K91. An invisible battle. .12.14.26.28.-.30.32.-.34.36.

Dogs, the hero's horse, or he himself fight against the enemy in the lower world. Those in the distance determine the course of the battle by the color of the water or foam that rises to the surface.

Fulbe, Hausa, Tunisia, Chinese, Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Terek Cossacks, Adygs, Ossetians, Ingush, Georgians, Turks, Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Mari, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs, Altaians, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Oirats, Darkhats, Dagurs, Central Yakuts.

West Africa. Fulbe (Futa-jallon, Guinea) [Maimuna asks the Owner of the Well to help put a jug on her head; he sends a toad, a turtle, M. demands him; he agrees in exchange for a promise give him her son Yaya; The owner of the Well is watching the road, asking everyone if he is J.; J. goes down to the well, telling his wives that if red appears, he is killed, and if white, the Master; first red appears, but then white; J. brings his mother a chest with the Master's head; she opens it, dies]: Koval 2005, No. 7:384-386; hausa [two sisters argue which of them is more beautiful; walk, asking people, the youngest receives more gifts; the eldest asks them to bring her a drink, tells them to take water where it is deeper; she drowned, the eldest took her property; their younger brother sings on the shore, Go home; the sister goes out, combs his hair, returns to the river; the boy tells his parents; they agree to give the daughter to the king's son if he returns the girl; the young man turned leper; told me to rejoice if the water turns red; under water, he offers the king of the river dodo (dodo is the common name for perfume), who married the girl, to shave him; the water turned white, then turned black; when the young man cut off D. his head turned red; the young man carried the girl out of the water; thinking that he was a leper, the wife let him eat on a dirty dish; the husband became handsome, another woman told his wife to serve on clean dishes; the husband speaks What will be eaten on the clean when the wife washes her with a lion's tail; the woman advises her to catch flies, climb a tree, pour flies into the lioness's mouth; the lioness asks her to go down, allows her to cut off her tail one lion cub; wife washes calebas with her tail, husband eats food]: Schön 1862:176-188 (translated into Okhotina 1962:293-298).

North Africa. Tunisia [in Cairo, fisherman Juder bin Omar trusts in God, hopes to catch fish in the evening; a man on a mule arrives, gives him a hundred gold, tells him to tie him with a silk rope and throw him into the water at in depth; if white foam rises, let him rejoice, and if red, then the stranger died; red foam rose; D. sat on a mule, went to the city; Jew: desires and death destroy people; tomorrow everything It repeats, the same story with the stranger's brother, D. brought his mother a hundred more gold; a Jew: life is going to death; a third stranger, an old man, gives 500 gold; white foam surfaced, the old man emerged with two red fish in his hands and a golden reed in her mouth; put the fish in the box; powder in the cane - if you lubricate your eyes, you see treasures; the underwater princess stole a reed, two brothers fighting it died; D. must go with a stranger for a year; D.'s mothers left a magic bag; they arrived in the city where the old man lived; D. needs him to get magic items and treasures; D. received a magic plaque (Tafel) in which helper spirits; (various adventures, frees the princess); the sultan gave his daughter for him; envious brothers locked him in a chest and sold it to the captain of the ship; three he let D. go to Mecca; there D. met that old man again, he gave the magic ring, D. returned to Cairo, the Sultan died, making him heir; appointed the brothers D. as viziers; one of them poisoned him, took possession of the ring, killed another brother; wanted to take D.'s wife; she pretended to agree, poisoned him, took possession of the ring, and was chosen ruler]: Stimme 1893, No. 3:39-57.

China - Korea. The Chinese [Yun Wai's maid ate a peach that fell from the mountain, became pregnant by a dragon; she was kicked out, she raised a son; the Black Dragon's wife gave his robe to her lover, the White Dragon; Black blocked the mouth of the Ershui River, caused flooding; the son of SE asked to forge a copper dragon's head, iron fists, knives, throw cakes into the water if it turned yellow, and iron bread if it turned black; puts on a copper head, turns into a Yellow Dragon, fights black; people throw cakes into his mouth, Black throws iron bread; Black swallows Yellow, who cuts it from the inside; refuses to go out through the ass, nose, arm, foot, goes out through the eye; Black becomes one-eyed, runs, cutting through the dam, the water descends; Yellow remains a dragon forever]: Cherkasova 196:355-359.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [Three daughters take turns volunteering to serve instead of their father, the elders go to the field, where everything rumbles, and return. The youngest does not return, ends up in the forest, where snakes and frost fight, she responds to the latter's request for help, together they cut down three snake heads, put the ashes in their pockets. Frost asks the hero's name, plucks the "Burkunets" grass, calls him Roman. Roman goes on alone. He finds a Firebird feather on the road, the horse warns not to take the pen, but Roman does not listen. The grooms pay attention to the beauty of the horse and (cleaned with a pen) inform the king. The grooms are ordered to take the iconostasis out of the sea. Roman grieves, asks frost for help, he freezes the sea and pulls out the iconostasis "on the dry days of the sea." While the horse was pulling out the iconostasis, the monist scattered, the grooms demand to be extracted, the frost helps Roman again, freezes the sea. The grooms demand to get 9 mares and the tenth stallion out of the sea. The horse asks to wrap it in four skins and coat it with resin, and goes to sea by himself. After the sea water turns red and then turns blue, the horse leaves the sea, where it defeats a stallion whose skin is beaten, while the horse is protected by resin and skins, and brings out mares "the earth trembles". The grooms order them to milk while the horse laughs, they stand as if they were dug in, Roman milks them. The grooms order Roman to cook in milk, the horse blows at him, and he leaves the vat handsome, the commander repeats the same thing, cooked]: Ivanov 1894, No. 1:139-141.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Terek Cossacks (Naur) [the king goes blind, sends his sons to bring land from the country where he was, he will see the light from it; the eldest, middle son brings land where it is covered with gold, where there is a tree exudes milk and water; the king says he was next; the younger chooses a frozen gelding, comes to the right place; on the way back he picks up a golden pen; stops at the Sultan; wanting to take possession with a pen, the vizier suggests 1) sending the prince for the sea maiden; at the bottom (all on the advice of a horse), the prince gives the wolf, in front of whom hay lay, meat; sheep instead of meat, hay; they are allowed to enter the palace; lubricates 90 doors with oil; the queen tells the doors, the wolf, the ram to detain the prince, they refuse; the prince brings it to the Sultan; 2) get the bird whose feather was golden; the horse tells them to sprinkle cereals, replace the water in the lake with wine, hide in the camel's carcass, leave the other to the birds; the prince grabs the intoxicated king bird pecking meat; 3) the milk of the sea king's goat; at the bottom of the sea, the horse fights with a goat, wins (the horse is covered from goat bites by camel skins); 4) swim in sea goat milk (it is boiling); the horse spewed water into the cauldron, cooling it; the sultan began to swim - cooked; the prince plants the vizier to prison, marries the queen of the sea, treats his father for blindness]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 1:66-74; the Adyghi [a lonely rider meets Shauai without recognizing him, says he is going to Sh.; he brings him to him, changes clothes, receives a guest; the rider asks to give him and his horse huge portions of food; covers the horse with a layer of resin and sand; rushes into the sea; if white foam pops up, S. must grab a horse that jumps out of the water; red pops up; S. jumps on his horse across the sea; calls; the rider replies that he lies between the crushing mountains; S. cuts off the heads of 12 seven-headed frogs ready to cut off their heads to the rider; the stallion runs away, brings three 12-headed older brothers killed by others; the rider kills two with arrows; when he fights the latter, the horse cannot bite him covered in sand and resin the rider's horse; S. kills him; the rider admits that he is a girl who avenged the brothers killed by others; after washing her eyes with another's blood, her parents saw the light; the girl immediately leaves, S. goes to look for her; Satanay says that the girl lives overseas, the An-Ak eagle guards the way there; S. on horseback in the dark (the beauty covers her face with her hair, it gets dark) swims across an impenetrable swamp; the beauty promised to go out for someone who can do it; on the way back, An-Ak takes her away; S. pretends to be asleep, An-Ak brings him to his nest, S. kills him with a sword; returns to sledges with his wife]: Huth 1987:40-54; Ossetians [Zerassa (epithets: "golden-haired", "beauty of the earth", "shining like the sun and moon") is one of the three sisters of seven brothers, the daughter of the lord of the water kingdom Donbettyr. In the form of a bird (in another version: a deer), she found herself in the Nart Garden, where a wonderful apple tree grows, the fruits of which heal all diseases. Ahsar and Ahsartag, sons of the oldest Narth, Warhag, were guarding the garden; Ahsartag shot and wounded a bird. Following her bloody trail, he came to the seashore, told Akhsar to return home if bloody foam rose, wait a year if white; went down to the bottom; saw D. mortally wounded in Donbettyr's house; brothers D.: the sister will recover if you put a severed wing in the previous place and let him taste the wonderful sledge apple; Akhsartag did so, received D.; on the way to Nart village, they stopped at on the seashore in the tent of Ahsar, Ahsartag's twin brother. Ahsar was hunting and Ahsartag went looking for him. Ahsar D. mistook Ahsar for her husband and began to caress him. At night, when they went to bed on the same burka, Ahsar put his sword between himself and D. so that there would be no intimacy with his brother's wife. Ahsartag, who returned, thought ill and killed his brother. D. told Akhsartag the truth, and he, in despair, pierced his heart with a sword. D. mourned her brothers bitterly when she heard her voice, and Uastyrji descended from heaven to earth on his three-legged horse. He promised D. to bury his brothers, but in return demanded that D. become his wife. D. said she had to wash herself first, went to the sea, and she went to the underwater world to see her father. Her mother, when she found out that D. was expecting a child, insisted that she return to the country of sledges and give birth on earth. D. gave birth to twin sons Uryzmag and Khamyts from sledges. As adults, they found their grandfather Warhag and married him to D. When she died, D. asked her sons to guard her crypt for three nights because she was afraid that Uastyrji would abuse her corpse. On the third night, Uastyrji came to D.'s crypt, then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed the powerful Nart family of Akhsartagkat]: Kaloev 1980:375 (in detail and with minor differences in episodes =Liberinsky 1978:50-64); (cf. Ossetians [the wife tells her boastful husband that Andurzak has repeatedly removed people like him from the saddle with the end of his whip; the husband goes to look for A., meets the shepherds of his innumerable herds, who guide him further; the same shepherds of cows and horses; a man without an arm, eye and nose replies that A. is dead; agrees to show the guest the places where A. (he himself is A., but he confesses later); goes across the river to steal the herds of Turk-Turk; if the water turns red, A. is killed, if the white foam is alive; A. killed everyone, the river turned red, the guest ran away in horror; A. found it, divided the cattle into three parts, gave all three to the guest (his share, guest share, gift); A. reluctantly tells how he became crippled; he smelled a man from his wife's room, waved a dagger, and It turned out that his wife had given birth to a boy and now he killed his wife and son; cut off his nose (he smelled it), gouged out his eye (they didn't see it properly), cut off his arm (hit him); the guest crawled on his knees to the mound under which A. buried his wife and son, they came to life, everything is fine]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:227-233); the Ingush [widow Zhosarko's son and Prince Tepsyrko marry the girl; she promises to marry him who will steal herds of sea monsters; J.'s mother gives him his father's horse and a mighty whip; T. stays on the shore, J. goes down to sea; if he feels bad, red foam will appear, if he wins, white foam will appear; first comes red, then white, J. drives the herd; three times the horse separates from the herd (first red, then white, black; J. drives the horse back, T. misses; the horse reports victory, the hijackers are chased by Black Khozha, then his middle, older brothers; T. drives a herd, J. fights; ChH's elder brother himself is also killed, but hits J. with a stone; J. asked T. to tell his mother that her son defeated someone his father did not master; she realizes that the herd was obtained by J., not T.; the bride finds J., revives with tears; wedding; T. is disgraced]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981:183-192; Georgians [someone steals apples from the royal garden; elder, the middle prince does not notice the thief, the youngest grabs the bird; she tells it to let go and follow its footsteps, comes to the tower, where the bird becomes human, does not tell you to unlock one room, flies away to get the young man wife; the young man unlocks the room, there are women chained there, hay in front of them, and a horse, meat in front of him; the bird returns, promises to kill the young man next time; so twice; for the third time the horse tells him to be released and women; swim under muddy and blue water to increase strength and hair turn golden; take a saddle and armor, kill the sorcerer's decrepit mother; the horse brings the young man to the builders of the wall; she every time collapses, for the horse's brother is underground; the young man digs the ground, the second horse jumps out, follows the young man; he pulled a oxen's stomach over his head, hired the king as a gardener, the younger princess noticed his golden hair, he tells her to keep quiet about it; dev tells the king to send him his eldest daughter to eat; the young man takes off his cowhide, calls a horse, kills a deva; the same with the other two devas, middle and younger princesses; to fight with the sorcerer bird, the horse orders to take his brother, cut the sorcerer's head into four parts; the king gathers male suitors; the older princesses sit on the knees of noble young men, the youngest on their knees gardener; they were placed in a goose; the king is sick, sends his sons-in-law to fetch the water of immortality; the younger son-in-law gives it to the elders for permission to cut off their little fingers; the king sends them to bring the liver of a porpoise; a horse goes down to sea: if blood appears, he has wounded a pig, if foam, he must be rescued; blood has appeared, the young man gives his older sons-in-law a piece of liver because his horse can kick them; the enemy attacked, the young man won everyone, the tsar bandaged his hand, sees his handkerchief on the gardener's hand, everything turns out; the older sons-in-law were driven to the lower floor, the youngest was brought closer]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 74:14-25; the Turks [The blind padishah will see the light if he gets the land from where he has not been; the eldest, middle son gallops for three, six months, returns; the younger Kerloghlan ("bald") threatens his mother to kill her; she gives a bridle to call his father's horse from the bottom of the reservoir; on it K. comes to one old woman, then to the second, takes their daughters out for the older, middle brother; the first old woman: the land unkempt by the father is under her head lying monster; horse: the monster can burn everything, the father is blind from its fire; the monster promises to give land for the girl Khoja Kyz; seeing her, K. goes blind; she heals him, but his eyes become dark, without proteins; HC promises to go with K. if he brings a mare with six foals living in the river; these are the horse's brothers K.; the horse rushes into the river; if red foam pops up, it means he's dead; a white one pops up; the mare goes beyond her foals; HC recognizes the strength of K., the monster gives land, leaves the young man HC, father K. immediately sees the light; HC gives K. two nuts, inside one dress, the other a gold tray with moving figures; gives ring, teaches what to do; brothers put K. on the carpet above the hole, he falls through, they pick up the girls; K. licks the ring, white and black rams appear, K. tries to jump on white, black takes him to the seventh lower world; the old woman has only bad water, the seven-headed giant took the good one, gives it in exchange for the girls being eaten; it is the turn of the royal daughter; K. cuts off six heads, the giant dies; if cut off seventh, he would come to life; the princess's hands were covered in the blood of a giant, she put them on K.'s back, so they found that he was the hero; K. kills the snake that devoured the bird Anka's chicks; she agrees to take him to earth; the harvested 40 kg of meat and water runs out, K. cuts off a piece of flesh from the caviar; on the ground, Anka puts it back; K. is hired by a tailor, then to a jeweler; they bring the dress, the tray that HC demanded as a condition for marriage; HC knows that K. is back; a tournament is held twice (jirit); the first K. wears black clothes, kills his older brother, the second in red, kills the middle brother; HC tells the padishah everything; a wedding of 40 days and nights]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 1:10-24.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [the old man sees fresh sheep's liver on the road; an old woman touches it, jumps out, threatens to kill her if he does not give her his son Khaidar-Kokul; tells him to cut firewood continuously; to HC a horse, a bull, come, they cannot escape from the old woman, she throws her torn tooth under their feet; the calf takes HC to the fortress where the diva has a girl languishing; on the way he picks up two puppies, they turn into powerful dogs, the girl hides them; the divas reluctantly promises not to kill HC; the girl gives HC a comb, a mirror, three arrows, tells them to run; objects turn into a forest, a river, three poplars; when the divas knocks down the last, dogs come running, pushing him into the river, fighting him underwater; first red blood rises, HC wants to run, but then black blood means that the divas is killed; HC and his wife return to their parents]: Amonov, Ulug- back 1957:145-150 (=1960:164-171); Bukhara Arabs [the youngest son tells the king to slaughter his sister, she will become a witch; he does not believe; three sons take turns guarding horses; the elder, the middle fall asleep, the witch eats the horse; the father does not believe; the youngest does not sleep, he sees that the king still does not believe; the youngest leaves, marries; after 20 years he tells his wife to release his two lions, if the milk turns red, prostakvasha black; comes to his sister, she hugs him, weans his ears; she has already eaten everyone; tells them to beat the drum, goes out to the horse, eats his leg; brother replies that the horse had three legs; the sister goes out to eat the horse again; who someone tells you to run from under the wall, taking a comb, a mirror, salt, a spindle; abandoned objects turn into thorny bushes, a river, a swamp, two trees; the brother climbs a tree, the sister takes out her tooth, cuts it down with it the tree is like an ax; begins to cut the second; the wife releases lions; the witch rushes into the river; lions say that if blood rises to the surface, they win, if blood and wool are dead; they rush into the water for the witch; hair first pops up, but then blood; lions bring a piece of skin from their sister's head to the owner; drovers promise to give camels if the lion owner guesses what their load is; a piece of leather says that almonds; a person receives camels; distributes them in his father's city, he is elected tsar]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 58:324-326; Uzbeks [a young man forgets a golden bat in the summer pasture ( toy); comes back for her, there is Almaus Kempir (AK); she pretends to be weak; the young man grabs a bat, jumps away; he changes to a donkey, a horse, a camel, a goby; he blows the wind, the pursuer loses its way in the fog; the goby comes to the princess's maids, rides them, brings the princess to the boy; tells him to be slaughtered, buried, in the morning there is a garden and a castle; buried eyes turn into two dogs; they jump into the water where AK disappeared; first pus pops up, the young man thinks that the dogs are dead; then the blood has won; the tsar comes and passes his daughter off as a young man]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 167-173 (=Sheverdin 1967:124-130).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [the boy Altyn-Sak ("goldgrandmother") has a goldgrandmother; his father brought cattle to the lake; a witch in the water grabs animals by his beard, by the lip; lets go for a promise to give the fact that the old man has one thing is a son; the old man migrates, burying his son's goldgrandmother in the old camp; the son goes after her, choosing a thin foal; he has become a good horse; the boy asks for his grandmother, that tells him to get off the horse; the horse picks up his grandmother himself, jumps away; after him; her horse (previously said that Ubyr is chasing in a mortar with a pestle) calls the boy's horse brother, asks him to slow down his run, he refuses; when she hears what her horse says, she ate him; the boy's horse tells him to climb a tree, hides himself in the water; Ubyr coughs up the sharpener and ax, cuts the trunk; the fox offers a rest, throws an ax and a sharpener into the water, the felling overgrows; the second, then the third fox; the crow refuses to call the boy's dogs Akkulak and Sakkulak, because he wants to drink his blood; the sparrow calls, pecking lead poured into the ears of dogs by an old woman; ubyr rushes into the water; dogs say that if black blood comes up, they killed Ubyr, and if red blood, it is them; blood is brown first, then black; dogs come out water, one loss tore off his ear; then the horse comes out; the boy returns home on it; they live richly]: Zelenin 1991, No. 98 (108): 428-431; Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 63 [hay ricks are missing at bay ; only the youngest bald son (Taz) caught a sea stallion, with him two more; the brothers stole them and sold them to the padishah; the youngest was hired to take care of them; brothers: the youngest boasted to get the daughter of the sea padishah; horses are taught to lay out on the silk bank, the young man grabs the girl, the horses are carried away; the girl demands a chest with her rings from the padishah; the horse orders him to be wrapped in ribbon; if blood appears on the sea, he dies if white foam - defeated the lion; foam appeared, the horse took out the chest with rings; the girl demands to boil three cauldrons of milk, let Taz swim; the horse laughs, the milk cools down; the pelvis became handsome; the padishah too rushes into boiling milk, cooked; the daughter of the sea padishah married Taz]: 310-314; Yarmukhametov 1970 [after his father's death, his elder brother drove Abdullah away; the elder tells A. to get the dagger out of the golden palace for Kaf Mountains; A. went there, running away from the lions, took the dagger out of his sheath, a girl appeared; the padishah wants to take her away, tells her to bring 1) the harp; the old man sends A. and his wife to his brother, he to his sister, she first he hides from his sons, the sons will help if A. does not sleep for three nights; on the second night {obviously the first} night they ask if A. is awake; he replies that he thinks there is more wood in the forest or trees; on the third {second} - alive or dead; they brought harp and A. sleeps; they want to kill him, but took him home when they saw his sister's handkerchief; 2) algu and kulga stones; A. hides in a house where 7 golden basins, containing 7 golden kumgans, a stick on the table; 7 batyrs enter, one asks who poured water from his kumgan; they tell the stick to feed him lunch, leave; A. asks the stick to feed him and thanks him her; stick: no one thanked me, I'll go with you; A. promises an old man, whose workers are building something, for.. {incomprehensible}; that: I'll dive if the white foam is alive, if the black foam is dead; the old man dives, but comes back, rubbed himself with white powder again, dived successfully; the algu stone kills everything, the kulgu stone revives everything; A. calls alga, padishah's men fall dead; kulgu! they come to life; A. himself becomes a padishah]: 246-254; Marie [the king has three sons and a daughter; Buran Buranich kidnapped the princess; the elder brother goes in search; the sheep shepherd sends to the cow, he sends to the horse, horse - to the silver house of BB; in the bath, BB offers a choice of giving heat or whipping with a broom; the young man gives fever, is exhausted, BB ate it; the same with his middle brother; the younger one is strong, chooses a broom, scored BB almost to death, tells them to revive the brothers; BB tells them to sprinkle their bones, which are thrown on the shelves, with crows blood; the brothers have come to life, the youngest killed BB; they and his sister return home; on the way, the younger successively descends into three pits; each girl and the snake who kidnapped her have 3, 6, 9 heads; each time the young man tells the girl to pour water into the bowl and watch: if foam rises, he wins, and If blood is in trouble; the third battle was the hardest, half of the cup was filled with blood, but the young man was killed by a snake; brothers and sister returned home]: Beke 1938, No. 35:298-310.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [starving horse toast, the old woman gave birth to a son Yer-Tostik; he injures a chizhik, he confused the old woman's yarn, the old woman tells ET to better look for his missing 8 brothers who starved cattle to the south; ET holds a handful of hot wheat in her mother's hand, she admits that he has brothers; ET goes to look for them, finds them, leads them; their father Ernazar marries them to 9 sisters, ET to the youngest Kenzhekei ; Peri Bector wants ET for herself; tells Baba Yaga to grab E., he promises her a son; leaves the sharpener at the old camp, ET goes after him on a six-legged horse, takes the lead; K.'s wife gives his father's horse she took as a dowry; ET, grabbing a sharpener, runs away from Baba Yaga on it, falls into the lower world of the snake Khan Bana; he promises him a daughter if ET gets Temir Khan's daughter; ET meets, companions Thief, Windbreaker, Sensitive Ear, Gorokata, Lake Swallower, All-Seeing Eye, thanks to them, wins competitions (1) The lake swallower drinks, eats everything, the Sensitive Ear hears about intending to poison guests, the Thief replaces dishes; 2) the ET horse wins the race: 3) The windbreaker overtakes the old woman Mystan-Kempir, who tried to put him to sleep; 4) the horse pulls the cauldron from the bottom of the lake; first on the surface white foam means grabbed; then red foam does not pick it up; eventually gets it), gets a woman; grateful Bany Khan points the way up; on the way, the wife dies, ET goes with her slave Kunka; kills a boa constrictor crawling to the chicks; a double-headed eagle (one human head, the other a bird's head) carries him and K. to the ground; peri throws him into the well, the double-headed eagle saves; ET saves Kunkey, married to Shoin- Fist (son of Baba Yaga), overhears where the soul of the ShK is; there are 9 boxes in the black goat, 9 chickens in the smallest; ET turned the head of eight, began to fight against the HK, but his strength increases; it turns out that the remaining the ninth chicken bred 7 more; Kunkei twisted their heads; and if he brought 8, the SC would have won; after killing HK, ET returns to Kenzhukei, both immediately younger]: Sidelnikov 1971 (1): 7-33 (=1958 (1): 3-35; = Daurenbekov 1979:15-39).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978 [Syumelu-pay met Almys the cannibal; he promised to come to him tomorrow; S. orders to migrate, sends a shepherdess to the former camp for an allegedly forgotten arrow with with a bronze tip; seeing A., C. tries to ride away, but A. grabbed and swallowed the horse; C. ran to the iron poplar, ran from A. around the poplar, then climbed upstairs; A. began to cut the trunk; it remained a little, he fell asleep; C. asks the falcon to fly to his house, he brought two dogs, they dragged A. into the lake; dogs: if black and brown blood comes up, we defeated A., if red, he won; both surfaced and that one and another, but then only black, the dogs came out; the old dog was lame, fell behind, began to howl, wolves came from it]: 158-163; (cf. Sadalova 1989 [Diellbegen wants to eat a man; he promises a son instead of himself, migrates, sends his son to wait for D.; D. chases him, cuts off the legs of the horse on which the boy is riding; the boy climbs on iron poplar; The fox begs for D.'s ax, throws it into the lake; D. drinks the lake; the boy asks Magpie, the Raven to call his dogs; they refuse, the Goose calls; dogs defeat D.; one is injured, the boy is oh She forgets her, she turns into a wolf; options: the old man goes to fetch water at night, scoops up D., sends his son to the former camp for a forgotten toy; the father promises his son to the owner of water; he turns around a girl, marries him; an old man in the woods meets D., complains that he has no heir; he promises that the old man's wife will hurt his finger, if he squeezes blood, a son will be born; the old man promises that when a son When he reaches the age of 18, he will give it to D. to eat; the boy grows up, his parents tell him to run, he climbs to the poplar (the episode with the Fox and the ax in all versions); when the dogs fought with D., his blood splashed at the moon; so dogs howl at night when they see spots on the moon]: 83-84); South Altai Tuvans [a rich man leans to the water at a watering hole, a jelbag grabs his beard; he promises to give her his son, leave his bow and arrow are in the old parking lot; his father tells him to go there on a horse that does not look at him, his mother on the one that looks and stops; he does; picks up his bow and arrows, jumps away; jelbege consistently interrupts the horse's four legs with a leather stick; the horse flies; she cuts the horse in half, cuts the neck, takes the boy's head, throws it on the poplar; the fox suggests sawing while the jelbege rests, throws her leather into the sea; she drinks the sea, saws again; the Raven and others refuse, the Eagle brings news to the dogs; they fight the jelbag in the depths of the sea; first the red one rises, but then black blood; dogs pop up, one leg is broken; the boy leaves her, she becomes a wolf]: Taube 1994, No. 23:206-210; South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses did not come back; when BN and his wife ate horse breast, his wife gave birth, a son was named Er Töstük ("brisket man"); he grew up; an old woman was weaving, he stepped on the thread and tore it; old woman told him to look for his brothers better; his father said he had no brothers, he had been deceived; another old woman's grandson pulled ET's bow, ET hit him, the boy died; and this old woman told him to find better brothers; ET found brothers first and then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for nine sisters to marry; found them; their father did not tell them to spend the night at the Chushurlug Chuduk on the way back, but BN did not heeded the warning of her younger sister destined for ET and spent the night there; she sent a man to her father asking her to give her a hemp shirt and the best mare and camel for ET; he did not want to , but gave it away; in the morning there was no mare; BN went to the place to sleep at the Salt Well: the mare is there, and next to the jelbege, covered it with one ear, put the other under her; BN asks to give the camel; the jelbege says that can't get up, let BN come by himself; he comes up, she grabbed him, threatens to eat him, refuses to let him go in exchange for his 8 sons, for 800 horses, agrees to let him go if he gives ET; BN promises leave her son's triangular file at the jelbig, with which he sharpens arrows; says he forgot and send ET for him; the bride tells ET everything; he asks his father which horse to ride; BN: sit on six-legged and take an eight-legged with you; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me, wear that hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he says shout to jelbig: What kind of kids are behind you? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds on the tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed, that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside a brown box, in a shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG calms down: he killed ET), ripped open the brown man's stomach, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died ; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 3 (Hentei aimag of Mongolia) [the lama tells the elderly that their daughter is a cannibal; parents drive their daughter; the horse brings her to rich places on a wooded mountain; servants tell the khan that a handsome man has settled on the mountain, but they do not know whether he is a woman or a man; the horse tells him to pretend to be a man so as not to become the khan's daughter-in-law; she wins the races, in wrestling and archery; but the astrologer determines that she is a girl; she marries the Khan's son; in the absence of her husband, she gives birth to a boy with a golden chest, a silver ass; that llama replaces letters both times, Khan's subjects are ordered to bury their daughter-in-law and child in a hole; the daughter-in-law's horse tore his fetters, dug a hole, took the woman and child to the mountain, but spent all his energy on it; after dying, he turned into a house and 4 sandalwood; sholmos appeared {is it the same llama?} , a woman with a child climbed a tree, he began to cut it down, the wolf offers to chop it for him, throws away an ax; Sholmos regurgitates another - the same thing, the fox throws it away; the last tree is left, two come running dogs; sholmos urinates, a hole forms, he hides in it, dogs behind him; they say that if red foam rises, they are defeated, and if white foam rises, they win; there is red and white, then dogs come out- winners; run away; Khan returns, executes messengers, returns wife and son]: 61-85; Burchina 2007, No. II.3 (Unghinsky, Nukut District) [Uliger Episode: Han Sagta Abhay Maiden Climbs One of Four aspen; mangadhai rushes after her, but the aspens rise higher; mangadhai, having made an ax out of his tooth, cuts an aspen; a fox comes and says, "Sorry for you, old man! Because of an alien girl, you cut off floors on a bush, wiped your soles on the sand. Have a rest, smoke!" ; takes an ax from him and cuts a tree; when the mangadhai turns away, he hits his butt; when he looks, he cuts it with a point; the mangadhai smokes and falls asleep; the fox throws the ax into the sea and runs away; mangadhai, taking out a tooth, does the axe and continues to cut the aspen; Khan Sagta Abhay jumps to another tree; the mangadhai begins to cut it; the wolf comes and says the same thing as the fox (the situation repeats); the mangadhai does again an ax out of a tooth and cuts an aspen; Khan Sagta Abhay jumps over to another; a bear comes and pretends to sympathize with mangadhay (the situation repeats like a fox and a wolf); mangadhai cuts the fourth aspen, is going to knock her down; two dogs Khan Sagta Abhay come running; mangadhai jumps into the sea; dogs are poisoned after him, punishing the hostess: "Give us plenty of food! If we are defeated, the sea will turn red, and if we win, the water in the sea will turn black!" ; Khan Sagta Abhay throws pet meat; the sea turns red; Khan Sagta Abhay cries, throws meat into the sea again; the sea turns black; dogs come out of it slightly alive; explain that the sea turned red when their ears were injured; Khan Sagta Abhay feeds dogs and returns to Khartagay Lomon Khan's palace]: 113-114; Oirats [the old woman went on the water at night, scooped up with a bucket of Telbegen; promised to give her son to Chalma; sent him to pick berries with a box full of holes, migrated herself with the old man; Chalma found his way back; then his mother said that his toys remained in the old yurt; a thin horse tells him to take it; an old man sits by the old yurt, saying that he cannot give toys; the horse tells him to grab them himself, run; T. throws his ax, cuts off the horse's hind legs, then the front legs; C. climbs a tree; Lisa invites T. to cut for him while T. sleeps, throws an ax into the lake; T. drinks water from the lake; C. asks Magpie to call his dogs, she refuses, because he called it glutton; Tits fly and talk; T. hides from dogs in the lake; they fight him in the mud until night; black blood splashes to the moon, dogs come out alone with a broken leg; dogs howl at the moon at night; spots on the moon - T .]: Popov, Basangov 1936:32-35; darkhats (somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag) [Khan's daughter Khanchin Geseg had a foal standing on two legs flying through the air; he wanted a girl pick up the llama mangas; the foal tells the girl to take the comb of the mother of the dogs Hasar and Basar; the abandoned comb has become a thicket, the lama mangas is lost in it; the girl flew into the gray yurt to the old woman, tells her not to say that she is a woman, dressed as a man, began to hunt and feed an old woman; became pregnant, had a child; her gray flying horse grew old, told her to climb with her child to the meat tank in which he will turn; the lama mangas began to hit the meat on the sword and climb it; the fox offered to cut instead of mangas, threw her sword into the sea; the lama mangas began to gnaw pieces of meat with her mouth, reached the top of the obo; the dogs Hasar and Basar ran, the lama mangas threw them into the sea, but they returned; the lama threw himself into the sea; Hasar and Basar said that if the sea turned red brown, then the lama- mangas defeated them, and if it does not change color, they defeated it; Khasar and Basar fought underwater for a long time, grabbed one leg and the other hand, tore the lama mangas]: Mongolian expedition of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Zap. 24.08.2006, № WS 30020; Dagurs [the official died, leaving his wife and son a horse named Gold; the boy wins the games of the neighbor's son; the neighbor invites him, following his father's example, to herd herds in Yuzhnaya and on North Mountain (a horse teaches you to tame two wild horses); marry the daughter of the Yelendengeir monster; on the way a pack of crows, the horse teaches them to throw meat; slips through moving scissors, only the tip of its tail cut off; teaches you how to shoot a monster's middle head; teaches you to tie it to a poplar - it's the life of a monster's wife; her upper eyelids hang on her face, her lower eyelids hang on her breasts; to see, she supports them with sticks; the daughter of monsters helps the young man; when she drops the comb, you can take chopsticks; the mother sleeps when there is white smoke from her nostrils, does not sleep when black; the young man and his wife run, the mother sends two swords after her, they they will return moistened with blood; the girl cuts off her finger, smears her swords with blood; the demoness chases herself; the horse fights her at the bottom of the lake: if the black fog rises, the horse wins, if the red fog rises, demoness; the fog has risen black and red; the horse comes out, says he will die; we must cut off his legs, put his skin on them like poles; in the morning there is a big house in this place; in the house a black dog is chasing yellow, a young man kills a yellow one; a young man and his wife go out into the yard - there is a live horse there; they return to the boy's mother, wedding]: Stuart et al. 1994:129-130.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (Western 1940, Megino-Kangalassky District) [one-eyed abaas ate two horses, two cows, two mares, the wife of the old man Chopcheyokyeon, himself; his little son and daughter a little bit the older ones rode off on a goby; the abaas chases, the goby splashes manure in his face; across the river he tells him to look for lice, crush the size of a spider, his soul in it; the skin has become home, the skull is a stove, legs with pillars, heart and liver with black iron dogs, a blood clot with dog food, hooves with four orons (sleep shop); the boy returned from hunting, ate his sister in Abaasa's house, dived under pot, dogs next; said that if black foam foams, you should hang yourself, if red foam, get ready to meet; black foam boiled, then white, then red foam, dogs carried out their sister's skull; brother buried and began to live well with dogs]: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 17:185-195.