K95A. Burdock between rose bushes .16.29.30.32.33.

Lovers are buried in the same grave or nearby. Two plants that stretch towards each other grow in this place, and between them a thorny bush, embodying a character who has separated lovers.

French, Crimean Tatars, Dargins, Georgians, Armenians, Kurds, Persians, Uzbeks, Tajiks (?) , Bukhara Arabs, Shugnans, Bashkirs and Uighurs.

Western Europe. The French [Upon learning of her husband's death, Tristan Blanchefleur's mother died after the birth of a son. Tristan is raised by a loyal vassal, then kidnapped by Norwegian merchants. The storm crashes the ship, the waves throw the young man ashore, where his mother's brother King Mark rules. T. doesn't know about this and pretends to be a merchant. Tristan's teacher finds him, tells him and Mark about their relationship. T. conquers his country from his enemies, gives it to his tutor, and returns to Mark himself. Each year, Mark must send 300 young men and women as a tribute to the King of Ireland, who is married to the giant Morolt's sister (M.). M. arrives and challenges a daredevil to a fight. T. goes with M. to a lonely island, kills M. At the same time, it breaks the sword against his skull and leaves a point in it. The people welcome the winner, but T.'s wounds don't heal and give off a stench. T. asks to put him on a lonely ship, give him a harp and let him go to sea. The ship is coming to Ireland. The Queen's daughter Isolde, golden-haired, has healed him. Realizing that he is in Ireland, T. runs home. Mark is going to appoint T. as his heir, but his enemies demand that Mark marry and appoint his future son as heir. Golden hair falls on Mark from the swallow's beak, and Mark expresses a desire to marry its owner. T. remembers golden-haired I., goes after her. At this time, Ireland is devastated by a dragon, the king promises to marry I. to whoever defeats the monster. This is done by T., but the evil and ugly court pretends to be the winner. I. finds out the truth, heals T. again from his wounds, but when he sees his broken sword, he realizes that he killed her Uncle M., rushes at T. He explains that he wants to marry her not for himself, but for Mark. I. agrees. Y.'s mother gives her daughter a love drink goodbye, which she must drink with Mark. On the ship, I. mistakenly drinks a drink with T. Arriving at the king, I. sends Brangien's maid to Mark's chambers instead of himself. Fearing that the fraud will be revealed, she hires thieves to kill B. That makes me feel sorry for her. When I. begins to repent of his evil act, they bring B. alive. Meetings between T. and I. take place near a pine tree on the bank of the stream (T. throws objects that serve as symbols for I. into the waters of the stream). The evil hunchback informs Mark about I. He is going to burn his lovers at the stake. T. runs by jumping from a high tower. Lepers ask Mark not to burn I., but to marry her. Mark agrees, but T. beats and leads I. T. and I. live in the forest, and T. can imitate the voices of birds. Lovers are found first by dog T., and then by King Mark. Mark leaves his gloves next to them and puts them between the sleepers. Then T. and I. decide to break up. T. gives I. a dog, and that dog gives him a ring with a jewel. I. returns to Mark and must prove his purity at God's judgment. T. takes the form of an old beggar and carries her across the river in front of everyone's eyes. I. swears that no one but this beggar and Mark held her in his arms. The veracity of her words is confirmed by a hot iron test that does not harm her. Her meetings with T. continue. By summoning I., T. imitates the voices of birds. T. goes to Gaul. After defeating the giant, he receives from the local king a magical dog that helps him forget all sorrows. He travels, conquers a country and is rewarded with a woman who is also named I., but with the epithet Belarusian (IS). However, he doesn't live with her. When hunting, information security wades across the river and tells her brother that the water that soaked her legs is bolder than T. The brother is insulted and wants to fight with T., but he asks permission to see I. T. comes to her disguised as a beggar, but I., who believes that T. has cheated on her, orders him to be sent away. T. goes crazy out of grief, changes his voice and appearance again, and comes to I. Now she can't recognize him anymore. But his old dog will recognize him. I. believes that T. is in front of her when he shows her ring. Their meetings continue, then T. goes back to information security and slowly dies there. He sends I. She leaves Mark, sails on a white sail ship. BI tells T. that the sail is black, which means that the golden-haired I. cheated on him. I. finds T. dead and dies of grief herself. Mark wants them to be buried side by side. From T.'s grave, blooming blackthorns grow, spreading to I. It is cut off three times, then Mark forbids you to touch it anymore]: Freidenberg 1932:8-11.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [the tsar, returning from hunting, found a baby under the oak tree; gave the name Gamber; he has his own daughter Arzu; the children were playing together, the ball rolled, broke the dishes of the old witch woman; she said that G. is not the king's own son, ordered G. and A. to fall in love with each other, suffer forever and never unite; the children stopped going to school and indulge in outpourings of feelings; the king drove G. away, turned as a shepherd; G. drove the herd to A.'s window; then the king ordered G. to leave the country; G. put on ugly clothes and hired a guard in Bay Sultan's garden; once he bathed and the Sultan's daughter saw him handsome; promised to help him unite with A.; at her instigation, the Sultan put G. at the head of the army to forcibly obtain A.; the old woman told G. that A. died, showed the grave: "Arzu, who died of love for G."; G. fell dead; a shepherd who saw this killed an old woman; buried both; a thorn grew out of the old woman's grave, separating the graves of G. and A.; travelers are trying to pull her out, but she grows thicker and taller]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 1:34-41; Dargin residents [in the ballad "Bitter Love", two trees, silver and gold, grew over the grave of lovers; they stand still, not daring to hug, because a thorn grows between them]: Ganiyeva 2004:187; Georgians: Virsaladze 1973, No. 83 (Kakhi, present-day Gakh district of Azerbaijan) [in order not to give his daughter for a handsome Tatar, the priest suggests that he draw water down the mountainside from the river Kurmukho to the church fence; the groom was almost done; in order not to give his daughter, the priest turned to the witch; she advised to separate the sheep from the lambs, the cows from the calves for three days, and then let each other go to a friend; a roar and bleat will arise, and she will say that it was the popovna who died of longing for the groom and mourning her; the groom broke his head with a pickaxe and rushed into the canal, and the girl, having found out about this, also died; their buried on opposite sides of the canal; people wanted to kill an old woman, she died of fear; she was buried in the same canal between the graves of the bride and groom; a thorny bush grew on her grave; previously flowers from two graves reached out to each other and intertwined, and now the bush does not allow them to do so]: 139-140; Chikovani 1986:295-303 (Kakheti, village. Vegini, published in 1926; many 19th century records throughout Georgia) [the fortune teller gives childless spouses three apples, his wife eats them, gives birth to a daughter Eteri; the mother is dead, the stepmother torments E. with work, sends a cow to herd and spinning, E. falls asleep on a tree; Prince Abesalom finds her, swears not to marry her; his adviser Murman loves E.; the devil buys his soul, giving a handful of millet in return; we must throw millet at E., hers worms will cover; A. asks who will take E., M. takes it, the worms immediately disappear; A. loves E., tells M. to bring the water of immortality; sister A. Marekh brings him a crow's wing, bread, red wine, a pigeon's wing; A. replies that E. is whiter than a pigeon's wing, etc.; sends M. to E.; E. enters, A. looks at her, dies; E. stabs a knife into himself chest; they were buried side by side; M. dug up the grave, lay between them; thorny bushes grew on his grave, rose and violet on the graves of A. and E.; they reach for each other, the bush prevents them from connecting; from under M.'s feet got out and howled], 495-502 [the young man cries over the grave; tells the peasant that he is Tsarevich Geegan; he sailed with his comrades in a boat, it was brought to the shore of the country of monkeys; they broke the boat; there there were horses, they rode dogs; only D. reached the country where merchants from India come every two years; the merchant offers a thousand gold coins and a girl for work; brings her to the foot of the mountain, tells me to climb into the womb refreshed horse; eagles raised the carcass on the rock; the merchant orders to throw precious stones down; D. managed to go down, came to the old man, the king of birds; he leaves D. to guard the house, tells him not to open the door, behind which predators; D. opens, there is a garden, three doves flew in, became girls, began to swim; the old man returned, D. asks to marry one of them; he orders to steal the youngest's shirt, Shemshibano; doves arrived a year later, D. took a shirt, married S.; the old man advises wearing the shirt until his wife gives birth to a child; D. hides it in a chest, his wife finds it, flies away, tells me to look for it in the city of Gevher; D. He comes to that merchant again, but climbs into the horse's carcass without taking off his clothes or giving the gold to the merchant "for storage"; again he finds the king of birds; only one bird knew about the city of Gevher; D. came to Father Sh, he is king there; two years later, D. and S. go to see his relatives; the wolf killed Sh., now D. is crying at the grave; dug another one, lay down in it, died; violets have grown and stems have grown]; Armenians: Bogoyavlensky 1892b [a rich young man and a strong and courageous Dev fell in love with the daughter of Karabakh Melik; the girl promised to marry the one who would build the canal earlier; D. was the first to finish the work, putting off the water until morning; rich in the old woman's advice laid a wet white cloth from the river to the gardens; D. decided that it was water and stabbed himself; the girl died of grief; the rich man buried an old woman between them; rose bushes stretch towards each other, but thorns old women growing on the grave prevent them from connecting]: 75-78 (translated in Karapetyan 1990, No. 151:65-66); Ganalanyan 1979, No. 249 [the priest did not allow his daughter to marry a Turkish young man; they died out of grief, the priest too , ordered him to be buried between his lovers; a rose grew on the young man's grave, the girls grew violet; they are prevented from connecting thorns on the priest's grave]: 105-106; Kurds [{the end of the story of Mom and Zine, p. 66-97}; one drop of Becira's blood fell into the grave between Mom and Zine; from it, a thorny tree grew between the two lovers that prevents the roses growing on the graves of Mama and Zine from connecting]: Jindy 1962 : 97.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks: Zhirmunsky, Zarifov 1947 [Buyuk Karimov's recording, Zibog-Bibi Sarymsakova told them; the padishah and the vizier are childless, they are going on a pilgrimage; the elder gave them an apple each, ordered them to name children Tahir and Zukhra and betrothed them in the cradle; the girl was born to a padishah; he wanted an heir, ordered the girl to be executed, to bring a handkerchief moistened with her blood; then regretted it; the nobles admitted that did not obey the order; the vizier, having learned about the birth of his son, galloped home, fell and crashed; the padishah refused to betray his daughter to an orphan; T. played and hurt the old woman; she told him to extort his mother's name named bride; T. was ill, asked his mother to fry wheat, clutched a handful of hot grains in her palms, her mother agreed to tell everything; T. found Z. and began to meet her; the padishah found out, ordered put T. in a chest, throw it into the river; Z. made sure that the chest was spacious; the daughters of the Rum king noticed him; by lot he went to the youngest; she fell in love with the young man inside; the padishah adopted T. and gave his daughter for him; she is even more beautiful than Z., but T. does not talk to her and puts a dagger on the bed between them; after 40 years he took pity on his wife, spoke to her; her name is Khadicha; the padishah promises a reward to whoever makes T. laugh; Z.'s father wants to pass her off as Prince Kara-batyr; Z. sends caravans to look for T.; he hears their song - he sang the same song as a child; T. goes with caravans, his wife H. goes then; dies of fatigue; at the last moment T. puts her head on his knees; the caravan constantly returns to her grave; only after T.'s farewell song opens a straight path; on the path of the mountain; in T.'s song, one of the mountains cuts in half; the camel manages to slip through, "only the bottom of his tail has pinched off the mountain"; at the crossroads of three roads, T. chooses the shortest one, where the inscription "If you go, you won't come back"; in one they are thrown into prison in the city; a friend recognizes T. by a song, helps them go free; T. finds Z. in the garden; sister K. sees them; the padishah tells them to cut T. in half, hang pieces on the gate; Z. 50 days in mourning; by on the way to T.'s grave, she drops her pearls; while the girls accompanying her pick them up, she comes to T.'s grave and kills herself; the grave opened and accepted it; after learning about the bride's death, K. also killed himself; his sister orders him to be buried between the graves of lovers; "the oppressors did not leave lovers even after death, they put a black thorn between them"]: 295-297; Sheverdin 1967 [the old man gave the Shah and the vizier an apple, ordered to give it to his wives; one will give birth to a boy named Tahir, the other a girl Zukhra; let them grow up and marry; the boy was born by the vizier's wife; he jumped home, fell off his horse and crashed to death; Shah in furious that he had a daughter, ordered her to be killed; then regretted it, but it turned out that the slaves kept the girl, the Shah brought her closer; T. played, threw his sticks, got into the old woman's spinning wheel; she told him better have fun with her named Zukhra; mother had to tell everything; T. clings to Z. at school; a wall was built between them; T. made a hole; they grew up and fell in love; the Shah tells T. to let T. down to the chest on the river, Z. managed to give gold with her; Shah Rum's daughters caught him; agreed that the eldest would take the chest, the youngest would take what was inside; Shah Ruma married T. to the youngest; but T. is inconsolable, sitting by the river; Z . sent a caravan-bashi to look for him; he said that Z. was passed off as Kara-batyr; T. decided to go from the caravan-bashi; at the fork: to the right - without return, to the left - endlessly, straight - dangerous; they go straight; them mistaken for robbers, put him in prison; one merchant heard T.'s song, bought them; T. made his way to Z.; he was captured and executed in two; Z. stabbed to death on his grave, she was buried nearby; K. too killed himself to be buried between them; a red rose grew above T.'s grave, a white rose rose above Z.'s grave, with a thorn between them; roses stretched out and intertwined branches]: 27-35; Persians: Ottomans 1958 [ Kamala's young man converges with Princess Shafanun; a bald servant informs her brothers that they kill K.; S. commits suicide; they were buried nearby; the servant repented, committed suicide, he was buried between K. and Sh.; cypresses grew, and blackthorns grew on the servant's grave, he prevented them from leaning towards each other; a kind man cut down thorns, cypresses intertwined]: 115-118; Marzolph 1984, No. 970 [unhappy lovers commit suicide, and with them the servant who betrayed them; two cypresses grow on the grave of lovers, and between them there is a thorny bush on the servant's grave]: 179; Tajiks {like the Persians?} Amonov 1961:516f in Uther 2004 (1), No. 970:607; Bukhara Arabs [Tahir studied with Princess Zukhra; her father put T. in a chest, lowered it down the river; Z. promises to look after T.'s elderly mother; three daughters of the guess pull out the chest; the eldest wants a chest for herself, the middle wants a castle, the youngest gets T. as her husband; the king is engaged to Z. to Kali-Buton; Z. sends a servant to T., T. comes, Z. hides him under his shirt; the KB tells the tsar that he orders T. to be slaughtered; Z. rushes to the knife at his grave; KB commits suicide there; T. and Z. became bindweed, intertwined; KB became a thorn]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 19:126- 128; Shugnans [the legend was recorded by Sultonnazarova Mavluda from her grandmother, Lutfaliyeva Mushkinoz, a resident of K. Manem; There are three stars in the sky sitting together, and they are called Leyli and Majnun and the old woman; when L. and M. fell in love and wanted to live together, the old woman prevented them from reuniting; as if When they died, two bindweed would have grown out of their grave and began to approach each other, but a thorn grew between them and prevented them from connecting]: Lashkarbekov, manuscript.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 66 [an old woman gives two childless hunters an apple; they have sworn to marry children if a boy and a girl are born; after eating half, the wife of one gives birth to Alma-batyr, the other is daughter Almabika; the boy's father dies, the girl's father refuses to give her for a poor man; holding a hot cake in her mother's hand, Alma-batyr makes her talk about the bride; her father intends to kill a young man who flies away on tulpar; a sparrow carries letters to lovers; a sparrow is tormented; before his death he speaks, Suk; on the Suk River they find Alma-batyr, cut off his head; Almabika buries his beloved, kills himself; two flowers grow heads to each other on their graves; burdock on the grave of a servant who caught a sparrow]: 385-389; Sagitov 1987 [Kuzykurpyas and Mayankhylu were married before birth; seeing that K . grows up as a hero, father M. Kusyar Khan migrates to seven mountains, valleys and seas; an old woman, whose son was wounded by K., advises him to return his bride better; K. asks his mother to serve him hot roasted wheat in the palm of her hand, clamps her hand; mother tells everything; the old woman gives advice on how to ride Kuk-Tulpara; tulpar tells him to cut his back, get his father's weapons and clothes out; carries K. to the land of Kusyar Khan; on the way, the old man advises, passing between two lakes, pour water from one to another, otherwise the lakes will close; grateful lakes explain that they were separated, that now K. will connect with M.; the sheep comes to M. to tell about the appearance of K.; M. does not believes, beats a sheep, since then the sheep fat tail has been split; K. and M. live secretly together; tulpar takes them away from the wedding feast at which Kusyar Khan was going to kill his son-in-law; calling tulpara, K. burned only two, not three his hair; therefore, Karagul (the contender for M.'s hand) caught up with the fugitives, took M. away, wounded tulpara; waiting for the horse to recover, K. sends a sparrow with news to M. (the crow and the magpie refused); Karagul's wife catches and torments a sparrow, finds out where K. is; Karagul kills sleeping K.; M. kills Karagul, then herself; two apple trees have grown on the grave of K. and M., on the grave of Karagul burdock; he tormented apples, apple birds appeared from the bloody juice, swans came from them; crows appeared from burdock thorns; apple-birds pecked crows]: 247-264.

Turkestan. Uighurs (Lobnor) [White Khan and Black Khan agreed to marry children if they are born of different sexes; a white man has a daughter, a Black son; a white daughter will meet a young man Tair and they fall in love with each other friend; Black Khan's son had enmity with T.; Zora: This poplar is a tall poplar/it must be cut to the root /cut it to the root, /an ark must be built; Tahir was put in an ark with 40 raisins, let her go along the river; the ark sailed into a certain state; the king's daughter had a dream, went to the shore - really an ark; let her hair down, brought the ark to the shore with it; the king gave Tahir this girl; T. began to dream about a trip to Zora; said this to his wife; she agreed to be a jug for ablutions only to go with Tair, but he forbade her to go with him; {it is clear from the following that T. came and died}; Zora in the day of her marriage to the son of Black Khan stabbed herself at Tahir's grave; her fiancé smashed his head against a stone; he was buried; a flower grew in their heads, and this Black Kafyr grew in their heads burdock]: Malov 1956, No. 11:72-77.