K67D. Running away from an employee, ATU 1132.

.17.21.23.27.-.33.36.

An employee (rarely a husband) has annoyed the owner (wife) so much that he or she decides to flee, taking his property. The employee hides in a bag (chest) with property and finds himself next to him again.

Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Bhutan, Bengalis, Oriya, Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Romanians, Poles, Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Moscow, Pskov, Voronezh, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Karachays or Balkarians, Chechens, Lucks, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Vakhans, Yazgulyams, Western Sami, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Livonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Mordovians, Udmurts, Komi, Kazakhs, North-Eastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the cannibal kidnapped the young man's sister; he found her, stayed there; when he left, his sister's son warned him to be afraid of Goat-Bearded, gave his three hairs - if burned, he would come to the rescue; the young man was hired as an employee to Goatbeard on the condition that an angry other would cut out the belt from his back; the Goatbeard sent his daughter with food for the worker, but on condition not to untie the knot or break the cake; in the evening, the young man confesses that he is angry, the 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 carved a belt from his back]: Weissbach 1908, No. 18:114-119; Lebanese Christian Arabs ("The stories are written in the dialect of the Christians of Beirut") [one of the two brothers went look for work; the second, named Jiī, advised not to hire a person without facial hair; the brother became an employee of a priest without a mustache or beard on the following condition: the angry person will a strip of skin between the eyes was cut off; the priest ordered to take the dog, donkey and wheat, while feeding the dog wheat bread and eating barley himself; the young man fulfilled this requirement; he felt dizzy head, so he sowed only half of the grain; the priest beat him; the young man confessed that he was angry; the priest cut off a strip of skin between his eyes; the young man returned home and told him what had happened J.; he hired a priest on the same condition; the priest told him to take a donkey, a dog and sow six measures of wheat, feed the dog wheat bread and eat barley himself, and bring him on the way back some firewood; J. ate wheat bread, beat the dog to death, took two sticks, put them in the ass and buried the wheat; then returned to the priest and told him what had happened; the priest told him to take it out the child outside; J. threatened the child, he cried; the priest ordered him to slap his hand; J. hit the child and killed him; the priest told J. to take a pair of pulled bulls and take them to the sun; J. stabbed them and threw the pieces on the roof; the priest told his wife to slaughter the chickens before leaving; J. overheard, climbed into the box and ate the chicken meat; the priest and his wife took a box with they reached the sea with themselves; J. got out and asked if the priest was angry; the priest told his wife that when J. fell asleep, they would throw him into the sea with her; J. wrapped himself in a veil stolen from the priest's wife; he woke him up at night and told him to help throw J. into the sea; as a result, his wife was drowned; the priest confessed that he was angry; J. cut off a strip of skin between his eyes and left]: Huxley 1902, No. 108:253-255; Arabs (?) -Christians in Syria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1132:708.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Bhutan [the elder brother is strong and stupid, the younger brother is smart; tells the elder to bring him food to the field without getting dirty; he sees cow droppings on the road, asks him to move away; then throws a stone at him, manure splashed the food; he began to wash each drawing separately; his younger brother came and told them to go watch the oxen so that they did not move (I mean they did not go anywhere); the older brother cut off their tails then ears, then legs; now they do not move; the elder decided to leave the younger one unnoticed; packed the provisions in a bag; the youngest sat in the bag himself; the youngest wonders - somewhere older now; that: I'm here; they they come into the house; it is empty, but soon the spirits (shinpo) that inhabited it appear; the brothers see their tails lowered through holes in the ceiling of the Shinpo; the elder grabs one and holds it; the shinpo run away; then return; the older brother pees on top of their hot frying pan; splashes of fire, the shinpo run away again; they come back again; the younger brother fights and loses strength; the elder unwinds everyone by the tail and throws them far into mountains]: Choden 1994:83-87.

South Asia. Bengalis [stingy spouses hire an employee on the condition that whoever wants to terminate the contract ahead of time cut off his nose; everyone is driven to the point that the employee is ready to be left without a nose just to do not tolerate bullying; the older brother returned without a nose, the youngest went; while the owners are not at home, eats supplies; the owners ask for lamb, the worker slaughtered all the rams; calm the baby - The worker strangled him; the couple decided to run, but the boy hid in the chest they had taken with them; at night, in the parking lot, the couple agreed to push the boy into the well; he lay quietly between them, husband pushed his wife into the well; went to her parents; the guy ran ahead, said that the owners' son-in-law was crazy, so their daughter asked him to give him leeches when he came to remove bad blood; they grabbed and stuck leeches; when they saw the worker, the owner agreed that he would cut off his nose just to leave; the guy stuck the owner's nose to his brother instead of the one cut off; the owner's wife was caught and she told parents, what happened to them]: Devi 1915:101-106; oriya (bhattra caste) [spouses are childless, wife is stingy, only saves money, sells chickens, does not allow her husband to eat chicken; his field is large hollow tree; he tells his wife that the goddess living in the tree wants offerings from his wife, otherwise she will punish him; the wife puts cooked chicken in the hollow every day, and the husband secretly eats it; once she spied and found her husband; decided to go to her mother's native village, prepared a large basket where she put her property; her husband quietly threw him away and climbed in by himself; the wife carried the basket over her head; when she heard a noise, put it on the ground and looked inside; both returned home and no longer quarreled]: Tauscher 1959, No. 54:115-116.

The Balkans. Moldovans [the older brother hired the ass as a farmhand; if he gets angry, the pop will cut off his ear and nose; the pop does not feed him, the worker is angry, the pop cut off his ear and nose; the same middle brother; younger Pekale agreed on the same terms until the cuckoo eats; sold oxen, eats and drinks for his own pleasure, exchanged sheep for bagpipes to which the pop dances against desire; the pop calls P. showed bagpipes and hits; tied millstones to his feet, still dances; tells him to make a bridge from porch to gate so that it is strong on one side and bends on the other; P. kills sheep, makes a bridge from their bodies; the pop sends P. to hell to the mill, but puts not grain into the bags, but ash; P. puts the devils under the millstones, threatens to burn the mill, they give 12 bags of flour; they break the wagon, P. makes new wheels, devils' bodies were swallowed; wolves ate oxen, P. harnessed wolves; they ate cattle in the ass's barn; booty's mother-in-law climbed a tree, cuckoo cuckoo, P. killed her with a stone; 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]: Botezatu 1981:339-349; Romanians [two older orphan brothers] they 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 are angry; the pop cut their belts out of their backs and drove them away without paying; the youngest, Janosh, stabbed a 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 bear ate the ox, and the hell 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; after agreeing with the burgomaster, the pop sends Y. to war; he returns with the killed a horse taken from his priest; adjusts as if the horse was accidentally killed by the pop himself; the pop and the hit decided to run away from the worker; he climbed into the bag; he got out at rest in the evening; the pop and hit agreed on him drown; I swapped places and he and the priest drowned her; I. marries a princess and inherits the throne]: Bîrlea 1966:475-476; Bulgarians [pop take a chest of property and flee from employee; employee hides in a chest carried by pop]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1132:386; Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Romanians : Uther 2004 (2), No. 1120:40-41.

Central Europe. Poles [two brothers are hired by Mr. on the condition that the first person who gets angry will be cut off his nose; they are angry, return without a nose; the third fool brother was hired under the same condition for up to the first cuckoo; does everything badly, ruins the farm, burns down the house; the owner and wife decide to run away from the worker; he hides in the bag they took with them; they agree to drown the worker; that at night he changes places with a lady, the pan drowns not the employee, but the wife; or the pan tells his wife to climb a tree and cook, the worker shot her]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 1000:9; Slovaks: Uther 2004 (2) , No. 1132:43; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonets, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Pskov, Voronezh, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Yekaterinoslavskaya), Belarusians [Hostess (pop) dumped into the water instead of an employee]: SUS 1979, No. 1120:264-265; 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. was the devil]: Malinka 1902, No. 53:328-330; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [To the master, the father of three daughters, a guy comes to beg alms, The master feels sorry for him and takes him to work: herd hares. Well done, he can't catch scattered hares. The old man gives the pipe, the hares run to its sound. It seems unprofitable for the master to pay a good job, he decides to punish him somehow. She sends her daughter to buy a hare, she goes to bed with the shepherd and pays a hundred rubles, he gives the hare. When the pipe sounds, the hare runs away from the girl. The same thing happens with the second, third sister and lady (each next one gives more money). The master goes to buy a hare, the shepherd offers to kiss the horse's ass, the master agrees, but at the sound of the pipe, the hare returns again. The master and his wife came up with the idea that the shepherd would tell stories and put them in a bag. When he starts talking, the guy shames his sisters, then his lady, they all run out of the house. When he talks about his master, he tells him to end the tales and runs away. The lady offers to leave the shepherd, who hides in the cover of the stroller, reminds him that the master did not pay him. At the station, he rushes to the master, he gives all the money]: Onchukov 1917, No. 103:249-251; Russians (Vologodskaya) [the poor man ordered three men as an employee, took a deposit from each; the men understood that he had deceived them, the poor man heard, went to hell; the devil gave him vodka, told him to rest for three days; on the fourth hell he cut down an aspen, carried it; the man told him to take the line to the top, sat down on the butt himself, urges; hell threw aspen across the river to make lava, tired; the wife fed the worker the devil; hell and his wife decided to kill him at night - he is painfully strong; the man put his stupa in his place, lay down on the hay himself; at night, the devil hit the mortar with a 40-pound club; in the morning, the devil saw a live worker; agreed with his wife to leave home, collect money in two bags - the worker climbs into a bag to the vert, cuts a hole when sees that the devil is walking across their field, threatening him out of the bag; the devil throws the bag in fear, not realizing that the man is there; throws the bag and the hell, both run; the man takes the money, gives it to the men, gets it household]: Burtsev 1895, No. 31:142-146 (=Gura 1965, No. 40:264-265); Russians (Moscow) [if the employee does not get along, the owner will cut his belt from the back and a hammer into the head; if he gets along, then with the owner; the owner sent to bring the bear, the worker brought him; the owner: harness him into the cart and collect the debt from the water in the pool; at the shore, the worker began to weave ropes; the imp: and to squeeze the shores and destroy yours; water imp: ask him what he needs; the worker dug a hole, above it a hat with a hole: a gold hat; imp: race; the worker kicked out the hare ("boy with a finger"); now fight (bear threw the imp into the air); who would throw the stick higher; the worker quietly threw it 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 bear; the owner remarked - where to put 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 as relatives]: Khudyakov 1860, No. 27:107-110; Russians (Moscow) [the fool was told to crumble onions and parsley into soup, watch the door; he wants to slaughter Luka and Peter's children, took the door off his hinges and carried it; hoping that he had been killed by a bear, the old men sent him to bring an English cow; he brought a bear, the bear slaughtered the cows; the old men decided to run; at night the fool ate what his mother had in store, climbed into the bag himself ; the old people stopped for a snack, and a fool in the bag; I had to come back]: Chudinsky 1864, No. 10:58-62.

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; Kalmyks [khan hired the poor man to work on the condition that he , whoever gets angry will allow the other to cut the belts from the back; the khan tells the horse to be stroked so that it loses weight; the poor man pretends to let go of its guts; the khan sends it to the mill at night grind flour, give ash; the poor man carves fire, the devils are afraid of it, give a cart of flour; the khan allows the slaughter of a sheep that looks at the poor man; he calls the sheep, they look, he slaughter everyone; the khan sends on 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 and the khansha take a chest of gold, run away; the poor man quietly sits down 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 daughter's illness; the army drove the fugitives out of the reeds drove into a dense forest; Khan's daughter recovered, the poor man married her]: Jimbinov 1962:61-67; Abkhazians [the elder brother was hired by Spinodral - until the cuckoo eats in the spring, and who was the first he will be offended, his skin should be ripped off his back; he was hired as a shepherd, and he was told to plow the ground; he was angry, S. ripped off his back, he died; the same with his middle brother; the younger one was told to plow wherever he led dog; 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. tells them to bring the goats so that they smile; the young man cut their lips; tells the sheep to dance - he drove them along the dry thorns; to get rid of the farmhand, S. told his mother to climb the tree and start cucking; the 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 became angry, the young man went to skin him, S. and his wife ran away, the young man took possession of them property]: Bgazhba 1983:256-260; Ossetians [Homebody 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 will cut off his tongue; S. cannot fulfill the condition, returns without a tongue; D. goes; slaughtered Aldar's cows, ate, fed others, brought the churek whole; D. had a pipe, began to play, everything danced, Aldar hid in a box, but fell out of the attic in it; agreed with his wife to leave, D. overheard, climbed into a bag, changed clothes by the river with Aldar's sleeping wife; Aldar drowned his wife; D. cut off his tongue, returned to his brother]: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:357-358; Karachays or Balkarians: Laipanov 1957:25ff in Uther 2004 (2), No. 1132:43; Chechens [when dying, the poor man does not tell his son to be hired by a beardless, changing clothes, he meets the young man three times, hires him on the condition that the one who is first offended will pay, and the employee will be fed until the hoopoe is sharpened; the owner sent the young man for firewood and ordered to go where the hound was running; it climbed into the hole under the gate, the young man cut the arba, threw it through the hole into the yard; make a fence; the young man sprinkles a chaff: no one will pass through it; the owner steps, the young man hits him in the legs with a stake: well, is it over? the owner tells his mother to climb the apple tree and sharpen the hoopoe; the young man shot the hoopoe, the mother fell dead; the owner and his wife decided to flee, the young man hid in the chest, left when the chest was opened on the river bank; they decided to push the worker into the water at night; the young man dragged his sleeping husband to his seat, his wife kicked him off the high bank]: Malsagov 1983, No. 66:215-217; Lucky [mother is old, elder the son went to look for work, hired Beardless on the condition that if he regretted being hired, the owner would peel his skin off his back; he could not clean the huge barn, lost his skin band and was thrown into the chest; the same with middle brother; the youngest did not row manure, but broke shovels one by one; began to force Beardless to feed him well; when leaving for the wedding, the owner ordered the buffaloes to be fed so that their heads would not be from under the hay were visible; the guy cut off the heads of buffaloes, spread them out in feeders, covered it with hay; the son of the Bearded asks for a buffalo leg; father: leave it to hit your head; the guy killed the child with a buffalo with a leg; Beardless sent the guy for a pickaxe, the daughter said she did not know where the pickaxe was; Beardless: to have a hoe on her head, the pickaxe is under the bed; the guy killed the girl with the heel of a pickaxe; Beardless with his wife decided to run away; the guy quietly climbed into the chest; at night, Beardless and his wife agreed to push the guy off the cliff at night; he swapped places with the woman, Beardless pushed his wife; the guy tore off the cliff skin from Beardless's back, freed and cured his brothers, threw Beardless into the same chest, took possession of his property]: Khalilov 1965, No. 79:247-251; Georgians [the employee agreed with the owner: if he he will be surprised, he will receive a hundred chervonets, but nothing; the worker sold all the household goods; the owners decide to run away from him, put the bread in the chest; the worker secretly climbed there himself; during the night, the owner agreed with his wife to push the worker into the ravine; he quietly dragged the hostess to the owner's feet, lay down on his side, the owner pushed his wife; this time he was surprised: the worker destroyed both his property and his wife]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 129:253-254; Armenians (Van Governorate) [the elder brother is the elder, the youngest is a peasant, both are rich; Satan: we must make them gouge out each other's eyes; persuaded the youngest to make him the head; does not know Turkish, he was driven away; then he went on a journey; pop: whoever of the workers does not get angry before the cuckoo arrives, I will pay him, otherwise I will cut the skin off his back; tells to plow where the hound sat; she sat on a rock, the pop carved the skin of his younger brother; the elder threw the dog into the river, raped the priest's daughter, who brought lunch; the pop puts the mother on a tree to scream cuckoo; the farmhand hit her with a stick; the pop and his wife decided to run, the farmhand hid in the basket; urine is flowing, the pop thinks it's oil; seeing that the farmhand is with them, the pop suggests lying on the bridge and throw the farmhand in at night water; the farmhand threw off his ass; the pop allowed him to be cut out]: Orbeli 1982, No. 47:83-86; Turks [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 wise man]: Kúnos 1901:42-52.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [a cunning man is hired as an employee (sometimes after his brothers; sometimes he makes an agreement with the owner: whoever gets angry, skin off his back); does not work, but only spoils good; must eat bread without untying the handkerchief in which the bread is wrapped - tears the handkerchief; eating yogurt without opening the wineskin makes a hole; collecting freshly sown wheat - brings herbs; bring game from hunting - kills oxen; bringing firewood breaks the plow for firewood; washing, feeding a cow kills it; watching a spinner girl kills her; cleaning the yard so that at least there is oil, pours oil on the yard; and 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, helps the owner throw him into the water his wife]: Marzolph 1984, no.*1000:183-184; Tajiks [older brother hired to work for a year for a goat every month; the owner feels sorry for the goats, he fed the farmhand so much that he died; same middle brother; younger Plesivets follows orders literally; cut off the legs of pets and threw them into the water ("so as not to be separated from the water"), washing the floors, poured oil on them; removed the door from the hinges and took them out into the yard; the owner and his wife decided to flee; Plesivec hid in a khurjin with meat; went out; they agreed to throw him into the water at night; at night he woke up the bay's wife, with her they drowned the bay himself; in the house of bay Pleshivey settled his mother]: Osmanov 1989:526-529; Bukhara Arabs [bai kept a farmhand, fed him freshmen for a year; the farmhand died; bai took his brother as a laborer; he also died; took his third brother as a laborer, whose name was Hamadak; he also gave him fresh water; H. got wet alone, ate it and saw that the water had turned yellow; realized that bai had killed his brothers to death; when bai went to the bazaar, H. ordered: "You will sweep the yard like this, so that you can lick oil on it; so that cattle do not raise their heads from the nursery; the bird does not tear its beak off the grain; so that you do not take your back away from the gate!" ; H. swept the yard, spilled four jugs of butter on it; slaughtered all the cattle, put their heads in a nursery with food; slaughtered the chickens, put their heads on grains; broke the gate, tied them to his back; who returned the bay asked, "Didn't you order it yourself?" ; bay's mother died; when she was carried to the cemetery, they forgot her shovel; bai told H. to bring it; he went to the gate, pretended to be a stutter, shouted: "BBC!" (bibi 'mistress'; ber instead of bil 'shovel'); buy shouted: "Carry a shovel!" ; H.: "The hostess does not give a shovel!" ; buy: "Go hit her on the head - let her die! The shovel is under the chest, take it!" ; H. took a shovel from under the chest and hit bay's eldest wife on the head; she died; bai asked H. why he hadn't brought the shovel for so long; H.: "I went, there was a shovel under the chest, I took it; then the eldest I hit the hostess on the head, she died!" ; buy: "May you die young! Oh my god! Why did you kill her?" ; H.: "Didn't you order it yourself?" ; after the funeral of his mother and elder wife, bai H. hid near the suffa; bai told his wife to run, otherwise the farmhand would kill them; ordered them to put their things in the chest; his wife offered to sleep, they fell asleep; H. climbed into chest; buy and his wife woke up, put their things in the chest, took it with them, went; stopped on the riverbank under a mulberry tree; the wife said that if H. were, he would shake the berries; H. responded, got out of chest, shook berries; three returned home; at night H. killed bay; married his wife]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 55:315-316; Turkmens [dying, father does not tell three sons to hire a beardless bay ; the eldest is hired; whoever gets angry, the other will cut off the back of his head; that same evening the young man was angry that there was so much work, buy 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 death; killed his youngest wife by hitting him with a spade; cut the throats of bulls (so that they can't stick their heads out of the barn); buy and his old wife decide run, the young man hid in a bag; on the river bank they agree to throw the worker into the water at night; at night he pretends to be the wife of the bay, together they drown his wife; bai is angry, the young man cut out his strap with back of the head]: Stebleva 1969, No. 52:290-295; Uzbeks [the old woman sends his eldest son Yarmat to work for the rich Sattarbay; S. orders to bring water with a sieve, Y. cannot, S. killed him; the same with the average son Sharip; younger Aldar buys a basin, brings a basin of water and a sieve in it; when leaving, S. orders horses not to raise their heads from the feeder (A. cuts off the horse's head, puts it in the feeder), the yard glitters (wateres with his oil), the gate is tightly locked (he builds a wall outside the gate) so that there is not a speck of dust on the walls (he breaks off the alabaster carving); S. and his wife decide to move secretly; A. hides in a leather trunk; at rest goes out; S. and his wife agree to drown him; A. puts on S.'s robe with his wife throws S. into the river; leaves]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 217-221 (=Rogov 1980:230-235); Vakhans [older brother A diva enters the house; at night he asks who is sleeping and who is not sleeping; the guy is silent; the diva kills him with a club, he and his wife eat him; the same with his middle brother; younger Samadyk replies that cows do not give him sleep; divas kill cows; same sheep; camels; divas tell his wife that S. will kill them; they decide to leave tomorrow with a full butter churn; S. hides in her; urinating along the way, divas thinks the sun melted the butter; then saw S.; at night S. swapped places with his wife, a diva; he threw not S. into the sea, but his wife; out of grief he threw himself into the sea; S. took his wealth]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 59: 459-461; Yazgulyam [stepmother does not like her five-year-old stepson, carries food not to her husband, but to her lover; stepson overheard, collected an eggshell, which the lover crumbled on the way to his field, put it on the way to the father's field; the wife brought scrambled eggs there; the stepson hides in the mazar, answers his stepmother that if she wants to get rid of her stepson, let him feed him fried lamb, he will go blind; the stepson gets fat and pretends to have bad eyes; pours boiling water into the trough where his lover hides, he dies; stepmother and husband decide to leave, stepson hides in the basket in which they carry property; urinates, those they think that the butter has melted; they regret that the stepson is not able to climb the apple tree; he gets out of the basket, climbs the apple tree, throws not an apple into his stepmother's mouth, but a stone, the husband barely took it out of her throat; they decide to push the boy into the river at night; he changes places with his stepmother, the father pushes his wife off the cliff; returns home with his son]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 58:454-459.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Lebite 1967:326-329 [two brothers are smart, the third Jonas is a fool; after the death of his father, the eldest got a bag, the middle got an ax, J. was hired by the master behind a sieve of beans in year; the master tells you to plow as much as the dog Petrushka runs; the dog climbs into the crack under the gate; J. cut the bulls and the plough, shoved it piece by piece into the same gap; the master orders to slaughter the sheep that he will look at J.; he stabbed everyone - they turned to him; the master left, told him to guard the door; J. took it off its hinges and took her to a party; the master and his wife decide to leave, J. hid in a bag; they agree push him into the river at night; J. swapped places with the lady, the master drowned his wife], 330-333 [the master takes the farmhand: if he gets angry, he will cut his belt out of his back; the older brother is angry, the same middle brother; the youngest exchanged grain for rolls, killed an ox, sold the pigs, and stuck his tails in the quagmire, said that they had drowned; picked one cow up a birch tree, gave the rest to the butcher: the cows flew to heaven; the master decided burn Yu and his house; J. climbed into the money chest; 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]; Latvians [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 mare's son is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, 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 are sleeping, they do not see that the water in the bucket has become blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: he killed ours husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not let her lie down, get drunk, cut a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line there in the doorway, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, there were stolen; K. threw off the stone, told the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers are afraid, K. went down, cut off the line's head; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give to K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and filled the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats him a giant bird with a hail of children; K. killed the cannibal, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; cut off the last piece of K. his caviar; K. opens his eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; we must kill the 9-headed wife; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown for the daughter of the Sun, a silver belt and diamond ring; forged a horse for K. 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 off, lost his strength year; went to hell as a worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from his back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell forced answer that you are 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 (mare - mother is a 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. puts the dumplings by the shirt, and the hell ate his pound , bad with his stomach; 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 can not catch up with him; agrees to carry him together felled oak; hell carries, K. rides on 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 with his mother they 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 cannibal eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre himself]: Nierde 1952:116-146; Estonians (Viljandi) [devil (vanapagan) hired Hans on condition not to be angry; who He would be the first to get angry, the other's nose would be cut off; when the devil began to rip out the spruce with roots, H. pretended to have a stomachache; suggested that the devil carry the butts, and he sat on the Christmas trees himself, damn it carries with them; H. pretends to count wolves; hell runs with urine and does not look back; hell tells me to cook beer in three days; H.: while they were running, he twisted his leg; the devil himself brings barley to brewery; H. sold barley, bought tar, damn drank it instead of beer and praised it; in haymaking, H. mows braids with a handle; hell I have to say he's not angry; but then gives X. the best pieces, before that, alone bones; hell: let the tools work themselves; while the hell slept, H. mowed his plot; hell called the devils and they did everything for him; hell offered to fight; H.: first with my older brother; set against bear line, hell barely escaped; hell: race; H. offers a younger brother, a hare, the hell did not catch up with him; they began to throw stones; the line fell back by noon; H. threw the sparrow, three later the hell thought that stone X. was stuck on a cloud; hell with a club from his grandfather, he threw it almost to the cloud; H. could not lift it; pretends to wait for the clouds to float, throw it at him; the line sorry for the club, tells you not to throw; the devil suggests choosing part of the crop; H. chooses the tops of wheat, then the roots of the turnips; both times the hell is a loser; in the forest both wanted to drink, H. offered to drill holes in birch trees to drink juice; we will 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. to fuse pieces of iron; hell went to the wedding, told X. to clean his children and he brought him, he would also throw his eyes at him {I mean he looked}; H. gutted the children, washed his intestines, strung his eyes on a rope, brought a line, threw his eyes into his chest; hell remembered that he should not 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 term of employment has come to an end}; 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; Finns [older brother hired to hell; who was the first he will be angry, the other man will cut out a belt from his back; the devil told him to chop firewood, but the ax does not pierce the tree; the young man is angry, the hell cut out his belt from his back; the same with his middle brother; younger Mathias hacked down a gray cat, after which the logs began to split easily; the devil sent M. to bring firewood on oxen from the forest and let him return where the dog ran; she crawled into a hole in the fence; M. slipped into a hole in the fence firewood for her, chopped her sleigh, then chopped the oxen into pieces and put all the pieces into the same hole; the devil agreed with his wife to kill M., but he overheard; at night he swapped the line with his wife; damn hacked his wife with an ax, and they threw the corpse into the lake together; hell took a new wife, told M. to wear red when the young man arrived; M. set him on fire; the devil ordered to build three bridges across the river, neither stone nor stone wood, neither iron nor earth; M. slaughtered all the cattle, made bridges out of skulls and bones; hell tells me to come and take an eye at his wedding; M. snatched all oxen in the eye, threw them into hell; hell wants again kill M. at night, he puts a stone in bed instead of himself; hell hits a stone with an ax; M. in the morning: fleas bit; hell sends M. to sleep in the barn, M. goes somewhere else, burned the barn at night; hell with his wife decided to sneak to the island; M. hid in his bedding, 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 down; got angry, M. cut his belt out of his back and left]: Salmelainen 1947:63-68; the Veps [two brothers are smart and Vanka is a fool; the brothers decided to marry, made a barrel of beer; V. poured it on the floor and became ride in a trough; the brothers decided to run away from him, prepared two bags of crackers; V. threw the crackers out of one, climbed into the bag himself; on the way, the brothers hear V.'s voice, afraid that he would catch up; opened the bag, there V.; they returned home, sent V. to buy millet, flour, spoons, ladles, glasses for the wedding; he bought, on the way back cut through an ice-hole to water the horse, dumped all the flour into the ice-hole; ice on the lake in cracks, V. poured oil into the cracks; next time he cut an ice-hole, poured millet into it; the brothers remained unmarried laborers]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 53:183-184; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [ The youngest of the three brothers is Tuhkimus ("mess"); the brothers decided to go to the haymaking without him; he took crackers out of one bag and climbed there himself; the brothers are surprised that the bag is heavy; when they wanted to get bread, there T. asks not to hit - it will come in handy; the brothers are lost, there is a house in the forest, there is food on the table; they ate and hid in the underground; a girl comes in, opens the underground: go out, elder ram, for a roast for my mother; the brothers push T. out; the girl wants to put him on a shovel, T. asks to show him, pushes the girl into the oven, hid himself in the underground again; an old woman came, ate her daughter; the same with the middle daughter, with her eldest daughters old women; the old woman tells all the rams to go out; T. went out, stepped on the porridge with his bast shoes and split the old woman in two; took half with him; they climbed the oak tree, the heroes stopped under the oak tree, took out the money, became playing cards; T. wrote ("rain"), pumped ("the wind throws bumps"), threw the corpse; the heroes rushed to run; T. cut off his tongue to one, he could not say anything; the brothers took the money and returned home]: Onegin 2010, No. 18:212-214; Western Sami (Colts), Lives: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1132:248.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [the father tells his eldest son not to hire Musa; the guy comes and refuses to hire M., but he gets ahead of himself, meets the guy again; the guy thinks that everything is in the village have the name M., is hired; if the employee expresses dissatisfaction, he will receive not a fee, but a hundred blows with a whip; this is what happened to him; the same with his middle brother; the younger one slaughters cattle himself; he sends it 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 it back if the guy can carry the horse around the lake; shows how to do this, very tired; the guy jumps around the lake on horseback; the older 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 do this; 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., he is frightened; at night M. and his wife pour boiling water into the place where the guy sleeps , but he bounced, says in the morning that it was raining warmly; M. and his wife decided to run; the guy took the pies out of the bag, sat down himself; they go to bed by the river; the guy goes out, M. is angry, the guy hits him with a whip]: Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956:115-123 (=Yarmukhametov 1957:195-200); Chuvash (Malo-Yalchikovsky District, 1926) [Ivan has a magic club, he was hired to work for his ass; he tells him to watch the door, I. removed all the doors from the hinges, began to watch; the pop ordered two sheep to be slaughtered - I. stabbed 12; bring a cart of sand from the heat; I.'s club hits the devils, they load sand; on the way back, the wolf ate the horse; I. put a club on him, harnessed him instead of a horse; locked him in the priest's stable, the wolf ate the foal; the pop decided to secretly leave, And . hid in a bag of breadcrumbs; at night all three lay down by the river; he is going to push I. into the river; he changes places with his priest, hits her husband; in the morning I. and drowned her]: Chuvash tales 1937:53- 57; Udmurts: Kralina 1960, No. 72 [three brothers take turns hiring to work for the ass; he sets the condition: whoever gets angry will cut off the other nose; the elder Mikal cuts firewood, does not receive food, angry, left without a nose; the middle Tepan is the same; the younger Ivan is not angry and does not work himself; sells cows to the merchant for a pittance, cutting off five or six tails; hangs them on trees, the latter brings them ass, says the cows ran away, he tried to hold them; the pop believes it was the work of the forest owner; I. sells pigs, sticks his tails into the quagmire; pop tells us to dissolve 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 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; Chuvash, Mordovians, Komi: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 1132:248.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Kanbak-Shal 1985 [the poor man bequeaths three sons not to be hired as laborers for an insatiable bay; he tells him to take care of his camel; the elder, middle brothers are hired, the camel is losing weight, buy cuts off the heads of the laborers; the younger Birkarsa ("one top") ties the camel so that it stands on its feet, but cannot reach hay and water; seeing hay and water in front of the camel, the buy does not have claims against the employee; bai orders to equip the camel for firewood, B. sets it on fire (a play on words: firewood and fire); bai orders to bring the black Haidamak Axaktemir; B. demands half of the property for this; B. time baigi rips open the pillow, the fluff blinds the participants, B. wins; exchanges his horse, who was considered extremely fast, for Haidamak; in order not to fulfill the promise to give half of the property, buy decides to run; B. hid at the bottom of the chest; in a new place, bai is going to throw B. into the well; at night B. changes places with his wife bay, he drowns his wife; bai runs again, hides in tugai, B. set them on fire, buy died]: 156-159; Sidelnikov 1958 []: 352-353; 1962 []: 288-291; Kyrgyz [three brothers live near Aldarkos; the youngest comes to hire workers; A.: whoever gets angry first will cut off the other head; every evening A. gives the worker 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 tall a finger and a knee-length beard; A. tells him to take his daughter out into the fresh air so as not to 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.

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