K90B. Antlers in the dragon's mouth. (.23.) .27.29.30.32.
Theantlers of a deer or the tusks of an elephant that a serpent or dragon tries to swallow get stuck in its mouth.
Serbs, Albanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Kalmyks, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Persians, Turkmens, Baluchis, Bashkirs.
(Wed. South Asia. Kannada [many snakes are divorced; the prince, at the head of his warriors, kills hundreds of them; the seven-headed serpent king explains the reason: his head hurts so much that his subjects are out of his control; let the prince go south, where the princess, as light as 7 jasmine flowers, never laughs; if she laughs, three jasmine flowers will fall from her lips and the smell of the average snake king will recover; along the way, the prince saved ants whose nest fell into the water; saved Rakshasa, whose mouth, while he slept, grew a huge tamarind from a fallen seed; the princess's father demands to dismantle one hundred bags of grain mixed with rice and small legumes (ants sing); eat a lot (rakshas ate); ring a huge bell lying on the ground (rakshas raised the bell, rang); the prince received the princess, led to acrobats, that laughed, he brought a flower to the king of snakes, he recovered, the snake attack was over]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 51:139-142).
The Balkans. Serbs [the widow's son asks his mother to sell the garden, buys a horse, sells firewood; sees the fox as a huge snake with deer antlers stuck in its teeth; both a deer and a snake ask for help; after as the snake swore not to harm the young man, he killed the deer; the snake tells her father to ask the king of snakes for a ring; the king gives it only after his daughter has threatened to leave the young man; the ring will do any desire if you bring him to the fire; during this time the horse was eaten by wolves; the mother scolds her son; he asks the ring for food and a full yard of firewood, the two Moors do everything; then the young man asks for the palace like a king; tells his mother feed all the hungry; asks the Sultan's daughter and lives with her; the witch promises the Sultan to find a daughter; comes beggar; the young man, against his wife's wishes, invites her to the palace; she asks the young man's wife to bring a ring - her husband will love her even more; after receiving the ring, the witch takes the young man's wife back to Istanbul; he comes to the Sultan's palace, hires a kitchen; has tamed a dog and a cat; and becomes friends with the maid, asked to take food to the princess, putting her ring on a plate; his wife found out, handed him and her maid a woman's dress; the witch found out, the sultan ordered the young man to be executed, and the torturers threw him into a hole in the forest, piling up a rock from above; the dog and the cat followed him; holding the cat's tail, the young man made his way to a place where there were many mice; the cat began to strangle them, the mouse king agreed to get the ring; first the mice brought the wrong rings, for the magic witch is holding it under her tongue; then the mouse tickled the sleeping witch, she sneezed, the ring fell out, the mice brought it, the young man lit the fire with flint, told the Moors to take it out, the dog and the cat to the ground and throw the witch into the hole; the sultan gave him a daughter; the young man also carried his mother to Istanbul]: Schütz 1960, No. 2:14-27; Albanians [the poor widow has a son; collects firewood in the forest and sells, That's how they lived; I saw a snake with the horns of a goat stuck in its mouth, which she was trying to swallow; the young man freed her; the snake: let's go to my husband, he will reward you, ask you to give what is under his tongue; the husband does not want to give, but the snake wife threatens to leave him; after accidentally rubbing the pebble, the young man called a black man; asked him for bread and a horse; sent his mother at home to marry the royal daughter; the king demands for two weeks to build a palace; the black man hesitates, and on the morning of the 14th day the palace is ready; a Jew came to the wedding; guessed that it was not clean; hid in the newlyweds room; the young man took off the ring in which he was inserted He put the pebble in the box; when the young fell asleep, the Jew took the ring, told the black man to throw the naked young man in front of the royal palace, and move this palace to the sea; the king imprisoned the young man; wandering the merchant sold him the cat; the young man fed him to the size of a lamb; the cat dug a dig, they got outside and went to the Jew's palace; the cat threatened the mice to strangle everyone if they didn't get the ring; the mouse tickled the Jew's nose, he spit out the ring, the mouse brought it to the cat, the cat gave it to the young man; the young man told the black man to return everything and lived happily with his wife]: Dozon 1991, No. 9:63-70; Moldovans: Botezat 1982:246- 257 [The king lost his seal; if he had a son, he would go to the next world, remove the seal ring from his grandfather's hand; Tudor's daughter wears men's clothes, goes instead of her son; the deer is stuck with horns in the snake's mouth; the snake asks the deer to cut off the antlers, the deer to kill the snake; T. kills the snake; the deer leads to the castle where the grandfather's ring lies; if you step on the threshold, you will stay there forever; T. she stumbled over the threshold, the devils took the ring and led him to the main thing; he promises to let T. go if he brings the Red King's white horse; the deer warns not to take bridles; she takes it, is caught, the king tells bring Ilyana Kosynzyan; on the way, T. and the deer come to St. Serede (gives a box), St. Friday (brush), St. Saturday (handkerchief); IK is the nut that the witch rolls in the castle, it must be replaced; other witches come back, tell the nut to open, it does not open, they chase; the deer tells you to throw the comb ( forest), box (mountain), handkerchief (river); witches: if you are a woman, become a man, and if a man is a woman; Tudora became Tudor; the Red King's deer chipped in IK, T. got a horse, and the deer returned; the same the main feature; T. took the ring; T. returns home on horseback with a seal and with his bride], 317-325 []; Gagauz people [his mother sent Ivan to the forest for firewood; he sees a snake swallowing a wild ram, horns stuck in the mouth; the ram asks to kill the snake, the snake the ram; I. listens to the snake, breaks the ram's horns; the snake leads to its relatives, tells him to ask for a mirror as a reward; hidden under the tongue, it performs wishes; the mother told the king that I. had brought a lot of firewood, wanted the king to destroy him; I. told the mirror to move the princess, the palace, himself, the dog, the cat to a deserted area; six months later, a woman promised the king to find his daughter, came to I., became a maid, persuaded I.'s wife to find out his secret; his wife pretended to be sick; I. replies that the secret was in the gun, then admitted that the mirror; the woman ordered move everything back to the mirror, received half of the kingdom from the king, I. stayed with the dog and the cat; the woman ordered him to be killed, the king threw him into the pit; there are mice, the cat strangles them, the mice promise I. help if his cat will stop killing them; the lame mouse knows where the mirror is; smeared herself in crap, climbed onto the woman's face at night, she spat because of the bad smell, the mouse brought I.'s mirror; he carried his wife and the palace back, burned the woman alive]: Moshkov 1904, No. 45:75-78.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [old man says he will be cured if his son reaches a country where no man has set foot, brings something no one has seen; older, middle brothers return quickly; younger saw a snake that swallowed a ram, but its horns were stuck; the young man pulled out a ram, saddled a snake, it became a khan; his daughter tells him to ask for a reward for the horse Hamar-Hara, a black stone in which the horse is strong, and her herself; the young man goes to the XX, contrary to the advice of the XX, picks up the wings of the most beautiful bird; he comes to another khan; whoever wins chess will kill the other; the young man wins three times, spares the khan; he offers to get the most beautiful girl; the young man brings, the khan sends for horses from the underwater kingdom; the horse tells him to lubricate him with sealing wax, lies on the sand, becomes like a flint, defeats a water horse, a young man catches him, followed by other horses; the woman demands that the groom bathe in boiling milk; the young man swam, becomes handsome, the khan is cooked; the young man and wife come to his father, the wife opens the casket, a palace appears; a young man is chosen as khan]: Badmayev 1899:146-150; Armenians [the horns of the ox he swallowed by him are stuck in the mouth of the serpent king]: Gullakyan 1983:237, 264; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy 1930 (1) ( Nukha District, 1899) [Danareban brought a rare bird to his father, who advised him to give it to the Shah; the envious vizier advises sending D. to bring a cage from the diva's bones (the old woman sends it to the well from where they drink divas; there is a bottle, there is a diva's life in it, D. breaks it, gets the diva's bones); the shah asks for the return of his daughter kidnapped by the divas; D. sees a snake that has swallowed the animal, and the horns are stuck, saws off the horns; the grateful snake gives him its seal, she fulfills his desire, the diva dies, the princess is back in the palace; the shah orders to reward D., but the vizier orders him to be executed; the seal of the diva exposes the vizier, the shah drives him away, makes a vizier D.]: 22-24; Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [the boy spends all his time with his horse, does not want to study; to get rid of the horse, the mother persuaded the doctor to say that she needs to improve her health eat the horse's meat; the husband did not mind; the horse told the boy to ask permission to ride it for the last time, they galloped off; they saw a tiger trying to swallow a horned animal, horns stuck in their mouths; the young man pulled out their horns, the tiger gave him his tiger cub; the lion and the tiger promised to herd the horse, and the young man was told to go to town; he was hired as a gardener's assistant, the king's youngest daughter saw him and fell in love; offered to send her father three melons of varying degrees of ripeness; the advisers explained that it was time for the daughters to marry; the king ordered the daughters to throw an apple at their chosen ones; the youngest The princess threw an apple at the young man; the king gave it to him, but expelled it from the palace; the king fell ill, he needed venison; did not give the horse to his youngest daughter; the young man sat on his former horse, and the tiger and lion drove the deer into the gorge; The young man gave venison to the sons of the vizier and vekil, but made it tasteless, and transferred the taste to his head and legs; only the food brought by his youngest daughter helped the king; enemies, their young man, attacked defeated, wounded in the arm, the king bandaged it; gathered all the men, saw his bandage on the young man, made him heir to the throne]: 237-242; the Turks [dying, the woodcutter tells his son to continue his craft, but not to cut the cypress on the edge; the son did not listen, but when he took the ax and went to the cypress, he began to move away from it; the young man caught up with him in the evening, tied the donkey to the trunk, climbed upstairs himself; in the morning from the donkey only bones; on the third day, while continuing to follow the cypress, the young man saw a snake trying to swallow an elephant, but the tusk was stuck in his throat; both asked the young man for help; snake: I I will reward you more generously, and you just have to cut off the tusk; the young man did so; when the serpent was swimming in the river, everything rattled; the snake told him not to drink coffee or eat the meat that his mother offered, but to ask the one hanging from the door is a piece of mirror; in the mirror, efreet, one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, carries out any orders; he asked the palace and the princess; the sultan is looking for his daughter in vain; the old woman tells me to throw her in a box into the sea; for Fishermen caught her by sea, she came to the young man's palace, begged the princess to shelter her, find out her husband's secret; stole the mirror, turned the palace into ash, and transferred herself and the princess to the Sultan; the young man hired the Sultan to work in the kitchen; the princess recognized the piece he had prepared; the old woman recognized him, sent him back; the young man's cat mercilessly kills mice; the mouse padishah promises to help if the young man kills her; {the last 2 pages are skipped in pdf}]: Kúnos 1901:176-187.
Iran - Central Asia. The Persians [the serpent ordered him to enter the palace; the sage guessed to call the artisans; the serpent pulled the carpenter's caftan and brought him to his wife, who had goat horns stuck in her mouth; the carpenter drank them off, the snake she swallowed the goat; the serpent gave seeds, the carpenter took them to the king, melons grew out of them; the melon was given to a donkey and a goat for testing, they ate them with pleasure; then they gave them to the condemned to death, who was also happy; the new fruit was named" goat donkey"]: Romaskevich 1934a, No. 68:381-383; Turkmens [there was a fortress near Anau, ruled by the wise and just Cemal (or Seyid Cemal man); at the edge of the fortress wall, where now a mosque, there was a tree on which a bell was hung; every traveler in need could shake a tree, the queen's people came out to the ringing and helping the seeker; one day the tree began to shake Azhdaga (dragon), pointing either towards the mountains or at two carpenters with an ax and a saw; the queen ordered both to follow Azhdag; he brought them to his wife; she swallowed a mountain goat, but its horns stabbed her throat; the carpenters entered her mouth, one sawed off her horns, the other cut the goat's carcass; when Azhdaga was saved, her husband led the carpenters into the cave and offered signs to take the treasures; The next day, residents of both Azhdag brought a lot of gold and precious stones to the ridges; the Queen used this money to rebuild the mosque, posting images of both dragons on the portal]: Pugachenkova 1956:129; Baluchis [two princes went hunting; the youngest saw a snake swallowing a ram, but the horns were stuck in its mouth; the youngest called the elder, they sawed off the horns, the serpent swallowed them; they brought the snake to to his father, he gave him a carpet; serpent: let one of you come; the youngest was frightened, the eldest went; the serpent asked his relatives if he would give him his daughter for a man; they said that if he was for three the night does not work with her, they will fill his skin with hay, and if he is sweet, let it be; at night the girl took off the snake's shell; the young man slept for two nights, but cut his finger on the third, did not fall asleep and got along with the girl; in the morning a serpent came and joked; his wife ordered his father to choose a thin horse, an old harness and a saddle, and his mother to take the incense of the Holy Prophet Suleiman; going to his father, the prince waited at the crossing; saw a snake and threw a stone at her; wife: you killed me, put the medicine from that bag on my head; the younger brother saw the elder's wife and wanted her himself; the king ordered the vizier to help get rid of his eldest son and give his wife to the youngest; the vizier orders to fill three jugs with marvelous milk by morning; the wife called the divas, they gave milk; bring a flower from the dead; wife: sow sesame seeds at the spring; when it blooms, pearies will come; take a medium dress and don't look back; she's my uncle's daughter; the prince did so; the other pearies flew away; he returned the clothes when that peary said "for the love of husband and wife"; she brought a flower and brought the prince to his house {and became his wife}; vizier: there are 7 vessels of gold, the key disappeared with your late mother, get it; wives: in such a place the entrance to the grave will be opened; the prince goes and sees two bulls attacking their owner; two dogs (same); one woman hanging, the other makes a fire under her; each time she asks what this means, he is promised an answer on the way back; his mother in the cauldron jumped out and gave the key; the one that hangs did not give the one that burns it half a man of oil; the owner fed one dog and did not feed the other; one bull gave hay, the other did not; the young man gave the key; the vizier: create a castle on the river, one brick is gold and the other is silver; the wives called pearies and angels, they built them all; the king, the vizier, who came close there rose; the pearies and the angels took the bricks, king, vizier, close associates drowned]: Zarubin 1932, No. 15:190-197.
Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the serpent Zarkum, son of Kakhkakh, swallowed a deer, but the horns are stuck in his throat; he asks the hero of the Urals for help, promises a reward; says he wanted to marry the daughter of the padishah of birds Samrau, but she refused to marry a snake; Father Z. told him to swallow a deer with horns in 12 branches, then he could take any form and daughter S. would not reject him; W. frees Z., who leads him to his father, advises take as a reward a rod that makes him invisible and saves from fire and water (hereinafter W. defeats snakes, frees the beautiful woman)]: Sagitov 1981, Chapter 3:52-58 (=: 132-139).