 [the employee has 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 the side himself, the owner pushed his wife; this time he was surprised: the worker destroyed both his property and his wife]: 248- 250, 253-254; Armenians (Van Governorate) [the elder brother is the elder, the youngest is a peasant, both are rich; Satan: we must make them poke out each other's eyes; persuaded the younger one to do it headman; 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 will pay, otherwise I will cut the skin off his back; tells him to plow where I sat hound; 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 dinner; the pop puts the mother on a tree to scream with a cuckoo; the farmhand hit with her stick; the pop and his wife decided to run, the farmhand hid in the basket; urine is flowing, the pop thinks it's oil; seeing that the farmhand is with them, the pop suggests lying on the bridge and throwing the farmhand into the water at night; the farmhand threw Popadya; the pop allowed his skin to be cut]: Orbeli 1982, No. 47:83-86; Turks: Kúnos 1901 [after his father's death, mad Mehmet agrees to share cattle with his brother: the one that will enter the new barn brother will get it; only an old ox comes 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 he buries the money, leaves; sends M. to close the door; he decided to buy it to his old mother (having welded it), removed the door from its hinges so that they would not enter the house, carried it; when they saw 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 was angry, the other could drown him; the owners, horrified by what M. was doing, decided to leave, M. hides in a chest that they carry; at night, M. makes a bed by the river so that he stumbles and drowns; he changes places with the owner's wife, she drowned; the owner is angry, M. drowned him; M. dropped a dry crust into the river, became scream for her back; the genie gave him a magic table; M. began to feed others, the table was changed; the genie gave a mill from which gold and silver pour in; the same; the genie gives two batons, they beat deceivers, they all return; M. married and became a sage]: 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 rips off his back as much skin as a pair of sandals needs; the elders are back with a bloody back; the younger Keloghlan eats yogurt with a hole in the pot; kills the dog; puts an ox through a small hole, dismembering them; killed Kose's daughter with the foot of an ox; 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 it on his back (he was told look outside the door); kose and his family decide to flee, K. hid in a bag; when he left, drove away the attackers - dogs; killed a child with a stone; at night he put on a woman's dress, drowned his wife with kose (kose thought that drowns K.); tore off the skin from Kose's back; 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 bottom; kose people jump into the water; when they go under water, they make a sound that resembles the word krk ("forty"); kose also jumped; K. brought the herd to his father's house]: 71-77; Kurds: Wentzel, No. 28:227-232 at Marzolph 1984:184.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Mazendaran, Isfahan, Fars) [the cunning man is hired as an employee (sometimes after his brothers; sometimes he enters into an agreement with the owner: whoever gets angry, skin off his back); does not work, and only spoils good; must eat bread without untying the handkerchief in which the bread is wrapped - the handkerchief tears; eating yogurt without opening the wineskin makes a hole; collect freshly sown wheat - brings herbs; 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; clean the yard so that at least there is oil there - pours oil on the yard; etc.; the owners secretly leave, but the worker hides in the pack; the owners take his urine for melted butter; they want to throw the worker into the river at night; he slowly gets up and helps to the owner to throw his wife into the water]: Marzolph 1984, no.*1000:183-184; Tajiks [three sons are consistently hired by bay; whoever gets angry will cut off the other's ears; two older brothers they return without ears; younger Kahl breaks a yoke, a plow and a team with firewood every day; killed oxen, destroyed a grain supply; buy and his wife run away, but Kal hid in the chest they were carrying; cut off his ears]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:363-367 (=Amonov 1972:270-276); Turkmens [when dying, the father does not tell three sons to hire a beardless bay; the eldest is hired; whoever gets angry will be cut off the back of the head strap; the same evening, the young man was angry that there was 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 him against the wall to deaths; killed his youngest wife by hitting him with a spade; cut the throats of bulls (so that they could not stick their heads out of the barn); bai and his old wife decide to escape, the young man hid in a bag; on the river bank they agree throw the worker into the water at night; at night he pretends to be bay's wife, 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; Pashtuns [simpleton is hired on the condition that if he does not fulfill his instructions, the owner will cut off his nose, and if the owner does not supply him with grain and oxen, he will lose his nose himself; on the very first day, the simpleton is left without a nose; his brother was hired by the same owner; destroys grain, breaks the plow, kills oxen; the owner cannot make up for it, the worker cut off his nose]: Thorburn 1876:199-200; (cf. Baluchis [after the death of his father, two brothers went bankrupt; the eldest 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 stay; 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; does not know 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; the same for the next day; the man tells us to sweep the yard out so that oil can be poured and licked; the guy took the man's wife's wineskin and poured it out in the yard; the man and his wife decide to run; the guy hid in a bag which they took with them; they stopped at the bridge, 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 his wife the owner and married her; so he avenged his older brother]: Zarubin 1949, No. 9:67-79).

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [the master takes a farmhand: if he gets angry, he will cut his belt out of his back; his older brother is angry, the same middle brother; the younger one exchanged grain for rolls, killed an ox, sold pigs, and tails he stuck him into the quagmire, said that they had drowned; he lifted one cow to the birch tree, gave the others to the butcher: the cows flew to heaven; the master decided to burn Yu 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 both and took possession of everything]: Löbite 1965:330-333; Latvians: Brivzemniaks 1887 , No. 11 [Rukis ("hard worker") and Lituvens ("nightmare") hired a Jew on the condition that the angry person's ears would be cut off first, then several fingers, then his nose; the Jew tortured R. with work, cut off what he promised; then L. went; did not smear it, but filled the wagon with tar; crippled the cattle so that the animals, as ordered, would go home "bouncing"; eating in the tavern at his master's expense; hit him; cut off his ears, fingers and nose]: 12-13; Nierde 1952 [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets are eaten by 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; first at night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, a six-headed giant on the second night; on the third night he was nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see, that the water in the bucket became blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife will become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not allow him to lie down, get drunk, cuts a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line in the door there, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, stolen there; K. threw off the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers were afraid, K. went down, cut off a feature of the head; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak water instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and covered the hole with a stone; 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 ogre, poted 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. reveals eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9th head 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 for K. the horse to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell in workers who become angry cut three strips of meat from the back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell has to answer that he did 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); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother of the devil, K. threatens to cut her belts from her sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. lowers the dumplings by the shirt, and ate the hell, with his stomach bad; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) hell leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, his younger brother; the devil cannot catch up with him; agrees to carry the felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed the devil's children; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream instead of himself for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and 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, the hell 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 himself]: 116-146; Livs [Ants is hired as a servant (Vanapagan); he goes to the funeral, tells them to take care of the children, in the morning also come to the funeral, look at the stove where the hell will sleep; A. gutts the children, hangs their bodies on the walls, takes out his eyes, comes to hell, throws them to him; on the way home, the devil pulls out an oak tree: let A. carries the top, and he, damn, will take up the butt; A. says that he is stronger, chooses a butt, sits on an oak tree himself, which the devil drags without looking back; at home, the devil threw an oak tree, A. jumped up and grabbed 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 it with 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 devil sprinkles all the money he has; the horse laughs, A. says it's his father who pulls on his pants; damn scared; hell offers his wife and A. spend the night in bags by the river; A. persuades his wife to change the devil, throws a bag with his wife into the water; now A. agrees to leave]: Setälä 1953 in Kippar 2002:68-71; (cf. Estonians (Viljandi) [hell (vanapagan) hired Hans on condition not to be angry; whoever gets angry will cut off the other nose; when the hell began to rip out the spruce trees with roots, H. pretended to hurt stomach; suggested that the devil carry the butts and he the tops of his head, sit on the Christmas trees himself, carry it with them; H. pretends to count wolves; hell runs with urine and does not look back; hell tells me to cook for three days of beer; H.: while they were running, he twisted his leg; the devil himself brings barley to the brewery; H. sold barley, bought tar, drank it instead of beer and praised it; in the haymaking, H. mows his braids with a pen; hell forced say he's not angry; but then gives X. the best pieces, before that, only bones; hell: let the tools work themselves; while the hell slept, H. mowed his plot; hell called the devils and they're all for him did; hell offered to fight; H.: first with my older brother; set the bear on the line, the hell barely escaped; hell: race; H. offers his younger brother, a hare, the hell did not catch up with him; steel throw stones; the stone fell back by noon; H. threw the sparrow, three days later the devil thought that stone X. was stuck on the cloud; hell with his grandfather's club, he threw it almost to the cloud; H. can't do it raise; pretends to wait for the clouds to swim, throw it at him; it's a pity for the club, tells you not to throw it; the devil offers to choose part of the crop; H. chooses the tops of wheat, then the roots of the turnips; both times hell losing; in the forest both wanted to drink, H. offered to drill holes in the birches to drink juice; we'll drill with a penis; H. has a drill with him, the hole is ready, the poor devil is suffering; in the forge he taught H. fuse pieces of iron; hell went to the wedding, ordered H. to clean and bring his children, he would also throw his eyes at him {I mean looked}; H. gutted the children, washed their intestines, strung his eyes on a rope, brought a line, threw his eyes into his chest; hell remembered that he should not be angry; decided to get rid of H.; told the old woman to climb under the window on a birch tree and cook {this means that the end had come term of employment}; H.: it's too early for the cuckoo, took a gun, shot; hell: where do you sleep? H.: on the stove; he lay down where the grain was dried; at night, the devil threw a knife on the stove, there were dishes with milk, everything spilled; hell: I'm in cockroaches; the same the next night (H. said he would sleep on a bench near stoves, on the stove myself); hell: I scared the cat; the same on the third night (I lay down not where the grain is dried, but on the bench by the stove); hell decided to run away from H., took a bag of money with him, H. hid in it; on Halt H. slowly got out: he barely caught up with you! I had to pay the line, he became impoverished himself, and H. bought a farm; in winter he cut down the forest; the line: I warm my hands; hell: mine was frozen; H. offered to put his hands in a half-split log, knocked out a wedge; freed him for his promise bring a bag of gold; hired H. as a shepherd; fell asleep on a hot day, the cattle rushed home, trampled the line to death]: Kippar 1910, No. IV.6:78-85); setu [(first-person narrative; Ivvan - the youngest of five brothers; the eldest goes to hire a farmhand; the pop promises 1000 a year, but if the farmhand swears, he will cut off his nose and drive him away without paying; and if he swears himself, he would pay twice as much and cut off his nose; three days before the end of his term, his brother grinded all day, but they did not bring him food; he swore, the pop cut off his nose and drove him away; the same with the other brothers; I. went; did not grind and went to bed; the pop swore, I. cut off his nose; he offered to send I. to the swamp for hay, there are devils; I. says hell he came to measure the land to build a church; hell reported it The main feature, he suggested: let him race with I.: first overtake my younger brother around the lake; let one in and the other in his bag; when the hell ran, the hare supposedly had been here for a long time; the same is to fight; I. offered a line to fight with his grandfather, it is a bear, who ripped off the line; the same: throw a hammer; when the devil throws and the hammer falls back, he went deep into the ground; I. pretends that is going to throw the hammer on the cloud; the devil does not tell me to throw it, for the elder devil ordered the hammer to be returned; the eldest devil decided to pay off, I. asked for three bags of gold and three hay; the ass had to pay what he promised I. brought gold home; the king promises to give his daughter to someone who would cure her; I. came to heal her, asked for three decks of cards, three cast-iron cauldrons and a bucket of vodka as a reward; he waited in the princess's room; he came in hell from the swamp, I. began to play cards with him at clicks; I. lost, put three cauldrons on his head; hell clicked three times, breaking three cauldrons; the rooster sang and the hell was gone; the princess was better in the morning; told her father that I. he played cards with himself, and then the cauldrons crashed; the next night I. asked for cards and a hammer; gave the devil a drink, beat him with a hammer; the princess is even better; on the third night I. asked for 10 rolls of leather; hell won, began to beat I., but pierced only 9 skins, and then the rooster sang; in the morning the princess recovered; on the fourth night, I. got the devil drunk again, tied it to the bench, and in the morning he ran away with the bench; on the fifth night I. asked the blacksmith to make an iron man and, before starting to play cards, ordered him to tear out his tongue; the iron man closed his jaws, I. began to beat him with a hammer; the devil promised to leave the princess in Peace; I. received the princess and the kingdom; and then the war broke out, his wife and children were killed, and I., under the name of Fyodor, remarried and began to live in the village of Lytina]: Kalkun 2015:20-24; Danes [the poor man tells his three sons to look for food themselves; the elder Per hired the owner on condition not to be angry: otherwise he will not get anything, and the owner will cut the belts from his back and stomach; the term of work until the first spring cuckoo; the owner, who is actually a troll, makes him work, does not feed; Per is angry, the owner cut his leather belts, sent him with nothing; the same with his second son Pelle; younger Esben threshes rye, immediately changes it to his neighbor for food and drink; the owner tells him to plow where the dog runs; E. hits the dog, he runs home, E. with horses followed, broke one leg; E. sold a herd of pigs, He drowned his thin beard in the swamp, so that only the tail is visible; tells the owner that the pigs have gone into the swamp; the owner began to pull the tail of the hog, the tail came off; the owner tells the cart to be smeared with tar, E. smeared seat; the owner tells you to be more affectionate with the little one, referring to his children; E. summoned the poor, distributed property; the owner orders to fill the old well with anything, E. throws property into it; orders returning to make a fire in the yard, E. set fire to the outbuilding; to terminate the contract, the troll smeared his wife with tar, rolled her in feathers, planted her on a tree, ordered her to cook; E. killed her with a stone; the troll became angry, E. killed him]: Braude, Zolotorevskaya 1969:25-38; Finns [older brother hired to hell; whoever gets angry first will cut a belt from the back; hell told me to chop firewood, but the ax does not pierce wood; the young man was angry, the hell cut out his belt from his back; the same with his middle brother; the younger Mathias hacked the gray cat, after which the logs began to split easily; the devil sent M. to bring him in oxen firewood from the forest and let it come back 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; hell hacked his wife with an ax and they threw the corpse into the lake together; hell took a new wife, told M. to arrive young the whole farm was in red; M. set it on fire; the devil ordered 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 says come to look at his 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 they bit; hell sends M. to 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 bed linen, went out for breakfast in the morning; hell decided to hack M. again 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; Norwegians [king promises a daughter to someone who will build a ship that moves by water and land; only the youngest of three brothers helps the old man, the old man builds a ship for him; on the way to the court, the young man meets and companions people with unusual abilities (one eats stones, the other hears grass growing, etc.); the king offers more and more difficult tasks; with the help of his assistants, the young man does everything and gets the princess]: Hodne 1984, No. 513:119-120; Swedes [young man (whose birth was unusual) sets off, meets and companions people with unusual abilities (pulling trees, blowing heavily, runner, causing frost, moving faster than a bird, listening, eating, drinking, crumbling stones, an arrow, an omniscient, etc.); with the help of an old man or on his own, a young man builds a ship that moves along water and by land; challenges usually include a running competition with a princess whom the young man wants to marry, eat a whole ox, withstand the heat, etc.; the hero wins with the help of his companions]: Liungman 1961, No. 513AB: 135-138; Western Sami, Icelanders, Veps: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1000:7-8.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 72 [three brothers take turns hiring to work for the ass; he sets a condition; whoever gets angry will cut off the other nose; the elder Mikal cuts firewood, does not get 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; Tatars: Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956 [the father tells his eldest son not to hire Musa; the guy comes and refuses to hire M., but he runs ahead, meets the guy again; the guy thinks that everyone in the village has the name M., is hired; if the employee expresses dissatisfaction, he will receive not a fee, but a hundred whips; this is what happened to him ; the same with the middle brother; the younger one slaughters M.'s cattle himself; he sends him for horses to a forest lake; the guy weaves a rope by the lake, answers the wonder that he wants to hang the lake to the sky; the diva dives, pulls out a horse, promises to give if the guy can carry the horse around the lake; shows how to do it, he is very tired; the guy rides around the lake on horseback; the elder diva offers to throw him to the sky and catch an iron club; the guy says he will throw it on the cloud, the divas ask not to do it; agree to take the guy home; he calls the fallen oak and millstone his mother's spindle and spindle; the divas bring them to M., that frightened; at night, M. and his wife pour boiling water into the place where the guy sleeps, but he bounced, in the morning says that it was raining warmly; M. and his wife decided to run; the guy took out pies from the bag, ate it himself; they lie down by the river sleep; the guy goes out, M. is angry, the guy hits him with a whip]: 115-123; Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 76 [bai hired an employee, the agreement is not to be angry; when a nightingale flies to bird cherry - 200 rubles; senior, middle brothers are angry, pay bay; younger Shombay does not take care of the child, stabbed horses; bai sends them to the mill where the devils are; S. pretends to throw a woman into the sky to drive piles, and pushed her into the water himself; releases a hare under the guise of his son to compete in running; the devils gave him flour instead of the chaff, which he ordered to grind; he poured flour into the mud, the cattle eats; bai put his daughter on a tree to whistle as a nightingale; S. her knocked down, received 200 rubles and left], 77 [by Atbasar hired an employee until the first cuckoo on condition not to be angry; he was told to herd the herd, the horses ran away; in a dream, the old man tells him to say special words, horses came running; a worker stabbed one foal; so every day; A.'s wife drives cuckoos to delay payday; the worker killed her; A. poisoned the stones in the bathhouse; the worker took out the stones, washed himself, then returned it; A. died himself]: 303-308, 309-311; Bashkirs [when dying, the father tells his sons not to hire a man named Usak-Kusyak; the elder brother Gadel goes; the Criminal Code meets halfway three times, everyone is dressed once richer; says that they all have the name of the Criminal Code; the US sets the condition: hiring for a year, cut off his ears; does not feed the employee, cut off his ears; younger brother Gazim is hired; asks which Slaughter a sheep for Eid al-Adha; who looks at you; stabbed everyone; the child whines, asks to go to the yard; G. takes him out of need twice, but does not let him go out of need; when the son whines for the third time, the father speaks hearts: to sit on a stake with his stomach open; G. puts the child on a stake; MUSTACHE: where the dog will pass, even the horse; the dog crossed a marshy stream; G. cut the horse into pieces, threw it over the stream; sold the millet that he was sent to reap; the Criminal Code pretended to be dead, G. poured boiling water on him; cut off his ears, took his earnings]: Barag 1992, No. 1:20-23; Mordovians [pop negotiates with employee: which of them he will be angry, another can cut a belt from his back; gives the worker bread and milk, tells him to feed the dog, but to keep the bread intact; the hungry worker comes in the evening; the pop tells him take his sick daughter out into the yard, during which time she eats dinner; the worker is angry, the pop cut out his belt; another farmhand ate the core of the bread, immediately sent the dog home and came for her; killed the priest's daughter with a stick; the pop and his wife decided to run, the worker hid in the bag they took with them and then got out]: Paasonen 1941:332-334); Chuvash [Tungay brothers, Taral, Akhvandyuk; elder Tungay was hired by ass with the condition not to be angry for a year; whoever gets angry, the other will peel off his back; T. could not take out all the manure, got angry, lost his skin; the same Taral; A. sharpens a knife, the bull promises more manure do not pile up; then A. slaughtered all the sheep, ate them together with the other shepherds; the pop sent A. to the forest; there the bear ate the horse; A. harnessed the bear, came to the ass, put the bear in the stall, and at night he ate the horse; the pop sent A. to the mill where the devils were; they brought Satan, he asked him to raise his eyelids; without waiting for it, A. jumped on Satan's head, cut down his horns; Satan asked him to let him go and told him to hell do all the work for A.; A. comes on a bear with the devil, puts him in the house; the pop is angry, A. ripped his skin off his back; fits the torn skin bands to his brothers]: Sidorova 1979:188-194 .

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [(plot known)]: Mabegnazarov 1977:240-243 (in Karakalpak) in Barag 1992:423; (cf. Karakalpaks [buy named Amankul; everyone who is hired was given a pair of boots; as soon as they wear out, you will get a one-year-old calf; but even in 4 years the boots did not wear out; the laborers left with nothing; a young horseman was hired; noticed that during the night the boots become unworn; the old man horseman: do not take off your boots at night; they are made of human skin and rest if they are removed, as a person rests in a dream ; A. is forced to give the guy a cow]: Aimbetov 2014, vol. 67-76:24-25; isn't this text Barag referring to?) ; Kyrgyz [three brothers live near Aldarkos; the youngest comes to hire workers; A.: whoever gets angry will cut off the other; every evening A. gives the employee a piece of fat, he keeps him above the fire, the fat melts, the worker goes to bed hungry; the worker is angry, A. cut off his head; the same with his middle brother; the third brother is as tall as a finger and with a beard to his knees; A. tells him to take his daughter on fresh air so she doesn't cry; the dwarf brother stabs her with a pin, the baby yells; A.: throw her to the ground! the worker did so; to bury the girl, you have to cut down the frozen ground; A. sent an employee for an ax; the child's mother cries, does not listen; A.: yes, crack her with an ax! he cracked; A. decided to run away from the worker, that night he got into the bag; A. carries the bag, hears the worker's cry; thinks he can hear it; cut off his right ear, then his left ear; the worker got out by the river, A. decided to push him into the water at night; fell asleep and the worker pushed him himself]: Muchnik 1944:44-45.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols [the rich man hired the youngest of the two brothers for a while until the cuckoo has a snack; whoever gets angry first will pay the other a thousand tugriks; the youngest is tired, angry, paid; the eldest went brother; is idle; stabbed all the sheep ("he got each one"); the rich man tells his wife to climb a tree and cook; the farmhand is going to shoot; the rich man gave him 2000 tugriks]: Mikhailov 1962:180-181 (=1967:23- 24).

Western Siberia. The Nenets [two poor brothers, one was hired by a rich man before the cuckoo screams; whoever is offended will give another a hundred deer; the owner tells them to return when it gets dark; the worker has come after entering; the owner says that now it is a month; the employee is offended, forced to work for free until the fall; a second brother has been hired, does not work at all; to get rid of him, the owner tells his wife to climb a tree and scream with a cuckoo; the worker pointed his gun at it; the owner had to give a hundred deer]: Tereshchenko 1949:155-159.