K92. King Lear, ATU 923, 923B.
.14.-.17.21.-.23.26.-.31.33.
Thefather asks the children a question, the answer to which seems obvious (does his daughter love him, who is the oldest in the family, etc.). The youngest daughter (less often the son) gives an unexpected answer, the father drives her away (deprives her of her inheritance), and later becomes convinced of her intelligence and nobility.
This motif contains almost all texts with the K92B motif (Love Like Salt, ATU 923, see below), as well as most texts with the K92A motif (Woman creates a house, ATU 923B).
Berbers of southern Morocco, Portuguese, Basques, Italians (Tuscany, Emilia Romagna), Corsicans, Ladins, Britons, British, Arabs of Syria, Iraq (Baghdad), Saudi Arabia , Meitei, Shans, Himachali Pakhari, Kumaoni, Bengalis, Eastern North India (Hindi), Konkani, Muria, Lisu, Koreans, Romanians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Voronezh), Ukrainians ( Transcarpathia), Belarusians, Lucks, Dargins, Avars, Lezgins, Tsakhurs, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Latvians, Bashkirs, Yellow Uighurs, Salars.
North Africa. The Berbers of southern Morocco [the king asks his three daughters how they love him; the eldest: like gold; the middle: like a diamond; the youngest: like salt; the king expels her; she was hired by another king for a tug; the first The king came to visit him; he was served food prepared by the maid, which she did not salt; his daughter and father met and made peace]: Stumme 1894, No. 1:393-394.
Southern Europe. Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 11 [two older daughters tell the king that he is more important than salt, the youngest says salt is more important; the king tells her to take her daughter to the mountains, bring him her eyes and heart; servants bring the dog's eyes and heart; she is hired as a maid; St. The virgin gives her salt, you have to throw grains into the hearth, let everyone think that she has lice; gives her a nut, wearing a dress; she goes to the king twice; he escorts her, falls asleep; the second time gives a ring; this She bakes the ring in bread; he recognizes him, marries him; the girl's father is also invited to the wedding; he is given food without salt; the daughter explains what is going on; the father took a blow and died; the daughter and the young king are happy], 11 (option) [same, shorter]: 50-56, 56-57; Webster 1879 [the king asks three daughters how they love him; the eldest: like his little finger, middle finger: like his middle finger, youngest: like bread salt; father tells two servants take the youngest to the forest and kill her; servants bring the heart of a horse to her father; birds and bees bring plants and flowers to eat; a prince finds her, brings her home, marries; at a wedding she serves salt-free bread for her father; everything is explained, her sisters remain old maidens]: 165; Portuguese: Braga 2002 []: 228-230; Cardigos 2006, No. 923 [the youngest daughter replies to the king that she loves him like salt; he orders her to be executed, but she escapes, is hired as a maid (in the kitchen, poultry house) to another king; the prince recognizes her by the ring; {apparently, a Cinderella story as in the French version}; her father invited to her wedding to the prince, he is served unsalted meals; he realizes his mistake]: 238-239; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 70 (Tuscany) [the king asks three daughters what to bring them; the eldest wants a handkerchief, the middle one wants shoes, the youngest wants a box of salt; the older sisters tell her father that the youngest is bullying him; the father drove the youngest, the maid is with her; when she saw the old woman being buried, the princess paid to the gravedigger to take off the skin from the deceased and sell her; the skin was bleached out, the princess put it on; she answers wittily to the prince she met; he brought her to the palace; contrary to expectations, the old woman spins like a young woman; when she sews a shirt, the prince spies and sees the imaginary old woman take off her skin; breaks into the room; the princess's father is invited to the wedding, he is served unsalted food; the daughter explains everything; the father repents , punishes elder daughters]: 253-255; Cox 1893, No. 208 (Parma) [the king sits alternately on the white, red and black thrones; the youngest daughter is loved; asks his daughters how they love him; the youngest answers: like salt; the king orders her to be executed, but the servant brings him the heart of a sheep and bloody clothes; the heroine wears donkey; the sorceress gives her a magic wand and a nut; the king father every day he hunts, and his dog brings prey to the girl; the king finds the hollow in which she hides, brings her to the palace, assigns her to the kitchen; she comes to the ball three times in magic dresses; when runs away, throws flowers and candy behind, delaying the chase; for the third time she loses her shoe, her gold stockings are visible; everything is ordered to try on; the sisters tell the maid in the kitchen to try it on for laughter, her shoe fits; she is getting married and the king is happy that his daughter is back; sisters are jealous]: 80; Kotrelev 1991 (Emilia Romagna: Bologna) [the king asks his daughters how they love him; the eldest replies that how bread, medium bread is like wine, the youngest is beautiful and kind like salt; the king orders her to be killed in the forest, but his wife hides her daughter in a silver candlestick and tells the servant to sell it; the prince buys it; every evening It turns out that someone has eaten the food; he hides, finds a girl, says he marries a candlestick; a beautiful woman comes out of it in church; her father is served salt-free food at a feast; he is ashamed]: 53-56; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 46 [the king asks his three daughters what they dreamed of for the new year; the eldest replies that she married a prince in a dream, the middle one married a famous captain, the youngest Sialella - for the emperor; the father is outraged that she wants her husband to stand above her father; tells the servant to kill her daughter in the woods; he lets the girl go, brings only her little finger and goat blood to the king; S. came to his wife an ogre; she first hides her in the basement and then tells her husband that she has given birth to a daughter; the cannibal placed her in a room with windows overlooking the emperor's palace; S. hears a parrot warning her: an ogre is going to fatten and eat it; the ogre's wife teaches you to answer: your feathers will be made of a marking brush, your meat will be roast, and I will marry your master; the parrot told the emperor about this, who decided shoot S. with a crossbow, but when he saw him, he fell in love; married her; they came to the king, who could not believe that his daughter was in front of him until she showed her severed little finger; everyone was reconciled, everything was fine]: 112-114; Ortoli 1883, No. 9 [the king has two daughters and a son; he asks how they love him; the eldest daughter is ready to crucify Christ again for him; the middle daughter is ready to throw herself into a hot frying pan; the youngest daughter is ready to crucify Christ again for him; the middle daughter is ready to throw herself Maria says she loves her father like a daughter who honors him; he chases her away; she puts on donkey skin, hires to herd goats; the prince sees her taking off her donkey skin, putting on a luxurious dress and gently sings; noticing the prince, M. runs away, losing his shoe; the prince tells everyone to try it on, M. finds and prepares a wedding; she demands to invite her father king first; the eldest daughter and son overthrew him and imprisoned him in dungeon; the prince's father started the war, freed Father M.; he is crazy, but after a year he came to his senses; everything is fine]: 48-56; ladina [the eldest daughter replies to the king that she loves him like the apple of her eye, the middle daughter says herself, the youngest was like salt; the king kicked her out; she came to the lake; the fish gave three boxes and told her to go to such a king; there the girl became a dishwasher and a poultry house; in the first box was a dress made of silk, the prince saw a girl in church, fell in love; in the second box there was another dress of the same kind; this time the prince caught up with the girl; she told me who she was, he married her; at the wedding she appeared in brocade dress, it was in the third box; the princess's father was also invited to the wedding; all the food was unsalted; the king recognized his daughter, it all turned out]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 82:222-224.
Western Europe. Britta [after the death of Bloodood (who tried to fly on artificial wings and crashed), his son Leir becomes king; in old age he decided to give the kingdom to the daughters of Honorilla, Regau, Cordale, after marrying them; before that he wanted to know who loved him the most; G. and R. fervently described their love, K. was restrained, did not receive an inheritance; the King of France takes it without a dowry; older sisters they deny him the right to have a retinue; he turns to K., her husband defeats the husbands of her older sisters; dies, K. rules the country, buries his father; the sons of the older sisters defeat K., she ends up in prison by suicide]: Galfried Monmouth 1984 (History of the Britons, 30-32): 22-26; the British [a rich man asks his three daughters how they love him; the youngest answers - how meat loves salt; her father drove her away; she weaved a cane cape and hat for herself, was hired as a maid; secretly unrecognized comes to the ball, the owners' son fell in love with her; she leaves earlier than others, so three times; the owners' son fell ill from grief; The Reed Hat invites the cook to cook him porridge, throws his ring at her; at the wedding, the bride tells the cook not to put salt in her food; the girl's father repents, she opens to him; everything satisfied]: Kharitonov 2008:234-237.
Western Asia. Syrian Arabs: Lebedev 1990, No. 32 [the princess insists that a woman both destroys and builds a house, the king insists that a man; takes her daughter to the desert and passes Muhammad off as a poor garbage collector; the princess embroiders with silk, M. sells her embroideries to the king and vizier; the caravans invite M. with them, his wife sewed money into a handkerchief; he is asked to go down to the well for water; there efreet asks which of the women sitting on his lap are more beautiful - white or black; M. guessed that Ifrit liked a black woman better; he received 4 grenades for the correct answer and told him not to talk about anything; on the way back, M . brings for the black woman the dress that efreet ordered him; M. returns with money to his wife, who builds a palace, tells her father and vizier to be invited; the king believed that the house was being built by a woman]: 163-167; Abu Risha 2015 [the eldest daughter replies to the king that she loves him like water, the middle daughter is like air, the youngest is like salt; the king is insulted, expels the youngest; she has been hired as a cook for another king; he is pleased with her at work, invites neighboring kings to a feast; after washing and changing clothes, the girl comes to the ball, the prince fell in love with her, gave her the ring; she quietly returned to the kitchen, the prince's servants can't find her; prince fell ill with love, does not eat anything; the girl cooks his favorite dish with the ring she had given in it; when he sees him, he tells the cook to come; she appears in a luxurious dress; her father is also invited to the wedding; the feast is unsalted; the king father understands his mistake; everything is fine]: 53-56; Iraqi Arabs (Baghdad) [the emir asks three daughters who is in charge of the house; the elders answer that the husband, the youngest, is the wife; the father passes her off as a poor and lazy Hasan, drives her away; his wife spins and knits, teaches X. to work and earn money; one person sells her mind, H. buys from him the saying "True beauty is in your eyes"; with merchants walks through the desert; those who go down to the well for water disappear; H. descends, the giant marid tells him to choose between white and black girls; H. gives him a statement he has learned; marid gives him water and gold; the emir sees that the youngest daughter now lives in the palace; admits that she is right, hands over the throne to Hasan]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 31:164-167; Saudia [the eldest daughter answers the king that her love for him is comparable to honey, medium with gold and silver, the youngest with salt; the king orders to leave her daughter in the desert, but she was picked up by a shepherd; the emir and his friends hunt and feast, sent to the shepherd for cakes; the girl dropped it in the dough his ring; the emir realized that it did not belong to the shepherd's daughter; he marries a girl; one day travelers come, including the girl's father; three days later, the guests ask not to feed them only fresh food; the daughter revealed herself to her father, who admitted that he was wrong]: Juhaiman 1999:118-120.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Meitei [when asked by the king how his daughters feel about him, 6 raise him to heaven, and the seventh only says that she loves her father like a daughter and that prosperity and poverty depend on God; the king orders to give daughter for the laziest subject; servants found a man lying under a fruit tree; he does not want to reach out - let the fruit be put in his mouth and make his jaws move; the princess was given to it to man; he still went to the forest to buy bamboo to build a hut; on the site of the cut bamboos, new ones are already on the blind day; the man is cutting faster; the crow asks not to ruin the place where he lives, for this gives a wish-fulfilling ring; the princess invites her father and sisters to her palace; the king has realized his mistake]: Singh 1985:258-261.
Burma - Indochina. The Shans [the king defeated the neighbors; at the festival, daughters are told how he ensured their fate; only the youngest seventh says that her fate does not depend on her father; he tells her to give her for the poorest man; this is a brushwood collector Ai; he did not even have his own machete; the king took away his daughter's robes, gave her a new name Nang Kam Ung ("a woman whose luck depends on her"); the princess hid a ruby sent A. to sell it, no one wanted to buy it, he threw it away; his wife said that they would give a lot of money for this stone; husband: there are many of them in the riverbed; when the daughter brought rubies, the king drove the counselor away A., who proposed the candidacy, is not poor; gold deer ruined the garden, the king ordered the deer to be driven, A. was given a horse, he turned out to be an excellent rider; the next day he rode with the king; the deer disappeared into cave; the exhausted king fell asleep under the banyan; A. hears the serpent promising to knock down the top of the tree on them; if the king remains alive, cut down the bridge supports; bring down the gate arch; if the king asks for a drink, the water in the cup will turn into needles; a huge rat will bite into the king's sleeping king; in the morning A. told the king to obey him; they avoided danger, the guard killed the rat; the king appointed A. heir, admitted that his daughter was right ]: Griggs 1902:44-56.
South Asia. Himachali plowmen: Dracott 1906:20-30 [Raja asks six daughters, five say that their blessed fate is in his hands, they owe him everything; sixth: in draws, what will happen will be; her father wants to kill her, then tells her to take her to the forest; there she sits in a palanquin, praying, Mahadeva heard her, sends servants to give her food; she sees a damp stain on the ground, digs the ground, finds water and a lot gold, builds a palace; the Raja finds out about it, returns it, asks forgiveness; when leaving, asks her daughters what to bring them; the sixth daughter wants a box; he buys it for an expensive price; the girl waves a fan over her, from the prince comes out of the box; the sisters find out about this, pour glass on the couch, the prince is wounded, goes into his world, does not appear from the box; the girl goes to look for him, hears an eagle talking to a parrot under the tree ; eagle: the windows from the prince's body will come out if you rub him with droppings from the eagle's nest; the girl wears a fakir, comes to the prince's father, heals him, asks for his ring, bow and arrows as a reward; prince Reappears from the box, the girl shows him a ring and a bow and arrows, everything is explained, the prince marries her], 119-124 [the Raja asks her daughters to whom they owe prosperity; everyone answers that her father, the youngest, is fate, the Raja promises to pass her off as the poorest and most sick person in the kingdom; he turns out to be King Vickramadit ("almighty"), who became a fakir, went to Benares, who allowed the snake to get inside to drink water (the snake asked for a drink, but there was no water nearby); the wife hears this snake talking to a crawling out of the heap of land; one reproaches the other for ingratitude, that treasures buried under a pile of land are lost in vain; the wife kills both snakes (pouring hot milk into the ground and getting medicine); after receiving the treasures, V. becomes king again; Raja the father admits his Wrong]; Kumaoni: Minaev 1968, No. 45 [the tsar asks seven daughters whose happiness they live with; six answer that they are paternal, the seventh is their own; the tsar drives her away; the rich man meets her, takes her in wives; the king and six daughters are impoverished, the seventh gives the father a gold millstone; the king returns, feeds the family, praises his daughter, dies]: 106-109; Upreti 1894 [the king asks seven daughters whose happiness they are they live; six answer that they are paternal, the seventh to her own; the king passes off six as worthy people, and leaves the youngest at the crossroads, she marries the first one who comes, this is a poor salesman brushwood; she finds out that her husband sells sandalwood to her father for pennies and issues a bill, her husband gets the money, the wife builds a palace, finds four rubies on this site, they get rich with her husband, her husband becomes king, and his wife's father is constrained by enemies and is impoverished, like his eldest daughters; the father admits that his youngest daughter is right]: 65-66; Bengalis [the merchant asks seven daughters whose money they are using are going to live; six say that his, the seventh youngest, is theirs; he tells her to take her to the forest; the old nanny leaves with her; at night the tree hides them in a hollow from wild animals, teaches them to scatter crumbs by the pond; at night, peacocks come to peck at them, drop their feathers, the girl makes fans, the old woman sells them, the expelled get rich; the merchant is broke; his daughter greets him, gives him money; when he goes sailing, he asks what to bring each daughter; the youngest answers the servant "Sobur" ("wait"; the Muslim name Shobur is "patient, resilient"), who realizes that she needs something called Sobur; man Sobur sells, this is a box; left alone, the girl finds a fan and a mirror in it; touches the fan, Prince Shobur appears; takes the girl as his wife; envious sisters pour crushed glass on his bed; his his servants take him to his country; his wife, dressed in men's clothes, calling herself Sannyasi (sannyasi, religious devotee), goes looking for him; cuts a snake that regularly devours the chicks of the bird Bihangama and his wife Bihangani ; they arrive, the chicks talk about what happened; the male explains that the prince will be cured by their crushed dry droppings; brings the woman to the prince's country; unrecognized, she heals the prince, asks for him as a reward ring; returning back on the bird, touches the fan; S. appears, sees his ring; everyone is happy]: Day 1914, No. 8:124-137 (=Porozhnyakov 1990:100-107); East North India (Hindi) [king asks the seven daughters how much they love it; the elders say that it is like sweets, the youngest is like salt; the king orders her daughter to be put in a palanquin and left in the forest; in the morning she came to the palace, it is empty; on the bed prince, his body is covered with needles; the princess stays by the bed, taking out her needles; a man enters, sells her a slave; when the needles are left to be removed from her eyes, the princess goes to wash, and the slave takes it out herself the last needles; the prince wakes up, married the slave, and considers the princess a maid; the prince asks what to bring from the trip; the wife asks for clothes and jewelry, the imaginary maid asks for a sun box (sun-jewel box, such only in fairies); in a dream, the prince sees a fakir who has been sleeping and awake for 12 years; appearing a week before the fakir wakes up, the prince cleans the sleeper from leaves and debris; the fakir is happy, I agree bring the box, pulls it out from the bottom of the well, where the fairy tells only the one who asked her to open the box - alone at night; it has 7 dolls and a flute; the princess plays the flute, the dolls turn into fairies, they put up a tent, wash and decorate the princess, ask not to cry - everything will end well; the tent sees the lumberjack, then again; tells the prince, everything is explained; the princess does not punish the maid, sends for her parents; father admits daughter is right and salt is necessary]: Stokes 1879, No. 23:164-172; konkani (Goa) [father asks his seven daughters if they are born to fulfill it or their own purpose; everyone says that she is father and the youngest is hers; she is deprived of a share in the inheritance and sent by the maid to the kitchen; the prince rides by, hears each of the sisters promise to do something for husband (sew beautiful clothes, etc. - not specifically mentioned)]; the youngest promises to give birth to 20 sons and a daughter; the prince takes her; leaves, leaving her pregnant; she says that if she gives birth to children, a pearl will flow it will rain, and if not, a prickly vine will bloom; the sisters lowered the children in the box into the river, replaced them with frogs; the pearl rained, but the prince was shown the frogs and he believed; the priest picked up the children; they grew up; a maid came and gave them poisoned cakes; the girl refused to eat, the boys ate and died; the priest moistened his ring, sprayed the bodies, the brothers came to life; brought their wooden ones to the river horses, put their faces in the water as if they were drinking; 6 sisters came to wash and asked: can wooden horses drink? Brothers: Can a woman give birth to frogs? the prince saw his children and suspected something was amiss; the priest advised him to call them to his place; if they were the children of his rejected wife, her milk splashes into their mouths; so it happened; the prince brought his wife and children to his father; her sisters punished (not said how)]: Rodrigues 2020:164-169; muria (Bastar County, south of Chhattisgarh) [the snake asks a raju farmer to save her from the fire; he offers to crawl into his mouth; she refuses to crawl back; the Raja dries, leaves as an ascetic, hires to guard the garden; the local Raja asks her children where they have enough; six sons: your worries, daughter: herself I contain; the father tells the gardener to find his daughter such a husband to leave her widow three days later (the widow cannot remarry); the gardener brought a watchman, after the wedding, the local Raja drove the young to forest; wife refused to leave her husband; one day she sees a snake crawl out of an anthill, talks to the one inside the Raja; condemns her: it is a pity that no one will smear the Raja's mouth with molasses, the one sitting inside will crawl out ; another snake: why do you keep so much money in your anthill; Raja's wife bought molasses, the snake crawled out, she killed her, the Raja recovered, got prettier; the wife dug up an anthill, killed the second snake, there's a chest gold; Raja returned home, lived with two wives]: Elwin 1944, No. XXI.4:449-451 (translated to Zograf 1971, No. 13:55-57).
China - Korea. Lisa [parents ask 7 daughters whose happiness and virtues they live with; the six eldest, answer that they are parental, the youngest Atsïma, what are their own; the father wants to kill her; the mother tells you to ride a white horse, take a red rooster and a gold bar, stay where the horse stops and the rooster sings; the horse does not stop in a city where there is a golden palace and cheerful people; likewise, where is the silver palace; the palace is made of precious wood; stays at a poor hut, the rooster sings; the young man living there is very poor, A. gives him a bar of gold; he cannot sell it (because people do not have so many valuables), throws them to dogs; tells Atsima that where he collects leaves, there are many similar stones; A. goes with him, there is gold; they are building a palace; the young man wants to get rid of A.; suggests get a flower out of the lake, pushes her into the water; she is saved by a dragon, takes on a human form, she becomes the queen of dragons; the young man is poor again]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:393-400; Koreans [ the eldest, middle granddaughters promise their grandmother that when they marry, they will become pregnant with the blood of a monster; the deceased turns into winning, the youngest is silent; the elders are rich in marriage, but they drive her away; the youngest is poor; the grandmother dies on her way to her house; the youngest granddaughter is grieving; the grandmother turns into a "grandmother's flower" flower]: Cho 2001, No. 117:227-229.
The Balkans. Romanians [the queen is dead; the king asks his three daughters how they love him; the eldest: like sugar; medium: like honey; the youngest: like salt; the king is angry with her and she left; hired a maid to to the neighboring king; the Queen greeted her; the girl went out wounded in the war queen, he married her; she asks to invite the neighboring king to the wedding, he is served food without salt; the daughter explains to her father that she put sugar and honey in the dishes she prepared for him; everyone is reconciled and everything is fine]: Mirener 1958:5-12 (=Sadetsky 1973:221-228); Hungarians [the king asks three daughters how much they love him; the elders: as the most precious and valuable things; the youngest: like salt; goes into exile; the old woman advises her to hide her noble origin and marry; the king invited to the wedding is served food without salt; the youngest daughter is revealed to her father, he rewards her and marries her to the ruler of a neighboring kingdom]: Benedek 1984, No. 923:403; the Greeks [the king asks his daughters how they love him; the elders they say that like bread, wine, butter, the youngest is like salt; he drives her away; then ATU 510B's story, Donkey Skin; the father goes to a feast with his daughter; she feeds him unsalted food, drives him away]: Megas 2012: 177-178; Hungarians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 923:555-556
Central Europe. Czechs [the king decides to heir the one of the three daughters who loves him more; the eldest: I love like gold; the middle one: like a girl's wreath; the youngest Marushka: like salt; the king kicked her out; let will become queen if the time comes when people value salt above gold and precious stones; M. came to the forest, an old woman offered her a job; taught her to spin, weave, herd and milk sheep; between Thus, the king began to repent; the palace ran out of salt, people and animals were suffering; the old woman sent M. to the palace with a bag of salt; the king is ashamed, he handed the crown to M.; the gnomes invite her to the dungeon, she brings a salt rose to his father]: Němcová 1990:66-76; Slovaks [the king decides to transfer power to the one of his three daughters who loves him the most; the youngest Maruska replies that he loves him like salt; he drives her away: you will become queen if salt is more expensive than gold; M. came to the old woman, who taught her how to weave and spin; but salt in this country is gone; guests have stopped coming to the royal palace to feasts; when the time came, the old woman sent M. back; she asked for only a little salt as a gift; gave it to the king, he understood his mistake; no matter how much salt M. distributed, it did not decrease in the bag; the old woman gave M. with you a magic wand that opened the door to the underground salt palace, where the dwarfs; M. and the king tried to find the old woman, but she was gone; but the entrance to the underground salt cave remained open]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 40:208-213; Poles [father drives away daughter (son) who told him that she loves him like salt; daughter serves gentlemen, invites her father to visit, serves him food without salt; when he shows discontent, daughter explains everything; king returns daughter]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 923:279; Russians (Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia), Belarusians [Like salt: the youngest of the king's three daughters says that she loves the tsar like salt; the offended king drives her away, but then makes sure that her words are not a mockery]: SUS 1979, No. 923:235; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [at the tsar three daughters, the youngest he loved the most; asks how they love him; the elders: like bread; like wine; the youngest: like salt; the king drove her away; she hired (to another) the king as a worker; Ivan Tsarevich fell in love, married her; they did not put a salt shaker on the third table at a feast; a guest king who did not recognize his daughter was seated there; the king father-in-law tells the king father a story about the expulsion of his daughter; says he found out from an employee; the tsar father took his daughter and son-in-law for a dowry]: Balashov 1970, No. 133:371-372 (=Bakhtin 1987, No. 197:268-269).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. The Avars [the wives of the two brothers believe that everything depends on them; the eldest's wife says that the youngest gave the large liver of the slaughtered sheep to his son and the little one to their son; the elder is offended by the youngest; the wife calls the eldest fool: the ram has only one liver]: Kapiyeva 1991:49-50; Lucky [the eldest daughter replies to the Shah that she loves him like honey, the middle one like sugar, the youngest like salt; he offended, gives the youngest without a dowry; everything is fresh when visiting the eldest daughters, the youngest is delicious, the shah returns his love to her]: Kapiyeva 1991:273-274; Dargin residents [father says they became rich because of his efforts, and his daughter because of her mother's intelligence; the father will marry his daughter as the poorest young man; she let her husband sell earrings at the bazaar; the husband goes with the merchants; the wife tells me to speak what is more beautiful is not beautiful, but his beloved; the merchants told the young man to go down to the well for water; there a bearded old man asks who is more beautiful; a young man: who do you love; an old man who killed many people before gives three diamonds to the young man; he sent one of them to his wife, with this money she built a house; the young man sees a woman put a knot under the head of the sleepers at night; managed to cut off her braids; identified the wife of the mayor , who cut off his son's head; wife hanged, young man awarded; wife luxuriously receives her returning husband's companions; parents arrive, father admits daughter's correctness]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 79:351-355; Lezgins [husband and wife are arguing about which of them started a family; to prove that women are useless, the husband married his daughter to a lazy guy; she cooked salty soup, put a bowl of water in the yard, and her husband had to leave at home; his wife sends him to sell a handkerchief; the husband sells for the old man's advice: what you like is always beautiful; next time: don't spend the night in the lowland, spend the night on a hill; spend the night in the city or far from the city, but not near the city; the husband went with a caravan; at the spring, Azhdaha asks what is most beautiful in the world; the person recalls the first advice: what is sweet to his heart; Azhdakha gives water and three precious stones; one person immediately sends to his wife; everyone sleeps in the lowland, and the man on the hill, who sleeps in the lowland, the man gets a second camel, sends his wife a second stone; caravans spend the night near the city walls, and a man goes to herd camels; comes to visit the caravans, grabs and cuts off something soft; in the morning everyone is arrested - someone cut off the head of the guard chief's son; the man shows cut off braid: the girl is to blame with her love affairs; the man receives a third camel as a reward, returns to his wife, there is a palace; the father admits that his daughter is right]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 80:359-362; tsakhurs [the padishah asks three daughters who makes the house home - husband or wife; the elders say that the husband, the youngest Gulperi, is a wife; the padishah gives her for the lazy poor Ahmed; G. adjusts so that A. is forced to go for water and firewood; he hires to herd camels; the three-eyed ajdaha in the well does not provide water, the caravans do not feel sorry for A.; he negotiates with Azhdah, greeting him and giving him a ram; Azhdaha allows you to collect water and gives two grenades; A. does not know that they are gold, sends them to his wife; she sells gold, builds a house; on the way home, A. releases a goldfish into the sea, she gives jewelry ; the padishah arrives, sees a rich house, admits that the youngest daughter is right]: Aliyeva 2012, No. 81:366-370; Azerbaijanis: Nabiev 1988:77-82 [the old woman answers the Shah that if a woman does not destroy the house, he will stand for a thousand years; the vizier agrees with her, the shah does not; the eldest daughters tell the Shah that the house is being built by her husband, the youngest by his wife; the shah passes her off as the poor and lazy Ahmed, the son of an old woman; sprinkling nuts in the yard, his wife lured A. out of bed; with the first money he earned, A. bought a cat; went with a caravan; he was asked to go down to the well to get water; the diva leads A. to the room where the frog asks what is the most beautiful in the world; A.: what does your soul love; the diva loved the frog, gave A. pomegranates and nuts as a reward; with another caravan A. arrived in the country of the Tonkonogikh; rats and mice rush at people, A. released a cat, received gold for her; A. sent pomegranate, walnut and gold to his wife, she built a better palace than the royal one, the pomegranate contained precious stones; when A. returned, they invited the Shah to visit; he admitted that he was right daughters], 86-94 [the padishah's youngest daughter answers him that she loves him like salt]; Turks [the padishah asks three daughters how they love him; the dervish in a dream tells the youngest to say that she loves him like salt; the padishah orders her daughter to be killed; the hangman lets her go, smears her shirt with bird blood; the girl comes to a poor house; the old woman tells her that her son Mehmed has been lying for 10 years; he is a lazy, the girl drives him to bazaar; M. goes with merchants; every year a person is released into the well to pay for water; a dervish says what to do; in a well, an arap with one lip on the ground, the other in the sky asks who M. is bigger like it, a girl or a toad; M. replies that a toad; an arap gives him three grenades, lets water; M. brings grenades home, containing precious stones; the padishah, disguised as a dervish, goes to travel; the girl recognizes her father, tells her not to salt food, the padishah cries, everyone is happy]: Stebleva 1986, No. 38:153-160.
Iran - Central Asia. The Baluchi [the shepherd's wife died during childbirth, and Shutar Bacha's son became a camel driver but did not learn to speak; everyone replied to the king that it was impossible to learn to speak at this age; the daughter objected; for this, the king gave her for SB; the SB learned to speak, went with the caravan; went down to the well to get water; there the diva asks what he has on his hand; it is a frog, but the SB replies that the queen; the divas gave SB 4 a grenade, the SB sent them to his wife; disputed the king's caravan, correctly naming the suit of an unborn foal; when he returned, the house was not a hut, but a palace: the grenades contained rubies and pearls; the SB and his wife come to his to his father; having learned the truth, he handed over the throne to SB]: Porozhnyakov 1989:63-69.
Baltoscandia. Latvians [the king loves his youngest daughter more than others; tells everyone to give him an expensive gift; the eldest gives him a golden scepter, the middle one gives an embroidered shirt, the youngest gives salt; the king kicks her out, she is hired by another king as a cook; her father comes to visit him, the cook serves his favorite dish, but without salt; he is outraged, everything is explained, the king apologizes to his daughter]: Arais 1968:37-38.
Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the tsar drove the beggar away, and his daughter greeted him; Tsar: and what should I give you? daughter: give it back; the girl caught up with the beggar, they settled in the city; she orders to buy silk, knitted a towel, tells me to sell; the husband sells for advice; 1) do not lower your hand rashly; 2) land is better than gold ; 3) do not give up your intention; the man hired a merchant, who sent him with the ship, the ship stopped; the man was sent to go down and find out what was going on; he was carried away by two divas; the king of divas asks for an answer whether gold or land is better; man: land is the mother of gold; divas is grateful, gave 30 barrels of gold, the man became richer than the merchant who hired him; well done at home near his wife; the man wanted to kill him, but remembered advice; it turned out to be his son; everything is fine]: Bessonov 1942, No. 75:325-329.
Turkestan. Yellow Uighurs [the father talked to his three daughters, the youngest did not say anything, he gave her to a beggar; a year later she found gold bars, built a house, and her parents became impoverished and became poor; daughter bought the land sold by her parents, settled them again]: Malov 1967, No. 86:81; Salars (Altiyuli, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County) [the rich father and mother asked their three daughters one by one: "Whose Do you eat food?" ; the elder replied, "I am eating my mother and father's food. I'm wearing their clothes!" ; the middle one gave the same answer, and the youngest said that she was eating God's food and wearing the clothes he gave; the mother and father were angry with their youngest daughter and married her to a beggar; she was happy and told him take her to where he lives; they came to the cave house; the other vagrants, when they saw the girl and were afraid of her father, ran away; she collected the tiles that were in the cave, gave a piece to her husband and said: "You Go outside, go to the big store, give it and buy a horse. Load it with flour. Get yourself a dress and put it on!" ; when the young man went to the store, he did not have the strength to pay off all the tiles; he borrowed half, paid half and returned loaded; after that, the girl and her husband moved into a real house, in which there were golden pigeons; the father called his daughters; the youngest did not come, the middle and eldest said they would give one measure of silver; the youngest's husband said he would give a measure of gold; the next day, the father again everyone called and asked how they would help; the middle and eldest daughters said they would give one measure of gold; the youngest promised two measures of gold; the father had to plant four corners in order to live in the house golden doves (sic!) ; the sage said that these pigeons were in the youngest daughter's house; the father went to ask for them, but she did not appear to him; the same when the mother came; when the older sisters appeared, the girl gave each of them a golden dove; the sisters carried the pigeons to their father's house, put them in two corners; the next day the father came; the girl gave him a golden dove; gave him another one to his mother; then the father, mother and older sisters they became impoverished; their youngest daughter looked after their parents]: Tenishev 1964, No. 62:132-134.