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K80. An indestructible woman.

.12.14.-.17.21.-.23.25.-.36.38.39.

The character turns into objects or creatures that the other consistently destroys. However, the character (usually a young woman) is reborn each time in a new guise and eventually in her original appearance.

Hausa, Guro, Ancient Egypt, Kabiles, Algerian Arabs (Souf), Tunisia, Italians (Liguria), Maltese, Bretons, French (Dauphine), (Germans?) , Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Tibetans, Tibetans (Amdo), Mustang, Kirati, Toto, Meitei, Lhota, Angami, Sema, Karen, Burmese, Shans, Lao, Khmu, Cham, Khmer, Vieta, Rajastanis, Nepalese, Marathi, Konkani, Hindi (Uttar Pradesh), Ho, Assamese, Santals, Birkhor, Oraons, Sinhala, Kannada, Taiwan, Chinese (Guangdong, Hubei, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong, Gansu, Qinghai), Lisu, Chuan Miao, Koreans, Hungarians, Greeks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Lipetsk, Orel), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Slovaks, Poles, Rumei, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Balkarians/Karachays, Terek Cossacks, Ingush, Avars, Lucks, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Yagnobes, Uzbeks, Seiu, Veps, Latvians, Norwegians, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Yellow Uighurs, Dungans, Altaians , Tuvans, Mongols, Northern Khanty, Verkhoyan Yakuts, Japanese, North Ryukyu, Yukaghirs (Russified: probably tundra).

West Africa. Hausa [stepmother and her angry daughter hate Farimata, father agreed to kill her; a cotton bush grew in this place {or some other plant; leak over a tree rather than a bush}; travelers admired it, decorated it with beads; the stepmother ordered the branches to be cut off, the travelers admired the trunk; ordered it to be burned to the ground, the travelers put the jewelry in the ashes; ordered the ashes to be thrown into the water, the water became sweet; the stepmother tells her husband to fall asleep a spring, gazelles gathered there, one sings about what her father and stepmother did to her; the hunter heard, called Father F., who tried to grab the gazelle, the other gazelles did not; he cried the gazelles took pity, F. became a girl again, her father drove her stepmother and daughter away]: Tyutryumova 1991:104-111; guro [the man has two wives; the daughter of one is beautiful Donian, the other's daughter is a freak ("knee daughter and crooked legs"); she asks her mother to make her beautiful, but she cannot do it; then her mother killed D.; a seiba grew up on her grave, under which all residents began to gather and remember D.; the mother cut down the seiba - all people came and sat on the gun; burned the trunk; people used ash to chew tobacco; mother and daughter poured water on the ash; water poured out of the ground and formed a river that carried away mother and daughter; rivers did not exist before; a freak daughter turned into a crocodile, a mother into a hippopotamus, and the vessels with which they filled ash in river turtles]: Tououi Bi 2014:181-184.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [(papyrus d'Orbigny, first published. Vicomte de Rougé d Revue archéologique 1862:385f; Anepu and Batau); Anubis's older brother is married, the younger Bata lives in his house and works for him; the brothers worked in the fields; A. sent B. to bring seeds; at home, A.'s wife offers B. to get along with her; B. refuses, but promises to remain silent; in the evening, A.'s wife pretends to be beaten, says that B. tried to rape her; B.'s cow warns him that A. is going to kill him; B. runs, A. pursues him; B. asks the Sun God, who creates a reservoir in the way A.; in the morning B., standing on the other side, screams, telling his brother how it was, shouts himself, throws his severed penis into the water, swallows the catfish; B. goes to the Valley of the Cedars (Pines), telling A. to come for him if he finds out that something has happened to B., in this case, the beer in the mug he has holds, starts wandering; A. returns home, kills his wife, throws the corpse to dogs, mourns his brother; B. comes to the Valley of the Cedar, places his heart on the top of a cedar flower (?) , hunts; god Hnum creates a woman for him; B. warns her not to leave the house, because the Sea can swallow her, and he, B., will not be able to save her, because he is "a woman himself like her"; a woman violates the ban, The sea tries unsuccessfully to carry it away, tells Cedar (Pine) to detain her, but he only grabs her curl; the sea brings it to Egypt and leaves it where the laundresses wash the pharaoh's clothes; the aroma of the curl remains on underwear; scribes explain to the pharaoh that the curl belongs to the daughter of the Sun; Pharaoh sends people to the Valley of the Cedar to bring a woman; B. kills them; Pharaoh sends other warriors and a woman, giving her all kinds of things women's jewelry; this time B.'s wife comes to Egypt; she succumbs to Pharaoh's persuasion and advises to cut down the tree on which B.'s heart is located; the tree falls down, the flower with B.'s heart falls, B. dies; at home, A. sees that the beer in the mug has fermented; comes to the Valley of the Cedar, finds B. dead on his bed, unsuccessfully searches for his heart for three years; on the fourth, intending to return to Egypt, he finds fruit - B.'s heart; he puts it in a vessel of cold water, at night the heart absorbs water, B. comes to life, A. gives him water to drink, B. swallows his heart and it returns to its place in his body; deciding to take revenge to his wife, B. turns into a beautiful bull, whom A. brings to the Pharaoh's palace; he accepts the bull as a "miracle"; when he enters the kitchen, the bull finds his ex-wife there, reproaches her; the wife asks the pharaoh slaughter a bull and cook its liver for it; two drops of blood fall on the sides of the palace gate, from which two Persea Mimusops Schimperi trees grow); when the pharaoh and his wife sit under them, one of them tells the woman that it is B., reproaches again; the woman orders to make furniture out of wood; a sliver flies into the mouth of Pharaoh's wife, she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son; he grows up (obviously in the form of B.) after death Pharaoh takes the throne, sues his former wife; after 30 years he dies, A. takes the throne]: Lichtheim 1997:85-89 (Russian per. Livshits 1975:87-102); Tunisia [the merchant has three daughters, the father does not want to marry them; after overhearing their conversations, he married them at their request: the eldest to a bald rich man, the middle to an honest rich man, the youngest named Marjana ("coral"; hereinafter her name is Lulu) for a poor bathhouse attendant; she gave birth to a daughter who was predicted that when she laughed, precious stones would fall from her mouth, and when she cried, emeralds; this is how her father became rich; she grew up, the Sultan's son married her; his aunt went with her in a carriage to the prince, she hated Lyulya; when she wanted to eat, her aunt gave her salted fish in exchange for her eye, and when Lyulya asked for water, her aunt gouged out her second eye and threw her out of the carriage, dressed her daughter in her clothes, put her in Lyulya's place; a bird flew past Lyulya in the forest, said that if she chews a leaf from a tree, she would become a dove; Lula did so; while hunting, the prince caught a dove, put it in a golden cage, spent a lot of time with her; his wife told her to be sick fried a dove; a palm tree grew in the place where its bones were buried; the prince was time near the palm tree, his wife demanded that it be cut down, otherwise she would fall ill again; the prince cut down the palm tree and threw it into the forest; An old woman picked up the firewood, brought it home; when she left the house and returned, she found that everything in the house was tidy; the neighbors said it was not them; the old woman began to spy and saw that the firewood was coming out girl; Lyulya told her what had happened to her; made a necklace with gems that fell out of her mouth while she was talking, gave it to the old woman to take to the market, but did not sell it to her wife prince; she sold; when the prince saw the necklace, he asked the old woman, she told him about Lyulya; he went to her and returned from her with his son, and told his wife that it was the son of his suddenly deceased friend; Lulya told her son to ask the prince's wife for a necklace from her neck; his wife took off the necklace and died immediately; Lulya entered the palace and took her place]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 68 in Korovkina MS; kabila [Aïcha and her Bejliman's brother is orphans, stepmother especially hates A.; when A. goes, she is followed by a trail of wheat grains, when she laughs, she cries in the sky - it rains, combs her hair, gold and silver fall; B. spoke about to this king, he asked A. for his hand; together with his stepmother A. goes through the desert to the groom's country, is thirsty, her stepmother gives her a drink in exchange for her eyes; replaced her ugly daughter, leaves A. under with a tree; the deceived king ordered Brother A. to be tied in the stable; the turtles brought leaves that restored A.'s sight; they also offered to become a turtle, she became; the gorlinka sings to the peasant, then to the king about suffering brother; the young queen tells you to catch a turtle, then cut her throat; a date palm tree has grown in this place; when the queen wants to pick dates, the branches rise; she tells you to cut down a palm tree, one An old woman took a sliver; the next morning, instead of firewood, a girl asks for a comb, gold is pouring in; she asks for refuge in the royal palace; cries - a storm begins; gold falls from her hair; the king recognizes A. frees her brother, his daughter is tied to his place]: Arezki 2010:43-50; the Arabs of Eastern Algeria (Souf) [a poor peasant woman raised her daughter, she was seen by the Sultan's son, he is amazed at her beauty, married, sent home with two black maids; the mother gave her daughter a sesame seed necklace; the girl wanted to drink, the maids told her to go down from the camel, killed her and buried her; the necklace torn; the youngest of the maids put on her clothes; the Sultan's son is surprised by the bride's changed appearance; she explains that it's the local water; the gardener hears the bird that has arrived talk about what happened, after that, the leaves in the garden fall off; the Sultan's son comes, takes the bird to him; the liar says that the cattle were stolen by robbers, the prince went to watch, she killed and threw away the bird; she grew up in this place a pomegranate tree; an old woman picked a pomegranate, brought it home; someone cooks and cleans; drought begins; the Sultan's son distributed cattle, the old woman got a thin cow; but she immediately recovered; there, where a girl stepping out of a pomegranate steps, the grass turns green; the Sultan's son saw her; the wedding; the black woman was executed]: Scelles-Millie 196:321-324; (cf. Egypt [like the Palestinians, Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 9]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989:336).

Southern Europe. Italians: Mannhardt 1875 [born from a golden apple (orange, etc.), animated by water, sitting on a tree above the water, is engaged to a prince; in his absence, a servant (black woman) , gypsy) kills her with a needle, replaces her; the true bride consistently turns into a goldfish, a goldfish tree, a chip broken off from it, again into a woman; the false wife is exposed]: 236- 237; Calvino 1980, No. 8 (Liguria: Genoa) [=Shustova 1994:236-239; a woman laid eggs in a basket, a little shepherdess the size of a tick threw a stone at them, the woman told him to stay small until he was will find the beautiful Bargalina with three singing apples; he goes looking; at the bridge, a woman swings on a walnutshell swing, asks her eyelids to be raised; when she sees a boy, she gives him a stone; at another bridge a woman who bathes in an eggshell also asks to raise her eyelids and gives her an ivory comb; a man collects fog in a bag, gives a shepherdess; a miller fox teaches how to carry a witch's cage with singing apples; if her eyes are open, she sleeps, and if closed, she is awake; the boy sees that his eyes are closed and does not take the apple cage; the witch asks to comb her hair, falls asleep; then the boy takes the apples, but the bells in the cage rang, the witch woke up, sent the riders after - for the first time 100, then 200, then 300; the boy throws a stone (rocky mountain), a comb ( smooth mountain), fog (the chase has stopped); the boy is thirsty, cuts an apple, inside B.; she asks for a cake to eat; as soon as the boy leaves for the pie, the maid Ugly Slave came to get water, threw B. into the well; the shepherdess's mother came to get water, pulled a fish out of the well; they ate it, a tree grew out of the seeds; the shepherdess cut him down, prepared firewood; his mother died; every time the house is tidy; he watches, B. comes out from under the firewood; both grew up, the wedding]: 23-26; the Maltese [the childless king promises to build a source of oil (or also a source of wine) from which it will be pour until the son reaches a certain age; a son is born and grows up; breaks a jug of an old woman who has come for butter with a stone; she tells him to marry a girl of seven lemons; old people he meets help him find seven lemons; he opens 6, each girl dies of hunger and thirst, because the young man has nothing to give her right away; for the seventh he has prepared food and drink in advance, she stays alive ; the prince takes her to his country, leaves her in a tree while he goes to prepare everything for the meeting; a Moorish woman climbs a tree, offers to look in the girl's head, pierces a pin, the girl turns into dove; the returning prince marries a liar, although he is surprised why the bride went fool; the bird arrives, talks about itself, the false wife kills her; the old woman grows out of bones in the yard wood; then the girl is reborn; the prince finds her, the liar is executed]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 408:99-101 (version in Stumme 1904, No. 26 [the Turkish woman was cooked in oil, made a rug out of leather to wipe her feet]: 71-76).

Western Europe. The Bretons [Prince Trégier went on a journey, squandered his money and his horse, stayed with a poor old woman, who sent him to the castle; there the old woman takes him as an employee, tells him not to pay attention if at night he will hear noise and moans behind the wall; the prince unlocks the door, there is a serpent; he asks him not to be afraid, tells him to carry him to another castle; when the prince gets tired, he licks the foam from the snake's mouth and gains strength; in the snake castle turns into a king; he has been bewitched for 500 years; he has three daughters, he promises any, but first gives a horse and a magic spear - let the prince, easily defeating enemies with this spear, come to the Emperor of Russia, He marries him with his daughter; she already has a lover, they will deceive him to take his spear and execute the prince; but let him ask him to put his chopped remains in a bag, tied to a horse, and let him go free; the horse will bring them back and the king will revive him with live water; this is what happened (the wife pretended to admire the prince's hunting skills and found out the secret of the spear); now the king explains what she will turn the prince into a white horse, put a bottle of live water in his ear; let him come to his ex-wife's stable; she will understand that the horse is connected to her ex-husband, tells him to cut it and burn it; we must explain to Souillon's maid which is actually of a high kind, to keep the vial; S. poured living water on the horse's blood, a cherry grew in this place; the ex-wife tells her to be cut; S. kept and poured living water on one cherry; that turned into a blue bird; the wife and her new husband began to catch it, the husband put his spear on the ground, the bird sat on the spear, turned into a prince, ordered the destruction of his ex-wife and her husband with a spear; S. the youngest daughter of the snake king; wedding]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 6:262-276; the French (Dauphine) [the prince refuses to marry, cut his finger, dripped blood on the cream, he promises to marry the one who is like blood and milk; his father sends him to look for his wife; he sails to a barren island, where the Death Woman lives, sends him to another, rich vegetation, Life lives there, she refers to Youth, she gives you three lemons and a knife; you have to cut a lemon at the spring, a girl will come out, she must be given water right away; after cutting the first two lemons, the prince is so fascinated by the beauty of the girls that he does not have time to give them water first how they disappear; the third drinks; she goes to tell her father about it, in his absence the girl climbs a tree; the black woman sees her reflection in the source, thinks that she is so beautiful herself; breaking the jug, notices beautiful; stabs a pin into her head, she flies away like a dove; a black woman tells the prince that an evil fairy has turned her into a black woman; a wedding is being prepared; the dove arrives, sings, the servant grabs her, cuts her, out of three drops of blood grow a lemon with three lemons; the prince cuts the lemons, the girls from the first two disappear, in the third his fiancée; they want to burn the black woman, the bride asks her to simply expel]: Joisten 1991, No. 16.1.: 137-139; (cf. Germans [check it out!] : Mannhardt 1875:236-237).

Western Asia. The Arabs of Syria [the prince dreams of a beautiful woman, goes in search; he hardly persuaded the captain to take him across the sea; there a woman tears off the leaves, as soon as she tears off, someone dies; sends to her sister, she sews dresses as soon as she sews it, a child is born; teaches that a beautiful woman is in an orange, you must cut it, but immediately let her drink water; the prince took three oranges; when cut the first two, forgot to cook water, the girls disappeared; the third time he got a beauty; left her in a tree above the stream, went to his father's palace to buy clothes himself; the maid saw the reflection first decided that she was so beautiful; then she asked the beauty to get down, stabbed her, she flew away as a bird, the maid took her place; the father says that the bride is evil and ugly, the son does not believe; the bird began to fly to in the bedroom, the imaginary wife broke the glass, cut off the bird's head, and an orange tree grew out of drops of blood in the garden; when the prince cut the third orange, the beauty reappeared; the maid was beheaded]: Kuhr 1993:33-34; Iraqi Arabs [an infertile woman promises to fill one ditch with honey and another oil; gives birth to a son; an old woman reminds a boy of his mother's vow; parents fill ditches, old woman comes last, picks up the leftovers; the boy accidentally breaks her jug; she wishes him love for the ram and trange (TT; "sour lemon and bitter orange"); he grows up, goes looking for TT; the old man at the fork says that one road of well-being, the second is misfortune, the third does not return; the young man rides the first, falls to the giantess's chest, who teaches how to pick a TT in the garden when the eyes of the monsters are open (so sleeping); when trying to peel another fruit, a request was made for water, the fruit shrunk; the last young man peeled by the water, he became a girl; the young man walked away, leaving TT in the tree; a witch came to the spring, took the beauty's reflection for her own; she offered to help wash the dishes; the witch got up to her, put a pin in her head, TT flew away as a bird; the young man said that she would be beautiful again in a year; the bird She flew to the young man, the witch wife ordered her to be killed, otherwise she would not recover; a drop of blood grew out of a drop of blood, her trunk was covered with pearls; the witch wife ordered her to be made a cradle for a child; the child in her cries; the witch gave the cradle to a poor neighbor; someone cleans her house, she waits for the girl, asks her not to return to the cradle; the witch asks for the cradle to be returned, calls the craftsmen to sew pearls on her dress; TT comes, tells his story; the husband leaves the witch, brings TT to his parents]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 23:129-136; (cf. Palestinians [a neighbor persuades orphans to advise their father to marry her; while cooking for her husband, she eats everything quietly, tells her stepdaughter to call her brother, kills him, cooks him instead of an animal; the sister buries her bones; when she tears off, there is a marble vessel, a bird flies out of it; the bird shouts to people that his stepmother killed him, the father ate him; throws nails in the mouths of both, they die; the bird turns again as a boy]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 9:98-102); Yemen (SW corner, Khujariya Province, West 2006) [sister lives with her brother and his wife; goes to the roof at night, turns to the Month; wife tells her husband that her sister has lovers; offers to look in her head, puts a lizard in her clothes, tells her brother that she gave birth to a freak; the brother tells his sister to bring him lunch to the field, lets the bulls in, they she was trampled; she turned into a palm tree and the coffee she had brought into a stream; women would come to wash clothes in it, asked the palm tree to bend down (to hang it and then take off her clothes), she bent down; When the brother's wife came, her clothes remained on the palm tree, she did not bend back; the husband called the lumberjack, but the palm tree asked not to cut her body; the same happened to the second; the husband brings the deaf and dumb man, who cuts down the palm tree; the old woman picked up a date, brought it home and forgot; every day, when she returns, she sees the house tidy; her little nieces say it's them; but one day an old woman finds a young woman, she's all told; her brother sees her, does not recognize her, asks for a wife; her sister asks the old woman to demand a bed made of stone and glass, straw and wood, clay and cloth; he makes them, brings them, they say strange things ; sister explains who she is; he ripped his wife's belly open, brought his sister back home]: al-Baydhani 2008:41-49.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the king's three daughters reject suitors; the old maid's knee is swollen, a frog pops out of the abscess; her husband has agreed to consider him a son; he sends his mother to marry the king's daughter; her king chases; the frog comes by himself, threatens to laugh; his laughter makes the palace fall; the eldest daughter refuses; the frog cries, the flood begins; the middle daughter refuses; the frog jumps, the ground shudders, the youngest daughter agrees; the frog brought his wife, the hut became a palace; mother and sister realized that he was the son of the dragon king; he took off his frog skin for the night; the sisters pushed his wife the frog went into the well, the eldest put on her clothes, the frog did not notice the change; a walnut tree grew near the well; the sister tried it - the nuts were bitter, ordered the tree to be cut down and burned, and the ashes scattered across the field; Barley grew - sweet for the mother, bitter for his wife, she ordered the grains to be thrown into the water, they became birds, one told her husband about the villainy; the frog drove out the older sisters]: Parfionovich 1969:98-105; Tibetans [the prince, out of mischief, shot a slingshot at the jug in which the old woman was carrying; she cried; the prince brought her water in another jug; she wished him to marry the Drolmakid fairy; she was in an orange on a distant tree; you have to pick the fruit and not look inside on the way; the prince did so, opened the orange only at home; the parents married their son to D.; took a girl like her as a maid; she a witch; she offered to compare their beauty, look at the reflection in the lake, and in order to compare bodies rather than clothes, suggested D. take off her clothes and jewelry; pushed them into the water; the prince did not notice the substitution ; the groom said that a golden lotus had blossomed on the lake; invited the prince to dress as a groom so that the lotus would not be afraid; the young man picked the lotus and hid it, then put it in a vase; the witch burned it; it grew from the ashes walnut tree; a witch invited people to pick nuts and burned the tree again; one nut went to a poor woman and her son; someone cooks and tidies; mother and son caught her; but she does not leave them at home; one day she went out, the witch recognized the voice, told people to grab and burn the girl; but a palace appeared at the site of the burning; the prince came in and recognized his wife; when she heard about the palace, the witch ran there, began to rise, fell down and crashed; her body was burned]: Komissarov 1997:55-68; Tibetans (Amdo) [the king has daughters Ngulyggun (silver princess) and Kserlyggun (golden princess), they have a servant Eg-Tamu-ntso; E. offered to throw the buckets into the water, the golden and silver buckets of the princesses drowned, the wooden E. swam; the maid lied as if the king was telling the princesses to leave; she puts on their dress, they wear the maid's dress; The prince chooses K., E. threw her into the lake, took her place, sent N. to herd sheep; K. leaves the lake every day, gives N. bread and meat; once she brought a piece to the palace; E. came to the lake, sang that The same song, K. came out, E. cut her head with a red-hot coulter; K. did not go out anymore; N. gave birth to a semi-golden, semi-silver child; E. ordered him to be thrown to sheep, horses, cows, buried under manure; told the king that N. gave birth to a puppy; a flower grew on the child's grave, eaten by a sheep, gave birth to a piebald lamb; he herds the herd, told his mother to complain about him E., she would slaughter him, the bones should be hidden in the cave; A llama is born from bones, tells a story, the king ordered E. to be torn apart by horses]: Potanin 1891:144-146; Mustang: Kretschmar 1985, No. 1 [the youngest of the three princes wants to marry only a princess Bea Rani; comes to the demon, calls him a friend; he sends a letter to his middle brother, the middle brother; the prince brings BR in a leather box, falls asleep; the princess comes out of the box; daughter The shoemaker throws her into the lake, puts on her clothes, climbs into the box; BR was surrounded by a rainbow, but the prince's wife was not; the lake became milky, and a lotus grew in it; the older brothers talked about to this prince; the elder and middle brothers cannot pick the lotus, the youngest is given it; while the brothers are hunting, the shoemaker's daughter tore the lotus, threw it out the window, it was eaten by a sheep; she gave birth to a golden lamb in front, silver in the back, pearly in the middle, a rainbow around it; the shoemaker's daughter killed a lamb, cooked and ate the meat, the broth splashed out; in this place there was a milk lake, sandalwood on one side to the sky with a türkis vogel bird above, on the other - a banyan with a parrot, other trees with birds along the banks; a parrot with türkis vogel talking, a parrot tells the whole story; the prince must crush türkis vogel's body, put it in silk in a gold box, open it after 7 days; the prince hears it, so does BR revive; the shoemaker's daughter was thrown into the river], 21 [mother of three daughters fell ill; says that only grass and water in a remote part of the valley will heal her; the eldest daughter is coming; there is a dog who will allow her to take grass and water on condition that the girl marries him; she refuses, leaves with nothing; the same with the middle sister; the youngest agrees, the dog gives grass and water, promises to come in two days; the mother recovers; hides the youngest daughter under a copper cauldron; the dog beats the older sisters, sits on the cauldron, the youngest screams that she is here; he leads her across the lake, across the plain, there is a golden house, then silver, then out of dog crap; the girl replies every time that the house suits her; inside the house there is abundance, there, the old woman is the mother of the dog; she advises to pretend to be asleep, wait for her son to take off his dog skin and go to bed, throw his skin into the fire; in front of the girl, the young king Kyirken Gambala; he says that the skin was burned too early, there will be problems; when she goes hunting, she leaves a bunch of keys; the girl opens rooms in the golden palace, it is full of gold, silver is in silver, and coral in the coral; from There is no wooden key; she finds the key on a stick under the ceiling, unlocks the door, behind her there is a mother-of-pearl staircase, she sees the whole world, she sees her native village, her parents are hungry and sick; older sister married a blacksmith, an average butcher; she searches for KG in her head, drops a tear, admits that she feels sorry for her parents; they go to them together, give gifts; the older sisters are jealous, the eldest leads the youngest to the lake, asks what she feeds her husband and what the servants are; the youngest guesses, answers incorrectly (for my husband, buckwheat and pepper, I throw a plate out the door, rice and meat to the servants, plates on the shelf); the eldest pushes the youngest into the lake, puts on her clothes and jewelry, invites KG to return home; he suspects deception; the imaginary wife is afraid to go across the lake, does not want to enter the house out of dog crap, feeds her husband as servants and servants like a husband; a shepherd sees sheep coming to the lake, a bird flies out of the water, asks about the king; the shepherd tells the KG about this; he goes with him to the lake, brings a bird, puts him in a cage; the imaginary wife kills and cooks poultry, lets her husband eat it with rice; he notices that there is poultry meat in the rice, throws it into the garden; trees grow there; the imaginary wife tells them to be cut down and split into firewood; poor old husband and wife, the husband went bring firewood, find a piece of meat, put it in a chest; a few days later a girl came out; after that, the old men became rich; the girl gives the old man a ring that was left on her finger when her sister pushed her into the lake; he calls the king and his wife, puts them on golden and turquoise thrones, shows the ring; the king demands a finger to the ring; his wife goes out, the older sister turns to ash; KG: these were the problems I mentioned; the ash was hidden under a black stupa; the KG made his wife's parents' house his summer residence], 22 [the poor have three daughters; the yellow dog brings a bag of money, asks to keep it until it returns in two or three years; sisters insist to take this money and buy clothes and jewelry; when they find that there is no money, the dog demands one of the girls as his wife; the older two refuse, the youngest agrees, leaves with the dog; gives birth to two white puppies and a black knot; the dog brings her to a luxurious house where his human sister takes off his skins and children, becomes king, white puppies become boys, black is a girl; three years later, a woman comes to visit her home; there is poverty, the sisters are jealous, they go to the lake with the youngest to wash their hair, drown her, put on her clothes and jewelry, answer the king, that their younger sister went to her parents; stay in the palace; a tree has grown on the shore of the lake, and the girl has become a bird, tells the shepherd whose sheep lay by the water; he forgets to tell the king; to Don't forget anymore, makes ear pendants for himself from sheep dung; the king sees the pendants, the shepherd tells everything; the king comes to the tree, the bird is silent; the shepherd advises him to wear his clothes and come unrecognized ; and so it happened; the king threw a stone, the bird flew on his right shoulder (a sign that his wife would regain her appearance); the king placed the bird in a chest, the wife left 7 days later; the king sent her sisters to them parents, stayed with his wife and children; the country is flourishing]: 11-22, 128-137, 138-143; kirati [the poor old woman went to the forest, there was a serpent in her shoulder basket; she tried to drive him away, kill him, he told me to take him home; in her absence someone cooks, she realizes that it is a serpent; he says he will follow the princess's wife; tells me to close my eyes until he climbs to the top of the mountain; old woman opens her eyes earlier, the serpent is immediately next to her again; the second time she crawls over the mountain; in the palace she crawls into a mortar, calls the king; only the youngest and most beautiful of the five daughters finds out where voice; the king refuses to give the serpent his daughter; then he cries - the downpour causes flooding; the king promises but refuses his words; the serpent laughs, the drought hits the kingdom; the king agrees to give the daughter; only the youngest agrees; the king tells her to throw a piece of iron, an iron stick into the head of the snake on the way; the snake: why do you throw your spindle; a pin; at home the old woman and the princess liked each other; the snake creates palace; the princess and the old woman go to the party; decide to return unnoticed; the old woman sees that the serpent has taken off his skin and has become a prince; the princess grabs him, the old woman wants to burn her skin; the prince tells me not to do this; Jewelry falls out of leather, then courtiers, servants, and people come out; with luxurious gifts, the spouses come to the princess's father; the older sister tries on the younger sister's clothes and jewelry, asks what give the child cow manure if he wants to eat; what to do if he gets dirty, call the dog; persuades the father to stay and her husband to leave; he understands that his wife will be killed, but nothing can do; the older sister accompanies the youngest in the waterless area; by the lake she rushes to drink, the older sister drowns her; in her guise she comes home; the old woman understood the deception only when the imaginary daughter-in-law gave manure, etc.; the husband went to the lake, caught and burned his wife's corpse; a bird comes from the lake, turns to the baby; the husband realizes that this is a transformed wife; the next day he caught her with a bird's glue, put it in a cage; the imaginary wife killed and fried the bird, said that she fed her son; the husband killed the child, locked himself in his room, began to conjure; opened the chest, in which the wife and son were alive; sent the liar to her father]: Heunemann 1980, No. 1:19-33; Bhutan [the old man's knee is swollen; the old woman moves her leg away, the old man only moans; she hit his knee with a ladle, a frog jumped out of the tumor; tells not kill her: she will bring her daughter-in-law into the house; comes to the king; the eldest, middle daughters do not notice anyone, the youngest says that a frog has come; frog: if you disagree, I will cry; king: cry; from the frog's eyes two streams flowed, washing everything away; the king agrees to give his daughter; but the daughters disagree; the frog laughs, the palace trembles; the elders are ready to marry a bear or a leopard as soon as possible; the youngest Phurzamo agrees; soon noticed that her husband takes off her skin and becomes handsome; he warns the skin not to destroy, but to go around, shaking it; in the morning there is a palace, servants, fields, herds, treasures; sister Ph. came took her swimming, tried to push Ph. into the lake; says it was not her, but her finger; ate it, she was a demon; then she pushed and put on her clothes and jewelry; the husband did not understand the deception, only the son understood and cried; a bamboo stalk rose from the lake; a peasant hears a bird sitting on it asking what her son's demoness is feeding; a peasant: she gives ash to the child, and rice to the king; then the bird disappeared into the water; the peasant told the king; he disguised himself as a peasant, came to the lake; king to the bird: if you are my wife, fly here; brought him to the palace, put him in a golden cage; the liar ate the bird, king found a bone and tells me to wrap it in silk; the bundle placed in the vessel grew up, the wife was reborn; the demoness was defeated]: Choden 1994:93-98; toto: Majumdar 1991, No. 17 [7 brothers have one sister; 6 The brothers are married; the brothers are gone on business, they must return on the seventh; their wives do not like their sister, offered to take out her lice, pushed her into the river; crossing the river, each of their brothers hears a voice and says that if it is someone from our family, let him come to my clothes on the left; there is no answer to the words of the six brothers, and a beautiful bird came down to the younger one's clothes; when I found out that my sister was missing, my brother went to look for her; At this time, the wives fried the bird, ate it, and the cat swallowed the bone; tells his younger brother that if he shares rice with her, she will give him a bird's bone; the cat regurgitated the bone, the young man hid it and she gradually became a girl; brothers beat and drove away their wives; her sister married safely, and after death became a Cikouri parrot (the origin of these parrots)], 20 [an orphan herds the owner's herd, starving; old woman: there will be molasses in the left horn of the brown (red) cow, rice in the right; the orphan ate, hid the rest in the hollow; this was taken away by the crane; the orphan chased him; three days later the crane stopped and He told the orphan to come to him; let him throw a handful of mustard on his tail, and then find him; following the trail, the orphan came to the old woman who told him about food in the cow's horns; she warned so that he does not enter the crane's house through the main entrance, they will kill him; let him enter through the side door, find the vessel and ask the crane to give it to him; the crane agrees, ordered not to open the vessel home; on the way back the vessel became heavier; the orphan could not resist taking out the cork; a beautiful woman came out and asked to marry her; the orphan left her in a tree and went to the village to pick up people (to solemnly bring his wife ); the cannibal ate the girl, took her place, took her form; they began to live in their own house; a pumpkin grew, it prevented her from entering the house; the imaginary wife snatched her out, but a pomelo tree grew in the same place; imaginary the wife gave birth, left the child in the shade of this tree; the fruit fell and killed him; the imaginary wife cut down the tree; an old woman came and took what was left; a girl came out of the fruit in her house; asked the old woman to bring bethel filled the vessel with gum and smeared it inside the house where the orphan and the witch lived; the old woman told the orphan everything, and when he saw blood (i.e. betel), he believed; the old woman told me to dig a hole push a cannibal into her; he cut off the cannibal's head, threw it into a hole and buried it; returned his real wife]: 256-259, 269-275; lhota, angami [the hunter killed the wild boar, God was inside, asked which of his two daughters he wanted; the man rejected the ugly well-dressed, took a basket with a dirty and naked beauty; the hunter left the basket by the pond, went to call his neighbors; Hunchibili threw away the beauty into the river, ma sat down, went to call neighbors; he wants asavitseyuh daughters; the man rejected n\ ugly and hona her place; the villagers laughed that he took the freak; the real wife turned into a young bamboo; husband I cut it off, began to cook it at home; you can hear her screaming from the pot, Hunchibili! The husband threw away the bamboo, an orange tree grew with one fruit; when H. tried to pick it, the branch deviated when the husband bent down; the husband left the orange in the basket; someone was cleaning her husband's bed, Smears mud on H.'s bed; husband spies, sees his wife coming out of the basket; cuts off H.'s head; she was carrying brushwood at that time, this plant is now in her blood]: Hutton 1921:280-282; sema: Hutton 1921 [like a lhota; an old woman tears an orange, catches a girl secretly cleaning the house; a tree grows out of Hunchibili's body; her husband makes a ladder out of it; goes headhunting, does not tell a pregnant wife should go to the lock without him; his parents insist that the stairs throw her down, she dies; the husband follows her to the cave, but God gives him a girl made of wax; she melts in the sun one day; the husband again comes, his wife is ready to go with him, but her father drives him away]: 280-282; 1968, No. 21 [Munchüpile killed the man's wife, took her place; a bamboo escape grew out of the dead body abandoned in the forest; when he became cook, the water gurgled the name of the murderer; she threw away the pot, and an orange tree grew out of the shoot; the husband peeled one orange, hid it in the basket; when no one is home, the orange turns into his old wife, cooks; the husband waited, grabbed the woman, she spoke about what happened; the husband killed M., began to live with his ex-wife; they died touching M.'s bones]: 357-358; Meitei (ranks) [two wives, each boy and girl; husband died; younger wife evil; both went for fish; the eldest caught fish, the youngest caught oysters, eels and snakes; climbed a tree; the eldest asks to shed fruit; she threw snakes into her mouth and eel, the eldest turned into a turtle and swam away; her youngest took her fish; the eldest daughter, Shandrembi, saw her mother in a dream; she talked about what happened; let S. catch her, keep her where she was not on her the rays of the sun and moon will fall, and in 7 days it will be reborn as a man; but the youngest wife's son noticed the turtle, demanded that it be cooked for him; in a dream, my mother appeared again Sh.: put my bones in the basket , after 7 days I will become a woman; but S. opened the basket on the 6th day, a swallow flew out from there; S. and the daughter of his younger sister, Chaisra, went to get water; S. in rags, C. in beautiful clothes; the king turns to Sh. they changed their clothes, but the king again turned to Sh.; took her away, made her queen; the youngest wife invited S. to the party, offered to wash her, poured boiling water over her, she flew away with a dove; C. put on her clothes, took her place; the dove flies to the mower, says that the king forgot his wife, that S. was on the branch and C. was on the throne; the mower told the king; he brought the dove to the palace; C. killed her, fried her; where the curry woke up, a plant grew and a fruit grew on it; the mower wanted to cut off; but if there was a knife, there was no fruit, there was no fruit, there was no knife; the fruit turned into S., she began to cook for the mower when he was not at home; he waited for her, grabbed it, brought the king; he gave C. a beautiful but dumb sword, and S. an ugly but sharp sword told him to fight; S. hacked C.]: Singh 1985:278-285; Meitei [the collected work Funga Wari, Vol. 3 by N. Bemni Singha ; stepmother is jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty; when her father went on business, the girl's stepmother helped her break rice by putting grain in a mortar; smashed her arms, legs, and then head with a pestle; pepper grew on her grave; his stepmother cut it off, but a pumpkin grew; the stepmother cut it off, but one fruit fell into the river; a lotus grew; the father returns, wants to pick the lotus, hears the daughter's voice; realizing that it is her father, daughter revived; neighbors shaved her stepmother and rubbed lime and turmeric into her skin]: Oinam et al. s.a.;

meitei []: Oinam et al. s.a.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [the wife asks her husband to fish for more fish, he hits her, she turns into a turtle; the neighbor adjusts to marry him; Naunman's stepdaughter calls the Turtle from the shore, she gives her food, clothes; does not give her stepmother's daughter; stepmother pretends to be sick, turtle meat will cure her; The turtle tells N. to bury her bones, a tree has grown; only N. was able to snatch him out, the prince marries her; stepmother It is rumored that N.'s father is ill; N. comes, her stepmother kills her, sends her daughter in her clothes; she explains to her husband that her nose has become crooked while she was caring for her father; her stepmother threw N.'s body into the river, N. became a bird, flew to take care of her baby; an imaginary wife kills a bird, a tree grows out of a bird, splits, young N. comes out from there, lives with poor spouses, meets a prince; he cuts the imaginary wife to pieces, sends her mother, she eats her daughter, finds her nose, cuts off her tongue out of grief]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 165:415-426; Burmese [wife tells her husband that the fish caught is for their daughters (her name is the Younger Mistress, MX); her husband beats her, she turns into a turtle; the husband marries a widow, she has her own daughter; MX meets the Turtle; the stepmother pretends to be sick, she will be cured by turtle meat; MX buries the bones of the eaten turtle; a tree with gold and silver fruits grows; the prince marries the owner of the tree; the stepmother's daughter cannot pick the fruits, to MX they fall into the hem; MX goes to visit stepmother; she pours boiling water on her, MX turns into a bird; stepmother's daughter pretends to be MX (long nose because she wiped it); the bird weaves instead of the imaginary wife; she tells me to catch and cook the bird; prince refused to eat it, the servant buried it; the quince grew, the fruit fell into the hem of the old woman, she put it in the pot; someone cooks in the house; the old people were waiting for MX; test: MX with a wooden sword defeats the imaginary wife with iron; the imaginary body is salted, sent to the stepmother, she eats it, finds her fingers]: Aun 1957:83-90; Shans: Milne 1910 [the king's two wives go fishing, one of them is a witch, eats raw fish; the king is surprised why are there so few fish; the witch accuses the other wife that she ate raw fish; the king executes her, she transforms into a golden turtle; the witch pretends to be sick (she sprinkles rice on the bed as if her bones they are cracking), she needs to eat a golden turtle; the turtle tells her daughter to bury her bones outside the city by the road; the turtle has been cooked alive and eaten; a tree grows out of bones, music in its branches, the king tells transplant a tree into the palace; the wife's spirit returns, becomes his beloved wife again; the witch knocked over a vessel of boiling water on her daughter; the king saw it, executed the witch, fed her dogs; in her new life she became dog flea]: 257-260; Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 191 [Vladyka Natov Tajamin turned into a fisherman, brought 101 excellent quality crabs to the king's cook; the king promised to marry a woman who would eat them all , to heir the man who eats them; a poor hungry woman ate, became a beloved wife gave birth to a hundred boys and a girl; other wives threw them into a hole, replaced them with a puppy; Nan Chin Poo's wife with a puppy settled at the groom, the pig fed the babies; the older wives pretended to be sick, asked to stab a pig; the pig handed the children to a cow; the same to a buffalo; an elephant; an elephant with children goes to the forest to to a hermit; wives sent poisoned cakes with the hunter, the children ate and died; a hundred golden trees, one silver tree, grew on the graves; the wives ordered them to be cut down and thrown into the river; the laundress spouses caught firewood; voices are heard at night; the children have grown up, the Lord of Heaven came down, told them their story; tells them to put his rooster against the king's rooster; their rooster wins, the children free their mother, they tell the king is true; in support of the story, streams of milk from the mother's chest splashed into the mouths of all the children; the king drove away evil wives and corrupt astrologers]: 518-526; lao [the rich man has two wives, the youngest is mia noi (she is a demon), and the eldest mia luang; they all went fishing together, the youngest wife was on the nose, the eldest was aft; the fisherman gave each fish, the youngest immediately ate her, and the eldest had a full basket; the youngest swapped places with the eldest, the fisherman decided that it was the eldest demon who cut off her head with an oar, threw her body and basket into the water; the eldest daughter Nang Utar, the youngest had Nang Kam; the youngest wife sends NU to herd buffaloes; the eldest has become a golden turtle, goes out to talk to her daughter; the youngest tells her husband to kill the turtle, otherwise she will not recover; NU tells the mother not to swim to the shore, the youngest wife threatens NU to kill her, then the turtle swam; the duck kept the bones, gave it to the dog, which buried them, grew a tree with gold and silver leaves; only NU could pull it out and transplant it into his father's garden; Paya Ying (Indra) went down, took the NU and the tree to heaven; the youngest wife sent a letter to NU: the father fell ill, come back; dug a hole, put a pot of boiling water in it, asked NU to take off her clothes, she fell into the cauldron, the youngest wife put it on NK sent clothes for her daughter to heaven; NU children did not believe it, the tree withered; Paya Ying killed NK, sent the remains to her parents, they died of grief; NU was reborn, came out of the orange tree, became live with old people, Paya Ying found her and returned her]: La May 1924:27-33 (translated to Kornev 1963:21-26); lao [Princess Naang Pathummaa (Lotus Mistress) is hidden in the royal drum by her parents to save her from a couple of huge vultures; they cannot be killed because they hide precious stones for a bodhisattva who is about to be born; she is found by King Pantiaa, married, and named Naang Khamkoong (Golden Lady of the Drum); she gives birth to 4 twin sons; the eldest childless queen tells the midwife to replace them with puppies, kill them; the gardener has buried bones, 4 plumeria trees have grown with white gold flowers; the queen orders them to be cut down, thrown into the river; the hermit sprinkled the logs with water from a gourd pumpkin, the princes came to life; gave each a royal sword and a diamond club; the younger Phetsalaat is bodyshathwa; princes sailed by ship to their adoptive parents; began to demand a meeting with her own mother, who works in a pigsty; her sons persuaded her to return to her husband; P. resurrected her grandparents, people killed by vultures; they gave him gems and died; the elder queen was sent to the pigsty]: Afanasyeva 2014:225-227; Khmers: Foshko 1981 [Kodompi and Kol Kesey meet secretly; fearing the anger of their parents, they flee the village; the elder of another county takes them home, dies, leaving them an inheritance; the couple has a daughter, Komarik; Kodompy has a mistress, Cole slandered Kesey, Kodompy drowned his wife, believing that she was unfaithful; Kodompy goes to look for her mother, who turned into a domrey fish, tells me what happened; the daughter began to go to the river to feed her; her mistress ordered her to be caught fish, cook; the daughter planted two scales brought by the white mouse, of which an eggplant grew; the mistress pulled it out and trampled it, the cat brought the girl two eggplant roots, of which two trees grew rolowha with beautiful foliage; Komarica took the name Moronamide ("the spirit of a dead mother"); the king sees trees, asks to be transplanted into his palace; they cannot be dug up, but at M.'s request, they fly there themselves; the king marries M.]: 63-66; Leclère, Feer 1895, No. 2 [the widower has a daughter Kantok, the widow has a daughter, Chong-Angkaat; the widower and widow are married; the father says that the oldest will be the one that brings more fish; K . caught more, but CHA pretended to help her carry the basket, brought it to her father and he believed that he had caught more CHA; K. cries; the wizard gave her a fish, told her to let her into the pond and feed her rice; the fish is growing; father and stepmother are trying to prevent K. from taking the rice away; CHA overheard K. calling the fish, told her mother, she called her, the fish came, she was killed; the magician tells K. to collect the bones under the bed; there two items will appear; one must be left, the other hidden under clothes; these are shoes; CHA found the shoes under the bed and threw it out of the fence; the raven took it away, dropped it; the other raven carried it and threw it in front of royal palace; prince does not want to take the throne until he finds a worthy wife; tells all the girls to come and try on the shoe; father does not let K. in; poured out a pot of rice and ordered to collect it; K. collected; father put a handful of rice in another vessel, but K. found it and poured it back; her father let her go; K. brought a second shoe, became the prince's wife and queen; her stepmother sent the news that she was sick; K. arrived, hers they took her to wash, poured boiling water, buried it; CHA took her place, but the king does not communicate with her; a banana grew on K.'s grave; his father cut it down; then bamboo grew; the king saw, felt attracted to bamboo, stayed sleep there; at night K. comes out of bamboo and quietly hits her husband with a stick; the third time he grabbed it and returned it; seeing that K. was returning, CHA ran into the forest and disappeared]: 70-90; tyamy [orphan Kayong - adopted daughter, HalK - native; whoever catches more fish will be the oldest; K. catches more, H. steals its fish; K. catches fish, lets it into the well, feeds it, calls it brother; H. overheard, called the same in words, she caught it, ate it; the fish in a dream tells K. to bury its fins, golden shoes appear from them; the raven takes one king; the king tells us to gather all the girls, look for the owner; the stepmother does not let K. tells you to untangle the ball, separate the sesame seeds and corn (ants and other insects do the work); the shoe fits K., she has a steam room, the king marries her; the stepmother asks K. to let K. go for a couple days to her; H. tells K. to climb a coconut palm, cuts it, K. falls into the pond, becomes a golden turtle; stepmother sends H. instead of K.; prince catches a turtle, H. eats it; now and then says that she is pregnant (this is a lie), so she ate it; a bamboo shoot grows out of the shell (X. eats it), the husk turns into a bird (X. eats it), a tree with fragrant fruit grows out of the feathers; the fruit is given only an old Vietnamese woman; while she is away, K. comes out of the fruit, fills the poor hut with food; the old woman catches K., she tells the king to be called, the king recognizes his wife; H. asks why K. is so white; K. says that she bathed in boiling water; H. cooked; K. withered her meat, sent it to her mother, she ate it, found a hand with her daughter's ring at the bottom of the vessel]: Landes 1887, No. 10:79-93; Viets: ÐThãn 1907 [roughly the same as Langes 1886, No. 22:52-57; a man died leaving two daughters; Tźm is the daughter of his deceased wife, Cam is the remaining one; Cam brings the mother the shrimp collected There as if she had collected it; only one the shrimp stays in T.'s basket; Buddha tells T. to throw it into the well, feed it with rice; K. spies, she and her mother eat the shrimp; Buddha teaches her to bury the shell, and beautiful clothes and a horse emerge from it, T. goes to the king's party, loses his shoe, the shoe is only T. on his leg, the king marries T.; the stepmother invites T. to climb a tree, cuts it, T. falls, drowns; the king has to take his wife's sister K.; T.'s soul turns into a golden bird, flies to the king; K. asks her mother to kill her, bury her feathers; in this place two trees grow, K. cuts them; a spinning wheel is made of wood, the end in the shape of a bird, he threatens K.; she burns a spinning wheel, a fruit tree grows; the fruit falls into the old woman's basket; someone in the old lady's basket is a fruit tree; the fruit falls into the basket of the old lady cooks in the house, the old woman spies, sees T., breaks the fruit to pieces; the king finds T., returns it; K. asks how she managed to preserve her beauty; T. replies that she bathed in hot water; K. jumps into boiling water, dies; the king sends her meat to her mother, the crow screams that she is eating her daughter; the stepmother dies; (translated to Karpov, Tkachev 1958:14-27)]: 102-107; Schultz 1994, No. 28 [woman sends stepdaughter Tam and her native Cam's daughter for fish, K. invites T. to swim, steals the fish she has caught; the Goddess of Mercy (BM) gives her a goldfish, tells her to let her houses into the well; stepmother catches, eats fish; BM tells her to bury fish bones; the chicken tells T. where they are; the buried bones give T. the clothes, the ornaments she asks for; the stepmother and K. go to the party, tell them to separate the mixed black and green beans; BM turns flies into sparrows, they share; T. goes to the holiday, leaves, loses his shoe, the king tells everyone to try it on, marries T.; Father T. comes home at his name day; stepmother asks to get nuts from the palm tree, cuts down a tree, T . falls, breaks, stepmother sends king K. to marry her; T.'s spirit moves into the nightingale, sings to the king, K. kills the nightingale, T.'s spirit turns into a tree, the fruit falls into the old woman's basket; into her T.'s absence comes out of the fruit, cleans the house; the old woman finds her, tears her peel so that T. does not return to the fetus; the king comes to the old woman, finds out T. K. asks T. how she became so beautiful; T. advises her to jump into boiling water; K. dies, stepmother dies of grief]: 258-277; ahem [Taak is the older sister, Tok is the youngest; when they leave, the father tells them to weave cloth, prepare firewood, catch fish; Soooo Doing everything badly, Tok does good; Soak takes everything his sister did and got, ascribes his own job to her; father believes Soak, takes Tok into the forest, leaves quietly, leaving the louse responsible for himself; Tok she looks for a way, asks the Bear, the Tiger; they tell them to give them rice, but show nothing; the Partridge leads to a certain place, then the Rooster, the Firefly brings them home; the father again takes the Tok into the forest; she comes to a woman, she takes care of her, marries her, Tok gets rich, she has a son; the pumpkin vine from Tok's house has grown to her father's house; he visits Tok, realizes he was mistaken, scolds Soak; Soak comes to his sister , invites her to climb a tree for fruit and take off her bracelets and jewelry so that they do not interfere; cuts and knocks down the tree, Tok breaks, Soo puts on her jewelry, replaces her; the crow brings Tok's eye to the nest, a bird hatches out of it like an egg, flies to her son Tok every day; Soo kills, eats it, throws her head into the fire, it smolders; the old woman comes to get fire, takes a smoldering head, throws it into a jug ; someone cooks and cleans in her absence; an old lady finds a beautiful woman; Soo comes to find out how she became so beautiful; Tok says to pour boiling water on her body, steams Soo to death; Soooo revives in the form of a tarot plant, a pond, a fern; when Tok cooks tarot tubers, gurgles in the pot, "The younger sister killed the elder, she died; the eldest killed the youngest, she did not die"; The current pours out the contents of the pot, it fell on the ducks, so the heads of ducks and drakes are green]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 18:124-132.

South Asia. Rajastans [the brahmana's wife died, left with a 16-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter; the brahman remarried, the stepmother has her own daughter, ugly and angry; the stepmother is tormented by work and tyrannizes stepsons; once the young man gave his stepmother's daughter to carry a basket not with dung, but with stones; after that, the father ran to kill his son; he tells his sister not to be afraid: he will turn into a crow and feed her mango; his stepmother's daughter does not leave mangoes, and stones; stepmother tells her husband to kill the crow; the crow tells his sister that he will turn into a parrot; the same; a frog (will give his sister pearls); the brother promises his sister to enter the womb of Rani and be born a prince, let the sister live 9 months selling the pearls given to her; let the sister come when the newborn cries; no one can calm him down, and his sister calmed him down by singing a song about his transformations; her they took him to the palace; when the prince was 5 years old, he told the king everything; his father, stepmother and daughter were buried alive; the prince grew up and reigned; married his sister well]: Dinesh 1979:76-86; Nepalese: Aganina, Shresthkha 1971 [the bride asks the king to marry her younger sister; she pushes the eldest into the well; a lotus appears in the well, given only to the king himself; the younger sister tears the lotus, appears dove; cooks a dove, gurgling water speaks of a killer sister; the king does not eat meat, tells it to be thrown away, a tangerine tree appears; inside the mandarin, the king finds his beloved wife; the younger sister was cut off nose, drove her away]: 77-83; Heunemann 1980, No. 9:91-95 [the wife persuaded the Raja to take her hunting; tired, asked to leave her at the spring, climbed a tree; the shoemaker's wife saw her reflection, thought it was witchcraft, then looked up, asked the woman to get down, killed her, put on her clothes and jewelry, climbed a tree; in the evening she answered her husband that she had lost weight and darkened in a day from heat and fatigue; The parrot shouts in the palace that the king had brought the shoemaker's wife; the liar killed him, buried him, told the king that the parrot had flown away; a fragrant flower grew on this place; no one can pick it up, only the king has plucked it; in a dream, the real wife appeared to the king, explained that she had taken the form of a parrot, a flower; in the morning, the king asked the imaginary wife where her parents lived, what their names were; she answered incorrectly; he ordered her nose, ears and hair, threw it away; the flower turned into bamboo, ordered it to be cut in the middle, the real wife was reborn]; Marathi [two eagles took the baby girl of poor thrush; raised in their huge the nest, brought her outfits and jewelry, called Surya Bai ("sunny maiden"); the cat tried to steal food, S. hit her, the cat extinguished the fire; S. came to Rakshasi in search of fire; she asks her to fulfill various works, hoping that the Rakshasa son would come and eat it together; he lingered, the Rakshasi gave coals, asked him to sprinkle grain on the way home; the Rakshasa tried to enter the nest, asked to unlock it, posing as an eagle, but S. did not open it; he broke his poisonous claw and left it in the wall; the claw pierced S., she died; the eagles put a ring on her finger, flew away; the king saw S., took out her claw, she came to life, made a wife; the first wife is jealous, asked to try on her jewelry, pushed her into the pond; a sunflower grew in this place; rani tells him to burn it, throw away the ash, mango grows in this place; the fruit falls into the vessel of that thrush, she brings it home, her husband and sons find a tiny woman in the vessel; she grows up, turns into S.; the Raja sees her, everything is explained, the eldest wife is imprisoned forever ]: Frere 1868, No. 6:87-102; konkani (Goa) [the prince, taking the son of the vizier with him, went hunting; at the fork they left; the prince saw a bird with unusual plumage, tried to get it, it takes away him deeper into the forest; bird: the princess inside the fruit is more beautiful than me; the prince returned home but spent the night in the stable, where a black maid found him in the morning; the prince persuaded his parents to let him go looking for the princess inside the fruit; went into the hut; old woman: many were looking for her, everyone turned into stone statues; tells me to leave the horse with her, turned her into a crow; when you fly, do not turn around when you hear screams ; these are turned into stones; if you turn around, you will also petrify; pick the fruit and bring it in your beak; the prince did so; again in the form of a man he jumps back; near the lake house he got off his horse and opened the fruit; fell into fainted, and the gold-haired princess ran to the water; the black maid pushed her into the water, went to the prince who had come to her senses and said that she had washed herself in the water and darkened; everyone was amazed to see the prince with such bride; a lotus blossomed on the lake, no one can pick it, and the prince did it easily; the imaginary wife cooked the lotus and threw it out the window; there was a tree - red vegetable pepper, with one fruit on it; imaginary wife she cut it down and threw it out the gate; there was a huge tree with many fruits, people ate them; at the request of his wife, the prince ordered the tree to be cut down; people came to pick up the fruits; the old woman sent her son, who he played too much, the fruits were sorted out; she told him to at least roll the stump; the imaginary wife noticed a girl come out of the stump to drive away the buffalo, which had begun to eat dried rice; sent servants to kill her, bring her liver, and heart; but they let the girl go; she set up a hut in the woods, raised a talking parrot; the prince came there by accident; she does not unlock, but tells her story; he told everything for his part; the princess opened the door; the black woman was cut off by the prince]: Rodrigues 2020:246-259; Uttar Pradesh (Hindi) [the young king's wife does not like his three younger brothers, especially the youngest; tells Bring Anarzadi (a pomegranate girl); he goes to look for her; a rakshasa in the guise of a sadhu (hermit) gives a bunch of keys; in the seventh room, the young man sees skeletons; they laugh, say they were too princes, they were looking for A.; Rakshas pushed everyone into boiling oil; they told them to push him into oil; after killing Rakshasa, the young man meets a real sadhu; he tells him to pick the flower from the pomegranate when the peri comes swim; you can't look back when Peri calls; the young man looked around, fell dead, sadhu revived him; the young man fell asleep at the well, the flower turned into A.; the liar took her clothes, pushed her into the well, lay down with the young man; he married a liar; A. became a rose in the well; the prince caught her; the wife pretends to be sick, she will be cured by a rose; she trampled on her, threw it away; a pomegranate grew; tells her to cut it down; from the core A pomegranate flower falls in the trunk, the prince hides it in the barn, finds A. in the morning, marries; the liar kills horses, smears her sleeping mouth with blood, accuses her; the prince orders to cut A. into pieces in the forest; he grew up there pomegranate, the poor man dug clay, knocked down a tree, A. came out of it, said that she would be his sister; weaving scarves, the prince is looking for a craftswoman, she tells her story; the liar is executed]: Zograf 1976:87-93; ho [the sister of six brothers is married and lives separately; came to visit her father; started cooking and cut her finger, the blood fell into the pot; the brothers found the food especially tasty, they decided to kill and eat sister; volunteered to accompany her to her husband; spent the night under a tree and her sister was placed in a tree; she knows everything and sings a spell to prevent her brothers' arrows from hitting her; everyone flew by; younger Kundra did not wanted to kill his sister, but he was forced to shoot; although he was aiming by, his arrow hit his sister; six brothers ate his sister, and K. hid his share in an anthill hole, and ate crabs and fish, which slowly caught it; the husband went to look for his wife and saw a tree growing on an anthill; it had only fruit; he reached out to pick it, but the branch moved higher; he heard a voice that the fruit could be reached only if K. cut down a tree; when he cut down, he heard his sister's voice, cut it carefully; there was a living sister inside the trunk; she returned home with her husband]: Halder 1918, No. 27:336-338; Assames [ The merchant has two wives, one is childless, the other has a daughter Tejimola, her mother is dead, her stepmother hates her stepdaughter; the merchant is leaving for a long time; the stepmother allows T. to go to the wedding, gives rich clothes, but tells him to wear them, when he gets to the place; leaves a burning coal and mouse in her clothes; ash and rags remain from the clothes; stepmother tells T. to grind rice, pebbles her arms, legs, heads with a pestle, buries the remains; at this point a pumpkin grows; a beggar wants to pick it, a pumpkin does not allow it, tells her story; a stepmother cuts pumpkins, throws it away; a fruit tree grows there; shepherds want to pick fruits, the tree does not allow , tells her story; stepmother uproots a tree, throws it into the river, the tree turns into a water lily; her father sees her returning, she tells him everything; father: if you are true T., become a bird betel peck on my left hand; the lily becomes a bird, betel bites; my father brings her home in a cage, tells me to become a girl again, and so it happened; the merchant drove his wife away]: Borooah 1955:45-55 (approximately same in Goswami 1960:88-90); Santals: Bodding 1927, No. 66 [a cannibal in the form of a sheep's head devours a prince's servants; a prince hides in a tree trunk; a cannibal turns into a girl, marries a king, wife pretends to be sick, tells the tree to be cut down; the prince falls into the pond in the form of a fruit; the wife tells him to dry it; the servants find the fruit, cut it, the prince tells his story; comes to the girl's mother, pretends to be her grandson, gets a parrot in which the ogre's life is; tells the ogre to regurgitate the swallowed; then curls the parrot's neck]: 379-387; 1929, No. 85 [the sister of seven brothers cut her finger while cooking salad, blood got into it; the brothers found the food especially tasty, they decided to kill and eat their sister; the youngest did not shoot her in the cornfield, did not eat his share, but put her in an anthill; he grew up there bamboo, a man cut it down, made a violin; a woman came out of the violin, he married her; the brothers found themselves in that house, the sister told her story; the land parted, the brothers jumped down; sister tried to grab the youngest by the hair; the young man went to the ground, but his hair turned into Pollinia eriopoda grass]: 297-303; ho [six brothers are married, the youngest Lita is single; says he only marries Princess Bilbati; goes from one hermit to another, the latter explains that the princess is in the biggest fruit on the Rakshasa tree; turns L. into a bird that flies, but not the biggest fruit is enough Rakshasa swallows it; the hermit sent the crow to bring Rakshasa excrement, revives L.; on the second attempt, L. bears fruit in the form of a parrot; the hermit orders him to hit the edge of the well gently, but L. throws with all her might, the princess comes out in a stream of light that kills L.; the princess asks the Kamar girl to get the young man out of the water well; she agrees only when the princess gives her his clothes; pushes them into a well, revives L., marries him; L. finds a flower in the well; his wife tears it up; a tree grows from the remains; the servant picks up the fruit, brings it home, comes out of it princess; the liar is ill: either she or the girl in the servant's house will die; L. tells that girl to be killed, the servants take her to the forest, she asks her to cut off her arms and legs, put her on the grave; the liar recovers ; L. comes to this place, there is a palace; he stays in it, hears two birds talking, they tell his story; it is said that the princess comes to the palace once a year; the first time she escaped, through L. caught her; the liar was executed]: Bompas 1909:461-464; Birkhor [the sister of 7 brothers cooked and cut her finger; wiped the blood on the leaves she was cooking; after tasting this food, the brothers felt unusual taste; the sister confessed what was going on; the brothers decided to kill and eat her; the youngest was against it, but kept silent; the brothers started shooting, but the arrows flew by; told the youngest to shoot; he directed the bow in the other direction, but the arrow pierced the sister; the brothers sent the younger one to bring firewood, but forbidden him to tie it with a rope; the snake tied it with its body; gave a leaky jug to bring water; the frog plugged a hole with his body; they told him to bring fire - in his own palm; Singbonga lent him one of his own hands; the brothers fried his sister's meat, and the youngest was given legs and giblets - let him fry him; he fried crayfish and fish, and buried his sister's remains unnoticed; bamboo grew in this place; the elderly couple came to cut it down to make a guitar (kendrār); when the old man started chopping, it was heard, "Don't cut me down, don't cut me down, old man, my brother planted this bamboo!" (original in local Hindi); but his wife insisted on cutting down and making a guitar; meanwhile, all the older brothers got married and had families; the elderly couple came to their house, but the guitar sang, "Don't play, Don't play, oh kendra, this is the house of your enemies, oh kendra!" ; the old men left in fear and came to their little brother's cabin; there the guitar sang, "Play, play, oh kendra, this is my brother's house, oh kendra!" ; when he heard this, the younger brother gave the old people a drink and replaced them with his guitar; since then, when he went to look for food, his sister got out of the guitar and cooked food, and by the time his brother arrived she returned inside the guitar; her brother waited for her, grabbed her hand, said that he did not eat her flesh, they were happy; he called her brothers to his sister's wake; when they ate well, her sister appeared; in shame, the brothers asked the earth to open up, so that they could hide their shame in her; a crack in the ground swallowed them up; her sister tried in vain to hold them by her hair; bundles of hair remained in her hand and turned into Sābai (Ischaemun grass) angustifolium)]: Roy 1925:427-429; Oraons [the sister of six brothers cut her finger, blood got into the food, the brothers found the food extremely tasty; they made the sister say what was going on, decided kill and eat; they started shooting at her in the forest, the arrows missed the target; told his younger brother to shoot, otherwise they would kill her; his arrow hit the heart; they told him to cut his body, bring firewood (the snake ordered use it as a rope), bring water; the frog tells you to collect crabs, eat them, pretending to eat his sister's meat, quietly throws its meat into the anthill; reeds grow there; the beggar makes it violin; at each brother's house, a beggar tries to play, but only at the younger brother's house makes a sound; the younger brother solders the beggar, replaces the violin; a live sister comes out of it; the younger brother feeds others, a sister appears; everyone stays together]: Hahn 1906, No. 20:36-38; Sinhalese [two sisters go in search of husbands; animals they meet offer themselves; everyone's sisters ask what those they eat; reject bulls, jackals, marry two plowman brothers (they replied that they eat dried fish, and the sisters said it was their food); each sister gave birth to a girl; the older sister became to envy the youngest, because she lived well, and the eldest was poor; decided to kill her; invited her to swim, pushed her into the river; became the wife of both brothers, fed both girls; the girls saw white in the river the turtle; the older sister's daughter tried to catch it, but the turtle sailed; and she sailed to the youngest's daughter and rubbed against her body; the eldest's daughter told her mother about the turtle and she said she would eat it; daughter the youngest came to the river, called the turtle her mother and spoke about the danger; she told her to keep the bone, leave it near the cow canopy, it would grow into a mango tree; the older sister sent the men to catch the turtle ; the tree grew; when the younger sister's daughter came to pick a mango, the branches leaned towards her, and when the eldest's daughter, they rose high; when she learned that the older sister wanted to cut down the mango, the tree told the daughter the youngest save the chip; a vine with fruits grew out of it; the fruits are not given to one girl again and given to another; vine: find the root, throw it into the river, the Blue Lotus will appear; only the daughter of the younger sister can have it touch; the older sister sent people to snatch the lotus, but it is not given; the king arrived; told his younger sister's daughter to snatch the lotus, took her and the lotus and took her to his capital]: Parker 1910, No. 11:113-119 ( transferred to Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 107:263-267); kannada [three brothers, the youngest fourth is single; decides to marry only his younger sister named Putta; the parents decided to agree, but the wedding to replace her daughter with another girl; P. went to get water; a woman named Obamma, sitting in the water, asked her to rub her back; P.: I can't, no time, everyone is preparing for the wedding; O.: with her own brother! P. rubbed her back and asked her for more details; she climbed the acacia at home and refused to get down; everyone asks her to go down, P. answers everyone: should I call my mother my mother-in-law now? father - father-in-law? brother - brother-in-law? daughter-in-law - co-wife? brother - husband? her brother climbed after her, she moved to another acacia; so her brother chased P. from one acacia to another; tired, she rushed into the well, her brother after her, both drowned; at night the daughter came to her mother and asked not to bury her with her brother; let him be buried on a hill and her on the plain; they did so; a fruit tree grew on her grave, and a thorny bush grew on it; one of the daughters-in-law plucked the fruit and brought home, put it in a vessel to ripen; the fetus turned into a girl - the former P.; she told her daughter-in-law the whole story]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 2:2-5.

Taiwan - Philippines. Taiwan [see Ryukyu Islands; "almost the same story in Taiwan regarding the (origin) of the bee"]: Ikeda 1971, 408A:100.

China - Korea. Chinese (Qinghai) [two sisters climb into the rich man's garden to pick flowers; the owner takes the eldest as his wife; the youngest pushes her into the river, takes her place; the eldest turns into a bird, the husband plants her in a cage; the youngest burns the cage with the bird, a thorn grows out of the ashes, she burns it in the stove; a piece of silver emerges from the ash, an old woman picks it up; someone cooks in her house, she finds it a girl; an old woman calls a rich man, he promises to come if his conditions are met; comes, returns his wife, the younger sister stays with her mother]: Frick 1954, No. 20:526-527; Chinese: Riftin 1972 [ the old man dropped his axe Golden Blade into the Snake's hole; forced to give his daughter for the ax; six sisters refuse, the seventh agrees; the second daughter goes to visit her; the people she meets say that the Serpent and his wife live in a large pile of manure; she comes to them; invites her sister to change clothes, pushes her into the river; explains to the Snake that she fell on peas, her face became speckled; she lost her shoes, her legs became big; on the river The parrot shouts the Snake not to go to his sister-in-law; he catches him, tells his wife to take care of him; she drowned him, cooked him, choked on a bone, buried meat; a fig tree has grown; her sister cut it down, made the bench, sat down, pricked her, cut it for firewood, burned it; at night, the wife came to life, ordered the Snake to make her a dress out of snow, a face out of a wild plum flower, bones from the branches; it became even more beautiful, the Serpent kicked out her second sister]: 75 -82; Eberhard 1937, No. 31 (Guangdong, Hubei, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong, Gansu) [The serpent (Dragon, Wolf, Spirit, etc.) makes a person give him a daughter; only the youngest agrees, is happy and rich; the other pushes it into a well, takes its place; the youngest turns into a bird, is killed, eaten; the husband likes the meat, the wife does not; the youngest turns into wood or bamboo, the eldest tells it to be cut down; at the end Finally, the eldest is executed or commits suicide]: 47-52; Eberhard 1965, No. 66 [the eldest of the three sisters is Beautiful, and the youngest Ryabaya, she is the daughter of her second wife; K.'s mother died and became a yellow cow; stepmother took R . to the theater, and K. ordered the hemp to be disassembled; the cow chewed the hemp and spit it out disassembled; then the stepmother ordered the sesame seeds and beans to be separated; the cow ordered to wave the fan; the stepmother killed and ate the cow, K. collected the bones in a jug, brought them to her room; K. broke the jug, and a horse, dress and shoes appeared out of it; one fell off her foot while she was riding a horse; a fish salesman, a clerk from a shop ready to raise if K. agreed to marry them; K. refused; when the teacher offered, agreed; wedding; K. went to visit her stepmother; R. pushed her into the well; stepmother told her husband K. that fell ill with smallpox; he sent her delicacies, R. ate them; came to her husband K., said that she had lost weight because of illness; K. turned into a sparrow, her husband put him in a golden cage; R. killed him, threw him into the garden; Bamboo shoots made their way through this place; R. ate them, she has a pip on her tongue, and her husband found them delicious; R. cut down the bamboo to make a bed, she pricks, R. threw it away, the old woman picked it up; someone in her room cooks and cleans; the old woman found the girl, she told everything; returned to her husband; R. offers challenges - which of them is the real K.; 1) walk over the balls without crushing; 2) climb the stairs with knives; R. crushed eggs, cut her legs; 3) jump into the boiling pot; K. was unharmed, R. cooked; K. sent her mother her bones; she opened the box and died]: 156-161; fox: Durrenberger 1979 (north Thailand) [a woman has seven daughters; she mows grass for a horse, sees a tree with seven flowers, picks flowers, puts her in a grass cart; cannot move the cart; there is a dragon under the grass, he demands one as his wife of the daughters; only the youngest agrees; when she goes to the dragon, she meets a man, he asks him to look in his head; the girl sees that her head is covered with snakeskin, is frightened, the man runs away; reappears, tells you to close your eyes, brings him to the palace, where everything is made of gold; he himself was a dragon; they have a boy; an older sister comes to visit; asks to hold the dog; the youngest asks to wait for her puts on a dress, then a hat, various ornaments, etc.; finally goes out; the eldest asks the youngest to climb the tree for fruit, giving her the child; stings him; replies that he is crying because wants her mother's shoes; so she makes her take off all her clothes (in the same order as she wore them); when her younger sister comes down, the older sister tells her to stand on her shoulder and throws her into the lake; the dragon suspects a substitution; the imaginary wife replies that she was visiting her mother, where her face was bitten by insects, her hair was scorched by fire; the dragon tells me to bring a vessel of meat, the imaginary wife brings the wrong one; replies that after staying with her mother, she forgot everything; the dragon sends her son to mow the grass by the lake; the boy returns every time without grass, says that something prevented him; the bird flies out of the lake, says that the eldest the sister drowned the king's wife; the dragon comes by himself, pierces gold and silver rods into the ground; promises to kill his son if he lied; the boy cries, then the bird flies out, repeats what was said; the dragon asks her to sit on a golden rod, the bird sits down, the dragon brings her home; the bird spoils her vessels, the dragon kills her, gives meat to her elder son, bones to the son of the younger sister; the first flesh turns into bones, the second has bones into flesh; the older sister throws the bones away, they turn into scissors; the younger sister's son gives them to the liar; she cuts clothes for the younger sister's son, who becomes precious, for his son is simple; discarded scissors turn into a bush; the youngest son picks fruits from him, the eldest son only hurts himself against thorns; burns the bush; the ashes turn into a little dog; everyone drives her away, only the sisters' mother feeds; when she comes back, finds the house tidy; the old man says he saw a dog skin hung on the fence, someone cooks in the house; a woman finds a girl, tells her to be her daughter; a girl orders the king (i.e. the dragon) to be invited, cooks the chicken; the king promises to come if a golden bridge, goldware appear; all this comes from mustard seeds and radishes; after eating, the king finds long hair in the bowl , says that he is like his wife; tells both women to jump over their spears; the third time a liar attacks a spear, a real wife jumps to the sky; everything is explained to the child; iya and t.obaku; younger many times; he was a dragon himself; they have faces]: 94-98; Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994 (the border between Yue Yunnan and Burma) [the widow has 7 daughters; she went to mow grass for horses; picked 7 unusual flowers; cannot raise the basket; the dragon was not under; ordered the flowers to grow again or give him one of her daughters; on the way home, the widow rejects her promise three times, but immediately the basket becomes unbearable and there is a dragon under her; after 3 days, the dragon sends a fly; all the sisters chase her; the widow is ready to eat her own food, but Amilome's youngest daughter agrees to go to the dragon; asks for directions along the way; sheep shepherd tells her to herd sheep, then she will show the way; instead threatens to kill; the same shepherds of goats, cows, buffaloes; on the fifth day he asks the old man, he asks him to look for snake scales in his head, there are snake scales, girl screams, the old man crawls away with a snake; on the sixth day, the same old man, she dutifully takes out the scales; the old man is the dragon; he tells her to close her eyes, brings her to the palace, takes the form of a handsome man; they son; dragon lets his wife see her relatives; Amima's older sister is jealous, goes with the youngest; offers to pick cherries over the lake; stings the child, each time explaining that he wants to play with one of the mother's jewelry or garments; when she gets everything, she pushes the youngest into the lake, puts on her clothes; tells the dragon that she is fool because she was cooking and oil splashed into her face; her voice became rude because she was cooking and oil splashed into her face; her voice became rude because she was cooking and oil splashed fried corn; her hair turned yellow because she slept by the hearth; her husband tells me to bring a deer, then a wild boar; she brings a bear, a wild bull; claims that she has lost her mother's memory; Amilone became a wooden needle, stabbed her sister, but not her husband and child; Amima threw her into the fire; the son goes to the lake for grass, hears the oriole singing: the king is blind, lives with a liar; the son returns empty-handed; everyone answers his father that the shirt (hat, etc.) is old, mosquitoes have bitten, my father gives a new one every time; he goes by himself: if the song is true, sit on my golden staff, if not, on the silver one; the oriole sits on the gold one; in the palace she sings to the king, spoils on the queen's bed; she killed and ate the oriole, threw away the bones; mulberry grew; the king and son ate the fruit, and she pricked the queen; she cut her down and burned her; the piece became scissors, them the old lady picked them up; Amima took them away, but they ruined everything she sewed; she threw them away, they became a puppy, the same old lady picked him up; Amima took him away, fed him with her crap, the puppy refused to eat, she kicked him out, allowed the old woman to take him; in her absence, the puppy sheds his dog skin, becomes beautiful, cooks and cleans; the neighbor talks about it; the old woman waited, threw her skin in fire; the girl tells the king and her son to be invited; the dragon agrees to come if there is a golden bridge and a silver bridge in three days; the girl tells the old woman to go to the dragon, sprinkling sesame seeds from the right, opium from the left hand and do not look back; behind her are bridges; the dragon went gold, the son went silver; Amime did not step on them, walked along the ground; the dishes resemble the dragon those served by his wife; he finds her hair, she comes out of hiding; the dragon tells both women to jump over the bamboo fence; Amilome jumped three times, Amima fell on stakes for the third time; the corpse was cut, piece they prepared and sent 7 daughters to the mother; she is glad: Amilome did not send gifts, but Amima sent it; she recognized her daughter's hand, rushed into the burning hearth out of grief; since then she has been in the hearth and her spirit has been sacrificing]: 347-373; Chuan Miao [the peasant has a wife and concubine, both have a daughter; he beats his wife in the field, turns him into a cow; tells the concubine that he has exchanged his wife for a cow, the concubine is glad; Nao (wife's daughter) leads the cow to the field, she turns into her mother, helps to spin, then puts the cow's skin back on; the girl says that the cow's horn and trees help work; the concubine's daughter puts grass fibers on the horn , on trees, but nothing happens; the peasant wants to slaughter a cow; the mother tells N. to put a slippery stone to kill herself, not to eat her meat; the concubine takes her daughter to a party where wives are chosen , tells N. to collect beans spilled in ash; The crow teaches how to check the beans in the basket; Ntseo Nang chooses N., although the concubine always slips his own daughter; in the morning thinks that her daughter has left with her fiancé, and N. is at home, beats her, it turns out to be a daughter; N. gives birth to a son; Ts'en (the name of the concubine's daughter) comes to her; stings the child, says that he wants N.'s dress; so lures her all her clothes and jewelry, pushes him into a deep hole, takes her place; the husband suspects deception, because his wife's hair was longer; the servant notices a talking bird at the pit, the husband takes it, brings it home, she pecks insects with baby; C. kills a bird, throws it into a latrine, nettles grow there, burns C.; she pulls out nettles, finds a pebble under it, lets the baby play, he stops crying, she throws a stone into pond; the stone turns into a young woman, lives in the city; the son grows up, comes to her, she feeds him tortillas; the husband takes her; she tells C. that her hair has become long after she sat down in boiling water; C. is cooked, the broth is offered to her mother, then show her daughter's severed breasts; fearing punishment for murder, the husband turns into a mountain, N. into a rock, their son into a forest; then into a crossbar, kettlebell and scale hook]: Graham 1954:266-269; Koreans [Khonchi's mother dies, father remarried, stepmother tyrannites her; leaving for the wedding, tells 1) to loosen the field with a wooden hoe (the cow gives an iron hoe hoe), 2) fill a leaky vessel (the toad plugs the hole), 3) sort out a bag of rice and a bag of millet (fairies tell sparrows to sort it out); K. comes to the wedding, gets frightened at the sight of the governor, runs away, losing a shoe; the governor is looking for a girl who has lost her shoe; the stepmother pushes K. into the lake, replaces Phatchi with her daughter; she explains to the governor that she was laughed in the sun and fell on peas, so she was speckled; the governor takes P. as his wife, tears off the lotus, P. throws him into the oven, the maid finds a necklace there, it turns into a girl; the governor takes her as his wife, stepmother and P. punished]: Park 1991:186-189; (option B Goldberg 1997:155).

The Balkans. Hungarians [Ibronka is prettier than everyone, but without a boyfriend; "God give me a lover - at least hell"; now a guy is with her at the party; she accidentally bent down and felt like he has hooves; asks advice from an elderly woman; she suggests attaching a ball to the guy; on an unwound thread she comes to church, then to the churchyard; I. sees through a keyhole how her boyfriend took out a skull dead man, cut it in half and eats his brain; I. home, locked the door, the guy behind her: what did you see? - Nothing. - Your sister will die. - If you die, we'll bury you. It's the same with your father, it's the same with your mother. - You're going to die Woman: When you are buried, you should not dismantle the wall through a door or window; carry the coffin not along the road, but straight; dig the grave not in the cemetery, but in a ditch; hell asks the door, the window is those they answer that I.'s body was not carried through them; the devil puts on iron shoes, takes an iron staff: when he wears out, then I. will find; a rose has grown on the grave; the prince tells the servant to tear it off, she is not given; the prince himself easily tore it off, brought it to his room; someone eats the food left in the evening; the servant followed; the next night the prince grabbed I.; she agrees to live with him, but on condition not to take her to church; two the boys have grown up, everyone wonders why they come to church without a mother; I. has to go; hell sees her, promises to come; asks again what I. saw through the keyhole; I. in detail tells the whole story; and ends up like this: I tell the dead, not the living; the devil falls screaming terribly and dies; I.'s mother, father and sister come to life]: Dégh 1965, No. 4:46-57; Hungarians [king sent three sons to look for brides; they came to the old woman, she gave each an orange; it should be cut where there was water nearby; the eldest hurried, the girl who came out of the orange died of thirst; then with his middle brother; the youngest opened an orange at the spring; left the beauty to wait in the tree for him to bring clothes from the city; the gypsy woman came to get water, first thought that the spring reflected her, then raised her head; persuaded the girl to go down, pushed her into the water, took her place; the one that fell into the water became a goldfish; the gypsy woman explained to the prince that when she entered the human world, she had lost some of her beauty, but would find her again; after the wedding, she pretended to be sick, she needed to eat goldfish; fish scales fell into the yard, a tree grew; the prince's wife told him to cut him down and cook her food on wood; a flat chip the old woman picked up a jug of milk to close the house; in her absence, someone was cleaning the house; once she waited; the girl told her everything, and the old woman threw a sliver into the fire; told the prince everything; a gypsy woman was tied to a pillory]: Stier 1850:83-91; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 (Cappadocia) [the prince asks his father to dig a well in front of the door; he marries the first one to come for water; an old woman came, the prince threw a stone at her, she told him to fall in love with the Three Beautiful; the prince asked him to make him a pair of iron shoes and an iron club and goes in search; six cannibals came to his mother, she turned it into an apple, hid it; then showed it to her sons; they gave the young man a letter - let him show it to 12 young men, who would direct him to the Three Beautiful; the young man read it, there was an instruction to eat it, he changed the letter ; the mother of those 12 turned him into a broom; then showed him; they directed him to a thousand-year-old bird; the bird led to the lake, including an orange tree; the prince picked an orange, a girl appeared, he did not have time to give her a drink, she died of thirst; the same from the second, and gave the third drink; went to his father for soldiers to protect her; at that time a maid came blind to one eye; first decided that this was her reflection; she turned the beautiful woman into a bird; said that she had turned black from the sun, and the crows pecked out her eyes; becoming the prince's wife, the liar ordered the bird to be killed; a tree grew out of a drop of blood; his wife ordered him to be cut down, make a cradle for the child; the old woman picked up the sliver; she turned into a girl; the king gave horses to raise; the horse given by the old woman is the best; it is not given to the king; the girl leads it; the king asks the liar if she wants 40 horses or 40 knives; she wants horses; she and her child were tied to the hooves of 40 horses, and the prince married Beauty of the World]: 305-315; Mannhardt 1875 [born from a golden apple (orange, etc.), animated by water, a beauty sitting on a tree above the water is engaged to a prince; in his absence, a maid (black woman, gypsy) kills her with a needle, replaces her; true the bride successively turns into a goldfish, a goldfish tree, a chip chipped off from it, back into a woman; the false wife is exposed]: 236-237; Paton 1901, No. 21 (Lemnos) [when the princess Kyra Florou combs her hair, beads fall off her hair, flowers from her lips; when she cries, the storm begins; when she dies, the queen tells her son not to leave her sister; the old woman advises her to find a groom; tells her brother that he must be King Rhodope's son; the monk tells the beast guards of three gates to throw at the sheep; ask the sword that rises and falls to stop for a moment; do not answer the king's question who he is; the king finds a portrait of CF, promises to send ships for her; her brother warns that her sister will turn into an eel at sea, sail away; KF is washed into a glass box; the old woman is forced to accompany her, throws her away KF is at sea, replaced by his ugly daughter; the prince is forced to marry her, but her brother is put in shackles; a year later he asks for permission to walk along the seashore; an eel sister wraps around his neck, tells him to kill it, cook it, let the king eat it, bury the bones, bury the bones, the rose bush will grow, the old woman tells it to be cut down, the trunk must be preserved; when the brother comes to the monk, the brother hits the trunk with an ax, the sister revives; he combs his hair, his beads fall; with this money, the young man builds a new monastery, gives gifts to the king; at the CF feast, he appears to the king and his son; a wedding; an old woman is cut into pieces, scattered across the field, put in a saddle horse bag; old woman's daughter is sent to the kitchen]: 203-207; Schmidt 1877, No. 5 [chasing game, the prince found himself in the garden; there is a lemon tree with three golden fruits and withered leaves; the prince cannot do them pluck, because there are lions and other wild animals around the tree; he turns back and meets a monk; he says he is a gardener in that garden; let the prince throw meat to the animals; the prince did so, took the lemons ; on the way, he opened one to quench his thirst; a girl came out and asked for a drink, the prince did not have water, she immediately died; the same with the second lemon; the third opened it at the spring; the girl agrees to become his wife, but told him to tell his parents about her first, she would wait for him at the fig tree; at that time a Moorish maid came to the spring; took the beauty's reflection for her own, broke the jug and came back; her mistress Lámnissa came by herself, saw the girl, told her to get down and eat her; she invited L. to go home first to knead the dough; when she came back, she ate the girl, but a finger fell into a spring, became a goldfish; L. took its place; at that time the prince was at home, fell asleep; in a dream, his mother kissed him, then he forgot everything; six months later he was under that mulberry; L . went down, told everything on behalf of the girl she had eaten, the prince remembered; believed that her beloved had darkened from the sun; brought her home, took the fish too; L. pretended to be sick, persuaded the doctor, he ordered to eat a goldfish; a rose bush with a huge rose grew out of the discarded scales; the old woman cut it off, a girl came out of the rose; said that the moirs gave her such a fate at birth; awarded her beauty , but alone, when she left, she stumbled and fell; ordered the girl, when she reached the age of 13, to become lemon until someone released her; sent the old woman to take the prince a basket of flowers, put a ring there, which he gave her; he came to the old woman, recognized his beloved, brought her to the palace, held a feast; asked the audience what to do with the woman who ate another; L. said that she would tear it to pieces; The prince agrees: L. was tied to four horses; after the death of his father, the prince inherited the kingdom]: 71-76; Romanians [Cinderella sits on ash for days, her stepmother tyrants her; while her stepmother is in church, the rooster gives Zoleshka has three nuts (walnut, hazel, peanuts; or father brings a nut); the first has a copper dress; the next time the second time is silver; the third time is gold, and the rooster advises losing his slipper so that it is in the church sticks to the resin; the prince orders to search, finds the owner, brings his wife to the palace; the stepmother's own daughter comes to the palace and pushes Cinderella into the well and takes her place; a willow grows out of the well; the shepherdess made a pipe, she sings: Play, young man, it's not so loud, or my heart hurts; he brings a pipe, everyone plays; when my stepmother takes it, then her daughter, the pipe sings: play, enemy; she throws pipe to the ground, Cinderella is reborn, the prince marries her again, the liar is tied to the stallion's tail]: Bîrlea 1966:414-415; Romanians [the elder and middle princes are married, the youngest the king forbids him to marry because he misbehaves; the old woman gives him three nuts, tells him to split him at the well so that there is bread and a jug of water nearby; the prince does not happen, a beautiful woman comes out of a walnut, dies from thirst and hunger; the same with the second; the prince who came out of the third gives water and feeds; while preparing the wedding, the prince left the bride in a tree at the spring; the gypsy woman pulls her off the tree, dresses her daughter in her dress, sticks a pin in her head, the beauty turns into two fish in the spring; the servant finds fish, the liar kills them, a golden walnut grows out of the scales, the liar tells him to cut it down, picked up a chip old woman; in her absence, a sliver becomes a girl and manages; once in the palace, she talks about everything; a gypsy woman was executed]: Bîrlea 1966:416-417;; Romanians [the king hunts, sees on the lake the swan, who asks not to shoot, the king brings him alive to a gypsy cook, the swan turns into a girl, says she has left the fairy mother; the king marries her, she gives birth to a son; while the king is gone, a jealous cook invites the queen into the garden, throws her into a well, tells the king that his wife has flown away as a swan; the king is going to marry a gypsy woman; the shepherdess makes a pipe from a branch growing at the well willows; the pipe says that she is afraid for her baby, that the gypsy woman is a villain; the gypsy woman throws a flute, which turns into a former queen; the king rewards the shepherdess, executes a gypsy woman; the wife, standing for a while swan, flies to say goodbye to his mother, returns to the king; everything is fine]: Gaster 1915, No. 83:249-254 (=Ashliman 2002); Romanians [three sisters Anna, Stana and Leptitsa went for berries; A., if the king is not she marries, promised to bake such bread that her husband would not grow old; S. - weave a shirt, her husband would not burn in fire and drown in water; L. - to give birth to sons with golden curls and a star in his forehead; three young men, among they were king, they galloped by and heard everything, took the girls as wives; they fulfilled their promise; but the king's stepmother replaced the children born with puppies, and buried them in the garden; the king sent L. to the kitchen, married stepmother's daughters; two plane trees grew on the grave; the new queen ordered them to be cut down, beds made for her and her husband; at night the queen hears young men talking; ordered the beds to be burned; but two sparks turned into twin lambs; the queen tells them to be slaughtered and thrown into the river, they turned into two fish; the fisherman caught them, wanted to take them to the palace, the fish asked them not to do so, became boys; they they came to the palace, began to sing about what had happened, took off their hats and stars under them; the king returned his wife, sent his mother's daughter to the kitchen, and the stepmother herself ran away]: Mirener 1958:128-137; Bulgarians: Daskalova- Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 590A [a soldier saves a stolen princess from giants (lamia, dragon); marries her; with the help of a magic saber, one smashes enemies who attacked his father-in-law's kingdom; after learning the secret of the saber, his wife replaces her and sends her husband against enemy troops; he is captured and tied to the tail of a horse; the horse drags his remains to those samos (devils, robbers) from which the hero received magic object; he (animated and) receives three flowers (bouquets) from them, with which he turns into a horse, fish, etc.; his wife recognizes him when he takes the form of a horse, an apple tree (rose bush), a bed, and every time destroys; when he takes the form of a duck (or fish), the wife brings her lover, i.e. an alien king, to catch a duck; but when he puts his magic sword on the ground to enter the water, the hero takes on his form, grabs a sword and slaughters his wife and lover; marries a maid who helped him (kept her bones, teeth, oxen, sliver, etc., when his wife destroyed the characters taken by the hero)] 707D [the king (who forbade lighting the fire at night) overhears the conversation of the three sisters; the first promises, if he marries the king, to dress his army with one spindle of wool; the second to feed the army with one a loaf of bread; the third is to give birth to wonderful children (a girl with golden braids, silver teeth, etc.); the king consistently marries all three; the first two do not fulfill their promises, the third gives birth wonderful children; envious sisters replace them with a kitten and a puppy (kill them), bury them in the garden; the king sends his wife to herd geese (ducks), remarries one of the older sisters; buried children they turn into wonderful trees (with golden leaves, apples), caress the king's branches, whipping the queen; they are cut down, a bed is made, she says that the father is not heavy, his wife is heavy; the bed is burned out of ash a roller grows up, a sheep eats it, gives birth to golden lambs, they are thrown into the river (well), they become children again; they tell their story (at this time beads, pearls, money fall from their lips), king recognizes children and wife]: 218-220, 244-245; (cf. No. 403 [when a stepdaughter laughs, roses fall from her lips, when she cries, beads fall from her eyes; when she learns of this, the king wants to marry her; stepmother replaces her As his own daughter, her stepdaughter is pushed into the river; she turns into a fish; an old fisherman catches her, sells it to the king; he discovers the truth, the fish becomes a girl; the king marries her, the stepmother and her daughter are expelled] : 401-402); Albanians [if the prince marries her, the older sister promises to bake bread for the whole army, the middle sister promises to sew clothes for everyone, the youngest will give birth to a son with a star on her forehead and a daughter with a star on breasts; the prince hears this, demands confirmation; the older sisters cannot fulfill their promises, the youngest fulfills; sisters replace children with kittens, the prince sent his wife to herd geese; the children were buried alive, grew up two bushes, they scratch their aunts's face and clothes; they were cut down and burned; two sparks flew to the mountain, a castle appeared; the prince came there, all the objects were talking there, he saw his children, understood everything; returned his wife , her sisters were chopped to pieces]: Lambertz 1952:156-159.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk and Kanalak Bay of the White Sea) [Three brothers went to cut wood, the younger Ivan cannot find large enough trees twice, and the third time he has prepared a lot of firewood. Someone steals, brothers take turns guarding. The elders fall asleep, I. grabs the thief, he pays off with magic flint, I. clicks the raft on the flint, two fellows pop up, ask what is needed. I. orders to cut off the thief's head. Brothers can't lift their bodies and throw them into the lake. I. orders fellows to do this from flint. They are building a city, and brothers and father move there to live. Well done, I. bring horses and a carriage, dress them as a "prynets", I. goes to marry the king, receives consent. The princess's former fiancé is at war. I. helps: well done, they cast fog on the army, the soldiers killed each other, the king's army is feasting. His wife gave I. a drink, found out the secret of his cunning, changed the flint, and sent a letter to the former groom to go to war again. The king's drunken army dies, his wife flies in bed with her beloved. I. teaches the king a curse and orders him to turn him into a stallion, sell his daughter to his current husband, but without a check; the king forgot, sold him in bridle; the ex-wife recognizes her former husband and orders him to be killed. The horse is hung by the neck and suffocates; asks the girl who comes to feed the horses to cast off her blood when he is killed under the queen's window; pluck the upper apple from the tree that grows (in it) wedding ring), wrap it in a handkerchief, pinch off a piece of bark when the tree is cut. The girl does everything, throws a sliver into the water, the sliver turns into a golden-fin goose. The king (i.e. the current husband of I.'s wife) undressed, climbed into the water; the goose lures him further from the shore, takes off, grabs the flint left in his clothes, regains his human appearance, forgave that king, He tied his ex-wife to a stallion, marries a girl who helped him]: Onchukov 2008, No. 58:187-189; Russians (Lipetsk) [the merchant sends his daughter to marry the king; on the way, the maid pulls out her eyes, takes her place; a blind woman asks the old man to borrow silk and velvet, makes a crown, asks to give it to the king in exchange for an eye; a false wife gives one eye, then a second eye; the true one sees the light, turns a hut the old man into a glass house, goes to the king, the false wife orders her to be cut into pieces, takes her heart; the old man collects, buries pieces, grows a garden; the false wife tells him to be cut down, the garden becomes stony; the king sees in this place, the boy is brought to the palace, he stops crying, having received the heart of the victim to play, runs away to the garden, the king follows him, sees a real wife instead of him; the false one was blinded, tied to horses, let him into fields]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 127:224-227; Russians (Orlovskaya) [after the death of his parents, Ivan sees a girl sitting on a shovel; she asks to be taken far away to the thirtieth kingdom; old man shows the way; came to the house under a golden roof, where the girl's two older sisters; one sister gave a self-shaking pouch, the other a magic shirt, the third self-sword; on the pole there is an inscription: one way You will find money, you will take the princess to another; I. went for the princess; married her; she has a former fiancé; he brought an army; I. beat him with his sword, pardoned his former fiancé; the wife asked how And . wins; took the magic objects, gave it to the groom; I. chopped into pieces, put them in a kul, tied to a horse and let the horse go; he came to the sisters, they revived him with dead and living water; they gave him a cross, he will turn him into a golden stallion; the man sold the stallion to the house where his ex-wife lives with his lover; the sorceress aunt warned that it was I.; the maid warned I. that he would be stabbed; he tells her collect his blood in his apron, bury it under the apple tree; the apples turned golden; his aunt advises to cut down an apple tree; I.-The apple tree tells the maid to let the chip into the water; the golden drake became; the warrior took off his sword, left it on on the shore, began to catch a drake; I. went ashore, took magic items; cut off the head of his wife and warrior, married a maid]: Kalinnikov 2017:15-20; Russians (the place of recording is unknown) [Marusya meets a good guy at gatherings; his mother advises him to tie a button and open a ball; the thread led to the church, M. looked out the window: there the groom eats the deceased; the next day the groom eats the deceased; the next day, the groom asks what M. saw; she denies everything; he says that her father will die tomorrow; her mother the next day; the next day M. herself will die; the grandmother advises asking the priest to take her body out the door, and through a hole dug under the threshold and buried it at the crossroads; a flower grew on the grave, the boyar's son ordered it to be transplanted into a pot; at night the flower turned into a girl, in the morning the boyar's son sees that the food was eaten; waited and grabbed the girl; M. agreed to marry with an agreement not to go to church for four years; she is forced to go, she sees that ghoul on the windowsill: tomorrow you have a husband and son they died; they died, the ghoul came again, asked if she saw what he was doing in church; she said and sprayed holy water on him; he crumbled to dust; she revived her husband and son with the same water]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 363:124-127; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the tsar sent his son to choose a wife; he met three girls; one promises to sew clothes from one hemp for an entire army; the second to bake from one ear bread for an entire army; the third is to give birth to two gold-haired boys; the prince married a third; the prince left, Komorna (maid?) buried the babies in the mud, replaced them with puppies; the prince orders his wife to be buried chest deep in the ground in the doorway; opening the doors passing by her beat; married the maid's daughter; two sycamores grew out of the baby; wife prince {hereinafter referred to as the tsar; presumably, the prince reigned after the death of his father} tells them to cut them down, make beds for himself and her husband; at night he hears the brothers' conversation: it's easy for one, his father, and the other's hard, there is a female girl on it; she tells me to burn the beds; the shepherd prepared salt for the sheep, the coals fell into salt; the sheep gave birth to two gold-fleece lambs; the queen tells them to be slaughtered, sent the maids to wash their guts, two bunks {what this?} went with the flow; the woman picked it up, they became gold-haired boys; they came to their father, began to tell a fairy tale, that is, their story; they put peas on the bed; as they told, peas bounced into the open; the mother of the young men was released, the maid and her daughter were torn apart by horses; the tsar, queen and their sons are still alive, unless they died]: Day 1981:88-98; Ukrainians (the place of recording is not specified; M. Wozniak, book 3) [parents died, Grytsko went on a journey; reached the thirtieth kingdom; the viper is in the hole, asks to pull it out, G. threw it away at the end of the whip, she turned into a beauty; asks if to be her sister or wife; G.: sister; she cut their fingers so that everyone could taste the other's blood; she shows her countless herds and endless lands; suggests removing the poker from her garden; the first twice G. cannot raise a poker; the third time he has so much strength that he raises and throws it away; the Snake suggests choosing a horse; G. puts his hand on the backs of the horses, each falls; only the horse, stuck in the swamp, withstood; The snake gives a shirt, tells me not to take it off, it has strength, and not to trust his wife if she marries; G. reached the city, there is mourning, the princess is given to the cannibal; G. killed the cannibal, the princess married G.; took a young man as a lover popovich, whom G. adopted after the death of the priest; convinced G. to take off his shirt to wash; Popovich put it on, hacked G.; became king; parts of the body were put in a bag, tied to a horse and let him into the field; horse came to the Snake, she revived G. with dead and living water; he has no former strength, but he is capable of metamorphoses; under the guise of a merchant, he stayed with the elderly; she threw out the foal from them; the old men sold it to the new king for a lot of money; he tells the maid Deer that in fact, it is not a foal, but a former king, deceived; when he is killed, let his handkerchief soak in blood, bury it, and grow an apple tree; they will cut an apple tree, let her hide a sliver and throw it into the river; the cheating wife realizes that this is not a foal, but her first husband; tells me to kill; O. does everything as taught; the sliver has turned into extraordinary a bird; the new king undressed and climbed into the water for it; the bird flew ashore, turned G., he hacked the impostor; cut off his wife's head, burned it, scattered the ashes; wedding with O.]: Pankeev 1992:316-330; Slovaks [The king has a daughter and three sons, he decides to send one of them named Radúz (or Janko) into the world; he is hired by a witch and a sorcerer, they have a daughter named L'udmíla (or Ivanka); the witch says 1) in a day plant a garden in the clearing so that there are fruits by morning; L. does not bring him the frogs her mother gave him, but good food; hits the ground with a magic wand (or, instead of a wand, the pipe L. plays) the garden arose; 2) set up a vineyard on a rock covered with thorny bushes (the same; this time the witch sent boiled snakes for lunch); 3) grind the stones into flour, bake bread from them; the witch suspects that the daughter helps the young man, but her husband does not believe it; she sent boiled lizards, L. did everything again (either scoop out a lake with a net, set up a field there, bake bread; L. threw a stone into the water, the lake was dry); the witch tells to put the cauldron on the fire to her husband; L. tells R. that they want to cook it, promises him that he will not forget it; leaves the spit responsible for himself and R., runs with R.; what is behind? "Nothing, just a black cloud." This is a father; L. turned herself into a field, R. into a sheaf; next time she created a church, R. created a hermit, L. a fly among other flies; for the third time a witch chases a fiery horse; L . teaches: she will become a duck at sea, let R. dive so as not to burn, and then grab that horse by the bridle; they both rode on a witch's horse (or fly away with doves); she: let R. forget L. as soon as someone a kiss; at home, the king and his children died, there was only one queen left; R. left L., went forward; when he fell asleep, his mother kissed him, he forgot L., took another wife, became king; L. turned into a poplar , the king ordered him to be cut down; into a pear tree with golden pears; the queen ordered him to be cut down; seven years later into a golden duck; no one can catch it; the king thinks he has seen this duck before; he caught it himself, she turned into L., R. remembered everything, drove another wife away, took L.; (or L. got a job in the castle as a seamstress, creates pigeons, they say R. forgot L.; R. does not marry for a long time and promises to marry the one who will sew the most beautiful flower; L. embroidered; or L. spent seven years in the tree; when oxen passed, they stopped at the tree and out of place; R. came up, L. went out to him)]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 7 : 28-35; Poles [the king tells his son to marry only after his death and take the bride from the testicle; after the death of his father, the young king bought eggs from the witch; she ordered him to keep his eyes on them on the way home and when someone wants to drink, give him a drink right away; there is no water, 14 testicles are gone; the last one was drunk, a beautiful woman appeared; while the king was running to the castle to get his dress, the witch turned the girl into a wild duck took her place; the king is amazed that the girl is fool but still married; the gardener: there is a duck with golden feathers on the pond; he took the duck to his chambers; while he was away, the queen ordered the duck to be slaughtered and fried; a drop of blood to the cook: bury me under the royal window; an apple tree grew with 7 red apples on it, the king ordered me to fence it; in his absence, the queen ate apples, ordered the apple tree to be chopped and burned; the old woman picked up the chips, began to heat the stove, one sliver pops up all the time; the old woman put it in the chest; while she goes to beg, someone cooks and cleans the house; the old woman peeked, found beautiful; the king tells all women to come, tell stories; the girl put on rags, came, began to tell her story; the queen was chained to the floor, forced to listen, then torn apart harrows; wedding; and I was there, drinking wine and honey, flowing down my mustache, didn't get into my mouth]: Shcherbakov 1980:47-49.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Rumei (a handwritten text in Rumei, kept in the library with. Yalta, Pershotravnevy district, Donetsk region) [the old woman walked and held a pot of water in her hands; the prince threw a pebble and broke the pot; the water spilled; the old woman said, "Love for these oranges"; the prince grew up and always remembered these words, they were not gave him peace; when he became a young man, he decided to go in search of three oranges; people said that they were very far away and well guarded; the prince found and took three oranges {without details}; on the way I decided to cut one of them home; a beautiful woman came out from there, said: "Water, water," and then turned into a bird and flew away; the prince cut the second orange, the situation repeated; the prince came to the well, cut a third orange; a girl who was more beautiful than the first two came out; she asked for water, the prince gave it to her; the girl said that she was his fate; the prince told her: "Climb a tree, I I'll go home, gather my matchmakers and come back for you"; the royal maid came for water; looked into the well and saw a beautiful woman sitting in the water; the maid said, "Put your hair down, I I'll see them, you've been sitting here for so many days, I guess you've worn them up"; the girl let her hair loose; the maid climbed upstairs, stabbed the girl, put her clothes on and sat in a tree instead of her; the girl turned into the bird flew away; the prince returned with his matchmakers, mistook the maid for an orange girl; asked why she had become ugly; the maid replied: "You have been gone so long, I turned black in the sun"; the prince believed her, married her; the bird began to fly in and sit on the trees; the tree she sat on dried up; all the trees were so dry; the maid knew she said to the prince: "Catch this bird, kill it, I will kill it I'll cook it and we'll eat it"; he did it; the wife took the bones and buried them near the threshold; a tree grew out of them; when the king, queen or prince came out into the yard, it hugged them with branches; when the prince's wife - her branches were beaten and burned; she told the prince to cut down this tree; he did it; the wind picked up one branch and threw it by the road; the old woman picked up this branch, brought it home, put it behind the icon; when the old woman left from home, the branch turned into a girl and did everything around the house; the old woman decided to find out who it was; hid and saw the girl; she told her everything; the old lady said, "I'll go to the king, get their shirts, and you You will sew them"; the girl sewed shirts for the king and queen that it was not clear that their hand had touched them, and sewed their daughter-in-law's shirt with stubble from a pig; the old woman took the shirts to the king and told them who sewed them ; the prince came to her house, recognized the girl and took her with him; then asked the maid: "Wife, what do you want - forty knives or tie you to forty horses?" ; she replied: "Forty horses"; the prince tied her by forty horses; where her body hit, there were beams and hills; the prince married an orange girl; "They still live and reign"]: Intervalskaya et al. 2001; Kalmyks: Dzhimgirov 1970:78-79 in Basangova 2002 [=2019:69-70; the cow feeds her stepdaughter with gingerbread and sugar, she becomes beautiful; I have to admit that the cow feeds her with her manure; the stepmother sends her own daughters, who do not become more beautiful; the cow has been slaughtered, the manure carried by the stepdaughter to the mountain turns into a palace; the khan takes the stepdaughter as his son's wife; relatives daughters push her into the lake, one of them replaces her; the lake dries up, the camel remains; the wife of the khan's son tells him to slaughter him, a drop of blood turns into poplar; the wife of the khan's son tells him to cut him down, make him a cradle for her unborn child; a sliver falls behind the old man's bosom, turns into a pipe with a gold chain, a pipe into a girl; they called the girls to make a fur coat for the khan's son; this girl tells her story, Khan's son marries her, drives her away]: 138-141; Vatagin 1964 [Kermen is stepdaughter, Bulgat is the daughter of an old woman; the cow gives K. her milk, she is prettier; does not let B. in; the old woman tells to slaughter a cow, she asks K. to take her rectum to the steppe; the intestine turns into a rich kibitka; the Khan's son sees her, marries K.; the stepmother pushes K. off the cliff into the water, passes her off the cliff into the water, passes her off as Khan's son B., which has bumps on her cheek and neck; a camel jumped out of the lake; B. pretends to be sick, asks him to be slaughtered; a drop of blood grows a poplar; poplar is made of a cradle for his future son B., one sliver falls into the bosom of a cowboy, turns into a pipe at home, then into a girl; khansha tells two hundred girls to sew a fur coat for the khan; the cowman's daughter must sew a sleeve; at a feast, the khan tells me to tell a fairy tale the girl tells her story; the khan's son marries K., drives B. and her mother away]: 130-135; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002:143-145 [the prince's son knocks three apples off another's tree; three daughters offer it he marries him; he takes the youngest, who has promised to give birth to a son half gold and half silver; in the absence of the prince, the aunts cooked the newborn, poured water into the yard, and said that the wife had given birth to a puppy; her husband locked her in a stable; aspen grew in place of the spilled broth, her husband made it a house support; rejected, the wife burned the chips, the coal turned into a gold coin, she put it in a chest, a coin became her son; mother and son come to the prince, he drives away evil aunts], 186-197 [=Shakryl 1975, No. 38:189-204; a stranger gives the childless king to eat an apple in half with his wife for promising to send him one of the three sons to be born; the youngest Safa Saaja agrees to go; traces lead to the bottom of the sea; the rider puts the SS on his mule, transports him; the old woman tells him to rush to another, call him mother; the other can't eat it now; when the six daughters of that Ajnysh (the devil) arrive to swim in doves, and the seventh eagle throws off their feathers, hide the eagle's clothes; Ajnysh tells 1) eat the bull (the wife gives Run a handkerchief over your lips - hungry again); 2) grow a plane tree out of a stick (teaches you how to water); a young man and his wife run away on a black and white horse, Ajnysh chases on a fiery horse; it turns into a chapel, prince into the fence; Ajnysh did not recognize them; the girl's mother jumps, she throws 1) water from the flask (river), 2) cobs (thick corn) 3) nuts (mountains); the mother tells her daughter to turn into a frog; she tells the prince wait for her for three years; he is wrong for three days, he is married to another girl; the frog lives with an old woman, gives her gold, the rumor spreads; the new wife pretends to be sick, tells him to kill the frog; she was burned the bone remained, fell into the water, became a goldfish; it was caught, eaten, the fin fell, the tree grew; it was cut down, burned, the sliver fell to the old woman, she brought it home, the sliver became a girl; a new wife they expel, return the real one]; the Balkarians or the Karachays [stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter Ileuka and her brother; the children are leaving; Ileuka does not tell his brother to drink from the stream through which the cows passed - will become a calf; horses a foal; sheep a lamb; the boy secretly drinks, is made a lamb; I. climbed a tree with a lamb; warriors sit under it, fell asleep; I. went down, cooked meat, fixed her clothes, hid again; so for three days; once she ate an apple, which made her an adult beauty; the warriors waited, brought Khan, she agrees to marry him if he leaves a lamb with her; the witch offers to swim in the river, pushed I. into the river, put on her clothes, took her form, ordered the lamb to be slaughtered; he runs to the river, bleats, telling his sister everything; the Khan's servant understands the language animals, hears everything, tells the khan; the witch was punished, I.'s body was found, buried; a tree has grown; a poor woman asks for a twig, the khan sends to find the roots; she finds that the spine turns into I.; at the khan at the festival, I. says everything, the lamb turns into a young man; a kind woman became I. and her brother's foster mother]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:37-43; Terek Cossacks (v. Naurskaya) [the peasant did not develop wheat; a stranger advises him to kill and bury his daughter in the field - then there will be a lot of wheat; the peasant decides to do so, warns his wife, goes to the field; she tells her daughter about her father's plan; the daughter brings him a bag of wheat and runs away; climbs a tree by the river; the king and his servants sit under him to rest; notice the girl, persuade her to get down; she tells his story to the king; he decides to marry her; goes with his servants to the capital to buy dresses and jewelry for the bride; asks him to wait in a tree; two Arab girls come to the river for water; they notice the royal bride on the tree {there is no reflection or shadow}; one of the Arabs climbs a tree and pushes the girl into the water; pretends to be a bride, tells the king that her skin has turned black because for the sun and wind; he believes, takes her as his wife; a girl thrown into the river turns into a mermaid with a fish tail; shows herself to servants who bring horses to a watering place; they tell the king what has happened there monster: half female, half fish; by order of the king, a mermaid is caught with a net; she reminds him of a real bride; an Arab woman pretends to be sick; assures that a mermaid must be cooked in a cauldron, otherwise The king himself will soon fall ill; the mermaid's bones are thrown away near the palace; they take root and grow in the form of a tree that is covered with leaves and flowers all year round; the king admires the tree and notices that the leaves on him wither when he leaves the palace; the Arab woman demands that the tree be cut down; the king agrees; the old woman collects chips near the felled tree; finds a spindle among them; leaves it in her the room, goes to the kitchen; when he returns, he sees a pile of thread; every time an old woman leaves the house, someone cleans her room and makes threads; the old woman hides behind the door; finds out that the spindle is turning a girl; she tells her story, stays with an old woman; walks near the palace; the king falls in love, comes with his Arab wife to dinner with an old woman; the girl brings her bird into the room Kakabku; asks if she remembers how her father tried to kill her, a girl, how she was pushed off a tree by an Arab woman, how she was cooked in a cauldron in the form of a mermaid, how she became a tree was cut down, and how she turned in a spindle; K. answers all questions in the affirmative; the king orders an Arab woman to be tied to the horse's tail; tells the servants to ride this horse on the rocks; lives happily with his new wife]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 3: 80-86; Ingush [Gombot marries the daughter of his widowed friend Bebot; the maid pushes her young wife into the sea, puts on her clothes, the husband does not notice the change; G. finds a sprout by the sea, then a tree , makes a balalaika out of it; she says that G. has a bald head in his arms; the maid throws her into the fire, the coals say the same thing; the ash grows hemp, the old woman makes a cake out of it, the cake turns into the former woman, tells her story, returns to her husband; the maid is drowned]: Malsagov 1983, No. 38:164-167; Avars [a mother with three daughters walks through the forest, a snake demands to give one daughter, only the youngest agrees; in the house, the snake turns into a young man; the wife and son go to visit the mother; when she goes back, the older sister goes with her, stings the child, he cries, the sister explains that the child wants her sisters to exchange scarves and dresses, then, if she wants a flower from the sea, pushes the youngest into the sea, takes her place; but literally follows her mother-in-law's order to break the jug against the wall (this means you have to go get water), cut off the cow's udder (milk it), etc.; the son grazes the cows, the bird says that she did not give birth to him to herd cows; the boy tells his father, he puts the bird in a cage; the eldest throws the cage on the floor, the bird turns into scissors; cut all the elder's clothes; the scissors have become chicken, they were taken by an old woman; someone cooks in the house, the old woman finds the girl; the husband recognizes his wife, the eldest sister dies of a broken heart]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 36:339-342; Lucky (village. Tabakhlu, 1836) [the red cow tells the hungry stepdaughter to suck her horns, honey flows from the right, oil from the left; the wind blows her hair away, the stepmother tells her to find it and return it; the cow teaches me to go to people who grind pearls, gold, corals, wish everyone the best, ask themselves, they will show the way to the wind Chassage; horses will have bones, dogs have hay, you need to change; call the muddy river oil, take a sip; Wind Chassage, Aerial Asiyat should ask for wool back; she will ask you to scrape the rooms, they must be whitewashed, cleaned; pull out her hair, tear clothes - comb them, wash them; that's what happened; girl she put her finger into the river, it turned silver, the river let it through {apparently parted}; the same was a bloody river, the girl called it honey, her finger turned golden; C. poured golden water on her head and hair became gold; C. offered to sleep on a golden bed, wants to make the girl a daughter, hides the wool under her head; the girl pulled her out, ran; the old woman tells everyone to grab her, calls the river bloody , but they only give the girl even more; the stepmother plants her own daughter to spin her hair next to the cow; the wind blows away the hair, but the cow teaches the wrong way; the girl scolds the people she meets, gives bones to horses, hay to dogs, from the water of the muddy river, her fingers are covered with ulcers; C. tears her hair and clothes; she pours dirty liquid on her head, her face and body are covered with ulcers and boils; the cow was stabbed, her stepdaughter buried her bones; asked they have beautiful shoes and clothes to go to the wedding; one shoe swam along the river; the prince found it, he is just right for his stepdaughter, the prince took her to his wife; the stepmother and daughter also went; the bride is thirsty, stepmother gives her a drink, taking her eyes out; throws her into the well, dresses her daughter in her dress; the merchants pulled the girl out of the well, she turned into a canary; flying into the prince's garden, asks the gardener say hello to the prince, and let the tree dry up; the prince sees that many trees have dried up; the canary has been caught, the false wife ordered her to be slaughtered, a tree has grown out of blood; dates are falling on the prince, his wife is scratched by thorns; his wife orders to make a cradle for her child out of wood; the old woman's son picked up the chips, threw it behind the chest; they turned into a girl when she cries (?) , when she laughs, pearls, silver and gold horseshoes fall from under her feet; the cradle squeezed the child to death; the old woman's son fattens a lousy horse in the palace; the girl turns it into a painted horse; the king comes to see him, falls in love with a girl; girls are going to tell fairy tales, a true bride tells her own; stepmother and her daughter are tied to horses; wedding]: Khalilov 1976, No. 46:109-119; Lezgins: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 43 [=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 102-109, =Khalilov 1965, No. 71:218-222); the girl saw dew in the garden, wanted to marry a young man named Chigali ( "dew"); the father put on iron shoes, picked up an iron stick, found C.; he gave a handkerchief, ordered the girl to wash it, and pour water on her roof and on her neighbor's roof; she would grow roses, and her neighbor's keep a tree, C. will come to the house where roses; a bald neighbor changed the water, thorns grew on the girl's roof, and the neighbor had roses; the matchmakers came to the neighbor; the girl asked God to turn her father into a black snake , and she herself is a blue dove; flies to C., annoys her bald; she tells her to slaughter the dove, the girl asks God to make her a plane tree; bald tells her to cut down the plane tree, one sliver bounced, picked it up old woman; since then everything in her house has been cleaned; she stayed guarded, grabbed the girl; they fattened the khan's foal; the girl created a pasture and a spring in the stable; the foal grew up, does not let her in strangers; went to C. when the girl told him to do so; the girl gathered others, told them stories, told her own; C. heard, married a girl, drove the bald girl away with the child], 46 [stepmother loves bald daughter, tyrannites Bibikhatun's stepdaughter; mother from the grave tells her to suck the horns of a red cow, honey in one, oil in the other; stepmother pretends to be sick, tells her to wrap herself in the skin of a red cow; mother tells the cow's bones to be put in a hole, they will turn into clothes; wearing them, B. secretly goes to the wedding, returning, loses his shoe; the padishah's son is looking for the owner; the rooster screams that B. is in tandoor, bald on screenings; the padishah's son finds B., marries; bald changes clothes with B., pushes her into the river; a plane tree grows up, bald tells her to make a cradle, the old woman brought one sliver into the house; to her the absence of a sliver turns into a girl, cooks, the old woman finds her; she fattens a horse, the girl washes her hair and legs, grass grows, the spring hits, the horse is the most plump; the padishah's son calls the girls scratching the hair, hearing B.'s story; they put a bald one on a donkey backwards, expelled]: 386-389, 420-423; Tabasarans [stepmother tells Perikhanum to herd a red cow and spin wool; the wind carries away wool, the cow tells him to follow the wind; P. goes through a golden, silver current to the ajdaha cave; in his hair there are snakes, lizards, P. says that his hair is clean; the dough is dirty, P. says it is clean, like her mother's; cleans the house, takes no treasures, Azhdaha shakes her on a swing, gold does not fall from her dress; he tells her to swim in a white lake, wash her hair in black, gives her gold, dresses and a horse she can turn it into anything; when she sees the beauties, the stepmother sends her own daughter Aykhanum; she calls Azhdaha dirty, hides the gold, it falls out on the swing; she is told to swim in the black lake, wash her hair in white, a horn grows on her forehead; her stepmother and A. go to the party, tells P. to separate the ash and millet, fill the vessel with tears; the mother from the grave teaches how to sift the millet through a sieve, fill the vessel with water and salt, put on a dress, take the horse given by Azhdakha; returning from the wedding, P. lost her shoe; Beck's son fell in love, found the owner of the shoe; his stepmother slipped her freak daughter instead of P.; P. flew in as a dove, A. ordered to be slaughtered, the giblets were thrown away, a pine tree grew, A. ordered to make a cradle out of it, the old woman picked up the chips; someone cooks in her house, she finds a girl; takes a thin horse to fattening, she is prettier; Beck's son calls women to spin and tell stories; P. tells; everything is explained, stepmother and A. were put on horseback, whipped]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 49:444-450; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1) , No. 65 [stepmother tortures stepdaughter with work; the cow tells her stepdaughter that there is honey in one ear and butter in the other; the stepmother watches, finds out, tells her husband to slaughter the cow; she tells her stepdaughter not to eat her meat, put it bones in skin, bury; stepdaughter drops a spindle into the old woman's yard, she asks her to look in her hair, look at her pickles; the girl does everything, she is not surprised that there are snakes and frogs in the jars; the old woman tells her to walk past a white, black spring, dip her head in yellow; her hair has turned golden; her own daughter disgust the old woman, she tells her to put her head under a black spring on her head a donkey tail has grown; the stepmother tells her stepdaughter to sort out the millet by her return; neighbors give a sieve to sift the millet; in a hole where cow bones should be, the girl finds a horse, luxurious clothes; the bridge loses her slipper; the king orders to find an owner, marries his son's stepdaughter; the stepmother asks her stepdaughter to take off her dress, pushes her into the pond, replaces the prince's wife with her daughter; the prince sits by the pond, admiring on fish; the imaginary wife affects the sick, tells the fish to cook; poplar grows out of bones, the wife tells me to cut down; the old woman picks up chips; someone cooks in her house, the old woman finds the girl; the prince comes in, the girl tells her story; her stepmother and daughter are tied to the tails of horses]: 278-286; Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 2 (Imereti) [an unknown person is called to find the missing princess; the tsar gives him a ship captain, 12 sailors; on the island they come to the hut; one remains to cook, a hairy dwarf asks for lunch, when refused, kills the cook; the hero remains, kills the dwarf, finds he has the keys, unlocks the locked part of the house, there is a princess, she gives him a ring; he forgets the ring, returns with 11 sailors, the captain sails away with the princess; the boat with the sailors turns over, they sink; the demon on the island, she takes the hero home, at the wedding of the captain and the princess, she recognizes the hero by the ring, the captain is executed, after the death of the king, the hero reigns; the wife finds a lover, replaces the clothes given by the demon and the sword is fake, the hero is tied to the horse's tail; he brings him to the demon; the demon gives the hero the ability to turn into a horse; the queen orders him to be killed, the maid plants the horse's tooth, an apple tree grows, chips from a felled apple tree, they turn into two ducks; a duck wears the clothes of a bathing false king, takes the form of a hero, who executes a traitor and her favorite, marries a maid]: 6-14; Armenians [the royal son I found out that a huge cucumber had grown in the garden; gardener: if you pick a cucumber, go without looking back, although they would call; the prince brought the cucumber to the edge of the forest, cut it, and the girl came out of it; the prince tells climb on the plane tree and wait for him to return for her and his entourage; an old woman came, turned the girl into a bird, took her form herself; the bird began to curl at the prince's head, who tore off her head, threw her into the garden, a mulberry tree grew, the gardener cut it down, a sliver flew into the old woman's yard, became a spoon; while the old woman is away, the girl cleans the house; she waited for her, decided to marry her son; he agrees consider a girl to be a sister; the king orders that every house feed a horse; the girl feeds the horse, tells him not to get up when the prince calls him; calls the prince who has come a traitor; he begins to suspect something; summons wool scratchers; a girl comes, asks for a grenade, a doll and a razor as a reward; the prince spies on her story to the pomegranate, tells the doll to splash, I was going to cut her throat; the prince grabs her, the witch was tied to the tail of a mule]: Nazinyan 2014:70-75; Chikovani 1954 [the serpent turned around the ricks, demands the peasant's daughter; the older two refuse, the youngest agrees; behind the village, the snake shed his skin and became a young man; explained that they speak Kajet (on the contrary: if "break", it means "build", etc.); mother-in-law is surprised that the daughter-in-law does everything at once that's right; the snake wife goes to give birth to her parents's house, then returns with her sisters; the eldest tells her to climb a tree, changing clothes and giving the child, leaves her, takes her place; everything does "not Kajet"; she has no milk for her baby; under the tree where her mother remains, reeds grew out of her tears and blood; the boy grew up, cut off a reed, made a pipe, she sings about what happened; the stepmother broke, burned pipe; ash formed a portrait of the mother; the stepmother scattered the ash on the roof, poplar grew out of it, poplar branches hug her husband; the stepmother was sick, ordered to cut down the trough from the poplar; one sliver fell to old woman; every day she comes out from under the sauerkraut in the form of a girl, cleans everything up; the old woman is waiting for her; the girl asks to invite a snake to visit, tells everything; her sister was tied to the tails of horses]: 137-140; Azerbaijanis [the prince fell in love with a pomegranate girl; the vizier says she is from the divas; bought sakyza (pistachio resin), came to the house where the old woman, her lower lip, crawls on the ground, the upper lip reaches heaven; the vizier threw tar into her mouth, she chewed and did not eat it; he became an awl, hid in the cracks; the old woman's sons came, believed her that there was no one; in the morning the old woman showed the way west; there was a second old woman (same episodes, the vizier became a piece of carpet); the third (the vizier hid, becoming a fly) pointed out a tree with three grenades at the top; becoming a mosquito, the vizier took away the grenades; the first two had nothing, the third beautiful; asks for clothes; the vizier left her at the top of the plane tree, went to the city; the vizier's maid saw her reflection, pushed the girl into the well, took her place; she got out, turned into rose bush; the prince married a liar, is surprised that she is black; the vizier cut the roses, sent her to the prince's wife, who threw away the bouquet, he became a plane tree; the wife ordered her to be made a cradle for the child; the old woman took one board, brought it to her place; while she was leaving, the board became a girl, cleaned and cooked everything; the neighbors advised me to make sure that the girl stayed with the old woman; the prince is going to Mecca, distributing horses for fattening; the girl told the old woman to take one, she was sworn, the girl's best horse; women are going to embroider the prince's dress; the pomegranate girl folds pearls with a song, sings about what happened; wedding 40 days and nights, a liar tied to the tail of an immense horse]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:83-94; Turks: Tsvetinovich 1959 [an elderly padishah has a son; breaks an old woman's jug, who tells him to fall in love with three Pomeranians; he leaves home, sticks to the mother of the Devas; her sons are guarding the Pomeranians, but they do not know where they are; their average, older sisters do not know mother; the eldest son brings him to a pond where Pomeranians swim; tells him not to cut them where there is no water; beauties come out of the cut ones; two immediately die of thirst, one remains; shahzade leaves her in a tree, goes to get clothes for her; an Arab woman takes her reflection for hers; the girl calls out to her; she offers to look in her head, pierces a needle, the girl flies away as a bird; an Arab woman speaks shahzade, which has turned black from the sun; a bird sits on trees in the shahzade garden, they dry up; she is caught; an Arab woman pretends to be sick, asks to kill a bird in order to recover; an old woman picks up one feather; in her the absence of a pen turns into a girl, cleans her house; an old woman takes her by surprise; tells Shahzade her story; an Arab woman replies that she wants 40 horses, not 40 knives; torn by mules; shahzade marries a newfound beauty]: 58-67; Kúnos 1913 [the padishah's wife asks the maid every day who is beautiful; she replies that the padishah's wife, the moon and she, are the maid; one day replies that The most beautiful is the grown-up daughter of Padishah's wife Nar-Tanesi ("pomegranate apple", GJ); three hunting brothers found her, agreed to make her sister; the witch gave the padishah's wife two pins; dressed as a beggar, she came to the hunters' house and put pins into her daughter's head through a crack in the door; the girl died; the brothers put her in a golden coffin, hung her between two trees; the prince found him, carried him to his room; when he went to war, his fiancée went there, saw the GJ, took out her pins, the GJ flew away as a bird; the prince came back and fell ill with grief; the bird comes to ask about him; every time a tree, on which she sits down, dries up; the gardener told the prince about it; the prince's young wife killed the bird, said that it was the cat that bit it; the drops of blood grew roses; the gardener's wife brought one into the room she turned into a bird again, the old woman pulled a diamond pin out of her head, the bird turned into a GJ {there is a discrepancy; it was previously said that the prince's wife pulled out both pins and the girl turned into the bird}; the old woman told the prince everything; he returned to the GJ, but chased the monkey; at this time, GJ's mother came to kill her; the prince managed to return; married GJ, and her mother and wife told hang]: 174-181; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 5 [at the source, son Bey's horse steps on the witch's foot, she tells the young man to fall in love with the cucumber girl (OD); the father sends him for her; at the night, the young man eavesdrops, how the owner explains to his daughter what to do; 1) give milk to the lion, meat to the tiger, chewing gum to the witch; 2) to the source from which the blood and pus flow, tell him how clean he is, drink three handfuls; 3) split off a pine chip, give it and all your gold to the giantess while the giants are sleeping (their eyes are open); the giantess will give three cucumbers; there are three girls inside the cucumbers; open cucumbers where there is water, otherwise girls will die of thirst; giants tell creatures and objects to stop the young man, they say they are grateful to him; two girls have died of thirst; the third waits for the young man on the poplar for him to arrange a wedding; the ugly maid saw a reflection in the source, decided it was her own; next time she asked how OD got in; putting the eggs one on top of the other; then OD told the tree to bend down; the maid said that she was now her mother; looking in her hair, she pulled out the hair of life; OD fell, sesame grew up in that place; the maid explained to the young man that she was fool from the frost and the sun; the young man attached sesame to his hat; married a maid, she asked to throw sesame into the fire, two pigeons flew out of there; resin to the branches, the pigeons stuck, they were slaughtered, poplar grew out of blood; it was made a cradle for the maid's son; one sliver was picked up by an old woman; in her absence, the sliver turns into OD, cleans the house; the old woman grabs her, adopts her; in hunger, Bey's son distributes his horses; where OD steps, he grows up green grass, the horse eats it; the rest of the horses died of hunger; the young man comes for him, the girl speaks in riddles; he comes back, she tells everything; the maid and the child were sent to the mountains, the horse was thrown off them into the abyss]: 64-71.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1958 [The padishah has three daughters. They ask their aunt to stay, and their father lets her. The road lies across the desert, they're coming to the river. They try to wade it - it doesn't work. An ugly black man comes up, offers to transport him with the agreement that each of them will kiss him. The older and middle sisters think that no one will see or say it, they kiss a black man and find themselves on the opposite bank. The youngest does not agree, takes off her stockings, enters the water and crosses the river. She tells her sisters she'll tell her father how they kissed a black man. The sisters are plotting to kill her. As soon as the black man leaves, they grab their sister's arms and legs, cut off her head, drag her to the river and throw her down. My aunt is told that her younger sister did not come because she is unwell, and her father is told that she stayed with her aunt. From the girl's blood drops, reeds grow on the shore. A shepherd passing by cuts it off and makes a pipe. It blows, you can hear a voice from there: "Play more alive, shepherdess, more fun, shepherdess! The murderers attacked me, and they kissed the black man themselves." He's surprised. The padishah's vizier goes hunting and meets a shepherd. He likes playing, he hears the song, he's surprised, and he buys a pipe. When it blows at it, the pipe calls him its vizier. He refers the pipe to the padishah and offers to play it - she speaks in a human voice. The pipe calls the padishah a father. Passing from hand to hand, the pipe reaches her older sisters, and she calls each one mean. They tremble with fear, realizing that it is their sister, break the pipe and throw it into the garden. A watermelon grows out of the wreckage, so large and juicy that the Shah takes care of it and water it himself. He goes to the bathhouse and tells his daughters to bring watermelon there. He tries to cut it, hears a mournful cry: "This is my head! This is my hand!" A watermelon asks whether he is a genie, a peri, or a person. The watermelon says he is his daughter, we need to remove the thin crust, then she will tell you everything. The Shah removes the thin crust with a knife, and his missing daughter appears before him, who is completely naked. He sends her to the palace for a dress, and she talks about her misadventures. He calls his daughters, they deny it all. Then the Shah orders to bring two restive mules, tie the braids of their elder daughters to their tails and let the mules into the steppe, and marries the youngest]: 25-28; Rosenfeld 1956 [the padishah has 40 wives, all infertile; he promises to fill one pool with honey and the other with oil if a son is born; the fortieth wife gave birth, the boy is 18 years old, the padishah fills the pools so that everyone can take honey and oil; the old woman leaned down take the oil, the son of the padishah shot her with a pebble from his sling, the bowl broke, the oil poured out; the old woman cursed him: let him go to get the Pomeranian girl; mother to the prince: on the mountain there are a garden where there are girls in Pomeranians, but they do not return from there; the old man shows the way; the divas tells you to change the horse to a tied black, throw the game to the dragon, take the Pomeranians without paying attention to the divas, rush back, return the horse; from every Pomeranian girl comes out, asks for water or bread, dies; diva woman: asks for bread, give me water; the last girl stays, the prince went to get clothes, the girl stayed in the tree; the black maid saw her reflection; first she thinks it is hers, then she hears laughter, looks up; cuts off the girl's head, takes her place, answers the prince that she has turned black in the sun, the wind has carried the braids away; out of blood A Pomeranian tree grew, the prince transplanted it into the palace; the imaginary wife tells him to make a board out of it; the old woman took a branch, made a spindle; someone is cleaning her house; the old woman finds girl; the doctor advises wearing a mirror chain around the prince's neck; the Pomeranian girl says she can do this; tells her story, showing everything in the mirror; everything is fine; the liar is offered a sword or a horse, she chooses a horse, she is tied by her braids to a horse, allowed into the steppe]: 164-174; Tajiks [the padishah promises to execute his wife if she does not give birth to a son; the wife rides in a boat, almost drowned in whirlpool; tells her husband to fill up this place and build a palace on the hill; the padishah agrees, and if the wife does not give birth to a son, her and her daughter's tomb will be on that hill; the baker's daughter-in-law, who works on the construction gives birth to a boy and dies, the old woman has changed children; the boy Dilshod is brought up as a prince, the girl Nigina grows up in a baker's house; D.'s real father is a kimyogar (i.e. alchemist), makes a gilded cow out tin, it is bought by the padishah, she is standing in D.'s room; at night someone eats part of the food; D. cuts his finger to stay awake, finds N., who was hidden in a cow; the father wants to marry D. to Begim, the daughter his sister; takes D. with him to hunt, at which time the golden cow was burned, believing that it had evil spirits; a tin bar remained, one old woman picked it up; someone cleans and cooks it in her absence; she spies, faints, N. brings her to life (N. flew out of the cow invisible and came to the one who picked up the ingot; replacing the revival motif from a particle); D. withers in her room, padishah promises to give gold to whoever makes her son eat; N. sends the old woman with dumplings, puts it in one of his rings; D. and N. meet in the old woman's house; kimyogar came, told everything, brought N. and D. from the palace, went with them to another country]: Ulug-zade 1967:180-200; mountain Tajiks [the snake puts edible kulches on the handkerchief of the Shah's youngest bathing daughters, pays the rich dowry, takes his wife; to she sheds her skin in the room, becomes a prince; while hunting on Mount Kof, an old woman burns her skin; the prince and his wife go to seek happiness; while the husband is hunting, the wife is sitting on a tree above the pond; an old woman sends three daughters to fetch water, each sees a reflection, thinks that she has become beautiful; the old woman locks the prince's wife in a dungeon, replaces her eldest daughter; makes the prisoner dance with needles; she flies away with a dove; the old woman asks the prince to kill the dove, a willow has grown out of drops of blood; the old woman orders to split it into firewood, the sliver bounced, the poplar has grown; the old woman orders to make it a cradle for her daughter's newborn; a sliver falls into the master's throat, tells his story in his voice; the old woman killed the master with a ladle, the sliver fell into the hearth; the neighbor took hot coals; when the prince came in to her, his wife jumped out of the hearth; the couple returned home]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 4:41-44; the Yagnobes [the tsar married the old man's daughter, took her home; during the night, the old woman stings the king's wife, consistently makes her give her clothes, the daughter of the old woman Ash-Bibi puts them on; the old woman pushes the bride into the well; AB tells the king that she was ill, so she changed; the old woman pulled the king's bride out of the well, she ran away to the steppe; the wolf ate her, but before that she asked to be dragged into the king's garden; her blood entered seven poplars; AB tells them to cut them down, make a cradle for her son; her son turned black; the cradle was burned; the old woman came to ask for fire, saw a carnelian in the fire, took it for herself; tells her son to take it, sell it; instead of a carnelian in the chest, she is beautiful; the king sees her, wants her; she tells him to get a firebird and a spinning wheel; he brings; in his presence, the girl tells her story, the firebird confirms, referring to her, Laxča-Bibi ("lahcha" - burning charcoal); the king returns his wife]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, № 5:55-59; Uzbeks [=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:92-109; three bundles of brushwood collected by the old man and his two neighbors were carried away by the wind; the old man finds them in a hole, there are also three pots of gold; the old man shares gold, but neighbors kill him, taking his share; before death, he asks to give his wife to be named Dod ("help"); the padishah solves the crime, makes Dod an adopted son, puts him on the throne; Peri appears in a dream, Dod goes to look for it; the old man tells me to choose the middle pumpkin, tells me not to open it on the way; Dod wants to throw it away, peri screams in pain, Dod opens the pumpkin, there's peri; says it's necessary he listened to the old man; let Dod take her in a covered arba; leave her on the outskirts of the city; the old woman asks Peri to get water, pushes her into the water, puts her on her clothes; answers Dod that she will take her former form when their child is 7 years old; a horse comes out of the spring, an imaginary peri tells her to be killed; only one butcher reluctantly agrees to slaughter it; three poplars grow out of three drops of blood; an imaginary peri tells them to be cut down make a cradle for her baby; the cradle shrunk, killing him; the calandar wants to pick up the chips, they fly away; a palace appears, peri in it, tells the Kalandar to call Dod, the padishah and arrange for all residents feast; Dod cut the sorceress to pieces, reunited with his wife]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 261-276.

Baltoscandia. Seto: Järv et al. 2009, No. 34 (Vasseliina) [when she dies, the mother tells her son to take a wife who looks like her sister; no, he wants to marry his sister; she goes to dress in the barn, leaves spits responsible for herself, goes out from the other side, climbs an oak tree, asks him to stand higher, the sky lower; in the sky she comes to a house where two girls look like her; their mother walks with an icy head at night to eat reeds , drink water from the sea; during the day, the girls hide what they have come, tell their mothers that the smell is from a scorched pig; returning before dawn, the mother sings, asks her daughters to let her into the house; daughters tell the girl that they have special earbuds - some to hear, others not to hear; the girl replaces the earbuds; daughters can't hear the mother, her head melts in the sun, she dies; all three girls go down to earth ; brothers (three of them) cannot say which of the three is their sister; the old woman advises the eldest to cut his finger; only the sister rushes to tie; older brothers marry girls from heaven; the younger is dissatisfied that left without a wife again; makes a coffin in the forest; when his sister brings him food, puts her in the coffin, boils her up; the brothers' wives call her to the bathhouse in vain; a bunch of berries grows on the lid; the hunter brings her home; someone cooks and cleans; an old man advises to spy, a hunter finds a girl, hangs a cross around her neck, marries her; meets her brothers]: 142-147; Normann, Tampere 1989 [two married brothers decide to get rid of their sister; tell their wives to send her to them in the forest to bring dinner; wives feel sorry for the girl, they carry food themselves; the brothers insist that her sister come, lock her in an oak tub, leave her in the forest; the brothers' wives call her to the bathhouse; the youngest hears a faint voice - I'm in an oak tub, the lid is filled with rowan rod; mountain ash grew out of this pin, one bunch on it; a guy from a forest farm tore it off, brought it home; now someone cooks and cleans the house; the guy finds a girl who turns into a menace, a bird, a spindle, he doesn't let go; he gets married; they visit their brothers, so ashamed]: 53-57 (=Põder, Tanner 2000:161-165); the Veps [princess turned into a bear; the hero frees her from spells, marries her; she steals a magic sword; her lover goes to war on their kingdom; the hero is executed; on the grave an apple tree grows, it is cut down; the maid picks up a sliver, it turns into a drake, then a good man; he kills his rival, returns his wife]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 64:206; Latvians: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 318 [A soldier escapes a girl from a burning haystack, but a snake wraps around his neck; an old man gives advice on how to get rid of a snake; in an old castle, a snake falls to the floor, turns into a girl, hers two sisters accept; they give the soldier a sword, shirt and purse; a soldier defeats the king's enemies, marries a princess; she cheats on her husband, steals magic items from him, hacks her husband and ties her husband to the back of the horse; the horse takes the hacked soldier to his three sisters, who revive him and teach him how to transform; the soldier turns into a horse, his wife's lover buys it, but the princess orders the horse to kill; the horse learns this from the maid and tells her to bury a drop of horse blood in the ground; an apple tree grows in that place; a chip from a felled apple tree should be thrown into the river, the sliver turns into a duck; lover wives, wanting to catch a duck, takes off their magic shirt; the duck turns into a soldier, takes his shirt and sword, kills his wife and lover, and marries a maid], 707 [the queen gives birth to wonderful children; her angry The sister, the king's second wife, kills them; a tree grows on the grave, saying, "My own mother is affectionate, the stepmother is evil"; the tree is cut down and beds are made of it; the beds say the same thing; they are burned sheep eat ash, lambs are born, they have children again who tell the king everything]: 276, 312; Norwegians [after the death of their parents, three brothers went on a journey; the elders did not they wanted to hire the youngest, but the Kapechnik, came to hire the same king; it turned out that he was doing a better job; the brothers, out of envy, told the king that Z. could get the king the most a beautiful princess instead of his deceased wife; Z. went on a journey, sat down on a spruce tree, shared food with an old woman who came up; she promised to help him; as soon as he got up and went, he saw the pipe; picked it up I blew, dwarfs appeared: what do you want? sent to the troll castle, where three princesses take on any shape; became three lemons; Z. took them to refresh themselves later; cut one, a girl appeared, shouted, "Water!" , and since there was no water around, she died; the same with the second lemon; when he opened the third one, he managed to run to the pond and bring water; gave the girl a cape, she climbed the tree, and he went to the king; at this time the cook came to get water and saw the princess's reflection, took it for her own; decided that such a beauty did not care about carrying water; but when she saw the princess in the tree, she threw her into the pond, put on her cape and climbed on her place; the king did not like the girl, but he believed others that she should be the most beautiful; after becoming queen, the cook caught a silverfish in that pond and told them to burn it; pieces of silver in the ash; told me to bury it; a linden tree with silver leaves grew in this place; the Queen ordered it to be cut down; the maids picked up the chips, but they were like silver; one sliver turned into a child, and he quickly grew and became princess; she told Z. everything, and he told the king; the king married her, and the cook was placed in a barrel of nails and rolled]: Stroebe 1922b: 15-20.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [father wove baskets, sent three daughters to pick berries, whoever picks first will marry her; the youngest collected her first, the eldest killed her out of envy, threw a marmot into the hole; she grew up there a birch tree; the hunter made a violin out of it, began to play at the festival, the violin began singing, telling me what happened; the older sister broke it, threw it into the oven; the coal jumped out, fell into the chest, and went out a revived girl; her father tied her eldest daughter to the tail of a seven-year-old stallion, who ran, her arms and legs were torn off]: Paasonen 1941:258-260; Mordovians [Vanya is leaving the service; stopped in the forest hut, climbed onto the stove; the old man pulls out a magic mirror, but does not see it; asks to go out; he has three daughters; asks him to serve for a year, take care of Sivka, and he and his daughters will leave for a year; daughters flew away as doves, the old man - in a whirlwind; a year later, for his service, the old man gave a sword that cut down the army, his daughters - speeding boots, an invisible hat, a self-shaking wallet; in the city, the princess disappears every night; unsuccessful guards are beheaded ; Vanya takes to watch; the invisible catches up with the princess, hits her face with a broom, she thinks it's hail, Vanya returns faster than her; the next night he smeared his dress with mud; on the third night he flew to the palace, where will the princess's wedding with the prince take place; the footman agreed to help; Vanya took the wedding dresses and tore the rest; Vanya brings the footman with him; he confirms Vanin's story; Vanya shows the wedding outfits, marries a princess; the prince went to war, Vanya destroyed his army with his sword; his wife changed her sword, gave it to the prince, who chopped Vanya, tied the pieces in the barrel to the horse's tail; the horse came to that to the old man; the old man and his daughters boiled them in copper, silver, gold cauldrons; the water was poured out, the apple tree grew: the trunk was copper, the branches were silver, the apples were golden; the revived Vanya in the form of a falcon flew to take revenge on the prince; settled in with an old man, became a horse, ordered him to sell it, the prince bought it, his wife realized that it was Vanya; the horse tells the maid to bury a drop of his blood when it was slaughtered; an apple tree grew, it was cut down, the maid picked up a chip, Vanya had previously taught her to throw a sliver into the bath; the sliver became a drake, the prince undressed and began to catch him; the drake became Vanya, took possession of a sword, hacked the prince and his wife, married a maid, freed her enclosed in the tower of the old tsar]: Samorodov 1972:160-177; Kazan Tatars [the dzhigit went to the forest, fell asleep, the snake wrapped around his neck; old woman: maybe she will bring happiness; the dzhigit went to the forest, there the palace, the snake slipped down, became a girl; three turtles flew in, they also became girls; they were all sisters; the youngest forgot how to become a turtle, so she set it up so that the horseman brought it; the eldest gave him a mare, the second is an invisible hat, a third sword that can stretch to the end of the world, the youngest is an impenetrable chain mail; the horseman demands the daughter of a padishah, smashes his army; a daughter whose fiancé is the son of a padishah Timerjan, marries a horseman to find out his secret; replaces objects, gives it to Padishah's son T., who cuts the horseman into pieces, puts them in a bag, ties him to a mare, she comes to her sisters- turtles; they revived the victim with living and dead water, restored his memory, gave a pen that turns into any animal; the horseman stops with the old man, tells him to sell him in the form of a golden-maned stallion Padishah T. for gold; a prophetic old woman explains to his wife what is going on, advises him to pretend to be sick, demand the meat of a golden stallion; the stallion tells the maid to bury a drop of his blood; an apple tree has grown, an old woman tells her to demand a dish made of her wood; the apple tree to the maid: throw a sliver into the lake; the sliver became a duck, lured the padishah, became a horseman, he killed the padishah with an arrow; in his clothes he entered the palace, took possession of with magic objects, killed his wife with an arrow, married a maid]: Yarmukhametov 1957:79-90.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [son of Aleke Aleuko (Ali-ükö?) He dreams of the khan's daughter, goes to look for her, went to look for her, put 40 watchmen to sleep, found her sleeping, moved the candles in her heads and legs; the girl woke up, ordered the guards to be executed; the same for the second time; A. came to her and they met; Aleuco tells his father to marry her; Khan demands to fill all his wintering and summers with cattle; A. brought cattle, but the khan managed to migrate overseas, is going to give his daughter for the blind dhow (giant) Karké; A. crossed where bai-terek grew up; at the wedding, brother K. went out to fight; A. turned into a bad boy, killed brother K.; won the races; Khan's daughter saw the lousy boy's hand was given the ring that A. gave; they run (or rather fly), K. catches up; A. killed K. with an arrow, got the khan's daughter; once A.'s wife came to the sea, the maid pushed her into the water, she became a swan; the maid put on her clothes, came under her guise; but the real wife spits gold, but the maid cannot; the wanderer says to A. that a swan was flying, said: How stupid A. is, does not know that he lives with a fake wife; the imaginary wife pretended to be sick, asked for swan meat; A. shot the swan, one feather flew off and became a camel; the maid asked for camel meat; one bone flew off, turned into rose hips; the maid ordered to be cut down, the thorn became a hawk; A. caught it, brought it into the house; everything in the house becomes tidy, the clothes are repaired; the maid orders to kill the hawk, A. refuses; waited, saw how the girl took off her hawkish skin, began to sew a dress; A. hid the skin, the girl admitted that she was his wife; A. brought her to his parents; his wife ordered him to wash it with milk and grease the mares so that get rid of the bad smell he had when living with his maid; she was asked if she wanted 40 horses or 40 scissors; she said both; she was cut into 40 pieces with scissors, tied they were smashed to the tails of 40 mares, smashed across the steppe; that]: Potanin 1916, No. 14.1:95-97; Uighurs [stepmother torments Khazhyarkhan's stepdaughter with work; Kh. Spins, grazing cows, cotton blows away by the wind, she comes for him to an old woman's cave; she tells her to cook thick noodles, pour the garbage into a hole in the roof, pull her hair out; H. does everything wrong (thin noodles, gently takes out rubbish and garbage, washes and combs the old woman's head); gets a ball of ready-made threads, her hair turns gold, gets an old woman's hair to burn it if help is needed; stepmother sends daughter Patyamkhan. she does it all wrong, steals gold, her head covers dandruff; (hereinafter, pp. 324-329, Cinderella plot); becoming the wife of the padishah's son (his name is Adil), H. visits the house, P. and his stepmother pour boiling water on her, bury her; P. attaches her braids to himself, puts it on clothes, comes to her husband; a drop of blood H. fell, turned into a bird; she flies into A.'s garden, screams that there is a secret in the house; A.'s wife pretends to be sick, will recover if she eats a bird; bones and feathers buried, two roses have grown; the wife pulls them out of A.'s hands; poplar grows in the same place, the wife demands that it be cut down; the sliver sticks to the gardener's beard, falls to the floor in his house, turns into H.; she A. talks about everything, her tears became a river, her stepmother and P. drowned in it]: Kabirov 1963:320-331; yellow Uighurs [a man climbs a tree, drops an ax, sees that the ax is wrapped around a white snake; a snake demands that one of the man's three daughters be married to him; only the youngest agrees; when a girl comes to the cave, the serpent and his family look like human beings; they are celestials exiled to earth; their period of stay ended in the guise of snakes; the older sister visits the younger sister, sees snakes, gets frightened; the middle one sees her sister's handsome husband, envies her; goes swimming with her, pushes her into the water, takes her place; the youngest turns into a bird, caresses her husband, defecates into her sister's food; she kills the bird, buries it under the threshold; a thorny bush grows, tears her middle sister's clothes, she digs it up, burns it; from ash a stone spinner rolls out, an old woman finds it; when she returns home, the food is ready; she spies, finds a girl; she asks the old woman to invite a prince (i.e. her husband); the new wife says that they will come when 1) pine trees grow along the road (a real wife grows them overnight); 2) the road is covered with red and white carpets (she throws wool, it turns into carpets); a prince with an imaginary they come as a wife; the real one puts her wedding ring in her husband's cup, crap in her sister's cup; the prince recognizes his wife, throws a snake on her imaginary skin, she becomes a colored snake]: Stuart, Jhang 1996: 55-59; Dungans (recorded in Kazakhstan, informants are from Shenxi) [Jinghua's mother died, stepmother has a lazy daughter Hiischinghua; the cow tells C. that the stepmother will pretend to be sick will require her heart, C. should not eat her meat, she must put her bones under an inverted vat; stepmother orders to separate millet from wheat while she and H. go to the show to the emperor; the rooster and the chicken come out from under the vat, separate grain; they tell them to get a dress from under the vat, go to the palace; C. loses her shoe, young yuanwei tells everyone to measure her, marries C.; she goes to visit her stepmother, she pours boiling water on C. X.'s face; C. turns into a bird, scolds his imaginary wife; H. tells her to cook, pours out the broth, the horn grows, the fortune teller turns him into C.; stepmother and H. are executed]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 10:96-100; Dungans (Ningxia) [Hasan's ancestral treasure is a copper axe with a silver handle; he has five daughters; when a twin (i.e. fifth and fourth daughters) was born, his mother died; trying to rip off flowers for daughters, H. dropped his ax into the garden of poor young man Shelengge (it's down the slope, around the cliff); he gave his ax, asked his daughter H. to marry; the evil elders refuse, the kindest agrees; they are good they live; the fourth sister, who is single, is jealous; calls the eldest to the river, asks why she looks older than her sister; she replies that her clothes are worse; the fourth suggests changing clothes, to check, she pushes the fifth into the water, replaces it; a lotus grows in the water; the imaginary wife pulls it out, throws it into the fire; pouring ash, S. finds a peach in it; (further page skip; obviously, the wife revived, liar punished)]: Shujang Li, Luckert 1994:340-343.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [the gentleman does not want the son to marry the daughter of a poor man; the hero and heroine are running out of provisions on the way; the hero goes to Karata Khan to ask for provisions, leaving the bride for a birch tree by the river; the khan's maid sees the reflection of a beauty, takes it for her own, complains that she is so beautiful alone; the girl on the birch tree laughs; the maid deceives her, pretends to be her; the heroine escapes, catches up with the hero and the imaginary bride, turning into a cuckoo, a flower, a birch tree; the false bride asks to pick a flower, shoot a cuckoo, cut down a birch tree, but every time they approach, they disappear; the absence of the hero, the heroine comes to his house, takes revenge on her rival, takes her place; the khan sends her son to the hero's house for a maid; seeing a beautiful woman instead of a maid, the khan's son wants to take her away; the khan invites the hero to himself, gives difficult tasks; the hero, with the help of his wife, does everything, takes half of the khan's wealth according to the condition]: Demchinova 2003:157-158; Tuvans [from Thoven-Tazha ("tazhy" - Tsarevich) wife Aldyn -dangyna and Humush-dangyna ("golden" and "silver"); they leave him food but leave; the sage explains that HT is destined to live with Chechen-Nogaan, "born in a flower", she is in the east overseas; they cry by the sea two geese, now a water rat will come out and eat them; the rat swallows TX, he rips it open with a knife, comes out; the goose carries TX across the sea; he pulls out a golden flower in the clearing, the goose carries it back, where his horse was resting; at night, the albys (werewolf) stole a flower, threw it into the river, turned into a girl herself; he married her, but lost his luck, only the Koge-Shagaan horse remained; HE came to the old woman, she found a flower, he turned into a girl, she grew up quickly, TX took her; she gave birth; the eldest wife killed the child, said that the mother killed him herself; ordered her to be taken to the ends of the earth in a sack; slandered by CHN: let her head become taiga, her tears become streams, her bones a scree of stone, her eyes two black crows, they will tell TX the truth; T comes, eats herbs and berries in the taiga; crows tell everything; under a rock tent, ChN in it; she gives a gun; let the werewolf shoot at EX, we must fall and laugh; the werewolf will also want a funny bullet; TX kills the werewolf, CHN comes back]: Hadahane 1984:66-71; the Mongors : Todayeva 1973, No. 11 [the youngest of three daughters asks her father to bring a flower; at Shalangor's house, an old man cuts flowers with an ax, the ax rolls away; S. orders to give his daughter for the ax and flowers; the youngest agrees tells Sh. to make the way to her house, spread felt, S. fulfills all the conditions, marries; older sisters envy the younger; the youngest has a silver stick, the eldest has a wooden stick, the eldest offers to throw them in the river, the silver sinks, the eldest suggests holding the youngest by the legs so that she takes the stick out of the bottom, drowns her sister, puts on her clothes, says S. that her face has become speckled because of the peas attached to him, the voice is rough because of singing; the bird falls on S.'s shoulder, who puts her in a cage; the imaginary wife kills, buries the bird; thorns grow, scratch the imaginary wife; she burns them, the smoke blinds her eyes, she falls into the river; smoke turns into a real wife, S. lives well with her]: 299-302; Jugui et al. 2012 [a man has two wives; the first is beautiful, the second Bodurijinsuu is ugly; when both go to lodashi with her husband, the people they meet talk about this; the mother-in-law asks the daughters-in-law to bring water; B. tells the youngest to enter the river to direct the current to the shore, and she will collect water; the youngest drowns, turns into a lark; flies over husband; he tells him to sit on his left shoulder if the lark is tied to him; the lark sits down; he brings him home, the lark bites B.; she kills him, he turns into black buckthorn; B. cuts down and burns her, the ash turns into baked bread; the mother of the deceased comes to take the fire, finds this bread, brings it to her place, a piece of bread becomes a young woman again; they live poor, but the daughter tells her mother invite B. and her husband to visit; B. agrees if they spread felt between their homes (the daughter sprinkles straw, it turns into felt); if they put feeders and horse riding for the horses (the daughter is all over again does); tells her husband about what happened, reunites with him (B. is no longer mentioned)]: 77-79.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Sherkal dialect) [Imi-Khyty came to a woman, married her, lived with her, then put her in his bag, went back; looked into his aunt's house - she has the only one left a spark, the house completely fell apart; he called out to her, theta glad; he threw a sliver behind his back, a house appeared; he took out his wife, who told her to shake out two belts, they turned into a barn and a house; one day my aunt and wife were gone animal skins are taken away; THEY come to the city where the Heartless Tsar (CBS) lives; they were swallowed by a mare, born a foal with golden hooves; the wife of the CBS orders to kill the foal; the aunt picked up a piece meat, threw, a birch tree grew gold; the wife tells me to cut down, my aunt picked up a chip, threw it, she became a golden goose on the pond; the wife tells me to kill, but not to catch the goose; he got to the clothes of the CBS, became a man, put on his shell, chopped it down, burned it; when the age of puppets comes, let there be no such evil, when the age (people) with the umbilical cord comes, let there be no such evil spirits! THEY were chopped down by the city of the CBS, the aunt asks for his wife to be spared; THEY returned home, taking his wife and aunt]: Steinitz 2004, No. 8:57-69.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (Verkhoyansky; =Ergis 1964, No. 51:172-177) [a short old woman (Ergis: old Bayberikaen) with five cows brought horsetail with five shoots from the field, puts it under her pillow, it turns into a girl, her body is transparent (through the dress you can see the body, through the body of the bone, through the bones of the brain); Harah Haana Harzhit-Bergen's son (Ergis: Haardyt Bergen) takes her as his wife, giving a lot of cattle in dowry; takes her home, hunts foxes, tells you to go along the road where the skin of a lynx, a sable is hanged, not to go where the bear's skin is; she forgot, went where the bear's skin is, a devil's daughter with one leg, one hand, one eye puts on her skin; kings blow their nose in HB's house (?) , everyone disgust (Ergis: green beads fell in her husband's house, where she blew her nose, where she stepped, gray ermines ran, everyone was disgusted); only red skin-haired sables run; old woman finds horsetail, brings her home, he turns into the same girl; tells her what happened to her (the dog dragged her heart and lungs, left her, and horsetail grew there); the horse tells HB's father about what happened; says that if his son does not take her Ayyi mistress (revived from horsetail) again, she will complain to Ürüng Ayyi Toyona (White Creator Master); the son should be kept in for 30 days running water, then ventilated; the son himself tells his father that the girl who arose from horsetail is one of the seven Siberian daughters of ÜAT's younger brother; her wings were cut off, sent to the ground; a false wife tied to a horse, scattered across the field, her body and blood became worms and reptiles; her true wife was returned; when she blows her nose, expensive kings fall, sables run when she steps]: Khudyakov 1890, No. 4:80-89; in similar Yakut texts, the motive for turning the remains of the deceased girl into horsetail and her revival also into Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:136-143; Ergis 1964, No. 50 (central, 4th Malzhagarsky Nasleg of Khangalassky ulus) [=Ergis 1967b, No. 183], 51 (Verkhoyansky): 161-166, 172-177; Ergis 1967b, No. 183, 184 (summary of several texts, including archival ones): 207; 1974:223-224.

Japan. Ryukyu Islands (northern) [(5 versions); for help in trouble, a person promises one of his daughters to marry a stranger (cannibal, snake); the youngest agrees; throws mustard seed along the way; happy in married; sister comes when mustard is in bloom, jealous; kills her at the spring, takes her form; the victim turns into a bird (tree); burned, a gold ball is found in the coals, it jumps into the eyes sisters, blinding her; turns into a weaver when not looked at; (1) each sister proves that she is a real wife, cooks; (2) husband complains that the eel is salted or raw, real the wife says that he pretends to distinguish raw from cooked, and cannot tell the difference between a real wife and a false one; the real one takes its place, the false from shame crawls under the stone, turns into an insect]: Ikeda 1971, 408A: 99; Japanese [I. Childless spouses want a child, a wife catches a melon in the river, a girl named Uriko Hime (Princess Melon) inside; the couple goes to buy her wedding dress, they tell me not to let the cannibal Amanojaku into the house. II. She persuades W. to let her in, ties her to a persimmon in the garden or kills her, takes her form; W. turns into a bird; A. eats greedily, does not know how to eat, or feeds the couple with W. III. During the wedding process, W. or Bird-W., tied to a tree, talks about what happened. IV. A. is killed, her blood stains the roots of the millet, W. takes its place; or A. runs away, shouting to the couple that W.'s bones are under the tree]: Ikeda 1971, No. 408B: 100.

SV Asia. Russified, probably tundra yukaghirs [an old woman brings home a blade of grass, she turns into a girl; her tears are pearls, laughter is precious stones, sables and martens fall out of her sleeves, foxes; a young man marries her, takes her home; she is thirsty, he makes ice-holes, but all the lakes are dry; dogs drag her sledge to Yagishna's house; there she falls into a deep dungeon; I. promises to release her if she gives her clothes; when I wear them, I take her form and come to my husband; he is angry that she does not drink the water he has hardly obtained; at home, only one crooked bead falls from her face; she gives birth to a son, lets him suck not her chest, but her left heel; her husband in anger takes her back to the old woman; the girl gets out of the dungeon on a mountain of corpses, I send wolves and bears at her, who kill her; yellowish grass grows out of blood, the old woman brings a blade of grass back into the house, the girl revives from it; the husband recognizes his wife, kills I. with arrows]: Bogoras 1918, No. 6:52-54.