K85B. The three-legged horse. .16.23.27.-.29.32.35. (.38.)
Thethree-legged horse is strong and fast, and is ridden by an inhuman rider.
Germans (Pomerania), (French), Chemical plowmen, Bosnians, Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Balkarians, (Karachays), Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Avars, Megrelians, Georgians (Kartli), Mordovians, Kets, (Nanais).
Western Europe. Germans (Pomerania) [young man herding pigs in the forest from year to year; once he came across a tree whose top went into the clouds; climbed the day, spent the night tied to a thick branch, then reached the forks where the village was; when he learned that the tree continued, he reached the castle; there was an enchanted girl: she must live in this castle forever; the young man stayed with her; she warns not to unlock one from the rooms; the young man unlocked, there is a raven nailed to the wall with three nails; asks for a drink; the young man gave a few drops, the nails fell out the window; the girl says that this was the one who bewitched her the devil; now he will carry her away; in the morning she is gone; the young man came down from the tree and went in search; met a wolf; he gave three hairs to call him for help; the same bear; a lion; a young man comes to the princess; she says that she is being guarded by an old hunter (i.e. that sorcerer); he has a three-legged horse that knows everything and can easily catch up with the fugitives; they run away, the three-legged screams, the sorcerer has come running: are they far away? - Not far away, sit on me and catch up; sorcerer young man: this time I forgive because I gave me water, but next time I'll kill me; the young man teaches the princess: I'll come, get under the bed, and you ask where the sorcerer got it a three-legged stallion; the sorcerer and the princess call each other "daughter" and "dad"; the sorcerer replies that he got a three-legged three-day service; a witch nearby, she tells those who come to herd her foals; who she can, can choose a foal to her liking; sometimes she also lets 12 lambs throw them to 12 wolves to let them through the forest; but she, the sorcerer, did not give him, so the wolves caught up with a foal and tore one leg; whoever fails to herd, head off shoulders and stake; it's time to put around the house for the ninth time; the young man makes the witch a condition that, in addition to the foal, she also gives lambs; the witch gave supplies; the young man drank vodka and fell asleep; when he woke up, he remembered the wolf's hairs; he told him to sit on it, and after catching up with those who had run away, hit them three times, making the sign of the cross; the foals stood up as if dug in; the young man brought them the witch in time; she started beating the foals, but they talked about the wolf; the next day the witch gave the young man more vodka; he woke up later, but called the bear and he brought the foals back; on the third day the witch poured a full flask; the lion brought the foals; the witch had to let the young man choose his foal, who chose the most inconspicuous one; he barely jumps: the witch put the pies in her bag, leaving the foal hungry; the young man gave them to him, he found strength; the young man threw lambs to the wolves; when the sorcerer chased the young man on a three-legged foal, his four-legged did not convince him, but advised his foal to throw off his sister the sorcerer; she threw him off and the foals trampled him to death; then the princess drove a three-legged and the young man a four-legged one; the wedding; the king died and the young man received the throne; the four-legged tells him to cut off the heads of him and his sister; he did this and the horses became prince and princess; they were bewitched by the same sorcerer; the forest turned into a flourishing country with villages and cities; if the king and his wife did not die, still alive]: Jahn 1891, #3:19-29; (cf. French (Lorraine) [when leaving, the king gives his son the keys to the castle, forbiding him to enter the same room; the prince entered there, there is a pool, he dipped his finger in it, his finger is covered with indelible gilding; the king forgives his son; when he leaves again, the son washes in the pool, asks the horses which one is faster; Bayard takes only 15 leagues in a step, but smarter than Moreau; the father chases Moreau on horseback; Bayard tells you to throw a sponge (forest), a scraper (river), a stone (a mountain covered with razors); Moreau hurts his legs, the king returns; the prince changes clothes with a farmhand, pulls a bubble over his head, hires a cook for the local king, his name is Sheludivy (Sh.); the king's three daughters must throw a golden apple at their chosen ones; the youngest saw that S. had golden hair, threw an apple at him; the elders choose a humpback (G.) and quiver (K.); the king will be healed by three jugs of water of the Queen of Hungary; S. rides his three-legged horse to the place where he left Bayar, takes these three jugs there, sells to his older sons-in-law for the right a hundred stab everyone in the ass with an awl; enemies attack, S. wins everyone in true guise; buys golden apples thrown at G. and K. by their wives for two more jugs of water by the Queen of Hungary; wins again enemies; the king wounds him with an arrow to mark; Bayard says that after completing five services, he can regain his prince appearance, leaves; the king looks for the wounded in the thigh with his arrow; this is S.; older sons-in-law are driven away]: Lopyreva 1959, No. 29:106-111).
South Asia. Himachali plowmen [the jackal eats the poor weaver's food; he catches him, ties him, hits him with death; the tied man tells another jackal that he is being fed to the dump; the other jackal changes with him in some places; when the weaver starts beating him, he promises to marry him to a princess; turns into a brahmana, comes to the king, says that his daughter is being married to a rich Raja from the weaver caste; buys white sheets, cotton wool, lays out sheets by the river, the Raja believes that these are the groom's tents; the jackal throws cotton wool into the river, tells the Raja that the groom's retinue has drowned; the weaver marries the princess, stays in her palace; his wife forces him to tell the truth; his wife always tells his father-in-law to agree; the Raja tells him to go to war, his son-in-law chooses a three-horse (he will limp, no one will understand that he is wearing an unfit rider); this a flying horse, the Raja admires his son-in-law's insight; in order not to fall, he ties himself to the horse, adding a millstone on both sides; tree branches become entangled in the harness, enemies are frightened at the sight of the strange rider, make peace]: Dracott 1906:125-131.
The Balkans. The Bosnians [when they die, the father tells his three sons to give their three sisters to be the first to come for them; the elders do not go to give sisters to strangers, the younger Mula-Mustafa gives them away; the brothers go They look for them; they spend the night by the lake, the first night their elder brother guards, a dragon crawls out of the lake, the young man cuts off his head, cuts off his ears, head and body into the lake; on the second night, the same middle brother a two-headed dragon; in the third MM, a three-headed dragon; when he threw his body into the lake, a wave flooded with fire; MM sees fire in the distance, comes to the fire of giants; they will give fire if MM kills the sultan in Istanbul; a 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, to arrange inns where to ask coming about their adventures; three brothers meet in such a yard, tell them what happened to them, get to know each other; the sultan passes his daughter off as MM; after leaving, tells them not to unlock the room where Atesch Perischa; MM unlocks, AP takes his wife (i.e. the daughter of the sultan); MM goes in search; arrives at the tower, where the older sister is married to the king of ravens; the raven sends to his middle sister, she is behind the king of dragons, he to the youngest is for the king of eagles; the king of eagles convenes eagles, only one old patient can take MM to the AP, but first must swim in living water, between rocks that open once a year; MM feeds the eagle sheep, the eagle has time to rejuvenate before the rocks slam shut; AP arrives on a three-legged horse; in his absence, MM negotiates with his wife to find 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 wearing a three-legged horse; whoever kills a mare that comes out of the lake once a year and takes her foal will defeat him; he himself does not killed a mare and wounded a foal, so he is three-legged; MM killed, took a foal, his wife gave him cow milk, which became a powerful horse; MM killed AP, put his wife on a three-horse, returned with her to the Sultan]: Schütz 1960, No. 4:31-48.
Central Europe. Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Elena the Beautiful is stolen by a snake, her sister, Ivan Tsarevich's wife, becomes angry, the serpent "makes her a snake" (metaphor). Ivan asks the mighty hero Churila for help, who agrees to come instead of him at night and teach her a lesson. At night, Churila's wife takes Churila for her husband, he beats her (while her husband hides). She asks to let her go, promises to be kind and obedient again. Asks her husband to return her sister Elena. Churilo promises to do everything instead of Ivan. On the way, he sees two snakes attacking one, helping the latter because he stole Elena, then protects him twice from other snakes. She comes to the beautiful tower where Elena is hidden and takes her away. The pigeon flies to the snake, reports the incident, the snake asks the horse if he will be able to catch up with the fugitives, the horse says that first the snake must sow life, collect, grind grain, brew beer, and drink horse. The serpent follows the instructions, catches up with Churylo on horseback - he has no weapon, he is forced to give it to Elena, the serpent recognizes him and promises to let him go alive three times (how many times he has been saved). Churylo steals Elena again, everything repeats itself twice (the horse orders the snake to sow buckwheat, etc.), the snake warns that it will no longer spare Churylo. He steals Elena for the third time, the serpent catches up, cuts him up. Three days later, the wolf, Churila's brother, finds the body, grabs a crow that bites the dead body, demands that the crow bring healing and living water, and he brings it in 3 days ("as I slept!"). The wolf advises Churylo to take a foal from a snake mare, hide it from wolves on Tsar Mountain (they eat them), who digs a hole and hides it in it. When the wolves leave, the foal asks to let him go to his mother, Churylo lets him go for 3 days, the foal gains strength and grows up (the snake horse is three-legged, one leg was eaten by wolves). Churylo takes Elena on a new horse (she thought Churylo was dead and did not want to go with him). The pigeon tells the snake about the escape, the horse warns the snake that it is unlikely to catch up with the fugitives. Churilo's horse asks why the three-legged horse carries a "reptile" (he did not let him "feed to his mother", did not protect it from wolves). The horse drops the snake "the bones themselves are left", Churilo puts Elena on it. Churilo leaves her and his horse to Ivan, his wife rejoices and arranges a feast]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 159:159-165; Belarusians [a matchmaker came for the elder, younger sister, they went out onto the porch, blown away by the wind; brother Ivan the Peasant Son goes to look 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 loaves, three alder logs and three aspen logs; ate and drank, broke the chains with logs, took Mary Krasa away; I. found M., took it; K. asks his three-legged horse if we will catch up; horse: have dinner and go to bed, we'll catch up in the morning; the old man returned M. twice; I. came to his sisters, one married to the Sun in a copper house, his son-in-law gave a falcon; the second for Thunder in the silver house, gave a dog; I. in took M. away for the third time, K. caught up with him and killed him; Thunder and the Sun grabbed the crows, ordered the crow to bring alive and dead water, revived I.; he tells M. to find out where K.'s soul is; K.: island, oak, hollow, hare, duck, egg ; Baba Yaga must get a horse like K.; I. went for K.'s soul; let go of the queen of flies, she promised to help; the same crayfish king; sparrow; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd; flies, crayfish drive mares; they order to choose a horse in the scab as a reward; Baba Yaga orders to collect the sown poppy; sparrows collect; I. received a horse, he brought it to the island, I. got an egg with K.'s soul; I. took M. away, his horse told K. not approach; I. broke an egg, K. died]: Vasilenok et al. 1958:115-122.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [(zap. Sergei Tumanov in Feodosia); when he dies, the tsar tells his three sons to marry their three sisters; they are taken by the Leo, the Tiger, the huge Raven; each time the girl is given away only at insistence younger brother; sitting by the window, the younger brother shoots through the wineskins of the girl who comes to the well; she curses him, telling him to suffer from love for the daughter of the sun and moon; he goes in the direction indicated by the girl; the old woman says that Raven lives there; this is the young man's son-in-law; his house is guarded by forty lions and forty tigers; the young man buys meat, the old woman goes and throws it to everyone; cuts off the last piece from her leg; the young man's grateful sister made the lion regurgitate the meat, put it back, sends an invitation with the old woman; the brother comes, his sister hides him; eclipsing the sun, the Raven arrives, becomes a man; convenes creatures find out where the daughter of the sun lives; the latter knows; the prince sits on her with his horse, feeds her meat and water on the way; leaves her in his nest; every year the snake kills her chicks; the prince cuts the snake, feeds the chicks; the bird swallows and regurgitates them, allowing them to fly; the king catches the princess bird, gives them to his daughter; at night he turns into a man, drinks her sorbet; she guards; he becomes her lover; gets married; they go to his house; at rest, a Black Arab takes her away on a three-legged horse; the prince comes to his city, stays with an old woman; she gets the keys to an Arab, releases the prisoner, the prince takes her away; the Arab asks the horse whether to go now or after he is drunk; the horse: I will have time to sleep; the Arap catches up, cuts the prince into pieces, puts him in a bag, the horse takes him bag to the Raven; Raven's mother glues the pieces with pomegranate juice, revives it with pomegranate; the prisoner pretends to love an Arab, he talks about a tripod horse; in the ninth meadow, the mare runs north, gives birth, four wolves come to demand food; an Arab is not enough for the fourth, he has eaten a foal's leg; the prince feeds all four, receives a four-legged foal from the same mare, takes his wife away; a tripod throws off an Arab, he was killed]: Potanin 1883:725-729; Adygs: Lipkin 1951 [Thagoledge, god of fertility, says he is old, gives millet to sledges, one grain of which is enough to cook a cauldron of pasta; sledges hide seeds in a copper barn; Emynyzh, with the body of a dragon and the face of a giant, broke the barn, took the seeds; Satan tells us who the thief is and how to get to E. (from sunrise across the sky to sunset); Aryksha was the first to go, did not return; Sosruko was the next; Sataney explains that E. settled in the west to devour the sun; at the gate of the fortress E. huge swords converge and disperse; S. cuts them with the sword of sledge blacksmith Tlepsh; the girl kidnapped by E. says that E. went to plow to the top of the mountain, taking a bag of seeds with him; S. jumps up on mountain, the bag grabs, but E. on a three-legged horse easily catches up with him and takes the bag away; the girl asks E. to tell him where his soul is; he replies that it is in the door frame; S. takes the bag again, E. again takes him away; the girl gilded the frame; E. says that the soul is in wood; again the same episodes; E. admits that his soul is in a three-legged horse, the son of a mare Tozh, she is from an old woman's herd; S. goes to her, calling frost so that E. does not have time to finish plowing during his absence; helps a wolf, falcon, fish along the way; breaks through tigers, eagles and dogs that attacked him; fell to an old woman's chest; she tells him 3 days herd her herd; wolf, falcon, fish collect scattered horses; S. receives as a reward the foal that the mare also gave birth to at sea; the foal asks to let him go to his mother so that he can drink her milk and became stronger than his brother; S. takes the bag, E. cannot catch up with him, the foal S. tells his brother to throw E., he threw it into the abyss, E. crashed; S. returned the seeds to the sledges, gave the girl to the sledge]: 59-75; Huth 1987 (shapsugi) [when he dies, Erestem tells his 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 older two tell him to do women's work; he goes to look for his sister; she says that he kidnapped the beautiful Tletanai; her husband says that the hoarder has a horse, Jacques; the young man finds T., at his request, she finds out from the other where Jacques was found; 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; who have fled to heaven, to sea, horses are brought into the forest 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; comes back, drinks more twice; 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; the young man brings the severed head and wife]: 112-119 (=Kerashev 1957:53-63); Balkarians (Western 1959) [the elder brother and his squad stopped for the night, the black fog approached, destroyed them; the middle brother was the same; the younger brother was careful, hid, escaped himself; came to Emegensha, fell to her breasts; her sons with they made friends with him; explained that the fog was a girl, she stole their horse; they had a piebald mare, her foals were dragged away by a wolf; the girl managed to take the foal, but the wolf gnawed off his leg, so her horse three-legged; fog is steam from his nostrils; tomorrow the mare will give birth again; the young man caught the foal without injuries; emegens teach: hiding alternately so that the girl thinks that the horse is falsely raising anxiety, approach the girl; she has been sleeping for a month, her hair must be tied; let her go when she swears a prayer book; the boy and the girl got married; she gave her husband her portrait; he lost it, the water brought it to the khan ; the witch promised to get a beautiful woman; came to the young man's wife before he was gone, persuaded him to find out where his soul was; in a broom; burned a broom; a bead in his hair; the young man was drunk, the witch tore off the bead, threw it into the corner, took the girl away; she demands to wait a year for the wedding; the emegens see that blood is dripping from the young man's arrow; they came, found a bead, put it, the young man came to life; asked the shepherd, threw a ring into the maid's jug wives; during the wedding, an unrecognized man stabbed a witch and took his wife on a four-legged horse; brought the groom's friend on a three-legged emegen to be eaten; along with his Emegen brothers in that mentioned rock a crack, if not dead, probably (and now) live]: Malkonduev 2017:229-240; (cf. Karachays [(Biinöger poem); hunter Biineger's brother falls ill; in a dream B. sees that only white deer milk will heal him; only a dog belonging to his mother's brother can catch him; he refused to give a dog; other people gave the dog; the white three-legged deer led B. to the cliff and left it; it was the eldest daughter of the hunting god Apsata, she punished B. for killing animals; 15 days all they persuaded B. to jump down so as not to suffer; he listened only to his beloved; when B. died, she commits suicide (the same among the Svans, Virsaladze 1976:66)]: Ortabayeva 1982:15-17); Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [father bequeaths three sons to marry three sisters; these are dragon, eagle, hawk; brothers shoot, elder arrows fall at the tsar's doorstep, the youngest at 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 his younger daughter-in-law; the younger brother in search the wife receives advice from the sisters' husbands; the hawk gives the flying horse; the young man takes the 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 the 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 wolves guarding the Avsurgs - Donbettyr's horses; on the road he takes his wife, the horse kills three-legged and dwarf; feeling guilty, the older brothers died, followed by the youngest; the wife committed suicide; trees grew above the graves, their branches intertwined]: 64-75; Dzagurov 1973, No. 32 [Aldar has 3 daughters, he keeps them in an iron tower; later Soslanbeck's son was born; the widow's daughter went to fetch water; S. fired an arrow and smashed her jugs; the widow teaches the girl next time to say to S.: I would find it better than his own sisters; the mother had to confess that S. came to the sisters, they asked him to beg his parents to let them go to church for the party; after the service, three monsters kidnapped the girls; parents told S. to find them; while S. was sleeping, an elephant came out of the river, swallowed S.'s horse and told him to sit on it; brings him successively to his three sisters; they give them a ring, a knife, a purse to call them if necessary; S. refuses marry beauties whose portraits are shown and sought to be shown a hidden portrait; the father-in-law of the sisters S. is the dragon Zaliag Kalm; he sleeps surrounded by an iron fence with his body; S. cut the dragon, came in, to meet his daughter, beautiful Sugar; she gave him sleeping pills, ordered him to be thrown into the tower; S. summoned the horsemen from the ring, they released him, but when they saw Sugar, S. lost consciousness and Sugar took his ring; the same with a knife; the heroes came out of the purse, and S. hid it in advance; after that, Sugar agreed to become S.'s wife; ordered not to unlock the seventh room; S. unlocked, chained there giant Khatag-Barag and his horse; HB asks to throw them bread and hay, promises to provide three services; after being free, HB took Sugar; S. comes to her three times and takes her away, but HB catches up each time; for the fourth time chopped S. to pieces; his sisters caught a crow; told his mother to bring live water, otherwise they would tear the crow to shreds; after reviving S., the sisters told him to get the half-brother of the horse HB; the owner of the herd tells him to herd him without loss: either he will give the horse or cut off the shepherd's head; on the way, S. wanted to kill, but let the wolf, the fox and the wasp go; each of them gathers a herd in the evening; the mare must give birth, her witch beat; in revenge, the mare told S. that it is necessary to choose the foal she would give birth to, although he would seem weak; the foal tells you to wait three days, becomes a heroic horse; tells you to climb into one ear, get out of the other - S. became a hero in a golden robe; S. took Sugar away; when HB caught up and took off to hit S. from above, S.'s horse was taller and S. killed HB; everything is fine]: 80-91; Libedinsky 1978 [one golden apple ripened on a sledge apple tree a day; rer healed people from diseases and healed wounds, although it did not save them from death; at night someone stole an apple; sledges take turns guarded, but to no avail; it was Warhag's turn; he sent the sons of Ahsar and Ahsartag to guard; if the apple is stolen, one of them will be beheaded by sledges, the other hand will be placed on stakes; Ahsartag guarded until midnight, but then told Akhsar that he could continue to sleep; at dawn a dove flew in; Akhsartag cut off half of her wing with an arrow, the apple fell to the ground; the brothers went to the ground on a bloody trail to the sea; Akhsartag descends into the sea; if bloody foam immediately rises, he dies; if white, let Ahsar wait for him for a year; in a house at the bottom of 7 brothers say that they have 3 sisters; one of them, Zerassa, is in the habit of stealing sledge apples in the guise of a dove; if you put on a severed wing and letting her eat an apple, she will recover; whoever cures her, she will marry; Ahsartag Dz healed; a year later he remembered to go back to his brother; Z. turned herself and her husband into fish and they surfaced; they came to Ahsar's tent, but he was just hunting; Ahsarsag went to look for him, they missed each other; J. mistook Ahsar for her husband, they were so similar; Ahsar put his sword in bed for the night; Z. got up, was offended; Ahsarsag returned, thought that his wife had cheated; Ahsar fired an arrow into the sky: let will hit me at the place that Dz touched; the arrow hit Ahsarsag in the little finger and he died; Ahsartag stabbed with a sword; Uastyrzhi descended from the sky with a three-legged horse, promised to bury his brothers if Z. went for him; when he did it, Z. said that she must wash herself first, went to the sea, went to her father; Uastyrji promised to find Dz. in the world of the dead; his mother sent Z. to give birth to sledges on earth, otherwise they they do not recognize children as their own; Dz. gave birth in the lower tier of the Warhaga ancestral tower; the twins Uryzmag and Khamyts were born; they grew up quickly; H. broke the girl's jug out of mischief; she advised him to find it better his grandfather Warhag, who grazes sledges; W. recognized them, brought them upstairs to the ancestral tower; married Z.; died a year later, Dz died a year later; before her death she ordered her sons to guard her three nights the crypt; H. went to guard, but heard the music and went to the wedding; at that time Uastyrji came in, revived Dz., got together with her, she gave birth to a girl, died again; Uryzmag heard crying, took out a girl, she was named Shat & #225; Noah; same in Kaloev 1980:375; addition: On the third night, Uastyrdzhi came to D.'s crypt, then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed the powerful Nart family Akhsartagkat)]: 50-64; Sokayeva 2012, No. 6 [the younger brother sees a bloody stream, takes stones from there, sells Aldar; goes to get stones again, 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, a rider arrives on a three-legged horse, drops his whip, asks for food, 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 is awake for 6 days; wife: you need to get a foal from a three-legged mother, she is at the head of the devils, the mother is pregnant, she is guarded by 7 wolves; the head of the devils allows her to take the foal, the younger brother takes his wife], 8 [the father tells three sons to extradite three sisters for those who marry; sisters are taken away by three horsemen; brothers marry, the youngest's wife is missing, he goes in search, comes to his younger sister, who hides him; the husband arrives and tells how someone on a three-legged horse carried a beautiful woman; brother jumps up, son-in-law gives him a whip that revives the dead; the second son-in-law gives a horse, the third sends him to the goal; there is the kidnapper's wife, she cries: husband brought another beauty; a young man comes to the cave, takes his wife away; a three-legged horse tells the kidnapper not to hurry; easily catches up, the kidnapper kills the young man; his wife persuaded him to allow his remains to be tied to a horse ; his sister revives him with a whip; his wife orders to get another foal from the same mare; on the way, the young man feeds the hungry fox, the kite, lets the sea fish; the fish transports the sea; the young man falls to his chest woman; she tells you to save the foal when the mare gives birth to it; the mare runs away three times, the fox, the kite, the fish return it; the young man receives a three-legged foal, kills the evil spirit; woman: this spirit killed all the foals, this one 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; Ingush [little Fusht-Bagg stops cry when his father promises to marry him to Jinagaz; F. grows up, goes looking for J.; catches a hare, he turns into a beautiful woman, that's J.; promises to come to him in a week; stepmother sends the servant to put F. to sleep, J. cannot wake up; after the third time he leaves the ring, leaves forever; F. meets the maid J., throws J.'s ring into her jug, she recognizes it, keeps it; forbids go into the last room in the palace; F. comes in, there is a chained garbash (monster), F. agrees to free his hand, the garbash breaks out, now he is the master; F. and J. run, the three-legged garbash horse replies that after eating, we will catch up, and without eating we will catch up; easily catches up with the fugitives, the garbash forgives F.; J. tells how the garbash got the foal; three nights we must herd the witch's mares; in the end one necklaces, birds of prey rushed to the foal; the harbash held it with one hand, fought off the birds with the other sword, one eagle tore off the foal's front leg, but still a three-legged horse that had grown out of it fastest; F. rides, saves an eagle, fox, fish; herds mares, they run away, eagle, fox, fish collect, F. gets a four-legged foal; three-legged cannot catch up with him; horse brothers agree throw off the harbash, he falls into a hole, covers him with earth; F. brings J. to his home]: Bulatova 1985:133-141; Ingush [dying, the old man tells his sons to guard the grave: he dreamed of a wonder and it will come to disturb him; his older brother asks his younger brother named Ovdilg ("fool") to go instead of him; a red horse like a leopard comes running, begins to tear the grave with his hooves, O. tamed him; the same with the middle brother (white horse); on the third night, a black horse; each gives O. his hairs to summon him; the prince gives him three daughters, the youngest is Harsen Nars with a golden head and silver hands; O. on three horses jumps to three towers, takes and hides three girls; gives the elders to his brothers, HN takes for himself; Biydolg Bare kidnaps her; O. comes consistently to the son of the Sun, the son of the Month, the son of the Star; at BB three-legged guling horse; BB asks him twice if we will catch up before lunch; he replies that we will catch up with everything; BB breaks O. with his wolf club, takes XN; son of the Sun, son of the Month, resurrects O.; son of the Star tells you to go to the mountain where the mother of the gulings is screwed; tear the muscle off her hand, feed the wolf, otherwise he will wean the guling's leg; now O. has four-legged guling, and BB has a three-legged; BB can't catch up with O., guling goes to the ground, BB dies; wives drive O.'s brothers out to look for him; O. kills three Enjal monsters; brothers put a sword in the doorway, O. cuts off their legs on it, brothers take the guling; blind and armless they come to live with O.; while three cripples are hunting, XN's fire goes out; she comes to the yeshapyats; they give a sieve of ash on top of the coals; on the ash trail, the yeshap mother finds a home, drinks XN blood; for promising not to kill her, yeshapikha gives O. a bar, he cures cripples; O. kills yeshapiha; O. kills and revives brothers, drives them away]: Malsagov 1983, No. 8:55-71 (=Tankieva 2003:31-48); Nogais [dying, the old man orders sons give the 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 collect the brother's remains, 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 fights 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 a young man, but he told them to catch a foal in the lake themselves, they drowned; his sister was passed off as Khan]: Kapaev 2012:147-151; Avars [=Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 7:114-121; dying, the father tells three sons to guard his grave, to give three daughters for those who ask; the elder, middle brothers are afraid, the youngest grabs a gray horse, who carries him to seventh heaven and to the seventh lower world, is 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 him away the girl, the brothers are jealous; all three go down into the dungeon, feast there, the older ones are drunk, the youngest kills the 9-headed snake, cuts him off, hides his ears; the old man comes out from under the bush, thanks the snake for killing, gives his younger brother a daughter; Black Narth (CHN) will demand her; the old man warns not to stop on the way home; the young man falls asleep, CHN takes his wife; he finds sisters disguised as a wolf, a hawk , the falcon was also taken by the Narts; they do not know where ChN lives, but the Bat shows the way; while ChN sleeps, 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 the young man his second life; the young man asks his wife to ask ChN where he got 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 A wolf and ants rushed at him; the young man throws wheat and meat to him, takes the horse away; the horse kills the pursuer - ChN; the young man gives his wife to his brothers, takes two for himself]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:215-230; Megrelians [Tsagareli, Megrelian Studies, vol. 1:10-13; when dying, the king orders him to guard his grave for three nights and give three sisters as those who ask; the elder hears a rumble and sees someone dig the grave, grabbed the corpse, cried over him, and then buried it and disappeared; the same with the middle brother; while they were away, the youngest passed off the 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 rushed to run; while crossing the smut went out; he came back but captured; the Demi are told to get three princesses from the castle; the young man climbed the wall and killed all the demis one by one as they got up; went to the princesses, gave each one ring (his youngest), returned, took fire, plunged a 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 the youngest, gave it to his older brothers; the king gave the younger a flying carpet, the young and his servants flew it, but the flying monster took the princess; the young man went in search; came to three demi married to his sisters; they said they saw Kazha-Ndii-Kerkun ("fast silicon-like demi") carry a gold-haired beauty and they only managed to pull out the curl of her hair; the young man recognized his wife's curl; the demi-sons-in-law gave him a horse and 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 them to pieces; the dog collected them, loaded them on his horse, he came to the demy-sons-in-law; the youngest revived him, gave him three-legged horse; when K.'s horse caught up, three-legged and K.'s horse slowed down; the young man cut K. in half and returned his wife]: Wardrobe 1894, No. 2:112-118 (Kartley) [When 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; everything is fine; three red pomegranates fell, three juicy apples fell].
Volga - Perm. Mordva (moksha) [the prince is strong, maims his playmates, leaves with an iron club; takes two heroes as twin brothers; each takes turns guarding the bridge; the twin brothers sleep, the prince every time he kills a 6-, 9-, 12-headed snake himself, hides his heads under the bridge; overhears how snake wives promise to become a spring, an apple tree, a bed, poison, strangle heroes; the mother of snakes will smash one lip to the sky, the other to the ground, lowers one breast to the ground, raises the other to the sky; whips along the spring, apple tree, bed, blood flows; the prince's horse jumps over the old woman, she swallows her sister brothers; By order of the prince, the blacksmiths ask the old woman to stick out her tongue, press her with ticks, she regurgitates the swallowed ones; the prince's horse disappears; she solders the watchmen, takes her away from the magician; he looks in the mirror catches up on a three-legged horse; promises to give the horse if the prince brings the youngest sister from a glass house at the bottom of the sea; companions someone who is cold on fire, who drinks endlessly, who turns into fish; twin brothers complete the old woman's tasks (one cools the hot bath, the other drinks and eats forty barrels of beer and forty pounds of bread); the perch sister catches the bride who swims away with fish; the wife creates a ditch with hot coals, the magician on a three-legged horse dies in it; the old man cuts the girl, takes out snakes, frogs, worms, etc., revives the clean one, gives it to the prince]: Samorodov 1972: 221-235.
Western Siberia. Keta: Dulzon 1969, No. 57 (Imbatsky) [old man Erohot brings up a chanterelle; she steals fish from the Inita (Ingeta) storage shed, brings Erohota; Casket lived with the Inits; I. tells him to see what's outside K. says that there is no one; I. finds a chanterelle trail; the chanterelle became a three-legged horse, Init turned to Casketa; K. sat on his horse, came to the shaman tree, on it a cradle; began to swing in the cradle; upstairs eagle's nest, there are three eagles in it, the tree began to shake, the eagles squeaked; K. eagle: give me a flint bag; eagle: I'll give me my claw from the ruff; K. (aka chanterelle) went, became Tylget sitting on larch; the eagle wanted to catch him, and he snatched one eye from him; he became K. again, came to the sea; fish (shark, whale? storyteller's translation) stuck her nose out; said that the eagle wanted to grab her, she had her claw; but the fish's horns froze to the ice; would give her claw if K. brought horns; K. saw devils in the sand, smeared as if the devil himself was also soot, he did not drink, but poured it aside; when the devils got drunk, he took away the horns {that the devils had horns, it is not directly said, but it is clear}; brought the horns to the fish, she gave the eagle's claw; went, became again T. and larch; a whetstone at the butt, he took it; the sea rose, T. left the whetstone, the sea took it; an eagle flew in, K. gave him an eye, but not an eagle's claw; the eagle brought K. to the eagle, K. gave her a claw, received a flint; said he would go down to old man Erohot]: 184-186; 1966, No. 46 [Sintep ("old dog") lives with his grandmother in the form of a dog; tells her to ask for two daughters Ydat 'a for him; dries the well; gives water in exchange for daughters; smears his face with dog crap; son Y. Ky disdains to go to her sisters house, but finds not a dog there, but a handsome man; decides to mislead S., harnesses his two-legged horse; S. turns a bunch of dead wood into a three-legged horse; a woman The sun raised S. towards her; the older sister is looking for her husband, sees that he is chained to a stump in the sky; she flew up as a woodpecker, broke the chain, S. fell down, she put dog skin on him, took him home, he became again handsome; The Sun is crying, says he would not take S. if she knew he was married]: 109-113.
(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai: Aurora 1986, No. 34 [a three-legged roe deer tells a lonely mergen that her older sister is waiting for him, roe deer; mergen comes, pudi says that the roe deer is her younger brother, lures people and kills them; in the evening a lame boy came; pudi tells us to take skis without ties tomorrow; rolled across the river, and the boy fell into it; Mergen returned - the boy is at home; the next day, on the advice of pudi mergen he sits on the tree branch that is facing the mountain; the boy has to sit on a branch towards the river, it breaks, he falls into the water; the next day the boy chases animals; you can't shoot a male deer (you will die yourself) or female (pudi dies), you must shoot a three-legged roe deer; the boy tells you to shoot deer, the mergen does not shoot; does not tell the roe deer, the mergen shoots, the boy is killed in front of him; the pudi is happy comes to live at Mergen's house]: 206-208; Sunik 1958, No. 4 (Kur-Urmi) [well done enters the house where old Sengany has iron hair; she would kill him, but the beauty summoned her to fight and was seriously injured herself ; iron satka tells you to get a three-legged one-eared golden hare and a nine-planted bear; well done, catches and ties a hare; the bear almost killed him, but the beautiful Khumsikani descended from the sky, her won; well done, brought a hare, a bear, his wife recovered; once she sent her husband to catch fish, but he came back, started hitting her {it's not clear why}; she left, taking away all the food, all the poultry and the game; well done He loses consciousness from hunger, finds himself in the underworld; as on earth, he lives with a local beauty; she makes a horse out of paper, turns it into a real one, he returns to earth to his two wives; his wife was taken away by Borolda Bonga; well done to him; she is beautiful there, her jewelry is frogs and crayfish; he fights with B.; a bird from a tree throws him a golden box, an egg in it, B.'s life in the egg; well done, breaks an egg; brings home a third wife]: 136-139).