K93b1. Conception from eaten fish.

.15.-.17.27.28.31.32.35. (.40.)

After eating fish, a childless woman gives birth to a boy or twins.

Portuguese, Spanish, Aragon, Catalans, Basques, Italians (Lombardy, Tuscany), Maltese, Ladins, French (Upper Brittany, Nièvre, Normandy, Lorraine, Poitou, Vendée, Gascony ), Walloons, Bretons, Germans (Hessen), Palestinians, Syrian Arabs, Croats, Montenegrins, Albanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Greeks, Bulgarians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonets, Karelia, Vologda, Pskov, Vladimir and probably others), Western (and Eastern?) Ukrainians, Belarusians, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Karelians, Seto, Estonians, Latvians, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Mansi, (West Greenland Eskimos).

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 []: 222-224; Cardigos 2006, No. 303 [dozens of texts; after eating a magic fish, a woman gives birth to twins, a dog gives birth to lions, and where some of the fish are buried, spears grow; the brothers go to wander, disperse, leaving objects that can be used to learn about the owner's fate (a knife stuck in a tree will rust, etc.); the first brother goes to the Tower of No Return, the witch turns him in stone (kills), when he agrees to tie his lion with a witch's hair, the hair becomes an iron chain; the other brother follows in his footsteps, he is mistaken for the first, he leaves a sword in bed between himself and the princess, his brother's wife; disagrees; the first thinks that the second slept with his wife, kills him; when he learns the truth, he revives a witch with a potion; puts his brother's head backwards]: 60-62; Coelho 1879, No. 52 (Coimbra) []: 120-122; Catalans [caught fish tells the fisherman to let her wife, part mare and dog eat part; each gives birth to twins: boys, foals, puppies; they grow out of the ground two swords; the first brother leaves with his horse, dog, sword; kills the dragon to whom the princess should be given, takes her as his wife; comes to the castle, where he is turned into stone; the other brother sees that the blood left in the bottle has changed color going in search; mistaken for the first, puts a sword next to him in bed with his wife; his brother revives; they talk about what happened]: Otiol, Pujol 2008, No. 303:65-67; Spaniards [the caught fish asks the fisherman to let it go for a year - it will grow big; in a year it tells her to feed her head to his wife, the front of the body to the mare, the back to the dog, bury her tail in the garden; all they gave birth twice, and two swords grew in the garden; after the death of their parents, the brothers went on a journey; got lost in the forest, saw a house, the owners had a daughter, one married her, the other went on; if the person left on the sword will appear blood, which means that trouble is with the one who left; the one who left married a princess; once noticed a castle in the distance; wife: this is a castle Go, you won't come back; but the husband went; met an old woman, she gave drops for him, the horse and the dog, to take it before entering the castle; the next day, the remaining brother saw blood on his sword; went to rescue his brother; his wife mistook him for her husband, but he put him on the bed between them sword; the old man also went to the castle to meet her: do not swallow those drops, demand others from the old woman, and when you get it, kill her; he set the dog against the witch, cut off her head, revived her brother and the others with an elixir petrified; when he learned that his brother was sleeping with his wife, the lively one cut off his head; when he learned from his wife that a sword was lying on the bed, he revived the victim; from the scar, the princess understood who her husband was and who was his brother]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 303:38-42; Aragon [after the magic fish is eaten or for some other reason, twin boys, two foals and two puppies are born; twins grow up, one of them he hits the dragon to whom the princess is given to eat; marries a princess; meets a witch who bewitches him (in a cave, in a castle, etc.); the second brother sees that the water left behind is cloudy, goes to find and disappoint the first; the wife of the first takes him for her husband, but does not use it]: González Sanz 1996, No. 303:75; the Basques [the fish asks her to let her go, the fisherman lets her go twice, the third does not agree; she tells me to give her tail to the dog, the head of the mare, the torso to his wife; they give birth to three identical puppies, foals, sons; the elder kills the seven-headed serpent to whom the princess was given cuts off his tongues, shows them when a coal burner attributes a feat to himself; after the wedding, she sees the castle, goes there, the old woman offers him something to eat, he turns into a monster; water boils at home - something has happened; the middle brother comes, the princess takes him for her husband, the same with him; the youngest is the princess is surprised that her husband asks about the castle for the third time; the old woman explains the secret of the mistress of the castle; the young man does not eat, makes the witch restore the brothers to their former appearance; the witch is burned in the square, the older brother and wife receive her castle]: Webster 1879:88-94; Italians (Lombardy, Mantova) [the fish owner gives the fisherman a rich the catch; the fisherman's wife wants to understand where the wealth comes from and demands this fish; {obviously conceives from the fish eaten}, gives birth to three sons; the first saves the princess from the ogre's castle; the witch turns it into stone; the same is the second; the third revives the brothers by smeared them with the blood of that fish; the princess gets the youngest]: Hartland 1894:52; Italians (Tuscany) [the fisherman has no children; he caught an extraordinary fish, that asked her to let her go and sent her to the pond, where a huge catch was waiting for him; but his wife demands to bring her this particular fish; the same again; the third time the fisherman brought his wife fish; she asks that the fisherman's wife eat her meat, the mare drank the broth, the dog ate her head, bury three fins in the garden and hang her gallbladder in the kitchen; children will be born and when they are in trouble, blood will trickle out of the bubble; the wife gave birth three boys, a mare - three foals, a dog - three puppies, three swords grew out of their fins; when the brothers grew up, alone on their horse, with their dog and sword, went to seek happiness; in the city The seven-headed dragon devours the girl every day, the princess's turn; the king promised her savior as his wife; the young man cut off the dragon's heads, carved out his tongues, wrapped them in the princess's handkerchief and went to the inn change clothes; the coal miner picked up his heads, brought the king and took the victory for himself; when the young man came, he was not allowed in; he sent his dog to appear to the princess and pull the tablecloth off the laid table; so twice ; for the third time, the young man tells the dog to bring the audience to his wedding; the young man showed his tongues, hung the coal miner; the morning after the wedding, the young man went hunting in the forest; a thunderstorm began, he made a fire; the old woman asked permission to warm up, gave the young man, the dog, the horse food, the fat to lubricate the sword - everything turned into stone; the second brother saw blood flowing from the fish bubble, followed the trail of his older brother, mistaken for him; at night he put his sword in bed between himself and the princess; went hunting - also petrified; his third brother arrived, did not let himself be deceived, forced the old woman to get an ointment and revive the petrified ones; then The brothers chopped it to pieces; when they learned that the younger brothers were sleeping with his wife, the elder killed them; repented and revived the old woman with ointment; the king gave noble girls to his younger brothers]: Calvino 1980, No. 58:189-196; Maltese [a fisherman caught a magic fish, refuses to let it go; she tells him to divide it into three parts, let it be eaten by his wife, mare, dog; each gives birth to triplets; first brother with his horse and He goes on a journey as a dog, leaving the flower in the pot: if he withers, he is in trouble; the young man defeats enemies, gets a princess; the wife warns not to go to the witch, but he goes, she brings him poison, the witch throws his body into the pit along with the corpses of the horse and dog; the same with the second brother (the wife takes him for her husband); the third brother does not drink, makes the witch revive the destroyed with live water; the witch is killed; first brother returns to his wife, the other two receive the witch's palace]: Mifsud-Bircop 1978, No. 303:46-48; ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 24 [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 7:352-359; fisherman nothing for a long time could catch it; when she caught a fish, she told her wife to eat her heart, she would give birth to twins; the gills to a mare, the liver to a dog; they would give birth to two foals, puppies; the twins Jakob and Josep grew up, indistinguishable from each other from a friend, so did their dogs and horses; when they went on a journey, they parted at the fork in the road, leaving a sword: if he rusts, the comer finds out that his brother is in captivity; Josep came to the inn; the hostess said that 24 thieves come here every night; they don't want to break the door, they dig a dig into Josep's room, he took turns cutting off everyone's head; promises the hostess to return in a year and marry her; she gives a rod who will revive anyone if you hit them in the bones; Josep came to another inn, there is also a hostess and three robbers; he splashed a hot punch into their eyes, killed them; he also promised to marry; came to town where the dragon demands a girl to be eaten every 7 years; the princess's turn; Josep cuts off 3 heads then the remaining 4; carved out tongues, promised to return in a year; the royal servant attributed victory over a dragon to himself; a year later Josep returned; the next day the princess's wedding with the imaginary winner of the dragon; Josep sent a letter with the dog to the princess; showed his tongues, and the deceiver only his heads; he was driven away, Josep married a princess; sees a house through the window; his wife says she does not return from there; he goes, the old woman threw a bridle at him, turned him into a horse; tied his horse and dog; Jacob sees that a sword rusted; comes to the hostesses of the first and second hotels, each mistakes him for Josep, but he says he must be more tired; the princess takes him for her husband, he puts his sword in bed; in the morning he goes to that house; throws away the bridle, it ends up around the old woman's neck, she turns into a horse; Jacob threatens to kill her, the old woman returns her human form to the bewitched; when she learns that Jacob was in bed with by his wife, Josep pushes him off a cliff with his horse and dog; after learning from his wife about the sword, he revives them with the rod given to him; everything is fine]: 93-100 (about the same in Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 39:110-114) .

Western Europe. The French (Nièvre; the same story Normandy, Lorraine, Poitou, Vendée, Gascony, etc.) [the wife of the poor miller sends her husband to fish behind the dam; he caught a little one, this is the king of fish, asks him to let go, for this she will give a lot of fish; so it happened, the miller sold a lot of fish; his wife reproaches him, that he let the fish king go; the miller caught him again; he tells his wife to eat him, his fins to the mare and dog; the wife will give birth to three boys with the sun on their foreheads, the mare three foals with the moon, and the dog will give birth to three boys with the sun on their foreheads, the mare three foals with the moon puppies with a star on their foreheads; the brothers have grown up, the eldest comes to a city where mourning: the girls are given to the seven-headed monster, the princess's turn; the young man kills the monster, receives a ring from the princess, cuts off and takes her tongues with her, promises to return in a year and day; three coal miners make her say that they killed the monster; a year and a day later there should be a wedding with one of them; a young man comes to the wedding, shows his tongues and a ring; the coal miners were burned alive; one day a young husband notices a castle in the distance, goes there; the witch gives hair to tie the dog, it turns into an iron chain; she leads the person who came to the bridge, pushes down; seeing a withered rose, the second brother sets off in search of the first; the princess takes him for her husband; he is the same as with his older brother; the good sorceress teaches the third not to let him bind with the dog's hair, let the witch go forward, make them give a reviving elixir; the young man revived everyone, forced the witch to leave the castle; the husband returned to the princess, she sees how all three brothers look alike]: Delarue 1957, No. 303:147-149; the French (Haute-Brittany, West 1879) [the fisherman caught fish with scales that sparkled like gold; fish: I am the king of fish, let go; the fisherman let go, immediately caught a lot of fish, but his wife advised the king to catch fish; the next day, the king of fish ordered his brain to be eaten by the fisherman's wife, three identical twin boys would be born; the scales should be buried in the corner of the garden, and three rose bushes would grow; if something happens to any of his sons, his bush will wither; the brothers grew up and learned that a seven-headed monster has appeared in some country; he is given girls and the turn of the king's daughter; the elder brother killed the monster and got the princess; sees a diamond-decorated castle from the window; without telling his wife, he took the dog and went to see what was there; towards the old woman; asked for permission to throw hair on the dog from yarn; it turned into an iron chain; the old woman led and the young man did not return; the middle brother saw a wilted bush, went in search; mistaken for the elder; the same with him; the younger brother sees two dried up bush; did not allow the dog to be put a thread on, threatened to let it on the old woman; she revived the petrified ones and removed the chains from the dogs; the brothers collected treasures, came to the elder's wife, who could not do them herself distinguish; feast]: Sébillot 1880, No. 18:124-130; walloons [the fisherman catches the king of fish three times and releases the king of fish twice; for his liberation, the king of fish gives a horse and then a dog; for the third time he orders cut it into pieces and give it one to the wife (pour la famille), the second to the dog, the third to the mare, and the fourth is left in the garden under the rose; the next morning the fisherman finds three dogs, three horses and three boys; or a swineherd Jean de Berneau has caught a fish that tells him to cut it into 4 pieces; they turn into a spear, a horse and two dogs; three boys have grown up and consistently leave home, each on their own horse and with their own a dog; if any of them are in trouble, the rose bush will wither; Jean saves the princess by killing the seven-headed dragon, marries her; in the evening after the wedding he sees some light from the window; it's a perfume castle; he goes there went and never returned; fell into the hands of robbers; Pierre goes in search of his brother with his two dogs; the king promises a reward for saving his son-in-law; Pierre saves Jean, who has returned to his wife, they have many children; Pierre lives in a castle]: Laport 1932, No. 303:41-42; Bretons: Luzel 1970 [a fisherman caught a fish, it ordered his wife to eat it, and his giblets to be eaten by a horse and a dog; a wife, a horse, a dog - each gave birth twins; one brother went on a journey, telling the other to watch the laurel; if the blow bleeds on him, he was dead; he was hired by a groom in the castle, the owner's daughter fell in love with him, they got married; there is a forbidden part in the castle, the wife says that there are ferocious animals and reptiles; the husband enters it; the old woman ties the horse and dog with her hair, which turns into chains; the young man is pushed to the mill the wheel, it is ground into dust; the second brother sees blood, goes in search, the wife takes him for her husband; at night he puts a spear on the bed between them; enters the forbidden part of the castle; prevents the old woman put his hair on a horse and a dog, her hair falls to the ground, turns into a snake; he asked the old woman to show her how to lean towards the mill, he threw her off himself; met a fox; when he found out that the witch was dead, she turned into a princess; she collected the remains of her first brother and has now revived him with live water; her second brother married her]: 63-81; Germans (Hessen) [the fisherman caught a huge fish, she tells her to let her go ; the next evening; on the third, the fish tells the mare to eat its head, the tail to the dog, bury the bones in the garden, and eat the rest with his wife; the wife gave birth to three sons, the mare to three foals, the dog puppies, three flowers grew out of bones, and their roots were three swords; the fisherman has always come back with a good catch since then; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; at the edge, everyone dreamed of what they needed break up; they will meet at the same place in a year and 6 weeks; the eldest came to the castle, the princess fell in love with him; after the wedding they went to the window, you could see a strong fire; princess: who will go there, will lose his life; the young man went there, and when he approached, the witch touched him, the horse and the dog with a rod and they became petrified; the second brother came, he was mistaken for the first; the same with him; the third came and said who he was; the old woman began to talk to him; in order to spell the brothers, he must go through the castle to the mountain where the bird is sitting on the tree, bring it to her; pay no attention to the predatory animals behind it is necessary; the bird teaches: the old woman not to give it away; cut off a branch from the tree and not put it on the ground; collect a mug of wood sap; then tells her to moisten the stones with juice; the brothers have come to life, the bird has turned into prince - brother of the elder's wife; feast; the princess's younger brothers and brother also found marital partners; they all went to the young men's parents and, if they didn't come, they are still going]: Wolf 1845, No. 27: 126-127, 134-140.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the fisherman caught a huge fish; she tells him to take it to the Sultan; give the water in which it will be washed to the mare, let the sultan and his wife eat the meat, and the fisherman and his wife; then children will be born; fish It smells bad, but the fisherman talked about its wonderful properties; count the eggs in the pan, but do not count the months of the pregnant woman; the mare gave birth to two foals; the king gave his son to the fisherman's wife to feed both; the prince is Hasan, the fisherman's son is Hussein, he is smarter; when are they 15 years old? his mother is unhappy that he is holding the fisherman's son by his brother; they sat on horses born at the same time as them and went on a journey; they stayed with an old woman; she says that the local sultan is evil; his daughter's suitors give impossible assignments, the failed ones are cutting their heads; more than 300 princes have already died; the old man teaches Hussein to gain trust in the guards, they will miss, then wait until he falls asleep a man with a big mustache, steal his key and go to the princess; when Hussein entered, the princess mistook him for Hassan; gave her ring, necklace and curl; the king demands signs from her daughter; Hussein brings ring; necklace; curl; king: this is not a princess's curl; Hussein: if we do not give your daughter, we will defeat your kingdom; the vizier advises you to give it away; old man: on Hasan's wedding night, my wife and I will die; bury; you will see so much gold, how much coal; on his wedding night, Hassan left Hussein alone, but he secretly went to the old people; after the funeral, the brothers built a mausoleum over their grave and took the gold; one day Hassan began to watch what kind of dowry did the wife bring in the chest; a bird flew in and took the necklace; Hassan ran after her barefoot and in his underwear; found himself at the old woman's house; spent the night there; found a necklace in the bird's nest; sold from he had one stone, bought clothes with this money; hired a job; Hussein dressed Hassan's wife Kadiem, became an assistant himself, and they began to go to cities to find out about Hassan; Hassan came and did not recognize him in the kadia Hussein; said he returned 10 gold to the jeweler, to whom he sold the necklace stone, but he said he knew nothing (the stone costs 10,000 gold); Hussein sent for the jeweler; he denied everything; Hussein ordered write a letter to his wife and seal it: give him the stone from that necklace; the stone was brought; the kadiy imprisoned the jeweler for three years and Hussein for 4 days; this is to prevent him from going anywhere; Hussein came to prison and explained to Hassan that Kadi was his wife; everything is fine; they returned to their father king; Hussein hears doves talking under the tree: if Hussein does not sleep, it's good; he must stay alone for the night Hassan ; a demon will come to kill Hassan, Hussein will kill him; otherwise he will be accused of killing Hassan; if Hussein talks about something, he will become petrified; he killed the demon, put the body in a bag and went to bury him; he was grabbed guards, accused of murder; the king ordered to tell, he turned into a stone pillar; Hassan put up a tent next to the stone to die there; sitting in a tent, he hears the doves talking; tomorrow the wife will give birth; if To kill a newborn on that rock, Hussein will come to life; if you put a loquat branch (Eriobotrya japonica) around the child's neck, he will also come to life; Hassan did so, everyone is alive and well; Hussein married his daughter vizier]: Littmann 2016:160-183; Syrian Arabs [the fisherman caught the fish, she asks to let her go, he will have a new home, but he must not let it slip; the wife insists, the fisherman tells everything, the house disappears; so twice; the third time the fish tells to cut it into 6 parts, let the wife eat two, the mare two, the mare, two should be buried; the wife gave birth to twins, the mare to foals, two flowers have grown; one of the brothers leaves, chases a gazelle, finds himself in an empty city; meets an old woman, her dog barks, he hits her, the old woman turns him into stone; one of the flowers dries up; the second brother goes in search; the old man gives the ring explains where to go; with this ring, the young man comes to the city, from there to the old woman, she is kind, spells her first brother, gives her a magic wand if necessary to call her for help; on the carpets- Brothers fly home by plane]: Kuhr 1993:244-247.

The Balkans. Montenegrins [eel tells the fisherman to cut it into 4 parts, let his wife, mare, dog eat it, bury it; two sons, horses, dogs are born, two sabers appear; the first brother leaves, leaving bottle; marries; goes to a mountain of fire, becomes stony; the water in the bottle is cloudy; the second goes in search, his wife and father-in-law take him for the first; threatening to kill a sorceress, forces her to release her brother; revive petrified people with witch grass]: Karadzic 1856 in Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:26-28, in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:81-84, in Eschker 1992, No. 14:76-80; Croats [fisherman divides fish into three parts, gives his wife , a mare and a dog, all give birth twice - boys, foals, puppies]: Hartland 1894:73; Albanians [husband catches fish, she says that another one is intended for him; the other tells him to cut it, two pieces bury (two cypresses grew out of them), give two to a mare, dog, wife; they gave birth to two foals, lions, boys; the eldest goes to take the Beauty of the Earth, her mother turns him, his horse and lion into boulders, the cypress dries up; the youngest comes to the Beauty of the Earth; tells his lion to grab the old woman; she is forced to show bottles of white water (again turned from stone to human or animal) and red water (revive); everything they come to life, the cypress turns green, the elder brother brings the beauty of the earth to his wife]: Serkova 1989:125-127 (=Meyer 1884, No. 4:105-108); Greeks: Legrand 1881 [the fisherman can't catch anything, only one is caught redfish; asks her to let go, promises a rich catch; the fisherman is rich; women advise his wife to find out the reason for the wealth; the fisherman tells her; women advise asking the fisherman to bring it to her the fish itself; it teaches the fisherman to divide it into 4 parts and give it to his wife, mare, dog, and bury the fourth in the garden; two boys, foals, puppies were born, two cypresses grew up; the eldest went on a journey - if the cypress dries up, then it is in trouble; the king has a sleepwalker daughter; the young man frightened her, threatening to die, and she is cured; the king orders all men to come to determine the savior; the princess threw the apple exactly young man; the king wants to give him his daughter, but the young man asks for permission to wander around the world first; comes to the city where the monster has closed the water sources, gives him for the girls they give him; the princess's turn; the young man killed monster, cut off and took seven languages with him; the coal miner found the head of the monster and attributed victory to himself; the young man showed his tongues; wedding, the coal miner was expelled; in the far corner of the palace, the young man met an old woman; she turned him into the statue, like many others; his brother found out about it, came, his dog tore the old woman apart; found living water among her property and revived the petrified ones; they made him king; the brother returned to his wife, whose the father has already died and has also become king]: 161-176; Megas 1978, No. 21 [the old woman advises a childless wife to catch a goldfish, divide it into 6 parts, eat 2 with her husband, give 2 to a dog, 2 to a mare, 2 to bury; two brothers, two puppies, two foals are born, two cypresses grow up; the first brother comes to marry the princess; her father tells her to tear down a giant stump with the blow of his sword (the princess wraps her sword in her hair) gallop without splashing water (gives a ring, it freezes water), defeat a black man; the black man is a princess, she tells her horse to be hit between her ears; having received the princess, the young man leaves for a while; kills the monster, which gave water in exchange for girls, was the turn of the local princess; the old woman asks for permission to touch the young man's dog with a rod, turns the dog and the boy into marble; the cypress has withered; the brother comes, his mistaken for the first young man; he tells the dog to grab the witch, forcing him to show his witchcraft; revives the brother, the dog swallows the witch; the first brother gets the first princess, the second saved from monsters]: 37-42; Romanians [the old man advises the childless emperor to send a fisherman to catch a fish; if the Empress eats it, she will give birth; the fish does not bite, the fisherman asks God or the devil to help catch it; the water monster gives fish for the promise to give what he does not know at home; the fisherman brings fish, the empress gives birth; the fisherman's wife was also pregnant, gives birth to Peter; he grows up, goes to the monster; the monster in the form the man meets him on the way, tells him to go to him on horseback; the horse advises him to run, on the way P. picks up a golden pen, is hired by the emperor as a clerk, writes the pen for him; other servants report about this emperor is persuaded to send P. to get 1) the bird whose feather it was; along the way, P. feeds people who ate each other, they promise to help; the same feeds the fish in the sea; the horse advises P. to lure the bird with food and with wine, P. brings it to the emperor; 2) marry Emperor Slava-Mir; P. brings her, she promises to marry the emperor if they also bring her glass palace; those people bring the palace, get the fish from the bottom of the sea is lost springs; Glory Mira asks for the Water of Life, the Water of Beauty, the Water of Death; their mistress tells P. to divide wheat, barley, oats in an hour; the birds that P. used to feed are shared; Slava-Mira gives the emperor drink the Water of Death instead of the Water of Beauty, he dies, P. gets a wife and a throne]: Browne 1915:320-329; Romanians [the king promises half the kingdom to someone who will save his wife from infertility; fisherman caught a golden eel with the inscription: whoever eats the powdered bones of his head will give birth; the powder was poured into the queen's coffee, the maid also drank, and the leftovers were a mare; the queen and maid gave birth to gold-haired boys , and the foal mare is gold-haired; the maid's son is strong and a brawler, the king is going to kill him, he left; when he left, he said to the prince that if he stabbed in his right side, he was dead; the maid's son hammered into the ground on a bridge; the prince came on a gold-haired horse, saved him; in one kingdom an old woman stole a day; the maid's son went in search, the old woman turned him into stone; the prince found her, forced her revive the petrified and bring back the day; {other episodes but an overly sketchy German retelling of the Romanian text}]: Bîrlea 1966:388-389; Romanians [long text; childless king receives instructions that his wife should eat the fish he caught; the maid also tried it; two boys were born, grew up, inseparable; at the end of the story, one turned into the Morning Star, the other into the Evening Star]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 17:203-212; Moldovans [a healer advises a childless woman to eat food that is not at home; she wants bleak fish; husband brings 21 fish, cooks fish soup, wife gives birth to 21 sons; husband is terrified goes to live in the forest; the wife raised her sons, they found their father, returned them, demanded that he find them 21 sisters as wives; Ilyana Kosynzyana has 21 daughters; the brothers go to them, the youngest Petra did not have enough horse, he bought magical; this horse tells her to change clothes with the girls at night, leave the horses ready outside the fence; at night, the broadsword IK cut off the heads of her daughters, the brothers returned to their father; on the way P. raises a golden pen, a horseshoe, a handkerchief, is hired by a coachman; his daughter sees a shining feather, the boyar demands a bird; a horse: a bird in a cage near the IC, do not touch the cage; P. brings a bird, the boyar demands a horse; the horse teaches you to take who eats hot coals, P. leads; the boyar demands the owner of a handkerchief; the horse teaches him to drink strong water at the bedside of IC, bring it with the bed; IC requires P. to bring a herd of her sea horses; the horse teaches smear it with resin and make matting; a horse that has come out of the sea bites matting; P. bothered him, the whole herd followed him; IK tells him to milk the mares, swim in boiling milk; P.'s horse cools the milk; the horse the boyar does not cool down, the boyar is cooked; P. marries IK]: Moldovan tales 1968:251-262; Bulgarians [twin brothers expelled by stepmother; learn to hunt, get helper animals: hares, lions, bears, foxes; or brothers are born after their mother has eaten a fish or an apple; at the same time a mare gives birth to two foals and a dog gives birth to two puppies; before separating, brothers leave under with a tree or stone at a knife: if he rust, the owner is in trouble; the first brother marries a princess (who saves from a lamia); when he goes to the Forbidden Mountain, the witch turns him and his animals into stones; the second The brother, seeing rust on the knife, goes to look for the first one; his wife takes him for her husband; at night he puts his sword on the bed; makes the sorceress revive the petrified; when he learns that the second brother slept with him his wife, the first kills him, but when he learns about the sword, he revives him with living water]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 303:105-106.

Central Europe. Poles: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 300 [after eating a fish or an apple (swallowing a pearl, drinking water), an infertile woman gives birth to a son or twins; also: after eating the same food, they simultaneously conceive and a mistress and a maid give birth; a woman gives birth to two sons, a mare of two foals, a dog of two puppies; brothers (or the mistress's son and the maid's son) go on a journey; after leaving, they leave signs (stick in knives, etc.), which will help you understand if they are in trouble; one of the young men, with the help of his animals, kills a dragon, carves out tongues, promises to return in a year and a day; the impostor appropriates victory for himself; the hero (after his animals revive him with live water) returns when the wedding takes place, presents the royal tongues or gifts, marries her; the impostor is executed; the hero meets a sorceress, turned into stone by her; her brother sees blood on a knife (or other sign), goes to help; the queen takes him for her husband, but he puts a sword between her and himself on the bed; kills a sorceress, revives his brother and his animals]: 81; Shcherbakov 1980 [fisherman caught fish with silver tail and gills; fish: let go, your happiness is ahead; the same with gold; with diamonds; she tells you to cut it, give it a piece to your wife, mare and female; bury the rib in the garden, three oaks will grow; the wife will give birth to three sons, a mare to three foals, a female to three puppies; all twins are similar to each other; the eldest comes to the city where the dragon demands a day by man, it is royal's turn; the young man cut off 12 heads of the dragon, cut off and hid the sting; the horse and the dog helped; the young man left, the forester ordered to say that he was the winner of the dragon; the young man returned after a year and 6 weeks; the impostor is preparing the wedding; the young man sent his dog with a letter to the Queen; stings at the feast; the forester was torn by four horses; on the first night the young man put a sword between himself and his wife; with the second slept with her; went to the forest; an old woman came to the fire to warm up; gave a twig to whip the dog, they were all petrified; at home one oak tree dried up; the middle brother, mistaken for the elder, goes, puts a sword on the bed; with he is the same; the youngest goes; also puts a sword on the bed; chases a deer with golden antlers; spends the night in the forest; an old woman comes; a young man grabs her, makes her younger brother revive with grass; both brothers force revive the middle one; brothers cut down an old woman, pieces grow back; brothers tell dogs to bury pieces; the forest has turned into a city with people; the queen recognized her older brother as her husband; the narrator was shot at cannon ball]: 93-104; Kashubas (? East Pomerania) [a beggar gave the queen two fish: let her eat and not give it to others; one was stolen by a cat; the queen gave birth to a son and a cat (a human baby) too]: Hartland 1894:74; Czechs [beggar with 7 children, asks for alms; the queen cries: she is childless; the beggar tells me to catch fish, cook and eat, give the leftovers to a mare, a dog, whatever they will not eat, bury it in the garden; the queen gave birth to two sons a mare - two foals, a dog - two puppies, two rods grew up in the garden; the brothers grew up quickly, sat on their horses, each took their dog, parted by the oak tree with a knife stuck in it; the eldest comes to the city where a girl is eaten by a dragon every year is royal's turn; whoever saves her will receive her hand and half the kingdom; a young man, with the help of a horse and a dog, killed a dragon, got a queen; once he noticed the light in the forest; contrary to his wife's warning, I went there, an old woman came to the fire, buttoned the man, horse and dog with a twig, they were petrified; the younger brother sees that the knife is rusted, is going in search, the elder's wife takes him for her husband, he puts his sword on the bed, snatches a twig from the old woman's hands, forced her to revive the petrified ones, cut off her head; the old woman has become beautiful: she is the queen of this country, and the young man takes off spell; younger brother married her, elder brother returned to his wife]: Erben in Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017:156-165; Slovaks [the queen is childless; the old woman let her eat fish, not giving it to others; cook I tried it, the kitchen girl who heats the stove (or the dog) licked, all three gave birth to a boy; they were named Kinglet, Cooklet, Ashlet (or Doglet - Pesúčin, Pesuchin; Slovak originals no other names are given); P. is smarter than anyone else; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; in the morning P. throws his club, says that we will have breakfast where she fell; when he comes there, he throws it again - we will be there have lunch; where he sent for the third time, we will spend the night there; there is an iron bridge; the brothers decide to guard one by one, but each watchman goes to bed by himself and each time only P. goes to the bridge; appears on horseback three-headed dragon; the horse stumbles, the dragon says that if P. is here, he will kill him; but P. cut off the dragon's head, told the brothers in the morning that everything was quiet; the next night at the silver bridge, six-headed dragon (same); at the golden bridge, P. asks the brothers not to sleep until midnight; if blood drips from the cuffs he left, he must come to the rescue; P. hardly cut down the heads of the 12-headed dragon and fell asleep exhausted; blood was shed from his cuffs, but the brothers did not come, they were ashamed in the morning; when he went on, P. remembered that he had forgotten his cuffs, returned to the hut; there were wives and mother of dragons; the elder's wife promises to become a pear tree (meadow), a medium tree with clean water, the youngest with the sun (bed); eaten pears, drinking water under the sun will die; P. became a cat, the snake wives let him in, caressed, he grabbed his cuffs and ran away; chopped the pear and spring, blood poured out; the brothers made sun protection out of their capes, but the heat was unbearable; P. chopped the capes, bleed, the heat subsided; brothers separated, agreeing to meet a year later; P. stayed with a blacksmith; his wife, the same witch, the mother of dragon wives; hid his horse, told her to get her a girl with golden hair, a duck with 12 gold eggs, a golden goat; P. went in search; the old man teaches him to get to the city, take the drum hanging at the gate, beat it, go up to the royal palace, he will be given everything; and so it happened; the blacksmith cooked in a hole in the stable, but P. pushed him there; the witch ordered the servants to tear P. with hot mites, but he promised them a golden goat and they tore the witch; he met the brothers with a beautiful woman and a golden duck; at night they decapitated him, the elder took the girl, the middle duck; the horse took the reviving grass from the snake that carried her to revive her father; P. came when the elder was preparing to marry the girl; received her, the duck and the throne; older brothers were made servants; var.: brothers meet beggars who need to throw money without looking; the elders looked and died; only his mother found P. alive at home]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 27:146- 153; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia; p. Zbui of the Zemplin Committee of Hungary) [the emperor has no children, he walks to sorcerers; one replies that the queen spat in the water, swallowed saliva by fish, brought offspring, and the queen has no children; it is necessary catch this fish in the lake under a stone slab and cook it, but so that no one else tries it; the maid tries the fish, the queen eats the fish, throws the bones to the dog; the maid, queen and dog get pregnant and through nine months give birth to a boy; the emperor is frightened; the advisers order to hire nurses; the boys have grown up and went to school; the son of the female Yanko has learned all the sciences and languages; the king is happy; I learn from books that Once there was a sun, a month and stars, but now there is nothing, the earth is covered in darkness; asks his father, the king says that three shufflers (dragons) have arrived; a 24-headed sun grabbed a sun with 12 heads - the month that had was a star; three royal sons saddle horses, went to look for the sun, the month and the star; the father told them that his brother, i.e. their uncle, studied to be a blacksmith in the Shedzmerice Region; the hell brought a letter: brother serves as a blacksmith for these three shufflers and their paternal uncle Laccibrade, who is elbow tall but has a long beard; the sons must go to Schedzmeritz, where their uncle is; there he is 100 meters Iron gates up, 24 comrades blacksmiths and 24 students; taking a letter to their uncle, the blacksmith, the brothers come to the Shedzmerice region, knock, the gate rings, the uncle comes out; making sure that their nephews are welcome accepts; knows where the lights are, because he is the blacksmith of kidnappers, whom he calls devils; one has a house made of gold, the other has silver, the third has copper; they are 24, 12, 6 miles away, respectively; their girlfriends - 48, 24, 12 miles away; at noon everyone leaves before midnight to see a friend - then you have to come; the princes will come to the copper house and the copper gate, where the weakest (with a star); he has a bridge from him to his home friends; his horse does not walk on the ground, only across the bridge; you have to take out one board in the evening to make a hole; I must sit under the bridge and listen to the shuffling go home; the shuffling sits on the horse the ground is shaking; his horse comes across the bridge to the hole, gets scared, rushes back; the shuffling calms down: there is no horse like him and no good man like him; only his mother-in-law Gynjibaba said she saw Suchiy Yanko, but if he met now, the shuffler would cut him to pieces; I.: I'll cut you down, blows all your heads off, sits on the shuffler's horse, takes his sword and star, throws a star into the sky, she rises to his seat, becomes lighter; the brothers go to the 12-headed shuffling; Y. breaks two silver plaques from the silver bridge; the shuffle promises to chop Suchiy Yanko, mentioned by G. throw meat away to magpies and crows; I blow 6 heads, then 6 more; each one cuts off the end of her tongue, hides it in her pocket, lets go of a month; tells my brother from the maid that he will have a 6-headed horse, brother from the queen - 12-headed, he himself will take the 24-headed shuffler's horse; invites the brothers to take the sun, they are afraid; leaves them the spoon given by the uncle for the matitsa: if it has blood, hurry to help; pulls it out bridges 4 gold plaques; the shuffler promises to chop the son of the dog mentioned by his mother-in-law, throw it away to magpies and crows; I.: I will do it with you; they fight for 24 hours; both ask crows for help, but I promise all the more. meat; the shuffling breathes fire, the crows stuff weeds into his mouth, take away the sun, it rises to the sky; the shuffling throws fire even more, the crows in their beaks carry water, pour on I., others grab the shuffling legs, he fell, I killed him, cut off the tip of his tongue from each head; there is blood on a spoon behind the matitsa, the brothers take their horses out to flee; when I appear, they say that they were going to help him, he accuses him they lie, share horses; on the way home, their mother-in-law's hut of shufflers drive home; her daughters met there; I became a cat, climbed through the chimney, the youngest daughter, whose lover had 6 heads, recognizes Me by my eyes, the other two confirm; Gynjibaba: I would know if I saw it; the youngest looks one century to her mother; G. sees Y., tells her daughters to put him in fur; they think they did it and burned the fur, but I. the sorcerer escaped; the mother tells one daughter to become a red handkerchief and lie on the road, strangle his two brothers and horses; the other with a silver pear, the fruits of which brothers and horses will choke; the third must become a meadow with silk grass and a well in the middle, people and horses will die from its water; I cut the handkerchief crosswise with a sword, it bleeds knee-deep to horses; the same with a pear, with a well; the king's brother, the chief blacksmith, orders the Iron Gate to be opened, because her nephews will run away from G.; she chases with her mouth open, the young men rush to her uncle's yard, his students and comrades close the gate and prop up G.'s eyelids; G. demands to show her Y.; he tells the audience to hold one leaf, and he one by one; they let G.'s head into the yard and lock the gate with a key; G. is amazed that some worthless person has destroyed six (her daughters and shufflers); Y. replies that I will not let her go; let her become a horse that runs around the light in an hour, better than the Sharkani ones; G.: you can't wait; I ask my uncle for workers with hammers; those They hit G. on the head, she asks for mercy, but does not agree to be a mare; I tell you to hit harder; G. swears to serve faithfully; iron stirrups and a saddle are forged for her; I sit on horseback, pick up a lock of flax, lights up, flax does not have time to burn while the mare runs around the world; his uncle praises him, gives him a letter to his father and punishes him not to react, no matter what wonderful things he sees on the way; the brothers go home, towards him through the ditch - old Laccibrad is on a hare, followed by his casing and beard; he says that I am not a man; I dismount, L. is in the saddle and flies away on a horse; I tell my brothers to inform my father that the sun, the month and the star are already in the sky, and he will go for the horse that was made in his uncle's sharkanikha forge; he returns to his uncle, reproaches him for his disobedience, tells him to take a hammer and go to the plain, where L. he grazes a mare, and he sleeps on iron saddles and stirrups; you have to crush his head, take a mare; when I find L., I decide that he is so small that he is not dangerous, grabs the mare, shouts at L.; he wakes up and hits me. with stirrups and a saddle; Y. asks for mercy, L.: his sister will no longer wear I., for although Y. beat her, L. himself beat him, so I should leave honestly; Y. leaves; uncle sends him back; L. agrees to give a mare, if I bring him a princess from the other side of the world; uncle: it's in the seventh land, it's easy to get there, any novelty you see must be taken with you, the royal daughter will be given for him; on the way, Y. takes with him hungry (he gets bread on carts), drank (drinks the river, but can't get drunk), cold (he can't warm up in 12 fur coats and 12 covers near the fire), throws a hammer to the edge light; in two steps crossing the whole world; having a huge eye and seeing everything; the king receives them, offers to eat a thousand oxen and bread out of three thousand measures of flour in one dinner, drink a thousand barrels of wine and a thousand vodka; Y.'s companions eat and drink everything; the king puts him to bed in an iron house, sends blacksmiths to bring bags of coal, kindles a fire; the freezing one takes off one fur coat and one cover, the coals go out, all go to bed; craftsmen bring more fire; the freezing one drops two fur coats and two covers, the coals go out, the craftsmen freeze to death; the king orders to go to the end of the world in three hours and carry leather and gold to the master to cast a ring and sew shoes; companion Y. steps once and finds himself with the master; on the way back he enters the city, where Sister G. sleeps on him, puts him to sleep, puts him to sleep, puts him to sleep the horse's head as a pillow, takes the ring and shoes; half an hour before the deadline; the seer sees the sleeper and sister G.; another satellite throws a hammer, knocking the horse's head out from under the runner's head; that one step catches up with sister G., takes away her ring and shoes, and the other step is at the wedding; I. and the princess are married, allowed to accompany the wagon and army to the border; L. pretends to be stuck in the swamp, J. tries to help, L. pulls him knee-deep into the swamp, runs on his horse with his wife; I. rides a Sharkan horse to Szedzmerice Region to visit his uncle; uncle: go to the oak grove, where there is a hollow, through it you will get to the city, that 7 miles deep into the earth, in the city, a three-story house on a duck leg is L.'s home; Y. finds a house, hides by a well, meets his wife: let him know where L. has power; L. to his wife: he is called to war, to whom he will help, he will win; in response to his wife's persuasion, he explains that a wooden deer drinks water near the well, there is a chamois in it, a hare in a hare, a duck in a hare, two eggs in a duck; if you break one, it will lose half of its strength , and both will die; if you take a golden apple on a gold cord and put it in your pocket, you can take the house with you; L. goes to the seventh land for a month to war; I cut animals with a sword, breaks one egg; L. flies home in a mare - he is still stronger than me; I break the second egg, L. falls, I kill him; turns the house into an apple, takes his wife home, stops by my uncle on the way, he advises him to return to homeland and secretly build a house; his father's servants discover an unknown house; princes guard a possible enemy, warmly welcome his brother, he says that he got a mare and married the king's daughter from seventh region]: Gnatyuk 1898, No. 8:39-54; Western Ukrainians (Ivano-Frankovskaya, Snyatinsky district, p. Kulachkovtsy) [Mr. has no children. The healer advises his wife to eat a magic fish from the sea. Pan goes to the fishermen, agrees to give them a barrel of vodka, a barrel of honey and a barrel of money to make the child happy. They're fishing. An old hutsulka in the kitchen roasts fish, eats a piece. Gutsulka and Mrs. both give birth to a son. Pansky's son is sent to study, Hutsulka's son herds geese. One day the sun doesn't rise, the month doesn't shine, there are no stars, they say they were stolen by devils. The king promises a daughter to whoever finds lights. The guy comes to the king, but asks him to show the princess first. At midnight, he jumps to the bridge behind the forest, hides, tearing off the board. An unclean man on horseback is angry at the man who ruined the bridge. The guy says it's him, the hell is causing him to fight. The guy invites him to become fire, and he himself will rain. The rain extinguishes the fire - the sun remains lying. The guy carries it to the king. On the way, he sees a house where witches are guessing wire, lead and maps. The guy turns into a fly and overhears how the witch promises to avenge her damn husband by becoming a pear so that the killer chokes on the fetus. Once again human, the boy takes the sun to the king. On the second night, he tears off another bridge board. The hell who hid the month is coming. The guy offers him to turn into a stone, and he himself will become a pillar. The devil turns into a black stone, rolls down the mountain, breaks against a pole, crumbles into the sand. In the sand, the guy finds a month, throws it into the sky, the whole world is happy. On the way to the palace, turning into a flea, the guy overhears how the second witch promises to cause the heat and become a well in the field so that the killer, when drunk, bursts. It's the same on the third night, the devil with the stars goes. He ties the guy with ropes, and he tears them apart by cutting them with a knife. The hell can't break the ropes, he gives off the stars that lie on the horse under the saddle. The guy counts - one is missing. The hell admits he gave it to his witch lover. They come to see a witch. Damn Antipko is trying to persuade her to give the star away. The guy throws stars at the sky all night long. In the morning he takes the hell in an armful and goes to the capital. People thank him, but taverns, ministers and thieves are unhappy because it was easier to do dark things in the dark. The guy tells Antipko to gather taverns, ministers and thieves, coat them with resin, run them in feathers and drive three days and three nights to fairs. He tells the king that she will go to pick up his mother to see if her daughter-in-law is fit. He goes home to Kolomyia, does not go to a pear, drives past a well. Returns with her mother, she likes the princess, wedding]: Dalavurak, Ivasyuk 1971:145-150; oriental (?) Ukrainians [the princess fell ill; caught, fried the loach fish, let her eat; she ate one, recovered, but became pregnant; the cook ate all the fish, also became pregnant; the babies born were taken into the forest, they were found, raised by a clerk; they grew up, went to look for happiness, their names are Ivan Tsarevich (IC) and Ivan-Kukharevich (IK), he is stronger because the cook ate more magic loins; at the crossroads there is an inscription: who He will go to the right, become a tsar's son-in-law; whoever to the left devours snakes there and does not give water, and such dew that whoever a drop falls on will tear him apart; IC and IC left, sticking a knife into the pole; with everyone a lion cub, a bear cub, a wolf cub, given by a lioness, a bear and a she-wolf; IK went to the left, his mare had enough dew, it was torn apart; they come to the city, there is a pole where they put the people to eat a snake, then he gives water; IK killed a snake, took the princess's ring; another hero took the victory for himself; at the wedding, IK showed a ring, married a princess, hung the hero; once IK drove into the forest, there the hut, her mother is a snake, asked her not to kill, waved a towel, IC and the animals are petrified; the IC sees blood on the knife, follows the trail of IC; the princess takes him for her husband, but he denies; she calls him brother; IC grabbed a snake, ordered the petrified to be revived; it leads to the well, the IC throws a branch at it, it turned to ashes; the same in the other; in the third it turned green; the IC sprinkled live water on the petrified, the snake was killed, the ashes were scattered]: Pankeev 1992:193-196; oriental (?) Ukrainians (western in Kiev) [healers tell the childless queen to catch and cook pike, eat her head; a year later, the queen gave birth to a snake; he immediately spoke; ordered the tsar to leave him in the stone house and through a month to marry; in a month it has become long; no girl agrees to go for a snake; the woman has 12 daughters, the youngest is single; when he found out that the youngest wanted to marry, the king summoned her and she agreed, but told her to give her 12 dresses, shirts, shoes; she is led to a snake; he demands to throw off her dress, she demands to throw off her skin; when the girl is left in her last shirt, she has shed her last skin and became human; she threw snakeskins into the fire; the serpent tells her parents not to tell her parents that he has become human; she said her husband is gone; she went to look for him; the mother of the Wind hides her from her son, who senses the spirit, but tells her to give it to the girl silver apple; came to the mother of the Month; the same (The Month tells me to give a golden apple); the mother of the Sun (the same, gives a diamond apple; her husband already has a different wife; we must take the form of an old woman, put a silver one an apple on a handkerchief and play with it; the girl sells it to his new wife overnight with her husband, but she put him to sleep; the same on the second day (the golden apple); on the third night the husband only pretended to be asleep; the new wife was smashed horses to pieces]: Rudchenko 1859, No. 43:81-85; Belarusians: Romanov 1901, No. 28 (Mogilevsky, Belyshichi, 1888-1891) [A merchant and his wife live, they have no children. Someone tells a merchant that if you catch and eat one fish, you'll have children. The fisherman is fishing for him. The hostess and maid clean the fish, splash water from under it into the yard. A mare drinks it and gets pregnant. The maid cooks fish, tastes it and gets pregnant. The hostess eats fish and gets pregnant. A maid, a housewife and a mare give birth to sons one by one. Sons grow by leaps and bounds. Their father sends them to study, the kobylin's son serves them, but he understands science better. They're going back to live with their father. Kobylin's son wants to go on a journey with his brothers and asks his father to make them a supply: three clubs (for his son a mace of 3 pounds, for the hostess at 4, and for himself 5 pounds). Kobylin's son checks maces, throws them into the sky and breaks everything (with his palm, knee and forehead). Asks you to forge new ones (5, 6 and 8 pounds). He throws them one by one, they fly away, no one knows where. The sons are going to look for them. They find the first and second. A third is found in the tenth kingdom at the house of a filthy king. Kobylin's son takes his supply. They spend all day walking in this house, drinking and playing cards. Kobylin's son sends his maid's son to watch the bathhouse (spa), says not to fall asleep, otherwise they will lay down their heads. The servant's son falls asleep. Kobylin's son is hiding under the bridge. A filthy king with six heads is coming. Kobylin's son defeats him and takes his six horses. Again, they walk all day, drink and play cards. The next night, the son of the mare sends him to the bathhouse to watch his owner's son. He also falls asleep, and the mare's son hides under the bridge again. A filthy king with seven heads is coming. Kobylin's son defeats him and takes his seven horses. Again, they walk all day, drink and play cards. The next night, the kobylin's son goes on patrol himself, and leaves a towel for the brothers. He says if he gets blood dripping, he needs help. The brothers are falling asleep. A filthy king with nine heads is coming. Kobylin's son cuts down eight of his heads, and the ninth grabs him by the forehead. Blood flows from the towel, the brothers wake up and come to help, defeat the ninth head, and take nine horses. The next day, carts are shared: with six horses, the maid's son, the family goes to the mistress, and nine to the mare. They're going to see their father. Kobylin's son recalls that he forgot gloves (fingers) in the filthy king's house, returns for them and sees three women (two are wives of filthy kings, and the third is a mother). They're talking about how to kill their brothers. One is going to turn into a bed, the second into a jar, gold and silver cups, gold and silver apples, and the third wants to open her mouth, put one jaw (zapa) on the ground, the other under heaven and swallow your brothers. Kobylin's son returns to his brothers, says nothing, they move on. They see it's worth three beds. The servant and the owner's sons want to go to bed, and the mares cut the beds and blood flows from them. They go further, see a pot, gold and silver cups, gold and silver apples. The servant and the owner's sons want to take an apple for a gift to their father, the mare's son does not have time to stop them, they die. Kobylin's son cuts a pot, cups and an apple tree, blood flows from everywhere. He puts the dead brothers in wagons and moves on. There is a woman with her mouth open. Kobylin's son cuts off her upper jaw and drives on top. Baba is chasing him. He hides in the forge, the woman licks the wall and pulls it out. The blacksmith grabs her tongue with ticks, and the son of the mare hits her tongue with a mace. He is exhausted and breaks his mace. Baba offers to compete in singing to see who sings longer. First she rides it and sings and sings all her songs. Then he rides it and sings. He goes towards his father, and wagons follow them. They drive up to the river. Baba drinks the whole river, bursts, the river flows back. Kobylin's son returns to his father, buries his brothers and lives there], 29 (Bokhotskaya Century, Mstislavsky University, 1888-1891, from peasant Nikita Alekseev, 45 years old, illiterate) [The father has three sons: two smart, and the third fool. The smart ones go to the woods, the fool stays at home. Two daughters-in-law ask a fool to bring water. A pike got stuck at the bridge, a fool helps her, she promises to do whatever he wants. The fool says buckets of water should go home by themselves. The next day, the brothers take him with them for firewood. A fool harnesses his father's horse, a horse kicks, a fool kills it. He says that the sleigh should go by themselves, then cut the firewood themselves and put them into the sleigh. They go home, drive past the lake. A fool sees one fish caught, says who will eat the fish, suck the bones and eat the bones, get pregnant and give birth to a son. All three sons will be heroes. The queen eats the fish, her daughter sucks her bones, and the little girl eats her bones. All three have a son. At the age of 17, sons ask their father to make them three 15-pound swords. They want to go kill snakes with three, six and 12 heads. The father complies with their request. The brothers decide who will be their boss. They hit a stone the size of a house with swords. The female son is just planning, the Tsaritsyn cuts half, the girl's son splits in half. He's becoming the main one. They come to the thirtieth kingdom. The sparkle of sailboats The girl's son (I.) sends a branch son to the bridge to defeat Yuda with three heads. He falls asleep. I. flies an arrow to the bridge, fights a snake, cuts off one head. The serpent asks for a break, asks what the power of a sailboat is. They show each other strength (the sailboat has a pen, Yuda has a bean), I. catches Yuda's strength and swallows it. The snake wins. The next night, I. sends Tsaritsyn's son to the bridge to defeat Yuda with six heads. He falls asleep. I. flies an arrow to the bridge, fights with a snake, cuts off three heads. The serpent asks for a break, asks what the power of a sailboat is. They show each other strength (the sailboat has a feather, Yuda has a nut), I. catches Yuda's strength and swallows it. The snake wins. On the third night, I. goes to the bridge himself to defeat Yudu with 12 heads. He leaves an empty glass for the brothers: if they are filled with blood, they must run to help. The brothers are falling asleep. I. fights with a snake, cuts off two heads. The serpent asks for a break, asks what the power of a sailboat is. They show each other strength (the sailboat has a pen, Yuda has an apple), I. catches Yuda's strength and swallows it. The serpent is angry. I. throws his boot into the room where the brothers sleep. The brothers wake up and run to help. The snake wins. I. asks the brothers to rest for three days. On the first night, I. turns into a dove and flies to Yudina's wife with three heads, the second with six, and the third with 12 heads. He finds out how they are going to destroy it (turn into a well, an apple tree and a huge snake, 25 versts wide and 45 miles long). The brothers are going home and are thirsty. They see a well, I. cuts it with a sword, blood flows from it. They go on, they see an apple tree, they want to eat apples, I. cuts it, it bleeds. They go on and see a mountain that shouldn't be there. This is a snake. I. jumps into her mouth and cuts through a passageway through which her brothers and horses pass. I. does not have time to pass, the snake pursues him. He hides in the forge, the snake sheds the roof, the blacksmith grabs the snake with forceps, I. cuts the snake from tail to head. They melt the snake into a mare. During this, I. served as a blacksmith for three years. The blacksmith lets him go and tells him not to stop. I. stops by and serves for another blacksmith for three years. He forbids going to Usiyanskaya Mountain and looking at your native side. I. violates the ban, lies to the blacksmith. The blacksmith lets him go, I. reaches the royal house. The king orders him to marry the girl, otherwise he will not let him go home. He orders to gather 12 fellows, I. collects (Obivala, Obivala, Gunka, Dovgoshost, Lysa Mukha and others). They come to the king to marry the girl. The king gives them 12 barrels of wine and 12 pounds of bread, and tells them to drink and eat overnight. Drinks everything, Oat - eats. The next night, the king tells me to sleep in a pit with burning coals. Gunka extinguishes everything with her body. The daughter walks in the garden with I., makes him sleep, tries to fly away as a dove. The Bald Fly bites him for the w... Dovgosost takes I. on his tail and catches up with his daughter. They take her on their own way without letting her go to their father. They come to see the king. The king surrounded his house with burning ditches. He tells I. to cross the fire on the bylinka to prove that he did not live with the girl on the way. The girl sticks a thick wire into the bylinka, I. goes over. He invites the king to cross the bylinka to prove that he did not ride his mare. The girl pulls out the wire, the king falls down. I. marries a girl, they go to their kingdom]: 248-254, 254-262; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pomors) [the doctor tells the tsar that there is a fish - if you eat it, a child will be born; a fish has been delivered to the tsar, queen ate, the cook tried it, gave a swipe to the cow; Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Kukharkin's son, Ivan Korovich, were born; they grew up and came to the kingdom, where miraculous yudo ate people; the brothers cut off the miracle of their heads, who should take the princess? The Tsarevich and the cook's son threw Korovich into the abyss; eagles are squeaking in the nest, he fed them crumbs and warmed them; the eagle promises to help; Korovich came to the old man; he says that the worst Miracle Yudo is here, only his relatives, we need to change the tubs with living and dead water; after drinking dead, the Miracle weakened, Korovich killed him; immediately the birds sang, the kidnapped princess nearby; the eagle carries them upstairs, it is necessary to feed the prepared meat, it was not enough, Korovich cut off the meat from his leg, gave the eagle his own blood; when he reached the ground, the eagle regurgitated this piece, brought Korovich and the girl to life with live water; Korovich forgave his brothers, married a rescued woman; wedding; I was there, ate and drank, flowed down my mustache, but didn't get into my mouth]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:104-108; Russians (Belomorye, Karelia, Loukhsky district, p. Keret) [the old man advises the childless king to catch salmon with his own hands, feed his wife. The king orders the footman to cook salmon. The queen eats, the footman feeds his wife, the broth is given to the ox to drink. All three give birth to boys, all Ivans. Ivan Volovich (IV) is the strongest. Ivan Tsarevich (IC) and Ivan Lakeich (IL) are afraid of him and secretly leave. Eve takes the best horse that the king never gave to anyone, catches up. They put up a tent at the bridge, and they agree to watch by lot. The first night, IL asks IV to replace him. At midnight, a trembled kite rides, speaks in three voices: someone is under the bridge, but he is only afraid of EVE, and he is not here, and if he were, he would put him in the palm of his hand and swat the other, he would stay mud and water. Eve suggests measuring his strength, cutting off three heads in half. The brothers are sleeping. Eve promises to unfasten them, they swear not to sleep. Now the IC is asking to replace him. At midnight, a six-headed serpent rides, boasting 6 votes. Eve blows 6 heads away with two blows, the brothers are sleeping. Eve hits them on the shoulders, they cry. On the third night, the 9-headed serpent, the same. Eve cut down six heads with three blows, calls his brothers, they are sleeping, he threw his boot at them, they come running. The serpent laughs at them, at which point Eve cuts off his last three heads. The brothers are going to inspect snake dwellings. The first palace is empty, but there is plenty of food, the second is better, the prince's daughter is there, they promise to pick her up on the way back, the third house is the best, there is a royal daughter, carried away a year ago, the brothers put her on an IC horse, the second, on an IL horse, they go to their kingdom. The brothers get married, their fathers and mothers are happy, and Eve's wedding is watered. An unknown old woman brings him drunk to the underground king Semera Vilishchi. This is the mother of slaughtered snakes, and she asks for punishment for his three sons killed. The king of Semera Vilshcha says: "Well, bring my seven forks and stretch my eyebrows, I'll see what punishment I give him." They bring him seven forks and stretch his long eyebrows. He demands to go far away, far away seas, bring him Elena Krasa Golden Braid, otherwise death. On the way, Eve takes with him an old man walking around a herd of horses, an old man who can't eat bread, an old man who can't drink a river, an old man who's cold under seven fur coats, an old man the stargazer who needs to see all the stars in the sky, the old man from the garden who knows all the flowers, even the unborn ones; they all promise to show up when they are remembered. The king will give his daughter if EVE completes the tasks: eat all the bread in the city, drink water from the river, take a steam bath; the old people do everything; ride around the animal horse - the old man goes around, breaking three rods. The king marries Eve, sends her home when they reach the flower garden, Elena asks if he is taking her for himself or for King Semera Vilishchi. He says it's for himself. She catches him in a lie, turns into a flower. An old gardener finds it and restores its human appearance. They're going further. Elena asks if he is carrying her for himself or for Tsar Semera Vilishchi. Eve says what's for herself. She turns into a star and flies into the sky. The old stargazer sees her in the sky, flies to the sky, brings her back. This is the third time Eve confesses. Elena: Semyry-Vilshcha will ask if he had fun with his wife on the way, he will not believe the answer, but will prepare a test in the form of a pit with burning resin, snakes and reptiles, and a shaft will be laid above it, will offer to cross the shaft. Eve must say that he does not believe that the king did not ride the horse he left behind during this time. He will go, and Eve must turn the wheel at the end of the shaft. Seme-Vilshcha falls, burns in a pit with resin. Eve and Elena take the treasury and go to his kingdom. The brothers are happy. YVES builds a house better than the royal palace, a wedding feast]: Nechaev 1939:509-521; Russians (Olonetskaya, Velikogubskaya vol., Kosmozero, Zap. I.V. Karnaukhova) [the wife is childless; sent for fresh perch; the wife and the worker ate, both gave birth to a boy; the elder brother {the hostess's son} went, three growths: to the right - you will be rich, to the left - wife, middle - killed; went to the left; in the young lady's house; put him to bed, he fell into the underground; his younger brother went, chose the path where he would kill; a hut on chicken legs - turn the porch here; Baba Yaga fed, gave a comb, sent it to her older sister; she gave a bar, sent it to the oldest; fog over the city, in the house of Baba Yaga (apparently the oldest sister) tells stories to the girls; the guy took apples and live water , raped the girl, galloped away; girl: he drank tea, but did not cover the teapot, sent a chase; the guy threw a comb (forest), a bar (gorges), a towel (river of fire); the guy got to Rosstani and drove along the road to marry; also failed; broke the wall, everyone went out; the brothers envied him, killed him; the horse broke a bottle of live water, revived it; he returned home; the messenger from the girl Krasa from the golden kingdom: let a betrothed arrives; she already has a child; her older brother has gone; she put down velvet, the guy got off his horse, went around, she drove him away; the youngest drove on velvet - here's my betrothed; they began to live happily ever after, good money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 15:45-46; Russians (Vologda) [the tsar and queen are childless, both 80; the tsar tells fishermen to throw a net for his happiness; pike was caught in appearance like gold; tsar tells the nanny to bake a cake; he ate the middle part with the queen, the one where the head was eaten by the nanny, the tail was eaten by a dog; everyone gave birth to a boy, only the dog's son has dog ears; the priest gave names: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan- nanny, twig-birth; brothers grew up; C. suggests considering the elder who will continue to throw the 4-pound club; he threw the farthest; went hunting, got lost, stayed in an empty house, next to the river, a bridge; take turns guarding; IC sees a three-headed monster driving, disappeared, did not tell his brothers; the same IN (6-headed); on the third night S. leaves a glass: if full of blood, hurry to help, and if the blood is over the edge, save yourself; the 12-headed monster prevails, S. threw his boot, the gate disappeared, the horse ran, helped kill the monster; S. put 12 heads under a heavy stove; the brothers ask forgiveness for hiding and not helping; when they went, S. asks to return - he forgot his gloves; fell off the stove, under it 12 heads; the brothers kept silent; three sisters of the sorceress gathered; one promises become an apple tree, the other a feather bed, the third a well; brothers want to eat apples, lie on a feather bed, drink water, S. does not give; brothers find a hut, hunt, cook in turn; a dwarf with a long beard came , ate everything, beat the IC; the same with IN; S. beat the dwarf, pinched his beard in the stump; he uprooted the stump, left, the blood trail leads to the hole; S. orders to kill the bear, make belts out of his skin, lower him on his belts; the girl of the copper kingdom sends silver to the girl, she to the golden one; each asks to marry her; the maiden of the golden kingdom orders to change wells with strong and weak water; the dwarf drank weak water, S. killed him; S. sends the girls upstairs, each turned her kingdom into a ball; when the brothers raised S., they were flattered by the girls, cut off their belt; S. fell, found the Firebird, she carried him upstairs, because he defeated her villain; the IC took the maiden of the silver kingdom, the IN the copper kingdom, and the maiden of the golden kingdom as his servants; having learned how it was, the king executed the IC, drove the IN away, made S. the heir, he married Princess of the Golden Kingdom]: Gura 1965, No. 20:230-233; Russians (Pskov) [the tsar has two kingdoms; he sends people to find out why in one of the kingdoms the people do not know where they are going; the old man sent: you must throw the seine three times; the first two times you will find a lot of fish, throw it away; on the third, three white fish pike; let the princess eat - then the tsar will find out where the people are going; the cook cooked the fish herself I also tried it and gave it to the female; everyone gave birth to a son: Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan Kukharkin, Ivan-Suchkin-Ploshkin (ISP); grew up quickly, went in search; before that, the ISP whistled in three stables, remained in each there was only one horse to stand, the brothers took them for themselves; chose the oldest one who would throw the club higher; when he threw the ISP, they had time to drink tea before it fell; made him the eldest; stopped at the bridge over the river Kalinovka; they take turns guarding, but Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan-Kukharkin fall asleep, all three times at the ISP bridge; each time the snake drives the ISP into the ground "on the trail", and the ISMP cuts down all three heads of the snake; the third snake drove the ISP into the ground waist-deep, and the ISP blew off only two heads, but the horse finished off the snake; as a fly, the ISP overheard the snakes talking; one will thirst, the other will turn into a spring, the third has one mustache in the ground, and the other into the sky: how they will go, so in her mouth; the brothers went, thirsty; the ISP crossed the meadow - blood, crossed the key - blood too; told the brothers to go forward, they drove into the snake's mouth, and he told the blacksmiths to light the horn; the snake gnawed through the iron doors, stuck its tongue, and began to beat her tongue with a hammer; the ISP beat until the snake regurgitated the brothers and died; a gold-haired ram ran out; the ISP threw a club at him, and the ram grabbed her and carried her down the hole; the ISP tells the brothers to lower him on a rope; picked up a club, came to the copper kingdom, there was a girl, a serpent flew in, the ISP killed him; the same in the silver kingdom; in the golden princess hides under the hem, the serpent flies around, the ISP, according to the princess's teaching, grabbed him by the tail, the serpent flew, hit the ground and shattered to pieces; each of the princesses turned her kingdom into a testicle; the princess of gold branded the ISP with her ring and ordered the snake to take the tail: it will deliver it wherever you want; the brothers pulled out the princesses, began to argue over the princess of the golden kingdom, decided to get rid of the opponent, raised The ISP was thrown half the hole; the ISP shifted the snake's tail from hand to hand, found himself on the ground, exchanged clothes with the old woman's son, came to a feast; the princess saw her stigma on him; traitor brothers shot]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 2:10-18; Russians (Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky U.) [the fisherman has been fishing for 33 years; he caught the crucian carp; he tells him to put the husk in a box in the attic, bury the intestines underground, let his wife eat the liver and heart, the head to the female, the tail to the mare, eat the rest yourself; the old woman gave birth to two boys Ivan and Vasily, a mare - foals, a female - males; by the age of 7, the brothers grew up, ordered 400 pounds of iron batog; gold was in the box, two bridles in the underground; brothers we reached the pole: whoever is to the right will not be alive, whoever to the left will petrify; M. to the right, V. to the left; a wall parted in front of him, he disappeared behind it; I. - to the city to the king; there a sea serpent demands 6 heads girls, the princess's turn; I. knocked down 6 heads with a club, put it under a stone, told the princess to remain silent that he had saved her; then the serpent demands all three princesses about 12 heads; the same; I. married the youngest; went to look for B ., taking half of his wife's handkerchief; after visiting V. in the Arab kingdom, I. returned; there the blacksmith marries the princess; I. sent a male dog, who dragged the blacksmith by the nose; showed half of the handkerchief, the head under the stone; the blacksmith put them in a pole; both brothers and wives returned to their father]: Smirnov 2008, No. 4:66-68; Russians (the place of recording is not specified, but the North is unlikely) [childless tsar and queen dream that the queen will become pregnant from the ruff eaten; the queen ate the fish, the cook licked the dishes, the cow drank the slop (var.: mare); each gave birth to a boy; Ivan Bykovich (IB) is stronger than the prince and the cook's son; raises a stone, under they have three horses; brothers come to Baba Yaga, then to the Smorodina River; information security kills a 6-, 9-, 12-headed monster (the latter, cutting off his fiery finger with which he put his severed heads in place); information security overhears with a sparrow how the wives of monsters promise to turn into an apple tree, a well, a bed; does not let her brothers come, cuts his wives into pieces; the witch dragged IB into the dungeon, her husband lies there, 12 heroes are raised with an iron pitchfork, his eyebrows and eyelashes; he does not avenge the information security for the death of his sons, but tells the queen to get golden curls; you have to hit the oak tree, the ship will come out; the information security asks Obedailo, Opivailo, Soaring in bath, Stargazer, Floating ruff; Obedailo eats everything, Opivailo drinks, Soaring cools a hot bath; IS gets a wife; she turns into a star, flies to heaven; Stargazer returns her; she turns into a pike, the Ruff returns it; the old man agrees to walk along the pole above the hole; the princess of golden curls makes him fail, goes beyond the information security]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 137:278-286.

Baltoscandia. The Danes [husband and wife are childless; the healer gives her husband three smelts to be eaten by his wife; but he eats one himself and becomes pregnant; in the forest he gives birth and leaves a girl; she is found by Lind (dragon family), but a tiger he is killed and raised by a girl; after his death she lives alone in the forest; the prince found her, married her, she is constantly silent; every time her daughter-in-law gives birth and her husband is at war, the Queen Mother smears her lips with blood, lowers the child down the river in a basket; three millers find and raise a boy each; after the third time, the king agrees to drive the young woman away; she is speechless as soon as finds himself outside the gate; comes to the first miller, asks a riddle: the fish was my father, the man was my mother, lind bore me, the tiger adopted me, the horse gave birth to my husband, I gave birth to three children, all alive, all of them died, but they are all alive; the miller is unable to guess, for this he gives a carriage with six horses and a coachman boy; so with all three millers, a woman gets all three sons, goes to the palace, where her riddle can't be guessed either; it opens, the Queen Mother is punished, the woman becomes queen again]: Holbek 1987:543-544; Danes [fisherman can't catch anything; finally pulls out talking fish; she tells her giblets and scales to be thrown into the trash, bury her head under a stone through which water flows; let the wife eat the back, but the fisherman himself should not eat; save the rest and when boys will be 7 years old, give birth to a mare, dog and female cat, they will give birth to foals, puppies, chicks; when the boys are 15, dig 2 swords and 2 knives from under the stone; from now on, the fisherman's field will bring such harvest that there would be no need to fish; after sowing on their horses, taking swords, knives, dogs and cats, the brothers went on a journey; at the fork they parted, stabbing a tree with a knife: whose will rust, That's the trouble; the eldest came to a city where mourning: the king must give his only daughter to a nine-headed sea monster; whoever kills him will receive a princess and inherit the throne; the Red Knight promises to do so; when the princess was brought to the shore, the Kyrgyz Republic saw the monster and ran into the forest; the young man let a cat, a dog and a horse at the monster, and cut off his three heads, cut off his tongues and hid it; KK brought his heads to the city and attributed the victory to himself; the next day, 6 (same); on the third day, all 9 heads grew, but the young man cut them all down, the monster died; the princess put her ring on the young man's finger; he said he should to see his brother and return in a year; the KR did not see what was happening and decided that the monster would win and eat the princess; the KR brought the princess and heads, attributed the victory to himself; the young man found his younger brother's knife unrusted, went to look for him, but did not find him; returned when the princess married the Kyrgyz Republic; sent a cat, the princess recognized him, the cat grabbed a goblet of wine and brought it to the young man; he gave it to the hotelier to drink, and he sent his dog to the princess; likewise, the dog took the food basket; the young man came by himself, showed his tongues; the princess called him savior; the KR was hanged from the tree on which he was sitting, fearing the dragon; on the first three nights, a rooster flies up to the marriage window and screams; the young man thought that his brother was in trouble, followed the rooster, got lost in the fog; an old woman came up and asked for help to carry a heavy bag on horseback; hit the water with a stick, the sea parted and they went dry, and there was water around, in front and behind; they went out to the mountain, the old woman opened the door, there was an iron room with a huge stove; the old woman pulled out her hairs, She told them to be thrown at a horse, dog, cat and sword, they petrified (or rather immobilized}; said she was the mother of a dragon, and threw her hair at the young man; the younger brother saw that the knife rusted and went in search the eldest; he was mistaken for him; at night he put a sword between himself and the princess; that rooster appeared; just like his older brother, he threw the witch's hair into the fire; told her to revive her brother and his animals (she sprinkled them with water from a bottle) and taken them back across the sea; then they cut off her head; on the way home, her younger brother told the elder about the night with his wife; he pierced him with a sword; rabies came to the Queen; she asked why he put a sword between them last night; when he heard this, he galloped to the place where he killed his brother; wanted to stab his corpse, but his younger brother's cat was like once he brought the bottle and poured liquid on it; it came to life; the brothers divided the kingdom, and the youngest married another princess]: Grundtvig 1878:276-326; Swedes: Liungman 1961, No. 303 [after eating a wonderful fish ( apple), a woman gives birth to twins, at the same time a dog - two puppies, a mare - two foals; the youngest returns to wander with his animals, leaving the elder an object that will show if with the youngest something will happen; defeats the dragon and frees the princess; goes hunting, the witch turns him into stone; the older brother goes to save him; comes to the princess, who takes him for her husband and does not understands why he puts a sword between them on the bed; kills a witch and revives his brother; the princess cannot understand which brother is her husband], 705 [the husband brought his wife fish but ate it himself; his knee swollen, and a girl was born from it; the bird carried her to his nest; the king found her, brought her home and married her; when the young queen gives birth, her mother-in-law says that she gave birth to a kitten; or consistently takes away children born; the young queen is expelled, but she returns and offers the king a riddle that describes what happened]: 49-50, 193-194; Norwegians: Christiansen 1959 [ conceiving twins from fish eaten in 10% of Norwegian, 30% Swedish and 50% Danish records]: 47; Hodne 1984, No. 705 [spouses are childless; after receiving the magic fish that he must give his wife to eat, the husband eats it himself; his knee is swollen, a girl is born; a bird takes her to the nest; a prince (king) finds her, brings her to the palace, takes her as his wife; an evil housekeeper kidnaps her children and says she ate them; a woman escaped execution, found her children and introduced them to the king; the evil bride was punished]: 152; Icelanders [three women in blue clothes come to the count's wife, tell them to venerate the stream and swallow trout; she gives birth to a daughter and women pronounce on the child's fate]: Hartland 1894:74-75; Icelanders [the Duke's childless wife slept for a walk; in a dream, three women in black clothes told her venerate the stream and swallow the trout; she immediately became pregnant; when it was time to give birth, the Duchess invited the old woman and warned: three women would come, they should be welcomed and well treated; gave birth daughter; three women came, each called Blue Dress; the old woman greeted the two eldest, and the youngest was impolite; the eldest: the name of the newborn is Märthöll, she will be more beautiful and smarter, let her tears turn into gold; second: let her marry a prince; third: let her turn into a lark on the wedding night and fly out the window; for the first three nights she will shed her lark skin, and then not anymore; if burn the skin on the third night, M. will remain human; M.'s best friend is Helga, the daughter of a lady of the court; the prince married; H. must stay with M. for three nights; these three nights she sticks the prince in the head a sleepy pin, and she hurries to the hill where M. arrives and throws off the lark's skin for a short time; on the third night, the pin fell out, the prince woke up: his wife is not around; he sees M. and H. on the hill, they fill the bag with gold; he grabbed the skin and threw it into the fire; everything is fine; H. married the most noble man]: Poestion 1884, No. 17:136-143; Karelians (Olonetsky, 1936) [the fortune teller tells the childless catch and eat fish, give the bones to the dog, the horse's ear; the queen gives birth to three sons, a puppy dog, a foal horse; brothers go to see the world, part at the crossroads, leave knives - whose he will rust, he dies; Ivan Tsarevich comes to the city, where the girls are eaten by monsters, it is the turn of the king's daughters; I. kills three- and six-headed; dog: I'll jump into the mouth of the 9-headed, tear it from the inside; heroes claim that they killed the monsters, I. shows cut off tongues; I. marries a younger princess; sees fire at night; his wife tells you to sleep; I.: if you lie the first night, how will I be with you live; goes to the fire, someone from the tree asks to throw 3 hairs, 3 dog hair and 3 horse hair; I. throws, himself, the dog, the horse become stony; the second brother sees a rusted knife, arrives, he is mistaken for I., the same with him; the third dog tells the witch to answer that he has already thrown his hair; he grabs the witch, makes him bring alive and dead water to revive the brothers, they have come to life; 3 brothers married 3 princesses , I. received the kingdom]: Konkka 1959, No. 7:39-46; Estonians (Risti) [the plowman plowed, but it turned out to be a lake; a pike jumped out from there; a voice told her to give it to the maid to cook for her grandmother, only she should eat; the grandmother was a witch; the maid tasted the ear, the dog and the mare swallowed the foam; the maid, the mare and the dog gave birth to a son, the dog's son's name was Juhan; they grew up, went to look for wives; the maid's son had a horse walks two miles at once, the mare's son has a mile, Yu does not have a horse; the old man tells the maid's son where to get a horse under a stone to take three miles in one step; they spend the night at the bridge, guard one by one; the son the maid defeated the one-headed line; the mare's son was frightened, instead of him Yu defeated the double-headed line, the next night the six-headed line; spent the night with the old woman, did not know that she was the mother of devils; left her; they see as she pursues them, one lip to the clouds, the other on the ground; swallowed the servant's son and the son of a mare; Yu came to the forge; the blacksmith invited the pursuer to make a hole in the wall with his tongue, grabbed tongue with ticks, Yu began to beat her with an iron club; she regurgitated the swallowed, she was alive, she left herself; they took their wives, they came back; the mother of the devils in the swamp calls them, Yu beats her again; on the way there are soft seats, then beds; Yu does not let them sit down, lie down because he heard that they are going to kill them when they fall asleep; the same is food tables; they married the girls brought at home]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 15:85-89; setu [ the queen is childless, the tsar brings fish, tells the cook to cook, not to eat herself; the queen ate the fish, the cook ate the broth, the dog has bones, each gave birth to a son: Ivan Tsarevich (IC), Ivan Povarov (IP), Old Sukin Son (S.); brothers come to the bridge; IP is the first to guard, the devil goes (vanasitt), IP hits, he did not notice, S. kills the Devil; the same the next night when the IC guards; on the third - a 12-headed devil; S. leaves a knife - blood drips, let the brothers come to the rescue; the hell grows severed heads; S. throws a shoe at the brothers, another, but they hid under the stove; S. gathered his strength, killed the devil; at the first two the devils were wives, one became an apple tree, the other a well; S. destroyed an apple tree, a well; a 12-headed wife had one lip half the world and the other half the world (ühe huule ühe ilmaveere peale, teise huule teise ilmaveere peale), opened her mouth; S. poured flour into it; S. and the IC slipped through, the IP was swallowed; S. ordered the blacksmith to cook ticks; the 12-headed wife opened her mouth, her ticks by the tongue, regurgitated the IP, that in flour, S. killed her]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 4:47-50; Latvians: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 300A [from eaten fish, a mistress, a maid and a mare (dog, cat) have sons, the latter is the strongest; he is three at night, he beats the devil on the bridge, telling the brothers to help when the water in the glass turns into blood; on the third, most difficult night, the hero throws his boot (mitten) to wake up the brothers; they hurry to help and kill the devil; the hero overhears the daughters' conversation about how they are going to take revenge on the winners: one will turn into an apple tree, the other in a stream (well, lake), the third in a bed (meadow, house) ; the hero cuts an apple tree, a stream, a bed with a sword, kills his daughters]: 271; Niedre 1952:110-115 [the poor fisherman is childless; he threw a net to pull Lyma's catch, caught a fish; she tells me to collect its scales, put it in your pocket, the scales will turn into money; the wife believes that her husband robbed someone, threatens to bring it to the king; when she learns about the fish, she tells me to bring it; the fisherman caught it again, she orders to cut it into 5 pieces, give it eat the wife, mare, dog, cat, and put the fifth piece under the floor in the stable; everyone gave birth to twins, boys, foals, puppies, kittens had golden hair (wool); the king asked to give one boy to him; his own son is jealous - the father loves the adopted child more; he pushed him off the tower; but he did not crash, but returned to his father; decided to go on a journey, taking his stallion, dog, cat with him; under the floor the stables found a saddle and a bridle; in a foreign city, mourning: the princess is given to a 12-headed snake; the young man killed the devil, the animals helped in the battle, carved out his tongues, left; the deceiver gathered his heads, ordered to say that the savior he, the king, promises to give him his daughter; the princess asks for a year of delay; a year later the young man returned, the princess recognized him, he showed his tongues, the wedding; the deceiver was executed], 116-146 [=Alksnite et al. 1958:227-250; very a similar version in Grishina 1993:129-161; the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets are eaten by a mare; each gives birth to a son, the mare's son is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to vacate the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, a six-headed giant on the second night; on the third night he was nine-headed, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground ; the brothers are sleeping, they do not see that the water in the bucket has become blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running, began to burn their severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: he killed ours husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not let her lie down, get drunk, cut a bed, a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line there in the doorway, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, there were stolen; K. threw off the stone, told the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers are afraid, K. went down, cut off the line's head; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak instead of it; the sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give to K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and filled the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, who says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats him a giant bird with a hail of children; K. killed the cannibal, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; cut off the last piece of K. his caviar; K. opens his eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; we must kill the 9-headed wife; K. came to the forge, where Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown for the daughter of the Sun, a silver belt and diamond ring; forged a horse for K. to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank off, lost his strength year; went to hell as a worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from his back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs collected everyone from the pipe; K. beat off each cow's leg; hell forced answer that you are not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned); 6) bring firewood on the mare (mare - mother is a devil, K. threatens to cut her belts from her sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings by the shirt, and the hell ate his pound , bad with his stomach; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) hell leads K. to the forest to cut an oak tree; K. brings a hare, his younger brother; the devil can not catch up with him; agrees to carry him together felled oak; hell carries, K. rides on an oak tree; killed the devil's children; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream instead of himself for the night, hell with his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell with his mother they run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the hell drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; the power returned, K. killed the witches, threw the ogre into the fire, killed cannibal eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre, but died himself].

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [the fisherman caught a shining colorful fish; she ordered her to feed her sons meat, give it blood to horses, give the seeds to the dogs; the old man was surprised: he had no sons; when he came home, his wife brought him two boys: she sculpted them out of dough and they came to life; when the boys ate the fish, their heads were covered with the same gems as the fish itself; {it is later said that those who ate the dog's bones gave birth to puppies; horses are not mentioned, but it is obvious that the mares gave birth to foals}; the eldest of the brothers, Kamar Batyr ("hero dough"); ordered his father to order a 15-pound cast-iron club for him; threw it up, put his head up - the club broke; ordered a heavier one - he was satisfied with it; left his brother an arrow: if blood flows from it, he was in trouble; I came to the old woman, she fed him poison, ate him, his head hung it on the wall; the brother saw blood, went with the dogs on the trail of K.; in the hut a girl telling her not to eat what the old woman would offer; brother K. defeated the old woman, forced K. to revive, she collected the remains, poured water, K. came to life, killed the witch, left her brother's wealth and girlfriend, came to the city himself, where the devil demands a girl every day; the princess's turn; K. killed the deva, put his head under a cast-iron barn, threw his torso into the sea, left; the court on guard forced the princess to call him the snake the winner; K. came to the wedding feast in the guise of a beggar; sang, threw off his rags; the deceiver could not lift the barn reach out his head, he was executed; K. married the princess and inherited the throne]: Barag 1988, No. 15:116-120; Kazan Tatars [the fisherman leaned over the water; someone grabbed him by the beard, ordered him to give what not in the world; the fisherman caught an unusual fish; ate with his wife, she gave birth to a son; the divas began to demand him; the fisherman promised that the young man would come by himself; he goes to the forest, through the gate to another world; refuses help The eldest, middle daughter, the diva promises to marry the youngest; she helps to fulfill the diva's instructions: 1) uproot the forest, arrange a field, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame the argamak (this is the diva himself) ; 3) distinguish the bride from her three sisters (raised her feather); the divas locked the young in an iron bath; the girl became a needle, turned the young man into a thread, they got out through a small hole; run, divas sends his men in pursuit, they do not understand that the fugitives have become 1) a yellow and red flower; 2) a church and a bell ringer; the divas are chasing himself, the fugitives have become a lake and fish; the divas tries to drink water, the daughter tells him fall knee-deep, turns into stone; the fugitives took the diva's treasures, returned to the young man's parents]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 58:264-273; Chuvash [the witch doctor tells a childless person to catch fish with with gold scales, let the wife eat; the cook ate the tail, the head is a mare, three heroes were born; their peers are oppressed; they want to put them under lock and key, they leave; they stay in a hut; the son of a mare is not sleeps; a three-headed serpent rides, asks why the horse stumbles; the horse: the son of a mare will kill them; he kills a snake on the bridge, hides its heads under the bridge; the same on the second, third night; the same six-headed serpent; nine-headed; brothers are leaving; the mare's son returns for a forgotten knife; there is a monstrous old woman in the hut; he cuts off a piece from her lip, the old woman says that the fly has bitten; promises to turn into a spring; a feather bed; into the garden with comedians; the son of a mare hits the spring with a sword, the water turns into pus; the same with the feather bed; looked back at the garden, the comedians grabbed him; demand to get the daughter of the water king; the son of the mare meets, He takes his comrades as companions: a birdsman who can count trees in the forest; an invisible person; an invisible man sees and hears how the water man promises his daughter to someone who looks like him: golden hair on his head, silver in a beard; pulled out three hairs, attached a mare to the son; the waterman gave the daughter; she became a bird, the shooter knocked her down; with a tree, he who knows how to count; the son of the mare gave the bride, got the horse back; the bride I came back, they began to live well]: Chuvash tales 1937:203-209.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Kannisto 1956, No. 18 [fish was cooked in the merchant's house; the dog licked his ear, the maid tried it with a spoon, the daughter ate the rest, all three became pregnant, each gave birth to a boy, everyone's name is Vanka , all three look the same; playing with their peers, the brothers maim them; made bows for themselves, shot and went; little V.'s arrow fell closest, the big arrow fell farther away, beyond 9 seas, 9 mountains, crimson bridge; they came there, by the bridge there was a house with three castles; little V. tore down the smaller, the middle one, the largest castle; there was food and decks of cards in the hut; they began to play; had to go the youngest V. went to guard, but the eldest (he is the son of a dog); a 6-headed devil rides across the bridge, asks his horse why he stumbles; the horse predicts the death of the devil; V. killed him, returned to the hut; the same the next day is a 9-headed devil; the third time V. left his mittens in the hut: if one falls and the other gets blood, we must hurry to help; the 12-headed devil overcomes, the brothers sleep, V. throws boot, the brothers woke up, ran, 6 heads were cut off; the same again (throws the second boot, the remaining 6 heads were cut off); the brothers set off, but V. returned for boots, became a mouse, overheard hells conversation; one promises to cause heat and become a well, a bed, the second to catch up with the cold and become a hut, the third to become a pig and kill brothers; V. cuts a well, a hut, instead of them, dissected corpses ; the brothers went on three roads; the pig caught up and killed the younger, middle brothers; the elder V. hid in Kuzma Demyan's forge; the pig licked the door with his tongue, Kuzma Demyan is told to grab the devil ticks for her tongue, V. did it, crushed the skull with a hammer]: 182-189; Kumaeva 2015, No. 2 (northern) [the sister scooped up a bucket of burbot, argues with her brother who to eat her head; ate it herself, gave birth to a son Seung-pungk- pygris; he grew up; runs to the games that Ushin-Otyr-Oika arranges; his uncle does not want to go there; S. came, there are three daughters of W. dancing; he grabbed and took the eldest, put her uncle in bed; in the morning he embarrassed; next time S. took the owner's youngest son, put his mother in bed; on the third night he took his youngest daughter for himself; threw a sliver of pine, larch and cedar, and a house 7 larch long appeared logs; put down a handkerchief - a table with honey food appeared; ordered his wives to bring their parents and brothers; promises to become a spirit that causes all kinds of disasters and diseases to animals and people; and now they live there, prosper; S. as a spirit is revered in the village of Vanzevat]: 25-33.

(Wed. The Arctic. West Greenland: Millman 2004 (Igaliko) [guest tells childless spouses about an old shaman who received her gift after a lightning strike; a shaman gives two dried fish; a wife must eat one to give birth to a boy and the other to give birth to a girl; on the way, an old man eats a female fish, thinking that a boy is enough; he gets pregnant, gives birth to a girl at home, the couple is happy]: 130; Rink 1875, No. 94 [A childless husband asks an old woman to help his wife conceive; she gives two dried fish; the wife must eat one to give birth to a boy and the other to give birth to a girl; on the way, the old man eats a woman's a fish, thinking that a boy is enough; he becomes pregnant; another old woman helps him resolve; Rink considers the continuation of the story (not quoted in the text) to be a European borrowing]: 443-444).