K96. Fifty sons, ATU 303A.

.11.-.17.21.23.27.-.35.

Several (more than three) brothers are getting married or must marry in such a way that their wives are sisters.

Sakata, Soninke, Kordofan, Sudanese Arabs, Kabila, Arabs (?) Algeria, Egyptian Arabs, Sicilians, Italians (Campania), French, Germans (Pomerania, West Prussia), Aramaians, Syrian Arabs, Palestinians, Oman (Muscat), Lepcha, Himachali Pakhari, Kumaoni, Marathi, Bengalis, Birkhor, Juang, Baiga, Maria, Kannada, Sinhala, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greece, Greeks, Albanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchina), Russians (Arkhangelsk, Bryansk), Belarusians, Slovaks, Kalmyks, Karachays, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Kumyks, Avars, Kyurins, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Hittites, Shah-name, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Paryas, Yagnobes, Ishkashim, Rushans, Vakhans, Baluchis, Pashtuns, Kafirs, Estonians, Karelians, Norwegians, Danes, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Komi, Kazakhs, Uighurs, Siberian (Tyumen) Tatars, South Altai Tuvans, Nganasans.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Sakata [12 brothers go to marry, find 12 girls from the same family; the younger brother is a sorcerer, realizes that girls are really elephants; brothers say they go swimming, run away; 11 women caught up and killed their husbands; the youngest ran home, people killed the stalker]: Colldén 1979, No. 73:235-236.

West Africa. Soninka [the witch has 7 daughters; everyone who comes to bed with them dies; Marandénboné (Maran, Son of Misfortune) tells her older brothers not to be afraid and go to the girls; their mother leaves them with her daughters' brothers, and M. stays with the sorceress; at night she gets up and is about to go out, but M. asks her to pour water on him, bringing water to the basket, as his mother does; the witch tries all night bring water in a basket; when the witch fell asleep the next night, M. told the brothers to switch seats with the girls and cover them with their clothes; at night, the witch cut the throat not of her brothers, but her daughters; boiled blood, M. asked for it to be given to him; tells the brothers to run; in the morning she tells the witch that her daughters are still sleeping; in the village of M., the witch turned into a baobab; many boys climbed on him and their witch took it away, but M. felt deceived and did not climb; the same with the donkey (the children who climbed on it disappeared, M. remained); he moved into the white heifer given birth to by the witch's cow; ordered the kidnapped children to grab the tail , ears, etc., heifers, she took them home; one day the witch caught M., brought them home, put them in three bovine skins, went to make a fire; M. promised the witch's little daughter to feed her, she freed him, he put her inside a bag of skins, the witch burned it; when the daughter started screaming at her, she did not believe it; M. told the witch that she had killed her last daughter, ran away]: Monteil 1905:115-123.

Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (language not specified) [the sultan wants to marry seven sons to girls who would also be sisters; orders to find and take as an assistant a young man named Albedewui, he is also the son of the Sultan; they they meet him, he has a lion skin on him, he calls himself their brother; says that the fakir predicted that if he meets these 7 brothers, he will be happy; after a long journey, they have arrived in the city; at home are fine, goods in the bazaar, but no one; the brothers sat down at the coffee shop; an old gulya came; returned for sleeping pills, put it in coffee; 7 brothers fell asleep, and A. poured out their coffee; gulya ran away, A. quietly followed her; she went down into the hole, where her 7 sons were; as they got upstairs, A. cut off their heads; but Gulya did not go out; A. went down himself; in the underground rest, gulya made a fire; he tied her up, made her show 7 treasure rooms, opened the door to the eighth, where 7 female captives, then cut off the head of the drone; the girls dressed richly and decorated themselves, A. introduced them to 7 brothers; but on the way there is a ghoul; he will let the brothers and girls, if A. gets him the beautiful Sams-Adunia; A. agrees; the ghoul says that the owner of the invisible hat and the airplane mat (with a whip, after which the mat flies to the right place), and his two sons are arguing about who should get these items; we must take possession of the mat and bring the SA on it; the ghoul tells A. to give him his ring; when he bent down, A. cut off his head; came to two boys arguing over wonderful objects; they asked him to resolve the dispute; he threw a piece of wood: whoever brings it will receive the items; the boys ran, and A. took his hat, boarded a plane mat and flew to town SA; the man replies that SA lives on the top floor of the tower and leaves only once a year; A. put on an invisible hat and flew into the SA room; when she found out that it was A., she said that he was her betrothed; what to kidnap she is impossible: her father is too powerful; you have to ask her hand and complete the proposed tasks - she will help; 1) take 7 camels to the savannah, load him with firewood and bring him; SA: these are not camels, but captive young guli; gave a rod, they must knock on the door and say: all seven will go out! then: load firewood and take it home; the camels are done; now the ghoul tells you to climb into a huge cauldron, under which all the firewood brought will be burned; SA gave a ring, you must keep it in your mouth - fire it will not cause harm; and if you rub the stone, any food and drink will appear; the ghoul was going to give a new task, but A. put on an invisible hat, flew to the SA and they flew together to the 7 brothers; Sultan Father died, brothers made A. new; 8 weddings in one day]: Frobenius 1923, No. 11:101-117; Sudanese Arabs (and possibly not Kordofan's Arab bands in Frobenius): El-Shamy 2004, No. 303A: 109-110.

North Africa. Kabila [a man and a woman lived in the underworld, did not know about each other; they went to a spring, began to fight over water, their clothes fell, they came together; the woman gave birth to four daughters, then four sons; soon both of them were 50; their parents sent them away; separately, girls and young men found holes leading upstairs, went to the ground; found out about each other, but lived separately; three girls spied they found out that young men were different; young men built houses; a brave girl came to see, a wild young man rushed after her, her sisters came to her aid; each of the 50 girls fought against each of the 50 young men, knocked down, got along with him; the young men's houses decided that a man should lie down on a woman, not vice versa; the wild couple was driven away; she became a witch (teriel), he was a lion]: Frobenius 1921a, No. 1:55-60 (= Frobenius, Fox 1937:49-57); Arabs (?) Algeria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 303A: 109-110; the Arabs of Egypt [the king has 7 sons, the eldest is Mohammed the Clever; answers his father that he should be married at the same time as the rest of the brothers; they come to ship to the city of Bannur; M. kills an ogre lion; pulled the ring, an underground passage opened, there are 40 robbers; they are amazed: M. alone picked up the stove, which they could hardly lift together; M. promises robbers enter the king's palace and throw precious stones from the roof; let them lift ten men each; M. enters the king's chamber, kills the snake that was supposed to bite him; throws off Stones were thrown to the robbers, 10 robbers were thrown at each, and M. killed them by throwing other stones; 7 brothers marry the king's 7 daughters; M.'s brothers, wives and wife sailed home, and M. the king asked them to stay; the sorcerer captured the departed, imprisoned M.'s wife in prison; M. crept in there, taught his wife to find out where the sorcerer's soul was; she was in a box, in a snake, in the country of Wakwak 500 years; M. came to the sea; the son of the king of the Reds The genies were caught in the net by the daughter of the king of white genies; M. let her go, she questioned her horses, the oldest Zurub brought M. to Wakwak in a moment; M. forced the sorcerer to first return the stolen ship from brothers and their wives, then killed]: Lebedev 1990, No. 26:142-147 (version retold in Nowak 1969, No. 81:97).

Southern Europe. The Sicilians [the widower king, who has 7 daughters, married a widow with 7 sons, the children also got married; the king and his sons went to war, leaving their pregnant wives; the Queen hates them, told them the servants take them to the forest, pull their eyes out; six women gave birth to a girl, they were eaten; the youngest gave birth to a boy Cacciaturino, he was raised; the brothers returned, met K. in the forest, his mother allowed him to live in palace; the queen's cannibal sister advised to get rid of K. by pretending to be sick; let the king send him to bring the blood of a giant cannibal as medicine; the mother teaches to let herself be swallowed, cut the inside of the artery, go out through the mouth; the cannibal sister suggests acting blind, and only she has the cure; she will kill K.; the mother teaches not to get off the horse, let the cannibal bring a high table; drop fork; she will bend down, change good food and poisoned food; the cannibal will be poisoned, you have to take her magic wand and 7 pairs of eyes from the closet and eye medicine; K. restored sight to his mother and her sisters; creates a lock with a magic wand, invites the king, tells the whole story; the Queen was cooked alive, fed to dogs]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 42:274-281; Italians (Naples), No. III.6 [at Biasillo 7 sons; his poor friend is ashamed to admit that he has 7 daughters, he says that he has 4 sons and 3 daughters; B. asks to send one son to his eldest Narduccio, who is ill; only the youngest, Belluccia, agrees to wear men's clothes; N. suspects that there is a girl in front of him; his mother offers to test the person who has come; B. rides a horse excellently and shoots; after hearing that she will be called to swim, persuaded the boy to call her like his father was dying; when N. came, B. put on men's clothes but forgot to take off her earrings; married N. and her sisters married his brothers]: Basile 2018:309-314;.

Western Europe. French, Germans (Pomerania, West Prussia): Uther 2004, No. 303A: 185

Western Asia. The Arameans [Pasha's three sons want to marry only three sisters; they found them, the caravan carries brides to the grooms; at night, the bivouac is surrounded by snakes, forcing him to give him the youngest of the brides; snakes took the girl to the tower, turned into a woman himself; the father ordered the coffin to be made, the groom did not believe it, made her say what had happened, went in search; the woman in the tower tells me to bring the sword and shield of the seven-headed Huta; a young man took a baby from a wolf; the baby tells him to ask his mother for rewards; she gave an invisible hat and a flying carpet; the seven-headed ghoul (hut) tells the daughter of the forest king to bring a handkerchief; he is with her got together, defeated the genie, killed the seven-headed Hut; the woman gave him back his bride: she only wanted to test him; on the way home he killed a genie and a giant; the daughter of the forest king gave his father three grapes, father younger]: Belov, Wilsker 1960:381-384; Syrian Arabs: Beck 1987 (Bedouins) [the sheikh found seven daughters of another sheikh for his seven sons; the marriage is honorable and equal; in the morning all seven young husbands are dead for some unknown reason and widows are in grief; the father of the dead goes to look for those who suffered like him; he looks like a dervish, one woman sheltered him; when she learned of his grief, she spoke about her own; when She was promised birth to her father's brother's son; they grew up and married, but when the wife was four months old, her husband died; the predictor wondered three times, receiving the same answer: the woman's son would become her own husband; After giving birth to a boy, the woman stabbed him and threw him into the ditch; he was picked up and left by a peasant woman, he grew handsome and strong; the young man agreed to marry a rich widow; one day she saw a scar on his stomach and understood everything; the adoptive mother confirmed everything, the young man stabbed himself; the sheikh decided that the woman's story was worse than his own and returned to his tribe; went to his tent, but his wife did not recognize him by voice; seven wonderful young men greeted him in the new sheikh's tent; the new sheikh regained his former power and said that the boys were his grandchildren]: 50-55; Littmann 1957:342-351 in Nowak 1969, No. 81 [40 relatives the brothers princes want to marry 40 siblings; the youngest comes to the robbers cave and they make him chieftain; they report a plan to rob the sultan, who has 40 daughters; the prince kills the guard and robbers {exactly how, the paraphrase does not say}; the sultan searches for a hero, learns about the young man's story {how exactly, the paraphrase does not say}; passes daughters off as 40 brothers; the youngest one defeats the attackers to the kingdom of father-in-law enemies; brothers and wives return to their father, the youngest gains the throne]: 97; Palestinians [the emir wants to marry seven sons to seven daughters of one father and one mother; he is theirs finds, marries, and in the morning all seven brothers are dead; their wives mourn them; the father of sons goes to look for someone who is even more grieved; finds a woman who, unknowingly, has become the wife of her own son ; after that he returns and when each of the daughters-in-law gave birth to a son (and they grew up), marries seven grandchildren to seven daughters of one father and one mother]: Nowak 1969, No. 286:266; Palestinians [king I am going to marry 40 sons, but they only want to marry 40 daughters of the same father and one mother; the brothers are obedient to the youngest, his name is Sabir; he has decided that they will go in search of 40 brides, and if if they do not find, they marry those whom their father offers them; they set up tents in a picturesque place; the brothers are sleeping, S. is awake, his candle has gone out, but there is no flint; he sees a light in the distance; there is a cave, 40 in it robbers; they blocked the entrance with a stone that no one could move; S. pushed back the stone, entered quietly; there they divided the ram into 40 parts, S. took one, but one robber was not enough; chieftain: if a young man who comes, let him become a brother, a girl a sister, an elderly man a father; S. named himself; he was offered to become an chieftain; he asks for flint and promises to return tomorrow; in the morning he tells his brothers that will return in 5-6 days; the robbers want to rob the Sultan, who has 40 daughters; S. climbed into the castle, killed the sleeping guards, entered the room where 40 girls slept; the youngest is the most beautiful; he exchanged rings with her; going up to the wall, ordered the robbers to go up one by one, cut off each's head; returned to his brothers; the sultan would give the throne to the one who killed the robbers; S. appeared and everything told; wedding; brothers and wives went to the house; they were caught up by the king's messengers: another king attacked, the king asks his son-in-law to return to help; this king comes every 5 years and robs his possessions; S. defeated him army, captured and forgiven; all is well]: Littmann 2016:350-360; Palestinians [Prince Jamal Ed-Din hunted unsuccessfully for a long time; finally he saw a gazelle; as soon as she approached it, it again was far away; he let his companions go; chased for 5 days; the gazelle disappeared, a castle appeared; D. pushed back the stone door, put a horse among 6 horses, lay down among 6 men; their sister came in, counted them; when they found D., they were amazed: he pushed back the door, which they could only push back with six; the brothers asked D., explained that the gazelle was their sister Guzlan; they married her; they went looking for 6 sisters to marry; D. defeated one army of Franks; one man cut off his ears and nose and sent him to his king to talk about what had happened; the old woman advised me to give her a ship and gold and silver, sailed to D., said that everyone on the ship was killed, let her throw off her rope; pulling her, she pulled D. onto the ship and brought him to the King of the Franks; he was going to be executed, but Princess Hilâne took it, they fled on that ship, taking that old woman; D. executed the old woman, he now has two wives: H. and G.; he frightens G. every day when he hits the ground behind her with a club; H. advises to say: not brag about your strength, the princess of India is stronger than you; G. came to that princess, won the fight and she became his third wife; the G. brothers returned; D. decided to visit his parents; he was warned not to go the road on which the evil black man; he went; first the Indian princess fought the black man; then D. defeated him, spared him and he became his friend; they came to Father D.; began to live in the palace; enemies attacked; D. left the black man with his wives and went to fight alone; the king father came to the chambers of his son's wives to invite G. to sleep with him; she washed him, lathered him and pushed him naked out the window; the guards found him, took him away to prison; the next day, the vizier took him out of there; the king ordered the destruction of his son's castle; they began to shoot cannons, but the black man caught the balls and threw them back, destroying half the city, for he was a demon; D. returned and cut off his father's head; reigned; invited the G. brothers to live with him]: Littmann 2016:267-282; Oman (Muscat): El-Shamy 2004, No. 303A: 109-110.

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

South Asia. Himachali plowmen [the king gives seven sons to seven daughters of another king; the youngest stays at home to take care of the household, others must bring him a bride; tigers spend the night by the pond surrounded the returning motorcade, demanded that one of the princesses be given to them; they give them the youngest; after finding out what was going on, the younger brother goes in search; meets and companions a rat and a jackal; at night a rat eats the prince's clothes, the jackal is his horse; the monkey buys him new clothes, horses and weapons; they find a princess, she is guarded by a blind tiger, they are tied by a rope; they untie the rope, run away; a strong tiger hits a blind man (this is his mother) chases; a monkey turns into a man sitting by the funeral fire: a tiger kills his mother, burns her ashes; the tiger thinks he killed his mother, comes back, his mother is alive, he drags her legs, runs back to the fire; monkey: the tiger dragged her mother by the legs, the body is being burned; the tiger comes back again, the prince and his wife are at home; they do not want to let the monkey go into the forest; she tears the princess's yarn, she hits her, the monkey pretends to be dead; mourning, the funeral fire; the monkey jumps up: let go now; she is released into the forest]: Dracott 1906:75-80; Kumaoni [the wedding of seven sons is being prepared the king with seven daughters of a brahmana; the youngest son decides to stay in control of the house, tells the father and brothers who have gone to pick up the brides not to stop at the lake; they stop, the lake floods the camp, that's it, except for the king, they drown; the king wants to drown, the yogi pulls the wedding train ashore for promising to give him his youngest son; he goes to Yogin, his wife is with him; the yogi sends him to marry a princess who laughs with rubies, cries with pearls; the prince consistently meets a tree puller, a blind man catching arrows, a carpenter instantly building a palace, a one-legged man running around the world; everyone replies that He is not a strongman, but a prince who is going to marry Princess Hira; when he finds out that this is he, he accompanies the prince; the king gives Princess Hira, the yogi returns his first wife, the prince and two wives come home]: Minaev 1968, No. 33:88-92; Marathi [rani died leaving seven daughters; the youngest Balna is smarter than others; the vizier's widow comes to get fire every time, throws dirt into the food; the raja watches, calls The culprit for herself, she persuaded her to marry her; tyrannites stepdaughters; a tree grew on their mother's grave, the sisters feed on fruits; the stepmother pretends to be sick, tells them to uproot the tree, make a decoction; the graves are filled with bread; the stepmother tells him to fall asleep, kill the stepdaughters, bring their eyes; the Raja takes her daughters to the forest, brings his wife the eyes of deer; seven princes see seven sisters, marry them; first the youngest, then the others disappear; B. gives birth to a son; the wizard Punchkin comes to the palace, turns B. into a dog, takes him away; the boy grows up, goes to look for his father's parents and brothers; finds P.'s castle, where 12 His mother has been locked up for years; his father and uncles are turned into trees and stones; the gardener disguises the young man as his daughter; she is told to take water for B.; the son shows the ring, the mother recognizes him; he asks to know what his soul is wearing P.; B. pretends to be almost ready to marry P., who says that his life in a parrot under clay vessels, around demons; a young man kills a snake that regularly eagles; a grateful eagle gives them to him; they bring the young man to the vessels, he grabs the parrot, flies away again, the demons did not have time to attack; the young man returns the eagles, comes to P., tells them to revive those turned into trees first and stones, then tears off the parrot's wings, legs and head; P. died, everything is fine]: Frere 1868, No. 1:1-17; the Bengalis [the king's 7 wives finally gave birth to a son; they grew up and the king decided to marry them to 7 daughters another king; 6 sons went to pick up the brides, and the youngest remained to take care of business and sent his sword in his place; the king led his sons to the kingdom of brides along a long but safe road, but on the way back He chose the short path; the sorcerer came out to meet him and turned everyone into stone; however, the younger princess's palanquin was at the end of the caravan and the sorcerer did not notice him; the servants ran forward and petrified themselves The princess was saved; she ran to the house and started knocking, but the same sorcerer lived in the house; because she called him father, the sorcerer spared her; the younger prince went to look for her missing father and brothers and came to to the same house; he promised that if a man opened it to him, he would become his brother, or if a woman, a sister; the princess opened it; although they had married, they now had to become brother and sister; when the sorcerer came, the princess turned the prince into a fly; asked the sorcerer that it was possible to revive the petrified with living water from a well in his house; then asked what the sorcerer's life was like; he replied that there were birds in the egg, which is caged in a tree, and a tree on a distant island; the prince went in search; when he was resting under a tree, he saw a snake crawling to the nest of big eagles; hacked it down; the chicks told their parents that the young man had saved them; they flew to the island and brought the prince a bird cage; a sorcerer appeared, but the prince tore off the bird's legs, and the sorcerer was also without legs; then crushed the egg and the sorcerer died; the birds brought prince to the princess; they revived the petrified; since the princess performed the ceremony with a sword, she stabbed it into her heart]: Devi 1915:117-126; Birkhor [7 sons of one Raja are going to marry 7 the other's daughters; the elder said that he would stay at home and send his sword to marry instead of himself; ordered not to follow the short path - there were Rakshas; on the way back they decided to follow the short path and Rakshasa swallowed everyone; the elder brother came to the Rakshasa, offered to eat peas first; he gave the rakshasa an iron one, and he gnawed at the usual one; the Rakshasa could not gnaw, the young man killed him, ripped open his belly, the wedding procession went out safe; the younger brothers envied and pierced the elder with a spear, his fiancée returned to her father; Mahadeo and Parvati restored the dying man's health; he came to the bride's house and was hired as a laborer; one day the boys asked him to tell a story; he told his story, his wife recognized him; all is well]: Roy 1925, No. 12:462-467; baiga [The Sun had 11 brothers, the Moon had 11 sisters; the brothers could not marry them, then the Sun offered to eat them; the Moon ate the sisters, and the Sun hid the brothers behind their cheeks; the Moon could not regurgitate her sisters, only spat, the drops of her saliva turned into stars; now the Moon is working all the time, only one day each month, she has her period; each of the Sun Brothers works one month a year; if they went out together, the world would burn down; they are all married to the same moon]: Elwin 1939:332; juang [at first the women did not have their periods; the seven Bhendia brothers saw and met Kaniya's seven sisters; after that, the girls bleed every month; when the girl first bleeds, she thinks about the Bhendia brothers; when a young man has a seed, he thinks of Kania's girls]: Elwin 1949, No. 68:278; buffalo maria [Raja's seven sons decided to go look for brides; Raja asked the youngest son to stay at home; six found a raja, who has 7 daughters, took them for themselves and for his brother, who stayed at home; they spent the night by the pond; Raxa (i.e. Rakshas) came out of him, turned the young man into stone; the girls said they were on their period; the younger brother went in search, found girls; became a fly when Rax came; told the girls to find out what Raxa's soul was in; in gold a bird on a banyan across seven seas; on the way, a young man kills a snake that devours another bird's chicks; it brings it to the banyan, then back; the young man tells the Rakshasa to revive the brothers, then finishes off the bird; brothers they tear out the youngest's eyes; he is hired to guard the field from birds; maidens coming out of the water play with the young man at night, give him eyes for this time, take him away in the morning; the owner and fellow villagers help drive the maidens away, the young man remains with his eyes; the young man's bride promises to marry the one who sent an arrow into the sky; the young man, disguised as a beggar, wins, takes his true form; the father expels six brothers, hands over the throne to the younger]: Elwin 1944, No. 13:53-56; Kannada [one king has 7 sons and the other has 7 daughters; they decided to marry them independently; the messengers met in a village where a man from the gowda caste lived, showed each other portraits of brides and grooms, were satisfied; Govda asked him for the wedding ceremony; put all the people and carts in the same pumpkin; Govda's daughter did not know what was in her, became urinate; the pumpkin was carried into the sea, it was swallowed by the fish, the crane swallowed the fish, the fisherman caught the crane, carried it to the bazaar; the old woman's daughter bought a crane, but the louse swallowed it; the old woman began to beat her daughter her period began, the old woman gave her soiled clothes to the laundress; he crushed the louse, a crane appeared; the laundress cut the crane, etc. - fish, pumpkin; the fisherman placed the pumpkin on a pole to use as the lantern, the wind blew it off, it crashed, everyone participating in the wedding came out; the question is: who is more?] : Ramanujan 1997, No. 74:209-211; Sinhalese: Parker 1910, No. 4 [=Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 86:197-203; the tsar finds seven princess sisters as wives to his seven sons; the youngest stays at home sends his sword instead; when the wedding procession approached the lake to drink water, the serpent demanded one of those who came for himself, otherwise he would not let anyone go; the princess, who married the sword, offered herself; the princess stayed waiting in the palace for the serpent, and her prince came to him; the serpent asked him to get him the Glass Princess; only she would cure the abscess on the snake's body; on the way, the young man saved the drowning rats; stopped at the old woman; she says that the glass princess tells the grooms to swim in boiling water and cut down the ironwood, and whoever cannot cut off their heads; rats dug into the bedroom Glass Princess, the young man snuck in, washed himself in the water she had prepared, ate half of the rice; so three times; after that, the princess pricked her finger to stay awake; gives the young man a ring to cool the water in the boiling a cauldron and a curl that would knock down the ironwood; a wedding; a young man brought the Glass Princess to the snake, which healed him and he gave them treasures; King Vedda wanted to kill the prince, but the Glass Princess became a mare and took him and his first wife to where one king died; the elephant chose a prince who had arrived as a new one; at this time, the prince's homeland stopped raining, his parents and brothers and wives began to beg and came to the kingdom where the prince was now king; he accepted them, but told the brothers to grow rice because they wanted to kill it in order to take away the Glass Princess]: 57-65; Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 106 [seven the sisters met the girl, said they wanted to marry seven brothers; the girl brought them to her brothers; the brothers' wives cooked rice, asked her sister-in-law to watch, she fell asleep, the rice was washed away by the rain; they gave her drink water in which sharp shards, one stuck in her throat, she was speechless; they put her in a bag of a monkey, beat her; the sisters accused her sister-in-law of debauchery; her younger brother agreed kill, left her sword in the woods, smeared her sword with snake blood; brothers and their wives went blind; the girl came to town, got married, began to tell her son her story; the brothers heard her, saw the light; their wives did not see the light and died of starvation]: 262-263.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece. Brothers Danay and Egypt fought for power. For the sake of reconciliation, 50 sons of Egypt asked Danae's 50 daughters to marry. Danai told her daughters to stab their husbands after the wedding. Only Hypermnestra spared Linkey's husband, as he did not touch her. Their descendants include Perseus and Hercules. The rest of the Danaids always fill a bottomless barrel in Aida; Pausanias 5 1.5 (1994,2:9) [Selena (Luna) fell in love with Endymion and gave birth to 50 daughters with him]; Albanians [for themselves and their six brothers Musa kidnaps the seven sisters of the diva; he agrees to give them back if M. gets him the daughter of a king who has 3 golden hair in his beard and 9 yellow hair on his head; he gets her, the girl learns from the diva that his life in a snake is cave (first spreads the carpet in the room, then in the garden - supposedly the power of the diva is there, then the diva reveals the secret); M. kills the snake, gets a wife]: Serkova 1989:164-170; Bulgarians [400 princes wander; violate the mother's prohibition to spend the night in a certain place (the edge of a well, a spring, a mountain); on the first two nights, while the brothers are sleeping, the youngest kills snakes (lamia, hal), goes down to the well, frees 400 girls, they change rings with 400 brothers; on the third night, an arap on a wonderful horse agrees to spare the brothers, if the youngest gets him a princess, takes the brothers hostage; the hero agrees, receiving from the arapa of his horse; with the help of a horse and brothers with wonderful abilities, the hero performs the king's difficult tasks, gets the princess; the horse reports that the strength of the arap is in the eggs, they are in the pigeon, the dove is in the boar; the hero becomes a shepherd at the priest; fights the boar, wins with the help of his daughter, the priest (she supplies water); the hero presses eggs, the arap dies; the hero marries the princess to his father, and marries 400 princesses with 399 brothers]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 302A: 104; Croats [7 brothers went to look for wives to be 7 sisters; the youngest took a thin skate, but this horse was magical; the old woman said she had a skate there are 7 daughters; the horse warned his younger brother that she is a witch, that she hides her eighth daughter with golden hair; at night the youngest does not sleep, changed the hats of the old woman's brothers and daughters, put horse bridles in old mares; at night, the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the youngest tells the brothers to run; when he returned, he shouted to the old woman that she had killed her daughters; the old woman turned the grip into a horse rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads, the youngest broke up with his elders, who did not like him; the youngest's horse tells him not to pay attention to what he sees or hears; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hair, three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man was hired by the groom for the king, he works best; the other grooms were jealous, noticed golden things, told the king; he ordered to bring a girl with golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in the swamp, the witch will come running, at which time you have to pick up the girl; the young man brought her to the king; he wants to give her for his son; girl: first get three ducks whose golden feathers; the king sent the young man to pick ducks; they spent the night with the witch again, stole the ducks; the witch is chasing, the horse tells him to abandon the scraper, a thick one appeared forest; now the girl demands to get a horse whose golden horseshoe is; the young man's horse tells him to put 8 buffalo skins on him; the sea stallion has ripped them off, but is tired, he has a blue flame from his mouth, and the young man's horse has a red one; Sea mares followed the horse; the girl tells them to milk, the milk boils, the vat was filled with it; let the groom buy it; the horse cooled the milk, the young man became handsome; the queen also threw himself into the milk, but it it boiled, he died; the king adopted a young man instead of the deceased, gave him a gold-haired man]: Schütz 1960, No. 16:126-133; Hungarians [father wants to marry 12 sons to 12 girls; put on iron shoes and went to look for them; the eldest son serves the king; the mare tells him to ask the king for a foal born a year ago; the young man rides it faster than his brothers; the brothers want to kill the foal, but he lies down; teaches what to do; the witch has 12 daughters; you must take the horses outside and bring the witch's horses into the stall; change the hats on the heads of the witch's daughters and brothers; the witch killed her daughters, the brothers galloped away witches; the elder brother went on his horse to wander; the horse stepped on golden hair: unfortunately, and not to lift, unfortunately; the same was half a golden horseshoe; the young man picked up both his hair and horseshoe; hired by the king as a stable; everyone wonders why he does not need candles at night; it turns out that the hair and half of the horseshoe give light; the king orders to immediately get the girl who owns the hair; horse: This is another daughter of that witch; a young man stole her, a witch on a spruce pole is chasing after her; a girl to a king: I will marry only after my spindle and all other things have been delivered to me; the young man put down a tablecloth on the floor in the witch's room and put everything in it - all the items are made of gold; now the girl demands her horse, which is across the Red Sea; the young man's horse teaches how to catch a golden-haired horse, followed by him the whole huge herd; the girl demands to milk the mares and that the young man bathe in boiling milk; the horse turned the milk from boiling to warm, the young man came out handsome; the king cooked; the wedding of a young man with a girl]: Jones, Kropf 1889:262-277; Greeks, Slovenes, Serbs, Bosnians: Uther 2004, No. 303A: 185; Moldovans [healer advises childless woman to eat food that doesn't exist at home; she wants bleak fish; husband brings 21 fish, cooks fish soup, wife gives birth to 21 sons; husband goes to live in the forest in horror; wife raised sons, they found the father, returned them, demanded that he find them 21 sister for wife; Ilyana Kosynzyana has 21 daughters; brothers go to them, the youngest Petra did not have enough horse, he bought a magic horse; this horse tells them to change clothes with the girls at night, leave the horses ready outside the fence; At night, the broadsword IK cut off the heads of her daughters, the brothers returned to their father; on the way, P. raises a golden feather, a horseshoe, a handkerchief, is hired by the boyar as a coachman; his daughter sees a shining feather, the boyar demands a bird; the horse: a bird in a cage near the IR, do not touch the cage; P. brings a bird, the boyar requires a horse; the horse teaches you to take the one who eats hot coals, P. leads; the boyar requires the owner of a handkerchief; the horse teaches you to drink strong water from IK bed, bring it with the bed; IC requires P. to bring a herd of her sea horses; the horse teaches him to smear it with resin and make matting; a horse that has come out of the sea bites matting; P. bothered him, behind him the whole herd has gone; IK tells them to milk the mares, swim in boiling milk; P.'s horse cools the milk; the boyar's horse does not cool down, the boyar is cooked; P. marries IK]: Moldovan tales 1968:251-262; Gagauz people [The king has 40 sons, 39 want to marry; the youngest of the fortieth Bald takes the last horse left; each time he tells the brothers that the parking lot is dangerous, but they do not listen; the giantess came and gave wine, 39 fell asleep, Bald secretly followed the woman, who tells her 40 sons to kill those who came; Bald kills them one by one when they leave home; marries brothers 39 daughters of a giantess; the same on the next sleeping with another giantess; Bald hung her by the chest, negotiates with the beauty; at the third night, the giant closes the door; releases the brothers on the condition that Bald stays with him; tells him to get daughter of a Turkish king; Bald man meets three arguing over an invisible hat and a flying carpet, which is controlled with a whip; Bald shoots: the one who brings the arrow will receive a hat, the second a whip, the last carpet; picks up objects himself and flies away; at night in the princess's bedroom he eats left food, moves the candlesticks; on the third night, the hat accidentally slept; Bald brings the girl to the giant, telling him to say that she has 40 days of mourning for her father and telling her to find out the rear {object what the soul is} of the giant; that: a pole; a broom; the girl decorates them every time; then the giant says that there is a lake in the Goose Forest, there are three ducks and a drake, a stone in his stomach, three flies in the stone; the Bald man took out flies, killed one, then the second, the third, the giant fell ill and died; the Bald man married a girl, and married the first one he kept for himself; 39 brothers married 39 daughters of a giantess]: Moshkov 1904, No. 63:113-120; Romanians [the poor man has 101 sons; they went to serve; in the first year each received a pig for their service, the second a dog, and the third foal; go to marry 101 daughters of a damn mother; the horse tells the younger brother to tie their horses: to an empty manger, and witches to a full one; to put brothers' hats on the sleeping daughters of the witch; the witch kills his horses and daughters; brothers gallop away, and the youngest remains to see what happens; steals a chest in which the girl intended for him cannot catch up with him; but he cannot open the chest and returns for the key; the horse creates a lake, turns the young man into a drake and himself into a mouse, steals the key; the young man takes the girl as his wife; the king wants to take her away; sends a young man for nine mares and their stallion; a horse tells him to put 9 cowhides on him and coat him with resin; fights against that stallion, both strong, become twin brothers; mares follow them; the king orders to milk the mares, boil milk and swim in it; the young man's horse drives the mares into the quagmire so that they can milk them; cools the milk; the king also threw himself into the milk and cooked]: Bîrlea 1966:406-407.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the old man found 9 eggs in the forest, gathered them in a mitten to pick them up on the way back, but there are no more eggs; the old woman is angry; the same 19 eggs; when 33, he took it home, and they fell and crashed, 33 fellows appeared; my father had nothing to mow, they went to mow the royal protected meadows; the tsar took them for himself, giving the old man a lot of bread; someone steals hay; only Ivan does not sleep; he came out of the sea a golden-maned mare with 33 foals, I. saddled one foal; he teaches him to catch his mother (roll over him when the mare runs up to him and grab her); the night is bright with the golden mane; the king lets the brothers marry, each with one of those horses; one grandmother has 9 daughters, the second has 19, the third has 33; Ivan's mare teaches to go with the youngest, to quilt her until she gives flint, lash and magic shawl; mare: the old woman will put the brides to bed, they will wear white hats and you wear black hats; you must change them; the sword will roll and cut off their heads under black hats; then you have to run; the old woman is chasing on a chariot of fire; Ivan waved his handkerchief - the bridge; when the old woman waved again on the bridge, the bridge disappeared, the old woman fell into the sea and drowned; the brothers think that Ivan killed their brides out of envy, rushed at him, but the mare drove them away; Ivan became the king's groom, the other grooms are jealous; they say to the king that Ivan ran to get him a princess; the mare brings him to the garden, chipped in with an apple tree, the princess comes up, Ivan grabs her, they they gallop to the king; the princess demands to get the wedding dress first; when the princess is gone, her father took the dress to the cathedral for the funeral service; the mare lured people out of the cathedral, Ivan grabbed the dress and galloped off; the princess: rejuvenate, you have to jump into a cauldron of milk, then with boiling water, then with cold water; Tsar: let Ivan be the first; the mare cooled the boiling water for Ivan, and the tsar cooked; the princess married Ivan]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:183-193; Russians (Bryansk) [the old man tells childless spouses to collect an egg from each yard, plant a ball; 40 healthy boys are born, one frail; his name is Zamoryshek ( Last); brothers mow hay, gather in haystacks, one haystack disappears; Z. tells the blacksmith to chain, catches, tames the thief - a sea mare, she gives her foals, the brothers go to look for brides; only Baba Yaga is 41 daughters; Z.'s horse tells her to switch places with wives at night; Baba Yaga's servants cut off the heads of her daughters; brothers put their heads on stakes, leave; Baba Yaga burns with a fire shield; Z. a handkerchief across the sea, it turns into a bridge, brothers are saved]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 105:166-168, 482 [var: Z. throws a brush (mountain), a comb (forest), a towel (river)]; Ukrainians (Ugric Russia) [ 24 brothers and 24 brides]: SUS 1979, № 327B**: 120; Ukrainians (Hutsulshchina) [31 brothers want to marry girls who would be sisters; the youngest is called: Thirty-one (T.); horse: sit on me, and leave yours to graze; they come to the witch, she has 31 daughters; the horse tells T. to switch places with the witch's daughters at night; the witch cut off the heads of her own daughters; the brothers galloped off; horse thirty-one: tell her that we will come to her again; T. and his oldest brother hired the king, the rest of the brothers took the other way; the elder was taken as a groom, and T. was hired as a cook, the elder is envious, he tells the king that T. can get 1) bread that a whole army cannot eat; horse: that woman's bread; the horse gave an ointment: if you anoint, you will become a broom; the woman sweeps it, goes to bed, T. took the bread; the horse tells the woman to shout again: we will come again; 2) a flask of wine that the whole army cannot drink; the horse teaches you to become an ant, carry the flask; 3) the most beautiful woman in the world; the horse tells you to take 8 buffaloes from the king skins and special horseshoes; to dig a hole overseas; the horse rode in it, the stallion rode, runs, looks for a horse, is tired; when the horse came out, he ripped 8 skins on it, but T.'s horse won; T. got off the tree, sat down on her horse, and the beauty standing next to her stallion; behind them is a herd of mares across the sea; beautiful: who will milk my mares? king: the one who brought; T.'s horse makes every mare stand without moving, T. fed up milk; boiled milk; T. furkil's horse, T. swam, became handsome; the king threw himself into the milk and boiled; T. married a beautiful woman, reigned]: Zinchuk 2006a, No. 94:278-283; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia): Pankeev 1992 [a childless wife dreams that if you eat the seed of a rose that grew in the garden, children will be born; when she gave birth 12, the husband went on a journey; she continued to give birth, the last of a hundred sons was named Rouge ("rose"); the father returns, R. sends him to come half an iron club and iron skulls; he returns; the son sends again, again with a club and shoes; the father sees a man plowing on the holiday, reproaches him; he asks why the other is wandering on the holiday; because one hundred sons , the other has a hundred daughters; they agree to marry them, at home R. says that now the father of the children has added]: 133-136; Verkhovyna's tales 1970 [elderly spouses are childless; wife picks a rose, fall out of a flower seeds, she swallows them, gives birth to a hundred sons in a year; the husband leaves and returns when they are grown up; his sons send him to travel first to the west, then to the east; he meets the father of a hundred daughters, negotiates marriage]: 177-180; Belarusians (Orsha district, Stary Tolochin, 1888-1891, from peasant Maxim Fedosov, 42 years old, illiterate; Russian retelling to Vasilenok, etc. 1958:94 -109) [Grandpa and woman live, no children. My grandfather dreams that he needs to collect bird eggs in the forest and get the children out of them. He does this, finding 31 eggs on 30 birch trees. Baba is incubating them, and three weeks later their sons left. Pop baptizes everyone, gives everyone different names, but the youngest doesn't get a name. He is called Little Baby (MM). After a year, they get big, asking their father for a job. The father buys 30 braids, the youngest does not get it. He goes to watch his brothers mow. The brothers leave 2 pieces unmowed. MM breaks the oak tree and mows the remaining 2 parts with it. They collect 31 sheaves. On the first night, 10 brothers are on guard, one sheaf is stolen. On the second night, the other 10 brothers are on guard, stealing the sheaf again. Same for the third night. On the fourth night, MM. is sent. He asks his father to forge him a bullet at 30 pounds. He checks her, throws her up, she splits against his forehead. He asks for a bullet of 35 pounds. He's going to guard. A mare and 31 foals come running, MM jumps up on the mare, hits her, she asks her to let her go, gives MM foals. He takes them to their father's house, sons divide stallions among themselves, MM gets the worst. They arrange a good farm. After three or four years, the sons go around the world, and MM stays with their parents. A year later, she buries her father, then her mother, rents out the farm, and goes to pick up her brothers. It catches up with them in three months. They go together, they come to the forest. There is a hut on a chicken leg, Baba Yuga has 29 daughters, and she sends her brothers to her sister, because there are not enough daughters for all the brothers to marry. The next Baba Yuga has 30 daughters. The third one has 31. The third Baba Yuga feeds her brothers, they choose a daughter and go to bed. The stallion tells MM that Baba Yuga wants to kill them with a self-sword, advises brides to wear hats and impose scarves on brothers. MM does just that. The sword cuts the heads of daughters, the brothers run away. Baba Yuga has three goats, the first one catches up with MM with her brothers, MM wins, kills the goat. The brothers went to the service of the king, MM made everyone the main thing. The brothers are jealous and tell the king that MM can get Baba Yuga's self-sword. MM steals the sword, Baba Yuga catches up, MM kills the second goat. The king gives MM a new rank. The brothers are jealous and tell the king that MM can get Baba Yuga's samogula. MM steals harp, Baba Yuga catches up, Baby kills a third goat. The king gives MM a new rank. The brothers are jealous and tell the king that MM can find out why the sun stood in one place for three hours. MM goes to the sun, and on the way he meets the miracle of Yuda Fish Whale, on which everyone rides across the sea. The fish asks to know how long it takes to lie like this, promises service. MM comes to the dugout, where for a month or a month he tells you to put on a fur coat and hide behind the stove so that it's not so hot. The sun comes, says that it stood in one place for three hours, looking at Panenka Bagpipes, and the fish can sail away if they spit out the 40 ships they swallowed. MM returns to the king, gives the fish an answer on the way, they spit out the ships and sails away. The king gives MM a new rank, orders that Panenka Bagpipes be brought in. The stallion advises to take fruits and drinks from the king. MM does this, going to the seashore, opens a buffet. Panenka Bagpipes swims up to his tent, buys a glass of sweets, asks him to put it on the paddle. He comes back, buys a stronger glass, asks him to put it on the paddle. He returns, buys a glass of the strongest, asks to put it on the paddle, MM refuses, because it is expensive, passes it in his hand, grabs the panenka and takes it to the king. The king gives MM a new rank, lives with his father for two days and is going to marry. Panenka demands her chest from the bottom of the sea. MM throws a sword into the sea at small fish, Whale Fish swims out, orders them to find the chest. The chest is found, MM drives 300 miles away, catches the chest, and takes the king. The king gives MM a new rank. Panenka demands gold keys to the chest from the bottom of the sea. MM launches a self-sword at medium fish into the sea, Whale Fish swims out, orders them to find the keys. They don't find the keys, Baby throws a self-sword into the sea at big fish. They find the keys, MM drives 500 miles away, catches the keys, and takes the king. The king gives MM a new rank. Panenka Volynka demands to build a cathedral across the river, a bridge made of gold and silver, plant grapes along the road, dig a ditch around the cathedral, light a fire in the moat, and hang a cauldron with resin. The king tells MM to do this. The stallion advises asking the boy to take pity. Panenka Bagpipes tells him to go to bed and sweep the bridge the next day. The king gives MM a new rank. MM goes through the cauldron and the king has failed. MM and Panenka are getting married]: Romanov 1901, No. 32:286-297; Belarusians [33 sons and two more and Ivan the Fool are going to marry; Baba Yaga has the same number of daughters; I. tells me to change those clothes for the night; Baba Yaga returned and chopped her daughters; the brothers came to the king; they say that I. can get the baba yaga harps, who play themselves; the horse promises I. to get, they galloped, brought the harp; the rooster you can hear to the whole world; the same; get Queen Alain; the horse created a bridge, a garden, food and drinks; the queen went out, fell asleep, they took her away; A. promises to be the wife of someone who gets living and dead water; horse: now if you die, we must hide in his corpse, grab a crow and demand living water from his parents; I. tore the crow, revived it; and revived the horse; A. killed I. in front of the king's eyes and revived it; the king also wants; A. him did not revive; wedding]: Romanov 1887, No. 37:228-232; Slovaks [the peasant has 12 sons, 11 despise the younger Janko; hired the king, a year later they received each free will; next time a cow; then on horseback; I am afraid to choose a strong horse; a thin horse advises him to choose one; brothers galloped off; horse: Shall we jump like the sun or like the wind? I.: so as not to suffer; a brass horse and a copper horseman, I. ends up in the inn before the brothers, who say they saw the bronze horseman; next time he saw the bronze horseman; the next time he was silver; gold; the brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch plowing on 6 horses; she says that she has 12 daughters; whips horses, they turn into 12 girls; before the wedding, I teach the horse: I do not sit in in the middle, say that he is the youngest, must watch the horses; do not drink wine, eat soup, roast, pour them out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup with a brush, roast with a comb, hide them under clothes; let the brothers lie in the place of the witch's daughters at night, and they in the place of the brothers; at night, the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking she is killing young men; the horse tells them to jump away, pick nothing up along the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, Y. asks if to pick it up; horse: pick it up, it will be bad, you won't pick it up, even worse; I picked it up; the horse tells you to throw the comb (a mountain covered with dense forest); then the same: a witch throws a golden pen, I. throws a brush (prickly thickets); golden hair - glass (sea, the witch stops chasing); reconciled with his brothers, the skate tells him to be hired to serve the king; other grooms (in some versions these are brothers Y.) burn candles, but I. did not; the grooms saw that I. illuminated the witch's golden horseshoe stable; the king demands a horse whose horseshoe; they rode to the witch and while she was sleeping, I stole from under. pillows keys, took the horse away, hid his sword; shouted about it to the witch, she chased, but could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that Y.'s stable was bright again, the light from the pen; the king demands a bird; I took it off my waist The witch's sleeping keys, broke her sword, took the cage with the duck laying the golden eggs; the third time, golden hair, the king demands a girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in her teeth, I carefully took them out, broke them the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl away; from across the sea shouted to the witch that he would not return to her again; she turned into tar out of anger; the girl only wanted me, the king was going to execute him; the skate tells me to boil the pot of milk, absorbed the heat, I. swam, turned gold; the king also decided to swim, the horse regained the heat, the king cooked; I. became king]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 8:36-46.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899 [eight brothers marry eight sisters; the youngest ninth brother is Iestir; the Serpent orders him to be sent to him, otherwise he will kill everyone; demands to get the daughter of a rich khan; on the way I. meets a man sucking grass and takes another, drinking two seas, with him; the khan orders to turn fresh bone into an old one (the one who sucked the grass sucks all the juices out of the bone); fires fire on his brothers, A drink fills it; the fox takes the form of a girl, goes to the Snake instead of her; the Serpent gives his soul a chest for the bride; I. kills the serpent's soul, marries the khan's daughter, leaves his brothers with him]: 6-9 (published in Basangova 2002:40-42); (cf. Jimbinov 1962 [59 young men go on a journey, the sixtieth does not want to, they shame him, he goes with them; they stop for the night, in the morning around the snake camp in a ring; the snake misses 59, the 60th will forgive to lick his tongue, is lucky to his enemy, who kidnapped his wife, asks for help; a young man cuts off the head of an enemy snake; a snake and his wife treat him, he refuses gifts; finds out that he has learned to understand the language animals; laughs at the conversation of mice; the wife does not understand what he is laughing at, insists that her husband explain; he decided to appease her, went to slaughter horses, sell skins, buy his wife a dress; hears horses they say: it would be better if the owner taught his wife a lesson; he returns, tells his wife not to torture him anymore; they live well]: 75-78); Karachays: Aliyeva 1994, No. 53 [Debit wants to marry 19 sons to 19 sisters; The leader Bayrymkyz says that the Emegen family is ready to give 18 daughters, but starting with the eldest; the emegenshi are one-eyed, their lips hang down to their breasts; each is enough for D. and his sons, the youngest Alaugan remains; B. says that Mingi Tau has an eight-legged double-headed iron-hoofed huge horse; on this horse, and with the sword of the ancestors of the sledges, A. will win the Emegen; he must marry Y.'s daughter; at night he spies on his wife, she puts on eagle feathers, flies away, brings a man; A. kills her, makes B. say what to do; taking a sword of sledges and fat from a jug, A. flies like an eagle towards the Emegensh eagles, blinds them fat, cuts through the rocks that blocked the entrance to the cave with a sword, frees his father and brothers], 63 [Debet's 19 sons, including the eldest Alaugan, want to marry sisters; find a man with 18 daughters and 1 son; A. agrees to be left without a wife; is old; hears one of the children, playing alchiki, vows "let me remain without a wife like A."; Emegensha sews up a crack in the ground with a giant needle, A. runs up, puts her on her chest; gives him a daughter on the condition that he fills her cauldron twice with meat; when A. was carrying his wife, she swallowed the children who ran out to meet her; when giving birth to the baby, she immediately swallowed it; the time of the next birth, A. asks Satanai for advice; she says that it is necessary to give birth in the chimney; replaces the baby with a puppy, the Emegensha swallows the puppy; A. left the baby on the glacier to suck icicles for a year; he grew up became a hero named Karashauay]: 396-399, 417-418; Rumyantseva 1981 [the father agreed to marry one hundred sons to one hundred daughters of another; the youngest is Kichibatyr, he is left to guard the house; he orders to throw three rocks a bun of oil, they part; on the way back, three felt balls, the rocks will take them for oil; tells them not to approach the fire, even if it gets very cold; the wedding procession began to freeze, came to fire, stopped, in the morning a monster is nearby, demands K.; tells K. to get him the daughter of the khan, who is by the sea; the khan demands to hit the eye of the needle with an arrow, catch a hundred out of thousands of running chamois, spend the night in a hot iron house; K. meets, takes as companions a shooter, a chamois catcher, a sailor; they fulfill the conditions (the hot house is cooled with water); the princess saves a snake from the well, she promises to help her ; K. gave the girl to the monster; the snake ordered to offer to be chained, she would become a chain; she became a snake again, the girl and K. ran away, and the snake bit the monsters to death; everything is fine]: 101-111; Ossetians [ parents tell 20 sons to marry 20 brides-sisters; they spend three nights in the house of three-, five-, seven-headed giants, the youngest kills the owner every night while the brothers sleep; the seven-headed one head leaves, he gives 20 daughters; the flint giant tells his younger brother to get the Khyzsk beauty; he lures three giants magic objects over which they fight, takes the beauty away on the carpet- on the plane; shouts three times, Flint turns it into ash; younger brother lives with two wives]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:159-163; Ingush [while the husband herded cows, the wife gave birth to seven sons; they came to their father; When he found out what was going on, the father decided that he would not be able to feed his sons and ran away; the sons grew up, the youngest went to look for his father; saw an overgrown man chasing a doe; cleaned up his father, cut off hair, brought home; the father found a man with seven daughters; married six to his sons, and the seventh stayed in the tower around which Sarmak lay; the youngest asks Sarmak what to do for him to go away; Sarmak tells a huge garbash to venerate his chest; a young man came to a woman who was kneading dough in dirty water; the Sarmak covered the water; he allowed him to collect water three times; the woman showed the way to the garbash; she turned the young man into a dove, he flew to the girl, she let him in, he became a young man again; Sarmak left, his younger brother married a girl]: Tankieva 2003:355-357; Chechens: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981 [the father has 7 single sons; the old woman says that the prince behind the forest wants to pass off six daughters as brother grooms; in the forest you can hide in the house from the weather, but only once; brothers go for brides, the elder Alkhast stays at home; in the forest, the brothers enter the house, and on the way back, taking the brides, they hide there again from the rain; the one-eyed giant tells the younger brother and bride to stay, the rest lets go; A. goes in search, tells him not to celebrate his wedding for a year; the one-eyed promises to release his younger brother and his fiancée if A. gets him Suntselikaya Azni; on the way saves mice from a burning haystack; SA's father tells us to separate mixed wheat, barley and millet overnight; the mice do everything, A. takes the SA away; SA turns himself and A into pigeons so that her brothers do not catch up with them, but the brothers let them go; the one-eyed praises A., lets him go from SA and younger brother with his fiancée]: 172-183; Malsagov 1983 [while the husband is herding cows, the wife has given birth to 7 sons; the youngest goes to his father, he runs away because he is afraid that he will not feed his sons; their mother raised, gave the younger father a ring, he found a feral man, showed the ring, the man turned out to be a father; he met the father of 7 daughters, agreed to marry them; 6 brides arrived, wrapped around the tower with the seventh Sarmak; replies to the youngest of the brothers that someone who venerates the garbash will enter the tower; the young man goes in search, sees a woman kneading dough in dirty water; Sarmak seized water, gives it in exchange for people; Sarmak allows the young man to collect water three times; the woman shows him the way to the garbash; she turned the young man into a dove, he flew into the girl's tower, became a young man, they returned home; the wedding of 7 sisters with 7 brothers]: 339-341; Kumyks: Kapiyeva 1974:65-71 [39 brothers leave with their father to marry 40 sisters; the youngest fortieth Malik-Mamed stays at home, warns not to spend the night near the city of Palace; They married 40 daughters of the poor man, go back, spend the night by the river; in the morning it turns out that they mistook Ashdag's snake for the river, who surrounded them with a ring; lets them go for promising to give MA; demands that they bring him his daughter Shah Devas; the wolf tells you to find a good horse; MA finds, gives the old one to be eaten by a wolf; on the way he meets, takes Fastfooted, Climber, Water Bread as friends; Shah Devas 1) tries to burn them in iron hut, Waterbread regurgitates the water, cools it; 2) the shah tells him to bring water faster than the lame old woman; Speeddog overtakes her, but she gave him wine, he fell asleep; MA woke him up by firing an arrow, he caught up old lady, first to come back with a jug; 3) Rock climber defeats a local strongman; MA gets a girl; wolf says the soul is a snake in an egg in a huge partridge; MA breaks an egg, Ashdag dies, MA marries Khan Deva's daughters], 87-92 [the old man has 12 sons, 11 are evil, the younger Baiburak is kind; the old man goes to look for brides for them; Kart-Enem offers to marry them off his 12 daughters; the brothers come and spend the night at CE; B. hears her sharpening a knife; says she is awake because 1) geese are screaming (CE slaughtered geese, leaving three magic ones); 2) cows are mooing; CE slaughtered cows, B. told brothers to run; CE chases on an arba without wheels, B. throws a stone (mountain), stomps (abyss), CE stops chasing; brothers want to destroy B., persuade Khan to send him to CE for 1) a magic blanket; B. comes secretly, stabbing CE at night with a needle , she thinks fleas bite, throws away the blanket, B. takes it away, CE chases (same episodes); 2) magic geese; B. hides behind CE's door; she asks each of the three geese where B. is now, those they say that outside the door, CE does not believe, tears off two heads, then grabs B.; he advises calling his relatives to eat; tears the ropes, takes the goose away; 3) bring CE herself; B. pretends to be an old man, says that his iron chest protects against heat and cold, invites CE to try it out, brings it to the khan; he opens the chest, CE swallowed it; saw B. on the tower, stumbled, fell into a hole, crashed]; Barsov 1882, No. 5 [12 sons ask their father to marry them to 12 daughters of the same father; the father came to Kart, who spun wool, promised to give her 12 daughters; the brothers arrived; at night the elder Baiburak tells do not sleep; Kart replies that he is awake - the cows are mooing; Kart slaughtered the cows; the chickens are cackling - the same; while Kart and one daughter were slaughtering chickens, B. put the remaining 11 in the place of the brothers and hid them behind the door; Kart slaughtered her daughters; in the morning she ordered the rest to bring the head of the older young man, the younger leg and the middle arm; the brothers are running, Kart pursues; B. asks God to create a forest (Kart gnawed), the sea (could not go); the brothers envied B.; told the khan that he could get a blanket under which 3,000 people could hide; B. climbed onto K.'s roof, stabbed her with a stick and needle at the end; K. decided that fleas they bite, threw off the blanket, B. took it away; Kart is chasing, B. asked God to create a needle forest behind him, then the sea; brothers: B. has a goose that predicts the future; Kart asks the goose: where is B now .; goose: standing outside the door; Kart tore off the goose's head; the same with the second goose; with the third; Kart saw B., tied it to the table, went to get friends; B. freed himself, threw Kart's daughter into the fire, carried the goose; deliver Kart herself; B. ordered an iron chest to be made, disguised as an old man, began to tell Kart that B. had killed his 12 sons; that he was resting in the chest; Kart lay down there, B. brought it to Khan; climbed the tower, He dug a hole in front of the entrance; Khan opened the chest, Kart ate it and everyone else; fell into a hole, B. stayed alive]: 134-137; Avars [=Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 19:227-233; Khan's 49 sons are going to marry look for 49 sisters, disappear; Sulaiman is born, they hide from him that he had brothers; he offends other children, breaks the widow's jugs; the old man, the widow advise him to look for brothers better; he meets them in the forest, fights them, then they recognize him by his ring; someone steals horses, S. remains guarded, kills seven sledge giants, finds wealth and 50 girls in their cave; one-eyed on the way back the father of sledges and girls is enough for S.; the brothers are afraid and leave; the cyclops tells the white horse to feed flint, black wheat, S. does the opposite; the cyclops orders to bring the khan's daughter; S. rides a white horse, takes companions of people with different abilities (1) runs fast, 2) sees well, 3) hears well, 4) drinks the sea, 5) splits and connects rocks); without recognizing S., everyone replies that the real strongman - S.; Khan promises to give his daughter for the winner of the competition, companions help them win; 1) horse racing, 2) defeat the bull, 3) running (the runner is put to sleep, but he is woken up with an arrow); they try to burn satellites in in the copper room, the drinking sea spews water; S. brings the Cyclops a girl, tells her to find out where the Cyclops's soul is; he first replies that he is in a stick (his wife decorates her), then three eggs in the chest under a pile of garbage in a hut in the desert, only a white horse knows the way; S. kills the Cyclops, brings his wife home]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:184-197; Lucky [an apple fell on the royal roof during the rain; queen She ate it in half with her husband, gave birth to 40 boys; the king was frightened and told them to be left behind the mountain; later he returned, 40 young men named him father, asked him to marry 40 sisters; the king put on iron boots, took a steel stick, went to look for brides; the father of 40 daughters, also with an iron stick and iron boots; the father and 39 sons went to pick up brides, and the youngest Susuna stayed at home; S. to his father: when snakes fall from the sky and stone rain, don't stop anyway; but when the stones fell, the young insisted on spending the night; at night they were surrounded by a ring of snakes, demanding their youngest Brother S.; tells S. to get the daughter of an overseas king; S. meets, takes as companions a person who shoots birds into the sky, drinks and spews the sea; the tsar orders 1) to overtake the old woman; the shooter ran, fired an arrow at and overtook the old woman's back; 2) climb a tree with a full bowl and go down without splashing; S. completed the task, but from the top of the tree he saw his mother in mourning for him, dropped a tear; but the king was convinced that this was not water; 3) spend the night in an iron room; the king ordered to make a fire around, but the water bread spewed the water and cooled the room; the princess does not want to see the snake; the shepherd advised to ask the snake as a reward for a sword in felt sheath; S. cut with this sword by a snake; half turned into a dog, the other into a pig, they began to chase each other; S. received two wives: the princess and the former bride]: Omar-ogly 1868:52-58 (= Khalilov 1965, No. 51:137-142); Yazidi Kurds [Noah (Adam) had 72 sons and the same number of daughters; they got married and gave rise to 72 nations]: Jalil et al. 1989:565; Kurins [childless The queen suddenly gave birth to 40 sons; after that, the king left home; the wife hired nurses and raised sons; the younger Melik Mammad calls the brothers to find his father; they found him and threatened to kill him if he did not marry them on 40 sisters - daughters of the same father and one mother; the king found; MM punishes the brothers not to stay in the Palace; but they spent the night there, and are surrounded by a huge snake in the morning; he will let everyone go if MM will come to him; MM has come, the serpent tells him to get the daughter of the king of divas for him; the wolf tells MM to ask the snake for a horse; MM slaughtered his horse for the wolf; MM meets, takes as companions someone who milks deer on the run; throwing stones; drinking the river; the king of divas tells me to spend the night in an iron room, covered with firewood, drank water, the room has cooled down; run with a lame old woman for reindeer milk; old woman gave wine to the milker deer, he fell asleep; MM saw it, shot, the milker woke up, killed the old woman, brought milk; overcame the hero (the stone-thrower overcame); MM received the daughter of the king of divas; came to the wolf; the wolf orders to kill a huge hare, an egg in his heart, a snake's soul in the egg; MM broke the egg, the snake died; MM married the king's daughter diva and the girl brought by his father; his father gave him the throne]: Lionidze, Sultanov 1892, No. 5:204-208; megrels (p. Banza Senaksky u.) [The date is the youngest of 12 brothers; they decided to marry 12 sisters; on the way they meet, take them as companions 1) who fired an arrow into the sky a year ago and waits for him to fall; 2) drinking the river and not enough; 3) plowing on 12 buffaloes, swallowing clods of earth and screaming, "not enough!" ; 4) carrying heaven, earth, stone and wood and shouting "not loaded!" ; 5) listening to where the ants went; 6) a shepherd of hares; everyone replies that it is not him, but Date is a real hero; brothers reject giants who have 6.9 daughters; having 12 daughters offers challenges; 1) who will drink more wine (the water swallower drank everything); 2) who will hit a distant target (Shooter hit); 3) who will eat more (Earthblower); 4) separate barley and grain (the one who hears ants sends them to separate) ; The strong man raised the giant; he gave his daughters]: Petrov 1894:64-69; Georgians: Glushakov 1904, No. 5 (Imereti) [the tsar says to his 40 sons that he cannot divide the kingdom between them: let everyone get land and wife for himself; the younger prince is a dude; tells the brothers not to spend the night in the same house; they stopped, fell asleep, the prince killed the 6-headed girl with an arrow, cut off and hid his ears in the basement of the house killed an old woman, took the keys to the treasure chests, quietly returned to his brothers; the same at the next night (7-headed maiden, not treasures, but 40 girls); the third time the prince fell asleep himself; fire-breathing maiden blocked the exits from home; let the princes go for promising the younger to get him the queen of the kingdom of women; his servants, who should be named devi, will be transported across the seas; the prince showed the ears of the other two to the brothers Devi, gave the keys and said that he put their rings on the girls' fingers; the black man carried them across the Black Sea, the red man through the red Sea; three are arguing over the flying carpet, the invisible hat, the magic tablecloth; The prince fires arrows - who will bring it first; he picks up wonderful objects himself, flies invisible into the kingdom of women; the old woman talks about the queen; she lived with the king, they went hunting, chased deer, the deer turned into a woman who turned them into deer; the queen deer ran into the kingdom of women and was disgraced here; she was elected queen; the prince began to play the chonguri, queen and The maids fell asleep, he flew with the Queen on a flying carpet; she knows what will happen next; when he saw her, the fire-breathing Davy laughed and burned himself; the prince carried the queen back and returned home; 40 brothers married 40 girls]: 40-50; Kapanadze 1900 (western in the Georgian village of Sachilavo in Megrelia) [the king has 363 sons, the elder Samais ("Samasi" - 300); S. invites his father to marry them at once to 363 sisters; the first Devi replies that he has 361 daughters, the second 362, the third has 363; he gives daughters; warns that a nine-headed devi lives near a girl with 362 daughters, and a 12-headed girl lives near the one with 361 daughters; S. does not lets him go to the 9th chapter, but the 12-headed attracts all newlyweds into the abyss; promises to let him go if S. gets him the daughter of the eastern king; S. meets, takes as companions 1) lying on his ear and ear hiding behind, 2) chasing hares with a millstone tied to his leg, 3) shooting at a beast, a bird a thousand miles away, 4) plucking feathers from pigeons, and they don't notice, 5) counting the number of ants in an ant heap, 6) sipping a lake, 7) swallowing blocks of land; each replies that this is not surprising, but surprising that S. and 362 brothers married the daughters of a 12-headed maiden; S. jumps a wall on horseback, opens the gate, the shooter destroys the guard dogs, the king offers tests; 1) whose messenger will be the first to bring living water; the king's messenger offers the Runner a bite first, he falls asleep; The shooter fired an arrow, it broke the millstones, They came back first; 2) who eats more (Eating consumes food, screams that it is not enough); 3) drink 40 wineskins of water (Opivalo drinks); 4) collect sown wheat (who considered ants tells them to collect); the king gives his daughter, but orders them to add a sleepy potion to the food; the plucking pigeon feathers changed the dishes, the king's people fell asleep; bringing the princess, S. offers the girl to shave him, cut his throat with a razor (if you cut him again, new girls will appear with every stroke); S. brothers dug a hole, S. fell into it, but the horse galloped away, the brothers covered the hole with earth, they took the princess; the horse asks the fox to dig a hole for promising to give her his back thigh; the fox kicks when she comes; the same with the wolf, the bear; the bear dug to the bottom, the horse pulled S.; the parents gave S. the throne, and the brothers made it servants]: 129-141; Armenians [1) =Ganalanyan 1878, No. 791; the Romans turned to the Armenian king for help; Sargis and his soldiers destroyed enemies, saved the Romans; the king of the Romans I was afraid that the Armenians were too strong; sent 40 Greek girls to S. and his 39 surviving soldiers to drink and kill them; the Greek woman sitting next to S., who was sleeping, began to cry; S. woke up; the storm began ; S. put the girl on a horse, jumped over the wall, brought the girl to his place; 2) the archive, the Taron district; Sargis and 40 young men went to Greece; the Greeks brought them 40 girls to a feast to conceive of Armenian heroes, and then they were killed; Sarkis's girlfriend told him everything; S. rushed off with her on horseback, covered the trail with a snowstorm]: 77: Petrosyan 2011; (cf. The version with three sons in Nazinyan 2014:5-17); Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [11 sons answer the king that they marry only 11 daughters of the Chinese king; the king warned Mukhtar's son, who was from another wife, where they should not stay; the brothers do not listen; at the first halt, a horse rushed at them, M. killed it; at the second stop, the same with a ram; when they reached China, there was no one in the city; the bird devours everyone; M. killed the bird and the watchmen, put a knife to the king's chest, took promise to give away daughters; (M. fights divas, wins, returns home, 11 brothers marry 11 sisters)]: 340-; Bogoyavlensky 1892 c, No. 6 [40 sons of the tsar go to marry 40 sisters; the tsar orders not stay overnight in a ruined building and in the steppe; the brothers spent the night at a dilapidated minaret, where a white diva; only the younger Melik-Mamed is awake; killed the diva, refusing to hit again, hid the corpse; the same place, a black diva; at the third night, MM came to the old man, who winds the threads around black (night) and white (day) balls; MM tied the old man to make the night go on, came to the house where the wedding was 40 giants with 40 kidnapped princesses and sisters; MM bribed an old woman, who gave cotton wool to prevent the watchman bell from ringing; MM killed the giants leaving one by one, plunged a sword into marble in the palace of the princesses's father, returned to the brothers; no one can pull out the sword, only MM himself; the king gives his daughters to his brothers; on the way back, the serpent king brought MM to him, ordered Sanam with 40 braids, the daughter of the underworld king, to be kidnapped; having received from the snake fed a magic tablecloth, MM fed a lion, an ant, a Zumrud-gushi bird along the way, they gave fur, etc.; the underground king has 99 heads on the roof; he tells 1) to defeat the lion (the lion fed by MM, won); 2) collect the sown millet (the ants collected); the last seed was brought by a lame ant); 3) hang the scales in the air (MM agrees with the old woman that she will cut off one of the princess's braid, the bird Zumrud -gushi hung scales on her); MM received a princess; freed Jansyn-Kos on the bridge; he pursues, took the princess, disappeared; Zumrud-gushi revived MM with live water; explained that J.K's death in the needle, in the needle, in the needle, in sparrow, in a cage, in an elephant in the forest; MM took it out, broke the needle, J.K. died; the king of the serpent gave way to princess MM; at home a feast, MM lives with two wives]: 308-318; Turks: Kúnos 1901 [40 sons of the padishah want marry only 40 sisters; father finds only families with 39 daughters; brothers go looking; father tells us not to stop at the spring, in the caravanserai, or in the desert next; but they spent the night at the spring and only the youngest is awake; a seven-headed dragon appeared; the young man cut off his six heads with one blow, the latter disappeared into the well; the young man went down a rope, there is a palace with 40 rooms, every beautiful woman, they are sisters, the dragon killed their parents; the young man returns to his brothers, says nothing; the next night at the caravanserai; the new seven-headed dragon; the same, but the young man does not go down to a well; in the desert, the third dragon, Champalak; the young man gave the brothers the keys to the first two wells, where girls and treasures, began to fight C.; he prevails and tells him to get Princess Chin-i-Machin for him; bridles to tame the horse that will take him to the goal; old woman: C. has been trying to get the princess for a long time; the young man was hired as a gardener, the princess fell in love with him; they agreed that she would find out what C.'s life was like; the princess found out that the horse brought the young man, he killed the lion, inside the casket, there were 3 doves; one flew away, but the horse caught her and killed her; the young man killed the second, the third was going to give C., but the princess killed her; all brothers received a wife, and the youngest two (one of the sisters and Princess Chin-i-Machin)]: 143-153; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 7 [40 sons of the Sultan send the youngest to ask their father to marry them; they tell them to sit down only when the Sultan will offer a green chair - then he will understand what the sons want; the brothers go in search of brides; spend the night in the ruins; the youngest sees the seven-headed giantess; drove her away, but she returned with 40 sons and 40 daughters; as they entered, the young man cut off everyone's head; the giantess disappeared into the water, the young man followed; the giantess gave the keys to 4 rooms, each girl, brides for brothers; giantess asks to take her with him; calls his father-in-law, the king of giants; young men and brides are surrounded by a stone wall; the giant lets everyone go except his younger brother; to show his power, the giant orders him to be burned, the ashes scattered, sprinkled with water - he is reborn; orders him to get the daughter of a neighboring king for him; the king demands to plow and sow a huge field overnight, harvest (ants fulfilled) ; eat 40 cauldrons of food (the blacks ate); overcome the princess; she overcomes; the young man burned the Arab's hair again, who quietly helped bring down the princess; the young man took the princess and gave it to the giant; asked her to find out where he keeps his life; giant: three deer will approach the watering hole, three boxes in his yellow stomach; after killing the giant, the young man took his wife and found brothers; they argue over his fiancée - who will get it; the young man himself received it; wedding with two wives]: 77-83; the Hittites [Queen of Canes gave birth to 30 sons at the age of one; filled the pots with sewage, put them there, let them go down the river; the river brought them to the Sea of Calps; the gods took children from the sea and raised them; then the queen gave birth to 30 daughters, raised her own; the sons came to Nesa, did not recognize their mother, she married them; when everyone but the last had already spent the night with sisters, the latter recognized his sister, said that it was not legal to marry sisters]: Ivanov 1977:35-36.

Iran - Central Asia. Shah-name [King Faridun has eldest sons Salm and Tur from his wife Shahnoz, the younger Iranj from Arnavoz; F. sends a servant named Jandal to marry three sons; he finds daughters of a king named Sarv; S. makes it a condition for marriage to identify the eldest and youngest among the daughters (F. warns that the youngest will go first, the eldest will be the last); leaving the grooms to spend the night in the garden, sends severe frost; they are unharmed; they get wives]: Ulug-zoda 1989:42-47; Tajiks [Padishah Bahrom gives 40 sons to Padishah Diyor's 40 daughters; younger Bakhodur marries the youngest, Zarina; the old man gives her seeds, tells them to throw without looking back; fruit trees grew out of the seeds; but Z. looked back ahead of time, so figs and pomegranates grew few; on the way to the kingdom of Fringe, the caravan stops the divas, Z. demands himself; otherwise he will stop the canal and cover everything with sand; took Z. and Bakhodura with her; at night, in the cave, Z. noticed a box with the soul of a diva, B. cut it, the diva died; during this time, the enemies attacked the kingdom of Bakhrom; Z. led a female detachment that helped win]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:178-182 (=Ulug-zade 1967:43-51); Uzbeks [the tsar sends the sorceress Maston on a camel Ilyamon to marry 40 sisters for his 40 sons; the girls' father demands to dig a channel between kingdoms; he has been dug for many months, but there is no end in sight; the elder tells the youngest brother to close his eyes; when he opens his eyes, the canal is ready, one side is winter, the other is summer; the old man teaches the young man to send a knife for the wedding; on the way back, brothers and wives should not enter the white house during bad weather; they come in the dragon blocks the exit; lets go for the king's promise to give his youngest son; demands that the young man get him a bride in 40 days; he steps cautiously along the way without suppressing the ant, divides the hare between the two I lions; they promise to help; the young man stays with an old woman whose 7 sons died while marrying the princess; the king demands 1) collect 40 bags of millet scattered across the field (ants collect), 2) eat the meat of two bulls (lions eat), 3) fill a large jug with chervonets (the princess gives her ring, it fills the jug with gold); the bride has a chest, a dove in it, a worm in the pigeon's goiter, the young man presses it, the dragon dies ; a young man brings his wife home]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 339-347 (=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:157-166); parya [the padishah has 40 sons, all single; each gave the vizier a melon, he brought the padishah; explained that it was time for the sons to marry; the padishah equipped them to look for brides; at rest, the brothers left alone to bake bread; he baked 40 loaves; his hand stretched out from the ground, took one bread; the next day the young man pierced his hand with a hot skewer; his hand disappeared; the young man began to dig, found the door, there were 40 devas; the young man cured the wounded; the devas ask for help to get 40 girls with a dog; the young man killed the dog, told the devas to come in one at a time, killed everyone; took a handkerchief and a ring from one girl; showed them to her father; he told them to bring brothers; a common wedding; brothers and wives went to see their father; they are told that The padishah went blind, removed, and his wife was the maid of the new, who is a former vizier; the young man wiped his father's eyes with a handkerchief, he saw the light; restored him to the throne; the vizier was dragged like a goat carcass during a goat carcass ]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 2:153-156; Pashtuns [padishah agrees to marry seven sons to seven daughters of another padishah; leaves the youngest at home for himself; the vizier forgets the fakir's order not to spend the night on the river bank; in the morning, princes and their brides are surrounded by a dragon; releases when a younger prince is sent to him; the dragon asks him to go to the sorceress Gulkhandan; if she is laughed, they will fall off her mouth flowers, butterflies will fly out of the dragon's nose and fly to those flowers, the dragon will free itself from butterflies; on the way, the prince saves ants, mice, pulls out a splinter from the lioness, she gives a lion cub; he stops at old woman, asks mice to dig an underground passage to G.; changes sleeping clothes with her; she teaches her father to perform difficult tasks; 1) dog fights (prince lets his lion cub in); 2) break an iron blank (G. gives tie your hair with an ax); 3) collect the sown mustard seeds (ants collect); the prince brings G., she laughs, flowers fall, butterflies fly out, the dragon is happy, the prince and his wife come to their father]: Lebedev 1972, No. 5:21-27; kafirs (prasun) [seven supernatural women married seven brothers, encouraged them to kill their only sister]: Snoy, p.75 (Budruss materials) in Yettmar 1986:63; the Baluchis [41 sons of one king are going to marry the other's 41 daughters; the younger Amat-sha agrees to send a sword instead, stay in control of the house; on the way back, buzlangi (white divas) takes his wife; A. learns about this from a conversation between dervishes; A. goes to look for a wife; on the way he wins, takes Buzlanga the Ploughman and the Grain Grinder as his comrades, hitting stones; at the night, first Ploughman, then the Millmaker goes to look for fire; the Forty, who owns it, puts them under his knee; A. defeats him, takes him with the fourth satellite; S. brings A. to the border of the country a white diva; A. kills him with a club, takes his wife; from two kings S. in clothes A. fulfills the condition (to carry a heavy stone, eat a lot), receives a lot of princesses, A. gives them to the Ploughman and Mukomol; his wife A.'s hair falls into the river, it was swallowed by fish, son He caught the hunter, took it to the prince, he found her hair; whoever finds the owner promises twice as much gold as her weight; sends an old woman, who persuades her wife to find out where her husband's soul is in the sword; throws a sword into the well, lures the woman into the box, brings the prince; the Ploughman and Mukomol see blood instead of milk, fly in pigeons, wake up S., he pulls his sword out of the well, A. comes to life, S. returns his wife; A. visits his father]: Zarubin 1932, No. 11:134-150; Yagnobtsy [the tsar finds seven female sisters as wives to his seven sons; the youngest sends a knife to the wedding instead of himself; tells him to eat there on the way back the camel lay down; the camel was hardly laid by the pond, a dragon appeared, demanded one of the sons; the youngest went; the dragon marries him peri, returns him to his father; the other brothers want to destroy him; the father commands bring 1) a cauldron with 40 ears, a patron dragon (now called "father-in-law") teaches how to get; 2) a mare with 40 foals (the same), 3) a golden fox (the same); a young man comes to the test dragon, he gives apples for the young man's wives and others; shows heaven and hell; after eating apples, the brothers, their wives, the young man's parents became pigs; the hunters began to hunt them, but the young man brought his parents into the house and began to look after them]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 44:199-203; Ishkashim [40 brothers go to look for wives; younger Amad finds 40 sleeping princesses, removes from each ring, kills 40 robbers; brothers get wives; tsar warns of danger on the way back; the dragon wraps around them; lets them go when A. and his wife agree to go to him; she lit something, peri came out of the dragon, carried them to Mount Kof, makes A. take her wife, sends her sister to take her sister; Bear, Ant promise help; Sister Peri tells 1) to deliver three carts of thorns from the forest (Bear collects), 2) collect universal grain (ants collect); through For 20 years, Peri revive A.'s first wife, let him go with him to his brothers; he is elected tsar]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 9:139-147; the Rushans [40 brothers princes ask their father to marry them to 40 princess sisters; The king went to look, from the fork on the left road; a dragon is sitting in the house, his legs are in the hearth; tells him to send him an middle son; the young man went to the dragon; the girl gave a flower: if you smell, the trouble will disappear; the ants gave ant leg - if burned, they will come to the rescue; and let the young man's name be Muzaffar ("winner"); the divas gave hair the same; the dragon demands the middle princess; the king demands 1) to crush the stones with a felt hammer; that girl with a flower gave an iron hammer; 2) collect millet scattered on arable land (ants collected it); 3) kill a diva locked in a barn (other divas killed); the prince took the girl, came To that wonder, he killed him with a spear; the wedding of 40 princes with 40 princesses]: Sokolova 1959, No. 15:55-60; the Vakhans [seven sons go to look for seven sisters to marry them; remaining on guard, the youngest Sultan Nasab offers 39 thieves to get the king's seven daughters; takes the robbers to the fortress, kills one at a time, rearranges objects in the younger princess's room; the king sends the old woman to find out everything , marries his daughters to his brothers; SN warns not to stay in the blooming garden; the brothers stop, where the dragon tells him to give him SN; demands that he bring him the Queen with Hair to Forty Gyazov; SN meets, companions Strelka, Vodokhleb; saves rats and mice from hunger; the Queen tells 1) to spend the night in a steel room (they make a fire around, Vodokhleb floods), 2) overtake Wind-footed the maid (The shooter breaks her jug while she returns, SN brings water), 3) collect scattered millet (rodents collect); SN marries the Queen; the eagle dragon arrives, the Shooter easily kills him (this is was his student); at home, the elder brother wants to marry SN; SN heals by throwing a handkerchief over him, rejuvenates his blind father, the older brother cancels the wedding, SN reigns]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976 , NO. 14:172-180.

Baltoscandia. Estonians: Järv et al. 2009, No. 18 (Viru-Jaagupi, Ambla; all over mainland Estonia but not on islands) [=Mälk et al. 1967, No. 47:97-102; six brothers are going to look for seven sisters as wives for themselves and for the seventh younger brother who remains at home; the old man tells him to bring his wife too, the brothers laugh; they find seven sisters for marriage, lead them to themselves, the old man turns six brothers and their brides in stones, takes the seventh sister for herself; answers her that his heart is in the pillow, then in the door; the wife decorates the pillow, the door with flowers; the old man admits that his heart is in the bird, the one in a distant church; a woman tells the youngest of the brothers who came about this; he walks through the forest, feeds a wild bull, a wild boar, an owl; they promise to help; a bull transports across the river, a boar breaks a wall, an owl grabs a bird flying in the church; kills a bird, the old man dies, the young man revives the petrified with his rod; everyone marries their brides; if they are not dead, they live happily ever after (=J.Parijõgi in Raud 2004:301-305)], 19 (Lääne-Nigula) [seven brothers went to look for brides, the youngest stayed at home; the old man asks to bring him a wife too, the brothers promise; they return with brides, answer the old man what was not found for him; he takes his younger brother's bride for himself, turns everyone else into stones; the younger brother comes to the cave; there is a woman taken by the old man; shows a bird in which the old man's soul; the younger brother tortures and kills her, the old man dies; the woman shows how to revive those turned into stones with his wand; everyone marries their brides]: 96-97, 98; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 55 (Ambla) [12 the sons of the poor man went to seek service; the king promised everyone a horse if they worked for him for a year; a year later, 11 brothers chose good horses, and the youngest a thin skate; if no one sees, a strong point turns into a heroic horse; when they return to their father, the brothers left again to look for brides so that they could all be sisters; the old woman has 12 daughters; the younger brother goes to bed with her youngest for the night; she reports that she was in kidnapped as a child, and the rest of the girls are the daughters of the old woman; his strong point is her bewitched brother, they are royal children; at night the old woman will cut off the heads of those who come; the youngest told the brothers to switch places with the old woman's daughters and ride away; the old woman cut off the heads of her own daughters; the old woman chases on the back, the horse tells the youngest to throw a broom (dense forest), a brush (thicket), a rose hip flower (thickets) rose hips); the fugitives rode to a house where the witch has no power; the horse turned to a prince; the younger brother married the rescued princess]: 142-145; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the tsar has 25 sons; he I found out in the book that one woman has 25 daughters; the brothers went to marry; the youngest went forward; in the hut, the old woman interferes with her nose with hot coals; the guy answers cleverly, she calls him the sister's son, promises take his brothers for the night, tells him to go to the sister of the woman with her daughter; herd her horses, ask for an poor skate for work; the horse says that there are a hundred stakes around that house, 75 already grooms' heads; the mother of daughters promises golden oats if the brothers let their horses into the stable; the youngest says that their horses eat only burning coals; in the evening, dancing to a self-playing accordion, forest dancing animals; horse: an old woman will lay her daughters in one half of the room and you in the other; you have to switch places and put her hats on the girls; at night, the old woman cut off the heads not of young men, but for her daughters; younger the brother tells me to run; the old woman looks into her magic mirror and sees that she has killed her daughters; the brothers were hired to serve the king; the elders are jealous of the younger; they tell the king that their brother can get that golden cross old woman; the horse carried the guy across the river threshold; tells the old woman to give bread to the dog so as not to bark; the guy took the cross; get the old woman's mirror (the same); get the old woman's accordion; when they jumped back, the old woman tore off the horse's leg; he tells him to kill and bury him; the old man suggests changing the accordion to a whip, which makes the dead come to life; the guy killed the old man for trial; killed and revived the one who arrived the crow; but did not revive the old man; revived the skate; the brothers are even more jealous: their brother promised to get Päivela's maiden as a bride (Päivolan neiččyön morsiemekse); the skate takes the guy to the top mountains, there is a hole, lowers her on a belt; he goes into the hut, it's warm there; P.'s mother says that her daughter goes to the edge of the sky to fry the sun; walled up the guy in the oven so that he does not burn, only her eyes can be seen; when the daughter took off her fiery clothes, the mother released the boy, P. went with him, picked them up, brought them to the king; P. says that it will become a fire pit: whoever jumps on horseback will get it; when the boy jumped, the fire in the pit went out; the king fell into the hole, burned down; the boy became king, the virgin P. became queen]: Onegin 2010, No. 20:226-233; Lithuanians [after the death of their father, 7 sons drank the estate, were hired as laborers; someone steals mowed hay; only the youngest Jonas manages to catch a mare with seven stallions; J. got the most inconspicuous; decide to marry the 7 daughters of the Bone Woman, who is on the island; the skate teaches J. with a handkerchief, the waters have parted; tells them to exchange blankets with the girls at night; the saber cuts off their heads; the end tells them to run; the sea has parted and closed behind, the bone woman does not cross; the skate does not tell pick up a pen, J. picked it up; the brothers, out of envy, tell the king that 1) J. can also get a bird; a bird from the Bone Woman; J. became a cat, the bone woman brought him into the house, he took the cage with the bird; 2) a sword, who cuts and defeats the attacking enemies herself; J. became a bird, the bone woman brought it into the house, she took her sword away; 3) the sea maiden (while she was at the ball, the moon and sun could not be seen for three days); the skate teaches me to put a table of wine on the shore, the maiden came out of the water, got drunk, fell; maiden to the king: I'll go out when you're handsome, you have to swim in boiling milk; J. jumped and became handsome, the king dissolved in milk; J. married a virgin, became king]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 154:401-408; Norwegians: Dasent 1970:59-68 [the king loves his seven sons so much that he always keeps at least one with him; six are leaving they marry six sisters, on the way home a giant turns them into stones; the seventh brother leaves on a nag; feeds a crow, saves salmon, gives the wolf his horse to eat; for this he takes him instead horse; in the giant's castle, a young man meets the kidnapped princess, hides; the princess asks where the giant's heart is; decorates the threshold, the closet with flowers; the third time the giant says that the soul is in the egg, in the duck, in a well, in a church on an island in the middle of a lake; a wolf brings it there; the keys to the church hang high, the raven pulls them out, the young man grabs the duck, the egg falls into the water, the salmon pulls it out; the young man tells the giant to revive petrified, then breaks an egg, a giant bursts; wedding], 383-395 [The king's 12 daughters go missing; another's 12 sons sail on a ship to look for them; captain Ritter Red (RR); the ship gets into a storm then calm near the island; everyone falls asleep; the younger brother sees a puppy on the shore, lands, the puppy turns into a princess; her troll father gives a drink of strong water, then the young man can raise his sword; after 7 For years, the ship will sail to where a 12-headed troll lives, 12 princesses brush his hair while he sleeps; a young man will cut off 12 heads; and so it happened; princes take away princesses, they have forgotten their golden crowns; the young man goes after them; RR wants a younger princess for himself, tells her to sail away, threatens to kill those who say that he did not defeat the troll; a giant bird descends, tells her to feed her, carries the young man to troll island; he is ready to give his daughter to the young man and make him the king of trolls, but he refuses; goes down to the ship to pick up his sword; sees that the princess puts a sharp sword next to her at night to RR her does not touch; the troll gives an iron ship, he instantly takes the young man home; gives an iron club that can cause a storm; at home sends the ship back to the troll; pretends to be a poor sailor; 12 princesses are scheduled to marry with 11 princes and RR; an imaginary sailor shows gold crowns, princesses recognize them, the young man opens; RR executed]; Danes [father hardly found 427 daughters of one a man to marry his 427 sons; on the way back he went down to the half-dried lake to give his horse a drink, but something caught his eye; his sons did not find anything at home; then they boarded a boat and sailed for a week at father in his eye until the fish bone that the bird had dropped was pulled out; the carpenter made legs out of it for 427 beds; the father decided to lie down on one of them, while the fox began to nibble on the leg of the bed, because It tasted like fish and poultry; the man threw his red hat at the fox, the fox jumped back and hid in his red beard; to get it, 427 sons took braids and mowed their beards for a week until they found a fox, who had time to give birth to seven foxes; 427 brothers married 427 sisters, everything is fine]: Cramer 1919:69-72.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [30 brothers, younger Yulbat, are going to marry 30 sisters; the tsar says that his 30 daughters have been carried away by a whirlwind; the brothers turn right where luck awaits, Yu to the left; the wolf eats his horse, tells you to ride yourself instead of a horse; three deva brothers are married to those girls, 27 girls are turned into mares; Yu kills devas, frees girls, gives them to brothers he meets; the wolf eats the hearts of 60 horses, he carries 30 brothers and their wives; contrary to Yu's warning, the brothers stay for the night, they are surrounded by an ajdaha dragon with his body; lets Yu go for his promise to get him the daughter of King Birmyak; on the way, Yu. takes Runner, Strelka, Slukhach, Vodoglot, Vodokhod as companions; Tsar B. tells 1) to spend 6 days in a hot bath, 2) overtake an old woman 80 years old; 3) climb a pole with a glass of milk; Yu gets a wife; his son, who grew up during this time, killed Azhdakha; Y. gives him his daughter B.]: Barag 1988, No. 35:234-242; (cf. Bashkirs [after the death of their parents, 10 brothers go to look for work, refuse to eat the old woman's unsalted soup; the youngest eleventh Karasa-batyr eats, she orders to first destroy the Yalmauz talismans , then fight; the girl says where the mascot of the 7-, 12-headed Yalmauz, K. kills him; the same in the palaces of the 9-headed; K. frees the prisoners; meets brothers, gives each 10 girls, takes three for himself ; at night, Azhdakha filled his brothers, lets go for K.'s promise to bring Kurenmyas Khan's daughter; K. meets, takes as companions 1) a one-legged runner, 2) a tall man catching birds with his hands, 3) listening, 4) drinking the lake; the khan demands 1) to overcome the bull; 2) without splashing milk, climb a pole, ring the bell; 3) overtake the speedboat (60-year-old woman); 4) spend the night in a hot bath; together companions do everything; the khan turns his daughter into a knife, a pillow, a writing pen, tells her to choose among 12 samovars, 12 feathers, 12 scribes; K. makes the right choice every time; the girl turns into a fish, Drank drains the lake, companions cook fish, imaginary fish jumps out of the cauldron; turns into wheat grains, they are fed to the duck, the girl takes off as a duck, the bird catcher grabs it; The fox offers to give her to Azhdaha instead of a girl; Azhdakha believed; K. lives with four wives]: Barag 1988, No. 32:200-213); Komi: Plesovsky 1975 [30 brothers want to marry so that all wives are sisters to each other; Ivan throws a ball, follows him with his brothers; the first old woman replies that she has only 5 granddaughters, the second says that she has 20 (she spins wolf hair), the third has 30; I. realizes that the old woman is Yoma, does not sleep; Yoma turned the girls into horses, they are not her daughters, but her captives; I. tells her brothers to lie not on benches, but under the benches; they put brooms on the benches, Yoma cut them down; Yoma tells her brothers to torture horses with work, and I. protects her; Yoma gave her brothers a good horse, I. chose a foal for himself; the brothers came to the king, he brought I. closer, made the rest grooms; the brothers complained that I. promised bring a flying carpet from Y.; the foal turned into a horse, brought I. to Y. when she was sleeping, I. took the flying carpet; brothers: I. promised to bring Princess Marpida; the horse brings to that kingdom, suggests M. sit on it, takes it away; M.: whoever brought me, let him get the wedding dress; the dress in the church under the throne; the horse turned into a golden priest, the people rushed to watch, I. took the dress; M.: bring the mare, which gives 30 buckets of milk, must swim in it, then the tsar will be younger; Ivan's horse turned out to be the son of this mare, she followed him herself; the milk boiled, the horse snorted, it cooled down, I. swam; the king rushed after him, cooked, I. married M., became king]: 45-51; Žikin 2006, No. 17 []: 75-83; Mordovians [the old man found 12 eggs in the forest, 12 of them hatched, the eldest Zavarza; let's go look for wives; Baba Yaga sends a stallion to her older sister, who has 12 daughters, gives a handkerchief (if you wave, there will be a sea of fire) and a stallion; he tells Zavarza to change clothes with Baba Yaga's daughters at night; she stabbed her daughters, was left alone for Z.; she agrees to marry him if he 1) collects her mother's stallions; Z. brought in, waved his handkerchief, Baba Yaga could not cross the Sea of Fire; 2) steal her mother's harp- samogudes; they are on her chest, she grabbed Z., locked her in a barn; the stallion tells me to play the harp, the locks have fallen apart, Z. brought the harp; 3) the mother's jawbone; Z. pulled out her jaw, brought it; 4) jump into boiling water; the stallion cooled it, Z. unharmed; Baba Yaga's daughter jumped after him, the stallion made the water hot, the girl boiled]: Evseviev 1964, No. 36:262-264; Chuvash [in the nest at the top of the osokor an old man found 31 babies; in the hut they began to ask for bread; the tsar gave a thousand rubles for each; 30 sons were mowing, and the 31st was still young; when he began to mow, he broke his braids; sour cream haystacks disappear at night; only the youngest Vanka's son woke up, grabbed the mare; she said that her 31 foals are for the brothers; let the youngest choose last, burn his foal in the fire for 3 days; he became a magic horse; only V. jumped on to his horse's nest, took eggs out of it, became the eldest; one old woman says that she has only 16 daughters, the second is 26, the third is 31; the horse tells her to change clothes with the girls for the night; at night the old woman eats her daughters, except the one next to V.; the brothers run away; they envy V.; they tell the king that he boasts to get a 70-string violin (harp); V. comes to the old woman's daughter, she gives the violin to her mother; next time the same: harp (quesle); same: 2 golden eggs; after that, the brothers tell the king that V. can get the daughter of the King of Fire; the horse teaches to catch the best horse, dies himself; the new horse teaches make a ship, lure a girl; she tells me to get wedding rings; he took it out, married the daughter of the King of Fire, became tsar, and his former tsar was his minister]: Chuvash tales 1937:284-296; Tatars : Yarmukhametov 1957 [Akhmet is told that he is more cheerful and courageous than his brothers; his mother is forced to say that his 10 brothers are gone and are missing; A. visits his mother 10 genies and promises her sons to get 11 for them the daughters of the padishah, which is prevented by 10 batyrs; they turn out to be brothers A.; A. enters the girls' room, tells the genies to go up there one by one, cuts off everyone's head, takes their sleeping girls off personalized rings, he keeps one for himself, gives 10 to his brothers; 5 batyrs claim that they defeated the genies; the padishah gives them daughters, but during the wedding, the warriors cannot raise the heads of the genies, and A. this it is easy to do; the daughters of the padishah recognize their rings, marry brothers; the father of the genies wants to get the daughter of the padishah of the Sun, and he will give her only for the horse of Padishah Almazov; the father of the genies kidnapped A., ordered get that horse; the old man tells you to take the horse away, but not touch the bridle; A. grabs it, the bells are ringing, he is captured, Padishah Almazov demands the nightingale of the Padishah of the Month; the old man tells not to take the cage, A. did not take gave the nightingale in exchange for the horse, but the nightingale returned to him; gave the horse in exchange for the daughter of the Sun, the horse also returned; the old man told me to go from the fork to the right, A. forgot and went to the left; A. fell asleep, woke up - there is no girl, no horse, no nightingale; the old man gives a handkerchief, a comb and a mirror; putting his handkerchief on the water, A. crosses the river, takes the girl, horse, nightingale out of the diva's palace; he chases, A. threw the comb (forest), mirror (sea); the diva swam, drowned; A. gives the girl to the padishah genies, remains a worker, tells me to find out what the genie's soul is; genie: in a broom (the girl adorns the broom); four eggs under the duck in the nest on an island under the protection of four wild boars; A. fights wild boars, the main boar wants to eat a reed sprout, A. wants to eat a roast lamb; the shepherd gave him a lamb, he killed wild boars, brought eggs, broke two, a genie agreed to take him home with his girlfriend, where A. broke the rest of the eggs; 11 brothers with wives, nightingale and horse return to their parents]: 14-31 (=Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 48:204-216); Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 49 [40 brothers want to marry 40 sisters; on the way back, Azhdakha surrounded the newlyweds with his body, demanded an older brother; tells him to get a padishah's daughter; the young man meets and takes Imyan as his companions- batyr (pulls oaks) and Tash-batyr (throws boulders); cannot cross the lake; the girl drank it, they crossed it, she regurgitated the water back, went with them; the padishah offers competitions; I. wins the wrestler , T. - runners (throws sand into their eyes), the girl drank 40 barrels of turpentine; the young man gets the princess, his companions say goodbye to him, T. gives them a sword, he hacked down ajdaha to them], 72 []: 217-222, 381-390.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Sidelnikov 1971 (1) [=Daurenbekov 1979:15-15; after starving horse toast, the old woman gave birth to a son Yer-Tostik; he injures a chizhik, he confused the old woman's yarn, the old woman tells ET to look better his missing 8 brothers, who starved cattle south; ET holds a handful of hot wheat in his mother's hand, who admits that he has brothers; ET goes looking for them, finds them, brings them; their father Yernazar marries they are on 9 sisters, ET on younger Kenzhekay; Peri Bector wants ET for himself; tells Baba Yaga to grab E., he promises her a son; leaves the sharpener in the old camp, ET goes after him in a six-legged the horse, the seminogy takes on the lead; K.'s wife gives him her father's horse as a dowry; ET, grabbing a sharpener, runs away from Baba Yaga, falls into the lower world of the snake khan Bana; he promises him a daughter, if ET gets Temir Khan's daughter; ET meets, companions Thief, Windropog, Sensitive Ear, Gorokat, Lake Swallower, All-Seeing Eye, thanks to them, wins competitions (1) Lake Swallower all drinks, eats, Sensitive Ear hears about the intention to poison guests, the Thief replaces dishes; 2) the ET horse wins the races: 3) The windbreaker overtakes the old woman Mystan-Kempir, who tried to put him to sleep; 4) the horse pulls out cauldron from the bottom of the lake; first there is white foam on the surface, which means he grabbed it; then the red one does not lift; in the end it pulls it out), gets a woman; grateful Bany Khan points the way up; on the way, the wife dies, ET goes with her slave Kunkey; kills a boa constrictor crawling to the chicks; a double-headed eagle (one human head, one bird head) carries him and K. to the ground; peri throws him into a well, a double-headed eagle saves; ET saves Kunkei, married to Shoin-Kulak (son of Baba Yaga), overhears where the soul of the ShK is (in a goat, in a box, in a chicken); kills ShK; returns to Kenzhukay]: 7-33; Tursunov 1983 [Auez Khan wants to marry 40 sons to 40 daughters of another khan; he asks to build a road with gardens, fountains, nightingales in a year; the youngest son meets an old man, he creates everything; tells the youngest to stay at home, and the older brothers did not enter the palace on the way during the blizzard; they entered, the dragon lets them go for bringing the younger one; tells the youngest to get the girl; on the way heals the wounds of a fox, an ant; a girl demands to catch two foxes, collect wheat scattered in the sand; fox, ants perform; orders to kill two pigeons by opening the dragon's chest; the dragon dies, the younger brother marries a girl]: 203-205; Babalar sozi 2001, No. 10 [old people are childless; the old man went to the one that the khan arranged on the occasion of the marriage of his youngest daughter; the old woman dreams: a tall black man came and announced: "I will give you eight watermelons and one melon, you will have nine sons. The youngest you will give birth to from a melon is the hero Kyokzhan"; the old woman opened her eyes and saw 8 watermelons and a melon at the head; ate them; after 9 months she gave birth to 9 sons, the youngest was named hero Kyokzhan ; sons grew up; one day, in the absence of sons, an old man and an old woman saw a herd of sheep being grazed by a girl descending from the mountain; she came and asked for a drink; said that her family had nine girls, and she youngest; the old man came to her father, married his daughters to their sons; 8 sons went to the brides, but K. stayed; did not tell them to spend the night by the mountain; but on the way back, the brothers, wives and father stayed there for the night; they saw an aidahar (dragon), who clutched its own tail in its mouth, turning around the cattle; promises to return the cattle if the old man gives him K.; he spent one night with his wife and went to the dragon; he says bring him a gold-haired girl; on the way, K. met and accompanied someone who can track down a corsak; who knows the number of stars in the sky; knows how many fish there are in the world; one buy will give his daughter to someone who will shoot down a suspended gold bar and knock down his fighter; K. knocked down the bar and knocked down the wrestler, gave the girl he had received to his first comrade; the same in another village he gave the girl to his second comrade; in the third, third; K. went alone; in the village there is a gold-haired girl - "I would call her the moon, but she has a mouth unlike the moon, I would call her the sun, but she has eyes unlike the sun"; her father exposes the same conditions (knock down a bar, knock down a fighter); K. fulfilled, took the girl, went to the dragon; saw an empty white yurt, began to live in it with the girl; the girl began to wash her hair in the Yedil River, swam away alone, the horseman on I picked it up on the other side, came to the old woman Zhalmauyz, asked her to get the girl; she told me to give her a golden boat and a wineskin; the old woman to the girl: this yurt is mine; I'll kill if you don't tell me where my husband's soul is; K.: "Under with her skin laid on the right to the ground, on the edge of a pocket knife"; the old woman gave the girl drunk, pulled out a knife, heated it in the fire, threw it into the water, took the girl to the horseman's palace; the knowledgeable star said that star K. fell; whoever was tracking Korsak found K. dead; who knew about fish found that one pike was missing, caught it, found a penknife in her belly, K. came to life; came to the kidnapper, aka tulpara also took him away; tulpar does not let anyone in; K. offered to go around him; rode to the palace, took the girl; brought the dragon, but he was killed, and a man in black nearby; it turns out that this is his son (from his wife, with whom K. spent one night); everything is fine]: 90-96; Coyaud 2012, No. 71 [bai has 2 sons from three wives; he wants to marry them to 29 sisters; Bai with 29 daughters found; the eldest went there, the youngest Kanjikala 18 Kanjiguli, his youngest daughter, came three months later; something appeared floating in the water, turned into a cannibal with copper claws, and grabbed Bai, the brothers' father; he had to promise to give it to her son K.; the father asked K. to return to shoot a goose by the river; the wife warns that there is a cannibal; she leads to the dragon, who demands to get him the daughter of Naezi Khan; K. meets, takes 5 a person with different abilities; one saves ants from a shower; The hearer hears that the khan wants them, they changed plates, the ministers died; Drunk floods the fire around the iron house in which the khan wanted to burn them, floods the ground, the khan gives his daughter; the ants separated the grain from the sand; knock down a piece of silver from the top of the tree with an arrow; the khan gave his daughter; the fox took her form, K. gave her to the dragon, and the fox then became a fox again, ran away; K. returned, he now has two wives]: 173-188; Uighurs (Khotan) [after eating food prepared by their mother, the king's 40 sons go to marry so that wives can cook for them; the king goes to searches, negotiates with the father of 40 daughters; when he returns, sends his son Alte-Ayliq Ghilangtash Pahlavan to conclude an agreement; he meets, wins, takes servants for a year 1) throwing millstones; 2) sucking in the river with his back; 3) listening to the ground; he hears that the father of 40 daughters is just giving one daughter; they come there, the father of 40 daughters does not want to give them away now, offers conditions; 1) split a log (a strongman splits); 2) sit in a house with iron walls; blacksmiths make a fire around, the river releases water; they go out saying they are frozen; 3) eat an incredible amount of food; that man sucked everything in his ass, sucked his companions, and then returned them; not wanting to give her daughters, their mother turned different animals into girls, gave them away; so after the wedding, they began to scratch, bite, and kick his husbands; the father said he could not help - such are women]: Jarring 1946, No. 2:35-53.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Tyumen) [was bai Tokpay-bai, he has 9 sons; they drove herds, at which time his mother became pregnant; wanted a horse sternum (tyustyuk); gave birth to a son Ir-Tyustyuk; playing with money , he hurt the lousy guy; he: you'd better find your brothers; IT gave him all the money, including gold, asked his mother to cook wheat, pressed her hands against the cauldron, she had to tell him; IT found the brothers , unrecognized began to live consistently with everyone, eating everything; they got to know each other, the brothers agreed to return to their parents; IT tamed the foal and the mare, began to ride them; the elder brother asked his father marry him to 10 sisters; he stayed in a fisherman's yurt; when he saw 5 hats, he cried, the other 5 laughed (at first he thought there were only 5 brides in the house, and then realized that there were 10); the fisherman gave his daughters to bay; the youngest Kunjakei tells him to spend the night on a waterless hill; bai got angry, stopped by the water, his lung swims there; bai hit him, it became an old woman (kempir) with seven heads, began to strangle him; refused take horses, 9 sons, IT demanded; Bai promised to leave her a goldgrandmother and send IT to pick her up; after the wedding, IT asked about her grandmother, IT was going to follow her; K. told Shal to sit on a white horse guiruk, take Ak-Polat's white sword, Ak-syrmal white chain mail; S. says IT that Kempir-jalmouth is sitting in place of the yurt; she replied that she could not get up; S. became huge, then small, IT grabbed grandmother, galloped; they began to fight with the old woman, both fell into the ground; S. left IT one hair to call her; IT meets, companions 1) hitting one mountain against another, 2) drinking the lake, 3) a runner who catches animals easily, 4) hears from any distance; they came to Ulmis Khan (it was his daughter who sent those comrades to IT to marry her); they said that a fugitive had allegedly fled to the village of UH, demanded daughter UH; he orders 1) to overcome the strongman (the thief overcame the mountains), 2) overtake the old woman (the runner overtook); the khan put IT and his companions in an iron house, put firewood, set fire (water bread flooded the fire) ; the listener said where his daughter UH was hidden (underground); IT went home with the girl he took; Choyun-gulak came out to him, invited him to his place, joined the fight; IT defeated him, but the saber did not take him, CHG defeated him; Sh. ran to his comrades, who saved IT; IT asked ChG's wife to find out where his soul was; she made their child cry, explained to CHG that the child wanted to add his soul to his father's soul; CHG: on top of the mountain There is an iron box at the bottom of the well, it contains 4 quails; IT killed them; everything is fine]: Radloff, Proven, IV, 443 in Potanin 1916:89-93; South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses and did not returned; when BN and his wife ate horse breast, his wife gave birth, a son was named Er Töstük ("brisket man"); he grew up; an old woman was weaving, he stepped on a thread and tore it; the old woman told him it is better to look for brothers; the father said he has no brothers, he was deceived; another old woman's grandson pulled ET's bow, ET hit him, the boy died; and this old woman told him to find better brothers; ET found first brothers and then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for nine sisters to marry; found them; their father did not tell them to spend the night at the Chushurlug Chuduk on the way back, but BN did not listen warnings from her younger sister destined for ET and spent the night there; she sent a man to her father asking her to give her a hemp shirt for ET and the best mare and camel; he did not want to, but gave it away; There is no mare in the morning; BN went to the Saltwell for the night: the mare is there, and next to the jelbege, covered it with one ear, put the other under her; BN asks to give the camel; the jelbege says she cannot get up, let BN come by himself; he comes up, she grabbed him, threatens to eat him, refuses to let him go in exchange for his 8 sons, for 800 horses, agrees to let him go if he gives ET; BN promises to leave jelbig is his son's triangular file, with which he sharpens arrows; says he forgot and will send ET for him; the bride tells ET everything; he asks his father which horse to ride; BN: sit on six-legged and take an eight-legged with you; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me, wear that hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he says shout to jelbig: What kind of kids are behind you? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds in a tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside a brown box, in a shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG calms down: he killed ET), ripped open the brown man's stomach, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died ; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206.

Western Siberia. Nganasana [{the first part of the text does not agree with the second}; the sister of the seven brothers in the plague is alone; the ogre comes and offers to dance; she dances with him, says that troops are coming, he looks around she kills him with a knife, cooks meat; throws his jaw: if she falls up with a notch, she eats her older brother; her older brother arrives, she stabbed him, cooks him in a cauldron; the same with the other brothers; younger senses bad things, moves away from the plague, the cannibal (an ogre who comes to the girl, and not the girl who has become an ogre} chases; the brother comes to the shaman, he puts on his horns, rips open the cannibal's belly, 6 brothers and sister they go out alive; the shaman gives his seven daughters to the girl's seven brothers, the son marries the girl]: Porotova 1980:5-7.