K75B. Three melons from three daughters. .13.-.17.27.29.30.32.33.

Wanting to show that it is time for them to get married, daughters of different ages send their father fruits of varying degrees of maturity (bread baked in different ways).

Kordofan, Kabyls, Arabs of Algeria, Iraq, Albanians, Romanians, Stavropol Turkmens, Kumyks, Nogais, Ingush, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Dungans.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (no language specified) [the king laments that he is childless; the sorcerer gives two lemons; let one be eaten by an Arab wife, 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, told him to remind his father of the promise; he cries; the sorcerer became an eagle and took away the CMM; in his palace he gives the CMM the keys to all rooms, but forbids unlocking one of them; treasures everywhere; in the forbidden room, the CMM is a beauty suspended by her hair; 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; floor strewn with the old and recently cut down heads of young men; the CMM freed the girl, swapped hay and meat, the horse and the lion broke their chains; the horse: put on armor, take the sword and the girl and jump; the lion is with them; the sorcerer catches up; the horse tells you to throw a comb (a thick forest), a piece of glass (a field covered with glass fragments), soap (a river); the sorcerer swam, drowned; the horse tells you to take his hairs to summon him and go to the city ; he hired a gardener; the youngest of the 7 princesses sees him swimming, calling a horse and putting on armor; she sends him food every day, but the gardener picks them up; princesses send his father 7 melons: them it's time to marry; everyone throws a handkerchief to the one she has chosen as her husband; the youngest with the CMM is settled in the slave quarter; the king is sick, she needs gazelle milk; the CMM gives it to his older sons-in-law, who allow them to stigmatize them in the ass ; sons' milk does not help, milk brought by the younger princess healed the father; enemies have attacked; sons-in-law are fleeing, CMM smashes enemies on his horse; to celebrate the savior, the king inflicts a slight wound on him with a sword on her hand and bandages him with her handkerchief; the wife recognizes her father's handkerchief, tells the 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]: Frobenius 1923, No. 19: 216-224.

North Africa. Kabila [Akkarui-Buthluva ("restless head") is the son of agelite (village chief); he went on a journey; the old man says that one road leads to seven seas, the other to wild animals; AB crossed the sea, found a box of gold, stayed in a caféin; the local agelite has a beautiful daughter; sleeps for a month, awake for a month; when she gets married, he will sleep like ordinary people; they fell in love with each other friend; the girl sent her father a ripe pomegranate, rotten on the one hand: it's time to marry; the father will give it to someone who brings a hundred bags of beans from across the sea that a Jew has; a sea maiden came out ("daughter of agelite genies"), carried AB across the sea; he married her, they have two sons; a Jew guards his bags himself during the day, and at night the cat holds a lamp and even if a rat runs, does not leave it; a Jew: who will force throw the cat a lamp, I'll give him all his property, and whoever tries, but can't, will give me everything and will be executed; many tried unsuccessfully, the Jew took possession of everything; AB lowered a rat on a rope through a hole in ceiling; at first the cat did not react, but in the morning he grabbed a rat, dropped the lamp; AB executed a Jew, brought bags of beans to the sea; the sea maiden and her children disappeared into the water, the waves carried AB and bags to on the other side; AB married Agelite's daughter; soon began to miss the sea maiden; threw himself into the sea, swam out six months later; rushed again; the sea maiden realized that he loved her, went ashore; AB with two became the wives and sons of a sea maiden to rule the country where the Jew was]: Frobenius 1921b, No. 50:265-271; the Arabs of Algeria [the Sultan has seven daughters; he refuses grooms; the old woman taught the girls send his father a watermelon with 7 silver knives stuck in it; the vizier explained: princesses want to marry; the sultan gave each a golden apple, told all men to go outside the palace window; 6 princesses were abandoned apples to noble people, the seventh to a poor logger; the Sultan married his daughters; a prince of another country hid under the guise of a logger; the angel conveyed to him Allah's command: to experience 7 years of humiliation or in his youth, or in old age; the prince chose the former; gave the country to the vizier and became a lumberjack; the prince has a ring with genie servants; he tells them to create a palace, receives other sons-in-law in it for a week, and then becomes again a lumberjack; the sultan is ill, he needs an embalming apple and revitalizing water; his older sons-in-law have left, got nothing; the prince on a green horse in green clothes arrived unrecognized, gave his sons-in-law water and an apple, in return, he cut off his earlobes; now the sultan wants a lioness's milk in a lion leather wineskin; the prince on a white horse in white clothes put his seal on the shoulder of each of his son-in-law; the angel announced to the prince that the test period has expired; people are 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; along the way To their state, the prince, his wife and retinue went to the stormy river; the prince threw a handful of land, 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.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the Sultan's two eldest sons from an Arab woman, the youngest from an Ethiopian; the sultan offers his sons to shoot a bow - where the arrows fall, take a wife; the arrows of the elders hit the courts of Amir and the 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 wish-fulfilling servants; the prince asks for a flying horse, stops by the city, buys a sheep, puts her stomach over her head, now looks bald, stays to work for the Sultan's gardener; the youngest of the three princesses once sees a young man in all his 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 someone they like; the elders chose the sons of Amir and the Vizier; the youngest does not abandon, demands that the gardener's apprentice be brought; the sultan settled them in the stable; enemies attacked; the young man three times incognito in brilliant guise on different horses appears and smashes enemies; the sultan bandaged his wound on his arm with his handkerchief; out of grief that he does not know who the hero is, the sultan has gone blind; the doctor: you need lion's milk in a lionskin vessel brought on his back lion; elder son-in-law rides; at the crossroads, the 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 a man who offered 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 take a road that they don't return; the old man teaches not to turn around if he feels hit from all sides, to put the guards to sleep, then the lionesses will give what they need; unrecognized, the young man finds brothers, gives a bottle of milk, for which he puts seals on their backs; but milk did not help the Sultan; in its true 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.

The Balkans. Albanians [the younger brother ate the inheritance and was hired as a farmhand to the elder; every day he went to the forest to cut wood, brought it to dinner; one day he forgot to bring it and returned; in the forest a woman cuts firewood; the woman says that she is Ora (~guardian spirit) of her older brother, and Ora the Younger is in chains in the seventh room of the evil spirits that stole her; Ora the elder teaches what to do; the youngest comes to those spirits, is hired an employee, gains trust, frees her Ora and runs with her; she takes a comb, a mirror, soap with her; when Ora of the brotherly spirits screams and the spirits chase, Ora Jr. tells her to quit comb (forest), mirror (sea), soap (smooth slippery surface, pursuers stopped chasing); Ora leads the young man to another world; gives a crooked foal, then promising to give a wonderful horse, puts rags on him and half pumpkins on his head instead of a hat; the king tells him to break three pumpkins and guess what each means; only Half Pumpkins (i.e. a young man) can do it; three pumpkins are the king's three daughters varying degrees of readiness for marriage (the youngest is just right); everyone must pass by the princesses, the youngest throws an apple at Poltykvy; the enemy attacked, Poltykva turned into a mighty rider on a beautiful horse , defeated enemies; gave his older sons-in-law the right to be considered winners, for which he carved signs on their backs; but he told the king everything, his older sons-in-law were shamed, Poltykvs received the throne]: Lambertz 1952:83-91; Romanians [a forest hermit picked up a basket with a baby in the river; a vine grew near his cave, on which grapes immediately ripened; he fed the boy with it, called Demitri; he grew up; when he died, the hermit ordered to take an excuse in the cave - a horse would appear, you must ride it; when they arrived in the kingdom of three fairies, the horse tells us to wash your hair in the pool, the water of which becomes every hundred years golden; D.'s hair turned golden, he pulled a bubble over his head and was hired as a gardener to the ruler of the city; he has three daughters; the eldest Anika offered to send his father three melons of varying degrees of ripeness; the counselor explained that the daughters wanted to marry; the elders found a husband, and Didine was still with her father; she saw the gardener take a bubble from his head, called a horse and pranced around the garden; so three times, each time D. in a new one a set of clothes received from three fairies; the last one with the sun, moon and stars - Morning and Evening on her sleeves; adviser to the ruler: let all men pass in front of D. and she throw gold at the chosen one an apple; she threw them into D. twice; they were placed in a yard building, D. carried water; but in their room the horse arranged everything with unprecedented luxury; going to war, D. summoned his winged horse and smashed his enemies; he injured his hand, the ruler gave his handkerchief to be bandaged; the ruler went blind; he would see the light, washing his eyes with the milk of a red wild goat; D. gave ordinary milk to his elder sons-in-law, for which they allowed them to burn a stigma on their backs; What his older sons-in-law brought did not help, and the father saw the light from what Didina had brought; at the feast, D. declared his older sons-in-law his branded slaves, showed the ruler his handkerchief and his golden hair; the horse galloped off back to the land of the fairies, taking their dresses, as D. no longer needs them; it is still believed that the Demitrians should have golden hair]: Mawr 1881:19-27.

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; Stavropol Turkmens [the tsar has three sons with his first wife; she died, he remarried; the new one gave birth to a daughter; in the herd disappears at night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes and cooks dinner; the old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a stone; the young man goes down there; 40 robbers sleep there ; the 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, first He cut two, when he hit the youngest's sword, his 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, with the help of his lions and eagles, obtained 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 the 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 that 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; Nogais [the old man picked up the bull, threw the ground; decided that he was strong, went to fight Elmavyz Shylpuvyr Shylpyk; the shepherds offer to cut and cut the skin into pieces, the old man cannot; then with herds, shepherds; ShSH's mother tries to hide the old man, but the SHSH killed him; the wife of the murdered man gave birth to sons named Alsuvdir and Soyun-Ali; they play with children, broke someone's arm, the mother advises him better break the hand of their father's killer; they ask their mother to fry corn, put her hand on a hot cauldron, she is forced to talk about her father; on the way they carry out shepherds' tasks, 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 on the other side of the sea; says, "Part 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, she saw the light]: Nogai 1979, No. 22:116-120; Ingush [stepmother tells her husband to take Akhmet out of the house; he asks him to go down to the gorge for the fallen cake, leaves himself; A. is polite to the witch Garbash, she leaves him, tells him not to unlock one room; A. unlocks, there is a horse, he feeds him, breaks the chain, the horse tells him to take the treasures and run, carries him across the seven seas; contrary to the horse's warning, A. pulls out the horse's hair, it turns into a bridge, G. is going to kill A., but the horse throws it into the sea; tells A. to hide good clothes, hire to guard melons; younger the princess fell in love with him; all three send an apple to her father: the eldest is rotten, the middle one is half rotten, the youngest is rosy; the stepfathers do not understand, the daughters explain that they want to marry; the youngest has chosen to be a husband A., and the sisters chose noble suitors; A. and his wife settle in a chicken coop; the king is sick, his sons-in-law go to get the lion's liver and lung; A. leaves on a nag, calls his horse, teaches him to lure a lion to rush into abyss, teaches to spell the liver bitter and the lung sweet; A. gives the lung to his older sons-in-law, they allow them to be quilted on the shoulder, scars remain; the king is only worse from the liver, and he has recovered from the lung ; after that, the king moves the young to the calf house; next time the king will cure the milk of a roe deer living beyond the mountains; the horse teaches her to catch, pour milk into two vessels, one sweet in the other, bitter in the other; all repeats, the young stay in the calf; the third time you need buffalo milk, she lives at the bottom of the sea; A. pulls it out, shares it again with his older sons-in-law, but he comes to the king in rich clothes, shows scars on the body of his sons-in-law; the tsar drives away his older sons-in-law, gives A. half the kingdom, but he and his wife leave]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:117-137 (=Tanbieva 2003:118-124); megrels [dev gives the king an apple from childlessness for half of what is born; takes the eldest of two sons; the old woman teaches him to rush from the maiden into the river, enter the house, take the horse and the dog; on the advice of the horse, pulls a lamb's stomach over her head, is hired as a gardener; the king's youngest daughter sees the young man washing his hair; advises the sisters to stick a knife into ripe, ripe and green watermelons, send them to his father; the king convenes suitors; the elders choose Nazira and wazira, the younger gardener; the king's wife is ill, asking for 1) hare meat; the gardener, with the help of his horse and dog, catches hares, sells to older sons-in-law behind the severed lobes of their ears; 2) reindeer milk (the same, sons-in-law let the horse kick themselves on the buttocks); the gardener, taking on his true form, smashes enemies, cuts his hand, the king bandaged, recognizes his handkerchief; older sons-in-law are made servants of the younger; when hunting The young man is swallowed by a cannibal, shackling a horse and a dog; a poplar falls at home, his younger brother goes to look for his elder, everything repeats with him, his daughter-in-law thinks it is a husband, he puts a sword between them; does not put his hair and the cannibal strained the dog on the horse, the sword, cuts off the cannibal's wart, the swallowed one comes out bald; from the cannibal's blood, the hair grows, the chains on the horse and the dog fall; the older brother returns to his wife, the youngest parents]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 35:114-128; Armenians [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, the khan will give it to him in a few years one boy, one foal and one puppy; Arslan Khan and Batyr Khan were born; A. had to be given away; on the way to dervish's house, A. asked for a drink; the skull at the spring teaches him to pretend that A. can't sweep the floor and heat the stove, let the dervish show; we must push him into the oven himself; 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 eagle; a stranger ordered to dip his finger into the stream - it turned gold; A. washed his animals with this water; removing them and dressing up as a beggar, A. hired a khan's gardener; the younger princess noticed him golden hair; the sisters sent three apples to their father: ripe, rotten and rotten: we wish to marry; the sisters threw apples at the sons of the viziers, and the youngest at the worker; the khan placed them in a hut; khan he is sick, venison is needed; the animals of A. bring game, A. gives it to his younger son-in-law, for which he puts his seal on his back; next time lion's milk (the same to his elder son-in-law); enemies attacked, A. won them; opened up to the khan, pointed to his fugitive slaves - his seal on them; B. followed his brother's footsteps; everyone mistook him for A.; the animals gave their cubs (B. told them that the first cubs allegedly ran away); wife A. mistook B. for her husband, who beat her; A. decided that B. slept with her, killed him; saw one mouse kill another and then revive it with grass; A. then revived B.; everything is fine]: Barsov 1882, No. 1:121-128; Azerbaijanis [the boy spends all his time with the horse, does not want to study; to get rid of the horse, the mother persuaded the doctor to say that in order to improve her health she needs to eat the meat of this horse; the husband does not objected; the horse told the boy to ask permission to ride it for the last time, they galloped off; they saw a tiger trying to swallow a horned animal, the horns were stuck in its mouth; the young man he pulled out his horns, the tiger gave him his tiger cub; the same happened to the lion; the tiger and the lion promised to herd the horse, and the young man was told to go to town; he was hired as a gardener's assistant, the king's youngest daughter saw him and fell in love; offered to send her father three melons of varying degrees of ripeness; the advisers explained that it was time for the daughters to marry; the king ordered the daughters to throw an apple at their chosen ones; the younger princess threw an apple at the young man; The king gave it to him but expelled it from the palace; the king fell ill and needed venison; did not give his youngest daughter's horse; the young man sat on his old horse, the tiger and lion drove the deer into the gorge; the young man gave venison to his sons the vizier and the vekil, but made it tasteless, and carried the taste to the head and legs that he took for himself; only the food brought by the youngest daughter helped the king; enemies attacked, the young man defeated them, wounded in the arm, the king bandaged her; gathered all the men, saw the young man wear his bandage, made him heir to the throne]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:237-242; Turks [(quite different options, some are moving to other stories); three sons of a padishah bring their father three melons of different ripeness; he realizes that it is time for them to marry; they shoot arrows; where the arrow falls, they must take a wife; the elders take wives from good families, and the youngest's wife ends up in a tree (wasteland, well, etc.), there is a frog; daughters-in-law must cook; frogskin is burned; at a feast, the youngest son's wife hides leftovers in her clothes, and when dances, gold falls from there; older daughters-in-law try to imitate, spoiled themselves and others]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 86:93-96; Turks [summary of the text from Ign. Kunosha (without an exact reference): fearing revenge from his brothers, the younger prince secretly runs to his sons-in-law; dev welcomes the welcome guest: letting him go, he gives him a wonderful seal; the prince approaches the big house, who spins on a cock's leg; complaining about his share, he arouses compassion in the gardener for a stranger dressed in rags; falling in love with the princess, the keloglan (a bald fool boy) summons an Arab and an elegant dress rides a horse around the garden, trampling flowers; the princess throws gold at him in handfuls; the ringing of despicable metal rewards the gardener handsomely for the loss; allegorically hinting at her celibacy, she sends three melons to her father on behalf of her sisters; with a huge crowd of people, the princess distinguishes Keloglan three times; angry at her daughter's incomprehensible preference for Keloglan, the king drives them away from herself to the chicken coop; the princess herself soon becomes disillusioned with her husband; to heal the king, who is suffering from the eyes, the older sons-in-law go for bird's milk; asking his wife, for their child, for a black donkey, Keloglan sits on him; outside the city he sets up a tent; his brothers-in-law, agreeing to shame (keloglan puts a seal on his back), receive an extraordinary medicine from him drop by drop; the king is delighted with his sons-in-law, he allows them to organize a three-day tournament; a young man appears on the lists like a lion; the king bandages his minor wound with his daughter's handkerchief with his daughter's handkerchief; the surprised princess carries it to her mother; The tsar takes his grandson to his knees and solemnly bequeaths the throne after him to Pleshak]: Gordlevsky 1961, No. 41:191; Turks []: Stebleva 1986, No. 43:177-183.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 7 (Kerman) [Shah remarries; 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 closest one to the prince; the prince remains alive; on the third once 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 to agree to the father's demand to give 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; landed near the garden; tells the prince put his crown and royal clothes on him, put on rags, 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 burned hair will arrive; once the prince did so, K. flew in, the prince rides through the garden in royal vestments, the princess fell in love; seeing the imaginary gardener in the same outfit, asks him to open up, they secretly marry; the vizier compares the maturity of melons with the maturity of the king's daughters; advises giving the Shah's three daughters a golden orange to throw at whoever they like; the elders choose the sons of the vizier, the youngest is the gardener's adopted son; the shah is ill of grief; the doctor: will cure the meat of a special bird; the vizier's sons follow her, 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 prince left the bird's head and legs (they have all the power of medicine) himself; stigmatizes his brothers; returns; brothers bring a 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 stigmatized his elders sons-in-law and receipt; the Shah takes off his sheep skin, makes him heir, and the vizier's sons slaves]: 33-42; Osmanov 1958 [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 to him; 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 with instructions to ask the dervish Dance around the boiler of boiling oil himself to teach him, push the dervish into the cauldron; when the dervish died, E. unlocked the rooms, freed the gazelles, revived petrified people and horses; the wind horse tells leave soon - the dervish has a brother; E. touched the golden water, his hand and hair turned golden; the diva brother is chasing, the horse tells him 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 divas died in the whirlpool in which the mill; E. hired a gardener to the palace; three daughters of the padishah asked for bouquets; the bouquet for the youngest E. tied 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 mutton over his head stomach; the youngest chose E., they were placed in the 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 give him his head and legs; the meat given to his sons-in-law is bitter; from the broth brought by his youngest daughter, the padishah recovered; moved her from E. to the palace; enemies attacked, E. defeated them, opened up to the padishah; E. went to visit his parents; the old woman invited her to her place, he fell into a hole with swords and spears; only the ointment that the old woman had would cure; she was the mother of those two divas; Brother E. saw that the tree planted by E. withers; Brother E. met a rolling stone with instructions on how to defeat a sorceress; he killed her when she became a cat; pulled her out and cured E.; their mother went blind, helped by the same ointment; feast and celebration]: 322-336 .

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the old man crushed seven beetles, thought he was strong, went to fight the devas, the mother of the devas swallowed him; his wife gave birth to sons Alsudar and Kirsudar; they asked for hot kurmas, hold her mother's hand, she had to tell the truth about her father; the brothers follow their father's footsteps, easily eat sheep carcasses, etc., make their skins (the father could not cope with it); they kill devas, their mother belches their father; A. marries, inherits deva property; K. goes on, kills the shepherdess, puts on his clothes, takes his veal tongue with him; the shepherdess must lick the heels of the king's three daughters; he rubs their heels veal tongue; princesses send apples to their father: the eldest is dried up, the middle is half-dried, the youngest is rosy; the king understands that they should marry; the older sisters choose princes, the youngest is a shepherdess; they are accommodated in barn; the king is sick, he needs wild goat meat; K. summons his heroic horse, kills a goat, makes its meat poisoned, its entrails healing, gives it to other sons-in-law for the right to put it on their buttocks print; only the king's youngest daughter's soup is better; the same series of episodes again, K. cuts off his older sons-in-law's little fingers; only K. defeats enemies; everything is explained, K. gets the throne, makes his brothers-in-law servants]: Barag 1988, No. 43:292-305.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Potanin 1916, No. 11 (Aral-Irtysh watershed) [Koblanda's hero robbed the bay; the son of that youngster Karaman offered martial arts; after a long struggle, Koblanda killed him, took people away and property; the old man remained under the cauldron, the boy Talas-pai under the straw and the foal Kozu-Gar'at; Karaman's bow was worn by two strongmen, T. brought one; three swans torment the old man every day; T. tells me puts on his clothes, shoots swans, his ring falls; comes to the lousy shepherd, who replies that he is herding Kadyr Kana's cows; explains that he says that cows and calves cross the sea themselves, attached, milked; that he licks the heels of K.'s youngest daughter; T. killed the guy, put on his clothes, told the cattle to do what they needed, came to K.; his daughters were those swans; he was sick to stay with youngest; began to stroke her heels with the tongue of a cow; replies that yes, his tongue was cracked; she gave honey, he stroked softer; he bathed where the girls flew in with swans; the youngest recognized T., took her to bed; T. explains how to let the khan know that it is time for daughters to marry: let one bread burn, the other burn, and the third bake properly; the khan told the daughters to choose suitors, the youngest took the lousy boy; khan I got sick, I need saiga meat; only a lousy one killed, gave it to his older sons-in-law, left giblets for himself; only the khan recovered from them; the cherry plum kara-gus ("huge black eagle") annually takes a winged foal mares; older sons-in-law fall asleep, a lousy arrow knocked off the tail of a foal, one bird's feather; sons-in-law took their tail, could not lift the feather, only the lousy one brought it; three sons-in-law go to look for a bird; lousy comes to the seven-headed cannibal, she promises to help; the bird sat on a bai-terek tree, the lousy one shot her, only his horse was able to carry the carcass; the girl daughter of the bird is chasing, the lousy one defeated her, married her, let the bird go of the captives; saved the snake, which gave him the gift of understanding the speech of animals; a bay horse came running, this is the mother of the horse T., she escaped from Koblanda; T. appeared to his father-in-law in his real form, he gave him half of the cattle, he returned to his father (that is, to the old man with whom he lived after Koblanda's raid); T. and his son went to Koblanda; it turned out that their mothers were sisters, they fraternized; Ir-Kosai, avenging his father, attacked killed Koblandy; T. reconciled with him, became khan]: 73-80 (=1972, No. 6:123-130); Sidelnikov 1952 [Khan's mare gives birth to a foal by tulpar (winged horse); Hansha's lover persuades her to kill her husband, and for kill the son first; the foal warns him of poison; then they want to kill the foal, the khan's son leaves in it; disguises himself 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 their father, only the youngest's melon is fresh; the khan tells everyone to throw an apple at her chosen one, the youngest throws them at N., they are locked in a donkey pen; the khan orders son-in-law bring mountain goat meat; only N. kills, makes the meat bitter, gives it to other sons-in-law, the demand is sweet, the khan liked it; next time N. calls tulpara, in a noble form gives a goat from his pen, stigmatizes his sons-in-law; appears Khan in true form on Tulpar, says that two slaves have escaped from him; receives a khanate and slaves]: 205-213; Kyrgyz: Er Toshtyuk 1958 [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]: 57-75; (cf. Ledenev 1987 [batyr Sokbay asks the shepherd how he drives a huge herd across the river; shepherd: I'll tell you to go - they cross, wait - wait, get attached - get attached; S. offers to play Alchiki clicks 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 an alchik, puts on 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, recognized the horseman by his hair under his hat; brought three handkerchiefs to his father , this means that it is time to marry three daughters; the khan gathers men, the daughters must throw an apple at the chosen one; A. throws it at the shepherd; the khan tells three sons-in-law to find the foals that he takes away every year poultry; 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. is successful in hunting, gives his sons-in-law meat in exchange for what he put on their heels tamga; drives foals; sons-in-law throw him into a hole; a horse brings a girl with braids to 40 arcana; S. gets out of the pit on his braids, comes to the khan on a bull, but tells his sons-in-law to show stamps on his heels; khan transfers his possessions to him]: 78-83; Narynbayeva 2018 (Tien-Shan Region, Toguz-Toros District, 1946) [the old khan has three wives, no children; witch: children will be provided that she takes them away in 7 years; khan agreed; the witch bit three apples and gave each wife an apple; they became pregnant; when the witch appeared seven years later, the khan hid his children, and the witch gave the children of the poor; but the witch gave the children of the poor; but the witch she solved the deception; the khan gave his eldest son, the middle son on the second day, the youngest on the third day; she sent the youngest to fry him for firewood; the skull lies, the boy kicked him, the voice from the skull: you will become the same with a skull, like me; the boy brought the skull to one elder; elder: when the witch is going to fry you, ask her to cast the chilten spell; when she reads, push you into the cauldron; then take it the keys that she has 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 who was chosen to be his wife; he met a devil, who had a thorn in his leg, a grown plane tree; dev asked her to extract it, also asked 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 Khan's city; exchanged the horse for a goat, took off his skin, pulled it over his head; turned into Pleshivets, the khan instructed him to herd the cows; the khan's three daughters bathed in a ditch and saw that the boy's forelock was golden; the youngest ran to him, but his sisters took her away; the khan tells the daughters to cook pilaf; two the eldest pilaf turned out to be fresh, the youngest was delicious; the vizier explained that the eldest daughters were restarted, and the youngest was in their heyday; the khan gave the daughters an apple each and ordered them to throw the apple at the one they chose; the elders they threw apples at the Bai sons, the youngest at Pleshivets; they were placed in a separate yurt; enemies attacked, both son-in-law died along with thousands of warriors; Pleshivets burned a lock of the deva's hair, who helped kill the enemies, the boy, already dressed in Khan's clothes, came to the khan, who handed him power]: 58-60); Dungans [Jeong Tianu, the son of a commander, finds out that his stepmother has a lama lover; his foal exposes their intrigues (stepmother gives a shirt that would burn a young man, poisoned pilaf; pretending to be sick, he demands the heart of a foal; the young man flies away on a foal; lives with an old gardener, hiding his golden hair under his lamb's stomach; the youngest of the emperor's three daughters notices this; Thu explains to the emperor that the watermelon given to the eldest daughter turned out to be rotten because she is overripe, the middle one is half, the youngest is fresh; the emperor orders daughters choose husbands, the youngest throws the ball at Thu, who came in the form of a lousy beggar; Thu catches animals while hunting, gives them to older sons-in-law, stigmatizes them; crushes enemies led by 9- the head werewolf; his soul is in jade, he is in stone, in a box, in a tree; Thu breaks jade, cuts the chicken stomach in it; kills the emperor, older sons-in-law, llama, stepmother, reigns; life-giving grass and water, restores sight to a blind father]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 9:79-96.