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K93b2. Conception from a fetus eaten.

.13.-.15.17.21.-.24.27.-.33.

A childless woman conceives a child after eating a fruit (usually an apple; in northern traditions, cabbage, egg, etc., in India, mango).

Kordofan, Berbers of Morocco and Algeria, Arabs of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Portuguese, Italians, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Mikir, Lao, Thais, Burmese, Ancient India, Kashmiris, Nepalis, Punjabi, Himachal Pahari, Marathi, Bengalis, Santals, Ho, Birkhor, Baiga, Kannada, Tamils, Sinhales, Java, Sangihe Islands, Loda, Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians, Moldovans, Greeks, Bulgarians, Poles, Russians (Vyatka), (Russians, Moscow), Western Ukrainians (Bukovina), Crimean Tatars, Kabardian people, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Nogais, Stavropol Turkmens, Kumyks, Avars, Lucks , Dargins, Lezgins, Tatas, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Talysh, Persians, Tajiks, Munjan, Yazgulyam, Sarykol, Yagnobs, Baluchis, Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Latvians, Komi, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (no language specified) [the king laments that he is childless; the sorcerer gives two lemons; let one be eaten by an Arab wife, she will give birth to a daughter, and the other a concubine, give birth to a son; when he grows up, he must come to the sorcerer; the boy's name is Shatr Mohammed (SHM); the sorcerer met him, told him to remind his father of the promise; he cries; the sorcerer became an eagle and took away the CMM; in his palace he gives the CMM the keys to all rooms, but forbids unlocking one of them; treasures are everywhere; in the forbidden room, the CMM is a beauty suspended by her hair; on one side there is a horse on chains, bloody meat in front of him; on the other, a lion, hay in front of him; and a floor strewn with the old and recently cut down heads of young men; the CMM freed the girl, swapped hay and meat, the horse and the lion broke their chains; the horse: put on armor, take the sword and the girl and jump; the lion is with them; the sorcerer catches up; the horse tells you to throw a comb (a thick forest), a piece of glass (a field covered with glass fragments), soap (a river); the sorcerer swam, drowned; the horse tells you to take his hairs to summon him and go to the city ; he hired a gardener; the youngest of the 7 princesses sees him swimming, calling a horse and putting on armor; she sends him food every day, but the gardener picks them up; princesses send his father 7 melons: them it's time to marry; everyone throws a handkerchief to the one she has chosen as her husband; the youngest with the CMM is settled in the slave quarter; the king is sick, she needs gazelle milk; the CMM gives it to his older sons-in-law, who allow them to stigmatize them in the ass ; sons' milk does not help, milk brought by the younger princess healed the father; enemies have attacked; sons-in-law are fleeing, CMM smashes enemies on his horse; to celebrate the savior, the king inflicts a slight wound on him with a sword on her hand and bandages him with her handkerchief; the wife recognizes her father's handkerchief, tells the mother; the king begs the CMM to return to the palace; the older sons-in-law have to show the stigma, now they are slaves to the CMM]: Frobenius 1923, No. 19: 216-224.

North Africa. "Moors" [the king has seven wives, all childless; someone gives him seven apples for his wives to eat; the last one is rotten, the king cut off half; so his seventh and beloved wife gave birth to a boy with only the left half of his body; his name is Neççebnâdem ("Half a Man"); he eventually becomes full]: Despartmet 1914 in Belmont 2005:16-17; kabila [the old man bought 7 apples for 7 daughters-in-law, ate half of one apple on the way; the daughter-in-law, who got half, gave birth to a boy named Amar half, the rest to normal boys; the brothers went hunting; caught two lions; a good ginnia offered them black milk (supposedly, her goat is afraid to graze, because there is a predator all around, eating coals near the hearth), brought them to her; the brothers left the lions to protect the jinnia, went to clear the forest from predators, spent the night with the cannibal ceriel; she ate horses and six brothers; A. asks her to bring him water first with a sieve, ran away; calls the river a river of oil and honey, she opens a dry bottom, A. crosses, the river flows again; ceriel calls the river with swear words, tells the dog to drink it; the dog bursts, the river continues to flow; the sheikh teaches ceriel to call the river a river of oil and honey; the river parts, ceriel goes over, A. climbs a tree; ceriel cuts the trunk with an ax all day, casts a spell in the evening, goes to rest, the trunk is intact again in the morning; the sheikh teaches: I must say, "in the name of God"; she does so, the notch does not overgrow in the morning; A. asks to be allowed to shout 7 times; lions hear, come running, eating ceriel; A. warns not a drop of her blood to touch the ground; one lion drops a drop, but the other managed to catch it in the air]: Dermenghem 1945:63-67; Berbers (Beni Menacer, Kabylia) [one wife is smart, the other is stupid; they quarreled, split the only rooster; one part fried, the other kept it; the half-rooster (one wing, one leg) went on a pilgrimage; rushes at the jackal, at the lion, pulls it out by the hair, hides it under its wing; asks for the bristles of the boar, he gives it; in the king's house he shouts that he will die tomorrow, and he will take his wife; the king tells the sheep and goats to throw him; he burns the jackal's hair, he asks not to burn, calls all the jackals, who gnawed sheep and goats; the same thing to the bulls (lions) they were torn to pieces); the king orders to lock the Half-Rooster to kill with his own hands; he calls the wild boar, the boars broke the door, the Half-Rooster left, taking the gold in the room; asks his mistress to beat him, gold falls; when she sees gold, a stupid wife offers to divide the dog; the clever gives her half to it; the stupid one sends the dog on a pilgrimage; she sees a yellow stone in the spring, grabbed it, brought it, She ordered to beat herself; she killed her and found a yellow stone in her mouth]: Basset 1887, No. 42:83-89; the Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the rich merchant is childless; the wizard summoned two Efrites, who bore fruit from the end of the world; After eating them, the merchant's wife gave birth to a boy; when he is 10 years old, his father took him to Mecca; in Egypt they hear a conversation like birds are chirping; someone taught his students the language of birds; the merchant left his son to study, and he went on; on the way back, he did not pick him up, but told his wife that his son had drowned in the sea; but after 10 years, the merchant still followed his son: now he has become a teacher at this school; they sail to Morocco on ship; the son reluctantly answers what the birds said: he will become a sultan and his father a porter; at night, the father put his sleeping son in a chest and threw him overboard; in Morocco, a merchant found out that his house had burned down; along with his wife began to do black work; the young man was caught by a fisherman; he brought good luck to the house, became a friend of Kadia's son; three birds want something from the Sultan; he promises a reward to those who understand; a young man: two males and a female; the female's husband left for a long time, she became the wife of another; the first one returned; who should she belong to? the sultan invited the young man to decide for himself; he told the female to choose who she wanted; the female chose her second husband; the sultan does not want to keep his promise to give half the kingdom to the guessman, but the young man threatens to direct against he was all birds; after the death of the Sultan, the young man inherited the throne; recognized his father among the poor; forgave; mother recognized her son by his mole]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926:139-153; Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [sultan childless, although he has many concubines; he meets a lion in the desert; he gives two apples and two rods; a mare and wife must be beaten with twigs, one apple should be eaten by a mare and the wife; a son and a foal will be born; sultan: let the son choose his own name when he grows up; the boy is strong and ruthless towards his peers; the old woman deliberately brings a pot of soup to make the guy hit him with a ball; it happened; it allows the old woman to say: you are ugly, and you don't even know your name; in the end, the old woman persuaded him to give himself a name that is a whole long phrase; its meaning is that he will get the Sultan's daughter The Sahel; this is the 14th Aisha, she lives on an island from where she goes to the bottom to the palace of the Sultan Father; the first word of the phrase is Atik (hereinafter A.); the Sultan of the Sahel heard about A., feared him, sent letters to his father so that A . arrived; A. came; the sultan gave him poisoned food and put him on a poisoned bed, but the poison does not work on A.; the Sultan sent an army, A. defeated him on his stallion; so several times; accidentally found him entrance to the underground corridor through which he came to Aisha's palace; A. drew up a marriage contract himself; after 9 months a child was born; they came to Father A., the Sultan of the Sahel was powerless to harm them]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:48-58; Berbers (Morocco?) [Mqidech ("half man") is the youngest of seven (8, 10) brothers; his mother conceived him after eating half the fruit, so he is half a man or a dwarf; the brothers meet a cannibal who offers them or their horses food M. tells me not to take it; he does not sleep at night; in one way, the brothers change places with the daughters of the cannibal, who mistakenly kills their daughters; the brothers run away, the cannibal makes their horses stop, they are all ride a horse M.; M. returns to rob the cannibal or is caught by her, but kills her; options: a man gives his wives an apple, one eats half; brothers ride horses, M. on a goat; half a horse ( mares were given bread, one apparently ate half); children abandoned by parents]: Lacoste-Dujardin in Goldberg 2003:344-344; Berbers (?) Morocco (Marrakech) [the magician gave her husband two apples; if the wife eats them, she will have a child; but the husband himself should not eat; but the husband ate one himself; his leg is swollen; out of shame he went to the desert; there from a girl with long hair appeared on her leg; and the wife gave birth to a son; the husband left the girl, but the gazelle fed her; the king noticed her, left two plates of couscous at the watering hole, with or without salt; if it was jinnia, she will choose unsalted, and if the man is salted; the girl chose a couscous with salt, the king caught her, brought her to the palace and married; 6 former wives are dissatisfied; when the king left for business, the eldest wives they offered the youngest to comb her hair, put pins in her head and she flew away as a dove; she flies to the wall of the pavilion that the king ordered to build and sings: I was born from an apple, my father gave birth to me, fed me the gazelle, the king married me, his evil wives pricked me and now I am a bird; after that, the dove flies away and the wall collapses every time; the king came, the wives said that the youngest had returned to the gazelles; when she came to the pavilion, The king hears and sees everything for himself; orders the dove to be lured into the room with grain; the king caught her, groped her and took out her pins; the dove turned into a girl again, she told the elder wives to turn into beams floors, bedside, bench; all good]: Légey 2007, No. 6:48-51; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1982 [wise El-Moujarrab gives the childless sultan 7 apples and 7 twigs; from each apple each of the seven wives will be able to conceive a son, and if you hit each mare with a rod, all 7 will bring foals; but the sultan ate half of one apple himself, so one of the wives gave birth to a small child; his name was half a man; to test his sons, the sultan pretended to be sick; he needed apples from the ogre's garden and lioness's milk in a lion's skin wineskin along with a lion's mustache; 6 brothers stopped at Halfway through hesitation; the unrecognized Half promised to bring them everything, for which they allowed them to cut off their little fingers on their right hand and earlobe; Half venerated the ogre's wife's chest, who brought him apples; the same with the lioness - she gave milk, the lion's mustache and ordered the lion cub to be slaughtered so that she could not hear his screeching herself; the half gave everything to the brothers; the Sultan's brother, he himself is a neighboring sultan, asks to be sent to him help sons fight ghouls and blacks; brothers are afraid to approach enemies, and Half slaughtered sleeping enemies under cover of night; penetrated uncle's youngest daughter and quietly exchanged rings with her; the brothers attributed the victory to themselves, but Polovinka showed his uncle the ring and told everything; he drove the impostors away, honored the Half; on the way home, the brothers threw Half into the well; the traveler pulled him out; The half showed his father the brothers' fingers and ears cut off; he expelled them from his possessions; the half married his uncle's daughter and inherited his father's throne]: 71-79; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [Jew sells apples of conception; the childless king is interested; his youngest wife heard and bought an apple, cut it in half, ate half; when she wanted to eat the second one, it turned out that the king ate it himself; the wife gave birth to a boy , and her husband became bloated on his leg; he was opened, something alive was taken out, but the female peacock who climbed into the room grabbed it and carried it to a nest in a tree; raised a girl; the prince also grew up, went find out what the goats are afraid of; saw the girl's reflection in the source; fell ill with love; told that Jew; he turned the girl into a dove; the dove flies away; but on the seventh day, the Jew managed to do so the dove went down to the prince under the tree and became a girl again; the prince was already married to his mother's sister's daughter; his father married him to a girl who was mistaken for ginnia; the prince's first wife and mother asked a Jew turn her into a dove again; he gave a pin, the prince's mother stuck it in her daughter-in-law's head and she flew away as a dove; gardeners hear a voice: I was born from an apple, pava raised me, your mother and yours my first wife turned me into a dove; the rain begins, but as soon as people hide under the tree, the sun comes out again; so many times; when he found out about this, the prince asked the old woman for help; she came under the tree put the hand mill upside down and began to grind; the dove girl began to explain that they did not do this; the old woman asked me to go down and show her how to do it; then she sifted the flour, putting the sieve up bottom; then bake tortillas on the convex side of the bowl; finally the dove came down and the old woman caught her; the prince kept the dove in a cage in his room; the mother picked up the key, pulled out the dove and threw it on a pile of coal; the prince washed the dove, felt for the pin and pulled it out; the dove became a girl again; the prince executed his mother and first wife; the prince and his wife were visited by a woman in a luxurious outfit - she was the one who took on the form pavas]: 11-23; Hasluck 1925, No. 4 [a man has 7 wives, all childless; his 7 mares do not have foals; a knowledgeable person tells him to buy 7 apples at the bazaar and let his wives eat; bring 7 sticks from the forest, break them about the backs of mares; after that everyone gave birth; five sons are good, one is black, the daughter is blind; five do not want to deal with a black man; the sister asks the brothers to determine which of them is the strongest; let him get it from the daughter of a Christian leader soap that will make her sighted; at the fork, five drove one way and the black man in the other; he left a pen under the stone: whoever returns first, let him burn him; five come to castle; everyone is told to take a woman; if she sleeps in the morning with her head on her knees, he will marry her; and if a young man sleeps with his head on her lap, she will take his property. every woman tells a young man that she will not leave for long for some reason, she is replaced by another; in the morning women are awake and the boys are sleeping, the women take everything; the boys have left and were hired by a Berber coal burner; a black man But he met and killed a ghoul; then he saw a blind vulture; his seven chicks could not feed him; the young man gave the vulture ghoul meat, and he promised to carry it across the sea; he asks each of the chicks, how long it takes for him to carry the young man; the eldest is responsible that in a year, the rest call it shorter; the youngest promises to fly back and forth in a day; on the way, the young man feeds the young vulture with ghoul meat; overseas, a young man tells a Jew to make him a golden rooster that will walk; having climbed into a rooster, the young man came to the daughter of a Christian leader; that month sleeps, is awake for a month; he changed soap, exchanged with sleeping in rings; when he returned, he found the pen intact, realized that the brothers had not yet returned; found a coal burn, told him to let his brothers go; in the castle, the women did not allow them to leave; each of the brothers received the woman, taking her property; on the way home, the black man went down to the well to get water, the brothers cut off the rope; they did not get his horse, stayed at the well; at home, the brothers said that they broke up with the black man for the first time But day they did not see him again; the muezzin found a black man in the well, tied a rope to his horse, the horse pulled out the owner; the muezzin brought the black man to him; the daughter of a Christian leader appeared and asked where the black man was; cut off the heads of five brothers and promised to cut them off to her father if he did not return the black man; a black man was found by a muezzin, went with the daughter of a Christian leader and began working for her father]: 173-177; Tunisia [man, married a cousin, she did not become pregnant; the same with the second, the third; the cemetery watchman gave three apples - let each wife eat an apple alone; the third wife ate only half an apple, and She gave half to her husband; the first gave birth to a child, and the third gave birth to half a child, but he was smart and good; when hot, all three brothers went to the forest; the eldest two were on donkeys, the youngest on a goat; he got to the brothers of water from the well, and they threw it; he climbed a tree and got them some fruit; they reached the palace where Gulya and her children lived; she fed them and put them to bed, laid them alone a blanket, and a blanket of a different color for her children to eat at night; Half changed their blankets; at night, Gulya began to ask the children if they fell asleep or not; the half always answered: "Not yet"; gulya herself fell asleep, the children ran out of the palace, dug a hole, made a fire in it, ran home; Gulya woke up, ate her children, and when she realized what she had done, she followed her brothers, fell into a hole and died; A half called his parents to live in the Guli Palace]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 64 in Korovkina MS; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [the old man gave the judge 12 apples for his childless wife to eat them and give birth to 12 children; she eats 11 and half of the last, giving birth to another sister; gives birth to 11 normal sons and one half boy; they go to marry 12 daughters of their father's brother; Half warns that they did not fall to uncle, but to the ogre; he covers his wife with red and daughters with a white veil; the half put red on his daughters and white on his brothers; also changed the hats of the cannibal's brothers and daughters; at night, the wife The ogre kills his daughters instead of brothers, only the latter wakes up and talks to the mother about it; brothers run away, come to their real uncle; brothers get a bride, Half is the youngest and beautiful from; brothers, out of envy, tell him to go down to the well and cut off the rope; the fish gives him scales to call her for help; on the way home, Half meets the cannibal's wife, who brings him to her; he advises the cannibal to fatten him first; then asks to invite other cannibals to a feast, remains to cut wood to bake it; asks the cannibal daughter to help, kills her with an ax, runs away, hides in the iron tower; tells the cannibal who ran up to gather all the cannibals - let them bring firewood, cover the tower, it will burn in it; when the tower is hot, the cannibals themselves burned down; and the Half above is unharmed; began to lift the cannibal on a rope, cut off, the cannibal fell, crashed; on the way home, the Half met another cannibal; she said that today his wife is being remarried; says she will help for promising to give her her first child; she put her older brother on her back and his wife, Polovinka, to the wedding; became a scorpion and bit her brother to death; the father tells Polovinka that his brothers said that he was killed; the boy grew up, the cannibal met him, asked him to remind his father of his promise; the boy forgot; then she put a ring on his finger; his mother asked where it came from, he told everything, his parents sent him to cannibal; a year later, the father went to visit his son; he says he has found a better father and mother; the cannibal promises that she will not take away any new children from Half]: Stumme 1898, No. 3:93-104; Egyptian Arabs [ a childless woman bought a pomegranate, put it under the sauerkraut; the husband came and wanted to eat; the wife: eat what was under the washing pan, but not what was under the sauerkraut; but he found and ate a pomegranate, decided that his wife hides the best from him; he is pregnant; when nine months have passed, his wife told him to go to the desert; if a boy is born, you must wrap it in cloth and bring it, and if the girl is born, wrap it in silk and leave it; a girl was born, her father left her in a tree, the falcon took her to his nest and raised her; the Sultan's son began to water the horse, saw the girl's reflection in the water, fell ill with love; his grandmother promised to lure the girl out wood; brought a sheep and pretended to slaughter it from the tail side; then from the back; from her leg; the girl says what is wrong every time, the old woman pretends not to understand; the girl told a tree the size of her finger, went down to show her; the prince grabbed her, took her to the palace and married her; went to the Hajj; his mother did not give bread to her daughter-in-law, gave her hand in exchange for permission to cut off her hand; so with all her limbs; she threw what was left out the window; she fell on the "regality ring", the spirit asked him what to do; the girl demanded that she be made whole and healthy again, and that the palace be next to her and the fruit garden is out of season; the prince's mother took the form of his wife and said that his mother was dead; became pregnant, asked for grapes from a neighboring garden; the prince sent a servant to his mistress (i.e. to his true wife), and she responded: my father conceived me, the falcon and the peacock fed me, and now the Sultan's son has become pregnant with his mother, let the scissors cut off the tip of the questioner's tongue so as not to carry it to me; the same with the second servant; then the prince went by himself; she told him what had happened; the prince poured kerosene on his mother and burned it, brought his wife back]: El-Shamy 1975:159-163.

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 (Algarve) [spouses are childless; St. Antony gave his wife three apples, told him to eat it on an empty stomach; but her husband accidentally ate the apples; he went into the field, started screaming, his stomach was opened and a baby girl was taken out; she was taken away by an eagle, made her a hut, fed her with the milk of cows, she grew beautiful; the prince saw her, took her with him; the eagle tried to take her away and pecked her eye out; but the prince did not leave her, but hid her in his part of the palace; the Queen Mother is surprised where her son is disappears; one day she met her, called her a crooked freak, called her into the garden and pushed her into the well; three fairies came, made the girl get out of the well healthy and found herself in the palace that appeared here - dilapidated on the outside and gold on the inside; and so that whoever asks her twice would fall off his tongue; the Queen sent a valet to find out what was going on; the girl told her story, valet asked him to repeat, his tongue fell off; he could not tell the Queen anything; the same with another courtier; then the prince came and got his mother's permission to marry the girl]: 109-111; Cardigos 2006, No. 705A [man (king) accidentally eats an apple (part of an apple, three pears) intended for his childless wife and becomes pregnant; a baby girl is raised by an eagle (after being thrown into the bushes); prince finds a girl and carries away some of her hairs; the eagle counted her hairs and, finding that several were missing, killed his eagles; the prince took the girl away; the eagle pecked her eyes or gave her the face of a goat; but the prince lives secretly with her; in the absence of the prince, his mother or servants threw the girl into the well; the eagle (fairies, magic wand) saved her, settled her in the palace in front of the royal; the prince sends servants there; the girl each time he tells his own story, but with magic scissors he cuts off the listener's tongue; finally, the prince comes himself; the wedding; the girl's father is also present]: 154; Italians (Veneto) [parents childless, the sorcerer gives an apple, his wife ate it, and the maid ate the peel; both gave birth to boys; Apple and Peel grew up together and loved each other brotherly; they decided to take possession of the sorcerer's daughter; they climbed inside the bronze horse, driving it from the inside; they began to blow the horn and play the violin; when the girl was alone, they got off the horse and promised to leave if she didn't like them; she too I climbed inside the horse and went with them, or rather with the Apple; the sorcerer father cursed her daughter three times; there will be her three favorite horses, white, bay and crow, let her sit on white and die; the same with dogs - let her take a black woman and die; let a snake crawl into her marriage and bite her; three fairies heard this and began to talk at the inn; added: you can kill a horse, a dog, a snake; and who heard and He will tell, he will petrify; Apple and his fiancée were sleeping, but the Peel cut off the head of a white horse, a black dog; when Peel killed the snake in marriage, the bride woke up and decided what he wanted kill her or her husband; Peel was forced to tell everything, petrified; a sorcerer appeared, his daughter begged him, he brought Peel back to life; everything is fine]: Calvino 1984, No. 33:95-98 (=Kotrelev 1991:57-61).

Western Asia. Palestinians [the sheikh tells the husband to give his three childless wives an apple; he gives his eldest wife half by eating the other himself; the wife gives birth to a boy with one ear, one eye, half mouth; when the brothers have grown up, the Half does not ask for a horse, but for a thin sheep, not a scourge, but a whistle, a toy gun; the brothers herd the sheep, the woman invites them to spend the night, only the Half realizes that she is a transformed Wolf; lies on a camel thorn so as not to fall asleep, tells his brothers to run at night; the witch lured their horses with oats, all three sat on the lamb Halves, got home; the half puts them in a big bag lamb, comes to the witch, she leans over to get what it has in the bag, Half shoves it into the bag, brings it, she dies along the way, he takes her gold, gets rich, gets married]: Spoer 1931:150-152; Palestinians [the man has two wives: his brother's daughter and an outside woman; both are childless; the sheikh advised him to go to a ghoul, who will give conception grenades; the man greeted the ghoul, otherwise he would eat him; ghoul sent it to his older brother; he to their sister; the man venerated her long breasts and covered a handful of her torment; she told her to go to the garden; there the ghoul sleeps - one care was under himself, the other covered himself; Grab two grenades and run; on the way home, a man ate half a grenade intended for his wife, who is his brother's daughter; she gave birth to a half-boy, and the other wife Hassan and Hussein; they grew up; the brothers went hunting on horseback, and Polovinka went hunting on a lame goat; only he caught the deer, gave it to the brothers, for which they allowed them to burn its seal on their backs; at home he told his mother and showed the seals; when they They went hunting again, then came to the drone; the brothers say that their horses eat barley with milk, and Polovinka said that his goat eats chaff; says that he will not fall asleep until the gulya brings him water in his wineskin; she brought it, he made a hole in it so that water would drip on him; then says he would not fall asleep without a stuffed rooster; then stuffed lamb; this is how the night passed; in the morning Half tells the brothers to run; gulya tells the milk in the bellies of the horses to thicken, the horses stopped; all three brothers flew home on the Halves goat; Half promises to bring the gulya herself; dressed up as a halva seller; gulya ate everything and climbed into the box finished eating the leftovers, and the Half slammed the lid shut; it was burned in the drawer]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 6:84-88; the Arabs of Syria [the merchant gave an apple to make the woman pregnant; she cut off a piece, the rest was accidentally eaten by a man; his ankle was swollen, 9 months later a girl was born; a hawk carried her away, brought her to a palm tree, began to bring food, the girl grew up; the prince drove up to the spring to give the horse a drink, I saw a reflection, the girl refused to go down; the prince returned home, the old woman offered to help; pretended not to fry scrambled eggs on the fire (either a frying pan upside down, then pouring oil into fire); the girl went down to show, the prince took her away, hid her in his chambers; tells her mother to bring double portions of food; goes to Mecca, her mother finds the girl, leads to the window, throws her out the window; downstairs the black snake fought against the white snake, the girl wished black victory, she won, offered to fulfill any wishes; the girl wished for a palace with servants and a vineyard in front of the prince's palace; when the prince returned, his mother pretended to be his wife; he asks why she has different eyes, mouth, nose, etc., she always replies that she is tired, waiting, etc.; and the mother supposedly died; the imaginary wife pretends to be pregnant, asks the prince to send the maid for grapes; the girl answers who she is, tells the scissors to cut off the maid's tongue; the same with the second, with the third maid; the prince himself comes, everything is explained; he executed his mother, her long bones were turned into the crossbars of the ladder; when the prince's wife climbed them, they creaked]: Kuhr 1993:218-224; Iraqi Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [ one sister married a rich man, the other a poor brother; wives are childless; a man has given dates to each one: now the wife of a rich man will give birth to a daughter, and the poor a son, the children will grow up and marry; the wife of a rich man promises that this would not be allowed; while the poor man's wife was washing, the rich man's wife placed her baby in a box with money and clothes, lowered her down the river, and put the sheep's heart in bed; he was eaten by a dog and wife the rich man said that the dog ate the baby; the mother cried so much that she became blind; the baby was picked up and raised by a peasant; every morning there was a gold coin in his bed; the peasant became rich; then died; his wife, when she died, she told her son that he was a foundling; the young man took movable property and came to Baghdad; stayed in a wealthy house, not knowing that it was the house of his own mother's sister; when he saw that the visitor was rich for him their daughter was immediately extradited; but he put his sword on the bed; explained to his mother-in-law that because she wrote on all the dowry items: I wrote a year and I erased it; she told him the whole story; she had to show him the whole story; she had to show him his own mother to him; everything is fine]: 147-150; Stevens 2006, No. 22 [a friend tells a childless woman to buy a bitter orange, bring it home and eat it, but not give it to her husband; he saw his wife bring it orange, did not believe about the pregnancy, took it away and ate it; his wife promised to leave the house if he gave birth; 9 months later it happened; in the desert he gave birth to a daughter; wrote on a piece of paper about What happened tied the paper to the baby's hand and left; the gazelle fed her, and the falcon covered her wings from the scorching sun; the prince found it, brought it to the palace, asked her mother to raise her, and when she became a girl, married her; the prince's mother and wife looked very similar, both gold-haired; when the prince went to war, her mother-in-law beat her daughter-in-law and then drove her away; she asked God to create for she has a palace and a garden that would bear fruit all year round; it happened, but in the palace a young woman missed her husband; when the prince returned, his mother pretended to be his wife and said that his mother was dead; imaginary the wife gave birth; when she saw a wonderful garden from the roof of the palace, she wanted grapes and sent her son there; he sent a slave; the owner of the garden says that she is a bitter orange, the daughter of a bitter orange, her mother brought her, the father gave birth, fed the gazelle, the falcon hovered over her, the Sultan's son had a child with his own mother, I won't give grapes; the slave returned and told everything; the prince thought about it and went by himself; when his wife saw him, she gave him everything said; he demanded that the imaginary wife show her mother's grave; she had to confess; the son poured oil on her and burned her in the desert he gave birth to a daughter; after 9 months it happened both home and when a young queen gives birth, mother-in-law shovo], 32 [a dervish gives a childless merchant an apple in half with his wife and give the peel to the mare; the wife has given birth to a son, the mare to eat a foal; the merchant sent gifts to the dervish and his two brothers; the horoscope showed that the merchant's son would find the treasure underground; the father died, the mother kept her son locked up; one day the door was open, he came to the bazaar, the dervish called himself his father's brother, gave money The young man started his own business; the dervish took him to the desert, magically opened the entrance to the ground; there was a garden with gems on the trees, but let the young man get only an old lamp; and if he was in trouble, here's the ring; because the young man tore off the jewels, the ground closed, but he rubbed the ring and found a way out; gave the jewels to the dervish, but he only wanted a lamp; the young man said he had forgotten about it, the dervish died of grief; the young man became rich; the mother accidentally rubbed the lamp, the genies came out; the mother brought her son, he asked for a gold tray with jewelry, sent his mother to marry the princess; the sultan promised, but forgot and gave his daughter to another prince; but the genies fixed the matter: in the bedroom, the groom loses consciousness; the young man got a princess and created a palace; the brother of the deceased dervish was a lamp seller and exchanged the old lamp from the young man's wife for a new one; while the young man hunted, the palace and the princess disappeared; the young man promised the Sultan to find his daughter in 40 days; accidentally rubbed the ring, a spirit appeared; the young man ordered him to be transferred to the palace, which is now a dervish; the spirits of the ring did it , but warned that the perfume of the lamp was stronger than them; the wife said that the dervish was wearing a lamp on his body; they agreed that the wife would give the dervish wine and sleeping pills; the young man stabbed the dervish; returned his wife and palace to Baghdad; the perfume of the lamp warned that in three days the third dervish would try to kill him; he killed the nun, his wife's friend, came with her clothes on; the wife ran to meet her, but the young man got ahead of her and cut off the dervish head; all is well]: 98-102, 145-156.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mikir [the gods Hèmphū and Mukráng placed four pillars on the edges of the future land, tied them with their mother's hair; began to think about where to get the land; the hundred gods and their wives decided send the god Bamon's wife to another world to the god Hajong, but he did not give it; on the way back, Bamonpi (i.e. B.'s wife) picked up worm excrement; sent Helong Recho for the king of earthworms, who turned this part into the mainland; it was soft and wet, the blacksmith Kaprang dried it; to get plants, they sent it for Rekbepi, which is at the pole at sunset; she came and sowed plants; Pithe and Pothe ("great mother" and great "father" helped H. and M. create animals; first an elephant, then a tiger; the first man created was Bamonpo, he created two wives, one mikir and another assamka; they They did not give birth for a long time; then the Assamka sent her husband to her brother, who gave his wives two oranges; on the way back, while B. was swimming, the crow took one orange; the Mikir wife was left without an orange, but ate the peel and gave birth to a son Ram; the Assamka gave birth to a son Chaputi; R. was strong, C. was weak; R. found an egg, brought it, and a girl came out of it; the demons tried to steal it, but R. returned it and married her, she gave birth to many children. their descendants are Hindus; decided to build a tower to heaven; gods and demons were afraid that these giants would take the sky away from them; they mixed languages, people went in different directions]: Lyall 1909:70-72 in Mandal 2009:78-79.

Burma - Indochina. Lao (the legend about the origin of the kings of Laos) [a person with a skin disease grew and sold peppers and apples; one apple tree constantly urinated, its secretions, along with its juices, rose a tree; the king's daughter ate an apple from this tree, became pregnant, gave birth; a year later the king called all the men; everyone brings sweets and fruits from whom the boy takes, that father; the boy does not want to take anything; that man brought only lumps of cold rice; the boy wrapped his neck around his neck and began to eat rice; the king throws his daughter, the boy and his father into the river; they swam out near the apple tree, the boy's father turned beautiful young man; boy received a gong from the gods and founded a dynasty]: Bastian 1866:354-355 (retelling in Ehrenreich 1905:94-95, Frobenius 1904:253-254, Eisenstädter 1912:72-73); Thais [Sên-pom, whose face and body are covered with warts (fleshy knobs) grew fruits for sale; the makhüa tree urinated, the fruits were especially tasty; the king's daughter sees the fruit in her dream, wants the same; the maid brings her fruit from the Saint-Poma tree, she eats it, becomes pregnant, gives birth to a boy; the father calls men from whom the child will take sweets, recognizes him as his son-in-law; the boy refuses everyone, takes simple rice from S. the king gives a daughter to S., expels the couple with the baby; Indra, in the guise of a monkey, gives a drum that fulfills three wishes; S. asks to make him handsome, give gold to the city; makes a cradle out of gold, son growing up, this is the founder of the ancient capital of Thailand Ayudhya]: Phya Anuman Rajadhon 1965:133-135 (=1968:151-153); Burmese [Princess Tilasanda in Yammania refuses to deal with men , but wants to have a son; at the instigation of an ascetic, she managed to summon Tijamin, the Lord of Heaven, and he gave birth to her; after eating him, T. conceived and then gave birth to a prince named Eindakoumma ("The Descendant of Indra")]: Braginsky 1988: 221-232 (the whole story pp. 221-381).

South Asia. Ancient India (Mahabharata, Mhb.2.3; Sabhā Parva 3:17) [King Magadhi Brihadratha is married to King Kashi's twin daughters; he promised not to give preference to one wife over another; B. has no children, he asks a hermit for help; he sits under a mango tree, a fruit falls on his knees, he gives it to the king, B. brings it to his two wives, each eats half, one gives birth the left, the other right half of one boy; they are thrown away; Jarā, who eats the corpses, picks them up to eat, but accidentally connects them, and a whole living boy emerges from them; he loudly shouts, Rakshasi calls B., the child is given Jarāsamdha ("united by Jara"), he receives the throne from his father, becomes a powerful ruler and tyrant, Bhimasena kills him by breaking him in half]: Hookahs 1962:41-51; Kashmiris [the childless king receives barley grains from the fakir, gives it to his wife to eat, Sherdil is born, goes on a journey, takes a blacksmith, a carpenter, a grinder as his companions; they stop at the palace, each one takes turns cooking dinner; a diva in the form of a dwarf and then a giant takes food, beats the cook, everyone pretends to be sick and lunch is eaten by a dog; S. demands that divas took the form of a warrior, cuts him in two; leaves a grinder king, gives barley grain; if the escape dries up, we must go to the rescue; the same in the second city (S. kills the witch, puts the blacksmith king); in the third leaves a carpenter, marries a beautiful woman; finds the girl's head in a basket on a tree above the river; blood drips into water, turns into flowers; in the palace she finds a body, puts her head, the girl comes to life; it was stolen by a genie, separates his head during his absence; the girl persuades the genie to tell him where his soul is (in the west there is a tree in the desert, in front of him a dog with a pile of grass and a horse with a pile of bones; a bee in a starling, a starling in a cage, a cage on a tree; the guards will let in if you give the dog bones, horses grass); the prince kills the bee, takes the girl; her golden hair floats along the river; another king finds them sends an old woman; she persuades the princess to find out where Sh.'s strength is; in a sword, the old woman throws her into the fire, takes the princess away; friends find the body, fix the sword, revive Sh.; under the guise of a carpenter, he takes his wife away from an old woman in a flying palanquin, throws the old woman on the rocks, returns to her native kingdom]: Zographer 1976:71-80; Nepali [the hermit tells the king's two wives he cannot accept alms from childless; let the king endure art; the king has been fasting in the forest for 12 years, Vishnu gives him two apples, both wives ate and become pregnant; the second wife replaced her son with the first bar (chopping block), lowered the box river; the king told his first wife to retire to the forest; the boy was picked up by a fisherman, he grew up to become a young man Chandra Mukhi; the son from his second wife is evil; the king promises to make the receiver of whoever rides his horse on whom only a man who is fit to be king can sit down; only the World Cup succeeds; the king found out everything, expelled the midwife with his nose cut off, the first wife was returned, the second was sent to the forest; the king fell ill, he will be cured by medicine from hands of gold-haired princess Sunkeshari, let the World Cup marry her; when she steps, gold falls; her father's difficult errands must be fulfilled; the World Cup saved rats and snakes from the burning forest, sparrows from the net a birdsman; rats, snakes and sparrows promised to help; the World Cup meets, takes as companions 1) a person with an arm stretched out to grab any food; 2) a person who puts one ear under him with the other covers himself, disperses the clouds with his ears; 3) the companions stopped in the house, take turns cooking; every time a dwarf comes with a huge mustache, sweeps the cook with it, eats everything; when it's the turn of the World Cup, he grabs a dwarf by the mustache, throws it out the window; the rats made a move to the princess, she gave the World Cup grains of magic rice; Father S. tells 1) to sow the field, harvest tomorrow (the World Cup sows magic rice, it ripens immediately); 2) plant trees from all over the world (the long-armed one reaches them, brings them); 3) separate the chaff, rice and millet (the long-eared one sucks the chaff, sparrows sort the grain); the king gives S., who cures the father of the World Cup; his evil brother poisoned him, kidnapped S.; the snakes extracted the poison, the World Cup came to life; the king executed his son from his second wife, handed over the throne to the World Cup]: Sakya, Griffith 1980:70-79; Punjabians: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 41 [fakir gives for a childless raja, knock a stick off the tree first 5 mangoes, then 2, let each of the 7 wives eat one fruit; the raja throws a third time, the stick gets stuck in the tree, the mangoes return to the branches; the fakir allows second attempt; half of the mango for the youngest wife was eaten by a mouse; a half boy was born (vertically: with one hand, leg, eye, etc.); goes wandering with brothers; other Raja wives they give him sweets full of ash; but only he was able to crawl over the fence for melons and eat melons; the brothers called the owner of the melons, who tied Half to the tree, but the Half told the rope to untie caught up with the brothers; the same with the plum tree (he throws only unripe plums to his brothers); the brothers pushed him into the well, left; there he hears the conversation of a one-eyed demon, a dove and a snake; the snake: treasures under me seven kings; demon: the princess is sick because of me; dove: his droppings cure any disease; the camel driver pulled Half out of the well; under the guise of a doctor, he came to the king, cured the princess; he marries it is on it, gives half the kingdom; the brothers say that the Half is poor; he brings the treasures of the seven kings; the brothers also hide in the well, the demon ate them]: 290-297; Sheikh-Dilthey 1976 {fragments of texts in online, but the stories are clear}, No. 3 [as in Steel, Temple 1883, No. 41; half a mango was eaten by a cat], 4 [see K27zz motif; a hermit feast tells the king that his 7 wives will be able to conceive if they eat pieces of pear from his garden; his wives tell the king to hunt in the south but not on the north side; the king chases the bird of paradise, finds himself on the north side, sees Rakshasi in the guise of a beautiful woman]: 18-21, 22-32; himachali - plowmen [Raja's wife Sarla and Vimla, both childless; they decided to ask for a child from a holy man (mahatma); S. came, the mahatma ordered her to come tomorrow: he would give her fruit; when she learned about this, V. put on her clothes and received the fetus; when S. came, the deception opened and she also received the fruit; gave birth to a mare half; gave birth to a boy named Keshva, V. a girl Suhasini, a mare a foal; they grew up, K. sat on his the foal, went to get the sorceress and married her; for a day she turned him into a frog; the Raja died; the exchanger came and called himself K., but the blind gatekeeper did not unlock the gate; the mahatma told him that if if the real K. appears, he will see the light; Suhasini heard, sent a letter to K.; he read it and returned, the gatekeeper saw the light; K. began to fight enemies, his head was cut off, but he fought without a head and won, his head grew; K.'s sculptures stand in Hindu temples]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 9:40-42; Marathi [the queen is childless; the beggar said he will not accept childless alms; the king advised the wife should pour gold to the beggar and hide herself behind the door; for this deception, the beggar told the queen to remain childless; the goddess took pity on the king for his piety and offered a choice: a worthy son who did not will live a long time; blind long-liver; daughter who will become a widow as a child; the king chose the former; the goddess ordered to take an apple from a tree at Ganesha's temple and let his wife eat it; when the son was 10, uncle the mother went on a pilgrimage with him; on the way she hears the girls talking; they quarrel and one wants the other to become a widow as a child; she replies that there were no widows in their family; the uncle decides to marry her son to this to a girl; the girl is beautiful and she should just be married; and for some reason the groom did not come; in order not to miss the good day and hour, the girl was passed off as the son of the king who was just there; a goddess appeared to the girl in a dream; a snake will crawl to bite her husband; she must put out a pot of milk; the snake will crawl inside, the pot should be tied, given to the mother; when the mother opened it, the necklace in it, the mother hung it around her daughter's neck; her uncle and nephew continued their pilgrimage, and at that time the former fiancé appeared; but the girl did not recognize him because she did not see her ring on her finger; the nephew lost consciousness, When Yamaduta, the messenger of the god of Death, came to him; but his goddess drove him away and the boy came to life; they returned, the wife recognized her husband, they arrived in his homeland; since then, the newlyweds have honored the goddess Mangala Gouri]: Sheorey 1973, No. 22:103-107; kannada [the sage gave the king a magic mango, ordered him to divide it between the wives; they themselves ate the mlod and the peel by the dog; all the rani gave birth to puppies, and the dog gave birth to two girls; them they tried to take them away from the dog, but she took the children to the forest, raised them in a cave; two young men found them, married them; the eldest Big Honnie, happy, the youngest, Little Honny, tore off the pieces from the sari along the way, threw it on the ground; the dog found her and stayed with her; when she came to her eldest daughter, she beat her with a stick and told her to throw the carrion away; MX found the body on a pile of garbage, washed it, hid it in her chest; husband demands to show what's there; MX says that the gift is from the mother, opens the chest, it contains gold; the husband wants to see his wife's parents, since they are so rich; MX led her husband and his servants into the forest, wanders without purpose ; decides to commit suicide and puts his hand in the snake's hole; snake: you crushed an abscess on my head and I'm grateful; not far from here, MX will find an empty palace; the snake took the form of a man, called herself her mother's brother; he gave the visitors gold; when they left, they looked around: the palace was burning, turning to ashes; when they found out everything, BH killed a stray dog, hid it in a chest; there was a smell of corpse coming from the chest; BH says that there a gift from his mother, leads her husband to the forest, puts his hand in a snake hole, died of a bite]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 13:43-46; Bengalis [the king is childless; in a dream he was told that on a full moon he must pluck two mangoes, one to eat yourself and give the other to his wife; but only the kathal (cauldron, police prefect) was able to get the mango from the tree; when the god who came to paint his fate on the newborn's forehead came in, the maid grabbed him by the legs and made him tell him what awaits the boy; God: the boy will live only 12 days; in response to an appeal to the gods, they agreed to give the prince a long life if he is immediately married to A 20-year-old girl; but the princesses did not agree; Kotal offered to marry the prince to his daughter named Malancha, and M. herself made it a condition that the prince would live in their family; then Katala was taken under the guards, and M. was forcibly extradited; during the ceremony, a storm and fire broke out; the baby prince died in M.'s arms; the katala was executed, his daughters burned her eyes, wanted to burn her, but the fire did not take her away; the spirits revived the boy; After learning M.'s story, the tiger promised to protect it; the tigress fed the baby with her milk; {long story; M. becomes the ruler of the kingdom}]: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 3:99-115; Santals [seven wives the king is childless; the hermit tells the wives to eat mangoes, let the king eat the peel; the first child must be given to the hermit; the youngest gives birth to twins, the hermit takes them; the cattle given to them by the father die along the way; the youngest is superior to the hermit in knowledge; the hermit returns the brothers home, the youngest immediately takes him back; turns him into a horse and other animals, sells him many times; then the young man sells him, that warns not to give up bridles; the hermit refuses to tell you how to become human again, the young man learns about it from others (all wizards in the hermit's land); runs away; the hermit pursues in an image leopard; the young man turns into a dove, the hermit into a kite; the fly is a dragonfly; the fly sits on the princess's dish, the dragonfly is driven away; the hermit becomes poor, asks for rice from the tarek; the young man turns into a coral bead from the princess's necklace; a hermit asks to tear the necklace, pecks beads in the form of a chicken; a young man is a cat, kills a pigeon; becomes human, leaves, carrying the pigeon's head; head the hermit follows, the young man throws the pigeon's head into the blacksmith's horn, the hermit's head falls in the same place]: Bodding 1929, No. 70:17-37; ho [the childless raja has three wives; the brahman orders to give the eldest mango; she shared with the second, and the youngest got the peel and seed; but only the youngest gave birth; the elders replaced the baby with a broom, and the baby was thrown into a hole where the potter took clay; the baby crawled out from there into the lakes, became a lotus flower; everyone tries to get it, the flower is not given and reproaches them; the last to bring Raja's youngest wife, whom he settled in a shack; her milk immediately splashed on the petals and lotus turned into a child; the potter's pit was deepened and the two older wives were buried alive in it]: Halder 1916, No. 16:293-295; birhor [at the raja 7 rani, all childless; the brahman tells us to knock down the right number from the tree mango and let the wives eat; but only one mango fell; the wives divided it, and the youngest got only the peel; only she became pregnant; when she left, the Raja ordered him to beat the gold drum if a boy was born, and silver if a girl; a boy and a girl were born; 6 wives replaced them with a broom and a shank, and the midwife threw the children into a hole where the potter dug clay; the potter and his wife found them; the youngest wife of the Raja drove him away; the older wives saw the children and poisoned them, the potter buried them; a sycamore tree grew out of the boy's grave, and the girls grew a pinjār tree with beautiful flowers; when the Raja servant tried to pick a flower, brother with sister exchanged remarks and the pinjār tree rose into the air; the same when he tried to pluck the Raja itself; the same with each of the wounds - the tree only rises higher; then they found it, washed it, brought it to the palanquin's youngest wife; both trees turned into a boy and a girl and sat on their mother's lap; the Raja returned them triumphantly, and for the older wives they dug a well, pushed them into them and buried them]: Roy 1925, No. 13: 468-475; baiga [sadhu promises both wives a raja for a son if the Raja gives one to him; wives eat mangoes, give birth; first the raja sends the adopted young man; the sadhu threatens to kill both sons; when The real son of the Raja comes to the sadhu, the severed heads in his house advise the young man to answer every offer from the owner with a request to do everything himself; the young man cuts off the head of the sadhu; on the way home he saves cubs, the tigress gives him one; kills a snake that eats the chicks of the Rai Gidal bird nightly, which gives him one; he marries a princess; chasing a deer together; killing a snake that devours nightly birds ask them to do it themselves; with a tiger cub, a bird falls into a hole, breaks; his brother is indistinguishable from him, comes to the Raja, puts his sword between himself and his brother's wife at night; throwing it into the hole a severed little finger revives the dead; thinking that the second brother slept with his wife, the first kills him; learns the truth from his wife, she revives her second brother with live water]: Elwin 1944, No. 8:34-36; Tamils [ The childless king removed his wife, took a new one; turned to the god Paramêsvara, who gave a mango, told him to give it to his wife; the new one drank the juice, threw away the bone, gave birth to two boys; the maid heard everything, gave a seed to the first wife; she swallowed it, gave it to the maid as well; the maid also gave birth to a boy, and the first wife gave birth to a turtle; at night the son comes out of the shell and eats cooked food; the mother followed and smashed shell; son explained that he could not yet appear in his true form, ordered him to smear it with soot, keep it in a chest; P. sends Narad to give the Turtle Prince (IF) the knowledge necessary for life and reigns; the king tells his sons (he knows only two, from his second wife) to bring him a princess from the mountains in the north; the HR accompanies them under the guise of a peasant; they drink from the river, and the HR knows that this is the water that the princess washed; he carried himself across the river without getting his feet wet, and then carried the princes; the princess sees everything, marries the HR; he tells his wife everything, asks him to look for him if he does not return in 4 weeks; in elsewhere, the princess's messenger gives a cake and asks for it back with wood, leaves and oil; the IF pulls out and gives the sesame stem; it was a test, the princess marries the PC (the same as the first princess); the third princess tells travelers to write a comment on the philosophical book; PS writes, gets the princess, the brothers leaves without him; the princess teaches the PS to grab the vine, she will raise the top to the mountain princess, she must be called the mother; PSH brought the mountain princess, returned for the forgotten weapon, the brothers cut off the vine, it fell and crashed; the brothers bring the princess to the king, she asks for a delay a six-month wedding; three wives find the remains of PSH, one collects them, the other connects them, the third revives them with live water; he brings them to his mother; to find out if PS has come to life, the mountain princess demands from the king a golden lotus from across the sea (only PS can get it); PSH, still in the form of a peasant in soot, promises its brothers to get a lotus; a third wife gives pebbles: if thrown into the sea, the waters will part and behind close (so overcome the 7 seas); gave a note, the PS gave it to the Rakshasa, that king, the king tore off the lotus, sent the crocodile to carry the PS, the PS brought it to his third wife, the lotus gave it to the brothers, the mountain princess everything understood; tells me to invite the king's first wife, PS and his three wives, to the wedding; PS is regal; the mountain princess tells everything; princes are forgiven]: Natesa Sastri 1886:54-78; Tamils [ the rich man's wife is childless; sadhu: go to a garden where mangoes, guava and limes grow, pick 7 mangoes and have 7 daughters; but the woman picked 8, saw a cobra, she turned into a man with a snake crown on her head; this Nagentiran; if you commit this offense, you will die at 56; it is me who sent you here and I am the eighth mango; the seventh girl will be called Nagammal, "snake girl"; all daughters grew up and married cousins brothers, N. gave birth to a son; mantiravati (sorcerer) lived in another kingdom; he saw N. in the magic mirror and ordered bhuta to deliver it; the sorcerer and bhuta went to his wives; the sorcerer: who is more beautiful? bhuta: none of them, but N.; but it is protected by a snake; whoever touches it will burn; but it can be approached by changing its appearance; the sorcerer appeared in the form of a sadhu; turned N. into a dog and took it away in his underground chariot; the sisters' husbands rode, but the sorcerer turned them into stone; restored N.'s human appearance, but cannot touch it, she is like out of fire; N.'s son has grown up; threatens to kill himself if his aunts do not tell the truth about N. and about their husbands; they told; Nahentiran: the end of the sorcerer is near, let the young man go free his mother; gave the young man an invincible sword; the young man reached the city where the tiger is rampant; the king will give his daughter and half the kingdom to the one who would bring the tiger's tongue and the tip of its tail; the young man did it, but the laundress found out, cut off what was left, and brought it to the king; but the minister noticed that they were not the tips of his tail and tongue; then he appeared young man, received what he promised, but said that he would return for the princess and the kingdom on his way back; at the sorcerer's palace, he saw an old woman selling flowers; he lived with her and made garlands; under the guise of the flower seller studied the palace; handed the letter to his mother; she asked the sorcerer what his life was like; in a parrot in a distant cave; the young man brought it, tore it apart, as the sorcerer's dicks fell off bodies; bhutu young man killed with his sword; revived petrified ones; took the wife promised in the kingdom where he killed the tiger; when N.'s mother was 56, the snake bit her]: Blackburn 2005, No. 95; Sinhalas [7 rani childless; fruit ripened in the garden; king: the one who ate will become pregnant; six refused, the seventh ate; the king went to war, gave birth to a shell (Turbinella pyrum); other rani buried it in a pile of manure, made a figure the demon and when the king returned, they showed him; he beat and drove his wife out; the bull dug up the manure, swallowed the shell, relieved the sea, the shark swallowed the shell, caught her by a fisherman, sold that exiled wound, she found a shell, and when she left for a while, a prince was sitting in the sink; he had a small defect (hori) on his skin, he was named Horikadaya (the one with the bit of hori); he grew up, hunted, caught the heron became his friend, they hunted together; H. met another prince, horse and minister, whom the king intended to execute and they fled; they all went to get wives; the princess refused Marry the prince and married H.; then the prince, minister and horse pushed H. into the well, fell asleep, H. died; the heron left]: Parker 1914b, No. 214:152-154.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Java [the childless king of Wedarasanda is married to two sisters; a monk advises him to sit under a mango tree; the fruit falls; V.'s wives eat half, a half boy is born (each wife?) ; he is left to be eaten by a cannibal, but the halves join together, the young man becomes king of Jarasanda; he can take over the whole world if he maintains his integrity; he is placed on a meteorite, Bima separates again his]: Headley 2005b: 162-163; Sangihe Islands [everyone in the city is childless; the soothsayer tells the king to pick an orange from the tallest branch; divide the peel between the subjects, let everyone eat a piece, and Let the queen eat the flesh; the seed fell under the floor, the chicken pecked it; the cockerel gave birth, and the queen gave birth to a boy; he was very voracious; told his parents to give him clothes, swam away with the rooster; sailed to the princess, whose brother is captive; if the young man releases him, she agrees to marry him; the young man sailed to another city, where there are only one stake free around the palace; the king offers the fight of roosters: whose rooster he will win, he will kill him; the young man's rooster killed the king's seven roosters; the young man killed the king, revived the dead, freed the princess's brother, took the daughter of the murdered king with him, gave her to the freed prince and married him sister; became king in all three possessions]: Bezimer 1904:249-253; loda (Halmahera) [the woman ate the giant's mango and her dog the peel; the woman gave birth to seven sons, a dog of seven puppies; The giant demanded the seventh, Badabangisa, to be given to him; in his absence, B. freed the prisoners in his house; after taking the treasures, they all ran away; the ashes from the burning house fell on the giant, he understood everything; B.'s companions threw salt, it became the sea, the giant drank it; ash, it temporarily blinded it; forest fruits, the giant was entangled by thorny vines; millet, the giant stopped to pick it up; B. asked the giant calling him father that it was on his body; he replied that his life was there; B. hit this place, the giant died; people made B. king]: Van Baarda, p.394 in Dixon 1916:236-237.

The Balkans. Serbs [the dervish gives the childless king an apple: let the queen eat him and the peel be eaten by a mare; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not love her stepson, hears him talking to the foal ; pretends to be sick, tells her husband to slaughter the foal; he tells the young man to ask permission to ride for the last time, pull three hairs out of his mane, jumps over a locked gate, jumps away; does not advise the young man raises the pen, but he raises it; refuses to give the pen to the vizier, gives it to the king; the vizier becomes the enemy of the young man, invites the king to send him for the bird itself; the horse advises to lure the bird into the cage with pearlescent beads; the bird sings while he thinks that the young man has caught it for himself; when he finds out what is for the king, he falls silent; the vizier: let Ora bring this bird; the young man asks for a ship, two daughters of a vizier and 12 maids similar to each other; now the vizier says that the bird does not have Ora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think that they have the same maid, but in fact every day is different; the young man tells the maids to pour into eating poison, on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were dying; the ship entered the harbor, the vizier's daughters complained to the cadia, but could not determine which of the 12 maids was to blame, died; the young man left the maids in the city, swam on; gave food to the herons, flies fighting for food, they promised to help; he comes to Oram, who promise to let the owner of the bird go with him if he separates oats from barley and revives dead fish ( flies separate, the heron brings living water from across the sea); when Ora came to the king, the bird sang, grabbed its feather, both (the bird and Ora) flew away; the young man told the vizier that his daughters were sick and died; the vizier advises to send the young man to pick up the mares Kjühelane; the horses identified the horse as their young man, followed him; the king orders to milk the mares, boil the milk - let the young man bathe in it; for a short time, mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and vizier rushed after them, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: Lambertz 1952:91-106; Bosnians [a childless man has gone on a journey; the person he meets gave him an apple; the peel must be given to a mare and a dog, and the rest should be eaten in half with his wife; the wife gave birth to twin boys, a mare of two foals, a dog of two puppies; when the parents died, the brothers each took their own horse and dog and went to the world; at the fork there is an inscription: a person who walks along the upper road for five years will not see the world, and those who walk on the left road will not see the world for three years years; the one who walked along the top came to the lake, on the pole there is an inscription: if you enter the water, you will regret it, but if you do not enter, you will also regret it; he came in; after that he, the horse and the dog became golden; the young man stopped at the king , the princess saw him, fell in love, the young man married her; after the wedding went hunting; chased a deer, drove to the castle; the girl in the castle offers to play checkers: if the young man wins, he will get a deer, and if she gets his dog; he won, but suddenly someone sang, he turned around, the girl changed checkers and won; then he lost his horse and himself, was thrown into prison; the other brother also drove across that lake, he was mistaken for the first; he was cold with the princess, also went hunting in the morning, got to the same castle, kept his eyes on the board, played his brother's dog and horse, himself and the girl herself; I wanted to kill my brother out of jealousy, but the girl did not allow me to go home; I found out at home that my wife remained faithful; my second brother married that girl]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 46:246-251; Albanians [dervish gives An apple to the childless king: let the queen eat it and the mare eat the peel; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not love her stepson, hears him talking to the foal; pretends to be sick, tells the husband should slaughter the foal; he tells the young man to ask permission to ride for the last time, pull three hairs out of his mane, jumps over a locked gate, jumps away; he does not advise the young man to pick up his pen, but he raises; refuses to give the pen to the vizier, gives it to the king; the vizier becomes the enemy of the young man, invites the king to send him for the bird itself; the horse advises to lure the bird into the cage with mother-of-pearl beads; the bird sings while he thinks that the young man has caught it for himself; when he finds out what is for the king, he falls silent; the vizier: let Oru bring this bird; the young man asks for a ship, two daughters of the vizier and 12 maids similar to each other; Now the vizier says that the bird does not have Ora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think that they have the same maid, but in fact every day is different; the young man tells the maids to pour poison into the food on the 12th day the vizier's daughters were dying; the ship entered the harbor, the vizier's daughters complained to the cadia, but could not determine which of the 12 maids was to blame, died; the young man left the maids in the city and sailed on; the distance of food to the herons and flies fighting over food, they promised to help; he comes to Oram, who promise to let the owner of the bird go with him if he separates oats from barley and revives dead fish (flies separate, heron brings living water from across the sea); when Ora came to the king, the bird sang, grabbed its feather, both (the bird and Ora) flew away; the young man told the vizier that his daughters were sick and dead; the vizier advises sending the young man for the Kjühelane mares; the horses identified their young man in the horse, followed him; the king orders to milk the mares, boil the milk - let the young man bathe in it; for a short time the mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and vizier followed, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: Lambertz 1952:91-106; Greeks: Schmidt 1877, No. 14 [Helios, taking the form of a monk, gave an apple to a childless woman; if she eats, he would give birth; but the child would spend half of each year with him; Maroula was born; when she grew up, G. reminded his mother of her promise , and then took his daughter; one day he hears M. crying, agrees to let her go to her mother; asks the deer what he will eat on the way when M. suffers; he replies that M. will eat; the same second deer; the third will eat grass; the mother does not believe the animals at first when they say that M. is back; G.: I only wanted M. to love his family more]: 104-106; Schmidt 1877, No. 23 (Zakynthos) [the king sailed to journey, ended up on lion island; lions won, but many warriors fell in battle; the king and his companions came to the garden, where there is only one spring with málama (some metal other than gold and silver) the other with gold, the third with pearls; they collected treasures, went to the lake; it spoke; the seven-headed serpent king will soon wake up; so that he does not swallow them right away, let them lay out the way with clothes - the serpent loves crawl on the soft; the serpent let the arrivals go, but ordered him to send him 12 girls and 12 boys to eat every year; the queen is childless; the nun gave birth to an apple, the queen gave birth to a son, and the mare gave birth to seeds foal; he became the prince's horse; when his parents died and the boy was 19 years old, the horse told him to go to the cave in which the monastery was; the abbess (she was that nun) explained where to find a sword to kill snake; the young man cut off seven heads; everything is fine]: 115-116; Moldovans [the hermit gives the childless queen grapes, she conceives a son; the king hunts, falls into the fortress a line; he releases king, when the king promises to give what he does not know at home; son Dafin has grown up, the hell takes him away; D. learns the language of birds from him; overheard the birds talking, they say that the unfortunate Arap has been drawing water from him for 180 years a bottomless well, where Vestra, stolen by the devil, bathes; old man A. teaches D. to steal the clothes of bathing V., run without looking back; A. blesses their marriage, gets rid of the punishment of the devil, disappears; hell I agree to let D. and V. go if D. 1) plows the field to the horizon in a day, harvests, bakes bread (V. orders the demons); 2) shoot a hare in the garden a line (this is the devil himself, V. drives in the form of a hound him, D. hits him, his wife asks to give the devil to fry him, in the evening the devil is bruised); 3) identify among hundreds of girls (tears in V.'s eyes); hell puts D. and V. in prison, they fly away in midges, sends the devil demons in pursuit, V. turns himself into a garden, D. into a gardener; 2) a wheat field and a reaper; 3) a duck and a river; the devil tries to drink water, bursts; D. and V. come to live with their parents D.]: Botezat 1981:293-300; Bulgarians [twin brothers expelled by their stepmother; learn to hunt, hunt for helper animals: hares, lions, bears, foxes; or brothers are born after their mother has eaten 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, the brothers leave a knife under a tree or stone: if it rust, the owner is in trouble; the first brother marries on the princess (who saves from lamia); when she goes to the Forbidden Mountain, the witch turns him and his animals into stones; the second brother, seeing rust on the knife, goes to look for the first one; his wife accepts him for his husband; at night he puts his sword on bed; makes the sorceress revive the petrified; when he learns that his second brother slept with 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 [after eating 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 give birth to a mistress and a maid; a woman gives birth to two sons, a mare of two foals, a dog of two puppies; brothers (either the mistress's son and the maid's son) go on a journey; after leaving, they leave signs (stick knives, etc.) who will be able to 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 takes victory for himself; the hero ( after his animals revive him with live water) returns when the wedding takes place, presents royal tongues or gifts, marries her; the impostor is executed; the hero meets a sorceress, turned her in stone; 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 him on the bed; kills a sorceress, revives his brother and his animals]: Krzyż anowski 1962, No. 300:81; Russians (Vyatskaya, Sarapulsky district, d. Bygi) [The glorious Tsar Rakit Timofeyevich and his wife Tykva Timofeyevna live in the Sabur Kingdom; they have no children. In another realm, a famous magician. King Rakit goes to him for an apple, which his wife will eat. The magician tells him to give half an apple to his wife and hold the other. Two sons will be born, the first one must be given to him. The queen gives birth to a son, a year later she gives birth to her second. The first one grows for 15 years and is called Falcon (S.). His father sends him to a magician. In the forest, S. stumbles, falls, falls asleep until morning; so three times. He comes to the hut on chicken legs, tells him to stand in front of him, and back to the forest. In the hut, a beautiful woman (taken by the wizard from the king, trained in magic) warns that the wizard will bring a glass of rum. You can't drink, otherwise you'll eat it, I must say: "I'm not here to walk or feast, but to work." There'll be a lake on the way Twelve cabbage rolls will arrive, undress, become girls, they look the same, including her - she will begin to spread her wings on the shore. When the girls start swimming, let her sit on her dress. S. does it all. Eleven girls put on their dresses and fly away, the twelfth stays. S. kisses her and gives her dress. Girl: If the magician gives errands, let him turn to her; turn into a pigeon, fly away. S. comes to the magician, who sits in a chair. "Lackey servants! Lift my eyelids out of my eyes with an iron pitchfork: I need to see who's here." The servants raise their eyelids, the thorn opens. The magician recognizes S., tells him to bring rum, S. refuses. The magician tells us to build a bridge across the sea overnight. The girl tells her to take off her pants before going to bed. The bridge is ready in the morning The magician tells us to ride around his horse, he is fierce and ferocious. The girl gives S. an iron rod, tells him to go to bed with his pants off, and quilt the horse with a rod in the morning. The falcon hits the horse, he kneels, S. continues to beat, locks him in the stable, and goes to spend the night with the girl. The horse is a magician himself. In the morning S. comes to him, he groans in pain. His servants lift his eyelids with an iron pitchfork. He says he will now marry S. and he has 12 pigeon brides. Girl: A fly will sit on her forehead. The next day, a mare (she will throw back her back leg). The magician invites S. and his fiancée to celebrate their wedding the next day. Girl: He'll eat us, we gotta run. They spit in all corners in the hut and go out. In the morning, the servants tell them to get ready for the wedding, drool that they are going to; they dress; etc. The magician looks at the black book: S. and the bride ran away. Sends a chase. The girl wraps herself in a well, S. wraps herself in a scoop. Those sent drink water and come back. For the second time, a cow and a shepherd, the shepherd replies that he just woke up and did not see anyone. The magician goes by himself, the earth trembles. The girl by the lake makes herself a duck, and S. makes herself a drake. The wizard raises his eyelids, recognizes them, drinks all the water, the duck and the drake fly away. The magician throws thick smoke on them, the girl disperses him with a headwind. The wizard gnashes his teeth like Satan in the underworld, stays at the bottom of the lake, the duck and the drake fly to Father S., become human, get married]: Vereshchagin 2002, No. 12:36-40; (cf. Russians (Moscow) [author's tale]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 51:113-134); Western Western Ukrainians (Bukovina, St. Kitsman, Chernivtsi region) [The emperor doesn't have children. He is worried and goes hunting to forget himself. One day she sees a house with a middle-aged woman in it. When asked by the emperor, she says that her children have gone all over the world. The emperor replies that he has no children and that he cannot live without them. The woman says she knows a healer who has every potion, but she needs a lot of money. The emperor gives a handful of gold and promises more when a child is born. The woman tells me to come in a year and goes to the healer. She replies that there is an apple tree in the imperial garden, and it has six apples, three low and three taller. They must be ripped off and let the emperor's wife eat them. A woman goes to that garden, picks apples, puts them in her bosom, but decides she'll eat them herself. He eats three and throws three to the mare. Less than a year later, she gives birth to a boy with golden hair, and a mare gives birth to a skate with a golden mane and tail. The emperor arrives, looks at the handsome boy, asks whose he is. The woman says it's hers. He asks where his son is. The woman explains that, according to the healer, the emperor's wife is important and needs a potion from three years ago. The emperor tells him to send him a boy when he grows up and has golden hair to live in the palace. My son is already big three years later. His mother sends him to the capital with his skate. The young man lives in the imperial chambers, walks in the garden, and everyone loves him. The emperor does not want another son, tells the young man to call him father, since he does not have his own father, promises to hand over the throne after his death. When the emperor and his army go to war, the wife finds a lover. The guy sees it all and walks sad. The lover persuades the Empress to get him out of the light. He promises that when a gold-haired man sits on his bed, he'll turn to dust. The guy goes to the stable to his skate. He asks why he's not happy. He replies that the emperor's wife is lying to him with a crappy man. The horse tells about the danger waiting for the owner, tells him not to sit on the bed. The young man throws his clothes on the bed, they turn to ashes. The next time, the skate tells you to take an armful of firewood when the door is opened, throw it at the door, not open the door yourself. The wood turns into a pile of ash. The Empress and lover can't figure out how to kill a guy. Meanwhile, the emperor, having defeated the king, returns. The lover invites the Empress to scratch her face, go to bed and moan, and when the emperor comes in and asks what's wrong with her, say that the guy beat her. That's what she does. The emperor promises to hang the boy tomorrow and tells three torturers to prepare a gallows. When a gold-haired man is brought under a noose, he asks the emperor for permission to say goodbye to his skate. The emperor wants him to be brought in. Ten soldiers go to the stall but die from horse hooves. A hundred soldiers go, then a thousand - the same. The gold-haired man asks permission to go by himself. He sits on a horse, jumps to the gallows. She announces that she never hit the Empress, she scratched herself because she has a lover, and he, the young man, knew about it. The horse takes off and carries the young man through the air for three days, and on the fourth he says that there is another state under them. There, the horse says he must leave the owner, but let him whistle three times and he will fly in. The guy makes a pipe, comes to the capital, walks the streets and plays. The king of that state has three beautiful daughters. They hear a pipe, the older one comes out and asks why he plays so sad, he doesn't answer, the middle one doesn't answer either, the youngest asks why he's so handsome and his pipe plays so sadly. He replies that she can play more fun if she gives him her own ring. The girl gives him a ring, takes his hand and leads him to the palace. A few days later, the pipe plays cheerfully at their wedding]: Ivasyuk 1973:122-126; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Dubensky y.) [summary of the fairy tale from Mikhail Krivoshapkin's manuscript "About Volyn and Minsk Polesie" (1898-1899): Ivan the merchant's son "was born after a merchant ate half of an apple given by a desert; from the other half an apple was born to a mare's foal Khudko; his mother and lover want to kill Ivan three times, but the horse saves him; they are fleeing, and the old man he meets gave Ivan a sword, a mace and a bear, and he asked Ivan push him into the hole. Lykhody (mother's lover) was frightened of the bear and went to the daw; Ivan is sent across the mountains of fire to the tank for two apples; the old woman on the way gave him a rosary, a white dog, sacred water and a handkerchief, and On the way back, she changed his apples; the bear remained in the garden; Ivan's houses were hacked down, his bones were tied to his horse's tail, and the horse was let in. An old woman in the forest revived Ivan, gave him those two apples and two bears; the bear tore the rooster that the villain turned to; Ivan bent over a tall birch tree and tied his mother to the top by the braids"]: Zelenin 1914, No. 12:295-296.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [lived a great sultan; and what did he not have in the palace? everything except bird's milk; but no children; the sultan went on a journey; the old man gave an apple: eat a third yourself, a third your wife, a third a mare; a son will be born, no one but me should know him name; after the birth of a son, the people are indignant: why is the boy not given a name; at the last moment, the dervish came, gave the name Shash-Smail; slapped the boy on the back: let your back not bow before the power of people"; The foal was called Hamer-tai; "let the bird of heaven not catch up with you"; the sultan kept his son locked up in the yard for 18 years; SHS fell ill, the reason is unclear; drunks offer to let him go to them - he will tell everything; SHS saw Guluzar-khanim in a dream; the messengers returned, but did not find G.; then the SS sat on his G. and went to search himself; came to the palace of beautiful Gulberi; she is in grief: her 7 brothers went to war, not returned; the SS destroyed the enemies, the brothers gave him G., but the SS did not touch her; left, promising to return in a year; an arap in the desert: my master lacks only one human head to to complete the fortress; the SS defeated the enemy, who took off his clothes, the beautiful Guzel-Batyr was in front of him; the SS wanted to part with her too, but she went with him for Gulbery; the old woman says that she is getting married today ; Guluzar agrees, they are fleeing; at rest, the SS falls asleep on Gulberi's lap, and Guluzar fights with the army pursuing them; when Gulteri saw that her two brothers were killed, Gulteri shed a tear, and the SS woke up; At this time, the enemy has already been destroyed; on the way home, the SS also captured the sister of seven brothers and began to live at home with three wives; but SS's father fell in love with Guluzar himself; she has an all-seeing mirror: her father dug a hole for the SS fell into it; the next time the father offered poison, but the wife told the SHS to eat only what her dog would try; the third time the father invited his son to play chess; the loser would allow himself to be tied up; SHS tore the ropes easily; Father: Whose is your strength? SS: in the little finger of his right hand; the father bandaged his little finger, the SS became weaker than the child; the father ordered him to be blinded and thrown into a well in the desert; Guluzar destroys the soldiers sent for her; SS hears a conversation in the well birds: if you touch my eyes with my pen, the blind man will see the light; they drop his pen; SHS saw the light, untied his little finger, got out of the well, destroyed his father's army; his father was executed, the SS met his wives and ascended the throne]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 8:92-108; Crimean Tatars [a childless padishah, taking a vizier, goes to wander; they are dressed as dervishes; at the source, a real dervish turns to the padishah; he knows who says and what the padishah does; gives an apple: eat it yourself, and give the peel to the mare; but do not give my son a name until I come and name him; a boy and a foal were born; children call sheikhzade "nameless bay"; the teacher says that he will not be able to learn it in this world, he needs a abode underground; the padishah ordered the basement to be dug, tells him to feed the boy boneless meat; when the boy is 12 years old, there was a bone in the meat; he threw it into the glass ceiling, which crashed, the boy began to catch sunlight without success; the teacher agrees to take the boy out of the basement; he sees the rider, tells the teacher to tell his father so that he too They gave a horse, a peregrine falcon and a greyhound; a boy of 15 years old; a dervish enters: the name of Sheikhzade is Shah Ismail, the horse is Kamer Tai; she hunts with companions of her age; she is chasing a gazelle, she disappeared into the tent and turned out to be a girl; SHEA lost consciousness; an old woman living with a girl tells her to run her chest over the young man's face so that he can be saved; SHI and Gulizar fall in love; he gave her a ring, she is a precious comb for him; SHEA dries from love, one of the young men tells the padishah from meeting G.; she is the daughter of bey nomads; padishah and bey agreed to marry; but G.'s mother did not agree, migrated with her daughter towards India; Bey jumps to catch up them; the vizier offered to arrange for SHI to choose a bride: let all the girls of Kandahar come, and all the men stay at home; but G. no; Shea jumps in search; the palace without doors, Shea broke the wall, came in; there he cries Peri Gulperi; her brothers are fighting the devas; Shea hacked all the devas; the brothers gave him Gulperi, but he put a sword between himself and his wife on the bed; when they learn that SHEA was looking for a lover, the brothers report that saw Arap passing by with bloody hands; SHI reached Arapa Yuzengi's palace, saw pilaf cooked on blood; AYU offers to fight and then eat; one Ayu lip on the ground, the other on Mount Kesheesh; AYU hit SHEA so that his mother's milk flowed from his nose; SHEA knocked down AYU, was going to slaughter him, but she turned out to be a beautiful girl; she goes with SHI to find Gulizar; stayed with an old woman; she says The Shah of India marries his son to the daughter of bey of the nomads; arranged a date between Shi and Gulizar; while they are sleeping, AYU killed the attacking army; together with the three girls she received, SHI returned home; Ayu feels dangerous, says ask them to be accommodated in a separate palace; SHI's mother was jealous, telling the padishah to kill their son; when he saw the girls, the padishah also wanted them for himself; AYU gives a stone that identifies the poison; then the vizier offered to play with SHI in chess, the loser will be tied; Shea won three times and then deliberately lost; admits that his bow's bowstring holds him in this world; he was tied, his eyes were pulled out, his right pocket was put in his left pocket and the left to the right; AYU pretends that they agree to marry the padishah, asks for 100 concubines - she will send jewelry; sends a bag with the severed heads of concubines; smashes the army of the padishah; SHI in The doves hear the doves talking in the desert: let's throw them on the feather, if SHEA rubs his eyes with them, he will see the light; SHEA put his eyes in, but the hangman did not put them as SHEA asked; his appearance has changed; he became a padishah's warrior; fights against AYU; the padishah praises him, lets him take his horse and weapon; Shea takes his horse and his sword Zulfikar, comes to his wives, they recognize him; Oh, cut off the head of the padishah; funeral and wedding; they have achieved their goal, may Allah help you as well]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 84; Kabardian people [childless pshi goes on a journey to find a way to have a son; he gives him four apples: his wife will give birth four sons, let him give one to him; in four months the wife gave birth to four sons; the other took one; he went into the stable, the horse hit him, and the other time the boy saddled the horse, beating him with dogwood sticks; the boy asks the boy to release his two brothers, captured by other pigs; he did it easily; he sent him to his parents, on the way he got his wife]: Sokolov, Broydo 1936 : 100-106 (=Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977:87-91); Abkhazians: Bgazhba 2002 [=Shakryl 1975, No. 38:189-204; a stranger gives the childless king to eat an apple in half with his wife for promising to send him one of three sons who will be born; younger Safa Saaja agrees to go; traces lead to the bottom of the sea; the rider puts the SS on his mule, transports; the old woman tells him to rush to another, call him mother; the other now cannot eat it; when the six daughters of that Ajnysh (the devil) arrive to swim in doves, and the seventh eagle throws off their feathers, hide the eagle's clothes; Ajnysh tells 1) eat the bull (the wife gives a handkerchief run over your lips - hungry again); 2) grow a plane tree out of a stick (teaches you how to water); a young man and his wife run away on a black and white horse, Ajnysh chases on a fiery horse; it turns into a chapel, the prince in fence; Ajnysh did not recognize them; the girl's mother jumps, she throws 1) water from the flask (river), 2) cobs (thick corn) 3) nuts (mountains); the mother tells her daughter to turn into a frog; she tells the prince to wait she is three years old; he is wrong for three days, he is married to another girl; the frog lives with an old woman, gives her gold, the rumor spreads; the new wife pretends to be sick, tells him to kill the frog; she has been burned, the bone remained, fell into the water, became a goldfish; it was caught, eaten, the fin fell, the tree grew; it was cut down, burned, the sliver fell to the old woman, she brought it home, the sliver became a girl; a new wife expelled, the real one returned]: 186-197; Khashba, Kukba 1935 (Western 1933) [=Shakryl 1975, No. 30:153-161; in winter, the princess sees two apples on the apple tree; she knocked down both, one was carried away by the river; the princess ate the first apple in half with her husband, the second by the mill and her husband, both women became pregnant and they gave birth to a boy; the prince's son cries all the time, the parents sent the children to throw him away; they were met by a miller, said that his baby was also crying; as soon as the children were near, they stopped crying and began to cry to play; the miller gave his prince; the young men asked them to make two iron balls; threw the balls up, they fell to their knees three days later, crashed; then asked them to make two golden balls; they fell over 10 days and only bent; the young men went on a journey; at the fork, the younger Pycha went to the left, and Pycha to the right; if blood drips from the tip of the sword, then the owner was in trouble; P. came to the dead city, the inhabitants were eaten by a giant, only the old woman hid in the stove; P. and the giant grabbed each other and put them in the ground; P. - waist-deep, jumped out, put the giant up to the neck, cut off his head; but in place of one head two grew up, then three; the old woman sprinkled ash on her necks, then the giant died; P. promised the giant's sister to marry her on the way back; defeated seven hero brothers and also promised to marry their sister; in the forest An old woman came to the fire, asked to tie her horse and dog, then swallowed both them and P.; it was an aroupap (witch); K. followed his brother's footsteps, both women mistook him for P., he asked them to wait; his the horse and dog began to beat and bite the aroupap, she had to spew the swallowed ones intact, then K. cut off her head; P. heard a voice, went looking; old man: this is the voice of a girl you can't do; but P. decided to achieve it; old man: an arap is tied at her iron gate, he cannot answer; P. and the girl fought checkers for 64 years; finally P. defeated her; she gave him a ring; P. answered the arap, he fell off from the chain, they began to fight; bird: tear out the gate, under it there is a chest, there is a bird in it, a piece of paper in it, the soul of an arapa in it; P. tore a piece of paper, the arap died; on the way home, P. captured two other women and a brother; K. I chose a sister of 7 brothers; she asked to bring her younger 6-year-old brother; he was stronger than P., but gave him his sister; they both came to three sisters, the 6-year-old fought them for 120 years, won, took younger; feast; whoever listens to a fairy tale turns right - he will have wealth, turn to the left - there will be a lot of money]: 1-12; Abaza [bearded rider on a rooster gives the childless Prince Kalmurza three apples, his three wives eat them, give birth to sons named Mhamat, Mhamatmyrza, Mhamatbi (younger); K. promises to give one to the rider; children are almost indistinguishable, but the youngest is the strongest and most dexterous; the rider is not the rooster takes it; the old woman tells him not to drive under the iron gate (they will cut it), push the rider himself into the cauldron and cook; the horse tells not to take gold, but to pull a wineskin over his head, go to the village; M. tells the old woman that his name is Old Burdyuk (SB); the khan's two eldest daughters laugh at him, the youngest brings apples, notices golden hair under her wineskin; sisters choose suitors by throwing a ball at them; the eldest marries the prince, the middle to the Agmyst, the youngest to the SB; they are accommodated in a chicken coop; in the evenings, the SB burns the horse's hair, he appears, people marvel at the horseman; the prince will cure yogurt from reindeer milk; The SB milks all the deer, gives them to the other two sons-in-law, stigmatizes them; the prince likes the youngest daughter's yogurt the most; the daughter explains that the chicken manure is in her because they live in the chicken coop; their they move to a stable; the same with horse manure; the Security Council steals a princely herd; gives it to sons-in-law, putting new stamps; at a feast, the Security Council tells its story, opens, shows stamps on other sons-in-law; receives half of the prince's property, returns with his wife to his parents]: Tugov 1985, No. 35:83-91; Ossetians: Sokayeva 2012, No. 2 [a childless man's dog broke his leg; Uastyrdzhi gives an apple, tells him to eat in half with his wife; three sons will be born, the dog will be cured, one son must be sent to him; sons grow up, the eldest is drawn by lot; W. tells him to bring a soul from the gorge instead of his own; young man kills a deer, the mother of seven giants swallows it, the dog comes home; the middle son goes the same; the youngest throws this giant hair not at the dog, but into the fire, her giant spindle is not on the gun, but into the river; the giantess begins to overcome, but the dog grabs her heel; the giantess belches the swallowed brothers, they (brothers and dog?) tore it apart; the youngest took her meat to W.; the brothers are jealous of the younger, put their sword in front of the entrance to the gazebo, raised the alarm, the youngest ran out, the sword cut off his legs; they come blind and armless; a leaf fell, putting it to his feet and eyes, everyone recovered and saw the light; the youngest returned home, killed his brothers, healed with his wife], 4 [Aldar has 7 wives, all infertile; his brother promises to kill his wives after Aldar's death, pick up the cattle; Aldar drove the cattle over the fence, brought thorns to the fence, set it on fire, the smoke rose to the sky; God sent the crow to find out what kind of smoke was, it began to bite manure and carrion; sent a falcon, which stayed with the crow; sent a tit; the snake asked her to show her tongue, pulled it out; sent a swallow, which flew to Aldar; Aldar told me everything, said that he was now burning his cattle so that his brother would not get them; God sent Aldar an apple for his wives to eat; the youngest wife washed the plates and gave it to the dog; that same evening, 7 wives and a dog gave birth to a boy; the dog's son crawled up to the cow to suck milk; 3 days later, three survived boy: the elder Mohammed, the younger Syrdon and the Son of the Dog, Temirkhan; the brothers grew up, came to the house of three seven-headed giants; at night the brothers sleep, T. guards instead of them, then in turn, cuts off his head black, red, white giant rider; every time his horse snores on the bridge, and the giant says they have no rivals except T. the dog's son, but his milk on his lips is not dry yet; T. takes gives a white horse for himself, black and red to his brothers; the wives of the giants agree; the eldest: let the murderer petrify, his salvation will be a white lamb; medium: I will become a cave in the heat; youngest: I will become a cave with water; T. knows this, does not allow his brothers to enter the cave, cuts it, bleeds; does not allow water to drink; the village becomes stony after talking about the lamb; the father found the lamb, T. came to life; T. killed the hare, went to collect brushwood, the hare came to life, says that he is the daughter of Aldar, offers to catch up with him; T. goes from one shepherd Aldar to another; Aldar has grief: Chenda Aldar captured his two sons; T. killed him, returned sons; T. received his youngest daughter Aldar; she teaches her father to ask his father for a braid handle, a piece of leather, a plate; Aldar gives (leather: flying carpet, plate: magic tablecloth); I. and his wife flew home, split off chips from the handle of the braid, a house appeared; everything is fine]: 19-22, 46-54; Terek Cossacks (art. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar has 12 wives, but has no children; he sends Elder Pirigrim on a trip around the kingdom to find out what to do; the elder listens outside the window of a village house to what the girls are talking about; first: "If I went out getting married, I would sew all the shirts for my husband - shirts like there are no shirts in the whole kingdom"; second: "I would embroider all the carpets"; third: "I would write all the papers..."; youngest: "If I get married, I will give birth to 12 sons"; king takes the youngest as his wife; she cannot give birth; sends the old man to the market, tells him to buy from the first person he meets what he will carry; the old man buys apples; the queen cuts one of them in half; one half She eats herself, gives the other to the king; then gives birth to a son, Mohammedan Magometanovich; the king leaves, leaves the general for himself; he takes care of the queen; MM reproaches her; the servants say: "Your father has it sworn horse, Black Whirl: he has been underground for thirty years, on 12 iron chains, behind 12 iron doors, on 12 iron locks"; MM spends the horse; the witch advises the general that the queen fed MM bread baked in snake fat; the horse warns of danger; MM gives bread to dogs, tears them apart; the witch advises giving MM herbal tea; the horse anticipates trouble, tells them to give MM herbal tea MM do not drink; MM breaks the glass; the general brings a red shirt from the witch to give MM in front of the bath; horse: "When you wear it, you will turn to ashes... But if you take an iron pitchfork, raise it in my right An eyelid and look: there is a red shirt in one corner - take it and hide it in your pocket"; in the bath, MM wears the shirt received from the horse, not the one given by his mother; the king returns home; the queen pretends to be sick; says that she will recover if the heart and liver of the Black Whirlwind are fried for her; the king orders the horse to be killed; MM asks to be allowed to ride for the last time; sits on a horse, flies away; they find themselves in the kingdom of Bartholomew; the horse tells them to wear pistons and old clothes picked up along the way, pour a potion out B.'s window, from which mosquitoes will appear (there are no mosquitoes in Kingdom B.), stand by the window and answer the same thing: "I don't know, he was"; MM follows his instructions; V. makes him first an assistant cook (MM eats meat there), then a yard worker (MM ties the reins to the horse's tail, pulls them, rips off the horse's skin), and then as a gardener; another king declares war to Tsar V.; V.'s youngest daughter tells her father to consult with MM; MM replies: "I don't know, it will be so"; V. plants him into prison; MM breaks down the wall, changes clothes, flies on horseback to the battlefield, defeats the enemy, returns; V. arranges a feast to recognize and reward the hero who saved him; youngest daughter asks if this is not a gardener; V. comes to prison, recognizes MM as a hero; MM asks to give his youngest daughter for him; V. sets a condition: to recognize her among the rest of his daughters; the horse arrives in the form of a fly, warns MM that she will sit on the forehead of the youngest princess; MM identifies her among the six royal daughters; receives the princess and half the kingdom]: Butova 1889, No. 4:141-156; Nogais [khan sees how the servant's son helped him; mourns that he is childless; the old man gives an apple to eat in half with his wife and give the other to a mare and stallion; Ismail and the heroic horse Myasir are born; I. fell in love, but the girl's father took her away; I. killed a diva, who intends to take another girl, her brothers give her to I.; defeated an Arab hero, got his sister; takes away the bride, whom they are going to pass off as another; I.'s father wants to kill him in order to take possession of him his three wives; I. says he can't tear only his bow's bowstring; his father tells him to steal a bow, I. is bound, blinded, thrown in the mountains; he hears two pigeons talking: if you dip their feathers in a spring and run through the eye sockets, you'll see the light; pigeons leave feathers, I. heals; tells an Arab wife to hack his father; becomes a khan]: Nogai 1979, No. 14:65-75; Stavropol Turkmens [khan is childless; wife tells him to go to the steppe; there the dervish gives the apple to eat in half with his wife: two sons will be born, the youngest, when the boys are 14 years old, must be sent to him; 14 years later, the dervish took the boy away; sent him in gold a palace where you have to take the box and bring it to him; do not respond to temptations and threats; if the young man takes something else or talks to someone, they will both die; but on the way back, the young man picked up a golden apple and immediately found himself in a dungeon covered with people's bones; in that box there was a candle, he lit it, 12 girls appeared; they fulfilled their wishes; one gave an inexhaustible purse; the young man began to live richly in the city; went to the forbidden royal garden, where he had fun with the girls; the vizier spied; gave him wine, took the box, told the nukers to take the young man to the steppe and kill him; they felt sorry for him, brought his shirt moistened with eagle blood; The vizier decided to show the box to the king; the nukers came out, beat everyone, killed some; when they left, they put out the candle; the king ordered to find the prince, gave the box and purse, and gave him a daughter; but the young man does not need a princess; Twelve girls were given a golden apple, told them to go get it; it led to the golden palace; the princess was sent back to her father (the apple rolled again, she followed it); 12 peri, their former maidens, came out; they said that the young man's brother died soon, and the dervish drowned out of grief; the younger Peri was intended to marry the young man, it was her maid who helped him; the divas took the young man and wife to his father, who handed him the throne]: A. K. 1875, No. 6:33-40; Kumyks [dervish gives the childless khan an apple, let his wife, mare, dog eat, each bring twins; one boy, stallion and puppy must be given to the dervish; the eldest was named Arslan Khan, the youngest by Batyr Khan; the dervish takes A. away; at the source, the skull teaches: this is a black maiden, you must pretend that you can't do anything; let him show how bread is baked; push the maiden into the oven and pour it oil; having killed the maiden, A. rides his horse and with the dog; the counter tells him to put his finger into the stream when he meets; A. took out a splinter to the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed a snake that crawled to the eagle's nest, she gave eagle; dipped his finger, it turned gold; poured that water on a lion cub, an eagle, a dog; after releasing the animals and wearing a hat, A. hired a gardener for the khan; knitted the bouquet with his golden hair; the younger princess saw , understood who the worker was; the sisters sent her father three apples, rotten, half rotten, ripe; vizier: it's time for daughters to marry; khan ordered daughters to throw an apple at passing men; the elders threw the vizier at the sons , the youngest of the worker; the khan lodged them in a collapsed hut; the khan fell ill, they needed reindeer meat; A. sat on a nag, then took on his true form, summoned an eagle, killed a deer, poisoned some of the meat; gave it to the elders sons-in-law, for this he stamped the youngest of them; the khan scolded his older sons-in-law for bitter meat, and he liked what A. brought; bring lion's milk; the same (A. poisoned the milk in one wineskin) a seal on the back of his elder son-in-law; A. Khan recovered from milk; enemies attacked, A. defeated them, said that his older sons-in-law were his slaves, showed seals; Batyr Khan followed in his brother's footsteps; received a lion cub, an eagle, drenched himself in gold water; A.'s wife mistook him for her husband, but B. beat her; when A. arrived, she accused him; A. caught up with B. and killed him, then repented; saw one mouse kill another, and then revived grass; A. revived her brother with it; everything is fine]: Barsov 1882, No. 1:121-128; Avars [the old man tells the childless khan to eat an apple with his wife, send his son to him at the age of 18; on the way, the woman tells him the young man should hide the clothes of a white dove; first 40 blacks arrive to swim, he hides his white clothes; these are the daughters of that old man; the named one carries out his father's errands for the young man: to make a lot of dishes, silver a castle, a horse with golden harness; identify the wife among her sisters with her eyes closed (she warns that she will take off one earring); the spouses run, the wife turns her husband into a cart, herself a driver; into a gardener and cucumber; into a shell collector and the sea; this time the mother is chasing, telling her daughter to be the sea for seven years; the young man collects gold shells from the bottom; marries; seven years later he meets his real wife, goes to her]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 100-106; (=Khalilov 1965, No. 41:94-99); Lucky [an apple fell on the royal roof during the rain; the queen ate it in half with her husband, gave birth to 40 boys; the tsar was frightened and ordered leave them behind the mountain; later he returned, 40 young men named him father, asked him to marry 40 sisters; the king put on iron boots, took a steel stick, went to look for brides; the father of 40 daughters met them also with an iron stick and iron boots; the father and 39 sons went to pick up the brides, and the youngest Susuna stayed at home; S. to his father: when snakes fall from the sky and stone rain, it still does not stop; but when the stones fell, the young insisted on spending the night; at night they were surrounded by a ring of snakes, demanded their younger brother S.; tells S. to get the daughter of the overseas king; S. meets, takes companions shooting birds into the sky, drinking and spewing the sea; the king orders 1) to overtake the old woman; the shooter ran, fired an arrow in the old woman's back and overtook; 2) climb a tree with a full bowl and go down without splashing; S. completed the task, but from the top of the tree he saw his mother in mourning for him, dropped a tear; but the king was convinced that it was not water; 3) spend the night in the iron room; the king ordered to breed there was fire around, but the water bread spewed the water and cooled the room; the princess did not want to see the snake; the shepherd advised to ask the snake for a sword in a felt sheath as a reward; S. cut this sword by a snake; half turned to a dog, the other into a pig, they began to chase each other; S. received two wives: a princess and a former bride]: Omar-ogly 1868:52-58 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 51:137-142); Dargins: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1) [the one-eyed man promises the childless khan the birth of three sons if he gives one to him; gives an apple, the peel should be fed to the mare, the core of the dog, who will also bring three foals, three puppies; only the youngest the son agrees to go to the one-eyed man; each time he asks him to show him how to do something; pushes him into the tarum (to bake bread); frees the kidnapped daughter of the khan, sends her to her father, promising return for it; on the way, pulls out a splinter from a lion, kills a snake that regularly devours eagle chicks; the eagle arrives with its wings raising the wind, the rain its tears; gives the young man one eagle to help; after changing clothes and hiring a gardener, asks the khan's bathing daughters to comb their hair; the youngest gives it, he leaves his golden hair on it; the gardener tells the khan to give rotten, half-rotten, fresh apples (symbols of daughters of different ages); Khan's daughters throw apples at their chosen ones, the youngest chooses a poor gardener; he smashes twice in his true form with the help of a horse, dog and eagle enemies; the khan is sick, he will be cured by lion meat, the lioness gives the young man one of the lion cubs, the right half is poisonous; older sons-in-law buy meat for the stigma on the buttock; the khan drives his older sons-in-law with poisonous meat, greets the younger one; he appears in true form, shows his stigmas on his older sons-in-law, making them slaves; lives with his wife; goes to visit his father; goes to Shirim-Shahir, whom people come to turn to stone; his brother comes for him (on the way he puts his sword on his bed, sleeping with his wives), his words pity the SHH, all the stones are disgraced; all brothers marry: the first plays unplayed (when he was a gardener) wedding, second at school, third for one-eyed daughter]: 401-413; Khalilov 1965 [], No. 35:68-70; Lezgins [Daglar is childless; the old man gave an apple to eat in half with his wife; if a boy is born, let Sharvili will be called if the girl is Suvar; the born son Sh. is incredibly strong; he easily killed an angry bull, a huge snake, a huge wolf, blocked the river with a dam]: Ganiyeva 2011b, 12:163-165; tatas [ merchants give an old woman, and that childless rich man three apples, the wife must eat, give the peel to the mare; three sons and three horses are born; when he dies, the rich man hides horses and wealth under the ground; the younger brother hears how people reproach his mother for disgracing the name of her deceased husband, living in poverty and doing menial work; asking him to bake lavash, pressing his mother's hands to her hot tone, his mother giving the keys to the dungeons; the brothers dress up nicely, the elder, then the middle one, leave and disappear; the youngest comes to the padishah, whose daughter will die if she is not given chamois milk; the shepherd chamois lives over the mountains, who guard one-, two- and three-headed ajdaha; a young man kills the first ajdah, kills a three-headed snake, frees the brothers from its belly; kills the second ajdah, three brothers kill the third together; the shepherd gives chamois milk and two daughters to marry older brothers; on the way back they become padishahs of two cities who suffered from Azhdah; they defeat Padishah Chimechin, to whom their wives were first promised; younger brother brings chamois milk, marries]: Kukulla 1974, No. 17:150-173; Georgians: Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 2 (Imereti) [the tsar places his daughter and nanny on the island; they eat the rolled apple, the daughter gives birth to a son named Hvtisavar, nanny - 8 smart puppies; the king orders them to be executed, the servants kill hares instead; H. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and nanny to their house; the ninth was only wounded, becomes a lover of mother H., they come up with difficult tasks for X.; 1) get the horn of a dangerous deer, 2) boar stubble, 3) a hawk feather; they themselves give, promise help (H. kills a snake that intends devour the chicks of a giant hawk); mother and giant close X. in a cauldron, thrown into the sea; a deer, a boar, a hawk release him; H. kills his mother, a giant, a nanny; a young man equal in strength becomes his sister; at the fork goes to the left (you will find happiness), H. goes to the right (you won't come back); H. jumped across the river on horseback, for which he got a princess; in the forest, an old woman turns H. and his four dogs into stones, swallows them; her brother cuts her stomach, swallowed dead; she tells her to take a towel from the box in the corner of her belly, wipe X. and the dogs that come to life; her sister kills her; H. and his wife come back home]: 17-27; Chikovani 1954 (Kartley) [the wife of a childless blacksmith caught three apples from the river, ate it with her husband, gave birth to three sons; each flies to heaven after baptism; their names are Evening, Midnight, Dawn {at text: Ivan-Vecherny, -Midnight, -Zarya}; the king has lost three daughters; the grandmother of the blacksmith's wife says that only his three sons could find them; the brothers stay with their mother for the night and see each other for the first time friend; only Dawn saw a deva taking the girls away; Dawn met an iron giant (Iron Man); but even he could not climb the mountain where Dev; Dawn climbed himself; consistently drives him into land, defeats 7-, 9-, 12-headed devas, holding three sisters in a copper, silver, golden house; Dawn takes the youngest for himself, the elders for the brothers; Dawn lowered the girls down the mountain, after which Iron broke the chain and took them away; the bride had time to shout where the deva's horse was hidden; Dawn rode home on it; hired a blacksmith; her younger sister did not have a ring, she gave it to Dawn; during weddings Dawn beats brothers, drives Iron into the ground; marries a younger princess], No. 1:15-21; Megrelians: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 35 [dev gives the king an apple from childlessness for half of what he will be born; takes the eldest of two sons; the old woman teaches him to rush from the maiden into the river, enter the house, take a horse and a dog; on the advice of a horse, the young man pulls a lamb's stomach over his head, is hired as a gardener; the king's youngest daughter sees young man when he washes his hair; advises sisters to stick a knife in ripe, ripe and green watermelons, send them to their father; the king convenes suitors; the elders choose Nazir and Wazir, the youngest gardener; the king's wife got sick, asks for 1) hare meat; the gardener, with the help of his horse and dog, catches hares, sells them to older sons-in-law for their earlobes cut off; 2) reindeer milk (the same, sons-in-law let the horse kick on buttocks); the gardener, taking on his true form, smashes enemies, cuts his hand, the king bandaged, recognized his handkerchief; older sons-in-law are made servants of the younger; when hunting, the young man is swallowed by a cannibal, shackling a horse and dog; poplar falls at home, younger brother goes to look for the elder, everything repeats with him, the daughter-in-law thinks it is the husband, but he puts a sword between them; does not put his hair and strains the cannibal on the horse, dog, sword, cuts off the cannibal's wart, swallowed comes out bald; the cannibal's blood grows hair, the chains on the horse and dog fall; the elder brother returns to his wife, the youngest to his parents]: 114-128; Mashurko 1904, No. 1 [nine brothers buy a plot of land and go there to work; the sister is told that they will throw garlic heads on the way; an old Mdevi picks up garlic and scatters it on the way to her house; Hungry and unable to find their sister at home, the brothers come to Mdevi, her sons defeat them, lock them in a barn to eat at the festival; God sends the Raven to find out why the mother of the missing is crying; the crow promises to tell God if an old woman gives her eye; tells God that she is crying for a murdered child; the same with the second eye; God sends a Dove, who tells the truth; God curses the Raven, with the Dove sends the old woman a handkerchief to wipe her eyes and see the light, an apple, to conceive a son; he becomes a giant, hears from his playmates that he had brothers and sister; comes to Mdevi, fights; the severed head of the younger monster grows back, the bird tells you to sprinkle ash on the wound; so the hero kills all the mdevis, frees his brothers and sister; the brothers offer to race, provoking the hero to step on the carpet that closes the hole; the hero falls at the well, the daughter of the underground king cries next to him, who is given to be eaten by a dragon who has closed the water; the hero falls asleep, wakes up to a beauty that has dripped in tears, kills a dragon with an arrow; a grateful king puts the hero on an eagle along with a load of meat; there is not enough meat, the hero cuts him off from his own leg, on the ground an eagle heals him; the hero returns to his mother, does not take revenge brothers]: 1-6; Stepanov 1898, No. 1 [=Virsaladze 1973, No. 21:62-65, names in corrected transcription; the childless king got lost hunting, fell asleep in the forest; in the morning he saw a hairy and fanged creature; the man who came up asked not to be afraid, gave an apple for the queen, and before the son's baptism, to say his name Mula; a piece of apple was eaten by a maid, the peel was eaten by a dog; the queen and the maid gave birth to boys, like two drops of water, the dog called a puppy; Mulu was called at baptism; he named the prince after Messiah, the son of a maid named Kiko, the dog Caracachi; Messiah predestined to rule over animals and the forest; once There was a pestilence, only Messiah, Kiko and Caracachi survived; M. and K. gave birth to invisible mesepis who own animals; one year, mesepi men wander and it rains, and the other year women, the weather is clear; mesepis hunt and, after killing an animal, eat meat, and revive bones and skin again; only such animals can become the prey of hunters; the more in mesepi, the fewer predatory animals in the forest]: 62-65; Armenians: Ganalanyan 1965 [a dervish gives a childless old woman three apples, tells her to eat them for three days; she eats them right away, gives birth to a bull; he asks to marry the royal daughter; performs tasks: create a golden tray with gold, unsewn dress, bring the bride home so that her head does not see the sun, her legs do not touch the ground; at night he becomes handsome; the wife burns a bull's skin; the husband turns into a dove, flies away; the wife follows, turns into a dove, finds her husband at the bottom of the sea, happy with him there]: 66-71; Gullakian 1983, No. 303 [the childless king ate an apple given to him by a dervish, he had two sons; one of them took the dervish away, wanted to destroy him, the young man killed him; chased the doe, which turned into a girl; the old woman turned the young man into stone; the twin brother followed his path, turned the old woman into stone, freed brother]: 16-17; Nazinyan 2014 [the dervish tells the childless king to eat an apple in half with the queen, two sons will be born, one must be given to him; gives them the names Nazar and Kazar; N. grows up, the dervish takes N.; leads to rock, reads prayers, the rock opens, N. must take an old candlestick from there, not touch the gold; N. also took coins, the rock collapsed, N. got out, and the dervish died; N. stops at the caravanserai, discovers that the candlestick produces gold; the Beauty Girl opens her face for 1,000 coins; promises to marry N. if he goes 1) to Izmir and finds out why Abraham Aga's horse eats flints; N. takes with A. a promise to fulfill the request, otherwise he will not eat with him; he has to tell him everything; his wife was picky, but he found her hugging the watchman in the hayloft; he covered them himself so as not to freeze; his wife hit him with a pipe, turning him into a stray dog; the priest's daughter guessed it, stole the phone, restored A. to his human appearance, and he turned the watchman into a donkey and his wife into a horse; when the donkey died, the horse became to fight, since then A. has been feeding him with flint; 2) in Kayseri - why does Majnum-Khoja, going up to the minaret, say, "There they are, thank Allah", and when he descends, groans; M. says that the peri doves raised him to heaven, alone became his wife on the condition that he would not groan; one day she groans with homesickness; King Peri forgives him and lets him visit the house on the condition that M. does not say anything there; M. let it slip; when he climbed the minaret, saw his family in the sky and said, "There they are," his wife accused him of breaking the word, disappeared with the children; he went down and groaned; 3) to Kars - why did he fulfill the order, the master every time he returns the money to make sabers and breaks his sword; when he got married, he went to make money, was away for 20 years; when he returned, he saw a rich house and his wife and young boy in it; hacked both, but it turned out that the guy is his son; every time the Beauty Girl asks if Nazar still wants to marry her; giving in to his request, he comes with him to his father; everything is fine]: 82-93 (in in another translation =1959:106-119); Azerbaijanis [Ahmed and Mammad are merchants and friends; they saw an apple in the spring, ate it in half with their wives, A. had a son Ibrahim, M. had a daughter, they agreed to marry children; A. died, M. moved to another city; mother tells I. that he has a name in another city; I. came to his uncle, who said he was ready to give his daughter for him, but she was a freak; I. persists; at the wedding sees a beautiful woman; leaves - he only needs his daughter M.; when he finds out that his wife is beautiful, happy; M. gave I. his belt; the diva rushed to take it away, was killed; the diva's brother with three heads; while he was swimming, the bird took his belt away; I. went to look for the bird; his wife put on his clothes, returned to his mother and became a merchant under the guise of I.; the old woman tells I. that his belt was taken away by a seven-winged witch; the fire must be extinguished under his cauldron, it will go out if you knock down the only apple on the apple tree; I. does this, the witch asks to defeat her enemy, the white diva; her lower lip sweeps the ground, the upper lip scratches the sky; I. killed the diva, the witch gave him a belt, he returned to his wife {the paraphrase omits the adventures of I.'s wife and how I. killed the diva and saved the girl he had kidnapped}]: Tahmasib 1964:3-33 (=Nabiev 1988:163-164); Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 17 [an elderly childless peasant gives an arap an apple, tells him to eat it in half with his wife; he eats one, a donkey head falls out of his ass; he buries it, drowns it, she returns; asks marry the padishah's daughter; builds a palace overnight; left with his wife, turns into a young man; the maid spies, he disappears; the sultan asks her father to build a bathhouse, let everyone come there to wash for free, but with a story about disasters; Keloglan, clinging to the tail of a wood-loaded donkey, follows two lumberjacks that have grown together; hides in an underground room; Donkey Head enters, swims in the pool, turns into a young man; a dove arrives, bathes, turns into a girl, tries in vain to cheer the young man; in the morning both take on their former appearance; K. talks about this to the Sultan, brings him to that room; her husband tells her that he was captured by the daughter of the padishah of birds; the young man burns his skin; sits with his wife in a cage with sharp protrusions; the daughter of the padishah of birds and all her bird army die on thorns; the sultan returns husband]: 48-54; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 3 [an apple tree in the garden of a childless padishah of Egypt brings one apple a year; the old man tells him to eat it in half with his wife and feed the peel to the mare; not give a name to his son, old man He will name it himself; they laugh at the boy - "nameless"; parents arrange a party to give a name; an old man comes, gives the name Hüznügüzel ("beautiful in soul"), and the one born at the same time The foal is called Altai; then the old man disappeared, it was Hizir; H. dreamed of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (SCZHM) three times and fell ill with love; his father tells him that he himself had been looking for her for 12 years unsuccessfully; gives his sword; sitting on his horse, H. went on a journey; met Padishah Moray's son, who offered to go together; the same was the son of Padishah Stars; they stayed in the land of the Padishah Arabs; their guards they threaten, H. cut off their ears, sent them to call the PA; he sent 300 warriors, H. cut off their ears again; the PA came by himself, passed off his three daughters; H. put his sword between the younger princess and himself; if he will return without getting the SKZHM, marry this princess; left his sword; if he has three drops of blood on it, immediately inform his brothers; H. comes to Hizir; here he sends him to the SKZHM palace; from the other side the glow is the light from one of her hair that hangs from the window; Heather gave a magic sword, and her father's told her to leave it; to enter the palace, you need to notice the place, walk around the palace three times and then hit the to this place, the door will open; H. spent a week with the SCFM, went hunting; but the image of the SCJM prevents him from aiming; the SCJM gives his hair to pull the image; once the hair was blown away by the wind into Padishah's garden Giants; then, when the SKZHM was swimming in the sea, she took away one of her sandals; the witch promised to get SKZHM; pulled goatskin over a clay pot, sat down and flew, pretending to be a hunchback, persuaded H. to take her into the house; persuaded the SCJM to find out what her husband's life was like; he was in the mirror; the witch broke the mirror, but nothing happened; the same in a broom (the witch burned her); in a sword; the witch threw it at sea; H. huddled in convulsions, and the witch in her pot carried the SKZHM to the Padishah of the Giants; there are three blood stains on the sword left; the son of Padishah Stars determines by the stars where H., the son of Padishah Moray, got the sword from the bottom, H. came to life; came to the land of giants, exchanged clothes with the shepherd; entered the SCZHM, killed Padishah the Giants when he entered her after the wedding; in the morning H. was mistaken for a younger padishah; SKZHM leaves the vizier the keys; just do not unlock the closet (the body of the padishah is cut in it); H. killed the old woman, took his shah's clothes from the shepherd; the body of the victim was found, the vizier leads the army in pursuit; H. with his SKZHM beaten, sent the vizier back; taking the youngest daughter of Padishah Arabs, H. returned to Egypt with his two wives]: 34-54; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 8 [dervish tells the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife, the wife will give birth to twins, one dervish will take for herself; Mirza Mahmood goes with the dervish, Ismail stays with the padishah; the dervish tells MM to take a lamp from the cave, not to take gold; he takes it, manages to jump out, the door slams shut, the dervish dies; MM lives with an old woman; the lamp creates gold; to see Princess Dunya-Guzal's little finger, you have to pay ten gold; MM pays thousands , she wants to get married in order to see her face for a month; she tells me 1) to find out why Useini-Kösa feeds his horse with sea pebbles in Istanbul; he tells how his wife cheated on him with an arap, turned him into a dog; the neighbor's daughter takes W.'s wife's whip, turns him back into a man; he turns the arap into a donkey, his wife into a horse, he eats pebbles, flies to Tehran in an hour; 2) why does a blacksmith break his swords in Baghdad; that went to work for 15 years, returned, mistook his son for his wife's new husband, hacked both; 3) why does the mullah cry in Telavi when he comes down from the minaret; the three sisters of the Peri flew to the minaret with doves, they took the mullah as the youngest's husband; their father ordered him not to breathe at home; he violated the ban, he was returned, his wife flew back; MM married DG]: 108-117; Rudenko 1970, No. 42 [padishah and vizier - brothers, childless; the prophet Ali gave each an apple to eat in half with his wife; they agreed to marry children if they were of different sexes; the vizier had a son; the vizier soon died; the vizier's son asked him for a daughter, but the padishah demanded gold; the vizier's son came to the cave, Ahmad Khan, who lived in it, defeated him, but made him a sister; went to get his bride; seeing blood on his sword, the vizier's son went to help; A.'s bride taught the guards to drink a sleepy potion, cut off their heads, release A.; the girl's father's army attacked, he was defeated, but the girl accidentally killed A.; stabbed to death in his grave; Ali them revived, married, padishah gave his daughter to the son of a vizier]: 99-103; Talyshi: Asatryan 2005 [Yemeni merchant Khoja Nasyr fraternized in Isfahan with Khoja Sefi, who bought his goods; both are childless; they saw An apple in the pond, they ate it, agreed to marry children if one had a son and the other had a daughter; HN had a son, Memmed; when HN went to his brother, he was taken away by a cannibal; his goods were returned to his wife; M. grew up, his mother gave him his father's goods; he came to Isfahan; HS sold his goods, gave him money and married his daughter Esna; they stopped in the forest, M. got lost, he was carried away by an ogre; the cannibal's daughter was taken to him fell in love; they ran away; while the second wife was sleeping, M. got lost again, trying to catch the eagle that took away his first wife's necklace; Esna changed into M. (she and M. descended from the same apple and looked alike), left a maid instead; False M. returned home, King Ismail appointed him a military leader, he defeated his enemies; King I. gave his daughter for him; False. opened to the princess; M. found gold, met the cannibal's daughter again, found the necklace taken away, returned home, married three wives]: 51-61; Bayramalibekov 1894 [the dervish gave the childless king an apple with the condition is to call his son Shahzade-Ahmed when he is 7 years old, send him to Mekteb to study, and after another 7 years he will take him away for two years; when the dervish came, the king appointed him his first vizier]: 18-19.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Rosenfeld 1956 [the dervish gives the childless padishah an apple to eat in half with his wife; a son Jehantig is born, the dervish ties a diamond dagger to him in which his soul; D. grew up, discovered a forbidden room, there is a portrait of a girl with 40 braids, he goes to look for her; meets her, takes the Stargazer and the Sailor as companions; the dragon has closed the water, gives it for the girls, the Shah's daughter is intended to be eaten; D. kills the dragon, gets the princess, gives it to the Stargazer; in another city he kills ferocious lions, gives the received princess to the sailor; at Mount Kaf sees petrified people trying to get the princess; hits with an arrow at a cat, around whose neck the keys, petrified, come to life; the girls sweep the yard with their eyelashes, D. gives them brooms; kills the divas guarding the sleep of a girl with 40 braids; takes her as his wife, lives in a palace; another shah- zade wants to take her away; the old woman persuades D.'s wife to find out what his soul is wearing; throws a knife into the sea, D.'s body into the well; the Stargazer sees that the star D. is clouded; they come with the Sailor, he comes to life; D. kills the old woman and the kidnapper; everything is fine]: 175-185; Osmanov 1987 153-163 [the dervish gives three Shah's wives an apple along with the seeds they have planted; I forgot to eat one pole; each gave birth, but had a forgotten child, Nimekun ("half"); the brothers went to buy firewood, N. followed him; he was tied to a tree, leaving him to die; he uprooted the tree and brought his mother to make a spit for barbecue; next time they pushed it into a hole and crushed it with a stove; N. picked it up and brought it to the palace; the brothers went to Mazandaran, there is a shah of divas, he does not pay tribute to their father; on the way, the shepherds offer them to separate goats - brothers cannot; camels - the same; the old woman offers to eat the Turi trough - they cannot; when the brothers approach, the Shah asks his daughters how they eat carrots; fruits in the garden (quietly, carefully); the brothers were thrown into prison; N. rode a rooster; scattered goats and camels, ate turya, greedily ate carrots and fruits; killed the diva, freed the brothers, but burned their seat with a seal; ordered the Shahsky tell the daughters where the treasury is; the brothers lowered him into the hole to leave him there, but he quietly sat in an empty chest; the brothers said that they killed the Shah diva; N. left the chest, the shah handed him the throne; two Diva N. gave his daughters to his brothers, took the third for himself], 267-278 [the dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; a son was born, but he is breathless; the same dervish tells him to make a hole in his sword, which fell out of the womb with the child and hang the sword around the boy's neck; he came to life, and if the sword was removed, he lost consciousness; the boy was named Jantig ("life by the sword"); he grew up and was given the keys to all gardens except one; he broke the door, in that garden there was a portrait of beautiful Chelgis ("forty braids"); D. followed her; he was joined by Minutochetr and the Stargazer, who also want to marry C.; to meet a girl with a boy; every day, the dragon demands one young man to eat, otherwise it does not give water, the girl hopes to appease the dragon with food; D. cut the dragon, a dove flew out of it; the impostors tried to attribute the feat to themselves, but the girl smeared D. with her hand soaked in dragon blood and identified him; D. married the girl to the Stargazer and went on with Minutochet; elsewhere, ships carrying grain from across the sea die; this one since the only son of the padishah should be on the ship; D. sailed himself, the dragon appeared from the sea, D. cut it, the dove flew out; D. married Minutochet to the daughter of the padishah, went on; the man invited him to lunch; his mother was C.'s nurse; the old woman will tell C.'s secret, if she is not heard, otherwise she will become petrified; D. overhears the old woman talking alone; you have to climb a tree, throw 7 dates to seven divas, those they will eat and fall asleep; C. in the ear of one of the divas; you have to throw a lollipop, C. will come out to pick it up; D. grabbed C., they jump away, D. gives C. an armful of swords (as the old woman taught), they turned into a mountain of swords; then salt is a mountain of salt; the divas cut themselves, their wounds were eaten away by salt, they died, only the White Div continues to chase; a jug of water is the sea and a rock with a cave; D. advises the diva to stick her head into the cave - then will fly up; instead, the divas fell, drowned; C. washed his hair, two hairs fell into the well, D. did not pick it up; from the well they sailed to the padishah's garden; he smelled C., sent the old woman to pick her up; the old woman became to serve C., found out the mystery of the sword, threw her sword into the well, brought C. to the padishah; she demands to postpone the wedding for 40 days - a time of mourning; the Stargazer sees that the star D. goes out, goes with Minutochet to search; they took the sword out of the well, brought D. back, he came to life; killed the old woman, took C.; she gave Minutochet and Stargazer her hair - if you want to eat, they create any fruit they wanted; D. brought C. to to her father; she warns that his father wants to kill D.: there will be a trap pit covered with a carpet, poisoned tea and pilaf; D. jumped over the carpet, changed dishes, his father died himself; D. reigned]; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 18 (Jews of Isfahan) []: 97-103; Persians [the padishah has 40 wives and 40 mares, but all are sterile; the dervish gives an apple: let his wives eat half and the other mares eat; in a year let him give one a child and one foal; a year later he took the foal and the girl {it is clear from the future that the horse and the girl are already grown}; the dervish is gone; the horse: follow him; the dead are suspended from the ceiling of the building; the horse tells him to run; in the city - to change into a man's dress, gives hairs to summon him; while hunting, the padishah's son made friends with an imaginary young man; his mother feels that it is a girl; shah-zade sees a snake wrapped around around sleeping; mother: these are braids, not a snake; the wedding is being prepared, she leaves for a while; the dervish replaces the correspondence between son and mother, the last order is to throw the bride into the fire; she burns her hair, the horse takes her; shah-zade found a dervish and executed her; the girl's horse turns into a palace, one ear into musicians, the other into singers; shah-zade met his fiancée, everything is fine]: Osmanov 1987:163-167; Persians: Lorimer 1919, No. 18 (Kerman) [The childless king goes to the desert; the dervish gives him an apple for each wife; three wives eat a whole apple, the fourth half, the other is carried away by a crow; a daughter is born, two sons and half boy Nim Tanak; he and his mother are kept with the servants; the divas carry the princess; the king sends an army led by the eldest son; divas: what does the leader of the army do? wife: drinks water; how? slowly down his sips; the diva laughs, easily defeats the prince, hangs him in the cave by the hair; the same with the middle son (hangs by the eyelashes); NT goes to the diva alone; drinks water from the stream along with the mud, eats grapes in clusters along with leaves and stems; the divas does not dare to go to battle; NT cuts them in half, the divas asks to finish them off, sister: do not hit, after the second blow, the divas will come to life; NT returns the brothers and sister, made heir]: 108-112; Marzolph 1984, No. 303 (Khorasan, Hamadan, Mazendaran) [the queen is childless; after eating the apple given by the dervish, she gives birth to twins; the dervish demands one for herself; the young man leaves, leaving a knife or other object that his brother will determine if he is in trouble; the young man kills an evil dervish, washes his hair with magic water, it turns gold; then various episodes; second brother sees that the first trouble comes to the rescue; in the version from Hamadan (Elwell-Sutton, Coll. IvB: 376-575) a young man goes to look for the princess whose portrait he saw; turned into stone; the second brother kills the dervish, disagrees the first]: 64-65; Bakhtiyars [the childless husband of seven wives leaves at home; at the crossroads he meets a dervish; he gives seven apples for seven wives; six eat an apple each, the youngest half, the other is eaten by a sheep; all have given birth to sons, the youngest Taling (half), aka One-legged; the elder brother goes with a caravan; a long beard crawls out of the ground by the cave, then the divas himself; he chained the young man, threw him into a cave where the kidnapped beauty and other prisoners; the same with each of five brothers; when T. began to fight the diva, he called God, cut off the wonder's head, his head rolled into the cave; T. followed her and freed the prisoners; the brothers envy T.; they descend into the abyss for chests with treasures, intending to cut the rope, lifting it back; T. heard them negotiate and hid in the chest; at home tells us how it happened; brothers are ashamed]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 38:251- 255; Tajiks [Kalandar gave the childless poor man two apples for him and his wife; she would give birth to two boys, let him give one; when the boy grew up, the kalandar took him away; he tried to run away from him, I came across a human head; the head is a diva, he has 40 rooms in which people are imprisoned, and a forty-legged pot in which he roasts them in oil; he will offer to sweep the soot from the boiler and push them there; it is necessary outwit him; the boy pretended not to know how to sweep the soot, the diva stood by himself, the boy pushed him into the cauldron; the cat had 40 keys around his neck, the boy unlocked all the rooms with them, released the people overgrown with hair, shared wealth between them and returned home]: Amonov 196:274-275; Tajiks [the man gave the childless padishah and vizier an apple each, both had sons; they were kept in a dungeon; once a horse punched a hole with her hoof; the padishah showed his son, whose name is Sultanmahmad Mirzo, the entire palace, except for one room; SM broke the constipation and found a book with a portrait of beautiful Bibiruzbi there; fell in love, went in search; the son of the vizier is with him; the dragon tries to eat the black woman, the SM killed the dragon; the black woman promised to serve the SM; he pulled a splinter out of the lion's paw, the lion gave him a lion cub; they stayed with an old woman; at night half of the city illuminated; this is the light on behalf of Bibiruzbi; the old woman married SM to her son and he was hired as a groom for a padishah; B. asked him to be a gardener; fell in love, they came together; the maid also wants love, but SM refused ; then she reported to the padishah; SM is captured; the padishah tells him to play chess: SM will either receive B. and the throne, or be hanged; SM won, did not take the throne, but asked B.; the padishah ordered him to hang, but the jailers they just put him in prison; B. found him, released them all; 4 padishahs attacked them; SM let a black woman and a lion on them, they defeated their enemies; the padishah asked for forgiveness; SM brought B. home; his father wants him kill and sends poisoned clothes, a horse, tries to strike; Knight Zahrak does not allow the SM to touch the poison, deflects the padishah's hand; the padishah is killed, the SM reigns]: Niyazmukhamedov 1945:66-82; Munjan people [the tsar has two sons with his beloved wife, one from an unloved one; before his death, he orders him to guard his grave for three days; the eldest, middle sons see a cloud and fire at midnight, run away in horror; the youngest is ready shoot, the divas asks not to do this: he owes his father three horses, gives hairs to summon them; the other king has no children, the malang gives him an apple, three daughters will be born, one must be given to him; the daughters have grown up the king will give them for someone who at gallop rips off a goat attached to the top of the wall; the younger prince on a magic horse fulfills the condition, takes all three princesses, gives the elders to the brothers, and takes the youngest for himself; the Malang stole her; the prince goes to look; his sister, who has married a diva, advises not to go; on Kone-Cloud, the prince takes his wife, but the Malang catches up and takes it away again; Saint Khizr: there is a foal in his cell, to him give nuts, raisins and cheese, dragon guards - tail fat; chase again; prince's horse advises the Malang horse to throw off that - the prince will feed them raisins and cheese; the prince and his wife return to their brothers and brings his sister stolen by the diva]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 23:243-249; Yazgulyam [the old man gives an apple to a childless old man, tells him to eat it in half with his wife; a boy named Zolimsho, father, was born keeps him in the dungeon; once he saw the light of the sun, wanted to see the world; the king's daughter promises to marry someone who had not yet seen the world; the maid immediately fell in love, but the king married Z. his daughter; the maid dug a hole with needles, Z. went to get water, fell into it and died; the princess cried two buckets of tears to experiment with Z.; at the funeral she tore her necklace and scattered her beads; while they were being collected, she stabbed herself; the king refused to bury her next to her husband, but at night the graves are next to her; that old man came, brought Z. and his wife out of Mognila alive; Z.'s parents went blind; Z. and his wife came to them, they saw the light]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 36:337-341; Sarykoltsy [a childless person sees a pomegranate in the river, takes it; a dragon comes out, gives two grenades, let his wife, a mare, a dog eat them; a son, a foal, a puppy must be sent to him; then all three give birth again, these people can keep for themselves; Joneyhair is born; after finding out what is going on, he rides a horse and a dog to the river; the dragon orders to get the princess; wins, takes the Ice Bear as an assistant , Fiery Beast, Shooter Beast, Shovel-Bearer; does not crush ants, their king gives his mustache to summon it on occasion; the same with mice; the princess's father offers tests; 1) sit in a cold house ( The fire-bearer warms, 2) in a hot house (the Ice Maker cools down), 3) turn the forest into arable land (the Lopatonbearer performs), 4) collect millet scattered across the field (ants collect); 5) bring firewood on the donkey (witch turned into a donkey, then became a bird, flew away with firewood, but the Shooter hit her, she became a donkey again); mice gnaw through the wall into the princess's room; she warns that her father will put his horse against J.'s horse, the dog against his dog, tells him to cut the iron deck with a wooden ax; gives a bunch of his hair, they help cut it; the horse and dog J. win; the king gives his daughter; sends after the old woman, to turn J. into a donkey; J. changed the potion, eaten by an old woman and a dragon, and became donkeys]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 27:273-285; the Yagnobes [Kalandar gives the king three apples, even if each of the three wives he will eat, he will come for the youngest son; all gave birth, the sons grew up, the calandar did not take the eldest, middle, took the youngest; he kicked the skull on the way; the skull told how the calandar pushed him into the cauldron, ate, advised him to push the calandar; after killing him, the boy unlocked the doors and freed the prisoners]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 22:122; the baluchi [the dervish gives the childless king an apple; the king's wife eats it, gives birth to a dead boy; Azrail takes him away, revives his name is Janteg; D. takes Stargazer, Water scholar, Buzlangs named Grandfather Gargashang (DG) as his sister; the dragon has closed the water, the king's daughter is led to be eaten; D. lets himself be swallowed, immediately cuts the dragon in half with a sword; gives the girl to the Stargazer; DG destroys enemies, the princess gets a Water expert; DG brings D. to the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin, that marries; another king sends an old woman; she encourages his wife to ask D. where his soul is; in a sword; the old woman takes the girl in a flying chest, throws the sword into the river; the brothers take out a sword, revive D., the one with with the help of DG, he returns his wife; finds his father]: Zarubin 1932, No. 10:121-133; Pashtuns [Aslam Khan does not have a son; the beggar gives his wife a stick, tells him to knock down 60 apples from the tree, let him eat one with her husband, and the rest can be given to others; the king was born Fateh Khan, the vizier had a son Purdil Khan and a daughter Bibi Rabiya, concubine A. gave birth to Karam Khan; the rest of the courtiers also had sons; BR decided in the future pass off as F.; the children grew up; one day young men saw women coming for water; F. and K. stoned their jugs; the women complained to A.; he advised them to go get water with leather wineskins; but the boys they pierced their wineskins with arrows; A. was angry with his son and did not talk to him when he came; F. and all his companions left their hometown, BR went with F.; they are fighting Shamsutdin's warriors ; first brother BR dies, then others, then K., finally F.; out of respect for the heroes, S. leaves his country BR, she takes the kingdom]: Lebedev 1955:93-112; Turkmens [the padishah has 40 wives, no children; two heroes are sent far to the sage; he promises that the 40th wife, the slave Guljemal, will give birth to two sons; when the padishah lies down with her, the dervish enters and tells him to eat an apple in half with his wife, one son after giving him; G. gives birth to two glowing boys; the father hides them in an underground crypt; after 13 years, the dervish comes, plays the dutar, the boys go out to him, he takes the youngest; parrots they tell him that it is a dev, he will push him into a boiling pot; the boy confronts the deva himself; comes to the plane tree, where the black dragon devours the Simurg chicks every year; kills the dragon, Simurg gives him a few feathers; takes a splinter out of the tiger's paw, he gives hairs; the young man pulls his stomach over his head, hires a gardener in front of the Shah's three daughters; asks them to comb their hair, the elders drive him away, the youngest gives; when she gets back, she sees silver and gold hair on him; the padishah convenes the people, tells the daughters to throw a stone at whoever they like; the eldest marries the son of a vizier, the middle for a son vekilya, the youngest for the pleshivets; they are placed in a barn; the sick padishah asks for keik meat; when hunting, tigers and simurgs drive all the keyiks to the pleshivtsa; the other two son-in-law receive meat, for which the young man puts them on them stigma; appears in glory, takes his sons-in-law as slaves, the padishah admits that he was mistaken; the young man fights the peri, is thrown into the well by her; the elder brother goes to the rescue, everyone takes him for the youngest; he puts his sword between themselves and the younger's wife; peri wins, both brothers return home]: Stebleva 1969, No. 24:94-124; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2) [after cutting down a tree, the woodcutter frees the prisoner in it a genie; he gives him an apple to eat in half with his wife; a daughter is born, whose tears are pearls, when she laughs, roses fall from her mouth, where he steps, golden sand remains; the old man is rich, asks for his daughter too big dowry; an evil genie tells me to give it to him; a father kills a genie, gets a beautiful woman; an old woman and her daughter say they have come from a batyr to pick up the bride; they take her to the desert; an old woman gives her water for her eyes torn out; throws her daughter into the well, dresses her daughter in her clothes; the people are surprised that roses do not fall, there is no gold in the bride's footsteps; the poor man pulls the blind man out of the well, builds a pearl palace ; when a blind woman smiles, a rose falls, the poor man sells her daughter to an old woman by two eyes blind; a good genie dove inserts her eyes, the girl sees the light; an evil genie tells the old woman to catch a goldfish in it an earring in which the soul of a beauty; at night the imaginary wife takes out the earring, at which time the girl comes to life; after chasing a dove, the batyr finds the true bride, returns the earring; the old woman and her daughter are tied to horses]: 88-94 (=Sheverdin 1984:82-89); Sheverdin 1967 [the old man gave iah and the vizier an apple each, ordered them to give birth to his wives; one will give birth to a boy named Tahir, the other a girl Zukhra; let them grow up and marry; the boy was given birth to the vizier's wife; he rode home, fell off his horse and crashed to death; the Shah was furious that he had a daughter and ordered her to be killed; then regretted it, but it turned out that the slaves kept the girl, Shah brought her closer; T. played, threw his sticks, got into the old woman's spinning wheel; she told him to play better with his named Zukhra; his mother had to tell everything; T. clings to Z. at school; a wall was built between them ; T. made a hole; they grew up and fell in love; the Shah orders T. to be lowered in the chest down the river, Z. managed to give gold with her; Shah Rum's daughters caught him; agreed that the eldest would take the chest, the youngest - what's inside; Shah Ruma married T. to the youngest; but T. is inconsolable, sitting by the river; Z. sent a caravan-bashi to look for him; he said that Z. was passed off as Kara-batyr; T. decides to go from the caravan-bashi; fork: to the right - no return, to the left - endlessly, straight ahead - dangerous; they go straight; they were mistaken for robbers, put in prison; one merchant heard T.'s song, bought them; T. made his way to Z.; he was captured and executed in two; Z. stabbed to death on his grave, she was buried side by side; K. also killed himself to be buried between them; a red rose grew above T.'s grave, a white rose rose above Z.'s grave, and between them thorn; roses stretched out and intertwined branches]: 27-35.

Baltoscandia. Swedes (Värmland) [the queen is dead, the princess has grown beautiful; the king went to war; in order for his daughter to remain innocent, he built a tower in the forest, leaving food for his daughter and maids there, forbid men to come close; those who wanted to get a princess sent a witch; she has two apples in her basket; the princess and her partner lifted the basket to the tower, ate an apple each and became pregnant; the princess's son Silfwerhwit ("silver white"), son of Lillwacker's maid ("little guard"); both grew strong and beautiful; after 7 years, the king returned and the boys' mothers had to bring them down from the tower to the ground and send to the world; the princess gave her son a precious dagger; a big man met each, gave each a sword and three dogs; at the crossroads, the boys broke up; S. put a gift knife in the stream: if it flows blood, he is dead, let L. take revenge; S. came to a city where mourning; the king must give his eldest daughter to a sea troll; S. went to the shore, where the princess and the court; he mistook S. for a troll, ran away and climbed a tree; the troll emerged: let our dogs fight first; S.'s dogs bit to death the troll's dogs; then S. cut off the troll's head, he dived into the sea, and S. cut out his eyes and hid it; S. left, and the courtier forced the princess to say that he was the savior; the same the next day (the three-headed troll, the king's middle daughter); on the third day he was six-headed; the younger princess; S. came to the wedding, presented the younger princess's ring and the troll's eyes; the wedding; one day a knock on the window: S., go out to talk; there's a troll whose brothers S. killed; S.'s dogs bitten to death his dogs, and S. drove the troll into a tree; he promised a ransom, asked to calm the dogs by throwing three of his hairs on them; the dogs froze; the troll came down and killed S.; seeing blood in the stream, L. went to save S.; in the city he was mistaken for S.; in bed he put his sword between himself and the princess; knocking on the window and still the same, but L. threw hairs on the troll's dogs; forced S. to revive the dogs, give water to revive S. and the other, which makes them stick to the place; L. stuck trolling to He burst a stone and at the first rays of the sun; when he learned that L. had gone to bed with the princess, S. cut off his head; after learning from his wife about the sword, S. returned and revived L. with that water; L. married another princess and shared kingdom with S.; if they did not die, they are still alive now]: Hyltén-ñavallius, Stephens 1848:78-94; Danes [a childless queen wants a child; an old woman tells me to eat two apples, a boy will be born and girl; if she eats three, a girl and wiwern (two-toed dragon) will be born; the queen eats three; the wyvern has grown up, no one wants to marry him; the old woman teaches the girl how to wear 9 shirts and demand on the wedding night from the wyvern to take off his slough; he requires his wife to take off his shirt; after the episode is repeated 8 times, the wyvern remains naked and the girl is wearing her last shirt; he tells her to buy it; she bathes him in water; in milk; in wine; after bathing in wine, the wyvern becomes human; everything is fine]: Holbek 1987:467; Norwegians [spouses are childless; having received the magic fish to eat to his wife, her husband eats her 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 maid (housekeeper) kidnaps her children and says she ate them; the woman escaped execution, found her children and introduced them to the king; the evil bride is punished]: Hodne 1984, No. 705:152; Latvians [husband and wife have no children; husband receives from the witch's apple is for his wife, but she eats it himself; a girl appears from his leg {it is not clear whether from the calf of his leg or thigh}; he covers her with leaves and leaves her in the forest; a bird picks her up and takes her to his nest; the king finds a girl, marries her; during his absence, she gives birth to children; the witch is replaced by newborn animals; the king tells the children to spare, then drive the queen into the forest; there she finds his children are witches and devils, asks them a riddle: "The apple is the father, the man is the mother, the wind shook me, the bird fed me, the stallion is my matchmaker, the king is my name"; devils can't guess the riddle, wife takes the children; at this time the king celebrates another; the wife sends the children with a cup to the king, he recognizes his children]: Aris, Medne 1979, No. 705:311.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Fokos-Fuchs 1951, No. 1 [Someone gave an egg to a rich childless merchant: let his wife and mare eat it; his wife gave birth to a son Vasily, a foal mare; father is always on the road; V. grew up, his mother has a lover; he orders her son to be killed, otherwise she will kill her; when V. returned from school, the horse warned that his mother wanted to poison him; V. quietly poured out the poisoned soup; mother's lover: you fed the soup under the bench, the poison burned the hole there; the same the next evening; the dog tried it spilled out, died; horse: tomorrow the mother will even poison the bread, you have to run; the horse tells him to be bored three times, turn, sprinkle dew with three trees; then able to jump from one hill to another; they went to get living water overseas; they rode to the hut on a chicken leg, the hut rotates, there was a witch in it; from her they rode to the other is the same, there is a second witch, she teaches: there will be three pillars, three gates, a key hangs on the middle one, you have to grab it; "soon the fairy tale affects, it's not done soon" {this saying is inserted a few times}; the third witch in the third hut tells you to leave her horse, gives her own; hit him on the shore, he will become a crow, carry him across the sea; on the other side you will become a dove, you will steal the girl's living water; when you fly a crow, cut off the meat from the calf of the leg, feed it; when V. flies, the crow gets tired, sits on the bapka-kotil plant in the middle of the sea, B. gives her a piece cut off from her leg; so several times, on only bones remain in her legs; V. first flies in as a dove, hears the girl saying out loud that she will not sleep that night, she will guard the water; V. became a man again, put the guards and the girl to sleep with this witch with a potion, took the water, kissed the girl and wished her to be his wife; across the sea back on a crow horse {it does not say how her legs are again overgrown with meat}; the girl's brother pursues; one of the three witches replies that V. has long been galloped by; brother: to whoever took water and kissed my sister, I will send her as a wife; gave V. a letter to prepare to receive the bride; she appeared, they live poorly, they want to take his wife away; the king orders to create by morning a golden palace; the wife creates; the golden passage to the royal palace (the same); the third time: create a water supply and a telegraph; at night, the wife called her workers again, everything is ready; everything is fine, wedding], 6 [ the childless king asks God for a son; the man gave him cabbage, his wife ate and became pregnant; Ivan Tsarevich grew up quickly; the tsar died, and his wife was a witch; I. gives bread to a hungry wolf, meat to a bear; shoved into water on the shore of a pike; mother tells I. to herd pigs, if at least one is not present in the evening, she will kill; the pigs have scattered, the wolf collected them; the horse warns I. that his mother will try to poison him; he gave food to the cat, she is dead; the mother tells the sheep to herd (the bear collected it); the mother gives poison again (the same); the mother tells the cows to herd, they rushed into the sea (the pike collected); the horse to Ivan: your mother took it as a lover three-headed line; the horse teaches you to hit the cross on the iron gate with a special stick; they opened; so 6 gates, and the seventh was broken by the horse himself; followed by Father Ivan's sword and armor; the horse gives a drink of strong wine; they galloped; the horse flies below the cloud, above the forest; in the city, a three-headed line comes out of the sea, every day he has to give a person to eat; Princess Elena's turn; her bones can be seen through meat and brain through bones; I. asks E. to look in his head, falls asleep; E. dropped a tear, I. cut off the head of the line that came out of the sea; the same on the second day (6-headed line); on the third (9-headed); I. hid his heads under heavy stone; I. injured his right hand, E. bandaged it with her handkerchief; I. received E., came with her to his kingdom, cut off the heads of a three-headed line, his mother, taking her legs, tore it in half; they probably still have been alive and reigning since]: 11-35, 84-99;

Bashkirs [the old woman gives two childless hunters yablo

ko; they swore to marry children if a boy and a girl are born; eating half a day , one's wife gives birth to Alma-batyr, the other gives birth to daughter Almabika; the boy's father dies, the girl's father refuses to give her for a poor man; holding a hot cake in her mother's hand, Alma-batyr makes her tell about the bride; her father intends to kill the young man, he flies away in tulpar; the sparrow carries letters to lovers; the sparrow is tormented; before his death he says, Suk; Almaty batyr is found on the Suk River, his head is cut off ; Almabika buries her beloved, kills herself; two flowers grow on their graves with their heads to each other; on the grave of a sparrow caught by a servant, there is burdock]: Barag 1988, No. 55:385-389.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [old people are childless; the old man went to the one who was arranged by the khan on the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter; the old woman dreams: a tall black man came and announced: "I will give you eight watermelons and one melon, you will have nine sons. The youngest you will give birth to from a melon is the hero Kyokzhan"; the old woman opened her eyes and saw 8 watermelons and a melon at the head; ate them; after 9 months she gave birth to 9 sons, the youngest was named hero Kyokzhan ; sons grew up; one day, in the absence of sons, an old man and an old woman saw a herd of sheep being grazed by a girl descending from the mountain; she came and asked for a drink; said that her family had nine girls, and she youngest; the old man came to her father, married his daughters to their sons; 8 sons went to the brides, but K. stayed; did not tell them to spend the night by the mountain; but on the way back, the brothers, wives and father stayed there for the night; they saw an aidahar (dragon), who clutched its own tail in its mouth, turning around the cattle; promises to return the cattle if the old man gives him K.; he spent one night with his wife and went to the dragon; he says bring him a gold-haired girl; on the way, K. met and accompanied someone who can track down a corsak; who knows the number of stars in the sky; knows how many fish there are in the world; one buy will give his daughter to someone who will shoot down a suspended gold bar and knock down his fighter; K. knocked down the bar and knocked down the wrestler, gave the girl he had received to his first comrade; the same in another village he gave the girl to his second comrade; in the third, third; K. went alone; in the village there is a gold-haired girl - "I would call her the moon, but she has a mouth unlike the moon, I would call her the sun, but she has eyes unlike the sun"; her father exposes the same conditions (knock down a bar, knock down a fighter); K. fulfilled, took the girl, went to the dragon; saw an empty white yurt, began to live in it with the girl; the girl began to wash her hair in the Yedil River, swam away alone, the horseman on I picked it up on the other side, came to the old woman Zhalmauyz, asked her to get the girl; she told me to give her a golden boat and a wineskin; the old woman to the girl: this yurt is mine; I'll kill if you don't tell me where my husband's soul is; K.: "Under with her skin laid on the right to the ground, on the edge of a pocket knife"; the old woman gave the girl drunk, pulled out a knife, heated it in the fire, threw it into the water, took the girl to the horseman's palace; the knowledgeable star said that star K. fell; whoever was tracking Korsak found K. dead; who knew about fish found that one pike was missing, caught it, a penknife was found in her belly, K. came to life; came to the kidnapper, aka tulpara also took him away; tulpar does not let anyone in; K. offered to go around him; rode to the palace, took the girl; brought the dragon, but he was killed, and a man in black nearby; it turns out that this is his son (from his wife, with where K. spent one night); everything is fine]: Babalar sozi 2001, No. 10:90-96; Kyrgyz (1959, Jumgal district, Naryn region) [the elderly couple have sons Egizbek and Segizbek ("egiz" is twin, "segiz" is eight); they herd horses in a place called Taygylman's Slippery Stone; once two deyo (divas), Buktugul and Shuutugul, a slippery stone was uprooted and knocked down, and young men and horses were taken away; having lost their sons, the couple live in grief and poverty; in a dream, a white-bearded old man tells his father to arrange young men near the poplar on the mazar atoning sacrifice; at midnight a white apple will fall from the sky, a red apple before dawn; eat the white one yourself, let the wife eat the red one; then a child will be born; the wife has given birth to a boy; he offends others; one old woman: "If you're so lively, why don't you find your older brothers?!" ; after that, the boy told his mother to fry wheat; asks to bring him a handful urgently, clenched his mother's hand; she could not stand the pain, spoke about her older brothers; the boy is still without a name; the old man came and gave his name is Karach Baatyr; on the way, the KB saw a yellow foal stuck in a pit, which had never shed; pulled it out, threw a halter; a one-year-old foal turned into a two-year-old; threw a sweat, he became that third; when he saddled, he became a tulpar; the horse: "If you go along this road, you will reach the poplar. Scatter me, tie me to the poplar with my head up. Just below this there is a cemetery, among other graves there is a tomb, so go inside it. Sweat the bed under you, put the saddle under your head, lie down facing east. A person will appear in the morning and say, "No one from the human race has come here before" and starts waking you up - "Hey, horseman, get up!" , but don't get up. When it comes from the foot instead of from the headboard, then get up. Make friends with him." The KB did so; man: "And I was the only son of elderly parents. I woke up one morning shouting "The enemy is near!" , jumped out, and then someone hacked me with an axe. They were two people, Buktugul and Shuutugul. They had two guys sitting in the saddle behind them - your older brothers. If you kill them, cut off their heads saying, "Dedicated to my friend Nurperi." Two of them have 40 yellow and white tulpars, and kill them too with the words "Dedicate them to my friend Nurperi," kill the two girls watching these horses too. If they stay alive, they'll do a lot of evil." The KB said goodbye to Karach to this man, saddled the horse and set off; suddenly the horse stopped, urinating with blood; KB went on foot; after a while the horse caught up with him; the episode repeated; the KB did not sit down on the horse, went on foot; the horse quietly walked around him, went out to meet him, decided to test it; the horse turned into a tiger; KB pulled out his sword and drove it; the horse became a horse again; says that Buktugul, one of the two close, it was his horse that tied my tongue when I couldn't move, urinated with blood; but now he tied his tongue himself; now the KB horse will turn into a yellow-white horse, and let KB be a horse, let him goes to Buktugul and says he's looking for a lost horse; Buktugul: "They say that some Karach is coming here, do you know him?" - "When he is going to fight someone, he eats the meat of eighty oxen and plunges into the lake. He sits in the lake for seven days with his head out of the water and causes snow and cold. In seven days, the lake is covered with ice, and then after breaking this ice, so that the debris soars to the sky, Karach gets up from the lake and goes to fight the enemy"; Bugtugul decides to do the same; after 7 days starts to get up, the ice is cracking; KB: "Oh, I completely forgot, I have to lie down for another 7 days"; after 14 days Bugtugul could not move; KB: "I dedicate to my friend Nurperi", demolished the ice sticking out with a sword head; horse: Shuutugul has white cotton wool on his back; you have to hit the cotton wool with a spear, otherwise Shuutugul cannot be killed; KB hit, cut off Shuutugul's head; his horse rose into the sky, but the KB horse grabbed him with his teeth by the tail and pulled them down; KB killed Shuutugul's horse; 40 yellow-piebald tulpars were tied in the deyo palace, the KB slaughtered them, dedicating them to Nurperi, to the two girls who were with these tools, also cut off their heads; from two years, only a cauldron, only soft ash; KB began to look for older brothers; towards a camel, riding a camel, two old men are brothers; "If you are our younger brother, do you know what kind of Will I take our sign?" KB: "You both have a birthmark on your shoulder blade"; it is there, the brothers hugged each other, returned to their parents; everyone lives in happiness and joy]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:175-180; Kyrgyz (Tien Shan Region, Toguz- Toros District, 1946) [the old khan has three wives, no children; witch: children will be provided that she takes them away in 7 years; the khan agreed; the witch bit three apples and gave each wife an apple; those became pregnant; when the witch appeared 7 years later, the khan hid his children, and the witch gave the children of the poor; but the witch solved the deception; the khan gave his eldest son, the middle son on the second day, and the third day the youngest; she sent the youngest to fry him for firewood; the skull lies, the boy kicked him, the voice from the skull: you will become the same skull as me; the boy brought the skull to one elder; elder: when the witch if you are going to fry you, ask her to cast the "chilten" spell; when she reads, push you into the cauldron; then take the keys that are on her belt; the boy did it, unlocked 7 pantries, freed many people, shared the good between them; he took tulpara for himself and went not to his father, but to his named father-in-law Khan Darbaz, the father of the girl he had chosen as his wife; he met a dev, who was a splinter in his leg was a grown plane tree; dev asked her to remove it, also begged and ate tulpara; dev scolded his comrades who could not extract the plane tree; gave the boy a horse and a dish of gold, and snatched it from him a lock of hair, gave it to the boy; that boy went to Khan's city; exchanged the horse for a goat, took off his skin, pulled it over his head; turning into a pleshivets, the khan instructed him to herd cows; the khan's three daughters bathed in a ditch and they saw that the boy's forelock was golden; the youngest ran to him, but his sisters took her away; the khan told the daughters to cook pilaf; the older two had fresh pilaf, the youngest had tasty pilaf; the vizier explained that the elders daughters of a restart, and the youngest at her heyday; the khan gave his daughters an apple each and ordered them to throw an apple at whoever they chose; the elders threw apples at the Bai sons, the youngest at Pleshivets; they were accommodated in a separate yurt; enemies attacked, both son-in-law died along with thousands of warriors; a bald man burned a lock of deva's hair, who helped kill enemies, the boy, already dressed in khan's clothes, came to the khan, who handed him power]: Narynbayeva 2018:58-60