K75A. Throw an apple at the challenger, H316.

.13.-.17.21.23.26.-.33.

The character chooses one of many contenders (a woman - a husband, a boy - a father, a boy - a bride) by throwing an object (often an apple) at him. Cf. motif K113A (throw an object into the distance at random, not at the person nearby).

Kordofan, Malgashi (Sakalawa), Arabs of Egypt, Berbers of Morocco (south, reefs), (Tunisia), Berbers of central Algeria (mzab), Arabs of Algeria, Sicilians, Italians (Abruzza, Tyrol), Ladins , (Basques), French (Haute-Bretagne, Lorraine, Basque Country), Germans (Grimms), Arameans (Maaloula), Palestinians, Arabs of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mehri, Jibbali, Socotra, Meitei (?) , northern India (Mirzapur), Bengalis, Chinese (Jiangsu), Greeks, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Albanians, Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Nogais, Stavropol Turkmens, Kumyks, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Talysh, Turkmens, Persians (Fars, Isfahan, Kerman, Khorasan, Azerbaijan, Hamadan), Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Rushans, Wakhans, Yazgulyam, Uzbeks, Danes, Swedes, Lithuanians (? Suvalka Gubernia), (Lutsi), Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified): Frobenius 1923, No. 15 [At the time when Sultan Shatr Mohamed's son was born, the mare necklaces; boy and horse Husan grew up, stepmother hates stepson; horse warns that food, then clothes, will be poisoned; the stepmother pretended to be sick: the horse's liver will heal her; when CMM returns from school, the stepmother's servants try to keep him from X., but the CMM drives them away; the horse teaches to ask the father to let him ride for the last time; the stepmother sends armed servants to stop the horse if the CMM tries to ride away; but they rode away, no one could catch up with them; in another city, H. gave CMM call him hairs, ordered him to leave his weapon and rich outfit and go to the city in poor clothes; he came to the Sultan's garden, told the gardener that he had already worked as an assistant gardener, he took him as a worker; when everyone went to the party, the SHM decided to call the horse he missed to put on the royal outfit; then took off his clothes, swam in the pond, sent the horse; the youngest of the Sultan's 7 daughters saw the CMM, fell in love; the gardener noticed hoof marks and punished SHM for not stopping a stranger; the princess began to send the best food for CMM, but the gardener kept it for himself; for three years; after asking his eldest daughter, the sultan called everyone men for each daughter to throw a handkerchief at whoever she wants to marry; the youngest waits for everyone to be called, including the gardener and his worker; throws a handkerchief at the CMM; CMM with the Sultan's youngest daughter settled slaves in the quarter; enemies attacked; six detachments led by older sons-in-law were defeated; SM summoned a horse, dressed in dress, defeated enemies; wife tells SHM about the mysterious victorious rider; the same on the second day, when the SHM killed the sultan of enemies; his sultan bandaged the CMM wound with a handkerchief; at night, the CMM fell asleep, the wife sees blood, calls her mother, she recognizes her husband's Sultan's handkerchief, brings that; when the Sultan's envoys came for the CMM, he called the horse, put on his dress; he told the Sultan everything; he made him an heir, and executed the gardener for mistreatment of CMM; only in one of the two options: out of grief at the choice of his daughter, the Sultan fell ill, he would be cured by gazelle milk; 6 sons-in-law did not get it, the CMM called the horse, took it out, gave it to his son-in-law; but this milk did not help the Sultan; and what the CMM kept for himself and passed through his wife, helped], 18 [the man is young and rich; in a dream he is told that he will lose everything and earn pennies working as an aquifer; he decided that it is better to be tested in his youth than in old age; took a bag of gold and a bag of silver, loaded it on a donkey; when crossing the Nile, the donkey drowned along with the load; the man began to carry water; others sympathized when they saw that he came from a good family; rich man tells 6 daughters to choose a husband and to do this, throw a handkerchief at the chosen one; at the feast, the youngest sees that the water carrier's manners are much better than everyone else chooses him; the rich man lodged 5 daughters in good houses, and the youngest is in the slave quarter; the rich man is ill, he needs gazelle milk; the older sons-in-law caught only males; three females fell into the traps of the water carrier; he gave milk to his older sons-in-law for permission to burn their stigma backside; the doctor said that the milk was spoiled and unsuitable; it only made the rich man worse; and the milk that the water carrier brought helped; the water carrier said that he came from a wealthy family and ordered his older sons-in-law they were naked and showed that they were wearing his family brand; the rich man sent his younger son-in-law with the caravan home, and told the elders to be at his service; on the bank of the Nile, his father-in-law noticed a chain in the sand; son-in-law: this chain was from my treasure bags; they pulled them out; at my son-in-law's house, my father-in-law was convinced how many worthy friends he had; told his daughter that her husband was the best], 19 [the king laments that he was childless; the sorcerer gives two lemons; let one Arab wife eat, she will give birth to a daughter, and the other a concubine, give birth to a son; when he grows up, he must come to the sorcerer; the boy's name is Shatr Mohammed (SHM); the sorcerer met him, ordered him to remind his father about the promise; he cries; the sorcerer became an eagle and took away the CMM; in his palace, the CMM gives the keys to all rooms, but forbids unlocking one of them; treasures are everywhere; in the forbidden room, the CMM is suspended by her hair beautiful; on one side there is a horse on chains, bloody meat in front of him; on the other, a lion, hay in front of him; the floor is strewn with old and recently cut down heads of young men; CMM freed the girl, swapped places hay and meat, horse and lion broke chains; horse: put on armor, take a sword and a girl and jump; the lion is with them; the sorcerer catches up; the horse tells you to throw the comb (thick forest), a piece of glass (a field covered with fragments glass), soap (river); the sorcerer swam, drowned; the horse tells him to take his hairs to summon him and go to town; he hired a gardener; the youngest of the 7 princesses sees him swimming, calling a horse and puts on armor; she sends him food every day, but the gardener picks them up; princesses send her father 7 melons: it's time for them to marry; each throws a handkerchief to the one she has chosen as her husband; the youngest with CMM is placed in slave quarter; the king is sick, gazelle milk is needed; SMM gives it to his older sons-in-law, who allow them to stigmatize their backs; sons' milk does not help, milk brought by the younger princess healed the father; enemies have attacked; sons-in-law flee, CMM smashes enemies on his horse; to celebrate the savior, the king inflicts a slight wound on his arm with a sword and bandages him with his handkerchief; the wife recognizes his father's handkerchief, tells his mother; the king begs the CMM to return to the palace; the older sons-in-law have to show the stigma, now they are slaves to the CMM]: 165-179, 204-216, 216-224; malgashi (sakalava) [childless woman turns to the sorcerer Rakakabe; he gives the drug on the condition that she gives him her first child; she gives birth to twins indistinguishable from each other; R. comes, the mother tells him to come tomorrow, promises to dress the elder in red; the young man cuts the cloth into pieces, gives each of his comrades; the same with a black cloth; then R. sends one young man first, then the second, to bring water in coconut without splashing; takes the one who manages to do this with him; at home to R. the old woman teaches the young man to push R. himself into a boiling pot; the young man takes R.'s property, sinks into water up to his neck, his body becomes gilded; leaves, kills a snake that is about to eat two mighty chicks birds; she gives him a female; the same with two donkeys (takes a female donkey); the same lioness, a giraffe; he leaves the animals in the cave; puts on rags, smears himself with resin, as if he were a leper; then he comes to lepers, then into a cave, where he takes on a normal form; the chief's daughter chooses the groom, throwing a lemon; lemon hits a young man who looks like a leper twice; the leader's daughter takes him as her husband, but does not sleep with him; the king is sick, donkey milk will cure him; the young man gives it to four young men, but for this he burns their legs with a poker; a neighboring leader attacked, a young man in his true form smashes enemies with animals; in Next time he cuts his finger with a sword, the chief bandages the wound with a handkerchief; the wife tells the maid to wash her husband to heal with herbs, the dirt and resin come off, everyone is happy; he appears all over the celebration, chief recognizes his handkerchief; the younger brother follows in the footsteps of the elder, he is still the same; the elder learns about the beauty who wins against those who come to her, goes to look for her; the youngest comes to the elder's wife, she takes him for her husband, but he puts a sword between them at night; the older brother loses, is imprisoned; the old woman gives the younger mice - you have to play at night, release the mice, the cat will chase them, knock over the lamp , it will be possible to pick up her chips unnoticed; the woman offers herself, but the youngest only tells the elder to be released; after learning that the youngest slept with his wife, the eldest kills him; after learning from his wife about the sword, the eldest returns to the youngest's body, the bee revives the victim, everything is fine]: Haring 2007, No. 80:207-220.

North Africa. Arabs of Egypt: Artin Pasha 1895, No. 5 [the king announced that he is marrying three daughters; let each throw a handkerchief at her chosen one; the eldest threw at the prince, the middle on the emir, the youngest at goat horns; and so on three times; persuaded her father to pass her off as a goat; in marriage, the goat turns into prince charming, tells no one to tell anyone about it; the older sons-in-law went to war and returned from With victory, the wives greet them; the younger princess sees her husband and greets them too; the sisters think she has an affair; the father wants to execute her, she has to tell everything, the husband disappears; the princess began to keep the bathhouse and asked the women to talk about their misfortunes; one day an old woman came and told me something else; she was washing, saw a mule that took two jugs of water, stamped her hoof and began to go underground; the old woman followed him, 40 goats came in, another on a goat himself; turned into a young man, began to mourn their fate; the princess told the old woman to bring her to that place, went down , rushed to the prince, he said that the spell was broken and it was possible to return to the palace; everything is fine]: 87-102; Spitta bey 1883, No. 12 [Tsarevich Mohammed Razumny and the foal were born at the same time; their mothers died; The king father married a slave, her lover is Jewish; they want to get rid of M.; they agreed to poison him; the horse talks about this, M. throws food to the cat, she is dead; the stepmother pretended to be sick, she needs the horse's heart; the horse talked to M.; M. asked his father for permission to ride for the last time, galloped off; exchanged clothes with the sheikh, hired a gardener; once he called a horse, put on royal clothes, began to prance ; the younger princess saw him and fell in love; invited the sisters to let her father know that it was time for them to marry; each throws a handkerchief at her chosen one; six were abandoned, the youngest is waiting; when M. (and he turns the irrigation wheels), threw them at him; the king locked them; fell ill with grief; he would be helped by a bear's milk in the skin of a young bear (the word previously meant "lioness"; later, a semi-mythical beast); M. He summoned his horse, put up the royal tent, a gift to his elder sons-in-law of milk in the shoes of an old bear, for which he stamped their backs with a hot ring; he kept the best milk in the skin of a young bear; What the elder sons-in-law brought did not help, what the youngest daughter brought healed the king; war began, M. smashes his enemies, the king put a ring on his finger, bandaged his hand with a handkerchief; the daughter calls her father to him, M. everything says, the elder sons-in-law were slaves to Father M.; M. and his wife return the kingdom of his father, who has already died; his wife and Jew were burned]: 152-161; the Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the sultan holds his daughter in glass palace; a black woman feeds her crust bread and boneless meat; once a black woman fell ill, they sent another woman; she brought normal bread and meat; the princess liked it; she became knock the brain out of the bone against the glass wall; a crack appeared in the wall, a fly flew in, it was ginnia; said that girls should marry; advised me not to eat, but secretly brought it herself the princess food; the sultan called the applicants; let the daughter throw the golden apple herself at someone she likes; no one likes it; the cannibal took the form of an impeccable handsome man; the fly examined him and confirmed that this is true; the sultan demands gold for her daughter; the cannibal delivered five times more; three months later, the son-in-law told the Sultan that he would like to return home; the sultan sent an escort - all his army; on the way the cannibal ate everyone; the wife did not notice, for she was walking in front; when the maid looked around, the husband said that he had sent the soldiers back because his country was near; the fly knew everything, but was afraid of the ogre herself; in the palace The cannibal first ate the maid and then swallowed the fly; the wife gave birth, asked her husband for his parents to come, but he only pretended to send them a letter; and ate the baby himself; the same with the second child ; old woman: to save the next one, pretend to be sick and go to your husband for herbs; under the supervision of an old woman and in secret from the ogre, the princess gave birth to a beautiful girl; once a cannibal overheard his wife talking to old woman; the old woman managed to carry the girl, and the cannibal swallowed his wife; but repented (he still loved his wife), broke her head against the wall and died; the old woman took it out of his stomach and buried it; the cannibal's body she took it out piece by piece and also buried it; when she died, the old woman gave the girl a cat skin: in the form of a cat, you will leave the country of cannibals; the cat was picked up by a shepherdess, gave it to the Sultan's son; in the absence of a prince, the cat turns at the girl; the prince sees her, gives her ring; the girl disappears, the prince is going to go in search; the cat meows, the prince leaves her in the room, giving her flour, etc., to cook tortillas; in a bag of tortillas finds his ring; stays in the palace and tells the Sultan to marry him to a cat; after the wedding, the cat threatens to kill her, she sheds her cat skin; the Sultan's second son has a dog; he tells his father to marry him on her; after the wedding demands that the dog become a girl; she bit him; in the morning the sultan sends a servant to the newlyweds, the dog bit him; so with many servants; the sultan shot the dog; after his death a son who married a cat inherited the throne]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:165-178; the Berbers of Morocco (south) [the poor firewood seller has two sons; he caught a beautiful bird in the forest and brought it home; wife did not let the children play, but hid it; every day a bird lays an egg, each Jew buys it for a hundred mitkals; the husband went on a pilgrimage, and the Jew became his wife's lover; asked to slaughter and cook the bird; returning in the absence of their mother, the boys opened the lid of the cauldron, the younger Hammed ate the head, and the elder Muhammed the heart of the bird; unable to find the head and heart, the Jew tells the woman to slaughter the children and get the contents their stomachs; she tells the maid to do it; she let the children go, brought the head and heart of a dead bird; Jew: that's not it; the woman drove the maid away and married a Jew; M. went to the right from the fork, came to the locked gates of the city; there the king died, the residents will choose as the new king the one who comes first to the gate in the morning; M. became king; H. went to the left, hired a bagel baker; brought happiness to the house; with him magic ring; if you turn it, a palace appears; the youngest of the king's seven daughters saw it, asked her father to marry them; the king called all the men, gave each of the daughters an apple to throw in chosen one; everyone was abandoned, the youngest is waiting; when the lousy baker's worker was brought, she threw an apple at him; the king fell ill; the vizier: let the sons-in-law bring lion's milk in lion's clothing, the lion will carry it, and the other to go ahead; the lousy man turned the ring, told the servant to give him a white horse, weapons, etc.; promises other sons-in-law to get what they needed in exchange for apples received from the princesses; brought the king slaughtered lions bulls, he gave what he needed; vizier: you need another medicine - water taken between rocks that open once a year; the same (red horse; H. requires sons-in-law to cut off their earlobes); H. managed to take waters and rocks only cut off the horse's tail; the third cure: an apple from the Rhalia Bint Manssor garden, which lives across seven seas; a black horse; cut off the phalanges of the little fingers; a servant from the ring: only the elderly will take it there a spirit that has almost lost its feathers; he asks to take 7 blood vessels and 7 pieces of meat on the road; when he flies, asks how H. sees the ground; he answers (less and less); the seventh piece slipped out hands, H. cut off the flesh from his hand; when he reached, the spirit teaches how to go through three gates to the sleeping RBM; H. took an apple, left a note that it was here; King H. says that he got everything, tells his sons-in-law show apples; the king executed six sons-in-law, married H. with his youngest daughter; the brothers' father returned, but his wife, who became the wife of a Jew, refused to recognize him; he appealed to King Sidi Mohammed (i.e. to his son) to judge them; he called Brother Hammed, everyone told everything; the mother and the Jew were burned]: Stumme 1895, No. 15:119-131; the Berbers mzab of central Algeria [the king has five daughters; he does not can find wives for them; one of the daughters sees for herself a young man she likes; the king tells the young men to go to the palace, each of the princesses threw an apple at someone she likes; but the king first asks his sons-in-law bring an apple, the smell of which makes them younger; the youngest went to the cannibal; promised to bring apples to the elders, for which he cut off each finger; the cannibal teaches how to approach the tree and pick 5 apples; only the most small is magical; the young man gave 4 apples to his elder sons-in-law, they brought them to the king, he was not younger; the king became younger from the apple of his younger son-in-law; he appointed him heir]: Basset 1897, No. 109:125-130; Arabs Algeria [the Sultan has seven daughters; he refuses grooms; the old woman taught the girls to send their father a watermelon with 7 silver knives stuck in it; the vizier explained: princesses want to marry; the sultan gave each with a golden apple, ordered all men to go outside the palace window; 6 princesses threw apples to nobles, the seventh to the poor logger; the sultan married their daughters; the prince hid under the guise of a logger another country; an angel conveyed Allah's command to him: to experience 7 years of humiliation either in his youth or in old age; the prince chose the former; gave the country to the vizier and became a logger; the prince had a ring with jinn servants; he tells them to create a palace, receives other sons-in-law there for a week, and then becomes a lumberjack again; the sultan is ill, he needs an embalming apple and revitalizing water; the older sons-in-law has left, nothing got it; the prince on a green horse in green clothes came unrecognized, gave his sons-in-law water and an apple, cut off his earlobes in return; now the sultan wants lioness milk in a lion skin wineskin; the same is the prince on white a white horse put his seal on the shoulder of each of his sons-in-law; an angel announced to the prince that the test period had expired; people were coming to the city to find their king; the lumberjack prince appeared in royal; showed the Sultan the earlobes of his elder sons-in-law and his seal on their shoulders; the sultan recognized them as slaves to the prince; on the way to his state, the prince, his wife and retinue went to the stormy river; the prince threw a handful of earth, the water dried up, people crossed to the other side; the prince waved his hand, a passage formed in the mountain; (and other miracles); at home, the prince forgave his older sons-in-law, appointed them vizier, pasha, etc.]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:170-190; (cf. Tunisia [The king has seven sons, he thought they were interfering with his subjects, and he imprisoned them in a palace. A maid brought them food. Just bread and water, but she felt sorry for them and started bringing them tasty and tasty food. She once told the king that his children had stopped eating and she did not know what was wrong with them. Then the king decided to marry them. He dressed like a king, gave each one an apple. The princes threw apples. For one, it pointed towards the vizier's court, the other towards the court of a noble man, and so everyone decided on the bride, except for his younger brother. There was no way he could find his apple. Six got married and gave them a gift from the palace king, while the youngest was left alone. One day he went hunting and saw his apple, and a frog stuck to him. He wanted to unhook it, but he didn't succeed, so he threw the apple and the frog under the bed. When he left, the frog shed its skin and turned into a beautiful girl. She did all the household chores and went back under the bed. This went on for several days. When the prince returned, he thought it was the neighbors' wives who had decided to help him. He went to thank his neighbors, but it turned out they weren't them. Then he turned to the sheikh. He advised him to hide and see what was going on in the house in his absence. So the prince saw the beauty, burned her frogskin, married her and got his own house. The king decided to visit his son and daughter-in-law. When I saw my daughter-in-law, I wanted to marry her myself. He ordered the prince to make a burnus out of a piece of marble. The frog told her husband to go to his father, take a sandbasket with him, and ask him to make silk threads out of sand. The king admitted that his son overcame his ordeal. He ordered the army to be brought in and the entire army fed with "musarrad". The frog made a couscous, then added the king's musarrad and his handkerchief to it and told her husband to say: "For the hungry!" This is how he fed an entire army. The third task is to bring a talking baby. The frog sent her husband to her sister, who had just given birth. She said to the baby, "The one who came for you is your aunt's husband, and whoever you're going to talk to wants to kill your aunt's husband and marry your aunt himself." She said that and handed him a sword. The prince took the baby to the king. The baby said to him, "We speak and we want words over words and we cut off your head." The baby cut off the king's head]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 45 in Korovkina MS).

Southern Europe. Sicilians [the elder prince goes with his father to the magnificent valley, wants to stay in his father's house; at night he hears a roar, runs out, the house collapses, he returns home in horror; the same with middle; the youngest is indifferent to the appearance of a wild man, he disappears; brothers find a well; only the youngest dares to go down; kills a sleeping wild man, freeing three princesses; the youngest gives a ring, she is a magic wand for him; the brothers pick up the girls, leave the youngest one below; he calls an eagle with a wand, cooks meat, climbs to the ground on an eagle; there is not enough meat, he cuts off his hands and legs; the eagle puts them back; the youngest is hired by a tailor; the princess's ring glitters, which means that her savior is near; requires a dress, the imaginary tailor's apprentice creates it with a magic wand; the king summons men, the younger princess must throw a handkerchief at the groom; she throws them at the dirty apprentices; the king resettles them; the brothers hunt, the imaginary apprentice beats the game, gives them marks on his shoulders; everything opens, the king leaves the throne to the younger, expels the elders]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 38:252-262; Italians: Ilyin, Kazakova 1960 [(framed story; parrot's second story) ; the Spanish princess is 16 years old, she must choose a husband among the suitors gathered; let her throw the golden ball at random; the Queen aimed at the Portuguese prince, but he also touched the shoulder of the Turkish Sultan; the king and princess chose a prince; the sultan: let no one get it; the princess fell ill; sent an ambassador for the wise princess Rosalind; her father hardly agreed to let his daughter go; the Spanish king locked R. and the princess; there is nothing to light a candle, you can see a fire in the distance; R. jumped out the window, ran to the fire; there the Turk brews a potion; R. offered to interfere with an owl's paw instead of him; the Turk fell asleep, R. knocked over hot potion for him; the Turk turned to dust; the princess recovered and got married]: 52-58; Cosquin 1922b [motive known: Abruzza, Tyrol]: 328; ladins [while father is at war, son grew up and left to travel; he answered the gentleman in the green outfit that he was going to learn something; he put him on his back, flew to a secluded house, told him to give barley to the bear and meat to the horse; the young man did the opposite; the horse said that the sorcerer turned them into animals; you have to take an ointment, a broom, a brush, a scraper, run; the sorcerer chases them in green; a brush, then a scraper, turn into a dense forest; a broom into a crossed an area with abysses and rocks, the sorcerer has stopped pursuing; the horse orders to smear his head with ointment, the young man becomes handsome with golden hair; the horse orders to kill the bear and put on his skin, hire him the palace to watch the chickens, then ask him to be a gardener; the youngest of the three princesses sees a young man when he took off his skin; the princesses asked his father to give them a golden apple - who they would throw at, for that get married; the youngest is thrown into Bearskin, they are placed in a hut; the king tells his sons-in-law to go hunting; Bearskin takes her horse, puts on a luxurious outfit, and has caught a lot of game; older sons-in-law They got nothing; Bearskin gave them the loot for apples they received from the princesses; the next time for his horse to kick them in the ass, leaving a mark; enemies attacked, unrecognized as a hero Bearskin smashes enemies twice; the second time the king scratches him with his sword (to see who the stranger is); at a feast, the young man shows golden apples and tells his older sons-in-law to show signs of the blow hoof; older princesses grieve that they did not go after Bearskin]: Uffer 1973, No. 8:19-25 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 64:171-178); (cf. The Basques [Ezkabi (Fidel) is hired to serve; the owner leaves for 7 years, telling them to take care of the horses; the white mare explains that the owner is the devil, the horses are transformed people, tells them to run; tells them to moisten hair, it turns golden; E. covers it; the owner chases; the mare hits his hoof three times: fog, hail, river; the pursuer drowns; E. is hired as a gardener to the king, the younger princess in it fell in love; father settles them by the mountain; unrecognized E. smashes enemies; older sons-in-law laugh at him; the king is sick, almost blind, sends them for medicine; older sons-in-law disappear; E. meets an old woman, she gives bottles of medicine for blindness and old age; sells them to older sons-in-law for golden apples given by their wives; at the celebration of their return, E. tells everything and shows apples , takes off the cover from his head, everyone sees his golden hair; the king gives him the crown; options: E.'s head is really covered with scab; going for medicine, E. pays the debts of the poor man whose corpse is beaten in front of church; buries him; not talking about a white mare; the old woman gives everything; the younger princess falls in love when she notices E.'s golden hair]: Webster 1879:111-120).

Western Europe. French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 29:106-111 (Lorraine) [when leaving, the king gives his son the keys to the castle, forbiding him to enter the same room; the prince entered there, there is a pool, he dipped his finger and finger in it covered with indelible gilding; the king forgives his son; when he leaves again, the son washes in the pool, asks the horses which one is faster; Bayard makes only 15 leagues in a step, but smarter than Moreau; father pursues Moreau on horseback; Bayard orders to throw a sponge (forest), a scraper (a river), a stone (a mountain covered with razors); Moreau hurts his legs, the king returns; the prince changes clothes with a farmhand, pulls it over his head bubble, hired by a cook for a local king, his name is Sheludivy (Sh.); the king's three daughters must throw a golden apple at their chosen ones; the youngest saw that S. had golden hair, threw it at him; the elders they choose a humpback (G.) and a quiver (K.); the king will be healed by three jugs of water by the Queen of Hungary; S. rides his three-legged horse to the place where Bayar left, takes these three jugs there, sells older sons-in-law for the right to stab everyone in the ass a hundred times with an awl; enemies attack, S. wins everyone in true guise; buys golden apples thrown at G. and K. by their wives for two more jugs of Hungarian water queens; defeats enemies again; the king wounds him with an arrow to mark; Bayard says that after completing five services, he can regain his prince appearance, leaves; the king is looking for a wounded man in his thigh with an arrow; this is S.; older sons-in-law are driven away]; Cosquin 1922b [the motive is known: Upper Brittany, Lorraine, Basque Country]: 328; Germans [royal rangers disappear one by one in the forest; came unknown hunter; saw a hand stick out of the swamp and drag him away; the water was scooped out, there was a wild man with a rust-colored body; this is Iron Hans; the king ordered him to be put in a cage; 8- the summer prince played with a golden ball, the ball hit the cage; JG promised to return it if the boy took the key from under his mother's pillow and opened the door; on the third day, the boy did it, and when JG began to leave, asked him to take it, otherwise his father would kill him; JG put the boy in the forest by the well to make sure that nothing fell into clean water; one day a boy accidentally put his finger in the water and it turned gold; then fell hair; the third time the boy leaned down, his hair sunk into the water and turned gold; JG told him to go on a journey; if necessary, let him call him; the prince hired the castle as a cook, and then as a gardener, hiding his hair under his hat - supposedly his head was scabbed; the princess noticed them, gave them gold coins, but the prince gave them to the gardener; the prince grew up; war broke out; the prince called JG, who gave them to him a mighty horse instead of a lame mare; the unrecognized prince defeated enemies; the king tells us to gather people: let the princess throw the golden apple and the hero catch it; the prince caught him three times, appearing in red, a white, black horse in armor of the same color; the king orders to injure the hero with a sword; the hat fell, everyone saw golden hair; he showed all three apples, said he was a prince himself; parents arrived at the wedding prince and another king; he was disgraced by JG, he gave his riches to the prince]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 136:443-449 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:353-359).

Western Asia. Palestinians [the Sultan has two wives, one has one son and the other has two; the first is dead, the second seeks to get rid of a rival for his sons; a horse that warns a young man like lightning; a young man they gave a poisoned goose, who put it on another wife's son; they dug a trap hole, he jumped over it, the second wife's second son failed, died; the second wife pretended to be sick, we must eat young horse meat; the young man asked for permission to ride for the last time, galloped away; pulled a sheep's stomach over his head, hired to guard the garden; his name was Qureyoon ("bald"); he sometimes called his horse and rode on him; in his true form, the younger princess saw the young man; invited the sisters to ask his father to marry them; each of the grooms passing under the window should throw a handkerchief; the elders chose the sons of Pasha and the Minister, the youngest is K.; because of this choice, the king fell ill; doctors: you need white gazelle milk; K. brought a herd of gazelles, gave it to his older sons-in-law for the right to burn a stigma in their ass; they brought them to the king milk is bitter; the king recovered from what K. had brought; enemies attacked, K. defeated them, the king bandaged his hand with his handkerchief; when K. returned on his nag in the guise of a bald man, he recognized the handkerchief; K. took off his head sheep's stomach, said that he was the son of the Sultan; at the feast he said that he could not eat with his slaves; they had to show stamps; the king handed over the throne to K., and sent his elder sons-in-law to serve him]: Bushnaq 1987:115-119; the Arabs of Iraq [the Sultan's two eldest sons are from an Arab woman, the youngest is Ethiopian; the sultan offers his sons to shoot a bow - where the arrows fall, take a wife; the arrows of the elders hit into the courtyards of Amir and Vizier, the youngest's arrow flew into the chol (desert); the lion asks to pull a splinter out of his leg, gives three hairs; if rubbed, they turn into willing servants; the prince asks a flying horse, stops near the city, buys a sheep, pulls a stomach over her head, now looks like a bald horse, stays to work for the Sultan's gardener; the youngest of the three princesses once sees a young man in everything its splendor; at the request of the princesses, the gardener brings the Sultan three melons of varying degrees of ripeness; the vizier explained the hint; the sultan gathered all the men, gave the daughters an apple, ordered them to throw them at the one who will like it; the elders chose the sons of Amir and the Vizier; the youngest does not leave, demands that they bring a gardener's apprentice; the sultan lodged them in the stable; enemies attacked; the young man three times incognito in brilliant guise different horses appear and smash enemies; the Sultan bandaged his wound on his arm with his handkerchief; out of grief that he did not know who the hero was, the Sultan went blind; the doctor: you need lion's milk in a lionskin vessel, brought on a lion's back; an elder son-in-law rides; at a crossroads, an old man spins the thread of day and night; one road - "If you go, you won't come back", two - "You'll go and come back"; he went to come back; met the person who offered to play chess; lost everything, became a servant; the same with his second son-in-law; the younger son-in-law is kind to the old man, wants to go on a road that they do not return; the old man teaches not to turn around , if he feels blows from all sides, put the guards to sleep, then the lionesses will give them what they need; unrecognized, the young man finds brothers, gives a bottle of milk, for which he puts seals on their backs; but milk is not helped; in his true form, the son of an Ethiopian woman appears to the Sultan, the lion with milk is behind; the sultan saw the light, handed him the throne]: Stevens 2006, No. 12:58-73; Arameans (Maalula) [stepmother disliked his stepson; he took the magic ring from his father's chest and came to town; on the way he changed clothes with the shepherd; stole the woman's mutton, washed it, pulled it over her head as if he had scab; hired a gardener vizier; sometimes tells the ring to give him a horse, luxurious clothes, removes his gut from his head, and then takes the form of a bastard again; the vizier's daughter noticed this; the father gathered all the men to throw gold an apple at whoever she wanted to be her husband; she threw it at the bastard; at first they thought it was an accident, but the next day she threw the apple at the bastard again; the vizier placed the daughter and her chosen one in the barn; everyone went to war, the bastard too - on a bad nag; summoned everything he needed from the ring; smashes enemies, but wounded in the arm; the vizier covered the wound with his handkerchief; when the vizier went to his daughter to drive her and her husband away altogether far away, he recognized his handkerchief; everything was clarified; the young man and wife moved to the palace]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 20:66-71; Saudia [Muhammad is the son of the Sultan from his unloved wife, whom he divorced ; Mahmud and Ahmed are sons from a beloved; the sultan is blind; fortune teller: lion milk brought on the lion's back will help; the brothers went in search; at the fork, the old man points to three roads: prosperity; regret and remorse; for which they do not return; Muhammad chose the latter; the other two roads came together, brought them to the city, Mahmoud and Ahmed squandered money, one went to work in a tavern, the other to a salesman lamb heads; Muhammad came to the jinn's palace; a captive girl advises to venerate their mother's breast; Jinnia hid Muhammad from her sons; then they called him brother; brought him to their middle aunt; from her to the eldest; she teaches him to pull a splinter from a sleeping lion and ask for milk when he stops being angry with pain; the genies rewarded the young man, he returned with 15 camels loaded with gold, three girls and a lion carrying lion milk on his back; Muhammad found brothers in the city and took them with him only after they allowed them to be branded with him; water must be obtained, only Muhammad agrees to go down to the well; at the bottom there is a girl and a sleeping eagle; he can only be killed with his own sword; the eagle asks to hit him a second time; Muhammad: father and mother were not taught to finish off; the eagle is dead; Muhammad sent water and a girl upstairs; she gave a ring: if you rub it, she will come to the rescue; the brothers will cut the rope; you have to go down that road; if a black goat hits, you will go down to the seventh underworld, and if a white goat hits, you will go up to the ground; the goats fought, the white one missed, the black one hit, Muhammad found himself in a hot world where genies lived; old woman: a witch at the ditch lets water once a year when she is given one of the king's daughters genies; today it is the middle daughter's turn; Muhammad hacked the witch; rubbed the ring; that girl tells me to go to the palace of the king of jinns; there his daughter will throw grenades at the one who saved her; so happened; the king ordered to raise Muhammad to the ground for one of the genies; to do this, prepare 7 lamb fat tails and 7 servings of tortillas; the seventh fat tail Muhammad dropped, cut off the meat from his thigh; on the ground, the genie regurgitated the meat and He put an iron sarcophagus on the wound; in the meantime, the girl covered her camels, the lion, herself and the other girls with an iron sarcophagus; Muhammad defeated his father's army, showed marks on the shoulders of her brothers; by agreement with the girl, destroyed the iron sarcophagus; the king saw the light, the Sultan returned his first wife, the second sons were thrown into prison]: Juhaiman 1999:37-47; Yemen: Daum 1992, No. 8 (South Yemen) [after the death of his wife, the Sultan again married; the new one fell in love with her stepson; he avoided her, she told her husband that her stepson was bothering her; the sultan told her son to leave; the daughter of the king of the jinn promises to help the young man, but she would be his sister, not his wife; a young man puts on a donkey skin, comes to the Sultan's city; when he swims, taking off his skin, the Sultan's youngest daughter sees him; the Sultan gives his seven daughters so that his sons-in-law can help fight the neighboring sultan; convenes men and daughters must throw an apple at the chosen ones; the youngest throws them into Donkey's Skin; the sultan settles them in the stable; the neighboring sultan demands tribute; the daughter of the king of the jinns gives the young man a horse and a sword, he smashes enemies, then puts on donkey skin again; wins the tournament, the sultan inflicts a minor wound on him to identify him later; everything is explained; the sultan gives him the throne], 23 (North Yemen) [a timid man named The jumper (P.; Hüpfer) killed flies, told his wife that he had laid a thousand with one blow and let go of a thousand; the wife was afraid that he would not get into trouble because of such words; the king found out about him, told his seven daughters choose suitors by throwing an apple; six chose the other young men, and the youngest chose P.; the neighboring king demanded tribute, the sons-in-law went to battle; the horse carried P., who grabbed the tree, unwittingly snatched it out the land, dragged, the enemies were frightened, fled; when P. went to visit his first wife, her uncle's son explained to her that her husband was actually a coward; agreed that he would dress up as a robber and pretend to be a robber , as if he is taking his wife away from P.; he really chickened out, his wife stayed with his relatives]: 84-96, 212-216; Mehri: Jahn 1902, No. 7 [the sultan told five sons that he would kill their mother because she took Jew as lovers; the youngest son Muhammad warned his mother, they left; there was no fire, M. saw fire in the distance, seven were sitting there, cooking a camel, telling him to cut the meat; he took his share and fire, but on the way the rain put out the fire; M. returned, they were angry, M. killed them, began to live with his mother in their castle; one demon was alive, his mother found him, cured him, took him as a lover; to get rid of M., a demon suggests sending him to buy olives to a garden where lions and snakes; his mother is sick, olives will cure her; M. met a man, brought him water, he gave him hair - if burned, he would come to the rescue; became a horse, took him M. to the garden, M. let the chained lion go, took olives, brought him to his mother; she sent him to bring clothes; he arrived on horseback to where the Sultan's daughter was given to be eaten by a 7-eyed, 7-horned snake; killed the snake, breaking horns with stones, gouging out his eyes with a spear; put his head on the mountain; sultan: whoever takes off his head kills the snake; M. takes off, gets the princess; returns to his mother again; she ties him up - see how strong he is; tells the demon to kill him; but he is afraid; then he throws him out of the castle; the caravans find him, free him; M. kills the demon, the two children that his mother M., the mother herself, gave birth to him throws it away; disguised as a dervish, she comes to the Sultan, who gives her youngest daughter; she sees M. hiding his horse and sword; throws a lemon at him; other daughters married wealthy merchants; the Sultan's eyes hurt, his will cure wild goat milk; M. milks wild goat and hyena, gives his older sons-in-law hyena milk, for which he burns their scrotum; hyena milk has made the sultan worse, and the goat milk brought by M. cured him; M. defeated the attacking enemies; injured his hand, tied it with a handkerchief; the slave recognized the handkerchief; the sultan saw stamps on his older sons-in-law; made M. a sultan, became a vizier himself]: 21-37; Müller 1909, No. 54 [text told sketchy and bad; there was a Muhanniš Hadbêb man, seen by the Sultan's youngest daughter, threw lemon at him (as a sign of her choice), married him; they were accommodated in the kitchen, and the elder sons-in-law with their their wives lived in rooms; the Sultan fell ill, he needed wild goat milk; MX took it out, gave it to his older sons-in-law, marked it - burned their flesh under their penis; they brought milk to the Sultan, but he did not I liked it, and the milk given by his youngest daughter cured him; MX defeated the attacking enemies; he and his wife were moved to good rooms]: 139-141; jibbali [mother died, neighbor pretends to be kind to orphan Begelut, persuades him to advise his father to marry her; decides to get rid of B.; when he was at his mother's grave, a mare appeared; she warns that his stepmother will try to poison him, B. throws away the poisoned drink; the old woman advises to pretend to be sick, ask for a mare to be slaughtered; B. asks for permission to ride three times, galloped off; killed the hyena, took its skin, came to the Sultan, hid it the mare, covering it with hyena skin; the sultan gives him a donkey to ride; the youngest of the sultan's daughters throws lemon at B. three times; the sultan passes it off as him, but puts them in a cat; the sultan is sick, the medicine is milk gazelles, 6 older sons-in-law leave, can't get it; B. catches up on his mare, kills two gazelles, takes good milk from one and bad milk from the other; agrees to sell milk to six sons-in-law for that puts a stamp on their crotch; gives them bad milk; (text breaks off)]: Müller 1907, No. 26:114-117; Socotra (written in 1980 from a young illiterate woman) [two brothers loved each other; the youngest replied to the elder that a woman would separate them; the elder married, the wife wanted to marry his brother; he refused; she tore her clothes, told her husband that his brother tried them rape; demanded that he cut off his penis when his brother milked the cow; the older brother did so; the younger brother left; the sultan convenes the men, let the daughter throw a pebble at her chosen one; she throws and hits a young man three times; on the wedding night she makes an incision in her thigh to leave blood on the sheet; tells her husband not to worry about his situation; the servant notices that her son-in-law Sultan castrate; the sultan tells him to swim naked to check; the young man runs away, meets old people, they restore his penis for promising to give the child he will have; the sultan sees healthy son-in-law, executes a servant; son-in-law takes a newborn to the elderly; they stabbed the boy, gave a piece to his father; he threw him at his wife, the child was reborn]: Naumkin, Kogan 2013, No. 19:186 (with full additions English translation).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Meitei (? ; Manipur) [the queen sees two sparrows dead on the ground; the male has died, he took another, and she threw the chicks out of the nest first; the queen cries, begs her husband to take care of their sons Turi and Basanta, if she died; she died; her stepmother pretended to be sick, persuaded the doctor to say that bathing in the blood of her stepchildren would cure her; the king sent them to kill them, but the servants let them go, brought the dog's blood; younger B. fell asleep under a tree, and T. hears parrots talking; whoever eats the female will first be unhappy and then happy, and whoever is male will become king; T. shot and fried parrots; fell asleep; B. woke up ate the female, and T. then ate the male; B. could not walk out of fatigue, T. went to fetch water, to meet an elephant sent to choose a king; the elephant ordered him to sit on him; T. became king and forgot his brother; B. came to the palace, but he was mistaken for an impudent beggar, the king ordered him to be thrown into prison; the merchant cannot lower the boat into the river, even elephants cannot move it; the king gives the prisoner to sacrifice him; B. touches the boat and that moves; the merchant makes him his partner; the king of another country organizes a swayamvara for his daughter; the merchant and B. come, the princess hangs a garland around B.'s neck; the angry king gave his daughter to B. and sent her palace; the merchant pushed B. into the river, his wife managed to throw him a pillow; demanded that the merchant postpone the wedding with her for three years; the laundress's husband and wife found B. on the shore and adopted him; B. accidentally came to to the hut where his wife lived, recognized her, began to tell her story, his wife recognized him; she promised the merchant to marry him immediately after she told the story to the king; B. brought B., who began to tell the king recognized his brother; appointed B. as a military leader, expelled the merchant, everything is fine]: Damant 1975:260-254.

South Asia. North India (Mirzapur, Hindi) [the prince arrives in town where the local Raja arranges a swayamvara for his daughter; she walks past the crowd and hangs a "garland of victory" around the prince's neck]: Cosquin 1922b: 317-318; Ancient India [Nal and Damayanti story; the red goose arranges the wedding of beautiful Nal and beautiful Damayanti; in Swayamvar, five gods take the image of Nal, but D. asks they take their own form and hangs a garland around the chosen one's neck]; meitei (Manipur) [the fugitive becomes a merchant's servant; accompanies the owner on the princess's swayamvara; she hangs a garland around his neck colors]: Cosquin 1922b:318; Bengalis [King Vihramaditya incognito came to another kingdom, took the form of a crazy beggar, went to bed at the temple door; at night the girls came to perform the ceremony; three stepped over the lying man, and the royal daughter refused; V. took an oath from her to comply with his request, then he would let him pass; demanded to marry him; the princes gathered the next morning, but the princess put a wreath on madman; the king married her but expelled her; the king sends son-in-law to hunt; V. asks his wife to get him a horse; she asks his mother, she receives a lame oath from her husband; as soon as V. is left alone, nag turns into a horse; V. summons the spirits of Tāl and Betāl (the same root: Vetāla, which takes souls), orders to build a palace, gather all deer in the park; gives deer to his sons-in-law on the condition that they burn they are marked with hot metal; the wife cries: her little brother will be given rice for the first time tomorrow, but she cannot come, she has no gifts; V. calls T. and B., they bring gold jewelry, the wife wakes up , everything is explained; first the wife comes to his father in a luxurious outfit, then V. at the head of the procession; the king apologizes; V. tells his sons-in-law to show stamps - they are his slaves; takes his wife to his capital]: McCulloch 1912, No. 25:240-254.

China - Korea. Chinese: L'Avie 1839:59-60 at Cosquin 1922b [(literary source); after successfully passing exams, the hero rides past the minister's palace; his daughter holds a ball of silk that is about to be assembled throw to identify the groom; realizing that the young man is the winner of the exams, he throws him at him; the minister gives him a daughter]: 327; Eberhard 1937, No. 33 (Jiangsu) [one of three wives gives birth to a son in the absence of her husband; the other two throw it into the water, it doesn't sink; they wrap it in straw, let the cow eat it; she gives birth to a calf; evil wives want to eat his liver; the man gives them another, buys a calf; the girl wants to choose The husband of the one hit by the ball is hit by a calf; the girl and the calf leave, on the way the calf turns into a young man; the young return home; evil wives are punished]: 54-55.

The Balkans. Greeks: Hahn 1864 (1), No. 8 (Epirus) [a childless woman asks God to give her at least half of the child; the half asks her mother for an ax and a mule, brings firewood from the forest; the princess saw him, called him the maid, they began to laugh; the half threw his ax and rope, left; saw a fish in the lake, caught it, she asked her to let it go - she would teach her how to make any wishes come true; "At God's first word, and for the second fish, let the mule be loaded with firewood!" The mule is loaded; a half brought him to the palace, the princess laughed again-a mule with firewood without an ax or rope; half wants the princess to be pregnant; she gave birth, and when the boy started walking, the king gathered all the men and told the boy to give an apple to his father; the apple rolled to the Half, the boy called him dad and gave the apple; the king wanted to kill his daughter, child and Half, but The courtiers advised them to put them in an iron barrel and throw them into the sea, putting figs for the child; the princess asks the Half if he answers or does something only after she gives he has a fig tree; tells the barrel to stick to the shore and open, a rain canopy appears; a palace with everything inside; the king saw the palace, sent servants to fry hazel grouse there; the doors ask each other if it is possible let those who come in, let them in; objects respond; the servants are so amazed that the hazel grouse burned down; the king sent others - the same; came by himself; Half asks for a fig again and, when he receives, creates luxurious food; the princess asks him to cast another spell: let one spoon be behind the head of the royal boot; asks all the dishes if everything is here; when she asks for spoons, one answers from the boot; king: someone put it, it's not fair; princess: you also did wrong to me; Half tells me everything; they move in with the king, Half becomes a bodyguard and gets married the most beautiful slave]: 45-53; Paton 1901, No. 18 [a poor widow gives her son an ash cake; in the forest he shares it with a wanderer; this is Christ himself, he gives the young man the gift of fulfilling his desires; on the way out of the forest the young man does not want him to carry firewood, but they do; the princess laughs when he sees him, he wants her to become pregnant; the king summons all the men so that the boy born can identify his father; the young man comes Last, the boy throws an apple at him; the king puts his daughter, child and boy in a box, throws it into the sea; the young man tells the box to dock on a deserted island in front of the king's palace, creates a palace with servants; the king comes to visit, the young man creates a bridge for his return; at the feast, the young man puts gold dishes on the king; says that just as the king did not touch her, he himself did not touch his daughter, but was with her thrown into the sea; the king admits he was wrong]: 197-200; Bulgarians [the younger princess chose a vampire as a human husband by throwing an apple at him; at night he or her parents take her to grave; she should not see her husband and before meeting him she loses consciousness every time she eats, drinks and bathes; on the advice of her sisters, one day she abstains from eating and drinking, finds the key and unlocks the castle that is in the husband's heart; sees the shopping arcades where people buy and sell; the husband expels his wife; she reconnects with him with the help of his parents; then they live as human beings among people] : Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 425L: 150; Bulgarians [a young lazy woodcutter gets a wonderful ability from the fish: whatever he wants is done by itself; they cut down the firewood themselves, come to him in house; the princess laughs at him, he wants her to be pregnant with him; when the boy born grows up a little, the princess tells him to throw an apple at his father; he throws it at the lumberjack; the king tells all three let her go to sea in a barrel; the hero tells her to land, creates a palace; the king visits it; the hero tells the golden bowl, the spoon, to be in the king's pocket; says that as the king does not know why he has it turned out to be a bowl, and the princess did not know the reason for the pregnancy; the king forgives the young, they all return to his palace together]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 675:234; Macedonians [the young man came to a blind old man in his house in the mountains; he promises to adopt him if the young man can withstand three blows with a baton; he puts a bag of straw in his place; the old man gives the keys to 10 rooms (which contain treasures) and two does not give; the young man came to three fairies who stole the old man's eyes; they will dance if the young man plays the flute; if he gets tired before them, they will take his eyes; his fingers tremble; he replies that I remembered looking for an old man in my head; they asked them to look for them; he ties them by the hair, hangs them on a tree; they say that the old man's eyes are in two golden apples; the young man frees the fairies, gives the old man one an apple; the second gives after he has allowed the last two rooms to be unlocked; one has a winged horse and a gold spring, the other has a winged mule and a silver spring; the young man becomes gold above the waist, silver - lower; runs away on horseback, the old man chases a mule; the young man throws a comb (thorny thickets), salt (mountain), oil (river); the old man does not cross the river, he advises to hide his appearance from people; the young man dresses as a beggar, puts a bubble over his face like a leper, is hired as a gardener; the youngest of the king's three daughters sees him in his true guise; princesses must throw an apple at whoever they want married; the youngest throws them at the imaginary leper three times; the father in anger drives them away to live in the chicken coop; the king is blind, he needs fairy milk; the imaginary leper pretends to be stuck in the swamp; in true form, brings fairy milk and wild pig milk to a winged horse; gives pork under the guise of fairy milk to older sons-in-law, stamps them on their hips; pork milk makes it even worse for the king; the youngest daughter gives fairy milk, king sees the light; the imaginary leper in his true form smashes enemies, the king bandages his wound with his handkerchief; then sees the leper's handkerchief; the young man opens, shows the stamps on the body of his elders sons-in-law; the king puts the youngest next to him, the elders under the table]: Martin 1955:18-31; Albanians: Dozon 1991, No. 10 [=Elsie 2001, No. 21 (without pagination); a young man saves a frozen snake; it leads him to tells his father to ask for a box in which hair that fulfills all wishes; the king will pass off his daughter as someone she throws an apple at; the young man asks for a horse and clothes from his hair, the king recognizes him as his son-in-law, he promises to return for his wife in 4 months; when he returns, he creates a palace, gets a wife; while his son-in-law is fighting enemies, the king tells his daughter to steal the box; the mouse tickled the young man's nose, the box falls out, she is hers she took it away; the young man understood everything right away; but the king gave his son-in-law the throne; everyone is happy]: 71-76; Lambertz 1952 [the younger brother ate the inheritance and was hired as a farmhand to the elder; every day he went to the forest to cut firewood, brought by lunchtime; one day he forgot to bring them and came back; in the forest, a woman cuts wood; a woman says that she is Ora (~guardian spirit) of her older brother, and Ora Younger is in chains in the seventh room of the evil ones who kidnapped her spirits; Ora Sr. teaches what to do; the youngest comes to those spirits, is hired as an employee, gains trust, frees his Ora and runs with her; she takes a comb, a mirror, soap with her; when Ora of Spirits- The brothers screamed and the spirits set off in pursuit, Ora the Younger tells them to throw the comb (forest), the mirror (the sea), the soap (the smooth slippery surface, the pursuers have stopped chasing); Ora leads the young man to another world; gives a crooked foal, then promising to give a wonderful horse, puts rags and half a pumpkin on his head instead of a hat; the king tells him to break three pumpkins and guess what each means; only Half a pumpkin (i.e. a young man) manages to do this; three pumpkins are the king's three daughters in varying degrees of readiness for marriage (the youngest is just right); everyone must pass by the princesses, the youngest throws an apple at Half pumpkins; attacked by the enemy, Poltykvy turned into a mighty rider on a beautiful horse, defeated enemies; gave his older sons-in-law the right to be considered victors, for which he carved signs on their backs; but the king did said, the older sons-in-law were shamed, Poltykvy received the throne]: 83-91; Hungarians [the queen is dead, the king went to war, the little queen remains; the Hofmeister wants to lime him in order to give up the throne to his son; in the stable, an unkempt foal tells the boy to bring him hot coals; swallowed them and became strong, telling him to take a silver outfit out of his ear, collect gold and silver, and sit on it, brings him to the city; gives a whistle to call him, jumps away himself, telling everyone to answer "I don't know" to all questions; the king takes him to him; he serves in the kitchen, grew up; every time the cook leaves him watch the soup, it spoils the soup (threw a cat into the cauldron; added salt; burned a pig); he was assigned to the poultry house, he beats eggs, releases chickens; assigned to the gardener; calls his horse and tramples the whole garden ; he was made a swineherd; the royals must throw an apple at whoever they want as their husbands; the youngest threw it at the swineherd; they were placed in a boardwalk; the elder sons-in-law hunt; Dunno summons a horse every time sells silver and gold game to his sons-in-law for a hundred gold, they do not recognize him; the Pesigolov Tatars attacked, Dunno smashes them; the king praises them, asks them to come to the ball; Dunno spoke, came to his wife; all it was explained that the king gave him the throne]: Ortutai 1974, No. 9:189-230; Romanians []: Sadetsky 1983:169-183.

Central Europe. Czechs [the eldest of the twins is strong, plays with the foal, the youngest plays with rags; the mother loves the youngest, tells her returning husband that he is the eldest; the horse tells the real eldest to go to a world without companions; the city hides inside a cliff from where a young man can summon him; the young man pretends to be hired by a scribe to the king, nicknamed Bayaya for his silence; three dragons demand to eat three the king's daughters; the horse shows B. a chest with three sets of luxurious clothes and three swords; unrecognized in these clothes, B. kills dragons; the neighboring king attacks, B. again unrecognized crushes enemies ; the king tells his daughters to choose a husband, each throws an apple, the youngest's apple falls into B.; the princess grieves; at competitions, B., unrecognized again, wins everyone, the princesses recognize him as the winner of the dragons; B. opens to the bride; comes to her parents, the mother confesses to the replacement, B. inherits his father's throne]: Nmcová 1970:122-134 (=Nemtsova 1978:34-46); Slovaks [after the death of Janko's parents I went on a journey, found myself in a dense forest; there is a sorcerer's house; I pretended not to read; the sorcerer leaves for a long time, tells me to dust books; one says: Me, look into the other and the other "Me. Open the third room; there's gold, my finger is now gilded, he tied it, but the sorcerer understood everything; this time I forgave; next time I see motionless people and a horse in the room; the horse tells me to revive with their ointment, people ran away; tells you to take a comb, a flint, a steel blade, wash yourself in golden water, but put on clothes made of mouse skins; you must leave the spit to answer when the sorcerer breaks at the door; they gallop away, the sorcerer chases, Y. throws a comb (a mountain covered with dense forest), a flint (a flint mountain), a blade (a mountain of steel); the sorcerer cut through all three, but when he almost caught up with I. I was at sea, where the sorcerer is powerless; he turned into tar out of anger; in the city, the horse tells me to be hired by the king; the horse is the bewitched king himself; to spell him, I must not say anything for 7 years, except for the word "Dalailam"; once the youngest of three princesses named Fineta saw Y. in his real form; I confessed to her that he could speak; horse: now we have to remain silent for another 5 years; the king gives daughters the golden apple, tells them to be thrown at the chosen groom; F. threw them at Y., the king placed them in the shack; the older sons-in-law hunt; only I, in my true form, caught the roe deer, gave them to the elders, and branded them for it on their forehead; in war, Y. smashes enemies, comes to the king, shows stamps on the heads of his older sons-in-law; leads F.; the king, a former horse, enters; the forest and hut turn into well-groomed fields and a castle; this the king gives power to J.; Father F. also gives him the kingdom; his older sons-in-law were accommodated in a hut]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 15:88-94.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray District, Karalez) [the vizier brought the padishah three melons: ripe, about to rot and deteriorated; these are three daughters, it's time for them to marry; the padishah called people, let every daughter would throw an apple at someone she likes; the older ones got married; the youngest chose a bald guy who cleans a goose; she saw him fly in on a duldula, take off his gut, lets loose his golden hair; the padishah lodged his youngest daughter with her boyfriend in a goose; the padishah's army is retreating, the guy in his true form smashes the enemy; his little finger was cut off, the padishah bandaged his wound with his with a handkerchief; when he returned, the padishah began to look for a hero; the youngest daughter brought a handkerchief, the padishah drove her away; the padishah's eyes hurt, he needed reindeer milk; the younger son-in-law poured wine into the stone trough, the deer got drunk before he fell, he milked them; gave milk to their elder sons-in-law, for which he branded their buttocks; gave reindeer urine instead of milk; the padishah was only worse; the youngest daughter brought milk, cured her father; everything was explained; the youngest son-in-law received the throne, took his slaves - older sons-in-law]: Radlov 2011, No. 29; Crimean Tatars (Uskut - between Alushta and Sudak) [three sons of the peasant went to reap bread; ran away when they saw seven-headed maiden; returned to the village, took 9 more friends and went to see the deva; he slept; the youngest poured an ant on him, the dev threw off the veil, the younger brother took him away; the dev caught up with him and returned him; in the evening he put it down 12 boys with their daughters; at night, Fez's younger brother wore girls on friends, and boys' hats on deva's daughters; he cut heads in hats; the boys returned home; the elders beat the youngest, who went to the city, mischievous, the owner drove him away; he came to another country; the youngest daughter of the padishah saw him in the garden; threw an apple at him (the eldest daughters at the sons of the vizier and pasha); three weddings]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 45; Abkhazians [when dying, the father left three sons a hair away from a black, white and bay horse; each summons a horse of his own suit with a set of harness and weapons; a black horse for war, white for games, a bay to ride; the older brothers are horsemen, the youngest is sitting in ash; the middle one took him away, but the youngest returned, can be either a horseman with a heroic horse, then herding the prince's geese; three daughters of the prince must choose suitors by throwing an apple at them; the youngest saw him in a heroic form and threw an apple at him three times; the husband does not reveal his essence for long; the princess is sick, she needs deer milk; an unrecognized younger brother gives it to his elders, for which he stamps them on the shoulder blade; smashes the attackers Adaui; the prince bandaged his wounded little finger, the wife's sisters see her husband wearing a handkerchief with a princely mark; prince handed over power to his younger son-in-law, the elders were disgraced]: Shakryl 1975, No. 25:120-132; Nogais [the old man raised the bull, left the ground; decided that he was strong, went to fight Elmavyz Shylpuvyr Shylpyk; shepherds they offer to cut and cut the skin into pieces, the old man cannot; the same applies to herds, shepherds; the mother of the ShSH tries to hide the old man, but the SHSH killed him; the wife of the victim gave birth to sons named Alsuvdir and Soyun-Ali; they play with children, break someone's arm, their mother advises them to break the hand of their father's killer; they ask their mother to fry corn, put her hand on the hot cauldron, she has to talk about father; on the way they carry out the tasks of shepherds, etc.; they easily kill ShSH and his friend; SA goes home kindly, and A. comes to the shepherd, asks; he herds the herds of Khan living on the other side of the sea; says, "Break up, sea!" , goes over, then says, "Close up, sea!" ; licks the feet of the khan's three daughters with his tongue; A. kills the shepherd, puts on his clothes, comes under his guise, strokes the girls' feet with a cow's tongue; one day asks the girls for a comb, only the youngest gives it; A. puts her golden hair in the comb, returns the comb; the youngest falls in love with A.; the gardener gives Khan's eldest daughter rotten apples, the middle daughter is half rotten, the youngest is good; the wise men say that It's time to marry the daughters (the eldest has already faded); the khan tells his daughters to throw an apple at the grooms; the elders throw khans at the sons, the youngest at the shepherd; A. tells us who he is; wedding; A.'s mother is blind by tears, and when I saw him again, I saw the light]: Nogai 1979, No. 22:116-120; Stavropol Turkmens [the tsar has three sons with his first wife; she died, he remarried; the new one gave birth to a daughter; in a herd mares disappear at night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes and cooks dinner; an old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a rock; the young man goes down there; 40 robbers sleep there; a young man hit one with his boot, hid; then said that he was the son of a thief and wanted to steal with them; promised to get the king's three daughters; killed the guard, went to the princesses; each had a sword; he hit his own, the first two cut, hitting the youngest's sword crumbled; the young man took this sword; called the robbers and killed each one at a time, strung his ears on a string; killed the old woman, taking the keys to the pantry; shot black a cloud, a shot child's finger fell to the ground; at home, the queen says that her daughter's finger was cut off; the young man gave his finger and found it in the steppe; the king (the one who is the father of three princesses) convenes people, looking for a hero, only a sword the young man went to the sheath; three princesses were presented as three princes; the stepmother ordered the youngest to be driven away; he came to the tree; the snake crawls to the eagle's nest, he killed her; for this, the eagle gave him two eagles out of three; the young man went on, took the splinter out of the lioness's paw, who gave him two out of six lion cubs; left the lion cubs and eagles to guard the horse, put on lamb skins and tripe himself, went to town; the youngest of the three the king's daughters understood that it was a prince; invited the sisters to send three apples to the king: green, half-ripe, ripe; the king ordered all men to walk outside the window, let each daughter throw an apple at the one for whom wants to marry; the elders threw viziers at the sons, the youngest in an imaginary beggar; the king lodged them at the stable; the king is sick, he needs chicken meat; the imaginary beggar in his true form obtained with the help of his lions and eagles kulana, gave the meat to his older sons-in-law, who allowed them to be stigmatized on the sacrums; what his older sons-in-law had brought to the king became worse; and from the kulan guts cooked by his youngest daughter, he recovered; at a feast The prince truly said that two slaves had run away from him, his older sons-in-law had to show stamps; the prince gave slaves to the king; everything was clarified; the prince decided to visit his home; let the eagles go, but the lions said they would still be useful, stayed with the prince's wife; the city is intact at home, there are no people; the werewolf sister has a thin father, stepmother, brothers and wives in her hut; the sister consistently asks if he has come a brother on horseback with three, two, one legs, whether he came on foot; tells me to play the balalaika; the fox volunteered to play for him, and let him hang his boots, which can be seen from the kitchen, as if he were still sitting; the sister is chasing, the prince turned three arrows into trees, climbed the first one, his sister gnawed, it fell, the prince moved to the second, then to the third; the lions feel something, their wife released them, they they tore the cannibal; brought a lot of cattle; at home, the prince handed over power to his older brother; he himself began to live with two wives (it is not said how he married the first one)]: A.K. 1875, No. 1:1-13; Kumyks [dervish gives an apple to the childless khan, let his wife, mare, dog eat, each bring twins; one boy, stallion and puppy should be given to the dervish; the eldest was named Arslan Khan, the youngest was named Batyr Khan; the dervish takes away A.; at the source, the skull teaches: this is a black maiden, you must pretend that you can't do anything; let him show how bread is baked; push the maiden into the oven and fill it with oil; after killing the maiden, A. rides her horse and with her dog; the oncoming man tells you to put his finger into the stream when he meets; A. took out a splinter to the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed a snake that crawled to the eagle's nest, she gave an eagle; dipped his finger, it turned golden; poured it over water a lion cub, an eagle, a dog; after releasing the animals and putting on a hat, A. hired a gardener for the khan; knitted the bouquet with his golden hair; the younger princess saw and understood who the worker was; the sisters sent three apples to his father, rotten, half rotten, ripe; vizier: it's time for daughters to marry; khan ordered daughters to throw an apple at passing men; the elders threw the vizier at the sons, the youngest as a worker; the khan lodged them in the collapsed hut; khan fell ill, he needed reindeer meat; A. sat on an oath, then took on his true form, summoned an eagle, killed a deer, poisoned some of the meat; gave it to his older sons-in-law, for which he put a seal on his back; Khan scolded his older sons-in-law for bitter meat, but he liked what A. had brought; bring lion's milk; the same (A. poisoned milk in one wineskin), a seal on his elder son-in-law's back; A. Khan recovered from milk ; enemies attacked, A. defeated them, said that his older sons-in-law were his slaves, showed seals; Batyr Khan followed in his brother's footsteps; received a lion cub, an eagle, poured gold water; A.'s wife mistook him for her husband, but B. beat her; when A. arrived, she began to accuse him; A. caught up with B. and killed, then repented; saw one mouse kill another and then revive him with grass; A. revived his brother with it; everything is fine]: Barsov 1882, No. 1: 121-128; Avars [a beggar gives a childless man two beans, orders to give one of the two sons to be born; when Arslan and Batyr grow up, the father gives A.; on the way he drinks from the stream, the skull on The day says that the beggar is a Black Dev, teaches to pretend that he does not know how to take revenge on the floor, heat the stove; pushes the maiden into the fire; pulls out a splinter from the lioness, returns an eagle to the nest, gets a lion cub, an eagle; dips his finger in the stream, he turns gold; washes his hair, mane and horse tail in the stream; lets the animals go, they will return when he burns the pen; smears mud on his face, hires a gardener; youngest daughter Khan sees his golden hair; Khan invites his three daughters to throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the youngest leaves him at A.; Khan drives her away, she and A. live in a hut on the outskirts; Khan who is ill will cure deer meat; he summons an eagle, which is a horse and a lioness; A. catches deer, gives bile meat to his older sons-in-law, for which he stigmatizes them; venison is bitter, the khan is angry, and the meat given the youngest daughter, tasty; but he is worse, he needs lioness milk; the lioness gives it; A. stigmatizes his elder son-in-law, gives milk in a jug where vinegar was, it is sour; the khan recovered from the milk brought by A.; as a reward, he asks for his two slaves, everyone sees the seals on the backs of his older sons-in-law; A. takes on his true form; brother A. Batyr follows in his footsteps, the lioness, the eagle give him the brothers of the lion cub, the eagle received by A.; A.'s wife takes B. for her husband, rejected, cries; reproaches A., who returned from hunting; he catches up with B. kills with an arrow; repents; one mouse kills another, revives her with grass; A. revives her B.; feast]: Kapiyeva 1974:72-80; Georgians [the princess is kidnapped by two devas, fighting over her, killing each other friend; she remains with a mighty forest hermit; goes to give birth to her father's house, her son was named Christagan; he is powerful, goes to look for a father; without knowing each other, son and father fight, the hermit kills H.; God sends a handkerchief with a dove, H. comes to life; finds Beltagan's sister; they defeat the devas, marries their sister B.; H., disguised as a swineherd, is hired to the father of three princesses, now his name is Kochora ("curly") ; serves as a groom, then a gardener; the younger sister feels that this strongman is not an ordinary person; the princesses serve apples to the chosen ones, the elders marry the princes, the youngest to K., and they are placed in a stable; the sick king needs the insides of a boar; K. in its true form kills a boar, gives it to his elder son-in-law, rips his fingernail off his little finger; the same is deer milk, tears off his middle son-in-law's ear; K. smashes enemies, is in true form, the elder sons-in-law and their wives leave; another king finds his wife K. in the sea of golden hair, falls in love, sends to the old woman; she finds out from his wife K. that her husband's life is in thin hair; kidnaps a woman, kills K. by pulling out his hair; B. finds hair in the sea, revives his sister; everyone celebrates, the old woman is tied to a horse's tail]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 34:98-114; Armenians: Barsov 1882, No. 1 [ the dervish gave the childless khan an apple, ordered it to be divided into three parts and given to his wife, mare, dog; for this, in a few years, the khan will give him one boy, one foal and one puppy; Arslan- khan and Batyr Khan; had to give A.; on the way to the dervish's house, A. asked for a drink; the skull at the spring teaches him to pretend that A. does not know how to sweep the floor and heat the stove, let the dervish show him; you need him push into the oven; after killing the diva dervish, A. left; took out a splinter from the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed a snake that wanted to eat eagles, the eagle gave an eagle; the stranger ordered to dip his finger into the stream - it became golden; A. washed his animals with this water; after removing them and dressing up as poor, A. hired the Khan's gardener; the younger princess noticed his golden hair; the sisters sent his father three apples: ripe, rotten and rotten: we want to marry; the sisters threw apples at the sons of the viziers, and the youngest at the worker; the khan lodged them in a hut; the khan is sick, venison is needed; A.'s animals bring game, A. gives it to his younger son-in-law, for which he puts his back was branded with his seal; next time lion's milk (the same to his elder son-in-law); enemies attacked, A. defeated them; opened up to the khan, pointed to his fugitive slaves - his seal on them; B. followed in the footsteps brother; everyone takes him for A.; the animals gave their cubs (B. told them that the first cubs allegedly ran away); A.'s wife mistook B. for her husband, who beat her; A. decided that B. slept with her, killed him; saw how one mouse killed another and then revived it with grass; A. then revived B.; everything is fine]: 121-128; Melik-Oganjanyan 2004, No. 23 [when David rode under Khandut's window, she was happy and threw him into him with an apple; sitting on a horse, D. caught an apple], 29 [David came to Father's city of Khandut-Khatun; at the gate there is a black man, one lip raised to the sky, the other hangs to the ground; both bowed out of fear of each other one to another; David did not like it; when H. saw D. come to her window, she threw an apple at him; seven ferizes were sitting there for three years, but she did not throw an apple to any of them; when she saw this, the ferises they decided to drink and kill D.; they hid their naked swords under the tablecloth; but the Feriz fell under the table themselves, and when they found their swords, D. broke them]: 43, 72-73; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy 1930 (1) (Nukha District) [the king gathers the girls, tells three sons to throw an apple at the chosen one; the eldest throws the vizier at the daughter, the middle throws the nobles, the youngest falls into the frog, and so on three times; the king tells the daughters-in-law to weave rug; the frog goes to the swamp, croaks with his goods, the prince has the best rug the next morning; the same is a large carpet; the king calls to a feast, the frog turns into a beauty; the prince secretly and in spite of Warning his wife burned frog skin; the wife is missing, the prince went in search]: 30-33; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 4 [Gulistan Khanum is going to kill her merchant husband to marry Gamzat-bek; is going to kill and horse; the horse tells her son Ali Khan about this, tells him to ask his mother for permission to ride for the last time; A. cut his mother in half, galloped off; changes clothes with a shepherd, hired a gardener to the king under the guise of Kechal ("pleshivets"); imaginary K. made ordinary bouquets for two princesses, and knitted a bouquet for the youngest with his golden hair; older sisters throw an apple at the son of a vizier and a vakil, and the youngest in K.; the king is sick, he needs venison; K. gathers all the deer; gives them venison for permission to stamp their face; the meat they bring is worse for the king, and the meat they bring is worse for the king, and from the meat they bring from a deer head, which K. kept for himself, the king recovered the broth; K. summoned his horse, defeated his enemies, the king bandaged his hand; saw K.'s bandage; made him heir]: 44-50; Nabiev 1988:47-53 [dying, Shah Isfahan leaves the throne to his eldest son Ahmed, makes middle Mohammed the vizier, the younger Hasan as an adviser; tells him to take a rusty sword on a campaign; A. leaves, does not take a sword, the hero on a winged horse kills him ; the same with A.; G. takes a rusty sword, defeats the hero, he turns out to be Peri and the daughter of the Frankish king; leaves a note asking the Frankish king for her hand; G. took out a splinter a wonder, a grateful diva brings him to another, he to the third, the third to the country of the Franks; G. puts a lamb's stomach on his head to pass for a bald one; the king takes him to herd geese; Peri recognizes him; she must choose a groom, throwing an apple at him, throws them at G.; the king kicked them out of town; the king fell ill, G. called the diva, he gave medicine, G., under the guise of a doctor, cured the king; the daughter explained everything; a lavish wedding; another contender Peri went to war, G. fights bravely; the applicant hired an old woman to kill G.; disguised as a beggar, she came to Peri, found out that her husband's strength was in his sword; the enemies pulled out his sword, sent G. to prison, peri to enemy king's harem; divas see blood on his knife, divas surrounded the enemy city, returned the sword, G. and his wife], 218-239 [=Azerbaijani tales 1986:128-159; Padishah Deshkuvar is childless; dervish gives an apple tells three wives to be given, when the sons are 15 years old, one must be given to him; the khan's daughter gives birth to Hanbal, Beybal, the camel driver Nerbal; the dervish is given to N.; the skull warns that his they will bake in a tandoor; N. pushes him into the cauldron; in the fortieth room a lion, a horse, a bird; in front of them grain, meat, hay; N. swapped places properly; they promise to help; N. dresses poorly, lives in the city with an old gardener; the elder princesses do not like him, the youngest wants him to bring her flowers; the bird brings him an unfading bouquet; the son of the vizier and the son of Vekil N. gives the same bouquets in his true image but for this he puts a stamp on his hand; the daughters of the padishah throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the elders throw the sons of the vizier and vekil, the youngest to N.; the sick padishah needs game broth; the lion drives for N . all the game, the other sons-in-law come back with nothing; N. gives game, stigmatizes the other hand of rivals; but the padishah recovered only after the broth from the head of the roe deer given by N.; padishah D. goes to war; only N. wins him; N. sues everyone, retires to dervish castle with his mother, wife, gardener, bird, lion and horse]; talyshi [dying, the wife tells her husband to take a woman who will fit her the ring; it is only suitable for the daughter; she asks to let her go into the field; the father ties a rope to her leg; the daughter unties it, comes to the forest, asks the carpenter to build a house for her; the eldest of the three princes notices in the river has a woman's hair; the king tells his sons to throw an apple each; one threw the vizier's daughter, the other threw the daughter of a vyakil, the eldest on the road; left home, met that girl in the forest, brought her home; wife gave birth to a son, one golden curl and the other silver; her father, disguised as a peddler, entered the palace, cut off the child's head, put the knife next to her mother; her eyes were cut out, the eyes and body of the child were put in her hands, they drove them away; three pigeons flew by the river; she put the first two on her paw to her eye sockets, saw the light, the third to her son's neck, her head grew, he came to life; the prince with the vizier and the vyakil stayed in her house; she She ordered not to tear the flowers, picked it herself, put it under the prince's blanket; she came to him with her son, he recognized his wife and son]: Miller 1930:90-92.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1987 [the dervish gives the childless Shah an apple; let him eat in half with his wife, she will give birth to twins, let him give one; the boys Ebrahim and Esmail grew up, the dervish took Abrahim ; the dervish went ahead, and a stone rolled up to Abrahim (E.) with the inscription "this is a diva"; then instructed to ask the dervish to dance around the boiling oil boiler himself to teach him to push him into the cauldron dervish; when the dervish died, E. locked the rooms, freed the gazelles, revived petrified people and horses; the wind horse tells him to leave soon - the dervish has a brother; E. touched the golden water, his hand and hair became golden; the diva's brother is chasing, the horse tells you to throw needles (a field of thorns), salt (salt desert), water from a wineskin; the water spilled out in front; the horse swam across the sea, and the diva died in the whirlpool in which the mill; E. hired a gardener to the palace; the padishah's three daughters asked for bouquets; E. tied the bouquet for the youngest with his golden hair; E. and the princess opened up to each other; daughters sent watermelons to the padishah: barely ripe, ripe and overripe; padishah: let everyone throw an apple at the chosen one; E. pulled a lamb's stomach over his head; the youngest chose E., they were placed in a stable; the elders chose the sons of the vizier and the vakil; the padishah fell ill, he needed gazelle meat; E. summoned those rescued gazelles; sold one to his older sons-in-law, asking him to give him his head and legs; the meat given to his sons-in-law is bitter; from the broth brought by the younger as a daughter, the padishah recovered; moved her with E. to the palace; enemies attacked, E. defeated them, opened up to the padishah; E. went to visit her parents; the old woman invited her, he fell into a hole with swords and spears; only the ointment that the old woman has will cure; she is the mother of those two divas; Brother E. saw that the tree planted by E. was withering; Brother E. met a rolling stone, instructing him on how to defeat the sorceress; he killed her when she became a cat; pulled out, cured E.; their mother went blind, helped by the same ointment; feast and celebration]: 322-336; Marzolph 1984, No. 314 [the episode with the orange that the princess throws at the hero, temporarily who has an unsightly appearance, is widespread: Farce, Isfahan, Kerman, Khorasan, Azerbaijan, Hamadan]: 68-70: Osmanov 1987 [the foal warns the boy that his stepmother is going to poison him, push into a carpet covered hole; stepmother pretended to be sick - we must kill the foal; the boy asks for permission to ride for the last time, they galloped off; the young man pulled a lamb's stomach over his head, hired gardener; the youngest daughter of the padishah saw him call his foal and prancing handsome; the eldest and middle daughters of the padishah were thrown by the Pomeranians at the sons of the viziers, and the youngest at the imaginary bald; her with the husband was accommodated in a stable; the padishah fell ill, he needed gazelle meat, the young man collected all the gazelles, gave one to his older sons-in-law, but branded them in the back; kept his head and demand for himself; from what the elders had brought the padishah's son-in-law got worse, he recovered from the demands; asked his youngest daughter why there was straw in the soup; daughter: we live in a stable; the young man told his older sons-in-law to show stamps, appeared in his present appearance, the padishah gave them a palace]: 362-365; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 7 (Kerman) [the shah marries for the second time; his only son has a foal named Qeytas; cries, warns that his stepmother will cook poisoned ash (thick soup); prince refuses to eat ash; next time, poisoned pilaf; K. advises taking pilaf from the side of the dish from which the stepmother, and not the one closest to the prince; The prince remains alive; for the third time, the stepmother dug a well with swords, let the prince walk along the side of the road; the stepmother pretended to be sick, told the doctor to say that the medicine was foal fat; K. advises agree to his father's demand to give it to him, but on condition that he be allowed to ride for the last time, wearing precious clothes, taking a crown and decorating K. with jewelry; after the third round, K. took the prince away; landed by the garden; tells the prince to leave him his crown and royal clothes, put on rags, and pull sheepskin over his head; the princess lives in the castle; K. tells the young man to become the gardener's adopted son; gives hair from his mane, if you burn the hair, he will fly; once the prince did so, K. flew in, the prince rides through the garden in royal vestments, the princess fell in love; when she saw the imaginary gardener in the same outfit, asks him to open up, they secretly marry; the vizier compares the maturity of melons to that of the king's daughters; advises giving the Shah's three daughters a golden orange to throw at someone they like; the elders choose the sons of the vizier, the youngest choose the gardener's adopted son; the shah is ill with grief; the doctor: will cure the meat of a special bird; the vizier's sons follow it, give the gardener's son a thin horse and a bad saddle; lagging behind, he burned a hair, changed; brothers cannot catch a bird, they do not recognize the gardener's son; he gave them a bird in exchange for a paper in which the brothers declare themselves his slaves; the head and legs of the bird (in them all the power of the medicine) the prince kept for himself; stigmatizes his brothers; returns; the brothers bring the bird to the king, that's only worse; the prince gives his legs and head in simple dishes, the daughter persuaded him to eat, the Shah has recovered; The prince showed stamps on his older sons-in-law and a receipt; the Shah takes off his sheep skin, makes him an heir, and the vizier's sons slaves]: 33-42; Turkmens [the padishah has 40 wives, no children; two heroes sent far to the sage; he promises that the 40th wife, the slave Guljemal, will give birth to two sons; when the padishah lies down with her, the dervish enters and tells him to eat an apple in half with his wife, one son then give them to him; G. gives birth to two glowing boys; the father hides them in an underground crypt; after 13 years, the dervish comes, plays the dutar, the boys go out to him, he takes the youngest; parrots tell him that it is a dev, he will push him into a boiling pot; the boy confronts the deva himself; comes to the plane tree, where the black dragon devours the Simurg chicks every year; kills the dragon, Simurg gives him a few feathers; takes the splinter out of the tiger's paw, he gives hairs; the young man pulls his stomach over his head, hires a gardener in front of the Shah's three daughters; asks them to comb their hair, the elders drive him away, the youngest gives him; when receives a name, sees silver and golden hair on him; the padishah convenes the people, tells the daughters to throw a stone at whoever they like; the eldest marries the son of a vizier, the middle for the son of a vekil, the youngest pleshivets; they are placed in a barn; the sick padishah asks for keik meat; when hunting, tigers and simurgs drive all the keyiki to the pleshivtsa; the other two son-in-law receive meat, for which the young man stigmatizes them; appears in glory , takes his sons-in-law as slaves, the padishah admits that he made a mistake; the young man fights the peri, is thrown into the well by her; the elder brother goes to the rescue, everyone takes him for the youngest; he puts the sword between himself and the younger's wife ; peri wins, both brothers return home]: Stebleva 1969, No. 24:94-124; Uzbeks: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986 [from the eldest wife sons Pirnazar, Khojinazar, from the youngest Ernazar and daughter; dying, the father gives E. a knife; if you open it, a horseman appears, fulfilling all wishes; the father orders the sisters to be given off as three elders who will come after his death; although the brothers kill E., he leaves; lives with the old man, at night he turns the stable into a palace, where the padishah's daughter is with him; asks the old man to marry her; the old man is executed 40 times, E. resurrects him; the vizier advises to give difficult assignments, E. brings rich cattle; E. found, caressed the brothers; the padishah gives away three daughters; the older sisters choose E.'s older brothers, throwing an apple at the chosen one, the youngest a pleshivtsa, whose appearance takes on E.; E. brings the padishah a broken one a bird, older sons-in-law can't shoot anything; E. gives them ducks, stigmatizes the brothers in return; shows them to the padishah, remains handsome; Karakhan sends the old woman to steal E.'s knife and the palace with him and wife; E. wakes up in the desert; comes to the sisters' husbands, they are divas; the eldest husband in the form of an eagle turns E. into a throat, then into a sparrow to steal his knife from Karahan; K. returns everything, turns everything Karakhana and an old woman in stone]: 198-216; Ostroumov 1906b, No. 1 (Tashkent) [Yalmauz-Kampir came to the childless king under the guise of an old woman, gave three apples; let each of the wives eat and give birth to a son; he will send one her; the youngest received the most delicious red apple; after 7 years, the Palace of Culture came for the youngest prince; another old woman teaches the prince to push the Palace of Culture itself into a cauldron with 40 ears, in which she will melt the lard to fry the prince; I must ask her to teach her how to bypass the cauldron and lean over it; after killing the Palace of Culture, the prince saw a cat with 40 keys around her neck; exhausted girls outside one of the doors; each shouts: I not fat, here she is fat; the prince let them go; boys outside the second door (the same); there are three demons in the 38th room, three horses in the 39th, and three birds in the 40th; they all gave their hair and feathers, promised, if necessary, come to the rescue; the prince dipped his hair in a jug, it turned gold; went to the steppe, asked the shepherd for lamb trebuchin, took the form of a black boy; remains to live with an old woman; the tsar gives three daughters; the prince brought flowers, only the youngest took it from his hands; when the grooms gathered, she threw an apple at the prince; the tsar gave it for him, but deprived her of mercy; the king hunted; the prince summoned his helpers, they caught game; he gave it to his older sons-in-law for permission to put their seal on their shoulders; kept the most delicious for himself; the king liked this meat the most, but it contained dung; after This is what the king moved his youngest daughter and husband from the stable to the palace; asked why his son-in-law catches birds best; he explained that he was a prince and the others were his servants, they were his stigma; the king made a younger son-in-law heir and after the king's death he received the throne]: 1-7 (=1890, No. 1:3-9); Bukhara Arabs [a young man kills divas one by one, throws him into a well; one is alive, his mother takes him as a lover; gives birth to a son, leaves him on the road, the young man finds the baby, brings his mother like a foundling; this brother saves the young man three times when the divas and his mother try to kill him (with a sword, a trap pit, a grain under his feet to slip); kills the diva father and mother; the young man leaves, leaving the reeds (if trouble, he bleeds, pus); the dragon was given the emir's daughter, the young man jumps into his mouth, cuts his sword from the inside, comes out of his ass; the daughter of the emir He throws an apple at him, the emir puts them in a stable; his son-in-law puts manure in the food he has prepared for the Emir; explains that it is dark in the stable; they are moved to the barn; to the house; the elder sons-in-law did not get anything by hunting; the youngest gives them game, puts a seal on the ass; goes to marry Chulpan-Sulyuk, her brother defeats him, pulls out his eyes; brother (son of a diva) comes to his wife, does not tell her to touch him in bed; wins Brother C. makes you regain your eyes; the emir's son-in-law returns from C., gets the throne]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 12:84-88; Rushantsy [the slave leads to water the horses, sees the reflection of three doves; they say that everyone who will inform King Komiron about us, become petrified; Comiron is surprised why the horses are thin, the slave sends him to see for himself; K. shoots off the little finger of one of the doves, passes the kingdom to the slave, goes to the desert; takes out a tigress is a thorn, she and two cubs are given a hair by a hair to call for help; she changes clothes with a bald shepherd, asks him how to behave; by the river she says, "In the name of King Peri, let this river will part; the waters diverge, K. passes with the herd; each of the three peri tells the shepherd to rub her legs; two fingers are intact (K. scratches their feet with a cow's tongue), the third lacks a little finger, K. assigns him; when choosing husbands, the older sister throws a skullcap at the judge's head, the middle sister throws an elder, the youngest a pleshivtsa; Peri's father tells the pleshivets to bring a hundred camel bales of gold, he brings it; orders to kill, his servants spare him; the father sends the young to live in the stable; only K. hunts successfully, gives meat to other sons-in-law, stigmatizing them on their heads and asses; older daughters bring meat to their father-in-law, it bitter, the youngest brings legs and heads, they are delicious; leaves a piece of manure on the plate; the father moves them to the front room; the bald man plays polo with a golden stick, a golden ball; the father-in-law offers the reward, he takes his people, i.e. branded older sons-in-law; the older sisters understand that handsome and bald are one person; his father-in-law gives him the throne]: Pisarchik 1954, No. 6:48-54; Vakhans [ the childless king decides to become a calender; another calandar gives three apples to let wives, horses and dogs eat; the first child, puppy and foal must be given to him; the king did not give anything to his unloved wife, but she I found it on the floor, ate it myself and gave the horse and dog an apple seed; the wife gave birth to a gold-haired son Kokulzarin, the dog to the Laughing Flower Puppy (SC), the horse to the Horse Almond Flower (CM); the calandar requires give K.; the vizier tries in vain to replace him with the son of a lumberjack, then with his son; the old woman tells K. that the calandar is an ogre, teaches him to push him into the cauldron; teaches him to pull the splinter out of the Winged's paw Lionesses, who have turned into the Mazendaran Forest; lions make him their brother, bring him to Mount Kof; K. changes clothes with a bald shepherd scratching the heels of the royal daughters; K. spanks the elders butt with a calf tongue; the youngest notices the young man's face under a veal's stomach stretched over his head; sleeps with K.; older daughters throw bouquets of flowers at noble suitors, the youngest at the imaginary shepherd; sons-in-law go to hunt, winged lions hunt for K.; K. gives meat to older sons-in-law, for this he stigmatizes their bodies, takes a demand for herself; she is sweet, the meat is bitter; K.'s wife brings a piece of manure to his father on a plate; father moves her and her husband from the stable to the house; K. plays ball best; K. is in real form, shows stigma on his older sons-in-law, his lions smash attacking enemies; the king transfers the kingdom Kokulzarin]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 18:199-213; Yazgulyam [the servant complains to the king that every day three doves say that whoever does not tell the king about them hurts his teeth, head and etc.; the servant is a little alive and the horses are losing weight; the king puts on his servant's clothes, goes by himself, shot the smaller dove's little finger, goes after the doves, takes out a splinter to the tigress, the cubs promise to help him; Bald herds cattle royal daughters; explains what must be said for the waters of the river to disperse and come together again; rubs those girls' legs at night; the king drowns the shepherd, pulls a goat bubble to look like Bald; the older sisters rub their heels with a bovine tongue, they think that Bald's hands are rough; the youngest puts a torn little finger; the older daughters put flowers on the heads of Kadia's son and the vizier's son, the youngest to Bald's head; the king tries to destroy him in vain (drowns him, hangs him upside down); orders to bring 40 camels with gold (tigers bring him); older sons-in-law cannot get anything hunting, for Bald tigers hunt, he gives meat to his elder sons-in-law, stamps; tripe soup is the sweetest, but it contains manure; the king moves his daughter and Pleshiv from the stable to the house; playing ball Bald appears in his true appearance; shows stamps; receives the throne]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 19:213-223.

Baltoscandia. Danes [the king of Spain's wife is dead, he took a new one; stepmother seduces his stepson, but he refuses her; then she accuses him of trying to rape her; before his execution, he can walk three days in in the garden; every 7 years a white horse appears; this time it is here again, the prince rode away; it goes to Constantinople; the horse shows a hollow, it wears ordinary clothes and a vessel; when the prince has moistened his hair with liquid from it, they turned gold; he hides them under his hat; he hires a gardener for three years and must answer all questions "I don't know"; the youngest of the three princesses sees a young man's golden hair; tells the sisters that it's time to marry; they must throw golden apples at selected suitors; the youngest threw it at the gardener; unrecognized, in his true form on a magic horse, young man Smashes enemies three times; the king deliberately wounds him in the leg to bandage the wound with a handkerchief and then identify him; the young man appears in all his splendor, takes his wife and returns to his father; the stepmother is burned]: Holbek 1987:564-565; the Danes [everyone was missing in the forest; the king sent an army to surround the place; found a huge man sleeping and shackled - covered with hair and one eye in his forehead; put him in iron the cage in the tower, gave the key to his wife; their seven-year-old son played with a golden apple, it fell into the cage of a wild man; he would give it back if the boy opened it; taught him how to get the key from his mother; the boy asked his mother look in his head and quietly pulled out the key; opened the cage, then, at the request of a wild man, two doors, then got his apple; the man gave him a whistle to call in case of danger; boy locked the doors and slowly returned the key to his mother; when she was about to be executed, the prince confessed that it was his fault; the king ordered him to be taken to the forest; he whistled the whistle, and the wild man carried it to his underground castle; he taught military training for 7 years, the prince became a handsome and strong young man; the man ordered to dip his head in a spring, his hair turned golden; took it to some royal castle, ordered him to hire there a worker, but did not show his hair; the prince began working for a gardener; called himself lousy, so he was moved to a separate hut; at his request (and with the help of wild man's witchcraft), any job performed herself; the youngest of the three princesses saw him combing his golden hair; the king hosted a tournament in honor of his eldest daughter, the prince won on a bay horse; the princess threw gold at him an apple, but he gave it to the Duke's son; the same with the second princess (on a raven horse; gave the apple to the count's son); the youngest daughter; on a white horse; kept the apple for himself, took the form of a gardener, showed the apple; opened to the younger princess; while hunting, the older sons-in-law did not get anything, the prince gave them the game in exchange for their golden apples; the next day, for the right to cut belts out of their skin; enemies attacked, prince of all won; the king found out the truth; the wedding; at the feast, the prince showed two other apples and talked about leather belts from his older sons-in-law; the king drove them away with their wives]: Grundtvig 1878:227-251; Lithuanians {probably, though probably Poles; Suvalka Gubernia} Cosquin 1922b [the motive is known]: 328; (cf. Lutsie (Western 1893) [the king held his son behind 10 locks; but he is strong, escaped; in the forest an old man in a house; teaches and feeds him, forbids him to enter a room with a bast door; the young man enters, there a horse, meat in front of him, and a lion, hay in front of him; the young man has shifted places; the old man is angry; after a while the young man enters that room again; horse: hold me by the face; shakes his face, the young man falls; the horse: take a sip of water from the bottle; same; more; this time there is so much strength that you can hold on; take a brush and a whetstone; the horse is flying, the old man is chasing, his mouth is open; the young man throws the brush (forest and mountain), the whetstone (the mountain); the old man makes his way; the horse tells us to wave the right rein - the bridge over the river of fire; they galloped along it; left: the old man was on the bridge at that time, the bridge collapsed, the old man burned down; the horse was sent to graze, the young man arranged a house and a garden near the royal palace, with silver and golden apples; the younger princess noticed him; the grooms arrived; the king: whoever is offered a cup will be a husband; the elders brought it to the visitors, the youngest to the gardener; the elder grooms do not want such a son-in-law, they came with an army; the young man called the horse, defeated everyone, disappeared into his house again; a new groom came to the youngest, the young man defeated his army; then he brought the terrible horse out of a high mountain, and there is an old man on him; a difficult battle; the young man is wounded in the arm, asks the king for a blessing (the king does not understand that this is his younger son-in-law), then killed the old man, and the groom is walled up; the young man falls asleep for 12 days, the king recognizes his bandage; after 12 days the young man wakes up healthy; at the feast, the horse tells not to drink the first cup; the young man sipped, the horse burst, the bowl fell, broke ; the horse tells me to take the queen's handkerchief and wipe the lips of the young man and himself; turns into the brother of a young man who has long been gone; I drank and ate there, it flowed down my lips, I didn't get into my mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:135-139).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 4 [people disappear in the swamp; the tsar orders to surround him, bring him a tabib healer, put him in prison; he plays the flute, the prince boy asks to let him play, tabib tells get the key from his mother, the boy pulls it out, unlocks it, tabib runs away; the king put his wife in prison, the son confessed that the king sent him to the swamp; tabib makes him a gold-haired huntsman; eget is hired as a gardener; the princess fell in love with him, threw an apple at him, choosing her husband (he also caught the other two apples, but threw them back); Eget returns to his kingdom with his wife]: 51-54; Sagitov 1981 [daughter a ferocious king named Katil gives Ural Batyr an apple, thereby choosing it as her husband; gives birth to a son from him, who then comes to his father]: 40; Khusainova 2014 [stepmother wants to taste her stepson's meat Dunno; when his father is going to slaughter his horse, N., licking his blood, turns into a strong huntsman, jumps on his horse, leaves for a city where on the Maidan, the tsar's daughters choose their husbands, throwing a balloon into the crowd rangers; the youngest throws N., the king is forced to give him his daughter; the kingdom is attacked by 3-, 6-, 12-headed devas, N. defeats them; the king honors his older sons-in-law as winners; the deception is revealed when N. recognizes his the scarf with which he bandaged the hero's wound in the last battle; N. punishes liars, reigns]: 58.

Turkestan. The Karakalpaks [elderly spouses are childless; the beggar promises the old woman that she will have three sons, but she will have to give one to him; after 10 years he takes the youngest; in the garden, the skull asks him to bury, promises to help; the sorcerer falls asleep for 40 days, tells not to open the fortieth room, feed the piebald horse, beat the black horse; the young man opens, there the girls argue who is fatter (the sorcerer will eat that sorcerer); the skull tells me to feed a black horse, beat a piebald, take a jug of water, a comb, salt with him; a young man rides a black horse, a comb becomes a forest, salt becomes salt springs, a jug of water by the sea; the sorcerer sinks; a young man disguises himself as a shepherd, takes a piece of horse hair; is hired by a blacksmith, lives with an old woman; the khan's daughters choose suitors; the young man puts on his lamb's stomach, the youngest still throws an apple at him; the other two the son-in-law is defeated, the young man burns the horse's hair, he appears, they smash enemies; the khan moves his younger son-in-law and daughter from the hut to the palace]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:14-20; Kazakhs [Khan's mare gives birth to a foal from a tulpara (winged horse); hanshi's lover persuades her to kill her husband, and to do this, kill her son first; the foal warns him of poison; then they want to kill the foal, the khan's son leaves for him; disguises as a shepherd, always answers, I don't know; Khan's youngest daughter sees Dunno (N.) in the garden, falls in love; all three daughters carry melons to her father, only the youngest melon is fresh; Khan tells everyone to quit an apple at his chosen one, the youngest throws them at N., they are locked in a donkey pen; the khan tells his sons-in-law to bring mountain goat meat; only N. kills, makes the meat bitter, gives them to other sons-in-law, the demand is sweet, Khan liked it; next time N. summons tulpara, gives a goat out of his pen in a noble form, puts stamps on his sons-in-law; he appears in true form on Tulpar, says that two escaped from him slave; gets a khanate and slaves]: Sidelnikov 1952:205-213; Kyrgyz [batyr Sokbay asks the shepherd how he drives a huge herd across the river; shepherd: I'll tell you to cross - they cross, wait - they will wait, become attached; S. offers to play alchiki with a click on his forehead; the shepherd hits S. hard, and when S. wins, he runs away in fear, leaving his cattle and his clothes; S. turns his horse into Alchik, puts on a shepherd's clothes, but the cows do not enter the water; then he threw them to the other side; explained that he had forgotten the right word; the youngest daughter Aksuek guessed that their shepherd was not so strong, according to the hair under the hat identifies the horseman; brings three handkerchiefs to the khan's father, which means that it is time to marry three daughters; khan gathers men, daughters must throw an apple at the chosen one; A. throws at the shepherd; khan tells three sons-in-law to find foals that are carried away every year by a bird; S. rides a bull, then turns the alchik back into a horse, easily catches up with Kanbach and Bekbach, married to Khan's eldest daughters; only S. successful in hunting, gives his sons-in-law meat in exchange for a tamga placed on his heels; drives foals; son-in-law throw him into a hole; a horse brings a girl with braids of 40 arcana; S. gets out of the pit on braids, is to the khan on a bull, but tells his sons-in-law to show marks on their heels; the khan transfers his possessions to him]: Ledenev 1987:78-83; Kyrgyz (Tien Shan Region, Toguz-Toros District, 1946) [the old khan has three wives, no children; witch: children will be provided that she picks them up in 7 years; Khan agreed; the witch bit three apples and gave each wife an apple; they became pregnant; when she appeared 7 years later the witch, the khan hid his children, and the witch gave the children of the poor; but the witch solved the deception; the khan gave his eldest son, the middle son on the second day, the youngest on the third; she sent the youngest for firewood fry it; the skull lies, the boy kicked it, the voice from the skull: you will become the same skull as me; the boy brought the skull to one elder; elder: when the witch is going to fry you, demand from her cast the "chilten" spell; when he reads, push him into the cauldron; then take the keys that are on her belt; the boy did everything, unlocked 7 storerooms, freed many people, shared the good between them; he took tulpara for himself and went not to his father, but to his named father-in-law Khan Darbaz, the father of the girl they had chosen to marry him; he met a devil, who had a thorn in his leg - a tree tree that had grown up; dev asked her extract, also begged and ate tulpara; dev scolded his comrades who could not extract the plane tree; gave the boy a horse and a dish of gold, pulled out a lock of hair, gave it to the boy; that boy went to town khan; exchanged the horse for a goat, took off his skin, pulled it over his head; turning into a bald man, the khan instructed him to herd the cows; the khan's three daughters swam in a ditch and saw that the boy's forelock was golden; the youngest ran to him, but her sisters took her away; the khan tells her daughters to cook pilaf; the eldest two had fresh pilaf, the youngest was tasty; the vizier explained that the eldest daughters were restarted, and the youngest was in her heyday; Khan gave his daughters an apple each and ordered them to throw an apple at whoever they chose; the elders threw apples at the Bai sons, the youngest at Pleshivets; they were placed in a separate yurt; enemies attacked, both son-in-law died together with thousands of warriors; a bald man burned a lock of deva's hair, who helped kill enemies, the boy, already dressed in khan's clothes, came to the khan, who handed him power]: Narynbayeva 2018:58-60; Kyrgyz [evil giant Khan Kek-Deo rules the underworld; he has three daughters, the youngest is Kulayim; she picked three apples, wrapped them in a handkerchief and threw them into the river; her father saw them and demanded that others explain the meaning of these apples; everyone was afraid of CD's anger, but his wife said that three apples are three daughters of different ages; one apple is ripe, the other is full of water, and the third is just right for younger K.; CD told them to throw their apple at whoever they wanted to marry; the eldest Urpaim chose Kanbacha, the middle Bulbulbek chose Bekbachu {i.e. the sons of khan, bek}, and K. replied that she did not see for herself among those who came equals]: Er Toshtyuk 1958:57-75; Uighurs (Keria) [the ruler's young son goes to marry another ruler's daughter; all applicants pass by, when a young man appears, the girl throws him at him an apple; a young man marries her; a year later they go to live with the boy's parents; the wife knitted a handkerchief that only the son of the ruler of {which city could buy?} ; he ordered to follow the young man's wife {then the story ends}]: Tenishev 1984:112.