K73a4. The baby is replaced by a puppy.

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Ill-wishers of a woman in labor replace the baby with a puppy (they tell his father that his wife gave birth to a puppy). See K73, K73A motifs.

Tanga, Suto, Vai, Sapo, Loma, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Portuguese, Spanish, Basques, Sicilians, Corsicans, Italians (Liguria, Veneto, Tuscany, Campania), Ladins, French (including Upper Brittany), Bretons, Germans (Saxony-Anhalt, Grimms, Swabia, Austria), (Welsh), Palestinians, Iraqi Arabs, Lepcha, Mustang, Burmese, Shans, Lao, Palaung, Zyaray, Kashmiris, India ( Hindi), Konkani, Bengalis, Gondas, Timor, Tetum, Lisu, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Hungarians, Bosnians, Gagauz, Romanians, Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Vologda, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Moscow, Kaluga, Ryazan, Voronezh, Oryol, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Podolia, Poltava, Chernigovskaya), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Abazins, Adygs, Balkarians (and Karachays?) , Terek Cossacks, Ingush, Kumyks, Dargins, Avars, Gunzibs, Lucks, Udins, Swans, Megrels, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians (Yazd, Isfahan, Mazendaran, Khorasan, Kerman), Tajiks, Paryas, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Yagnobes, Shugnans, Rushans, Yazgulyams, Lithuanians, Setu, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, Mordovians, Mari, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz , Uighurs, Salars, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Tofalars, Altaians, Buryats (only Khorin and Chita?) , Oirats, Dagurs, Tundra Nenets, Mansi, Northern (?) Khanty, Southern Khanty, Northern and Southern Selkups, South, Western, Baikal and Far Eastern Evenks, (Pawnee).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Tanga [the older sister marries the merchant's agent, the youngest marries the merchant himself; promises to have children named Sea, Sun, Moon; in the absence of her husband, she gives birth three times; both mother-in-law and sister replace children by cat, pig, dog]: Nassau 1915, No. 17:48-51; suto [a previously childless wife gives birth to a son with a moon on her chest, another says she gave birth to a puppy; the baby is fed and saved by a mouse]: Dornan 1921:435-436.

West Africa. Vai [the youngest wife gives birth to twin boys, the eldest replaces them with puppies]: Creel 1966:78-81; scrap [the youngest wife gives birth to a son, later than the second, the main one replaces them with a kitten, a puppy]: Schwab 1947:459-460; sapo [older wife replaced sons with younger kitten and puppy]: Pinney 1973:263-267

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco [jealous of a daughter who should be beautiful, a mother tells a midwife to replace her newborn with a puppy]: El Koudia 2003, No. 9:53-63; Algerian Arabs [wife gave birth to one son, whose one temple is silver, the other is gold; the second, who has teeth made of pearls and diamonds); a daughter who shone brighter than the sun; the old two with a midwife replaced their children with puppies]: Belarus 1982:52-64; Tunisia [rivals replaced the child with a puppy]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 23 in Korovkina MS; Egyptian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [the former wife replaced the boy with a puppy, the girl with a clay pot]: 89-94; Spitta- Bey 1883, No. 11 [boy and girl were replaced by puppies]: 137-151

Southern Europe. Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 2 [wife gave birth to boy and girl; mother-in-law tells son that a puppy and a kitten]: 12-16; Barbier 1931, No. 19 [wife sisters write to the king that his wife did not give birth to two boys and girl, and kitten, puppy, bear cub]: 176-182; Spaniards [the queen gave birth to a boy and a girl with a star in her forehead; her sisters replaced them with puppies]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 707:709-713 ; Portuguese (many entries) [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; older sisters replace children with puppies]: Cardigos 2006, No. 707:156-159; Sicilians [Queen gave birth to two sons with peaches in her arms and a daughter with a star on her forehead; her sisters tell the midwife to replace children with puppies]: Crane 1885, No. 4:17-25; Corsicans : Massignon 1984, No. 59 [the prince's wife gave birth to twins, the witch cousin wrote to the prince that puppies], 75 [the king's wife gave birth to twins, his mother wrote to him that there were puppies]: 136-137, 166-169; Italians (Liguria) [the fisherman cannot catch anything; the master gives him a bag of money on the condition that he will 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 cut off his daughter's hands, otherwise she 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 with 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 to the water for a drink, the old man told me to do it more boldly, the children fell into the water, the mother's hands grew up; she found an empty palace and settled there; the king came to the palace, the children called him father; all is well; the Queen Mother was burned]: Andrews 1892, No. 5:20-24; Italians (Liguria) [stepmother hates the beautiful stepdaughter and tells her husband to get rid of her; he left his daughter in the woods; she met robbers and they took her home without causing harm; one day a girl let an old sorceress in; 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 it to him, 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; his wife gave birth to a boy and a girl; the prince's mother replaced the letter with a message that his wife had given birth to puppies; and replaced the prince's letter with an order to kill his wife and children; The woman's relatives told her 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 (Campania, Naples) [the king's wife gave birth to a boy, the ill-wisher changed the letter: gave birth to a puppy]: Basile 2018:271-281; Italians (Campania, Capri) [Queen Mother tells the midwife to replace her children with puppies]: Zschalig 1925, No. 6:32-41; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 31 (Veneto) [queen gave birth to a boy, mother-in-law replaced him with a puppy], 76 (Tuscany, Pisa) [the queen gave birth to boys; the dragon replaces letters, supposedly she gave birth to puppies], 87 (Florence, options throughout Italy) [the queen gave birth to three gold-haired children - two boys and a girl with a star in her forehead; her sisters replaced them with a monkey, a puppy and a tiger cub]: 87-90, 277-280, 315-322; Knust 1866, No. 1 (Tuscany?) [the prince's wife gives birth to twins, the Queen Mother replaces them with a dog]: 382-384; ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 7 [the prince's wife gave birth to a boy and the queen mother said the puppy], 32 [the prince's wife gave birth to two boys; her sister changed the letter: the handless gave birth to a puppy and a kitten]: 17-19, 120-127.

Western Europe. French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 33 [wife gives birth to son and daughter, mother-in-law writes to her son that a puppy and a kitten]: 130-134; Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 707 (Ariège; also Haute-Brittany, Lorraine, Provence , Nivernay, Dordogne, Gascony) [the prince hears three girls talking; one promises to have a son, then a daughter with a star in her forehead, then another son; the prince marries her, she asks to take her own to the palace sisters; the prince inherited the throne, went to war; the boy was replaced by a puppy; the next time the girl was replaced by a kitten; the third boy was again a puppy; the king ordered his wife to be put in an iron cage; the children were picked up and raised by an old man; advised them to find their real parents; the elder brother decided to find a prophetic bird; the counter gives a ball to follow; on the tree there is a cage with a bird, we must take and one cannot look back; he looked back at his voice, turned into stone; the rosary he left was covered with blood; the same was true of his second brother; the sister did not look back; the bird told her to break off the branch of the singing laurel, collect living water, sprinkle stones; all 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; Cosquin 1886 (Lorraine) [Queen gave birth to two sons with a golden star in their forehead; the king's mother wrote to her son that his wife had puppies]: 246-247; Joisten 1991, No. 27.1:184-188; French (Upper Brittany) [stepmother is jealous of beauty Euphrosine's stepdaughters; her own daughter is ugly; her husband is the captain of the ship; while he was not at home, her stepmother cut off E.'s wrists, forcing her to climb a tree in the depths of the forest; pricked against a thorn, lay down; forty brought food to E.; 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 the wife gave birth to a puppy and a 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 told him to pick him up; her hands grew; the lady took E. to the hermit's cave, and the magpie brought her food again; the children grew up; E.'s husband hunted and met the boys; they brought him to his mother; everything was clarified; they returned to the castle; {last page not in pdf}]: Sébillot 1880, No. 15:105-112 (=1894, No. 17:180-181); Bretons [the prince's wife promises to give birth to two sons with a gold star on her forehead and a daughter with a silver star; her sisters were replaced their puppies]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 7:277-295; (cf. The Welsh [Puichl, King David, was feasting in Narbert; a lady on a white mare galloped by; the sent knight could not catch up with her; when P. himself rode after her, he easily caught up with her; it was Hrianon, whom her father wanted to give against his will for Guaul; she wants to become P.'s wife, he agrees; comes to her feast; the young man asks, P. replies that he will not refuse him anything; he asks give him H. and a feast, it was G.; H. says that she did not prepare a feast for him, but a year later she would cook for him and become his wife; teaches P. to come in a year in rags, ask him to fill the bag with meat, which she will give; it will be filled only if a noble gentleman gets into it and says, Enough; as soon as G. got into the bag, he was tied up, the warriors beat G., he gave in to H.; she gave birth only in the third year; at night the child disappeared; the women caring for the puppy decided to put H. in a torn puppy, smeared her mouth with blood, accused her of eating her son; P. tells her to sit next to her horse riding with a gate, talk about his crime, carry whoever he wants on his back; Gwent Is Koide was ruled by Tyrnion Turin Vliant; when his mare is screwed, the foal disappears every time; T. guards cuts off the foal's paw from the window; he ran out of the house, and when he returned, a baby in a silk diaper was lying at the doorstep; T.'s wife is childless, began to raise the boy, called Guri Wahlt Irene, his hair is like gold; he was given a foal saved that night; T. guessed that it was the missing son of H. and P., brings him to his parents; he is given the name Praderi, which was given by H.; after P.'s death, he inherits kingdom]: Mabinogion 2000:15-30); Germans (Saxony-Anhalt or nearby, author lived in Halle) [wife's sisters report that she gave birth to two puppies and a kitten]: Pröhle 1853, No. 3:10-16; Germans [=Grimm, Grimm 1987:263-266; the Queen gave birth to a boy with a star in his forehead, the sisters said she had a puppy]: Grimm, Grimm 2003, No. 96:324-327; Germans (Swabia) [positukha consistently replaces three children with puppies]: Meier 1852a, No. 49:174-179; Germans (Swabia) [the king's mother replaces her two sons and the Queen's daughter with puppies]: Meier 1862, No. 72:246-253; Germans (Austria) [Queen gave birth two sons and a daughter; her sisters replaced them with a puppy, a kitten, a log]: Cerf 1992:167-174.

Western Asia. Palestinians [wife gives birth to two sons and daughter, her sisters replace them with a puppy, kitten and stone]; Iraqi Arabs: Lebedev 1990, No. 36 [wife sisters replaced children with puppies]: 187-190; Stevens 2006, No. 33 [wife's sisters replaced their children with puppies]: 157-161.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha: Stocks 1925, No. XXIV [the queen gave birth to sons named the Golden Knife and the Silver Knife (he then turned into a girl); witches replace children with a puppy], XXXIV [the queen gave birth to three sons maids replaced them with puppies]: 388-404, 447-452; Mustang [the youngest wife gives birth to a son, the eldest says she gave birth to a puppy and a pest]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 27:158-164.

Burma - Indochina. Burmese [older wife gives birth to son and two daughters, youngest replaces them with puppies]: Sturm 1990:478-485; shans [younger wife gives birth to 100 boys and girl, other wives replace them puppy]; lao [elder wife tells puppies to replace four youngest sons]: Afanasyeva 2014:225-227; palaung [younger wife gives birth to son, others replace him with a dog]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 140:320-323; Zyaray [the youngest wife gives birth to three boys, the eldest replaces them with puppies]: Nikulin 1970:250-253.

South Asia. Kashmiris [older wives say the youngest gave birth to two crows, two puppies, a stone]: Knowles 1888:397-408; India (translated from Hindi) [wife's sisters replace children with a puppy, kitten, wooden doll]: Zograf 1964:302-310; Konkani (Goa) [Prince's wife gives birth to a boy; his sister replaces baby with a puppy]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 10:33-35; Bengalis: Day 1914, No. 19 [ the queen gives birth to a beautiful daughter and a son with the moon in her forehead and stars on her hands; other wives replace puppies; sisters replace two boys and a girl with a puppy, a kitten and a wooden doll]: 236-256; Porozhnyakov 1990 [Rani's sisters replace her sons with a puppy and a kitten and daughter with a wooden doll]: 16-26; gondas [former wives replaced the boy with a puppy]: Elwin 1944, No. 20.6:431-433

Malaysia-Indonesia. Timor [chief's wife gives birth to twins with sun on her chest, a month on her forehead, stars behind her ears; her sisters replace them with puppies]: Correia 1973:139-142; tetum [chief's wife gives birth to twins, hers sister replaces them with puppies]: Rego 1968:160-173

China - Korea. Lisa (Burma) [younger wife replaces children with older puppies]: Zapadova 1977:159-166

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 707C [queen gives birth to wonderful children (golden braids, star on her forehead, sun and month, etc.); sisters (stepmother, servants) replace them with a puppy (puppy and kitten)], 707D [the queen gives birth to wonderful children (a girl with golden braids, silver teeth, etc.); sisters replace them with a kitten and a puppy]: 241-244, 244-245; Karaliychev, Valchev 1963 [the queen gives birth boys, the maid replaces them with two puppies]: 400-402; Croats [the poor widow has 9 sons and a daughter; she has nothing to feed her sons - let them at least turn into wolves; brothers ran away with wolves; 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 spell them, the sister must remain 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 babies are 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; Greeks: Hahn 1864 (2), No. 69 (Syros) [The Queen Mother tells the midwife to replace two boys and a girl with a puppy, kitten, mouse]: 47-58; Paton 1899, No. 3 (Lemnos) [the king's mother replaces three times children born to puppies]: 499-300; Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 3 [Queen gives birth to two children with golden hair; her sister and midwife replaced children with puppies]: 92-112; Jones, Kropf 1889, No. 35 [wife the prince gave birth to golden-haired twins; the witch replaced the letter with a message that the prince gave birth to two puppies]: 163-181; Romanians [the queen gives birth to sons with golden curls and a star in her forehead; the king's stepmother replaced children with puppies]: Mirener 1958:128-137; Romanians [Queen gives birth to three gold-haired children - two sons and a daughter; her sisters replaced children with puppies]: Bîrlea 1966:455-456; Romanians [the emperor's daughter was born at the same time as the foal; she grows and cares for it, feeds him with fire and drinks wine; when she is 15 years old, her father decided to marry her; ordered her to be made by pulling the skin of lice over it ; whoever guesses whose skin this is will get the princess; the dragon magician sent his son, also a magician, guessed it; the princess's horse told her everything; the king is also terrified; the horse tells me to ask father to give her men's clothes and everything she needs, takes the princess away; tells her to look back; princess: the dragon catches up; the horse: how to fly - like the wind or as a thought? princess: like the wind; flew into the city; the horse tells you to go to the king, call yourself a prince, ask for service; the king will agree, for he is a friend of your father's youth; the king has fallen in love with the imaginary prince, and his associates became jealous and suspected that she was a girl; advised to send the prince to the bazaar, where there are various gold items; if he chooses a weapon, then a man, and if a spindle, etc., then a woman; the horse appeared and spoke about an insidious plan; the prince chose a weapon; the minister proposes a second test: send the prince to pick grapes; if he eats them unwashed from the vine, then a woman, and if she washes them and puts them on a plate, then a man; then the prince was offered to get a sorceress, the daughter of a neighboring king; her father keeps her in a glass palace on a glass mountain; the horse tells the king to ask the king for more jewelry and ornaments; when he sees them , first the princess's maid, then her mother, and finally herself, were amazed and the king gave his daughter to the imaginary prince; the lie brought her to the king, but she did not want a bearded man; the king shaved; the prince admitted to the bride that he himself is a girl; and he told everything to the king and the courtiers; the king married the princess to his son; he went to war, and his wife gave birth to two golden sons; the magician dragon took the form of the owner of the inn , replaced the letter: gave birth to two puppies; replaced the prince's answer with the command to execute the witch wife, drown the puppies; the woman was raised to the fire, but her horse rode, devoured the fire, took the mistress and her children away; said he would die: let the giblets place the giblets in the four corners of the wide field and the heart in the middle; the children herself and the children climb inside his carcass for the night; in the morning she is in the palace, and in front of the entrance there are two lions; they they guard the palace and bring edible roots and herbs; the prince returned, grieves; once he saw the palace while hunting; the hostess told the lions to let him in; he recognized his wife and children; everyone is happy; on the magician dragon sent an army, he was destroyed; after the death of his father-in-law, his son reigned]: Schott, Schott 1845, No. 16:111-126; Bosnians [former wives led by the eldest replaced children with puppies]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:99-116; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1904, No. 42 [the prince's wife gave birth to a son with the sun, a daughter with a moon on her head; a gypsy woman replaced her with puppies]: 65-67; Syrf 2013 [the wife of the padishah's son gave birth to a boy with a month forehead, girl with sun; mother-in-law and witch grandmother write a letter saying that the wife gave birth to two puppies]: 174-181.

Central Europe. Slovaks [prince's wife gives birth to son; mill replaces letter: gave birth to a dog]: Bogatyrev 1955:24-31; Czechs: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000 [the queen's wife gives birth to a boy with gold, a girl with with a silver hoop around her neck; the queen's mother replaces the letter: the wife gave birth to either a person or a dog]: 319-328; Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 (Moravia) [the queen gives birth to a son and daughter with gold crosses on her forehead; grandmother tells the king that his wife gave birth to puppies]: 412-417; Poles [the queen gives birth to three gold-haired sons with stars on their temples; her sisters replace children with puppies]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 707:218; Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Vologda, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir, Kaluga, Ryazan, Voronezh, Orlovskaya, Kursk), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Galicia, Podolia, Poltava), Belarusians [wife's sisters replace children with puppies]: SUS, No. 707:177-178; Russians, Ukrainians [Hero puppy and wonderful children: a puppy (peasant son), who has been replaced by newborn wonderful children, helps their expelled mother, finds and returns his mother's wonderful children, helps her return to her tsar husband (merchant)]: SUS, No. 707*: 178; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908) [maid and Yaitsna-Babitsna exchange children for puppies]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 9:3-5; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pechora) [wife's sister changed the letter: the queen gave birth to puppies]: Azadovsky 1934, No. 2:104-121; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [midwife Yazhenya replaces children with kittens and puppies]: 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, sun in her forehead, a month on the back of her head, stars are frequent on her 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; in the third, kittens, but the queen hid one 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 palace and bridge; kaliki have 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 around 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 (Vologda) [8 children were replaced by puppies, mother hid the ninth]: Smirnov 1917, No. 27:158-163; Russians (Moscow, Dmitrovsky, 1914) [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 his 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, the daughter-in-law changed the letter: gave birth to a 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, hands grew up; she came to her brother's house, her husband is also there; tells her story; her wife's head was cut off]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 64:183-184; Russians (Tomsk Province) [Yagishna replaces children kitten, puppy, son Korosta]: Potanin 1891:150-151; Ukrainians [midwife replaces three sons with a puppy, a toad and an ill baby]: Chubinsky 1878:40-41; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) ) [The king sent his son to choose a wife; he met three girls; one promises to sew clothes from one hemp for a whole army; the second to bake bread for the whole army from one ear; the third to give birth to two gold-haired boys; the prince married a third; the prince left, komorna (maid?) buried the babies in the mud, replaced them with puppies; the prince orders his wife to be buried chest deep in the ground in the doorway; opening the doors passing by her beat; married the maid's daughter; two sycamores grew out of the baby; wife prince {hereinafter referred to as the tsar; presumably, the prince reigned after the death of his father} tells them to cut them down, make beds for himself and her husband; at night he hears the brothers' conversation: it's easy for one, his father, and the other's hard, there is a female girl on it; she tells me to burn the beds; the shepherd prepared salt for the sheep, the coals fell into salt; the sheep gave birth to two gold-fleece lambs; the queen tells them to be slaughtered, sent the maids to wash their guts, two bunks {what this?} went with the flow; the woman picked it up, they became gold-haired boys; they came to their father, began to tell a fairy tale, that is, their story; they put peas on the bed; as they told, peas bounced 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, left with her sister]: Malinka 1902, No. 30:306-308; Belarusians [at the end of the village, the woman has three daughters; the eldest wants for the royal key man, the middle for the royal coachman, the youngest for the royal son; the prince overheard, married her and gave her sisters for whoever they wanted; the prince left, his wife gave birth, the sisters bribed the midwife, she replaced the child with a puppy, lowered him in a box along the river, picked him up by a fisherman; the same in the second once (kitten); the third time, a frog instead of a daughter; the king walled up the queen in a stone pole, her head outside, ordered her to feed bread and water; the fisherman and his wife died, the children live alone; the sister has a garden; Satan chipped in old man: there is no singing tree in the garden; older brother came to the mountain; old man: come back and don't turn around; the guy turned around, stoned; the same younger brother; sister wrapped her head, did not listen or look, she collected live water and dug up a tree, took a bird; revived her brothers with water; at home a tree sings, a bird in the window talks; tells me to call the king and queen and serve the fried puppy, kitten and frog; having learned the truth, The Tsar freed his first wife, her sisters and midwife were tied to the tails of horses and allowed into the field]: Romanov 1887, No. 61:295-298.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Uskut - between Alushta and Sudak) [padishah forbade lighting the lights; went to check, went to the illuminated window; there are three poor girls; older sister: if the padishah married on me, I would make a tent for the entire army and half of the space would be left empty; middle: I would cook a cauldron of food and the food would not run out; youngest: would give birth to a gold-haired son and daughter; padishah tried everyone, but the older sisters did not fulfill their promises, and the youngest did, but the padishah just went to war; the older sisters replaced the children with puppies, lowered them into the sea in a chest; the padishah ordered his wife to be buried in the ground belt, and throw the puppies side by side; three daughters of another padishah sailed on the ship, picked up the chest; 8 years later, brother and sister grew up, went to look for parents; the padishah drove the hare, the boy caught the hare and carried it away; the wife sent an old woman to the boy; she advised him to ask his brother to get a pearl tree with singing branches and leaves; the boy came to the palace, the lion and the tiger were guards, he gave them meat, brought his sister a branch, from a tree grew up for her; when he next grabbed a hare, her father recognized her son; her mother was dug up, her sisters were executed]: Radlov 2012, No. 43; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [the prince's son's wife gives birth to a boy half gold, half silver; her sisters said she gave birth to a puppy]: 143-145; Shakryl 1975, No. 71 [the wife gave birth to a boy and a girl, her sisters persuaded the old woman to replace them with puppies]: 322- 326; Abaza people [woman's sisters replace twins with puppies]: Tugov 1985, No. 67:201-205; Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 29 [Khan's wife gives birth to a son and daughter, half in white gold, the other in yellow; her sisters replace children with puppies]: 238-243; Kerashev 1957 [=Maksimov, Kerashev 1953:117-130; Psha's wife gives birth to a son with sun and moon on her forehead, daughter with golden hair; her sisters replace children with puppies]: 210 -220; Balkarians [stepmother of three sisters replaces children with puppies]: Baranov 1897, No. 6:28-34; Karachays or Balkarians: Malkonduev 2017 [the woman's brother's wife tells her husband that gave birth to a puppy]: 752-758; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [Aldar's wife gives birth to a boy with a golden crest, a girl with silver curls; her sisters replace children with puppies]: 193-204; Byazyrov 1971, No. 18 [Aldar's wife gives birth to a golden-haired boy and girl; her sisters replace children with puppies]: 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 a korets honey"]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 2:74-80; Ingush [the prince's wife gives birth to a boy with the sun in her forehead, a month between the shoulder blades; her sisters replaced the child with puppies]: Malsagov 1983, No. 4:44-47; Kumyks: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 8 [Khan's wife gave birth to a son with a golden tuft and a daughter with a moon-like forehead; the dervish changed the letter: the wife gave birth to puppies], 53 [the wife gives birth to a son with a golden crest, daughter with a moon-like forehead; her sisters replace children with puppies]: 125-128, 479-488; Dargins [Shah's new wife gives birth to a gold-haired boy and a silver-haired girl; the first wife orders to replace children puppies]: Osmanov 1963:97-102 (=Kapieva 1991:120-125; =Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 349-354); Avars: Bulatova 1985 [the king's wife gives birth to a son with pearl teeth and a gold-haired daughter; her sisters report that the queen gave birth to a puppy and a kitten]: 59-66; Saidov, Dalgat 1965 [wife gives birth to a son; sister-in-law replaces the letter as if a puppy was born]: 72-76 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:196-200); Gunzibs [wife Khan's son gives birth to a gold-haired boy; the messenger's wife replaces the letter as if she gave birth to a puppy]: Berg 1995, No. 21:219-233; Lucky [the prince's wife gives birth to a son and daughter; her sisters say she gave birth puppies]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 316-318; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 54 [the wife of a padishah's son gives birth to a girl with a golden tuft, a boy with mother-of-pearl teeth; her sisters will exchange children with puppies]: 491-494; Khalilov 1965, No. 86 [=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 111-114; the prince's wife gives birth to a gold-haired boy and girl, her sisters replace children with puppies]: 265-268; Udins [the queen gives birth to a son and daughter; the son is falling gold off his head and silver is falling off his head; the queen's sisters replace their children with puppies]: Dirr 1904:96-99; Swana [the king has three daughters, his wife is dead, he took another one, she tells me to get rid of scoundrels; the king found an apple tree in the steppe, brought an apple to his daughters; they asked them to be brought to the apple tree; the king dug a hole there, covered it with a carpet, the daughters failed; the sisters ate apples, they ran out, but the youngest hid it away; these were over; the eldest wanted to eat her, but the youngest turned her hands into a shovel and an iron-tipped stick; they dug a passage into the tin house; there the servants feed the royal horses boiled wheat; sisters eat everything, 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 veil; middle: I will drink wine to the king and the people; youngest: I will give birth to a son and a daughter {then we are talking only about a son}, so that their lower and upper halves are golden; this sister was given for the prince; the older sisters abandoned children born into the river 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 a priest who owned the mill; the priest raised young man, he is the best hunter; his mother's sisters understood who he was; advised the priest to send the young man to Elbrus for a golden apple tree; divas on the way, petrified to the waist; says that everyone is so stony; we must remember his mother's nipples; the young man thought about them, brought an apple tree; the divas chased the young man, but that divas drove them away; the sisters advise asking the young man to bring a mirror from Elbrus; everyone was stony, and the young man remembered the nipples mother and brought a mirror; sisters: to kidnap the wife of the Western sovereign; the young man came to the tower, where the king's daughter; the king will give her if the fruits in the garden are ripe by morning; the princess orders them to put a stick in the ground and pour water over them, in the morning a tree with fruit; king: jump across the sea, build churches everywhere so that all the bells would 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 her sisters (she will have a ring on her finger); the princess tells her to run, the king sent an army; the princess turned the young man into a monk, a horse into a church, herself into an icon; arrived to the tsar-father; the mother of the young man released, sisters executed]: Nizheradze 1890, No. 1:176-187; Megrelians: Lominadze 1894 [the prince's wife gives birth to a son; the girl replaces the letter - the wife gave birth to puppies]: 40-44; Stepanov 1898, No. 11 [Tsarevich's wife gave birth to a son; her brother's sister changed the letter as if she had given birth to a puppy]: 34-39; Megrels [the prince's wife gave birth to a golden son and daughter, her sisters replaced them with a puppy and a kitten]: Gachava et al. 1890:24-32; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 94 [the prince's wife gave birth to a golden-haired son; the maid changed the letter as if she had given birth to a puppy], 96 (Kakheti) [the queen gave birth to a golden-haired boy and girl; her sisters replaced children with puppies; =Chikovani 1954, No. 27:149-151; =1986:158-160]: 137-140, 147-150; Armenians: Nazinyan 2014 [=1969:148-153; the prince's wife gave birth to a son with a golden little finger and a daughter with golden curls; wife's sisters replaced children with puppies]: 51-56; Tumanyan 1984 [the prince's wife gives birth to a golden-haired boy; her brother's wife replaces the letter: gave birth to a puppy]: 20-33; Azerbaijanis: Bogoyavlensky 1892c, No. 7 (Elisavetpolskaya) [the woman's brother's wife writes to her husband that she gave birth to a puppy]: 319-322; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 11 (Borchalinsky Uyezd, Tiflis Province) [sisters replace children puppies]: 95-104; Turks: Borovkov 1938 [the padishah's wife gives birth to a son and daughter, whose tears turn into pearls, and if they laugh, roses fall; her sisters replace puppy children]: 120-135; Stebleva 1986, No. 72 [the padishah's wife gave birth to a boy with a month old and a girl with the sun in her forehead; her sisters replace children with puppies]: 293-299; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 707 (Istanbul, Ankara, Kastamonu, Gumushhane, Kars, Sivas) [the padishah sees the light and overhears the conversation of three sisters; each wants to marry a padishah; the elders promise to do some work, the youngest to have twins; gives birth to two sons and a daughter; wife's sisters replace children with puppies]: 287-291; Kurds [wife's sisters replace children with puppies]: Rudenko 1970, No. 50:147-155.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [Shah's wife gives birth to a gold-haired son, who, if she laughs, roses fall from his mouth, tears are pearls and precious stones; her sisters put a puppy]: 131-146; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 16 (Isfahan Jews) [Shah's wife gives birth to a beautiful son, her sisters replaced him with a puppy]: 86-90; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 10 (Kerman) [the prince's wife gives birth to a golden-haired boy and a moon-faced boy a girl, her sisters replace children with puppies]: 58-62; Marzolph 1984, No. 707 (Yazd, Isfahan, Mazendaran, Khorasan) [the prince overhears the conversation between the three sisters; the eldest promises to weave a carpet on which the entire army will be stationed; the second is to feed the army with rice; the third is to give birth to a 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 to at the crossroads so that everyone would throw stones at her; the boy grew up with his foster parents; his sisters recognize him; to destroy him, they persuade him to get wonderful objects; a talking bird tells him everything; or mother recognizes him; he meets his father, who says that this is impossible; young man: can a woman give birth to a puppy]: 135-137; Tajiks [the padishah's wife gives birth to a golden-haired son and daughter; her sisters changed their children for a puppy and a kitten]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:115-121; parya [the padishah's wife gives birth to an extraordinary boy and girl; they are replaced by puppies]: Oransky 1977, No. 1:150-153; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1971 (1) [the king's wife gave birth to a son and daughter; another wife exchanged children with puppies]: 174-200; 1972 (2): 59-64 [the padishah's wife gave birth to a son with a golden pigtail; her sisters replaced the boy puppies], 208-216 [the king's wife gave birth to a son with a golden pigtail, a daughter with a silver pigtail; her brother's wife told the king that she had given birth to a puppy and a kitten]; Bukhara Arabs: Vinnikov 1969, No. 5 [the emir's wife gives birth a boy with gold and silver curls and a girl with a silver curl; two other wives tell an old woman to replace them with puppies], 15 [the emir's wife gave birth to a son with golden hair and a daughter; her sisters replaced them puppies]: 47-52, 99-101; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 11 [the tsar's wife gave birth to a son and daughter; another wife replaced children with puppies], 12 [the king's wife gave birth to a son and daughter, her sisters changed children puppies], 20 [the king's wife gave birth to a boy and a girl, another wife replaced them with puppies]: 88-89, 90, 111-114; Shugnans [the king's wife gave birth to a gold-haired son and a beautiful daughter; her sisters changed children puppies]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 5:91-101; Yazgulyam [the king's wife gave birth to a son; other wives told him that the puppy]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 37:342-345; Rushantsy [ the Tsar's wife gave birth to a son and a daughter; another wife replaced the children with puppies]: Sokolova 1959, No. 16:60-65.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:94-100 [the queen gives birth three times, each time the witch replaces the boy with a puppy], 136-140 [the queen gives birth to a son, then a daughter; the king's mother replaces her children with cats], 141- 143 [the king's wife gives birth to a son with the sun in her forehead, a month on the crown, stars around her ears; the king's sister reports that she gave birth to a half-dog]; Lithuanians [the queen's sisters replace her children with a puppy, kitten, tree]: Kerbelite 2021, No. 29:204-212; Seto: Normann, Tampere 1989 [the king's wife gave birth to twins with the sun on the back of their heads, a month in their forehead, stars on their bodies; her sister replaced the children with puppies ; the second time with a crow]: 73-81; Sandra 2004 [the merchant's wife gave birth to a girl; her brother's wife changed the letter - gave birth to a puppy]: 226-231; Sutrop 2018, No. 18 [the king's wife gave birth to a son; her brother's wife changed the letter the message that she gave birth to a puppy]: 968-970; Finns (Vuokkiniemi) [the Queen's wife gave birth to a beautiful boy; the witch changed the letter: gave birth to a puppy]: Schreck 1887, No. 12:98-107; Karelians ( Loukh District, 1956) [the prince's wife gave birth to 9 sons; Syöjätar midwife replaced them with three piglets and six puppies, or three boys with a crow, a crow, a magpie]: Concka 1959, No. 29:128-133; Veps [Ivan Tsarevich's wife gave birth to three heroes, each with one golden hair and the other silver; midwives - baba yaga, she replaced three children with three puppies]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 12:72-74 ; Danes: Grundtvig 1920 [the king's wife successively gives birth to three sons; the Queen Mother replaces children with a puppy, lamb, kitten]: 116-124; Holbek 1987 [the Queen's wife gave birth to twins; The Red Knight changed the letter: two puppies]: 460-465; Swedes (Smaland) [the prince's wife gave birth to 12 twins; the prince's mother replaces children with puppies]: Christiansen 1959:119; Icelanders [older sisters replace babies with a younger puppy, kitten, log]: Poestion 1884, No. 23:191-199.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [the prince's wife gave birth to 12 sons, the sun is in her forehead, the moon is on the back of her head, the power is iron, the will is stone, the heart is waxy; the witch midwife reports every time that a puppy was born]: Anikin 1909 in Aleshkin 1989:231-237; Marie [Tsarevich's wife gives birth to 12 heroes; her sister's mother replaced children with puppies]: Chetkarev in Sabitov 1989, No. 707:41; Udmurts [son the merchant became angry with his sister, cut off her hands; another merchant son saw her; 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: to drive the wife away, tying the puppy to her chest; the stepmother threw her real son into the water; driven away she bent over 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 was dead; he took the boy out and told him to go where he would go, not to look into houses on the way, even if he was called; the boy brought him to the old woman; two merchant sons also came there; mother the boy made a riddle by which one recognized her as his sister and the other as his wife]: Potanin 1884:229-230; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 18 [the wife of a rich man gave birth to a boy with a girl; her sister replaced children with puppies], 24 [the wife of the padishah's son gave birth to twins with silk hair, pearl teeth, silver ass; her sisters replaced children with a puppy]: 171-181, 203-207; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the wife of the padishah's son gave birth to a son and daughter with golden hair and silver teeth; her sisters replaced their children with puppies]: 95-102 (=Marchenko 1993:217-226); Bashkirs [bai's wife gave birth to two sons with golden heads, pearl teeth, silver hair; her sisters replaced babies with a black puppy]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [Khan's wife gave birth to a son and daughter; they were replaced by a puppy and a kitten]: Severtsev 1971 in Tolstov 1984:214, 233; Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1952 (Turgay Region) [=1971 (1): 33-45; = Daurenbekov 1979:35-45; =Tursunov 1983:180-189; Khan's son's wife gave birth to a son with a golden head, a daughter with a silver head; her sisters replaced their children with puppies]: 178-190; Tursunov 1983 [Khan's wife gave birth to a daughter and a son with with a golden forelock; her sister replaced children with puppies]: 162-164; Kyrgyz: Brudny 1954 [Khan's wife gave birth to a boy with golden legs, a girl with silver legs, their footprints are also gold and silver; other wives replaced children with puppies]: 115-117; Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981 [Khan's wife gave birth to a boy with gold legs, a girl with silver legs; other wives replaced children with puppies]: 96-97 (=Ledenev 1987:69- 72); Kyrgyz (Naryn Region, Zhumgal District, 1959) [40 Khan's wives replace newborn boys and girls with puppies]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:35-42; Kyrgyz [Khan Kuluke Madylgen's daughter cut and sewed a fur coat from the intestines of lice to her father; Khan could not determine what it was made of; when the daughter explained, the khan announced that he would give her daughter to someone who could figure out what the fur coat was made of; an old man with red eyes said that the intestines were made of 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 they 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 Jelmogus; the horse told me not to turn around, the old man will attack, throwing a black-striped tiger, he would eat Kuita; 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 winds from a small (like a heart) 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 the 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 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 Aytomush, 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 were hanged; Khan put his son on the throne, married his daughter and healed happily]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:27-34; Kyrgyz [40 childless Khan's wives tell the witch to replace them with puppies boy and girl with golden heads and silver tasks]: Ruslan Doutaliev, personal message. May 17, 2020: retelling the audio recording of the fairy tale "Zheti Echkilu Abyshka Zhana Kempir" (Old Man and Old Woman, having 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); Uighurs [younger wife successively gave birth son and daughter; the eldest replaced them with a puppy and a kitten]: Kabirov 1963:227-247; salars (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous District) [the youngest wife gave birth to a son; the eldest said she gave birth to a dog]: Tenishev 1964, No. 12:27-28.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Potanin 1883, No. 84 (Buren-Gol river) [his wife gave birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; other wives replaced him with a mole], 181 [(Kyzyl district); the khan's wife gave birth to a hero; another his wife replaced him with a puppy]: 341-348, 600-618; Taube 1978, No. 31 [Khan's wife gave birth to a gold-breasted hero; other wives replaced him with a dog]: 146-154; South Altai Tuvans [Khan's wife gave birth twins; other wives replaced him with two puppies]: Taube 1994, No. 21:202-205; Tofalars [=Katanov 1907:645-648; =Rassadin 1996, No. 33:75-77; God's wife gave birth to two sons with gold breasts and one with a human; the old woman replaced the first two puppies]: Sherkhunaev 1975:283-288; the Altaians [the merchant's wife gave birth to a gold-headed son; mother-in-law replaced him with a puppy]: Kandarakova 1928:125-127; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 4 (Chita) [Khan's wife gave birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver ass; older wives replaced him with a puppy]: 85-91; Dugarov 1990 [Khan's wife gave birth to a son with a golden one chest and silver ass; older khanshis replaced him with a puppy]: 27-31; Rudnev 1914 (Khorinsky) [Khan's son's wife gives birth to two boys with a golden eagle and a silver eagle in their forehead; her brother's wife replaces the letter, as if a woman gave birth to two puppies]: 437-448; Oirats (Karashar's merchants) [wife gave birth to a golden son and a silver daughter; other wives replaced children with puppies]: Bennigsen 1912:44-55; Dagurs [wife Mergen gives birth to a son with a golden back and silver chest; other wives have replaced him with a puppy]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:83-91.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Lehtisalo 1947, No. 51 (Obdorsk) [(=Labanauskas 2001:155-163); a girl gives birth to a son, a witch gives birth to a half-dog, puts a girl]: 147-165; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr, Zap. Labanauskas) [wife gives birth to a boy, witch replaces him with a half-dog]: 61-64; Mansi [Mosh-ne has a son, Por-ne has a Boy in the Form of a Motley Puppy (PUG); P. shoved M.'s child into the barrel, flushed 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 his son, forcibly brings him to himself, he agrees to live with M., and not with his father from the dugout; M.'s son and the PUG go to the city where Ushing-Otyr-Oika lives; get rich; W. leaves his wife, comes to M., marries her; P. was torn by horses; the PUG took off his dog clothes and became handsome]: Lukina 1990, No. 130:338-339 (=Kuzakova 1994:44-47); northern (?) Khanty [Moldanov 2003:40; merchant's wife gives birth to miracle children; mother-in-law replaced children with puppies]: Kim 2008:74; Southern Khanty (Irtysh) [prince's wife gives birth to a daughter and two sons with stars on the top of her head, the sun on her forehead, a month at the back of her head; her sisters replace them with puppies]: Patkanov 1999, No. 4:331-346 (brief retelling in Kim 2006:76); the Northern Selkups [Natanka ("girl") and Tomnanka ("frog"+ two diminutive suffixes) marry two men; T. replaces N.'s newborn with a puppy]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups [woman successively gives birth to two sons; mother-in-law replaced them with puppies]: Pelikh 1972:351-352; Yugi [stepdaughter got married, had twins; stepmother replaced them with a puppy and chicken]: Werner 1997, No. 7:248-250

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Yerbogachen) [one wife gave birth to a son, the other replaced him with a puppy]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 100:131-132; Baikal Evenks: Voskoboynikov 1958 (bount) [wife the hunter gave birth to a son with a golden head; her sisters replaced him with a puppy]: 104-107; 1973, No. 24 (Kachugsky District of the Irkutsk Region) [one wife gave birth to a golden child, the other two replaced him with a puppy]: 111-114; Far Eastern Evenks (probably Uchursky) [the wife gave birth to a strong boy; her sisters replaced him with a puppy]: Myreyeva 2009:157-161.

(Wed. Plains. {The puppy's motif is unique to America; European borrowing?}. Pawnee (kitkehahki) [a woman gives birth to a puppy, her husband White Mocassins (BM) throws it into a stream, he is picked up by an Oyster; says he was not thrown away by his father BM, but by a witch; the puppy turns into a boy, finds a quiver, finds his people, stays in his father's house; differs in hunting buffalo, marries the leader's daughter, they have many children; chases a deer, who turns into a woman, says that the father wants to kill him; the young man invites his father and others to his house, calls him to a competition; makes his father poke his head at all objects; screams, BM and his people fall dead]: Dorsey 1906, No. 53:192- 194).