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K72. Three girls. 11.-.17.21.23.24.26.-.36.39.

A high-status character meets or marries three (less often two or four) women. One (promises to give birth and) gives birth to him a son (children) with unusual properties, the other two (promise to do and) are engaged in a craft or household, or are going to marry people of lower status.

{The list of traditions *stars indicate those that do not combine the K72 motif with the K73a}

Tanga, Hausa, Krachi, Saho*, Malgashi, Moroccan Arabs*, Algerian Arabs, Kabila, Tunisian Arabs, Egypt, Basques, Spaniards, Aragon (?) , Portuguese, Italians (Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Calabria), Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Maltese, Ladins, French, Bretons, Germans ( Saxony-Anhalt, Grimms, Austria), Irish, Syrian Arabs, Palestinians, Iraqi Arabs, Tibetans*, Lepcha, Nepal, Hindi, Bengalis, Oriya, Konkani (Goa), Timor, Tetum, Koreans*, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs*, Bosnians, Albanians, Romanians, Hungarians, Gagauz people, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Pskov, Novgorod, Vologda, Tver, Kaluga, Orlovskaya, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya, Kursk, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Podolia, Poltava), Belarusians, Poles, Crimean Tatars, Nogais, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Balkarians, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Ingush, Kumyks , Avars, Dargins, Udis, Lucks, Svans, Georgians, Megrels, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Bukhara Arabs, Persians, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Shugnans, Parya, Turkmens*, Icelanders, Karelians, Veps, Setus, Estonians, Lutsis, Latvians, Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Mari, Mordovians, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Tofalars, Altaians, Baikal and Trans-Baikal Buryats, Oirats, Mongolians*, Dagurs, Southern Khanty, Western Evenks, Baikal Evenks, Forest Yukaghirs.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Tanga [Njambu married Nyangwa-Mbwa; she gave birth to Mbwa ("dog"), he has a human mind; N. took three more sister wives: Majanga kept clean, Inyanji was in the garden, Mamendi promised to give birth twins; she gave birth to them, but jealous sisters threw the babies to pigs, put two anthills in bed with blood; N. ordered them to be thrown into the forest; M. found the babies, gave them to his mother; sisters They found out about this, killed the babies; the sorcerer advised M. to go to Hunger-for-the hearts-of-people; M. hid under the bed and when he came, carrying lives taken away from people (heart-life; different from "soul"), grabbed two, ran away, put them in the dead children, they came to life again; they grew up, brought game from hunting, M. takes it to his father N., but does not allow his wives Majanga and Inyanji to even taste this meat; gathers people, tells everything; the wives were drowned, but before that they had time to curse M. to become a wordless creature]: Nassau 1912, No. 22:169-173.

West Africa. Hausa [the old woman gives the king the promises of three girls; the first says that if the king marries her, she will give birth to twins with golden navels; the second will sweep the room with straws; the third will cook porridge from one grain, which will be enough for all the people and will remain; the king marries the first, all three have fulfilled their promises; the rival threw away the children, replaced them with lizards, their mother was driven away; woman picked up and raised twins; they meet the king's wives by the river, accused of committing a crime; the griot tells the king about young men who look like him; the expelled woman and the children are restored their rights rival strangled]: Klipple 1992:243-244; krachi [the eldest wife of the supreme god Nyane is Akoko ("chicken"); he took four more and asked what each of them would give him; 1) would sweep and keep in clean his yard (compound); 2) cook and not complain if there are many guests; 3) spin and bring water; 4) will give birth to a golden child; the fourth gives birth in the absence of her husband; these are twins; the first born is silver, the second (he is considered the eldest) is gold; A. put them both in a pot, hid them in the forest in a dry tree; replaced them with two frogs; when N. saw them, he ordered his wife to be expelled to the farthest corner his possessions; the hunter found children; collects silver and gold dust falling from them, became rich; Anansi (spider trickster) guessed that they were N.'s children; the twins asked the adoptive father to bring them pebbles to play with which they will tell their story to their real father; while N. plays with Serebryany, Zolotoy sings, talking about everything that happened; N. brought his wife back and washed her himself; tied his legs Ayu to the stick and threw it from the sky; every time the chicken wanted to drink, it would have to lift its head and ask N. for permission; all people would sacrifice chickens to the gods as a common sacrifice; Twins are washed every year and dust falls to the ground; whoever falls on will become rich]: Cardinall 1931:36-39.

Sudan - East Africa. Sakho [the king has many wives, but all are barren; his vigilante hears the conversation of three maids, tells the king; one wants to marry a farmer, the other wants to marry a pastoralist, the third wants to spend the night with the king, and to give birth to a son; the king spent the night with her, she became pregnant; the sage promises that she will give birth to a son with a gold spot on her forehead; tells her not to leave her with the king's wife, but to give her an old helper; but her wife bribed old woman; the king was told that a boy and a girl were born; the old woman put them in a basket, threw them into the river, and told the king that the mother had eaten her children; the king ordered the woman to be dressed in leather, forced to clean slop; the children were picked up and raised by a hermit; after his death, lions and hyenas continued to come to his brother and sister, as they did to a hermit; the caravan took brother and sister, brought them to their country; she the old woman recognized them by the gold mark on her forehead, told the king's wife; came to the girl disguised as a beggar, said that she would die if her brother did not get the demon king's wife's earring; the brother met her brother in the forest that hermit; he ordered the blind man to be given a means to heal his eye in one eye; the guard missed it, the young man took the earring from the sleeping queen, brought it to his sister; then returned, queen of demons fell in love with him, told him to bring the young man's sister to live with them; sent him on horseback in gold to where his father was, they met, but the king did not know that the young man was his son; the demon queen called the king to she told herself everything; he ordered the mother of the twins to be washed and dressed in gold; the childless wife and old woman were buried waist-deep in the ground, the cattle were driven over them]: Reinisch 1889, No. 23:155-175; Malgashi: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 154 [wanting to marry Andriambahuac, the older, middle sisters promise to weave silk clothes, the youngest Farah will give birth to triplets; A. marries, loves F.; leaves on business; F. gives birth, sends the maid to slowly bring fire; but the sisters learn about childbirth when they hear the baby crying; two boys and a girl were thrown into the river in a chest, replaced with a bull's jaw, a broom stick, a hammer; F. was kicked out from the village; the sorcerer Ranakumbe caught the chest, guessed who was in it; the children grew up singing about their father; he returned, executed the evil sisters, returned F. with the children; near the village in the cave, a half-woman with one with one hand, one leg, tells the brothers' sister that she is missing 1) a necklace made of crocodile teeth, 2) a hippopotamus (brothers kill a crocodile with a gun; hide behind a termite mound, hippopotamus fangs (?) they pierce him, they finish it off; bring necklaces); 3) Mamukur families; they have sharp tails; the brothers say they came from the west (the Mamukurs come from there), take their children away at night, give their sister their tails); 4) the Imasuampatan drum (the brothers say they came from the south, they take the drum at night); 5) God's son as husbands; the brothers went east to the well, where they took water for God Andriamanitra; they were killed; sister herself went; ordered her brothers to be revived, A. married her]: 385-392; Korneev 1962 [=197:208-215; Tsar Ravukhimena hears one sister promising to weave a hundred capes from one thread, the other to weave a thousand mats from one cane, the youngest Refaran gives birth to five sons; sisters let babies down the river in a basket, replace them with cow bones and rags, turn the mother into a lemur; the Forest Man picks up babies; the king meets them, finds out the truth; to spell his wife, he must go to Long-haired; she orders to bring honey red bees (bees sting, he throws honey), kill a huge boar (kills, but other wild boars drive away the hunters); tells her to choose rice from her hair, get the baby monster; while the monster eats rice, R. takes the cub; he talks about everything that happened, leads to a tree with a lemur, lemur turns into Refarana; evil sisters turn into lemur and grasshopper]: 52-62; Rodman 1995 [of three wives, only the youngest is pregnant; she answered her husband that she would like to eat the tail of a two-headed sheep ; the husband went in search, and the wife gave birth to a son and a daughter; the sisters said that she gave birth to a broom and a mallet, told the slaves to throw the children into the pond, their mother drove them away; the old woman picked up the basket with the babies; When her husband returned, the old woman did not admit that she had children for a long time; but they came to him and sang a song about what had happened; the sisters tried to lime them, but the boy did not approach the crocodiles and to a ferocious bull; the old woman told the truth, the husband returned his youngest wife, drove the other two away]: 190-194; Haring 2007, No. 89 []: 265-267.

North Africa. Moroccan Arabs [three women go to get grass for cattle, but are afraid to enter the bachelor's field; one says that if he married her, she would bake a loaf of one grain, the other would cook if a pot of soup made from one bean, a third would give birth to a son with a gold mark on his head; he married all three, although the first two did not fulfill their promise; the third gave birth, evil wives cut off the baby's little finger, they put the mother in her mouth, gave the child to the woman to bury her alive; the husband tells the wife who gave birth to wear the skin of a dog, live in the kitchen and then in a hut, herd camels; that woman raised a boy; peers say that he was a foundling; he made a woman tell him the truth by putting her finger in boiling oil; went to look for his father, taking a wolf, a sheep and a dog as companions; the people he met were amazed to see these animals together; he asks people they meet if they know about the mother who ate her baby; one person brings him to a woman who says she ate the baby; he explains everything by showing his mother and father gold a stain on his head; angry wives were dressed in dog skin, told to eat with dogs, then ripped apart with horses]: El Koudia 2003, No. 15:96-99; Algerian Arabs [both Sultan's wives are childless; he heard by chance conversation between three girls; baker's daughter: if the sultan married me, I would cook couscous from one grain of wheat; carpenter's daughter: she would weave burnuses from a piece of wool; blacksmith's daughter: gave birth there would be two sons (one has a silver temple, the other is golden; the other has teeth made of pearls and diamonds) and a daughter who would shine brighter than the sun; the sultan married the daughter of a blacksmith; when she is about to give birth, two the former wives agreed with the midwife Settoute, who replaced the boy with a puppy and let him go to sea in a box; the same year later with the second boy; a year later with the girl; after that, the Sultan ordered to keep his wife chained with the dogs, fed like a dog; the poor fisherman picked up the children; Gabriel appeared to him and said that God would provide for them; when he died, the fisherman left a powerful amulet to the children who had grown up: Baba-Morjan's golden bits; he should be addressed, "You are spirit and wind at the same time"; he took them to their father's town; the evil wives guessed everything, asked S. to help; she came to the girl and said that she lacks a mare with 10 foals; an amulet: she is beyond the 7 seas, her front legs are lightning, her hind legs are winds; you have to drive a golden pile (pieu) in the yard, there will be a mare with foals in the morning; S.: not enough Hadd- Ezzine (ideal of beauty); amulet: she is among the seven mountains under the protection of seven gulas; you have to sit on one of those foals and slip between the mountains; each gulya needs to shave his beard, comb it, give a mirror look at yourself, then they will become your friends; HE first hit the young man off his horse and he lay for 40 days, but then agreed to go with him; wedding, feast; the amulet created all kinds of dishes in abundance; the sultan invited his brothers and sister and HE to his place; HE: we will not touch food before you call all your wives; the sultan has to bring the one who is kept with dogs, washed and dressed up; HE commands Tell her everything; the sultan is happy; the wives were burned, S. was torn apart by two camels]: Belarus 1982:52-64; kabila [the first girl promises, if the king marries her, to bake pancakes from one grain; the second is to make clothes out of one wool, the third is to give birth to a son and daughter with a golden forehead; the king overheard, took all three, but the first two failed to fulfill their promise; when the third gave birth to wonderful ones children, the other two told the midwife to let them down in a chest into the sea, replacing them with puppies; the king ordered his wife to be thrown into a windowless dungeon and fed them with breadcrumbs; a childless fisherman caught the chest, his wife raised children; they were named Aziz and Aziza; they grew up; Aziz saw a boy, the king's son, in the palace, called him to play for money and beat him; they bought a good house; fishermen died; Aziz hunted; the old woman came to Aziza, advised me to ask her brother to bring her lioness milk in the skin of a lion cub; if you wash yourself with this milk, you will be the most beautiful; the old man teaches her to take 8 rams to the lioness and her 7 lions; the lioness gave, Aziza she washed herself and became even more beautiful; the old woman advises you to get a necklace of their pearls in a frame - the one who wears it will be beautiful; the old man tells you to cook 99 loaves, mirrors, daggers, camels; the cannibal giant He is waiting for his 99 children; he must be shaved, given a mirror and a dagger around his neck; his children will be so happy to comply with any request; Aziz did the same to the cannibal's children; they ask them not to look at them while they are eating bread; Aziz looked and lost consciousness; the cannibal brought him to life; the old woman advises him to get a singing goldbird; old man: none of those who tried to get the bird returned alive; to the desert a lot of birds will fly to the rock, the most golden; you have to answer it a third time, then you will grab it; petrified people everywhere; when Aziz answered, Yes! , the bird blew, he and the horse were also petrified; Aziza came to the old man, who directed it to the golden bird; I must not say yes, but grab the bird and let it go after promising to spell her brother; Aziza forced the bird To disgrace his brother and everyone else; when Aziz and Aziz returned, the king decided to kill Aziz, take the bird and marry Aziz; the bird screams about it, but the king does not understand; the old man orders all his wives to be brought including the one in prison; she was washed and clothed; the king asked her what to do with the other two wives and the old woman; she ordered them to be tied to the horse's tail, and she would make different things out of their bones: ash scoops , hearth stands, sticks to drive away dogs; feast]: Mammeri 1996, No. 4:61-81; Tunisia [the king went for a walk in the evening, heard 3 girls talking about what they had dreamed of. The eldest dreamed that she had married a cook, the middle one dreamed that she was the king's chamberlain, the third did not want to speak, then admitted that she saw that she had married the king and had given birth to him a son and daughter. The king decided to make girls' dreams come true When it was time for the youngest to give birth, the sisters changed the boy for a kitten and left the baby by the river. A hunter picked him up and began to educate him. During the second birth, the girl was changed to a monkey. The hunter also found a girl and began to raise her. The king put his wife in the dungeon. The children grew up with a hunter; they learned from their neighbors that they were not native; the hunter told them that he had found them both by the river and had a lot of money with them. He didn't spend this money. The children asked them to build a palace on them. He complied with their request. The children looked like their mother, and the mother's sisters understood who they were. One of them went to the new palace, the girl met her and showed her the palace. She praised her, but said that there was not enough singing sparrow. My sister asked her brother to go looking for him. He gave her the ring and said that if its color changed, he was in trouble. I went to the woods. An old man met him and warned him not to turn to his voices, otherwise he would turn into a statue. The young man could not resist and turned around. The ring changed color, the girl went to rescue her brother. She did not turn to her voices, and the lion was asleep when she reached the sparrow. At the same moment, her brother came to life again, and the sparrow told them the truth about their birth. Brother and sister went to the palace, where the sparrow repeated history, the queen was released from captivity, the sisters were put to death]: Al-Arabi 2009, No. 46 in Korovkina MS; Egyptian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [king forbid lighting a fire for three nights; went around the city with the vizier; there is a weak light in one house; there are three girls behind spinning wheels; one wants to marry a royal baker, will eat plenty of bread; the second for the royal chef will taste various dishes; the youngest promises to give birth to the king a boy with gold and silver curls and a girl whose smile makes the sun shine and tears make it rain; the next day they follow them They sent; the two older sisters were frightened, and the youngest asked for proper clothes; they celebrated three weddings; the king's former wife decides to lime a new one; bribed the midwife, who threw the babies into the garden, put the puppy and a clay pot; the gardener found the babies and his childless wife fed them; they grew up; the queen found out, called the midwife to tell the girl that she was missing an apple tree with dancing apples and apricot tree with singing apricots; brother came to ghoul, cut his hair; ghoul sends it to his brother (the same); he sends it to his sister; if she rubs salt, then do not fit, and if sugar, venerate to both breasts; Gulya promised to ask her 7 sons when they would come in the evening; turned the young man into an onion; her sons promise not to harm the guest, but to help him; the eldest will take him to that apple tree in a month, and youngest - instantly; brother brought sister both trees; queen: Bulbul Assiah (screaming nightingale) is missing; brother came to ghoul, he flew with him to King Guley, the young man took the cage, brought it to his sister; gardener told the king, the nightingale shouted about what was happening, the king returned his wife and had a party]: 89-94; Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 11 [at night, the king and vizier walk around the city, hear three girls talking; each says What would she do when she became the king's wife; the first would bake a cake for the king and all his troops; the second would sotket a tent for the king and the army; the third would give birth to a son and a daughter with golden and hyacinth hair; when they cry, thunderstorm and downpour will begin when they laugh, the sun and moon appear; the king married them; the first two failed to fulfill their promise, sent to the kitchen with the slaves; when the third wife gives birth, the other wife bribes the midwife, who replaced the children with blind puppies; the king orders his wife to be tied at the entrance, smeared with resin and that everyone spit on her; the midwife put the children in a box, threw them into the river; the fisherman found them and raised; the fisherman caught two beautiful fish, the young man (his name is Mohammed the Reasonable) carried them to sell them, the king bought them; ordered them to continue; the king's wife understood who this young man was, the midwife promised to lime him and sister; sailed in a jug, persuaded the girl to bring a singing Arab-Zandyq rose; M. came to the cannibal, venerated his chest; she explained the way to the rose; meat in front of the goat, clover in front of the dog - you have to shift it; take a rose, leave without looking back, otherwise you will petrify; M. brought a rose; she does not sing; a midwife: you need a mirror (the same episodes); the rose does not sing again; a midwife: you need her mistress Arab-Zandyk; The young man reached her palace, looked out the window and called; after two shouts, he was half petrified, but grabbed AZ by the hair, let go after she revived all the petrified; said that he was the son of the king; created a palace on the island where the fisherman lived; M. invited the king to come to his wedding with his army; the vizier advised him to stock up on food, but the warriors could not eat everything they were offered; and when M. with AZ paid a return visit, their soldiers did not fit into the city; M. threw a shawl over his mother in the palace; AZ told the whole story; the fisherman was made a vizier, his angry wife and midwife were burned]: 137-151 (about the same in Artin Pacha 1895, No. 22:265-284).

Southern Europe. The Basques [three sisters are spinning; the eldest says she would like to marry a courtier, the middle says she is the royal son-in-law, the youngest is the king himself; the king hears this, marries the youngest; she gives birth twice in his absence; sisters write to the king that his wife gave birth to a kitten, puppy, bear; children (the eldest is a girl) are lowered down the river in a basket, they are picked up by a gardener; the king forgives his wife twice, on the third, she tells them to put them in prison, starve; the adoptive parents are dead; the old woman advises the young men to get a singing tree, a truth-telling bird, rejuvenating water; the older brother leaves; the old man warns not to turn to the noise, he turns around, becomes stony; the apple he leaves rots; the same goes with his younger brother; the sister goes, does not turn around, brings water, revives the brothers, takes the tree and a bird; they invite a king to their place; the bird talks about everything; the children sprinkle water on their mother, she is young again, her sisters are being burned in the square]: Webster 1879:176-182; the Spaniards [three sisters sewed; the eldest: if the king married me, I would make a dress that would fit in a walnut shell; medium: the same (piñon shell); youngest: I would give birth to a boy and a girl with a star in their forehead; came the king asked what they were talking about; married the youngest; she gave birth to wonderful children, but the older sisters replaced them with puppies, let them go in a box along the river, and the king was hunting at that time; ordered them to be walled up wife; the miller picked up the box, his wife raised the children with her son; one day the young men got into a fight and the miller's own son called the foster child a foundling; he and his sister went to look for real parents; met a gentleman who could not ajustar una cuenta; the young man helped him, stayed with his sister to work for him; after earning a lot of money, they went on and saw the palace; the king lived there - the boy's father; the young man gathered the craftsmen and built a palace better than the royal one overnight; the evil sisters recognized those who had arrived by the star on their forehead; sent an old woman to tell the girl that the palace lacked las almenas repicando, they're in the castle, you'll go, you won't come back; the old man gives a pot, teaches: the castle will open at midnight, you have to put almenas in the pot and run; the young man brought them; old woman: there is not enough green water playing; (same ); for the third time: there is not enough singing green bird; the old man warned that the bird would be half dead, but we had to grab it and run; the young man began to wonder whether to take one, the castle closed, the young man and his horse petrified; now the sister has gone; the old man gave a pot, he will revive his brother and horse; we must grab a half-dead bird, run; when they returned home, the bird turned into many birds like this; the evil sisters decided Brother and sister were poisoned, invited to a feast; they took the bird with them, it began to tell the whole story; the king ordered his wife to be released from prison; when she saw the children, she died of full feelings; evil sisters cooked in oil]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 707:709-713; Aragon [{most likely there is a motive, although it is not in the text summary}; the king marries the youngest of three sisters (tailors); she gives birth to him a wonderful son; because of the slander of evil sisters, the boy is brought up in a different family; his aunts recognize him and provoke him to go for magic objects in the hope that he will not return; but he gets everything including a talking bird; it exposes criminals]: González Sanz 1966, No. 707:91-92; Portuguese: Braga 2002:186-187 [], 187-190; Cardigos 2006, No. 707 (multiple entries) [the youngest of two or three sisters says that if she marries a king, she will have children with a gold star on her forehead; the other sister wants to become a cook, etc.; the king hears and marries the youngest; older sisters replace children puppies; the wife is imprisoned or buried in the ground up to the neck so that everyone spits on her; children grow up; catching a talking bird (parrot), a singing tree, living water (often a fairy or St. Virgo helps); older brothers are petrified, turned into animals, etc.; younger sister or brother goes, receives from an old woman (St. Virgos) advice or magic items, returns brothers; children are invited to the king, demand that their mother be returned; the parrot warns that food is poisoned; the king sees stars on the children's foreheads; the bird about She tells everyone; the children and their mother were returned, the liars were executed]: 156-159; Braga 2002 (Algarve) [three sisters argue which of them is more skillful; the eldest promises to make the king a shirt out of eggshell film ; the middle is to sew pants for the king from a green almond shell, the youngest is to give him three sons without him noticing it; the king was there, heard; the first two failed to fulfill their promises; the youngest the king left the money; she bought beautiful outfits, came to him three times unrecognized when he and his court were in Bule, Toledo, Seville; after that, each time she gives birth to a boy, and the king every time he promises to marry; yet he prepares a wedding with the princess, but his sons appear, call him father; the king understood everything and married their mother]: 153-154; Sicilians [older sister: if only was the manager's wife, she would drink everyone from one glass and there would still be water; middle: if she were the wife of the wardrobe manager, she would dress everyone with one piece of cloth; youngest: if she were the king's wife, would give birth to two sons with peaches in their hands and a daughter with a star on her forehead; the king hears this, sends it for sisters; the elders immediately showed their skills, he married the youngest; the sisters are jealous They tell the midwife to replace the children with puppies; the king tells their mother to rotate the mill (like an ox); the children are thrown away, three fairies flew by, one gave them a deer to feed them, the other an inexhaustible purse the third is as long as it will darken if something happens to one of them; the children have grown up and settled in the palace in front of the king's palace; the midwife persuades her sister to ask the brothers to bring dancing water; one of the young men goes in search, meets a hermit, who sends him to the older one, this one to the oldest; he teaches him to enter a house where there is water, when giants and lions have their eyes open, when the door is closed; the young man brought water, now we have to get a singing apple; getting a talking bird is the same; you have to silently take the bird's feather, dip it in the water, sprinkle the statues, they will come to life; the bird tells the young man about fate his mother, who answers something, turns into stone; the same goes for his second brother; his sister comes, she revives the statues; the hermits disappear - they were those fairies; the king comes to visit, the bird tells everything; the king apologizes to his wife; the bird tells the midwife to throw out the window, cook the sisters in oil]: Crane 1885, No. 4:17-25; Corsicans [the older sister expresses a desire to become the king's maid, and the youngest is to become his wife; the king heard and acted according to the wishes of both; envious of his younger sister, the eldest tells the king three times that his wife gave birth to a terrible freak, and a girl born every time gives it to the watchman and his wife; after the third time, the king put his wife under lock and key; everyone is surprised that the watchman has such beautiful daughters; the fairy tells the girls that they lack a singing tree and a talking bird; but if you follow them, you can't turn around; the eldest went, turned around, froze in place; the same with the middle sister; the youngest did not turn around, took a tree with a bird, touched the older sisters with a tree, they came to life; the king comes, the bird tells him everything that happened; the queen was returned, the maid was executed]: Massignon 1984, No. 52:127-129; Italians (Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome ["Three sisters], Lazio, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo [Three Sisters], Basilicata [Three Envious Sisters], Calabria), Sardinians [Three Sisters, Children Thrown into the Water], Sicilians [The Envious sisters]: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 707:154-155; Italians (Florence, options throughout Italy) [the king goes to eavesdrop on what his subjects say; older sister: if I were to marry a royal baker, she baked as much bread per day as the court needed for a year; average: if I married a royal winemaker, I would give all the courtiers one glass of wine; youngest: if I went out for king, then gave birth to him three gold-haired children - two boys and a girl with a star in her forehead; the king summoned the sisters to the palace and fulfilled their wishes; the elders are jealous of the youngest; in the absence of the king, the wife gives birth a son, then a second, then a daughter; her sisters replaced them with a monkey, a puppy and a tiger cub, each time telling the old woman to get rid of the babies; she lowers everyone down the river in a basket, the ferryman picks them all up; selling golden hair, the ferryman became rich and built a palace for the adoptees; the king saw a young man and a girl, invited them to the palace; the aunts ask the old woman for help; she tells the girl that she is missing dancing water; the older brother goes in search; the old man teaches the guards to avoid if their eyes are open, not closed; the young man brought water; the old woman: the musical tree is missing; the old man teaches again: above the door scissors, you have to go if they are open; old woman: l'uccel bel-verde is missing; old man: on the same mountain there is a garden with statues; these are the ones who are petrified trying to get poultry; birds fly on garden; you can't answer the bird's questions - will you petrify; the bird tells the older brother who comes for it that his mother is walled up alive; "Walled up alive?" - and petrified; the same with the second brother; the sister is silent, pulled out the bird's feather, dipped it in the dancing water, revived the brothers and all the petrified ones; brothers, sister and bird come to the king's feast; bird: not one person is enough; the king ordered to remove the walled up, the daughter revived it with live water; at the feast, the bird ordered to eat only what she would try herself - the rest was poisoned; the bird ordered to coat the sisters with resin and burn it and throw the old woman out the window]: Calvino 1980, No. 87:315-322 Italians (Campania, Capri) [the king forbade lighting a fire at night, but three dressmakers always worked until midnight, hide it lamps in large pots; eldest: if the king married me, I would feed his entire army with a piece of bread; medium: I would prepare clothes for all troops from one piece of cloth; youngest: would give birth a son with a golden apple in his hand and a daughter with a gold star on her forehead; the spy told the king; he married the youngest; went to war; the Queen Mother told the midwife to replace the children born with puppies and throw them in the river; but the maid put them in a basket; the king ordered his wife to be imprisoned in a niche at the gate, giving only bread and water and that everyone should spit on her; the fisherman caught the children; when they grew up, the fisherman's own children they called them foundlings that their father had caught at sea; they left home and settled in the woods in an abandoned palace; the Queen Mother sent a midwife to persuade the girl to ask her brother to bring a dancer healing water from the Senavalli spring; hermit (this was St. Joseph) taught me what to do; when the young man is in the enchanted garden of the Alcina fairy, you cannot turn around, although there will be screams and roars around; the young man brought water; the midwife: now a singing apple; hermit (same); midwife: bring a talking bird; hermit: do not catch a bird, be gentle to it, it will come down from the tree on its own; gave you a wand, the young man revived those turned into stones; the king hunted, I heard singing, went into the palace; the bird: I will answer him myself; the king invited them to his feast; the bird told me to let the dogs taste the meat from the table; they fell in convulsions; the bird told me everything; The Queen Mother was forced to eat meat prepared for the freed queen and she died in agony; and the talking bird suddenly disappeared]: Zschalig 1925, No. 6:32-41; the Maltese [three sisters they spin by the window; the eldest wants 1000 gold coins, the middle - 2000, the youngest - to marry the king and have children; the king hears this, gives money to his older sisters, marries the younger; goes to war, the wife gives birth twins "Sun" and "Moon"; the king's mother encloses his wife in the cellar (sometimes the king says this after receiving a letter from his mother), informs her son that his wife gave birth to kittens, throws the children into the sea; the fisherman saves them and educates them; the king's mother finds them, tries to lime them; the brother has a magic wand, he creates a palace; goes for a singing bird or live water (dancing water); when the king comes to the palace, the bird tells him the whole truth; he executes his mother; or the old queen orders the children and their mother to be killed and trained, but the cook and servant save them; when the king returns, his mother says that his the wife is dead, and the children are gone; the king comes to the palace twice to his son and daughter, asking him to bring the singing bird to his palace; she replies that not the whole family is gathered; the king must return his wife; c The Queen Mother ripped off the skin and made a door mat out of it]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 707:228-233; (cf. ladins [three coal burners spent the night in an inn; tell me what they dreamed; the first is that I have 7 guilders under my head, and when I woke up, it turned out to be like this every morning; the second He sees a gold chain, and in the morning he has it; third: I will have a son with a gold star in his forehead; they came to the king, gave him a chain; when he learned about the dream of the third coal burner, the king married him to his daughter; she gave birth a wonderful boy, but the Queen Mother lowered him in a box down the river, said that the prince's wife had given birth to a puppy; the king ordered the coal burners to be walled up, and his daughter died of grief; the baby was picked up and raised by a miller; his wife tied a handkerchief to prevent the star from being visible; chasing the chamois, the young man climbed the rocks and found himself in the middle of the blooming plain; there his mother met him, told him everything and disappeared; the young man came to told the king everything; the king gathered everyone for a feast; everyone saw a young man with a gold star, his mother also appeared; the king asked how to punish the one who did the relevant deeds; everyone offered various executions, and the Queen Mother offered to wear hot iron shoes on the perpetrator and let him dance until he dies; that's exactly what they did to her; the good miller and his wife were taken to the palace]: Uffer 1973 , NO. 7:17-19).

Western Europe. French: Joisten 1991, No. 27.1 (Dauphine) [western 1950; the king's servant hears one girl promising to grind flour if presented as a royal miller, the other to bake bread if given for a baker, the third to give birth to the king beautiful children; the king fulfills their wishes; in the absence of her husband, the wife gives birth to a son and a daughter with a cross on her forehead, with a golden crown on her head; mother-in-law replaces the letter, writes to the son that his wife gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; he tells them to be kept, the mother-in-law replaces the letter again, supposedly her son tells her son and daughter to throw them away, lets the children go down the river in a boat; the king returns, puts his wife neck up to the wall, tells passers-by to beat her; children sail into the country of red people; grow up, they are allowed to return the ship; their mother's mother-in-law advises the girl to ask her brother to get 1) an apple tree; the old man tells the young man to go without turning around, he brings an apple tree, his sister plants it; 2) a dancing bucket (the same), 3) a talking bird; the young man hears his sister's voice, he turns around, stones, the ring left to his sister turned black; the old man gives the girl a sword and oil, with their help she revives all the petrified ones, the revived brother kills the lion watchman with a sword, brother and sister return with a bird; in the forest they a hunter finds, the king calls to him, they see a woman embedded in the wall, asking not to hit her; a talking bird warns that the king's mother put poison in their food; tells the whole story; the king returns his wife, burns his mother alive]: 184-188; Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 707 (Ariège; also Haute-Brittany, Lorraine, Provence, Niverne, Dordogne, Gascony) [Prince hears three girls talking; one promises to have a son, then a daughter with a star in her forehead, then another son; the prince marries her, she asks to take her sisters to the palace; the prince inherited the throne, went to war; the boy was replaced a puppy; the next time the girl was replaced by a kitten; the third boy was again a puppy; the king ordered his wife to be put in an iron cage; the children were picked up and raised by an old man; advised them to find their real parents; the elder brother decided to find a prophetic bird; the person he meets gives a ball to follow; there is a cage with a bird on the tree, you must take it and you cannot look back; he looked back at his voice and turned into stone; the rosary he left was covered with blood; the same happened to his second brother; the sister did not look back; the bird told her to break off the branch of the singing laurel, collect living water, sprinkle the stones; all people came to life; at the king's feast, prophetic the bird told me everything; the queen was returned, her sisters were burned in the same cage]: 633-636; Bretons [the widow baker has three daughters; the eldest says she loves the royal gardener, the middle one says she loves the royal gardener a valet, the youngest a prince; she will have two sons with a gold star on his forehead and a daughter with a silver star; the prince walked and heard three marriages have been concluded; jealous sisters agreed with the sorceress, she told the midwife to replace the newborn with a puppy, throw him in a basket in the Seine, picked him up by a gardener; the same with her second son and daughter; the prince imprisoned his wife in the tower; the gardener and his wife died, the children were taken to palace, they grew up; the old woman persuaded the girl to ask her brothers to get dancing water, a singing apple and a bird of truth; the brother goes in search, leaving the dagger: if her sister can't pull it out of its scabbard, so the brother is dead; the dagger is stuck; the second brother went to look for the first one, leaving a rosary; if one bead gets stuck on a string, then he is dead; as it happened, the sister saddles the horse and rides by herself; an old man with a long beard by a tree; calls the girl a princess, asks her beard to be cut off; she does it, he has suffered for 500 years, no one has helped him before; teaches him to climb a steep mountain under hail and wind; around a heap of land - those who could not; there is a meadow of flowers and an apple tree above; you have to pretend to fall asleep; the thrush will go into the cage, you have to close it, this is the bird of truth; break off the apple branch (it's singing), pick it from the source dancing water; drops of this water to revive brothers and other knights; in the royal palace, the sister shows a bird, etc.; the brothers finally realize that their sister saved them and got the magic things; the bird of truth says everything, the king tells no one to let anyone out; returned the queen, her sisters and midwife were thrown into the oven]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 7:277-295; Germans (Saxony-Anhalt or nearby, the author lived in Halle) [three shepherd's daughters, smart elders, younger simpleton; if the king marries her, she will make new shirts for all soldiers; medium: she will sew jackets and pants; youngest: I will face three children with gold crosses on forehead; the king heard, took the sisters to the castle and married the youngest; went to war, the wife gave birth to two boys and a girl; the sisters threw them in boxes into the water, wrote to the king that his wife gave birth to two puppies and kitten; the king ordered her to be walled up, but give her food and drink; when he returned, the king walked through the forest, saw an unfamiliar wonderful castle and garden; it had a pond where two young men and a girl with gold gallop on horseback crosses on his forehead; said this to his wife's elder sister; she came and persuaded the older young man to get flowing water, a talking bird, and a singing tree; the young man left his handkerchief: if blood comes out, he will be with him trouble; on the way I met an old man overgrown with a beard and hair; cut his hair and he brought him to the mountain; said that it was his duty, the old man, to feed the talking bird; if he turned around, he would petrify, like hundreds of others; he did not turn to the voices of bears and snakes, but when he heard his brother's voice, he looked back and became petrified; his middle brother went; the old man let him shut his ears with a rag; turned to his sister's voice, and too petrified; her sister did not turn around, the bird taught her to fill her flask with flowing water and break off a branch of a singing tree; they should not fall into the wrong hands; after smeared the stones with saliva, the sister revived the brothers; they they came to the old man, who wrote in his coffin and stone: I have lived enough; when they returned, they met the king and the bird told him everything; the king returned his wife and children; the evil sisters were torn apart by horses]: Pröhle 1853, No. 3:10-16; Germans (Austria) [in the evening, the king walks around the city, hears three sisters talking; one wants to be the gardener's wife, the other is a baker, the third king; the king marries her, her sisters passes him off as a gardener and baker; the queen gave birth to a son; his older sister replaced him with a puppy, put the boy in a barrel, threw him into the Danube; the boy was picked up by a fisherman; the same year later, the middle sister replaced him kitten; for the third time, the queen gave birth to a girl, the sisters put a log; the king ordered his wife to be chained to the wall, every passer-by should have spit on her; brothers and sister grew up, the fisherman died; came old man, told his sister about a talking bird, a singing tree, golden water; the older brother goes in search, the old man tells him to go for a rolling ball, not to look back if thunder hits; the young man looked around, petrified ; the same second brother; sister did not look back, jumped up the mountain, took a bird, which told me to take water from the well, break off the branch, revive the brothers (and other people) with it; at home, the bird tells you to plant a branch, water it golden water; invite the king, give him poisonous grass; the king is outraged; bird: if you can't eat poison, how could your wife give birth to a puppy, kitten and log; the queen was released, her sisters were executed]: Cerf 1992:167-174; the Germans [the king went out with two ministers; three girls were grazing cows; the eldest shouted that she would marry the one in the middle, i.e. the king; the other two for those on the right and left; after marriage, the Queen gave birth to a boy with a star in his forehead, the sisters threw him into the Weser River, said that the queen had given birth to a puppy; the bird screamed that the boy would become a lily; the fisherman pulled him out and adopted him; A year later, the same with the second boy; then with the girl (they said she had given birth to a cat); the king threw his wife into prison; when they heard that they were foundlings, the children told the fisherman to confess everything; the elder went to look for his father ; answered the old woman rude; she carried him across the sea; the same with her second brother; the sister is kind to the old woman; when she carried the girl across the sea, she gave her a twig and taught her what to do: walk past the black dogs, throw a twig on the doorstep of the castle, take a cage with a bird, scoop up a mug of water, hit the dog with a twig on the way back; she turned into a prince; the sister, brothers and prince returned to the fisherman; the younger brother met his father while hunting, brought him to him; the bird told him everything; the king released his wife, the daughter let her drink water from the mug, she recovered; the wife's sisters were burned; the queen's daughter married the prince ]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 96:324-327 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:263-266); the Irish [king marries the youngest of three sisters; jealous sisters replace children born by the queen with animals; children are saved, grow up and claim their rights]: Jackson 1936:288.

Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [one sister says she would like to marry a royal cook and eat delicious food; the second to the royal confectioner; the third to marry the king and give birth to an heir; the next day, the king sent for they fulfilled their desire; the king went to war, the queen gave birth to a son and a daughter; the sisters lowered the babies in a basket down the river, wrote to the king that the wife had given birth to a dead child; the king took his wife to the cellar; a childless man picked up a basket, named the children Jamil and Jamil; became a sheikh, and before his death told the children the secret of their origin; one of the evil sisters came to their palace and told Jamila that she was not enough silver water from the mountain of miracles; old man Jamil: on the mountain, the spring is guarded by the left, if his eyes are closed, then he looks, if open, he sleeps; Jamil passed by the lion and brought water; evil aunt: let will bring a golden tree; the old man gave a mirror to tell Jamila: if it gets dark, the brother is in trouble; on the mountain there is a peacock, Jamil grabbed him, turned into stone; old man: let Jamil grab the peacock while he sleeps ; the peacock told her to sprinkle silver water on the stones, all the petrified ones came to life; her brother and sister called the king to look at the curiosities: water, wood, and peacock that speaks the truth; the king ordered the evil to cut off sisters heads; the queen forgave them, but they soon died of gluttony]: Kuhr 1993:102-107; the Palestinians [the king orders the lights to be turned off for the night to test the obedience of the subjects; three sisters are spinning; left in the dark, one wants to marry the royal baker, the other wants to marry a cook, and the third wants to marry a prince to give birth to sons Aladdin and Bahaddin and a daughter Šamsizzha; the king learns about this, fulfills desires, older sisters, out of envy, put a puppy in labor, then a kitten, then a stone, the children are let in a box each time along the river, they are adopted by elderly spouses; the prince leaves his wife; the children grow up, aunts send an old woman to invite the girl to wish the Nightingale the Crier; Aladdin goes in search, leaves Bahaddin a ring; the hum sends him to his brother, that sister, she shows the tree where the Nightingale flies; contrary to the warning, A. says Solovye, "I'm here," who turns it into stone; then the ring clutches B.'s finger, he follows A., also stones; the sister is silent, the Nightingale catches in a cage, he tells him to throw the land from the molehill to the rocks, the brothers come to life; the Nightingale tells the king everything, who orders the midwife and two sisters to be beheaded and burned]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 10:102- 111; Iraqi Arabs: Lebedev 1990, No. 36 [one sister peels cotton, the other spins, the third weaves; seeing the light in the evening, the prince overheard their conversation; the eldest, if the prince marries her, promises weave a carpet that would fit the entire army; the middle one is to bake a cake to saturate the entire army; the youngest is to give a piece of gold and a piece of silver; the prince takes the sisters as his wife, the two elders did not fulfill promise, he divorced them; the youngest says she meant to have a son and daughter; the sisters threw the children to the mosque, replaced them with puppies, the prince drove his wife away; 4 years later she met a fisherman who adopted children, bought them; without recognizing her, the prince remarried her; the truth was revealed, the prince's wife forgave the sisters]: 187-190; Stevens 2006, No. 33 [the tsar overhears the conversation of the three sisters; if the king does not she marries, one will cover half the kingdom's carpet, the other will bake a loaf that the army will feed up, the third will give birth to twins with silver and golden hair; the king consistently marries girls; the first two did not fulfill their promise, they were sent to work in the kitchen; when the younger sister gave birth to twins, the sisters persuaded the midwife to replace them with puppies, let them down the river in the box; they were picked up by a fisherman; the king ordered his wife to be buried up to the chest at the door, let everyone who enters throw a stone at her and spit; brought the sisters closer again; when he left, asked what to bring to the wives; the elders ask for a precious dress and necklace, the youngest a doll of patience and a knife of patience; the king forgot them, but the ship did not move; he found an old man who had a patience doll and a knife of patience; he gave them with conditions to follow his wife after how she will receive these things; the king hears the youngest wife telling her story to the doll; her heart burst; she wants to stab herself with a knife, but the king stops her; the king returned his wife and began to look for sons, the fisherman brought them; the older wives and the midwife were burned]: 157-161.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (a Mongolian tale, translated from a Tibetan source) [two maids persuaded Princess Saman-Tabadri to go laundry with her basins; the maids' copper basins swam, the ST's golden basin drowned; ST sends a messenger to her father to ask if her parents will forgive her; maids replace the father's answer as if he were driving his daughter away; they met a young king, pretending to be a princess, ST as a maid; one maid promises dress a hundred people with a handful of rags, feed a hundred people with a handful of flour, ST to give birth to a child with golden breasts; the king takes ST as his wife; the maids hide the child under the threshold, leave only the last; what- then the king pulls when he crosses the threshold; the maids hide the child over a joint, under the throne, in a barn, bury it in the garden; a tree with yellow branches grows, it is spoiled by sheep, one gives birth to an unusual lamb, he turns into Prince Erdeni Haralik; the maids are driven away; Oh goes to his grandfather, then pulls out the heart of the bull, the bride; on the way to her he drives through an impenetrable lake with black water (dries up), the mountains are parting; the Rakshasa palace is surrounded by seven iron walls, at the entrance there is a lake of blood, around a pile of human meat]: Potanin 1891:141-143; lepcha [hunting, king Lyang-bar-ung-bar (" middle of the earth, middle of the sea) -pono" sees a deer with a cub; his two dogs advise not to attack these deer; the king orders them to be driven away, deer turn into sorcerers, kill dogs; the king comes to the king Lungda, who has three daughters; the king spends every night asking what witchcraft they are good at; SE-lamen can feed the whole palace with rice, Tung-lamen can dress everyone with a piece of cloth, Ramit-pandi will give birth to the whole palace the Golden Knife and the Silver Knife; the king marries her, in his absence his wife gives birth; both witches hear newborns fall to the floor; they put them in a vessel, bury them at the crossroads; combing R., tear her apart flesh with iron combs, leave the puppy (knot) at his chest as if he had scratched it; they eat all the cattle, all the supplies; they ring the bell left by the husband; he arrives immediately; witches say that they are from the heavenly land of Rum, and he rejected them; let him see now - his wife meets the dog, has given birth to a puppy; the king orders to drag R. by the neck to the river, cuts off her head, throws her into the river; the body swims down, head upstream; the head says she and the children will be able to return if only the children get out of the vessels; then swims after the body; the king marries witches; the hungry dog from the palace broke a jug of old people; begged not to kill her; the old man came to the palace to demand compensation; the witches advised me to dig a vessel at the crossroads and take it; the old man hears children's voices, finds it in a vessel of two beautiful boys; since then there has been a lot of food in the house; the youngest Komhankub sleeps with his grandmother, the eldest with his grandfather; they create a palace during the night; shoot birds in the king's garden, bringing cattle there; the king sends a messenger to the elderly, who is dazzled by the light, the same with the next one; the brothers come to the palace; they answer that their parents are earth and a ceramic vessel; the king does not believe; the elder says that their bones (i.e. their father) is from the country of Lyang-bar, the youngest is that their flesh (i.e. mother) is from the country of Lung-da; to destroy them, the witches suggest that the king send the boys to bring the golden and silver demon flutes; the demon slept, with one ear under him, covered with the other; both flutes in his mouth; the elder told the youngest that he would grab the flutes, run to the black plains of China, to the white plains (India), to the sky, the demon behind him, they both will fall dead, the youngest must wave his black yak tail first, then the white tail; the elder not only took the flutes, but also the demon's fang beaten off from his sling, which reached the sky; the elder tells revive the demon, he also becomes their friend; the brothers change the tails of the yaks for a demon stick and rope that will beat and tie everyone; the demon promises to come to revive them if they die; gives his second fang; the brothers return to the old people, they are happy; they hide a rope and a stick under the king's threshold and hearth; they tell him the truth, the witches try to fly away, but they are tied and bats are tied; the brothers drain two hairs out of the river and a piece of mother's bone; placed in the knee of bamboo; if she is resurrected as a girl, let her be resurrected with a spindle, a boy with an onion; an eight-year-old girl in bamboo; brothers sit on her knees, suck her chest; witches they torment and execute as they did to R.; the brothers fight, the youngest falls from the balcony, breaks; the demon arrives, revives him, but he becomes a girl; the brother is named "king", the sister is "queen"]: Stocks 1925, No. XXIV: 388-404.

South Asia. Nepal [the childless king sees two girls coming out of the lake, first a maid, then two sisters; the eldest would like to have a son like the god of death Mahakala, the youngest a son with the sun on right shoulder, moon on his left; the king grabs the youngest; former wives persuade the stargazer to say that his wife will give birth to a monster; the boy is thrown into the pond, replaced with a piece of wood, his mother is driven to the barnyard; the fish takes care of the boy; the wives pretend to be sick, demand that the fish be killed; she hands the boy to the winged horse; by the slander of his wives, the king wants to kill the horse, he flies away with the boy in his stomach; he grows up poor, he hides the sun and moon on his shoulders; the youngest daughter of another king marries him, the king settles them in a small house; the eldest two marry the king and the prince; only the youngest husband reflects enemies, everyone sees his sun and moon; the father learns about his son, makes the rest of his wives his mother's maids]: Aganina, Shresthkha 1971:142-154; India (translated from Hindi) [disguised, the king goes to town at night; hears alone the sister says that if the groom married her, she would eat peas, which are fed to horses; the second, if she married the king's cook, she would get something; the youngest, if the king married her, she would become a real queen; the king marries the youngest, passes the elders off as a groom and cook; the queen gave birth to a son, his sisters threw him in a jug into the river, replaced him with a puppy; the second with a kitten; the daughter was wooden as a doll; the king ordered the queen to be put on a donkey and driven away; the brahmana picked up the children, the boys Arun and Varun, the girl Kiranmala; the brahman died; the king got lost and went to his house; when the king left, K. advised the brothers build a palace, they build; the hermit says that there is not enough golden bird, silverwood and a pearl spring, all on Mount Maya; A., then V. leave, turn into stone; houses saber rusted, the bowstring broke; K. came to the mountain, the bird ordered the brothers to be sprinkled with water, they came to life; at home, the bird ordered the king to visit; the king is served gold, he says it should not be eaten; the bird asks how a woman can give birth to a puppy; the king returned his wife and children, the sisters were buried alive]: Zograf 1964:302-310; Bengalis: Day 1914, No. 19 [the daughters of the minister, merchant and priest are friends with their daughter poor woman, because she is extremely beautiful; the minister's daughter says she will make her husband a cloth that will not get dirty or old; merchant: fuel in the hearth will never turn to ash; cooked rice will remain, no matter how much he is eaten; the daughter of a poor woman; will give birth to a beautiful daughter and a son with the moon in his forehead and stars on his hands; the king is looking for a seventh wife, because his six wives are childless; takes the daughter of a poor woman; leaves, leaves her a golden bell to ring when the fights begin; six wives persuade her to call twice; both times the king appears immediately; says he will not come again, since she called in vain him; the midwife replaces the children with puppies; the king orders his wife to be dressed in leather, she must drive crows and dogs at the market; the midwife slips the vessel with the children to the potter to place it in the oven with with unburned pots; but in the morning the potter and his wife find the vessels prepared for burning already burned, one of them contains children; the potter tells neighbors that his wife gave birth to the children; when the children are 12 years old, the potter is dead, his wife has made a sati; the young man hunts, the king sees the moon on his forehead; the wives tell the midwife to settle the matter; she persuades her sister to send her brother to bring a flower from across the sea; the young man brings Rakshasi deer and rhinos, she and her husband are grateful, taught to go through the thickets and across the sea; the thickets part, the waters of the sea diverge, the young man goes dry; finds a beauty, takes gold and silver sticks; when she wakes up, the girl says that Rakshasi, when she leaves, puts her to sleep with these sticks; the young man is hiding; the seven-headed rakshasi says that her death in a pond in a box in a bee and a drone, they could Only a young man with a moon on his forehead can reach; a young man presses bees, all Rakshasa dies; together with a girl and flowers he returns to his sister; a girl tells the king the whole story because she knows her; six wives buried alive, the rest of the heroes are happy]: 236-256; Porozhnyakov 1990 [the king in disguise wanders around the city, eavesdropping on the conversation of three sisters; one wants to marry the royal gardener, the other wants to marry the cook, the third - for the king; the king fulfills their wish; when the queen gives birth, the sisters replace the child with a puppy, let them down the river in a pot; the same a year later, a kitten; in the third year, a daughter, replaced with a wooden doll; the queen expelled, the brahmana and his wife picked up the children, named Arun, Varun, Kiranmala; after the death of their adoptive parents, brothers and sister build a house; the hermit advises going to Mount Maya for golden trees with diamond flowers; A., K. come there, turn into stone; sister finds out when she sees rust on the blades left; puts on men's clothes, walks, ignoring the monsters, sprinkles statues with living water, all come to life; the golden parrot taught her what to do; the brothers, sister and parrot return, invite the king; he says he cannot eat the gold served to him on the plate; the parrot asks how a woman could give birth to a puppy, kitten and doll; everything is explained, the parrot also finds the queen; the sisters were buried alive]: 16-26; oriya [7 daughters of the poor brahmana ate cooked the mother of the cake; the parents decided to get rid of their daughters; the father took them, supposedly, to their uncle; went away, taking bags of rice; the girls opened their own - there was only one husk; climbed a tree; the king drove up to him a tear has fallen; the older sisters promise to cook rice for the whole palace, bake cakes, etc.; the youngest promises to give birth to 7 sons and a daughter; the king married her; when childbirth is near, he gave a flute, told her to blow so that summon him; she strangled him to check; and when she actually began to give birth, the king decided that he had not come again; the wife gave birth to 7 sons and a daughter, the sisters replaced them with wooden dolls; the king sent her to the stable; the sisters buried the children in the garden, they were dug up and swallowed by a dog, belched into the pond, raised by the Goddess of Waters; children play in shallow water with wooden horses, tell them to drink water; gardener: wooden a horse can't drink; boys: can a woman give birth to dolls? then the Goddess of Waters turned the boys into trees, the girl into a blooming tree; the gardener wanted to pick flowers, the brothers told her sister not to give it, the tree grew to the sky; the same minister, the king himself; only brought the mother was able to pick flowers from the stable; the king returned her and the children, the sisters were hanged]: Mohanti 1975:109-113; konkani (Goa) [the father asks his seven daughters if they were born to sing it or their own own purpose; everyone says that she is father and the youngest is hers; she is deprived of a share in the inheritance and sent by the maid to the kitchen; the prince rides by, hears each of the sisters promise something make for her husband (sew beautiful clothes, etc. - not specifically mentioned)]; the youngest promises to give birth to 20 sons and a daughter; the prince takes her; leaves, leaving her pregnant; she says that if she gives birth to children, she will flow pearly rain, and if not, a prickly vine will bloom; the sisters lowered the children in the box into the river, replaced them with frogs; the pearl rain poured, but the prince was shown the frogs and he believed; the priest picked up the children; they grew up; a maid came and gave them poisoned cakes; the girl refused to eat, the boys ate and died; the priest moistened his ring, sprayed the bodies, the brothers came to life; brought their wooden ones to the river horses, put their faces in the water as if they were drinking; 6 sisters came to wash and asked: can wooden horses drink? Brothers: Can a woman give birth to frogs? the prince saw his children and suspected something was amiss; the priest advised him to call them to his place; if they were the children of his rejected wife, her milk splashes into their mouths; so it happened; the prince brought his wife and children to his father; her sisters punished (not said how)]: Rodrigues 2020:164-169.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Timor [the chief overhears the conversation of three bathing sisters; one promises to cook delicious meals, the other to weave scarves, the third to give birth to a son with the sun on his chest, a month on his forehead, stars behind his ears ; the chief marries the last, she gives birth to twins, sisters replace them with puppies, throw children into a hollow in the forest; the husband orders to keep and feed his wife like a dog; animals feed the children, the old woman finds them, educates; their roosters defeat all others, including the chief's roosters; they cover their faces themselves; the chief invites them to his place, everything opens, their mother is returned, her sisters are executed]: Correia 1973:139-142; tetum (Timor) [Chief Leki Mau was looking for the missing horse, hid behind a tree, overheard two sisters talking to the spring; the eldest says that if the tree were a man, she would weave for he has two scarves; the youngest promises to give birth to twin boys with a star on her chest and the sun on her forehead; the chief takes the youngest, then the eldest at her request; the eldest sends her husband to sell the cloth she has woven, he waxes his eyes with younger wax, throws babies into the hollow, replaces them with puppies; animals feed twins, childless spouses find, adopt; the elder António got on a Turis-Kain horse, went to get ducks, the youngest Jose stayed with the old people; stays with the woman Bui Sose Bia Reis; she tells you to open only the door towards the mountains, not towards the sea; A. opens, falls to the bottom of the sea, graze there the leader's bulls; J. comes to look for A., also falls into the sea; at the request of the sea chief, they cut down a tree, dry the sea, he gives them ducks; after taking the BSBR woman, they leave; both ducks sing like people; brothers and wife they return to the old people, she makes the house rich; they meet a real father at the bazaar (he is the leader of the South Sea); ducks sing "your mother is in the mud" (the husband put the puppies in a hole, ordered them to pour slop); wife The brothers tell the whole story; the father sees the sun and stars on his sons; the chief returns the first wife, puts the youngest in a hole in her place; BSBR creates two houses - for himself and his two husbands and for the chief and his wives]: Rego 1968:160-173; Sangihe Islands [the prince heard two sisters talking; the eldest, if married, will have a son and the youngest 99 sons and a daughter; the prince marries the youngest; leaves; wife ready to give birth; sister advises to fill her ears with resin, eyes with wax, then it will be safe; she put 100 children in a pot, carried them to the forest; told the prince that his wife gave birth to rags, nails, mites, etc.; husband ordered her to be buried in the forest up to her neck, married the eldest; the perfume took care of the buried woman, the children were picked up by an old man, they grew up quickly, found and dug up their mother; the sister is beautiful, the brothers take care of her affectionately; the prince I heard about the beautiful woman; found out about the deception; had a hard time begging his first wife to return; she made her older sister her slave]: Bezimer 1904:263-266.

(Wed. Taiwan - Philippines. Bicol [European]: Rybkin 1975, No. 71:183-184; Visayas [European]: Rybkin 1975, No. 98:233-241).

China - Korea. Koreans [when leaving, Park asks two wives how they will greet him; Chie-bi promises to have a party, Jae-bi promises to have a son; in P. Chie-bi kidnaps C.'s son, tells his servants to throw him into the ice-hole; wild animals save him; throw him to pigs - he is safe; cook in oil; a piece remains, eaten by a cow, gives birth to a golden calf wool; P. returns, Chie-bi says that Che gave her son to someone, P. puts Che in the cellar; Chie-bi pretends to be sick, asks for the calf's heart; the old woman lets go of the calf, gives the dog's heart; the calf comes to the imperial city; the emperor promises to give his fourth daughter to jump to the gong; the calf jumps, gets a princess, turns into a human at night; visits his father, says his story; Che was released, Chie-bi was imprisoned in a cellar]: Shkurkin 1941:21-42.

The Balkans. Greeks: Dawkins 1916 []: 317-327; Hahn 1864 (2), No. 69 (Syros) [at night at work, the older sister says she would like to marry a royal cook, the middle sister says she would like to marry a treasurer, the youngest a prince, and to give birth to him three children, the Sun, the Month and the Morning Star; the prince in disguise stood outside the window and heard and fulfilled the sisters' wishes; went to war, leaving his wife pregnant; mother-in-law told the midwife to leave the children were replaced by a puppy, a kitten and a mouse; the midwife put the babies in the basket; the shepherd noticed that one goat was returning with an empty udder; found three children, raised them, placed them in a tower; my mother-in-law sent her daughter-in-law to the chicken coop, but the prince did not ask about his wife again; once he saw a tower, a girl in the window, two young men taming horses near the tower; the prince thought that they should be like this his children; his mother told the prince that he had seen elves; scolded the midwife and ordered the survivors to be killed; she came disguised as a beggar and told the girl that she lacked a branch that produced music; the brothers went in search; the monk he met explained that two dragons were guarding the branch; at midnight they would fall asleep and should be shot in their mouths; the brothers killed the dragons, brought a branch; when they saw the young man, the king rejoiced, and the mother again said that they were elves; the midwife persuades the girl to ask her brothers to get an all-seeing mirror; the monk: he is guarded by 40 dragons, they take turns sleeping; their brothers have killed them all, they brought a mirror; the midwife: the bird Dikjeretto is missing; when she looks in the mirror, she talks about what all people in the world say in any language; the brothers left her sister a shirt: if they turn black, trouble with them; the monk refused to help - why does the girl send her brothers to death out of a whim; they went to the bird and it turned them into stone; the shirts turned black, the sister went to look for brothers; monk: must undress naked, go to the bird from behind and grab its legs; the caught bird told me to go for live water between the crush rocks; the girl slipped through, the rocks tore off only a piece of her dress; the sister revived brothers, they all returned, the shepherd had a feast; the prince came, the girl showed him a branch, a mirror and a bird; the prince called them to his place; the bird ordered him to take it with him and let the girl offer the prince try it: eggplants and diamonds inside; prince: how can eggplants contain diamonds; poultry: how can a woman give birth to a puppy, kitten and mouse? the bird told me everything; the prince returned his wife from the chicken coop; the midwife was beheaded, the queen was burned]: 47-58; Legrand 1881 []: 77-93; Paton 1899, No. 3 (Lemnos) [after dark, the king orders to put out all the lights, walks around the city; eavesdrops at the house in which the fire is not extinguished; the older sister wants to be a royal cook, the middle sister wants to be a spinner, the youngest wants to give birth to the king Sun, Month, Stars; he performs their desires; the king's mother replaces children born three times with puppies; the abandoned children are fed by a goat, then raised by a shepherd; their mother is told by the king to throw them into a ditch with garbage; at the shepherd's hut, the king hears how one brother tells their story; returns sons and their mother; tells his mother and midwife to tie wild horses to their backs]: 499-300; Paton 1899, No. 3 (Lemnos) [after dark the king orders to put out all the lights, walks around the city; eavesdrops at the house where the fire is not extinguished; the older sister wants to be the king's cook, the middle sister wants to be a spinner, the youngest wants to give birth to the king Sun, Month, Stars; he fulfills their wishes; the king's mother replaces children born three times with puppies, abandoned children are fed by a goat, then raised by a shepherd; their mother is told by the king to throw them into the garbage ditch; at the shepherd's hut, the king hears one of the brothers telling their story; returning his sons and their mother; telling his mother and midwife to tie wild horses to their backs]: 499-300; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 707 [the tsar (who forbade lighting a fire at night) overhears the conversation of three poor sisters working at night (straight); the first two would like to marry the royal servants (blacksmith, coachman, etc.), the youngest would like to marry the royal servants (blacksmith, coachman, etc.) king, to give birth to him three wonderful children; gives birth to two boys and a girl (golden-nosed, with the sun, a month and a star, etc.); envious sisters (mother-in-law) replace children, let them down in a chest into the sea or the river; the king orders their mother to be buried waist-deep in the ground; a miller (sailor, etc.) picks up a chest, saves the children; the king's mother, the old woman persuades her sister to ask the brothers to get wonderful objects (waving a tree, a talking bird, a mirror, etc.); without following the advice of the old man, the brothers turn into stone; the sister gets objects, revives the brothers (and all the petrified ones); a singing tree or a talking bird tells the king the truth; he returns his wife and children, punishes the guilty], 707C [the king (who did not light the fire at night) overhears the conversation of the three sisters; the first two promise if they marry the king, do a lot of work (dressing an army, weaving a huge tent, feeding the army with one loaf, etc.); the third promises to give birth to wonderful children (golden braids, a star on his forehead, the sun and a month, etc.); the king takes married to all three, but the elders do not fulfill their promises; the youngest gives birth to children; envious sisters (stepmother, servants) replace them with a puppy (puppy and kitten), let them down in a chest into the sea or river; the king orders bury them waist-deep in the ground (on the edge of a garbage dump, lock them in a chicken coop, etc.); a miller (fisherman, shepherd, etc.) picks up children; sister is persuaded to ask her brother to get wonderful objects (singing a tree, a magic bird, etc.); with the help of a wonderful horse, the brother gets everything; takes possession of their mistress, a beauty who turned people into stones; this beauty (a talking tree, a bird) tells the king everything the story is either told by the children themselves; the king returns them and their mother, punishes the perpetrators], 707D [the king (who forbade lighting the fire at night) overhears the conversation of the three sisters; the first promises if he goes beyond marry the king, dress his army from one spindle of wool; the second is to feed the army with one loaf of bread; the third is to give birth to wonderful children (a girl with golden braids, silver teeth, etc.); the king consistently marries all three; the first two do not fulfill their promises, the third gives birth to wonderful children; envious sisters replace them with a kitten and a puppy (kill them), bury them in the garden; king sends his wife to herd geese (ducks), remarries one of the older sisters; buried children turn into wonderful trees (with golden leaves, apples), caress the king's branches, whipping the queen; they are cut down, they make a bed, she says that the father is not heavy, his wife is heavy; they burn the bed, cornflower grows out of ash, sheep eats it, gives birth to golden lambs, they are thrown into the river (well), they become children again ; they tell their story (at this time beads, pearls, money fall from their lips), the tsar recognizes their children and wife]: 240, 241-244, 244-245; Karaliychev, Valchev 1963 [tsar meets three sisters; the first promises feed an entire army, the second to dress an army, the youngest to give birth to two boys with golden swirls; the king marries the youngest; she gives birth to boys, the maid replaces them with two black puppies, takes a place queens; the king tells you to smear his wife's head with tar, send ducks "and boobies" to herd {geese?} , she is called Patarena ("duckling"); the children are buried, two apple trees have grown in this place, they bend down so that their mother can pick apples, rise higher when the new queen wants to pick apples; she tells cut down apple trees, make a bed out of wood; at night, one brother says that his father is lying on him and the other that he is wearing a maid; she tells him to burn the bed; two sparks fall into the geraniums {apparently a well}; Patarena tells her story; two boys jump out of the well; the king asks the new wife if she wants two horses or two knives; she wants horses, she has been torn apart by horses; the king has returned her former wife] : 400-402; Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951 []: 80-84; Serbs [the prince wants to marry a girl who will give him a son with a star in his forehead; there are three beauties in the dugout, one embroiders, the other knitting, the third sings, prepares a dowry; envious sisters ask the old woman to give the prince's wife a potion; she drinks, runs away into the forest; the prince finds her, she dies of happiness; the prince kills himself with a dagger; the king revives them magic grass, daughter-in-law gives birth to a son with a star in her forehead]: Karadzic 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:108-110; Bosnians [in Istanbul, the Sultan forbade lighting a fire for a month; servants noticed a light; in Three sisters spin the hut by candlelight; ask each other what they could do to make the Sultan forgive them; the eldest: I will weld hominy for the whole army; medium: a hundred cloth to dress the whole army; younger: I give birth to a daughter with golden hair and pearl teeth and a son with a golden hand; the sultan ordered the sisters to be brought; the first two failed to fulfill their promise and he sent them home, and married the youngest; when she After giving birth, other wives were afraid that they would be ignored; the eldest Badscha told the woman in labor that she should be blindfolded; replaced the children with puppies; everyone advised her to break the woman in labor with horses, but one person is to wait for the Serbian patriarch; patriarch: bury her waist-deep in manure and starve to feed her; she was buried at the crossroads to make everyone passing through it spit; B. put the newborns in the chest and lowered them into the river, the miller and his wife found them; a month later they were so beautiful that the pitchforks took them to their mountain castle; the children grew up and realized that they were not pitchforks themselves, but people; ran away and asked on the counter, what is the best place on earth; Istanbul; at the Sultan's palace they went to bed under a fig tree and God built a better palace above them; B. came and told the girl% lives on the plain invincible Moor; if your brother kills him, the sultan will reward him; brother brought his head; B. there are 5 more Moors; then 9; same; on Mount Tman there is a horse Avgar, who is fattened by the pitchforks; towards giant: we were 20, but we could not take possession of the horse; another giant overheard the pitchfork talking and told us how to catch the horse: leave the wineskin with water at the watering hole; when he saw the wineskin, the horse looked around, the young man grabbed it by the neck and tamed; he gave three hairs to summon him; B.: in Jordan, a wreath of pitchfork hangs between heaven and earth, and Jordan flows between the mountains of Zmaygodia and Doxan, which are constantly beating peaks against each other; young man summoned the horse A., slipped between the mountains, took a wreath, and on the way back, the mountains snatched a piece of meat from the horse's cereal; B. let your brother get the princess from the tower covered with ducats; she turns the grooms into stones; A.'s horse brought a young man there; the horse started, rumbled like thunder, the girl was frightened and did not turn them into stones; greets the young man; asks the pitchfork how quickly they can move her tower, her, the young man and horse; pitchfork: 3 days; other pitchforks: 2 days; third: in a day; chose them; when they arrived, tells the young man to wipe the face of the woman buried in manure with a handkerchief; when the sultan seated the guest at the table, he threw a piece the dog and she died; the Sultan called B., ordered to eat a piece, she also died; the young man called the Sultan to his place; on the way home he freed his mother and brought her to him; the Sultan came, everything was clarified; when the mother stood under With a wreath from Jordan, her youth and beauty returned to her, but she died of happiness; at weddings, 7 wives who helped B. were tied to horse tails]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:99-116; Albanians [when the young king took power, he forbade lighting the fire the next night; after changing clothes, he walked around the city; overheard the three sisters talking; the eldest: if the king marries me, a hundred carpet, which will accommodate all his warriors; middle: I will make a tent; youngest: I will give birth to a son and a daughter with a star on her forehead and a month on his shoulders; the king married all three; all three fulfilled their promise, but when the youngest gave birth, the king left, and the sisters told him that his wife had given birth to a cat and a mouse; the king ordered his wife to be placed on the stairs so that everyone would spit on her; the sisters put the newborn boy and girl in a box and told her let the maid go along the river; the box sailed to the mill, the miller and his wife raised their children; when he dies, the miller tells the young man to take the bridle hidden there in 14 days, but not earlier; the young man listened, took a bridle, ordered two horses to appear; they immediately transferred brother and sister to their father's kingdom; the brother started a coffee shop; the king came there and saw a young man with a star on his forehead; the aunts understood everything, sent the old woman persuade the girl to ask her brother to bring a flower from the Beauty of the Earth; the young man comes to the lamia, she does not know the way to the Beauty of the Earth, refers to her older sister, she refers to her eldest sister; the eldest: When you get there, give the lion brains and grass to the lamb; they let the young man pass, he picked the flower and brought it to his sister; aunts: persuade him to bring a handkerchief of the Beauty of the Earth; the young man brought it; to get the Beauty of the Earth itself; the elder lamia: all her strength is in her ring; he goes to the sleeping woman and takes off the ring from his finger; the beauty of the Earth went with the young man; the king ordered a feast in the young man's cafe; the aunts told the servants to put poison on the dishes; but the Beauty of the Earth is warned her; the young man told me everything; the king returned his wife and ordered her sisters to be chopped to pieces]: Dozon 1881, No. 2:7-15; Albanians [if the prince marries her, the older sister promises to bake her bread for the whole army, the middle one to sew clothes for everyone, the youngest to give birth to a son with a star on her forehead and a daughter with a star on her chest; the prince hears this, demands confirmation; the older sisters cannot fulfill their promises, the youngest performs; sisters replace children with kittens, the prince sent his wife to herd geese; the children were buried alive, two bushes have grown, they scratch their aunts's face and clothes; they were cut down, burned; two sparks flew to the mountain , a castle arose; the prince came there, all objects were talking there, he saw his children, understood everything; returned his wife, her sisters were chopped to pieces]: Lambertz 1952:156-159; Romanians [three sisters Anna, Stana and Laptitsa (from Lapte: "milk") went for berries; A., if the king marries her, promised to bake bread so much that her husband would not grow old; S. - to weave a shirt, her husband would not burn in the fire and drown in the water; L. - to give birth to sons with golden curls and a star in their foreheads; three young men, including a king, galloped by and heard everything, married the girls; they fulfilled their promise; but the king's stepmother replaced the children born puppies and buried them in the garden; the king sent L. to the kitchen, married his stepmother's daughter; two plane trees grew on the grave; the new queen ordered them to be cut down, beds made for her and her husband; at night the queen hears , as young men talk; told them to burn their beds; but two sparks turned into twin lambs; the queen tells them to be slaughtered and thrown into the river, they turned into two fish; the fisherman caught them, wanted to take them to palace, the fish asked not to do this, became boys; they came to the palace, began to sing about what had happened, took off their hats and stars under them; the king returned his wife, sent the mother's daughter to the kitchen, the stepmother herself ran away; =Kremnitz 1882:29-42; Kremnitz's stepmother was tied to a horse's tail and he ran the ground 7 times]: Mirener 1958:128-137; Romanians [the tsar forbade lighting a fire in the evenings; the servants found three sisters sitting in the light; the eldest promises to strain their hair for his coachmen, the middle one to sew horsemen, the youngest to give birth to two gold-haired sons; the king has fulfilled their wishes; the elders are envious that they only spin and weave; they replaced the children with puppies; the king ordered his wife to be buried in manure, putting the puppies on her nipples; the children went downstream in the box, they were found and raised by a shepherd; their mother gave birth to a gold-haired girl a year later, who was also lowered down the river, replaced by a puppy, was also found by a shepherd; the aunts found out about this, sent it as a sorceress; she told the girl that the Calman horse's feather would make her even more beautiful; the brothers went in search; the well in front of the dog is hay, and the bones in front of the donkey, the brothers changed them; they grabbed the feather from the horse's forehead, ran; the owner of the pen tells the dog, donkey and well to detain the fugitives, but they refuse; the sister stuck pen in their hair; brothers and sister came to the king's ball; sister talks about everything; king executes evil sisters, returns his wife and her children]: Bîrlea 1966:455-456; Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 3 [the queen hears three sisters talking; the eldest promises to weave clothes for the whole country and the entire army from one hemp stem; the middle one promises to bake bread from one grain; the youngest to give birth to two children with gold hair; while the king was at war, middle sister Wheat and Grandma Iron Nose replaced the children with puppies, threw cows under their hooves; the cows gave them milk; the same with horses; with pigs; then lowered them into a box on the river; the king tells his wife to be walled up in a wall so that everyone spit on her; the fisherman pulled out the box, containing a boy and a girl; they grew up, realized that their parents are not their own; the brother goes to look for a new place; the dragon wants to learn to play the clarinet; the young man suggests straightening his fingers, let him put logs in the crack, knock out the wedge, the dragon remains clamped; after learning about the gold-haired, Iron Nose found his sister persuaded her brother to bring a lilac bush with singing leaves; the young man came to the mistress of the raven demons, the jackdaw brought it, helped her get the bush; get an all-seeing mirror; the same; beautiful Erzhik, whose fortress revolves in the boiling sea; the same; the old woman tore E. in half, reptiles climbed out of it, the old woman washed it, revived it, now she is safe; brother, E. and sister came to their father and mother]: 92-112; Curtin 1924 []: 91-119; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 42 [three sisters came to the source to rinse their clothes; eldest: if the king's son took me, she would put his troops in a nutshell; medium: would wrap his whole army with a thread; youngest: she would give birth to a son with the sun, a daughter with a moon on her head; the prince hears, married his youngest, went to war; his wife gave birth; the gypsy woman let the children into the chest into the river, changed her puppies; her husband ordered her wife to be buried in the middle of the street to the waist, spit on her and throw stones at her; the miller picked up and raised the children; when they passed by their mother, she told them to take off their hat and handkerchief , everything was lit up; the prince pulled his wife out of the hole, the gypsy woman was tied to the tails of two horses]: 65-67; Syrf 2013 [the eldest of the shepherd's daughters: if the padishah's son marries me, a hundred carpet that will cover me all army; middle: I'll bake bread for the whole army; youngest: the face of a boy with a month on his forehead, a girl with the sun; the son of a padishah takes the youngest; leaves with his father; the wife gives birth to a girl Gn ("sun"), a boy Ay ("month"); mother-in-law and witch grandmother write a letter saying that the wife gave birth to two puppies; the children are lowered into the river in a box, their mother is buried waist-deep in the ground, everyone should beat her and spit on her; the poor picked up children; they grew up, left, found a home, began to live there; the witch's grandmother persuades her sister to ask her brother to bring 1) an apple from Dnn Gzeli ("beauty of the world"); the old woman tells me to try bitter ones apples, praise the taste; drink from a spring of blood and pus, praise the water; if DG's eyes are open, then he is sleeping; brother wraps DG hair around his arm, makes him say where the apple tree brings apples; 2) DG mirror; 3) brought and married DG herself; the young man forgets that when his eyes are closed, DG does not sleep, she turns him into stone; sister goes looking for him; old woman: grass in front of the wolf, bone in front of the goat, we must change places; bitter apples, a spring of blood and pus (like with a brother); wrap 99 DG braids around your arm, make your brother revive; she revives 99 men, the girl's hundredth brother, all three come back, young man meets his father, who has already become a padishah; DG frees the mother of the children, gives the dogs the food that the mother-in-law and witch wanted to poison them; the grandmother was tied to the tails of 40 horses, and the mother-in-law was stabbed with 40 knives] : 174-181.

Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Vologda, Tver, Kaluga, Oryol, Ryazan, Kursk, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Podolia, Poltava), Belarusians [Wonderful children: the Tsar (Tsarevich) overhears the conversation of three female sisters; marries the youngest, who promised to give birth to beautiful sons; her children born in the absence of the king are replaced by sisters (witches) with puppies (animals); the king orders her wife and newborns to be put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the barrel sails to the island, where the son establishes a kingdom of wonders and wonders; the king goes to see curiosities and meets his wife and children; slanderers are punished. - Another form of this is less common in East Slavic material plot type - about a singing tree, a talking bird and marvelous water. Thompson's Index primarily refers to this second variety]: SUS, No. 707:177-178; Russians (Terek Coast) [the tsar walked, chose a bride, overheard the conversation of three sisters under the window; first: if I were a queen, I would weave canvases all over the world; second: I would make beer; I would bring 9 heroes in three bellies, legs knee-deep in gold, elbow-deep in silver, sun in forehead, back of my head a month, small stars are braided, bright dawns close behind their ears; the king married the last, left; the queen gave birth to three sons, Baba Yaga stole them; the same for the second time; the third time one mother braided herself in braids; Baba Yaga changed letters, the queen was thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel was washed ashore, broken; in the morning the church, houses; the walkers passing are surprised: there were swamps, the chambers became white-stone and viburnum bridges; the son became a trinket fly, flew with viburnum, heard everything; they told the king about the miracle; the queen's sister: our aunt has jelly shores, a river of milk, a red spoon; a trinket fly pecked out her eye; in the morning he and her mother have a river of milk, etc.; next time: a third bull, a bathhouse on the tail, a lake under her tail, a church on her horns; third woman: our aunt has 8 fellows in the open field, the knee of her leg is covered in gold (etc.); the trinket fly off a piece of her nose, flew to her mother, who explains that these are his brothers, carried away by the yaga baba; gave curls; the son flew to the house in the field; there are 8 pigeons, they turn into a great job at night; they all flew to their mother, began to live well; the Kaliki tell the tsar about this; he moved to his children, left them the kingdom]: Balashov 1970, No. 46:155-160; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the tsar ordered the lights in the city to be turned off; sent his son to look for his wife where the fire would not be extinguished; Ivan Tsarevich overhears the conversation of the three sisters at the window; each says that she will do if I. marries her; one weaves a carpet with an embroidered plane on it; the other will sew a towel with silk; the youngest will give birth to three sons three times, the sun is in the forehead, a month on the back of her head, frequent small braids stars; Yazhenya volunteered to be a midwife; replaced children with kittens (she took the children to an open field); puppies; puppies again; turned the children into wolves; the last woman in labor hid in her braid; I persuaded I. throw the queen in a barrel into the sea; she was thrown onto the island, her son knocked down the bottom, created a palace; turned into a mosquito, overheard the sailors tell about the wonderful palace on the island; I.: My brother has a bull on his tail a bathhouse, a lake on the back, a palace on the horns; the son creates such a bull at home; next time: the lake is crystal, the shores are jelly, the spoons are silver, there are no losses; for the third time: 8 sons that are clear falcons, in the afternoon wolves, but well done at night; the mother baked koloboks with fresh milk, told her son to take them under the spruce tree; the brothers ate them, the milk on their lips, did not turn into wolves anymore; greeted their ninth brother, began to live together with his mother; the tsar came, recognized his wife; Y. was smeared in a barrel, still swims]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:144-148; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pechora) [when entering the house, the tsar asks three girls what they can do; one is to embroider with silk, the other is to bake and cook, the third will give birth to two sons, one elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on the back of the head, stars are frequent on the pigtails, the sun is in the forehead; the other is the elbow is in gold, knee-deep in silver; the king married her; left for business; the messenger was not told to enter the house where the queen's sisters were, but he went in; those girls changed the letter: the queen gave birth to a female and a dog; then But on the way back: to get rid of his wife and children; the boys were named Fedor and Ivan; F. and his mother in a barrel were lowered into the sea, I. was sent far away to the terrible king, a fiery spear; the king returned , executed the messenger and married the sister who embroidered with silk; the barrel was thrown on Buyan Island; F. made a bow, shot the game, made a tent out of their skins; merchants arrived, surprised; swam to the king, F. unnoticed with them on the ship; new queen: this is not a miracle, there is something else: a squirrel walks on a pine tree, sings songs, tells fairy tales; F. returned to his mother, then went to pick up a pine tree and a squirrel; merchants talk about a squirrel ; queen: the terrible king has a servant, elbow-deep in gold (etc.); mother Fedor: this is your brother; F. went to the terrible king; two are fighting over a girl and a flying carpet; F. shot: who will bring first arrow, he will get everything; flew away with the girl on a flying carpet; went to the old woman, asked for help to take his brother away; I. ran to slurp the porridge; the brothers greet each other; the grandmother gave a brush, flint and flint; brothers and girl are flying on a flying carpet, the terrible king is next; the brush (forest), flint (stone wall), flint (fire river); the terrible king is afraid, has returned; now the king father of the brothers himself came; took his wife and sons, F. married that girl; the new queen was shot at the gate]: Azadovsky 1934, No. 2:104-121; Russians (Olonetskaya: Shokshozero) [Ivan Tsarevich hears a conversation between three peasant daughters; one promises to weave a towel to the king, the other to bake bread, the third to bring three sons in three bellies, legs in silver, hands in gold, sun in forehead, a month on the back of the head, frequent braids stars; the old woman imposed herself as a midwife, replaced three boys with puppies, threw the boys under the oak tree; the second time, three piglets; the third time, kittens, but the queen hid one boy under a braid; I. shackled the queen in the barrel, threw it into the sea; the boy grew up by the hour; when the barrel touched the shore, the hoops burst; he created a palace and a bridge with his desire; the kaliks visited, came to the king; I. had a frog on his bag, all hears; talk about the palace and the bridge; stepmother: there is a golden deer; the young man brought him to his mother; next time he turned into a fly; under the oak tree 8 fellows; the young man tells his mother to bake 9 koloboks with her milk ; brothers recognized their mother's milk; Kaliki talk about young people; the tsar arrived; this woman was shot at the gate]: Onchukov 2000, No. 53:209-210; Russians (Pskov) [stepmother tells her husband to leave him three daughters in the forest; they cried all night, a river formed, flowed to the king; the king ordered the girls to be brought in; one promises to dress the whole world in one rake, the other to feed the whole world with one bread, and the third to give birth Twelve sons; the king went to war, his wife gave birth to 12 sons, the letter was changed - gave birth to 12 frogs; the king ordered his wife and children to be put in a barrel, thrown into the sea; the barrel landed on the shore, the sons went out as adults, the elder became king; the tsar heard about the city where the squirrel clicks nuts, went there and recognized his wife; the elder prince killed a kite who was chasing a swan, the swan became a girl, he married her]: Ploschuk 2004, No. 34:104-105; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the tsar sent his son to choose a wife; he met three girls; one promises to sew clothes from one hemp for an entire army; the second to bake bread from one ear for an entire army; the third is to give birth to two gold-haired boys; the prince married a third; the prince left, Komorna (maid?) buried the babies in the mud, replaced them with puppies; the prince orders his wife to be buried chest deep in the ground in the doorway; opening the doors passing by her beat; married the maid's daughter; two sycamores grew out of the baby; wife prince {hereinafter referred to as the tsar; presumably, the prince reigned after the death of his father} tells them to cut them down, make beds for himself and her husband; at night he hears the brothers' conversation: it's easy for one, his father, and the other's hard, there is a female girl on it; she tells me to burn the beds; the shepherd prepared salt for the sheep, the coals fell into salt; the sheep gave birth to two gold-fleece lambs; the queen tells them to be slaughtered, sent the maids to wash their guts, two bunks {what this?} went with the flow; the woman picked it up, they became gold-haired boys; they came to their father, began to tell a fairy tale, that is, their story; they put peas on the bed; as they told, peas bounced in front; the mother of the young men was released, the maid and her daughter were torn apart by horses; the tsar, queen and their sons are still alive if they did not die]: Day 1981:88-98; Ukrainians [seeing the prince, first the girl promises to feed everyone one cow of bread, the second - to sew clothes for the entire army from one arshin cloth, the third - to give birth to 12 golden-haired sons; the king married a third, went to war; the midwife replaced her golden-haired son with a dog and threw her into the well; the second time she replaced her with a toad, the third time with a dry and ill baby; the king ordered his wife and her offspring to be put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; when they got ashore, Pesinsky, Zhabinsky and Sukhinsky are building a house and a bridge to another kingdom; they are mining a golden apple tree with golden and silver apples, a wonderful wild boar that can grow bread; playing with an apple, they lure three golden-haired boys out of the well; after learning about miracles from salt merchants, the tsar executes the midwife and returns his wife]: Chubinsky 1878:40-41; Belarusians [three sisters collected mushrooms, it began to rain, they sat under the birch tree, the stream flowed from the rain to the king; the servant found the girls, overheard the conversation; one promises to dress, the other to feed the army, the third to give birth to a son with a month in his forehead, dawns on the back of his head; the king married the last, left, she gave birth, sent a letter, the sisters were replaced (either a dog or a frog; let him go to sea in a barrel); the boy came out of the barrel, made a bridge from the island to the ground, took his mother to the king's wedding with another sister; the king takes out nuts, offers to guess them; the boy, disguised as a violinist, tells his story; takes off his hat, under it a month, dawns; sister mothers were torn by horses]: Potanin 1891:147-148; Belarusians (Virovlyanskaya vol., Vitebsk Gubernia) [A grandfather and a woman lived, they had 3 daughters. Baba died, my grandfather married a young princess. She tells him to take his daughters to the forest, water or open field, or she threatens to kill them from the light herself. The grandfather tells his daughters to take the baskets, takes the ax himself and goes with them to the swamp. There he tells them to pick berries on one "borovinka", and he goes to the other "cut a splint". He walked away, took a pine board and tied it to a white birch tree, and went home on horseback. That board claps on the birch tree, the daughters think that dad is cutting a splint. The sisters picked berries until night, went where the board clapped - no dad. They cried. - Our death has come! - says the eldest. The middle one calls them under the pine tree of bread to eat and keep going. They eat and cry - they cry so much that rivers from that place have flowed in all directions. And one river reached the "royal state" house. The king tells his servants to walk along the bank of this river all the way to its source, and to lead whoever they find there to him. Servants bring three sisters to the king. They've told him everything, and he wants to marry "the one who's quicker." The eldest says that if they give her a grain of wheat, she will feed the whole kingdom, the middle one promises that she will dress the whole kingdom in silk on one thread, and the youngest will give birth to the king 12 sons. The king marries the younger one and gives wealth to the other two. They live for 3 years. The queen is pregnant, the king goes to fight, as he leaves, she gives birth to 12 handsome sons. The older sisters want her and her sons to die. They bribed the midwife grandmother, but the servants did not let her see the queen. The messenger's servants sent a letter to the king. The messenger goes before dark, gets to his older sister. She takes him to the bathhouse, and she writes to her middle sister - she suggests writing a false letter to the king that "he did not have a beetle, a toad, or a frog - he does not walk, crawl, squeak, sing." The next morning, the messenger goes on, and by night he gets to his middle sister. She sends him to the bathhouse, reads the eldest's note, burns a real letter to the king and writes a false one, as her sister pointed out, adding "your wife gave birth to such nasty things that you can't slow down in a fable, say in a fairy tale, nor show people!" The next morning, the messenger goes on and gets to the king. The king reads a forged letter, is afraid, and writes in response that whoever is born, leave him until the royal return. On the way back, the messenger goes back to his middle and older sister, they burn the present again and replace the letter - they write to immediately execute the good fellows, and the eldest adds that 11 sons should be sewn up in a leather bag, and the queen and her youngest son were put in a resin barrel and let in the blue sea. People in the city marvel at the royal decree, but they comply with it. God had mercy - the bag with the brothers did not drown, but sailed to the thirtieth kingdom. There, on the seashore, there was a "Dorokhway oak for 12 boxes", in which there was a large hollow. The older brother calls others to tear the bag apart. They bless each other, push, the bag breaks, go ashore, climb into the hollow. The queen sailed with her younger son for three days and three nights. On the fourth, my son says that they have come to the island, and we have to get out of the barrel. She asks his mother for a blessing - she blesses him three times, he hits the barrel, she flies away, they go ashore to Budaya Island, and his son is building a city in China. He tells his mother that his brothers are sitting in the hollow of Dorokhway oak and cannot get out of there - a bird is waiting for them there, that eats people, wants to eat them, but cannot get into the hollow. She asks her mother to bake 12 times out of her milk, bless him and goes in search of her brothers. He arrives in the thirtieth kingdom, sees Dorokhway oak and a large bird bigger than an oak. A bird fights a bird, hits it against an oak tree - 12 females fall from an oak tree, hits it on the ground - a bird dies. He calls whoever is in the hollow to go out. Eleven fellows come out asking him for food. They eat 12 times and recognize him as a brother, and go with him to China. Merchant sailors traveled through that city to their father's kingdom. The little boy boarded the ship with a fly and came with them to the king. He asks what the merchants saw. They answer - they were in the thirtieth kingdom, there is Budai Island, and there are 12 good fellows on it, in that city there are 12 good fellows - "voice to voice, hair to hair, gait to gait, say in a saying, face like one; the knee is in gold, waist-deep in silver, in the forehead is a clear month, on the back of the head there are stars, and the sun is red on the temples." The king figured out that they were his sons. The older sister says that these are not his children, otherwise there will be his children, who in the thirtieth kingdom will get Valdai the cat from Dorokhvey's oak tree: "He goes down - fables bait, he goes up - the fairy tale says." And the little prince hears everything. He returned with the merchants and told his mother and brothers everything. Well done, they asked their mother for blessings, "they went out into the open field, into green meadows, into protected forests: they shouted, garbled in a heroic voice, and they had everything overnight" (i.e. a cat with an oak tree appeared). The merchants again drove through their city of China to the kingdom of their father, and the smaller one clung to them again with a fly. Upon arrival, the king asks the merchants what they saw, and they say that "on Budai Island, in China, there is Dorokhvey oak for 12 boxes, and the Valdai cat walks on that oak tree..." The king marvels - that's right, his children live there! The eldest again for her own is not a miracle, not his children, but those who in the thirtieth kingdom will get "a silver apple tree, a golden apple tree; a silver apple, a golden apple; a golden apple; a silver twig, a golden twig." The Tsarevich heard everything again, returned with the merchants, and handed it to his mother brothers. The same thing happened again: they asked their mother for a blessing, went out into the open field, and the next morning they grew up an apple tree. Merchants go to the king again, and the smaller prince flies with them again. Everything repeats itself: merchants talk about an apple tree, the older sister comes up with a new miracle - there is, she says, "in the thirtieth kingdom, one bridge is silver, the other is golden, and when you walk along it, it is in front, but not in the back!" The prince and his merchants return home and in the same way, with a mother's blessing, they and his brothers reach the bridge. As the merchants told the king about that miracle, he decided to go to them - my children, says. The older sister did not say anything, so she followed him. They arrived at the bridge - it has a bridge, but there is no bridge for it! The king comes to Budai Island, to the city of China - and he still shines with his sons. The king recognized the queen, she showed him his 12 handsome sons, they had a feast all over the world, and tied the sisters to their ponytails and let him into the open field]: Romanov 1901, No. 18 (17): 163−169; Belarusians [at the end of the village, the woman has three daughters; the eldest wants for the royal key man, the middle for the royal coachman, the youngest for the royal son; the prince overheard her, married her and gave her sisters for whoever they wanted; The prince left, his wife gave birth, the sisters bribed the midwife, she replaced the child with a puppy, lowered it in a box along the river, picked him up by a fisherman; the same for the second time (kitten); the third time, a frog instead of a daughter; the king walled up the queen in a stone pole, her head outside, ordered her to feed bread and water; the fisherman and his wife died, the children live alone; his sister has a garden; Satan chipped in as an old man: there is no singing tree in the garden; the elder brother went to the mountain; old man: come back and don't turn around; the guy turned around, stoned; the same younger brother; sister wrapped her head, did not listen or look, collected living water and dug up a tree, took a bird; she revived the brothers with water; at home the tree sings, the bird on the window talks; tells them to call the king and queen and serve the fried puppy, kitten and frog; having learned the truth, the king freed his first wife, her sisters and midwife tied horses to their tails and let them into the field]: Romanov 1887, No. 61:295-298; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1907, Ust-Tsylma, Lower Pechora) [The Tsar goes to look for a bride, sees a house in the open field, there are 3 girls in the house, he asks what they can do, the elders answer, sew and cook, the third promises to give birth to 2 sons elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on the back of the head, "braided" stars, sun in his forehead, and the other has golden hands up to the elbow and silver legs knee-deep. He takes the younger king as his wife. When she becomes pregnant, the king leaves for another state, ordering her to report the birth of the child. The queen gives birth to her promised sons, and a messenger is sent to the king, ordering them not to enter the house from which the queen was taken on the way. The messenger loses his way and enters the house while he is steaming in the bathhouse, the royal letter is replaced, now it says that a dog and a female have been born. The messenger delivers a letter to the king and the king learns that the messenger has visited the house of the Tsaritsin sisters, he orders his wife and children not to do anything or enter the house again on the way to the house. The messenger loses his way again and enters the house, the letter is replaced again, and a new letter orders the children to be killed. One of the sons, Ivan, is sent to the kingdom of far away to live with a "terrible king, a fiery spear", and Fedor and his mother are sent to sea in a barrel. When the king returns, he executes the messenger. After a while, he marries a girl who "sewed with silk". Fedor feels that he is no longer shaking the barrel and tearing it apart. Once on Buyan Island, they made a tent from "fox da kunich", Fedor Tsarevich went with the merchants on the ship, taking his fly from his mother. Merchants sail to the kingdom of Father Fedor, talk about the tent of Queen and Fedor, a wonderful squirrel (she rises up the pine tree - she sings songs, goes down - she tells fairy tales, she has a bathhouse on her tail, under sea tail). The king orders merchants in this city to trade without paying tribute. When he returns, Fedor asks his mother for a blessing and goes across the blue sea for a squirrel. He brings squirrels to Buyan Island. Merchants and Fedor again go to the state to Fedor's father, talking about the squirrel. The Queen talks about a servant of a "terrible king, a fiery spear from the rear of fire", whose arms are in gold, legs in silver, etc. Fyodor's mother says that this servant is his brother, warns that no one has returned from the terrible tsar, but gives a blessing and Fyodor goes after his brother. On the way, he meets the fighting, offers to resolve their dispute: they share the flying carpet and the girl, they deceive them (arranges a competition, whoever gets to the arrow first will get the carpet), himself picks up the girl and gets to the kingdom of the terrible king on the carpet. It turns out that the grandmother's backyard (the "God-given mother" refers to her) in a small hut, where Servant Ivan "comes to slurp porridge", she helps when Ivan comes, all three and the girl sit on the carpet -plane, fleeing from the terrible king. They are caught up, and their grandmother throws the brush - a dark forest appears. Flint throws - a stone wall appears, throws a "flint plate" - a river of fire appears. The terrible king stops the persecution. They are returning to Buyan Island. Merchants tell Father Fedor and Ivan about the island's wonderful people. The king sails to the island, asks where they came from (brothers in gold, etc., and a squirrel), and they tell him the truth. He takes them to his kingdom, "put his new wife on the gate and shot them", Fedor Tsarevich marries the girl he found]: Onchukov 2008, No. 5:90-96; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908, Lapinskaya volost, an 18-year-old girl A.S. Filatova, lived as an employee in different villages of Pomerania, composes ditties and songs | "folk poetess" |, illiterate) [Ivan Tsarevich rides past the bathhouse, overhears the conversation of three girls ( they scratch the tow, and he was hoping to see, he thought they were washing). One girl promises to sew gold lace if Ivan Tsarevich marries her, the other promises a golden shirt front, the third promises to give birth to "nine sons" "in three bellies" (knee-length legs in silver, arms up to the elbow in gold, the sun is in my forehead, I'm a month old in the back of my head, there are frequent stars on my temples). Ivan marries a third girl, Maria. Ivan has gone overseas, Maria gives birth to three sons, as she promised, calls her servants, and a maid girl meets Yaitsna-Babitsna on the road, who asks her to go with her. She is trading kids for dogs. Ivan Tsarevich returned, forgave his wife, "God will forgive his first guilt." The second time Maria gave birth to three children, everything happened again, and her husband forgave again. The third time Maria braided one son in a braid, sewed the other in a pillow, and left the latter (her sons lived in Yaitsna Babitsna's garden), Ivan Tsarevich did not forgive his wife, put him in a barrel and threw him into the sea, himself married Jaicna Babica's daughter. Maria took her son out of her pillow and the other one out of her braid. Sounded out loud, her sons' wishes come true: the barrel is washed ashore, it breaks, a white-stone chamber appears, the banks of the river become muslin, and a glass bridge leads across it. Their mother makes shirts for them, they go look for their brothers. They come to Ivan Tsarevich in a "ribushny dress", he tells them about his first wife, and Jaitsna-Babitsna scolds him for talking to beggars. Sons let their brothers out of the Jajcny Babicna Garden. Ivan Tsarevich went broke and goes to beg for alms to the white-stone wards, sees his children "knee-deep in silver, etc.", finds out that Yaitsna-Babitsna is shot at the gate and stays with his wife and children]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 9:3-5; Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 288 (Tverskaya) [the tsar listens to the conversation of the merchant's three daughters under the windows; one wants to marry the royal baker, the other wants to marry a servant, the third, for the king himself, will give birth to two sons and a daughter; each time the sisters let the newborn in a box into the pond, they say that the queen has given birth to a puppy; the king is advised to place the queen in the chapel so that everyone those who passed by spit in her eyes; but some fed her; the royal gardener raised children; they built a house outside the city; while the brothers were hunting, the old woman persuades her sister to ask them to get a talker bird , a melodious tree and living water; the old man tells his older brother to go for the ice rink {ball?} , reached the middle of the mountain and disappeared; blood is dripping from the knife left; the younger brother is coming - the same; the sister is coming; the same thing, but went up the mountain; took the bird, it sent it to the tree, birds are singing on it, girl broke off a branch; collected living water and revived the brothers; brothers come to visit their father king, then receive him; he is surprised at the curiosities; the brothers confess that they are his children; the king stayed with them and returned his wife from the chapel], 289 (Orenburg) [the tsar overheard the conversation between the three daughters of the deceased merchant; the eldest wants for the royal baker, the middle wants for the cook, the youngest for the tsar himself, will give birth to two sons, whose hands are elbow deep in gold, legs knee-deep in silver, and daughter laughs, roses will fall, and pearls will cry; sisters replace children with a puppy, kitten, piece of wood, let everyone down the river in a box ; after the third time, the king slaughtered his wife in a pole; found the children, raised the general, then died; when the brothers were hunting, the old woman tells her sister that she does not have enough living water, dead water, and a talking bird; older brother goes in search; hairy old man: they go a lot, they don't come back enough; the young man hears screams, turns around, gets stony; the same younger brother; sister goes, cut the old man's hair and beard, that warned you not to turn around; you must take a talking bird, collect water from the well, sprinkle it on stones; all people have come to life; the king is going to marry a girl whose roses fall from her lips; bird: this is your daughter; she told everything; the queen was released from the mortgage, her sisters were shot]: 389-390, 391-394; Russians (Vologda) [Fedor Tsarevich has three maids; if he marries, the first promises to bake bread, the second is to sew, the third is to give birth to 9 sons, each with the sun in the forehead, a month on the back of the head, gold in arms up to the elbow, silver on the knees; when she gave birth to the first three, the mother of the first maid was a midwife, took the children to the field, replaced her with puppies; the same for the second time; the third time F.'s wife hid one child in her sleeve; Vedor ordered her to be put in a barrel, let her go to sea, married the first to the maid; when the barrel was washed ashore, the son knocked out the bottom, put up a tent, created a well in which any food; sent the kicks on the road to F., hid himself as a fly in their basket; when he heard the story, F. wants look at the well with food, but the new wife advises you to get a pig - a golden bristle; the young man hears, catches the pig himself; the kaliki tell F. about the pig, and next to the oak is a bayun cat; the young man, becoming with a fly, eavesdropping; F.'s wife advises better to get a golden-mare and 31 stallions (the same); for the third time, the wife says that there are 8 tents in the field, well done in each], the sun in the forehead, etc.; after overhearing In the form of a fly, the young man tells his mother to bake 9 koloboks with her milk; 8 leaves them well done, and bit off the ninth; well done, they understand that their brother was here; he brings the brothers to his mother; kaliki they tell F. about extraordinary young men; F. goes there, the son meets them halfway: his wife put stakes for F. to run into them; F. with 9 sons and his first wife returns to the palace; the second wife was put on gates, cuts, and pieces were burned]: Smirnov 1917, No. 27:158-163; Russians (Vologda) [Fedor Tsarevich has three maids; if he marries, the first promises to bake bread, the second to sew, the third to give birth 9 sons, each with the sun in their forehead, stars on the back of their heads, a month on the back of their heads, gold on their arms, knees deep in silver; when she gave birth to the first three, the mother of the first maid was a midwife, took the children to the field, replaced her with puppies; the same for the second time; the third time F.'s wife hid one child in her sleeve; F. ordered her to be put in a barrel, let her go to sea, married the first maid; when the barrel was washed ashore, the son knocked down the bottom, put up a tent, created a well in which any food; sent the kaliks to the road to F., hid himself with a fly in their basket; when he heard the story, F. wants to see the well with food, but new the wife advises better to get a pig - a golden bristle; the young man hears, catches the pig himself; the wickets tell F. about the pig, and next to the oak, the cat is bayun; the young man, becoming a fly, overhears; F.'s wife advises better get a golden-faced mare and 31 stallions (the same); for the third time, the wife says that there are 8 tents in the field, well done in each one], the sun in the forehead, etc.; after listening in the form of a fly, the young man tells his mother to bake 9 koloboks on his milk; 8 leaves them well done, and bit off from the ninth; well done, they understand that their brother was here; he brings the brothers to his mother; Kaliki tell F. about extraordinary young men; F. goes there, the son meets them halfway: the wife put stakes for F. to run into them; F. returns to the palace with 9 sons and his first wife; the second wife was put on the gate, cut down, and the pieces were burned]: Smirnov 1917, No. 27:158-163; Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017 (Moravia) [three girls came to the royal garden; one would like to marry a royal servant, the other would like to marry a aspiring servant, the third would like to marry a king and give birth to a boy and girl with gold crosses on his foreheads; the king hears this, marries the youngest girl, gives the other two for a servant and for a striving; the king has gone to war, his wife has given birth to the promised children, the old grandmother wrote that puppies; the king ordered his wife to be left to wild animals in the garden; the animals did not touch her, the count saw her and brought her to his castle; the grandmother lowered the newborns in the chest along the river, putting jewelry there; the fisherman found the children; they grew up and went to look for real parents; bought that garden, invited the king; the grandmother changed the letter: there was not enough fountain from which gold pearls would flow; the godfather gave Frantisek a rod to open mountain, monsters are chained inside; you don't have to look back, but collect water from the pond and pour it into the fountain - it will become pearl; grandmother in a year: you need grass to play music; godfather - grass seeds in the same grief (same); in the third year: there is no bird to quail this grass; godfather: a bird in that mountain in a tree; F. climbed on it, fell, petrified; Frantischka went by herself, quilted the stone with a twig, revived her brother; they brought a bird; they told the king everything; the count brought him a wife; his grandmother was burned at the stake]: 412-417; the Poles [the king overhears the conversation of three girls; each tells what she would do to become the king's wife; the youngest promises to give birth to three gold-haired sons with stars on their temples; the king marries her; envious sisters replace children with puppies, throw them into the river; their mother is imprisoned; children found and raised by a miller; young men go to look for their father; either a talking bird or living water; magically turned into marble statues; their sister receives wonderful objects from the sorceress and revives brothers; the king notices unusual young men and girl and wonderful objects; the talking bird talks about everything; the king recognizes the children and returns their mother, punishes her sisters]: Krzyżanowski 1962, № 707:218.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Uskut - between Alushta and Sudak) [padishah forbade lighting the lights; went to check, went to the illuminated window; there are three poor girls; older sister: if the padishah married on me, I would make a tent for the entire army and half of the space would be left empty; middle: I would cook a cauldron of food and the food would not run out; youngest: would give birth to a gold-haired son and daughter; padishah tried everyone, but the older sisters did not fulfill their promises, and the youngest did, but the padishah just went to war; the older sisters replaced the children with puppies, lowered them into the sea in a chest; the padishah ordered his wife to be buried in the ground belt, and throw the puppies side by side; three daughters of another padishah sailed on the ship, picked up the chest; 8 years later, brother and sister grew up, went to look for parents; the padishah drove the hare, the boy caught the hare and carried it away; the wife sent an old woman to the boy; she advised him to ask his brother to get a pearl tree with singing branches and leaves; the boy came to the palace, the lion and the tiger were guards, he gave them meat, brought his sister a branch, from a tree grew up for her; the next time he snatched a hare, her father recognized her son; her mother was dug up, her sisters were executed]: Radlov 2012, No. 43; Nogais [the padishah's son hears the voices of three girls from the hill; one promises to sew clothes for her husband while he sits in the saddle, the second to feed the people one egg, the third to give birth to a girl with golden hair, a boy with silver eyebrows; a young man and two brothers dig up hill, get married; two older sisters did not fulfill their promises, the youngest gave birth; the sisters persuaded the midwife to replace the children with puppies, throw the children in boxes into the river, put the mother and the puppies in a barrel of resin; elderly spouses catch children; the midwife is sent to persuade the girl to ask her brother to get her 1) the horns of a spotted sheep; 2) plant a golden tree from the moon side, a silver tree from the sun; 3) give her fresh koumiss; the adoptive father's gelding teaches what to do (the ram is Azdaa, he also guards trees; cannot catch up with gelding; gelding defeats the stallion, followed by ten mares); 4) marry on the lady of the genies Sarygyz; S. shows the young man his mother sitting in a barrel, orders her to be released; everyone comes to the padishah's father; the young man marries S., his mother's sisters were torn apart by horses]: Nogai 1979:55-65; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the prince's son knocks three apples off another's tree; his three daughters offer themselves to marry him; he takes the youngest, who has promised to give birth to a half-golden son, half silver; in the absence of the prince, the aunts cooked the newborn, poured water into the yard, said that the wife had given birth to a puppy; her husband locked her in a stable; aspen grew in place of the broth, the husband made it her house support; the rejected wife burned the chips, the coal turned into a gold coin, she put it in a chest, the coin became her son; mother and son come to the prince, he drives away evil aunts]: 143- 145; Shakryl 1975, No. 71 [Bagdazhov sheltered three sisters whose relatives died; the eldest replied that she would make clothes for her husband's entire family from the wool of one ram; the middle one would feed her with a bottle of vodka and a loaf all her husband's guests; the youngest will give birth to golden and silver twins; B. joined the army, his wife gave birth to a boy and a girl, the sisters persuaded the old woman to replace them with puppies, the children were lowered in a jug along the river; B. ordered his wife to be left tied up at a crossroads; the old man noticed two children sucking goat milk, raised them; the sisters and the old woman found out that the old woman persuaded the young man to marry the prince's daughter, whose gaze turns it into stone; the prince ordered to fill the jug with tears, the jug is filled, the prince gave his daughter; the young man's sister is also married; his wife knows everything, told him to untie the woman, bring her to her; they all came to guests in B.; said that they would eat what was cooked in words, not on fire; people began to say that the water was cold; B.'s son told their story, the meat was cooked; the old woman and sisters of B.'s wife were thrown into the fire]: 322- 326; Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 29 [the eldest, middle daughters refuse to take off their father's legs, the youngest takes it off; shares apples with the elders; the father digs a hole near the apple tree, masks the daughters with a carpet they fail; if they wish, the pit opens, food appears; the eldest promises the Khan to prepare clothes for a hundred horsemen, the middle one to feed 50, the youngest to give birth to a son and daughter, half of them in white gold, the other is yellow; the khan leaves, the sisters replace the children with puppies, throw them into the river; the khan orders to put his wife in the skin of a bull, tie him to the gate; the children were taken by Hogouash dogs (PH, the mistress of the river); tied the mother sees her children coming out of the water, sitting on a rock; asks the woman passing by to give her flour, makes one cake with breast milk, the other on the water, asks her to leave it on a stone; the boy gets a cake with milk, a girl on the water; when he learns that the children have eaten cakes, PH says that they cannot become her children, lets her go ashore; the poor man finds a home in the forest, the Khan's wife's sisters do not tell him; they persuade his sister to ask her brother to get an unusual pigeon; PH teaches you to call sour pears sweet, take two with you; call the muddy river transparent, praise the sands; the young man grabs a dove, the owner tells keep the kidnapper, the sands, the river, the pear refuse; the sisters of the khan's wife persuade her sister to advise her brother to marry Irish-Irish-kan; PH says that she turns those who come to her into stones; the young man stony; his sister goes, A. looks around at her third shout, everyone comes to life; a feast; a young man goes to visit his father on the condition that he unties the woman at the gate; angry dogs (these are those puppies thrown up) with him friendly; Khan returns his wife, ties her sisters to horses; since then, princes and khans have not divorced their wives], 30 [a hairy forest man with an ax sticking out of his chest kidnapped three girls; died; three the brothers married girls; the eldest promises to give birth to a son and daughter every year, the middle one promises to give birth to a daughter with half of her hair white and half of red gold; the youngest promises to give birth to a backgammon son every year; only the eldest fulfilled her promise; the sisters replaced the children with puppies, lowered them in a chest along the river; the husband locked his wife in the barn; the old people picked up the chest, named the girl Babukh, the boy Cherim; dying, they bequeath the horse for C., a chest of goodness for B.; C. hunts his father and his brothers, goes to them, the mother recognizes him; the father returns his wife, her sisters are tied to horses; the witch persuades B. to ask her brother to get it 1) a golden accordion located between the crushing rocks; the rocks only tore off the horse's tail; 2) the sister of seven brothers and an apple tree from her garden; the brothers grab C.; the horse brings B. there, she plays the golden accordion, brothers give their sister to C., one marries B.]: 238-243, 244-248; Kerashev 1957 [=Maksimov, Kerashev 1953:117-130; three daughters are naughty, father digs a hole in the forest, lures daughters with apples, daughters fall into the hole; the prince's companions find them; the eldest promises to sew clothes for the prince's entourage, the middle one promises to feed everyone, the youngest to give birth to a son with the sun and moon on her forehead, a daughter with golden hair; millet marries the youngest, marries the elders to his bakols; in the absence of psha, the sisters throw their newborns into the river, replace them with puppies; Pshi tells his wife to be buried waist-deep in the ground at the crossroads, putting puppies to their breasts; the owner of the river raises children; when they are grown up, sends them to the ground; pshi finds them, brings them to her place; aunts persuade her sister to ask her brother to get 1) the golden bird of beautiful Su- Isuret; 2) her own mirror; 3) herself; he steals objects; asks SI to marry him, she turns him into stone, he manages to call the mistress of the waters, she shatters him, he takes SI away; SI sees in the mirror a woman buried to the waist; everyone goes to free her; dogs let only her children in; evil sisters are tied to the tails of seven horses]: 210-220; Abaza [stepmother tells her husband to drive out three stepdaughters; the old man dug a hole in the forest, led his daughters to pick pears, the daughters fell into a hole; the youngest dreamed that it was necessary to dig a hole wall, they dug a way into the khan's cellar; the eldest says she can sew clothes for hundreds of people, the middle to feed them, the youngest to give birth to twins with gold and silver hair; the khan left, the wife gave birth to a gold-haired girl and a silver-haired boy; the sisters persuaded the slave replace the twins with puppies, lower the children in a barrel along the river; the khan ordered his wife to be sewn into the skin of a bull, leave him with the puppies at a fork in the road; brother and sister got out of the barrel and began to live; the khan met in the son's mosques, the sisters guessed it, sent the slave to persuade the gold-haired woman to ask her brother to get 1) the gold-haired Dshahyaka scallop; the one who uttered her name three times turned into stone; the young man took the scallop, while D. was sleeping; 2) the all-seeing mirror D. (same; sister sees a suffering mother in the mirror but does not know who she is); 3) D. (same, apple trees with golden fruits grew around the hut); 4) D. herself; her brother called out to her, petrified, her sister saw it in the mirror, said D. that she was more beautiful than her, she agreed, her brother came to life, married D. told the story of the twins; their mother was returned, her sisters and slave were tied to the tails of horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 67:201-205; Balkarians [three daughters persuaded the widower to remarry; the eldest advised take the red-haired and gray-eyed one; when she learned about this, the obur (witch) changed her appearance, the man married her; she began to tyrant her stepdaughters, persuaded her husband to dig a hole in the forest under the apple tree; only the eldest daughter agreed to scratch her father's back and found the apple; the sisters ate it and wanted more; the father brought them to the apple tree, they failed, he covered the hole with earth; the khan hunted, found sisters; the eldest promised to give birth to a son with golden teeth and hair, the middle one - sew clothes for all servants overnight, the youngest - make a golden saddle; the khan leaves; if you shake the silver bridle, his horse will hear and come running; the bur plugged his ears a horse, threw her born children into the river, replaced her with puppies; the khan ordered his wife to be put on a bull's skin, no one cares about her and trample on her; the su-anasa fed a boy and a girl in the river; the mother found out that from the river her children go out, gave the woman her milk, asked her to bake the cakes and leave them on the shore; the children liked it; the sous-anazi said that the cakes were made with their mother's milk; explained everything; brother and sister came to town ; Khan ordered them to be brought to him, served beer; the young man gave beer to the ram; Khan: does the ram drink beer? young man: can a woman give birth to puppies? told everything; showed golden teeth as proof; the khan ordered to cut off the head, returned his wife]: Baranov 1897, No. 6:28-34; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the widower takes a new wife; to get rid of the first wife's daughters, scatters apples over the pit, the girls fall through; their tears wash the way out; Aldar finds them; the eldest promises to sew clothes for the people from a piece of cloth, the middle one - everyone feed a plate of flour, the youngest to give birth to a boy with a golden tuft, a girl with silver curls; when leaving, Aldar gives his pregnant wife a bell; sisters plug his horse's ears; put puppies, twins are left with a female at the edge of the forest; Aldar tells his wife and puppies to be sewn in cowhide, wipe their feet on her; children grow up at the female; aunts persuade the girl to invite her brother to bring the girl from Copper Towers; the horse carries the young man between the crushing mountains; after calling the owner of the tower, the young man begins to go into the ground, but when he sees his golden crest, the hostess agrees to marry him; the tower flies over the interpreters mountains to the young man's house; aunts offer to get a singing fur coat; the young man drinks water from an acidic river, eats sour apples, gives wheat to crows, meat to wolves, they let it pass; takes the Fur coat, she asks the guards to stop thief, they refuse; Aldar comes to his son's castle, everything is explained; Aldar's wife is bathed in a milk lake, her sisters are torn apart by horses]: 193-204; Byazirov 1971, No. 1 [son of a witch from the Borata family (SK) c Malik's son (UK) go to marry the sister of seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; the giants and the UK go hunting, tell their sister and the UK not to open the seventh door; SM threatens to leave, the bride opens, waig with Black Mountain (UCHG) is released, takes the girl away; SK goes to look for her; meets, takes the Sea Drinker as his comrades (he shoots after the UCHG, tears off his leg), Zorky, Carrying mountains and valleys on his back, each in response, he says that he is not amazing, but SK and SM; UCHG goes underground; only the SK was able to push the stone, go down on a rope through the flame; sends the girl upstairs, the comrades remove the rope, fill up exit with a stone; SK tells an old woman, whose fang touches the sky, the other rests on the ground, to tell her how to kill UCHG (burn, it burns), get upstairs (grab the horn of a white ram); SK grabs the horn is black, which takes it even lower to the world of Donbettyr; there the dragon closed the water; swallows the SK, it cuts it from the inside, refuses to be belched, spit out, goes out over its side, the dragon exhales; the king Donbettyrov sends the UK to the Black Eagle; the UK hears one of her daughters singing (her snake will be eaten the day after tomorrow), the other laughing (her tomorrow), the third crying (she will be eaten today); the UK is killed by a snake; the downpour begins ( eagle tears), the sun shines (the eagle sees that the daughters are alive), the whirlwind (flies); the eagle takes the UK to the ground, it feeds it with supplies given by the Donbettyrs; they are not enough, the SK cuts off the meat from the hips; the eagle puts it back; the swineherd says that three brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, marries; the SK changes clothes with the swineherd, the elder princess chooses him when she sees his gold under his hat curls; everyone tries the SK quiver and arrows; SK takes them, puts on gold clothes, destroys guests with arrows, takes wives for himself and SM]: 5-19; Terek Cossacks (v. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar has 12 wives, but has no children; he sends Elder Pirigrim on a trip around the kingdom to find out what to do; the elder listens outside the window of a village house to what the girls are talking about; first: "If I went out getting married, I would sew all the shirts for my husband - shirts like there are no shirts in the whole kingdom"; second: "I would embroider all the carpets"; third: "I would write all the papers..."; youngest: "If I get married, I will give birth to 12 sons"; king takes the youngest as his wife; she cannot give birth; sends the old man to the market, tells him to buy from the first person he meets what he will carry; the old man buys apples; the queen cuts one of them in half; one half She eats herself, gives the other to the king; then gives birth to a son, Mohammedan Magometanovich; the king leaves, leaves the general for himself; he takes care of the queen; MM reproaches her; the servants say: "Your father has it sworn horse, Black Whirl: he has been underground for thirty years, on 12 iron chains, behind 12 iron doors, on 12 iron locks"; MM spends the horse; the witch advises the general that the queen fed MM bread baked in snake fat; the horse warns of danger; MM gives bread to dogs, tears them apart; the witch advises to give MM herbal tea; the horse anticipates trouble, tells MM do not drink; MM breaks the glass; the general brings a red shirt from the witch to give MM in front of the bath; horse: "When you wear it, you will turn to ashes... But if you take an iron pitchfork, raise it in my right An eyelid and look: there is a red shirt in one corner - take it and hide it in your pocket"; in the bath, MM wears the shirt received from the horse, not the one given by his mother; the king returns home; the queen pretends to be sick; says that she will recover if the heart and liver of the Black Whirlwind are fried for her; the king orders the horse to be killed; MM asks to be allowed to ride for the last time; sits on a horse, flies away; they find themselves in the kingdom of Bartholomew; the horse tells them to wear pistons and old clothes picked up along the way, pour a potion out B.'s window, from which mosquitoes will appear (there are no mosquitoes in Kingdom B.), stand by the window and answer the same thing: "I don't know, he was"; MM follows his instructions; V. makes him first an assistant cook (MM eats meat there), then a yard worker (MM ties the reins to the horse's tail, pulls them, rips off the horse's skin), and then as a gardener; another king declares war to Tsar V.; V.'s youngest daughter tells her father to consult with MM; MM replies: "I don't know, it will be so"; V. plants him into prison; MM breaks down the wall, changes clothes, flies on horseback to the battlefield, defeats the enemy, returns; V. arranges a feast to recognize and reward the hero who saved him; youngest daughter asks if this is not a gardener; V. comes to prison, recognizes MM as a hero; MM asks to give his youngest daughter for him; V. sets a condition: to recognize her among the rest of his daughters; the horse arrives in the form of a fly, warns MM that she will sit on the forehead of the youngest princess; MM identifies her among the royal's 6 daughters; receives the princess and half the kingdom]: Butova 1889, No. 4:141-156; (cf. Terek Cossacks {all three sisters promise to have children} (art. Naurskaya) ["In the old days, when rivers were still flowing with milk and honey, and sheep grazed with wolves, when there was quiet and smooth everywhere, and God's grace, in a certain kingdom, an old man lived in a certain state with their old woman"; the old man and the old woman live in poverty, so they decide to leave their three daughters in the forest; the old man tells them to pick berries; says he will cut firewood; ties a block of wood to the tree, which swings in the wind and makes a knock; sisters think that the father is cutting wood; after a while they go in search of him; find a block; they reach the sea on which the king and his squad are traveling; older sister: "If only I was a royal wife, I would have given birth to a hero son for the king"; middle: "If I were a royal wife, I would give birth to three daughters for him: Hope, Faith and Love"; youngest: "If I were the king's wife, I would give birth for the king three sons: elbow length in gold, knee-length in silver, month on his forehead, stars over the body"; the king marries the youngest, takes the rest of the sisters as her assistants; goes on a campaign; the queen gives birth three sons: "gold up to the elbow, silver knee-deep, a month on his forehead, stars over the body"; midwife Baba Yaga kills babies, puts three puppies instead of them; writes to the king that puppies have been born; he is angry; the queen gives birth to triplets again; BYA replaces them with puppies, tells the king; he promises to punish his wife if everything happens again; the queen gives birth to three sons, hides one of them in the folds of her dress; BYA kills the other two, puts puppies instead of them and writes to the king; he tells him to leave the puppies until his arrival; BU manages to kill one of them; when he returns, the king sees a puppy and a son who does not have a moon on her forehead, no stars on her body (the queen erased these jewelry when she hid it from the BU); according to the king's decision, the queen is put in a barrel with her son and puppy and allowed into the sea; the king marries the daughter of the BYA; the barrel swims on at sea, the prince asks permission to turn over from one side to the other; the queen does not allow it; the barrel is stranded near the island, the prince turns, the barrel crumbles; the puppy brings bones, the prince makes them a house; elders passing by say they are going to remember the queen; the prince asks to take him with them, they refuse, agree to take the puppy; tell the king about the house on the island; the king wants it to see, but the wife dissuades: "Well, this is not a big wonder; that's a wonder: in a certain kingdom, eight falcons are sitting in a certain state, singing royal and sovereign poems"; the puppy talks about this to the prince; he brings falcons; the elders going to the wake again refuse to take him with them, but take a puppy; tell the king about the house on the island and the 8 falcons; he tells him to saddle horses, but his queen holds: "Well, this is not so wonderful; this is so marvelous: in some kingdom - in some state there is a pig - a golden bristle"; the puppy talks about what the prince heard; he brings a pig golden bristles {no details}; the elders agree to take only a puppy with them; tell the king about what they saw on the island; the wife tries to dissuade him from going there: "Well, it's not so amazing; in in some kingdom, in a distant state, there is a golden horn deer, stubborn in the sky"; the king does not give in to persuasion, goes to the island; the puppy warns the prince and the queen; she tells her son that the tsar is his father, and 8 falcons are his siblings; the prince manages to bring the deer golden horns; the king recognizes the queen as his wife and the prince as his son; 8 falcons turn into princes "elbow-deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on his forehead, stars over the body"; the king returns with his family to the capital; BYA and her daughter are tied to the tails of wild horses that carry their bodies through forests and mountains; "Was feast like a mountain, I was there sometimes, I drank honey, a burner: it flowed down my mustache, but it didn't get into my mouth. The fairy tales are over for you, but I have a korets honey"]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 2:74-80); the Ingush [stepmother did not like three stepdaughters, their father left them in the forest; the prince found them; one said that she would sew clothes for 60 overnight warriors, the second that will feed them thimble wheat, the third is that he will give birth to a boy with the sun in his forehead, a month between his shoulder blades; the prince passed off his older sisters to his close associates, married the youngest; the elders a witch was sent to the younger one, she put the puppies, threw the boy to the sheep; then to horses; he sucked milk, rode animals; the witch threw him in a chest into the river, he was picked up by a woman; the boy's mother placed with the puppies in a chicken coop; the witch told the prince that one boy could bring a stallion like a tiger; he pacifies the horse, the horse teaches him to fall to the chest of a deva woman, she does not eat it; prince tells the girl to be brought; the horse warns that those who approach her are stony; he begins to stone, but the girl rides with him; the previously petrified ones come to life; the girl tells the prince the truth; the prince returns a wife, two sisters and a witch are tied to the tail of a tiger stallion]: Malsagov 1983, No. 4:44-47; Kumyks [father agrees to take a new wife only if the leather boot placed under the roof decays; she finds out he fests his boot, gets married; tells me to get rid of three stepdaughters; the father digs a hole in the forest, they fall into it; they dig an underground passage to the khan's stables; the khan asks what gift each has; the eldest promises to sew clothes for forty riders, average to cook for forty guys from rice poured into egg shells, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden crest, a daughter with a moon-like forehead; the elders can not perform promised without the help of the youngest; the youngest gives birth, the sisters put the children in a chest, descend the river, replace her with puppies; the khan orders her to be wrapped in skin, put at the door; the fisherman picked up the chest, the girl Suvsar and her brother Tabuldu ("foundling") has grown up; the khan meets him; the sisters guess who he is, send the old woman to persuade S. to ask T. to bring a branch of a wonderful tree and wonderful water; T. comes to the palace there is meat in front of the horse, hay in front of the dog, he changes it; praises thorns, lubricates the gate, takes away branch and water, gates, etc. refuse to hold it; a watered, wonderful tree grows; an old woman says to ask T. to get the beautiful Karachach; T. calls K., begins to stone, after the third hail K. comes out, T. and the previously petrified ones come to life; in the house of T. and S. K. burned an old woman who came in the stove; T. comes to the khan, offers a wooden pigeon to eat; says that a woman cannot give birth to a puppy either; Khan comes to K., she explains everything; Khan has figured out how to take K away . son; K. throws him off glass mast; mother T. and S. washed, her sisters wrapped in cow skins, T. was chosen khan]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 53:479-488; Avars: Bulatova 1985 [(=Kapiyeva 1974: 17-23); the elder sister promises to weave cloth for the tsarist army, the middle sister promises to bake bread, the youngest to give birth to a son with pearl teeth and a gold-haired daughter; the king overhears, takes the youngest; while the king is war, sisters throw children into a nettle gorge, report that the queen gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; the king orders her to be sewn into donkey skin, chained to the city gate, spit on her; Doe feeds children with milk, leaves her in an empty castle, tells the boy to cover her mouth, the girl to cover her hair; the widow catches golden hair in the river, the evil sisters tell this woman to kill the survivors; she advises the girl to ask brother 1) bring an apple tree branch that sings and dances; he slips on horseback between the crushing rocks, the tip of the tail is cut off, brings a branch; 2) marry the beautiful Ezenzulhar; he sees at her castle petrified horsemen, E. calls, is stony himself; the sister has worn out her iron soles and staff; E. looks at her when she bares her hair, the petrified ones come to life, the brother marries E.; the king meets his children frees his wife, children take their mother to their castle]: 59-66; Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 87-91 [about the same; Khan ties older sisters, Rada, widow to the tails of horses]; Dargins [older sister promises to feed the village with one sakha flour, the middle one promises to sew half a meter of satin for everyone, the youngest promises to give birth to Talkhana a boy with a golden pigtail, the moon on one side, the sun on the other; Talkhan marries her , leaves, his first wife orders him to give birth in the chimney, replaces the boy with two puppies, throws the boy in a chest into the sea; invites the returning Talkhan to sew his new wife in the skin of a cow, put it in the doorway, to wipe his feet on her; he does so; the sea grandmother raised a boy; he hunts, comes to Talkhan, his stepmother recognizes him, pretending to be sick, asks her husband to get 1) a rejuvenating honey oil tree; sea grandmother tells the tree to throw oatmeal and bagels to snakes; a young man brings a tree; 2) a cat playing the zurna; a marine grandmother says that the cat lives on crushing rocks, it is necessary hit the rocks with a whip; a young man brings a cat, the rocks only cut off the hairs from the horse's tail; 3) the girl Artz-Izdag ("arts" is silver); sea grandmother: who will call her, stony; we must first mention the golden a pigtail, then the moon and the sun; AI goes with him, 40 previously petrified sledges come to life, AI carries wealth with him; a young man makes wax dolls; tells his father that both dolls cannot eat, so can a woman give birth to puppies; the father ties the eldest wife to the mare's tail, tells them to overcook, grind the bones, the boy's mother scattered them downwind, the young man marries AI]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 28:281-284; Lezgins [ the stepmother tells her husband to get rid of three stepdaughters; the father digs a hole, covers her with a cape, puts beads on it, the girls fall through; they turn their hands into a spade, a pickaxe, a shovel, and dig a way to the padishah's stable; he gives them off as his three sons; the eldest promises to weave a carpet, the middle one to cook pilaf, the youngest to give birth to a girl with a golden crest, a boy with mother-of-pearl teeth; the sisters suggest that she give birth over a chimney with a hole, they will exchange children with puppies, let them down into the river in a chest; the padishah tells me to wrap the woman in dog skin, tie them at the door instead of a dog; the old woman caught the chest, the children grew up; came to the new wedding of the Shah's youngest son, they threw meat rather than bones to the dog; everything was clarified, the dog wife was washed and changed clothes, her sisters were put on a nag and set on fire]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 54:491-494; udins [ the poor man decided to kill his daughters, sent the eldest two to the forest for apples, the youngest followed, they did not find apples, they got lost; the elders offered to urinate, whoever had frothy urine would eat; they threw their land; the youngest asked them to leave for a while, found a cave with horses, raisins, dried apricots; the young king asks the sisters what they can do; the eldest promises to weave a carpet, it will fit the whole army ; middle - feed the whole army with pilaf cooked in eggshells; the youngest - to give birth to a son and daughter, the son will fall off his head gold, the daughter will have silver; the sisters ask the midwife to replace the children puppies; the king orders his wife to be buried waist-deep, passers-by do not care about her; the children were thrown into the canal, picked them up, raised by a miller; the aunts sent the midwife to ask the girl to be a maid; she persuades her ask brother 1) bring a talking salb tree; the young man pulls a thorn out of the seven-headed maiden's leg, who helps to get a tree; 2) marry Shahsanam (dev helps again); the king calls his brother with sister to himself, the young man reveals the truth to him, the king frees his wife, her sisters and old woman are tied to the tails of horses]: Dirr 1904:96-99; Lucky [the older sister promises to embroider her husband's shoes, medium Circassian, the youngest to give birth to a beautiful son and daughter; three princes outside the window hear a conversation, marry three sisters; older sisters throw newborns into the river, say that the sister gave birth to puppies; the husband kicks out her; a childless miller picks up babies; when they grow up, the shepherd refuses to give his daughter for a foundling; the young man leaves, the king sees that he looks like him; asks to bring his sister; tells him to find his wife, children recognize their mother; older sisters are tied to the tails of mares]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 316-318; (cf. Dargins [the Shah goes to check if anyone lights up the lights at night; at the orphan girl's house he hears three times how she promises to give birth to the Shah a gold-haired boy and a silver-haired girl; the Shah marries, leaves, tells the nukers to hang a red flag if the promised children are born, and a black flag if ordinary; the first wife tells them to replace children with puppies, throw children in a box into the river; the shah orders the young wife to be sewn into the skin buffalo, throw it at the doorstep, wipe his feet on her, spit on her; the childless miller caught the box; a grown-up girl tells him to buy calico at the bazaar, embroiders a handkerchief with silver and gold hair, sends sell his brother; the Persian gives a lot of money, brother and sister go to the edge of the city, build a palace better than the Shah's; the elder wife sends a sorceress 1) to persuade the girl to ask her brother to get a special tree; the horse says it's behind a wall guarded by fire-breathing dragons; the dragon king gives a tree; 2) get his brother an overseas wife; a sea horse carries a young man, he hits the beautiful girl with a golden whip, that wakes up, leaves with him; the vizier tells the Shah the truth, he returns his wife and children, his eldest wife was rotted in prison]: Osmanov 1963:97-102); Svani [the king has three daughters, his wife is dead, he took another , she tells me to get rid of her scoundrels; the king found an apple tree in the steppe, brought an apple to his daughters; they asked them to be brought to the apple tree; the king dug a hole there, covered it with a carpet, the daughters failed; the sisters ate apples , they ran out, but the youngest hid them; these were over; the eldest wanted to eat it, but the youngest turned her hands into a shovel and an iron-tipped stick; they dug a passage into the tin house; there are servants they feed the royal horses boiled wheat; the sisters eat everything, the horses lose weight, the king executes servants; the healer orders to guard; the sisters are caught, the king wants one of them to marry his son; the eldest: a hundred carpet so that the king and all subjects have a bed and a blanket; middle: I will drink wine to the king and the people; youngest: I give birth to a son and a daughter {then we are talking only about a son}, so that their lower and upper halves are golden; this sister was given for the prince; the older sisters threw their children into the river, replaced them with puppies; the king tied the bride to a stump at a fork in three roads; let everyone spit in her eyes; the children were picked up by a priest who owned the mill; the priest raised a young man, he is the best hunter; his mother's sisters understood who he was; advised the priest to send the young man to Elbrus for a golden apple tree; on the way, divas, petrified to the waist; says that everyone is so stony ; we must remember his mother's nipples; the young man thought about them, brought an apple tree; the divas chased the young man, but that divas drove them away; the sisters advise asking the young man to bring a mirror from Elbrus; everyone was stony, and the young man remembered his mother's nipples and brought a mirror; sisters: to kidnap the wife of the Western sovereign; the young man came to the tower, where the king's daughter was; the king would give her back if the fruit in the garden was ripe by morning; the princess told me to put a wand in the ground, pour water, in the morning a tree with fruits; king: jump across the sea, build churches everywhere so that all the bells ring; the princess gave a towel, it created everything; tame the horse; the horse: order an iron hammer and beat their horse; recognize the bride among her sisters (she will have a ring on her finger); the princess tells her to run, the king sent an army; the princess turned the young man into a monk, the horse into a church, herself into an icon; arrived to the tsar-father; the boy's mother was released, the sisters were executed]: Nizheradze 1890, No. 1:176-187; Georgians (Kakheti) [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his three daughters; he pushes them into a hole under an apple tree; the youngest turns them hands in a shovel and a spade, digs a passage to the royal stables, brings the sisters raisins and almonds, horse food; she is grabbed, she brings her sisters; the eldest promises to weave the carpet, feed the middle one, give birth to the youngest golden-haired boy and girl; sisters throw puppies, throw children under mill wheels; the king orders to tie his wife at the gate, no one cares about her, smear her chest with soot; the miller finds and educates children; they release their mother, tell the king that they are his children; in support of the words, the grape branch on the table turns green, the pheasant comes to life; the woman's sisters are torn apart by horses]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 96:147-150 (=Chikovani 1954, No. 27:149-151; =1986:158-160; =Dirr 1920, No. 9:42-45); Megrelians [King Jiki has three daughters; he squandered all his fortune on their upbringing and training and died; they went on a journey, came to Prince Kucha; he asks what everyone was taught; the eldest: to weave fabrics from a bunch of silk threads into an entire army; middle: from a bunch of woolen threads; to weave a dress for all the inhabitants of the kingdom; youngest: to give birth to golden children; K. married his youngest, went to war; his wife gave birth to a golden boy; her sisters threw him into a well, replaced him with a puppy; K. forgave his wife; the next time his wife gave birth to a girl , she was replaced by a kitten; K. ordered his wife to be buried up to the neck in the church yard, let everyone hit her on the head with sticks; the wife's sisters pulled the boy out of the well, put her in a box with the girl, let her into the river; a box carried to sea, washed ashore; childless old people picked up; the boy was named Alexey, the girl Magdana; A. realized that the old people were not their parents; brother and sister came to the kingdom of K.; M. had a handkerchief that created fortress, A. knows how to predict the future; K. sends to find out where the fortress came from, no one can enter; the old woman pretended to be a beggar, persuaded M. to tell her brother as if she had seen in a dream: Princess Changuri , the daughter of King Changi of the Changet State sits between the red and white seas in a golden cage on the sixth floor of the palace; whoever jumps over the fence and removes the cage will receive C. as his wife; when leaving, A. said that if he dies, his dress will fall off the hanger, and if the horse dies, the saddle will fall; A. reached C., but she ordered his horse to be petrified first and then to him; the dress and saddle fell, M. followed his brother's footsteps; the old man (this is Father C.): You must hug your petrified brother and shout so loudly that he will come to life and C. will come out of the cage; as it happened; Father C. gave him a box fulfilling requests; A. came to a feast with K. his aunts gave him poison, but he left it to the dog; the next day A. called the kings to his place, told the box to set the table; told the whole story; mother A. and M. were opened, her sisters tied to the tails of wild horses ]: Gachava et al. 1890:24-32; Armenians [=Nazinian 1969:148-153; three royal sons heard three sisters talking; one promises her future husband to bake bread that the king did not try, the other to weave a carpet, on which the king did not sit, the third to give birth to a son with a golden little finger and a daughter with golden curls; the princes marry these girls; the older sisters did not keep their word, the youngest gave birth, sisters out of envy children were replaced by puppies; having received lime, the younger prince orders to wrap his wife in buffalo skin, put her in the square; anyone who passes by should spit on her and hit her on the head with a hammer; children they threw him into the sea in a chest, the fisherman caught him; the children grew up, went to look for their parents; the brother met the father and entourage, who by that time had become king; the king calls to the palace, the sister advises not to go there; orders To let go of the little fish caught by his brother, he released; for this, the king of fish, Genie, brought him to his palace, offered to reward him; the young man asked his daughter for his wife and a ring that allowed him to understand the language of fish; D. ordered not to take his wife to sea, or else she would run away; the girl's sisters found out, persuaded the old woman to advise her brother to get guri peri as a maid; the old man advises to hide the clothes of one of the bathers in the sea girls, run right away; if the pursuer sprinkles water on him, he will become petrified; the young man looked around, sprayed, petrified; his sister went, did not look back, began to beat guri peri, forced his brother to revive; the young man took the wife went to sea, she sailed away; the fish said that she was in her father's castle in the Blue Mountains; the young man came to her with a ring, she agreed to return; when the king, the daughter of King D., came, told her husband that it was his father; taught her to go to her mother, who was still standing in the square, to put roses, to say that even a mule could not give birth to puppies, and the king believed that a woman gave birth to them; the sisters were executed, the queen was returned]: Nazinyan 2014: 51-56; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [approximately as in Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 11]: 171-177; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 11 (Borchalinsky district of Tiflis province) [widow fisherman married, stepmother tells take three stepdaughters to the forest; the sisters decide to eat the one who falls behind on the run, but the youngest digs a way to the royal stable, where horses are fed raisins; Shah Abbas is surprised why horses are losing weight; the courtier caught girls; the eldest replies that she can weave a carpet on which the army can fit, the middle one can cook scrambled eggs in eggshells for the entire army, the youngest will give birth to two children with golden and silver hair; SHA marries the youngest; the wife gives birth to a boy Ibrahim and a girl Gullizar; the witch advises the older sisters to let the children down the river in a box, replace them with puppies; SHA tells her to poke out his wife's eyes, throw them into a hole, give a piece of bread and a mug of water a day; the Bogomolets caught a box, saved the children; when he died, told them to go up the river; the gardener takes the children to him; they knit bouquets, SHA is happy, calls the boy to him, talks to him; aunts in panic; the witch persuades G. to ask his brother to get 1) a talking, singing tree (uprooted, brought); 2) a bird that translates the words of the tree (brings); 3) marry the king's daughter Guria; the king of demons gives a flying carpet, a stick (hit the stump that blocks the road), an invisible hat (they will order you to enter a hot bath, you have to become invisible, hide), a tablecloth (they will order to eat 40 pilaf boilers, the tablecloth will eat everything); SHA invites I., that: eat, my sleeves; SHA: can sleeves eat? I.: Can a woman give birth to puppies? The king executed his wife's sisters]: 95-104; Turks: Borovkov 1938 [the padishah forbade burning a fire for three nights, three sisters worked, lit it, the courtiers advised to eavesdrop; the eldest wants to marry an economist, eat plenty, average for a tailor, dress well, youngest for a padishah to give birth to children whose tears turn into pearls, and if they laugh, roses fall; sisters ask the old woman for help, that puts two puppies on the woman in labor, throws her son and daughter in a box on the river bank; the padishah tells her to bury his wife waist-deep, does not care about her; the gardener finds children, gives the padishah roses; the sisters guess they send the grandmother, she threatens the gardener with the anger of the Shah, who takes the children to the cave, feeds them with a doe; the boy sells pearls; the old woman persuades her sister to ask her brother 1) bring the Dilryukyush-khanim bush; 2) her own mirror; 3) her own; her brother is attached to the giantess's chest, she helps; those who come to D. turn into stones, the young man has almost turned, D. revived him and others, became his wife, she is the daughter of Peri; servant D. is a giant Of, one lip drags along the ground, the other rises to the sky; D. cured her husband's mother, told everyone what happened, the Shah kissed his wife and children, forgave his wife's sisters]: 120-135; Stebleva 1986, No. 22 [to check if everyone is afraid of him, the padishah tells him not to light a fire at night; spies on three girls; they dream of marrying him; the eldest promises to weave a tent, a medium tablecloth, and the youngest to give birth a boy to them is a girl with golden curls; the padishah consistently takes three sisters; the first two do not fulfill their promise, they are sent to the tub; the sisters ask the midwife to put puppies, destroy the children; mother they covered them up to their throats with stones, the children in the chest were thrown into the sea; the dervish finds them, the deer feeds them; the dervish dies, the padishah meets a beautiful young man and girl on the mountain; the sisters tell their midwife destroy; she advises the girl to ask her brother to get Sam-On-Dances-Collar-His-Plays; the young man sticks to the chest of a deva woman, then to her middle sister; she teaches to say the arap Chan-Kush, that Chor-Kush answers, the young man turns into stone; the sister comes, the Arap reveals to her, she tells her to turn the stones into people again; brother and sister create palaces and gardens; Arap tells the padishah the truth; mother children are being treated, sisters and midwives are torn with mules], 72 [the padishah forbid lighting the fire; three orphan sisters violate the ban, they must work; if the padishah married her, the eldest would weave the carpet, who would sit down the army and all the inhabitants; the average would cook a pilava cauldron, would be enough for everyone; the youngest would give birth to a boy with a month and a girl with the sun in her forehead; the padishah hears this, tells them to bring sisters; two the elders admit that they only wanted to marry, were sent to a goose stable; the youngest became the wife of the padishah, gave birth to the promised children; the sisters tell the midwife to lower the babies in the chest down the river, mother put puppies; the padishah tells his wife to be buried at a fork in the roads waist-deep, everyone does not care in her face; the old dervish found children; when he died, he left them a ring (in it a wish-making arap), a skin and a whip ( if you sit on the skin, whip, the arap will take you anywhere or destroy as ordered); brother and sister are transported to a fork in the road to the country of the padishah; their mother's sisters find out about this, send the midwife persuade her sister to ask her brother to bring 1) a poplar with playing leaves; the arap brings to the borders of that country, teaches her to politely treat the half-blind Balkis Khan, she sends it to the Nailan, the young man grabs the poplar, N. does not have time to turn the person who came into stone, B. does not detain him, because he was kind to her; 2) a bird from that tree (the same; you must drink it from a source of blood and a source of pus, praise, they do not detain the kidnapper); but the tree does not play, the bird does not sing; 3) the owner of the poplar; the young man picked up the Zumranka bird that had fallen out of the nest; their mother spat in the water he had prepared, so that he died of poison, but the chicks explained that he helped them; Z. poured water, gave 4 feathers; N. gradually turns the young man into stone, but he burns feathers one by one; after the fourth he is alive again; N. returns with him by his wife; calls the padishah to visit him, tells him to put a gold spoon in his pocket, accuses him of stealing; just as the padishah could not steal the spoon, the woman could not give birth to puppies; the padishah tells dig up and redeem his wife, return the children, execute his wife's sisters and midwife at the top of the mountain]: 77-86, 293-299; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 707 (Istanbul, Ankara, Kastamonu, Gümushhane, Kars, Sivas) [padishah sees light and overhears the conversation of three sisters; each wants to marry a padishah; the elders promise to do some work, the youngest to have twins; gives birth to two sons and a daughter; the wife's sisters replace children puppies]: 287-291; Kúnos 1901 []: 53-73; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 4 [padishah and vizier check whether everyone extinguishes the fire at night, as the padishah ordered; three girls have lights on; if padishah will marry her, the older sister promises to cook, the average will weave the carpet, the youngest will give birth to a golden-haired boy and girl; the padishah takes everyone, loves the youngest; while he is at war, the sisters told the midwife replace children with puppies, throw children in a box into the sea; the padishah orders his wife to be placed in a kennel on a chain, beaten with a truncheon; the box was washed ashore, the gazelle fed the children, their names are Hessein and Gulizar ; while hunting, the padishah sees his son, admires him, does not recognize him; the midwife persuades Gulizar to ask his brother for a magic tablecloth; she is from a witch who throws her breasts by the shoulders; the old man teaches her to fall to her right breast, take soap, comb and bowl from her, steal a tablecloth; the old woman chases G., he throws soap (slippery rock), a comb (a prickly thicket), a bowl (sea); G. brings a tablecloth; the padishah again sees; the midwife advises Gulizar that her brother marry Sharikhubar; she turns everyone who calls her into stones; the sister comes, S. answers her, Honey, the petrified come to life; the brother takes Sh. wives; when the midwife comes, S. kills her with a sling; the padishah and the courtiers come to visit, S. tells a story, mother G. and G. are released, evil sisters are torn apart by horses]: 71-80; Rudenko 1970, No. 50 [the padishah hears three sisters talking; the first, if she becomes the wife of a padishah, promises to fly like a bird, the second to cook deliciously, the third to give birth to a gold-haired son and daughter; when the youngest gives birth, the sisters tell the old woman to throw the children in a box into the sea, replace them with two puppies; the padishah tells him to tie his wife with the puppies at the entrance to the palace, beat them, feed them with scraps and bones; the fisherman picks up a box, the boy is called Mirza- Mamour, the girl is Golizar; when he dies, the fisherman gives a magic stick; she creates a palace; helps to catch up with the doe chased by the padishah on foot; the sisters send the old woman to G., she persuades her to ask Zardukhubar to get his brother; the old man tells M. to approach the old woman in the garden, venerate her right breast; she gives Z.; Z. tells him to run, taking a comb, soap, a vessel of water; the old woman pursues, an abandoned comb turns into a forest, soap into an icy mountain, water in the sea; the old woman drowns; the sister again sends the old woman to persuade her to get Khezaran-Bolbol; Z. kills the old woman with an arrow; the old man explains that the caller HB stones, G. must come, spell; when G. calls HB for the third time, the stones will become human again; M. and G. return from HB, the old adviser becomes a young man; HB tells the padishah the truth, evil wives torn by camels, mother M. and G. returned]: 147-155; Yusupova 2004, No. 1 [the padishah notices the peasant's three daughters, sends the old woman to marry them for her sons; the eldest replies that she will feed one one hundred people with a portion of rice, the average one - that a small amount of wool is a carpet for a hundred people, the youngest - that she will give birth to a son with curls yellow as gold, a daughter with teeth like pearls; at the wedding, the eldest daughter-in-law oversalts rice, guests thank, do not eat; the middle one holds ready-made carpets together, guests sit on them, prick needles; older daughters-in-law say that the youngest gave birth to two puppies; her padishah She kicks out, she leaves with her newborns; they grow up, invite the padishah and his son to visit, give them a dish of bones; "If you're not dogs, how could puppies be born to you?" ; everything is explained, older daughters-in-law are expelled]: 129-133.

Iran - Central Asia. Bukhara Arabs [the stepmother has three stepdaughters; the husband tells his wife to cook sweet jelly; she cooked it, and the girls ate it and filled the pot with excrement; the husband ate, and in the mosque he noticed feces on teeth; after that, the wife tells her husband to take his daughters somewhere; he took them to collect the mulberry tree, climbed a tree to shake it, told them not to look up-he was without pants; he cried unnoticed; he left unnoticed; the girls went and saw Jugara (sorghum genus); the youngest became a cauldron, the sisters fried Jugara; to cross the river, the youngest became a gutter; then after the sisters, the blind man also crossed it; at the spring the emir saw the girls; the eldest promised to weave a carpet - all the emir's people would fit on his corner; the middle one - to cook food from one grain for the emir's people; the youngest - to give birth to a child with golden hair; the emir took they were married, but two sisters did not fulfill their promise; the youngest began to give birth to a boy and a girl; the sisters replaced them with puppies, gave them to the old woman, who threw them into the steppe; another old woman picked them up and raised them; the emir ordered his youngest wife to be buried waist-deep by the road, let everyone throw lumps of clay at her; children raised by the old woman go to school; the emir saw them, told their wives to cook, called the children to his place; they brought food, the boy gave gazelles, she died; the old teacher told the emir that they were his children; he returned them to their mother; he burned two wives at the stake]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 15:99-101; Persians: Osmanov 1987 [eldest the sister promises to dress the army if she is presented as a vizier, the middle sister promises to feed the army, the youngest to give birth to the Shah a gold-haired son, who, if she laughs, roses fall from his mouth, tears are pearls and gems; sisters put the puppy, the baby is put in the oven in the bathhouse; the Shah lodged his wife in the kennel like a dog; the bathhouse attendant picks up the baby, gets rich; the Shah's new wife pretends to be sick, asks to bring lion's milk in a lion's skin on the back of another lion; the shah sends the adopted son of a bathhouse attendant; the mother of the divas teaches that the main lion has a pain in his leg; the young man heals him, he is satisfied with everything; bring a mare with 40 foals; bring a self-swinging cradle; a diva tells her mother about two girls bathing, you have to hide their dress, they will give a cradle; the shah sees a young man working as an assistant to the bathhouse, beats a wooden donkey to eat barley; when asked by the Shah, he answers: if the Shah's wife gave birth to a puppy, why does the wooden donkey not eat barley; the Shah asks the bathhouse attendant, returns his wife and She ties her son, her sisters by her hair to the tails of horses; that woman and her son have achieved their goal, so let my friends also achieve their goals and desires]: 131-146; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 16 (Jews of Isfahan) [], 35 (Shiraz) []: 86-90, 166-177; Marzolph 1984, No. 707 (Yazd, Isfahan, Mazendaran, Khorasan) [the prince overhears the conversation between the three sisters; the eldest promises to weave a carpet that will house the entire army; the second feed the army with rice; the third is to give birth to a gold-haired son; the prince marries her; the sisters replaced the newborn with a puppy; the queen is thrown into prison or tied at the crossroads so that everyone is thrown into her stones; the boy grew up with foster parents; his sisters recognized him; to destroy him, they persuade him to get wonderful objects; a talking bird tells him everything; or his mother recognizes him; he meets his father, he says that this is impossible; young man: can a woman give birth to a puppy]: 135-137; Tajiks [the vizier goes to look for a padishah for a wife to give birth to him; hears conversation between the three daughters of a shepherd; if they became the wives of a padishah, the first would cook pilaf for all the inhabitants of the kingdom, the second would weave a carpet for the whole world, the third would give birth to a golden-haired son and daughter; the padishah took everyone three; in his absence, the younger sister gave birth; the wives exchanged children for a puppy and a kitten, sent the old woman to throw the children away, she gave them to the shepherd; the padishah ordered the wife to be imprisoned; the children grew up, padishah, not knowing who it was, took his son to his palace; the old woman, at the behest of his wives, persuaded the young man's sister to get 1) a mirror showing the whole world; he brought it from the divas; 2) a couple of talking parrots; the brother comes to garden, parrots turn it into stone; sister comes for him, calls by name, all statues come to life; parrots tell the young man and padishah to look in the mirror; it shows wives pouring poison into all dishes and on carpets; the shepherd tells the truth about the children; the children's mother was released, her sisters were punished]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:115-121; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2) [the padishah met three peri while hunting; the first replied that she could sew a robe from rose petals, the second could remove the pattern from a heavenly bird, the third could give birth to a son with a golden pigtail; the padishah passed off the first two as viziers, married the third himself; the first asked the old woman to replace the boy with two puppies, the padishah ordered his wife and puppies to be thrown into the zindan; the old woman left the child in the desert, the steppe doe fed him; the boy wandered into the palace, the old woman planted threw him into the chest, threw him into the river; the fisherman caught him, brought him up; the padishah notices him hunting; the old woman tells him that the padishah will take him to the palace if he 1) gets a gulikakhkah flower; a man guarding the dream of divas, hides the young man, shows where the flowers grow; 2) 40 cauldrons cooking different dishes; the old man teaches 40 divas to carry 40 boilers; 3) a mirror in which the whole world is visible; the dragon under the plane tree is ready eat chicks, the old man teaches him to kill him by hitting him on the forehead with a stone; a grateful bird brings the young man to heaven, teaches him to take away the shepherd's staff, a mirror in it, leaves its feathers; the padishah enters the young man's house, everything opens; the wives answer that they do not want a knife, but 40 mares; they and the old woman were tied to the tails of horses, appointed the fisherman by the padishah as a vizier, gave the throne to his son, freed his mother; the young man sees his daughter in the mirror another padishah, burns feathers, a bird appears, brings him to the top of the minaret to the girl, brings them back; wedding]: 59-64; Rogov 1980 [the shepherd's daughter Nasib, Gulbakhor and Zulfiya; the father is poor, no one sends matchmakers; daughters went to where the mulberry tree is ripe, live in a hut; the Shah has 40 wives, all childless, he is looking for a new one; wives are alarmed; the vizier was told about three girls; the vizier comes, overhears; N.: if the Shah married her, she would weave the best clothes; G.: she would cook the best pilaf; Z.; would give birth to Hasan and Zukhra; the vizier ordered the girls to be dressed up, the Shah chose G.; she sets the condition: 40 camels with jewelry for their father and make the sisters rich; they also married; Z. gives birth, the Shah has left, 40 wives conspired with the sorceress midwife, who replaced the children with a goat and a goat, threw the bag with the children on the road; the caravanbashi picked them up, called them Hasan and Zukhra; the Shah ordered Zulfiya to be imprisoned in prison; H. grew up as a hero, Z. weaved carpets; the Shah met them, the vizier guessed that they were his children; the shah returned Zulfiya, the children recognized their mother; feast]: 198-207; Shugnans [the vizier hears the older sister promising to feed the city with a mug of flour, the average sister to dress everyone if she receives yarn on a piece of cloth, the youngest to give birth to the king a gold-haired son and a beautiful daughter; the king married all three; the elders did not fulfill their promises, the youngest fulfilled; the sisters invite her to invite everyone to the celebration, at which time they put the puppies in bed, they throw a box with children into the ditch; the king orders his wife to be sent to collect thorns; the gardener picks up the children; they grow up, the older wives guess who they are; advise the girl to ask her brother 1) a claw dress foxes; brother comes to a bet, she gives a dress; 2) a magic mirror; gives a bet by asking his sister; 3) a talking parrot; the bettor's husband followed him, turned into stone; the bet tells you to wash at seven sources, asking for forgiveness of sins; sister sees in the mirror that the brother sinks into the ground, comes, cries, sins are forgiven, the parrot arrives himself; the king sees the girl, sets the wedding day; parrot tells brother and sister their story; older wives are tied to stallions, their remains are burned; the youngest is returned]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 5:91-101; parya [padishah went hunting, I heard the vizier's daughter promise to sew him, if he married her, a dastarkhan, on which food is only added; the daughter of the bay is a luxurious handkerchief; the shepherd's daughter will give birth to an extraordinary boy and girl; the padishah marries, the wife gives birth in his absence, the older wives replace children with puppies, throw them into the steppes, they are fed by a gazelle; the padishah tells his wife to hang in a bag; after learning about the grown children, two wives they send an old woman to persuade her sister to ask her brother to bring a talking nightingale; the brother comes to the deva woman, says hello again politely, she leads to a white maiden, the white one brings the boy to the garden, that takes the nightingale, returns to his sister; the padishah comes with his wife, the nightingale warns the young man that the padishah's wife has planted poison in the pilaf; the padishah returns the suspended wife, ties the liar to heated stallion]: Orange 1977, No. 1:150-153; Turkmens [padishah Shirvanadyl with two viziers go to spend the night with the poor man incognito; they hear how the owner's eldest daughter dreams of marrying a farmer, the middle one for a merchant, the youngest Guljahan for Sh., who will distribute the treasury to the poor and personally wear her shoes and take off her shoes; Sh. Marries the elders, G. orders to execute; the viziers beg to expel her to steppe; she hears birds say that G. has now come to her country; finds treasures, gardens, a palace; in men's clothes she goes to another padishah, buys land from him, brings workers, builds a city better than Sh.; under the guise of pilgrims, S. and viziers come to G.; she sits on the throne in the guise of a padishah, amazes with generosity; asks S. to tell the story, comes in and out, S. puts on her shoes and takes off her shoes and takes off her shoes her; G. rules for a long time]: Annanurova 1980:57-63.

Baltoscandia. Icelanders [the peasant has three daughters; they saw the young king accompanied by his scribe and shoemaker; the eldest says she would marry a shoemaker, the middle to a scribe, and the youngest to the king himself; the king heard and decided that it would be so; the elders envied the youngest; when she gave birth, they replaced the child with a puppy and threw it into the trash; one man pulled the baby out of the trash, and the other picked him up and raised; the second (replaced by a kitten) and the third (replaced with a log) babies, the same thing happened; the eldest was Wilhelm, the middle was Sigurd, the youngest was a girl; the queen was thrown into a cage with a lion, but he was not ate and shared food with her; after the death of the teacher, the brothers and sister were left alone; wanted to know their origin; one person said that there was a bird sitting on a stone, she would tell; but those who went to she turned into stone; you can't pay attention to what was happening around her; V. went; three days later, drops of blood on S.'s knife - trouble with V.; S. went, the same with him; sister went, did not turn to the brothers' voices; the bird gives live water to revive the petrified; tells the story of the mother of brothers and sisters; they freed the mother, brought them home, changed their clothes; the mother's sisters were abandoned by a lion; the brothers' sister married the prince, who was revived from stone; V. inherited his father's throne, and S. inherited the throne of the king whose daughter he married]: Poestion 1884, No. 23:191-199; Karelians: Onegin 2010, No. 43 [approximately like Schreck 1887], 44 [in the poor widow has three daughters in the hut; the Turkish sultan overhears; the eldest promises to give birth to the whole city if the sultan marries her; the middle one - to bake bread for the whole city; the youngest - to give birth to three golden children; the sultan married the youngest, sent the eldest to an obstetric school, and a secondary school to a baking school; the wife gave birth to a son: golden arms, silver legs, a month on her temples, according to the Big Dipper on her shoulders; the midwife lowered the boy in the basket along the river, said that the Sultan gave birth to a shirt; the miller picked up the baby; the same year later; the third time the miller picked up the girl in his hand; the sultan concluded wife in a stone building with a small hole, through it to give bread and water, everyone who passes by does not care about the woman; he married a midwife himself; the children have grown up; the old woman says that they do not have enough a bursting spring, a ringing birch tree and a singing bird; the elder brother went in search; the old man gave a ball, he rolled to where there was music, noise; someone came up and turned the young man into stone; the same was the younger brother; sister went; the old man advises her not to open her eyes before the ball stops rolling; then collect water, break off the branch, take the bird cage; the girl dipped the branch in the water and sprayed it on stones, they turned into many people, including girl brothers; the old man said that the brothers and sister were the Sultan's children; the brothers met the Sultan, invited them to their place, told the mill to bake pies with iron beads inside; the sultan could not eat; brothers: neither can our mother be where the Sultan placed her; the woman was returned, the midwife was shot]: 390-396, 400-405; Schreck 1887, No. 11 [in Goldberg 1953:53-71 and Salmelainen 1947:40-47 refers this text to Finnish, although it is clearly stated that it is from Russian Karelia; the witch is Syöjätär; brief summary in Heartland 1894, No. 2:321; in in the forest, the older sister promises to cook food for the king from several grains, the middle sister promises to prepare clothes for him from several bundles of hemp, and the youngest to give birth to 9 sons in three pregnancies; the Queen heard married the youngest; when she gave birth to the first three boys, the midwife replaced them with crow chicks, hid the children in the meadow under a white stone; next time she replaced crows with chicks, and the third time she replaced crows with chicks, the third time herons; however, the woman in labor hid two children, gave the witch only one, whom she hid under the same stone; the Queen left his wife in an iron barrel into the sea, not knowing that her two sons were with her; three those years grew up; the barrel was thrown onto the island, the boys asked God to break it, went outside; a pike swam up, told them to get a hat and handkerchief out of her belly; they hit her with a hat, a palace and a stone appeared the bridge to their father's kingdom; a beggar came, he was fed, he returned, told the Queen what he saw; he understood everything, brought his wife and sons back; they hit him with a hat, the palace and bridge behind them disappeared; the young men decided to find the rest of their brothers; their mother gave them bread baked with her milk; at the top of the spruce, the brothers saw a seagull; one wanted to shoot her, the other stopped him; the seagull: don't shoot, I will come in handy; so three times; by the seashore, a seagull put the young men on its back, carried it; dived three times so that they would feel the same fear as she felt when they aimed at her; on the other side, the brothers took it given by the pike, it began to turn around, they followed to the fir forest; there was a big bird at the top of the fir tree; she sent on; the brothers entered the house, there was a woman; she said that seven brothers they swim like swans, and at night they become human; sent them to the next house; the hostess said that the brothers were on target; we must come quietly and burn the swan clothes left in the yard; they did it; nine went home after a handkerchief; two gave the seven brothers bread with breast milk; all returned home; feast]: 85-97; Veps [three sisters came to the bathhouse in the evening to scratch flax; Ivan Tsarevich eavesdropping in the waiting room; eldest: if I. married me, she would weave three different dresses from one fiber; medium: one dough would make three different breads; youngest: she would give birth to three heroes, each hair is golden, the other is silver; I. married the youngest; she gives birth, asks to take Baba Yaga as a midwife; she goes out twice, says that they have all the baba yagi; she replaced three the children were three puppies, the children (threw them away) in the field; the second time the wife of two children were washed in the bathhouse, and hid the third under her right chest; I. put his wife in an iron barrel, threw him at Onego, married his daughter baba yagi; the boy in the barrel immediately grew up and as soon as the barrel was carried ashore, he broke it; the next day a house appeared; the guy hit a pebble and his brothers and father came to them]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 12:72-74; Veps [{not everything is clear, approximate translation}; parents have three daughters; Ivan Tsarevich overheard them talking in the bathhouse; (promises to marry); one promises to give birth to 9 sons; the wife gave birth to three boys, the midwife witch replaced them with piglets; the same during the second birth; at the third birth, the queen hid one under her breast and it was announced that she gave birth to only two piglets; her and a hidden boy was placed in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the waves carried the barrel for three years; then the son knocked down the bottom, they found themselves on the shore; the mother blesses her son every time and at his word a beautiful a house, a river in which oatmeal and fresh milk flow; his 8 brothers come to the boy; they eat and drink; they say they have neither a father nor a mother; then a father comes; a feast]: Kettunen, Sibo 1935, No. 55:115- 121; Estonians (Tartu; mostly in southern Estonia) [three sisters pull flax, the passing king pays attention to them; the eldest promises to dress the army with a piece of cloth, the second to feed him a crumb of bread, the third to give birth to a son with a month on the back of his head, the sun on his forehead, a star above his heart; while the husband is at war, the wife gives birth to an ordinary boy, the mother-in-law sends a letter to her son as if the daughter-in-law gave birth to a son with a wolf's head, with bear paws, fox tail; the king orders the wife and her offspring to be expelled; the mother-in-law lowers them into the sea in a barrel; the bird brings them food, the son grows up; knocks out the bottom of the barrel at the shore; hears from people that the king marries again if the nuts from the barrel jump out of the barrel themselves in pairs; the son goes to the king, tells his story, nuts pop up all the time; as the story is told, a month appeared on his body, the sun appeared on his body , star; the king called his wife, stayed with her]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 104:341-343; Seto: Kippar 2002 [three sisters trembled flax; one: if the king marries, I will feed the whole army with one rye with a grain; second: I will put the whole army on one piece of canvas; third: I face a son with a moon on the back of his head, the sun on his forehead, stars on his body; the king heard, married a third; when leaving, the king tells me by letter who gave birth; the messenger spent the night in the hut, he changed the letter - the wife gave birth to a puppy; the king orders the offspring to kill; left the boy in a hot bath - unharmed; in the stable - in the morning he sits on horseback not trampled; left on crossroads, the landowner picked up; the boy tells his story, after each episode saying "two nuts in the closet"; at the end: "I'm sitting here"]: 11-13; Normann, Tampere 1989 [father disappeared in the swamp; three the sisters were crying, the king saw a stream of tears, went to the source, brought the sisters to him; the elder promised to feed the army with rye grain, the middle one to dress him with fur, the youngest to give birth to a son with the sun on the back of her head, a month in her forehead, stars on her body; the king marries her, she gave birth to two twins with the promised signs, asked the birds to convey the message to the king, the raven flew; the older sister carried the children through the swamp window, where the girls' father disappeared, replaced him with puppies; the second time, a crow flew; the third time one son asked his mother to hide him under her arm, the king ordered his wife to be thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel was nailed to on an empty island, the son knocked down the bottom; the old man gave them a willing staff, a feather to fly on; the royal nobleman visits the island three times; each time the wife's sister says that there is a greater miracle; a young man who has arrived on a feather overhears, tells the staff to carry this miracle to his palace; 1) a golden pig with silver pigs; 2) an oak tree on which the cat tells stories; 3) a window in the swamp, from him five paths, each with a boy walking along with the sun on the back of his head, a month in his forehead, stars on his body; the nobleman talks about six of these boys on the island, the king goes to see for himself, brings his wife and sons; wife's sister thrown into the sea in a barrel]: 73-81; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 96 [140 options; three sisters were washing, a boy was walking by; one says that if he married her, she was a chunk bread fed the family; the second would dress the family with an arshin of cloth; the third would give birth to a child with the sun in her forehead, the moon on the back of her head; the boy married her, became a soldier; the wife gave birth; the witch replaced her letter to her husband and his answer; allegedly his wife gave birth to a half-cat half-dog, the baby was ordered to be thrown into the barn; the mother threw it to geese, cows, pigs, sheep; everyone keeps it; puts it in a coffin, lowers it into the sea; the beggar picked him up and raised; the king will give the estate to someone who counts two barrels of nuts; the adopter of the beggar is called to count, and tells the whole story himself; the pan gives him the estate], 97 [about the same]: 217-220, 220-227; Lithuanians [three sisters wash by the river; the Queen hears their conversation; if the Queen married her, the eldest would dress the army with a piece of cloth, the middle one would feed the army with a slice of bread, the younger the sun in her forehead gave birth to a son, the moon was on the back of his head, covered with stars; the queen took the youngest; she gave birth to the promised son; the messenger stopped in the forest hut; lauma lived there, replaced with a letter: a dog on his forehead, a knot the back of his head, covered in chiryas; the king tells his offspring to kill; he was thrown to stallions; sheep; pigs; geese; all animals care about him - the ruler of the world will grow up; they made a glass coffin for the baby and let him go along the river; the beggar found him, raised him, the young man became a shepherdess; the king promises to make the son of someone who counts a barrel as a nut; the son of a beggar takes out the nuts in pairs and as it goes tells the whole story; when finished, takes off his hat, everyone sees the sun, moon and stars; the king gave the beggar content]: Kerbelite 2021, No. 97:96-201; Lithuanians [three sisters rinse their clothes; the eldest promises cover the palace with canvas if the king marries her, the middle one with cloth, the youngest to give birth to a son with the sun in his forehead, a month on the crown, stars around her ears; the king hears, marries the youngest; goes to war , the queen gives birth to a son, writes a letter, the sister replaces him as if she gave birth to a half-dog; the king tells the newborn to be let into the sea in a barrel, tie the queen to the millstones; when she returns, promises to give the kingdom is the one who counts the nuts in the barrel; the boy (picked him up, raised by the poor) begins to count, tells his story; the queen is untied from the millstones, a feast]: Lebitte 1965:141-143; Lithuanians [the king went out into the city in the evening; hears three seamstress sisters talking; if the royal footman took her, she would eat pies; average: if he took the royal chef, she would eat different dishes; youngest: if the king took it, I would dress beautifully; the king passed off the older sisters as a footman and cook, married the youngest himself; the king went to war; the queen had a son, the sisters threw him into the river, the dog was swaddled; the gardener saved the baby; the king ordered the dog to be released; the same next time (kitten); a daughter was born for the third time; the gardener took her; the king was told that his wife gave birth to a tree; he told her to be enclosed in a glass pole, passing by to spit on her and teasing her; the gardener died, the children grew up; the nun to the girl when she was alone at home: you miss a talking bird singing and playing wood, yellow water; you have to drive 12 months to the old man on the road, he will tell you what to do next; the older brother went; the old man gave a ball, we must follow him, climb the mountain, do not turn around if they frighten; he turned around, turned into a coal pole and rolled down the mountain; middle brother did the same; sister went, did not turn around, on the mountain a bird with a long neck, the girl threatens to strangle her, she tells her to bring water from a spring under the mountain and revive the petrified ones with it; the girl revived many people, the last brothers; the bird ordered to break off the twig - the tree would grow out of it; to collect some yellow water - there will be a lot; the king He meets his brothers three times, asks them to talk to their sister, they forget twice, he gives them three golden bullets, they fall out of their jackets, the brothers remember; the sister tells the king to come to visit; the bird orders to serve cucumbers, but remove the seeds from them and replace them with beads; the king is surprised; the bird is in a cage: if cucumbers with beads cannot grow, then a woman cannot give birth to a dog, a cat and a tree; king returns the queen and children to the palace; the older sisters were torn apart by horses; they started shooting cannons at the feast; I was put in a cannon, shot, I flew here]: Kerbelite 2021, No. 29:204-212; Lutsie ( Western 1933, told in Russian) [the tsar was walking playing the cantel; once he did not return; three daughters went to look, found their father dead; began to cry, a river formed from tears; the prince cannot cross, sends servants to find out where the river flows from; they tell; the prince asks what each of the sisters would do if he took it; the eldest: one pea would feed the whole country; the average: one oatmeal grain - all horses; youngest: would give birth to 12 sons; the prince married her; the sisters called her a sorceress, but the prince did not listen; the prince went to the army; the wife gave birth to 12 sons, wrote a letter; messenger stopped in a hut, the enchantress changed the letter: she gave birth to children with pig heads, etc. (as she could compose); the prince writes in response: let them live; the enchantress changed the letter again: let 11 be killed and the one who looks like his father be left; the queen and her 12th son were lowered into the sea in a barrel; when they arrived to the island, the mother allowed the boy to knock out the bottom; on the island there is a palace, fruits and everything else; the young man went to shoot the ducks, sees a swan, she asks not to shoot at her, but to go to the shore, there is a thread, you have to pull it out behind it the ship on which his father is; with his father, his new wife, the queen's sister; the king does not recognize his son; wants to see the beauty on the island, his wife does not allow him; the next day the swan orders him to take 12 pebbles, one put in your pocket and throw 11 into the sea; 11 young boys will come out of the water; father's ship again, the young man asks what the news is; father: her 11 missing sons came to the island to the beautiful woman; the wife again did not let the king ashore; on the third day, the swan tells us to throw the hook, catch the goldfish, and his father's ship will come for it; this time the king went with his son; everything was clarified; he drove his new wife away and stayed in a palace on an island with her former and sons]: Annom et al. 2018:157-161; Latvians [three girls promise if they marry a king: the first is to dress all subjects with linen fiber, the second to feed them the whole kingdom with one grain, the third to give birth to many sons; the king marries a third; when sons are born, sisters report that little animals have been born; the queen and her last son are put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the son grows up rapidly and, together with his mother, gets out of the barrel to the island; receives magic objects from the old man, builds a house, a bridge; sailors tell the king about the miracles on the island; son, wrapped in a fly (bird), she goes with the sailors; the sister of the queen thrown into the sea, now the queen herself, says that there are even greater miracles in other parts: a magic tree on which a cat, rising up, sings songs, and going down, he makes riddles, tells fairy tales; a magic hog, who fattens himself, 11 magical sons who should be fed cakes mixed with their mother's milk; the son takes all these miracles to his island; 11 sons are disappeared brothers; after eating cakes, they recognize brother and mother; the king goes to see miracles, finds his wife and sons; sisters are punished]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 707:312.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 24 [stepmother tells her husband to take three stepdaughters to the forest; the father tied a mallet to the birch tree, she knocks in the wind, the girls think he is still cutting wood; came to Mustan the witch; the eldest replies that she slept to her mother's right, the middle one to the left, the youngest was on the stove; throws salt into the chimney, the fire went out, M. could not make a fire to cook the girls; those drowned their daughter M., ran away; they threw the sharpener (mountain), the comb (thicket), the mirror (the sea); they told M. that they swam, tied a stone to their pants; M. drowned; the son of the padishah married the youngest, two viziers to the eldest and medium; the eldest promises to dress the whole city, the middle one promises to feed everyone with the meat of one bull, the youngest promises to give birth to a child with silk hair, pearl teeth, and a silver ass; the elders did not fulfill their promise; they replaced the baby with a puppy, gave the child to a fisherman {it is clear that there were two children}; the husband ordered his wife to be blinded, his arms and legs broken, put her under the door, did not care about her; the husband talked to the fisherman, found out the truth; he gave a tree leaf to heal the crippled; the sisters and their husbands were hanged]: 203-207; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the stepmother told her husband to drive away three stepdaughters; he dug a hole in the forest under the apple tree, covered it with twigs, the daughters failed, the father left; they ate apples, then the youngest climbed on the shoulders of the elders, got out, came to the padishah, the girls were pulled out; the eldest promised to sew clothes for the whole army with one thread, the middle one is to feed the whole army with one cake, the youngest is to give birth to a son and daughter with golden hair and silver teeth; the elders have fulfilled their promise, but envy the younger that the padishah chose her as his wife; the padishah left, the wife gave birth to children, the sisters replaced the letter with a message that she gave birth to two puppies; replaced the children with puppies, gave them to the witch in the forest; the padishah ordered his wife and puppies to be placed in a hut, no one should care at her, he took her older sisters to the palace; the children grew up, the sisters brought illness to her sister, she will be cured by 1) a black horse; the old man tells her to whip the horse, grab the mane; 2) get a milk lake with a golden duck; the horse brings to the lake, tells him to whistle, the lake is transferred to the young man's house; 3) get Altynchech ("gold-haired") as a friend to his sister; the horse brought, A. went out to scream, the young man brought her home; she orders that he saved his mother; children, then padishah, crawl to the woman on their knees; she forgives her husband; sisters are tied to horse tails]: 95-102 (=Marchenko 1993:217-226); Bashkirs [when leaving, buy asks four wives, what will they prepare for his return; 1) every day I will shoot a sparrow with 40 ribs, feed him meat to a hundred servants; 2) I will sew sandboots; 3) I will sew gloves made of lice leather; 4) I will face two sons with golden heads, pearl teeth, silver hair; all fulfilled their promises; before returning, bai replaced the babies with a black puppy, his mother and 40 servants were sent to the forest, the children were thrown under their feet mares; the youngest wife comes to breastfeed the puppy, finds a mare that feeds her babies; returned the children, let the puppy go; babies were thrown to cows - the same; geese - the same; thrown into the water; buy ordered his youngest wife to break her arm and leg, gouge out her eye, lock him in a deaf log house with the puppy; the puppy got out, the man cut a hole in the log house, the puppy led the man to the bay, he talks about the log house; older wife: this is not a miracle, near the lake a mare gets screwed at every step, drinks on the lake at a watering hole; a black puppy asks his mother to make a halter, brings a mare, followed by a herd; everything repeats; second wife : diamonds and yakhonts at the top of the mountain; the puppy asks his mother for a tablecloth, brings gems; the third time the traveler cut through the door in the log house; the third wife: there are two boys in the river, go out to play on the sand; puppy mothers: give me a nightmare, four horns of milk: goat, cow, mare, their own; the boys began to play on the nightmare when they drank mother's milk, fell asleep; the puppy brings them to their mother, they call them to visit, he's all I got it; the eldest wife was offered 9 mares or 9 arb firewood; she likes mares better, her hair was tied to them, where her back touched the ground, there were mountain ranges, where her hair was marsh grass hummocks, where the ass is lakes; the second wife chose firewood, it was burned; the third was tied to the tails of 9 mares]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343; Marie [Wonderful children: the prince overhears the conversation of three girls; marries a girl who promised to give birth to 12 heroes; the children born by her are replaced by a sorceress, the mother of one of the girls, with puppies; the prince orders his wife and newborns to be put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the barrel sails to the island, where the son, with the help of a girl swan released by him, establishes a kingdom of miracles; the prince goes to see miracles and meets his wife and children; the perpetrators are punished]: Chetkarev in Sabitov 1989, No. 707:41; Mordovians [the royal son overheard the conversation of the poor widow's three daughters; the eldest says that if the royal son married her, a regiment of soldiers would dress her from one spindle ; medium: she would bake bread that she would feed two shelves in one piece; youngest: she would give birth to 12 sons, the sun in her forehead, the moon at the back of her head, stars at the ends of her hair, iron strength, stone will, the heart is waxy; the royal son married her; when he went to war he was looking for a midwife, met Vedyava by the river; the queen gave birth 11 times, V. each time writes that a puppy was born; for the 12th time the prince is angry, orders the queen to be shackled with as a child in an iron barrel, let them go to sea; V. sent 11 sons somewhere; after the death of the tsar, the Tsarevich himself reigned; the barrel at the bottom, the son asks his mother, causes a storm, throws the barrel ashore, calls the heat, the barrel bursts; the son builds a house; two old men fight over an ax (he builds himself), a handkerchief (turns it into anything), batons (he hits herself); orders a baton to beat the old people, takes away wonderful objects; son invites fishermen to the table; then, becoming a mosquito, she sails on their ship to her father; the queen hears the fishermen's story, realizes that the former son has been saved; the king wants to go with them; the queen dissuades: this is not a miracle, there is a pig that plows its feet, harrows its tail, sows its snout; a young man caught a pig; next time: there is a mare that will give birth to a foal at every step; the same; a tree with silver bells instead leaves; 11 fellows with the sun in his forehead (etc.); the young man goes to look for brothers, meets a bird, which brings him to the hut, he hides, puts 12 pies on the table; the brothers get to know each other, come back to his mother, the tsar comes there, returns his wife, drives the liar away with a samobile baton]: Anikin 1909 in Aleshkin 1989:231-237.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [Khan Darapsha overhears the conversation between the three sisters; the eldest dreams of dressing the whole people if she becomes queen, the middle one dreams of feeding them, the youngest dreams of giving birth to a son and daughter; in the absence of the khan children are replaced by a puppy and a kitten, children, Sharyara and Anjim, thrown into the pond; they grow up under water; Sh. builds a city, gets married]: Severtsev 1971 in Tolstova 1984:214, 233; Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1952 (Iletsky District, Turgay Region) [=1971 (1): 33-45; =Daurenbekov 1979:35-45; =Tursunov 1983:180-189; Khan's son overheard from the yurt how his older sister promised to weave him a gold carpet, the second to feed the people with one egg, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden head, a daughter with a silver head; the khan's son marries, in his absence, the older sisters tell the witch to replace the children with younger puppies, throw babies in a chest into the river; Khan orders his wife and puppies to be left in the desert; the fisherman catches the chest; the boy was named Kudaibergen, the girl Kunslu ("sunny beauty"); the old people died; Kud. kills saigas, khana nothing gets; older wives send a sorceress to persuade Kunsla to ask her brother to get it; 1) a self-playing dombra (Zhalmauyz-Kempir helps to get it here and then); 2) everything showing a mirror; one Simurg the chick cries (the dragon will eat Idahar today), the second frowns (tomorrow), the third laughs (last); Kum. kills the dragon, Simurg carries it between the crushing mountains, he takes a mirror, on the contrary the paths of the mountain tore off Simurg's tail; 3) Tasshilar's daughter as his wife; this is Aislou, taught under water by Kudaibergen's late adopted fisherman father; at Kood's house. A. turns a sorceress into a needle; Kud. became friends with his father khan; A. tells the demons to build a canal, a bridge; Khan returns his wife, the sorceress was burned, the older wives were torn apart by horses]: 178-190; Tursunov 1983 [when the khan is leaving, the eldest wife promises to build a palace, the youngest to give birth to a daughter and a son with a golden forelock ("altyn aydar"); the eldest threw the children into the well, replaced them with puppies, the khan kicked out his youngest wife; the bird pulled out the old woman raised the children from the well; after her death, A. and her sister went to live in a cave; the eldest wife found the girl, persuaded her brother to get 1) Kelmes Khan's foal ("kelmes" - you won't return); at the crossing of the river, A. removed the ring from Peri's hand; peri in the form of a cloud carried away foals; A. cut her sword, he still had her shoe; A. brought a foal; 2) a golden chest; peri turned A. into stone; sister came for him, Peri took pity, revived him; he overhears the conversation between the two peri, they want him to be a husband, he takes him; A. met his father; he ordered the eldest wife and the old sorceress to be hacked, returned the youngest]: 162- 164; Kyrgyz [the childless khan has forty wives; he hears three sisters talking; the eldest promises to sew many hats, the middle one promises to feed the inhabitants of the whole ail with a pinch of oatmeal, the youngest boy with gold, a girl with silver legs; the khan marries the youngest; wives ask the witch to replace newborns with puppies, throw the chest with the children into the gorge; tells Khan, who tells the khan, who tells him to take his wife and the puppies on a far island; a female maral raised children; the khan notices gold and silver marks in the mountains, beats a witch, who confesses to what she did; the khan returns his wife (dogs took care of her) and children, drives her away the rest of his wives, the witch throws off a cliff]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981:96-97 (=Ledenyov 1987:69-72); Kyrgyz (Naryn Region, Zhumgal District, 1959) [rich and powerful Khan Aidarkan is childless; goes from horsemen, meet three girls; the eldest replies that she can sew clothes for 40 horsemen per night, the middle one can feed 40 horsemen with a handful of oatmeal, the youngest will give birth to a boy and a girl with golden breasts and with a silver ass; the khan marries the youngest, passes off the eldest two as viziers; the eldest and middle have fulfilled their promises; the youngest gives birth when hunting; the khan's 40 wives bribed a witch, she replaced newborns puppies, children were thrown into a groundhog hole, covered with stones, Khan is informed that his wife gave birth to puppies; Khan orders his wife and puppies to be taken to the big water and left there; hero Akmat visited the city when he was young perishte (creatures, in the manner of a European hidden people), with courage and strength got hold of the Gray Rifle and the Grey Pacer there; childless; The gray foreigner does not allow himself to ride; trying to jump on it, Akmat He finds himself at a stoned hole, hears crying, finds children, brings him to his wife, has a feast, among the guests is Khan Aydarkan; the children have grown up, the son is no worse than Akmat, Akmat himself and his wife have died, brother and sister stayed in their house; brother uses the Gray Gun, rides the Gray Pacer; while hunting he meets Khan Aydarkan, who is jealous of the hero, saddens that he is childless; 40 wives suspect that the children survived, the witch admitted that she did not complete the matter; in the absence of the young man, she comes to his sister; says that there are green and white apple trees in the city of Perishte; if a white one is transplanted, it will bear fruit every day; the sister demands that her brother get her a white apple tree; he spends the night at Akmat's grave; a voice from the grave tells me how to get to the city of Perishte and get a white apple tree (you can't touch the green one); the young man brings a white apple tree, his sister is happy; the young man meets the khan again while hunting, he returns home upset again, 40 wives send a witch to finish what he started; a witch in the city of Perishte has a tree, on whose branches sit three parrots: colorful, red and loud; loud talks all day long; sister demands a parrot from his brother, who again spends the night at the hero's grave; voice: you can't touch a colorful parrot; a young man brings a parrot to his sister, who entertains her; after the third meeting, the young man and the khan send a witch to kill his brother and sister; in the city of Perishte there is Kulanda, a beautiful daughter of the ruler, let her brother marry her; voice from the grave; we must enter the city of Perishte openly, for they are afraid of the owner of the Grey Pacer and the Grey Rifle; find a palace with 6 doors; when they all open , get inside, cut off a lock of hair from the sleeping beauty and only then wake her up, she will have to marry a young man; Kulanda agrees to marry, but her three brothers cannot share the items left over from the late father; the chapan (will take him anywhere), a needle (makes him invisible if you stick it into the gate) and a pipe (if you shake, a myriad of troops appear; the young man invites the three brothers to race, promises to give the items to the winner, hides, taking magic items; meanwhile, the deadline of 40 days expires: the young man warned his sister that if he does not return during this time, he is dead; then his sister and her the parrot will commit suicide; the Gray racer will not deliver on time; Kulanda calls the devas, the Black Dev will deliver in the night, the Gray in half the night, the White in a moment; the sister and the screaming parrot are already they are preparing to take poison; after a while the Grey Forever also arrives; the young man marries Kulanda; the parrot advises Kulanda to send gifts to Khan Aydarkan and invite him to visit; during the feast, the khan asks why the young man did not go hunting three times for a long time, he explains, shows an apple tree, a parrot and Kulanda; the khan invites him to visit him; a parrot tells his brother and sister that their mother has survived: two puppies have become mighty dogs, they bring partridges to a woman; brother and sister bring her mother; Aydarkan tells him to cut off the witch's head and hang 40 wives; everyone is happy]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:35-42.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Potanin 1883, No. 84 [(Buren-Gol river); see motive J46, L72; three sisters run away from the demon jelbag; Beaver transports them across the river, drowns the pursuer; told the sisters to climb for three spruce trees; three fellows passed by, married them; older sisters promise their husbands to sew clothes and covers; the youngest - to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the older throw the boy into the lake , replace him with a mole; he bites his returning husband; the husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouges out his eyes; she is left alone; she consistently maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; a woman is treated with the same herb, recovers; cannot lure his son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving a bow and arrow on the shore; gives his milk, tears drips into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his the name is Yer-Saru; further on heroic matchmaking, see motive K27], 181 [(modern district. Kyzyl); Arolbai-Ego Khan increasingly returns without a horse; the eldest wife promises to sew a robe and boots, the youngest promises to give birth to an assistant hero; the eldest orders to replace the born boy with a puppy, Throw the boy to horses, camels, rams; they feel sorry for him every time; then to Lake Altyn-Kul; the husband broke his younger arm, leg, gouged out his eye; she stayed with the old maid; he bothered them lame foal; the woman broke the mouse's leg, the bird's wing; they were cured with grass, the woman also recovered; her son comes out of the lake to play; the old woman fails to catch him for a long time; then he is lured into a bag, full of grandmas; son admits mother when splashes of her milk fall into his mouth; he hunts larger animals; mother and old woman warn not to hunt iron deer, which AE never does overcame, left his knife in it; the boy kills him with an arrow into an uniron-covered spot on his forehead; cuts meat with his father's knife, makes a huge yurt out of his skin; AE sends people to an old nomadic; only two they decide to approach, find a yurt the size of a mountain; the young man sends his father his knife with them; he flies like a bird, finds out that his father will recognize him when he has a name, a heroic horse and a weapon; his mother calls him Hirek-Kirves, blacksmith Tolon-Aryk-Darkhan, gives everything she needs; tells the mother to insert a lamb's eye instead of a gouged one; HC arrives hawk, hears that the father would like him to marry his daughter the three-headed Hormozd Killed; he kills UH, brings his wife; the father tells him to get the fangs of the monster, his father's lost sword, the net from the bottom of the sea, the great-grandfather's fur coat from the underworld; the wife gives advice on how to fulfill the first assignments; Erlik gives a fur coat (dahu), says that as soon as AE receives it, he will come to him with his wife; the son receives all the inheritance, becomes khan]: 341-348, 600-618; South Altai Tuvans [khan with 12 wives is childless; hears at the yurt how the older sister promises to marry someone from whose hearth ash should be removed three times a day, the middle sister hears who has a mountain of game in front of the yurt, the youngest for that who traveled for her; marries the youngest; while the husband is hunting, the wife gives birth to twins; 12 wives throw them in a box in the water, put two puppies; the khan sends her into exile overseas; old people they catch a box with babies, it does not run out of food; the khan swims across the sea on horseback; the old woman shows him his wife and sons, says that the rest are shulmusikhs; the khan must purify himself, the old woman tells him fill the bag with stones, he has been collecting stones for three years, the bag is not full; the old woman sends him to bring a needle from the border of earth and sky, where the sky rises and falls down; the khan shows this old woman gold bracelet, the sky rises, he slips; brings a needle, gets a wife and sons, expels 12 wives overseas]: Taube 1994, No. 21:202-205; Tofalars [=Katanov 1907:645-648; =Rassadin 1996, No. 33:75-77; the old god saw three maidens; the eldest said she would bake bread for 300 soldiers, the middle god would raise nine aspens to ski for all soldiers, the youngest would give birth to two sons with gold breast and one human; the old woman replaces the first two with puppies, after the birth of the third, the husband orders his wife and son to be sewn into cow's skin, throw them into the sea; they swim ashore; the mother makes grass to the son a hat and a fur coat; a person asks for a hat for himself, gives in return an ax (he builds himself), an iron stick (hits himself) and a bag (feeds); the stick hits the sent soldiers; the mother has a holy book, the son learns from it where his brothers are golden breasted; they are held captive by a giant; a boy kills him by sending his stick; the mother feeds her eldest sons milk, their golden breasts become human]: Sherkhunaev 1975:283-288; Altaians [father sends three daughters for berries, holes in the youngest's tuyaski; while they find the hole, they filled the tuyas, evening has come; the girls came to the seven-headed Tielven hut; he sends them for skewer branches, they bring unusable ones; he goes by himself, they run away; they tell Beaver that his back is round, his teeth are white; he drinks the lake, they cross to the other side; T. says his back is flat, the teeth are yellow; the Beaver orders to make a raft out of reeds, rock in the middle of the river; T. drowned; the girls climbed onto the fir; after urinating, they betrayed themselves to three passing merchants; one promises her future husband out of skins lice sew clothes, the second bake a thousand pies from one wheat, the third to give birth to a gold-headed son; husband and wife leave her husband's newborn mother; she throws the baby into the sea, lulls the puppy; mother bares her breasts, says, poyut smoyut (My Milk River), eventually lures her son out of the water; grandmother was tied to an immense stallion]: Kandarakova 1928:125-127; Trans-Baikal Buryats (Agin or Hamnigans, p. New Zarya, Ononsky District, Chita Region) [the old Sholmos woman wants to eat the rich man, he asks him to eat his daughter better; he will leave three goldmoney at the camp, the daughter will return for them; a seemingly bad horse is willing to take the girl; teaches: he will turn around calf, rubs against the yurt, you have to ask for money, then the old woman will ask you to drive the calf away, you have to jump on it; the goby becomes a horse again, takes the girl; they have been living by sandalwood since 12 branches; the girl has a gold file, he gives food; the khan takes her third wife; leaves; the eldest promises to prepare a sable hat for his return, the middle one - a silk robe, the youngest - to give birth to a son with golden breasts, silver ass; older wives threw the newborn into the hole, then the dogs, under the feet of the herd, under the feet of the camels, he is unharmed; threw him into the sea; replaced with a puppy; the khan orders to break the youngest hands, throw by the sea; she sees wounded birds eating grass, recovering; she also eats, her hands are intact; a boy comes out of the water to play; a woman grabs him, he says that his father is a cliff, his mother is a seal; she gives him his milk; leads him to that sandalwood; the son comes to his father, tells him everything; the khan returns his youngest wife, makes the elders as garbage and dung cleaners]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 4:85- 91; Baikal Buryats (Tunkinsky) [Zagar Mashad Khan has 3 wives, 64 teeth in her mouth; the eldest wife promises to sew a deagle by his return, the middle wife promises to make boots, the youngest to give birth to a son with golden breasts and with a silver ass; the older khanshi, out of envy, cut the boy in half, replaced him with a puppy, buried the remains under the threshold; the returning khan wants to kill his youngest wife, but cannot open the door, something interferes under the threshold; the middle khansha dug up the remains, threw it into the well; the khan's horse does not come to the well; the middle khansha took out, rubbed the remains, fed the cowhide cow; she brought a calf with gold breasts and silver ass; Khan fell in love with him, the eldest khansha pretended to be sick - you have to eat the calf's liver and lungs; the servant led the calf, he escaped, ordered him to bring the liver and lungs of the dead dog to the khan; comes the guy, tells the whole story, shows his body; the khan hugs him, both hanshas were burned at the stake]: Dugarov 1990:27-31; the Oirats (Karashar's merchants) [childless Bujin-Dawa Khan sends the dog Hasar to hunt; he sees the house, hears an old woman asking three daughters what they have learned; one, if the BDH takes her as his wife, promises to cook dinner for 500 people from one egg, the other from one's wool a goat to make a carpet for 500 people, the youngest is beautiful to give birth to a golden son and a silver daughter; H. told the khan, he took the sisters as his wife; the youngest becomes pregnant, 502 childless wives ask for tushmyl-eunuch Tsok- Gyryla help; he replaces two puppies who have given birth to children; DBH buries his wife and puppies alive at the crossroads of three roads; CG puts real children in gold, silver, copper, iron, wooden, leather boxes (one in the other), descends into the river; they are caught by a fisherman; his old wife feeds the children; the old woman, then the old man dies; the old man tells them to come to the grave, on the third morning the young man catches a horse; hunts ; Mani-Dara, the elder Khatun, comes to his sister in his absence, persuades him to ask his brother to bring her 1) a branch of the Saikhan-Saglar tree; the horse tells the prince that the tree is guarded by three Mangyt-Khai about 15, 25 , 35 heads; the prince pulls out, MX only cut off the horse's tail, the tree began to give whatever you want; 2) marry Saikhan-Sarane, daughter of Zandan-Tengir; the horse carries the owner through a dangerous forest, mountain, sea of fire; the prince returns from the SS, who on the way turns people who had previously become trees and stones back into people; the sister marries a hero; the SS orders to dig an old grave, throw away the dog's bones, bring humans, revives her husband's mother; she forgives DHL; throwing ash, the SS turns the CG into a wild boar, 502 wives into wild pigs]: Bennigsen 1912:44-55; the Mongols [khan leaves; one wife promises to sew boots, another flea skin sash and shirt, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden breast and a silver back; older wives feed the baby to a cow; the returning khan orders the youngest wife to poke out his eyes, cut off his hand, leg, tied to a cow's tail, drive out; a cripple sees a blind crane, a fox without a paw, a lame hare healed after eating certain grass; did the same, recovered; her cow gave birth to her own son; the eldest wife pretends to be sick, demands the heart of a child with a golden chest, a silver back; the servants gave her a dog's heart, she immediately recovered; the young man grew up, came to the khan, told his story; Khan drove away bad wives, took the young man's mother again]: Mikhailov 1967:142-145; Dagurs [when leaving, Jeardi Mergen asks three wives what they will prepare for his return; first: a marten fur coat ; second: leather boots; third: I give birth to a son with a golden back, silver chest; JM tells the first two wives to take care of the newborn; they are jealous; they say that the woman in labor should cover her eyes, fill her eyes lead in the ears, give birth in a barn; put a puppy, a baby is killed, boiled, fed to a cow; JM tells a third wife to live in the kitchen; a cow gives birth to a calf with a golden back, silver chest; older wife pretends to be sick, persuades the shaman to say that that calf should be sacrificed; when the butcher wants to kill him, the calf disappears; it is the god Bainasta who took the child to the taiga, gave him a human form ; told the boy what happened; sent him to live in the house of the poor couple; when hunting, JM goes there; the son tells him almost everything, but does not name him; repeats everything in the JM house; he recognizes his son; from tears a boy, his mother regains sight, hearing and reason; JM drives away the first two wives]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:83-91.

Western Siberia. The Southern Khanty (Irtysh) [three princes come to the city; eavesdrop on three girls promising to have children; the youngest promises to have a daughter and two sons with stars on the top of their heads, the sun on their foreheads, a month on the back of their heads; princes marry them; the youngest wife's children are born in the absence of their father; older sisters replace them with puppies; at the suggestion of their father-in-law, their mothers broke their arm and leg, tore their nose and mouth, they are nailed by the hands and legs in the church, everyone spits on it; the children are thrown into the river, they are raised by the water king, then they are caught by an old man and an old woman; brothers and sister have grown up; merchants come; one of the brothers turns into a dog, goes with merchants to the royal city; overhears the story of aunts about a birch tree from which silver is falling; returns home, brothers catch birch root; on the second trip, a young man turns into a dog and then into a gadfly; hears about a reindeer bull with 40 shoots on its horns and people sell; brothers get the tip of the bull's horn, the bull came by itself; the third time the dog turned into gadfly; aunts say that there is a girl who has the sun on the top of a star, the sun on her forehead, is in the back for a month; the older brother, then the younger brother, goes looking for her, disappears; the sister finds a woman, they become sisters, that resurrects brothers; they all come to the king, the girl talks about what happened; makes the mother healthy, her milk splashes into the children's mouths; her sisters are tied to one wild and one humble horse, torn]: Patkanov 1999, No. 4:331-346 (brief retelling in Kim 2006:76); Eastern Khanty (b. Lyamin, Pim dialect; the Eastern Khanty do not divide into Por and Mos; perhaps the plot is borrowed from the northern Khanty, who moved to Pim) [three Por-ne lived, went to steal fish from the top of the mant-ku; he climbed onto the roof of the house, threw a fly agaric into their cauldron; they got drunk, everyone says she sees a woman doing this and that; the first: sews up her shoes, the second carries firewood, the third hangs on a bush bird cherry or mountain ash; a whirlwind lifts the house into the air; the first por-ne whirlwind threw into the middle of the river, the second hooked a tree, stayed there, the youngest caught her scythe on the top of the tree; mant-ku saved all three , brought to him, made the youngest wife; the eldest became a seamstress, the middle one wears firewood]: Lukina 1990, No. 29:104-105.

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Yerbogachen) [the man has three wives; one promises to sew a caftan for him by his return, the other boots, the third to give birth to a son; this happened, but the other wife blindfolded the woman in labor, threw the child into the river, replaced it with a puppy; the husband killed the puppy, broke his wife's arm, migrated with two wives; in the spring, the one left noticed a trail on the shore; left a bow and scraper to lure the child; the child went out, took the onion, so the boy; the woman caught him; the boy screams that the burbot fed him his liver; the burbot jumped out of the water and returned five; the woman told her son everything, he went to look for his father; found began to tell his story; father left those wives, returned to his son and his mother]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 100:131-132; Baikal Evenks: Voskoboynikov 1958 (Bount) [older sister finds the leg, goes beyond the Raven; the middle leg is the feather, the youngest is a hunting knife, for a hunter, promises to give birth to a son with a golden back of the head; two sisters envy the youngest, throw her son into the river, put her son puppy; husband tells his wife to be cut off; sisters' mother sees a boy with a golden back of his head coming out of the river, lures him with a bow, catches; he grows up, meets his mother, she suffers from hard work; father finds out son, expels older wives]: 104-107; 1973, No. 24 (Kachugsky District, Irkutsk Region) [three sisters are married to three men; the first promises to sew mittens, the second boots, the third to give birth to a golden child; two replace the child with a puppy, the child is thrown into the river; the husband cuts off his wife's leg, arm, and one chest; throws one; woman sees a boy coming out of the river; lures him with breast milk, bread, small onions, leaving them farther from the shore; grabs him; fish scream that they fed him caviar and liver; mother first denies that her son had a father; then says he fell off the larch; the son tries, does not die; then tells the truth; the son comes to the mother's sisters, tells her story; men they want to listen, women ask him to be silent; the boy cleans off the dirt, shines like gold; the father maims the evil sisters like Yenu used to; returns to his wife, she recovers]: 111-114.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (b. Corcodon) [the husband goes fishing; the eldest wife promises to sew clothes, the youngest will give birth to a son with the sun on her forehead, a star on the crown, the moon on the back of her head; the elder wife threw the child into the water; the old woman caught him in top; educates, sends her to her father, telling her story; the husband tells the younger sister to beat her elder sister as she beat her, tells her to feed the old woman]: Johelson 1900, No. 18:39-41.