K78A. It heals when you swallow it. 29.30.32.-.34.

The demonic character swallows the cripples and regurgitates them healthy and prettier.

Kalmyks, Abazins, Chechens, Avars, Tatas, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Khufs, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, South Altai Tuvans.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899:23-33 [a mare gives birth to a boy, an umbilical cord is cut off by a stone that has fallen from the sky; Haradai-Mergen and Uladai-Mergen become his brothers; a boy kills three women's husbands; these are daughters of the sun, moon, stars; he marries the daughters of the sun himself, brothers to the other two; they envy the youngest, because his wife's face glows (first he stained him with ash); they leave a dagger at the kibitka, the youngest cuts off his legs; blind and armless come to him, help each other; kidnap the girl, make him his sister; tell him not to put out the fire; the fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for fire; the old woman sprinkles her in the hem of ash and coals, pierces a hole in the hem; on an ash trail comes to the girl, spoils her; cripples catch a witch, she makes them and the girl healthy, swallowing and spewing everyone; when she swallows legless, does not spew; others cut her, the sparrow screams, the little finger, the brothers find a healthy brother in the witch's little finger; the horse's son comes to the hole where his brothers are sitting; their wives are kidnapped by 15- head mousse; brothers let the horse's son down on a rope, he kills Musa, brothers pick up women, cut off the rope; he falls, is maimed; the mouse sucks his wounds, he breaks her leg, she eats leaves, recovers ; he also eats and recovers; on the one hand of the kibitki people cry (their snakes will eat them today), on the other hand they have fun (they are tomorrow); the serpent crawls on the side of the three eagles in the nest; the horse's son is killed, eagles explain to mothers who their savior is; for getting rid of the snake, people give him food for the eagle; he flies on an eagle, feeds it, finally cuts off a piece of his flesh; limps; the eagle swallows it, regurgitates it healthy; he comes to his brothers; they decide to fire arrows up; whoever is sinful, the arrow will nail him; the older brothers die, the horse's son owns everything], 34-43 [Arsalang, the youngest of three brothers, guards, sees thieves, returns stolen herds, kills thieves, brings their widows, marries the most beautiful woman with mud on her face, gives the other two to her brothers; they notice that A.'s wife is beautiful, the elder decides to kill A.; leaves a sword, A. cut off her legs; women quietly leave meat and vodka for him; a blind and armless man joins him; they kidnap the khan's daughter, make him a sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch for him, she sprinkles ash into her hem, punctures him; follows the trail, eats all the food; her brothers find her, beat her, she swallows everyone, regurgitating healthy; A. - does not belch; sister cities they find him in her little finger (the sparrow told me to look there); A. comes to the brothers' camp, the son recognizes him; the elder digs a hole, covers him with a nightmare, makes poisoned tea; the son warns A.; he throws him into the pit older brother and his wife, forgives the middle brother]; Vatagin 1964:106-115 [a mare of three brothers is screwed three times a day, but someone always kidnaps a foal born in the morning; the youngest, Burgin-Tsagan cuts off a foal's pearl tail and coral mane with an arrow when it is carried away by a whirlwind; consistently kills three mangas, takes everyone's wife; these are the daughters of the sun, moon and night sky, who are mangas grabbed when they flew in the guise of swans to swim; the older brothers envy that the youngest's wife is more beautiful, leave a sword at the entrance; the blind and armless come to the legless; they kidnap the khan's daughter, do sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for it, she puts the coals in the hem, finds a house on an ash trail, drinks the girl's blood with her copper beak; the brothers guard, beat the old woman, force swallow and belch everyone, they recover; B. is not regurgitated, the sparrow screams that he is in the finger of an old woman; under the guise of Gelyunga, B. comes to his brothers, his wife recognizes him; they play cards for the youngest's wife brother; B. cuts off their heads]; Jimbinov 1962 [an old man and an old woman want to slaughter their mare three times a day; each time the dog burns a string, the mare escapes; runs away at all; finds and feeds three newborn boys; flies away in the cloud, telling the youngest that his name is Kokode Wise; the brothers go to look for wives; K. meets an old woman and a girl, who gives him three cakes; K . gives them to the dog 15-headed Musa, she caresses him, he kills Musa; the same episode has 25- and 35-headed muses; the 35-headed one voice sounds in the sky, the other on the ground, one fang plows the sky, the other land; K. kills three old women - the mothers of Musa, takes everyone's wife, gives the elders to the brothers; they see the light coming from the youngest, are jealous; they leave braids at the doorstep, K. cuts off their legs; they come to him blind and armless; the daughter of a celestial is kidnapped, she is at home with them; enters a house where an old woman with only an eye on the back of her head asks to look in her head, gives ash and coals, punctures the hem; on the ash then comes to the house, sucks blood; friends watch, tell the old woman to cure everyone; she swallows everyone, regurgitates healthy; K. does not belch, the sparrow tells her to cut her finger, he is there; K. came to the brothers under like a gypsy; they made his wife a shepherdess; K. tells his brothers to shoot up, arrows fall on them, kill them; daughter-in-law ties hundreds of horses to their tails]: 31-45; Abazins [horses disappear in the village at night; Khan sends his eldest son, who hides in horror when he sees a terrible rider; the same youngest son; young servant Murat guards three nights, kills horsemen on white, bay, raven horses, hides horses; khan dissatisfied that the servant, not the sons, defeated the enemies; adopts M., but sends sons with him to return the kidnapped horses and kill M.; all three on broken horses come to the village of kidnappers, take them to wives of their widows; when leaving, M.'s wife tells them not to look through one window; he looks outside the window and golden shoes; when he returns, the wife explains that they were left by the heavenly maiden, whom she tried to catch in vain first husband; a black horse teaches M. not to stop in a hot village, to stop where the frost is, to grab the hair that causes flies to fight, exchange it for fly wings, in the form of a fly to heaven, bite that girl, promise to return her shoes; M. brings a heavenly girl, making a second wife; brothers are jealous, cut off M.'s legs in the forest, his wives are turned into maids; M. meets a blind, armless man , they were also maimed by their brothers; all three bring the girl to cook and wash; her fire goes out, she sees smoke, comes to the old woman; the old woman follows the ash trail, sucks the girl's blood; sister brothers they guard, grab an old woman, force her to swallow and regurgitate the girl, making her healthy; the same with cripples; M. does not regurgitate; the bird tells the old woman to burn, find a finger in the ash, M. in it; sister cities return girl to parents; unrecognized M. comes to Khan, where there is a feast and an archery competition; kills brothers with arrows, Khan dies of fear, M. becomes khan]: Tugov 1985, No. 29:54-66; Chechens [Eight brothers guard the herds, notice nothing; the ninth Khan Gammalt (only 10 years old) kills two robber sledges, marries their hero sister; envious brothers leave HG in front of sleeping the sword, he jumps up, is left without legs; he is joined by a blind and armless man; they kidnap the girl, tell her not to throw cookies into the fire; she throws, the fire goes out, she comes to the yeshap for fire; children yeshap gives her coal with ash in a sieve; on an ash trail, eshap comes to the girl to drink her blood; HG hides, cuts down 8 heads; she asks not to cut the ninth, swallows and regurgitates the handless man healthy and blind; HG does not belch, the tit screams that he is in the little finger; the severed little finger runs but is captured, HG is inside; he marries a beautiful woman]: Bagry 1930 (2), No. 45:159-166 (quail in Dalgat 1972:350- 364); Avars [Khan's mare gives birth to golden-tailed and golden-maned foals, but someone immediately steals them; the eldest, middle son falls asleep, the youngest Muin sprinkles salt on the wound, tries to snatch the foal from the kidnapper, tears off his leg; the brothers go in search, the elders stay in the cave, the youngest hides under the bridge three times, each time defeats a sledge jumping on a stolen foal; each time in front of the bridge the horse stops, but the sledge says that M. is not here, and if he does, he will kill him; the last sledge is on a three-legged foal, the fight with him is the hardest; M. takes the wife of that sledge for himself, gives the other two wives brothers; brothers leave their sword at the entrance to the cave, M. cut both legs to the knee, brothers take good and women away; Blind and Bald come to live with M.; kidnap Khan's daughter to cook for them; the fire went out, she came to Hart for fire, she gave it, but began to come to suck blood from her head; Bald, Blind remain on guard, afraid of Hart, do not say anything to Muin; M. grabs hart, makes her swallow Bald and Blind, belch healthy; warns that she will not belch him, for he killed her sledge sons; every organ of hers will have to be cut; Blind and Bald find M. in the little finger of Hart's leg, his his legs are healthy; M. comes to the brothers' wedding, only the youngest girl caught from the sledges recognizes him; no one can pull a bow, pulls only M., asks Pleshivy whether to shoot a chicken or a rooster, that replies that the chicken has nothing to do with it, M. kills the brothers with an arrow; M. marries a sledge girl and a kidnapped cook, M.'s friends marry two other sledge girls]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 32:311-316; Nogais [when he dies, the father tells his three sons to bring three bags of salt to his grave; they brought him, began to watch, the eldest two overslept, the youngest sees the horse in its rich decoration; he gives a hair, he will appear when necessary; the khan will give three daughters for the winners of the competition; the youngest calls the horse, pulls the brothers out of the swamp unrecognized, knocks down needles stuck in the mound, gets three wives, gives the eldest two brothers, takes the younger silver-haired woman for himself; the brothers tie a sword at the door out of envy, shout that the wolf is strangling the sheep, the sword cuts off the younger leg; five years later, the bear and the blind come; the blind pokes head into the bear's mouth, sees the light; the legless puts stumps, his legs grow back; at home he meets a boy with a star in his forehead, this is his son; his wife is happy; they poison the brothers and their wives, they die]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 62-64); tatas [three brothers, deaf, blind, and legless, asked the poor girl to be their sister; one day the fire went out, she saw smoke in the distance, came to the old Aeneas woman; she gave her a sieve of ash and with coals; then she came to her on the trail, searched her head, put her brain to sleep, then revived her; the brothers take turns guarding; Aeneas wins, sucks the brain of the legless and blind, the deaf wins her, tells them cure; Aeneas swallows a blind, legless man, regurgitates healthy; the deaf does not regurgitate; the girl notices that Aeneas bit off her little finger, threw it out the window; the brothers ripped his little finger, from there came out the third the brother is already hearing; the brothers killed Aeneas, got married, the girl was married]: Kukulla 1974, No. 5:57-60 (=Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 68:568-569).

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [mare Lali gives birth to the Golden Foal, then the Silver Foal, both disappear the first night; his grandfather has a grandson Badal; when he should be born Raven, his grandfather tells him to guard, the shadow takes him away a foal, but B. cuts off a claw the size of a plane tree, it was the Black Diva; B. and his older brothers go in search; at the crossroads it says, "If you go, you'll come back", "Either you stay alive or not", "Not at all you will return"; B. rides the third road, brothers first; B. comes to the palace, where Okkyz is a prisoner; first, the White Diva (frost) enters the bridge on the Silver Horse, the horse stops, B. kills the diva; then with the Yellow Diva (heat, on the Golden Horse); kills the Black Diva, who is on the Black Horse, the darkness clears, the sun shines; B. misses home, finds impoverished brothers in the bazaar, puts him on Zolote and Silver horses; brothers put their sword at the door, shout that enemies, the sword cuts off B.'s legs; an armless runner comes, the khan cut off his hands; they find the blind man, the khan blinded him, took the bride; they returned her, she cooks, the fire went out, she saw smoke in the distance, came to Admauz Kampyr for the fire, she poured grains into her hem, came on the trail, sucks her blood, threatens to swallow it if she tells the men; the first guard blind, but AK locked the door; B. grabs AK, makes everyone heal; for this purpose, AK swallows and regurgitates a blind, armless man; does not belch B.; her sister brothers cut her apart, the sparrow screams" little finger", in which B.; AK's head tries to roll, but it is cut into pieces; the wedding of a blind man with a girl; B. comes to O.'s wedding with his older brother B.; his grandfather drove away treacherous brothers]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 282-291 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:109-119, approximately the same in Ostroumov 1890, No. 11:50-65); Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 31 [someone kidnaps foals; elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest sees the dragon swallow the foal, tears off the foal's tail; the brothers go along three roads; the youngest comes successively to three women, each wife of one of three dragons; he fights everyone on the bridge, a woman throws Jugara under the dragon's feet, a young man wins, takes women, cuts belts out of dragon skin; finds and buys broken brothers; they leave the door is a sword, the crippled younger brother is thrown; blind and armless comes to him; they stole the girl to cook; they tell the cat to give one of the two highlights that it finds on the floor, otherwise it will extinguish fire; the girl eats both, the cat fills the fire with urine; the girl comes to the dragon for fire, she tells her to throw barley grains on the way back; on this trail comes to suck blood; blind, armless they guard, but are afraid to stand up for the girl; the dragon is lame, tells everyone to be cured; the dragon consistently swallows and belches everyone whole; the lame man does not regurgitate, he warned that will be in the finger; the former blind and armless cut down the dragon, the young man comes out of his finger; the king has gone blind during this time, but saw the light when the youngest son gave the handkerchief to wipe his eyes; ordered the eldest sons to be tied to horses , gave their wives to the companions of his youngest son], 43 [the divas carry the foals of the royal mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest grabs the foal by the tail, the tail breaks off; the brothers go in search; at the fork the stone with the inscription, the upper and lower roads are safe, the middle one is dangerous, the youngest rides the middle; the elders become apprentices, the youngest meets the wives of black, yellow, white divas, kills divas; wife Bely teaches to kill a herdsman, a young man takes a tailless foal and the whole herd; older brothers leave a sword at the door, the youngest is left without a leg; they come blind and armless, bring the girl to cook, tell share the highlight with the cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl goes for fire to the female diva, she gives a handful of barley, comes on the trail, sucks blood; blind, armless guard, afraid; young man the diva wins, makes him swallow and belch whole; he himself is in his little finger; the king is blind in grief, the young man rubs his eyes with a handkerchief, he sees the light; the older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns his wife and foal, passes off his sisters as former blind and armless]: 157-163, 192-196; Khufs [as soon as the king's mare is screwed, the foal is stolen by divas; the tsar consistently sends four sons to guard; each of the eldest falls asleep; the youngest Arpamishk cuts his little finger and sprinkles salt on the wound; fights with the diva, who takes the stallion, but one hoof remains in A.'s hand; he goes in search; asks the diva's wife to pour millet under his feet if the diva prevails in the battle on the bridge; a black diva on a black horse with black dogs; slipped on millet, A. threw him into the water, took his horse - this is that foal with his hoof torn off; married a diva's widow, brought her home; a similar episode with white, red, gray divas; leaves each of the widows of divas A. to one of the brothers; the brothers are envious that A. wife and horse are better; they stick knives in, shout to A. that enemies have attacked; he stumbles upon knives, maims his legs; they come to live blind and armless; they kidnap the girl as a wife for A.; she is at home, the fire goes out , she comes to the witch for fire, she cooks a man; the witch gives fire and asks where the girl lives; comes, asks her to look for lice, sucks blood; A. sees that his wife is losing weight; teaches her unnoticed tie the witch's hair to the nails; the witch swallows the girl; A. makes the armless man and the girl spew, swallow and spew the blind man, they become healthy; she is told to swallow A., then spew; spews after she is burned with fire; A. becomes a healthy handsome man; they killed the witch, separated, A. brought his wife to her parents' house]: Sokolova 1959, No. 20:73-83.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 40 [Yarmukhametov 1957:39-61; =Bulatov, Sharipova 2000:49-89; three daughters of the padishah are carried away by a whirlwind; Kich-Batyr brothers (kitsch - evening), Ten Batyr ( night), Tan-batyr (morning: younger) play; the old man advises them to look for the padishah's daughters; they come to the cave where the divas have disappeared; only Tan-B. pushes the stone away; the elders do not reach the bottom of the cave, Tan-b. cuts the rope, jumps; mice undermine the walls of the well, send Tan-B. across the passage to the copper palace; Tan-B. kills the diva, frees the eldest daughter of the padishah; the same with silver, gold palaces, middle and eldest daughters, two other divas; during a fight with the last diva, T. replaces barrels of strong and weak water, the divas weakens, is killed; the younger sister puts the palaces in copper, silver, golden eggs, gives Tan-b; brothers pull out the girls, cut off the rope, lifting Tan-B; The mouse man tells you to sit on a white goat, not a black goat; Tan-B. sits on a white goat, carried to the upper world; brothers tie There is a sword in front of the tent, Tan-batyru cuts off her legs; blind and armless come to him; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch Ubirly Karcik; she tells her to fall for ash so that she can come to visit; when she comes, she tells her to look for the girl's blood in her hair; three brothers take turns guarding, Tan-B. binds the witch, beats; she swallows everyone, belches everyone, belches healthy; Tan-B. does not belch; others chop her, see a fleeing finger, finding Tan-b in it; at home he hires a shoemaker; for the wedding of the youngest daughter of the padishah, he creates eggs on request boots, dresses, palaces; opens, marries; drives away brothers; passes off his wife's sisters as his brothers], 42 [the padishah has Aigali's youngest son; herds disappear, two older brothers go in search; A. plays, threw the golden ball, he pierced the bottom of the woman's bucket; she advises you to better look for his father's cattle; A. chose a shaggy horse, the wind; comes to the old woman, she sends to another, the other to the third; she tells to cut down two heads to the diva, and she would come to cut down the third with her sword; a fox brought a sword for the third head, A. killed the diva; drove herds home, met the brothers; they tied a sword to the legs of sleeping A.; he jumped up, was left without legs; an armless man came to him - his brothers cut off his hands out of envy; then came blind (blinded by relatives); he stole the daughter of the padishah, she began to cook for the cripples; fire went out, she came to the witch for the fire; when she went back, ash fell out of the sieve; the old woman follows the trail, sucks the girl's blood from her finger; the blind and armless guard, afraid to say A.; A. grabbed the old woman, forced them to swallow and belch, everyone became healthy; the old woman did not regurgitate A., she was chopped, A. was found in her little finger; at home A. showed his father his ring, squeezed water out of the stone; forgave the brothers], 61 [dying, the father tells three sons to come to his grave for three days; only the youngest goes, gets the feather of a black, white (swan), red bird; if you take it in your mouth and hang down, a black horse and black clothes will appear; white; red; the padishah will give three daughters for the one whose arrow flies through the ring at the top of a high pole; an unrecognized younger brother on a black, white, red horse wins each time, gets all three princesses; each lives in a separate palace, they think that each has its own husband; he brings impoverished brothers, gives them black and white clothes; they come to the older princesses instead of him, he stays with the youngest; the older brothers are jealous, leave a diamond sword in front of the door, he cuts off the youngest's legs, they take his wives and wealth; the handless and blind came to the legless; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah to washed and cooked; Zhalmavyz began to come to suck the girl's blood; the legless grabbed her; she swallowed and regurgitated, made everyone healthy; she did not regurgitate the legless; he was found in her thumb; he takes with a girl, exposes her brothers (tells them to shoot in the ring, their arrows do not hit), lives with four wives]: 103-127, 139-148, 287-298; Bashkirs [the mare gives birth, but foals disappear every time; the eldest, middle son goes to guard, falls asleep; the youngest Kyran-Batyr rips his hair off his head with a sword, does not sleep, cuts the cloud that takes the foal; follows the bloody trail to copper, silver, golden houses ; each has one of the kidnapped foals and a woman; K. consistently fights three devas, kills them; tames a piebald mare; tries to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; the mare explains what is in the water the reflection of the sword, he himself pierced into a pine tree trunk that split the sky and went further up; K. climbs a pine tree, squeezes to the other side of the sky (after that, a pile of stars remains in the sky), brings a sword, rolls three houses into three eggs, gives two wives to his brothers; they are jealous, hang their sword in front of the tent, shout that enemies have attacked, K. runs out, the sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer carrying his horns the sun, a man runs after him; says he sees only when he is near the sun; the blind man puts legless K. on his back, walks, K. sees an armless man chasing the same deer; he explains what the deer promised the sun brought it to people, but did not bring it, people froze, the handless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get a female cook, kidnap the khan's daughter, tell them not to let the fire go out; the fire goes out, the girl comes to an old woman for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on an ash trail, asks her to look in her hair, sucks her bone marrow; the girl turns yellow, the companions take turns guarding, only K. beats the loss so that she cannot withstand blows; K. makes her swallow and regurgitate a girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; swallowing K., does not want to belch him; former blind and armless they cut her into pieces; the sparrow screams "little finger", the companions cut his little finger, K. comes out, he has legs again; returns his daughter to Khan; K. marries a woman from the golden house, gives the other two to his companions, brothers makes them servants]: Barag 1988, No. 38:252-267.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [after the death of their parents, Kara-Uyrek and his two brothers separated; KU released three girls who were stabbed by their older brothers with a pin, killed these brothers; finds his own impoverished brothers; they envy KU as if he took the most beautiful girl; leave a sword in front of the entrance to the yurt, KU goes out, is left without legs; his wife hides food and weapons for him; comes blind, carries him, a speedboat comes to live with them; they kidnapped the girl Sarkyt to cook for them, was named sister; S. told the cat that she did not get her, ate the baursaks herself; the cat extinguished the fire in revenge; S. went to look for fire, he has seven-headed Malmouse-Kempir with one eye in his forehead; she sucks her blood through her toe, promises to eat it if she tells her brothers; gives ash, tells her on the way home says, "Become chingil"; a prickly chingil (Nalimodendron halodendron) grows on the sides, the fire lights up at home; every day JK comes to suck blood; the brothers dig a hole, cover them with a nightmare; JK fails, her they cut off 6 heads out of 7; they promise not to kill if she makes them healthy and beautiful; she swallows, regurgitates S., a blind man, a speedboat; KU does not belch; he is found by killing JK and crushing little finger bone; S. returned to parents, passed off as a former blind man; KU and speedboat come to the KU brothers unrecognized; offer to shoot; the arrows of the brothers themselves, KU and the speedboat fall on their heads, kill them; KU took his wife, became khan, made a speedboat a vizier, married his wife's sister to him]: Tursunov 1983:80-86; Karakalpaks [dying, bai tells three sons to divide cattle and goods; they ate the inheritance, try work, the older and middle did not find a job, the youngest earned a lot of money, married brothers; brothers' wives: kill the youngest, he is rich; you need to fix a sword in the gate, shout "the cattle were stolen by thieves", the young man will run out and he will die when they stumble upon a sword; the brothers did so; the younger sword cut off his legs, the brothers left, taking cattle and property; the young man sees a noseless man chasing a mountain goat; the young man shot a goat from Luka, a noseless man, offers friendship; they meet a man without an arm, also chasing a goat (the same); a one-armed man reports that the khan's daughter is being married, they come to the one, the young man falls in love, offers her steal; friends began to live together; young men go hunting, the girl stays at home; there is no fire; she goes to look for fire, stumbles upon the old woman Mastan Kempir's hut; M. asks to look for lice in her head, in quietly pierces an awl into the girl; pours coal and ash into a bag of holes, comes to her on an ash trail; asks her again to look for lice, pierces the awl again; friends notice that the girl withers, she's all with them says; friends decide to protect her, the first to be noseless, fights the witch, she defeats him, ties him to a tree, again pierces the awl into the girl; the same with the one-armed; the legless overcomes the witch, ties to a tree; the witch announces that she can return her nose, arm and legless leg to the noseless; she takes turns swallowing friends, spewing back whole; she is released with a promise not to anyone harm; a girl marries a younger brother; they achieve goals and desires]: Aimbetov 2014a: 26-27.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. South Altai Tuvans: Taube 1978, No. 27 [Bögen Saggan Toolaj was born {not a woman, but} a husband; attacked by the terrible giant Chureldej Chaan, deciding to seize the country before B. matured; wives B.'s two older brothers hid the baby in a poplar hollow, putting birch roots in their mouths instead of nipples; B. grew up, found an empty freaky; threw off the stones from the hearth, he found a pipe, a flint, a skein of rope with with a silver end and a silver stick; found his older brothers; went west, paving the road with a silver stick, through the windbreak and through the mountain, swam across the sea on it; when he came to Jess Mangnai, he forced her to give him the best food; DM himself easily defeated; came to his wife H., who was kind to him; turning to Nebu-Altai for help, B. hardly defeated H., drank his blood and grinded him in a stone mill; at home the wives of the older brothers became jealous of B. and persuaded their husbands to place the sword with a point at the entrance to B.'s yurt; began to shout that robbery, B. jumped out, the sword cut off his legs; the brothers and wives migrated; B. managed to kill the mare, ate its meat; one day the mush tried to nibble on his severed legs and B. tore off her two legs himself; the other mouse brought herbs, the mouse legs grew; B. also ate herbs, the meat grew together, but the bones did not they grew together; Sean Shilvey came, whom his brothers had blinded out of envy; put B. on his shoulders, went, and B. showed the way; they met a man whom his brothers had greedily cut off hands; in the sky, Arykcha's youngest daughter Khaan can heal a cripple; B. flew there with a falcon, then became a pacer and took the princess to the ground; the fire went out because the men looked at the girl; the girl went after fire to the old woman Jelbag; she poured ash and heat into her hem, pierced a hole to leave an ash trail; jelbege followed the trail and drank the girl's blood; the men put the lifeless girl on an honorable place; the old woman came and swallowed her; the men grabbed the old woman, and the nightingale began to sing, "Little Finger, Little Finger"; they cut off the little finger and the girl came out of it alive and well; the men forced the jelbege and them swallow; she spit out two, and S. was also in her little finger; all three were healthy, prettier; the old woman was let go; the girl returned to heaven; the men found their wives, whom their brothers their wives were tormented by hard work; brothers and their wives were tortured and then thrown into the steppes: one without legs, the other without arms, the third without eyes; when they died, they turned into flies and mosquitoes]: 97-120 (=Taube 1994, No. 5:70-88); Taube 1994, No. 6 [about the same as in Taub 1994, No. 5, but briefly; hero name Er Argyyn]: 88-90.