K72A. Prohibition to light a fire. 12.14.-.17.27.-.31.

The king notes that his ban on lighting lights at night has been broken.

Mungaka, Egyptian Arabs, Italians (Campania, Capri), Germans (Switzerland, Austria), Palestinians, Iraqi Arabs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Albanians, Greeks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia), Crimean Tatars, Dargins, Turks, Kurds, Tajiks, Lithuanians.

West Africa. Mungaka [the girl rejects the grooms; the father dried the termite and promised to give his daughter for someone who guessed it was; a man came, said it was a termite, got the girl and took her away, telling him not to take it with him no flint, no knife; on the way, the husband turned into a leopard, but his wife was not afraid; he left her in the house and promised that the man would bring her food and water; she gave birth without seeing the child, he was taken away the same at night; then the second; the wife asked permission to visit her parents; the leopard allowed, but recalled the ban on flint and knife; the mother gave a knife and flint; you must stick the knife in the bed with the point up; the person who comes up will come, hurt himself, scream; by screaming you will know whether it is a beast or a person; the wife screamed that her husband is human; he forgave her; then she lit a fire - there is a handsome man next to her; he cried out and disappeared; the wife went to look, came to the house where her leopard and her new wife; the old one was hired by her mother-in-law to work, she pushed her around, the leopard did not stand up; but when he found out that her mother wanted to kill her, he killed his mother and new wife, took the old one; immediately their grown-up children appeared, who were taken away from the woman after birth]: Meyer 1942, No. 4:149-154.

North Africa. Arabs of Egypt: Bushnaq 1987 [the 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 the king the baker, will eat bread to his heart's content; the second, for the royal chef, will taste various dishes; the youngest promises to give birth to the king a boy with golden and silver curls and a girl whose smile makes the sun shine, and It rains crying; they sent for them the next day; 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; she bribed the midwife, who threw the babies into the garden, put the puppy and the 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 lacks an apple tree with dancing apples and an apricot tree with singing apricots; her brother came to the ghoul, cut it; the ghoul sends to his brother (the same); he sends to her sister; if she rubs salt, then do not come, and if sugar, venerate both breasts; Gulya promised to ask her 7 sons when they will come in the evening; turned the young man into an onion; her sons promise not to harm to the guest, but help him; the eldest will take him to that apple tree in a month, and the youngest instantly; the brother brought the sister both trees; queen: Bulbul Assiah (screaming nightingale) is missing; brother came to the ghoul, he flew in with them to the king of the guley, the young man took the cage and brought it to his sister; the gardener told the king, the nightingale shouted about what was happening, the king returned his wife and arranged a feast]: 89-94.

Southern Europe. Italians (Campania, Capri) [the king forbid lighting a fire at night, but the three dressmakers always worked until midnight, hiding the lamps in large pots; the eldest: if the king were wearing me if I got married, I would feed a piece of bread to his entire army; middle: I would prepare clothes for all troops from one piece of cloth; youngest: I would give birth to a son with a golden apple in his hand and a daughter with a gold star on her forehead; the spy reported to 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 into the river; but the maid put them in the basket; the king ordered them to be imprisoned wife in a niche at the gate, give them only bread and water and let everyone spit on her; the children were caught by a fisherman; when they grew up, the fisherman's own children began to call them foundlings that their father had caught at sea; those 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 dancing healing water from the Senavalli spring; a hermit (it 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.

Western Europe. Germans (Switzerland, Canton of Valais) [the king forbade lighting a fire in the evening (Feierabend); the messengers noticed the light in the poor house; the spinner explained that her sister went to bed and she fell asleep for spinning wheel, so she forgot to turn off the lights; she dreamed that she had two children: one with a gold star, the other with a silver star on her chest; the king forgave the girl and his son married her; the old king soon died, and the Queen Mother hated her daughter-in-law; when she gave birth to two boys, she put them in a basket and took them to the forest, and told her daughter-in-law that she had a miscarriage; the hunter found the babies and raised them , although he has 10 children of his own; sent them into the world with a note; it describes how he found the children; after reading it, Vogt left them to work in the garden; the rumor of boys with stars on their chest reached the king; the queen The king's mother sold her to a foreign land as a slave, but then she was bought again, making her a maid in the city where her husband reigned; when he heard of the young men, the king told his mother that he would go see them; she gave him sleepy drink; so twice; the third time he just said he would go for a walk; met his wife and sons, his wife told him everything; the Queen Mother was burned like a witch]: Jegerlehner 1913, No. 143:120-122.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king's unloved wife has one son, the young and the beloved has two; a young son comes to his father and asks for the kingdom to be given to him during his lifetime; king: first you must work just as hard and To endure as many difficulties as I did; the same with his brother; Ballan is the son of an unloved wife, his king beats, but for the third time the courtiers advised me to tell him the same thing as his half-brothers; mother gave B. a horse and he set off; on the road a sparkling feather; horse: you'll pick it up, you'll regret it, and you won't regret it; B. picked it up, came to the city, stopped in the caravanserai; the local king and the vizier went out check whether all the lights are extinguished, for this is the royal order; light is visible in the caravanserai; the vizier came there in the morning; the young man had to hand over the pen; the vizier advised the king to send B. for the bird itself; horse: this easy: let the vizier give a cage of gold and silver from the treasury; the horse flew to where the bird lived; at dawn she flew to the cage, said that such a thing was for her, entered it; B. brought a cage with bird; vizier: let B. get the owner of the bird; horse: let gold and silver be given from the vizier's treasury to build a large ship; B. led the ship to the city where the princess lived; she boarded the ship to see it, B. sent the ship from the shore; she threw her ring into the sea; when they arrived, she told the king that she would marry the one who would get the ring; the horse: asked the ship with flour, it should be poured into the sea where the princess threw the ring; the fish ate and the fish leader asked how to thank for such a meal; B.: get the ring; take it out; vizier: let him get the princess's horse; horse: let the vizier give a bridle from gold and silver; that horse in the cave, he would kill B.'s horse, but let himself be curbed in that bridle and come on it; the princess cut the horse apart and demanded that it be made whole and revived again; horse: let the vizier will give a gold and silver bucket; they flew to the sea of living water; getting water, the horse lost consciousness, but the splashes fell on his face and he came to life; B. had to spray it, but forgot; the horse ordered pour some of the water into bottles and hide it; princess: now let B. be burned at the stake; horse: rub yourself with living water and demand that they add firewood; king: who are you? it turned out that the king was Father B.'s brother; ordered the vizier to be thrown into the fire; they rode to Father B. and he handed him the kingdom]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 5:69-82; Palestinians [the king orders the lights to be turned off for the night to test the obedience of the subjects; three sisters spin; left in the dark, one wants to marry the royal baker, the other wants to marry the cook, the third wants to marry the prince to give birth to sons Aladdin and Bahaddin, and daughter Šamsizzha; the king finds out about this, fulfills his wishes, the older sisters, out of envy, put a puppy on the woman in labor, then a kitten, then a stone, the children are let in a box each time along the river, they are adopted elderly spouses; the prince leaves his wife; the children grow up, the aunts send the old woman to invite the girl to wish the Nightingale the Crier; Aladdin goes in search, leaves Bahaddin a ring; The ghoul sends him to his brother, who to his sister, she shows the tree where the Nightingale flies; contrary to the warning, A. says to Nightingale, "I'm here," who turns him into stone; immediately squeezes the ring B.'s finger, he follows A., also becomes stony; the sister is silent, catches the Nightingale in a cage, he tells him to throw the land from the molehill to the stones, the brothers come to life; the Nightingale tells the king everything, he tells him to behead and burn midwife and two sisters]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 10:102-111; Iraqi Arabs [the Caliph forbade lighting the fire at night; walked around the city with the vizier after sunset; poor young man in the same house weaver Mohammed weaver; replies that he works when he wants; that he had a dream but is not going to tell it; he was brought to the Caliph in the morning; he still refuses to tell the dream; he was thrown into prison; he sings there; the Caliph's only daughter hears, tells him to go to the dungeon from her chambers; sends a maid, M. has to go up to the princess; he has washed himself, ate; she tells him to lie down with her, but puts him between them sword; in the morning he returns to prison; stubbornly refuses to tell the Caliph a dream; he is surprised that he is in good shape on bread and water; M.: by God's will; the neighboring sultan sent two apples: which current and what was the last harvest? the princess teaches: the last harvest will emerge, the current one will drown; ask me as a reward; the Caliph agreed, M. said everything, the caliph received five provinces from the Sultan, but returned M. to prison; Sultan: which of the mares mother and what daughter? we must give both food, the mother will not eat, she will worry, the daughter will eat quietly; the Sultan gave 10 provinces and wants to see a guesser; the princess gives M. items with which he will withstand the tests; Sultan: sew a veil for me from the hill; M.: let me make it out of sand; the sultan gave M. a daughter; M. married the Sultan's daughter and the daughter of the Caliph; once he sat, and both wives were on his lap; the Caliph came in ; M. will now tell me a dream, call the vizier; I dreamed that I had the sun on my right shoulder and the moon on my left shoulder]: Bushnaq 1987:326-331.

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 707 [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 royal servants (blacksmith, coachman, etc.), the youngest is for the king, giving birth to him three wonderful children; gives birth to two boys and a girl (golden-nosed, with the sun, month and star, etc.); envious sisters (mother-in-law) they replace children, let them down in a chest into the sea or river; the king orders their mother to be buried waist-deep in the ground; a miller (sailor, etc.) picks up the chest, saves the children; the king's mother, the old woman persuades his sister ask the brothers to get wonderful objects (a waving tree, a talking bird, a mirror, etc.); without following the old man's advice, the brothers turn into stone; the sister gets objects, revives the brothers (and everyone else) petrified); a singing tree or a talking bird tells the king the truth; he returns his wife and children, punishes the perpetrators], 707C [the king (who forbade lighting the fire at night) overhears the conversation of three sisters; the first two promise, if they marry the king, to do a lot of work (dress an army, weave a huge tent, feed the army with one loaf, etc.); the third promises to give birth to wonderful children (golden braids, star on his forehead, sun and month, etc.); the king marries 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), they let them down into the sea or river in a chest; the king orders their mother to be buried waist-deep in the ground (on the edge of a garbage dump, locked in a chicken coop, etc.); a miller (fisherman, shepherd, etc.) picks up children; sister is persuaded ask my brother to get wonderful objects (a singing tree, a magic bird, etc.); with the help of a wonderful horse, the brother gets everything; takes possession of them by the mistress, a beautiful woman who turned people into stones; this beauty (a talking tree, a bird) tells the whole story to the king or the children themselves tell; the king returns them and their mother, punishes the guilty], 707D [the king (who forbid lighting the fire at night) overhears a conversation between three sisters; the first promises, if she marries the king, to dress his army with one spindle of wool; the second promises 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 as a puppy (they kill them), bury them in the garden; the king sends his wife to herd geese (ducks), remarries one of his older sisters; buried children turn into wonderful trees (with golden leaves, apples), they caress the king with branches, whipping the queen; they are cut down, a bed is made, she says that the father is not heavy, his wife is heavy; the bed is burned, cornflower grows out of ash, sheep eats it, gives birth to golden lambs, them they throw them into the river (well), they become children again; they tell their story (at this time beads, pearls, money fall from their lips), the king recognizes their children and wife]: 240, 241-244, 244-245; Romanians [ the king forbade lighting a fire in the evenings; the servants found three sisters sitting in the light; the eldest promises to strain his hair for his coachmen, the middle one to sew horsemen, and the youngest to give birth to two gold-haired sons; the king 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 to her nipples; the children are descended in the box downstream, them a shepherd found and raised; their mother gave birth to a gold-haired girl a year later, who was also lowered down the river, replaced by a puppy, and a shepherd also found her; the aunts found out about this, sent it as a sorceress; she said to the girl that the Calman horse's feather would make it even more beautiful; the brothers went in search; there was hay at the well in front of the dog, 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 a donkey and a well to detain the fugitives, but they refuse; the sister stuck a pen in her hair; brothers and sister came to the king's ball; the sister talks about everything; the king executes the evil sisters, returns his wife and her children]: Bîrlea 1966:455-456; Albanians [when the young king took power, he forbade lighting the fire the next night; disguised himself, walked around town; overheard the three sisters talking; the eldest: if the king marries me, a hundred carpet on which all his warriors will fit; middle: I will make a tent; youngest: I will give birth to a son and a daughter with a star on their forehead and a month on their shoulders; the king married all three; all three They 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; a newborn boy with As a girl, the sisters put them in a box and told the maid to let her go along the river; the box sailed to the mill, the miller and his wife raised their children; when dying, the miller tells the young man to take it to the grotto in 14 days, but not earlier the bridle hidden there; the young man listened, took the bridle, ordered two horses to appear; they immediately carried 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 her forehead; the aunts understood everything, sent the old woman to 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 to the oldest; eldest: when you get there, give the lion brains and the lamb grass; they let the young man go, he picked a flower and brought it to his sister; aunts: persuade him to bring a handkerchief of the Beauty of the Earth; young man brought; to get the Beauty of the Earth itself; the elder lamia: all her strength is in her ring; he enters 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 ordered the servants should add poison to the dishes; but the Beauty of the Earth warned about this; the young man told everything; the king returned his wife and ordered her sisters to be chopped apart]: Dozon 1881, No. 2:7-15; Albanians [the king asks daughter to look for lice from him; she found a louse in her beard; the king ordered her to be put in a box (and fed); soon the louse became huge; the king orders to remove the skin from the lice and promises to give her daughter off as someone who says whose it is a skin; only the devil immediately said it was the skin of a lice; the king realized that the guesser was not human; the king re-tested; the devil appeared in different clothes and asked to show the princess; grabbed and carried her underground; that night the king forbade lighting a fire; an old woman did not pay attention; they came to her; she explained that her 7 sons were returning after dark and could not find it home; the king summoned sons; one hears a man speaking at any distance; the other tells the earth to open; the third can quietly steal anything; the fourth will throw his shoe to the edge of the world; the fifth will call the tour in one word; the sixth will knock down anything at any height; the seventh will catch everything that falls; the king sent them after the princess; the first heard a conversation underground, the second discovered the ground, the third took them away the princess, without waking up the devil, threw his shoe to the end of the world; the devil took time to get his shoe; after catching up with the brothers, the devil asked permission to look at the princess through a small the hole and flew with her high into the sky; the sixth brother shot him and the seventh picked up the fallen princess; her king asks who to marry her; the princess: the one who took her into his arms; he the youngest; the princess's husband received the throne and the rest of the brothers received titles and positions]: Dozon 1881, No. 4:27-33; Greeks: Legrand 1881 []: 77-93; Paton 1899, No. 3 (Lemnos) [after dark king tells you to turn off all the lights, walks around the city; eavesdrops at the house where 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 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.

Central Europe. Russians: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 1 (Karelian Pomorie, Virma; a brief summary of the text from the archive of the Karelian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [the invisible groom marries the royal daughter; wanting to see him, the bride lights the fire at night, the groom disappears; the girl finds it at Baba Yaga]: 363; 1987 (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the tsar ordered the lights in the city to be turned off; sent his son to look for his wife where there would be no fire extinguished; Ivan Tsarevich overhears the conversation of three sisters at the window; each tells what she will do if I. marries her; one will sew a carpet with an embroidered plane on it; the other will sew in silk towel; the youngest will give birth to three sons three times, the sun is in her forehead, a month on the back of her head, frequent small stars on her braids; Yazhenya volunteered to be a midwife; replaced the children with kittens (she carried the children into an open field); puppies; puppies again; turned the children into wolves; the last woman in labor hid in her spit; I. persuaded I. to 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 around mosquito, overheard the sailors tell about the wonderful palace on the island; I.: my brother has a bull, a bathhouse on his tail, a lake on his back, a palace on his horns; my son creates such a bull at home; next time: a lake crystal, jelly shores, silver spoons, no loss; third time: 8 sons are clear falcons, wolves during the day, and well done at night; the mother baked koloboks with fresh milk, told her son to take them under the spruce tree; the brothers ate, the milk on their lips, did not turn into wolves anymore; they greeted their ninth brother, began to live with their mother; the king came and recognized his wife; I was pitched in a barrel, I still swam]: 144-148.

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 got 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; the next time he grabbed a hare, her father recognized her son; her mother was dug up, her sisters were executed]: Radlov 2012, No. 43; Dargins [the Shah goes to check if anyone lights up the light at night; at home, an orphan girl hears three times how she promises to give birth to the Shah a gold-haired boy and a money-haired girl; the Shah marries, leaves, tells the Nukers to hang a red flag if the promised children are born, and black, if ordinary; the first wife tells you to replace children with puppies, throw children in a box into the river; the shah tells you to sew the young wife in buffalo skin, throw it at the doorstep, wipe your feet on her, spit on her; a childless miller caught a box; a grown-up girl tells him to buy calico at the bazaar, embroiders a shawl with silver and gold hair, sends his brother to sell it; the Persian gives a lot of money, brother and sister they go to the edge of the city, build a palace better than the Shah's; the elder wife sends a sorceress 1) 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; the sea horse carries the young man, he hits the beautiful woman with a gold whip, she 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; Turks: Borovkov 1938 [the padishah forbade burning the fire for three nights, three sisters worked, lit it, the courtiers advised overhear; the eldest wants to marry an economist, eat plenty, the average for a tailor, dress well, the youngest wants to marry a padishah to give birth to children whose tears turn into pearls, and if they laugh, they fall roses; sisters ask the old woman to help, she 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 of 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 by a doe; the boy sells pearls; the old woman persuades his sister to ask for brother 1 ) bring a bush to Dilryukyush-khanim; 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 Peri's daughter; servant D. is a giant Of, one lip drags along the ground, the other rises to heaven; D. cured her husband's mother, told everyone what happened, the Shah kissed his wife and children, forgave wife's sisters]: 120-135; Stebleva 1986, No. 20 [padishah is blind; dervish: the cure for your eyes is the land where your horse has not set foot; the eldest son brings land from a hill from behind seven mountains; padishah: I hunted partridges there; the middle one - from the bottom of the abyss for seven mountains (went there to hunt ducks); the youngest; the youngest feeds the foal with barley and raisins; rides at night, sees the light, raises the radiant wing; horse: it will bring misfortune; shahzadeh stopped at the old woman, his wing instead of a lamp; the local padishah forbade lighting a fire; the servants came to shahzade; he gladly gives his wing to the padishah; he tells you to get the bird itself; this is the padishah of birds; you must hide in the remains of a mule; grab the padishah of birds when you arrive to peck carrion; shahzade brings a bird; the vizier advises the padishah to tell the young man to build ivory palace; horse: you need to pour raki into the pond, the elephants will get drunk; shahzade brought tusks, built a palace; the vizier advises sending him for the Most Beautiful Man in the World; the horse taught him to sneak up on her from behind and beat with pink twigs; this girl demands that the padishah bring her mares, bathe in their milk and then become younger; the horse teaches him to cover him with 40 buffalo skins; by the seashore he will fight as a sea stallion and he will not gnaw the last skin; he will take mares to the island, we must take the red and the dark bay; the girl began to wash the padishah with the milk of a dark bay mare and only he was left of him skeleton; began to wash Shahzade with milk with a red nest, he found eternal youth; shahzade brought the land, his father saw the light; they achieved their desires], 22 [to check if everyone is afraid of him, the padishah tells 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, the youngest to give birth to a boy to them a girl with golden curls; padishah consistently takes three sisters; the first two do not fulfill their promise, they are sent to the kushroom; the sisters ask the midwife to put puppies, kill the children; the mother was covered up to the throat with stones, the children were abandoned in the chest at sea; the dervish finds them, the deer feeds them; the dervish dies, the padishah meets the beautiful young man and girl on the mountain; the sisters tell the midwife to destroy them; she advises the girl to ask her brother to get Sam- He 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, he answers Chor-Kush, the young man turns into stone; sister comes, 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; the mother of the children is treated, the sisters and midwife are torn apart with mules]: 62-69, 77-86; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 707 (Istanbul, Ankara, Kastamonu, Gümüşhane, Kars, Sivas) [the padishah sees the light and overhears the conversation of the three sisters; each wants to marry a padishah; the elders promise to perform some work, the youngest is to give birth to twins; gives birth to two sons and a daughter; wife's sisters replace children with puppies]: 287-291; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 4 [son of a late fisherman (SR) catches a turtle shell; someone cooks and cleans the house; the SR spies, sees the girl, the SR breaks the shell, marries; the king orders to turn off the lights in the city, sees the light coming from the wife of the SR; the vizier advises to give her husband tasks; each time the wife tells you to press the seal against a stone on the seashore, an Arab will come out, make wishes come true; 1) bring 10 lions to defeat the king's 10 lions; 2) feed the city; 3) build a wall around the city with iron gate; 4) bring a wild mare with 40 foals from the mountains (a bridle appears instead of an Arab; fills the pond with wine; the mare is drunk; the foals followed their mother); 5) the king personally comes up with a task bring the sister of the seven giants; the SR's wife cannot help; SR meets Edal, Drinker, Flutist, Omniscient; the giants command 1) eat 7 meat boilers, 2) drink 7 wineskins of water; 3) give poisoned bread; companions complete tasks: The omniscient knows what bread is poisoned, the Flutist makes the plates dance, change places, the giants have died; the sister of the giants kills the king's army and himself, the SR reigns]: 55-63; Kurds [padishah and vizier check whether everyone is extinguishing the fire at night, as the padishah ordered; three girls have lights on; if the padishah marries her, the older sister promises to cook, average weave a carpet, the youngest to 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 to replace the children with puppies, throw the children in a box at sea; padishah He orders to put his wife in a kennel on a chain, beat him with a truncheon; the box was washed ashore, the gazelle fed the children, their names are Hesain and Gulizar; while hunting, the padishah sees his son, admires him, does not recognize him; the midwife persuades Gulizar to ask her 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 her soap, comb and bowl, and steal tablecloth; an old woman chases G., he throws soap (slippery rock), a comb (a prickly thicket), a bowl (sea); G. brings a tablecloth; the padishah sees him again; the midwife advises Gulizar to marry his brother Sharikhubar; she turns everyone who calls her into stones; sister comes, S. answers her, Honey, petrified ones come to life; brother takes S. as his wife; when the midwife comes, S. kills her with a sling; Padishah and courtiers come to visit, S. tells a story, mother G. and G. are released, evil sisters are torn apart by horses]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 4:71-80.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [padishah ordered all shops and workshops to be closed in the evening; went to check, noticed the light in one place; asks the tailor why he works; orders three as punishment of the day, sew a marble robe; the tailor's daughter tells me to ask Padashah for a marble needle; he sent the viziers to find out who gave the tailor the answer; married this girl]: Niyazmukhamedov 1945:204-205.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 125 [36 options; some storytellers improvise to describe the girl's rescue; the weaver, the spinner and the seamstress worked in the evening, the ray went out, only the younger sister agreed to go for the fire; on the way there is a white pan in a white carriage with white horses and a white dog, then black and red; everyone does not advise going - you will not return; the girl came to the hut; the gate is spinning on the person's leg, on the fence of the head, the door is closed by the hand, there is a hand at the door, there is a barrel of blood in the hallway; there is a hole in the hut and the head is on the cola, the laume heats up by the pit, asks what the girl saw; describes lords; laume: this is my day, night, fire; heads are pots, hands are rakes and swirls (?) , brine in barrels, broom and poker in the pit; didn't you see anything else? - Nothing. Laume tore it apart], 126 [a spinner, a weaver, a seamstress and a cook work in the evening; there was a ban on lighting a fire; only a woman outside town has a fire; the first three say that they are shining a tow, a loom tycoon, needle; the cook is forced to go; meets a white rider on a white horse with a white dog, beyond black, red; then people stand upside down; at the door the head, where the pen is the human tongue, in the kitchen guts, hand near the pot, bones are cooked in the pot, the witch eats a small child, demands to say what the girl saw; gives explanations: riders - day, night, dawn; people on their heads - fence, hand - ladle, jelly is cooked in a pot; at the end, the girl says she sees a witch eating a baby; - And I'll eat you too! And ate]: 306-308, 308-310.