K94. Happiness bird (head eaten), ATU 567, 567A.

.13.-.17.21.-.24.27.-.34.38.

Eating a wonderful bird, fish, animal or fruit gains wealth and power.

Nubians, Arabs of Sudan, Egypt, Morocco, Berbers, Morocco, Kabilas, Algeria, Tunisia, Basques, Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Italians (Tuscany, Basilicata, Calabria), (Corsicans), Ladins, Scots, Irish, French (Upper Brittany, etc.), Bretons, Flemish, Dutch, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Grimms, Austria), Arameans, Palestinians, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Mehri, Jibbali, Tibetans, Mustang, Lepcha, Khasi, Riang, Meitei (?) , Burmese, Shans, Khmers, Viets, Kashmiris, Punjabi, Himachali Pahari, India (Hindi), Bengalis, (Kurubas), Tamils, Sinhales, Javanese, Minahasa, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Moldovans, Romanians, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, (Ancient Greece), Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Pskov, Novgorod, Vologda, Tver, Tula, Ryazan, Kursk), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Galicia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Kiev, Poltava, Kherson), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Adygs, Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Turks, Persians, Lurs, Bakhtiyars, Turkmens, Pashtuns, (Baluchis), Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Tajiks Sistan, Yazgulyam, (Tajiks), Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Setus, Veps, Livons, Latvians, Lithuanians, Westerners (?) Sami, Swedes, Norwegians, Maris, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Dungans, Buryats, Mongols, Darkhats, Tuvans, Siberian Tatars.

Sudan-East Africa. The Nubians [the wife dies, the husband takes another, leaves; she has a lover; stepsons Mohammed and Ali eat the tail and giblets from the chicken cooked for him; they hear that their stepmother will kill them, run away; they spend the night with an old woman, cry at night, laugh, in the morning the old woman finds gold and pearls falling from their lips, gives them; in the desert, the brothers dream of changing treasures for water and food, and it turns out; M. goes along right road; in the city they choose a king, the falcon descends on M.'s head, he becomes king; A. dies of thirst in the desert; the stepmother shows the father the graves of his sons, he finds blocks in them; finds M.; breaks wife with hungry camels]: Katznelson 1968:95-98; Sudanese Arabs [orphan Ahmed heard voices at night; the old man tried to take the old woman's chicken; A. threw stones, the old man got scared, ran away; the old woman did not said what is the secret of the chicken; A. stole it and eventually ate it; old woman; the chicken who ate the heart has the power of 40 people; the sultan will give his daughter to the one who wins her in martial arts; already more than a hundred applicants executed; A. defeats the girl several times, marries; at night, the former chicken owner comes, rips A.'s stomach open, pulls out the chicken's heart; in the morning A. discovers that he has lost his strength; the sultan drives him away; A. eats green and yellow dates; the former grow, the latter disappear 4 horns; A. first sells green to the sultan, his daughter grows horns; then, under the guise of a doctor, feeds her yellow, the horns disappear; the sultan recognizes A. as a son-in-law]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 32:155-159.

North Africa. Kabila [pregnant woman climbed into the garden to pick figs, the ogre owner caught her, let her go for promising to give him a child if a girl is born; took the girl when she was 10 years old; her six brothers tried to repel her, the cannibal defeated them, put them under lock and key; their mother has no hope for new children, but a pea turns into a boy; he eats a lot; after learning about the fate of his brothers and sister, goes to the ogre; the shepherd says that first you must defeat the ram, goat and bull, which are at the head of the ogre's herds (the boy defeats them) and eat a huge watermelon in his garden (eats them); the cannibal offers to eat a huge portion of couscous, eat a bull; the boy eats everything, kills the ogre, frees his sister and brothers, takes wealth]: Dermenghem 1945:79-80; Moroccan Berbers: Leguil 1988, No. 20 (Marrakech area) [a man went for firewood, caught an unusual bird, his wife offered to put it in a cage; the bird lays an egg every morning; for each Jew it gives a hundred mitkals, because they are rubies ; the man became rich; assigned sons named Lahsen and al-Husain to school to study the Koran; went on Hajj; his wife decided that he would not return and invited a Jew to marry her; he agreed subject to the condition slaughter a bird and eat it whole together; when the woman left, the maid brought the boys home from school and let one eat the heart and the other's head; when he saw that the heart and head were missing, a Jew gave up his intention to marry a woman; she questioned the maid; the Jew was going to gut the boys and get what they had swallowed; they ran away with the maid; they broke up at a fork in the roads; one came to the city where the king died; the first person to enter, this young man, was chosen as the new one; the other, along with the maid, came to the same city, not knowing who reigned in it (but then the brothers united); the father returned from hajj; the wife became Jewish and did not recognize her husband; the local king was bribed by a Jew; they went to another, and this was that man's son; (they did not recognize him, but he recognized them); he forgave his mother, and told the Jew to be alive throw into the oven]: 113-131; Stumme 1895, No. 15 (south) [the poor firewood seller has two sons; he caught a beautiful bird in the forest and brought it home; the wife did not let its children play, but hid it; the bird lays an egg every day , a Jew each buys for a hundred mitkals; the husband went on a pilgrimage, and the Jew became his wife's lover; asked to slaughter and cook the poultry; returning in the absence of their mother, the boys opened the lid of the cauldron, the youngest Hammed ate the head, and the elder Muhammed ate the heart of the bird; unable to find the head and heart, the Jew tells the woman to slaughter the children and take out the contents of their stomachs; she tells the maid to do so; she let the children go , brought the head and heart of a dead bird; Jew: that's not it; the woman drove the maid away and married a Jew;...]: 119-131; the Arabs of Morocco [in despair, the poor man turns to God and hits the rock; a chicken appears laying golden eggs; once he entrusted the chicken to a barber friend, who replaced it with an ordinary one; the man began to beat the rock again, received two batons; deliberately left them in the barber's house; batons began to beat him, he returned the chicken]: El Koudia 2003, No. 7:39-41; Berbers Sfisifa (SW Algeria) [the poor man picked up, brought the bird; in the morning next to the bird ruby; after getting rich, the husband went to pilgrimage, leaving his wife and two children; the wife sells rubies to a Jew; he tells her to fry a bird; children accidentally eat their heads and hearts; run away, their mother marries a Jew; brothers break up at the pond; died king, it is decided to choose a new one when they find him sleeping at the gate; so one of the brothers becomes king; the father returns, his wife has become a Jew; he comes to complain to the king, recognizes the son; the son sentences mother to be burned, Arabs came and burned her]: Basset 1887, No. 36:75-76; kabila [the lumberjack has a wife and two sons; he finds two birds in the hollow, brings home, one carries diamonds, the other emerald eggs; a woodcutter sells them to a Jew; he gives little money, but enough money to go on Hajj; a Jew settles in with a lumberjack's wife, tells her to slaughter the birds; the boys leave; after death The Sultan orders the vizier to appoint the first person he meets as the new one; this is the eldest of the boys; the sultan is dead, the vizier himself became a sultan, his younger brother is a vizier; Haji returns, demands back his house and wife, they go to Sultan; on the way, a man asks Haji to help raise a stubborn donkey from the ground; he pulled his tail, his tail came off; the owner also goes to the Sultan to demand compensation; two boys ask for help to carry sick father; the body falls, the father dies, the boys also go to court; the sultan decides against the owner of the donkey and the boys; the sultan and the vizier show their father moles, he recognizes them, they honor him; the woman and a Jew was tied by his hair to horse tails]: Dermenghem 1945:81-85; Tunisian Arabs [a poor fisherman catches two fish every day; once he did not sell it, but exchanged it for a bird, put it in a cage; every bird the day lays an emerald egg; the merchant sees the glow, gives all the goods for 10 eggs; the fisherman is rich; he has gone on business; his wife has a Jewish lover; he orders to cook the bird, including his stomach and heart; sons former fisherman Muhammad and Ali returned from school and ate them; a Jew tells the boys to be slaughtered to reach the bird's stomach and heart; the brothers ran away with the maid; at the fork, M. and the maid went to one way, Ali to the other; began to live with an old woman; every morning he finds gold on his bed, spends a living and gives it to the old woman; buys a mule, and in the morning he again from the seller; the person advises buying with bridle and feed her almonds; the mule turns out to be a speedboat; turns into a woman, she tells her to grab Ali, take her to the basement; her whole house is full of cats, donkeys, pigeons; a woman turned Ali into a peacock; Ali turned to God, the bird took him to the city, gave him medicine, he became human again; the bird tells him to buy a mule again, but not to release the bridles; Ali brought a mule, the bird turned into a magician, he gave a whip and ordered a mule to be beaten; not to let go of bridles even at night; Ali came on a mule to one city, stopped at an inn; the mule became a woman again and Ali married her; M. came to the same city; to Three birds, a female and two males, flew to the local sultan, but he does not understand what they are asking, promises a reward to those who understand; M. says he knows the bird language {apparently, this is a consequence of eating a stomach magic bird}; asks to first put him on the throne and dress him in royal clothes; then tells the female to fly with the male she loves; after that, all the animals come to him as a judge; the sultan handed him over he has a throne; the owner of the inn sees Ali's beautiful wife, the boss wants to take her away, and put Ali in prison; it comes to Sultan M, who recognized M.; their father has returned, but neither his wife nor children; he recognized his wife at the Jewish house, but she denied everything; it came to Sultan M, who brought an old maid; the brother's mother and Jew were burned]: Stimme 1893, No. 6:93-106; Egyptian Arabs: Basset 1887 [from the musician a chicken that lays golden eggs; every day he sells such an egg to a Jew; in the absence of her husband, a Jew persuades his wife to kill and cook chicken, but the musician's sons eat goiter and then become unusually strong; hereinafter as in the Italian version]: 182-183; Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 9 [the poor musician's wife is giving birth; he went to beg, but found a chicken and an egg; she began to lay eggs that the Jew he bought for good money; when the musician went to the Hajj, a Jew gave his wife silver and told him to cook chicken; the son came and ate goiter; the servant told him to run; the Jew pursued him for a long time, caught up, rushed at him with a knife, but the boy knocked him down and killed him; came to the king's palace, 39 heads hang at the gate; the king's daughter tells the suitors to overcome her, kills her; on the first day, the young man and the princess fight, but the winner uncertain; when the young man falls asleep, the king tells his healers to find out what was going on; they cut the young man's chest, took out that chicken's goiter, sewed up the wound imperceptibly; in the morning the young man realized that he had lost his former strength, and ran away; three are fighting over a flying carpet, a bowl filled with food, a hand mill that gives money; a young man throws a stone: whoever gets there first will receive wonderful items; picks them up himself, flies to flying carpet; arrives at the palace of the royal daughter, puts her on the carpet, takes her to Mount Kaf; but as soon as he gets off the carpet, the princess picks everything up and flies away; the young man found dates: yellow grows a huge horn, disappears from the red one; he collected them, returned to the palace, sold yellow dates, the princess grew 8 horns; under the guise of a doctor, the young man fed the princess one date - one horn disappeared; every day one horn; the king married him to his daughter, made him a vizier; the young man asked his wife where his wonderful objects were; the princess promised to obey and they began to live well]: 112-122.

Southern Europe. Basques [the mother of two boys's fiance gives her two eggs, tells her to cook them; she leaves them to the cook, goes to church with the groom; the boys accidentally ate eggs; the woman's husband kicked them out; they see three fighting for an invisible hat, a cloak that carries an inexhaustible bag wherever you want; the brothers invite them to run to the tree, the winner will get the items themselves, wrapped in a cloak, they fly away; one became a bishop, the other decided to marry a princess; she stole his objects and left him on the mountain; he meets people giving him figs that make him grow on his head the horn, and the juice of the same fig tree removes the horn; lets a friend sell figs to the palace, the princess and the king and queen grow horns; gives juice in exchange for magic items; marries a princess]: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 36:136-139; frets [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 47:277-279; man lived by bringing twigs from the forest and knitting a broom; caught a bird, at home with his wife they forgot to feed it ; when we went to bed, the husband remembered and told his wife to feed the bird; she found a silver egg next to the bird; next time a gold egg; a diamond egg; each time she took eggs to the jeweler; he asked him to show him a bird; the couple were illiterate, and the jeweler read on her goiter: who eats her head would become king, and whoever heart would find a purse with money at the head in the morning; to take possession of the bird, a jeweler married a lumberjack's daughter and asked her to cook poultry for the wedding day; her younger brothers ate one head and the other heart out of curiosity; the mother screamed and the brothers ran away from home; the hotelier left the boys for the night; in the morning the maid found a purse; the owner kept the boys with him; sent them to school; got rich; when a new king was chosen, the dove sat on the head of his brother, who ate the bird's head; and The hotelier married another brother; all is well]: Uffer 1973, No. 30:117-118 (a little great and short version in Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 21:72-73); Spaniards (Extremadura) [one of two friends went broke; began hunting; caught a bird that did not lay eggs, but diamonds; he became rich; his ex-friend wanted to accuse him of stealing, but when he found out about the bird, asked to sell it to him; ex The poor man agreed in exchange for all the rich man's possessions; he read under the wings of a bird that he who eats his head would become king, and the one who swallowed his heart would find money at the head of the bed in the morning; he told the cook fry a bird; his two sons accidentally ate the older head and the younger heart; the father began to beat the maid, but the sons confessed; every morning the father began to take money from under the youngest son's pillow; one day the sons went elsewhere, the youngest began to find money; when they returned, the father told them everything; they went on a journey; the elder was chosen king; the youngest went on; married poor but pretty girl; her aunt found out about the bird's heart, persuaded her niece to put powder in her husband's wine; he felt bad, he regurgitated the bird's heart, his aunt swallowed it, kicked her husband out nieces out; he went away, ate figs, became a donkey, then ate grass, became human again, collected figs and herbs, gave the figs to the house where his wife, that, her aunt and maid ate them, became donkeys; donkey aunt the young man tortured with work; she regurgitated his heart, he swallowed it; allowed the donkeys to eat herbs; returned to his brother-king]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 567:571-577; Catalans [eating a magical heart birds, the hero finds a purse with money every day; the woman makes him vomit and swallows his heart herself; the hero eats figs, turns into a donkey, eats grass, becomes human again; gives figs that woman, she becomes a donkey, he takes possession of the bird's heart again and leaves]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 567:127; Portuguese [the person learns that the one who eats the heart (liver) of a magic bird will be find money every day; become king; become a dad; children eat the heart (and liver) that their father or uncle was going to eat; flee home; adventures follow]: Cardigos 2006, No. 567:143; Italians (Tuscany, Basilicata, Calabria): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 567, 567A: 136; (cf. Corsicans [the widow and son Giovanni live by collecting and selling firewood, and their chicken brings an egg every day; one day the son asks for permission to sell the chicken for the holiday; it is bought by a curé, tells take it to him; on the way, J. cut off the chicken's head and found a ring in the goiter; put it on his finger, it asks what would you please? at home, J. tells the ring to serve a set table; curé: was there nothing in the goiter? J.: She had no head; J. demanded a palace next to the royal; the princess saw him, invited J. to visit, he married her; the curé comes disguised as a merchant, shouting "I am changing old rings for new ones"; Unaware of what she was doing, the wife gave her the ring, the curé left her the entire box of jewelry; created a palace for himself in the middle of the sea, J.'s palace disappeared; the princess returned to her father, and J. went in search; the old woman sends to my sister, she knows where the priest is; she gives the cat to the rats, only they can return the ring; J. rats: if you don't bring the ring, I'll put the cat on you, and if you do, I'll let you run everywhere; the rat asks for a ball of thread and a pumpkin to hide in; a ring in the nose of the curé; the rat tickled, the curé sneezed in his sleep, the ring fell out, the rat took it away; J. destroyed the curé and his palace, allowed rats should go everywhere, the ship demanded, returned to his wife on it, giving the cat to the old woman]: Delarue, Tenèse 1964, No. 560:393-398).

Western Europe. Scots [the widower got married, the stepmother treats his two sons badly, they leave; they caught a beautiful bird; the stranger asked to see; under the feathers it was written that the one who ate the heart will get a best wife, and the one who eats the liver will find gold under the pillow in the morning; buys poultry from the boys, leads him to him, tells the cook to cook his heart and liver; the younger brother accidentally ate liver, elder heart; the cook tells them to run; they live with an old woman for a year, she collects gold in the morning; tells them about their happiness; the king's daughter takes the elder as her husband; the youngest marries the widow's daughter; she vomits, the wife swallows the bird's regurgitated liver, drives her husband away; he works for a miller; his wife teaches her to wear a hat that carries her anywhere; they find themselves on a distant island; the wife asks her husband to get fruit, puts on the hat, returns home; the younger brother eats the fruits, his horns grow; eats others, the horns disappear; eats red lettuce, becomes a horse, the green brother becomes a man ; returns home on a passing ship; sells fruit to his ex-wife, she grows horns; treats others for taking vomiting, regurgitating the liver; swallows the liver herself; the wife returns to him; he gives her and mother-in-law a red salad, both become mares; he gives them to the miller, becomes lord]: McKay 1925:131-159; Bretons [Louis and his older brother go begging; brother is given more generously , he chases Louis away; he comes to the fairy's castle; she gives him a roasted pigeon to eat and in the morning he finds 50 coins under his head; does not take them; the fairy tells him to return, educates and teaches Louis; promises to help him marry a princess; she is sick and will recover if she is laughed; the fairy gives a self-propelled wagon, each wheel of which spins with mill blades; the princess laughs, Louis marries her; the princess wants to have money on her pillow in the morning; her godmother advises her husband to vomit; Louis regurgitates a pigeon's heart and the princess swallows it; the fairy helping Louis gives him a hat in return Wish-fulfilling; on the advice of her godmother, the princess takes Louis into the forest, steals his hat and leaves him alone; when he wakes up, hungry Louis takes the roots of a lily (Lilium martagon L.) in her mouth and turns into a donkey; Seven years later, he comes to his fairy, she returns him to his human form; Louis collects the roots of the lily; unrecognized, gives them to the princess under the guise of a rejuvenation remedy; the princess and her godmother turn into donkeys; they work for seven years and then the fairy Louis gives them back their human appearance; the princess improved]: Orain 1904:50-63; Germans: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 60 [the rich, unkind brother was golden a craftsman, a poor broom knitted; he has two twin boys; the poor saw a golden bird, threw a stone, a golden pen fell, a jeweler brother gave a lot of money for it; then the poor man found a bird's nest, brought an egg; then he knocked down a bird, sold it to his brother; he told his wife to fry it; whoever eats her heart and liver would have gold under his pillow in the morning; while the wife was away, the nephews ran in and ate the fallen pieces; the frightened wife fried her husband's heart and liver, and the boys found gold under the pillow in the morning; upon learning about this, the rich brother advised the poor to take the boys to the forest - they contacted the devil; they were found, sheltered by a hunter, saved the morning gold; the brothers grew up and went on a journey; the hunter gave everyone gold, a gun and a dog; let them stick a knife at a crossroads; if it rusts, with another Brother trouble; brothers hunt, feel sorry for animals, each gets a hare, fox, wolf cub, bear cub and lion cub; brothers broke up, the youngest came to the city, where all the girls were eaten by the dragon, the turn is royal; on Dragon Mountain, a young man sees three bowls: whoever drinks can get a sword from under the door threshold; the young man drank, became a strongman, took out a sword; cut off seven snake heads, the animals tore the body to shreds ; the young man carved and hid dragon tongues; the Queen gave him her handkerchief, divided the coral necklace between the animals, the lion got a gold lock; everyone fell asleep; the marshal cut off the hunter's head and took away princess; she made it a condition to get married in a year and one day; the animals wanted to kill a hare that did not wake them up, but he promised to get a reviving root; first, the lion put the young man's head backwards , then tore it off and put it right; he argued with the owner of the tavern that he would eat bread from the royal table; the queen recognized the hare, who brought the baker to the tavern; the same with the fox (bring meat); the wolf brought vegetables, the bear sweet, the lion brought wine; after eating, the young man came with the animals to the castle and showed his tongues; the marshal was torn by four bulls, the young man became a young king; chased a white deer in the forest; spent the night around the fire; the old woman asked her to warm up and hit the animals with her twig; they were petrified, the old woman touched the king with a twig; there were many similar stones nearby; the elder brother saw that the knife rusted; the queen mistook him for her husband, but he put his sword on the bed; in the forest he knocked the old woman off the tree with a silver bullet; made the petrified ones revive, the brothers burned the old woman in the fire; the forest became transparent and bright; when he learned that his brother was sleeping next to his wife, the king hacked him down, repented, the hare revived the uprooted; the Queen identified her husband by the golden lock that she gave him to the lion; the king learned about what was in bed sword]: 212-227 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:171-187); Schönwerth 1981 (Upper Palatinate) [a man lived by knitting and selling brooms; one day he saw a bird singing wonderfully in the forest; it let himself be caught; he brought it, put it in a cage, the bird laid a golden egg, his daughter went to sell it, the master bought it for a lot of money; for the second he gave it even more; when he found out that the owner was ready to sell the bird, he made him rich; but the bird the master did not sing, did not eat, and died; there is an inscription on his beak: if he has eaten his head, he will find a purse with money under his pillow in the morning, and the one who eats his heart will become king; the master told the cook to cook a bird; two poor boys ran in, picked up and ate two fallen pieces; it turned out to be the head and heart; the gentleman did not notice anything, ate the bird, but in the morning he did not find gold under the pillow; the boys spent the night at different peasants, but each time they gave the owner the purse, thinking that he had put it in; then they guessed that their purse, but they did not understand the value of gold; a merchant sheltered them and soon became rich, because of the gold that appeared every morning; at this time the childless king died; the one on whose head the dove sits on will be new; he did not sit only on the head of the younger young man, he was chosen king; the eldest became rich]: 18-19; the Germans (Austria) [a grinder with two sons went to town; sent his sons to eat; they saw a bird, caught it, brought it to his father, he saw an inscription on her head: the one who ate my head will find a bag of gold every day; the old man told the cook to cook the bird, left; the elder brother ate it, giving the younger man a head; the old man beat his sons, found out everything, began to find it under gold with the younger pillow; the brothers left, hired a miller; the maid thinks they are throwing her gold; the brothers broke up with knives stuck in the oak tree; the elder Hans does not kill, takes a fox, a wolf as his companions, bear; in the city every year they give a girl to a seven-headed dragon, it's the royal turn; G. kills him, cuts off his tongues, the princess gives him a ring, a chain, a handkerchief; the servant cut off the head of G. who slept, brought dragon heads, demands a princess for himself; the fox brought the grass of life (it was given by a white deer); the bear first put his head backwards, the fox had to bring a new blade of grass; the fox, the wolf, the bear bring the princess has a ring, a chain, a handkerchief; everything is explained, G. marries a princess; sees a roe deer, chases, meets an old woman, she turns him and the animals into stones; the younger brother sees the elder's rusted knife, with he is also a fox, a wolf and a bear; the princess takes him for her husband; he also sees a roe deer, chases, but cuts off the old woman's arms and legs, smears her stones with ointment, animals have torn the old woman to pieces; both brothers consider the princess As her own, she chooses the one who killed the dragon]: Cerf 1992:193-203; the Irish [who ate the heart of a magic bird gets gold]: Jackson 1936:288; the French (Haute-Brittany, West 1878) [ a peasant saw a beautiful blue bird in the forest; the children asked to catch it; every day she brings an egg; egg buyer: I have no money - the eggs are golden; the prince went to drink water, read the inscription on wings: the head will become king, the one who has eaten the heart will find a purse of gold under the pillow in the morning; the mistress does not sell the bird; the prince promises to marry her daughter if he is at a wedding feast they will serve this bird; the sister persuaded the brothers to agree; the brothers replaced the blue bird in the pan with another; the prince ate it, and the brothers ate the real one, but, fearing exposure, ran away from home; at the stand Handfuls of gold spread in the courtyard; then they learned the value of the coins; in a foreign city, they found out about their wealth, the princess married the youngest, who became king after the death of his father-in-law; the eldest came to the city where They did not know about gold before; married the daughter of a noble master; the sorcerer explained to the young wife that her husband had eaten the heart of a blue bird; gave a silver wire to extract this heart from the stomach of her sleeping husband; invited him to the ship and left him alone on a deserted island; the young man found herring-like grass, ate, became a donkey; ate another, became human again; the young man collected both types of herbs, his picked up the ship; pretending to be a greenery merchant, sold the herring to the princess, who became a donkey, her maid too; the young man brought both donkeys to the stall and fed only hay; gave the donkeys to work as a coal miner; Eight days later he returned it to the stall; a year later, the princess donkey made it clear that she was ready to return the bird's heart; the young man let another celery be eaten; with a silver wire he pulled out the bird's heart and swallowed it; with that the couple lived together, they have two children]: Sébillot 1880, No. 14:97-104 (=Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 567:444-445); French (the writings of most other versions from the text are incomprehensible; obviously only Pyrenees): Delarue, Tenèze 19646-448; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania), Scots, Flemish, Dutch: Uther 2004 (1), No. 567, 567A: 336-338.

Western Asia. Aramei [the widow's son finds a bird's egg every day, sells it for a hundred piastres; brings the bird home; the merchant persuades the widow to slaughter the bird; the young man eats its heart and finds it at the head in the morning 500 piastres; a merchant persuades the widow to kill his son, he leaves; admitted to the princess, she solders him, he belches the bird's heart, she eats him; the old man decides to help the young man; teaches him to start with the blunt side of the knife slaughter a kid outside the palace windows, cook it in a leaky cauldron, stick meat not in his mouth, but in his ears; every time the princess teaches fools how to do the right thing; the old man goes up to the roof, says it's a minaret, is going to call for prayer; the princess is afraid that her father will beat her if there is a noise and has to regurgitate the bird's heart and return it to the young man]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:307-311; Arabs of Palestine, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen: El-Shamy 2004, No. 567A: 328-329; Mehri [father of two boys died leaving them chicken; mother married another; new the husband told the slave to fry the chicken, not to show it to her stepsons; when they returned from school, they saw roast, one ate the head, the other heart; go on a journey; break up; one came to town, got married; wife told her mother that she found gold coins at her husband's headboard in the morning; they gave him poison, he fell ill, he began to vomit, he regurgitated his chicken heart, recovered; the wife hung her heart in a bag on a nail; the husband heard two people talking: there are two trees, good and bad; he collected dates from both, gave them to his wife and mother-in-law to eat, they had a horn on their heads; the wife asked her husband to cure them; he gave them others dates for his wife returning the chicken heart; he killed these women, left; (text torn off)]: Müller 1909, No. 35:91-94; jibbali [mother died leaving two sons; boys came to the grave, from there a bird flew to them; the elder invited the father to remarry; the stepmother decided to lime the stepsons; put poison in the food; the bird informed the boys about it; the old woman advised the stepmother to pretend sick; the husband asked the old woman what to do; she ordered the bird to be killed; the maid cooked it; the elder brother ate the head, the younger brother ate the heart; the brothers left home; separated at a fork in the roads; the youngest came to town, fell asleep in a mosque; the minister found a purse of gold on this place, gave it to the boy; he lived with the old woman, found gold under her head every morning; the old woman said this to the Sultan's daughter; she called the young man, offered to spit, he regurgitated the gold ring, she swallowed it; he bought a flying carpet at the bazaar, came to the Sultan's daughter, flew with her to the island; when he left the carpet, the Sultan's daughter flew to he went home, but the young man stayed on the island; found three varieties of berries: some turn into a donkey, others grow horns, and others restore their normal appearance; he swam to the mainland, came to the city, offered pregnancy product; the old woman ate, became a donkey; he released her when she returned him the chest {apparently with the gold she was taking}; offered berries to the Sultan's daughter, she grew horns, he freed her as she returned the ring and the flying carpet; he built his own house; his older brother came with the camel caravan; when the caravan was leaving, the younger one put in an expensive dish; then sent people, they the elder was accused of stealing; he was brought to the younger one, the brothers got to know each other, told them what happened to them, stayed together]: Müller 1907, No. 13:52-58.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the king's new wife wants her son to be heir, not the son of the deceased queen; pretends to be sick, only the boy's heart will heal her; both boys run away; the dove advises them to catch fish, the fish asks not to kill it, but to catch a pigeon; the one who eats the head will become king, the one who eats the body will become a minister; the elder brother eats the head, the younger brother eats the body; the elder leaves the younger one sleeping, hoping that he will return home; the elder is chosen king of a country left without a king; the youngest comes to the same city; when he learns that the king is sick and has a goldfish, gives this fish to the minister, he gives it to the king, the king is recovering; the minister wants to kill the boy so that everyone continues to think that he got the fish himself; the boy's arms and legs have been cut off, his eyes gouged out; the elderly spouses have found him; the gods made him again whole; he flees persecution, the young queen saves him, hides him in a piece of turquoise; tells the story to his brother; becomes the wife of both, his younger brother becomes a minister]: MacDonald 1931, No. 4: 450-456; Mustang [two princes kill people; people and ministers to the king: either we or they will leave; the king expels sons; they spend the night under a tree; the youngest sees the bird fall dead before that saying: the one who eats my flesh will become king, the one who drank blood will become a minister; the elder will eat the flesh, the youngest will drink blood; the next time the brothers spend the night by the lake, the younger one sleeps, the elder fish says that the one who has eaten her flesh will become king, the one who drank blood will become a minister; the elder does not want to share with his brother, does not wake him up, eats fish alone and leaves, marries a princess, becomes king; the younger brother comes to the palace, asks let him see the king; gatekeeper: I will only let the one who kills the cannibal tigress; he kills the tiger cubs, then kills the returning tigress with a stone; the king guessed that it was a brother, ordered as punishment for the murder tigresses cut off his arms and legs; rich old people find him, adopt him, put him in front of the altar, the gods gave him back his limbs; he marries a princess, they ask the queen to come, his younger brother says her story; younger brother and wife go back to their parents; older brother king gives him a chest with him, tells him not to open it on the way; younger brother opens - his older brother is in the chest; younger brother opens it - his older brother is in the chest; younger sends him back and reigns in his parents' land]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 37:210-215; (cf. Mustang [the dog disappeared while hunting; the king sent her to look for her, the traces led to a poor house, in which elderly spouses and a beautiful fairy in heaven; she was a dog; the king made her a wife, she gave birth to a daughter, then the son; the demonic queen saw her, decided to kill her; the fairy flew to heaven; the queen drugged the king, imprisoned her; sent the torturers to kill the children; their mother from heaven tell them to kill two dogs, bring their hearts ; children come to eat tangerines from the royal garden, the demoness sees them, sends the torturers again; this time two garudas arrive, the torturers kill them instead of children; the third time the torturers throw the children off the cliff, but The garudas pick them up; the boy hides in the hollow of a tree; an elephant stops in front of the tree; the boy is found, made king instead of the dead king; the sister comes to the palace, the brother recognizes her; the demoness sends an army, the boy hits her with an arrow, the army dispersed, the people finished off the demoness; the children freed their father]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 40:224-230); lepcha [the king's two sons miss animals during driven hunting; expelled; spend the night under a tree; the bird says that the one who eats its head will become king, the one who eats the tail is waiting for trouble; the elder cooks the bird, the younger is hungry, eats his head; the throne of India is empty, the younger astrologers elect king; the elder falls behind, falls into the trap of the groom, who sells him to sacrifice; a sacrifice is needed, because the king's bath cannot be moved; the elder brother brings a bath, sold to the merchant; he wins cards for the king's daughter; the eldest falls in love with her, the merchant pushes him into the river; the gardener picks him up, gets rich; summoned to the king; the brothers get to know each other; marry the received together merchant princess; merchant, groom and other villains are put in an iron chamber with snakes]: Siiger 1967, No. 6:225-227; khasi [only one family sheltered the wanderer; he leaves the animal; if eaten his meat, you'll get rich; mother-in-law cooks meat, daughter-in-law comes in, mother-in-law scolds and chases her; she accidentally eats a piece; leaves her evil mother-in-law with her husband; the husband swallows it the dragon U Yak Jakor; the wife finds her husband's clothes; the little son U Babam Doh cries with her, his tears turn into gold, for the wanderer's blessing has passed on him; the boy has grown up, beats with bones the chief's heir, wins him by inheritance; he says that UBD was conceived by his mother from the dragon; the mother has to tell about his father, she gives her son his clothes and brass vessel; UBD lured He lured the dragon to land, where it was losing its strength, into a chest, brought it home, and forbidden its mother to open it; she opened it, the dragon took the image of her husband, said that he would recover from receiving the tigress's milk, but bringing it milk should not know what it is for; 1) the mother pretends to be sick, asks her son to go get milk; he treats the tiger cub, the tigress gives milk; 2) the same with the task of bringing fresh bear fat (the son catches and brings a live bear); 3) fresh python skin; son spies, sees a mother open a chest, kills a dragon, tells her story, inherits the throne]: Rafy 1920, No. 23:140-160; Riang [ King Haphong has sons Abula and Adula; when they die, their mother bequeathed them a magic rooster; the king's new wife ordered the rooster to be slaughtered and cooked; the bird tells the brothers to eat the rooster, and for the father and stepmother cook another; after taking this meat, the brothers found great strength; the father advised them to leave; in the forest, Abula went to the lake to get water; at this time people were choosing a king; a white elephant approached Abula, picked up with a trunk, brought to the city, Abula was married to the eldest daughter of the deceased king and made a new one; the youngest daughter wanted an equally handsome husband, ordered Abula's face to be painted on fabric; at this time Adula was found by fishermen; noticed that when he cries, silver falls, and when he laughs, gold; the younger princess's messengers found him, he married her, became a vizier; Abula fell ill; the shaman ordered him to be placed in an iron a barrel, then he will tell you what to do; Abula was a black dog in his past life (at this time Abula cuts the barrel with a sword, but she withstood it); he has to listen further; Princess Hahoo all the time I spent with this dog, bad rumors spread; then she ordered the dog to be hacked and his head tied to the top of the banyan; when the banyan tree swings in the wind, the king feels dizzy; you need to find and burn a dog head; Abula went to H., the princess's ring came to his finger, he married her, burned the dog's head, recovered; after living in H. for a long time, Abula left the throne to his son from another wife, and with his chief and retinue sailed back to his kingdom; he was warned not to turn around, but he turned around and the ship sank; he threw a ring to his ex on another ship: whoever suits him would be king; Adula came; when he old, his son began to rule; he found a magical throne that gives strength and wisdom]: Mandal 2009:111-114; meitei [the queen sees two dead sparrows on earth; the male has died a female, he took another, and she threw the chicks out of the nest first; the queen cries, begs her husband to take care of their sons Turi and Basanta if she died; she died; the stepmother pretended to be sick, persuaded the doctor to say that her will cure bathing in the blood of the stepsons; the king sent them to kill, but the servants let them go, brought the dog's blood; the youngest B. fell asleep under the tree, and T. hears the parrots talking; whoever eats the female will first be unhappy, and then happy, and whoever is male will be king; T. shot and fried parrots; fell asleep; B. woke up, ate the female, and T. then ate the male; B. could not walk out of fatigue, T. went to get water to meet the elephant, sent to choose a king; the elephant ordered him to sit on him; T. became king and forgot about his brother; B. came to the palace, but he was mistaken for an impudent beggar, the king ordered him to be thrown into prison; the merchant cannot let him down into the river the boat, even elephants can't move it; the king gives the prisoner to sacrifice him; B. touches the boat and it moves; the merchant makes him his partner; the king of another country organizes a swayamvara for his daughter; the merchant and B. come, the princess hangs a garland around B.'s neck; the angry king married his daughter to B. and sent him out of the palace; the merchant pushed B. into the river, his wife managed to throw him a pillow; demanded that the merchant push B. into the river, his wife managed to throw him a pillow; demanded that the merchant postponed her wedding for three years; husband and laundress wife found B. on the beach and adopted him; B. accidentally came to the hut where his wife lived, recognized her, began to tell his story, his wife recognized him; she promised the merchant to marry him immediately after he told the story to the king; brought B., he began to tell, the king recognized his brother; appointed B. as a military leader, expelled the merchant, everything is fine]: Damant 1975:260-254.

Burma - Indochina. Burmese: Aoun 1957 [the poor brother brings the rich man the feathers of a golden rooster, who gives them small money; the rooster says that the one who eats him will find golden eggs under his half; the rich asks to bring him a rooster; the poor asks to adopt his two sons for this; after cutting the rooster, the boys dropped their hearts on the floor, ate it; they became rich together with their father]: 60-62; Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 75 [a woodcutter and his wife hear one rooster say that a man who eats his liver will become a military leader and heir to the king, a woman will be a queen; a man who eats bones will become rich; another rooster says that the man who ate his head will become king, the woman who ate the heart will be the queen; the couple ate the roosters, they were elected king and queen]: 226-228; Shans: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 192 [ the king's two sons kill the crane, the king orders them to be executed, the torturers let them go; the princes kill and eat the wonderful peacock, then the youngest gets emeralds from his mouth when he laughs, pearls - when he cries and the oldest is chosen king; the rich man keeps the youngest in prison, then takes him to the king; the brothers recognize each other; the youngest inherits his father's throne]: 526-531 (=Zapadova 1977:307-311, =Sturm 1990: 544-547); Scott 1918 [Hkun Lu and Hkun Lai (considered the first Shan kings) descended from heaven accompanied by two ministers, one from the sun and the other from the moon; they were sent to earth by the god Tüng Hkam, he took a rooster and a knife with him so that they would sacrifice a rooster to him on the ground; the brothers were to eat the rooster's head and give the carcass to the ministers; when they reached the ground, they found out that they were the knife and the rooster forgot; they sent a man named Lao Ngu to bring them; he came back and lied that TX was angry and told his brothers to eat part of the carcass and give his companions the rest; he ate his head himself and was appointed ruler The Mithils in northern Bihar and then became the Chinese emperor; the brothers became only Shan rulers]: 275; Khmers [the king has Princes Worowong and Sorovong from his first wife, Princes Worowong and Sorovong, and his second youngest wife Montae Prince of Wawongs; M. decided to get rid of her rival's sons, wrapped around both, began to shout that she was being raped; the torturers gave them the opportunity to escape; Indra turned into black and white chickens; black: who he will eat me, in 7 years he will ascend to the throne; white: who am I in 7 months; the chickens killed each other; the elder S. ate the white, the youngest V. the black one; one king died, they let the elephant go, he stopped in front of S. he was made king; Worowong went on a journey, saw a ring on his finger, accused of stealing; but only he knows how to launch ships when enemies attack; defeated the yaksha; he was given two princesses and two kingdoms; he and his wife Kehkesey set off on flying jasper; a hermit stole it, died, jasper fell; V. and K. tried to cross the river, they were carried to sea, they lost each other; after the adventures, both ended up in Sorovong Palace; the brothers defeated Waywongs, to whom their father gave the throne, told their father what had happened; Montaya was executed]: Foshko 1981, No. 15:160-167; Viets [two brothers meet a shepherd and see a bird in him; they understand that the one who eats it will become king; they buy it for a high price; they have given the servants to take care of it; the captain of a Chinese ship learned about the bird from astrological books; came and became a lover of the brothers' mother; threatened to leave her if she did not order him to cook poultry; the brothers arrived on time: the servants said they had not yet begun to cook the bird; the brothers ate it, They rewarded and dismissed the servants, went to the mountains; the spirits made them kings of the kingdoms of So and Tae, they defeated their enemies]: Landes 1886, No. 101:243-244.

South Asia. Kashmiris: Knowles 1888 []: 77-97; Steel, Temple 1884, No. 16 [stepmother harasses two princes, they leave home; sitting under a tree, they hear a lark and a parrot brag: a lark that has eaten a lark will become a vizier, the one who has eaten a parrot will become king; the elder has eaten a parrot, the youngest is a lark; the elder has forgotten his whip, the youngest has followed it, he has been bitten by a snake; the elder comes to the city where the king died; sacred the elephant knelt before the young man, who was elected king; the magician and his wife find the young man's body, the wife asks him to be revived; the wizard dries the source of the snakes, returns the water when the snakes revive the young man; that comes to town, stays with an old woman; a cannibal eats a young man, a goat and a cake every day; while the ogre eats a goat and a cake, the young man rushes at him with a sword; after cutting off his head, falls asleep, and the impostor, who comes for the remnants of the cannibal feast, blows his head away, tells the king that he killed the monster; the king promises to marry him in a year; the potter finds the young man in a pit of clay, takes him to him, he becomes craftsman; ships can't leave the harbor because of the calm; the impostor offers to sacrifice a potter's worker; a young man cuts his finger, a drop of blood falls into the water, the wind rises; merchants bring the young man to another city; a young man makes clay a model of his father's palace; the vizier's daughter sees her, falls in love with a young man; the vizier sends both on the ship with orders to throw the young man overboard, but he grabs the rope, climbs into the bride's cabin; the ship returns, the girl tells him to bring the box in which the young man is to his room; dresses the young man as a maid; this is the city ruled by his brother; he sends the king a bouquet made in the same way as their childhood, he hides a note with his name in it; the brothers recognized each other, the vizier handed over his position to his son-in-law; the deceiver was executed]: 139-152; Punjabi [woodcutter finds in a ruby, catches a bird, becomes rich, goes on Hajj; the wife has a Hindu lover; he asks her to slaughter a bird; two sons of a lumberjack take its head and leave; the youngest is bitten by a snake, he dies; the elder goes to look for people, comes to the city where the king died; he is elected king; the youngest is revived by ascetics, he goes with merchants, sees a girl in the cave, goes down to the lower world for her; she hides him when a dragon arrives; pretends to be afraid if the dragon dies; he explains that his life is in a bird, a cage with a bird in a tree, a tree will grow if Solomon's sword is placed by the river; a young man kills dragon; a merchant raises a girl upstairs, leaves the young man at the bottom of the cave; he rubs a stain on his sword, two spirits appear, take him to the city ruled by his older brother; there is the wedding of a merchant and a girl; the younger The brother accidentally tells the king his story; the merchant is executed, the youngest marries a girl]: King 1926, No. 7:81-84 (similar story in Sheikh-Dilthey 1976, No. 12:55-60); himachali plowmen [woman sees how the new sparrow is cruel to the old chicks; the husband says he will not be the case; the wife dies when her sons are older; the elder Rupa hit his stepmother's room with the ball, she told her husband to kick his stepson out, the youngest Bisuntha leaves with him; under the tree he hears two nightjars talking; the male who has eaten will become a raja, the female will become a vizier; kills both birds, eats the female, prepares the male for his brother, but the snake bites him , he dies; R. wakes up in the morning, ate his nightjar, sees his dead brother, leaves; Parvati and Mahadev revived B.; Raja died in the city, the elephant lays the crown on R.; B. comes to the same city; each the tiger eats someone at night; the inhabitants leave him a stranger - B.; he kills the tiger, hides his ears and mustaches, falls asleep; the sweeper takes credit for himself; the merchant takes B. to the ship to bring it to the victim if the ship runs aground; B. cuts his finger, a drop of blood is enough for the ship to sail; dressed as a girl, B. comes to R., who asks everyone if anyone has found a body in the forest deceased young man; everything is explained]: Dracott 1906:61-67; India (translated from Hindi) [the king married another, two stepson princes went to the forest; they hear the starling say that the one who ate him will be in charge adviser; parrot - whoever ate him will become king; the parrot is eaten by the elder, the youngest starling; the elder came to the city, the elephant bowed before him, the falcon sat in his hand, he was chosen king after the death of the former; the youngest returned for a whip, bitten by a snake, fell dead; the hermit tells the snakes that the water in the lake will reappear if they revive the stung young man; the snake sucked the poison, the prince came to town; stayed with the old woman, killed a demon to whom young men were given to eat, hid his head, fell asleep; the sweeper said that he had killed the demon, pushed the prince into a hole; he was dug up by potters, he became a potter himself; a snowstorm, who received half the kingdom, sent him to the ship to sacrifice; the prince sprinkled blood on the ship, a fair wind began, he was not killed; in another country he built a city out of sand on the shore; into it the princess fell in love, hid it under the guise of a maid; the elder brother was king, recognized him; the sweeper was executed, the youngest married the princess]: Zograf 1964:354-345; Bengalis [the merchant's son takes from the nest an egg, puts an egg in a locker in a niche in the wall, forgets; a girl is born out of an egg; grows up; in the absence of a young man, she goes out, eats the food he has brought to him, returns to the niche; after 16 years, the young man notices this; his mother advises him to hide; he finds the girl; takes her as his wife; their sons Swat (Sheth in Russian transcription) and the younger Basanta (Boshonto); the elder merchant, his wife, and his wonderful wife die; the merchant (i.e. husband of a wonderful wife) takes a young wife; his son's wife S. is older than her; stepmother hates stepsons; fisherman brings fish; if you eat it, jewelry will fall from her lips, if you laugh, from the eyes of a pearl, if you cry; the merchant tells his daughter-in-law to fry it for him; she gives fish to her husband and his brother; Boshonta's dove flew to her stepmother, who hides it under her dress, S. takes it away; the stepmother promises that her husband will kill her stepsons, as soon as he returns; both brothers and wife S. leave the house on a fast horse; spend the night in the forest, S.'s wife gave birth; S. goes to look for fire; in the city he is elected king, married; the previous king was found dead in the morning in wife's chambers; like this every day; S. does not sleep, sees a long hair crawl out of his sleeping wife's nostril, turns into a snake, S. kills him; S. forgets about his first wife, remains king; B. comes to the river, cries; a merchant who swam takes him away; keeps him locked up, hits and tickles to get pearls and precious stones; in the forest, S.'s wife falls asleep; the chief of police (he is from the lower caste) sees her, he has his own a dead baby; he replaces a woman's baby; she goes to drown, she is saved by a brahmana, she lives with his family; the kidnapped baby grows up and wants to marry the brahmana's adopted daughter; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; hears the conversation of the calves, learns the whole story; comes to the king (i.e. to his father Sh.); he confirms everything; the family is reunited; the merchant who tormented B. is buried alive in a hole with thorns]: Day 1914, No. 5:93-107 (Zograf translation 1976:133-138); (cf. kuruba [parents died, sister and brother began to live with their father's brother, but their uncle and stepmother did not feed them; they cried at their parents' grave; a vine (pumpkin) grew, grain and meat in the pumpkin; so everyone day; noticing that the children were no longer hungry, the stepmother watched, told her husband that she was ill and would be cured by the crushed vine root; when she saw that the vine had been pulled out, the children left; in the forest, the girl told the tree to open and hide them for the night from the predators inside; they came to the hunter's hut; he raised them; brother herded cattle, sister cooked; the hunter said he was leaving for a long time; sister's hair fell into the river, it was swallowed by fish, the fisherman caught her and went to look for the owner; and if the hair were masculine, he would marry the owner to his sister; took the girl when her brother was not at home; the sister walked, sprinkling millet with her, but he was not enough; brother came back, told all the pets and birds on the farm to go wild, followed the trail; the trail ended, he went at random; in one country they chose a king, an elephant put on a garland around the young man's neck; he was elected king, married; the wife would like to see her husband's sister; she and her fisherman husband were found, they were given land]: Kapp 1982:251-260); Tamils [the sage predicts the childless king that he has two sons will be born, but first he will lose his kingdom, although in the end his sons will help him; enemies drive the king out of the city, he and his wife serve in a wealthy house; the hostess takes care of the eldest, and then about younger boys; they decide to leave to earn their own living; they see an unusual mango fruit in the forest, hide it in a portion of rice they take with them; a hermit waited a hundred years for the fruit to fall, and here he went away to bathe; he believes that the boys did not take the fruit; explains that those who eat the pulp will become king, and jewelry will fall from the lips of the bone every time he laughs; the elder ate the flesh, the youngest the bone; after the king's death, the one on which the elephant hangs the garland will become new; the elephant goes to the forest, hangs it on the older boy; the youngest thinks that the wild elephant has killed his brother; the youngest stopped at the house of the dancer and her mother; when they found out about the falling jewelry, they vomited him and, taking possession of the bone, drove him out; he saw a dying saint carrying a bag that gave everything ask for a cup in which any food, a baton that will defeat everyone, speedboat sandals; students began to argue over wonderful objects, went to look for a judge; the young man took holy objects from the grave blessed him; the dancer's mother pretended to accidentally close the door in front of the young man that time; he asked the bag for a palace; told the women everything; they invited him to visit the temple on the island, left there, taking wonderful objects; there is a tree with four varieties of fruits that turn into a monkey, a kite, an old woman and a young man again; as a kite, he returned to the dancer's palace, gave them fruit, dancer became a monkey and her mother a kite; the young man took magic objects; came to his brother's town, they got to know each other; put a baton on his father's enemies, restored his kingdom]: Natesa Sastri 1886:120-139; Sinhales: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 80 [the tsar father and stepmother want to kill two princes, the flower girl advises to flee; the brothers pick up the pigeon killed by Vedda; whoever eats the right half will become king immediately, who is left - after seven years; the eldest is elected king; the youngest (MB) becomes a slave to the Hittirala (a member of the merchant caste); the king's youngest daughter identifies him as a prince, tells x. to bring him; MB catches him fish, she promises to save him; x. pushes MB into the river, takes the princess; fish saves MB, he comes to the wedding of x. and princesses, tells his story; the king turns out to be the older brother, MB marries, gets half the kingdom, x. torn into four parts], 88 [the one who eats the golden rooster of the daughter of Rakshasa will find eternal youth; the widow's son is sent; the hermit teaches what to do, the other three consistently give stone, thorn, coal; Rakshasi's daughter gives a rooster, Rakshasi pursues; abandoned objects turn into mountains, forests, fiery river; Rakshasi stops, king rewards young man]: 176-182, 206-211.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Javanese and all of Indonesia [the captain dreams that the thrush who has eaten his head and heart will become a sultan; he marries a widow who owns a thrush; she cooks him a roast thrush, her sons Hamat and Mamat eat it, run away; after the adventure they reign]: Kao 1967:52-56; minahasa [the widow managed to send her two sons to school to learn to read and write; the youngest is Lakasian; both became the prince's servants; on while hunting, he tries to shoot a rooster; young men see an inscription on his wings: the one who eats his head will become king, the one who eats the heart will be blessed; the rooster was shot, the prince went to bed at home; L. suggests that the elder brother ate the head and he ate the heart of the rooster; so they did, the prince was given the head and heart of a dove; the brothers run away; in the morning L.'s head had bags of money, and the elder brother became king in the area; brothers brought their mother to live with them in the palace]: Bezemer 1904:309-310.

The Balkans. Moldovans [a poor man finds a bird with golden feathers in the forest; brings it home, it lays golden eggs, he sells them to a merchant; a merchant reads to a bird's goiter that the one who eats her heart will become a king who eats her heart will become a king who has eaten the navel will find a purse full of gold under the pillow, the liver will be lucky; the merchant persuades his wife to kill the poor man, marry him, fry a bird; the woman's three sons accidentally eat the bird's giblets; the merchant wants to kill the children, they run away; the elder becomes king, the middle becomes rich; the younger one is lazy; the sorcerer leads him into the forest, asks him to go underground, bring a key and an iron stick; the boy recruits golden apples; refuses to give the wizard the key before he raises him to the ground; the sorcerer covers the ground; the boy rubs his wand, the iron man appears, promises to lift him to the ground if the boy he will feed him in flight; he cuts off the last piece from his own thigh; on the ground, the iron man says he would eat the boy if he knew how he tastes; disappears; the boy returns to mothers, bringing golden apples and a key; this is the key to hell; if it is rubbed, the servants grant wishes; the boy sends the mother to marry the king's daughter; the king demands 1) to create a palace, a road with birds and trees; 2) come on horses that eat coals and drink flame; the servants perform everything; the princess's first fiancé and herself are taken to the yard and basement for the night; wedding; the sorcerer asks the young man's servant to bring a rusty key in exchange for a gold one; the young man loses his magical helpers and everything they have created; goes to wander around the world; rubs his wand, the iron man teaches him to turn into a fly, get the key from under the sorcerer's pillow; the young man returns everything; the wife is ill; the sorcerer turned into a holy maiden, told his wife that she would recover if she got a marble egg from the center of the earth; hellish servants say that he has all their power, they teach instead To kill the sorcerer; the young man kills; helps the brother-king defeat enemies; the Beauty of the world who swallows the navel solders, he belches him, loses everything; rides through the meadow, his horse eats grass, becomes a donkey; drinks water - a horse again; he lets a woman smell the grass, she becomes a donkey; he rides it, meets brothers, forgives a woman, makes her the Beauty of the World again]: Moldavian tales 1968:172-184; Romanians [Serekuts Petru is poor, he has two children; his rich Schwager calls for help knit sheaves; some old man eats food for the SP; this is his brother's Happiness, and his own is drunk and sitting in a shank; let will go there and get the chicken of happiness; the chicken rushes every day and the SP got rich; the teacher fell in love with the SP's wife; read what the chicken says under its wing; whoever eats the kidneys will find gold under the pillow , and whoever the heart will become king; the teacher tells the woman to kill and cook the chicken, but the kidneys and heart were schemed by the children of the SP; the teacher sends the hangman to kill the children in the forest and get what they ate, but they persuaded let them go; the boy ate pears from the tree, their horns grew, they ate apples - their horns were gone; they came to live with the old man; then they came to town; the crown flew and sat on one of them's head; the second brother returned to the old man and married the minister's daughter; she had a lover who gave her a potion; she put it on her husband, he regurgitated pieces of swallowed liver; his wife swallowed them herself and kicked him out; on the advice of the old man, the young man picked up pears and apples from those trees, sold them, his wife grew horns; the brothers turned into two stars {not very clear}]: Bîrlea 1966:445-446; Greeks: Dawkins 1916:411-419 [], 479-483 []; Macedonians, Hungarians, Croats, Slovenes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 567, 567A: 336-338; Serbs [the poor man caught a bird, it laid two eggs, sons advised to sell them, the buyer also bought a bird, began to fry his heart and head, the poor man's sons accidentally ate them, the buyer, crying, left, the one who ate his heart began to find a hundred workshops under the pillow, and his head knew what they thought kings; he who has eaten the heart is chosen king, the head kills it, takes it out of it, eats the bird's heart; he is chosen king; belches his heart when his wife throws money at him; the hand of a deceased brother reaches out to him; the deceased forgives the murderer, he repents, gives gifts to the poor]: Karadzich 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:73-75; Bulgarians [orphan finds a bird (chicken laying golden eggs, black chicken, sparrow), gets rich; in his absence, his wife stabbed and cooked it for her lover; their two sons secretly eat their heart and liver (head, stomach); they do not know that now one will become king, the other every morning he will find money under his head; they run away from home, leave; one is chosen by the king, because a bird has sat on his head; the other is rich; brothers meet, get to know each other, live together in the palace (they also take their father; his unfaithful wife is severely punished)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 567A: 214; (cf. Ancient Greece [one person especially honors Hermes; Hermes gives a goose that lays golden eggs; a person does not have the patience to get rich slowly; decides that the goose inside is all golden, cuts a goose; a goose inside is made of meat; a person loses golden eggs]: Gasparov 1968, No. 87:89).

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Pskov, Novgorod, Vologda, Tver, Tula, Ryazan, Kursk), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Galicia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Podolia, Kievskaya , Poltava, Kherson), Belarusians [Wonderful bird: whoever eats its head will become tsar, eat her heart - rich (will spit gold); the hunter's wife cooks this bird for her lover, but by chance her children eat her head and heart; attempts to repel their wonderful properties thus acquired fail]: SUS 1979, No. 567 (44 records, only 1 of them Belarusian); Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, d. Lebskaya, 1927) [the son of an old man and an old woman (S.) found a hare in the trap, told his mother that he shot him himself. It's the same with capercaillie. For the third time, she sees a golden chicken in the forest, finds its nest, takes two golden eggs, takes it to the merchant (K.), who reads a warning on them: "No one will touch these eggs, otherwise he will be in trouble," asks get the chicken itself for her. S. catches the chicken in the snare, takes it to the merchant, and receives a ruble for it. Her lover, an officer (O.), comes to K., at which time her husband and both stepsons Vasya and Vanya were absent. O. reads under the chicken's wing: "Whoever eats my head will be a king in the kingdom. And Max doesn't care who eats my food." He persuades K. to cook chicken for him, but Vasya eats her head when he returns from school, and Vanya eats her liver (max). When O. threatens K. to weaken her all over the city and leaves, K. beats Vasya and Vanya, they ran into the forest and accidentally found out that Vanya was spitting gold. They come to their grandmother's hut, give her a damn about gold and stay with her. At this time, the successor of the deceased king is chosen, everyone is gathered in the church by throwing a candle, only Vasya's candle lights up in his hands, he becomes king. Vanya goes to search for his fate, reaches a foreign kingdom and lives with an old woman without giving a damn about gold. Fame reaches the local princess (C.), who invites Vanya to her place and learns from him that the reason for his gift is the golden liver she has eaten. She drinks Vanya, starts to vomit, and he spews his liver. C. washes this liver and eats it herself, and orders Vanya to be thrown into the forest. In the forest, Vanya finds out that he has lost his ability, climbs an oak tree and overhears the conversation of three goblins, one of whom has obtained a flying carpet, the second is scab grass, and the third is a gum grass. When the goblins lay it all out on the carpet, Vanya jumps down and flies to the kingdom of C., where he gets a job as a palace cook and puts scab grass in her birthday cake. Nine sorcerers and doctors tried to cure Ts's scab, could not and were deprived of heads. The tenth peak for the head on the palace parade ground is empty. Vanya is to treat C., soars her in the bath, drinks her with moonshine, she spews her golden liver, Vanya washes this liver and eats it again himself. Asks C. if she lied to anyone. She does not confess, Vanya hits her first with a copper, then with a silver rod, then with a gold rod. After the first, she admits that she lied, after the second, that Vanya, after the third, promises to become Vanya's faithful wife. Vanya gives her gum herbs, she becomes Vanya's wife, and he becomes tsar]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 139:320-325; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908, p. Colezhm) [A childless man separates himself from his brother, does not want to "feed his children". But he lives poorly, and his brother is rich. The childless brother went broke completely, went to ask for money, but on the way to the field, his brother saw a white man, asked who was plowing his brother's field, the man answered "fraternal happiness." He explains that the childless brother did not save his happiness, he fell asleep, sends him to the birch tree around which it is wrapped, gives a ball and a whip, hit his happiness three times and wake up. The man wakes up his happiness ("Fu-fu-fu, how long he slept. - He slept for a long time, but got up at the right time"), it leads the man to the lake, they put their snare, happiness orders not to take any prey while he sleeps. The man can't stand it and takes one of the golden birds out of his snares. Happiness reproaches the man for not following his instructions, leaving him with the bird, advising him to put it in between and sell its golden eggs. The man sells eggs for a hundred rubles, got rich, bought steamers and ships. The wife asks her husband how she got rich, transfers the bird to the kitchen so that it would not be stolen from the field. She is having two children. Her husband is going overseas, she falls in love with a clerk and talks about the bird and shows it. He sees predictions on his wings that whoever eats one wing will become king, the other becomes king. The clerk asks to kill the bird, the wife is afraid of her husband, but he threatens not to appear for a month and she agrees. Orders his servants to fry the bird. Children accidentally eat poultry meat, the clerk finds out and demands that the children be killed, the wife orders the workers to do so. They feel sorry for the children and let them go; instead of children, they kill the dog, fry it. The clerk eats. Children grow up in the forest and are afraid to go to the city. Vanya is the first to go, they are looking for a king in the city - he will be the one on whom the lamp falls from the city gate, she falls on the boy. Kolya goes to another state, stays with her grandmother, sews shoes and spits "golden drools". The princess buys them and is interested. Grandma brings Kolya to the princess. She makes him drink wine, he refuses, but she threatens, he drinks and spits out the golden top, the princess takes it, washes it and swallows it, and sends Kolya in one vest to Buyan Ostrov. He tries different berries - some grow horns and tails, others make him beautiful. He hears birds squeaking, covers him with his vest. The mother of the chicks wants to thank Kolya - if not for him, they froze and promises to take them to the city. Kolya takes berries with her and sells them at the royal palace. Gives one free of charge to the cook, she is noticeably prettier. The princess notices this and asks to buy her berries, he sells her the berries that produce horns and tails. No one can cure the princess, Kolya is called to help. Her father promises to make king whoever cures the princess. Kolya orders to build a bathhouse outside the city, whips the princess with a rod and says that this is because she drugged him and sent him to Buyan Ostrov. She spits out the top, Kolya washes and swallows it, gives the princess another berry, she becomes beautiful. They are getting married]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 13:11-14; Russians (Vologodskaya): Azadovsky 1934, No. 11 []: 245-266; Gura 1965 {probably; last name and year were missed}, No. 32 [father died; two sons have no children, Vanya's fool is seven; he goes to ask his older brother for grain; daughters-in-law are indignant; on Sunday he went wherever his eyes looked; the woman cuts firewood, says that she is the older brother's fate, and his, Vanya, is fate, and weekdays do not work, but works with her lover; the woman teaches how to find Vanya's fate, tells the blacksmith to order three iron bars; fate will offer vodka, drink two shots, the third not to drink, but to beat fate while the rods will not be destroyed; she gives a chicken that lays golden eggs; the brothers sail away on commercial ships, Vanya asks to sell three eggs laid by his chicken; the brothers do not know that they are golden; for eggs received three ships with goods, wanted to take them for themselves, all the ships stopped immediately; they had to give the goods and ships to Vanya, who became rich; Vanina's wife had a lover; he read chickens on the scallop : whoever eats a scallop will become king, whoever is navel will spit gold; lover: if you don't kill chickens for me, I'll leave you; Vanya's children Mishka da Grishka ate chicken; they hear their mother promise from them tear off their skin; left home; stayed at the old woman, paid in gold; she says that they will choose a tsar; whoever has a candle in his hands will be chosen; Grishka's candle lit up, he became king; married; Mishka went to look for a wife; ate one herb - got sick, ate another - recovered; healed the Queen, married her; she gave him so much drink that he began to vomit, the chicken navel fell out, his wife told him throw him in the toilet; M. woke up, left, found apples that make horns grow, and others that fall off his head; sold the first to the king, the queen's horns grew; under the guise of a doctor, ordered him to send the queen went to the bathhouse; beat her with iron bars until she lost consciousness and her navel belched; then fed her other apples; the young forgave each other and began to live well; both brothers went and found their father, he herds pigs; they tore his mother in half, taking her by the legs, and the lover was shot at the door]: 249-254; Kuzmina 2008, No. 36 [the poor brother has two sons, 7 and 8 years old, and the rich one is childless; the poor shot an unusual bird; the rich offered to buy it, the poor gave it so; the rich told his wife to cook it, and the heart, liver and lungs separately; the nephews accidentally came in and ate it; the rich man's wife replaced him with cocks; the rich in the morning did not find gold under his pillow, but his nephews found them; the rich tells the poor that his children are evil spirits; the poor did not kill them, but left them in the forest; they were picked up by a hunter, they lived with him until 18 years old; then they left; they did not kill the hare, fox, she-wolf, bear, lionesses; each gave them her two cubs; at the fork, the eldest went to the left and the youngest to the right; the eldest came to the city, there was mourning: The 12-headed serpent takes the royal daughter; the boy cut off the snake's heads, cut out his tongues, wrapped it in a handkerchief, the princess gave him her necklace; the servant cut off the sleeper's head, made the princess say that he was the savior; the hare ran away for the reviving root, the animals revived the owner; he sent a letter to the princess with the hares; came to the wedding feast, showed the princess's necklace and snake tongues; the deceiver groom was shot; once the elder brother went hunting; old woman in the tree: cold; afraid of animals; gave him a rod; after that he and the animals became petrified; younger brother sees that the elder's dagger has rusted; follows in his footsteps; realizing that his mistaken for an older brother, refuses to lie down with the princess, citing fatigue; he did not take the rod, forced the old woman to revive the petrified ones, then the animals tore her apart; when he learned that the princess had the youngest, the eldest, her husband cut off her brother's head; repented; revived her brother with the root that revived him; the wife only found out who her husband was by a necklace; I was there, I drank honey beer, but didn't get into my mouth]: 79-86; Russians ( Vologodskaya, Kirillovsky District) []: Sokolov, Sokolov 1989, No. 47:184-189; Russians (Kursk, Valuisky District) [A rich brother does not love his poor brother's family, but his wife loves nephews and secretly feeds them. A poor brother kills a firebird in the forest, his children show feathers to his rich brother, who tells the ass who demands to cook this bird for him. It is accidentally eaten by poor children, the wife of a rich brother changes poultry for chicken, puts in the heart and liver of a firebird. The rich brother eats, the ass says that the bird was eaten by dogs. Pop wants to cook dogs for him. On the pillows of poor children, the mother finds money, thinks they are stealing from a rich uncle. The poor brother tells the rich man about what happened, who tells his ass. Pop reports that the children have been possessed by a demon and must be killed. The father takes the children to the forest and leaves them there, they come to the dugout and stay with the old mistress, her husband adopts them and teaches them science. In 20 years, he wants to test his brothers, asks them to be among the first and last bird in a flying pack, gives them a gun and a silver dagger - in case of parting, the rust on the blade will indicate that An accident happened to one of them. The brothers bury their grandfather, go hunting, animals ask for mercy and give their brothers their children - bunnies, foxes, cubs, lion cubs, etc. The brothers break up and leave a silver dagger in the oak tree at the crossroads. The first brother finds himself in a city (not allowed in immediately), cleaned with black cloth; tomorrow the princess must be given a 5-headed snake. The hunter surprises the whole city with his wealth (he orders an expensive lunch). In the morning, he sees the princess on the mountain, cuts off the snake's heads with a sword, and the animals help defeat the enemy. He hides the serpent's tongues, the princess gives him a handkerchief and ties ribbons to the animals. The hunter asks her to look after the animals and falls asleep. The butler cuts off the hunter's head, makes the princess recognize him as the snake as the winner in order to marry her and get half the kingdom. The animals find that their owner is dead, they blame the hare for death, he brings grass from the forest, chews it, lubricates the hunter's neck with it, and he comes to life. The hunter sees that the city is decorated with red cloth, learns about the princess's wedding (a year has passed) and remembers her. He writes her a note, she invites him to a feast, explains to the king that his animals are scientists. He asks for royal clothes and a carriage, she sends them. The hunter invites you to look at the snake's heads at a feast, shows the missing tongues, and proves that he is the true savior. The butler is executed, the princess is married to a hunter, and he becomes king. His wife doesn't let him hunt, he falls ill, she agrees. In the forest, he chases white deer, finding himself in an impassable thicket. She sees an old woman, a snake's mother, on the edge of a tree, asks her to go down, she says she is afraid of animals, gives him a twig. He hits animals with them, they become stony, the old woman hits them and turns them into stone. The Queen decides that her husband is missing and falls ill. The second brother lives unhappily and wants to find his brother, sees a rusted knife in an oak tree, and goes to the state where he is mistaken for a king. He finds out what happened to his brother, goes hunting in his footsteps, chases a deer, meets an old woman, shoots her, makes her brother and animals revive. She does it, he kills and burns it, blows ash down the wind. The brothers go to the queen from both sides, and she recognizes her husband by the ribbons tied to his hunt. The brothers have a feast, the second brother gets married]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:76-84; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the poor man finds an egg, it turns out to be golden, catches a bird; the teacher fell in love with the owner's wife, said that he will recover if he eats the heart and heads of that bird; the owner's children accidentally eat them; the teacher asks him to eat the heart and head of the children; the forester lets the boys go, brings the dog's heart and head; the brothers live with an old woman, a crown falls on Yurka's head, he is elected king; Vasil helps him, finds gold at the head in the morning; the beauty solders him, he belches his head, she takes it away; V. takes it away a plane saddle from devils arguing for him; collects jewelry overseas; a beauty rides with him, is carried away in the saddle; V. finds a pear, an apricot, a plum, turning into a horse, a deer, back into a person; sells beautiful, turns her into a mare, chases her; brothers come to their mother, talk about themselves, her heart breaks; they fly to their kingdom with their father and sister]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:217-223; Ukrainians (Kherson) []: Yastrebov 1894, No. 16:148-152; Czechs [a hunter shot an unusual bird; a woman in the forest explains that a bird that eats its head will become king, and the one who eats the heart will be in the morning find money under the pillow; the hunter tells his wife to cook the bird; she leaves her sons Fortunate and Alex watching her; the head and heart fall out, F. eats the heart, A. the head; the mother is furious, brothers run away; in the house where they spend the night, the owners find gold coins in the morning; the same in the landowner's house; he decides to keep the children with him, sends them to the city to study; sends a servant to pick up gold, intending return it to the brothers when they grow up; the brothers do not return to the landowner, go to another city; A. becomes the old king's favorite; F. wanders; in one of the places where he, unknowingly, left gold, the hostess goes to the witch, who explains that F. ate the heart of the bird of happiness; lets the hostess eat the heart of an ordinary bird, who believes that gold will now be under her pillow, drives F. away; in the forest F. eats a wild apple, turns into a donkey; after eating an apple from another tree, restores its human appearance; in a dream, a woman explains its secret to him; unrecognized F. gives an apple to an evil mistress, who turns into a donkey jumps over the fence, crashes; F. saves a big fish on the shore; becomes the king's favorite; an envious courtier says that F. promised to get a beautiful woman living in the sea; fish brings F. to the king of the sea, ordering him to kidnap his daughter and take her box; F. brings the princess to the king; she does not want for the old man, but says that the ointment in her box revives the dead, making them young , beautiful; F. offers to cut off his head; the ointment makes him whole again; the king agrees to be beheaded; he is not revived, F. receives the throne and his wife; comes to the city where A. left, he married the king's daughter there, also received the throne; the brothers visit the good landowner and parents; everyone is happy]: Nmcová 1970:12-28 (=Nemtsova 1978:59-70); Poles []: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 567:187-188; Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 567:336-337.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002:117-122 [{the text is inconsistent, confused}; the orphan found, brought the khan a golden egg; the khan had something else; the orphan identified his own; the khan sent him to bring chicken; he brought and received Khan's youngest daughter Othan; they have sons Gunukh and Donyak ("three-year-old" and "four-year-old"); Khan fell ill, sent an orphan for golden apples, he died; shulmus, under the guise of a doctor, began to live in palace, became a friend of the hanshi; said that Khan would heal the heart and liver of G. and D.; the servants first brought the dog's giblets, then sent G. and D. to travel; D. fell into the possession in which the khan died, and began khan; G. became handsome because he ate the head of a golden chicken, the khan's daughter admired it; the maid advised him to shut his mouth with wormwood, he regurgitated his head, the khan's daughter swallowed it herself; G. judged who shared a flying carpet, a stick to control it and an invisible hat, told them to race, took possession of the objects himself; kidnapped the khan's daughter; she, at the instigation of old Shulmuski, found out his secret and kidnapped objects; G. overheard the conversation of crows - after eating black apples, you will become a donkey, red apples - you will take your form; arrives at brother Khan, turns 40 daughters of another khan into donkeys; brother Khan says what is necessary return three magic items; he returns, G. restores the girls to their former appearance; the eldest daughter regurgitates the head of a golden chicken; kills D.'s wife, who tried to poison him], 195-197 [two boys found the sparrow was hidden in a chest; the sparrow was blown away with gold; the khan took it away, ordered the bird to be cooked; one boy ate the head (will become a khan), the other wing (defecates with gold); the khan orders to kill the boys, they they hide under the woman's skirt, then leave; the khan's servants argue over the flying carpet, the sword that controls him, the invisible hats; the brothers invite them to compete, pick up objects, fly away; the elder became khan, the youngest stayed with his parents] [the poor man finds a bird's egg, sells it to the merchant; so several times; then puts the bird in a cage, goes on Hajj; the wife becomes the merchant's mistress, who tells him to fry poultry, poor man's sons eat the head and liver (or kidneys, goiter, heart); the merchant tells them to be killed, they run away; the liver eater meets people arguing over wonderful objects (invisible hat, carpet- plane, magic tablecloth), falls in love with a beautiful woman, performs difficult errands; (the one who has eaten his heart finds gold under his pillow in the morning); the beauty gave him a drink, he regurgitated his liver, she took it, the young man kicked out; (or deceives him to take away wonderful objects); the young man finds apples that grow horns, figs that turn into donkeys, grapes that return to normal appearance; he sells incognito fruits to the princess, makes her return her liver, turns her into a donkey; comes to a country where his brother was chosen as a padishah when a bird sat on his head; restores the donkey's human appearance]; Abkhazians [ The older brother found out that if you eat chicken meat, which neighbors had, gold would fall out of his mouth every three days; exchanged the burka for chicken, told his wife to fry it; she let her two children eat her stomach; fried another chicken, ate it with the children, and put her stomach with the meat first; the husband ate the chicken, but saw that gold was falling from the children's mouths; together with her single younger brother, the elder weaved the basket, put the children in it, left them in the forest; the hunter Kaurbey found them, the eldest was named Mazlow, the youngest was Jacur; the brothers grew up, felt sorry for two birds with one stone, two foxes, two bears while hunting; at the fork they parted, each took one of a pair of animals; J. came to the old woman, with a whip she turned him and his animals into stone; M. came to a village where the girl was to be eaten by an agulshap; killed him, fell asleep; the groom cut off his head, told the girl to call him his savior; M.'s animals put his head back, revived him; the prince hung the groom, passed his daughter off as M.; at the fork, M. saw that the blade The knife left by J. rusted; the old woman says that J. was killed by her older sister; the animals helped to take away the whip, M. revived S., his animals and other petrified ones, turned the old woman into stone; everything is fine]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:103-110 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 29:148-153); Adygs (Kabardian people) [hunter Kazi knocked out a bird; she said that the one who ate its heart would become a famous warrior and his head would become a padishah; K. placed the bird in a cage; in his absence, psha {who obviously learned about the properties of the bird} told K.'s wife to fry the bird; she gave her head and heart to her sons, believing that the millet would not eat it; pshi ordered bring the boys, their mother told them to flee; during the snowstorm they lost each other; the eldest was adopted by a childless padishah, made him an heir; the youngest Kadir came to the frost; when he was about to lure him into a red-hot tower, the boy himself pushed him there; three tied horses tell them to be released, let them be summoned by a thread when needed; the brothers grew up, K. hired a groom to the padishah without recognizing his brother; incognito three times, calling horses, smashes enemies, the padishah himself tied his wound; he realized that the hero was his groom, gave his daughter for him; the brothers killed that psha and his people, opened up to his parents]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 19:182- 186; Georgians (place of recording not specified) [the poor have three sons; the eldest found two beautiful eggs in the nest; the merchant wants to buy for a lot of money, the poor man did not sell it, put it under the chicken; then others eggs became precious; man became rich; and of those two pigeons hatched; to take possession of them, the beardless became the lover of the man's wife, ordered pigeons to be roasted; the maid fed the pigeons to the children, and served chickens; the beardless demanded the children's hearts; the maid told the boys to run; the elder came to the blacksmith, who finds gold on his bed every morning; the middle one to the merchant, with diamonds under him; the youngest - to the old woman, under him there are precious stones, a dove sat on him, he was chosen king; the middle brother found his gold, came to marry the royal daughter, built a golden tower, received a princess; the elder marries sorceress; built a golden bridge; she tells them to bring stones from a distant mountain; a bear and a deer tell them to hit them with a club, turn into young men (they were bewitched by that sorceress); with the blow of a club, the young man turned the sorceress into a donkey, flew to the mountain on her flying carpet, the eagle gave him three stones; the young man disgraced the donkey for removing the stones that stuck to the carpet; all the brothers united, the beardless man and his wife hanged]: Chikovani 1954, No. 13:79-85; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:189-194 [a person asks a woodcutter if he would like an honest ruble or ten rubles dishonestly obtained; the woodcutter chose a ruble, bought a Devlet Kushi bird with him at the bazaar, which began to spit out a gold coin every day; the lumberjack's wife fell in love with a young man, who told him to cook this bird; but her son ate his head; a young man sent the woman to cut off her son's head and get him the swallowed head of the bird, but the nanny took the boy and ran away, began to work for the gardener; the hero tells him to pull his bow: whoever can will give money, otherwise the whole city will pay tribute; the young man {the one who ate the bird's head} even broke the bow; the king brought him closer; the young man killed the dragon, received the princess and the throne; the young man's mother began to apologize, her The beloved was executed], 195-205 [the king has son Lala and daughter Nargis; their mother is dead, the king took another wife; she demands that L. become her lover; L. hit her, stepmother accused him of assassinating him, vizier advised to expel the prince; N. left with her brother; they stopped in the forest; at night N. hears two birds talking; from him he learns that the one who eats the head of one will become king, and the one who eats the heart of the other will be in the morning find gold under the pillow; N. killed birds, ate her heart, gave her head to her brother; the diva reached out his hand from the sky, carried N.; said that his soul was in a bottle; G. broke it, the dead diva fell from the sky; L. in the morning woke up, ate a bird's head, went to look for N.; the city chose a king, a bird of wealth sat on L.'s head three times, he was made king; N. came to the city, but the watchman did not let her in; it seemed like a monster, N. killed him with a sword, but weakened, lay down in the chest; the watchman took the victory, but the vizier did not believe it, ordered the king to put the watchman in prison; the poor husband and wife found the chest; N. was cured, every morning under her gold with a pillow; N. met the watchman, changed clothes, deceived her in prison, and left himself; the whale sinks the ships if a person is not abandoned to him; N. decided to throw him; she orders to tie a rope to her: if there was red foam, the whale was killed, and if black, it died; N. killed the whale with a sword from within; the merchant adopted her; the king gave N. his daughter; the merchant decided to take possession of her, threw N.'s chest into the sea; the gardener caught him; {confusion and contradictions; as a result, L. met N., the merchant and prison warden were beheaded, L. and N.'s mother were hanged}]; Turks [the poor man finds a bird's egg, sells it to a merchant; so several times; then puts the bird in a cage, goes on the Hajj; the wife becomes the merchant's mistress, who orders the poultry to be fried, the poor man's sons eat the head and liver (or kidneys, goiter, heart); the merchant tells Kill them, they run away; a liver eater meets people arguing over wonderful objects (an invisible hat, a flying carpet, a magic tablecloth), falls in love with a beautiful woman, performs difficult errands; (eaten the heart finds gold under the pillow in the morning); the beauty gave him a drink, he regurgitated his liver, she took it away, the young man kicked it out; (or deceives him to take away wonderful objects); the young man finds apples that grow horns, figs that turn into donkeys, grapes that return to normal appearance; he incognito sells fruits to the princess, makes her return to her liver, turns her into a donkey; comes to a country where his brother chosen by the padishah when a bird sat on his head; restores the donkey's human appearance]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 174:196-198; Armenians, Kurds: Uther 2004 (1), No. 567, 567A: 336-338.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [the poor bastard collects a thorn for fuel; once he found a golden egg; the jeweler asked for more; the queen found out, came to the bastard, promised to poison the king and take the bastard as her husband; she did so; they have two boys; the father caught that bird, every day it brings a golden egg; he goes on business, his wife has taken a lover; he demands that the bird be slaughtered and given liver and goiter; sons They came home from school and ate them; left; every morning they find money under the pillow; they met their father; he tied his wife to the tail of a wild mule, her corpse was burned]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 12:60-63; the Bakhtiyars [the poor man cannot pick up a bunch of brushwood; it contains an unusual egg; the wife sells it for 200 mists; on the second day, the husband sees a beautiful bird lay an egg, picks it up again; a merchant to whom the wife sells eggs, finds out that the bird who has eaten the head will become ruler, the one who eats the liver will find a hundred mists under the pillow in the morning; the merchant asks the old woman to bring him together with the poor man's wife, promises every day give her flour and molasses for food; the woman falls in love with the merchant, who demands that she convince her husband to catch the bird; he has brought the poultry, the merchant tells her to make soup with it; the woman's two sons see soup, They ate a little, Ahmad took his head as a talisman, and Mahmad took the liver; the brothers hear the merchant talking to their mother, they understand that he would kill them and run away; the parents are desperate, the father goes blind with grief; brothers come to the fork; the inscription on the stone; if two go together, they will die; the one who goes to the left will achieve what he wants for a long way; the one who goes to the right will get his own faster; M. goes to the left; sitting in the dust by the road The sons of the merchant and the khan say that each spent his property to spend the night in the castle; the owner of the castle has slaves like her, she sends them to guests over 100 mists; in the morning M. says she will stay ; the hostess saw that M. came with nothing, told the slave to find out where his money came from; she sees him taking money out of his pillows; the hostess orders M. to drink, takes his talisman, tells M. to be thrown into the desert ; M. meets three sons of a merchant who share the inheritance: a wish-fulfilling bag, a flying carpet, an invisible antimony; M. shoots: whoever brings the arrow first will get everything; says he takes things at right, because the father of the debators threatened his life and forced him to flee; flies away on a flying carpet; returning to the owner of the castle, takes him to an island in the ocean and marries him; talks about wonderful objects; for now washes, the woman flies away, picking them up; through sleep, M. hears two pigeons talking: if M. wakes up now, he will help him, and if not, he will stay on the island to die; M. wakes up; dove: tree bark, if wrap it around your legs; allow you to walk on water; a tree branch will make everyone you point to a donkey by saying "haush", and if you say the name "Adam", it will restore human appearance; the leaves of the tree restore vision; A. comes to the castle by water; the owner orders not to let me in; M. turns the servants into donkeys, the mistress into a donkey; she cries; M. took the bird's liver, disgraced the woman, stayed with her; Ahmad approaches the city where the ruler died; the hawk sits on his head three times, he is elected king; he finds his brother, parents, both blind; M. restores their sight; mother repents]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 31:197-211; the Persians [the firewood collector became a widow, took a new wife; gave the beggar the money raised for the brushwood; the next day he left part of the brushwood in the cave; when he returned, he saw that he had burned down, A shining bird sits on the ash; he brought it home, it lays golden eggs; the jeweler Sham'un, who bought them, realizes that the bird's head will be Shah, and the one who eats the liver and heart will find it in the morning under a hundred gold pillow; when the firewood collector leaves, S. sends the old woman, the collector's wife agrees to receive him in the evening, fry the bird; stepsons Saad and Said eat their head, heart and liver; when they hear that W . demands to cut them and get what they eat, run away; S. ripped the woman's belly, killed; the brothers hear the conversation of doves explaining the dignity of the bird; disperse after reading on a stone at the crossroads that those who have gone they will die together; a falcon sits on Saad's head, he is made a shah instead of the deceased Shah; anyone who wants to see Princess Delaram must give 100 coins; Said gives; D. has 40 maids like her, she every night he sends one of them; wonders why Said got so much money; solders, beats, he belches the bird's heart and liver, D. swallows them; Said leaves; S.'s three sons argue over his legacies (flying carpet, magic casket that makes Suleiman's antimony invisible); Said: let the one who comes running first receive it; flies away, picking up wonderful objects; flies to D., deceived again and abandoned on Mount Kof; hears the doves talking: after rubbing your feet with the bark of a tree, you will cross the sea, turn the stick into a donkey and back, the leaves will cure blindness and deafness; Said comes to the city, heals the Shah's deaf daughter, marries her, comes to D., turns her, her maids and servants into donkeys; D. returns everything, becomes human again; Said heals his blind father; finds his brother; everyone is happy]: Christensen 1971 , No. 9:96-108 (=Rosenfeld 1956:41-51); Sistan's Tajiks [the woodcutter found an egg in the forest, the merchant gave a lot of money for it; the woodcutter began to go to the same place every day, bring an egg; then caught a bird; went to his relatives, telling his wife to take care of it; the merchant promises to marry it himself, asks to fry the bird; the eldest son accidentally ate his head and the younger heart; the merchant ordered at night kill the children, take what was swallowed out of their bellies; the brothers heard, ran away; the youngest in the morning began to find a hundred mists under his head; gave everything to the elder and they parted; sat on the elder's head three times the bird and he was elected king; the youngest came to the city, where the princess shows her face for 50 mists and her chest for a hundred; the youngest pays her every day; the princess guessed that he ate the egg of the bird of happiness; invited, vomited, swallowed the bird's heart herself, drove the young man out; three brothers share the inheritance: an invisible skullcap, a flying rug, a bag that gives any food; the young man fired arrows - who will come first, second, third and receive items in turn; flew away on a flying carpet; flew to the princess and began to live with her; told his wife about the rug, she flew away on it; the young man hears the pigeons talking; plane tree leaves will cure blindness; whoever puts on bast and makes shoes will pass through 7 seas; whoever makes a tree stick will turn a person into a donkey by hitting one end, and again into a person by hitting the other; the young man cured the blind princess with leaves, received her and half the kingdom; came to his former wife, turned her and her maids into donkeys; she returned everything and the young man left her; found a brother king; tied his mother by her hair to the horse's tail and opened it along the thorns; found a new wife for his father]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 10:131-141; Yazgulyams [two brothers went to bed under a tree; (one brother) hears a parrot say: Whoever kills me and eats my meat will be king, and whoever reveals the secret will be petrified for 7 days; when my brother wakes up, the parrot lies with his head off; the brother could not find anyone to bury another brother, left under a tree; he was elected king himself - the falcon of reign sat on his head; the deceased brother came to life seven days later, took up the taxi, came to the palace; met his brother, told him everything, the king made him a vizier, gave a wife; while goating he fell off his horse and was killed; the king left the kingdom, went on a journey, and disappeared]: Edelman 1966, No. 5:194; (cf. Tajiks [the padishah has sons Gul and Bulbul; after the death of his wife, he took a new one; his stepmother offers himself to Gulu, he refuses; she tears his clothes, accuses him of trying to rape her; vizier: if the clothes were torn from behind, then G. ran away from the woman; the padishah released his son, but drove him away, B. left with him; in the morning G. cannot wake up, B. left, a falcon sat on his head, he was elected padishah Misra; merchants Gul was woken up, in the country of Chin he was hired as an assistant pilaf seller, gold was on his bed in the morning, the seller became rich; G. goes with merchants to Misr; in one city he performs padishah for delicious pilaf Gul's wish: a palace with a tower of gold and the daughter of Padishah Baghdad; B. and G. met; at night the merchant wants to take G.'s wife and kill him; his wife suggests lowering G. in a chest into the river; the gardener picked him up, he pulled a mutton abomb over his head, sent Bulbula a bouquet of flowers; everyone tells stories, G. tells his own, takes the abomb off his head; the merchant was tied to the stallion's tail]: Osmanov 1989:506-512); Turkmens [ the hunter caught a bird, brought it home, gold is pouring out of the bird's eyes; he has sons 10 and 12 years old from his deceased wife; the new one met with the vizier, who gave her poison to poison her husband; when he dies, the father tells his sons to watch a bird, do not show it to strangers or stepmother; stepmother overheard, began to get up and collect gold before the boys; told the vizier; he ordered to cook a bird to eat her eyes; one boy accidentally ate head, other heart; fearing punishment, they ran away; the vizier sent a nuker, who let the boys go, bringing their clothes colored with hare blood; the elder brother came to the old woman, who found gold in his possession pillow; hid it, fearing that they would find out and kill them; the young man began to herd cows, the old woman sold gold, they became rich, the padishah made him a vizier; the younger brother came to the old man, grew up, became military leader; brothers found each other, defeated and killed that vizier and stepmother, began to live in their own city]: Stebleva 1969, No. 32:166-170; Pashtuns [the birdsman's sons Hunkar (elder) and Muslim from first wife; he found a white egg in the nest of an unknown bird, sold it for a lot of money to a rich man, began to bring him more and more eggs; caught the bird itself; after his death, H. sells eggs to the rich man; stepmother asks a rich man to come to her, he makes it a condition to slaughter a bird to eat his heart and head and become a padishah; the maid gives the heart and head to the sons of the poor man; the rich man is furious, the maid tells H. and M. to run; H. died, a falcon sat on Muslim's head, he was chosen padishah; three birds admired the beauty of H., shook a tree whose leaves revive, one fell into H.'s mouth, he came to life; a falcon also sat on his head, H. became a padishah of another country; M. has 7 sons, H. has daughters, he kills them; his wife hides a seventh named Schmaila; she grows up beautiful; H. sees her, his wife has to explain everything; H. puts difficult tasks for Sh.'s grooms; 1) break an iron deck with a wooden ax; 2) milk Shmaila's red cow with diamond horns; 3) run to the roof three times with a windowsill full of milk; 4) separate the millet from the sand, and the millet of that half the room; 5) bring the lion, fight with the padishah's lion; 7) find a way into Shmaila's chambers; M.'s 6 sons are executed; the seventh Jallat Khan plays with the old woman's son, beats him; the old woman tells her son to say - if D. is so good, then demand (from the mother) an answer how the brothers died; D. asks the mother to fry the grains, clamps them in her hand, forcing her to talk about the fate of her elders brothers; on the instructions of the fakir, receives the blessing of his mother and father; takes out a splinter from a lioness; lions promise to help; saves ants by buying a person's field so that he does not fill it with water; gives Mullah Miro a letter from a fakir, the mullah makes D. a student; he first enters S.'s chambers in a woman's outfit; S. suspects that he is a man, but M. does not betray himself; then makes a mechanical lion, hides in him, Sh. tells him how to complete his father's tasks; ants separate millet, lion defeats lion X.; D. gets Sh., Hunkar's eyes gouged out, brought to his brother; brothers recognized each other, H. repented that he killed sons after Muslim]: Lebedev 1972, No. 6:27-44 (=1958:113-120; brief retelling in Lebedev 2003:395); (cf. Baluchi: Zarubin 1932, No. 7 [from the king's deceased wife, sons Gul and Momin; the stepmother invites the elder Gul to meet with her; he pretends to agree, but leaves; (apparently, the stepmother accuses the sons) the king orders them to be killed; then agrees to expel G., leave M.; both flee; Gulya kills the dragon; in one city M. is elected king; the dervish revives G., he converges with the girl; some people lure him into a boat, placed in a box, lowered down the river; a man catches him, brings him to the king, he turns out to be M.; G. celebrates that girl], 13 [father married four sons, two are left unmarried, they went on a journey; one night he woke up, went to look for the missing horses; the king died there, a Simurg bird sat on the young man's head, he was elected king, he forgot about his brother; the merchant makes him a clerk; he answers the king's dream, exposing his wives' infidelity; the king gives him his daughter; the merchant asks the young man to get the cup out of the chest, closes the lid, throws it into the river; the gardener finds the chest, frees the young man; he comes to the merchant's wedding, tells his story; the tsar brother recognizes him, executes the merchant, the young man celebrates the wedding]: 90-96, 163-172); Bukhara Arabs [a man found an egg, sold it for 1000 teneg; wife She also ordered to bring a bird; bring a handsome man; makes her husband a servant, a handsome man a husband; he falls ill, the stargazer told him to eat a bird; his stepsons eat his head and heart; next time he drinks the blood of his stepsons; the old man brings the blood of the puppies, the children run away; the one who ate the bird's head is chosen as the emir; the second lives with the old woman, every night under his pillow a hundred tenegs; the emir's daughter gave him drink, ate his vomit (her heart is in her heart birds), told Gin to throw him into the steppes; three fight, sharing an invisible hat, a magic tablecloth, a flying carpet; the young man tells three to race, picks up objects; visits the emir's daughter at night; the stargazer tells her to tell the young man, "Let your penis into my vagina", tear off the invisible hat; the diva takes the young man back to the steppe; he hears the nightingale talking to the parrot: a leaf from this tree will heal the wound, the branch will fulfill wishes; the young man turns the daughter of the emir and her 40 slaves into horses; finds a brother, turns his horses back into women; marries a peri, brother emir to one of the slaves; those who helped are awarded, the mother is thrown off roofs on horses]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 33:217-221; Uzbeks: Afzalov 1972 (1) [the poor man has sons Rustamzod and Sherzod; after the death of his wife, he took a widow; the new wife advises to stick to thieves; 40 thieves were taken him to cook; the thieves went to rob the rich sorceress; the old man rode there before them, began to beat the tambourine; the thieves got scared, the old man got a jug of gold and was back before the thieves; the next time the old man in the same way, he kept the property of the mill owner; after that, the old man took the money and the bird shot by the robbers, returned home; in 7 years, the bird laid 7 eggs; the old man went to sell them, his they led to the Shah, the Shah gave unthinkable wealth by the eggs; when he became rich, the old man began to leave to trade, and his wife had a lover; the lover knew that the bird who ate the wing would be found in the morning under his pillow a purse of gold, and the one who ate his neck was a purse full of silver; his lover ordered a bird to be slaughtered for him, the boys accidentally ate his wing and neck; his father returned, his stepmother told him that his sons had killed the bird, he kicked them out from home; Sherzod hears two birds talking; first, whoever shoots me will wander in the desert for 40 days, and then become ruler; second, whoever shoots me, sleeps 40 days and nights, will wander for 40 days and nights, will experience many hardships and achieve wishes come true; S. shot the birds, cooked them, ate one, fell asleep; R. came up, ate another, went on a journey; the padishah died in the city, the released bird sat on R., he was made a padishah; S. woke up after 40 days, followed in his brother's footsteps; he was not allowed into the city where R. reigned; every midnight a dragon arrives, swallows everyone, who is behind the city wall; S. knocked out his eyes with arrows and chopped him with a sword; the guards threw S. into the pit, said that they had killed the dragon; the potter found and cured him; the guards identified him and put him in zindon; to R. a neighboring padishah arrives; he asks him to throw the criminal into the river: the river demands a sacrifice from those who cross; at night, S. broke the chains and sent everyone unnoticed; the padishah made him military leader; padishah will pass off his sister Nusrat as the one who would kill a ferocious lion; S. killed him with a club; S. received N., went to look for his brother; at night, the soldiers accompanying S. pushed him into the river, and N. they put them in a chest and transported them to the other side; R. saw this, suspected something was amiss, threw the soldiers into the zindon, N. brought them to the palace; S. was saved by a fisherman; under the guise of a mutilated fisherman's sister, asked to bring him to palanquin to R.'s palace and began to talk about his fate; everything was clarified, the fisherman and potter were gifted, former guards who became officials were executed]: 115-128; Sheverdin 1980 [the old man finds one thing then the second precious egg of the bird Murkumomo, receives an award for them from the padishah, gets rich, builds a city, becomes Shah in it; catches M.; goes to Mecca; his wife takes a lover, he demands cook M.; the scallop (who eats will become a padishah) is accidentally eaten by the old man's sons Majid and Hamid; the lover orders the boys to be killed, the hangman lets them go, the bird of happiness sits on H.'s head, he is chosen king; M. separates three fighting, takes them away with an invisible hat, a staff that treats the blind, a flying carpet; takes the daughter of the padishah; two years later she and her children sit on the carpet, flies to her father; M. in a hat- Invisible goes there, takes the children, flies on the carpet to Brother H.; meanwhile, the stepmother made two false graves of H. and M., their father went blind from grief; H. and M. cured him, took him home]: 266-271.

Baltoscandia. Seto [the poor man sees someone in his wheat field; hears back: I am your neighbor's happiness, I take ears from your field and pass it on to him; and your happiness sleeps because you don't work yourself, but you just go hunting; follow him to a house in the forest, it's there in yellow clothes; the poor man came, his happiness called out to him, gave him a chicken; at home she laid an egg, the poor man went to sell, no one has money Finally, a rich merchant gave him a hundred rubles to buy; so every day, the poor man and his wife became rich, their sons were sent to school; the wife met his priest, showed him a chicken; he saw that at the tip of his left wing she says "the one who eats will be the king of money," and on the tip of her right, "the one who eats will be king"; the wife agrees to fry the chicken; the boys who come from school ate the tips of their wings; the pop tells his mistress to stab her sons, fry their hearts; she sends a maid to kill the boys, she kills a goose and a puppy, tells the children to run; the pop ate the hearts of the goose and the puppy, starts laughing and barking; boys broke up; the eldest settled with a poor woman, every day he had gold at his head; they got rich, bought a merchant's house near the royal palace, lived richly; the younger brother went to the priest, who He was brought up; the king died, began to choose a new one; everyone went to church, a candle fell on his younger brother twice, he was elected king; the brothers recognized each other; came unrecognized to their father's house; there they mother and priest, father resettled, he became a shepherd; the brothers brought his father, opened up; the youngest threw up his sword when he fell, he cut off his mother's head; the priest was shackled, sent to eternal hard labor in Siberia]: Sandra 2004:114-128; Latvians [A wonderful bird. Two boys eat the heart (wings, head) of a magic bird, unaware that they have acquired wonderful properties and capabilities: one will spit gold, the other will become king. A man who takes a bird himself wants to kill boys. The boys run to the woods and break up. A young man spitting gold is lured by a swallowed bird's heart and driven away by girls. With the help of magic fruits (whoever eats them turns into a horse), the young man regains the heart of a bird. They want to punish the young man, but it turns out that the king is his brother]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 767:303; the Veps [the rich brother did gold things and the poor brother did brooms; the poor saw a bird in the forest, threw an ax, killed and sold it to a rich man; he saw that the bird had "Whoever eats will become strong" on its right wing, and "Whoever eats has a gold coin under his pillow in the morning"; told his wife to fry the bird; the poor brother's children came in and ate everything; the hostess was frightened and fried an ordinary rooster; the rich did not have more strength, coins did not appear; and the poor became rich; the rich demands that he kill his children - they are devils; parents left their children in the forest; one went to get game; the bear asks her not to kill, gave her two cubs; the same was a hare; at the fork, the brothers parted, leaving a glass of water; if water it will go bad, one of the brothers is bad; the younger brother has come to the city; there the serpent ate all the girls, it is the turn of the king's daughter; the young man sees the stove: "Whoever lifts it up will find wine and a sword under it, whoever drinks wine, will take possession of the sword"; the guy cut off 10 heads of the snake, the saber broke, the remaining two were torn off by a dog, a bear and a hare; the guy burned a snake and hid his tongues; the princess gave a gold ring and a handkerchief, to the animals too tied her handkerchiefs; the boy and his beasts fell asleep; the royal servant cut off the sleeping man's head, told the princess to say that he had defeated the dragon; the beasts woke up, the hare brought alive and dead water, and revived the owner; At first they put her head wrong; they redesigned it; they all came to the wedding of the royal daughter; the bride recognized the animals by the ribbon; the king asks where the ring came from, the guy showed his tongues; the servant was beheaded, the boy married the princess; went hunting; the magician turned him and the animals into stones; the brother saw that the water was cloudy; came to the forest, put a cross on the bullet, shot the wizard, forcing his brother to revive, horse and animals; it flowed down his lips, did not get into his mouth]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 18:94-100; Ingrians [the hunter finds a bird that lays golden eggs; gets rich; on the bird's wing the inscription: eaten, will become king; his wife has a lover; he tells her to cook a bird for him; a mother gives one son a head and another a heart; the lover tells them to be killed, but the sister {mother?} lets go]: Aarne 1908:153-154; Karelians (Olonetsky district, 1938) [=Car folk tales 1967, No. 44; the rich brother called the poor man to visit, but drove him away, because he starved bones in front of the people; the poor decided go and threshing the rye of a rich man; in Riga, two work at night, they are Shares of the rich; and his share sleeps in a green meadow; they tell her to hit her crosswise with a twig; Share woke up and gave her hair; the man made out he is a snare and caught by a duck; she lays a golden egg every day; the man is rich, his brother is envious; the brother of the rich son learned about the duck; under the wing it says: whoever eats the meat of this duck will rich all his life; the rich brother changed the duck, started cooking, the former poor cat came and took the meat home, the boy ate this meat; got rich and now sells there]: Lavonen 1992:210-211; Finns : Aarne 1908:145-150; Estonians [the cook shot the golden bird, gave it to the master; he noticed that under the wings there was an inscription: whoever eats the right will become king, whoever is left will be prince; tells you to cook a bird; the cook's eldest son became king, made his younger brother prince]: Eisen, no. 10, s. 75 in Aarne 1908:154; western (?) Sami [a man has spared a bird; it advises him to buy another one that lays golden eggs; a man is getting rich; an acquaintance of his wife sees an inscription on his beak: the one who eats blood will become king, eating the right the wing will spit out gold; tells you to cook the bird; but the woman's eldest son ate the head, the youngest's wing; when the elder enters the church, the candles light up themselves: the king has entered; the youngest is done adviser; mother and lover executed]: Qvigstad & Sandberg, s. 48 in Aarne 1908:154; Livs, Lithuanians, Swedes, Norwegians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 567, 567A: 336-338.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [in the forest, the bird asks the old man not to kill her; he lays a golden egg at his house every day; the hunter was taken as a soldier, his wife began to sell eggs; her lover read for her goiter: the one who eats the heart will be king, the one who eats the liver will be the prince; the lover ordered the bird to be slaughtered and cooked; the sons returned from school, the elder ate the heart, the youngest the liver; the lover tells the sons to be slaughtered, prepare their heart and liver for him; the servant let the boys go, stabbed the dog and cat; the brothers separated; the elder was elected king - his candle lit itself; the youngest was hired as a worker; the brothers returned home, their father did not recognize them, asked them to tell the story; the elder told them; the brothers did not allow their father to kill their mother; the elder made them a younger prince]: Evseviev 1964, No. 39:276-279; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 6:57-70; Yarmukhametov 1957 [the poor brother saw a golden bird in the forest; brought the rich, who was a jeweler, first a feather, then eggs, then the bird itself; the rich man guessed that he ate the heart and liver would find gold under the pillow in the morning, told his wife to cook it; at that time, the poor brother's two sons came in, ate their heart and liver; their aunt told them to remain silent, changed their hearts and liver rooster; the rich understood what was going on when the poor brought him gold, ordered his sons to be taken to the forest; they were sheltered by a hunter, took gold, but raised them; ordered to leave a knife at the crossroads - whose side would rust, with the trouble is; the hare, the fox, the wolf, the bear, the lion are told not to kill them, each gives two cubs; the brothers separate, each took one of the cubs; the youngest comes to the city where the 7-headed ajdaha every year gets hit by the girl, it's the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man enters the house, where he drinks strong water and takes a heavy sword; the animals helped kill Azhdaha; the princess gives her handkerchief; the young man and the animals fell asleep, the vizier cut off The young man's head, told the padishah that he had killed Azhdah; the hare brought a healing root, revived the young man; he sends a hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion to bring bread, meat, berries, belyashi, sorbet from the padishah's table; Seeing them, the princess realizes that the groom is alive; the padishah orders the owner of the animals to be brought, he shows the snake tongues cut off by him; the vizier was torn by horses, the young man received the princess; once he chased the white one a beast; an old woman asks to hit the animals with a twig, they turned into stone, she hit the young man herself; the elder brother sees rust, comes to the youngest's wife, who first takes him for her husband; he finds Ubyr shot her with a silver bullet, ordered her brother and his animals to be revived, then throws her into the fire; the younger brother is angry at the elder for coming to his wife; offers to enter the city from both sides, whoever the princess recognizes will be her husband; she will recognize her husband by her ring, which is around the neck of her lion's husband; after the death of the padishah, the brothers ruled together]: 106-122; the Udmurts [the soldier returned from service, wanted to kill the capercaillie, he asked him to reach it with his hand; the soldier brought the capercaillie home, planted it on a tree; every week a capercaillie lays an egg, a soldier sells it to a merchant for a bag of money; the merchant persuaded the soldier cook capercaillie: the one who eats the head will become king, the one who eats the heart will be rich; the worker heard this, said to the soldier's two sons, they ate the heart and head; the merchant orders to slaughter the children, the soldier says so to make the worker, the worker's wife advises to slaughter puppies; takes away, lets the children go; they have come to live with another merchant; he boasts to the king that his sons have the sun on their foreheads, a month on the back of their heads; in surprise the king died, the hawk sat on the head of one of Solbat's sons, he was made the new king; both married two royal daughters; they come to visit their father, tell their story; the father left with him, leaving his wife]: Kralina 1960, No. 64 []: 176-179; Marie: Ramstedt 1902, No. 2 (mountain) [a man caught a beautiful bird in the forest, brought it home with the egg that was in the nest; sold the egg to a merchant for 100 rubles; then second; the merchant told {the man's wife?} to fry a bird for him, only then will he give the money; but the man's two sons accidentally ate the most important parts of the bird; the merchant orders him to give him the children's liver; the father sent the boys to school, but they ran away; parted at a fork in the roads; one brother, Ivan, comes to an old woman who has no food, but in the morning I. gives her money: every spit turns into gold; in the end he gets rich, sometimes the king; three royal daughters give him a drink {poisoned?} wine, he falls dead, they cut out his liver, fry him, eat it, now they have gold themselves; I.'s body was cut to pieces, put it in a barrel, lowered it down the river; the sailors caught it; when the raven came down peck meat, he was caught and told to get living and dead water; the raven brought; I.'s body was raised and revived; he first was a cook on the ship, then asked for time off; came to the garden, ate and picked apples; from some grow horns on their heads, disappear from others; the other two varieties of apples turn into a black stallion and back into a person; I. sells apples to the palace: three princesses have turned into black stallions, and queens grew horns; I. promises to cure the transformed ones for a lot of money; he drove horses until milk poured out of them; I. licked him and regained the ability to spit gold; returned them human appearance; left and married safely]: 173-180; Sabitov 1989, No. 567 [Wonderful bird: two brothers eat part of the bird (spit money); the merchant tells his father to cook the children's liver; they run away and they go in different directions; three princesses kill their second brother and take on his miraculous property; the hero miraculously heals and regains his qualities]: 36-37; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 14 [the old man caught a goldfish, she tells the head to be eaten by a mare, its torso to an old woman and its tail to a dog; an old woman gives birth to two sons with a golden head and a silver back, and a mare to the same horses the dog is puppies; the king takes the boys into care; the elder brother takes a sword, a dog, a horse, goes to save the princess, who must be eaten by Azhdaha; if blood drips from his knife, the younger one must hurry to help; a young man kills three-, six-, nine-headed ajdah; a bald man and his 40 brothers attribute victory to themselves; cannot raise their heads; executed; a young man gets a princess; chases victory for himself; not Azhdazhi can raise their heads; executed; a young man gets a princess; et devas starlings, the last piece of optics, she brings him to a woman, she pushes him into the cellar; brother follows in his footsteps, princess takes him for her husband, he puts a sword between her and him; he goes after the bird, beats the woman, makes her brother and other batyrs revive, kills her with dead water; the elder thinks that the youngest slept with him wife, cuts off his head; the dog revives him with living water, but puts his head backwards; the elder feels sorry, he does the right thing, repents; lives with his wife], 15 [the fisherman caught a shining a colorful fish; she ordered her to feed her sons meat, give blood to her horses, give her bones to dogs; the old man was surprised: he had no sons; when he came home, his wife offered him two boys: she sculpted them out of dough and they came to life; when the boys ate the fish, their heads were covered with the same gems as the fish itself; {it is later said that the dogs that ate the bones gave birth to puppies; horses are not it is said, but it is obvious that the mares gave birth to foals}; the eldest of the brothers is Kamar Batyr ("hero dough"); ordered his father to order a cast-iron club of 15 pounds for him; threw it up, put his head up - a club crashed; ordered a heavier one - satisfied with it; left an arrow to his brother: if blood flows from it, he was in trouble; I came to an old woman, she fed him poison, ate him, hung her head on the wall; my brother saw blood, followed K. with his dogs; a girl in the hut tells her not to eat what the old woman would offer; Brother K. defeated the old woman, forced K. to revive, she collected the remains, poured water, K. came to life, killed the witch, left her wealth and girlfriend to his brother, came to the city himself, where the devil demands a girl every day; the princess's turn; K. killed the deva, put his head under a cast-iron barn, threw his body into the sea, left; the court on guard, forced the princess to call him the snake the winner; K. came to the wedding feast in the guise of a beggar; sang, threw off his rags; the deceiver could not lift the barn to reach his head, he was executed; K. married the princess and inherited the throne], 30 [the evil king Takyanus is brought a swan; it says that the one who eats her head will remain king forever; his sons Husain (the youngest), Hasan and Suleiman (the eldest) they accidentally eat their heads, wings, legs; the king tells the vizier to take them to the forest and kill them, the vizier lets the boys go; at the fork there is an inscription: whoever goes to the right will find good luck, to the left will find death, in the middle will remain with with what he has; S. goes to the right, Hasan straight, Husain to the left; hits the ring with an arrow, made by the royal son-in-law, but as a minor, postpones the wedding and moves on; kills Azhdaha, who has closed the water , gets the daughter of another king, goes on; catches a wonderful ant, who carries him across the sea to an island, takes possession of a local beauty; a witch persuades her to find out where her husband's soul is; these are tweezers in in a skullcap, the witch throws them into the sea, takes his wife H. to the khan; she manages to give the dove a letter for her husband's brothers; they take out tweezers, revive their brother, drown the old woman in the sea, give the khan and wife Husain's possessions; he gives his first two wives to his brothers; explains to his impoverished father who he is]: 106-116, 116-120, 188-197.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurbekov 1979 [the younger brother is rich and childless, the poor elder sons Khasan and Husain; they find blue bird eggs, bring them to their uncle; he asks to catch the bird itself; his wife cooks her, the brothers accidentally eat the heart, the wife replaces it with a cock; in the morning gold under the pillow is not uncle, but boys; the uncle advises his brother to kill the boys; he takes them to the forest; they live with the old man, he gets rich ; brothers go on different roads; Hassan kills a seven-headed serpent, to whom the princess is given to eat, marries her, becomes a vizier; hunts, the old woman, at the instigation of the former vizier, turns him, his a horse and a dog in the rocks; Husain arrives, makes an old woman bring Hassan back to life; brothers return to their parents, throw their uncle into the well]: 60-67; Kanbak-shal 1985 [wife died leaving two sons, husband he took another one; when he left, he said that he had a bird of wealth; the fortuneteller tells his wife's lover that if you eat the heart of a bird of wealth, you will become a padishah, if the right wing, you will understand the language animals and you will spit gold; the wife slaughtered the bird, but the cook fed the boys's heart and wing; the younger brother hears the sparrows talking: their mother hired a robber to kill them; they give him gold, run away; three horsemen ask for help to share their father's inheritance: a flying carpet, an invisible skullcap, a box giving gold; boys pick up items, leaving gold for the horsemen; the older brother was chosen khan (the bird fell on his head), the youngest flew away on a flying carpet; the old man says that Khan's daughter wears 40 pairs of shoes per day; whoever guesses why she beats the girl in the bone, she will marry him married, unlucky applicants are executed; the girl wins everything, but the younger brother has an inexhaustible supply of gold; Mystan Kempir advises to replace the box; before execution, the younger brother wears an invisible hat, flies away on a flying carpet; finds fruits in the forest that turn him into a wolf, a magpie, again into a man, and a handsome man; the young man gives the last apple to the maid, and turns the khan's daughter into a magpie; in the form the mullahs restore her human appearance, but reports that the khan's daughter wore off her shoes when she went to debauchery the giant at night, here is his head; cuts off the head of the khan's daughter, flies to the eldest to his brother; he says that the viziers kicked him out of the palace, now he is a beggar; his younger brother turns the viziers into wolves; the brothers return to their father, kill his mother and her lover; magic objects return them former owners]: 271-278; Sidelnikov 1952 [from Sobolev 1940:158-165; the younger brother is rich and childless, the elder is poor, his sons Hasen and Husain; they brought white blue-streaked birds from the forest eggs; the uncle bought them at a high price and asked me to bring the bird itself; they brought them, the uncle told his wife to cook it; the brothers saw the brew, ate the heart in half; the uncle's wife replaced it with the heart of a rooster; the uncle ate it , but in the morning he did not find gold under his pillow, but the brothers found it at home; when he learned this, the elder brother tells the younger brother that his sons have spoiled their spirits, they must be killed; the youngest took the children to pick berries and left them in the steppe; they settled with an old man; when the brothers grew up, they no longer had new gold; the brothers left, each left a knife; Hasen came to a city where one girl was given a seven-headed snake every day and one hare; the turn of the khan's daughter; Hasen woke up to the girl's tear, cut off the snake's head, received a ring from the girl; the vizier said that he killed the snake; but could not move the carcass, and Hasen easily he did this, he got the khan's daughter; an old woman came to his fire, turned him, his horse and dog into stones with her wand; Husain found his brother's wife, found an old woman, pointed a gun at her, she gave her wand revive the transformed; the brothers returned to their impoverished and blind parents; the uncle was thrown into the well]: 261-269; Kyrgyz [Khan Sarybay wants to marry a young widow; tells her to slaughter the chicken with eggs which she feeds her children; the widow gave one son the head and the other a liver; the khan demands the liver and head of her sons; the butcher grabbed them, but the black bird told them to let them go, who gave the cat's head and liver; the elder brother let the youngest into the well to drink water, the rope broke off; a bird sat on the elder's head, he was chosen khan; the youngest was rescued by an old man; every spit of the youngest turns into silver; the girl He beat everyone; the young man beat her, but she gave him a drink, he regurgitated the chicken's liver, then lost everything; three brothers argue over the inheritance: a magic tablecloth, a wineskin filled with koumiss, a wish-fulfilling stick; a young man invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; wants to become rich and have M. by his side; she steals a stick; the young man hears three pigeons talking: who will eat a red apple will turn rosy, who is white - white-bodied, who is green - will become an old man or an old woman; the young man fed M. a green apple, gave it a red apple after she found his brother; the youngest gave it to his brother in wives, returned to his mother himself]: Brudny 1954:100-104; Dungans: Bulatova 1985 [woodcutter Helyan finds a strange egg, the merchant sees it, sends a servant to buy it for gold; so every day; it turned out that the merchant gave two gold coins, the servant took one for himself; the angry servant explains that these are the eggs of the Gulong bird; the woodcutter and his wife Huanghua eat eggs, they are getting younger; the woodcutter catches the bird itself; leaves, doctor persuades the bird to fry; the one who eats the head and heart will become a sage, the legs and wings will be a strongman; without knowing this, Huanghua gives them to his sons, and the liver and lungs to their nanny; the doctor is furious, now he must eat the boys' hearts; Huanghua tells the nanny in the forest to slaughter the children; they give her the hearts of dogs, leave; the doctor who has eaten dog hearts goes crazy; the brothers reach the fork, there is an inscription: to the left is death, happiness to the right; Hechin, who has become a strongman, walks on the left, Helin on the right, an eagle sits on his head, is elected emperor; Hechin kills a dragon; takes away an invisible hat and a flying stick from two guys (they fought over them, Hechin invited them to race, flew away); takes away the emperor's daughter; everyone finds each other (the emperor's daughter flew back, taking a hat and a stick, but with the help of what was sent Hechin returned her as a brother of the army); Huanghua is driven away, a former woodcutter marries his sons' nanny]: 458-466; Riftin et al. 1977, No. 6 [firewood collector Shynbor finds two eggs in a bird's nest, a stranger to them buys for a lot of money; Sh.'s wife goes with him, brings home poultry, S. sells eggs, gets rich; Sh. leaves, his wife takes a lover named Sychyn, who asks to slaughter and cook poultry; sons Shynmyn (younger ) and Shynfu (elder) accidentally eat the heart and head; S. demands that a woman let him eat the heart of his youngest and the head of his eldest sons; they run away; Shynfu goes down to get water from the well, cannot get out; Shynfeng goes to get the rope, blind old people find and adopt Shynfa; gold coins are found under his pillow every morning, he does not know about it; says that the person driving along the western road will return from in gold, singing, blind old people find and adopt Eastern Shynf - on the same day, in the south - without clothes; a widow lives in the east, beats travelers; Shynfu beats her; the fortuneteller says that if Shynfu he will vomit, he will regurgitate the bird's heart; the widow gave him drink, swallowed his heart, Shynfu lost everything; three fight for a bag (gives gold), a table (food), a stick (will take him where it is boring); Shynfu invites them to run races, picks up items; tells the stick to take the widow's house to the desert; the widow picks up the stick, returns the house, Shynfu stays in the desert; hears three pigeons talking (under the poplars on an apple; smelling an apple the first will be covered with red hair; the second will become beautiful, the third will turn into a donkey or a mule; Shynfu gives the second to the maid (becomes beautiful), the third to the widow (made by a donkey); the donkey comes running to government, officials decide that he came to complain; the governor is Shynfeng; orders the widow to return to her human appearance by letting her smell the first apple, give him a drink, she regurgitated the bird's heart, Shynfu again swallowed, married a widow]: 62-68.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats, Tuvans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 567, 567A: 336-338; Mongols: Mikhailov 1962:50-55 [brothers Nomyn-Bayasgalan (elder) and Erdenin Bayasgalan cannot cut down a dry tree; the father goes with them, they knocked down a tree, under it there is a gold box, there is a chicken in it; the lumberjack's wife died, he took another one; he is dying himself; tells the sons to eat the chicken's brain (the one who ate will become khan) and the heart ( will become an important official); the lama advises her stepmother to pretend to be sick, and he will say that she should eat the chicken's brain and heart; but the brothers guessed it, ate the brain and heart, left, began to live with a woman in white yurt; she offers N. to marry; the bride's father demands gold, etc.; E. goes to the llama for advice on how to get treasures; the snake asks why she has been lying in one place for six years; the tree - why it is 9 years old foliage flew back; fish - why has been lying on the shore for 13 years, monks - why did the monastery become impoverished; llama: silver must be dug from under the snake, gold from the wood, bronze from the fish, from under the monastery wall - topaz; E. did everything, brought treasures, got married; the wife herself wants to take possession of the bird's heart; the llama advises to give E. vomit; the wife swallowed the bird's heart, and N. began to wither away; smelling the black flower, he became as a kid, smelling yellow, again a man; let his wife smell black, she became a goat; regurgitated her heart, N. swallowed it again; feeling sorry for his wife, restored her human appearance; after the death of the old one the wise men made Khan a new one, and N. a minister], 69-71 [hunter Badr named his eldest son Zayah ("Luck"), the youngest - Dalger ("Abundance"); when they are 12 and 10 years old, he ordered not to part with what he had brought a swan with a five-colored flower in its beak; died; the llama {apparently the woman's new husband} told her to slaughter and cook the swan; D. cut off and swallowed her head, both brothers left; parting, planted for aspen, they decided to return to them three years later; D. began to live with a Chinese man; his belching was a pearl; the princely son gave D. a drink, his wife swallowed the swan's head regurgitated; D. and his adoptive father were waiting for him the woman was beaten until she regurgitated her head, D. swallowed her again; the brothers met at the aspens, returned to their mother, took her and the lama, returned to the Chinese, stayed with him]; darhats [the man caught a bird, then the animals began to come by themselves, the hunter became rich; the wife met with the merchant, who asked to cook a bird, her two sons accidentally entered, the youngest ate the head, the elder wing; the mother became beat them, they ran away, lost each other; the youngest lives with an old woman, sells hay, pays exorbitant prices for him; Noyon's daughter lures him to her, got him drunk, he regurgitated gems first, then the bird's head; Noyon's daughter threw it away, he returned to the old woman, happiness is gone; the young man leaves, undertakes to judge his father arguing over the inheritance: who will get an invisible hat, a wish-fulfilling box and a staff with which you can walk on the water; he threw a stone, told me to race, took possession of things, came back to Noyon's daughter, she took everything again, leaving only a staff; he came to live with another old woman, pretended to be sleeping, saw that it was a shulmusikha with one eye in her forehead; pretended to wake up, shulmusikha took the form of an old woman again; replied that the flowers on her box made her wishes come true; fell asleep; the young man burned her eye with a hot staff, ran away, crossed the sea with the help of a staff, shulmusikha rushed after her and drowned; the young man came to Noyon's daughter, turned her into a horse by the power of flowers, maids as donkeys; promised Noyon to find his daughter if he gave him her box; it contained all the magic objects; the young man restored Noyon's daughter to human form, but left only one eye; gave the second one after how he got Noyon's daughter as his wife; noyon made him a senior dignitary; he found his father and mother, made his father a boss, his mother a maid; his older brother caught forty, agreed not to kill, she became a girl, her father gave a piece of cloth, she fulfills her wishes, the fabric was changed in the ail; then she gave a baton, she began to beat the deceivers, they returned the matter; servants and cattle came out of it]: Potanin 1883, No. 160 : 535-539; Siberian Tatars (Tyumen) [a man bought a goose; in the morning he found a stone he had demolished; sold it for a lot of money; became rich; on the goose's head, his wife's lover notices the inscription: who will eat the head, will become king, whoever the heart is a vizier; tells them to cook a goose; hearts and heads are eaten by a woman's children; she sends a servant to kill them, he lowers them into the river in a chest, brings parts of the dog's body; the old man caught them; The bird sat on the elder's head three times, he was chosen king; the youngest became a vizier; the brothers came home, the mother was hanged]: Radloff IV, no.1:477 in Aarne 1908:155.