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Ethnicities and habitats

K88B. Food in exchange for eyes .11.-.17.22.-.24.27.-.32.

The character is thirsty or hungry. His companion promises to share water or food with him if he lets himself be dazzled.

Douala, Swahili, Dagomba, Bolanchi, Sudanese Arabs, Harari, Tuareg, Moroccan Arabs, Kabila, Algerian Arabs, Tunisian Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, Galicians, Corsicans, Germans (Hessen), Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Jibbali, Karen, Thais, Punjabi, Tamils, Sinhales, Sunda, Albanians, Bosnians, Hungarians, Moldovans, Romanians, Gagauz people, Russians (Pskov, Ryazan, Chistopol District Tatarstan), Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Kabardian, Ossetians, Lakers, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Tajiks, Tajiks of Sistan, Shugnans (?) , Yazgulyam, (Ishkashim), Sarykol, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Lithuanians, Latvians, Lutsi, Estonians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Douala [the father gives his two sons loaves of bread, sends him to seek food; the elder first eats the youngest's bread, then gives his own in exchange for the eyes of the youngest, leaves the blind; two women return he is given sight and medicine to cure a blind king; his older brother is poor and works hard, the youngest marries a princess, returns to his father]: Klipple 1992:216; Swahili [Lila and Fila are wandering, seven servings of food each; F. suggests that L. eat food first, separates him first by his clothes, then by L.'s eyes, throws it; he hears the birds talking: the tree heals blindness, they are buried under it treasures, and the tree on the contrary heals madness; L. puts bark to his eyes, sees the light; gets rich; heals the Sultan's mad daughter; when he sees F., he pulls out his eyes]: Klipple 1992:215-216.

West Africa. Dagomba [the chief's son found a friend, a poor young man; persuaded his father to give him as many slaves, women, cattle as his son; on the way, he offered to eat the leader's son's supplies first; when they ran out, agreed to give his money only for payment; taking slaves, cattle and women, demanded that the leader's son give him his eyes; blind and naked, the young man under the tree waited for death; the bird offered him take him to where she would restore his sight; after regaining his sight and giving him a magic remedy, the bird left the young man by the pond; when he learned that the king of the local city had gone blind, the young man restored his sight; the king gave him half cities, gave him wives, cattle, etc.; that traitor companion came to this city; the young man reproached him, he turned into an antelope out of shame and fear, and the young man then became a lion; therefore lions are most of all they hate this type of antelope]: Cardinall 1931:192-195; bolanchi [one of the two travelers gives the other food in exchange for his eyes, throws it; he climbs a tree, hears two birds talking, with east and west; learns how to regain sight and how to heal the princess; gets her as a wife; meets the one who abandoned him; he goes to that tree, a bird from the west swallows it]: Klipple 1992:216-217.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs [the poor man's wife went to her sister for food, but one day she closed the door in front of her; they went to live elsewhere; the woman spent time with the Sultan's wives and servants; three hawks arrived, the women guessed that it was perfume; the Sultan's wife asked for a wise and powerful son, the minister's wife a son as beautiful as the moon, the poor man's wife a daughter who, if she cries, it rains, if she laughs, sapphires fall, if she steps, grass grows; another sultan heard this, got married; when the girl reached marriageable age, she was sent to the Sultan accompanied by her aunt, who is also a daughter (she closed the door in front of her sister, but then came to her and stayed when she found out that she was held in high esteem); on the way she gave her niece a drink in exchange for her eyes; left her blind in the desert; she was picked up woodcutter; he already has 7 daughters; when the picked up cries, it rains, when she laughs, jewelry falls; she asks the person who picked up to buy her material; she made a doll, told her to exchange it in the palace for her eyes ( there, the Sultan's wife instead of her aunt); she made another doll, hid in it, her adoptive father brought her to the palace, the sultan took her for himself; three nights she goes out and cleans his room; he specially cut his finger to stay awake; finds a girl; everything is clear; my aunt and her daughter were ripped apart by three camels]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 14:95-98; Harari [Jemal and Mulugeta set off; M . offered to eat J.'s supplies first, and then refused to share his own and demanded J.'s eyes in exchange for food and left J. under the tree; genies flocked at night and began to talk; the leaves of this tree they will heal a blind man; the princess will be cured by the blood of a black dog; a source of water under a tree in the city; J. saw the light, cured the princess, received a reward from the king, indicated which tree should be uprooted; after that blessings, the king married him to a princess; after learning everything, M. went to that tree, the genies killed him]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2016:66-70.

North Africa. The Tuaregs [Orion is the "guide"; Orion's sword is his genital organ, Rigel is one of his legs, his left and right arms are Betelgeuse and Bellatrix; the Pleiades ("daughters of the night") are Aldebaran's wives and Orion; six women, and the seventh star is a boy from whom Orion took an eye in payment for a portion of Boerhavia spp grain. ]: Bernus, AG-Sidiyene 1989:145; the Arabs of Morocco [two widows named Good Intentions (D.) and Evil Intentions (Z.), leaving their children at home, went on a journey; agreed to divide the food in half. eat D.'s supplies first; when they ran out, Z. refused to share, gave a little in exchange for one eye, then for the other, D. left her blind in the woods; she climbed a tree; hears animals It is said that the leaves of this tree cure blindness; she has seen the light, has taken a stock of leaves with her; heals the blind sultan; he rewards her, she returns home; her children are getting rich; Z. returns like a beggar; Having found out what was going on, he went to the forest, sleeps in a tree; the animals noticed and tore it to pieces]: El Koudia 2003, No. 13:85-89; Kabila: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2 [a sick father tells seven sons to bring their hearts wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for the fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), who cook 99 dead people in the cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws him into the hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to enter the same room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that one deva has only been wounded, heals him, agrees with him; a young man comes to the cannibal teriel, puts on her breast, now she is his mother, promises to help; to get rid of the woman's husband, Dev advises that she ask him to bring rejuvenating apples; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw horns furiously, fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on an apple tree, give the eagle will bring meat back to the chicks; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, let him be tied; when he cannot break the fetters, I will get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: you will be killed, ask me to put your bones in a bag, load it on a donkey, he will come, I will revive you; when he returned to his wife, she offered to tie him with her hair, he did not managed to escape, Dev killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with wool and silk, poured milk on his body, she revived it with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, Dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and wife descend into the ground, he cuts their heads down; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives a box (not to open on the way) and a black man; he opens outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; father a young man sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he takes the young man hunting, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings it to the young man's father; he goes with the soldiers take his wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks him to hide; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with a son, who is under the tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of the tree; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered the eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder, if he kills a black man alone; a young man agrees with his wife that a black man will be tied to blood, blood will be shed, he will fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father transfers power to his son, not knowing who it is; before This asks the wise men if the father can marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, the seventh, that no; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him, orders him to kill the Jew and punish the 6 wise men]: 11-24; Mammeri 1996, No. 3 [the king raises an heir whose mother is dead; married again, the new queen is childless, hates her stepson; persuaded her husband, who told his son to leave his domain; the prince came to the high castle, got up, tired, fell asleep; a dove flew in, became the girl of the White Dove; she is the daughter of the ruler, her father exiled her to this castle; says that he usually incinerates those who come, but agreed to become the prince's wife; The stepmother found out and sent a letter: why not marry Aisha, the daughter of King Rum; King Ruma proposes to cut down the huge tree around which the people have gathered, but at the same time not to crush the righteous; BN teaches to say "In the name of God" - the righteous will run away, the infidels will remain and die; and so it happened; A. is happy that her suitors will no longer be executed; stepmother offers to take Hita as a third wife (H., Hita) with Silver Neck; A.: this is the daughter of the king of spirits, she must be obtained; teaches you how to get there, use the ring given by BG; the king of spirits demands to eat three dishes of couscous, three rams and a drink three wineskins of water; the ring fulfills the wish - food and water disappear; then find X. among many equally dressed girls; the prince told the king to stand up, lift the lid, X. under the throne; now stepmother offers to return and inherit the throne; H. promises to destroy her intrigues; tells the spirits to move the palace to his father-in-law's city; at first the king did not believe that his son was in front of him; when he saw his daughters-in-law, the king wanted them for yourself; wife: to do this, you need to get rid of your son and invite him to your place; wives advise that cat and dog be the first to try all dishes; the cat is immediately poisoned, the prince does not eat anything; wife advises the king to call his son to hunt, taking fresh water (for himself) and salt (for his son) water; the prince dies of thirst, the king gives him a little drink in exchange for his eyes; the crow went down to peck at him, the prince grabbed him; let him go when the raven's mother brought herbs to regain his sight; the prince's tame lion does not allow the king to enter the palace to his wives; the king sent an army; the prince's black servant cut down 99 heads in one wave; On the fourth day, the prince returned; the army was completely destroyed by a black man and a host of demons summoned by H.; she also turned the king and his wife into stone; the prince reigned, he has three wives]: 43-60; Rivière 1882, No. 1 [good and evil set off; first they ate good supplies, but did not share their evil supplies; gave a little in exchange for eyes and left the blind man; the bird ordered him to rub his eyes with leaves and was blind He saw the light; with these leaves he cured the blind king and he gave him his daughter; he envied the evil one, fed the good with garlic; ordered him to withdraw from the king when he came to kiss him; but he told the king that his son-in-law despises, and he believed when he noticed that his son-in-law was not coming close; the king gave a kind letter to the Sultan asking him to execute the applicant; the evil one undertook to carry the letter himself and was burned at the stake]: 35-38; Arabs eastern Algeria [the prince has 7 sisters; after his father's death, his uncle invited the prince to lock them in the castle for 7 years; 7 years later, the prince came - the castle was empty, the sisters were kidnapped by cannibals; the prince saw two doves ; flying away, one shouted that she was Radia, Radi's daughter, and the other that she was the daughter of Guellidi Lakhdar; if she wanted, let her look for them from their fathers; the prince went in search, found his 7 sisters; they said that their husbands -cannibals will not harm him; cannibals asked their father to help the prince; he indicates the mountain on which these girls are; one is guarded by the cannibal Salem, the other by Tamtam; the prince married them, brought them home; uncle decided to take them away; sent servants to take the prince to the desert; they gave him water in exchange for his eyes; the blinded prince stopped under a tree; vultures descended the tree; the old vulture talks to young people, who point him to an unfortunate sufferer under a tree; he tells him to raise a stone: under it a spring; if you rub your eyes with the leaves of a tree, you will see the light; after picking up leaves, the prince set off on his journey; I reached the house where the hostess had a wineskin with milk; the prince threw a leaf into the milk, it turned into butter; the hostess had a feast in honor of such a guest; not knowing that he was facing a prince, a woman's son, says that The prince's uncle is trying to take his wives away; Salem and Tamtam protect them; the prince prepared two wineskins full of blood and, pretending to be one of his uncle's warriors, threw them at S. and T.; they all understood and pretended that fall, covered in blood; when the uncle led his army, S. and T. suddenly jumped up and killed everyone; the prince got his wives back]: Belarus 1990:63-72; Tunisia [the merchant has three daughters, the father does not want to give married them; after overhearing their conversations, he married them at their request: the eldest to a bald rich man, the middle to an honest rich man, the youngest named Marjana ("coral"; hereinafter her name is Lyulya) to a poor bathhouse attendant; she gave birth to a daughter who was predicted that when she laughed, precious stones would fall out of her mouth, and emeralds when she cried; this is how her father became rich; she grew up, the Sultan's son came to her; Her aunt went to see the prince in a carriage, she hated Lyulya; when she wanted to eat, her aunt gave her salted fish in exchange for her eye, and when Lyulya asked for water, her aunt gouged out her second eye and threw her daughter out of the carriage, dressed her daughter in her clothes, put her in Lyulya's place; a bird flew past Lyulya in the forest, saying that if she chewed a leaf from a tree, she would become a dove; Lyulya did so; When hunting, the prince caught a dove, put it in a golden cage, and spent a lot of time with it; his wife told her to fry a dove for her; a palm tree grew in the place where her bones were buried; the prince became time near a palm tree, his wife demanded that it be cut down, otherwise she would fall ill again; the prince cut down a palm tree, threw it into the forest; an old woman picked up the firewood, brought it home; leaving the house and returning, found that everything in the house was tidy; the neighbors said it was not them; the old woman began to spy and saw a girl coming out of the firewood; Lyulya told me what had happened to her; made a necklace from the gems that fell out of her mouth while she spoke were given to the old woman to take the market, but not sell to the prince's wife; she sold it; when the prince saw the necklace, he asked the old woman, she told him about Lyulya; he went to her and returned from her with his son, and told his wife that it was the son of his suddenly deceased friend; Lulya told her son to ask the prince's wife for a necklace from his neck; the wife took off the necklace, died immediately; Lulu entered the palace and took her place]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 68 in Korovkina MS

Southern Europe. Portuguese [the family has an older sister and a little brother; brother hears parents agree to kill one of the children - not to feed them; tells his sister, they run away; brother sleeps with sister's head on her knees; three fairies passing by tell the girl's face to be beautiful, gold falls from her hair when she combs her hair; brother and sister came to the evil old woman and began to live with her; brother went to buy something; the king was told that the boy had gold, they did not believe the boy's story, they put him in a tower - let him introduce his sister; at this time her sister had nothing to eat; she gave the old woman her eyes for food and drink; she took her daughter to the king, and threw her gold-haired woman into the sea; the boy saw his sister in the sea, pulled the rope out of the window; the sister told her brother to ask the jailer for thin paper; and made a branch with golden flowers asked to sell not for money, but for her eyes; the old woman gave her eyes; everything was clarified; the sister asked the old woman's skin to be pulled over the drum and made a seat out of her bones]: Braga 2002:151-152; Spaniards [several records, including Galicia; the woodcutter's father brought her daughter Maria a snake; she washed her, fed her; when the snake grew, she crawled away, promising to help if necessary; people noticed that pearls were lying near the lumberjack's house; it was M. who poured water into which she gave up; the king found out and decided to marry M.; a neighbor, who has her own daughter, persuaded M. to ask her father to marry her; went together with M. to the king; the stepmother ordered the coachman to feed M. on the way with salty food, and when she wanted to drink, pull out her eyes; instead of M., the stepmother sent her daughter to the king; seeing not pearls in the water, but toads and snakes, the king ordered the liar, her mother and her husband to be locked up; Mary was picked up by rich people; she called a snake; the snake ordered to collect the flowers that had grown at that spring and send someone to the palace to mark the flowers on eyes, but not for money; the stepmother gave her eyes, the snake put them in M. back; sent her to the palace, telling her to put her finger in the chocolate that the king would carry; he understood everything, told her to call the girl who came, let puts his hands in the water - there are pearls; the king married M.]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 533*: 503-506; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 5 [Kum Fox and Kum Hedgehog sowed wheat together; only the Hedgehog worked, and The fox demanded to divide the harvest; then offered to race: the one who reached the current would be the first to get everything; the fox went to bed, and the Hedgehog walked all night and hid under the grain measure; the fox ran, sat down in moderation, bragged; but the Hedgehog got up and knocked down the Fox; the Hedgehog took the grain and the Fox took the straw; the Donkey asked for it; the Fox agreed that the Donkey would give him one eye; then the other; drove the Donkey down the bad road, he fell, died; the Ravens flew; the fox asked him for a ride; he was understood into the air and thrown, he fell into the garden, with his back on a stick, beans curled along the bark; persuaded the woman to take it off, promising to watch for a year for her baby; but when free, he ran away], 43 [two brothers Good and Bad (Benfa and Malfa) went on a journey; M. offered to eat B.'s food first, refused to share his own, gave a little to exchange for B.'s eyes; he climbed a tree above the spring for the night; hears animals talking; fox: the daughter of the Spanish king is blind; lion: vision can be restored with the leaves of this tree; in the morning B. rubbed her leaves eyes and saw the light; cured the Spanish princess and married her, received a crown, arranged a holiday, gave everyone small money; M. also came; King B. ordered him to throw gold into his pocket; M. is accused of stealing; B. comes to him in prison, says who he is and what happened to him; M. is released, goes to that tree; animals tore him to pieces, knocking down a tree], 82 []: 10-12, 101-103, 182-184.

Western Europe. Germans (Hessen) [shoemaker Peter is rich, tailor Hans is poor; P. persuaded G. to travel and be like brothers; money melts; P. offers to eat twice a day, then only once, then not eat at all; gives the exhausted G. two pieces in exchange for his eyes and leaves; G. climbed a tree; hears a conversation between a bear, a wolf and a fox; bear: London has no water, and there is a stone in the market square; under it source; wolf: the princess is sick for 7 years, because during confirmation, the gold she threw fell past the offering box; the king will give it to whoever cures her; fox: the dew on the leaves of this tree will cure her blindness; in the morning G. regained his sight; then received a lot of money when he discovered the water source; found the lost gold in the church and told the princess to throw it in the box; she immediately recovered; P. found out about This, went to that tree and climbed a branch; the animals find out which of them solved the secret; they thought the wolf began to hang it, but he noticed a man in the tree; the man was torn and eaten]: Wolf 1845, No. 4: 21-30.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king's two wives are pregnant, the third beloved is not; she fed the first two salty meat, gave water in exchange for their eyes; the blind were thrown into a hole; one gave birth to a son, he was eaten; the other she hid the meat, kept her son; he learns that the bile of a blue camel will cure blindness; he met a friendly gulya, who sent it to his brother, brother to his sister, she dived to the bottom of the sea, brought camel bile; mother found sight and returned to her husband]: Nowak 1989, No. 189:191-192; Syrian Arabs [Good and Evil met on the road and went together; Good shared his supplies, and when they ended, Evil agreed to share food only in exchange for the Good Man's eyes, left him alone under the tree; two birds flew there, one of them also blind; the other said that the leaves of this tree were being returned eyesight; the good man saw the light and left, picking up leaves with him; became an eye healer, but took only cakes as payment; healed the princess, married her, reigned after the death of his father-in-law; ordered that in the monastery, where everyone they came in, asked the names of those who came; this is how he found the Evil One; told him he would cut off his head, but then forgave him]: Kuhr 1993:229-233; Iraqi Arabs [a rich merchant asks who he owes his condition and position; the two eldest answer that to themselves, the youngest to God's blessing; the merchant kicked her out - let her seek God's blessings; she came to the mule drivers and met the same one there beggar like herself, and they got married; the wife gave birth to a girl; when she was bathed, drops of water turned into gold, and jasmines and lilies fell from her lips; she grew up and the prince married her; sent her to him; aunt with their daughter was forced to accompany her; the girl is thirsty, the aunt gives a little bit in exchange for her eyes, leaves the bride in the desert and puts her own daughter in her place; the old man picked her up; his the family was delighted when the washing dishes were filled with gold coins; the prince saw that flowers did not fall from his wife's lips, and she supposedly lost the ring she had given; he realized that the bride had been changed, but was afraid of losing face; the real bride sent the old man to town to sell flowers in exchange for her eyes; the aunt ripped out her daughter's eyes so she could say that flowers fell from her lips in her absence prince; and the bride got her eyes back and saw the light; dressed as a young man, came to court and hired to drive a mule at the mill; the mule was so amazed at her beauty that he ran faster; everyone wonders where so much anguish; the prince found out about this and, when the girl was swimming, he hid the ring he had given her; the aunt and her daughter were sent home, and the prince arranged a new wedding for 40 days]: Bushnaq 1987:75-79; jibbali [one sister married a rich man, the other a poor man, both have daughters; the poor man's daughter blew her nose into a beggar's cup, there was a gold coin; he told the Sultan about a girl who had snot - gold coins, when she bathes, gold appears, when she cries, it rains, when she laughs, lightning flashes, which has urine - musk and bowel movements - amber; the sultan decided to marry her; aunt and daughter took the girl on the ship; did not let her eat or drink; first took her jewelry for water, then her eyes, gave her daughter, threw her niece into the sea in a basket; the fisherman caught her, she and his wife think it was old woman; she asks for water to wash, the water basin is filled with gold; they come to the Sultan, the girl tells her story, asking the bowl of water every time if this is true; the bowl replies that it is true; the sultan takes his eyes away from his imaginary wife, returns the real one, she sees the light; asks to hang his aunt by the legs in front of the entrance so that everyone who passes beats her; asks to put a brazier on the body of his cousin with hot coals; both died, the Sultan stayed with his real wife]: Müller 1907, No. 16:63-69.

Burma - Indochina. Karen [rich Phatakain ("scoundrel") envies poor Phatalun ("good man") for loving him; invites him to go on a ship to buy goods; gives him food and drink in exchange for his eyes; left on a deserted island; the master of the sea sends three servants in the form of dogs, whose names are the three truths of Buddhism; the dying man whispers these words, the nats think he knows their names, accepts the human appearance, P. is healed, taken home by giving pumpkin seeds; pumpkins grow, containing gold and silver; Phatakain tries to repeat everything, tells the servant to pull out his eyes; chases, scolds dogs, dies in agony; Phatalun comes to the island, finds the bones and skull of Phatakain, the skull asks him to be taken away, to tell the king that he, Phatalun, has a talking skull; the king's skull is silent, Phataluna is imprisoned; Phatalun's wife hits the skull with a stick, he screams, the king rewards Phatalun; the skull is thrown away, sails to the old man and the old woman; lies to the old woman that the old man is not loyal to her; the old man breaks it, a tree grows with fruits are like a skull]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 172:461-467; Thais [Lee is cunning, Suun is simple but honest; L. persuades S. to go trade, they lose everything; L. gives S. rice in exchange for eyes, leaves a tiger on an island in front of the cave; S., S. sneezes with the tip of his nose and says "Buddha, dharma, sangha"; the tiger reports this to the hermit, whose guardian he is, who gives S. his sight back and gives a boat with rice and goods for sale; S. meets L. and on the way back leaves him dazzled in front of the same cave; the tiger tickles him, but L. only grabs him by the tail; the tiger ate L., only the skull remains; when S. sails again, the skull offers him to take and bet; no one will believe that the skull says any bet can be won; S. bets, but the skull is silent and S. is left without a boat; furious he breaks the skull into small pieces; they have become shells that are used as gambling chips]: Coyaud 2009, No. 31:187-193.

South Asia. The Punjabi (Seraiks, Multan) [Good and Evil walked together, stopped eating; ate Good's food, and Evil agreed to share water only in exchange for the Good's eyes; pushed the blind man into the dry the well and left; he hears a snake, a swan and Deh talking on a banyan; Swan: my litter regains sight; Snake: I hid treasures in the cave, you can only get them by lifting the lid with a branch of this banyan; Deh: I cast a shadow on the princess, she fell ill, she will be cured by bathing in the infusion of this banyan leaves; Good man cured his eyes, cured the princess, got her married; came Angry, accused him out of envy Good thing is that that sudra; the Good brought the Snake's treasures: how can a sudra have so much money? The evil one climbed into the well himself; the Snake, the Swan and Deh found and killed him]: Mehta 2011:189-192; the Tamils [Prince Subuddki is noble, believes in generosity; Minister Durbuddhi's son is mean, believes that he should be generous bad; but they are friends; they got lost hunting; the horses brought them to the pond; D. reiterates that there should be no generosity; S. is indignant; then D. gouged out his eyes and threw one; S. went out to the temple of Kali, locked the door behind him and let Kali in for promising to restore his sight; then he would remain a minister in the temple; as it happened; at home, when he saw his son alone, the minister father told him not to appear until he will lead S.; Kali sent S. to cure the princess, whom she blinded in order to punish her father; let S. reign; and so happened; once S. saw a beggar, it was D., S. forgave everything and brought him closer to him; D. told the tsar-father-in-law that S. was not really the son of a wound, but the daughter of a barber, with whom his father met; the tsar father-in-law sent a servant to kill his daughter and son-in-law; but S. remembered that D. lend him a wife if he marries; S. agreed that D. stay overnight with his wife; the wife told his mother, who ordered that night not a princess but a relative to be in the prince's room (foster sister); at midnight, the servant killed both; everything was clarified, everyone is happy]: Natesa Sastri 1884-1888, No. 5:63-83; Sinhales {apparently different retelling of the same text}: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 94 [ The High offers to eat his supplies first; when they run out, Low refuses to share his own; gives food for permission to pull out the High's eyes; throws him bound under a tree; rakshasa on a tree it is said that his eyes treat his juice, the one who eats the leaves will be full, the one who eats the fruit will become king; the High One sees the light, he is chosen king instead of the deceased king; the Low one tells his wife to dazzle him, throw him under the tree; dies]: 227-230; Clouston 1887 (1) [two peasants go to seek happiness; one offers to spend his companion's money first, then his own; refuses to give his money; gives his companion something to eat in exchange to his eyes; the rakshasa on the tree say that his eyes are treated with juice, the one who eats the leaves will be full, the one who eats the fruit will become king; the peasant sees the light; an elephant approaches him, kneels to choose kingdom; a companion marries a vizier's daughter in the same city, becomes a vizier; asks the king if blindness can be cured; he tells his story; the vizier tells his wife to do to him as he does I once did it with a friend; let the wife wait 7 days from the shepherd, becoming king, he will take her away; the shepherd goes to the tree, finds the vizier's gnawed bones; drives his wife away]: 464-465.

Indonesia. Sunda [Ki Satu and Ki Dua go to the Room to study theology; CD lures money from the COP, gives bread in exchange for their eyes, lowers them into the well; hearing dwarfs talk, the COP learns that blind people are treated with leaves of the Singavereng tree, that after killing a black dog, you find out where the treasures are buried; the peasant pulls the CS upstairs, leads him to the tree, he sees the light, restores the princess's sight with the same leaves, marries her, pulls out treasures, takes care of an impoverished CD; he climbs into a well, dwarfs say someone overheard their conversation, kills CD]: Braginsky 1972:57-61.

The Balkans. Albanians [on the way The Miser brother agrees with the Generous to eat his bread first; gives his own in exchange for the Generous's eyes, leaves him; at night he hears the devils talking, finds out that the leaves of the tree and the water of the spring regains sight; the generous regains his sight to himself and the rich man in the city, receives a tavern by the road as a reward, the Miser Brother comes there; after learning the story of the Generous, he sleeps under a tree, his devils spotted and killed]: Serkova 1989:42-45; bosses [Fata's stepdaughter is beautiful, Hata's own daughter is ugly; stepmother and H. are going to the wedding; the cow tells F. to get a box out of her ear, it has a beautiful outfit and jewelry; the same the next day; on the third day, the Sultan's son approached her, she ran away and lost her shoe; the sultan told everyone to try it on; Fate approached her; stepmother persuaded F. to take it H. as an escort; at the suggestion of her stepmother, H., when they were driving through the forest and began to be thirsty, gave F. water in exchange for her eyes, threw it in the forest, and came to the Sultan's son instead of her; the cow found F. and brought her to people, to the house of the pious Hajj; they saw flowers grow on the ground on which F. was walking; the cow began to live in the same house, supplying everyone with milk; told her to take another box out of her ear, in which pearls formed from tears; Haji must be sent to exchange them for eyes; H., the imaginary princess, gave her eyes, F. saw the light when Haji moistened them with water brought from Mecca from the Sem-Sem spring; sultan promised a reward to whoever would cure his sick daughter-in-law; when F. came, she saw that the necklace around H.'s neck was burning and strangling her; F. took it off her; the Sultan and his son recognized the real bride; stepmother ripped apart by horses; Hajji awarded]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905:54-67; Hungarians [{there is no gender category in Finno-Ugric languages so characters may be male}; True and False met on the road, it turned out that they were on the way; the lie offered to share the reserves of Truth first; and when they ran out and the Truth offered to share the reserves of Lies, she gave her food only in exchange for her eyes; left the blind in the place where the two gallows stood; the devils have awakened the truth; the dew that fell today will cure the blind; for the water to return, it is necessary to pull out the buried stone that blocks source; The truth regained its sight, regained water, for which it was richly rewarded; and Lies became impoverished, received food in exchange for eyes and hands; remained under those gallows; devils tore it to pieces]: Jones, Kropf 1889:36-39; Moldovans [the prince sees the girl Beauty of the Ages Fragrance of Flowers (K.); she turned into a doe, he did not catch up with her; the king is told to marry his son, otherwise he will die; the king finds a bride, was born Philemon-Fat-Frumos (F.); the doe appeared to him, became K., hugged him, gave her a ring and a handkerchief; her father promised to pass her off as F., but while he was on his way home, she was married by the one-armed and one-legged Lame Lord; when laughs, gold is pouring out of his mouth; F. won, took Arap the Mighty (AM) as his sister brothers, they destroyed HV and his army; they came to Father F. together with K.; he tried to burn them in the house, but AM froze everything; then his father took F. to deserted places, fed him salted olives, took his eyes in exchange for water; F. hears the birds talking in the forest: let him lie down, and we will bring live water; seeing the light, he chose an oath from the old man, that became a heroic horse; tied her father to the horse's tail; where her hand fell, there was a well, where the leg was a stream, where the body remained was an abyss]: Moldavian tales 1968:243-250; Romanians [at the end of winter The poor brother asks the rich man to give him wheat; the third time he gives it, but for this he blinded the poor and took him to the cross on the edge of the village; at night, the devil sends a blind man to wash his eyes in the next pond to see the light; After seeing the light, the poor man treats the blind with this water, receives the money he sends to his wife; the king gives him certificates certifying his status as a doctor; in a country where water has disappeared, he removes the stone that covered the spring; returns rich, only the youngest child recognized him; his brother tries in vain to sue him; his brother was taken to that cross and blinded; at night the devils tore him apart]: Bîrlea 1966:450; Romanians [ a beautiful mirror to which she asks if there is anyone more beautiful than her; the mirror always says no; but when her daughter grew up, the mirror replied that her daughter is more beautiful; the woman took her daughter to the forest; when she exhausted from hunger and thirst, gave her a salty cake in exchange for an eye, and then water for her second eye; she pushed her daughter into the river; she climbed ashore; the mirror replied that the woman was more beautiful than her the daughter is blind; St. The virgin told the girl to wash her eye sockets three times and her eyesight returned; she was found by 12 robbers, made a sister; the mirror again replies to the woman that her daughter is the most beautiful; she sent the old woman to give the girl the poisoned ring; wearing it, she lost consciousness; mirror: your daughter is dead; the robbers removed the ring, the girl came to life; the next time the mother sent a poisoned flower; the robbers left the girl's body between two trees; a prince found him, brought him home; one of the servants decided to carry the flower, the girl came to life; the prince married her; the mother dressed up as an old woman, came to the prince, hired to take care of his wife and as an infant; stabbed a baby, but did not have time to slaughter her; the prince woke up and grabbed her; the woman was executed]: Schott, Schott 1845:105-113 (Estonian translation in Sutrop 2018:505-511); (cf. Serbs [the king is dead, there are two sons left; the evil argues with the good that crooked is stronger than the truth; they decide to ask the people they meet, the loser must give 100 workshops; the devil takes the image of a monk, says that crooked is stronger; so several times; the good brother lost all the gold, the horse, both eyes; the evil one gouged them out to him; left them by the pond; at night he hears the pitchforks coming to swim, one says that this water can heal blind and maimed people, including the leper princess; the young man sees the light, heals the princess, takes her as his wife; the evil brother went to listen to the pitchfork's conversation, they tore him apart]: Karadzich 1856 in Golenishchev- Kutuzov 1991:154-155 (=Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:76-78, =Arkhipova 1962:167-168, =Eschker 1992, No. 7:50-53); Gagauz people [two brothers went to town; the elder gave bread to the youngest only after he took out his eye; then the second; the elder brother left, the younger brother came up to the younger one and told him to go where the noise was; he came to the spring, washed his eyes and saw the light; climbed a tree, devils gathered under him; the elder asks others; one: I made a man tear out his eyes for two pieces of bread; second: the king has been building a bridge for 40 years, and he, damn, plunges him into the ground every night; the elder devil: the king could take water from this spring and leaves from the tree, put it on the edge of the bridge, the bridge will rise; and if it does not, it will slaughter the workers tomorrow; third feature: he covered the king's daughter with wounds, he will die tomorrow; these leaves and her water they would be cured; in the morning the guy brought water and leaves to the king, cured the princess, restored the bridge, received the princess and half the kingdom; the elder brother was surprised]: Moshkov 1904, No. 49:85-86.

Central Europe. Russians (Pskov) [one guy says there is truth, another says it is not; they went to their grandmother, she gave food only to someone who did not believe in the truth; the other asks to give it to him; a friend gives only after when he allowed him to dig out his eyes; he climbed an oak tree; three come up: if you walk three steps, there will be a bottle that helps the blind; and then the second with a medicine that will cure the king's daughter; a guy he found the bubbles, saw the light, cured the princess, the king rewarded him; upon learning of this, a supporter of untruth climbed into the same oak tree for the night; those who came argue: who saved the prince's daughter? they probably eavesdropped on us; they found the one who hid and gouged out his eyes]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 40:124-125; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [two brothers are millers, one grinds - takes dearly, the other is cheap; the rich is jealous ; calls the poor to the forest to look for a shaft for the mill; the poor did not take bread, he was hungry; the poor brother asks the rich to give him bread; rich: give me an eye, I'll give you an eye; poor: if there is nothing to do; rich eye to him pricked out, gave bread; walked through the forest; crooked wanted to eat again - the same; the rich left; night came, the blind man climbed a pine tree; three okayashki come, talk; one: who is blind, get up to the light, anoint it with dew eyes will see the light; second: they make a mill in one place, they dig a pond, there is no water; if you dig up the bush, there will be a lot of water; third: the king's daughter is sick, you need to catch the frog, fry it, let it eat, healthy it will be; the okayashki are gone; the peasant got off the pine tree, anointed his eyes three times with dew - saw the light; went where the mill was being made, ordered to dig up the bush, there was a lot of water; the contractor gave money; the peasant went to the king: can cure the princess; the princess ate the frog, became healthy, the peasant was given gold and silver, he returned home, sent his son to his brother for a measure; the money was measured, two nickels stuck; the elder brother realized that the brother he measured the money, the youngest told everything; the eldest asks him to poke out his eyes and take him to the forest; the blind elder brother sat down on a pine tree; three okayashki came and said: one man saw the light, the mill was grinding, the royal daughter recovered, someone overheard if anyone was there now; looked, saw his older brother and tore him apart]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 7:74-75; Russians (Chistopol district of Tatarstan) [man, merchant, pop everyone answers Crooked (K.) and Truthful (P.) that it is better to live crooked; K. gives P. bread, pulling out first one eye, then the second eye; throws it; God directs P. to the key, the water of which restores vision; tells the oak tree to overhear the conversation of the spirits; one demon says that he will be expelled from the princess by someone who gets the image of the Smolensk Mother of God from the merchant; P. has been working for two years, receiving an image, expelling a demon, marries a princess; visits K., tells his story; he climbs an oak tree, his perfume smelled it, tore it apart]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 115:195; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Rich brother agrees to give to poor bread, only if he allows him to poke out his eyes, does the poor man agree. A rich brother cuts off the poor's ears, arms, legs, gouges out his eyes, the poor man rolls and falls into a fox hole. At night, he hears Yuri (it is not clear who it is), who ran to hunt for foxes, predicts that any patient, including the royal daughter, will recover in the morning dew, calls the stone under which water flows (in a kingdom where there is no water). The poor man rolls through the dew in the morning, becomes the same, heals the princess, tells people what stone the water flows under. He is generously rewarded, he becomes richer than his brother, who asks him for bread, asks him to gouge out his eyes, cut off his ears, legs and arms, the former poor man gives bread for free, but his brother insists, asks to take him to that same fox hole. My brother fulfills the request. Cripple, a former rich brother, hears Yuri angry that he was overheard, "bald dog" points to a cripple, animals tear him apart]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 163:177-179; Belarusians [two travelers, Krivda stole, The truth asked for bread; the people he met answer that it is better to live crooked; Pravda ran out of food, Krivda gave bread, took out his eyes for this; The truth spent the night in the hollow of an oak tree; hears the conversation of snakes; one torments the queen; it is necessary to take the icon from the merchant, put it in water, let the queen drink it, recover; True, he served for the icon for three years; healed the queen; got her as a wife, brought her to him; Krivda went spend the night with that oak tree; snakes killed him]: Romanov 1887, No. 72:322-323.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [two daughters ask their father to bring outfits, the youngest Tsagan is a black-browed khan's son; the khan agrees, asks Ts. to make a shirt and trousers, is satisfied with the work No. Ts. goes to Khan in accompanied by a neighbor, old woman Syavda and her daughter; they took food from Ts. They gave them food in exchange for their eyes, threw them into the well; S.'s daughter explains to Khan that she was looking for everything, sniffing out how far the Khan's ulus was, so the eyes became ugly, the nose was long; the old man pulled C. out of the well; she made a pouch, tells me to exchange it for the eye; the same is the second; S. knows that C.'s soul is in the heart of a silverfish, pretends to be sick, tells me to catch, S. takes a fish heart; when she dies, C. tells her body to be thrown into the lake; Khan comes to the lake, there is an underwater palace, a girl lies next to her cries; when the khan gave her the heart of a fish, she put him in C.'s mouth, she came to life, told everything; Khan asks S. and her daughter if they want sword and blood or horse tails; they say tails; they are tied to horse tails]: Vatagin 1964:239-245; Kabardian people [Dobryak and Miser went to work; Dobryak ran out of water; Miser let him drink twice, for which he gouged out one eye first, then the other; along the bed of the Dobryak River he came to the ruined mill; heard a bear, a wolf, a fox talking; an apple tree leaf near the mill will heal all diseases, and if anyone finds out and plucks, the apple tree will dry up; the shepherd is blind in one eye and the wolf creeps up to the herd with that sides where the shepherd does not see; in this herd there is a ram with a big fat tail; if the prince's sick daughter is fed meat and bathed in broth, she will recover; there is a pile of golden sand in the forest, the fox bathes in it; The good-natured man saw the light, said the prince. About the ram, the daughter recovered, the prince gave an arba of supplies for the winter; on the way home, Dobryak took the fox's gold; told the Miser about everything; he came to spend the night at the mill; animals talked about their troubles, found and ate Miser]: Kardanov 196:78-84; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:302-312 [Black Aldar tells his son to get the daughter of the underground Haji; giants ask to save them from Zaliag snakes; a horse teaches her to hit her mouth with an arrow; giants marry him; an old woman guards the bridge, one fang in the sky, the other under the ground, nests between the eagles's teeth; he defeats her, gets her daughter; gets her horse; the daughter of the underground Haji is happy with the young man; her father gives treasures; Karaich kidnaps her; he turns out to be a girl, takes his wealth, goes with a young man; Black Aldar is jealous to his son, asks the crooked hunter to destroy him; he feeds the young man salty, takes his eyes in exchange for water; Black Aldar fights with his daughters-in-law, cannot defeat them; the old man restores the young man's eyesight by bringing from Haji ash leaves; Haji's daughter cut off Black Aldar's head with scissors; a crooked hunter was beaten, fed to dogs], 363-365 [on the way, the unfair offers to eat fair food first, and his own gives only in exchange for eyes and left; the fair one climbed into the hole and climbed under the ottoman; at night he hears animals talking; bear: if you anoint your eyes with honey from the hollow, you will see the light; fox: I have a bag of gold in my corner; wolf: the shepherd is my friend; the fair one saw the light, told the shepherd to kill the shepherd, received half the herd, took the gold; when he found out, the unjust climbed into the same hole; the animals tore it]; Dirr 1920, No. 28 [the rich man took the poor man to hunt; the poor man soon ran out of food; the rich man promised to share if he gave his eye to him, then the second; the poor man climbed into the attic of an abandoned house; a bear, a wolf and fox; fox: I have gold; if I shake it, there is food and drink; bear: I have more gold; wolf: when I steal sheep and am wounded, I go back to this tree and it heals any wounds; when the animals left, the poor man took the gold, saw the light again, thanks to the tree; when he came to the shepherds, he shot the wolf, taking his brain; the wolf crawled to the tree, but it lost its strength; with a wolf brain, the former poor man cured the prince ; he gave the best horse and equipment; the rich man also decided to spend the night in that house; the bear and fox first accused the wolf of stealing gold, killed him, and then found the man; killed, regretting having killed him before comrade]: 136-151; Lucky: Aliyeva 2013, No. 95 [brothers Lovmart and Chumart went to work; L. offers to eat C.'s supplies first; then shares his own in exchange for C.'s eyes; C. spends the night on mill, hears animals talking; fox: a leaf from a neighboring tree will heal a blind man; wolf: broth from the meat of a shepherd's dog will cure a pachaha's daughter; bear: gold in a neighboring cave; C. saw the light, took out gold, bought the shepherd has a dog, cured the pachah's daughter, received an award; L. also goes to the cave, the animals found him, tore him apart]: 426-427; Khalilov 1976, No. 46 (village. Tabakhlu, 1836) [the red cow tells the hungry stepdaughter to suck her horns, honey flows from the right, oil from the left; the wind blows her hair away, the stepmother tells her to find it and return it; the cow teaches me to go to people who grind pearls gold, corals, wish everyone the best, ask themselves, they will show the way to the wind Chassage; horses will have bones, dogs have hay, you need to change; call the muddy river oil, take a sip; Wind Chassage, Aerial Asiyat should ask for wool back; she will ask you to scrape the rooms, they must be whitewashed, cleaned; pull out her hair, tear clothes - comb them, wash them; that's what happened; girl she put her finger into the river, it turned silver, the river let it through {apparently parted}; the same was a bloody river, the girl called it honey, her finger turned golden; C. poured golden water on her head and hair became gold; C. offered to sleep on a golden bed, wants to make the girl a daughter, hides the wool under her head; the girl pulled her out, ran; the old woman tells everyone to grab her, calls the river bloody , but they only give the girl even more; the stepmother plants her own daughter to spin her hair next to the cow; the wind blows away the hair, but the cow teaches the wrong way; the girl scolds the people she meets, gives bones to horses, hay to dogs, from the water of the muddy river, her fingers are covered with ulcers; C. tears her hair and clothes; she pours dirty liquid on her head, her face and body are covered with ulcers and boils; the cow was stabbed, her stepdaughter buried her bones; asked they have beautiful shoes and clothes to go to the wedding; one shoe swam along the river; the prince found it, he is just right for his stepdaughter, the prince took her to his wife; the stepmother and daughter also went; the bride is thirsty, stepmother gives her a drink, taking her eyes out; throws her into the well, dresses her daughter in her dress; the merchants pulled the girl out of the well, she turned into a canary; flying into the prince's garden, asks the gardener say hello to the prince, and let the tree dry up; the prince sees that many trees have dried up; the canary has been caught, the false wife ordered her to be slaughtered, a tree has grown out of blood; dates are falling on the prince, his wife is scratched by thorns; his wife orders to make a cradle for her child out of wood; the old woman's son picked up the chips, threw it behind the chest; they turned into a girl when she cries (?) , when she laughs, pearls, silver and gold horseshoes fall from under her feet; the cradle squeezed the child to death; the old woman's son fattens a lousy horse in the palace; the girl turns it into a painted horse; the king comes to see him, falls in love with a girl; girls are going to tell fairy tales, a true bride tells her own; stepmother and her daughter are tied to horses; wedding]: 109 -119; Georgians: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 1 (Gori) [two princes set off; the elder offered to eat the younger one's supplies first; gave his own in exchange for his eyes; blind came to the mill; the wolf : if you smear black sheep liver on your eyes, you will see the light; bear: there is a treasure at the mill; fox: the mouse takes chervonets out of the underground, and takes them back in the evening; the blind man took the chervonets from the mouse, bought a black sheep; seeing the light, took out a treasure; met his brother; he went to the mill for the night, the animals tore it to pieces]: 104-106; Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 104 [the liar and the truthful went to wander, the liar took a bag of food for himself, promised share food if the truthful one pulls out his eyes, holds a stone in his hand and runs away; the truthful climbs on a pear; three lines under the pear are talking; the person who washed his eyes with water from the spring will see the light; under the plane tree a treasure; the king's daughter will recover if you kill the toad under her ottoman; the blind man saw the light, got a treasure for one king, cured the other's daughter, received a reward from both, told the liar everything; he climbed on a pear, the devils killed him]: 178-180; Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 437 [the beauty goes to the groom, is thirsty, the royal nanny lets her drink in exchange for her eyes; replaces her with her daughter, leaves her in forest; the girl regains her eyes, everything is fine]: 42-43; Armenians [the king ordered to grow a garden; the old man says there is not enough nightingale in the garden; the king sends sons for the nightingale; the old man teaches the younger Call a mare with a whistle; it will carry you over the mountain, which rises to heaven and then descends; door hinges must be lubricated in the house; gold and silver vessels should be swapped near the sleeping princess; eat pilaf, pour ash into the cauldron; take the cage with the nightingale; on the way back, the brothers gave the youngest bread and water in exchange for his eyes, took the cage away; blinded hears the dove explain to the chick: put his eyes in the eye sockets and touch this pen; the young man saw the light, but changed his eyes and became oblique; the brothers gave the nightingale to his father, but the nightingale does not sing; disguised as a bald shepherd, pulling lamb over his head stomach, younger brother hired his father as a gardener; at that time a beautiful woman appeared and asked who took the nightingale; the older brothers answer incorrectly, she turned them into pigeons; an imaginary shepherd admits that the queen marries him, returns his brothers to their human appearance at his request; the king gives the throne to his youngest son]: Kagan 1898c, No. 28:219-223; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955 [eldest the daughter asks the merchant to bring a shirt made of onion husk, a medium brocade shawl, a younger cat; the dervish gives a shirt, a handkerchief, asks for an older, medium wife; offers to eat a man, the wife hides the meat behind gate, it falls to the floor, the dervish nails the older, middle sister by the braids; the youngest takes the cat with her, she eats the meat, the dervish is happy; leaves; the wife opens the fortieth room, frees the sisters; everything three fly away in a plane chest; the youngest is married by the son of a padishah, an average nobleman, a senior vizier; the dervish gives the guards sleeping pills almonds, a lion and a tiger lamb, the prince's wife confronts him with stairs, a lion and a tiger kill him; for her salvation, the woman promised a daughter she will have; when she is five years old, she is summoned by three beggars, given wonderful abilities (if she cries, a hurricane, laughs - roses fall, walks - gold and silver traces); the girl's father's evil sister feeds her salty, gives water in exchange for the eye, then for the second; leaves her in a deserted place, replaces her at a wedding with her padishah daughter; the poor man finds a blind man, sells flowers that have fallen from her mouth to an evil aunt in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; the prince married her, her aunt and daughter are tied to mules]: 230-240; Marchenko 1993 [brothers Merd ("generous") and Merd ("treacherous") went to look for work; N. offered to eat M.'s supplies first, and then did not share his own; agreed to feed M., taking out his eyes, but did not give him food, quit in the forest; M. overheard Leo, Wolf, Fox talking at night; 1) a sick person who drank the blood of a shepherd's dog will recover; 2) the Rat has jugs of gold in the cave; two pigeons say they will cure M.; one drops his pen , they need to run over their eyes inserted into their eye sockets, they will see again; M. saw the light, took gold, bought a dog, cured her with blood from madness, married her; N. sees, forgives, he goes spend the night in the forest, animals tore it to pieces]: 270-275; Azerbaijanis (Shusha district of Elisavetpol governorate) [King Melik-Nadir orders to kill his daughters; when he leaves, he tells his son Ghazanfar to kill his sister if he is born; he felt sorry for the girl; MN returned, orders them to be executed, the nobleman persuaded them to be sent to the desert; G. kills seven divas, throws them into the well; the sister throws the leftovers there, one diva survived, became strong; agrees with sister G. to lime him - pretend to be sick, ask him to bring 1) melon from the diva garden; G. defeated the hero, she fell in love with him, gave him a flying horse, G. brought a melon; 2) apples from the diva garden; his heroic wife tells him to feed the terrible dog, greet the bridge; the seven-headed diva tells the bridge and the dog refuses to stop the kidnapper; the wife changed the apples; 3) the sheep tail with branched horns, which lives in the north; G. brought it, but his wife replaced the usual one, kept the magic fat tail; sister invites G. to tie his hands to test his strength; when G. cannot tear the rope, the diva cut it to pieces, put it in a bag, tied it to a donkey, drove him into the forest; G.'s dogs guarded the donkey, his wife found it, revived it with a medicine made from fat tail and magic apples; G. cut off the diva's arms and legs, burned his sister; returned to his father; found a portrait of the beautiful Shahbaz-Pari in the chest; G. follows her; takes giant Kara-Kulamali as his companions, who killed all the babies in the village; he smashes the army, gives beautiful G., warns not to step on the carpet that the father will spread out (he himself wants to take possession of the beauty), not to untie the old man's hands - this is a seven-headed diva; G. untied the old man, he took the beauty; G. summoned K., who brought him to the beautiful woman, she found out that the diva's life was in a bottle, G. had broken it; the father sends a vizier from G. with an order to destroy G.; in the desert, the vizier pulls out G.'s eyes in exchange for water; K. saved him (two pigeons: you can regain your sight with my pen), burned his father and vizier, married a beautiful woman]: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 13:109-120; Turks [a girl was born in a poor family (var.: princess); three (or more) dervishes (peri; dead mother) predict that where she passes, the grass will turn green, her tears will become pearls from her lips if she laughs roses will fall, gold will appear in the water that she will wash; they give her an amulet (bracelet); a girl grows up, marries a prince, goes to him accompanied by another woman (sister, maid, neighbor, black woman, etc.; the vizier decides to replace the beauty with his ugly daughter); thirsty, her companion gives her water in exchange for her eyes; takes her place; the blind lives with other people; the palace needs roses, they fall from the girl's lips, they are sold in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; (the padishah sees the grass turning green under the girl walking); the liar steals the girl's amulet, she loses consciousness, is put in tomb; (she gives birth to a child, he sucks her dead mother's breast); prince finds and revives her]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 240:291-294; Kurds [having given birth to a daughter, the shepherd's wife hears like three doves they tell her to be named Golbarin; if she laughs, roses will fall from the sky, if she cries, it will rain; accompanied by aunt G., they marry her son padishah; the aunt feeds the girl with salty food, gives water in exchange for her eyes, she dresses her ugly daughter in her clothes; the shepherd picks up a blind woman, who tells her roses to be exchanged for her eyes in the city; pigeons teach her to wash her eyes in the spring, run a pen over them, G. sees the light; goes to serve her aunt; receives beautiful clothes from doves; the shepherd's son recognizes her as a real bride, her aunt and her daughters are beheaded, the shepherd is invited to live in the palace]: Farizov, Rudenko 1959:29- 33.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [=Rosenfeld 1956:13-22; the merchant's property burns down, he lives in a vacant lot, his wife gives birth to a daughter, four peri give her gifts: roses from her mouth when she laughs, tears are pearls, sleeps under her head gold, steps - gold and silver under her feet; shahzade takes her as his wife; the merchant's sister (i.e. the bride's aunt) gives her a potion, the girl is thirsty, she gives her eyes for water, her aunt throws her into the hole, replaces her daughter; she takes roses and gold in stock, they run out soon; the gardener pulls out the girl, sells roses and pearls to her aunt in exchange for her eyes torn out; shahzade finds a true wife the impostor asks if she wants a horse or a sword; she replies that the horse, shahzade, ties her hair to the horse's tail]: Osmanov 1987:124-131; Tajiks [stepmother tortures stepdaughter with work, tells strain the cotton; the cow eats it, releases yarn from her mouth; the wind carries the cotton into the old woman's cave; she tells her to comb her hair, clean her house; promises that roses and tears will fall from the mouth of a laughing girl will turn into pearls, gold bricks will fall from her right foot, silver bricks from the left foot; the stepmother's daughter goes to herd a cow; carelessly combs the old woman, sweeps poorly; takes away from the pantry is gold; she has a bump on her forehead, gold turns into stones; her stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered, the cow tells the girl to bury her bones in a hole; stepmother and stepdaughter go to the wedding, tell her to separate wheat rice; chicken does it, in place of cow bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does not recognize her stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), the padishah's son is looking for him, finds a girl in good shape, where the stepmother hid it; on the way, the stepmother lets the bride eat salty, she is thirsty, the stepmother gives water in exchange for her torn eyes; throws her stepdaughter into the well, replaces her daughter with her daughter; the poor old man finds beauty and pearls; saves her, collects roses; changes them for the eyes of her stepmother's daughter, the current wife of the padishah; now pearls fall from her eyes, roses from her mouth; stepmother sends the witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl orders to be buried in a crypt of gold and silver bricks; the stepmother takes her heart away, gives a bag with it to her daughter; when she takes it off her neck for the night, the stepdaughter comes to life; the son of the padishah finds her, comes at night; she has a son and daughter; the boy has grown up, pulls out a bag with her heart; stepmother and daughter are tied to horses, a beautiful woman and her son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:175-182; the Tajiks of Sistan [the king is blind, a leaf of a fortieth tree is needed; two elder princes from one wife, the younger Malik-Muhammad from the other; at the fork in the roads a stone with the inscription: to the right - you'll come back, straight - God knows, you won't go back to the left; the brothers sent MM on the left road, drove along the other two themselves, the roads met again and they went together; the young man invited them into the house, girl offered to play dice, they all lost; became servants to the merchant and the baker; MM is polite to the old diva; she hid him from her seven sons; they swore they would not harm the guest; the old woman gave MM a letter for her older sister, she for her oldest; this old woman tells her to go the other way on the way back, otherwise he will cause harm; in the betting garden, the king of the bet; when he sees MM, he will light up, and The 4-oral tree will scream; you have to hide; the princess will reproach them; so twice; then pour sweets on the horse, pet the tree; they will become MM's friends; you need to swap the gold and silver lamp near the sleeping girl, eating, picking up one of the 7 blankets; MM did so, picked up tree leaves, returned to the fork where he left the brothers; their arrows rusted; MM beat the girl and won even herself; bought the brothers and branded them as a slave; they did not recognize him; one of the brothers gave a girl player and the other a princess, whom the local king gave for a gem taken by MM at the bet; sent the girls with leaves home to his father, but kept one leaf for themselves; the brothers realized that MM was with them; there was no water on the way, they gave MM water in exchange for their eyes; took the leaves from the girl, brought them to their father ; the dog led MM to the spring, spit out his eyes, he rubbed them with a leaf, saw the light, sat on his horse that came up; bet, the tree owner and her army went to look for MM to marry; the elders the brothers went out, walked barefoot on the carpet, could not answer what they saw at the bet; beaten; MM came, answered correctly; the wedding; the brothers were expelled, and he also took the girls MM wanted to give them myself]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 9:118-131; Shugnans {? I.I. Zarubin's archive; Zarubin mainly seems to have worked with the Rushano-Shugnan languages} [the tsar gives his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give one; the prince stole the key, unlocked the casket, and contains a portrait beauties; the king noticed that the son was turning pale and the portrait was gone; allowed his son to go in search; stayed in town with an old woman; that girl was just having a wedding; the prince put on women's clothes, winked the girl she told me to send that woman to her, they united; the girl teaches her to steal during her wedding to the king; they came to the castle, whose mistress tells everyone to fight her; the prince defeated her and he also married; at home, the king fell in love with one daughter-in-law and the vizier with another; they decided to kill the prince; they took him hunting, there was no water, the vizier promised water in exchange for his eyes; the prince's hound hid them under a stone; the dog brought the blinded prince to the water, brought a cake from his wives; he hears a parrot saying to the starling: we must wipe the eye sockets with the leaves of this tree, then insert his eyes; the young man tore off the leaf, the dog she brought her eyes; disguised as a dervish, she comes to the king; replies that she knows how to play the rubbe and persuade a woman to love whoever she needs, but for this he must be left alone with her; he dug a hole with his wives, his wives they pushed the king and the vizier into it, the prince cut off their heads]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 32:316-326; the Yazgulyam [Neck and Bud set off; ate Nek's supplies, and Bud gave him bread in exchange by the eye; Nek spent the night in the mill underground; a fox, a bear, a wolf and other animals gathered; a fox: there is a man without eyes; animals: let him rub his eyes with an apricot flower; Nek saw the light, brought a bag of gold; When Bud found out about this, he also went to the mill; fox: there is a man here, he has big eyes, tear him apart; animals tore him apart]: Edelman 1966, No. 18:215; Sarykoltsy [good man and bad man travel together; the good one asks the bad one for a piece of bread; the bad one tells him to poke out his eye; the good one does it; after a few days he asks the bad one again for a piece of bread; he again tells him to poke out eye; the good one does it, becomes blind; the bad one leaves it and leaves; in the evening a dog comes, takes a good man to the cave; after a while, a wolf, a bear, a fox and an evil spirit come there (" nightmare"); the bear asks the fox where it came from; the fox: from the royal city; the bear: what news is there? fox: the king's daughter is blind; wolf: she can be cured with blue goat skin; bear: there is a tree in front of the cave, and a puddle at its foot; if a blind man puts his hand in it, he splashes water a tree, and then rubs his eyes with this water, he will see the light; a good man hears their conversation and goes to that puddle the next day; does as the bear said and gains sight; then goes to to the king, tells him that there is a blue-skinned goat among his herds, and tells him to bring it; with this skin, he restores the king's daughter's sight and eventually marries her; a bad man comes and asks he has treasures; a good man sends him to a cave; when he finds only food and clothes, the bad one stays there for the night; the wolf who comes kills him]: Shaw 1876, No. 1:42-44; (cf. Ishkashim {Grierson 1920:2: The Ishkashim version is translated from Shugnan, and the Shugnan text is a translation of the Sarykol text published in Shaw 1876} [good and evil set off; good asked for bread; the evil one gave it twice, for this he pricked out one eye, then the other eye; the evil one left, it became dark; the dog came up; the good man grabbed her by the tail, she brought him into the cave; the wolf came there, bear, fox and evil spirit (night-mare); fox: the king's daughter is ill, the king tells the viziers to find a doctor; wolf: there is a blue goat in the royal herd; you must put his skin on your eyes, you will recover; bear: before plane tree cave, pond next to it; you have to moisten your hand in the water, put it on the trunk of the plane tree, and then to your eyes - you will see the light; in the morning good did so, I saw the light; I came to the king, asking not to execute the viziers, but to find blue goat; the princess's eyes recovered, the king gave her a good wife; an evil man came, a kind man told him about the cave; the animals tore him apart]: Grierson 1920:65-68); Uzbeks [after cutting down a tree, a woodcutter frees the genie imprisoned in him; he lets him eat an apple in half with his wife; a daughter is born, whose tears are pearls, when she laughs, roses fall from her mouth, where she steps, golden sand remains; the old man is rich, asks for his daughter too big dowry; the evil genie orders to give her to him; the batyr kills the genie, gets a beautiful woman; the old woman and daughter say that they have come from the batyr to pick up the bride; they take them away her into the desert; the old woman gives her water for her eyes torn out; throws her daughter into the well, dresses her daughter in her clothes; the people are surprised that roses do not fall, there is no gold in the bride's footsteps; the poor man pulls out the blind from a well, builds a pearl palace; when a rose smiles, a rose falls, the poor man sells her daughter to an old woman by two eyes blind; a good genie dove inserts his eyes, the girl sees the light; an evil genie tells the old woman catch a goldfish, there is an earring in it, where the soul is beautiful; at night, the imaginary wife takes out the earring, at which time the girl comes to life; after chasing the dove, the batyr finds the true bride, returns the earring; the old woman and her daughter is tied to horses]: Sheverdin 1984:82-89; Bukhara Arabs [the emir is blind, the sons are going to buy medicine; the elders come to see the old woman; she sets the condition that if the lamp is until morning will stand on the cat, it will take their property; having lost everything, the brothers are hired as a fish merchant; the youngest greets the Albanists, who refers him to her older sister; she to the younger sister; she to the bargitumi tree; there are divas and peri, the young man collects tree leaves; plays back what his brothers lost (sends a mouse to the cat); in the steppe, the youngest is thirsty, the brothers tear out his eyes in exchange for water, take the leaves, throw him into a well; he finds leaves in his pocket, sees the light; the horse pulls out of the well; he heals his father; the father curses his elder sons]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 36:237-239.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [poor brother asks for rich bread, he gives it in exchange for eyes; a blind man comes to the forest, climbs a pine tree, animals gather under it; a rider rode, asks them about life, himself tells them three news; 1) a blind poor man will see the light if he washes himself with dew from this pine tree; 2) the queen will recover if a toad is killed under her floor; 3) if you move a stone, water will flow into the waterless city ; the poor man sees the light, kills the toad, the king, then the townspeople reward him generously; at home he sends his son to his brother to measure gold and silver, some coins remain on the measure; when he finds out what is going on, the rich man goes into the forest, hides in a pine tree; animals say that someone overheard the conversation, find a person, tear him apart]: Lyovite 1965:233-239; Latvians [Three secrets. The poor brother goes to the rich man for bread, the rich one gouges his eyes out. The poor man sits under a tree, overhears birds and animals talking about how to regain sight, how to heal a princess, and how to provide the city with water. The blind man sees the light, heals the princess, gets water and is rewarded. He tells the rich man everything. The rich man gouges out his eyes, goes to eavesdrop on the animals talking, but they break it up]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 613:306; Lutsie (West 1926) [the poor younger brother has many children and the rich older brother has many children and the rich older brother has they are not there; the poor man asks for food, he gives it in exchange for his eyes; the blind goes to travel and sleeps under the boat; the devils gather; the king will give up the throne who will cure his blind daughter; dew will fall this morning, healing blindness; a chest of gold is buried nearby; there is no water in one village - hell closed; dig several times and water will appear; the poor man saw the light, dug up a chest of gold, received rewards from the residents a village that had found water and from the father of a clear princess; his rich brother ordered him to gouge out his eyes, went to spend the night under the boat; the devils found him, tore him, pulled his skin over the drum]: Annom et al. 2018:227-230; Estonians [Pravda and Krivda (Tõde ja Vale) set off, agreed to eat the reserves of Truth first; then Krivda refused to share his own; promised to give bread after Truth allowed him to be blinded; he did not give him, left him in the cemetery; the truth spends the night in the chapel; from a conversation between two crows, he learns that there is land to the right of the chapel that cures blindness; that the princess will recover if she drinks water from a source under a large stone; The truth sees the light, heals the princess, marries her; upon learning about this, Krivda orders herself to be dazzled and left in the chapel; crows find him, kill him]: Normann, Lätt 1968: 153-156; Eastern Sami (Skolts) [poor brother claims to rely on God and rich brother to hell; they made a bet, sailed in a boat on the sea to ask people they meet; oncoming I agree with the rich; he pulled out the poor's eye, left it in the boat; she was carried ashore; the poor got ashore, fell asleep; someone said that there is a bush nearby, a spring under it; you need to wash your eyes and rub them with three leaves, vision will return; then there will be a big tree, let the poor climb on it; two people stopped under the tree, talking; the sorcerer tortures the royal daughter if she is brought on this island, the sorcerer's power will weaken; the king does not have enough water, you have to dig under this tree, a spring will appear; the deer have fled; if you put the paddock posts where they used to be, the deer will return; the poor brother came to town; the king says he does not need a worker, but the poor man offers to provide the king with water; {this concludes the text; the conversation under the tree is also confusing}]: Lagercrantz 1961, No. 306: 181-184.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [Tugri ("truthful") and Aldar ("deceiver") argue whether it is better to live in truth or deceive; plowman, buy, old man answer that it is more profitable to deceive; T. wants to eat, A. gives him eat and for it takes your eyes, leaves the blind; the voice tells you to wash your eyes in the spring - you will see the light; then climb the oak tree and listen; genies gathered at midnight; one torments the padishah's daughter; to drive him away , we must take a rosary from Gali-bay; T. has been working for G. for three years, received a rosary, married the daughter of a padishah; A. became impoverished; when he found out what happened to T., he climbed the same oak tree; the genies tore it]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 2:26-30; the Bashkirs [Truth and Krivda went together; ate the reserves of Truth; Krivda shared it only in exchange for the eyes of Truth; in a dream, someone told the Truth to fool around, find a sheet and put it to his eyes; he saw the light; became a dervish, preached, the king liked it, but the senator offered to hang the dervish; the king gave a note, but the senator was hanged; the king died, the dervish was elected; and Krivda became poor]: Bessonov 1941, No. 66:311-312 (Barag 1990, No. 135:322-323).