K99a1. The convicted guessman has been released.
.12.14.17.21.-.23.26.-.34.36.
Theman thrown into prison is released and exalted, because only he manages to solve the riddles given to the king or save the princess (tsar, prince, etc.).
Hausa, Kpelle, Wai, Yoruba, Ashanti, Guro, Berbers of Southern Morocco, Tunisia, Germans (Swabia), Old Testament, Palestinians, Arameans, Iraqi Arabs, Tibetans, Lao, Thais, Ancient India, Punjabi (?) , Kumaoni, Kannada, Bengalis, Tamils, Muria, Koreans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Russians (Olonets, Vologda, Smolensk), Crimean Tatars, Ingush, Dargins, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Vakhans, Estonians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Khalkha Mongols, Mongols of Ordos, central (?) Yakuts.
West Africa. Hausa [a young man Musa and a Fouréra girl from two hostile villages flee to another country, vowing not to part; F. died of thirst, M. remained sitting by her body; the eagle brought an amulet to revive F., promised with M. to feed him when he required it; M. and F. come to town, M. revived the princess, awarded; F. became the guard's mistress; when the prince died after falling off his horse, stole for lover's amulet, M. could not revive the deceased, and the lover could; demanded the execution of M. as a reward; an eagle flew in, M. promises him to eat his remains; the eagle releases a lizard from his beak, tells him to bring the stolen amulet, when trying to do so, she was killed; the cat was left to eat boiled beans; the mouse brought the amulet; releases a snake to bite the princess; M. revived her, her lover was gone; the lover and F. were executed, the eagle full]: Hassane 2013:88-96; kpelle [two brothers went to get wealth; built a hut in the forest; two people came from the city and attacked them; they ran away, the youngest came to another city; when they found out What's the matter, Ihnevmon made a hole in the royal basket of cola nuts, scattered nuts along the path leading to the young man's hut; he was captured the next day; the old woman gave him rice; the cat promised to help if he shared rice with her; brought him a rat; the snake asked a rat for itself, promised to bite the queen, gave the young man an antidote; the young man cured the bitten one, got half of the city]: Westermann 1924, No. 40:180; vai [the man let the deer go for promising to make him rich; the deer brought it to the outskirts of town; there he shared cassava with a possum for promising to make him rich; the opossum smashed the royal vessel with cola, left a trail to the place where the man lay; the man was put in blocks; the snake promises to make him rich if he gave it the rats caught; bit the king's son, gave the man medicine; that healed the king's son, received half the kingdom; who of the three made man rich?] : Ellis 1914, No. 39:230-231; Yoruba (nago) [the hunter pulled a panther, a snake, a rat and a woman out of the pit; the rat digs a passage to the royal palace and brings valuables from there; a woman reports on a man, his chained; the snake splashes something into the prince's eyes, he is dying; the hunter cured him by mixing the drug with the informer's blood; the king rewards the hunter and lets him go home]: Klipple 1992, No. 160:94; ashanti [a man has pulled another person, a leopard, a snake, and a rat out of the pit; a grateful leopard brings meat, a rat brings gold dust; when a rescued person brings some wine, the hero does not take it, cites an example of a rat bringing gold; the rescued one reports this to the heavenly deity, who tells the hero to be scourged; the snake bites the child of his beloved wife and gives the hero an antidote; the informer is executed, his blood mixed with a healing agent]: Klipple 1992, No. 160:95; guro [a panther, a snake, a hawk fell into the buffalo pit; the hunter pulled them out; the panther began to bring antelopes; the hawk saw and brought them a gold box; the man told a friend, and he told the chief, the owner of the box; the chief makes an appointment with the hunter; the snake says: if the leader asks to wash, he must demand that it first he did it himself; I'll bite him and you'll cure him (the snake gives an antidote) by asking the informer's head for it - otherwise the antidote won't work; the informer's head was cut off, the chief recovered]: Tououi Bi 2014:151-156 .
North Africa. The Berbers of southern Morocco [a man pulled a snake and a rat out of the well; the snake gives a piece of skin off, the rat gives fur, both promise to help, advise not to pull out a person who stayed in the well; but the first man pulled him out; came to town, got married; decided to try to burn his fur; a rat appeared, asked her to help him get the royal treasures; she told him to leave the basket and in the morning it is full of gold; so several times; the king noticed that the daughter promises to whoever finds the thief; the Jew promises to find; lit a fire in the treasury and saw where the smoke came from; said that gold the rat carried out; the king ordered the Jew to be cut off; the man pulled out of the well pointed to him and put him in prison; the man called the snake and asked him to be saved; the snake wrapped around the prince's neck; the man promises to save the prince if the king releases him; says that the remedy for the snake is the brain of the one he saved and who reported to him; he was beheaded, his brain was brought; the snake crawled away, the man received princess and half of the royal estate]: Stumme 1894, No. 2:394-396; Tunisian Arabs: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 40 [The prince is handsome, all the young men envied him, the girls did not notice anyone around him but him. He was arrogant and arrogant, the young men decided to get rid of him and came to the old woman. She filled her wineskins with water and placed them around the small lake from which the prince used to water his horse, and began to pray. When the prince arrived and saw that the old woman was praying, he first waited, but then could not stand it, ran into wineskins filled with water and got his horse drunk. Then the old woman mocked him that, they say, who he was, he would never marry a princess with snow-white skin. Then he decided to go looking for this princess to marry her and swore to his parents that he would not return home without her. On the way, he pulled the king of pigs, the king of ants and the king of Ephrites out of the pit. They warned him not to pull the black-headed man out of the hole, but he did not listen to them, he felt sorry for him, and the prince helped him. This man took him to the kingdom of a snow-white princess. Her father gave him a condition: plow a piece of land and plant it with millet and barley, harvest it and separate some grains from the others, all in one night. The prince did everything with the help of the king of pigs and the king of ants. They began to celebrate the wedding, then a man with a black head envied the prince, came to the bride's father and told him that it was not the prince who had completed his task, but the king of pigs and the king of ants, then the king He was angry and ordered that the prince be imprisoned and executed at dawn. Then the prince remembered King Ephrite's hairs that he had left. He asked the guard to throw them into the fire. The king of the Ephrites said that he would stick to the king and only the prince would be able to heal him in exchange for his release and marriage to the princess. The king has agreed to this. When the prince began to pretend to be a cure, he asked Efrit what to do next, who replied through the king's mouth that he should bring a man with a black head and cut his throat when he felt the ephrit drops of his blood, he'll come out of the king's body. That's what they did. The prince married a princess and returned with her to his native kingdom. He realized that you need to be brave and modest, not arrogant] in Korovkina MS; Bushnaq 1987 [the traveler looked into the well and saw those who fell into it there; began to pull them out; the snake, the rat do not warn pull the man out; but the traveler still pulled him out; one day he decided to test the rat's promise, burned its hair, asked for royal treasures; the rat ordered him to leave the basket and pick it up at dawn, it is full gold; the king promised a daughter to whoever would find the kidnapper; the fortuneteller lit a fire in the treasury, began to see where the smoke came from; it was clear that the gold was carried away by a rat; the king executed the fortuneteller and appointed another. the story became known; the man saved by the traveler remembered the rat's promise to help the savior and reported it; the man was thrown into prison; he burned the scales and called a snake; it wrapped around the neck of the king's son; no one knows what to do; the man asked to bring him to the prince; "The snake will leave the boy if you feed her brains" (i.e. the informer); this is what happened; the man married a royal daughter]: 246- 248.
Western Europe. The Germans (Swabia) [the king's close associate fell into the hole; the merchant lowered the rope but pulled out the lion; then the bear; the snake; everyone thanks, gives gold and advises not to pull the man out; merchant pulls out; the rescued sees gold and envies; reports that the merchant killed and robbed many; the real murderer was this close associate of the king; the merchant must be skinned off, hung on an oak tree, and his tie to an oak tree until he dies; the lion and bear tore the ropes, freed the merchant; he was grabbed again and thrown into the dungeon; the snake crawled, promised to bite the princess, brought antidote grass; now only a prisoner can cure a princess; for saving his daughter, the king freed the merchant, married her, and handed him the throne]: Meier 1852a, No. 14:54-56.
Western Asia. Old Testament [Joseph dreams; in the first he and his brothers knit sheaves; their sheaves stand around and bow to his sheaf; in the second he is worshiped by the sun, moon, and eleven stars; his father scolds him because he thinks his parents and brothers should bow to him; his brothers throw Joseph into the ditch and sell him to merchants; in Egypt, Pharaoh's chief of bodyguards, Potiphar, buys Joseph; P. offers herself to Joseph, I. refuses; she tears her dress, accuses I. of violence; in prison, I. solves the dreams of a butler (in three days she will be released, held in high esteem), a baker (will be executed); solves the Pharaoh's dream, is appointed to oversee Egypt; the older brothers come to Egypt for bread; I. tells them to return for Benjamin; releasing him, I. puts a bowl in his things; V. is accused of stealing; I. opens to his brothers, Jacob brings the people to Egypt]: Gen. 37-46; Arameans [{the story of Joseph the Beautiful}; the father has three sons; he loves the younger Joseph the Beautiful more than others, does not send him to work; the elders refuse to go to the field if I. also does not go with them; he went, they pushed him into the well, told his father that I. separated from them along the way; the caravans pulled I. out after he collected water for all of them; everyone gave him money; he came with a caravan to Baghdad; the sultan took him into service; the Sultan's daughter fell in love with him, he refused, she accused him of stealing the treasury, the sultan threw him in dungeon; the sultan dreamed how 7 skinny cows ate seven obese cows; no one can solve the dream; remembered I., he guessed it, rose again; his brothers came to buy wheat, did not recognize I., and he did not recognize them found out and threw back the money he had received; when he found the money, the father ordered him to return it to I.; he revealed who he was, ordered him to give the money to his father; the father became blind from tears, and now he has recovered; the brothers and father have come to live with I.]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 5:13-18; Palestinians: El-Shamy 2004, No. 517:285; Iraqi Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [the Caliph forbade lighting a fire at night; walked around the city with the vizier after sunset; poor young weaver Mohammed weaver in one house; replies that he works when he wants; that he had a dream but is not going to tell it; in the morning he was brought to the Caliph; he still refuses tell a dream; he was thrown into prison; he sings there; the Caliph's only daughter hears, tells him to make a move to the dungeon from her chambers; sends a maid, M. has to go up to the princess; he washed himself, ate; she He tells him to lie with her, but puts a sword between them; in the morning he returns to prison; stubbornly refuses to tell the Caliph a dream; he is surprised that he is in good shape on bread and water; M.: by God's will; the neighboring sultan sent two apples: which is the current one and what is the last harvest? the princess teaches: the last harvest will emerge, the current one will drown; ask me as a reward; the Caliph agreed, M. said everything, the caliph received five provinces from the Sultan, but returned M. to prison; Sultan: which of the mares mother and what daughter? we must give both food, the mother will not eat, she will worry, the daughter will eat quietly; the Sultan gave 10 provinces and wants to see a guesser; the princess gives M. items with which he will withstand the tests; Sultan: sew a veil for me from the hill; M.: let me make it out of sand; the sultan gave M. a daughter; M. married the Sultan's daughter and the daughter of the Caliph; once he sat, and both wives were on his lap; the Caliph came in ; M. now I'll tell you a dream, call the vizier; I dreamed that I had the sun on my right shoulder and the moon on my left shoulder]: 326-331; Yaremenko 1990, No. 4 [the magician gave a pomegranate to the childless woman, she gave birth to a son; boy Ahsan refuses to tell his parents a dream, his father sold it; King Selman bought it and brought it closer to him; when he learned his story, asked for a dream, was refused, threw it into prison; A. dug an underground passage, found himself in the chambers of the king's daughter; began to come to her regularly; the princess's friend, the daughter of King Rashid; she would marry the one who would solve her three riddles; the daughter of King S. found out the answers, told the young man; 1) out of two mares, who is the mother and who is the daughter (the daughter ate more oats); 2) where is the upper end of the stick and where is the lower end (the upper one surfaced); 3) how to open a sealed barrel without tools (click on a specific place); A. married Tsar R.'s daughter, lives in honor and luxury; daughter S. is still in love with him, the father will give her to someone who meets the conditions; the girl reports them to daughter R., and that A.; 1) divide the land in half ( the center is where S. is sitting, and if he does not believe, let him measure); 2) sew a stone dress (let the king give the appropriate thread, needle and scissors); 3) whoever is above us (Allah); A. gets a second wife; two wives sat down On his knees, he told them a dream: he has the moon on one knee, the sun on the other; everything is fine]: 36-42.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the ground collapsed and a man, a crow, a rat and a snake found themselves in a hole; asked the traveler to help them get out, promising to repay them well; the crow saw the precious things left by the queen the necklace and brought it to the man; when he met the one he had pulled out, the man told him about the grateful crow, and he reported it to the king; the man was thrown into the dungeon; the rat got into it and found out that man starves to death, brought food; the snake promised to help him out; becoming invisible, she wrapped around the king's neck; the llama said that if the king released the prisoner from prison, he would be saved; the king released and rewarded him; the snake left the king, and the man healed well]: Shelton 1925, No. 7:39-43.
Burma - Indochina. Lao [an old woman caught a golden turtle on top; asked to take it home; once told an old man to make a fruit, flooding is coming; during a flood, she orders to save the tiger, the snake, but not to save man; the couple did not listen and saved; the tiger stole the princess's treasures, brought them to the elderly; the rescued man saw them, reported them to the king, put the old people in prison; the snake made its way there, gave root to snake bites and bit the queen in the eyelid; the old people healed her and received half the kingdom]: Nikulin 1988:372-376; Thais [a brahmana named Thephasavami pulled a monkey, a snake, a tiger and royal jeweler; animals promise to help in difficult times, advise not to pull the man out; T. still pulled it out and the jeweler promises to repay well; later the monkey gave T. forest fruits; the tiger ate prince and brought T. to the place where he hid the jewelry that had been torn off the prince's body; believing that he should not own such jewelry, T. brought it to the jeweler to make him a box for him bethel; the jeweler reported to the ruler, accusing T. of killing the prince and stealing jewelry; the king ordered T. to be chained; the snake taught what to do; bit the princess, T. volunteered to cure her, the snake sucked his poison, T. was released and married to a princess; when he heard T.'s story, the king ordered the jeweler to be shaved, his face burned, and then executed; T. persuaded him not to execute him, fearing for his own karma]: Thal 1958:321-325.
South Asia. Ancient India (Panchatantra) [the wife reproaches the poor brahmana with starving children; he went to seek food; he saw a well in the forest, with a tiger, a monkey, a snake, and a man; each animal He asks him to be released and not to be afraid, they promise a reward; they advise him not to pull a man out of the well; but the brahmana pulled him out, he was a jeweler; the monkey gave amrita, the tiger, gold; the brahmana brought gold to the jeweler; he told the king that he had a man who had killed the king's son; in prison, the brahmana thought of a snake; she immediately crawled in and promised to bite the king's beloved wife, and only a brahmana could cure her; the king punished a jeweler, and appointed a brahman minister; he summoned his family and relatives and began to rule the country]: Hertel 1921, No. 31:101-105; Punjabi (attribution is conditional; origin not specified, but since we are talking about a padishah and a sultan, the territory of present-day Pakistan is more likely than that of India) [Badshah sent three golden dolls to his neighbor Sultan; they were the same but different in price; he asked for an explanation of the reason for this difference; a poor young man, imprisoned for an insignificant act, promised to give an answer; when he saw holes in the dolls' ears, the young man stuck a stalk into them; the first tip came out from the mouth, the second from the other ear, the third one is left in the stomach; these are allegories of people; the first is chatty, cannot be relied on; the second is carefree, words fly into one ear, fly out of the other; the third a trustworthy person, the price of this doll is the highest; the Sultan returned the dolls to the padshah, writing on them which is more expensive and which is cheaper, and released the young man from prison and brought him closer]: Starling and the Pea 1956:53- 55; Kumaoni [a jeweler, barber, lion and snake fell into a well in the forest; asked a passerby to pull them out; he pulled out the lion, who gave a diamond ring, promised to help at any time advised not to pull out the barber and the jeweler; the same snake; a few years later, a man came to the city where the former barber became a cauldron (manager); seeing a diamond ring, a cauldron and a jeweler They told the king that the owner had killed his daughter; in fact, the princess had been killed by a lion; before being executed, the serpent told the man that it had bitten the king's wife and he would cure her; the king still refused to let the man go; It was only when lions filled the city that the king believed in his innocence; executed a kotwal and a jeweler]: Upreti 1894:322-323; kannada [poor Mudanna learned from a beggar that his wife, son and both beloved oxen Ram and Lakshman is about to die; it happened; he went into the forest and rushed off the cliff but was not hurt; in the well there is a seven-headed serpent, a lion-headed Ugranarasimha, a seven-foot tiger and a monkey god, they ask pull them out; M. asks everyone only for death as a reward, they promise the best; the tiger split his head, took out a diamond from it and gave it to M.; W. sent his son to sell a diamond; the local princess promised marry only the one who would give her the diamond from the tiger's head; the boy was captured, he replied that the owner of the diamond was W.; when he saw that it was a poor man, he was accused of stealing and imprisoned; a snake crawled in and promised bite the princess and M. will be able to revive her; that's what happened; the king is ready to give M. a daughter, but the princess wants a drink of youth to revive her mother and make her and her father-king young again; the Monkey God plants M. on his tail and stretches his tail to Brahma's world; Brahma unlocks three doors, followed by W.'s wife, son and oxen; asks if he wants a drink or the return of his family and animals; he chooses a family He doesn't need a princess; everything is fine]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 41:114-117; Bengalis [Syed, he has a wifeShe scolds him for being poor; he brought a cobra in a pot to bite his wife; but at home in gold coins were in the pot; the wife changed them from the king's wife, and she found a baby girl instead of gold; the beguma was childless, so she was happy; Sakhi-sona grew up; at the same time, the vizier was born Manik's son; they met; the maid advised me to run because such a relationship would not be approved; S. dressed up as a young man, they galloped off; stayed in the house of 7 robbers; realizing this, they galloped away, but the mother the robbers managed to put a bag of mustard seeds full of holes; the robbers chased, but M. killed six, left the seventh as a servant; he cut off his head; S. prayed to God, the feast (saint) revived M.; they arrived at the flower woman's house; she, out of jealousy, turned M. into a monkey; S. was accused of stealing two horses from the royal stable, thrown into prison; the serpent began to devour people and animals; S. said (she is believed to be a man) that she can kill him; killed him with a blow from behind, as the feast taught; the king gave the imaginary young man a daughter; M. takes a human form at night; S. asks the king to bring this monkey to the palace; a flower woman forced M. to spell and beheaded; the king gave his daughter M., he lived with two wives for a long time]: Sen 1920:196-202; the Tamils [astrologer father predicts difficult trials for his youngest son Gangadhara and leaves without inheritance; wandering, G. pulls a tiger, a snake, and a rat out of the well; the tiger warns not to pull the jeweler out, but G. pulls him out; 10 years later G. goes the same way back and ends up at the well; tiger gives him a diamond crown; G. comes with it to the rescued jeweler; he took the crown, realized that the tiger killed the king, informs the crown prince that the murderer was G.; the prince, who became king, gave him half his kingdom; G . thrown into prison; rats and snakes bring him food and water, but are unable to free him; snakes and tigers exterminate his subjects; 10 years later, the princess died last from a snake bite; the king freed G., who revived all those who died over the years; forgave the jeweler; met his older brother and died of happiness; brother carried the body, Ganesha revived it; G. married the princess he saved]: Natesa Sastri 1984:12-34; Tamils [ the young man went to look for work; pulled a snake, a man, out of various wells; pulled out a splinter from the tiger; the young man did not find a job, but on the way back, the tiger gave him a bag of gold: they, the tigers, killed the prince and they took his property; the young man spent the night with the man he saved; he saw gold, remembered the prince's death and reported it; the Raja ordered an elephant to trample on him in the morning; the snake climbed into prison and promised bite the princess, and only a young man can cure her; everything turned out; the Raja ordered the informer to be executed in the same way, and gave the young man the princess]: Blackburn 2005, No. 27; Muria [son died, father went to travel; gods: why did you come? man: son died; gods: go get water from the well; at the well, the monkey asked her to drink, invited her to visit; then the same tiger; snake; the gods were tired of waiting and when man brought water, they were gone; he came to the monkey, who washed his feet, fed him well and gave him a few drops of immortality water; the same tiger (gave him a gold necklace); the man came to people; began to cook by the river, putting gold the necklace is nearby; the guard detained him, accusing him of stealing the tree from the wound; the man asked the snake for help; it bit the raja and he died; the man promised to revive him; at his request, the snake sucked off its poison; Raja gave the man a daughter; while preparing for the wedding, two laundresses found drops of immortality water, one drank and became younger; the man received more water from the monkey, made rani beautiful, and revived his own son; returned with his princess wife to his former idiot gondi; the Raja granted them the village]: Elvin 1944, No. 2:398-399.
China - Korea. Koreans [a carrier across the river helped the snake cross; it cried, flowers grow in this place; then a roe deer; later in winter, a goat ran out of the forest, began to dig the ground with its hoof; at that time he was walking a passerby with a shovel; the goat ran away, and the carrier asked the passerby to dig; it turned out to be gold; the carrier offered the passerby half, and he demanded everything; the judge gave the gold to the passerby, and the carrier was beaten with sticks and put him in blocks; at night, a snake bit the old man and then gave him healing leaves; bit the judge's wife, she was dying; the judge asked the old man and found out; he was given gold, and the passerby was put in pads]: Garin-Mikhailovsky 1958:.
The Balkans. Hungarians [pilgrim (poor man) pulls a monkey, a snake (with a ring), a wolf, a jeweler out of the pit; animals pay him well, and a man reports to the king; a snake bites the king's son, a pilgrim praying to him saves; having learned how it was, the king brought the poor man closer to him; the wife sends a man to the general, and he orders him to be beaten; the king drove the general away, appointed a man to his place]: Kovács 1987, No. 160:279 -280; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 725 [the young man refuses to tell a dream to his father or even the tsar; or the young man (usually the prince) dreams of his father pouring water for him to wash, his mother gives him towel (or vice versa); or that his horse defecates in gold, or that the sun has bowed to the month; tells his father that the king understands sleep as a threat to remove him from the throne, expels his son; refusing to tell a dream to the king, the young man is thrown into prison; the princess falls in love with him, he tells her a dream, performs difficult tasks (including solving riddles); the young man marries the princess, reigns, somehow predicted his dream]: 249-250; Serbs [the son dreams as if he became a royal son-in-law, refuses to tell his parents, they drive him away; the young man refuses to tell the dream to the king, he imprisones him in the dungeon, he makes a way into the princess's room, lives well with her for three years; the princess promises to marry the one who throws a spear over the wall, tells her to summon that imprisoned slave; he throws likes the king, gets the princess; the viziers demand that he bring a squad of 1000 people; on the way, the young man is joined by 1) listening to the grass grow, 2) overtaking birds, 3) throwing a spear to the sky, 4) eating a huge pot of corn, 5) drinking a lake; viziers offer 1) eat everything cooked (Eats), 2) throw it into the oven and take the person out alive (Drinking fills with water), 3) overtake a winged sorceress (The Runner overtakes but falls asleep, the Rumor finds out about it, the Javelin Thrower kills the sorceress, the Runner brings a jug of water); the young man picks up the viziers on the line, lives well in the palace]: Karadzich 1853 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:36-43.
Central Europe. Russians (Olonetskaya: Shokshozero) [Ivan Tsarevich went to marry foreign lands; his sister found out that his bride would kill him; Nikita Mol is in prison; promises to help if the princess releases him and find him 39 more Nikita joined the satellites; the ship stuck, there was noise on the mountain: three share an invisible hat; NM fired an arrow - who was faster behind it; took the hat; elsewhere - a magic tablecloth and a jug about 12 stigmas; the same; in they took two in third place: one to take a steam bath, the other to eat; the queen orders to take a steam bath in a hot bath, the companion cooled; eat a lot; the other companion ate everything; cook shoes, what she had; NM in an invisible hat stole her shoes, the craftsmen made new ones for the queen; cook dinner (magic tablecloth); got married; NM went to bed; the queen threw her leg over him to press him down, but it didn't work out; everything was fine]: Onchukov 2000, No. 56:214-215; Russians (Vologda) [the tsar has children Ivan and Marya; the garden was guarded by soldiers, the general fell in love with him; refused the tsar; tsar: but you give it to the soldier; general to a soldier: why are you talking about me like that; soldier: you give it so; the general complained to her parent, who put the soldier in prison; and M. is in love with him; dug in there and went to the soldier walk; the king wants to marry I. to Nastasya from the thirtieth kingdom; she sent a sword in her suitcase: at which end is the sock and which handle is in? soldier: put the suitcase in milk, the handle will turn up; which of the 12 pigeons is the oldest? they will peck in total, and this one will walk around; M. told Ivan; soldier: if I. goes to N. alone, he will not return; M. released the soldier from prison; he took 12 drunks with him; took the devils away on the way (they they argued; I.: who will run faster) an invisible hat, a samovar tablecloth, a flying carpet; N.'s drunkards lay down where, and the soldier on the feather bed; N. came and cut off the corner of the vest; the soldier cut off everyone; I. arrived; N .: I need exactly the same dress and shoes as mine; the soldier stole, made new ones, I. showed; now N. demands that I. do what she did at night; I. in an invisible hat follows her to the king of the sea ; repeats and presents everything; at home, the soldier returned to prison; then with M. to the king; showed documents in which I. wrote him three-thirds of the kingdom; I. went to the kingdom of N., and the soldier married M. and inherited throne]: Ivanitsky in Burtsev 1895, No. 11:70-84; Russians (Vologda) [a man asks three sons what they dreamed of at night; one was visiting his mother-in-law, the other in a tavern; Fedor replies that nothing, because the dream said: if you do not tell your dream, you will receive happiness and kingdom; the father sold F. to the master; he did not tell the master either; and the king; the king put him in prison; he went far away lands for Elena the Beautiful; F. begged the royal sister to release him, promised to return by royal return; to the king's sister: pick up 11 more fellows like me, go to the EP, otherwise the tsar would not get her; along the way three lines are fighting for self-propelled boots, an invisible hat and a flying carpet; F. threw a stick on the spruce tree: who can get it; took away wonderful objects, flew away with his comrades on a flying carpet; the invisible is present when talking to the EP and the king; the EP demands the same dress that grandfather made; F. stole the EP's dress, pretended to sew it himself; the same with the shoes; three copper, silver, golden hair that I would have tomorrow; F. secretly follows the EP; she summoned her grandfather from the lake: a copper head, a silver beard, a golden mustache; EP pulled out three hairs each, and F. a braid, half a beard, half a lip; married, but the EP came up with it first destroy F. and then the king; F. persuaded 11 companions to do everything like him, each so that Fedka is a servant; EP cannot understand who F. is real; F. returned to prison; the king wants to execute him, but F. gives a paper with an explanation; the tsar made him a prince; the EP drugged the tsar, F. took his place and married his sister]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 7:43-52; Russians (from a note from a native of Smolensk province) [ the peasant built a new house, tells his sons to sleep one by one, who sees what in a dream; the eldest, the middle dreams that there are a lot of cattle in the yard; the youngest turns out to tell; the father threatens to kill; the landowner I found out - he did not tell him either, he began to poison him with dogs; he saw the prince, brought him to his place, put him in a stone pole {in the text, then the tsar, then the prince, but we are talking about one person - young because he is getting married}; The Tsarevich went {for the bride}, his sister released Grisha; he asks 200 identical fellows to save the prince {help him}; two features are fighting over a flying carpet and an invisible hat; G. threw a whole - who will bring it first; invisible flew to the city where the royal son marries, offered help; the princess demands that the groom bring the same shoe as she would have; G. stole it, and another one had to be made the same; the prince brought; then a golden drake and a silver duck; the princess flew to her grandfather, G. for her, she took the duck, and he took the drake; when the princess released the duck, the prince released the drake; three silver hair from his grandfather's beard; grandfather pulled out his hairs, and G. hooked half a beard; wedding; the prince sends a letter to his sister to marry G.; wedding; {the narrator seems to have forgotten about the dream}; I had him, drank honey, lips flowed, didn't get into my mouth]: Chudinsky 1964, No. 14:70-75.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [rich Saran-bai has Fetl's son; after bringing oxen to a watering hole, he fell asleep and had a dream: he married the Sultan's daughter and became a padishah; he does not want to tell either his father or mother, they they beat him, drive him out of his home; F. came to the city; climbed the marble fountain; refused to go down at the request of the groom, for the royal horses were frightened; the groom complained to the Sultan; refuses to tell a dream and to him, he puts F. in prison; from the bones of those who died before him, F. made a staircase to the ceiling and then found a way to the royal daughter Gul Sultan; kissed her sleeping and returned; so for a whole month; G. cut her finger, in order not to fall asleep; they spent the night together and he told the princess a dream; so for three months; G. says that the neighboring Sultan of Chursky sent a bow: it must be pulled and the arrow must be fired so that it reaches borders; otherwise, in 40 days he will capture the country, and G. will take him to the harem; F. asks the Sultan to remind him of him; F. brought him, he fired an arrow, the wedding is 40 days and nights; F. asks his father-in-law to allow him to go to Chursky Sultan; meets and companions 1) a mullah who walks with a mosque on his head; 2) running around with two millstones tied to his legs; 3) weaving wire into the wings of a sitting crow so that she is nothing I did not notice; 4) listening to the moans of mosquitoes dying on the battlefield; 5) aiming with a gun at gyaura, who commands an army a thousand miles from here; everyone when they meet: am I strong compared with F., who fired an arrow; the hearing learns that the emergency is going to poison F. at a feast; winning at merrymaking; ES offers a competition in running; the one who had millstones on his feet runs; aiming for a thousand miles sees that the emergency runner plugged runner F.'s mouth with a bottle, knocked out the bottle with a shot; when the sultan wants to poison F., the invisible woman moved the dishes and the Sultan and his family died themselves; F. annexed the emergency possessions to his kingdom, and the strongman mullah moved palaces; feast 40 days and nights]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 7:82-92; Ingush [the king sees the poor man and promises that he will give him whatever he wants; the poor man asks to fill him with money his pouch; the king's men bring a handful, then a hat and a cart of coins, but they cannot fill the pouch; as a result, it includes all the royal property; the king and his people attack the poor man, he kills them and becomes king; the children of the murdered king grow up, the poor man gives them all the royal property; having settled separately, he sows wheat; it is beaten by hail; the poor man is hired by a horseman, says: "I alone will remove all yours bread before sunset, for which you will give me part of your pens, but if I don't harvest the bread before sunset, I'll lose my fee"; does not have time to remove one sheaf, refuses to pay; is hired by a shepherd for provided: if after three years there is at least a small decline in the herd, he will not receive remuneration, and if there is a profit, he will receive part of the livestock; three years pass, the number of livestock increases; the herd is attacked by the wolf, the kid takes away; the poor man keeps the wolf alive, returns the kid and refuses the reward for his work; walks along the road, dies; the wolf finds and buries the corpse; three fly to the grave doves, pray, the poor man resurrects; a tower appears on the grave, the poor man lives in it with doves who have become beautiful; wives say: "Go to the mother of the Sun and ask her for us nice sofa. Mother of the Sun lives next to Mother Moon. Their hut doors are always locked. The Mother of the Sun sits above her baby's cradle and feeds him with one breast, while the other breast is thrown over her shoulders. As soon as you enter Mother of the Sun's hut, rush straight to her chest and start sucking it; if you can catch her breast and suck it, she'll give you a sofa"; poor man follows instructions, Mother of the Sun He calls him his third son; her son comes, moving the Sun; when he learns of the poor man's request, he says to him: "Tomorrow you will follow me to move the Sun around the world, and I will stay at home and make you a sofa. Mother of Thunder will bring you lunch by noon, and when you come to the sea, look at our vineyard there"; the next day, the poor man begins to drag the Sun across the world; by noon, Thunder's mother brings him lunch; he remembers how she beat his arable land with hail and pounding it; when he reaches the sea and finds himself near the vineyard, he remembers the loss of harvesting fees; as a result, he keeps the Sun for an extra hour above the vineyard; in the evening he tells the mother of the Sun that the journey was safe; goes home with the sofa; a man comes to him, from whom he herded sheep; asks to give one of his wives; wives turn into doves, fly away; the tower and other buildings disappear; the poor man is hired by the king, enters into a relationship with his daughter; the king throws him into a hole; a powerful neighboring king sends it the king of two identical roosters and tells him to find out which one is older; the poor man suggests: "You can find out about the seniority of roosters by age as follows: pour them red wheat and let them go to it in the wind roosters. The elder rooster will stand with his head against the wind, and the youngest with his tail"; the king follows the advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends two identical stallions and tells them to know which one is older; the poor man explains : "Give more salt to these stallions, then let them drink, the youngest will run forward to the water and start drinking greedily, and the elder will walk quieter and, when he comes to the water, overtake the younger stallion"; the king follows advice, performs the task; the neighbor sends a message: "Find out which of your people is able to shoot an arrow from your village to mine"; the poor man fires an arrow into a neighboring village; it falls into a chain on which the cauldron hung in the royal hut; a messenger arrives: "Our tsar invites you to come to our village and take one dog and one rooster with you to compete with our dog and our rooster"; poor man takes a falcon instead of a rooster, goes to the village; on the way he meets a man who sees a chamois on a distant mountain, a man who hears a snake crawling over seven mountains, a man trying to drink the sea, and a man who, with one foot in his belt, runs to the other for a hare; takes them with him; the neighboring king releases a rooster, the poor man's falcon pecked him; the neighboring king announces the beginning of a race, releases a witch; she offers the one-legged to drink a drink from a jug, he falls asleep; the one who hears snoring well, the shooter fires an arrow into the jug, the one-legged wakes up to the ringing of potsherds and overtakes the witch; the king locks the guests in a copper hut; it begins to fill with water; a person who wants to drink the sea drinks it; a strong king recognizes the neighboring king as an equal, the poor man marries the king daughters]: Sadulaev 2004, No. 122:314-321; Ingush [mother tells her son to protect wheat from birds; he fell asleep; he fell asleep, said he had a good dream; refused to tell his mother, sister, he was kicked out of at home, he refused to tell a dream to pacciah, is thrown into a hole, plays zurna there, Paccaha's daughter falls in love with him; pacci wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring paccah, but is refused; a neighboring paccah sent a bow : if someone pulls it, I will give you my daughter and half of the possessions; only the young man in the hole pulled it when Pacci himself came to ask him to do it; destroyed the corner of the tower with an arrow; Pacci sent the young man as a matchmaker; on the way he meets, takes as companions 1) listening to yeshap's children playing alchiki across the 7 seas; 2) changing goiters from pigeons on the other side of the sea; 3) chasing fallow deer on one leg; 4) shooting at a leopard seven mountains; 5) drawing the sea into the hollow of a tooth; 6) moving a village from place to place from 9,000 hearths; everyone says, not knowing who is in front of him, that he is not a miracle, but a young man who destroyed a corner with an arrow towers; at the pachchah, the listener hears that they want to add poison to their food (friends have changed food); the runner races with the witch, who offers a drink and a snack, the runner falls asleep; the listener finds out the shooter wakes him up, the runner overtakes the witch; at night the house was set on fire, the sea was flooded with fire; but the bride was given only when the hero sat on his back and carried it; then the boy woke up - all this to him dreamed]: Tankieva 2003:201-206; Dargins: Uslar 1892 (Hyurkilins) [the Shah forbade making a fire that night; the Shah's slave orders to sew chokh by morning; Armenian: the Shah will forgive, the slave does not; the weaver with his son they cut it; the son fell asleep, then refused to tell the dream to his father and then to the Shah; the Shah put him in prison; at night the young man went out, came to the Shah's daughter, kissed him, ate pilaf; the next time the girl was with him arranged for him to come; the Sultan sent the Shah three chests: to find out which of them was an old woman, a woman and a girl; the prisoner promised to guess, for this he received the Shah's daughter, weighed the chests, and in the heaviest one, old woman; which mare mother and which daughter; the prisoner found out; the sultan demanded him; sew a stone dress - make threads out of sand; the sultan also gave the young man a daughter; each has a boy; sultan: now tell me a dream; young man: sun under your head, a star under your feet, a star on each knee]: 255-262; Khalilov 1965, No. 55 [], 78 [khan ordered tailors to sew a dress for him in one day; overheard one tailor asks his son to sew for him, and he asks him to let him sleep - he had a very pleasant dream; when the tailors brought work, the khan asked the young man what he had dreamed; he refused to answer, was thrown into the basement; he dug into the basement; he dug going to the Khan's daughter's chambers; began to come every day; a year later, a neighboring khan sent three mares, ordering them to determine which of them was older and who was younger; the girl taught the guy to demand her hand for an answer; khan he promised, but asked again about the dream and, without receiving an answer, sent the guy back to the basement; the khan's neighbor sent three closed chests: which girl, what widow, what old woman; the khan's daughter told the guy: the girl in the lightest, the old woman in the heaviest; the neighboring khan demanded a guessman; he came to his daughter; she taught him what to answer when her father asked him to sew clothes out of stone, and told him to answer to questions only after obtaining consent to marry Khan's daughter; boyfriend to Khan: sand threads are needed to sew clothes out of stone; khan gave his daughter; the guy settled with two wives, each gave birth to a son; now he told the Khan a dream: on the one hand there was the sun, on the other, the moon, separated from them by a star]: 152-156, 243-246; Georgians [the stepmother asks the young man to make sure that the chickens do not peck what was scattered for After drying the grain; he fell asleep, the chickens were eating grain, his stepmother hit the young man; he said he had a dream: with one foot in Baghdad, the other on the edge of the city, in one sun, on the other moon, and stars on his arms and face; the stepmother asks to give her sleep, the young man replies that this is impossible, he was kicked out of the house; he came to the king of the West, who also asked him to sleep, the young man refused again; he was thrown into a hole; he was thrown into a hole; he was princess I like it, she feeds him; the king of the East demands to determine which of the four horses is the mother, and of the three foals who is older and who is younger; the young man teaches how to lock horses without water and then release them; the first to come out mother, then the youngest foal, last the eldest; the king of the East fired an arrow, it pierced the palace of the king of the West, no one can pull it out; only the young man pulled it out and let it back to the king of the East; the king married he is on his daughter; he went to fight with the king of the East; meets and companions a ploughman swallowing clods of earth; drinking water from the sea; running after a hare with a millstone on his leg; listening to ants crawl under the ground; shooting at the sky three days ago but the arrow hasn't fallen back yet; changing pigeons without them noticing; a priest who wears his church on his back; the young man marries his daughter, the king of the East; he demands 1) eat all the bread that he baked for three days (ate ate), 2) drink wine from a huge carp (drank), 3) overtaking the runner, be the first to bring water; the royal runner offered to rest, gave sleeping pills, the millstone runner fell asleep; the shooter fired an arrow, woke him up, he immediately ran away and brought water, ahead of the royal runner; the king agreed to wedding; the listener heard that they were about to be poisoned, and the one who changed the wings of the pigeons changed the plates; the courtiers themselves died; the king asked for an antidote, the priest gave {not entirely clear}; five or six later A young man with his second wife returned to the first; she already has a son; now the dream is clear: the star, the moon and the sun]: Dirr 1920, No. 5:17-23; Armenians: Karapetyan 1967 [the wife harassed her husband; he led her to the well, let down the water and closed the hole with a stone; threw a snake, a wolf, a bear there; came a week later; the animals beg to save them from the evil woman; he pulled out the animals; then agreed to pull out his wife; at night the wolf brought the sheep, and the bear brought the camel loaded with good; the husband gave the go-ahead to his wife, and the sheep and camel were slaughtered to make a kourma; the wife reported that the husband had stolen the king's camel, he was put in prison to cut off head; the snake wrapped around the neck of the royal's six-month-old grandson; the prisoner promises to remove the snake; the snake crawled away, the king listened to the man, executed his wife]: 170-172; Wingate 1911, No. 7 [the young man refuses to tell a dream to his parents, his father drives him out; to the king of the East; he puts him in prison; he breaks through to the king's daughter; King West gives tasks, the young man teaches the princess how to solve them; the king takes him as his son-in-law, sends the daughter of the king of the West to get it; on the way he meets the Listener, the Runner, the Porter, the Eater, the Waterbread, the Pipe Player; the Eater eats everything, the Water Bread floods the fire in which they were put, the Porter takes away the palace; the king gives his daughter; the young man tells his parents his dream: two suns (two wives) on the sides, a star (a son born by his first wife) in his heads]: 476-481; Azerbaijanis [the poor man began to complain to God and ask for death; found a chest, thought it had money in it, there was a snake, wrapped around his neck, was going to sting; agreed to be judged; fox: good is paid with evil; then poor man promised her chickens; the fox began to clarify the circumstances of the case, asked the snake to crawl into the chest; the poor man was going to drown her; the snake: I will make you a shah; the poor man released her again; she gave him a stone, he would heal The shah, whom the snake will sting, let the poor man ask for the hand of the Shah's daughter as a reward; the vizier offered a hundred gold coins for the poor man to refuse; he disagrees, thrown into prison; a snake crawled out of the crack: I am again I'll bite the Shah; it turns out that the poor man goes to the Shah in a vizier; he wears a saddle, a bit in his mouth, he is savvy, the poor man drives with a stick; marries a Shah's daughter, inherits the throne]: Akhundov 1955:298-301; Turks [ the young man refuses to tell his dream, he is beaten, he leaves home; he finds himself with the padishah, continues to hide the content of his dream, is thrown into prison; enemies send the padishah some objects and demand to guess their meaning (to distinguish a silver rod from a lead rod is to put it in water; which mare is mother and which daughter; etc.); the young man guesses, tells the princess with whom he met; the padishah sends him to talk with the enemy; he marries the daughter of a foreign king and the daughter of a padishah; at the wedding he tells his dream: he saw the sun and the moon in his hands, these are the names of two princesses]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 197:230-233; Kurds [Ahmad Khan has an angry wife, he pushed her into a hole; the next day he decided to pull her out, but pulled out the snake; she asked not to throw it back, but to take it into the house - she barely escaped from the villain who jumped into the house yesterday a hole; the snake proposes to make A. rich: she will hang around the neck of the padishah's daughter and only A. will be able to free the girl, will receive a great reward; as it happened, A. married the daughter of the padishah; snake: if in Another time I'll look around a girl's neck, don't try to release her, otherwise I'll kill her; the neighboring padishah sent for A.: the snake wrapped around his daughter's neck; A. snake: I did not come to free the girl, but warn me that my former wife got out of the hole and was looking for you; the snake crawled away]: Rudenko 1970, No. 7:26-27.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the hunter pulls a tiger, a monkey, a snake, a jeweler out of the pit; the tiger gives him a necklace of the princess he killed; the jeweler reports the necklace to the king; the snake saves the hunter by giving medicine cure a sick princess]: Marzolph 1984, No. 160:53; Wakhans [An orphan dreams of the sun on one side and the moon on the other; the grandmother does not tell a dream, it is about the royal daughters; but Orphan spilled out, he was put in prison; he made a hole in the wall, found himself in the royal daughter's room; secretly eats what the maid brings to the princess; the princess cut her finger, added salt, caught the thief; teaches An orphan will solve the problems that her father will ask, who decides he will give his daughter; 1) distinguish a mare mother from a foal (she will run from behind); 2) what is in the chest (Orphan overheard: another chest); 3) make stones shirts and pants to the army; we must invite the tsar to thread the sand into the needle first; the tsar cannot, gives his daughter to Sirota]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 49:414-418.
Baltoscandia. Estonians (Kanepi, SE Estonia) [in the evening, the father tells his two sons that he would like to know what they dreamed in the morning; the eldest said, the youngest refused; the father sold him to a soldier; he also did not said, the soldier sold it to an officer; the same to the general; the general to the king; the young man lives with him, the princess fell in love with him; two years later, during a feast, the king ordered him to tell a dream; and saw how the young man and the princess were they bent under the table and kissed; the king threw the young man into prison; the princess secretly feeds him; the princess's brother marries the daughter of another king, he is asked tasks that he cannot solve; the princess asks the young man also answers; which end of the three painted sticks is closer to the butt (must be thrown from a height, the lower end is heavier, the first to touch the ground); which of the three horses is younger and which is older (the eldest is the first will go to the feeder, and the youngest hesitates); 6 equally dressed - who is a boy and who is a girl (put rings in porridge - the grooms will give the rings to the brides); now the girl's brother is summoned to someone else's king; she secretly releases the young man from prison to help her brother; on the way he sees two fighting over an invisible hat and a flying carpet; he threw a stone: who will be the first to get there; he put on his hat himself and flew away on the carpet; The tavern has 11 players, their chief has died, they have made the young man in charge; he tells them not to tell them who is in charge; they tell the king that everyone is equal; he offers a set table with one chair, 12 mattresses and 1 bed; they eat, sleep one by one; the prince, the groom must bring the same shoes as the bride will wear; the young man promises to do these; for this he takes a receipt that he will receive half the kingdom; everything in an invisible hat he found out; the same with the dress (the second half of the kingdom); the same bird that the princess would have (the same; the white goose); on the occasion of the wedding, the prisoners were released; the young man came to the king with receipts: both halves of his kingdom and the princess too; the young man married and reigned; he saw this in a dream, and if he did, nothing would have come true]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 107:352-359.
Volga - Perm. Udmurts [father built a new house, tells his sons to take turns spending the night and tell me what they dreamed; eldest son: I dreamed that I would feed you and water you in this house for a century; the same average; the youngest replied that he did not see anything; his father tied him naked to a birch tree to be eaten by insects; the merchants untied him and brought him to the city; the king ordered him to be planted in a stone booth; the prince went to marry; the bride -the sorceress wants to kill him; the prince writes about this to her sister, she is looking for someone to help, the guy in the booth undertakes to do it; requires 11 comrades of the same appearance as him; on the way, 12 comrades see a hut, devils are fighting in it; the guy tells the others to go forward, asks the devils himself; fires an arrow - whoever brings it will receive a flying carpet; flies away on a flying carpet; also buys a hat- invisible; the bride asks the prince: what will I find, will you find? the guy, wearing an invisible hat, helps the prince; overhears the princess's conversation with his mother; the princess is going to buy a duck, and the guy told the prince to buy a drake; they put their purchases in a basin of water, the drake trampled the duck; then the princess goes to her grandfather, who is sitting behind 12 locks; the grandfather gave his daughter three hairs from her head, and the guy, invisible, snatched a handful; the same from her beard; the bride shows the prince is 6 hairs, and the prince is two handfuls; then she marries the prince; to find out which of the prince's 12 comrades helps him, puts marks on the suspect, but the next day she has such marks everyone; the prince and the princess went, and left 12 to feast for 12 days; 11 went home, and the guy went to pick up the prince and married his sister; the prince's wife: this guy is very wise, he must be killed; he , invisible, overhears everything and asks why they go to kill him; then the prince, after the death of his father, made him king; a merchant arrived, the king left him to spend the night; he again wanted to drink and drank from the pelvis in which the king washed his feet, deciding: the king's feet are clean; in the morning the king calls the merchant his father; talks about that dream: he saw his father drink water in which he washed his feet; he could not tell such a dream - father would kill]: Potanin 1884, No. 13:237-239; Bashkirs [the old man found a skull, it says: "The cause will be one birth and death is forty-one"; the old man burned the skull, hid the ash at the bottom of the chest; his daughter Gulfarah found a bundle, unfolded it, licked it, became pregnant, gave birth to a boy; at the age of 10 he could solve dreams and knew what anyone was dreaming about; the old woman dreamed of four snakes in the corners of the house; the boy said that gold was buried there, the old woman did not believe it, the dream interpreters decided that the dream was bad; in the goose brought by the old woman they found a note thrown by the boy about gold; checked, found gold; interpreters hired a murderer to get rid of the boy, but he said that the hired man would kill him for 40 gold and lose a hundred; the king had a dream, no one can guess: the king was attacked by 41 snakes, and a dove he dispersed them; the boy was bought from prison for 100 gold; he explained: 40 snakes are interpreters, 41 is a vizier, they want to kill the king, the dove is himself, the boy; the king executed interpreters and the vizier, in their place put a boy]: Barag 1989, No. 75:362-363.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [Aalybay adopted Chotur, the son of his deceased friend; C. saves and heals a frog; she gives him a stone that revives the dead, tells him not to revive a person; C. goes to Baghdad, revives on the way a snake, a mouse, a wasp, a skull; a revived person deceives him of a stone, lowers him into the well to get water, throws it there, becomes a vizier himself; the mice dry the well, C. comes to the khan, upon the libel of the vizier he is thrown into the zindan; the snake he saved bites the khan's daughter for C. to cure her; the vizier persuades the khan to dress up his daughter and several other girls in the same way, let C. identify her; the rescued wasp points to the bride, C. marries the khan's daughter; he tells his son-in-law and vizier to touch the stone, the vizier's hand turns into a head, C. reigns]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:108-115 (=196:138-147; 1981:98-103; = Ledenyov 1987:88-98); Kyrgyz [one khan sent three identical gold dolls to another, which, however, were different in price; it must be explained why; one boy was thrown into the Zindan because he accidentally stepped on the mullah's rosary; he promised to answer; he put a wire in the doll's ear; one had her mouth out of her mouth: they were talkers; the other came out through the other ear: they only listen to themselves, and what others said He does not stay in their heads; still others think about what they heard, they are the most valuable; the khan made the boy a vizier, and an answer was sent to the neighboring khan]: Sulaimanov 1998:59-62.
Mongolia. The Mongols (Khalha) [poor young man Banga is a lumberjack, sells firewood; lama; there will be a flood, make a raft, put his mother on it, save the snake and mice; and do not save the old mantis (chavgants); but B. saved and her; the hurricane took him to the land of demons; that old woman is the mother of demons; she accused B. of stealing jewelry, the khan put him in prison; the mice brought him food; the snake wrapped around the khan's neck, forced the young man to be released ; B. returned to his mother]: Mikhailov 1962:12-14; the Mongols (Ordos) [Ereldei-hu pulled a kite, a rat, a snake, and a man named Togos out of the well; they all promised to help him; the kite took his hat daughter of Emperor Samandi, brought E. to make him rich; the emperor promised a daughter to marry the one who found a hat; T. reported that E.'s hat was thrown into prison; the rat dug through the passage, carried food and water; the snake wrapped around the emperor's neck; the predictor explains what's going on; E. is summoned, agrees to ask the snake to crawl away after receiving the princess; Togosa was beheaded]: Mostaert 1937, No. 25 in Solovyov 2014 .
Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (no place of recording, link to Danilov's collection in Yakut; central?) : Ergis 1967b, No. 231 [Beautiful Sargylaana-Kuo lived overseas; the White King decided to marry her, ordered his subordinates to have such a dream, during which you can find out how to get to the UK; all told the king their dreams, and Khatarch's boyfriend was silent; first the rich man, then the general, and finally the king bought H. to hear the story of his dream, but he does not say a word; when the matchmakers go to the UK, H. takes as a slave; dear messengers suffer troubles and ordeals, but X. helps them out every time a guy; SK asks everyone one riddle, promising that he will marry the guesser; H. guessed, married the UK; it turns out that all H. and saw this story in a dream]: 224; Shurtakov 1983 [Nikita refused to tell his father a dream; he complained to the prince; N. did not tell the prince either; the prince offers Father N. to sell him his son; N. himself set the price: dig a hole for him in size and fill it with gold; a year later, the prince sold N. to the foreman, he to the governor, the governor to the king; the price is increasing; the tsar tells N. to torture, put him in prison; at this time, the king's son marries an intelligent girl Wise Kuo; she asks riddles; 1) which of the two crows is older; N.: put both in icy water, the eldest will stiffen before the young one; 2) a ball is carved out of oak wood, which part closer to the butt and which one to the top; N.: throw the ball into the water will pop up with the side that is closer to the top; 3) Kuo sent a plow loaded with wool: how many wool? N.: we must load the same plow with fallen needles: there are as many hairs as needles; the king let N. go; he went and found an invisible shirt; when she saw the king's stupid son, Kuo brought three hairs from her beard grandfather: let the groom bring his grandfather's hairs; if they are similar, the marriage will be happy; the hairs are not similar; N. took off his invisible shirt and said that he was the one who solved the riddles; K. married him]: 107-116.