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K79. The snake shows you how to recover.

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When helpless, a person sees a small animal finding a cure for itself or another animal. A person uses the same medicine, saves himself or saves another.

West Africa. Balant [sister Duma {in the 2006 manuscript - Plague} and brother Mutna remain orphans; C. marries a rich man; M. is hired by them as an employee, but his sister pretends not to know him, asks her husband to give M . the hardest work; puts the key to the money box in his clothes; M. is driven away; he sees crocodiles fighting; when one kills the other, he immediately revives him with a leaf; M. takes a leaf; revives the king's deceased daughter, appointed a nobleman; the rich man and C. come to the palace, now C. is in a hurry to get to know his brother; M. talks about what happened; they build a gallows for M. and her husband; at the last moment M. releases convicts]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:190-193; bambara [father tells seven sons not to contact a female spirit; the youngest converges with her; leaves the bracelet in a bowl of milk; if milk will turn into blood, which means he is dead; the father gives everyone a spear, if the young man meets that woman, he will be pierced; the spear pierces the younger one, the father tells him to throw his corpse into the trash; the wife sees blood in a bowl, comes to the snakes, they kill each other and revive each other with a leaf; she takes a leaf, brings it to her husband's nose, the young man comes to life]: Görög 1979:15-17; mandingo [Malan goes hunting, his stupid and angry sister Njatta tells you not to take dogs with her; M. throws beans behind to find her way home, N. follows and picks up; M. looks for fire, sees smoke, comes to the blind cannibal; huge the cat brings her a man; M. crept in to take the coal, but N. tells the cannibal that her brother has come; the cannibal tells her hair to tie the visitors; dogs hear, come running, killing the cannibal; M. with dogs go one way, N. the other; dogs see a hedgehog kill a frog and immediately revive it with grass; M. collects this grass; the girl Maria Futuma is eaten by a seven-headed snake in exchange for water; dogs M . the snake kills, he carves out his tongues; the swineherd says that he killed the snake, N. confirms; everything turns out that the swineherd and N. pulls out his tongue; N. puts a knife in M.'s bed, he dies, he is buried; dogs they find revitalizing grass, killing N., reviving M.]: Mendelssohn 1971:203-212.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis (recorded in Arabic) [the man took an Arab wife and an Ethiopian slave; both gave birth on the same day, the slave died in childbirth; the husband gave birth to a second child to an Arab woman, said she gave birth to both; the boys grew up; an old woman came and told the Arab woman that one of them was not her son; offered to check: lie naked in front of the house door as if she had fallen asleep; the son who would cover his mother was real; son An Ethiopian woman (SE) told the son of an Arab woman (SA) to cover his mother; he covered it, his mother scratched him to find out who had covered her; the father tested the sons; told the mother to say that their father would give them breakfast; said that breakfast was in the stove, and he hid a lion in the oven; the lion bit the SA, who complained to his mother; and SE killed the lion, his father praised him, gave him a sled mare; the Arab woman was offended, asked the old woman to bring poison, put SE in food; tells her son that he must eat separately today; SE gives food to the cat, which is dead; next time the mare warns SE that the poisoned needles are placed on 14 steps, they need them jump over everything at once; he jumps over; the old woman advises the woman to pretend to be sick - supposedly she will recover by eating the mare's liver; the father tells SE to sell him a mare, which requires a lot of money, a spear and a sword; when the time comes, asks for permission to ride the mare for the last time, he jumps away; he planted a tree, SA came to him; SE told him to watch the tree: if it dries up, then he is in trouble; he comes to see the girl threatens her father, he has to let SE sleep with his daughter; the light is on the horizon, this is the daughter of Voskhod; SE comes to the fortress, reads the Koran, gets inside; the girl says that the demon will eat them; SE teaches hide it, explain to the demon what the smell is from the prince yesterday; when the demon falls asleep, the girl explains to SE that a demon can only be killed with his own sword when his two little eyes are closed and open two big ones; hit with his left hand; SE cut off his head; the demon asks to hit him again, SE refuses, the demon dies; SE has been living with Voskhod's daughter for 10 years; while swimming, she lost her hair, the water brought him to to the king, he sent an army to bring the owner of the hair, SE killed everyone; the old woman promises to bring a woman to the king; comes disguised as a beggar; his wife does not want to let her in, nor SE insisted; she gave him coffee with poison, he died; the warriors took the women away; SA saw that the tree had dried up; came to SE's first wife, sleeps at night with his back turned to her; finds SE's body; sees how one raven brought the corpse of another, revived it by dipping it in water; revived SE; the brothers, disguised as dervishes, came to SE's wife kidnapper; lured the old woman to a skinned hole, threw earth; came to the kitchen, the wife recognized SE; the king invited them to serve as his warriors; gave weapons, offered to choose horses; SE recognized his mare; they killed the king and his warriors; SE returned his wife and gave his first wife to an Arab son]: Reinish 1900, No. 1:259-277.

North Africa. Kabila: Rivière 1882, No. 2 [son Mohamed Ben Soltan from one wife, and Ali ben Aguemoun from the other; M.'s mother died, mother A. began to raise both boys without knowing who she was son; neighbors advised to fake death: put chicken giblets on their stomach and scream that the bull was hurting; sons will run up, we need to look at their ears {it is not clear how this will help you get to know your own son}, give wheat bread to his own brother, and bran bread to his half-brother; M. offered to throw bread into the water; A.'s bread went to the bottom, and M.: this is a sign that I must leave, because our mother is no longer treats us the same way; when leaving, M. planted a fig tree: if it dries up, he died, and if it starts to dry out, he is in mortal danger; M. sat on his horse, took a falcon and a hound; ask the source M. princess give him a piece and meat; princess: I brought them to the snake and if I give some of them, the serpent will not give water and eat me; the serpent alternately stuck its 7 heads out of the water, M. cut them all off; after that, the water flowed abundantly; while M. was eating, the princess took one of his sandals and brought it to his father; he told everyone to try it on: whoever suits is the winner of the snake; M. lived in a mosque, plunged himself, his horse, his dog and to the falcon; the king was told that the sandal was not tried on only by a lame man in a mosque; the king ordered him to try it on, gave him a daughter, handed over the throne, and became a vizier himself; did not order to hunt in the side where the cannibal lives; M. chased the partridge and met it; she tied the horse, dog and falcon with horsehair, swallowed M. and his animals; A. saw that the fig had dried up, came to that spring, M.'s wife mistook him for her husband; A. went to the cannibal, told the horse to kick her in the face, the falcon to peck out his eyes, the hound to tear his stomach, but carefully; A. invited the cannibal to start with the horse, which kicked her; they fell out of his torn stomach swallowed; A. saw one female tarantula kill another; A. accused her of killing her sister, but she took the grass and revived the dead one; A. revived M. and his animals with the same grass; when the brothers returned to palace, the festival lasted 7 days and 7 nights]: 193-199; Taos-Amrush 1974 [younger brother Ahmed leaves home; kills a jackal, a lion, a panther, shepherds give him a sheep, a cow, etc., he asks to leave the animal in the herd until its return; the seven-headed dragon does not allow it to approach the water; A. cuts off the heads, asks the Sultan's daughter; he offers to identify her among a hundred girls, the greyhound rushes to her; wedding; The Sultan warns of danger in the forest; M. goes to the forest, Ceriel swallowed him with a horse and a greyhound; at home, the tree turned yellow, Mehand's elder brother is going to save A.; shepherds take him for A., they say that animals gave abundant offspring; M. kills C., takes out the corpses of A., a horse and a dog; sees a lizard kill another, revives with grass; M. revives those swallowed with the same grass; brothers and wife A. and herds returning home]: 117-128; Algerian Berbers [two wives gave birth to a man on the same day; one died; the other does not know who is her son and who is the son of the other wife; old woman: pretend to be sick, let the young men they will say that your son will be the first to come running; after that, his mother marked his burnus with henna and fed him well, and his stepson badly; he noticed henna, understood everything, planted two branches of poplar; if he is in trouble, his branch will wither; went on a journey; the branch withered, the brother goes in search; meets a woman, she asks to tie the dog; but the young man is on the alert, killed the woman, ripped open her stomach, took out her dead brother; saw two playing female tarantula, one killed the other, and then brought weed and revived; the young man revived his brother with the same grass]: Basset 1897, No. 104:103-106; Egyptian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004 (1), No. 612:343.

Southern Europe. Catalans [wife falls ill and dies; husband sees a snake crawl up with a flower in her mouth, revives a woman; she runs away with a soldier (sometimes with one of her husband's friends), her husband finds her; the soldier hides in some thing in the husband's clothes, accuses him of stealing; the husband is hanged, someone revives him with a snake flower; he takes revenge on the fighter (or traitors)]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 612:610; Portuguese [brother and the twin sisters are in an incestuous relationship; or a man takes a wife from the lower class in fulfillment of a vow taken during the shipwreck; both promise to be buried together if one of them dies; woman dies; lying in the grave, man sees one rat (snake, cricket) reviving another with grass; husband revives wife; wife cheating, ordering her husband to be killed, he is revived by the same grass; man revives a queen or prince, temporarily vested in power; exposes ex-wife and captain (robber)]: Cardigos 2006, No. 612:148; Italians (Tuscany: Livorno) [old lady asks childless king and queen, although they are a son who will leave them, or a daughter who will be with them if they can protect her until the age of 18; the king keeps his daughter in the underground chambers; when she is 18, she went out, hers the bird took away, left a peasant with 5 milkmaid daughters on the roof of the house; they sold diamonds to the princess who had fallen from the sky; then she asked her to go to the Queen to order her embroidery; convinced of the milkmaid's skill (for whom the Queen mistook the princess), she ordered her a wedding suit for her son; the prince came, tried to kiss the girl, she poked him with a needle and killed him ; the youngest of his three daughters against the death penalty; let the girl spend 7 years in the tower with the dead prince and repent; on the roof of the tower, the bird that took the princess out of the house made a nest and raised 10 chicks ; they were thrown off the roof, they died; the bird revived them with grass; the princess asked the bird to bring her herbs, revived the prince; the wedding; the prince's sisters ask the bride for gifts that are appropriate thrush: milk, etc.; she brings all this in gold and silver dishes; and her husband's younger sister, who was kind to her, gives the groom: this is the younger brother who was born after the princess took her away bird]: Calvino 1980, No. 81:295-298; Sicilians (Agrigento) [Prince married Princess Teresina and suggested that if one of them died, the other would spend three days in the crypt with the deceased; T. died; while in the crypt, the prince saw and shot a snake; the snakes brought grass and revived it; the prince revived his wife, they got outside; settled in France; the prince engaged in trade; going on business to ship, promised to announce his return with three blank shots from a cannon; T. was kidnapped by the captain of the Neapolitan army, she stayed with him and forgot her husband; he was hired by the Neapolitan army; at the parade T. and he recognized each other; at the feast, the captain threw a silver fork and knife into his pocket; they were found, the prince was taken to death; he asked one of the soldiers, who was his friend, to revive him with that grass which he took with him; the daughter of the King of Naples is ill, he promises her to the one who will cure her; the prince gave her his herbs, but said he was married; let the king appoint him commander-in-chief; at a feast threw a golden fork and knife into the captain's clothes; the captain and T. were smeared with resin and burned]: Calvino 1980, No. 179:645-648; Sardinians (Nurra) [Peppino is the son of a wealthy merchant; against the wishes of his parents, married Mariorsola, the daughter of a poor carpenter; his father immediately sent his son on business, after which M. became seriously ill; a year later P. returned, M. recovered, but soon fell ill again and died, telling P. to read on Prayers for the dead to her; P. almost forgot, then asked the sacristy to open the crypt; two lions broke into the church, one killed the other, and then revived it with grass; P. revived M. with the same grass; hearing a voice in the morning the deceased, P.'s mother fainted and was killed when she hit her; the same with the maid; P. and revived them; M. forgot the ring by the sea, P. followed him, but M. also approached the shore, the king of Moscow saw her and took her to to her ship; P. came to pick her up, but when she became queen, she refused to deal with him; told the servant to put silver spoons in P.'s pocket; the spoons were found, P. was waiting to be hanged in prison; he told everything the confessor, giving him that herb to revive him; P., who came to life, came to the king of the seven crowns, revived his deceased wife; he made him heir; the King of Muscovy and M. also arrived at the coronation; at the feast P. tells everyone to tell stories, tells his own; asks the King of Muscovy what such a woman deserves; he: hang her, burn her corpse and scatter the ashes in the wind; they did so]: Calvino 1980, No. 194:691-695.

Western Europe. The Germans [the poor young man entered the service, turned out to be brave, the king made him his first adviser; the princess married him on the condition that if one of them died, the other would be buried with him alive; while in the crypt, the husband killed the snake; the second revived it with three leaves, revived the first; the husband revived his wife with them; once on the ship with her husband, the wife persuaded the captain to leave her husband in the sea, so that the king would then make the captain heir; the servant, to whom her husband gave the leaves, picked up and revived the drowned man; the king put his daughter and sailor in a leaky shuttle and let him go to sea]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 16:59-61 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:54-56); the Irish [after working for a blacksmith, Césa MacRi na Tulach {Cesa is a dark-colored bird} and Lun Dubh MacSmola are leaving, but they understand what they both want go back and get the daughter of a blacksmith named Scéhide ni Wánanan; she chose LD, but SM nailed his finger; let him go for promising to give the girl, but LD made it a condition that when he met him will be the first hit; SM and his wife came to Finn's castle; along the way he wore leather clothes, since then his name is Gilla na Grakin (fallen of the skin); he is hired by F. for a year and one day for five pounds and wife's room; kills more game than all F.'s people; Conan Maol says that GG will destroy the Fennies, suggests sending him to King Lochlin for a pot of plenty in which there is always food; GG (this time and then) creates a ship by crossing two sticks (then always turns the ship back into sticks), sails to Lochlin, takes the cauldron, returns, kills everyone in battle, brings the cauldron to Finn; the same with a bowl in which there is always a drink, GG brings it from the King of the Tides; for the third time, KM suggests sending GG east to find out why Gruagach has only one hair left on his head; GG defeats G., that tells how a hare ran, spoiled, chased, an old woman came out, turned his wife, son, daughter and two G. hounds into stone, left him with one hair; GG kills a hare, defeats an old woman, makes the petrified revive, kills her, comes to F. with G.; KM pretends to be a child in fear, hides in the cradle; GG's lifespan is over, but the spirit from the source tells Finn that he must return the cup to the King of the Tides or fight him; GG tells Finn to ask his wife for permission to take it with her while she combs her hair and cannot refuse; the wife promises F. to return GG dead or alive; the King of the Tides is unfriendly, sends GG to kill a wild bull if he wants to eat; GG does everything, kills the King of the Tides and his men; GG and F. sail back with the bowl; the ship sails up with LD, he strikes, kills GG; his wife tells her to put her with her husband's body in a chest, locks herself from the inside; sees two sparrows carrying a dead third, three alive return from the island; wife GG finds a spring on the island, revives her husband; GG finds LD, kills; F. is glad that GG is alive]: Curtin 1975:166-185; Friezes, French: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353.

Western Asia. Arabs of Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Qatar: El-Shamy 2004 (1), No. 612:343

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Ponape [the boys caught, cooked an eel, but did not bake their heads; the youngest boy sees and hears a cooked eel calling his mother, she crawls, climbing the tree where it hangs eel (the trunk of these trees has been slimy since then), collected the medicine, revived the eel, they crawled away; the older boys do not believe; the youngest cuts off the elder's head, revives him; then the elder cuts off the head younger, but does not know the composition of the drug; therefore, the dead cannot be revived]: Mitchell 1973, No. 20:66-67).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Cookie (purum) [The chief's 7 sons killed a deer; six went to have fun, leaving the youngest under the tree to guard the carcass; a gust of wind tore off the tree two leaves, they fell on the dead deer, which came to life , ran away; the brothers did not believe it, killed the youngest, told his father that they did not know where he was; leaves also flew on the young man's corpse, he came to life, kicked the bark off the tree, came, told his father, and began to dry the bark in the sun; The sun took the bark; the young man's father told the dog to grab the Sun; not to regurgitate, for then people would multiply excessively but release it through their ass; this is how eclipses happen; the same with the moon]: Das 1945:218 ; Meitei ['Illustrated Folktales of Manipur', by Ksh. Subadani, 2010, Lingthoingambi Publications, Imphal; 7 brothers, the youngest is Rongmeikai; they killed a female snake and the male crawled away; told R. to cook snake meat; he divided the snake into 7 pieces and went to get water; saw a male snake bring a piece of Langchi tree bark and revived the female; the brothers did not believe it and beat R., breaking his legs; he asked to leave him at this tree; healed his legs with bark; went to travel; he revived a dead dog for testing and she went with him; stopped at the old woman; moans at night - a girl died nearby; R. revived her and got her married; the wife accidentally found the bark and put it to dry in the sun; the sun and moon stole the bark; R. began to build a ladder to the sky; gathered all the animals for this purpose, but forgot the Curculionoidea beetles; the offended beetles decided to take revenge; R. first sent against the sun with with the moon to his dog; the beetles gnawed on the stairs; the dog reached the sky, and R. fell with the stairs and could no longer revive the dead; the dog has since attacked the sun and moon (eclipses)]: Oinam et al. s.a.

Burma-Indochina. Inta [after the death of his father, the younger brother gets a house, a cat, a sharpener; he goes to look for a wife; sleeping in a tree, he kills a wild pig with a sharpener at him; a pig revives the pig with a root; a young man picks up the root, revives it, takes the dog with him, then revives the girl, marries her; they return home; the dog dug his grandfather's treasure; Nat decided to take the elixir of life, went down like a kite, took it away; the dog clung to its wing, ended up in the sky; sometimes the sun and moon grab, causing eclipses]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 4:148-151; lao [father is dead, mother has a new husband, he persuades her to expel her sons; their mother does not feed them, the boys spend the night with their widow's neighbor, then leave; the elder sees two snakes fight, one kill the other, then eat herbs, her wounds heal, she crawled away; the young man revived the same a snake killed with grass; he ate strava himself and gave her to his brother, their strength increased; the ruler promises half of the property to the one who will revive his daughter; the young man revived her, received her as his wife, half of the country under control; the brothers came to visit, handed out gifts: sealed bamboo vessels in gold; mother and father thought it was just bamboo, they were angry; the neighbor explained what was going on, there was gold inside; mother and stepfather started looking for young men, but they had already left the country; mother and stepfather died of grief]: Fleeson 1899:102-126; Viets: Knorozova 2000 [Kuoy found a lair, killed four cubs, hid in a tree; The tigress revived the cubs with the leaves of a tree; K. planted them in the garden, revived the dead; the robbers killed K.'s wife, carved her insides; K. replaced them with the dog's insides, and made them for the dog clay entrails; since then she began to forget everything; contrary to warning, she urinated on the east side of the tree; it began to rise into the sky; K. grabbed it, ended up with him on the moon; now lives in a lunar palace with his banyan]: 30-31; Landes 1886, No. 45 [the younger brother brought a tiger cub from the forest; the elder ordered it back; he returned it, the tiger cub died, he sees a tiger cub reviving a tiger cub from a tree ficus leaves; picked up leaves, picked up the dog's corpse in the river, revived it; planted a ficus, told his wife to water; people killed his wife, he revived her; next time the murderers hid the woman's insides, the husband replaced her their dog's entrails (so women have a canine character); the dog was also revived by making its insides out of clay; one day the wife forgot to water the ficus; when she saw her husband, she tried to irrigate the tree by writing next to him; the ficus began to rise into the sky; the husband tried to at least cut off a branch with immortality leaves, but the ax was stuck, the husband rose with the tree to the moon; this is Cu⋅; every year one leaf of this a tree falls into the sea, swallowed by a dolphin; echo - you can hear K. cutting that tree]: 118-120; Schultz 1994, No. 4 [poor Cuoi picked up a tiger cub, accidentally killed, and climbed a tree in fear of a tigress; saw her bring banyan leaves, revive a tiger cub; K. picked up leaves, revived a dead dog on the way home; transplanted a banyan tree into his yard, told his mother not to throw garbage under it, not to pour garbage under it, not to pour garbage, otherwise the tree would fly to heaven; it continued to throw it away; the tree began to rise, K. clung to the roots, was carried to the moon; K. planted a banyan there, you can see him sitting under it]: 34-38; ahem [seven The brothers discuss what is most delicious; the elders talk about food, the youngest about the girl; the elders beat him; when they hear his explanations, his mother and father also hit; he goes to the forest, kills wild pig piglets, climbs tree; sees how the pig revives those killed by the plant; takes part of the plant, revives the dead bird; the ruler's daughter is dead, the ruler promises her to the one who will revive her; the young man revives her, but does not marry her, but does not marry her, but asks the ruler for a rooster; if you press him, he creates whatever you want; he creates a village; the ruler comes, asks him to show what he revived his daughter with; the young man opens his hand, the moon comes down and takes the product away; during an eclipse, the Frog attacks the moon, trying to seize it (the product here is called a "piece of wood"); the young brothers come and ask for a rooster to create the village and for himself; frightened by the storm, they shake too much, the rooster dies; the young man makes a comb out of the rooster's bones; when he combs his hair, gold and silver fall; the brothers ask for a comb to be borrowed, they comb their hair, their hair falls out, he burns the comb; there is a little left, the young man made a toothpick out of it, gold and silver are pouring in again; brothers and parents ask for a toothpick, their teeth have fallen out, they burned toothpick; the particle remains, the young man swallowed it, his intestinal gases have become fragrant; one of the brothers asks what to eat; the young man advises to eat some plants; the brother is dirty, died]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 14:112-117; palaung [parents decide to abandon their two young sons; they go into the forest themselves; they see how, while playing, one snake bit another, uprooted the root of the plant, revived them dead; bilu takes the boys to her country to eat them later; they find the dead Queen Bila, revive her by the root; the queen sends them to the country of people, makes them kings; they give gold and silver to all peasants, even their parents]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 136:311-312; tyamas [working in the forest, people leave the shepherd to guard buffaloes; he kills the snake; sees how the mother of the snake revives son with tree bark; the young man takes a supply of the same bark; revives the deceased girl, gets her as his wife; plants that tree, warns his wife not to relieve himself, otherwise the tree will fly to heaven; she broke ban; my husband managed to grab his roots, flew to the moon with a tree and a black dog]: Landes 1887, No. 15:105-107.

South Asia. Tamils [the Raja has no children for a long time; finally a son was born with a bow in his hand, who knows the secrets of magic; the bird sat on the old woman's hump; the prince shot the bird and the old woman lost her hump; she is angry; now her daughter-in-law will force her to work; let the prince free Peacock Princess (PP) from across the 7 seas; along the way, the prince saved the cobra and then the frog caught in the hot sand; the cobra built steps to to cross steep mountains; PP princess asks to get a braid of hair 16 feet long for her from the pond; the young man dives - there is no way to reach it; the frog got it; having received a braid, PP approached the young man; they fell from her lips gems, when he cries, the flowers bloom, and when he goes, ornaments appear; at rest, the sadhu stabbed the prince and was about to take PP away; she invited him to dig a deeper grave for the prince first; how one monkey healed another monkey's broken legs with grass; invited a sadhu to go down to the grave to measure it; covered it with earth, revived the prince with grass; the next time they spent the night at the blacksmith's house; In the morning he said that PP had already rode away, although he simply hid it; PP agreed to surrender to him, but only six months later, and on the last day let him feed everyone who came; the prince also came and saved her; stopping under a banyan by the pond, the prince put PP on a branch and went to prepare the wedding ceremony; the potter saw the PP reflection, took it for her own; PP laughed, the potter raised her head; PP went down, the potter pulled out her eyes, pushed her into the water, put on her clothes and jewelry; the couple carrying brushwood pulled out the PP; after settling her in, the couple paid a lot of money for the firewood; the PP gave them two the pearls and ordered them to be given to the one who gave her eyes in exchange; the potter's mother gave her eyes, PP saw the light, and the potter's pearls faded; at the prince's wedding, there is only dust from under the bride's feet when she smiles black teeth are visible, worms in his hair; the guests ran away, the prince is horrified; PP saw him from a distance from the terrace of her new 7-story palace, told him to bring him home; now a real wedding; while PP was going to wedding platform, the earth is covered with pearls]: Blackburn 2005, No. 94; Sinhalese [High offers to eat his supplies first; when they run out, Low refuses to share his; gives food for permission to pull out the High's eyes; throws him bound under the tree; the rakshasas on the tree say that the juice of this tree heals the eyes, the one who eats the leaves will be full, the one who eats the fruit will become king; Tall sees the light, he is chosen tsar instead of the deceased tsar; Low tells his wife to blind him, throw him under a tree; dies]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 94:227-230; Muria [seventh brother is still a boy; wives The older brothers are prepared for him, he is dissatisfied, they say that he also has a wife; he comes to her, climbs to her sari, falls, crashes to death; his wife carries her in a flying chariot, descends by the river; a sparrow killed his wife in a quarrel, revived it by smelling the root; the wife revived her husband; the spirit of a woman who died during menstruation offers to change clothes, flies away with the woman's husband on a chariot; the wife flies from behind, the imaginary wife screams that it is a spirit, tells her husband to throw her into the well; the shepherd saves her, she creates a palace; the imaginary wife defiles food with menstrual blood; the husband comes to the palace, the wife everything says; the spirit is killed, buried]: Elwin 1944, No. 14:57-59.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ifugao: Barton 1935 [The Balitoki Kabigat brothers killed a boa constrictor while hunting, some of the meat was eaten, some dried; told the mother to guard the meat, it was gone; the brothers accused the mother, cut her belly, but the meat they saw traces of two boas; they wanted to kill one, he taught him a prayer that heals cuts and wounds; they cut down and revived a tree, then revived the mother]: 91-92; Barton 1956, No. 22 [Balitok and others hunters killed a boa constrictor, cut it apart, left two sons to guard; the boys saw how the wife of the killed snake put grass, the pieces fused together, both snakes crawled away; in the village, the boys were accused of that they ate meat; then one cut off his hand and immediately grafted it; became a healer]: 190-191.

China - Korea. Fox: Bystrov et al. 1962 [Asu's husband is ill, almost paralyzed; to prevent him from being killed by tax collectors, Asu takes him to the mountains, leaving him food; he has run out of food; he sees a snake reaching for him, killed her; another snake revived the first one with leaf juice; the man rubbed himself with this juice, recovered; found his wife sick, cured her too; becomes a famous healer; forbids his wife to open the chest with leaves; she opened it, the rays of the sun fell on the leaves, ate half, so the sun was immortal; the moon stole the other half in the evening; her husband made a ladder out of hemp, climbed to the moon; told Asa to wet the end of the stairs water; he almost climbed, his dog had already jumped to the moon; Asu forgot to pour cold water on the stairs at noon, poured cold water in the evening, not warm; she broke off, her husband fell and crashed; the dog remained on the moon, when it gnaws on it, there are eclipses]: 226-231; Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994 [the leper was moved to a cave; there he killed a boa constrictor, was going to cook it; the female boa constrictor knocked over the cauldron, glued together the bark of a tree and revived her husband's body, boas crawled away; with the same bark, the man recovered from leprosy, returned to his family; on the way he revived a long-dead black dog; in the village he revived the deceased; hid the bark, telling his wife to watch after her and beware of the Month, which comes down to drink from the river and can steal the bark; the wife was distracted, the children saw the Month take the bark away; the man made a giant candle, climbed it to the moon, telling his wife water the candle with cold water three times a day; it turned out that the moon is twice as long as the arm; the dog jumped on the moon; since then it bites it; during an eclipse you have to make noise; if it is a wedding, then cancel]: 230-232.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece ["About the Incredible" of Palefat (probably 4th century BC): "And this story is completely ridiculous. It was as if Glavk died drowning in a barrel of honey, and Minos placed Keran Polyid's son, who came from Argos, with him in the tomb, because he saw one snake resurrect another by attaching it to it herbs. Polyid did the same with the Commander-in-Chief and brought him back to life. However, it is impossible for a snake to resurrect a dead person, and no other being can do it" (trans. V.N. Yarkho)]: Palaept. XXVI; ["Glavk, while still a child, fell into a barrel of honey while chasing a mouse and died. When Glavk disappeared, Minos looked for him everywhere. He went to fortunetellers, and the courets told him that a tricolor cow was wandering among his herds and the person who could find the best comparison for determining the color of this cow would be able to bring his son back to him alive. The fortunetellers were summoned, and Polyid, the son of Koiran, compared the color of this cow's skin to that of blackberries. He was forced to go in search of Glavk, and he found him using divination tools. But Minos demanded that he bring his son back to life and imprisoned him and his son's corpse. In great difficulty, Polyid suddenly saw a snake crawling up to the corpse. Throwing a stone at her, he killed her, fearing that he would not survive if something happened to Glavk's body. But then another snake crawled up and, seeing the first snake dead, crawled away. Then she returned with her healing herb and began to cover the entire body of the victim with it. As soon as she did, the snake came to life. Amazed by what he saw, Polyid put the same grass on Glavka's body and resurrected him" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Bibl. III. 3 (Apollodorus 1972:50); [Myths attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the Era, but most likely date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries: "Glavk, son of Minos and Pasiphae, fell into a barrel full of honey while playing ball. His parents looked for him and asked Apollo about the boy. Apollo answered them, "You have a sign, and whoever unravels it will give you back the boy. When Minos heard the prediction, he looked for signs among his own. He was told that a calf was born that changes color three times a day, every four hours, first white, then red, and finally black. Minos called the soothsayers to unravel the sign, and they couldn't find an answer except Polyid, Conran's son, who explained that a calf looked like a mulberry because it was white first and then red, and when black ripens. Then Minos said to him: According to Apollo's prediction, you must give me my son back. When Polyid was wondering about this, he saw an owl sitting in the wine pantry and chasing away the bees. After interpreting this sign, he pulled the lifeless boy out of the barrel. Minos said to him: When you find the body, now give back your soul. When Polyid said that this could not be done, Minos ordered him and the boy to be locked in a tomb and put his sword there. When they were locked in, a snake suddenly crawled up to the boy's body, and Polyid, thinking that she wanted to eat him, quickly hit her with a sword and killed her. Another snake was looking for this one, and when it saw that it had been killed, she crawled away and brought grass that brought her life back to life. Polyid did the same thing. When they were screaming inside, a passerby told Minos, who ordered the tomb to be opened and returned his son safe and sound, and Polyida let him go home with many gifts" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]: Hyg. Fab. 30; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 612 [the princess promises to marry the one who will follow her into the coffin if she dies first, promises to follow her husband into the coffin if he dies; an orphan marries, a princess dies, he is buried with her; he sees a snake reviving a snake killed with grass, revives his wife with the same grass; on the ship, the wife falls in love with the captain, they throw her husband into the sea; the hero saved, perpetrators punished], 612B [the girl accidentally causes the prince's death; she is buried alive with him; she sees a snake reviving a snake with grass; she revives the prince with the same grass; they a child is born; a shepherd hears crying, the grave is opened, the prince and his wife are taken to the palace]: 221, 222; Romanians (Banat) [after retiring from service, soldier Petru immediately lost all the money; in the forest I met a man rocking trees and playing with stones; they began to live in a hut, cook in turn; every time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; eats everything, beats the cook; when P. remains, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, chases him to the crevice into which he fled; P. tells him to lower him on a rope; cut the dwarf to pieces, but cannot get up, because the companions removed the rope: they were afraid that the dwarf will come out; light in the distance, P. went to the ground; the house, in which a blind old woman eats hominy with milk; P. began to eat too, the old woman felt it; if a girl is a daughter, if a boy, then a son; asked P. herd her sheep, but not go to the land of the dragons that stole her eyes; P. went and began to play the flutes; the dragons listened, asked them to be taught; P., playing, brought them to the oak tree, split them, ordered them to stick them in a slit in his paw, knocked out a wedge; ordered to tell us how to restore the old woman's eyesight; dragons: there is a milk pond next to us, let her wash her eye sockets three times; P. cut off the dragons, the old woman washed her eyes, began to see; P. left the old woman, towards the fox: don't shoot, I'll give you a fox; then the same wolf and bear; P. came to town, there's mourning; the 12-headed dragon demands girls, the turn of the king's only daughter; the princess was left by the swamp; P. fell asleep with the princess's head on his knees; woke up from a dripping tear; the princess took one of P.'s arrows; he hit 11 heads with arrows and the 12th with the princess's pin; carved out his tongues; gypsies cut off the head of P. who had slept, and brought the dragon's heads to the king; a snake was crawling, grass in his mouth; a fox: why is it? snake: to grow severed heads, my son was cut off; the fox took the grass, grew his head, but P. is still dead; the wolf met a woman: what are you carrying? woman: living water; the wolf took the water, P. came to life; came to the palace, showed his tongues; the gypsies were put in a barrel of nails, lowered from the mountain; wedding; after the death of King P. reigned, his animals always reigned remained held in high esteem]: Schott, Schott 1975, No. 10:65-75; Moldovans [the poor man's wife gave birth, no one wants to go to cronage; father rejects Death, the Moon, agrees to the Sun's offer; boy they named Fat Frumos; his father does not tell him to go abroad; FF chases a hare, a snake comes to the palace; the owner is invulnerable, grows to a gigantic size; spares FF for his promise to get him Frumoasu-Frumoacelor, daughter of the king of the garden state; malnik hides FF in a bag of flour that two eagles carry to the garden kingdom; the princess liked the bread he baked and himself; the guards killed FF; princess sees how one ant revives another with a blade of grass, revives FF; you can only escape on Baba Jgiver's horse; FF kills a snake crawling to a bird's nest, a bird gives a feather; a bee rescued from the water is a piece of wing ; fish thrown into the water; comes to J., only one stake has no head; J. tells three mares to herd three mares for three days; they run away; on the first evening they are collected by a bird called by a feather, on the second by bees, in the third is fish; J. allows him to choose a horse, takes him out of eight hearts, puts it in a plain foal; FF chooses it because only he eats hot coals; FF takes the bride, wants to fly home, but the horse is already flying to the snake; the girl's contemptuous words burst his heart and gallbladder, FF married Frumoas]: Moldavian tales 1968:390-409; Hungarians [the king placed his daughter in the tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers lifted the stem up to the window, the smell made the girl pregnant; her father put her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the barrel was nailed to the island, the girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, sailed across the strait to the mainland, bringing apples to his mother; his mother herself baptized him in the name of his father of the sun, his godfather of the month and his star cousins; his name Beautiful Szérus; a hussar costume and sword fell from the tree to him; on a tree trunk he transported his mother across the strait; towards the giant, S. hacked him down; brought his mother to the giants' castle; the king of giants met with mother S., they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be sick: we must bring the bear cub and eat his heart; the bear gave a bear cub; when she saw him, the mother said that she had already recovered; the same with wolf cub; lion cub; mother suggests S. jokingly tie his thumbs - will he be able to break; cannot; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put three whistles in his mouth, given by a bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf the woman, the bear broke his fetters; S. cut the giant, pieces of meat into the trough, the second, the water, left his mother between the troughs; left with his animals; you need a bride; the bear advises you to ask the sun - Father S.; the lion brought them all to heaven; the sun does not know about brides, advises to turn to the month; the month to the stars, or rather to the Morning Star; neither star knows, let the winds ask, they are blowing everywhere; they replied that his betrothed sleeps in a golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 traits; S. and the beasts have returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils in pursuit; the lion threw the brush (forest), the handkerchief (the sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils could not overcome them; the count took the girl; she would marry only someone who could milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she would marry someone who buys in their milk heated to a boil; the animals cooled him, S. swam, became handsome; the count also wanted to swim, the animals heated the milk, the count cooked; the girl was about to marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; the animals saw a snake whose snake cut in half with a scythe, it carries healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head, the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion with its tail, ripping off its hair, leaving only its mane; first, the head was attached backwards in advance, I had to redo it; at this time, the count's brother is preparing the wedding; the lion and the wolf tore him apart; the wedding; S. dug up his mother, who ate the giant's meat, took a sharp bone, put her son in bed, she pierced his heart; the animals revived him with that elixir taken from the snake, his mother tore his mother; a son was born; when he is 7 years, 7 months, days, hours and minutes, his blood should be sprinkled on 3 stones; S. did it, three his animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; their son S. did not die, they only took blood from him; they are all alive if they did not die]: Dégh 1965, No. 8:109-126;; Romanians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353.

Central Europe. Slovaks [the widow's two sons look like drops of water; they have grown up and are preparing to go on a journey; the mother asks to go hunting and fetch meat; they hunt three times but find no game; instead they give bacon and bread to a couple of wolves, bears, lions; they bring them home; muzzles appear on the faces of predators; the brothers broke up at the linden tree, stabbing it with a knife; from which blood will flow, so trouble; the elder comes to a city where a fire-breathing 12-headed serpent demands a girl to eat every day, otherwise he does not allow her to go to the well; the princess's turn; her savior will receive her; the young man, with the help of his animals, cut off the snake's heads, but they grew again until the lion tore his neck; the young man cut off his tongues, came to the princess, she gave him half the ring; when he fell asleep, the coachman ran up, cut off the young man's head, forced the princess call him savior; the lion tells the wolf to run to the serpent, which is just about to revive another one crushed by a wagon with grass; but the wolf came across the wagon himself, frightened the people; then the lion sent a bear, he took the snake's potion, the young man came to life, but his head was put backwards; the bear tore off his head again and put it right; when the young man came to town, they were preparing the princess's wedding with the coachman; the young man sent a letter and half of the ring to the princess and the bear; the princess sent back food, wine and her half of the ring, half grew together; the young man showed snake tongues; the coachman was given to the beasts to pieces; one day a young man saw an enchanted yellow forest from the window; a fox appeared, the young man chased her, found himself in a dark forest; began to fry bacon; an old woman on the tree, screaming that she was cold, gave her wand to touch her wand to the animals, otherwise she is afraid of them; the animals are petrified; the old woman began to fry the frog, not bacon; touched the young man with a stick, he was also petrified; the younger brother saw blood on the knife, went in search of the elder; his wife mistook him for her husband, but at night he put a sword between them; he did not touch the animals with an old woman's wand, but let them put them on her; made him give him a golden stick to revive his brother's animals and the ointment to revive him himself; then the beasts tore the old woman to pieces; first the elder brother's beasts became knights, then they killed their younger brother's animals, and they also became knights; they were six brothers, quarreled, for it became predators; the elder brother returned to his wife, and the youngest with six knights came to their possession and became king there]: Dobšinský 1970:3-10 (translated to Bogatyrev 1955:37-47); Belarusians [ Vladyka allowed the widowed ass to marry the one who would have the dress of her deceased wife; she had a daughter; she went to the forest to her cell; food fell from the sky; the prince wandered there, took the popovna as his wife; a son was born Ivan; popovna saw her father, he asked for alms; invited him to the palace; he stabbed the child and put a knife in his daughter's pocket; she was expelled; she brought the body to her cell; 15 years later she saw one snake revived another with grass; revived her son; I. found the devils' house, killed everyone, hung one on the hook; contrary to the ban, the mother went there; the devil asked for "a crack with his blood"; she filed, he jumped off hook; became her husband; ordered his son to be sent first to Fish Koshchei for the pig, then for golden and silver apples to the garden of the 12-headed serpent; I. took the princess out of the snake garden; they fled from the snake in the monastery; the mother tests her son's strength: she wraps him in hemp, silk, then a copper "dart"; the devil began to beat him, blinded him, pinched him in a split pine tree; the cabbies released him, the "krinichnaya water" regained his sight; I. tortured the devil to death; married that princess; told my mother to wear cast-iron shoes: when you tear it down, then I'll be your son]: Romanov 1887:66; Russians (Novgorod, Pskov, Orlovskaya), Ukrainians, Belarusians [Animated unfaithful wife: husband tells him to put himself and his wife in the grave; sees a snake reviving another with a blade of grass; revives his wife in the same way; she pays to him with ingratitude]: SUS, No. 612:166; Russians [epic about Mikhail Potyk; MP concludes an agreement with his wife Avdotya Likhovidyevna or Maria Lebed: who dies, another should follow him in the coffin; absence of MP, the wife dies; he climbs into her grave, lives there for several days; a snake crawls in, he cuts it with iron bars; she leaves a snake as collateral, crawls away for living water; MA cuts it snake; brought in water revives the snake and wife]: Miller 1891:10-11; Poles [a blind mouse indicates water that heals blindness]: Sumtsov 1891a: 70; Poles [husband promises his wife that if she he dies, and he will lie down with her in the grave himself; she dies shortly after the wedding; once in the tomb, the husband sees one snake (bird) reviving another with healing leaves; then he revives his wife himself; or gives in half of her life; the wife runs away with her lover (captain, officer) and he condemns her husband to death; with the help of a faithful servant or friend, she is saved, and the unfaithful wife and her lover are executed]: Krzyż anowski 1962, No. 612:196; Czechs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Bakhchisaray) [padishah has a son; when a daughter was born, he ordered her to be killed; son grew up; padishah: I don't want daughters; son: if another one is born, give it to me; the young man gave the girl to an old woman for upbringing, wandered himself, defeated everyone; his sister grew up, he took her; in the palace of robbers, he killed 16 while they were sleeping, threw the 17th into a well in room 31 and covered her with a stone; one day a girl went into Room 41, saw the robber, offered to be her husband; he advised me to pretend to be sick and ask for grapes; my brother flew into the garden in his flying duldula; his owner was Azhdaha with 41 heads; He drove the young man knee-deep into the ground, and he drove him up to the waist; ajdaha him up to the waist, the young man Azhdahu up to his throat; cut off 40 heads, left the last one to die in agony; a girl came out of the palace: you saved me; he took her to Istanbul to her padishah father, she gave him a ring; her sister invites her brother to tear the ropes with which she would tie him; he could not tear the rope out of his horsehair; cut out his eyes, robber afraid to kill him, they threw him into a well in the forest, leaving his hands tied; the padishah's hunters pulled him out, sold him to a lame man; he left the blind man at the spring; the maid of the padishah's daughter, blind, approached asked for water, threw up a ring; the padishah's daughter found it, told him to bring it; the fool saw in the forest how the wolf knocked out the fox's eye, chewed the leaves, put it on the eye socket, saw the light; the fool healed the young man, The padishah married him to his daughter; they achieved their goal; the young man asked permission to go to kill his sister, otherwise he would die; cut his sister's head into pieces, let the robber go]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 5; Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899 [a mare gives birth to a boy, the umbilical cord is cut off a stone that has fallen from the sky; Haradai-Mergen and Uladai-Mergen become his brothers; a boy kills the husbands of three women; they are daughters of the sun, moon, stars; he marries the daughter 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; they come to him blind and armless, help each other; kidnap a girl, make her sister; tell her not to put out the fire; the fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for fire; the old woman sprinkles ash and coals into her hem, pierces her hem a hole; on an ash trail she comes to the girl, spoils her; cripples catch a witch, she makes them and the girl healthy, swallowing and spewing everyone; when she swallows a legless, she does not spew; others cut her, sparrow screams, Little finger, 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 a 15-headed mousse; brothers let the son of a horse 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, recovers; with one on the sides of the kibitka, people cry (their snakes will eat them today), on the other hand they have fun (tomorrow); snakes crawl to the three eagles in the nest; the horse's son kills him, the eagles explain to his mother who their savior is; getting rid of the snake, people give him food for the eagle; he flies on an eagle, feeds it, and finally cuts off a piece of his flesh; he limps; the eagle swallows it, regurgitates it healthy; he comes to his brothers; they decide put arrows up; whoever is sinful, the arrow will nail him; older brothers die, the horse's son owns everything]: 23-33; Basangova 2002 [only the youngest of three brothers, Nusah Mu ("bad jerk") sleeps at the grave the deceased father, gets three hairs; if they are burned, they turn into horses; the khan gives away daughters, the unrecognized NM wins competitions three times; the older daughters choose beautiful knights; the youngest recognizes the NM , chooses him; the khan sends them to live in a house made of grass; an unrecognized NM smashes the attacking enemies, the khan bandages his wound with his silk cape; the wounded khan will be cured by ish saiga meat; look unrecognized NM catches saiga, gives his older sons-in-law a poisonous upper layer of meat in exchange for an earlobe and a little finger; the meat of his older sons-in-law makes the khan worse, and the cooked inner meat served by his youngest daughter makes him worse recovered; a black cloud carries a mare's foals; NM shoots, picks up a fallen gold ring; on a winged horse, drives a herd from the sky, killing the sleeping kidnapper; older sons-in-law push him into a hole; he sees an ant heal its leg, heals its broken bones with the same grass; rises to the surface on the wolf's tail; the khan understands who his younger son-in-law is; executes his older sons-in-law]: 106-114; Stavropol Turkmens [after the death of a rich man, his children are left: a gray girl and a gray boy; their mother met a diva; he persuaded her to invite her son to try his hand: she will connect his thumbs with a belt; he stretched his belt; then she tied it again; a diva appeared, cut off his head; threw his head and torso into the steppe; his sister found, sewed the remains, put it on a tree, changed clothes with her brother; went to town; the king would give her daughter to whoever knocked the ring off the pole; the imaginary young man knocked down, got the princess; promised not to touch his wife until they came to his house; went forward, telling him to get to the tree: he would sleep in branches; the girl herself changed clothes with her brother again; the wife saw a saiga run into a sharp branch and the other cured him with some grass; wife She cured the young man with the same herb; he learned about what had happened from a note left by his sister; the sister herself fell into a hare trapped and became a hare; when the hunter took it out, the hare became a girl again, the hunter took her as a wife; a gray young man, united with his wife, told her everything and went to look for his sister; hears the boy, playing with money, saying: I throw her with the hand of a gray uncle; so he found his sister; then went to find out what happened to my mother, saw her in the arms of a diva, killed both; everything is fine]: A. K. 1875, No. 5:29-33; Kabardian people: Lopatinsky 1891a [Sosruko agrees with his mistress Nart-Jean that one will not live without the other; returning from the games, he finds out that NJ is dead; reveals it grave; two snakes crawled out, fought, one killed the other, then revived it with a green leaf; S. revived NJ with the same leaf; married her]: 143; Hilferding in Miller 1891 [same but independently recorded text]: 11; Adygs [=Kerashev 1957:147-152; three brothers Kumuk Pedis, Besleney Kurgok and Kumuk Pshikan promise to help each other; KP is blind, impoverished; his son offends his peers, they tell him better to be valiant as his father was; he brings magic swords and whips from his father's brothers; takes a foal with one eye in his forehead as a horse; princes envy, hide nail boards on the ground; during the battle with The horse serves as enemies to the young man, but then throws it off because he did not pay attention to his wounds; sees a lizard carrying a blade of grass to revive his murdered brother; tells this blade of grass to revive the young man, he comes to life ; the young man's father is persuaded to send his son to the psukhoguache ("water maiden") for a black stone that cures blindness; earlier, the Psukhoguache took one boy; the young man, threatening with a whip, forces him to return the boy, give it back stone, marries a psukhoguash; heals a blind father with a stone]: Maksimov 1937:155-171; Abkhazians: Japua 2003, No. 29 [Returning 10 years later, Sasorkua found out that his wife had died; he dug up the grave, lay down next to his wife; killed a snake; another crawled, holding a leaf in his mouth; he also killed her, ran a leaf over his wife's chest, revived her]: 297; Shakryl 1975, No. 23:106-112; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [beautiful Zgida chooses the best singer and dancer as her husband; falls ill; the husband goes to the haymaking, mows a hundred times more than others; at this time the wife dies; he asks to be placed in the crypt with her; the snake bites the deceased, he cuts the snake; half crawls away, brings a bead, the snake grows together, comes to life; the husband also revives his wife]: 154-158; Dzagurov 1972, No. 33 [comrades reproach the young man: first find your father, and then quarrel with us; he tells his mother to fry corn and holds her hand; she has to say that her father was kidnapped by a giant, and his father's horse is head over heels in manure; she does not believe that the son will be able to raise his father's sword; the young man came out the horse, raised his sword lightly, leaves, the horse shows the way; the young man whipped the decayed corpse of the giant: come to life, but be blind; the lively one says that his wife was stolen by the same giant who took the boy's father away; at night he tries to throw trees and stones at the young man; the young man turns him back into a corpse; the young man finds a giant, cut off six heads, tells him where his father is, then cut off his seventh head; on the way, the horse slipped through, only cut off the half-tail; the young man's father is a shepherd, cleans his fur coat from lice; the young man brought the giant's ears to his wife; she tells the giant's mother to be afraid; the young man killed her, but she killed him cursed: he will not rest until he gets the daughter of the king of genies; the horse teaches him to give millet to the birds, drink water from the spring and praise the water, throw a ram to iron-faced wolves; lubricate the door hinges; the young man found a girl and lives with her for a month; then they loaded all their property on all the felt and galloped away; the young man destroyed the pursuing army, but one warrior killed him with a dagger; the fox began to lick blood, the woman killed him; the fox bought him at the spring, the fox came to life; then the woman revived her murdered husband; he says he was about to marry the daughter of Barastur, the lord of the afterlife; the young man revived with the whip of that giant and gave him his wife kidnapped by a seven-headed giant; the young man returned home to his wife, everything is fine]: 91-99; Libedinsky 1978 [Satana hides from Batrazd that his father Khamyts was killed; Ahsartaggat is sent by the wind to tell B. that H. is killed; he asks S. to fry grains for him and at hand; clamps his hand; S. names the murderers from the Borat family; he kills the murderers]: 362-371; (cf. Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the poor man saved the snake from the fire, it is going to kill it; traveler, bear: this is natural for a snake; lion: stand together; the snake lets the man go, the lion tells him to cut it with a knife; the snake's head rushed to the healing spring, then crawled to join the tail, the man crushed it with stones; the lion shows the spring; the king promises half of the possessions to the one who cures the wounded son; the poor man brings living water, he was given an arba and driven away]: 25-27); Libedinsky 1978 [the herdsman's little son joins Soslan's army; turns out to be a hero; when Chelakhsartag wounds him with an arrow in the heel, S. must move him across seven streams; Syrdon takes on a new look (old man, old woman), suggests S. to abandon the corpse, otherwise C. Leader; before the seventh stream, when the boy's heart has already beaten, S. puts him on the ground, hurries to the fortress, understands the deception, returns; the boy is dead; he pretends to be dead, covered with worms; C. believes, drives a red-hot spit into his heel; when he comes up again, S. cuts him off half his head; C. asks the heavenly blacksmith to forge the copper cover of the skull; S. asks the sun to heat it, the brain melts, C. dies; V. kills himself with scissors in his father's crypt; S. cuts a snake; half crawls away, brings a bead, heals himself; S. kills a snake, revives V. with a bead, marries V.]: 191-197; Ingush: Dalgat 1972:159-160 and 290-291 [Solsa invites three comrades to give the killed hare to the one who tells the most amazing story; Pátaraz Khamcha stayed with the widow, insisted on intimacy, and she hit him with a whip, turned into a female; she defeats wolves; she is given to the widow; a new female pulls out a whip, regains her human appearance, turns the widow into a mare; Orzmi, who hides under the shroud, wins a mistress who died of illness to be buried with her; in the grave he killed a snake, another revived the one killed by grass; O. revived his mistress with the same grass, married her], 295-296 [Ormashar Arsh asked the maid of his deceased lover to bury him with her; killed a snake, another revived her with a golden ball; OA killed both, revived the girl with a balloon, married her]; Miller 2013 [lovers decided not to to part; the girl died; the man put on a woman's dress, hid under the shroud of the deceased, was put in the crypt with her; killed a snake, and the other revived it with grass; the man revived his mistress with the same grass]: 933; Kumyks [the dervish gives the childless khan an apple, let his wife, mare, dog eat, each bring twins; one boy, stallion and puppy must be given to the dervish; the eldest was named Arslan Khan, the youngest is Batyr Khan; the dervish takes A. away; at the source, the skull teaches: this is a black maiden, you must pretend that you can't do anything; let him show how bread is baked; push the maiden into the oven and add oil; killing maiden, A. rides her horse and with her dog; the oncoming person tells you to put his finger into the stream when he meets; A. took out a splinter to the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed a snake that crawled to the eagle's nest, she gave an eagle; he dipped his finger, it turned gold; poured that water on a lion cub, an eagle, a dog; after releasing the animals and putting on a hat, A. hired a gardener for the khan; knitted the bouquet with his golden hair; the younger princess saw, understood who is a worker; sisters sent father three apples, rotten, half rotten, ripe; vizier: it's time for daughters to marry; khan ordered daughters to throw an apple at passing men; the elders threw a vizier at the sons, the youngest as an employee; the khan lodged them in a collapsed hut; the khan fell ill, they needed reindeer meat; A. sat on a nag, then took on his true form, summoned an eagle, killed a deer, poisoned some of the meat; gave it to his older son-in-law, for this put a seal on the youngest of them; the khan scolded his older sons-in-law for the bitter meat, and he liked what A. had brought; bring lion's milk; the same (A. poisoned the milk in one wineskin), the seal on back to his elder son-in-law; A. Khan recovered from milk; enemies attacked, A. defeated them, said that his older sons-in-law were his slaves, showed seals; Batyr Khan followed his brother's footsteps; received a lion cub, an eagle, and drenched himself with gold water; A.'s wife mistook him for her husband, but B. beat her; when A. arrived, she began to accuse him; A. caught up with B. and killed him, then repented; saw one mouse kill another and then revive him with grass; A. revived her brother with it; everything is fine]: Barsov 1882, No. 1:121-128; Avars [a beggar gives a childless man two beans, orders to give one of the two sons who will be born; when Arslan and Batyr grow up, father gives A.; on the way he drinks from the stream, the skull at the bottom says that the beggar is the Black Dev, teaches him to pretend that he does not know how to take revenge on the floor, heat the stove; pushes the deva into the fire; pulls out a splinter from the lioness, returns to eagle's nest, gets a lion cub, an eagle; dips his finger in a stream, it turns gold; washes his hair, mane and tail in the stream; lets the animals go, they will return when he burns the feather; smears his face with mud, is hired by a gardener; Khan's youngest daughter sees his golden hair; Khan invites three daughters to throw an apple at whoever they want to marry; the youngest leaves at A.; Khan chases her away, she and A. they live in a hut on the outskirts; the sick khan will be cured by deer meat; he summons an eagle, that of a horse and a lioness; A. catches a deer, gives bile meat to his older sons-in-law, for which he stigmatizes them; venison is bitter, the khan is angry, and the meat given by his youngest daughter is delicious; but he is worse, he needs lioness milk; the lioness gives it; A. stigmatizes his elder son-in-law, gives milk in a jug with vinegar, it is sour; Khan recovered from the milk brought by A.; as a reward, he asks his two slaves, everyone sees the seals on the backs of his older sons-in-law; A. takes on his true form; brother A. Batyr follows in his footsteps, the lioness, the eagle give him the brothers of the lion cub, the eagle received by A.; A.'s wife takes B. for her husband, rejected, cries; reproaches A., who returned from hunting; he catches up with B. kills with an arrow; repents; one mouse kills another, revives with grass; A. revives B.; feast]: Kapiyeva 1974:72-80; Georgians (Imereti): Glushakov 1904, No. 6 [see motif K8A; Amiran defeats the giant; he tells him about the "unprecedented sun" living overseas; attacks again with his wife, A. kills them; swims across the sea; the girl says that he must turn the plates over, otherwise they will fly to tell her father; one plate cannot be turned over, A. breaks it, the fragments fly away; A. swims across the sea with the girl; A. Yusup and Badri; father-in-law has a stone hat, his wife tells A. to hit his father on the lower back, he dies; the devil throws a knife at A., killing him (A. manages to kill the devil); the mouse takes A.'s mustache, the wife kills the mouse, the mother of the mouse revives her child with a shamrock; the wife revives M. with a shamrock, who revives brothers, father-in-law and army; wedding], 7 [the king died telling his son not to go westward; left a box that you have to carry it with you and open it in case of trouble; after reigning, the young king decided to hunt, went west, noticed a tower on the way back, told him to see what was inside; the companions come in one by one and did not they return; the king goes by himself, is captured, brought to the room where she is beautiful; she must be made to speak three times; the king opens the box, there is an apple in it, it tells; 1) a man with his wife and younger brother spent the night on the road; the younger brother went to the village to get bread; the robbers robbed him, cut off his head; the woman's husband did the same; she found their bodies, cried; a mouse jumped out, the woman threw it at him stone; a rat revived it with grass; a woman revived her husband and brother-in-law, but accidentally moved her heads; to whom it should belong; beauty: to the one whose head; 2) the carpenter, tailor and priest spent the night; a carpenter he made the girl's figure, dressed her as a tailor, the priest revived it; who should it belong to? beautiful: to the priest; 3) the elder brother knows the future, the middle brother knows the doctor, the youngest is fast; the eldest learned about the princess's illness, the middle brother made the medicine, the youngest delivered it; the girl: let the princess get it middle; the king married a girl]: 52-57, 58-62; Lominadze 1903, No. 2 [Amiran has brothers Badri and Yusup; A. kills the diva and his mother; the king's daughter at the spring says that she was given to a whale for water; A. kills the first whale; the second swallows it, Badri cuts off its tail; now the whale will not be able to digest A. even if it hangs around St. Ilya; A. cuts the whale from the inside, goes out; the tsar gives his flying horse, A. takes the daughter of the sea king; B. and Yu are killed; he kills the king himself, hitting not on the head, but in the leg; a child came out of a pool of blood, killed A. , pushing him; his wife threw a shoe at the mouse, the Mouse revived him with grass; his wife also revived A.]: 152-157; Georgians [Amiran is the son of Sulkalmakh and Darejan, his older brothers Badri (looks like a girl) and Usip (looks like a crystal fortress); his godfather is Jesus Christ; A. finds the deceased Tsamtsum, Usip's grandson; he killed all the giants, he could not; the brothers meet this maiden, he replies that he is coming devour Tsamtsum, Usip's grandson; A. kills him, he manages to talk about the girl Kamar overseas; white, red, black worms crawl out of his three heads, turn into dragons; black swallows A. his brothers cut off his tail, A. cuts it from the inside, comes out bald; Igry made his hair; K. A. breaks the cup, all the dishes fly to the sky to her father; the chase; A. kills everyone by hitting Father K. in the legs, but his brothers died, he kills himself; the mouse licks the blood, K. kills the mouse, the mouse heals him , K. revives A. with the same grass; A. wins everyone, calls Jesus Christ; he offers him to pull a stake out of the ground; he turns into a tree to heaven, A. is attached to him; the raven delivers him every day bread and wine; the dog tries to lick the chain; on Good Thursday morning, all blacksmiths hit the anvil three times with hammers, the chain is restored; A. will be free on Judgment Day]: Janashvili 1903b: 158-167; Megrela [poor Geria's handsome and strong son ("little wolf") shot an old woman's jug and smashed it; old woman: you'd better get the only sister of 12 demi living in 12 mountains; G. went to searching, taking the Mathikochi dog with him; when I crossed 6 mountains, the trees began to fall; voice: only G.; G.: this is me; rokapi (witch family): sorry for you, they didn't come back from there; G. drove 6 more mountains, followed by Rokapi's older sister; she gave her three-legged horse; at Demi's house, the horse tells me to turn the cauldron over; Demi's sister agreed to marry G.; horse: seeing the cauldron turned upside down, Demi they will be surprised and frightened, because they are all barely able to turn him over; Demi gave Sister G., but warned that the Black King would not want to give her up; G. easily destroyed the CC army and then joined fighting with his terrible assistant Qvamuritz Khami; he killed him; G.'s wife demanded a three-month delay; otherwise let the CC fight with her herself; CC was afraid of this and agreed; G.'s parents went to him search; saw how some snakes killed others, and then two snakes revived those killed by living water from the river; G.'s mother collected water, M.'s dog brought him to her son's body and she revived him; he met a huge boar, fought with him for a long time and cut him in half; a wild goat jumped out of the boar, G. killed her; there was a box in the goat, there were three swallows in it; G. killed two, grabbed the third; at this time QK was fighting in agony; G. killed the swallow, QK died; G. killed everyone in the royal palace and returned home with his wife]: Wardrobe 1894, No. 3:118-124; Azerbaijanis (Borchaly County, Tiflis Province) [The king wanted to kill his wife, her son Aslan took his mother away, they stay in the diva's house; the mother takes him as her husband, seeks to lime her son; says he will recover, 1) if she eats golden grapes; A. kills lion watchmen, lion cubs become his assistants, kill divas; 2) mother asks to get grapes from divas; lion cubs defeat them, their sister Inchina-Guzeli becomes A.'s wife; at home, the mother offers to tie them up the son's hands, he tears all the ropes; he cannot tear the strings, tells the wonder to kill him; the diva blinds him, throws him; he is picked up by the caravans, he gets to D., puts her ring in a glass; D. listens to his story; two frogs got into a fight, one blinded the other, cured the other with grass; D. cured A.; he killed his mother and diva, burned the corpses]: Stamboliev 1896, No. 2:8-12; Turks [(part of a long story); a man falls to a country where, according to custom, he is buried with his deceased wife; he sees one snake reviving another with some grass; revives his wife; they get out of the grave; when they sail on a ship, she collides he is at sea; a servant saves him and revives him with the same grass; the father of an unfaithful wife executes her]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 120:137-138.

Baltoscandia. Finns, Estonians, Veps, Lithuanians, Danes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353; Latvians [husband wants to die with his wife; in the crypt he sees like a snake revives the other with leaves; the husband revives the wife; she leaves with the officer and orders her husband to be killed; the husband's friend revives him with leaves; the husband revives the princess, marries and becomes king; conducts a review troops and severely punishes an officer, i.e. his ex-wife's new husband, for his soldier, with whom the king had previously agreed, came to the review inappropriately]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 612:306; Swedes [a person sees a mouse reviving another by bringing an elixir in a bubble]: Liungman 1961, No. 512:182-183

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [although the name "smile-turum" is Sedum Telephiu {common sedum}, people do not see real people, it is not great; its presence is only discovered when during mowing A Lithuanian woman who touches her breaks; this herb makes men who have lost masculine power capable of sexual intercourse and resurrects killed snakes; to find this grass, you need to find a herd of snakes and kill one; then the snakes will bring this grass and lead it along the victim's ridge, after which it will come to life; Sedum Telephium is named by this name only because it does not wither or dry for a long time]: Potanin 1884:224; marie , Chuvash: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 54 [Akhan and Karakhan promise to marry children if a boy and a girl are born; A. has a son, K. forgets about the contract; when he learns that he has a fiancée, son A. holds a handful of hot wheat in his mother's hand, the mother admits that it is K.'s daughter; K.'s wife on her deathbed tells him to take a new one more beautiful than her; Only their daughter is more beautiful, K. wants to marry her; she demands to sew a flea fur coat and a lice shawl for the wedding; K. does the task; the daughter digs a hole in the bathhouse, K. falls into her, the daughter leaves; son A. comes to K.; he says that his daughter killed her mother, threw him into a hole; son A. stays in the same house as daughter K.; brings her to his wife, not knowing who she is; they have a son; K. comes, the daughter recognizes him, lets them live; he kills the boy, puts the knife next to her daughter; the mother tells her son to take the murderer wife; the son leaves her with the old people in whom he found her; she sees one snake reviving another going around the stump; revives the son; he grows up, wins, chains the deva, frees the captives, lives with his mother in the deva's palace; K. comes, frees the deva, he figures out how to lime the young man; the mother of the young man fell unconscious when she saw K.; he sends her son for the medicine - the bear's milk; the young man takes the fragment out of the bear's leg, she gives milk; the young man defeats the deva again, splashing milk turns K. into stone; marries a princess, reigns; his mother and father are with him]: 377-385; Bessonov 1941, No. 47:249-253.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Potanin 1883, No. 84 [(b. Buren-Gol); see motif J46, L72; three sisters run away from the demon jelbag; Beaver transports them across the river, drowns the pursuer; told the sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by, took their wives; older sisters promise their husbands to sew clothes and a cover; the youngest - to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the older ones throw the boy into the lake, replace him with a mole; he bites the returnee husband; husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouges out her eyes; she is left alone; she consistently maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; the woman is treated with the same grass, recovers; cannot lure his son out of the lake; catches her for the third time with a bow and arrow on the shore; gives his milk, drips tears into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his name is Yer-Saru; see motive K27], 181 [(district modern Kyzyl); Arolbai-Ego Khan increasingly returns without a horse; the eldest wife promises to sew a robe and boots, the youngest promises to give birth to an assistant hero; the eldest orders to replace the born boy with a puppy, Throw the boy to horses, camels, rams; they feel sorry for him every time; then to Lake Altyn-Kul; the husband broke his younger arm, leg, gouged out his eye; she stayed with the old maid; he bothered them lame foal; the woman injured the mice, the bird was injured the same as her; they were cured by grass; the woman also recovered; her son comes out of the lake to play; the old woman fails to catch him for a long time; then he is lured into a bag full of grandmas; a son recognizes his mother when a splash of her milk enters his mouth; see motive J25]: 341-348, 600-618; South Altai Tuvans [Bögen Saggan Toolaj was born {not a woman, but} husband; attacked by the terrible giant Chureldej Chaan, deciding to seize the country before B. matured; the wives of 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 the stones off the hearth, he found a pipe, a flint, a skein of rope with a silver end, and a silver stick; found his older brothers; went west, laying with a silver stick He swam across the sea on the road, through the windbreak and through the mountain; when he came to Jess Mangnai, forced her to give him the best food; DM himself won easily; came to his wife H., who was kind to him; seeking help from Nebu-Altai, B. hardly defeated H., drank his blood and grinded him in a stone mill; the homes of the wives of the older brothers became jealous of B. and persuaded their husbands to place their sword with a point at the entrance to B.'s yurt; they began to shout that robbery, B. jumped out, his sword cut off his legs; his brothers and wives migrated; B. managed to kill the mare, ate its meat; one day mush tried to gnaw his severed legs and B. tore off her two legs himself; the other the mouse brought herbs, the mouse legs grew; B. also ate herbs, the meat grew together, but the bones did not grow together; Sean Shonanung Shilvey came, whom his brothers dazzled out of envy; put B. on his shoulders, went and B. showed the way; they met a man whose hands were greedily cut off by his brothers; in the sky, Arykcha's youngest daughter Khaan can heal a cripple; B. flew there as a falcon, then became a pacer and carried away princess to the ground; the fire went out because the men looked at the girl; the girl went to get the fire to the old woman Jelbega; she poured ash and heat into her hem, pierced the hole to leave an ash trail; jelbag followed the trail and drank the girl's blood; the men put the lifeless girl in a place of honor; the old woman came and swallowed her; the men grabbed the old woman, and the nightingale began to sing, "Little finger, little finger"; they they cut off her little finger and the girl came out of it alive and well; the men forced the jelbag to swallow them; she spit out two, and S. was also in her little finger; all three became healthy, prettier; the old woman let go; the girl returned to heaven; men found their wives, whom their brothers and 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 legs, the other without hands, a third without eyes; when they die, they turned into flies and mosquitoes]: Taube 1978, No. 27:97-120 (=Taube 1994, No. 5:70-88; Chulym Turks [three swan maidens (aka ducks) arrive and clean the house for three brothers; the elder, the middle brothers do not see anything, the younger hides the girls' clothes, the brothers get married; the devil comes out of the pipe under the hearth to drink women's blood; the younger brother shoots, hell, taking the younger wife, falls into the ground; the brothers lower the youngest on a rope; the woman gives the devil, the iron king, vodka, who says that his soul is seven eggs in a box, a box in the stomachs of seven deer; the hero pulls out breaks eggs, kills a devil born to a woman's son, brothers pick up the woman, the elder cuts off the rope, picking up the youngest; he falls; sees how the mouse has recovered, gnawing grass, heals himself; Kite cooks meat takes the hero to the upper world, the meat runs out, the hero cuts off the flesh from his leg; the Kite regurgitates this piece, puts it to his leg; the hero marries, kills his older brother]: Porotova 1980:76-80; tubalars [when old Ölengmere cuts down the third stump, a red dog jumps out of the hollow in it, bites it; YE. is forced to promise him a daughter; the eldest, middle refuse, the youngest agrees , follows the dog to his camp, there are two dogs; the dog is invited to that one three times; each time his wife loses track of it, and a handsome man pulls up to her; the third time he takes out the hidden dog skin, explains that he was a dog; sisters visit the dog's wife, she reveals the truth to them, they throw their skin into the fire; the wife snatches her out of the fire; the charred husband comes in; says he will leave, tells them to look for him; the wife climbs a mountain, falls, breaks her hip; breaks the mouse's leg; she eats the root, runs away; the woman also eats, recovers; the old man gives her a staff; tells her to go through the swamp in bumps; there will be birds on the river; the husband will one of the ducks, will swim from the front and then from behind; one of the geese will wave its wings; one of the birds will go down to the ground and go up to the top of the tree; the wife identifies her husband; he takes his appearance, leads to the camp, those two dogs are parents; the spouses live well]: Sadalova 2002, No. 23:223-233; Khakas (Kachins) [Payan-khys girl lives alone, she has a herd; he was stolen; she infiltrated thieves , took the herd away, but the thieves chased her, wounded her; she fell down and was barely alive; saw a mouse and broke its leg; the mouse chewed its spine, recovered; P. did the same; fell asleep; hunter Mirgen came up and met her; when P. gave birth, put the child in a birch bark cradle and lowered it to Bely Ius; took the cradle to the Yenisei near Krasnoyarsk; there are two brothers; Tattar has 7 children, and Kubanov is married but childless; the brothers saw a cradle ; T. suggested that he take what was outside and K. what was inside; K. and his wife raised a boy; he had 7 wives, from whom the Kokov family (hooh sailed in a birch bark boat]: Mindibayeva et al. 2016, No. 36:257-163, 348-449 (comm.); Turks (the source of the record is not a decree, Turkic names) [(episode in a story about heroic matchmaking); Altyn-Chagay jumps on horseback across the sea, he breaks his leg; ACH sees how a mouse with a broken leg finds and eats the root, recovers; heals a horse with the same spine]: Potanin 1883, No. 180:596-597; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 4 (Chita) [old woman Sholmos wants to eat a rich man, he asks him to eat his daughter better; he will leave three goldmoney at the camp, his daughter will return for them; a seemingly bad horse is willing to take the girl; teaches: he will turn into a calf, become rub against the yurt, you have to ask for money, then the old woman will ask you to drive the calf away, you have to jump on it; the goby becomes a horse again, takes the girl away; they live by a sandalwood with 12 branches; the girl a golden file, he gives food; the khan takes it with his third wife; leaves; the eldest promises to prepare a sable hat for his return, the middle one with a silk robe, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden breast, silver ass; older wives threw the newborn into the hole, then the dogs, under the feet of the herd, under the feet of the camels, he is unharmed; threw him into the sea; replaced with a puppy; the khan orders to break the younger arm, throw it at seas; she sees wounded birds eating grass, recovering; eating too, hands intact; a boy comes out of the water to play; a woman grabs him, he says that his father is a cliff, his mother is a seal; she gives him water to her milk; leads to that sandalwood; the son comes to his father, tells everything; the khan returns his youngest wife, makes the elders as garbage and dung cleaners]: 85-91; Burchina 2007, No. IV.7 (Unginsky, Nukut District) [uliger episode: Elterhey Tarkhi sees aspens on the tops of which Khan Hardag's chicks sit; they say that the Abarga snake will swallow them in the morning; ET shoots at the snake and cuts off his head; chicks cover ET with wings for three days; on the fourth day, when they remove their wings, it turns out that all trees and stones have burned down from the snake's venom; the chicks thank ET, and he sets off; his Khan Hardag catches up with other birds; promises to help him in the future; ET meets his older brothers who give him archi; when he gets drunk; brothers throw him into the well dungeon; ET falls on a ledge and breaks the femur; an ermine and a ferret come running, gnaw ET's rotting thigh and start fighting; after breaking the ferret's thigh, the ermine runs away; the ferret crawls up to the grass and heals the leg with dew; ET he also crawls to the grass and heals his leg with dew; then comes to the khan's palace, marries the khan's daughter; Khan Hardag's birds fly to ET; he puts barrels of meat on one of the birds, sits down on the other himself and goes up; meat supplies run out on the way; ET cuts off meat from its thigh and throws it to the birds; when they reach the upper land, the birds fly away; when they return, they cure ET; he returns home]: 335-337; Mongols: Mikhailov 1967 [khan leaves; one wife promises to sew boots, the other sash and shirt made of flea skin, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver back; older wives feed the baby is a cow; the returning khan orders the youngest wife to poke out his eyes, cut off his arm, leg, tie it to the tail of a cow, drive it out; the cripple sees how a blind crane, a fox without a paw, a lame hare healed by eating certain grass; did the same, recovered; her cow gave birth to her own son; the elder wife pretends to be sick, demands the heart of a child with a golden breast, a silver back; the servants gave her a dog heart, she recovered immediately; the young man grew up, came to Khan, told his story; Khan drove away bad wives, took the boy's mother again]: 142-145; Bawden 1976 [one wife promises the king to sew seamlessly boots, the second is a shirt made of lice skin, the third is to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver ass; promises are fulfilled; while the eldest distracts the younger one, the middle one lets the dog eat the baby, she refuses; wraps it in straw, gives it to the cow, eats it; the husband tells his wife to poke out one eye, cut off his arm, break her leg, tie the same cow to the tail, drive him out; the woman watches different crippled creatures become whole {probably after eating certain grass, etc.}, recovers; the cow gives birth to a boy she has eaten; the older wife pretends to be sick, asks her husband for the heart of a boy with golden breasts, with a silver ass; servants find him, but he disappears like a rainbow; next time they bring the dog's heart; the son tells the king his story; the youngest wife is returned, the elders are expelled]: 494-495; Skorodumova 2003 [hero Naran, his older sister Altan Naranga, younger Narangerel; AN asks to catch a hare, puts a note in his ear that she is lonely, lets a hare in a box along the river; Timur Khan read the note ; AN conspired with him, poisoned her brother at a feast; his coffin was crushed with a boulder, a camel lay on him; the old hansha was blinded, the slzhanka's hands were cut off; she sees how the blind and lame hares ate grass and recovered; they are also recovering; Narad got up killed his older sister, destroyed Timur Khan's nest]: 67-74.

Western Siberia. The Northern Selkups [a man was walking through the forest, fell into a hole, broke his arms and legs; hit a mouse that came up; it ate the root of the grass, its bones grew together; the man ate the same root, recovered; came to people who do not see him; when he speaks, they think that the fire is snorting; two vazhenki and an old woman die at the touch of a person; the shaman discovers him, sends him back to the ground]: Prokofiev 1976:125-126; Mansi (b. Pelymka) [the king has a son, his wife gave birth, the baby was in bed with his parents, he fell asleep; the king ordered her son to be cut off for this; the mother took her son's body, came to the hut on the seashore; saw how the snake took the grass, the serpent revived the deceased; the woman revived her son with the same grass; (did the son grow up?) ; the son comes to an empty house, there is food and wine; returns to his mother; so three times; the third time the owner comes, the young man hits him, he hides in a hole; the young man brings his mother to live in this house; she (became snake's mistress), ties his sleeping son with copper, iron wire, every time says that he tries his power; pretends to be sick, asks for living and dead water; he goes to the old woman, she sends him to the other, second to third, each gives a horse; on the last, the young man jumps over the fence, there are heads on stakes; he takes Marpita prikasna tievitsa, her father Jīki Pokān Pochotyr pursues, young man throws him a barrel of wine, he drinks; the young man comes back, cuts off his head, brings his mother; the serpent tells her about it; the mother gave her son a drink, tied him with a rope, they blinded him, hung him upside down by the shore seas; the wife sent the magpie and the heron to reach for her eyes; while the magpie screamed in the fir, the crow broke the window, brought her eyes, the wife put them in to her husband, poured them with dead and living water; the son returned, killed the mother and the snake]: Kannisto 1956, No. 11:118-126.

Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (Barguzin) [father, elder, middle brothers leave, disappear; the youngest is walking, the old man teaches how to ride a heroic foal; at the crossroads there is a stone with the inscription "Right dear black, left white"; the young man's father walked on the right, brothers on the left, he walks on the right; the old woman teaches him to go to Chagan-kan, around his house there is a river of blood, the banks are made of human bones; gives a pestle throw if C.'s daughters are chased; the horse transfers C. to the roof of the house, tells them to change the barrels of poisonous and eternal water; steps over one of C.'s daughters, jumps away, C.'s daughters are chasing, they can't pick up or bypass the abandoned pestle, stop chasing; comes to the daughter C., over whom he has stepped over, now she is his wife; they find the remains of the young man's father, he is revived with eternal water; the young man delivers father, wife and old woman to the stone with the inscription, goes to look for brothers; throws the girl who threw his brothers at her into the pit, pulls out the brothers; an old man comes, asks for a knife, hides in a hole, in that knife there was a young man's soul; a young man descends on his belts, a girl shows where the knife brought by the devil, the young man takes it, changes barrels of poisonous and eternal water; the devil drinks poisonous water, dies, drinks after him, the devil's wife dies; brothers pick up the girl and wealth, cut off the rope; the young man is maimed, the mouse hits, she eats grass, recovers, he also recovers; C.'s daughter is sacrificed by a snake, the young man inserts He falls into the mouth of a birch tree, kills a snake; he falls asleep, throws him into the water; the girl pulls him out, revives him; the young man saves the spider's children from the fire, he gives a net to the upper world; the young man comes to the brothers' wedding disguised as an old man, takes his form; stays with three wives, older brothers tied to horse tails]: Poppe 1927, No. 2:18-31 (=Voskoboynikov 1958:72-79, =1973, No. 18:80-89).

(Wed. The Great Southwest. Hopi [(Hebrew borrowing?) ; the girl's father gives her daughter on the condition that if one of the spouses dies, the other will be buried alive with him; lying in the grave, the person cuts the snake; the other revives it with a leaf; the husband revives it with the same leaf wife; returns home with her; revives a boy who fell from the roof; becomes a great healer]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 2:8-10).

Southern Amazon. Iranshe: Pereira 1974a [the evil spirit of Mãynukú came to the girl, she fell ill, died; later her father cut a snake to pieces; saw people come down from the sky, put pieces together, put them in a certain leaf, the snake came to life; taking such a leaf, the man revived the killed Inambu chicken, the deer, then the daughter; M. came again, the girl died again, her father revived her again, but this time she remained thin; the next day another evil spirit came, ate both daughter and parents]: 43-44; 1985 [same, but man revives his wife; episode with leaf: p.97]: 96-99.