K93b3. Boys, foals, puppies: born together.

.15.-.17.21.23.24.27.-.32.

To have a baby, a woman eats fish, an apple, or something else. Some (often peels, decoctions, peels, etc.) are eaten by a mare, dog or other pets. A woman gives birth to a son (twins), a mare gives birth to a foal (foals), and a dog gives birth to a puppy (puppies).

Moroccan Berbers, Portuguese, Spanish, Aragon, Catalans, Basques, Italians (Tuscany), Ladins, Maltese, French (Upper Brittany, Burgundy-Franche-Comte, Normandy, Lorraine and others), Walloons, Bretons, Scots, Germans (north), Palestinians, Lepcha, Himachal plowmen, Loda, Montenegrins, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Romanians, Albanians, Greeks, Poles, Western Ukrainians (Bukovina), Northern Ukrainians (Volyn), Russians (Vladimir), (Ossetians), Crimean Tatars, Nogais, Kumyks, Dargins, Tatas, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Persians, Sarykols, Danes, Swedes, Karelians, Udmurts, Chuvash, Bashkirs.

North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the sultan is childless, although he has many concubines; he meets a lion in the desert; he gives two apples and two rods; you must beat the mare and wife with twigs, let one apple eat mare, another 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 to his peers; the old woman deliberately brings a pot of soup to the guy hit him with the ball; it happened; this 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; her the point is that he will get the daughter of the Sultan of the Sahel; this is the 14th Aisha, she lives on an island from where she goes down to the Sultan Father's palace; 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 for A. to come; A. came; the sultan gave him poisoned food and put him on a poisoned bed, but the poison did not work on A.; the Sultan sent an army, A. on his stallion defeated it; so several times; accidentally found the entrance to the underground corridor through which he came to Aisha's palace; A. drew up a marriage contract himself; 9 months later, 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.

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

Western Europe. The French (Nièvre; many other records, including Upper Britain, Normandy, Burgundy-Franche-Comte, Lorraine) [the wife of a poor miller sends her husband to fish behind the dam; he caught a little one, this is the king of fish, asks him to let go, for this he will give a lot of fish; as it happened, the miller sold a lot of fish; his wife reproaches him for letting the fish king go; the miller caught him again; he tells him to eat wife, fins to a mare and dog; the wife will give birth to three boys with the sun on their foreheads, a mare - three foals with a moon, a dog - three puppies with a star on their forehead; the brothers have grown up, the eldest comes to a city where mourning: girls are given to a seven-headed monster, it is the princess's turn; the young man kills the monster, receives a ring from the princess, cuts off and takes his tongues with him, promises to return in a year and a day; three coal miners force Tell her that they killed the monster; in a year and day there should be a wedding with one of them; a young man comes to the wedding, shows his tongues and a ring; the coal miners were burned alive; one day a young husband notices in the distance a castle, goes there; a witch gives her hair to tie the dog, it turns into an iron chain; she leads the person who comes to the bridge, pushes him down; seeing a withered rose, the second brother sets off in search of the first one; the princess takes him for her husband; he is the same as with his older brother; the third good sorceress teaches not to let the dog be tied with her hair, to let the witch go forward, to make him give a reviving elixir; the young man of all revived, forced the witch to leave the castle; the husband returned to the princess, she sees how all three brothers look alike]: Delarue 1957, No. 303:147-149; Walloons [the fisherman catches the king three times and releases the king twice fish; for his release, the king of fish gives a horse and then a dog; the third time he orders to cut it into pieces and give it one to his wife (pour la famille), the second to the dog, the third to the mare, and leave the fourth in the garden under a rose; the next morning a fisherman finds three dogs, three horses and three boys; or Jean de Berneau's swineherd caught a fish that tells him to cut it into four pieces; they turn into a spear, a horse and two dogs; three boys have grown up and consistently leave home, each on their own horse and with their dog; if any of them are in trouble, the rose bush will wither; Jean saves the princess by killing the seven-headed dragon, marries her ; in the evening after the wedding, he sees some light from the window; it is a perfume castle; he went there and never returned; fell into the hands of robbers; Pierre goes in search of his brother with his two dogs; the king promises reward for saving his son-in-law; Pierre saves Jean, who has returned to his wife, they have many children; Pierre lives in a castle]: Laport 1932, No. 303:41-42; Bretons: Luzel 1970 [the fisherman caught a fish, she told her to have it his wife ate it, and his giblets were eaten by a horse and a dog; his wife, horse, dog each gave birth to twins; one brother went on a journey, telling the other to watch the laurel; if the blow bleeds on him, then he died; he was hired by a groom in the castle, the owner's daughter fell in love with him, they got married; there is a forbidden part in the castle, the wife says that there are ferocious animals and reptiles; the husband enters there; the old woman ties a horse and the dog with his hair, which turns into chains; the young man is pushed onto a mill wheel, he is ground into dust; the second brother sees blood, goes in search, the wife takes him for her husband; at night he puts a spear on the bed between them; enters the forbidden part of the castle; prevents the old woman from throwing her hair over her horse and dog, her hair falls to the ground, turns into a snake; he asked the old woman to show how lean over to the mill, threw her off himself; met a fox; when she found out that the witch was dead, she turned into a princess; she collected the remains of her first brother and now revived him with living water; the second brother on it married]: 63-81; Scots [a siren asks a fisherman for a son in exchange for a rich catch; he says he is childless; she gives three seeds for his wife, a mare, a dog, and three seeds to plant; they will give birth three sons, foals, puppies; three trees will grow, if one of the brothers dies, the tree will dry up; since then the catch is rich, but when the eldest son is 3 years old, the father must send him to a siren; she twice extends the deadline, but at the age of 14, the young man tells him to make a sword for him, goes by himself; helps the dog, falcon and otter fairly divide the corpse of the sheep (three parts for the dog, two for the otter, one for the falcon), they promise come to the rescue; he hires to herd the king's cows, but the pasture is scarce, the cows are not milked, so the shepherd is not fed; the next time he came to the green pasture; the giant said it was his, wanted it eat, but the dog ran, jumped on his back, the young man cut off the giant's head; next time the same with the second giant; the princess must be given to the three-headed monster; the young man goes with her three times to to the lake, cuts him off on the head; each time the general attributes victory to himself; before the battle, the young man falls asleep every time, the princess wakes him up with one of his jewelry on him; the general is unable to lift severed heads, the princess marries the young man; the monster drags him into the lake, the princess buys him back with her jewelry; first asks only to show her husband, but then gives him all the jewelry and the monster gives the prisoner; but then kidnaps the princess herself; the blacksmith replies that the monster's life is in the egg, in the trout, in the crow, in the white-footed fallow deer on the island; the dog, the falcon, the otter help catch them all, the monster returns the princess, dies; there is a castle nearby, from where they do not return; the young man goes, the old woman kills him; the tree has dried up at home; the same with the middle brother (the princess takes him for her husband, they are so similar); the youngest cuts down the old woman's head, but she picks her up, puts her back; a dog rushes at her, her younger brother kills her with her own sword (or rod? Slachdan druidhach), he also revives the brothers; the older brother receives his father-in-law's throne]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 4:72-85; Germans (Hessen) [the fisherman caught a huge fish, she tells it to let it go; the same for the next evening; on the third, the fish tells you to give its head to the mare to eat, the tail to the dog, bury the bones in the garden, and eat the rest with his wife; the wife gave birth to three sons, the mare to three foals, the dog to puppies, made of bones three flowers have grown, and their roots are three swords; the fisherman has always returned with a good catch since then; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; at the edge, everyone dreamed that they should part; they will meet at the same place a year and 6 weeks later; the eldest came to the castle, the princess fell in love with him; after the wedding they went to the window, a strong fire was visible; princess: whoever goes there will give up his life; young man went there, and when he approached, the witch touched him, the horse and the dog with a rod, and they were petrified; the second brother came, mistaken him for the first; the same with him; the third came and said who he was; the old woman became Talk to him; to spell his brothers, he must go through the castle to the mountain where the bird sits on the tree, bring it to her; there is no need to pay attention to predatory animals behind; the bird teaches: her old woman do not give it away; cut off a branch from the tree and do not put it on the ground; collect a mug of wood sap; then tells you to moisten the stones with juice; the brothers have come to life, the bird has become a prince, the brother of the elder's wife ; feast; the princess's younger brothers and brother also found marriage partners; they all went to the boys' parents and, if they didn't come, they were still going]: Wolf 1845, No. 27:126-127, 134-140; Germans ( north) [the fisherman threw the net and pulled out the vessel; when he removed the lid, there is red smoke from it {genie}; asks to place it back; for this he will give a casket, which must be divided into 6 parts; wife, mare, dog , and bury three more under fire; the fisherman put the genie back in the vessel and threw it into the sea; twin boys, a pair of foals and a pair of puppies were born; two sets of swords, rifles and pistols grew up under the fire; The brothers caught two bears, wolves and lions, and parted, stabbed a tree; if the blade rusts, the owner is dead; the dragon has 14 heads; "the end is normal"]: Kuhn, Schwartz 1848, No. 10 in Hartland 1894:38 -40.

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

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lepcha [people are constantly dying; the king turns to the fortuneteller; he predicts that in addition to six sons and the king, there will be the seventh; in heaven, the mother of Rum feels the aroma of smoke; her husband says that it is King Lyang-bad who asks to send him a son; someone who can 1) throw a heavy stone, 2) hit the needle behind the mountain with an arrow, 3) cut horsehair along before steam from the cup will go to the ground tea will rise to the head, 4) bring a lot of firewood; two older brothers can't, the youngest baby does everything easily; falls like a hailstone next to Queen Tang-kung-ramit on the ground; she breaks off a piece swallows; other pieces are swallowed by a cow, a mare, a chicken, a goat; everyone gets pregnant and gives birth; T. gave birth to a bag, buried it; the king dug up, there is a copper vessel, there is a boy in it; the king gave it the name Ati-azyak-pono; does not send his older brothers to marry King Lung-da's seven daughters; on the way they must hoist flags of the same color on black, green, red, white mountain; pass the plain on which the spruce is, and around two suns; it's hot, you can't take off your hats; the king gives daughters, does not tell you to play the flute and harp on the plain; but the youngest three began to have fun with the brides, sat under the spruce tree, the others also had to; from four Four seas of black, green, red and white color flooded the sides; the Paril-bu snake came out of the sea, demanded that his younger brother's remaining home be given to him; disappeared, the waters flooded with him and only the sun disappeared; the demon messenger came for A.; A. went to the snake, left the bride two rings, and if they changed places, he died; first A. quietly entered P.'s mouth; he ordered the queens Zer-y-ong and Komyong-pandi to be obtained; the girl gave A. rice to the dogs, the meat to the tigers, the roll of cloth to the demon Shang-tang-krbu, who would become a friend; when leaving, A. sowed rice - if it dried up, he died; the demon could not swallow A., admitted to A. master; A. dropped a knife into the pond, asked the demon to drink water; came to Z., became her husband; there was no water, the demon drank everything; Z. showed where the knife was, the demon regurgitated the water; Z. took an oath from her 7 demon brothers that they will not eat A.; demons offer to hide; turn into trees, partridges, streams; Z. tells A. each time where they are (gives a knife to cut trees, etc.); demon friend A. defeats seven in martial arts; they offer fights between roosters, goats, horses; each time A. asks his heavenly parents to send animals (those who descend in the hailstone give birth to a cockerel, a goat, etc.); A.'s animals win; also a wild bull and a peacock; A. destroys an army of demons; the remaining ones are destroyed by a peacock by firing fire from under her tail; A. enters Z., her fang to the sky, the other to the ground, one chest hangs, the other is thrown behind her back ; then she is beautiful again; the demon friend swallows the snake, A. and his wives Z. and Komiong returns to the brothers; allows the demon friend to swallow the younger three; kills him, revives the young man swallowed by him Dediong-pono, gives him Princess Eu-Ramit, leaves him to reign on earth, returns to heaven with three wives]: Stocks 1925, No. XXVI: 406-420.

South Asia. Himachali is a plowman [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 will give her fruit; after learning about This, V. put on her clothes and received the fruit; when S. came, the deception opened and she also received the fruit; gave birth to a mare; gave birth to a boy named Keshva, V. a girl Suhasini, a mare a foal; they grew up, K. sat on his foal, went to get a 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 the real K. appeared, he would see the light; Suhasini heard, sent a letter to K.; he read it and returned, the gatekeeper saw the light; K. began to fight his enemies, he was cut off head, but he fought headless and won, his head grew; K.'s sculptures stand in Hindu temples]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 9:40-42.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Loda (Halmahera) [the woman ate the giant's mango and her dog the peel; the woman gave birth to seven sons, the dog seven puppies; the giant demanded the seventh, Badabangisa, to give it to him; in his B.'s absence freed the prisoners in his house; 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, she blinded him temporarily; forest fruits, the giant was surrounded by thorny vines; millet, the giant stopped to pick him up; B. asked the giant, calling him father what 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. Montenegrins [eel tells the fisherman to cut it into 4 parts, let his wife, mare, dog eat it, bury it; two sons, horses, dogs are born, two sabers appear; the first brother leaves, leaving bottle; marries; goes to a mountain of fire, becomes stony; the water in the bottle is cloudy; the second goes in search, his wife and father-in-law take him for the first; threatening to kill a sorceress, forces her to release her brother; revive petrified people with witch grass]: Karadzic 1856 in Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:26-28, in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:81-84, in Eschker 1992, No. 14:76-80; Serbs [dervish gives the childless king an apple: let it will be eaten by a queen, and the peel by a mare; a boy and a foal are born; the queen is dead, the new one does not like 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 through a locked gate, jumps away; does not advise the young man to pick up his pen, but he picks it up; refuses give a 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 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 the ship, the vizier's two daughters and 12 maids like each other; now the vizier says that the birds are not Ora, but the king is adamant; the vizier's daughters think that they have the same maid, but in fact they are different every day; the young man tells the maids to pour poison into their food, and on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were at death; 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, sailed on; gave food to herons and flies, they promised to help those who fought for food; they come 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 live from across the sea water); 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 sending the young man for Kjühelane mares; 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 the mares made the milk cold, the young man came out refreshed and full of energy; the king and the vizier rushed after them, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to themselves]: Lambertz 1952:91-106; the Croats [the fisherman divides the fish into three parts, gives wife, mare and dog, all give birth twins - boys, foals, puppies]: Hartland 1894:73; Bosnians [the childless man has gone to travel; the person he meets gave him an apple; the peel must be given to the mare and a dog, and eat the rest 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 horse and dog and went to the world; there is an inscription at the fork: those who walk along the upper road will not see the world for five years, and those who walk on the left road for three years; those who walk along the upper road come to the lake, on the pole there is an inscription: if you enter the water, you will regret it, and if you do not enter, too you'll regret it; he came in; after that he, the horse and the dog turned gold; the young man stayed with the king, the princess saw him, fell in love, the young man married her; after the wedding he went hunting; chased the deer , reached 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 wins, but suddenly someone sings, 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, went hunting in the morning too, got into the same the castle, without taking my eyes off the board, played back his brother's dog and horse, himself and the girl herself; on the way home I wanted to kill my brother out of jealousy, but the girl did not allow it; at home I found out that my wife remained faithful; second brother married that girl]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 46:246-251; Romanians [the king promises half the kingdom to whoever will save his wife from infertility; a fisherman caught a golden eel with the inscription: who to eat the mashed in powders of his head bone, will give birth; the powder was poured into the queen's coffee, the maid also drank, and the remnants were a mare; the queen and the maid gave birth to gold-haired boys, and the mare of the foal with golden hair; son The maid is strong and the brawler, the king is going to kill him, he left; when he left, he told the prince that if he stabbed him in his right side, he was dead; the maid's son was hammered into the ground on the bridge; the prince came to gold-haired horse, saved him; in one kingdom an old woman stole a day; the maid's son went in search, the old woman turned him into stone; the prince found her, forced her to revive the petrified man and return the day; { other episodes, but too sketchy German retelling of the Romanian text}]: Bîrlea 1966:388-389; Albanians [the dervish gives the childless king an apple: let the queen eat it and let 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 her husband to slaughter the foal; he tells the young man to ask permission take a 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 to pick up his pen, but he picks it up; 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 learns that for the king, falls silent; the vizier: let Ora bring this bird; the young man asks the ship, two daughters of the vizier and 12 maids similar to each other; now the vizier says that the bird does not have a Hora, 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 their food, on the 12th day, the vizier's daughters were killed; the ship entered the harbor, daughters The viziers 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; the herons and flies fighting for food promised to help; 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 her 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 the horse as their young man, went after 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 rushed after him, cooked; the young man called his father and stepmother, the mares tore his stepmother, returned to their homes]: Lambertz 1952:91-106; Albanians [the husband is fishing, she says that another one is intended for him; the other orders to cut bury her two pieces (two cypresses grew out of them), give two to a mare, dog, wife; they gave birth to two foals, lions, boys; the eldest goes to take the Beauty of the Earth, her mother turns him, his horse and lion into boulders of stone, the cypress dries up; the youngest comes to the Beauty of the Earth; tells his lion to grab an old woman; she is forced to show bottles of white water (again turned from stone into a person or animal) and red (revive); everyone comes to life, the cypress turns green, the elder brother brings the beauty of the earth to his wife]: Serkova 1989:125-127 (=Meyer 1884, No. 4:105-108); Greeks: Schmidt 1877, No. 23 (Zakynthos) [the king sailed on a journey , found himself on the lion's island; the lions won, but many fell in battle; the king and his companions came to the garden, where one source was 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 the way with clothes - the snake likes to crawl on the soft; the serpent let the visitors 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 a foal from the seeds; he became 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 that could kill a snake; the young man cut off seven heads; everything is fine]: 115-116; Megas 1978, No. 21 [the old woman advises the fisherman's childless wife to catch a goldfish, divide into 6 parts, eat 2 with her husband, give 2 to a dog, 2 to a mare, 2 to bury; two are born brothers, two puppies, two foals, two cypresses grow up; the first brother comes to marry the princess; her father tells her to tear down a giant stump with a sword (the princess wraps her sword in her hair), gallop, not after splashing water (gives a ring, it freezes the water), defeat the black man; the black man is the princess, she orders her horse to be hit between her ears; having received the princess, the young man leaves for a while; kills the monster that gave water in exchange for girls, it was the turn of the local princess; the old woman asks for permission to touch the young man's dog with a rod, turns the dog and the boy into marble; the cypress has withered; the brother arrives, he is mistaken for the first a young man; he tells the dog to grab the witch, forcing him to show his witchcraft; revives his brother, the dog swallows the witch; the first brother gets the first princess, the second saved from the monster]: 37-42.

Central Europe. Poles: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 300 [after eating a fish or an apple (swallowing a pearl, drinking water), an infertile woman gives birth to a son or twins; also: after eating the same food, they simultaneously conceive and a mistress and a maid give birth; a woman gives birth to two sons, a mare of two foals, a dog of two puppies; brothers (or the mistress's son and the maid's son) go on a journey; after leaving, they leave signs (stick in knives, etc.), which will help you understand if they are in trouble; one of the young men, with the help of his animals, kills a dragon, carves out tongues, promises to return in a year and a day; the impostor appropriates victory for himself; the hero (after his animals revive him with live water) returns when the wedding takes place, presents the royal tongues or gifts, marries her; the impostor is executed; the hero meets a sorceress, turned into stone by her; her brother sees blood on a knife (or other sign), goes to help; the queen takes him for her husband, but he puts a sword between her and himself on the bed; kills a sorceress, revives his brother and his animals]: 81; Shcherbakov 1980 [fisherman caught fish with silver tail and gills; fish: let go, your happiness is ahead; the same with gold; with diamonds; she tells you to cut it, give it a piece to your wife, mare and female; bury the rib in the garden, three oaks will grow; the wife will give birth to three sons, a mare to three foals, a female to three puppies; all twins are similar to each other; the eldest comes to the city where the dragon demands a day by man, it is royal's turn; the young man cut off 12 heads of the dragon, cut off and hid the sting; the horse and the dog helped; the young man left, the forester ordered to say that he was the winner of the dragon; the young man returned after a year and 6 weeks; the impostor is preparing the wedding; the young man sent his dog with a letter to the Queen; stings at the feast; the forester was torn by four horses; on the first night the young man put a sword between himself and his wife; with the second slept with her; went to the forest; an old woman came to the fire to warm up; gave a twig to whip the dog, they were all petrified; at home one oak tree dried up; the middle brother, mistaken for the elder, goes, puts a sword on the bed; with he is the same; the youngest goes; also puts a sword on the bed; chases a deer with golden antlers; spends the night in the forest; an old woman comes; a young man grabs her, makes her younger brother revive with grass; both brothers force revive the middle one; brothers cut down an old woman, pieces grow back; brothers tell dogs to bury pieces; the forest has turned into a city with people; the queen recognized her older brother as her husband; the narrator was shot at cannon ball]: 93-104; Russians (Vladimirskaya, Pereslavl-Zalessky U.) [the fisherman has been fishing for 33 years; he caught the crucian carp; he tells him to put the husk in a box in the attic, bury the intestines underground, let his wife eat the liver and heart, the head to the female, the tail to the mare, eat the rest yourself; the old woman gave birth to two boys Ivan and Vasily, a mare - foals, a female - males; by the age of 7, the brothers grew up, ordered 400 pounds of iron batog; gold was in the box, two bridles in the underground; brothers we reached the pole: whoever is to the right will not be alive, whoever to the left will petrify; M. to the right, V. to the left; a wall parted in front of him, he disappeared behind it; I. - to the city to the king; there a sea serpent demands 6 heads girls, the princess's turn; I. knocked down 6 heads with a club, put it under a stone, told the princess to remain silent that he had saved her; then the serpent demands all three princesses about 12 heads; the same; I. married the youngest; went to look for B ., taking half of his wife's handkerchief; after visiting V. in the Arab kingdom, I. returned; there the blacksmith marries the princess; I. sent a male dog, who dragged the blacksmith by the nose; showed half of the handkerchief, the head under the stone; the blacksmith put them in a pole; both brothers and wives returned to their father]: Smirnov 2008, No. 4:66-68; 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; 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 more give it to a mare and a 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 intended to take another girl, her brothers give her to I.; defeated the Arab hero, got his sister; takes away the bride, whom they are going to marry off; I.'s father wants to kill him in order to take possession of his three wives; I. says he will not be able to tear only his bow's bowstring; father tells you 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 them through their eye sockets, you will see the light; pigeons leave feathers, I. heals; tells an Arab wife to hack his father; becomes khan]: Nogai 1979, No. 14:65-75; (cf. Ossetians: Libedinsky 1978 [one golden apple ripened on the sledges apple tree a day; rer healed people from diseases and healed wounds, although it did not save them from death; at night someone stole an apple; the sledges took turns guarding, but to no avail; it was Warhag's turn; he sent the sons of Ahsar and Ahsartag to guard; if the apple was stolen, one of them would be beheaded by sledges, and the other would be given a hand cut off to stakes; Ahsartag guarded until midnight, but then told Akhsar that he could continue to sleep; at dawn a dove flew in; Ahsartag cut off half of her wing with an arrow, the apple fell to the ground; the brothers followed the bloody trail to the sea; Akhsartag descends into the sea; if the bloody foam immediately rises, he died; if white, let Ahsar wait for him for a year; in the house at the bottom of 7 brothers they say that They have three sisters; one of them, Zerassa, is in the habit of stealing sledge apples in the guise of a dove; if you put on a severed wing and letting her eat an apple, she will recover; whoever cures her, she will marry; Ahsartag healed Dz.; a year later he remembered to return to his brother; Z. turned herself and her husband into fish and they surfaced; they came to Ahsar's tent, but he was just hunting; Ahsarsag went him to search, they missed each other; J. mistook Ahsar for her husband, they were so similar; Ahsar put his sword in bed for the night; J. got up, was offended; Ahsarsag returned, thought that his wife had changed; Ahsar fired an arrow into the sky : Let him hit me at the place that Dz touched; the arrow hit Ahsarsag in the little finger and he died; Ahsartag stabbed with a sword; Uastyrji descended from the sky with a three-legged horse, promised to bury his brothers if Dz. she would go for him; when he did, Z. said she must wash herself first, went to the sea, went to her father; Uastyrji promised to find Dz. in the world of the dead; his mother sent Z. to give birth to sledges on earth, otherwise they do not recognize their children; Dz. gave birth in the lower tier of the Warhaga ancestral tower; the twins Uryzmag and Khamyts were born; they grew up quickly; H. broke the girl's jug out of mischief; she advised him better find his grandfather Warhag, who grazes sledges; W. recognized them, brought them upstairs to the ancestral tower; married Z.; died a year later, Dz died a year later; told her sons to guard three nights before her death her crypt; H. went to guard, but heard the music and went to the wedding; at this time Uastyrji came in, revived Dz., got together with her, she gave birth to a girl, died again; Uryzmag heard crying, took out the girl, she was named Shatana; same in Kaloev 1980:375; addition: On the third night, Uastyrdzhi came to D.'s crypt, then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed the powerful Nart family Akhsartagkat)]: 50-64; Miller 1881, No. 10 (Digortsy) [Borayev's mother was Sasana; Uastyrji wanted to make her his mistress; she refused; he promised to take her dead; when he dies, S. asks Khamyts, Uryzmag and Sozryko (he is not her son, but also lives in her house) to watch her grave for three nights; when it was Kh's turn, Uastyrji made it shine at midnight the sun, but H. said that he could not be deceived; the same Uryzmag; but Sozryko believed, went to the wedding; Uastyrji met with Sasana, then let the stallion and the dog come to her; from the Borayev crypt they heard the girl cry, the laughter of a foal and the barking of a puppy; this is how Satan was born]: 49-50); Kumyks: Barsov 1882, No. 1 [the dervish gives the childless khan an apple, let his wife, mare, dog eat, each bring twins; one boy, the stallion and the puppy should be given to the dervish; the eldest was named Arslan Khan, the youngest was named Batyr Khan; the dervish takes A.; at the source, the skull teaches: this is a black maiden, you have to pretend that you can't do anything; let will show how bread is baked; push the maiden into the oven and fill it with oil; after killing the maiden, A. rides his horse and with her dog; the counter tells you to put his finger into the stream when she meets; A. took out a splinter to the lioness, she gave a lion cub; killed a snake that crawled to the eagle's nest, which gave an eagle; dipped his finger, it turned gold; poured water on a lion cub, an eagle, a dog; 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 and understood who the worker was; the sisters sent his father three apples, rotten, half rotten, ripe; vizier: it's time for daughters to marry; khan told his daughters to quit an apple at the passing men; the elders threw the vizier at the sons, the youngest at the worker; the khan placed them in a collapsed hut; the khan fell ill, they needed reindeer meat; A. sat on the oath, then took on his true form, summoned an eagle, killed a deer, poisoned some of the meat; gave it to his older sons-in-law, for which he stamped the youngest of them; the khan scolded his older sons-in-law for bitter meat, and he liked what A. had brought; bring lion's milk; the same (A. poisoned 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, poured gold water; A.'s wife mistook him for her husband, but B. beat her; when A. arrived, she began to accuse him; A. caught up with B. and killed him, then repented; saw how one mouse killed another, and then revived it with grass; A. revived his brother with it; everything is fine]: 121-128; Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 8 [the dervish gives the childless khan an apple; tells him to eat it in half with his wife, Give the peel to the mare; put the baby born when she grows up, put on the born foal and bring him to it; a daughter was born; when she is 13 years old, the dervish reminded of the promise, the girl went to him; the horse teaches throw ash in the eyes of the dervish, they jump away; the girl wears men's clothes; the Khan's son suspects that this is a girl, tests her; the horse teaches: when you shoot an archery, say "I'm not shooting, but my horse shoots"; when you drink, "It's not me drinking, but a black horse drinks" - you won't get drunk; however, after drinking the tenth glass, the girl forgot to say these words, got drunk, the hat fell, the guy saw braids; wedding; when the husband left, the wife gave birth to a son with a golden tuft and a daughter with a moon-like forehead; when the messenger was sleeping under a tree, the dervish changed the letter and answer (saying that the wife gave birth to puppies, she must be kicked out); the horse tells her to be slaughtered him, drag his skin and go around as much land as possible; the next morning there are palaces, farms, people; the husband came back, read the letters, found a wife with children, everything is fine]: 125-128; Dargins [one-eyed promises a childless khan has three sons if he promises to give one to him; gives an apple, the peel must be fed to a mare, the core of the dog, they will also bring three foals, three puppies; only the youngest 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); releases 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]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (1): 401-413; 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 people reproach his mother for disgracing the name of her deceased husband, living in poverty and singing black work; asks to bake lavash, presses the mother's hands to the hot tone, the mother gives the keys to the dungeons; the brothers dress up nicely, the elder, then the middle one leaves and disappears; the youngest comes to the padishah, whose daughter will die if she is not given chamois milk; a shepherd lives behind the mountains, guarded by one-, two- and three-headed ajdaha; a young man kills the first ajdah, kills a three-headed snake, frees his brothers from her belly; kills the second ajdah, three brothers kill the third together; a shepherd gives chamois milk and two daughters to marry older brothers; on the way back they become padishahs of two cities that 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; Megrels [=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; who came up asked not to be afraid, gave an apple for the queen, before at the baptism of his son, say his name Mula; a piece of apple was eaten by a maid, the peel by a dog; the queen and the maid gave birth to boys, like two drops of water, the dog ate a puppy; at baptism they called Mulu; he named the prince Messiah, the son of a maid named Kiko, the dog Caracachi; Messiah predestined to rule over animals and the forest; once a pestilence occurred, only Messiah, Kiko and Caracachi survived; from M. and K. came invisible mesepis who own animals; one year mesepi men wander and it rains, and the other year, women, the weather is clear; mesepi hunt and, after killing the beast, eat meat, and bones and the skin is revived again; only such animals can become the prey of hunters; the more there are in mesepi, the fewer predatory animals in the forest]: Stepanov 1898, No. 1:62-65; Georgians (Imereti) [the tsar places his daughter with as a nanny to the island; they eat a rolled apple, a daughter gives birth to a son named Hvtisavar, a nanny eight clever puppies; the king orders them to be executed, the servants kill hares instead of them; H. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and nanny to their house; the ninth was just injured, becomes a lover of mother H., they come up with difficult tasks for X.; to get the horn of a dangerous deer, boar stubble, a hawk's feather; they themselves give, promise help (X. kills a snake that intends to eat the giant hawk's chicks); the mother and the giant close H. in the cauldron, throw him into the sea; the deer, the boar, the hawk release him; H. kills his mother, a giant, a nanny; a young man of equal strength becomes his sister; at the fork he goes to the left (you will find happiness), H. goes to the right (you won't come back); H. jumped over the river on horseback, for which he received a princess; in the forest the old woman turns H. and his four dogs into stones, swallows them; her brother cuts her stomach, swallowed dead; she tells her to take the towel from the box in the corner of her abdomen, wipe X. and the dogs they come to life ; sister kills her; H. and his wife return home]: Glushakov 1904, No. 2:17-27; Armenians [the dog ate a piece of apple given by the dervish, gave birth to two puppies; {this is clearly from the text in which the dervish gives an apple to be eaten by the king's wife}]: Gullakian 1983:288; Turks [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 mare; do not give a name to his son, the old man will name him; they laugh at the boy - "nameless"; parents arrange a party to give a name; an old man comes and gives the name Hüznügüzel ("beautiful soul"), and calls the foal born at the same time Altai; then the old man disappeared, it was Hizir; H. dreamed three times of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (SCZHM) and fell ill with love; his father tells him that he himself is 12 He had been looking for her unsuccessfully for years; he gave his sword; after sitting on his horse, H. set off on his journey; met Padishah Moray's son, who offered to go together; the son of Padishah Stars; they stopped on earth Padishah Arabs; the guards threaten them, H. cut off their ears, sent them to call the PA; he sent 300 soldiers, H. cut off their ears again; the PA came by himself, passed off his three daughters as those who had arrived; H. put his sword between younger princess and himself; if he returns without getting SKZHM, he marries this princess; left his sword; if he has three drops of blood on it, immediately inform his brothers; H. comes to Hizir; here directs SKZHM to the palace; on the other side, the glow is the light from one of her hair that hangs from the window; Hizir gave a magic sword, and his father's sword ordered to leave it; to enter the palace, Go around the palace three times and then hit this place, the door will open; H. spent a week with the SCJM, went hunting; but the SKJM image prevents him from aiming; SKZHM gives his hair to pull the image towards himself; one day her hair was blown away by the wind into the garden of the Padishah Giants; then, when the SKZHM was swimming in the sea, one of her sandals was carried away; the witch promised to get SKZHM; pulled goatskin over a clay pot, sat down and, scourging, flew; pretending to be a hunchback, persuaded H. to take her into the house; persuaded the SKZHM 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 the broom (her witch burned); in a sword; the witch threw him into the sea; H. huddled in convulsions, and the witch in her pot carried the SCZHM to the Padishah of the Giants; there are three blood stains on the sword left; the son of Padishah Stars determines by stars , where H., the son of Padishah Moray, took his sword from the bottom, H. came to life; came to the land of giants, changed clothes with the shepherd; entered the SCZHM, killed Padishah the Giants when he entered her after the wedding; in the morning H. was received for the younger padishah; the SKZHM leaves the keys to the vizier; 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. and the SCZHM beat him, sent the vizier back; taking the youngest daughter of Padishah Arabs, H. returned to Egypt with his two wives]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 3:34-54.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the padishah has 40 wives and 40 mares, but all are sterile; the dervish gives an apple: half should be eaten by wives and the other by mares; in a year let him give one child and one foal; in a year took the foal and the girl away {it is clear from the following that the horse and the girl have already grown up}; the dervish is gone; the horse: follow him; the dead are suspended from the ceiling of the building; the horse tells you to run; in the city, 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 sleeping; mother: these are braids, not a snake; the wedding is being prepared, 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 away; shah-zade found the dervish and executed; the horse girls turn into a palace, one ear into musicians, the other into singers; shah-zade met his fiancée, everything is fine]: Osmanov 1987:163-167; Sarykoltsy [a childless man sees a pomegranate in the river, takes him; 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; Having found out what is going on, he rides a horse and with a dog to the river; the dragon orders to get the princess; wins, takes as assistants the Ice Blossom Beast, the Fiery Beast, the Shooter Beast, the Shovel-bearer Beast; does not crush ants, their king gives his mustache to summon it on occasion; the same with mice; the princess's father offers challenges; 1) sit in a cold house (The Firecracker warms, 2) in a hot house (The Ice Maker cools down), 3) turn the forest into arable land (Lopatonbearer performs), 4) collect millet scattered across the field (ants collect); 5) bring firewood on a donkey (the witch turned into a donkey, then became a bird, flew away with firewood, but the Shooter hit her, she She became a donkey again); mice gnaw 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, and orders him to cut the iron deck with a wooden ax; gives a bunch of his hair, they help cut it; the horse and the dog J. win; the king gives his daughter; then sends the old woman to turn J. into a donkey; J. changed the potion, it was eaten by an old woman and a dragon, steel donkeys]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 27:273-285.

Baltoscandia. Danes [the fisherman can't catch anything; finally pulls out the talking fish; she tells its giblets and scales to be thrown into the trash, bury his head under a stone over which water flows; let the back the wife will eat, but the fisherman himself should not eat; save the rest and, when the boys are 7 years old, give birth to a mare, dog and female cat, they will give birth to foals, puppies, chicks; when the boys are 15, dig out from under stones 2 swords and 2 knives; from now on, the fisherman's field will yield such crops that there will be no need to fish; sowing on their horses, taking swords, knives, dogs and cats, the brothers set off to wander; at the fork they parted, stabbing a tree: whoever will rust, so trouble; the eldest came to a city where mourning: the king must give his only daughter to a sea monster with 9 heads; who is him will kill, get the princess and inherit the throne; the Red Knight promises to do so; when the princess was brought ashore, the KR saw the monster and ran into the forest; the young man let a cat, a dog and a horse on the monster, and he cut off three heads himself, cut off his tongues and hid him; KK brought his heads to the city and attributed victory to himself; the next day, 6 (the same); on the third day, all 9 heads grew, but the young man cut them all down, monster died; the princess put her ring on the young man's finger; he said he should see his brother and would return in a year; the KR did not see what was happening and decided that the monster would defeat and eat the princess; KR brought princess and heads, attributed the victory to himself; the young man found his younger brother's knife unrusty, went to look for it, but did not find it; returned when the princess's wedding with the Kyrgyz Republic; sent a cat, the princess recognized him, cat grabbed a goblet of wine and brought it to the young man; he gave it to the hotelier to drink, and sent his dog to the princess; likewise, the dog took the food basket; the young man came by himself, showed his tongues; the princess named it savior; KR is hanged from the tree on which he sat, fearing the dragon; on the first three nights, a rooster flies up to the wedding window and screams; the young man decided that his brother was in trouble, went after the rooster, got lost in the fog; an old woman came up, asked for help to carry a heavy bag on horseback; hit the water with a stick, the sea parted and they went dry, and there was water around, in front and behind; went out to the mountain, the old woman opened the door , there is an iron room with a huge stove; the old woman pulled out her hairs, told her to throw them on a horse, dog, cat and sword, which were petrified (or rather immobilized}; said that she was the mother of a dragon, and threw her hair at the young man; the younger brother saw that the knife was rusted, went in search of the elder; he was mistaken for him; at night he put his sword in bed between himself and the princess; that rooster appeared; everything that happened to the elder brother, but he threw the witch's hair into the fire; told her to revive her brother and his animals (she sprinkled them with water from a bottle) and take them back across the sea; then they cut off her head; on the way home, younger brother told the elder about the night with his wife; he pierced him with a sword; he went furiously to the Queen; she asked why he put a sword between them the previous night; when he heard this, he galloped to the place where he killed brother; wanted to stab his corpse, but his younger brother's cat just brought the bottle and poured liquid on it; he came to life; the brothers divided the kingdom, and the youngest married another princess]: Grundtvig 1878:276 -326; Swedes [after eating a wonderful fish (apple), a woman gives birth to twins, at the same time a dog gives birth to two puppies, a mare two foals; the youngest recovers to wander with his animals, leaving the eldest an item that shows if something happens to the younger one; defeats the dragon and frees the princess; goes hunting, the witch turns him into stone; the older brother goes to save him; comes to a princess who takes him for her husband and does not understand why he puts a sword between them on the bed; kills a witch and revives her brother; the princess cannot understand which brother is her husband]: Liungman 1961, No. 303:49-50; Karelians (Olonetsky, 1936) [the fortune teller tells the childless queen to catch and eat fish, give bones to the dog, the horse's ear; the queen gives birth to three sons, a puppy dog, a foal horse; the brothers go to see the world, part at the crossroads, leave knives - whoever rusts is dead; Ivan Tsarevich comes to the city, where the girls are given to be eaten by monsters, the turn of the king's daughters; I. kills three- and six-headed; dog: I'll jump into the mouth of the 9-headed, tear it from the inside; the heroes claim that they killed the monsters, I. shows the cut off tongues; I. marries the younger princess; sees fire at night; wife tells you to sleep; I.: if the first night you lie how I will live with you; goes to the fire, someone from the tree asks you to throw 3 hairs, 3 dog hair and 3 horse hair; I. throws, himself, the dog, the horse they stone; the second brother sees a rusted knife, comes, he is mistaken for I., the same with him; the third dog tells the witch to answer that he has already thrown his fur; he grabs the witch, makes him bring her alive and dead water to revive the brothers, they came to life; 3 brothers married 3 princesses, I. received the kingdom]: Concca 1959, No. 7:39-46.

Volga - Perm. Chuvash [the witch doctor tells a childless person to catch fish with gold scales, let his wife eat; the cook ate the tail, the head is eaten by a mare, three heroes were born; they oppress their peers; they want them lock and key, they leave; stopped in a hut; the mare's son is awake; a three-headed snake rides, asks why the horse stumbles; horse: the mare's son will kill them; he kills a snake on the bridge, hides his heads under the bridge; the same on the second, third night; the same six-headed serpent; nine-headed; brothers leave; the mare's son returns for a forgotten knife; in the hut there is a monstrous old woman; he cuts off a piece from her lip, old woman says that the fly bit; promises to turn into a spring; into a feather bed; into a garden with comedians; the mare's son hits the spring with a sword, the water turns into pus; the same with the feather bed; looked back at the garden, his comedians grabbed; they demand to get the daughter of the water king; the son of a mare meets, takes comrades as companions: a birdsman; who knows how to count trees in the forest; an invisible man sees and hears how the water promises daughter to someone who looks like him: golden hair on her head, silver in her beard; pulled out three hairs, attached a mare to her son; he gave her a water daughter; she became a bird, the shooter knocked her down; a tree - who knows how to count figured it out; the mare's son gave the bride, got the horse back; the bride returned, they began to live well]: Chuvash tales 1937:203-209; Udmurts [spouses 70 years old; passerby came in and left; after that the old woman and the mare became pregnant; the old people decided that their son could no longer be fed at their age, they left him in the field with the foal; both grew up themselves, the boy rode a foal; the horse persuades him not to pick up but the boy picked up the golden pen; he joined the king's service; other servants, out of envy, told the king about the pen; the king demanded that the bird itself be brought; the foal brought the boy to the tree on which he was sitting a hawk who has lost his feather; orders to leave the trough of wine, the golden hawk became drunk, the boy brought it to the king; the servants told about the foal, the king orders to get a herd of the neighboring king; the foal took it there the boy, told him not to look while he was fighting the local stallion; the boy looked, the foal fell with its belly bursting; a crow flew into the carrion; the boy caught her; she asked her to let her go, brought live water, the foal came to life; after that, the boy did not watch the foal beat; he defeated the stallion, the boy brought the herd; then the servants persuade him to send the boy for the princess's ring the kingdom where the herd came from, and then behind the princess herself; then the narrator did not remember; in the end, the king tells the boy to dive into a cauldron of boiling resin; he dived with the foal, whose snot protected both from the resin ; then the king and the servants dived, died; the boy reigned and married the princess]: Potanin 1884:227-229.