K84. Sisters married to animals, ATU 552.1.

(.11.) .13.-.17.27.-.33.35.36.38.

The young man gives his sisters for the first to come to marry. They are animals or demons who then usually help him.

(Mbundu), Arabs of Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sicilians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Italians (Tuscany? , Campania, Basilicata, Calabria), Irish, French, Bretons, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms, Swabia, Austria), Arameans, Yemeni Arabs, Palestine, Iraq, Mehri, Socotra, Hungarians, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Romanians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Tula, Kursk, Orlovskaya, Ryazan ), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Volyn, Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Podolia, Poltava, Ugric Russia), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Nogais, Abkhazians, Adygs, Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Avars, Dargins, Swans, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Uzbeks, Kafirs (Kati), Norwegians, Danes, Eastern and Western Sami, Latvians, Lithuanians, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Lutsies, Estonians, Komi, Udmurts, Chuvash, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Mansi, Northern Khanty, Far Eastern Evenks, Evens, Japanese.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Probably recent European borrowing. Mbundu [parents pass off their eldest daughter Luanda as King of Birds, middle Mukaji as King of Antelopes, youngest Mbeji as King of Fish; wife gives birth to a boy; peers tease him for being married to animals; the young man goes to look for them, is well received, the sons-in-law give her a feather, a bunch of wool, scales; the Serpent King kidnapped the daughter of the king of Angola; the young man must return her or will be executed; birds, antelopes, fish show the road; the kidnapped says that the death of the King of Snakes is in a bird, that in a cage, in a stone, a stone at the bottom of the sea; fish take out a stone, antelopes break it, birds kill a bird; the young man marries the rescued one]: Nikolaeva 1975:53-60).

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 552A: 311.

North Africa. Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 552, 552A: 309-311

Southern Europe. Spaniards [{Catalan text with few one-story Castilian recordings}]: Camarena, Chevallier 1995, No. 552A: 527-533; Portuguese: Braga 2002 (Algarve) [ The woman has three daughters; the eldest went to the river, saw a carnation in the water, reached for her and disappeared; the same was the middle one (rose), the youngest (jasmine); the woman was crying, she had a son; he grew up and asked why does the mother cry every now and then; when he found out what was going on, he went in search; three guys are fighting over his father's inheritance: speeding boots, an invisible hat that opens all doors with a key; the young man threw a stone, suggested the three race, the fastest will get items; he put on his boots himself, took the key and hat, told the boots to be where his older sister is; she is happy in the castle; her husband arrives in uniform birds, then becomes a man; gives her brother a pen to call for help from the king of birds; the same with her middle sister (the king of fish, gives scales); but the youngest is at the mercy of an old monster, he starves her and keeps her in a dark cave, seeking consent to become his wife; his brother advised his sister to agree to the condition that the old man tell him what his life was like; she was in an egg in a dove, and a dove in an iron chest at the bottom of the sea; the king of fish called them together, the sardine was the last: it was crushed by an iron chest; the fish brought it, the young man opened it with his key; the dove flew out, the king of birds told the birds to find it; another dove said that A long-missing friend flew to her; the young man got a dove, took an egg, told his boots to take it to the monster's cave, broke the egg on his head; at the same moment, a spell fell over the husbands of the two older sisters , they became human; the monster's treasures went to the youngest]: 117-121; Cardigos 2006, No. 552 [in order not to be in danger or for money, a person gives three daughters to three different animals (giants); brother girls come to each of their sons-in-law and see them in human form; each gives him fur, a feather, etc., to summon if necessary; they help him save the princess stolen by the monster]: 138-139; Catalans (incl. Mallorca, but there are few records) [the poor man gives three daughters to different animals that pay him; he remarries himself; sons-in-law help his son destroy the witch who bewitched them and turn into Princes]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 552:120-121; Italians (Basilicata, Calabria): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 552; Italians (Basilicata) [dying, the king tells his son to pass three sisters off as the first, whoever marries is a swineherd, a poultry farmer and a gravedigger; the young king also decides to find a bride, calls out to the old woman, who tells him to look for the beautiful Fiorita; he consistently comes to three luxurious castles, theirs the owners are the husbands of his sisters; the first gives pork bristles, the second gives feathers, and the third gives a human bone; the younger sister sent to the king, Father F.; the king orders to eat apples filled with the basement overnight (the young man threw the bristles, the pigs ate apples); on the wedding night, put F. to sleep with birds singing (feathers are birds); let the child be born tomorrow, say "dad" and "mother" (threw a bone, it turned into child); the king gave the crown to his son-in-law]: Calvino 2017, No. 133:590-593 (=Crane 1885, No. 13:61-68; transfer to Kotrelev 1991:131-134); Italians: Basile 2018 (Naples) []: 382-389; Crane 1885, No. 13 ( Basilicata) [when he dies, the king tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first he meets; he passes them off as a swineherd, a birdsman, a gravedigger; calls out to the old woman, who advises to look for the lovely Fiorita; Queen He consistently comes to three sisters, they live in palaces; sons-in-law give bristles, feathers, and a human bone; the gravedigger's wife sends them to an old woman living near Fiorita's palace; Father King F. requires 1) eat the pears and apples that fill the room overnight (the young man calls pigs), 2) on the wedding night to put his wife to sleep with birds singing (calls birds), 3) a child should be born tomorrow and immediately speak (an abandoned bone turns into a child); Father F. gives his son-in-law a crown]: 61-68 (=Kotrelev 1991:131-134); Knust 1866, No. 2 (Tuscany?) [when he dies, the king tells his son Ferdinand to give his three sisters to be the first to marry them; they are a chimney sweep, tinker, umbrella seller (Regenschirmtrödler); F. plays with golden balls; one fell the old woman in the basket, there was an egg, it broke; the old woman curses F. {apparently, he wants him to marry Margarita, but either the narrator missed this episode or the author did not record it}; F. goes to look for the beautiful Margarita, consistently visits his sisters; they are married to wizards, everyone gives a nut (of a different kind, the last one is an almond); the younger sister gives a flint and a candle; her husband says that old woman is M.'s mother, shows the way to the palace, teaches what to do; the old woman tells you to disassemble different varieties of grain overnight; F. breaks a nut, ants in it, they do their work; the next evening, eat 300 pounds of crackers per night (mice eat from the second nut); on the third evening, eat 30 pigs (almond eagles ate); on the fourth evening, the old woman leaves F. and M. in the bedroom: by morning, a son should be born to greet his grandmother; F. carves a fire, lights a candle, a boy appears; in the morning an old woman dies, and the boy disappears as soon as the candle burns out]: 384-386; Sicilians [when he dies, the king tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first to meet when in the bush The buds will open; he passes them off as kings of crows, wild animals, birds; an old woman bothers the young king, pushes her; she tells him to lose his peace until he finds Cardia; the king goes to searches, gets to her older sister; she first hides him from her husband; the husband gives almonds; the middle husband gives a chestnut, the youngest is a nut; explains that K. from the witch, she will require K. to know among many girls, K. will seven veils; the witch demands that there be no heaps of beans by morning; almond crows eat; the basement of corpses is eaten by chestnut animals; fill mattresses with feathers - walnut birds fill; the king recognizes K. by seven veils; the witch demands that their child call her grandmother by morning; in the morning K. shows the doll and the king cuts off the witch's head; returns home with his wife]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 26.

Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [the woodcutter gives three daughters to the king of ravens, the king of sheep, and the king of salmon (all of them turned princes); the wife is desperate; to calm her down, he promises money to St. Virgo, if a son is born; the son has grown up, has gone to school, he is called the son of a human seller; he is insulted, goes in search of sisters; he comes to his sons-in-law; they give him their feather, wool, scales; he asks Get a chest from the bottom of the sea, break the king of sheep, grab the king of ravens, grab the partridge that has flown out; when he breaks a partridge egg, his sons-in-law take on a human form]: Delarue, Tenè ; se 1964, No. 552A: 365-365; the Bretons [Malo's three sisters were kidnapped by three giants and his father died; M. went on a journey, chased the silver hare, who sent him to his older sister; her husband brought several dead people; when he found out that his wife's brother came, he was kind to him; he has been chasing this hare for 500 years; gives a whistle to call him for help; the same middle sister's husband, he was chasing a hare 700 years old, a whistle made of a bird's beak; now the hare directs his younger sister's husband to the castle; he has been chasing the hare for more than 1000 years, giving tinder from gilded hair; the hare ran across the water, and M. entered the old shoemaker's hut; he says that the hare is a Persian princess, to whom he brings new shoes every day; gives M. an invisible cloak, puts it on his back, carries him by air to the palace; M. entered princess and she gladly left it in her room; wedding; princess gives M. the keys to all rooms, but does not tell him to enter one room; when M. finally unlocked her, the devil came out to pick up the princess ; M. asked for a respite until 10 am; whistled on the whistle, monsters sent by his older sister's husband attacked the devil; the next morning, the middle, then the youngest; the devil was shackled and burned in the fire; he released when he signed a paper in blood stating that he did not claim M.'s wife]: Luzel 1887 (3), No. 1:181-202; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms): Uther 2004 (1), No. 552:322-323; Germans (Swabia) [ When they die, the king orders his three daughters to marry in 6 years, and let his son see; three years later, Thunder, Lightning and Wind will marry them; after waiting for the young king to be away from the castle, they took them away all three sisters; the king went in search; reaches Lightning Castle, his older sister is married to him; after staying there for 8 days, he comes to Thunder Castle; then to the Wind; the king chases a wonderful deer while hunting , got lost; in the meadow, a shepherd with sheep explained that it was not a deer, but the Wind, the husband of the king's younger sister; gave a ram to give it to the king of wolves, otherwise the wolves would eat; the king of wolves let him through years and promised to help; fish are beating at the lake shore, the king let it into the water, promised to help; the king helped the hornet fly up - promised to help; at the edge of the witch in the house, fed it; she is Lightning's mother, Thunder and Wind; they came in the evening, the king pretended to be asleep, overheard their conversation; witch: the king must be given impossible assignments, otherwise he would have power over us; three horses should herd three nights (this is what it is sons of the witch); on the first night they ran into the forest (the wolves were found and brought), on the second night they hid in the water (they brought the fish), on the third night in the clouds (they brought the hornets); then the witch gave the king more one horse with 4 heads; a voice from heaven: chop them off, then you will free the sisters; then a beautiful horse appeared in place of the 4-headed one; the king came to the sisters on it, they took the treasures from the three castles and all four have returned home]: Meier 1852, No. 6:29-39; Germans (Austria) [the king bequeaths three sons to give their three sisters as the first to ask; they are given to strangers; brothers go in search; at night, the cloud almost extinguishes the fire twice, and when it is his younger brother's turn, it extinguishes it altogether; he goes to look for fire, comes to the giants; they tell them to help get the three royal daughters; the young man kills giants one by one, brothers marry queens; the king does not order to take his wife with him: she will be immediately kidnapped by a white knight; the young man leaves with his wife, the white knight takes her away; the young man consistently comes to his sisters, they are married to three-, six-, nine-headed dragons; the latter summons animals, only a lame fox knows the way; the kidnapped wife explains that the white knight has a fast horse; you must hire him mother, ask for a bridle and a foal as a reward; on the way, the young man saved the fish, ants, bandaged the fox's leg; the old woman tells three mares to herd three nights; fish, ants, fox help (you need to throw a bridle on three fish, three ants, a basket of three eggs are mares); the young man gets a bridle and a foal; he is weak, tells him to let him get drunk, strong in the morning; the young man takes his wife (the foal asks if to run like the wind or as a thought); the white knight's horse cannot catch up, throws off the rider; the sisters' husbands have taken human form]: Cerf 1992:183-192; Irish [weaver and daughter go for firewood; the rider asks to give him his daughter, offers as much gold as the girl weighs; the weaver agrees, tells his wife that the daughter is missing; the same with the second, with the third daughter, they give silver and copper for them; weaver He buries treasures, tells the truth to his wife; a son is born; at school he learns about the fate of his sisters, goes to look for them; shares bread with a red-haired man; he gives a sword of sharpness, a fabric of abundance, a cape of darkness (i.e. invincible sword, magic tablecloth, invisible cape); the young man consistently comes to his sisters; their husbands, a ram, a salmon, an eagle, take the form of people at night; give the young man a piece of wool, a piece of fin, feather; a young man comes to a beauty kidnapped by an ogre giant, seriously injures him; a giant tells the beauty that his life is in a chest at the bottom of the sea, there is a duck in it, an egg in it; salmon take out the chest, his rams smash, eagles kill a duck; beauty breaks an egg, a giant dies, a young man marries a kidnapped man, takes the giant's treasures, visits sisters, brings his wife home, returns magic objects a red-haired man; he says he's the brother of a ram, salmon and an eagle]: Curtin 1975:26-36.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [when dying, the sultan orders his three sons to give three sisters for three dervishes who will come to guard his grave; only the youngest guards, deyu descends from the black cloud, opens the grave , the young man cuts off his head, cuts him off, hides his lips, eyes, nose, takes the deva mare to his nanny; the same for the next two nights (the devil descends from the red, from the white cloud); the neighboring sultan gives three daughters, tells them to be taken out of a deep hole, the young man takes the girls three times on horseback and dressed as devas at a gallop, leaves them with a nanny; gives the eldest two to his brothers; during the wedding, the youngest deva takes the bride away; the young man goes to look for her, consistently finds himself with his sisters and their dervish husbands; the latter gives 7 pairs of iron shoes to reach the kidnapped; dev married the local king; the old woman promises to help young man; disguised as a girl, he enters the kidnapped; pulls out a sea mare, flies away with his wife in it; wedding again, stalker dev killed]: Stevens 2006, No. 47:275-286; Arameans [merchant gives three daughters for three giants; gets sick; to recover, you need dancing pears, singing apples, jumping quinces; three sons go to get them, and leave their seals at the fork in the road; younger Adi-bek meets an old man; he teaches him how to catch a sea horse, cross the sea, the Black Country, the Gorky River; there will be hay in front of the lion, meat in front of the donkey, it must be changed; in the nightingale Bulbul castle- Khazara talking apple trees, pears, quince; beautiful there, she must be kissed; A. returns with fruits, beautiful (and obviously with a nightingale); finds and buys older brothers; they agree that he, after giving them 20 lire each, put stamps on their thigh; A. climbs into the well to get water, the brothers cut off the rope, carry the fruits (and the nightingale); A. gets out of the well, visits his sisters with his wife; the first two husbands sisters show the way to the third, who gives an invincible fiery sword; unrecognized A. conquers his father's kingdom; when he sees him, the nightingale stops crying, starts singing again, apples, pears, quinces began to sing, dance, jump; A. shows his marks on the brothers' hips; agrees to pardon them]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:287-294; Nowak 1969, No. 135 [chasing the gazelle, the prince finds himself in the castle, the gazelle turns into a girl;]: 147-148; Arabs of Palestine, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 552, 552A: 309-310; Mehri: Müller 1909, No. 25 [three human sisters married a bird, an ant, genie; he goes to marry the daughter of sunshine (Sonnenblitz); a bird and an ant give a pearl; thanks to them, a man flew in the form of a bird, entered the palace as an ant; the girl's father: the groom must spend the night indoors with an elephant that kills people; a man turns into an ant, climbed into an elephant's trunk, killed it; recognize the bride among many girls; she warns that she will have on her hand stamped pattern (Siegelring); the sultan orders to build a house overnight; a man calls a genie brother-in-law, who builds; the sultan gives man a daughter and slaves], 42 [three sisters of a man married a bird, an ant, genie; he goes to marry the daughter of sunshine (Sonnenblitz); the bird gives a ring, an ant gives a pearl; if you take it in your mouth, you will become a bird, an ant; a man entered the palace as an ant; the girl's father: the groom must spend the night indoors with an elephant that kills people; a man turns into an ant, climbs into an elephant's trunk, kills him; recognize the bride among 100 girls; he makes a mistake for the first time, the second time guesses; gets a wife; father-in-law tells me to build a house overnight; a man calls a genie brother-in-law, genies build; man and wife run away; meet old Kašmêt, she refuses to give them a drink; another old woman; a slave named "sea of darkness", they kill her, return home]: 54-58, 112-116; Stroomer 1999, No. 37 [when the dates are almost ripe, someone ripped them off; soothsayer to the owner: these are three Ginny girls, they they come to swim, we must hide their clothes; the man hides, returns two, takes the third away, takes them as wives; gives three sisters to marry three genies who have come for them; leaves, leaving his wife in care mother; it was a holiday, people asked this man's wife to dance too; she says she needs her clothes for this; people persuaded her mother-in-law to give clothes; the woman danced and flew away; people they buried a lamb, told the returning husband that his wife was dead; but he opened the grave, made his mother tell them everything; soothsayer: feed brown, black, white camels for three years; then don't give them eat; the one who jumped over the fence will take you; jumped over the brown one; take it to the sunrise until she is exhausted; then three days on foot; every day she stays with her sisters, three genies give hair - they will come to the rescue; he sees his wife, she opens it to her father after he has promised not to cause harm; the wife's father demands: drink the stream, run from the bowl of water to the mountain and back without splashing it, eat two camels; genies perform everything, man gets wife]: 99-104; Socotra [when he dies, the father tells his son to give four sisters to four brothers who will successively come to marry: eldest for elder, etc.; tells you to dig where camels stand; the servant remains with the young man; the sisters are presented as those who have come; the servant reminds you to dig up a treasure; they find a jug, a live chicken in it, they they sell it at the bazaar; the servant returns and when the person who bought the chicken cuts it, asks for his stomach; it contains Solomon's ring; the servant gives it to the young man, tells him not to lose it; then asks for it, puts the young man in jail On his back, he flies to his sons-in-law with the help of a ring; they promise to help if the ring is stolen; the young man gives the ring to the woman who has come; she tells her house to rise and stay between heaven and earth; when she learns about this, the servant dies, and the young man comes to his sons-in-law; the eldest refers to the next in seniority, etc., the youngest asks for 5 days of delay; sends birds; everyone returned after 5 days without finding the ring, one returned Seven days later, I found it; flew up with the mouse, which tickled the nostril of the sleeper with its tail, who had a ring in his nose, he sneezed, spit out the ring, the mouse brought it to the bird, they went down; the bird was made for it king of birds, and mice were allowed to do whatever they want in the house]: Müller 1905, No. 1:45-50.

The Balkans. Hungarians [the king is unhappy that he has daughters, not sons; "If only the devils took them away"; the devils took all three; the queen gave birth to three sons; the king is already old, the sons went for rejuvenating water; the elders are in no hurry, the youngest rides alone; the old man gives a flying horse and directs his sisters to their husbands; the first gives an invisibility cloak for promising to bring rejuvenating water, then wants pick it up, but the prince is far away; the second is a ring that wakes up at the right time; the third is a self-made sword; the first gives copper, the second gives silver, the third is gold coins; the prince met with the queen of the fairies and obtained water ; helper hermit and father are younger;]: Jones, Kropf 1889:288-; Slovenes, Croats: Uther 2004 (1), No. 552:322-323; Romanians []: Bîrlea 1966:439-440; Moldovans [ Tsarevich Fat-Frumos; when he dies, the king orders him to pass off three sisters as snakes that will come for them; FF gave the snakes 3, 6, 12 heads; FF finds a portrait of Ilyana Rosolyana in one of the rooms; took it after passing copper forest, came to the elder sister's copper palace; her serpent husband gave him strength; the same with his middle, older sister (silver, golden forest and palace); the eldest husband tells him to go to Okha; he gave two cornflowers turn into a fly and back; 24 IR brothers must be avoided; FF got in, moved it twice, turned off the lamps a third time, took IR's oath with her three horses to become his husband; she gave the keys to all the rooms forbid entering one; FF unlocked the lock, there is a snake chained with 24 heads; asks for hay and water; ate, drank, fell off the chain, then ate a herd of oxen and 12 barns of bread, tells FF to get out; horse the snake asks whether to jump like a thought or like the wind; as a thought; IR took away the serpent from the silver forest; next time from the copper one; this time the older sister's husband gave FF 25 snake powers, and the snake 24; FF a snake won and killed; during the struggle, IR gave wine and bread to FF, not a snake; wedding]: Botezat 1981:209-217; Bulgarians [before death, the father tells his sons to pass off the sisters as the first to come to marry them; at the insistence of his younger brother, they do so (suitors Eagle, Ant, Samodious, Chalas); the youngest visits his sisters, receives three feathers from his sons-in-law with which he can summon them; with their help he marries a beautiful woman or a hero; with the help of his sons-in-law, returns his wife kidnapped by a monster (dwarf, arap, etc.)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 552A: 205; Serbs [dying, father orders three sons to extradite three sons sisters for the first to come for them; the elders are against them, the youngest gives the sisters to the Unknown Force every time; the brothers go to look for them; every night the younger one kills the dragon coming out of the lake, cuts off, hides his ears; the youngest goes to look for fire, 9 giants eat human meat by the fire; the young man pretends to eat too; pretends to help them enter the city, kills one at a time; nailed a snake crawling to bite the princess with a knife ; marries her; the king does not order to unlock the ninth room, the young man unlocks, Bash-Celik, shackled there, promises three more life for water, breaks his chains, takes the prince's wife; he goes to look for her comes to his sisters, they are married to Tsar Zmeev, Sokolov, Orlov; everyone gives a pen (if you burn it, he will come to the rescue); the prince takes his wife three times, the BC catches up with him each time, takes away the gift of three lives ; for the fourth time, his sisters' husbands revive him; the kidnapped finds out where the life of the warhead (a bird in the fox's top, that's in the mountain); snakes, eagles, falcons catch a bird, the warhead dies, the prince returns his wife]: Karadzic 1856 Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:145-164; Bosnians: Arkhipova 1962 [when he dies, the father tells three brothers to pass off three sisters as the first ones to come for them; strangers take the sisters away; the brothers go to look for them, They find a giant who tells them to make a fire before they return, they cannot, he chained them to a pole; the mother sees a grain of pepper, asks God for a fourth son, even if he is just as small; The pepper is born, tells him to forge a huge iron club; the giant makes a fire with his flint, the giant becomes his slave; P. wins, takes giants with two and three heads as servants; each cooks queues, the dwarf takes food; P. protected the dwarf's beard in a split beech tree; he tore off his beard, went underground; P. goes down, there are three girls with a golden loom, chickens, herd, hoop; they tell them to kill their dwarf brother with a wooden sword; the servants pick up the girls, cut off the rope; P. comes to the spring, where the dragon gives water in exchange for the girls, the king's daughter's turn; P. falls asleep, wakes up from the girl's tears, kills the dragon, cuts off his ears; the arap tells the king that he killed the dragon, P. shows his ears, the arapa is executed; the king advises saving the chicks of a giant bird from the dragon; the chicks tell their mother that P. did not attack them, but killed the dragon; the mother bird tells them to collect meat, bread, water, feed it on the way to the upper world; P. cuts off the last piece of P. from the thigh, the bird regurgitates it, puts it back; P. kills giants, marries and gives princesses to brothers]: 30-42; Schütz 1960, No. 4 [when a father dies, tells his three sons to give their three sisters to be the first to come for them; the elders do not go to give their sisters to strangers, the younger Mula-Mustafa gives them; the brothers go to look for them; they spend the night by the lake, the older brother guards the first night, a dragon crawls out of the lake, the young man cuts off his head, cuts off his ears, head and the body throws into the lake; on the second night, the same middle brother, a two-headed dragon; on the third MM, a three-headed dragon; when he threw his body into the lake, a wave flooded the fire; MM sees fire in the distance, comes to the fire of giants; those they will fire if MM kills the sultan in Istanbul; the giant takes MM to the Sultan's chambers, but MM kills the giant himself, takes the Sultan's ring, leaves; the awakened sultan tells you to find his savior, for this is to arrange inns where to ask visitors about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a courtyard, tell them what happened to them, get to know each other; the sultan passes his daughter off as MM; after leaving, orders not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the Sultan's daughter); MM goes in search; arrives at the tower, where the older sister is married to the king of ravens; raven sends to her middle sister, she after the king of dragons, that to the youngest for the king of eagles; the king of eagles convenes eagles, only one old patient can deliver MM to AP, but first she must swim in living water, she between rocks that open once a year; MM feeds the eagle with rams, the eagle rejuvenates before the rocks slam shut; AP arrives on a three-legged horse; in his absence, MM negotiates with his wife to she found out what AP's life is like; he says that in a broom, in a pipe, in a mug; MM tells his wife to decorate them every time; AP admits that he is in a three-legged horse; who will kill a mare that comes out of the lake once a year and takes her foal, he will defeat him; he did not kill the mare himself, but wounded the foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took the foal, his wife gave him cow milk, which became a powerful horse; MM killed AP, on a three-horse imprisoned his wife, returned with her to the Sultan]: 31-48; Montenegrins []: Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (1): 41-70; Greeks: Legrand 1881 [father tells three sons to pray at his grave for three nights and give him away his three sisters for the first to marry them; after reprimanding a prayer, the elder returns to the house; at this time a strange-looking man comes, almost a freak; only the younger brother insists on giving him his sister; the same applies to the middle brother and middle sister; a woman comes to the youngest with two balls of thread, black and white; it depends on her whether it is night or day; the young man asks to unwind the black thread more slowly so that He had time to finish reading the prayer before dawn; she refused; then he tied it to a tree, and went to the place where the light appeared; there were 40 dragons around a huge boiling pot; the young man picked it up and put it back; they ask for help to steal the princess; when he climbs the tower, the young man tells the dragons to go up one at a time and kills each one; kissed the princess in his bedroom and exchanged rings with her; returned home, untying the mistress of night and day; to identify the hero who killed dragons, the king tells everyone to come and talk about his life; the princess recognizes the young man and her ring; the wedding; the young man noticed in his wife's hair golden key; opened the locked door with them, pulled the ring, a dark figure fell off it and took the princess away; the young man went in search; came to his older sister's castle; her husband called the birds, but only the lame eagle knew where the sorcerer's castle was and carried the young man there; taking the princess, they flew back, but the sorcerer, to whom his flying horse tells everything, caught up with them, took the princess and cut the young man in half; the eagle brought halves, his sister's husband revived it with live water; the young man came to his middle sister; her husband explains that it is necessary to get the same winged horse as the sorcerer's; the young man came to the mountain, tamed the horse, took his wife home; the sorcerer's horse could not catch up with them]: 145-160; Megas 1970, No. 34 [when the father dies, tells his three sons to marry their three sisters; the elders refuse, the youngest gives the sisters to the lame, one-eyed, beggar; comes to marry Beauty of the World to her father; he puts the groom in an underground cell for 40 days, so that he can then describe to him the navel of the earth; the young man finds a window, finds himself in another world, a maid brings him to his mistress, this is his older sister; she hides him; the drakos husband promises to break up his older brothers, but respects the younger one; when he finds out what is needed, he sends the young man to his middle-married brother to his sister, he is married to the youngest; he summons animals, they do not know; birds; a sick eagle, who was treated in three springs at the navel of the earth, says; the young man gives the princess the treasures brought by the eagle; wedding]: 93-99; Megas 2012, No. 304 [father tells his sons to guard his grave for three nights; or give three sisters first to marry them (cannibal, lion, eagle, or others); older brothers fall asleep Junior kills a many-headed monster; fights a doghead (many other episodes)]: 32-34.

Central Europe. Czechs: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000 [the king and queen are leaving, their son Vitek gives his sisters for the Sun, the Month, the Wind; goes to look for a bride when they see the magician's portrait; goes to his sons-in-law, those give a whip, a pipe, a ring, a bride to the fire king; with the help of a whip, V. grazes 12 stallions from the sorceress, milks cows, cools boiling milk with the help of the wind, bathes in it, gets a flying horse; the sorceress jumps into milk, cooks; in the fire king's castle she replaces her sword, takes the princess away from the fire; she tells her sword to kill her, otherwise she will kill her; he does it; wedding]: 297-305; Nemtsova 1978 [leaving , the king and queen tell son Yanko to look after his three sisters; Sun, Wind, Month come successively, ask sister Y. to marry, all three agree, leave home; the king is pleased that his daughters married kings; I go to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that everyone was defeated by the beautiful hero Ulyana; the same is on another field; I. enters the castle, changes my sword to the one that hangs on the wall and jumps; W. wins, she offers to live with her; when she leaves, gives keys, forbids her to enter room 13; I discovered, where the fire dragon is chained to the wall with three hoops; says that thirsty and asks for wine from the last barrel; after each jug he drinks, one hoop falls down; the dragon gives me life and takes W.; I. comes to the Sun, he does not know where W., refers to Month; Month to the Wind; he replies that the dragon makes W. wash clothes with steep boiling water; he, the Wind, tries to cool the boiling water; I take W.; the dragon's winged horse raises the alarm, but says that There is nowhere to hurry - we'll catch up; the dragon took W. and spared me, since he gave him one life; The wind reports that the witch has a dragon horse's brother overseas, who is faster than him; the Sun, the Month and the Wind give me. a peg (gold, silver, wooden) to call them for help; the wind drove to the witch, who offers to herd three horses - her horse daughters turned into pigeons and flew away, but the Wind brought them back and ordered them to put on bridles; the next day they turned into ducks, Month put a handkerchief into the lake, it dried up, I put on bridles again; on the third day, the horses turned into pine trees, the Sun began to burn them, they had to become horses again; The sun tells me to ask for a miserable oath as a reward; the witch tells me to milk the mares; the horse: call me before swimming in milk; the milk boiled, but the skate drew in the fever, I became even more beautiful; the witch also decided to become beautiful, but the skate released the heat and it cooked; I washed the skate, it became mighty, winged; I take W., the dragon jumps after me, the horse Y. tells my brother to throw off the dragon, the dragon fell into the abyss; I brought my wife to my parents and received the throne from my father]: 119-132; Slovaks [in the absence of the king and queen, their three daughters are married and taken away by the Sun King, the king of the Sun, the king of the Sun Winds and King of the Month; upon the return of his parents, Queen Janko goes to look for sisters; meets three times the place where people's bones lie, the skulls say that they were beaten by the beautiful hero Uliana; I. her palace, replaced by a sword hanging on the wall, fights W., who admits defeat and becomes his wife; when I leave, I allow me to open the doors of 12 rooms, forbids me to look into the thirteenth; he breaks the ban, sees the Dragon chained, he gives him wine three times, each time another shackle falls off the Dragon; after the first time, the Dragon gives me a second life, then another; after the third, he flies away, taking W.; I find sisters, the Sun King sends him to the King of the Month, that to the King of the Wind; he gives the horse that brings Me to the Dragon's Cave, I. takes W.; the Dragon's horse tells him that he will have time for an hour sleep and smoke for an hour, easily catches up with I., the Dragon takes one life from Me, takes W.; the same second time; the Dragon promises to tear the fugitives apart for the third time; the Wind King tells me to get the brother of that magical one the horse on which the Dragon rides; takes him across the sea to the witch; she tells three mares (this is her daughter) to herd three days, will kill him if he misses them; on the first day, the mares turn into pigeons, fly away; the king The wind makes them go down, gives me the magic harness to throw at them, the cabbage rolls become mares again; on the second day, the mares turn into ducks, the King of the Month dries the lake; on the third day mares turn into spruce trees, the Sun King sends heat, forcing them to regain their former appearance; advises the witch to reward a sick skate lying on a pile of manure; the witch tells them to milk mares bathe in their milk; the milk boils, the skate cools it, I. becomes handsome; the witch wants to be beautiful, to become the wife of I., the end returns the heat to the milk, the witch is cooked; on the way to the Dragon, the horse tells him to buy him, becomes a magnificent horse; I take W. takes W.; horse Y. shouts to the Dragon's horse that the brother should not chase his brother; he drops the Dragon, W. sits on the horse, they will come to Y.'s parents; holiday, J. gets the throne]: Nmcová 1970:150-163; Poles [three sisters marry animals; their brother goes to look for them; when he finds them, sons-in-law have a human form; each gives fur, pen, etc., with which they can be summoned to help; with the help of his sons-in-law, the young man saves the queen from the dragon or gets a beauty, a castle, wonderful objects, etc.; shatters enchanted sons-in-law]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 552:179; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Tula, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Volyn, Vostochnaya Slovakia, Galicia, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Podolia, Poltava, Ugric Russia), Belarusians [Sons-in-law animals: three girls are presented as falcon, eagle, crow (animals, rain, wind); sons-in-law help for your brother-in-law to get a beautiful wife]: SUS 1979, No. 552A=AA 552:156; Russians (Terevsky Bereg) []: Balashov 1970, No. 24:82-86; Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [Tsarevichi Semyon, Vasily, Ivan; everyone asks the father to allow one of the three sisters to ride; as soon as the brother turns away, the sister is stolen every time; the father went blind because of grief; S. traveled for a year, V. for two years, both returned with nothing; I. found all the sisters, them husbands Raven, Falcon and Hare; everyone gives the opportunity to call them if necessary; I. goes on to look for medicine for his father and his bride; Baba Yaga first swears, then gives water and feed, gives a diptera horse and a towel ("rags"), sends to another (four-winged horse), the other to the third (six-winged); she sends a king maiden to her niece; you have to jump over the wall without hitting the strings; that trio sleeps between two babysitters; "You know what to do"; "she sleeps in the middle, naked"; "he already knew what to do" (note: the episode where the hero collects living water was missed); on the way back, the horse hit the string the king maiden is chasing an eight-winged horse; each baba yaga calls her to the bathhouse; I. managed to cross the border; the king maiden sailed on 12 ships with two twin boys; when S., then V., the king, the girl tells the children that it is their uncle, not their father; takes I. with her; does not tell them to go into the same room; someone asks to remove the cross from the box; I. took it off, the devil got out, took his wife away; I. finds three times, takes it away, the devil takes him away, driving I. knee-deep into the ground; waist-deep; up to his throat; each time one of his sons-in-law pulls him out; then all three drove the devil into the box again, put a cross; I. and the king maiden still live, we will survive]: Balashov 1970, No. 65:220-226; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [when dying, father tells Ivan to marry three sisters first; these are Wind Vetrovich, Thunder Gromovich and the Bear Medvedovich; I. went on a journey; The bear brings to him, advises Elena the Beautiful, gives a self-shaking wallet, it has a railway and an express train; Thunder gives a ring, Wind gives a jug with 12 necks, both fulfill wishes; EP offers to lie on the bed against the wall, I. falls into the dungeon; I. creates electricity in the dungeon, plenty of food, arranges a holiday for the prisoners; EA swears that it will be his wife, if he gives her a jug; he gave it back, lay down against the wall again, failed, but took his train; ordered the EP to release prisoners, brings them home, lives in the palace]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:91-99; Russians (Olonetskaya, Petrozavodsk University, p. Kondopoga) []: Azadovsky 1934:357-368; Russians (Pskov) [when dying, the father tells his son Panteley to give three sisters as the first to marry; he gave, came to the copper kingdom, took his wife; wife tells you not to enter the building in the garden; P. went in, where a nine-headed snake boils in the resin; asks for a drop of water; P. dripped, the snake flew out and took away P.'s wife; he consistently comes to the sisters' husbands, this is Thunder, lightning (silver kingdom) and the bird Agei, the main bird over animals and fish (the golden kingdom); she gave a ball to follow him, and her feather to summon it in case of trouble; along the way P. shook two wolves, a fish and cancer, bees, they promised to help; P. drove home a snake, took his wife away; a blue westunok reports this to the snake; he asks his horse if we will catch up; horse: if you sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, that's it we'll have time anyway; the serpent took his wife, but forgave P. for releasing him; chopped him to pieces for the second time; the witch's grandmother burned the pen, the bird A. flew in, collected the pieces, sent two crows for the living and the dead with water, P. revived; first you need to know from the witch's grandmother where to get the same horse as the snake's; the witch's grandmother says that there is a witch more cunning than her; she turned her three daughters into mares; grandmother- the witch gave a ball, which would lead to the black girl, the shepherdess of Baba Ega; the girl explains that Baba Ega demands to herd her mares without losing her mares; whoever can, will take any foal; the girl gave a pipe to lure horses in the evening; the pipe helped twice; on the third day, Baba Ega threatens to kill horses if they return, but they were driven back by wolves, bees and pike with crayfish who promised T. their help; baba ega allows choose a foal; the girl teaches you to ask for the thinnest and most wool pud; the girl teaches the snake to kill a West dove first; the foal quickly got enough, took P. away from his wife; the snake caught up, but the horse killed him and his horse; P. and his wife returned home]: Smirnov 1917, No. 108:342-348; Russians (Kursk, Solntsevsky District) [Before his death, the father bequeathed his son to marry his sisters to anyone he married, to look for him a bride in the 29th kingdom. The brother gives three sisters for a train, potter and guide for a blind man. Then he goes to Kingdom 29, wants to give his horse a drink and sees a boy who looks like his sister, realizes that he is in a train's house, told his sister that he wants to marry beautiful Elena, the daughter of Tsar Dodon. Then, when she wants to get drunk, she meets her sister's daughter, finds herself in the potter's house, then she finds herself with her third son-in-law. Once in Kingdom 29, he sees Elena walking with her nanny and taking her away. The royal horse Polkan Polkanych catches up with Ivan and tears him apart, and returns the princess to the kingdom. The sons-in-law find Ivan, collect them piece by piece, sprinkle them with water brought by a crow, and he comes to life. They advise him to take away from a wolf who steals foals in the forest from a mare, a foal. He performs, the foal gives him three hairs from his mane so he can call him and goes to his mother for milk. A mare returns to Ivan, "from the mouth of the flame, fire from under his hooves", he carries Elena at night, Polkan Polkanych cannot catch up with him. Ivan marries a beautiful woman ("fulfilled his will")]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:85-87; Russians [when dying, Ivan Tsarevich's (I.) parents order his three sisters to be the first to marry; these are Sokol, Orel, Raven; I. goes to visit his sisters, meets Marya Morevna (M.), marries; she does not tell him to look into the closet; I. looks, there Koschey (K.) is in chains, asks for a drink; I. meets his sons-in-law, leaves them with a silver spoon, fork, snuffbox; I. takes M. away; K.'s horse tells him that we will have time to sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, we will still catch up; K. forgives I. twice, on the third cuts it into pieces, puts it in a barrel, throws it into the sea; the Eagle pulls it out, the Falcon and the Raven bring living and dead water, revive I.; M. learns that K.'s horse is from the mare on which Baba Yaga flies around the world every day; gives a handkerchief to cross the river of fire; I. does not touch chicks, honey, lion cubs; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd three times; birds, bees, lionesses drive scattered; the bee tells them to ride off on a lousy foal; I. makes a bridge with a handkerchief; Baba Yaga pursues, the bridge collapses, she dies; I.'s horse kills K., I. burns the body with his hoof; I. and M.'s wedding]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 159:376-382; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Tyachiv district, s. Dulova) [The tsar has three sons and a daughter, the eldest sons study well, the youngest Ivan Farmudz is stupid, Pepelyanik. The brothers decide to find out why their father has one eye crying and the other laughing. The oldest one comes first. The king reads, there is a saber on the table, he swings at his son, he runs away, the king throws his sword after him, and she pierces the door. It's the same with the middle son. When the IF enters, the king swings, and the IF puts his head on the table: the king has the right to kill him. The king reports that he was sold to an unclean man in his mother's womb. When he dies, the devils will smash his bones across seven powers, so one eye cries. But he hopes his sons will protect him, so the second one laughs. He tells you to cook 7 fathoms of firewood, dig a grave in 7 fathoms deep, sons spend the night near the grave and burn a fire, sabers in their hands, three snakes will arrive at night: at 9 o'clock - three-headed, at 10 - 6- head, at midnight - chapter 12. If someone comes for a sister, give it back. The king is dead, the brothers spend the night at the grave. The elders fall asleep. IF kills a 3-headed snake, blood almost flooded the sleepers. The IF puts logs under the heads of sleepy brothers. Kills the 6-headed, the blood almost flooded the sleepers, the IF seats sleepy brothers. A 12-headed serpent arrives. Ivan cuts 6 goals, then 6 more, but one always returns to the place. The IF pierces the snake's neck and presses it to the ground, the blood cools down, the head cannot grow. Blood flows like a river, and IF puts sleepy brothers standing still. The fire went out, the IF climbs the ash tree, the light is in the distance, the IF is walking, the forest is on the way, two women ask to judge who is older. It's Night and Day. The IF ties them to poles at a distance, tells them to remain silent until they return, otherwise they will cut off their heads. It comes to a fire of 300 fathoms of firewood, robbers (sprays) sleep around. The IF cuts off the stick, splits the end and pulls out the smut in a split, but the coal falls on the senior robber. The IF runs away with fire. The robbers wake up, the younger and middle do not see anything, the eldest gets up, his head rises above the trees, he sees the IF, steps several times, catches up with the IF, puts it in the palm of his hand, brings him to the fire, calls it an ant, promises to kill for stealing smut. IF calls himself the best thief in the world. The robber demands help to steal the king's daughter. The sun never shone on her, the wind never blew on her forehead, golden hair on her head, her beauty is indescribable. The robbers have not been able to steal it for three years: there is a golden rooster at the royal gate and as soon as they approach, he starts singing and the army shoots. The IF crawls up, kills a rooster, finds the room where the girl sleeps, calls the robbers one by one, cuts everyone's head, changes rings with the sleeping princess, leaves a note: IF hacked three snakes, Night and He tied the day to trees, shot a rooster, cut off the heads of the robbers, and exchanged rings with the princess. Night and Day are asked to let them go: it has been dark for 7 days. The IF judges this way: in summer it should be a long day (a lot of work, the harvest must ripen), and in winter it should be short. Night and day sign an eternal contract. The IF returns, cuts the frozen blood of snakes, the brothers who wake up fainting with fear. The Interfax rules the state. At midnight, musicians come and demand to give what their father ordered, otherwise they will leave no stone unturned. The IF throws their sister out the window. The musicians are playing, the wind is blowing - a train of 100 carriages flies across forests and seas. The neighboring king promised a daughter to whoever would kill the thieves. A gypsy servant finds the bodies and pretends to be their murderer. Preparing a wedding. The IF is late, the gypsy demands not to let him in, but the king lets him in. The Interfax ridicules the groom, expects execution for insulting the future royal son-in-law. At the gallows, she tells me what he did and where he put the letter, shows the princess's ring. The people rejoice, the army and servants disperse the gypsies. After the wedding, IF goes to his brothers, the king lets him go, but forbids him to take his wife with him, who was not shining in the sun or blowing the wind: she will be kidnapped by the wind. The IF does not listen, the whirlwind takes the princess away. The queen gives three years to find her daughter, otherwise she executes her. The IF wanders, there is a hole in the trunk of the oak tree: "This is where the wedding with Farmudz Mariika came in." The IF comes to a small hut like a box. There, his brother-in-law tells his wife to cook: her brother starves to death. He puts the IF to bed, asks the horse where the IF's wife is. Horse: In the seventieth country, the Filthy King stands for a cook. Pogany also has a horse, his older brother, he is stronger, he will catch up, the poganin king will cut Ivan to pieces. You have to put a bag on the horse so that the horse will then bring the chopped one. The brother-in-law equips the IF on the road, the horse brings him to the realm of Poganin. Ivanova's wife is just on her way to the well with the buckets, singing plaintively. The IF puts her on a horse. At the same moment, Filthy's horse laughs. Poganin grabs an iron pitchfork, rushes into the staff, finds out that the IF stole his cook, but he has time. He snaps his teeth and eats two wagons of nuts, smokes two wagons of tobacco, sleeps for two hours, takes a sword, sits on a horse and starts after him. IF Horse: It burns the fire because the Filthy King is catching up. Let the IF ask Poganin to cut him with a sword, throw him in a bag and put him on his horse. This is what happens. Poganin picks up the cook. The brother-in-law tells his wife to bring a trough from the attic in advance, folds the pieces of the IF body, pours it with healing water, and everything grows together. The brother-in-law has two souls, he blows on his body, releases one of them, the soul enters the IF, and he comes to life. His brother-in-law explains that he won't be able to revive him again. His mother, who is the oldest over half the world, could help, knows a lot, but she can eat it when she sees it. The IF has been going to her for six months. Baba feels it from a distance, roars: she has been living in this place for 10,000 years, but has not seen an earthly person, she has not eaten fresh human beings for 3000 years. The IF calls her a sweet mother, a dear matchmaker, and says that her son sent him. Baba wants to see it but promises to eat it. He takes two iron poles, 10 m each, supports his eyelids, otherwise they cannot hold on. The IF talks about everything, the woman feels sorry for him. He sends him to his husband, but there is little hope that he will regret it, he is even angrier, he is 6 months away. He feeds him with tin dumplings, he does not feel hungry during the journey. My grandfather senses it from an even greater distance, 15,000 years, has not seen a person, he has not eaten human beings for 5,000 years. The Interfax calls him a sweet father, a dear matchmaker, says that he has been pardoned and sent by his wife as the oldest in the world. Grandfather: I ate millions of people, but I have never met such an affectionate and kind person. She wants to watch and then eat it. It supports the eyelids with iron poles 20 m long. He regretted, feeds the IF with steel dumplings. It gives two twigs that grow out of the ground. There is a basement under the house, there are two horses, one must be hit with one twig and the other with another, he gives these horses because he is old, the horses must be obeyed, they will do everything. The IF goes down into the dungeon, sees wooden tremblers on four legs, hits them with a twig - the tremblers turn into a stallion and a mare. The horse is happy, asks you to take him out of the basement, take a wooden ax, cut three thousand fathoms of firewood, and light a fire. A wooden ax cuts trees into ready-made logs. Horses eat fire, eat ashes 100 meters deep, drink all the water, drink the lake three times: now they are invincible. The horse tells you to take diamond clothes out of his left ear, and a saddle with a bridle for a woman from his right ear. The horse asks how to carry it, IF: so that neither he nor the horse is harmed. The horse is happy to have waited for a good king. Pogany's horse is his son. They arrive at the well, the IF dresses his wife in diamond clothes, puts him on a mare, and rises above the sky. The horse in the filthy king's stine laughs. They're flying in pursuit, there's no time to wait. Pogany's horse calls his father and mother, asks him to wait for him, otherwise he will be tortured. They advise you to fly into the sky, throw off the pollution. Poganin is still falling, and if he fell, it would rumble with all the thunder and the earth would crumble. The horse rushes after his parents, flies with them. The light is all over the sky, people think the whole world is on fire. The old tsar cries with joy, IF invites his brothers to a feast]: Lintur, Chandey 1965:9-29; Ukrainians (c. 1878, Poltava, Piryatinsky district) [A man and his daughter go to the forest to cut wood, a storm hits, then frost, wind and sun, the daughter disappears, a bag of money appears. The same thing happens to the other two daughters. The man has a son, he goes to foreign countries, enters the house, meets his sister, she hides him under the stove. Her husband Veter ("Russian bone stink") appears, she finds out that he would be happy to see her brother, shows him, feast together. The guy then ends up with two other sisters and their husbands, Frost and Sun. They marry the boy to an orphan princess, in her absence he enters the forbidden room, where a serpent crushed by a stone asks for help to move him, promises to add two centuries. The guy frees him, he steals the princess, dries her ("drying the plaque like that"). The guy sprinkles peas in front of the pigeons, takes the princess back, catches up with the snake, takes it away and leaves the guy "one century". It's all repeated the next night. The serpent promises that if he catches the guy again, he will kill him. And so it happens, the snake burns the guy, pours ash into the sea. Wind, Sun and Frost collect ash, moisten it with "healing" water, give it live water, and it comes to life. Ivan wants to eat a mosquito - he hasn't eaten for three days, it promises to come in handy, a fly, a gadfly, a pike on a birch tree ask for the same thing, Ivan lets them go. He is hired "to the baba south - her leg is dirty" for 3 days to herd mares (her daughters), she promises to give the best horse if she grazes, if not, kill. The mares run away, the mosquito and its army help to collect them, the gadfly helps on the second day, and the pike on the third day. Baba Yuga offers the best horse, the guy asks for a "little haircut" (2-3 years). The horse asks to let him go to his mother for the night, promises to come to Ivan himself, and he lets him go. Ivan steals the princess, catches up with the snake, the horse throws one and a half pounds of land from its hooves, kills a snake]: Rudchenko 1869, No. 44:84-89; Belarusians (western in Pogar, Bryansk Gubernia) [Fedor Tugarin has to give his sisters for Wind, Hail, Thunder; he finds three soldiers beaten by Anastasia the Beautiful; he comes to her, their horses graze together, which means that they should not fight themselves, but marry; A. does not tell you to look into the closet, where the Serpent is hanged by the rib; F. lets him go, he takes A.; F. comes to his sons-in-law; takes A.; the horse tells the Snake that we will have time to squeeze the wheat, grind it, eat it; The serpent catches up, kills F., his sons-in-law revives him with live water; A. learns from the Serpent that his horse is from a herd of a woman who kills shepherds (gives them a sleepy potion, mares wander); learns that the Serpent's death in stone on the island, in which there is a hare, duck, egg, yolk, pebble; F. divides the prey of wolves, bees, crayfish; they bring mares, F. takes a royal stallion as payment, takes A. on it, kills the Snake with a stone in the forehead]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 160:383-387; Belarusians [a matchmaker came for the elder, for the younger sister, they went out onto the porch, blown away by the wind; brother Ivan Krestyansky Son goes looking for them, enters the house, the hostess tells me to marry her; do not look through the door, which is tied with bast, covered with mud; he opened it, Kashchei is on chains; asked for three buckets of wine and three breads, three alder logs and three aspen logs; ate and drank, broke his chains with logs, took Mary Krasa; I. found M., took it; K. asks his three-legged horse if we will catch up; horse: go to bed and dinner, we'll catch up in the morning; the old man returned M. twice; I. came to sisters, one married to the Sun in a copper house, her son-in-law gave a falcon; the second, after Thunder in the silver house, gave a dog; I. took M. for the third time, K. caught up with him and killed him; Thunder and the Sun grabbed the crows, told to bring living and dead water to the crow, I. was revived; he tells M. to find out where K.'s soul is; K.: an island, an oak, a hollow, a hare, a duck, an egg; Baba Yaga must get a horse like K.'s; I. went for K.'s soul; let go of the queen of flies, she promised to help; the same is the king of crayfish; sparrow; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd; flies, crayfish bring mares; they order to choose a horse in the scab as a reward; Baba Yaga orders to collect the sown poppy; sparrows collect; I. got a horse, he brought it to the island, I. got an egg with K.'s soul; I. took M. away, his horse told K.'s horse not to come; I. broke the egg, K. died]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:115-122; Belarusians [A landowner lived in a certain kingdom, he had a son and three daughters. When he died, he told his son to give his sisters to be the first to marry. Sisters and brother walk in the garden, it's raining, they hide in the house, and suddenly matchmakers arrive and pick up their older sister. This is the case with middle and junior. Left alone, my brother (Ivan Ivanovich) takes a sword, saddles a horse and goes wherever his eyes look. He visits his younger sister, who first hides him from her husband (crow) in a chest, then, when she finds out that her husband would be happy with his brother-in-law, he lets him out, they feast for 3 days, when he leaves, he gives a "sign" - his handkerchief. Then he visits his middle sister, the falcon's wife, and the youngest, the eagle's wife. Each time the house is bigger, the oak is wider, the feast is longer; as an example, he gives a belt to a falcon and a clasp to an eagle. Ivan goes and sees the beaten force - it was Marya Mariana who fought with the snake Kostey. This is repeated three times. Ivan drives up to her palace, where he finds her asleep, decides not to cut off her head and lies down with her. When she wakes up, she also decides not to kill him, invites him to be her husband, and says that she does not want to marry Kostei. They're feasting on their wedding day. Ivan goes to a cursed place in the garden, where he finds Kostey chained, who promises to get him three kingdoms if Ivan lets him go. Believing, Ivan cleans the snake, which is grabbed by Marya Mariana and flies with her to his kingdom. Ivan goes to Kostey's yard and his mother's hut, steals Marya Mariana while the serpent sleeps. The serpent catches up with Ivan on his horse in six races, brewing and drinking barley beer on her advice. He does not harm Ivan, takes Marya Mariana away from him ("stop the gift from tabe!"). This is repeated two more times (the distance increases), the third time the serpent takes off Ivan Ivanovich's head (this is the third hotel). According to the signs Ivan left to his brother-in-law, blood began to flow, and they rushed to look for him. The raven should have sniffed, the Falcon should fly fast, the Eagle should have looked closely. They find it and revive it with the help of "growing" and living water, and invite them to live. He refuses and goes again, this time on foot. I found a wedding in Kostey's yard. M. M. asks Kostey where to get a flying horse (in a certain kingdom and from an old woman). On the way, I. I. is hungry, trying to eat woodpeckers, bear cub, hive, crayfish, pike - fish, animals and insects promise to be useful to him if he is gone. The pike transports it to the other side of the lake. There are human heads sticking out on the stakes. I.I. asks the old woman for a horse, she gives the task of herding her 12 horses (mares - her daughter) for three days, if I. I. will pay with his head. Woodpeckers (on the first day), bears (on the second) and bees (on the third) collect scattered horses. Crayfish drive horses out of the water. I. takes a foal covered with scab, the scab disappears, he becomes such a horse "that's scary to watch." Stealing M. M., Kostya rushes in pursuit, his stallion on the way decided that he would not serve "wrong blood", but would serve Christian blood. He rose high and threw off the snake, drove M. M. and remained in her possession]: Romanov 1991, No. 23:205-213; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [hell turned the girl's brothers into a bear, fish, eagle; locked her, hiding the key in his brain; he turned around himself a giant bull, chained himself seven to a beech tree; the brothers brought a bag of gold to the royal huntsman, took his three daughters; a crustacean swam up to the girls' mother, she swallowed it, gave birth to a son; he sees a hole , goes down, finds his sisters married to Bear, Fish, Eagle; broke the bull's head with an ax, took out the key, freed him, married the brothers' sister; the brothers also arrived]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:365-368.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi (shapsugi) [when dying, Erestem tells three sons to give his sister to a rider who will come at night and shout, Zhyu; only the younger brother does it; in the absence of his sister, the two older ones they tell him to do a woman's job; he goes to look for his sister; she says that he kidnapped the beautiful Tletanay; her husband says that the hoarder has a horse Jacques; the young man finds T., at his request, she finds out from a friend where Jacques is caught; on his way to the country of Itam-Ituk, a young man saves a hawk, a fish, a wolf; falls to the chest of an old bastard (witch); she promises one of the three foals if the young man can herd horses for three nights; the sky, the sea, the forest of horses are driven by a hawk, a fish, a wolf; the young man chooses a plain foal; he says that he is his mother's second, that Jacques drank mother's milk twice, and he once; he comes back drinks two more times; now he is stronger; the hoarder on Jacques cannot catch up with the young man taking T.; Jacques's brother suggests that he throw off his frost, Jacques does it; the young man brings the severed head and wife]: Huth 1987: 112-119 (=Kerashev 1957:53-63); Abkhazians [the peasant has three daughters and three sons; when he dies, he tells the elder to take his sisters to the balcony, the grooms will take them; each time the girl is carried away by a cloud; brothers they send the elder to search; he chased sulfuric, drove the horse to death; he came to the older sister's palace, she hides her brother in a chest, the Adaui giant comes, promises not to eat his brother-in-law; sister advises ask for the box; the adaui tells you not to open it in public; he chased sulfuric again, drove the donated horse, came to his middle sister, received a white arash (horse) flying to the sky as a gift; again chamois - drove arasha; to his younger sister; gets a black smelly skate Kakua-Zalashv; he turns into a good horse, a bridle in one ear, a saddle in the other; tells you to grab the chamois only by the horns, young man touches her back, the chamois disappears; they see her as a girl in the garden, take her away; the box gets heavier, the young man opens it, a city with people appears, the young man reigns; leaves his wife as queen, goes to to the son-in-law who gave the box; he puts the city back in the box, the tsar brings it home, opens it, the city appears where his father's home is]: Shakryl 1975, No. 24:112-120; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [ when he dies, the old man tells his sons to give his eldest daughter for the karakus ("black bird"), the middle for the wolf, the youngest for the khan's son; when the brothers took their younger sister to the groom, the black cloud carried her away; the younger brother went to look; came to the older sister; her husband says that Karadau took his sister; the same middle sister's husband, orders to steal a three-legged horse; the young man took his sister, but Karadau caught up, whipped the young man in half; the sister asked to collect the brother's remains and put them on the horse; the wolf and others revived the young man; a herd of horses lives in the lake, the mare is screwing on the shore; the wolf wanted to steal the foal, but only tore off one leg; now the mare is screwing again, the wolf helped the young man carry the foal; a week later he grew up, the younger brother went to pick up his sister again; Karadau could not catch up on a three-legged four-legged; the brothers wanted to kill the young man, but he told them to catch a foal in the lake themselves, they drowned; the sister was passed off as Khan]: 147-151; Nogai 1979, No. 20 [the eldest daughter was passed off as a Bear, the middle of the Fox, the youngest to the Eagle; dying, the old man told his sons to shoot arrows; the elder's arrow hit his father's gravestone, the middle one shot west, the youngest to the east; his arrow pierced the turtle; he stayed in a hut in the reeds; who something is cooking; he waited for the girl, it was the Turtle; the old man hired to work, took the girl away; the young man found her, took her away; the old man's six-legged horse told him everything, the old man caught up with the young man, killed him; his wife The eagle told her husband to assemble his brother from pieces, revive him; the Eagle ordered to catch a six-legged horse at the watering hole; the young man tamed him, killed the old man, returned his wife]: 106-109; the Balkarians [the father leaves only the youngest son a golden sword; it contains genie servants; a young man comes to a poor old woman, makes her and her three daughters rich, tells him to marry him, fulfills three conditions with the help of genies (turn the river reverse, gather all the animals at the palace, build a palace overnight); gets the khan's daughter, passes off the named sisters as Black, Yellow, Gray Eagles; the witch persuades the young man's wife to reveal the secret of the saber, takes their palace to a valley between seven mountains; the young man goes in search, meets three sisters successively, their eagle husbands guide him, Gray takes him to the palace, enters the palace under the guise of shepherd, cuts off her magic hair, returns his wife and palace]: Kapiyeva 1991:98-105; Ingush (recorded by A.N. Gren, from materials by L.G. Lopatinsky) [brothers Aslanbek, Abubekr, Saduk lived , they have three beautiful sisters; they are successively picked up by the father of snakes, the father of falcons, the father of eagles; S. insists on giving their sisters; the brothers accuse S. of killing his sisters, he went to them search; S. found a sister who is married to the father of eagles, who helps him defeat the strongman, for which the king marries him to his daughter, gives him a dowry, S. returns to his brothers with his wife and wealth; Aslanbek decided to look for his sister, whose husband was the father of eagles; he was frightened of him, ran away, died of thirst; Abubekr found his sister, whose husband was the father of falcons; he was also frightened, but his son-in-law caught up with him, gave him a herd of horses]: Bagry 1930 (2 ): 176-178; Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:64-75 [father bequeaths three sons to marry; they are dragon, eagle, hawk; brothers shoot, elder arrows fall at the doorstep the king, the youngest from the swamp frog; the youngest goes to live separately; someone cooks; he throws frogskin into the fire; the brothers ask the younger to return; a dwarf on a three-legged horse kidnaps the younger daughter-in-law; the younger brother, in search of a wife, receives advice from the sisters' husbands; the hawk gives a flying horse; the young man takes his wife, but the horse wakes up the dwarf; the wife tells the dwarf to collect pieces of the young man's body in a bag, gives the dog Karis she brings Hawk, he, the Eagle and the Dragon revive the young man (flying between the crushing mountains, the Hawk brings aluton = the elixir of life); sons-in-law distract the wolves guarding the Avsurgs - Donbettyr's horses; on the road takes his wife, the horse kills a three-legged and a dwarf; feeling guilty, the older brothers died, followed by the youngest; the wife committed suicide; trees grew over the graves, crossed by branches], 76-83 [parents dying they tell three daughters not to refuse matchmakers; they marry Wolf, Bear, Raven; brother comes to his sons-in-law, they are handsome men; they decide that the sisters' brother deserves a beauty from the lower world; the young man lowers the chain , pulls out a five-headed giant guard, kills; goes down; three girls complain that a crocodile gives water for a person to be eaten; a young man kills a crocodile; their mother is Voronikha; a young man marries on Malik's daughter, Voronikha takes them to the ground; on the way, the young man feeds her, the meat runs out, he cuts off the eggs; on the ground, Voronikha puts it back; a feast with his sons-in-law]; Sokayeva 2012, No. 6 [younger brother sees a bloody stream, takes stones from there, sells Aldar; goes again to get stones, looking for the source of the stream; there are three dead girls in the house, one is still bleeding; at night a giant came, revived the girl with a pearl; when he left, the young man revived all three, killed the giant with his sword, took one girl, gave the other two to his brothers; the brothers have 3 sisters, they were taken by Uastyrji, Uatzilla, Afsati; while the brothers are hunting, he arrives a rider on a three-legged horse, drops his whip, asks to serve, the youngest's wife agrees, he picks her up with the end of the whip, takes her away; the younger brother goes to look for his wife, consistently comes to his sons-in-law; only Uastyrji saw that rider; the kidnapper sleeps and stays awake for 6 days; wife: we must get the foal from the mother of the three-legged, who is at the head of the devils, the mother is pregnant, she is guarded by 7 wolves; the head of the devils allows take the foal, the younger brother takes his wife], 8 [the father tells three sons to marry three sisters; the sisters are taken away by three horsemen; the brothers marry, the youngest's wife is missing, he goes to searching, comes to his younger sister, she hides him; the husband arrives, tells how someone on a three-legged horse was carrying a beautiful woman; the brother jumps up, the son-in-law gives him a whip that revives the dead; the second son-in-law gives a horse, the third directs to the goal; there is the kidnapper's wife, she cries: the husband brought another beauty; the young man comes to the cave, takes his wife; the three-legged horse tells the kidnapper not to hurry; easily catches up, the kidnapper kills a young man; his wife persuades him to be tied to a horse; his sister revives him with a whip; his wife orders him to get another foal from the same mare; on the way, the young man feeds the hungry fox, the kite, lets him in s sea fish; fish transports across the sea; the young man falls to the woman's chest; she orders to save the foal when the mare begins to give birth to it; the mare runs away three times, the fox, the kite, the fish returns it; the young man gets three-legged foal, kills an evil spirit; woman: this spirit killed all foals, this and another one escaped, but he did not drink his mother's milk; the young man let the foal suck his mother's udder, took his wife safely]: 67 -70, 84-90; Avars: Atayev 1972, No. 85 [when dying, the father tells three sons to give three daughters for those who marry; they are taken away by Eagle, Dove, Falcon; the brothers are married, their wives were carried away by three clouds; brothers reached a crossroads with the inscription "Right is safe, left is safe, straight is death or luck"; the elders go right and left, the youngest goes straight; consistently comes to the sisters, their husbands give a piece game, churek, two white balls; the first sledge thief puts it in an iron barrel; the young man eats the meat given by Eagle, tears it, kills the sledge; the second sledge (chained, eating a chorek, them breaks); the third ties the person with hair from his beard, he breaks the fetters by eating a white ball; Azhdaha kills him, the wife gives her husband a second ball, he comes to life, kills Azhdaha; the younger brother returns with women; his brothers were at the service of a miller and a shepherd at that time]: 128-133; Saidov, Dalgat 1965 [=Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 7:114-121; when he dies, the father tells three sons to guard his grave, give three daughters for those who ask; the elder, middle brothers are afraid, the youngest grabs a gray horse, he carries it to seventh heaven and to the seventh lower world, tamed, gives his hair; the same with nest, black horses; sisters are given for a wolf, a hawk, a falcon; the king consistently promises three daughters to the one who jumps on horseback over the tower; each time the younger brother calls a horse, takes the girl away, the brothers are jealous; all three go down into the dungeon, feast there, the older ones are intoxicated, the youngest kills the 9-headed serpent, cuts him off, hides his ears; the old man comes out from under the bush, thanks the snake for the murder, gives his younger brother a daughter; her will demand Black Narth (CHN); the old man warns not to stop on the way home; the young man falls asleep, ChN takes his wife; he finds sisters, they were also taken by the Snarts under the guise of a wolf, hawk, falcon; they do not know where ChN lives, but the Bat shows the way; while ChN is sleeping, the young man takes his wife, ChN on a three-legged horse catches up, kills the young man; the horse brings bones to his younger sister, her husband gives his boy his a second life; the young man asks his wife to ask ChN where he took the three-legged horse; under the stone there is a plain, where the horse, his brother and their mother graze; the horse lost his leg when wolves and ants rushed at him; the young man throws Thus, wheat and meat, takes the horse away; the horse kills the pursuer - CHN; the young man gives his wife to his brothers, takes two for himself]: 215-230; Dargins: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 22 [the father bequeaths three sons to give three sons daughters for anyone who comes to marry them; the eldest is given off as a golden eagle, the middle as a miller, the youngest as a falcon; the older brothers married the daughters of a vizier and a vekil; the youngest dreams of a girl, she is brought to him, on her wedding night, the cloud takes her away; the youngest goes to search, visits the sisters and their husbands, comes to Azhdaha, cannot kill, Azhdaha cuts him to pieces; the kidnapped wife brings pieces to the young man's older sister, that revives him; the same goes again to his middle sister; after his younger sister has revived, the young man kills Azhdakha, returns his wife], 61 [when he dies, the father tells three sons to watch his grave, hand over his three sisters for the first to marry; only younger Shahnaz comes to the grave three times, defeats white, black, red horsemen who wanted to dig graves, gets their horses; gives sisters for a fox, a marten, an eagle, gives those three horses as a dowry; the kite takes them away by their mother, S. goes in search, visits his sons-in-law, returns their mother; the brothers marry the three daughters of Talkhan (feudal lord)]: 246-248, 528-529; Swans [two brothers are married, the third is single; their three sisters are married to a diva, a falcon, a lion; the youngest went to marry the princess; king: she is promised to a black man, if the young man defeats him, let him take it; let the wedding be 12 years old; the young man hunts to feed the guests, comes to the land of a black man; he orders him to be taken to the wedding; takes the bride; the young man comes to the spring where his sister's maid, that married to a diva, collects water; asks for a drink, throws up her ring; sister finds; hides her brother; divas does not harm him: he chased the black man himself, but he went across the sea; the same with his sister, who is behind the falcon; the lion says that he was at the black man's wedding; the young man went there, to the Kageti Tower in the middle of the sea; took his wife away, but the black man caught up, broke flesh and bones; the wife packed them in a bag sent her husband on horseback, who came to the lion's wife, the lion revived the young man; the boy and the lion filled the game, all the animals came to eat it, the young man detained the happy son Sagar (this is the name of a good horse) there; she asked returned him for a month and again {i.e. the foal had gained strength}; the young man took his wife away again, and when the black man began to catch up, the young man's horse shouted to the horse that he had 4 legs and that he had 3 legs, the black man would defeated; he was defeated and killed, the hunter returned his wife]: Nizheradze 1890, No. 3:184-195; Megrelians [Tsagareli, Megrelian studies, vol. 1:10-13; dying, the king orders to guard his grave for three nights and give three nights sisters for those who ask; the elder hears a rumble and sees someone dig up the grave, grabs the corpse, cry over it, and then bury it and disappear; the same with the middle brother; while they are away, the youngest passed off three sisters as those who came for them; the youngest cut the monster in two, but his blood filled the candle; the young man noticed the light, went to it, telling the rooster not to scream so that morning would not come; crossing the river, the young man saw demi (=devi) sitting by the fire; grabbed a smut and ran; when crossing, the smut went out; he returned, but captured; Demi is told to get three princesses from the castle; the young man climbed the wall and killed everyone Demi one by one as they got up; went to the princesses, gave each a ring (his youngest), returned, took fire, plunged his sword into the stone, allowed the rooster to sing, returned to his father's grave; the king promises daughters to whoever pulls the sword out of the stone; only a young man could, marry his younger, give it to his older brothers; the king gave the younger a flying carpet, the young and his servants flew on it, but the flying monster took it away princess; the young man went in search; came to three demi married to his sisters; they said that they saw Kazha-Ndii-Kerkun ("fast silicon-like demi") carry a gold-haired beauty and they managed only to tear out the curl of her hair; the young man recognized his wife's curl; the demi-sons-in-law gave him a horse and a dog; he came to K.'s house; when he was taking his wife away, the gate called K.; he easily caught up with the young man, chopped it to pieces; the dog collected She loaded them on his horse, he came to his demy-sons-ons; the youngest revived him, gave him a three-legged horse; when K.'s horse caught up, the three-legged one burst and K.'s horse slowed down; the young man cut K. in half and returned his wife]: Wardrop 1894, No. 2:112-118; Georgians: Chikovani 1975, No. 5 (Kakheti) [=Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 49-56; =Chikovani 1986:169-176; when he dies, the father tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first to marry; three come strangers, girls are taken away; the king makes the young man chief of the army, at the head of the army he chases the Field Maiden, gets lost; consistently gets to the sisters, they are married to Eagle, Pashkunji {mythical bird}, Gveleshapi {snake}; each gives a horse, the Eagle's horse jumps one, Pashkunji two, Gveleshapi three plow harnesses, but the maiden is ahead each time; devils fight for a flying carpet, a ladder comb, a sharpener drinking the sea; the young man fires arrows - the cro will be the first to bring, he will receive magic items; he flies on the carpet to catch up with the Field Maiden; devils behind him, the young man threw the comb, appeared on the rock the stairs, he passed the rock; threw the sharpener, swept across the dry bottom of the sea, grabbed the edge of the Field Maiden's dress, but she herself disappeared into her father's house; the father gave it to him]: 27-30; 1986 [when dying, the king tells three sons pass their three sisters off as the first to ask; the older brothers want to refuse, the youngest gives their sisters to an owl, a wolf, a falcon (the youngest); when hunting, he chases a goose, loses a horse, comes to his older sister; son-in-law- Owl says it's not a goose, but a girl he chased unsuccessfully; Wolf son-in-law does not know how to find a girl, Falcon son-in-law advises you to contact a maiden with a dried side; dev says that girl threw a storm on him and his side became petrified; the young man came to the girl to talk; put a gem given by his father next to the candle; the stone begins to talk to the candle; the first the story of the stone: a pop, a tailor and a carpenter spent the night in the forest, taking turns awake; the carpenter made the figure of a girl, the tailor dressed her, the pop revived who she should belong to; girl: a carpenter, he is the first began; the second story of the stone: the witch sees in the saucer of fate that a prince is sick in one country, the doctor has prepared medicine, the speedboat has delivered, who is more important? princess: who brought medicine; the third story of the stone: the robbers killed the woman's husband and brother; she hears two pigeons talking - run a branch over the dead, they will come to life; she revived them, but accidentally changed heads; who should a woman belong to? the candle is silent again, and the princess scolds the candle for silence; young man: the princess spoke three times, must marry him]: 236-241; Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 70 (Kartli) [dying, the king tells three sons three knives to guard his grave; the elders refuse, each time the youngest goes; at midnight a man on a white horse in white clothes rode, promises to kill the dead; the young man cut him, hid his horse and armor; the next night, the same (red rider); then black; the king has three daughters in the tower; whoever jumps up there on horseback and gets a beautiful woman marries her; the younger brother reaches the princess unrecognized every time, takes all three; he took one for himself, gave the others to his brothers; when he dies, the father tells him not to spend the night away from home if possible; once the youngest spent the night, and his wife was stolen by a bald chongurist; the brothers have three sisters for a deva , eagle and gveleshapi; the maid came for water, the prince quietly threw his ring into the jug, the sister found out; dev is powerless, sends to the eagle; still sends to the gveleshapi; he says that the kidnapper rides a three-legged seahorse; you have to get a four-legged one; once a year a mare comes out of the sea, gives birth to a foal; it is eaten by wolves, they have to leave the sheep in time; the chongurist did not have time, so one leg they gnawed off; the prince got a four-legged man, took his wife away, the chongurist catches up, but the prince's horse kicked and killed him; the prince put his wife on his three-legged wife; everything is fine; three red pomegranates fell, three juicy apples fell]: 317- 328; Armenians [the younger prince passed off his sisters as a bear, a wolf, a Smul bird; his sons-in-law helped him return his wife kidnapped by Janpolat (Kyosa)]: Gullakian 1990, No. 552:30; Azerbaijanis [ when he dies, the king tells his three sons to guard his grave for three nights; Melik-Ahmed and Melik-Jamshid did not go, Melik-Jamil went; a black rider approaches, promises to punish the king; MD killed him, hid the horse; the next two nights are the same, the horse and the rider are white; red; the king also warned that three dervishes would come in 40 days, and his three daughters should be married to them; the older brothers did not pay attention, MD betrayed sisters; the neighboring king will pass off three daughters as someone who will jump over a wide ditch on a horse; the Melik-Jamila brothers and other suitors could not, the unrecognized MD jumped three times on black, white, red horses, with the clothes taken off those horsemen, each time he takes away one of the princesses, hides it in a secret place; then he gave the older princesses to his brothers, took the youngest; once they all visited the king; someone raised his hand MA's wife into the air, took him away; voice: I'm keos ("beardless") with three hair; MD came to him when he fell asleep for seven days; his wife said that his soul was in a glass vessel; it flew out of him swallow, MD killed her, Keosa died, MD and his wife returned to his brothers]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:222-226; Turks [dying, the padishah tells him to guard his grave for three nights; whoever can do this will receive the throne; three sisters should be passed off as the first to come to marry; the eldest son hears a rumble and noise at night, runs in fear; the middle son is the same; the younger Mehmed kills the dragon; he asks to hit him with a sword a second time, M. says that his mother gave birth to him once; saw an old man with white (day) and black (night) balloons; tied his hands so that he would not let go of the day, came to 40 robbers, offered them to help steal treasures, killed alone, when they were going up to the wall; cut a snake; saw three princesses sleeping, fell in love with the youngest; returned, cutting off the dragon's nose and ears; untied the old man; the elder brother was already the padishah; at insistence the youngest, the sisters were given to the lion, the tiger, the bird Anka (he is the padishah peri); the king of the castle, in which M. killed 40 robbers and a snake, agrees with the vizier to identify the hero by arranging a bathhouse for all men; M. identified: he does not have a sword; he asks the younger princess; the king: but the demon whirlwind wants her, so she sits in a steel room; M. received the princess and his brothers her sisters; as soon as M. left for the forest, the whirlwind carried him away wife; M. goes in search, visits three sisters, each husband shows the way; M. takes his wife, jumps away; the whirlwind woke up on the fourth day, slowly packed up, easily caught up, tore to shreds; allowed his wife collected the bones; she loaded them on her horse, told them to go where they needed to go; he came to Anka's wife; Anka gathered all the birds; the old owl was the last to appear, she was alone in the Garden of Eden; from there she brought them alive water, Anka revived M.; he returned to his wife: let her know what the whirlwind's life is; he confesses: at the seventh sea level there is an island, there is a bull, a box in it, a dove in the box; on the mountain there is a spring, once a year 40 sea horses come to him, we must tame one, he will deliver him where they need to go; M. took out a box, took his wife, killed a pigeon, the whirlwind died, M. became a padishah]: Kúnos 1901:112-133; the Turks [dying, the padishah commands three sons to give three daughters to be the first to marry; these are three old men, one older than the other; the youngest son insisted that his father's will be fulfilled; in a dream he was shown a portrait of a beautiful woman; when he woke up, he went to look for her; he went to his older sister, her husband was a deva padishah; he gave the young man the ability to turn into a deva; the middle sister behind the ant padishah (the ability to become an ant); the youngest the padishah of nightingales (in the nightingale); when he reached the goal, the young man became a nightingale and sat on the girl's chest; she put him in a cage, brought him to her place; he went to bed with her for two nights, and on the third she woke up; says that her father would give the groom difficult errands; to get a crying pomegranate and a laughing quince; the young man became a deva, brought pomegranates and quince; to get the mirror of the padishah devas, in which the beholder sees all his ancestors; the young man got in as an ant, got a mirror; on the way back he went swimming, the Sea Maiden fell in love and took it; 40 companions looked like a young man, brought a mirror; the princess asked the imaginary groom to become as a nightingale, he could not, confessed everything; the girl took 40 gold balls and gave one at a time to the Sea Maiden as she showed Shahzade's body above the water; when she picked everything up, he turned into the bird and flew to his beloved; they reached the goal of their desires]: Stebleva 1986, No. 40:163-169; Kurds: Uther 2004 (1), No. 552:322-323.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Azerbaijan only, but recorded from the Persians): Marzolph 1984, No. 552 [when dying, the father tells his sons to pass off his sisters as those who come for them: wolf, lion, falcon; they then help the youngest to their wives' brother]: 117; Osmanov 1987 (Tabriz) [Wolf, Lev, Eagle marry three daughters of the deceased Shah; their brother Malek-Ahmad is hired by a Jew; he feeds him for 39 days, tells him to slaughter a camel on the fortieth, get inside; birds carry MA to the mountain; a Jew tells her to drop gems, leaves; MA comes to a dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of divas, she asks her sons not to kill him; he opens the forbidden forty-first door; there Yusuf Shah Peri is thirsty; MA gives him water, he breaks his chains, gives his seal, flies to Mount Kof; behind the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA steals the clothes of one of the three dove girls; wife gives birth to two boys, divas bring them down to the ground; wife asks for her clothes, tells them to come for her to Mount Kof; MA again hires a Jew unrecognized, kills him, throwing him off the mountain to him the head is a stone; the divas forgive him, but do not know the way to Kof; among the husbands of the MA sisters, only Orel can help: the mother of the bird knows the way under his command; asks him to take fat tails and wineskins with her; the meat is running out, The MA cuts off a piece of the thigh; when the goal is reached, the bird puts the meat back; the MA shows Yusuf the seal, who sends his sister, her husband and sons to the ground with gifts; without MA, there is drought, hunger; MA makes a shah, abundance comes]: 243-250; Uzbeks [from the eldest wife of Pirnazar's son, Khojinazar, from the youngest Ernazar and daughter; when he dies, the father gives E. a knife; if you open it, a horseman appears doing everything desires; the father orders the sisters to be married to three elders who will come after his death; although the brothers kill E., he leaves; lives with the old man, at night turns the stable into a palace, where the daughter of the padishah is with him; asks to marry her to him; the old man is executed 40 times, E. resurrects him; the vizier advises to give difficult assignments, E. brings wealth and cattle; E. found and caressed brothers; the padishah gives three daughters; the elders sisters choose E.'s older brothers, throwing an apple at the chosen one, the youngest - a bald man, whose appearance takes on E.; E. brings the padishah a broken bird, the older sons-in-law cannot shoot anything; E. gives them ducks, in return, he stigmatizes the brothers; shows them to the padishah, remains handsome; Karakhan sends an old woman to steal E.'s knife and his palace and wife with him; E. wakes up in the desert; comes to the sisters' husbands, they are divas; The eldest husband in the form of an eagle turns E. into a throat, then into a sparrow so that he can steal his knife from Karakhan; K. returns everything, turns Karakhan and the old woman into stone]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:198-216; kafirs (kati; western in 1968 in Kabul from a native of villages. Kulem) [the man had three daughters and a son; daughters married diva brothers; the man fell ill, gave his son all the keys to the house and did not give the key to one room alone; when the father fell asleep, the young man pulled out from the key to that room was out of his pocket and opened it; there was a millstone; the young man looked through his hole and saw a beautiful woman; she said: "At one time, your father missed [me], now you're in in turn, you will miss me"; the young man came to his father, who sent him in search; the young man met his sister's maid at the spring; threw a ring into her jug; when the maid poured water on her hands to the hostess, the ring fell into the pelvis; the sister, recognizing his brother's ring, sent him for him; fed him and hid him under the house; the divas returned in the evening; the children began to repeat that the mother's brother was in the basement; the mother was angry, pulled her brother by the hair; the divas stabbed a goat for him; the next day the young man left; met his second sister's maid at the spring; the situation repeated; the same: with the third sister; the young man met a witch who was the sister of the divas; gave her a note from one of her brothers; she recognized the handwriting, let the young man go; the situation repeated with the second and third witches; the young man met the shepherd and asked him where Paradise is the shadow of the sun {the name of the beauty}; the shepherd gave him a staff: "When you reach the river, raise your staff and point to the water; [water] will part and you will go to the other side. You'll leave and you'll be in front of the gate. Dice are thrown in front of the donkey and hay is placed in front of the wolf. You throw the hay to the donkey and the dice to the wolf. There are two poles there. Put the one on the right to the left, the one on the left to the right. When you enter the house, pick up the beds spread out, and spread out the collected beds. This house is the house of Paradise - the shadow of the sun"; the young man did as the shepherd told him; R. saw the young man, he asked her where the diva's soul was; R. replied that he did not know; in the evening the diva came and fell asleep; R., on the advice of the young man, took it children in the thicket of thorns; the divas asked why the children were crying; R. said they were asking where their father's soul was; unable to withstand crying, the diva said: "My soul is in one parrot, and the parrot is in cage. This cage is in a large cauldron, and the cauldron is buried in a hut on the summer"; in the morning, the divas flew away, and R. and the young man went to the summer and began to dig; they pulled out the cauldron, it had a cage, and a parrot in the cage; the young man tore off his legs, wings and head; the diva fell apart; the young man took R. to his home, his father had a feast]: Grunberg 1980, No. 4:141-145.

Baltoscandia. Sami: Kert 1961, No. 22 [the old woman dreams: seal fins, crow's nose and reindeer hooves came; old man: these are grooms to daughters; the girls went for berries and disappeared; the old man and the old woman came to Finally, grandchildren shout that grandparents have come; here is the daughter, who has married a crow, he pecked out his wife's eye; there are many fish in his daughter, who has married a seal; in the evening, a daughter who married a deer, is an old man at night wet the deer skin on which he slept; his daughter did not tell her spread out on the reindeer path in the morning, his mother spread it out; a deer came, smelled it, the plague crumbled, the deer and his son ran into the tundra]: 80-81; Kert, Zaikov 1988 (Yokang dialect), No. 47 [started as in (51); Raven pecked one eye for his wife; The deer agrees to accept old people if they make sure that the children's wet bed is thrown away; one day smells, leaves forever; wife marries another; when old, the Deer tells him to be killed, the wife sleeps on his skin], 51 [the Raven, the Seal, the Deer marry three sisters; the old man visits his daughters; the Raven pecked out his wife's eyes, the Seal is dirty, the Deer is good]: 171-175, 182-184; Charnolusky 1962 [as in Kert, Zaikov (47); the deer husband Myandash is his remarried wife in a dream, tells him not to dry him skin in the sun; once she violates the ban, her skin (and apparently her husband's hunting luck) disappears (=1965:85-90)]: 94-101; 1965 [The Raven marries the eldest, the Middle Seal, the Deer the younger sister; the old people go visit her daughters; the first eye is pecked out, the middle hand is gnawed off, the youngest lives well]: 41-42; 1972 [main text as in 1962; smelling the smell of drying skin, the Deer runs away; the woman's children turn into deer, run away after him; since then, deer and humans have lived separately]: 114-117; Klaus 1995 [The Raven comes to marry the eldest, the Seal the middle, the Deer the youngest daughter; everyone enters the house as a person, gets wife; old people go to visit them; the eldest has her right eye pecked out, the middle hand is eaten off to the elbow, the old people stay with the youngest; the mother of the Deer's wife advises her not to throw wet diapers into the running water water, and dry it on a rope; when he smells, the husband turns into a deer, runs away forever to the tundra, with all the children; the woman remarried; the deer appeared in a dream, ordered her husband to be sent to kill him, but Put the skin in running water; they did so]: 13-17; Latvians: Aris 1971 [Fish, Eagle, Bear tell the old man to give each daughter, leave scales, feathers, wool; they come to the rescue if rub them; father visits daughters, each son-in-law gives gold; together father-in-law and sons-in-law extract, destroy life, the trait stored in fish, duck, egg; the spell dissipates, animal sons-in-law becomes kings]: 129-132; Alksnite et al. 1958 [when dying, the father tells his son not to marry until he marries three sisters; a whirlwind takes away the sisters, the young man goes in search; meets and companions a hare, a wolf, a wasp, horseflies, falcons, crayfish; they spend the night with an old woman in a hut on a chicken leg; she sends her sister to her sister, who says that the sisters are married to a pike, an eagle, a bear; first you have to earn a horse from the witch; 12 mares must be protected for three days in a row; the hare overhears the conversation of mares who want to run away, horseflies and wasps drive them back; the hare overheard that it is necessary to choose the 12th foal, which looks brushy; that becomes a six-winged horse; the sisters' husbands say that the Serpent turned them into animals; the young man binds the Snake; he reveals to the kidnapped queen that his life is in an egg, in a duck, in a bull, in a palace on rock; a falcon killed a duck, cancer took a fallen egg out of the sea; The serpent dies, the sons-in-law remain human, the young man marries the queen]: 195-204; Karelians [when dying, the king and queen tell their son and three daughters not marry and not marry; servant Faithful Jussi in the house; they wipe the dust, open the window, the magpie flies in, turns into a man, asks for the eldest daughter; stays overnight, in the morning neither daughter nor magpie; the same with middle, with younger daughters; the prince finds a locked room, orders the blacksmith a key, the room is empty, but under the shred there is a portrait of "Mary the Beautiful Girl"; VU discourages him from going after her, they conclude contract: if the prince does not return in three years, VU will receive all the good things; the prince comes to the hut on cock spurs, in which the woman shovels the coals with her nose; when he learns that he is the son of her younger sister, he gives a horse a steel hoof; on it, the prince jumps over the rock, gets to his older sister; the same to the middle, younger sister (each time the mountain is higher, the prince stays longer); comes to an old woman who plants bread in the oven with her tongue, she is also his mother's sister; she tells him to herd 300 horses, he herds, receives a peeling skate as payment; the horse tells the Swedish to sew an eagle that will carry it to Mary; the prince lives with M. in the rock, then they they fly home, arrive 3 minutes before the deadline; everything is fine]: Concca 1959:27-35 (similar text, but less details in Onegin 2010, No. 35:326-333); Danes [the peasant has a son Hans, then born three daughters; he works even at night; someone comes up, gives a willing box for promising to give his daughters when they are three years old; takes the girls away; their parents are dead; G. finds a box the giant fulfills all requests; G. asks for a violin, plays, the lambs dance, the princess promises to marry him, the king tells him to keep his promise, but the princess does not love him; learns the secret of the box, tells him to take him away lock and hang it over the Red Sea; G. consistently comes to his missing sisters, they are married to a bear, an eagle, a fish; they bring him to the castle, he takes possession of the box, tells the giant to throw it away the princess and her lover are at sea; he has fur, feather and scales in his hands; when the queen, whose sons were turned into animals, receives them, the spell fell apart; G. himself marries the brothers' sister; lets go to the wild of a giant servant]: Grundtvig 1920:42-57; Lutsie (West 1893) [Jaan Kuningapoeg (i.e. Ivan Tsarevich, I.), he has three sisters, parents are dead; goes with his older sister to see the world, crows attacked the end; when the carriage was opened, the raven took his older sister; the same from the middle (the wind took away) and the youngest (the thunder took away); I. went to look for sisters and find a wife; a hut on a chicken leg with lambs horns; come up in front of me, let the road man inside; inside the older sister; the raven sends to the middle; the wind to the younger one; the thunder teaches me to approach the castle, there is a three-legged horse at the castle; when the ploughman is from he will go away and leave the girl to guard, then she must be stolen; I. put the girl on a horse, took her; Must (must - "black", est.) returned, asks the horse if we will catch up; horse: even if we plow, sow (etc.) - all field work), we'll bake pies, eat, get enough sleep, then we'll have time; I. came to the thunder on foot: the girl and the horse were taken away; thunder: go through the 9 kingdoms to the 10th, there try to herd a mare with 12 foals from the king; if you can, you will get a horse that will not be caught up; gave three hairs to call his sons-in-law, they will help you herd; other sons-in-law gave the same; in the castle, the cat asks him not to forget; when I. opens the doors of the stable, let him stand up outside the door, otherwise the horses would trample; the foals ran above the forest, below the clouds; but the crows, wind and thunder brought the foals back; the next day the cat tells them to hide in the corner of the stable; the horses are back again, Must beats them again for it; cat: daughters were horses for two days, and tomorrow their mother will go; you have to hide from her behind the stable; raven, wind and thunder and she was brought; suggests choosing a horse; cat: take a plain one; I. took the girl away again, the three-legged horse tells you to go in pursuit immediately; I. threw a brush (dense forest), a whetstone (mountain), a handkerchief (sea of fire); Must: I had the last stake for your head, but you saved; wedding]: Annom et al. 2018:114-122; Estonians (Yuri; recorded in Sukhum-Kala) [the king of the north (KS) saved the crows, the raven helps him; says that the King of the South (KYU) has a beautiful daughter, but everyone refuses; the COP went to marry her, and his three sisters were kidnapped by a lion (he is the king of animals), an eagle (king of birds) and a whale (king of fish); CS's mother decided that her son would rather die in front of her than disappear in the far country, took out poisonous drops from the witch and dripped on the CS during the farewell; but the drops fell on the horse; the COP made 12 pies with this horse meat, sat on another horse and left; 12 robbers attacked, each ate on a pie and died; the COP came to her older sister, she feeds the baby; her husband is a lion for 3 days and a man for 3 days; gives his hairs: if burned, he will come to the rescue; his handkerchief will also show if the CS is in trouble - turns red; the sister herself gives a magic tablecloth; the middle sister has the same (the eagle gives feathers); the youngest (the whale gives scales); near the Sea of Fire, a tree with a hawk's nest, chicks squeak there; the raven teaches: them the mother will return in 3 days, they will starve to death and be beaten by hail; the horse must be slaughtered, the chicks must be fed with meat and covered with skin; let their mother carry them across the sea as a reward; the mother bird tells them to prepare 12 barrels of poultry meat and 12 barrels of water; Kyu's daughter put CS in prison, where other contenders are on her hand; he feeds them all thanks to a magic tablecloth; sells a tablecloth to Kyu's daughter for the opportunity look at her bare neck; says there is nothing to see; pulls out a tablecloth received from her middle sister; the same (KYU's daughter shows her breasts); same; KYU's daughter agrees to spend the night with the COP; first that turns away, then agrees to hug her; wedding; wife gives keys, does not tell her to unlock the seventh room; once he unlocked; the sorcerer locked there asked for water three times, promised to forgive three times CS; flew away and took his wife away; the raven said that the sorcerer has a flying horse that sees and guards far away; the COP took his wife, but the sorcerer easily caught up and took it away, said that one forgiveness was less; so three times, and the fourth time, the sorcerer tore the CS to pieces; the lion, the eagle and the whale collected the remains, brought living water; they tried it on the crow: they tore it and revived it; then they revived the CS; he did no harm to the flies and horseflies, cancers, they promised to help; the COP met an old woman, who offered to herd her 12 horses; these are her 12 daughters; horses were brought by flies on the first evening, horseflies on the second; on the third day, horses climbed into the water, but theirs crayfish have been driven out; the witch agrees to reward one horse; the raven: if you sit on it, you will die; demands the son of a toad; this toad is the mother of the sorcerer's flying horse, and the toad is his brother; the toad horse tells wait three days for him to gain strength, three more to learn from his mother, the last three to take an invincible weapon; the COP cut off the witch's head, but that industry again and he hardly rode away from her; the wife found out that the sorcerer's soul is in the egg, the egg is in the duck, the duck is flying over the sea; the COP summoned an eagle, he grabbed the duck, the whale took out an egg that fell into the sea, the COP crushed it, the sorcerer died; the COP began to rule the north and south]: Mälk et al 1967, No. 79:246-264; Estonians (Sangaste) [a person earns money by going to the forest and making brooms; a well-dressed gentleman offers him a trough of copper money if he gives his eldest daughter; he refuses, but the daughter disappears, and a trough with money appears; the same with the middle (silver), with the eldest (gold) daughter; the couple has a son; he grew up to look for sisters; two fight over bast shoes (they will deliver to the right place), invisible hats and sticks (whoever you hit will disappear); the guy asks for a try, touched those two with a stick, ordered him to move himself to his older sister; her husband is a bear, gave fur call him; (her house, apparently, is copper); the same with her middle sister (the eagle gave feathers, a silver house), the youngest (pike, scales, gold); the guy came to hell (vanapagan), demanded the keys to the dungeon; he says that the keys are in the barn; in front of them there is an evil bull, a horse; the boy called a bear, the bear tore them; a dove flew out of the stallion (the eagle tore it), the keys fell into the sea (the pike took it out); the guy released the prisoners, burned the IOU, touched the line with a stick; the sisters' sons-in-law changed their human form; they all still live if they didn't die]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 78:241-245; Lithuanians, Finns, Veps, Norwegians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 552:322-323.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Uther 2004 (1): 322-323; the Udmurts [the father gave the eldest daughter to the chief of birds, the middle daughter to the chief of animals, the youngest to the whirlwind; the son sold the house, went on a journey, did not eat a bee, the crow, the ant, they promised to help; the young man came to his older sister; her husband tells her that if her father comes, he will kill him, or if his brother does not; the sister showed her hidden brother; his son-in-law fed him and gave him horse; the young man rode after the lame fox, the horse ran into a stake; the young man came to his middle sister, the same as in the elder's house; the fox's leg was slightly hanging, the horse fell; the whirlwind had the same; the fox's intestines fell out; a young man comes into the house, the owners take him as a watchman, tell him not to go into one hut, he comes in, there is a man nailed to the wall, asks to hit him with a hammer, disappeared after the blow; the owner: it was Satan, pretending to be a fox, he ate your three horses; the young man returned home, where the new owner tells you to collect the sown grain (ants collect); give birth to a child in one night without a wife (the crow screams like a baby); make a wax bridge (the bee does); that man has left and the young man stayed at his house]: Kralina 1960, No. 57:154-157; Marie: Akzorin 1984 [old people do not want to give their eldest daughter Myra for a stranger; she disappears; a year later she is the same with the youngest Anna; a son Ivuk is born; goes to look for sisters; three imps fight for speedboat stockings and an invisible hat; I. sends them to race, takes their stockings and hat; in the forest, the old man says that Yorok Yorokovich flew by 8 years ago; I. goes to the house, past a lion, meets M.; she hides her brother in a chest, then introduces her husband; gives a magic handkerchief, sends to A., who is married to Orel Orlovich; he says that the sorcerer who kidnapped the royal daughter and ruled the Black City was chained by an even more evil witch; OO gives a pen, A. is an accordion, she plays only in the hands of I.; I. is imprisoned, he feeds everyone with a handkerchief; I. plays the accordion, the witch dances, cannot stop, gives the keys to the tower where the princess is; I. marries her, destroys the Black City; opening the door in the rock, frees the sorcerer, he takes his wife, I. returns, the sorcerer catches up, burns him, the NGO brings living and dead water, revives; YY orders to get the horse, that faster than a sorcerer's horse; I. overheard the sorcerer's story, how he got a horse, grazing a witch's herd; YY gives a whip, I. whips horses with it, YY and OO collects them every evening; one did not have time to hit, he flew away as a bird; The NGO collects the birds, they indicate the hollow, the OO pulls out the bird from there, it turns into a horse again; I. chooses a bowlegged horse, he is the elder brother of the sorcerer's horse, tells him to throw off the sorcerer, he breaks; I. lives with his wife]: 55-66; Chetkarev 1941, No. 9 (meadow) [when dying, father tells Ivan to marry them first; they are taken by Raven, Kite, Hawk; I. finds a portrait of Maria in his father's chest Marievna, goes to look for her; comes to her first sister; her husband arrives, sits on three oaks, they go to the ground, he turns into a person; gives a magic towel, I. leaves his ring if will turn black, trouble with him; the same with the other two sons-in-law; the Kite gives a magic tablecloth, the Hawk gives a ring; teaches first to feed the captured MM suitors, she keeps them like pigs; locked with I. opens a magic towel, everyone is feasting; gives it to MM for permission to touch her breasts; a tablecloth for allowing her to touch her hair; ring: MM lies on the bed, I. kisses her {presumably not only}; MM keeps I. at home; MM goes to war, leaves the keys, allows the suitors to be released, forbids unlocking one door with 12 keys; I. unlocks, there is a 12-headed dragon on chains; asks for a bottle of green water; drinks, breaks chains, flies away, takes MM, giving I. three lives; I. arrives, takes MM, the horse answers the dragon that we will have time to sow rye, make beer, drink it, then we will catch up; the dragon catches up, takes one life (century) and MM; so three times; the fourth time the dragon kills I., descends into the sea in the barrel; the rings of the Raven, Kite, Hawk turn black; the Hawk finds a barrel, splices pieces I.'s bodies, the Raven revives him with living water; the Hawk tells MM to find out from the dragon where he got such a fast horse; brings him to MM; I. overhears how the dragon explains: he herds 300 horses of Yagi the lamb; MM gives I. a tablecloth to make a bridge across the sea; I. is a good shepherd, daughters Y. persuade his mother to give I. a horse; I. takes MM again, horse I. tells his brother to throw off the dragon, he dies, MM sits on his horse; wedding, I.'s son-in-law also feast on it]: 160-169; 1948 [when dying, Ivan's father orders to give each of the three sisters off as the first to marry; at night an unknown groom comes, takes the eldest, then the middle, the youngest; I. sees a picture in the bazaar, goes to look for the same girl; at the crossroads he finds another picture, the more beautiful one, he tears up first; I. consistently comes to the owners of the copper, silver, golden house, there the husbands of his sisters, they give hairs (burn, help will come), stockings (allow you to fly), a magic handkerchief, an accordion (plays only in the hands of the owner); I. flies to Nastasya the Beautiful; her female soldiers they imprison I., there are already many dying; I. feeds everyone, the NP tells them to take away the handkerchief; I. plays the accordion, everyone is dancing; NP asks to play, gets tired of dancing, agrees to take I. as her husband, gives the crown; I. dissolves female soldiers, recruits men; unlocks the room, there is an old man on chains, I. feeds him, he breaks his chains, takes the NP; I. flies to the castle on the mountain, takes his wife; the old man's horse easily catches up with them, the old man burns I., the hairs given by his brothers-in-law burn, his brothers-in-law come to the rescue; Orlovich sends an eagle for living water, I. comes to life; tells his wife to find out where the old man got his horse; he replies that the pass is three days 12 witch horses, got a horse; 11 heads of those who did not save horses are now on poles; NP gives I. a whip, tells each of the horses to whip; I.'s horses run away, brothers-in-law beat them, drive them into the gate; this the daughter of a witch, she treats them; for the third time, the 11th mare daughter turns into a bird, does not allow herself to be whipped, flies away; Orlovich's brother-in-law pulls her out of the swallow hollow; I. chooses the worst horse (she became a bird, was badly beaten); she tells her sister (i.e. the old man's horse) to throw him off first, then come; I. became a two-horse rich king]: 78-88; Beke 1938, No. 47 [dying, the king commands three sons to give their three sisters off as the first to come to marry; three poor old men come successively; the older brothers refuse, the younger brothers give their sisters; they were the Eagle King, Tsar Koschey and Tsar Razhim; The king also warned the sons not to hunt on the west side; the elder takes people, goes east, north and south, there is no prey; he goes west, the game is abundant; a cloud appears, people have come out of it, killed his older brother and everyone with him; the same with his middle brother; the younger Ivan tells him to hide in the hollow; his people shoot themselves, killing those who come; then I. follows the bloody trails; comes to the house called a healer; a woman the size of a haystack says that her son was wounded by 14 bullets; I. tells a large pot of resin and fat to boil; let the old woman help pour it on the patient and sit on the cauldron herself; I. scalded them to death, cut off the old woman's head; came to the house, where she was beautiful; he showed her the old woman and her son who had been killed; then she put him in a silver cart and they flew; the wind blew out, I. fell out, fell; when he wakes up, he comes to his older sister; she turned it into an apple, hid it in her pocket; asks her husband what he would do to her older brother; eagle: would swat; the same with the middle one; he would greet the youngest ; says that his missing girlfriend was taken away by "Magadey"; sends him to his middle sister; her husband is also afraid of C., refers him to his youngest; her husband Razhim explains that C. must first steal his six-legged horse ; on his order, the birds brought this horse two days later; I. rode it to C.'s home, freed the girl from her fetters, took her away; but C. has a 12-legged horse; on it, C. caught up with I. and ordered the horse to crush that into pieces the size of oatmeal; R. tells the birds to bring all these remains, fold them, bring live water in their beaks; I. is revived ("How long have I slept"); R. to birds: Can you deliver a 12-legged? birds: no; R.: is everyone here? birds: one old bird is gone; it was delivered, it teaches you how to get a long lasso, make a huge pen, tame that horse; I. tamed, took away C.'s daughter, he is chasing a 6-legged horse, I. tells the 12-legged to crush C. into pieces the size of a grain of sand; by R. I. marries his daughter C.; they go back - she is on a 6-legged horse, I. is on a 12-legged horse; they stop in a clearing; I. wants to get together with his wife right away; she tells him to wait 14 days; I. tries to act by force; his wife slaps him in the face, he dies, she sits on a 12-legged horse, and the 6-legged runs after him; R. finds out everything, the birds bring living water again; the other two son-in-law have arrived; all three told I. that now let he is looking for his wife himself; I. comes to the old woman, she indicates where his wife's house is in the forest; I. tries to climb the stairs into it, she broke, I. got killed; climbed the other stairs through the window; on the wall swords, they will cut off his head if you try to enter another room; I. climbed into the barrel and rolled in, his swords did not notice him; his wife sleeps there for three days without waking up; he takes her key, then finds second; unlocks the closet from where the heron flies out; finds her horses in the stable; the wife wakes up and asks why she released the heron; everything is fine, they have children]: 424-457; Chuvash [=Eysin 1993:97-101, = Chuvash tales 1937:160-166, =Shurtakov 1984:87-92; Mamaldyk gives off his eldest daughter Soroka as Wolf, middle Swallow for Fish, youngest named Last to Hawk; Arsyuri (Leshy) tells M. to marry him daughters; M. goes to look for her, goes to his sons-in-law on the way, everyone promises to help; M. marries daughter A., who dies, does not tell her to unlock the twelfth basement; M. unlocks, there is a dragon; he takes away his wife and palace; the wife finds out where the dragon's soul is (there is an oak in the sea, there is a bull in it, a duck in a bull, three eggs in a duck); a wolf, a fish, a hawk help catch animals, M. kills a dragon]: Sidorova 1979:133-137; Tatars [at the padishah three daughters and a son; the son is lost; three horsemen consistently promise to take him home if he gives his sister; the third time he agrees; in the morning the sisters were taken away; the brother goes in search; comes to the old mother of those horsemen; she shows the way; the sons-in-law are divas, each gives a pouch; the brother comes to the padishah's daughter; whoever sees her faints; he unties the first pouch, tables with food appear ; the princess asks for a pouch; when the young man gives the third, he tells his friend to tie him to the princess; the padishah marries them; tells them not to unlock the twelfth room; the young man unlocks, there is a 12-headed divas, asking for water , promises to save from three deaths, breaks chains and takes his wife away; the young man finds a wife, tells him to find out where the diva's soul is; he meets the diva twice, who takes away his three gifts of life; the wife decorates the broom; the poker; For the third time, the diva confesses that his soul is in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on a bull's back in the sea; sons-in-law helps to grab a bull, get an egg; the young man broke the egg, the diva died, the young man took his wife; then he also killed sons-in-law]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 64:315-321; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 56 [the whirlwind consistently takes away Tsar Garif's three daughters; his son Akhmet dreams of a beautiful woman, goes to look for her, consistently stays with devas, the husbands of the sisters; one of them is the owner of birds, the other is animals, the third is aquatic creatures; each gives a magic handkerchief; Lena the Beautiful (LP) sends A. to prison, where they sit who came to marry her; agrees with A. that he will marry him if four warriors cannot hold him and he kisses her; A. loses twice, each time gives LP one of the handkerchiefs; the third time kisses, marries; finds deva Kasim batyr behind a locked door, gives him a drink, he gives A. 150 years of life twice, flies away, takes LP away; A. takes LP three times, K. catches up each time, first takes his gifts, then kills A.; dev-son-in-law find out about this when they see blood in the tube left by A.; they are looking for a doctor, only a lame frog pulls out living and dead water, revives A.; LP hides A., stabs the girl, says Kasima, that she cries, wanting to know where he got the six-winged stallion, where K.'s soul is hidden; K. answers, A. listens; first K. says that his soul in a ram, in a broom, LP adorns them; A. spares the wolf, hawk, anthill, pike, cat; cat distracts the dogs of an old woman who owns mares; K. got her 6-winged horse; the old woman tells mares to herd, they run away, turning into foxes, pigeons, fish; wolf, hawk, pike bring them back; the old woman scatters poppy seeds and tells them to collect poppy seeds, the ants collect, the cat pulls out what they swallowed with the mouse; A. chooses a thin foal as payment, this is a 12-winged horse; he carries A. to the island; on the way, A. takes a saw from the devils; cuts down a poplar on the island, pulls out a chest from under it, kills a duck that has flown out of it, takes three eggs from it, in which K.'s soul; kills K. returns home with LP]: 389-402; 1989, No. 44 [the old man bequeaths his two sons to marry; these are the Bear, the Eagle, the Karagush bird; the eldest marries himself, the youngest leaves; does not kill the duck, she rewards, in the morning he is in the palace with his wife; they have a son, Salim; the hero unlocks the door, followed by the bird Eztyrnak with copper claws; the hero frees her for the gift of three extra lives; E. takes his wife; the hero comes to his sons-in-law, they all fly together on Karagush, he takes his wife, E. catches up, takes one life; so three times; the wife finds out that E.'s soul is in the egg, in the chests, in the copper palace; her sons-in-law get it, they break an egg, the hero takes his wife]: 202-209.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz (Issyk-Kul Province) [Nurzhan, he has daughters Aikyz, Gulkyz, Nurkyz, and son Sarytai; his wife dies, Nurzhan suffers, wants to marry again, but I feel sorry for the children; in a dream, a voice tells me to betray daughters without dowry, someone hands Kyzyr Niyaz's ring, it makes wishes come true if you turn to him by name; in the morning, a ring on his right thumb; to check, Nurzhan demands a good one from the ring food; the family has healed for pleasure; Nurzhan announces a will to his son during his lifetime: after his death, three dervishes will appear who will wash his body and bury him, his son must give them sisters without dowry , as well as all the good that is at home; let him keep only the ring, do not tell anyone his name; S. fulfilled his father's will and went to distant lands; he forgot that the ring fulfills wishes; almost drowns in the river , the fish takes it ashore; in the forest it hides from predators in the tree, by morning they eat each other; S. reaches the mountains, cannot pass them, falls asleep; the perishte spirits carried him over the mountains; S. falls into an area where the wind is raging, clouds of poisonous insects in the air; in some old courtyard he finds an old man and an old woman, offering them to become their son; they ask them not to go outside at night; he goes out and sees the sky has two moons; one goes out in the morning, it becomes darker; the old woman says that the ruler has a married daughter named Sahipzhamal, she plays in the palace courtyard with her friends and is so beautiful that the radiance from her face is the second moon; S. falls ill from love; notices a ring on his hand, remembers, tells her to fill the house with food; asks adoptive parents to marry him to Sahipzhamal; the old woman comes ask her to marry S.; the vizier advises to give an impossible task: to bring 40 precious stones; S. orders the ring to deliver 40 camels, 40 horses, 40 mules and 40 donkeys loaded with precious goods with stones; let them be accompanied by 25 beautiful people whose clothes are decorated with gem buttons, decorate the bangs of their horses with gemstone bells; mothers highlight a separate horse, clothes on it let it be luxurious, like the harness on horseback; the ruler is shocked, asks the groom himself to come; wedding; S. tells the ring to create a new palace on the cloud, and under it a lake of milk and a lake of butter; vizier persuades Sahipzhamal to find out her husband's secret; S. says the name of the ring; the vizier says it, he orders the palace and Sahipzhamal to be moved to seventh heaven; S. is looking for sisters, their dervish husbands help to him; the eldest's husband is guilty of sleeping for 40 days and 40 nights, all this happened when he slept, takes S. to his younger sister's husband, who says that the Zymyryk bird can take him to the palace, a bird Zymyryk lays 2 eggs every year, but the dragon eats the chicks, you need to kill the dragon, save the chicks and Zymyryk will help; the dervish gives the young man a one-inch sword, which, when swung, extends to 40 fathoms, and takes him to a tree with a nest Zymyryk; S. drinks from a spring at the foot of the tree and falls asleep in anticipation; wakes up from the rain, these are the tears of the chicks, sees that the dragon is preparing to swallow them; he kills the dragon, feeds its chicks with meat, himself, after eating a leaf from a tree, begins to understand the language of the chicks; they say that their mother will arrive soon, hide it under their wings; storm, wind, tornado, rain and hail alert about the appearance of the bird Zymyryk; seeing that the chicks are intact, the bird is happy, ready to fulfill any wish of the savior; S. asks to be delivered to seventh heaven; they take 40 wineskins with water and 40 with meat; the bird teaches: if you look to the right, you should throw her a wineskin with meat, if to the left, a wineskin with water; supplies run out, S. gives the bird meat from his right thigh and moisture from his left eye; oh, appearing at the palace, he sees through the gap how The vizier pulls Sahipzhamal to his bed, and she shouts that she has a husband; after waiting for the vizier to fall asleep, S. says "Kyzyr Niyaz" and the ring is on his finger; he orders them to be transferred to Father Sahipzhamal; shows him the sleeping vizier and Sahipzhamal, the king orders the vizier to cut off his head, scolds his daughter; calls him to imitate Sarytai, true to his word]: Sabyr uulu 2008:119-125.

Western Siberia. Mansi [the wind blows Mosh-ne's clothes hung outside, made of sable skins; she goes in search; her younger, middle, older sisters are married to Fox, Wolf, Bear; each of the sisters and their husbands advise her to sew new clothes, not to go any further; M. comes to the house where he sees her clothes; two men cut off her head; her head rolls towards the sisters, then into her fallen apart the house where she now lives]: Kupriyanova 1960:87-89; Northern Khanty (Kazim dialect) [Little Power Man lives with three sisters on the holy cape; at night someone tells her older sister to be taken out; the next night is middle; the youngest; he comes to the royal city, stays with a woman with a seven-planted braid; the wife leaves the keys, tells not to unlock the eighth barn; he unlocked, there is a one-eyed man nailed to the beam kul; asks for water; drinks, breaks down, takes his wife MMM; MMM goes looking, consistently comes to his sisters; they are married to Wolverine, Bear, Wolf; Wolf gives a ball of thread, you have to follow him to the sea, on the island, the house of a one-eyed kul; when he falls asleep, he must cut him with a sword; his wife turns MMM into a needle; MMM cut the cake; but he still chases them, cut MMM into pieces, threw it down; sons-in-law they caught the pieces in the water, revived it; he comes to his wife again, she turns him into a thimble; the kul sleeps like a snake; MMM cut him, returned home with his wife on a winged horse]: Steinitz 2014, No. 15:110-122.

Eastern Siberia. Far Eastern Evenks (probably Uchursky) [three sisters are coming; one found a wing, the other a button, the third a knife; an eagle flew in, took the first one, the raven the second, the guy the third; she promises to give birth to a strong boy; his older sisters stole him, drowned him, replaced him with a puppy; the husband left his wife; that child was taken by burbot {apparently a female; there is no gender category in Altai languages}; mother noticed traces in the water child; found and caught him; burbot (iha): I will take him away, I fed him with my liver; but the woman did not give it back; the boy's father came, his wife told him everything; the son became a hero, they migrated away]: Myreeva 2009:157-161; Evens [someone demands that a man marry his older sister; he refuses, someone hides the sun for three days, has to give it back; the same with middle and younger; a man goes looking for them, marries a girl; she forbids entering the barn; a man comes in; one-legged Cholare, chained to a pole, asks him to be released; a man frees him, he takes his wife away; a man finds sisters, each saying that C. was chained by their husbands; a man helps a deer, a burbot, a cowshed builder; they help him, he kills C. and his mother]: Kozlov 1956:286-296.

Japan. Japanese: Inada, Ozawa 1977 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 552:322-323