K76. Son-bag, ATU 425A, 441. .11.-.17.19.-.39.

A boy born or picked up has a strange or ugly appearance (ball, nut, bag, half human, dwarf, animal), but then demonstrates magical power and turns out to be handsome (usually gets a high-status bride).

Zulu [snake], braid [boy without arms and legs], nyamwezi [son head], isanzu [snake], bondei [turtle], yoruba [wolf], mofu-gudur [toad], sandave [snake], Algerian Arabs [ camel], Arabs and Berbers (?) Morocco, Tunisian Arabs, Egyptian Arabs [goat], Sicilians [snake; pig; donkey], Portuguese [bear; lamb], Sardinians, Corsicans [pig; snake], Spanish [crocodile], Aragon [crocodile; pig], Italians (Menton, Veneto, Campania) [turtle; pig], Umbria, Campania, Abruzzo, Basilicata) [snake], Maltese [snake], ladins [bear; boy with pig head], Bretons [man with foal head] ], French [boy with pig head; toad], Flemish [hedgehog; pig], Germans (Grimms, Hessen, Schleswig-Holstein) [hedgehog; crow], Alsatians [donkey], British, Scottish, Irish, Palestinian [camel], Arabs Syria [camel; horse head], Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraqi Arabs [pumpkin], San Cristobal [snake], bilua [dog], Banks Islands [lizard], Palau [breadfruit], Western Samoa [snake], Bellona [snake], Tibetans [frog; frog], Tibetans (Amdo) [frog], Mustang [dog], lavrung [frog], qiang [beggar in dog clothing; serpent], kirati [snake], butane [frog], toto [pumpkin], meitei [big head; frog], lepcha [sheep tail], kachin [turtle], shana [head; frog], lao [snail], khamti [turtle], khmu [turtle], vieta [coconut; turtle], sedang [pumpkin], thai [sack], tyama [coconut] walnut], Khmer [hog], Burmese [turtle; human head; egg], Arakan [serpent], Palaung [snail], Ancient India [Vivasvat or Martanda without arms, without legs, like a ball; snakes], Punjabians [watermelon], Nepali [pumpkin; rooster], Marathi [donkey; fish], varli [crab], South India (ethnicity is not a decree.) [tiger cub], assamese [frog; snake], orahons [crab], muria [crab], agaria [mongoose boy], santals [mongoose; span boy], ho [poor sick shepherd], kannada [turtle], Tamils [ turtle; fish; (monkey)], Sinhala [snake; hedgehog], Bali [half-boy; Monkey], Simalur [iguana], Western toraja [coconut], minahasa [freak named Pumpkin], loda [iguana], Sangihe [coconut] walnut], Timor [one head; green snake], Kai Islands [mollusk], visayas [one head], bagobo [squirrel], Southern and Northwestern China [frog], Chinese (Jiangsu) [calf], Miao [frog], Meo Vietnam [ frog], namuzi [frog], lahu [head], Koreans [calf; snake; toad; frog], half boy], Greeks [half boy; donkey; pumpkin; crab; snake], Albanians [snakes], Bulgarians [snake, smog; young man with horse head; pumpkin], Serbs [snakes], Romanians [pig], Moldovans [snake], Gagauz [pig], Slovenes [hedgehog; pig], Hungarians [snake; frog; hedgehog], Croats [hedgehog], Poles [snake, toad, hedgehog, etc.], Slovaks [hedgehog; hedgehog, etc.] pea boy], Czechs [bear], Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [cancer], Ukrainians (Podolia, Yekaterinoslavskaya) [cancer], Ukrainians (Podolia, Kiev) [uzh], Kalmyks [snake; blue skin], Abaza [chicken boy] eggs; bear], Balkarians [lamb], Ossetians [bear; horse; pumpkin], Ingush [pig], Avars [goby], Rutulans [donkey], Armenians [snake; calf; tiny man], Georgians [snake; pumpkin], Azerbaijanis [" black eyebrows"], Turks [donkey head], Kurds [pumpkin; snake], Lurs [turtle], Persians [pumpkin; snake and wife pumpkin, the bride goes out and stays with him;], mountain Tajiks [calf], Yazgulyam [calf], Vakhans [ lame chicken], Shugnans [rooster], Baluchi [camel son], Uzbeks [fox], Latvians [hedgehog; boy with finger], Lithuanians [hedgehog], Lutsi [snake], Estonians [hedgehog], Finns [head], Karelians [head; snake, dog], Eastern Sami [dog], Swedes [hedgehog], Marie [snake], Bashkirs [bull; snake], Kazakhs [snakes], Kyrgyz [badger], Dungans [frog; watermelon], Altaians [beaver], Shors [bear], South Altai Tuvans [frog], Mongors [frog], Southern Selkups [hazel grouse; bull], Eastern Khanty [snotty baby], Ilimpic Evenks [otter], Japanese [snail, slug; frog; snake; boy with a finger], Ainu [mouse].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Nyamwezi [his parents have a son and head; he asks the brothers to take him to the king, who promised a daughter to the one who will cultivate the field; he is taken to the site, the workers go out of their heads, return with job; head gets wife; handsome man comes out of the shell at night; wife burns the shell; everyone is happy]: Spellig 1929:240-243; isanzu [woman rejects various animal suitors, marries Elephant; he turns out to be human; she brings him lunch in the field; on the way, the Serpent offers her to have sex, eats part of the food; the woman explains to her husband that she has met a relative; so every day; one person sees it , says to her husband; they summoned the Snake with the song that the woman called him in, killed him; the wife brings a vessel full of food for the first time; the husband says he took out antelope meat; when the wife ate, he explains what she ate her lover; she gives birth to snakes; the husband kills five, the sixth hides; six months later she goes out, calls the Elephant father, asks for a bow; asks to find a bride; five sisters refuse, the sixth the youngest marries the Snake; at night he becomes human; the mother advises her daughter to throw snakeskin into the fire; the husband receives human clothes from his mother; the sisters' husbands are surprised at their new son-in-law; sisters lead the youngest to buy firewood, push her into the well; the eldest took the place of the youngest in front of her husband; the firewood collector hears a voice from the well; parents pull out and treat the youngest daughter; the father kills with an ax eldest]: Kohl-Larsen, Allensbach 1937, No. 47:61-66; Bondei [the chief promises to give his daughter for whoever wins the race; the Turtle negotiates with the Hare to place 10 turtles at a distance; The falcon can't tell them apart, believes that the Turtle is ahead of him; the turtle gets the girl; takes off his shell at night, becomes a young man; the wife throws the shell into the fire, stays with her handsome husband]: Abrahams 1983, No. 12:75-78; Zulu: Snegirev 1937:164-171 [all the leader's wives have given birth several times, and the one who was supposed to give birth to the leader herself is still pregnant; finally, a boa constrictor gives birth; he is taken to the river, the woman is left alone; she comes, she is given a separate hut for fear of misfortune; five boys and five girls come out of snakeskin, come to their father; the eldest becomes the chief after all], 172-178 [ the chief's wife gives birth, the other takes the child in her arms, he dies immediately; so three times; the fourth time a snake son Mamba is born; the rival gives birth to a boy Nsimba; all the girls want to marry N., he takes Nhlamwa- yobuhlala; her sister Nhlamvu-yetushi chooses M., although N. would like to take her; Nhlamvu-yetushi gets used to M., pulls his snakeskin off him, he turns out to be handsome; his mother hid it in the skin of a snake, so that his rival does not kill him; for a while M. pulls his skin again when he goes out to people, then shows up as a human being, triumphs]; St. Lys 1916 [the chief has two daughters, the eldest goes marry UmambakaMaqula; the old woman asks for help to put the burden on her back; reports that the groom is a snake, but the son of men; you need to sprinkle cornmeal, pour milk around his kraal; don't be afraid when the snake will hang around her body; the girl did so, returned home with rich gifts (skins); her sister also went to marry W.; does not listen to the old woman; when she sees the snake, she runs back in horror; older sister returned, burned down the house when there were snakes in it; then magically brought her husband out of the ground in human form; became his main wife]: 78-82; braid [a childless woman goes to a healer, she asks for fat a calf, a woman brings a calf without horns or tail; a healer says that a boy will be born without arms and legs; but a woman first gives birth to a normal girl; knowing that a son must be born, the father tells her daughter to be thrown away (he thinks she is a son); the girl herself grows up in an anthill, eating honey; Simbukumbukwana's son, without arms or legs, speaks from birth; his sister comes, asks for an opening, telling him so that S. grows arms and legs; cleans the house; tells him to answer that he cleaned it up; tells his legs and hands to disappear again; next time he sends S. to get water; he goes to the hills, she tells his hands to have his hands and his legs disappeared; the parents waited, brought their son, his arms and legs finally grew; the boy followed his sister and her friends, who went for red clay; she beat him and left him; it rained, but not a drop fell; his sister apologized; S. moved his house, hearth, cattle to this place]: McCall, Theal 1882:68-73.

West Africa. Yoruba [father rejects daughter's suitors; finally promises supreme god Oba that he will give his daughter for the first person he meets; a wolf comes out to meet; parents persuade their daughter to accept the groom; on the way to the forest wolf takes off his skin, turns into a handsome man, brings his wife to the palace]: Walker, Walker 1980:22-23; mofu-gudur [girl rejects suitors, promises to marry only someone whose body has no scars; The toad pees where the girl grows a medicinal plant; the girl has a upset stomach, she eats the leaves of the plant, gets pregnant, gives birth to a son; when she is three years old, her father gathers men, the boy must give his father a calebas with meat and dough; the first time he does not find his father, the second time he gives it to the Toad; the girl is passed off as a Toad; when everyone goes fishing, the Toad takes off his skin, makes him handsome, tells his wife to hold a horse, catches fish for her, she does not recognize him; at home she scolds the Toad; a clairvoyant explains to her what is going on; she is happy, at home she serves Toad food in a beautiful calebass, but her son tells her to serve the old one; a black ant advises to slaughter a black chicken, the hawk will carry away the skin of the toad; the son has time to grab the skin; the red ant tells you to slaughter the red chicken, the hawk takes away the skin; the handsome man lies, is silent; the black ant tells you to rub sesame seeds, husband does not react; red tells me to drip fat into the fire, the husband says that now the food will burn; the woman is happy; her sister asks her husband's name, she answers "Head down, legs up"; wife does not must say her husband's name in his presence, the husband falls into the ground, only feathers remain in his hands; someone cultivates her field; the sorcerer tells me to go to the field at night to bring beer; a husband appears with dead, they cultivate the field; husband drinks beer, eats bread; wife grabs him, he stays]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 17:118-125.

Sudan - East Africa. Sandave [every time a woman gives birth not to a child, but a big snake, throws it into the grass; she raised the latter; the serpent hunts, brings game to her mother; says that it was in vain that she killed his brothers and sisters; a girl came, took a snake as her husband; the mother saw: the son threw off his snakeskin and sleeps with his wife like a man; the mother threw her skin into the fire, the son remained human]: Arnold 1984:194-196.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs (Tiaret Plateau) [seeing camels, the Sultan's childless wife asks God for a son - even a camel; the son has grown up, asks him to marry; everyone refused, one girl agreed; at night the camel became a young man, told his wife to keep a secret; she let her mother-in-law talk; she came in, dropped a tear on her sleeping son; he woke up, became a camel, disappeared; the wife went looking for him; grabbed his tail, he took her to heaven, she also became a camel; at night they can be seen as two shooting stars]: Aceval 2005, No. 84:88-90; the Arabs of Egypt [the king announced that he is marrying three daughters; let each one leave a handkerchief at her chosen one; the eldest threw it at the prince, the middle on the emir, the youngest on the horns of a goat; and so on three times; persuaded her father to pass her off as a goat; in marriage, the goat turns into Prince Charming, tells them not to tell anyone about this; the older sons-in-law went to war and returned victorious, the wives greet them; the younger princess sees her husband and greets her too; the sisters think she has a connection to to the side; her father wants to execute her, she has to tell her everything, her 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 another; she was washing, saw a mule that took two jugs of water, stamped his hoof and began to go underground; the old woman followed him, 40 goats came in, another on horseback; turned into a young man, became mourn her 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]: Artin Pasha 1895, No. 5:87- 102; Arabs and Berbers (?) Morocco, Tunisia: El-Shamy 2004, No. 425A: 201-202.

Southern Europe. Aragon [the prince looks like a crocodile, a pig, etc.; the poor man's third daughter agrees to marry him; at night he turns into a man; his wife violates the ban on reporting it or her mother sees a son-in-law in human form, or his animal skin is burned; a wonderful husband disappears; his wife finds him and returns him]: González Sanz 1996, No. 425A: 81; Portuguese [at the Queen a bear cub was born; grew up to marry three daughters of a blacksmith; the eldest, middle one does not want him, the youngest marries him; when the son was born, the bear's wife told his mother that her husband was doing at night man; then the husband disappears, telling him to look for him in the Green Meadow; the sorceress tells you to ask the Moon; she tells the Sun to ask, the Sun to the Wind, the Wind leads; the girl rushes around the bear's neck , he becomes human forever; everyone is happy]: Shishlova 1971:220-227; the Portuguese (Coimbra) [the childless queen regularly prays to St. The virgin give her a child; the shepherd drove the herd past; the queen: even a lamb! gave birth to a white lamb; he grew up and told his mother that he would marry his eldest daughter do rei do conselho (Chairman of the State Council?) ; came to marry in the form of a prince, but said that he asked the girl to marry a kid; in marriage he saw a knife from his wife, but took it away and stabbed her himself; the same with his second daughter; when with the youngest, he threw off seven skins, became a prince, told his wife not to say he was an enchanted prince; but she told his mother; prince: now the witchcraft will last another 7 years, look for me on the South River (o rio Sul); my wife has come to the kingdom of the Moon; Moon's mother hid it first; the moon does not know, she sent her to the Wind and the Sun; they also do not know; 7 years have passed; the old woman pointed to the door to the Sul River; many birds will fly; the one who rushes to her feet is her husband; wife: is that you? The spell is over, the couple began to live in the palace]: Coelho 1879, No. 25:60-82; the Spaniards [the childless queen wants at least a crocodile; he bites off the nurses' nipples; finally, Mariquita's girlfriend agreed feed her when her chest is covered with iron; he grew up asking to marry the girl; Mariquita's older sister goes first; the crocodile tells her not to sleep, he will come at midnight; she falls asleep, he killed her; the same with middle sister; M. does not sleep, the crocodile says that this girl will spoil him; took off 7 crocodile skins, became handsome, told his wife not to touch her skin; M. told her mother-in-law, she came in, burned her skin; the husband flew away You won't go back to the castle, his wife will find him, wearing out 7 pairs of iron shoes and the same number of her son, whom she will give birth to; they were almost worn out; St. The virgin gave M. three nuts with valuables inside; the eagle carried M. and her son on her back from the eagle castle to the castle Go, you won't come back; M. opened the first nut, in which the spinning wheel, sells her husband's bride for the right spend the night, but she gives the young man sleeping pills, he does not wake up; the same second night (spindle); the third time a golden egg, the servant threw away the stunning, the husband recognized M., the spell was removed; told everyone that Found a lost key and a new one is no longer needed]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 425A: 241-246; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 11 [son is a red pig; demands him to marry; the girl marries him; confesses to his mother that at night he becomes a handsome man; his mother snuck into the room, grabs the pigskin that had been dropped and threw it into the fire; three times the skin jumped out of the fire, but then burned down; the husband says that his wife will not see him without wearing out a pair of iron shoes; the wife put on her shoes, consistently comes to three old women who give nuts (apparently walnuts), almonds and another nut (hazel); in the first walnut has a silk thread, for which she buys the night with her husband from his new wife; she gives her husband a sleepy potion; in almonds, a silver thread (the same); in the last nut, a gold thread; neighbors heard how in the previous night, the wife tried to wake her husband up, told him; he did not drink the potions; the couple reunited and returned to her husband's parents], 86 [a childless woman finally gave birth, but her son was a snake; when he grew up, asks him to marry; the mother brings the poor girl, the son tells her to be taken back; the richer is the same; from a good family; the wife is happy: at night the husband becomes handsome; warns that if the wife talks, she will have to wear out her iron shoes and fill the vessel with tears before she sees it again; the mother asks her daughter-in-law and she confesses; the husband has disappeared; the old woman gives his wife a snake walnuts, almonds, walnuts hazels; they have a golden spindle, a tow, a spinning wheel; the wife buys three nights from his new wife for them; the third husband does not drink a sleepy potion, he recognizes his wife; everything is fine]: 25-27, 190-191; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 19 [a childless queen wants a child, even a snake (scursuni is a black venomous snake), even if she has many children; gives birth to a snake son; he grows up, sends a mother for a bride; the weaver gives her daughter ; at night, Prince Skurtsuni comes out of snakeskin; when he learns that the bride is the daughter of a weaver, he climbs back into the skin, bites the girl to death; the same with the locksmith's daughter; the stepmother of the shoemaker's daughter wants to get rid of her, sends a snake to marry; but the girl tells that she is a rich princess; gives birth to a child, hides it from her parents; the queen hears a lullaby, the daughter confesses; the serpent says that his skin should be burned in the same moment as putting his wife's woven clothes on him; it succeeds; the wife admits she's not a princess, but it doesn't matter], 37 [a childless queen wants a child, even if she's a pig, even if she has a lot children; gives birth to a pig, he grows up to want a wife; parents negotiate with a laundress, she has three daughters; each time a young man comes out of pigskin when his wife falls asleep; the first two are beheaded; the third affectionate to him; he lies down with her but returns to pig skin before his wife wakes up; then she wakes up earlier; he asks not to let it slip, otherwise he wears 7 pairs of iron shoes in 7 years, months, days, until she finds him; she tells her mother, the prince disappears; the wife goes looking for him; three old men successively give her a nut, a chestnut, another nut; the fourth gives her a magic wand create a castle; for treasures made of nuts (golden chicken with chickens, teacher with students, eagle) buys three nights from his new wife; she gives the Piglet King sleeping pills; on the third night, the king does not drink it (his the prisoners in the dungeon under the bedroom warned, they heard the voice of a true wife, he has now pardoned them); the couple returned to his wife's parents]: 123-129, 243-251; Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 430 ["L'asino" with referring to Gonzenbach, No. 43]: 102; Italians: Basile 2018 (Naples) [a childless peasant woman sees a snake and laments the absence of her son; the snake offers himself as a son; the snake has grown up and told his father to marry him a princess; the king demands that all the fruits in his garden be made golden; the serpent performs; let the fence and land of the park become gems - the same; the golden palace is the same; the serpent received the princess Grannonia; in marriage he threw off his snakeskin; the king and queen peeked, threw their skin into the fire; the young man became a dove, hit the glass and hurt himself; the fox to the princess: we must anoint the wounds with the blood of birds, who talked about the snake prince; the fox brought a bottle of bird blood, but ran away because her blood was also needed; G. persuaded her not to be afraid, killed her, took her blood; when she came to the prince's country, made him healthy again; G. opened to a prince who did not recognize her at first; wedding]: 199-207 Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 433 (Umbria, Campania, Abruzzo, Basilicata) [snake]: 103; Calvino 1980, No. 4 (Menton) [man who goes out only at night, offers a hand to one of the fisherman's daughters; the eldest two refuse, the youngest agrees; the man says he is bewitched and must be a man at night and a turtle by day; for the spell to sleep, you have to travel around the world; his wife agrees to wait for him; he puts a diamond ring on her finger: it will fulfill any wishes if they are kind and heartily; three fans offer her money during the night; the first she asks to knead the dough a little, he does it until morning; the second to light the fire; the third is to close the door; these men complained, four female police officers have arrived; the heroine told them to hear each other until morning; four male police officers were told to ride like frogs; at that time a turtle crawled and turned into a beautiful young man; everything is fine]: 12-14; Widter et al. 1866, No. 12 (Veneto) [the witch wanted to marry the king, but he chose another one, so the witch made sure that the son born was covered in piggy skin; the son grew up and asked his father to marry him the eldest girl of three sisters; when the groom lay down in a puddle at the wedding and then sat down with the bride, she called him a real pig; she was found dead in bed in the morning; the same with her middle sister; the youngest did not show the groom disgust, but called it a treasure; at night he took off his pigskin and turned out to be handsome; forbid his wife to talk about it; the prince comes to the tournament three times; seeing his daughter-in-law next to the handsome man, the prince's mother calls She is a libertine and wants to kill her; when he finds out about the skin removed, he burns it; the prince disappears, the wife goes in search; the evening star (Stella d'oro, man) gives a nut, sends it to the Sun; he also gives a nut, refers to the Wind; the mother of the Wind hides her, asks her son, who says that the prince lives behind the mountain, he and the Sun will go there tomorrow to dry their clothes; the mother of the Wind gives a chestnut; the prince is getting married again, in his house an unrecognized wife was hired as a goose; split a walnut, wearing an Evening Star dress; gives it to her new bride overnight with the prince; she puts sleeping pills; the same on the second night (dress like the sun); the same a beautiful chestnut dress; the prince only pretended to fall asleep; found out that his wife had worn out his iron shoes in search of him; returned to her and drove the new bride away]: 249-254; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250; Maltese [the queen gives birth to a snake; stepdaughter is told to feed him; on the advice of her late mother, on whose grave the girl sheds tears, she puts a cup of sweetened milk on his chest; the serpent grew up, demanded a wife; several newlyweds were strangled; the stepdaughter remains alive and splashes the prince; at night he became a man; teaches that three days in the city cannot be lit lights and noise; wife burns seven snake skins, which he drops successively]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 433b: 119-121; Ladins: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 66 [in childless spouses A son is born, but with the head of a pig; when he is older, he is sent to herd pigs in the forest; the lord is lost; the Pig's Head will take him out of the forest if he gives him one of his three daughters; the lord promised send his daughter three days later; without waiting, Pig Head sends a rooster to him; he asks his daughters which of them will go; the youngest agrees; before the wedding ceremony, the priest decided to baptize the Pig Head; as soon as holy water touched him, he became a young man; the older sisters hanged themselves in grief]: 184-185; Uffer 1973, No. 27 [childless spouses finally have a son; this is a bear, they are his love, he grew up; the princess saw him, asked him to give it to her; at night he turns into a young man; one day someone heard that the princess was talking to someone; when the bear understood this, he ran away, found himself in the old woman who put him in the basement on a chain; the princess went in search; the old man wrote something on a piece of bark, told him to throw bark to the dragon guarding the bridge; if the dragon reads and laughs, you can go ; the dragon laughed; gave a pipe; let the princess ask the old woman for a job, she will herd the sheep, but they will turn into hares and scatter; if they play the pipe, they will gather again and become sheep; must bring hot water to the bear, then he will break the chain; the old woman tastes the water that the princess carries to the bear; she gives her a taste of cold water, and she takes the hot water in advance; the bear and the one who arrives in time the dragon grabbed the old woman and forced the people turned into animals to regain their human appearance; the dragon and the bear also became human; the princess's wedding with the ex-bear]: 106-109.

Western Europe. The Bretons [the señor's son has the head of a foal; the eldest, middle daughter of a peasant agrees to marry him, say they will cut off his head, stab him; he does it to them; the youngest loves him, at night he turns handsome; his wife should not talk about it until the last bell rings at their child's christening; says he beats her, drops of blood remain on his shirt; she will find him after wearing three pairs of iron shoes; when worn out, she sees laundresses who can't wash the blood off the senor's shirt; she washes it off; finds a husband; at a wedding with his new wife, he says he has the same one, leaves with her]: Luzel 1995:60-66; French (Dauphine): Joisten 1991, No. 12 [the childless king tells the person he meets that he would like a son even with the head of a pig; the son is born, grows up, asks to marry his wife; the lumberjack's eldest daughter agrees, but after the wedding she does not allow herself to be hugged, the queen with a pig's head rips open her stomach; the same with the middle daughter; the youngest accepts her husband; ten months later she sees that he has become handsome; he warns not to tell anyone about it, otherwise he will become a pighead again for a year and one day; she tells her parents; her husband leaves, says she will find him after seven a pair of wooden shoes and seven pairs of iron shoes; the wife comes to the ogre, who sends her to his brother, this one to the other; each gives a glass walnut, it must be broken when she finds a husband; this third says that the woman's husband is getting married today; he gives a horse; he immediately takes the woman to the castle; every night she breaks a nut, wearing dresses made of silk, silver, diamonds; she changes them for the right to spend night with her husband (he is handsome, with a man's head), but the new wife puts him to sleep twice; the third time the servant tells her husband that he does not drink a potion, returns with his real wife to his parents], 13 [the miller's wife and the rich man's wife became pregnant at the same time; the rich man wanted the miller's wife to give birth to a freak; the fairy, the miller's aunt, wanted the rich man's wife to give birth to a toad; this happened, and the miller's wife consistently gave birth three daughters; the toad son demanded the miller's eldest daughter as his wife, otherwise he threatens to poison everyone; in the morning the young woman was found dead; the same with the middle sister; the younger fairy says that her sisters were too proud teaches what to do; she must consistently take off her clothes, demanding that the groom shed another skin each time; a beautiful young man is under her ninth skin; wedding, everyone is happy]: 119-126 , 127-128; Flemish [the king drove away an aged governess; her daughter married a merchant's son, gave birth to a beautiful girl; the king had a boy; to avenge the mother, whom the king expelled, her the daughter added potions to the prince, who became a pig; the girl grew up, the pig wanted to marry her; the mother had to tell her daughter everything; during the wedding, the daughter pierced the pig with a dagger, she turned into a prince ; everything is fine]: Kingo 2012:20-27; Germans [a childless peasant dreams of having a son - even a hedgehog; a son is born, from head to waist - a hedgehog; he was put behind the stove; after 8 years, the father goes to at the fair, asks who to buy; the son asks for bagpipes; having received the bagpipes, Hans-Hedgehog asks to shove his rooster, leaves, taking pigs and donkeys with him; raised a large herd in the forest; he sat with the rooster on wood and played the bagpipes; the king got lost; G. promises to show the way if the king promised him that he would be the first to meet at home; his daughter ran out to meet him; the king gave a receipt, but wrote in it that He owes nothing; the same with another king, but he really promised and the king's daughter agreed; G. returned to his father, bringing many pigs, let the people slaughter them; asked the father to shove the rooster again; G. came to the first king, who ordered the one who would come on the rooster to be shot, but G. took the princess; pierced her with needles and drove her away for infidelity; when he came to the second king, he gave his daughter, and G. left his hedgehog skin into the fire and became handsome; got the kingdom; took his father]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 108:361-364 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:289-294); Germans (Hessen) [at the king and queen A son was born, but the witch turned him into a wild boar; the rich master has three daughters; the boar fell in love with the eldest, her father forced her to marry a wild boar, since that prince; when the newlywed went to bed, the boar jumped on her, kicked her neck, she died; the same with her middle daughter; when the boar went to the youngest, he was driven into the forest; one day everyone went for a walk, a boar appeared and took the girl to the cave; she sees tears in his eyes; he says he can save him if he agrees to marry him; she agrees; at night she dreams: she must burn the boar's skin; she got up in the morning and burned it; went out of the cave a beautiful young man; he soon inherited the throne, his wife became queen; if they still haven't risen from the throne, they still sit on it]: Wolf 1845, No. 3:16-21; Germans (Pfalz) [a horse stood in the meadow, the rider slept in the saddle; the crow pecked the horse, the rider woke up; when he found out that he had slept for three years, asked how to thank the crow; the crow: give one of the three daughters; only the youngest agreed; for her the crew arrived, the sisters also went; they spied through the keyhole that the youngest was not a crow, but a prince; at the same time the castle was gone, they were under the Christmas tree; the crow told the younger sister to hire a maid in one lock; she was hired, the dishes are dirty, the food is burned; the crow gave a pen, it fulfills a wish; the dishes are glittering, the girl has become beautiful; the gardener wants to spend the night with her; she tells him to close the door and he sticks to the door until morning; the hunter came the next night; the girl told him to take off and put on his boot until morning; on the third night, the footman closed the dovecote door until morning; all three came with Beat the offender with rods, but instead they began to quilt each other; the prince, the princess and the child also got it; a crow appeared, became a prince, he took the girl to him]: Schönwerth 1981:26; Flemish [a previously childless couple has a hedgehog son; he herds pigs, helps three kings (merchants, etc.), who promise him their three daughters; he comes three times to pick up the bride on a rooster; only a third girl agrees to marry him; destroys his appearance, he turns out to be handsome (two other girls commit suicide)]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 441:263; Alsatians [childless spouses they ask for a son, a donkey is born; he asked the musician to teach him to play the lute; when he saw his reflection, he went on a journey with his companion; the king has a daughter; the donkey was allowed in when he played the lute; allowed sit next to the king; with the princess; the king fell in love with him, gave his daughter as his wife; at night the donkey took off his skin and became handsome; the servant saw everything, tells the king to spy himself, throw his skin into the fire; the king's son-in-law remained human, inherited the throne]: Lefftz 2006, No. 5:169-172; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), British, Scots, Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs [the poor man lives by harvesting and selling a thorn for fuel; found nothing, looked for vegetable waste to feed the children, found a pumpkin; put it on a shelf at home; pumpkin in the morning gives gold and orders him to marry the Sultan's daughter; the vizier advises not to execute a person, but to give him an impossible assignment; the sultan demands a palace of gold and gems, the palace arises; a marriage contract imprisoned, a bird flies in to the princess, turns into a young man; forbids the bride to talk about him; one day she goes to a public bath, and the women whisper that her husband is a sparrow; she screams that he is human; the bird comes in, grabs her gold comb and bracelet, flies away; the woman builds another bath where you can wash for free, but you have to tell stories; the old woman went to the river to wash clothes; from the river a rooster comes out, she grabs his tail, he drags her into the underwater world, where the palace; 40 doves turn into female maids, and the prince grieves for his lost wife; the old woman talks about what the owner of the bathhouse saw , brings her herself, the son of the genies recognizes his wife, returns to earth forever in human form]: Stevens 2006, No. 11:45-57; Palestinians [poor infertile woman asks God to give her any son - even though an animal; gave birth to a camel; named Jumail; he grew up and ordered him to marry the Sultan's youngest daughter, Princess Ward; the sultan asks for gold worth her weight for his daughter; D. brought the servants to the cave, they brought there are much more treasures from there; when V. came to her husband, he appeared as a beautiful young man; he is the son of a king of genies; if V. talks about this, she will lose him; enemies attacked, D. defeated them, but his wife she said that the rider was her husband; he was missing; the Sultan built baths where women could not pay but had to tell stories; an old woman told me how she spent the night in a tree; land opened up, the prince and his entourage came out; his wife came and hugged him; witchcraft is destroyed, the prince can live on earth in human form]: Bushnaq 1987:188-193; Syrian Arabs [the woodcutter thinks like him drag a log home, and suddenly sees a camel; loaded it, brought it home; every day the camel brings a golden egg; then tells him to marry the king's daughter; the king demands a bunch of grapes, which never runs out of berries; a carpet that will cover all the streets; a golden castle; everything is fulfilled; the king gave his daughter, at night the camel turns into a young man; tells no one to tell; enemies have attacked, the princess's husband fights at night, smashes them; the king tied his wound with his handkerchief; the princess found out, told everyone, her husband disappeared; the king built baths, the fee was a story of the extraordinary; an old woman told how she spent the night on a tree; the ground opened, the prince came out, holding three apples: one for a dove, one for a dove, one for my wife, who could not keep a secret; his wife came and hugged him; he explained that underground the witch cast a spell: if a woman deceives him, he will remain underground; his wife went underground with him, he passed her off as a maid; the witch tells him to sweep with a broom to which the beads are attached; if alone the bead will be lost, sent back to the ground; the husband collected the fallen beads, attached it back; the witch has a sister in another country; let the girl take the chest to her without opening it; the girl dropped the chest from it snakes and monkeys got out; the husband gathered them back; wants to marry the princess's husband to another woman, and let her dance at the wedding; husband: ask the witch for a lamp and wick; while dancing, the husband threw a lamp at the witch and she burned down; the spell was removed, the princess and her husband returned home]: Abu Risha 2015:30-35; Syrian Arabs [the woodcutter came across a horse's head; she asked her to pick it up; gives jewelry every day; then sends adoptive parents to marry the royal daughter; creates a castle; the bride is frightened at first, but her head talks to her, she likes it; once in bed a young man; he was bewitched, now he has regained human face; new wedding, all is well]: Abu Risha 2015:78-80; Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 425A: 201-202.

Melanesia. San Cristobal (Ugi island near the main island) [a woman finds a short fat snake, brought it home; the snake cries, the woman offers "her son" all kinds of food; when asked, not Does he want a wife, he says what he wants; she and her husband buy the eldest of their two sisters; that snake does not like it, she sticks him in the water with a stick; her parents return her, buy the youngest one; she is good refers to a snake; the snake removes its skin, becomes human, catches fish; each time replies what someone has brought; parents spy, burn the skin; seeing the handsome husband of the younger sister, the eldest asks them even make her a maid, but they refuse; the eldest hangs up]: Coombe 1977:242-244; bilua [after her husband's death, the widow gave birth to a dog son; he asks his mother to marry him the chief's daughter; older sister refuses, the youngest agrees; they go to the site, the dog dives into the sea, sheds his dog skin, becomes handsome; the older sister is jealous; when the youngest is pregnant, the eldest asks her with her husband help in the field, refuses to bring her water, the youngest goes by herself, the eldest pushes her into the water, she drowns; when her wife is dead, her husband also drowns]: Obata 2003:287-320; Banks Islands (Mota Lava) [two The chiefs are friends; one has three daughters and the other has a gecko son; he asks to find a wife for him; the father married the other chief's eldest daughter, but when she saw a gecko on her bed, she ran back to her parents ; the same with the middle; the youngest caressed the gecko; at night he shed the lizard's skin, went and caught fish; the next night his wife watched, burned the skin; the husband felt burned, rushed home, but agreed remain human; older sisters are jealous, killed her youngest husband; then she hanged herself]: http://alex.francois.free.fr/AFtxt_mtp-gecko_e-3lgs.htm.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Palau [the girl became pregnant, gave birth to a breadfruit; her mother asked not to throw it away, leave it as a footrest; when she left, a handsome boy came out of the grown fetus, turned the house into a pond, bathed, then put the water and himself back in the fruit; the old woman notices a mess in the house; hides, catches the boy by surprise, he stays in the house; the chief calls the men to choose a husband daughters, no one is chosen; the old woman comes, (brings?) the fruit of a breadtree; the chief's daughter notices a young man coming out of it; so several times; she sits next to an old woman; other men, out of envy, give the old woman a witchcraft betel; when she treats her daughter chief, her skin is covered with boils; the chief moves her daughter to a special hut; the old woman sends a young man with medicine, who makes the leader's daughter beautiful again; the chief gives her to the young man as his wife]: Mitchell 1973, No. 44: 120-122; Western Samoa [Tafitofau and his wife Ongofau had a serpent; grew up, filled the whole hut; the daughter of a poor woman married him; brought him in a basket to the shore; the serpent became a young man, his wife At first she rejected him, thinking he was not her husband; the couple were happy]: Permyakov 1970, No. 156:389-391; Bellona: Elbert, Monberg 1965, No. 51 [a woman gave birth to a snake; asked Sina to cook for him food basket; S. threw the snake's food, left; the snake's mother cut it into pieces, a man arose from them; S. sent a mouse to find out what the noise was, she came back, said that this man was handsome; S. went to where he was metal darts with her brothers, became his wife; her husband did not allow her to look for insects on half of his head; when he fell asleep, S. saw that there was snakeskin, ran away; the husband woke up to see that S. was not there, threw himself into the sea, became a snake], 51A [about (51)]: 144-145, 146-148; (cf. Losap (Central Carolinas) [gods in heaven are thinking about how to help people; Storm and Typhoon suggest watering the island, but the supreme god objects - many plants will die; Coconut promises to enter into the womb of a woman and be born; she gives birth to a child with one head; he tells his father to bury it; a coconut palm grows; now you can always drink coconut milk]: Mitchel 1973, No. 7:30-32).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans: Parfionovich 1969 [the king's three daughters reject suitors; the old maid's knee is swollen, a frog pops out of the abscess; her husband has agreed to consider him a son; he sends his mother to marry the king's daughter; the king drives her away; the frog comes by himself, threatens to laugh; because of his laughter, the palace begins to collapse; the eldest daughter refuses; the frog cries, the flood begins; the middle daughter refuses; the frog jumps, the ground shudders, the youngest daughter agrees; the frog brought his wife, the hut became a palace; mother and sister realized that he was the son of the dragon king; takes off frog skin for the night; sisters the frog's wife was pushed into the well, the eldest put on her clothes, the frog did not notice the change; a walnut tree grew near the well; the sister tried it - the nuts were bitter, ordered the tree to be cut down and burned, ash scatter across the field; barley grew - sweet for the mother, bitter for his wife, she ordered the grains to be thrown into the water, they became birds, one told her husband about the villainy; the frog kicked out the older sisters]: 98-101; Hyde-Chambers, Hyde-Chambers 1981 [A frog {or rather a large male frog} asks the widow to make him her son; at the bazaar, he jumps on the back of a mule carrying cheese, brings the foster mother's mule; says that goes to bring his wife; finds a suitable girl; when her father, then her mother, tries to refuse him, he "coughs" (thunder breaks the house), cries (water fills everything), laughs (spews fire, the house burns ); every time she receives consent, she restores everything to its original form; brings his wife to the foster mother's house; she says that all people are going to the races; when the women leave, the Frog takes off the frog the skin, turns into a handsome man, wins the races; every time the wife suspects something; on the fifth day she returns earlier, burns her skin; The frog remains in human form, lives with his wife]: 169-186; Tibetans (Amdo) [childless spouses wanted a child; a Frog was born from a tumor on a woman's knee; promised to marry a princess, make his parents rich; makes the king laugh, he is forced promise to give her daughter; of the three princesses, only the youngest agrees; on the wedding day, the Frog sheds his skin, becomes handsome; the king gives the young treasures]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:95; Mustang : Kretschmar 1985, No. 21 [the mother of three daughters is ill; says that only grass and water in a remote part of the valley will heal her; the eldest daughter is coming; there is a dog, she will allow her to take grass and water provided that the girl will marry him; she refuses, leaves with nothing; the same with her middle sister; the youngest agrees, the dog gives grass and water, promises to come in two days; the mother recovers; hides the youngest daughter under a copper cauldron; the dog hits the older sisters, sits on the cauldron, the youngest screams that she is here; he leads her across the lake, across the plain, there's a golden house, then silver, then out of dog crap; girl each time she replies that the house suits her; there is abundance inside the house, and the old woman is the dog's mother; she advises to pretend to be sleeping, wait for her son to take off his dog skin and go to bed, throw the skin in fire; in front of the girl is the young king Kyirken Gambala; he says that the skin was burned too early, there will be problems; when going hunting, he leaves a bunch of keys; the girl opens rooms in the golden palace, there are plenty gold, silver in silver, coral in coral; there is no key from the wooden one; she finds the key on a stick under the ceiling, unlocks the door, behind her is a mother-of-pearl staircase, you can see the whole world from it, she sees her native village, her parents are hungry and sick; the older sister married a blacksmith, the average butcher; she searches for KG in her head, drops a tear, admits that she feels sorry for her parents; they go to them together, give them gifts gifts; older sisters are jealous, the eldest leads the youngest to the lake, asks what she feeds her husband and what her servants are; the youngest guesses, answers incorrectly (my husband has buckwheat and pepper, I throw a plate out the door, to the servants rice with meat, plates on the shelf); the eldest pushes the youngest into the lake, puts on her clothes and jewelry, invites KG to return home; he suspects deception; the imaginary wife is afraid to go across the lake, does not want to enter the house out of dog crap, feeds her husband as servants and servants as husband; a shepherd sees sheep coming to the lake, a bird flies out of the water, asks about the king; the shepherd talks about this to the KG; he goes with him to the lake, brings a bird, puts it in a cage; an imaginary wife kills and cooks poultry, lets her husband eat with rice; he notices that rice contains poultry meat, throws it into the garden; trees grow there; the imaginary wife tells them cut down, split it into firewood; poor old husband and wife, husband went to bring firewood, found a piece of meat, put it in a chest; a few days later a girl came out; after that, the old men became rich; girl gives the old man the ring that was left on her finger when her sister pushed her into the lake; he calls the king and his wife, puts them on golden and turquoise thrones, shows the ring; the king demands his finger to the ring; his wife goes out, his older sister turns into ash; KG: these were the problems I mentioned; the ash was hidden under a black foot; KG made his wife's parents' house his summer residence], 22 [for the poor three daughters; a yellow dog brings a bag of money, asks to keep it until he returns in two or three years; the sisters insist to take this money and buy clothes and jewelry; when they find that there is no money, the dog demands one of the girls as his wife; the older two refuse, the youngest agrees, leaves with the dog; gives birth to two white puppies and a black knot; the dog brings her to a luxurious house where his human sister takes off her skins with herself and her children, becomes king, white puppies become boys, black puppies become a girl; three years later, a woman comes to visit her home; there is poverty, sisters are jealous, they go to the lake with the youngest to wash the lake to wash her hair, drown her, puts on her clothes and jewelry, replies to the king that their younger sister has gone to her parents; they stay in the palace; a tree has grown on the shore of the lake, and the girl has become a bird, says everything to the shepherd, whose sheep lay by the water; he forgets to tell the king; in order not to forget again, he makes ear pendants for himself; the king sees the pendants, the shepherd tells everything; the king comes to the tree the bird is silent; the shepherd advises him to put on his clothes and come unrecognized; this is what happened; the king threw a stone, the bird flew to his right shoulder (a sign that his wife will regain her appearance); the king placed the bird was a chest, the wife left 7 days later; the king sent her sisters to their parents, stayed with his wife and children; the country is flourishing], 23 [the old man and the old woman have 9 goats; a young man came, praised the old people - they live well, they do not starve; in joy, the old woman gave him a goat; he came again, so he received 8 goats; when the old woman was going to give the ninth, the husband began to pull the goat, not wanting to give it back, the tail came off; the old man died, the old woman was about to cook her tail, he turned into a tiny boy, promised to give his grandmother whatever she wanted; the old woman asked for flour; the tail boy brought a bag of flour from the king's palace, asks to open the door; old woman: come in through a hole; boy: I'll go in, but the bag won't fit; a barrel of oil (same); old woman asks for meat; tail boy hid under a pile of manure in the field where yaks grazed; three thieves who came to steal yaks are going to throw stone into the heap; the tail boy tells not to throw, promises to help steal; brought a knife from the king's palace, thieves stabbed a yak and a female yak, the tail boy asks to give he could not carry the bubble again; he puffed it up, began to beat him and shout that he did not steal the royal yaks; the thieves thought that the tail boy had been captured by the king's men, threw the meat and ran away, the tail boy brought meat grandmother; decided to marry a princess; began to scream on the roof of the palace, the king sent his eldest daughter to find out what was going on, she did not see anyone; the middle daughter was the same; the youngest tail boy fell into the hem, demanded from the king to marry her, if he does not let her, I will laugh; king: please laugh; the tail boy laughed, the walls of the palace staggered; cry; a flood of tears flooded the palace, the king promised to give his daughter, but did not give it ; then I will go away; the tail boy has gone, followed by the whole palace; the king advises his daughter to ask the groom to drive the horse, when they reach the desert, she will trample him; but he clung to the horse's chest, safe and sound; the princess had to put up with it; the king calls his daughters to the party, the tail boy tells his wife to stay at home, he will go; he took off his skin, became a beautiful young man; the princess also went, came back earlier, threw her skin into the fire, a piece stuck to her hand; her husband says she burned her skin too early; he left for three years on business, his wife became a beggar during this time; when he returned, they did not recognize each other; then he recognized her only by a piece of skin in the palm of her hand; everything is fine]: 128-137, 138-143, 144-148; lavrung [the woman's knee is swollen, the Frog came out of there, promised his mother to marry the princess; comes to to the palace, dogs bark, princesses do not see anyone; The frog comes in, notices that the youngest is more beautiful and looks friendlier; makes the king give her to him, becoming huge, laughing, screaming, causing a storm, a flood; sends his wife and mother to the races, takes off his frog skin himself, is an excellent rider; next time his wife secretly returns, burns her skin; the husband says that he now falls under the power of a nine-headed demon, blown away by the wind; the wife finds him, the husband says that the demon sleeps when his eyes are open; gives his wife a spear, she pierces the demon's heart; they free the prisoners, return home]: G.yu lha 2011:383-389; Qiang: Jacque 2004 (RgyAlrong) [the son of the king of the Upper Valley dressed in dog skin, disguised as a lousy beggar, came to the well, where the daughters of the king of the lower valley took water; his elders rejected, the youngest did not drive her away, brought her father to work; when she was sleeping, he put a horse embryo between her legs; the girl cried (apparently thought she had a miscarriage); the young man promised not to tell anyone , if she chooses him as husband at the festival; older sisters gave gifts to rich suitors, the youngest to the beggar; the beggar and his wife were driven away without property; on the way they see herds, fields, the husband says that he can be, it will all be them; at home in the form of a handsome man sits on the golden throne]: 483-519; LaPolla, Huang 1996, No. 4 [The serpent demands a man's daughter, threatens to cut off his hand; only the youngest daughter agrees; the Serpent brings her to a pile of stones, crawls away; sends a rooster, a dog, a pig to invite the bride, she does not understand; the old mother Snake goes out by herself, tells her to close her eyes, hold on to her clothes; the girl ends up in the house, together The snake sees a handsome young man, everyone is drinking wine]: 273-274; kirati [the poor old woman went to the forest, there was a serpent in her shoulder basket; she tried to drive him away, kill him, he ordered him to be taken home ; in her absence, someone cooks, she realizes that it is a serpent; he says he will follow the princess's wife; tells me to close his eyes until he climbs to the top of the mountain; the old lady opens her eyes earlier, the serpent is here But she finds herself next to her again; the second time she crawls over the mountain; in the palace she crawls into a mortar, calls the king; only the youngest and most beautiful of the five daughters finds out where the voice comes from; the king refuses to give the snake is the daughter; then he cries - the downpour causes flooding; the king promises but refuses his words; the serpent laughs, the drought affects the kingdom; the king agrees to give the daughter; only the youngest agrees; the king commands on the way, she throw a piece of iron, an iron stick into her head; a snake: why do you throw your spinning rod; a pin; the old woman and the princess liked each other at home; the snake creates a palace; the princess and the old woman go to holiday; decide to return unnoticed; the old woman sees that the serpent has taken off his skin, has become a prince; the princess grabs it, the old woman wants to burn her skin; the prince tells me not to do this; jewelry falls out of the skin, then the courtiers, servants, and people come out; with luxurious gifts, the spouses come to the princess's father; the older sister tries on the younger sister's clothes and jewelry, asks what to give the child if he wants to eat - cow dung; what to do if he gets dirty - call the dog; persuades the father to stay and her husband to leave; he realizes that his wife will be killed but cannot do anything; older sister accompanies the youngest in waterless terrain; by the lake she rushes to drink, the eldest drowns her; in her guise comes home; the old woman understood the deception only when the imaginary daughter-in-law gave the child manure, etc.; the husband went to lake, caught, burned his wife's corpse; a bird comes from the lake, turns to the baby; the husband realizes that this is a transformed wife; the next day he caught her with bird glue, put her in a cage; imaginary the wife killed and fried the bird, said she fed her son; the husband killed the child, locked himself in his room, began to conjure; opened the chest with his wife and son alive in it; sent the liar to her father]: Heunemann 1980, No. 1:19-33; Bhutan [the old man's knee is swollen; the old woman to push her leg aside, the old man only moans; she hit her knee with a ladle, a frog jumped out of the tumor; tells her not to kill her: she will bring her daughter-in-law into the house; comes to the king; the eldest, middle daughter does not notice anyone, the youngest says that a frog has come; the frog: if you disagree, I will cry; the king: crying; two streams poured out of the frog's eyes, washing everything away; the king I agree to give my daughter; but the daughters do not agree; the frog laughs, the palace is trembling; the elders are ready to marry a bear or a leopard as soon as possible; the youngest Phurzamo agrees; soon noticed that the husband takes off his skin and does handsome; he warns the skin not to destroy, but to go around, shaking it; in the morning there is a palace, servants, fields, herds, treasures; sister Ph. came, took her to swim, tried to push Ph. into lake; says it was not her, but her finger; ate it, she was a demon; then she pushed and put on her clothes and jewelry; the husband did not understand the deception, only the son understood and cried; a bamboo stalk rose from the lake; a peasant hears a bird sitting on him asking what her son's demoness is feeding; a peasant: she gives ash to the child and rice to the king; after that, the bird disappeared into the water; the peasant told the king; he disguised himself as a peasant, came to the lake; king to the bird: if you are my wife, fly here; brought it to the palace, put it in a golden cage; the liar ate the bird, the king found the bone, and ordered it to be wrapped in silk; the bundle placed in the vessel grew, the wife was reborn; the demoness was defeated]: Choden 1994:93-98; toto [the old men sowed pumpkins, but only grew up alone; when the old woman was about to cut it, the pumpkin's voice was made of : grandmother, don't do this, I will help you; Pumpkin (Pagrusche, P.) grew a lot of pumpkins; went to marry the princess; the elders laughed, the youngest agreed; when she saw the ripe mangoes, she asked P. for them pick it; he climbed a tree, threw off the mango, then rushed down himself; a beautiful young man came out of the split pumpkin; his wife gave birth to him a son; the older sisters are jealous; the eldest came to P.'s wife, called swim, pushed her into the water, put on her clothes; but the baby did not recognize the imaginary mother, cries; at dawn, the drowned soul came to the child and fed him; P. realized that his wife had been replaced, returned the real {not it is said how}; asked the imaginary woman to dig a hole to plant an arek palm tree; buried the liar up to her neck, showed her sister, cut off her head with a sword; P. and his wife have many children]: Majumdar 1991, No. 10:231-236; Meitei [(without details); the widow has a son with a huge head and a small body; his name is Makok ("head"); his mother's brothers took him on a trade expedition; when everyone was sleeping in the boat, thieves stole goods; M. did he slept and noticed that the leader of the robbers had dropped the magic ring that fulfilled his wishes; when he returned, M. ordered his mother to go to the king and ask the princess to marry; the king gives impossible tasks, M. does everything, gets the princess]: Oinam et al. s.a.; meitei [the frog invites the widow to take her son; tells the adoptive mother to marry the princess; the first time the king sent her away, the second time ordered her to be beaten, and the third sets the condition: to build a palace with a roof of flowers and fruits by morning, a wall of gold and silver from the palace, hundreds of servants in the palace; the frog groom does everything, gets a wife; she dreams that a prince is next to her; in the morning she sees frog skin, burns it; the couple is happy, many children]: Oinam et al. s.a.; lepcha [the old woman asks her husband how many goats they have; he calls fewer and fewer goats each time; goats eat leopard; the old man wants to slaughter the last one, the old woman only has a severed tail; she puts it in a box; the tail asks the old man not to eat it; fills the vessels with water, brings firewood; goes to kill three king buffaloes; on the way hides from the sun under a mushroom hat; Prince of Sunrise and Prince of Call shoot a mushroom, Tail screams, they all three go to kill buffaloes; princes carry dead buffaloes, Tail is a bubble with blood; warns princes to run away if he screams (which means danger); he screams when they are near his house; calls the king to a feast; after the feast, he notices the heads of his own buffaloes; The tail explains that he wanted to teach the king generosity; the king agrees not to demand the buffaloes back and give Tail his daughter if he can steal the jewelry from his box; the guards sleep at night; the tail replaced dogs with sheep, bows with sticks; the king hands the box to the queen, goes to bed; in the dark, the tail, disguised as a king, takes the box back; gets the princess; unrecognized three times in the guise of a handsome man comes to the dance; the wife suspects the truth; finds a tail (empty shell), throws it into the fire; the husband runs in, says that the wife was in a hurry, tells me to scatter the leftovers, they turn into gold, people, cattle; The tail is made equal to the king]: Stocks 1925, № XXIII: 383-387; kachin [six Raja wives give birth to boys, seventh turtle; Raja settles this wife in a hut outside the village; brothers sail in a boat trade, the Turtle with them, dives to the bottom, finds gold, hides under its shell; taking out the flute from under its shell, plays, the trees converge to listen, since then they have grown along the river; the turtle asks the mother to marry He is a Raja's daughter; he demands to bring a boat made of gold and diamonds in two days; the turtle gives the master hidden jewelry, sails in a boat, turns into a young man]: Elwin 1958b, No. 30:140-142.

Burma - Indochina. Shany: Griggs 1902 [childless Myeh Khit addresses the spirit lord Sa Kyah; gives birth to a frog son who through; UK promised that in a year and 7 months he will be a handsome young man; king has 7 daughters, the youngest is unmarried; he agrees to give her for a frog if there is a road from the market to the palace in 7 days; the frog comes to the UK, who sent spirits to build a road; the king gives his daughter, but sends live in the frog mother's hut; the frog wife cries because she cannot go with such a husband to the party; the UK sends two shining spirits, people bring them gifts, but they reject the gifts of older sisters who They spoke contemptuously of the youngest; in the morning, the frog's wife says that those two spirits were her and her husband; at the boat race, the son of the UK appeared in all his splendor; everyone admired him ever since honor the son of SK Sau Maha Khit]: 8-18; Milne 1910 [(translated into Kornev 1963:67-70); a woman gave birth to a son who is one head; when he is 16-17 years old, he asks his mother to marry the king's daughter; he orders that through For 5 days, there was a tree with silk leaves, gold and silver fruits, giving royal food, otherwise executes; a tree appears; only the youngest of the 7 princesses agrees to take her head as a husband; in her palace the head is handsome to his wife; is incognito on a holiday on a flying horse; Sakya orders to send a messenger to him in 7 days; only the younger princess's husband carries out an assignment; now all the elders sisters would like to marry him]: 254-257; lao [the childless queen of Chanthevi finally gave birth, but not a child, but a golden snail; the king drove her away; she settled with the elderly; someone is cleaning the house; C. watched the handsome young man Sang Thooong come out of the snail; she broke the shell, the ST remained human; the vizier persuaded the king to kill him; his sword did not take him, he was drowned with a stone tied to his neck; The river lord entrusted him to the care of beautiful Phanthurak, not knowing that she was an evil witch; P. tells ST not to look into one room; ST looked, there were human bones, jugs of gold and silver water ; he put his finger in a jug, his finger turned gold, he tied it with a rag; there were also clothes, shoes, and a spear in that room that gave strength and allowed him to fly; the next time the ST fell completely in water and flew away, and P. died after scratching spells; whoever reads them will understand the language of birds and animals; ST returned, read, arrived in another principality, began to live under the guise of an ugly beggar Chau Ngo; the prince summons men to give Rochana, the youngest of seven daughters; she sees ST in his true form and puts on a wreath; the prince drives them away; tells all sons-in-law to hunt, those who return without prey will be executed; ST convenes animals, gives elder sons-in-law a beast, for which everyone cut their nostril; the same is to fish (everyone cut off the edge of the ear); enemies attacked, ST smashes them, appears in their appearance, gains rule in the principality, and then the throne of the king father, who returns the expelled wife]: Nikulin 1988:377-385; Khampti [elderly spouses ask for a child from a sacred tree; the wife gives birth to a turtle, it eats a lot; the turtle son The name Ailung asks for two swords, becomes an elephant on the site, swords are tusks, brings down all the trees; left one beautiful one; the spirit lived there, sent his children at night, they restored vegetation; the next day, A. threatens to cut down all the trees; to prevent him from doing this, the spirits do all the field work, bring A.'s parents ready-made rice; since then, people honor these spirits; A. goes to the forest, becomes first elephant]: Elwin 1958b, No. 25:426-428; Burmese: Aun 1957:74-77 [older sister gives birth to a handsome man, younger sister gives birth to a turtle; he is given the name Golden Turtle (ZC); the turtle's brother becomes a merchant, ZC hides on his ship; on the island of women, sailors marry them without knowing that they are cannibals; ZC overheard plans to eat three sailors, found out where the casket in which the lives of cannibals are, the precious ruby, wish-fulfilling drum; breaks the casket, cannibal pursuers drown; turtle's brother marries a princess, gets the throne; with the help of a drum, ZF is transported home to his mother; wants to marry; ZC builds golden and silver bridges, smashes enemies; the princess throws her shell into the fire, pours water on her husband, he remains human], 77-79 [a woman has a son, he only has a head; asks to give it to a merchant ( he shows him for money), sell it to someone else's ship (it blows into the sails in the calm), leave cannibal giants on the island (they give him rubies and knowledge of the magic word); the ship arrives, the Head asks take him to the king, marries the princess; summons horsemen from the snuffbox, the king is forced to give his daughter; after the wedding he turns handsome], 79-81 [the queen gives birth to an egg, it is thrown into the river, the queen is sent serve the gardener; the egg is found by the Cannibal, a boy is born from it, considers the Cannibal a son; she does not tell you to go up the tower, go down to the underground, walk in the kitchen; a tied old man on the tower explains that the boy is not the son of the Cannibal; in the underground, the boy finds the remains of people; takes three pills in the kitchen; runs away; the Cannibal pursues, the abandoned pills turn into a forest, seven mountains, a sea of fire ( The cannibal burns); the boy shares rice with Nat, who takes the image of a man, brings the boy home; the queen is returned, the boy is declared heir, Natu is built a temple]; Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 72 [ a childless woman finds an egg, a turtle hatches, a woman holds her for her son; the king orders to get birds - gold and silver; the turtle sends his mother to say he will do it; turns into handsome men, comes to the Dragon Queen, the mistress of the birds; she shows four types of leaves that, if thrown, turn into fire, water, hurricane, mountains; the prince flees, taking birds and leaves; the queen pursues the prince throws leaves, creating obstacles, escapes; becoming a turtle again, gives the mother birds and tells him to ask for a princess; only the youngest seventh daughter agrees; the prince came to the wedding in disguise man, older princesses are envious]: 220-224 (=Nikulin 1988:463-468); Arakan people [after living many lives in heaven, the celestial is punished: he must live as a snake on a fig tree for three months; with a laundress and his wife has daughters Shwê Kyên and Dwê Pyâ; his mother washed under a fig tree, jokingly said: I will give the DP if you throw off my figs; the snake called them to their house; at the fork she regretted her in words, asked the stump to be silent, gave him a fig; the same with the anthill; the stump answered the snake that he had not seen anything, but the serpent saw a fig and understood everything, had to say; the same anthill; the serpent wrapped around the woman's hand, the mother told DP to go with the snake; one day the zmnya was summoned to a meeting of the gods; the wife found empty skin, decided that her husband was dead; in order not to make a fuss, the skin was burned; the serpent appeared when it felt the fire; remained human; the Virgin herself gave the former snake a wand that fulfilled his wishes; warned that snake blood should not touch him, otherwise he would become a snake again; the HK became jealous of DP, pushed him into the river and took her place; she was caught and brought to the nest by an eagle, where she gave birth to a son; the snake prince heard voices, took his wife and child, giving the eagle a lot of fish for it; put his wife in a chest and gave it to meet her imaginary wife; when she opened it, the HK was disgraced; asked her father to get a snake as her husband; in bed, the boa constrictor began to swallow the HK; the father refused to help; DP begged the prince to kill the boa constrictor, he cut it, but a drop of blood fell on him, he became a snake himself and crawled into the forest; DP followed him; {"to be continued", but he is not in the next issue}]: Houghton 1893b, No. 1:98-102; viets: Bystrov et al. 1962 [Tu Khoi's maid found a gold button on the floor; swallowed it for fear that she would be accused of stealing; gave birth to a turtle son, the owner drove her away; the landowner sends the Turtle to herd buffaloes, they multiply; only the landowner's youngest daughter treats him well; while buffaloes graze, he flies, falls, turns into a young man; tells the mother to marry the landowner's youngest daughter; he demands a horse with nine manes, a rooster with nine spurs, bamboo vessels filled with grasshopper fat; the turtle does everything, gets a wife; sisters spy, see a handsome man, ask his father and pass them off as turtles; they are only scratched; they kill the Turtle; he manages to give the bloody shirt to his wife, tells him to wear it to meet in heaven; sees the snake and fox fight, regain strength by touching the tree; the girl collects his bark, revives the deceased in a neighboring village, he turns out to be her husband; everything is fine; the sun has descended to incinerate the treacherous sisters, since then it has been especially hot on June 22]: 81-86; Karpov, Tkachev 1958 [In the forest, an elderly childless peasant woman finds a skull, drinks water from it, gives birth to a shaggy ball-shaped creature Shaw Zya ("Coconut"); SHZ works well; the youngest of three daughters of a rich man hears a game on the flute, peeks, sees how the ShZ has become a beautiful young man; the ShZ asks his mother to marry him, the youngest daughter agrees; her father tells me to get rich gifts, build a luxurious house; everything is done, At the wedding, the SHZ turns into a young man; becomes an official; when leaving, leaves his wife a knife, two chicken eggs, flint; sisters sink the boat with his wife ShZ, she is swallowed by a sea monster; a woman cuts the throw from the inside, goes ashore; fires in the forest; eggs give birth to a chicken and a rooster; an SHZ boat sails along the river, a rooster reports it; the SHZ brings his wife home, her sisters disappear somewhere]: 112-125; sedang [ a woman gives birth to a son who looks like a pumpkin, his name is Zha; he is hired by an elder; he guards rice from birds, grazes buffaloes, prepares firewood, clears a vast field; the elder's seven daughters return When she meets a tiger; the youngest brings J. Fig; sees a beautiful young man and lumberjack assistants come out of the shell; marries J., the father drives the couple away; J. creates a new village; the girl's mother comes glad to see her; the elder turns into a tiger, devours her cattle, runs away to the forest]: Nikulin 1970a: 201-205; thai [an elderly widow dreams of her dead husband, gives birth to a bag; he tells me to bring him 333 rusty knives, turns them into servants, clears a huge field, grows rice on it; the king throws the bag into boiling water, the cauldron overturns on the king, the bag turns into a young man, who reigns]: Nikulin 1970a : 343-346; ahem: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 9 [the wife is 7 years pregnant, gives birth to a turtle son; he promises to build a vegetable garden; 50 workers on each side of the paw; a bitter pumpkin grows; he asks his mother to marry him with pumpkin; the older sister refuses, the youngest agrees; her father kicks the pumpkin with contempt, but gold and silver are inside; the wife spies on her husband weeds flying, sees a hundred workers on the field; sees the shell removed, grabs it, throws it into the fire; when she sees her son returning from the field handsome on horseback, accompanied by servants, the mother fell and died]: 56-60 ; 1978, No. 12 [a woman gave birth to a turtle son; he tells her to leave him in her bag where she would like to have her own field; there was a storm at night, the forest fell down on the site of the field in the morning; the same with the burning of vegetation; son orders to sow only melons and pumpkins; they are ripe, they have been harvested; the son orders to marry the ruler's daughter, take only melons and pumpkins as a gift; the ruler kicked out the woman, she dropped her burden, the melons broke, became gold, pumpkins in silver; the same for the second time, but the third time, the ruler sees melons turn into gold; tells the Turtle to build a water pipeline and a road made of gold and silver from the palace to the woman's house; the task is completed, the Turtle gets a wife; everyone goes to the market, the Turtle tells his wife to go too; he crawls out of the shell, rides there on horseback; the Turtle's wife admires the stranger; the same for the second time; the third time a woman returns, finds an empty shell, burns it; the ruler's son-in-law remains human, lived happily with his wife]: 103-107; tyamy [the lumberjack's daughter swam in a forest spring, gave birth a son without arms and legs, who looks like a coconut; he asks his mother to give him to the king as a shepherd, does not lose a single buffalo; the king asks to cut vines, then stakes for the palace fence; the younger princess spies, sees how the Coconut sheds its shell, turns into a handsome man; servants and animals obey him; other princesses do not want to bring dinner to the Coconut; the younger princess marries him married; the elders spy, see the young man; the wife hides her shell; the sisters drop the bracelet given to her by her husband into the sea, she rushes after him, drowns; in fact, she hides in the sink; the poor pick up the sink spouses; wonder who is cleaning their house; catch her by surprise; sell her woven hats; husband recognizes them, finds his wife; reigns after the death of her father-in-law]: Landes 1887, No. 1:9-33 (Russian translation in Nikulin 1970:138-155); Khmer [spouses have been childless for a long time; wife gives birth to a pig; he grows up asking for a bride; parents are confused, he goes to look for her himself; helps a poor woman collect yam; lives in her house; she has two daughters, the eldest refuses to marry the hog, the youngest agrees; half a month later the wife goes to watch a show of visiting dancers; Borov, becoming human, comes before her, performs together with the dancers; when she returns, the wife is surprised that her husband knows about the handsome man; the same the next evening; on the third evening, the wife sees that she is leaving, hiding, grabbing pigskin; the husband asks to hide it away; chosen by king; opens to parents; tells to call the last year of the 12-year cycle the year of the pig]: Foshko 1981, No. 19:69-76; palaung [childless king asks wives to fast; seventh gets pregnant, but gives birth to a shell with a snail; it is thrown into the river, the billy spouses (forest cannibals) catch it, it does not climb into any pot, the beaters forget about it, the snail turns into a young man; he cleans, cooks in the house; beaters wait, catch a young man, ask him to be a son; one day a young man sees the bones of people eaten by beaters; finds clothes and shoes that give him the appearance of a bilu while they are wearing him; flies to a ceremony where the king's daughter chooses her husband; her garland falls on a young man; the king gives her for him, they live in a hut; the young man reveals his appearance to his wife; after the king's death, he reigns]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 137:312-316.

South Asia. Ancient India: Temkin, Erman 1982, No. 6 [Shatapatha Brahman; Indra is Aditya's seventh son, Vivasvat eighth; he was without arms, without legs, like a ball; his brothers cut off everything unnecessary from him, so they created the first man, the ancestor of mortals; later V. became the sun of Surya, an elephant appeared from the cut off pieces; Tvashtar married V. his daughter Saranya against her will; she gave birth to twins Yam and Yami; left her husband her image, in the guise of a mare with a fire-breathing mouth, went north; the image of S. gave birth to V. Manu, all people come from him]: 23; Toporov 1982d [Shatapatha Brahman, Markandeya Purana, Mahabharata and other sources: Aditi, daughter of Daksha, gave birth to seven Aditi sons, the last of which was Indra; sometimes gives birth to an eighth son named Martanda - without arms and legs like a ball; A. leaves him, then brings him home; his older brothers cut off everything unnecessary; it is assumed that after that he became by the sun]: 120-121; Syrkin 1962 [Panchatantra; the girl, with the consent of others, married a snake; at night he turned into a man, explained that he was a real husband; the Serpent's father, a brahman, threw the snake's body into the fire, in the morning he showed his son to people]: 175-176; Punjabi [a childless woman laments that there is no one to take her husband to the field lunch; the watermelon in the corner promises to carry; rolled to her father, carrying a bundle of lunch; plows instead of her father, but falls into the manure; a woman comes to collect manure, says that the raja took the bulls; the watermelon goes to the raja, meets, companions an ant, a panther, a tiger; the Raja throws a watermelon to the goats, that tells the panther to bite them; the same to the bulls, the tiger bit to death; the elephant - the ant climbed into the trunk, the elephant died; the Raja returned the bulls]: Bystrov et al. 1962:168-171; Nepalis [a childless woman dreams of a son; the pumpkin in the garden promises to be a son; tells the Raja's daughter to be married; the Raja asks the daughters whose mind they live with; the youngest Kanchi replies that Raja promises to pass her off as the first person to come to her in the morning palace; a pumpkin comes, the Raja gives him his daughter without a dowry; the pumpkin climbs a tree for fruit, fell, split, turned handsome; the sisters became jealous, the Raja gave K. half the kingdom]: Bystrov et al. 1962:168-171; Marathi: Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [Indra sent Shiva a dancer, but Indra's son took her for himself; I. told his son to go to earth and be a donkey; Shiva: Let the donkey settle in the daytime, the man at night, and when a son marries and is born, the spell will be abolished; the donkey went to the potter's house, ordered the royal daughter to be married to him; the king demanded a copper fortress with a silver gate; the fortress is ready, the donkey received the princess, she is happy; her mother peeked and ordered her donkey to be burned; Indra's son returned to heaven, telling his wife to leave; the city was destroyed by fire and water, and later the city of Cambey appeared on this site]: 146-148; Frere 1868, No. 19 [the raja was brought fish, one fish is alive, the childless wound began to take care of it, keeps it in increasingly large vessels, then in the pond; the fish is the turned prince; he asks Rani to marry him; no one agrees; the fakir's new wife wants to get rid of her stepdaughter, is ready to give her away, sends her to wash the sari; the seven-headed cobra gives her three pebbles to throw in the fish when she comes out of the river in wedding night; the fish turns into a prince; the stepmother wants to replace her with her daughter; when the prince's wife comes to visit her father, the stepmother's own daughter asks for her to try on jewelry, pushes her into the water; the seven-headed cobra saves her; on the third day, the prince notices a change, drives away the false wife, her mother hides; in the cobra's house, the real wife gave birth to a son; he grew up, always breaking the bells they give him , the seller of bells sells them, gets rich; tells the prince; he takes his wife and son, everyone is happy]: 238-248; Varley [the father of seven daughters went to the forest for leaves, cannot raise an armful, the daughter promises to someone who will help; the crab helps, demands the girl, the youngest agrees, others say that crabs are eaten, not taken as husbands; the crab invites the bride to climb into its hole, she finds herself in in a wealthy house, the husband is handsome; to convince his wife's sisters that he was a crab, the husband turns into a crab and then back into a human]: Satyawadi 2010:38-41; South India (ethnicity is not a decree.) [when she sees a tigress in the forest, the wife of a childless Raja asks that she even have a tiger cub; this is what happened; the tiger cub grows up and asks him to marry; the vizier brings the oldest daughter of the inn hostess, a tiger tore her to pieces; the vizier asks the youngest; Shiva and Parvati ask why she is crying, she complains that the tiger is tearing her to pieces; they give her yellow flowers (Cassia occidentalis), a bowl of water, a handful of sand; if sprinkle the groom, hang the garland around his neck, he will become human; take off the garland again with a tiger; everyone is happy; a relative asks Tiger's wife to give her jewelry, pushes her into a well; she falls on a snake, who has an abscess around his neck, an abscess bursts, a happy serpent brings Tiger's wife to his wife in the snake kingdom; there she gives birth to a son; a liar replaces Tiger's wife, also gives birth to a son; a bracelet seller walks past the well, Tiger's wife from the well asks to sell her bracelets; the seller hears a song by a woman's son, in which he calls himself the son of the Tiger Prince; selling bracelets to a liar, hears her addresses his son in the manner of underborn; the Tiger Prince hears everything, replaces the salesman at the well, grabs his wife; the Serpent agrees to let her go if she gives names to the snakes his wife will give birth to; she gives names, but calls the youngest short-headed; for this he decides to bite her, hides, but finds out that this is the name of her own son; everyone is happy, the liar is executed]: Crooke 1902:79-83; Assames : Goswami 1960:86 [a man was fishing, caught a frog, brought it home; it asks it not to kill, promises to be a grandson; goes to plow on a pair of oxen; a king appears with his men, takes away oxen, a frog hides under clods of earth; when the frog returns home, offers everyone roasted grain; mosquitoes, wasps, wild animals fly and follow her to the king's palace; he asks for mercy, gives the frog a daughter and half a kingdom], 91- 93 [two wives, the eldest lover, both have daughters; Champavati is the youngest's daughter; a voice answers her from the forest; her father promises to pass her off as someone in the forest; this is a boa constrictor; the next morning after the wedding, C. returns from with lots of jewelry; the eldest wife tells her husband to pass her daughter off as a boa constrictor; at night he swallowed the bride; the father and stepmother want to kill C., but the boa constrictor swallowed them too, took the wife and her mother to their palace; the mother died, the beggar persuaded C. to burn snakeskin; the husband feels the fire, but C. rubbed it with oil; then the beggar persuades her to ask her husband to open his mouth wide: she will see the whole world there; husband: do you want me or peace ? C.: the world; she sees the world, but her husband leaves her for 6 years; that beggar is the servant of his demonic mother; his ring will protect C.; the demoness sends C. to another demoness with a letter asking him to kill C.; the son killed demonic mother]; Oraons [the old woman finds a crab in the pumpkin, considers her son, takes him a wife; she disgust the crab, she goes dancing; the Crab tells the tree to bend down, takes out its human the image, puts crabs instead of him; at the dance, Crab's wife falls in love with an unfamiliar young man, gives him her jewelry; at home, the Crab in the form of a crab shows them to her; next time she watches the Crab, asks the tree bends down, burns the crab shell; the crab boy does not find his wife dancing, finds her at home; they live happily]: Elwin 1944, No. 4.1:134-135; muria [crab eats rice shoots, man catches a crab, he asks him to adopt; the Raja calls everyone to work in his daughter's field; the crab asks his mother to send him and he, turns into a young man, works well; the princess brings him food; when the Raja calls grooms, the princess hangs a garland on the crab; at night he turns into a young man, rides horses; the Raja spies, tells his daughter to burn the crab shell, essa hangs a garland on the crab; at night he turns into a young man, rides horses; Raja podsm gives half his kingdom to his son-in-law]: Elwin 1944, No. 2:136-138 (translated into Zograf 1971, No. 31:135-137); Agaria [the Raja has seven wives, each with a son; Raja She takes another one, she gives birth to a boy with the face of a mongoose; the Raja drives her away to the field of crows; dreams of a silver pole with golden flowers; seven brothers go to look for him, drive her youngest wife's son away; but only he kills Koeli Nag, the snake, the master of the lower world; goes down the cobra hole, marries Naga's three daughters; they dance, he kills them, turns them into a silver pole with golden leaves, again revives; does the same at home in front of his father; reigns; since then there has been gold and silver on earth]: Elwin 1949, No. 1:119-120; Santals: Bodding 1929, No. 80 [the king's eldest wife has 6 sons, the youngest mongoose son; father gives sons money to trade; Mongoose does not buy horses, but donkeys, but profitably; brothers burn his house; he fills the bag with ash, carries him to sell, sleeps under a tree, tells those who come up merchants cannot take his bag of gold; merchants replace the bag with their own, Mongoose brings his mother, there are rice and money; brothers burn their houses, cannot sell ash; they kill Mongoose's mother; he leaves the corpse by the road, merchants run over him, believe they ran over a woman, give buffaloes, Mongoose tells his brothers he bought them by selling the corpse; they kill their wives, they cannot sell the corpses; Mongoose feeds the donkey rupees, collects them from his manure; brothers hit their horses in the ass with hammers, they die; brothers put Mongoose in a palanquin to drown in the Ganges; he tells a passerby that they want to marry him; a passer-by occupies him place, drowned; seeing Mongoose alive, the brothers ask him to drown them; Mongoose reigns]: 145-173; Bompas 1909, No. 43 [6 brothers are married, the youngest seventh sees their wives climbing a banyan tree in the absence of their husbands, they fly away on it to devour people and commit atrocities; when they return, the witches notice the young man, pierce two needles into his feet, turning him into a dog; the king's three daughters reject the suitors; he allows them to choose for themselves husbands; each ties a thread to her husband (the eldest is white, the middle is red, the youngest is blue); flies with white and red threads sit on men, the blue one on the dog; the younger princess agrees to marry the dog, notices the needles, pulls it out, the dog turns into a young man; the young brothers push the witch wives into a well, cover them with earth]: 281-284; Campbell 1891 [the youngest of seven brothers planted a vegetable, the fruit became the size of an inch; he warned the wives of his older brothers that the one who ate him would give birth to an inch tall boy (bitaram); one ate; Bitaram took lunch to his uncles in the field, woke up almost everything; drove their cattle to the watering hole, they they trampled him in the sand; the water washed him away; on his way back at night, he ran into thieves, frightened them (they thought the spirit was talking to them), hid the gold; sent his father and uncle to pick up the gold; the Raja looked for thieves , they saw gold near B.'s house, his father and uncle were put in prison; B. told his mother to give him a basket, beg for a cat, pour flour into a bag; made a saddle out of a bag of flour, rode a cat, told the bees go to another basket; Raja ordered B. to be shot, no one hit; B. released the bees, the Raja had to give her daughter and wealth; B.'s wife had a cow as a source of wealth; Raja's servants killed her but did not find her inside gold; B. dried his skin, climbed a tree, dropped his skin on the thieves, they ran away, left the gold; B. asked the Raja to measure the gold, it stuck a little; B. explained that he sold the skin; Raja ordered the cattle were slaughtered, but no one bought the skins; ordered B.'s house to be burned; B. hid in a hole; collected the ash in bags, told the merchant that they contained gold; the merchant exchanged it for bags of golden sand; B. took a measure from the Raja again; said he sold ash; the Raja burned down the palace, but no one wanted ash; B. was carried to drown in a bag; the guards went away; B. told the shepherd that he was being forced to marry; the shepherd got into the bag, drowned; B. brought the herd; the Raja and his associates sat in bags, B. drowned them; he inherited the whole kingdom]: 25-33; ho [7 Raja daughters bathe in a pond, hide dirt from their skin in a hole in the ground; a tree grows there; the elder princess promises to marry someone who guesses what the tree grew out of; the poor sick shepherd watched the sisters, got a wife; at night she sheds her skin, becomes handsome, goes to dance in front in the court of the Raja; the maid sees this, tells the mistress, she throws her skin into the fire, but she has time to burn; the husband remains handsome, but continues to go out only at night, for his body radiates dazzling light; the Raja went to see, lost consciousness, but his son-in-law revived him and then stopped shining like this; moved with his wife to the palace, became an heir]: Bompas 1909:474-475; kannada [king and minister asked Shiva to give them children; the wives became pregnant; the king and the minister agreed to marry children if one had a boy and the other had a girl; the minister's wife gave birth to a girl and Rani a turtle; when the son - the turtle grew up, he told his father to marry him the minister's daughter; the daughter agrees, but let the groom bring her the parijata heavenly flower; the turtle ordered him to take him to the sea, swam to the mountains, turned to the Sun, became young men; the sun said that in his past life the turtle was a prince and, out of mischief, threw a turtle at the hermit; but immediately repented; so the hermit told him to remain a turtle in his new life until then until he turns to the Sun in the same place; now the prince has gone to look for a flower; the first hermit refers to his guru, he refers to his own; this one has indicated the lake where heavenly maidens come to swim; it is necessary grab one sari and run without looking back at Ganesha's temple; the prince did so; returned the sari to the maiden, and she brought a flower from heaven; they met; she gave the prince a flute to summon her when necessary; one of the hermits offered to change the flute to a stick that makes you give anything; the prince changed and then told the wand to take the flute back; the prince took the bag from the second hermit in the same way , where everything goes, if you order, and the third has speeding sandals; the prince returned in the form of a turtle and gave a flower; the minister's two eldest daughters married normal men, the youngest married a turtle; sons-in-law go hunting; the turtle was also put on an oath; left alone, he turned into a prince; older sons-in-law ran away from the tigers; the prince killed the tigers, gave them to his sons-in-law, for which he cut off their mustache on their left; at night, the prince slept with his wife in his true form; in the morning he appeared to people, showed his severed mustache; the king handed him the throne]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 71:193-198; the Tamils [the childless king removed his wife, took a new one; converted To the god Paramêsvara, he gave the mango, told him to give it to his wife; the new one drank the juice, threw it away, gave birth to two boys; the maid heard everything, gave the seed to the first wife; she swallowed it, and gave it to the maid as well; the maid also gave birth to a boy, and the first wife gave birth to a turtle; at night, the son leaves the shell and eats cooked food; the mother traced and broke the shell; the son explained that he could not appear in in true form, tells him to smear it with soot, keep it in a chest; P. sends Narada to give the Turtle Prince (IF) the knowledge necessary for life and reign; the king tells his sons (he knows only two, from second wife) to bring him a princess from the mountains in the north; the HR accompanies them under the guise of a peasant; they drink from the river, and the HR knows that this is the water the princess used to wash; he carried himself across the river without soaking legs, and then carried the princes; the princess sees everything, marries the HR; he tells his wife everything, asks him to look for him if he does not return in 4 weeks; elsewhere, the princess's messenger gives a cake and asks for him back with wood, leaves and oil; the IF pulls out and gives the sesame stem; it was a test, the princess marries the PC (the same as the first princess); the third princess lets travelers write commentary on the philosophical book; PSH writes, gets the princess, the brothers leave without him; the princess teaches the PSH to grab the vine, she will raise her to the top to the mountain princess, she should be called the mother; PS led mountain princess, returned for a forgotten weapon, the brothers cut off the vine, it fell and crashed; the brothers bring the princess to the king, she asks to postpone the wedding for six months; three wives find the remains of the PS, one of them collects, the other connects, the third revives them with living water; he brings them to his mother; to find out if PS has come to life, the mountain princess demands a golden lotus from the king from across the sea (only PS can get it); PSH , still in the form of a peasant in soot, promises the brothers to get a lotus; the third wife gives pebbles: if you throw it into the sea, the waters will part and close behind (so overcome the 7 seas); gave a note, PS gave her Rakshasa, that king, the king tore off the lotus, sent the crocodile to carry the PS, the PS brought it to his third wife, the lotus was given to the brothers, the mountain princess understood everything; orders the king's first wife, PSH and him, to be invited to the wedding three wives; PSH appears regal; the mountain princess tells everything; princes are forgiven]: Natesa Sastri 1886:54-78; Tamils [Raja and the Minister agreed: if one has a son and the other daughter, they will get married; the minister has a daughter, and Raja has a turtle son; he asks to marry him the minister's daughter; he demands to get a flower growing in a holy city across the seven seas; the turtle son asks let him go to sea, stops in front of Surya (the sun)'s chariot; asks why he became a turtle; Surya: You once put a turtle in the hand of a meditated hermit; agrees remove the spell; about the flower, he advises to contact the sage who opens his eyes once to the guard (watch); he sends guards to the eye-opener every two; he opens his eyes every three guards; last; only 7 heavenly maidens Cannimar can give a flower; you have to steal one's clothes and run to the temple without looking back; in the temple, return your clothes for promising to get a flower; the prince did so; the maidens are amazed with the beauty of the prince, they brought a flower and let the pipe call them if necessary; the third wise man persuaded him to give him a pipe in exchange for a stick that defeats all enemies; the prince killed the sage with this stick and took possession of both items; the same with the second sage, the prince took his bag that could fit everything at will; the same with the first (sandals that carry anywhere); the prince returned home, putting it back on turtle shell; meanwhile, the other 4 daughters of ministers got married; these sons-in-law go hunting, do not want to take a turtle; he took on his sunny appearance, created a pond with clean water, let his sons-in-law eat in exchange for their rings; enemies attacked, the sunny prince defeated them; demanded that the sons-in-law cut off their index fingers and give them to him; the wife saw her husband remove his turtle shell while swimming, burned her shell; at the wedding, Cannimar danced to the sound of their pipe; the prince gave their son-in-law their rings]: Blackburn 2005, No. 89; Tamils [the fisherman has 7 sons; parents invite them to do business; each chooses one thing, the youngest - does not know what he is intended for, goes fishing; he caught a big one, but she swallowed it; another person pulled out the fish, sold it to the Raja; when they were going to cut it, there is a voice from the inside: give me rice, I'm hungry; {not directly stated, but it is clear that the image of a boy in the belly of a fish is gradually turning into an image of a young man with fish cover}; a young fish asks him to marry; in the same house parents give I do not feel sorry for the stepdaughter (she is the daughter of her husband and his first wife, who died); for a long time, the young fish only asks him to feed him or cook everything for swimming; finally, the wife enters the room when her husband has left fish skin; she throws it into the fire and her husband stays with her; she goes to visit her home; just in case, her husband changes rings with her, tells her to leave the outline of his hand on the wall, hide some jewelry; stepmother sends a young woman to fetch water with her own daughter, asks her to vilify her jewelry; pushes her stepdaughter into the well, dresses her stepdaughter in her stepdaughter's clothes; at home, the husband checks: the outline the palms are not the same, the ring is different, where what is hidden, the imaginary wife does not know; in the well a young woman gave birth; the snake holds her like a nanny in front of her 16 snakes, she gives them milk, the woman's son is with them; a bracelet dealer walks by, shouts for his goods; a woman asks a cow to help the merchant go down to the well and put bracelets on her son; when he gets back, the merchant came to the house of Raja (a former young man) fish) and told me everything; he ordered to bury his imaginary wife up to the neck and relieve everyone only on her head; otherwise he would hang it; the mother came buried; daughter: "Everyone defecates on me, but why are you?" Her mother dug it up, brought her to the river to wash, but did not wash it; laundress: you can wash it if you hit her head against a stone; her head split into small pieces; the Raja went down to the well; the wife tells her to wait for her snake father; He lets her, her child and her husband go; but she forgot to cool the milk for the 16 snakes and they died; the serpent crawled to the palace to bite the woman, but hears her singing a lullaby, mentioning him lovingly; realizes that the woman was innocent, hit the gate and died; the woman put the snake's body in a casket and placed it at the head to protect her and the child; after a month of snakes {did he come to life?} gave the woman a pearl necklace; her husband checked the signs: everything was the same; the woman's father's youngest daughter {the narrator forgot that her head was shattered to pieces} wandered around the world and did not marry]: Blackburn 2005, No. 43; (cf. Tamils [the younger brother is childless; someone sold him a child for a measure of corn and a rupee, but there was a monkey in the bag; she began to do any job and call her younger brother father; monkey son asked his uncle (i.e. older brother) what they grew best, and he said tobacco; asked if he wanted the upper or lower part (of the crop), he chose the lower part; the younger brother collected tobacco leaves, and the elder got the stems; the following year, the monkey son planted onions and the older brother chose the upper part; the older brother angrily killed two cows that were pulling the younger brother's irrigation mechanism; the monkey took off his skins and climbed the tree under which the robbers were staying; they came, began to divide the money, one of them is blind; "Share honestly, otherwise the sky will fall on you"; at that moment, the monkey son threw off his skins; the robbers ran away, the monkey son brought money to his father; the younger brother's wife sent him to measure money from the elder; the youngest explained to the elder that he allowed the skins on straps and sold it; he stabbed his four cows, sold nothing, burned down the youngest's house; the monkey son collected ash in a bag, came to the robbers, said that there were jewelry in the bag, then we would divide it; when they fell asleep, the son- the monkey replaced his bag with the one in which the robbers had jewelry, brought it to his father; the elder brother burned down his house, no one bought ash; the elder brother put the monkey in a bag, threw it into the river; a shepherd nearby; The monkey screams from the bag that he was thrown into the river because he does not want to marry his father's sister's daughter; the shepherd took his place; the older brother came with a stick, began to beat the bag; the goats went to the monkey; he said there were more goats there; his older brother asked him to put him in a bag and throw him into the river; drowned]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 32:113-116); Sinhalese [the couple bring pumpkin, covered it with pots, they shook, there is a python in a pumpkin; they marry his wife; six sisters refuse, the youngest seventh agrees; says that she has no place to lie, the python consistently releases the seven beds on which he lay; the girl does everything wrong (she sprinkles rice not in the pot, but outside, etc.); by doing so she provokes the python, which explains how to do it; everyone goes to the temple with her husbands; python removes the skin, comes in the guise of a person , his wife recognizes him, runs home, burns his skin; now the older sisters want him to be her husband, the youngest drives them; the oldest asks the father to bring her another python from her husband; at night he eats her]: Parker 1914b, No. 163:401-405 (transfer to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 62:127-130).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bali: Bunanta 2003 [the older six sisters are married, teasing the youngest that no one needs her; she sees a tree with Tattadu caterpillars by the pond, says she is even ready to marry T.; one of caterpillars crawl after her, catches her at her word; the girl tells her sisters that she married T.; the husband crawls to the site, easily knocks down trees, pumpkins grow, gold, jewelry in them; leaves, comes to where they attach any form of living beings; God invites him to try his luck, T. first becomes a headless man, after a new attempt, handsome with a head; brings home an inexhaustible drink, offers leaders a bet who drinks will become another's servant; in the company of many servants, he returns to his wife; envious sisters send their husbands to God, they return in the guise of nasty animals]: 27-30; Hoikas-van Leuven Bomkamp 1983, No. 10 [Lejat scolds the gods for being childless; God in the guise of an old man gives him half a biscuit, tells L.'s wife to eat it; she gives birth to a half-boy (one arm, one leg, etc.). ); he goes to heaven to look for that god; the man asks God to ask why rice does not grow on his field; the hermit orders to grab the old man from behind, he agrees to put Half on his bull, the bull rises to heaven; in a heavenly temple, the Half finds a stone threshold in the form of half a person, applies it to himself, becomes whole; God explains what sacrifice must be made in order for rice to degenerate; returning to his parents, the Half (now whole) tames the cannibal giant with the power of his word, tells him to break his head against a stone, gets a Raja's daughter], 21 [the monkey prince]: 59-65, 129-135; Simalur [ childless spouses want a son, even if he be an iguana; the wife gives birth to an iguana; the mother goes to marry her son; the uncle's three daughters drive her away, the fourth youngest agrees; swimming in the river, the husband sheds his skin iguanas, his wife takes her home to burn her, she turns into kitchen utensils; sisters send her poisoned food out of envy, her husband does not allow her to take it in her mouth; sends his wife's sisters three lemons; after washing them sap hair, they see three men, get married, happy]: Koehler 1964:57-62; toraja: Adriani 1898 [other options: monkey son, iguana son]: 369-370; 1910 [the old woman raised a Lizard instead son; he sends her to marry Lise's seven daughters; the older six reject matchmaking, push the old woman, later wipe their feet on the Lizard; the youngest Kapapitoe agrees; seven servants in the form of a coconut shell nuts The lizard fly out to clear the plot, build a house; takes off the guise of a lizard, becomes handsome, dresses his wife in a rich sarong; the sisters are looking for his attention; he moves his house to the top of the cliff, sisters can't get there]: 226 f in Dixon 1916:210-213; Braginsky 1972 [pumpkin-like Kapita ("pumpkin") plays the flute, asks his mother to marry Raja's daughter; Inkan, the youngest of seven sisters, agrees; K. turns into a handsome man, turns a swamp into a lake, creates a house; sisters offer I. to swing on a swing, throw her on a distant island; K. easily finds her, returns it]: 91-94; Western toraja [the girl climbed the rainbow for the Month, asked him to be her husband, he agreed, they went down to earth, she gave birth to a son; he was like a coconut; his mother came to his seven sisters sell, only the youngest bought it; put it on a bench, he disappeared; the next day she saw a handsome young man Mangkalukala ("Coconut"); the other sisters drowned her in the river out of jealousy in M.'s absence; she did not drown, but was under water for seven months; M. returned with many prisoners; the wife asks seven times from under the water if M. is coming, each time she is told that he is coming from behind; when M. himself hears a voice wives, he tells her to be pulled out of the water; she is thin because she has not eaten for a long time; they have many descendants]: Kruyt 1938, No. 42:396-397; minahasa [the parents have a freak son, his name is Kapitu ("pumpkin"); plays well flute; asks the mother to marry the chief's daughter; only Ingkan, the youngest of seven daughters, agrees; after the wedding, K. is handsome, has a large and rich house; six sisters are jealous and offer I. to download it on a swing by the sea, the rope is cut off, I. falls to the other side; K. sails in a boat, finds and brings his wife back; becomes chief]: Kratz 1973, No. 45:217-220; loda [a woman has an iguana son; she went to marry him the king's daughter, everyone refused except the youngest; during the day, the husband sat on the ceiling in the form of an iguana, turned into a man at night; the sisters envied; everyone went for fruit while her iguana husband was on in the tree, the older sisters took the youngest; they offered him a silver betel tray, but he took the betel from his wife's tray; at home he hid the iguana's skin in a bamboo vessel; the sisters found and burned it; Iguana said it was cold, he left; the wife went to look; stayed with a writing expert, he had six wives; their bowel movements stank and her fragrant oil; (further unclear)]: Baarda 1904:398-400; galela , loda (Halmahera), Sangihe [like Toraj]: Dixon 1916:336 (note 11); Timor: Pascoal 1967:268-270 [the couple had Cabere - one head; otherwise normal boy; during the absence of parents, many people with goods asked permission to stay under the canopy of the house; K. allowed; at night K. rolled down to them, people fled in panic, leaving goods; parents did not found the owners; K. realized his ugliness; the raven carried him to the top of a palm tree, which grew to heaven, K. asked God for a body and limbs; returned on the same palm tree as a normal young man; the leader climbed that But a palm tree asked God to make it better; God turned him into a black dog, K. married the leader's wife], 271-274 [a woman gives birth to a poisonous green snake; a snake son asks his mother to marry the eldest of seven maternal uncle's daughters; only the youngest ugly Soce-Bere agrees; the snake sends his mother and wife to the party, where they see an unknown handsome man for seven nights in a row; women find empty snakeskin at home, they hide; a serpent who has returned in the guise of a young man tells him to leave the skin in the spring; envious of the younger, the older sisters cut the ropes of the swing; the woman falls into the sea, gives birth to a crocodile on her back, calls her husband; he saves her, executes evil sisters]; Morris 1984 [Buik Ikun is the youngest of seven sisters; an old woman gives birth to a green snake, hides it in the hearth; BI comes, sees a snake; then spies on the young man take off his snakeskin; burns skin, marries a young man]: 37-40; Kai Islands [a woman gives birth to a mollusk, throws it away, her mother picks it up, raises it; he shoots a lot of fish; asks his grandmother to marry him to a princess; only the youngest, Raja's seventh daughter agrees; the clam gives gold; people hear a conversation in the newlyweds room; everyone goes to the party; mother-in-law watches the mollusk come out of the sink, appears in the form of a handsome man on at the holiday, takes betel only from the hands of his wife; mother-in-law breaks the shell, throws him into the sea; throws his son-in-law in the heat and cold, he is washed with pumpkin broth, he remains human]: Barraud 2005:64-66.

Taiwan - Philippines. Visayas [childless spouses ask God Diva to send a son, let it be at least one head; The head was born, loved; asks the mother to marry the leader's daughter; she was refused, the Head fell into land, an orange tree grew on this site]: Eugenio 1994, No. 262b: 426; bagobo [after drinking water, the woman slept for a long time, then found a squirrel in her hair; The squirrel asks her mother to marry him her daughter Sultan; he demands to make his house and garden golden; The squirrel calls his brother Mouse, who is all golden, fulfills the Sultan's request; The squirrel marries the daughter of the Sultan, a year later becomes the deity of Malaki T'oluk Waig]: Benedict 1913, No. 2:54-55.

China - Korea. Chinese: Eberhard 1937, No. 33 (Jiangsu) [one of three wives gives birth to a son in the absence of her husband; the other two throw him into the water, he does not sink; they wrap him in straw, let a cow eat; she gives birth to a calf ; angry wives want to eat his liver; a man gives them another one, buys a calf; a girl wants to marry whoever she hits with a ball, hits a calf; takes him away, he becomes a young man; they marry; angry wives punished]: 54; 1937, No. 43 (Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong) [spouses want a child, even the size of a frog; a frog son marries a princess after completing her parents' difficult tasks; on the advice of the mother or aunt, wife hides frogskin; husband remains human]: 77-78; Miao [Dragon King's son in the form of a Frog marries the emperor's daughter; she throws his skin into the well; he says otherwise would soon become human forever, flies away; in Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, the skin is burned, the hero remains human]: Riftin et al. 1977:417-420; meo (Vietnam): Nikulin 1990:125- 128 [=Nikulin 1976:237-240; elderly spouses are childless; the old woman's toe is swollen, a frog jumped out of it; considers herself a son, studies, works (sitting on an ax, plow, tells them to cut down trees, to plow; comes to marry the princess; The Tsar orders to bring a log, a rock, he brings it while sitting on them; gets a wife, becomes a young man at night; the Tsar sends warriors to kill him, he turns nine a bucket of water in the sun, the warriors burn; the Tsar comes by himself, the Frog creates a flower, the buds soar into the sky, fall down with stones, killing the Tsar; the Frog remains in human form, reigns] 149-151 [childless spouses decide to cherish pumpkin as a son; Pumpkin tells them to marry him his uncle's daughter; he tells him to bring water, a log, gets a wife; in the field he quietly turns into a man, works; his wife takes him for a stranger; neighbors tell him to cut the peel, throw him into the fire; the husband says he is the son of forests and mountains]; namuzi [the crow screams that the woman has someone in her knee, tells him to cut him a sickle, a frog pops up; promises to bring himself a wife; leaves three hemp seeds in the first house, they are eaten by a mouse, he demands that a mouse be given to him for it; this is how he gets larger and larger animals; brings a horse, the family has seven daughters; each, hearing dogs barking, looks out, says that there is no one, but the youngest says that it was the frog that brought the horse; the mother sends her daughter with the Frog, but tells her to beat the Frog with a pestle on the road; he dodges; a beautiful rider appears at the races; the Frog's wife suspects it is him; hides, burns the skin he has shed; he dies saying that 7 more days and he would be human forever; the wife sweeps the floor, throws garbage, bamboo grows there; she accidentally breaks it; then tobacco, it brings relief (the origin of tobacco)]: Lakhi 2009 (2): 49- 100; lahu [the widow got drunk from the elephant trail, became pregnant; she was expelled from the village; she gave birth to a son without a torso, one head; he grew up, tells him to be left alone in the field; every time, returning for him, the woman sees that all the fieldwork has been done; she is getting rich; the god of heaven Popayi and the god of the earth Poyana have begun to fight each other; Poyana promises one of her 7 daughters to someone who will help he will defeat Poyai; The head promises; becoming an eagle, Poyai takes Poyani's youngest daughter; storm, lightning - this Head fights Poyai, defeats him; Poiana asks his daughters, only the youngest Nala agrees to take Head to husband; he brings her to his mother; she is blind; when N. goes to the bazaar, he turns into a handsome young man, meets her, tries to seduce her, but she refuses; so twice; the third time he does not was able to return to my head guise, because a blind mother accidentally pushed her into the fire; his wife is happy; her sisters also refuse to be her husband's wives; everything is fine]: Miller 1994:194-201; Koreans: Shkurkin 1941:21-42 [When leaving, Park asks two wives how they will greet him; Chie-bi promises to have a party, Jae to have a son; in P. Chie-bi kidnaps C.'s son, tells his servants to throw him into the ice-hole; wild animals save him; throw him to pigs - he is safe; cook in oil; a piece remains, eaten by a cow, gives birth to a golden calf wool; P. returns, Chie-bi says that Che gave her son to someone, P. puts Che in the cellar; Chie-bi pretends to be sick, asks for the calf's heart; the old woman lets go of the calf, gives the dog's heart; the calf comes to the imperial city; the emperor promises to give his fourth daughter to jump to the gong (the elders are married to a minister, general, sage); the calf jumps, gets a princess, at night turns into a person; visits his father, tells his story; Che is released, Chie-bi is imprisoned in a cellar], 127-134 [two options; a snake is born in the family; asks his parents to marry him; older, middle sisters refuse, the youngest agrees; after diving into oil, millet, ash, etc. the serpent turns into a young man; sisters who refuse him scold each other]; Choi 1979, No. 200 [a woman gave birth to a snake son; he wants marry the daughter of a rich man; the eldest and middle reject him, the youngest agrees; at night he takes off his snakeskin, tells his wife not to show others, not to burn; sisters burn out of envy; the husband disappears, the wife goes to search; plows for a man, washes for a woman, they show the way; in the Dragon Kingdom, her husband has two wives; he will take the one who is 1) will bring three eyebrows to a live tiger (two wives bring cats, earthly the wife receives real tigers from the mother): 2) bring grapes in winter; the safe return of the spouses; var.: the snake son tells the mother to marry the minister's daughter, otherwise she threatens to return to her bosom with a knife and burning smut; after returning home, the spouses fly to heaven on a crane], 202 [the old man adopted a toad; he orders the minister's daughter to be married; in the guise of a messenger of heaven, tells the minister to give his youngest daughter; at night tells the bride to cut the skin on his back, turns into a young man; var: he was a star prince exiled for a misdemeanor; he returned to heaven with his wife], 203 [the woman gave birth to a half-boy (but he has two legs); he is very strong; took the rich man's daughter, tumbled over, became a normal person]: 57, 59-60, 60-61; Cho 2001, No. 84 [a childless woman thoughtlessly wants to give birth to a snake; eating greens, conceiving a snake; two the neighbor's daughters leave in disgust when they are shown a snake in a vessel, the third calls the newborn a gorgeous snake groom; the snake son asks him to marry, the neighbor's third daughter agrees; after the snakes marry sheds her skin, turns into a young man, tells his wife not to reveal secrets; sisters peek, find snakeskin, throw them into the fire; the husband disappears, the wife goes in search; weeds the old man's field, repaints a woman's clothes, they show the way; another old man gives a dog, who leads his wife across the pond to another world; her husband has just married, now he must choose one of two wives, gives them tasks; 1) bring clover from a distant mountain (the first wife brings more); 2) bring water up the stairs with stilettos (the first brings, the second falls); 3) bring five hairs from the tiger's eyebrows; the old mother of tigers gives hair to her first wife; the second wife disappears]: 136-142; Ząng 1952, No. 76 [a childless fisherman catches fewer and fewer fish, the pond dries up; the fisherman accuses the big frog of catching less fish, the pond is drying up; the fisherman accuses the big frog of catching fewer fish ate all the fish; the frog asks to take him into the house; the wife takes care of him like a son; he tells his mother to marry one of the rich man's three daughters, the woman is refused; The frog grabs the rope tied to The kite, flying over the rich man's house, tells him to do the will of Heaven; only the youngest daughter agrees to marry the Frog; he tells his wife to cut his skin on his back, comes out handsome, in the morning the wife puts it on again his skin; in the morning, men hunt unsuccessfully; A handsome frog summons an old man, tells him to bring a hundred deer; shows himself to people, lets the deer go, taking his wife and her parents ascends to heaven]: 175-178.

The Balkans. Greeks: Dawkins 1916 (Asia Minor) [the old woman's son went to the mountains for firewood, the serpent ordered him to be taken, filled the jug with gold; ordered the princess to appear to him; the king demanded that a palace be created; the serpent created and became human after the wedding]: 555; Hahn 1918, No. 8 in Belmont 2005 [a childless woman asks God to give her at least half of the child; Half asks her mother to give him an ax and a mule, goes to the forest for firewood]: 16; Megas 1970, No. 28 [the king and priest agree that their future children will marry; the queen gives birth to a beautiful girl, the priest's wife gives birth to a crab; the crab grows up, tells the mother to marry the princess; the king makes it a condition to remove the mountain that blocks the sun; at night, dragons (drakoe) do their work; the Crab gets a wife; leaves the shell at night as a man; tells the secret; the wife tells the mother, Crab disappears; the wife has worn out three pairs of iron shoes; the blind and the lame directed her; three pigeons flew in, dived into the pool, became young men; they usually drink to the health of the sleepy beauty, windows and doors they cry; and then they laughed; the husband saw his wife, she threw his wings into the fire, the husband and wife returned home]: 65-70; Paton 1901, No. 24 [rich and poor women are both childless; the rich woman agrees for her daughter to go out for a donkey, the poor agrees to give birth to a donkey; the rich gives birth to a girl, the poor gives birth to a donkey; both grow up, the donkey asks the girl to marry; the parents give her, hoping to kill the Donkey; in the bedroom he rents a donkey the skin turns out to be handsome; tells me to keep a secret, but she confesses to her mother; burns her skin, three fairies (these are her husband's sisters) take him away; the wife comes to their castle, the husband tells her to ask her sisters for a handkerchief, an apple; an apple is thrown at her, she does not catch it; her husband is stone, she must watch for 40 days; at the last moment a black woman invites her to sleep, tells her revived husband that she has turned black with grief; the wife buys the right to see husband for a golden chicken with chickens, a golden table; a black woman puts him to sleep every time; the owner of a coffee shop hears his wife telling her story out loud, telling her husband that he does not drink sleeping pills; a black woman tied to a wild horse]: 320-323; Paton 1899, No. 4 [the queen and the poor woman agree to marry their children if they are of different sexes; the queen gives birth to a beautiful girl, the poor woman gives birth to a pumpkin; Pumpkin asks him to marry the queen's daughter; the queen orders to create 1) sources of gold and silver in three days, 2) a palace, 3) a meadow and a lake on the site of the mountain; everything appears, Pumpkin gets a wife; when the wife is in church, the young man comes out of the pumpkin, comes to church, the wife falls in love without recognizing him; he confesses that he is her husband, tells him not to tell his mother, otherwise she will fly away as a bird; she says he flies away, telling him to look for him, wearing three iron dresses and three pairs of iron shoes; after wearing them out in three years, the wife meets an old man; he says that 10 cannibals and a young man live in the castle; she sweeps in the castle; cannibals and her husband come, she opens himself; the young man tells not to eat her, for this is his wife]: 500-502; Schmidt 1877, No. 9 [the fisherman caught a golden crab; he talks, fills the plate with gold every day; tells him to marry him the king's youngest daughter; king: 1) let him build a wall above the towers of my palace overnight and on it all the flowers that are in the world; 2) there are three springs with gold, diamonds and diamonds next to it; everything is done, the crab tells his mother to go to grief, ask the Moor for a golden pillow; on it she brings him to the palace for the wedding; at night she turns into a prince; a year later, the princess gave birth to a son named Benjamin; the king wants to host a tournament to give her daughter to the winner; the crab tells his wife to ask the Moor for a luxurious tournament outfit and a silver apple; he will throw it to her and she must tell the sisters that she does not know who it is; if so, that it was her crab husband, he would leave her; the next day, a golden apple; this time she confessed to her mother that she burned her crab shell, her husband disappeared; an old man chased a dog that took his bread; down the stairs, there is a palace, a table for 12 people; the old man hid; 12 eagles flew in, swam in the spring, became young men; one of them drank to his beloved's health and to reproach his mother-in-law, who burned him crab the shell; when the eagles flew away, the old man went to the princess and told her everything; the princess hugged her husband; he told her to wait three months for the spell to end; she sent the old man to tell his parents about it; three months later, everything is fine]: 83-88; Albanians: Samoilov 1958 [after 9 years of infertile marriage, the couple has a snake son; the father learns from a healer that his scream means a desire to marry queen; he orders to pave the road with gold, let trees along the edges; The serpent gives land, an apple, must be dried, thrown on the road, everything appears; at night after the wedding, he takes off his snakeskin, turns into young man; mother throws her skin into the fire; son shouts that she burned his soul, that two grandchildren will remain, one will bring them happiness, the other misfortune to their neighbors (text ends)]: 221-225; Serkova 1989 [ a childless old woman finds a snake, raises her like a son; he tells him to marry him the king's daughter; the old woman is lowered down the stairs twice, the Serpent heals her with a magic ring; for the third time, the king demands to build it overnight palace, lay the way with velvet, come with his retinue; The serpent gets a wife, sheds his snakeskin at night, says his name is Speit, forbids talking about his transformation; the wife tells his mother, Sh. disappears; his wife goes looking for him, wearing iron shoes, comes to the mother of the Sun, who first hides her from her son, the Sun promises not to eat what has come, refers to the Moon, she refers to the Wind, who says that Sh. kidnapped a monster, carries him overseas; there the monster brings his wife S. to his palace; S. throws a ring into the jug, the wife finds out that her husband is near; the monster demands that his wife Sh. 1) the house be places swept, not in some places, 2) fill two cauldrons with tears (Sh. advises to fill it with salt water); S. pretends to be a woodcutter and a carpenter, tells the monster that he makes a coffin for the deceased S., asks him to try it on, bobs up, burns; S. and his wife return to people forever]: 21-31; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 425A [childless elderly spouses find and raise a snake as a son (smoka, pumpkin) or a childless woman asks for a child, gives birth to a snake (smoke, puppy, pumpkin); the son grows up, demands a princess as his wife, fulfills the king's difficult assignments (to build a palace, a road, a bridge overnight , church); at night, the groom appears to be a handsome bride; the bride burns the animal's skin or reveals the groom's secret; the magical husband disappears; the (pregnant) wife goes looking for him wearing iron shoes; along the way, three old women (mothers of the Sun, Month, Wind) give advice and gifts (golden apples, chicken with chickens, self-spinning wheel); for them they get the right to spend one night with her husband; he gets to know her, marriage restored], 425B [a young man with a horse head (or a snake) marries the princess, carries out the king's difficult assignments (to build a palace, a road, etc.); at night he appears handsome before his wife; she talks about this family; the wife disappears; the wife goes to look for him, finds him, thanks to the advice of the elders (three winds, etc.); with the help of his servant, performs the difficult tasks of his sister or mother; on the day when the husband should to marry another, he runs with his first wife; they escape, reincarnating into various objects and animals]: 145-146, 147-148; Stoynev 2006 [a childless woman asks God to let her give birth at least snake; a snake was born, grew up, asked the royal daughter Denitsa as his wife; on the wedding night, the mother saw through the keyhole that the serpent had become a young man; St. Peter and St. Maria, and Denitsa served them; the bride became Denitsa, her fiance became the Evening Star (Yunak)]: 141; Romanians [when leaving, the emperor tells three daughters not to unlock one room; the eldest insists to unlock; there is a table and a book, it says that the older sister will marry the emperor of the East, the middle sister will marry the Emperor of the West, and the youngest will marry the hog; the father returns, they come to the eldest daughters royal matchmakers, a hog comes for the youngest; she is obedient to her father; along the way, the hog lies in the mud and tells the bride to kiss him; at home in the evening she turns into a young man; the wife is pregnant; asks the old woman for help; she gives the rope to tie her husband by the leg at night; the rope breaks, the husband jumps up, says that if it were not for his wife, the spell would have ended in three days; she would see him wearing out three pairs of iron sandals and three iron staff; comes to the mother of the Moon (woman), she sends the Sun to the mother (man); the Sun advises you to ask the Wind; Mother of the Wind: your husband is in a forest house like a pile of fallen trees; wife comes there and, to get up, makes a ladder out of bones; one is missing, she cuts off her finger and it turns into the last crossbar; the husband flies in like a dove, is frightened, then recognizes his wife, with her child; explains that his emperor father fought dragons and killed a dragon; his mother turned the emperor's son into a hog to prevent a predetermined marriage]: Kúnos 1901:222-243; Romanians [a childless wife tells her husband to adopt whoever he meets first; he brings a pig; a pig tells him to marry him a royal daughter, creates a bridge and a palace overnight, gets a wife, at night turns into a prince; his wife's mother advises to burn piggy skin; the husband says he is Fat Frumos, let him look for him in the Frankincense Monastery, tighten the woman's belt with a hoop so that she cannot give birth without him; wife consistently comes to Saints Sereda, Friday, Diminika, who give a gold spinning wheel, a reel, a tray and a hen with chickens; in a year, flying over monsters, a lame lark brings a woman to the Frankincense Monastery ; the key witch allows her to spend one, second, third night in the FF bedroom in exchange for the gold items she receives, each time gives FF a sedative potion; the third time, on the advice of her servant, FF does not drink potions, he hugs his wife, the hoop falls apart, the witch is tied to an immense mare; the witch was a pig who wanted to marry FF to one of her 11 daughters (piglets he saw when he left the house an old man who adopted a pig)]: Sadetsky 1973:342-358 (=Moldavian tales 1968:38-50); Moldovans [a childless old woman asks her husband to find a child to raise; he brings a snake found on wheat field; he is placed in increasingly large vessels, he has been growing on milk for 7 years; asks him to be taken to study; on the way he drives away a wolf who has eaten an old man's goats, the old man sends him to the magician; through a year, two, the father cannot identify his son among three pigeons, three dogs; in the third year, that old goat herd teaches that the son will be the middle of three horses; the son turns into a greyhound, a horse, tells his father to sell him without a bridle, returns; the boyar buys with a bridle, his daughter unties the horse, which flies away as a dove, turns into a wheat field, into a loaf; the boyar into a falcon, a reaper, a poker, pulls out a loaf from stoves; poppy seeds are a lark, the cat swallows the lark, the feather remains at the wolf, rushes at the cat, into the golden rings of the innkeeper's daughter, people drove the wolf away; the ring at the young man, he's back in the snake, the girl asks to throw off snakeskin, he throws off the palace; wedding]: Botezat 1981:300-304; Gagauz people [a childless old woman sends her husband to find a child; he brings a pig; a pig tells him to marry him on his boyar daughter; the boyar orders to create a golden bridge, a garden with golden apples; everything appears; tells the dos to stand on the water - the house is standing; the boyar gives his daughter; at the wedding, the pig drops the pork skin, becomes handsome; at night the wife throws her skin into the fire; the husband puts a hoop on her belt, only his hand will take him off, only then the wife will be born; she comes to Duma-báb (makes sure that no one spun on Friday), she refers to her sister Pazar-bab (watches on Sunday); she collects birds; only a lame bird saw the woman's husband with Jada Bába (witch); P. gives a gold spinning wheel, arshin, reel - sell J. for the right to spend the night with a guy; for two nights J. puts him to sleep, his wife can't wake him up; on the third night, the maid told the guy not to drink potions; he takes off his wife's belt, she gives birth to a boy, all three are returning home]: Syrf 2013:149-153; Hungarians [the merchant got lost in the forest, promised the best of three daughters to the one who would bring him out and three more bags of coins: gold, silver, copper; the hedgehog brought him out ; and the king got lost, also promised a daughter and money, not bags, but carts; the hedgehog and took him out of the forest; the poor man promised to adopt a hedgehog; in the evening he knocked on his door; told him to feed him, sitting him at the table, not somewhere under the bed; sent me to buy a black rooster and an old saddle; I came on a rooster to pick up my merchant daughter, chose the middle one; took her home, she cries, she doesn't want to; hedgehog: then come back, you're not worthy of me , I'll only take the money; the hedgehog came on a rooster to the king; the eldest and middle princesses refused, the youngest and most beautiful agrees to do the father's will; on the way she asks to get into her carriage, and not to go to rooster: she is not afraid of the hedgehog and he does not disgust her; after that, the hedgehog turned into a prince, the rooster turned into a magnificent horse, the saddle turned golden; a marble palace appeared under a copper roof and on a cock's leg , the inside is all gold; when they learned of the happiness of the younger princess and the merchant's three daughters were desperate; one drowned in a well, the other in a pond, the third in the river, and the fourth also committed suicide (it is not said how), but the merchant's second daughter decided to destroy the princess; taking the guise of an old woman, she was hired into the palace; when the king went to war, the wife gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl; the old woman left them in a basket in the forest, and the Queen said that she gave birth to monsters and had to be thrown into the river; a white deer lifted the basket to its horns, came to the river, called a forest nymph, and she raised children for 7 years; once sent a girl with a mug bring water; she saw a golden bird, ran after her, and suddenly she had only the handle of the mug in her hands; the same happened to the boy; the bird explained that the nymph was not their mother and led her to her real parents; on the way we came across a pile of gold and dice; collected gold; stopped at an inn, where three gentlemen were playing dice; the boy also began to play and won all the money; one of the gentlemen said that there is a marble palace in the blooming garden; if you touch it three times with a gold stick, it will become a golden apple and can be moved wherever you want; they played this palace, the boy won and got a wand; when he reached the palace, he turned it into an apple; the bird brought the king, the boy's father and his sister, to the palace; ordered the apple to be turned into a palace again; gave a sign with the coat of arms and the names of the children on it; it can be show only to his father; the king wanted to come see the new palace right away, but the old woman gave him a potion and he fell ill; said he was going off on his own; advised the boy to get a talking tree; a boy whose name was Yanoshka, went in search; the hairy devil at the first castle asked if he was me, and sent him to his older brother, who gave a golden stick to open the stone fence; he had to go around the tree three times and run, otherwise the fence will close and I will turn to stone; I did the right thing, ignoring the beautiful dancers, ran home, and the tree was already in the middle of the garden; the king wants to go again to see the miracle, poisoned again; the old woman offers to get a bird to sing on this tree; I. came the same way (three devil brothers), went into the garden, reached the ninth room, but did not take it a sweet bird with simple feathers, and a golden one; immediately petrified; now her sister, her name Marishka, has gone; the same meetings; she took a rusty cage, revived her brother with a gold stick and they both returned; the bird sang in the tree; the king is poisoned again, the old woman offers to get a silver lake with goldfish; I went, the same meetings with the devil-brothers, the same rules (run around the lake three times); this time the king did not drink coffee with poison, came with his wife; the young man showed the king a sign, the couple recognized the children; the old woman was burned at the stake made of sulfur]: Curtin 1890:517-545; Hungarians: Ortutai 1974, No. 2 [childless the queen agrees to give birth to at least a snake; and gives birth; the serpent has grown up, tells him to marry the queen; at night he is handsome, during the day he is a snake; the witch advises to burn the skin; the husband disappears, leaving a nut rod; when will turn green and bear fruit, then go look for it; the wife will not be relieved of the burden until her husband hugs her again; the wife comes to the old woman, she sends her to her middle sister, the middle sister to the eldest; their sons Month , Sun, Wind; each gives a golden spindle, a shank, a ball; the wind carries to the castle; for three items, the wife buys three nights with her husband from the local queen; she sprinkles sleeping pills into the wine twice, and on the third since the servant did not pour; the wife immediately gave birth to twins; the local queen was torn by horses]: 72-92; Dégh 1990 (synopsis of Hungarian versions) [the royal (living in the castle) couple is childless, wants a child, even if it is a snake; sometimes a son is born as a snake because of the witchcraft of a witch; a serpent grows up and demands that a princess be married to him; two express their disgust, are killed by a snake; the third is good; at night snakes turns into a prince; the wife is pregnant; the village witch or mother-in-law advises to burn the snakeskin; the prince grieves that his wife did not wait for the spell to expire, disappears; the wife will find him when she puts him in jail wheat seed and chestnut, will irrigate them with its tears, bake bread and bread from ripe chestnuts; this will take 7 years and she will travel for another 7 years in search of her husband; her husband girds her with an iron hoop: she will not be born until he touches her belly with his hand; wife: no one will wash the blood stains on your shirt but me; some sisters feel sorry for the girl, their sons Sun, Month and Wind show her the way; she gets a gold spindle, a spinning rod and yarn; her husband is married to another princess, hunts all day long; the girl is hired as a laundress; for three gold items she buys 3 nights with a prince, but the first days he intoxicated with sleeping pills and she can't get to him; on the third evening, the servant tells him what he saw and heard, the prince pours out wine; the wife gives birth to a gold-haired boy or twins; they are 7 years old, they play in the couple's bedroom; the new wife (and her witch mother) are punished; the old key found is better than the new one]: 49-50; Slovenes, Croats [hedgehog son]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 441:263; Serbs [ the queen asks God for a son, even a snake; 22 years later, the serpent asked him to marry any girl; his parents offered to choose him himself; he pointed to a poor girl; his wife is soon pregnant; mother-in-law persuaded me to confess: at night, snakes become handsome; my mother-in-law advised me to take the skin at night and give it to her through the window; burned her skin; husband: you'll see me when you foot iron shoes and an iron staff; and You can give birth when I forgive you; wife has been pregnant for three years; went in search; came to the mother of the Sun Girl; she hid her; the Sun feels the human spirit; the Sun sent for the Month; the mother of the Sun gave a golden spinning wheel; the same; the Month sent to the Wind; the mother of the Month gave a golden hen with chickens; Wind: your husband is king in another kingdom, married; the mother of the Wind gave a gold loom; Wind: lay out your gifts there in front of the palace; gives them to the queen three nights in turn with her husband; she gives her husband a sleepy potion; on the third night, the servant told the king, who quietly poured out the potion; the wife gave birth to a boy with golden hands and hair; all three of them returned to their country]: Karadzic 1854, No. 10:81-89 (=Eschker 1992, No. 4:34-40); Slovenes [the childless countess is ready to give birth to even a pig; his they consistently marry the poor man's three daughters; every time at the wedding he falls out in the mud and rubs against the bride's dress; two older sisters reject him, the youngest protects him; at night he sheds pigskin, becomes handsome; upon learning of this, the Countess Mother burned the pig's skin; the husband disappears, telling his wife to look for him beyond seven mountains and valleys; she consistently comes to three Winds, each gives a nut, the third gives her her boots, says that tomorrow the count has a wedding; an earthly wife is hired as a pigsty, consistently breaks nuts, takes out a gold ring, earrings, a luxurious dress, and buys them from her first wife three nights with her husband; the first two he does not wake up, does not drink a sleepy drink on the third evening (his friend recommended this), returns his first wife]: Arkhipova 1962:111-116.

Central Europe. Poles [a childless woman has a hedgehog son; he marries a princess and the youngest queen agrees to marry him, or the hedgehog sends an army and the king has to give her daughter, or he does difficult tasks; hedgehog skin is thrown into the fire and the hedgehog turns handsome]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 441:139; Poles [(many entries); due to a rash wish or spell in the family a snake son is born; at night she takes on a human form; a girl promises to marry him or her father promises to give her (as payment for a flower picked for her); a girl breaks the spell on her snake husband (a dwarf, bear, wolf, donkey, boar, hedgehog, toad, bird) - burns skin, cuts off the head, etc.; due to the fact that the skin was burned ahead of time (due to the machinations of his wife's sisters, etc.), the husband disappears; going in search, the wife must wear out her iron shoes; receives magic items from the old woman; learns where to go from the winds and stars, climbs a glass mountain; buys three nights next to her husband for three valuable items, returns it]: Krzyżanowski 1947, No. 325:70-71; Czechs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 441:263; Slovaks [there is a story called Janko the Hedgehog]: Gašparíková 1991, No. 441:510; Slovaks [ a woman does not know who will take lunch to her husband in the field, dreams of a son at least the size of a pea; a pea turns into a boy; he brings soup and dumplings to his father, falls into a ditch, the soup spilled, he almost wears it drowned, got out on the dumplings, collected them again, they were in the mud; brought them to his father, said that the dog had spilled soup, that there were poppy seeds in dumplings; the father did not believe them, wanted to beat them, Pea began to control the oxen, work began; the master wants to buy G. as a gift to his wife, G. whispers to his father to sell, he will return; on the way he made a hole in his master's purse, threw away all the ducats and jumped out himself, brought ducats to his parents; when the soldiers arrived, hid in a pot; having enriched his parents, went on a journey; people carry iron on 12 carts, they cannot go uphill; G. suggests removing the mountain if he has as much iron as he can carry; shifts mountain, takes everything away; tells the forge to make a club out of it; in 24 days 24 workers forged it; G. sat under the mushroom to fix his shoes, some man wanted to sit on a mushroom, G. stabbed it with an awl; around the fire 11 robbers; G. began to throw bumps into everyone's bowl as he held it to his mouth; then went out, waved his club, the robbers took him home; he stayed to guard their parking lot, the wolf swallowed it, he cut it from the inside, went out; the robbers tell him to steal four oxen from the peasant; when he came to the barn, he made a fuss, the owner did not notice him, almost stepped on him; he threw him into the corner, took the oxen; furious that the robbers continued to laugh at him; they split the money and sent G. to wash his giblets to prevent him from giving him his share; by the river he began to beat giblets and scream: it's not me, but them; robbers ran away, G. took their money to his parents; but they just died; during the funeral he fell into the grave, and the gravedigger refused to pull him out; he got out on his own, buried the gravedigger alive; became a robber again, came to the fire, which has 11 robbers; they argue who to make the chieftain; G.: the one whose club thrown up will be the last to fall; G.'s club fell only the next day and went into the ground; it was made chieftain, the club was hardly pulled out; the rich king has a watchman cock; at the same time, the king promises a daughter to the one who will destroy the robbers; G. ordered ten to carry his club, and he sat at the eleventh in his pocket, gradually filling his pocket with stones, so that the robber could hardly walk; G. threw his club and knocked down the rooster; got inside through the keyhole, opened the passage, cut off the heads of all the robbers who came in as they they slipped it in, cut it off and took their tongues with them; another man brought their heads, the king was ready to give him his daughter; but G. showed his tongues; after the wedding, G. confessed, his skin burst crashly, appeared beautiful young man; merry wedding]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 30:161-170; Czechs: Talova 1956 [a son was born shaggy like a bear, the king heard about his mind, will give him his daughter Mina if he will turn Labu, otherwise he will execute; in the morning the river flows on the other side of the castle; the same is to build a castle; a bridge from his castle to the royal one; a young bear gets M., becomes human at night; a wife and mother burned the skin, the husband is gone, the wife is going to look; the sun: ask my brother of the month; month: ask the wind; the wind: he is at the sorceress overseas; carries across the sea, teaches me to throw one bouquet to a bird, the other to an old woman, otherwise they will kill; the sorceress allows me to talk, but the king falls asleep; on the advice of one of the queens, the king changed the wine bowls, the sorceress drank and fell asleep, the king killed her with a sword; the castle turned black red, everyone parted, M. and the king began to rule]: 110-113 (=Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:219-224); Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 (Moravia) []: 400-412; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sniffer) [the old man was fishing, he caught cancer, he brought it home; cancer during the day, and a peasant at night; tells him to marry the royal daughter; the king sets conditions; build a palace; around a ditch for ships to sail; a church and a bell tower; Rak Rakovich tells the servants to perform ("sea lions, eternal Voronezh"); after the wedding, the princess admitted to her parents that her husband is good; Cancer is gone; she came to the hut: turn to the forest eyes, my gates ; Baba Yaga gave a handkerchief to embroider the corner; the next ball of silk is the second corner; the third is a boat; give it as a covenant: spend the night with Cancer Rakovich; not wake him up; before the third night, Baba Yaga advises take out a sleepy pin; they began to live happily ever after]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 67:313-317; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad; a brief summary of the text from Karelsky's archive branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [an old man and an old woman catch cancer, he becomes their son; marries the royal daughter; performs the king's difficult tasks; turns into a handsome young man; the princess burns the skin of cancer, he disappears; the princess finds her husband]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 463:398; Ukrainians (Podolia) [grandfather and woman are childless; the woman caught cancer, brought it home; he shouts: mom, borsch is running! she looks: true; cancer brought her father lunch in the field; what cancer plans happens; tells her father to marry him the queen; he brought a portrait to the king; the eldest, middle queen refuse, the youngest agrees ; cancer became human, happy with his wife]: Levchenko 1928, No. 478:322-323; Ukrainians (Podolia) [the grandfather went to get water, brought cancer home; took him and his woman for his son; when they went to bed, the cancer whistled and ordered take him out into the yard; and then back to the hut; so three nights; then ordered him to marry the queen; the king demands to sow the field in a day, do all the work and bake the buns; the cancer again asked to take him out into the yard , whistled, his friends did everything; the same was the grapes: plant a vine, and tomorrow ripe bunches; on the wedding night, the cancer shed its shell, became a boy; the queen got up before him and burned her shell; the husband left; she went in search, remained a woman's maid; she left, forbade entering the same room; the Queen came in: her husband was there; both died]: Levchenko 1928, No. 470:323-324; Ukrainians (Podolia) [grandfather with the woman went to the forest to buy firewood; sat down to eat, picking up the crumbs; they brought him home; a year later he tells him to marry the princess; the king suggests that the groom jump up to the princess sitting on the third floor, and I took a sign from her; I went to the forest, chipped in well, sat on a horse, got a ring (? signal) princesses; the king threw a signal into the sea - let him get it; he got it from the bottom; the princess agrees; after a while the king calls the young to a feast; he has already thrown off his skin, came to the feast; the princess quietly returned home and burned her skin; the husband ran, hit his wife in the face, blood sprayed on his shirt; left, saying that he was no longer her husband; the wife went in search; on the way she bought a gold tow from a woman, the other has a reel, the third has a golden hen with chickens; the girls ask if she will wipe the blood off their owner's shirt; it was easily erased; hired to herd geese; she began to spin a golden tow in sight; the new wife bought for permission to spend one night with her husband; gave him sleeping pills; the same the next day (reel); on the third night (hen with chickens), the wife pricked her husband with a needle in the finger, he woke up ; the couple began to live happily, and the other wife was expelled]: Levchenko 1928, No. 481:326-328; Ukrainians (Yekaterinoslavskaya) [grandfather and woman have fish, they want children; two children were born, fish became less; they died - not at all; the grandfather caught cancer; he tells him not to kill, teaches him to get gold from the bottom; tells him to marry him; the king sets the condition for a golden palace, a bridge, so that the fruits of the next day ripen; cancer does everything, gets the princess, does a great job at night; the princess burned her shell; the husband says he will return when she wears out her iron shoes; she wears out, her husband is back]: Pankeev 1992:82-93 ( =Petnikov 1956:27-28); Eastern (?) Ukrainians (western in Kiev) [healers tell the childless queen to catch and cook pike, eat her head; a year later, the queen gave birth to a snake; he immediately spoke; ordered the tsar to leave him in the stone house and through a month to marry; in a month it has become long; no girl agrees to go for a snake; the woman has 12 daughters, the youngest is single; when he found out that the youngest wanted to marry, the king summoned her and she agreed, but told her to give her 12 dresses, shirts, shoes; she is led to a snake; he demands to throw off her dress, she demands to throw off her skin; when the girl is left in her last shirt, she has shed her last skin and became human; she threw snakeskins into the fire; the serpent tells her parents not to tell her parents that he has become human; she said her husband is gone; she went to look for him; the mother of the Wind hides her from her son, who senses the spirit, but tells her to give it to the girl silver apple; came to the mother of the Month; the same (The Month tells me to give a golden apple); the mother of the Sun (the same, gives a diamond apple; her husband already has a different wife; we must take the form of an old woman, put a silver an apple on a handkerchief and play with it; the girl sells it to his new wife overnight with her husband, but she put him to sleep; the same on the second day (the golden apple); on the third night the husband only pretended to be asleep; the new wife was smashed horses to pieces]: Rudchenko 1859, No. 43:81-85; Ukrainians [the wolf asks God for food, he asks God for food: whatever you meet popovo is ready for you to eat; the popova mare replies that she brought papers from the city; for now the wolf looks at them, ran away; Wolf: I am not a pan and an illiterate one, why should I look at the papers? the ram offers to open his mouth, runs down the mountain, the wolf butts; the wolf: am I a pan that I wanted light bread? pigs ask for permission to sing a song, the peasants drove the wolf away; the tailor asks to allow him to wash his face with death, wipe his wolf's tail, wraps him around his arm, yubet the wolf with arshin; climbs an oak tree; wolf calls the others, they stand on each other's backs, tailless below; the tailor sneezes, the wolf thinks he says "arshin", rushes away, the other wolves fall, tore the tailless]: Petnikov 1955:42-43.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002:114-117 [the old man brought wormwood for fuel, there was a snake in the wormwood; he grew up quickly, ordered the khan's daughter to be married; the old man came to the khan on a yellow-striped bull; on a bull they put a brand, tore the old man apart; the Serpent revived him, sent him again; the khan orders to build a golden door-to-door bridge, a bush with fruits on the sides, poplar to the stars in both houses; by morning everything Done, the khan gave his daughter; the husband, leaving the snakeskin to his wife, became a swan, flew to frolic with Hormust-Tengri's daughters; the wife hid the skin in her hair; the sister-in-law began to burn her, forced her to give her skin, burned; the husband in the guise of a swan flew in, said that he must now fly to the place where heaven and earth merged; the wife went there, taking two iron staffs, two (pairs?) iron sandals; the bird taught them to enter the iron palace, hug their husband; they had a son, they came to see the khan, the husband tortured the sister-in-law to death], 122-130 [the poor old man's camel gave birth to a blue skin (secondary school); the secondary school asks the old man to marry the khan's daughter; he twice orders to kill the old man, destroy the remains, the secondary school revives the old man; the third time the khan orders to build a golden bridge, a palace, etc.; the secondary school does everything, gets Khan's youngest daughter, turns into a young man, tells her to hide her skin in a chest; when she goes hunting, Eena's older sister takes everything out, burns her skin, all her wealth disappears; the wife goes to look for her husband; people he meets say that three swans were flying, the middle one became a young man, ordered sheep, cows, horses, camels to be grazed well; the elder explains that the husband is the son of Hormust-Tengri, with him his two swan sisters; says where find a sleeping husband; he wakes up, becomes a swan, carries his wife, takes herds and herds with him (animals turn into swans for this purpose), rejuvenates his wife's parents at home]; Abaza people: Tugov 1985, No. 39 [the prince had a son in bear skin; wants to marry his teacher's daughter; she agreed, their son is handsome; the father takes off his bear skin at home and wears it when he leaves the house; wife She let it slip, her bear husband went to the forest; she found him among other bears, her husband shed his skin, remained human], 66 [the old man eats the only chicken's egg every time before it lays more, to start incubating chickens; the old woman sends him to get an egg, he finds him in the forest, the chicken incubates, a boy is born as tall as a thimble, grows up quickly; the girls reject him, calling him a son hens; he crosses the sea monster, solves the girl's riddles, brings her to his place, gets rich; now the girls who rejected him ask him for food]: 104-105, 196-200; Balkarians (West 1959) .) [The couple has not had children for a long time; finally, the wife gave birth to a lamb; he tells his father to go to Khazhimurza to marry him; H. does it; the bride is horrified when she sees a lamb next to him, but he takes off his sheep the skin, becomes handsome; tells his wife to keep and hide it; the witch found out about the skin, threw it into the fire; husband: now we will part forever; flew away as a dove; the wife went in search, saw a dove in a tree, climbed a tree; the dove again said that they would not be able to live together and flew away; the woman fell from a tree, she was buried under it]: Malkonduev 2017:404-407; Ossetians: Byazirov 1958, No. 70 [youngest daughter Aldara chose a seedy horse as groom; at night, the animal shed its skin and turned into a young man; the wife burned his skin; the young man turned into a bird and flew away; at the direction of the sparrow, the wife finds him and frees him from fanged woman], 90 [a boy from the womb demands to ask for the hand of Malik's daughter, builds a bridge, a house; is born in the form of a pumpkin, defeats two sons-in-law, pulls out water, a pig, an apple, turns into a young man and exposes sons-in-law]: 336-330, 337; 1971, No. 1 [the son of a sorceress from the Borata family (UK) and her son Malik (SK) go to marry the sister of seven giants, send their arrows as matchmakers; giants and the UK go hunting, command sister and UK do not open the seventh door; SM threatens to leave, the bride opens, the Waig from the Black Mountain (UCHG) is released, takes the girl away; SK goes to look for her; meets, takes the Sea Drinker as a friend (that shoots after UCHG, tears off his leg), Zorky, Carrying mountains and valleys on his back, each in response says that he is not amazing, but SK and SM; UCHG goes underground; only the SK was able to push the stone, go down to rope through the flame; sends the girl upstairs, the comrades remove the rope, fill the exit with a stone; the UK tells an old woman, whose fang touches the sky, the other rests on the ground, to tell her how to kill the UCHG ( burn, it burns), get upstairs (grab the horn of a white ram); SK grabs the black horn, which takes it even lower to the world of Donbettyr; there the dragon closed the water; swallows the SK, he cuts it from the inside, refuses to be belched, spit out, goes out over the side, the dragon breathes out; Tsar Donbettyrov sends the UK to the black eagle; the UK hears one of her daughters singing (her snake will eat her the day after tomorrow), the other laughs (tomorrow), the third cries (she will be eaten today); SK is killed by a snake; a downpour begins (eagle tears), the sun shines (the eagle sees that her daughters are alive), a whirlwind (flies); the eagle brings the UK to the ground, it feeds her supplies given by the Donbettyrs; they are not enough, the UK cuts off the meat from her hips; the eagle puts it back; the swineherd says that three brought the sister of seven giants, the king took her away, marries; the UK changes with clothes with a swineherd, the eldest princess chooses him when she sees his golden curls under her hat; everyone tries the SK quiver and arrows; the SK takes them, puts on gold clothes, destroys guests with arrows, takes their wives yourself and SM]: 5-19; Dzagurov 1973, No. 123 [the wife of Eastern Aldar gave birth to a bear cub; Western Aldar: everything is fine what God gives; the bear cub asks Western Aldar to persuade his father, Eastern Aldar, him marry; 7 brothers have a beautiful sister, she agrees to marry a bear cub; happily married; one woman stole her skin and threw it into the fire, although the healer warned that after that, the sister's husband was 7 brothers will die; he went to heaven as a golden bird; a shepherd noticed the bird; the wife came to the tree on which she was sitting; the bird said that she was at the mercy of Falvar's pet patrons; it must harvest hay and, in a hungry year, exchange it from F. for one of the workers; choose the one who is in beggar robes will be him, the husband; the wife saved her husband, he remained human]: 527-533; Ingush [ the witch doctor advises a childless woman to eat the lung and liver of a pig; she gave birth to a son who is a man at night, a pig in the afternoon; asks the father to marry him the stepdaughter; she advises the father to give the groom difficult errands , knows that at night he is a young man; the padchah demands golden carriages full of pearls, they appeared in the morning, the groom got a bride; she threw pigskin into the fire; the husband disappeared, telling him to be found; the wife finds him in cave, they return to his parents]: Malsagov 1983:335-337; Avars [an evil spirit turned Khan's only son into a bull; khan married him, at night the bull turned into a young man; he asked his wife not talk about it; she told her mother, her mother threw a bull's skin into the fire; the goby boy flew away like a dove, told his wife to look for him in heaven; the girl has been looking at the sky ever since, and the pigeons live on the roofs and attics, afraid of flying into the house]: Khalidova 2012, No. 198:219-220; Rutultsy: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 60 [a childless woman gives birth to a donkey; he asks the mother to marry the padishah's daughter; he demands to build golden bridge, bring clothes for the bride in eggshells; all done; at night, the donkey sheds his skin, turns into a young man named Rizwan; the old woman persuades the padishah's daughter to put her skin on the night doors, burns it; Z. flies away with a dove; the wife goes to look, throws the ring into the jug of the maid who was collecting water, R. recognizes the ring; Aunt R. gives them horses, they jump away, Azhdaha chases, R. spills water, the sea forms, Azhdaha asks how they crossed, the fugitives reply that after hanging a stone around her neck, Azhdaha drowns; Azhdakhi's sister is chasing, R. throws salt, growing a salt hill; R. and his wife returning home]: 523-526; Khalidova 2012, No. 110 [Saint Rozhnik replies to childless spouses that they once killed a snake and the snake mother condemned them to childlessness; they ask for at least a child in a snake appearance; the spring promises a girl who will turn into a snake at night; the spring promises to leave her human if someone loves her; she goes to someone else's wedding, an unfamiliar young man tells her that she will marry her even if she is a snake; she marries him and does not turn into a snake anymore]: 138-139; Armenians: Harutyunyan 2007 [the king sees a snake with snakes; complains to God that even a despicable snakes have children, but he does not; a son is born, half a snake; the king orders him to be thrown into a hole outside the city, on the advice of wise men, to feed girls; the poor man's daughter, who lived with her stepmother, had a dream that should be taken milk jugs, a knife, wrap herself in buffalo skin, go down into a hole; the snake tells her to get out of the buffalo's skin three times, she tells her to get out of the snake's skin; the junoa is out, the girl bathed him in milk; wedding ]: 39-40; Khachatryants 1933 (Ararat Valley) [=Ganalanyan 1965:49-53; brief retelling in Russel 2004b: 633-634; the king sees a snake playing with snakes, wants a child for himself; his wife gives birth to a snake, his king grows up, he turns into a vishapa, he is fed girls; the girl Arevakhat greets him, he turns into a young man, marries A.; she tells her how her stepmother told her to knock her hair; the spinning wheel fell into a crack in the rock; the old woman asked whose canopy is cleaner, whose head is cleaner, told me to wake up when the yellow water flows, not to wake them up until it is black, red; dips A.'s golden hair in yellow; she hides them under with the skin of a ram; the stepmother's daughter discovers golden curls; drops a spinning wheel; replies that her mother's head is cleaner than the canopy; she tells her to wake her up when her black head flows; the girl has turned black; The stepdaughter was kicked out, but then the king's servants found her]: 143-149; Ganalanyan 1965 [=Nazinyan 2014:25-29; the dervish gives the childless old woman three apples, tells her to eat them for three days; she eats them right away, gives birth to a bull; he asks marry the royal daughter; performs tasks: create a gold tray of gold, an unsewn dress, bring the bride home so that her head does not see the sun, her legs do not touch the ground; at night he becomes handsome; wife burns oxskin; husband turns into a dove, flies away; wife follows, turns into a dove, finds her husband at the bottom of the sea, happy with him there]: 66-71; Nazinyan 2014 [the old man brought firewood from the forest, to they turned out to be a serpent; demanded that the king's daughter be married to him; the king demands that a palace be built overnight, then a garden, a carpet from palace to palace, invisible musicians; each time the serpent tells the old man to go into the forest, shout into the hole "Big Khatun, Little Khatun, Habrmani wants this and that"; after the wedding of snakes, he becomes man H. at night, tells his wife not to let it slip; participates incognito in races; in response to the sisters ridicule, the wife says, H. falls, tells him to trample iron bast shoes and a steel staff in 7 years, then she will find it; disappears; H. is at the mercy of a witch, she wants to marry him off her daughter; the wife, having passed the earthen, glass, copper fortress, reaches the gold fortress, her bast shoes and staff are worn off; she throws her ring into the maid's jug, H. finds it; the witch asks to stroke her legs and fall asleep at her feet; H. tells me to put a deck instead of herself, at night the witch gives her foot; the witch tells her to bring fluff for the pillows, H. advises to ask the birds to shed their fluff; H. and his wife run away, daughter the witches are chased, they turn into a mill and a miller; a vegetable garden with a gardener; the third time the witch runs by herself, H. tells his wife to throw the comb, forests appear; H. turns his wife into a twig, himself into a snake wrapped around a branch; the witch found them, but took pity and let them go; H. and the princess are celebrating a new wedding in a new palace]: 106-116; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1998 (1), No. 49 [in old age a childless woman gives birth to a snake; he orders the king's daughter to be married; he agrees if the groom solves the riddles posed by the neighboring aggressor king: 1) who is the mother in the herd and who is the children, 2) cut out of the pistil a thousand cubits of skin, 3) open water in the waterless land; snake answers: after three days of thirst, the mother mare will be the first to cry at the watering hole, 2) let the king send samples of leather carved from the pestle, 3) the water will flow, if you dig an oak tree; after the wedding, the serpent becomes handsome; the king runs in, grabs snakeskin, the groom flies away like a dove; by the sea, the bride still caresses him, but he does not give it at all, remains a bird], 51 [ the sorcerer gives her husband two apples, let him eat one, the other by the childless wife; the husband eats both on the way, gets caught up with a pumpkin, she rolls after him; tells her to marry the king's daughter; performs tasks 1) raise silver vineyard, 2) gather all the birds, 3) bring unprecedented clothes; during the wedding, the pumpkin splits, and a handsome man comes out of it]: 196-199, 204-205; Azerbaijanis [childless old wife the lumberjack follows a leaf that has fallen into the river, enters the dervish's castle; while he sleeps, frees 40 girls hanged by the braids, kills a dragon, a tiger, returns to her husband, gives birth to a son Karagash ("black eyebrows "), devoid of parts of the body other than eyebrows; unnoticed, G. eats padishah's pilaf, takes gold, gives it to his parents; when G. eats pilaf in the form of black eyebrows to the daughter of a padishah named Peri-khanum, she turns him into a young man; says that the dervish, with the help of people like him, kidnaps girls; extracts a worm from his mouth that the dervish would become a snake and eat G.; the padishah sends G. against Padishah Franghi, who returns victorious; at this time, the dervish kidnaps P.; the old man teaches G. to go down to the well, kill three girls in the form of P., three old women in the form of G.'s mother, the dervish himself in the form of Father G.; P. will have a different appearance; G. goes to bring meat to the daughter of the padishah snakes, while the padishah tries to marry P., not believing that she is his daughter; G. kills snakes, cutting off the little finger in which her life is , kills the padishah and the vizier, restores P. to her appearance, marries her]: Akhundov 1955:77-91; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 17 [an arap gives an elderly childless peasant an apple, tells him to eat in half with wife; he eats one, a donkey's head falls out of his ass; he buries it, drowns her, she returns; asks the padishah's daughter to be married; builds a palace overnight; staying with his wife, he turns into a young man; the maid spies, he disappears; the Sultan asks her father to build a bathhouse, let everyone come there to wash for free, but with a story about the disasters; Keloglan, clinging to the tail of a donkey loaded with wood, follows two lumberjacks with fused backs; hides in an underground room; Donkey Head enters, swims in the pool, turns into a young man; a dove arrives, swims, turns into a girl, tries in vain to cheer the young man; in the morning both take on their former appearance; K. talks about this to the Sultan, brings him to that room; her husband tells her that he was captured by the daughter of the padishah of birds; the young man burns his skin ; sits with his wife in a cage with sharp protrusions; the daughter of the padishah of birds and all her bird army die on thorns; the sultan returns her husband], 27 [the younger sister's horse secretly turns into a young man from others; she does not marries, meets an imaginary horse at night; burns his skin; he flies away as a dove, says she will find him when she wears out her iron shoes and staff; at the spring, the maid says she is collecting water for Chamber-Tiar; the wife, disguised as a beggar, throws her ring into the jug; THU recognizes him, comes for her; the devas want to eat her, THU's mother gives tasks; 1) sweep - do not sweep the room (collect garbage on middle); 2) go to a neighbor behind bars (give meat lying in front of the horse to the dog, grass from the dog to the horse, venerate the neighbor's chest thrown behind her back); 3) fill the cauldron with tears (add salt to the water ); 4) fill the bag with fluff (the birds gave); during the wedding, THU tied the daughter of the devas to a pole instead of the padishah's daughter, runs with his wife; she throws a comb (spikes), soap (slippery), a jug (water); THU became a gardener, his wife in a garden; a tree and a snake wrapping him (the devas broke the net - they tore off their little finger); into flowers at the feet of the padishah; he gave them to the devas, they bite into grains, the chickens peck, two grains remain, turn into young man and girl, getting married]: 48-54, 105-109; Kurds: Jalil 1989, No. 16 [the shepherd had a snake son; demanded that the father marry the padishah's daughter; fulfills his conditions (bring a caravan camels, build a palace, spread the carpet); at night she sheds snakeskin, turns into a handsome man; mother-in-law spies, throws his skin into the fire, the son-in-law flies away like a bird, the wife will find him if she hears about forty dervishes; a young man tells how he visited a sliding rock, where another young man poured water to forty dervishes; a wife finds a spouse, reunites with him]: 203-207; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [wife the shepherd gave birth to the Pumpkin, the Pumpkin Son asks the father to marry the daughter of the hakim; fulfills the condition to bring 40 horsemen with gold armor by morning, gets a wife; the pumpkin splits, Mehmed Khan comes out of it, says his wife to make coffee, but not let it boil; the coffee boils, the young man disappears; the wife asks her father-in-law to make her iron sandals and an iron staff, promises to look for M. until he wears them out; he wanders in vain for seven years ; asks his father to build a palace, listens to the stories of travelers in it; a guide boy tells how he sat in a bucket that rolled out of a rock, got into a rock, where 40 pigeons flew in, turned into young men, alone sad; the wife penetrates the same way; M. tells them to run, his mother will not let them go kindly; M. turns into a shepherd, his wife becomes a sheep; the mother recognizes them, but since the bride was more beautiful than her son, she blesses ]: 23-28.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [ahund saw a cucumber floating in the stream; brought home, ate, became pregnant, gave birth to a turtle son; he asks to marry him a princess; the vizier advises him to be angry and give the impossible assignment; the king orders to bring 7 camels loaded with gold and gems, and a golden rooster on top; the turtle did everything, got the princess, got out of the shell at night, became handsome, told no one tell; once a husband said he wanted to visit his relatives; his wife asked permission to go with him; he turned his wife into a needle and stuck him in a hat, turned himself into a pigeon and flew; told his wife to venerate his mother's breasts and not let go until she swore by her father's pain and mother's milk; the demoness mother agreed not to touch her daughter-in-law, but asked her sister to kill her: she would send bring her daughter-in-law a mortar; but her husband is a magician himself and found out everything; gave his wife sleep powder to throw at the inhabitants of the house to which they were sent for a mortar; then her mother-in-law sent her daughter-in-law to wash it white a black board; the husband turned the black board into a white cloth; the demoness insists that the son take another wife (probably a niece}; he pretends to agree; as soon as he goes to her, with his earthly wife they tore off their clothes, threw them on a pile of manure; the husband cut off the new bride's head, took it again, dressing up his first wife; they flew away together in the form of pigeons; when they found the headless bride in the morning, the demonets rushed into chase; the husband turned himself into a lousy shepherdess, his wife into a calf; the next time into a flower and a tree; the husband brought his wife to her parents, and he became a grenade on the back of the king's hand {the wife's father is king}; the demons asked to give them grenades; the king, as his daughter's husband taught him, threw him on the ground; he crumbled in grains; the demonets became chickens, began to peck for grains; one grain became a rooster, he rolled chickens cheeks; everything is fine, wedding celebrations again]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 15:71-76; Persians: Ottomans 1958 [childless woman prays for God to give her a child like even a pumpkin; gave birth pumpkin, her husband left her; she raised a pumpkin, sent her to school; shahzade sees a girl coming out of the pumpkin, hides again; manages to put a ring on her finger, wants to marry only the owner of the ring; maids go around the houses, her hand sticks out of the pumpkin, shahzade marries a pumpkin, the beauty goes out, stays with him; her mother visits her, the lion wants to eat it; the daughter sends her mother back in a pumpkin; the lion breaks she eats a pumpkin as his wife, the bride goes out and stays with him;]: 249-252; Osmanov 1987 [a childless woodcutter wants to kill a snake, which promises to be his son Sabzkaba ("green caftan"); tells him to marry his daughter the ruler of Shakarhava ("sweet wish"); he demands 70 bags of jewelry, etc., S. sends, receives his wife, takes off his snakeskin at night; warns her not to burn; otherwise, in order to return him, Seven iron dresses, shoes, staffs will have to be worn out; Sister S. came, threw her skin into the fire; S. goes in search; meets women, girls, everyone says that their father S. went to S. and disappeared, they would kill her; one girl carries water to S., S. throws a ring into the jug; S. meets Sh., tells him to venerate his diva mother's chest; mother-in-law tells him to pour tears on the floor (S. performs); wash the black the bag is white (dip it in the water when the white water flows); bring a sieve from her diva sister, she must break Sh.; S.: there are bones in front of the horse, the straw in front of the dog must be shifted; put cotton wool in each the bell on the door; S. grabbed the sieve and ran away; at the wedding of the divas, S. and S. put hot candles in their arms, but they did not throw the candles; at night S. killed the bride and groom, ran with Sh. S. became a broom, S. became a rope; uncle (garden and gardener); father (mill and miller); mother (cypress and dragon); S. killed his mother, everything is fine]: 301-306; Osmanov 1958 [dervish gives pomegranates to be eaten by childless the shah's wife and the apple are the wife of the vizier; the vizier gives pomegranate to his wife, she gives birth to a daughter Bibi-Mehrnegar (B.), the wife of a shah, a son in the guise of a black snake named Mirza Um-Humar (M.); the shah orders the vizier to give her daughter for his son; at night, the serpent sheds its skin, becomes a young man; at the request of his father-in-law, B. burns the skin when he learns that it will burn in the fire from the husks of garlic and onions; M. says that she will not find it before wears out seven iron dresses, a pair of shoes, staffs, chews seven boxes of chewing gum; on the way she meets seven divas, throws a box each; throws a ring into a jug that the maid carries for M.; she pours water into M.'s palm, he recognizes the ring; to prevent his aunt from eating B., M. disguises her as a maid; opens it, promising the divas not to kill B.; the aunt demands 1) sweep the yard with a broom covered with pearls so that no one falls (M. performs); 2) water the yard with a sieve (the same); 3) take the "play-dance" box to the aunt's brother, bring "grab and plant" from him; on the way she opens the box, cannot put the dancers back; burns the hair, M. comes, puts it back, tells them to do everything contrary to his aunt's order; accordingly, B. throws straw horse, bones to the dog, calls a hole with mud and blood with honey, opens a closed door, closes an open door, greets everyone, leaves one box, grabs another, runs, doors, etc. refuse to detain her; M. marries her daughter aunts, cuts off her head at night, B. says goodbye to all objects, forgets about the stone (a measure of weight); B. and M. run, the stone wakes up her aunt, she pursues; the fugitives throw 1) a reed (reed thickets), 2) a needle (needle forest), 3) salt (salt marsh), 4) sea foam (sea); aunt asks how they crossed; M. replies what's on the rocks; she steps on foam flakes, sinks]: 15-24 (=Rosenfeld 1958:103-111); Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 6 (Kerman) [the wives of the vizier and king are pregnant; the king proposes to marry children if they are of different sexes; the vizier has a daughter, Mer Niga (Eye of Grace), the king has a son, a black serpent Miz Mast, or Humar (Sleepy Head); on the wedding night, H. takes off his skin, appears as a young man; puts his skin back on in the morning; the king tells his daughter-in-law to prevent her husband from turning into a snake; the prince tells his wife that his skin can Burn it in a fire made of egg shells, a broom handle and hair from a dog's tail; in which case it will disappear and they won't see each other; MN burns the skin; the prince says his wife will find him after trampling seven pairs iron shoes and wearing out seven paper cloaks; after wearing out the last pair, MN meets a slave; she says that H. is going to marry; MN throws the ring into the jug, tells the slave to make it falls into the hands of H. along with water; after recognizing the ring, H. finds MN; she faces death if found out; MN pretends to be a slave; H. gives her his curl, tells her to burn her hair every time she needs it help; mother of the bride H. (this is his aunt) tells the imaginary maid 1) sweep with a broom to which the pearls are attached without losing a single pearl; they immediately crumble, MN calls H., he does everything; 2) bring water in a colander and sprinkle the floor (X. performs); 3) fills the box with stinging insects, says that it is full of pearls, tells you to take it where it should be; throw bones on the horse on the way, straw the dog, do not open the closed ones doors, do not close the open ones, do not go to the hole with dirt and blood; MN looked into the box, insects crawled over it; H. collected them; ordered them to do the opposite of what his aunt told him to do; MN opens and closes the doors, greets everyone, gives bones to the dog, horse straw, says that she would like to taste honey from a sweet pit; the aunt orders the door, the dog, the hole to catch the girl; they refuse; on the wedding day, the aunt tells his wife to put candles on the fingers of the slave (i.e. MN) to illuminate the path for the bride; the prince tells his wife to say goodbye to all things; after the wedding ceremony, she cuts off her head; takes away many; she forgot to say goodbye to the pound weight; the kettlebell talks about the bride's murder and escape; Aunt H. and her husband (they are divas) follow the fugitives; turning to God in Solomon's name, H. throws reeds, it turned into reeds; the needle is a grove of needles; salt is a salt marsh; sea foam is the sea with a clot of foam floating in it; aunt: how did you get there? Kh.: stepped on a rock in the middle of the sea (this is foam); the pursuers jumped on it, drowned; everything is fine]: 25-32; mountain Tajiks [ask the old woman's calf to marry him Shah's daughter; first they beat the old woman, then the vizier proposes to condition that two rams fight in the sky, and seedlings immediately grow on the street; the calf goes to the parents on Mount Kof, who fulfill the conditions; after the wedding, the calf turns handsome; wife burns veal skin]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 7:47-48; Yazgulyam [the poor man found an egg on the mountain slope, left it in the pantry, a calf appeared; the poor man and his wife died, the calf stayed with the poor man's mother; fills the pantry with food; tells him to marry him the royal daughter; the king wants to hang the old woman, the vizier advises giving the calf difficult errands; 1) shady apple trees along roads; 2) a mill with grain and meat compartments; 3) roof gutters, butter flows one by one, milk on the other; 4) three yards are full of gold; by morning everything is ready, the wedding, the calf turns into a person]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 22:241-243 (=Edelman 1966, No. 7:197-199); the Wakhans [the shepherd's son is a lame chicken; grew up quickly, tells him to marry him the king's daughter; the king wants to kill the shepherd, the vizier advises not to do this; the king demands 1) bring the Talking and Laughing Rubob; HC sends his father to bet, tells him to ask Rubob on his behalf, they give him; 2) 40 white camels loaded into the tower, 40 gazelles with the same horns, a garden with different fruits overnight; HC tells his father to throw handfuls of fruit behind him, everything appears; HC gets a princess, turns into a handsome pari at night; the princess burns his guise he flies away as a dove; she comes to the plane tree, there are three pari men, her husband is among them, takes his wife, reigns on the throne of her father-in-law]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 21:235-240; Shugnans [old man finds a baby girl with a ruby in her mouth; when she is 12 years old, she says that they will bring a rooster at night, let her father marry him a royal daughter; the rooster says his name is Shoisilangor; at night he throws off cock's face; the king orders to create 1) a garden with fountains of water and milk, 2) a mill that grinds three types of grain at once, 3) a shady alley from the royal house to the groom's house (girl and rooster are all easy create); S. appears to the king in his true form, he is happy; after the wedding, the young mother persuades him to throw her cock's face into the fire; S. flies to Mount Kof, his wife will find him when she wears out her clothes; a hand from a spring gives her an invisible hat; finds Sh.; a feast; the young visit the king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 20:223-235; Baluchi [a shepherd changes a camel for a girl who dies during childbirth, Shutar Bacha's son ("son of a camel") is fed camel milk, him; only the king's daughter says he can be taught to speak, the king is angry about giving her to the SB; he speaks, gets rich, leaves with a caravan ; the divas gives him four grenades, he sends them to his wife with jewelry in them; the SB becomes ruler himself; his father-in-law also gives him his throne]: Porozhnyakov 1989:63-69; Uzbeks [elderly spouses are childless, the fox asks to be their son; does any job easily; tells him to marry the Shah's daughter; the old man is executed, the fox revives him three times, the Shah has to give his daughter; he takes off his fox for the night the skin is made handsome; the wife burns the skin; the husband leaves, the wife will find him by demolishing her iron staff and boots; she does so, she meets her husband when he hunts, the spouses are happy]: Afzalov et al. 1972:122 -126.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [childless old woman is ready to give birth to at least a dog; gives birth to a puppy; son asks to bring him a bride; the bride is afraid of him, he tore her teeth; the old woman brings a new one, she accepts dog, at night he turns handsome; mother and wife burned dog skin; the handsome man left, saying that his wife would find him, wearing out three iron batozhki; the wife comes sequentially to three old women, they give copper, silver, gold combs; husband plays ball, wife combs her hair, ball flies through her window every time; she asks players to let her husband's wife Ulita sleep 1) on the doorstep of the house, 2) at her feet, between spouses; husband recognizes wife, Ulita jumps into the lake; husband and wife return to his parents]: Czarnoluski 1962:171-175; Latvians: Aris 1971:144-147 [=Alksnite et al. 1958:212-215; childless the couple asks for a child as tall as a hedgehog; a Hedgehog gets out of the stove, says that he is their son; herds pigs; the king is lost, promises a daughter if he takes him out of the forest; at night the wife sees a hedgehog filmed a fur coat, burns; The hedgehog suffers for two weeks, then turns into a prince], 148 [a childless woman accidentally cuts off her toe, asks her son to be even as tall as a finger; the finger turns into a boy, carries the woman's husband has breakfast, mows for it; the master buys it for a hat of money; the boy hides in a mushroom, he is eaten by a cow; the hostess hears a voice from a cow, the cow is stabbed, the boy hides in a ham, gives beggar; he is frightened of his voice, throws a ham, the wolf has eaten the meat; the boy inside the wolf tells him to take himself to his father in the kitchen; the father killed the wolf, the son got out; they live well]; Lithuanians [woodcutter brings home a hedgehog; while sleeping with his wife, he cooks, cleans; old people adopt him; he asks to marry him the queen; the king tells 1) to take out all the manure overnight, plow the field, collect wheat, bake bread; The hedgehog performs everything, gets a wife, sheds her skin for the night, becomes handsome; the queen burns her skin, the husband goes to the sea for seven years, says that the queen will turn into iron what is for will touch {this motive is no longer used}; the father visits the Hedgehog, who allows his wife to come; tells her to collect white foam in a bundle; pulls his wife across the sea, through the fire; teaches her to identify him, when he becomes one of the storks (lowers his wings), one of the horses (in scab); her husband is returned to her, everyone is happy]: Lebite 1965:174-178; Swedes [hedgehog son]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 441:263; Finns [the wife gave birth, but the child is one head; he has grown up and demanded that a princess be married to him; the king demands 5 living foxes by tomorrow; the son has obtained the same head; the same is 5 bears; create a castle like a king's; wedding; husband warns his wife not to say that he is turning into a man, his legs are silver, his hands are golden, the sun is on his forehead, the moon is on the back of her head; but her mother-in-law got her drunk and she told her; when she speaks, Flowers fall from his mouth and nose; when she heard this, the husband became a dove, broke the window and flew south; the wife went to look for him; 7 years later she went to the house; they said that her husband had flown by 7 years ago and left it for her parcel; 7 years later the same in another house; food and drink in the first package, clothes in the second; they told me to go to the city, where her husband was a noble man; she met him; he sent letters asking what To consider the marriage to be true - first or second; everyone answered that it was the first; he sent away the new bride; they returned home, everything is fine]: Löwis of Menar 1922, No. 39:119-123; Lutsie (1893) [old people are childless, they have found a white snake, at night she turns into a beautiful young man, and during the day she turns into a snake again; asks to marry him a princess; the old man went to the king; king: you will receive it if you come not full and not hungry; not naked or dressed; son: sip oatmeal; wrap yourself in a net; king: come in a horse-drawn carriage; create a palace, the road to my palace is covered with velvet, silver along the edges and golden apple trees with silver and golden apples; the church is made of wax, they serve in it, the candles light up themselves; the snake son does everything; the evening after the wedding, the serpent turned into a young man; the princess's sisters threw snakeskin into the fire; husband: now look for me with three pairs of iron shoes; also three iron hats, three iron beans in your pocket; go to my sister, she will teach me further; the one in the room that turns on a chicken leg; turned the girl into a needle, hid it on her chest; an old devil came, the hostess said that he was the one who was flying around the world; in the morning she gave me a gold spinning wheel, silver spindle; sent it to her second sister (all the same, gave a precious handkerchief); the third (still the same) gave an embroidered tablecloth and gave a ball to follow; tyn around the apple orchard, only for one stake the head is not yet planted; the damn daughter bought a spinning wheel with a spindle overnight with her husband, but gave him a sleepy potion; the same second night (handkerchief); on the third he quietly poured the potion; the husband killed the devil with iron with a rod, took the precious items, he and his wife run to her older sister, her head is cut off; he revives her with dead and alive vodka; the same with her middle and younger sisters; yudas are chasing, her husband left tablecloth, it became a lake of fire, the youths could not cross; everyone got home, they still live]: Annom et al. 2018:84-89; Lutsie (zap. 1893; the informant knew a fairy tale from her grandmother, who said only in Lutsi dialect) [childless parents ask for a child even the size of a snake; a land man was born; came to a family with three daughters; marries the eldest, she does not want to; snake: if you don't go, no one at all he would take it; at a serpent feast, he crawled to the bride's knees, she threw him off and pressed him down with her foot; on the wedding night he cut her throat; the same with her middle sister; the younger snake covered him with an apron; at night he became a young man, and in the afternoon a serpent again; created an island with a city in the middle of the sea, came with his wife to live there; they have three sons; the wife wants to visit her relatives; her husband put her and her children in a boat, she will come by herself; the wife should not Let him not tell his brothers about her husband and children; they returned safely; but when they went to visit their relatives again, the youngest boy told his mother's brother everything; he called the snake in the same words as his wife called, he came, he cut off his head; when the woman came, there was no one; the youngest boy confessed; the mother turned into a birch tree, the eldest son into cambium, the middle son into birch bark, and the youngest into butterflies, who tremble on the bark]: Annom et al. 2018:202-205; Estonians [a childless couple has a hedgehog son; climbs into a bull's ear and herds a herd; comes to the father of three daughters on a rooster, only the youngest agrees to marry him; tells his wife to hit him three times with a stick; turns into a young man, fallen needles into pieces of gold; now the older sisters regret not agreeing]: Normann, Lätt 1968:72-74; Karelians (Kalevala District): Concca 1959, No. 30 (1938) [the tree asks the old man not to cut it down, promises to do good; the old man tells his wife, she sends him to cut down the tree; for the third time, the old man the old woman's wish has to be fulfilled; the stump asks the old man to take it too; he replies that he cannot uproot the stump in winter; then the stump gives the old man a golden head; the old woman wants to sell it, the old man is against it; the head tells its relatives to fill the house with food; next time with clothes; now the old woman wants a hut; the hut is ready, and now the head wants the old woman to get her bride; one girl agrees, at night the head turns into a guy; the mother scolds her daughter, she has to tell the truth; after that, the head disappears; the old man goes in search, the old widow explains where to go to grab son; son enters the hut, the old man jumps on him, falls, the son disappears again; the old woman is the same; the wife goes, grabs him, but the husband disappears again; the widow promises to help, but tells her sheep to be sheared; the old man on horseback says that sheep will fight wolves, wool must be picked up; the widow sends for a trough to the lord of the sea; the rider brings a trough, the woman gives him money; the widow tells him to bring birdo from the forest; the husband himself brings birdeau to the widow, stays with his wife]: 134-141; Onegin 2010, No. 24 [the elderly have a son, the second head is a snake; a widow is next to her, she has three daughters; the son demands one of them as his wife; they brought the eldest, he ate her at night ; the same with the middle one; the youngest ordered the blacksmith three iron bars and a hundred iron snakes; before going to bed, she put a snare under every door and every window; she began to beat the snakehead with twigs; he calls demons, they climbed through windows and doors, died in snare; when all the bars broke, the serpent turned into a dog; the wife refused to lie down with the dog, the husband became handsome; said that he would be a dog during the day, man at night; the wife broke the ban, told her parents everything; the dog husband ran away; the wife goes in search; her mother tells her to order three pairs of shoes, three staffs, three swirls, all made of iron; shoes, staffs, swirls (you have to keep them in your mouth) must be worn out; if you find your aunt (i.e. widow's sister), she will tell you what to do; my aunt says that Suoyatar's husband is now married; she has three flax barns and wool, she will ask to spin, if she fails in two weeks, she will eat it; the aunt gives a pipe: girls will come to her sound, do the job; as a reward, ask S. for a night with her husband; you have to go to bed in the bathhouse, five chicken Put eggs in the heater, run away; S. will answer the eggs; the girls spin at night, the husband sees his wife, they negotiate; S. answers the eggs until late in the morning; when she finally rushed in pursuit, the wife spent a line on earth, it turned into a sword, cut off S.'s legs]: 260-264; Yermolov 1959 [childless old people dream of a son even with a dog's nose; a boy was born in dog skin; grew up asking his father to marry him; the girl eats the meat herself, throws the groom's bones like a dog; at night he tore it; the same with the second girl; the third gives the groom meat; at night he took off his dog skin, became handsome; the old woman tells her daughter-in-law the skin burn; husband: you won't see me until you trample three pairs of iron boots, three iron buttons melt in your mouth, three iron staffs are worn off; the girl went, trampled one pair, melted, worn out; sees a hut - turns around; "Turn to the forest with a window, and a door to me!" ; in the hut they answered: they did not see the passers, only the wind missed; they gave copper and a copper scallop; the same in the second hut (the silver ones hung and the comb); in the third - gold; let him comb hair and will put up copper hangs and comb where beautiful Katerina and her husband are playing ball at the extreme hut; give the comb to sleep one night at the door at the doorstep; the same for the second night (silver); on the third (gold); then KK grabbed a box of needles, threads, beads, colored scraps and ran to the seashore; threw it all into the sea and ordered it to turn into shells; so shells, starfish, etc. scattered on the bottom; and husband and wife returned home]: 67-69.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the wife of a poor Tatar gave birth to a snake; a snake son tells his father to marry the daughter of a rich man; he beats the poor man for the first time, then cuts to pieces, burns; the serpent resurrects the father every time; the daughter of a rich man proposes to demand 41 from the groom a savrasuya mare, a palace, a garden with birds; the serpent climbs into a hole, tells his father to pull it all out of there; on the wedding night, the serpent turns into a handsome man; the wife's sisters burn snakeskin, the groom disappears; one hunter sees a house on the lake shore, a bird flies there to drink milk, sings about what happened; the wife comes to the house, throws her ring into the milk, the husband finds human appearance, returns to his wife]: Chetkarev 1948:58-63; Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 22 [the bull tells the old owner to marry the khan's daughter for him; the old man is beaten; after the third time, the khan agrees; at night the bull takes off her skin, the bride is happy, burns her skin; the husband orders to pour milk from the barn, walk with an iron staff for the milk stream; flies away as a white bird; the khan's daughter comes to the elder to her husband's brother, he sends to the middle, to the youngest, the eldest gives food for the middle cow, the middle one for the younger's evil geese; all four brothers gather, the fourth (still in the form of a bull? or an ogre?) feeds and hides the girl; the elders say that honey and meat were not enough; the elder advises the girl to wrap herself in silk when her fourth brother executes her; she refuses, is ready to answer; the husband accepts human appearance, everyone is happy], 23 [the king drove the old men to live in the forest; the old woman gave birth to a snake; he grew up quickly, asking his father to marry the king's daughter; the old man was cut to pieces, the serpent revived him; the vizier suggests telling the groom to build a golden bridge overnight; the serpent takes the princess, sheds her snakeskin, tells anyone not to tell anyone that he is human; the wife burned her skin, the princess went in search, her ship drowned, she came to a girl who turned her into a dog; to another into a cow, to the third into a human again; gives a letter to the mother of fairies, teaches her what to do, but on the condition that she becomes a second wife; mother fairies give butter and cheese that never run out; the princess picked up the wounded quail, began to fight the golden eagle, the quail rolled out the golden eagle's egg, the princess broke it, the palace doors immediately opened, meet her husband; returned home, lives with two wives]: 125-128, 128-132.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the old woman says she is pregnant, asks her husband to bring her dragon meat; he finds a yellow dragon killed by a black dragon, the old woman eats a dragon, gives birth to a snake son named Shakhimardan; he asks Nursula, Babakhan's daughter, to be married to him; Khan orders him to be chopped into pieces twice, S. revives him; then the Shah orders him to bring so many horses to fill the city; S. gives his father a diamond sword, tells his father cut off the head of a black snake, horses came out of his hole; the khan gives his daughter, who sheds his skin, turns into a handsome man; tells his wife to hide her skin; others spied, tried to take the skin away, S. snatched it out, he flew away like a swallow, told him to look for him until his iron hat and staff wear out; in the desert, N. comes to the daughter of Padishah Gulistan Marzhan, kidnapped by the Black Giant; she learns from her husband that the swallow flew to the city of Mertik, where demons reside; N. finds Sh.; he brings her and M. to their parents in the form of a bird, restores sight to the blind khan, lives with his wife]: Tursunov 1983:217-224; Kyrgyz [poor old man and old woman; an old man trapped a badger; asks not to kill: he will become a son, he will take care of them; a badger drags partridges to the elderly, old people eat up, raise cattle; a badger offers to move to the village; easily drives away dogs; Khan tells them to come with the badger; Khan has a daughter Aiperi; the badger speaks to her by name; a year later the badger begins to wither away, says he is in love, asks to marry A.; the khan ordered the old man to break his arms and legs, tie him to a mare and sent home; the badger tells the old woman not to worry: the old man is intact again; next time the old man is broken in half; the old man is broken in half; the old man came to life again; the old man was killed, burned, the badger revived him from a handful of ashes; the khan is advised to give the old man an impossible task; let him plant a Munaru tree and a plane tree before, and a lake of milk and a lake at the roots oils, let fish jump from one lake to another; let there be only sheep in one trough, yaks in the other, horses in the third, camels in the fourth, and even if their number is innumerable; let them be between two trees are a golden throne so that the khan can sit on it and admire the fish; at night, the badger asks the old man to slaughter and cut the mare, his ears turned into two trees, his eyes into lakes with butter and milk; cut the hair from the mare's mane turns into fish, the skull into the golden throne, the blood and contents of the intestines and stomach into four species of cattle, the legs into 4 golden horseback riding; in the morning the mare stands in its place whole and unharmed; the khan gave his wife to the badger; her good aunt cheers A., the angry aunt mocks her; at night the badger takes off his skin, turns out to be a young man of unearthly beauty; the good aunt rejoices; in the morning the badger puts the skin back on, tells his wife to wait; but the trouble that the evil aunt will bring will have to endure 6 years; the next evening an evil aunt serves, throws her skin into the fire; the young man turns into a bird and flies away through the upper opening of the yurt; an angry aunt is tied to the tails of 40 horses; A. goes to look for her husband; the khan gives her iron boots and an iron stick; she wanders for 5 years, in her sixth year meets a tall white-bearded old man; he advises to go to a hut at the foot of the mountain; an old witch in the hut; we must ask to accept her as a daughter; the old man will turn around in the wind, shake the hut until morning; in the morning the witch will get tired and lie down with her head on A.'s lap; let A. tear the witch's hair out until her eyes roll and turn white, but they should not turn red; the old man hands A.'s hair, tells A. run them over the witch's body when her eyes turn white, she will twist and freeze; after that A. must run; months later, the old man meets A. again, tells her to go to a hill that looks like a skullcap, there will be that white yurt in which A. spent her wedding night; in the yurt there is a golden stand (for birds of prey), A. must dig into the ground under it; her husband will arrive, he will circle for several days, saying that it smells human; saying "where can man come from here", will sit on a stand; the old man hands Aiperi a net and says that her husband is the son of Peri, who gave birth to a child on top of a tree near the Khan's yurt, in that the moment when Khansha gave birth to A.; seeing that the human child was a beautiful girl, Mother Peri spat on A.'s cheek, putting a mark; her peri husband's name is Aktilek; sitting on a stand, he will begin to say "fell asleep , fell asleep", but this means that he is awake; when he starts saying "woke up, woke up", then he will fall asleep; we must throw a net and hold it; Aktilek will fly out of the yurt and start wearing A. across the sky; three pigeons will arrive, also peri, talk to A.; the first will say, "Hey, long hair, short mind, are you an equal to Peri's son?!" ; the second will begin to feel sorry for A., and the third will offer help to go down to earth; Aktilek will ask A. to open his eyes, but only after the third sentence A. should open them; helping A. go down to earth, pigeons were bruised, so some pigeons are not white, but blue; Aiperi and Aktilek have healed happily]: Sabyr uulu 2008:555-572; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 5 [the old man finds a frog, that calls him father, old woman mother; marries the emperor's daughter; he asks to build a golden bridge, next to willows with pearls; The frog destroys and restores the emperor's palace, fulfills the requirement; At night, the Frog turns into a young man, the wife finds skin, throws it into the well; the husband weakens; the skin is taken out, but it has already begun to rot; the Frog says that he is the son of the Dragon Lord, tells him to leave the valley; the city is flooded, the Dragon is flying away], 25 [the Empress gave birth to a watermelon, threw it into the river, it was picked up by a fisherman, the boy Vonschir comes out of the watermelon; the adopted father died frightened of his thunderous voice; he marries, he has two children; the emperor dreams of a tree with two fruits; changes clothes and goes to look for a son; sells himself to V.; he recognizes his father, everyone returns to the palace]: 56-61, 513.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [Childless old man Kogutei finds a beaver, adopts; Bobrenok asks K. to marry him to Temene-Ko, Karaty-Kan's youngest daughter; the eldest six are already married; KK orders K. to cut in half, send the corpse home on a bull; Bobrenok revives him; next time K. is burned, ash is sent home; Bobrenok revives K. with healing water, gives strength; he throws six son-in-law for the mountains, KK agrees to give TC for Bobrenk; he easily gives a rich ransom for the bride, pulling property on the mountain from under the birch tree; KK calls only beggars and cripples to the wedding; 1) six son-in-law they return without prey, Bobrenok catches six marals on foot, leaves them to his sons-in-law; they give him giblets; he turns giblets into a selected dish, makes the meat inedible; 2) next time his sons-in-law give The beaver is meat, they take giblets, but the meat is delicious, and the giblets are inedible; 3) KK tells you to catch a mare; The beaver catches, gives it to his sons-in-law, they cut off and give him their little fingers for this; 4) bring the foals stolen Kan-Kerede bird; Bobrenok sheds his beaver skin, tells his wife to hide it, turns into a hero Kuskun-Kara-Matyr; his father is a mountain, his mother is the sea; he catches a heroic black stallion; his sons-in-law do not recognize him; he promises to bring them kidnapped foals, for which they cut off and give him their thumbs; KKM comes to heaven, where Kan-Kerede's nest on silver poplar; her chicks every year a seven-headed snake eats; one chick cries (it will be eaten today), the other laughs; the snake comes out of the sea, the cash register cuts off its heads with an arrow; the elder chick held out its wing, the cash register crossed it across the sea to nest; chicks reply that their parents will arrive with rain (tears) and wind (flapping wings), hide the cash register under their wings; birds give the foals to the cash register; six sons-in-law prepared a trap pit, the cash register fell, ran into stake; his horse was hung from a pole; Kan-Kerede revived the cash register with healing water; the CSA reproaches his wife for showing her sister-in-law beaverskin, she was burned; the wife explains that she was drunk; the CSA burns her skin, Curses the KK, his people and land, goes to his father, turns him into many young men and girls, creates cattle, leaves; TC goes to look for him; she is greeted by the daughter of Solntsa-Kana and the daughter of Month-Kana, they are the wives of the CCA; The cash register also brings his wife, a chick (i.e. daughter) Kan-Kerede; he is married with all four]: Yutkanakov, Tokmashov 1935:41-171; Shors [someone broke the loops, the tops of hunter Abyshka; a bear cub comes out, asks to adopt him; gives tues, any food in the tues; while the bear is away, the hungry lost Chash Kan arrives; A. feeds him, shows him tues, the Cheka takes him away; the bear cub howls, the Cheka comes, returns the tues, promises not to do anything else; the bear cub tells him to marry his daughter Kara Kana; she is given away, after the wedding, the bear cub asks what she knows; the girl replies: nothing, the father knows everything; the bear cub sends her back; the same with her daughter Saryg Kana; daughter Ak Kan: only you know; the bear cub marries her, becomes Kara Molat's man]: Arbachakova 2010, No. 2:181-203 (in another translation Chudoyakov 2002:25-33); South Altai Tuvans [a childless old woman picked up a frog with a scoop, which promised to become her son (he was God's youngest son Gurmustu); the old man feeds him meat; at night in a yurt rainbow, by morning the frog turns into a boy; he herds goats; tells him to marry his youngest daughter Haraathay Haana; for the first time an old man is killed, burned, the Frog revives him; in the second, Khan demands so that a sugar tree grows on the left hand, and a golden poplar with a golden cuckoo on the right; the Frog turns his sword and sheath into them; gets a wife; he seems to be a young man in a white yurt, a stranger a frog in hut; three sons-in-law go hunting, only the Frog shot the game; sons-in-law take the meat, leave it giblets; but his dish is the most delicious; the khan asks to find who is kidnapping the foals; they are dragged away by the Khan bird Gardy, whose snake eats eggs; the Frog kills a snake crawling to two chicks; their mother swallows and regurgitates it; returns the horses, warns that his sons-in-law have prepared a carpet covered for him a hole; he throws them into a hole himself; cuts off the heads of Khan, Khanshe, and their daughters, they were mangys and mangysikhs; he leaves]: Taube 1994, No. 20:196-202; Mongors: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:90-98 [in the elderly the couple is born a frog son Bawo; treating his father lunch, he becomes a young man, but the father and mother appear only in the guise of a frog; quickly plows the field, returns the ox taken by the rich neighbor; marries one by one, the official's three daughters; at first he refuses, but when B. laughs and then cries, a terrible storm begins; the eldest, middle daughter tries to kill B., he returns them; when he marries the youngest daughter, the ground shudders; the girl agrees; her father demands 1) to lay carpets from house to house (B. tells me to throw wool, it turns into carpets); 2) willows should grow along the way, 3) and songbirds on them ( everything is done at once); after the wedding, he removes frog skin, but only in front of his wife; incognito wins horse racing; wife burns skin; husband says that he is the son of Zhuoma Buddha, that he will not survive the night without frogskin; sends his wife west to a heavenly woman, she will send warmth, he will not freeze; the wife does not have time to return, the husband is dead], 182-183 [the elderly couple has no children; the wife has a swollen finger, an abscess opened, there is a frog son; (var.: on the fifth day of the fifth month, you can not take water from water bodies, because frogs are swimming at this time; the wife washed her hands, then the finger is swollen); jumping, takes lunch to his father on field, plows; goes to marry the girl; her mother does not let him; then the Frog cries, the storm begins, he gets a wife; on the way to his house she tries to kill him with a stone, fails; at night the husband takes off his frog skin, becomes handsome; the wife secretly burns her skin, everything is fine].

Western Siberia. Southern Selkups [the old man is going to shoot hazel grouse, he asks to take him home; after a few years he grew up asking the old man to go to another village, where the king, he has three daughters, to marry him one of them; each time the king cuts the old man into pieces, sends him home, Hazel grouse revives him; the youngest agreed; in the evenings Ryabchik took off his skin, gave it to his wife, became human; went hunting; envious the sisters found it, burned his skin, the husband disappeared; the old woman gives his wife a ball, she walks along the thread to her husband's sister; she teaches him to hide behind the mirror, hold her husband by the finger; the third time she held it, the husband stayed]: Bykonya et al. 1996:139-153 (retelling in Tuchkov 2004:238); Tuchkova 2004 [the elderly have a bull son (Pyka i); the old man has married him twice to the royal doego at least since the Bronze Age. origins; each time the king orders to cut off his head, P. licks his body, revives him, sends him again; the third youngest daughter agrees; P. comes handsome, builds a palace; older sisters out of envy they burned the bull's skin, it disappeared in a whirlwind; the bride visited P.'s three sisters, the youngest helped him find and hold him, sewing him into cow's skin; when seven cow skins burst, he became human again]: 254 -255; Eastern Khanty (b. Pim) [the only son is already 18 years old, he still sleeps in a cradle; wakes up, tells his father to marry the king's youngest daughter; 1) the king asks to build a palace painted with birds and animals, sparks fly when you enter; orders to cut the petitioner in half; when brought in, the son makes his father whole; turns into a handsome man, turns to his seven older star brothers, who create a palace overnight; 2) the king cuts the old man into three parts, orders to build a bathhouse; the same; 3) cuts into small pieces, orders to make a river of hot water; the king sends a daughter, at night a snotty baby becomes handsome; the king visits the eldest, middle daughter, they sleep with his back to her husband; finds the youngest with a handsome man; he says that the secret is too early, he will have to leave; the wife has worn out three iron staffs, comes to the hut, the birds of prey Ekar and the hawk let her through; the old woman's husband says that a man has appeared overseas, a Chinese woman gives him wine, does not let him go anywhere; the old man gives a needle, a woman swims across the sea on it; smears coal, asks in the guise of a dirty girl the old man and the old woman take her to them; the old woman carries her buns to the palace, the woman puts a note in her loaf, the king finds it; the woman spends three nights at her husband's bedside, he finally recognizes her; they come back The Tsar gives his son-in-law the kingdom]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 113:125-132.

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Ilimpic, village. Murukta, Western 1940) [fish is not caught, the old man sees an otter (Dukun), wants to kill, he asks him to be taken by his son; to find a wife for him; the eldest, middle daughter of another person is refused, the youngest agrees; in the plague, D. turns into the shining young man, the wife hides the skin of an otter under a pile of chips; the sisters make him say where the skin is burned; they see D. in the fire; when he disappears, he gives his wife half an arrow; she shows her the way; the deer carries she crosses the river, she sews a tail on him; a goose transports him across another river, she gives him red shoes, embroiders patterns on her wings and neck; a woman transports him across a third river; there all women try wake up a young man who wakes him up, husbands him; this is D., his wife wakes him up; D. and his wife stay by the river]: Yermakov 1988:57-62.

Japan. Japanese: Ikeda 1971, No. 302 (including Okinawa) [older spouses find a boy Momo-taroo swimming down the river in a peach; he defeats the ogre and retrieves his treasures], 425A ( including the north of the Ryukyu Islands) [Son of the Snail. I. Because parents are too quick to wish for a child (C758.1; T553), they turn out to be a Snail (Frog, Slug, Snake) or Boy with a Finger (F535.1); he comes out of his mother's body in an unusual way by way, through the thumb or lower leg (T541; V52); in some cases, the son has been silent for many years (L124.1). II. The little boy easily controls the horse while sitting in its ear (F911.3.1), and when his father is fishing, he finds his son in its belly (F913). III. (1) After staying overnight in a wealthy house, he enters the master's daughter's bedroom or asks him to be left there, smears her lips with chewed rice, accuses her of stealing his rice, forcing him to marry him as redemption. (2) The three options begin as type 312 I (1) and II (1): The snail marries the farmer's three daughters, promising to irrigate his field (H1138). IV. A young wife most often seeks to change the situation (she presses the Snail at his request or on her own initiative {several options}, (5) Crumbles the shell when it leaves it; The snail turns into a handsome young man]: 71-72, 111; Ainu [the older sister gives birth to a boy; replies to the youngest that she conceived him while lying in the garbage; the youngest does so, giving birth to six ordinary mice and one gold one; her older brothers scold her; ordinary mice disappear; golden sneaks into her mother's brothers' ship, returns with expensive goods; brothers say they were successful thanks to him; mouse turns into a handsome boy]: Nevsky 1972:70-71.

SV Asia. Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 40 [the old man picked up a seal; the old woman offered to raise him as a child; the seal grew up and went to marry in a nearby camp; approached an old man who was planing tree; old man: why did you come from behind? if I came from the front, I would give you a woman; in an old man's yaran, women cut their neck to get fat for lamps; the seal came to the second camp; there's an old man and two daughters, one of them herds deer; the seal began to help her; when he returned with the deer, took off his skin, became a young man, ordered her skin to be put on the trade base, burn fat in lamps; married a girl and took her to her parents]: 106-108 (retelling in Beer- Glinka 2018:77); Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 16 (Markovo) [the seal went to look for a bride in a neighboring camp; the rich man's daughter ordered not to shoot at the seal; she was dragged by the canopy into a cold place; stabbed, they burned her mustaches, the girl treated her; the rich man told her to herd her deer; hiding from people's eyes, the seal turns into a man, all the deer are preserved; the rich man saw this, asked the young man not to turn into a seal, gave it daughter for him, he began to treat him well]: 34-36.