K73. Younger wife's children, ATU 707. .11.-.17.21.-.37.39.

A young wife (promises to give birth and) gives birth to wonderful children (or one son). In the absence of the husband, they try to kill the wife or her child (usually by slandering her husband), but they remain alive.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Tanga: Nassau 1912, No. 22 [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 behind the garden, Mamendi promised to give birth to 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 his mother; the sisters 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 heart-life; different from "soul"), grabbed two, ran away, invested in the killed children, they came to life again; grew up, bring game from hunting, M. takes it to his father N., but does not allow his wives Majanga and Inyanji to even they tried this meat; gathers people, tells everything; the wives were drowned, but before that they had time to curse M. to become a wordless creature]: 169-173; 1915, No. 17 [the older sister marries an agent the merchant, the youngest for the merchant himself; promises to give birth to children named Sea, Sun, Moon; in the absence of her husband, gives birth three times; out of envy, both mother-in-law and sister tell the carpenter to let the children down in a box into the sea, replace a cat, a pig, a dog; a merchant tells his wife to be placed in a barn; a man catches boxes, two brothers and their younger sister grow up handsome; a merchant wants to marry a girl without knowing what it is his daughter; a bird tells the children their story; in the merchant's house he asks to weld stones, they do not boil; asks for a rejected wife; everything turns out that the merchant's mother and wife's sister are drowning]: 48-51; suto [ Chief Bulane has a moon on her chest; one of the two wives is childless and despised; finally gave birth to a son with a moon on her chest; the other took the child and threw it into the far corner of the house, told the woman in labor that she had given birth to a puppy; B. ordered the destruction of the offspring; the second wife saw the mouse playing with the child with the moon on his chest; persuaded her husband to burn the hut; but the mouse overheard, carried the child beyond the kraal wall in advance; the second wife noticed him again, persuaded him to burn the kraal; the mouse gave the child to the merchants; one man noticed an extraordinary boy, said B.; he came by himself, asked the boy, everything became clear; B. arranged celebration and feast; a wife who gave birth to a boy with a moon on her chest is held in high esteem, the other wife was sent to her relatives]: Dornan 1921:435-436; kamba [childless wife, lowers her rival's newborn children into calebasse into the river, smears blood on the mother's mouth, convinces her husband and people that she ate her children; the mother is expelled, she is building a hut on the mountain; the children have been picked up and raised; they steal cattle; they meet their mother, come with her to their father's kraal; everything is explained, the barren wife was expelled]: Klipple 1992:243.

West Africa. Ijo (kalabari) [The king's 200 wives are childless; he is advised to take a spider's daughter; her name is Adiaha, she is ugly, but no one knows she has two skins; her mother told her not to take off her ugly skin for a while; the older wife knows this, she got GG, gave it to the king, he forgot about A.; but the spider got other GJI, the king remembered, A. was beautiful, and in the morning she put on ugly skin again; gave birth to a beautiful boy ; the elder wife gave GJI for the king to throw the boy into the river; but other GJ saved him and grew up; the same with daughter A.; the king convenes fighters, his unrecognized son wins, the king brought him closer; son asked to gather people to judge the case; says everything; A. appeared in all its splendor, the king brought A., her son and daughter closer; the eldest wife was beaten 200 times with a scourge, burned, and the ashes were thrown into the river]: Dayrell 1910:11-19; Hausa: Klipple 1992 [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 a straw; 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 the children away, replaced them with lizards the mother was driven away; the woman picked up and raised the 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 and the children reinstated, rival strangled]: 243-244; Lippert 1905, No. 7 [the king has three wives, the youngest gives birth to two boys, the eldest kidnaps them, throws them away, replaces them with two squirrels; the king orders the bodyguard kill his youngest wife, but he hides her in the old woman's house; the king meets the boys, takes them to his palace; they know something about their origins; the king tells all women to come and offer food; boys They only accept food from their mother's hands; the king orders the eldest wife to be executed]: 237-238; Paulme 1976 [another wife replaces the twins with two lizards; at the end, the king ripped open that belly, gave her head to that wife, which another slandered and she made a bench out of her skull; since then, there has always been a bench in the women's house]: 235; snakes [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 clean his yard (compound); 2) cook and not complain if there are many guests; 3) spin and bring water; 4) 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 both in a pot, hid them in the forest in a dry tree; replaced two frogs; when N. saw them, he ordered his wife to be expelled to the farthest corner of his possessions; the hunter found children; collects silver and gold dust falling from them, became rich; Anansi (spider trickster) I guessed that they were N.'s children; the twins asked the adoptive father to bring them pebbles to play with which they would tell their story to their real father; while N. plays with Serebryany, Zolotoy sings, talking about everything that had happened; N. brought his wife back and washed her himself; tied Aya's legs to a stick and threw her out of the sky; every time the chicken wanted to drink, she would have to lift her head and ask N. permits; all people will 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; raspberries [while the chief is away, the wife gives birth to a handsome boy; the other is jealous, she has a frail child; says that the husband ordered both children to be crushed in a mortar, to cook for him; she hides herself her child; a woman is unable to kill her own, her rival pushes him, cooks food; a good wife brings food to her husband, everything opens, he kills the evil one; the old woman asks for good things to give her a grain of rice; tells throw a net into the river, a woman pulls her son out alive; everyone is happy]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 153:383-385; bambara [an unloved wife goes to the forest to give birth (var.: an old woman tells her to swallow a lump land from the place where the woman's husband urinated; the beloved wife pursues the unloved one when she finds out that she is pregnant); a woman gives birth to twin boys, they are raised by a Lioness; when they grow up, she sends them to look mother; this must be a woman who gave birth in the forest; the chief gathers all women, each claiming to be the mother of twins, but everyone gave birth at home; the last woman in the house says she gave birth in the forest; The chief tells her to wash her, leave her in the house with her sons]: Görög 1979:54-56; scrap [(told by a boy who has never seen Europeans); a man gave an ugly daughter to the chief; she became pregnant, the main wife did not like her; replaced her child with a kitten, let the boy down the river in a box; 12 years later, the child was replaced by a puppy; the fisherman caught the boys, the leader of a village by the river raised like their sons; they visit a real father, they don't say anything to him for the first time; then they come with a foster father, who tells the main wife to bring the boys' mother, whom she constantly beats; the main wife was burned alive, the boys' mother took her place]: Schwab 1947:459-460; wai [the chief's young wife has two children, the eldest is childless; the young gives birth to twin boys; the eldest lets half a pumpkin is replaced by puppies down the river; the chief tells them to let the puppies down in the other half of the pumpkin, expels the young wife; the fisherman picks up children and puppies, they grow up; the chief travels, sees similar young men, the old man tells how children and puppies sailed in two halves of the same pumpkin; the chief expels the eldest wife, returns the youngest]: Creel 1966:78-81; sapo [from the River Chief beautiful son and ugly but good daughter Ti; of the Hill chief is childless; River sent Ti to marry him; she is pregnant; the eldest infertile wife let the newborn in the box into the river, changed her kitten; after that, the main wife began to push Ti like a slave; the same with the second boy, replaced him with a puppy; both were picked up by the River Chief's son; after talking to his sister, he understood everything; sent the grown-up nephews to their father, ordered them not to open at first; then the River Chief gathered the people, told everything; the Mountain Chief brought Ty and his sons closer, burned his eldest wife alive]: Pinney 1973:263-267; loby [from two wives, one dumb; she gave birth; the other threw the child into the river and said that the first one gave birth to a stone; the boy lives in the river; the husband sent a groom to mow grass by the river; the boy came out of the river and asked for grass for her toy horse; if a woman can give birth to a stone, then the toy horse also eats grass; the groom tells the owner that he came, understood everything, wanted to take his son, but he refused; therefore people live in the river]: Paulme 1976:235.

Sudan-East Africa. Darasa [the first wife was not fertile, the husband took the second one, she gave birth to twins, the husband was in the field at that time; the first wife let the children go down the river in the basket, smeared blood on the mother's mouth, said that she ate her children; her husband ordered her to be sewn into donkey skin, leaving her head outside; the children have been picked up, raised; they ask why they have the nickname "Basket Children"; when they find out what is going on, they go with the dog everyone is told that their dog eats only ash; the people they meet are surprised, the brothers ask if they have seen their mother eat their children; one person says there is such a woman; brothers come, they release the mother, tell the father how it happened; he beat his first wife to death]: Jensen 1936, No. 32:522-523; saho [the king has many wives, but all are sterile; his vigilante hears the conversation of three maids, tells the king; one wants to be the wife of a farmer, the other wants to marry a pastoralist, the third wants to spend the night with the king and 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 golden spot on her forehead; tells her not to leave her with the king's wife, but to give her an old helper; but the wife bribed the old woman; the king was told that a boy and a girl were born; the old woman put them in the 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 and forced to clean the garbage; the children were picked up and raised by a hermit; after his death, brother and sister continued to come lions and hyenas, as they came to a hermit; the caravan took brother and sister and brought them to his country; that old woman recognized them by the gold mark on her forehead, told the king's wife; she 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; her brother met that hermit's brother in the forest; he ordered that the demon gate guard 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 he returned, the queen of demons fell in love with him, ordered the young man's sister to live with them; sent him on horseback in gold clothes there 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 her place, told her 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 into the ground, they drove cattle over them]: Reinisch 1889, No. 23:155-175; Oromo [the man's wife Moria and Awa; A. gave birth to twins; jealous M. threw them into the river, smeared A.'s lips with blood and told her husband that A. ate her children; her husband beat A., then tied her in a stable, where she was supposed to eat manure and drink mules urine; some spouses caught the babies, they grew up, they were told about the fate of their mother; The mother was released and washed; the father was expelled; Judge M. was buried alive and the cattle were driven away at this place]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2016:94-95; Masai [when a wife with many children also gives birth twins, childless cuts off their fingers, lowers them down the river in a drum, smears blood on the mother's mouth, convinces her husband and people that she ate her children; a woman in labor is sent to herd donkeys; those who see the floating drum decided that one would take it, the other would take its contents; the old man raised twins; after asking them why they were called "sons of the drum" and after learning about their origin, the brothers go to look for their native kraal; meet the mother, everything is explained; tell the father not to kill his infertile wife, but to send her to herd donkeys for the rest of her life]: Hollis 1905:177-178 (=Kipury 1983, No. 27:101-103); arusha [one wife childless, the other has two children; while she is away, the childless woman throws the children in a barrel into the river; the Masai picks them up; the childless smears the children's mother's mouth with blood, says that she ate her children; the husband expels her, tells her herd donkeys; children grow up; a person tells them that the Masai are not their real father; they go to look for their father, find a mother who tells them what happened; they come to their father's kraal and want to kill another wife; she is sent to herd donkeys and her children and their mother are restored]: Klipple 1992:242; to Iraq [a man took two wives; one is infertile, the other has four children; when she gave birth to a fifth, the first put four children in a deck, lowered them down the river, smeared their mother's mouth with blood as if she had eaten them; the husband sent his beloved wife to clean the manure paddocks and do all the hard work; she sees her children in the river; the owner of the waters Netlang invites her to come in a month, now you can't go to him, taboo; she brought her husband, and he started beating her, stained the river with blood; Netlang's servant, a half-beast- half-man, told him the truth, but he does not fully believe; then he killed him; gave one of the brothers powerful witchcraft; with their help, brothers win everyone]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:170-187; 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 sisters, loves F.; leaves on business; F. gives birth, sends a maid to slowly bring fire; but sisters learn about childbirth when they hear a 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. expelled 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 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; Ottino 1984 [(a brief sketchy retelling of several versions)]; (cf. Zaghawa [the girl rejects the grooms, marries a handsome man, he turns out to be a snake, brings him to her cave; she sings about her fate, asking the birds to tell her seven brothers about her; Swallow, another the bird (mange-mil, lives near their homes) drink the water given to it, but refuses to fly because it drove them away from the grain; the raven flies, sings its song, leads its brothers, each cuts off the head of a seven-headed snake; on the way home, the girl finds an egg, 6 days later a girl appears out of it; the rider asks her to give him water, enough, takes him away; the mother then shouts that her daughter should not light a fire; in his his absence, his other wives light a fire to see her face; she dies immediately, they bury her; a horse, a chicken and a lamb tell her husband about it, he makes a fire in the pit, throws his wives there; when they Children scream, Father, he keeps them alive, but then they scream, Mother, he throws them into the fire too]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (1), No. 5:47-52); Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 1 [at Wad al-Nimayr (VN) 7 wives, he took an eighth, she gave birth to a girl, other wives threw her into the river, said her wife gave birth to a broom; VN: who gave birth to a broom, would give birth to a son; next time she gave birth to twins Hassan (al-Hassan) and Hussein (Al-Husain), the wives threw them into the river, said that the wife gave birth to stones; VN: Whoever gave birth to stones will give birth to a son; but ordered the slave to take his eighth wife to the desert and kill; he did not kill, but left her in the desert; fish swallowed the children, ran aground, they went out; the man saw them, was frightened, but they followed him (teenagers at once}; taking care of other children; the sister found a pot of gold; when the brothers grew up, she asked what they would do with wealth; they would cover it with gold; next time, they would make clay bracelets and cover you with gold {not entirely clear}; she showed them gold, they dressed it in gold; VN wives they persuaded her to ask her brothers to get VN chicken: she and the chickens were made of gold; the brothers stole it, the women told VN about it, the brothers were imprisoned; the VN wives stuck a pin in the head of the brothers' sister, who turned into a turtle, sat on a tree in front of the prison; asked a guard named Khair where her brothers were; they were crying in prison; she also cried - it rained, the gardens were blooming; next time: they sleep on silk, they will soon go out; she laughed, gold fell from her mouth, Khair began to pick it up; said VN; he replaced him with a blanket; the throat began to ask, he was silent; Gorlinka went down to him, VN grabbed her, noticed the pin, pulled it out, the gorlinka became a girl; the brothers gave her VN to his wife, for which he let them go; during the wedding, a turtle came in and began to sing: VN marries his own daughter; VN understood everything, cut off the heads of 7 wives, returned the eighth from the desert, stayed with her and children]: 61-63; Muhawi, Kanaana 1989 [like the Palestinians in Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 10]: 337.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco: El Koudia 2003, No. 14 [the widower has a daughter and son Aamar younger than her; the stepmother tyrants the children by breaking dishes and accusing them; the father leaves them in the forest; they find an abandoned house, they live there; the sister finds a treasure; two years later she asks A. what he would do with the gold; A. replies that she would buy toys; after a while, she would buy a gun to shoot father and stepmother; when she replies that would buy cattle, my sister realizes that A. has become an adult; a woman comes asking for permission to live; her sister wants to drive her away, but she marries A.; hates her sister; says who swallows three eggs, he loves A.; snake eggs, sister swallows, her stomach grows; her brother ties her to a tree, cutting off her hands; she frees herself from fetters, goes to live with deer; the sultan's people catch her; the old woman feeds her salty meat, she is hung upside down, she belches three snakes; the sultan marries her; when she leaves, warns her two other wives of the cunning; they push her into the well, she gives birth to twins named there Abdurrahman and Othman; the servant hears her voice, evil wives threaten to kill her children, drive her children out of the palace; she tries to get water for the children, at which time her arms grow; she finds an empty house, lives there; The sultan and the woman's father look for her, come to her house; she tells her story; the father falls through the ground, only the beard remains; the sultan burned evil wives alive], 15 [three women go for 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 a pot of soup from one bean, and the third would give birth to a son with 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, put the mother in her mouth, and gave the woman to bury the child alive; the husband tells the wife who gave birth to wear the skin of a dog, live in the kitchen and then in the hut, herd the camels; that woman raised the boy; peers say he is a foundling; he made the woman tell him the truth, 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 are amazed to see these animals together; he asks the people he meets if they know about the mother who ate his baby; one person brings him to a woman who says she ate the baby; he explains everything by showing his mother and father a golden spot on their heads; evil wives are dressed in dog skin, they told me to eat with dogs, then tore it with horses]: 90-95, 96-99; kabila: Dermenghem 1945 [the Sultan has two wives; when one gave birth, the other persuaded the old woman to replace the babies with kittens; sultan sent a woman in labor to live in a stable; the babies were thrown in a box into the sea, the fisherman caught them; the boy was named El Goul Amelloul ("big white"), the girl Hadezzine ("the limit of beauty"); E. built a palace and broke garden; the old woman recognized them, advised them to get the Singing Bird, then the Golden Tree; E. brings them both times; marry the daughter of the king of the guli; the youngest of the 7 daughters of the Gulya agrees; the ghoul demands 1) to uproot in a day forest, set up a garden, collect mature figs (the girl does everything with a magic wand); 2) bring a bag of feathers (the girl calls the birds); 3) climb the rock and tell me what she saw there; girl: must Dismember her body into pieces, throw them against a steep wall, they will turn into steps; E. did this, brought three eggs from the cliff; collected the pieces in a bag, the girl came to life, but she lacks an ear; she tells her to run, let E. take the thin horse; the ghoul chase, the girl turned herself, E. and the horse into pieces of wood, the ghoul passed by, the fugitives returned to H.; the sultan and all the people came to the feast; the angel told the whole truth ; the sultan returned his wife, the fisherman was made a vizier, the other wife and old woman were tied to the tails of horses; everything is fine]: 49-55; Mammeri 1996, No. 4 [the first girl promises, if the king marries her, to bake pancakes from one grain; the second is to make clothes from 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 children, the other two told the midwife to let them down in a chest into the sea, replaced them with puppies; the king orders his wife to be thrown into a windowless dungeon and feed 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; the fishermen died; Aziz hunted; an old woman came to Aziza and advised her brother to bring her lioness's milk in the skin of a lion cub; if you wash yourself with such milk, you will become the most beautiful; the old man teaches her to take 8 rams to the lioness and her 7 lions; the lioness gave, Aziza washed herself and became even more beautiful; the old woman advises 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 each; The cannibal giant 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 for Do not watch them while they are eating bread; Aziz looked and lost consciousness; the cannibal brought him to his senses; the old woman advises him to get a singing golden bird; old man: none of those who tried to get the bird came back alive; Many birds will fly into the desert on the rock, the most golden; you have to answer her a third time, then you'll grab it; there are 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]: 61-81; Algerian Arabs [both Sultan's wives are childless; he accidentally heard three girls talking; baker's daughter: if the sultan married me, I would be from one grain of wheat made couscous for everyone; the daughter of a carpenter: she would weave burnuses from a piece of wool; the daughter of a blacksmith: would give birth to two sons (one temple is silver, the other has gold; the other has a golden temple; the other has a golden one; the other has a golden temple pearl and diamond teeth) and a daughter who would shine brighter than the sun; the Sultan married the blacksmith's daughter; when she was giving birth, the two former wives agreed with Settoute's midwife, she replaced the boy with a puppy and let her 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 his wife to be kept on a chain with her dogs, fed like a dog; the children were picked up by a poor fisherman; Gabriel appeared to him and said that God would provide for them; when he died, the fisherman left the grown children with a powerful amulet: Baba-Morjan's golden bits; he should be addressed, "You, who are both spirit and wind"; he took them to their father's town; evil wives guessed everything, asked S. to help; she came to the girl and said that she was missing a mare with 10 foals; amulet: she is beyond the 7 seas, her front legs - lightning, rear - winds; you need to drive a golden pile (pieu) in the yard, in the morning there will be a mare with foals; S.: Hadd-Ezzine (ideal of beauty) is missing; amulet: she is among seven mountains under the protection of seven gulas; it is necessary sit on one of those foals and slip between the rolling mountains; every gulya needs to shave his beard, comb his hair, let the mirror look at themselves, then they'll be your friends; HE first hit the young man with horses and he lay for 40 days, but then agreed to go with him; wedding, feast; the amulet created all kinds of food in abundance; the sultan invited his brothers and sister and HE to his place; HE: we won't touch the food first than you call all your wives; the Sultan has to bring the one who is kept with dogs, washed and dressed up; HE tells her to tell her everything; the sultan is happy; the wives were burned, S. was torn apart by two camels]: Belarus 1982:52-64; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 23 [Once upon a time there was a beauty with her father. The king heard about her beauty and decided to marry her. The slaves became jealous and intrigued her. When she gave birth, they replaced the baby with a puppy. The king became angry and told him to leave his wife in the dungeon. He was about to go on the Hajj, and she asked him to give her a stone of patience. She began to complain to this stone about her life and tell her what had happened to her and how badly her slaves treated her. Once she complained about the stone, and the king hid and overheard her speech. Then he found out the whole truth, freed her, gave her son back, expelled all the slaves and replaced them with kind and obedient ones], 46 [the king went for a walk in the evening and heard the three 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] to Korovkin MS; Egyptian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [the king banned for three to light a fire at night; 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 cook, will taste different 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; they were 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; 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 an apricot tree singing apricots; brother came to ghoul, cut his hair; ghoul sends him to his brother (the same); he sends him to his sister; if she rubs salt, then do not approach, and if sugar, venerate both breasts; gulya promised ask her 7 sons when they will 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 the youngest instantly; brother Sister brought both trees; Queen: Bulbul Assiah (screaming nightingale) is missing; brother came to Ghoul, who flew with him to King Guley, the young man took the cage and brought it to his sister; the gardener told the king, the nightingale shouts about what was happening, the king returned his wife and arranged 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 she would do if she became the king's wife; the first will bake a cake for the king and all his troops; the second will sotket a tent for the king and the army; the third will give birth to a son and daughter with golden and hyacinth hair; when they cry, thunderstorm and downpour will begin when they laugh, the sun and moon will appear; the king married them; the first two failed to fulfill their promise, are 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 and raised them; the fisherman caught two beautiful fish, the young man (his name is Mohammed the Reasonable) carried them to sell, 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 his sister; she 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; in front of the goat, the meat, the clover in front of the dog must be shifted; take rose, leave without looking back, otherwise you will petrify; M. brought a rose; she does not sing; midwife: you need a mirror (same episodes); the rose does not sing again; midwife: you need her mistress Arab-Zandyk; the young man reached her palace, He looked out the window and called; after two shouts, he was half petrified, but grabbed AZ by the hair, let go after she had revived all the petrified; said that he was the son of the king; created a palace on the island, where that 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. and AZ paid a return visit, their warriors 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.

Southern Europe. Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 2 [in the absence of her husband, the wife gives birth to a boy and a girl; the mother-in-law hates her, tells her son that the wife has given birth to a puppy and a kitten; the husband orders to expel his wife; the mother-in-law tells her the servant kill her in the forest, bring her hands and heart; the servant cuts off the woman's hands, but brings the dog's heart; he hung the children in bags on the woman's back and chest; she tried to give the children a drink, both fell into the water; St. The virgin tells us to put the stumps of her hands into the water, her hands grow back, grab the children; St. The virgin gives a wand, with its help a clearing, a house appears; one day three hunters come; one enters a woman's room, she asks to close the window; but the window immediately opens again, and so on all night; the same with second; the third is not told to close the window; in the morning, the boy and girl call him father; everything is explained; the mother-in-law was burned]: 12-16; Barbier 1931, No. 19 [Marie-Valentine's mother died, the father married another; stepmother hates MB; kills a pig, then a horse, accuses MV; kills her own child, then the father cut off MB's hands, drives him away; she orders the father to be pierced by a thorn that he cannot remove before she, MB, returned home; she fell into a hole in the forest; the king's dogs found her, began to bring her food; the king began to find out what was going on, MB was brought to the palace, the prince married her; the old king died, young left; MB gave birth to twins, the Queen Mother replaced them with dogs; replaced the king's letter; the servants felt sorry for MB, did not kill them, but sent them away, putting the newborns in large pockets of her clothes; she met the Lord and St. Petra, the Lord gave her hands back, created a palace and gave milk to the goat; MB must not leave the palace, otherwise her fingers would fall off again; he baptized the twins, calling them the Sun and Moon; the king came there by chance; while he was sleeping, MB told him everything; he did not hear, but the servant heard; the king took his wife and children to him (his mother had already died), but as soon as MV left the palace, her fingers fell off; they brought her father, in her body whose thorn; MB reached out to him, her fingers came back and she took out the thorn; MV's father was forgiven and left in the palace]: 53-56; Webster 1879 [three sisters are spinning; the eldest says she would like to marry the courtier, the middle one is what a royal son-in-law, the youngest is the king himself; the king hears this, marries the youngest; she gives birth twice in his absence; the sisters write to the king that his wife gave birth to a kitten, a puppy, a bear cub; children (the eldest is a girl) are lowered down the river in a basket, picked up by a gardener; the king forgives his wife twice, orders them to be imprisoned and starved; 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 has left rots; the same goes with the younger brother; the sister goes, does not turn around, brings water, revives the brothers, takes the tree and the bird; they invite the king to their place; the bird talks about everything; the children sprinkle water on the mother, she young again, her sisters are being burned in the square]: 176-182; Spaniards: Shishlova 1971 [a fisherman picked up a glass box in the river, containing a newborn boy and a girl; the children grew up, learned the language of birds; from In the story, the swallows learn that their mother queen was slandered by the courtiers: she allegedly gave birth to a cat and a snake; the king ordered her to be walled up in the wall, but the maid made a hole and still feeds her; the king believed, this story should be told to him by the Truth Bird, which is kept in the castle "If you enter, you will not return"; the brother left his sister in a poor house, went to pick up the bird; the witch sends the dog to show the way for this he must bring colorful water from the castle; the owl tells the witch to be brought clean water; the witch pours water on the young man, hoping to turn him into a spider; instead, all the snakes and cockroaches are disgraced turn into people, the witch flies away; the king listens to the bird, recognizes the children, frees the queen]: 125-141; Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 706 [in a thunderstorm, a man goes for firewood; the devil gives him money, promises come to his daughter; she performs the sign of the cross, the devil cannot enter; so three times; then the devil takes her away, and so that she is not baptized, she cuts off her hands; she is baptized with her foot, the devil hangs her by the hair to a tree, leaves her; the prince brings her to the palace; marries, becomes king after the death of her father; leaves, leaving his pregnant wife; she gives birth to twins, the devil replaces the letter - the wife gave birth to two rats; the king tells us to wait for his return, the devil again replaces the letter - to decapitate the rats; her mother-in-law hangs her children on her chest and back, sends her children out of the palace; St. Peter gives her hands back; the devil promises the king to bring him to his wife; her father goes too; the wife tells the incoming people to say "Christ, Mary and Joseph," the devil cannot enter; when they enter, they must swear to God the woman's father turns to ashes; she tells her husband everything, they go back to the palace], 707 [three sisters sewed; the eldest: if the king married me, I would make a dress that would fit in walnut shell; medium: same (piñon shell); youngest: I would give birth to a boy and a girl with a star in their forehead; the king came up and asked what they were talking about; marry 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, while the king was hunting; ordered his wife to be walled up; the miller picked up the box, his wife raised the children with her son; once the young men got into a fight and the miller's own son called the foster boy a foundling; he and his sister went to look for real parents; met a gentleman who could not ajustar una cuenta; a young man He 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, the young man's father, lived there; the young man gathered craftsmen and built a palace better than the royal one overnight; the evil sisters recognized those who arrived by the star on their forehead; sent the old woman to tell the girl that the palace lacks las almenas repicando, they will go and don't come back in the castle; the old man gives a pot, teaches: the castle will open at midnight, you have to put almenas in a pot and run; the young man brought them; old woman: there is not enough green water playing; (same); third time: there is not enough singing green bird; the old man warned that the bird will half dead, but we have to grab her and run; the young man began to wonder whether to take one, the castle closed, the young man and his horse are petrified; now his sister has gone; the old man has given a pot, he will revive his brother and horse; we must grab it a half-dead bird, run away; when they returned home, the bird turned into many similar birds; the evil sisters decided to poison brother and sister, invited them to a feast; they took the bird with them, it became tell the whole story; the king ordered his wife to be released from prison; when she saw the children, she died full of feelings; the evil sisters were cooked in oil]: 701-706, 709-713; Aragon [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 another family; his aunts recognize him and provoke him to go for magic objects in the hope that he is not will return; but he gets everything, including a talking bird; it exposes criminals]: González Sanz 1966, No. 707:91-92; Catalans [the devil helped the man and he gives him a daughter; so that the girl does not prayed, the devil cuts off her hands; the king finds her in the forest, marries; when it comes time to give birth, the king goes to war; his wife writes to him that she has given birth to a girl; the king's mother (or the devil) replaces the letter, writes that the wife gave birth to a monster; the king orders him to wait for his return; the mother-in-law (the devil) again replaces the letter with an order to expel his wife and her offspring; the woman miraculously regained her hands, together lives in the village with her daughter; the king goes in search, does not recognize his wife, she tells everything, the family is reunited]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 706:137-138; Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 707 ( many records) [the youngest of two or three sisters says that if she marries a king, she will give birth to 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 with puppies; the wife is imprisoned or buried in the ground up to the neck so that everyone spits on her; children grow up; getting 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 the food is poisoned; the king sees stars on the children's foreheads; the bird He tells everyone; the children and their mother were returned, the liars were executed]: 156-159; Pedroso 1882, No. 29 [when the Queen finally became pregnant and was ready to give birth, a beggar came to the palace; the gatekeeper did not have anything to him gave and he promised that when the princess was 15 years old, she would be carried away by a huge bird; the visiting prince gave the girl three blue stones, they played with them; she was 15 years old, her parents left; a bird that had arrived asked if the girl would like to survive the ordeals in her youth or old age; the maid advised her to answer that when she was young; the bird took her to the forest; the prince found her, brought her home, hid her from her mother and sister in her room; the mother opened the door, scolded her son, hated his wife; she gave birth in the absence of the prince; the Queen cut off the newborn's little finger, lowered the boy into the sea in a basket, and smeared her mouth with blood mother, told her son that she had eaten her child; so three times; after the third time, the prince ordered his wife to be buried waist-deep in front of the main stairs, everyone who passed by had to beat her; she asked the prince to bring from her father, there were three blue pebbles and a knife left there; the king allowed them to be taken, but promised to kill the prince if he did not bring him a daughter in a month; the prince gave him the stones, hid and watched what would happen; the wife tells the first pebble if he remembers how the queen cut off her baby's finger, etc.; the pebble knocks on the other pebbles; so with everyone; after that, the buried woman is going to cut her throat, but the prince she was stopped; the king imprisoned her mother and sister in a tower, married a girl, took her parents]: 116-121; ladins: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 16 [just like Uffer 1973, No. 32, but briefly]: 63-65; Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 63 [the woman has 7 sons and a daughter; the woman turned her sons into foxes; then she regretted it, but it was too late; the sister came to the castle, where her brothers came to the castle at midnight human appearance; to spell them, she must remain silent for 7 years; settled in a hut; while hunting, the king found her, married her; went to war; his wife gave birth to a boy; her mother-in-law threw him into the lake, told her son that his wife had given birth to a kitten; the same the following year; the same 5 more times; the king ordered his wife to be burned; when she was tied to a pole, 7 knights rode, each with a boy in their arms; the queen spoke and told everything; the Queen Mother was burned instead]: 169-171; Uffer 1973, No. 7 [=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 58:155-157; three coal burners spent the night in the inn; they say that they dreamed; first: as if I had 7 guilders under my head, and when I woke up, it turned out to be like this every morning; the second sees a gold chain, and in the morning he has it; third: I will have a son with a gold star in forehead; they came to the king, gave him a chain; when he learned of the dream of the third coal burner, the king married him to a daughter; she gave birth to a wonderful boy, but the Queen Mother lowered him in a box down the river, said that his wife the prince gave 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 chamois, a young man he 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 the king, told everything; the king gathered everyone for a feast; everyone saw a young man with gold a star, his mother also appeared; the king asked how to punish the person who committed the relevant acts; everyone offered various executions, and the Queen Mother offered to wear hot iron shoes and let him dance until she dies; that's exactly what they did to her; the good miller and his wife were taken to the palace], 32 [the miller has Mengia's daughters, Mariosla, Maroia; the elders are arrogant; the miller is impoverished; towards in the forest, a man in green; promised to enrich him if the miller gave him what was outside the door; the miller thought there would be a broom, but the youngest, Maroia (M.), turned out to be; at night, a knock, the miller asked M. to open it, she went out, but took blessed water with him; no one; in the morning, hell with a barrel of gold in the yard; he was going to take it away, but the miller promised that next time M. would leave without consecrated water; the miller hid the vessel, but the next night, M. dawned on herself with a cross of consecrated water; the same; on the third night, finding no water, M. dawned on herself with a cross, moistening her hands with slop from the garbage bucket; the same; then the devil teaches me to go with M. to the forest, pretend to split the fallen spruce, let M. hold the wedge; then pull out the ax and cut off the girl's hands; the miller did so; the prince hunted and found M., married her; and the miller became rich, his daughters told him to buy an inn; the prince went to war, M. gave birth to boys named Son and Satken; the messenger stopped at the inn; Mengia changed the letter: the handless gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; replaced the prince's reply letter with an order to expel M. and her children; the hangman did not kill M., but told her not to return; she could not bend down to drink from the spring; the Mother of God appears, telling her to lower it stumps of hands into the water, his hands grow back; a house is ready for M. and his children, it will have everything they need; after returning from the war, the prince went to look for a wife and came to that house 7 years later; refused to go to bed but lay down on the chest; heard M. tell one son and then the other son to fix his father's leg that had fallen from the chest; they returned to the palace; everyone was happy; the miller and his wife and daughters were torn apart by horses]: 17- 19, 120-127; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 52 [the miller found a chest of babies in the river, two boys and a girl, each with a gold star on his forehead; when they grew up, the miller admitted that they were not native children; said that only a talking bird knew about their parents; the elder brother, then the younger brother, went to look for her, did not return; Sister Amalia went; the old woman told her not to turn around if she heard something; A. climbed up the mountain to the castle, someone calls her, she did not turn around; slipped between the guard's legs; entered the hall where the birds were; one shouted that she was talking; but A. took a little gray bird; they were with her came out of the castle; the stones that A. touched turned into knights or girls; A. revived the brothers; the bird said that when the children's father went to war, his brother put the children in a box and the king said that the queen gave birth to kittens; the uncle was torn by horses, the queen was returned from captivity, A. became queen {in another kingdom?} , her brothers are kings]: 177-179; Sicilians [older sister: if I were the manager's wife, I would drink everyone from one glass and there would still be water; average: if I were the manager's wife in a wardrobe, she would dress everyone with one piece of cloth; youngest: if she were the king's wife, she would give birth to two sons with peaches in her hands and a daughter with a star on her forehead; the king hears it, sends for sisters; the elders are here but they demonstrated their art, he married the youngest; the sisters are jealous, tell the midwife to replace the children with puppies; the king tells their mother to be sent to rotate the mill (like an ox); the children were thrown away, three fairies they flew by, one gave them a deer to feed them, the other an inexhaustible purse, the third a ring that would darken if something happened to one of them; the children grew up and settled in the palace in front of the palace king; the midwife persuades his 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 enter a house where there is water, when giants and lions have their eyes open, when the door is closed; the young man has brought water, now we have to get a singing apple; get a talking bird, the same thing; we must silently take the bird's feather dip in the water, sprinkle the statues, they will come to life; the bird tells the young man about the fate of his mother, he answers something, turns into stone; the same goes with the second brother; the sister comes, she revives the statues; hermits they 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 them out the window, cook the sisters in oil]: Crane 1885, No. 4:17-25; Italians (Liguria) [the fisherman cannot catch anything; the master gives him a bag of money on condition that he give him his daughter; the daughter takes holy water with her and covers herself with the sign of the cross; the devil is powerless; orders the father to cut off his daughter's hands, otherwise he will take the money; the daughter agrees; the devil carries the girl, but God makes the burden heavier, the devil threw her into the stream; the girl got out; settled in the grotto, where the dog began to bring her food from the royal table; the king followed, brought the handless woman to him and married her; left; the Queen Mother replaced the letters with the command to drive her daughter-in-law away; she gave birth to a boy with a sword and a girl with a star on her forehead; the Queen Mother wrote that her daughter-in-law gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; the children were tied to the young queen's neck, she left; leaned over to the water for a drink, the old man told me to do it more boldly, children fell into the water, her mother's hands grew; she found an empty palace and settled there; the king came to the palace, the children called him father; everything is fine; the Queen Mother was burned]: Andrews 1892, No. 5:20-24; the Italians (Liguria) [stepmother hates beautiful stepdaughter and tells her husband to get rid of her; he left her daughter in the woods; she met robbers and they took her home without causing harm; one day a girl let an old one day a sorceress; she began to comb her hair and plunged her pin, the girl became like a statue; the robbers left her body unburied; the prince saw it, brought her home, his sister began to comb the girl, pulled out her pin and the beauty came to life; the prince married her, but soon went to war; the wife gave birth to a boy and a girl; the prince's mother replaced the letter with a message that his wife gave birth to puppies; and replaced the prince's letter with an order to kill his wife and children; relatives told the woman to take her children and leave as soon as possible; she pleaded to God, St. Virgo and St. Antonia and asked for a palace in the woods; the prince returned, went in search, spent the night in that palace; in the morning he heard the boy call him father when he needed to fix his hand hanging from bed; that's OK, Queen Mother punished]: Andrews 1895, No. 58:277-282; Italians (Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazio, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo ['Three Sisters'], Basilicata ['Three Envious Sisters'" ], Calabria), Sardinians ['Three Sisters', 'Children Thrown Into the Water'], Sicilians ['Envious Sisters]: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 707:154-155; Italians (Florence, variants throughout Italy) [the king goes to eavesdrop on what his subjects say; older sister: if I married a royal baker, I would bake as much bread as the court needs for a year in a day; average: if I went out for a royal winemaker, I would give all the courtiers one glass of wine; youngest: if I married a king, I would give him three gold-haired children - two boys and a girl with a star in her forehead; 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 to a son, then a second, then a daughter; her sisters replaced them with a monkey, a puppy and a tiger cub, each time they tell the old woman to get rid of the babies; she lets everyone down the river in a basket, the ferryman picked them all up; selling golden hair, the ferryman became rich and built a palace for the adoptees; the king saw a young man and the girl was invited to the palace; the aunts ask the old woman to help; she tells the girl that she does not have enough dancing water; the older brother goes in search; the old man teaches the guards to avoid if their eyes are open, not closed; young man brought water; old woman: the musical tree is missing; the old man teaches again: there are scissors above the door, you have to go if they are open; old woman: the Green Bird (l'uccel bel-verde) is missing; old man: on the same mountain there is a garden in which statues are those who petrified trying to get poultry; birds fly around the garden; you can't answer a bird's questions, you'll be petrified; the bird says to its older brother who came 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 tells them to coat the sisters with resin and burn it and throw the old woman out the window]: Calvino 1980, No. 87:315-322; Italians (Naples) [widowed, the king decided to marry his sister named Penta; she asked the servant to cut off her arms and take her to the king; he ordered his sister to be placed in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the fisherman caught her, but his jealous wife threw her into the sea again; the king sailed on a ship, picked up P., and she became a maid to the Queen; when she died, she advised her husband to marry P.; in her husband's absence, she gave birth to a boy; the fisherman's wife, whose courier was staying, changed the letter: P. gave birth to a puppy; she also replaced the king's letter: P. and her son burn; she was sheltered by a magician; announced that whoever told the greatest misfortune would receive a crown and scepter from him; P.'s husband returned, burned the fisherman's wife, came to the wizard; the brother king also came there P.; everything was explained, everyone was reconciled, P.'s arms grew]: Basile 2018:271-281; Italians (Campania, Capri) [the king forbade lighting a fire at night, but three dressmakers always worked until midnight, hide the lamps in large pots; older: if the king married me, I would feed his entire army with a piece of bread; middle: I would prepare clothes for all troops from one piece of cloth; youngest: would give birth to a son with a golden apple in his hand and a daughter with a gold star on her forehead; a spy told the king; he would marry the youngest; went to war; the queen mother told the midwife to replace the children born puppies and throw them into 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 spit on her; the fisherman caught the children; when they grew up, the fisherman's own children 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 brother bring dancing healing water from the Senavalli spring; 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; Italians (Tuscany?) [the prince and his servant go to look for the bride; stays in a poor house in the woods; the prince shares the chicken: the owner's head, the mistress's stomach, the daughter's legs and wings, takes the rest with the servant; asks the girl in the morning Flavia as a wife; goes to war; F. gives birth to twins, the Queen Mother replaces them with a dog, tells the servants to kill the woman and children; they left them in the forest, they were picked up by a peasant; the prince returned, went into that house recognized his wife, returned her and children; the Queen Mother was executed]: Knust 1866, No. 1:382-384; Maltese: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 707 [three sisters are spinning by the window; the eldest wants 1,000 gold coins, the average is 2000, the youngest is to marry the king and have children; the king hears this, gives money to his older sisters, marries the youngest; goes to war, the wife gives birth to twins "Sun" and "Moon"; the king's mother puts his wife in the cellar (sometimes the king says this after receiving a letter from his mother), informs his son that his wife gave birth to kittens, throws children into the sea; the fisherman saves and raises them; the king's mother finds them, trying to lime them; at his brother there is a magic wand, he creates a palace; goes for singing birds or live water (dancing water); when a king comes to the palace, a bird tells him the whole truth; he executes his mother; or the old queen orders to kill and prepare the children and their mother, but the cook and servant save them; when the king returns, his mother says that his wife is dead and the children are gone; the king comes to the palace twice to her son and daughter, asks to bring the singing bird to his palace; she replies that not the whole family is gathered; the king must return his wife; the Queen Mother has been skinned and made a door mat out of her]: 228- 233; Stumme 1904, No. 23 [the king is leaving, at which time his wife gave birth to twins named Sun and Moon; the Queen Mother locked her in the cellar, wrote to her son that his wife gave birth to two kittens; then cut off the young the queen's hands and threw her hands out {obviously tying the babies to her}; she found a fig tree and ate fallen figs; on the way back, the king saw a woman, did not recognize her, asked questions; she told everything; he I realized that it was his wife, brought her to the palace; the Queen Mother was skinned, made a rug to wipe her feet]: 66-67; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 52 [older sister expresses a desire to become the king's maid, and the youngest 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 was born every time she gives the girl 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 do not have enough singing wood and 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 tree to older sisters, they came to life; the king comes, the bird tells him everything that happened; the queen was returned, the maid was executed], 59 [the prince came to the castle, the girl came out, he fell in love with her, the father allowed daughters to marry the prince, who brought his wife home; went to war, his wife gave birth to twins, the witch's cousin wrote to the prince that his wife had puppies; the prince responded by waiting for him to return; the witch replaced him a letter ordering the murder of his wife and her children; the servant left them in the forest, brought the hearts of lambs to the king; the woman was hired to work at the inn, the children were with her; the prince returned from the war, went to that inn; dozed off; hears a woman telling the children to raise their father's fallen hat; everything is clear, the prince with his wife and children returned to him, soon became king], 75 [(western 1959); the merchant has a daughter and a son; once orders the son to kill his sister so that he can eat her heart, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he asks his friends to carry out an assignment; they also killed a goat; the father fried and ate her heart, believing that this is the heart of his daughter; The girl was met by a prince, married her; became king; went to war; the wife gave birth to twin boys; the Queen Mother changed the letter: the wife gave birth to two puppies; replaced the king's letter with an order to burn wife and kill children; the Queen left, and the servants depicted an imaginary place of burning; the children were put in boxes and lowered into the river; the miller picked them up and raised them; one day the expelled queen came to the mill and I realized that they were her children; she dressed as an officer, built a house near the palace, invited everyone involved in the case; talked about everything; dressed again as a woman; the woman's father and the king's mother burned alive]: 127-129, 136-137, 166-169.

Western Europe. French: Cosquin 1886, No. 17 [translated to Lopyreva 1959, No. 33:130-134; the queen gives birth after her husband leaves; mother-in-law writes to her son that his wife gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; he orders to put newborns in the casket, thrown into the sea; mother-in-law does so; the merchant finds babies; every day the boy has 50 ecus under his pillow, the girl has a gold star on his chest; the merchant's own son tells the adopter that he is just a foundling; children come to the castle of a real father, the old queen suspects bad things, tells her son to give the children difficult assignments; 1) bring dancing water, 2) a singing rose (the fairy gives); 3) a girl must get a talking bird ("the bird of truth"); the fairy teaches me to get it (only this bird says "it's not me", others will offer themselves), but the girl turns around, turns into a pillar of salt; taught a fairy, a brother takes a bird, splits her sister; at a feast, a bird tells the truth; the old queen is thrown into boiling oil], 23 [a woman does not love her youngest daughter, starves; a man gave her a wand ; if you touch the biggest ram, a luxuriously set table will appear; the girl is prettier; the mother sends her middle sister, she falls asleep; the eldest sees everything, tells; the mother pretends to be sick, demands that her husband slaughter a ram; that man tells his youngest daughter to collect and bury the bones; a golden pear grows in this place; the king promises to marry the one that will harvest fruit for him; a woman sends elder daughters, but the branches rise, they are not handed over; they descend to the youngest, the king takes her to the palace; when he went to war, the Queen gave birth to two sons with a golden star in their foreheads; At the same time, the dog gave birth to two puppies, also with a golden star in their forehead; the king's mother did not like her daughter-in-law, wrote to her son that she had puppies; the king ordered to hang his wife, which was done]: 187-189, 246-247; 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 the 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 by a puppy; the next time the girl was replaced a kitten; the third boy was a puppy again; 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 older brother decided to find a prophetic a bird; the person you meet gives a ball to follow; on the tree there is a cage with a bird, you must take it and you cannot look back; he looked back at his voice, turned into stone; the rosary he left was covered with blood; the same with her 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 the people came to life; at the king's feast, the prophetic bird told everything; the queen was returned, her sisters were burned in the same cage]: 633-636; Joisten 1991, No. 27.1 (Dauphin) [western 1950; the king's servant hears one girl promising to grind flour if she is passed off as a royal miller, the other to bake bread, if presented as a baker, is 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 his son that his wife gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; he orders to keep them, his mother-in-law replaces the letter again, supposedly her son tells her son and daughter to throw away, lets the children along the river in a boat; the king returns, puts his wife up to the neck against the wall, tells those passing by to beat her; children sail into the country of red people; grow up, they are allowed the ship to return; their mother's mother-in-law advises the girl to ask 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 turns 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 guard with a sword, brother and sister return with a bird; a hunter finds them in the forest, the king calls to him, they see a woman embedded in the wall, asking them 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; Bretons [the widow baker has three daughters; the eldest says she loves the royal gardener, the middle loves the valet, the youngest the prince; she has he 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, who told the midwife to replace him a newborn puppy, thrown in a basket in the Seine, was picked up by a gardener; the same with his second son and daughter; the prince imprisoned his wife in a tower; the gardener and his wife died, the children were taken to the 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 cannot pull it out of its scabbard, then the brother is dead; dagger 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 the tree; calls a girl as a princess, asks to cut off her beard; she does it, he 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; upstairs a meadow of flowers and an apple tree; 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 branch with the apple (it's singing), collect from the source of dancing water; in drops this water to revive brothers and other knights; in the royal palace, the sister shows a bird, etc.; the brothers finally understand that their sister saved them and got the magic things; the bird of truth tells everything the king orders not to let anyone out; returned the queen, her sisters and midwife were thrown into the oven]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 7:277-295; the French (Haute-Brittany) [stepmother envies the beauty of Euphrosine's stepdaughter; her her own daughter is ugly; the husband is the captain of the ship; while he was not at home, his stepmother cut off E.'s wrists, forcing him to climb a tree in the depths of the forest; pricked against a thorn, she lay down; the magpie brought E. food; when her husband returned, his wife said that E. left with the soldiers; three years later, a rich young man found E., brought him to his mother; she was against such a marriage; when her son joined the army, she wrote that his wife had given birth to a puppy and calf; arranged an imaginary grave, and E. sent her children to the forest, tying her children on her back; E. dropped the baby into the river; at that moment a lady appeared and ordered him to be picked up; her hands grew; the lady took E. to the cave a hermit, and the magpie brought her food again; the children grew up; E.'s husband hunted and met the boys; they took him to his mother; everything was clarified; they returned to the castle; {the last page is not in pdf}]: Sé billot 1880, No. 15:105-112 (=1894, No. 17:180-181); Germans (Saxony-Anhalt or nearby, the author lived in Halle) [three shepherd's daughters, the eldest are smart, the youngest simple; if the king marries her, she will make new shirts for all soldiers; medium: will sew jackets and pants; youngest: the face of three children with gold crosses on their foreheads; the king heard, took the sisters to the castle and married the youngest; went to war, 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 had given birth to two puppies and a kitten; the king ordered her to be walled up, but give her food and drink; when he returned, the king walked through the forest, I saw an unfamiliar wonderful castle and garden; there was a pond in it, where two young men and a girl with gold crosses on her forehead were riding horses; he said this to his wife's older sister; she came and persuaded the older young man get flowing water, a talking bird and a singing tree; the young man left his handkerchief: if blood comes out, he is in trouble; on the way he met an old man overgrown with a beard and hair; cut his hair and he brought him 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 petrified; the middle brother went; the old man let him shut his ears with a rag; turned to his sister's voice and also petrified; the sister did not turn around, the bird taught her to put flowing water into the flask and break it 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 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; the Germans [the king went out with two ministers; three girls grazed 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 gave birth to a puppy; the bird shouted that the boy would become a lily; the fisherman pulled him out, 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 ruelly; she carried him across the sea; the same with his second brother; sister 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 a black dog, throw a twig on the doorstep of the castle, take a bird cage, scoop up a mug of water, on the way back, hit the dog with a twig; 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 everything; the king released his wife, daughter let her drink water from the mug, she recovered; his wife's sisters were burned; the Queen's daughter married the prince]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 96:324-327 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:263-266); Germans ( Switzerland, Canton of Valais) [the king forbade lighting the 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 at the spinning wheel, so she forgot turn off the lights; she dreamed that she had two children: one with a gold star, the other with a silver star on his chest; the king forgave the girl and his son married her; the old king soon died, and the queen- The 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 had 10 of his own children; sent them into the world, giving 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's mother sold the king for a foreign 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 a sleepy drink; so twice ; the third time he simply 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; Germans (Swabia) [Countess I felt anxious and went to the lake; there the mermaid {Wasserfrau; she was not with a fish tail} spoke to her; they began to meet, talk; expressed a desire to become the godmother born to the girl's countess; came late; gave a basket of three eggs; the mother died, the stepmother gave the girl to the babysitter, who left her to play near the lake; the mermaid came out of the water and told her stories ( hübsche Geschichten); the count went broke when his castle burned down; the girl came to the lake; the mermaid said that she would still be rich, because each of the three eggs would fulfill one of her wishes; the girl changed with a dress with a peasant woman and hired a castle, doing any job for 7 years; grew up as a beautiful girl; the heir was going to choose a bride, held a ball; the girl asked one egg to give her everything she needed to come to the ball; the heir fell in love, they exchanged handkerchiefs; at the next ball they exchanged rings; the third time the girl was afraid to spend the last egg and did not go to the ball; the heir fell ill from love; the doctor advised soup; the girl asked to cook it, put a ring on a plate; the heir demanded the cook to come to him; she wore a dress with diamonds, and his brilliance made the servants faint; the heir asked him to forgive him for the rudeness he said to the girl when he saw her dressed as a maid; a wedding; but when the young wife gave birth to a daughter, her mother-in-law threw the girl into the lake; the same for the second time; told her son that his wife did it; the husband ordered his wife to be burned in her room; on the verge of death, the wife remembered the third egg and turned to her godmother; she came in (extinguished the fire) said that hers daughters are saved; both are beautiful; the husband executed his mother in the way she wanted to destroy her daughter-in-law]: Meier 1852a, No. 48:165-174; Germans (Swabia) [the woman baked three pies, took them to the cellar; her three sons sniffed and ate everything; woman: let those who ate them turn into ravens; the brothers flew away in crows, telling her sister to take three chicken legs and come a year later to the glass mountain where their castle will be; she came, the castle was empty; took her older brother's spoon, ate from her middle plate and drank from her youngest's mug; hid; the brothers flew in before midnight; began to look for who they ate and drank; found a sister; she will be able to spell them if she goes to the forest and does not say a word in 7 years; a year later, the hunter found her, married her; she gave birth to a son in his absence; the midwife replaced him with a dog, and threw the child into the river ; the crows brothers picked him up; the same with the second son; after the third, the husband ordered his wife to be burned at the stake; the years were just over; three white knights appeared on white horses, missing sons in their arms; the midwife was burned at the stake; the brothers did not leave their sister and her children to their abusive husband, but took them with them]: Meier 1852a, No. 49:174-179; Germans (Swabia) [three nights in a row, the king dreams as if he were marrying poor girl; she goes to look for her, finds the daughter of a tailor; she is beautiful and prudent; when he went to war, she gave birth to two sons and a daughter with gold crosses on her back; an envious mother-in-law told her son that the wife gave birth to puppies; she lowered the children in a barrel into the river, they were picked up and raised by a miller; the king ordered his wife to be put in a tower for bread and water; the children grew up, left the miller, came to the sorceress; nearby a lock, it has a cage with a talking and omniscient thrush; the lock opens for an hour between 11 and 12; the older brother comes, the music happens, the clock beats, all the doors close; the youngest; the sister immediately runs to look the thrush carries out of the castle; witchcraft is destroyed, the bears, lions and other animals in the castle turn into people again; at this time, the king returns, who also wants to hear the thrush; he returns to him talks about his children; the king orders to cut his mother in half, release his wife]: Meier 1862, No. 72:246-253; Germans (Austria) [in the evening, the king walks around the city, hears three sisters talking; one wants become the wife of a gardener, another baker, the third king; the king marries her, passing her sisters off as a gardener and baker; the queen gave birth to a son; the older sister replaced him with a puppy, put the boy in a barrel, threw her into the Danube; the boy was picked up by a fisherman; the same year later, the middle sister replaced her with a kitten; the queen gave birth to a girl for the third time, the sisters put a log; the king ordered his wife to be chained to the wall, each a passerby should have spit on her; her brothers and sister grew up, the fisherman died; an old man came, 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 after with a rolling ball, do not look back if thunder hits; the young man looked around, petrified; the same second brother; the sister did not look back, rode up the mountain, took the bird, which told me to collect water from the well, break off the branch, revive brothers (and other people) with it; at home, the bird tells you to plant a branch, pour gold water; invite the king, give him poisonous grass; the king is outraged; the bird: if you can't eat poison like a wife could give birth to a puppy, a kitten and a log; the queen was released, her sisters were executed]: Cerf 1992:167-174; the Irish [the king marries the youngest of three sisters; jealous sisters replace those born Queen of children by animals; children are saved, grow up and claim their rights]: Jackson 1936:288; Flemish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 707:382.

Western Asia. Aramei [when she dies, the wife tells her husband to marry a girl who fits her shoes; they only fit daughters, the father wants to hug her; the daughter hides in the chest, the father sells it, the Pasha buys it; in Pasha's son's room, a girl comes out of the chest every morning, cleans up, cooks; a young man waits for her, marries her; her father is executed; she gives birth to a son and daughter with gold and silver curls; the housekeeper bothers to her; when refused, accuses her of attempted adultery and, having killed her son (and daughter?) , in infanticide; Pasha orders his wife and children to be taken to the mountains, kill; servants bring bird blood; a woman washes the bodies of children at the spring, they come to life; a castle appears; a golden ring fulfills any desire; Chelenk-Afdal, a woman's son, gets a beautiful woman; Pasha arrives, everything is explained, the housekeeper is decapitated]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:405-411; Syrian Arabs [one sister says she would like to marry the royal cook and eat delicious food; the second for the royal confectioner; the third for the king and give birth to an heir; the next day the king sent for them and fulfilled their wish; the king went to war, the queen gave birth to a son and daughter; sisters lowered the babies in the basket down the river, wrote to the king that the wife had given birth to a dead child; the king put his wife in the cellar; the childless man picked up the basket and named the children Jamil and Jamil; became a sheikh, and before his death he told the children the secret of their origin; one of the evil sisters came to their palace, told Jamila that she did not have enough silver water from the mountain of miracles; old man Jamil: on the mountain the spring protects 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 him 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 Jamila grab the peacock when he sleeps; the peacock told her to sprinkle silver water on the stones, that's it the petrified came to life; the brother and sister called the king to look at the curiosities: water, wood, and a peacock who is telling the truth; the king ordered the evil sisters to be beheaded; the queen forgave them, but they soon died from gluttony]: Kuhr 1993:102-107; Palestinians [the king orders the lights to be turned off for the night to test the obedience of his subjects; three sisters are spinning; left in the dark, one wants to marry the royal baker, the other for the cook, the third for the prince to give birth to sons Aladdin and Bahaddin and a daughter Šamsizzha; the king finds out about this, fulfills his wishes, the older sisters, out of envy, give birth to a puppy for the woman in labor, then a kitten, then a stone, the children are let in a box along the river every time, they are adopted by 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 ( Little Nightingale the Crier); Aladdin goes in search, leaves Bahaddin a ring; the hum sends him to his brother, who goes to his sister, she shows the tree where the Nightingale flies; contrary to warning, A. Solovye says, "I'm here," who turns him into stone; then the ring clenches B.'s finger, he follows A., also becomes stony; the sister is silent, catches the Nightingale in a cage, he tells him to throw land from the molehill to the stones, brothers come to life; The Nightingale tells the king everything, who tells 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 cleans cotton, the second is spinning, the third is weaving; noticing the light in the evening, the prince overheard their conversation; the eldest, if the prince marries her, promises to weave a carpet that would fit the whole army; the middle one bake a cake to satisfy the entire army; the youngest is to give them a piece of gold and a piece of silver; the prince marries the sisters, the two elders did not fulfill their promise, he divorced them; the youngest says she meant to give birth to a son and a 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; not recognizing her, the prince was on her again married; the truth was revealed, the prince's wife forgave her sisters]: 187-190; Stevens 2006, No. 33 [the king overhears the conversation of three sisters; if the king marries her, one carpet to cover half the kingdom, 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 have not fulfilled their promise, are sent to work for kitchen; when the younger sister gave birth to the twins, the sisters persuaded the midwife to replace them with puppies, lower them in a box along the river; they were picked up by a fisherman; the king ordered his wife to be buried chest-deep at the door, let everyone who enters he would throw a stone at her and spit; brought the sisters closer again; when he left, he asked what to bring to his wives; the elders asked for a precious dress and necklace, a younger doll of patience and a knife of patience; the king forgot about them, but the ship did not move; he found an old man with a patience doll and a knife of patience; he gave them under conditions to follow his wife after she received these things; the king hears the younger wife tells the doll her story; her heart burst; she wants to stab herself with a knife, but the king stops her; the king returned his wife, began to look for her sons, the fisherman brought them; the older wives and midwife were burned]: 157- 161; South Yemen: Al-Baydani 2008 (Khujariya) [When she died, the mother left her son Janbiya (dagger) jewelry; asked her husband not to send the children from home until they could reach these items left on the shelf; stepmother tells the children to bring clay into the house, the floor level is getting higher, the children have taken out items; the stepmother put cow manure in their bag, only covered it with bread on top; the children came to the house of the blind cannibal Dougayra; she smeared her hands with henna to distinguish them from her children; the girl guessed it, washed henna off her hands and brother's hands at night, smeared V.'s children's hands; she and her brother ran away, D. threw her own children into the oven; the girl tells her brother to relieve herself twice so that the excrement answers D.'s call for them; in front of the rock, the boy promises his sister to the camel driver if he picks them up; he lowers the rope; when D. comes, he first tells her to collect a bunch of thorns; lifts half on a rope, sets fire to thorns, D. falls into the fire, dies; the boy tells the driver to buy the bride clothes; covers the trunk of a thorny tree, runs away with his sister; the driver wants to hug the bride, but there are only thorns; brother and sister meet the sheikh, who takes the girl as his wife; three older sisters they envy; when the husband leaves, they push the young woman into the well, she is picked up by fairies; she gives birth to a son in the well; asks the driver to tell her husband about it, and if he forgets, let the camel say it; the driver I forgot, but the camel stopped in front of the sheikh; the sheikh pulls out his wife and son, rips open the bellies of his elder wives]: 91-103; Canova 2002 [the son and daughter of the Sultan went to the steppe for no special purpose; saw a fire in the distance; in the house an old woman, she also has a son and daughter; she promises to send those who come to their father on the third day; she paints their hands with henna; the sister does not sleep, hears the old woman preparing to fry them; she smears henna on the hands of the old woman's children, wakes her brother up, they run away; the old woman threw her own children into the fire; she chases the runaway, they climb a tree, ask the ploughman to protect them; he promises the old woman to help her climb the tree if she collects everything dry thorns; she collects a large pile, he sets them on fire, the old woman burns; brother and sister go through a waterless area, the sister warns not to drink from the puddle, he drinks, turns into a gazelle; he sees the sister emir, marries; when she leaves, the emir's first wife and sisters push the new one into the well; she gives birth to a son there; the emir's servant notices that the gazelle comes to the well every now and then; the returning emir is told that his wife died, they show the grave; the servant talks about the well; the emir hears the voice of his wife Mariam from there, pulls her and the child; executes his first wife and sisters]: 224-230; Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain: El-Shamy 2004, No. 707:385-389

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Marshall Islands (Maloelap) [9 months have passed and the wife is still pregnant; the husband is afraid that his wife has become an evil spirit, consults with knowledgeable people, makes a raft out of coconuts, lets his wife go to sea; she sails on a naked island; plants coconuts and other fruits discarded by the sea, trees grow; she gives birth to 6 boys and 6 girls; she does not tell her sons to swim to the south side; they swim, see their father, every time they sail away; finally he comes by himself; the wife asks who she is; - "Sister"; - "Mother"; finally: - "Wife"; holiday]: Kelin 2003:73-80).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [three Rakshasa brothers took the form of heroes, came to marry the eldest girl; her mother demands to guess her name (the Flower of Paradise); demons ask for a hare, then a fox; the hare forgot ( Paradise Apple?) , fox - too (Paradise Fish?) ; the magpie gave the right name, the demons took the girl away; torment her with work; when they leave, they do not tell her to open one door; she opened, there are human bones; the mother's apron tells her to wear it, sit on a white horse and ride away; hired the palace to carry brushwood and water, looked like an old woman in an apron; the shepherd told the prince about the beauty who was combing her hair by the river; the prince found her, married her; left on business, the wife gave birth to boys, three Rakshasa changed the letter: a creature with a bull's head was born; they changed the answer: the wife pick up the freak and leave; the horse brought her to the desert, ordered him to be killed, his skin spread, the bones on the middle of the skin, hooves on the sides, scatter the mane; the RC woke up in the palace, around the garden; the prince accidentally arrived there, the spouses are happy; the Rakshasa appeared under the guise of merchants, bringing poison; the RC of one I recognized them by the scar, they were pushed into a hole, covered with a stove]: Komissarov 1997:91-99; Tibetans: Potanin 1891 (a Mongolian fairy tale, translated from a Tibetan source) [two maids convinced Princess Saman- Tabadri goes to wash with the basins; the maids' copper basins have swam, the ST golden basin has drowned; ST sends a messenger to the father to ask if her parents will forgive her; the maids replace the father's answer as if he is chasing his daughter away; they meet a young king, pretend to be a princess, ST as a maid; one maid promises to dress a hundred people with a handful of rags, the second to feed a hundred people with a handful of flour, and ST to give birth to a child with a golden breast; the king takes ST as his wife; the maids hide the child under the threshold, leave only the last; something pulls the king when he crosses the threshold; the maids hide the child over the joint, under the throne, in the barn, bury it in 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 bull's heart, bride; on the way to her, she drives through an impenetrable lake with black water (dries up), the mountains part; the Rakshasa Palace is surrounded by seven iron walls, at the entrance there is a lake of blood, around a heap of human meat]: 141-143; Yao 1986 [the hermit washed his clothes in the river, the deer drank water, gave birth to a beautiful girl, the hermit adopted her; the hunter chased the deer, saw the girl, told the king; the hermit agreed to give the girl if the king converts to Buddhism; 2,500 concubines and the former wife want to lime a new one; they find out that the hermit gave the queen a protective necklace; having crept into trust, the witch replaces beads; smears the queen's face with blood, puts parts of the corpse under the pillow; the king wants to kill his wife, the parrot interferes; the same, when the witch cut off the elephant's trunk, put the queen; the parrot tells how the woman left the cat to watch the baby; the cat killed the snake, went out to the owner, her mouth was covered in blood, the hostess decided that the cat bit the child, killed her, then repented; the third time the witch killed the youngest the king's brother, smeared the queen's mouth with blood; the king killed the parrot, ordered the queen to be thrown into the fetid sea of blood; three executions took the queen there, only the elder dared to throw it; she turned to Buddha, endured tormented, went out, took the form of a nun; the former queen and witch came to repent to her, told her everything, the king overheard; the nun became queen again, forgave her persecutors]: 100-114; Tibetans (Amdo) [the king has daughters Ngulyggun (silver princess) and Kserlyggun (golden princess), their servant Eg-Tamu-ntso; E. offered to throw buckets into the water, the gold and silver buckets of the princesses drowned, wooden E. swam; the maid lied as if the king told the princesses to leave; puts on their dress, they wear the maid's dress; the prince chooses K., E. threw her into the lake, took her place, sent N. to herd sheep; K. leaves the lake every day, gives N. bread and meat; one day she brought a piece to the palace; E. came to the lake, sang the same song, K. came out, E. cut her head with a red-hot coulter; K. no longer went out; N. gave birth to a semi-golden, semi-silver child; E. ordered him to be thrown to sheep, horses, cows, buried under manure; told the king that N. gave birth to a puppy; a flower grew on the child's grave, ate it a sheep, gave birth to a piebald lamb; he herds the herd, tells his mother to complain about him E., she will slaughter him, the bones must be hidden in a cave; a llama is born from bones, tells a story, the king ordered E. horses]: Potanin 1891:144-146; Mustang [the eldest queen is childless, the youngest is pregnant; when the king returned, the eldest said that the youngest gave birth to a puppy to lick the king's brains and pest to break his head; the king ordered the youngest to be sent away, the eldest expelled her from the country, left the baby to be eaten by a guard dog; she has been raising a baby for three years, losing weight herself; the kennel tells the king that a child is all eats; the king orders to kill the dog; she has managed to hand the child to the cow; she is losing weight, the shepherd saw that everything is eaten by an Otrung Gepo child with a golden top, a silver bottom, a mother-of-pearl belt; the king orders kill a cow, she managed to hand OG to the horse; the same with her; she tells OG to bring a saddle, reins, bow and arrows, he got on a horse and rode away; killed a snake that was about to eat three cubs with an arrow; adults the tigers came, saw the cubs sleeping, thought that a man had killed them; the cubs woke up, told everything, the tigers gave OG one tiger cub; Garuda's three chicks had their eyes stuck together, OG washed them, and the chicks fell asleep (then As for the cubs, the adults gave one chick); the old man herds the herd, says that in three days the elephant will choose a groom for the royal daughter; OG killed the shepherd, put on his wrinkles, the elephant chose him; the king expelled the young to live in the forest; OG tells his wife to bring a copper cauldron, benches with tables from her mother, invites the king and the people to the feast; the king tells his daughter to follow her husband; in the evening she pretends to fall asleep; when OG took off the old man's skin, she threw it into the fire; father-in-law and everyone are happy; OG comes to his father, who says he has no son; he demands that his mother be returned; she is covered in hair like a tiger every time calls her son; she was given food with alcohol, she fell asleep, she was smeared with flour and butter, the wool came off; OG ordered both queens, each with an egg on their heads, to be planted on mats; killed the eldest queen with an arrow, began to rule two kingdoms]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 27:158-164; 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 against attacking these deer; the king aims to drive them away, deer turn into sorcerers, kill dogs; the king comes to 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 - dress everyone with a piece of cloth, Ramit-pandi - will give birth to the Golden Knife and the Silver Knife; the king marries her, in his absence his wife gives birth; both witches they hear newborns fall to the floor; put them in a vessel, bury them at the crossroads; combing R., they tear her flesh with iron combs, leave the puppy (knot) at the breast as if he had scratched it; they eat everything cattle, all supplies; they ring the bell that the husband left; he arrives immediately; the witches say they are from the heavenly land of Rum, but he has rejected them; let him see now - his wife has met the dog gave birth to a puppy; the king orders R. to be dragged by the neck to the river, cuts off her head, throws her into the river; her body floats down, her head upstream; the head says that she and the children will be able to return if only the children get out from vessels; then swims after the body; the king marries witches; a hungry dog from the palace smashed a jug of old people; begged not to kill her; the old man came to the palace to demand compensation; witches advised to dig a vessel at the crossroads and take it; the old man hears children's voices, finds two beautiful boys in the vessel; there has been a lot of food in the house since then; the youngest Komhankub sleeps with his grandmother, the eldest grandfather; during the night they create a palace; shoot birds in the king's garden, bring cattle there; the king sends a messenger to the elderly, who is dazzled by the light, the same with the next one; brothers come to the palace; they answer that their the parents are the earth and the ceramic vessel; the king does not believe; the elder says that their bones (i.e. their father) are from the Lyang-bar country, the youngest says that their flesh (i.e. mother) is from the Lung-da country; to destroy them, witches suggest that the king send the boys to bring the demon's gold and silver flutes; the demon slept with one ear under him, covered with the other; both flutes in his mouth; the elder told the younger he would grab it flutes, will run to the black plains of China, to the white plains (India), to the sky, the demon behind him, they will both 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 the demon to be revived, he becomes their friend; the brothers change the tails of the yaks for a demon stick and rope, which everyone will be beaten and tied up; 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 stick under the king's threshold and hearth; they tell the truth is for him, the witches are trying to fly away, but the bats are also tied; the brothers pull two hair and a piece of mother's bone out of the river; put bamboo in the knee; if he is resurrected as a girl, then with a spindle, a boy - with a bow; an eight-year-old girl in bamboo; brothers sit on her knees, suck her chest; witches are tortured and executed as they did to R.; brothers fight, the youngest falls from the balcony, crashes; demon arrives, revives him, but he becomes a girl; brother gets the name "king", sister "queen"]: Stocks 1925, No. XXIV: 388-404; lepcha [King Lyang-bar's wife has two witch maids; they offered her swim in the sea, let two wooden dishes with flowers on the water; invited the queen to do the same with her gold dish; it drowned; the queen was afraid to return to her husband, rode on horseback with her maids; they they plant her behind, come to the king of the country Sachak-lat; the silk-wrapped wand thrown by him falls on the true queen; the maids scratch him to blood, the queen combs him, heals bruises; pregnant, and the maids only pretend to have suffered; the king leaves; if the horse starts, the eldest gives birth, if the rooster screams, the younger maid, if the wife, let her play the flute; the maids replaced three sons the queens with puppies, buried the box with the children, then threw them into the river; the old fisherman caught them; they grew up, asked to make a wooden horse, came to the king on it like the witches and the queen had arrived; they came to sea, told the horse to drink it to get a dish; the witches asked if the wooden horse was drinking; brothers: does a woman give birth to puppies; witches pretended to be sick, they will be cured by the meat of three children; the brothers asked the adoptive father to send a dog, the imaginary sick ate, recovered; the children went on three roads; the eldest returned, found the bones of a brother eaten by a crocodile, his sister's bones {before that there were three brothers, now two and a sister}, eaten by a tiger; put them in the fire, fell there himself; a pine tree grew out of the ashes, three children were born on it; the king came, the children hid in the trunk; the tree does not cut, does not burn; came the mother of the children, they opened up, told how it happened; promised to go out if they were allowed to kill witches; the king pushed the witches into a hole with stakes, the children covered the hole with stones, and poured hot coals down the witches' throats; the children flew to the country of Rum, the king and the queen remained happily on earth]: Stocks 1925, № XXXIV: 447-452; ranks [Kur Bung Bel is poor and ugly; does not kill rats, fish; the rat tells the elder to pass it off as he is a daughter (only the youngest agrees), the fish makes him handsome; the older sister, out of envy, puts the pregnant youngest on a swing, throws her off, returns under her guise, tied a pumpkin to her stomach; the youngest fell off the cliff to the shore, gave birth to a son; the husband came back, found them; the older sister ran away]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 17:72-76; the best [TUI-chongi and her younger sister Nuengi were high on hill; N. wanted to drink and was about to die; then T. turned into the Tui-chong River (a tributary of the Kurnaphuli, on which Chittagong stands); the King of Bengal was surprised to see the river near his palace and sent people to it the origins; N. brought and gave birth to the king a son; the eldest wife threw him into the river and told N. to remain silent, but T. continued to take care of her sister and kept the boy; the same with six more sons; they came dance on the roof of the palace, told the king who they were; the eldest wife was beheaded, N. took her place]: Shakespear 1912:95-96.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [six childless wives persuade astrologers to announce that the seventh will give birth to a child that will destroy the country; banished into the woods, the queen gives birth to a son, Charayakunta; he is friends with adopted children daughters of a lion and an elephant; wins competitions; the king is afraid of his strength, sends a lion and an elephant for milk, C. brings; the elephant gives milk after C. returns his daughter, kidnapped Bilu; daughter Bilu says that her father's life is in a pumpkin; an elephant's daughter cuts a pumpkin; C. marries the daughters of a tsar, a lion, an elephant and a bilu, inherits two kingdoms]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 168:438-445; Burmese [eldest the wife of the king of the eastern mountains Himavant gives birth to a son and two daughters, the youngest replaces them with puppies, lowers the children down the river in a box; old people pick up babies; adoptive parents die, brother comes to to the hermit for the elixir of immortality, he warns him of dangers, the cannibal natives eat it; the same with his older sister; the youngest reaches a lake of living water, collects it, gives it to the minister, that king - to the girl's father; after surviving everyone around him, the king sails into the sea]: Assault 1990:478-485; Shans: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 191 [the Queen gave birth to one hundred boys and a girl; other wives replaced them with a puppy]: 518 -526; Milne 1910 [12 (or 7) sisters were caught fishing; 11 did not listen to the hermits who told them not to kill alive, put their fish on kukans, piercing both eyes; the youngest pierced only one, placed fish in a vessel of water; after death, the sisters were born as the daughters of the village chief; he married them to the king; at this time, cannibals suffered without human beings, their fangs fell out; the wife of the cannibal king promised help her husband; became a 17-year-old beauty, came to live with the elder, who also gave her to the king; 12 wives are jealous; the cannibal (i.e. imaginary beauty) took out both eyes for 11 sleeping wives, and the 12th took one eye, said to her husband, that they were witches and ate their own eyes; the king expelled 12 wives; they lived in a cave; each gave birth, they ate babies; the youngest kept her by giving others hidden pieces of meat; the hermits turned boy to boy; king of spirits Sakya gave him a magic bone bob (to play), with him he beat other boys, demanding 12 servings of water and food in return; the king called him to his place, fell in love; cannibal I guessed who he was, sent a letter to her father (i.e. the husband of cannibals), supposedly to study; the hermit changed the letter: not to kill and eat the giver, but to greet and marry his daughter; the cannibal's daughter fell in love with a young man, showed a magical garden; it contains a vessel with the souls of cannibals; a bow, whose bowstring is also from their souls; a root whose infusion allows you to see the true appearance of creatures; flowers that turn into 3 mountains, 7 mountains, a sea of fire; a winged horse; a young man takes everything, runs away on a winged horse; a cannibal daughter in love chases, a young man throws flowers; she overcomes mountains, burns in fire; a young man restores sight to his mother and aunts, sprinkles the king's eyes, he sees not his wife, but a cannibal giant, the young man pulls the bowstring, breaks the vessel, all cannibals die; the king returns 12 wives]: 230-237; Khmer: Leclère, Feer 1895, No. 5 [The king has two wives; the youngest has a son; when the eldest Tol-Méa also became pregnant, TK went to the healer and he promised that her son would reign; after the birth of the child, TM TK replaced him with a wax doll, and She put the boy in a box and buried him in the sand by the river; the court found him, guessed what was going on, but lowered the box down the river; the king drove KM away; the learned monk picked up the boy, guessed it all, became educate by giving the name Mono-Véan; when the young man grew up, he had no rivals in learning or beauty; before his death, the monk told the young man about his origins; MV set off and ended up in a city where The old king promised a daughter and a throne to whoever would climb on a smooth soapy pole and get out the princess; MV did this, married the princess and became king; the court decided to get rid of him; led him to the shaky bridge across the abyss and pushed him down; MB caught on the rocky cornice; the tiger lowered his vine, believing that when the man got up, he would eat it, but MB drove the tiger away; MB got lost and came to another kingdom; there the king would give the throne to whoever took leaf number 1 out of the basket; MB pulled it out, received the throne and the princess; in the third kingdom, the king's young widow promised to marry the one she wanted to marry the chief monk will point out; he knows everything and sent her to meet MV; after marrying the queen, MV went to his father's kingdom, found his poor mother and told her how she was deceived; he was accused of adultery with the king's wife and put him in an iron cage; one of the courtiers of one of his queens recognized MB; he sent letters with him to three wives; each went with an army; some wrote a general letter to the Tsar Father MB, but neither he nor anyone could read it; the king promised to release the prisoner who would read; MB read - in a letter to the king they offered to speak with an army; the liberated MW met his wives and led the united army of the three kingdoms ; his father's army was defeated; the king sent a new army led by his son from TC; MV killed him in combat; demanded a king; when he appeared, he called himself a son; told everything; became king four kingdoms]: 144-159; Marunova 1971 (note to p. 37: tai has the same thing) [the peasant has nothing to feed his 12 daughters, he takes them to the forest; the giantess brings them to him; sisters find human beings in the corner bones, realize that they have come to the cannibal, run; the cannibal turns into a garuda, flies after them; the elephant, then the buffalo, hides them in their stomach (the youngest's sarong hung from the elephant's mouth, since then it hangs down lower lip); banyan hides sisters, garuda flies by; royal warriors see the reflection of girlish faces in the water, bring girls, the king marries them; the witch turns into the same girl becomes the thirteenth wife's beloved; creates the illusion that 12 wives are not faithful, sleeping with other men; sisters have their eyes pulled out, thrown into a well; the youngest gives birth to a boy named Riethisen, he grows up hunts for his mothers; the witch tells him that she knows how to restore women's eyes, sends him to his daughter, giving him a letter telling him to kill the bearer; the hermit replaces him with a letter with asking R. to marry; the witch's daughter Neang Kang Ray marries R.; R. finds a vessel with 12 pairs of eyes under the stone, takes it away; the hermit gives R. a wand, he throws it behind him, and oz appears. Tonle Sap; NKR turns into a mountain from grief; R. returns women's eyes, kills a sorceress, takes the throne instead of his deceased father]: 37-41; lao [Princess Naang Pathummaa (Lotus Mistress) is hidden in the royal drum by her parents to save her from a couple of huge vultures; they cannot be killed because they hide gems for the bodhisattva that is about to be born; the king finds her Pantyaa State, marries, gives the name Naang Khamkoong (Golden Lady of the Drum); she gives birth to 4 twin sons; the eldest childless queen tells the midwife to replace them with puppies, kill them; gardener buried the bones, four plumeria trees with white and gold flowers have grown; the Queen orders them to be cut down and thrown into the river; the hermit sprinkled the logs with water from a gorlyanka pumpkin, the princes came to life; gave everyone a royal sword and diamond club; younger Phetsalaat is bodyshathwa; princes sailed by ship to foster parents; began to demand a meeting with her own mother, who works in a pigsty; her sons persuaded her to return to husband; P. resurrected his grandparents, people killed by vultures; they gave him precious stones and died; the elder queen was sent to the pigsty]: Afanasyeva 2014:225-227; palaung [the king takes in his wife is a peasant woman, loves more than his older wives; when she gives birth, the older wives throw the child off the cliff, replace him with a dog named Soline; the king returns the wife and dog to her parents; the child poor spouses pick up, they call Schumo; he grows up, finds a mother who does not believe that he is her son; he offers her to squeeze milk out of her breast; the stream enters Schumo's mouth, not Soline; Sh stays with his mother Soline is sent to the palace; Schumo goes to play pebbles with the princes, always wins; they send him along the road where he lives 1) the dragon, Schumo kills the dragon; 2) where the ogre Bilu lives; Schumo jumps to that in the mouth, cuts his throat from the inside, goes out through the ear; the princes both times tell the king that they killed the monsters; 3) Bilu is kidnapped by the king's mother; Schumo flies there on a horse given by his grandparents, cuts him off from his skirt the queen is a piece; she tells me to pull out two trees, one wins fire, the other the wind; the bilu is sent fire and wind after the fugitives, Schumo waves his trees, taming the fire, the wind; at home, the princes killed Schumo, a flower his house is dry; his mother's brothers and sister find a corpse; an old man comes to revive Schumo with a cup of water; Schumo shows a cut off piece of the Queen's skirt; the king expels the elder wives and their sons, appoints Skhumo heir]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 140:320-323; Thais [the princess finds a crocodile egg, keeps it, the crocodile was born, grew up, went into the river, kills people; people tell the king that the royal daughter must be sacrificed; the king sends his daughter to the river; she takes her beloved cat with her; throws herself into the water and stays on the lotus flower; the crocodile wants to grab her, but attacks the thorns on the stem and dies; the cat does not advise the princess to return home; Rakshasa grabs the princess, makes him his daughter; the neighboring king hunts, chases the golden deer (Indra took his form), he brings the king to Rakshasa's house and disappears; the king brings the princess to him and marries him; when the princess gives birth, the former wife says she gave birth to a log; but everything ends well]: Low 1836:348; Zyaray: Nikulin 1970 [The chief has an angry and lazy elder wife Fa, a kind younger Fu; the chief chased the doe, she turned into a girl, he brought her into the house; when she gave birth, Fa let down three newborns the boys in a jug into the river, replaced them with countersinks; advised her to send his doe wife to live in a pigsty; old woman Pom picked up a jug, raised the boys; Fa saw them, gave them poisons; Pom buried the dead in that but a jug outside the garden; a tree grew, three flowers on it, Fu understood everything, lit a fire, the flowers became boys; grew up, defeated the robbers, took their treasures; freed their mother, left with her Chief's villages]: 250-253; Dournes 1982 [the prince's youngest wife asks Heaven to send her children; Heaven sends seven pills, she swallows them not separately, but all at once, gives birth to seven twins; the eldest is Reng, the youngest is H'Bia Rang Könyi' ("beautiful gilded"); on the advice of his elder wife, the prince lowers the pumpkin twins down the river; they are picked up by Rökai's cannibals; while HBK distracts the cannibals, others under the pretext of clearing the site, they make a boat in the forest; the day they are going to be eaten, the brothers sail away; cannibals throw a rope and a hook, brothers cut it off, cannibals drown]: 158-159.

South Asia. Kashmiris: Knowles 1888:397-405 [The two eldest wives have daughters, the youngest is childless for a long time, then is about to give birth; the midwife says she will give birth to a crow, puts a crow, the older wives lay down the boy is in a box, lowered into the river, picked up by a gardener; the same a year later with his second newborn; in the third year, the youngest wife gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl; they are replaced by a pair of puppies, they are also the gardener picks up; the king moves the youngest wife to the hut; the old woman tells the queens about the gardener's children; they persuade her to invite her sister to ask her brothers to get a singing and talking bird; The elder brother goes, the yogi gives him a pebble that will lead to the mountain, you can't turn around to the noise and roar, otherwise you will petrify; then by the lake there is a tree and a cage with a bird; the young man turns around, becomes stony; the same with his middle brother; the youngest takes a bird, she tells him to sprinkle the rocks with lake water, the petrified ones come to life; everyone comes to the gardener, the bird creates a palace and food for everyone; the king comes, the bird comes to him all says; he drives away his older wives, returns his youngest and children], 405-408 [starting at p. 397-405; only two boys, each replaced by a puppy; the king sees them letting a wooden horse eat and drink; explains that she is inanimate; they say that a woman cannot give birth to puppies either; the king expels older wives, returns the youngest and sons], 408-414 [the vizier misses his beloved royal parrot, goes to look, a parrot is caught by a young woman, a grateful vizier promises to marry her king; he loves his new wife, others are jealous; she gives birth to a boy, his wives replace him with a stone, the king settles his wife with horses, she eats grain from a horse feeder; the boy is lowered in a box along the river, the man picks him up, raises him; the royal wives realize that this is the king's son; the midwife persuades the adoptive mother to send the boy bring a sandalwood with golden branches and pearl flowers; a woman at the source explains to throw lamb to tigers, cottage cheese to snakes, call devas uncles, pick up the tree; I did; the wives are persuaded to bring a blanket for the tree; the boy rides a tiger, brings a blanket; the woman at the spring tells the king everything, he drives away the rest of the wives, returns the expelled]; Punjabi [the queen died leaving her two daughters, the king took another; she hates stepdaughters; they find food at the grave of their deceased mother; the stepmother sends the cat to find out what is going on; tells them to dig the grave; a tree grows in this place, girls feed on its fruits; the cat reports it again; the stepmother tells us to cut down and burn the tree; get rid of the stepdaughters; the father took them to the forest, hung them on a pole wrapped in cloth a vessel; it knocks on a tree, the girls think that the father is washing his turban by hitting it against stones; when they saw this, the girls climbed the rock, noticed the castle, came to the giantess; she hid them from her son- cannibal; in the morning the girls ran away, began to live in the forest, eating deer milk; Lal Badshah hunts; sent the vizier to fry the partridge; he sees his older sister on the tree, is shocked by her beauty, the partridge burned down ; the girl gave another, telling her not to be extradited; the king orders to tell the truth; the vizier does not confess, he is buried alive, but at the last moment he confessed; the king married the girl; the younger sister's flower withered ; they realized that something had happened to their sister, followed her trail of mustard seeds; the courtiers were jealous of the king's new wife; they threw her child away, replaced her with a basket of coals; the king asked his wife to prison; the younger sister raised a baby; he plays with a wooden horse, tells it to drink water; a king passing by: can a wooden horse drink? My aunt teaches: next time, answer: can a woman give birth to a basket of coals? the king returned his wife, made his son an heir, rewarded his wife's sister]: Swynnerton 1892, No. 81:331-342; himachali plowmen [7 royal wives childless; he takes the eighth, she becomes pregnant; envious wives they replaced the child with a stone; the king made the eighth wife a maid; the wife's child was given to the cobra, but she raised her hood to protect him from the sun; the elephant gently touched him with its trunk; then they put the baby in an iron box was thrown into the river; the box went under water, but the fisherman caught it; the young man grew up, his name was Gulel; he went to the river, where 7 wives and a maid came for water; smashed the jugs of seven wives with arrows, and his mother shot the flower that was left in her hair; the next day he stopped the women and said that he should give his wooden horse a drink first; wives: wooden ones don't drink; he broke the jugs of 7 wives and filled his mother's jug; the king called him to account: wooden horses do not drink; G.: If so, women do not give birth to stones either; the maid hugged her son; he begged the father not to execute his wives, they were sent to a distant rest palace; G. soon became the mighty and just king of Kumaon]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 16:58-60; himachali plowmen [6 wives of a childless Raja live in a palace, 1 in an adobe shack; the fakir orders him to give Eat mangoes each; six wives just bite and throw away their mangoes, the seventh picks them up, eats them, gives birth to 6 sons and a daughter; 6 wives tell the old woman to prevent childbirth, she throws newborns into a hole on potter's field, says that the seventh wife gave birth to a piece of iron; the potter picks them up, raises them; 6 wives tell the old woman to lime the children; she gives them poisoned sweets, they die; the potter goes to the fakir, he she cuts his finger, the potter sprinkled this blood on the newborns, they came to life; the old woman poisoned them again; the fakir tells them to bury them and himself in the graves; mangoes grew from the graves of the boys, the girls grew a rose, the fakira a tree with fragrant flowers; only the mother of the children manages to pick fruits and flowers, others are not given them; the buried rise from their graves, 6 wives and an old woman have been executed, the seventh and her children live in the palace]: Dracott 1906:6-11 ; Nepali: Heunemann 1980, No. 7 [a childless king meditates in the forest; a servant sees girls coming out of the lake, first two maids preparing a sacrifice, then two sisters; the eldest would like to give birth to a son like the god of death Mahakala, the youngest a son with the sun on her right shoulder, the moon on her left; the servant tells the king about everything, he grabs the youngest; the former six wives persuade the stargazer say that the 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 clean the stable; the fish takes care of the boy: swallows him, then regurgitates him; the wives pretend to be sick, they will be cured by the bile of the fish; the fish gives the boy to the winged horse; he also swallows the boy, and when he eats, he belches; the king is outraged that the horse does not eat anything, wants to kill him, the horse flies with the boy to belly; the boy grows up, is poor, 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 younger husband repels enemies; the servant who was present when the girls came from the lake finds out who this young man is; the father calls the son, returns his mother, makes the rest of his wives her slaves]: 78-84 (~Aganina, Shresthkha 1971:142-154); Sakya, Griffith 1980 [the hermit tells the king's two wives that he cannot accept alms from the childless; let the king endure art; the king has been fasting in the forest for 12 years, Vishnu gives him two apples, both the wives ate and became pregnant; the second wife replaced her son with the first bar (chopping block), lowered the box down the river; the king told the first wife to retire to the forest; the boy was picked up by a fisherman who grew up and became a young man Chandra Mukhi; the son of his second wife is evil; the king promises to make the successor of whoever rides his horse, on which only a man fit to be king can sit; only the World Cup succeeds; the king has found out everything, the midwife expelled with his nose cut off, the first wife was returned, the second was sent to the forest; the king fell ill, he will be cured by the medicine from the hands of the gold-haired princess Sunkeshari, let the World Cup marry her; when she steps, gold falls; her father's difficult assignments must be fulfilled; the World Cup saved rats and snakes from a burning forest, sparrows from a birdsman's net; rats, snakes and sparrows promised to help; the World Cup meets, takes as companions 1) a person from whom an arm stretches out to grab any food; 2) a person who puts one ear under him, covers himself with the other, disperses the clouds with his ears; 3) the companions stopped at the house, cooking one by one; every time A dwarf comes with a huge mustache, sweeps the cook with it, eats everything; when it's the turn of the World Cup, he grabs the dwarf by the mustache, throws it out the window; the rats made a move to the princess, she gave the World Cup grains of magic rice; father S. tells 1) to sow the field, harvest tomorrow (the World Cup sows magic rice, it ripens immediately); 2) plant trees from all over the world (the long-armed reaches them, brings them); 3) divide the chaff, rice and millet (the long-eared takes the chaff, sparrows sort the grain); the king gives S., she cures the father of the World Cup; his evil brother poisoned him, kidnapped S.; the snakes extracted the poison, the World Cup came to life; the king executed his son from his second wife, handed over the World Cup throne]: 70-79; Marathi: D'Penha 1891, No. 8 [the poor ascetic has a wife and six daughters; once he was filled with hot rice; his thumb was swollen, his wife opened the abscess, and a girl came out; the couple agreed to lock their daughters, eat them themselves; the girls ate them secretly; to hide everything from her husband, the wife made two cakes out of ash; the father decided to take the girls to the forest; allegedly took them to their uncle; when the daughters fell asleep, the youngest, as always, began to suck her father's finger; he cut off his finger and left; the other sisters thought that the youngest had eaten her father; they began to call Baphadi ("the one who ate her father"); they found an empty house with seven rooms, each with food and clothes; room B. is the best, but B. is silent about it, wears rags; on Sundays, sisters go to church, B. does not go with them; comes there unrecognized in a luxurious outfit, returns before others; once she lost her shoe; the prince fell ill with love, climbed into the stable; saw the maids eating the food intended for horses themselves; they ran to the king; the king asked his son, what was the matter; told everyone to try on the shoe; she approached B.; the prince married her and the sisters became maids; in the absence of her husband, B. gave birth to a son; the sisters buried him under a tree, replaced him with a gravel stone; the prince's ship spilled a golden shower (a sign of the boy's birth); next time, his daughter was replaced with a broom, silver rain fell; the third time, his daughter again (buried in the church, replaced with a broom from palm leaves); after that, the prince locked B. in prison, married her sisters; for several years B. was fed with scraps; God saved the children, they began to beg, say that the king (i.e. prince) was crazy; prince I heard; the children did not accept the mercy of his 6 wives; told me to bring the seventh and hang seven curtains between her and them; streams of her milk penetrated through them into the children's mouths; six sisters had to confess; prince returned B. and her children, her sisters cut off their hair and noses, put them on donkeys, expelled from the country]: 142-147; Frere 1868, No. 4 [the king sees a tree without leaves with 101 fruits; the vizier explains that if the king marries the gardener's daughter, she will give him 100 sons and a daughter; he marries, and 12 older wives consider it a shame for them; when leaving, the king leaves his new wife a bell; she rings three times to check will the king really return right away; when 12 wounds attacked, she called, but the king did not come; she gave birth to 101 children, the wives replaced them with stones, the maid threw the babies on the pile garbage, the returning king threw his wife into prison forever; the bandicoot hid them and began to raise them; the wives ordered them to dig up a pile of garbage, the bandicoot hid the children under the steps near the temple of the god of wisdom Gunputti; the laundress's daughter spoke about this, the steps were raised, the bandicoot was killed, the temple was burned, the boys became mango trees, the girl became a rose bush; the laundress's daughter recognized them again, the trees were uprooted, they were going to burn them, but G. sent a storm, the trees fell into the river, swam out, became human again; the brothers met Rakshasi, she turned them into ravens; the king found the girl, married Draupadí Bai, agreed to take ravens; D. gave birth to a son, Ramchundra; he grew up, found that rakshasi, became a servant; she showed water to revive the bewitched, a wand to create obstacles, and each of her hair would set fire to the forest; R. runs away taking water, a stick and hairs, Rakshasi pursues, he creates a river with a stick (rakshasi swims across), a mountain (climbs), throws hairs (rakshasi burns); restores his mother's human appearance; Father D. and his 12 wives are invited; brothers and sister tell their father to bring their mother; everyone tells; 12 wives were burned alive and the mean maid was forgotten to execute]: 55-71; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi [The king has 7 wives, no children; the fakir gave three apples to let his beloved wife eat; the king gave them to the youngest, she became pregnant; the jealous older wives convinced the woman in labor that she should be blindfolded, changed children with a stone, put them in a box and left them in a potter's furnace; the potter found and raised them; the maid noticed them, the queens handed her poisoned sweets, but the adoptive mother fed them to the dog, which died; when the adoptive parents died, the grown-up brothers and sister went to the forest, where they met that fakir; he gave them a stick, a bowler hat and a rug; where to stick a stick, a palace will appear, money is pouring out of the rug, the bowler hat itself cooks; while hunting, the king noticed the palace; the queens understood what was going on, sent a servant to persuade her sister to ask the brothers to get a talking nightingale; fakir: who will come to this nightingale and answer it the question "Who are you?" , he would become petrified; the young man was silent and brought a nightingale; the king called his brothers and sister to him; the nightingale ordered not to eat food, but to give food to the dogs, they died; then told the king the whole story; the youngest wife, who sent crows to chase, returned them; the elders were buried waist-deep in the ground, shot with bows, fed to dogs]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 340:83-84; India (translated from Hindi) [disguised, the king goes to town at night; One sister hears saying that if the groom married her, she would eat peas, which are fed to horses; the second, if she married a king's cook, she would get something; the youngest, if the king if he married her, she would become a real queen; the king marries the youngest, passes his 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; daughter with a wooden 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 came to his house; when the king left, K. advised the brothers to build a palace, they are building; the hermit says that there is not enough golden bird, silverwood and pearl spring, all on Mount Maya; A., then V. leave, turn into stone; at home, the 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 given gold, he says that it should not be eaten; the bird asks how a woman can give birth to a puppy; the king has returned his wife and children, the sisters were buried alive]: Zographer 1964:302-310; konkani (Goa) [the father asks his seven daughters whether they are born to fulfill his or their own destiny; everyone says that it is paternal and the youngest is theirs; she is deprived of a share in the inheritance and is sent by the maid to the kitchen; the prince rides by, hears how each sister promises to do something 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, it will rain pearly, 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 fell, but the prince was shown 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, brothers They came to life; they brought their wooden horses to the river, 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 are punished (not said how)]: Rodrigues 2020:164-169; konkani (Goa) [when leaving, the prince tells his wife that if she gives birth to a son, pearls and precious stones will fall from the sky; prince's sister replaces the child with a puppy, throws the baby outside the garden fence; the eagle feeds and educates him; he begs, sings about his fate; the father, seeing the falling pearls, finds out that the son was born; the boy comes to the palace, everything is explained]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 10:33-35; muria [seven wives are childless; Raja takes a beggar, she becomes pregnant; when he goes hunting, he gives her a flute to call for help; she plays for nothing, he promises not to come again; she gives birth to many sons and daughters; other wives tell Raja that she has given birth to a grain grater; he orders his wife to be kicked out; children are first thrown to buffaloes, then a well; they are found by Marar; wives give the grown children magic bread, they turn into monkeys; the girl did not eat, followed her brothers; her tear fell from the tree on the hunter; he marries her, returns her the brothers are human; they are mischievous, the Raja tells them to be brought in, they tell their story; they bring their mother, her milk flows into their mouths; other wives are executed: hung, nailed to a tree, buried alive]: Elwin 1944, No. 3:202-204; ho [the childless Raja has three wives; the brahmana orders to give birth to the eldest mango; she shared with the second, and the youngest got the peel and bone; but only the youngest gave birth; the elders replaced the child with a broom, and the child was thrown into a hole where the potter took clay; the baby crawled out into the lakes, became a lotus flower; everyone tries to get it, the flower is not given and reproaches them; the last Raja's youngest wife was brought, whom he settled in a shack; her milk immediately splashed on the petals and the lotus turned into a child; the potter's pit was deepened and the two older wives were buried alive in it]: Halder 1916, No. 16:293-295; birhor [at the raja 7 rani, everyone is childless; the brahmana tells you to knock down the number of mangoes from the tree and let the wives eat; but only one mango fell; the wives divided it, and the youngest got only the peel ; only she became pregnant; when she left, the Raja ordered to beat the gold drum if a boy was born and the silver drum if the girl was born; a boy and a girl were born; 6 wives replaced them with a broom and a gun, and the children were replaced by a midwife threw them into a hole where the potter was digging clay; the potter and his wife found them; the Raja's youngest wife was driven away; the older wives saw the children and poisoned them, the potter buried them; a sycamore tree grew out of the boy's grave, and the girls a pinjār tree with beautiful flowers; when the Raja servant tried to pick a flower, the brother and sister exchanged lines and the pinjār tree rose into the air; the same when the Raja himself tried to pick; But from each wound, the tree only rises higher; then they found, washed, brought their youngest wife in a palanquin; both trees turned into a boy and a girl and sat on their mother's lap; the Raja returned them from in triumph, and for the older wives they dug a well, pushed them into them and buried them]: Roy 1925, No. 13:468-475; gondas [Sandsumjee has 6 wives, but no children; he took the seventh; in her husband's absence, she gave birth to a son Singbaba, other wives left the baby to buffaloes, replaced him with a puppy; buffaloes did not trample on the baby, but gave milk; the same to the cows; threw him into the well, he was alive; left him on the tiger trail; the tigress fed him, brought him clothes and onions; buffaloes, cows, tigers praised him, told him who he was]: Elwin 1944, No. 20.6:431-433; Assames: Borooah 1955:1-6 [the woman answered the cat that she would give her fish, if she brought it first; the cat began to steal fish, bring it to the woman, she ate everything, gave the cat only bones; the cat ordered the woman to give birth to kittens and she herself to human children; gave birth to and She raised two girls; said that if the flower wilted and the milk turned black, she was dead; as it happened, the girls went on a journey; the youngest asked the eldest to bring water; the water in the river receded, she demanded a ring for water; the girl gave it back; after drinking her sister, she went to return the ring, but the river carried her away; the merchant saw the younger sister and married him; the two older wives are jealous; when the new one gave birth, they abandoned the child was placed in the river, the woman in labor was put a flail; the second time a pumpkin; the older sister, who became the wife of the river god, raised the youngest children; the merchant lodged his youngest wife in a hut for a pile of manure; swam in a boat, the god of the river stopped the boat, let go for promising to gather people, throw a betel vessel and a wand into the river; the brothers come to the meeting, bringing these items, bringing their mother, to whom they told everything; the merchant ordered To expel the eldest wives, cutting off their noses and ears, left with the youngest and sons], 90-103 [the husband threatens to sell his wife to the naked if she gives birth to a girl again; she gives birth, descends into the river in a vessel; the laundress pulls out the vessel, a female hawk takes the baby to a tree, raises her, brings clothes; a merchant sees the girl, takes her as a wife; 7 older wives are jealous; they ask her to cook, sew, etc.; all work is done by decree hawk mother, whom the girl calls with a song; wives followed, killed a hawk; while her husband is away, the youngest wife was sold to a river merchant; the merchant hears her song, returns the woman; tells his wives to walk on a rope through a thorn hole; 6 fall, seventh passes (she did not participate in the plot); the perpetrators are buried alive in this hole]; 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; the merchant's daughter: the 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; when she leaves, she leaves a golden bell to ring when the fights begin; six wives persuade her to call twice; both times the king appears immediately; says that she 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 her children, the sisters were hanged]: Mohanti 1975:109-113; Baiga: Elwin 1944, No. 4 [three wives are childless, the Raja takes the fourth; when leaving, gives a bell; she calls idle, he promises not to come again; she gives birth to a son and daughter, wives let them down in a box into the sea, tell the Raja that she gave birth to a stone, he sends her to chase crows from the field; they are picked up by a sadhu; leaving, he leaves them with magical power; the young man creates a palace; one of the Raja's wives tries to poison the children with cottage cheese; then advises them to get the lotus, it is guarded by rakshasas, snakes, tigers; the young man kills them; then the wife persuades his sister to advise his brother to marry the Stone Maiden; her voice turns him into stone; the young man stones to the neck, but splits himself and others with a magic wand; marries; old rakshasa to him helps; wives ask the raja to arrange a party, the food is poisoned; the rakshas eats everything; the young man calls his father to his palace; the wives are buried alive, the expelled is returned], 5 [Raja hunts, tears sitting in a tree The queens of the Forest drip on him; he brings her home; when she gives birth, she forgets to ring the bell he has left; six former wives throw the child to buffaloes, then put a stone to the goats; the Raja exiles his wife scare crows in the fields; a cowgirl finds a boy in the barn; his name is Lal; Raja's wives ask why he gives water to a wooden horse; L. answers the question whether a woman can give birth to a stone; L. and his mother lead to Raje, mother's milk rushes into her son's mouth; six wives are kicked out]: 204-209, 209-212; Oraons: Elwin 1944, No. 7 [brother wants to marry his two sisters; they run away; thirsty in the woods, they ask the tree to bend down, it takes them to the sky to the lake; the younger sister throws her ring, the dried lake fills with water; after getting drunk, the youngest demands the ring back; the elder goes deeper into the water throws her a ring, drowns; the youngest climbs a tree, cries, tears fall on the raja, he marries her; leaves her a flute, she blows aimlessly, the Raja says she will never return to the sound; six childless wives throw the new wife's child into the lake, replaced with a broom; the raja expels the woman in labor; underwater, the older sister nurses the boy; the last one turns into a flower on the shore, the boy sits in a flower, not It is given to the vizier, the Raja, and six wives; the aunt tells the boy to give the flower only to his own mother; the Raja washes and dresses the expelled wife, the boy approaches her; the Raja buries six wives under the threshold, returns wife and son]: 386-389; Hahn 1906, No. 28 [six wives are infertile, the seventh gave birth to twins, others put Gewürtzstein and a broom on her, threw the children into a hole; the king rejected his wife; the potter found the children with his wife, they grew up, he sculpted a horse for a boy, a bird for a girl; by the pond, children tell them to drink; the king's wives: toys cannot drink; boy: a woman cannot give birth to a stone and a broom; wives pretended sick, they will be cured by the blood of the potter's children; the king ordered the children to be killed; the potter buried them, a tree with flowers grew; the wives could not pluck them, but they fell to the king themselves and became children; the king stayed with children, executed wives]: 54-55; kondas (kuttia) [the youngest wife is going to give birth, but the eldest still does not have a child; the eldest killed the newborn, put a cat made of wax in his place; the husband drove the youngest wife, the cat came to life, he left her; the cat went to the forest, became friends with the tiger cub; the tiger grew up, they quarreled, separated]: Elwin 1954, No. 33:356-357; ho [brahman gave the childless raja 7 mangoes for his seven wives; before the youngest ate hers, the mongoose bit off a piece of it; she gave birth to a beautiful boy with the face of a mongoose; the other wives were jealous, buried the child, put a broom and a stone in bed; The Raja drove his youngest wife away; the potter went to dig clay, found a child still alive; the boy grew up, told the potter to make a ceramic horse, which came to life; the sons of the other wives wanted them, but they did not come to life; the wives guessed what was going on, told their sons to kill that boy; they buried him, bamboo and a flowering plant grew in this place; no one could pick a flower, only Raja succeeded; he cut down bamboo, from his son came out, told him everything; demanded that his mother be found; she was brought, and the other wives and sons were pushed into the well]: Bompas 1909:478-479 (same or very similar in Sarat Chandra 1926:162-164); sora (Hill Saora) [Ramma and Bimma have three wives, only the youngest gave birth; the elders put a kitten in, left the baby to the cows; the cow ate him, he fell into the river with her manure, became Labosum; R. and B. drove him away youngest wife; L. recognized his mother, shouted, but did not want to go ashore; R. and B. found out what was going on, returned his wife]: Elwin 1954, No. 17:482-483; Tamils [the man has 4 wives, but only the youngest became pregnant; going hunting for six months, her husband tells her to ring the bell, when childbirth begins, she will return immediately; she rang at the first pain, but the contractions did not begin and her husband left again; after that, childbirth really started; other wives blindfolded her, threw 7 babies in the trash, replacing 7 with cockroaches; rang a bell; her husband told her to keep his wife like a dog; the children were fed by a rat, and then told me to look for food in the palace; the wives understood everything, pretended to be sick: rat blood would heal them; rat for children: tomorrow I will be killed, so I will take you to the temple of Kali; Kali fed the children for 4 months, then sent her to the palace for 20 days; the wives pretended to be sick again, demanding Kali's blood; she handed the children to the goddess Nagamma {apparently a snake}, and she was killed herself; with N., to kill the snake, but N. handed over the children to Ganesha; he raised the children until they were 10, 6 boys and a girl; the girl gathered people to determine who they were; the Raja must also come; to see if the children were telling the truth, they were brought to mother; they spit water in her face, after which she gave them her milk; Raja shaved the heads of three wives and burned them in a lime oven]: Blackburn 2005, No. 34; Tamils [Raja has two a wife, but no children; saw an Adivasi girl with a big belly; decided that she would give him 16 children; bought her from her poor parents; his wife gave birth in the absence of her husband; gave birth to 15 boys and an eldest the girl, but at the instigation of the other two wives, the midwife replaced them with 16 pieces of wood and buried the children in the garbage dump; the Raja locked his wife in the barn; the "Queen of the Garbage Dump" (some spirit) kept the children; seeing them they play, the wives pretended to feel bad from the garbage dump and the Raja ordered it to be removed urgently; the Queen of the Garbage Dump moved the children to the well under the supervision of Ganga Devi; the wives asked the raja to scoop the well; Ganga Devi handed over the children to Kali, they began to play in her temple; the wives asked her to destroy the temple, Kali moved the children to the forest; when the tiger passed by, Shiva and Parvati temporarily turned the children into stones; her sister told go to the old woman and ask for help, but the brothers answered her rude and she turned them into plants; the girl began to cry, the minister heard Raja married her; a son was born and grew up, but his wife was constantly is silent; the son threatened to stab himself, then she told him everything; he came to the old woman, asked his uncle to revive and she did it; the sister told the brothers to cook pieces of wood, go to town and shout: Could the Raja's wife give birth to pieces of wood; the Raja will invite her, you can't eat anything, feed the crow and the dog first; they did so, the crow and the dog are dead; let the brothers repeat everything the next a day and they would demand that the rice be cooked by a woman from the barn; the Raja told the brothers to call her sister, but she demanded that 56 Rajas gather first; when they gathered, the sister told me everything; two wives burned in an oven where lime is burned]: Blackburn 2005, No. 98; Sinhales [7 rani are childless; fruit is ripe in the garden; king: the one who eats will become pregnant; six refused, the seventh ate; the king went to war, rani gave birth to a shell (Turbinella pyrum); the other rani buried it in a pile of manure, made it a demon figure and, when the king returned, showed it to him; he beat and drove his wife out; the bull dug up the manure, swallowed the shell, straightened it I need to go to the sea, a shark swallowed the shell, caught it by a fisherman, sold it to that exiled wound, she found a shell, and when she left for a while, a prince was sitting in the sink; he had a minor defect on his skin (hori), he was named Horikadaya (the one with the bit of hori); he grew up, hunted, caught a heron and it became his friend, they hunted together; H. met another prince, horse and minister, whom the king intended to execute and they fled; they all went together to get wives; the princess refused to marry the prince, but married H.; then the prince, minister and horse pushed H. into the well, fell asleep, H. died; the heron left]: Parker 1914b, No. 214:152-154.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Java [Raja's youngest wife blames the eldest for her illness; the Raja orders the eldest to be killed, the vizier leaves her in the forest but brings her eyes to the Raja; in the forest she gives birth to Prince Panji Laras; he grows a rooster dropped by a kite, the rooster wins cockfights; defeats the Raja rooster, the vizier tells the truth, the PL mothers regain their eyes, she sees the light, the evil wife is expelled, the PL reigns]: Braginsky 1972:121-126; (cf. Kahlo 1967 [(episode from the fairy tale about The Sleeping Princess); before the Raja's wedding with the heroine, the parrot says that today the Sun will kiss the moon; before that, Raja dreams that the moon has fallen to his knees]: 36-38); Aceh [Raja Hamsoikas has two infertile wives; he marries Chah Kebandi, goes hunting, Cheka gives birth to 99 boys and a girl with golden hairs on the back of his head; older wives throw their children in a box into the river, they fill the basement with stumps, tell their husband that the Cheka gave birth to a monster, he tells them to put her in a hole; giants find a box, raise children, an angel reveals to them who they are; brothers who have gone to their father's country turned to stone; witchcraft does not work on her sister; the genie brings her to him, teaches her spells; she casts them, thus frees herself from the genie and brings life back to the petrified; everything opens, Cheka freed, older wives put in a hole; heavenly leader Lila Bangguna dreams of the moon falling to his knees; marrying Raja's daughter, living in heaven with her; going to hermit; his sister hates her, pushes into the swamp; the snake swallows the woman, but returns her along with the dishes for which her sister sent her; the sister tries to marry another woman's forehead, but the ants gnaw off that ears; the forehead and his wife return to land, the wife takes the throne of her deceased father]: Braginsky 1972:160-177; Timor [the chief overhears the conversation of three bathing sisters; one promises to cook delicious dishes, the other to weave scarves, the third is to give birth to a son with the sun on his chest, a month on his forehead, stars behind her ears; the chief marries the last, she gives birth to twins, sisters replace them with puppies, the children are thrown into a hollow in the forest; the husband tells them to hold and feed his wife like a dog; animals feed children, the old woman finds them and raises them; 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: Araújo, Pereira Barros 1963 [the chief's wife gives birth in his absence to a son with a star on his forehead; it's dark, only the light has witch neighbors; she tells the maid to replace the boy with a pig, hide the child in a hollow; a year later, the wife gives birth to a boy with a month on the navel, the witch replaces him with a puppy; the chief tells him to leave his wife on a heap slop; the witch takes the place of the leader's wife, throws a tree into the river, the poor man finds it, the brothers grow up; the elder Jose goes to travel; the princess is guarded by a seven-headed snake at the spring; the princess promises to marry the one who will free her; J. falls into the well, where there are already other young men; his younger brother Antonio kills the snake, frees those who have fallen into the well; the brothers free the mother, the father recognizes them, a witch is being killed (not specified how)]; Rego 1968 [Chief Leki Mau was looking for a missing horse, hid behind a tree, overheard two sisters talking to the source; the eldest says if a tree was a man, she weaved two scarves for him; 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 sell the fabric she woven, waxes her eyes with younger wax, throws babies into the hollow, replaces them with puppies; animals feed twins, childless spouses find, adopt; the elder António sat down on the 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 me to open only the door towards the mountains, not towards the sea; A. opens, falls to the bottom of the sea, where the leader's bulls graze; J. comes to look for A., also falls into the sea; at the request of the sea leader, 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 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 pour slop); the brothers' wife tells the whole story; the father sees suns 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 own two husbands for both the chief and his wife]: 160-173; Sangihe Islands [the prince heard two sisters talking; the eldest, if married, will have a son, and the youngest will have 99 sons and a daughter; the prince marries the youngest; leaves; the wife is ready to give birth; the sister advises to fill her ears with resin, her eyes with wax, then it will be safe; she put 100 children in a pot, took them to the forest; told the prince that his wife gave birth to rags, nails, mites and etc.; her 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 her mother; the sister is beautiful, the brothers take care of her affectionately; The prince heard about the beauty; 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; Kay Islands: Barraud 2005, No. 3 [Raja's six wives childless, the youngest seventh in his absence gives birth to seven boys and a girl with a knife and a thunderstone in her hands; older wives throw them in a barrel into the sea, torment their mother; children escape, find a father who tries to marry her daughter, brothers turn into goats, then back into people, the Raja dies and is resurrected; evil wives are executed by dragging the ship to land like ice rinks; the youngest's daughter feels sorry for them, cuts them With his knife, their bodies in half, with a thunderstone; they become her maids, kill her; the Raja dies], 4 [six Raja's wives leave the seventh in the middle of the sea on a rock; she turns it into an island gives birth to a son, turns him into a white bird; a Raja ship sails to the island, evil wives are executed by dragging the ship ashore over their bodies, a bird becomes a young man, resurrects women from cut bodies, they are made by his maids]: 67.

Taiwan - Philippines. Kalinga [the snake tells the girl Ikanayang to go with her, otherwise it will eat her; runs away, but her sister Kiwada, who remains at home, is friendly to the snake; sees the beautiful Dulliyala in the field, burns his snake skin; K. gives birth, I. replaces the baby with a kitten, takes the newborn to the forest; so with three children, they were raised by Magsalipa's woman; they steal sugar cane from D.'s field; he catches them, M. says, in what's the matter; K. gives each one a kitten]: Rybkin 1975, No. 10:38-40.

China - Korea. Chinese: Riftin et al. 1977 [see Dungans; the plot is known as a folk story from the 12th to 14th centuries]: 514; Eberhard 1937, No. 33 (Jiangsu) [the man has 3 wives; in his absence, one gave birth to a boy; others threw him into the water, but he did not drown; wrapped him in straw and fed him; she gave birth to a calf; wives want to eat his liver; a man gives them another liver, buys a calf; a girl chooses a groom, throws the ball, it hits the calf; she leaves with him and on the way the calf turns into a young man; the spouses return, the evil wives are punished]: 54-55; Koreans: Shkurkin 1941 [when leaving, Park asks two wives, how they will meet him; Chie-bi promises to have a party, Jae promises to have a son; in the absence of 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 her story; Che was released, Chie-bi was imprisoned in the cellar]: 21-42; Choi 1979, No. 452 [the woman, with the help of her sons, cut off her stepdaughter's hands, kicked her out; a rich young man found her, married her; she gave birth, when he went to the capital to take exams; her stepmother set her up to be kicked out; she leaned over the well for a drink, the child fell, she picked her up with her hands that had grown up at that moment; husband in uniform the beggar went to look for her; found it, the stepmother was punished], 456 [the wife gave birth, the concubine left the child to the cow, she ate it, gave birth to a calf, he comes to suck the real mother's breast; the concubine pretended to be sick , demands the calf's liver; the butcher let him go, brought the liver of another calf; the minister promises to give his daughter for someone who makes the bell tongue; the calf does; after the wedding he rushes into the lake, becomes a person; a minister; rewards a butcher, executes a stepmother]: 195, 197-198; (cf. Choi 1979, No. 454 [Bae is an official, his daughters are the eldest Janghwa, the youngest Hongryeon; stepmother lied that J. gave birth without a husband, put a refreshed mouse in her bed; both sisters committed suicide; their perfume came to the ruler, asked his stepmother to be punished; Bae remarried, he has the same daughters with the same names again]: 196); Cho 2001, No. 106 [stepmother tells her husband to cut off his stepdaughter's hands; right takes away an eagle, a left kite; she comes to a rich house, stands under a persimmon, cannot pick fruits; the heir of the house sees her, hides her, marries; leaves; the wife gives birth, sends a servant with a letter; that she stays at her stepmother's house, she replaces the letter, as if the wife gave birth to a freak; replaces a letter from her husband, supposedly telling her to be expelled; she leans over the stream, the child slips out, the mother grows hands grab him; wife, child and husband stay in the same house; stepmother punished]: 201-203; fox (Burma) [king's youngest wife is furious that the eldest is pregnant; she gave birth to two daughters and son, the youngest lowered them in a box into the river, replaced them with three puppies; the king expelled his eldest wife; the old man found the box, the children grew up; when the old man's wife died, he regretted not going for the elixir immortality; after the death of the teacher, the brother goes in search; meets an old man who shows the way to the lake, where the water of immortality, golden and silver trees and birds; a demoness in the form of a girl calls the young man comes to him, eats; the same with his older sister; the youngest does not stay with the imaginary girl, drinks and brings water, birds and branches of gold and silver trees; king (the girl does not know that he is her father) He is ill, he is being brought water, he is recovering; the king and his daughter are always young, living somewhere in the Himavant mountains]: Zapadova 1977:159-166; taonyo [fisherman and wife caught a sink; in the house someone cooks and cleans; a fisherman waited for a girl who came out of the sink, broke the sink; the Shell girl became a weaver; the king made her the main queen; promised to give a gold chain if she will give birth to a son, and a silver one, if a daughter; the courtiers put a shell, the newborn boy and girl were thrown away; they were fed by a pig, she was slaughtered; then the cow was the same, but she managed to put the children were potted and lowered down the river; the queen was sent as a maid to the backyard; the cannibal picked up the pot, brought it to the cave; they grew up, the mirror told them their origin; walking with the cannibal, the girl picked up the leaves of fire-grass, river grass, mountain grass; brother and sister rushed to run, the cannibal chases; the sister threw mountain grass (mountains appeared), fire-grass (fire), river grass (river); the cannibal drowned, but asked her to take at least one craft from her; the young man took a craft and one fang; ties a fang under the wing of a rooster, puts his rooster against the royal, he wins; the young man asked give him the maid, told him everything; the king returned his wife, the midwife repented]: Zapadova 1977:281-285.

The Balkans. Greeks: Hahn 1864 (2), No. 69 (Syros) [In the evening at work, the older sister says she would like to marry a royal cook, the middle sister would like to marry a treasurer, and the youngest a prince and have three children. Sun, Month and 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 throw her children into the river, replacing him 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, put them in a tower; mother-in-law sent her daughter-in-law to chicken coop, but the prince no longer asked about his wife; once he saw a tower, a girl in the window, two young men taming horses near the tower; the prince thought that his children should be like that; the mother told the prince that he saw the elves; scolded the midwife, ordered the survivors to be killed; she came disguised as a beggar and told the girl that she was missing the branch that produced music; the brothers went in search; the counter the monk 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 he saw the young man, the king rejoiced, and the mother said again that it was elves; the midwife persuades the girl to ask her brothers to get an all-seeing mirror; monk: 40 dragons are guarding him, they sleep one by one; the brothers killed them all, brought a mirror; midwife: there is not enough bird Dikjeretto; 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 on: if they turn black, they are in trouble; the monk refused to help - why does a girl send her brothers to death out of a whim; they went to the bird and she turned them into stone; the shirts turned black, the sister went to look for brothers; the monk: you have to undress naked, go to the bird from behind and grab her legs; the caught bird told her to go for living water between the crushing rocks; the girl slipped through, the rocks tore off only a piece of her dress; the sister revived the 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 invite the prince to try what she had cooked: eggplants, and inside diamonds; 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; Paton 1899, No. 3 (Lemnos) [after dark, the king orders to put out all the lights, goes along city; eavesdropping at the house in which the fire is not extinguished; the older sister wants to be the royal cook, the middle sister wants to be a spinner, the youngest to give birth to the king Sun, Month, Stars; he fulfills their wishes; the king's mother three times replaces children born with puppies, abandoned children are fed by a goat, then raised by a shepherd; the king orders their mother to be thrown into a garbage ditch; at the shepherd's hut, the king hears one of the brothers tells their story; returns their sons and their mother; tells their mother and midwife to tie wild horses to their backs]: 499-300; (cf. Greeks (Lesbos) [a woman bought an apple from which children are born, left it on the table, her husband ate it, his thigh began to swell, he went to the doctor through a bush, an abscess broke through, a girl fell out, he I did not notice it, decided that he had recovered; the Eagle raised the girl in his nest in a tree above the spring; the prince's horse noticed her shadow; the prince sent the old woman to lure the girl; she pretended to be blind, became pour water into an inverted pot; the girl went down to help her, the prince grabbed her, married her; in his absence, his mother dressed his wife as a shepherdess, sent geese to herd, told her son that his wife was dead; the prince heard her song in which she told her story; brought his wife back]: Paton 1900, No. 9:335-336); Serbs [the prince wants to marry a girl who will give him a son with a star in his forehead; in three beauties in the dugout, one embroiders, the other knits, 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 from happiness; the prince kills himself with a dagger; the king revives them with magic grass, the 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 Sultan forbid lighting a fire for a month; the servants noticed a light; in the hut three sisters are spinning by candlelight; asking each other what they could do to make the Sultan forgive them; the eldest: I'll cook hominy for everything army; medium: a hundred pieces of cloth to dress the whole army; younger: I face 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 could not fulfill a promise and he sent them home and married the youngest; when she was about to give birth, the other wives were afraid that they would be ignored; the eldest Badscha told the woman in labor that she should be blindfolded as a custom; replaced the children with puppies; everyone advised to tear the woman in labor with horses, but one person to wait for the Serbian patriarch; the patriarch: bury her waist-deep in manure and starve her; she was buried at the crossroads, so that everyone who passed through it spit; B. put the newborns in a 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 they realized that they were not pitchforks themselves, but people; they ran away and asked the person they met what was 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 over them Sultan; B. came and told the girl% an invincible Moor lives on the plain; if your brother kills him, the sultan will reward him; brother brought his head; B. there are 5 more Moors there; then 9; the same; on Mount Tman there is a horse Avgar, who is being fattened by a pitchfork; towards a giant: we were 20, but could not take possession of the horse; another giant overheard the pitchfork talking and told us how to catch a horse: leave the wineskin with water at watering; when he saw the wineskin, the horse looked around, the young man grabbed his neck and tamed it; he gave three hairs to summon it; B.: in Jordan, a wreath of pitchfork hangs between heaven and earth, and Jordan flows between mountains Zmaygodia and Doxan , who are constantly beating peaks against each other; the 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 towers covered with ducats; it turns grooms into stones; A.'s horse brought a young man there; the horse roared, rumbled like thunder, the girl was frightened and did not turn them into stones; greets the young man; asks the pitchfork how they will quickly be able to move her tower, her, the boy and the horse to Istanbul; pitchforks: 3 days; other pitchforks: 2 days; others: in a day; chose them; when they arrived, she tells the young man to wipe the face buried in manure with a handkerchief women; when the sultan sat the guest at the table, he threw a piece to 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 to himself; the Sultan came, everything was clarified; when her mother stood under 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 the tails of horses]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:99-116; Croats [the poor widow has 9 sons and a daughter; she has nothing to feed her sons - let them at least turn into wolves; the brothers ran away as wolves; the girl grew up ; when she found out what had happened to her brothers, she went to look for them; came to the house where the old woman was; she hid her from the wolves on the roof; wolves came running and became young men; the old woman showed them the girl, they are happy; to have them to disagree, the sister must be silent for 9 years; she herds the cows, the prince saw her; married; when she gave birth, her mother-in-law threw the baby out the window into the lake, but the white wolf picked him up; so three times; instead of babies puppies; the prince agreed to hang his wife; at the last moment 9 knights rode on white horses, brought three children; the term expired, the spell was removed; the prince expelled his mother]: Eschker 1992, No. 23:121-127; 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 the royal servants (blacksmith, coachman, etc.), the youngest is for the king, to give 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) replace children, let them down in a chest into the sea or river; their mother, the king, orders them 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 to ask brothers 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 all the petrified ); a singing tree or a talking bird tells the king the truth; he returns his wife and children, punishes the guilty], 707C [(pp. 242-244: details of options; not only brother and sister warm like the sun and moon, brother with the sun on his forehead, sister with the moon on her throat, etc., but brother is the sun, sister is the moon); the king (who forbid lighting the fire at night) overhears the conversation of the three sisters; the first two promise if they go out for 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 the forehead, the sun and a 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), let them down in a chest into the sea or river; the king their mother tells them 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 to ask her brother to get wonderful items ( a singing 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 the whole 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 out 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 tits" 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; 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 square meters of carpet on which all his warriors will fit; middle: I will make a tent; youngest: I will face a son and a daughter with a star on their forehead and a month on their shoulders; the king married all three; all three fulfilled their promises, 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 the box and told the maid to let him go along the river; the box sailed to the mill, the miller and his wife raised the children; when he dies, the miller tells the young man to take the bridle hidden there in 14 days, but not earlier; He listened, took a 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 his forehead; the aunts understood everything they sent an old woman to persuade a girl to ask her brother to bring a flower from the Beauty of the Earth; the young man comes to the lamia, who does not know the way to the Beauty of the Earth, refers to her older sister, she refers to herself eldest; eldest: when you get there, give the lion brains and grass to the lamb; they missed the young man, he picked a 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; get the Beauty itself Earth; 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 told the servants to add poison to the food; but the Beauty of the Earth warned about this; the young man spoke about 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, older sister promises to bake bread for the whole army, the middle one promises 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; older sisters cannot fulfill promises, the youngest fulfills; 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 appeared; the prince came there, all the 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 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 those born the children were puppies, and they were buried 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 young men talking; 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 take them to the palace, the fish asked them not to do so, 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 machehina daughter to the kitchen, herself stepmother ran away]: Mirener 1958:128-137; Romanians [the Green King's son fell in love with the daughter of the Red King; the princess's mother decided to kill her because her daughter is more beautiful than her; told the hangman to take the girl to the forest and bring her her hands and heart; the hangman brought the dog's heart, but cut off his hands; the girl came to the Red King's vineyard, met the prince there and he married her; his mother declared war on the Red King; wrote to her son a letter that his wife was walking around, and his letter was replaced by an order to expel his wife with her newborn; she found her hands in the spring, put her hands on the stumps, and they grew; her husband came to her, she recognized him; told the child that it was his father; her husband's mother was hanged]: Bîrlea 1966:454-455; Romanians [the king forbade lighting the fire in the evenings; the servants found three sisters sitting in the light; the eldest promises to strain the hair for his coachmen, the middle one promises 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; replaced children puppies; the king ordered his wife to be buried in manure, putting the puppies to her nipples; the children were descended in the box downstream, found and raised by a shepherd; their mother gave birth to a gold-haired girl a year later, who was also lowered A shepherd also found her along the river, replacing her with a puppy; the aunts found out about this, sent her a sorceress; she told the girl that the Calman horse's feather would make her even more beautiful; the brothers went in search; at the well in front of the dog hay, and 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 the pen in her hair; brothers and sister came to the king's ball; sister talks about everything; the king executes evil sisters, returns his wife and her children]: Bîrlea 1966:455-456; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 42 [three sisters came rinse clothes to the spring; eldest: if the king's son took me, she would put his troops in a nutshell; middle: she would wrap a thread around his entire army; youngest: she would give birth to a son with the sun, a daughter with a moon on his head; the prince hears, married his youngest, went to war; the wife gave birth; the gypsy woman let the children into the chest into the river, replaced them with puppies; the husband ordered his 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 the entire army; medium: I'll bake bread for the whole army; youngest: I'll give birth to a boy with a month on her forehead, a girl with the sun; the padishah's son 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 as if the wife gave birth two puppies; 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 the children; they grew up, left, found a home, began to live there; the witch grandmother persuades her sister to ask her brother to bring 1) an apple from Dnna Gzeli ("beauty of the world"); the old woman tells her to try bitter apples, praise the taste; drink from a spring of blood and pus, praise 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 eyes closed, DG does not sleep, she turns it into stone; sister goes looking for him; old woman: grass in front of the wolf, bone in front of the goat, must be swapped; bitter apples, a spring of blood and pus (like a brother); wrap 99 DG braids around his arm, make her brother revive; she revives 99 men, the girl's hundredth brother, all three come back, the young man meets his father, who has already become a padishah; DG frees the mother of the children, gives dogs food their mother-in-law and witch wanted to poison them; grandmother tied to the tails of 40 horses, 40 knives stuck in mother-in-law]: 174-181; Hungarians [queen hears three sisters talking; elder promises to weave clothes from one hemp stem to the whole country and the entire army; the middle one promises to bake bread from one grain; the youngest is to give birth to two children with golden hair; while the king is at war, middle sister Wheat and grandmother Iron Nose replaced the children with puppies, threw them under the hooves of the cows; the cows gave them milk; the same with horses; with pigs; then lowered them in a box along the river; the king orders his wife to be walled up in the wall so that everyone would spit on; the fisherman pulled out a box with a boy and a girl in it; they grew up, realized that their parents are not their own; the brother is going to look for a new place; the dragon wants to learn to play the clarinet; a young man suggests straightening his fingers, let him put logs in the crack, knock out the wedge, the dragon remained clamped; after learning about the gold-haired ones, Iron Nose found his sister, persuaded him to ask his brother to bring a lilac bush with singing leaves; the young man came to the mistress of the demons, the raven, brought him, helped him 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 her, the old woman washed her, revived her, now she is safe; brother, E. and sister came to their father and mother]: Ortutai 1974, No. 3:92-112; Croats, Slovenes : Uther 2004 (1), No. 707:383.

Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Vologda, Tver, Kaluga, Smolensk, 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 beautiful sons; children born to her in the absence of the king are replaced by sisters (witches) with puppies (animals); the king orders his wife and newborns to be put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the barrel sails to an island where the son establishes a kingdom of wonders; the king goes to see curiosities and meets his wife and children; slanderers are punished. - Another is less common in East Slavic material a variation of this story type is about a singing tree, a talker bird and living water. The Thompson Index primarily refers to this second variety]: SUS, No. 707:177-178; Russians, Ukrainians [Hero puppy and wonderful children: puppy (peasant son) who replaced wonderful newborn children, helps their expelled mother, extracts curiosities, finds and returns their mother's wonderful children, helps her return to her husband, king (merchant)]: SUS, No. 707*: 178; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pechora) [when the tsar enters the house, asks three girls what they can do; one embroider with silk, the other bake and cook, and the third will give birth to two sons, one elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on the back of her head, stars are frequent in pigtails, the sun is in his forehead; the other is elbow deep 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, but he came in; those girls changed the letter: the queen gave birth to a female and a dog; the same 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 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; threw the barrel on Buyan Island; F. made a bow, shot game, made a tent out of their skins; merchants arrived, surprised; sailed to the king, F. quietly with them on the ship; a 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 get 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: whoever brings the arrow first 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. slurp porridge; brothers greet each other; grandmother gave a brush, flint and flint; brothers and girl are flying on a flying carpet, the terrible king followed; brush (forest), flint (stone wall), flint (fire wall) river); the terrible king was afraid, returned; now the tsar-father of the brothers came himself; took his wife and sons, F. married that girl; the new queen was shot at the gate]: Azadovsky 1934, No. 2:104-121; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Shenkursky District) [Ivan Tsarevich stands outside the window, eavesdropping on a conversation between three sisters, daughters of a tsar from another kingdom; the eldest says that if I. married her, she would embroider her flying carpet; medium - would bring a bayuna cat with her; youngest Marfa: she would give birth to 9 sons - legs knee-deep in gold, arms up to the elbows in silver, stars are frequent on the braids; I. marries M.; leaves hunt; M. gave birth to three sons of the promised appearance; Baba Yaga threatens the messenger to eat her if she does not lead her as a midwife; hid the children in a dungeon by an oak tree, replaced her with puppies; I. forgave his wife, threw the puppies into sea; next time the same (6 sons, but one hid); I. ordered his wife and last son to be put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the barrel was washed ashore, the son immediately grew up, broke the barrel, created a garden and palace; fed the poor; they came to I., talked about the miracle; Baba Yaga: this is not a miracle, I have 8 such fellows in the forest by the oak tree; the Kaliki returned to M. and her son, conveyed the words of Baba Yaga; M.: son: these are your brothers; the young man found them, gave them a taste of cakes with his mother's milk, brought them to his mother; the Kaliki again inform Ivan about everything; he comes to his sons, recognizes them and his wife]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 284:386-380; Russians (Terek coast) [the tsar walked, chose a bride, overheard the three sisters talking under the window; first: if I were a queen, I would weave canvases all over the world; second: she made beer; brought three bellies There would be 9 heroes, knee-deep legs in gold, hands up to the elbow in silver, the sun in the forehead, a month in the back of the head, small stars on the braids, the dawns close behind the ears; the king married the last, left; the queen She gave birth to three sons, Baba Yaga stole them; the same for the second time; the third time, the mother braided one in her braids; Baba Yaga changed letters, the queen was thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel was washed ashore and smashed; in the morning, the church, the houses; the walkers passing are surprised: there were swamps, white-stone chambers and viburnum bridges became; the son became a trinket fly, flew with kaliki, heard everything; they told the tsar about the miracle; sister Queens: our aunt has jelly shores, a river of milk, a red spoon; a trinket fly pecked out her eye; in the morning she and her mother have a river of milk, etc.; next time: a third bull, a bathhouse on the tail, under her tail lake, church on her horns; third woman: our aunt has 8 fellows in the open field, knee-deep legs covered in gold (etc.); a trinket fly tore off a piece of her nose, flew to her mother, who explains that they are his brothers , carried away by baba yaga; gave curls; the son flew to the house in the field; there are 8 pigeons, turning well done at night; they all flew to their mother, began to live well; the Kaliki tell the king about this; he moved to his children, left them the kingdom]: Balashov 1970, No. 46:155-160; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908, Lapinskaya volost, 18-year-old girl A.S. Filatova, lived as an employee in different villages of Pomorye, composes ditties and songs | "folk poetess" |, illiterate) [Ivan Tsarevich rides past the bathhouse, overhears the conversation of three girls (they scratch their tow, and he hoped to see, 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 (Arkhangelsk, 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 at the window a conversation between three sisters; each tells what she will do if I. marries her; one weaves a carpet with an embroidered plane on it; the other will sew a towel in silk; the youngest will give birth to three sons three times, in her forehead the sun, 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 took the children to the open field); puppies; again puppies; 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 into a mosquito, overheard the sailors tell about the miraculous 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: crystal lake, jelly shores, silver spoons, lost no; for the third time: 8 sons who 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, milk on her lips, no longer wolves turned; greeted their ninth brother, began to live with their mother; the tsar came, recognized his wife; Y. was pitched in a barrel, still swims]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:144-148; Russians (Olonetskaya: Shokshozero) [Ivan Tsarevich hears three peasant daughters talking; 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, forehead the sun, a month on the back of her head, stars are frequent in the braids; the old woman imposed herself as midwives, replaced three boys with puppies, threw the boys under the oak tree; the second time, three piglets; the third, kittens, but one The queen hid the boy under a braid; I. shackled the queen in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the boy grew up by the hour; when the barrel touched the shore, the hoops burst; created a palace and a bridge with his desire; the kaliks visited, came to the king; I. has a frog on his bag, hears everything; they talk about the palace and the bridge; stepmother: there is a golden-haired deer; the young man brought him to his mother; next time he turned into a fly; 8 fellows under the oak tree; the young man tells his mother to bake 9 koloboks with her milk; the brothers recognized his mother's milk; the kaliki talk about the young; the tsar arrived; this woman was shot at the gate]: Onchukov 2000, No. 53:209-210; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Fedor Tsarevich has three maids; if he gets married, the first promises to bake bread, the second to sew, the third to give birth to 9 sons, each has the sun in his forehead, a star on the back of his head, a month on the back of his head, arms up to the elbow in gold, legs knee-deep in silver; when she gave birth to the first three, the mother of the first maid was a midwife, carried the children to the field, replaced them with puppies; the same for the second time; the third time, F. she hid one child up 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, and created a well in which all food was; sent the wickets on the road to F., hid himself in their basket with a fly; when he heard the story, F. wants to look at the well with food, but the new wife advises him to get the mumps - the golden bristles; the young man hears himself catches mumps; kaliki tell F. about the pig, and next to the oak cat is a bayun; the young man, becoming a fly, overhears; F.'s wife advises better to get a goldenmare 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 is in his 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 from the ninth he bit off; well done, they understand that their brother was here; he brings the brothers to their mother; the Kaliki tell F. about extraordinary young men; F. goes there, the son meets us: the wife put stakes for F. ran into it; F. with 9 sons and his first wife returns to the palace; his second wife was put on gates, cuts, and the pieces were burned]: Smirnov 1917, No. 27:158-163; Russians (Pskov) [stepmother tells her husband leave his 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 with one rake, the other with one bread feed, the third to give birth to 12 sons; the king went to war, the 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 king heard about the city where a squirrel of nuts was clicking, 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]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 34:104-105; Russians (Moscow, Dmitrovsky U., 1914) [a man's wife hates his sister; killed a horse; a canary, accused his sister; brother does not react; then killed her own child; brother took her sister to the forest and cut off her hands; she came to the manor garden; the master saw, fell in love, married; left; the wife gave birth to a boy, sent a messenger, daughter-in-law changed the letter: gave birth half-dog; the same answer: chained the child to white breasts, let him into the forest; the boy asks him to bend down to the river for a drink; fell off, his hands grew back; she came to her brother's house, her husband there; tells her story; his wife was beheaded]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 64:183-184; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [the master hears three sisters talking; if the master married her, then one of one lobe (?) strained her shirt and pants, the second would cook a feast, the third would give birth to a son, white cheese, a star in her forehead, arms up to the elbow in silver; the king took the youngest, left, the sisters wrote that the wife had either given birth to a child , or a kitten, threw the boy to horses - he sat on a trotter; pigs - on a hog; then they froze it in a barrel and threw it into the river; the grandmother picked it up; the master returned, his wife was under the threshold, told everyone to spit on her; a grandmother came with a boy; boy: this is my mother; everything has been revealed]: Eremina et al. 1979, No. 21:201; Russians (Smolenskaya) [the queen gave birth to a son, and the mistress said that "like all animals"; tsar ordered his wife (together with his son) to be pitched into a barrel and lowered into the river; on the shore, the boy knocked down the bottom, created a three-story house, began to live; the elders pass by, go to the king, say that the young man has his hands on the elbow is in gold, a month in the forehead, the sun is on the back of the head, there are frequent stars on the temples; the new queen: and we have a garden, apples are hanging in the garden; the prince sent a flea ("flea dog") to eavesdrop, knows who is saying what; creates a garden and apples there; next time: a mare with 12 foals; then a bull has 12 horns, carries 12 haystacks on each horn; then "in the garden, zharsky birds, charski poems, overseas katas"; then "the bridge at least on the six should go"; this time the tsar tells us to harness their horses and go; the new queen was tied to the carriage and opened everything]: Smirnov 1917, No. 234:124-128; Russians (Voronezh) [Orphans brother and sister live amicably. His brother gets married, his wife is jealous of his beautiful sister. She tells her husband that in his absence, she broke dishes, stabbed his beloved horse, killed his child. The brother cannot forgive his sister for the last act, takes her to the forest and cuts off her hands. The brother shows his hands to his wife and says he killed his sister. A girl goes into the royal garden and eats apples. Bova Korolevich notices this, leaves her to live at court, marries her. In his absence, his wife gives birth to a beautiful child ("on his forehead, a month on the back of his head"). Her brother gets the birth news letter, and his wife replaces him with a birth message "no mouse, no beast, but some freak". She also replaces the Queen's answer, ordering the child's mother to be killed before he returns. The king and queen feel sorry for their daughter-in-law, tie the child to their breasts and let her go. The girl leans to the water to get drunk, the child falls into the river. When she reaches for him to get him out of the water, her arms grow. She asks for salvation for the child and healing for herself. Together with her child, she stays at her brother's place for the night, and her husband is also there. He and the owners recognize her, but they doubt her because she has hands. Bova asks how she lost her arms, and her brother says that her hands were cut off by a car. He admitted to being her husband. The three of them return to the prince's parents, the wife tells how she was healed and how her hands returned. The child becomes even more beautiful after falling into the water ("the star in the forehead became brighter"). The daughter-in-law and brother were shot, the prince's son grew up and became tsar]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 6:66-70; Russians (Tomsk) [the Tsarevich overhears the conversation of three girls, marries the youngest; the wife gave birth to three gold-armed boys; Yagishna replaces them every time - a kitten, a puppy, Korosta's son; the prince ordered them to be thrown into the sea in a barrel; K. comes out of the barrel, secretly comes with merchants, overhears Y.'s story about three gold-armed boys imprisoned by a bear, releases them, brings them to their mother, gets a hog and a cat walking on a pole; the prince returns his wife and sons, Y. was shot at the gate]: Potanin 1891:150-151; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the king sent his son to choose a wife; he met three girls; one promises to sew clothes from one hemp for an entire army; the other from one ear to bake bread for a whole 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 doors, passing by her beat; married the maid's daughter; two sycamores grew out of babies (i.e. sycamore tree); the prince's wife {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 she hears the brothers' conversation: it's easy for one, his father is on him, and the other is hard, he is wearing a female girl; she tells him to burn the beds; the shepherd has prepared salt for the sheep, the coals have fallen into salt; the sheep gave birth to two gold-fleece lambs; the queen orders them to slaughter, sent the maids to wash their guts, two drums {what is 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 into the sky; 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; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky u.) [when dying, parents tell their son: if she marries, listen to his sister, not his wife; the wife hates her sister-in-law; she stabbed the dog, accused her sister; then the horse; when the son, the brother took his sister into the forest, cut off his hands and left him; the girl was found by a "brother's servant", married her; when she left, she gave birth to children up to half of gold, up to half of silver; her brother's wife changed the letter: she gave birth to two puppies; replaced the letter from her husband with an order drive the mother and children away; they were tied to her neck; she bent down for a drink, the children fell into the water, her hands grew back; one day she went unrecognized to where her brother and wife lived; told everything; brother cut off his wife head, stayed with her sister]: Malinka 1902, No. 30:306-308; Ukrainians [seeing the prince, the first girl promises to feed everyone with one cow of bread, the second - to sew clothes for the entire army from one arshin of fabric, 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 him into the well; the second time she replaced her toad, the third is a dry and ill baby; the tsar 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 build a house and a bridge to another kingdom; they catch a golden apple tree with golden and silver apples, a wonderful boar that can grow bread; playing with an apple, they lure three golden-haired boys out of the well; after learning from salt merchants about miracles, the tsar executes the midwife and returns his wife]: Chubinsky 1878:40-41; Belarusians [three sisters were picking mushrooms, it began to rain, they sat under a birch tree, the stream flowed from the rain to the tsar; 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 dog or frog; let him go to sea in a barrel); the boy came out of the barrel, made a bridge from island to ground, led his mother along it to the king's wedding with another sister; the king takes out nuts, suggests guess them; the boy, disguised as a violinist, tells his story; takes off his hat, under it a month, dawns; his mother's sister was torn by horses]: Potanin 1891:147-148; Belarusians: Romanov 1901, No. 19 (17) (d. Nikolaevsk, kr. Aniken Kavunov, 50 years old, illiterate) [The tsar lived, wanted to marry - went to foreign lands. I traveled to other kingdoms three times and did not find a wife. He returns from the third kingdom, goes to the village, sleeps with a man. The horse coachman took him to water and let go of the bucket. He looks - it's dark everywhere, it glows in the hut alone. I went there to get a bucket, went to the window, saw three girls sitting talking. They say about the king and groom and that he will not find brides more beautiful than them. The eldest says that if she married her, she would feed his entire army with bread alone; the middle says that if she took her, she would cover his entire army with one needle, and the youngest says that if she took her, she would she gave birth to 12 falcon sons: "A month in his forehead, a star on the back of his head, and silver on the elbow!" The coachman, without asking for a bucket, reports everything to the king. The king goes to marry, chooses a smaller one and takes her to his kingdom. Here they live, his wife is pregnant. "There's an alarm here," and the king must leave town. He punishes his wife to write to him if he gives birth to someone and leaves. Two months later, she gives birth to 12 falcon sons, writes a letter to the king and sends a messenger to him. The sisters found out that their sister had given birth and bought shanks for themselves on the way. A messenger comes to his older sister in a tire, she finds out what his errands are, sends him to the bathhouse, and replaces the letters herself, writing to the king that "I gave birth to you, my darling, 12 pieces - cat legs, mouse tails, dog mouths." The next night, a messenger stops in another shank, and the middle sister stops there. She also got him to the point, sent him to the bathhouse, and replaced the letter herself. She wrote even worse than the eldest one. A messenger comes to the king, the king reads a letter, cries, writes an answer - to wait for his wife. On the way back, the messenger visits both sisters again in their shanks, they send him back to the bathhouse and replace letters (one worse than the other) to ruin his sister and sons. The messenger brings a letter to the queen, she reads, cries, but there is nothing to do. He tells me to make a barrel with iron hoops, puts 11 sons there - "If I'm not a sinful soul, you will live!" − and lets them into the sea. She takes her younger 12th son, comes from the kingdom, finds a monastery and there she becomes a worker, and gives her son to study. He learns fast - "as he has learned in one year, as the other 10 years study." He grew up big and calls his mother from the monastery to make his own house. They came to the sea, built a house for themselves and started trading. Cabbies were walking that road, and their mare necklaces - they gave that foal to the prince. The sailors came, he treats them and greets them. He goes to see them off, goes to his horse. And he says to him, "climb on me and fall off me, you will turn into a dove, fly to the sailor, sit on his right shoulder, he will bring you to the royal chambers, and you listen to what the king and the queen are talking to will be (it was his older sister who became his wife). That's what he did. The sailor told the king about his widow and her son, who could not be more beautiful than that they had built a house for themselves on the other side of the sea. The king wants to go, but his wife dissuades him - is that marvelous! She talks about another wonder - an oak tree, there are 12 roosters on it, each rooster has a bright woman, each lady has 12 girls, they sew expensive clothes and throw them away - there is no one to wear them. The dove hears everything and flies back. He flies to a horse, sits on it and falls, turns into a human being. The horse asks what the king and queen talked about. Ivan recounts and asks the horse to help him get this wonder. The horse tells Ivan to ask for his mother's blessing and set off. That's what he does. Ivan comes on his horse to that oak tree, tells him that he is standing in the wrong place, and if he went to his kingdom, all these clothes would be worn there and "and they asked God for you!" Oak agrees and follows Ivan. Everyone marvels at the miracle. This story (the arrival of sailors - advice with a horse - flying a dove - an overheard conversation between the king, queen and sailor - the king's desire to go to watch the wonder - his wife's excuses and her story of a new miracle - the return of the pigeon - advice with a horse - receiving a mother's blessing - a trip for a miracle - a miracle willingly goes to Ivan's kingdom) is then repeated 5 more times (i.e. 6 in total). After (1) oak, other miracles: (2) a pole, a cuckoo on the pole: "what a kuknya, a soldier from yae fart" - with a horse, a saddle, and ready for war, but they have nothing to eat, they starve to death; (3) wild the boar plows its snout, harrows with its hooves, sows its tail, at 3 days bread ripens, but there is no one to eat it, and dies; (4) the river - jelly banks, "come - eat, and destroy your bags!" You eat it, it regrows; (5) 11 brothers in a cell by the sea live and do not know that they are brothers from the same mother and one father; (6) the bridge from the royal porch to Ivan's Palace, "the golden bridge yes silver, the poles are standing, the lanterns are burning, the firebirds are singing." The miracles collected in Ivan's kingdom no longer work idle: "The oak sews clothes, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo, the soldiers jump out, put on clothes, the boar sows bread, the soldier eats bread, goes to the river - he came, ate, I went to live, to the cagelnya (a brick factory or a clay quarry - K. B.) do different jobs." Differences in cases (5) and (6): (5) After listening to Ivan's story about a miracle with 11 brothers in the same cell, the horse advises him to ask his mother not just for a blessing, but for her to bake her breast milk from her breast milk Ivan comes to his cell, the horse advises him to go inside and instead of the sweep that will be on the table, put his own, from breast milk, and hide himself. That's what he did. A barrel comes from the sea, 11 fellows come out of it, go into the cell, the elder divides the swirl into 11 parts, everyone eats, looks at each other, cries, recognizes themselves as brothers, asks the one they want to leave Ivan brought it, Ivan comes out, everyone is kissing, and now there are 12 brothers together; Ivan sits on a horse, the brothers in a barrel, and go to his kingdom, his mother meets them, a feast. (6) The sailor tells the king that there is no longer 1 wonderful cotton in Ivan's kingdom, but 12, the tsar wants to go, his wife says that it is dangerous for them to go by sea, they will drown, and if there was a bridge... (see description above); after listening to Ivan's story about this task, the horse advises him to go to his brothers and tell them to "read old books before dawn and pray to God faithfully", and he himself should "take an ax, step into the yard, cut colas, drive colas into the ground, try so that blood from it was flowing." So he did - the bridge was ready by dawn. The king father harnessed his horses and drove across the bridge, greeted him with bread and salt, he was about to leave, and the mother of 12 heroes gives him a book that she wrote herself, how she left his court, the king reads and cuts off his second wife head - life got better], 21 [In a certain kingdom, the prince fell in love with a maid, began to marry, she promised that they would have 3 sons (one has a month in his forehead, a dawn on the back of his head, the sun in his forehead, the back of the star, and the third one is great). The first two babies are replaced by a villain woman with ordinary children. The prince sends his wife and third son in a barrel by sea, the son deals with it and breaks the barrel. He carves twelve fellows out of his mother's flint. By order of a daredevil, they build a house out of gold and silver logs, cook a lot of food and drink, and make bridges to both banks from gold and silver boards. The sailors ask for lunch, bring the daredevil to the royal house as payment; he, wearing an invisible hat, overhears their conversation with the king. The king asks if they have seen the wreckage of a barrel on the sea, hears about the house made of gold and silver, and wants to go see it. Baba talks about a garden with golden and silver apple trees and a pine tree, where a red cat sings songs when it goes down and tells fables when it goes up. The daring man comes back and again carves twelve fellows out of the flint, who, on his orders, attach this garden to his house. He feeds the sailors again and gets to the royal house, overhears the conversation. The sailors talk about the garden. In response, the woman is about a pig with gold and silver hair that digs and falls wheat from under it - twelve fellows do not have time to shovel. He carves the fellows out of the flint again, they deliver them to the pig. The sailors next time tell the king about the pig, and the woman, in response to the garden with golden and silver apple trees, where there are two fellows - one has a month in his forehead, dawns on the back of his head, the sun in his forehead, at the back of a star's head. Well done, he orders the fellows to take the brothers to their home from the flint. The king comes, marvels at home, sees his wife and sons, cries, and his wife cries too. Daredevil: It was my grandmother who stole my brothers and I brought them here. They returned to the royal house, the woman was tied to a horse's tail as punishment, and the tsar moved to live with his family]: 169−178, 199-201 (similar version in Romanov 1901, No. 18 (20): 178−188); Romanov 1991, No. 22 [Three sisters lived, went for a walk in the grove, where the queen, footman and coachman were there and heard them talking. The eldest said: if I married a footman, I would carve it out, plow it, sow it with millet, and bake a cake in one night. When he got up he would eat it. The average one promises to plant linen, soak it, dry it, sew a shirt if she marries a coachman. The youngest is to have three sons: elbow deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, forehead with a star, and back of her head for a month. The eldest and middle married the footman and the coachman and fulfilled their vow. The youngest married the Queen and became pregnant. Korolevich went on a seizure, putting grandmothers on his wife. The sisters gave their grandmothers a drink, stole the baby and threw him behind the clouds, and the prince was told that his wife gave birth to neither an animal nor a dog, but a simple stick. This is the second time. For the third time, the Queen fights back "chysakom". The sisters deceived the Queen, and he let them get rid of their sister themselves. They put her and her baby in a barrel and let her into the water. The baby grew very fast. The barrel was nailed to an island on the sea, and it "slaughtered" it from the inside. The Queen and her son go outside, the son asks her mother to bake three pies with her milk, and she does so. After picking up pies, he goes and finds a hut, puts pies on the table and hides. His brothers come, eat pies, feel their mother's milk, he goes out and the brothers are reunited with their mother and live together. Korolevich, meanwhile, married the Queen's older sister. I heard sailors' stories about an island where a city appeared, where three panics live up to the elbow in gold, knee-deep in silver, in the forehead for a star, on the back of the head for a month, and began to persuade my wife to go she doesn't want to see it. For the first time, she tells the panichi to put up an oak tree - twelve females, twelve bells and ring. In the second, to put a bison, which, when it goes uphill, plows its snout, goes down - interferes with the snout, lowers the seeds from the tail, and harrows its feet. The third time is to build a bridge from the city to the Queen's Palace. Fourth, to put stone walls, golden lanterns and wax candles (on the bridge). The brothers do all this. Korolevich and his wife get equipped and go. Korolevich meets his sons and first wife, stays with them, and orders his second wife to be tied by the legs to the tails of two horses, which only bring back legs]: 202-204; Belarusians [in 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, married her and gave her sisters for whoever they wanted; the prince left, the 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, head outside, ordered to feed bread and water; the fisherman and his wife died, the children live alone; the sister has a garden; Satan chipped in as an old man: there is no singing tree in the garden; the elder brother came to the mountain; the old man: come back and don't turn around; the boy turned around, stoned; the same younger brother; the 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 the king and queen to call and serve the fried puppy, kitten and frog; having learned the truth, the king freed his first wife, and her sisters and midwife were tied to their tails horses and let them into the field]: Romanov 1887, No. 61:295-298; Czechs [the queen marries a peasant woman; goes to war, leaving his wife pregnant; the king's mother takes powder from the witch, pours her daughter-in-law, she gives birth to a son in bear clothing; the husband sends a letter ordering his wife and child to go to sea in a boat; they stick to the shore; the boy grows up, is strong, comes to the king {not his father}; he sends him together with his son for three queens; a young man kills robbers, takes the keys to their treasures, brings queens, the prince is going to marry the youngest; the elders kill her out of envy (young man assumes that this will happen, hides, but falls asleep); the queen is accused of murder, the young man makes the sisters confess, they are executed; tells the prince to marry his young man, mother; she finds out that her ex the husband dies, agrees to marry the prince; the son tells his mother to stab him with a knife, the bear skin falls off; he shares the treasures of the robbers, takes the kingdom of three queens]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:159- 171; Czechs: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000 [the queen hears three girls talking; one will not marry, the other wants a widow, the third promises to give birth to a boy with gold, a girl with a silver hoop on neck; the queen marries her, goes to war, leaving her pregnant; his witch mother replaces the letter, the wife will give birth to either a person or a dog, sends back the order to drown the children, the servant gives their fisherman; Yenichek and Marzhenka grow up, quarrel with the fisherwoman's own children, she drives them away; they find a treasure, buy a castle; E. invites his father to visit, the witch mother puts him to sleep every time, comes under by his appearance, E. suggests that 1) goldfish, 2) a golden tree with songs, 3) a goldbird in a cage; the old man helps to get it, but the bird turns E. into stone; the old man teaches M. to pull out the bird's feather, revive the transformed; the king sees the mother in her clothes, finds children, the witch mother is burned and torn with oxen]: 319-328; Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 (Moravia) [three girls came to the royal garden; one wanted would marry a royal servant, another a aspiring servant, a third a king and giving birth to a boy and a girl with golden crosses on their foreheads; the king hears this, marries the youngest girl, giving birth to the other two for servant and for the aspiring; the king went to war, the wife gave birth to the promised children, the old grandmother wrote that puppies; the king ordered wild animals to leave his wife in the garden; the animals did not touch her, the count saw and brought her to his castle; grandmother lowered the newborns in a 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 letter: there is not enough fountain from which gold pearls would flow; the godfather gave Frantisek a rod to open the mountain, monsters are chained inside; you should not 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 mountain (same); in the third year: there is no bird to quail this grass; godfather: a bird in that mountain on tree; F. climbed on him, 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 his wife; his grandmother was burned at the stake]: 412-417; ( cf. Czechs [the tailor has many children, the rich brother refuses to baptize his newborn daughter; he goes with her, the old woman under the rosehip bush agrees to baptize the girl if Libushka returns to her through 12 years old; she comes, gets the keys to all rooms, you can't look into the seventh; she looks, there's an old woman with a horse's head in her coffin; L. does not confess, the old woman leaves her speechless, drives her away; her finds, marries the Queen, leaves, she gives birth, the old woman comes, tears the child in half; the same for the second, third time; the king orders L. to be burned; the carriage arrives, the old woman asks again what I saw L. in the room, she denies everything; the old woman says that she saved her from the spell, the fire goes out, L.'s three sons appear, her speech returns, the king ended the wars safely]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:284-288); Slovaks [stepmother has agreed with her husband to kill and eat his son and daughter; the children run away, the stepmother tells you to turn into something you drink from; Eva does not let Janko get drunk from bear, wolf, he drinks from reindeer, becomes a deer; Eva drinks from a well, becomes a gold-haired beauty with a star in her forehead; she is found, married by a young king; in the absence of her husband, she gives birth to a boy with a gold star in his forehead; an old woman pushes Eve into the water, replaces her daughter in bed; the baby cries, the deer takes him to the Danube, asks the ducks to show the way to his mother; the ducks answer that she is one of them; the mother arrives as a duck, becomes a woman, feeds the baby, returns to the river; so every day; the king comes back, the imaginary wife wants deer meat; the king goes after the deer when he carries his mother's baby; he grabs his wife, she turns into ducks, monsters, but he does not let go; Eva and Yanko take on a human form; the old woman and daughter were put in a barrel of nails, lowered down the mountain]: Bogatyrev 1955:110-116; Poles [the king overhears three girls talking; each telling 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; the children are found and raised by a miller; young men go to look for their father; or a speaker a bird; or living water; magically turned into marble statues; their sister receives wonderful objects from the sorceress and revives the brothers; the king notices unusual young men and girls and wonderful objects; a talking bird talks about everything; recognizes children and returns their mother, punishes her sisters]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 707:218; Poles [father wants to marry his daughter or sold her to the devil, forbids her to pray; cuts off her hands and expels her; the king finds her, marries her; in his absence, she gives birth to a son, and he is told that puppies are being expelled with her baby; she miraculously grows hands; she meets her husband, they return to the palace]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 706:217-218; Lusatians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 707:382.

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 she grew a tree; 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; Nogais [the old man inherits daughter Salimat a chest that does not tell others what's inside; her brother Asker marries her friend Fatima; to take possession of the chest, F. strangles his child, puts S. in bed; A. cuts off F. hands, throws her hands in the forest; she was sheltered by old people, their son married her; left; she gave birth to twin boys; F. replaced the letter sent to S.'s husband ("two horror stories") and her husband's answer ("drive his wife away"); baby S. fell into the water, Allah gave her hands back to raise him; S. comes to tell his story with her children; husband and brother gather in the same house; A. hacked F.]: Nogai 1979, No. 24:125-129; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the prince's son knocks three apples off another tree; his three daughters offer themselves to marry him; he takes the youngest, who has promised to give birth to a son half golden, half silver; in the absence of Prince aunts cooked a newborn, poured water into the yard, said that his wife had given birth to a puppy; her husband locked her in a stable; aspen grew in place of the broth, her husband made her a house support; rejected the 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 said that she would feed all her husband's guests with a bottle of vodka and a loaf; 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 down the river; B. ordered to leave his wife tied up at the 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 turned stone; the prince ordered fill the jug with tears, the jug was filled, the prince gave his daughter; the young man's sister was also married; his wife knew everything, told him to untie the woman and bring her to her; they all came to visit B.; said they would eat what was cooked in words, not on fire; people began to speak, 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; (cf. Abkhazians: Inal-ipa 1977:21-22 [Sasrkva meets a dwarf from the Atsan family; he easily carries a deer carcass, offers S. his sister to his wife; rejected by sledges, S.'s wife opened her stomach and threw it away a living child, returned to her world; the boy was named Nart Habjir)], 159-161 [Kun marks a deer, but a dwarf Atsan manages to kill him; atsan offers K. to take his share, K. asks Atsan to take his share first as much as he can lift; the atsan takes the entire carcass; K. follows him to the stone house, where the dwarf's sister Zylha weaves, the house shudders; Z. agrees to marry K. if he does not call her daughter little unsightly people; Z. threw a ball of 100 bovine skins for sledges; seeing that his leg was ripped open, K. called his wife the daughter of the little Atsans; she left, ripping her stomach apart and leaving her stomach the child to her husband; tells him to give him molten iron; the boy was named Zvitzv, "Chips"; during the day he stays at home, performs feats at night]; Salakaya 1976, No. 21 [Kuhn marks a bear, but he manages to kill a dwarf- atsan; atsan offers K. to take his share, K. asks Atsan first to take as much as he can lift; atsan takes the entire carcass; K. follows him, marries the Atsan sister; putting on his leg, ripped it apart, called his wife the sister of the unfortunate Atsans; she slaughtered the child from the womb, went to the Atzans, where she was cured; the boy Zvitzv ("chips") was raised by Satanay-Guache; if he died, the Atzans would become enemies of the sledges; he performs feats, hiding who he is, his clothes are white and black, hence the name Brzeikua-Bzhashla (Half-Black-Half-Gray)]: 221-225; Abaza [stepmother tells her husband to drive out three stepdaughters; the old man dug a hole in the forest, took his daughters for pears, his daughters fell into a hole; the youngest dreamed that it was necessary to dig a hole wall, they dug a passage into the khan's cellar; the eldest says she can sew clothes for hundreds of people, the middle one feed them, the youngest to give birth to twins with golden 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 to replace the twins with puppies, the children should be lowered in a barrel along the river; the khan ordered his wife to be sewn into a bull's skin, left with the puppies at a fork in the road; brother and sister got out of the barrel and began to live; the khan met his son in the mosque, the sisters guessed they sent a 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) 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.; she 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; Kabardian people [Khimish sees a little man riding a hare while hunting; he from the Spanish family, quickly kills and butchers a deer, invites her sister to her, passes her sister off as X.; the girl promises to be the wife of H. until he calls her "raziest, inexpensive"; H. violates the ban; giving birth the boy, she leaves him H., leaves without breastfeeding, tells him to give him only nut juice; the child was called Bataraz - "doing many feats"]: Lipkin 1957:219, 228); Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 29 [the eldest, middle daughter refuses to take off her father's legs, the youngest takes off; shares apples with the elders; the father digs a hole in the apple tree, masks it with a carpet, the daughters fall through; if they wish, a hole opens, food appears; the eldest promises Khan to prepare clothes for one hundred riders, the middle one to feed 50, the youngest to give birth to a son and daughter, half white gold, the other yellow; the khan leaves, sisters children are replaced with puppies, thrown into the river; the khan orders his wife to be put in the skin of a bull, tied to the gate; the children were taken by hogouache dogs (PH, the owner of the river); an attached mother sees her children come out of the water, sit down on a stone; asks a passing woman to give her flour, makes one cake with breast milk, the other on water, asks to leave it on a stone; the boy gets a cake with milk, the girl on the water; when he learns that the children they ate cakes, PH says they cannot become her children, lets her go ashore; the poor man finds a home in the forest, the sisters of the khan's wife do not tell him; they persuade his sister to ask his brother to get something unusual dove; PH teaches you to call sour pears sweet, take two with you; call the muddy river transparent, praise the sands; the young man grabs the pigeon, the owner orders to keep the kidnapper, the sands, the river, the pear refuse; Khan's wife's sisters 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 is stony; her sister goes, to her third shout A. looks around, everyone comes to life; a feast; a young man goes to visit Khan Father on the condition that he unties the woman at the gate; angry dogs (these are the puppies thrown up) are friendly with him; Khan returns his wife and her sisters ties them to horses; since then princes and khans have not divorced their wives]: 238-243; Kerashev 1957 [=Maksimov, Kerashev 1953:117-130; three daughters are naughty, the father digs a hole in the forest, lures his 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; Pshi marries the youngest, marries the elders to his bakols; in the absence of pshi, 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; Balkarians [three daughters persuaded the widower to remarry; the eldest advised me to take the red-haired and gray-eyed one; when she found out, 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 promised to sew clothes for all servants overnight, the youngest to make a golden saddle; the khan leaves; if you shake the silver bridle, his horse will hear and come running; the bur plugged the horse's ears, threw the children born into the river, replaced them 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 sous-anase fed a boy and a girl in the river; the mother found out that her children were coming out of the river, gave the woman her milk, asked her to bake the cakes and leave them on the shore; the children liked it; the sou-anazy said that the cakes were made with their mother's milk; explained everything; brother and sister They came to the city; the 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 marries another; stepmother orders the husband gets rid of his three daughters; he sprinkles 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 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 with silk; put puppies , the 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 his sister to invite her brother to bring the girl from Copper Tower; 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 interpreting mountains to the young man's house; aunts offer to get a singing fur coat; a young man drinks water from an acidic river, eats sour apples, gives wheat to crows, meat to wolves, they let it pass; takes Fur Coat, she asks the guards stop the 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. 18 [the widower marries another; The stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his three daughters; he sprinkles apples over the pit, the girls fall through; the older sisters want to eat the one with sweet teeth (the youngest), but the youngest asks God for a shovel; sisters dig a way into the Aldar stable; the servants are surprised that the food is missing, they catch the sisters; the eldest promises to sew shirts for ten men, the average glass of Araki to drink ten, the youngest to give birth to golden-haired a boy and a girl; on the eve of childbirth, she rings the bell to hear her husband's horses, but the sisters plug their ears with cotton wool; offer to give birth on the roof so that the children fall into the burka; replace children with puppies; Aldar tells the wife and the puppies to be sewn into a bag, no one cares about her; the sisters send the woman to ruin the dog and the children, she leaves them alive; the dog feeds them; the sisters send the same woman to persuade her sister to ask her brother to get 1) a pig from a milk lake (brings), 2) a red-haired girl on the seventh mountain; the girl turns him into stone; the sister comes, defeats her, makes her brother revive; all three come to Aldar; he revives his wife; feast]: 195-200; Terek Cossacks (v. 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 honey"]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 2:74-80; 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: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 8 [the dervish gives the childless khan an apple, you must eat it in half with his wife, peel give them to a mare; a child and a foal will be born, when a son or daughter is 13 years old, they must be sent to him, a dervish; a daughter is born; a horse teaches her to throw ash in the eyes of a dervish, takes them away; in another city she wears men's clothes; the khan's son suspects that this is a girl, but the horse helps her win the shooting, drink wine; the last time she forgot to say that she is not drinking, but the horse is drunk, the khan's son married her; while there was no husband, she gave birth to a son with a golden tuft, a daughter with a moon-like forehead; her father-in-law writes a letter to her son, sends a servant, a dervish replaces his wife with puppies, replaces his son's answer, the wife and children leave from home; the horse tells him to slaughter him, drag his skin around in a circle, go to bed; in the morning around the palace, garden, cattle, servants; husband returns, finds his wife, everyone is happy], 53 [father agrees to take a new wife only if a leather boot placed under the roof will rot; she finds out if her boot is rotting, getting married; tells me to get rid of three stepdaughters; father digs a hole in the forest, they fall into it; they dig an underground passage to the khan's stables; khan asks what gift everyone has; the eldest promises to sew clothes for forty riders, the average to cook for forty guys from rice filled with eggs, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden tuft, a daughter with with a moon-like forehead; the elders cannot fulfill their promises without the help of the younger one; the youngest gives birth, the sisters put their children in a chest, descend them down the river, replace them with puppies; the khan orders her to be wrapped in skin, put doors; the fisherman picked up the chest, the girl Suvsar and her brother Tabulda ("foundling") grew up; the khan meets him; the sisters guess who he is, send the old woman to persuade S. to ask T. to bring a wonderful branch wood 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 the branch and water, the gate, etc., refuses it hold; a watered, wonderful tree grows; the 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 previously petrified 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 . from the son; K. throws him off the glass mast; mother T. and S. were washed, her sisters were wrapped in cow skins, T. was chosen khan]: 125-128, 479-488; Dargins [Shah goes to check if anyone lights up light at night; outside an orphan girl's house she hears three times promising 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 they are born promised children, and black, if ordinary; the first wife tells you to replace the children with puppies, throw the 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 her feet on her, I don't care about her; a childless miller catches a box; a grown-up girl tells him to buy calico at the bazaar, embroiders a handkerchief with silver and gold hair, sends her brother to sell it; the Persian gives a lot of money, brother and sister go to the edge of the city, build a better palace than 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 fire-breathing dragons; the dragon king gives a tree; 2) get his brother an overseas wife; the seahorse carries the young man, he hits the beautiful woman with a golden 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 (=Kapiyeva 1991:120-125; =Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 349-354); Avars [older sister promises to weave cloth for the royal army, the middle one is to bake bread, the youngest is to give birth to a son with pearl teeth and a gold-haired daughter; the king overhears, takes the youngest; while the king is at war, the sisters throw their children into the nettle gorge, it is reported 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 gates, spit on her; the doe feeds the children with milk, leaves her in an empty castle, tells the boy cover her mouth, the girl's 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 her brother 1) bring an apple tree branch that sings and dances; he rides a horse between the crushing rocks, the tip of his tail is cut off, brings a branch; 2) marry the beautiful Ezenzulhar; he sees petrified horsemen at her castle, calls E., himself stony; sister has worn out her iron soles and staff; E. looks at her when she bares her hair, the petrified ones come to life, her brother marries E.; the king meets his children, frees his wife, the children take their mother to own castle]: Bulatova 1985:59-66; Lucky [the older sister promises to embroider her husband's shoes, the middle Circassian, the youngest to give birth to a beautiful son and daughter; three princes hear a conversation under the window, marry three sisters; older sisters throw newborns into the river, say that the sister gave birth to puppies; the husband kicks her out; the childless miller picks up babies; when they grow up, the shepherd refuses to give his daughter for foundling; the young man leaves, the tsar sees that he looks like him; asks to bring his sister; tells him to find his wife, the children recognize his mother; older sisters are tied to the tails of mares]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 316-318; Lezgins: Ganieva 2011b, No. 54 [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of three stepdaughters; father digs a hole, covers it with a cloak, puts beads on it, the girls fail; turn their hands into a spade, a pickaxe, a shovel, they dig a way to the padishah's stable; he passes 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 tuft, a boy with mother-of-pearl teeth ; sisters offer her to give birth to a chimney above the hole, exchange children with puppies, let her down into the river in a chest; the padishah tells her to wrap the woman in dog skin, tie her at the door instead of a dog; the old woman caught chest, the children grew up; they came to the new wedding of the Shah's youngest son, threw meat rather than bones to the dog; everything became clear, the dog wife was washed and changed clothes, her sisters were put on a vow and set on fire]: 491-494; Khalilov 1965, No. 86 [=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 111-114, =Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:213-216; after the mother's death, three daughters persuaded their father to take another wife; stepmother orders to get rid of stepdaughters; father dug covered the arable land with felt, putting beads on it, the girls came up and fell into the hole; the father promised to pull them out if they gave him felt and beads; instead covered the hole with a stone; for a while, the girls' hands they turn into a spade, a pickaxe, a shovel, they break down, steal dates from the royal stable; the elder, middle princes are sleeping, the younger one catches the younger sister, the king passes off three sons as three sisters; the youngest gives birth to a gold-haired boy and girl, the sisters replace them with puppies; the children are left in the field in the chest; the king puts dog skin on his daughter-in-law, ties them at the door; the old woman finds the chest; a grown son throws meat to his mother dog, not bones; children and an old woman tell the truth, the prince returns his wife]: 265-268; Udins [the poor man decided to destroy 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 soil; the youngest asked 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 that will fit the whole army; the middle king will feed the entire army with pilaf cooked in the shell eggs; the youngest will 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 with puppies; the king orders to bury his wife 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 to ask her brother 1) to bring a talking salb tree; a 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 and sister to him, the young man reveals the truth to him, king frees his wife, her sisters and old woman are tied to the tails of horses]: Dirr 1904:96-99; swans [the king has three daughters, his wife died, he took another, she orders to get rid of his scoundrels; the king found in the steppe an apple tree, 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 it; they ran out and these; the eldest wanted to eat it, but the youngest turned her hands into a shovel and a stick with an iron tip; they dug a passage into the tin house; there the servants feed the royal horses boiled wheat; sisters all they eat, horses lose weight, the king executes servants; the witch doctor 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; medium: drink the king and the people are in wine; the youngest: I give birth to a son and a daughter {hereinafter only about the son}, so that their lower and upper halves are golden; this sister was given for the prince; the older sisters threw the children born into the river, they were replaced by 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 the priest who owned the mill; the priest raised a young man, he is the best hunter; the mother's sisters understood who he was; advised the priest to send the young man to Elbrus for a golden apple tree; divas on the way, petrified to the waist; says that everyone is so stony; we must remember his mother's nipples; 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, there is the king's daughter; the king will give her if the fruits in the garden are ripe by morning; the princess orders to put a stick 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, she created everything; tame the horse; the horse: order an iron hammer and beat the horse with it; recognize the bride among 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, a horse into a church, herself into an icon; arrived to the tsar-father; the young man's mother was freed, sisters executed]: Nizheradze 1890, No. 1:176-187; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 96 (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 her hands into shovels, digs a passage to the royal stables, brings raisins and almonds to the sisters - horse feed; she is grabbed, she brings her sisters; the eldest promises to weave the carpet, feed the middle one, the youngest to give birth to 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 raises children; they they free the 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]: 147-150 (=Chikovani 1954, No. 27:149-151; =1986: 158-160); Chikovani 1954, No. 9 (Kartli) [the king and queen keep their daughter in the tower; the old woman tells the queen that she and the king will love each other as before if they eat their daughter's heart and liver; they call the daughter, the horse Lourges tells the girl to allow her to dress like a man and take a horse before her death; takes her to another kingdom; the prince suspects that the dzhigit is a girl; she gets drunk and falls asleep, he marries her; leaves for Lurge, she gives birth to a golden-haired boy; the former old woman replaces the messenger's letter, allegedly either a puppy or a kitten was born; they replace her husband's letter (wait for him to return), the new one ordered to leave his wife and the child into the oven; Lourge breaks down, tearing off one leg, carries the hostess with three legs; tells him to be killed, his remains turn into a temple, a house, a spring; the husband returns, finds out the truth; the old father goes to look daughter-in-law and grandson; grandson recognizes him; the wife asks the temple, i.e. Lurja, to connect her house to her husband's house; they live happily]: 61-66; Megrelia [the devi demands that the princess be handed over, otherwise she threatens to destroy everyone; a thin foal asks to take him; the devi is followed by 30 armed companions, five in a row; each time a devi looks around, he swallows one row; the foal says it's time to run; spews out a comb (forest), tells him to throw a piece of his mane (mountain), throw a bunch of his hair (sea); the girl stops the persecution; the foal gives a man's dress; the prince meets the imaginary young man, finds out that he woman, marries; after leaving, orders to send a hawk if a son is born, a falcon if a daughter is born; a son is born; a girl catches a hawk, replaces a letter - the wife gave birth to puppies; replaces the prince's letter: burn the queen with offspring in tandoor ("torne"); he himself comes under the guise of a messenger; before execution, the foal pushes the devi into tandoor, takes the queen and her son; orders him to be cut into small pieces and scattered, a palace appears, people; the prince burned down his palace, went begging; came to his wife without recognizing her; everything was explained]: Lominadze 1894:40-44; Megrels [King Jiki has three daughters; he squandered all his fortune on them 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 bundle of silk threads into an entire army; middle: from a bundle of silk threads woolen threads; weave a dress for all inhabitants of the kingdom; youngest: 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 the well, replaced him puppy; K. forgave his wife; 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; his wife's sisters pulled the boy out the well, together with the girl, was placed in a box, let into the river; the box was carried out into the sea, washed ashore; childless old people picked up; the boy was named Alexey, the girl Magdana; A. realized that the old people were not theirs parents; brother and sister came to the kingdom of K.; M. has a handkerchief that creates a 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 beggar, persuaded M. to tell her brother as if she had dreamed: Princess Changuri, daughter of King Changi of the Changet State, was sitting between the red and white seas in a golden cage on the sixth floor of the palace; who he would jump over the fence and remove the cage, he would marry C.; when he left, A. said that if he died, his dress would fall off the hanger, and if the horse died, his saddle would fall; A. reached C., but she ordered to petrify first to his horse and then to him; his dress and saddle fell, M. followed his brother's footsteps; the old man (this is C.'s father): you must hug your petrified brother and shout so loudly that he will come to life and C. will come out of the cage; and it happened; Father C. gave him a box fulfilling requests; A. came to a feast with K.; his aunts gave him poison, but he threw 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 discovered, her sisters were tied to the tails of wild horses]: Gachava et al. 1890:24-32; Armenians [=Nazinyan 1969:148-153; three royal sons heard three sisters talking; one promises her future husband to bake bread, which the king has not tried, the other promises 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 take these girls as wives; the older sisters did not keep their word, the youngest gave birth, the sisters, out of envy, replaced the children with puppies; having received lime, the younger prince orders to wrap his wife in buffalo skin, put him in the square; everyone who passes by must spit on her and hit her on the head with a hammer; the children were thrown 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, he At this time he became king; the king calls to the palace, his sister advises not to go there; tells him to let go of the little fish caught by his brother, he released it; for this, the king of fish Genie brought him to his palace, suggested to reward; the young man asked his daughter to be his wife and a ring that allowed him to understand the language of fish; D. ordered not to take his wife to sea, otherwise he would run away; the girl's sisters found out, persuaded the old woman to advise her to ask her brother get guri peri as a maid; the old man advises to hide the clothes of one of the girls swimming in the sea, run immediately; if the stalker sprinkles water on him, he will become petrified; the young man looked around, sprayed, petrified ; the sister went, did not look back, began to beat the guri peri, made her brother revive; the young man took his wife to sea, she sailed away; the fish said that she was in her father's castle in the Blue Mountains; the young man entered her with a ring, she agreed to return; when the king came, King D.'s daughter told her husband that it was his father; she taught 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: Bogoyavlensky, 1892nd century, No. 7 [the wife disliked Gulchi-khanum, her husband's sister; cut off her head to her baby, put G. in her pocket; her brother expelled her sister; she steals apples from the royal garden; the prince grabbed her and married her; in the absence of her husband, G. gave birth to a gold-haired son; daughter-in-law changed the letter - G. gave birth to a puppy; replaced her husband's letter - to drive G. out; she found an empty palace; when she returned, the prince put on his iron bast shoes, went to look for G.; met Brother G., who became a dervish, also looking for his sister; they came to G.'s palace, where the prince's son, everything is fine; the daughter-in-law was tied to the tails of wild horses]: 319-322; 1899, No. 11 (Borchalinsky district of Tiflis province) [the widow fisherman married, the stepmother orders to take three stepdaughters into the forest; the sisters decide to eat the one that falls behind in 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 court caught the girls; the eldest answers , what can weave a carpet on which an army can fit, the middle one is to cook scrambled eggs in an eggshell for the entire army, the youngest will give birth to two children with gold 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; dying, 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 are in panic; the witch persuades G. to ask his brother to get 1) a talking, singing tree (uprooted, brought it); 2) a bird that translates the words of the tree (brings); 3) marry King Guria's daughter; the king of demons gives a flying carpet, a stick (hit a 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. 72 [the padishah has forbidden lighting a fire; three orphan sisters violate the ban, they must work; if the padishah married her, the eldest would weave a carpet on which the army and all the inhabitants would sit; middle if a pilava would cook a cauldron, it 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; the older two admit that they only wanted to marry , sent to a goose barn; 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, the mother to put the puppies; the padishah tells the wife to be buried on waist-deep at a fork in the road, no one cares in her face; an old dervish found children; when he died, he left them a ring (wearing a wishful arap), a skin and a whip (if you sit on the skin, whip it, a mop will deliver to any place or destroy what is ordered); brother and sister are transported to a fork in the roads in the country of the padishah; their mother's sisters find out about this, send the midwife to persuade their sister to ask bring a brother 1) a poplar with playing leaves; an arap brings to the borders of that country, teaches you to politely treat the half-blind Balkis Khan, she sends 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 him, 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 from the nest; their mother spat in the water he had prepared for him to die 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 guests, tells him to put a golden 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 his wife to open and buy, return the children, sisters Execute wives and midwives at the top of the mountain]: 293-299; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 707 (Istanbul, Ankara, Kastamonu, Gümüşhane, Kars, Sivas) [the padishah sees the light and overhears the conversation of three sisters; everyone wants marries a padishah; the elders promise to do some work, the youngest to give birth to twins; gives birth to two sons and a daughter; the wife's sisters replace their children with puppies]: 287-291; Kurds [padishah hears a conversation between three sisters; the first, if she becomes a padishah's wife, 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 leave their children in a box at sea, replaced by two puppies; the padishah orders to tie his wife with the puppies at the entrance to the palace, beat him, feed them with scraps and bones; the fisherman picks up a box, the boy is called Mirza-Mamur, the girl is called Mirza-Mamur, the girl is Golizar; when dying, 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., who persuades her to ask her brother to get it Zardukhubar; 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, the abandoned crest turns into a forest , soap in 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 is stony, G. must come, spell; when G. calls HB for the third time, the stones will become human again; M. and G. and HB return, the old adviser becomes a young man; HB tells the padishah the truth, evil wives have been torn apart camels, mother M. and G. were returned]: Rudenko 1970, No. 50:147-155.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1987 [the older sister promises to dress the army if she is presented as a vizier, the middle sister promises to feed the army, and the younger sister promises to give birth to the Shah a gold-haired son, who, if she laughs, has his mouth Roses are falling, tears are pearls and precious stones; sisters put the puppy, the baby is put in the oven in the bath; 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 milk in the skin torn off a lion 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; his young man heals, he is happy 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; shah Sees a young man working as a bathhouse assistant hitting a wooden donkey to eat barley; when asked by the Shah, he answers: if the Shah's wife gave birth to a puppy, why doesn't the wooden donkey eat barley; shah asks the bathhouse attendant, returns his wife and son, ties her sisters by their hair to the tails of horses; that woman and her son have achieved their goal, so let my friends achieve their goals and desires]: 131-146; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 16 (Jews of Isfahan) [], 35 (Shiraz) []: 86-90, 166-177; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 10 (Kerman) [father asks three daughters to make sorbet; girls cook, eat their share; two at night older sisters eat their father's share, fill the bowl with mud and garbage; the father says nothing, leaves his daughters in the desert; when he leaves, he says he will wash his hands, hangs his wineskin so that he slowly hangs his wineskin out of it water flowed out; when everything flowed out, the girls came up, the father was gone; the prince met them, brought them home, made the youngest his wife, told her to serve the eldest; they envy; they replaced those born with a golden-haired sister a boy and a moon-faced girl as puppies, a box with children was thrown into the river; the prince orders to tie his wife at the crossroads to a stone pole that spit on her; the healer caught the box, raised the children, sent to school to a mullah; when passing by a woman, children throw not stones at her, but pink petals; she cries for the first time: these are my children; the prince finds out about this, the midwife confirms her words; he asks the elders sisters, what to do with an evil woman; they think it's about their sister; sew an angry dog in her legs and tie a horse to the tail; the prince did this to them, brought his wife and children back]: 58-62; Marzolph 1984, No. 707 (Yazd, Isfahan, Mazendaran, Khorasan) [the prince overhears the conversation between the three sisters; the elder promises to weave a carpet on which the entire army will be stationed; the second will feed the army with rice; the third promises to give birth gold-haired son; the prince takes her as his wife; the sisters replaced the newborn with a puppy; the queen is thrown into prison or tied at the crossroads so that everyone throws stones at her; the boy grew up in foster care parents; sisters recognized him; in order 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 something about something, what is it 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 a conversation between the shepherd's three daughters; 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 all three; in his absence, the younger sister gave birth; 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 his wife to be imprisoned; the children grew up, the padishah, not knowing who it was, took his son to her 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 the garden, parrots turn it into stone; the sister comes for him, calls by name, all the 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 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; (cf. Mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [Magpie, then Chicken, then the old woman tells the girl they want to pass her off as the elder brother; she sits on a volvolyak turntable, flies to the sky; refuses to go down at the request of her mother, older brother; goes down to pick up her younger brother, flies away with him; they go down into the gorge; sister does not tells me to drink from a pond with frogs, then with snakes, then where mountain goats drink; brother drinks, turns into a one-horned goat; the shah hunts, takes the girl as his wife, leaves; two older wives put her on swings, give the cat lard, tell her to gnaw the rope; the girl falls into the pond; under water gives birth to a silver-fronted son Shoh Hussein ("Shah") and a daughter with golden braids Moh-Hussein ("Moon"); wives want to slaughter a kid, he complains to his sister, she replies that her braids are entangled in the tree branches, promises to make the knife stupid; the shah hears his wife's voice, tells her not to water the herd, then give the animals a drink of the pond; shah he played a second wedding, his older wives were torn apart by mares]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 8:48-51); the couple [the padishah went hunting, heard the vizier's daughter promise to sew him if he took her to wives, dastarkhan, on whom food is only added; bay's daughter is a luxurious handkerchief; a shepherd's daughter give birth to an extraordinary boy and girl; padishah marries, wife gives birth in his absence, elder wives of children they are replaced with puppies, thrown into the steppes, fed by a gazelle; the padishah tells his wife to hang them in a bag; after learning about the grown children, two wives send an old woman to persuade her sister to ask her brother to bring a speaker nightingale; brother comes to the deva woman, says hello politely again, she leads to the white maiden, the white one brings the boy to the garden, he takes the nightingale, returns to his sister; the padishah comes with his wife, the nightingale warns the young man that the padishah's wife planted poison in the pilaf; the padishah returns his suspended wife, ties the liar to the heated stallion]: Oransky 1977, No. 1:150-153; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1971 (1) [The White Shah is looking for batyrs to fight the Black Shah; the bald man offers to take him; buys a thin oath, cares, she turns into a mighty horse; the bald man asks the mother if it remains Whether his father has a weapon; a knife and a poker; he takes them; meets a young man; he tells him to rest, turns himself chained in steel, a horse into a steel sword, a magic sword in his hand, smashes the army of the Black King, tells the bald man to say that he has defeated the enemies himself; the Black Shah invites the victorious batyr and promises him a daughter; at the feast, the vizier offers to give the princess to the fastest rider; he appears again the young man gives the victorious horse, the bald one gets the daughter of the Black Shah; when he breaks up, the young man gives the bald man a folding knife: if you say "Vospirahun", he will come to the rescue; the old woman tells the bald man that V. is a girl; the old man teaches how to enter her castle; in front of the dog, the straw, the bone must be changed in front of the camel; say "V.", the div guard will fall asleep; cut off the cat's head, remove the keychain from its neck; the old man teaches to go down to the bottom of the river to mother V.; she teaches to tie 40 braids of sleeping V. to 40 pegs; V. recognized the bald man, they began to live together; V. gives his portrait, but the wind flew in, threw him into the river; his fishermen they pulled him out and told the king that V. wanted to marry him and sent a portrait; the old woman promises to get V., tells her to give her a boat, load her with carpets and fabrics; cuts her donkey's leg, says to the bald man that he broke her leg, bald, sheltered her, against the wishes of V. and her mother; the old woman persuaded her to go to the river and get into a boat, took her to the king; V. sets the condition: to build three houses in 30 days; V.'s mother turned bald into the dervish, who came, began to drink with the king, the king fell asleep, the bald man and V. agreed to run; at night, the bald man climbed the fence; the robbers threw him into the hole, and V. mistook the chieftain for bald, he took her away in a boat; she killed him, returned to the robbers, promised to marry the one who would be the first to bring her abandoned girdle; she swam home, the bald one also returned; the king found neither gold nor V.; they arrived at the White Shah, who gave his daughter and throne to the bald man; V. promised to give birth to a son and daughter and conceived, and the daughter of the White Shah promised two sons and was infertile; when V. gave birth, the children were replaced by puppies and thrown into the steppe; V. was thrown into the zindon; Elder Khizrbuva picked up the children, told the goat to feed them; the boy Sohibkurol, the girl Sohibjamol; they live in an iron castle; the midwife guessed it; advised the girl to ask her brother to get roses, above with which birds curl; Hizrbuwa gives the young man a magic sword, shows the way; the young man killed divas, brought roses and nightingales; the midwife advises to ask for a white winged horse; H. taught to catch a horse; midwife: get the girl Sangil Sopoltosh; H.: drive up to the river, there are stones, these are petrified people; call the SS 3 times; you will petrify up to your throat, but if you shout a fourth time, all petrified people will come to life; the SS will start everyone ask who called him; when he learned that the young man was sent by H., he would call himself his girlfriend, and turn the others into stones again; the SS ordered not to let the midwife in, the young man hacked her; he met a bald man while hunting, I had to invite you to visit, but how do you receive the king? H. promises to arrange everything; the pilaf from the small cauldron was enough for all the guests; H. told everything, disappeared with the iron lock; the evil wives were tied to the tail of a mare, driven through thorns; {about V. more it is not said}; the bald man gave the throne to his son; the SS gave birth to three sons; their father saw a girl in the mirror, the sons went to look for her; at the fork in three roads on the poles the inscription: 1) Maybe you'll come! 2) You'll get there, but you won't come back! 3) Don't take risks, don't go - death lies ahead! the youngest took the last road; helped the old woman get water from the house; stays with her; at night there are two moons in the sky: the second is light from the face of the daughter of the Western king; the young man went that way to meet Hizrbuva, gave a sword, the young man cut the divas with them, grabbed the winged horse, but he escaped, a piece of mane remained; then the young man gave a cake to the lion; ants; the lion gave a piece of mane, the ants allowed them to pass; other suitors were killed by a lion, died in ant possessions; the king will give his daughter to whoever throws millstones on the roof of the palace; the lion placed a millstone on the back of a winged horse, he threw it on the palace, the palace collapsed; having received a wife , a young man on a winged horse brought her to a place where he broke up with his brothers; one became a cook, the other became a stoker in a bathhouse; on the way, the brothers tied the younger hand, threw her into the hole, and said at home that they were heroes; the younger brother managed to give his wife a piece of horse mane; the wife summoned the horse, brought her husband; the elder sons were tied to the tails of mares, the youngest received the throne; then a feast with the Western king; the bald grandson began to rule two kingdoms]: 174-200; 1972 (2): 59-64 [while hunting, the padishah met three peri; the first replied that she could sew a robe from rose petals, the second to remove the pattern from the heavenly bird, the third to give birth to a son with 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 Zindan; the child was an old woman threw him in the desert, the steppe doe fed him; the boy wandered into the palace, the old woman put him in a chest, threw him into the river; the fisherman caught him and raised him; 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; the man guarding the dream of the divas hides the young man, shows where the flowers grow; 2) 40 boilers cooking different dishes; the old man teaches to order 40 divas carry 40 cauldrons; 3) a mirror in which the whole world is visible; the dragon under the plane tree is ready to eat the 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 it away the shepherd's staff, the 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, the fisherman padishah appointed a vizier, gave the throne to his son, freed his mother; the young man sees the daughter of another padishah in the mirror, burns feathers, the bird appears, brings him to the top of the minaret to the girl, brings them back; wedding], 208-216 [Hasan and Khurliko's parents died; bai married Hasan to his daughter Zuleikha; she hated Khurliko, first burned her property, then stabbed her own child, threw a knife to Khurliko; brother he cut off that hand and drove her out; in the garden of Padishah Hurliko ate melons; Prince Anwar saw her, married her; having received the throne in another kingdom, left his wife to give birth to a child; Z. replaced the letter with a message that Z. gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; changed the return letter: even if she gave birth to a son with a golden pigtail, a daughter with a silver braid, cut off her breasts, throw the children into H.'s bag over her shoulder, drive her into the desert; the padishah did not maim his daughter-in-law, but drove him out; when H. crossed the river, the son fell out and drowned; the elder returned the child and returned his mother's hands; tells him to throw 7 pebbles, the river will divide into ditches, you can cross it; throw 40 - a palace and wealth will appear; returning to his father, A. set off to look for his wife, met her brother Hasan, they came to Hurliko's palace; at night she put diamonds and pearls in her brother's pocket; Hurliko accuses Hasan is stealing, he swears he is innocent; she talks about everything; Zuleikha was executed]; Rogov 1980 [the shepherd has Nasib's daughters, Gulbakhor and Zulfiya; the father is poor, no one sends matchmakers; daughters went to the place where the mulberry tree is ripe, they live in a hut; the Shah has 40 wives, all childless, he is looking for a new one; the wives are alarmed; the vizier comes and overhears; N.: if the shah took her as a wife, 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 her father and to make the sisters rich; they also got married; Z. gives birth, the Shah has left, 40 wives conspired with a 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 Hassan 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; Bukhara Arabs: Vinnikov 1969, No. 5 [the shepherd's daughter promises the emir that if she becomes his wife, she will give birth to a child with golden and silver curls; gives birth to such a boy and girl with a silver curl; two other wives tell the old woman to replace them with puppies; the emir orders his wife to be thrown into a resin pit; the thief is allowed to kill the children, he abandons them, brings sparrow blood; God tells Ilya the Prophet to fool the children around hell, it's summer and a garden now; tells the gazelles to feed the children; that thief comes, the children give him apples, tell him to give him to the emir in exchange for the horse, falcon, dog he has prepared for his son, a dress that is for daughters; the emir gives, misses children; the mother from the resin pit tells the children not to go to the palace; the emir's wives give the boy poisoned rice, he gives gazelles, she dies; the mother of the children is returned, the old woman and two wives they burn at the stake], 15 [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 his teeth; after that, the wife tells her husband to take his daughters somewhere; he took them to pick the mulberry tree, climbed a tree to shake it, told them not to look up - he was without pants; quietly tears and left; 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 source of the girls the emir saw; the eldest promised to weave a carpet - all the emir's people would fit on his corner; the middle one would cook food from one grain for the emir's people; the youngest would give birth to a child with golden hair; the emir took them to wives, 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 bury his youngest wife 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; brought food, 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]: 47-52, 99-101; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peshchereva 1957, No. 11 [the tsar hunting I met three girls, the middle one promised to give birth to an intelligent son; when she gave birth, another wife threw her children into the desert, replaced them with puppies; they told the king that he also ordered his wife to be left in the desert; the goat fed the children, the old man brought her up; the king met the girl, her brother came to the feast, did not eat the king's spoon, asked when they had been marrying daughters; the king's wife with two dogs was in the desert, the king ordered her back; the second the wife was tied to the tails of three horses], 12 [the vizier's son rejected the poor man's two daughters, took the youngest; her sisters replaced the children with puppies, took them to their aunt, she raised; the vizier asks why the boy is drinking a wooden horse; he asks how he could believe that his wife gave birth to puppies; the vizier returned his son and daughter, the aunts were tied to the horse's tail], 20 [the youngest of seven daughters gave her father crap instead of eating; that drove everyone away; leaving the sisters in the steppe, the youngest came to the old woman; she tells her to take food to her husband, the girl takes it to her sisters every time, says that the dog has eaten; kills the old woman and her husband, the sisters settle down in their house; older sisters go to a feast, leave the youngest; she follows, loses her shoe, the king promises to marry whoever he suits; fits that girl; she has given birth to a boy and a girl, another wife replaced them with puppies; her husband tells her to leave her on the roof, throw her bread like dogs; (the old woman is raising children); the boy gives water to a wooden horse; when the king is surprised, he asks how a woman can give birth to puppies; everything is explained; the other wife played goat, torn apart]: 88-89, 90, 111-114; Shugnans [the vizier hears the older sister promises to feed the city with a mug of flour, medium - 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; sisters they invite her to invite everyone to the celebration, at which time they put puppies in bed, 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, older wives guess who they are; advise the girl to ask her brother 1) a dress made of fox claws; the brother comes to a bet, she gives a dress; 2) a magic mirror; the bet gives by asking his sister; 3) a talking parrot; the bet's husband followed him, turned into stone; the bet tells him to wash in seven springs, ask for forgiveness of sins; the sister sees in the mirror that the brother is sinking into the ground, comes, cries, sins are forgiven, a parrot arrives himself; the king sees the girl, sets the wedding day; the parrot tells his brother and sister their story; the older wives are tied to stallions, the remains are burned; the youngest is returned]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1976, No. 5:91-101; Yazgulyam [fisherman caught a fish with a gold ring in his belly; next time he caught a chest in the river, containing a woman with a child; she was the favorite of the king's 7 wives, others envied ; the king left, they sent to say that that wife had given birth to a puppy; the king ordered her to be killed, she and her child were lowered into the river in a chest; the boy grew up, his mother asked the king to take her as a maid, the king fell in love, married on her; other wives persuaded the king to send his new wife's son to bring Stone Water; the wagers fell in love with him, brought Kof over Mount; Almasti lies with this water under his head; if his eyes are open, then sleeps, the young man brings water; the king asks for Colorful Water (the same is the water from Mount Kof); to get the Curly Tree (the same); the young man's mother opens to the king; he gives the throne to her son, becomes his servant himself; others wives and viziers tied to horse tails]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 37:342-345; Rushantsy [the tsar has two wives, pregnant and barren; the husband went hunting, leaving a tambourine: if you feel it pain, hit him; the barren wife hit the tambourine, the king returned in vain and left again; the infertile woman gave the pregnant woman sleeping pills, replaced the children with puppies, and threw the girl and boy who were born into the steppes; The king threw his wife and the puppies into prison; the steppe turned into a garden; the daughter treated her father to fruits and told her everything; the king took the children to the palace; the old woman persuaded the girl to ask her brother to bring her brother her skullcap, then her dress, shalvars, shoes; then a talking parrot; whoever followed him turned into stone and wood; a parrot on the top of the tree is an arch; whoever calls him more than three times will receive him, and whoever is not, will become a stone and a tree; the young man brought a parrot; the tsar returned his wife, who was almost completely sucked by the puppies; he tied the barren and old woman to the tail of a stallion and drove him along the thorns; feast]: Sokolova 1959, No. 16:60-65; the Baluchi [the childless king became a dervish out of grief; a malang (hermit) gave him a pomegranate to eat, the second ordered him to be divided between seven wives and horses; ordered him to give the child away from his beloved wife and foal from his favorite horse; I had to give my daughter and mare; the Malang came to the cemetery, told the girl to live in the grave; the horse tells me to run; they come to the city, the girl pretends to be a young man, she is friendly with the prince; he suspects deception; one day the maid enters when the imaginary young man is sleeping; the girl marries the prince; the husband hooted, the wife gave birth to twin sons; the Malang replaces the messenger's letters twice: allegedly, the wife gave birth to two lizards, and her husband tells her to be driven away; in the forest, a malang attacked her, but the tied horse pulled her out, killed the malang and died herself; dying, ordered her body parts to be scattered and climbed into her womb; garden and palace around in the morning; the prince found his wife, everything is fine]: Porozhnyakov 1989:22-27; kafirs (prasun) [Mundschem Malik has two unloved wives; he rides a horse, meets a woman, marries, puts her on the golden throne, leaves her a bell; witch wives torment her, she rings the bell, MM comes back, tells her not to ring for no reason; she gives birth to a golden-haired boy and a girl; witch wives spoil a bell, throw children into the bulls' barn, tell their mother that she did not give birth to anyone; in the morning, children sit on a bull's horn, witch wives throw them in a chest into the river; the river wants to carry to the mythical Lake Sujum Sur in the upper reaches, the boy tells them to be carried down to the meadows of Mary; Mara picks up the children, his witch wife pretends to be sick, asks for medicine from her mother, gives a letter; Amawal-Ra replaces the letter, the grandmother does not kill the boy, accepts it with honor; he demands to scoop up water with a barley sieve, pour it into a millet sieve, bring it to him; at this time he takes his nose mother (MM cut it off because his wife did not give birth) and a bird from the shelf (this is the receptacle of the old woman and her daughter's soul); the boy is hereinafter called Munjem Malik; goes up the river with Mara; sends Mara back , tells him to wait for him in the fall with six Prasun villages; comes to Kuschteki, asks his mother to bring a bucket of ploughing, throws there the ring his mother put on his finger when he was born; the mother gladly rushes to him, he pushes her away because she did not breastfeed him; attaches her nose to her; runs his finger over an empty bucket, it is filled with colostrum, tells his mother to drink it, drinks it herself; turns into a baby, sucks milk splashing from his mother's breasts; becoming a young man again, he goes to take revenge on his father; kills, paves a valley above him; earthquakes occur when he moves]: Snoy 1962:91-93 ( =Yettmar 1986:74).

Baltoscandia. Karelians: Onegin 2010, No. 43 [roughly like Schreck 1887]: 390-396; Schreck 1887, No. 11 [in Goldberg 1953:53-71, this text is classified as Finnish, although it is clearly stated that it is from Russian Karelia; witch - Syöjätär; brief summary in Heartland 1894, No. 2:321; in the forest, the older sister promises to cook food for the king from several grains, the middle sister promises to cook food from several bundles of hemp his clothes, the youngest to give birth to 9 sons in three pregnancies; the Queen heard and married his youngest; when she gave birth to the first three boys, the midwife witch replaced them with crow chicks, hid the children on a meadow under a white stone; the next time she replaced crows with chicks, the third time for herons; however, the woman in labor hid two children, gave the witch only one, which she hid under the same stone; queen left his wife in an iron barrel into the sea, not knowing that her two sons were with her; three years later they grew up; the barrel was thrown onto the island, the boys asked God to break it, went outside; a pike swam up and told them get a hat and a handkerchief out of her belly; they hit her with a hat, a palace and a stone bridge appeared to their father's kingdom; a beggar came, fed him, he came back, told the Queen what he saw; he understood everything brought back his wife and sons; they hit them with a hat, the palace and bridge behind them disappeared; the young men decided to find the rest of their brothers; the mother gave them bread baked with her milk; brothers at the top of the spruce they saw a seagull; one wanted to shoot it, the other stopped him; the seagull: don't shoot, I'll be useful; so three times; by the seashore, the seagull put the young men on its back, carried it; dived three times to experience this The same fear she felt when they aimed at her; on the other side, the brothers took out a pike handkerchief, it began to turn around, they followed to the fir forest; there is a big bird at the top of the fir tree; she sent further; the brothers entered the house, there was a woman; she said that seven brothers swim like swans and became human at night; sent them to the next house; the mistress of that said that the brothers were on target; it was necessary go quietly and burn the swan clothes left in the yard; they did it; nine went home after the handkerchief; two gave the seven brothers bread with breast milk; all returned home; feast]: 85 -97; Concca 1959, No. 29 (Louhi District, 1956) [The prince marries one of three sisters who promises to have nine sons; Syöjätar is a midwife, replacing nine boys with three piglets and six puppies, or three boys crow, crow, magpie]: 128-133 (brief retelling in Hako 1956:57-58); Finns (Vuokkiniemi) [parents died, brother brought his wife, she turned out to be a witch, decided to lime his loving sister; slaughtered the cattle, said his sister did it; the next time she cut the dishes; killed her baby for the third time; the brother left her sister on the island, cutting off hands; she ate berries and fruits; the Queen found her and married her; went on business, stayed at that witch's house; a messenger came with a letter: the wife gave birth to a beautiful boy; the witch changed the letter: gave birth to a puppy; the Queen's letter was replaced by an order to throw the mother and child in a barrel into the sea; three years later, the barrel was thrown onto a rock; the boy broke the barrel, it was washed away by a wave; the mother turned to God, her too washed away, but washed ashore; the pike asks her not to kill; sent her to where sea foam returned the woman's hands; rubbed the foam with her hands - the child returned; they came to the house, which turned out to be brother's house the woman and her husband was there; she was not recognized; asked the boy to tell a story; he ordered a watchman to be placed in the doorway so that no one could go out; told the story to his mother; everything is fine; the witch was tied to stallion's tail]: Schreck 1887, No. 12:98-107; Veps [three sisters came to the bathhouse in the evening to scratch flax; Ivan Tsarevich overhears in the waiting room; eldest: if I. married me, then from the same fiber she would weave three different dresses; medium: three different breads from one dough; the youngest: she would give birth to three heroes, each with one golden hair, the other silver; I. married the youngest; she gives birth, asks to take Baba Yaga as a midwife; she goes out to meet her halfway twice, says that they have all the baba yagi; she replaced three children with three puppies, the children (threw them away) in the field; the second time the wife of two children gave them to wash in the bathhouse, and hid the third under her right chest; I. put his wife in an iron barrel, threw him at Onego, married Baba Yaga's daughter; 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 with the second at birth; at third, the queen hid one under her breast and it was announced that she had given birth to only two piglets; she and the hidden boy were 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, according to his word, a beautiful house appears, a river with oatmeal and fresh milk flowing; 8 brothers; they eat and drink; they say they have neither father nor mother; then father comes; feast]: Kettunen, Sibo 1935, No. 55:115-121; Estonians (Tartu; mainly in southern Estonia) [three sisters flax is collected, the passing king draws 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, and a star above the 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 that the daughter-in-law gave birth to a son with a wolf's head, bear paws, and a fox tail; the king orders to expel his wife from her as an offspring; mother-in-law lowers them in a barrel into the sea; the bird brings them food, the son grows up; knocks out the bottom of the barrel at the shore; hears people that the king will marry again, provided that the nuts from the barrel become themselves jump out in pairs; the son goes to the king, tells his story, nuts pop up all the time; as the story progressed, a month, a sun, a star appeared on his body; the king called his wife and stayed with her]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 104:341-343; Seto: Normann, Tampere 1989 [father disappeared in the swamp; three sisters are crying, the king saw a stream of tears, went to the source, brought the sisters to him; the eldest promised rye grain feed the army, the middle one to dress him with fur, the youngest to give birth to a son with the sun on the back of his head, a month in his forehead, stars on his body; the king marries her, she gave birth to two twins with promised signs, asked the birds to convey the message to the king, the raven flew; the older sister took the children to the swamp window, where the girls' father disappeared, replaced them with puppies; the same for the second time, a crow flew; the third time one son asked his mother to hide it under her arm, the king ordered his wife to be thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel was nailed to an empty island, the son knocked out the bottom; the old man gave them a willing staff, a feather to fly on; the royal the nobleman visits the island three times; each time his wife's sister says that there is a greater miracle; a young man who has arrived on a pen overhears, tells the staff to carry this miracle to his palace; 1) a golden pig with silver piglets; 2) an oak tree on which a cat tells fairy tales; 3) a window in the swamp, from which there are 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; a nobleman tells the story of six such boys on the island, the king goes to see for himself, brings his wife and sons; his wife's sister was thrown into the sea in a barrel]: 73-81; Sandra 2004 [when parents die, parents tell their son and daughter not to marry and not to marry; the son's godfather is St. Mary, her daughter has St. Nicholas; the son still takes his wife, moves his sister to the closet; the wife decides to lime her; kills piglets, tells her husband that his sister did it; the sister swears to St. Nikolai, who is innocent; the same when the wife killed sheep; cows; horses; then killed her newborn child; then the brother took her sister to the forest and cut off her hands, hung them around her neck; sister came to a wealthy house, there are apple trees, she began to eat apples; the old woman noticed asking her merchant son to guard the thief; he grabbed the girl, persuaded her mother to leave her in the house; the mother gave her son a hundred rubles to find a wife; he He spent the money, did not find a suitable bride; so three times; then his mother told him to take the handless; the son left on business, his mother wrote to him that his wife had given birth to a girl; she sent a letter through his friend, and this was just right there was a handless brother; his wife found the letter, replaced him with another, writing that his wife gave birth to a puppy; answering, the husband tells him to wait for him to return; the evil sister replaces the letter again, telling the puppy to hang it from his neck daughters-in-law and drive her out; mother-in-law hung the baby with her severed hands, which seemed alive; the woman came to the sea, asked God to pick her up, wanted to throw herself into the sea; an old man came out she stuck her hands, she took the child in them; came to her brother, he did not recognize her; her husband was there; she began to tell her story; her brother's wife tried in vain to prevent her; she was tied to the horse's tail ( huu hanna otsa) and let her go around the world; a blue stone and a walnut bush beat her for another nine years until nothing was left of her (voolits' tõist viil perrä ütesä aastakka kooni ar lõppi)]: 226-231; Sutrop 2018, No. 18 [brother's wife tyrannites an orphan girl; she was left in the woods; she came to the house of four brothers, who made her sister; her brother's wife found out, came, gave the girl poisoned clothes; the brothers came, took off their clothes, the girl came to life; the same for the second time; the third time she put a ring on the girl's finger; the brothers did not notice the ring, put the girl in the coffin and took her to the chapel; the prince went in, took off the ring, the girl came to life; the prince married her; inherited the throne; the wife gave birth when he was away; the brother's wife replaced the letter with the message that the wife had given birth to a puppy; the king ordered the wife and offspring to be put in a barrel and throw into the sea; the boy grew up quickly; knocked down the bottom, they ended up on the island; the son and the king met, everything was fine, his brother's wife was executed]: 968-970; Lutsie (Western 1933, told in Russian) [the tsar was walking, playing the cantel; once did not return; three daughters went looking, 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; those they say; the prince asks what each of the sisters would do if he took her; the eldest: she would feed the whole country with one pea; the middle one: one oatmeal - all horses; the 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 joined the army; the wife gave birth to 12 sons, wrote a letter; the messenger stopped in the hut, the enchantress changed letter: 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 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; Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:94-100 [the witch agrees to marry his master if he burns 12 sons from his first wife; he burns 12 dogs, sons hide in the cellar; a witch turns them into crows; their younger sister has grown up, she has been told about her brothers; she takes 12 pairs of clothes, 12 sheets and pillowcases, asks about her brothers from a hermit, who sends to his middle brother, the middle one to his older brother; the hermit summons clouds, the middle brother winds, the elder sends birds; only a lame eagle says that the brothers are on the top of the mountain, they are great at night ; helps her sister climb the mountain; she cleans up in the absence of her brothers, bites off each bread, opens on the third night; brothers say that since she hurried to find them, they will be crows for another 12 years old, all this time she must be silent; they leave her on the top of the spruce; the king finds her, marries her; she gives birth three times, each time the witch replaces the boy with a puppy; they want to burn the king's wife, at this time The 12-year sentence ends, the brothers arrive, become human, bring the three boys they raised, the sister is saved, the witch is burned], 136-140 [the queen gives birth to a son, then a daughter; the king's mother lowers they are in boxes into the river, replaced by cats; a fisherman picks up children, the boy has three golden hairs, the girl has three stars behind her ear; other children tell them that they were caught in the river, they go to look parents, live in the garden; the king's mother, disguised as a beggar, advises them to get bells from an enchanted castle, goldfish, a bird thing; the young man brings a bell and a fish, turns into a glass in bird castle; an old woman teaches her sister to save her brother, she grabs a bird and glass, runs out of the castle, the glass becomes people; the bird thing tells the king the truth, the Queen Mother was thrown in a box into the river], 141-143 [three sisters rinse their clothes; the eldest promises to 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, his sister replaces him as if she gave birth to a half-dog; the king orders the newborn to go to sea in a barrel, the queen tie him to millstones; when he returns, promises to hand over the kingdom to someone who counts nuts in the barrel; the boy (picked him up, raised by a beggar) begins to count, tells his story; the queen is untied from millstones, feast]; 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 her with a slice of bread the army, the youngest gave birth to a son, the sun in the forehead, the moon on the back of his head, covered in stars; the queen took the youngest; she gave birth to the promised son; the messenger stopped in the forest hut; lauma lived there, replaced by a letter: the dog for forehead, knot on 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; made for the baby a glass coffin and let it go along the river; the beggar found it, raised it, the young man became a shepherdess; the king promises to make the son of someone who counts the barrel as a nut; the son of a beggar takes out the nuts in pairs and by At the same time, he 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 [the king went out into town in the evening; hears three seamstress sisters talking; if the royal footman took her, she would eat pies; average: if the royal chef took her, she would eat different dishes; youngest: if the king took it, I would dress well done; the king passed off his older sisters to a footman and cook, married his youngest; the king went to war; the queen had a son, his sisters threw him into the river, swaddled the dog; the gardener saved the baby; the king ordered the dog to be released; the same next time (kitten); the third time a daughter was born; the gardener took her too; the king was told that his wife gave birth to a tree; he ordered her to be enclosed in a glass pole passing by don't care about her and tease her; the gardener is dead, the children are grown; a nun to a girl when she is alone at home: you miss a talking bird, a tree singing and playing, yellow water; you have to go 12 months before the old man on the road, he will tell you what to do next; his older brother went; the old man gave a ball, we must follow him, climb the mountain, don't turn around if they frighten him; he turned around, turned into a coal pole and rolled down the mountain; middle brother is the same; sister went, did not turn around, there is a bird with a long neck on the mountain, 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; girl revived many people, the last brothers; the bird ordered to break off the twig - the tree would grow out of it; there will be a lot of yellow water; the king meets the brothers three times, asks them to talk to them sister, they forget twice, he gives them three golden bullets, they fell out of their jackets, the brothers remembered; the sister tells the king to come to visit; the bird tells them to serve cucumbers, but take out the seeds from them and replace with beads; the king is surprised; the bird in the cage: if cucumbers with beads cannot grow, then the woman cannot give birth to a dog, cat and tree; the king returns the queen and children to the palace; the elders sisters were torn apart by horses; cannons were fired at the feast; they put me in a gun, shot, I flew here]: Kerbelite 2021, No. 29:204-212; Latvians [three girls promise if they marry king: the first is to dress all subjects with linen fiber, the second is to feed the entire kingdom with one grain, the third is to give birth to many sons; the king marries the third; when sons are born, the sisters report that little animals were born; the queen and her last son are put in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the son grows up rapidly and gets out of the barrel with his mother to the island; receives magic items from the old man, builds a house, a bridge; sailors tell the king about the miracles on the island; the son, turning into a fly (bird), goes with the sailors; the sister of the queen thrown into the sea, now the queen herself, says that in others There are even greater miracles in the region: a magic tree on which a cat sings songs when going up, and going down, makes riddles, tells fairy tales; a magic hog that fattens itself, 11 magical sons who must be fed cakes mixed with breast milk; the son brings 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 a wife and sons; sisters are punished]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 707:312; Icelanders [the peasant has three daughters; saw the young king accompanied by his scribe and shoemaker; the eldest says she would marry a shoemaker, the middle to a scribe, 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 changed the child as a puppy and threw him into the trash pit; one person pulled the baby out of the garbage dump, and the other picked him up and raised him; the same happened to the second (replaced by a kitten) and the third (replaced with a log) babies; the eldest is Wilhelm, the middle is Sigurd, the youngest is a girl; the queen was thrown into a cage with the lion, but did not eat her, but shared food with her; after the death of the teacher, the brothers and sister were left alone; want to know about her origin; one person said that there is a bird sitting on a stone, it will tell; but those who came to her turned into stone; you can't pay attention to what was happening around her; W. went; three days later drops of blood on S.'s knife - trouble with V.; S. went, the same with him; his sister went, did not turn to the brothers' voices; the bird gives living water to revive the petrified; tells the story of the mother of the brothers and sister; they the mother was freed, brought home, changed clothes; the mother's sisters were abandoned by a lion; the brothers' sister married the prince, whom she 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; Norwegians [the Queen has a drop of blood from her nose falling on the snow; she wants a daughter white as snow, red as blood, ready to give her 12 sons for it; a trollich promises to fulfill her wish, will pick up her sons as soon as her daughter is around; the Queen orders a silver spoon for her sons and daughters; sons turn into wild ducks, fly away; daughters are sad that she has no brothers; her mother tells her the truth, she goes looking for her brothers; finds a home in the woods, secretly cooks and cleans; 12 ducks fly in, become princes; they take their silver spoons, see another one, understand that the sister is near; the elder offers to kill her because she is to blame for their transformation, the youngest says she is not to blame; the brothers find her under the bed; the eldest promises to save her life if she is for them will help; the sister must hide the thistle fluff, sew 12 shirts, 12 capes, 12 scarves, then the brothers will find a human forever; before that she cannot talk, laugh or cry; when she collects fluff , the prince takes her away, marries her; the prince's stepmother hates her; throws her child into a hole with snakes, cuts her finger, smears her mouth with blood, says that she ate the baby; so three times; the prince agrees to have his wife burned; the clothes for the brothers are ready, only the younger brother's shirt does not have one sleeve; the youngest is reborn without an arm; the sister can talk, explains everything; the stepmother was torn apart by 12 horses; three children were found alive in the hole and healthy]: Dasent 1970:51-59 (=Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:187-189); Swedes (Smaland) [the prince is predicted that his future wife will give birth to 12 twins; no one wants a similar fate, only the maid agrees; the prince's mother replaces the children with puppies; the wife and her offspring must be burned, but she escapes and another woman with dolls is burned; the children have gold chains around their necks; when the prince's mother they are kidnapped, the brothers turn into crows; only one keeps the chain, remains human; the old man gives him a whistle that allows him to complete any task; one of them is to make a golden crown; completing tasks, he finds chains and restores the brothers to their human form; together with his mother, the brothers come to the castle when the king is going to take another wife; the king returns the first, the Queen Mother Judges herself: she was torn apart by horses]: Christiansen 1959:119; the Danes [the king is childless; the old woman promises to help, tells the Queen to send someone to her; send a boy, an old woman gives him a box, tells him not to open it on the way; he is tired, hungry, opened it; there is herring; he ate it, lost consciousness; when he came to his senses, a baby was nearby; the boy ran away in horror; the raven brought the baby in his nest; this is a girl; he fed her; another king lives nearby; his young son is hunting; the horse is restless; companions notice something in the tree, the servant takes the girl out of the crow's nest; she She grows well, is cheerful and intelligent, but does not speak; the prince became king; the girl grew up and he married her; his mother hates her, calls her a crow; the king went to war, the queen gave birth to a boy; mother the king was replaced by a puppy, and the baby's box was thrown into the sea; the woman picked him up; the same for the second time (replaced him with a lamb); the third (kitten); the king orders to expel the queen; she hears the maid explains to the Queen Mother: in order for the young queen to speak, she must lick the dew on the night of Ivanov Day, that is, tomorrow; she does this, leaves with her servants; asks other kings riddles, talking about her origin; they can't figure it out, they give her more servants; she comes to the woman who raised her sons; they have one eye at a time; the mother rubs their eyes with a handkerchief with three drops of blood on it (these are her tears, who became blood); the boys become fully sighted; everything was clarified, the Queen's mother was burned in the stove]: Grundtvig 1879:146-160 (=1920:116-124).

Volga - Perm. Mordva: Anikin 1909 in Aleshkin 1989 (Erzya) [the royal son overheard the conversation of the poor widow's three daughters; the eldest says that if the royal son married her, she would dress a regiment from one spindle soldier; medium: she would bake bread that she would feed two regiments in one piece; youngest: she would give birth to 12 sons, the sun was in her forehead, the moon at the back of her head, stars at the ends of the hair, iron strength, the will is stone, the heart 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 to shackle the queen and the 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, causes 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 the wonderful objects; the son invites fishermen to the table; then, becoming a mosquito, he sails on their ship to his 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; the 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 of leaves; 11 fellows with the sun in his forehead (etc.); the young man goes to look for his brothers, meets a bird, which brings him to the hut, he hides, puts 12 pies on the table; the brothers recognize each other, they return to their mother, the king comes there, returns his wife, drives the liar away with a samobile baton]: 231-237); Samorodov 1972 [Vardine (a semi-mythical creature, an evil envious girl, ragged) teases Anyuta that she does not have an older brother; her mother says that there are two in another village; gives beautiful clothes, leaves her spit on her, he will call for help; V. offers A. swim, put on her clothes; the third time the spit is washed off, the mother does not hear a cry for help; the brothers take V. for A.; the real A. tells the birds to peck for the chaff, and V. tells the grain to bite; the brothers hear A. complains for a month; ties V. to the stallion's tail; the brothers' wives kill the horse, son A., accuse her; brother leaves A. in the forest with his fingers in oak; fingers and clothes rot, A. lives in a hollow; master's son she marries her, he is taken as a soldier; she gives birth to a son with an iron heel, a stone crown, a moon on the back of her head, the sun on his head; (A.'s letter to her husband seems to be replaced); the husband tells that by his return, no wife , there was no son; father-in-law ties the child to A.'s chest, drives him away; the old man tells him to put his hands in the river, his fingers grow back; A. meets her husband, then brother, tells his story]: 252-261; (cf. Devyatkina 1998 [Tyushtya (Moksh. Tyashte, Erz. Teshte - Star) is a mythological character, later the head of the Mokshi and Erzi tribes; in early folklore stories - a positive character, in later stories - a negative character; he is born with iron heels, a stone crown, wire-wrapped knees, the sun is on his forehead, a month on the back of his head, holy stars at the ends of his hair; young people turn into a new moon, with the decreasing moon an old man; lives on a mountain at sunrise, the richest; a plowman and a warrior; earlier in the 17th century - a strict and just king, later - cowardly; he will return to fight enemies, the whole world will die in this war]: 264-267); 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 - 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 the swan girl he released, establishes a kingdom of miracles; the prince goes look at miracles and meets his wife and children; the perpetrators are punished]: Chetkarev in Sabitov 1989, No. 707:41; the Udmurts [the merchant's son became angry with his sister, cut off her hands; saw her, married her another merchant son; the wife gave birth to a boy when her husband left; his stepmother wrote to him that his wife had given birth to a puppy; he told him to wait for him to return; the stepmother changed the letter: drive the wife away by tying the puppy to her chest; The stepmother threw her real son into the water; driven out to drink, the puppy fell into the water; the woman cried: who is a puppy, and I have a child; an old man appeared: the dog's death; took the boy out and told me to go, where he would go, do not look into the houses on the way, even if they were called; the boy brought him to the old woman; two merchant sons also came there; the boy's mother made a riddle by which one recognized her as his sister and the other - wife]: Potanin 1884:229-230; Komi (Izhma residents) [the old man has a daughter, his wife died, he took a new one, she has his own daughter; stepmother tells me to get rid of his stepdaughter; the father left his daughter in the forest; a hunter found her, married; he left; the wives of his two brothers hate the new one; when she gave birth, the brothers' wives wrote that an animal was born; they changed her husband's letter: to drive out his wife, cut off her hands, and kill the child; the old man ordered to wash in the stream, the child was lying on the grass; his hands grew back, the child came to life; the hunter was told that his wife and son had died, he married again; his wife and son came to him, they recognized each other; daughters-in-law were executed]: Yermolov 1959:126 -127; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 18 [the stepmother ordered his stepdaughter to be expelled; the rich man took her as his youngest wife; when he leaves, the eldest promises to sew a shirt, the youngest to give birth to a boy with the girl; the eldest agreed with the old woman to replace the children with puppies, let them down the river in the chest; the fishermen caught him; the husband returned, ordered his wife and the puppies to be put in prison at the gate, who should pass through her knock; wolves chased her husband, an unrecognized grown son shot them; the old woman persuaded his sister to send his brother to bring his wife a mermaid; the horse helps do this; the old woman: you need a milk lake;" self-playing record" (same; a record in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on an oak tree in the middle of the lake; the egg fell into the water, the old woman called fish, brought one); a fiery accordion; the young man took it out, only the horse burned down; the old man changed it to a baton that hits himself; the young man put a baton at him, took the accordion; he also received a reviving carpet, revived the horse; the mermaid wife told everything; the eldest wife and old woman were executed, the youngest returned], 24 [stepmother tells her husband to take three stepdaughters to the forest; father tied a mallet to the birch tree, she knocks in the wind, the girls think he is still cutting wood; they come to Mustan the witch; the eldest answers, that she slept to her mother's right, the middle one to the left, the youngest on the stove; throws salt into the chimney, the fire goes out, M. can't make a fire to cook the girls; they drowned M.'s daughter, ran away; throw the sharpener (mountain) , comb (thicket), mirror (sea); said M. that they swam across, tied a stone to their pants; M. drowned; the son of the padishah married the youngest, two viziers to the eldest and middle; the eldest promises to dress the whole city, average - feed everyone with the meat of one bull, the youngest - to give birth to a child with silk hair, pearl teeth, silver ass; the elders did not fulfill their promise; replaced the baby with a puppy, gave the child fisherman {it is further 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 maimed; sisters and their husbands were hanged]: 171-181, 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, pulled the girls out; the eldest promised to sew clothes for the whole army with one thread, the middle one to feed the whole army with one cake all the army, the youngest is to give birth to a son and a daughter with golden hair and silver teeth; the elders have fulfilled their promise, but envy the youngest that the padishah chose her as his wife; the padishah has left, the wife has given birth to children, sisters they 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, everyone should not care about her, took the older sisters palace; the children have grown up, the sisters have caused illness to their sister, she will be cured 1) a black horse; the old man tells you to whip the horse, grab the mane; 2) get a milk lake with a golden duck; the horse brings to the lake, tells whistle, the lake is transferred to the young man's house; 3) get Altyncech ("gold-haired") as a friend to his sister; brought the horse, A. screamed, the young man brought her home; she orders him to save his mother; children, then padishah, crawling to a woman on her knees; she forgives her husband; sisters tied to horse tails]: 95-102 (=Marchenko 1993:217-226); Bashkirs [when leaving, bai asks four wives what they will prepare for him return; 1) every day I will shoot a sparrow with 40 ribs, feed it 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; everything fulfilled their promises; before returning, the bai replaced the babies with a black puppy, his mother and 40 servants were sent to the forest, the children were thrown under the feet of the 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 arm and leg, gouge out his eye, lock the puppy in a deaf log house; the puppy got out, saw a man looking for his way to bay; the woman promises to show the way if he cuts a hole in the log house; puppy brought the man to the bay, hid and overheard the conversation; the man talks about the log house; the elder wife: this is not a miracle, near the lake a mare is screwing at every step, drinking at a watering hole on the lake; a black puppy returns to his mother, asks for a halter, brings a mare, followed by a herd; everything repeats itself; the second wife: diamonds and yakhonts are at the top of the mountain; the puppy overhears again quietly; asks the mother 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 in the sand; mother's puppy: give me a nightmare, four horns of milk: goat, cow, mare, their own; the boys began to play the nightmare when they drank mother's milk, fell asleep; the puppy brings their mother, the baja is invited to visit, he understood everything; the eldest wife was offered 9 mares or 9 arb firewood; she I like 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 her ass was lakes; the second wife chose firewood, she was burned; the third 9 mares were tied to their tails]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343.

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: Brudny 1954 [Khan has 40 wives, no children; he met three girls; one can embroider skullcaps, the other can feed the inhabitants of the ail with a pinch of oatmeal, the third promises to give birth to a boy with golden legs, a girl with silver legs, their footprints will also be gold and silver; Khan married his youngest sister; 40 wives ask a witch to prevent her from having children; she threw a chest of children at gorge, replaced with puppies; khan ordered his wife and puppies to be taken to the island; once he hunted, met a boy with golden legs, a girl with silver legs; the witch was beaten, she confessed, she was thrown off a cliff, each wives were tied to a horse's tail and let them into the steppe]: 115-117; Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981 [the childless khan has forty wives; he hears three sisters talking; the eldest promises to sew many hats, the middle one feed a pinch of oatmeal to the inhabitants of the whole ail, the youngest to give birth to a boy with gold legs, a girl with silver legs; the khan marries the youngest; wives ask the witch to replace newborns with puppies, a chest with throw children into the gorge; tells Khan, who tells him to leave his wife with puppies on a far island; a female maral raised children; the khan notices gold and silver tracks in the mountains, beats a witch, she confesses in what he did; the khan returns his wife (she ate the hare that dogs brought her) and children, drives the rest of the wives away, throws the witch off a cliff]: 96-97 (=Ledenev 1987:69-72); Kyrgyz [daughter Khan Kuluke Madylgen cut and sewed a fur coat from the intestines of lice to her father; the khan could not determine what it was made of; when the daughter explained, the khan announced that he would give his daughter to someone who could figure out what the fur coat was made of; the old man with with red eyes he said that the intestines were lice; the khan had to give his daughter; the horse told M. to take with her, the white camel and slave Kuyta, a sable hat from clothes, a damask knife from utensils, and to dress in men's clothes; when we left, the old man said: "Go where I pull along, spend the night where I pull across," went forward; the horse: this is the old sorcerer Jelmoguz; the horse told me not to turn around - the old man would attack Kuita with a black-striped tiger; that's what happened; then the old man appeared and asked: "Are you going, beautiful Madylgen? Go where I pull along, spend the night where I pull across", drove forward again; it happened again with the white camel; now the horse warned that the old man would attack M., told me to sit tight; he would ride below the cloudy sky, above the cranked grass, so that M. closes her eyes more tightly, and when she hears "open your eyes", let her open it; she will see how thin (like a dorsal) yurt curls out of a small (like a heart) yurt brain) smoke, this is the old man's house; in the old man's house, a three-year-old warned M. that when the old man comes home, his eyes will come out; you need to cut them out with a damask knife, let him do the rest; horse flew over mountains and deserts, descended near the city, M. settled on its outskirts; the city's khan named Akimkan had forty wives, but not a single child; he went hunting, his hunting eagle sat on a grass hut, the horseman sent for the eagle saw M., fell unconscious; when he returned, he told Khan that he had seen an angel in the flesh: boy, but the voice is gentle, his face is beautiful, girl, but dressed like a man; the next day everything repeated, the khan went to the third, fell in love, but could not determine whether the man or the woman was in front of him; asked for advice from 40 wives, one advised to give the stranger 40 twigs of meadowsweet and instruct them to cut them off for spindles, the man cuts smoothly, the woman is uneven; the horse: put the rods in the left nostril, pull them out of the right nostril, they will become smooth; another wife advised to arrange jumps; the man has sleeves and floors they flutter at random, and the girl will ride shyly, picking them up and pulling them up; the horse taught M. to dissolve the floors and sleeves when jumping; the younger wife advised to invite a stranger to drink vodka and poison guest, and Khan's vodka and honey; when the guest gets drunk, it will be easy to determine his gender; horse: at every sip, say to yourself: "Sweetness to me, and hops to a gray three-year-old"; in the afternoon, one elder went into the yurt and exclaimed: "It is cruel to allow the horse to experience such torment, let the owner cut it himself"; when she heard him, M. shuddered, her sable hat fell from her head and everyone saw her beautiful hair; horse:" Blame only yourself" and disappeared; A. married M. in a separate yurt; when it was time for her to give birth, A. went hunting; 40 wives sent a slave, paid a witch, who replaced the boy who was born and the girl was puppies, the children were thrown into the river; they were caught by a gray three-year-old who rushed; Akimkan left M. with her puppies on a deserted island; a few years later, a three-year-old brought her children to M. on the island, ordered cross to the other side; "Before the crossing, an eyeless old magician will appear, ask him to be transported too, led to fill both of his boots with sand; seat the children in front and the old man in the back; when we enter the water, hit me with a damask knife; when the old man falls into the water, stab my belly with a knife, when I die, don't cry, cook my meat and eat it, name my son Aitomush, and my daughter Kyuntomush; stick my 40 ribs in the ground they will turn into an iron yurt with 40 bars, live in it"; as it happened, M. and her children settled in a yurt, Aytomush grew up as a hero; met Akimkan, who hunted; he told his wives that he had met a young man named Aitomush; soon the khan was attacked by enemies, he sent a messenger to Aitomush with the news that if he defeated his enemies, he would marry two girls, Apal and Yupel; M. drove the messenger away; his khan again sent - the same; Aitomush woke up from the noise, drove and defeated enemies; Khan with horsemen came to him, saw M., found out and fell unconscious; took her and her children; an old witch at the crossroads of 9 roads put on a stake, 40 wives hanged; Khan put his son on the throne, married his daughter and healed happily]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:27-34; Kyrgyz [the old man and the old woman have seven goats and three daughters; the old man is angry for daughters: they drank all the milk from the goats, he and the old woman did not get it; tells the old woman to get rid of their daughters; finds currant bushes, brings home a few twigs with berries; daughters they eat, they want more; the old man suggests going with him for berries, tells the old woman to make three leather buckets without a bottom; takes his daughters to the currant bushes, suggests filling the buckets with berries as long as she is chopped brushwood; fits the ratchet like an ax sounds, leaves, migrates with the old woman and goats; one of the girls discovers that the buckets are bottomless, patches it up with branches and grass, the buckets are filled; girls go to the sound of an ax, find a ratchet, hurry home; in search of parents, they search the neighborhood, stumble upon a house in which an exhausted girl; he explains that the old cannibal woman ate everyone and her keeps blood to drink; girls run to the station, find their father's whetstone there, throw him, the whetstone becomes a rock; the cannibal chases, overcomes the rock for a long time; the girls find a comb at the station, that turns into a forest; then a mirror turns into a lake; the cannibal asks how they ended up on the other side, girls; swam across, tying trousers on their ankles and filling them with sand; the cannibal follows advice and drowns; girls are found by a childless khan with 40 wives, asks what their skills are; the eldest: can feed many people with a handful of oatmeal; medium: sew clothes from one sheepskin and dress a lot people; youngest: to give birth to her husband a boy and a girl with golden heads and silver tasks; khan the youngest, marries the youngest; when the wife is going to give birth, the khan goes hunting, demands that a messenger be sent to him with with news; 40 wives hire a witch, who throws children in a box into the river, replaces them with puppies; two messengers arrive to the khan, the first speaks about the birth of children, the second speaks of puppies; the khan orders his wife and puppies to be sealed in a bucket and hang it on a tree; the girls' parents live on the bank of this river; the old woman discovers that goats come with an empty udder, accuses the old man: he killed his daughters and now drinks all the milk; the old man watching goats, they take turns falling to a drawer, children suck goats in the drawer; old people bring children, slaughter one goat in joy; children grow up, the old man plants barley for them, life is getting better, they they install a golden pole in the yard; the old khan, hunting, stumbles upon old men with children, complains that even lonely old people have found children, but he has not; he misses at home; 40 wives suspect that this is not without reason they accuse the witch, demand that she deal with the children; the witch comes to the children, tells the young man that it would be good to tie a golden horse to the golden pole; the sister dissuades his brother, who is stubborn , then the sister teaches how to master the horse; the brother gets it; the khan meets the children again; the witch also advises you to find the Sapan-Tash stone, which makes wishes come true; then you can get subjects to form a khanate and make the young man's old father a khan; the sister first dissuades, then teaches the brother; he takes possession of the stone and the girl she marries; with the help of the stone, the twins appear subjects, a khanate is created, an old kozopaz becomes khan, and a golden bridge is being built across the river to the khan's estate with 40 wives; brother and sister visit the khan, bring him a cart of gold, in exchange they ask a bucket hanging on a tree; the khan, who has already forgotten what is in it, gives it to the twins; the mother of the twins is half-dead in the bucket, she is brought to life; the khan comes to visit, intending to ask the young man for permission adopt his sister, recognizes his wife, he is told everything; the khan tied 40 wives to immense horses, and also executes a witch; a young man with a golden head and a silver ass becomes the khan of two khanates]: Ruslan Doutaliev, personal report. May 17, 2020: retelling of the audio recording of the fairy tale "Zheti Echkilu Abyshka Zhana Kempir" (Old Man and Old Woman with Seven Goats) performed by J. Alymbayeva, Department of Manuscripts and Publications of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, date of recording September 10, 1984, inventory No. 1a (2), recording time 31 minutes); Kyrgyz (Naryn Region, Zhumgal District, 1959) [rich and powerful Khan Aydarkan is childless; he goes with horsemen to meet three girls; the eldest replies that she can sew clothes for 40 horsemen per night, the average 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 a silver ass; the khan marries the youngest, gives birth to the oldest two as viziers; the eldest and middle have fulfilled their promises; the youngest gives birth when hunting; 40 Khan's wives a witch was bribed, she replaced newborns with puppies, threw the children into a groundhog hole, stoned her, Khan is told 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 of Perishte (creatures, in the manner of a European hidden people) in his youth, with courage and strength got the Gray Rifle and the Gray Pacer there; childless; Gray pacer does not give Ride himself; trying to jump on him, Akmat finds himself at a stoned hole, hears crying, finds children, brings his wife, has a feast, among the guests is Khan Aydarkan; the children have grown up, the son is no worse Akmata, Akmat himself and his wife died, brother and sister stayed in their house; brother uses a Gray Gun, rides a Grey Pacer; he meets Khan Aidarkan while hunting, he envies the hero and is sad that he himself 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 transplant a white apple tree, 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 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, the sister is happy; the young man meets the khan hunting again, he returns home upset again, 40 wives send a witch finish what you started; a witch in the city of Perishte has a tree with three parrots sitting on its branches: 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 motley parrot; a young man brings a parrot to his sister, who entertains her; after the third meeting between a young man and a khan, 40 wives send a witch to kill his brother together with her sister; in the city of Perishte there is Kulanda, the beautiful daughter of the ruler, let her brother marry her; a voice from the grave; you must openly enter the city of Perishte, because they are afraid of the owner of the Gray Pacer and Gray gun; 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 go out married, but her three brothers cannot share the items left over from her late father; a chapan (will deliver anywhere), a needle (makes it invisible when stuck in the gate), and a pipe (if shaken, a myriad appears army; the young man offers three brothers to race, promises to give items to the winner, hides, taking magic items; meanwhile, the deadline of 40 days expires: the young man warned his sister that if will not return during this time, so he is dead; then the sister and her parrot will commit suicide; the Gray pacer will not have time to deliver on time; Kulanda calls the devas, the Black Dev will deliver overnight, the Gray in half nights, White in a moment; sister and loud parrot are already preparing to take poison; after a while, the Grey Pacer 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 has not gone hunting three times for a long time, he explains, shows an apple tree, a parrot and Kulanda; the khan invites him to visit him; the parrot tells brother and sister that their mother has survived: two puppies have become mighty dogs, bring partridges to the woman; brother and sister bring their mother; Aydarkan tells him to cut off the witch's head and hang 40 wives; all happy]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:35-42; Uighurs [the youngest wife of Kichik-hotun gives birth to a son, the eldest chon-hotun tells us to throw the baby into the lake, replaces him with a puppy; next time she throws the girl away, replaces a kitten; Khan makes Kichik-khotun a maid; the servants left the babies on the shore, the bear raised them; these are Chin Tomyur and Makhtum-Sula; they leave the bear; C. hunts, tells M. not to drive away from a chicken, a dog and a cat, do not extinguish the fire; she drives, the cat and the chicken extinguish the fire; M. sees smoke, comes to the seven-headed yalmauz; she tells her to look in her head, puts a piece of burning dung in her mouth, in her hands grain; nettles and blackthorns grow out of grains on the way, yalmauz follows the trail, sucks blood, threatens not to tell his brother; C. hides, cuts off six heads of Yalmauz, the seventh remains, Yalmauz flies away; the king Dzungaria finds two M. hairs in the river; yalmauz sends him to her; the king takes M.; C. returns to his native country, his father finds out the truth, leaves Jeon-hotun to the wolves, hands over the throne to C.; goes blind in separation from his sister; M. gives birth to sons Akar and Chokar; runs across the river, asks her children to be thrown into the river (so that her blood does not remain in Dzungaria), M. finds C., he sees the light]: Kabirov 1963:227-247; salara (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [when the husband left home, the youngest wife gave birth to a son; the elder wife killed him and buried him in the garden; the returning husband was told that the youngest wife had given birth dog; an oleander flower grew in the place where the child was buried; a cow ate the flower; she became pregnant and calved; the old child appeared; he was not allowed to eat, he went to collect dung; a cow told him to tie the basket to her tail; fill it with manure - this is how she treated the boy to butter and bread; when he got home, he untied the ropes; butter and bread appeared; his elder wife beat him, he confessed where he got the bread from; she drove her son; he tied the basket, but the cow did not fill it; he returned home in the evening, told his mother; she beat his youngest wife's son again]: Tenishev 1964, No. 12: 27-28; Dungans [(summary); when the emperor is away, the Empress gives birth to a son; the courtiers replace him with a cat, the baby is lowered into the river in a box; the emperor orders his wife to be expelled, his friend picks her up, takes his sister; the baby is picked up by a fisherman; the emperor marries a friend's sister, i.e. his own wife, finds a son, everything is explained, the villains are imprisoned]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 26:513-514.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Potanin 1883, No. 84 (Buren-Gol river) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; it turned into Jelbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised their three daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters bottomless buckets, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; they saw a stranger in the yurt, realized that it was J.; went out yard, ran away; threw a comb (turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; a beaver by the river asks the girls what his tail, ribs, teeth are; they praise him, he carries them; J. says that they are worms; Beaver tells him to pick up stones, drops him in the middle of the river, J. drowned; Beaver told his sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by, married them; older sisters promise their husbands sew clothes and covers; the youngest is to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the elders 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 her 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 grass, recovers; cannot lure her son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving a bow and arrow on the shore; gives his milk, tears into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his name is Yer-Saru; seven geese are flying, and when they scream, his mother cuts off her ear and nose, lip; E. shoots, the arrow returns with a human finger; E. meets a khan's shepherd named Buzakai Tarakai, who refuses to marry E. his daughter; E. kills him, takes his form ; khan orders to catch a calf, E. cannot, the khan beats him; tells him to milk the cows, the cow is not given, E. says, "Milk", the milk is milked by itself; the khan orders him to lick the soles of his boots, went to bed; E. smeared them sour cream, dogs licked; gives seven daughters for Jety-tas (Seven Bald Men), but the youngest marries the imaginary B. (i.e. E.); she is more beautiful, only there is no index finger; E. 1) brings a mountain goat's father-in-law, whose outer meat is bitter, the inner meat is sweet (and the second time vice versa); 2) brings three horses Tengri Khan (follows them into the sky along the rainbow); 3) Khan orders to bring a foal, which Khan Garida steals from him every year; E. knocks off the tails of the foal with an arrow and Khan-Garide hides; The Jetytas tell the Khan that they have knocked off their tails; Khan Garide asks E. not to kill him, gives the entire herd of foals and carries his fluff as a sign that he has been killed; the Jetytas are digging a hole, E. falls into it; his horse brings Mengu-kyz, who makes a rope out of her braids, pulls E. out; he returns to Khan in his true heroic appearance, shows his hidden tails; whose an arrow fired into the sky will kill the shooter, falling, that liar; the Jetytas are killed with their arrows; E. and his wife visit their mother; the horse kicked her and killed her; she was buried], 181 [(Kyzyl district; recorded by Shishmarev, who know "Mongolian and Soyot" languages; probably Tuvans, not Soyots in the Irkutsk region); Arolbai-Ego Khan is increasingly returning without a horse; the eldest wife promises to sew a robe and boots, the youngest - to give birth to an assistant hero; the eldest orders to replace the boy born 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 the younger arm, leg, gouged out her eye; she stayed with the old maid; they were attacked by a lame foal; the woman broke her mouse's leg, the bird's wing; they were cured with grass, the woman was also cured; her son came out of the lake play; the old woman fails to catch him for a long time; then he is lured into a bag full of grandmas; the son recognizes his mother when splashes of her milk fall into his mouth; he hunts for larger animals; mother and the old woman is warned not to hunt the iron deer, which AE never defeated, left his knife in it; the boy kills him with an arrow into an uniron-covered spot on his forehead; cuts the meat with his father's knife, from skins make a huge yurt; AE sends people to an old nomadic; only two decide to come up, find a yurt the size of a mountain; a young man sends his father his knife with them; he flies like a bird, finds out that his father admits when he has a name, a heroic horse and a weapon; his mother calls him Hirek-Kirves, the blacksmith Tolon-Aryk-Darkhan gives everything she needs; tells his mother to insert a lamb's eye instead of a gouged one; HC arrives hawk, hears that his father would like him to marry the daughter of the three-headed Killed Hormozd; he kills UH, brings his wife; the father tells him to get the fangs of the monster, his father's lost sword, a net from the bottom of the sea, a great-grandfather's fur coat from the underworld; his wife gives advice on how to do 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; son receives all the inheritance, becomes khan]: 341-348, 600-618; Taube 1978, No. 31 [when the horns of a wild sheep reached the sky and the camel's tail to the ground, the childless Atalbaj Khan asked three wives what they were for him they will cook when he returns; the eldest promised to make a sable hat, the middle one - silk Tonn, the youngest - to give birth to a gold-breasted hero; the older wives did not finish what was promised, and the youngest gave birth a boy who grew by leaps and bounds; the older sister persuaded the younger sister to give it to her before the khan returned, ordered the maid to throw the boy into the steppe under the hooves of goats; the goats did not step on the boy, but warmed up on a cold night; then thrown to evil dogs (the same; horses (the same); then the boy was thrown into White Lake, replaced by a dog; when the khan returned, it bit him; the khan broke the youngest his wife's left arm and right leg, gouged out his eye, migrated with people and horses; her maid remained with the khansha; a mouse came, hansha hit her with a rod, breaking her legs and gouging her eyes; the mouse ate the roots and recovered; khansha did the same and also recovered; the maid said that she saw a wave come to the shore of White Lake, a boy with a golden chest jumped out of the water, sat on a rock and began to play colorful pebbles; then returned to the lake; hansha went with the maid; waited for the boy to come out, rushed to him; he shouted "Oh, my Father Lake, Oh, my Mother Lake, ran to the water, but the mother managed to grab him; the water came after him, but the hansha managed to escape, only part of his clothes got wet; two months later, the boy forgot about the lake and called hanshu his mother; he grew up and his mother told him hers story; he hunted successfully, his mother sewed him a sable hat and a silk Tonn; the maid suggested that the young man's name be Adygshi and his horse's name Ak Öle; a mountain of skins of the dead accumulated near the yurt animals, and Khan's father was in trouble at that time; he decided to go to the old parking lot; his wife pretended not to recognize him, told everything; when he left, the guest promised to "tell the khan everything"; then He returned as a khan; the son recognized him only after he cut his finger and told the khan to lick his blood; the khan broke the eldest khansha's arm and leg, gouged out his eye; told the middle man to be a dishwasher; shackled to son]: 146-154; 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 before A yurt mountain of game, the youngest for the one 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 to expulsion overseas; old people catch a box of 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 to be cleansed, the old woman tells me to 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; khan shows the gold bracelet given by the old woman, 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 grow nine aspens to ski for all soldiers, the youngest will give birth to two sons with golden breasts and one with a human breast; 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 clothing, throw them into the sea; they swim out shore; the mother makes her son a hat and a fur coat out of grass; a person asks for a hat for himself, gives in return an ax (she builds himself), an iron stick (she hits herself) and a bag (she feeds); the stick hits the sent soldiers; the mother has a sacred the book, the son learns from it where his brothers are with golden breasts; they are held captive by a giant; the boy kills him by sending his stick; the mother feeds her eldest sons milk, their golden breasts become human]: Sherkhunaev 1975:283-288; the Altaians [father sends three daughters for berries, holes the youngest's tuyaski; while they found the hole, filled the tuyas, evening came; the girls came to the seven-headed hut Tielwen; he sends them for skewer branches, they bring them 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 that his back is flat, his teeth are yellow; the Beaver orders to make a raft out of reeds, to rock it 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 the future husband to sew clothes from lice skins, the second to bake a thousand pies from one wheat, the third to give birth to a gold-headed son; the husband and wife leave the husband's newborn mother; she throws away the baby into the sea, the puppy is lurking; the mother exposes her breasts, says, shuyut smayit (My Milk River), eventually lures her son out of the water; the grandmother is tied to an immense stallion]: Kandarakova 1928:125-127; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 3 (Hentei aimag of Mongolia) [the lama tells the elderly that their daughter is a cannibal; parents drive their daughter; the horse brings her to rich places on the wooded mountain; servants tell the khan that a handsome man has settled on the mountain, but they do not know whether he is a woman or a man; the horse tells him to pretend to be a man so as not to become the khan's daughter-in-law; she wins horse racing, wrestling and archery; but the astrologer determines that she is a girl; she marries Khan's son; in the absence of her husband, gives birth to a boy with a golden breast, a silver ass; that llama both times replaces letters, subjects Khans are ordered to bury their daughter-in-law and child in a hole; the daughter-in-law's horse tore the fetters, dug a hole, took the woman and child to the mountain, but spent all his energy on it; after dying, he turned into a house and 4 sandalwood trees ; sholmos appeared {is it the same lama?} , a woman with a child climbed a tree, he began to cut it down, the wolf offers to chop it for him, throws away an ax; Sholmos regurgitates another - the same thing, the fox throws it away; the last tree is left, two come running dogs; sholmos urinates, a hole forms, he hides in it, dogs behind him; they say that if red foam rises, they are defeated, and if white foam rises, they win; there is red and white, then dogs come out- winners; run away; the khan returns, executes the messengers, returns his wife and son], 4 (Chita) [the old Sholmos woman wants to eat the rich man, he asks his daughter to eat better; he will leave three goldmoney at the camp, the daughter will return for them; a seemingly bad horse is called to take the girl; teaches: he will turn into a calf, rub against a yurt, ask for money, then the old woman will ask to drive the calf away, we must jump on him; the goby becomes a horse again, takes the girl away; they live by a sandalwood with 12 branches; the girl has a gold file, he gives food; the khan takes her third wife; leaves; the eldest promises to cook for his return was a sable hat, the middle one was a silk robe, the youngest was to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver ass; the older wives threw the newborn into the pit, then the dogs, under the feet of the herd, under the feet of the herd, under the feet of the herd camels, he is unharmed; thrown into the sea; replaced by a puppy; Khan tells her younger arm to be broken, thrown by the sea; she sees wounded birds eating grass, recovering; she also eats, her hands are intact; she sees wounded birds eating grass, recovering; she also eats, her hands are intact; she comes out of the water playing a boy; a woman grabs him, he says that his father is a cliff, his mother is a seal; she gives him her milk; leads to that sandalwood; son comes to his father, tells everything; khan returns youngest wife, makes elders as garbage and dung cleaners]: 61-85, 85-91; Dugarov 1990 [Zagar Mashad Khan has 3 wives, 64 teeth in her mouth; the eldest wife promises to sew degale by his return, the middle wife promises to make boots, the youngest is to give birth to a son with a golden breast and 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 is interfering 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 has taken out, rubbed the remains, fed the cowhide cow; that she brought a calf with golden breasts and a silver ass; the khan fell in love with him, the eldest khansha pretended to be sick - we must eat the calf's liver and lungs; the servant led the calf, which escaped and ordered to bring it to the khan liver and lungs of a dead dog; a guy comes, tells the whole story, shows his body; Khan hugs him, both hanshas were burned at the stake]: 27-31; Buryats (Khorinsky) [sister sends younger brother to marry; wife mistook sister for another wife, knocked over Araka, the guests left; the wife tells her husband to kill his sister, he cuts off his sister's hands in the forest; she is married by Khan's son, she is mukhur Khatun ( the handless princess); in the absence of her husband, she gives birth to two boys with a gold eagle and a silver eagle in their forehead; the husband's father sends a letter, his brother's wife replaces him, as if the woman gave birth to two puppies; the same on the way back - kill all three; the khan did not kill them, but drove them away; the mother began to breastfeed her sons by the river, they went into the water; the hermit promised that they would be found; the mother met her sons, they brought her hands thrown by her brother into the river; the lords of the waters gave their hands; the boys came to tell fairy tales at their father's house; the villain woman was torn by horses, she turned into a gadfly, still stings]: Rudnev 1914:437-448; Oirats (Karashar's merchants) [childless Bujin-Dawa Khan sends the dog Hasar to hunt; he sees the house, hears an old woman asking his three daughters what they have learned; alone, if the DBH marries her, promises to make a dinner for 500 people from one egg, the other to make a carpet for 500 people from the wool of one goat, the youngest beautiful woman to give birth to a golden son and a silver daughter; H. told Khan that he took sisters for wife; the youngest becomes pregnant, 502 childless wives ask Tsok-Gyryl's eunuch tushmyl for help; he replaces children with two puppies; 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), lowers them into the river; they are caught by a fisherman; his old wife feeds the children; an old woman, then an old man die; the old man tells them to come to the grave, on the third morning the young man catches a horse; hunts; the elder khatun Mani-Dara comes to his sister in his absence, persuades him to ask his brother to bring her 1) a branch saikhan-saglar trees; 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 dog bones, bring human bones, 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; Mongols: Mikhailov 1967:142-145 [Khan leaves; one wife promises to sew boots, another sash and shirt out of flea skin, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver back; older wives feed the baby to a cow; the returning khan orders his youngest wife to prick out his eyes, cut off his arm, leg, tie it to the tail of a cow, drive him out; the cripple sees a blind crane, a fox without a paw, lame the hare was healed by eating certain grass; did the same, recovered; her cow gave birth to her own son; the elder wife pretends to be sick, demands the heart of a child with a golden breast, 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; the khan drove away the bad wives, took the boy's mother again], 135-138 [the stepmother gave birth to a son, afraid that he was not, and the husband's daughter would inherit the property from his first wife, told her husband that his daughter gave birth to a freak (she showed a mouse in a bottle); the husband hired murderers, ordered him to bring his daughter's right hand; they did not kill the girl, cut off her hand ; the girl came to the yurt, married happily; the husband went to the Khan's service; the wife gave birth to a son, the parents sent a letter, the stepmother intercepted him, gave the messenger another (gave birth to the wrong person or devil); the son ordered to wait for arrival, the stepmother changed her to "kill immediately"; the woman ran away, her arm grew; her husband drives by, asks for the pouch to be repaired, she puts a wedding ring in it; the couple happily return]; Mongols: Potanin 1891 (khalkha) [(Potanin wrote down from memory); Bager-Mejit receives three wives (apparently like the Tanguts, see above); the youngest in the absence of the king will give birth to a wonderful child; two the elders put it in boxes (one in the other), hide it under the threshold, then under the throne, the box is found, thrown into the sea; someone finds it, saves the child, he denounces enemies]: 146-147; Dagurs [ When leaving, Jeardi Mergen asks three wives what they will prepare for his return; first: a marten fur coat; the second: leather boots; the third: I will have a son's face with a golden back, silver chest; JM tells two first wives take care of the newborn; they are jealous; they say that a woman in labor should seal her eyes, put lead in her ears, give birth in a barn; put a puppy, kill the baby, boil it, feed the cow; JM tells the third wife to live in the kitchen; the cow gives birth to a calf with a golden back and silver chest; the elder wife pretends to be sick, persuades the shaman to say 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 appearance; told the boy how it happened; sent the poor couple to live in the house; hunting, JM goes there; his son tells him almost everything, but does not name him; repeats everything in the JM house; he recognizes his son; from the boy's tears, his mother regains sight, hearing and reason; JM drives away the first two wives]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:83-91.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Lehtisalo 1947, No. 51 (western from a woman in Obdorsk/Salekhard) [(=Labanauskas 2001:155-163); the youngest of seven brothers asks his sister to sew a quiver; the quiver is ready, the young man says he suitable for the oldest brother; this is how the sister sews six quivers, the seventh for the youngest; when they go hunting for seven days, the brothers do not tell their sister to leave the house; on the seventh day, the sister goes out and sees them leaving in seven directions the tracks of brothers who have become animals: a lion, a wolverine, a wolverine, a polar bear, an ermine, a sable, a brown bear (younger brother); comes to the den, two bears bring her in; a woman speaks the girl, that her younger brother is angry, hides her; in the morning tells her to follow the path in the middle of the talnik, but the girl walks along the hill; sits on a stump, the witch Parnee appears from it; takes her clothes scratches her face; a girl wears even more beautiful clothes from a bag given by her bear brother's wife; a witch sits on a sledge drawn by white, a girl with black deer, husbands their siblings , come to their father; he sends them to their relatives; a witch falls into a hole; a girl comes to visit her bear brother, who takes off his bear skin, gives iron sledges pulled by mammoths; sister's husband must kiss mammoths; on the way back, a witch catches up with a girl, mice are drawn into her sledge; goods brought on mammoths filled the house; mice bit the hands of the witch's husband, the old men handed them over; the girl gives birth to a son, a witch gives birth to a half-dog, puts a girl, hides her son under the chips behind the plague; seals the girl's eyes with glue; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch pulls her out, throws her into the lake, saying, Water is your father, water is your mother; at the request of the witch, they left the blind, they migrated themselves; the husband slaughtered two deer for the blind; the half-dog brings game to his mother; he admits that it is not he who kills her, but the one who comes out the lake is a boy; the two of them grab a water boy; at the request of his mother, he lowers the half-dog into the ice-hole to the owner of the water instead of himself; washes his mother's eyes; she knocks iron ropes off the sledge, from there Deer appear; a young man goes to look for his father, tells a fairy tale (his story), he recognizes his son; a witch arrives, a woman feeds her meat and needles, she dies]: 147-165; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr, West. Labanauskas) [seven brothers have an older sister; the youngest asks to sew a quiver, is satisfied, tells them not to go out for seven days while the brothers are hunting; on the seventh day, the sister follows the brothers' footsteps to the birch tree; traces of her seven animals, the youngest left as a bear; she follows his footsteps to the den; the Bear's wife says that she is to blame, leaving the day before the deadline, tells him to leave, walk along the lowland; the sister walks along the hill, sits down on a stump, from there a witch in clothes jumps out of the bark, makes him change clothes; takes a man with white deer, a girl takes what is dark; gives birth to a boy, the witch hides him under the chips, replaces a half-dog, seals the woman's eyes; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch throws her into the lake, says that the water is his father, the water is his mother; tells her to migrate; the woman raises a half-dog, real the child lives in the water; A half-dog grabs a child who has come out of the water, calls a woman for help; ice floes crawl into the plague; a boy out of the water advises giving the owner of the lake a Half-Dog instead of himself; they drown him a woman and her son live well]: 61-64; Nganasans (Awam, West 1962) [the man has a beautiful wife, she has a boy; the second wife is a big ugly Shige-kopto, with her daughter; S. glued the eyes of his beautiful wife, threw the boy into the lake for Byda-nyama, and the blind woman was accused of this; husband and S. are gone; daughter S. sees a bird, that arrow knocks trees on firewood, throws meat from the tree; next time a blind woman comes, grabs the bird by the leg, gives her breast, the bird turns into her son; Bydy- Nyama says she is ashamed that she took the boy, gives him two girls for it; the boy immediately grows up, shamanite, puts his mother and father in the fire, splits their skulls, puts his father in seventh heaven (he manages craft, making utensils), the mother will be with Moo-nyama, she will keep the children; the young man Dyaiba-Nguo himself goes to eighth heaven; S. throws them into the water, if the shamans are in the water, she catches them]: Simchenko 1996:56-59; Mansi: Kuzakova 1994 (southern, Kondinsky district, river. Lyapin) [=Lukina 1990, No. 130:338-339; Mos-ne has a son, Por-ne has a Boy in the Form of a Motley Puppy (PUG); P. shoved child M. into the barrel, lowered it into the water; the PUG leaves P., comes to live with M.; carries food to the dugout by the river; explains M. that an old man and an old woman live there, they have a son, he plays with him; this is M.'s son; the PUG almost grabbed him, he escaped; they play more, M. grabs a son, forcibly brings him to himself, he agrees to live with M., and not with his father from the dugout; M.'s son, together with the PUG, go to the city where Usyng-Oyr-Oika lives; they get rich; W. leaves his wife, comes to M., marries her; P. was torn by horses; The PUG took off his dog clothes, became handsome]: 44-47; Kannisto 1951, No. 49 (Konda) {mostly Russian borrowing} [three girls decide not to sacrifice to patron spirits; one hears how spirits agree to kill them; when the perfume comes, hides, the other two spirits are eaten; a girl comes to old people, becomes their son's wife; when she gives birth to a child, that spirit takes away her mind, she puts the baby on a stick, puts it in the hearth; the husband tells the parents that he will not do anything until the wife gives birth a third time; the second, third time, the same; the husband buried his wife chest deep in the ground; under the mouse was a crow, at night he dug it up, carried it across the river in its beak, they began to live in a hut; he hunts successfully; the ship sailed, the crow offered: if I guess, all the goods are mine, and if not, for everything life is your worker; guessed everything, took the goods; became a fly, flew to that old spirit; shipbuilders talk about a rich man (i.e. a crow); old man: my mother has three birch trees, three black on them grouse, when earrings bite, silver and gold fall; when a squirrel runs up there, sings, and when down, tells fairy tales; the crow found birch trees, transplanted them to his house; the same with two ships; ragged old man (apparently that spirit): my aunt has a bull, he has a bathhouse in his ass, the one-legged one will wash himself in it, become whole, the one-eyed one will be visible in both eyes; three nightingales are singing in his ear; the crow found a bull, brought to himself; the same is three ships; old man: the owner of the lower world has a golden cuckoo, who gets it, will become rich; the crow has passed through a hole into the lower world; sees people suffering there, everyone asks to know when the torment is over; 1) three men run backwards, three girls follow them; 2) a man runs around the house, the body is frostbitten and injured; 3) a man is tied to a millstone; 4) a person is pouring milk; 5) a person is glued to the boat; the owner of the lower world is lying, his son is writing on paper, the cuckoo is at the opening of the box; the owner answers questions; 1) during his lifetime they thought a lot about sex, they will be released; 2) did not let people into his house, will be released; 3) did not allow the use of the millstone, will be released; 4) mixed milk with water when separated, released; 5) stole hay, which people put on the bottom of the boat to sit, not will be free; the crow threw the cuckoo into the box, grabbed it, ran, told all the suffering what awaits them, returned home; again the episode with the ship that had arrived; again a fly to the old man spirit; there was an ex-husband Voronenka's mother promises to come to see what the sailors saw; he comes, his son tells him everything, takes his house and wealth, moves with his mother to his father; the old man's spirit was torn apart by two horses]: 114-127; northern (?) Khanty: Kim 2008:74 [Moldanov 2003:40; a merchant's son marries a poor man's daughter who promised to give birth to miracle children; children are born in the absence of a father; mother-in-law has replaced children with puppies, their mother has been punished; the children were put in a barrel, thrown into the water, they ended up with foster parents; they grew up, heard a wagtail song about a cliff "with the bride's face"; the first brother goes to the cliff "with the bride's face", meets a good woman, does not listen to her advice, dies; the same second brother; a sister goes, listens to a woman, saves her brothers; a kind woman rewards a girl for her obedience; with gifts, a girl builds a house, lives with his own mother], 75 [Moldanov 2003:51; the king's son is married, children are born in the absence of a father; three women replace the father's birth letter and answer; children and their mother are put in a barrel, thrown into the water, they they sail ashore; merchants arrive; the boy's first trip to the royal city in the guise of a snotty boy; he overhears women's story about the miracle axe, returns to the city, gets a miracle ax; the second the trip is the same, miracle cows; the third is miracle squirrels; the fourth is in its present form; they find the culprits give everyone what they deserve]; Eastern Khanty (b. Pym) [the old man tells his daughter to look in his head; there is a golden louse, he turns her into a golden winged horse; whoever guesses what the horse came from will pass off his daughter as him; the cannibal overheard, turned into a young man , got a girl; she gives birth to a son, her husband eats him; the wife calls the golden horse, he takes her away, she marries a merchant; he leaves, she gives him a note to tie the horse to a thin tree; someone replaces - tie to fat; wrote a note that a son was born, the moon was on one cheek, the sun was on the other; the other was replaced by a freak with a snake tail instead of legs; the merchant writes to wait for his return; substitution: Throw the mother and son in a barrel into the sea; the horse pulls out a century-old larch to which it is attached, takes the mother and son to the island, tells him to be killed, to climb into his belly; they find themselves in a rich iron house; the cannibal comes to the roof, asks to let him in; rolls on the roof, attacks nails, dies]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 103:99-97; Southern Khanty (Irtysh) [three princes come to the city; they eavesdrop on three girls promising to have children; the youngest promises to have a daughter and two sons with stars on the top of her head, the sun on her forehead, a month on the back of her head; princes marry them; the youngest wife's children are born in the absence of a 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, nailed them by the arms and legs in the church, everyone spits on her; children 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 his aunts about a birch tree from which silver is falling; returns home, the brothers catch a birch root; on the second trip, the young man turns into a dog, and then into a gadfly; hears about a reindeer bull, whose horns have 40 shoots and people sell; brothers get the tip of the bull's horn, the bull came by himself; the third time the dog turned into a gadfly again; aunts say there is a girl who has a star on the top of a star , the sun is on the forehead, a month is on the back of her head; the older brother, then the younger brother, go to look for her, disappear; the sister finds a woman, they become sisters, she resurrects the 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); the northern Selkups [Natank ("girl") and Tomnank ("frog"+two diminutive suffixes) live in the same camp; T. calls N. to collect grass for insoles, kills N., punctures her an ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices her mother's leg leaning out from under the tire on the sledge; spies on T. cutting the corpse, promises her children to eat and N.'s children; N. plugs the chimney with a cloth (so that T. thinks it's still night), leaves, carries his younger brother in a box; he dies pricked with an awl or drill; N. buries his brother, pulls out a stump to light a fire, a new T. jumps out from under him; she N. steals all things, but she tells them to come back; T. follows on skis from wooden bowls; N. and T. come to the camp, marry two men; T. replaces N.'s newborn with a puppy; T.'s husband leaves her, migrates with T. and her husband; puppy (knot) T. helps her hunt for the beast; plays with a boy coming out of the water; he is N.'s son; they get to know each other when a stream of T.'s milk enters his mouth; the boy builds giant plague; T. comes with her husband and husband N.; N. forgives him, telling him to wash himself 7 times; T. is brutally killed; var. (Western 1999, Turukhan): T. kidnaps N.'s son, keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups [the widow has two daughters, the Volkhov marries one for her a woman does not give her son; dies, leaving the eldest comb, the younger ring, teaches what to do; sisters run, throw a comb, a mountain with rose hips appears; an old woman transports sisters across the river; a wolf with her son is lucky on a log; they turned over, drowned; the old woman tells her deer veins to spin, throws her deer into the stove; a conscientious sister has deer, the other does not; the old woman tells one (who?) stay; both leave, the old woman makes the eldest return, gives the sledge, tells the youngest to be planted in it when they reach the ringing birch tree; the sister disappears, returning to the old woman; the girl comes to the village, lives with an old man and an old woman; she is married; she is pregnant; during childbirth, her mother-in-law covers her eyes with bread, throws the child into the ice-hole, brings a puppy; the same for the second time; tells her son to leave the woman (with puppies) in the forest; she chews a ring, a house appears; dogs run to the river, tell how two boys come out of the ice-hole, they play with them; the woman has a leg pain, she asks the dogs to take her to the ice-hole, lure her out guys away from the water; her leg has recovered, she takes her sons; her husband arrives, she tells him everything; he tears his mother with horses; a bump in the swamp is her head]: Pelikh 1972:351-352.

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 it; the boy screams that the burbot fed him his liver; the burbot jumped out of the water and returned it again; 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 evil sisters like his wife used to; returns to his wife, she recovers]: 111-114; Far Eastern Evenks (probably Uchursky) [three sisters are coming; one found a wing, the other a button, the third a knife; an eagle flew in, took the first one, the raven the second, the guy the third; she promises to give birth to a strong boy; his older sisters stole him, drowned him, replaced him with a puppy; the husband left his wife; that child was taken by burbot {apparently a female; there is no gender category in Altai languages}; the mother noticed traces of the child by the water; found and caught him; burbot (iha): I will take him away, I fed him with my liver; but the woman did not give it back; the boy's father came, his wife told him everything; the son became a hero, they migrated away]: Myreeva 2009:157-161.

Amur-Sakhalin. Nanai people: Kile 1996, No. 43 (Komsomolsky District) [the old man was digging a vegetable garden, found a cradle with a baby girl in it, he raised her; Mergen came to marry, the old man took five buttons in his dowry; new wife gave birth to a son, her husband went hunting; M.'s elder wife did not like the new one, sewed the image of her husband to the sole, he is ill, the wife says that the new one and her evil spirits are to blame; she makes a fire, a new one rushes at him; M. began to hate his old wife, miss his new one; her son comes to the place of burning, his mother flies in with a duck, repairs his clothes, does not tell his father to speak; the boy said, tied his mother's hair to the bush, M. grabbed his wife, but she went to his father; now the father demanded a rich dowry; M. cut off his old wife's head, burned the corpse, brought a rich dowry, a feast for three days and three nights]: 389-395; Shimkevich 1896 [husband sends to give birth to her youngest wife under a poplar nine hills; halfway there is a green stone table; after giving birth and swaddling a baby, a woman turns to her father in the sky for the spotted red deer Durkur bocha to fly over her son; dies; the eldest wife stabbed the pig, smeared the lips of the youngest with his blood, hides the pig under a green stone, told her husband that the youngest ate the child; the husband cuts the youngest's body into pieces; D. brings the baby to the elderly couple, they raise him; he wants to shoot a bird, the bird says that he is the son of other parents; he calls D., flies away on it, jumps on an iron coffin hanging on chains mother, falls to the ground with him, the mother is reborn; the son tells his father the truth, he cuts his eldest wife, the youngest reluctantly accepts him, the son also takes care of his dairy parents]: 106-111; nivhi: Pilsudski 2003, No. 19 [a woman came on a deer, got married, gave birth to two boys, her deer left; another came, took her to pick berries, put moss in a basket, sprinkled berries, said she would go home earlier; she let the woman's children down the river in a boat, burned the dog, told the woman's husband that she did not save the children, they burned down; he beat, kicked his wife out, took that woman; the wife went down the river, recovered, found children, gave them breasts; her deer came, told him to make a cauldron out of his head in a dream, his bones and skin into a house; the house became good; her sons grew up, the eldest killed his father and his new wife]: 124-125 ; Pevnov 2010, No. 8 [a woman gave birth to twins, Ralkr-Umgu chewed dried eggs, threw her in the eye, blinded her, replaced her twins with piglets, put the twins in a dog trough, lowered her into the river ; they were picked up and raised by a bear; RU told the woman's husband that she gave birth to piglets and was ashamed; her husband did not believe it, found his wife and children; RU ran away but drowned while crossing the river]: 131-133.

Japan. Japanese: Markova 2000, No. 27 [stepmother hates stepdaughter; girl's father takes her to the forest, cuts off her hands; she is married by a beautiful young man; leaves pregnant; mother-in-law sends her son happy news messenger; stepmother replaces the letter, writes that a werewolf or dragon was born; the father orders to keep the child anyway; the stepmother replaces the letter again, tells the woman to be expelled from the house with her offspring; she leaves, leans to the river, the child falls into the water, the mother tries to pick him up, her arms grow; the husband finds his wife in a mountain temple by the river; where the couple went back, flowers grew; the ruler executed the stepmother and her husband]: 110-115; Ikeda 1971, No. 706 [26 versions; the stepmother orders the stepdaughter to be killed, but the servant only cuts off her hands in the forest; the stepmother cuts off her hands herself; in the forest, the monkey takes care of handless; the girl is tied to a tree, but her mother gnaws through the fetters in the form of affection; the girl climbs a fruit tree in the garden of a wealthy house; the fruit has traces of her teeth; the owner's son marries her; stepmother replaces letters, the handless person and the child are kicked out at home; the handless leans over to drink, the child falls into the stream, she picks him up with her grown hands; the returning husband is looking for a wife, the son finds out at first sight father; stepmother's punishment: the authorities punish; when the hands of the handless grow, the stepmother's hands fall off; she is impoverished, begged; turns into a mole]: 164-165.

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.

(Wed. The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Hebrew: The wife promises to have four children with the sun, star, moon, lightning on her forehead; the midwife replaces them with a kitten, a frog, a puppy and a snake; the husband puts his wife in a pigsty, marries a midwife's daughter; etc.]: Hanna, Henry 1996:89-94).